Chapters The light, the dark, and the being between them
Prologue: One World to Another
In a faraway fantasy land, there was a kingdom called “The Crystal Empire”, when there was a dark past, this empire suffered by a tyrannical ruler called King Sombra, but he was defeated by the power of the 2 princesses of Equestria: Celestia and Luna. 1000 years passed and this land prospered by the help of his new ruler, Princess My Amore Cadenza, with his husband Shining Armor, these 2 led the empire with wisdom and justice…
But, in the underground, there are still dark crystals who survived, threatening the land above them, if nopony do anything, the Crystal Empire can be destroyed, and the evil will expand to Equestria, leaving only dark and an evil king. Only a being that was touched by the dark and the light, can prevent this horror, but it need more than friendship to defeat the shadows, even more than the light, it needs the help of his family…and the power that his old possessor gave him…
“UGH! I believed that this class would last forever!” a boy named Terrence moaned about the chemistry class as he was leaving the school.
“Aw, don´t be like this,” his sister Elizabeth comforted him, “you know that you can ask me about the homework.”
“I know, I know, but with the exams very soon, I´m freaking out!” he screamed and sighed, “damn, I need some time alone,” He said as he put his headphones and started to listen to music.
“Hey! What´s up!” a third voice was presented to the 2 brothers; it was James, their old brother.
“Hello James!” Liz called him
“Hey brother!” Terrence accompanied her “How about the exam?”
“Like hell, but with luck, I think that I´m going to approve Math.”
“C’mon! I shared with you my mathematic mind; you are going to get a B,” Terrence showed off his skills.
“Ok, switching the focus, we need to think right now about the talent show,” Liz began their event planning.
“I´ve was thinking about this and I vote for a music performance.” Terrence talked first.
“A music performance?” Liz stared him with a confused look.
“Yeah, think about it, me with the drums, James with his guitar, you with your voice, we will leave them stunned by the awesomeness of the music!” he exclaimed, “what do you think?”
“Umm, but I don´t have a nice voice,” his sister said shyly.
“Oh! C´mon! You have an amazing voice! I know that you can be our vocalist,” James cheered her.
“…I…I think that I can do it.” She accepted unsure.
“Great! I´m on this too!” James answered him with no doubt.
“Alright! But now, I need to study for the tomorrow´s exam.” Terrence finished the conversation as he pulled out his chemistry book from his backpack and started to read “…Damn, this is very hard.”
After a small road trip, the 3 brothers arrived in their home, a simple cyan house with 2 floors; they entered and found that their parents were cooking the lunch: A salad, spaghetti and Rib eye.
“Oh, hello, how was your day?” Their mother Michelle noticed them and greeted.
“It was fine mom,” Terrence answered.
“Hey boys, looks like we have a special lunch for the last bimester.” Their Father named Marco announced.
“He, thanks dad,” Liz thanked.
“So, I heard that you are going to participate in the talent show, what are you going to do?” her mother asked the brothers.
“Well, Terrence thought about a music performance but we didn´t have instruments, so, we are going to buy them tomorrow,” James answered.
“Ok,” she commented.
After eating, Terrence went to his room in the second floor, and lay down in the bed listening to music in his MP5, until he felt something…a type of energy, too dark, too evil, too…familiar. He got up and looked to the window, the sky was cloudy, nobody was here, and it was cold, Terrence didn´t understand why, a few minutes before the sun was shining in all its splendor, he looked to the garden and found a…type of black crystal, his curiosity guided him to jump through the window and landed in the backyard.
The boy searched for the crystal again and spotted the object again, the crystal in question had a medium size, the half of Terrence´s height, it has a black glow around it, and somehow Terrence felt energy in the glow. Suddenly, another crystal emerged from the ground, and other, and other, several crystals appeared around Terrence and surrounded him, he was frightened, then, one crystal shot a purple ray to the crystal on its side, and this crystal shot to another, and successively, forming a purple circle around the boy.
Suddenly, all the crystal shot another ray, but with the difference that the rays shot Terrence´s head. He yelled in pain, it was like a twinge in his brain, but the pain faded away after a minute of this, but another surprising thing happened, a purple portal appeared above the boy, Terrence felt that the portal was attracting him to his interior.
