Prequel: The First Dream
Deep in PonyVille, at the recently made castle, slept a Violet Alicorn and her purple and green ,assistant, dragon. The dragon slept peacefully with his Rarity plush in his hands, but while the baby dragon slept beside him was the Princess of friendship sweating through her violet coat as she tossed and turned.
She watched two shadowy figures stand above her, making her feel like a filly, looked at her intently. The only thing she saw was the eyes of the two ponies above her. One had teal cat-like eyes, whe the other had red eyes with green surrounding the rest of the eyes as a purple mist came out of them. Both eyes looked very familiar to her but she didn't remember why. The one with the cat-like eyes turned her head to the other figure "Are you sure that we shou do this?" The voice was a soft, yet rough, mareat the same time, It made Twilight think of someone but she didn't know who. The other figure took a short glance at the mare beside him before looking back at 'Twilight'
"It would be dangerous not to, Who knows what you're pesky sister might do, if she found out" The others voice was of a stallion which sounded rough and dark, yet a bit soft. The shadowy mare rolled her eyes "Well, If she did know, The. She would have been tried to get rid of her." The stallion looked at the shadowy figure and said, frustrated, "How do you know that?" "Because," she paused a bit as if she was finding the right words, "She's.... Her. And I AM her sister after all. So of course I know what she would do." The stallion looked at her as his eyes soften a bit.
"Then tell me... What would she do if she found out." The mare he was looking at looked down and turned her gaze to 'Twilight' "I... I don't what to say." Her eyes was filled with sadness which quicker into a look of determination and said, as she turned to the stallion, "But, I don't want it to happen. Let's do it." Then the stallion bared a fanged smile as his head nodded, "Of course, My queen." It looked like that they were going to do something but then bit by bit they disappeared as a voice boomed out in the distance 'Wake up!' It called out the voice got closer and 'Twilight, WA-'
"-KE UP! Twilight!" Spike boomed out waking up from her slumber. Twilight jumped awake,like she was a kid sleeping in class, she yelled "I'M UP!!" Before yelping as she fell out of her bed. "Twilight! Are you okay?!"'Spike sprinted over to the Alicorn seeing if she was hurt. She slowly got up rubbing her head with her hoof. With a groan she said,"Y-yea, I'm okay." Spike looked at her concerned "You sure?" He asked.
"Yea. I'm fine, Spike, Really." He still looked unimpressed, but said "If you say so." Twilight looked at him and asked, "So...what happened, Spike." Spike looked at her "What do you mean?" Twilight pointed to the window with her hoof. "Spike, the moon's still out." Spike looked outside and said, sheepishly, "Oh, Yea." Twilight sighed at her number 1 assistant and chuckled. "So what is it you need, Spike?"
Spike looked at her and averted his gaze to the ground. "You seemed like you were having a nightmare and I got a bit worried." Twilight looked at him and smiled. "That's nice of you, Spike, but it's nothing to worry about." Spike turned his gazed back at her and asked, "Was it the same dream?" Twilight nodded and gazed at the moon out side the window. "I'm starting to think that these dreams mean something, Spike." Spike shrugged as he went back to his bed. "Or maybe it's all in your head." He suggested. Twilight sighed and climbed in hers. "I'm not sure." Her gaze never leaving the moon's.
'Maybe.'
With that thought she went back to sleep.
Chapter 1: Something's Wrong
Twilight's P.O.V.
It's been almost a year since the dreams have continued and a lot of stuff happened since we discovered the map, StarLight becoming my pupil, my new (and first) niece Flurry Heart, and Dash finally becoming a Wonder Bolt. All that and the same dream keep popping up, almost every night. At first, It was blurry, hard to remember, but the more it showed up the clearer it became, and I soon knew the whole dream by heart. At first I just thought it was one of those 'Repeating Dreams', You know when you have that one dream that you have a lot) but with those it happened on separate nights and you can eventually control that one dream, but with mine I can't control the dream it's just there and it appears every night. It doesn't feel like a dream... It's like a.... memory. A really old memory that got forgotten.
