darkening skies

by Duskblaze

Rating: teen
Tags: Adventure, Human, Sunset Shimmer, Main 6, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Romance, Original Character
Length: 3596

Dusk Blaze learns of his father. His real father, the dark king Sombra. Learning his father's plan for him he sets out to confront Sombra.

Dusk Blaze. The new kid at CHS. It all starts of pretty well. He meets Sunset Shimmer and then others. He leads a pretty normal school life until he discovers the secret that his "parents" had kept from him his entire life.

All credit for the cover image goes to its artist. Exept the inversion. I did that.

Sorry if this sucks. If anybody does read this a little advice could go a long way.

Tagged with romance as there is some. Eventually.

Please note that I do not ship myself with Sunset Shimmer. I do understand that she is a fictional character.

Published 2015-02-12 22:20:01 UTC
Last updated 2015-02-27 16:42:50 UTC

It begins

Note

Italic-bold text = Dusk's thoughts.

Darkening skies

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In the back seat of his parent's car, Dusk Blaze sat reading. The book was about the theory that there are multiple universes other than ours. I had always been interested in the subject of parallel worlds and universes but I only managed to find a book on the matter two days prior. We were in the car because we were moving house. I don't see why we had to move from our apartment in Manehatten to Canterlot. People say it's all great but nowhere is without it's flaws.

"I'm going to miss our view of the sea" Dawn Aurora (my mother) said with a mournful tone. She eagerly awaited a reply but with Daybreak (my father) caring only about the road and me focused on the book it never came. She eventually realised this and proceeded to stare wistfully out of the car window.

***

The first thing that I did after placing my feet foot on the hard gravel outside of my new home was run to the back of the car to retrieve my mattress. I carried it upstairs into what I had been told was my bedroom. I placed it down in the middle of the floor and led down. As soon as my head hit the pillow the world meant nothing.

***

"He's asleep up there?" Daybreak asked with an annoyed tone.

"Yes, but you can't blame him for that. He's been through a lot lately. With having to leave his friends and all. You know how bad he is at being social." Dawn replied (she had always been the calmer, gentler parent) "But I just hope that he doesn't stay alone"

"We'll worry about that next week. What's the name of that school he's enrolling in? Daybreak queried.

"Canterlot high school I believe." Answered Dawn.

Together they ascended the stairs to their bedroom. It was exactly the same as mine except larger and the mattress was in a corner.

***

The next week was pretty normal. After everything had been moved from the car and moving truck I set up my PS3 and started playing fallout: las Pegasus. I kept getting game over screens due to a lack of concentration over the weekend. Thinking about what I should do once the weekend is over was all I could do. I have no friends, I'll get lost almost all the time and if it's possible for me to embarrass himself, it will happen. After about two more hours of consecutive kill screens I gave up and led on my bed to read. The room is pretty standard. There is a desk in front of the window with a black computer chair adjacent to it. The entire desktop was littered paper and plates. Wrappers were strewn about. Wherever you looked you would see mess. A pretty average laptop rested upon the cluttered surface. The walls had been painted navy. Two bookshelves were to the right of the desk. The left had an assortment of video games for multiple platforms. I don't yet have any of the newest generation consoles though. The right held a multitude of books (quite fitting for a bookshelf) some nonfiction, some were just random novels that I had been given over the past six years.

***

The weekend passed too quickly for My liking. The start of school life in Canterlot had started.

"So, I'm going to be taking you in the car am I?" Daybreak asked dopily. He got up to prepare himself a coffee to snap him out of his current dazed state.

"Yeah, in a couple of minutes you are going to have to take me down to the school. I will be shown what's where among other things." I answered while running up the stairs. I just want to get this over with.

I ran into the bathroom to brush my teeth. When I finished I looked into the mirror suspended above the sink. A boy with dark blue hair and golden eyes stared back at me. I proceeded to clothe myself. I don't care what I wear as long as I like it. After about a minute I wore a black shirt with a yin-yang symbol wreathed in blue flames emblemized in it's center. A pair of black jeans with blue flame pattern running up the left leg. A leather jacket with (guess what) more blue flames. (I like blue fire okay!). My trainers are relatively normal. Actually they're extremely normal. To my dismay they did not sport the azure fire.

