Prologue: The Nightmare Begins
One night at Camp Everfree, when nearly every student was asleep, dreaming pleasant dreams about what they would do and about how much fun they were going to have, one person stayed sleepless. Twilight Sparkle was afraid. Afraid she’d have a dream of Midnight Sparkle taking over her body again, robbing everyone's magic in the process.
"I won't fall asleep, I won't let her influence me again," Twilight told herself, determined to keep herself awake.
Five hours had passed since then, and Twilight looked horrible. Her eyelids became heavy, and large bags over her eyes began to form. Her skin was a pale purple, and she shifted from one uncomfortable sitting position to another, basically trying everything she could to resist the urge to sleep.
She had consumed coffee, energy drinks, pills, really every beverage she could think of (and find), but nothing worked.
Twilight was beginning to feel her eyes closing, and her movements slowed down, becoming sluggish.
"No! I will not let her win, I will stay awake. I will not let her win, I will...I," Twilight trailed of, still trying to fight the urge to sleep, but soon her body succumbed to its exhaustion, and she fell off the tree stump she had been sitting on and into a deep sleep.
Sunlight shone in Twilight’s face, as she and Sunset were working on one of the tents. Suddenly she heard a noise directly above her, and thus looked up. A little white kitten sat there on a tree branch. “It must have climbed up and got stuck,” Twilight thought, and then climbed up the tree until she finally got to the branch the kitten was residing on.
"You're going to be alright little kitten, I got you,” Twilight said. “I'm going to get you down from there.” She reached for the kitten, but when she did so, it suddenly spoke in a shrill voice.
After a while, the kitten’s screeching faded into actual comprehensive sentences. "I don't want to get down, I want to get out!". It turned its head, revealing one large purple eye. Then the camp-site started to deform until it was nothing but a black void of nothingness.
Twilight screamed in panic, "Midnight Sparkle, leave me alone!", but when she turned around, she realized it wasn't Midnight Sparkle who had spoken to her, no, it was something else, something different. The tree she clung on transformed into a freakish entity she had never seen before. It had one purple eye, purplish skin, and looked like its neck had been snapped backward. Then, the entity slowly spoke.
"Always playing the hero. So much wasted potential. Do you want to be actually helpful? Then let. Me. Out!" The entity shrieked, as it dropped a screaming Twilight into the deep dark void.
Twilight woke up, still screaming. Her eyes were the size of pinpricks. She breathed heavily, and when she looked around to see that no one had been awakened by her screams of terror, she tried to clear her head. She attempted to understand what she had just seen, but couldn't form one rational thought since she was just too panicked to think straight. All she could see was the dark creatures' purple glowing eye, which seemed to be staring directly into her soul. She quickly found herself a glass of water, and after drinking it, she could finally calm down. "What was that? And what does it want? Why did it say what it just said? Could it harm the other girls? Could it come for me, even when I'm awake?” Twilight’s train of thoughts was interrupted, as she exclaimed a quiet “Oh my god”, when she remembered how that...thing actually looked. Saying that she was terrified would be an understatement, she was truly horrified. She knew it was more dangerous and murderous than Midnight Sparkle ever could be. Now, going to sleep was completely out of question, she just didn't have the energy to sleep anymore. All she did for the rest of the night was crying in fear of the dark creature inside her head, while it was diabolically laughing at her from within her mind.
Chapter 1: The Next Day, Part 1
The following morning, Sunset Shimmer woke up with a big smile on her face, as if she was ready to greet the day with open arms. All of her friends were performing activities at the camp, from canoeing to bean bag throwing. Sunset was happy that everyone was out and about, well almost everyone, as she didn't see Twilight Sparkle anywhere, but then she heard a loud snore above her. When she looked above her, she saw that Twilight was fast asleep on a tree branch. Sunset thought that it was odd for Twilight to be asleep at this time of day, so she walked up to the tree Twilight was on and she said, "Hey Twilight, are you getting up, we have a lot of fun activities to do today."
"Mmm, huh, Sunset, is that you? (YAWWWWNNN), why are you interrupting my nap?" Twilight said with an annoyed tone of voice.
"Twilight, I'm sorry, it's just that everyone is out there having fun and you're up there counting z's. I was wondering if you wanted to go canoeing with me." Sunset said.
"Ok, ok, fine, I'm coming," Twilight said as she jumped from the tree branch and followed Sunset towards the canoes.
As Sunset was in the water, admiring the scenes before her, she saw Twilight drinking from her mug of coffee. As she did so, she saw Twilight's face and said, "Twilight are you getting enough sleep? You look completely exhausted. Were you having another nightmare about Midnight Sparkle?"
"Sunset, I'm fine, I just need some coffee to help me wake...up..." As Twilight was talking to Sunset, she saw something in the water. And when she looked in the water, a large eye appeared that said in the same shrill evil voice, "LET ME OUTTTTT!!!!"
"LEAVE ME ALONE!" Twilight screamed as she splashed the horrid reflection away.
Sunset then saw her friend in distress and went up to her and said, "Twilight, what's wrong? Who are you talking to?"
Don't worry, Sunset, it was nothing. Let's just...," Before she finished, Sunset said, "It didn't sound like nothing was wrong, maybe we should head back and I'll let you sleep for the day."
The very mentioning of sleep angered Twilight a little and she shouted, "I SAID I'M FINE!"
This made Sunset back away in shock of Twilight's comment. "Ok Twilight, there's no need for you to shout at me, I just wanted to know what was bugging you," Sunset said. This made Twilight even angrier, but when she spoke, Sunset was beghasted by Twilight's hate-filled words.
"Oh, you just think that you want to solve everyone's problems for them, well guess what miss know it all, I DON'T WANT YOU HELP, I DON'T NEED YOUR HELP, AND THE SOONER YOU GET THAT THROUGH YOU THICK SKULL, THE SOONER YOU CAN GET OUT OF MY FUCKING LIFE!" Twilight roared with rage.
Sunset was utterly shocked, she had never heard Twilight yell at her like that or use swear words, like ever. Sunset couldn't even speak because of not only how unusually angry Twilight was acting, but of how hurtful her words were to Sunset.
This irritated Sunset, and she shouted, TWILIGHT, WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?! ALL I WANTED TO DO WAS HAVE A FUN DAY WITH YOU, AND YOU SAY SUCH HURTFUL THINGS TO ME. I JUST WANTED TO KNOW WHAT WAS WRONG WITH YOU...TWILIGHT ARE YOU EVEN LISTENING TO A WORD I'M..." Before she could finish, Twilight then slapped her across the face, and when she spoke, it wasn't in her voice, but a voice she had never heard before, TWILIGHT IS NOT HERE! BOO! HAHAHAHAHAHA!" She said with a sinister and maniacal look on her face.
"Midnight Sparkle, leave her alone," Sunset said, but the voice then said, I'M NOT MIDNIGHT SPARKLE, I'M ZS'SKAYR! REMEMBER THAT NAME WELL, CAUSE IT'S THE NAME THAT'S NOW GOING TO DROWN YOU!" Twilight said as she tried to grab Sunset, the sun's rays hit Twilight, and then Sunset heard her say, "NOOOOO! I'M NOT GOING BACK!" And then Twilight went unconscious and fell out of the canoe and into the deep water. Sunset called out for Twilight as she sunk into the murky depths below.
To be continued
