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Dark Magic

I tried doing the spell almost 100 times now. It’s draining the life out of me, but I have to do it, if I don’t it could cost us Equestria. I’m not even exaggerating, if some evil comes and the element of laughter isn’t there all of Equestria could be at risk.

Just another reason why I need to do this spell.

Nopony knows what i’m trying to do. Me and Twilight agreed to keep it a secret, not entirely sure why, but Twilight said it would be best, and I trust her.

“Uhh”

This is draining all my energy. I can’t even hold this book up anymore. I’m going to sleep before my horn falls off.

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“Ok should I try this again?” I look around at the crystals that surround me. I look on the floor for the the book.

Wait, it’s not there. IT’S NOT THERE! Did Shining or Cadence or one of Twilight’s friends find it.

I rush to the map room.

My hooves make a clicking noise on the crystal floor.

I get to the map room and to my surprise no one is there looking through the book.

“MIDNIGHT!” I hear the voice of a stallion echo through the halls. I know exatly who it is.

I’m pretty sure he is in the room him and Cadence are sharing together.

I trot to that room and ask him

“What Shining?” He frowns

“I found your to-do list it says master the spell then come back to Twilight” I nod

“Ok, so?” He stamps his hooves on the ground

“What spell?!” He puts the book in front of me using his magic and says

“Show me” I sigh and flip to page 47

“Here that is the spell, don’t ask me or Twilight why, and don’t tell anypony” He flips the book over to himself and reads through.

“You can’t tell your big brother what to do and what not to do, if I want to get and awnser from one of you I will no matter what, even if I have to hurt you”

“Was that a threat?!” He stops everything for a moment.

“I guess it was, now tell me what this is for” He motioned his hooves toward the book.

It’s all clear now, maybe, somehow he did it. It makes perfect sense, he could have gotten corrupted by dark magic. I know Shining, he would never threaten his own sisters. I hope somepony comes in here right now and sees what is going on, I could escape but if I did that would involve me hurting Shining.

My tail brushed against the wall as Shining was slowly walking towards me. He looked like he was about to try and kill me.

I have to do this. I held Shining with my magical grasp and he started making more threats.

I try to do that dark magic spell just so I can be 100% sure that he is corrupted, but if he isn’t then, .... he needs some help. I put every last bit of magic I have into the spell.

I’ts working, it’s working it’s

Somepony yells

“Ahhh What is going on here”

Shining is completely oblivious to whoever just said that. He continued to make threats.

I turn to see Spike. I let go of Shining and he grabs a knife from the kitchen and brings it here.

Spike yells

“Midnight what is happening!?” I yelled back, while making sure Shining dosn’t throw the knife at me or Spike.

“I think Shining has been corrupted by dark magic, and I think he is the one who stabbed Twilight” Spike gasps

“I’ll go get everypony else you distract him”

I honestly wondered where Princess Cadence was and when did Shining get corrupted by dark magic? More importantly how?

I’ll solve this later, but right now I need to not die.

Remember that knife from before? He is aiming it at me. I tryed to overpower his magic and grab that knife but it’s not working.

Spike please come back with everypony I could really use their help. I thought to myself.

He is about to launch it. He pulled it back. He stopped it. He shot it”

Yet somehow I don’t get hit. I look toward the door to see the mane six with the exception of Pinkie, Twilight, and Rainbow. Ok I can’t really consider them the mane six if there are only half of them.

Wait a minute, where is Rainbow? Maybe she flew in front of me? I look over to the other side to see Rainbow with that knife stuck in her wing. I can’t help but feel like it is my fault. It kind of is, if I could have dodged it myself, or overpowered his magic, or attacked Shining, but instead I let Rainbow get hit in the wing with a knife.

I yell to Spike, Fluttershy, Applejack, and Rarity.

“See if Rainbow is ok, I’ll make sure he dosn’t hurt anypony else” the four of them nod in unison and gallop over to Rainbow.

I hold Shining with my horn and try to put a sleep spell. No wait. The dark magic. It’s getting to me.

“Ahhhh!” It’s the dark magic. I, I can’t. It it’s too strong.

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“W-where am I?” I look around realizing Nopony is there.

I hear the sound of beeping heart monitors. I’m in the hospital for sure, but why. All I remember happening is... dark magic, that must be it.

Then Twikight rushes in, WAIT Twilight rushes in. I must’ve been out for a while if Twilight is better.

Twilight’s eyes go wide

“So this is the secret they’ve been keeping” What is she talking about?

“Umm what?”

“Midnight, what happened I haven’t seen you since you left to practice that spell, which was months ago, I though you where just taking really long to learn it, but once I was let out of the hospital I tried to find you but saw some blood in the castle and when I asked everypony what happened they didn’t explain it and told me to go in here”

I sighed

“I don’t know what happened after I passed out but I can tell you what happened before”

Twilight nodded.

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“And I tried to put a sleep spell on Shining but then I felt a ton of dark magic and passed out”

Twilight sighed

“Well speaking of dark magic I did that spell on Pinkie and she had none in her, but I proved that she wasn’t guilty so she is fine now, well I have to go, I still need to catch up on Princess work and all, bye!”

I sighed

“Twilight you are rambling, you need to calm down”

Twilight sighed and opened the door, she heard her friend all arguing.

“Well You guys should’ve told somepony else to do it, I risked my life and then you guys tell me to clean up the mess”

“Rainbow is right y’all, we shouldn’t have dumped all the work on her”

“Darling, Applejack you were the only pony who wanted Rainbow to do it”

“No ah wanted Fluttershy to do it”

“Well, um, I thought we agreed Rarity would do it”

“Darling, I refuse to clean up a gory mess, Rainbow darling you should clean it up, it is your blood”

“Girls, you all said you had no idea what happened in there, tell me now”

Rainbow frowned
“Hey, uh Twilight we don’t know”

“Girls I know what happened, Midnight just told me. I want to know what happened after she passed out and why you didn’t want me to know about it”

Rainbow yelled
“Gotta fly!” And tried to fly away but Twilight grabbed her tail with magic and brought her back

“All I need to know is what happened”

“Darling you said Midnight just told you what happened” Rarity stated. Twilight rolled her eyes

“You know what I mean, for the love of Celestia stop stalling”

“Hello everypony! What are we stalling Twilight for?”

They all jumped.

“Ohh you want to jump, ok! I love to jump!” At this they all knew who it was.

Pinkie Pie, the one and only.

“Pinkie where in the name of Celestia did you. Come from”

“I came from the rock farm silly” she tapped Twilight’s snout.

“Pinkie, this isn’t the time, and also you have no reason to be here, we are talking about the reason why Midnight is in the hospital”

“Ooooh I know all about that, wait it has something to do with that time when I was in jail, bye!”

Pinkie’s mane flattened slightly and almost immediately inflated back up as she bounced away.

The other five watched her bounce away then turned back to each other.

Exchanging confused glances wondering why she might have known about what happened.

Rainbow broke the silence

“Sooooo over the years i’ve learned not to question Pinkie but that was confusing even for her”

The other four all nodded in agreement.

It’s not everyday Pinkie dose something so confusing even her best friends have to question it.