An Alicorn's Shadow

     Twilight is walking down a hall in Celestia's castle. She delivering a letter over to Celestia. When all of a sudden a black blur zooms past her. "Sol! What did your mom say about skating in the castle?!" Sol stops to look at her.

"She said that if I don't stop I'm going to eventually crash into somepony."

"Sol look. I know its the only thing you have left of her, but your going to hurt somepony and yourself."

"But I'm afraid if I stop riding I'll forget about her." Sol looks at his skateboard. "Just like you have Cadence, I had Silver Shine. My mom would always go on trips and have meetings. So that's why Silver Shine was there, she took care of me while my mom was away. She gave this to me as a late birthday gift and it was on the same day I met you."

"Sol listen, we all miss her but its been three years since her death. You gotta move on." Twilight places a hoof on Sol's shoulder. "Sol I want you to come to the library with me, I need to show you something." Sol followed Twilight to the library.

     Sol came up the last steps breathing heavily. "I should have teleported. Why is there so many steps?"

"Sol come on in." Sol trudges through the doors and follows Twilight to her desk.

"You brought me all way up here to read books!"

"No. I brought you up her because I want to give you something. Me, Cadence, and Celestia all made this for you. I was going to give you this as a birthday present, but I decided you need this now more than ever. So, here."

Sol looks at his gift. "Is this a photo album?" Sol opens the photo album. "Is that me?"

"Yep! This photo album has all your pictures throughout the years and you can add more if you want? So what do you think?"

Sol set the photo album down on Twilight's desk and walked over and hugged Twilight. Sol says with a sniff. "I love it, thank you Twilight."

"Your welcome."

"Hey, Twilight do want to hang out sometime?" He says while rubbing his eyes.

"How about now?"

"Yeah that sounds good, let's go have some fun! By the way I'm leaving it here for know." Sol then ran out the door.

"There's the Sol I know and love." She mutters.

"Twi you coming!"

"Just a second!"

Twilight then walks out the doors and Sol grabs her and flew away.

     Sol was flying while holding on to Twilight in the bright blue sky. "Hey, Twilight?"

"Yeah?"

"Think we can go to FryBales?"

"We always can go to FryBales!"

"Hey, Twi! Look at that!" Sol stopped and pointed at the bright firey flock of birds.

"Wow! A Gathering of Phoenixes. Its beautiful." Sol then hears slow flapping.

"Did you hear that?" Twilight turns to look at Sol.

Twilight turns pale at what she saw. "Dr-Dr-Dr-Dr-Dr-Dr-Dr-Dr-Dr...."

"Twilight spit it out!"

"...Dr-Dr-DRAGON!" Sol turns to see the problem, he saw a giant black dragon with dark purple eyes.

"Hey Twi?"

"Yeah?"

"How good is your grib?"

"Average."

"Good because RRUUUUUUNNNNN!" Sol uses the  Sonic-Shadowboom and took of like a bullet. But the dragon was catching up and fast.

Sol then starts to dive. "Sol what are doing?!"

"I need you to hold your breath!"

"What?!"

"Now!"

Twilight held her breath while Sol flew low too the ground and dropped Twilight in a pond. The dragon went over the pond missing her completely. She breaches the water coughing and gasping for air. Twilight watched as the dragon follows Sol. "Please make it back."

     Sol flew between the treeline, but the dragon just smashed right through it. "Why does it want me?!" He then flew through a tunnel, but the dragon got stuck in it. Sol flew back around to see what happened and tries hard not to laugh at what he saw. The dragon then busts through the top of the tunnel and looks at laughing Sol with a face of anger. "I'm out!" He said before Shadowbooming away. The dragon follow him. Sol looks back and the dragon was getting closer and closer. "That's odd. I should be able to out run scale face. My wings are getting—" Before he could say anything else, Sol was slapped across the land.

