Rose of Dawn

by AshenTerra

Rating: teen
Tags: Anthro, Main 6, Princess Luna, Original Character, Adventure, Princess Celestia, Discord, Gore, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Dark, Alternate Universe
Length: 3441

Many people believe that in order to have an adventure that you’ll be given some thing from a man, die in one way or another, get lost somewhere, or go through a portal. My story is a bit different. Who am I? I’m Dawn Rose

Many people believe that in order to have an adventure that you’ll be given some thing from a man, die in one way or another, get lost somewhere, or go through a portal. My story is a bit different. Who am I? I’m Dawn Rose and I'm a fragment of your Imagination, well not yours anyways. I was created as a drawing for a comic Rose at Dawn a comic that was never posted. I was left to hang on the wall as a forgotten dream. The night my story begins is the night my creator's house catches on fire.

This stroy talkes place before nightmare Moon and right after Discord is turned to stone.
Right now none of the chapters are edited.
There is no update deadline, they will be posted when I have the chapter done.
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Published 2015-05-13 01:10:02 UTC
Last updated 2015-06-21 05:57:07 UTC

Prolog

In a house by the woods two kids sat in their room, one reading her book, the other lying awake on his bed, the young girl, Victoria and her twin brother Sam had recently gotten back from their grandparents house, with nothing to do.

Victoria sighed and looked out the window out into the woods, the stars had just started to appear when their Mom called them to go to sleep, sighing once again Victoria closed her book and got up as she walked over to the light switch she saw an old drawing she had made last year for a comic she wanted to make, Rose of Dawn, which follows Dawn Rose, a 15 year old, half fox half human girl unwelcomed in her village of birth for her race and her powers over stone and shadows. Though Victoria loved to make the comic she was never able to find the time to fully complete it.

With the lights off Victoria and Sam fell asleep, for what seemed seconds later they were jolted awake from shouting and sirens in the distance, Sam and Victoria's parents came running up to their room, telling them to grab the most important things they could and hurry outside, with their arms full they ran to where their father was waiting on the opposite sidewalk and watched in horror as their neighbor's house lit up the night sky, the blaze wasted no time bruning anything near it including their house.

After getting over the shock of the fire, Victoria realized that her drawing, Dawn Rose was still in her room, panicked she ran towards her house only to be caught by her father.

"Dad! Let me go I left something in there!"

"I can't it's too dangerous. I'm sorry but there's no way you can get it, it's too late."

"Please Dad! It took hours to draw her."

"No! You could die! That's not a chance I'm willing to take."

"No! No no no no!" With the tears running down Victoria's face she watched as part of her house collapse. With a stinging pain in her chest she turned away and walked to where her Mom and brother were waiting. As the sirens got louder Victoria sat down and cried letting her Mother stroke her hair, giving her comfort telling her that everthing will be alright.

In another world unknown to Victoria and her family, a battle was beginning to taking place between the god of chaos, Discord, and two sisters, Celestia and Luna, to free Equestria from Discord rule. Along with their powers and skills Celestia and Luna held six crystal relics known as the Elements of Harmony, that held the power to defeat any foe the bearer's face.

To Discord the little scene was hilarious causing him to laugh, “Oh! How wonderful it is for you to join me, Tia and Lulu, now we can finaly have our little tea party, it’s long over due you know."

Celestia, unamused by Discord's antics, shouted in her commanding demeanor, "Discord! Your rule of terror is over, shall you not back down at one, we will be forced to show no mercy.”

“My, my, Tia you have no sense of humor, lighten up, besides you won’t defeat me, what makes you think you will win, unlike the last 9 times you lost.”

Smirking, both Celestia Luna brought out their elements, “With these.”

“The Elements of Harmony.” Luna shouted, as the elements began to glow and rotate around their bearers.

“Oh just look at yourselves so sure your going to win, I think I’ll die of laughing, it’s just too funny,” Discord taunted, unaware of the power the elements held. Only realizing his mistake as a rainbow beam was hurled towards him.

As he was slowly started to be encased in stone he decided to use the last of his power to bring chaos to Equestria and the one's that imprisoning him. With that he looked to the void and saw a girl crying in front of a burning house, turning his attention to the house he found a drawing of fox-like girl crouched as if ready to fight, and with a snap of his fingers he looked up at the two that had bested him and laughed saying one last thing.

