As the decisions rolled around like boulders in a field in Twilight's mind, each one carrying massive weight that just made each one more difficult to choose, Twilight eventually made her choice quickly. Rushing over to the room they used to practicing music as part of the Rainbooms, Twilight grabbed the doorknob and turned it, opening the door quickly. As the wooden door opened swift enough to hit the wall, revealing even more darkness, Twilight and Sunset were glad to see the other girls in the lights of their cellphones, with rainbow, pink, navy, and blonde hair lit up on the heads of each girl. "H-huh? Who's th-" Rarity said, bringing the flashlight on her phone up to the faces of the two other, previously missing girls. Upon seeing them, everyone crowded around them and wrapped their arms around them in a friendly embrace.

"Where were you guys?" Rainbow Dash asked, her eyes darting back and forth to the darkness upon asking.

"Well," Sunset began, "We were in the library. Twilight was trying to find out about urban legends and-"

"Ooh!" interrupted Sunset as Pinkie's high pitched squeal sounded out through the hall. "So that you can find out about cool things from Equestria that have some sort of magic crap so that we can blast it with a giant rainbow laser of unbridled, deadly friendship, thereby we can have you and Twilight befriend them so that we can have a whole group of Demon Buddies?" An adorable "squee" finished off her speech as Pinkie excitedly smiled.

Sunset merely stared at the party girl, her hair bright and colorful, even though it is clad in shadows. "Um, not really," Sunset said, crossing her arms and raising an eyebrow in questioning, "You did say something about being prepared, though, so you got a bit right."

Applejack's rough tone and strong accent soon came through the shadow, her face lit up by her phone and her side soon following as her gem lit her pocket up like a nightlight, "Well, that's nice, but what else did y'all find? Bein' prepared, an' all."

Twilight soon began walking to the nearby table, the book clutched firmly in her hands as though it could slip from them at any moment. Upon reaching the table, she carefully set the tome down on top, before flipping the page to where the tale of the creature rested. The girls all brought their phones to the page, using the newfound light to read each word carefully. Fluttershy, who seemed to be hiding behind her hair, carefully said "T-this is horrifying."

"I find it odd we have this book," Rarity said, "I mean, it says on the next page that saying this word...whatever it is, it sets off this creature. One would think there would be enough of a precedent from this thing to keep it away from a high school."

Twilight pushed her glasses back up to her eyes from their perch on the bridge of her nose and turned to the fashionista. "Well, no one would believe such a precedent."

"Yeah," Sunset began, "magic was only really brought to people's attention recently. And it's just Canterlot High that's affected."

Rainbow Dash cleared her throat with a rough "Ahem," which made everyone turn their lights and gaze to her. "This is cool and all, but how do we beat this thing down? I'm thinking we Pony-Up, I superspeed into it-"

"As...fun as that sounds," Rarity says, "it says nothing about how to stop the Lomb-...the creature. Or at least it doesn't look like it."

"Well, um," Fluttershy stammered out, "We could use light, b-but there is no light."

A soft "hmm" came from Sunset Shimmer and Twilight Sparkle's lips before the sun-themed girl snapped her fingers. "Then that means it can think. It's coming up with a strategy. That's obvious."

Twilight nodded and said "Well, then perhaps...," Upon ceasing her thought, she walked over to the curtained window at the back, and opened it. While the shadows don't get affected, there is enough light to show off the shadowed, black snow. Twilight remains deep in thought, her ideas floating around in her head. "Well, I know the Lombado hates light...oops. Here's hoping thoughts don't count. Anyway, it's blocking out the sun with it's shadows...but there are artificial lights and-"

"I GOT IT!" Twilight shouted out, surprising everyone. After coming down from the excitement of her idea, she blushed slightly as she said "Well, it hates light, right? That's why it's blocking out the sun. But there's still things that can create artificial light, right?"

"I get it," Sunset said, "we need to find something bright enough to stun it, blast it with our powers, and then the sun will seal it, right?"

Twilight nodded softly as Pinkie excitedly said "Yay! Another adventure! Let's go stop the Lombado!" Upon the silence, Pinkie turned her head around the place. Twilight, Sunset, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, and Rarity all stood silently, their mouths agape. Quickly realizing, Pinkie quietly said "Ah...damn it."

Suddenly, a smack hit the ground, with the light showing it's a three-fingered, clawed hand hitting the glass with violent anger. All of the girls backed away as Twilight closed the curtain. Throwing on their gems, feeling magic surge through their bodies, Rainbow Dash opened the door as growls could quickly be heard from the outside. Upon rushing out the room, the group were about to head to the door before the scream that bared familiarity to someone who was known to be in the music hall: Octavia Melody, who was there with the girl named Vinyl Scratch to put on a show for the Music Group. "Oh, dear," Rarity said, "we need to help her. We can't just leave other students behind."

As they backed away from the door, another scream hit their ears from the direction of the Cafeteria. "Oh, no!" Pinkie yelled out, "What do we do, what do we do?!"

Sunset said "Well, we need to split up. Question is, who goes where?"

Author's Note

Sorry it took so long! Just got distracted, and with my sleep schedule slipping and the want to do longer chapters, it kept putting me off.

Anyway, since we didn't have any suggestions last time, I decided to write a new chapter without one. Next chapter will have a more open ended ending for the suggestions, should we get some.