//------------------------------// // Nightmares, Midnght meetings, The Plan, A Sisterly Talk // Story: Shadows and Sunlight // by King Sombra Returns //------------------------------// { Nightmares} Twilight had spent the rest of the odd day with her friends, that night she called upon the voice seeking answers. Instead she only got dreams, not horrible dreams but scary none the less. Twilight walked through the grassy fields and saw each of her five friends talking, but they weren't nice things. " Twilight is such a idiot." Applejack said a tone of disgust very noticeable. " Yes I agree Darling you are so right, she never even thinks about what we say." Rarity said turning up her nose. " That egghead thinks she's so smart yet she knows nothing." said Rainbow Dash floating on a greyish cloud. Suddenly it wasn't a dream any more this was really happening they were really saying these things about her. " No wonder she didn't have any friends in Canterlot she need us to even think she was good." said Pinkie Pie jumping around the others " Yeah I-I mean we don't even have the Elements any more so we aren't full friends are we." said the timid Fluttershy " The very first day she said she didn't want to be friends so I say we make that a reality." Rainbow said jumping off the cloud. " Next week she has had a rough day." Apple Jack said " Deal!" all five said together. This was not a dream this was happening they had all abandoned her and were going to tell her next week, She couldn't bear it and started crying her eyes turning puffy and red. Then she felt someone touching her mane, she looked up a dark ashen grey fore leg was petting her mane. She looked up even further and saw the figure in the shadowed cloak, she opened up and cried as she was filled with a sense of peace and comfort with this figure beside her. " I am sorry, but remember you are not alone you still have me. You still trust me correct?" " Of course I trust you, you have helped me through so much in the last day then anyone ever has, and it isn't your fault it's mine I am the worst friend ever-.." she tilted her head down in sadness as the tears began to fall down her cheek " You are not a bad friend Twilight Sparkle you are kind and so intelligent and smart, they are not deserving to have somepony like you as there friend." " You R-really T-think so." she said stuttering thought the tears. He lifted her to him and brought her close, " I do." With that he leaned closer and pressed his lips against hers, she did not care everything had melted away and she only wanted to be right there and right now. She opened up to him and returned the kiss, after a few seconds he pulled away. " Did I do something I-." " No my dear my time with you is limited and now I must go I shall see you again." " I will be here..... Wait! What is your name?" " For now call me Dark one." Twilight thought this weird because He was not dark...the cape, she felt like an idiot. " Goodbye Dark one." " Farewell my dear Twilight farewell." The 'Dark One' had not left the corners of Twilight's mind, at least not yet. Everything was falling into play. { Midnight meetings} Twilight awoke with a start, what had happened she didn't remember dreaming then....Her friends she thought with a snarl. They didn't think she heard them planning to throw her out like a sick puppy, well now she knew what they truly thought of her and Dark One told her tha-. Dark One just thinking of him was making her blush, his long shadow like cape, his ashen grey coat, his deep but sweet voice. Twilight sighed she might like him but she hadn't really been with him that much it was too soon to tell. Then Spike burst through the door, " Twilight are you up tell me if you are awake." " Spike I am fine." " Are you sure are you dizzy,headache, too hot, too cold, are you feeling alright." It was clear that Spike was scared about the well being of Twilight, for he was shaking and a drop of sweat ran down his face. " No Spike I am just fine, don't worry about me." " DON'T WORRY after what happened yesterday you want to NOT WORRY!" The baby Dragen said an angry and sad expression plastered on his face. Finally Spike calmed down and practiced his breathing before continuing. " Princess Cadence was wondering if you wanted to come to the Crystal Empire next month." " Wait what are you doing up at midnight?" The little dragon shrugged his shoulders and gave Twilight a hug returning to his bed " Well at least I still have Spike." { The Plan } " That will be perfect." both Twilight and Dark One said, but Dark One had a sound spell so Twilight could not hear him. Then he continued, " If I can teach Twilight what I wish then when she gets in the empire, not only will I have the strength I need but she will trust me enough to break. After all her friends have ' abandoned ' her." He said in a sarcastic tone he knew what he was up to for we has been planning this for a Long time, what he hadn't planned for was something in his chest area that hurt every time he thought of the lavender Alicorn. ' Probably nothing' he thought as he lurked deeper in Twilight's subconscious passing by memories erasing this bit, messing with that one, and so on and so forth. Twilight was really the perfect target, he smirked revealing sharp fangs for he would need them very soon. {A Sisterly Talk} Princess Luna was walking through the halls of Canterlot Castle when she heard a noise in the throne room, she immediately lit up her horn making her armor appear as well as her sword. You could never be sure these days, she barged in the throne room head on knocking the intruder over reviling. Her sister, Princess Celestia. " Tia what art thou doing at this hour, thy should be asleep do you need our help chasing away though's foul dreams?" " No no Lulu I just wished to clear my head." The Princess of the Night scowled at her old nickname before getting off her older sister, Princess Celestia wasn't even phased that Princess Luna had barged in and pinned her to the cold, stone floor. " Oh well you startled us we thought there was an intruder coming to deliver a fast and painless death to the Alicorns, We can never be too cautious." The younger Princess said coldly. " Oh Lulu you can relax that has not happened in over three hundred years." Celestia said with a chuckle. " Must you use the name Star Swirl gave us this humiliating sister of the Sun?" " Can you stop talking like you did a thousand years ago?" " Fine Sister of the Sun you win this round, but worry not we are not so easily bested." " I know little sister, trust me I know." Celestia said with one last giggle. " Sister you should return to your Chambers we shall watch over the night" "better than being imprisoned in it's glory" Luna said quietly. " Farewell dear sister." " Until the Dawn sister of the Sun, until Dawn." she said sadly looking at the moon.