The next night had come by rather quickly. To make sure that Amber would stay awake during the night, I had to go tell Cheerilee about her night lessons, so Jewel could sleep longer than necessary. Nothing necessarily interesting happened, but yeesh, Luna's carriage is scary as fuck. It was like looking at Dracula's henchmen and his own carriage. Atleast Amber was surprised and bounced about the carriage until Twilight came by. She smiled and gave us reassurance that she would watch over Amber for us. I trust her, so I know that she'll do what's right. A wave goodbye and Amber was off to Luna's night class.

The castle seemed very creepy at night. Most of the guards were Luna's, and the chill of the night-sky, followed by the clean and empty light of the moon really set the atmosphere that the place seemed abandoned. Amber hopped and bounced everywhere as it was her first time seeing this demonstration of pony architecture. The yards were all perfectly cut, and the bushes were perfectly trimmed. In front of the castle's main entrance awaited Luna, her mane sparkling in the night like the many stars that she created. A greeting was done, and he little filly got to see the interior of the castle. Frames and pictures here, beautiful carvings into the walls there. Not an inch of the castle was non-decorated. Finally, the group reached the traning area for unicorns. This place was gigantic, but mostly empty. It was pretty much nothing but white in color, and the windows were so high they gave Amber neck pains just by trying to look upwards.There were several stones of various and different clothes. What purpose would they serve?
Luna stepped forward and pushed a small stone towards Amber, who just stared at it, then back at Luna in confusion.

"What am I supposed to do with this?"

"I am simply testing you. I wish to see how much control you have over your magic. I won't say anything right now, so try and use your horn to lift this rock, even if it is an insignificant distance from the ground."

"O...kay."

Twilight simply watched asthe little filly did just like her when she was a foal. The little unicorn tried a variety of movements and combos to use her horn, but to no avail.

"Awww. It doesn't work." she whined as she slumped onto the floor with he rears flopping down.

"Haha! Don't worry Amber. I had the same troubles when I started."

"Yes. No unicorn can use his or her magic instantly. It requires concentration and studying. I believe that you will be able to help her with her studying, Twilight Sparkle?" Lunaasked with a haughty tone.

"Of course!"

"Good. Now then, just to show you what you will be capable of."

Luna walked towards a massive boulder in the room. It was the height of three Celestias. Luna cracked her neck, an her horn began to glow. Much to the surprise of Amber, the object began to move about, as if animated by its own life, only to be gently placed back onto the ground.

"And with these cloths, being able to manipulate their composition allows you to change everything about them, but it is quite hard and dangerous. Only do it when Twilight Sparkle, myself, or Celestia are around."

"Okay. So, how do I use my horn?"

"Well, first things first." Twilight said while reaching for Amber's horn. "This is your horn. Think of it as a second leg or a second brain. It is through here that you can channel your magic. If you want to use it properly, try using your imagination. Think about what you want you do, and project that in front of you on the area or object you want to affect.

"Okay. I'll try again."

It took a short while, but Amber's horn began to glow faintly, and the tiny rock began to lift itself lightly into the air, before Amber let out a big exhale and let the rock drop to the floor. She was gasping for air.

"That was impressive. Not many beginners have been able to do levitation that fast. This truly is part of your magical talents. A slight problem, however. Your breathing."

"What...about it?"

"To have a proper mana flow, you must breathe normally, otherwise, the magic will stop getting out and will 'clog' up your horn, so to speak."

"True. I had this problem at first. I was just trying to push out as much magic as possible."

"Well then, let us continue."

Four hours later, it was already time to go. Surpriingly, Amber had made significant progress...in controlling her magical flow. She bid Luna a goodbye and yawned as she returned to the carriage. Twilight lift her up with her own magic an placed her on a seat, only to sit down next to the filly herself. The two creepy Night guards took off with a whinny that sounded like a muffled dragon's roar, and disappeared soon after from Canterlot's sky. Quietly after, the carriage set down gently upon the ground in front of Ambers house. Twilight had placed the fly on her back. The little unicorn had fallen sound asleep with a smile on her face. As Twilight approached the door with her foreleg, Amber suddenly hopped up and yelled :"DADDY!" in a panicked tone. The two guards didn't take off jus to be sure, and approached the door.

It looked like a war had occured. Furniture was filpped, vases andglass were broken into pieces and strewn about the floor, and Amber was running around yelling for her mom and dad. The guards hopped in, pushin Twilight aside and started to scan the area without. Twilight Sparkle always knew that there was something suspicious about these guards, but she could never put her hoof on it.

"Here." One of the guards said with a very deep voice. He kicked the debris off to reveal a knocked out Cyclon.

"Oh no." Twilight worried. "How are we going to knock him out of his unconciousness."

"Hm. That sounded redundant."

"Quite. Knock him out of being knocked out."

"Ridiculous."

"Idiotic."

"Laughable."

"Mockable."

"Will you two shut up! I think you should wake him up so that Amber doesn't hurt herself while trying to reach him."

"Will do."

Instead of something gentle, the first guard lift Cyclon up while the second put his forehooves on the stallion's neck, before moving in a way that a loud crack resonated throughout the house. Cyclon was then dropped limply on the floor as he woke up immediately. Rubbing the back of his head, the captain wondered what had happened, until Amber jumped on his chest and started to cry.

"Amber? Twilight? What happened?"

"We were going to ask you that, sir."

"Wait...now I remember...Silver and I were waiting for Amber to come back, and I left to the bathroom. When I came back, she was being gripped by some strange blobby creature with colorful stripes on it."

