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// Epilogue 
// Story: The Ponyville Horror 
// by Wheller 
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Epilogue


Twilight Sparkle appeared in a bright flash of light and a loud pop!. Though where she was, she hadn’t the faintest idea. Pinkie Pie had lied to her! She had taken the Tome of Alhazred, she wanted it for herself! If Twilight had let her, Pinkie Pie would have kept the book and its secrets all to herself.

Now it was Twilight’s book. All hers, her own, and she would never be apart from it again. This presented a problem, however, because she had no saddlebags to put the book into, and she was going to draw undue attention to herself if she walked around levitating the giant book. Worst of all, she hadn’t the faintest idea where she was. When she had stolen the book back from Pinkie Pie, she had given no destination other than, ‘not here’, random teleporting was a highly dangerous activity because you could very easily accidentally materialise inside an object. Death pretty much instantly followed in that case. Other than that, long distance teleporting and short range teleportation were both about the same. Most unicorns preferred not to teleport long distances because it’s perceived as harder. While it really isn’t, what usually makes long distance teleportation hard is most unicorns that are teleporting long distances generally try to do it to places in which they have never been.  Since teleportation spells require you to concentrate on where you want to go, never having been to a place that you’re trying to go to can make that more than a little bit difficult.

If Twilight wanted to, she could probably make a jump from here to the Trotterdam city centre with relative ease... actually, that didn’t sound like that bad of an idea. Her ‘friends’ were going to come for her. They were going to try to take the Tome of Alhazred for themselves. Twilight knew that for sure. She also knew that she would be much harder to find were she in the Low Countries than if she were in Equestria. She pulled the book close to her, and concentrated hard. The Tome of Alhazred had taught her a new way to channel magic that was much more efficient. Otherwise this jump was going to be exhausting. Twilight closed her eyes and thought hard, and once again, winked out of existence.

...

Princess Luna hung up the telephone in the post office and turned and looked back at her friends with a frown. ‘My suspicions are confirmed’, Luna said.

Rainbow Dash’s head shot up in excitement. ‘So... I didn’t cheat on Twilight!?’

‘No, the Tome used your own knowledge to its advantage, and created an illusion to suit its purpose’, Luna said simply.

Rainbow Dash frowned, the book was able to look into her mind, she had known that Whirlwind had a thing for her; the book also knew that Whirlwind was a friend. It had been able to play her strengths and weaknesses against her. Rainbow Dash gritted her teeth. ‘We need to destroy that thing’.

Luna nodded her head in agreement. ‘Yes, yes we do. The Tome should have been destroyed ages ago, but we, the royal family felt that we could safely contain it. It will not be easy, the Tome is a powerful magical artefact. It will require just as much power to destroy it... dragon fire should be able to do it...’

‘Well that’s easy!’ Pinkie Pie cried out. ‘Spike’s a dragon!’

Luna nodded. ‘Indeed he is, that is why the Tome will have taken itself out of Equestria, though it will have influenced Twilight into believing that the idea was her own. It will not stay in one place for very long, we shall have to scour the world for her’, Princess Luna looked out the window at the rising sun, knowing that around the world it had just set. ‘And I think I know just where to start’.