The Crystal Dust Road

Hallow waited outside of Spring's home so they could start their journey to the Crystal Empire. They both had never been there before and wanted to explore it to see if there were any adventures they could do together. She continued waiting impatiently when she heard a crashing sound coming from Spring's house. Hallow dashed in without thinking and yelled "Are you ok Spring???"

Spring was excited for her adventure to the crystal empire. She and Hallow were going to do all kinds of fun stuff but first she had to get her backpack incase she got any cool treasures. her only problem was she didn't know where it was. She searched everywhere but just couldn't find it. She decided to search the attic. She flew up and saw it lying in the middle of the floor. "There you are!!" She shouted. Suddenly she was surrounded by ninjas. Frightened she tried to fly away but ended up crashing into a wall and hitting the floor, which was weak and broke under her weight. As she fell to the ground in her living room Hallow rushed into her house asking if she was ok. Looking around the ninjas were gone. "Uhh yea fine. Just lost my bag but I found It. ready to go?" She asked jumping to her hooves.

She watched Spring locked her door and then they went to the train station. They had to wait for the train to arrive, so to pass time they played leap frog, accidentally bumping into other random ponies. Grumbling about their rowdiness, the other ponies step aside, avoiding any further injury.

Spring loved playing with Hallow and didn't really mind the other ponies grumblings. She backed up several feet from Hallow to make her jump really good. She leapt and used her wings to keep her up in the air long enough not to squish Hallow, but right as she was above her something landed on her back, causing her to crush poor Hallow. Looking up she saw it was the ninjas from before. Struggling she broke free and grabbed Hallow. The train pulled up just in time and the two rushed on board. "Cheese whats with all the ninjas today??"

"Spring what is going on here???" Hallow was shocked by the vast amount of pony ninjas there were. She was confused as to why they kept going after her friend Spring.

Spring relaxed now that they were on the train. It was going to be a long ride from ponyvile to the Crystal Empire but it would so be worth it in the end. As she talked with hallow she absent mindedly dug in her backpack. "I don't know, I didn't even know ninjas were real but then I guess we didn't really know pirates were real too huh..." She paused as she found something in her bag that she didn't recognize. Pulling it out she saw it was a map, a really old map of the crystal empire. She looked at it and then handed it to Hallow for her to see. "I think this could be what they were after. Its a map that leads to a hidden road in the crystal empire and that nopony knows where this crystal dust road leads to. sounds promising"

Hallow glanced at the old map labeled Crystal Dust Road. She wondered what it was all about and tried to make out the writing on the map. The writing was symbols and things that she couldn't understand. She tried to think of what kind of language it could be but came up with nothing in the end.

Spring fell asleep as Hallow read the map and when she woke up they were at the train station in the crystal empire. She hopped out of the train and waited impatiently for Hallow to do the same.

Storm was walking out of a shop in the empire when he noticed Spring at the station. "Oh no." He muttered to himself as he walked over. "Hey! What's brings you two "adventurers" here?" he asked with a laugh. As he laughed, a notepad fell out of his bag, with the words "Crystal Dust Road" at the top.