A Broken Crystal

       Miss Brown Quartz put the chalk on her cathedra and turned to the class. The 19 foals seemed to have a headache. Some of them opened their mouth wide and were twitching their eyes, as if they couldn't believe what they have just heard. Miss Quartz frowned, what  is so hard to learn about Cloudsdale's culture?! She looked all over the shabby, old room. A grey unicorn colt in the corner seemed uninterested and was doodling something in his notebook.Oh, well then, he thinks he knows everything...

"Hey, you there, what's your name?"she said loudly, almost yelling.

"M-My name i-is Sombra, miss Quartz"said the colt quietly.  He looked in the teacher with his eyes red as rubies.

"Well, can you tell us about the foundation of our Crystal Empire and Equestria?"she said and grinned. Maybe after some embarrassment he'll learn not to sleep in yhe class.

The little colt standed up and began to speak:

         "Not long before the three tribes' leaders  met to discuss about the eternal winter in the Old Lands, some ponies who felt as slaves and unappreciated by the unicorns and pegasi left the Old Lands ans headed southeast. When they came to what we now call the Crystal Empire, they found an enormous field of crystals. The land was fertile and the weather was nice, so they had a lot of food. They started to care about eachother not knowing when the next great winter would come. But Windigos had no food and left the ponies alone. The ponies now were the first ones to discover the magic of love and friendship. they were blessed by the six Ancient crystals,  later called the Elements of Harmony , they got crystal coat and the ability to spread friendship wherever they go. That's when the three alicorn princesses were born. Celestia, the princess of the sun, Luna, the princess of the moon, and Crystalis, the princess of love. In the same time the ponies of the Old Lands came. Now Luna and Celestia eased the unicorns' duties and unicorns were more eager to help ponies in the fields. The perfect Harmony was created. Queen Crystalis ruled the Crystal empire, but Celestia and Luna refused to share  Equestria, leaving it to the ponies. The six Ancient crystals were moved into the Everfree forest, so some of their magic can exist in Equestria.

The paradise didn't last for long. The two kingdoms became jealous of eachother. The tension grew and Chaos was created. It took an embodyment of a draconiqus called Discord. The Crystal Empire was protected but Equestria suffered the concenquences.Celestia and Luna took the Elements of Harmony from the place they were hidden in, the Everfree forest. With their help they defeated Discord and turned him into stone.

A little later, centaurus Tyrek came, but he was betrayed by his brother and easily defeated." he recited it all as if it was a song. Miss Quartz's eyebrows lifted, suprised by the knowledge of the colt

"Thank you, Sombra. You may sit now".She looked at her sunclock next to the window.

"Today's homework is: workbook pages 55 and 56. Class dismissed" She said and sat on her chair, reading some papers that were on the cathedra. When Sombra started to talk to a filly while leaving the room, Miss Quartz noticed something and called him. Sombra came to the cathedra wondering what's the problem now.

   "Do you stutter?" she asked, not bothering to lift her view from the paper.

"Y-yes t-teach-cher, just a b-bit." he answered.

"How  did you then recite the whole history of Equestria?"

"I p-practised a lot. I w-would raise my h-hoof  if we w-weren't learning a-about the C-Cloudsdale's culture"

Miss Quartz lokked him in suspense, but said: "You may go." Sombra left the room and headed home.

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He lived in something that was close to a slum. No matter how much effort the queen put into helping those ponies, it was just too many of them. In one of the darker streets he was surrounded by three crystal pony colts. The orange one appoached Sombra and kicked him in his face.

"Hi, Shadow, oh I didn't see you, I am so sorry. But is it even a suprise?" he said, afterwhich others laughed. Sombra tightened his saddlebag around his thin waist. He went backwards, while suddendly he was bucked by the blue pony. He sighed in pain, trying to get up and escape. The orange and yellow one were approaching,  smiling and laughing. This made Sombra mad. He has the power, so why doesn't he use it then?! He looked around the street when another kick hit his ribs. Luckily, this was the nonpopulated part of the street. He put a silence spell on the street, making sure nopony will hear him....or them.

    "Shadow, don't die yet. We just started having sooo much fun" said the yellow pony.

"Oh, you'll h-have fun" he said. His eyes flashed green and purple bubbles appeared around his horn. He summoned black crystals, which immediately grew out of the ground and wrapped around each of the colts, cutting their flesh as they screamed and cried. The crystals were pulling them down, to where they came from. Was it hell? Sombra didn't care. As he was leaving the silence field, another sentence he practised a lot  came out of his mouth: "Who are you calling a shadow NOW?!" Sombra completely left the silence field as the echo of the last words those pinies will ever hear echoed in their ears.