“AHH! HELP!” He screamed as he held the grass to avoid being sucked.
His family ran to her only to witness the boy being sucked up by the portal.
“TERRENCE!” Liz cried and ran to the portal.
“NO!” James attempted to stop her, but she leaped to the portal, he ran to her and entered too.
“KIDS!” Their parents were the last to enter to the portal before it closes completely. The only thing those they don´t know was that their world is been attacked by several dark crystals, beginning to absorb the vitality here and causing chaos…
Inside the portal the family was spinning and screaming, but only Terrence was glowing and feeling like he was changing to somehow, a big glow was in the last of the spinning tunnel, and then it was nothing…
Meanwhile, in a small village, a lavender alicorn startled awake, she was feeling something…something dark but luminous too, this energy confused her, but then it faded away. The unicorn tried to sleep again, but after she fell asleep again, a faraway glow appeared in the outskirts of the town and another appeared in a red farm.
Terrence saw that he was falling to a red farm and crashed inside it with a loud sound.
“What the hell was that?!” A female voice appeared, but Terrence was very injured that he fainted.
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James, Liz, Michelle and Marco woke up only to find that they were in a forest with grass and a blue sky.
“Ugh, my head,” said James, “Is everyone alright?”
“I…think so…” said Liz weakly, “Wait a second, Where is Terrence?!”
“Is not here?!” their mother started to worry very much.
“We need to find him,” her husband tried to calm her down “He can´t be far.”
Everyone nodded as they started to search the youngest one of the family, without any warning of the events that will happen to them here…
Meanwhile, in the undergrounds of a faraway kingdom, there was a dark figure, a black unicorn with silver armor and a red cape, with a flaming black mane and red and green glowing eyes with flaming purple lashes. His large horn was black in the bottom and red in the top.
“Your majesty! I have good and bad news!” a dark crystal soldier appeared suddenly in the cave where the dark unicorn was lying in his throne.
“I don´t like to get angry rapidly, so tell me the good news first,” the unicorn growled.
“Well, the good news is that the crystals arrived in the planet, so we can absorb more energy to get prepared for the war more quickly,” the soldier informed.
“Good.” The figure smirked evilly.
“The bad news is that…he lives,” the soldier continued saying the news a little nervous.
“…H-He lives?” the unicorn tried to understand the news well.
“Y-Yes,” the soldier confirmed.
The dark unicorn frowned and slammed his throne with his hooves in a moment of anger, after these years of planning this and with “he” around here his plans will be ruined
“That´s impossible! I saw him die in my hooves, you are kidding me!” the furious unicorn pointed his soldier with his glowing horn.
“N-No! No! I´m saying the truth, I saw him with my own eyes! And even my partners and I used the identification spell; he has an unusual and a familiar energy, luminous and dark at the same time,” the soldier said in fear.
“Hmm, if what you say is real, I need to see this with my own eyes, bring me more evidence.”
“Yes, sir!” the soldier responded as he leaved the room in the cave.
“So, I think you´re back, you think you can defend this land from the disaster? Ha!” he laughed. “It´s true that you have the only thing with enough power to defeat me, but I believe that you buried this strength very deeply,” he smirked evilly. “You will die very soon…”
Terrence began to recover the awareness after a hard crash.
“Ugh…my head, I feel like I smashed a wall with my body,” he thought weakly as he rubbed his head with his hand “Uh? Why I don´t feel my fingers?”
“Oh, howdy partner! You okay? It´s been a big crash,” a female voice appeared, but Terrence was still weak to recognize the owner of this southern voice.
He only managed to open his eyes weakly, and only see all blurred, he only know that he was in a room with yellow wooden walls and he felt that he was lying in a bed, and there was an orange bundle in front of him.
“It seems that he need help, Bloom! Bring here a bucket of water here please!” the female southern voice shouted to someone with the name of Bloom as she left the room.
“I…think that I can move more than my hands” Terrence thought as he tried to wake up.
“Whoa, I fell funny” He muttered and he spotted a sink and he went to it, he had a problems with the equilibrium when he tried to walk in two legs he left the water and he tried to accumulate a little with his hands but when he tried to throw the water, he slapped himself.
