Wars Unwon

To say she was surprised was an understatement. Twilight Sparkle was reading her favorite book in bed when she heard the first knock, but she dismissed the sound as her number one assistant was downstairs.

She continued to read her book, until she heard a knock at her window.

Now, her room was a story or two off the ground, only leaving pegasus ponies able to reach such heights, without the use of a ladder, of course. Her first guess was Rainbow Dash, as she had done this quite often.

She sighed and placed her bookmark in its respective spot on the page she left off on and pushed the blanket off of her with her hind legs and trotted towards the window.

"Rainbow Dash, how many times do I have to tell you to use the door-", she began but couldn't find the words to speak as she stared into the pupilless eyes of what she thought was a monkey.

How he was capable of levitation without wings are magic, she didn't know. Her first thought was to close the blinds and hide underneath her blanket until morning, but she just felt compelled to stare at the creature. She could read all of the painful emotions inside this being straight through its eyes.

The creature clearly had enough and got to the point of why he was here.

"You must be Miss Sparkle..." he trailed off, a creepy grin adorning his features.

His mouth didn't move when he spoke, telepathy she thought. Something seemed familiar about this creature, but she couldn't place her hoof on it. She nodded slowly at him.

"My, oh my, how you've grown!" he feigned happiness, and his grin spread wider, revealing sharp, predatory like teeth.

Twilight was startled at this point. Had this thing been around since she was a filly? How did it know her?

"I can't say we've met before..." she trails off while looking at the ground, the creature's gaze penetrating her soul.

The creature's eyes began to glow even brighter, and in a split second, it was gone. Twilight turns around and begins to trot back to her, when she sees the creature standing directly in front of her, towering over her. She jumps back, clearly startled by the intrusion.

"W-what is it that you want from me?" she asks, afraid.

"All I want is for you to remember." he replies in an eerily calm tone.

"If you don't remember, I'll show you." His eyes begin to glow again, and Twilight stares at him in pure confusion. She suddenly begins to feel light headed and sits down on the floor, in an attempt to cause the room to stop spinning. She then begins to feel faint, and her vision slowly begins to black out.

Her vision then returns, and she realizes that she isn't in the safety of her home anymore. Instead, she's on what appears to be a hill overlooking a battlefield.

She sees her now missing brother, Shining Armor, leading troops into battle.

She looks a bit further than that, and sees that one side of the sky is completely dark, and also sees demonic creatures walking behind the lead of the creature in her room.

Shining Armor's face was that of pure determination as he screamed the word everyone was waiting for, "CHAAARGE!"

The creature lifted it's right fist into the air, and with that, both sides charged at each other. Shining impaled multiple demons with one spear, was therefore left unarmed. He begins to search the ground for anything he could use, and freezes once he realized what he's found. A pair of tennis shoes.

Then the pants appeared, then the hoodie. Shining Armor feels himself being magically lifted by his throat into the air, and is staring directly into the eyes of the creature.

"You foolish pony, when will you realize that you cannot defeat me?" he asks calmly, in the middle of the battlefield, as if there was nothing going on.

"I'll never surrender to you, Red..." Shining spoke, on the verge of unconsciousness.

"You will suffer for your arrogance." Red spoke in an icy tone.

Shining Armor began to feel an extremely painful grip around his neck, and his vision and breathing began to fade as his head was torn off, completely. Red used his powers to throw it into the group of demons, and began laughing as they began devouring it.

"SHINING!" Twilight screamed from the hill at the top of her lungs. She looked on in denial, surely this had to be some kind of joke, right?

Her vision began to fade again, and when it was clear again, she found that she was in her room, which was empty, besides a skull with the name, "Shining Armor", etched into it.

Twilight began to sob, and all of her emotions hit her at once with the force of a locomotive train. She began to feel angry at this creature, she barely knew who it was, but she wanted him dead. With all of the emotions swarming her head, she found enough strength to mumble one word.

"Red..."