Autum woke up feeling drained and broken, she still had the words ringing in her head... "pregnant"... it was like a headache that wouldn't stop. She got up looked at her belly, was this some curse? To bear the child of a demon using her loved ones body?... She walked deeper into the woods, hoping to find something to eat and get her mind of things. She walked past timber wolfs and other creatures, strangely they didn't pay her any mind and it was like they couldn't see her as she passed by. Was this the child's making? Keeping the predators away from its mother? She shook her head and kept walking, she had to find something eventually.

She walked further into the dark Woods, a fog started to form and it stuck to her fur. She shuttered as a wind blew over her and small water drops turned to ice in her mane and eyelashes. She was freezing, why had the fog appeared? It had came out of nowhere and it was making her even colder by the second. She kept walking, stumbling ever so often from stepping on roots or rocks. Something was strange with the shape of the rocks, they looked like they had been cut and golden carvings was all over them. She continued to walk and more carved rocks appeared until she stood in front of a temple, a old one with it's walls crumbling but still standing. She didn't like it, it felt like something rested within, something dark. She turned around but then she heard it, the sound of something shimmering, or that is at least what she thought she heard. She walked slowly towards the opening and looked inside, only darkness met her eyes. She slowly walked into the temple as the rain got more heavy.

"H-Hello?" She called out and looked around, there was no response. She slowly walked further in and yelled out in suprise as black flamed torches light up the area. She covered and looked around, She recognized these walls.... She wasn't in the temple anymore... The black and gray stone floor and walls was those of the crystal empire's dungeon. She wanted to cry, she had finally left them behind to just be back?! Had it all been one of his mind tricks?! The escape?! the zebras?! She just ran towards the stairs and kicked open the door leading towards the cellar of the castle. She suddenly couldn't move, her legs where stuck onto the floor. The black to perfectly carved floor started to take the form of some sort of black sludge like substance. She yanked and pulled but couldn't get away. She felt a tentacle slip around her throat and started to choke her.

"You thought you were free?~ I will never let you go~" said the cold heartless voice of king Sombra in her ear.
"Please..." she said weakly and was thrown into the wall.
"SILENCE YOU WHORE!" He screamed and she looked into his red soul less eyes as she was thrown into her old cell and passed out.

Crystal empire, 8 months earlier
Autum slowly walked through the garden and smiled at all the flowers and crops bathing in the morning sun. She loved spring in the crystal empire, everything just seemed to wake to life and spread happiness across the empire. She walked down to the lane who held her favorite flowers, white roses. She picked up one and sniffed it.

"I love spring" she said with a happy sigh and walked towards a bench. She sat down and saw to her surprise the prince walking into the garden.

He looked exactly like on all the paintings she had seen of him, the diffrance was that he wasn't wearing his crown or his red cape. He seemed walked around the flowers and crops inspecting them. Would he be happy with them? She had worked really hard on making them as outstanding as possible. He walked to her white roses and picked one up, he smiled and then walked over to her.

"Another good harvest miss Wheat" he said with a gentle smile and she was stunned for a second, he knew her name?

"T-Thank you my lord" she said with a quick bow and a blush.

"I do wonder what you do to make them grow so well, I haven't seen this much talent since our last potion master in the art of gardening" he said with another smile and then gave her the rose.

"T-Thanks" she said with a smile of her own and blushed again.

He walked away chuckling and smiling and her eyes followed him until he walked out of the garden. She sighed happily and walked out to her white roses. She giggled and picked up more of the roses, the prince had talked to her! She squealed and ran around like a filly having her first sugar rush, she stopped and giggled to her silliness. She was so surprised that the prince knew about her and she had never seen him close up before. She walked out of the garden with a smile on her face and a white rose in her mane.

present day
Autum woke up and looked around, she was laying on the temple floor. There was no cell to be seen nor any Sombra to fear. She got up and sighed, that memory... Their first meeting was one of her fondest memories and one of the many that hurt the most. Slowly walked further into the temple, if anything had the storm gotten worse during the time she had been passed out. Autum looked around on the walls of the once grand temple and was amazed by the large carvings into the stone. Huge battles and images of old gods was everywhere. One of the battles depicted Zebras fighting what looked like demon figures, the forms of the twisted creatures sent a shiver down her spine as she walked away from the carving. The next depicted a old god, the pony on the carving was a alicorn with a mane and tail looking to be made out of purest fire and light. The name 'Solaris' was carved beneath the image and she remembered seeing that name in some of Sombra's books. The father of princess Celestia and Luna, the king of light. She gaped at the former god of the sun and bowed.

