Long Forgotten History: Book One, Return of the Crystal King

                                    Twilight

      When we got to the party after that... akward incident I decided "hey princess of friendship, instead of threatening to kill the guy why don't make a new friend?" I felt like that was a good plan. As I walked into a game of pin the tail on the pony Pinkie said "what was witb your reaction to that poor crystal pony?" You looked like you had a heart attack there."

            "Well..." I thought frantically, what was I supposed to say, "hey I just thought that he was the lord of all evil so I confronted him and came very close to killing him." Nope not saying that... instead I just said "He just reminded of something I had to do." While probably giving the most fake smile i've ever made, but it got me out of it so anything works. As Pinkie  walked away I walked to the snack table where I saw Rei munching on spicy cupcakes... huh, I thought only Pinkie could stand that sauce. I walked up to him and said "how are you doing?"

           He turned around and with a giant grin he said "Great! I have never had anything this good!" I'm about to go to the dance floor, what about you?"

           I laughed, I thought this guy was the king of all evil? Man... maybe I should be a bit more trusting of new people, regardless of who they look like. Relaigning myself with reality I decided that a good dance is just what I need "I was about to head to the dance myself."

          After all of the townsfolk had left I turned to Rei and asked "where are you going to stay, after all you just moved in. He turned to me looked at me for a couple of seconds before that grin disappeared and was replaced by a lot of "oh nos"

          he looked at me and said "please tell me there is a convenient ruin that I could stay at?"

          "Actually, there is one, the castle if the twin sisters."

          Then Pinkie inturupted me saying "actually some griffion is making it his own castle, I believe it's called 'castle la quill.'"

          He laughed  "If only it was that simple, is there anywhere else I can stay?

          I thought about, then realized the obvious. "You could stay here, there's plenty of room in the castle."

          "Really!" I'd love to!" He started dancing around with joy. "That's great!" Thank you thank you thank you!"

         "Gee... no problem, make yourself at ho-" I stopped, realizing that he had already raced around the stairs

         "Spritly little guy isn't he Twi." Pinkie said enthusiacticly, "He's jumping all over the place."

          I rolled my eyes, "your one to talk." Well it's late, I'm hitting the hay."

                                       SOMBRA

          I woke up for the first time in weeks refreshed and happy, I looked around and saw that I was in a giant feather bed ahhh it was good to be in royal places, then I remembered what castle I was in and jumped out of the bed. What was I doing, staying in the enemies house! I hyperventilated, checking the sheets, pillows, walls, and basically everything for poison, only to find...none? No dart trap, no secret entrance for an assassin, no spikes? I shook my head, the priests of the amulet always warned about seemingly nice royals, they invite you in, give you a party and when you're drunk they attack. Wait... there was no alcohol at the party, the closest thing to that was the hot sauce. This royal was surprisingly welcoming, then I remembered what happened at the party, I let my face fall back into the pillows. On the bright side nobody present will think I'm the lord of evil... but if anyone remembers me dancing like a fool I'll never live it down. I lifted my face off the oh so comfortable pillows and walked through the halls slowly admiring the arcitecture, it made me homesick seeing all the pillars, all it needed was some statues of the past Sombra's and I could almost mistake it for home.

              "Good morning." Twilight said "recovered from that dancing eh Rei?" I looked over and saw here eating a plate of pancakes, as I looked at them my stomach started rumbling and I realized that I was starving. She looked at me and said "you want some?" I thought about it for a couple of seconds before in answer I started levitating a pancake and chewed hungrily. She laughed and said "looks I was right about thaat at least." Well I've got to help Pinkie with some baking of hers, bye!" As soon as she was out of sight I lost all control and buried my face in the pancakes.

              As I ate I thought about what I should do, after all I have for the most part the towns trust. I sighed wondering what to do when the dragon walked in, looking at me for only a couple of seconds before shrugging and walking off. It hit me, I need connections, people to tell me what's going on and what happened. I started to walk out the castle, wondering who to start with... maybe that Applejack, she seemed honest and hardworking. I walked around town, looking for that mare.

                             RAINBOW DASH

           I rested on my usual puff of cloud when I saw the same pony that soaked me yesterday, and I had a special prank just for him. "Todays weather is cloudy with a chance of tornados." I said as I zoomed about him, creating a mini tornado, large enough to mess someone's mane up and shake them up, but small enough to not do any damage. But just as I was about to release it a swift gust of wind picked it up spiraling around the ornado, making it way too big! I spiraled out of control and watched as it decended on the unknowing pony, all that I could think is "whoops."

          As I caught up to tornado I saw that it was actually wearing off because off some magic he was doing, as I saw that I thanked Celestia and promised to go over to the pony, say sorry a million times and promise to never prank him or anyone else with tornados ever again. As I got close to him I realized that he looked a bit different than usual, like something in him had snapped "Mister?"  I said "are you alright?" He turned around and the last thing I saw was that instead of blue eyes his eyeswere a dark red.

         When I woke up everything was in ruins, I looked around and started to hyperventilate. Cloudsdale was in complete ruin, everything I had ever seen was destroyed. I started to walk around the remainder of the town slowly taking it all in. As I walked I just started "no." At everything I saw, soon all I could hear was "no." No." One step, "no." Another step, "no." Just as I thought it couldn't be any worse I saw Twilight. "No no no no no no NO!" I said "Twi what happened?"

       She looked at me for a few seconds before saying "where were you, you could have stopped all this." Then I watched as her heartbeat slowed, then stopped.

       "NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!" I flew around town, looking for anyone that was alright, but each time I reached somebody they would only say "where were you?" And then slump over. Then finally I saw Celestia herself, still as a rock. I sat down, crying, and all I could say is "no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,"

       Then a voice said "snap out of it!" I looked around and saw tje black pony yelling "snap out of it!"

       "Snap out of it?" I said

        "Yes, good!" He said "this isn't real, you've got to snap out of it!" This isn't real? I thought before being thrown through the darkness and put back into... the same field that I was in before? I didn't have much time to think about it, because at that point my knees buckled and I blacked out.