The unknown

“I am the herald of dawn I am he who will rise and thank the sister of the night I serve only the moon.” I awoke again my magic was purified I saw faces of a pony who was dark blue with a moon on her flank while mine was blank. The ponies told the engineer to go to the castle quickly the train sped up while they were not looking I broke free of the spell when I heard it the name that triggered everything my magic lessons me bowing the spell to make a city disappear “Luna” I turned around grabbing one of the ponies a white one with a horn who seemed to girly she spoke softly “what are you doing fool?” I replied with “That name say it again or I will end you here and now.” She said it. It made me smile but an angry smile and my mind filled with images of me fighting the one called nightmare moon with magic not of the name of the land called Equestria.

I then cast a spell on all the ponies and sat on a chair with the dragon immune to my spell trying to free the ponies with his claws. I spoke to the ponies and said I will go with you to see the one called nightmare moon nothing more after that I leave. I then released the spell on them one of them the blue one with rainbow colored tail grabbed me I flung her off me and my eyes glowed with a bright light. But the purple one said she accepts it and we all calmed down I apologized for what I did and bowed to them they looked at me and asked how do you know the princess I looked up and said “I don’t know but I remember strong magic, destruction darkness, and chanting of the elder unicorn.”

We arrived at the castle finally we entered the ground s when we got to the great hall a big white pony an elder I assumed yelled “Twilight you did it!” but then I saw her the one known as nightmare moon my eyes glowed with darkness as I shot at her she stood up we stared each other down she said “You impudent peasant how dare you attack me.” The white one ordered us to stop the one now known as Luna apologized I still had my wings out ready to attack her. The orang one with apples on her flank told me to be calm so I did. The purple one called Twilight told her the story a voice inside me took over I fought it back but it wasn’t helping it was chanting a spell when I interrupted it.

It took over I rose off the ground and spoke in a voice I didn’t recognize “Thy enemy of the Order of magic are hereby sentenced to death Nightmare moon you are an enemy to the church and to the Circle of sage’s.” I returned to power of my body gasping for breath I sat down chanting to lock my mind when I opened my eyes everyone was looking at me with open jaws except for Luna she was in front of me with a hoof out and said “I am sorry about your order foal.” I didn’t know what to say but I burst into tears.

They then explained how the church of Equestria destroyed my order over a thousand moons ago. Anger in me filled my body and darkness was taking over my eyes were filling with sadness when with the worst timing a priest of the order appeared with a sword attacking me I shot evil magic at him he was destroyed nothing remained but his cloths and his sword I kept shooting at it hoping it would destroy them all but it didn’t the princess grabbed my horn and spouted foul words in my ears that put a lock on my power. I apologized and reversed the spell he was taken to prison for attempted assassination when another church person approached and said that I was the one of destruction. He was looking at me with a mad look and said that I was the last of my kind that I should be crucified that I was the most dangerous thing on this planet. I was angered but couldn’t preform magic the two sister princesses glared at him and said “If you speak ill of another pony like that again we will crush your church we allow it but no one goes but those you corrupt do not think me so kind as to let you insult one of my fellow sisters or brothers.” I looked at her then walked toward the priest he fell over I stared at him and asked him “What is my name?”

He looked puzzled at the question like he didn’t know what to say when the words left his mouth “Salem. Salem the mystic you were a part of a circle of insurrected sages who battled the church and nightmare moon at the same time you were the most powerful unicorn even more powerful than any of these alicorn’s. But how are you an alicorn now and why are you so small? You were a general a leader of the unicorns and one with such power that you destroyed our armor and taught young filly’s arcane magic. We summoned nightmare moon as a last resort you fought on even terms with her and won.” I was so astounded by his answer I finally had a name an evil name but a name none the less I then looked at my wings and started to chant words that no pony except Luna understood. She tried to stop me but it was too late I smiled at everypony and a bright light glowed around me a circle of magic my mane floating my wings close to my body every pony guards included were watching with dazzlment as the sun was blocked by the moon I finally said the words I longed for. “My family.” Tears in my eyes as I watched them burnt at the stake and so many other ponies I searched for anyone to punish and I found him an earth pony wearing the hat of the head clergy when I had finished with my vision a gust of wind form within my body blew outward as glowing ponies surrounded me in hoods it was them the high council of sages my friends removed their hoods I cried as they told me something I didn’t want to hear .

