Good and Evil

“What am I? Truly I will never know myself.”  The shadowy being thinks out loud sitting under a street light. “Am I an evil being? Is what I do evil? I look the part for sure.” It looks at itself. The being is tall with clawed fingers and round white eyes. Its shadowy skin was steaming in the light of the street light as if it was acid. “What I wouldn’t do for some light that wouldn’t kill me...” A vine of Darkness shot out and hit the street light shattering the glass. The shards fell down onto its shoulder where they just sank into its dark skin harmlessly. Suddenly a burst of purple light shown in the dark sky. “What? What is that?” It stood and gazed at the light. “It does not burn... It is....beautiful.” It reached up trying to grasp it in its Dark hands. “Such light.... So warm....” A dark sphere surrounded the being and shot up towards the light.

--------Twilight-------

Twilight’s horn stopped glowing and she groaned. It’s not working!” She sighed and wrote something down on some paper.

“Well what did you expect Twi? Looking at other worlds is hard even for a pony with your kind of magic.” Spike was laying on the grassy ground his hands behind his head.

“I know but I’m just so curious! What if there are magical advances in those other worlds? I just need to know.” Twilights horn glowed again a bit brighter this time. After a few seconds it died and Twilight looked up with wide eyes. “What the?”

“What?” Spike sat up from his lounging. Twilight looked at him with a confused look.

“Something just took all the power I put into that one.” They both looked at each other then out of nowhere a dark colored pony fell right in front of them.

“Ow, I can feel pain now? What is this world?” The being got up shakily. “ARGH!” It growled and fell over steam rising from its body. Twilight looked at this pony with wide eyes, it was a dark colored unicorn with a main that looked like it was made of pure shadows, when it spoke its mouth and inside its mouth was pure white along with its eyes. “T-the light...” It spoke again then Twilight finally came back to reality.

“Hold on!” Her horn glowed and it slowly floated into the air. Twilight hurried into the library and shut the curtains and turned off the lights. The being slowly rose to all four hooves still a bit wobbly. “Are you alright? You’re not hurt are you?” It was a bit dark but she could still see him moving around.

“Who are you? What is this place? And why do I have four legs?” He looked down at his hooves then back up to Twilight, his face unreadable.

“Well I’m Twilight Sparkle and you’re in the Ponyville library, and you have four legs because you’re a pony.” She gave it a confused look. “And who may I ask are you?” It looked at her a moment then looked up.

“I have been given many names, but the one I like the most is Shade. It is pleasant to meet you Twilight Sparkle.” Shade did a little bow then fell forward on his face. “I never had four legs before...It’s annoying.” He got back up.

“So....” Twilight looked to the side trying to think of something to talk about. “How did you get here?” Shades white eyes looked up at her from his hooves.

“I saw a purple light from my world, and it didn’t burn.” His voice sounded like multiple ponies were talking and this made Twilight shiver, this thing wasn’t a pony. “Being a shadow made of nothing but darkness, I am feared by all, born from darkness. And you know what? The darkness is a scary place.” A smiled crept onto Shade’s face. “So it’s only natural to run from your fears. Everywhere I ran the darkness followed, and when I found light to hide from it, I was burned and torn and thrown back into the Dark. It was painful.” Twilight felt a bit bad but also terrified. A being of darkness? What if he’s evil? She lit a candle and levitated close to her. Shade didn’t seem to mind but it kept him from getting close.

“Maybe I should write a letter to the princess.” She thought out loud walking up the stairs. Shade, having nothing better to do, followed her a few paces behind due to the brightness of the candle. Twilight placed the candle on a table and hopped up onto the bed laying down. She was about to levitate some paper and a quill over when she found them suddenly right in front of her. “What?” She saw Shade backing up away from the two objects. “Um.... Thank you.” She smiled.

“No trouble.” Shade nodded and looked around. Twilight took the quill and paper with her magic and started writing when she got a sudden idea.

“Say, Shade?” He looked at her. “How would you like to stay here? Maybe I could help you find a way so you don’t get hurt when you go outside.” A smiled cracked onto his face.

“I accept your offer Twilight Sparkle.” His voice got a bit more cheerful. Twilight laughed lightly. ‘Oh what am I doing? He could kill me in my sleep for all I know, something like that living in my house? I am making a very stupid choice.’ she thought as she wrote down on the paper about what she learned about hospitality.

"The guest room is down the hall." He nodded and walked down the hall and into the guest room. "Oh this is going to be a long night." She sighed and went to look for Spike to have him send the letter.

Editor’s note: The Darkness II much?

A/N: Maybe my faithful editor. except....wait no spoilers. sorry.