Chapters The Lost Pony Tales of Equestria Vol. 1 Meeting the Crowned Crew of Ponyville
Chapter 1 The Dragon Blood Cure?
The Lost Pony Tales of Equestria
Vol. 1 Meeting the Crowned Crew of Ponyville
Chapter 1
We find a figure leaning over a desk covered in a black cloak, lit with a candle who's light is weak barely lighting the table. She is writing in a tattered and worn diary, in a hoof made shack hidden deep in the Everfree Forest. Fighting back their emotions as they weave a tale into the diaries many pages.
"My name is Starlight I once was a beautiful unicorn born into a dark chapter of Equestria’s long history. A time of great suffering where chaos and disharmony covered much of Equestria, the creation of its dark ruler Discord. What he did to me with his dark magic ruined my life, as I knew it. Leaving me to live with a powerful curse. Even after he was overthrown his curse still clung to me haunting my every dream and clouding my thoughts. I don’t think any pony could look at me the same way knowing the horrible things I did, let alone forgive me. Even if they could the memories would haunt me the same and I could never forgive myself all the horrible things I did. I couldn’t stop let alone fight back, even if I did his magic took control of my body and did it for me. I was nothing more to him than a helpless pawn. But, no pony saw it that way so I left home, out of regret for what I had seen. But mostly of the fears of what they had planned for me, probably the same treatment Discord got being turned to stone."
"I once had a shimmering sliver coat with bright sky-blue hair with white frosted tips. But not anymore, thanks to Discord’s twisted magic I look more like a monster then a pony. I’m no unicorn anymore he thought I would look and serve him better as a dragon pony; he just combined me with a random dragon flying by. His magic turned my coat to blood red scales; my hair to blue spikes and my horn disappeared completely. My bright blue eyes darken to a deep teal almost black; even becoming more menacing with my pupils taking on a thinner taller appearance much like a dragons’. My teeth became sharper more spread out even got two sticking out the front of my mouth now. A set of dragon wings shot out from my back with black membranes, the pain was overwhelming. Not even my cutie mark escaped the transformation, looking sadly at her cutie mark turning from a bright white shooting star with blue center lines and yellow contrails making it appear to be falling right out of the night sky. It became a burning white star with flames licking their way around the star blacking the edges of the star; the blue lines have become a dark orange. All the time I spent hiding from ponies also has changed me, I’m collecting scars all over me. The most damming of all is just a gash I got recently through my right eye I can’t see that well with it now."
"For many years I’ve waited wishing that one morning I would wake up and be myself again. I’ve hidden from every pony for many years and I’ve seen many things in my unusually long life. Towns get formed and grow, cities expand and the rise and fall of king Sombra. The most disturbing of all was the fall of the 2 royal sisters’ rule, Celestia the oldest and Luna the youngest. Luna my mentor, what could have happened to you that drove you to madness to attack your own sister and calling yourself Nightmare Moon? You may have been the only pony who could have understood me and what I was forced to do. Possibly even helping me turn back into a unicorn, but no you’re gone and I only have the ruins of their castle they shared to keep me company."
"All the years I spent alone moving from one place to another hasn’t helped me cope with my past that much. My scientific and magical contributions of my past were praised while; I was shunned I wouldn’t be surprised if my name isn’t attached to my work at all. My actions under Discord’s control saw to that, no pony risked being attacked to talk to me. I tried to fight back I tried to use my magic to fight his, the more I fought the stronger his magic became. So it appeared to every pony that I willingly spread his “merriment” across Equestria. All I saw was me being used like a pawn; tormenting, humiliating, beating and enslaving ponies for his enjoyment to the horror of me and every pony else. Until the sisters set me free by defeating Discord and turning him to stone with the Elements of Harmony. I was overwhelmed with different emotions that day I was free at last but at what cost did it come, as a smile streaked across my face. The sisters looked at me they knew who I was, what I have done I couldn’t move I froze in fear of them."
"Thoughts raced through my head. What I did was just as bad as what Discord had done, are they going to turn me to stone as well? Should I plea my case tell them the truth, that I couldn’t control my actions? I was so afraid, so scared and helpless; I’ve never felt so alone in my life. They looked so sad to see me their eyes spoke of regret, and broken hearts. But they just walked away from me my mentor left me without saying a word. I never did find out what they wanted from me, maybe they looked for ways how to turn me back, for that was the last time I ever saw them. Every pony else voiced their opinions calling me Starlight Dragon and other harsh names with their mean and cruel glances. There was no pity for the pony that was used as a pawn by Discord; to every pony I was just as evil as him. I tried to cope, I tried to forget the past, but it was relentless just like the bullies. Begins to sob uncontrollably holding herself and wrapping her wings around herself; after some time has passed she composed herself she continued writing in her diary. I couldn’t stand being at home anymore so I ran as far away from it as my legs and wings would take me; I never gone back since."
