Twilight's Decision

As Twilight approaches the castle she can’t help but feel like she’s being watched, she turns to look behind her but no pony is there and yet the feeling persists all the way up the rock strewn cliff and even into the castle. She can swear that the pictures eyes in the entry hall are following her. ‘It’s just an old castle’ she reassures herself as she continues on. She searches for hours and then as she settles down to rest taking off her saddle bag she removes the potion and looks at it, the glass feel’s cool to the touch as she sets it on the table next to the bookshelf she had been looking through and she continues sorting through her bag. *smash*. She quickly stands up and puts the potion back in her bag. She slowly makes her way out of the hall and towards the back of the castle where the sound came from. The half destroyed hallways lead to the garden of the castle where a smashed vase is on the ground. She looks around at the overgrown plants and the crumbling stone walls but see’s that nothing is out of the ordinary. She turns back to the door only to find it gone. Darkness slowly started to crawl down the walls. An eerie laugh saps the strength from her limbs as she tries to use her magic to summon her shield. ‘I have you now Princess’ a voice hisses behind her. By then she couldn’t even summon the strength to keep standing and she collapses on the ground. The last thing she sees is a hoof with holes in it.

Rainbow Dash passed in and out of consciousness for the next two days. She could hear fighting in the halls and random rainbow energy flashed through her closed eyes at random times. During that time night terrors assaulted her with a never ending vigilance slowly making her question her sanity. She saw things she shouldn’t have been able to see, Nightmare Moon laughing in the night and then a living shadow spike piercing her heart. She saw Sombra step out of the shadows and looking at Nightmare he then flicked his tail and walked away. Nightmare then turned into Luna looked directly at Rainbow and whispered ‘I’m sorry’ she then faded away as Rainbow gained consciousness again.

Rarity sat straight up in a chair across from a creature she never thought she would see again, he sipped his tea and ate his biscuits while she stared at him. He finally looked up from his meal and spoke. ‘What’ he said in a posh British accent ‘I thought you were sophisticated’.

‘I am sophisticated but you are not’ she put added power into the word you as she said it.

‘Fine you want the true me’ he snapped his fingers and everything around her started floating up in the air and spinning randomly. ‘Discord’ she yelled from her now upside down vantage point on the roof ‘Let me down!’

‘Fine’ he sighed and snapping his fingers he returned everything to normal. Sitting back down he looked at her ‘now let’s get down to businesses.