When I Wake in the Morning

Day seventeen, week four since book discovery

It’s been a long time but we finally might have found something. There is a path that leads to the doorway, and we are on the brink of using it.

It’s not an actual path, but a magical one. In order to get to the doorway we must travel through the realm of magic itself, but even then we aren’t too sure if we can pass through there. With the massive amount of concentrated energy that will be sitting in wait, our bodies won’t be able to handle it, and as such cause mutations and other nasty bodily injures, some mental.

Twilight is in the middle of developing a new anti-magic field spell to fight this so that we may cross safely. It is taking some time, however, so in the mean time I am preparing everything we may need; with the help of Spike.

As close as we are, it didn’t come without it’s setbacks and side-effects; Twilight had become distraught at how close we are, I am so eager to go that with every little thing that gets in the way makes me increasingly angry, so I have to ‘let off some steam’. Some of my writings have become increasingly dark, as well as some things I write I just rip to pieces due to not being able to work towards the doorway instead.

We are so close. We just need to make the final push and we’re there. That final push…

-Dark Moon

Finally! I was at the edge there, about to lose it and some things I might regret, but at last we have what we need! The journey begins tonight; the door awaits us and I plan to open it.

There will be no stopping me from following my heritage. I must have that knowledge that lies behind that door; I’ve come too far, given too much. Two years of countless research, endless setbacks and problems, endless ‘excuses’. Now is the time.

We will travel to that door, and I will have the knowledge.

-Dark Moon

^\/^\/^\/^

Well that sounded cherry. I set the book down and glanced around the room once more. If he had spent years trying to get to that door, what did he find, and what happened that he hasn’t returned to this room since?

I decided that this place was completely nuts, and thought some sleep might be able to help; if nothing else would. I took the bed which must have belonged to this body and lay down on the dust.

^\/^\/^\/^

The next morning, after I coughed up several jars of dust, I ventured out into the town once again; hoping to find any clues.

After a few hours of pointless wandering, I found myself back at crater of the ‘Ponyville Library’. Gazing down into the burnt dirt, I began to grow a head-ache, like this place was one of grief. Remembering back to the book, this must have been the place where this ‘Dark Moon’ and ‘Twilight Sparkle’ had spent ages studying some door, also driven a bit crazy. I guessed that this was also the place of where they had summoned the portal. Was that what had caused the library to become that?

Standing around was starting to get pointless and I was growing hungry, meaning I would have to find food. The market place was nearby, but I lacked any kind of currency; despite this, I still needed food so I headed over.

When I arrived, everyone was packing very quickly and running into their homes. At first I thought that they were running from me but looking I saw some ponies who must have been homeless, sitting in the streets staring off down the road.

Coming down the road was a serpent the size of a… really big thing. The ponies still on the street looked away from the monster and started praying or bursting into tears; others just sitting there no longer caring. The snake slithered up the road towards the first pony; it didn’t hesitate at all to swallow her in one bite.

All I could do was stand and gaze in cloudy horror as it consumed the other five or seven ponies, before turning it’s stare at me.

Without a second thought, I turned and ran from the beast, a hissing of anger and the sound of scales against dirt told me to run faster. The chase was on.