The dark brother of the bright student

After her defeat, Twilight trained even harder than before.

Some days later, after the training, Twilight went off for a picnic with her friends. They had this planned for a week now.

Fallen on the other side was looking through the library for some ancient books he didn't read yet as Bright walked inside the room.

She had a big smile on her face. "Hi Fallen. I finished all my studying for today and I am going to visit my friends in Canterlot over the weekend. I am going to take the next train, so please tell Twilight were I am."

Fallen put the book back in the bookshelf and looked at her. "If you would have planned something like this before, like I tell you every time, you could have told her yourself."

Bright took this as a yes and smiled at him. "Thank you. Good bye. See you in a few days."

She hugged him and left the room. Fallen could hear her taking some stuff and leaving through the castle doors.

Fallen sat in the library for some time, quietly reading, as he heard six ponies going through the castle to the main hall with the map. Fallen stood up, Twilight already told him about the map but he was curios what exactly is going on.

As Fallen reached the main hall he saw the six ponies and the dragon all looking at the map and talking. As the finished they stood up and attempted to leave the room as Twilight saw Fallen.

She looked like she wanted to hurry up. "Fallen the map sends us to the borders of Equestria and we have to go soon. We will be gone for one or two days. So can you please tell Bright to take care of Apple Bloom and her friends, they going to have a sleepover in the castle. Tell her she has to watch over them so they can't do anything stupid. We have to hurry now before we miss the next train!"

She and her friends began to ran before Fallen could say that Bright is already on a train towards Canterlot.

'I just have to send them away when they arrive.'

Fallen walked back in to the library and began to look through the books again. At the noon he heard three fillies walking through the castle calling out. "Bright are you there. We wanted to talk with you."

Fallen walked out of the library and followed their voices. He saw them standing in the dining room, talking to each other. "Where is she? Twilight said that Bright is in the castle and will look over us tonight."

Fallen walked in the room. "She is in Canterlot and will not come back in the next few days."

"But Twilight said we could stay in the castle today and Bright would be here."

"But that isn't the case. You have to go home because there is nopony that will do this instead of Bright."

They looked at him And Sweetie Belle got an idea. "But you are in the castle the whole day."

Fallen shook his head. "No . I have better things to do than watch over three fillies running through this castle."

They made sad faces with big eyes at him.

He just looked at them and raised an eyebrow. "This trick will not work on somepony who has a sister that tried this his whole live."

"But Twilight promised that we could spent a night in her castle!"

Now they began to annoy him. "I don't care. Now go away I have work to do."

Scootaloos expression changed to anger. "That is mean. We are going to tell Bright and Twilight that you were mean to us and that you kicked us out of the castle!"

Fallen could already hear his half-sister annoying him a whole week that he should have been nice and that she will keep him from working till he made up for it. "Fine you can stay. But I will go in my laboratory and work. Don't disturb me if it isn't important."

"YAY"

He turned away but before he could leave Apple Bloom spoke up. "There is something we wanted to ask you."

He sighed. "What is it?"

"We wanted to know how you got your cutie mark."

Fallen stopped and turned around. "You want to hear the story of my cutie mark?"

They nodded heavily and Fallen sat down on one of the chairs. "I think I can spent the time if you really want to know."

The three fillies sat on the chairs and looked at him.

Fallen coughed and began. "The story started when I was a foal... "

I lived with my sister and my mother in Canterlot in a flat that is build above the orphanage that my mother was conducting. My sisters father, my step-father, was traveling for his job most of the time. I went to the magic school in Canterlot.

I learned very fast and my teachers told me often how good I am doing. My mother always told me that I will become a great mage.

One day it was time to test which students had a strong magical aura. My former best friend Rising Light was told that he had one of the strongest light auras they ever found in the last years.

As they scanned me they said that my aura was very special and that they never have seen something like this before. So I also got taught in advanced magic.

On the first day we learned to use a spell to show in what kind of magic we are good at but I failed every time I tried to use the spell. The teachers tried everything to show me how to use my magic till they said that it seems like I can't use my special energy.

Scootaloo interrupted him. "If you had so much energy why couldn't you use it?"

"Maybe I can tell you if you don't interrupt me again. So where was I..."

So I didn't learned advanced magic but it didn't bother me very much. I learned normal magic and learned everything I could.

My mother enrolled at the school for gifted unicorns. A week later my mother got the a letter that said that I wasn't accepted because I don't have the magical ability for the school.

This was the worst day of my live. I thought that my dream of becoming a great mage had been crushed.

But I still went on with learning magic. When I wasn't learning I took care of my little sister Bright.

