The Fall of the Night

Disclaimer: I do not own My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Star Shadow (you’ll soon see who he is), or any of mlp’s original characters.  All I own is this idea and my own OCs like Night Shadow and Wing Beat.

Chapter 2: The Flashback

Night Shadow ran until he could run no more, the unicorn ended up at a large lake.  Friends… no I can’t have friends… thought the stallion.  They’ll betray me just like Wing Beat did.  Wing Beat what happened between us…

- Flashback: 10 years ago-

A young unicorn colt walked down a busy street of Canterlot, and the colt had a dirty jet black coat and a dirty silver mane.  I’m so hungry. The colt thought to himself as his empty stomach growled.  How can I get some food?  Umm… I could get a job, but I’m too young to get a job… nopony would hire me.

That leaves only one other option… I must steal from some other pony.  He thought not liking the idea of stealing anything.  Should I steal food or bits?  The colt asked himself unsure on what to do.  I should just steal some bits, so I can buy the food.  The colt decided.

The colt continued to walk in the busy streets of the city.  While walking he seen a vendor at a stand selling oats.  The colt noticed a small coin purse on the stand, the unicorn colt started to watch from a distance waiting for the right time to steal the bits in the small bag on the stand.

When the vendor looked away, the small colt ran up to the stand, and stole the small purse from the vendor’s stand.  Unfortunately for the colt the vendor looked around and saw the colt stealing the bits in the purse, the colt ran for his life.

“Hey kid get back here!”  Shouted the vendor who started running after the colt.  The unicorn ran into an alleyway and found that it led to a dead end.  The vendor with an angry look on his face started walking towards the small unicorn.  “I’ll teach you what happens when you try to steal from me.”

The colt had a look of pure horror on his young face.  “Please mister!  Please don’t hurt me, I need this money!” The unicorn pleaded with the vendor.  Tears started to run down the colts face.

“Well if you didn’t want me to hurt you then you shouldn’t have stolen from me in the first place.”  The vendor said with a look of disgust on his face.  The vendor started getting closer to the unicorn, the unicorn tried to back away, but it was all in vain.  The colt had nowhere to go.

The older pony walked up to the colt and hit him across the face with his hoof.  The colt fell to the ground in pain.  The vendor began to kick the colt while he was on the ground.  The colt felt pain everywhere in his body as the vendor continued to beat him.

After what seemed like hours, the vendor stopped and looked down at the colt with a look of pity upon his face.  “I’ll let you keep the bits you stole from me this one time, but if I catch you stealing from me again, I will kill you.”

The small unicorn looked at the older pony with pure horror on his face not wanting to be hurt anymore.  The vendor galloped away from where the colt laid in pain in the alleyway.

The colt blacked out.

- 2 Days Later-

The small colt awoke in a small bed, not knowing what had happened.  Then it all came back to him in a flash… the money, the vendor, and the pain.

The colt opened his eyes and saw that he was in a small room of an old run down house, the bed he was on even looked worn.  The colt had realized that he was somehow taken here and was cared for by somepony.  The colt looked around for the bits he had stolen; luckily he quickly found them on a small table on the left side of the bed.

A pegasus around his age walked into the room, and seen that the young unicorn has awoken, but the unicorn just laid in bed with his eyes open staring at the ceiling.  The colt looked at the pegasus who had walked into the room seeing that the pegasus had a dark green coat, a light blue mane, and one green eye the other blue.  The pegasus started walking towards the bed where the unicorn lay.  The colt accidently rolled out of the other side of the bed trying to stay away from the pegasus.

“Are you okay?” The pegasus laughed with a smile on his face.

“Umm… yeah…” The unicorn replayed to the pegasus.  The unicorn looked scared of the pegasus who had walked into the room.  The pegasus walked closer to the colt on the floor.  “Please don’t hurt me.”  The unicorn didn’t want to get hurt any more than he had.

“I won’t hurt you, silly.  It’s actually thanks to me that you’re in that bed right now.  And by the way I’m Wing Beat, what’s your name?”  Wing Beat told the unicorn with a smile on his face.

“Umm… I’m… I’m Night Shadow.”  Said the unicorn in a shy voice afraid of Wing Beat.

As time went on the two ponies became the best of friends.  They both were orphans from a fire that had happened four months before they met.  They stole from other ponies to survive and that is when Night Shadow gained his cutie mark, it was a coin purse with a hole in it.  It had a small knife lying next to it and there were seven coins out of the bag.  Two of the coins had an earth pony, another two had pegasi and the last three all had unicorns on them.

The two ponies grown up together like brothers in the streets of Canterlot; until that one fateful night…

-Two months before Night Shadow came to Ponyville-

“Hey Night Shadow I have something to tell you.”  Wing Beat said to Night Shadow with an unemotional face.

