I need help.

by Lieral

Rating: teen
Tags: Romance, Vice-Principal Luna, Princess Luna, Mystery, Equestria Girls, Sunset Shimmer (Demon), Sunset Shimmer, Main 7 (EqG), Dark, Alternate Universe, Sad
Length: 23657

After months of nonstop nightmares, Sunset just have to decide one last thing, she tell to her friends or fight against it alone.

Sunset has a nightmare last night... Like every night in a long time.
Now, the question is, will she tell to her friends or she will suffer alone?

Published 2017-05-30 15:10:02 UTC
Last updated 2017-05-30 15:10:02 UTC

Chapter 1- Blood stained hands

Author's Note

Well, this is my first fic and I only wish that you guys ignore my grammar mistakes. I'm from another country and learned English alone, so I wish you forgive me.
Finally I want to thank Czar_Yoshi for all the help he gave me to edit this story, and honestly the situation was pretty bad before he helped me!
Anyway enjoy the story.

Chapter 1- Blood stained hands

She was on the ground. All of her friends lay on the ground with closed or desperate eyes.

Sunset Shimmer looked above her, only to see the existence she most hated smiling at her, a demon, another herself that she decided to call Sundown. Sunset gets up and tried to run from the abnormal being that chased her, and tripped on a corpse.

She looked and saw her best friend's beautiful face bloodstained.

Twilight Sparkle was dead, her characteristic glasses missing, the only person Sunset already loved was on the ground without breath. Sunset got up and run away trying not to cry while murmuring.

"It's just another nightmare, it's just another nightmare, it's just another nightmare!"

"Today it's just another nightmare, but soon this will be our perfect world," the she-demon said with trust and desire in her voice while approaching the beautiful corpse.

Sunset stopped and turned to face the she-demon.

"There's no way I would desire this... And get away from her!" Sunset said with fury in her voice.

Sundown touched twilight's face and smiled.

"You cannot protect anything, because my blood stained hands, are also yours..."

"ENOUGH" Sunset screamed with rage, she ran directly to the she-demon and give a punch in her face.

Sundown just patted sunset and she flies away.

Sunset murmured again.

"Just another nightmare, it's just another nightmare, it's just another nightmare"

Right. She just needed to wake up.

Then an alarm clock echoed.

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Sunset was in her "bed" covered in sweat, she was in the abandoned factory that she called house

Just house, not a home.

After all, she was a runaway from Equestria, and needed a place to stay, but without this world's money, she couldn't pay for anything.

It was a good place, with kitchen, bathroom and others comforts, but she did not consider it her home, an home is a place where her heart belongs, not a ceiling upon her head. That's what Sunset believed. That's what her mother said, that's what Princess Celestia said.

The last three months had been filled with nightmares, Sunset remembered the camp Everfree, two weeks ago, and Twilight facing her inner demons, and thought about how strong Twilight was.

Sunset got up and started preparing herself to go to school and see the faces she most cared about.

Six faces. Six friends.

Suddenly the images from her nightmare flowed into Sunset mind.

Applejack and Rainbow Dash were two strong girls. Now that they had their magic, there wouldn't be anything to worry about, right?

'Wrong!' A voice said inside sunset's mind. Of course, they are strong, but still nothing against the she-demon's power.

Fluttershy, Rarity, Pinkie Pie and Twilight also can't do anything against sundown's rage.

That's why she cannot afford to let the monster inside her mind goes out, if sunset becomes evil again, she certainly will kill all of them.

The strong Applejack will fall.

The loyal Rainbow Dash will succumb.

The warm Pinkie Pie will become cold.

The generous Rarity will lose her natural shine.

The kind Fluttershy will be forgotten.

And the smart Twilight will lose her light.

"Ok Sunset, calm down. They stopped you once, they can do this again, right?"

Sunset said to the mirror.

And the mirror answers.

" Do you really think so?" Sundown was in the mirror. "I am you, and did you make The same mistake's twice?"

"Yes, I do. Over and over again I make mistakes that I already have done," Sunset answered to the mirror.

"Only now. You are weak now. The old you never do the same mistake twice, and I offer to you power, the power to overcome any mistake, a power greatest than anything Celestia or Luna has dreamed about,"

"I don't need this power, I have friends now,"

"But without power can you protect them?"

Sunset did not answer.

"See? You are weak and pathetic, so answer me Sunset Shimmer... What can you do?"

Sunset couldn't answer.

"I'm waiting! What can you do to protect them from an enemy? Or protect them from me? Or even worse, protect them from you?"

"I never will hurt them, even if I need to rip off my own arms, I will never hurt them. Now if you excuse me, I need to go to the school!"

Sunset walked away, and the she-demon say before disappear.

"Ok, go to your stupid school and make friends, but when you lose them, will be worst!"

Sunset takes her bag and go to school, she wanted to talk with the girls, just to know they were all right.

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Sunset already could see the school when she heard a familiar voice.

"Darling, you are horrible, did you sleep well?" Rarity asked worried her friend.

"The same as the last months,"

It wasn't a lie, her dreams are out of control there's three months right now. Each dream worst than the last.

"Estrange answer, miss Sunset Shimmer, are you hiding something from me?"

"I don't think so," Sunset said.

"OH, maybe it's about Twilight!"

"What? I say nothing about her, so why did you think it's something about her?" Sunset asked while blushing.

"You always act's different when our little nerd is involved, but don't worry, your secret is safe!"

"What secret?" Sunset asked, even if with the face completely red.

"Right darling, nobody notice. Anyway, why you're so sick?" Rarity said with a great smile.

"Nothing. Nothing happened,"

Fluttershy achieved the two girl's and waved.

"Hi, girls, some news after the weekend?"

"I don't know yet, Sunset don't talk what's wrong,"

"Like I said, there's nothing wrong,"

"Oh, goodness, something happened with Twilight?"

"WHAT? Why did you say this too?"

"Well, Sunset, to us that's not a secret," Fluttershy said.

"Ok, first what is not a secret, and when you say 'us', who is this 'us'?" Sunset asked.

"Well darling, all of us... Except for Twilight. Sometimes I wonder how that girl can be so smart to something's and so oblivious to others!"

"Ok, let's not talk about Twilight for now ok?"

Sunset accelerated the steps, only to see four others girls walking in their direction. Well, three walking and one bouncing around, and one of them were reading a really large book.

"HEY GIRLS, guess what, I make a lot of PANCAKES!" Pinkie Pie screamed.

"That's great, I forgot anything I could eat," Sunset said with a tired voice.

Twilight suddenly tripped when she heard Sunset's voice. Sunset holds on the slightly shorter girl.

"Hey, I really think you shouldn't read and walk at the same time, you know?" Sunset said with a gentle smile.

"Yeah, right, sorry,"

"You don't need to apologize!"

"Yea, sure, sorry,"

"Good Sugarcube, now let's try a word with a little more than six letters, right. I think you can do it," Applejack said while holding a laugh.

"Yeah, this totally should be easy to an egg-head like you, right? now let's try!" Rainbow Dash said while laughing a lot.

"Hey, I can do this, just look," Twilight coughed a little then say with pride. "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis".

All the girls stopped walking and stared at Twilight.

"Now, whata'hec was that?" Applejack asked.

"That's the biggest word in the English language," Sunset said," you asked her a bigger word and she found!" Sunset said while doing a high-five with Twilight.

"I'm not gonna even ask what is this thing, but we probably should be in the school right now isn't?" Rainbow Dash said only to go away from the egg-headed pair.

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Sunset was in the math class but she didn't listen to a word, her mind was thinking about the previous phrase that sundown has said.

'Can you protect them?' Sunset tried to say to herself, there's no need to protect them right? What can be so horrible that those six cannot fight?

"You... You cannot protect them from yourself, can you?" This question appeared in sunset's mind, and the worst part is that it wasn't the she-demon voice that spoke. It was her own.

Sunset still in silence, but the voice didn't.

"You, you're the biggest danger that they never would expect, the reformed friend, the brave Sunset Shimmer, they will never see the danger coming right? Only the cold from the dagger in their backs."

"SHUT UP!" Sunset screamed, she looked around only to see that the students were in the lunch, except for two girls, Rarity and Twilight.

"But we said nothing yet Sunset..." Twilight said.

"We will just invite you to came with us, but I think we already know the answer," Rarity said and turned away.

"WAIT, it wasn't to you two, I'm sorry, I just..." Sunset doesn't finish the phrase.

"Just what darling?"

No answer.

"Just what Sunset?"

"I'm sorry, but can we just go to the lunch and pretend that this never happened?" Sunset asked with hope.

"Only for now, we will talk about it later ok?" Twilight said with authority.

"Ok for me!" Sunset answer.

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All the seven friends were at their usual table, laughing and talking about anything that crosses their minds.

"I'm making some new gowns that it's just stunning, you won't even believe in your eyes when you see them!" Rarity said with pride.

"Oh, really? I'would never suspect!" Applejack said with sarcasm.

"Sunset, you won't eat your last pancake?" Pinkie asked with her mouth full of pancakes.

"I'll, but not now," Sunset said while looking at the window.

"Well, Sunset. If someone asks me you seem kinda-off recently," Rainbow Dash said also with the mouth full of pancakes.

"Don't talk with mouth full Rainbow Dash!" Rarity said.

"WHAT, Pinkie talk with the mouth full too, why you just said this to me?"

"Well, she's Pinkie Pie, that's normal. But you still need to follow the rules of etiquette," Rarity said with a wave of her hand.

"I don't know how, but that makes sense" Twilight said and push back her glasses. "I also give up on Pinkie, she challenges anything I believed before, why care about it now?"

"I just wanna go home, big mac should be just the lamp of the apple by now," Applejack said.

"To much work to do in the sweet apple acre?" Fluttershy asked.

"Much and even more, the cidra season is almost here," Applejack answer with a tired face.

"UUHUUUULLL. Slumber party!" Pinkie screamed.

"What, nobody said anything about it Pinkie," Applejack said.

"Yeah silly, but we always do it anyway, but this time we already decided," Pinkie says and eat her last pancake.

"You mean you decided right?" Rainbow dash asked this time empty mouth.

"Now that I think about it, we already have made a slumber party in everyone's house, except for Sunset's house," Rarity said.

Sunset froze in her seat.

"Truth," Applejack agreed,"where's your house anyway? ah' don't remember going there even once,"

"Well, we never saw Twilight's house too!" Sunset uses it as a chance to escape.

"This will also be Twilight's first slumber party with us, right?" Fluttershy said to Sunset's surprise.

"Yeah, I have a book about it, but I never participated in one," Twilight said smiling.

Good, I get out of this without a problem, right? Sunset thought.

"Well, it's decided. The next slumber party will be in Twilight's house, and the next will be at Sunset's!" Pinkie said with her smile as always bigger than her face.

The bell rings and the 7 went to their own classes.

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After the school end, Sunset was the way to her house, while searching for a movement in the bushes, close to a big and old tree, after 30 seconds she saw. A cat completely black was there.

"Here, little one. Today I forget to make something to us, but I have pancake," She said and give her last pancake to the black cat.

Sunset sits beside the cat.

The cat eats some pancake and Sunset blew out.

"My nightmares are getting worse. I sleep and I'm forced to see what I love most be taken from me. All of them... All of them. I'm seeing their death or despair, over and over again. I'm afraid now. I think I'm starting getting really crazy. I can't take it much longer".

Over and over again. Night after night, she certainly can't support this for much longer.

The cat has stopped eating and just observe Sunset.

"You're strange, you know?" Sunset said giggling a bit. "Tomorrow I'll bring the same as always!" She said while observing the little cat eating the pancake.

She got up and continue her way. The cat just observes the girl walking away.

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Sunset enter in her room, her "bed" was exactly the same way she let when she left, her "bed" were simply three drawers together with an old foam mattress on top.

Her pendant from camp everfree was in the nightstand.

She went in the kitchen, to find something to eat, and make something to the next day, to both, Sunset and the little black cat.

She saw him for the first time not too long after coming from Equestria.

A really little cat, a kitten certainly, Sunset was the "bad" Sunset in that time, but without an obvious motivation she just cannot pass straight, she gives to the cat part of her lunch and go away. Again and again, she does that, and now almost three years later she still going to see him. Even at weekend. She never fails with that.

She made her vegetarian lunch and something with tuna to the little cat.

After that, she goes to her room, make the homework and finished the book she was reading.

It was a book about the Zoroastrianism, an ancient mythology, based mainly on the duality of the universe.

Good and evil, creation and termination. Ying and yang.

This religion has a great and powerful monster. He was created by the primordial god of evil.

His name was Azi Dahaka. An immeasurable powerful monster, the personification of the human evil itself. That monster cannot be killed, and only was sealed by a man named Thraetaona.

Seriously, what kind of name is that?

The reason she was reading this kind of book is that they remember a little about Equestria, mythology, magic, monsters, it's almost like being in her home again.

But it was already late in the night, and she cannot avoid her "bed" forever.

"Okay. Here goes nothing," Sunset said with a really tired voice and go to her "bed" face her own inner battle.

Chapter 2- Gorgeous nightmare.

Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.

Chapter 3- My past?

Sunset was in the middle of a strange circular room. All the walls were made of stained glasses, with a lot of different colors, but mainly red, gold and purple, in the middle of the strange room, there's a throne.

And that's all. Nothing more. No friends dying, no friends tortured, nothing.

"Ok, what's the trick Sundown?" Sunset asked loudly.

"Well, you called me by my name. I'm flattered," Sundown appeared from behind the throne. "Not only that, you also dare challenge me! What's this Sunset? It's a shadow of your past?"

"My past? I already told you once. My past did not define me!" Sunset answer.

"You know that this is just a lie. That was before the sirens, and then you saw, doesn't matter who you become, Sunset Shimmer, you will always be the seventh gear, for the others you're not relevant... Well, at least, not anymore!"

Sundown looks to one piece of glass in particular and so does Sunset.

In the stained glass, there's Twilight's image, then she appeared in another and other again until at least 15 stained glasses reflects her images, half reflect the princess, and the other half reflects the scientist.

"Why you're showing me Twilight's image?"

"You know very well why," A voice spoke, but it wasn't Sundown, Sunset looked at the origin of the voice. In the throne, there's a beautiful young lady, with a red and gold hair, and amber skin.

She saw herself on the throne, with a disgusting eye in the face.

"So, let me guess, you're the old me, right?" Sunset asked frowned, those nightmares pissed her off enough.

A laugh began. Sundown was laughing like crazy, like as if the day she always dreamed finally become true.

"Seriously, the only missing part now is a sexy blond guy with blue eyes and completely crazy, and everything will be perfect!" Sundown continues laughing.

"You say that now, that person would use you as a toothpick!" The Sunset in the throne answer.

"What is this? Some kind of reference?" Sunset asked.

"You can say that you fake," The throne Sunset said while pointing to Sunset.

"What? I'm the real one, you're the impostor!"

"Are you sure of that?" Sunset simply asked.

But Sunset did not answer.

"C'mon, it's an easy question! So answer me, the real one. Are you sure?" The sunset in the throne asked again.

"Who exactly are you?" The real Sunset asked.

"I'm the past you. But also the future you, I'm your shadow, I'm your true self!" The Sunset in the throne said.

