The Sole Survivor's Journeys

The sun rise above Ponyville, ponies are out and about doing their own business except for a certain pink party pony that is jumping around the town like no one's business. Despite all of the hustle and bustle of the small town there was one location that was very quiet in its own way, Friendship Castle.

Twilight Sparkle or most ponies would call her now as 'Princess' Twilight Sparkle. She didn't like the fact that most ponies call her a princess, but nevertheless it was the role she was given and she had no choice but to accept her new life. As she's trotting down the hallways of the castle she can't help but feel timid as she trot down the hallways hearing nothing but the echoes of the hooves and her breathing. She went past multiple doors until she found the door she was looking for. She went inside the room that was previously blocking the door to reveal her favourite spot in the castle, the library. Twilight practically beamed at the site of the books that were placed neatly in their respective shelves. With that she let her own body do the job. As Twilight levitated book after book hoping against hope that there was a new book to read, it’s not like she didn't want to read the old books, no, it was far from that.

After scouring almost the whole library Twilight finally gave up the search of finding new books to read. She decided that it was time to clean up her mess, she levitated all of the books and slowly and carefully placed them all back to their respective places. As she was doing so the library doors suddenly slammed open. Twilight was shocked by the loud doors and released her hold on the books. The books the all fell on top of her.

“hey Twilight!” shouted Spike who was coming in through the doors

Spike pause for a second and looked at his surroundings there were books everywhere and on the middle of the library stood a little book hill. Spike scratched his head.

“um… Twi? You in here?” asked the dragon

The hill of books started to rustle and slowly it started to become flat revealing a ruffled mare. “could you at least knock, Spike?”

“hehehe… sorry about that,” said the dragon.

Twilight’s facial expression changed from annoyed to a small smile. “why are you here, Spike?” she asked.

“I was supposed to tell you that the princesses gave me this book,” he said revealing an old ruffled leather book.

Twilight took the book. “why? What is it?” she asked as if it was her first time seeing a book.

“Princess Celestia said that is was a book from Strarswirl the Bearded or something like that,”

Twilight face smiled from ear to ear upon hearing the information that her assistant just revealed. She immediately left Spike without thanking him and made a beeline towards the library’s table, she opened the book to reveal some ancient hoofwriting left by the legendary stallion. Twilight’s widened even more at the sight of the writing. Even though she couldn’t understand anything it said she was still engrossed at the

ancient book. While reading the unreadable book Spike chimed in.

“um, your WELCOME?”

“oh yeah right, thank you, Spike, sorry if I left you hanging there,” Twilight said

“it’s fine. You always go crazy whenever we talk about Starswirl the Bearded”

With Spike accepting Twilight’s apology she immediately continued scanning the book. It was obvious that she couldn’t understand the writing and Celestia knows how old the book was, she was even more marveled by the fact that it was kept under good condition.

“Spike could you get the translation book on the third shelf, fifth tier” she said.

Spike gave Twilight a salute and left her. A few minutes later Spike came back holding the book that Twilight asked. Twilight thanked Spike , took the book and went on with her work. At that same time the door of the castle began knocking.

“that must be our friend Spike could you tend to them for now?” asked Twilight

“whatever you say, Twilight” he said before leaving her.

Spike jogged towards the door of the castle. Upon reaching the door he opened to reveal just as what Twilight said their friends.

“mornin’ Spike,” Applejack said.

“morning Spike” Rainbow Dash said before yawning

“good morning to you, Spike” Rarity said.

“g-good morning, Rarity” the dragon said as he eyed the beautiful mare

“good morning ,Spike” Fluttershy said.

“good morning, Spikey- Wikey!” Pinkie Pie said grabbing Spike “is your morning good because my morning is good. If you morning isn’t good than I’ll have to make it good. Is it good huh? Huh?” she asked inching closer and closer to Spike with each “huh”.

“my morning’s been good, thanks for asking Pinkie. Now could you uh… let me go?”

Pinkie let the baby dragon go letting him fall down his back. As he stood up he heard the short giggles of the girls. He blushed and greeted them all.

“where’s, Twilight?” asked Rainbow.

“she’s in the library reading a new book”

“what book is she reading?” asked Rarity.

“oh nothing important, it’s an old book from Starswirl the Bearded,”

“what? She’s reading another  book again? Didn’t she have like multiple of those books already?” Rainbow Dash asked

“yeah, but apparently this book was extra special it was sent by the princesses,”

Spike received a multiple  ohs and ahs from the group. “come she’s waiting for us in the library,”

The group headed down the library. Upon arrival they see Twilight who was happily jumping up and down. Spike assumed that she finished translating the book. Twilight saw her friends and stopped jumping giving a slight blush.

“I’m assuming that you finished translating the book?” Spike asked.

“Yes, and you wouldn’t believe the contents of the book,”

“what in the book sugarcube?” asked the farmpony.

Twilight opened the book revealing the writings. “It’s said here that I can channel a spell that could show us the future and past,”

“does it show how more awesome I become in the future?” asked Rainbow.

“I don’t know only one way to find out”

Twilight gave a final glance at the book. After looking one last time she set the book down on the table and began the magic channel. Her horn glowed brightly. As she strained all of her magic she suddenly felt something wrong, she tried to stop the magic flow but she couldn’t. Panic starts to course through she blood as she can’t stop the rising magic. Her friends slowly backed away from showing complete worry in their eyes. Twilight suddenly started screaming as pain enveloped her whole body, it was like she was being cooked alive. Her friends immediately rushed towards her aid as she tried to stop the channel. Spike was about to comfort Twilight but all of a sudden he was knocked back the next thing he felt was the hard impact of the wall then unconsciousness took over him.

Twilight slowly opened her eyes, she noticed that she was lying down the ground, mustering all of her strength she stood up still wobbly from the after effect of wasting all of her magic. She looked around her to see that her friends are with her, she gave a sigh of relief. Within seconds the next pony that came to their senses was Applejack then Flutteshy, Rainbow, Pinkie  and lastly Rarity.

“ugh, that’ll leave ya in the ringer” said Applejack.

“I’m so sorry everypony, are you all okay?” asked Twilight.

Twilight received multiple agreements frim her friends.

“where are we?” asked Fluttershy.

Twilight looked around to see several dead trees surrounding them. There was a strange smell in the air.

“I don’t know” said Twilight.

“don’t move,”

Twilight turned to find the owner of the voice. Fortunately found the direction of the voice but the owner of the voice made her feel timid. Her friends turned to the direction to where Twilight was looking at they too felt the same feeling that Twilight had. In front of them stood a creature; it was bipedal, it’s face had a deep scar on its left eye it was pointing some kind of object at them it was bald and lastly right beside him there was a dog twice bigger than Winnona.

“what… are you?” it spoke.