"Over the years I spent wandering from place to place I picked up skills that have kept me yearning to learn more. Recently I have begun to study potion brewing could it be the key to ridding me of this dragon blood curse. My test batches that I’ve used on samples of my blood have shown some progress. But the process is hindered, what blood cells is it destroying the pony or the dragon. Destroying the pony blood would be a great disaster no telling what havoc I would cause. I must collect a sample of blood from a pony and or a dragon; the pony would be the easiest to collect but destroying the entire dragon blood sample would be compelling result. I’m not interested in kidnapping a pony, but I bet a hospital would have unicorn blood on hand somewhere in there. It’s going to be hard to sneak in without access to my magic but it would be worth the effort. According to my map the nearest town is Ponyville, I’ll leave at sundown. I’ll get my gear ready to go, pack it into my saddlebags and find my black cloak."
After waiting till sundown she eventually finds her way out of the Everfree Forest standing on its edge with Ponyville in sight. After she calmed herself she entered the town wandering around until she spots the hospital breaks in and takes a blood bag for unicorns. After making a clean escape she returns to the Everfree Forest making her way deep into the forest to her home. As she prepared the latest cure potions ingredients she removes her tattered brown cloak reviling her saddlebags below; carefully removed the blood bag and poured its contents into 2 separate clean plates. Prepared the potion and began to slowly pour the half the potion onto one, the other half she combined with her own blood in a separate dish. She waited for almost an hour before looking at a slide of each sample under her microscope. She carefully noted any changes in the pony blood sample then compared her blood sample to the unicorn sample it matched; she couldn’t see any difference from the slides. She rushed to her diary and began to write.
"Finally tonight I’ve stumbled onto a cure for myself, after all these years I’ve spent alone I might be finally comfortable with showing my face. I know it’s still very risky to experiment on myself but at this point what do I have to lose. Once I collect all the ingredients and the quantities I would need for a full dose I’m going to risk my life for the cure. Whatever my fate will be, I’ve done everything to test it and I’m confident it’s going to work. Tomorrow morning I make my list of what I need to collect, and begin the next chapter of my life. Closing her diary she looks at the moon through the make shift window. Says, “Goodnight Luna” before turning to blow out the candles with her wing and makes herself comfortable to sleep.
She wakes up and tidies up her home cleaning up her experiments and prepares the list for the morning hunt. It took her all day to collect every herb she need flying from place to place all over Equestria. With her saddlebags full of the herbs she took out her map one last time to head home. As soon as she got home she began the brewing process even though she was exhausted from her travels, hope giving her strength. After 2 hours of brewing it changed color indicating it was finally ready. She made a large batch more then she would need for one dose so she began filling bottles till there wasn’t much left. She pours the last bit of the potion into a glass and chugged it down. She could do nothing more but to wait and see if it worked. She wouldn’t have too wait long for about 20 minutes later she developed a nasty coughing fit before blacking out completely. The morning sun shining on her face gently woke starlight to a big surprise.
Characters Starlight and Scarlet belong to Anastasia N.
Luna, Celestia and Discord belong to Hasbro studios
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Author's Note
Inertia is creative property of Sarah C. used with her permission. All other characters are property of Anastasia N. aka Starlight Dragon
Chapter 2 A New Me
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We return to Starlight’s home, last night she conducted a dangerous experiment on herself to cure herself of her dragon blood. It’s early morning yet she still lies just where she fell, almost motionless on the floor. The morning sunshine sneaks through her makeshift window slowly creeping its way towards her face. As it reached her face Starlight finally began to stir the sunlight on her face encouraging her to get up. Her movement was sluggish and clumsily she appeared to be in some sort of pain or soreness. She apparently got more then she barged for in that potion. As her vision finally clears and her movements more calculated she sees the damage done to her home. Late last night her coughing fit broke almost all her bottles containing the cure potion, their contents uselessly on the floor turning the dirt to mud. She was covered in this mud she wanted to clean herself up before cleaning up her home. As she took the short walk to the river and began to rinse the mud off her, she realized her scales weren’t shining as she looked closer she realized it was fur. She quickly finished cleaning herself up so she could see herself in her small mirror. Her tears freely fell down her face as she was greeted by a unicorn not a dragon in the mirror, but that feeling fell shortly after she realized it wasn’t all what she had hoped she begins to talk to herself.
“My scales, horns, spikes and wings may be gone but I wasn’t the Starlight I remember. My fur is a deep red just like her scales were; my hair has sliver streaks through the sky-blue hair with its white tips. My cutie mark still was a burning white star being eaten by the flames surrounding it. My eyes are back to normal, more or less. All my scars I got from all the time I been hiding from every pony, I can see them all much clearly now. The ones I got running and hiding from the mobs of angry ponies after me on my front knees. The gash that timber wolf gave me, on my left side almost perfectly centered between my shoulders where my left wing was nearly torn off.” “Sighs, and the one I got not paying attention to where I was going where I fell into thorns leaving a cut through, my right eye. At least I can cover it with my hair now, “my horn is back” she excitedly said, “I wonder if I can still use my magic!”
