It was early winter and at Sweet Apple Acres Applejack opened the front door from their farm house. She was groggy from the other night, where Pinkie thru the biggest party she had ever did in years. She yawned but was startled half way from the sound of something falling in the barn. She trotted towards the barn hoping it wasn't something important. She peeked her head in trying to find the cause of the ruckus. However what she saw was a stallion moving awkwardly, in some kind of bent movement.
Instantly she thought the figure was injured, so she pushed the door open slightly. She quickly let go of the barn door as her eyes grew wide. The stallion's body moved like liquid as it changed just for a few seconds, shifting into a two headed pony with a dragon wing down it's back and Griffin claws. She was disgusted and terrified of the entity standing unknowingly behind her.
The sun had just risen to the right spot for the sun to bounce off it. Giving it a blood red and black slime or some other kind of liquid texture. Her heart started to beat as fast as Rainbowdash could fly, just because it stopped moving. Something was teling her to stay to observe it, despite her mind telling her to look away.
The creature then began to chuckle, it was dark and sinister in tone. The entity started to shift it's design yet again, but this time it was that of a unicorn. Yet the unicorn was equivalent to Celestria's height. The creature still had that unnatural liquid like form slightly bending itself.
Applejack was about to flee when, it called out to her or at least she thought it was talking about her "Enjoyed the show, Honesty?". Then it started to turn it's head to glare at her. There was a dark sinister smile showing sets of sharp bear like teeth, and the worst part was it's eyes or eye. It had a simple crimson red eye on it's right side of the face while where there should be another was blackness. Applejack was now frozen where she stood, not making the slightest movement. The creature began to chuckle once more as it started to take a step towards her.
"What are you?" she blurted out from her frighten prison like state. The creature only seemed to be amused by her reaction.
"What am I, now that is a great question!" it said as it slunk closer to Applejack. Suddenly the next thing she knew she was being dragged away with great force by somepony.
The creature hissed and began to chase them, Applejack had to force her head up to see the unknown assailant. Her savior was a stallion due to his body's shape and ability to carry her with such strength and speed. However she couldn't figure out who he was other than his gender because he was wearing a brown cloak similar to that of Zecora's.
Applejack finally snapped out of her stone like trance and started galloping along with the mysterious stallion. They had out run the monster and began to rest just across the bridge from the entrance of Ponyvile. Applejack was fixated on the pony who had saved her from a possible dangerous attacker. "What was that thing, who are you and how did you know to save me from it?" Applejack said gaining the stallion's attention.
The Stallion looked at her and removed his hood "I'm Pr... Soul, and I've been fighting this monster for years." The stallion had a white coat, his mane was brown and his eyes were a bright blue that glowed. "That monster doesn't have a name, trust me I tried to find it for years" he said with disgust in his voice. Applejack quickly watched his body motions seeing him tense up as he scan the area. Suddenly she thought about her family and friends, how it pose a threat to them. "Don't worry your family wont be harmed by that thing, it wants you and the other Elements of Harmony. Now lets get you out of here before its to late..." the stallion said just noticing that mare had began galloping into town.
Applejack had to warn her friends before the monster could harm them or take whatever it wanted from them. As she was passing buildings by she noticed that the town seemed quiet, nothing could be heard except for the wind. It gave her an eerie feeling, suddenly she caught sight of Twilight's castle. She quickly started banging on the doors, trying to wake up, Spike, Twilight or even Starlight. Yet there was nothing complete silence, till she heard Spike from behind.
He was standing in the middle of the street, along with Twilight and Starlight. She was confused on why they were not in the castle this early, but she didn't care she had to warn Twilight. Twilight and her friends turn to see Applejack dashing to wards them with fearful and worried eyes. "Oh, hi Applejack what's got you stirred up?" inquired Twilight.
"Twilight, we're in trouble there's some kind of creature after us" the orange mare claimed trying to catch her breath.
"A monster? and its after us, how did you come to across it?" Twilight questioned
"You see I heard a noise and I went to check it, then I saw the creature. It was like nothing I ever saw before, and it shaped shifted. It was coming towards me and I couldn't move, but luckily I was saved by somepony who informed me of it's goal" she explained.
Twilight began rubbing her chin with her hoof, obviously processing this bit of information. "Where is the pony that saved you?" Starlight asked. Suddenly Applejack realized that she left Soul behind to warn her friends.
"Oh no, I left him at the bridge leading into town" she winced. "We should go get this pony, for any other information he probably didn't mention" Twilight informed.
"Yes but first we need to warn the others before they get attacked by the creature." Applejack said as she began to notice the town was still strangely lifeless.
"Spike go find Rarity and get her to the castle, Starlight go get everypony else. I need to write to Celestia about what you can tell me of this monster Applejack." Twilight exclaimed.
Right before they could go their separate ways; a blast of bright blue magic hit Twilight, Spike and Starlight at once sending them back. Applejack flung her head back to gaze upon Soul from afar galloping towards them. "What the hay, is wrong with you? You hurt my friends" she yelled with fury. He wasn't paying any attention to her instead he was getting ready to fire again. Applejack turned to her friends, and to her surprise they weren't her friends.
Their bodies were just like them but their eyes were just like the monster's crimson red. They talked in sync "Soul you cant stop me, your're just stalling the inevitable". Soul was only shooting short blast at them, yet his blast of magic hardly slowed them down. Suddenly doors from each building started to open up as other ponies with the monster's red and black eyes appeared.
Their coats and manes were becoming darker and darker each second. Soul yet out a scream of pain as chains of pure shadow grabbed a hold of him; pulling him into the crowd of the monster ponies. "I failed you, just like I failed her..." Soul cried in defeat. Causing the monsters to chuckle.
