Dark Caves And Dark Secrets

Everyone who needed a distraction or interested in what I had to say began to gather around me. Flicking my fingers towards the fire it grew quite a bit and filled the cave with warmth gathering more listeners. I even caught a glance of Shining giving at least an ear to what I had to say as he set up our things for deeper exploration. Reaching in my bag I pulled out the book Granny Smith gave me. I opened to the first page and cleared my throat.

“This is the story of Human history part one by C.S…….”

In the beginning there were 6 human tribes and all stood for different beliefs. The first was that of the sun, their fire stood for happiness, Love, rage, and rebirth. The second was that of the moon they were calm like still water standing for grace, honor, and life. The third was the tribe of the wind, cherishing freedom and chasing their destiny. The fourth was the tribe of the earth, Standing strong and unmovable with their determination. The fifth was the tribe of the storm, thrill seekers only committed to accomplishing the impossible. The 6th was the tribe of blood, they believed in charity and good health, for the most part. Each tribe had amazing gifts used for war and improvement. As conflicts escalated lines were drawn between the tribes and allegiances fell to one of the two banners the sun and moon. The ruling classes of both sides created new spells and new weapons to one up each other. Caster types of weapons were put in the hands of magically sterile individuals making everyone a threat to the other side. Apollo Sun the first was the king of the Solar empire, in a act of peace forged a weapon from a star and presented it to Lunaris the king of the moon ending the war. The two sides bounded well, even after decades of fighting and eventually came to every accept a new normal state of living. Every new king or queen would be a elected from the generational titles of the Sun, moon, or star.

In time the internal conflict was non existent but outside pressure began from the other empires pushing them to engage in conflict. The final straw happened when griffin kind invaded holy land for farming purposes. The griffins had been losing ground to the equestrian empire for years and they were on the verge of collapsing. In retaliation the king sent the 1st mountain division and formed a new geographical barrier in between the griffins and humans. Some saw the act as cowardice others praised the king for not wasting lives on a war. Within the following year the griffin empire fell to Equestria and 90% of its population was put under a form of slavery. The other 10% made their way to the top of the of the new mountains to regroup and grow in number for years to come. Continued in part two.
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Closing the book. I rose my attention to the crowd shocked to see them all still very attentive to what was next.

My words couldn't come fast enough as Shining stood up “Time to do some exploring men, I'm taking Sun so story times over sadly, Smash and Crash you are coming too, everyone else just see to the wounded and keep the fire lit.”

Turning he began moving to deeper in the cave, I removed most of my armored plating and followed after the three.

Deeper in the cave

As we walked the walls of the cave glowed many colors from the millions of gems protruding from the walls. The soldier known as Crash didn't hesitate to stop every five steps to try and pull them out of the walls. I couldn't criticize him to much as I grabbed quite a bit as we walked.

The coolest thing about geological manipulation magic or earth magic is what kind of cool shit you can do with gems. I held a large purple gem in my hand, squeezing my palm and focusing my magic the hilt of a sword began to form.

I felt a nudge from the back looking back Smash and Crash were giggling like school girls, “So what's up with you and the commanders sister or all the elements for that matter?”

It took me so off guard that I just stared at the two. They then laughed at what I had in my hand. The crystal sword I was trying to make turned into a crystal figurine of all my friends and me with smiling faces. I stuck it in my pocket grumbling while the laughing persisted.

To distract myself from the childish guards I pulled up my sleeve to reveal a perfectly normal arm besides the scars ,100% free of black veins to the naked eye.

This caught the eye of shining, “I’m guessing a pony gave you most of your scars.”

“Some but most are actually from pit fighting and working.”

“No offense Sun but aside from your scars you don’t seem like much of a pit fighter.”

“I understand but I was a lot more bloodthirsty when I was younger, I was a five star threat level by age 12 and got the name Red Death.”

“Red Death?”

