An Alicorn's Shadow

     Sol is in his bed, wrapped in his blanket and having a pleasant dream. Until the alarm clock went off. Sol groaned as he hits the clock, flinging it across the room. He then snuggles back into his bed with Twilight. Twilight then shakes him to wake him up. "Sol. Sol! Wake up!"

"Come on mom, just a few more minutes." He said

"Sol! Come on! Were going to be late for our first day of highschool!"

Sol groans and mumbles. "Its worse than my mom."

"I heard that!"

"Good! Then you'll know not to wake me up! I can bucking fly!"

"That didn't make any sense."

"I'm tried, cut me some slack!"

"Ok. I'm ready! Sol, would you please?"

"Carry your fat flank to the highschool. I don't know ponies might think I'm carrying a boulder."

Twilight got angry and yelled. "I AM NOT FAT!!!!!"

"OK. OK. Miss Crankypants."

Sol grabs Twilight's hoof and flew off.

    While flying, Sol thought to himself. [Man, being her Protector is a pain in my flank. My mom assigned me to her, but why? I don't mind, but do I have to live with her? Why does a Special Protector have to stick with the pony they're guarding for life or until they get a promotion or a demotion? Actually, I don't care. I'm a pony who will do anything to protect the ponies's hope and keep peace over the land.... Wow. I have really matured over the past two years.]

"Hey, Sol?"

"Hmm. What?"

"I'm sorry for yelling at you."

"Its fine. I'm sorry for calling you a fat flank and Miss Crankypants."

"Sol? Do you remember when we first met?"

"Ya! That was the day I became an alicorn!"

"I never got to ask. Were you always like that?"

"Like what?"

"You were kinda an asshole."

"Oh! Yes, I do that because that's who I am. But didn't you become friends with me. I'm surprise for how long you've lasted."

"Well I thought you were nice and fun to be around. Man, was I wrong. But you have matured a lot. You've been more careful with your power."

"Yep. Because mom has been teaching me more advance spells. Spells that would allow me to destroy a mountain."

"Sol?"

"Yeah?"

"You wouldn't mind becoming my teacher again?"

"I would love too! How about today after my training?"

"Sounds great!"

     Sol and Twilight finally reached their destination. Sol dropped the purple pony a few inches off the ground. Then Sol landed in front of the giant red brick school. They both ran up the light gray steps and through the glass doors. "Hey Twilight, do you know where your class is?"

"Yes, of course I do! We can talk at lunch. Bye!" Twilight said as she veered to the right.

"Bye! OK where's my class?" Sol looked left. "Ah! There it is!" Sol slammed through the door. Hitting something on the way in. Sol was dazed for a bit until his vision focused again. He could see a tall pink pony standing over him. "Cadence? What are you doing here?"

She chuckled and said. "I'm the teacher. Do you need a nurse, Solly?"

Sol could hear a crowd snickering at him. "No. I'm fine." Sol got up holding his head.

"OK. If your sure. Your seat is over there." She pointed at the desk in the middle of the 3 x 3 desks. Sol walked over to his desk and sat down. "Now that we have everypony, I'm going to call out names. She looks at her clipboard and calls out the first name on the list. "Octavia."

"Present!"

"Lyra Heartstrings."

"Here!"

"Thunderlane."

"Here!"

"Rainbow Dash."

"What up!"

"Carrot Top."

"Here."

"Derpy Hooves."

"Here."

"Vinyl Scratch."

"Yo!"

"Rappin Microphone."

"Sup!"

"And Sol Eclipse."

"Right here!"

"OK. Know that I know all your names, my name is Princess Mi Amore Cadenza, but you can call me Ms. Cadence. As you probably know, I am Sol's cousin, but that doesn't mean I'll treat him any different. Any questions?" Every colt raised their hoof. "That isn't "Will you go out with me?" All of the colts hands went down. "Yes, Carrot Top?"

"I love the way you styled your mane."

"Why thank you, Carrot Top."

