Ponyville
Golden Oak Library
"Come on! Come on! Where is it? Where is it? Where is it?!" a panic induced lavender colored unicorn mare with a dark blue mane with purple and pink streak, said as she tore through the library that she and two others had recently moved into.
She wore a white dress shirt, dark blue skirt, black stocking and shoes. She was currently rushing through every book in the Golden Oak Library, looking for clues on the location of the Elements of Harmony, as if her life depends on it. That is because her life did depend on it! Every window, door and other openings were being swarmed by shadows of varying sizes, trying to get inside and grab her.
"Can you find that stupid book already Twilight?!" a purple and green teenage dragon shouted in panic, running from window to window as he *clonked* another shadow with his frying pan. He wore blue shorts, a dark purple hoodie and sandals.
"I'm looking everywhere but I can't find it!"
"Did you check the E section!?"
"Oh, here it is!" Twilight said suprised as she just found the book, under E.
"Are you kidding me Twilight!" Spike shouted enraged.
Suddenly, a window from the second floor was broken and a shadow shaped like a giant white glove with a mask head on top fell in.
It instantly stood up and began crawling towards Twilight like a demonic spider, causing the unicorn to freeze in place. But before it could get too close, a male pegasus with brilliant gamboge coat and two toned blue mane dropped down and stabbed the shadow in the mask with his spear, causing it to dissappear in black smoke. He wore enchanted golden armor, similar to the romans, with the Canterlot Royal Guard sigil on it.
"You found the book! Now read it so we can get out of here!" Flash Sentry said as another hand shaped shadow crawled towards him.
"I'll hold them off, you figure out were we need to go from here!"
"Here! I found it!" Twilight said with glee.
"The Elements of Harmony were last seen in the Castle of the Two Sisters, located in the Everfree Forest!"
"Oh, that just perfect! It's just located in one of the most dangerous areas in all of Equestria." Flash yelled with sarcasm as he stabbed another shadow.
"Aim for their masks, if they're destroyed they turn to smoke."
"Hmm," Spike thought as another shadow popped it's head through the window, "I wonder what happens of you rip it off."
"Wait, Spike, don't!" Twilight screamed, but it was too late as Spike ripped off the mask, causing black smoke to be released from it's face. The shadow's body began to bloat and bubble, turning into liquid and grow in size, taking on a new larger appearance.
"Well that didn't help at all." Spike spoke with a deadpan as the other two frowned at him.
"S-Stay away! Go a-away!" a pale magenta early teen earth filly shreaked in fright. She had a pale violet mane with white streaks, brilliant blue eyes and a tiara on her head. She was wearing a golden yellow jacket with a black shirt underneath, a light gray skirt and expensive looking golden yellow boots. She and her friend was being backed into a corner by a shadow.
Her friend was a cornflower gray early teen earth filly with a two toned lighter gray mane and a pair of blue framed glasses in front of her moderate violet eyes. She wore a light violet dress shirt, dark pink skirt and expensive looking purple boots. She also had a pearl necklace.
The shadow that was baking them into a corner looked like a giant japanese rhinoceros beetle with a crown on it's pronotum and it's mask on the horn.
"Diamond," the gray filly wimpered out, "what are we suppose to do?"
"Silver Spoon, thank you for being my friend." Diamond Tiara said as she hugs her friend and close her eyes just as the shadow began to pull back it's head to bash them with it's horn. But before it could.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!" a young but still adult sounding voice shouted.
Three small and faster than the eye can see projectiles, impact the shell of the shadow. Making it turn away from the fillies and towards the one who dared attack it. The teenage fillies followed the voice and saw a girl holding a giant slingshot taking aim at the shadow.
The shadow shakes it's head before it immediately charges towards the girl, but it seemed to sway and zig-zag slightly in it's movements, as if it was dizzy. The girl just smirk and lazely leans her slingshot to her right shoulder, before she holds out her left hand and a the Lovers arcana appears in her palm in blue flames.
"Show time, Undine!" she shouts as she crushes the card in her palm. Water suddenly appears around her and splashes to form a female creature with pointy ears and red eyes.
Her summoning seem to have caught the attention of some other smaller shadows.
This included shadows that looked like living wigs wearing crowns
and some that looked like masked birds with royal dress collars.
The shadows all close in on Sonata from both high and low, the beetle is still clearly dizzy and the others are rushing side by side with it. Sonata only smirks as this just makes it easier for her to take all of them out all at once.
"Magarudyne!" she shouts as Undine stretches it's arms forward, green swirls quickly forms in her transparant arms before both her palms explode like a cannon, releasing powerful gusts of wind with multiple light green twisters, catching all the shadows and launching them into the air.
The shadows are spun around and crash into eachother, resulting in many being crushed by the collisions and dissolving to black smoke. The giant beetle shadow is launched skywards so high, that it passes the clouds. Sonata, Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon all look up to were it dissappeared before it eventually came back down like a meteor and crashes into the ground, forming a giant dust cloud along with black smoke. Giving the signal that the fall killed it.
"Easy peasy lemon squeezy!" Sonata says while doing a V sign with her right hand, while Undine is mirroring her from behind.
Unfortunately, Sonata was unaware that her attack had not killed all of the shadows and one of the eagles was currently falling towards her like a bird of prey diving towards it's prey.
Luckily however, someone intervened.
"Eigaon!"
A black and red fireball collided with the shadow mid-air right as it was about to hit Sonata behind her head. The collision sent it flying towards a building wall, before it's body was consumed by the flames and turned to smoke.
"Thanks for the save Ari!" Sonata squeeled.
Aria casually walks towards Sonata with the Dainaraka Whip in her right hand and Forneus circling around her from above. A shapeless blob-like shadow crawls towards her faster than one would think possible, but she simply slaps it with her whip, causing it to freeze before she stomps on it and shatters it like glass.
"You need to be more aware of your surroundings Nata," Aria scolds her little sister as Forneus disappear in blue flames, "me and the others won't always be available."
"But I know you'll always have my back when you are." Sonata says with a teasing tone as she leans closer towards Aria.
The older siren blushes before crossing her arms and quietly says "Shut up" while looking away.
Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon finally shook themselves out of their shock and approuched the sirens.
"Who are you two?" Silver asked in disbelief.
"We're sister obviously." Sonata answered like it was obvious.
The fillies were going to say more, but a sudden scrambling noise from an alley further away caught the groups attention. All turn towards the sound and sees several shadows rushing out of the alleyway, pushing carbage cans out of the way while the bigger ones were topling over the smaller ones. They gurgled and growled with a small hint of words behind the thoughts that they spawned from, negative thoughts of shattered dreams and broken hearts that would make anyone feel worse just from their imagination alone.
Aria smirks as she sees them scrambling around, she brings out the Emperor arcana and shatters it with a punch.
"We got this," Aria speaks with a voice filled with confidence and power, "Forneus!"