In the Beginning

It's a bright sunny morning in the Crystal Empire. I'm wearing my armor and patrolling the town.

"It's a beautiful day in the Crystal Empire!" I whisper to myself.

"Hi, Som" shouts a passerby.

"Hi!" I wave back as I trot to the library. I was asked by my mother to pick up a book on creating crystals. So I set down my spear and walked into the library. When I climbed onto the ladder to start looking for the book, another book caught my eye. It glistened in the shadows. I thought to myself, "How can a book glisten in the SHADOWS?". I took the book from the shelf and started reading. It read of ponies called Shadow Ponies, ponies who could control darkness and shadows. The more I read the interested I became. I came to a blank page that didn't seem to have anything on it. I used my light magic, but it didn't work. All of a sudden, I heard an eerie voice in my ear.

"Dark magic. Use the dark magic from the book!" It hisses. I nervously flip the pages back to the page with a dark magic spell written on it. I preformed the spell, but nothing happened. All of a sudden, gray crystals shot out of the book and cut my horn. My horn was now red with blood. I tried a healing spell, but it did nothing. I ran out of the library, not knowing that I left the book open. Dark steam rose out of the book and followed me down the street.

I was in my bedroom, when some of my friends asked me to play.

"Hey, Som! Wanna play catch the doll?" My friend Zaco asked.

"Sure, just let me take off my armor" I reply. Zaco's brothers Roku and Kent were also in the yard. We started playing, and after a few minutes I felt my horn stinging. It stung so badly I had to drop out of the game.

"Are you okay?" Kent asks

"I'm fine!" I manage to hiss when tears are streaming down my eyes. I gallop away in my bedroom, and put my horn under the sink. I lay down on my bed to relax my still aching horn.

"Why be their friend, if they were your tribe's end" I hear the same eerie voice from the library. I start to panic.

"W-Who's there?" I stammer. My room is suddenly clouded with darkness and the eerie voice speaks.

"Are they friend or are they foe?' The eerie voice creaks. I try to find the door, but it is too dark.

"Leave me alone" I sternly stammer through tears. I suddenly feel a hoof on my shoulder.

"Oh Som, there is so much you do not know" The eerie voice croaks. What do I not know? Why does this shadow want me? Suddenly, a book falls from the nowhere. It is the same dark book from the library.

"Read it and your answer will be told, but some of the answers may not be what you foretold" the eerie voice echos. Then, the darkness is removed and the voice has faded away. I take a look at the suspiciously, but that book might have answers. Answers that I've wanted for years! I pad over to the book and look in. And with no sudden warning....

I am sucked into the book.