“My old painting set if the potion didn’t make me Starlight perhaps I could use this blessing to become a new pony. Leave my past in the past live a new life just like I always wanted. Make new friends be myself, enjoy the fun I’ve watched them all have. Finally getting out of this dark and gloomy forest and never come back.” Her levitation magic caused the brushes and oil paints to fly towards her she smiles,
“I still got it. Now what should my new talent and name be? My intelligence is my most admirable trait, but I fear it will create too much attention. Painting I could make everything I would ever need but I’m not very good at it I would make a horrible artist. Singing I have a great voice but, my personally and stage fright would make it hard to earn a living. Potion brewing great so I come across as being even crazier then I already am. Is there any hope for me now I thought of everything I’ve ever learned and they all seem so risky? Wait a moment I’ve never tried writing, I take detailed notes already how hard can it be to weave that into a story.”
She paints an average looking book on the right side with an open scroll and quill on its left, mirroring it onto the other side perfectly covering her real cutie mark.
“Now with that settled what am I gonna call myself now,” after a great deal of time thinking of names, “I’ll call myself Scarlet. Scarlet, it’s perfect I won’t need new bags or have that much trouble memorizing my name. Now, how will I make my first story so I can start earning some money to move out of this gloom forest and start my new life? I got my diary, and the ruined castle library mentioned a legend of Starlight Dragon being alive. That’s it write a book on the truth behind the Legend of Starlight Dragon using the book in the castle library, and my diary. I bet the castle still got some supplies I can use to make some copies of the book. It will be compelling, emotional and a mystery book it’s gonna at least be a good starting point for me. I’ll write it like an old pony tale the origins of Starlight’s Dragon Blood just like the Mare in the Moon.”
Moments later Starlight I mean Scarlet, left to collect what she could from the ruins of the castle. Returning laden with supplies and a dusty old book she got to work. Handwriting each page and drawing illustrations took time and a steady hoof. But Starlight or should I say Scarlet never backed down from the challenge driven by the possibility in her future she makes 13 copies of The Legend of Starlight Dragon. She eagerly and carefully packed them into her bags.
“I’ll be lucky if even a few of them sell right away, but maybe it’s the key to how I’m gonna fit in. I’m going to have to find a way to sell them faster though if I plan on getting anywhere as a writer. I just might make some friend tomorrow when I head into Ponyville for the first time in daylight. But I can’t shake this dark feeling in my chest it’s probably just my nerves. Its best I get some sleep tonight got a big day planned for tomorrow.”
Waking with the morning sun Scarlet prepared to head out of the Everfree Forest into Ponyville for the first time in sunlight putting on her tattered bags and torn cloak. She nervously left home and started making her way to Ponyville being careful not to bump into anything to avoid damaging the books. She was now on the forest edge after a long hike.
“I’ve watched these ponies run about their lives from this spot, now I’m gonna experience its wonders in the daylight leaving this spot behind.”She was shy and quite nervous avoiding contact with ponies till she realized that she was hopelessly lost.
The pony she asks is a female pegasus with an eggshell white coat, her hair is dark green with yellow highlights, and her eyes are orange. Her black hooves stand out much like her cutie mark an atom with its electron’s spinning around its center. She replied to Scarlet while looking oddly at her covered in the cloak,
Scarlet replies, ”No not really, it’s my first time being here.”Scarlet slowly removes her cloak from her head. “There u go, can u see better now?”
Scarlet asks her, “How does that help me find the bookstore?”The pony left Scarlet with a small smile after Scarlet realized what happens she thanked the pony for her help.
After entering the store and talking to the pony there she convinced him to display and attempt to sell 12 copies the last copy she would keep for herself. He would sell her books for her keeping 50% of the sale for himself and 50% for her at 6 bitts each copy. He set the price her work it was well constructed and beautifully illustrated in his words, “A perfect presentation of a story from unknown pony.” After he learned that she wasn’t living there and he would set up a delivery of payment to her in return for more copies if these ones would sell. He would be willing to pay 5 bitts for each additional copy of her book and wanted to see any of her future works. The upbeat Scarlet spent the morning wandering around Ponyville writing things down in her beaten up notebook. When the pony from this morning sat down beside her, Scarlet noticed her and bashfully looked back at her notes.
The pony introduced herself, “My name is Inertia and your name is?”
“Your absorbed by that notebook of yours writing another story?” Inertia asked.
“I didn’t you just told me cheeky smile; I bet it’s good though you’re shy, probably not foolish.” Inertia asks Scarlet, “Where are you from you don’t seem to be from around here?”
Inertia was speechless for a moment the replied, “You’re really good at telling stories and probably good at writing them too. You had me on the edge of my seat even though it started out sounding sad; you proved that you’re not bothered by your past in fact your strengthened by it.”
