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// New Arrival 
// Story: A Darkness Falls 
// by molporgnier 
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The small town of Ponyville was bustling, many ponies needing to go many places very quickly. One particular purple pony, a Miss Twilight Sparkle, was on her way to the town post office as she was going to send a letter to her parents, not something out of the ordinary but still a task needing to be done. As she walked about the town she greeted everypony with a friendly hello when she noticed a new pony in town; he was standing in the middle of town with a large smile on his face, he was a black colt with maroon red hair and neon red eyes that were wide open, his pupils were almost non-existent they were so constricted. Twilight decided that she might welcome him, the post office wouldn't close for another 5 hours so why not? she thought.

As she walked over to him his gaze did not meet her so she tried to get his attention, Twilight-"Hello there, are you new in town?" The colts eyes did not move but his neck muscle flexed and his smile shot into a closed mouth frown. Colt-"why, yes i am..." his eyes shot to twilight and she felt as though his eyes where burning through her skull, "...so what is your name, little mare?" 

Twilight felt a pang of fear in her but quickly brushed it away, so he's acting a bit strange, but he's not gonna hurt me, i havent done anything to him., Twilight-"my name is Twilight Sparkle, whats yours?" he ground his teeth a bit and Twilight could see all the muscles in his neck contort, "They call me White Moon, so that is what you may call me, little mare." 

Twilight was confused as to why White Moon was calling her 'little mare' or who 'they' were, but she decided not to take more time as the letters she had still needed mailing, Twilight-"O.K, well I guess I will see you around town then?" White Moons eyes relaxed, though his pupils did not dilate into normality, "oh, I believe we will be seeing more than our fair shares of each other, isn't that right Francis? Well we cant tell her now or she'll run away..."  he continued talking and Twilight couldn't see he was talking to, but decided it was probably better not to ask and continued on her way to the post office.


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As she entered the small building she noticed that there was a line, lots of ponies seem to be mailing stuff today., as she looked for the back of the line she found her friend applejack was the one at the very back, she took her place in line and decided to ask applejack about White Moon. she poked applejack on her hind to get her attention, as she turned around to see who was getting her attention she was surprised to see twilight there. 

Applejack-"Oh, hey Twi, what are ya'll doin here?" Twilight-"oh I'm just here to mail my parents a letter, I send them one every week. What are you doing here?" Applejack looked down at a small box by her hooves, Applejack-"ahm just mailing this here box of apple cider to my aunt and uncle in manehatten, they cant get enough of the stuff." they both giggled and Twilight remembered her new acquaintance, Twilight-"oh, yeah, you didnt happen to come across that new colt in town did you?" Applejack gave a confused look which morphed into one of thought finally ending in slight defeat, Applejack-"No ah can't say ah have, why?" Twilight-"well its just, he's kinda, you know, weird. his eyes are all the way open all the time and he kept calling me 'little mare'." Applejack raised her eyebrow, "that is kinda weird, hunh." she shrugged and turned back around to face forward as the line began to move.