Sunset said nothing, she just waits to see where this will end.

"And I know your secrets because they're mine too. I know you never loved the princess, I know you're obsessed with the scientist. But you still with two fears that both of them give to you," The Sunset in the throne was smiling now, Somehow this smile is worst than Sundown's.

"And what feelings were?" Sunset said sarcastically.

"Envy and mainly fear," The Sunset in the throne said.

And the other Sunset frozen.

"In the end, you still envy the princess that possesses everything you wanted, from wings to friends, she has everything,"

"Yeah, that's true, problem?" Sunset said, she feared that if she lies to the other self, she will become stronger.

"No, not at all. But the best part is always the fear, you know?"

"Okay, I'm waiting!" Sunset pretending to be brave but inside she's almost screaming.

"When the other Twilight appears, you understood. Your paper in this drama, it only fills the hole that Princess Twilight has left behind. Now they have their own Twilight to themselves. They don't need you, seventh gear!" The Sunset in the throne said and pointed at the other Sunset again."Now answer me, are you sure, you fake? And at last also answer: Who am I?".

Sunset needs time. Time to think, to organize her thoughts.

"Well fake. Look's like you need time, and I'll give it to you. Come and see me when you're ready!" The Sunset in the throne said, but her voice was a bit different, more calm and gentle.

"WHAT? That's not our deal. You said..." Sundown screamed.

"I know what I promise, and I never break a promise! So shut up! Your plans will just need to wait a little bit!" Now her voice was back to normal. The Sunset in the throne got up and walk in the direction of the other self, she put two fingers in Sunset's forehead.

"Now awake. But I will say this to you. You can continue living in this illusion you called friendship, but thanks to that, when you wake up, you will still in a nightmare!"

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Sunset awake.

She was in her "bed" again, she sits and looks outside, it was dark, she looked to the alarm clock and saw It was 05:00 o'clock.

Maybe even Applejack was sleeping! Sunset smiled with that though, but she remembers the other self's words.

Why she can't deny them? Unlike what her friends thought, she never, even during one second, loved the princess. She only fell friendship and envy.

And even more right were the words about the other Twilight.

She definitely is in love with her, but still, see her as an enemy. In one second the others could think 'hey, we already have a Twilight, why we need a Sunset?'

Sunset fear that. She felt tears in her eyes just by imagine this situation.

Sunset goes to the bathroom and looked in the mirror while based in the sink.

"Maybe I need some time to myself. I think I'm not going to the school today..." Sunset said, she turns away and leave the bathroom.

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The telephone rings. It's Pinkie.

"Hey Pinkie, how you..."

"WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU??"

Sunset put the cellphone to far from her ear, actually, she never heard Pinkie curse before.

"Calm down Pinkie. I just am a little sick, so I'm not going to the school today,"

"Okay, where did you live, we're gonna pass in your house and..."

"NO, YOU CAN'T!"

"What, why? Hey, Sunset, where did you liv..." But Sunset turned the phone off.

"Shit, what have I done?" Sunset said.

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"She turned off," Pinkie said.

"Okay, that's not normal!" Rainbow said.

"Hum, actually, did someone knows where she lives?" Twilight asked.

"Humm, actually... No idea!" Applejack answered.

"Did someone else noticed that always that we ask about it she changes the subject?" Rarity asked.

"Like that time we're talking about slumber parties?" Fluttershy asked.

"Yes, she is really hiding something from us, but what?" Twilight asked and adjust her glasses.

"Without knowing where she lives, there's just one option!" Rainbow Dash said with confidence.

"You don't say..." Applejack started talking, but Rainbow interrupted.

"Girls, take your phones! Let's call and send so many messages that she will get crazy!" Rainbow said triumphantly.

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After two hours of constant's messages, emails and a lot more of kinds of stuff from her friends, Sunset finally turn off the cell phone battery.

Sunset was in the main room, watching in a not so old TV, a movie about zombies.

She wanted to think about nothing, so, what's better than a lot of people that can't think anymore? She thought, but when the zombies started riding bikes, she gives up.

"C'mon, they can't even use their brains, how can they ride bikes, that's ridiculous!" Sunset said and eat a little more of popcorn.

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Sunset was in the street, waiting for her friends. They arrive after some minutes and Sunset know is better begun with some excuse about where she lives...

"Look, about that thing of where I live, I can explain. It's just..." But Sunset Was interrupted.

"We don't need your excuses Sunset!" Rainbow Dash said angrily.

"What? But I..." Sunset tried to say.

"Actually dear, we don't need you anymore," Rarity said.

"Huh? Wait, it's just a joke right?" Sunset said with a great weight in her chest and tears in her eyes.

"Looks like we're joking, Sunset Shimmer?" Pinkie said.

"But I've made nothing wrong!" Sunset tried to an argument.

"I think our friendship cannot continue Sunset!" Twilight said.

"But I..."

"But nothing Sunset. We don't need a bad apple between us!" Applejack cuts.

"Fluttershy... Fluttershy... You don't think like that, right?" Sunset said with a desperate smile between tears.

Fluttershy stays quiet.

"Fluttershy?"

"I also think like them... Goodbye Sunset..." Fluttershy said.

Sunset's heart's almost stopped.

All the six girls turned, and walk away.

Sunset tried to run after them, but she falls on the ground. She observed the girls in the distance and cried, her legs somehow didn't work anymore, She just cried.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry! Please, I don't know what I've done to all of you, but please forgive me. Please forgive me!" She screamed, the tears simply don't stop. "Please, don't leave me alone anymore. I can't handle. Please, please, I love all of you. Please. Don't leave me alone..."

She cried desperately.

Them she felt a little pain in her face.

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Sunset woke, she was crying a lot, while trying to wipe away her tears Sunset felt the little and almost unnoticed wound, she looked at her lap and finally understand her situation.

This wound woke her. That hurt save her heart.

A little black cat was there in her lap.

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Fluttershy was looking through the school's mirror, just watching the rain falling is something she does to calm down.

"It's raining a lot won't you think?" Pinkie said to Fluttershy.

"Yes..."

"Why you're worried? Even if I probably know the answer..." Pinkie tried to say with humor.

"I'm still too worried about Sunset," Fluttershy answered.

"Yeah," Pinkie said really sadly. "I'm worried too!"

"It's pathetic that we didn't understand that there's something wrong before!" Fluttershy said between tears of rage of herself.

Pinkie Pie hugged her friend from behind.

"Calm down Shy, we'll make everything okay, right? So please don't cry..." Pinkie said between her own tears. The two girls stay in this way for a few minutes.

"Thanks, Pinkie. You're the best!" Fluttershy said.

"Don't let Rainbow hear that, ok?" Pinkie teased and both girls laugh for a little time and go to they're own homes.

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"Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you," Sunset said while hugging the little cat. "But why you're here?" She said while wiping out her tears.

"You don't appear today," The cat said.

Sunset stared at the black cat.

"Did you just talked with me?" Sunset asked worried with her own mental sanity.

"Yes, that's this pendant's power, right? It just evolved. Now you can talk directly with the mind of someone close to you," The cat said with a neutral face.

"And how did you know that?"

"You talk to me there's three years. I listen you know? That's why when you don't appear today I've been worried. Those nightmares are worrying me Sunny," The cat said.

"You're worried about me? Wait... Sunny?" Sunset said while blushing.

"Of course I'm worried, and don't you like that nickname?"

"No, that's not it, actually I really like it. Just hear it makes me calm down," Sunset said smiling.

"Glad to hear it,"

"Hey, can I make a selfish wish?" Sunset asked

"Just tell me," The cat said with confidence.

"Can you stay with me a little more?"

"With pleasure, my lady!"

Sunset was blushing again.

After some time watching movies with the cat Sunset suddenly asked.

"Hey, did you have a name?"

"Why you ask?" The cat asked back.

"You can talk, it's smart and has conscience. Nothing fairer than calling you by your name," She explained.

"My name is Yuki, in the Japanese language it means 'snow',"

"Really?"

"Make a joke, I challenge you!"

Sunset laughs and laughed more. She laughs in a way she doesn't do since the beginning of the nightmares.

And the black cat just smiled and said:

"Welcome back. My queen!" But Sunset didn't listen.

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"I have some things to do, I'll try to get back as soon as possible. But I don't think I'm back until tomorrow," Yuki said late at night.

"Don't worry, we'll meet in the same place as always, okay?" Sunset said.

"It's a promise!" Yuki said, then leave.

Sunset goes take a shower, and prepare itself for the next day.

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After class, wandercolts statue.

"Okay, here's the plan!" Rarity said to the other girls. "Tomorrow we won't ask about her house!"

"What? But how we will know about where she lives?" Rainbow asked loudly.

"That's the thing after the school Applejack will follow Sunset. Then we're gonna reunite in the school statue, as always and she's gonna guide us!" Rarity said.

"Wait, why ah'll be the one following?" Applejack asked.

"You're strong, and also you won't let she get away from your view, and you're not so easily distracted as the rest of us," Rarity answered without a doubt.

"Wait, why Applejack, and not me?" Rainbow said obviously hurt.

"Well, darling... Oh, look a wanderbolts poster!"

"Wait, WHAT, WHERE?" She asked as look to all the sides and uses her super speed to try to find her target.

"Sounds good to me!" Applejack agreed and all the girls walk in the direction of her homes, except Rainbow Dash, she's still searching the wanderbolts poster.

Author's Note

The reference in the beginning is from a anime named "densetsu no yuusha no densetsu".

Chapter 4- worst nightmare

All the seven girls were in a cafeteria, they were talking happily and without worry about anything.

Sunset was in another nightmare, she's sure of it, but she doesn't know when everything will become a real nightmare, so she was trying to awake before it was too late.

But she didn't awake. Maybe I'm really awake? She thought, but this makes no sense at all. The girl doesn't remember her awakening, and the sound of hundreds of people walking and talking around also didn't help with anything. So the only option is: This is a nightmare.

"Hey, darling, you're not eating, don't you like it?" Rarity asked.

"No, I'm just thinking in my life," She answered with a giggle.

Well, maybe this is just a dream, the first dream in a long time... Probably since Equéstria.

Sunset felt a strange feeling as if she's being observed.

But then Sunset noticed, the nightmare will start! There's no sound, she looked around and hold her vegetarian dinner to come back. The streets were red. Literally red, the blood, steak, and bones of hundreds of people were painting the streets.

From inside the red, a black dagger was forged, using the blood of the deaths as a material. Sunset could fell the madness coming straight from that black dagger, but suddenly Sunset felt a strange feeling, and her body can't obey the girl anymore.

"What... This is crazy..." Rainbow Dash said with a disgusting face. "Wait, Sunset? What you're doing?".

Suddenly a mad and familiar laugh began.

"I don't know! I can't control my body!" Sunset said while her body steps in the sea of red, refusing to listen.

The crazy laugh continues.

Sunset's hands reached the dark dagger, in the second she touched that cold metal, she felt pain, she felt like the bones in her arm was being destroyed few by few, and the girl screamed.

"Sunset, toss it off now!" Rainbow Dash said and put a hand in Sunset's shoulder.

Sunset just turned and used the dagger to cut deep into Rainbow's neck.

The laugh becomes louder.

Sunset screamed. But her body doesn't listen. The tears were falling from her eyes again, and the dagger absorbs Rainbow's blood.

Sunset tried to force herself and think that this is just another nightmare. But she's not sure anymore.

And the madness doesn't stop.

"What have you done?" Applejack said angrily and tried to punch Sunset, but she dodges, Applejack punch again and hit the ground causing a great depression in the streets, but when Applejack look above she just saw Sunset running in her direction and pierced the black dagger through the Applejack's heart.

The black dagger absorbed Applejack's blood.

Sunset screamed again. The pain in her hand was getting even worse. If she doesn't become crazy because of the nightmares, the pain will do it.

The crazy laugh continue.

"STOP, YOU MONSTER!" Rarity screamed and use her magical shield to hit Sunset as harder as she could, and send the girl flying away until she destroyed a store's facade.

Rarity strikes again and this time she tried to hit Sunset at close range, but it was too late, Sunset used Rarity's strike to cut deep in the girl's belly.

When Rarity fall in the ground Sunset screamed.

"Please, someone, anyone stop me, someone, please kill me!" She desperately screamed.

But her body won't listen. Sunset approached to Rarity's still alive body.

Pinkie and Fluttershy tried to protect the fallen girl, but Sunset killed both of them and finally killed Rarity too. The dagger swallowed their blood and only become darker.

Twilight was the next. Sunset thought, 'maybe with her telekinesis she can kill me', she wishes.

But Twilight does nothing when Sunset came closer Twilight was smiling.

"What you're doing? Run!"

"I know it's not your fault. But I'm not worried too. Because you won't kill me,"

"Are you crazy, please run, kill me, just don't let me do this!" Sunset cried.

"Ok, I won't let you do this," She said confidently.

When Sunset gets closer Twilight she put her hands around Sunset's.

"No, no, no, no! Twilight don't..."

Twilight takes Sunset's hand and stabbed her own heart with the dagger, and she fell on the ground as a corpse.

The dagger absorbed her blood too.

The laughter becomes completely insane.

Sunset finally let the dagger go. But she still cried.

But it's all right, now is the part where she awake, she thought.

But Sunset did not awake.

She waited. In the blood of her friends she waited. Hoping that at any second she will awake. But this doesn't happen.

Maybe it is real? No! Please... This can't be real.

And the laugh intensified.

After five minutes, only hearing an insane laugh, coming from all places, she finally becomes desperate, all sense of conscience run away from Sunset's mind, kill all her friends one after another is just too much.

Sunset took the black dagger again and pierced through her thighs in her right leg.

"WAKE UP, WAKE UP, WAKE UP, WAKE UP, WAKE UP, WAKE UP" she creamed, each time followed by a strike of the dagger in her thighs.

Then she stopped. In her leg, there are six scars now, six lives, six scars, her legs were painted in red.

And the completely insane laugh continue.

But that's not important.

"Nothing is important now!"

"That's what I wanted to hear!" A familiar voice spoke.

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Sunset woke, but she was still in her "bed", breaking out in a cold sweat. She doesn't wanna go to the school, she can't face her friends! Every time she will look at their faces, she will just see corpses.

But she promised to Yuki, and suddenly she remembers the "pinkie promises" and giggles. Sunset got up, but fall on the ground, with an absurd pain.

She looked at her leg and saw six scars, without blood, but the wound is definitely fresh. Also, all her body is aching, probably because of Rarity's strike.

Despite the pain, she goes to the bathroom, and after a REALLY painful cold shower, she was in front of her mirror, waiting, Sunset want to make sure of something... After one minute she appeared.

"You look horrible," The she-demon said.

Ignore it Sunset shimmer, she said to herself.

"I need you tell me something Sundown. Who was laughing?" Sunset said directly.

"Of course it was me," Sundown said confidently, but her face changes slightly.

"You're lying," Sunset said with a sadistic smile. "You fear that voice, won't you?"

Sundown makes a serious face. "Maybe you should ask your friends, well, or after this little nightmare, you may want to try a graveyard!" Sundown laugh.

Sunset gives a punch in the mirror, completely shattering him, and wounding her own hand.

"That's not over yet..." Sunset said furiously.