***

Within quarter of an hour Daybreak's Nissan Largo pulled into the parking lot of CHS. As soon as I stepped out of the car and as my father rounded the corner onto the main road I immediately tripped over great start to the day. At six in the morning only staff would be in the building so it was a surprise when a girl around the same age as me emerged from around a corner. She has beautiful teal irises and sports a jacket not unlike my own. The only difference being that instead of the fire hers had a studded collar. Her hair reminded me of one of my two favorite foods. Bacon (the other being maple syrup. Is that even counted as a food?)

"Oh, hi. You must be Dusk Blaze, the new student from Manehatten. Am I correct?" The bacon haired girl asked.

She seems quite cheery. Maybe it's just a façade. Before she could even begin to think that I had ignored her I replied with a simple "yes."

"Well then, let's start the tour." She listed off the locations of the classrooms used for each subject until finally we came to a halt in front of a set of doors. They had looped round the entire school and arrived back at the front desk.

"And finally behind these doors is the cafeteria. That's the end of the tour. Do you have any questions? She inquired.

"Only one." Dusk replied "what's your name? You haven't told me yet.

"My name? Sunset shimmer. You seem like a nice guy so just call me Sunset. Since your new here you don't have any friends. So, if you want to you can sit with me and my friends during lunch."

"I might just take you up on that offer Sunset" I jested.

"So do you want to get some breakfast from the cafeteria? I'm buying. A treat for the newbie." Sunset Offered.

"Why not. I can see what kind of food they've got here. And we can talk some more." I replied.

Together we entered the cafeteria and bought breakfast. There was bacon so I bought bacon. Sunset bought a couple of Turkey sandwiches.

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The others

Chapter 2

I promise stuff happens in this chapter.
I am just assuming the humane six are 16-17. I may be wrong. I probably am.

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"So, what do you think of the school?" Sunset Asked after devouring the sandwiches.

"It's a school, what's not to like?" I joked. She laughed quietly. So quietly I could barely hear it. "I'm pretty sure that I know what each section's classrooms are use for teaching whatever subject"

"Good. You seem so calm about it all. Most people would be panicking abo—" she stopped halfway through the sentence "are you by any chance some kind of demon? Do you want to blow up the school?"

"What, no! Why would I want to blow up the school. I don't like school but I wouldn't blow it up. I want to get a job. And I really don't want to go to prison." I responded "and why would you say that I could be a demon?"

"Oh, no reason. Look at the time you need to get to class, and so do I. I'd better get going." Sunset said hurriedly.

Did I say something?

***

Lunchtime arrived quickly. Sunset was in most of my classes but I had very little time to talk to her. She usually ran out of the classroom, her red and yellow hair disappearing round the side of the door. I stuffed my equipment into my bag as soon as the bell rang and bolted through each corridor so I wouldn't be stuck at the back of the line for dinner.

Good, the line only goes up to the door. Anyone else could join I took my place at the back. It took a good few minutes to get my food but this gave me time to look around the cafeteria, something I didn't do while talking to sunset earlier. Each rectangular table had about eight chairs on the longer sides. The chairs all had the same eight-pointed star. Above each set of windows there were blue banners with the CHS sigil in the center with gold trimmings. Looking around I noticed sunset and five other girls sitting at a table next to a window. One wore a stetson, another had rainbow coloured hair. I contemplated going and sitting with Sunset but there didn't seem to be any space at their table. So I sat at one at the back of the giant room, one that had no one sitting at it. Thankfully no one noticed me so I could eat in peace listening to my J-Rock.

When I had finished eating I noticed sunset rise out of her seat and start walking towards me. I would have got up and left if she didn't call my name. I could've walked off and pretend I didn't notice her.

"Dusk, what are you doing hear all alone?" She inquired. "And don't tell me that it's because you have no friends here. You've got me."

"I thought about sitting with you. But there weren't any seats." I replied putting my phone into my pocket.

"You could of taken an empty seat from another table. And I can introduce you to the others. Although I'm pretty sure that pinkie pie would introduce herself. Loudly."

We walked over to the table, I pulled up a chair and Sunset introduced the five to me.

