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Obsidian watched from the metaphysical plain as the thing took over Night's mind and soul. He could feel the malice radiating from that thing that sat in the salt and grain circle. "I might be a bit too late. He thought to himself as he closed his eyes and reentered Night's mind.

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Rarity was the first to speak after several seconds of uninterrupted silence. "Darling! Thank goodness your alright! It's not like I had any doubt that you were fine it's just-"

"Would you shut up you over pampered white mammy. " It said in a tone devoid of any compassion. "Excuse me?!?" Shouted Rarity in rage, she stormed up to the smiling creature but was quickly stopped by a hoof on her shoulder, courtesy of Princess Luna. "Stop Rarity, he's luring you." She said pointing at the now slightly blurred salty circle.

"Tsk, and I thought I could appeal to your jaded sigh." It smirked a little as he watched the ponies distress over the bipolar turn. "Darling! I cannot believe you! And here I thought you were such a nice and honest young lad-" began Rarity

"Oh shut it Rarity.....everypony has their little secrets." He said narrowing his soulless black eyes, his grin expanding into a sinister toothy smile.

The thing laughed as it saw the shock slowly spread around the room.

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"Ugh...where am I?" Asked Night as he woke up. ""O herro dere!" chimed a familiar voice off to his left. "What the hay? Mr. Illogical? He asked slightly unsettled. "Wait a minute how are you here? What the-" realization suddenly dawned on him as he faced the grey and black stallion. "You probably already know this since it IS your brain but well.....your inside your own head." Spoke a relatively calm  Mr. Logical as he finished scrambling up from a manhole that had appeared in front of Night just a millisecond before.

"Wait, wait wait a minute, how am I INSIDE my own mind?" He asked, to this Mr. Illogical suddenly drew a grim expression. "We must go deeper!" He said to nopony in particular. "What? You know what, never mind." He said as he quickly switched his attention over to the green and white stallion that was Mr. Logical.

"Well through some royal buck up in the workings of your inner mind and soul you are now here." During the conversation the stallion had somehow gotten a pair of rectangular eyeglasses that he now adjusted with a hoof.

"Thanks for that OH SO ENLIGHTENING explanation." He deadpanned fixing the peeved stallion with a half lidded stare. This drew a sigh from Mr. Logical as he took off the eye ware and started at Night with emerald green eyes.

"Okay see it's like this. You have a guardian spirit that resides in your psyche and looks over you, guiding your every move and watching over you." Spoke the stallion, quickly being interrupted by a raised hoof courtesy of Night.

"Yeah we've met it was a giant black dragon which brings me to my next question, why is my guardian a dragon?" He asked that particular detail had been bothering him for awhile.

Well that is because all dragonlings have guardian spirits that reside within their minds. Since your part dragon somepony up there" he said gesturing to the heavens with his left front hoof "decided to stick you with one so bingo you have a guardian." Said Illogical from his place in the air, during the conversation with Logical he had somehow managed to become a pegasus and was now lazily floating over the two ground bound ponies.

"Okay so there are plenty things wrong with that; 1. How do I know that I had a guardian spirit-" he was interrupted as the green stallion put a hoof to his lips. "Look, there are somethings that you know but at the same time don't know. "Take for example genetic memory, dragons have it which means that since you inherited dragon cells you too must have it. Now see you knew this but at the same time didn't know this." Mr. Illogical replied as he drifted overhead casting shade onto the two below. "For the sake of our conjoined sanity I'll put it this way; the two you call Mr. Logical and Mr. Illogical are actually your conscious and subconscious. Said Logical, again adjusting his glasses yet again.

"Okay now that makes much more sense actually." Said Night, suddenly he began shivering violently as the temperature  dropped. "Why is it so cold, and for that matter why are we on a tropical island?" He asked finally noticing his surroundings. The three stallions were currently on a small island that was apparently floating in the sky, sand and palm trees littered the area as Night got up from his place on the ground and started walking around. Suddenly they all felt a tremor as pieces of the island began falling off into a black abyss that was located below. "Why the hay are we having an earthquake? And why is it freezing?" Night asked shouting.

