Amnesia: Twilight Sparkle.

By: Leo S 11/11/22

“Don’t forget… Something’s mustn’t be forgotten. The shadow hunting me… I must hurry. My name is Twilight, I live in Equestria at… at… Ponyville. What have I done, this is crazy. Don’t forget, don’t forget I must stop him. Focus! My name is… is… I am Twilight.”

Chapter 1

Twilight woke up in a cold hallway with a splitting headache, it was too dark for her eyes to see the surroundings yet.

She struggled to get up on her hooves.

When she finally got up her eyes had adjust to the darkness.

She saw a big castle door in the end of the hallway, with wobbly step she got to the door, but it was locked.

Twilight turned around and saw smaller door, she tried it and it was open. Twilight opened the door slowly, what she saw inside was a small table with a fancy chair standing close to an open fireplace.

She saw something on the table.

She approached the table and her mind hadn’t played tricks on her, on the table were a note and a tinderbox.

She took the tinderbox but she didn’t have anything to carry it in.

Twilight looked around the room and saw a conveniently placed bag in the corner of the room.

She took the bag and placed it on her back, she put the tinderbox in the bag and walked back to the note.

On the note it stood.

“22 November 2011. We need to get out of here, they are trying to kill us. If they get us we’re doomed. But if anypony reading this and thinking about to walk back there. I locked the door that leads to the hidden passage, the key is in the small storage room just up the stairs. Celestia bless you. Signed Phebe.”

Twilight thought about the note for a few seconds and was to put it in her bag when she saw a book like thing in her bag, it was a file where she could place all the notes she decide to keep and write down important clues.

Twilight left the room and started to walk to the other end of the hallway, just to meet with a new hallway.

But this one was bigger though, like the main hallway with a big door in the end. Twilight walked up to the door and tried it.
When she pressed the door handle she heard a loud painful groan and it felt like the whole castle was shaking.

She looked back at the door and a red organic thing blocked of the door! Then twilight remembered.

This was the shadow! Twilight needed to act fast.

But with a relive she saw that the shadow didn’t move it was almost clued to the door just to prevent her to open it.

So Twilight looked around to see a open door way with a staircase.

She remembered the note she had read. She walked up the staircase.

When she came to the top of the stairs she felt a small gust of wind and a door in the hall opened by its own. Twilight swallowed saliva and walked in the room.

In the room there was a chair and a small desk with a candle on it and next to the candle was a tinderbox other than some dusty old books there where nothing of interest thought Twilight.

When she exit the room her head start to pound and her balanced got a bit wobbly and she almost fell to the floor.
In all this headache she heard what she thought was footstep coming closer to her.

At first the footstep was just ordinary walk but the walking became sprinting and the sprinting became running.

With the headache and the cracking sounds in her head she manages to stand up in the nick of time.

She saw what she thought was an ordinary pony running towards her from the dark.

But the more it came closer to the light from the room Twilight just was in, she saw that the pony’s jaw was wide-open and its right hoof had swollen up and long claws was pointing out of it. It had also a mane that used to be fluffy but now it was drenched in blood, it also had a pinkish coat maybe a little darker. Almost like it had rotten.

When it came close enough to strike, twilight thought “this is where it ends for me, I’m doomed and I haven’t even got out from the main hallway. How can it all end here? No it can’t be! I most stand tall and defend myself!” Twilight stood up on her wobbly legs to stand and face this monster.

When the monster swung his swollen up hoof to try and hit Twilight, she jumped out of the way and thought she had avoided the big claw with excellence, but when she stood and observed the confused monster she felt a burning and stinging sensation.

She looked at her stomach she saw a long cut wound that was bleeding, it wasn’t bleeding so badly though, she’d be all right.

Then she realized the monster was still there. She lifted her head in the monster direction and saw it come closer.
Twilight spun around and start running to the nearest opened door, ignoring the pain from the wound. When she got in the room she slam the door shut.

Quickly searching for a hide place. She saw a quite big wardrobe in the room.

She didn’t had time to investigate the room to get a point why there was a wardrobe there. “ I need to hide as quick as possible!”

The monster was now trying to break down the door. Twilight shut the wardrobe door just in time.

“BANG!”

The door fell to the ground with a loud bang, the monster walking in and started to search for Twilight.