“OUCH! What the fu…wait a second…” he tried to see his hands but only that he saw is a pair of black hooves.
“W-w-what´s happening?!...GAAAHH!!!” he screamed when he saw his stomach and his other hooves, he saw himself in a mirror and he saw the unthinkable, he was transformed to a white unicorn with black and brown mane, with his brown eyes, he checked the rest of his body and finally saw his tail shaking.
“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH”
“WHAT HAPPENED TO ME?!”the boy screamed in despair.
“Oh! He´s finally awake,” the voice that he heard appeared behind him.
“Who said that?!” he turned to see an orange horse with a blond mane and tail with a “Stetson” hat and green eyes.
“GAAAH!” he gasped and fell on his back. “What´s happening here?!”
“Umm…are yah okay partner?” the horse asked to him.
“You…You are a talking horse?!” he exclaimed in frightening.
“Umm…Excuse me, but ah´m not a horse, ah´m happen to be a pony”
“Oh yeah! A talking “pony” now it ALL makes sense!!” he snapped in a sarcastic tone. “This must be a dream, a bad, bad dream”
“Umm…¿Ya are okay sugarcube, ah don´t see ya very well” the orange mare started to worry about Terrence´s condition.
“Would you please stop talking?! And No! I don´t need your help!” he responded aggressively.
“Hey Sis! The water is here,” a female infantile voice appeared in the room “Oh, he´s awake”
Terrence tried to find the owner of the voice and he saw a young yellow filly with a red mane with a red bow
“AAHHHHH!!! ANOTHER TALKING PONY!!!” he yelled again.
“Umm…is he okay?” the filly asked a bit confused
“Ah don´t know, ah think that he´s a little confused,“ the orange pony answered.
“PLEASE!!! STOP TALKING AT LEAST A FREAKING SECOND!!!” Terrence shouted in despair
“Calm down partner!” she tried to calm him down.
Terrence by somehow relaxed himself, now he can respond the creatures with a calm tone.
“Ok, I feel a bit better now,” the boy said now with a calm tone but a thing surged in his mind “Where in the Earth am I?!
“Earth?” the orange pony stated confused.
“Yeah, this planet” said Terrence, the two ponies stared him with a confused face
“…no…no…that reaction means that…I´M IN ANOTHER PLANET!!!” he shouted with all his strengths
“Are ya sure ya are okay sugarcube?” the pony with hat asked him. Terrence was in a state of fear ¿what the fuck was that crystals back in his home? ¿Is his family was fine?
“Just…a bit stressed…” he responded. “Calm down Terrence, you need to ask them if you want to know what the hell is happening here,” he thought and started to ask the talking ponies.
“Well… Who are you and where I am?” Terrence asked.
“Well, mah name is AppleJack and here is mah sister Apple Bloom and ya are in Sweet Apple Acres, best apples in Equestria are here” The pony now known as Applejack answered Terrence´s question.
“Equ-what?!” the boy exclaimed as he tried to walk to a mirror, he looked too hard to walk in two legs so he started to walk in four legs, he saw this easier than he thought, Terrence looked to the mirror and saw several ponies with all types of colors. “Oh shit! I´m trapped in a freaking place full of ponies”
Suddenly, another female voice appeared in the entrance of the room “AJ!!! Come with me! The princess wants the girls and…” a lavender alicorn with a dark blue mane with a pink streak looked to Terrence.
“…Ok, this is the weirdest thing I saw in my entire life” he said with a WTF “level: god” face.
“Umm…come again?” the lavender pony asked the boy to repeat what he said only to see him faint again.
“Is he alright?” the alicorn asked to AJ.
“We don´t know” said Apple Bloom, “he fell to the barn from nowhere, ah think that he was a little dizzy and confused”
“…What´s that?” the lavender pony said when she revised the fainted boy.
“What´s wrong Twi?” Applejack asked to her friend
“I was looking his energy to find a reason of his behavior, I detect a strong light in his aura…but I detected…darkness too” she responded to AJ. “We need to go to the castle right now”
Meanwhile, Elizabeth was guiding his family through the even darker forest searching their missing member.
