There's a big forest, far from the lands of Ponyville and Canterlot. A big, dark one who gives to anyone who walks nearby a menacing atmosphere, a sense of fear that no one wants to deal with, and that's why not only everypony, but also every creature doesn't want to mess with the dark long trees, the purple leaves and the deathly smell of plants rotting from the inside.
However, despite the filthy rumour around the lands which lets no one enter the forest, there are two ponies prowling around it. An old grey stallion with a short white beard carrying a bag and his protected, a young beige pony which emanates much more bright than her mentor. The pony's cutie mark is quite innocent, due to being a small slice of grapefruit, which counters the old stallion's mystery and darkness around his cutie mark, a black star. However, there is a peculiar difference between both of them. While Grapefruit Slice, the young mare, has one horn to control magic, her mentor has two horns, a normal one on his forehead and next to it a smaller horn, near his right ear.
"Are you sure you want to stay in this Forest?" innocently asks Grapefruit Slice. "The rotting plants don't smell quite good and everything here is so menacing if you want me to be honest."
"There's no other place we can stay, Grapefruit," answers her mentor. "It's this or getting caught by those maniacs."
"Are you sure you don't want to walk a bit further?"
"No," he answers, and now, the stallion who has just stopped walking uses his magic to open the bag, revealing his black aura which can call anypony's attention. He gets out a tiny black stone from it, which he slowly puts on the ground only to take a look at it. "I think this is the best place for this."
"What...?" she dares to ask the old stallion. "You... you stole it?"
"Yes," he answers. "If they had that Shadow Star amulet on their hooves, we would have already lost."
The young mare dares to take a look at the tiny black stone which seems inoffensive but actually holds much more power than she can even imagine. "And what do you want to do with it, Mr LaCrowley?"
The old stallion, known by his protégé as the mysterious Wizard of Chaos Black Magic LaCrowley, observes the stone again with his dark magic and dares to keep it again inside the bag. "I've been thinking about a project, Grapefruit."
"Project?" she asks. "What do you mean?"
Turns out there's something else inside his bag, and she finds out what it is once he gets out an old, worn-out scroll of it. She blushes for a second, due to she actually knows what's inside that scroll, but never would have guessed that was inside the bag of Black Magic LaCrowley. "The day you entered the community outside Equestria, you had this in your bag. If Shadow Star saw it, he would have destroyed it, and that's why I decided to hide it."
"And why would you decide to hide it?"
The phenom stallion chuckles. "I'm not that dark, Grapefruit. I've been in the community, but I've never been evil like Shadow Star or even Tenebris."
"I know, Mr LaCrowley," she says. "But you still didn't answer my question."
"You know, Grapefruit," he replies while opening the scroll with his smaller horn. "I may give this an opportunity," he dares to add while reading the title.
"PRINCESS CELESTIA INTRODUCES:
THE MAGIC OF FRIENDSHIP"