Prologue Part 1 (Currently being edited)

YAY First fiction :pinkiehappy: Let’s see how this goes. This chapter will be mainly a narrative so just a heads up, and no the majority of the chapters will not be like this one.

Gone. All of it. Gone, everything I lived for just wiped out in a matter of hours. I don’t know where I’m heading, but there is nothing for me back home.

My name is Dawn Fury, alicorn prince and defender of Atmos.  A neighboring country, Almeric, declared war upon upon my homeland of Atmos.  It was nothing we could not handle, after all we had double the number of soldiers, and my fellow Alicorn rulers to protect our sovereignty.

But, the war changed when they, the Hell Spawns as some called them, came.  They first destroyed our enemy.  Showing no mercy to any of them.

At first we thought they had come to our aid, but we were in for a surprise.  You may have guess, the beasts next move was to attack and destroy us, the ponies of Atmos.

We fought viciously but alas, our whole kingdom was leveled to the ground in about two hours. Two hours to destroy an army of 250,000 stallions strong. Each a brave and sober soldier, all well armed and trained. For all their numbers and strength, our military lasted maybe three quarters of an hour longer than the Almerian army.

But, my what struck my heart the most was the loss of the innocents. The millions of ponies who were just living out there lives in peace. The ponies that looked to me as a leader and protector. The weak and young that were slaughtered by the beasts. Ponies that never lifted a hoof in anger, were killed for simple sport.

Soon there were only four surviving alicorn royalty, counting myself, along with five other guard ponies. Prince Solaris and Prince Artemis raised a protective spell that keep us safe for the moment.

The beasts took notice of the magic shield, and began to muster their forces for an all out attack dedicated to eradicate us. However there was one flaw in their plan, even thought their magic extremely potent against unicorn ponies magic, it was not as effective against alicorns.

The beasts managed to breakthrough the barrier through sheer force, then all it took was one spell and all the last of our guards were just corpses. Just like the others soldiers and ponies that went up against the beasts.

The eyes of one of the fallen still looked at me. His eyes seem to be asking me ‘why?’.

This was the breaking point, I couldn’t manage to watch any of my subjects fall to the ground with such ennui.

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I charged my horn with the most powerful spell I know. The magical pulse shot out from my horn, striking one of the beasts in the torso. To everyone’s surprise, the monster fell with a great thud onto the marble floor of the place.

It was surreal, as the beast ended their attack, to look upon the body of one of their own. They simply could not understand that one of their own could be killed in battle.

The beasts did not take kindly to one of their kin falling before a mere pony.  Once the shock passed, one of the beast raised his claw and charged his own spell. To fire a fatal bolt upon me.

My attack came with a personal price. That single spell had taken almost all of my magical reserves, and I was beginning to feel weak and tired. It took so much power to take kill one beast that I felt weary.

I closed my eyes in anticipation of the death blow. A death blow that never came. I opened my eyes only to see to my horror that one of my fellow Alicorn, Gallant Heart, was lying dead at my feet. His body smoked as a mass of lifeless meant on the cold floor.

Once more the sickening quiet returned to my mind. Gallant Heart was once the newest prince, at least before I have achieved the status of prince. Now all he was nothing more than a lifeless from at my feet. The beast had killed an alicorn and had made it look like foals play. Tears filled my eyes as I looked over to my fellow alicorn elders for leadership. Only to hear Prince Artemis order me to go.

“Go to safety!  We will manage. Farewell Dawn, remember us.”

I have never disobeyed a direct order from my superiors. I did as instructed, though it tore my heart and soul to shards. This was my home, where I made friends, and ruled with my fellow alicorns.

I had failed in my duties to protect the weak and the young. I had failed in my duty to protect my homelands form invaders. I failed my mentor and best friends.

Now, all I had to prove my prince hood was a crown and my sword with the engraved words, “Forgive.  But, Do Not Forget.” written upon the blade.

~~~~PRESENT~~~~

I have been flying over the ocean for 13 days so far, the only thing keeping my going is hope, hope that there is another land, and hope that my superiors somehow made it to safety.

My wings are aching and the only reason I was still able to use them was because I had diverted my magic into replenishing my wings to their normal state. Of course I was very susceptible to magical attack but who will I meet in the middle of the ocean with a strong enough spell to knock me out of the sky.

At the night of the 13th day, I had gone through my emergency food and water supply I had in my saddlebag and was beginning to feel the effects of starvation taking a toll on my body.

A few hours later, right before I gave up on all hope, I saw it. Shoreline! Silently praying I hadn’t been flying on circles I began my descent. At first all I saw was a vast, dense forest teeming with life but no civilization in sight. I decided to go down and quickly grab some food to eat. At the moment, I would eat anything I could catch.

Casting an invisibility spell on myself to ensure I don’t get spotted by predators, I enter the forest through a clearing. To my luck I found a bush loaded with berries a few feet in front of me. I enjoyed a quick meal and loaded my saddlebags with more of the delicious fruit, I began to take flight, hoping to find civilization this time.

I kept my height at a steady 500 meters above the ground and that’s when I saw it, right there a few miles ahead of me was a castle perched on the side of a mountain.

I flew over it to determine if of it was a pony-made structure or not. I noticed a lot of commotion below, it was as if they were celebrating something. While I was pondering what could possibly be going on, a massive lavender beam of pure unbridled magic shot out of one of the castle's towers and shot me right out of the sky.

I began to uncontrollably spiral downwards throughout the air at speeds only few pegasi would dream to reach. As I looked behind myself to see why, I realized that the beam had burnt off the feathers on my right wing, making my left side have more lift than the other. To counter this, I clamped my wings shut to stabilize my fall.

As I was falling I took notice of a rainbow streak attempting to catch up to me. Not knowing what it could possibly want, I placed a ward between us.

As I suspected it crashed right into the ward with a sickening thud and began to fall however it managed to regain its balance and began to speed up towards me again. Frightened as I was, I used a spell that removed all air drag from my body effectively increasing my top speed dramatically. However at my current weakened state, I began to feel dizzy and tired.

As I began to lose consciousness I saw I was going to crash land in a forest, with all the magic I had left in my reserves, I created a small yet sturdy barrier, just hard enough for it to muffle my fall, immense pain seared through my body as I finally passed out.