After she got ready to go to the school Sunset went to the kitchen, and took both lunches, until something caught her attention.

A small black dagger.

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Applejack was waiting in the school.

She will follow Sunset today, that's the deal. It actually doesn't bother the young farmer, but the hard thing is always the same.

Her honesty. This is a problem! What if for some reason Sunset asks something about what she will do after school, the girl will need to use a lie, and this goes against everything she believed.

"But it's necessary..." Applejack repeat to herself again.

So, the best thing is stays away from Sunset, just for one day, Sunset comes to the school today, she just needs to wait for some time and everything will be over, and honestly, all this secret about where she lives isn't normal.

Then, Applejack saw Sunset coming in the distance, but there's something wrong, Sunset was walking like with every steep she felt an amazing pain.

Then, Sunset saw Applejack in the distance, and suddenly she walks without any problems.

'Maybe it's just mah imagination...' Applejack thought.

"Better Sugarcube?" Applejack ask.

"Yeah, I am, thanks for the worry but there's nothing wrong!" Sunset said without looking into Applejack's eyes, and the girl noticed.

"Well, let's go Sugarcube, the class is waiting..." Applejack said with a smile.

The other girls were waiting in the class, and when Sunset came all of them go after her to ask about her state, and she always answers ' Nothing's wrong' with a great smile. Applejack keeps distance. Now it's official, Sunset can't look in the eyes of any of them, almost as if look in their faces hurts.

"Well, let's begin the class..." The teacher said.

Then something strange happened, when Sunset opens her bag, her face become pale, but she recovered really fast.

Applejack's not a specialist, but she can easily say, every time Sunset has said that there's nothing wrong, all of them were nothing more than a great lie.

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The school ended, and Applejack has a mission, stalk a dear friend.

She let Sunset get away, but still in her point of view.

She followed the amber girl for some minutes, hiding behind any car or other things she could find, Sunset is going to her house and Applejack already don't like, this part of the city is dangerous. Suddenly Sunset tripped on a stone, the girl doesn't fall but started walking differently. Looks like with every step, comes an intense pain.

It was not her imagination. Sunset walked normally during all school, she hides her pain from her friends... Again... Hours of pain and nobody notice, Applejack really don't like where this situation is going

Then suddenly Sunset walked faster, she just stops below a big and beautiful tree, with Applejack experience, she can say that this tree has at least a hundred years.

And bellow that tree there's a small cat.

Strange... That street's almost unused, she leads to the worst part of the city, with drugs, rapes and a lot more. Living here is as dangerous as a fight with a monster.

And in this part of the city, there's a beautiful and untouched tree, even in the rest of the city there's not even one tree, that's so majestic as this one.

But more importantly, Why is her friend coming here?

"I'm sorry Yuki, I'm late. A lot of things happened this night..." Sunset said.

The cat meow.

"Yes, another nightmare. The worst nightmare until now... And that's something," Sunset giggled

Another?

Sunset leaned in the wall until sit down, and let escape a loud scream, but the streets were deserts. Nobody will listen.

But Applejack listened, she was using all her absurd strength, only to stop herself.

Sunset opened her bag and again a disgusting eye appears on her face. The cat, called Yuki look inside the bag and meow.

"This thing is following me, it always gets back... But here it is, as I promise..." Sunset took a big lunch bag and open to the cat.

What is following her friend?

The cat started eating.

"She called the cat Yuki... She brings food to that cat every day? Why didn't she tell us? We could help!" Applejack whispered, what Sunset is still hiding? After a small walk Applejack already discovered a big nightmare, wounds and a cat... What's next? A flying golden fish? Ok... that's ridiculous...

The cat meow again.

"In my right leg..." Sunset said as if it's answering a question. But nobody asked. "Ok Yuki, see you tomorrow," Sunset said while trying to get up.

She walked away, with pain, stalked by Applejack.

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Wandercolts statue.

"You're late, we're getting worried! And if you don't know where she lives I will be glad to be the next stalker!" Rainbow Dash said.

Applejack didn't answer.

"Anyway darling, did you discover?"

Applejack nodded.

"Good, now we just need to follow you, oh, I can't wait. I wanna see where she lives, but don't tell us, it's a surprise..." Pinkie said happily.

Applejack nodded again and turn away, followed by five other girls.

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Sunset's journal is shining again, but she ignored.

Sunset has a great confirmation. She's not getting crazy. Yuki saw the dagger too, and that thing is definitely following Sunset.

And more.

Sunset isn't stupid, something was bothering the girl all day.

Applejack.

She was observing every step Sunset gives during all school, Sunset was getting worried. If Applejack noticed that there's something wrong, the rest will discover everything soon.

But there's nothing to worry about now. No one knows where she lives, she has time to think.

She went into the kitchen and opened the Kitchen cabinet... There's nothing to eat.

"I need a job!"

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In front of an abandoned factory.

Five girls said all at the same time.

"Please, say you're kidding ".

"No, not even a little".

Chapter 5- Home

Sunset was sitting on the ground of her kitchen...

"I wonder... they maybe share their lunches with me tomorrow... But they will ask why... What I will do..." Sunset said to herself while looking at the ceiling.

But suddenly she heard... Steps...

That's bad... That's really bad! On her actual state, she can't really fight... What is this... A thief... Or maybe someone Sunset irritate... ok, in this list there's a lot of people.

Then, at her side she saw, the black dagger. She hates that idea.

"But, it's necessary," She said with conviction.

Sunset took the dagger, and again she felt an intense pain as if her bones were cracking.

But it's necessary. Sunset got up hardly. Each second a suffering, she stayed in combat position, she waited and after one minute, she saw a small foot, entering the kitchen.

And then, she attacked.

Six girls enter into the kitchen and were scared by her friend holding a black knife.

When Sunset finally understands the situation, she stopped the strike in time.

"ARE YOU CRAZY?" Sunset screamed and let the dagger fall to the ground."WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?"

"We can do the same question miss Shimmer!" Rarity said with the same tone she uses when suspecting something, and Sunset finally understands her own situation.

"..........."

"Sunset, did you live here?" Twilight said worried and put a hand in Sunset's left arm.

Sunset screamed in pain with that touch, she tried to walk away, but her right leg can't support her own weight and began throbbing, the girl screamed even more as she fell to the ground.

All the other girls were scared by Sunset's actions.

"What's wrong?" Pinkie asked.

Sunset was holding her left shoulder.

"Nothing..." She tried to lie, but she knows, this is useless.

"Take her jacket!" Pinkie said, and Rainbow Dash obey.

Using her super speed she took off Sunset's jacket.

Her left arm was all in bandages.

"Take it off," Applejack ordered.

"NO!" Sunset scream.

This time Rainbow didn't wait for an order.

Before Sunset could react, her bandages were taken off at once, making an intense pain run through the girl's arm.

The six girls were terrified, a big burn covered all the girl's arm.

"WHAT THE HECK IS THAT?" Applejack asked.

"Only a scratch!" Sunset said avoiding eye contact.

"Darling, this is anything, except a scratch," Rarity said.

When Twilight will approach Applejack said.

"Wait! When you're coming here, you're limping. Took your pants off. Right now!"

Sunset become really pale when she heard this.

"No,no,no,no,no." Sunset tried to stop but Pinkie and Twilight hold her arms and Rarity take her pants off.

The thighs were in bandages too.

"Now calm down darling. Everything will be fin...." Rarity said before holding back her vomit, and the girls behind her do the same.

Pinkie and Twilight get back to the others to see better and almost screamed.

Sunset felt vulnerable. Only with underwear and shirt, all her wounds being judged.

Twilight will approach when something unexpected happened... Fluttershy stopped Twilight.

She walks until Sunset, which was scored in the wall, hold her shirt with both hands, and pushed Sunset in the wall with so much strength that the wall cracked completely.

The five other girls screamed.

"ARE YOU AN IDIOT?" Fluttershy screamed so loudly, that all the girls become even more terrified, they don't even know that Fluttershy can say anything so loud.

Sunset was bleeding from her mouth, and in a shock state.

"YOU DON'T ANSWER ME! RESPOND SUNSET SHIMMER!" Fluttershy screamed again.

Sunset was still too shocked, she can't answer.

"YOU DON'T TRUST IN US? WHY YOU DON'T SAY ANYTHING? EVERY TIME YOU SAID THAT WE CAN TRUST IN YOU, ALL OF US ACCEPT YOUR FEELINGS. WHY YOU CAN'T ACCEPT OURS?"

Rainbow give one step ahead.

"Move, and you will beg for your life!" Fluttershy's voice was so cold, that makes the Calderon's of hell looks a nice place.

And using the same voice she said:

"Say it!"

"Wha..."

Fluttershy pushed Sunset in the wall again, the wall cracked even more. More one of those and the wall will succumb.

"Say exactly what I want to hear, Sunset Shimmer!" Fluttershy said coldly.

"How she would know what you want to hea..." Twilight tried to say but stopped.

Fluttershy using only the side of her eyes gives a stare, a stare so cold, that makes people want to apologize for being born.

Sunset began crying, somehow she knows what Fluttershy wanted to hear, and in the middle of tears and blood, Sunset said what she wanted to say months ago. Two words.

"Help me..."

The time seems stopped. Five girls hold their breaths, one wrong word and somehow they know, Fluttershy won't gonna show a single drop of mercy.

And then...

Fluttershy hugged Sunset, her hands in the girl's hair, and talking calmly and soft as always.

"We always will help you, doesn't matter how. Always..."

Sunset screamed and cried, Fluttershy listen to every word of sorry that Sunset said.

But the others girls still don't move.

Rainbow has finally understood a little part of her childhood.

She tried to save Fluttershy from bullies again, but this time, the bully has 15 years old, Rainbow has 10. It was a massacre, Rainbow woke in the hospital three days later, she lost the conscience while fighting the older boys.

But there's something wrong, Rainbow lost, but the boy has moved from the city, everyone says that the boy was scared, and Rainbow Dash knows that they weren't talking about her...

After that day, Fluttershy, the girl that feared everything, began fearing herself more than anything.

And now Rainbow finally understood! In front of six girls, Fluttershy became something else. A true monster, or better, an uncontrollable berserk.

"Rainbow, take medicine and bandages, they must be in the bathroom," Fluttershy said softly, and still comforting the amber girl.

"Oh, ok, just a minute," Rainbow goes as fast as she could.

Sunset becomes a little calmer.

"Sunset, your mirror is completely shattered!" Rainbow said and gives the medicines.

Fluttershy gets away from Sunset. "Rarity, you're the best of us to do this, please, help her..." Fluttershy said and give the medicines to Rarity.

"With all pleasure of the world," she said and gave a tip in Fluttershy lips, leaving the girl without reaction, luckily nobody saw this, all the rest were looking Sunset, trying to take courage to talk with the girl.

"I... broke him..." Sunset said between hiccups.

Applejack was the first to take courage.

"But why, Sugarcube?" Applejack said and hugged Sunset.

Their pendants touched each other.

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Applejack was in the middle of a street. People passing and talking happily, And she saw one of the strangest things of all. She saw herself.

The other Applejack was sitting in a chair, with all the others, including Sunset.

And then, she saw something even stranger.

Behind Sunset, Daydreamer Shimmer (Pinkie called it and everyone like...) was there, but Sunset couldn't see her other self. And then Daydreamer just disappear, and together with her, the sounds also disappear.

Applejack felt her bots become wet, but with what?

"WHAT'A HECK..." The streets were red. Literally red, with the blood, steak, and despair of hundreds of people, and from inside the red, a black dagger was forged, using the blood of people as material.

Applejack hold back her vomit and saw something else.

Strings. Seven strings in all Sunset's body, after that Sunset walked in the direction of the dagger.

And suddenly a laugh began, a mad and also familiar laugh, but she comes from all sides.

Them a sound and a scream, Sunset was screaming while holding the dagger, when Rainbow approach to her friend... Sunset kills her.

Rainbow Dash... Applejack's precious rival and friend simply fall on the ground as nothing.

The other Applejack attack and the real tried to stop.

"Stop, it's not her fault, she's been controlled".

But the other self passed straight and through her.

And Sunset killed her too. The tears were falling from her eyes without stop... And Applejack holds her own tears from falling.

Rarity was the next. After a short battle Rarity falls on the ground, still alive, Pinkie and Fluttershy tried to stop Sunset just to be killed too.

Applejack can't see more than that, she was already crying.

Sunset killed Rarity too.

The mad laugh intensified.

Twilight was the next. The girl smiled and don't move a step.

And Applejack noticed. There's used to be seven strings. But five of them disappear.

The laugh becomes simply insane.

Twilight commits suicide... That's too much to Applejack too.

Sunset cried, screamed and put all the fault on her shoulders.

Applejack has sure now. It's the nightmare that Sunset talked about with the black cat... Sunset can't awake. She screams and cried, but she doesn't awake.

The laugh becomes insupportable.

She knows it will be useless... It was just images of the past after all, but she still screamed.

"Stop laughing and show yourself, I'll kick your butt!" She knows it's worthless, but screamed with everything she got.

"Why?" Surprisingly a voice answered Applejack.

"Where'you are?" Applejack asked.

"I don't need to answer you, creep..." The voice is really familiar.

"So just free Sunset!"

"Did you care about her?" The voice said, but she was just a little different, like it was the same person, but with other personality.

"Of course!"

"Then I'll give you a present, I wish you like 1% of her pain..."

Applejack cannot see anything in front of her, but she felt two fingers in her forehead.

Suddenly Applejack was in the sweet apple farm.

Granny Smith, Apple Bloom and Big Mac were on the ground, obviously beaten to the death.

And standing in the middle there's a person, with fist's bloodstained. Applejack looked ahead and saw a mirror.

Her hands were bloodstained.

Applejack screams and cried as loud as she could... She was back on the street, that image was there for only one second, and Applejack already falls on her knees.

She saw a desperate Sunset. Suddenly Sunset took the black dagger and screamed.

"WAKE UP, WAKE UP, WAKE UP, WAKE UP, WAKE UP, WAKE UP!" she screamed, each time followed by a strike of the dagger in her thighs.

Applejack become desperate... She tried to stop her friend, but she passed straight, her body can't touch her friend.

And suddenly Sunset stopped.

Applejack was crying as she never cried before. Kneeling in front a desperate friend she can't do anything.

"Nothing is important now!" Sunset said.

"That's not tru... AAAAAHHHHHHH..." Applejack screamed. Behind Sunset a horrible being was there.

Sunset certainly can't see.

It has red and gold hair, but her face was abnormal. There are no eyes, only two black and filled with dark worms holes, her mouth was vertical, with teeth's that make a dinosaur jealous. The body is humanoid and also resemble a bug or a monster, and only look at that thing make Applejack want to vomit.

That thing looked straight to Applejack, and the girl just screamed.

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Applejack pushed Sunset away from the hug with a scream, and suddenly the memories coming back.

Applejack run, trying to find the bathroom, while covering her mouth, she easily found, and kneeling in the toilet she vomits, Rainbow Dash was the first to came, and she saw her friend vomiting as if there's no tomorrow.

Rainbow take Applejack's hat and hold her hair.

"Calm down, we're here, I'm here..." Rainbow said

"What happened?" Rarity asked, followed by the others, Pinkie and Twilight holding Sunset.