Inertia sadly looked at her hooves and said, “No not really no pony takes my ideas, or experiments seriously. But you should stay in Ponyville for a little while the Summer Sun Celebration is just a week away and being held here you could see the princess raise the sun, gotta go see you later Scarlet.”
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Chapter 3 The Legend of Starlight Dragon is Born
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Chapter 4 Special Delivery
Author's Note
From now on any character that isn't referenced in the notes was created by me. I will not be crediting myself for every character i created for this series.
Chapter 4 Special Delivery
The Lost Pony Tales of Equestria
Chapter 4
We enter Ponyville’s Post Office alive with its morning buzz as messengers, delivery ponies and mail sorters show up for work. We meet a male delivery pegasus packing his large saddlebags full of this morning deliveries, his name is Special Delivery. Dressed in his postal uniform a light gray short sleeve shirt with the company logo, a flying envelope on its right sleeve. He also wears a hat but his hat isn’t a company policy, his hat is blue messenger cap with his cute mark on the front and his name monogrammed on its right side. His saddlebags have his name monogrammed just above his cutie mark on each side. His outfit the result of working at the Cloudsdale post office before moving to Ponyville. His cutie mark is a cardboard box with a letter sitting on the edge of its taped lid, with white pegasus wings. His black coat, red messy mane and tail with his light brown eyes make him appear menacing but if you really know him he is a kind and considerate pony. But his initial shyness and clumsiness often gets the wrong attention, leading some ponies to avoid him. Lets take a closer look shall we,
Special Delivery is talking to himself as he packs the last box into his bag.
“Speedy my nickname, my fast but clumsy flying earned me that name just gotta keep positive and fly good today. My deliveries got me going to Cloudsdale first for 2 packages the rest is in Ponyville should be easy. Gotta remember to keep my eyes open for this Scarlet pony, unicorn, red coat, sky-blue hair with silver streaks, teal eyes, and a scroll beside a standing book and quill cute mark.”
Speedy does his best landing of the day only to trip over his bag as he walks inside and knocking some items off of his sister’s display.
“So sis, heard of a pony named Scarlet?” Speedy asks as he hands Bubbles, her package.
As speedy flies home, Scarlet has finished binding the last copy of her book deep in the Everfree Forest where she calls home. She packs her saddlebags full of her books she leaves her brown and black cloaks behind. She begins to hike back to the edge of the Forrest where she had stashed camping supplies in a small cave near Ponyville. Planning on camping out the edge of the forest Scarlet collected her supplies and set up camp. Speedy had made a detour flying the edge of the forest spotting a unicorn setting up a campsite on its edge. In his excitement he crashes right into the unicorn knocking her to the ground separating her saddlebags from her.
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Chapter 5 A Bubbly Personality
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We leave Ponyville and a map reveals Canterlot our next focus as the map comes to life. Late in the morning light the royal castle comes into view, and we find a few of the royal guards standing in line. But in the line 4 stand out from the rest, the captain of the royal guard and 3 younger guards with oddly colored armor. The royal guard elite scouts, the toughest guards in the entire army. The hardest positions to get into, they wear custom colored armors bearing Celestia’s day guard star. The rookie, Blue Flame a unicorn with blue eyes and hair with a gray coat wearing brown armor. The wise, Wolf an earth pony brown coat light blue eyes and brown hair he wears green armor. Finally the mysterious, Silver Fall a pegasus wearing blacked out royal armor. His metallic gray coat purple tipped wings, white hair and blue eyes with a falling meteor cutie mark.
Shinning Armor the captain of the guard is drilling his troops, As the cadets return to their rooms they remained silent till Silver Fall breaks the silence.
As the three separate Silver Fall takes off heading towards the royal library all the guards know his armor know his face. He needs to make use of the shadows but he wasn’t the best he made his armor black to help him blend in the night sky. Not usually doing the scouting he relied on Wolf for that so now he had to crash course himself in tracking and blending in.
Meanwhile, Wolf is using the cover of night to make his infiltration. With some quick movements he unlocks an unguarded window pulling himself up. He had traded out his armor for a much better stealth gear. Waiting for a guard to pass so he could knock him out and take his armor and keys.
As Silver Fall falls asleep everything fades to black. He is awoken by the sunlight hitting his face. She is already gone he does his best to catch up with her but he runs out of cover to hid in.
