It's a normal day for Twilight Sparkle. She helped her friends with various tasks, re-organised the library, and then dug her nose in a book. She was just finishing when a certain green and purple baby dragon tapped her on the shoulder.
Twilight Sparkle placed a ribbon in the book she reading and set it to the side. "What is it Spike?" She asked, rubbing an eye with a hoof. That book was really boring, the type Twilight used to help herself sleep.
Spike opened the scroll he had in his claw, cleared his throat, and began reading it out loud. As Twilight patiently listened to the contents, she heard something odd. "Say that last sentence again?" She told Spike.
"'As much as I would like to gab about everything that happened since I saw you last unfortunately, I cannot. There has been a steady increase in strange creatures in the Everfree Forest, most of them coming out of portals.' Why?" He blinked when he saw the purple alicorn go through her collection of books, effectively reversing three hours worth of work.
"I'm sure I saw a book like that before," Twilight mumbled. Then her gaze fell on one book that said A Dummy's Guide to Norad. Using her magic she fflipped it open to the table of contents and with a hoof pointed at the line that said Monsters and Gates.
"But Twilight, Princess Celstia said portals not gates."
"I know that Spike," Twilight almost huffed, "but this book might be the only explanation we have."
This gate is a strange one. That much, Frey figured at first glance. The perfectly round gate didn't spawn any monsters and sucked in grass and leaves.
"Are gates supposed to do that Mommy?" Luna asked, nearly whimpering as the pair stared at the malfunctioning portal.
Frey shook her head slowly. "No, Looney, they're not."
"Then shouldn't we be able to destroy it?" Luna glanced up to see her mother's face. She saw Frey meet her eyes.
"Good idea." Frey took out her sword and held Luna's hand. But as soon they got in striking distance, the gate increased its vacuum and swallowed the pair.