The Darkness Awakens

Twilight Sparkle Was sitting up in bed, the memory of the nightmare she just had flashing through her mind. She raised her hoofs and laid her head on them, shaking her head, trying to ward off the dream. She slowly ran her hoof through her hair feeling just how soaked it was with her sweat; she looked down at the rest of herself and saw her coat was also soaked. She then looked at the window to see Celestia’s brilliant sun starting to rise in the distance; she looked back at herself as thoughts started to race through her head.

“What sort of nightmare was that” She thought to herself. “It seemed so real.”

She quickly got out of bed and used her magic to take the sheets and pillows off the mattress and put them into the corner of the room to be washed later as she went into the bathroom to take a shower, and get rid of the odor of sweat she was giving off. After about half an hour later she came out of the bathroom looking like she usually does, clean and sweat free. She walked over to her desk and using her magic pulled to her a piece of parchment, an ink bottle and a quill as she sat down and wrote a letter to Princess Celestia about the dream. It seemed so real and the fact that the voice spoke to her as if she were watching the event as it was happening. She quickly finished the letter with a simple “Your ever faithful student, Twilight Sparkle.” She tied the letter shut with a ribbon and levitated it beside her as she walked out of the room.

“Spike, I need you to send a letter to the princess!” She yelled as she walked down the stairs to the main room of her house that was also the town library. There was no reply so she yelled his name again, but louder. Again, no response, she looked around the library trying to find the purple dragon but to no avail. She then remembered that he had spent the night with the CMC in their club house last night, she was so caught up in her nightmare that she had totally forgotten. She decided that this one could wait and she would send it through the mail normally like every other pony. She quickly fixed herself a small breakfast of toast and strawberry jam and went out the door to the smell of the morning and the sound of the world waking up, the sounds of birds chirping and crickets starting to quiet their chirps. She cast out the thought of the nightmare as she stared at the world, she usually didn’t get up this early but she was glad she did.

She looked around and started to walk down one of the many paths through the town towards the post office. It seemed that she wasn’t the only one to get up early on this day, she spotted man ponies leaving their homes and heading on their way to work and greeted them as she passed by them, she even saw several pegasi flying through the sky preparing it for what was scheduled that day and heard the faint sound of thudding coming from Sweet Apple Acres. She was so caught up in the sights and sounds of the morning that she didn’t even notice that she had walked past the post office, after lowering her head from looking at the sky and spinning around confused for several seconds she saws the post office and continued towards it. She reached the door and saw the closed sign had been turned to open, which actually surprised her.

“Even Ditzy gets up this early?” Twilight thought to herself. “She may not be the best at her job but you can’t say she doesn’t do her best and try her hardest.”

Twilight pushed the door open with her hoof and casually walked in to the empty office, she walked to the long counter that was set up, sat the letter down, and rang the bell that was sitting on top of it. There was no sound of hoof steps coming from the back or from upstairs where Ditzy lived, she rang the bell again to be greeted by yet more silence.

“Ditzy!” Twilight yelled, seeing if the mare had just not heard the bell. “Ditzy?!”

After no confirmation that anypony was there she turned to leave and just come back later when she finally heard something that brought back the memory of the nightmare. She turned her head, her pupils nothing more than dots on her wide open eyes, to try and see the source of the sound. The sounds started to get louder and louder as she completely turned around and walked towards the counter.

“D-Ditzy?” Twilight said, her voice cracking slightly. “Is that you?”

Twilight leaned her head over the counter and looked down towards the floor, she saw nothing but the sounds still sounded like they were close. She raised her head to see a flash of blond hair come into view through the open doorway that lead to the back of the office and then disappear from view, against her better judgment she walked over to the edge of the counter and raised the small divider that made a pathway to get behind the counter and continued on. She slowly walked to the door as the sounds became more audible, the sounds of tearing and smacking were echoing through the office now. She looked around the back room and saw Ditzy’s blond tail swaying in the air from behind a counter that was built into the floor.

“D-D-Ditzy?” Twilight said, barely audible.