As he returns with supplies weighting him down he finds her just as she is preparing to head off. We return to the barracks where Shinning Armor wakes up Blue Flame,
Author's Note
All other characters unless mentioned here belong to me
The Lost Pony Tales of Equestria Vol. 1 Meeting the Crowned Crew of Ponyville
Chapter 7 Uninvited Guest
We return to Ponyville, the last day before the festival the town is a buss of activity. Scarlet and Bubbles are finishing off the last few copies together while Speedy is making his usual morning rounds. Silver fall is tracking Twilight Sparkle as she makes her trip into Ponyville doing his best to avoid being spotted. But Inertia isn’t doing anything special being her usual self she preparing a new theory. In her usual lengthy monologue…
“Princess Celestia maybe the ruler of the land but her coming her means nothing to me. There is a dragon pony wandering around and I’m going to find it, me being a laughing stalk will finally end. They’ll accept my theories and I get the respect I deserve but denied all these years. Ever since I got out of school they mocked me, my theories are illogical CRAZY EVEN. I’ll show them their all wrong, I’ve been right all along there is a monster in that Ever Forest and I’ll prove it. Someway I’ll prove it, prove that I’m right. It could be sitting there on the edge of the forest right now, watching us silently. Waiting for something to happen, waiting for the right moment to attack.”Little did she know how right she was, a dragon was rising but not in the forest it was much closer to home. Poor Scarlet could feel the dragon rising its dark desires clouding her mind, how much longer will her willpower keep it contained. Inertia who has been spending her evenings pacing the edge of the forest dressed in a dark green cloak looking for any sign of the monster within the forest. When it’s in the town hiding in plain sight, trying to live a normal life hiding scars underneath a black tattered cloak.
Speedy drops by Bubbles’s shop, “Hey sis heard there was a delivery almost ready to be sent off. Three stops for these books her books are getting around a lot better now that you've helped.”
Bubbles replies, “Hey bro, ya a few more copies are left unfinished would you like to help us finish them? Oh and it’s all her she been doing all the hoof work doing public reading and visiting shops.”
“Sure what can I do to help?” Speedy asks as he follows his sister into the basement.
“Take over the press from Scarlet bro she looks a little out of it right now. Scarlet you ok?”she asked sounding very concerned.
Bubbles reaches to touch her right shoulder her eye looked so distant but the second she touched her. Scarlet head snaps towards Bubbles her right eye was briefly visible to Bubbles before she turned its pupil faded almost like she was blind in that eye. Scratches right through her eye she imagined how much that must have hurt. She tries to hide the flinch as the thought such a kind soul was tormented with a painful injury,
“You ok Scarlet you looked a bit out of it.” She guides Scarlet to a chair.
Bubbles wasn’t sure who she was reassuring at the moment, her or Scarlet. Her hesitating wasn’t new she noticed it before, like she is hiding something. Probably not best to press her right now she must not be ready to talk about it yet.
We turn our focus to Silver Fall and Twilight Sparkle now, they have both arrived in Ponyville. It’s midday Twilight and Spike are walking through town to meet the pony in charge of decorations. But her plans got derailed as Rarity takes Twilight to the Carousel Boutique forcing Sliver Fall to move once again.
Spike asks, “Twilight if you worried about Nightmare Moon, how will you make friends.”
Twilight replies, “Something about it bothers me I’m not sure what but something got me on edge.”
Night has fallen on fair Ponyville; tonight will be no different, she locks up and leaves home heading to the edge of the forest. Inertia says to herself, “I’m feeling lucky tonight there is something different in the air.”
Meanwhile Scarlet and Bubbles say their goodbyes, and part ways Scarlet heading off towards the forest.
“I can’t risk all their lives anymore, I should have know the potion wouldn't kill it off completely on the first dose. I have to go back home and wait till this event is over and I don’t want to risk seeing Celestia. Who knows how the dragon will react to seeing her again, Luna guide my way tonight.”
An eager Inertia is wandering the edge of the Everfree Forest she sees a figure shrouded in a black cloak walking into the forest. A pony who is moving swiftly though the thick undergrowth making it look so easy, going deeper into the woods then anyone would normally dare.
“Could this be the Starlight Dragon I’ve been hunting for all this time? I have to follow them for science and for myself.” Till they look back towards Inertia, the moonlight lit up its scarlet coat and blue eyes. Her sky-blue mane with white tips covering her right eye, a faint white glow lighting up her face as she turns away revealing the glowing horn.
“What in Equestria is unicorn doing heading so deep into the Everfree Forest, I think its worth to keep following them.”
Scarlet beings to wonder, “Did anyone see me come into the woods, I can’t shake the feeling someone is watching me. I’m almost home just past this next clearing, and I won’t have to worry about this anymore.”
Scarlet is stopped cold as a pair of green/blue eyes appears before her slowly rising out of the bushes. Jumping towards her knocking her cloak off of her head revealing her silver streaks…
“SCARLET, hold on I’m coming!”But before Inertia could catch up with her to protect her from the attacking timber wolf.
“Woody I told you to stay at home, I can handle myself."
Inertia stops to avoid being spotted but is shocked; Woody a tame dwarf timber wolf who somehow came to befriend Scarlet, with his eyes glowing a distinctive bluer hue then usual.
“I would hate to see you get hurt again Starlight.”
Inertia eyes widen,“Scarlet is Starlight… no this isn’t possible she so kind how could she murder and torture ponies.”
