The Journey of Shadow Walker

by JeremyPunk

Rating: teen
Tags: Discord, Princess Celestia, Slice of Life, Main 6, Princess Luna, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Dark, Romance, Original Character, Comedy
Length: 4030

A Pegasus Stalion has a special talent the entirety of Ponyville is facinated at.

Shadow Walker journeys alone with his shadow Shadowmere, who has been kept a secret. But that will all change in Ponyville when he meets 6 mares.

First fic so critisizim is allways welcome. Warning my grammar and spelling is not perfect, so point out mistakes where needed

Published 2012-05-30 07:04:02 UTC
Last updated 2012-07-13 03:43:04 UTC

New Beginings

[My shadow Shadowmere talks in these]

All thought that are not mine are in Italics

{If I ever do want to respond to Shadowmere silently i talk in these}

So it started out like an other day. I was walking on this all too familiar dirt path through all of Equestria that i've walked on for so long. Suddenly, there was light in my eyes, REALY. BRIGHT. LIGHT. There I was, blinded and running in circles screeming, "I'M SO GOING TO DIE!" like a fool. But then,

[Are you going to shut up anytime soon?]

"Oh come on Shadowmere, you now I get like this in these situations!"

[Says the nerd pony with a talking physical shadow entitie as his special talent AND, only friend/companion]

"Dude......THAT, was uncalled for." In case Shadowmere didn't make it clear enough, I'm sort of a nerd. But first of all, my appearence. I'm actually decently tall, also my body is a litle *ahem* huskier [Fater] than other ponies. Average muscle mass, almost pitch black coat with an ash grey muzle. My mane is a dark redish brown with sort of ginger like orange highlights. Surprisingly enough, my tail is a completely different color than my mane, it's black like my coat yet in the middle its a pure dark blue.....never understood that. Oh, last details, my eyes are a deep gray blue, I wear Grey trimmed glasses, a blue watch on my left fore hoof, and my cutie mark is a Yin-Yang. Yin(Black) representing Shadowmere, and Yang(White) representing me. I'm also a Pegasus.

Well back to the nerd thing. I wasn't vey popular at school. As I think of it, I never had a single friend until Shadowmere and my cutie mark showed up.

[Damn straight boy!]

"What did I say about reading my thoughts?"

[OH! U-uh, lots of horrible things that involved bread crumbs and beaver spit?]

"Thats a good boy!" Now back to the the nerd story. Like I said, no friends. I didn't mind though. My grades were near perfect (my penmanship is awful in english) so I was exceptionaly smarter than most of the people who bullied me.

But away from that. Once I turned 18 I moved out of my parents house to travell Equestria with Shadowmere by my side. Back to the road I was on now though, thats all in my past, and i've been travelling just to forget it. I was walking twords a small village named "Ponyville". From what I heard, It's an amazing place but I was supposed to watch out for one of the element of harmony, Twilight Sparkle I think her name was? Been traveling so long I never really kept with current events.

Something that still irked me was that light......what was it about? Well, I'm here now so lets put that aside. First thing I notice is a perfectly clear sky. It's been a while since I've seen one of them, it makes me happy but sad. Clear skys allways remind me of my family and *sigh* enemies at school. It's funny how clear sky's are to me, how the definition of the Yin-Yang is. I seemed to always get bullied the worst on cloudless days, but always had the best times with my family on them. Then it hit me, quite litteraly. A cyan pegasus with a rainbow mane crashed right into me. Shadowmere hid behind a building silently laughing his flank off. When I got up I turned to face my attacker who proceded to apollogize. "Oh, heh heh, sorry 'bout that, I lost controll when doing a stunt and crashed...into you heh." To which I replied smart(ass)ly, "It's fine. I love a good bowl of ground for breakfeast in the morning."

[*sniff* i've taught you so well *sniff sniff*]

"WELL GEEZE! I said sorry!" she said angrily. Now to mix some smart assery and be appologizing for being one, "One: apology accepted. TWO: I'm sorry also. I can't help but be a smart-flank sometimes."

"Well......" my skittled maned aquatence hummed while looking me up and down.

[WHY AM I OVERCOME WITH SUDDEN PROUDNESS FOR YOU!?]