"Kiss ass." Sol mumbled.

"What was that, Solly?"

"Nothing!"

"That's what I thought."

     Sol is sitting at his desk when the bell rang. The poines jumped out of their seats and ran out the door. "Hold it, Solly!"

"Yes, ma'am?"

"I hope this does put a damper on our friendship. I'm still the same Cadence, but we both have to keep our relationship out of the way in school. OK?"

"That's OK." Sol then hugged Cadence and ran through the door. While out their, he ran into Derpy.

"Hey, Solly." She said before kissing Sol on the cheek.

"Hey, Derpy. I thought I said not to use that name?"

"Are you going to sit with me in lunch today?"

[Aaand she ignored my question.] "Sorry, Derpy. But I'm sitting with Twilight today."

"What! You chose her over your fillyfriend. And here I thought you were a gentleman who thinks about my feelings."

"You need to stop hanging out with Rarity all the time."

"She said that would work. Why didn't it?"

"Well you have to put more drama in it."

"Bye, Solly!" She says as she takes a right into a door.

"See ya! Now where's the gym?" Sol sees a orange pegasus mare with fire-ish mane, tail, and cutie mark. "Hey do you know where the gym is?"

"Actually, I was going there myself. You can follow me."

"Hey, what's your name?"

"I'm Spitfire and you are?"

"Sol Eclipse."

"Wow! Its nice to meet you. We're here!"

"But this leads outside."

"Yep! This is the pegasi gym."

"Oh! I almost forgot." Sol reaches into his saddle bag and pulls out a small gold ring and presents it to Spitfire.

Spitfire started to become flustered. "Um. Look dude I like you, but not in that way. Besides we are to young for that and we didn't even go out yet."

"What?" Sol looked at the ring and blushed. "No! No! No! That's not what I ment. I mean could you put it on my horn?"

"Why?"

"It cuts off my magic and I can't put it on or it will get stuck on there. So I another pony have to be able to do this. Soooo."

"Ok." Spitfire grabs the ring with her mouth and puts it around his horn.

"There we go now I can't use magic." Sol and Spitfire then walked through the doors in front of them.

     In a cave somewhere in the Everfree forest, a changeling is just coming out of it's egg. "Awaken, again, my child." Said the queen with a echo in her voice. The queen looked at the changeling with a surprised look. The changeling had two different eyes. One normal and one one red. Usually when a changeling is born with impurities, it means that it would soon betray the queen and it doesn't need love as it's main food source. But it was a perfect soldier and the heir to the throne. So the only thing she could do is raise him as if he was her own son and hopefully he won't betray her. "The least I could do is give you a name." She ponders on the question for a bit. "Zearou Dragonfly!"

"Yes, I think that's good for me." He said.

"Ok. So you know what your mission is?"

"Yes I do, eliminate a black alicorn named Sol Eclipse."

"And aren't you going to leave?"

"Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm on it!" And just like that he ran towards the hive entrance and ran through the Everfree forest.

     Sol is walking down the hall looking for the cafeteria. "Now where is it?" Sol kept walking while he levitates the map of the school in his face. "Man, Twilight is going to be angry with me for being late. She's probably going to say 'Your late! How can you be late? I found this effortlessly. I thought you were the son of the Princess?'" Sol said mockingly. Sol saw something in the cornor of his eye and suddenly stopped dead in his tracks. Sol turn and walked to the thing that he saw. The stage room door is open. Sol walked to it and took a peek through the open door. He saw nothing but a dark grey unicorn colt with a darker shade of grey and a dark red patch on his mane and tail. Sol also notice his black jacket, his blue eyes, and a muzzle that looks like his. He was standing on his hind leg and his knees bent forward. He had a microphone in his hoof and music is playing in the background. Sol was surprised at what he was hearing. "Is he rapping?" Sol goes through the door and trots down the aisle. Luckily his black fur allows him to blend in with his surroundings. He trotted down a row of seats and sat in the middle of the row.

