In The Dark
Prologue
Chapter 2 - A Wise Bookworm

Spells, Clan origins, Clan powers, she was looking over it all. All the legends, all the information of Vamponies. All looking for one thing.

“Hey Twilight. Any luck,” said a voice behind her.

She turned to see her ghoul, Spike, standing in the doorway of the Library.

Unlike most stories heard about them, Ghouls are the most non-violent of the dark world. Ghouls, what they essentially are, are regular humans that are given Vampony powers. They can’t suck blood, or have all of the powers, but they do have the strength and other abilities. They can also live forever just like a Vampony. But what sets them apart from Vamponies is that they can go out during the day.

The young, or young looking to be accurate, purple mare sighed and said, “No Spike, nothing. I looked in every book looking for any information on the Blood Elements, but I can’t find anything. Maximilian Rich gave me this task to complete for him, but, it’s starting to annoy me. It shouldn't be that hard to find a simple book or passage on something so old. I mean, every single old book, dating back to the 2nd century is here. Why is this so HARD!!!”

“Twilight, you need to calm yourself. Why did Maximilian give you this job to begin with?”

“No clue. All he told me to do was go to his personal Library and find a book on the Blood Elements.”

“You need some help,” Spiked asked.

“That would be very useful, Thank you Spike,” Twilight responded with a smile.

Spike started looking through piles of books in hopes to find something useful. Twilight on the other hoof started to search the shelves for the book. As they looked through countless numbers of books, finding absolutely nothing, they were about to give up and call it quits. Until Spike noticed something out of the ordinary. While looking through a rather large pile of books on the other side of the library, he noticed one that shouldn’t have been there. It was a Black book that had a very unique pattern on it. He picked up the book and ran back over to Twilight. “Hey Twilight, I think I may have found something,” he said.

Twilight walked over to him and looked at the book. It was titled, “Blood, Death, Destruction. The story of Vamponies.”

“It’s in this book,” she questioned.

Spike nodded and flipped open the book to a certain page. She skimmed through the pages, until she reached the information she was looking for.

She read out loud. “The Blood Elements are powerful gems that are based off the Elements of Harmony. Each Element holds, just like the regular Elements, a special name that a Vampony represents. These Elements are: Betrayal, Brutality, Dishonesty, Fear, Malevolent and Blood. Each Element is a mirror to the Elements of Harmony; Generosity, Honesty, Laughter, Kindness, Loyalty and Magic.

These Elements would not just go with any pony who represented that trait. Each element, either blood or harmony, has some sort of mystical power that, when a certain pony would come along, it would attach itself to that pony.”

Twilight looked over the passage a few more times. “It can’t just end there, can it?”

“Why don’t we take the book back to Maximilian,” suggested Spike.

Twilight nodded. She put the book in her saddlebag and they both went to Maximilian’s quarters.

Twilight took her time walking to Maximilian’s quarters. She slowly trotted down the halls of the Mansion that she lived in. She passed by many rooms of the home. She lived on the fifth floor of the house. As she was walking through the halls, passed lots of old pony armor from the late 1500’s, paintings of old ponies as far back as the 1600’s, and, her favorite part, all of the old age books on display. The books were usually copies that only so many now exist that Maximilian didn’t want to keep in the library as they would probably break. So he kept them on display in the mansion halls. This mansion has been collecting all of this stuff for years.

In the day, the mansion was known as Filthy Rich’s Mansion in Canterlot. At night, however, it was the house of the Tremere clan. All Tremeres that were embraced under Maximilian Rich, live in this mansion.

Maximilian in question, is a Vampony lord. Vampony lords are powerful, age old Vamponies that have lived hundreds of thousands of years. Some have been around longer than others. Vampony lords hold the most knowledgeable and are incredibly powerful.

Inside Maximilian’s quarters, was very exquisite. Having four wooden bookshelves, a rare Milton coffee table and side tables, and two leather chairs with the wood increased with gold.

