Equestria. The land of Harmony and Equality and ruled by a race of humans. The two rulers, Celestia and Luna, have been guiding the land into prosperity for over four millennia.

But then, tragedy struck: Princess Luna, ruler of the Night had grown jealous of her sister. The citizens worshipped her sister’s sun more than her beautiful night and had twisted Luna into a hateful mockery of her past self, before she went to Celestia and confronted her.

The sisters fought under the light of the Eclipse. Celestia was on the verge of losing before using the seven ancient stones dubbed the Elements of Harmony, though through the usage of the Elements she banished her sister to the moon for a thousand years.

People throughout the land had seen that their harmony had broken so easily, many were left questioning their ruler while others continued on with their lives.

Celestia knew her harmony was flawed but she had much hope that her kingdom would not fall like the one of old, Drangleic.

Before Equestria, before Griffonia, and before the kingdom of Minat was Drangleic, ruled by the King Vendrick.

At the dawn of Drangleic, the great King Vendrick built the kingdom on the souls of the four great ones. With the help of his elder brother Aldia, Vendrick made Drangleic into a prosperous and powerful nation. Vendrick was eventually approached by Nashandra, who claimed to be a visitor from a far-away land. Nashandra warned Vendrick of the looming threat of the Giants, and convinced him to invade their lands before they could strike at him. Vendrick did so, and used the knowledge that he gained from the captive Giants who were brought back to his kingdom to manipulate souls on an unprecedented level, allowing him to create the Golems, which he would use to further develop his kingdom.

Vendrick took Nashandra as his queen, and side-by-side they ushered in an era of peace.

The peace was soon broken however by the arrival the Giants, who had come to avenge their captive and now dead brethren. The Giants laid siege to Drangleic in a war that would last for generations, but they would finally be defeated when an unknown hero defeated the Giant Lord. The Giants retreated, crossing the sea to return home, but the damage was already done, and Drangleic was reduced to ruins.

To make matters worse, the undead curse began breaking out. Vendrick and Aldia dedicated themselves to attempting to solve the curse. As a delaying measure to buy them more time, Vendrick tasked the Flexile Sentry with taking the undead to a far away land. The pair made great strides in understanding the nature of the undead, but were ultimately unable to find a cure. Eventually, the two brothers fell out, and Aldia was exiled to a mansion in the east, wherein he would continue his own grim research.

Vendrick eventually found out the truth about his queen; that she was a child of the Father of the Abyss, and that she had been manipulating him all along. Broken, and now inflicted with the curse himself, Vendrick took his loyal right hand Velstadt, the Royal Aegis, and a contingent of knights and left to begin his exile in the Undead Crypt. Before doing so, he put certain safeguards into place to ensure that Nashandra would never claim the Throne of Want, denying her the First Flame and the Great Soul.

Vendrick eventually hollowed in the crypt, as the once great Drangleic continued to decay.

To this day, Celestia and her recently returned sister both hope the same thing will not happen to their lands.

Both sisters knew the legend of the Bearer of the Curse whom travelled throughout Drangleic for a purpose. He traversed through the Shaded Ruins, explored the Iron Keep and found what he was looking for in the Throne of Want.

The bodies of both the Throne Watcher and Throne Defender fell to the ground, dead and defeated before their souls were given away to their assailant.

The Bearer of The Curse.

Sheathing his Drangleic Sword, the Bearer opened his palm as the souls accumulated onto his hand. He then put away both souls before moving closer towards his objective.

Darkness surrounded the Bearer before he was pushed away with extreme force. Landing on the stone floor he grunted from the pain before looking up.

What greeted him was a thing of nightmares. Wielding a large scythe, Nashandra stood there looking down at the Bearer as he weakly stood up.

“Brave Undead, you have proven yourself to me. Now, be one, with the Dark…” The Dark Queen said before cursing the Bearer, taking his Humanity and reducing him into his cursed form of an Undead.

This did not stop the Bearer as he took hold of his blade and stood ready for one final battle that will determine his fate. The Dark Queen had casted a cursed barrier around herself while the Bearer took this opportunity to throw a Fire orb at the Dark Queen.