     After the song was over, Sol collided his hooves together, repeatedly. When the dark gray pony looked at black pony. His face turn red as if he was embarrassed. Sol flew over to him and ask. "What's wrong?"

"..."

"..."

"..."

"Are you going to say something or are you going to be a quiet little Fluttershy?"

"H-Hello."

"Sup! I'm Sol Eclipse, but you probably already knew that and you are Rappin Microphone, are you?"

"Y-Yes."

"Your a amazing singer, Mic."

"?"

"I shortened your name, so I can say it faster."

"Ok."

"Hey! Do you know where the cafeteria is?"

"Y-Yeah." Mic jumped off the stage landing on his all fours and trotted up the aisle, Sol followed close behind.

     Sol and Mic made it to the cafeteria doors. Mic turned around and trotted back to the theater. "Hey, Mic!?"

"Hmm?"

Sol gave him a faint smile and said. "Keep chasing your dreams and one day you'll catch them."

"Thanks." Sol lifted his hoof and Mic slammed his hoof into Sol's. "See ya."

"Bye." Sol opened the doors and walked through them.

     Somewhere at the edge of the Everfree forest, Zearou was ran miles away from his cave and he was out of breath. "Jeez! I need to take a break." Zearou notice a pale tower and walked over to it. "Hmm. A old, unhygienic tower. Perfect!" He goes through the wooden door and walks on the ceiling. He then made a cocoon around himself. After he was finished he, closed his eyes and fell asleep. Not long, the door slammed to reveal a pink pony mare with pink cottoncandy-like mane and tail. Plus her eyes were light blue.

"Helloooooo~?! Is anypony here?!" She kept walking towards the giant cocoon. "Ooo! Ooooo! Its a piñata! Luckily I always keep a spare bat hidden in this place!" She dashes over to a table and pulled a bat from under it.

"Wait?! Where'd that table come from?!" She pulled back the bat and swung with all her might. "Ow!" Zearou fell from the ceiling and hitting the floor. The pink pony looks at him with disappointment.

"Your not candy."

"No, I'm not."

She then go from sad to happy in a instant. "Oh wait! Your new here! I'm Pinkie!"

"Ok? I'm—"

"Wait! Wait! Wait! I can guess it! Ummmm? Holely Bug!

"I don't think that ho—"

"Swiss cheese!"

"Where are coming up—"

"Red-eyed Bugington"

"I would hang myself if—"

"Oh I know! Peter Parker!"

"What the b—"

"So is that your name!? Huh! Huh! Huh! Is it!?"

"No! Its Zearou Dragonfly!

"That's an silly name for a pony."

"We'll so is Pinkie." Her mane started to deflate like a balloon and she looked sadder then before.

"My name isn't silly." She said in a depressing tone, also if she was about to cry.

"Hey, Pinkie are you ok? Look I'm sorry for what I said. You have a great name. It matches your personality!"

"Really?"

"Yes, of course! Your funny and playful. I also love your smile."

Pinkie gives a small smile and muttered. "I love you."

"What was that?" Pinkie got up and embraced him.

"I said I love you." She says this while she was rubbing her head on his.

Pinkie took her head away from his and got her face closer to his. For awhile her and the changeling stared into each other's eyes.

{Her body is so soft. Wait! What am I thinking!? I just came in here. Why does she suddenly love me? But why do I feel like I met her before?}

"I'm glad to have you back."

"What are you talking about?"

"You don't remember me?"

"How could I? I just hatched today."

"Are you sure?"

"Yes!"

"Oh."

{Wow, she looks so sad.}

"I found you here. When I saw you I thought you were a monster, but when I got to know you. You became a very close friend. But my parents found out and had you taken back to the Everfree forest. And I never got to tell you how I really feel."

"Arrgh!" He said while a pain in his head intensifies. He grabs his head and starts to collapse.

"Zearou! Are you ok?"

"My......head."

"Hold on, Zearou! I always keep an icepack nearby for icepack emergency's."