“TERRENCE!! TERRENCE!!!” Liz was shouting for any answer. “WHERE ARE YOU?!?!”
“Can you stop for a second? You´re hurting my ears” James said irritated.
“Sorry, I´m so worried” Liz Apologized.
“You are worried? Just look to your mother” said her father Marco when he was seeing his wife Michelle hyperactive searching for his son even under little stones.
“…Wow, I never seen my mom like this before,” James stated. Suddenly, a loud sound of a roar gained the attention of the group.
“This…doesn´t sound good,” said James.
“You don´t say!” Liz responded with an obvious tone, suddenly a pair of a strange wolves appeared in front of them, the wolves are like made of wooden sticks and had glowing green eyes.
“HOLY SHIT!!! WHAT´S THAT?!?!” screamed James.
“SHUT UP AND RUN!!!” Liz leaded the group to escape from these freaking creatures, hiding into bushes, fortunately, the wolves didn´t see them.
“What the fuck was that?” snapped James after the pursuit.
“Better not to know,” responded his little sister, “c´mon, we need to find Terrence,” the others nodded in agreement and continued the journey to find the los member of their family.
Black…this is all what Terrence could see right now after he fainted for see a freaking creature with horn and wings…but, he doesn´t fainted by that, the main reason is because he felt that his energies went away, like if something inside of him was draining it, anyway, he was in that all black room with his human form: normal complex, short black hair, tan skin, brown eyes and with his usual clothes: Green shirt and blue jeans
“Hello? Anybody here?” Terrence started to search someone to help “HELLO?! LIZ!!! JAMES!!! MOM!!! DAD!!! Do you hear me?!”
“Shut up, they´re not here,” suddenly, a voice appeared in the room, it sounds like his voice
“Huh?” the boy found the owner of that similar voice; he saw a white unicorn, like him when he was in this weird world.
“You…you…you are me? Or…” Terrence started to be more confused
“You´ll know in due time, just stay here now, don´t go anywhere” the unicorn said calmly, and then, his horn glowed with a black aura, and disappeared in a flash of light. Terrence only sat here, after all, there was nothing he could do right now
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“I need to ask you this. Why this unicorn needs to come with us?” a cyan Pegasus with magenta eyes, a colored mane and with a mark of a cloud and a colored thunder in his flank asked to that lavender alicorn referring to that white unicorn. They and other 4 ponies (Including AppleJack) and 1 purple-green dragon were in a train heading to Canterlot to see the princess.
“Again Rainbow,” the alicorn said a little irritated “this unicorn has a strange energy; it can be the reason of the events that happened last night”
“Oh yeah? What events Twilight?” the Pegasus now known as Rainbow asked again.
“I felt a similar energy when I was sleeping, and in the morning, the princess sent me a letter to come here, I think she want to talk about this” the lavender pony now known as Twilight answered Rainbow´s question.
“And you think this unicorn have a connection in this event?” said a white unicorn with a purple hair, blue eyes and a mark of 3 blue diamonds.
“Of course Rarity, I believe it” Twilight answered to the unicorn now known as Rarity.
“And do we have to go very early?” complained the purple dragon.
“Come on Spike! Don´t start” Twilight said with a little irritated voice.
“But we haven´t had breakfast!!” replied the dragon know known as Spike.
“We´ll eat when we arrive” she tried to calm him.
Meanwhile, in the dormitory, the white unicorn started to wake up.
“Huh? What? Where?” this were his first words before he looked around to find himself in a train.
“Looks like my plan worked, I’m back, and back to my form” he said with a calm voice, something changed in him, and this change was in his flank, he had a mark with two crossed swords, one have a golden handle and a shiny silver blade, whilst the other had a dark purple handle and a black blade. He started to explore with his view where he was.
“A…¿train?” he guessed.
Suddenly, the doors opened revealing the lavender alicorn Twilight.
“Oh, you´re awake finally” she said with a smile, but that smile faded when she felt that energy again, the same but stronger.
“Considering your wings and horn, I guess that you are a new princess” the unicorn said calmed after he turned his head to face her.
“W-what?” Twilight was a little shocked about the unicorn´s behavior, just for a few hours he acted like he never met a talking pony, or that´s what her friend AJ said.
