Disharmony Rises

The group arrived at Twilight's castle after several minutes of walking in the rain. Once they got inside, they all headed to the room containing the cutie map.

"I'll be back in a second, I'm going to get us some towels and get the hot cocoa started." Twilight said as she headed back out into the hallway.

Everyone took their respective seats around the cutie map and looked around sadly. Dash sighed.

"How are we ever going to find Starswirl without Jet?" Dash said as a tear threatened to escape her eye.

"It'll be ok, sugahcube. We'll find and stahp whateva he's plannin'. It's what Jet woulda wanted." Applejack said as she put a reassuring a hand on Dash's shoulder.

Dash gave her a weak smile as Twilight walked back in with a stack of towels and a tray of coffee mugs. She handed each one of her friends a towel and a warm mug of hot cocoa. After everyone got dried off and began sipping their hot cocoa, Twilight broke the silence.

"Ok, Wind. You said you had the spell book Starswirl was using." Twilight said.

"Yea. Here it is." Wind said as she slid a book across the table to Twilight.

Twilight grabbed it and looked it over. It appeared to be an ordinary copy of 'The Elements of Harmony'. She opened it and leafed through a few of the pages. As she looked through it, her eyes grew wide. Every spell in the book was a spell requiring dark magic to use.

"That can't be right..." Twilight began.

"What is it?" Dash asked.

"This book is supposed to be just a copy of 'The Elements of Harmony'. But, this book contains only dark magic spells." Twilight said as she closed the book and set it down.

"I don't understand. How can this be right?" Twilight asked aloud to no one in particular.

Rarity came over and looked closely at the book.

"Um, darling. Perhaps you should take a closer look at the title of this book." Rarity said.

Twilight looked down at the title.

"The Elements of... Disharmony?!" Twilight shouted.

"Wait, what?!" Dash shouted.

"Elements of Disharmony?! What's that?!" Pinkie shouted.

"It was supposed to just be an old legend. It's the dark magic counterpart to the Elements of Harmony. They're power would be the exact polar opposite of ours." Twilight explained.

"So, you mean there's ponies out there right now that have the same magical power as us?" Dash asked.

"Well, it's not that simple. Yes, they have similar powers to ours. But, unlike ours, their magic would be stronger when separated. So, they wouldn't need work together to use their elements." Twilight continued.

She got up from the table and walked into the library, searching for something.