After waking up alone for the millionth time it seems, I looked around my library, hidden beneath the crystal palace by its previous asshole of an owner, Sombra. His library of dark knowledge and my current home. This library and I share a similar past: we both at one point belonged to Sombra, the library being his store of dark knowledge and I his necromancer. But now we are both free, well I’m free, free-ish. See Sombra fought and lost a battle against the Princesses of the Kingdom to the south, Equestria. In his rage at losing and their kind hearted gesture of sparing him he banished the city and everypony in it to the void. Or at least near the void. If I was outside and looked up past the barrier I would see the never ending black emptiness. I don’t know how long the cities been here, times hard to track without the sun, but it’s been a long time. Long enough that food ran out and I had to lock everyone else under stasis spell. Hope we’re freed soon, its boring here alone.

I felt a tingling feeling in the air, magic, a lot of magic. If I’m feeling magic then someone is casting it. “Someone is casting magic!” I shout to the books around me. “Someone has broken in! FREEDOM!” I run to the door but stop just short of tearing it open. Nopony likes me, if I rush out they will think I’m here seeking revenge for The Asshole. With a quick wave of my right skeletal hand black flames surround me then quickly dissipate. The spell: A visage of Death. Something I learned along time ago, everyone can see death. No one wants to, so their subconscious erases it from sight and hearing. Anyone who gazes upon someone under a visage of death causes the same reaction, they look away instinctively and forget. With the spell cast I walk out of the library and lock the door.

Walking around the castle I see crystal and non crystal ponies alike talking and celebrating. “The Crystal Heart has been returned, Sombra is dead and gone!” they gossip about. I am elated by the news, Sombra is dead, I am free, the ponies are free, the dead are free, and Umbra is free. UMBRA! I run past the guards and celebrating ponies and rush around the castle looking for her. Umbra the last of the Royal line. The only crystal unicorn left, and my adoptive daughter. I had cared for her, raised her since Sombra destroyed her parents and siblings. He only left her because he had a plan. He was going to make her sire an heir, his heir. The sick bastard wanted to insure his claim on the throne was uncontested. I hate Sombra with a burning passion, even though he is now dead if the gossip is to be believed.

As I near the Throne room I hear her faint cries “Mommy, I want my mommy,” she sobs. I want to hug her so badly. Then I hear a feminine voice speak, “It’s ok little one, we’ll help you find your mommy.” A guard opens the door and I follow him in. I see seven mares, two earth ponies, two unicorns, two pegasi, and a winged unicorn... a pegacorn. I can figure out what she is later, now how to show Umbra I am here without anyone else noticing me. The lightbulb turns on, IDEA! I wave my skeletal hand in a circle in front of me, black flames wisping from it forming a butterfly. The instant I stop the spell it floats over to Umbra and lands on her horn. “Mommy!” Her crying stops as she shouts and frantically looks around the room. Everypony sees the butterfly, everypony glances around to see where it came from. They can’t see me since Visage of Death is still active, even though I want to drop the spell and hug my filly.

“Where do ya reck’n it came from?” whispers the Orange earth mare.

“I don’t know, AJ. But I can find out.” replies the purple Unicorn as her horn starts to glow with a magenta aura, that same aura surrounding the butterfly on Umbra’s horn.

I immediately dispelled the butterfly suspicious of the unicorn’s intent. An orb of violet magic appearing where the butterfly was catching everypony's attention, the orb then slowly made its way over my head. Suddenly everypony was staring at me like I was death itself. THE SPELL! How did that unicorn trace it to me! I thought to myself only to realize that I still looked like death. I need to undo the Visage quickly! With a wave of my skeletal hand the spell faded into nothing.

“MOMMY!” Umbra screamed as she rushed towards me and grabbing hold of my leg. Sadly the eight guards in the room respond how one would expect, deciding to point their spears at Umbra and me. The mares just continued staring, trying to figure out what had just happened.

“Lower your spears or I will break them! You DO NOT point spears at Umbra!” I shouted with a veracity in my voice that nopony wanted to challenge. The guards are visibly shaken but don’t listen. I waved my skeletal hand the black flames of my power swirling around it. If they don’t lower the spears I’m turning them all to dust.

“Guards lower your weapons!” The pegicorn says, still watching me.

“Belay that!” Shouts a white unicorn stallion as he turns to the pegicorn “Cadence we don’t know the intentions of that creature!”

“I presume you are the one in charge?” I ask. The pegicorn nods. “Very well, I thank you for defeating the monster known as Sombra and setting us free of his tyranny.” I say as I bow to her, careful of the spears still pointed at me.

She stares at me for a moment before repeating her last order, much to the distress of the unicorn stallion. After the guards lower the spears she asks, “Were you also one of his captives?” I nod yes and she smiles. “I am not the one who defeated him, it was the bravery of these mares and young drake that stopped him.” She gestures to the six other mares. Drake? As in dragon I don’t see.. I then see a young dragon, a hatchling sitting beside the purple unicorn. Why didn’t I see him earlier? “You all have my thanks,” I say as I bow in their direction. I notice Umbra doing the same, after having let go of my leg. The seven are all smiling widely from my praise. Do they not normally get praised or something?!

“May I ask your name?” The pegicorn asks.

“My name, is Nox.”

Author's Note

Yes I know the term is alicorn, Nox does not. Again, this is my first fic, that said if you see a mistake please point it out. It something doesn't seem right, POINT IT OUT. If you feel I am making a blaring mistake somewhere of the fic as whole, please point it out. I CANNOT GET BETTER IT I HAVE NO CLUE WHAT I'M DOING WRONG.

Huzzah! Updated and edited. Thank you Crescent Quill for being my editor!