Chapter 1: A mysterious encounter

It was night. Another beautiful night, created by princess Luna. The sky was clear, the stars glimmered beautiful and the moon shone from the sky onto Princess Twilight Sparkle's tree castle. Princess Twilight Sparkle sat at the window in her tree castle on her bed. She couldn't sleep. And it wasn't Spike who laid next to her in his basket and talked about something, while dreaming about Rarity and rubies, his two favorite things. Twilight thought. She thought about what happened last night:

"Where is this mysterious light above the Everfree Forest, propably above the Castle of the Two Sisters, I've see last night when I looked out of the window. And the more important question: What is it? This light was no light of a star. It was much brighter and closer to the ground then any star up in the sky. And it lasted only for some minutes. And what were thoose five things, propably as big as the source of the light itself, which fell down from the light to the ground, or the trees, during the time the light was there? When I flew to the castle in an instant, the light had vanished. Which kind of light does this? And in the castle itself everything was just fine. I was disappionted about not finding the source or what seemingly fell down from the light. Maybe I shouldn't have done that. Maybe I should have checked the surrounding area. As I now know this phenomenon has never accured befor in Equestria. I looked through my books the whole day in hope to find a report about this light or a description of a light like this but even with the help of Spike and Fluttershy I didn't find anything. Fluttershy even flew off to the animals of the Everfree Forest to ask them about the light. But appearantly no animal had been near the castle the night in question. Typical. But maybe it's coming back tonight, so I can see it again, can fly to the place to see the source of the light and write my sightings down in case somepony else would see it someday later and wonder, too. So that this pony would just have to open a book for the answer to find out."

She looked up to the stars in hope to see this light again. But it didn't appear. In her disappointment she was about to turn away but then she noticed something. A shadowy mist moved quietly through Ponyville. It enclosed the houses, plated the lanterns and covered up the plans. It moved slowly. Next to her castle. Near enough that she thought to see something in the mist. She pinched her eyes together and looked even closer. And then! She saw something! Something moved with the mist! To get to see even more of whatever was moving, she opend her window even furthere. Slowly, slowly, just don't make any… Her eyes wided themself and she started to freeze. Her window squeaked! Usually there is noise in the inside or the outside which drowned it. But not this time. This night was silent. Up until now at least. Nerviously Twilight saw how the mist stopped at once. A part of the mist which looked like the head of a pony, moved out of it like the head of a turtle moving out of the turtles shell. And then it moved around! Slowly it moved around to her direction. Her heard beat became quicker. Her eyes wided themself even more. Her mouth stood open. A goose bumps crawled down her back. She stared. She stared into a pair of scary, dark-red glowing eyes. And the eyes stared back. She stood in front of the window as if she was stroken by a lightning. She wanted to do something, to move, to call out for the pair of eyes, something! But she couldn't. She could only keep starring. Starring into the eyes. Into the eyes who slowly closed themself, until they were only slots. And suddenly a light started to glow above the eyes! But it was no ordinary light. It was a black light. A dark light. Darker then the night and the mist. Darker then the mist which surrounded King Sombra. Darker then the darkest night Princess Luna or even Nightmare Moon could have ever created. Darker then anything she ever saw. Just pure darkness. And it expanded. It darkend everything it devourded beyond recognition. Everything disappeared around Twilight. The houses, the windows, the sky, the moon, the stars, her hooves and finaly the red eyes. Everything was covered with absolute darkness.

In an instant her composure came back. She still felt her hoves holding her windows. Quickly she closed them. But she felt as if the pair of eyes would still stare on her. Behind her. She turned around fast. But there wasn't anything. Just Spikes ordinary snoring. But then! She heard something! A dark voice! A scary dark voice speaking two sentences:

"The circle is closing itself. The end is near."

"What was that? Where did it came from? What should I...", she asked herself.

Then she shook her head. And her facial expression grew darker.

"Enough! My fear hasn't took me over befor and it won't start now. I know enough enlightment-spells to end this spook."

She closed her eyes and concentrated. She could feel the magic energy flowing through her body into her horn. And its transformation into heat, into light. She opend her eyes.

"What in the name of Celestia?! The darkness just…vanished! How is that possible?"

She looked around, looked out of the window. Everything was just fine. Well, nearly everything. Spike pinched his closed eyes together and grummbled something unintelligible. It looked like the light bothered him. Twilight stopped her unnecessary light.

"Sorry Spike."

And then she felt something else: Sleepiness. She was tired!

"That is no real suprise. I can't say this night wasn't as exciting as exhausting."

She yawned and laid down in her bed.

"What did I just saw. That's a real mystery. Maybe I will find the answer in a book tomorrow… But I shouldn't just use my lilbrary but the one in Canterlot, too."

And she finally began to sleep.