Blinding Light Dungeon, 1:03 AM
(Now head left, there should be a bridge that cuts across something.) The voice echoed in Twilight's mind.
Twilight turned left and found a bridge spanned across at least a 50 yard gap, and below it was a writhing sea of white. Twilight gasped as she saw faces emerge, only to vanish after a few seconds.
" What are they?" Twilight asked.(The souls of my brothers and sisters. Our kind does not go to rest, but stays restless until they reincarnate after a while into a new body. However, the spells here keep them from earning their reincarnation and torture them. I found this when a sliver of my power escaped and traced a path back to the surface. A path you're taking now.i])
" interesting. So how long have you been here?" twilight asked as she crossed the bridge. (Oh, about a thousand and ten years last i checked.) Twilight gasped and almost lost her balance, so she spread her wings to keep her steady.
" A thousand and ten years? Jeez how are you still alive?" Twilight replied, now suspicious. (I told you! I am different from the rest of ponykind therefore i do not have the needs nor the short lifespan of you ponies.)
"How long do you live?" (Depending on whether or not if we are fighting, usually around a few thousand years.)
"Huh." Twilight muttered as she came to another room. This room was covered in long scratches and Twilight could see shadows moving against science and slithering around. (Don't step on those.)
"Yea i got that." Twilight muttered as she spread her wings to fly over them. Then she realized something, she was missing her wings!
"What the?! Where are my wings?!" She gasped. (Oh yea, forgot to mention. This room is an antimagic/antiflight zone. If you are going to get across you have to do on the ground without any help.)
"Again?" Twilight sighed. "It was bad enough when Discord took away my horn..." (You fought with Discord? Impressive.
"Yea, well i wouldn't pay any bits for the experience." I'm well aware of what he does. I just didn't expect practically anyone to be able to face him.)
"Yea, its kinda hard to believe." Twilight responded, then stopped. staring at the room she had entered into. There was literally nothing there but a straight up shot to the surface or a long fall to the bottom. (That's not real.)
"What do you mean? Of course it is! I think i would be able to tell if it wasn't real." Twilight snorted. There was a chuckle, then (Even allicorns can be susceptible to it. I have seen one down here and she always stops here.)
"Really? What she looked like?" (Hmm, i believe she was pink, with some sort of purple hair. Anyway, just walk straight across and ignore whats below and above you.)
Twilight sighed and closed her eyes. What if this pony was wrong? It seemed pretty real to her. What would happen if she didn't make it across? What would happen to her friends? Twilight became so absorbed in her thoughts that she didn't realize that several minutes went by until:
JUST TAKE A DAMN STEP! Twilight was so startled that she stumbled a few steps forward. She screamed as she expected to fall, but the image flickered, changing to a large corridor that lead deeper into the prison. Then Twilight looked up at the ceiling and found that there were eyes watching her.
"Eeek!" She shrieked and bolted forward. There was a loud collective roar and the sounds of several things taking flight behind her, Thinking quickly, Twilight erected a barrier of purple energy. She heard several satisfying THUDS! and turned to find the creatures pursuing her. They were small, but they were still horrible. They resembled pegusi without their skins, red, wet, glistening, with no eyes. How they flew was beyond Twilight, but at least for now they couldn't get to her. She turned to continue down, but was confronted by a giant oval door with a faded emblem on the front. Twilight noticed that there was shadows leaking out around the edges. Then the voice said, (You found me.)
"So this is what is keeping you in?" Twilight asked, analyzing the faintly glowing runes on the door. (Yes, but i do not know how to open it, but i do know that it requires the powerful magic of an allicorn. How you open it is up to you.)
"Well these runes are powerful binding runes, at least they were. The magic here has faded a lot, but still contain most of their power, but its just scattered. So give me a minute to dissolve the runes okay?" Twilight replied. (Of course. I'm not going anywhere. Oh by the way, your friends are getting nearer to this location.)
"Thanks." Twilight responded, then began to concentrate. She tapped her horn against the runes. She could feel the power there. It was old, volatile, but still dangerous. She searched for the threads that tied the runes in place and upon finding them, dissolved them. It was more difficult then she could imagine and images of a raging inferno and a pitch black sphere went through her mind as the threads dissolved completely. There was a loud banging sound as the entire prison shuddered and more shadows began to burst through the door.
KRAAAAAAACK BOOOOOM!
Twilight was thrown back into the stone wall as the oval door shattered and solid darkness slammed against her, knocking her unconscious...
Above ground 2:13 Am
The ground shook in Everfree Forest to Ponyville as an enormous column of fire burst out of the ground where Twilight and her friends entered, only to be swallowed up by a dark wave coming in. At the edge of the entrance to the prison was a cloaked stallion, whose cloak seemed to be alive. He smiled and began to laugh, a raspy echoing laugh that boomed out through all the forest....