Chapter 2: The Book

The gang shortly arrived at the Crystal Station, also known as the arctic. They traveled through the gusty winds and the thick snow. "Why is it always cold here? Wouldn't the Empire be this cold?" asked Rainbow Dash

"Well the Empire is protected by a magic barrier. The barrier is made from magic crystals that obtain power from Celestia's sun, so they never run out of power and they always protect the empire." explained Cadence

Suddenly a black crystal came from the sky, jabbed through the snow clouds and crashed in front of the ponies. Everypony could remember who could control black crystals, King Sombra, but this crystal had words engraved on it. Twilight Sparkle examined the words engraved on the crystal.

"Please hurry." Twilight read off the crystal "We must be on the right track." she declared

The gang arrived at the empire and came in through the mane entrance, the main entrance was also part of the barrier and as soon as they walked through their crystal forms reappeared, which also caused Rarity to scream and faint in awe. Everypony waved at their heroes as they entered the kingdom, but they mostly waved at the princess making Rainbow Dash jealous. Twilight pointed toward to the library, the rest just nodded in agreement and followed her.

As they entered inside the library their first objective was to find the librarian regarding any information about King Sombra. They found her on her desk which was the easy part, the hard part was asking about Sombra.

Twilight and the gang walked over to her, Cadence asked "Excuse me Miss Volume do you any time to talk?"

"Shhh lower your volume dear, and yes what is it princess?" whispered Volume

"Oh my I apologize, but I have one question?" asked Cadence

Volume raised an eyebrow "What is it?"

"Well I was wondering if you have any books, scrolls, or records regarding King Sombra."

"GHAA... K-K-King Sombra? But why princess?" asked Volume with fear

"I'm sorry to have scared you Volume but my sister in law is trying to conduct in some research. You see she had a strange dream involving Sombra and she wan'ts to prove something." explained Cadence

"A-A-Are you sure princess? I thought we were done with him, he still gives me the shivers whenever I hear his name. But if you really want to research here I'm sorry I'm afraid there isn't any... GAAK!!!" Suddenly Volume's eyes were changing and had a dark purple aura around them, she spoke "Follow...me...she...doesn't...know...anything...". Her voice was dark and deep like an inner demon. All of the ponies became timid as Volume was now possessed, but by who?

Twilight recognized this voice. "S-S-Sombra?" question Twilight

"That is correct Twilight Sparkle. Please follow me, Volume doesn't know about my secret study.

All of the ponies gulped in fear and nodded, Sombra/possessed Volume walked over to the history section of the library. She walked over to a nearby poster that said "Books Books Books, They'rrrrrrrre GREAT!!!", but something was odd, it looked old, even if it didn't have wrinkles it was still old for it's age. The possessed Volume ripped off the poster revealing a giant crystal door with gears, and 2 wheels. The possessed Volume used her magic to turn the two wheels, she kept turning one at a time sometimes turns both to get the correct combination until *click* the door opened and formed a long stairway into some sort of basement. Sombra left her body and become a floating wisp of magic, Volume passed out on the floor unconscious. Everypony thought she was dead until Wisp Sombra said "Don't worry she won't remember what happened, she will wake up within an hour or so." The ponies nodded and also gulped in fear as they looked at Volume unconscious. They followed Wisp Sombra down the long stairway, torches automatically turned on as they proceeded down the stairs as they followed Sombra. At the end of the stairs they found a room, a sign had said "Sombra's Study" but it was strange, a study would have papers, scrolls, books, anything involving paper, but this roomed had nothing but empty bookshelves. In the middle of the study they found an old dusty desk with one book and a white crystal.

The gang walked over to the book and crystal, the title was called "Sombra's Research" Twilight gulped wondering about the book, normally she would love to read books but this one, it felt dark to her. "Read it and all with be explained, I must bid farewell to save my energy. I will return when the time is right" and with that Sombra vanished into thin air.

Twilight sat in front of the book, everypony gathered around her and waited. "Ready?" Twilight asked. Everypony nodded in agreement preparing for the worst. As twilight opened the book, the crystal next to it shone and in a blink of an eye teleported everypony, there was nothing no pony, everypony was gone.

"Ughh where am I?" Twilight found herself on a crystal floor, she was the first to wake up with her friends still unconscious. "Hey Everypony wake up." Twilight screaming making a shot towards everypony's ears waking them up.

"Meh I don't wanna go train coach, gimme five more minutes ZZZZ" snored Rainbow Dash

Twilight frowned and shook around Rainbow Dash with her magic, making her wake up and her mane all frizzy. After everypony's awakening Applejack was to first to ask. "Uhhhh Twah, where ah we?"

"I don't know Applejack but something tells me that we are still in the Crystal Empire, due to the crystal molding and interior in this hallway." Twilight noticed something strange about everypony, stranger than Pinkie Pie. Twilight screamed in terror as she saw...saw...Applejack...flying. "GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH...APPLEJACK YOUR.....YOUR FLYING!!!" exclaimed Twilight. Everypony looked over to Applejack and had the same reaction as Twilight.

Applejack's jaw dropped down and her eye's widened as she noticed that she was floating about five feet above the ground. "HOLY APPLESAUCE!!! TWALIGHT WHAT'D YOU DO NOW!?"

"I...I...I DON'T KNOW! I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING." replied a frightened Twilight.

Twilight looked at everypony else to find out all of them were flying, Cadence, Rainbow, and Fluttershy we flying but their wings weren't deployed. Twilight feared for the worst, she looked down to find herself also levitated off the floor. "WHATS HAPPENING TO US!?!?!?!?" screamed Fluttershy

"Wait" paused Rarity "Darling are we still in our crystal forms? Yes we are transparent but I don't feel fabulous or shiny at all my dear." Everypony else looked at themselves and each other, Rarity was right, nopony was crystalized.

"Soooo......., Are we like, dead?" asked Rainbow Dash.

"D-D-D-D-DEAD!?!?!" exclaimed a freaked out Fluttershy

Everypony started to freak out thinking of they were dead or not, but it seemed to look like it. Suddenly they could hear voices coming from a nearby room. Everypony approached the entrance and peaked they heads to look who it was. They saw a royal pony guard with purple crystal armor, and King Sombra before he turned evil.

"Psst, Twilight is that Sombra? I doesn't look like him, he looks like an alicorn with no wings." whispered Rainbow

"Yes, but be quiet Rainbow, I want to listen to this new information." said Twilight

"King Sombra."

"Ah, Captain Shimmer, are the preparations ready for the ruins?"

"Yes sir," there was a long pause between Sombra and Shimmer "But I have one question my King." asked Sombra

"What is it?"

"Are you sure you wan't to look into these ruins, we could have researchers look into it."

"No, I must see to this myself, I am interested in learning all about the empire before Diamond so that I may teach the young foals, or mine if I become married."

"Heh....If you get lucky sir. If you get lucky."

*Meanwhile with the mane ponies*

Everypony was shocked to find King Sombra as a good guy and not a bad guy, even Princess Cadence was shocked to have found this out. "Twily, what the hay is going on?" asked Shining Armor

"I may have one theory but I'm not quite certain, but I think were in........................The Past."

Author's Note

Que dramatic ending theme. DUN DUN DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUN!!!

Alright there's another chapter. Took a while but I hope you enjoy my story, thing, series, uh..... YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN I JUST SUCK AT ENGLISH!!! I know it's short but my brain hurts and I need some tea ASAP!!!