//------------------------------// // Prologue: Nightmares of The Past (Edited) // Story: The Curse Of The Mini-Were Mare // by Night-Moon-12 //------------------------------// 20 Years Ago... It was thundering and lightning in the cursed place known as the Everfree Forest. It is usually crawled with monsters with no magic at work here. Not so long ago, a cult here was trying to revive one of the most dangerous creatures that Equestria has ever seen. The cult was planning on resurrecting this creature with scraps of the being known as the Mini-Were Mare's fur, some ingredients and the blood of the holder of the strongest Unicorn Magic. Their ritual would've succeeded... except Princess Celestia, Twilight's teacher, and a couple of guards interrupted in time, chasing them off. It appears that the attempt to resurrect the Mini-Ware Mare has been foiled. But unknown to everypony, even the cultists, something appeared that night... In the forest, somepony was walking around, looking a bit scared. She appears to be a dark lavender with eyes that are moderate opal to Dark opal and a Light opal outside, a dark navy, violet, and rose mane, and a very dark lavender coat. The poor filly has no idea as to what she was doing in this forest or where she came from. "Hello?", The filly calls out, getting scared and worried, "Anyone? Oh, is anyone here? Where am I? Oh, I found myself in a clearing and... oh! This is getting scary for me... where..." Suddenly a tree branch is heard snapping, the filly gasps as she turns to the direction of the noise. Who is it? Could someone has found her and planning to bring the lost foal home? Or is it something out to harm her? "Hello? Who's there?", The filly asks nervously. Suddenly growling noises are heard as four wooden like creature called timberwolves appear, glaring at the filly. She gulps nervously. She has no idea who these guys are, but something tells the lost one that they aren't here to help! The filly screams and run off with the timber wolves chasing her, obviously wanting her for dinner... literally! As it continues thundering and raining, the foal finds herself back in the clearing where she woke up at not so long ago but trip. The filly gasps as the timberwolves surround her. "Please, don't eat me! I didn't do anything wrong..." The little unicorn whimpers a bit. But apparently, these guys do not care. They just want a meal. The filly screams as one growls and lunges at her, she prepares herself for her end. How terrifying that her arrival in this place ends up like this! Suddenly, a vicious growling was growling was heard, scaring the frightened black filly but startling the timber wolves, especially when something knocks the attacking timberwolves away from the filly. She gapes as whatever it is knock the monster far into the bushes. The filly saw the creature now growling at the remaining three timber wolves, covered in shadows though she can see some red eyes. The foal has no idea if it saved her from being eaten... or wants to eat her instead! One thing's for sure: she doesn't want to be caught in the crossfire! The filly retreats to a single bush at the edge of the clearing, hiding and watchs as the shadowy creature fights off the timberwolves. She can only watch as her apparent savior knock them away, those monsters kept on trying to attack the creature for getting in the way of their meal. But soon, the timberwolves whimper as the creature grabs one with his mouth and toss it at the attacking monsters. They got up and make a run for it. No meal is worth all this trouble! The filly gulps as the shadowy creature sighs a bit then looks around as if looking for her. She hopes that he doesn't decide to look for her in this bush! The filly of course for some reason felt like whoever saved her wasn't going to eat her. She doesn't know why... The creature then heads off into the forest. Either he has forgotten the filly or is looking for her elsewhere. The filly sighs... then cringes a bit. There are thorns in the bushes that she is hiding in, giving her nicks and scratches. The filly was only there for who knows how long until somepony else has found her... one that will change her life forever... Present Day A 6 year old Twilight has never been so happy in all her life. She is now a student of Princess Celestia and gained her cutie mark all in one day! And it's due to some huge explosion that came from out of nowhere. Or maybe it's because that Twilight always have the magic inside her. Whatever the case may be, Twilight and her whole family is thrilled: her parents and her big brother Shining Armor. Tomorrow, the unicorn filly will move into Canterlot Castle and be studying under Princess Celestia herself. Twilight of course wonders if she would be keeping that baby dragon, the one that she hatched. Celestia has been telling her that she has something to tell her once Twilight is all settled in. "Look, I don't need help on that dream, okay? Let's go back to bed." Twilight said sternly while heading back to her bed. Spike sighs as he prepares to get back to bed himself. One of these days, that unicorn is going to tell her friends what happen. "All right, fine, but I strongly suggest that you tell the others about this ASAP." Spike heads into bed. Twilight sighs in sadness as she looks out the window. Why can't she stop dreaming about him? His disappearance has been haunting her ever since she was a filly. "Oh Ben... where are you?" Twilight mumbles a bit as she heads off to sleep, hopefully without the same nightmare to deal with this time.