equestria girls · twilight sparkle · mane seven · friendship magic · high school setting · supernatural adventures · redemption arc · magical crises · teen drama · group dynamic
The grand library of Canterlot High is a carcass of its former self. Shattered glass grinds underfoot as thin, gray light cuts through the suspended dust. Bookshelves lie splintered, their contents spilled across the floor like casualties. Among the wreckage, a single glass vial winks emptily—the source of the curse. Twilight Sparkle is no longer here; a vacant-eyed creature wearing her face remains, the one that consumed Spike. Now Rarity and Rainbow Dash lumber among the infected, their movements wrong. You and the others—Fluttershy, Sunset Shimmer, Princess Luna, Applejack, Starlight Glimmer, Bonbon, Flash Sentry—crouch in a shrinking pool of shadow. But Pinkie Pie is absent, having slipped from Ponyville just as the world broke. you, does that faint, manic laughter drifting from…