尽管天马无畏是住在小马国比较偏僻的地区，但从云中城出发去那并没有花多长时间，因为云宝黛茜对去无畏家的路已经熟记于心了，毕竟她可不止一次去看望过她的冒险家朋友。飞艇在她熟悉的森林上空低空俯冲下去，然后船头转向左方。一阵清新、包含松树香气的微风轻轻地在黛茜的鬃毛旁吹过。她指向伫立在那一小片空地的小屋，向西拉诺喊道：“在那呢！”船长点了点头，然后驾驶着找到了附近一个适合降落的好地方。

海盗们在船只一停靠在地面上就准备下船。在这个过程中，穆雷和博伊尔还为了应该谁负责拿藏宝图而吵了起来，他们俩可以说是最要好的朋友，但总是会用一些愚蠢的方式相互竞争。

博伊尔哼了一声：“该轮到我拿藏宝图了，你不能因为你是大副就——”

“你的钩子会把地图撕破的！”穆雷回击道：“还回来！”

西拉诺喊了起来：“都够了，不要再争了！”直接从他们爪子里抢过地图。“云宝和我单独去那就行了，AYE？”

“AYE，Ayeee。”他们沮丧的声音响了起来，然后瘫倒在地上去帮莉克斯准备晚餐。今晚的晚饭应该是大锅炖菜，这要多亏了风哨子和趵虹给他们准备的一大堆土豆，但是总是需要谁去帮忙给土豆剥皮的。

云宝黛茜领着西拉诺穿过了树林，来到无畏的家门前。她警告道：“为了安全起见，我们可能要格外注意保持礼貌。”

西拉诺皱了皱眉头：“为什么？”

“这就说来话长了。”云宝都可以感觉到自己的神经在紧绷着，带西拉诺来这是不是一个错误？无畏她是那么注重自己的身份隐私，云宝黛茜并不想这样每次都来打扰她，但这一次云宝很需要她的建议还有寻宝经验。

那一匹彩虹鬃毛的小马们站在门口迟疑了片刻还是敲了敲门，门马上就开了，穿着平常冒险服装的天马无畏直接把云宝黛茜和西拉诺都吓了一跳。“云宝！”无畏笑了笑。“真高兴又见到你了。”

“呃是吗？”云宝黛茜犹豫道：“噢也很高兴见到你，我不是很确定你——”

“而你是？”无畏打断了云宝的话，看向了西拉诺，扬了扬怀疑的鬃毛，眼睛紧盯着船长那祖母绿假肢还有那高大的体型。

“我是来自奥尼西亚还有广阔天空的西拉诺船长，”她脱下了她那顶棕色的海盗帽，深深向无畏鞠了一躬。“很高兴见到您。”

“噢我明白了，那请进吧！但不要去碰任何东西。”无畏示意她们可以进去了，西拉诺没有浪费什么时间，直接冲了进来。她表现得是挺鬼鬼祟祟的，但云宝能看出来西拉诺很想去研究研究屋里的所有宝物还有书本。

“云宝黛茜？”无畏一走到西拉诺听不见的房间一边朝她低声问道：“你为什么要把这个世界上最不可靠又不可信的——一个海盗船长——带到我家里来？”

云宝黛茜简单给无畏解释了一下——就是船长还有她的海盗船员们都是她的好朋友而不是坏蛋的那些事——无畏渐渐有了愿意去帮助她们的想法，但她似乎还是对此有点犹豫不决。她低头看着那张潦草绘制的地图，铺在了她的大木桌上，拿一件刻成狮身马面像的金色镇纸小雕塑压着。

“我以前应该在那些地方附近找寻过宝藏，但我必须警告你…这一趟旅途会很危险。”无畏的脸上依然充斥着严肃。“即便你还没法确定这宝石是否存在，你确定是否还要去找寻那个好运石榴石吗？”

“它肯定会存在！一定会。”西拉诺船长走了过来。“我和我的船员们被风暴大王抓住去打工的多数原因也是因为我们遇到了另外一颗类似的宝石——厄运孔雀石。只要谁会拥有它，就会遇到倒霉事！”西拉诺船长看到无畏听到这话后都变了脸色。“石榴石应该会是完全相反的，对吗？”

“这是真的吗？”云宝黛茜叫了起来，喝了一口无畏端给她们的苹果汁。

“我还从来不敢相信我会这么说，但是…没错，船长的这个逻辑是合理的。”无畏点了点头，回想起了她在这漫长的冒险家生涯中遇到的各种宝物。“通常情况下，一两件宝物都会具有完全相反的属性，只要去看看希拉提毁灭王冠还有奥特拉尔头冠就知道了…”

