After encasing Discord in stone we were brought to Canterlot for a celebration for saving Equestria. Again.

Everypony cheered at us, making Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie more existed from the attraction or… Pinkie. Rarity and Applejack took it with some modesty, even though Rarity did get a little giddy from the attraction. Fluttershy simply hid behind AJ out of fear of everypony looking at her.

I, on the other hand, had other things on my mind. Mostly the Shadow dragon that Discord unleashed before the elements turned him into stone. I know a little on dragons from raising Spike and some things that I heard from others, but nothing about Shadow dragons.

Even at the celebration party, I couldn’t stop thinking about it, what was a Shadow dragon? What’s so different from it to a normal dragon? Where they worse than dragons since this one was encased in stone? I groaned as I stood outside as the party went on. I can’t stop thinking about it as I took a sip from my cream soda. Sure there were other fancy drinks there but I never really liked drinking alcohol. Applejacks cider sure but only a little bit.

I looked out to the gardens, now held a bad memory thanks to Discord, as I thought on what’s bugging me. I could go talk to my teacher, Princess Celestia about it. Surely she would know about it, but the more I thought about it the more I think it was a bad idea. I remembered the way she told me never go into the section on dark magic, it gave me nightmares from the tone alone… also, I couldn’t really go in since there are so many spells to the door into that section that even if I was an Alicorn I couldn’t go in.

I snorted at the thought, like that we ever happen.

I sighed as I looked up to the sky, seeing some birds fly by as I noticed Princess Luna’s tower.

“Maybe Princess Luna knows?” I muttered to myself. She lived as long as Celestia so maybe…

I nodded to myself and headed out towards the tower. Before I even left, Pinkie appeared in front of me.

“Hey Twi, where you goin?” she asked. I blinked at the fact she simply appeared in front of me as I shook my head.

“Hey Pinkie, I’m just… heading out,” I told her.

“Really, you’re not going to stay for the party?” she asked, cocking her head to the side.

“Sorry Pinkie, I’m just… not into parties,” I told her.

“Oh, okay!” Pinkie said with a smile.

“Really?” I asked her.

“Really really!” she answered. “Like, why would I force someone to stay at a party they don’t like? That would be super duper mean and sad.”

“Thanks Pinkie, for understanding me,” I told her. She simply smiled and skipped back to the party. I sighed as I went out and headed to Princess Luna’s room. I walked along the marble floors, through the clean white hallway in silent. There weren’t any guards around patrolling the halls so no one stopped me as I soon came to princess Luna’s door. It was a large dark blue double door with her cutie mark on it; a crescent moon on a black back drop. I took a deep breath and knocked on the door.

“Yes?” a young female voice called out. I let the breath out before I spoke.

“Princess Luna, it’s me Twilight Sparkle,” I said through the door.

“Ah, Miss Sparkle,” Luna said. I waited a few moments, a minute I think until one of the doors open. Out stepped a young woman no older than me. She was about the same height as me, give or take a few inches, as her fur was a light blue colour with her much lighter mane. She wore a simple night gown with a pair of headphones around her neck. “What can I help you with?”

“Oh, well, umm… how are you?” I stuttered. I don’t know why I’m not having trouble with speaking.

“Good, I guess,” Luna said plainly. I blinked at her. She was… different from Princess Celestia, while Celestia was nice and friendly, Luna was… awkward to talk to. “Do you need something miss Twilight?”

“Huh, oh yes please,” I said as I remembered why I came here. “Well, I wanted to ask you something.”

She seemed to smile at this, “of course, what do you need to know?”

“Well… it’s about dragons, mostly Shadow dragons,” I replied. Her expression changed to a sour one. I flinched at this. “If you don’t want to tell me, that’s fine. I can fine-”

“No, it’s find,” Luna cut me off. “I do know about them, not a lot but maybe I can answer some of your questions.”

“Oh… thank you,” I said with a smile. Luna moved so I could walk into her room, to which I saw that it was… very neat and simple. Dark blue walls, a balcony, a large bed, a carpet rug. The only two things that stood out was that one; the roof of the place was really a large skylight. I could see the night’s sky through it. The second thing was her entertainment center. It was a large plasma screen with all of the gaming consoles that I know of. I even saw a lot of games for each console. I even saw a gaming computer on a desk that was built into her closet. It glowed with a silver dark blue colour as the princess went to her book case. “You uhh… adjusting to the times well?”