This cant be real Applejack thought as she was mere seconds till she would be engulfed by them. Suddenly Everything went black. Nothing but darkness surrounded her. Then a red pupil less eye appeared and it was focus on her. "Now where were we?" it asked deviously. The eye shifted to her left causing her to face it. "Ah, yes what am I?" he paused for a second before continuing. "I'm a reflection from another world, and I have plans. Tell me do you rember anything about this morning. Before me maybe what you did?" it said with sly in tone.
Applejack quickly tried to remember this morning before meeting the creature. "I remember looking at myself in a mirror like I usually do before breakfast" she said not able to think of anything else.
"What if I tell you that you never left that mirror and that this is all in the mirror world where I live in" it said as a door appeared in front of her.
"That cant be true what of Soul how could he not be real" she protested.
The creature growled in anger "Soul is just a poor love sick weakling, that is trapped in here with me. He can never escape this reaml, not because of that mare who trapped him here. Now leave my realm". With that Applejack was launched thru the door.
Applejack blinked her eyes before she realized that she was back home staring into the mirror deeply.
Author's Note
I honestly want to see if you guys like this chapter and give me criticism to improve on for later chapters.
Mirror Mirror on the wall
Soul awoke to find himself in a black room where a slight red mist moved around. He was no longer chained and from what he could tell, the monster was no where in sight. However he knew that it, just doesn't want to make itself known yet. Soul pulled himself up with just about every amount of spare energy he had left, and began calling out to the monster. "Damn spawn of Tartarus," Starts breathing heavily "What are you planning? What's your goal, huh?"
There was a light chuckle as a mirror image of Soul appeared from the mist. Everything was exactly identical except for the eyes, the left was black and the right a pupil less crimson. It spoke similar to him, but in a lower tone "Now why would I tell you? You grow weaker as I grow stronger each day. Besides I rule over this realm, remember? But if you must know I want out just like you" he said as the fur became a grey color.
Soul had a face of disgust he'd seen the monster do this ever since he had first acknowledge him. "I wish I had never met you and I wish.."
The Monster had cut him off "Are you joking? You know where you would be right now if I had never come around. You would've been dead or worse, I saved you" it spat. The hooves of the figure turned into claws, and it's mane and coat became as one. The monster had almost showed his true form.
Soul started to back away from the creature as tears appeared from his eyes. "No that's not true, stop twisting my thoughts" he cried sending out a short blast of magic towards the monster.
The monster stopped the magic blast in mere inches from impact and changed the color from blue to red. Once red it was sucked into the creature's crimson eye. "You know I speak the truth, don't you remember that day? The day that WE became trapped here and who's fault was it? Its was because her, she trapped you in this mirror world along with me" the monster claimed as his teeth became sharper than knifes.
Ponyvile
Applejack was explaining the things she saw with here friends at twilight's castle in hope to warn them and see if Twilight had any clue on this monster and the Stallion Soul. "And that's how I escaped" she said finally done explaining to here friends of this possible threat.
Twilight was deep in thought trying to process they story. "Well I don't know what to say, for what I can tell this monster will comes after us if we are near a mirror. Until we can find out more of this monster we need to stay away from them, and as for Soul I can ask the Princesses for every town's missing ponies list form the past few years to see if he can come up" she explained watching as Rarity gasped in shock of not being able to look upon herself in a mirror.
"Um Twilight where's Spike and Starlight?" Fluttershy asked softly, noticing that Spike and Starlight wasn't in the room anymore. Everypony began to look around realizing that the two of them had vanished in seconds.
Suddenly a loud cracking noise escaped from the castle as a cracks started to form all over the room. Within seconds the room shattered into millions of pieces and turning into dust that blew away after hitting the flooring and other objects. The six ponies found themselves in a room of endless white light, followed by endless amount of floating frames of many types of windows, mirrors, and other objects.
"What the hay? asked Rainbowdash as she gently pushed a mirror frame, causing it to continue moving till it hit another mirror. Like most of the others Twilight was stunned by the lack of "laws of physics" in where ever they were.
Suddenly a familiar figure began approaching them, it was Discord and he was trying to not laugh his hardest. "Discord is this your doing?" demanded Twilight causing the lord of chaos to burst out laughing. His laughter was his normal Chaotic laugh, till it grew lower in pitch causing Applejack to jump back form remembering who's laugh it really was.
"Hello elements of harmony, it's been an while hasn't it Applejack?" it remarked with a sly grin before becoming a the one red eyed, black unicorn she had one met before. However this time he had claws and razor sharp teeth.
"How can this be we didn't look at a mirror, nor did we had one in the room at the time we were talking." Twilight claimed trying to understand how they had been taken to this world of this creature. The monster only grinned till it stopped no longer than an inch from the area where his eye was and where the other would've been.
"Mirrors are reflective are they not?, so are windows, and..." he was cut off by Twilight who quickly caught where it was going.
"So is the castle's wall. You don't have the ability to take us through mirrors, you can take us from reflective objects" she yelled in fright causing the creature to chuckle.
"Your reputation perceives you, smart as always Princess Sparkle" he complimented before he began his approach once again. As he was only a few steps from reach of the six of them, a short blast of blue light hit the monster and sent him flying into a some of the floating objects and shattering the windows and mirrors that he had hit.
Soul was standing on top of a large glass window, one that you would see in stores in Manehattan. He jumped and landed separating the monster and the others. The monster pulled himself up, and shifted into a much larger version of himself. "Are you ready to defend your self and these little foals now or are you going to run like you do?" it growled growing wings that of a dragon.
Before Soul could speak a voice echoed through out the world. "It's me, are you still in there?" the voice asked causing the monster and Soul to freeze both unable to move.