"Oh great Solaris watcher of mortals hear my plee and tell me this is just a bad dream!" Autum said with a shaky voice.

There was no respone and she just folded her ears, it was a foolish thing to do. Calling out to a long dead leader of a dead people. But she needed something, some kind of hope something that would wake her up out of this nightmare and make her feel her lover hug her tight. He would whisper sweet nothings in her ear and she would finally feel safe. She opened her eyes and she found herself not in her lover's embrace but still in the old temple. She finally just gave up on even her small fantasy she had left, he was gone. It hurt, it hurt so much but she stopped trying to only focus on that pain and she continued her journey into the temple.

After walking into a chamber with torches burning with a red low glow she came across a alter with a book on it. "The book of memories to come" it read and she slowly opened it. A misstake she shouldn't have made as she suddenly found herself on a burning battlefield. She starred in horror as ponies sent spells and spears towards each other, blood flooded the ground like water and the ponies screamed and roared as the two armies clashed. It wasn't until she saw the magnificent city of Canterlot on fire she truly knew what she was looking at, war. That word seemed to scream through every soldier and civilian mind alike as above the battlefield princess Celestia fought something in her golden sun themed armor. In her golden aurora a war hammer lashed out towards a smaller pony wearing a silver mask and a black leather and steel armor. The only thing that had made Autum see them had been their siluetes when a lightning bolt had hit the ground, lighting up the sky. The thing that made her gasp about the one that stood against Celestia was the red curved horn and through the eye holes of the silver mask a yellow light softly glowed with purple whips flowing out next to the eyes. A dark mage, with army big enough to take on the capital?! Autum had never been so afraid in her life, not even with her love being taken from her had she feared the feeling of dark magic in the air as she felt now. She ran and ran away from the sounds of battle but wherever she looked blood and the red crystals similar to the crown Sombra ones wore was everywhere. Suddenly a large light burnt the sky and she looked behind her to see a large ball of fire coming towards her, or rather a smaller sun that quickly expanded. A laugh of pure malice could be heard as ponies screamed in pain as they burned alive by the new sun. She kept running and tears rolled down her cheeks as she could feel the heat coming closer. She looked to the sky to see what could only be princess Celestia, but her mane and tail was made out of pure red fire and the cackle that escaped the new goddess of the sun lips had Autum before referred to as a laugh, but now like it was a mix of enjoyment for the pain and suffering on the ground. She looked to the dark mage, he had fallen to the ground and he whispered something as the fire ball that now had consumed the lands hit him.

"We Tenebris rule over fear, we do not let fear rule over us"

Those words was the last thing he had said before dying and somehow she had heard them. As the fire ball test was more of a dome by now was a few meters from her she said those words, repeated them over and over again and it brought her a comfort, a peace she hadn't felt in a long time. As the fire consumed her she didn't feel pain only a calm and deserved peace.

Autum woke up slowly, the book laying next to her and she got up. She looked at the book, it had shown her something that should haunt her even more than what she already had experienced but only that motto seemed to stick with her, not the promise of doom but of a light in the darkness. Something to remind yourself when your standing at death's door, that you're not going down screaming for someone to hold you but rather stating that you won't fear what awaits us on the other side. She slowly walked out of the temple and smiled at the new dat on the horizon as the sun slowly began peeking over the mountains. She smiled a genuine smile and let the breeze carry her mane and tail as she just enjoyed the peace. Slowly a younger zebra mare walks up to her.

"Miss Wheat, you need to come back with me. You have been missing for over a day" she says and looks at Autum

"I'm coming just let me... enjoy this" Autum said with a smile as the sun finally rose above the mountains.

She followed the zebra mare back to the camp where the chief waited for her.

"You entered the temple of memories" he stated to her.

"Yeah I did, I needed shelter" she said and smiled.

"What did it show you?" The chief asked and eyed her suspiciously.

"That a few words can change the world" she said and the pain and dread in her eyes seemed to be almost entirely.