The sounds continued as Ditzy’s tail continued to sway back and forth, and once again ignoring the small voice in her head saying to run, walked towards the counter and peaked over it. The sight she saw caused her already small pupils to dilate more as her eyes widened as well, threatening to pop out of her head. She saw Ditzy with her muzzle buried into the exposed organs of her daughter Dinky; she was moving them aside as if ignoring them and then biting into the flesh that covered her chest. Dinky’s head turned slightly as her eyes widened to see Twilight looking at her in fear, Dinky’s eyes started to flow freely with tears and she slowly raised a hoof towards her and spoke two simple words that were barely above a whisper.

“Help…..me….” Dinky said before Ditzy’s head stopped moving, Ditzy raised her head so fast, tearing off a piece of bloody flesh as well, that Twilight barely missed being hit by it as she quickly back into the wall behind her with a loud thud.
Ditzy turned her head towards the noise and the look on her face confirmed Twilight's fears, Ditzy looked exactly like the Pegasus from her dream. Ditsy quickly swing her head up and snapped her jaws as the piece of flesh disappeared down her throat and smiled at Twilight.

“Oh, it’s you, the pony that viewed my meal last night.” Ditzy spoke in the same voice that came from her nightmare. “I never expected to see you, especially enjoying another meal, but just my luck that you’re here…this filly would never fill me up, and I finally have a main course!”

Ditzy suddenly leaped over the counter towards Twilight that suddenly screamed at the top of her lungs, as if she were being murdered, and ran back out the door to the front room. She ignored the divider as she leaped over it and bolted to the door for it to suddenly become coated in a black magical aura. Twilight struggled to open the door but it wouldn’t budge as a low chuckled echoed from the back room.

“Did you really think it would be that easy?” She heard Ditzy say as she suddenly burst through the wall separating the two rooms and flew towards Twilight, knocking her to the ground and standing above her. Twilight quickly rolled over onto her back to see the grey Pegasus standing over her with blood dripping from her mouth, as the Pegasus lunged towards her throat to finish her and claim her meal. Twilight quickly shot a beam of magic from her horn and hit Ditzy in her chest, sending her flying into the wall behind her before sliding down to the floor. Twilight shakily stood up and backed up until she had her back in the corner where the wall and counter met, tears of fear flowing from her wide eyes as she realized that she was trapped.

“Very good and very powerful indeed, but still not enough to stop me from getting what I want.” Ditzy said as she stood up and slowly walked towards the shaking unicorn. “But it’s time for this little game of cat and mouse to come to an end, and I am very hungry.” Ditsy stood in front of Twilight with a triumphant look on her face but Twilight had other plans.
Twilight closed her eyes in concentration to use another blast of magic but felt something blocking her from doing so; she then hears a low chuckle come from Ditzy as she opened her eyes to see the edge of the same black magic covering the door covering her horn.

“Did you really think I forgot about that little horn of yours?” Ditsy said as she raised a hoof into the air, poised to strike. Suddenly a loud squelch and crack was heard as a sharp and long bone spike jutted out from the base of Ditzy’s hoof. Twilight let loose one last scream as Ditzy thrust her hoof forward, aiming for the unicorns heart. A large pink orb suddenly surrounded twilight as Ditzy’s bone spike glanced of it and lodged itself into the wooden floor. She looked around to find the source when the door to the post office suddenly was blasted off its hinges by two different colored blasts of magic and two royals guards stormed in and took fighting stances in the middle of the room. The window that was directly across from Ditzy shattered as a large white unicorn came flying through. The unicorn landed and shot a beam of magic at the Ditzy, but instead of throwing her backwards like twilight had done, the magic connected and coated Ditzy in the magic as she was lifted from the ground snapping the bone spike in half. The unicorn swung its head to the side throwing Ditzy into the hole in the wall that she had created and hitting her head as she went through, than fell to the ground hitting face first and laid there unmoving.

“Get the hell away from my sister.” The white unicorn said as it stood up tall, a look of anger on his face.