“This is not over Tia and Lulu. I will return and I will win, but for now I leave you a parting gift. Ahahahahah…” With that Discord was fully encased in stone.

With uneasiness in both Celestia and Luna they dared not to break the silence, waiting for what ever last attempt Discord may have used to finish off the royal sisters. Seconds passed and went nothing happened, only then Luna dared to speak.

“Sister, what does doth mean by parting gift?”

“In truth Luna, I do not know, for now we must not worry. As their is much we must do to prepare.”

With that they took off towards the Place of the Two Sisters, Celestia to prepare that citizens they could to be ready for the next danger that Discord sent, and Luna to ponder what Discord meant. Both deep in thought Celestia and Luna failed to notice a small ripple within the magical ley lines at the point where the imprisoned Chaos God stood, or that deep within the Everfree forest a portal opened as a young girl with a tail and ears of a fox came shooting out, landing face first into the ground. Soon after wards the portal warped and vanished with a loud pop.

Once everything had settled the creatures of the forest gathered to see what it was that disturbed the peace and quiet of their home, one of the animals, a small red fox pup, slowly approached the strange intruder, as the fox pup reached out a paw to poke the kin like creature only to jump back in fright as the girl moved. As she started to stir the animals watching fled, when Dawn Rose, finally awoke, she sat up she rubbed her head as one question came to her mind.

“What happened?”

chapter 1

Somewhere deep in the void.

When you picture the void, you might the of an endless black, in reality the void is a mix of purple blue and black with small pinpricks of white light. First things first, my name you should already know, but it’s Dawn Rose anyway, and now some how I'm alive. I don’t know how, it just doesn’t make since as I was just a picture moments ago, yes I know I was just a picture. The best way I can explain is that when you create a piece of art you put part of your soul into it, making it come to life in your mind and the more you put into making your art the more it comes to life. Because Victoria poured hours after hours to create me and my story that I was given life.

So here I am floating in the endless void went out of literally nowhere a green and pink vortex showed up pulling me towards it. As I fell, at least I think I was falling it’s hard to tell, colors flew by in blurs of red, black, yellow, and beige or was it white, no it was beige. After 5 minutes of falling, the end of the vortex slowly began to grow with a dirt brown at the bottom, wait dirt brown. “Ahhhhhhh! Ooph!” Everything went black.

Once I gained consciousness I found that my face had been shoved into the ground, sitting up I looked around witch did very little as my eyes were blurry and rubbed my head.

“What happened,” as my eyes came into focus I saw a small red fox pup with it’s head tilted to the side with one ear down. Laughing at it’s cuteness, I got up and checked my surroundings one more, to find myself in a thick green forest. looking up I could just barely see the sky through the leaves.

Coming a conclusion on what to do, I started to speak to myself, “Welp. I think I should get out of here and find and place to stay before dark,” turning towards the fox pup, “Hey you wanna come with me?”

The little pup jump up excitedly, “Bark! Bark!”

“Heh heh. I’ll take that as a yes, come on then,” crouching down I let my new friend settle on my shoulder and took of towards the direction I hoped was the right way.

Along the way I had started to get board so to help pass the time I tried to come up with names for the young fox causing many injuries due to banging my on trees in frustration , “So how about Foxy? No, that’s the name of the fox from that horror game. Ooo, I know red! Oh, no wait it sounds to choppy. What should I name you think, Dawn, think.”

‘My name’s Kyuubi but my friends call me Kyu, Dawn.’

“What the- Did you just TALK?!” I yelled as I was startled.

‘Well, in a way yes,’

“But, how that’s not possible! Wait scratch that I was a drawing that came to life and fell through a portal none of that should be possible, but if you could talk why didn’t you say anything,” I asked turning my head to face Kyu.

‘Well you didn’t ask and it was fun to see you smash your head into trees,’ Kyu replied chuckling with a mischief look in her eye.

“Still if you could talk it would have been polite to introduce yourself you know,” I deadpanned, sighing I turned back to the path I had found a while back, “ Let’s just get out of here I’m getting hungry.”

