The Dark Guardian

Darkness.

A binding of shadows.

The stuff we see everywhere each and everyday but never notice it because it's so common.

But the darkness can hide you, protect you, give you strength and serve you. But only if you are willing to let it into your heart are you capable of controlling it.

But oh, the horror you can become if you let it consume you. Examples can be found all around.

Sombra,

Tirek,

even Nightmare Moon.

But unlike them, I can harness the magnificent power of darkness.

I can bend it to my will. I can make it a weapon as well as a shield for myself and others.

Many misunderstand darkness. They think it evil, vile and disturbing.

But I can't blame them for it. The darkness holds great power.

Many have misused it for selfish purposes. They gave darkness a bad name.

But I wanted to show them the error of their ways, to give them one final chance to not test a power that they can't control like I can. But they never listened. Oh well. I tried to warn them.

I am the Lord of Shadows.

The Saint of Strength.

I AM

THE DARK GUARDIAN

Chapter 1: My Arrival ; Log Entries Part 1

[50,000 years ago][Everfree Forest]

I woke up to the feeling of a cool breeze on my hands. My vision was hazy and blurred and my body ached in just about every joint imaginable. As my vision started to clear I noticed everything was a tint of red. I reached up to rub my eyes to only be met with something hard and cold. I soon realized it was a metal helmet and I was merely looking out of the visor.

'What the hell?' I thought. 'I don't remember putting on a helmet.' I then reached for the bottom of the helmet. As soon as I found it, I yanked it off my head to be met with a blast of cold air and the smell of kicked up dirt.

"Ahhh. So much better." I said in relief. It felt like he had worn the helmet while walking through a desert. "Now, where the hell am I?" I looked around the scenery to notice that I was in a smoldering crater in the middle of some forest that had a bunch of trees that looked as if they had scary faces. I then looked up to see the moon at its highest point of the night.

'Wait, was't the sky cloudy?' I thought questioningly. I decided to lay off the question for now. I then looked at the helmet still in my hands. I turned it around so the front faced me. It looked like a mix between a gas mask and a traditional black military grade helmet with two red stripes going down the middle. The metal sides went around to cover the entire head. The eyes were crimson and glowing. Overall it looked really menacing and the glowing eyes only added to the effect.

'Whoa, that's pretty awesome.' I thought. And it was too. 'I should get out of this crater before anything else.' I then started to make my way out of the crater, my knee joints aching all the way. When I finally made it to the edge of the crater and climbed out and fell on my ass because my knees were killing me. I found out just how big the crater really was. It had about a 15 foot radius and was still smoldering.

Oh, how rude of me. Let me introduce myself. My name is Jackson Miller, but my friends just call me 'Jack'. I'm a caucasian male from Canada, but moved to America with my parents at the age of five and lived in Missouri. Nine years later i'm in middle school with good grades and one or two friends. I know, not a lot of friends. I'm independent by nature. My favorite color is black and my favorite time in the 24 hour cycle is midnight. I don't know why, but I always get a calming sensation from being surrounded in darkness. I was about a good 5' 10" in height. My hair is black and I have red eyes. I know, uncommon color. Hurray for little miracles.

Before I was in the strange forest I was in now, I was laying on a moonlit grassy hill outside my house admiring the starry skies. But I began to feel a strange sensation starting at my feet and was working its way up my body. It felt like the pricking feeling when you foot falls asleep. I looked to see what it was but my search held no answer.

'My feet must be asleep.' I thought, claiming that to be the reason for the feeling. But then it started to consume my body. I started to panic, but as soon as the feeling reached my head, I blacked out.

But now I feel different. I feel taller, stronger and more flexible. I then notice that the clothes I was wearing were not my own. My attire had changed. I looked myself over and I found I was now wearing a black trenchcoat with red lines outlining the edges and a red streak on each arm. It had a small pouch on the lower part of the trenchcoat on each side. I had armor on underneath the trenchcoat that I identified as a strangely comfortable cross between riot gear and light metal plated armor. I could feel the riot armor plates underneath the trenchcoat. I also had a black t-shirt and very dark grey cargo pants on underneath the armor along with steel-toed boots. I had a bandolier to top it all off.

As soon as I finished my inspection of my attire I heard a scream from somewhere nearby. Now, know something about me. No matter how hard I try, I can't just deny a cry for help. As quickly as I could, I dawned my helmet and without a second thought I ran towards the scream at a much faster rate than I normally could have ran before. This didn't bother though because someone was in trouble and I might be their only chance.

[Canterlot][Present day]

Twilight raced through the halls to get to the throne room to converse with Princess Celestia on the recent discovery of the dark crystal caverns. She had just made an important discovery about the caverns creation and how the extremely rare dark crystals and blood crystals formed there over 49,000 years ago. While running down the halls she summarized what she had just discovered about the crystals. As she reached the throne room doors she did a last summary on her information. She opened the door to the throne room to see Princess Celestia staring at some of the many large stained glass windows that depicted the main 6's achievements such as the defeat of discord, the main 6 discovering the elements, ect. Celestia noticed Twilight entering and smiled at her warmly.

"Ah, there you are Twilight. I trust you have the geographer's entries from the caverns?" said Celestia.

"Of course!" said Twilight enthusiastically. "I have it right here." She opened her saddlebag and used her magic to pull out some rolls of parchment. "I haven't had the time to read them though." twilight confessed. Celestia then used her magic to grasp the rolls of parchment, open them and bring it up to her face to read. The first read as such:

Rock-Crusher's Log entry #1

These caverns are incredible. In all my time as a geographical recorder, I have never seen such formations at this large a scale. What makes these special is that they are all dark crystals and blood crystals! The two rarest crystals in existence converged in one cave! This is probably the geographical discovery of the century! Not only are these the two rarest crystals in existence, these are also the largest variants! All dark crystals and blood crystals found before this were small and in minuscule clusters, but never the two types of crystals together. We have begun to set up a base camp near the cave's entrance and have begun to map it. Also the cave has an effect on magic. It nullifies magic to the point where your horn shocks you if you try to use it. That is all the info I have for today.

To Be Continued...