Applejack vomit more, she remembered that creeping creature. But still, she said.

"Sunset, what are you?"

"That's cruel, won't you think?" Sunset said sadly.

"I saw..."

"Huhh?"

"Ah saw only one of your nightmares, and here ah am... Vomiting, that's the worst thing ah've see in ma entire life," Applejack said. "How long you support this alone?"

"..............."

"I can answer this," A familiar voice said. From all the pieces of the shattered mirror, they can see Sundown Shimmer. "I make this fool see nightmares like that during months nonstop! It's the best thing I have done!" The she-demon Laugh, her voice echoing in the bathroom.

Applejack vomit again.

All the others just don't know what to do.

The biggest piece of mirror was on the ground, while the she-demon laugh, Sunset destroyed the glass with her naked feet.

"Disappear!" An angry word and the spirit vanished.

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The girls were in the living room most of them in the big sofa, including a not yet dressing Sunset, Rarity is doing the first aid in her thighs now.

"Sunset, ah see you... Gaining... Those scars in your dream, that means what ah think?" Applejack asked in the couch, her voice still shaken.

"Yes, if I get hurt in the dream, I also receive the wounds in the real world!"

"That's horrible!" Fluttershy said.

"And this makes no sense at all... How a dream can do such influence on the reality?" Twilight asked with a thoughtful expression.

"Well... I thought in two theories before... One Sundown is strong enough to influence in the reality! Or two the primal power from my pendant is a mental power, maybe it's power is evolving and giving me a closer relationship between my dreams and brain, and brain and reality!

"Well, I think this is the best theory we have..."

"And PLEASE Sunset, we already have Twilight, we certainly can live without someone talking like that! C'mon, it already gives me a headache just by hearing that last part!" Rainbow Dash said with her everyday expression without notice Sunset's hurt expression.

"Backing to the subject... Can'ah see the knife you were holding when we enter?" Applejack asked

"It's at your side there's two minutes," All the six turned to where Sunset said and took a light scare.

Applejack reunite all her courage and took the dagger in her hand, she felt like every bone in her arm suddenly cracked. With a scream, she tossed the dagger and take the bucket, only for precaution.

"What that thing is doing here anyway? Ah saw it once in your dream, and it was once more than ah wanted for mah entire life!"

"It follows me, doesn't matter what I do or where I go, that thing is always there. That appeared in my bag for sample," Sunset said before holding back a scream when Rarity makes a little mistake.

"Sorry, darling,"

"It's okay..." Sunset forced itself to say.

While looking around, Pinkie finally asked.

"Humm... Changing the subject again... That's why you never tell us where you live? You're embarrassed?" Pinkie asked sadly.

"Only in part, if I told you where I live, all of you will try to make me move... But I can't pay for anything. The last part-time job I have there's months, I'm without nothing to eat today, so I'm sorry, but I can't offer anything too,"

"But we could help!" Rainbow said.

"Yes... help me... I don't want to be a burden... Besides, I lived well alone for three years, I can handle a bit more" Sunset said arrogantly.

The room becomes silent... Three years... This hurt their feelings, and Sunset notice. "Well, Fluttershy can help me now," Sunset said only to make the room more gradable.

"How?" Fluttershy asked happily, she certainly was trying to compensate for the 'little' scene in the kitchen.

"I need two tuna..."

"Tuna? Aren't you vegetarian?" Fluttershy asked confused, while Rarity sits at her side and make the young girl blush.

"That's not for me, it's for Yuki, but we can solve it tomorrow,"

"Wait, Sunset... You're avoiding the subject. You said there's another reason, that you don't tell us about your home!" Twilight interrupted.

"That's exactly the other motivation. This is my house, not my home!"

"That makes no sense!" Rainbow said.

"My mother always told me, 'your home is where your heart belongs, not a ceiling upon your head' and all that place do to me, is remember me from the cruel and pathetic old me... The only thing that this ceiling said to me is: You will always be so pathetic as the first day you came here from Equestria!" Sunset sayd with fury and tears in her eyes.

In the second she stopped, Rainbow Dash, Applejack and Fluttershy looked at each other and nodded.

"Can you show us where's your room?" Rainbow asked.

"Sure... You're already here anyway... Pinkie, can you help me?"

"okey-dokye-lokey!"

Twilight also help, and Sunset lead the others.

They went in Sunset's room.

Her "bed" were simply three drawers together with an old foam mattress on top. There's a table, used only to homework and write to Princess Twilight.

That's it.

"Everything of value to me is in my wardrobe, in the school. Photos, cards, everything..."

As if receiving some kind of confirmation, Rainbow Dash and Applejack went ahead, and Fluttershy goes to behind Sunset.

Suddenly Fluttershy holds Sunset strongly.

"I'm really sorry, but it's necessary," Fluttershy said crying.

"What are you talking about?" Sunset asked worried with the suddenly attitude of her friend.

Applejack lift her arm, her fist ready to a strike.

Them she punched the first drawer, completely destroying him.

Sunset went in shock state by the second time this night.

Rainbow Dash gives her strongest kick in the second drawer, destroying him too.

Both of them attacked the last one together.

Sunset finally awake from shock state and tried to stop the girls, but Fluttershy was stronger! Obviously her berserk force still active.

Rainbow and Applejack then destroyed the desk.

With their last strike, they destroyed even the pieces, letting everything completely unrecoverable.

Sunset knee on the ground. What have they done?

"You will come with me now Sugarcube!" Applejack said smiling

"What?"

"You can't live here anymore, you know? So you will need to move". Rainbow Dash said.

"You will live with me, and I can talk with granny smith, and give to you a job with us!" Applejack simply said.

"I agreed," Pinkie said "I'll never let a friend live in a place that makes her sad, besides... We can make a slumber party every time you sleep in my house..." And Pinkie said seriously "And you WILL sleep in my house!"

"Hey, I want she sleeping in my house too, we will have some great nights with girls talk, dresses and everything we want," Rarity said

"We will need to solve this later, cause I want she sleeping in my house too," Twilight said.

Sunset finally understood. They destroyed everything that connects her with that place and gained a place to stay and a job.

Sunset cried. She cried with happiness. And she finally discovers where her heart belongs.

Her heart belongs to her friends. They give their habitual group hug until Sunset stopped her cry and thanks to the amazing friends that stolen her heart.

Chapter 6- Promise

Sunset opened her eyes, she was in the sweet apple acre. Applejack was sleeping at her side, but she still has a nightmare, in the previous nightmares, Sundown wanted to torture Sunset, every dream was focused in making the girl suffer, but not the last one.

Sunset concentrated, and tested something she understood during her nightmare, she pointed at a water bottle. Sunset commands and the water comes until her, with telekinesis.

So it's true, she was recovering part of her unicorn powers, Sunset wanted to scream with happiness, her biggest dream becoming true... thanks to a nightmare.

Sunset fell on the improvised bed, and she immediately regretted, the wound on her back is almost mortal.

She will need help, and Sunset smiled. Now she has help! She will talk about her nightmare later. Only once preferentially.

Then, Applejack woke too.

"What? Already awake? Another nightmare?" She asked sleepily.

"Yes,"

"Why you're so calm, you could have died and..." Applejack said suddenly awake.

"Cause I'm not alone anymore!" Sunset said with a bright smile.

Applejack blushed furiously.

"Well, anyway Sugarcube, good morning. We need to get ready to the school!"

Sunset agreed.

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During lunch.

The school went normally, but Sunset avoid touching anything with her back, including her chair, and that's not easy.

"Did you have another nightmare?" Fluttershy asked gently.

"Yes!" Sunset simply answer.

"You said like it was nothing," Rainbow said.

"Actually, it was pretty bad, but my situation changed, I'll tell everything after class, in the band room, but before that, I'll go to some places, I'll find all of you around the 15 o'clock!" Sunset said and the bell rings.

"Oh... And please Rarity. Take the first aid kit, I really need it!" Sunset said and leave.

"She's way too normal for someone that can die in the second that she falls asleep isn't?" Rarity said.

"After the class, I'll follow her, I want to see something..." Fluttershy said to the surprise of all.

"Okay... But... Don't overreact okay?" Twilight said worriedly.

Fluttershy blushed, as she remembers the last night, in the kitchen.

"I'm sorry that all of you has seen that..." Fluttershy said with tears in her eyes.

"Don't worry you silly Shy, you're still our little pet lover that you always was," Pinkie said happily with a side hug.

"Yeah, but please never do that with us. I don't know how Sunset receives such punishment without biggest problems, but that can easily smash all of us like we're just a bunch of bad apples!" Applejack said.

"I'm sorry..." If Fluttershy said. Only a bit lower and just the bats would have listened.

"That's our girl!" Rarity said with a hug.

"Cute moment, but all of you are late to the class!" The vice-principal Luna said coldly as always, apparently coming from nowhere.

All the six girls run to their classes.

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Sunset was walking after the school, she was on the way to her old house, using a cane (thanks, granny Smith), until she saw, bellow a great tree, a small black cat is waiting.

"In twice today!" Sunset said with a great smile, she opened the two tuna in front of the cat.

Yuki's eyes were shining, and he eats one in less than one minute.

"What happened today? You never ate like that before!"

"I'm being selfish today," Yuki answer.

"I always bring just one, why now you're selfish?" Sunset asked.

"You remember that night, when I said I have some things to do, right?" Yuki asked.

"Yes, but you never told me what are those things..."

"Take the last one, and follow me!"

Yuki went behind the tree, in a hole in the great wall.

It was a small and well-hidden hole, Sunset will have a hard time trying to enter, but after 40 seconds she did it.

Sunset's mouth wide open, it was a natural sanctuary. There are no big trees, but a lot of grass, and flowers so beautiful, that Sunset never heard about, there's a straight line, that end in a small rock sanctuary, almost a tomb.

And in that tomb, Yuki is waiting.

Bellow him, in the grass, seven little cat kittens, none of them were black.

"They're yours?" Sunset asked.

"No, but they are yours, in their own way," Yuki answer.

"What?"

"I feed those puppies with the food that you bring every day!" Yuki reveals.

Sunset was completelly without words. Her routine saved seven lives, and she doesn't know.

"You're amazing Yuki. I swear..."

"They're not the only ones, you helps me there are almost three years, you saved 13 puppies,"

Tears began flowing in Sunset's check.

Sunset's eyes wide open, she looked at the cat, and just saw a savior. Yuki saved her from her nightmare, and saved a lot of lives, by being starving, and giving his own food to others.

"That's why you can't give up yet, Sunny,"

"Give up? I don't give up yet!"

"Yes, you do. You're living as you know you will die the next time you sleep. But if you die, they will die too!"

Sunset was shocked. She can't answer. Then she understands, she always thought that Yuki's scars were from protecting his territory.

But it was made by humans, the cat tried to stole food, to give to the puppies.

That's why she never see him with others humans. He probably hates them.

"If you die, they will be starving. And I will lose the only human I care and love. And I will be alone again, as when I was a puppy,"

Sunset can't say anything.

"That's why, Sunny, promise me. Promise me that you will see those puppies growing, you will see them growing and having their own kittens. Promise me this, Sunset Shimmer!"

Sunset whipped her tears. And put her hand in front of Yuki's paws.

"Only if you promise me when I have my own home, you will live with me!" Sunset said confidently.

Yuki's eyes wide open, Sunset don't know if cats can cry, but Yuki look's like could cry in any minute.

Yuki put its paw in Sunset's hand and both of them said together.

"I promise, my little savior!"

"I promise, my sweet queen!"

When the two hugged each other, they hear a hiccup.

Fluttershy was there, crying with the beautiful scene in front of her eyes.

Yuki suddenly attacked, but Sunset stopped him.

"It's okay, she's my friend, she's nice!"

When he heard this Yuki stopped, but still in guard.

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The two girls were going to the school again.

When Sunset explained all she was doing with Yuki and explain why she can talk with him, Fluttershy hugged Sunset and cried, while saying what wonderful person Sunset is.

But she used a little too much force in Sunset's back, and this remembered her of her wound.

She really needs Rarity's help right now.

And now Sunset has another motivation to fight. She will keep her promise with her life.

Chapter 7- Luna

Band room.

Five girls were talking and simply enjoying the after class.

"Why you're with that journal, Twilight?" Pinkie Pie asked somehow she was upside down on the top of the wardrobe.

"Sunset asked me a favor... She was ashamed that she were ignoring the Princess there's weeks. So she asked to me to explain everything in her place," Twilight said and pushed her glasses to her nose again.

Seeing again the characteristic abit of her friend Rarity couldn't help but say: "I must admit darling, you're really cute when you do that thing with your glasses, I can understand why Sunset is.... Oh, forget what I say please..." She said nervously now.

"What? Sunset what?" Twilight asked genuinely confused.

"Well, you see..."

"We're back!" Sunset said while entering the room while Fluttershy wiping out her last tear.

"Oh, Sunset, I was talking about you, I bring the first aid kit, as you asked," Rarity said really fast.

"Thanks! I really need it,"

"If you need it so much, isn't better a hospital?" Applejack asked while took the dust out of her hat.

"I can't go to a hospital..."

"Why Sunset?" Twilight said while writing on the journal.

"I'm a runaway from Equestria when I first came here, I used some gold coins to buy fake documents. If I end in a hospital, they will discover everything, and who knows what they would do with me? Put me in a shelter? Or a sanatorium? In the worst case, I will be obligated to run back to Equestria!" Sunset explained.

"NO, YOU CAN'T DO IT!" Twilight screamed as loud as she could.

Every girl looked at Twilight, which was blushing so furiously that her face looks like Sunset's hair.

But she was saved.

"Oh, look, Princess Twilight is writing," Twilight said as the journal sparkle.

"Anyway, that's why I need your help now Rarity,"

"Ok darling, I understand. Now, where's your wound?"

Sunset blushed.

"Well... You see... It's on my back, I'm without a bra because it kinda hurts!" Sunset said blushing.

Twilight stopped writing, and look ahead as if the biggest treasure of the world is in front of her, Rainbow Dash cover her mouth while laughing at her friend's face, and the fact that she pressed the pen with so much strength that the pen broke on her hands, but Twilight don't care, the 'one piece' was blushing in front of her.

"Well, let's see this wound!" Rainbow said and wipe out a tear of joy from her eyes.

Sunset turned away and took off her leather jacket.

Twilight hold her breath.

Sunset took off her shirt and all the girls hold their breaths.

In Sunset's perfect back, there are just two wounds, the wounds began in her shoulders, and end in her waist, forming a great 'X'.

"Oh, Sugarcube! what'hec happened to yah?" Applejack asked.

"There's no way that this won't let a scar for all your life, my darling!" Rarity said

"Haha, thanks... Actually, I don't even thought about it before!" Sunset said and held her scream when Rarity touched her wound.

"You're with that thing during all day and we didn't see it? How?" Pinkie said.

"I hide my pain for three months... I learned how to support a thing or two... Ouch, but that hurt a lot" Sunset said, with her back turned to her friends, she was blushing furiously, and was mainly trying to don't think about Twilight looking at her back.

"I hate this... We didn't saw anything, and mainly, you don't tell anything, hide everything from us, as if you don't trust in us. Your best friends!" Fluttershy said sadly.

Sunset sweated cold, her memories in the kitchen coming back.

