Temporary Third Person

Star Swirled the Bearded was working on a spell that would prove to be more powerful than The Elements of Harmony.

This task proved to be fatal, as Star Swirled had ended up creating parallels to The Elements of Harmony. The counterparts, so to speak, were the complete opposite as the Elements of Harmony. The Elements were given names to represent the chaos and disharmony it was part of creating.

The first element is known as Addiction and Lies. As said in the name it is something that no pony would ever want to have, as well as all the other elements it is apart of creating a chaos so big, it could put all of Equestria at risk.

The second element is Cruelty. The third is Depression. The fourth is Abandonment. The fifth is Greed. And the very last one, and most powerful of all is Darkness. When all of these elements come together they can have the power to throw Equestria into a never-ending world of insanity, hence the name. This is why Star Swirled locked them away in a secret vault.

Nopony really knows wear the vault is hidden, though some say near the Castle of the Two Sisters, they have felt a dark aura coming from the cellar room. Although only the bearer of the Elements of Harmony can unseal the vault, making Princess Celestia the only pony in all of Equestria who can open it.

"Twilight, would you go to bed already? It's almost two in the morning." Twilight heard an exhausted Spike's voice coming from his bedroom in the castle.

"Oh! Okay, alright sorry! You know, just reading some old pony tales!" Twilight called from the other room.

Twilight shut off the light in her room and drifted into a deep slumber. She had thought about what she had just read. she had never heard of the Elements of Disharmony. Apparently it was just an old pony's tale, but she was still curious about it. But, she knew she should just drop it, and so she decided to forget about it.

"Twilight Sparkle, you know you want to. You're curious about them. You're the bearer of the elements. You can set them free!"

"HUH?!" Twilight gasped.

"What! What is it?" Spike came running in with a rolling pin and apron. He must have been cooking breakfast.

"Oh, nothing Spike. It was just a dream!" Twilight soothed. "What time is it, by the way?"

"It's about nine in the morning. Why, do you have plans?" Spike asked.

"No, I was just wondering."

Twilight thought about the nightmare she had last night. She was in a dark place, but she say something. It was a blue box with a purple flame around it. And then there was that voice. The voice she heard had sounded kind, but there was also a bit of evil behind it. That nightmare had to have meant something! Although maybe Twilight was just overthinking it. She tended to do that a lot.

Twilight's P.O.V

The nightmare I had still bothered me for the rest of the day. I kept on thinking that I should write to Princess Celestia, but I knew she would just tell me that it was an old pony's tale. Besides even if they did exist, the book had said that only the Princess could free them! Why would she need to do that?! Still, it bothered me knowing that something as strong as the elements might exist. But I shouldn't worry, it's if they exist.

I decided to go about my day. I was having another huge book sort day! It was going to be a bla-

"Hey Twilight!" came an all too familiar voice. Then before Twilight knew it, a certain pegasus was racing around the library, obviously attempting to show off.

"Hey Rainbowdash. What are you doing here?" I said as politely as I could.

Rainbow stopped flying and came down looking kind of embarrassed. "Well, every pony is busy today and I really don't have anything to do, so... You wanna hang out?"

I wanted to say no because I was really hoping to finish my book sort, but I didn't want to let Rainbowdash down. "Um, I guess we could do, uh... something."

"Yahoo! I knew you would be able to hang Twilight! What do you want to do?! Have a race?! Go monster hunting?! No, wait, have another adventure with Daring do?!" she kept giving me ideas, when I finally thought.

"Lets go to the castle of the two sisters, we uh, could hunt for monsters there!" I lied.

"Wait, really!" Rainbowdash sort of gulped.

"You're not scared are you?" I taunted.

"ME? Pssh, no way!" she replied.

"Great! Let me go grab a few things and we can get going!" I had to know if those Elements of Insanity were real I just had too!

I grabbed an abundance of magic books, food, water, and writing utensils. I had to be ready for what I might find in there. I gulped a little bit, I didn't even know what I was looking for, but if pony's sensed dark magic from the depths of the castle, then it might be a good idea to go investigate.

"Where are you going?" Spike asked as I dropped in the last quill.

"Rainbowdash and I are going tot the Castle of the Two Sisters to do some research." which wasn't far from the truth.

Spike just kind of looked at me for a while, like he was trying to solve a puzzle in his head. Finally he opened his mouth, "Can I come too then?"

