Son of Shadow and Light

by Lux Tenebris

chapter one: A brave new world

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"I have to go", he said as he hugged her. The wind howled around them on the little hill over looking the frozen lake.

"No-o, please stay!", she said holding him tighter with her forleg. But no matter how much force she used he still started to slip away.

"Farewell Autumn", he said and was ruffly janked away from her by black tentacles.

"No!", she screamed and ran after him. He was being pulled away from the hill and was dragged on to the ice. He didn't struggle, he just looked..., defeated. Autumn didn't care, she was so close to get him back.

"Just a little more", she said and kept running. She looked ahead to see were the tentacles was comming from and gasped. There, just a few meters ahead, was a hole in the ice. A hole she reconiced...

"Nooo!!!!!! You're not taking him from me!!! ", she yelled and picked up her pace. She was just two meters from him now, if she jumped she could make it. So she did, she jumped and stretched out her hoof to grap him, but she missed with barley a centimetre. She hit the ice hard and she groaned in pain. She quickly got up just to see the tentacles pull him under the ice cold water. She ran towards the hole with all her migth, but when she got close to the hole a shockwave hit her, forcing her to fly backwards on the ice. She looked up to see black smoke rising from the hole, and the normal ice turned a red colour. The smoke started to surround her and she was trapped in a matter of seconds. A chilling laughter could be heard from the smoke. It sounded like it was all around her, waiting to attack. Suddenly a figure came forth from the smoke, a red curved horn was the first thing she noticed, the a crown, armor and a cape was visebly. Then two bloodred eyes stareted to shine and a whisper sounded in the wind.

"Crystals...". Autumn screamed in fear and ran but the smoke had enclosed in a dome like structure. He chuckled darlky and started to walk towards her.

"You think you can run from me Autumn?...", he said getting closer.

"I tamed the crystal empire under a nigth!", he was really close now...

"I enslaved all the crystal ponies under a hour!", just one more stepp ...

"I know every dark spell in existence!", he screamed and used his magic to lift Autumn up in the air.

"DO YOU THINK YOU CAN ESCAPE ME?!", his voice ecoed across the lake and he slamed her down on the ground. She coughed and looked and up at him. His eyes looked like the gates of tarterus them self, the blood red iris and the blackness behind them was consuming her and she did the only thing she could think of, she screamed...

She woke up whit a blood curling scream feeling something on top of her, holding her fore and back-legs down. She trashed around until she fell on a wodden floor. She groaned and got up, she was in a wodden wagon. She looked around and then saw a door to her left, the wagon had many shelves with potions on them and the entire thing screamed "new" or "different". She opend it and stepped out, the light blinded her for a second but she soon layed her eyes on a village, a zebra village to be exact.

"Razor!, she woke up!", a male voice said loudly. One of the three zebra stallions that had saved her walked up to her and smiled.

"Good morning miss Wheat, I'm Zap", he said and stretched his hoof out.

"Where am I?", she asked and moved forward.

"Your in our little Kingdom", he chuckled. "Come on, the chief would want to meet you", he said and walked towards a big tent.

She followed him and loked around the village. Kids where running around and adults where doing everyday activities, it was a long time since she had seen anything so NORMAL. She had missed it.

"The Chief won't bite" he said with a smile. "He isn't even really a chief, he's our king. We just call him chief" he said and entered the king's tent.

"She's here", Zap said and made room for her, the tent itself was much larger on the inside then on the outside.

Autumn was amazed by how the seemingless magical free zebra's could even create something like this in the first place. Book shelves and chests as well as small tables was all around her, in the middle of it all was a large wodden table. A large zebra stallion sat on a wodden throne surrounded by what could be advisor at the wodden table.

"Ahh you must be Autumn Wheat" the king said with a smile and silenced his advisors.

"Y-yes" she squeaked out not entirely sure what to feel about this situation yet.

"You do not need to fear me young one" he said and walked up to her. He was twice the height of Zap and a crown of silver sat upon his head. She nodded slowly and Zap looked at the king like he was gonna say something really bad...

"The king of shadow's are dead... We're terribly sorry for your loss Autumn..." the king said.

Autumn hang her head low. She had expected this but to actually hear that he was dead... A small part of her had hoped he had been taken prisoner, that someone had seen that all of this pain had been the demon's doing not his. But that wasn't reality, reality sucked and seemed to hate her right now... she walked out of the tent followed by Zap.

"Autumn wait.." the king said and followed her.

"What?..." she whispered out

"We had you checked out for your injuries while you was out, and... you're pregnant..." he said and looked at her.

She stopped in her tracks and her mind screamed no over and over again. She was supposed to have a foal with Sombra, not that thing that took him from her. They where gonna teach their foal about dark magic and to not fear it nor darkness. But now this was never gonna happen, all because that demon. Tears streamed down her cheeks as she started to run, she had to get away from it all before she broke down into a crying mess. Zap tried to run after her but was stopped by the king, he knew she needed space and only sent a scout after her so she wouldn't run to far away. She ran and ran, the tears and sobbing growing stronger with each step she took. Soon she found herself in a forest and she colasped onto the ground, to emotionally drained to keep running and she curled up, through the night you could her her sobs until they was replaced by a calm breathing of a sleeping pony.


Author's Note

Ahhh first real chapter! So give me your thoughts please in the comments below. I'm using this story to develop my writing, I hope the more I write the better I'll become. I would like to write up to 3000 words per chapter but now when school have started I really don't got the time. :twilightsheepish: Anyway thanks for reading

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