"I'm Pinkie Pie! Nice to meet you mister whatever your name is." The one with the pink hair that was either not styled or styled extremely carefully to make others think that it is the former.

"This is Rainbow Dash." Sunset said pointing to the rainbow haired girl listening to music. "Next to her is Fluttershy"

"H-h-hi" she whispered

"Across from her is Rarity. Then next is Applejack. And obviously you know me."

For the rest of the lunch period we talked about whatever we thought of. But I noticed something, Sunset seemed to be withdrawn from the conversations.

"Is there something wrong?" I asked "you don't seem to be too enthusiastic about talking. No one will ever be as enthusiastic as Pinkie Pie but you only make the odd comment then go back to sitting in silence."

"No, it's just that I'm pretty new to the group. I've only been with them a couple of months. But you seem like you've been friends with them all your life. How do you do it?

"Do what? Engage in a conversation with people I know next to nothing about? I don't know. I just want to make a good impression y'know."

"Well it's too late for me to make a good impression" Sunset said wistfully

I was about to asked her why but the bell rang and she stood up and walked to her next class. I had a sneaking suspicion that she was happy to get away from me.

***

We eventually started talking again. I decided against asking Sunset about her comment. I wanted to be able to talk to her. When she talked to me it seemed like she actually cared. We had proper conversations. She didn't just make short comments while I rambled on about parallel worlds or something. There is just something about Sunset that makes me want to talk to her but I just don't know what it is. Everyone (sans me and the five girls) hated her. I heard what happened at the battle of the bands last month but people still hate her. I wonder why. She reminds me of myself at my old school.

***

I crept into my house (no reason other than the fact that I wanted to) and was about to walk into the kitchen of my house but I heard my parents talking. Under normal circumstances I would've just walked in but I chose not to when my name was mentioned.

"We need to tell him." Daybreak said agitatedly "if we don't he's going to find out the hard way. He's almost seventeen and you know what she said."

"Yes I do, and I remember why we were told to look after him. We can't let Dusk be taken away. We may not be his real parents but he is our son Daybreak." Dawn whispered with tears in her eyes.

Did she know I was here? As a precaution I silently stepped towards the door, opened it then shut it after letting enough time pass for me to "enter" the house. Then ran upstairs. What were they talking about? I'm adopted, I know that much. But why would it matter? Who would take me away? Who was "she"?

From day to night

For those of you who wanted more. Here is more. I'm glad there are people who like this. At least I think there are people who like this.

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I led in bed that night thinking about what was said. All I knew was that my parents had kept a secret from me, I was adopted. But I didn't care. Some people would but I just didn't. The only thing I cared about was me being taken away by "her". My final thought before drifting of into sleep was where I would be taken.

***

A month passed after eavesdropping on my parents. I couldn't stop thinking about it and I hid it pretty well. No one noticed, except one person. Sunset.

"What's the matter Dusk? I have asked you at least 5 times by now, tell me what's bothering you. Every time I ask, you say that nothing's wrong."

"Okay, you deserve to know. But not here." I whispered "too many people."

"How about we talk at your place? Is 7 okay? Good! Gotta go." She said to fast for me to reply to any of her questions and she ran off just as fast. Can Pinkie turn into other people?

***

I told my informed about Sunset and told them that she was not my girlfriend and that they were not to joke about it. Of course they completely disregarded the "rules" that I had set.

At 6:48 Sunset knocked on the dark wooden door. I ran/crept (I can do it) down the stairs and opened the door. Sunset stepped through the doorframe as I held my left index finger to my lips. It was pointless for me to do so as my father walked into the kitchen to get food. (You have failed me total wipeout: Equestria. You weren't entertaining enough to distract him.) He looked over but immediately walked off back into the living room pretending not to have noticed.

As soon as we got into my room I switched on my tv and PS3 (pony station 3. I haven't said it before.) I passed Sunset a controller.

"We can talk while playing Minecraft." I announced. "So what do you wanna know first?"

"I'm pretty sure I only asked one question, a lot."

"I don't know why I'm telling you this but, I overheard my parents talking about a month ago. Talking about me. They said something about them not being my real parents, I don't care about that (still), and that after I turn 17 some woman will come and take me somewhere. Away from you. And the others." I said imagining a large wall of text for some reason. Well it wasn't that long, I guess.

