The mare in the Everfree Forest

Luna was visiting the Griffons, leaving me with some free time on my hooves before I started teaching Twilight some of the magic that I was being forced to teach her. I had caught the early morning train to Ponyvile under a different name so none of the girls would know that I was around. I wasn’t up for a race with Rainbow Dash just yet and I know how pushy she can get when she wants to race or challenge another pony. I was an earth pony using the name Silver Moon, my coat was a light silver blue with a black and purple mane and tail. My cutie mark was a star resting on a crescent moon with a few clouds around it. I saw Rainbow helping Scootaloo with her flying as Twilight was helping Sweetie Bell with her magic. I didn’t see Pinkie around but I kept an eye out just in case she popped out somewhere, I didn’t need her to blow my cover. I was about to past them as Pinkie came crashing into me causing me to land on my back.

“ohlooklookanewponyIknowyou’renewbecauseIneversawyouaroundPonyvilebeforeandIknoweveryponyhere.” She was bouncing up and down on my stomach as I slammed my hooves on the ground. She was making my sore body even sore. She was lifted off of me by lavender magic.

“Pinkie not all ponies are as happy as you are” Twilight came walking over as Sweetie Bell was working on holding a heavy weight in her magical field. I got to my hooves brushing the dirt off as Twilight held a hoof out to me, I took it and she gave it a light shake.

“My name is Twilight Sparkle and you are?” she had the same smile she gave me when the Princess told her I would be staying with her.

I took my hoof and wrote Silver Moon into the dirt as Rainbow Dash flew over top “What is wrong with her?”

“She a mute Rainbow she can’t speak” I was backing up slowly from the three mares as I walked down a dirt road towards Sweet Apple Aces.

“Hey wait!” I heard Twilight yell out to me and my ears went up and I went running down the road with the others following me. I passed Applejack and Big Macintosh hanging around the outskirts of the farm as I ran towards the Everfree. I stopped to grab the lantern hiding behind the tree, before running into the forest with the others following me. I ran down a path that split off from Zecora’s hut, I couldn’t tell who was following me as I stopped midway as I sat the lamp down my right hoof lit up with a bright yellow as I lit the candle noticing that the animals of the forest were sneaking up on me. I picked up the top of it with my mouth as I noticed a purple glow. I ran down the path holding tight on my only light source tight in my teeth as I arrived at a large wooden door covered in vines and bright white lily flowers. I walked around the house and entered into the back as it was the only door not blocked off by the forest.

Dust covered the room in a thick layer causing everything to have a greyish tint. My plants were surviving with the set up I had. I placed a sheet of metal outside to collect rain water which flowed in through a tube and into the pots. I had different types of tea leaves growing along the left side of the house, as I walked over towards my bed which lay under a window so I could see what little sky the forest gave me. I had tones of notes under my, my hoof wasn’t reaching anything so I peeked under and found out that everything was gone. Why everything but my plants and shelves were gone. It took me a moment and realized that they were at Twilight’s house. I feel such a dunce then I grabbed the lantern and walked out of the house with my plants as the front door was blown in. I walked around and peaked into the window and noticed Twilight was with Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Applejack and her brother Big Macintosh were standing in the middle of my house.

“You know you’re really bad at hiding” I turned around behind me and I noticed Discord was sitting on my flank as a brown mouse with yellow eyes. I gave him a weird look trying to keep silence.

“I know you can talk Lily the others may not see it but I do” he tapped the star on my flank as I snorted at him.

“Fine but I do not need them to know I’m here especially Rainbow.” I whispered to him as I walked away from the house not before I switched out the candles to make me look like floating wisp in the night.

“Really and old pony like you afraid to lose to a young blood like her?” he started snickering as I casted a glare back at him.

“What do you want?” I stopped keeping an eye on him as he crawled up my back over the bags with the plants in them and to the top of my nose.

“What I want dear Lily is something that you can give me and no pony else” he was smiling at me as I gave him another odd look.

“Oh and what is that?”

“Really you don’t know well then I guess I just half to tell Twilight you’re here” he turned into his normal self-causing me to grab the lantern and run deeper into the forest. Away from Twilight but I wasn’t paying any mind to my surroundings and I was stopped by a tree that came out of nowhere, I could hear Discord in the back ground laughing at me as I tried to regain my balance.

“There you are Silver!” Twilight spoke up as I shook my head giving a glare towards Discord.

“Yeah why in tarnation are you running from a Princess?” Applejack had walked up on me as my ears flatten and I smile at them both.

“Come on silver you can talk.” Discord glared back.

I stick my tongue at them all before running off again deeper into the woods. “FOLLOW HER!” was all I could hear from Twilight as I came to an opening.

“Twilight she can take care of herself” Discord was starting to sound like rarity whining about dirt.

“No she can’t Discord. I mean she can’t talk or scream for help!” she sounded mad and she looked mad as she joined me in the clearing. Everypony was to focus on me they didn’t hear the low growl coming from the bushes. I flatten my ears as Applejack took a whiff of the air as she placed her hoof up to her nose.