The other Fluttershy, that cold Fluttershy, someday this will be a nightmare.

"Anyway Sugarcube, can you tell us your nightmare?" Applejack changed the subject.

Sunset holds a scream again. Rarity is cleaning the wound.

"Sorry. But it's the first time I treat that kind of... Wound," Rarity apologize.

"Don't... Worry. I can handle this. Anyway, about my nightmare..."

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Sunset was on a street, made completely of rock. It's raining a lot, actually making almost impossible to see at distance, those streets somehow are familiar, she thought. A photo. She remembers, this place is London.

But why? She never thought too much about this place before.

Then, she heard. Metal. Dragging in stone.

Sunset turned around, and suddenly she felt pain on her leg.

"Shit, I almost forgot you..." Sunset said to her thighs, she looked around again. Sparkles. She saw sparkles on the streets at distance. Someone is coming and dragging some kind of dagger or sword with him, Sunset walk as fast as she could, but she cannot run... So, the only strategy is to think.

It certainly it's a nightmare. It means danger! Avoid the sword. But how? She looked around, and saw a good cane in a store, she broke the window and stole an iron cane.

The sparkles were getting closer, but the person cannot be seen yet.

Sunset tried to walk away, certainly, it's faster, but not enough, and a piece of paper fell in front of Sunset.

She took the paper and walk away, searching for a place to hide, she found a good store, and hide beneath a table, then, she reads the paper.

'You has your pendant, learn how to use it'

Seriously? An advice? Ok now it's official, this is not one of Sundown's nightmares.

My pendant has some kind of mental powers. How use it against an armed enemy? Sunset thought.

Maybe she was thinking about it wrong.

How did Sunset use magic in Equestria? Her horn! Maybe it's it, simply uses her pendant as a substitute, she already tried it before, but without results, but without a better plan she tried to use her magical powers, concentrating she looked to a specific chair and do exactly like she does in Equestria.

The chair moved alone. It works! But this can't be so easy!, she already tried this before in the real world and failed... It is a dream, some people can control their dreams, she read.

So she tried to use a magic almost forgotten to her, Celestia never liked that magic, but Sunset learned anyway, it's a magic to neutralize some of her brain impulses, so it makes the person (or pony) don't feel pain on a certain part of her body. Sunset used this magic and stand up, it works.

The sparkles are back.

However is this person, she wanted to be noticed. Using the sword to advertise her victims, this person is sadistic, she liked to see their victims... no, to people like that, the others are prey.

Sunset run from the store, so she saw a little of the stalker, a black and long coat, a mask, probably ceramic, nothing that could help the girl to find her stalker's identity.

Sunset just run, she doesn't feel pain on her leg anymore, but the wound is still there, that's the danger of that magic. Sunset now needs some way to attack. She concentrated and tried to use a laser beam from her hand, as she does with her horn.

But it failed, and the enemy wasn't behind her anymore.

She looked ahead, on the rain her enemy was there, just waiting.

Sunset stopped and got in guard.

With an amazing speed the enemy attack with his blade, Sunset blocked with the iron cane, but that person attached twice more, aiming Sunset's stomach, she used the cane to block the attacks but the second strike cut the cane in two.

She looked to the person, she doesn't know if it's a man or woman, but she already understands something, her biggest problem in the school is certainly history, but she remembers enough. "I know who you are," She said defiantly.

The strange person took a piece of paper from the inner pocket and pointed to Sunset.

'Good! And how am I?' It was written.

"You are the biggest fear in London in 1888... You are Jack the Ripper!"

The figure nodded, and taking another paper she started writing something, the great medieval sword at his side, carved in the ground.

'Good. You're right. Did you know how to use your pendant?' It was written.

"How did you know about my pendant?" Sunset asked surprised.

On the cold rain, the person just looked to Sunset, his mask is an impartial face.

Sunset pointed at Jack and tried again to use her magical power.

It works this time, a brilliant green beam, the same color as her own eyes, the green beam almost hit Jack, but he avoids the close range magic.

Sunset runs away... They were just 7 feet's away, how he avoided that? Jack started running too, the sword on his back.

Sunset looked to behind and saw nothing but the heavy rain, she looked ahead and Jack was just waiting for the young girl.

Sunset uses her laser again, and this time she sends Jack flying.

But she understands something.

Jack stood up as if nothing happened.

"You gave me the first paper!" He's way faster than me, she thought and tried to find anything else to say, only to gain time and prepare a stronger attack.

Jack put his hand on his pocket and pointed to Sunset.

Sunset put her hand in her pocket too.

There's a paper.

'Look ahead, never took your eyes from an enemy'

Sunset look ahead scared. Nobody was there, so the girl just run ahead, hoping for the security on the nothingness ahead, but it was too late, a great cut was given on her back, the pain was astronomical, if she stayed in the same place she would have died, but the enemy doesn't stop.

Jack used a tackle hitting Sunset's back with his shoulder and attack twice with his sword, Sunset created a magical shield defending both attacks, and counterattack with a beam, but Jack avoids again.

"I know you will avoid," When Jack was behind Sunset, she used a charged beam on Jack's leg, severing wounding him. "Now I'm the fastest!" Sunset said and put all her magic on her right hand.

Jack strikes and Sunset avoids four slashes and kick her enemy on his stomach, but when Jack jumped to behind, he used his sword on a vertical attack, cutting Sunset right in her burned arm, Sunset attached anyway.

"YOU'RE FINISH!" Sunset screamed triumphantly and used all her power in a ultra-concentrated beam.

Jack simply stayed, he doesn't even try to avoid.

Jack attacked and cut the own magic.

Sunset was petrified, that's insane, that's not even possible! that's everything she could think about it, then Jack disappeared, and Sunset felt an intense pain on her back again and fall on the ground.

She looked at Jack and saw something strange.

On his neck, there's a black version of Sunset's pendant.

The enemy tried to kill her while on the ground, but despite the pain, Sunset rolled away and kicked Jack's hand sending his sword to far away.

Jack materialize a totally silver scythe and attack, but Sunset teleports herself to behind Jack and kicked his knee with all her strength until she heard a satisfactory crack.

Jack jumped away and Sunset used that chance to take the fallen sword, certainly a better weapon than a cane. Jack stayed in feet with just one leg, and use his magic in his scythe.

Sunset felt another paper in her pocket.

"I will wait for when you're ready for a serious fight,"

That's it.

Sunset put the paper into her pocket again.

"Leave it to me!"

A thunder roar.

The two attacked together.

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"AND WHAT?" Rainbow Dash screamed.

"Then, I wake up!" Sunset simply answered.

"No, it can't be over yet!" Rainbow complaints sadly.

"Well, we should think on the important things of the dreams! Can you use others magic's now?" Twilight said, as always the brain of the group.

"I only tried to levitate some things, but it actually works! I just don't understand why it didn't work before..." Sunset said thoughtfully.

"Well, that's a positive thing! But with this scar as a price, you deserve a better reward than that!" Rarity said.

Then suddenly the door opened.

Vice-principal Luna was there, eyes looking straight to Sunset's wound.

"Sunset Shimmer, what in the world has happened with you?" Luna said loudly.

"Look I can explain," Sunset said and put her shirt back, it actually hurts.

"In my room, please?" Luna open passage.

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Outside Luna's room, the six girls are waiting, Twilight almost hyperventilating... But inside, there's just Luna and Sunset.

It's a dark room, pretty comfortable actually.

"Well, miss Shimmer. Give me a good reason to don't send you to a hospital immediately!" Luna said sitting on her chair.

"First: I'm a runaway from another world, with fake documents, and this obviously will give more than just a small problem! Second: There's no way I can explain this kind of wound, without being considered a complete lunatic and send to a sanatorium faster than I can say: Jack the Ripper!" Sunset said fast.

Luna just stared. "I must admit, you have good reasons, and in this particular case, we will need to think about it delicately. But in this case, I must ask: How did this happened?"

"Well, you see..." Sunset said and explained everything important.

"I see... You're lucky for survive! Is not any person that can say that fought Jack the ripper and got away with life," Luna said.

"Wait. Did you believe in me?" Sunset needed to ask.

"Well, I may have talked once, or twice with my equestrian counterpart," Luna revealed.

Sunset's mouth was wide open.

"And actually, as you may know, the dreams are her... Actuation area," Luna suggested.

When Sunset tried to say something, a great commotion happened outside, both Luna and Sunset exit the room and take a huge surprise.

There's two Twilight's.

"YOU! HOW COULD YOU, NOT ONLY YOU IGNORED ME, YOU ACTUALLY COULD HAVE DIED, YOU DON'T TELL TO ANY OF YOUR FRIENDS, AND YOU DIDN'T EVEN SAY YOU'RE SORRY ABOUT IT YOURSELF, YOU SEND TWILIGHT!" Princess Twilight yelled.

"I'm sorry?" Sunset tried to say.

"OH! I'm sooo better now! Anyway, you come with me!" The princess said.

"Wait, what? To where?" Sunset asked worried as Twilight hold her hand and walk away.

"Equestria! Princess Luna should know something about your problems!"

"Wait, and you decided this alone?"

"I would have talked with you first, but you ignored me there's weeks!" Princess Twilight said already in front of the portal.

"Ok, I'll go with you, but please, Twilight, came with me!" Sunset asked, obviously worried about the situation.

"Wait, what? I mean, sure I'll go with you!" The human Twilight said and follow the others two happily.

The three girls enter inside the portal to another world.

"Well... Now what?" Applejack asked.

The vice-principal Luna sit on the grass in front of the statue with legs crossed.

"Umm, what you're doing?" Pinkie Pie asked.

"I promise that I'll wait, so that's what I will do!" Luna said.

"When did you promise that?" Fluttershy asked.

"Who knows?" Luna answer.

"Well, it's 6:00 o'clock. We can wait too!" Rarity said.

After 30 minutes, all the girls were talking and Luna was still at the same position, then something caught her attention.

At her side, a small black cat sits and stay.

Chapter 8- Equestria

Three mares get out through a mirror, Princess Twilight was the first, followed by Sunset and another Twilight.

"Welcome back! I called those two! When I said the name Sunset Shimmer Celestia came faster than my teleport, but Luna was a bit busy, but I bet she's coming," A unicorn said to the alicorn.

"Thanks Starlight. Those two are Sunset Shimmer and the Twilight Sparkle from the other world," Twilight said.

"Wait, what? I understand this thing of other world, but another Twilight is a different story!" Starlight said surprised.

Starlight looked at the two guests, two unicorns, the yellow one was having a hard time to get up, the other Twilight seems in shock state. Not only she went in another world, she's also a unicorn and more importantly, Sunset's unicorn form is simply the most cute thing that Twilight has saw in her life.

"Here, I help you!" Twilight said and helped Sunset. Her wounds and burns seems worst in a quadruped form.

"Thanks, this is hurting a lot now," Sunset said then finally wave to the other unicorn. "Starlight, right? I'm Sunset,"

"Nice to meet you, and you too... Humm another Twilight?" Starlight said confused.

"We surely need to find a way to say which one we're talking about," Sunset said. "Let's call my Twilight simply as Twi!"

"Your Twilight?" Twi said blushing.

"Good, I'm going to see Celestia, Twi wanna come?" Twilight said even if she already know the answer.

"Of course, Sunset stay here with Starlight!" Twi said.

"Humm, maybe that's a bad idea?" Twilight said cautiously.

"Why?" Twi asked.

"I don't know if it's a good idea let a unicorn that slaves a entire village, with a unicorn that almost conquered two worlds..." Twilight said.

"You slaved a entire village?" Sunset asked

"You almost conquered two worlds?" Starlight asked.

And both said together.

"I like her!"

"This won't end well!" Twilight said and leaves with the other self, with mouth wide open.

"Sooo... What happened to you? You're horrible! Looks like you was in the middle of a big explosion!" Starlight asked.

"That too, together with some tortures and murder attempt you has my actual state!" Sunset simply said.

".... I think you should explain a little better," Starlight said confused.

"I will explain everything when Luna and Celestia came!" Sunset said, and uses some magic in herself, to make the pain stops.

"Wait, I know that magic! It interrupted some brain impulses, and that makes the pain go away, right?" Starlight stated.

"Yes, I learned in the school time, but Celestia hate that magic, the pain go away, but the wound stay, and the pain is a defensive mechanism of the brain!" Sunset said.

"I really liked you," Starlight smiled, but soon she stopped. "Hey, there's a string coming from your head!" She said.

Suddenly Sunset screamed.

"My body... He don't obey... I can't control myself... Run Starlight, I'm gonna attack your hoofs!" Sunset said while trying to stop herself, but it's useless.

Sunset used a laser from her horn, but Starlight teleport, them Sunset attached again, this time a tackle, Starlight avoid and uses a laser too, but Sunset teleport above Starlight and attack with a laser again, this time hitting the other unicorn.

"I'M SORRY, PLEASE JUST RUN!" Sunset screamed, every time she hurts a friend on her nightmares crossed her mind again.

"I'm not gonna lose a magic battle!" Starlight said, obviously her pride was wounded. The two unicorns attack with lasers, both in a different tone of green, but Starlight teleport and Sunset's beam passed straight and destroy a little part of the wall, Starlight attached Sunset with a tackle on Sunset's burn.

Sunset screamed in pain, but uses this chance to use a charged beam in Starlight, the beam hits and send Starlight flying through the door.

"Now you did it!" Starlight said angrily.

Both unicorns still fighting through the castle, beam's and a variety of different magic's and spells flying to all places, Sunset attack with a fire attack, but Starlight made a great shield, in the form of a diamond, the fire was deflected, hitting a wall and destroying the same.

Both unicorns continue their duel inside the new room, each time Sunset will attack she advice Starlight.

"Watch out, I'm attaching from above, jump, fall in the ground to avoid! Now I'll use fire..."

The two finally comes to the room with both Twilight's and Celestia, and all the ponies where surprised by the magic duel.

"Starlight, Sunset, what in Equestria you're doing?" Twilight screamed.

"I CAN'T CONTROL MYSELF, PLEASE STOP ME!" Sunset screamed.

Celestia and Twilight tried to move, but.

"DON'T INTERFERE!" Starlight screamed.

Those two are in the same level, but Sunset is wounded, don't wanna fight and all the time she say what she will do before she does, Starlight has fought a alicorn princess, and almost won, a simple unicorn shouldn't be at her level.

Sunset used her horn to make thunders, Starlight uses her telekinesis on the ground and levitate a big piece of stone to make a shield against the thunder.

When the stone shattered Starlight used all the pieces to attack Sunset, and the yellow unicorn build a circular shield, and teleport to Starlight's side to used a cutting spell in the other unicorn.

Starlight's front leg was bleeding, but she won't give up so easily.

Starlight combined the accelero and the similo duplexis spells, and created seven others Starlight's, all of them surrounded Sunset and attacked at the same time.

Sunset uses her telekinesis in herself to fly and use a charged beam on the ground, the beam divided and hit all Starlight's at once, all of them disappeared and only one was left.

Sunset teleport, give a tackle in Starlight and use another beam, her horn already touching Starlight's body, this beam send Starlight in a wall, the wall shattered and Starlight fall on the ground fainted.

Sunset strikes again against the fallen enemy and screamed.