"Colorful...Did Silver look entranced by it?"

"Y-yeah. She was giggling too."

"Oh no." Twilight and the two night guards said together.

"I believe that you met a Drewcifier."

"Foul beings."

"They take on the form of the 'perfect being' for you.

"Then they drag you somewhere until your love for them reaches its absolute."

"They use...methods to speed it up."

"Then they devour the pony's soul."

"It would be best."

"If we left at once."

"The traces here lead nowhere."

"We have no leads." The two guards said succesively.

"Wait...I see mommy." Amber said coldly.

The little filly's eyes had begun to glow a bright blue. A certain blue that both Twilight and Cyclon had grown to know quite well. She walked out of the house, closely followed by the four other ponies. Walking down the twilight of the sky, Amber's eyes grew brighter and brighter. They finally stopped in front of an old, partially rotten out house near the edge of Everfree forest. The guards kicked down the door of ths two-story house and went in. There was nothing but a dark catacomb. Yet, the little filly went upstairs and continued to stare blankly into nothingess. Whe he four others reached upstairs, they caught a glimpse of the blob for two seconds before it turned into the perfect image for the other four grown-up ponies. The Drewcifier was "cutie-talking" Silver who seemed completely out of her sense. When the creature caught sigh of the other four, it laughed, until it saw Amber with her glowing eyes and no apparent look of blind love. It moved away from Silver who was lying down on a bed.

"Don't go, Cyclon. We still have so much to say."

"I'll be with you in a sec, honey. I just have to deal with some troubles."

The Blob had purple and green stripes running down its body. It only possesed three limbs that seemed more like extensions of the body which ended in chubby grasps. Its yellow eyes were also placed bizarrely. There was one near its "bottom" that was looking directly at Amber while the other was on one of its limbs.

"Mhmm. Quite peculiar. This is the first time that anything has managed to resist a Drewcifier. Hmhm. I am, what you would call, a mind collector. I take all the energies from brain activity I can and trade them for more power instead of just devouring them like my brethren. However, you cannot be hypnotized. Either you leave now or I will be forced to...dispose of you. Your friends here shall make fine zombie slaves."

"That's my mom and dad you're messing with. Leave them alone!" Amber took up a defensive position, but was mocked by the Drewcifier.

"Hahahaha." It's voice sounded like an evil spirit that lowered with every syllable. "Foolish mortal. You cannot hope to best me. Many before have tried, and none have succeeded. They all became mindless husks."

Amber tried to concentrate on her magic, and managed to lift a little broken lamp near the bed Silver was on, and tossed it at the drewcifier, who looked bored with the effort and swiped the lamp away.

"Hmph. Come here." The long arms of the blob grabbed hold of Amber and began to crush her neck while she started to gasp for air and hit the arms of the creature.

"m....."

"What's that dear? I can't har you. YOU'LL HAVE TO SPEAK UP!" the creature yelled while shaking Jewel violently.

"m..."

"Tsktsk. You have to clear that throat of yours. Some crushing should break off that thing in your throat. HAHAHA!"

"m....MOMMY!"

Silver suddenly snapped of her hypnotizing and caught glimpse of the blob. Her fury was matchable only by a Vesuvius Vulcan. She quietly walked behind the blob as he continued to choke Amber. She poked him.

"Hold on dear. I'm dealing with something."

"Who you callin' 'dear', bitch?"

"Wha-"

The blob nearly, if one could say, "shat brix" just by looking at the cold and murderous stare of Silver. The other four snapped out of their hypnotization and caught glimpse of the face Silver was giving off.

"Uh-oh. Amber, come over here."

The little filly hurriedly scurried up back to her father after the blob dropped her. Cyclon began to massage her neck with his wings.

"We will help her."

"It is our duty."

"No. Get out of the house. NOW!"

"But why? We HAVE to help her." Twilight insisted.

"Believe me. When she has that stare, anything who caused it will be in the worst pain it ever felt."

When the door slammed shut, Silver cracked her neck as the drewcifier hugged a wall in fear.

"Now then. You were choking my daughter, correct? I'll teach you how to induce proper pain."

"AAAAAAAH!"

Outside of the house, the five could hear a horrible racket followed by strang organic noise. Suddenly, the drewcifier was slammed against a window and pulled back. An hour later (Yes. An HOUR), she finally left the house.

(Silver narration transition)

...

"You okay, Silver?" Cyclon asked.

"Where's Jewel?"

"I'm here."

"C'mer you."

I grabbed her as best I could and hugged that little thing hard.

"I was worried."

"You are frightening."

"We will be returning to the castle."

"Everything seems in order here."

"Goodbye." the two guards said.

"Uhhh...Silver...you got some green stuff on you."

"Hm? So I do."

"What did you do to that thing?" Cyclon asked.

"I tore it apart."

"..."

"I'm kidding. It was more violent than that. Let's just go home. I need a bath."

"Okayyy. Well then, whileI was hypnotized by that thing, I heard you speak Cyclon's name." Twilight smirked.

"S-so?"

"Those things are supposed to bring out your perfect image of that 'special somepony'."

I begin to blush hard.

"That doesn't mean anything."

"Awww. You really DO love me!" Cyclon spewed out happily. "Now how 'bout a kiss?" he leaned forward with a smile.

I was disgusted, but Amber jumped on my back and pushed my head towards his lips. She had gotten me, that trickster. After that...session...I pulled back. Instead of punching him, I just felt embarassed and walked quickly back homewhile avoiding his gaze. I think Amber is actually making me attracted to Cyclon...not that...never mind.