"Are you sure this is safe?" Rainbow Dash, a cyan blue pegasus mare with a prismatic mane asked her friend, Twilight Sparkle, a purple unicorn mare with a violet mane containing a stripe of magenta.

They stood inside of a library, one made completely of wood that was also the inside of a tree. You could see the individual layers on the walls and flooring. And in the middle of the living room they stood, overlooking what seemed to be a suspicious box with a maze drawn on top. It was made of stone, covered in moss, and was quite fragile.

Twilight had just acquired it from the old Castle of the Two Sisters, a ruin of a once great castle that is now left to rot in the Everfree forest. It had taken a lot of work to find and to acquire, and now the two were examining the artifact, seemingly unsure of what to do.

"Yes, I'm sure we won't get hurt... I think," Twilight reassured the pegasus, muttering the last part to herself quietly, to whom the pegasus didn't hear.

"Alright," Rainbow Dash said, skeptical. "I trust you."

"I know you do. Thanks again for helping me, Dash," Twilight spoke, before continuing onwards with an explanation. "Well, we both need to put our hooves on the box. According to the inscribing, it needs two ponies to operate." She pointed at two engravings of hoofprints on the box. "Just put your hoof there and I'll put mine here."

"Easy!" Rainbow held her hoof on the box. "Uh... now what? Nothings happening."

"Now you watch as I work my magic!" Twilight smiled in excitement as her horn lit and the box began to glow, hovering off the table slightly before it began to shake and fell back down, devoid of magic. "Wha- huh?" Twilight furrowed her eyebrows. "That's not what I thought would happen-"

A giant shockwave shot out from the box and enveloped the entire room, knocking them backwards onto their butts. Before they got an opportunity to get up, their bodies began to glow and they started floating mid-air.

"Uh, Twilight? What's happening?!" Rainbow shouted. The box began to hover with them as it spun in circles with increasing speed.

"I don't know!" She tried to use her magic on the box. "M-my magic! It isn't working!" She panicked and tried over and over until strands of energy coming from both of their bodies connected with the box and pulled them towards the center.

And eventually, the box, along with the two ponies, vanished without a trace.

Author's Note

And the stage is set...