Darklight Magic spent the next few days learning how life worked in the new land. She learned about the three tribes of ponies: the earth ponies, pegasi, and unicorns. Darklight was confused that she had been accepted into the family after learning about the distrust and hatred between the three tribes, and yet the family of unicorns that had taken Darklight in where nothing but kind and they cared about her wellbeing. Afraid of what would happen to not just Darklight but the rest of the village if they found out that an alicorn was taking residence in the village, Spring Majesty and Petal Magic told Darklight that she should probably stay inside. Though the unicorns where just looking out for Darklight, she saw it as them trying to control her. Darklight tried to hide her disappointment, but very audible clopping could be heard as Darklight stomped away. Darklight went to her room on the mane floor and created a trap door underneath her bed. She spent the next three hours locked in her room carving out a secret room underneath the house she was now bound to. Darklight took the room and made it resemble the room in which she was given before she blew up her planet.
Darklight's focus however, was interrupted when Serenity Candy bounded up to Darklight's room. When Serenity Candy saw the room that Darklight had made, she was struck with paralysis. Unable to move, unable to speak, eyes as small as atoms, Serenity Candy was dragged into the room with out struggle. All Serenity Candy could do was move her eyes. Somehow the first thing she noticed wasn't the blood stained walls, the torture rack, or even the bed of bones. What she noticed first was the shadow that seemed to cover Darklight.
Soon Darklight's body was nothing but a corps, with a shadow above it. Shadow-light started to rise into the air the way smoke does. Without warning Darklight's shadow dive bombed Serenity Candy with a blazing trail of blue flame cooking the air around her. When Shadow-light came into contact with the young filly however, the flames stopped. Serenity's body was fine, the shadow form of Darklight was gone. Confused, the little unicorn blinked. Soon she started crying. Darklight was was the one pony Serenity felt really understood her. The only pony to understand what is was like to be forbidden from leaving the house. And now she was gone. Serenity felt truly alone.
As serenity Candy laid on the floor of the room hidden from the rest of the world she could read words she previously thought where just symbols and pictures.* Serenity Candy, hoping for clues of Darklight's location read the words out loud.
"Through day and night,
Joy and fright,
You are mine,
Your freedom I shall decline,
Your wish for death,
Will be your last free breath."
As Serenity Candy finished reading the words, they, along with her eyes, glowed red with bright pink flashes, that matched the colour of Darklight's coat, blocking out all vision. Serenity Candy's eyes burned, her muscles loosing all feeling. A dark, mysterious laughter filled her ears. She tried to locate the source of the laughter but soon found that it was coming from within her head. Serenity probably would have been freaked out, but her fear was maxed out, and she was loosing consciousness.
Serenity Candy woke up with her eyes almost completely clear and her sense of feeling suppressed, but there. She wanted to get up let her parents know what happened but her body wouldn't respond. 'RISE' boomed Darklight's voice in Serenity's head. Suddenly, Serenity felt her body spring into a standing position. Darklight showed Serenity who was in control by forcing her to sprint into walls, cast harming spells on to herself...and calling her parents to the secret room, and to there demise.