A dumb little smile spread across half my face the other half cold and serious, “ I drew human symbols on myself and would dye my hair, both in red and all my weapons were red. The other part of the name is obvious.” Our footsteps echoed off the wall and for a couple seconds that was the only noise in the cave.

Shining finally spoke up, “At least my sister and her friends are in good hands”, He looked over at me and smiled.

We walked the rest of the way exchanging funny stories about the girls and comparing Shinnings childhood to mine. The more I thought about it, shouldn't everyone back home know about my past pit experiences, they probably think it would make me mad bringing it up.

Conversation died as a large wooden door came into sight, we took point and I went to grab the handle… A blink and the door was gone and I was reaching for nothing and Crash was in the room with the door attached to his horn.

“Fucking celest Crash you almost took off my fucking hand.” My attitude melted into awe as the room was now wide open. The walls were glowing jet black crystals I don’t know if glowing is even the right word but it was easy to see in the room and the dark pool of what seemed like ink would occasionally glow purple or green. We all stood on the edge as Shining pulled out a communication gem and talked to his second in command. I looked back at the others. They appeared off , hunched over and muttering. Grabbing Crash on his shoulder he rapidly spun on me a decrepit smile spread across his face a jagged smile showed and a pair of green eyes with purple essence coming off the sides.

Selene screamed in my head, “Nightmare plague from being close to the bath Sun knock him out now before …..”.It was to late Crash and Smash flung themselves at me and Shinning. Grabbing the oncoming Crash by the throat I kicked out his legs with my heel and planted his head in the floor hard enough to knock him out. Shinning wasn’t as lucky as me and got thrown into the pool and It began to glow and spark in reaction. I activated my magic and placed my foot down hard sending a stone podium into the gut of Smash knocking him out. Turning towards the pool I reached out with my magic trying to manipulate the liquid and immediately my fingers started burning like I put them in boiling water. Looking at the two passed out guards and then the pool I gave a huff, “For my comrades", I pulled off my hoodie diving into the dark liquid.

My lungs burned along with my skin as if thousands of hands pulled me deeper and deeper I couldn’t help but think about the girls as the dark inky liquid around me laughed at my pursuit of Shinning. My arms began to go limp and I found myself looking into a great light…. I wish I could swim.

Void

Birds chirping and the warm breeze of a morning filled my senses. My eyes flicked open to reveal a familiar cottage and a certain yellow Pegasus in my arms. My mind began to race, how did I get here, what's going on but that was all silenced by the yawn of Fluttershy as she rolled herself up in the blankets and sat up to look at me.

"Did you sleep well Sun?"

"Yeah I guess, I did but by any chance do you know how I got here?"

And like nothing I've ever herd from her she gave a cutesy giggle "Well of course it was Thursday night the same night you spend the night every week." I must of hit my head or something.

"I think I'm having amnesia by any chance do you know who's night it is tonight?"

"Well of course it's Rainbow's..." She switched to almost a whisper, "If you want to stay another night I think I could work something out."

"We can talk about it later with her. I think I'm going to wash up and go for my morning run."

She smiled in return, "Of course like every morning besides Sundays." I rolled out of bed and headed to the bathroom. I haven't even told Spitfire about my old running schedule and she trains me 90% of the time. Stepping into the room the reflection I looked at didn't match my face. Red hair covered my head with red lines running down my face and neck but the same emerald eyes stared back at me as usual. I washed my face and noticed two holes in my neck. What the fuck happened there? Trying not to panic I throw on my Aj hoodie and black cargo pants. Making my way down the stairs and into the kitchen Fluttershy stood sucking an apple in to a husk with two large fangs. I could feel my stomach drop as my neck marks made since now. She still smiled at me.

"I'm out see you later." She threw me an apple.

"Till next week stud." A shiver ran down my back, you are so not Fluttershy.

I was finally free from the weird knock off and down the road within thirty seconds of turning the knob but sadly only the weird shit continued. The once golden sun in the sky was now jet black but still made it bright out some how. Continuing on my way into town the apparent lack of ponies just helped to grow the knot in my stomach. Sugar Cube Corner always has ponies coming in and out. I ran to the sweet shop and peeked in the window to my shock not one pony. The sign even said open, pushing the door in it was deserted but the sound of shuffling in the basement proved at least someone was home.