     Sol was just waking up and saw a wolf in his face. "Get off me!" Sol got up and tried to flap his wings. "Ahh! My wing." He looks at it to see what the problem and there was a few sticks lodge through his wing. He turns to face the wolf. "What are you looking at?!" The wolf just stared at him with his tongue out. "Look at me talking to a mindless animal!" Sol walks in a direction and the wolf follows him. "Hey stop following! Go home!" Sol kept walking forwards. He sighs and looks at the wolf. "Your going to follow me, no matter what I say aren't you?" The wolf just stares at him. "Well if you going to follow me your going to need a name. How...about...Umbra?" The wolf lick his face. "Umbra it is! Come on, Umbra!"

     Back in Canterlot, Twilight is running through the castle. "Gotta find The Princess!" She ran through the hall and through the giant door. Celestia was Sipping her normal morning tea. Until the doors flew open. "Princess! Princess!"

"Ah, Twilight. So nice of you to visit me. Now what seems to be the problem?"

"Ok! There was this black dragon and it chased me and Sol. Until Sol dropped me into a pond and the dragon kept chasing him! But I don't know where he is know?!"

"What color were the dragon's eyes?"

"Dark purple, but why does that matter?!"

"Its a Shadow being." Celestia's horn then glowed and a beam of light came from it. It then started to create holographic projection of these "Shadow Beings". "You see Twilight, Shadow Beings are creatures who are created when evil is brought into the world. Depending on the evil's species and power they become something that will hunt them and destroy them. Its soul purpose is to kill the evil and every living thing that gets in its way. But for Alicorns its usually another Alicorn. A dragon doesn't make sense."

"Maybe the dragon has the wrong pony?"

"Shadow Beings never make a mistake. It has special powers that allow it to hide in shadows and the eyes allow it to see the evil its after and other Shadow Beings. That means Sol has an evil inside of him that he has locked away and won't allow it to surface. Does he have any kind of strange fears?"

"He does have a fear of the darkness that tries to consume him."

"That's what its after!" Twilight sighs and looks out onto the the land through a window. "I just hope he's ok."

"He's going to be fine. Usually when this happens their is always a Guardian to protect the good that imprisons the evil and it always tries its best. But it always fails to save them."

     Somewhere in the Everfree Forest Sol is walking while Umbra is follows him. Until he came across a stream. "Oh good water!" Umbra then pulls on his tail. "Ow! What?!" Sol said in anger. Umbra grabs a rock with its mouth and throws it at the stream. When the rock hit the water, a giant alligator made out of water devoirs the rock. "Wow! An H2gat0! Never seen that before. Those are rare!" Sol looks in awe at the H2gat0. "So, is there a way around it?" Sol saw a thursty deer walk over to the water to take a sip. Sol got into a running position and waits. "Umbra, when I start running, you do too!" Sol watches as the deer took a sip from the stream. Then he saw the gator creep up on the deer and lounges at it. Sol and Umbra sprints towards the stream and ran right past the gator. When they made it to the other side, Sol looks back and to see the gator drowning the deer in its jaws. Sol and Umbra walked through the treeline and disappear. Sol looks up at the sky and saw the moon. "Its getting dark. Do you know a good place for us to sleep?" Umbra sniffs around and points at a old building with his nose. "Is that an old research facility? What's this doing here?" Sol walks closer to it and read the sign on the building. "E.S.D? Equestrian Search and Discover. I know this company. It a company that searches for anything that hasn't been discovered yet." Sol opens the door and walks inside. He flips a light switch and the lights came on with a buzzing sound. Sol looks to his left to find a pile of bodies in the corner. Disgusted, he walks over to the filing cabinet and searches through it. "Here we go!" Sol lifts up a folder that said "Workers". "The ponies who used to work here are Geo, Keeps, and Atom. They were working on a something called "Experiment 381 aka Lycian Pony. They were trying to crate a super solider but it failed, because 10 test subjects were killed by subject #3, a colt named Invent. This is what probably happened to those scientists."

