Author's Note

Italics represents Sombra's personal thoughts.
Bold represents mental messages.
Underline represents those three question.

Chapter 1: The Revelation Begins

"How long has it been," I ask myself out loud as I look outwards towards my kingdom from my balcony. "since I first claimed the crystal heart, when I lost it two those two Alicorns to keep my kingdom away from them by sealing it away, thus keeping me away from the heart, to now when I have it back in my hands?" I sighed to myself and slowly made my way back to my throne as those thoughts came back to me. Those three questions that are making me think differently: "Is this the right thing to do? Was what I doing right? Why do I feel so empty even with the heart?" These three questions have been a pain in my ass ever since a few weeks after reclaiming the heart. I always answered those questions every time, but my brain just flat out rejected those answers as if they we're wrong entirely. I quietly groaned as I rubbed my head in pain and walked back over to my throne and sat on it. from these thoughts as they gave me a rather horrible headache everytime they came up as I heard my throne room doors opened up.

"Sorry to bother you my liege, but your daily group of ponies have been gathered for your daily draining." One of my royal guards said. As a group of ten ponies slowly came walking in.

I sighed mentally as I put my hand up making them stop walking. "No." I said making them gasp in shock. "Not today, I'm not feeling well do to any draining, send them back." I said as I made the 'shoo' gesture at them which made them look at me with shock.

"B-But my-" My guard started to say before I interrupted.

"I said, send them back!" I slammed my left fist onto it's respected arm rest. "Less you want me to drain you dry of your own life force for disobeying your king!" I growled at him making him jump in fear.

"Y-Yes my liege!" He squeaked as he lead the ten out of my throne room and I was left alone.

"Why did I just let them leave?" I asked mentally. I always drain life force from them, but I just shooed them out without a second thought. I groaned as I put my head into my palms. "What the hell is wrong with me?! Why am I showing kindness?! What the hell is going on?!" I growled in anger as I felt the crystal heart pulse. I glared a bit as I got off my throne and opened up my secret staircase that led to the pathway to the heart's hiding place. A few minutes passed by as I walked up to the heart and grabbed it. "Are you the reason? Are you doing this to me?" I asked mentally as I looked into the heart only to see my reflection and something that I never end expcted to see. My eyes didn't have their normal shadow aura. "What the fuck?!" I glared at the heart and the aura less reclection glared back. I sighed as I walked back to my throne room with the heart in hand as one of my guards sent me an urgent mental message.

"M-My Liege, eight ponies and a dragon hatchling just ran past my post saying something about reclaiming the crystal heart and one of them is an Alicorn! I'm following them now as this message reaches you!"

"So, Celestia finally got off her fat ass and finally came to stop me, but why only her and not bring her sister with?" I sighed as I closed my secret staircase and sat back on my throne and summoned up my crystal bladed sword and waited. Soon I head magical explosions within my castle and slowly reaching my throne room. As I heard voices, but they we're muffled by the thick walls of my castle and then, my doors slammed open to show the eight ponies and the dragon hatchling. Those eight ponies, seven of which we're female and one one male but they all have different colors, except for four. One blue, one orange, one yellow, one purple, two white, and two pink, one of which was a Alicorn.

"There's a third one? When was there a third Alicon?" I asked myself even though I had no answer.

"We're here to put a stop to your reign of terror Sombra." The pink Alicorn said.

"Oh good. Another rag-tag team to try and stop me," I said sarcastically and got off of my throne as I made my way towards the Alicorn, making her step back in fear. "well you're in luck." I said as I shoved the crystal heart to her chest. "Because, I despise ruling a kingdom where I feel empty in. So you beat me, have fun." I said as I walked towards my balcony and leaving them all with gaping mouths at what I just said and did.

The first one to make speak was the blue one. "Uhhhhhhhhh. What the hell just happened? I was expecting a fight from him."

Then the purple one spoke. "I-I don't know. Princess Celestia said that he wouldn't go down without a fight but. He just gave up."

Then the Alicorn spoke. "L-Let me go talk with him."

Then the male. "Are you kidding me?! I'm not letting my wife get close to that, monster!" So the Alicon and the male are married? Interesting.

I then heard her scoff and walk over to me. "Excuse me, Sombra?" She said as she lightly tapped my shoulder with the heart in one if he arms.

"What do you want?" I asked at I turned to look at her.

"Why did you just give up like that?"

"Because I just feel empty even if I do have the heart and my kingdom," I turned around and looked towards my kingdom. "all because I reclaimed that damned heart."

"Then it had to have been the heart's power. It can change all that comes near it." She said.

"So it was the heart that was doing this to me. Oh well." I thought as I turned around to look at the eight ponies talking to one another. The married one arguing about if I should be punished or not. The blue and orange one talking to one another, well more or less the blue one gloating that she could take me out in 'ten seconds flat' and the orange one shaking her head at her. The pink earth pony and yellow one talking quietly to one another about something, they were the furthest away from me so I couldn't hear what they we're talking about. The purple and white one talking about the design of the castle. But I didn't notice the hatchling walk over to me.

"Uhhhh. Hi?" He said which got my attention and I crouched down to look at him at eye level. Something that I remembered for a long time ago, never look down at a dragon, you never know if they'll get pissed off at you.

"What can I do for you hatchling? Normally one's at your age would be terrified at me." I said and he just shruged.

"Not when you've been over hyped as some big evil bad guy that wouldn't give up so easily. But you did sooooo." He shrugged again and walked towards the edge of the balcony and looked outwards towards the kingdom.

"Ah I see." I sighed and looked out as well.

"This is a pretty nice sight, Sombra."

"I know. That why I ruled it for so long. This is one of the few best views on Equis."

"Heh. Yeah I can tell. The name's Spike."

"Nice to meet you, Spike. I sure you know my name already."

He nodded and was about to same something until we're pulled out of our conversation by a 'Ahem'. And we both turned to look stare at the purple one and the white male standing in front of us. The white one spoke first.

"King Sombra-" He started to say.

"Please," I held a hand out to stop him."just Sombra will work."

"Right. Sombra, although you are considered an enemy of Equestia, but since you did give us back the heart freely, you would be arrested if you didn't so we do get avoid that, but we will still have to bring you to Princess Celestia to pay for your crimes." He said.

"Alright, fine by me." I casually said, which gotten him to nod at me.