“We got Timberwolves ponies!” she was ready for a fight as the others created a circle around me as I rolled my eyes. I crawled from under the ponies and bolted into the forest with the others following. We ended up at a large mansion with a large dark oak door with vines growing alongside it. I slammed my hoof on the door as an average unicorn with a dark black coat with a dual tone black mane and tail with a dark purple mixed in. He was wearing a teal color vest as his dark black eyes were soul piercing in this light they were.

“You rang?” he asked in a low voice before noticing me he fell back laughing. The others were standing behind me as the wolves were staying alongside the tree line for now before walking up and entering the house though a special door on the other side.

“That has to be the worst pony image you can come up with lily I mean didn’t you use that on me last time you were trying to pull a prank on me” he made smile as he stood to one side letting us all in as I rolled my eyes.

“Well I’m not pulling pranks this time Void I was trying to go unnoticed but Pinkie crashed into me when I walked from the train station” I had changed back to normal as I placed my plants on the table next to a wall mirror.

“Lily!” Twilight shouted as I look over at her.

“Hey Discord told you I could take care of myself.”

“Why are you out here?” she was mad

“Getting the stuff I need to teach you and I use to live out here remember” her anger seemed to cool off as Void walked off.

“Well who this unicorn?” Pinkie had stopped bouncing and was scratching her head.

“He called the Eternal Void he lives out here as well; I normally do his food runs so you normally don’t see him” I sat along a dark wood table with a couple of pillows laid out around it. Void came walking out carrying a tray full of cups and a tea pot.

“So when did the wolves from the Whitetail Woods came in?” I looked at him as he sat the tray down.

“They probably just came in” he was placing cups all around the table.

“So where have you been for months?” he glanced over to me as I smiled.

“I was up north again”

“Always” he rolled his eyes as he poured everpony a cup of tea.

“You should have known that by now.”

“Yes well” he smiled as we caught up on a few old times as Twilight and the others came sitting over around the table. He told me how he was out looking for his sister who had ran off when the wolves from the Smokey Mountains had come down from being pushed out of their home by the visiting Griffons. I told him what happened up north and I gave him a few plants leaving me with two rare ones. It was getting dark as the light that was shining through the openings from the trees were disappearing I gathered my things and everypony else as we head towards the door.

“Stay on the path towards Zecora’s you be safe their the others tend to stay towards the old castle.” He was standing at the door as I was lighting my lantern. I had actually noticed Pinkie Pie was hiding on Discord as Big Macintosh was guarding Applejack and Twilight. I lead them down a path that had a small wooden fence at the entrance. We made it out of the forest by the time Luna’s moon was high into the night sky. Pinkie bounced off, as the apples went back towards the farm as I was left with Discord and Twilight along with Rainbow Dash.

“You still owe me a race” she zoomed off.

“why did you hide your appearance?” Twilight had walked up next to me.

“I didn’t want to run into Rainbow I’m just not up to racing for a while, plus Pinkie didn’t help.” I started walking towards the tree house leaving Discord at Fluttershy’s cottage. Twilight had went off to bed feeling a bit tired after pruning her wings with the help of Spike. I stayed up with the light of a candle putting things together that I might need to teach Twilight. Some of the spells I might half to take her out far away from town like the one I used.

Daylight came and I had everything ready. I took Twilight out along with the two guards that had showed up to a field outside of town. Her friend’s decided to watch as I laid a couple of books on the ground.

“Okay first I’m going to teach you magic that neither Celestia nor Luna, or Candace can teach you.” My eyes started to glow black causing a few guards to back up with spears at the ready. My horn was glowing black as a large mass of shadows formed underneath me.

“Shadow magic is easier than black magic once you got shadow magic down you can easily gain the black magic down.” I pointed my hoof over towards a tree. “The Cutie mark crusaders are over there with Discord watching.”

The three ponies came falling out from behind a tree as they went over towards the small group of ponies which have gathered by now. I held up a book in a dark orb of magic.

“All these books are translated with spells and how to cast them; I just brought you out here because seeing is always believing.” I had cut the shadow magic as I switched to black magic creating the wolves I had made up north but they stayed at my side lying down on the ground. They disappeared as earth golems appeared creating a shock wave of awes in the crowed as Twilight was taking notes. I turned them into water golems who went prancing about than air and fire. I made a large circle blade that went around my hooves perfectly all of it still using black magic.

“When creating weapons with black magic along with golems you strengthen your weapon and golem, but be careful there are different types of black magic and they do different stuff. I will not teach you the black magic Sombra uses but I will teach you the stuff that helped build Equestria’s magical knowledge.” Throughout the whole entire day I taught her different types of magic and what effects they had on the body when used for a long time. After that was done I turned to see that the whole entire town was standing around watching as the guards were in shock.

“You two should be used to this since you should have been taught how to defend against these types of magic!” I walked up to the guards who were on the ground shivering.

“Twilight I’m going to borrow your guards and train them how to fight when I go back to Canterlot” I turned away handing the books over.

They day was eventful with Sweetie Bell wanting me to help her with her magic and Applebloom wanting to see my sword her sister had told her about. Rainbow Dash has been yelling at me all day for a race so I gave her one. It started in town square where I had changed into a Pegasus and took to the sky. We went from the town square to her cloud house, to Sweet Apple Aces and back to Town square. I beat her within a few minutes. The day had turned to night again and instead of staying with Twilight I made a bed out of large cloud that was hovering overhead.