‘Yes my noble steed let us go and find a most powerful force. Food!’ Kyu said leaping onto my pointing in a random direction.

“Kyu, foods that way,” I replied laughing at her antics pointing in the opposite direction.

‘Oh right, I knew that. Let's GO!’ Kyu shouted, fixing her paw to be in the right direction.

After an hour of walking, well I did all the walking Kyu had fallen asleep on my head, we finally got to the edge of the forest and beyond that a green field. As I walked out of the forest and stared out at the field I shook Kyuubi awake.

“Hey Kyu, what do you know about that castle over their? It looks like it was almost destroyed,” I asked Kyu, pointing in the direction of the castle.

‘Um, it looks like it’s the palace of the two sisters, they’re one's that defeated Discord right before you fell out of the sky,’ Kyu saying, while jumping off my head and started to smell the ground.

“Right before I came here, huh it seems like coincidence, but it can’t be can it,” mumbled under my breath looking towards the castle, “Oh well, come on Kyu lets go, I have a faster way of getting there,” picking her up as she squirmed not liking the fact that I was holding her, “Ok, let’s hope I remember how to do this.”

 As I began to crouch I could feel the ground move underneath me. ‘Um Dawn? What are you doing? Aaahhhhhhhh!’ Kyu screamed as the ground shot us at the castle, ‘we’re going to die! I don’t want to die!’

Laughing I shouted back at “Kyu calm down we’re going to be fine look down.”

Looking down Kyu saw the ground, moving, pushing us to the castle ‘How? HOW IS THIS EVEN POSSIBLE!!’

Looking down at Kyu still in my arms, caused me to laugh as she tried to find a grip to prevent from flying out, “ I have control over the earth and shadow, so this is easy,” I explained trying to keep my concentration on the ground beneath me.

‘Wait if you could control the earth THEN WHY DIDN’T YOU USE YOUR POWERS IN THE FOREST?!’ Kyu screeched at me with a glare.

“It never occurred to me then,” I replied, as Kyu was giving herself a facepalm/paw.

‘You are an idiot.’

“Well I sorry I wa- Ooph!” In the fight I had with Kyu I failed to see that the castle had been getting closer until we smashed through the only part of the wall that was fully intact and continued to smash through walls till we skidded to a stop.

“Owww. I gotta keep my eyes on the road.”

‘Ya think?!’

Getting up I looked around, seeing the path of destruction and saw people that had pony ears and tails, and some of them had either horns, wings, or none at all, running in panic, hiding in the houses that hadn’t fallen apart.

“There she is! Arrest her!”

Turning around I found a spear being shoved in my face, held by a guard looking at me as if I had killed everyone he knew.

“Umm. Oops?”

Chapter 2

Ducking down behind my hiding space I turned myself into a shadow as a group of guards ran by. Ok so before I continue, let me get you all caught up with what happened, after the guard tried to stab me with his spear I kicked him in the face, causing blood to trickle from his nose, causing the other 11 guards to rushed me, (to make thing simple I'll call them by where they stand according by the clock, guard 1 being the one I just kicked,) guard 6 swung his pole in a wide arc,  jumping out of the way I landed on guard 2 as the pole smacked guard 4 while guard 5 ducked under it, guard 3 slashed with his sword only to have his sword stuck in a pillar of stone that rose up from the ground rendering him without a weapon, guard 5 used his crouched position to lunge at me, grabbing his arm I ducked and spun kicked his legs out from underneath him and using his momentum throwing him at guard 12 knocking both of them unconscious, guard 11, trying to skewering me, stepping to the side I took his pike, twisting it out of his hands, as he stumbled I slammed my palm into his face knock him onto the ground. Turning around I saw Kyu had her jaws shut tight on guard 8’s arm as he struggled to get her off, using the pike I took from guard 11, I slammed it into guard 10, then pole vaulted over guard 9, landing on guard 8’s chest, grabbing Kyu I ran off towards the cluttered streets and hid in an alleyway full of barrels.

Once the guards passed I rematerialized, looking over the barrels once more I turned to Kyu, “Well that was fun.”

‘For you maybe, but I never want to do that again, bleah that guards blood taste is still in my mouth.’