"Hey Pinkie where you at?" It was silent for a couple second followed by creaking from the back steps. The usually ecstatic voice was cool as a flowing river.

"Hey Sun what brings you around on a Friday?" I didn't really have answer besides the whole I think I'm going crazy thing.

"I just wanted to come in and check on how everything was going today."

"Well matter of fact I just finished a project If you wanted to check it out."

"Sure sounds good to me." I has dropped the apple that fake Fluttershy gave me earlier so any kind of food especially anything Pinkie made would be perfect. She turned and headed to the basement, I followed in suit . Each step on the way down was creaking a warning and setting me on edge to the still pitch black basement emitting a rancid smell.

The voice of Pinkie was that of Ice, "Are you ready Sun, I think you are gonna enjoy this one." The words I wanted to say sat in my own throat as the terrible smell made me more and more nauseous .

"Yeah of course I'm ready." With that the light flashed on and the world stopped turning. Misfits oh my dear Misfits, the flayed corpses of the gang members covered the walls each a different contortion of their former selves. One had his rips busted open and his entrails reached the floor. Others had their eyes ripped out and still managed to stare back into me. All the unicorns had their horns removed and were stabbed back into their hearts. Many many others covered the walls but the hulking body of Boss caught my eye, Crucified and ribs open like others but his heart was...... Still beating. The massive organ was covered in frosting and flowers. My look of terror reached the Pink monster that orchestrated this horror only for her to be smiling back at me. This isn't her just like Fluttershy, this fakes hair was straight and her smile crooked. I stumbled backwards the thundering of my heartbeat in my ears muffled the words she tried to speak to me. I fled up the stairs and jumped the counter. Kicking the door clean off the hinges I could hear the laughter of the mare follow me out into the street. Falling to my knees my stomach released its contents on the street. To my horror it was a puddle of black inky slime and in the center of the puddle was Selene. Picking up my necklace I began to run from this cursed place. The words of the Pink mare carried on the wind.

"See you Tuesday night Sun."

"Like hell you pink demon." I continued down the street at a brisk pace to put some distance between me and that nightmare. I herd a door open and it was Rarity's shop and from where I was I could see the interior was full of webs suspending many skeletons, I'm not even trying that one. I looked to the next best location for an explanation, Twilights
castle.

Twilight's Castle

Slamming the giant doors behind me I fell to my butt and caught my breath. "What kind of fucked up nightmare is this. "Looking at my hand where Selene rested. "Come on don't ignore me."

Very faintly the words came," Twilight's lab ... Mirror.... Kill your shadow." Selene's voice popped and went mute. At least I have some direction. Rising to my feet I began my slow trudge to the lab. The chance that Twilight was going to be normal was slim to none so precaution was necessary so no magic and light step was required. Sneaking around made me question even if the fourth princess was even here. The labs doors were wide open and had no signs of life but what the lab did contain was a rather large full mirror. Walking up I could feel the magic aura present in it. Pressing my hand to the glass my hand went straight through. Holding my breathe I walked in.

There was nothing until a single light flickered on. Under the light was a very familiar sword. Grabbing Selene the full voice finally hit me and the necklace in my hand disappeared.

"Sun we are running out of time you need to get back to your body."

"What are you talking about?"

"The bath of sin is eating your magic to recreate Sombra. You are going to die if we don't kill your doppelganger soon."

"Got it." Turning back to the Mirror something was coming through. I could hear Selene hiss out the name

"Sombra." Finally the figure broke the plain and the emerald eyes and the dark spiked hair could only be one person, Me.

"You fucking bastard wearing my face." His eyes narrowed at me and Selene.

"It's only temporary since you will be dead soon."

"Don't count on it Sombra."

