This story used to be named "Taken Back What Was Stolen", except that title doesn't really fit anymore.


Part 1


Chapter 1: Difference

Waking up in a strange place can often leave you disorientated, confused, and scared. Not only that but it's cold and dark. Your first emotions could leave you huddled up in a ball crying and screaming, hoping against hope that it's just a dream, but you still fear you may never wake. Now imagine that in a young mare's head, who doesn't believe anything that her strong mind can't rationalize. Her first reactions were different than most.

Upon waking up Twilight noticed at once that this wasn't her bed because of two reasons: one being, because she was freezing and without any covers, second, because last time she checked her bed wasn't made out of rock. She looked around and realized that she was in a big dark room, with walls extending out beyond her boundaries of vision.

The lack of lighting didn't make a difference to her though because, Twilight being a unicorn conjured up a simple light spell. As the light blossomed from her horn she became aware that she was in a mess she didn't know how to describe. The room Twilight was in happened to be a perfect circle, and she woke up in the exact middle of it. Now of course, she didn't think that anypony could make a room into a perfect circle, that would be insane. But insane or not Twilight felt as if this was real, not that she was in some petty nightmare. Upon closer inspection Twilight notices that the walls are made of stone, roughly cut and bruised, like they have seen weary days. The floor was the same way. Twilight looked up, seeing nothing but inky blackness that seemed to go on for miles, but it was impossible to tell.

That's when her mind came crashing in on her. Only at that point had her mind allow the possibility that there was no escape. She fainted.

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When Twilight awoke she felt something in her stomach, stronger than ever before, more active and alive... hunger. This pain was consuming her thoughts, overtaking everything else. Knowing that if she did not find food in a couple days maximum she would perish. Never so long had she gone without eating, and she didn't even know how long it had been since her last meal, which worried her even more.

She thought harder of her horrible predicament. "Just think," she firmly told herself, "you aren't going to get anywhere from panicking."

She looked around again, seeing the prison-like qualities of the chamber. "Prison-like?" The thought occurred to her as if this was definitely the answer. The only thing working against this idea was the lack of entrance, telling her that there was clearly a form of magic. Her brief moment of thinking things might work out was shattered by the thought of what she had possibly done to have been sentenced to such a thing. She didn't know. She had no idea what ghastly crime she could possibly have committed to be condemned to a place without an exit point of any kind.
Then Twilight was struck by another, even more troubling thought, she couldn't remember anything.


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Your Fellow Brony - Abridged