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Lady gave a quiet nod. "Of course I am! Let's get going," she said cheerfully.

She was eager to lay her hands on whatever treasure was awaiting them. Just thinking about it made her excited.

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And thus their journay began!!

It started with the group traveling many miles across the deseret at a slow pace, since althoguht they wanted to get their qiuckly, they had to keep at a decent pace to prevent becoming dehydrated. He could fly at high speed, but he;d be leaving his partner in the dust so he walked alongside her. Wasnt easy, but he sure as heck was lookin forward to the dangers they were sure to encounter. Valoren wiped sweat out of his mane, as he smirked "Man that suns really beatin down on us".

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Lady was quite glad to get things underway. Even if she was beginning to really have high hopes for this excursion, she did still want to get it done with as quick as she could.

"You get used to that kind of heat when you live out here long enough," said Lady with a laugh as she watched the other pony sweat. "And me, I've lived out here in these arid western lands all my life."

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"Heh, so I suppose its eaiser for you then me" Val sighed softly as he shook his mane. Then thats when he heard something in the distance. Blinking, he raised his ear as it caused the very earth to shake and rumble as a high pitched whilstlying whirled into the air. "What is that" Val said softly as he tried to keep his ear up. He could see something appraoching at high speed in the dsitance..was...was that a sandstorm???

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Lady was surprised by the sound. What was that they were looking at? A sandstorm moving at high speed? That was crazy.

"This doesn't look good," said Lady, a little scared. "Quick, let's try and find cover from the winds and debris!"

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Spotting a large boulder, Val shouted "Over thier". The storm appraoched quickly as the winds picked up and threanted to lift the two off thier hooves!! Ducking behiind a large boulder, Val closed his eyes as the storm started to go over the two of them. "This is what they have to deal with all the time?? Wooow" he thought in slight awe.

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Lady was glad they found cover. It was just in time. She gave a relieved sigh as she crouched behind the boulder. Just what sort of dangers was this silly pony going to subject her to? She wasn't some young filly anymore. There was only so much she could take.

"Ha...." Lady started, still breathing a little rough from fear and exertion. "A storm like that just ain't natural for this desert. It's sure lucky this here rock was around."

Lady sighed again. She was right. She wandered these deserts constantly, and a sandstorm with winds like that was unheard of. She wondered if some maligned pegasi hadn't brewed it up specifically for them? Maybe they were being seriously targeted by somepony who wanted to bring this little adventure to a sudden, violent end? Or perhaps that was just paranoia speaking. Lady wasn't entirely sure.

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Smiling weakly at Lady, Valoren asked "A storm like this isnt natural? What do you mean by that". He thought that with the desert being a unpredicatble as it was, that their was a whole bunch of storms that all circled and caused problems for any passer by. But then again, he had to admit that he had heard of sandstorms and.well..had never heard of them being this big. Then again, he wasnt a pony form out west. This did seem wrong though like...why would it suddenly appear after they had left for the sword? They could have gone at any other time and nothing could have happened since theyd be passing through, but on the day they just happen to want to find a lost mythical treasure. Bah!! He was being paranoid!! Sides, this made it fun!! He didnt want to go on a boring adventure!! That would be..well..BORING!!

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"The winds are just more intense than I've seen before in this desert," said Lady, finally collecting her breath and calming down. "Maybe it was just a freak occurrence, but then again maybe it was also deliberately created for us."

"I mean, that encounter with those thugs earlier does make me think somepony might know you have that map of yours," the mare added after a few moments of rest.

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"Well, where did you get that map?" asked Lady, now curious. "You don't expect me to rightly believe it really came from sompony involved with the princess?"

She breathed another relieved sigh as the storm finally passed.

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Lady still couldn't bring herself to believe this guy was in anyway connected to the princess. Though he was apparently firm in saying as much. Maybe it was property of the royalty that somehow arrived in his hooves? If so, that would explain it's value to their attackers.

"If you say so," said Lady, smirking evenly. "Well... hopefully it's nothing and we aren't being tailed."

That said, Lady followed after Valoren as they began to follow the map once more.

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What they didnt know however, was that they were being tailed..by a certain banadaged earth pony. He had a special destyiny to fufill and he was going to see to it htat it was!! Watching the two from afar, he spoke to the thieves. "Hmmm...see if they can..handle another extersion. This time no mistakes".

The theives nodded as they began to give cahse.

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Lady continued to trek across the desert alongside the pegasus. She still was a little unsettled by the sudden storm. She still wasn't sure what to make of this little adventure she had gotten herself into. She was far from completely deterred though. As a gambler, Lady knew that greater risk yielded greater rewards. That's how it usually worked at least.

"How's our progress?" asked Lady, looking at the other pony after a while.

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Valoren smiled as he said "We're about two miles away from the mine shaft!! We just need to keep going in this direction, and we should be good!! What we need however is to make sure that we dont run into anymore...unpleasentatires". That storm made him abit edgy and he was wondeing if thier were gonna be any more surprsises. He got that answer rather quickly as suddenly over the desert somthing charged at them at high speed. A large cloud of smoke, being created by five masked stallions.

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"I see..." said Lady in response to her companion. "That sounds like--!"

Lady cut herself off in shock. Did she really see what she thought she saw? Were there really five masked stallions rushing across the desert at them?

"What the hay? More of them?" she shouted, indignant. "Just great..."

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"Whoa!! Watch out" Val shouted as the masked ponies suddely brandished weapons as they attacked from above at the two. Val dove aside, as he hoofed on in the cheek, as he sliped between ones legs as he axe kicked his spine, forcing him down. Gasping as one got him in a head lock and the another charged in an attmepth to run him throuhg, he jumped up as he avoided getting stabbed. Front flipin between two of them, he lepead into the air as he scissors kicked one in the nuzzle and antoher in the back of the skull.

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Lady watched as Valoren went into full motion, fighting off several ponies at once. This pony was crazy. He'd get himself killed like this. At the very least he'd reopen his wounds from the earlier encounter.

Lady sighed as she decided she had better help the crazy pony. She'd feel kind of bad if he just died. Quickly she ran toward the group of thugs. She got the attention of one of the ponies. He swung at her powerfully with a large blade. She dodged the blow, causing the weapon to get stuck in the sand where she had stood. She then lifted her front hooves suddenly and let each of them connect with the poor fool's jaw. He fell to the ground after that.Lady then rushed to join Val in fighting off the rest.

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Lady watched as one of the ponies swiped Valoren's map.

"Oh no you don't!" Lady shouted as she charged the pony quickly, tackling him to the ground. She wasn't about to let their one ticket to untold treasure slip through their hooves. "Give it back!" she shouted as she bucked the thief in the flank.

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Lady continued dodging attacks like crazy. Opportunities to counter were few, but every so often she'd get in a good kick. She really did want to avoid anypony getting hurt this time. Of course, recovering the map was even more important than that.

Lady snuck up on one of the ones Valoren was fighting and delivered a critical strike to his side, which caused him to topple over in pain and not get back up. She then jumped aside another pony's rush and darted back to a safe distance. This was not an easy fight.

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Rolling over Lady Luck, he tripped one that was tryin to slice her back. Head butting another into the wall, he whirled around in time to get socked in the jaw as he stumbled backwards as he was held in a lock by one pony. Another thief charged in and punched him twice in the gut before Val jumped up and kicked him away.

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Valoren moved quickly to spare Lady from an enemy's blow. Lady moved quickly after that to take down another one with her hooves. After a few more moments, practically all the thieves seemed incapacitated.

"Just who are you ponies?" Lady questioned one of the last ones still standing. "Who put you up to this?"

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