He smiled to show spiked teeth and in a sudden shift his green eyes gave off a purple mist. "Let's get this started Child of the Sun."

Sombra's hand glowed as he activated his magic. The dark world turned into a dark forest. The same forest that me and Luna traveled to in my dreams. This shit's just getting weirder and weirder. The ground shook as Sombra activated his magic once more. The ground opened up to reveal a large black sword almost identical to Solaris. "Not much of an original thinker now are you."

"I was the first to think of enslaving humans so I have that."

"Good thing a human is going to kill you." I dashed in Selene drawn.

"You idiots never learn I'm unkillable." He brought his sword to bear. We collided both holding our ground.

"I was suspecting more from you." I kicked Sombra in the chest knocking him off balance. As he staggered backward uncoordinated with my body Selene grazed his chest. The cut bled the same black substance I threw up, gross. I continued moving forward, each strike was met by a deflection but Sombra was running out of clearing. In desperation to end it I raised Selene over my head slashing full might seeking the killing blow. My blade hit nothing as my opponent disappeared into smoke.

"Not like this, not now." His voice came from every direction.

"Face me coward, face your punishment!"

"In time Child of the Sun you will meet your end to my blade."

The bubbling of rage culminated into a large ring of fire around me. "BASTARD!", The fire around me exploded and ripped through the forest. The burned remains of the forest was all that surrounded me. "Damn him."

"Sun we need to leave."

"Got it." The mirror shimmered in the middle of the clearing. Stepping through the mirror blinded me with light.

Bath of Sin

For the second time today I found myself throwing up the black inky liquid but this time alongside Shinning Armor. "How was your dream Shinning?"

He stared at me for a second then gave a attempt at a smile, "A whole lot of Changelings, how about you?"

"Just a fucked up Ponyville and the return of Sombra."His face went cold and he went through another fit of puking. Getting to my feet the bodies of Smash and Crash laid unconscious. I kneeled next to Smash picking him up into a fireman carry. "Yo Shinning you good enough to carry Crash back."

"Yeah I got it he's just full of bullshit anyway. "Shinning picked up Crash in the same manor as I had, as he did I caught a glimpse of black veins running down his arms. Giving my arms a look over revealed that I was in the same boat as Shinning. We were both going to require medical attention before we squared off with Sombra.

Making our way back the cave was hit with many tremors and we had to occasionally stop to remove the cursed fluid from our stomachs. As we made it to base camp other soldiers swarmed us removing Crash and Smash. Shinning immediately grabbed a couple soldiers and pointed at some of the bags we brought then pointed back at the bath they saluted and got off to do what he told them. I was done with soldering for a little bit and sat by my belongings. Strangely I felt rather sleepy nodding off seemed safe for now.

Dream world

The dark sea still raged against the cliff face. I waited for the great voice to sound over the sea like last time.

"The white one is almost upon us!"

"By any chance do you mean Sombra as the white one."

"You fool the white one is that of your own blood."

"My bloodline is dry there is no one left but me."

"The rule of three has never failed, always a minimum of three. Dragons come in a trifecta this is a generational rivalry stretching back ages."

"I am human through and through maybe if you showed yourself you would know that."

"Not physically but the soul of a dragon like your father before you. In time you will come to know my face but first survive the fury of the white one or we will both fade from the history we wish to make. Fire is a freeing force while Ice is a binding force like two opposite sides locked in combat or two brothers competing for conflicting ideals."

"I'm guessing I will be the freeing force in the conflict."

"1000 years young but you are as quick as your father."

"I'm guessing you knew him then."

"Better than anyone and he is very proud of you."

"Tell him to see me sometime so I can repay him for his absence."

"Any kind of apology on my part would just be empty words. If he is ever freed than I believe he will explain everything."

"It's a little late for that but we will see in time I guess crazy voice in the sky."

"I will be watching over you rising Sun."

"Wait! Did you say freed?!?"

[bCave

The shaking by Shinning woke me from my trippy ass dream rather fast. "What is it?"