Well, That's what I think, anyway, Spike maybe right it's all in my head. Though I can ask Princess L-
"TWilight!!" Spike roars, breaking me out of my thoughts. "Huh, w-what is it." I said, alerted. I looked around and realized I was in the throne room and the map was out. "Oh.. the map who's going where?" Spike 'coughed' as he pointed to my cutie mark, which was pulsing. "Oh.. me.... Wait... ME!?!" I shouted with excitement. "Seems like it and it looks like nopony's going with you." Spike said. Wait, It's just me? "What?! Nopony's coming with me??!" I asked confused. "Looks like it." Spike answered, looking at the map, "Hey, Twilight do you know that place where you gotta go to?" He asked me. I looked at it to see
My cutie mark which looked like it was behind the Smokey Mountains. "No, I never seen or heard of that place before." I said softly. I wonder why I haven't seen it on any other map of Equestria.
"So it's undiscovered?" Spike said, questionably. "Maybe, but why would the Map send us- I mean me to a undiscovered land for a friendship problem?" I said confused. Spike just shrugged "We should contact the others and ask them, Spike you get Starlight she should be at Rarity's." Spike soon rushed out...floating. I stood by the map and said to myself, "Okay, then, I guess I'll get Pinkie pie and the others." I started to concentrated on my magic to call them until a cheerful voice, came from outside the doorway, broke me out of it saying,"No need, We're here." I shrieked while a bolt of magic blasted a hole in the ceiling. I turned around to see Pinkie pie, Fluttershy, Applejack, and Rainbow Dash, by the doorway. "H-hi girls." I greeted, a bit shaken.
Dash chuckled as she hovered over to me. "You okay there, Twi?" She asked still chuckling. I nodded and started to fix the hole that was in my ceiling. "Yeah, though you'd think I'd be use to that by now." I said, jokingly. Applejack soon started to chuckle as well and said, "That's mighty true, Twi. Though Ah'm wondering why we're all here." "Right, but we have to wait for Rarity, Spike, and Starlight." I told her. "S-Starlight? Oh my, It must be something wrong if Starlight needs to come as well." Fluttershy said.
"Well, It's not really that serious." Fluttershy nodded her head and relaxed a bit after a few seconds Rarity and Starlight came trotting in.
"Oh, Twilight, I've heard everything, from Spike, You just simply can't go alone!" Rarity exclaimed putting her front hooves on my shoulders. I looked at her then looked at Spike with a silent glare. 'So much for asking/telling them myself.' I thought to myself. I sighed and said to Rarity before she can start a small rant. "Rarity, I'm gonna stop you right there. That's the reason I asked for all of you here." I told her as soft as possible. She nodded her head as she walked to her seat and sat down. I looked at Starlight as she went by mine's and sat down. 'Hmm... Maybe I should make her one too.' I silently thought. "Okay, Now that everypony's here." They all stop and stare at me. "It's time for me to explain why I asked for you. The map has chosen me to go to an... how can I put it... an undiscovered...land. That is if you guys seen or heard of this place." I asked as I put my hoof on the spot the map showed. They all looked at it and looked thoughtful.
"I've never heard it before." Fluttershy said quietly, luckily I could hear it. 'It's nice she's not as shy as she was when I first met her.' I smiled abit at the memory. "Ah' didn't hear about it before either." Applejack said. "Sadly me neither ." Dash told me. "I haven't gone there before but it looks like a place to have a big outdoor party!" Pinkie exclaimed, excitedly. I let out a small chuckle. "I never even seen it on a map before, Darling." Rarity told me sadly. I looked at Starlight. "Well I've never seen it on a map before" she said., I looked down at the floor until she soon says, "But I think I've heard about it before, If that is what I think it is." I looked at Starlight both with joy and confusion. "Really?!" We all, minus Starlight, said in unison. She rubs the back of her head and says, nervously, "Y-yea." She got up and walked out to where it looked like the library. After a few minutes she came back with a medium-sized midnight blue book. "It's in here." She said while putting the book by the map and flipped the pages. "Here" she says as she stops and points at a page. "Is that... a map??" I asked. She shook her head and says,"Well, it's more like a sketch." I looked at her with confusion and asked, "A sketch? Of what?" Starlight looked at me then back at the page,
"Of the Garden of
Shadows. This is a sketch of how it looks in daylight and at night."
"I see." that was all I could say. "All it says about it's origin was that a few fillies and foals disappeared one came back she wouldn't tell her whole story but she told some of it, Which was 'We fillies and goals were taking to the Garden of Shadows.' Ponies tried to find it but they never came back if they did then they turned either corrupted or insane. It's well hidden the map might be taking you somewhere el-" She didn't get to finish when she say my cutie mark pulse. It went to from where it was before but then drifted, making a path along the way, to the sketch in the book. After a few moments of silence, I said, "Well, looks like I'm going to the Garden of Shadows."
