My Little Pony: Frost Falls

"That's okay too—"

The stairs here descend in a spiral way. After reaching the fifth floor, Twilight stepped aside and took a look, but she didn't see the shadow of the ground yet.

"Do you see anything down there?"

"Not yet, I don't even know how deep it is down there!"

She broke off a piece of black crystal from the wall and threw it down to test the depth. The crystal fell freely in the air. Twilight was lying on the side of the stairs listening, why was there no movement yet?

Twilight Yue rubbed her ears in disbelief and continued to listen. After a few seconds, there was a "ding" sound coming from below.

Twilight Yue was startled and subconsciously shouted: "Spike Dragon!"

"I'm here!"

"How's the situation outside?"

Sui Long ran to the window to take a look. The magical sky outside began to become unstable again. Dark clouds appeared and disappeared, and there was a constant muffled thunder. He rubbed his eyes and looked carefully, he saw it right! At the entrance to the edge of the Crystal Empire, the black crystal is spreading crazily into the empire!

"It doesn't seem good. The princesses' magic is fading faster!"

Is that okay? !

When Twilight heard this, she immediately spread her hooves and ran down. She accidentally missed a step and fell all the way down.

Fortunately, when she was about to land, she subconsciously used levitation magic on herself, and then she stopped one centimeter above the ground.

so close.

Magic flashed and Twilight stood on the ground again. Regardless of the pain in her body, she raised her eyes to look at this place.

It's dark and deep here. It's such a waste of money for Sembula to turn such a beautiful crystal castle into what it is now.

She quickly found a door and was about to pull the tab when the door suddenly moved!

"what happened?"

The door ran from Twilight in front of her and behind her, and then whenever Twilight approached the door, it scurried around as if it had legs.

"Don't run! Stop!"

After chasing for a long time, Twilight lost her patience and used dark magic again, and the door finally became honest.

"Spike, I think I found it—"

Twilight opened the door, and a white light appeared first, and she walked in.

The world was spinning for a while, and when she opened her eyes again, Twilight Yue found herself back in the castle hall of Canterlot? ! And it's facing the throne of the Space Princess? !

"?"

"What are you doing here?"

Princess Universe's cold voice sounded from behind. Twilight looked back and saw that the princess was correcting official documents and didn't even pay attention to her when she came to her side.

She was a little disappointed. The princess had never ignored her so much.

"I don't know, I opened the door and..."

"You have to go now."

go?

Twilight looked confused: "Where should I go?"

"I have no control over this." Princess Universe never glanced at Twilight Yue from beginning to end, "You failed the exam, Twilight Yue."

"But...but I don't understand, my exam..."

The Universe Princess finally looked back at her with compassion and informed her in a businesslike manner: "Not only are you unable to enter the next stage of study, but you will never be able to study with me again!"

This is undoubtedly a huge bad news for Twilight Sparkle. Princess Universe is her teacher and one of the most important ponies in her life. If she cannot learn from her, she will never see her again...

Zi Yue held back her tears: "But - you never said that if I fail, I can't be your student..."

Hearing this, the Universe Princess stretched out her wings to hug Twilight, thinking that things had turned around.

The next second, the space princess pushed her aside with her wings and left directly.

There is only one question left: "Didn't I say that?"

The tears I had held back for a long time finally fell, leaving a wet trail on the carpet.

Twilight looked up and saw that the colorful window on the wall had a painting like this: Sembula was laughing wildly in the sky, the crystal heart was almost broken, and a faint light was emitting to protect Twilight in the painting. In a small circle, the outside of the circle was filled with flames and black crystals. Frostbite was dragged into the darkness, leaving only one hoof exposed facing Twilight's direction.

In the darkness, a silver ice crystal fell.

Frost…

How could this be?

Twilight fell helplessly to the ground, curling up for a long time and crying silently.

……

"...Twilight Joy—Twilight Joy! Twilight Joy—"

Is it... Spiral Dragon's voice?

Twilight kept crying silently as she stared at the wall behind the door. Her eyes glowed with frightening green light and her pupils turned red.

Fortunately, she heard Spike's voice. When she was lost, Twilight woke up in time, and she quickly jumped away from the door.

Spike rushed down the stairs, speaking very fast and full of worry: "Twilight - I know you asked me to stay there, but you didn't answer for so long! I'm so worried, so When I came down, I saw you staring at the wall, and I called your name desperately, but you didn't answer, you... what on earth were you looking at?"

"Look, isn't this just a wall?"

Twilight hid behind the door and watched Sui Long walk in front of the wall. An evil aura came out of the black crystal on the door, and his eyes turned red for an instant, as if he had seen something terrible.

"Ponyville...how could I...no! I don't want to leave! I beg you Twilight, don't drive me away!"

Twilight Sparkle kicked the door shut with a "bang" sound. Spike Dragon had not recovered from the illusion just now, wiping tears with two paws, and the whole dragon was crying miserably.

"It's King Sembula's dark magic. This door will let you see what you fear most."

Suilong cried and said: "We are home, you told me you don't need me anymore, you want to drive me away -"

"This will never happen. I will never drive you away! I will never fail the exam!"

Twilight held Spike in her arms and wiped her tears gently. Then she turned back firmly and poured warm and bright magic into the black crystal.

The seven-colored light was reflected, and a white shadow appeared on the edge of the door as if it had been cut.

When I opened the door this time, I saw the original color of the Crystal Castle behind the door. There were beautiful blue crystals everywhere, and... there were endless steps as far as the eye could see!

"What's outside?" Sui Long asked curiously from inside the door.

"Stairs, many, many steps..." Zi Yue was exhausted physically and mentally, but she still insisted on starting to climb the stairs.

After walking for a while, Twilight turned back to Spike and said, "You'd better come with me this time."

Sui Long smiled happily when he heard this and quickly followed Twilight.

This time the stairs actually wind up with a huge crystal pillar. This building is so amazing. I don’t know how King Sembula came up with the idea.

Speaking of which, why does it take dark magic to find the first entrance, but light magic to open that door and get here?

Could it be that King Sembula also knows light magic?

This is too funny.

Twilight laughed at her naivety for even having such an idea. She collected her thoughts and then concentrated on climbing the stairs.

……So long.

I don’t know how long I’ve been crawling, but my hooves are almost cramping from walking.

Spike was so tired that he fell two flights of stairs behind her and started crawling on all fours.

He began to make random guesses: "Maybe, this is just a magic he cast. He changed the door and let you see what you are most afraid of. The staircase with no end may also be changed by him!"