“Salem, Brother don’t despair we wait for you here on the other side in the stars with your family but you must listen the church they plan to attack you they always will your mother and father were burned by the one they call angel I floated around to see my friends for the very last time and I felt my heart sink as I said “I will get my revenge and end any who stand in my way sister’s.” they nodded in agreement and dove into my body and showed me the future my battle with him and how I would fail without training every pony still stared as the circle began to spin faster and faster the one known as Luna tried to free me but couldn’t every pony tried even the one priest I then fell to the ground and awoke in a daze it was two days later and still the group of ponies looked at me I had lost my wings again and was ordered by the princess to train in ponyvile my cutie mark was gone but my magic it was stronger than ever I moved the moon with my power with such ease and then banished the priest from Equestria to tell the head clergy of my doing.

When I stood in front of the school with twilight I had asked what school of magic it was she gazed at me funny and said “It’s just a school there is no magic schools anymore we only use our magic to help your magic’s been banned for half a century now.” My eyes widened when I asked what do I do here a voice from behind me interrupted and said “You learn and make friends silly.” As I turned to see a very dark purple pony I looked at twilight who whispered. “Remember you must hide your magic at all cost.” With a group of filly’s following her I turned my head to the side an orange Pegasus a bright yellow earth pony and a white unicorn that looked oddly familiar for some reason. I acted as any new kid would I pointed my muzzle down and the teacher talked to twilight “where is her parents I have to meet them.” I looked up in anger all the ponies seemed surprised.

Then twilight said something I didn’t expect “She doesn’t have any.” With a sad look on her face the teacher then glanced at me who was angered by the question and nodded and asked what I knew about the early era of discord I then spouted out the knowledge of the kings and queens who not only had I met but battled in the field the wars that took place and even the names of generals who I executed but did not tell any pony about. When both the teacher open jawed and twilight open jawed look at me I looked at everypony and simply said “What?” the teacher then told me how it was wonderful how I knew so much history but how it was not my talent every filly laughed as they saw I had no cutie mark. But then three ponies came to my side and talked to me. But before that the teacher pony told me we were going to see the statue of discord in Canterlot’s garden I sighed and followed the group.

When we got there the teacher asked does anyone know what happened to discord no pony answered except me “Using the magical items or jewels of friendship the sister princesses froze discord who ruled all of Equestria out of fear not even the circle of sage’s could battle him the teacher looked at me with a quizzical look “Circle of sage’s who are they?” I had forgotten that our history and even our art and lively hood were destroyed I then said “they are a magical clan of unicorns who were ruled by the church whose talent was magic but-“ before I could finish my sentence another voice appeared “but before they could live in peace they battled the church in a war where the crusader’s battled with many  deaths on each side and the great general unicorn whose names been lost to anyone but the church-“ I cut him off and said “Salem the great alicorn sage.” The historian looked at me and excitedly asked “How do you know that name little one.” I then told him it was the name given to my family’s first born foal for eras. He looked at me and asked “are you one of the surviving families hidden in the east?” I told him that I had no family and that it was a note left to me when I was young.

Even the teacher looked sad I then said “I am going home now.” Those three ponies followed me and I noticed the historian didn’t move but watched me I felt his gaze at me he then screamed “wait!” as I sat there he trotted to me and asked me something important. “Is there any other sage ponies alive?” the question that I finally figured out when I looked into his eyes was a simple but hard word to mutter but I did emotionlessly. “No.” he then asked how I knew I told him how we could communicate with telepathy no matter the distance but that I couldn’t feel any more of the sages alive. When he frowned he then asked “how I knew it?” I replied with the showing of a book the last of the great sage circles library his eyes were wider than ever as he begged to have it I threw it at his hooves and said “Return it when you are done copying it. It is the last of my culture.” He frowned and said of course when I sat on the train applebloom sweetiebell and scootalo were having fun in the side of the train and then came over to me and asked if I would join their club the cutie mark crusader’s.