"Okay, so that means tha—" she was interrupted by my mother shouting from the bottom of the stairs.

"Me and your father are going shopping. Be good you two" I felt so relieved that she wasn't up here saying that. I could feel my face burning. Then I imagined my face literally on fire. Me and Sunset both turned away from each other. Was she blushing too?

"Sunset, I've been wondering, why is it that people hate you? Pinkie told me what happened at the battle of the bands. I now know that magic is somehow a thing. But why would people hate you if it was you who played a major role in freeing them from mind control."

"I used to be a bully. A really bad bully. I ruled the school and no one opposed me. At least until Twilight came. You know about the pony world right? Has Pinkie told you?

"Yes. I know about the mirror and statue. Twilight Sparkle and spike. That's about it."

"In that world there are these things called the Elements Of Harmony. I can't be bothered to explain them to you now. Anyway, I stole Twilight's for use as the queen of the fall formal's crown certain that I'd win. She came to retrieve it and I ended up putting it on, turning into a demon and turning the entire school, sans our friends and twilight, into mindless zombies." She said. Hey more walls of text. "And that is why people still hate me."

She was fighting a hard battle. She was fighting against the tears welling up in her eyes.

"I don't care if you cry Sunset. I won't think any less of you. Your my friend. It must have been painful reliving that and I'm a horrible person for making you, sorry. I apologise from the deepest recesses of my hear—" I stopped speaking the moment she placed her head on my shoulder, wrapped her arms around me in a tight embrace and begin to quietly sob. We sat like that for a good few minutes. She eventually stopped crying and smiled at me.

"You...are a good friend Dusk. I'm glad that you still like me and are still willing to be my friend."

"Why wouldn't I want to be your friend? That was the old you. The Sunset I'm friends with is a great person. The new you."

"You can be really sweet sometimes. Also, blue fire is one of the best kinds of fire. Along with black."

"Hey, look someone who shares my views on fire." I joked. "So, when do you need to be home?"

"It doesn't matter, what time is it?"

"7:48" I replied glancing over at my clock.

We talked until 9:00. My parents didn't seem to care when Sunset went home, I'm not sure that they'd even care if she stayed until half past midnight. I stayed up until 1:27 am for some reason I couldn't get to sleep. The dream I had that night was the weirdest one I had ever had (and I have visions of the future).

A woman in a black coat knelt before me, black wings furled over her back. Sunset stood next to me stepping closer as the woman started to speak "My liege, I have come to retrieve you and take you home. To Alma. The king is waiting."

Neither me nor Sunset had any idea what was going on until my parents burst burst through the back door of the house and start shouting my name. Soon after the five girls from school walked out, a purple haired girl in the center. Everything melted away but me, Sunset and the woman. If it would make you happy I could bring your girlfriend and friends too. I had a girlfriend? Dream me accomplishes so much more than real me. I could barely hear the woman saying "by your facial expression I'm guessing that this girl here isn't your girlfriend." With the shouting of my parents.

I awoke and buried my head in my pillow but the shouting would not cease. Was I still dreaming? The answer to that was no, my parents were trying to wake me up to tell me Sunset was at the door.

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Pinkie has taught me how to make tiny dents in the fourth wall. Next week I'll meet her teacher,
Wade Wilson.

Pinkie pie is a changeling. Also Chrysalis will be in a later chapter. And so will peanut butter crackers. Which I love. Oh so much. But not as much as I like maple syrup. Don't tell Pinkie Pie but I have made maple syrup, Nutella, and peanut butter crackers. She must never know. I may die. Don't tell her if you want to see the ending of the fic.

Why is Sunset at Dusk's door? What did the dream mean? (I think people reading this would know) Why is blue and black fire so awesome?

Find out the answer to some of these questions in the next dragon ball Z.

Dusk: your in the wrong franchise.
Person: oh sorry.
Dusk: why did I call this a franchise?

Author's Note

If there is anyone wondering why I named the chapter from day to night it is because Sunset and Dusk are both at the end of the day. I also only just noticed that Sonata and Aria's surnames are Dusk and Blaze.