perspective: Corpus

I floated in the dark, Seeing nothing... and everything... It was a magnificent sight, to see the nothingness, and then the light... It brought tears to my eyes to known such beauty... The full color spectrum was laid bare to me in its full majesty as I traveled the Dark path... Above me was light, below me was darkness... It was a poetic picture of how the universe can be split in two, the emotions of everything, verses the nothingness of the force... and how it encapsulates us all... For beyond the Light I could see the darkness, faintly, stretching through.

'Stars... Stars? Why in the great divide are there STARS up there?! I thought I was dead?!' My voice rang through my head as I tried to regain my bearings.

"G-R, is everything still in one piece?!" I shouted, looking about the cockpit for the hatch release.

"..."

"G-R?" I asked. Then I found the quick release for the cockpit hatch, which I pulled instantly. The hatch shot up and off into the night sky, crashing down seconds later right next to the fighter. I jumped up and onto the side of the ship and looked about my new environment, checking for dangers and other such things in this... Forest? Yeah, a forest, okay, Forest's have predators and other small herbivores... At least I know I wont be going hungry anytime soon.

Looking around my eyes came to rest on the discarded form of G-R, He was laying on the ground next to the ship, slightly scuffed and beaten by the look of him. I jumped over and crouched next to his chassis, looking him over I saw that his power switch had been hit during what ever scuffle he had been apart of. Flipping the switch he turned back on and belted out several robotic screams and threats in binary.

"G-R, it's fine, i'm here!" I yelled as I held my hand over my ears because of the high pitched scree.

"Whhhhoooo... Brip, dee to pop... Twoop?" G-R asked.

"No, I don't know where we are... But I plan on finding out... If it's the last thing I do!" I growled, feeling a predatory gaze fall upon us I whipped around, several of the lightsabers on my belt clinking together from the snap movement, and came face to face with a large feline like creature...

"GRRRRROOOARRRRR!" It bellowed, bearing its teeth at me with malicious intent.

"Well... shit... G-R... Get behind the ship... This won't take long..." I got up from my kneeling position and unclipped two of my thirteen lightsabers... All but one are trophies from my years as a Sith Warrior under one of the many high lords. The Large feline like creature started prowling back and forth, sizing me up for a quick attack when I noticed something odd about it... There were leathery wing like protrusions on its side... and THEN I saw a insectile like tail with a KRIFFING STINGER protruding out of its backside. 'Okay... this Is one weird ass place... I haven't even heard of this kind of creature in any of the holo reports about the planets of the GA... or even our own for that matter...' I thought to myself as I readied for a quick fight.

Suddenly the creature lunged at me, catching me by surprise, and swiped its right paw at me. I quickly turned on my blue and red lightsabers and pivoted to let the blades catch the full force of the strike. Astonishingly, when the paw collided with my sabers, it did not get cut, or even slightly burned, by the hard light beams. My eyes, now the size of saucers, locked onto the beast as it came about with its other clawed paw and tried to hit me again, the paws of this beast were almost as big as my chest! I again parried the blow and rebound off the strike, launching myself back a good six feet as its right paw crashed down on where I was. This thing must have been a good 15 feet tall! I then took to the offensive as I leaped high into the air and landed square on its back. I quickly brought the saber in my right hand (the red one) down into its thick hide, tip first. There was but a moment of tension before the blade begrudgingly sank into the monsters hide, the entire time I was holding on for dear life as it tried to buck me off.

"I will FUCKING KILL YOU IF I HAVE TO DIE TRYING BEAST! Now com'ere ya son of a Kath hound!" I bellowed, I had gotten the first saber all the way in tot he hilt and was about to plunge the Blue one in when the beasts stinger shot forth and went straight through my left knee, making me shout in excruciating pain.

"MOTHER FUCKER!" I bellowed as I shoved the Blue blade clean through the skin with no problem and dragged it down the beasts back, severing several of its ribs and incinerating a few vertebrae in the process. The beast howled out in pain as I deactivated the blades and was flung from its body, the stinger that was still in my leg was snapped off and thrown with me as I landed against a tree.

The beast was bleeding copiously as it stalked ever so slowly towards my mangled body, the force of the impact had broken many of my bones, both my legs were broken and my back was snapped in half just above the pelvis... meaning that I might be paralyzed for life, and my left arm was bent at SEVERAL odd angles, Couple all hat with the venom running through my body... and you got a very fucked over Sith Master. Looking at the beast as it stalked over to me I was able to bring my right hand up in defense... OR at least fain defense as I charge up a large burst of Force lightning. Once it got about ten feet from me I snapped my eyes open and lunged my arm forward and sent several arcs of dark purple lightning into the beasts body, making it howl out in pain as it fell to the ground, twitching from all the misfiring muscles in its body. I blasted the fucking beast for almost ten minutes straight, not even stopping when the creature was a charred ans smoking husk.