I giggled and told them there was another group like that in the church I was raised in they were surprised as they asked the name I told them it was the circle of marks it was because were of a magical persuasion. They laughed and said how sweetie bell couldn’t preform magic yet and how scootalo couldn’t fly and how applebloom couldn’t knock an apple from a tree. As I sat there and laughed with them I realized it had been almost half a century since I smiled like that when we had finished trading stories I told them I would join and help when some pony with a tiara and another with a cutie mark I didn’t recognize appeared ahead of the rest. They said that I shouldn’t join the nerd heard I looked at her angrily and picked her and her friend up with my magic and tossed them out the train. But miss Cherlie made me bring them back.

My three new friends showed me to the tree house where they held a ceremony to enter me when suddenly the earth pony applejack appeared she looked at me with a through gaze and told her sister applebloom I was trouble I then took off the cape hung it up and left I heard the sisters arguing as I was walking away. When I ran into spike and twilight that waved at me and asked me if I could teach twilight new magic as I stared at her cutie mark I said something unexpected “Magic” she stared at me one eye half closed looking confused. I told her that her talent was magic and if she knew if her family always had the same star mark when she thought about it she nodded and I told her that she was a part of a traitor family. She stared at me and asked how I knew that I told her of her ancestor bell sparkle the unicorn who traded her friends for her own freedom.

She told me it was a lie and I told her to ask the historian to tell her “The story of the traitor bell.” She looked at me with anger and left spike then told me it wasn’t cool I told him and neither was trading my sister’s and brother’s to the church. He frowned and said you can’t blame her for her ancestor’s sin’s I looked at him and told him to apologize for me he nodded and ran to twilight. A voice from behind me yelled it was my new friend’s “Salem!” a Pegasus with strange eyes was with them and she said “hi I’m Derpy.” I looked at her cutie mark and said “bubbles” she looked at me and I said “It’s your talent you can blow bubbles of any kind.” She smiled and nodded and gave me a royal letter from the pony express it was from Luna the crusaders gathered behind me and read it out loud.

Dear Salem,

I am writing you to inform you that we have gathered some information for you and to come to the palace as soon as you can. also we have found a photo of you as well in our royal vault please do hurry as this letter will disappear when spike smells the ink I used on it.

Sincerely,

Princess Luna.

I looked at the crusaders and said to tell the teacher I won’t be at school tomorrow they looked at me and smiled “Can we come with you?” I looked at them and smiled but then opened my eyes and made them forget reading it. As I walked away they chased after me and asked where I was going I told them it was a secret that I and twilight are going to go to the train. They then said “you forgot your cape.” I grabbed it but looked at it and asked “So your sister said you can hang out with me?” she looked at me and said of course she just said to be careful with you I knew she was lying about what she said but I didn’t mind it I smiled and put my cape on and trotted off to the tree.

When I got there I pounded on the door twilight answered sighed and said “What do you want?” I then apologized and gave her the letter she gave me my round to round ticket to Canterlot. When I sat at the train station a pony I recognized saw me it was rarity the pony I held by the throat when she saw me she came next to me and asked what I was doing her sister was sweetiebell coming from far away I bowed and apologized which she then accepted and when sweetiebell came to her side said “where are you going?” I answered her said how I was being summoned to Canterlot both rarity and sweetiebell were going there to I told them I was going to the palace both their eyes looked quizzically at me. I then said that it was about some old friends rarity knew better than to ask but she patted sweetiebell I gave them my first class ticket so me and sweetie bell could have fun in my cabin rarity happily accepted it. But before we got to the castle the train stopped I told sweetiebell to go find her sister.

I stepped off the train and saw a sleeping dragon an elder dragon one that only spoke his language a dialect off the southern region but how did I know that. When I saw his eyes open he looked at my small body the engineer ponies gasped as he picked my small inferior pony body up we spoke in a language that all the ponies did not even understand but rarity open jawed asked me what I told him I told him who I was and he left sweetie bell heard my answer and looked at me quizzically I then stepped on his back and said I would be at the castle before the train and would be in ponyvile waiting when they return.