{Shut it.}

"You do seem preaty cool by the looks of you. Wait......pegasus. *GASP* You're a new pegasus in town! I must race you! Now."

I was abou to say something that would kill her, and my, mood, "Sorry but I forgot how to fly long ago." I sadly stated. YOU HEARD IT HERE FOLKS! Come here come all! The grown stallion who can't fly!

Great. Now my brain hates me.

"What do you mean 'can't fly'!"

"Well~. Unless you want my life story than I can't exactly tell you." I inquired

"That's good to hear because my friends and I have no plans today. We could use a good story."

"Are you absolutely sure? There are some dark and sad moments and secrets in my past."

"120 percent sure! Come to Ponyville square in about thirty minutes, 'kay?

"Fine bye me. See you there Miss....." That's when I realized I never asked her name.

"It's RainbowDash, fastest flyer in Equestria!"

"Okay than. See you there RainbowDash. Oh, and by the way, I'm Shadow Walker."

"See ya Shadow Walker."

After she flew out of eye-sight, Shadowmere came out from the buildings shadow (or giggle lair at this point....)

[20 bits she's a lesbian]

"Even though we share money, okay, you're on." We then Bro-hoofed to seal the deal.

***2 minutes later***

[Is it time to go yet! Huh,HUH!

"No it's only been two minutes. Also, stop being a bitch, go eat a Snickers or something."

[GREAT, JUST GREAT! We have to bugger all to do for twenty eight minutes, AND, now you're using my own jokes on me!

"Its what you get for being more of an asshole than me. That's saying a lot."

[Well We could always practice our powers,right?]

"Good point. We haven't trained since Staliongrad. Lets go to the Everfree Forest so we don't Disturb anybo- I mean anypony. God, you're rubbing off on me more than i like you to be.

[You just said God instead of Celestia also.]

Just......AGH......COME ON LETS JUST GO ALREADY....friggen troll...."

[He's so mad bro.]

A/N: So. What did you think of the first chapter? And a note on critisizim. Don't be to hard on me because I'm only going on a 7th grade writing education.

P.S. I'm looking for cover art! Send me a PM if you can make anything decent.

JeremyPunk, Signing out!

[This little advertisement from me is brought to you by Pony Joe's Doughnuts, The best doughnuts on this side of Manehattan]

Advertisement? IN MY STORY? I think not!. Shadowmere, get back in my head so we don't have anymore problems.

[FIIIIIIIIIINE...........*pouts* you ruin all the fun!]

Meeting friends

A/N: I can't write AppleJack's accent worth a steaming pile of crap so.........yeah

[Shadowmere]

Thoughts that are not mine

{When I want to silently talk to Shadowmere}

"Holy sweet Jesus riding a Pogo-stick made of jelly beans! I'm tired now.

[Yeah, and now we have five minutes to get to the town square.]

"That long? Huh, I thought we would have less time."

[Better to be early than late, am I right?]

"In most cases, yes. This happens to be one of them."

[So lets go!]

"YEAH!"

***4 minutes later at Ponyville square***

"I wonder where Rainbow Das-*thud*. *muffled by dirt* Ground! We simply must stop meeting like this!"

"Oh sorry dude. I crashed into you again, didn't I." Rainbow Dash said

"Yes, Yes you did. Both times got me a wonderful date with the ground." I just suck, do I not?

"Wow Rainbow he is a smart-flank, isn't he?" I then turned to look at the new voice. What I saw was a lavender unicorn with a violet mane and tail, which both had a streak of hot pink going through it. Her eyes were the same color as her coat. Then there was a orange earth pony with a blonde mane and tail with bright emerald eyes. Next was a white unicorn with an obviously pampered purple mane and tale, plus her eyes were almost exactly the same as mine. Minus the grey tint. The next one scared me. She was bright pink earth pony with a dark, poofy, pink mane and tail. What scared me was that because of my enhanced senses(thanks Shadowmere)I could tell she had no regard to the laws of physics. Her eyes were just a little brighter shade of blue than the fore-mentioned white unicorn. Finally in the VERY back of the group of five was a butterscotch yellow Pegasus with a long, pink mane and tale, similar to the pink ones coat. She had a sort of aqua-teal eyes and she looked like a flying blade of grass would give her a heart attack.

