"Are you sure this is the address?" Twilight asked Starlight as the group stood in front of an old house. The house was rotten and brown, the windows were blocked by wooden boards, and the house was surrounded by a yellow field of dead grass and dead trees. There was no proof of life in this house.
"That is the address Professor Stygian gave me," Starlight said, unsure if she read the address right. After a discussion, the girls agreed to enter the house.
"Okay," Sunset, unwillingly, agreed, "But don't let your guard down, it could be a trap." The girls nodded, but no one had the courage to enter this house of terror. The girls just stood there and watched the house, no one wanted to come in. Fluttershy looked at her pony counterpart and the two nodded to each other.
"We will do it," The two shy girls said as they held hands. All the girls were surprised by the two's sudden courage.
"Are you sure about that?" Sunset asked, "It could be dangerous."
"I am sure," Fluttershy smiled to her friends as she and Pony Fluttershy went towards the abandoned house, as the two were nervous. Fluttershy knocked three times at the door, but no one responded. The two identical girls looked at their friends when suddenly, the door was opened, revealing a tall, blue man with, white beard and short white hair. The man wore white and green robes, tied by a golden belt and he leaned on a walking stick, curved in the shape of a rose.
"Took you long enough," The old man smirked as he returned to his house, leaving the door open. The group looked at each other, not knowing what to do. Finally, the group decided to follow the old man.
"It's a bad idea," Sunset warned her friends, but the girls still walked towards the house and she followed them unwillingly.
The girls could not believe their eyes. The house, that from outside looked disgusting and dreadful, now looked like a room of a castle. The walls were made of blue stones, the floor was so shining, that the girls could have seen their reflection in them. On the walls, there was a set of portraits next to the stairs. The girls took the stairs as they saw the portraits. Every picture told his own story, literally. One was a knight fighting a dragon, another was a wedding between a fairy and a centaur, and one was just a pictiure of two people. A king and his princess. Sunset stopped at the last picture and she looked at the princess. There was something familiar about her, as Sunset looked at the smiling women, she noticed that the girls' green eyes looked at something out of the paints and the direction she looked at was darker than the rest of the paint. As the girls arrived on the second floor, they found the man sitting in a brown chair and he was surrounded by 14 chairs.
"Sit please," The old man said and the girls did as they were told. "The house you saw from the outside, is just an illusion to keep robbers out." The old man waved his hand and a table grew out of the floor, full of cupcakes. "Be my guest." The girls ate from the cupcakes, Pony Pinkie and Pinkie even made a little eating competition, Princess Twilight was embarrassed by that, but the old man found it amusing.
"Mr. Life?" Starlight asked, "Professor Stygian gave us your address. He told me you can help us with a problem." The old man didn't answer, he just smiled at the mention of Stygian name.
" Please just Life, and what is the problem, that this old man could fix?" Mr. Life asked Starlight as Sunset frowned her look upon him.
"The shadow," Twilight said and the old man's smile faded, "He attacked our friend, she told us he had a green stone and he could sense magic. We must stop him before it's too late."
"Aegon," The old man whispered and sighed, "Do you know what is this shadow, or what does he want?"
"We know," Princess Twilight answered, "We know he was a demon who used your daughter to learn about your weaknesses and when she didn't help him, he killed her. We know he wants to cast an eternal shadow upon the realms."
"Amazing" Life said, "Everything you just said, was completely wrong." Twilight was shocked by the old man's words. Life got up from his chair walked towards the paints on the wall. "The demon didn't want anything from what you said. He wanted only one thing, he wanted my light."