The monster walked further in the room and out of sight from the small crack in the wardrobe door Twilight had as sight out from the wardrobe.

When Twilight turned a bit to search for another crack in the wardrobe in the right direction, her leg slipped on something and hit the door to the wardrobe and opened it slightly.

She heard a grunt noise from the direction the monster was, and then some slow walking steps towards the wardrobe. Twilight knew that the monster heard the door open and was walking towards it.

End of chapter 1

Amnesia: Twilight Sparkle

Chapter 2

By Leo S 11/11/22

The monster came closer to the wardrobe where Twilight hide.

Twilight knew for sure she was a goner now.

Then she started to think about her quest.

She could not stop here, not now! Twilight put all her strength in her front hoofs and hit the wardrobe door with a demanding force knocking back the monster so it fell to the floor.

Twilight observed the knocked down enemy for a few seconds before she ran out of the room and down the hallway, just to be stopped by a dead end. The door was locked. She remembered the note. “ The key is in the small storage room”

- Storage room! Twilight shouted.

Twilight turned around and ran down the hallway again and noticed a door she had passed without thinking about when she fled the monster. Above the door was a sign. “ Storage room”

“WHEEEEERKLRKL”

She heard a grunt from down the hallway, with a bit of panic and a pounding headache she tried to open the door. The door was stuck. Now Twilight rose a bit of anger. She took a few steps back and rammed the door

“WHAM!!”

With a loud bang the door opened. The sound alerted the monster which started to slowly walk to the sound.

Twilight which had fell from the impact when se rammed the door stood up and stared to search for the key. In the storage room was 3 shelves with a lot of junk on them. There was also a desk way back at the back wall. Twilight made her way there and forgot the close the door. She opened the first drawer of the desk. In the drawer were only a tinderbox and some old useless papers. The second drawer was empty. Twilight panic now turned fully into rage. She pulled out the last drawer and in the drawer was a small rusty key. When Twilight saw the key her headache stared to calm down, and her anger as well. When she turned around she saw the shadow of the monster. A voice in Twilight’s head yelled. “HIDE! NOW!”

With some confusion she searched for a hiding spot. When she spun her head around to look at the left of here she caught a big chest. She walked quiet to it and try to open it. It opened with a quiet squeak. Twilight stepped in to the chest and closed it, she put a small piece of wood that she found in the chest so it wouldn’t go into deadlock. After what seemed for years she heard the monster leave and walk down the stairs with shuffling steps. Twilight got out of the chest and said to herself.
- I’ll call that one grunt until I come up with a better name and the noises its making.

Twilight walked to the opened door and poked out her head. The coast was clear.

She now sprinted to the door with quiet but slightly fast steps. When she reached the door she took out the key from her bag and put it in the keyhole. With a calming click sound the door opened. She felt that the headache was almost gone now, but then she remembered the wound on her stomach. The burning sensation came back, pain streamed through her body. But the blood that had dried was a good protect so that no bacteria could enter the wound as easy until she found some bandage to treat the wound with.

In the room the locked door lead into there was bookcases with a lot of books about alchemy and potions. In the middle there was a desk on the desk was a note. The note said.

“When you’re reading this you don’t remember much. How you got here or what’s going on.The shadow is hunting you, you must find and kill Flakk! Make him pay for this! He is the one sending those monsters at you. He is the one that made you murder those innocent peoples! He will probably be in his inner sanctum and doing some ritual to open a portal to another world. You must stop him! You must kill him! You have to murder one last person before you can be free! I made and drank the Amnesia drink to forget about all this but this cannot be forgotten! Your former self. Twilight”

Twilight thought about the note for a moment.

“I… I.. Killed those poor people.” Picture of twilights past flashed before her. But still there were black squares in her memory.

Twilight wiped a tear from her face and started to look around the room for an exit. She noticed a lever on the wall.

She walked to it and pulled it. A noise of wooden material that was heavily dragged to the floor appeared and a large bookcase slid across the floor revealing a hidden path. Twilight didn’t had second thoughts about going in there.

As twilight walked down the path she felt her left front hoof descent down the floor just slightly, when she looked down she saw that she had stepped on a brick that was loose, she heard the same wooden noise dragging on the floor, she looked back and saw the bookcase close again.
“Well… There is no turning back now.” Twilight said to herself and continued to walk down the path.

