The Life of a Pony Named Soul Melody

"Your room is straight down the hallway miss."

"T-Thank you.."

I push open the large doors softly and lightly. They squeak and crack as I enter the dim palace dorm. I slowly trot over to the window and I open it slightly. The sunlight peeks through and hits the ground, the ground is black like charcoal, but of course, that's all I can see. I have something people like to call a disability. But it's not something full on, it's just an chromosome disability that makes me monochromic. In short, I only see in greyscale. I wasn't born like this however, before my brother left for the Crystal City Solider Enquiry, I could see all colors. Every rainbow and every shade. But now, I can only see the world's worst colors in my opinion.

The door flies open and a another pony stands in its doorway. His hair has died tips of what seems to be the same shade of grey as mine, with gleaming amor, large wings and a horn. His cutie mark shows a distorted music note. I look up to his eyes and he speaks,

"Soul, it's your brother. I'm your brother."

"S-Shadow..?"

"In the flesh."

"Brother.."

I gallop over to him and hug him,

"I though you were-"

"Dead? Yeah, so did everyone else."

"H-How.."

"I told you siso, I'd never leave without you right beside me."

A tear slowly rolls down my cheek and I smile. Shadow wipes the tear off making me close my eyes, when I open them back up I see a skeleton, it crumbles into ash.

"Shadow!"

Sombra appears out of the black and slowly approaches me, I back up to the wall until I couldn't move anymore, Sombra nose to nose with me, the wall behind me breaks and I fall. His laugh echoes and crackles as I get drowned in darkness. I hit a hard ground, I slowly get up covered in pain from the fall. I look around and see the Crystal City in flames. I notice my house and I hear a scream,

"Help!"

It couldn't be...

"Mom?!"

I bolt over to the inferno, I scan the scene for any pony. I give up looking from the outside and I quickly go inside, the screams continue from upstairs. I attempt to climb the stairs but they burn down, so I fly up and zoom through the fiery entrance. I carefully land, as I look up I see a closet. I start to approach it and the cries get louder, I go to open the doors but my hoof goes right through it.

"Hellooooo~"

My eyes widen and I try to do everything I can to open the door, suddenly it opens, it's my mother standing in front of...wait..is that me? A pounce echoes through the crackling flames, and a dark presence comes over the top floor.

"Sombra."

"Ha, I see you have a little present~"

"Back off of my family, got it?"

"Aw, you see dearest Spark, I already dealt with your little Shadow."

Little me looks behind my mother's leg with some tears rolling down,

"S-Shadowo..?"

"Yes Soul, Shadowo."

"How do you-"

"Your lover boy talks a lot about her. He was so fond of her."

"Where-"

"Shh, don't worry your pretty little-"

"WHERE IS HE!"

"Didn't your parents ever teach you to never speak out of turn?"

A light grey cloud appears and strikes my mom, she falls.

"Momma..!"

My little filly nose lightly nudges her face trying to wake her up, my wings start to fold in and my ears move down.

"Come along Soul."

"No.."

"Why not?"

"Wake up my mommy."

"She's been put into a forever sleep child."

I sit up and look up at the towering figure,

"No."

"You're such a troubled child."

A beam of light starts to form heading straight for the little me, as it shoots I jump in front of it, but it goes straight through me and hits the little filly. She yells in pain and stumbles to the ground and everything goes black.