The Equestrian Fairytale: Preface and Act 1

My story starts in a hospital. The hospital in Ponyville, to be precise. I ended up here due to becoming incapacitated during a fight with Sunset Shimmer, who was also here. I decided to leave as soon I felt ready enough to walk around.

I decided to look for my friends, see what they were up to, since they weren't at the hospital. I needed their company, especially after what happened between myself and Sunset. Unfortunately, according to Sweetie Belle, they weren't in town.

"Uh...Twilight," Sweetie said softly, eyeing me from behind the door of the Carousel Boutique, her expression that of concern and confusion, "you know my sister and her friends aren't in Ponyville, right?"

"Ah, crap," I responded, "Where would they be then, Sweetie?"

"Canterlot."

Canterlot. That's where I was before I entered the hospital. I was taking a vacation there with my friends, and I nearly forgot about this. That would also explain why weren't at the hospital, because they didn't know I was there.

I thanked Sweetie and left to Canterlot, hoping to see my friends there.

They were standing around the castle, seeming to have been looking all over for me all this time.  Celestia probably told them I was back at Ponyville, and they were heading there when I appeared.

I approached them and said, "Hey!"

The expression on my face was a cheery one, one that I would quickly lose soon.

As I approached them, the sky...turned a deep crimson. The sun and the moon were merging into one another, without the interference of the princesses. And after this happened, two beasts appeared in front of me, separating me from my friends.

The beasts looked of ponies, except where their face would be, is simply a dark void with a small core in the middle of the void. Their coat was of a light blue, and their speech patterns seemed to only consist of screeches.

They rushed toward me in a blind fury, clawing at me with their hooves and seeming to gnaw at me with their voided faces. I shouted to my friends to leave to safety before I fought back. I slashed at the shoulder of the one to my left, using a blade of magic to do so. It's screech of pain was horrifying, and in fact almost deafening, but it soon dropped to the ground.

As I defeated the being, the other one bites into my right shoulder, causing me to scream in horrific pain. I could see Pinkie look over as I did, which caused me to shout, "PINKIE! LEAVE! I-I can handle this, just get to safety NOW!"

She oddly complied with a simple nod, with tears forming in her eyes. After she left, I smashed the still-living being with the hoof on the foreleg he bit into, bashing him off of me and forcing him to roll to his hooves.

I was bleeding. I was bleeding incredibly, and the being was already back on his hooves, trotting slowly toward me as it let out a low, rumbling growl. It pounced at it and screeched, attempting to knock me off my guard to bite at my neck, but I was able to overcome this, and pierced his skull with my magic blade. It's blood covered down to the base, but it was obviously as dead as his ally.

I removed the sword from his skull and teleported it away before running off to the castle to get to the bottom of things.