"Nngghh!" Pinkie walks back over to the hurting Zearou. Pinkie puts the icepack on his head.

     In Canterlot, Princess Celestia was looking over Canterlot when all of a sudden she collapses. A guard ran over and tried helped Celestia get on her hooves. "Princess! What's wrong?!" He said.

"Something is coming. Something powerful. I fear that I won't be able to stop this one alone."

"Do you know what it is?"

"An old foe." Celestia looks upon the sun and sky as they started to turn black. "Send a letter to Princess Mi Amorae Cadenza to meet me her imeadetly!"

"Yes, Ma'am!"

     Back in the Everfree forest, Invent was walking through the forest when he looked up at the sky and saw the blacken sun. "Not you, again."

     Somewhere on the moon, a being looks upon Equestria. "He's back. He's going to destroy Equestria before I even get there."

     Back at the school, Sol woke up in the clinic with Twilight right beside him. Sol sat up and said. "What happened?"

"You passed out. You really scared me." Twilight said.

"That was an odd dream."

"Dream?"

"Yeah, I was dreaming about a black alicorn with dark gray zebra stripes. His mane and tail were full black and spiked. His eyes were black and he had a pointed horn and sharp teeth and his cutie mark was a black sun with two dark grey clouds under it."

"It was probably the darkness."

"No. Its something else. In my dream, he killed ponies with powerful magic. More powerful then my mother's. The sky and sun was black and he made it that way. Wait?!" Sol got up and ran over to the window. He looked at the darken sky with anger. "It wasn't a dream." Sol then turned around and ran out the door. Twilight straggled behind.

"Sol!? What's going on?!"

"Something's here!" Sol and Twilight ran into Mic and Invent. Sol looked at the light gray unicorn. "You!"

"You!"

"Came here to eat more ponies!"

"No! I came here to destroy Dark Days!"

"Who's Dark Days?"

"You need to do more resaech! Anyways, he the same monster who made the sky black!"

"Um. Guys I think we got a problem." Twilight said.

"What's the matter?!" Twilight points at the black figure standing behind them.

"Shit." Mic said.

"Hello there. It's been awhile since I've seen a argument that lead to death." Sol stares at him with an angry expression. "But where are my manners? I'm Dark Days and you must be Celestia's new pet." He says as he pats Twilight on the head.

"Don't you dare lay another hoof on her!" Sol demanded. Slapping Dark's hoof and getting in his face.

"And you must be Prince Sol Eclipse, the son of the legendary Princess Celestia. Ponies say that your very powerful. Shall we test that?" Before saying anything else Dark kicks Sol through a couple of walls.

"SOL!!!" Twilight screamed as she rushes over to help him.

"Ah, Invent! Its so nice to see you, again." Invent summoned his whip and tried to use it on the monster. But Dark grabbed the whip and wrapped the chain around his hoof. Dark Days slowly waved his hoof in front of him, before pulling back and forcing the colt to shoot forwards. As Invent was getting closer as Dark Days cocked his hoof back and slams it in the flying colt's face. Invent flipped backwards a few times because of the impact, before sliding along the ground. "Wait. Who are you?"

"..."

"Shy son of a bitch."

"What did you call me?" He says while his eye twitches.

"I called you a 'Shy son of a bitch.'"

"That's what I thought." Mic then punches Dark Days, flinging him across the hall.

"What the buck?" Dark Days then brushes the dust off him and runs towards the dark gray colt. Mic stood up and snapped his knees forward. Then spores of light comes out of his horn, goes around his hoof, and starts to create a golden stick. After that it creates an old microphone head on the right and a modern microphone on the left. It looks like a golden sledge hammer. Mic then grabs the golden hammer with two hooves and swings it at Dark Days. Smashing him through the wall. Dark Days walks through the colt's bathroom door. "Whew! Do not go in there!" Mic drops the hammer and walks over to Dark Days. Mic grabs him by the horn and rips it out. Dark then steps back with his wings out while holding the wounded area. Mic then grabs his wings and kicks him, tearing off his wings. The bloody pony lays in a pool of his own blood. Mic grabs his hammer and walks back over to the defeated monster. Dark Days watch as the dark gray pony lifts the hammer.

