July 7th, Sunset's House, Saturday Afternoon
03:12PM
Dear Princess Twilight,
Sorry for not writing to you for a while. Things have been... well, really strange this summer. A few days ago a werewolf appeared in Canterlot and has been terrorising everyone in town. I don't remember myself, so I'm asking you, is there any history of werewolves back in Equestria that might have managed to pass through the portal?
-Sunset Shimmer
Sunset laid the book on her lap, waiting for the princess to reply. She desperately needed to know this, it was her only hope of potentially stopping this werewolf thing. She was still waiting after a moment of silence, she wanted to be there as soon as the princess replied. Then, the book began vibrating and writing appeared on the next page.
Dear Sunset Shimmer,
I've never heard of actual werewolves being in Equestria, but I'll see if I can find anything at all in my library. For now, explain to me what this werewolf has done, if you know anything.
Sunset thought for a moment before writing her reply. Should she tell her? Her mind immediately went to no. Though, it was possible for her to explain this without mentioning herself. The pen began tracing along the page again.
Princess Twilight's Castle, Saturday Afternoon
03:19PM
Princess Twilight was flying quickly through her crystalline library, picking up any books that had a relation to mythical creatures. Her journal began buzzing, signalling Sunset had written back, but Twilight was too busy right now to read it.
"Spike!" Twilight called out. "Could you read me Sunset's message? I'm a little busy."
The small dragon jumped from the wooden stool he was sitting on, reading a comic book. "Sure thing," he said, running over to the table and picking up the journal.
He cleared his throat and began reading,
"She says... umm." Spike squinted at the writing. "I really can't read her handwriting, it's way too curly."
"Give it here!" Twilight snatched the book from Spike and read it to herself.
It started on the night I came home. There's was a news report the next day mentioning that someone had seen a large creature roaming in the streets. Others have said that it tried to attack them.
This world's Twilight had the idea that we should all go on a hunt for it. Most of us declined but Rainbow Dash actually accepted. They both went on the hunt and found that there's another wolf. One of them was very close to catching Rainbow, but don't worry, she was saved.
Our main problem is that we don't know how to stop a werewolf without killing it.
I was wondering if there was a way to reverse the effects?
"What's she saying, Twilight?" the dragon asked from below.
"There's a werewolf back in her world and she's asking if there's a way of getting rid of it without resorting to violence."
"Is there a way? And werewolves actually exist?"
Twilight continued searching through all of her books. "That's what I'm looking for and apparently so, yeah." She picked up a new book and threw it away into a pile of already read books almost every second. Pages flew by so fast they could challenge Rainbow Dash during a Sonic Rainboom. While blazing through all of her books, she handed her journal to Spike with her telekinesis. "Write back to Sunset for me."
"Right!" Spike ran and grabbed a quill, awaiting for Twilight's message.
"Write back, 'I'm looking as hard as I can currently but with the library I have I, so far, have come up empty. If there are not any answers here, I will visit Canterlot and have a look there, and if I fail there as well, I'll ask Princess Celestia to have a look in the Restricted Section. If you can, keep the werewolf at bay until I find something, and be careful, Sunset,'" Twilight finished, having already done another thirteen books. "You got all that, Spike?"
"Yup, just gotta wait for Sunset now." Spike caught sight of the pile of books a few feet away and jumped back in surprise. "Geez Twilight! How many books have you read already?"
"Dunno! Didn't count! Didn't care!" she replied quickly. Somehow, she seemed to have gotten faster. Spike was a little anxious that the books might catch on fire, she was reading so fast. Shelves on books disappeared in almost an instant. "Nothing here! Nothing there! Nothing here either! Why do I own every book except the one I desperately need?!" Twilight cried.
"We should probably just go to Canterlot now," Spike suggested. "I mean, you've already almost read every book there."
Twilight looked up at her shelves and her eyes grew wide to how empty they were now. She then looked downwards to the books she has read and her jaw fell, now the same size as her widened eyes. They did probably have to go for the Canterlot idea, but Twilight desperately wanted to make sure. "But what if one of these is the one?" She pointed a hoof towards whatever books still remained.
