The Guard bowed obediently, his helmet shone with the dawn lighting, his mane was spiked up, almost like a Mohawk.
“What’s going on?” Luna said shakily.
“It’s the main 6, they’d like to speak to you.”
Luna sighed, and bowed at the Guard as she walked outside. She was tackled by Pinkie Pie,
“LUNA WE NEED YOUR HELP!” She yelled. Luna groaned, “What’s goi- Pinkie! What happened to you!” Luna got a good luck at Pinkie Pie when she got off of her, she had splinters stuck to her curly mane, her fur coat was damp and smelt like a swamp. Her eyes were dull and wide. Luna tilted her head and saw that everyone has had the same faults.
Pinkie gasped, “Its a long story, haha...” she didn’t sound so cheery like she used to. Luna walked up to Twilight, “Show me what happened.”
Twilight nodded solemnly. They walked out of the castle and Rainbow explained a bit of what happened,
“So basically, we made it to the ever free Forrest and we heard this..”
“Voice..” Fluttershy added.
“Yea! Voice.. it was echoey and it was yelling at us to ‘open the gate’” Rainbow pulled off a cockney accent with a deep tone.

Luna nodded but hung her mouth open a bit. Applejack forcefully shut it. “What’s wrong, Princess?”
“Nothing, it’s just, I had a dream where Daybreaker was yelling at me with an echoey voice, she was also trying to kill me.. or something.” She couldn’t recall the whole thing because it was mainly a blur to her at this point.
“Day...Breaker?” Rarity asked, she cocked an eyebrow.
“She was like my sister, but.. Nightmare Moonish.” Luna explained.
Rarity nodded slowly. “Sounds awfullly scary!” Pinkie giggled. She was practically bouncing despite all of her injuries she sustained.

They soon made it to ever free Forrest where Twilight took a secret route. “Down here is where the map took us.”
Her eyes read the trees like a book, she knew which one gave them splinters. Twilight stopped when they reached a circle-clearing in the middle of the Forrest, it was surrounded by tall trees and the circle had a stone tablet in the middle. Luna got close to the thing and bent down, inspecting it, she traced her hoof across the stone. The bumpy texture frightened her.
“It’s basically chicken scratch at this point, but I can make out a few words.”
“Really? What?” Twilight said with eagerness in her voice.
Luna read, “Property of Daybr...’and by process of elimination I can easily establish that this says, ‘Property of Daybreaker.”
They all stood back, but Luna was more focused on a gate that was randomly placed behind the tablet. “Seems this is the thing that they were talking about. She opened the gate and walked through, “Wait!” Twilight yelled, before she could finish, the gate shut Luna’s eyes widened as she signalled for them to jump over, they followed, jumping over carefully, well, except pinkie.
Through the gate was more trees, Rarity cooed about how lovely it looked with the sun peering through the trees. Applejack had to sush her many times.

They made it to an area blocked off by a hill. And it was another circle. A voice echoed again, “Climb the hill, little ones.” Luna gritted her teeth,
“There! Y’hear it?” Applejack shouted. Fluttershy hid behind Pinkie Pie.
“I did hear it.. let’s climb up it, I’ll carry Pinkie, Rainbow, you carry Applejack and Twilight you carry Rarity.” She demanded.
Pinkie hopped on Luna’s back. Applejack rolled her eyes as she was forced to sit on Rainbows and Rarity sat comfortably on Twilights back. They all floated up to the hill, it wasn’t very steep so even Fluttershy could keep up with the rest of them.

“Clever... very clever.” The voice clapped.
“Where are you? Daybreaker.” Luna said in a deep, angry voice.
“Why.. I’m right.. HERE!” they all turned their backs towards each over, eager to find this nightmarish Celestia doppelgänger.

Fluttershy got scooped up by a random force and was brought over to the middle, as a shadow of a tall figure appeared..

Author's Note

Wow! Thank you for reading this far! I enjoy your company and feedback!