"Something went wrong with the demolition team, they set off the charges in the bath and the cave is collapsing we need to get out now!" There was a large tremor and I leaped to my feet. Snapping my fingers my armor was on. I then gathered the rest of my snow gear and put it on marginally fast.

"Selene", I called in my head." I need you ready I don't like this". My sword was now in my hand and I made my way out of the cave into the black snow covered ground. This wasn't snow it was ash, looking up the mountain was moving and spewing black smoke.

Shinning's voice sounded over the chaos, " Everyone back to the Empire stay close with the injured while in the blizzard, me and Sun will be right behind you."

I turned toward him, "We aren't going?"

"Not until the jobs done." As soon as the words left his mouth the mountain shook and split in two. The top was beginning to stand up and looked human! The giant hulking mass bent down grabbing a rock the size of a train car. It then proceeded to throw said rock at our retreating force. To my amazement Shinnings magic covered the whole force and protected against the terrestrial comet.

"Damn can you teach me that sometime?"

"Maybe but my specialty is protective magic so it might be tricky to learn."

" Want to see my specialty Shinning?"

"Let it rip Sun." I focused all I could until I felt exactly where the giant stood. My hands began to glow a distinct yellow, pressing them up the earth under the giant began to shift and rise but not enough. I began to break a sweat at the weight of the giant, I got into a squatters stance my body meeting physical resistance to the demand of the weight. With another thrust upwards and the giant fell to its ass causing a small earthquake. I pulled my hood off and wiped the sweat off my fore head.

"Damn he was heavier than I thought." Shinning Armor pulled his googles down staring at me wide eyed.

"Remind me to never get you angry Sun."

"Noted, now lets meet up with the..."I felt a disturbance, spinning on my toes the giant rock was almost on us. The wall of rock from my magic came up in the last second to keep us from being completely squashed on impact. The wall blew apart sending me and Shining soaring and tumbling through the snow. I got up and ran over to my comrade he lay clutching his leg . A large rock was imbedded in his leg, "Don't move and don't pull it out. I need to slow the giant down before we can retreat into the blizzard. I earned a grunt in response. Looking up to my amazement the blizzard was concealing us but I couldn't risk the chance that thing gets lucky with a rock. "Selene I'm going to need everything if we are going to make it out of this."

"Understood, I've got a possible solution as well. Does the magic word Gravitos mean anything to you?"

"No is it a spell?"

"Yes it's a powerful gravity spell Luna used on large or fast opponents to better manage them. It's similar to earth magic focus on a area of effect but just with the added use of a word."

"I will give it a shot." I sized up the behemoth and reached out my right hand "Gravitos". The blue magic circle went around the giant and the effect became obvious its movements became awkward and slower, "Holy shit it worked!"

"Okay Sun the last thing is a spell called Excel its a platform and speed spell that lets you stop in mid air as well as get a large boost of speed to propel you, prepare yourself before you try this it could get dangerous if you do it straight into a attack. I'm just looking for an escape so taking out the arms should do the trick.

"Excel!" Like that I was flying and within a second I was past the giant. I activated the spell once more landing on the blue magic circle in the air and aimed for the left arm. Flying through the air once more I brought Selene to bear slicing part way through the rock, boomeranging back I cut the arm again. "This is taking to long I'm already low on magic from the bath Selene we need to finish this in one blow no escaping to deal with it later."

"Put all your energy into your Gravitos and use one last strong Excel to pierce through it's neck. Its based on human anatomy you will hit the spine it will sever the magic. "Focusing on both my spells I sent my self high into the sky and the stronger gravity brought the giant to its knees. I was almost floating from the upward force my feet above my head as I stared down at the snowy ground below.

"Lets do this... Excel!" The split second flight was bitterly cold but was worth it as Selene's magic black blade split the neck apart in a shower of rock and the Giant went limp as a giant pulse of dark magic exploded from my attack. "No more magic for awhile." Sliding down the side and gathering Shinning we began to make our way to the empire.

