As the Mane 6 neared the entrance to the forest, they noticed that a weird black flow of magic was seeping into the woods, as if trying to find something or someone to possess. Once they actually got to the entrance to the forest, Lyra, Colgate and Twinkleshine teleported in front of them, causing each of the Mane 6 to jump back in surprise and land on their flanks.

"Took you long enough." Lyra said after the Mane 6 got back on their feet, "If you'd have been any longer, i would have had to start murdering again."

"OK, you three. You've got some explaining to do." Twilight said full of vigor, "Why do you want to be dark anyway?"

"You still don't get it, do you?" Colgate answered, "Why do you think we want to be seen, after all the great feats you've done together?"

"I don't follow."

"Did you ever see us? Most of the challenges you've faced, whether it was the Hearth's Warming Eve performance, or the duel with Trixie, Even the time you switched your destinies." Twinkleshine told then, "We were there, hidden in the crowd, watching over you all."

"But did you pay the slightest bit of attention to us?! NO! YOU DIDN'T!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Lyra said as a black aura intensified around her and her eyes turned fire-red, "YOU ALWAYS TURNED YOUR BACK ON US, YOU NEVER THOUGH ABOUT PAYING YOUR DISTANT FRIENDS A VISIT!!!!!"

"So we like to think of this as, how you call it? Oh yeah, REVENGE!!!" Colgate now snapped.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa. Calm down, you two. Save some bloodlust for the labyrinth." Twinkleshine said to calm the other two down. "You can kill as much as you want once they enter the labyrinth."

And after that, the three background ponies teleported away into darkness, with their individual laughs echoing on the winds. After the laughter died down, the individual entrance turned into 6 different entrances which all looked like a massive maze of shrubs. On each different path of shrubs, the individual cutie marks of Twilight and her friends was marked on the walls, as if to indicate that only ponies with matching cutie marks could enter the different entrances.

"Well, looks like we're splitting up again." Rarity told them as she neared her trail of shrubs.

"Another day, another darkness maze." Rainbow Dash said with a bored look on her face.

"I don't know about this, girls. Something about this maze just doesn't sit right with me." Said a reluctant Pinkie pie as she entered her trail.

"And just what would that something be?" Applejack asked upon entering her trail.

"Just a reeeaaaalllyyy big something that i don't know about yet."

After Twilight entered her trail, all the trail's entrances were sealed with another wall of shrubs, and all the other openings to the forest were blocked off by rapidly growing tree trunks and thick branches. Flying and magic was completely useless for their means of escape.

"Hello, girls? Anypony?" Twilight screamed into the darnkess, but it was futile, the walls had been soundproofed, and the Mane 6 were truly on their own this time.

"Twilight....... Come out and play........" Were the only voices that she could hear in the dark shrubs, "Twilight......... You can't hide forever........"

The voices kept repeating themselves, getting louder and creepier as Twilight walked down the trail and deeper into the forest, "Twilight........ Come out and play........."

"Who are you?! What do you want from me?!?!" Twilight said, now panicking that the voices would not stop until she reached the end of the never-ending trail.

Sure enough, she did make it out of the trail, but was shocked to see that she wasn't out of the forest at all. She had stumbled into a clearing, where she thought she was safe. But truth to be told, she was far from safe.

"Well what do you know, she made it." Said a female voice from the tree branches, "I thought she would have laid down and cried like a foal, what with the creepiness of our synchronized voices."

"But she didn't." Another female said, "And do you know what that means, girls?"

"We get a new victim to play with!" The 3rd voice said, "If she doesn't put up a fight, I call the cutie mark!!!"

Twilight narrowly dodged a knife that was hurled at her from the branches, and then cast a powerful repulsion field spell which removed the branches and shrubs from her area. Surely enough, she revealed the three possessed sisters of darkness, Lyra, Colgate and Twinkleshine.

After revealing themselves, the three ponies teleported all over the place in an attempt to confuse Twilight, this turned out to be quite successful as Colgate knocked Twilight into a tree with some powerful dark magic. Twilight quickly recovered and started firing magic bolts at the three unicorns. Unfortunately, she only managed a few successful hits, as the the possessed ponies were teleporting again. Eventually, Twilight was locked into a 1-on-3 horn-of-war with Lyra, Colgate and Twinkleshine.

"Impressive, Twilight." Lyra remarked, "I can see why Chrysalis had us try to murder you all those years ago."

"Stop flattering me." Twilight said as she tried to push back all three horns with great diffuculty.

As they broke the clash, Colgate said, "You would make a good dark pony."

The fighting continued for 10-20 minutes, with some crazy dark magic, insane tome reading, and even a storm of knives raining down from all locations. But Twilight still held her own and was able to back the three unicorns into a wall before blasting them with a laser spell that would have carved a hole into a mountain.

"Grrrr, meddlesome little child!" Twinkleshine said in anger as she got up from the laser's stream, "But your efforts were for naught."

"Huh?" Asked Twilight with a worried yet confused look on her face.

"As you were fighting us, we've been sampling your data and magic wavelength." Lyra told her.

"And with the knowledge we've collected, we can create a powerful clone of you, and use it for our own nefarious purposes." Colgate said as the trees behind them opened up to reveal a clear wall-less trail deeper into the forest.

"So long, Twilight, hopefully you won't keep us waiting for too long." Lyra said before she and the others faded into the darkness laughing once more.

"A clone?" Twilight asked herself, "What are those three planning?"

"Well if i know one thing for sure, it's that i'm wasting my time just sitting here and wondering about the dark plot those three are hatching. I need to go deeper into the forest to re-unite with the others, then we can take them down and stop this sinister plan." And with that last bold statement, Twilight was galloping off into darkness once more.

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"Is it almost done?" Lyra asked in a deeper part of the forest.

"Patience, Lyra, a masterpiece like this needs time to be perfected." Colgate said as she and Twinkleshine were using their newfound dark magic to conjure up a possessed clone of Twilight in front of their eyes.

"And now for the finishing touch." Said Twinkleshine said as she pulled off a spell giving the clone green possessed eyes, "There, perfect!"

"Now all we need to do is to extract the data from the other Spirits Of Harmony, and his ressurection will be inevitable!" Lyra said before sharing another laugh with Colgate and Twinkleshine