“I believe so, I can now, as some of the guards say ‘able to talk normally’, I never understood why but… it has been a thousand years,” Luna pulled a large dark book from her shelf. “You know, if I had these games back then I mayhaps never turned into the Nightmare.”

“R-right…” I said with a bit of a sweatdrop. “So… Shadow dragons.”

“Yes, I can understand why you came to me,” Luna said. I stared at her for a moment.

“Oh… Oh no, it’s not because you are the Princess of the Night Princess Luna, and also not the fact your magic maybe tied to more… dark and shadowy things…” I said, hoping that she doesn’t get mad at me. She simply stared at me.

“I was going to say she’s busy right now with the party,” she informed me. I blushed at the error of what I said. “Anyway, what can you tell me of the Multiverse?”

“It’s an existence of planes that, if I remember, are different from one another. Not only they have different yet same worlds, there are dimensions that formed and are governed by spiritual and elemental principles,” I explained. Luna seemed to smile at this.

“I heard you are one of my sister's most knowledgeable students,” she said, making me blush a bit. “But as you know, there’s a lot of subjects on it, but for right now let’s talk about the Material Plane and it’s echoes.”

“The Material Plane is, well, where we live…” I told her as I thought on the echoes part. “And I believe the echoes are the Feywild, a plane of nature and life, and-”

“The Shadowfell,” Luna answered, looking a bit grimm as she said that. I felt a chill as the room seemed to get a bit colder from the word. “Like the Feywild, the Shadowfell is a mirror of the Material Plane, but… it’s a plane of shadow and death. While the Feywild is lush and full of life, the Shadowfell is a dark gray and white landscape that’s devoid of colour, like it was leached out of the land. Everything there is a twisted and warped version of the Material Plane,” Luna began flipping through the tome, to which realized what it was made out of, which I had to cover my mouth to not throw up; it was made out of some sort of creature’s flesh. She stopped on the page that depicted a large dragon that looked like it was made out of shadow and darkness. “Creatures that shun the light live in these lands, it’s also a plane of undeath so undead roam it’s lands as well… as well as Shadow dragons.”

“I… see… but what are Shadow dragons?” I asked her.

“I was getting to that,” Luna said. “A Shadow Dragon are true dragons that, either born or spent many years that they were transformed, in the Shadowfell, they are crazed in the mind from spending so many years in that plane that they are dangerous to be in the area.Their breath can block out the light of the sun, turn into shadows at will and, most feared part, can raise fallen pray that they kill.”

I frowned at this, if they were so bad, then why… “Princess, if they are so dangerous then why did the one from Ponyville flew off before we dealt with Discord?”

“I do not know Miss. Twilight, maybe the dragon was weak for spending so long in it’s stone prison,” she answered in a way that she didn’t really know.

“Right… oh, are Shadow dragons blind?” I asked. “My friend told me that it’s eyes were clouded over that showed that it was blind.”

“Maybe… the Shadowfell is a place of darkness, there’s no light there as well as lost knowledge, it could be that dragons there are so used to the constant darkness that they can’t see in daylight,” Luna explained. I hummed in thought as I looked at the book. A plane of shadow and death, it’s a twisted version of my home and full of dangerous creatures.

But there’s also knowledge that, I think, has been lost for hundreds of thousands of years! Who knows what secrets lay dormant in there. If I could find a way…

“Twilight, I urge you to never, and I mean never ever, go to that plane,” Luna warned me. “It’s also filled with negative energy that, to a being like you, will make you lose your mind to darkness.”

“I… I understand Princess Luna,” I told her. We talked for a little why longer and she said that she’ll make a copy of the book that’s not made out of flesh. I knew that it was a bad idea… but the idea of a plane filled with knowledge, it’s almost a crime to leave alone. I knew that there’s no way I could ever find a way to the Shadowfell but I almost have the second best thing, a Shadow dragon that seemed different from what Luna told me. If I find that dragon then I can learn more about what it knows and more about the Shadowfell than what I know from Luna. If I can find it at least.

I sighed as I made my way back to the party. After talking about planes of shadow and death, I really wanted to spend time with my close friends.

Author's Note

So after my botched attempt of chapter two, I pulled the chapter and scrapped it. This is a start of sub chapters that'll follow the mane six that deals with Telyn, shadow dragons, and the Shadowfell.

Hope you all enjoy it :]