"Twilight, we clearly don't have the book if you've found absolutely nothing," Spike said with a hint of coldness. "Now just calm down, fly down here and we can go check out the Canterlot library."
"But what about this mess?"
"I dunno, get Starlight to do it or something? Now c'mon. I'll grab the journal."
Spike ran back to the table and picked up the journal, still no message from Sunset, and made their way out of the castle. Twilight rushing out as fast as she could and Spike trying to keep up.
Starlight walked into the library with a book in front of her face, she didn't notice the huge mess at first. She sat by the large crystal table and when she placed her book onto it, she finally noticed the piles of books all over the library.
Her mouth fell open with a gasp. "What the buck happened in here?!"
Sunset's House, Saturday Afternoon
03:29PM
Sunset was still laying in her bed, her pen tapping the page not knowing what to write back. Had they talked enough for now? Should she just leave Twilight to help her out? Probably. This isolation idea still seemed like a bad idea, not that she ever thought that it was a good one. Even if she stays inside at all times, what exactly will it fix? She could still escape once nighttime eventually came along, and her friends will become suspicious as to why she's not showing her face anymore. There had to be a way to fix this, because even if she liked it or not, she couldn't stay inside forever. But how long could she stay inside before she had no choice? That's what she was aiming for, so she could show her face as little as possible.
Sunset then heard a buzzing. Not from her journal, but rather her phone. She picked it up from the nightstand beside her bed and saw she had a message... from Twilight. She opened her phone and read the message.
Hey, Sunset. Where are you right now? I visited your apartment because I wanted to talk with you about something but you weren't there. I really need to see you in person to talk about this.
15:30
Sunset wasn't sure whether or not she should reply. If she did, she'd have to lie on where she was since she didn't want anyone over here. But if she left her hanging... Sunset moaned and fell back onto her pillow. There's no way out of this hell hole. It was like the world was out to get her. Nothing but bad stuff has happened ever since she was bitten and Sunset was tired. Very tired. She squashed her pillow into the front of her face as she screamed into it.
She then began banging her head against the mattress, saying with every bang, pillow still in her face, "Why! Did! I! Have! To! Be! The! One! To! Have! To! Suffer! This?!" She rolled onto her side, lifting the pillow off of her. "Twilight better find an answer soon," Sunset said through clenched teeth.
Canterlot Castle, Saturday Evening
04:22PM
Twilight was mentally preparing herself to ask Princess Celestia access to the Restricted Section. She needed answers and she'd most likely find them there. The princess just had to let her in. She creaked open the door to the throne room and she and Spike stepped inside.
Princess Celestia smiled at the arrival. "Twilight and Spike! Hello!" she greeted happily. "What brings you two here today?"
"Umm... Hi, Princess Celestia. I was just popping in to ask for you to..." Twilight couldn't bring herself to finish. Her brain wasn't allowing it for some reason.
"For me to...?" Celestia leaned forward a little bit, showing Twilight she was all for listening.
"Givemepermissiontousetherestricedsectionagain," Twilight quickly said.
Celestia's expression didn't change. "I'm sorry, I couldn't understand you. Could you speak just a little slower?"
Twilight sighed and held her head high. "I want permission to use the Restricted Section of the library once more."
Celestia expression finally changed to surprised. "Whatever for, Twilight? Is there something wrong?" she asked.
"Yes. In Sunset Shimmer's world there is a werewolf roaming around during the night. She thinks it's the work of Equestrian magic again and has asked me find any way to stop it without having to resort to violence," Twilight explained. "I looked in my library and came up empty, so I thought I might find something in the Restricted Section."
Celestia hummed. She then stood up from her throne and began walking out of the room, gesturing for Twilight and Spike to follow her. They all travelled through Canterlot at a steady pace, though, Twilight would have preferred they hurried. She chose not to say anything, however, and eventually arrived at the grand library. They all stepped inside and Twilight couldn't help but just look all around the place as they continued walking. The library was huge and Twilight just felt all kinds of delight whenever she stepped inside. They eventually stopped at the very back of the library, but there was no other path. All that was around them were more books or the way back.
