The sun was beginning to rise over Camp Everfree as most of the campers were fast asleep. However, a few people woke up earlier than others as Applejack stretched her arms while she walked out of her tent. Seeing Terracotta and Ivy awake as well, she offered to help Azalea's parents with preparing breakfast for the campers. As they did, they past by the Sapphire Tent where Sunset Shimmer, Twilight Sparkle, and Spike were still sleeping. While Spike snored in his sleep, Twilight was restless as she tossed and turned in her bed. Her dream had her sitting in front of the fire pit, but she was hearing something in the dark as she looked around with fear very evident on her face. "Here I am! Over here," the voice said as Twilight began looking around before turning to the fire pit. When her gaze focused on the flames, they changed from a typical orange color to a menacingly unnatural purple as Midnight Sparkle, Twilight's monstrous form from the Friendship Games, popped out of the flames and shouted at Twilight. "I'm always here," she exclaimed as Twilight tried to shield herself from her alter ego.
"NO," Twilight exclaimed as she tried to defend herself and shut her eyes, not noticing a red flash of light appear when she did.
Upon hearing Twilight cry out in fear, Sunset Shimmer immediately jumped out of her bed and started assuming karate poses and muttered while she was half-asleep. "What happened," Shimmer managed to say as she began to wake up. While she did that, Rua Amaranth and Sunset Blaze teleported into the tent in a flash of purplish-red light.
"Something wrong," the Huntresses questioned as they investigated the room.
"Nothing. Sorry, Sunset. You guys, too," Twilight apologized and rubbed her eyes. As she did, she didn't notice the sparkling aura around herself and her bed.
Rua and both Sunsets rubbed their eyes to make sure they were seeing what they were looking at. "Uh, Twilight, I think something happened," all three remarked as they pointed out Twilight's bed and a few other objects were floating in the air. Seeing what they were talking about, Twilight panicked and the aura vanished from the objects, causing them all to fall and wake up Spike.
"Is it time to get up already," Spike questioned after his rude awakening. Still tired, he paced around his dog bed and went back to sleep.
"What just happened," Sunset Blaze asked as she gestured to Twilight's bed that was previously levitating.
"Apparently, Twilight's developed some sort of new magic," Shimmer explained. "She doesn't want the others to know after Azalea and Layla found out about it with us. But seriously Twilight, we really need to talk about this if you're nightmares are going to cause things like this."
"No, we don't," Twilight exclaimed bitterly as she held in her emotions and looked away from the girls.
Sensing Twilight's pent up fear and anxiety from something related to this, Sunset Blaze believed that Twilight should talk about it. But remembering all the times Azalea stubbornly stated that she would deal with her own problems, Blaze thought that this was something that Twilight would have to come clean about on her own. "We won't tell the others about this yet, but you really should help her out," Blaze told Shimmer. "You two have obviously gotten closer since the 'you-know-whats', so I'll let you try and talk to her about this whole thing."
"Thanks," Sunset Shimmer said.
"Come on, let's go make sure Azalea's awake," Rua stated as she and Blaze began to leave the tent. "I swear, she could sleep through a metal concert."
Later that day, everyone was enjoying their day or fixing up the dock for the camp. Out on the lake, Derpy and Sandalwood were trying to sail a boat, but the wind died on them. While they floated on the water, the dock was nearly completed as everyone worked on it under Ventus' watchful eye. Sunset Shimmer and Twilight walked in silence as they approached the dock to check on the progress. "Hey, I know you don't want to, but I really think we need to figure out what's going on with your magic," Shimmer said as she tried to speak to Twilight about what happened that morning. "If you could learn to control it—"
"But that's just it," Twilight angrily exclaimed as she turned to face Sunset Shimmer. "I'll never be able to control it!"
As Twilight said that, Derpy and Sandalwood's boat sped toward the dock suddenly. "LOOK OUT," Ventus shouted as he flew past everyone and they fled just in time to see the boat crash into the dock. While the boat and dock were wrecked, Ventus managed to rescue Derpy and Sandalwood from getting hurt or taking an unexpected swim by using his Semblance to fly. Carrying the girl on his back while the boy was held carefully in his talons, the Falcon Faunus set them both down on the ground. "You two alright," he asked while everyone looked at what happened and a crowd began to gather.
"What happened," Rainbow Dash questioned as she, Rua, and many others arrived and saw to damage.
"I didn't mean to," Twilight said as she believed that she unintentionally caused the accident, confusing Rainbow Dash.
"We didn't see anything, so we don't know what happened," Sunset Shimmer said as she covered for Twilight. As she, Rua, and Rainbow rushed to see if anybody was hurt, Twilight only looked at her hands in worry before joining the others. "Are you okay," Shimmer asked Sandalwood while Derpy hugged Ventus for saving the two of them.
