Dark Moon

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic: Dark MoonPrologue

Twilight Sparkle tried to sleep.  She really did.  But something was keeping her awake.

Every time she closed her eyes, she saw a vision.  A black stallion with glowing red eyes seemed to stare at her while she saw Ponyville burning behind him.

Shaking her head, Twilight got out of bed.  She cast an illumination spell and saw Spike sleeping in his bed.  Smiling, she summoned a book and began reading.

"Daring Do and the Griffin's Goblet."  she read.  "Daring Do had just completed a daring adventure to obtain the legendary Sapphire Statue.  She had been grounded for a few days, but her wing was finally better.  She had  -"  A flash of lightning interrupted her, but this wasn't normal lightning.  Twilight saw it and knew something was not right.  It was black lightning.

She immediatly dropped the book and grabbed a book called "The Encyclopedia of Weather and Weather-Related Terms:

The Pegasus Edition."  It was a book distributed to all pegasi, but all librarys across Equestria had gotten a copy so unicorns and earth ponies could study up on weather.

Twilight used her magic to flip to a page dealing with lightning.  She looked at the section labeled "Types of Lightning".

"You will not find many different colors of lightning in Equestria"  she read.  "Lightning normally only is your standard yellow lightning bolt, though if the weather station fills up a cloud with a lot of electricity, you may find blue or even white lightning bolts, though they are very rare.  Many ponies claim to have seen black lightning bolts, though there is no such

thing.  However, it is possible to create a black lightning bolt by using powerful dark magic."

"Dark magic?"  Twilight wondered.  "There must be. . ."

There was another bolt of lightning, and this time, Twilight heard something.

She rushed outside and saw villagers running away in fright.  The lightning bolt had hit a lamp pole and the pole burst into flames, and quickly devoured the pole, and then spread across Ponyville.

Twilight looked around in horror, remembering the vision she had.

Spinning around quickly, she saw a black stallion standing on a hill behind her.  Their eyes locked for a moment, and the stallion seemed to disappear, so quickly that one might dismiss it as their imagination.

Twilight looked back at Ponyville and saw that it was burning, just like she saw in her vision.

Knowing what she needed to do, she concentrated her magic on all the water she could find in Ponyville.  She summoned it all and sent it all flying onto Ponyville, putting out the fire, but causing a bit more chaos in the process.

Suddenly, she heard laughing, and above her, there was the black stallion again, laughing like a madpony.  He then saw her and like lightning, had flung a large chunk of a burned-out house at her.

The last the Twilight remembered was the sound of the black stallion laughing.

TO BE CONTINUED