(Alex POV)

What the hell did I get myself into? Oh well, might as well start from the beginning of my tale and keep it short and sweet. My name used to be Alex Rinehart: an 18-Year-Old, fresh out of high school guy, who loved video games and movies. I also lived alone ever since my dad moved to Boise, Idaho for a job relocation and he was kind enough for me to stay in our old family home. As you guessed it, yes; my parents are divorced and no, I have no idea where my mother is currently living. Although, I did receive a few postcards from Florida that said it was from mom. My parents were divorced when I was 3, so I didn’t remember what she looked like. In a sense, I don’t have a mother anymore.

I opened the door to my suburban one-story house. It’s not too fancy, but it’s comfortable enough. I just got home from work (I work at a contracter company mostly doing heavy lifting and carrying building materials to their designated area on the building site and the job pays well enough) and walked straight to my computer. I started to screw about on the internet since I usually do that on a Friday night. A few friends I knew from High School either worked 2nd shift (4:00 P.M. to 11:00 P.M.) or 3rd shift (9:00 P.M. to 5:00 A.M.) tonight, so D&D (Dungeons and Dragons) night was out of the question.

I shrieked with joy when I found out Comic Con was being hosted in my hometown: Pittsburgh. I immediately bought a ticket on the website and sat on my couch, thinking about who i should go as and also waiting for my damn admission ticket to print out. I stood up from my couch and walked to my printer. “God dammit. Is it jamming again?” I said out loud, seriously annoyed. I raised my right fist and slammed down on top of the printer, making it work again. Right then and there an idea popped into my head; I was going as Dante from Devil May Cry 3. “Of course I’ll go as my favorite videogame character.” I said to myself “This decision is like clockwork.” I chuckled to myself as I went online and bought Dante’s red trenchcoat, pants, gloves, wig, boots, sword, Ebony and Ivory. All for a cheap price of $1,500 because, fuck spending habits; I just wannabe Dante, SON.

A week went by and the package containing my costume arrived just in time for the convention. It was a bastard to put on, but it was worth it. I walked out of my bedroom into the hallway where the mirror was and seen my reflection. I smiled and nodded in approval “I look like a sexy beast!” I looked at my watch: 9:45 A.M. “If I don’t move my ass, it will take me over an hour to actually GET to the con.”

I eventually got to the main event of the con, lots of great games coming out soon, plenty of cosplayers and yes, lots of honeys in sexy costumes. A couple of hours went by and I’ve taken photos with people and some fangirls. One picture had one fangirl’s hand inside my jacket. Around midday, I decided to buy some exclusive crap from some games when one thing caught my eye. There was a person dressed up like the merchant from Resident Evil 4. I was curious beyond compensation since the detail on the costume was spot-on. I walked up to him in the same style of how Dante walks, including that trademarked shit-eating grin. He saw me walk up to him and he spoke in that same voice and accent, “What are you buying, stranger?”

“I was just wondering what kind of shit you’re sellin.”

“I got some rare things on sale, stranger.”

“Like what?”

“You’ll know what I’m talking about.”

The merchant reached into his coat pocket and pulled out the Perfect Amulet. “I’ll sell it to you for about, twenty dollars. That seems about right?” he offered. “Twenty dollars for a perfect replica of the Perfect Amulet? Hell yeah, you got yourself a deal!” I squeed internally. I gave him the cash and he gave me the amulet. “A wise choice, mate. Come back anytime” was all I heard before I fastened the amulet around my neck and I was engulfed in a white light.

When the light faded, I was in some thick forest, later I find out that it was part of a country called Equestria on some planet called Equis. The “ponies” of the kingdom looked like something out of a little girl’s cartoon (I probably watched it but don’t remember) and look somewhat like ponies, but were built more like humans. Did I mention that a group of royal guards tried to kill me, but it seems that being stabbed by spears and halberds didn’t hurt or affect me at all. Instead they brought me to their rulers which are alicorn sisters. Princesses Celestia and Luna. They ordered the guards to put me in the dungeon until my trial, but soon thereafter, the castle was attacked by mysterious creatures and usurped both the sisters from power. I managed to escape the castle, but was stopped by the two sister who gave me an offer: If I help them out in fighting a war and defeat the creature who disempowered them whose name is Discord, I’ll earn my freedom and have myself recognised as a citizen of Equestria.

