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// A New World 
// Story: Terraria Is Magical 
// by Srake 
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	Twilight opened her eyes and sat up in her bed. A look of determination burned in her eyes. Today was the day, the day she would finally crack that spell. She quickly ran through her daily preparations and set herself at the table.

Twilight had been in the process of preparing this spell for weeks, memorizing incantations, gathering reagents, constructing the rune circle, and storing her energy. During all of this Twilight had been neglecting her dear friends. Aside from the occasional visit to her friends for some of the reagents, Twilight had been locked in her library for most of this month. She was actually surprised that Pinkie Pie hadn't rammed open her door and forced a party upon her. But, it would all be worth it because she had finally finished the preparations and could finally execute the spell.

When Twilight finished this spell she would be caught up with her magic studies for the next couple of months, which was just as well as she had fallen behind on her friendship studies. This alone motivated Twilight. When she had finished she would have to make it up to her friends.

Twilight looked over the spell book again. This spell had been designed to allow long distance teleportation as efficiently as possible. There was very little information on it in the book, so little it seemed intentionally vague. The only things Twilight could ascertain were the required components, the estimated energy cost, and its difficulty level: Extreme. Twilight was not one to back away from a challenge, especially when the challenge is her special talent. But she could still feel doubt in the back of her mind. Teleportation was a difficult mastery of Magic. As far as she knew, she was the only unicorn in Ponyville that could use it. Even the self-proclaimed "Great and Powerful" Trixie could not use that skill. And the fact that this spell was vague, unnamed, and submitted anonymously did not put her mind at ease either.

Twilight pushed her fears down; After all she was the Princess's prized protégé. What was there to fear? Sure, Magic is extremely volatile, especially so when the pony cannot control it, but she was Twilight Sparkle, the element of Magic! The only other ponies that would be better suited to cast this spell were Starswirl and the Princesses themselves. Twilight realized her thoughts and mentally scolded herself for her pride. Twilight had psyched herself up enough and finally decided to start the spell.

Twilight placed her hoof in the middle of the rune circle and began to channel energy into the incantation. She said the words of power the spell required and she felt the energy she lent the circle envelope her.  The energy collapse upon her and pressed her between dimensions. She fell into the stream and was propelled forward through the lines. With the spell complete she waited as she was launched through space. She saw her exit to return from the trip and broke through the line. She should be back where she was standing having traveled around the world through the lines. A bright flash of light greeted her, as well as the color green.

Twilight was in a forest. Her eye twitched, "No, no, no..." Twilight whirled her head around in a panic, taking in her new environment. It was a forest, simply a forest. Twilight tried to push down her fear, "Okay, I only missed. This forest must just be outside Ponyville." Twilight looked through the forest and saw lights through the trees. That must be Ponyville. It's just half of a mile off. "It'll be okay Twilight, just a walk through the woods. When I get there, I can go spend time with my friends."

As Twilight walk through the brush she came to a clearing and looked into the sky. The sun was setting. Twilight began to worry more. The sun was setting and a forest wasn't exactly the safest place to be at night, even in Equestria. Twilight quickened her pace as broke from the forest as the sun was dipping behind the horizon. It opened to a cliff that looked of a valley. There were structures off in the distance.

It wasn't Ponyville.

It wasn't a village per say either. It was more of a fortress made of green bricks. Framed against the setting sun, it was quite picturesque all things considering. The sight made Twilight forget her worries for awhile; however, she remembered her troubles when the sun finally dropped below the horizon leaving her in the dark. That was when she noticed the figure standing on the wall. She jumped back behind a rock as red lights suddenly appeared on the figure. She risked a look over her cover and it was gone. Twilight let out a sigh of relief. Perhaps it hadn't noticed her. She got up and started to walk to the edge. That was when a dark blur jumped up and over the edge and landed in front of the unicorn. Twilight stumbled backwards in fear and fell over. She screwed her eyes shut in fear, reaching for magic to zap the creature.

Two things happened at that moment. The first, Twilight could not project her magic. The second, nothing happened. For several seconds, nothing at all happened. Twilight drew up the courage to open her eyes. She saw a figure towering above her. Some sort of creature that stood on two legs. It had dark skin and a jet black mane that was pulled back into a ponytail. The most prominent feature though, was its glowing red eyes. The creature looked down at the pony with bored curiosity. It extended an arm and held open its hand. Twilight flinched and the hesitantly put her hoof in its hand. The creature pulled her up and offered a friendly smile.

The smile disappeared from its face as he turned towards a growling sound coming from the forest. The creature turned back towards Twilight and motioned the pony to follow it down the path towards the fortress. Twilight had no choice; it was either follow a strange creature towards a castle or face whatever had made that noise in the forest without magic. She took the former choice and followed the dark creature.