Author's Note
I would like to begin this story with a simple phrase. Hello, please enjoy yourselves.
Now, due to the content of this story's future chapters, I will likely recieve many dislikes/downvotes. While I accept that this is probably inevitable, I gave them warning and if they found content that disgusts them, well... they obviously had some innocence left. Now, the first person who can guess who Eklipse is, can receive a ten thousand word maximum Oneshot if they want. Post guesses in the comment section.
Onto the miscellaneous part of this author's note. I hope that those of you who are prepared to see the Journey unfold are also ready to see what exactly happens when a being survives the end of time... Enjoy.
P.S. I am still a fanfiction writer, I basically live to hear what you think of what I write. so please point out what exactly appeases the darker side of your mind as well as your thoughts on the next chapter. Or if you just want to have a little conversation, pm me.
The Prologue
The End
I sat. The darkness around me faded in and out as if afraid to catch my notice. I laughed. Once more, I felt its amusing vibrations in my core. Looking at myself, I sighed once more. I stood, on the ground? Hah! There is no ground. There is no air, and there is no light. Hell, there is barely any darkness either. ‘How long have I-’ then I remembered. There is no time either. All of my actions now are taking place at once. For there is no more time than it. The last bit I could preserve, right Now.
Almost all of my power went to preserving my existence right now. Within this small space, twenty square feet of movement, I was alone. No sounds, no smell, no taste, no touch, no sight, all are contained outside the limitations of my safe spot... All I have left is my mind. And I feel it slowly slipping to The End. That is what I named it. It was all going so well for me. I had a great thing going as the Prince of Power. I know that I would have beaten both King Sol of the sun as well as Lord Lumos of the moon. They would have fallen eventually, and then all of the races would be mine. But, It happened. The End came for us. And we all lost, except for me. I won, but what do I have now. A small space of existence to sit in as my own powers erode away my sanity until I become a fool like that bitch Chaos? No, its not enough for me. I remember when the first seed of ambition was placed within me.
/
I had grown fast as a child. At twelve years, I was nearly full grown. At thirteen, I stopped growing. My surrogate mother/partner had told me why once. An experiment, she called it. A forbidden magic long lost to ponykind. True Necromancy, the complete control over flesh and bone. She had injected a large amount of raw Necro-magic into me at the age of three. It had run rampant in my early years, leading to extreme urges that nearly landed me in a psychiatric ward. But at the age of 7, my body had adapted to it and she could safely pump in as much as she wanted. From that point, the raw magic had shaped my body into a flawless specimen of anatomy. No part of my body was disproportioned, not even my wings were out of shape.
She did many kinds of research and experiments, the worst one I remember is the one that ended in her death. Her research into the essence of power itself was discovered by her mentors brother, Lord Lumos. He had returned from his thousand year exile a changed stallion, but not changed enough. He had done things the old Canterlot way. Accused her of treason before lopping off her head in front of me. I was only 15 that day, but I teleported home and quickly relocated all of my mother’s research into the pocket dimension within my saddle bag before teleporting to the outside of town. I ran into the forest and trained myself for 11 years traveling the world. In every nation I learned new magics and skills. Eventually, I finished her research into the essence of power and uncovered that there were six corner stones in the hexagon rune of power. Eternity, Knowledge, Assimilation, Corruption, Instinct, and Intent, these were the six things that together represented absolute power.
Using this knowledge, I started slaughtering people who represented one of these around the world. I slowly gained power from it, but most of it seemed to simply dissipate so I forged six items to focus their powers. A bladed bracer set that held Corruption and Assimilation, a suit of armor held Instinct; a mask held Eternity and an amulet held Knowledge, while a single spear held Intent.
When I used these objects, my power easily multiplied a hundred times over. But, not even absolute power had been enough to stop The End. The End had erased all of the murder, blackmail, and achievements I had ever accomplished. I even lost my amulet of Knowledge somehow after The End.
/
But here I am now. Eons later and no chang- ‘wait a second, I CAN FEEL IT!’ I thought as my eyes snapped open, my amulet had survived somehow. It was a very long ways away, but I knew that I could reach it before the abyss could erase me completely. ‘Is it worth it though?’ I asked myself, what good would it do me. ‘I might as well be complete if I am going to exist in this void for eternity.’
I started to focus all of my energy into a continuous teleport spell that I hoped would allow me to reach the amulet in time. I crossed my arms while hugging myself with my wings and in a flash, I entered the awaiting abyss.
/
The pain was almost unbearable, but I was actually able to withstand the tearing vacuum of the void as I neared the amulet of Knowledge. ‘Faster, faster, faster!’ I thought as my wings started to frost over. Ten! Nine! Eight! Seven! Six! Five! Four! Three! Two! And One! I reached my amulet, but when I opened my wings to grab it I saw that I was no longer in an abyss. My amulet was floating above a tear in the fabric of the Abyss itself. I saw that it was slowly being pulled in, I tried to pull it back but it just would not budge. I could feel myself being pulled in as well! I tried to release the amulet, but it had snared itself in my bracer’s blade. My last act of defiance against the portal trying to take me Faust knows where, was to gather the last of my magic and prepare myself for anything.
