(Crystal Empire 1018 years ago)

In the Frozen North, An Empire was shrouded in darkness, despair, and hatred. On the castle`s balcony, A gray unicorn stallion with a black wavy mane and tail, a red curved horn, steel armor on his neck and hooves, a red and white cape flowing in the breeze, and a steel crown with 2 red spires on opposite ends of a gray circle marches out to overlook his kingdom as his slaves trudge to the crystal mines. This evil tyrant is King Sombra, Ruler of the Crystal Empire.

King Sombra had overthrown the previous ruler of the Crystal Empire not too long ago and enslaved his new subjects for his own selfish gain. With his intelligence and mastery of dark magic, He had devised multiple traps throughout his castle to stop anypony who would dare look for the Crystal Heart that he had hidden away. This tyrannical king had plotted out his traps well, A secret stairwell in the throne room that can only be accessed by dark magic, A door that leads to your worst fear if hit with dark magic, a forever going staircase and a trap floor surrounding the Crystal Heart that allows King Sombra to activate no matter the distance.

The clever king may have taken care into his plans that someday, a pony will try to overthrow him and in case they did, He created a spell to wipe the Crystal Ponies memories of the Heart away and only the times he was in power to strike fear and keep the love and light low.

Even with his traps set and loose ends tied, after the first few weeks of his rule, King Sombra was in his study at the bottom of his secret stairwell where he goes to study, write in his journal, or to think. The Shadow King was thinking and many questions floated around in his mind. "What am I missing? I thought I have everything, A kingdom to rule, subjects to torture, and fear to spread, but why do I feel empty?" The answer was clear, but it was not love since his black heart does not allow that emotion, but rather an heir to the throne to continue his work for future generations.

Later that night, King Sombra was out on a nighttime patrol to be sure there were no resistance activity, Some Crystal Ponies speak out against him and Sombra made a new law to arrest anypony who disrespects their king in any way and to be thrown in the dungeons for torture. But as he walked inspecting for any sign of rebellion, He can hear somepony crying. He was well aware of his subjects crying from the torture he`d put them through, but this was a foals crying. Sombra then moved closer in the direction of this crying and followed it into an alleyway, where he saw a gray unicorn colt with a black mane and tail like him, but with a silver streak.

"Hmm, this foal looks a lot like me at a younger age." Sombra thought as he slowly approached the sad colt. The colt looked up and saw the King and tried to hide within himself.

"W-Who are you?" the colt asked with fear dripping from his skin. Sombra did enjoy when his subjects feared him, but he did have limits when it came to foals, fillies, and colts. Sombra bent down to the colts level and replied. "I`am King Sombra, but I must ask why do you cry in this alleyway?"

The colt sniffled, but was still scared of Sombra. He took a deep breathe and answered. "Im alone. My parents dont want me and I-I feel useless, I don`t understand why they would just abandon me and-and." The orphan colt began to sob once more at the memory and Sombra was actually surprised at this.

When he was a colt, He was abandoned by his parents. Afterwards he was taken under the wing of Starswirl the Bearded to study magic and was more advanced than any unicorn his age. After Starswirl died, Sombra continued studying magic and when he was a full adult, He found a book of dark magic that would later corrupt and transform him into the red horned tyrant he would later become.

Sombra then stood up and spoke. "Young one, I ask for you to return with me to the castle so I may make you my son and heir to the throne of the Crystal Empire." The colt perked up at this, A chance to be a part of an actual family and the best part was that it was royalty. H estood up and followed Sombra to the castle.

A few minutes past and King Sombra showed him to his living quarters with a nice large bed and fine furnishing. The colt was excited as Sombra then spoke again.

"Now you must get some sleep, your training will commence tomorrow and I must ask more thing." The colt perked up to Sombra to hear what he was about to tell him. "What is your name?"

The colt then felt down as he replied. "I haven`t got one."

"Then I shall name you Dark Obsidian. Now it is time for bed, I`ll see you tomorrow." With that the door closed and Dark Obsidian got into his bed with a smile on his face to finally have a father and he will become the future king of the Crystal Empire.

(18 years later)

After 18 years of training, Dark Obsidian was a full grown adult with the knowledge of dark magic inside him, although he wasn`t to get his red curved horn like Sombra until after he was crowned the king, but that did not bother him the slightest. Sombra stood to admire his son.

