A Rainbow of Hope

Equestria, a land thought to have been a peaceful one, and a bright place of friendship, now stood on the brink of war with the return of the dark, fearful King Sombra. The Crystal Empire has returned once more, but the king would not allow the citizens to live with their shining hearts of peace and love. He turned them to slaves, to serve him until they died. Sombra could care less about the torture and pain he was driving into the hearts of these friendly beings. He cared about one thing and one thing only, to take over Equestria for himself, and to destroy the last beacon of rule in the land, the mighty Princess Celestia. Canterlot, however, was not his first target. He had a strategy this time to take a town one at a time, to push fear more and more into the minds of all the ponies of the land, and in hopes Celestia would bow to him as the one and only ruler.

Night had fallen on the Crystal Empire, and all around black crystals, and deep depression was seen and heard all around as ponies were marching, chained to each other with shackles tightly wrapped around their hooves, blood could be seen dried, and some pouring because of the cuffs digging deep into the Crystal ponies legs. They were exhausted, with a tear in their eyes,  and no shine of their coats that used to gleam brighter than the sun had. One of the ponies, finally gave in, and fell to the ground. She opened her eyes, the pain reflected deep within what used to be a beautiful emerald green, her once gray coat, that gleamed a bright silver, was covered in dust and blood, and tattered from all the weight she pulled during the stressful slave drives.

"HEY, NO SLEEPING! GET YOUR FLANK UP AND MOVE IT!!!" The gaurd whipped her back with a thorny whip.

She winced in pain and tried to stand, but could not muster the strength to stand up on all four, tears running down her face, she saw her little filly daughter looking at her over by the stone bed, where she was crying while watching her mom struggle.

"This one is no good to us, take her away and get rid of her!" The lead guard yelled out as she was pulled up by two other stallion gaurds and taken away to a dark pit. As she passed her daughter, she glimpsed at her and said in a feeble whisper, "be strong little one."

"My liege, another pony has been put out of our misery, and numbers are starting to dwindle."

The Dark King spun around while looking at the guard, then up at the ceiling and gave an evil chuckle.

"Beautiful isn't it? How strange the darkness can bring the happiness to me, and how much power I feel." The king trotted slowly down from his throne.

"Yes, I do quite agree my King, but the number of pony slaves we have are not hi..." He was cut short by Sombra muting him with his magic.

"I know the numbers are low you fool, but we will steadily take Equestria as the days continue on, Celestia will not know what to do when it comes to our surprise attacks, next we burn down the bright gleaming city of Manehatten!" His evil laugh was dark, and cold and even chilled the bones of the other guards around.