"Hello there, my name is Twilight Sparkle. Rainbow said you have a story to tell us?" Said before-known lavender unicorn.

"Yes I do Twilight Sparkle, my name is Shadow Walker. But before our story time, would you like to introduce me to your friends? I already know Rainbow Dash and you, but not the other four here."

Twilight then said, "Sure, girls, would mind?"

The white unicorn came up first. "Why, of course not darling. My name is Rarity. I am Ponyvilles fashionista and the owner of Carousel Boutique. It's my pleasure to meet you. Rainbow was right, you are quite a handsome stallion." That comment then made me and rainbow blush. Also, of course Shadowmere was laughing in my head like a madman.

[I am conflicted *giggle*. I'm proud a mare called you handsome but entertained beyond belief that they said it to you so openly BWAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!]

{I still have that jar of 'you know what' in my saddle bag. I could easily torture you with it.}

[*Gulp*]

{Exactly}

After that monstrous blush went away, the orange earth pony with a stetson on introduced herself. "Howdy! Mah name's Applejack. Nice 'ta meetcha' Mr. Shadow Walker."

"It's nice to meet you too Applejack." I replied short and sweetly.

Next the butterscotch pegasus came up......very slowly. "H-h-hi. M-my name i-is Fluttershy..."

She then proceeded to 'eep' and hide behind her mane when I didn't say anything. "I'm pleased to meet you Ms. Fluttershy." I said to her softly. That seemed to calm her down. Also blush when I said 'Ms.' Fluttershy. Whenever I deal with timid ponies I tend to treat them nicer and quieter than others, least I scare them.

Last, but oh CERTAINLY not least, the hyperactive pink blur of insanity bounced rapidly about 2cm from my muzzle Shooting off words like a machine gun [Blame me for his knowledge of guns please.]. "HI! My name is Pinkie Pie and I like parties and cupcakes and- *GASP* "I need to throw you a 'Welcome to Ponyville party' as soon as possible!" She was saying this all while floating...upside down.

*404 Error. Does not compute*

*Brain 1.0 is not responding. Please reboot system.*

*Rebooting. Rebooting. Rebooting.*

*Done!*

*Please Enjoy the rest of your day!*

"Uhhhhh....It's nice to meet you Pinkie Pie. And a party sounds good." I said with a confused voice.

Twilight then said. "Alright. Now that introductions are out of the way, shall we go to the library? Then you can tell us your story."

"That's hunky dory with me! Allons-y everypony! I have a story to tell all of you." So then we made our way to the library..............with a certain pink pony bouncing the whole way.

***At the library***

"Spike! I'm Home!" Twilight called. After a few seconds a baby purple dragon with green spines came down looking tired and pissed. By what Twilight said earlier and by the sound of their voice, his name was Spike

"Welcome home Twilight. Whats with the stallion?" He asked very groggily and rudely, due to his obvious displeasure at being woken up this late..............even though it was still six in the afternoon.

"Nice to meet you too Spike. My name is Shadow Walker, you can call me Shade bro."

[Wait, what? I've been with you for 8 years and I'm not a bro? Asshole.]

{We are family, we call each other by our full name.}

[...I accept this explanation.]

"Sup, name's Spike. I'm Twilights' assistant slash little brother figure, nice to meet you Shade. You still haven't answered my question though. Why are you here with all the girls? You better not be hitting on Twilight." I caught 'or Rairity' under his breath. Advanced senses eavesdropping like-a-boss.

Twilight decided to answer..slightly. "Well Spike he's here becau-"

I then butted in loudly and dumbly. "Spike, it's super special story time so either GTFO or stay and listen! I'm telling them story of my sad and pitiful life, because I am to lazy to tell Rainbow Dash the Short version of the way I lost the ability to, slash forgot how to, fly." Twilight looked enraged while Spike was just staring at me with an unamused look on his face.

"Sure I guess I'll stay."

"Perfect, now I have seven ponies/dragon that have a trusting aura around the to listen!" I said strangely happy for some reason....

Twilight said. "Well then Shadow Walker. Lets begin."