After a while Twilight reached a heavy looking door. She pressed it and it opened with a load squeaking noise, reveling a big nice looking room with a staircase on the left wall. A fountain in the shape of princess Celestia in the middle of the room. Twilight felt at last calm and safe for the first time in the night. Her headache had gone away, but the wound on her stomach was still aching a bit though. She walked to the fountain and saw a bottle of some sort.

On the bottle it stood “Laudanum” Twilight had read many books so she knew directly was this was and didn’t hastate to drink it. A bitter taste hit her after swallowing the last sip of Laudanum.

She placed the bottle back at the fountain and turn around to see the big staircase and the two doors on the top of it. She walked to the staircase to go and investigate one of the two rooms. The Laudanum had already given a affect, Twilight barley felt the pain from the wound anymore. When Twilight reached the top of the stairs and opened the door to “The archives” She got hit by a dark wall.

- I am not going in there without any source of light! Twilight said.

She closed the door and opened “Quest room” In the quest room was a double sized bed, a fairly large fireplace, a wardrobe and a desk. Twilight entered the room and closed the door behind her. She looked to the left and saw another door. She walked and tried to open it. But it was locked and it was something stuck in the keyhole.

- Well a key isn’t going to work this time. Twilight said.

She walked to the desk and opened the top shelf and found a note. The note said.

“I… I had to kill him. He wasn’t himself anymore. He stared to grow angry and aggressive. If I didn’t do something he had killed me and probably everypony else. And that big claw thing on his hoof? Where did that came from? I locked the body away in the closet and broke the lock. Tomorrow night I’ll bury him. I have hidden a crowbar and my lantern in my wardrobe so I can get in the closet again. And one more thing I have also hidden away a key in the closet somewhere I need to find it when I’ll get out the body. Signed Phebe.”

Twilight put the note in here file. Opened the wardrobe and found the crowbar and the lantern. She checked the oil and it was half full.

- Finally! Twilight sighed. A nice lantern!
She put the lantern in her bag because she didn’t need it in this room it was lit up by some small candles. She took the crowbar and walked to the locked door, put the crowbar in the crack between the door and the wall. She gathered her strength and pull the crow bar.

“CRACK!”

The door flung open and revealing a horrible stench. The body of a stallion lied on the floor in the closet. Twilight almost threw up from the stench and the sight. But she manages to keep calm. Easily Twilight stepped over the body and to the chest in the room. She opened the chest, in the chest there was some lantern oil and two tinderboxes.
- This can come in handy. Said Twilight.

She lifted her head and saw a painting just in front of her face. When she examine the painting a bit more she saw that it was something behind it. She lifted the painting of the wall and behind it was a key with a label on it on the label it was written “Old archives”

Twilight gently put the key in her bag and when she was about to walk out of the room she heard a loud bang on the door.

End of chapter 2

Amnesia: Twilight Sparkle
Chapter 3
By Leo S 11/11/24

Stress and fear rose in Twilight’s body, she needed to hide and fast.

“The wardrobe!” Twilight shouted and ran towards the wardrobe in the first room.

In the nick of time she managed to close the wardrobe door as the monster broke down the door to the room. Twilight tried to breath as quiet as possibly not to reveal her position. With careful movement with one of her front hoofs she opened the wardrobe door, the monster stood right there with its back toward Twilight. This monster was different though, it was larger, and instead of walking on all its hoofs it stood tall on its back legs without balance problems. And one more thing was strange about him. He didn’t have a swollen up claw hand. Instead his left front leg was cut half off and where the cut away part should be was now a big metal sword shaped knife.
Twilight let out a quiet sigh of fear, but. It wasn’t quite enough. The monster turned around and again Twilight let out a sigh of fear this time even louder. The monsters head. It had been split in half! As the monster shuffled towards Twilight, she let out a scream of fright and jumped out of the wardrobe and ran towards the exit, just to stumble on the room door the monster had broke down earlier. With a bruise on her front leg knee that was bleeding not to bad, nothing she couldn’t handle. She stood up and again stared to run towards the stairs. When she approached the first step on the stairs she didn’t hear the monster following her.

