Darkness Calls

In hindsight, charging a timber wolf wasn't usually the brightest of ideas, though the unnamed mare had an idea that was crazy enough to get her away scratch free. As expected, the timber growled and began to charge at her as well, its deadly green eyes staring piercingly into her equally ominous red eyes. Her horn, ignited with a magic channeling throughout her body at the last second for a short teleportation spell. With a laugh and a grin, she disappeared in a flash and appeared behind the timber wolf, still running and charging ahead. Now, they were all behind her and she was no longer pinned in, for the moment at least.

She pounded her hooves into the ground as she ran as fast as her hooves could carry her, not daring to look behind her and hit a tree, she kept her eyes forward through the dark forest. Her hear racing and her breathing heavy, she wouldn't be able to keep it up for much longer. Ever so cautiously she checked behind her, seeing no glowing green eyes after her, she came to a stop. "That", she huffed out and took in a deep breath, "Was way too close for me."

She looked around cautiously, still heaving heavily from running for her life, she let her guard down for the moment. Unbeknownst to her, a new predator was stalking her. It didn't have to eyes to sense her, she had caused enough of a commotion down the path. Out creeped a vine with sharp thorns. Looking for its next meal, it slithered over to her hoof. The vine, wrapped around her hoof in a gentle, but unnoticeable way and began to tighten. She looked down in curiosity, feeling some sort of pressure on her hoof. Seeing the vine, she growled and her horn ignited once more. With a flick of the neck, she sliced right through it as if it were nothing.

"So what's next? An entire treeing getting up and chasing me!" She shouted questionably, half expecting a tree to uproot itself. But only silence befell onto the forest once again. She sighed and began to walk again, praying that there was nothing else out here. "Why is everything trying to eat me?' She thought to herself and pushed through the branches of an old tree. What laid in wait on the other side almost immediately wiped her worries away, a village or town with a few lights. Her heart skipping a beat as she looked for any sign, only seeing a forest and a blank field.

"Name or no name, someone there can help me. I hope." She whispered to herself and began trotting toward a path that lead into the town, formally known as Pony Ville. She wasn't quite out of the woods, but she wasn't being chased at least. Finally, she felt safe to entirely let her guard down and so she did. Her body now relaxed in and no longer standing straight and ready for an attack, the moonlight served only to increase her lax posture. She was quite literally out of the woods after all, she was now in civilization. Someone would surely warn her of a danger if there was one, right?

Seeing that one of the few lights she could see was in a large castle of some sort, she trotted up to the door. Her mane blowing in the wind and her conscious suddenly kicking in. "It's some time in the very late night and here I am interrupting somepony from their sleep or work?" She mumbled out loud, to quiet for anyone to have heard unless they were right beside her. She shook her head, what was the point to turn back now? She came this far and she was desperate enough to charge a timber wolf. She shook the thoughts away and raised her hoof to the door, no last second thoughts as she knocked on the door. The fact of what building was had long since eluded her.
Hearing nothing after a few seconds, she knocked louder. She wasn't sure of what she would say exactly, what could she say? She waited, almost giving up and turning around before the door creaked open. The nameless mare immediately turned around to see who had opened it, only to be met with a green draconic eyes. She looked down at a small dragon who stared awkwardly back up at her. She put the book carefully on her back so that she could speak..

"Hello, can I help you? Do you have any idea how late it is right now, miss?" The short dragon asked with a large yawn. She was at a loss for words, a dragon? Not a pony? Was this a town of dragons?

"I...I need help, I don't know where I am or who I am. Are there any ponies here that could help me?" The unnamed mare asked quietly, unsure if the dragon would honestly answer. Much to her surprise, he slung the door open wider an almost entirely crystal room, floors and walls included. She was left in speechless awe, it was beautiful to her eyes .

"Please, come in, come in. I'll wake Twilight at once." The dragon softly said and ran straight down the hall. She looked inside and then back outside, it would certainly be warmer than the cold night air. She cautiously stepped into the castle and looked around. It wasn't anything she had seen, not that she could remember if she wanted to. But it served as a warm feeling to see its beauty, she didn't have anything to say. Simply stuck in awe as she glided her hoof across the smooth wall.