“What is it?”  Night Shadow asked his friend with curiosity on his face.

“Well do you know the tale of Nightmare Moon?”  Wing Beat asked.  Night Shadow knew the tale, but it was just an old legend, nothing important.

“Yeah… where are you going with this?”  Asked Night Shadow confused on why Wing Beat brought up the legend.

“Well you see Nightmare Moon is real.  She spoke to me in my dreams saying that she would be brought back on the next Summer Sun Celebration to take over Equestria and destroy anypony who defies her.”  Wing Beat said with passion in his voice.  “She even asked me to join her…”

“What did you say?”  Night Shadow asked with a frown on his face.

“Well… I agreed to her offer!”  Wing Beat shouted in pride happy that he had joined the evil mare.

“WHAT!?”  Night Shadow shouted in shock…  Why would he do that…? Princess Celestia is a great leader… even if we aren’t well off she is amazing.  Why would he betray our princess?

“What are you surprised that I joined Nightmare Moon.  It was a very logical choice; she offered me everything I can dream of.  This is the chance we’ve been waiting for, we can stop stealing and we will get very well paid, we even get our own sweet in the castle.”  Wing Beat said with excitement trying to convince his friend to join the mare in the moon.  “What do you say; we would be living large with her as our leader.”

“No… I’m sorry Wing Beat, but something is wrong about her… I just don’t trust her as the ruler for Equestria… Princess Celestia is the best leader we could ask for…”  Night Shadow told his friend.  Wing Beat had a furious look on his face after Night Shadow rejected the idea.

“WHAT DID PRINCESS CLESTIA EVER DO FOR US!? HUH!? EXCALTLY SHE DID NOTHING FOR US; SHE’S JUST SOME STUCK UP RULER WHO THINKS SHE SOOOO MUCH BETTER THAN THE REST OF US!?”  Wing Beat shouted at his one and only friend.

“Wing Beat, Nightmare Moon is evil.  She’s just using you to get herself an army to take over Equestria, and after she’s done you’ll be nothing more than a pawn.”  Night Shadow stated calmly at his friend not wanting to get angry at his friend.

“SHE’S A LOT BETTER THAN THAT PRINCESS CELESTRIA, WHY DON’T YOU SEE THAT!?”  Asked Wing Beat.

“Wing Beat… it just doesn’t seem right for an evil mare to rule the country…”  Night Shadow told his friend.  “Please don’t do this…”

“FINE BE THAT WAY! WE’RE NOT FRIENDS ANYMORE!  STAY WITH YOUR PREIOUS PRINCESS!”  Wing Beat shouted at his former friend as he ran out the door of the very same house Night Shadow had met Wing Beat ten years ago.

“WING BEAT, WAIT!”  Night Shadow shouted after his friend… but it was too late, he was gone.

-10 days later-

Night Shadow walked down an old area of Canterlot, still thinking about what had happened ten days ago.

“HELP!”  Somepony screamed from the shadows.  Night Shadow heard the plea for help and he started running towards the origin.  The origin of the scream was in a dark alleyway, unsure about it the unicorn walked into the alley.

“Hello?  Anypony there?”  Night Shadow asked out loud looking for the pony who shouted for help.

“Hi Night Shadow, long time no see.”  Said a pony walking out of the shadows in the alleyway, the pony that had walked out had a jet black coat, brown eyes, a maroon mane, and wings.  “It’s nice to see you again… brother.”

Night Shadow stood there in shock… No this can’t be… my brother, Star Shadow, had died in the fire ten years ago with my parents… this can’t be him.  “You’re not Star Shadow, he died ten years ago in the same fire who killed my family… unfortunately he was in the house with my mother and father.”  But… he does look a lot like Star Shadow… NO… it can’t be he died years ago.

“Silly little brother… I didn’t die.  Mom thought it was getting late and she told me to go look for you.  I was not able to find you though, so I came back to the house and saw that it was nothing but ashes.”  Star Shadow told his younger brother.

“What do you want from me?”  Asked Night Shadow.  “Why are you here?”

“Well according to my new friend, you turned down Nightmare Moon’s offer.  We’re here to teach you a lesson.”  Said Star Shadow with an evil smile on his face.  “Come on out guys.”  Star Shadow then motioned for someponies.  Three other ponies walked out of the darkness… one of them was Wing Beat his former friend.

“Wing Beat what are you doing?”  Asked Night Shadow as soon as he seen his former friend.

“Well apparently Nightmare Moon had spoken to some other ponies and had us form an organization… and like your brother said we are here to kill you.”  Wing Beat said with a twisted smile on his face.