“Was it even there?” Twilight thought to herself.

She had to stop and make sure if she was chased by the monster or if it was her mind playing tricks on her. She turned her head and looked back. And out from the doorway, a repulsive head poked out. The monster let out a loud groan and started to run towards Twilight, with its sword arm high in the air. But Twilight didn’t move she was like paralyzed with fear. The monster got closer and still Twilight didn’t move, when he was just inches away from Twilight, she snap out of the paralyzed fear realizing what was happening and quickly took a step backwards just to feel her hoof hit nothing but air, and she fell. After that it was just black.

Everfree forest thirty days earlier.

“C’mon Twilight! We don’t have all day to find the cave you’re looking for.” Rainbow Dash said
“Yes, yes I know. Let me just look at the map one more time”
“What so special about this cave anyway, Twilight?” Applejack asked.
“Ohh. Haven’t I told you? In this cave is supposed to be a rare artifact. I have read a lot about it and I am sure it is real.” Twilight said.
“Ohh silly, Thats just some old pony tale!” Pinky Pie said.
“I’m with pinky on this one just an old pony tale.” AJ said.
“But it is true, I’ll show you! And what I have read it’s suppose to be an alien artifact too” Twilight said.
“C’mon Fluttershy we’ll search from the air, it will go so much faster.” Said RD
“Oh.. Okay..” Fluttershy said.
Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy flied up in the air and left the earth ponies and the unicorn to search by foot.
“So, do you believe in any of this artifact talk?” Rainbow asked Fluttershy
“Ohh.. I… I don’t know…” Fluttershy answered
After thirty minutes or so, Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy returned to the earth ponies and the unicorn.
“We found it! We found it!” Yelled Rainbow dash as she dived towards Applejack, twilight and pinke.
“Yay!” squeaked Fluttershy coming after Rainbow
“Great!” Said Twilight

Twilight woke up with a headache shed never felt before. Her vision was a bit blurry, she couldn’t make out any details and she was unable to move. When the blur finally passed by, she saw why she couldn’t move. The monster that had been chasing her had also fallen down the stairs and probably broke its neck, because it did not move or breathe. But Twilight didn’t know for sure. With the strength she had left in her body, she pushed the monster away. Getting up on her legs was harder than she had thought. Twilight managed to get up the what seemed to be longest stair in the world right now. When she remembered where she should go, she pulled out the lantern lit it and open the door next to the quest room. The wall of darkness behind the door fled when Twilight entered with the lantern, revealing a hallway. In this hallway there were five doors. Two on the left, two on the right and one down the hallway. Twilight sighed.
“Well, If I want more clues I probably need to search all rooms.” She said.
Starting with the first door on the left. But the door was locked. And so were all the doors Twilight reached the last door to the right. She read the sign. “Old Archives”
“This will be interesting. Interesting indeed!” Twilight said with some joy in her voice
Open the door to the archives with the key she found in the closet with that dead stallion, a layer of dust was in the room. Like nopony had been in there for years. In this room there were four bookcases standing back to back some inches away from the wall. Between those bookcases there was a painting table of some sort. But instead of a painting there was a map, over the castle. Twilight looked around the room and noticed a torch on the back wall. With one of the tinderboxes she had found she lit the torch and put her lantern out, waited for it to cool down a few seconds, and then put it back in her bag. Before she walked up to the map she investigated her surrounding, searching for a hiding spot just in case. There were no wardrobes or other doors she could hide in, though it was a fairly large box in the corner of the room. She walked up to the box just to find it looked with a padlock in fine condition. Unbreakable. But it wasn’t too heavy, she could push it and get some space between the wall and the box. A big enough space for her to fit. After she had made her fine little hiding spot she walked to the painting table and the map. When she got closer to it, a white light appeared in her mind.

“Do you see this, Twilight?” Flakk said.
“Yes, Flakk. But what is it?” Said Twilight
“It is the map over the castle, the shadow has done big damage do it, we have to reinforce here, here and… here” Flakk said and pointed on difference location on the map. “We have to act fast, Twilight! The whole thing can collapse on our heads, soon! I’ll get the servants to work on it in the morning.”

The white light appeared again and Twilight finally got back to reality.
“That was… I remember that. It happened a week ago. But.. I… I don’t remember where we were going to reinforce. He never marked the map. But I should take the map with me, just in case.”