"Yeah," Sandalwood told her as Timber Spruce made sure the campers were okay. "It was so weird, though. We were stuck in a middle of the lake with no wind, then all of a sudden, bam! The wind picked up, and we were pushed right into the dock."
"I didn't feel any wind," Ventus remarked as he looked out at the lake.
Pinkie Pie gasped in shock when she heard the details. "You don't think it was the spirit, did you," she asked in worry as she stood next to Rua and Trixie.
Twilight overheard Pinkie's statement and whispered to herself, "No, it was me." Nobody noticed her leaving the dock except for Azalea and Sunset Blaze, so they carefully followed using Azalea's Semblance to make themselves invisible.
Meanwhile, Trixie was attempting to summon the supposed legend. "Spirit, show yourself! The Great and Powerful Trixie commands it," she exclaimed dramatically while Pinkie and Rua only facepalmed at what Trixie was trying to do.
"You do realize that if it shows up because of you, it might rip your arms off, right," Rua told Trixie, who only gulped.
"What's that," Rarity questioned as she pointed out to some type of sparkling dust in the water that was coming from the wrecked boat. The campers were concerned about if the legend was true while Fragment Hunter was suspicious. Before they could question it, a loud growling sound was heard from the nearby bushes that Fragment Hunter easily recognized.
"What was that," Fluttershy asked in panic and terror as she and the other campers turned to see what the noise was. Emerging from the bushes, everyone watched as a large black-furred bear with burning red eyes, bone plating and spikes, and smoke coming off its body roared loudly.
Remembering the same kind of monster from the Friendship Games, Trixie's eyes widened with fear. "Not another one," she said as she stumbled back in fear. The Ursa Grimm looked at all the scared teenagers, but noticed immense fear and other negative emotions coming from Trixie. Roaring again, it charged forward and was about to slash at the girl. Trixie shrieked in fear as she believed that she would be killed by the Grimm, but her screams died down as she didn't feel the bear's claws or teeth. "Huh?"
Looking in front of her, Trixie saw Rua holding back the Ursa's claw with her shield as the Grimm struggled to overpower the fighter. "What did I say, Trixie? Call something dangerous, it'll turn you into its new plaything," Rua stated as she defended the egotistical illusionist from being killed. Pushing forward, Rua forced the Grimm back before separating her shield into blades that fit on her arms and teleported before she punched the Grimm in the side while Trixie ran for safety. "Take this, you overgrown rug," she shouted before ducking under the Grimm's attack and kicked the demonic bear in the groin. As the Grimm recoiled in pain from the strike, Rua continued striking at the Grimm with her arm blades and damaged it more. Turning to face the girl, the Ursa swiped its claws at Rua to only attack thin air when the girl teleported onto the dock. "Come and get me, Smokey," Rua taunted as she caught the Grimm's attention.
The Ursa growled as it charged toward Rua, not paying attention to the ruined environment. Rua smirked as the Ursa fell for her trap and she backflipped onto the destroyed boat when the Grimm attempted to bite her. The Grimm ended up splashing into the water and growled at Rua as it tried to climb onto the boat. "Aw, did you have a nice swim," Rua asked as she taunted the Grimm once more. Roaring at the Huntress, the Grimm tried to attack once more before Rua jumped onto its back and teleported the two of them into the sky above the lake. Kicking away at the Grimm to force it beneath herself, Rua reformed her weapon back into a giant shuriken and threw it at the falling Ursa. The monster was impaled by the weapon and crashed onto the ground, dying and evaporating on impact while Rua safely performed a three-point landing. "Oh yeah!"
After everyone watched Rua win the battle, Trixie fell to her knees. "That was a close one," she muttered as she attempted to steady her breathing.
"What is it with you and Ursai," Rua asked Trixie as she retrieved her shield. "Did you piss off bears in another life or something?"
When Trixie calmed down, the Rainbooms all surveyed the damage done to the dock after the crash and the battle. "Oh, man! All our hard work! Ruined," Rainbow Dash exclaimed.
"At least the fishies are eating well," Fluttershy mentioned as she saw some fish in the lake eating the food that was in the water after the feed boxes she suggested were broken.
"Let's salvage what we can out of the water," Sunset Shimmer told everyone present. "Maybe we can still fix this."
"We have to try," Rarity exclaimed. "Camp Everfree needs a runway!"
"Dock," Applejack and Slate corrected.
"Dock. Yes. That's what I meant," Rarity said as she looked at her fingernails.
"My main question is where that Ursa came from," Slate asked as he faced toward the bushes the Creature of Grimm appeared from.
"Something really strange is happening here," Ventus remarked as he and Bianca grabbed at some planks in the water and flew off to help.