Woody speaks, “I’ve been watching you since you got deeper into the wood. No offence Starlight but look at yourself, your covered in scars and your blind in your right eye.” As he lifts her mane out of her face revealing the right eye a scared blinded eye. Inertia flinches as she realizes not only would that have hurt, but also her friend the person who didn’t judge her was the pony she was hunting. How do you expect me to just let you walk through the woods alone.”Scarlet looks annoyed as she swats his paw out of her face, “Scarlet I’ve told you my name is Scarlet now, that part of my life is behind me and I want to leave it that way. If my memory serves me right I’m blind because I was saving you from more vicious timber wolfs. Even if my spell was meant to kill you when you attacked me it didn’t and I’ve protected you more then you have watched over me.”
Inertia watches as Scarlet’s blue eyes begin to glow red as her anger and rage grew within her. Her thoughts turn to the book. The horrors Starlight’s eyes have seen, from a power she appeared to have such little control of. She had all the information she needed to expose her as what she truly was, a pony with a dark gift she couldn’t control. The thoughts swirled around in her mind,
“If I reveal her they will hunt her down like a monster, I’ll be hailed as a hero but at what price. She is so kind even with everything that has happened to her, I would feel like I was the monster feeding her to a pack of timber wolfs to save myself. I don’t think I can do it, not for such a selfish reason as satisfying my ego. No one else is taking the story seriously just playing it off as an old mares tale, and for now that’s how it should stay. As long as no ponies life is put in danger I’ll remain silent.”
Inertia turns to walk away when screams of pain stop her dead in her tracks,
“Scarlet, oh no what is happening now.”
She screeches as a black and purple glow emanate from Scarlet’s horn surrounding her in a fog. Scarlet screams in pain as her body absorbs this dark aura, her red coat beings to harden into scales. Her horn is absorbed within her, replaced with blue spikes all the way down her head leading to and down her solidified tail. Black and red wings shoot out painfully from behind her front shoulders twisting and wincing, as she is great pain. What remained of her coat burned away reveling her true cutie mark, the burning blackened white star. Leaving a sliver belly of scales as the fire sweeps across her coming to her face she contorts trying to avoid it as if someone unseen was holding her down. But it comes consuming her face her once bright blue eyes darken to a teal and her teeth sharpen to a point. Finally the dark aura disappears completely and Starlight collapses to the ground.
Woody quickly spots Inertia and utters, “ Are you stupid come on run follow me,” as he pulls the unconscious Starlight onto his back.
Inertia hears what he was warning her about as she hears the distinctive timber wolf’s howl she darts off in the direction she saw them disappear into. Woody then appears on the edge of the clearing he had came back without Starlight guiding the now lost Inertia to Starlight’s shack.
Inertia is led to safely inside Starlight’s small cramped shack, “Thanks for saving me back there Woody right?”
“Ya that Starlight has been calling me that ever since her spell went awry. That gave me a voice instead of shattering me into pieces like the two other timber wolfs that attacked her. I ambushed her from the right side I though I was going to die but too my surprise I didn’t. She had blasted me with her spell but she collapsed mid casting. When I brought myself to walk to her side, her right eye was bleeding and her left wing was barely attached oozing blood. She was just lying there in a pool of her own blood; she attacked the other two almost like she was trying to save me, then I turned on her. I thought about ending her suffering right then and there but strangely I almost threw up at the thought. When she came to she was terrified she try to stand but quickly collapsed I saw fear in her eyes and I thought about telling her to calm down I wasn’t going to hurt her. She looked less afraid more startled and muttered weakly,”
“you, you can talk? That’s impossible the spell was too disrupt the magic that gives you life for a while... yet you can speak?”She is putting pressure on her nearly detached wing, slowing the bleeding ,
“Can all of your kind speak?”
“No” I replied to her, “Not to the point of your understanding, is there something I can do to help you?”
She looked at me weakly and said, “Just kill me, it will do the world a fav…or” her voice drops as she collapses once again.
“I wasn’t sure what to do then, she wanted me to kill her but I couldn’t bring myself to do that. I did my best to tend to her wounds but it wasn’t the best she was out for hours, when she did wake she almost looked relieved that someone was there taking care of her. I carried her to this shack and helped tend to her wounds better and kept watching, waiting for something to attack.”
Inertia asks, “How long has it been since that day,” she looks over at Starlight with sad eyes.
“It’s been almost 2 years now, and for the longest time its been just her and me. She been the friend I’ve never had yet she focused so much energy into going back to who she use to be. Her heart is the same that it was before she was corrupted, but she only sees the monster that stares back at her in the mirror.”
He glances over moving her cloak to cover her like she had been sleeping.
“She’s so afraid of hurting someone again she tried to kill off the corruption before but that proved almost fatal. When she tried this time I was preparing for her to lose control like last time. He looks at the claw marks on his legs.
