Fluttershy was getting scared now, several of those timber wolf faces had popped up and each time she had tried to laugh them off, only to cry out most of the time.
'Help!' Came an old voice from somewhere near Fluttershy. 'Somepony help!' The voice called out again. Fluttershy did not recognize the voice, it didn't sound like anypony, or any other animal, she knew.
"H-hello? Anypony there?" Fluttershy meekly called out. She started to walk towards the voice.
'Help. I need help!' The voice cried out. Fluttershy began to run to the voice and after a minute she came across an old unicorn stallion. He was lying on the ground.
"Hello? Umm, are you ok? I'm, umm, here to, umm, help." Fluttershy told the stallion, walking round so he could see her. "What, do you, umm, need help with?" She asked.
'I can't get up! I can't feel my legs!' The stallion said.
"OK, right, I'm going to try and lift you up. Once you're up, I want you to see how much of your weight you can support without me. ok?" Fluttershy asked.
'ok' The stallion answered. In a few moments, the stallion was up on his hooves, trying, and failing to support any of his own weight. Fluttershy was struggling, this stallion was heavy.
"Can you, umm, use any magic? Is your horn working?" Fluttershy asked him politely.
'I think my horn is working, but my magic isn't very strong.' He tested his horn, a few green sparks emitted from it before it lit up in a faint, but complete, glow.
"Alright then, is there anywhere you, umm, wanted to go?" Fluttershy asked.
'Just out of this place! Back into the light!' The stallion called.
"Oh, well, umm, my friends are just currently working on a way to get out. You could come with me back to them, if you'd like, then we can all get out." Fluttershy suggested.
'Yes please, you are very kind... umm, what did you say your name was?' He asked.
"Oh, umm, I didn't..." Fluttershy mumbled
'Oh, well, what is your name then?' The stallion asked, his ear flicking in slight annoyance.
"My name is Fluttershy" She said quietly. "What's yours?" The question seemed to catch the stallion off guard as he hesitated for a few moments before replying.
'My name, is River Stone' He said at last.
"Well, River Stone, where are you from? If you, umm, don't mind me asking."
'Not at all' Another flick of his ear 'I come from Canterlot, I was in Ponyville for the summer sun celebration and then those, those, beasts showed up and took us away!'
"Yes, umm, that was very scary." Fluttershy admitted.
Their conversation carried on for a bit longer, but soon, they lapsed into silence. after a few minutes of not talking, Fluttershy noticed that River Stone's horn was glowing, and she wondered how long it had been. Fluttershy looked around for any signs that might indicate what River Stone was doing. She didn't think he was casting a spell on her, she would probably have noticed, but he could be casting a spell on something else.
As soon as Fluttershy's back was turned, River Stone pounced on her. He wasn't hurt at all, in fact, his injuries were just a facade. He could feel his legs and he could support his own weight. He pinned Fluttershy to the ground and stopped using his magic. Actually, he hadn't really been using his magic, he had simply just made his horn glow so it would look like he was casting a spell or levitating an object so that Fluttershy would look around and turn her back to him.
"R-River Stone!!! W-w-what are you doing!" Fluttershy Gasped.
'You Fluttershy, are too kind for your own good!' River Stone said in a different voice, one that Fluttershy recognized from in the town hall.
"Y-you-you're N-N-N-Night-t-mare-mare m-m-moon?!!!" Fluttershy was on the edge of consciousness. River Stone just grinned and lit up his horn, a blue magical aura surrounded his body as he removed his disguise, to reveal Nightmare moon herself.
Fluttershy, screamed. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!"
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Rainbow Dash was flying at an incredibly fast pace upwards. Every thought that the voice had put into her head were now being dispelled as one question came into her mind. 'Why am I in this dome again?' The question swirled in her brain as she tried to find the answer. Rainbow thought back to what her new 'friend' had said to her, she replayed what she could remember backwards. 'Show me you can make it to the top and I will be your friend,...They don't like you and they have a lot of good reasons as to why they don't,...Are they your friends though?,...You abandoned your "friends" in their time of need!,...you just didn't want to lose did you?,...you're just worthless,...You can't make it.' Rainbow Dash thought about all those things that the voice had told her, but, 'did those ponies actually think of her that way?' Rainbow started to slow down again. 'They had stood by her side when it mattered, hadn't they? Like when she had broken her wing after falling of a cloud whilst napping, Pinkie Pie had let her stay with her until she had gotten better. And Rarity almost always gave Rainbow something in return when Rainbow did a favor for her.' Rainbow was slowing down some more. 'Now that she thought about it with nopony to interrupt her thoughts, she realized that those ponies had offered to do things, they had given things in return, they didn't give her weird looks when she came by.' The more she thought about it, the more what the voice had told her sounded less and less real. Rainbow began to think back to times when she had done things for her friends just because she felt she needed to, or when her friends did stuff for her because they wanted to, and, when she and Pinkie went pranking together, Pinkie didn't use her, she asked if she had any ideas, if Dash didn't then she didn't press, If Dash didn't want to come pranking, she didn't question it. Fluttershy may have pleaded from time to time for Dash to do a lot of things, even if Dash didn't want to, but that was mainly because Dash knew how to do those things better than anypony else, besides Fluttershy, or because Dash and Fluttershy had been best friends since, since before Dash could remember!