When twilight lifted the map from the table she saw a key, a key that was hidden behind the map.
She read the label. “Wine cellar”

“Well, I guess I should look for the wine cellar then.” Twilight said.

With quick steps she exit the room ran down the last door, it was a heavy looking door. So if the monster back there that had trying to kill her earlier decided to wake up and search for her it was impossible to break this door.
Now Twilight felt safe and with a crystal clear mind.
The headache had disappeared fully when she found the wine cellar key. A bruise on her front leg knee that was healing itself and didn’t give out so much pain. She opened the big heavy door, made sure she closed it properly. When she turned around to walk away the door made a clicking sound. The door went into a deadlock. Twilight didn’t mind though, that the door locked itself behind her.
“I think I have much more problem than just a locked door ahead of me.” Twilight said with a chuckle.
Turned around and started to walk down the small hallway. For new fearful adventures.

End of chapter 3

Amnesia: Twilight Sparkle
Chapter 4
By Leo S 11/11/30

Twilight walked down the hallway that led to a dining room, a long table with some chairs surrounding it, and it looks like they were eating when all this happen. The food was still on the table and on the plates, wine was still in theirs glasses and some chairs had fallen over as if they left in a hurry.
“No wonder they left in panic” Twilight said to herself as she was walking beside the table and saw the red organic mucus everywhere on the walls and the floor.
A white light filled Twilight’s mind, a new flashback was on its way.
“Laughs and cutlery clanging could be heard. Somepony clanged his glass to get everyponys attention. It is good to see all of my dearest friends and theirs family here tonight, this dinner is held because of my, I mean ours biggest discovery ever. Unfortunately Twilight Sparkle my dearest student could not join this dinner with us. If you excuse me I need to use the rest room, but please don’t mind me, enjoy your dinner and enjoy probably the last day in your lives.” Flakk left the dining hall and locked the door behind him. The guests just sat there quiet and wondered what he meant with those words, but one slightly drunk pony broke the silent with a song, and just seconds’ later everypony burst into song, and they didn’t notice the red organic mucus gathering on the walls.” The white light filled Twilight’s mind again.
“Yes that dinner I remember accepting no on it because I didn’t feel good that night. But all those people did they die or what?”
Twilight heard a strange squeak noise from a closed door. She walked over to it and it was looked.
“Damn! Is every door in this castle locked or what?” Twilight shouted, and just seconds after, something hit the locked door with a demanding force, making a small hole in the door so Twilight could see what was behind the door.
A mare was behind the door, she had a big metal ring around her neck with spikes cutting in to her throat, and chains hung down from her front hooves, her coat had a slightly yellowish color and her mane was a bit pink. Something was wrong with her eyes though, her eyelids were sewn together. She was blind in other words. Twilight knew she had an advantage. If she moved quietly enough she could get past this monster without it even noticing her. When it finally had knocked down the door and entered the dining room it let out another squeak. Twilight on the other hand had seen enough strange and fearful things so she just stood still were she was, not moving a muscle following the monster with her eyes, but that was a stupid thing to do. Her mind started to make cracking noises and her vision became a bit strange, like it was zooming in and out on its own, all these things happening to Twilight’s mind almost communicated with the monster. It turned around and faced Twilight letting out a sigh mixed with a squeak. Twilight quickly looked away and stared to walk in the other direction, with very unstable steps almost falling to the floor. She needed to stop to get her brain back in focus. She had forgotten all about the monster behind her. When she stopped she heard another squeak behind her and before she could react she had a deep claw wound on her back. The pain from the wound made Twilight’s brain realize the situation, and quickly tried to get in focus. In the meantime Twilight let out a scream of pain and almost fell to the floor but she managed to slightly run away. Twilight ran in the doorway the monster came from and found a door on the left. She opened it and it was only a small room, in this room was a wardrobe, Twilight opened the wardrobe doors, and a body of a mare fell out Twilight held back a scream from the sight. The body didn’t fell to the floor though; it was chained to the back of the wardrobe. She heard a shuffling noise from the hallway outside the door. She didn’t have time to think about what to do; she pushed the body back in the wardrobe and joined it. She heard the monster approaching the door, struck it down and started to search for it’s pray. Twilight held back a sob as the wound pounded in her back she felt blood sliding down her back and dripping on the wardrobe floor, forming a puddle of blood, Twilight knew that if she didn’t do something now she could bleed to death. The monster let out a sad squeak and left the room. Twilight recognized the squeak this time, it reminded her of Fluttershy. With easy moves she opened the door to the wardrobe making sure the monster had left and exited the small room and continued down the corridor.
