An Alicorn's Shadow

     Sol wakes up on a hard concrete floor. He looks to his left and notices the box with the files on the Everfree creatures and his crossbow. He looks to his right and notices a purple colored unicorn filly with a straight purple mane and tail, hanging off of him. Sol was breathless for a bit, before he could say something. "Tw-Twilight?" Sol starts to think to himself. [What is she doing here!? She's suppose to be in Canterlot! Why is she here!? And why is she like this? How did she find me!?] Sol tries to wiggle out of Twilight's grip but it only got tighter. [Shit! Shit! Why does stuff like this happen to me? I have to wake her up.] "Twilight. Twilight! Wake up!" Twilight opens her eyes and hers met up with Sol's, but he was on top of her.

"S-S-Sol!? What are you doing?!" She said. Twilight turned rosey when Sol's face got closer to hers.

"I could ask you the same question." He said.

"Um, well.... Because..... I ... ran ....away."

"Wait! What!?" Sol was shocked by what she said.

"I came to find you! I knew you were somewhere in the Everfree forest."

"Twilight did you tell anypony where you were going?"

Twilight shakes her head. "No."

"You stupid filly!"

"Hey! Don't call me stupid!"

"You shouldn't have done that!"

"Why not!?"

"Because the Everfree forest is no place for a little filly!"

"You sound like my dad!"

"And being around me, puts you in danger!" Sol started to shiver and cry. "I don't want to put the ponies I love in danger." Sol collapses on to Twilight's chest. "I don't want ponies to die because of......because of me."

"Sol... Nopony got hurt."

"Not yet."

"Sol, its ok. We'll find out to defeat the Shadow being."

"It's not that. It's the evil that lives inside of me. I'm able to drown out his voice, but how long can I keep it up? That........thing is more powerful than my mother. And one day it will take control of my body and kill everypony in it's path."

"Sol." Twilight wraps her arms around Sol and held his head close to her chest.

It was a few minutes of silence, until Sol broke it. "Twilight?"

"Yes?"

"Do you want something to drink?"

"Sure."

Sol gets up and walks over to the open freezer door and grabs a pitcher of some sort of liquid next to it. He walks back over to Twilight while grabbing a cup along the way. Sol sits down and pours a glass of the liquid and hands over to Twilight. "Here." Twilight looks at the glass of liquid with a confused look. "Its ok. It's tea. I made it myself out of the plants in the forest. I call it Everfree tea!" Twilight took a sip of it.

"It's good."

"It is!"

Twilight nods. She then went for another sip.

     Sol walks over to the window to look at the golden sunrise over the trees. Twilight looks left of her and notice a box. Twilight then looks back at the black colt. She notice the gleaming golden light from the sun around the colt. As she stares at him everything seems to slow down around her and she thought to herself. {He's.....so......cute.} She blushes as she thought about this. {I wish I could be in his arms. I've been with Sol for three years now. He's only a year older then me. So it shouldn't be that bad. But he's a prince, there's no way I'm able to be with him. Stupid royalty. But three months.......and he's looks perfectly fine. He looks fine alright. NO! Bad Twilight! I guess that training they gave him, must have equipped him with this type of situation.}

"Hey, Twilight!?"

"Hmm? What?"

Sol walks back over to her and sat down. "How are things going in Canterlot?"

"Well everypony is sad that your dead. I mean gone! We gave up searching a month ago and we're planing a funeral for you. That's why I ran away. I knew you were still alive, I just had to look harder. {Ok Twilight this is your chance to kiss him! Your all alone with him in a room. But first you need to tell him something important.} "Sol?"

"Ya?"

"I-I-I........l-l-l-lo—" she was interrupted by Sol shoving his hoof in her mouth.

"Shh! Do you hear that?"

"Hear what?"

"Flapping."

"Flapping?"

"But that could only mean.... Shit! It found me!!!"

Sol straps on his crossbow and quiver. He then grabs Twilight's hoof and ran out the door. He looks back and saw a giant black dragon with purple eyes and under belly.

     Sol and Twilight were running through the forest. "Do you know where your going?!"

"Ya! Far away from here as possible!"

"Can't you use magic or fly?!"

"No! My wings are still broken and I don't know any attack spells! So, the best we can do is run!"

