As the trio ran down the hallways, screams echoed around them. Twilight knocked aside a random desk in the middle of the hallway and gasped in more air. She and the others knew they would never make it out, but they had to survive as long as they could. Applejack jumped in from of Twilight and the alicorn leaped over her. While she was distracted, the other two went around. AJ growled and sprinted after them. Twilight opened a door and immediately stopped. The other two did as well and was about to usher Twilight in when Applejack skidded to a halt, yelped, and ran away. Rarity looked at Applejack, confused, and Twilight inspected the room from the doorway. Twilight realized that it was completely quiet now aside from the howling of the wind.

"It's so quiet now... And this looks like a whole other dimension," she said. Pinkie Pie put a hoof on her shoulder and shook her head. Twilight sighed and closed the door, turning to her right and walking away. Rarity looked at Pinkie Pie and Pinkie sighed. She motioned to Rarity that they would have no idea what would happen if it was actually a different dimension. Rarity looked away and followed Twilight. Pinkie Pie quickly followed as Twilight went up a flight of stairs.

When she reached the top, Twilight saw a wall that looked awfully suspicious. She inspected it but didn't understand how it was suspicious. She looked around, trying to find something to help her inspect the wall further. She found a weird-looking contraption with a see-through screen with a slight yellow tint and light bulb surrounding the outside of the about one and a half-inch thick wood frame. Twilight turned towards the wall, holding the contraption up. She immediately saw something in dripping, aged invisible ink. Some were extremely old, some looked pretty recent.

"What is this?" Twilight questioned. She turned around and walked over to a spot where she could see the whole wall. She held it back up so she could see what was on the wall. Hundreds of drawings, arrows, writing, and things Twilight couldn't make out was on the wall. Twilight lowered the contraption and inspected it.

"Have either of you seen this before?" she asked, turning towards Pinkie Pie and Rarity. They both shook their heads and Twilight looked at the contraption one more time before putting it down.

"I wonder what happened here..." Twilight said, putting a hoof on the wall. She knew she couldn't see what she was touching that was drawn or written on the wall. She backed up back to where she had put the contraption and someone grabbed it from behind Twilight, startling her.

"I see you found a seeing tool to see the invisible ink." Rainbow Dash said, picking up the contraption. She looked through it at the wall Twilight had been looking at and made out more than Twilight had.

"It says Flower Rose and Exploration Searcher died here." Rainbow Dash said, reading the rest of the text on the wall.
"Exploration Searcher?" Twilight asked, trying to remember who that was. She knew she knew somepony with that name.

"Loves exploring, adventures, seeks any chance to go out into the wild and unknown? A unicorn? Grey skin and pink hair with yellow stripes in it? That's her." Rainbow Dash said, pressing a button to make the seeing tool turn into a stick as wide as the handle and she tucked it safely and securely under her wing. Twilight looked back at the wall and heard a growl. She turned around and saw a huge, black beast with large, sharp teeth and no eyes. It was three times Twilight's size and it was dripping the same black ink from Applejack and Fluttershy.

"Run!" Twilight cried. The group ran and the beast roared, running after them. It somehow ran through the walls and doors of the mansion, nearly killing the four ponies. Rainbow Dash saw a clock at one point that read 4:59 AM.

"Keep running! Just a minute left of this!" she shouted to the others. Fluttershy jumped in front of the group and Applejack leaped at them from the side. Rainbow Dash fell back, startled at how Fluttershy was somehow still alive even with so much exposed flesh and bone. Twilight put up a shield and Applejack leaped off the top of it, pushed off a wall, and hit the shield hard enough to put a small crack on it. Twilight focused on keeping the magic shield up while trying to repair the crack. Rarity joined in, trying to make the shield stronger. She was no expert at magic, but she tried her best. The beast roared and was about to beat the shield down when a grandfather clock chimed, announcing it was officially 5:00. The beast looked to its right and turned around, running away. Fluttershy and Applejack yelped and scrambled over each other to get away in the next minute. Rarity and Twilight looked, unsure, and put down the shield.

"I wonder why they're running away." Rarity said.
"It's better than getting the rest of us killed!" Rainbow exclaimed.
"Well, we still have to get through this again tonight. So don't get your hopes up too high." Twilight said. Everypony nodded and Rainbow Dash took out the seeing tool and opened it up. She immediately saw they were all standing on something.

"Guys... we're standing on a pentagram," Rainbow said, staring down at the big circle with a star in it. Everypony immediately got off, but Rainbow Dash put the seer(seeing tool) away and continued to stare at where the edge of the pentagram would be. She spread her wings, grabbing the seeing tool, and flapped them, causing dust to fly off the ground. Twilight protected herself and the other two from the dust. She put it down as soon as the dust cleared and clear on the ground was the pentagram in crimson red blood.

"Rainbow Dash... you might want to get off..." Twilight said. She noticed that they were all looking at it from an upside-down position.

"OKAY YEAH, YOU DEFINITELY SHOULD." Twilight yelped. Rainbow Dash backflipped off of it and tucked the seeing tool back under her wing in the process.

"Well, let's go find somewhere to rest. We'll be dealing with this again at around 8 tonight." Dash said, plucking out a random feather in her hair. Rainbow looked at the pentagram and the group walked away to find the most comfortable place possible in the mansion to rest up.

Author's Note

If you understand the reference with the seeing tool, lucky for you. If you don't it's alright.
I was just bored and needed something as a placeholder and make it maybe a bit more interesting. IDFK.