Imagine your best interpretation of the dude from the borderlands intro. That's how spoke for the first two sentences. "So you want to hear a story eh? Well have I got one for you."

A/N: Well here is the second chapter. For the two of you who are tracking this, don't expect to many updates for I have ADD so when I try to write I'll do it for about an hour. Then I get bored from doing one thing for too long and go watch more ponies or anime. Sighning out,

JeremyPunk

My life story...

A/N: This whole chapter is dedicated to Shadow Walkers back story. There's a lot of character development here.

[Shadowmere]

Thoughts that are not mine

{Silent talk between me and Shadowmere}

"So, you want to hear a story eh? Well have I go one for you." I started

(WARNING!: Wall of text Incoming!) "I was born in Manehattan. My mother was a white unicorn named Mary Gold and my father was a grey earth pony named Metal Head. Mom owned a flower shop and dad was a blacksmith. Just a note; I am nothing like them at all. My mother is kind and caring while my father is rough and tough (Yay! I can rhyme!). The first two years of my life were just me growing up to be able to go to school. On my first day of school when I was three years old, I was instantly classified as an outcast for a reason that escapes me. On account of me having no friends and nopony ever bothering me, I was always studying constantly. But of course, the universe decided to hate me even more. Three years later, some colts who were known as bullies were jealous of my intelligence so they decided to take it out on me. I got swirlies, noogies than left my scalp bleeding, and more feather pluckings than you could count for four years straight, and it didn't help that I was a blank flank during that period. Now I was always sort of a pacifist, before I was ten I'd never hit anypony at all, even the bullies. After four years of constant bullying though, that bottled up rage can be unpredictable. One day during the bullies usual routine, they decided to try out new insults. Boy was that the biggest mistake of their life. Most of the insults were on the line of 'You suck', 'Freak', or 'Go die in a hole', the usual stuff. But the biggest colt there who was the group of bullies leader made a comment that he will regret forever. He called my mother a worthless whore. What he basically did was pop the cork off the bottle of pure, untamed, rage that I put in there over those four years of bullying. All I saw was red during this. I unleashed a can of whoop-ass on him and his friends. Their group was consisting of one of each race of ponies. I made the pegasus flightless by ripping of his wings....in segments, and the unicorn struggle with magic for the rest of his life due to me tearing of the tip of his horn. The earth pony? I'd rather not say something the gruesome for the sake of your sanity. After the incident I was kicked out of school and banned from the rest of all Manehattan schools. I then had a personal home school teacher come everyday and teach me until I was able to move out. One of the only problems was no flight school wanted to except me and I didn't know any pegasi that could teach me. So I never learned how to fly and I probably won't because I've never used the muscles, so they most likely have the consistency of jelly and will never be useful to me. But I've never regretted doing it for one reason, and one reason only. It gave me my cutie mark. To bad nopony except my parents cared at all. Everypony, including me, thought that it meant that i had an absolutely pure side, and an excruciatingly evil side. That was close, but not exact. It made him appear."

"Who is him, Shadow Walker?" Twilight asked.

"Would you like to meat him?" I counter questioned.

"Wait he's here?" Applejack said.

"Yup. Come on Shadowmere, get your lazy ass out here!" My shadow then moved out from under me and quickly molded itself into Shadowmere. There was a collective gasp from everypony.

[Sup bitches.]

Rarity and Fluttershy then proceeded to faint while Twilight, Applejack, RD, Pinkie, and Spike stared at him wide-eyed.

[God, I didn't know I was that sexy!]

"FYI You're not. They are just in shock about seeing a living, breathing, shadow entity." I explained.

[♪I'm sexy and I know it!♪]

"Wh-who is that Shadow Walker?" Twilight asked fearfully.

"HE! My dear Twilight Sparkle. Is Shadowmere, my brother of sorts."

"Wait...of sorts? What does that mean?" Twilight asked.

"Elementary my dear Twilight! He is me, but not me at the same time." I said in a mock-British accent.

"..."

"Fine. What I mean is that he is a physical manifestation from my shadow but he has his own look and personality. Technically, he's my twin brother due to the fact of how I had a shadow when I was born. He just was never say 'alive' until I got my cutie mark. So now we should wait for Fluttershy and Rarity to wake up so I can tell the rest of the story."