“Wing Beat you can’t do this.  We’re friends not enemies!  Nightmare Moon is controlling you!”  Night Shadow shouted at Wing Beat trying to convince him Nightmare Moon was evil.

“No, younger brother.  Nightmare Moon is our savior, and she will have revenge on all of Equestria, and we will be at her side taking our revenge against the world!”  Star Shadow shouted at Night Shadow.  “You and your Princess Celestia will fall.  Get him guys!”

All six of the ponies pounced on Night Shadow beating him and beating him, when they thought he was dead the ponies walked off.  Night Shadow laid there in pain worse pain than when the vendor beat him.  Night Shadow blacked out.

-The Following Day-

Night Shadow awoke in a hospital.  He looked around and saw a doctor walk into the room.  “Ah, mister Shadow it seems that you have awoken.  When we found you we thought you were dead, but, lucky for you, you are still alive.”  The doctor told Night Shadow.

The following week Night Shadow was released from the hospital.  He went back to his house, and grabbed his brown cloak, a nice amount of bits, and set out to go somewhere, anywhere, other than Canterlot.

-Reality-

Tears formed in Night Shadow’s eyes as he remembering what had happened between him and his old friend.  Applejack and Twilight watched him from a nearby bush.  “I’m gonna go over there an see what’s the matter with him.”  Applejack whispered to Twilight.

“I want to go over there with you Applejack; I want to know what happened to him as well.”  Twilight whispered back to her friend.

“Okay, but rememba we got ta do it quietly we don’t want ta scare him like how we did earlier.

The two ponies tiptoed over to where Night Shadow was laying.  “Are ya ok sugarcube?”  Applejack asked in a soothing voice.

“Ahh, don’t hurt me!”  Night Shadow shouted in fear of Twilight and Applejack.

“It’s okay we won’t hurt you.”  Twilight said in a soothing voice like Applejack had.  “Why would we hurt you?  Why are you afraid of us? And why did you run from us when we said that we were your friends?”  Twilight asked the black unicorn with curiosity on her face wanting to know what his explanation was for what had happened.

“That’s what they all say!  They say they won’t hurt me!  But then they turn around and stab me in the back!”  Night Shadow shouted at Twilight and Applejack.  “All of you your all the same, you’ll stab somepony in the back if they don’t do what you want them to do!  All ponies do, and you know it!”

“We’re not like that, sugarcube.”  Applejack said in a calm voice, “We’d never do that ta any pony.”

“Yeah, come on Night Shadow be reasonable.”  Twilight said with a calm voice, “What happened to you to make you not want to have friends or trust anypony.”

“Do you really want to know?”  Night Shadow asked, not really wanting to tell the story.

“Yes, we do.”  Twilight told the unicorn with curiosity on her face.

“Fine here it goes…”  Night Shadow told the two innocent ponies.

The unicorn began to tell the story of what had happened to him.  As he got to the more violent parts Applejack and Twilight had looks of pure horror on their faces.  As he finished Twilight said with tears coming to her eyes, “You poor thing, how could anypony go through something like that... we’d never do something like that to anypony…”

“It’s okay to be friends with us… we’d never do anything like that ta you…”  Applejack told the black unicorn.  “And how could ya own brother do that ta ya?”

“I don’t know… but he did…”  Night Shadow had more tears streaming down his face.  “I’m sorry I ran from you in the library… I was just scared of having… friends.”

“It’s okay sugarcube, we understand.”  Applejack told Night Shadow, “Friends?”  She asked while holding out her hoof to have Night Shadow shake it.

“Umm… friends.”  Said Night Shadow with an unsure look on his face while shaking her hoof.

-Canterlot Castle-

Wing Beat walked into the throne room and saw Nightmare Moon sitting in her newly acquired throne.  “You called for me, my lady.”  Wing Beat told his mistress.

“Yes I have, it seems that your little friend is still alive.”  Nightmare Moon told her newly appointed commander.

“No that cannot be I killed him around two months ago, there is no way he could’ve survived…”  Wing Beat told Nightmare Moon.  I would’ve sworn I killed him.

“Well apparently you didn’t otherwise he wouldn’t be in Ponyville, at least that’s what my sources saw, a black unicorn with a silver mane and golden eyes.”  Nightmare Moon told her subject in strong voice.

“That’s him…”  Wing Beat told his mistress in a timid voice.  “What would you like me to do about it?”

“Why, kill him of course.  I’ll even give you enough troops to destroy Ponyville.”  Nightmare Moon said with a twisted smile on her face.

“As you command, my lady.  The assault on Ponyville will begin soon.”  Wing Beat told Nightmare Moon, “This time he will die.”