"Gotcha." Dark Days then kicks one of Mic's knees, causing him to fall on one knee. The bloody red pony got up and said. "You can't kill me that easy." His wings and horn grew back at a rapped pace. "And you though you've beat me." He then grabbed Mic by the throat and started to choke him.

"Hay, ugly! Let him go!" A voice said. Dark Days looked behind Mic and saw a very light yellow unicorn mare with magenta eyes and raggedy dark and light blue mane and tail. She was pushing a speaker on wheels. "Or else!"

"What in Tartarus is that?"

"Oh, it's nothing special its just my Bass Canon!" She says as she slams her hoof on a red button and opens the speaker which revealed a giant glowing speaker. Mic then headbutts Dark Days in the face causing him to drop him. Mic then runs through a hole in the wall. Then the speaker blasts a beam of energy, hitting Dark Days and forcing him through a few walls.

"Nice job! You almost hit me!" He said poking his head out of the hole.

"Be glad that I saved you!"

"I didn't need your help!"

"Don't make me blast you!"

"You and I both know it needs to charge!"

"It still won't stop me from beating the shit out of you!"

"Oh yeah! I'd like to see you try, Pot Head!"

"Hey, you do it to!"

"Oh yeah! Well.... Buck you!"

"Buck you!"

"BUCK YOU!!!"

Sol emerges from the hole he was blasted in. "BOTH OF YOU SHUT UP!!!!" Mic and Vinyl both looked at the badly injured black colt. "Its not over yet! I can hear him breathing. He's still alive."

"How is he still alive!?" Invent grumbled.

"Haven't you've guys notice that he's more powerful than Celestia. I thought unicorns can sense magical energy?" Sol said. Invent struggles to get up, but falls half way.

"I can't even get up."

"We fought that guy with all our strength, but your saying that it wasn't enough!" Mic says angrily.

"Yeah that's what I'm saying."

"So what do we do now?" Twilight says.

"I have an idea. I need all of you to get out!" Sol said sadly.

"What are you...?" Twilight thinks for a second. "Are you insane!! If you do that, we don't know if you'll change back!"

"I said LEAVE!! I'll deal with him. Take the others and get out! Sol says aggressively.

     Dark Days pushes the heavy rubble off his body. "That bitch! I'm going to shove a pipe through her torso!" He brushes some dust off his shoulder. He then walks through the holes in the walls. When he got to the last one, he notice a black alicorn standing in the middle of the hallway. He smiled evilly and fell to his hooves and knees. Dark Days watches as the pony change. Red flames formed around each hoof and slowly moved up. He started to cry a red liquid and lets out a scream of pain. As the red flames goes over his cutie mark it transforms into something else. It then moves over to the wings. Changing the bird wings into a pair bat-like wings. It goes over to the face, making his teeth sharper. His horn starts to have more of a point and his eyes diulate into slits. His mane and tail loses their hair, but some stays in a pull back style. Dark Days looks at him with fear in his eyes. "No. You can't be here! Y-You're suppose to be dead!"

"So you're still alive. I guess I'll have fix that." Said the demonic black pony.

Days shook his head and stares at him with rage. "So you've put your soul in a living being. So Solar, tell me how you can take control of that pony's body?"

"I should have killed you when I had the chance."

"Oh, come on! Are you still hung up on how I betraded Equestria."

"You were an Equestrian Protector and your job was to protect this land, not try to obliterate it!"

[Solar, who is this guy?]

{An old partner who tried to plunge Equestria into total darkness, but was stopped before he could finish the spell.}

[So, what are we going to do?]

{You just shut up while "I" deal with him. You got that!} Solar and Dark both faced each other and got into an attacking positions.

