Author's Note

THIS JUMPS AROUND QUITE A BIT. They are to-be used scenes. I just need to know what you think!!

PROLOUGE

A FAMILY AFFAIR

HOUSE PARADISE? Or Golden?

The Ancients; (after the first dragon attack)

~Icarus Crest Nightshade
His mate
~Moon-Shine Meadow Nightshade

((Presumed generations off family until Present))

Present (time the story take pace)

~Pepper Thorn Nightshade
His mate.
~Lilac Cloven Pepper Nightshade*

His children

~Daisy Cloven Pepper Nightshade**

~Snake Bite Thorn Pepper Nightshade

*Females that are mated full names consist of their first, middle, maiden last name and then mate’s middle name, and family last name

** Children take on their given first name, mother’s/father’s maiden middle name, mother’s maiden last name and then family last name

((Ok, I’m gonna try to make this as simple as possible. Try to keep up!!))

THE CURSE

During the first dragon attack, villages and smaller families were attacked, the Nightshade family being one of these.
The Nightshades had always been a mysterious herd, more or less a part of the Golden House, though where their loyalties were remained within themselves, and to each other. They lived part-time in the castle, if occasions had it, being Icarus was part of the Guard, and preferred his family live apart from all the royalty, so they established a small farm land just outside the castle walls.

They were attacked by what they (presumed) were a flock of gryphons, their land set on fire and devastated. Icarus’ mate Moon Shine was taken away during the chaos and viciously raped.

Sometime during the attack Icarus was able to save his mate, killing off the flock leader of the attack. Enraged, the gryphons took revenge cursed them over Moon Shine’s raped body, in some language they didn’t understand (and has yet to be established). It was then that it was seen that they were not in fact gryphons, but changelings disguised as gryphons.

Moon Shine survived, and was able to warn her children, who over generations would tell the story down as just a tale.
However generations the Nightshade herd would start to evolve, as the curse changed them slowly into unicorns, Pegasus, and alicorn, skipping some generations, until the present Nightshade family.

PRESENT NIGHTSHADES
Lilac, who is the next carrier of the said evolution and curse, is a plain unicorn in appearance, but much too powerful than normal unicorns. Mated to normal pony of the guard or something for Rarity’s family, they live in the castle grounds on a farm.
After a few years of concealing Lilac’s odd powers, like being able to tell when someone is about to die, and more, they birth Daisy, an alicorn…

As Daisy is raised, Lilac does extensive research on how the heck this is possible. She comes across an ancient diary of the original Moon Shine and how she re-accounts the curse. Fearing for her daughter, she keeps her a secret, not necessarily teaching Daisy magic, because she fears that the magic will trigger the curse, which she thinks is the reason why Daisy is an alicorn.
Anyways, Daisy is in her mid…filly…years? (say equivalent to 12 or 13) and her family is attacked by gryphons, again right in the middle of Lilac giving birth to her second child. Lilac sees it coming because of the curse and her ability to see impending death.
Right before the gryphons come in, she uses her magic to conceal and diminish Daisy’s wings, so she appears as just a regular unicorn.

Raped by the gryphons once more, Lilac dies during childbirth, and enraged, Daisy races after the retreating gryphons, which don’t touch her for some reason, and kill them.

Such starts the rumor of being a necromancer, since death seemed to dance with her.

After the murder, she takes it on herself to leave, though she is badly injured from the fight. At some point she nearly dies, which is when she is found by Bear Claw, who takes her in, and teaches her to fight. She is driven by insane anger, and renames herself Crimsonova Scarlett Rhododendron, after the color of the blood she intends to draw, and the deadly but mistakenly beautiful flower. She becomes a warrior, and of course, sad for her, Bear Claw is murdered by something or another.
And so begins her journey to revenge……