Ponies Souls

As Twilight flew away from Canterlot, a broad smile sprawling across her face. She looked down at the sprawling landscape, now seeing what it was like to fly like her pegasus friends. Twilight looked up, across the plains at a small town, barely visible behind the hills from the castle. A town that she called home, Ponyville. She took her time getting there, spending as much time flying as possible, enjoying every second of it. Celestias sun was starting to set when Twilight landing and stumbled to the door of the library, getting used to walking again. She twisted the handle and creaked the door open, the inside was pitch black.

"Huh, I figured Spike would have at least lit some candles." The moment Twilight set a hoof inside, everything lit up in a blinding flash. Twilight blinked a few times to see again, and once she could, she was greeted with all her ponyville friends had gathered there. Twilight smiled as she immediately knew who did this.

"Surprise!" The pink party pony jumped in front of her with an always beaming smile. Pinkie bounced around the new princess as the rest of the main six approached Twilight. One by one, each congratulated her.

"Oh darling, you are simply glowing. Congratulations." Rarity smiled and hugged her.

"Way to go Twilight, we knew you could do it! And hey, now I can have a training 'partner'." Rainbow Dash laughed and went next to Rarity.

"Ah'm proud of you Twi, and I know ya'll be the best princess ya can be." AppleJack hugged her and walked over to the others. The only pony left was Fluttershy as she sheepishly walked up to twilight and tightly hugged her.

"Congratulations Twilight, Im so happy for you." She smiled, and got pulled into a huge clump with the rest of the group by Pinkie Pie. Twilight was on the verge of tears, the party seem to stand still as she smiled, tears of pure happiness now falling down her face. She hugged all of them and didnt want to let go, but did and held up a hoof for the party's attentions, which quickly gave it.

"Thank you, all of you, so much. I dont think Ive ever felt like this ever before, and I owe it all to you." She looked to her friends, all with smiles.

"Now let’s get this party started!" As Twilight yelled this, Pinkie rolled out the party cannon and blasted the whole crowd with confetti.

Twilight woke up the next morning, her face stuffed into a pillow and her crown almost sideways on her head. She smiled as she stretched and stood up from the bed, lifting her crown off and placing it on her nightstand. She levitated a brush and fixed her bed mane before leaving her room. She looked through the library, expecting a partied out mess for her to clean, but was pleasantly surprised to see a clean and sparkling library. A smell from further downstairs grabbed her attention and lured her to the kitchen.

“Good morning, princess.” A small dragon smiled at Twilight as he cooked, almost singing his ‘kiss the dragon’ apron doing so.

“Good morning spike, did you clean up?” Twilight sat at the table and watched Spike cook.

“I had some help from the girls after everyone else left and you went to bed.” Spike finished cooking and put the meal on the table. As they ate, Twilight went on about what they were going to do today, from studying, to rearranging, and finishing up with going out on the town. Spike nodded as he cleaned up and put everything away.

“Anything specific you want to do, spike?” Spike looked back at Twilight and thought for second, but right as he was about to answer, a knocking interrupted the two. Twilight sighed and stood up and walked to the door, followed by spike. She opened the door to see the grey mail mare.

“Package for Twilight Sparkle.” Derpy smiled and dropped the package on the doorstep. She flew off without saying anything or asking for anything, even a muffin.

“Huh, she must be pretty busy to fly off like that.” Spike commented as Twilight levitated the box inside. She opened the top and found nothing but a scroll. Simply white with frayed edges and sides, wrapped up neatly with a golden string. Twilight tilted her head in confusion.

“What is it? Twilight?” Spike walked over and peered into the box. He reached down and pulled out the scroll, looking through the sides to see what was in it.

“Think its from one of the other princess’s?” Spike asked as he reached for the string, only to be swatted away by Twilight. She levitated the scroll away from the curious little dragon.

“They would’ve sent a letter through you, not through the mail. It could be a trap of some sort” She walked into the kitchen, and placed the scroll on the table and stared at it intently. Spike followed closely and looked at it.

“What’s the worst that could happen from a little piece of paper?” Twilight turned and stared down Spike.

“Have you already forgotten the Starswirl spell incident?” Spike shrunk down and looked down.

“Oh right, sorry.” Twilight calmed down and looked at the little dragon.

“I’m sorry Spike, I just don’t want anything like that, or even worse to happen from us simply opening a scroll. Go

get me all the books we have about magical trap removal and prevention.” Spike saluted the princess, then ran off to collect the books.

Twilight kept moving through the books, trying to find a spell that would work, all of her other attempts failed somehow, even with her magic ability.

"Ugh! Why are none of these spells working?" She flipped to a page at random out of frustration, coming upon a spell she had never seen before.

"What's this? 'Magic Barrier Breaker? I don't remember this spell." She read the spells description and decided for one last effort. She aimed her horn at the scroll and charged up the spell, her horn now glowing a vivid blue before launching at the scroll. After the flash of impact, Twilight looked in amazement as once invisible barrier around the scroll materialized into a golden color and dissolved away, leading Twilight to let out a triumphant yell. She grabbed the scroll and ran out of the kitchen.

"Spike! I did it!" She looked around and saw Spike with Pinkie, Apple Jack, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, and Rarity, all of whom were smiling.

"Spike came an' grabbed us, saying we could help ya' with something. I guess you got it now though." Apple Jack laughed, causing Twilight to smile and hold out the scroll to the group.

"I haven't opened it yet, now may be a good a time as ever." Each of the girls and Spike nodded. Twilight slowly undid the golden string, letting it fall to the floor. She rolled the scroll open tilted her head.

"What's it say?" Rainbow Dash asked, the other ponies leaning closer in anticipation.

"Its a poem. But Its really weird." Twilight answered back, causing Pinkie to smile.

"OoOoOoh, Twilights got a secret admirer." Pinkie laughed, causing Twilight to blush at the thought.

"No Pinkie, its not a love poem." Twilight cleared her throat.

Come home, child. Come home to me. Over obstacles and obstructions, through gate and tunnel, castle and tomb. Over mountains high and valleys low, come home to me.

Before anypony could speak, the scroll began to glow a bright gold, laying strange runes on the floor. First encircling Twilight, then expanding around the others. The ponies scrambled for each other, but somehow couldn't move.

"Hey, I can't fly!" Rainbow struggled to move her wings but to no avail. Fluttershy screamed as the group looked at what she was seeing, Twilight was disappearing, fading into thin air. The screams multiplied when the same started happening to the whole group. First Rainbow, then Spike, Rarity and Apple Jack and finally Pinkie and Fluttershy. Eventually leaving an empty room vacant of all life, and a scroll on the floor.