"What a mess"

Twilight yawned as she continued sweeping the dead leaves off of the pavement outside her library. It was extremely early in the morning, but she had lots to do, and such a short time to do it. She had to write three separate letters to Candace, Celestia and Luna and ever since she woke up, Twilight had felt a certain electricity in the air that seemed to writhe and seethe with invisible tendrils, pulling her towards the Everfree Forest, and she was itching to check it out.

After finishing clearing up, Twilight walked down the street in the direction of the Everfree forest. The town was eerily quiet at this time, with no pony's in sight, but empty shops and closed market stalls sent a shiver down her spine that was usually reserved for dark, stormy nights with a horror book. The sound of Twilight's hooves colliding with the cobble pathway made her a bit self conscious, as she was scared she may wake up one of the towns more "Shouty" residents, which would start a chain reaction of early wake up calls, with her as the cause for all the distress.

"Hey Pinkie!"

Twilight shouted as quietly as she could at her energetic friend as she walked past the Cake Family's signature shop. Of course Pinkie Pie was already up and bouncing around, threatening to wake up half of Ponyville with the strange springing sound that seemed to follow her wherever she went.

"Oh hey Twilight! The air feels super scrummy today dosen't it? I just want to take a bite out of it!"

Pinkie said with a scarily wide smile

"Yes, well Pinkie I was just on my way to investigate that now …"

Twilight paused for a few seconds

"Actually, come to think of it, how can you feel it? Usually only Unicorns can sense magic"

"I dunno!"

And with that Pinkie was off, bouncing down the cobble path

Well Twilight thought, That was weird, No actually, that was just Pinkie being her usual self.

She smiled to herself and continued on her way to the Forest

The forest was scarily quiet. Before, when there had been birds songs and chirping crickets, there was only silence. Twilight wondered if all the woodland animals had gone to Fluttershy for comfort as they usually did. i really should have brought Fluttershy along Twilight thought to herself She knows these forests like the back of her hoof. Twilight shook her head No, it would have been rude to wake her up that early, and besides i probably wont get lost.

Twilight had been walking for a straight hour now, and was beginning to get nervous. The power she had sensed was only getting stronger and stronger as she went deeper into the forest. Suddenly she hit an abrupt stop, as she entered a natural clearing in the forest.

"Wow!"

She exclaimed as this type of phenomenon never happened outside of her books. But in true Twilight fashion, she was distracted by the fascinating perfect circle of grass in front of her, she didn't notice the swirling black ball of energy that was hovering at the center of the clearing until she looked up. Now this time, Twilight was speechless.

"U…Uh…u…."

She stuttered. Twilight had never seen anything like this in all the books shed ever read, this was something alien and new. Twilight shivered in excitement. She raised a shaking hoof and stroked the shimmering ball of dark energy.

Warm…

She thought. The ball was spinning up faster and faster, but silently. The ball sped up, making the grass beneath it blow around and ruffling Twilight's mane. She was getting more and more worried and cursed her stupid curiosity. What if touching it had activated it? What if it was a bomb?

Stop it

Twilight told herself

Thinking like that will make you panic, and that will make things worse

She didn't sense any malevolence coming from the ball, but it still scared her slightly. She tried to slow it down with her magic, but the ball shrugged it off and carried on spinning. It was reaching impossible speeds now, it was just a blur in Twilight's vision. Just as the ball was making Twilight's eyes water, it stopped spinning. So abruptly in fact that Twilight almost toppled over, her head spinning. Suddenly the ball evaporated, leaving an object that fell to the floor with a

"OOOOF!"

It wasn't a shape Twilight began to realise, but a creature.

"Are…. Are you okay?"

She stammered, still nervous and kind of excited from what she had just seen

"Hello?"

The creature spoke, before standing up and twilight realised that it was bipedal, meaning it walked on two legs, and wore a small area of black cloth at the point his legs met. As the last of the black energy cleared, Twilight could see that the creature was white in complexion, and had a medium amount of hair on his head. It stood at just below 6 foot, and had a serious chiselled face, that were marred by black rings on his eyes, that showed it was exhausted.

"Oww oh my head"

It said as it raised one of its limbs to its head and twilight could see the all of the creatures anatomy clearly. It had four limbs, like pony's, but instead of being straight and one size, the limbs bulged out in places. Muscles Twilight thought, as she had seen similar anatomy on dragons and one of the town pony's

"Wait...what…. Are you?"

He said as it laid his eyes on Twilight and she felt a blush rise too her cheeks

"My.. My name is Twilight Sparkle! Welcome to... Equestria... from... wherever you've came from"

Twilights nervous laughter was interrupted by a loud *Thump* as the creature passed out on the Forest floor

Twilight sighed, this was going to be a long day

*Authors Note* Please R&R for this story to continue please!