One day I brought my sister back home from school. We used a shortcut trough a dark alley. But two ponies blocked our way. "And where are you two foals going."

Bright stepped behind me as they began to surround us. "We are just going home."

"I don't think so." One of them grabbed Brights school bag before we could react.

I whispered to Bright."I will blind these ponies and you have to run away and get some guards here as fast as you can. I will keep them distracted." Bright nodded to me and I casted a light spell.

As she was gone the three ponies looked angry at me. "You little bastard. I will kill you!"

He grabbed a knife and the others stepped near me.

In my despair I became angry. I started to use spells without thinking. I used dark magic the first time in my live and I knew that this is my real magical talent.

I had my eyes closed all the time but I heard them scream in horror and pain. As I opened my eyes I saw them cowering in fear before me. I left the alley and saw Bright and five guards running towards me. The guards looked at me . "Where are the criminals that attacked you?"

I pointed towards the alley and the ran directly in it. I began to walk away and Bright followed me."How did you escape them?"

"I used my magic."

"What do you mean?"

"Please stop asking I have to think about what happened myself first."

"Sorry."

We walked in silence till Bright grasped. "Fallen you got your cutie mark."

I stopped and looked at myself and saw the crystal with the dark purple flames. Bright was curious. "What does it mean?"

"It has probably something to do with the strange magic I used."

"Maybe mom knows something about it!"

"This is the story of my cutie mark."

They just starred at Fallen, not saying any word.

Fallen raised an eyebrow. "I said this was the story now go and do whatever you do in your free time I have work to do."

He wanted to stand up but Sweetie Belle stopped him. "We want to know what happened after you found out that you can use dark magic."

First he wanted to say no but he knew that Bright would get angry at him. Fallen sat down again and sighed. "Fine..."

We walked back home and as we arrived our mother hugged us. "Some guards came earlier and said you two were attacked by some criminals."

Bright told her what happened. "... and also Fallen got is cutie mark for something with this strange magic he said he used. Do you know something about it."

"If I understand right it was dark magic."

We were confused because dark magic was nothing that foals in our age got taught about. "What is dark magic?"

"I don't know much about it but it is known to be the opposite of light magic. We should keep it a secret as long as we can."

Knowing not better I agreed.

For the next few day everything was normal, my mother told me to go on with learning normal magic since she wasn't sure if dark magic is allowed to use.

One day I was learning in my room as I heard somepony knocking on the door. I heard tree ponies walking inside the building. After some time my mother called me to the living room.

I walked out of my room and went through the hallway. I heard a mare talking to my mother and as I entered the living room I saw my mother sitting there and drinking tea with princess Celestia and tow guards.

My mother noticed me fast. "There you are Fallen. The princess wants to talk with you."

I walked in the room and sat down. The princess looked at me for a short time. "So you are the one that traumatized these criminals?"

"I think so."

"Do you know what magic you used?"

I hesitated for a moment to think if I should tell the princess or not and I decided that it probably wouldn't work. So I said the truth. "Dark magic."

"You know, dark magic is the most dangerous magic that exists and it is very uncommon for a foal to be able to use it."

"I am sorry if I did something wrong."

"You did nothing wrong. I talked with your mother and she said that you could learn to control your dark powers. It is your special talent so I will not deny it for you."

"What do you mean princess?"

"I mean that you are allowed to learn dark magic."

I was excited as I heard that my dream of becoming a powerful mage was possible again. "Thank you princess. I will learn as fast as I can to control the dark magic."

The princess nodded and stood up. "That is good. I have to go now. The books we have about dark magic will arrive tomorrow."

As she walked away I remembered what my teachers told me years ago. "I have a question princess Celestia."

She stopped. "What is the question."

"On magic school they tested if somepony has a strong magic aura. As they scanned me they said that mine was strong but very strange and I wanted to know if what they sensed was the dark magic in me."

"Let me see."

She used a spell to see my magic aura and I am sure I saw surprise on her face for a short time. "You have indeed a very strong dark magic aura. You dark aura is way stronger than that of any other pony I have met before. As I said I have to go now."

She walked away and the guards followed her. The next day the books about dark magic arrived and I began to learn.

"After that I learned every day. And that is how I began to study dark magic."

Sweetie Belle had a question. "I thought everypony could learn every kind of magic?"

"Yes but while you practice magic your magic aura starts to change and becomes stronger but it can't every reach the level of somepony that is born with a strong aura. In my case I didn't need to create my dark energy because I was born with natural dark aura. Something like that is very rare. Most high mages are born with a special aura but there are exceptions."

