The Missing Royal

On the same night Princess Cadence tosses and turns in her bed. She opens her eyes in shock. Looking around she has more relief. But something isn’t right to her. She’s outside, in the middle of the night. A moonlit forest Cadence sits in the middle of a bald spot and she is in surrounded by Everfree Forest trees. It has an eerie but beautiful look in the moonlight and Cadence is in the center of it all. She stands up looking around baffled to why she is outside, and in the Everfree Forest.

      “Hello?”

Cadence says softly, looking in every direction for any signs of a presence. Her voice echoed into the darkness of the forest. The sound of leaves rumbles fills the background as Cadence is getting terrified. Turning around almost spinning where the core of the sound is coming from. She stops. A dark red light begins to appear getting brighter every second as Cadence’s heart is pumping from extreme terror. She can’t look away. Then the red light turns into a pair of purple evil eyes.

      Cadence is shaking no words coming out of her mouth, not even a scream. Taking a step back, trying to move away from this thing. It comes out, but it’s not a pony. It’s a shadow, black and fuming. Stone spikes form on the ground as it moves. The shadow is in some shape of a pony. Cadence snaps, she turns around not even bothering looking back and runs. She doesn’t know where she’s going but as long as it’s away from the shadow. Cadence runs out of breath. She stops then sits down, her hooves are shaky and she is panting, thinking that she has gotten away from the shadow. She finally pays attention to where she is looking around she sees the same trees she’d seen and in the same area where she ran from. Turning around where the shadow appeared is gone. She lets out a sigh of relief.

       Without hesitation she turns back around, not knowing that the shadow is right in front of her. She gasps, trying to run but she ends up falling. The shadow looks straight into her eyes letting out and evil laugh then saying Cadence’s name. The figure gives a sharp toothed smile. Its stone spikes form around her hooves. Cadence screams

“Please, leave me alone!”

The shadow comes closer and Cadence tries to scream but she can’t. She closes her eyes as soon as the shadow was about to get to her a light from above shines.

“Be gone!”

A light goes straight through the shadow, the shadow screams as the light is piercing it. The light surrounds it vanishing it from sight.

      Cadence opens her eyes relieved that the terrorizing shadow is gone. She gets up looking around to make sure the shadow is gone. Princess Luna flies down to Cadence, landing right next to her.

      “Luna?!”

Cadence gets up. She is relieved that the monster is gone and that Luna saved her. Cadence asks why she is here and where they are

      “This is a dream there is nothing to fear now.”

Luna explains. Cadence asks what the shadow that was chasing her. Luna says she has no clue. Cadence then asks why the shadow said her name as if it knew her. Luna opened her mouth as to say something but she gets alerted

      “You are waking I must flee”

Luna fly’s up out of sight, Cadence is yelling at her to wait but as soon as Luna disappears Cadence wakes up.