Redemption: original

Sombra held a crude knife In his maroon aura. It was simple and very thick, perhaps at one point in time it was part of a cauldron, and had been sharpened into a blade. He knew what he had to do, over three thousand lives depended on him. Sombra sat down and looked down at his chest as he slowly brought the knife nearer. He brought the edge of the knife to his chest just beneath his collar bone, and quickly slashed down. The cut went down his chest to the edge of his ribs and was at least clean and would heal easily if he didn't mess with the wound, but he knew that he couldn't do that.  He fought through the pain and pulled open the left side of the wound with his magic revealing the left side of his rib cage. Blood began to pool at his front hooves now that a good portion of his blood covered tan ribs were exposed. Every instinct cried out for him to stop, to run away and heal, but he pressed on. He wedged the knife, between two of his ribs and using the knife like a crowbar he popped the top rib out, spraying blood and a chuncks of bone in front of him. He cried out in pain nearly losing consciousness, as the pain registered in his mind. Tears streamed down his eyes, as he felt certain that what he was doing would kill him, but he did not stop. He wedged the knife under the next rib and popped it out as well. He brought the knife to the next rib but he couldn't force his magic to break off the next rib, so he quickly slammed his hoof down on the handle breaking off even larger chunks.

"Hey Sombrero! sleepy head!" Sombra's eyes shot open as he was brought out from his nightmare. He quickly looked about the room, trying to figure out what was happening. He was laying on the kitchen table with a empty pot of coffee near his head, he must have fallen asleep when he ran out of coffee. He sat up quickly and was greeted by a giggling Pinkie with a plate of colorful cupcakes. "Sombrero you want a yummy-"

Sombra had enough of the stupid mare. He flipped the table, sending the cupcakes flying, and yelled with all of his built up anger. "MY NAME IS SOMBRA YOU WRETCH! I AM THE DESTROYER OF THE DIAMOND DOG EMPIRE, DEFEATER OF THE GRIFFIN FIFTH GRAND ARMY, THE EXECUTER OF THE OLD CORRUPT EMPRESS, AND THE RIGHTFUL HEIR OF THE CRYSTAL EMPIRE! I AM SOMBRA!!!" Sombra lifted his front hoof to punch the foolish mare.

Stop! She may deserve to be struck down and reminded of her place, but her unborn foal? It does not deserve such a punishment. Leave her be.

Sombra looked about the room for the source of the new voice, but their was no other pony there just him and the scared pink pregnant made whose hair was rapidly deflating. She didnt react to the voice, he was the only one who heared it. He slowly lowered his hoof and walked away. He wanted to be left alone so he could think, his dreams were bad enough but now he had a voice in his head. Something was wrong and as much as he hated to admit it the voice was right, at least so far.

Sombra headed towards the front door of the castle. He assumed that some pony would actually stop him at some point, but nopony did. He found himself outside the castle, no closer to finding the answer to his questions. He then headed towards the Evelefte knowing it was likely the only place he could actually be left alone.

Just before Sombra reached the forest treeline, a bright flash of purple light appeared in front of him. After Sombra's eyes recovered from the blinding flash he faced Twilight as she finally must have realized his escape.

"What are you doing Sombra? You nearly scared Pinkie half to death, and you destroyed the kitchen. You better go back to the castle and apologize to her." She demanded, scolding him as she would a child.

He gritted his teeth and walked past her. "No."

Twilight was shocked by his response to the point she couldn't comprehend his response. "No?"

Sombra rolled his eyes from her stupidity. "Yes. That is correct I said no. I will not apologize to that imbicile." He kept walking through the thick undergrowth, with Twilight following close behind.

"Why won't you apologize?" She asked.

"Because I have never apologized." He replied quickly as he pushed through another bush.

"Well how do you expect to make up with friends and admit that you were wrong about something."

"Simple, I don't need, nor do i want friends." sombra was getting sick of her constant pleads of friendship. They made him sick.

Twilight stopped in place "But friendship is magic!"

Sombra stopped and quickly faced her, fires of anger raging in his eyes. "Friendship is betrayal!" She flinched as if he had struck her and leaned her body away from him fear and sadness in her eyes. He then walked off into the forest alone, as she stopped following him.

Night had fallen by the time Sombra decided that he had walked enough. He was tired and as much as he aged his dreams at least they allowed him to rest a little. He headed back towards ponyville since he had nowhere else to go. He decided that tonight he was sleeping in Fluttershy's house and buck anypony that tried to stop him.

Sombra wondered about looking for a clearing in the forest canopy to allow him to see the stars. By putting the north star behind him, he would easily be able to find his way to Ponyville.  Eventually he found a clearing filled with strange blue flowers. And marched through it, to find the north star, and trampled it even more when he finally found his heading.

Sombra finally made it to Fluttershy's cottage. It was late at night, and he was certain that she was asleep. After finding her front door unlocked he went to his couch and laid down. Only then did he notice that one of the strange flowers was stuck to his back right hoof. He scrapped it off and placed it on the nearby coffee table before he drifted off to sleep.

Fluttershy was woken up the next mourning by something tapping on her front hooves. She had gone to sleep worried about Sombra and what he might do, but if Twilight said she could handle it then she was certain things would be fine. As for the tapping which she assumed was a hungry angel she just pulled her hooves under her covers. "Angel, stop, its too early." she mumbled, her eyes still closed. Unfortunately the tapping continued but instead of on her hoof it was her nose being repeatedly booped. She opened her eyes to see a pair of scared emerald eyes looking back. "Sombra?"

"How do you know my name?" Said the high pitch voice of a very young colt.

Fluttershy's eyes widened as she sat up to look down at a confused young colt with a black mane, dark gray coat, and a curved horn.