"I was given a gift from his Shadow, a gift not a curse" she said and stroked her belly gently before walking off towards her wagon.

The chief looked curiously at her as she walked away, her sorrow was not forgotten but now it no longer held her in a iron grip. Whatever she had seen inside that temple had changed her, made her believe in a future where she could raise that child. He smiled and turned to advisors and started to talk about the possible new land they could grow crops on. After a brief talk with Razor Autumn got inside her wagon to be met by another pony, he had a blue coat and two yellow eyes. His cutie mark was a sun with a golden sword and his eyes seemed to hold a glow to them she didn't notice at first.

"W-Who are you?" Autumn said and took a step backwards towards the door.

"My name is Loki deer Autumn Wheat and I have heard and seen some stuff about you that are just delightful!" He said and suddenly stood behind her with a stick of... pink fluff? He pushed it into her mouth and paced around her.

"As you might know did the little Crystal empire incident finally make heads turn to Equestria, seeing the power of the sisters, but did you ever wonder why they seemed to know what was going on fast enough to collect their precious elements of harmony and blast your former lover into the ice below? Well I'm here to tell you!" He said dramtically with a mock bow.

"Why would you just tell me this... What do you expect in return?....." She said half flinching when Sombra was mentioned.

"Why? Maybe because you deserve the truth about who gave your lover to the demon to begin with~" he said with a chuckle.

"...Who and how?...." she asked slowly.

"Do you remember a book?~ A special book that Sombra was given by the Equestrian crown~ A book that Celestia herself had written~" he said with a giggle and Autumn's eyes widened.

"....Are you saying that the princess wanted this to happen?... For what?! Trading contracts with different kingdoms?!" She yells into his face.

"Well that and now the other kingdoms will see Equstria as a force of power, a place where great magical potential lies just waiting. This was the princess way to make her kingdom grow, by tearing down another one" he said with a smirk.

Autumn felt sick, like really really sick. She stumbled slightly and her mind raced. Why?! She had met the princess ones and she had seemed like the word good incarnated into a goddess. She remembered that book very well, Celestia had given it to Sombra during the last crystal fair and had told them about the dark spells within it, she had told them that they could serve the empire. And now... It was all gone... It had all worked out as some sick plan to gain power and fame through out Eques.

"You might wonder how I know all of this" Loki said with a smirk.

"...Yes.." she said and looked at him.

"Because Celestia herself sent me to kill you~" he said and his smirk turned into a cold grinn.

"W-What?..." she said and backed into the wall.

"When we were told about that Sombras lover still lived and was PREGNANT! That's when we needed to act, no child can have the right to the lands of the frozen north and having all that power without control. And what I think is so funny is that Celestia herself wanted you to know the truth before you died. I guess she's more sadistic then she lets on" Loki said and slowly drew a blade.

Autumn screamed for help and Loki tsk at her.

"I made the place soundproof the very same second you stepped in and locked the door. You're not leaving alive..." he said and walked up to her swirling the blade.

Time seemed to slow down for Autumn, every swirl of the blade making a drawn out swishing sound through the air and she gave a sob. Just when she had thouht she finally had safety it was gonna end like this. She tossed a vase towards him in desperation but he quickly destroyed it with a swirl of the blade. She backed into a corner and gave a sob in fear. He smirked and raised the blade and thrust it towards her head. For a second Autumn thought her death was upon her, but suddenly the blade melted and the now burning hot liquid flew into the face of Loki by some magical force and he screamed in pain. His fur caught on fire and he stumbled around screaming to any god that might hear him to end his suffering. Some god must have heard him as a throwing knife flew passed Autumn and inbeded itself in his skull painting the wall red. He fell dead to the floor and Razor hugged the now sobbing Autumn close.

"Shhhh its over" Razor said and petted her mane slowly as some other Zebras ran in to put out the burning body.

But Autumn knew this wasn't over. If the crown of Equstria itself was involved then this wouldn't just go away. This would linger like a plague over her and she could only think of one way to make it all go away. Celestia had to pay for her crimes. The goddess of the sun needed to die......

Author's Note

And that's chapter 2! Love it? Hate it? Thinks it's another one of those unoriginal stories you find online(it probably is but why would I care I'm a new writer)tell me in the comments and I'm sorry for the long wait on the chapter, school takes all of your time