“Did she do that to you?” Inertia asked her voice shaky from fear.
“It was like something took over control of her, her eyes when red, she suddenly grew taller then even me and her hooves became claws. It was like she couldn’t hear my voice she attacked me for a while, eventually pinning me down her eyes were so distant. She was about to kill me her claws poised right above my face then she stopped. Her body began shaking like someone was holding her back. Then the red color in her eyes faded away the claws disappeared and she returned to her normal size. She didn’t want to talk about it after she came too she just sat there looking at her hooves.”
For the first time Inertia was afraid she though, “If she attacked someone she cares about what could stop her when it’s not someone she knows. Could she even stop herself? I don’t want to think about what the royal guards would do to her if they caught her.”
Scarlet begins to stir from underneath the cloak, suddenly her eyes shoot open and she nearly hits Inertia as she punches the air just in front of her like she was fighting something they couldn’t see.
“Uhhggg.” Starlight muttered, “What happened?”
Her eyes show terror as she sees she has returned to Starlight Dragon once more. Even with Inertia standing on her blind side, their eyes make contact; she turns her head to see who was there.
Starlight was speechless at first but uttered, “Inertia what are you doing in the Everfree Forest let alone my home? Contrary to what you may think Woody I’m not completely blind in my right eye.”
Inertia is speechless, “Does she really not remember what happened in the clearing. “I followed you into the forest; I didn’t know whom I was following at first till the timber wolf knocked the cloak off your head. I wanted to find the dragon that legends spoke of, living in the Everfree Forest.”
Starlight looked at her, “Well you found it, why don’t you go on home and tell the world of your discovery. After all I’m just a monster that thousands already tried to hunt down long ago, and failed.”
Her eyes darkened, almost becoming black. Her blunt cold words hurting her with each thought they provoke.
Inertia replies, “I can’t do that you’re not a monster Scarlet, the only pony who offered me any kind of friendship in a long time. You expect me to betray you so easily I can’t I just can’t.”
She can’t hold back her tears any longer, and just breaks down and cries. Starlight looks puzzled at the pony wallowing on the floor beside her, something in her broke that day. For moments later Inertia felt the weight of a hoof gently stoking her back silently reassuring her.
“You can call me Starlight, Inertia but only when I look like this.” She comforts the weeping pony on the ground, "I’ll guide you back to the edge of the woods soon. I still don’t feel that good to travel just yet. For now you can be my guest.”
Inertia looks up and sees Starlight smiling looking at her before nearly tackling Starlight with a hug.
Author's Note
Inertia is property of Sarah C.used with her permission
The Lost Pony Tales of Equestria Vol. 1 Meeting the Crowned Crew of Ponyville
We return to Starlight and Inertia talking, laughing inside of Starlight’s shack in the Everfree Forest. Their friendship growing with the secret they share, the night was going to be a pleasant memory after all.
Starlight addresses her friends, “Let’s get you back to Ponyville, Woody keep watch over things here alright, I be back in the morning.”
Little did they know Nightmare moon had returned seemly pony napping Princess Celestia. As the main six (Twilight Sparkle, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy and Rarity) enter the forest, Starlight and Inertia are on the edge of the path their taking. Starlight sees the purple mist and feels its dark presence; it rushed towards her and both Inertia and Starlight scream as it takes hold of her.
“Ahaahh!”
Starlight’s eyes became red and her body began to grow before her friend, Inertia fled in pure terror. The main 6 pause turning back to see a dragon rise out of no where with dark red scales, almost black and piercing red eyes. It lunges at them slashing, chomping, and smashing it’s tail around trying to crush or slash them all.
Twilight tries to reason with the dragon, “ Please we didn’t mean to offend you perhaps if you calm down we can leave you in peace? Whaaah!”
Starlight Dragon’s angry stomps broke the mountainside free, but someone prevented her from following after her prey.
“You leave them alone you stupid dragon.” With a swift fly by Silver Fall draws the dragon attention away from the girls.
He flies high into the sky, “Lets see how you like my Meteor-Strike you overgrown lizard!”
Starlight Dragon unfolds her wings but before she could take off she is struck hard in the head. She angrily roars in response blasting the pegasus with a fire, setting his tail on fire as he flights much higher this time for his next attack. As this attack lands he struck the weak part of her skull, the dragon weakly roars before collapsing. Even he was shocked when she fell, creating a depression in the ground and knocking down a few trees. He flew down preparing to finish this violent creature off when Starlight returned to the normal dragon pony form before him.
“Please Stop!” Inertia cries out as she flies over to the stallion now standing over her friend. “Something took over her she not violent like that please don’t hurt her anymore. Just keep this a secret please, she wants to try and live a somewhat normal life.”
“As a member of the royal guard I cannot keep this from the princess. An unknown dangerous creature just tried to kill 6 ponies she must be made aware of its existence. But this is the Everfree Forest a place forbidden to enter, as long as she stays in the forest your friend is safe. Now I have to catch up with those girls and make sure they're safe you be careful miss.”