***10 minutes and 2 buckets of water later***

"OK! Now that the two sleeping beauties are awake I can continue! So a whole year after I got my cutie mark I started to notice my shadow wasn't in total sync with me. Over a few weeks I observed it get more and more out of sync with my movements and actions. Then one day after class, before I was about to take a shower, my shadow literary moved out in front of me and formed into Shadowmere over here." I said

[And then from that point I introduced myself and explained what I'm all about and what his cutie mark really means. What it means is that there is two sides of him. Just not in the same being. I am the Yin while he is the Yang. In case you don't know, Yin is all things bad about a pony. Greed, Wrath, and Envy for example. As a matter of fact. Those are the only seven deadly sins on the Yin side. All of the rest are on the gray line in between. Yang is all things good about a pony. For example, Chivalry, Compassion, and Love. All-be-it, we are both more towards the grey line but more or less on opposite sides. The only Yin attribute Shadow Walker has that exceeds expectation of the Yin side itself is smart-assery. All in all, I represent Yin and he represents Yang.]

"Wow...this is a lot to take in so suddenly." Twilight stated.

"Well how would we know that. I mean, you seven are the only ponies besides my parents that know about Shadowmere." I explained.

[Yeah. You're the first ponies/dragon that we've told at all about me.]

"But..why us darling?" You should know who asked that...

"Well, for one you all are the Elements of Harmony. I can trust you not to tell. Plus, due to Shadowmere being in close proximity to me, I have enhanced senses. Some of them are not just the five normal ones either. Like the second I looked at Pinkie Pie I instantly knew that most of the laws of physics are blatantly disregarded by her. But being around ALL of you, I can feel this odd trusting aura around you girls and boy. But back to the story because I can see Rainbow Dash about to fall asleep. Like Shadowmere said, he introduced and explained himself to me. To be perfectly honest. I wasn't scared at all the whole time. Actually, I didn't feel much emotion at all after the incident. Shadowmere helped me out in that regard though."

"So after my parents got over their shock of Shadowmere existing in the first place, they started keeping a close eye on him. Even during my classes. While they were watching my classes, which by the way were advanced, they noticed how everything was coming to me with extreme ease. After a whole month of 'observing', they decided I didn't need classes anymore. I knew all I needed to for school. So then for 7 more years I learned more about Shadowmere and what he can do. So when I turned 18 I moved out and started the 1 year travel across Equestria, getting bits by doing odd jobs in whatever town I would be in all the time.Whats sort of funny is how I am finally telling this story at the end of my journey. Ponyville is my last stop. I decided that once I've been to everywhere that is a civilization in Equestria I would decide which place I would finally settle down in. Now we are at the present in which I am telling you this wonderful tale. Any questions?"

[Are you gay? Answer, yes.]

"And fuck you with a cactus Shadowmere." I retorted

"W-why are you two f-fighting all the time?" Fluttershy timidly asked.

[He's jealous of my sexiness.]

"Eeyu-nope, Chuck Testa. We fight because for one, like I said, we are basically brothers. But also because we both know we don't mean it. So we have no hard feelings. It's only when it goes to far is when we get a little pissy about it."

Applejack and Rainbow asked simultaneously, "How strong are you!?"

[I will answer this truthfully. We are both actually stronger than the average stallion, even if we don't look it. I'm strong naturally because you know, shadow entity and all of that, and he's strong because when traveling in places like Fillydelphia you learn to be strong or get mugged by punks.]

"Prove it" Well...they asked for it.

***3rd Person***

As both pegasi and the earth pony set up on the table, a certain Draconequus with golden and red eyes was sitting on a cliff, overlooking Ponyville and Canterlot simultaneously.

"Oh my little ponies.....soon my revenge will be complete. Starting with that damned unicorn. Look out world. Because Discord. IS. BACK! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!" Just to be cliche, lightning struck in the background.

***Shadowmeres' POV***

Huh...my cliche meter just exploded...I have to check that out later...

Well people. It's finished! I finally fought the writers block and depression and got it done. I hope you enjoyed it. Oh, and I still want to know how you guys think how well I write for an eighth grader.

Hope you like the longer chapter,

JeremyPunk