There was a knock on his door.

“Come in,” he said.

Twilight opened up the door to see Maximilian sitting on one of the chairs, wearing one of his luxury, fabric robes, reading a book by the fire, drinking a glass of blood.

Maximilian turned his head to see twilight walk in. “Ah, young Twilight Sparkle. Please come in, sit. We have a lot to talk about.” He motioned for her to sit in the other chair across from him. She did so promptly. “So I take it the book find was a success.”

She pulled the book out from her bag and set it on the table. “Yes I did. However after reading a short passage, it seems incomplete.”

Maximilian sighed. “Yes it is rather a short passage. There is one thing that you should know, that the book left out. The blood elements and the harmony elements are more than just the book claims them to be.

You see, a long time ago, even before Celestia and Luna were born, or their parents, or their parents before them, their were two different types of rulers. One of Darkness, one of Light. The Dark ruler, Alirasia created six gems out of his own personality and powers, the blood elements. The Light ruler, Sherina did the same thing, these were the elements of harmony.

Back in the day, both rulers ruled the land we now call Equestria. However, Alirasia, wanted to rule over the land himself alone. He also wanted to create his own group of ponies. Sherina saw this as a plan to overthrow the balance of harmony they worked so hard to create. So he went rogue and created the elements. When she caught word of this, she created her own elements to use against him.

When he returned to put his plan into action, they did battle. It was a battle of light and darkness, corruption and tranquility. The battle went on for many days and nights, until light triumphed over darkness.

When Alirasia was defeated, Sherina took his soul and locked it in a sarcophagus, locked it with his own elements and sent it somewhere, where nopony would be able to find it. After that, she scattered the elements and she ruled over the land until her days were done.”

Twilight just sat there in awe, “Damn.”

Maximilian chuckled. “I agree. Damn. There is a reason why I asked you to look for that book and know this history. It’s because, I believe that history is going to repeat itself.”

Maximilian got up, went to his bookshelf, grabbed a box, came back to his chair and sat back down. “Earlier today, my daughter, Diamond Tiara, and her marefriend, Silver Spoon, went on an archaeological dig for me. They came back this evening, covered in dirt and this box.”

As Maximilian opened the box, Spike spoke up, “I thought Diamond and Silver were both Vamponies.”

Once Maximilian got the box open, he responded. “No she is not. While they are familiar with the Vamponies, she is not one of them. I still needed someone to run the Rich industry during the day. Seeing how, I can’t do it myself, I entrusted it to her and her marefriend.”

Maximilian set the open box on the book and pulled out what looked to be a millennia old mini wheel. “This is the key to the sarcophagus. Yes this key will open the sarcophagus, but it is incomplete.

It needs the six blood elements in the key to work properly.”

Twilight took the stone and looked at it closely. Sure enough, on the face of the stone, were six indents. All different shapes. She put it down and looked at Maximilian. “What do you want me to do with this?”

“When my daughters returned to me, I made immediate contact with Luna. She stated that she would like to see the stone herself. So I’m sending you to her.”

“You're saying that I should leave the mansion. A place where I have lived and trained and studied my entire life.”

“Yes I am. Twilight, I have trained you and taught you everything I know about the world we live in. You are more than ready. I know most Tremeres don’t leave the mansion that often. Most of them, stay isolated for their centuries. But when something big comes up, we are called to action. We all must leave sometime. Let this be your time. For may not have another.”

Twilight sighed, “Alright.”

As Twilight got up and left, Spike following behind, Maximilian spoke up one more time. “Remember this Twilight. Wherever we go, it is the blood of Harmony that makes our fate.”

Twilight gave a confused look to Maximilian. “What does that mean?”

“You will find out soon enough.”

Twilight let the matter drop and she walked out of the room.

“Farewell Vampony.” Maximilian said.

The game begins. A pawn is moved.

Author's Note

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