Fallout Equestria: Forgotten Relics

Prologue: Brothers

                                                        *  * 10,000 years before the war for resources *  *

In a time far before Starswirl the bearded and the reign of the two sisters, two special unicorn colts were born, the youngest brother had a dark charcoal coat and red eyes with a dark blue and dark goldenrod mane and tail, the eldest brother had a white coat and baby blue eyes with an azure-ish white and silver mane and tail, there names were Dark Spectre and Eternal Light, Eternal Light was the eldest and was only a year older than his brother.

The brothers were inseparable, wherever you see the elder brother the younger brother was always near by and they never once had a fight or disagreement, their family where simple commoners so they had no nobility.

The brothers were about five and four years old when three grand wizard masters came to their home. The wizards had told the two brother's parents that the brothers had very high potential and that the grand wizard council can train the brothers and help them hone their skills.

The parents agreed believing that their sons can become great wizards and grant wealth and nobility to their family. As the brothers left their home they brought everything that they loved, the eldest brother brought his favourite white cape with silver stars, while the youngest brought his favourite scarf that his mother had knitted for him, the scarf was striped with dark blue and dark goldenrod to be just like his mane and tail.

As the brothers left they waved goodbye to their parents before heading off with the three grand wizards. On their journey to the wizard temple the brothers saw many things they would never see living a normal life with their parents, they saw Jackalopes running through the woods, Timber Wolves on the prowl ready to catch their prey, but these thing did not interest the elder brother in any way but the same can not be said for the younger brother as he was watching every creature he saw with fascination.

In due time the brothers and the three grand wizard masters had finally made it to the Grand Wizard Temple where the brothers will learn about magic for almost the rest of their lives. Many unicorns would have to study their whole life to become great wizards, but the same cannot be said for the brothers as they have very powerful hidden magic.

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For the first year at the wizard temple the two brothers had to learn the basic of magic. There were many ups and downs but for the elder brother there was nothing that he couldn't do, but on the other hoof the younger brother was having trouble with his magic but the wizard masters had all told him that he was still young so his magic has not developed yet. The the younger brother just ignored the wizard masters and continued his training.

One day a wizard master came up to the younger brother and told him that he will be learning under him from that day on. This wizard master also had a charcoal coat but his mane and tail were charcoal black and dark blue and his named is Dark Star. Dark Star only taught dark magic something that every other unicorn is unable to use. Dark magic is a little different than black magic, because dark magic is the use of darker magic natures than normal magic whereas black magic has the uses of necromancy and demonic summoning.

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For the last half of the year the younger brother learned dark magic under Dark Star. The younger brother had almost caught up to his elder brother who trained in the use of light magic which sounds exactly like what it is, but he was hated by many of the other apprentices as he is the only apprentice to use dark magic. Being hated by some of his fellow apprentices the younger brother secluded himself to study more dark magic and alchemy, being that an apprentice had to be in living quarters with other apprentices the younger brother was given a room of his own due to the turmoil he would cause. Since the younger brother had a room to himself no pony but Dark Star knew what he does in the room not even his own brother.

                                                                                         *  * two years later *  *

one day when the younger brother was out on a trip with his master the elder brother and two of his friends decided to sneak into his younger brother's room which was guarded by two dark sentinel. Dark sentinels were different from a normal sentinel since dark sentinels were naturally aggressive, but luckily for the wizard temple these sentinels were not very hostile since they were summoned by an experienced dark magic user.

As the elder brother and his two friends were able to get past the sentinels they happily entered the room unexpecting to the horrors that they will see. As the elder brother and his friends opened their eyes to see what secrets the younger brother was hiding they were horrified by the sight. Sitting in the middle of the room was a star that was in a circle both drawn with blood with a bloodied pony skull on a stick at the very top of the star, and at the four points of the star floating candles were lit with a strange blue flame. The three young wizards were disgusted and horrified as they ran out of the room and out to the temple courtyard where all three of them simultaneously vomited violently, but little did they know that what they saw was a ritual used to speak with deceased masters to dark magic, as the eldest brother's friends told other apprentices about what they saw rumors about the younger brother being a necromancer began to spread like wildfire.

