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// Chapter 9: Sunlight? 
// Story: Twilight Escape 
// by AndrewGamerGL 
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Twilight had now entered into a room with a torch in the center, along with MULTIPLE doors around the area, and Twilight now had to make a choice on which one she wanted to go through first.

"Hmm, there are five doors, which one should I go into?"

So, she decided to look around for all of the doors, and she noticed that the first three doors were all unlocked and she could open without any problem, but the other two were locked, which meant that, she probably had to find two different keys around the three unlocked doors, Twilight then decided to look and peek through each unlocked door to see what they would hold, and the first one had a ditch in the center with a platform that had a red crystal above it, and was covered by iron bars, which basically meant she couldn't access whatever was past that, and that she would need to find a lever somewhere elsewhere, so, she then decided to go into the 2nd door, but it was probably the darkest room that she had encountered so far.

"So... dark in here..."

Twilight then at this point was only hoping that this room wouldn't lead her straight to the Miasma, but as Twilight got deeper into the room, she then saw a crack above her, which was leaking a bit of sunlight into the dungeon, Twilight gasped at the sight.

"Is that.... sunlight?"

Twilight knew then exactly what that meant... she was actually close, she wasn't that far away from the surface anymore, Twilight began to feel a little excited, but made sure to calm herself down cause she still had to find a way out of this place, Twilight then noticed that there was a Jail that was blocked off by metal bars, but there was no red crystal, which meant she could teleport in and see what was in there, so she then charged up her magic, and then teleported inside of it, and as Twilight got inside, she immediately found a note on a boulder, and she then read it out loud, however, this one, was a much more tragic one.

"She's gone

Silver Eclipse is gone.

That horrible thing got to her. It surrounded her, and she then vanished into thin air, like she never existed.

I promised I would get her out of here. I promised her, and failed.

Crescent Aurora"

"Oh no..."

Twilight felt quite saddened to hear and read a note like this, and she only hoped that the other ponies that she found notes from, managed to get out of here and Silver Eclipse was the only lost soul, Twilight then looked around, and she then found the lever that she was looking for and flipped it, and she then also found a key on another boulder on the left side of the jail, and she then charged up her magic, then threw the key out of the jail, and then teleported out of the jail herself, and then took the key with her by her levitating spell, and then used it to unlock one of the doors back at her starting point, and she then went on to open the door, and there was another lever, Twilight then must have thought that there must be multiple layers of metal bars blocking of that entrance then as she flipped the lever, Twilight then went on to open the next door that was ahead of her, but when she did, she saw the Miasma very close by and she gasped, and then made sure she was not within it's radius of vision, and once he started moving away from the area, Twilight realized that the Miasma was moving around the area of that room with a specific pattern.

"Okay, if I can follow that Miasma's Pattern while I keep moving, then it probably won't be able to spot me, and I won't be caught off guard"

But as Twilight was moving around the area, she realized she then got a little too close to the Miasma, and it ended up noticing and spotting her, and then started chasing her with it's menacing purple eyes.

"Noooo!"

Twilight then tried to run as fast as she could out of the room, and back into the main torch room, and then hid behind the door, and once again, her panic breathing was beginning to come back, everytime that Miasma chases her, it's like her life flashed before her very eyes, but when she then realized that it seemed like the Miasma did not follow her out of the room, she gave a massive sigh of relief, then rested for about thirty seconds, before attempting to go back there and try again, she was not sure how much more she was able to handle of this stress and pressure, and thought that at some point, she's going to get caught off guard and finished off if she doesn't get out of this dungeon as quickly as possible, if there is a way out that is, Twilight then decided to beeline for the door, and just sprint around the area until she found something, she then found a key, and then used her levitating spell, hoping that she would not get spotted by the monster, and somehow, she didn't, and she got out of the room with the key that she needed, she then used the key to open that last missing door, and noticed that there was a lever there, and she then flipped the lever, and Twilight then knew that was probably the last lever that she needed to flip to unlock that one particular room that was blocked off by metal bars, she then headed back, and sure enough, all of the metal bars were now gone, and she was free to jump across to the other platform, which she of course managed to do.

"Hmm, I'm actually beginning to get quite good at jumping"

Twilight then opened the door that was in front of her, and it led to another staircase going upstairs, which, Twilight was relieved that for at least a little while she didn't have to do any big challenges.

"Oh thank goodness, just get me out of this floor!"