Angered, the Queen swung her scythe to the left but missed as the Bearer of The Curse rolled away from her attack. Losing sight of the Bearer, the Queen turned around and found the Bearer holding a Dragonslayer Greatbow with a Great Arrow. Letting go of the arrow, it fired towards the Queen, staggering her and breaking her barrier.

The Bearer of The Curse dropped his Great bow before breaking into a full sprint with his sword in hand. He lunged towards the Queen, impaling his blade into her arm before pulling it back out and pushing himself off the Queen.

The Queen had quickly swung her scythe once more, this time impaling the Bearer before absorbing more of his life force and further hollowing him. The effects were immediate, hair fell off the Bearer and his eyes were now white as the heavens.

Using his sword as a blunt object, the Bearer had started hitting the large scythe with the hilt of his sword before finally with one last hit, the scythe’s blade broke off and dropped onto the floor.

On the verge of Death, The Bearer ran to safe distance before drinking the last of his Estus flask. Nashandra saw this and used the now broken scythe to try and prevent him from healing, but it was too late, The Bearer was now fully healed and had dodged her attack.

The Queen spun around only to meet with another Great Arrow embedding itself in her, causing her to stagger backwards closer to the edge of the arena.

She looked at the Bearer as he took out another Great arrow and pulled back the string. The Arrow was then covered in shadows before being fired at her, this arrow pierced through whatever armor Nashandra wore for the Great Arrow was imbued with a Hex.

That did it, she was dead and fell off the arena and onto the floor filled with golems. The Bearer walked towards the edge in time to see The former Queen’s body dissolve into dust before the Bearer opened his hand again, receiving her soul.

After putting away the soul, the Bearer looked towards the tomb across the large gap before the earth beneath him shook. He looked around for the source before looking down at the rock Golems.

They were waking up and walking towards each other before colliding with themselves to form a path towards the tomb that contained the Throne. The Bearer walked across the golems.

You, who link the fire, you, who bear the curse…
Once the fire is linked, souls will flourish anew, and all of this will play out again.
It is your choice…To embrace, or renounce this…
Great Sovereign, take your throne.
What lies ahead, only you can see.

The doors opened, shaking the earth as well and revealed the Throne of Want. The Bearer walked up to it before claiming it as his and sat down.

He then placed his sword on the left side of the Throne and his shield on the right side before looking straight ahead. The doors were closing, leaving the Bearer to his fate as the new lord until another comes to take his place.

With the last bit of light shut out by the door, The Bearer then closed his eyes and began to rest. He now sat on the Throne, waiting for another to claim it and free him of his curse.

“Rainbow, I'm not so sure about this anymore.” A lavender colored unicorn mare said. Her name was Twilight Sparkle, protege of Princess Celestia and Element of Magic.

“Come on, what's wrong with a little adventure through some creepy old castle?” Her friend replied. Rainbow Dash was her name, Equestria’s best flier and future Wonderbolt. She wore cyan blue tank top and black skinny jeans.

“Well for starters, the statues came to life and almost killed us, we split up from the rest of the girls and we are completely lost.” Twilight explained in anger, earning a raspberry from her rainbow haired friend. Twilight was wearing her usual ‘librarian outfit’ as her friends called it. It consisted of lavender blouse and tie along with a long skirt.

“Hey, in my defence, the Princess never said anything about living Statues or that there were guards that would attack us.” Rainbow defended herself and she wasn't wrong. The Princess of the Sun had sent Twilight and her friends to the ancient castle Drangleic in search of a powerful artifact, The Staff of Wisdom.

“Ugh, how hard is it to find a stupid stick!?” Rainbow shouted through the halls of the castle before both girls rounded a corner before taking a right. Both girls stopped as they saw a large door that was slightly ajar.

“Come on, we need to find the rest of the girls.” Twilight said as she saw her friends face. Rainbow was considered to be an adventurous spirit, always finding the opportunity for adventures.

