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…Me and Silverwing crept quietly through the kitchen towards the basement door. As we approached, a loud crash could be heard upstairs making us both jump.

"What was that?" Silverwing whispered, "Do you think Sunbeam and Snowy are okay?"

"I'm sure they're fine," I quietly replied, "Come on, we have to check the basement."

"Alright," Silverwing took a shaky breath as we descended the creaky stairs.

At the bottom, we agreed to follow the wall and stick together. After circling the room, we found three closed doors, a couple of candles, and some boxes of curtains. I dumped out the box quietly and put the candles in it before using my wings to hold it on my back.

"Which door should we try first?" I whispered to Silverwing.

"Let's start with the first and work our way over," She muttered.

"Alright, here goes nothing," I threw open the first door, ready to blast anything that shouldn't be there. The room was empty, there was nothing anywhere. "Well that's disappointing. I thought for sure there would at least be something here."

"Well, at least it's safe," Silverwing whispered optimistically.

"True," I said as I threw open the second door. The walls were lined with shelves of boxes. "Wow, that's a lot of boxes. Should we start checking them?"

"Yes, but we should stick together when searching," Silverwing answered. Together we counted ten boxes on each of the three shelves. We went to the first wall and started checking boxes side by side.

After our search, we found threes boxes of clothes, a box of umbrellas, five boxes of tools, six boxes of pictures and paintings, four boxes of winter coats and scarves, a box of candles and lightbulbs, two boxes of camping gear, five boxes of Hearth's Warming decorations, and three boxes of carpets and curtains.

"Well, at least we can use the candles and camping stuff," I tried to sound cheerful.

"Yeah. Maybe we'll find something better in the last room," Silverwing replied, "Because third time's the charm, right?"

"Mm-hmm," I nodded as I opened the last door to reveal a brick wall. "Umm… What in Equestria is this?"

"I don't know, why would anypony put a door in front of a wall?" Silverwing answered.

"What I'm interested in is what's behind this wall," I said, intrigued, "Sil, you might want to stand back." She took a step to my left so I could still see her. With that I hit the wall as hard as I could, blowing it to pieces.

"Sweet Celestia! What in Equestria was that?" Silverwing jumped at the explosion.

"I really don't know what to call it, but at least it removed the wall," I remarked.

"Well, what's inside?" She asked curiously.

"A long dark hallway that I don't think belongs here," I said as we stepped inside. The hallway twisted and turned through the darkness, leading us further and further from the basement door. Eventually we arrived at a dead end.

"That's it? No doors or rooms or anything?" Silverwing seemed annoyed. "Well that was just a waste of time."

"Come on, let's get back to the others," I said as I turned around and ran into another wall. "Oof! What in Equestria?"

"Great! Just great! Now we're trapped with no way out!" Silverwing just collapsed on the ground in defeat, "Now how are we supposed to get out?"

"All hope's not lost yet!" I declared as I hit the wall and blew it down just to be buried in the dirt behind it. "Ack!"

"Dawn!" Silverwing's voice was muffled by all of the dirt. I heard some scuffling noises from above me before I started to dig my way out. I felt the dirt start to give way, and I burst free of the mound before sliding down into the small room.

"Sil?" I asked, looking around for the silver pony. "Sil, you there?" I started to panic when I realized she was gone. "What do I do? I'm trapped in a small room under ground with no visible way out."

Then I got an idea. I jabbed the ceiling until most of it collapsed, leaving me free to move in my tiny amount of space left. Then I started digging upward. After a while, I finally broke through to the surface and pulled myself out of the ground. I had surfaced in a small park with a couple of benches and trees.

"Well, at least I got out of that room," I said to myself, "Now if only the clouds would go away." I heard laughter behind me and spun around.

"If only," Nightshade smiled maniacally, "But that's not going to happen and there's nothing you can do about it."

"We see about that," I snapped before rushing her with a jab. She leaped over it easily, landing behind me as I hit the ground and created a crater. I threw up a shield just as she shot a beam of magic at me.

"You are pathetic, just defending yourself and letting your friends take the fall for you," Nightshade sneered.

"You have no idea what you're talking about. I always put my friends first!" I yowled as I lashed out at her. She jumped and countered with a splashdown, forcing me to change directions to meet it. The resulting explosion caused us to go flying and destroyed the park.

"Ugh…" I groaned from the collapsed side of a building. "What was that?" I struggled to stand up, covered in scrapes and bumps. I think one of my wings was broken, since I couldn't move it. I heard a groan of pain from another pile of bricks and saw Nightshade fight her way out of them.

"You will never beat me that easily," She growled. I just began to charge my magic for one last attack.

"I didn't plan on it," I replied shakily, "And Shay…"

"I have already told you. This 'Shay' you speak of never even-," She spat.

"I'm sorry," I whispered as I released my blast, the rainbow of energy surrounded her as she wailed in rage. And as quickly as it came, the energy disappeared, leaving an unfamiliar alicorn lying on the ground.

The alicorn was a black mare with pale blue hooves and feather tips. She had dark red on the front of her hooves. Her mane and tail were pale blue with dark red along the edges. Her cutie mark looked exactly like Nightshade's.

The alicorn stirred and opened her eyes to look around. As soon as ruby-red eyes met my gaze, we froze. I immediately remembered who she was and I remember what happened to her. She had been consumed by shadows when we were only fillies, before she became Nightshade. Before I had forgot...

"Duskfire? Is that really you?" I whispered.

"Dawn?" She replied quietly, "Where are we?"

"We're in Manehattan," I replied, looking up to see the clouds break apart and form the citizens of this great city. The others reformed from shadows nearby, looking even more confused than my sister.

"Why are we here?" She asked, looking puzzled.

"Come on, I tell you while we head back to Canterlot," I said calmly.

"Alright, but I think we should walk," She says quietly.

"Why do you think that?" I asked, confused.

"Because your wing looks bent," She pointed out sternly. We just looked at each other before I started laughing.

"Come on, let's get going," I began as we started the long trek home…

That's all for this chapter! I hope everypony liked it! Because this is the start of a new beginning for the sisters.

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