"Hey! Isn't that light?!"

"Yes, it is!"

Twilight and Sol left the Everfree forest and kept running.

"It feels so great to be out of there! But it would be better if a bucking dragon wasn't chasing us!"

They stumble upon some train tracks leading to an underground tunnel. Sol then heard a train whistle and looks in the tunnel. Twilight saw Sol's left ear twitch and Sol turns his head. "Look a train!" Sol grabs out his crossbow and a bolt with a rope attached. He then aims it at the train.

"Sol what are you doing?!"

"Twilight do you trust me?!"

"Yes. Of course.

"Ok." Sol stood up on his hind legs and snaps his knees forward. He then grabs Twilight by the waist and waits for the train to past. When it did, Sol shot the bolt at caboose and grabs the rope. Twilight lets out a yelp as her and Sol were being dragged by the train. Hoof by hoof Sol starts to climb the rope and make it to the train. When they made it to hard ground, Sol grabs the bolt and they both went inside. When they got inside, they close the door and put there backs against it then let out a big sigh of relief while slowly sitting down. Until they heard a voice that Sol knows.

"Sol is that you?"

Sol looks up to see six fillies. "Bon Bon? Colgate? Cheerile? Rarity? Rainbow Dash? Fluttershy? What are you guys doing here?!"

"Were here on a field trip for your funeral!" Rainbow says with an angry expression on her face.

"You know how much grieving we did over you!" Colgate says angrily.

"Grieving isn't a correct word for that sentence." Twilight said.

"And why in Tartarus is she with you!" Cheerile said.

"Bon bon are you mad at me, too?" Sol says.

Bon bon walks over to him and looks him straight in his eyes. Than took himhim in her embrace. "I missed you. I kept hoping that you were still alive. But when they said that you were dead, I still knew deep down in my heat that you were still alive. And why did you guys yell at him we haven't seen him in three months and thought he was dead."

"She's right. What kind of friends are we?" Rarity say while walking over and gave Sol a hug. "I'm sorry. I just got angry when I saw you."

"We're sorry." They all said and went over to hug Sol.

"Its good to see you again, Sol." Said a mysterious voice.

Sol looks up to see where the voice came from. But what he saw was to his surprise.

"Derpy!?"

She walks over to Sol and the girls stepped out of the way. She stood in front of him and looks him in the eyes.

"You should have told me you became an alicorn." She said.

"I've missed you."

"You have?"

"Yes. But what about you moving?" Sol said with agitation.

Derpy looks down and began to cry. "It burned down. My moms ex-husband came to visit her and said tht he wanted to foalsit me. But he  burned the house down with me inside, but a colt saved me. I told him if we could go out but he said I don't go out with retards and left."

Sol lifts Derpy's head up by her chin and said. "I love you, Derpy." Then he meet his lips with hers.

"Sol? I missed you. Will be my coltfriend, again?"

"Yes." He than hugs her.

     But the mood was cut short when they heard screaming coming from one of the carts on the train. Sol ran to a nearby window to look out it. He then sees the dragon. "Twilight! It caught up with us!"

"What did?!" Rarity said.

"A dragon! Derpy do you think you can carry me and Twilight."

"Yes, I can!"

"Rainbow! Can you carry Bon bon and follow us."

"Yes, sir!" Rainbow said with a salute.

"Rarity, Colgate, Fluttershy, and Cheerile you stay behind and try to get the conductor to stop this train. Then meet us in Canterlot."

"Ok!"

"Sol! What are we doing?" Twilight said.

"We're leading the dragon to Canterlot."

"What?!" Everypony said but Sol and Fluttershy.

"If we take it to Canterlot, then my mom can take care of it."

"But why am I coming?" Bon bon said.

"Because your plan B."

"What?!"

"I'll tell you about it when we get to it. Ok, is everypony ready."

They all nod. "Alright then, lets show tall, dark, and ugly what we're made of!" And like that Derpy grabs Sol and Twilight and flew out the door. Rainbow and Bon bon follows not to far behind them.

     Celestia was standing on a podium in front of a crowd next to a coffin and starts to speak. When a roar startles them. Then Derpy lands on the coffin and drops Sol and Twilight. "Mom we've got a problem!"

"Your alive!" She said.

