Living Lies

Prelude

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“I don’t see why we didn’t at least decide to go,” Breeze said as she walked ahead of her brother, her hands behind her head. Her blonde hair was cut short, reaching only just above her shoulders. She was wearing a brown shirt underneath her blue vest-jacket and jeans, with sneakers on her feet.

Glancing her golden-brown eyes back, she could see her brother walking behind her. He was dressed the same, the two having always done so without intention throughout their lives. He was the same as her in every aspect when it came to appearance aside from his hair, which was slightly spiky with a shading of brown and blond stripes, like a zebra’s black and white.

He shrugged. “You said you couldn’t get a date. Besides, it’s not like anything would be that different. Sunset Shimmer always wins those things.” He scowled, folding his arms. “And the less I have to deal with her superiority complex the better.”

Breeze sighed, closing her eyes. “I know, I know. It’s not like we wanted to come to this school. But it’s either here or Crystal Prep. And we know we’d never fit in at that school for snobs.”

Being orphans since they were little, they’d never gotten on well with the kids they’d met from that school. The last time the Friendship Games had been held at Canterlot High, the two had suffered ridicule from the snobby brats for not having parents.

When Breeze had been brought to tears at one point, having been quite the emotional girl back then, Autum had punched the jerks who’d made her cry. He’d gotten detention for three months for it, but he wouldn’t have done anything different and would’ve done so again.

Autum sighed, nodding. “Yeah. Guess you’re right. Sunset’s nowhere near as hard to deal with.”

The moment he’d finished talking, however, the sky seemed to darken more than it had before as clouds covered it. Then a giant pillar of black light shot up into the air. From their position, they could tell it was coming from Canterlot High.

They both glanced at each other, before they sprinted in the direction of the school. They didn’t know what was going on, but they had the feeling they should help however they could.

As they neared, they could hear Sunset Shimmer’s voice... with some odd kind of distortion to it.

When they rounded the corner, they both gasped, eyes wide. There was some kind of devil creature in front of the school, which now had a huge hole in the front, through which they could see all the other students and the school staff, even Principal Celestia and Vice Principal Luna. But what scared them was how they were all standing there, their eyes glowing green, their faces expressionless.

Autum looked to the devil, and noticed the crown on her forehead. The six-pointed purple star on it was emitting a dark light.

Having played a lot of online games whenever he wasn’t working out, and just from looking at the scene before him, he knew whatever that creature was, that crown was its source of power. Remove it, and it would fall.

“Stay here,” he whispered to Breeze, glancing back at her. “I’m going to get that crown.”

“What?” she whispered, her eyes wide with fright. “Are you insane? That creature will kill you!”

He gave her a determined look. “I think that crown on its head is it’s power source. She’s distracted, so I’ll sneak up behind and grab it. Don’t move. Got it?”

Breeze looked like she wanted to argue, but the look in her brother’s eyes stopped her and she reluctantly nodded.

Autum gave her a tight hug, before pulling away and sneaking around the area, keeping to the shadows whilst the creature jeered and taunted six girls, one’s Autum took notice were the ones who sang that song in the cafeteria and had gotten the cliques to start mingling again.

Why was this demon so focused on them?

Once he was close enough behind, Autum ran back, before taking a running start and leaped up, grabbing the demon from behind.

“What the—?” she snarled, whirling around in midair.

“Autum, what the heck are you doing?” Rainbow Dash yelled at him. “She’s dangerous!”

“Not without this, she’s not!” he shouted back, grabbing hold of the crown, while struggling to keep his grip on the beast.

“Oh, no you don’t!” she snarled as his hand gripped the crown.

At once Autum’s body was racked by the black light, screaming in pain as the energy surged through him.

The beast grabbed him, pulling him away from the crown and threw him across the area.

“Autum!” Breeze shot forward, catching her brother as he fell, before she screamed as the energy still coursing through him went through her as well.

“You monster!” Rarity cried, glaring at the beast.

“Oh, would you look at that,” the demon jeered, folding her arms. “The twins didn’t become my slaves. Well,” her face darkened, “if you’re going to fight me, you can go to oblivion!”

She held her hands out, a mass of fire burning between them, which she fired at the two imoble humans.

“No!” the girls cried, as the blast slammed into the twins.

Both screamed as their bodies were burned by the intensity of the flames and were sent backwards towards the statue. As their world went black, neither twin noticed the feeling of time and space warping around them.

Author's Note

Here it is at last! The fic i promise Spectrum Destiny i'd write after she gave me humanized fan art of my male and female ocs. Took my bloody long enough.

I realize it's not much to go on yet, but that's because i had to explain how they both ended up in Equestria. My original idea, after having thought about it for a long time, really sucked, so i thought this might work better.

Hope you liked it and, since i'm publishing this with more than one chapter, it's not time to say later yet.

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