1 month later...
The sun disappeared behind the horizon, allowing the moon to take it's place. Panting, Twilight stopped to regain her energy. Ever since she sent the Dark One back to the void he belonged in, she had to take responsibility for raising and setting the sun every day since Celestia had sacrificed herself to ensure Equestria's safety. Ever since day one, it was always a chore for her to do Celestia's job. It required a large amount of power to raise and set the sun, a power that now only she possessed.
Once her energy was replenished, the purple mare trotted over to her desk and sat down, levitating a book over to her and immersing herself within it's written world. Reading was always a satisfying pastime of hers, and now that she had Celestia's job, it was more of a way to empty her mind of any problems she might have. She continued reading, getting more and more tired with each page completed, and after a while her mind finally gave in and entered the dream realm.
Twilight's eyes fluttered open and she looked around. She was laying down in a large field, an under-reconstruction Ponyville to her left and the Everfree Forest to her right. She stood up and turned to head toward Ponyville when she heard a voice calling for help from the forest, and upon hearing it, Twilight began running towards the source. Upon reaching the call for help, she found a small white colt with a nut-brown mane curled up next to a tree, bleeding profusely from his broken foreleg, the skin having been pierced by bone.
"Oh my gosh, what happened?" she asked the colt while using a healing spell on his wounds.
Unable to speak due to the pain he was experiencing, he instead settled on whimpering. Twilight finished her job on his foreleg and smiled at him.
"There you go," she softly whispered, helping the colt up, "all better."
The white pony wrapped his hooves around Twilight's neck, loudly crying.
"Shh," she whispered, cradling the colt, "it's alright, you're safe now."
"No I'm not," the colt cried, "it's going to get me!"
Twilight held him out and looked into his terror-filled eyes. "Nothing's going to hurt you, I pro--"
A black cloud entered the colt's mouth, interrupting the mare mid-sentence. She let him go and backed away, staring wide-eyed at the dark cloud as it began enveloping the colt. When it cleared, the colt was standing still, looking down. Twilight slowly trotted over to him and stretched out her foreleg, shaking the colt slightly. His head whipped up and he stared at the mare, his eyes completely black and a large grin plastered on his face. Twilight recoiled and stared back, looking into the dark holes where his eyes used to be.
"Did you really think you could get rid of me that easily?" the colt said to her in a low, distorted voice as it's flesh began peeling off in large strips, revealing completely black muscle.
Twilight gasped as she re-entered the real world, her head shooting upward. She looked down at the book she was reading and saw that it was covered in saliva. She cleaned up the mess and stood up, trotting over to her window and looking out to the Everfree Forest with a stone-cold look on her face.
Well, this sucks.