     Sol looks up from the folder and to see a door with a window to his left. He walks over to it and looks through the widow. He can see a foal size wolf feeding off the corpses of ponies. Sol watches in horror as the wolf tore flesh from bones. Sol looks behind him to see if Umbra was still there. When he turns back, he was face to face with the wolf. Sol jumps back in terror and watches as the wolf starts to bust through the door. Sol made a run for the front entrance but was stopped by a pack of gray wolves. Sol backs up into the middle of the room. Umbra ran at one of the wolves and bite its leg. The wolf grabs Umbra on the back and lifts him. Sol watches in horror as the wolf tore Umbra limb from limb. Devouring him like he was prey. Sol backs up into the door that was holding the wolf. The wolves crept up on him. When a chain with a blade on the end came through the door and stabs the middle wolf in the head. Sol scoots over and the door came off its hinges, hitting three of the wolves in the process. Then a unicorn foal steps out of the chamber of bodies on his hind legs with a wrench in his hoof. The colt was light gray with a gray mane and tail. His mane style was a mess same with his tail. His ears were damaged with a V shaped cut. His was wearing blue glasses over its green eyes. His muzzle was just like Sol's. The colt took off his glasses and sets them on the ground next to him. Then snaps his knees forwards. The wolves looks at him with anger and charged at him. He then uses his wrench to smack the first wolf in the face. Then the top part of the wrench started to change into a blade. The blade didn't change with magic, it changed with steam punk tech. A chain pops out of the wrench and it was connected to the blade. It was a whip. He used it to wrap around one of the wolves's neck. He then pulls back tearing off the head of the wolf. He then slashes another wolf on the head and slits the throat of another wolf behind him. The chain then went back into the wrench but the blade remained. He then walks over to the injured wolf and was about to stab it. Sol then hears a third heartbeat and yelled. "STOP!" The colt then looks at the black alicorn colt in the corner of the room. "She's pregnant!" The foal then put his ear up to the wolf and heard two heart beats. "Please. Let her live."

     The foal got angry and tries to stab the wolf again. But Sol threw a bone at him. "I said "Let her live!" The foal then dashes at Sol and pins him against the wall with his fore arm. The foal looks into Sol's eyes. Sol then snaps his knees forwards and punches the foal in the face forcing it to let him go. The foal was getting up when Sol drop-kicks him across the table. The foal then uses his whip on Sol. Sol dodges the whip and grabs it. He then wraps it around his hoof and pulls back, slamming him through the wall. Sol then saw a case labeled "Experiment 258 aka Night's Edge". Sol walked over, opens the case, and pulls out a purple sword that had a bat-like hilt and a slim hole above it. The whip then came back hitting Sol right in the wing and hitting the light switch which shut off the lights. The whip then retracted and Sol went to go find cover. Sol hid behind a few boxes. He looked back to see if he was still there. He then saw the wolf and came out of hiding. He walked over to the wolf and he dragged her over to his hiding place. Sol leans against the boxes and the wolf rested her head on Sol's lap. Sol notice a fresh bite mark on her leg and Sol knew which wolf this was. Sol then put his hoof on her head and fell asleep.

     "How can he forgive that wolf!? It literally tore his puppy limb from limb! Where's the anger!?  Where's the vengeance!? Said the mysterious voice. It sighed. "How strong can he be just to forgive something that did such a vile deed? How? How can he be so calm with this? I don't know how he can do that? But I do know that one day he'll snap and I'll be waiting for that day! MUUUUUUUUHAHAHAHAHAH!

     The next morning, Celestia woke up with her face on her desk. She lifts her head and looks down at flier that read. "Have you seen me?" Below that is a picture of Sol and it says. "Name: Sol Eclipse Age:10." Celestia looked at this and sheds a tear before breaking down. Twilight walked in and saw this. She walked over to Celestia and tapped her leg. Celestia looks up from the tear soaked paper and looks over to Twilight. Twilight than hugged her and cried into her leg. Celestia scooted away the filly and got up from her desk. She then lays down to hug Twilight and she did the same. Celestia had to calm the filly down. "Shhhhhhh. Its ok. Our little angel of darkness will come back to us, soon." She said in a soothing voice.

"Please make him come back! *hic* Please!" Celestia closed her eyes and continued to hug Twilight.