“That squeak and yellowish coat, I… I know it from somewhere, can it be Fluttershy? No! It can’t be!” Twilight said to herself.
As Twilight continued down the corridor she came to a door. The sign next to the door said.
“Small Operating room”
Twilight slightly pushed the door and it was open. She entered the room and saw an operating table and some papers.
The White light filled Twilight’s mind once again
“Twilight… You… You can’t do this” A mare said.
“If you just stay still, everything will be just fine” Said Twilight with a smile on her face.
“But… but, No…”Squeaked the mare.
“Paint the flesh, cut the lines. Paint the flesh, cut the lines!” Twilight said repeatedly still with a smile on her face.
Twilight put her scalpel to the mare’s hips and cut out the cutie mark which was three butterflies.
Fluttershy let out a scream of pain and sadness.
“Twilight why are you doing this, what have happen to you” Said Fluttershy holding back a sob “Ever since you’ve got that artifact from that cave you have been acting strange. Please just let me leave!”
“I can’t do that I’m not the one in charge. Flakk told me I needed to make sacrifices to stop the shadow. And you know I’ll do everything to save Equestria.” Twilight said as her smile slowly faded.
Twilight continued to cut in Fluttershy and putting metal things on her and stitched her eyelids together and injected her with some sort of liquid to make her sleep for a long time.
The white light filled Twilight’s mind again
When she realized what she had seen in the flashback and what she had done to Fluttershy, she burst out into full tears and sank to the floor. Crying about the horrible things she had done to Fluttershy she started to think if she had done that on all of her friends.
Twilight stood up wiped some tears from her cheeks and started to search around for something useful. After she had moving around stuff opening boxes and other things she found two bottles of laudanum and some bandages and a note. Twilight drank one of the Laudanum bottles and patched herself up. After she had rested a few minutes on the chair that was in the room she stared to read the note.
“I have completed one of four sacrifices now and Flakk says he is happy with me. He says that the shadow will completely leave when I am done with everyone of them. The strange thing is. I don’t feel anything, I’m not sad or mad about killing my friend I did it for a reason, If I have to kill all my friends to save Equestria I will, and I will do it with honor!
Twilight Sparkle”
When Twilight had read the note she started to cry again.
“How… How could I do such a thing and to Fluttershy of all ponies? What had she done to deserve this?” Twilight said to herself between her sobs.
Twilight couldn’t stay in that room much longer, she had to get out and continue her search for the wine cellar.
“I wonder what horrible things I have done to my other friends.” She said as she walked out from the room and down the corridor. When she reached the end of the corridor there was a big heavy door. Twilight got surprised when it was open. She pushed the door open trying not to put too much pressure on her back. When the door was open enough for Twilight to squeeze through, she found herself in a very big room with a quite large fountain in the middle. She saw something shining in the water of the fountain and she walked to take a closer look. As she got closer to the fountain her head started to make cracking noises and her vision became just like what it did when she looked on what remained of Fluttershy for too long. The water in the fountain became thick blood and she heard a very high pitched note. She looked back. And from the door she had just exited came the monster with the big sword arm and the repulsive head, Twilight backed off but she didn’t get far before she fainted.

End of chapter 4

Amnesia: Twilight Sparkle
Chapter 5
By Leo S 11/12/19

“Wow Twi that artifact sure does look fancy.” Said Applejack with an amazed look on her face. The artifact Twilight and the other had found in the cave was a big shiny star with the same color as Twilight’s coat. It was floating on its own above the table Twilight had put it on.

It was also surrounded with some sort of dark energy.
It had this aura around it and if you listened carefully it whispered.

Whispers that anypony should fear.

Whispers that even Celestia herself feared.

But there was onepony who didn’t fear those whispers; it was like they talked to her.

It was whispers about amazing technology and alien life forms.

But they were also dark whispers.