"The island is your mind's way of creating a meeting point where your waking self and other selves can meet! How else are we gonna show your waking self your inner workings? The temperature represents your control over your own mind and soul which is dropping because your CURRENTLY BEING EATEN FROM THE INSIDE OUT BY A DARKHEART!!! " Shouted Logical as he scrambled away from the now disintegrating edges of landmass. "Oh shit! What do I do?!?" He called back as the small strip of land still holding began collapsing underneath them.

You go out and meet the darkheart and convince him to go back to wherever he came from! Called Illogical as the ground holding the two earth bound ponies finally gave way making them free fall into the blackness below. Night shouted one last thing as he was swallowed by the darkness. "THAT'S CRAZY!" He said before blacking out.

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Scootaloo had been quiet during the whole exchange with Rarity but now she spoke up. "Your not Nightshade, there is no way he's so rude there is no way that he can do such a cruel thing." She said making her way to the front of the group. "No Scoots! It's too dangerous!" Shouted Rainbow as she grabbed Scootaloo and dragged her back into the safety of the other ponies now standing a few feet away from the offending creature.

"Oh? Since when did you ever care about danger? Oh right, it was after you adopted me." Spoke the darkheart putting a venomous touch on the last word. "Now wait just a minute there! I love scootaloo like my own daughter! Which is far more than I can ever say for you!" She spat back now riled up. "Hold on mom! It's tricking you!" Spoke Scootaloo struggling in Rainbow's protective embrace.

"Oh dear Scootaloo how disillusioned you are. Tell me, how painful was it to find yourself crying alone in the dark? Crying to a mother that had abandoned you?" Leered the thing, it watched as rage and hate contorted on the filly's face.

It had in happened exactly as the stallion described. One day Gilda just up and left Scootaloo crying in the warehouse. She remembered crying for days and days, finally a passing couple had taken her in. They had proved to be quite the demented duo, torturing Scootaloo both mentally and verbally. "SHUT UP! YOU DON'T KNOW ANYTHING!" She shouted back, all thoughts of saving the stallion lost in rage and pain.

"HAHAHA! What's wrong?!? Have I hit a sore spot?" The thing shouted in mad glee, it's time was coming and it knew it.

"SHUT UP!" She was now crying.

"I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU I HATE YOU I HATE YOU!" She called back as she ran down the hall in tears.

The thing chuckled as the grain circle enclosing it suddenly exploded in hellish black fire.

"Stupid stupid ponies, you've just sealed your Fate."

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"Ugh, where am I now?" Asked Nightshade as he awoke for the second time in an even stranger place. He found himself drifting in the abyss, darkness stretched out in all directions both up and down.

Dear boy your in your own mind! Albeit in a much darker section. Said a gravely and cold voice from behind him. He turned around to find himself face to face with his complete opposite.

The stallion was like him in almost every way. He was the same height, had the same hair, he even had the same three dragon scales on his face. The difference however was in the mane and coat. Nightshade had a deep dark chestnut brown coat whereas this pony had an albino white coat. Nighhshade had a silvery gray/white mane and this colt had a night black one. The big difference however, was the eyes. Nightshade had shining blue parietal eyes while this colt had.....black where his eyes should have been.

"Nightshade! Thank the gods I found you!" Called a massive black dragon which had just landed from seemingly nowhere, Night didn't know how he saw the dragon in the dark but he didn't question it.

"Be carful boy! This thing is just using your body as a means to an end!" Said the dragon taking a defensive position in front of Nightshade, his wings displaced as he let off a warning growl.

"Am I?" Replied the creature in an almost bored tone. "Look, I could have killed you and taken your body any time I had wanted in the past years but I didn't, in fact I chose to stay and stand by you. Now during all that time I watched you suffer under the hooves of cruel ponies who only used you. I couldn't help but think that I could have helped if you'd have let me. " It said, it's voice becoming sympathetic.