The dragon lands a few blocks away from them. Destroying a few buildings with it. Celestia opens her wings and flew to face the dragon. When she got there, she creates a beam of light and shoots it at the dragon. The crowd cheers. When the smoke cleared, it uncovered the dragon and the crowd panic. They start to run around and scream like maniacs. The dragon swots Celestia like a fly, driving her into a nearby building. The dragon walks closer to Sol and the others. "Derpy take Bon bon up to that building! Bon bon take this!" Sol hands Bon Bon the crossbow and quiver. Derpy grabs Bon bon and did what Sol told them to do. But when Derpy was about to fly away, the dragon slams her to the ground. Derpy was dizzy for a sec. She then saw a foot coming towards her. She closed her eyes and lifts her arms. When the gray mare realizes she hasn't been crushed, she opens her eyes and saw Sol holding up the foot. "Bon bon! Shoot it! I can't hold out for much longer!" Bon bon took aim and was about to fire, until the dragon's tail slashes through the building and she fell. But luckily Rainbow was there to catch her, but she drops the crossbow. "Is this how it ends!" Sol said.

     Twilight ran towards the dragon firing energy shots from her horn. The dragon moves his foot and Sol collapse on his knees, breathing heavly. Sol looks at Twilight. The dragon grabs her and held her close to it's face. Sol watches as the dragon ate her. Sol was furious, he then grabs Derpy and hands her over to Rainbow. "Take her and Bon Bon and get to a safe place!"

"But what about you!?" She said.

"I have something to take care of!"

     Sol watches as Rainbow flew off. He turns around and grabs the crossbow. Sol notice a bolt and rope in the quiver. Sol puts the bolt on the crossbow and pulls back to prim it. He aims at the neck and firedfires. The dragon pulls back pulling Sol towards it. It opens it's mouth and swallows Sol whole.

     Sol slid down the throat and landed in the stomach. "Agh! this is disgusting!"

"Sol?"

"Twilight!"

"What are you doing here?"

"I'm here to save you!"

"Then how are we going to get out?"

"SHIT!!"

"See. All this for nothing."

"This was not all for nothing. We still have a chance!"

"What chance do we have. All hope is lost."

"No! Only you have lost hope. On the other hoof people out there still have their hope. And so do I!"

Sol walks over to the pile of swords in the corner. Sol picks up a sword that separates into two swords. It looked like a normal sword, but had one alicorn engraved on both blades. It looked like Equestria's flag. Sol found a bow next to it. He than puts the swords back together and uses it as an arrow. The sword starts to glow white when Sol pulls back on the bow. He than aims up in the direction of the heart. Twilight notices a flash of light. She looks at Sol's flank to reveal a solar eclipse cutie mark. Sol lets go of the sword and it shoots straight forward with blast like energy around it. The shot went through the heart killing the dragon. It then starts to disappear into smoke.

     Sol grabbs Twilight and carries her in his arms through the expanding hole in the stomach. Sol looks around to see the damage the dragon caused. Then the sword that Sol had shot, lands in front of him. It disintegrates into glowing spores that went into chest and disappear.

     Sol and the others are standing on a stage in front of a huge crowd. Sol looks to his left and saw Celestia giving out hero medals. She then walks over to him. "Sol Eclipse, Canterlot thanks you for saving their city. I don't have a medal for you."

"What!?"

"But I do have a title for you. Sol Eclipse! I hear by make you a Special Protector." She then walks away.

"Hey Sol! What is a Special Protector?" Bon Bon says.

"Well there are four different kind of Protectors. Protectors are ponies deal common criminals. Royal Protectors are the royal guards. Special Protectors who guard a certain pony. And a Equestrian Protectors is the hardest to get, they protect Equestria from powerful evil. But there hasn't been a Equestrian Protector in 500 years."

"Why not?"

"Because the last one betrayed EquestriaEquestria and was killed by my mom. I forget his name. I'll my mom.."

     "Son of a bitch! How can that dragon lose to a buckng colt! This is going to be harder than I thought. Lets see what I can do. I think I can send a message to a certain queen to start creating a super solider. Soon I will kill him and leave my lunar prison and take over Equestria. But I have to kill the little distraction. The Angel of Darkness is a pain in my flank." Said a mysterious voice.