"Who lives in such a rich felt place?" She asked herself, unsure if she should even be in the castle at all. She wasn't royalty, and yet now she looked to her cutie mark. Crystal spear and armor. Was she some kind of guard here? Was there an attack? Was she tossed out? The questions flooded in her head to no end and she had no answers to drive them away. She shook her head, trying to clear her head as she could heard faint hoofsteps from down the hall.

The mare looked down to a magenta coated unicorn- with wings? She rubbed her eyes and did a double check. "Surely that mare doesn't have both wings and a horn?" She was even more confused now, except she vaguely had a remembrance to a white mare that had both attributes of other ponies like that, though she was a much taller mare. She watched the magenta coated mare trot down with a half smile, half asleep look.

"Hello miss, are you in trouble? How may I be of help?" The mare asked, waving her hoof in front of nameless mare.

"I don't know who I am, where I am or why those things In the forest tried to eat me." She simply spoke, not sure how to even word her problems.

"So I have heard, very well I think I can help you. My name is Princess Twilight Sparkle, now please follow me." Twilight said and tried to hide her sleepiness through a smile.

"Please lead the- Wait did you say Princess?" The mare asked, now she was sure she had lost it.

"Yes I did, now please follow me so that I may help you. I promise I'll find a way." Twilight reassured the mare and began to walk down the hall.

Having little other choice, the unnamed mare followed Twilight down the hall and up a set of stairs, She wasn't sure why Twilight, a princess, would be helping her with her problem when she royal duties to probably take care of. But she wouldn't deny that she needed help, but a princess's help? What deemed her fate to such a reward? An apology for almost being eaten? She didn't have a clue, much like she didn't have a lot of things right now "Just, who am I?" She asked herself as Twilight lead the way into a large library.

"Lets start with if you remember anything all. Do you have any clue where you came from? Twilight asked as she looked among the bookshelves.

"Would you believe I woke up in a coffin?" The mare asked sarcastically.

"With those eyes of yours, I actually would if it wasn't for the fact that I'm referring to an ancient myth that's still told to the young foals daily." Twilight replied, leaving the mare in a state of confusion.

"What's wrong with my eyes, Twilight?" The mare asked, not having been able to see them herself.

"They're red as blood, though perhaps in some stress you may have popped something in your eye that caused that." Twilight's horn began to glow dimly as she levitated a set of books down and around them.

"I don't understand, but can you help me or not?" The mare asked, not wanting anything other than a yes or no.

"Yes I can, do you remember anything whatsoever? Anything hat could tell me if you were brainwashed with magic or simply hit your head too hard?" Twilight asked as she skimmed through the books.

"All I know is that I woke up in a coffin, the crypt was scorched black and I do have this book." The mare reached for the book she had expertly placed and balanced on her back and nudged it over to Twilight. Twilight looked down at it and levitated it up to her eyes, which widened she looked over it.

"I've never seen something like this, did you wake up with it?" Twilight asked the mare suspiciously.

"Yes, I woke up with it. But I couldn't read it in the dark and not get eaten by something whilst running for my life." The mare answered honestly. Twilight brought the book over to a desk and looked over it, but she couldn't understand a single word in it. Not that the letters made words she knew, it was a jumbled mess of symbols. All except for a single line of symbols made no sense.

"Dark magic." Twilight muttered and look toward the mare who innocently looked back. She had no clue of anything right now and Twilight at least felt safe with that knowledge.

"So, does it happen to say a name or something about me that can help?" The mare asked worriedly about the silence she was getting.

"I will send word to Princess Luna, for I cannot read this even with my knowledge of dark magic, minimal as it is." Twilight answered coldly at the mare. She left the mare in the room soon after and expectantly went to wake the dragon, leaving her alone in the dark and silent castle.

"Not even one Princess can help me, we need two." The mare laughed and leaned on a bookcase. Her mind was at a still for once, even though she had hundreds of questions, she was at peace. Now it was another waiting game as she waited for instructions, or something to do. After all, where would her manners be if she just roamed Twilight's castle without permission?

"I wonder what she meant by dark magic, what even is dark magic?" She asked aloud, only to hear a voice in her head answer.

"It is the very thing that allows us both to still live, my dear warrior." The voice echoed inside her head.

"Who said that?" She asked aloud, only to hear it again.

"You will not remember any time soon dear, in time you'll remember who you were and who you should serve." The voice echoed once more inside her head, it surely wasn't her own voice.

"Who are you?" She asked aloud once again.