Chapter 6: Sparkle Butt

Sombra trudged down the dirt roads of Ponyville towards the large, crystal structure which stood as a beacon for the town, being towed by the princess of friendship herself. Though he had spent some time as a guest at the castle he had never really examined it before so he took the opportunity while walking though the winding halls to fully appreciate the architecture.

"So, this is your first time seeing the entire castle. What do you think so far? You must know a lot about crystal buildings considering where you lived." Twilight asked, trying to be cheery.

"It is a nice place I suppose," The king looked around, unimpressed, "Needs more stairs though."

"No." The purple princess deadpanned, her upbeat mood dropped.

He shrugged, "Your loss."

Twilight stopped at a pair of large doors and pushed them open. Inside was one of the largest collections of books that Sombra has ever seen, well, second largest, his library was much more grand.

Thinking of his kingdom made the king almost shake with anger. Damn these ponies who took everything from him and tore him away from the one bucking pony he at least was comfortable with. Damn Celestia for bringing him back to life. Damn himself for being so weak and becoming another one of the Princess's pawns.

He took a deep breath. He just needed to win their trust enough to get his magic back, then he'd show them true power.

"So what are we doing here?" He asked the young alicorn.

"Well, I'd like to learn about you and your history, there's not much about you in any history books, not even those in the crystal empire."

Sombra rolled his eyes, "What do you want to know?" He asked, barely believing he was going to entertain this.

"Everything." Twilight replied, a quill and blank scroll hovering in front of her.

Sombra let out an annoyed groan, "Let's Get this over with. It started over 10,000 years ago..."

The unicorn blacksmith looked fondly upon upon the tiny newborn foal and his wife who was still breathing heavily.

Nuzzling his mate he spoke, "You did it Ruby."

Panting, the light grey mare nuzzled him back, "Yea, it hurt a lot but I did it." She chuckled, "Look at our beautiful boy, Smolder."

The tiny unicorn gave a whine and a cry, the white blanket which he was wrapped in shifting as he opened his eyes to look at his proud parents.

Then, of course, started crying, as all newborn foals do. He was almost a spitting image of his father besides for the red eyes which were from his mother.

"Shh" Ruby comforted her new foal and looked at her husband with joy, knowing this was going to be an amazing experience.

"Sombra. We should name him Sombra." Smolder suggested, "Like the beautiful shadows of the night that he resembles."

Ruby nodded, smiling softly, "Sombra... I like it.

"All I ever wanted to do was be a royal guard. I loved my kingdom, my home, so much. Every moment of my life was devoted to training and learning everything I could and when I finally became a guard it was only a few years before I became a captain. It was everything I ever dreamed of."

"So what happened?" Twilight inquired.

"There was a famine. Invaders tried to attack while we were weak, all the wild beasts of the North descended upon us and in the third attack, my father was killed by an ice wraith. But the queen did nothing. She allowed the monsters to attack again and again, only doing the bare minimum to drive them away, never ordering us to kill the beasts, to truly defend our kingdom. Eventually I got sick of it and when I saw my mother being attacked by a frost wolf I broke. I ordered my soldiers to kill as many beasts as they could get their hooves on. But it was in vain for me, we may have pushed them back but my mother succumbed to her injuries soon after, and I was brought to trial for disobeying the queen's orders."

"Captain Sombra," Queen Rose Quartz spoke in an authoritative voice, "Do you admit to me giving explicit orders not to kill the monsters?"

"Yes." Sombra replied stoically.

"Captain Sombra, do you admit to ordering your troop to slaughter as many of the beasts as possible?"

"Yes, I did what was best for the empire. Unlike you have been doing, my queen. You've allowed these savages to maraud our kingdom and massacre our ponies for too long."

The queen glared at him, "Need I remind you, that you are not the one in charge of this empire, peace and patience would have yielded results had you not--"

"Not what?" He growled, "Had I not prevented a bloodbath and the possible extinction of the crystal ponies?"

His horn bubbled green and purple as he was reminded of the powerful dark magic he had studied and learned. Anger and power flowed through him as he took menacing steps forward, tossing the queen's guards aside. His sclera glowed green, leaking purple smoke and his pupils turned to blood red slits. Fangs started protruding from his snarl as he tossed all who tried to attack him aside.

"Your ignorance killed my family," He shot a beam of dark magic at the queen's horn, turning it into a bloody painful stump, "Your weakness killed thousands," Sombra shot another blast at her leg, burning a gash into her leg as she screamed, "You crossed me, you've crossed my kingdom, and you've betrayed everyone!"

He put his horn to her chest "It's time for you to pay, this empire deserves a true leader, it's time for you to die."

With that he plunged his horn into the former queen's heart.

"And I will be that leader."

"You know what happened from there." He finished.

"I didn't know why... that's not a reason to... I guess you aren't just pure evil like everyone thought..."

Sombra sighed then glared at the lavender alicorn, "I'm not doing this again, with any of your friends. I don't care if you kill me again. I don't care about you or any of your little buddies and I will not be forced to care. I still have some damn dignity and I will maintain it. In a Few day I'm going back to the farm whether any of you like it or not, until then I will rest."

"You're in no position to be making demands or giving orders, Sombra." Twilight replied.

"Kill me and tell Celestia you failed then. I know you won't."

Twilight clenched her teeth, summoning magic into her horn and aiming it at the former monarch. It wasn't long before the glow disappeared and she glared intensely at him. "I'll tell the girls."

"I knew it," He smirked, "Just don't tell Apple Pony though, I want it to be a surprise."

He turned away from her, "Goodnight Sparkle Butt."

Author's Note

damn so sorry i havent updated, been dealing with a lot of shit, just so you know though the plot starts to thicken soon ;3