“Yeah yeah, come on let's get out of here,” rolling my eye’s I picked up Kyu and started to make my way to the nearest gateway out, as I was about to exit a loud voice boomed something along the lines of.

“YOU SHALL NOT PASS!” The force of the blast of sound was enough to send me flying backwards into more walls causing panic once more. Looking up to see who had sent me flying I saw a pony with deep blue fur, a long flowing mane that looked like the night sky, as my eyes drifted upwards, I saw a horn resting upon her head, shifting my eyes to match hers I saw movement behind her as a pair of wings were settling neatly against her back.

Looking down at me she spoke three words “What art thou?” Then everything faded to black.

Opening my eyes I saw blackness, moving my hand to my head I heard the sound of chains sliding across stone, ‘What the hell?’ looking around I barely able to make out the shapes of the bars that kept me in this dark room. Closing my eyes I felt that their was something missing as if there was something in front of me that I could not reach, frowning I tried to turn myself into shadow, crying out in pain as the chains holding me lit up in a golden glow seiring my wrists and ankles, falling to the ground I cut off the connection the shadows causing the chains to cool down.

“You won't be getting out so easily, those chains will burn you if you try to use magic of any kind and the more mana used and powerful the spell is the heat produced by the chains intensifies.”

“Who are you! What do you want! What do you do to Kyu!”

As a light lit up the cell I looked at the one that spoke, tall woman that looked identical to the that was at the gate, but she has white fur instead of blue fur and her hair had three different colors, and surrounded by 6 guards, walking up to the cell bars she spoke in a warning tone, “I am Princess Celestia, you are being held here for association with the spirit of chaos, Discord and you shall tell us your master’s plan or you will share his fate,”

“What do you mean! I didn’t have anything to do with this, I fell out of the sky after you defeated Discord, and I have no idea who Discord even is.” I yelled as I stood up, leaping towards the bars causing Celestia and the guards to step back, “Tell me, what did you do with Kyu.” even with the chains I was able to use the shadows to darken the room.

Celestia with a look filled with dread, spoke in a shaky voice, “I-I d-don’t k-know w-who you're referring to.”

Using more energy, I ignored the pain from the chains and drew the shadow towards me causing Celestia to step back again, “What did you do with the fox.”

“W-we h-had t-to contain i-it so we would be able to be rid of the chaotic beast.”

“You mean that you’re going to kill her? WELL ARE YOU!”

“Um, well, yes?” Celestia slowly walked back as the light got darker as the chains began to glow. I could barely feel the chains burning my skin as my anger started to take over. Deep inside my soul I felt something snap.

(third POV)

“GRRAAAAHHHH!” With a cry of pure rage Dawn erupted in an explosion of shadow causing the chains to shatter. Celestia cried out in pain as a tendril of shadow slammed her into a wall. Reaching her hand to the door Dawn converted the door into shadow and warped the shadow into a staff with a spear point on each end. Charging towards the guards, Dawn merged with the shadows and used the shadows to form wall that surround the guards then proceeded to leap from shadow to shadow stabbing the guards as she passed them, finishing off the last guard Dawn dispelled the shadows and walked over to Celestia, Dawn then proceed to grab Celestia by neck and lifted her off the ground.

"Where is Kyu," Dawn tightened her grip, starring Celestia in the eye.

“D-down the hall, up the stairs, third door on the left”

Releasing Celestia, Dawn turned and walked away, reaching the door Celestia had said, Dawn ripped the door off the wall and through her spear at the guard, pinning him to the wall, walking to the cage Dawn looked in side, seeing Kyu passed out within the cage Dawn picked the cage up and retrieved her spear.

"Come on this way, we must find her before she escapes."

Hearing guards around the corner Dawn kicked down the wall opposite of the door, with the cage in hand Dawn ran through the hole and continued to burst down the walls till she was out of the castle.

"Halt in the name of the princesses you are under arrest."

Three heavily armored guards ran in front of Dawn with their weapons drawn ready to attack. Before the guards could make a move, four pillars of stone shot out of the ground, three of them killing the guards and the fourth launched Dawn into the air and away from the castle, landing on the ground Dawn took off into the forest. When night fell Dawn found herself in front of  the mouth of a cave, walking in Dawn set down Kyu's cage, Dawn laid down on a rock and passed out.