As we landed, Twilight and I went into our castle, but before we closed the door a few guard busted through the half-closed doors. "Princess! We have a message from Princess Cadence, here!" He said in a rush, almost troubled.

Twilight levitated the letter to read it. "Oh no! Ian, we need to go, NOW!" She said literally pulling me out the door.

"Okay, Okay Twilight! What's the big deal?!" I asked confused.

"It's my Sister-In-Law! She was captured, and so was My brother, and their daughter!" She said frantically as she pulled my into the royal chariot.

"Okay, but what do you want me to do? I don't have magic like you! I'm useless in this situation!" I say trying to put some sense into the mare...nope.

"Look, I didn't want to have to do this, but you give me no choice." She says, putting her horn on the amulet's gem. As she does this, the gem starts glowing with a bright red light. "The gem! It's glowing! Twilight, what did you do to it?" I said, scared and confused.

She looked at me with a weakened smile. "I fused some of my magic with the gem to "activate" it, you do have magic, Ian...you just don't know how to use it, but you'll learn overtime." She says as we reach the Crystal Empire.

"Okay, so first off, don't say or do anything, let me handle this, Second, DON'T and I mean DON'T try anything stupid, like trickery or anything...we don't know what we're up against! And Finally, if things go wrong, run, run and don't look back!" She says as I nod, even though I wouldn't...I'm not losing someone I love again, it's not going to happen.

As we entered the crystal-enveloped castle, I saw what looked like black/grey(gray) gemstones coming out of the ground with what looked like "shadow-embers" coming off of them. The tarps were torn and stained-glass windows, broken. the palace had a grey-ish black-ish look to it. Shadows seeping through the cracks the crystals had made.

"What the hell happened here?" I said with a slight grimace on my face.

Silence

When I looked at Twilight all I saw was a mare, broken, broken to the point of anger. She was breathing heavily. "T-Twilight?" I said cautiously.

Then she starts to mumble indistinctly. "TWILIGHT!!!" I yell trying to get her attention.

"It was him" She said in a cold tone. So cold that is could freeze the sun in seconds.

"Who, Twilight? Who's 'he'?!" I asked worriedly.

"SOMBRA..."

Author's Note

Hope y'all like this chapter! It took me two days to figure out what to make the conflict about.