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As the younger brother returned from his short trip with his master he got stares of anger, and disgust from all his fellow apprentices except his brother who was looking worried as three grand wizard masters approached him asking if the rumors of him being a necromancer was true or not, the younger brother was shocked but didn't hesitate to show the wizards to his room, as they walked in the wizards were shocked at the sight but Dark Star assured the wizards that the ritual was for communicating with the deceased masters of dark magic and that learning the teachings of the deceased masters was the best way for the younger brother to learn, the three wizards were no longer worried about what the ritual was for, but they asked where the blood and bloodied skull came from, to which the younger brother answered the wizards telling them that the blood was from a Jackalope and that the pony skull was one from Dark Star's collection and the blood on it was also the Jackalope's blood.

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After being falsely accused of necromancy the younger brother was driven deeper into the darkness, but one day an apprentice whom known to be a bully challenged the younger brother to a magic duel, this will soon become what unicorns use to settle disagreements as the condition of the battle is that each unicorn would have to give up something. I

n this duel the younger brother agreed that if he lost he would leave the wizard temple and the bully agreed leave as was if he had lost, but the younger brother was not going to lose very easily. The bully made his move first and casted a spell that would prevent the victim from moving as he casted a magic bullet but the younger brother was able to summon something before the bullet hit, and so the bullet did not hit as it was blocked by a large shield wielded by a large unicorn in armor but this unicorn was not alive since the unicorn was a large black mass in armor made from the deepest pits to darkness.

The bully was surprised that the younger brother was able to summon a creature of darkness known only as the Dark Guardian, a guardian is a spectral being that can be summoned to guard tombs or protect ponies, but the Dark guardian is summoned for one purpose, to kill anypony that will harm the Dark guardian's summoner, but the younger brother restricted to Dark guardian from killing his opponent, as the younger brother broke free from the bully's paralysis spell he stared into the eyes of the bully with his own eyes emotionless as he made his move against the bully, the younger brother casted a spell called the dome of darkness, this spell trapped the bully in a dome of shadow where no light can shine not even the light spell could light the dome.

As the dome was slowly dispersed by it's caster the bully emerged as a changed pony, the bully was lying on the ground in a fetus position with pin pricked eyes shaking in fear as to what he saw in the dome, but the younger brother just stared at him with his emotionless eyes and with no remorse in his heart as he walked away victorious.

                                                                                             *  * Ten years later *  *

It has been ten years since his duel with the bully and the younger brother has not been bothered by his fellow apprentices since all of the more older adept wizards know of his power and what it can do to a pony, but many of the new apprentices do not know of his power and try to approach him anyway, one day in particular an apprentice ran up to the younger brother and asked him if he could make a potion that would give a pony stronger magic, at this strange request the younger brother just smiled and walked away telling the apprentice to just keep practicing.

The younger brother wanted more power to become as powerful as his older brother so to become stronger the younger brother looked through scrolls and books of ancient arcane arts but found nothing, but after the passing of his late master he was left to study dark magic on his own.

One day the younger brother set out to explore an ancient tomb of long dead dark magic masters, on his way down there were many traps guarding the tombs of the masters but they were traps that only another dark magic user can avoid, the younger brother came to this tomb because his late master had told him about all the different types of dark magic spells that could be found before he passed away.

So with his wits he descended deeper into the tomb avoiding traps and falling down some stairs, as the young wizard finally reached the last floor he was first greeted by the ghost of the old dark magic masters and being close to the level of a dark magic master they welcomed the young wizard with open hooves.

As he approached an ancient library one master in particular was relentless with trying to get the young wizard to read open a certain book called the Book of Lilitu, as the spirit became more relentless the young wizard searched for the book to make the spirit stop bothering him, but little did he know that it was a trap, as young wizard opened the book the spirits of the deceased masters tried to stop him but was too late as a dark mist appeared out of the book and flew straight into the young wizard, this dark mist was the spirit of Lilitu, Lilitu was once a pony but now he is a spirit that can only possess any dark magic users.

In possession of the young wizard's body Lilitu left the tomb and headed straight for the wizard temple, as Lilitu was heading towards the temple he went to an old battlefield where many had died, he was there because he needed an army and so he rose an army of undead.

As Lilitu was now just in front of the temple, he looked at all the apprentices with disgust as he had a flashback, Lilitu's spirit was imprisoned in a book after his defeat by the hooves of another dark magic user, he was once a specialist in dark magic but he was too good to the point that he believed that dark magic is the only magic ever needed so he started killing many unicorns that couldn't use dark magic, but to his surprise all the dark magic masters of his time did not share in his belief and brought down the mad wizard, but it would seem that history was about to repeat itself as Lilitu commanded his undead army to attack the temple, but the elder brother of the wizard that he was possessing confronted him.