Third person
An ominous feeling filtered through the crystal ponies as their eyes fell upon the creature that held itself above their most important relic. For a moment, they just stared at the bipedal being in anger before their king spoke up.
A quick inspection by Sombra found little discerning what species the being was. The only hints he had were the armored tail and wings. “Step away from the Matrix, and place your hands behind your back.”
It tilted his head at him. But, nothing else really happened.
Not a single movement of any sort since their entrance had been made, other than a slightly cocked head.
“If you do not comply, you will be forcibly detained!” Sombra shouted once more.
The being laughed lightly, just on the edge of his hearing.
“I’ll be damned.” He thought he heard it say.
It then crouched down and tapped at the various runes drawn within the warding circle. A motion from Sombra had four unicorns approach it.
They walked in arrow formation. The protected one had a spell charged to detain the creature. It made no movements, but as soon as the guards came within ten feet of him, they were collectively thrown back to the entrance.
The soft voice from before stated. “Don’t send weaklings to do your job for you.”
A worried look crossed Sombra’s face as he approached the being himself. The move made just then was basically a warning, as the guards stood up just fine. Stopping just where the guards were, he rose his resiliency with a heap of earth pony magic and walked through where the others had been repelled. “Why are you here.” He asked, roughly 4 feet away from the crouched being.
“I am doing you a favor. You did me a favor, so I am doing you one.” It said. It started drawing on the floor in erratic manners. Runes Sombra had never seen before mingled in with the ones currently in his matrix.
A moment of panic erupted through his body as he saw the matrix shift, its lines moved, buckled. A dance of impossible magics twisted within his city’s greatest defense against outside threats. Adjustments were flying throughout it until he could barely recognize it anymore. The most terrifying thing though, was that none of the defenses were fighting it. Some had even joined the invisible tempo that beckoned the matrix’s compliment.
First person: Eklipse
The look on m-Sombra’s face was priceless. I had just reworked his city’s strongest shield against intruders. The original was nice and all, but hell! There wasn’t even a single rune they had used above tier 3. The whole thing was using the super charged Alicite as a key part of his spell instead of fuel. The most disgusting part of the whole matrix was the single mindedness of it all. The whole fucking thing was made to stop Windigos.
Corruption was a wonderful thing. In seconds, it had started breaking down the resistances and defenses. Ten seconds later, Assimilation converted each sector of the matrix as I rewrote the thing. While I am willing to admit that it had been a nice ward in the beginning… it was still nothing compared to some of Dusk’s early works. Then again, magic WAS her special talent. Such irony that simply doing your best to be who you are can get you killed…
My happy mood ruined, I stood to my full height.
Towering over Sombra, I talked to the assorted beings before me. “I have simply repaid a favor. If you step aside, I will take my leave.”
The guards, foolishly, made ranks in front of the staircase. My good mood returning somewhat at their reaction, I laughed.
“Come now. I can easily beat you all down. Just step aside.” They refused. I could see it in their eyes before I had finished my declaration. ‘Thank Faust.’ I thought. ‘Maybe… nah, best not to have any REAL fun yet. I wanna see if I can get out the hard way.’
I looked at Sombra, who had a shocked look of some form of anger and… disbelief? Well, I suppose having seen the spell that kept your city safe from Windigos be tampered with to such a great degree with such little effort on my part had something to do with it…
I waved a hand in front of his face, getting his attention.
“Hey bubs! Tell these guys I can go.” I said.
I nodded towards the guards. Five horns were lit in an instant and Sombra was dragged towards them with three shields surrounding him as a fifth scanned him for mental influence.
A particularly striking young Thestral approached me slightly. “What have you done to the matrix?”
Her fierce eyes bore into me and for a second, I was impressed. Then I realized that this wasn’t my dimension. The beings here don’t know about my power. They don’t understand my pain…
“I returned a favor. That is all.” My wings unfurled slightly and a magical pulse spread through them. “There is no harm in what I did. I fixed the pesky problems in your matrix. I mean, yeah, you obviously don’t know much about runes and bloodmagic, but you probably know what was wrong with it. Mental fatigue, accelerated drain, mood swings, dark thoughts, throbbing pains, etc. all were symptoms you felt. Correct, ‘Your Grace’?” I laughed at his expression.
“Calm down Sombra. I fixed those problems. M’kay? You woke me from my trance and I better protected your city. Fair deal for everyone. Now, I am leaving.” I turned, facing the stairway exactly.
I said one word. “MOVE”
They refused once again, so I decided that the hardway was boring.
