A Darkness...

Cadence galloped into the Crystal Thrown Room in a panic.

"Twilight is gone!" She exclaimed.

"What!?" Shinning relied.

"She turned deep purple, acquired bat wings, and her cutie mark changed from pink and white, to red and lavender!" Cadence said.

"How...?" Celestia started before her eyes widened in terror. "Oh no!"

"It must be too late!" Luna exclaimed.

"What are we going to do?" Shinning Armor asked. The stallion looked up the Discord. "Got any ideas?"

"No." Discord said flatly.

"Gee, thanks for showing some encouraging attitude." Harmony said sarcastically.

"We need to remain calm." Celestia said.

"Remain calm?" Spike said. "Twilight just turned into that...Thing, and you want us to stay calm?!"

"When you panic, your mind doesn't function properly." Luna replied.

"Did you get her to say anything Cadence?" Celestia asked.

"Almost..." Cadence replied. "She was about to say something when she dropped to the ground and started to changed!" Cadence breathed heavily.

"Cadence you can't stress." Shinning said.

"I know but...Twilight's turning into a...a...thing, and I can't stand idly by and watch my sister-in-law, live miserably without Love, and possibly soon without Friendship." Cadence said.

"She's got a point." Discord stated.

"Well duh?" Harmony replied.

"You know, sometime you can be really annoying." Discord glared at Harmony who smirked.

"I know." She replied.

"I might have an idea of what too do..." Celestia said.

Twilight awoke on her bed, her head hurting. She had no clue what had just happened, but judging by that fact she was in her bed she thought it was a dream.

Why does my head hurt so badly? She thought.

The alicorn got up and got out of bed, her hooves making a 'KLOMP' sound as they hit the floor. But what frightened Twilight most, was that as her hooves hit the floor, dark magic shot out from under them, and turned her room from a beautiful crystal blue, to a dark blackish-purple.

Twilight walked over to her vanity and gasped. She was a dark purple alicorn with bat-like wings. her cutie mark was a red six-pointed star with five lavender stars surrounding it.

She almost fainted.

"What's happening to me?!" Twilight yelled at particularly nopony. As she stared into the vanity, she noticed that her eyes flashed red for a second before returning to normal. This freaked her out more. Twilight raced out onto the balcony and took flight. when she thought she was far enough away, Twilight turned and gasped. her castle now consisted of the dark purple crystal. Twilight down to the front of the castle, when her touched the ground, it began to shake.

"Ahhh!" Twilight screamed. She galloped away from the castle and into Ponyville. Ponies looked upon her with horror, some screamed while others ran away and hid in their homes. Twilight tried to calm them down, but nopony would listen. Outside her castle, dark crystals grew from the grown, forming a wall around the castle. Twilight was rely scared when Mayor Mare called some guards.

"Get that monster!" The Mayor yelled.

"Miss Mayor! It's me Twilight!" The alicorn yelled, but avail.

With that, Twilight fled from Ponyville and the pursuing guards.

when she arrived at her at her only hiding place, she saw a wall around the castle, and in front of her was a large crystal gate. Maniacal laughter suddenly came from no where, and the guards continued to chase her. The purple alicorn raced throughout the gates and inside her castle where she hid in the thrown room. The guards stopped at the gates because open them, there seemed to be a spell on it.

Back in the thrown room, Twilight hid behind her thrown.

"Aw...poor Twilight Sparkle..." An unfamiliar female voice said. "So confused. So lost. And, so...scared."

The last word sent shivers up and down Twilight spine. She peeked around her thrown to see a pitch back alicorn mare with red eyes, and a deep purple mane. She had no cutie mark though, and she didn't need one to scare the day-lights out of Twilight.

"W-w-who a-are y-you?" Twilight asked shakily.

"Oh, don't be scared." The mare said. Her voice sounded caring and motherly, and Twilight didn't like one bit.

"You didn't answer m-my question." Twilight sounded a little braver this time.

"Don't you see? I'm your friend." The mare replied.

"I don't recognize you..." Twilight said.

"I'm only one here who doesn't fear you." The mare said. "Now why don't you come out?"

"I d-d-don't trust you." Twilight said.

"It's okay, I don't want to hurt you." The mare said.

Twilight shook her head carefully. Suddenly, Twilight felt herself be lifted by a aura of black magic. The mare set Twilight down in front of her.

"Who are you?" Twilight asked.

"My name is Shadow. And I have some news for you." Shadow said.

"What? Do you what's happening to me?" Twilight inquired. The, she suddenly noticed something. "Your an alicorn!"

"Yes I am." Shadow replied.

"But how...?" Twilight asked.

"Because Twilight..." The mare looked at Twilight evilly. "I'm your Shadow."

Twilight gasped. The mare spred her wings, they also were bat-like, the spines of her wings were black like her coat but the webbing between them was deep purple. Twilight hadn't even noticed that the mare had her mane and tail style.

"And yes...I do know." Shadow replied, beginning to approach Twilight.

Twilight backed away. She had to be dreaming.

"You see...I'm not inly your shadow, I'm what your turning into." Shadow said.

"I don't understand." Twilight said.

"Oh you will." Shadow said. The black mare teleported onto Twilight's thrown. "I am the spirit that's feeding off of you."

"What are you talking about?" Twilight asked.

"Well...you're cursed, you might as well know why." Shadow said, lunging on Twilight's thrown in a very un-lady-like manner. "Your heart is full of Friendship..." The mare gaged at the word. "But, what we noticed, is that your heart doesn't contain Love..."

"So that's what Cadence was trying to..." Twilight trailed off. Now she understood what Cadence was trying to say. "Wait...'we'?"

"Yes 'we', I'm not the only spirit feeding off of you, I'm the 'leader' you could say." Shadow replied. "Anyway, we only feed off of alicorns though."

Twilight was getting scared, she knew Shadow was going to say something really bad soon.

"We feed off of one of two things; A pony without Friendship. Or a pony without Love." Shadow said. "You don't have Love, which made you a target. The more we feed, the stronger we get, the more we change you and your form."

Twilight was waiting...she knew something was coming, the main catch.

"But...we like to be fair..." The mare chucked. "sort of..."

"What do you mean?" Twilight asked.

"As we get stronger, the more you falling in love gets harder..." Shadow explained. "By the time you look like me, falling in love will be impossible...Forever."

Twilight gasped.

"You have so much magic inside you, it will take a little more than tree years  until we gain complete control, but until then, falling in love will be quite difficult." Shadow said. "But...incase you loose track of how much time you have..."

Shadow used her magic to produce a deep purple rose, with dark magic radiating off of it. She levitated it into Twilight's hooves.

"A reminder..." Shadow said.

Twilight looked at the rose curiously "How does that...?"

Twilight cut herself off as she saw Shadow's eyes begin to glow a violent purple. The mare began to rise into the air, a dark magic aura began to swirl around her.

"This rose will bloom until your twenty-first year, then it will began to wilt. If you have not fallen in love, and gained his love in return...you will be doomed for all *eternity*."