A Twilighted Darkness

    "GAAAAH!!!"

    Twilight Sparkle was startled. She had another nightmare.

    "Twilight!" asked her faithful assistant Spike. "What happened?!"

    Twilight struggled to speak. Her nightmares were getting worse each night. Every night, she had a nightmare about her causing the destruction of Equestria. Every night it just got worse, with last night's detailing her brutally murdering her close friends. Yet she didn't want to tell her friends about it, afraid of worrying them or making them think of her as evil. And I was hard not to tell Spike about it, considering as he was her #1 assistant.

    "Oh... uh, I... have princess jitters!" lied Twilight. Twilight would do anything to protect Spike, even if it ment lying to him.

    Spike however saw through the lie. "Twilight, don't lie to me. Listen, I know things are tough for you, but the only way I can help you is if you tell me what's wrong."

    Twilight sighed. 'No matter what,' she thought, 'at least I'll have him.'

    So Twilight explained everything. She explained the nightmares, all the visions, everything. She also explained why she waited to tell about it. "I just can't help it Spike! I'm losing control to myself every minute! I can't stop it!"

    Spike pondered, and then asked "Could you explain the first time you felt that way?

........

    Twilight had left her house. Well, it was more like a crystal castle. The official name was Crystal Friendship Kingdom, but Twilight felt the name was wrong. 'Maybe I should take the Crystal Empire for myself.' she thought. She snapped to her senses. "What did I just think?" She concluded she was hearing voices, not noticing her eyes turned green with purple mist.

    As she walked along the path, she came across a happy filly playing with a rock. 'Disgusting. Maybe I could fix that.' She levitate a rock onto the filly, knocking her and causing her to cry. 'Good.'

    Suddenly, she realized what she did and went to help the poor filly. "Oh Celestia! I'm so sorry, are you ok?"

    The filly ran off, while Twilight thought she heard being called a monster.

    "What the hay is going on? Why am I acting weird?"

.....

     Twilight decided to worry about it later, and went to Sweet Apple Acres. Her first item of the day was to help AJ buck some apples. "Howdy there Twi! Ready to kick some trees?" said Applejack.

     'Will you keep your crap filled mouth outta this?' "Yep!" said Twilight. She would have to worry about it later. Friends come before herself.

     Bad thing was, Twilight had been so caught up with her duties as Princess of Friendship, that she ACTUALLY forgot how to buck trees. And bad for her, AJ was calling her out on it.

     "Uh Twi, maybe a bit harder?"

     "No don't do it too hard!"

     "Twi, you only got HALF the apples."

     "Do you even remember how to buck?!"

     Twilight was furious with her eyes green. "If I can't do anything freaking right, WHY EVEN ASK ME TO HELP??!!"

     Twilight realized she had called out Applejack and ran off.

     "Twilight, I'm sorry I said those things!" AJ said as Twilight ran.

.....

     Twilight tried to gallop back home. 'Screw my to do list! I don't want to hurt anyone else! If I'm lucky, I won't act up near anyone else.' She thought.

     She came up towards Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie. 'Not my freaking day.'

     "Hey Twi! How's things going?" asked Dash.

     "Oh I'm... fine, just... gotta go home."

     "You didn't forget out flight session today didn't you?"

     "I'd rather not..."

      Pinkie started babbling. "And then afterwards, you can help me taste some muffins! I've got a customer who loves muffins names Derpy! She especially likes blueberry muffins! She also has a liking of cupcakes, pancakes, and came! I know it's a lot of stuff with cake! I mean, we shouldn't be able to normally say Derpy Hooves' name, but this is fan fiction darn it, so ill do it if I..."

     "Shut up, shut up, SHUT UP!!!" screamed Twilight. Her eyes were extreme green with purple mist. "I've had enough of your INSANE BABBLING! SO SHUT IT FOR ONE MINUTE AND LEAVE ME BE!"

     Twilight went back to normal, and realized what happen. She teared up and galloped off.

     Rainbow called out for Twilight, wondering what had happened. Pinkies make had just deflated. "Do I really babble a lot?"

     Rainbow Dash held her mouth.

.....

     Twilight was crying hard. Not the amount of crying when stubbing a hoof. The amount of crying when losing someone near and dear to them. Her eyes were green and full of purple mist. Spike knew he had to help Twilight out.

     "Shhh. Its ok," said Spike, as he rubbed her mane. " Just get some rest and everything will be better. And tomorrow, I promise you, me and the girls will give you the best day of your life! We will get you to forget anything you've done wrong, and you can start off on a clean slate. We all can."

     Twilight smiled. She was touched by what Spike said. And with that, Twilight went back to sleep.

.....

     #"You really think you can stop me?"# said a dark voice in Twilight. The voice looked like a twisted version of her

     "Honestly, I don't even know anymore," said Twilight. All she hoped was that Spike would come through. The dark voice just grinned, for what was in plan tomorrow was to put in place the corruption of Twilight Sparkle, or as she would be now known as, Midnight Dusk.