By coincidence or probably already written by destiny, the entire group appeared between Canterlot and Everfree Forest. Midnight could feel something inside him, a voice or an amalgamation of several whispering something impossible to understand. Close to him, poor Whisper felt unconscious
“Is he ok? He looks pretty bad!” a sweet voice asks them.
Iron was trying to wake up Whisper while Zenith and Quetzal couldn’t believe that they were looking at the Sky,From all the friends only Jade noticed in what condition was Midnight; his eyes were gleaming, they looked almost haunted; there was a sense of dread emanating from them like from a Nightmare Stallion, just like… his father. He started to breath quickly; the voices inside his head were starting to become annoying to Midnight.
“Are you ok?” Asked again that sweet melodic voice. Midnight turned around, that annoying voice was coming from that little filly with Pink mane. The little one took a step backwards after seeing his eyes, it was clear that she had become terrified of the half breed.
“Midnight!” Jade screamed at him making that awful glowing disappear from Midnight’s eyes and he then fell unconscious too. Running to his side, Jade noticed that the other pony was breathing regularly. Maybe he had been affected by the long distance teleportation; at least that’s what Jade hoped for
A giant cloud covered the sky over Canterot and the crystal wall was breaking slowly. They needed to find that strange place in Everfree right now but the little filly… Jade took a look and understand that she didn’t come alone. She reached the conclusion that a small group of ponies escaped from Canterlot successfully.
“Sorry sweetie, my friend has some troubles controlling his magic.”
“It is ok, neither can I, my teacher told me that I’m still too young, what are you doing here by the way?” she asked them.
“We just appeared here, we need to reach the Everfree. Do you know what happened in Canterlot?”
A unicorn mare then trotted to the side of the little filly “Celestia, please go with you sister.”
“Ok mom.”
The Unicorn took a look to Canterlot behind the barrier and breathed deeply “A nightmare happened; The Royal guards, The Princess, all of them were corrupted by Noche, and now he is trying to take the power of the scepter to destroy the Crystal Prison and corrupt the Crystal Heart.We were some of the few lucky ones.”
“Mom! Luna started crying!”
The Unicorn apologized and walked in the direction of her daughters.
It was something bizarre, probably a feeling that Jade had once or twice before. It first came to her as she saw a painting of the Equestria founders, then when she met midnight for the first time and now with this filly. Something was telling Jade that these little fillies were destined for something great but sadly she could not stay and watch that kind of life, it was more important for them to defeat Noche.
Quetzal and Zenith put Midnight and Whisper on Iron’s back carefully, then started their journey to Everfree, never realizing what exactly the had
Midnight could feel his whole body going numb; he couldn’t hear anything except those whispers again but this time he could understand them. That voice was calling for him and just one voice, there were dozens of them.
“Come with us… Join us…”
He opened his eyes and his blood froze inside him; uncountable eyes were looking him. All of them immersed into an infinite void. In the middle of them all he could hear an evil laughter, his father… a giant shadow with a fearsome look.
“You are so foolish my little boy; do you really think that you could stop me? Your existence has only one purpose, you belong to me! You are the Umbrum with physical form that will destroy everything that I want!”
Something happened to his whole body, a terrible pain, his front hooves slowly and painfully started to change until they became claws. Giant pair of dragon wings emerged from his back growing quickly and unfolding due to the pain; but the worst of all hadn´t happen yet.
Midnight started to scream in pain as the worst headache ever made him lose his footing falling to the ground -or what passed as ground in the empty void-; his horn grew and another two goat horns emerged from his head piercing the skin and letting a flow of blood splatter around the void and Midnight’s coat. His eyes were glowing again with a nightmarish look and he started to laugh as if everything was a simple joke, or maybe he had just gone insane.
“Midnight… are you ok?” a very familiar voice finally woke him up. A very bothering voice “I think he is dead; just look at him, he is so pale!”
“Just shut up Shard… I am not dead yet, but you’re probably kill me if you keep on screaming in my ear!” Midnight finally opened his eyes finding the rest of his friends around the clearing. A dense forest covered all the sky and a fire was in front of him. All his friends were there. He just had a Nightmare…
“Were are we? How long I stayed unconscious?”
“Look around Midnight, we are inside Everfree Forest, and I think you were out approximately six hours” Zenith answered him never taking his eyes away from the sky “the cloudare growing still, almost covers all of Everfree. It won’t take long before the clouds would be the only thing we see when we look up.”
“And what happened with…”
“The crystal prison? Haven’t broken yet” Answered Whisper, he seemed so quiet now; it was obvious something changed him, like he was waiting for something… “The wall will brake at midnight and the chaos and fear will destroy everything but, I have a good feeling, I just need to follow you and we will win if we believe in ourselves.”
“I know that you have fear Midnight, I can feel it too, but we need to believe that this situation has a solution.”
“Whatever you decide, I’m in, I made a promise and I will accomplish it.”
“May be your father is strong, but he made the worst mistakes; he attacked me and my family, my wings are with you.”
They didn’t know, but they were exactly where they need to be as inside the little box five of the six crystals started to glow. The only thing that they still needed was the energy of the six ponies reunited.
“You will never win! Somepony will defeat you!”
“Oh my dear and Sweet Princess, this is becoming so tedious, do you have any other lines beyond the classic ‘damsel in distress is not giving up’? Do you truly still believe in them? I would call it cliché by this point but I have seen the strange things you ponies can do. No matter, I know my son… he will become like me… an Umbrum, and when that happens I will enjoy how he kills those ponies that call him friend. That will be so funny and ironical.”
“You are sick.”
Noche just laughed for the answer of the Princess
“Oh don’t be stupid my dear, I’m not sick… I’m mad. There is a clear difference between those two words.” The giant shadow slowly flew around the princess “I will become the Emperor of Destruction, and when that happen, I will need a Empress.” He looked the crystal princess with a mad smile –or at least what could pass as a smile for a dark fog- “You only need to let me inside you and you will see the world that I see; now, don’t got taking my words out of context, I have no intention of defiling you. I just want you to be like me… You will become my Empress in the new world that is about to begin.”
“I will die first.”
“That is an option in this situation, number four if I remember correctly.”
A terrible scream emerged from Canterlot that was heard around all Equestria… then things went from bad to worse as the Crystal Prison finally shattered. Like a broken mirror, the awful noise came with Thunders.
Noche was free again.