afraid of the shadows, afraid the dark

About twenty minutes later...

“Rainbow dash! Rainbow dash! Wake up Dash!" Rainbow heard a call, sounding as if it came miles away, slowly focusing itself on a near point, beginning to sound like Applejack's voice.

"Huh? What's... happening? Where's Fluttershy!" Rainbow exclaimed and jolted to a sitting position, only to fall back down as she hissed in agony as bursts of pain exploded all over her body. Her hands clenched, she lay there for a few moments, sweating and nearly passing out once more.

  "Take it easy partner, ya need to tell us just what happened." Applejack voiced with a nervous expression on her face as she saw the horror of what Fluttershy did take its toll on the brash rider. Her arms were covered in cuts and dirt, as was her face. She lay slightly off center as her back was visibly in strife with itself with what position brings the least pressure. Her breath was labored and she winced when she spoke the tale of what happened less than an hour ago.

Her tale left out the more graphic feelings of pain and as she spoke, Applejack and Rarity pulled themselves together and began their near silent work of bandaging Rainbow dash and trying to ignore the whimpers of the rider with a rough exterior. Dash was certainly taking it better than she should have which was happy news for the other four. There were few words spoken other than an occasional repeated question of 'does this hurt?' Or 'does this hurt when it bends?' Sadly, the answer tended to be yes.

"Can you walk?" Rarity questioned once they were finished bandaging her and applying ice to her back.

Rainbow dash gave a less strained grunt in reply, " I think so," Rainbow dash, with the aid of Pinkie pie and Applejack slowly got up and managed to walk, still not without aid though. Rainbow asked Twilight what could possibly have gotten into Fluttershy.

"The only thing I can think of that sounds similar is the related kid turner, but that was just a story going around magic kindergarten. I don't remember much of it, but It goes like this..." Twilight began to relay the tale to the spectrum haired teen.

Every so often, Discord and queen Chrysalis go to the arctic north. There, they summon forth one of the most demonic kings in all of equestrian history, king Sombra. These three beings are said to be able to create a new being, with the shadow powers of king Sombra, shape shifting and possessing of others from Chrysalis, and control over the fluctuations of hammerspace from discord. With these powers, the new being turned on its creators and was sealed inside of discord's tooth, never to be released again. It is said that every time Discord uses his powers, he has a chance of releasing the Turner once again.

"Well that's what happened for sure, since what both you and Rainbow dash said match up almost perfectly." Rarity implied with a disturbed look as this creature was possessing one of her best friends.

No one else spoke as they were afraid, afraid of their own shadows, each other, afraid of the darkness.

Meanwhile...

"D-discord, since I found you, can I have my powers back?" Turner asked, taking the voice of Fluttershy to whimper his request to discord.

    "Hmm? You WANT to quit the game and leave your friends for dead?" Discord queried with his usual humorous smirk replaced with one of confusion.

"And Twilight wants me to have her magic. She said that, S-she said that she gave up." Turner began to shed a few tears and looked up at discord with a look of sympathy and Discord gave an ecstatic expression and quickly gave turner what he wanted and dropped the maze.

"This may just be the best day I've had in millennium! It appears that I am free to rein chaos over all of Equestria! The elements of harmony will never defeat me again, although now that I think of it, why aren't you still under my spell?"

Turners tears stopped in his eyes and he began to chuckle. Maniacally,  his hand moved out from his body and they began glowing a bright purple and then swiftly changed to a black, akin to a moonless night. Rapidly, just before Discord could react, Turner paralyzed Discord and began a monologue.

"Oh, daddy Discord, how I have waited for this day. Eight hundred sixteen years. EIGHT HUNDRED SIXTEEN YEARS OF SOLITUDE! More so when you trapped me in your essence! Never again! I will take control of every single puny little human in this country, be the creator of wars and destruction! I will begin with the hometown of this vessel I have chosen myself so, in your own words, arrivederci!"