Dark Journal

"Whoa..." Shadow says looking at the wooden floors before him.

At different points against the wall there are pressure plates and a closed doorway on the other side. Many darts line the floor where past ponies have tried to make it past this part. Shadow begins looking around for a note left by Alex. He spots it beside another dead pegasus. Shadow picks the note up careful as not to disturb the bones of the dead.

"I've become so used to these skeletons already..." Shadow says while grabbing the note with his teeth.

He places it on the floor and lies in front of it. He starts the read the first note. Entry one of getting through this place.

Hey. If your reading this than good luck. Hopefully you make it further than me or either you meet up with me before I die and hopefully you have some medicine on you. I figured a easy trick on getting through this. The trick is that one of the panels on the floor is a false trap panel that'll open the door on the other side of you for one minute. The other panels are trap panel that will strike you with darts. Luckily I was only hit with one dart so I'm only dying slowly. Who ever is following after me or all the people following me. The trick is that one the walls are writing that tell you how to step on each panel in a certain order. The order is as following as they appear on the panels on the ground: 10 8 7 5 6 2 4 9 1 3.

Good luck and try not to mess up the order or you might not get a second chance like me.

"Okay..."

Shadow walks forward and hears his hoofs click against the wooden floor. He looks at the walls and see one through five on the right side and six to ten on the other. He begins clicking the panels to the order in the note.

"Ten... eight... seven... five... six... two..."

"Stop." A husky whispers says down his neck.

Shadow jumps back and swirls around his right side looking every which a way.

"H-H-Hello?" Shadow asks to the nothingness around him.

"Stop..." The husky voice says again almost as if right next to him yet some how far away.

A cold wind blows against his fur rustling him and chills him to the very marrow of his bone.

"Why?" Shadow asks curios and scared at the same time.

"Stop..." The voice says again.

Shadow wonders why the note never mentioned the voice before. Shadow turns back to the right wall and goes to press four.

"Four... Nine... One... and... Three..." Shadow says finishing the order.

The door slides open rattling the entire chamber. Dust falls from the ceiling onto the ponies back and some darts rattle out of their holes needles rusted. Shadow nods his head and continues forward. He continues going as the door slams behind him. A note is on the wall to his right a little way forward. Shadow reads the note.

Hey... I came back to give you a heads up on the trap ahead. It's fire... and a bunch of other elements. I'm not really sure how each door works but when you open a door all the others disappear and you have to go through that one door. I picked the middle door which has lots of a fire in it. Also I'm not really sure what the dart does now. I don't seem to be in pain anymore. At first I thought it was poison but now... now I don't know. Anyway be careful because I found another note up ahead and that told me what two doors where. The one on the right is lightning and the one of the left is darkness. All I can say... well write is that be careful about your decision and also if you hear the voices and they tell you to do something... ignore them. You'll see why up ahead well if you come early enough...

Shadow keeps moving forward until he enters a circular room with doors all around. Above the doors are words that have never been seen before. They are some what scratched out along with dried blood stains. Shadow looks at the middle door and wonders if he should follow behind him... unless he's dead too.

"What should I do..." Shadow asks walking further into the middle of the room.

There are ten door in all the room. Shadow already knows what three of them are but is still curious about the other ones. He looks on the floor and sees a long blood trail to a door to the left of the last door on the right side. A body is prepped up against the door and what was weird it that it was a unicorn with a broken horn. It's horn lies inloged into it's throat.

Take that door....

Shadow shivers. That voice sounded so much more evil than the other have. It sounded evil. Sinister. Jealous.

Take the door!

Shadow begins walking towards the door with the body propped on it and it was almost like the dead body started to smile. Shadow shakes his head and turn around heading for the door behind him.

"I've got to get out of here." He says to himself a little shaken from the lack of control he just felt.

He walks to the door and looks at the words above it. They begin to morph and change till they read jungle. Shadow looks at the words amused and decides to right this down. He looks around for paper and pencil and realize he dropped it in the hall. He face hoofs himself and runs back to get it. He finds the paper but not how he would like to see it. All the parchments are black scratched up and ripped. The pencil is broken and rancid. Shadow backs away from the parchments and heads back.

You can't help them...

Shadow rolls his eyes and returns to the jungle door. He goes down one door and it says the room of light above it after the change. He looks at the rest of the doors and finds some of them unpleasant like the dead room and the blood room. The ones he did like was the jungle, fire of light, and water room. He decides to take the fire room due to it being the same choice as the one before him. He grabs the door with his hoof and opens it wearily.

No.....

It was a new voice. A gentler voice. One that sounded concerned. Shadow turns around and wonders where are the voice are coming from. He than notice all the doors gone except the one open and the body is gone too. Shadow walks backward through the door. He turns around and sighs. Fire is all around the walls. A light shines in from the top. A sash lies beside him to the right.

He opens the sash and finds the next note. It's blank. He looks through the rest of the stuff which includes a big pad of paper, three pencils, and bottles of water.

Good luck

Shadow look towards the fire that lies in front of him. He picks up a pencil and throws it forward. A arrow flies above where the pencil hit. The arrow hits the wall and burst into fire. Shadow sighs and says, "Thank you for the bag spirits..."

Do this for us

Many voices say this. Some gentle and some young. So many have lost their lives here.

"I will..." Shadow says placing a hoof on his broken horn, "For everyone..."