"PLEASE, SOMEPONY STOP ME, I IMPLORE, DON'T LET ME HURT HER ANYMORE!" Sunset was almost crying again.

But suddenly Sunset felt her body heavier, her body was still fighting, but become even heavier, Sunset fall on the ground, her wounds opening and bleeding.

Princess Luna enter in the room, her horn glowing.

Sunset finally stop struggling.

"Thanks!" Sunset said, still on the ground.

"What have you done?" Twi asked worried and running to the side of the orange unicorn.

Luna's horn stops glowing and Sunset finally can move again, but in the second she tried to lift every wound started to give her a astronomical pain.

"I used a spell to multiply her gravity!" Luna explain.

"Starlight is fine!" Twilight screamed.

"Well, looks like you has some explanations to do right?" Luna said.

But before anything Celestia run to Sunset's side.

"Are you all right? What happened?" Celestia asked obviously worried.

"Calm down sister, let's give to the young one a chance to explain, right?" Luna said gently.

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Starlight has waked up, all the ponies were inside the infirmary. Sunset explained her situation to the others ponies, Twi was at her side all the time.

"Understand! That's actually pretty dangerous. But maybe I can help you!" Luna said.

"How?" Sunset asked hopefully.

"But I will told you, this will be dangerous, you need to defeat your dark side in your dream... And if you die there, you will really die" Luna began.

Sunset nodded, she already expected this.

"First I will need a piece of something that you dislike!"

"What?" Sunset asked confused, how something that she dislike could help?

"Preferentially, something made of stone or iron, I will do a spell that will give you a better control of your dreams, and will act as a seal to your demon part!" Luna explain.

"Look to your side princess, use that thing!" Sunset said looking to a nightstand.

Luna look surprised, that thing wasn't there one minute ago.

A small dagger.

"Well, this will be perfect, now, Princess Twilight stay here with those two... And Twi, you come with me and Celestia!" Luna simply said.

"What you will do with her?" Sunset asked desperately.

"Solely a small talk!" Luna answered.

The two alicorns walked to out of the infirmary.

"Don't worry, I'll be back!" Twi said and adjust her glasses with her hoof.

The two princess were waiting outside.

"Well... I guess you're right!" Celestia said to Luna.

"About what?" Twi asked.

"Looks like you has some calming effect over Sunset... But just you... That smile that Sunset has now with the other you is obviously fake, whatever is the reason you're the one tha keep that girl calm!" Luna said.

Twi was blushing without words.

"What I will ask you now will be really dangerous... Maybe mortal," Luna began.

"What is it?" Twi asked.

"I want you with her, on her dream. You maybe let her under control," Luna said.

"Look. I know that we don't know each other, but Sunset lived with me for moons, I see her as a daughter to me. So I beg to you, help her!" Celestia said and bow to Twi.

Twi was without words again, a ultra powerful princess has bow to her.

"I promise, I will!" Twi said with a trust she don't know she has.

"And one more thing. Sunset cannot awake before everything is finished. Doesn't matter how, she can't awake!" Luna said with a really serious voice.

Twi nodded and the three get back to the infirmary.

"NO,NO,NO AND NO, I WON'T LET!" Sunset screamed when she heard the plan.

"It's your best option," Luna said.

"I prefer the worst option, please. You know, the one that I go alone and don't put a friend in danger for nothing," Sunset said.

"Did you just say that your life means nothing?" Twi said with a unexpected seriously voice.

"Compared to your's, it is, without a doubt!" Sunset answered and turned her face away.

"DID YOU HEAR WHAT YOU JUST SAID?" Both Twilight's yelled.

"We can talk about it later... But now take this," Luna said and give the dagger to Sunset.

"Why you asked for something I dislike to do this?" Sunset asked, a bit calmly.

"The hate is a really strong feeling, it's easier you kill a good feeling than a bad one! And for this spell, the object need to has a strong connection with your feelings!" Luna explain calmly.

"Got it..." Sunset said. "Thank you princess Luna, and you too... Princess Celestia!" Sunset said without looking the alicorn on her eyes.

"I think it's time to both of you go... But please, doesn't matter what happens, come back to us with life!" Celestia asked with tears on her eyes.

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Twilight and Sunset were back.

Sunset almost fall in the ground, even if her wounds were a lot better, thanks to equestrian magic, she still a little weak.

It was raining a lot, after Twilight hold Sunset, the two looked ahead, in the middle of the rain there's a person and a small black cat.

"Yuki, what you're doing here?" Sunset asked and also looked to the other person.

It was Luna, in the second she saw the pair she got up and walked away to the school direction.

Sunset and Twilight just stared without know what to do.

The pair enter in the school, and five girls were waiting, certainly they were sleeping no longer ago.

"Oh goodness, you're back." Fluttershy said and hugged both girls.

All the girls are talking and wanna know the details, but first:

"Why you're all here?" Sunset asked.

"We sleep here you silly," Pinkie said with a bright smile.

"We are sleeping until now, but vice Luna awake all of us, and said that you're back," Rainbow Dash explained.

"Really?"

"Yes, at midnight all of us decided to enter in the school, and Luna said that she will advice us when you two are back," Rarity said.

"Wait, at midnight? What time is now?" Twilight asked.

"4:00 o'clock!" Applejack answer.

"Wait, vice-principal Luna was waiting for us in the rain for four hours?" Sunset asked.

"Yes... actualy we tried to bring her inside too, but she don't listen, and she was there since the 6:00!" Pinkie said.

"She waited for us for 16 hours?" Sunset asked without believe in her ears. "Why?"

"The first time we asked, she said she promised to yah," Applejack said.

"I don't remember she saying anything like that!" Sunset said.

"We can see that later, but first, what happened?" Rarity asked.

Sunset took Yuki on her arms and took a deep breath. This will be a long day, and probably her last.

Chapter 9- Last night

It was a school morning, but vice-principal Luna gives to all students the rest of the week off, so, the seven girls were in a cafeteria eating ice-cream's.

"And that's all... Be it to good or bad, all will be over today..." Sunset said, without a change on her voice tone.

The others were pretending to be strong, but all of them know, it's just a big lie.

"Well, looks like our slumber party will be anticipated!" Applejack said with a smile.

"She's right. We will be with you all the time!" Rarity said.

"Sure," Pinkie said.

"We promise, we always will be there for you," Fluttershy said holding her tears.

"Oh, fuck it all, give me a hug you idiot!" Rainbow Dash said crying a lot.

"Calm down Dash. We don't wanna make a scene!" Applejack hold the other girl with a side hug.

"I just think it doesn't fair! At least I will be with you in your dream, right?" Twilight said hopefully.

"Yes! All of you will be with me!" Sunset said with a smile.

But Twilight noticed... It's too easy, Sunset almost lose her control in Equestria, just by thinking in Twilight on her dream, why now she agreed?

"Shall we go to sweet apple farm?" Sunset asked.

"But it's really early, we may enjoy our day with everything we can imagine!" Pinkie said with a bright smile.

"Agreed! First let's see those gowns I've made too all of us!" Rarity said.

"Sure, looks good to me!" Sunset said smiling.

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After Rarity's house and new dresses to all girls, all of them decided to see a movie.

"What we will see?" Pinkie asked bouncing around.

"I has no idea, I almost didn't see movies!" Sunset said.

"Wow, let's see this one!" Rainbow said pointing to a adventure movie.

"I don't know, I'm not in the spirit..." Sunset answer.

"What about this one?" Rarity asked pointing to a romantic movie.

"Maybe something a little more light..." Sunset said.

All the girls talked and decided to see a romantic comedy.

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After the movie all of them goes to a amusement park.

"Hey, I wanna this one, let's go Rainbow!" Applejack said and pushed Rainbow Dash with her, and following the sample Rarity hold Pinkie's and Fluttersy's hands.

"Oh, look at that, Shy, Pinkie let's go!" Rarity said and walk away with her friends.

"Ok, that's strange!" Sunset said, she looked at her side and saw Twilight blushing furiously, and pushing back her glasses. "Some problem Twilight?" Sunset asked.

"Oh, nothing at all, oh look, I'm good at this one!" Twilight answered fast, and walk to a pet machine.

"C'mon twi, nobody never..." But when Sunset came closer, Twilight has already taken one. "Oh, I don't even know that it is possible. I never did it even once!" She said

"It's easy to me! Just some calculations and puff! It's in your hand," Twilight said with pride.

"Of course, why I'm not surprised? And should I see the fact that you choose a unicorn as an indirect?" Sunset said with a smile.

Twilight looked at her own hand with surprise, "Humm... Actually I don't know! It just... Seems right?"

"I wonder why," Sunset said with sarcasm.

"C'mon, give me a break and take that unicorn!" Twilight said and pushed the toy on Sunset's head.

"I can't breath with it on my nose y'know?" She said with a giggle, and took the toy, "And you? Will you take one for you?"

"Humm, I don't know, I already took the one I wanted," she turn and looked to the machine again, searching for another one, and soon one caught her attention. "Wait, I'll take this one!"

"What one?" Sunset asked and looked at her new toy, "I just noticed now that he's black, I've saw a lot of black unicorns back on Equestria, but I always see those toys here and thought that they're not... Humm... Similar, but this is really a different case, he's very beatyfull!"

"And here's mine!" Twilight hold another unicorn with pride, but the one she's holding is white. "What did you think?"

"Black and white... Ying and yang, on some cultures they form a pair that complete each other," With that commentary Twilight looked at her own toy and blushed a bit. "What? you didn't know that?" Sunset asked a bit surprised.

"Of course I do! But I just don't know a lot about mythologies, I always ratter the science than magic, actually, I'm surprised you know about it, considering you're from another world and don't know about our universe until some years ago,"

"I study too, you're not the only one that read books," Sunset looked to a the sky, "Hey, what time is it?" Sunset asked.

"Midday."

"Oh, good I'm not late!" Sunset said and goes to a stand selling food. "I'm going to a good place, wanna come?" She asked with a smile.

"Sure, but and the others?"

"Yeah, you're right. Let's call them too!" Sunset said and call the girls.

After some time the seven girls are talking and walking.

"To where we're going?" Rainbow asked.

"See a friend!" Sunset answer.

After some time Rarity asked.

"Your last house was around here, right?"

"Yes, but we're not going there, don't worry," Sunset said.

After some time, the girls already could see a great tree.

"Hey, Yuki, I'm here, and my friends too!" Sunset said.

The small black cat looked to them, but don't move.

"Seriously. They're really good, nothing to worry about."

"If you say, I'm gonna give a chance..." Yuki said.

"A cat?" Rainbow asked.

"Hello Yuki, I'm sorry for the last time, I don't wanna scare you..." Fluttershy said.

"Anyway, here. This time is from a amusement park!" Sunset said and sit on the ground with the cat.

"Darling, get up from the ground, that's not something a lady would do!" Rarity said and Sunset smiled.

"Don't worry, I don't want to be a lady anyway, I want to be a warrior!" Sunset said with sarcarsm.

"Uuulll, I like the answer!" Pinkie said.

"I just wanna see you beat me!" Rainbow Dash said with pride.

"I lived for almost three years in the most dangerous part of the city. With murderess, drugs, steals, and a lot more, I learned a thing or two!" Sunset simply said.

"........... Remember me to never buy a fight with you..." Rainbow said.

"Don't worry, I'm going easy to you". Sunset said with giggles .

"Hey!" Rainbow screamed.

All the girls were laughing.

And Yuki just observe the group with a smile.

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Sweet apple acre.

"Well, that's a good day!" Sunset said relaxing on a chair.

The girls just does everything they wanted, from going to a library, to go watch a fight on the tv, visit the animal shelter and etc.

"Hey, Sunset, did has someone you like?" Applejack ask with a great smile, she and the others agreed on making the things easier to Sunset confess her feeling's for Twilight.

"What kind of question is that?" Sunset asked blushing.

Twilight's eyes were wide open, waiting for a answer.

"Well, you know darling. Someone you has a crush or deep feelings..." Rarity said looking to her nails.

"Maybe it's better say to that person what you feell," Fluttershy continued.

"I don't think this is relevant..." Sunset avoided the subject.

"Seriously? I think it's really serious!" Rainbow Dash said.

"Really? Even you?" Sunset asked.

"Pinkie's idea. I just agreed, it's funny watch you in those kind of situation!" Rainbow said.

"Really thank you Pinkie..." Sunset said sarcastically.

"Oh, you're welcome you silly!" Pinkie said with a great smile.

"Well, did you has someone you like?" Twilight asked pretending to be uninterested and failing miserably.

"Actually... Yes... I do!" Sunset said.

All the girls hold their breaths.

"Did we know him?" Fluttershy asked.

Twilight froze... 'Him'.

"Actually, yes..." Sunset said blushing furiously.

Twilight's heart almost stopped. Sunset don't deny the 'him'.

"Don't yah think it's time to open the game?" Applejack said.

"Maybe," Sunset avoided again." Well, we should enter and begin with this slumber party!".

"Yeeesssss, let's begin!" Pinkie screamed.

All the girls entered in Applejack's room, and the night goes on and on, games of uno, songs, and others games goes.

"Well, it's time to a pillow fight," Sunset said already holding a pillow.

"Now you're talking!" Applejack agreed.

"I'm gonna destroy you all!" Rainbow Dash said.

"And all of you are participating too!" Sunset said to Fluttershy, Rarity and Twilight.

"We really need to?" Fluttershy asked.

"C'mon... For me!" Sunset said.

"Ok, you won. But if my nails broke, the blood will flow!" Rarity said.

The war began. Seven girls with pillows.

As soon everything begun, Rainbow Dash attacked Twilight, hitting her head and throw her pillow away.

One less.

Applejack avoid a hit from Sunset, and attack back, but Sunset avoid really easily, after Jack the ripper, this is child play, then she attached twice and jump back to avoid a flying pillow throwed by Pinkie.

the pillow hit Rarity and the girl fall.

Two less.

The four strongest faced each other, waiting for a opening.

This time Pinkie attached Applejack, the girl defended and attacked back, but Rainbow attached too, and Applejack jump back, but Sunset took another pillow and attached Pinkie and Rainbow at the same time, but both girls avoided the hit.

Sunset, Applejack, Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash. Only one will be the winner.

All of them attacked at the same time. But then...

Four girls were eliminated.

They only feell the hit, no attack, no defense.

Fluttershy was after all the girls, with two pillows and even if only during one second a cold stare, on her face.

"Oh my goodness, did I hurt you?" Fluttershy asked worried as always.

The winner is Fluttershy.

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1:00 AM o'clock.

All the girls were in Applejack's room, already trying to sleep.

"Hey, Sunset, some days ago, you said you're reading a book, what was it?" Twilight asked.

"It was a book about the Zoroastrianism," Sunset answered.

"About what?" Applejack asked.

"It's a ancient mythology, it talks a lot about the duality of the universe," Sunset answered.

"I still don't get it. But anyway, did you like those mythology things?" Rainbow asked.

"Yes, those mythology remember me a little about home," Sunset said.

"Did you miss it?" Pinkie asked.

"Miss what?"

"Equestria..." Pinkie said, her voice was actually pretty sad, as if this is a question that she feared the answer.

"....." Sunset tought for some time, "I miss a little, but it doesn't matter, I will never forsaken what I has gained here!"