My wings spread to their full lengths and crackling with energy, I pointed the tips forward and a sonic boom accompanied a bright flash as the smell of ozone erupted from the spell. I laughed at the lack of ponies in my way. They were all on the ground, except for Sombra. From his saddle bags, a silver crown floated to his head. But instead of the corrupting gem he bore from my world, a horn. A FULL Faust damned HORN of white ALICITE rested on his forehead.
“Crap.” I laughed right as a powerful blast struck my unprepared body. It was painful, I admit it. It actually hurt me. But, paper cuts hurt too.
I batted the beam away as I was driven back. On reflex, my bracers extended. But after the smoke cleared, I had already retracted them.
I saw Sombra’s ‘horn’ glow again and realized something. ‘The magical pattern looks kinda like… shit.’
I saw a dome of magic start to expand from Sombra and I high tailed it up the stairs. In a flash, the dome followed me. I started teleporting and made it out of the castle. The dome however, had not stopped there. It grew and grew. As the citizens saw it, all of the horned ones started to help.
Growing at a damn near exponential rat, it nearly hit me before I made it out of the city. I growled in anger at their impotence.
“Fucking cheaters. Try to use a mental purge on me.”
I flew straight up at the dozens of clouds above the city.
Perching on one, I started sifting through my thoughts and questions, looking for my next move.
“No, eh, nah, pfft!, umm, yeah no, I suppose… nah,” Idea after Idea were downtrodden by my bored mind’s high expectations. Until finally, an entertaining thought presented itself.
“Hehaha. This is going to be GRAND…” I said as I rocketed straight up. Clouds around me were shredded to pieces. The very air buckled for a second as I stopped, way above the world.
Due to my sore muscles, I decided to fall to my destination.
Minutes past and I finally navigated the storm system of the north, I was smack dab in the middle of the unformed equestrian nation…
‘I could end it now… all of the pain they caused me. All of the problems I was put through… I could stop it all from happening. Right here. Right now.
The time period I was in coincided with about seven years before their rise to power. Looking down on the city of the Everfree, I knew that they were in there somewhere. The royal brothers.
My thoughts flew away from me as my right hand extended. A power I knew all too well was nagging at me… just one little spell. Just on- “HI! Who are you?”My thoughts halted in their steps, I turned to look at the owner of the voice.
On a cloud floating next to me sat a little filly. Midnight fur, straight blue mane, tiny horn on her head and little wings on her back. I just stared at her for a short while… “HeLLOOOO?” she asked, waving a hoof in front of me.
“Who are you?” my voice twisted through my mask.
Her face scrunched up a little bit, but she answered anyway. “I am…” a drumroll came out of nowhere as she paused. “LUNA!!!!!! The most awesome pony EVER!” she shouted, throwing her hooves high in the air… and unceremoniously flopping onto her back.
One thought went through my head at the sight, ‘What. The LITERAL. FUCK?’ however, I did not VOICE that. Instead, I said “Hello Luna, my name is Eklipse. Tell me, why are you out here?”
She pouted slightly before answering, “I am hiding from my sister. But what about you? Sis said NOPONY knew where this place was…” she blinked at me, rather pointedly I might say.
I sighed and stopped hovering. A cloud spun into being below me and I kicked my feet up on almost nothing but air. I laughed lightly, “I don’t know what I am doing quite yet little one. I came here looking for two young colts, Sol and Lumos. Have you seen them?”
The filly shook her head no. “Only me and my sister, Celestia live here. Why are you looking for them?”
Why? A thought that never really crossed my mind… why did I look for them here. Did I want to stop them from hurting mother? HA! She isn’t even born yet. I suppose that killing them would have stopped her from even being born… not a good idea. “I wanted to make sure a bad thing did not happen little one. That is all.”
She looked down for a short while before talking again. “I hope make it then. My sister says that o-“
She stopped at the sudden appearance of a teenage mare. White in coat with a pink mane. Rather close to comfort might I say… by which I mean she was literally standing over me with a glowing horn in my face.
Luna screamed in fear so I grabbed the white one’s horn with Corruption and forced that little thing she was trying to do into a major hornache.
She fell to the side on the cloud and started rubbing at the base of her horn rapidly as a few tears escaped her eyes. Luna shrieked again, but this time it had a word. “Celestia” she cried, fling to her sister. She started trying to figure out what just happened and I decided I was bored again.
Since they were both distracted, I decided to leave.
I travelled for about a week, going to random places and generally just trying to have fun when I remembered something. ‘Chaos! That bitch knew one thing, for all of her downfalls. She always knew how to have some fun.
For the next half year, I searched for large sources of chaos. But, it wasn’t until I had literally flown the world that I found her. Napping, in the tree I had started under…
One thing was for certain, I was going to take pleasure in what I planned to do to her.
Author's Note
tadahhhhh!! so how long do you guys want me to continue in the past? do you want to see a bit more about his adventures in the past, how he generally just fucks shit up and tries to find some FUN somewhere. or should i just time skip to the part where the actual story shit happens?
