Danny sat up quickly, once again as consciousness flooded into his mind. Quickly scanning his new area he noticed he was in a quaint log house, with a "Little House on the Prairie" feel.
There was a single door, with a lone window next to it on the wall across from him.
There was a small stove in the corner with a large animal attending it. Looking the animal over for a minute in silence, Danny rememberd the beast from what seemed like the day before.
"Twilight?" Danny said, his voice sounded remarkably better.
"Oh Danny!" the horse said as it turned (this time it spoke from its mouth, most likely gathering Danny didn't like being talked to psionically).
"You've been out for quite a while" Twilight said, striding across the small room.
"I got you all patched up though." It chirped in.
Danny realized he was now shirtless, and the pain that had been engulfing his body was gone. There was no scar, or even hint of there being any wounds.
"Trixie hit you really well with that bolt. It took weeks to heal"
Danny's head soaked in what she said
"Weeks! I've been asleep for weeks!" Danny burst.
"Well yes," Twilight lowered her head "I just couldn't heal any faster. I was really trying"
"Okay...well thanks for fixing me I guess." Danny said as he ran a hand down his chest.
Thoughts of his mother and friends flooded his mind. Where could they be? Were they okay? Or was it foolish to think they were even alive. Danny looked up to the unicorn, fighting back a tear.
"What's happening? What did happen?" fear choked the boys throat, "what happened to everyone else?"
"I may not be able to tell you," Twilight looked the boy directly in the eyes "but I can help you remember"
"What do you mean remember?"
"I can enable you to remember what happened the day New York fell, I can send your mind back, the fear and disbelief of that event, your brain must have made you forget. But I can force you to relive it, would you like that?"
"Yes, please, I need to know what happened." Danny now clenched his hands into fists.
"Okay," Twilight said as she let out a sigh, as if she didn't want this action to be enacted "just lay down on your back."
Danny lay on the table he had just moments ago woken up on.
"Okay, just relax and close your eyes" Twilight cooed.
Danny did as he was told and felt the tip of her horn rest on his forehead. Slowly he felt a sensation roll over his forehead, like warm fuzzy egg washing over him. The sensation warmed his entire body, like a blanket of warmth.
Though he didn't know how in a few minutes, the sensation of warmth would be replaced by the freezing grips of fear.
Danny didn't see anything; he was simply in a domain of darkness. He looked at his hands and the rest of his body, they were visible. The boy wondered how he could see himself without any source of light. He reached up and traced the pocket on the front side of his dark grey shirt, which was now back on his torso.
"Twilight?" the boy said in a voice no louder than one would use to talk to a person in the same room.
"Yes, I'm here, I am preparing your mind for the process."
Danny realized that was why he was able to see himself, because he was imagining it. He was just in a blank void of imagination.
"Twilight, where is everything?" the boy said, he wasn't really sure in which direction to talk in; being that when Twilight answered the voice resounded around him.
"You cant see anything now being that your mind is adjusting to me forcing it to relive past events, youre going to see everything out of your eyes, but know this, whatever you see, you cant change it. Its already happened."
Danny didn't move, he realized he wasn't going to like what was about to be revealed to him. "Will I feel pain?" the boy asked, afraid of the answer.
"Yes." Was all Twilight said.
Danny snapped his head down as he saw the ground materialize beneath him. The plain sidewalk shot beneath him, and connected around all of the other buildings. The streets decorated themselves with cars, and laced buildings along the sidewalks. The black void above him pulsed into a light blue. And people sprang into existence.
Danny instantly and uncontrollably burst into a stride down the path. This is what Twilight meant by he would relive it. He felt as if a full body jacket had been strapped onto him, as if someone was manipulating him with strings. He couldn't even turn his head in other ways to look behind him. Danny realized he must have had no need to look behind him on this day.
"Hey, Mom?" Danny said, involuntarily.
"Yes?" the woman walking with Danny said, now that he had turned his head to the woman, Danny finally saw the woman he loved most in the world. Her short black hair was the same sheen as his, and he had her same vivid green eyes. The Danny reliving the memory formed a tear in his eyes.
"After we go to Jacob's, can we see if Bryton can come over?" Danny asked about his old friends. He had known them since the beginning of his life. And to the end of theirs.
"Well. We'll see." His mother said with a tired look on her face. Every time Bryton slept over she was up all night listening to their racket, but Danny had fun.
