Gales of Dark Shadows

  The full moon's glow shown in through the windows of the hallway. As she entered her room, the slightly louder click of the doors closing behind her was eerie. She hung up her cloak in her wardrobe, she shook her wings a little before folding them to her sides and with a turn walked toward her bed as she walked, ShadowGale couldn't help but look into the mirror, she stopped to look real hard, a dark memory arose from an ancient grave like a zombie.

ShadowGale ran to confront her father who was already fighting her mother. As she ran into the ballroom where they were fighting she was horrified at the sight, blood everywhere mostly her Mothers and the housecarl who probably joined a little bit earlier. ShadowGale was frozen in fear, her joints locked in place, as she watched her Father butcher the housecarl in two pieces. Her mother shouted at him, anger loud in her tone, "Balthazar stop this madness," She cried angerly but almost more of disbelieve,

"Why should I, you have used black magic before Belladonna," Balthazar laughed, the purple ghost-like aura stretching on the end of his eyes. Belladonna gritted her teeth and lunged at him blade in a magic hold. Balthazar smiled as his eyes turned emerald green as he made a purple colored blade shoot out. "No....." ShadowGale said quietly and weakly, the blade shot out and all she could hear was her mother"s piercing scream echo. The sword went right through Belladonna like a knife to soft butter. Balthazar only smiled and threw the body off like nothing, a gasp slipped out from ShadowGale's mouth loud enough to reach her Father's ears. She cowered in fear as her Father turned to look at her, Balthazar walked over to his little frightened foul and said "It's ok there's nothing to be afraid of," He spoke quiet but ShadowGale could hear the wretched bite of amusement in his tone it stabbed her like a dagger. "There's plenty to be afraid of, Father," She said a little angry. Balthazar heard the tone loud and clear, backing off just a bit he said something ShadowGale will never forget. "Gale dear, I want you to know something, something important," there was a small pause, "That your daddy didn't choose to be this way, it was passed down in the family with great pride really and it is passed,now to you," He finished looking at the shock on his daughter's face. He smiled wickedly, as he knew his daughter was hating the new found answer.

"It....it can't...no your lying!" ShadowGale yelled and pushed her Father away, taking back he continued,

"Oh you know it true after all-" he was cut off by ShadowGale screaming "SHUT UP!!!" Balthazar's eyes narrowed, ShadowGale was slowly backing away from him when he looked her in the eyes.

"Don't you get snappy with me girl," He growled.

"I don't care,you killed m

Mommy and SteelWing, your not my Daddy anymore-" ShadowGale gasped as her neck was grabbed and she was suddenly hoisted up into the air by a purple tentacle, she started to gasp for breath. Balthazar was upset for how rudely his daughter spoke to him but she was his only daughter he had so,he would pass for an apology. ShadowGale was suddenly falling and with a hard boom fell to the floor. Pain shot through her as her father spoke

"Now listen well because I'm only going to say this once,you need to APOLOGIZE right know!" Balthazar said half yelling half through his teeth.

ShadowGale was silent for a minute before angerly shouting a straight forward "NO!" fear none existent in her voice, Balthazar roared in rage as now sword like object hurled toward her. A feeling sudden swept over her, it was a sinister feeling one that was dark but made you feel alive at the same time. Her eyes flooded with anger became just like her father's but scarier and more intense. Violent colored tentacle grabbed each blade and tossed them aside. ShadowGale lunged at her back father, Balthazar tried to dodge but failed and now welding katana like swords,stabbed into him. Balthazar in the first time in a while felt this stinging feeling over run him, his eyes widened, pain it was pain but instead of screaming he only laughed until his remaining breath faded but she continued to stab until there was hardly a body, letting out every sliver of anger she had bottled up into each thrust of the katana.Then the feeling left as quickly as it came and with that feeling the katanas left with it. ShadowGale looked at her bloodstained hooves, collapsed to the floor and began to cry, and before the memory fades, she says "What have I done and what creature lurks with in me?"...... ShadowGale stared into the mirror, all she saw was a her dreaded father looking back at her, it mocked her, taunted her. Her expression turn sower, ShadowGale roared in anger and hit the mirror as hard as she could,the deafening shattering sound shrieked across the hall. Waking Twilight with a start, jumping out of bed, she galloped down the hall toward ShadowGale's room, the source of the sound, she galloped past her room a little but soon managed to come to a skidding stop, Twilight turned around and trotted back to ShadowGale's room. She listened for a moment but heard nothing she assumed made she was wrong about where to shattering sound came from but she was concerned about something she did hear though, for the one thing that could be heard was almost nonexistent but loud enough to be found if searched for, Behind the door Twilight Sparkle heard the faint sound of crying.