They looked at him confused.

Fallen thought about haw he could explain this easier to them. "Well, imagine it like this, a magic aura is normally gray and glows weak. If somepony learns and uses for example fire magic his aura will began to glow strong and change color, this will make it easier to use fire magic and his magic gets stronger. Some ponies are born with a special aura like me. I was born with a strong glowing dark aura that means I have strong magic and can use dark magic easily, but this also made it harder for me to learn other kinds of magic especially light magic, which I can't use at all. But even with the aura I still have to learn like every other pony and I had to learn to control my darkness like it is needed."

Sweetie Belle jumped up in excitement. "Can you look if my magic aura is special. Maybe that can help me get my cutie mark."

He used the spell to see the magic auras but couldn't see anything special on Sweetie Belles aura. "You only have a normal foal aura. Maybe you generate a special aura later."

"Oh."

Fallen stood up and walked away. "I go work now. Don't destroy anything."

He walked to his laboratory and looked at his experiments. He checked where Arachna was and found her in her web.

He turned back to his experiments and began to work. He finished everything for this day after a few hours so he decided to train a little bit in the arena.

As he walked through the floors he heard the fillies talking in the library and followed their voices. As he entered the library he saw many books on the ground and heard the tree fillies talking. "I told you that we wouldn't find anything in these books, they are just boring."

Fallen walked to the fillies and saw them sitting on the ground with dozens on open books lying around them. "You three better put everything where you found it till I am back."

Apple Bloom got up and looked at Fallen curious. "Where are you going? Aren't you suppose to look after us?"

"I will just go to the arena and train."

As Scootaloo heard fighting she jumped up too."Oh oh oh can we watch you or better train too?"

"First you're going to put every book back where it belongs. After that I don't care if you watch or not, but don't disturb me or go on the training ground. You watch form the seats or you don't watch at all."

He walked out of the library and heard them beginning to put the books back.

He made his way to the arena and walked in the middle of it.

After he took a deep breath he created ten crystal targets around him and began to cast the spell. He conjured ten dark flames around him. He shoot them beneath the targets and when they hit the ground they exploded in spheres of dark flames.

As the flames stopped the targets where completely gone. 'Perfect. Let's see if the new weapon enchantment works.'

He looked around and thought. 'I need a living target.'

He closed his eyes and tried to find something but he found nothing. 'Well then I think a shadow will work it too.'

He conjured a large shadow pony and transformed his crystal hoof into a blade. He began to use the enchantment on it as he heard the three fillies walking to the seats of the arena.

He heard them talking about him. "Please be quiet up there. I need to concentrate!"

As he finished the enchantment he opened his eyes and jumped at the shadow and hit him with his blade in the shoulder.

He looked at his target and smiled as he saw the enchantment was working. The shadow began to turn into crystal beginning where it was hit. After a short time the shadow was a crystal statue and Fallen shoot an dark energy bolt at it. The statue exploded on the impact.

After that he decided that this was enough spell testing for today and began to train his aiming with spells.

It was late evening as he finished training. He walked outside of the arena, as he was a few steps away he heard the three fillies trying to sneak in the arena. Fallen levitated them away from the arena and dragged them in front of him. He lifted them into the air so their faces were on his high.

"What are you doing?"

"Nothing." said they all together.

"I hope so. I am going to the library and you are going to stay out of the arena."

"Ok." Said they all together again.

"Good." He walked inside the castle.

He looked through the books of the library for some time. He walked around to find a book about alchemy. He needed some cures for his next experiment after he finished his main project.

After some hours he wanted to go to bed as he heard a "Ouch" from outside the castle. He used his magic to see what it was and he sensed the aura of the fillies in the arena. 'Why haven't I seen this coming.'

He turned in to a shadow and flew outside of the castle into the arena. He creeped on the ground towards the fillies.

The fillies didn't noticed him and he sent out parts of his shadow to creep under them. After his shadow was connected to theirs he let them leave the ground and they grabbed the fillies at their tails.

Fallen left the ground and turned to his normal form again. The shadows dragged the three in front of him. "I said you should stay out of the arena!"

"We are sorry!"

He talked to them with an angry but controlled tone. "I give you a last warning. I am going to bed and if I hear even a small noise from you I am going to put shackles on your legs and chain you in the middle of the arena for the night! Now go out of the arena!"

The shadows disappeared and the three fillies fell on the ground. Fallen watched them leaving the arena and followed them. They walked back to the castle.

As he went to his room to go to sleep he heard a "Good night" form the fillies but he ignored them and went to bed.