Whispers that included the end of Equestria, and death to all ponies.

“Yeah… This sure is an amazing artifact…” Said Twilight
“Good thing Rarity isn’t here, she would steal it and put it on one of her dresses immediately” Chuckled Rainbow Dash.

“Haha. Yeah, but we need to get this to Celestia right away!” Said Twilight

“What are we waiting for then? To Canterlot!” Shouted Pinkie Pie

When they arrived to Canterlot they were instantly greeted by Celestia herself.

“I know why you are here… Come with me.”

The four ponies just stared at each other and without argument they followed Celestia.

Before anything else could happen a white light appeared and blinded Twilight.

With a gasp Twilight woke up. Remembering the monster she saw before she fainted. She quickly looked around just to see a smoke cloud with the monster’s shape.

“It was just my imagination.”
Twilight got back on her hooves, and looked back in the fountain.

The shiny thing was another key.

Twilight picked up the key; it had been in the fountain some time she could tell. It was all rusted.

“I’ll be surprised if this even holds together when I put it in a keyhole!”

Even though the key was rusted and probably would break Twilight gently put the key in her bag.
Twilight looked around her surroundings once more and rested her eyes on an old wooden door on the far end of the left wall.

With careful steps she walked towards it.
She gave the door a gentle push and it was locked.

“Why?! Why does every door in this castle have to be locked!?”

She remembered the rusted key in her bag.
“Sigh”. I’ll have to give this a try then…”

She put the rusted key in the key hole and turn it, a soft click could be heard and then a crack.

“I knew it! The key broke! At least it opened the door.”
Twilight gave the door another gentle push and with a squeaking noise it opened.

Inside this room were boxes and barrels, not much to have any use for but there was a note in there. It was old the paper was yellowish and it was very dry. Twilight carefully picked up the paper to read it but it was only a few numbers.

“This does not make any sense.”
Twilight looked at the note for a while and was about to throw it away but changed her mind.

“It may be good to take it with me just in case.”
When Twilight exited the room she heard something in the distance, she stopped for a moment to really listen and see if she could make out what it was.

The sound came closer.

Much closer.

Now Twilight could hear what it really was, it was wing flaps.

She knew those wing flaps, it sounded different than any other Pegasus.

Now she could make out an apparition, it was a Pegasus indeed.
The apparition came closer and so did the wing flaps.
The apparition flew in a small string of light from the chandelier.
That small moment that she was in that beam of light was enough for Twilight to recognize the cyan coat.

It was Rainbow Dash.

Something was different though; her coat was not that bright cyan color as it used to be. Now it was darker, almost as if had started to rot, her face was still in the dark so Twilight couldn’t see it so good. But she knew that it wouldn’t be a comfortable sight.

“Ra…Rainbow…? Is that you?” Twilight asked nervously
Rainbow hadn’t noticed Twilight yet, until she asked that question. She turned her head towards Twilight and started to fly, getting closer and closer.

Now when Rainbow Dash entered the light on ground level Twilight could see her face, and she was right it was not a comfortable sight. She didn’t have any eyes, only black holes. Her jaw was missing, not like the first monster she had encountered its jaw was still there. But Rainbow’s jaw was gone, and her tongue was hanging out which made her do gurgling sounds.

Twilight put a hoof on her mouth to prevent puking at the same time she also held back a sob. To her surprise Rainbow Dash spoke to her. Not with her mouth and tongue but with some sort of mechanical device on her chest.

“Why… Did…You do…It, Why… Did…You made… Us go…Through such….Pain…The pain was…overpowering….Nopony should… Survive that…So why… Did I survive… Tell Me… Twilight!”

Twilight could not say anything she just stood there and stared at the jaw less Rainbow Dash.

“WHY DID YOU DO IT TWILIGHT!”

With does words Rainbow dash grabbed Twilight by the waist and flew up in the sky almost hitting the roof, and out from one of the windows that was big enough for both her and Twilight

“Welcome…. To my… Nightmare… An Endless Nightmare…”

Twilight saw that they were flying higher and higher. Now they were high enough for her to see the whole castle.
Rainbow Dash let go of Twilight and she fell. Twilight fell so fast that her body couldn’t take the stress anymore and she fainted.

To be continued?
End of chapter 5