Chapter 6

Nightfall soon fell after Twilight had spent the evening crying in my hooves. I had fought back the majority of my tears, but some did manage to escape from my eyes. I felt awful, knowing that, as the dark magic keeps consuming me, I will have to fight somepony strong. But of all the ponies in Equestria, that one other pony I had to fight just so happened to be my marefriend Twilight, the Element of Magic.

She had cried herself to sleep in my hooves in my room but I was still awake. Using my good magic, I gently placed Twilight upon my bed and pulled the covers over her, giving her a goodnight kiss on her cheek as I left my room in favor of a nighttime flight. I needed to clear my head and only the nighttime air could do that for me, so that's what I did. I opened up the nearest window and flew out of it, flying high and far away from Ponyville to clear my mind.

Flying over Ponyville was nice, but I wanted to fly to one specific area within the Everfree Forest. It was a private area that seemingly had no trees around, and had a perfect view of Princess Luna's beautiful moon. I flew to that one specific area and touched base with the ground firmly. I sat down and gazed up at the beautiful waning crescent as I began wondering how the dark magic will transform me into a wicked colt of darkness. Bad visions soon started entering into my head and pretty soon, I found myself having a nightmare while I was awake.

All of my fears were slowly coming true and there was absolutely nothing I could do to stop them from happening. I know that Princess Luna told me that I am strong and can overcome this, but I know her, and I know her well. The way she told me what was happening made it seem like she knew that this will happen and that there won't be a single thing we could do about it. She knew my fate and she knew it well.

Princess Luna knew I would fall; it would only be a matter of time. She knew that the darkness would consume me; it would only be a matter of how and when. She knew that this would happen after she saw her vision; it would only be a matter of what I became after this was over. And, most importantly, she knows where I'll end up eventually. It will only be a matter of when.

There won't be a single thing I can do to stop the inevitable doom from happening. Even if I remove myself from society, I will still come back and the darkness inside of me will…I don't even want to think about it…Twilight will have to learn how to move on without me being there for her for a while…

I rubbed my eye with my hoof and determined that, based off of the positioning of the moon, it had to have been somewhere between midnight and one in the morning, closer to one though. I got up from where I was and began flying back towards Ponyville. I was flying back a bit slower than usual primarily because I still had loads of visions and bad nightmares replaying in my head. I wanted to at least attempt to get them all out by the time I arrived back at the castle, but that doesn't seem to be happening anytime soon.

Peering my head into my room, I saw that Twilight was still fast asleep in a position different than where I left her on the bed. I slyly smiled, then entered fully into my room, setting myself down on one of the chairs that I had. I stared at my sleeping beauty for some time, then slowly began to drift off myself. I tried fighting back and resisting the urge to sleep, but fell to the likes of the sandpony. I fell asleep for the rest of the night on that chair.

An open field is where I am. A darkened sky is what I see. A clock that reads two-thirty in the afternoon is what I question, but soon find out the answer to.

I find myself in Ponyville town square in the middle of the afternoon, but with a bright full moon risen high in the sky. I look around, seeing a numerous amount of ponies running around, frightened by something, but what?

I found out when a shadow of a pony reigned down over me. I turned around to see a relatively tall pony above me. This pony looked fairly familiar with their flowing, sparkling black mane, their black coat, and their full moon cutie mark…wait…a full moon cutie mark?

"Fear us, my subjects!" The pony shouted. "Our night will last FOREVER!"

"Princess Luna?" I questioned. I only did that because they said 'our night.'

"It isn't your night!" I heard another pony shout out.

I looked down towards the ground to see who shouted that and noticed that it was Rainbow Dash who said that. She was accompanied by five other ponies - most likely Twilight, Applejack, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, and Fluttershy - but my focus was on the final pony - Twilight.

"You dare challenge us?" The pony above me evilly chuckled. "You simply must be joking."

"The only joke that's here is you!" Rainbow Dash yelled.

"So be it then." The unknown pony smirked. He then shot out a wicked beam of dark magic, missing all of my friends down below…except for Twilight.

"TWILIGHT!" I screamed, rushing down to check on her. I crashed into the ground and tried holding up a collapsed Twilight, but no matter what I did, I couldn't help Twilight because my hooves were phasing right through her. "Twilight…" I began crying. "No…please…"

Around me, the world had started collapsing within itself and everything began turning dark and fading to black. The last thing to fade to black was my loving Twilight as I was left alone by myself…crying over the loss of my marefriend…