The walk

The frost bite was after me and Shinning begging us to lay down and take a nap we wouldn't wake up from. Selene made me aware the only reason I was able to use those spells was she stretched part of my hex using the excess magic from the bath.

We walked for what seemed like days and we would pass frozen husks of Windegos. This was unsettling because they are almost immune to the snow and ice. It would take a master of ice magic to manage that and no one in Shinning's unit uses ice magic at that caliber.

"Ice is a binding force."

"What did you say Sun."

"It's nothing just something someone told me once." The lights of the Empire seemed far off but the hallucinations had already set in and I couldn't tell what was real.

Night began to fall as the the light of the dome came into view in my googles. It was almost in a constant layer of obscurity from my breathing and the blizzard. Like so many winter nights before my heat fled my limbs to my center leaving every movement painful and sacking my energy. Unlike those nights though the legitimacy of what I was seeing was in question. I had to keep moving as the preying eyes of the blizzard still stalked me looking for a sign of weakness in my resolve. It could easily be a wendigo or frost giant but the ominous warning combined with the vicious use of ice couldn't come at a more opportune time in my life. The icy wind broke and like a knife through butter the storm disappeared to reveal the night sky in all it's glory. I watched the lights dance across the sky as I walked forward free of obstruction.

"Selene do you think Luna or any of the girls are thinking about me right now?" I distracted the soul bound to the necklace as I pulled the dark energy from Shinning's body before it could sink it's claws in any deeper.

"For a matter fact I know Luna won't sleep until you're back home."

"I think I'm going to spend some time in Ponyville when I get back maybe build a house and settle down in the future."

"I like that, think positive Sun."

"I also have Ponyville memorized so any unwelcomed visitors are going to be hard press to catch me." The over whelming sense of eyes behind me compelled me to turn around. Just beyond the grasp of the blizzard stood a cloaked figure in all white. I pulled my googles off to get a better look, he wore a mask to cover his face but what stuck out was his glowing blue eyes and the large scythe sheathed on his back. "The White one lets me walk from this cage for now."

Selene's voice was calm and studying, "He moves like a ghost."

"In a way he might be a ghost. Dead by the chains that he binds himself to, It's kind of sad in a way."

"It's not the first time these lands bore witness to a great battle of the sun and moon let's just hope history can repeat itself."

"I guess we will have to see about that." I turned my back to the figure in the storm and I believe he did the same to me as we both went our separate ways for now.

Inside the dome

The heat washed over us as we permeated the barrier and I collapsed on to my knees then gently dropping Shinning before going face down in the grass. "If I had any magic left I would totally set myself on fire right now."

Shinning's groggy voice sounded next to me, "Make that both of us."

"You should be used to it at least they just sent me up here."

"I guess you have a point Sun maybe I should take a vacation south soon."

"I would recommend it the colors of the trees this season are just so not frozen it truly is beautiful."

"The only thing you find beautiful Sun is my sister and her friends."

"Oh Celest I don't need another Luna in my life right now."

"I'm just giving you a hard time I know what kind of stall.... what kind of man you are."

"And what's that an earth moving pyromaniac."

"Nope a guy who's going to act like he isn't anything special while being the torch holder for the little guy even at cost to himself. I mean you beat the shit out of a mountain Sun a fucking mountain."

"I'm glad to hear you say that Shinning but I'm having trouble keeping my eyes open and I'm very aware the next time I open my eyes I will be in the hospital. So I will see you then Commander."

I could hear him sigh and then laugh, "You're dismissed." I threw up a mock salute as my eyes shut.

Hospital

The empty cold air filled my lungs as I began to sweat, tossing and turning all the while. The sickness ranged from magic deficit syndrome from my hex sucking my system dry of any new magic, frostbite from the cold, A common cold, and the cherry on top of the cake was stage 2 nightmare plague possession. The black veins spread out from over my heart like 1000 years worth of tree roots, some crawled the lengths of my arms and neck while some sprawled down my torso to my legs but all were unsightly and resembled black electricity running through my body.