注：希拉提毁灭王冠还有奥特拉尔头冠在《天马无畏之云中禁城》作为无畏保卫过的姊妹王冠出现并提及过。

“所以说那好运石榴石确实是真的！”云宝黛茜嘴里的苹果汁都喷了出来。这可是个大新闻，她不禁开始回想自己在学校还听过哪些后来被当做睡前故事的传说。“那我们必须要找到它！我必须要把它带回本就该拥有它的云中城！”云宝跟西拉诺的目光相遇了，有那么一会她们的眼神似乎有一些不同，但那只是一瞬间，云宝不禁开始怀疑那是不是自己的想象。

“这也是我一直想告诉你的，黛茜。”西拉诺船长得意地笑了笑，并冲她眨了眨眼。“你会成为英雄的。”

无畏也给了云宝黛茜一个有意思的眼神，然后转身看向了那鹦鹉船长。“西拉诺，你为什么那么想让云宝成为英雄？”

“因为要多亏了她和她的朋友们，让我和我的船员们摆脱了风暴大王的枷锁，如果没有她们的出现，去提醒我们是谁，我们可能现在还在载着一袋袋沙子还有风暴大王的商品在天上飞呢！”

这个答案似乎让无畏比较满意，这也让云宝黛茜也感到很高兴。她知道她的老冒险家朋友可是对任何陌生生灵们都是抱有很大的怀疑，无畏对西拉诺的怀疑似乎是要一直进行下去。但云宝现在有了一些确凿证据可以证明好运石榴石确实存在，等着她去找回来。她已经要等不及让飞艇马上起飞了！

“所以无畏…”她低下了头，扬了扬鬃毛，露出了她可以最让马信服的脸。“你可以帮我们吗？你这有没有可以帮我们去找到它的线索？”

无畏承认道：“嗯，我最近也有计划去研究一下Khumn水晶球，而我确实知道一些事情——或是确切来说是谁可以帮你去找到好运石榴石…”

注：Khumn水晶球在《天马无畏之马拉坡窃贼》中有提及出场过。

西拉诺船长喊了起来：“好耶！”云宝黛茜也喊了起来：“所以就是说你同意了吗？”

“我可以帮你，但有一个条件。”无畏走过去直视着西拉诺。“如果我们找到那宝石后，好运石榴石就要直接送回云中城。”

“噗——”云宝黛茜笑了，翻了翻白眼道：“它还能去哪呢？”

西拉诺回应道：“对，它哪也不会去的！”她的声音明显比平时还要大声。“现在我们准备出发还是要坐下来聊一整天呢？我们出发吧！”

最后，两匹小马还有鹦鹉船长都出发回船上去享用一顿炖土豆的晚餐，并准备开启一场寻找遗失很久的无价之宝的刺激冒险。

英文版：

Even though Daring Do lived on the far reaches of Equestria, it hadn’t taken long to travel from Cloudsdale because Rainbow Dash knew the way by  heart.  She’d  been  to  visit  her  adventuring  friend  on  more  than  one occasion. The airship swooped low over the familiar forest of treetops and bore left. A gust of fresh, piney air rushed through Rainbow Dash’s mane. “Over there!” she called out to Celaeno, pointing to a clearing with a small cottage. The captain nodded in acknowledgment and steered to find a good place to land.
Once they were finally on the ground, the pirates prepared to disembark. In the process, Mullet and Boyle got into a spat about who should get to carry the treasure map. The two of them were best friends but often found silly ways to be competitive with each other.
Boyle grunted. “It’s my turn to hold the treasure map. Just ’cause yer the first mate—”
“You’ll rip it with yer hook!” Mullet sneered. “Give it back.”
“Avast, me harpies!” Celaeno barked, snatching the map from their claws. “Rainbow Dash and I are going down there alone. Aye?”
“Aye ayeeeee,” they parroted in defeat, and slumped off to go help Lix prepare dinner. Tonight’s menu was going to be stew, thanks to Windy and Bow’s generous supply of potatoes. Somebird had to get peeling.
Rainbow  Dash  led  the  way  through  the  trees  and  into  Daring  Do’s clearing. “We should probably be extra polite, just to be safe,” Rainbow Dash warned.
Captain Celaeno scrunched up her beak. “Why?”
“It’s a long story.” Rainbow Dash could feel the nerves bubbling up. Was this a huge mistake? Daring Do was so private. Rainbow Dash didn’t want to keep barging in on her at every opportunity, but she did really need her advice and expertise this one time.
The rainbow-maned pony hesitantly knocked on the door. It immediately swung open, causing both Rainbow Dash and Captain Celaeno to jump in surprise. Daring Do was decked out in her adventure gear. “Rainbow Dash!” Daring Do smiled. “How nice to see ya.”
“It is?” Rainbow Dash replied, completely relieved. “Okay, good. ’Cause I wasn’t sure if—”
“And you are?” Daring Do interrupted as she sized up the captain and raised a suspicious brow. Her eyes darted to the captain’s emerald peg leg and unusually large stature.
“Captain Celaeno of Ornithia and the Open Skies.” She took off her big brown pirate’s hat and bent into a deep bow. “At your service.”
“Ah,  I  see.  Please,  come  in!  But  don’t  touch  anything.”  Daring  Do motioned for them to enter. Captain Celaeno wasted no time, rushing inside. She thought she was being sneaky, but Rainbow Dash could tell that she was already reading all the plaques on the walls and the spines of the books.
“Rainbow Dash?” Daring Do whispered once Celaeno was out of earshot. “Why’d  you  bring  one  of the  most untrustworthy  rapscallions  in  all the kingdoms—a pirate—to my house?”