"And what is this that you gained?" Fluttershy asked.

"All of you!" Sunset answered without a bit of shame.

All the girls don't know what to answer.

"Gimme a hug you jerk!" Applejack said and jumped on Sunset, and all the others jumped too to a big suffocating hug.

"I... I... Can't breath!" Sunset said, all the girls get back to their own sleeping bags.

A few hours later.

Twilight was on Sunset's side.

"Princess Luna said that we need to sleep holding hands, right?" Twilight asked blushing.

"Yes, that's it" Sunset answered also blushing and was really gratefful for the dark on the room.

"Hey, Twilight... Can I ask something very... Personal?" Sunset asked.

All the others were sleeping already.

"Sure..."

"Why did you and Timber break up?" Sunset asked.

"OH... Actually... We're not compatible, he's cool and smart, but... He's not my soul mate!"

Sunset looked to the ceiling.

"Hey, Twi... Did you like someone?" Sunset finally asked.

Twilight blushed a lot.

"..... Yes, I actually like someone,"

Sunset froze.

"Did I know him?" Sunset asked.

"Yes, you know that person very well..."

"Who is it?" Sunset asked, her heart painful.

"I will only tell you when you come back to us!" Twilight said.

"......." Sunset said nothing.

"Promise me Sunset. Pinkie promise!" Twilight said.

Sunset laugh, luckily nobody awake.

"I promise, and when I get back, I will tell you who I like too!" Sunset said, and both girls made the 'pinkie promise '.

Twilight sleep holding Sunset's hand.

But Sunset didn't sleep, she got up.

It's 3:00 PM.

Sunset goes to each of her friends and gives them a kiss in each one's check, including Twilight, and goes to the door but she stoped at there and looked behind herself.

"I see you... Tomorrow..." Sunset said between tears, the small black dagger on her waist.

Sunset closed the door and goes out, she take a rocking chair and goes to outside. She sit and looked at the moon.

A beautiful full moon.

It was a good night.

Sunset wiped her tears.

"It's a beautiful night... My last night. It was a good night," Sunset looked to the big house and said again."I see you all in the morning, good night!" Sunset said and closed her eyes, the tears falling on her face were colder than never were before.

Chapter 10- Daydreamer Shimmer

Sunset opened her eyes.

She was on the school's garden, she looked above and saw a deep red sky, after one minute breathing heavily, Sunset started to calm down, but this is hard. If her plan fails, she will be dead.

After another minute, Sunset finally brought together he courage and shout.

"I'm waiting, you want this as much as me. Let's finish this once and for all!" Sunset challenged.

Another minute.

In front of her a form finally appeared.

"I was thinking you will never ask!" The she-demon said.

Sundown opened her bat wings, and enter in battle position, but before anything, she just saw a fist closing a small distance from her face.

Sunset make the first move, she strikes with a absurdly heavy punch, the she-demon was send flying for meters and meters away.

Sundown lift her face but Sunset wasn't there anymore she only felt another absurdly strong punch hitting her face, after flying away again the she-demon finally stood up, and make a huge fire ball in her hand and throws at Sunset.

A big explosion happened with Sunset as epicenter.

"Stupid girl! I'm a demon, the power of a single human is nothing against me. Now die and give me your body!" The she-demon said triumphantly.

But then the smoke vanished away.

Sunset was there, her arms making a cross, and in front of them two shields, in jewel's shape.

Rarity's special power.

Before the she-demon could say anything Sunset runned in her direction In less than a second she was in front of the demon, and gives a brutal punch on the devil's belly.

When Sundown was hit, her body bow, and with her head a little lower, Sunset united both hands and gives a violent strike on Sundown's head and the entire ground was filled by a huge depression.

Rainbow Dash and Applejack's special power's.

When the she-demon was still on the ground Sunset gives three more monstrous punches, and the own ground started to quake, Sundown teleported to the front of the school's statue.

"Now I get it. In the real world you steal the pendants of all those stupid's girl's". Sundown said with a hand in her belly. "But this is not enough!"

The she-demon make two fire balls, and strikes straight to Sunset.

Sunset used Rainbow's speed to avoid the demon's strike, but when she runned away, two more fire balls come exactly to where she was running.

Sunset avoid by few, but she certainly felt the danger.

"Your biggest enemy here, it's only one. Your brilliant brain, is also mine!" Sundown said.

"That's why you has no chance against me!" Sunset said with a sadistic smile.

Sundown attacked again, this time with punches, three violent blow's, Sunset takes all, the ground already sinking. When the she demon stop, Sunset attached her face with two punches.

Sundown receive both and give another punch, this time hitting Sunset's stomach, and with her hand already touching Sunset's body she used a great fire ball.

The explosion was crazy and Sunset was sending flying, but the she-demon used five more fire balls, all of them hitting the target.

But then the she demon noticed, bellow her feet's, the ground was different.

"Is this confetti?" Sundown asked before feelling a huge explosion on her face and ending in the air, where she opened her wings.

Sundown looked to the ground, the smoke was over all places, but there's no corpse.

Sunset jumped, the she-demon looked above to see a only a bit wounded Sunset almost on her face, the young girl use her amazing strength to give a strong kick, that send the she-demon to the ground, breaking the speed of sound in the middle of the way.

The demon quickly lift up.

" I get it now, you can predict my moves because of the brain connection, but you can't avoid in the air!" The she-demon said and recoil her arm to create another fire ball, but then a great pain, Sundown look to her own arm, and saw a big piece of metal piercing through it.

Sunset used telekinesis to distract the demon, and uses the gravity to help her to use a really powerful punch in Sundown's head.

This last strike has made a earthquake.

Sunset lift her arms again, but when she was going to attack, Sundown used three fire balls at close range, creating a great and powerful explosion.

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In the real world.

Twilight awake slowly, the young girl looked around and smiled, five girls were sleeping. It was her first slumber party, and she has a lot of fun...

Wait, five girls?

"WHERE'S SUNSET?" Twilight screamed and woke all the others.

"Hey, calm down, don't awake me like that, what's happening?" Rainbow asked and look around. "Oh, crap!"

"To where that girl goes?" Applejack asked worried.

All the girls started searching everywhere in the big house.

After some time...

"Hey, GIRLS, I FOUND HER!" Pinkie pie screamed from outside the house.

All the girls make a circle around Sunset, sitting on a chair, a great and full moon illuminating the young girl.

Sunset already has various wounds and burns.

"We're late, now we cannot help her!" Applejack said, while sitting on the ground and hide her tears with her hat.

All the girls sit around the amber girl, all with tears in their eyes, all just waiting the end.

Be it good or bad.

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In the dream realm.

Four alicorns are watching from above.

Celestia and Twilight were using all their strength to hold themselves and their tears.

Cadence was waiting for the end, hoping that the young human will survive.

And Luna was watching with impartial eyes, she obviously want that Sunset won, but she was already prepared to another results too.

"We really cannot help? We're already here!" Twilight asked worried.

"No, it's her inner battle, we cannot interfere!" Luna said impassive.

"Poor girl, what horrible fate she has ahead, I can feell a profound love coming straight from her," Cadence said and turned to Luna "but I need to ask, why you've made so much effort to bring me too, I'm not really related to that girl,"

"All of us are part of it, and beside, you're not the only guest, she's just a little late!" Luna said.

The other three alicorns looked each other without understand.

But then, something caught the attention attention of the four princesses.

A being with golden wings is descending straight to the battle.

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Sunset just stared.

She was looking to a defeated demon.

Sundown was on the ground, at last 15 pieces of raw iron piercing through her body, including places such as neck, heart and others inner organs.

Sunset just stared with cold eyes, at last two ribs are broken. But she don't care.

The cause of months of suffering, the remembrance of years of sorrow, was simply suffering in front of herself.

"... Now you really got me," Sundown said weakly. "The most impressive is... You don't use magic to make this to me... It was you, every time you take a piece of iron and pierced through me... It was you... Not me... Not your friend's magic... It was you..." The she demon said with a small giggle.

Sunset said nothing. She could use her dagger, but it seems it's not the right time.

All the battle was even a little easy, but Sunset can't relax, something is really wrong.

"What's wrong? Won't gonna finish the job?" The demon said now laughing weakly.

"........"

"Or maybe your new and actual heart is too pure to do such thing?"

"Nah, I'm holding myself to see you suffer a little more!" Sunset said.

Sundown's eyes wide open, she saw something and laugh a little.

"Look's like this is over!" The she-demon close her eyes and wait.

Sunset cannot understand.

But then a huge golden beam was fired, it has so much strength that simply shatter the demon.

What has happened?

Sunset turned around.

She was looking to another self.

Daydreamer Shimmer.

"I actually don't expect that, but thanks!" Sunset said smiling.

Sunset is Daydreamer... So she never saw to other self like that, seriously, that's really strange.

But Daydreamer was not smiling.

Sunset stop smiling.

"I wish you understand, Sunset, what I will do now, it's necessary to both of us!"

"What?" Sunset asked, and her eyes wide open, Daydreamer was pointing to Sunset.

A golden beam was fired.

Sunset only avoid using Rainbow's speed.

"Are you crazy? You could kill me, kill yourself!" Sunset said.

"When did I say that I'm you? I'm a simply manifestation of the elements of harmony! But I has a better question Sunset Shimmer, you know who I am, but you really know who you are?" Daydreamer said, and attack with a lot of golden beams and Sunset was avoiding and defending desperately.

Again this question.

Who is Sunset Shimmer.

"I will give you a tip. To understand who you are, you need to understand first the elements of harmony!" Daydreamer said.

Sunset used three beams looking for a opening in the new's enemy defense, but Daydreamer defend all the attacks easily, and Sunset used her telekinesis to grab a piece of metal and throw at Daydreamer's head, and she defended again with a small tap, but she don't saw the girl coming closer and giving a strong kick in her belly, follow by a torrent of blows.

After some attacks, Daydreamer strikeed with an aura surrounding her fist and Sunset used Rainbow's speed, together with Applejack's strength to give a powerful blow to counterattack.

A great explosion and a earthquake happened at the same time, and Sunset was sending flying through the school's walls, she tried to run away and think in a strategy, Sunset hide behind a wall, but she can't feell Daydreamer inside the school.

But then she heard, and feared.

A great sound... Daydreamer attacked from outside, she will destroy the entire school, only to smash Sunset.

After a great light...

The school succumb.

To a existence capable to fix holes in the reality, this is easy.

Sunset used a magic shield to try to support the impact, it works a little, but now Sunset's stated was still critical. Sunset looked to the ground.

There's a paper.

'I told you to never took your eyes from a enemy' It was written.

Sunset looked behind behind herself and saw Daydreamer pointing a hand and a huge pillar of light wasthrow in Sunset's direction.

Only three feet's away.

Sunset simply gave up. There's no way she could survive this.

She closed her eyes and remembered every good memories she has shared with her friends.

That's right... With her death, her friends will never be in danger because of Sunset's demons again.

There's nothing wrong with her death.

It will be better to all friends that Sunset loves.

She certainly love those girls more than herself.

Sunset just wait for the death.

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In the real world.

The six girls are outside.

Walking, sitting, talking and doing everything to distract.

But they can't.

Sunset was sitting in a chair, each second more and more wounds appeared in her skin.

Until a moment that dozens of wounds appeared at once.

"Oh my, goodness, Sunset need to awake!" Fluttershy said and when she walked in the other girl's direction but she was stopped.

"We don't know what could happen!" Twilight said Princess Luna said that Sunset shouldn't be interrupted until the end.

Doesn't matter what happens.

The six girls just wait, with tears running through their faces.

A friend need help more than anything.

And they can't do anything.

They just wait, and felt the cold rain began.

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In the dream realm.

"And finally our last guest come!" Luna said with a smile.

The others three alicorns can't believe in their eyes.

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Sunset was waiting for her death.

But nothing happened.

She opened her eyes, and she can't believe in then, Daydreamer's magic was slashed in pieces.

And protecting Sunset there's a person.

A black or blue hair, it's hard to say. A long black coat and ceramic mask.

Jack the ripper saved her life.

Sunset has no reaction, using a great medieval sword jack strike with multiples slashes, Daydreamer fly away from the new enemy.

Jack looked to Sunset, and carved his great sword on the ground.

Then suddenly a silver scythe materialize in his hands and Jack attack with a abnormal speed.

Well... at last this time Jack is helping her, the only question is... Do I believe that he won't betray me? But is better than fight alone, Sunset take the sword and uses a 'accelero' spell in herself, together with Rainbow's speed, she was almost untouchable.

She run in Daydreamer's direction, but even with the new spell, Jack was faster than Sunset and attached Daydreamer Shimmer three times and observe the enemy block his attacks easily.

Suddenly Jack jump really high, and Daydreamer almost don't notice the second enemy.

Sunset attached with the sword innumerable times, using a great speed and abnormal strength.

Daydreamer blocked with her arms, but she was bleeding now.

"You're not welcome here, so get out" Daydreamer said and used a great beam to hit Jack, but instead a green beam hit her attack and Daydreamer received a deep wound when a medieval sword pierced through her ribs.

"Unfortunately for you, in my dreams it's me who decide if he enter or not!" Sunset said and give a strong punch that send Daydreamer flying in Jack's direction, and he used his scythe to give another cut in the monster's back.

Jack and Sunset attached, defends and fight as a pair of killers, as if they know each other there's years, and after some time, even Daydreamer's incredible powers were fading. She attack and defend with everything she has, but those two were simply winning.

So she need to eliminate one.

Jack attacked, he gives a great slash, but Daydreamer defend with her shinning hand, but this attack opened her defense, Jack jump back, and Sunset used this distraction to give a powerful punch in Daydreamer's stomach, but Daydreamer hold Sunset's arm, she can't escape now, using her other arm, Daydreamer attack Sunset's face.

Suddenly Sunset was in another place, away from Daydreamer, certainly a magic capable to control the space around, but the other self was holding Jack tight.

Daydreamer take out Jack's mask, and her eyes wide open.

"Wait, but you're...!" Daydreamer couldn't finish the sentence, using the silver scythe Jack gives a fatal attack, from her shoulders to her belly.

Jack jumped away and Sunset only saw a bit of a beautiful feminine face, before she teleport away.

Daydreamer looked ahead and saw Sunset running in her direction passing through a dust cloud holding a small black dagger in hands, and Daydreamer attacked with a fine beam cutting averything on his way, and in one second Sunset's head was flying.

It's over.

Daydreamer Shimmer won.

But the head disappear in midair, followed by the body, and with her defense low, Daydreamer only felt a cold pain.

The fallen Sunset was a illusion.

The real one was piercing a black dagger through Daydreamer's heart.

Daydreamer smiled.

"Good... You pass, continue, and give your final answer!" Daydreamer smiled and disappear.

It wasn't the dagger's power, she chose to disappear.

A dark portal opened, almost looks like it's made of shadows.

"It's time to end this!" Sunset said and enter in the darkness.

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"You're pretty good you know? I started to get worried that you won't even come!" Princess Luna said to the person wearing black coat.

"She was in danger, of course I will come. I only has a hard time to find this dream," 'Jack the ripper' said.

"Will you be with us to see the end of this despair?" Princess Luna asked.

"Believe in me. I has some ideas of what's going on here, and all that happened until now, it's only the beginning of the war!" Luna answered with a strange and fearsome smile.