Laying there I could only think of what had happened to all those I had called Friend and even Family... all of them lost aboard the Vengeful Spirit... Their screams could still be heard in my mind... Never leaving, always reminding me of what I couldn't protect them from... Damned Jedi... Damned GA... Always having to go make sure the SITH are keeping to themselves... I was once the leader of ten planets, keeping my people all well fed and happy under my rule... none were to want of anything... I made sure all forces of corruption were destroyed wherever they took root and a much nobler being put in their place. The lives of my people were my life blood, their happiness was mine, their sorrow was my sorrow, their joy was my joy. Now I have nothing, and even those that I had called friend and family were gone... and I was now here, DYING of all things, on an unknown planet with just G-R as my final companion... A lonesome man with his droid...

'How FUCKING PATHETIC DO YOU ALL THINK I AM!' I screamed into my mind, hate and rage boiling up, and then subsiding as the chill of the night finally caught up with me. 'I may be a lone man... BUT, I will not let this beat me... I will... not... let... this... beat... me...' I slowly fell into unconsciousness as the venom slowly attacked my mind, clouding my vision and dulling my senses.

"By the creator... Do not doubt creature... WE shalt aid thee!" A heavenly voice cut through the fog and latched onto my consciousness, making me WANT to keep myself there. "Head thy warning creature... Do not fade... Stay... awake..." The heavenly sounding voice, somehow speaking basic, was sounding far off as I was pulled farther into my unconscious being, that is until I thrust out and shouted, even though it came out as a whisper.

"I... will... My... Angel..." And I knew the light no longer.

Perspective change: Luna

"Head thy warning creature, We shalt aid thee, Do not fade, Thou must stay awake!" I pleaded with the unconscious being before me. The creature was bleeding from many different spots on its body.

"I... Will... My... Angel..." The creature muttered out, making me blush slightly, of all the things to say... I shook my head quickly and levitated the creature onto my back, once it was on there I spread my wings and took for the skies, not letting a moment pass. We took to the skies of Equestria and I headed us towards the mighty figure of mine and my sisters castle, "The Ivory City" it is called... Famous for its clean streets and ivory towers and cathedrals.

As I flew over the houses and other buildings of the Ivory City I could hear my charge stirring, making angry sounds and shifting about on my back, making it increasingly difficult to fly. I saw the small palace I and my sister used as our seat of power come into view long before I was ready and felt a tremor of dread shoot through my system. 'I hope mine sister is not awaiting me... this would be much to much for her to handle right now... with Discord being recently deposed and the other nobles popping up all over the country...

We were about a quarter mile from my bedchambers when the creature suddenly rolled itself off my back, making to fall through the air with not an ounce of grace. Seeing this I shot off after him and quickly received him in my telepathic grasp. 'Creature, thou give quite the scare... and thou dost know not what thou hast done...' I sighed as I carried the creature the rest of the way in my magical grasp. We soon made it to my room, after weaving our way around many of the palaces spires, concealing our movements from any and all guards that happened to be on duty that night. Once in my room I placed the creature down on the ground, after laying out several dark comforters to cushion him against the cold floor. I then went to work looking over his wounds.

'Leg... I think, mostly destroyed... possible to rebuild... may take some time... but feasible.' I was looking at his lower left extremity... I think it's a leg, not to sure... It will have to wait till the creature awakens for me to find out more... 'Both lower extremities seem to be broken... should heal up nicely with a simple spell... Left... fore? Extremity seems to also be broken... It should heal as well with a simple spell.' I then went to work with stripping off the creatures outer garments, making sure to only remove those, or push aside, those that were in the way of me cleaning the beings wounds. After moving everything out of the way I trotted off to my bathing chambers and retrieved a good sized towel and some rubbing alcohol... It will burn but it will clean it all up none the less... and I done't want to use more magic on this creature than is safe... Seeing as it might have a severe reaction to such things... which may make my earlier thoughts void, Which would mean a very painful few months for my new resident... Yay...

"Creature, If thou can hear me, this is going to hurt..." I spoke ever so loudly, just to make sure he had a better chance at hearing me. I then took the towel and dabbed it in the alcohol, getting it sufficiently moist, and then went about wiping up the blood around some of the beings minor wounds. With each wipe I gained a low grunt of agony from the creature, or even a whimper when dealing with his more sever wounds. When I finally got to the things leg I was slightly sick, seeing a creature torn up so badly... and being made almost unable to walk because of it... It sickened me to the bone.

"Creature... this... This will be more agonizing than the hell we have previously placed thee in." Miraculously the being nodded its head almost perceptibly. I then went to work on the creatures knee, removing pieces of bone and chitin from the Manticore's stinger being broken off in the things leg. I then used a simple spell, knowing that there might be draw backs, and sucked as much of the poison out of the immediate area as was possible. in the end I took some cloth and bound it over the torn mass of flesh and bone, making a makeshift tourniquet.

'We should both rest easy now, knowing that the creatures wounds are tended too and that I was able to do as much as was ponily possible...' I thought to myself before going over to the large balcony window and looking at the night sky. 'It is nearly time to lower the moon... My moon...' "Ugh..." I sighed and began my nightly ritual of lowering the moon and hiding the stars, as was my sworn duty as Princess of the Night.

"Good night... Equestria..."

Author's Note

And our tale Begins! Everypony come by weekly to get new chapters! For a while at least! XD