I was a little stunned. Spike hated the castle. He always complained about it being too creepy, I didn't blame him, it was almost always dark on the inside and covered in cob webs.

"Well, I guess of you really want to." I said.

And Spike joined our little mission. I was going to find the elements, Rainbow was going for monsters, and Spike was going for research, I think. Anyway We were all talking and laughing about stupid tiny things the whole way there, and I guess none of us noticed that we were inside the castle. It happened so fast!

"So where do we start?" Rainbowdash stuttered.

"In the basement obviously!" I said back.

"T-The BASEMENT!?" Spike called from my back.

"Well yeah, that's probably the creepiest place in this castle right?" I asked.

"Yeah... Right." Rainbowdash said.

The problem was, none of us really knew where to find the basement. We didn't even know where to start. Every time a banner swayed or a bug crawled we would tense up a bit. We were all scared, and for the first time I wondered if this place really was haunted.

As we wandered around and heard the clocks tick, and the hours passed by, Rainbow sat down and said coolly, "Hey guys, I'm kinda hungry, did you bring any snacks Twilight?"

I tossed her a bag of trail mix. She practically swallowed the entire thing whole! We continued to wander around until Spike tripped. "You okay?" I asked concerned.

"Yeah, I'm fine." He said.

He had tripped on a wrapper of Trail Mix that Rainbowdash must have dropped. "Haha, whoops! Sorry Spike!" she said.

Spike began to stand up, but then there was a noise. It was a small click. All of the sudden, I realized that I was falling! Rainbow thought fast and used her wings and was quickly diving down to catch spike. What about me? It was only then when I remembered that I had wings. "Oh right!" I silently and calmly dropped on the ground. When I arrived Rainbow and Spike had horrified expressions on their face.

"What's wrong guys?"

"D-Don't you feel that?" Spike asked.

"Feel what?" I questioned back.

"I don't know it just feels wrong." he said.

They were very frightened, it seemed as if they had just seen a ghost. I had to wonder why I wasn't feeling anything.

"Should we head back?" I asked. If they couldn't handle it, this had to be something I did on my own.

"No. We'll be okay. Right Spike?" Rainbowdash quivered.

Spike nodded in agreement. And we started down the dimly lit hallway. It was almost pitch black other than one or two candles a million miles away from each other. Honestly, I was beginning to feel a bit queezy as well. I felt the butterflies in my stomach as we rounded each turn. Rainbow and Spike had stern expressions on their face, as if they were giving everything they had not to look nervous or worried.

As we trotted along, I began to think that the hallway never ended. Every time we turned a corner, there was more hallway, at one point I was going to say we should turn around, but then decided better of it, but finally Spike blew.

"When is this hallway going to end?! Maybe we should just turn back?" Spike looked directly at me.

"I think I agree with Spike." Rainbow said.

"Alright, we can go back then," I agreed.

We all whirled around to race back to the exit as fast as possible, but when we turned, there was nothing but a wall.

"Huh?!" Rainbow exclaimed. "That's not right, we just came..."

I turned the other way, and sure enough, there was a wall there too.

"AAAH! Twilight it's starting to move towards us!" Rainbow yelled.

The one I was staring at was beginning to close in as well.

"TWILIGHT WHAT DO WE DO?!" Rainbow called.

"I-I-" I didn't know hat to do. Was this how it was going to end?

"Twilight, can you teleport us?" I heard Spike's panicky voice.

I tried with every ounce of strength I had in me, but it proved to be useless. The walls continued to close in, the space was getting tighter and tighter, and that's when I noticed what looked like and out of place stone on the wall. It could have killed us, but we were out of options, we would die either way. I sprinted toward the stone before it could be eaten by the incoming walls and pushed it down.

The walls had stopped moving. Relief flooded through my body, but then just as we had won one battle, another lay before us. There was a new open hallway. It looked almost exactly like the one we were just walking through, yet it was different in so many ways. There was more of a pattern on each of the bricks used to build the walls, and it was brightly lit, not by orange candle flames, but by blue.

"What is this place?" I heard Rainbowdash say.

"I don't know, but I'm getting a bad feeling."

And that's when I felt it. A dark pit forming in my stomach. Fear flowing through every inch of my body. I took a step into the newly opened hallway. Followed by my two companions. And almost immediately after we all stepped through, we heard the walls slam together behind us.