The Fall of the Night

Disclaimer: I do not own My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Star Shadow, and any original characters from the show. All I own is this idea, and my OCs.

Chapter 5: The Aftermath

Night Shadow awoke to a horrible scene, he saw unconscious and dead ponies, but something he didn’t see was Ponyville, it was destroyed.  Night Shadow looked around at his surroundings and he saw a giant crater, with an unconscious Twilight in the middle next to an either dying, or dead Shining Armor.  Night Shadow limped over to where Shining Armor lay.  “Shining Armor?”  Night Shadow asked and in return got no response.  Shining Armor laid on the ground with his eyes opened staring into nothingness.  Night Shadow reached down and closed the white unicorn’s eyes for the last time, and then he saluted and said in a somber voice, “You died a warriors’ death.  I hope you find peace.”

Night Shadow looked for Wing Beat, and Star Shadow, but could not find them anywhere, it’s almost like they disappeared.  He looked back down at the dead body of Shining Armor, and he heard Twilight stir.  Night Shadow looked over at the lavender unicorn with tears in his eyes knowing what feels like to lose family.  “What happened?”  Twilight asked Night Shadow while she looked around at the crater.  Then her world collapsed when she saw Shining Armor’s limp body in a pool of blood.  It all came back to her in a flash, and tears began to stream down her face.

Twilight slowly walked over to where Shining Armor’s dead body lay and asked in a small voice, “Shining Armor?”  When he didn’t respond he asked in a louder voice, “Shining Armor?”  Shining Armor’s body still lay where it originally was when Star Shadow killed him.  “Shining Armor, please wake up?!”  Twilight shouted at her older brother’s dead body; more tears streamed down face as she shouted at her older brother to wake.  When Shining Armor didn’t wake after five minutes Twilight gave up and lay down next to her brother’s body and began to cry.  This is horrible… how could my brother do this?  It’s just not right, Twilight doesn’t deserve this…  Night Shadow thought to himself with tears in his eyes.

Night Shadow looked around, and he saw other ponies waking to Twilight's crying at her brother’s dead body, they all had sad faces.  Night Shadow limped to where Twilight was crying and told her in a weak voice, “Twilight, its okay, he’s in a better place now.”

Twilight looked back with tears heavily streaming down her face and told Night Shadow in a surprisingly strong voice, “Star Shadow will pay for this, he will die by my hooves if it’s the last thing I do.”  Revenge, one of the worst things there is in this place; it took Wing Beat away from me… I won’t let it take my new friend away too.  Night Shadow thought to himself in a somber voice with a frown on his face.

While Twilight laid sobbing at her older brother’s death other ponies began to wake, and they saw their dead leader lying on the ground.  Lightning Fast walked over to where Night Shadow was standing and said in a depressed voice, “Sir, we have won the battle, but we cannot find the two leaders.”

“So you’ve escaped death my old friends.”  Night Shadow thought out loud.

“You know them?”  Lightning Fast asked the black unicorn with a curious look on her face.

“Yes, I have past with both, Wing Beat, the green pegasus, and Star Shadow, the black pegasus.  They serve Nightmare Moon; I on the other hoof serve Celestia.”  Night Shadow told the light blue pegasus with a sad look on his face.

“Oh… it’s okay, I understand.”  Lightning Fast said back to Night Shadow.  “What should we do next, sir?”  She asked in a louder voice.

“Well we should bury the dead ponies, and then we should go to the others in the Everfree Forest.”  Night Shadow commanded.  It took about half the day to bury all of the dead ponies.  Now the crater was a grave yard for everypony who died at the Battle of Ponyville.  The ponies who had survived marched into the Everfree Forest to where everypony else was.