Sun Never Sets

by CrownofDissonance


SP/01- Morning May Die

    "Where... Where did it go?"

    Twilight Sparkle held her sword unsteadily. She took a hesitant step away from the summoning runes engraved into the raised portion of the floor. She was bleeding. That thing got away.

    "No... Damn it!"

    "Twily?" Her brother's concerned voice sounded behind her. It was scolding, it caused her to jump. "What are you doing here?"

    "Shining Armor!" Twilight spun around to face him, the Head Paladin, who would certainly have to arrest her for what she'd just done. Shining's own blade was drawn as well, having heard signs of an intruder, but held it much more hesitantly seeing his sister there. "I... I... There's a monster..."

    "What did you do, Twilight?" He quickly picked up on what was going on here. The blood, Twilight's blood, poured out over the demon seal, there were knocked over bookshelves and containment lockers, and Twilight herself fell to a kneel in pain. "I know you were worried but... you couldn't keep yourself from coming in here, could you?"

    "It's not what it looks like, Shining, I swear... I was trying to destroy it!"

    "No, it's exactly what it looks like..." Her brother's features started to shift, his eyes glowed green, and both his uniform and his sword melted into his body as he became a single mass of empty, black matter that rushed straight for her.

    Her vision became the same color. Black.

    And then she was waking up on the floor of the forbidden archive's lowest level, bleeding from one hand and finding her vision spinning. Metal boots echoed through the halls, the guards must have heard the commotion.

    The Tantibus escaped.

    "Twily?" Accompanied with other knights this time, her brother, her real brother approached. "What are you doing here? Are you okay? What happened?"

    The Order would not be happy with this.