Me and the dragon exchanged names. “Azazel! Go left and land at the front of the castle.” He replied with “Of course Lady Sage.” We landed as the guards surrounded the dragon he laid his tail on the ground I stood up and stepped down and the guards were in awe I the spoke to the dragon to stay here and wait till I had returned he of course waited as I entered the castle both princesses were open jawed at the mighty beast under my command. When I finished telling them about the train they both agreed it was reckless but thanked me for helping with the train. I of course bowed and asked about the letter they both took me to the vault where a couple books a painting and one of the manuals on dark magic that I had wrote was in a pile for me I picked it all up put it into a crate and picked it up I then proceeded to leave the castle when they threw me a crystal and said “This would help me in my journey to the border to find my true self.” A map to the old sage high council’s castle and it showed me all of the lands around Equestria with my magic casted into it.

As me and Azazel were flying in the sky I saw the train enter Canterlot my friend was finally safe we flew to the castle and when we landed I left the dragon and asked him for one more trip he agreed and also said that he left a surprise in the crate for me.

When I entered the castle it was old and dusty holes and bones everywhere guns laid upon the floor along with a lot of armor from the crusader’s from the church it was horrific thinking of what happened here I put on my magical torch spell I could see everything I then entered the council chambers where a book was laying talking about the enemy of everything in Equestria the darkness it said the darkness that corrupts even alicorn’s and consumes their very soul I wondered if that’s what happened to the king who taught me my new dark magic.

I then exited with the book the dragon then looked at me smiled and said that his life was near the end and asked what I would like to see before he left for good I smiled and told him “You mighty creature are very honorable respecting the pact our two races made so many years ago.” He responded with thanks and dropped me off in the middle of ponyvile every pony even twilight looked at me and spike was gazing at the mighty creature with amazement. I then spoke the last rite of an elder dragon’s word he smiled and took off to the sun tears in my eyes I screamed to him “Azazel your light will shine upon history I will see to it.” Every pony now hated me because I was friends with an enemy to ponies even applebloom and scootalo didn’t want to hang out with me or they were not allowed to I shouldn’t of shown my true power of persuasion when I had open my crate I casted dark magic on the crystal it created a house for me it was only a bedroom and an entrance way.

I entered the house hanging the picture that was as old as Celestia herself stacked the books in the entrance way when I went into town I went to the furniture store and bought a table a desk and a bed I returned to my house and put them up and unloaded the crate and saw what Azazel left me. An egg probably the one that he was supposed to raise when he lost his mate in the great migration. I sat it next to the fireplace in the entrance way when I awoke a baby black dragon with dark red eyes awoke with me he was my new companion one I had to take care of I gave him a nest of hay and sum gems that I bought from a store. He slept there while I left for the train station when rarity and sweetiebell came off the train I smiled and left but sweetie bell chased after me. I teleported before I could stop myself but I would see her at school if they would still take me.

Me and my new dragon friend who walked on all his legs with a very long sharp tail I spoke to him only in his people’s language. As I stood at the entrance I decided to head home when the teacher yelled that I would be late I ran to the room where I sat in the back with my companion sleeping next to me id scratch his scales every now and then when I was bored. School was finished I was outside when twilight and spike saw my new friend they asked for his name he looked up to me I had to translate in dragonite the language of his tribe that he knew from hearing me speak it to his father I assumed or if it was a genetic thing I wasn’t sure neither was anypony. And when I told him he looked at spike sniffed him and growled because of his smell and spikes eyes had changed to a very dark red himself when I stared at the two I dropped my hoof on his head and they stopped I told twilight that I was sorry he’s newly born and not quite knowledgeable on the equestrian language yet.

As Twilight looked at me she said “Dragons have their own language?” I looked at her and asked if she ever talked to any other dragons she had but they knew the pony language I assumed that meant they learned the language to communicate with their prey. Or the hunters to know when they screamed what they would be trying to plan. Many theories no one to ask yet there is still the elders who don’t speak Equestrian at least not to my knowledge. When I thought of a name for my new companion only one came to mind “His names Azazel.” He looked at me and smiled and I scratched his scales.