After Rainbow Dash had explained the situation—that the captain and her crew were her friends, not foes—Daring Do began to warm up to the idea of helping them. But she still seemed hesitant. She stared down at the scratchy map, which had been rolled out on her large wooden farm table and was being held down by tiny golden paperweights carved into the shapes of sphinxes.
“I’ve gone on treasure hunts near those regions before, and I must warn you… it will be dangerous.” Daring Do’s face remained serious. “Are you sure you want to search for this alleged Good Fortune Garnet even though you aren’t sure it exists?”
“I know it does! It has to.” Captain Celaeno stood up. “The whole reason my crew and I got stuck working for the Storm King was because of a similar relic that we came across—the Misfortune Malachite. It brings bad luck to whoever  possesses  it!”  Captain  Celaeno  watched  as  Daring  Do’s  face changed. “The garnet has to be its opposite, right?”
“Is that a thing?” Rainbow Dash wondered aloud and took a sip from the goblet of apple cider Daring Do had offered to them as refreshment.
“I can’t believe I’m saying this but… yes. The captain’s logic is sound.” Daring Do nodded, thinking back to all the relics she’d encountered in her long career. “Oftentimes, a magical relic has a polar opposite, with opposite properties.  Just  look  at  the  Doomed  Diadem  of  Xilati  and  the  Tiara  of Teotlale . . .”
“So the Good Fortune Garnet is real?!” Rainbow Dash spat out her cider. This was some big news. She wondered what other stuff she’d heard about at school and written off as just a bedtime story. “Then we have to find it! And I have to bring it back to Cloudsdale where it belongs!” Rainbow Dash’s eyes met Celaeno’s, and for a brief moment, they seemed to have a strange look to them. But it passed in a flash and Rainbow Dash found herself wondering if she’d imagined it.
“That’s what I’ve been trying to tell you, Dash,” Captain Celaeno smirked and gave her signature wink. “You’ll be a hero yet.”
Daring Do shot Rainbow Dash a funny look, then turned back to the parrot.  “Why  are  you  so  invested  in  Rainbow  Dash  becoming  a  hero, Celaeno?”
“Because  she  and  her  friends  were  the  ones  who  helped  my  crew members break free from the shackles of the Storm King. If they hadn’t shown up and reminded us who we were, we might still all be lugging bags of sand and Storm King merchandise across the skies!”
The  answer  seemed  to  satisfy  Daring  Do  well  enough,  which  made Rainbow Dash glad. She knew that her old pal was suspicious of anycreature and everycreature, but this interrogation felt as if it was dragging on forever. And now that Rainbow Dash had some sort of tangible evidence that the Good Fortune Garnet was out there, just waiting to be rescued by her, she couldn’t wait. They had to get this airship going immediately!
“So, Daring Do . . .” Rainbow Dash stood up. She lowered her head and raised her eyebrows. It was her best “convincing somepony” face. “Are you with us? Do you have any information that can help us on our journey?”
“Well, I did have plans to go research the Crystal Sphere of Khumn, but I do  know  something—or  rather,  somepony  who  can  help  you  find  the Garnet. . . .” Daring Do admitted.
“All right!” Rainbow Dash shouted as Captain Celaeno let out a whoop. “So that means yes?”
“I’ll help you on one condition.” Daring Do looked directly at Captain Celaeno. “That if we do succeed in locating it, the Good Fortune Garnet goes directly back to Cloudsdale.”
“Pshhht!” Rainbow Dash laughed and rolled her eyes. “Where else would it go?”
“Nowhere I can think of!” Celaeno chirped, her voice audibly higher than usual. “Now, are we ready or are we going to sit around chitchatting about it all day? Come on!”
And with that, the two ponies and the parrot captain were off to the ship to enjoy a dinner of pirate potato stew and a thrilling adventure searching for a priceless relic long lost.