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// The legend of Darkness and Light 
// Story: The Shadow 
// by red reaper 
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The elements of harmony have returned from another quest of friendship. As the 6 ponies entered Twilight's crystal castle, they saw Starlight talked with an orange unicorn with a yellow and red mane and a half red half yellow sun as a cutie mark. The other five ponies didn't recognize the guest, but Twilight ran towards her and hugged her. As the new pony tried to be released from Twilight's chocking hug, Applejack walked towards Starlight. 

"Starlight?" Applejack asked, "Who is that?" 

Starlight answered as she released the mare from Twilight and took her to meet the rest of the group, "This is Sunset Shimmer." The group except Twilight gasped. 

"Why are you here?"  Twilight asked, and after hearing what she just said she blushed, "Not that it's not fun to see you." Sunset sighed and took out from her bag five pictures and gave them to Twilight. Twilight and the rest saw the pictures and were terrified by them. The last picture looked familiar to them. The webs that were in the crime scene looked familiar. 

"Our Twilight used an Equestrian magic scan and she found the webs to have some kind of magic. Do you have any idea what are those?" Twilight looked at Sunset with horror. 

"Those webs... are belong to the Pony of Shadows." 


 

Twilight, Sunset, Starlight and the rest went to Twilight's library. "Twilight," Sunset approached Twilight, "It can't be the Pony of Shadows, he is just a legend." 

"Actually," Pinkie pulled Sunset from Twilight, "The pony of shadows is real. We and the Pillars separated him from the darkness and sent the darkness to limbo." Sunset's jaw fell. Twilight took a book from the lower shelfs. The book was blue and the cover featured two figures. One figure was a small grey unicorn with a small green mane and the other was a big black alicorn with white eyes and jaws. The title of the book was 'Me and my shadow'. 

"But we didn't banish him to limbo as we thought," Twilight corrected her friend, "But send him to Sunset's world." Twilight opened the book and read it loud.

After my friends banished me with no justice, I searched for a way to get my revenge. As I searched for power, strong enough to destroy the pillars, I remembered a legend mother used to tell me. It was a story about the darkness and the light. Once upon a time, Equestria was ruled by two figures, Life and his daughter the light. The Light was in love with a sinister demon. The demon tried to learn from her about her father's weakness, but she didn't tell him anything and the demon killed her. Once Life found out what happened, he created a prison to banish the demon, an identical place to our realm, but didn't have any sort of magic. The demon came to take the throne and a battle between the demon and Life begun. Life was thrown into the prison he himself created, but before that he destroyed the demon, leaving him no more than a shadow. I remembered the place of the battle in the legend and I went there to summon the shadow. The darkness there understood my pain and he told me that together we will bring the destruction of those who made us suffer and we will share our pain with all the realms.  

"So the darkness came into my world and me and my friends have to destroy him," Sunset smiled "It will be easy." 

"I'm afraid it will not be as easy as you think," Twilight told Sunset, "We needed, the Pillars, Starlight and Sunburst to banish the darkness. The Pillars are in a mission, so they can't help us. But I think we can help you." Twilight and Sunset looked at Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Rarity, Applejack, Pinkie Pie and Starlight. 

"Are sure about that Twi?" Sunset asked, "I don't know how the high school will react to double trouble of students." 

"I'm afraid we have no choice, we have to stop the darkness from whatever he going to. If not, people and ponies might be in danger." Twilight turned to the group. "Soo, do you want to c-" Twilight was stopped by the cheering of her friends. "I guess it's a yes."


 

The Dazzling had the worst of their lives. After their powers were destroyed by the Rainbooms, they could not control anyone, and that means they have to do things by themselves. As the three girls walked down the street, looking again for a place to spend the night, a shadowy figure stalked them. Adagio noticed him and left her two sisters to confront him. The figure was entirely black. He wore black robes and black hood and he covered his mouth with a black mask. Sonata and Aria were afraid, but Adagio wasn't.

"I don't know who you are," Adagio shouted at the figure who just stood there "But you can't just follow people lik-" Adagio stopped talking as she saw the figure's eyes. The eyes were entirely white. It was like the eyes of a ghost. The figure grabbed Adagio by her neck, choking her as he took a small rock from his robes. The rock glowed in green and drained Adagio from every magic that was left inside of her. After the rock stopped, the figure threw what was left from Adagio to the girls. Sonata screamed in terror as the figure walked towards her and Aria as the rock glowed again.