"Uuh... this don't look too much like a 'Restricted Section'," Spike mentioned. "It looks very public."
Celestia laughed before turning to Twilight. "Twilight, can you pull down that Luna book over there?"
Twilight found the book her teacher talked about. A dark blue book with a black pattern similar to Princess Luna's cutie mark. She grabbed it with her magic and, at the same time as Celestia, she pulled it down. With both books down, gears could be heard turning. Along with the sounds, the whole shelf of books began to move, revealing a secret staircase.
Spike's eyes widened in amazement. "Woah-ho-ho! That is cool!"
Twilight and Celestia both hushed the dragon in unison. Spike then smiled embarrassingly.
Together, the three of them climbed down the staircase with the shelf closing over behind them. Lanterns lit the long downwards staircase. They followed the path down and they found themselves in an old, dirty library filled with all kinds of ancient books. There was a pile already on the table, signifying that somepony has been here before.
Spike coughed on a cloud of dust. "Yeesh. You'd think to clean this place up once in a while."
Celestia walked over to a shelf of old books. "Ever since the library upstairs opened, I haven't had much use for this library anymore. The last time anyone used it was Twilight and Sunset Shimmer during their memory stone crisis." She turned and glared at Twilight. "And they didn't clean up."
Twilight nervously laughed. "Hehe. Sorry..."
Celestia smiled and turned back to her shelf. "Anyway, we should start looking around if we want any kind of answer."
After that, the three of them split up and began searching the secret library. Twilight, again, was blazing through all of the books while Princess Celestia and Spike read at a more steady pace.
Canterlot Park, Saturday Evening
04:30PM
Twilight sat on a wooden bench in the city's largest park. She sat there watching the sun set, lost in thought. She thought of the nightmare she had the previous night. Did it have a meaning? Sunset, was she trying to keep her safe? Should Twilight really stop with the idea of a hunt? When she thought about it, she thought of yes to everything, but there was still one more thing... Sunset.
Twilight was right, Sunset's the second werewolf. So she has a reason to not stop and that is to protect her friend from Musket and to try and fix her.
She moaned. "This keeps getting worse and worse! Where are you, Sunset?" she asked nobody. "Why haven't you replied to me yet?"
She then thought about something, and she's surprised it took her over an hour to think about it. She opened her messenger app and texted to everyone else.
Has anybody seen Sunset at all today? I've tried texting her but she's not responding.
16:33
A chorus of replies then came.
cant say I have. sorry
16:34
not since yesterday. no.
16:34
nope.
16:34
I havent. is there something wrong?
16:35
cant say i have twi.
16:35
"Strange," Twilight said after reading everyone's replies. Nobody has seen Sunset at all today. What was she doing? Was her phone off or something? She opened up her messenger again. She found Sunset's profile and saw that her phone wasn't off; she was online, so clearly she has seen Twilight's message. But why wasn't she responding? Is she trying to hide?
She opened Sunset and her's chat and began typing.
Sunset, I know you're online. I really need to talk to you. Please respond.
16:39
She checked Sunset's profile again and she saw that it now said she was offline. Sunset saw her message, then closed the app. It's like she's trying to stay away from her. Twilight wondered if she's doing the same to their friends. But why would she do this? She knows everyone would be by her side to help her. So why is she hiding?
Whatever it was, Sunset really seems she doesn't want to be bothered by anyone today. Perhaps she feels guilty for what she's done. It was probably best for Twilight to leave her alone for now and try again tomorrow.
Sunset's House, Saturday Evening
04:40PM
Sunset was now sitting in the dark. Nighttime was approaching. It would be here very soon. Then there would be another night of terror, much like the last few nights.
Twilight has been trying to get a hold of her with this whole 'I must speak with you in person' kind of urgency. No doubt about it, it was about the werewolf. Twilight left her alone after thinking no one was in the house. Sunset wondered how long it would take her to suspect she hasn't left her house at all. Not only that, but Sunset has continuously ignored her friends today. What she was doing to herself and her friends is turning out to be a terrible idea. But what was she left to do?
Princess Twilight hasn't returned with any answer. For now, Sunset was all on her own, for the better and for the worse.