" What have you done brother!?" the elder brother shouted.

" I have no brother!" Lilitu replied back in the younger brother's voice.

" What has happened to you!?" the elder brother asked.

" I have been enlightened to the false reality of this world." Lilitu answered in the younger brother's voice.

It was then that the elder brother realized that it truly wasn't his younger brother that he was talking to, but before he could get anymore answers, Lilitu teleported away, but he told the elder brother where they will meet again. As the elder brother shook himself out of shock, he quickly ran to the aid of the other wizards.

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After getting rid of the undead army the wounded were given treatment, luckily no pony died, but with what had happened the wizards of the grand wizard council gathered to a meeting, the elder brother was the youngest of the grand wizard council.

" Was that truly Dark Spectre?" one of the grand wizard masters questioned.

" No, I have talked to him and he did not sound like the brother I knew." the elder brother replied to the grand wizard master.

" Of course he is not, the actions he has made were exactly similar to Lilitu." an elder grand wizard replied.

" Who is Lilitu elder grand master?" the elder brother asked.

" Lilitu was once a powerful dark magic user like your brother, but he is not like your brother, he wishes that all unicorns that do not use dark magic to perish." the elder grand master answered.

" How can we stop him and get my brother back?" the elder brother asked.

" The only way to stop Lilitu is to seal him away and that means your brother as well, if Lilitu does not have a host then he will die." the elder grand wizard answered leaving the elder brother in shock. The elder grand wizard gave the elder brother a banishment spell to use on his brother and Lilitu since the elder brother uses light magic the polar opposite of dark magic. With a clear goal in mind the elder brother headed out to seek his brother and try to reason with him against the elder grand master's wishes.

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The elder brother had ventured over mountains and ended at a frozen land later known as the Crystal Empire, and standing on the edge of a glacier was the demon that possessed his brother, the elder brother teleported himself to the top of the cliff to stand on equal ground with his younger brother.

" Greetings to you, brother." Lilitu greeted in his own deep voice.

" If you're still in there you have to fight him brother!" the elder brother shouted.

" It is no use, your brother belongs to-" Lilitu replied but was cut off.

" I do not belong to you demon!" the younger brother shouted to himself.

" Can you not stop him brother?" the elder brother asked.

" No I cannot, his will is too strong brothe-" the younger brother tried to warn but was cut off.

" You have no power over me!" Lilitu shouted to himself.

" Give me my brother back you fiend!" the elder brother shouted.

" If you want him back then you will have to take him by force!" Lilitu shouted back as he shot a shadow bullet.

" I will get my brother back!" the elder brother shouted as he shot a bullet of pure light.

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Lilitu and the elder brother battled each other as the elder brother tried to weaken Lilitu long enough for his brother to take over. As the two fought neither of them weakened or tired. But the elder brother was caught off guard and was trapped in a box of shadow but he broke the spell with his magic and sheer will to save his brother.

As Lilitu was shot by the elder brother's spell the Spear of Heaven he was weakened enough to lose control to the younger brother.

" It's no use brother, you must seal me with him!" the younger brother shouted.

" I will not seal you awa-" the elder brother replied but was cut off.

" If you do not seal me away you will endanger all unicorns and possibly all of Eques!" the younger brother interjected. " We may be brothers but please, let me do something good for once in my life." the younger brother begged.

The elder brother was shocked with his younger brother's request but knew the consequences if he didn't seal his brother away, with all the will that he could muster he sealed his brother away in the glacier, but little did the elder brother knew that Lilitu left the younger brother's body just before he was fully sealed but pieces of him was still in the younger brother's body, with Lilitu gone some of his power was sealed away with the younger brother's body in an eternal tomb.

The elder brother was praised by all as a hero while his younger brother was known only as a fallen wizard that went mad, but the wizards of the grand wizard council and the brother's parents respected him as a hero for committing the ultimate sacrifice by letting himself be sealed away from the living to prevent Lilitu from possessing any other pony, since he was the last dark magic user to live Lilitu will eventually die without a host.

                                                                              *  * 200 years after the war for resource *  *

As the Crystal Glacier of the Crystal Empire started to melt away an ancient being lies in wait behind the ice in the form of a slumbering wizard. This is the Wasteland of Equestria, a place that will be all new to the this wizard, a place that will test his wits, courage, and will.

* End Of Prologue *