Paradox in Equestria

Before I was even fully grown I was a simple unicorn. My brother however was a pegasus, always the center of attention. Everyone payed attention to his gallant wings. My folks even missed my first levitation spell because he learned how to hover. Big deal!

I guess you could say that I was jealous, maybe... Ok, yes I was jealous. I never got any attention from anypony just because my twin brother was a freaking pegasus.

'Oh look Parydan's brother can fly.' So what I can learn a spell to do that. I was always hidden in the shadows, practicing incantations. Some would even venture to say we weren't even twins. He was athletic, agile, clean cut. I however didn't take as much care to my appearance or attributes. I wore my mane long and hardly ever went out.

There were a few differences between my brother and I, one of the most striking was our coats. I had an all black coat and mane, with piercing red eyes. His was a pure white coat, grey mane, and sparkling bright blue eyes. Some called us the angel and the demon. I guess they were right, after years of being a cast away I secluded myself to the "Dark" side of magic. And my newest spell was almost ready, all it needed was a sacrifice. A blood sacrifice, I could never kill another pony, as dark as I was, and as terrible as everypony else was, I could never bring myself to do something like that.

But I had no idea that my sacrifice would come to my very door.

It had been six years since I moved out of my parents house, I had bought this hut with all I had on the edge of Haymill. All I had were my books, no bed, not even a couch. I didn't feel I needed luxuries like that.

I heard a knock on my door, I opened it with my magic. And there in front of me was my brother.

"Equin," I said, spitting out his name at him, "what do you want?"

"Brother, we must learn to put our differences aside." He said.

Put our differences aside! This was where I exploded.

"As I recall it was you who drove me away!" I shouted.

"Parydan," he began, "if I had known what you were going through, I would have helped." He said.

I turned and faced the corner, "No..." I said. "Nopony could have helped me."

"Why do you belive that?" My brother asked, placing a hoof on my shoulder.

"BECAUSE!" I shouted, "Nopony understands me." I turned back to my corner.

"Brother, we may have differences," he said, "but belive it or not, I understand you more than you know."

I heard his words but I didn't believe them, how could anypony understand how I felt. In a world where everyone around you appears to be accepted, and you are the only social outcast. How could one feel accepted. This new spell could have helped, but I would never be able to use it. All my life I've been ridiculed and outcasted from other unicorns and even academies for my interest in Dark Magic. Nopony understood it though, it wasn't dark it was just different and misunderstood, just like me.

I could no longer stand this world, which was what my newest spell was for. It could grant me the power to jump from one dimension to another at my own will. It was the ultimate form of galactic magic, the toughest form of. But when I realized that what it required was the blood of another being of whom you trust, I had to give up.

There was nopony in the world I trusted. I still felt my brothers presence in my hut.

"What?" I snarled.

"Brother," he started, "if you even need anything, I will always be there for you."

He turned and left, once more I was alone. A single tear fell from my eye, this world could not be my own. I had to find a place where I belonged.

I ran outside to find my brother, to beg him to stay. I at least needed one pony who I could confide in. But he was gone, I walked slowly back to my small, sad shed. My life was indeed miserable. But I didn't know that it could get even worse.

A few days later I was in my shed, mixing a brew that could enhance my magic. It was raining and thundering outside. I took no notice, after all the rain and thunder was somehow... comforting. At least now I knew that all the other ponies had to stay inside and, if even only for a few hours, had to endure my pain of loneliness. I suddenly felt a disturbance as one bolt of lightning came.

I didn't understand it at first, to this day I still can't explain it. But I felt a sudden feeling of danger. I glanced outside, nothing. But what I did hear was a thud, and a sickening crunch at my door. I rushed over to see what had hit my door. What I saw shocked me, my brother lying in a burned bloody mess. I picked him up and dragged him inside.

"Brother..." Was all he could mumble.

"Yes, we'll get you help don't worry Equin." I told him

"No." He said, his words froze me to the core

"What, but your wounds you must be treated imm-"

"NO!" He shouted and went into a couging fit, I went over to comfort my only brother.

"Parydan, I won't make it" he said, "A bolt of lightning burned my feather out about a mile back, I tried to fly here, *cough* I didn't see your house in the rain, ha, imagine that."

I also laughed, it was a sad choked chuckle, but a laugh nonetheless. My shack was a thrown together piece of crap, to put it lightly. Rain dripped through the cracks in the ceiling where I didn't have enough tarp. It truly was a sad sight, then again I wasn't particulaly rich from my work.

"I was closer to the hospital," he continued, at this I was shocked, "but I thought I could make it here in one piece and you'd fix my feathers but I got hit again."

He went into another coughing fit, his time was nearing.

"I didn't want my best bud to never see me again, and then find out years later that I'm dead." He smiled his toothy grin one eye burned shut, I broke into tears at my blood brothers mangled body.

"Hey don't be sad," he said, "I'll always be your brother." He comforted.

That's when it came to me, I wiped my nose, sniffled a little and walked over to my book.

"Yes, brother," I told him. "Forever we will be together."

"What?" he said. I grabbed the crooked dagger, "Brother, what's happening?"

"Listen to me, my brother," I told him, "I have developed this spell, it will allow me to find a place where I belong." I smiled at him, "Please brother, you will die soon, with this we can always stay together."

He nodded and closed his eyes. "My brother, you deserve what you ask for. For all I put you through, find the place you belong. Remember I will always be watching you." He smiled one last time.

I cried as I carved on his chest, a star.

Let it begin. I began to cast my spell, I felt the power begin immediately. A bright light erupted from the ground, a voice came to my head, dark and echoing within itself, it was strange.

"You will become the fabric of existance Parydan. You call upon the great power, you have made your offering. I grant you my power." It said.

I felt pain beyond belief, I watched as my brothers body faded into smoke. The smoke swirled around me and went into my horn. That's when I passed out.

When I awoke I felt a pounding in my head. I looked into my reflection in the window. My eyes were no longer red, but a bright sparkling blue. My coat was still black and so was my mane. I felt at ease, now my brother really could watch over me. But it wasn't over, I heard the voice once more.

'Your power is mine, therefore your body is too.' It said within my head.

"What are you talking about?" I asked out loud.

'You signed the pact with pen of steel and ink of your own brothers blood, my contract makes this body mine also' it said.

What was this thing talking about, that's when I felt my head explode with pain. I wasn't myself anymore, instead I was a soul within a shell of my own body, behind my brothers watchful eyes.

All I could do for the next few decades, was to watch this new Parydan Nox devour Equestria in a burning, unstoppable inferno.