The assembly took less time than I expected it would. Celestia divided the audience of over a hundred ponies into groups of twelve, in order to cover more land in this quest for the 'Dragon Knight'. Luckily, I was placed in a group where I knew pretty much everypony. Our group was made up of me and the twins, Twilight Sparkle and her friends, Steelwing and his friend, a pegasus named Stratosphere, and shy, sky-blue unicorn named Aquamarine.

"So, where do we look first, I'm thirsting for adventure!" said Rainbow Dash, looking a bit too excited. Twilight told me that she liked adventure, but I didn't think she was obsessed.

"I think we should use the legend itself as a guide, that way we could find the 'Dragon Knight' easily." Twilight was making a good point, the more we know about the 'Dragon Knight', the easier it'll be to find him, and the best place to find information about the legend is…

"Please don't tell me we're going to the library again." Said Scooter, highly disapproving.

"Well, I do suggest we go to the Canterlot Library. It's one of the largest of its kind, so there's bound to be a lot of information on the legend." Suggested Twilight.

Everypony agreed that it was a good idea. Everypony but Scooter. As we trotted through the streets of Canterlot, we discovered that it was rush hour, that there was no way of going through the high amount of ponies, desperate to find food before their lunch break comes to an end. We all then came to a consensus, deciding to take a shortcut through the alleyways of the city. There was one slight problem. After every single step I took, I felt the awkward feeling that something was watching us"

"Is it just me, or does it feel like we're being followed" I asked nervously. Everypony looked at me like if I were crazy. Then, in less than an instant, a dark, shadowy body rushed behind us at an amazing speed.

"Whoa! Did anypony else see that!?" Asked Pinkie Pie, terrified, causing everypony to around frantically. Then we saw them. Hidden in a corner, so far away from us that I could barely even see them, stood two shadows, or at least that's what they looked like. If I were to go into deep description, I would say that they looked like normal ponies, only pitch-black, with shadowy smoke emanating from their extremities and were their mane should be. As one of them noticed that we were watching them, it grinned, showing countless rows of razor-sharp teeth. Then it darted towards us.

"I suggest we RUN!" screamed Rarity, blasting off faster than I could respond. In a split-second we were all running, as fast as we could. I looked to my right to see Rainbow Dash flying right next to me, yet I was running. Apparently the sudden rush of fear that filled my body made me forget that I had wings, but before I could take off flying, I heard a high pitched shriek coming from behind me. I looked back to find out that the shadows were catching up to us, jumping from wall to wall, leaping from building to building. Then, one of them managed to jump over us, landing in front of us, blocking our only exit. We were surrounded, with no plan of escape, until I came up with one. Hopefully she'll say yes.

"Twilight!" I yelled, "Do you know any teleportation spells?"

"Yes, but I'm afraid the magic is only limited to one pony." She replied while the shadows began to move closer, growling, revealing large claws and sharp fangs, locking their eyes straight towards us. That was the worst part. Their eyes, like a snake's, penetrated through one's body faster than a dual-edge sword.

"Come on Twilight, just try!" I said, keeping my eyes on the beast moving closer and closer, like a lion hunting its prey, only now, we are the prey.

"I-I can't, my magic is not THAT powerful." She said, trashtalking herself.

"Twilight, you're the most talented unicorn I know, please, give it a shot. Do it for us, Twilight. Do it… for me." I said, the shadow right next to me now, it's hot, fiery breath stroking my mane.

"I-I'll try." Said Twilight. Closing her eyes, she began to cast her spell. She tried, but only a few sparks came out. She then sighed in disappointment.

"Try again, I believe in you, Twilight. I know you can do it." I said, putting all my confidence on her capabilities on performing that spell. The shadows were now basically on top of us. Closing her eyes, she tried once again, and once again, only a few sparks came out, but then she tried harder, and harder, until rays of light started pouring out of her horn, facing every direction. Just then, a strong wind filled blew between us, intimidating the shadow monsters. I looked back towards Twilight, noticing that a big, extremely bright white orb appeared just a few inches from her horn, and was getting larger gradually. She then started to hover, releasing a massive amount of light. As the orb became larger, a tear came out of her eye, blown away by the wind. The shadows then came back, I could see them in the distance, this time, they brought friends. Hurry Twilight, I thought to myself as the shadows got closer.

Just then, Twilight was surrounded by purple and blue beams of bright light and began to hover into the air. She slowly opened her eyes, which glowed in blinding white light. Beams of light began to surround me as well. Then, all out of the sudden, the floor vanished and everypony fell, fell down, straight down unto the floors of the Canterlot Library. The fall hurt, a lot, but at least we were far away from those horrible monsters.

"Is everypony okay?" asked Stratosphere, rubbing his leg in pain.

"Ouch…" I heard from behind me.

"Has anypony seen my hat?" asked Applejack.

"You mean this ugly- err… unique little thing?" said Rarity, holding Applejack's hat away from her body as if it was some sort of rancid fruit.

"There you go again insulting my belongings!" said Applejack, suddenly jerking her hat away from Rarity, adjusting it over her mane.

"Girls, please, stop fighting." Said Fluttershy quietly, so quiet that only I heard her, and that was because she had fallen on me. "Oh, my bad. I'm so sorry, are you alright?" she said, as she noticed that she was squishing the living pulp out of me.

As I stood up, I looked around, keeping head count. "One," i said counting myself, "two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven…" I couldn't find Twilight anywhere. "Umm, guys, have anypony seen Twilight?"

Everypony then looked around, looking for the missing unicorn, but to our dismay, Twilight Sparkle was nowhere to be found.