Chapter 11- Children's of the dark

Sunset walk away from the dark portal.

She was in a familiar place, but she already expected that, thanks to Daydreamer Shimmer's tip, almost everythingwas already solved in Sunset's mind.

She was in a circular room. Walls made totally of stained glass, and in the middle there's a throne.

In this throne, Sunset Shimmer was waiting.

"Well, finally you did it, fake!" The Sunset in the throne said.

"Yes, finally I'm free of almost everything... There's just you now!" Sunset crossed her arms and answered.

A laugh. The other Sunset was laughing.

"Good, I'm happy that you're so confident! But now it's time of the truth, so... Did you has the answer to my questions?"

"Most of them!" Sunset said.

"Good... I'm waiting!"

"I know who you're not! You're not Sunset Shimmer, you are two different existences, you just assume that form to confuse me!"

Suddenly a mad and familiar laugh began, a crazy and insane laugh.

Coming from the Sunset in the throne.

She just cannot stop laughing.

"YES, FINALLY I FOUND YOU. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA..." After some time she finally stop laughing and asked playfully, "But there's two more questions, who am I, and who are you?"

"Half of you is the manifestation of the existence know as elements of harmony!" Sunset answered without doubt, and suddenly the Sunset in the throne divided in two.

One of them, is a beautiful woman, her hair has the colors of the rainbow, she wears a white dress, and her eyes also has the iridescent colors of the rainbow.

"And the other you, it's a existence that is exactly the opposite! You are a manifestation of the evil itself, you are the supreme monster..... You are Azi Dahaka!"

The other existence simply stared Sunset back, he don't laugh or do anything suspicious, but he's definetly is a monster.

Three meters, a humanoid form with completely white skin and three draconian heads, his body resembles a human body a little but completely out of the standarts, it's absurdly strong and intimidating.

The manifestation of evil.

"Good Sunset Shimmer! You discover everything!" The woman said with a gentle smile.

"Amazing indeed! I must say, after some time I tought that you won't be able survive and I will need another one!" Azi Dahaka said, his voice is cold and warm at the same time, it was a voice coming straight from the depths of hell, but with a amazing charm and sophistication.

"I tought that the elements wanted me here, not you," Sunset said now with doubt.

"No, I want you here, I laugh in your nightmares, and create a route to bring you here to us," Azi Dahaka said with one of his three heads.

"You laugh... In my nightmares? That dream, the one that I killed my friends and Applejack saw all that horrible things... It was you!" Sunset said now angrily.

Azi Dahaka sit on the ground and giggle for some seconds.

"Right and wrong my child, I made that dream? Yes! I laugh in that dream? Yes! But the one that show to your friend that vision is here!" Azi Dahaka pointed to the manifestation of the elements of harmony with one of his three heads.

The woman said nothing.

"What? Why? You should be at our side!" Sunset asked.

"And I am! That's why I made that girl see that. Those girls are simply too innocent, It is good, and bad. They need to understand what is the pain, to undestand what they need to protect!" The woman simply said, not a single drop of regret cold be felt in that voice.

"That's cruel!" Sunset said.

"In those times you see, the evil some times is not that bad, is it?" Azi Dahaka said smiling.

Sunset said nothing.

Azi Dahaka said with all three heads.

"Now young warrior, you know about her, and you know about me, but do you know about you?"

Sunset looked to the monster.

"Before, I has questions!" Sunset said.

"Enough of questions, answer us Sunset Shimmer!" The woman said coldly.

"Let the young one ask! That was always one of your biggest flaws, you're too impatient! Now go on little girl!" Azi Dahaka said gently.

Ok... That's a surprise! The supreme king of evil is actually a gentleman.

"Why do you almost just act here, inside my dreams, and not in the real world?" Sunset asked.

"That's easy, my true body is still sealed. My children's don't awake me yet! This is just a simple manifestation so I can has a funny talk with you!" Azi Dahaka said with all heads smiling.

"Got it... Not only you, the seal is the own elements of harmony, that's why she's here too!" Sunset said.

"Yes, indeed! Any more questions little kid?" Azi Dahaka asked.

"Who are 'your children's'?" Sunset asked.

"The opposite to the elements of harmony. They are my children's of the dark, their existence is made to awake me, you will recognize them by their pendants, just like your friends and the elements of harmony" Azi Dahaka said without interest.

"And only exists six elements of harmony, and more than that, only the representative of each element of harmony can utilize his respective element! That get us back to our question. Who are you, Sunset Shimmer?" The woman said.

Sunset walk.

She sit on the throne with confidence.

"I'm the opposite of Azi Dahaka. I'm the one made to stop his resurrection. That's my existence. This is Sunset Shimmer. The supreme weapon against the supreme being!" Sunset said with a confidence that she don't even know she has, and Azi Dahaka that was sitting on the ground all this time sudenly laugh.

He continue laughing.

A insane, intense and yet calm laugh.

He continue laughing for minutes.

A monster with a intense and insane laugh.

"EXACTLY! YOU ARE THE ONLY ONE SUNSET SHIMMER... WILL YOU DEFEAT MY CHILDREN'S? OR I WILL RESURRECT? THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF OUR WAR, THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF THE END!" Azi Dahaka screamed with all his soul.

With a calm face the elements of harmony said.

"That's true, but for now you complete your mission. Awake, live, laugh and cry. Discover what is important or not. Just live your live Sunset Shimmer! We will wait!" The woman said gently.

"But before, I need to ask, do I know your children's of the dark?" Sunset asked.

"All of them will be from your school, this I can say!" Azi Dahaka said with a sadistic smile in each head, and Sunset's eyes wide open.

He don't needed to answer, but decide to. And Sunset don't liked that answer.

And then she noticed.

"Jack the ripper, is that woman one of your chosen one's?" Sunset asked.

"Yes and not. She is exactly like you! The seventh gear, she is the existence made only to fight you. That's why she saved you. Kill you is her job!" Azi Dahaka said with pleasure. "But now it's time of your awakening, we will meet again Sunset Shimmer. But until there, live and cry, suffer and laugh, and for now accept my farewell!" He said with a bow before disappear into nothingness.

Sunset looked to the woman.

"Why from my school? Why teenagers? He could choose anyone, why chose someone I know?"

"Exactly for that. The war don't even began and you're already suffering. This don't even begin and he is already winning!" The woman said. "But he is right too, go out there, just live your live, and when the time comes, you will know, until there, accept my farewells too!" The woman said before she disappears.

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Four alicorns are looking to a person.

"Well, I think we should let you explain!" Princess Luna said to the woman.

"I don't has anything to explain. All of you already saw, right? what do I possibly need to say?" Luna said calmly.

"We can eliminate a danger to that girl, only by eliminating you, but here we are giving you a chance. So I think it will be wise use that chance!" Celestia said and Twilight and Cadence nodded.

"I don't pretend to explain nothing yet, but I also say, it's not a good idea challenge me here!" Luna said calmly.

"What can you do against four alicorns?" Twilight asked already preparing an attack.

"This!" Luna said and pointed to Twilight.

The alicorn fall on the ground without conscience and Cadence tried desperately to help.

"Relax, I only erase this little part of her memories, she will remember all this dream, just will forget everything about me. I won't hurt that girl," Luna said calmly. "But I think it's my time too. But I will say this, the better thing you all do, is don't tell to that girl about it. Farewell!" Luna said before disappearing into nothingness.

The three alicorns started to discuss the situation.

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Sunset opened her eyes.

She was in a chair, outside of Applejack's house, it's raining a lot. Sunset looked around and saw six girls in the rain, all of them are crying.

"C'mon, why the long face? Did someone die and I don't know?" Sunset said with a weak smile.

All the girls looked to Sunset.

Silence.

"Wait, don't tell me that someone actually die and I don't know!" Sunset asked worried.

The next thing she remember is six teenagers jumping straight in her, breaking the chair and making seven girls fall on the ground.

"YOU STUPID GIRL, YOU PROMISE ME THAT WE WILL GO THROUGH THIS TOGETHER!" Twilight screamed, while shaking the girl by the pajama collar.

"Seriously... Twilight... Stop, that... That hurts a lot...PLEASE STOP THAT, I'M WOUNDED" Sunset screamed.

"OF COURSE YOU ARE. YOU KNOW WHY? BECAUSE YOU DON'T ASK FOR HELP!" Pinkie Pie screamed.

Sunset just wanted to get back to the dream, the gentleman god of all evil looks a lot less dangerous than her friends now, but soon she felt two strong arms taking her away from those two and Applejack took Sunset away from the others girls.

"Good. Now sugarcube. WHAT DID YAH HAS IN YOUR HEAD? THERE'S MORE THINGS IN THE VOID!" Applejack screamed and shakes Sunset again.

Ok. Now it's official, she will die tonight.

"Calm down Applejack, now Sunset come with me. I will protect you," Fluttershy said and take Sunset away from Applejack.

Ok now she's afraid. A furious Applejack is way less scary than be under Fluttershy's wings, considering the Kitchen event.

But no one attacked anymore.

Everyone remember that kitchen.

No one challenge Fluttershy.

"Good, Now Twilight you know what to do, call Cadance and ask that thing you said she can do. And for you," Fluttershy finish the sentence with a whisper. "Make something stupid like that again and you won't like what I will do!" A whisper from the cold and killer other Fluttershy.

Now Sunset is afraid.

"Anyway Twilight. What is Fluttershy talking about?" Sunset asked.

"There's a possibility... That some of my old experiences... Uhhm... caught the attention of some... Dangerous people and forced us to find a... Doctor that don't make some questions!" Twilight said.

Sunset's mouth wide open.

Hell, she love that girl.

Twilight called Cadence.

Sunset put her head in Fluttershy's lap and relax.

A lot of different and strange girls.

She's in her home.

Epilogue- Hospital

Sunset opened her eyes, and looked around. A completely white room, all her friends are at her side, and Cadence too.

"Now I know how do a terminal patient feell's like!" Sunset said.

"Well, some terminal patients has less wounds than you!" Cadence said.

Sunset giggle but then she said with a more serious voice.

"Thanks for everything, Cadence. But I can't pay for nothing of this!" Sunset said worried and finally sit in her bed.

"Don't worry with that. It's a pleasure. But maybe I ask some favors in exchange!" Cadence said smiling.

Ok. Now I'm afraid of Cadence too.

"Well sugarcube, ya scares everybody. But did ya think that this is over?" Applejack said.

"Probably I won't has any more nightmares, but I don't think that this is over!" Sunset said honestly.

"It was that bad?" Fluttershy asked.

"Yes, but now we don't need to worry. Let's talk about it later!" Sunset said.

Suddenly a party cannon explodes.

"YEEESSS. FOR NOW LET'S PARTY. A 'GOOD RECUPERATION PARTY' FOR YOU!" Pinkie screamed and all girls told her to be quiet, and Sunset giggle a bit but stoped due the pain and caugh with a hand honding her own stomach.

"Well... I maybe pushed myself too hard..." She said with another caugh.

"Maybe? Are you serious?"Rainbow dash said sarcastically.

Cadence goes until the opposite wall in a desk for a while.

"Ok, you won... I was stupid and could be in better shape, happy now?" This time the sarcasm comes from Sunset.

"Well darling, We really should look to the good side of this. You could be a corpse for now and look at you!" Rarity said.

"Yes, now I'm just half corpse!" Sunset jokes.

"Yeah, and now, after all this, I think I deserve a explanation!" Cadence said coming back to the group.

"You don't tell to her?" Sunset asked.

"Well, we're kind worried with you, and after you fainted, we needed some help, and we need to make Rainbow Dash stop cryi..." Pinkie began but Rainbow Dash jump and interrupted.

"ANYWAY. It's good see you better you know?" Rainbow Dash said.

"Oh, I has a idea. We'll go outside and explain everything to Cadence. Twilight stay here with Sunset, please?" Rarity said and she, Cadence and Applejack pushed everybody outside.

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"Good. Now we just need to hear what those two say, for behind the door!" Rainbow Dash said.

"Oh, please. You're all new in spying the others? I put a camera inside and I can see everything on my phone!" Cadence said while picking her cellphone.

"Hey that's invasion of privacy!" Rainbow said.

"And?" Cadence asked.

"I like it!" Rainbow said and all the girls tried to see in the small cellphone.

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"Well, that was strange! All of them get out faster than the sound!" Sunset said.

"Yes... Look Sunset. Why did you go alone?" Twilight asked sadly.

"......"

"You cheated me! You promise that we will go through this together, but you let me sleep and go alone!" Twilight said furiously, her hair falling in her shoulders.

"I... I just..." Sunset couldn't complete her own phrase.

"Just what? You can't trust in us? You don't trust me?" Twilight asked.

"Look, Twilight. I trust in you. I just can't afford to let you be wounded just because of me!" Sunset said.

"But I wanted to help! Instead, you let me watching you suffer alone. Each wound and I think that I maybe could be able to help, but I can't, you know why? because you let me behind!" Twilight said really furious.

"I'M SORRY. I JUST CAN'T SEE YOU SUFFER BECAUSE OF ME!" Sunset screamed.

"AND I NEED TO WATCH YOU SUFFER ALONE?" Twilight shouted back.

"I JUST CAN'T SEE WHAT I MOST CARE IN THE WORLD SUFFER FOR ME! APPLEJACK, RAINBOW DASH, FLUTTERSHY, RARITY, PINKIE PIE. AND MAINLY YOU! HOW MANY TIMES DO YOU THINK I SAW EACH ONE OF YOU DIE, SUFFER, BECOME CRAZY OR LEAVING ME ALONE? I JUST CAN'T SUPPORT IT AGAIN!" Sunset screamed.

"Mainly me?" Twilight asked.

Oh crap. I'm a idiot.

".... Well... You see..." Sunset tried to say.

"What you mean by 'mainly me'?"

OK, it's now or never.

"Look Twilight... I... I like you okay?" Sunset said loudly.

All the girls outside the door hold their breaths.

"You what?" Twilight asked without believing in her ears.

"I like you! Not like a friend, well, as a friend too, but I want something more! The kind of like that we go out in date's, or just see a movie to stay together a bit more and... I... I... Just..." Her courage is over now she just blushed furiously.

Twilight hugged Sunset with all her strength.

"You idiot. Why you don't say it before? I just... I like you too... Not as a friend, but I... Was just afraid!" Twilight said.

"Afraid of what?"

"Afraid that you will never like a nerd and a girl like me and... You will leave me alone... And don't wanna see me anymore!" Twilight said blushing, She just can't let it pass like that.

Sunset hugged Twilight back.

That hurt's a lot, but it doesn't matter.

"Are you an idiot? There's no way that I don't like you... Doesn't matter what happens, I will be there for you!" Sunset said.

The girls looked at each other.

Twilight approach her head to Sunset's, and Sunset was closing her eyes when...

"Is that a camera?" Sunset asked.

Twilight looked behind and saw a camera above the desk.

"CAADDENCEE" Twilight screamed.

"NOW RETREAT!" Cadence screamed to the others and seven girls run from a hospital.

Sunset smiled while seeing Twilight running away to pursuit the others.

Doesn't matter what happens.

Sunset would protect everyone with her soul.

And won't regret even during a second.