"I don't need your help though, I'm fine now. I've got a family that loves me and father that's forgiven me." Night said, his voice even as he watched the thing.

"Oh I know all about your daddy. It's your family that I point my hooves at." It said, his voice betraying anger.

"Lier! His family loves him and you know it!" Shouted the dragon, preparing for any incoming attacks.

"Really? Because I don't think so." A memory clouded Night's vision. It was the speech Rainbow had given to Scootaloo.

"Scoots I love you like my own daughter." Said the ghostly image of Rainbow as it hugged the little filly. Of course the darkheart had edited the memory once it had come across it in the flow. Memories tended to blend in that river and sometimes somepony could fish one out that wasn't theirs.

"She was just talking with her daughter!" Reasoned the dragon, aware that the seeds of doubt had already taken hold within the dragon colt.

"What about me?" He asked, his voice barely above a whisper. Another image showed Rainbow hugging Scootaloo in a protective embrace.

"I love Scootaloo like my own daughter! Which is far more than I can say for you!" The image said, sending a mixture of shock, pain, and fear through the colt.

No! She was talking to the darkheart not you Nightshade!" The dragon's pleas fell on deaf ears.

"She never loved me, did she?" He asked, his voice growing as cold as his body became numb.

"No she never did love you, she always thought you were like a pet. She thought it was cool to adopt you." Spat the creature as it circled Nightshade like a shark would circle it's prey. How it had gotten past Obsidian he didn't know. "However I can fix all of that for you, if you give me your body I can give you immense power, enough to right the wrongs those mares have brought upon you." It whispered, assured of it's catch.

"Now wait just a minute there! I thought you said that you hated power and those who wielded it for their own good!" Roared the dragon bringing Nightshade's focus back to him.

"Your right." The colt replied dreamily.

"I thought you said that you loved them like a family! They showed you kindness and love and accepted you and this is how you repay them?!? By dominating them with sheer power?!?" Roared the dragon, he saw the colt slowly snapping out of his stupor. The darkheart saw this to and quickly reinserted itself into the conversation.

"But all that love was just a fake wasn't it? They accepted you because you were like a trophy." It hissed.

"I highly doubt that the filly would sleep in the same bed if she saw you as a trophy!" Countered the dragon.

"I can give you everything you ever wanted, everything you've ever dreamed of and I can get rid of these impostors that pose as your 'loving family'." It spat trying to win over the colt.

"What is all the power in the world if it can't bring happiness?!?" Countered the dragon yet again, his voice rising in anger.

The darkheart saw the colt emerging from the stupor as it was confronted by it's own morals. It was then that it played it's trump card.

"I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU I HATE YOU I HATE YOU!" Screamed Scootaloo in yet another edited memory imposed by the darkheart.

"Now what loving family will ever say that to one of it's members?" He asked in a mocking tone.

Nightshade who had been listening eagerly to each argument felt his heart freeze instantly as his mind replayed those last three words over and over again. He barely heard Obsidian shout in rage and pain as the darkheart used it's razor sharp teeth to rip out the dragon's jugulars.

"I can make it go away, all of it. All you need to do is submit." it whispered in his ear.

"Don't...do it...Nightshade." The dragon gurgled through it's own blood as it said it's dying words.

"Please...make it go away." He replied brokenly. He had held hope that maybe....maybe that one filly whom he most cared for would see the good in him but no.

"It shall be done." Said the creature using it's sharpened teeth to rip out Nightshade's throat. Gaining full access to the colt's soul.

Nightshade died within his own mind which in turn resulted his form to die and be reanimated by the darkheart. The darkheart could now use it's full power since the only thing acting as a barrier was the colt's living presence. The thing laughed in mad glee as it sent a burst of raw necromorphic power through the circle enclosing it. Smiling at the ponies distress he mocked them.

"Stupid stupid ponies, you've just sealed your Fate." It said as the mane 6, Luna, and Biggs recoiled in fear.

After all these years it was in control and it loved it.

(A/N: Yes I killed him, is there a problem?)