Adventure? How About a Flash Back

Chapter 1

The Split

Twilight woke up the next day fully rested, she looked around to find that Spike had left the tree to go on a walk. She was so happy just to know that potion worked to keep the nightmares away. She walked outside to find half of ponyville asleep, did she really lose that much sleep to the original nightmares? She took a small walk over to Sugar-cube corner to see if Mr and Mrs Cake had anything prepared for her to eat, she was starving. She entered the shop to find it pitch black. Twilight scrapped her hoof along the wall to eventually find the light switch. When her eyes finally adjusted to the light a loud noise accompanied the dozens of ponies she saw before her. It was almost as if Pinkie Pie had thrown a party for her. Vinyl Scratch had taken over the party business when Pinkie had to move to Greenwood, everypony in ponyville had shown up the the party as a little welcome back/going away party. Twilight walked up to Vinyl, and said

“Why would you host such a party in the middle of the night?”

Vinyl looked at Twilight “I got Luna and Celestia to delay the day night cycle for this party to be a big surprise, I really hope you like it.” Twilight looked at the ground, and responded “I just wish my friends were here, if you would excuse me for a moment I need a little fresh air.” Twilight walked outside, and used her magic to summon a friend to help her with her current troubles. Discord appeared, and realized that Twilight needed a little help for now.

“Could you possibly send a message out to the six of my friends to enter the portal leading to Canterlot in my quarters to accompany me to this wonderful party. I hope Vinyl won’t mind you joining us too.”

Discord shook his head in agreement, he knew that in a party like that he could use his powers to produce a little chaos and get away with it. Who knows what he could end up doing, he is the soul of chaos.

Twilight entered back into Sugar-cube corner to find everypony starring at her.

“What are you guys looking at?” Twilight said while with the piercing eyes starring into her.

Nopony responded, she looked back down on the ground to find a puddle of water in front of her. The puddle showed her what was wrong, through the reflection of herself in the puddle she noticed that somehow she had grown an extra horn. She took a moment to think about it, this had to be good. Didn’t this mean she could do twice the magic she could before? This mis-formation on her head disrupted the party, Twilight lifted her head from the very convenient puddle on the ground to look back up at the crown still all gaping at what they were seeing. Twilight decided now was the time to speak up

“Let’s not care about this now, I’ve already had a stressful enough week, could we all just enjoy ourselves for this night.”

Everypony shook their heads, Twilight approached Vinyl again, and said

“Is it possible to bring this party more outside, I’ve invited quite a few more ponies to this great party of yours. I don’t think we will need anymore food, I believe this extra horn I have here will help conjure even more into existence.”

Vinyl entered the room full of partying ponies to redirect them outside.

Luna came down from the night sky to greet Twilight, but saw the surprise of the double horned princess before her. “What is up with this?” Luna exclaimed.

Twilight looked up to the sky, and said

“I have no idea, but I’m sure I’ll be fine.”

As the night went on she found even more parts of her body multiplying at random. This seemed to be very strange, by the time her friends had arrived she looked like a freak. Eight legs, two heads, two tails, four ears, two eyes, and two horns. Her friends decided to take a different approach than others. They all reassured her that nothing was wrong with her, but she should check with Zecora to see if anything was truly wrong with her.

Two knocks on the door of Zecora’s shack Twilight thought would be enough, but when no answer was give Twilight thought she had been in a friendship with her long enough that she could just enter without being rude. Zecora was sound asleep, in a situation like this one even sleep of a dearest friend would have to wait. Twilight walked over to Zecora who was laid down on a small brown cot. Twilight took a moment to rethink that she might want to let her sleep, and confront her about this tomorrow. After a split second of thinking she decided it was best to wake her now for this was an emergency. Twilight approached the cot, and shook Zecora until she woke. Moments after Zecora woke she stared at Twilight in horror.

“What has happened to you Twilight, I thought this potion would bring light to your night. Obviously this does not seem right.” Zecora rhymed.

Twilight took some time to explain all the things that have been happening to her in the past few hours. Zecora fished through her small library of books to find one specifically for that potion, apparently it had more uses than Twilight had thought. It explained in the book that in order to destroy the nightmares you must tear that part of your self right off, and this is what it was in the middle of doing. Twilight was in a bit of a shock after reading this, was this other Twilight that was connected to her going to live in fear of everything. Even in the book it said that what ever you remove from your current self would live on until cast to another world. She either had to live with the nightmares or completely remove this terrified version of Twilight off of her to live on without those dreams of horror.