Storms and shadows

by Shadow Firetail


Train ride at midnight.

When Twilight finally said her goodbyes, she felt a strange uneasiness envelop her. She brushed it off as a stomach ache. Twilight would eventually come to regret her brushoff, but it would happen sooner than she would care to admit. That is the problem of which every O.C.D pony would come to face. They plan all this time ahead, but forget to plan for unexpected complications. This was Twilight's issue.
Twilight began to board the train and took one last look at the place she once called home. It was a bittersweet feeling that while she left from her former home, she would also be returning to her friends. While riding the Canterlot Express back to Ponyville, she began to fall asleep. She awoke twenty minutes later at the sound of thunder and creaking metal. She started to go back to sleep when she heard the sound of thunder and she looked outside just as a part of the railroad tracks fell into the Dragons Den Ravine. This sudden and unexpected turn of events frightened all of the passengers including Twilight. Twilight then stepped up and eventually got the passengers to calm down long enough to listen. She told everypony to get back into their seats and sit quietly. After this was successfully completed, Twilight began to hum an erie tune. While Twilight was humming her special tune, she began to glow until she was almost as bright as the sun. While glowing, Twilight used her full raw power to cast the strongest levitation spell ever. When the train was about to reach the fallout in the tracks, Twilight lifted the train off it's tracks and carried it over until they reached solid ground. When they arrived at the solid ground, Twilight feinted from the sheer exhuastion and concentration from her spell. When Twilight feinted, she fell and hit her head on the side of her seat. She hit her head on the corner of her seat to be procise. Luckily for Twilight, there was a nurse heading from Canterlot. The nurse sang a magical lullaby that made Twilight fall into a deep sleep, almost like a coma. While the nurse stitched up her wound, she sang another lullaby. This one was merely to calm herself as well as her patient.
A few hours later, the train arrived at the Ponyville trainstation. The nurse placed Twilight under a strong magically induced coma to prevent her from doing further damage to herself. Twilight was levitated by the nurse to the Ponyville hospital which left the nurse considerably weakened because the hospital was about five miles from the trainstation. Nurse Red Heart notified Twilight's friends and both Princess Celestia and Princess Luna.
All of her friends and the princesses arrived exactly ten minutes after being notified. Her friends were near the point of bursting into tears. The nurse who had took care of Twilight on the bus had fell asleep shortly after arriving. Princess Celestia went to look on the nurse to see if she knew who it was. The sight she saw nearly incapacitated with tears as she saw both the nurse and Twilight noticibly paler than usual. Twilight was sleeping and her dreams were causing her to scream with absolute terror. Princess Celestia did everything she could short of using the dream spell to try and help her student.
Princess Celestia performed the spell after she had told the nurses what she was planning on doing to help Twilight. Celestia had performed the spell and was now in Twilight's dream world. When. She saw Twilight, Twilight was surrounded by shadow demons and Twilight cried out in terror. The sound made Celestia change into the warrior angel Celestia, the angel of veangence. Celestia began to glow bright white and gold and got brighter with each of Twilight's screams until she unleashed a spell that disintegrated the demons where they stood. Once Celestia had changed back into her alicorn form, she ran over to Twilight to try and calm her down.
Twilight looked at Celestia with eyes that were still wide with terror. The sight of her student nearly broke her heart. Celestia huddled closer to Twilight and put her wing over her and began to hum a strange and relaxing tune that caused Twilight to tremble. When Celestia was certain that Twilight had calmed down, she exited Twilight's dream world and returned to her body. Celestia stood and watched over Twilight. Celestia stayed and looked after Twilight while in her deep coma like sleep. Luna found her and asked if she had slept at all through the ordeal. Celstia told Luna that she had not slept for five days now. This made Luna very anxious. After a little bit of pleading, Luna finally convinced Celestia that she should sleep. What Celestia did not know is that a terrible turn of events was about to take place involving Twilight.