As soon as she had thought this, and the tiredness already set in, she saw a car soar through the air.
"Danny!" she screamed, but that was all she had time to yell as the car imploded with the building they stood next to. Danny was thrown on his back, looking down the road in the direction the automotive had just been airborne. The boy inside the shell screamed.
A monsoon of fire was engulfing the streets, with strange shapes darting in and out of the wicked shadows being cast from the fires. The Danny at the time might not have known what demons were causing this, but the Danny phantom knew what beasts were reaping this havoc.
The equestrian animals darted from building to building, as the normal horses rammed into walls, shattering them like rice paper. Shards of cement rained on innocent people, cowering in fear. Building shook and cars flipped as the stampede engulfed the city.
Danny turned around to find his mom, lying on the ground. Blood dripping down her face. He panicked.
"Mom!" his voice cracked, "we got to move, something's coming!" as he struggled to move. The monsoon reared closer.
Dozens of people were overtaken by the four-legged beasts. They were no match at all for the beasts. As the ponies on the ground decimated the earth, the Pegasus flew in. Many of the horses of the air spread their wings, easily 20 foot wingspan for even the smallest one. Their back halves shrouded in a veil of leaking darkness. The trails of these air demons leaked into thunder clouds behind them, chattering with a high pitched thunder. Often this thunder struck buildings, instantly igniting them.
"Mom!" Danny now cried while looking back at the onslaught, now that he was crouched beside his mother. "Please get up." The tears now rolled down his face, as he looked at his wide eyed mother. The woman he loved more than any living thing on this planet. She rolled her head slightly to look at her son.
"Danny." She said. She repeated his name with more intensity, slowly gathering herself. She forced herself up, fighting the numbing pain in her head. She didn't know that the gash in her head would deprive her of blood, and her life, in under five minutes.
She forced herself to grab her sons shoulder and make him run. She couldn't manage sounds. As they slowly trotted down the streets, she began to cry with that pain her body was experiencing.
They had been engulfed by the stamped now.
The torrents of animals whipped past them, destroying everything. They watched in horror as a police car fish tailed around the edge of a building, only to be completely flipped by the mere flick of the neck of a coal black horse. As it through the car behind it, the unfathomable beast turned its head to the terrified humans.
It let out what Danny thought to be a whinny, but mixed with a lion's roar. As it lunged.
This was the last time Danny saw his mother.
While the hell-horse leaped, the boys mother used all of her remaining strength to push her child out of the way of the death animal. Danny watched as the beast exploded into a cloud of darkness. Engulfing them both. The phantom Danny stared in horror.
"They learned magic!" Twilight's resounding voice echoed. No other thing seemed to give notice to the voice.
"Shut up!" the intangible Danny screamed, crying from the pain he now experienced again, physical and emotional.
Both Dannys screamed with all of their might. He slammed against a wall across the street, as the sign reading :BROADWAY fell beside him. Danny grabbed at his side realizing he had just landed on a jagged piece of concrete, cutting completely through his lower left side. A mind splicing pain shot through him.
He tried to get up, as both Danny's yelled from the pain.
But a dark blue unicorn, wept by him, engulfing him in a windstorm, sending into the nearby intersection.
Danny laid there for a moment looking at the orange haze overtaking the blue sky.
He forced one more word to his lips.
"Mom."
Blackness…
Danny jolted forward from the sudden reappearance of the log house, taking quick shallow breaths. His entire body was dripping with sweat, and his eyes stung.
It took Danny an hour to stop crying. His mind had shut that memory out because it was so vivid, so horrible, he couldn't imagine it.
After he stopped sobbing, he looked up at the unicorn, who's horn seemed to be glowing faintly. She was looking down.
"Who did this?" Danny said in a voice so livid with rage, that it almost surprised him.
"She's a witch called Nightmare Moon." Twilight said, almost sounding scared of just saying the name.
"She led the attack on us?" The boy's voice was unchanged.
"Yes, she completely destroyed my home to, but there is a resistance!" The unicorn chirped the last part in with more of a cheerful voice than earlier.
Danny didn't blink "How do we kill her?" he said, his voice growing deeper with each word.
"Well Danny, I believe you're a part of a prophecy, to end her darkness, to destroy her." The equestrian said, looking him directly in the eyes.
The teen used all of his power to restrain his tears, but couldn't stop one from rolling down his face.
"Then that prophecy, is coming true."