"Your training is complete. Dark magic flows through you and your hatred for your past is strong." King Sombra said approaching Obsidian. "But I do however feel as if we are about meet an enemy possibly more powerful than I and if I were to be defeated, I need to be sure you are safe as well as the Empire."

"What are you suggesting Father?" Obsidian asked with a raised eyebrow. "I will have to freeze you in a crystal to insure you will not age and cast a spell to make the Empire vanish into thin air until I return." Sombra replied as Obsidian understood. Sombra lead Obsidian to the bottom of the stairwell and into a cavern. Obsidian stood ready for his long sleep.

"Good bye my son, soon we shall meet again." Was all Sombra said before his horn activated with dark magic and encased Obsidian in a black crystal cocoon. King Sombra later returned to the throne room and later met 2 alicorns. He knew who they were; Celestia and Luna of Equestria. Wearing armor and carrying a sword and a spear, Sombra summoned a black scythe and Celestia spoke.

"King Sombra, your reign ends, surrender peacefully and quietly and we promise you shall live." Sombra only closed his eyes and smiled wit malice in return. After a few moments he opened them once more to reveal they had turned green and purple mist seeps out of them.

"You underestimate me Princesses; Me and the power I possess." Afterwards King Sombra summoned a large crystal stalk and sent it towards the alicorn sisters, which was quickly deflected. The Princesses see that Sombra will never surrender and began to engage in battle with the evil unicorn king.

With Dark magic aimed at the Princesses and swords and spears being swung at the king, the three ponies fought for the fate of the Crystal Empire, but when Celestia got trapped in her nightmare, Luna became corrupted to Nightmare Moon, She were able to defeat King Sombra. Not before the king was able to curse the Empire, A curse to cause it to vanish until he was free once more, including Dark Obsidian.

(1000 years later)

After being trapped in the ice for over 1000 years, King Sombra had returned as a mass of shadow to take back his Empire. But he is met with a a few ponies in the North he assumed were a threat and immediately tried to take them out. One unicorn stallion was foolish enough to challenge him, but failed and blocked off his magic with crystal shards on his horn. After approaching the Empire, King Sombra faces another difficult task as a shield protected the Empire and prevented him to enter.

When it was down temporarily due to the princess of love`s magic fading, he tried to get in, but as quickly as it was down, the shield regenerated and Sombra got his horn cut off and the piece entering the Empire. With his dark magic, Sombra began to change the landscape to what it once through his horn that sprouted into a black crystal.

"Yesss, Cryssstallsssss." he patiently waited for the shield to fail and laughed maniacally as his horn regenerated and changing the sky into a orange color. A little while later, his alarm surrounding the Crystal Heart was triggered and quickly activated it to trap whoever got that far and will be punished severely.

Once the shield faltered, he entered his kingdom and said "My Crystal slaves." but he saw a baby dragon with the Crystal Heart and took action to try and get it back, his eyes glowed green and red with purple mist flowing out and shouted. "That is MINE!" and quickly made his way toward the castle. On a long crystal stalk, he stood upon it to try and catch the heart and finally retaining his physical form.

But out of the blue, a pink alicorn intercepted him and caught the heart and the falling dragon and once seeing the heart in place he tries to lower his subjects spirits. "What. No. No, Stop!" But when the heart activated its power, Sombra felt himself breaking apart and quickly casted 2 spells to transport Obsidian away from the Crystal Empire and to tether himself inside his horn. When King Sombra exploded, his horn flew as far as 10,000 ft from the Empire, but this wasn`t the end, but rather the beginning to a sweet revenge.

Author's Note

Hello ponies and bronies, Obsidian here to give my 2nd O.C Dark Obsidian another shot, but with an entirely new setup. This was a new Idea that popped into my head after The Forgotten Prince failed and since I haven`t done a King Sombra fic, I decided why the buck not. Also I need feedback otherwise I cannot make it better, so tell me what the problems are so I may try to assess them.

So with high hopes for this read to be a success, be sure to leave a Like, Comment, Favorite, and Follow me if you enjoyed and Chapter 2 is in the works.

So til next time, I`ll talk to you all later.