“That train goes to Canterlot Right?” he asked
.
“Y-y-yes” she answered still shocked.
“Good” he sighed relieved, “I need to talk to Celestia and Luna about something”
“About what?” Twi asked
“Nothing of your concern” he answered “I have to go now, if not, my energy will be drained because of this bad connection to him guide him until you reach to the castle” after this, he fainted again and his mark disappeared.
“What?” Twilight barely asked herself with a WTF face.
Two hours later, the train stopped in the station, and after thirty minutes the group was in the castle waiting for the princess with the fainted unicorn in the doors of the throne room.
“And that happened” Twilight finished her explanation to her friends.
“Weird, in home that unicorn acted like he was in another world” said AppleJack.
“That´s make no sense, it could be a mental problem” Rarity commented.
“And what about his Cutie Mark?” Twilight objected the commentary. “I saw a cutie mark of two swords, AJ, remind me the Cutie Mark you saw”
“Um…it was like a pix elated microphone and a ramrod” AJ remembered the mark when she tried to cure him after the crash.
“Pix elated? Ooohhhh…I´m never heard about a Cutie Mark like this, I think that is super-duper awesome, I wonder what could It mean!” exclaimed a pink pony with a puffy pink mane, blue eyes and a now known as Cutie Mark of 3 balloons.
“Well…I…think he´s cute” said quietly a yellow Pegasus with a pink mane, blue eyes and a Cutie Mark of 3 pink butterflies hopping that no one could hear her.
“What?” asked Twilight
“EEP!” exclaimed her with a blush in her face. “N-Nothing!!”
“So, any questions?” Rainbow asked to them.
“Just one” Twilight answered. “Why he needs to talk to Celestia and Luna?”
“Ugh my head…” the unicorn showed live signs to the group of ponies and a dragon, and when he opened his eyes he saw them. “…GAH!!! AGAIN THE WEIRD WORLD OF FREAKING TALKING PONIES!!!”
“Here we go again…” AJ sighed.
“What happened to the shut up thing?!” he snapped.
“Listen sugarcube, ah´m not goin´ to resist this, so, calm down and get over it!” AJ complained a little more irritated. After a few seconds, he sighed.
“…Fine, I´ll relax but not entirely until I know my family is alright” the unicorn said already calmed.
“Thanks” the farmer said relieved, “So what´s your name?”
“The name of your friends first, I don´t trust anyone until I heard a little of it”
“Ok then” the lavender alicorn said convinced, “My name is Twilight Sparkle, librarian and princess of the magic and the dragon in my back is my assistant dragon Spike”
“I´m Rainbow Dash, the fastest Pegasus in Equestria” the cyan pegasus presented herself.
“It´s a pleasure darling, my name is Rarity, the most important fashionista in Ponyville” the white unicorn presented herself with an elegant tone.
“HI! Nice to meet ya! My name is Pinkie Pie! Do you like parties? Do you? Oh sorry, I forgot my principal interest by now, ok, here I go again, I´m a baker, the best ever! WIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!! Want a cupcake?” the pink pony presented herself with a hyperactive attitude with a cupcake in her hoof.
“Umm…why not?” he said when he grabbed the cupcake with a sheepish smile.
“Umm…umm…hello, m-my name is Fluttershy” the yellow presented herself with an almost audible voice.
“Umm…come again?” the unicorn asked.
“Sorry, she is too shy” Twilight came for support. “Her name is Fluttershy, she is a veterinarian”
“So, now can we know your name now” AJ asked.
“…alright, I can see you are trustful” he said convinced, he can know if somebody is trustful just looking in the eyes, he always liked this ability “My name is Terrence, I´m still studying”
“Terrence? What kind of weird name is that” said Twilight.
“What kind of weird name is Twilight Sparkle” Terrence countered.
“Touché” she said a little defeated.
“Well, I see you are calmed now” Rarity observed Terrence´s behavior.
“Just a little, I´m still worried about my family”
“Your family?”
“Yeah, my mom, dad, and my 2 older brothers, they are the most precious to me”
“AAWWWWW how adorable”
“I just hope they´re all alright…I feel it…”
“So…Terrence, if you say that you aren´t a pony, then what the heck are you?” Twilight asked to him.