     Solar charged at him and went for a punch, but Dark moves quick enough to evade the attack. Before Solar even knew what happened, Dark kicks him in the back before teleporting in front of him and punches the discombobuled pony in the face, sending him a few feet back. Solar back rolled when he hits the floor. He looks up at Dark and lifted his wings, then got in a crouching position and kicked off after him. Solar shot at him like  a racer at the start of a race. Tackling him to the ground. Solar repeatedly hits Dark before Dark kicks him off. Dark preformed a back hoof spring and immediately got into a fighting position. He then summons a mace out of thin air. Then Solar summons a pair of small chainsaws that appears out of the top of his wrist. Dark then charges at him with the mace over his shoulder and swings at Solar. He couldn't dodge fast enough and hits Solar in the arm, causing him to fly into a nearby locker. The attack was enough to send Solar back into Sol. Left there, helpless, Sol tried get up but to no avail. Dark walked over to him  to deliver the final blow. But before he could, a bright yellow beam that catches Sol's eye from down the hall to Dark in a matter of seconds.

     Sol looked back down the dim lighted hall to see two shadowy figures. He couldn't make out there faces or bodies, but he do spot some very distinct features and that one was taller then the other. The shorter one started to gallop, straight for him. Sol could hear clinking, like somepony dropping silverware on tiled flooring. Sol tried his best to scream but was in fear's clutches. As it got closer and closer, his body began to grow weaker every second. His eyelids started to feel heavy and tried his best to keep them open, but that strength wasn't going to last forever.

(Is this it?... Is this how it ends?... Is this how the son of the great and powerful Princess Celestia is gonna die?... I guess so.) Sol thought to himself as his impending doom grows ever closer. As his eyes started to close, the dark silhouette started to become more clear. With his last breath he called out the name of the being. "Cadence....?"

     When she got there, she sat on her hind legs and leaned over to lifted Sol's head up off the ground. She kept talking to him but her voice was getting more and more faint. Before his vision could go black, he could see Cadence's eyes swell up in tears. That was the last thing he saw before the light in his eyes turned to nothing but darkness. Nothing but silence.

"Sol, you idiot!" Yelled a voice, which snaps Sol back to reality. "Why do you always get yourself into these situations?!"

     Sol opens his eyes to see a bawling Cadence. Upon seeing this, he extends his hoof and grabs hers. He then says. "Hey, aren't you suppose to be the Princess of love or the Queen of drama?"

"Sol?" She says with a sniff.

"Quit crying on me, you'll get snot all over my fur."

     Without another word, Cadence wrapped her forelegs around Sol and puts her head on his shoulder. Sol then wrapped his forelegs around the sobbing Cadence.

"You're an ass."

"What are you talking about? I'm not a donkey."

"Yeah, you're going to be fine, Solly."

"I see how it is, Lance."

     After sending Dark Days to Tartarus, Celestia told the medical personnel to tend to the wounded. She then met up with Sol who was talking to the head constructor.

"So Buzz, how much damage was made to the the school?" She says in a upbeat tone.

"Well, your Highness, my crew wrote a list of what needs to be fixed. For starters there's a giant hole in the side of the  school,a ll of the lockers need to be replaced, eighteen light fixtures are either broken or hanging, the whole hall needs to be retiled, both the colt and mare restrooms needs a major fixing, we need to clear out the rubble, and several holes need to be filled."

"I...think you should take care of this Cadence, you are a Princess after all." And with a flash she was gone.

"Wait, what?" She says surprised.

"SOL!!" A voice that came from behind him. Sol turned around to see Derpy galloping towards him. She then tackles him, causing both of them to roll backwards a few times before stopping to hug him.

"Derpy... Can't... Breathe..."

"Oh, sorry." Derpy let's go and continues. "I'm just so glad that you made it out unharmed."

"A few broken bones, a concision, and loss half my blood. But otherwise I'm fine."

     Inside Sol's head, Solar is surrounded by darkness, while looking at a screen which is labeled "sight".

"You are one interesting little pony. But there's more obstacles to overcome, as long as she's up there."