After making my way through the distorted castle, I confronted the Draconequus and defeated him, making the castle revert back to normal. Discord was sealed in stone by Celestia and Luna using magical items known as the Elements of Harmony. As a reward, I was given a room in the castle to live in, as well as the two swords that appeared after Discord’s defeat: Agni and Rudra. They are two talking scimitars that attribute the elements of fire and wind. After a week of living in a castle, I met an elderly unicorn named Starswirl the Bearded. He taught me how to control my powers and concentrate my power to awaken my demon blood and gave me this gauntlet-like weapon named Artemis.

Before I was able to complete my training, we got reports of riots and sightings of mysterious ponies that call themselves the Dazzlings. When I encountered them at the ocean alongside Starswirl, they were seaponies that sang to control others minds and feed off their negative emotions. With my help weakening the trio, Starswirl managed to banish them from Equis. All that remained was a purple electric guitar-like weapon called Nevan. It is a weapon that uses the power of electricity and every strum sends out either electric shocks or swarms of electric bats.

As if things didn’t get weird enough, two centaur brothers Tirek and Scorpan arrived in Equestria from a faraway land with the intent on stealing its magic. Scorpan turned his back on his brother and began to appreciate the ways the ponies lived and even befriended me and Starswirl. As Scorpan and me confronted the magic thief, Tirek attempts to kill me by impaling me with my own sword. That was all I needed to unleash the demonic blood in me and go devil trigger. With the newfound power and form, I completely sapped Tirek of his magic and the sisters imprisoned him in Equestria’s version of Hell, Tartarus. The reward given to me was a tripartite nunchaku known as Cerberus, able to attack with the element of ice.

I decided to travel across Equestria to learn more about pony culture and hunt any creature that might’ve escaped from Tartarus. I heard rumors of another kingdom being enslaved in fear and unhappiness. I decided to investigate this kingdom far north known as the Crystal Empire. Upon my arrival, the rumors were true. All the ponies I met were in some kind of trance and super depressed. Oh yeah, and they’re mode of crystals, LIVING CRYSTALS. The guards stationed there attacked me on sight, just like Celestia’s guards. I disposed of them easily and ventured to the castle. It turned out that the current Empress was murdered and usurped by the now King Sombra, a unicorn whose body is made of shadows that is fond of crystals for some reason.

I stole some valuable crystals from the tyrant king to lure him away from the kingdom. I saw that the king wielded Yamato, one of my Devil Arms. He cornered me on the summit of the adjacent mountain and a long, drawn out battle ensued. Celestia and Luna found us and used the elements to seal the king inside the actual mountain and retrieved Yamato, a blade that can cut through almost anything with the element of Darkness. After the king was sealed, the entire Crystal Empire disappeared out of thin air. We decided to return to the castle to discuss the incident and evaluate how we are going to recover the entire empire.

Later on in that same week, I noticed Luna growing distant from me and Celestia. It must be the disappearance of that empire really bothered her. A week later, she locked herself in her room, not even acknowledging my presence. One day, I heard them arguing, Luna refused to lower the moon and summoned two of my missing weapons: Beowulf and Force Edge. With those weapons, the demonic energy corrupted her body and transformed her body into her own devil trigger: Nightmare Moon. Our weapons swapped; I had Force Edge and she had Rebellion. With the amulet and Force Edge, my body and sword transformed to reflect the Dark Knight Sparda. The battle went on for about a half an hour, destroying most of the castle. I defeated Nightmare Moon, but I couldn’t finish her off since she used to be Luna. Celestia used the Elements of Harmony on Nightmare, sealing her away in the moon. My devil trigger wore off, but the Sword of Sparda remained the same.

Betrayed and devastated, I went to leave the castle permanently, but was stopped by the Lunar guard and attacked. One by one, they keep coming and keep falling by the sword. Overnight, I managed to defeat the entire Lunar Guard, but was left injured and weak. Considering that Nightmare Moon had both Rebellion and Beowulf, I took the Elements from Celestia and placed them around me in the throne room and impaled myself with Force Edge. With the request of Celestia, she sealed me in stone to wait for the day that Nightmare Moon will return on the longest day of the one thousandth year. So begins my new journey one thousand years later; the journey to discover the magic of friendship.

Author's Note

Sorry if this is a little rushed, but this entire chapter captures all of the key points of what I'm going to use in the prequel to this story.

From here on out, music and sounds will be used to make an atmosphere to the story.

Let me know what you think and please point out details on what I should improve on.