Illusions

by JustYourNotRegularBrony

Rating: teen
Tags: Tragedy, Dark, Comedy
Length: 1119

A pony who is called Anonymous became a mass murderer, in order to end Celestia's rule. Not even the best of Equestria can catch him, or even find his identity.

"Before you call me a weak coward for not showing my face, let me tell you. The fact I am telling you my intention is bravery. I welcome your attempts to stop me. Try. You may find all your attempts will prove fruitless, as all the courage you have mustered will slowly seep out of you."

~Anonymous

A pony called Anonymous has declared his intentions of killing to Celestia, and taking control of the throne. Too intelligent, he seems impossible to catch.

Looking for editors and an artist to do the cover art. Sex tag for language/reference.

Published 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Last updated 2014-03-30 15:00:04 UTC

Prolouge: Just the Start

Prolouge

Just The Start

As the sun begins to rise, Celestia sits on her throne. One guard is at her left, and one at her right. As she sighs, the doors open slightly as a brown-colored unicorn stallion in armour peeps his head in. "Princess, a pony has requested to speak with you." She smiles warmly and she nods her approval. As his head peeps back, the doors close. A few seconds later, a lime colored earth mare enters, her steps appearing heavily strained. As the mare stops feet away from the throne due to guards keeping her back. The guards move back to the throne next to Celestia, and the mare steps back. She looks into the eyes of the princess defiantly, while the alicorn thinks nothing of it and smiles warmly yet again. "It's nice to meet you." the mare says, barely bowing. "It's very n-"

"It's nice to see my future enemy, to be correct." The mare says in a dull voice, cutting the princess off.

The guard to the left of Celestia just barely allows a smirk to form, and Celestia is left with a slightly open mouth. "What do you me-"

"I want to end you. Well, not your life. I mean your rule. Perhaps your life, in the future." Cutting her off, yet again.

Now it's the guard's turn to drop his mouth, and Celestia's face is mixed with confusion and heavy thinking. The guard to the right of her begins to step forward, and a guard at the doors prepares his wings to fly. Celestia turns to the moving guard before he can move a foot and says "Let her continue." Reluctantly, the guard steps back into position, his stoic expression quickly reforming, and the other guard allows his wings to fold back. "I do this, mainly for equality. Allowing ponies have more political power. As I assume, you will most likely try your hardest to stop me."

"This isn't really how I look. I'm just a messenger. Before you call me a weak coward for not showing my face, let me tell you. The fact I am telling you my intention is bravery. I welcome your attempts to stop me. Try. You may find all your attempts will prove fruitless, as all the courage you have mustered will slowly seep out of you. I will hide in the shadows, to slowly take you down. One by one, your life will crumble. You will find you may never be able to trust anypony again. You may find those you trust to betray you. Or, you may find the life they have will come to an abrupt ending. I figure I should warn you, give you a chance for defense. To be fair." The ponies in the room are confused, at this explanation that one pony is giving.

Silence begins to grow, and speaking seems to be harder for the ponies. The mare is keeping a blank face as she waits for a response. "Why?"

"To repeat. I do this, mainly for equality. Allowing ponies to have more political power."

"What are you willing to do?"

"Many things. Practically all. I don't exactly have things to lose, and if I do, they mean nothing to me."

'She... Has nothing? Doesn't she care about something? Doesn't she...' "My family was part of those lives abruptly ended. That is another reason why. It's not hard to commit crimes, and get away without punishment.  Of course, I disclose this for it wouldn't be much of help. I believe it's safe to say everypony has had somepony in their family tree has lost someone aside from natural causes. And I never said immediate family. Continuing. Should you find me, I will try to divert your attention, but I will never lie. I may omit details, but there will naturally be truth in my speech. I'm no liar, trust me on that one. For now, I do not believe that I have anything left to say. I bid you farewell, future enemy."

As the lime mare turns, she begins trot. Celestia casts a barrier around the earth pony, with her being in the center. The mare continues. 'What does she think she's doing? Does she think she can leave, that the barrier isn't there?' Smoke explodes in the room, leaving everypony's vision to be obscured. A flash of lime weakly pierces the smoke, as guards cough. Celestia flaps her wings, and the smoke blows out the slightly opened windows, and through the door. As the smoke clears, the mare is...

Outside the barrier.

She is galloping, but stops in the door frame, and between rooms. She doesn't look back. "Oh. Call me Anonymous." The mare gallops out, leaving a shocked princess, confused and hesitant guards, and one chasing guard.

   As the lime pony gallops through the halls with amazing agility, quickness, and quietness, the pegasus chasing after her is barely keeping up with her. She moves as though she has been through these halls before, as she takes shortcuts and corners to try and shake the guard off, while not alerting or being found by other guards. Your not losing me, you tricky mare! The pegasus begins flapping his wings harder, and very slowly begins closing distance between the two. The mare suddenly stops, and because the pegasus is moving too fast, he can't stop quick enough. The earth pony moves herself into a scary motion. She just HAS to buck. The pegasus gets all too familiar for his tastes with the mare's hind hooves, and he flies back, rolling backwards before stopping, and groans in pain. Looking up with black spots dancing on his vision along with blurriness, he sees the mare quickly leave.

All too soon, he feels sleep embrace him, while his eyes slowly close. This isn't over yet. As the lime pony exits the castle, a certain pony messes with his brain, and he forgets what the mare looks like. So do the other guards, one by one. Celestia, although unaware of the assault on memory, still retains half of the memory of how she looks.

As the mare leaves the castle trotting happily, she smiles at other ponies. As she trots, she trots into an alley. A horn slowly pierces out her head, and she lays on the ground in a sleeping position. She regains her senses, the spell wearing off, and she stands up. Wow. I can't believe how far I sleep-walked. I mean, I knew it was bad... Walking out of the alley, the mare begins for home, unknowing what she has done with a guard, nor knowing what she said to the princess.