Brothers' Past

Several thousand years before the regal sisters took rule over Equestria, there lived a stallion with a heart darker the night sky, a stallion named ‘Pitch Black’. This stallion hated everything and every pony, and to show his hatred towards them he forced them all to build a palace for him, mad completely out of black crystals. As the building started, a group of ponies came to rescue all his slaves and set them free, but it was pointless, when they attempted to free them, they refused to leave for they have began to worship the stallion, thinking that he was their true king, when he heard, he decided not to have them build the place, but instead, become his children, his children of shadows. He started a guild called ‘The Brotherhood of the Black Hoof’, within it, everyone hade hearts of black. As an initiation, the stallion would put his ‘children’ through pain, pain that would break them, and once they were broken, he’d rebuild them in his image, and he’d cover them with shadows and remove the fear that lives within them all.

On a fateful day, the stallion’s father appeared in front of him and demanded he ended the guild, but the stallion refused and slain his father, and upon doing that, he awakened the anger that lived within the souls of his sister and his brother causing them to attack, but he was prepared, he summoned his second sister and the four fought for many years. When the fight ended, it left the sister and brother of good weak and sent them into hiding. The sister hid within her sanctuary, a colossal library made of stone, a house of knowledge and peace, and within this library she remained for the rest of her days. The brother hid within the soul of a mortal colt, the young child had learned forgiveness and as a reward for him, he granted him the gift of eternal life and the power of an Alicorn. As the two hid, the evil sister and brother continued their reign of terror and hatred upon the peaceful land, cursing the ponies who lived there with shadows, forcing them to become his kin.

After many years have passed, a group of powerful alicorns known as ‘The Principles of Creation’ stood up to his power and fought him in his own domain, and for many years the power of the Principles and the Brotherhood fought each other, until the faithful day. During a battle between the forces, the Principles of Creation pushed through the Brotherhood’s forces and made it to the sanctuary housing them all, the entered his domain, and banished him to the deepest pits of Tartarus. As he arrived in the realm his body was scorched black and covered with searing red scars, and when he awoke in his new prison, his was met by its king and ruler who told him, that he is now a slave in his world, but he didn’t listen. Pitch Black rose up against him; he slain him and took his realm as his own, and with his new power, his new army, and the world beneath his own, he swore revenge against the Principles of Creation, he swore to make them suffer even if it took the rest of his mortal life, and as his hatred started to consume him, his form began to change, the hatred stained his eyes red, causing fear into anything or any pony who saw them. He grew wings on his back, but unlike Pegasi, these wigs were not of birds, but of demons, and his horn was broken, to teach him pain, to prevent him from breaking.

Many years later, as the Principles of creation celebrated the anniversary of their victory, Pitch Black Rose back up from Tartarus, but he was now different, from a normal stallion to a dark black beast, and now, to a corrupt black scaled dragon. They saw him, they saw the monster he has become, and at this time, they could do nothing to stop him. He fled from them and went back to his home, to the cavern he has tainted with his hate, and waiting there for him was his children, the Brotherhood. He told them of the new world he has found, of the new home he was reborn in, and upon hearing of this ‘New world’ they praised him, they worshiped him more than they used to. He set off around the world; he went to find new children to follow him into the underworld, to worship him, to fight with and for him, and upon doing so, he met thousands that offered to fight against purity and harmony, he met the thousands of souls he would sacrifice for his own gain, he met the true Brotherhood. After several days have passed and he had returned to the place of his banishment in his pony form to meet with the Principles of Creation, he offered them an ultimatum, if they gave him their powers he would order his army to stand down and to not attack, but they refused to give up their powers and so he told them, that at midnight at the year’s end, he would send his army to attack them, and kill every pony in the surrounding towns, and he didn’t lie, at the end of the year at midnight, his army attacked them and outnumbered them, from the original 100 that joined him, the army grew, from the small number it went into the thousands. The war went on for many years until almost the entire Brotherhood was slaughtered, Pitch Black stepped forward and along with him were 15 other ponies, thinking that it would be easy, the Principles readied themselves for a fight, but he did nothing, they grew confused, and as they prepared to attack, a column of black flames shot from the ground, the 15 ponies inside were burnt to ash, but Pitch Black was left unharmed as his body began to morph, when the flames died, his true form was revealed, he was a Hydra, with heads that reach past the clouds. They tried their best to defeat him, but they were no match for him, until she appeared. A being of purity and the leader if the Principles of Creation, Mother Faust used her magic to destroy Pitch Black once and for all, and once he fell, she used her magic to lift the curse placed on all those who followed him, it worked, but only one remained, a young filly at least 7, she was the only surviving member of the Brotherhood, but since she was the youngest of those who fought, she was set free, and once their backs were turned, she resurrected her family, she became the leader, and the shadows were reborn but different, the Brotherhood used to fight, but now, they are outcasts of their own kind, thieves, murders, liars, they went from the war hungry, to the criminals, they have been reborn.