I raised myself from the bed my sickly body wrapped in my tight fitting Celestia hoodie and my black cargo pants plucked from my bag earlier. I raised the hood of the tight fitting hoodie just before I bent over tying my boots and returned to my full height with a sway in my stature before falling on to my hospital bed. I pulled the moon necklace from around my neck.

"Selene can you be a sword that doesn't use magic I think you could kill me or leave me as magically gifted as a earth pony if I have to summon you at regular power."

"Sure Sun but you shouldn't be fighting anytime soon." The necklace transformed into a sword without the regular bells and whistles and found a home through a belt loop on my right side.

"This is going to suck."

"What is?"

"Really anything I have to do at this point." I then noticed a curtain splitting my room in half. Pulling apart the curtain Shinning lay in the bed and I did a not creepy scan of him to check for black veins and like that the door creaked opened to reveal princess Cadence.

Like a deer in headlights I stared at the princess, "Is he going to be okay princess?"

"For the most part yes Sun but its you everyone is worried about."

"Why is that?" She held up the mirror and a broken reflection looked back at me, My right eye glowed green with purple fog rolling off while my left was that of a wine red. My right eye had the same black veins sprawling around the skin surrounding my eye and going down my neck. my chest got really tight, "Cadence am I going to die?"

I could see the lie forming in her eyes, "N...."

"Tell me the truth", My voice as cold as the ice that put me here.

"We are preparing something we think might help but Sun your body won't heal itself and after trying to force more magic in your system it would just make your eye glow more red with little to no effect elsewhere."

"I'm not going to end like this."

"I'm sorry Sun."

"I think I want to be left alone." I moved past the princess and pulled my hood deep over my head and exited the room. I found the closest exit and pushed the door open to a sickening sky of black rolling towards the empire. I stared the sky like a endless void, the clouds occasionally releasing long strands of green lightning that shook the earth. I could hear the door I had just exited from re open, turning I saw Cadence. "He is coming for me isn't he?" She remained silent as tears were becoming visible in the corners of her eyes. "I can do it you know, fight to the end I mean. I did it once a long time ago."

"Sun I'm not going to send you to die!"

"I only die if I give up."

The tears finally came, "Sun why are you so willing to just throw yourself back into the fight?"

"Because up until accouple months ago I lived my life for myself ignoring the responsibilities to my people and all the suffering that they have gone through and will keep going through until something changes or I die."

"You will do better alive."

"I can't preach salvation if I can only provide it at the best of times."

She wiped the tears slipping down her face "Well Sun you have 48 hours to settle things before the storm is upon us."

"I will make the most of it." I turned to face her my goofy grin stretched proudly across my demonic face.

"One last thing Sun." She reached back and out of nowhere pulled a syringe and stuck it in my arm. Once injected my eyes became pinpricks and I twitched slightly as the black veins were extinguished and the slight presence of my own magical aura appeared. "Before you ask its a anti magic steroid it subdued all magic in your system until you try and activate it next and if you give it time you will have your magic back."

"Then I need to pass the time before trouble can find me."

"There's a library run by a human down the street if you are interested."

"Sounds good to me." I turned from the princess.

"Sun take this." I turned around to the princess holding out a black eye patch to me. I reached out and took it and slid it over my possessed eye.

"Thanks." A slight crack in my voice broke my iron willed charade and I quickly set off before my own emotions could sink their hooks in further.

Library

Slipping through the crowds was easy as everyone hurried towards safety oblivious of my presence as Sombra's wrath loomed over the empire for the second time in recent history. I came upon the large Gothic style crystal building sticking out like a sore thumb as its dark vibes were almost kin to my hooded presence. The large doors creaked open and slammed leaving me in a foreign land of knowledge and long dead secrets all available under natural crystal light. I scanned the library but that only revealed shady characters and the question of how big this place actually is as no depth was certain from the door. I walked up to the librarian who sat behind a counter with a pair of reading glasses firmly placed on her face increasing the overall vibe of old age and experience.