She waves and yells, “I will, thank you!”
A pair of glowing green blue eyes stares at her from a bush. Once Silver Fall is gone Woody comes out of the bushes,
“What made her lose control like that, and what stopped her?”
“Woody thank Celestia, I’m at a loss of words, one moment she was surrounded in a purple and blue mist then she started screaming in pain. A blow to the head knocked her out cold she gonna be alright, right?”
“It’s best that you go home Inertia I’ll take care of her, I’ve always have watched over her. I saw her in the dragon form again and I got here as soon as I could.”
Inertia replies, “Ok, just take good care of her.”
"You have my word Inertia I will take care of her."
Inertia walks away arriving in town shortly after leave Starlight in Woody’s care. The town was a buzz full of panicked ponies running with no true purpose locking themselves inside their homes.
“What happened here?”
A crazed stallion screams as he runs down the main road, “Run, run for you life you fool the pony of nights Nightmare Moon has returned and took our beloved princess.”
Apparently a pony by the name of Nightmare Moon has been spotted and has been accused of kidnapping Princess Celestia. After a few hours the sun rises and Princess Celestia, and the long missing Princess Luna return to Ponyville. Along with Equestria’s newest heroes the main six bringing the elements of harmony back to Equestria. But, back in the forest a different kind of story is unfolding.
Starlight’s eyes shoot open and she cries out in pain, “Starlight! Easy your in bad shape right now just relax.”
“I can’t relax and I’m fine I just have a headache. Get out of the way Woody I’m going to the creek I need to wash this mud off of me.”
“Fine Starlight, I'll clean up thing’s here just call my name if you need me.”
As she gets to the creek she sees her horn is back,
“What have I become, I’m a monster hiding behind a mask. What do they see a red kind unicorn, I see the monster that would kill them for even glancing my way. The potion was to fix this, get the monster out of me! All its done is make things worse making yet another character in the story of my life!” She slams her hoof into the stream distorting the image of herself… “I wanted to go back to who I was before, but it seems I've descend into madness instead. Talking to my reflection in a stream, talking about the pony I use to be. As if I was just a fading memory of the pony I once was...”
“I don’t see you that way Starlight.”
She turns around seeing a bronze coated pegasus with red eyes and hair and a black bat with a red star on its chest as its cutie mark. She tenses up pain shoots up her legs, she fights the pain speaking to the stranger.
“Who are you and why are you here.”
“My name is to hard for one of your kind to speak you may call me Deg. I am a guardian bronze dragon, I’ve been sent to find you Starlight Dragon. Help you to control the power you came to acquire, I take this form as it’s much easier to move and draws less attention.”
“Are there are more dragons like me?”
“Not for thousands of years the dragon that is apart of you is a Nightmare Dragon. A very powerful kind of dragon, and their blood lust is immeasurable the fact it hasn't corrupted you completely shows how strong of a spirit you contain.”
“All those nightmares of me killing were real?” she’s shaking with fear, looking at her own hooves.
“Unfortunately I have to say yes if it was in control then it will kill until it can’t anymore or it get bored.”
She is frozen in fear the images of her butchered parents and brothers flash before her eyes their blood on her clawed hooves. Tears stream down her face she collapses crying, as more faces appear in her eyes all wounded or dead. Deg walks over comforting her placing his hoof on her head just below her horn, suddenly all the faces were gone.
“The one that dwells with in you is stronger then I though it would be, torturing it’s host feeding on your emotions. Do not give into the nightmares Starlight, they are the creations of Maha-nu-kca, the dragon spirit within you.”
“Mahanukca, why would they need to feed like that?”
“Nightmare Dragons feed in several ways much like normal dragons eating gems but only they can kill absorbing the energy from the flesh of their kills. Stealing the life force from souls, strength and magic of the living, or feeding on the horror, sadness and hopelessness of the living. With more energy she would take over you body making you cease to exist a hollow shell for her to live once again. Much like the poor soul you saved when Discord ripped her out of the dragon that was flying by. She stole his body using it as her own her kind has been extinct for over 3000 years. How she has switched from body to body all these years still amazes me.”
“Can’t you rip her out of me and destroy her.”
“Unfortunately no, she has bound herself to your soul I rip her out you will die… and I can’t destroy her soul only the keeper can but if you die in the process, she moves on to a new host. Plus all the dragons have tried everything to kill off the last 2 nightmare dragons and we only been able to track her we lost her brother thousands of years ago. But you Starlight you must rest your wounds need tending. You will find me near by follow the scent of roses and I will be there.”
“I have so many questions…”
“They can wait your wounds have made you weak you need rest, so rest my dear I will answer all you questions soon.”
Author's Note
Below are the characters used for this chapter that I do not own but have permission to use from their creators. All other characters are property of myself.