Rainbow Dash had come to a complete stop now. She was slowly realizing that the voice had intended to get in her way, make her think that her friends weren't really her friends, to try and make her leave them.
"NO!" Rainbow Dash shouted and she dive bombed downwards to get to the others.
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Pinkie Pie was now bored. Her party was over, it was one of the best party's ever! All of Pinkie's timber wolf head friends had shown up, and even if that weird Applejack voice had disappeared, the party was amazing! Pinkie Pie had gotten lost, she couldn't remember which way she had come from and her Pinkie sense didn't seem to be working, that was shown when a door slammed into her face from no-where, and then an apple had landed on her head! The apple had then quickly sunk into her mane. It had been about half an hour since Pinkie left to find the edge of the dome, but she had never found it.
"Aww, shoot. I could've asked Paul where Twilight was, he would've known. Hmm, maybe If I call him out he will come and help! YEH!" So, Pinkie took an enormous breath (bigger than any normal pony could) and shouted louder than physically possible "PAUL!"
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Applejack was running in what she assumed to be the direction Twilight was in, when she heard a faint shout that had seemed to have echoed around the entire dome.
"PAUL!"
"Who in the hay is Paul?" Applejack asked before remembering. "Right, Paul is one o' Pinkie's magical timber wolf head-thing friends. Wait! Paul is one o' Pinkie's friends! That must'a been Pinkie ah heard shoutin!" Applejack realized and immediately changed the direction she was running in towards where Pinkie's voice had come from.
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Twilight and Rarity were standing where they had been half an hour ago still casting the same spells.
"Got anywhere yet Rarity?" Twilight asked.
"Sorry Twilight dear, this is rather a hard spell, but I will do my best and carry on." Rarity replied, tiredly. Spike sat down on the floor near them when he heard a noise. It was faint, but it sounded like Fluttershy screaming.
"Twilight, did you hear that?" He asked.
"Hear what?" Twilight responded.
"The scream, it sounded a bit like Fluttershy"
"WHAT!" Rarity quickly dropped her magic. "The poor dear is in terrible danger! Twilight we must do something!"
"What can we do?? We need both of our magic to do this and If we send Spike he might get lost!" Twilight shouted, still casting her spell.
"Well!" Rarity struggled to come up with an idea. She thought for a few seconds, then got an idea. "Twilight, after an incident with Sweetie Belle a while back, I had to learn a certain spell! The spell allowed me to give another unicorn my magic! My magic would soon regenerate within a few days, but I'd always be able to know where the pony with my magic is! Plus the pony gaining my magic would become stronger! If I use that spell now and give you my magic, you would have enough to get it done all the same! I could then go and find Fluttershy and bring her back to you without getting lost!" She explained. Twilight had stopped casting her spell to listen to Rarity better, what she heard, shocked her.
"You know the magical transfer tracking spell!!! B-but that's one of the hardest spells to learn! It takes months of practice and a busy mare like you wouldn't have the time!" Twilight shouted, astonished.
"One must make time for those in need Twilight. In mine and Sweeties case, I gave up all my spare time and my working time to perfect the spell. Now, I'm prepared to do the spell, and I'm going to find Fluttershy whether you like it or not!"
"Fine but be quick or-" Another scream cut her off. Rarity cast the spell and Twilight could feel magic flowing into her. After a few brief moments the spell was complete. Rarity staggered a bit but then regained her balance, and shook her head.
"Wooo, that's left me dizzy" She muttered under her breath. "Spike! Which way did the scream come from??" Spike immediately pointed to his right and Rarity ran off in that direction.
A few minutes had passed since Rarity had left and Twilight had gotten back to casting her spell, currently she had discovered that there were four spells cast, not including the dome. Right now, she was trying to determine what spell had cast the dome. Somepony shouting from above her caught her attention. It was Rainbow Dash, she was dive bombing down to the ground and yelling for Twilight to move out of the way. Rainbow was coming in fast and Twilight could tell that she was trying, and failing, to slow herself down. Twilight stopped casting her spell in surprise and then jumped out of the way before casting a levitation spell. At the speed Rainbow was going, she was going to crash into the ground and seriously hurt herself. The next few seconds flew by in the blink of an eye. (hey, that rhymes!) Twilight opened her eyes. (Did I forget to mention that she closed them? Well she did) In front of Twilight was Rainbow Dash, upside down, with her eyes closed tightly. She was hovering in mid-air thanks to Twilight's spell. Rainbow's mane dragged along the floor and her tail draped over her back.
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After a few seconds of not feeling the ground as she crashed into it, actually, a few seconds of feeling not moving whatsoever, Rainbow Dash cracked open an eye. She was hovering in mid-air. Her head centimeters away from touching the floor. In front of her, Rainbow could see a pair of lavender legs, they were upside down. As Rainbow let her eyes travel up the legs, to the body that the legs belonged to and finally to the head of the being, Rainbow saw Twilight sparkle, horn aglow, and looking rather startled. Silence hung in the air. Rainbow Dash broke it.
"Heh, soooo, umm, sorry?"