I slumped my way over keeping my eye to the floor, "Excuse me but where is the royal human history section?"

"It's in the far back." There was a long pause and I believe she was looking at me. My curiosity over powered my staring contest with the floor as I pulled my eyes up to reach the gaze of the librarian with my one eye. "Where are you from stranger?" I put on a smile to lower her defenses.

"Ponyville."She studied me heavily at my simple response.

"Did you ever meet that Sun fellow I herd he was out there awhile back?"

"yeah I ran into him briefly." Her gaze didn't even shift from me as someone came in and passed us, their aura giving me a chill but I didn't break eye contact worried I would be found out if I didn't persist the staring contest.

"The word in the empire is he is a son of Crimson Sun." I flinched at the mention of Crimson. A grin stretched from ear to ear on her face. "You can't lie to me Apollo Sun your eye gives you away, that's the eye of the dragon of the sun one of the hereditary dragons passed down in the royal linage."

"What are you talking about my name is Sun just Sun." She looked at me quizzically then without words pulled out a giant dusty book and flipped to a giant family tree. Following her old finger to the most recent was Crimson sun who was labeled location unknown spouse/ spouses unknown, offspring Nova Moon status alive location Equestria , offspring Apollo Sun status unknown location unknown, offspring Eclipse Star status alive location Eclipse empire. She tapped her finger on the book and blue magic glowed around her thumb and my name.

"I didn't carry this book for show so let me prove it to you, give me your hand." I reached out and she pressed my hand to the book and It began to glow red as the book updated with my information, Apollo Sun status alive location Equestria."To think after all these years you would find me."

"Who are you!?" Her excited expression returned to normal as she studied my confused face.

"I go by Collector these days but I was once the royal librarian for the Eclipse empire before I left for personal reasons and I'm an expert on your family and your current situation." Her eyes looked passed me for a second and scanned the library. "Lets go to the back and talk privately." She moved from behind the desk and moving to a side door that opened to a smaller private library. Almost immediately she started pulling different books from the shelf.

"Who's my mom?" I asked blankly.

She didn't even pull her head up from the book hunt," No one has ever confirmed the mother of the twins or the other son Eclipse but Eclipse has confirmed you have different mothers and Him and Nova have confirmed your existence which is still considered a myth among most people. Well at least until recently that is."

"Holy shit Eclipse empire? Nova and Eclipse?" I sat down hard and rubbed my face.

"I'm sorry Apollo to overwhelm you."

"There's so many questions but the biggest one was why did they leave me to the slavers?"

"..........you will have to find that yourself but I can teach you about other things."

"Like what?"

"Like anything in these books." She motioned to the massive pile of books. A smile spread across my face, It wouldn't last though as the door we came through was banged on and I turned and took the few strides to the door pulling it open revealed Princess Cadence.

"Hey Sun it's time."

The smile still half on my face as the current situation took my full attention once again. "Let's get me off deaths door step please." Collector was shuffling around behind me."Collec.........."

"Sun take these," A outstretched hands containing two books rested in her frail grasp, I nodded and took the books.

"Thank you very much Collector."

"You are very welcome Prince Apollo."

"I hope to learn a lot more."

"Before you see Sombra just know your brother Nova is closer then he seems."

"Ill keep that in mind." I turned from the old women and made my way out of the beautiful library as Cadence and Collector spoke. The storm seemed to of got worse in the short hour I spent in the library.

Princess Cadence looked at me, "Read anything good Sun?"

"Yeah best thing I ever read actually." She just smiled and I tucked my new books under my arm and headed to the chariot she arrived in. My heads screwed on straight, time to get healthy.

Author's Note

Everyone/anyone reading this I would like to thank you for returning to my story but I would like to ask you to try and re read the chapters with the {R} symbol next to them because of the changes I've made and I believe you can enjoy the story much more now.
Thank you and enjoy

--C.S