“I´m happen to be a human, but by somehow, I´m transformed in a freaking colored little hor…I mean, pony”
“Humans? Like the mythology” Rarity said.
“Unicorns and pegasus are supposed to be” he countered.
“Oh! I´m almost forgot” Twilight asked again. “Do you remember the travelling in the train?”
“Train?”
“Hhmmm…interesting” the alicorn thought. “In the train he acted calmly and his energy went stronger, now he is like AJ told me, but I still feel this crossed energy”
Her train of thoughts was broken when appeared a big explosion of yellow energy around the castle, strangely, nothing happened.
“What was that” Twilight was confused, what was that? And his doubts were vanished when she saw Terrence fainted again.
“A darkness-elimination spell?” she thought. “This must be why he fainted, I think he can´t stay awake without it”
“What happened to him?” that was the only Rainbow can say.
Suddenly, the doors of the throne room opened and revealed a white alicorn with a pink-green-blue waving mane and tail, magenta eyes and a Cutie Mark of a sun.
“Greetings, my little ponies” the alicorn said with a calm voice, then, she noticed the fainted unicorn and frown. “So, this is the pony?”
“Yes princess, but, why did you threw that spell Celestia?” Twilight asked to the pony now known as Celestia.
“Just for security” she answered before she gazed to Terrence once again
“We…can´t…give up…now…we…need…to find…Terrence” Liz said between gasps before she and the others of the group fainted with all the sweat and scratches and the injuries that the creatures of the forest gave them. In the middle of this dark and spooky forest, suddenly, two shadows appeared in front of the fainted family
“Ugh…I guess that be fainted is something natural” Terrence woke up again to see that he was in a dark room with an only lamp and chained to the wall so he can´t move.
“W-W-WHAT THE FUCK?!” He screamed as he was forcing to scape.
“Is useless” a female voice appeared in the dark room.
“Who’s there!?”
“I´m going to ask here, you only respond” from the shadows, appeared the white alicorn. “Now, what is it that you're planning?”
“W-What?! E-Excuse me, b-but I-I” Terrence tried to talk but he was very scary do this easily.
“Don´t try to fool me!” she snapped as her horn glowed with a yellow aura, soon, the boy started to glow too and he yelled in pain and agony, it was like fire in all the body, one minute later, the glowing disappeared and Terrence breathed heavily, recovering from the terrible experience that passed a little ago.
“Now answer!” the alicorn threatened with his horn ready.
Terrence stayed quiet with not knowing what to do.
“L-listen” he finally talked with tears forming in his eyes and slipping to his cheeks “I-I´m not going to do anything bad, I j-just wanna go home, please”
“Don´t lie!” the alicorn snapped again and her horn glowed again, Terrence closed his eyes to feel the pain again, but before that, he heard a third voice.
“If you don´t wanna feel the torture spell again borrow me the control of the body” looks like the voice came from his mind, and he remembered this voice when he was in that black space. His train of thoughts was broken when he felt the fire inside his bode again and yelled like it was the last day.
“If you don´t talk, I´m going to continue this” the alicorn said when she removed the spell.
“B-borrow…the c-control?” Terrence said exhaust for the spell, the white tall pony only raised an eyebrow.
“Yes, just give me at least 5 minutes” the voice said again.
“O-Okay, b-but, how I´m going to do this?”
“Just leave this to me” suddenly, Terrence started to fell more weak and fainted like the fourth time, then, his glowed with a brown aura and started to change to black, and his Cutie Mark of the 2 instruments changed for the two swords.
After this, he opened his eyes, but his expression of fear and agony changed for one serious face.
“It´s been a while, Celestia” he said to the pony.
“Who are you?!” Celestia asked ready to make his horn glow again.
“Don´t you remind me?...Tia”
“Hmm?”
“Let me clear you with this” he said and stopped for a few seconds, and then he talked again. “When the light blind, the darkness illuminates”
Celestia kept her eyes wide open, she remembered these words, and also, remembered what pony said this, it was this unicorn.
“M-moon…Moonlight Shadow?” she barely asked.
“How´s Luna and Cadence?” he asked with a smile in his face.