“Hold on, I want to see what's on the other...side?” Said Rainbow as she trailed off after seeing what laid behind the large doors.

A large cavern lit with torches and a path towards another area of the Castle. Rainbow wanted to see more of the place and walked in the room.

“Dash. Dash, come on, we can't waste our time here.” Twilight said to the athletic woman.

“Twi, we were sent to a castle to look for a magic stick inside a giant castle near Manehatten, which of course mean that the castle is off limits to the public for reasons we already know, I'll do whatever the hell I want.” Dash said before walking down the large pathway. Twilight groaned in annoyance before following her friend.

As they walked towards the other side, Twilight had noticed the torches changing colors from normal fiery orange to a spectral blue.

Once they walked up the steps, the first thing they saw was writing on the floor. Twilight is and always will be the studious type of girl and knew what the message said.

“The one who seeks the throne shall forever bear the Curse that struck the land. Hollowed, they will be. Cursed to know what they've done.” Twilight read out, hoping that Dash had been listening.

“Twi, I think I found it!” Twilight heard her friend yell as she looked through the doorway, seeing Rainbow Dash standing in the middle of a large room. A staff stood beside her, embedded into the floor.

Twilight quickly walked up to the staff before taking a closer look at it.

‘This can't be right. This looks like an actual stick.’ Twilight thought as she tried to sense its magical properties but to no avail.

“Let me guess, it's actually a stick.” Rainbow’s voice brought Twilight out of her thoughts.

“I don't get it, if what the Princess described was true then this is it but-”

“But it's a stick.” Rainbow finished her friends sentence, earning a nod from the woman in front of her. With groan, Rainbow took hold of the staff before trying to pull it out of the stone floor.

She gasped for air before trying to catch her breath then tried again but to the same result and dropped onto the floor, exhausted and sweaty. Twilight stared at her friend before looking at the staff and taking a firm hold of it.

She knew she wasn't going to be able to pull it out but it was still worth a try. With all her strength, Twilight pulled and the staff came out of the floor with ease.

Just as this happened, Twilight was soon greeted with thousands of voices, talking, yelling, screaming at her. Twilight covered her ears in hopes that she could block out the voices but to no avail as the voices only gotten louder. She dropped onto her knees as the scene around her changed.

Rainbow Dash was nowhere to be found. A lone figure walked into the large room. A man in armor, scars donned his face and he held a sword ready to fight.

Twilight turned to follow the gaze of the man and her gaze met with two very tall individuals. One was a large man clad in Heavy Royal armor and a large great sword and shield while his companion was tall, slim woman that held a small shield and sword. Unlike her companion, she wore no armor and wore a set of pure white robes.

The three figures soon vanished like dust, resulting in a large headache for the poor librarian that was clutching her head in extreme pain.

“Make it stop, please!” She begged for the one who was doing this to her to stop, wanting the pain to go away and to go back to her friends, forever leaving this castle.

A firm smack greeted the librarian’s cheek. Recoiling in pain and blinking a few times, she saw the worried face of Rainbow Dash above her.

“Geez Twi, all you did was pull the dumb stick out and you have a panic attack.” Dash said. Twilight was relieved to see her again after what had just happened.

“What even happened anyway, I saw you fall before you started to mumbling in gibberish.” Dash said to her. Twilight on the other hand had turned to look at the last thing she saw in her visions.

A large ash covered dome with a pair of large double stone doors. She stood up before finally being aware of the stinging sensation on her cheek and glaring at Dash for the slap.

Turning to look at the dome, she started walking towards it, feeling that she should open those doors. Rainbow, seeing her friend walking towards a set of large menacing doors, tried to talk her out of it but her words went unheard.

Placing her hands on the doors, the only thing she was greeted with was darkness.

For countless millennia, a lone man had sat on the throne and for countless millennia, he waited for another to claim it and continue the cycle. His once cream colored skin, now rotten grin and fallen chunks. His once blue eyes were now white and never blinking.

He no longer breathed and rested on his throne. Sword to his left and shield to his right. Silence was the only thing he could experience, the darkness was with him.

His armor, once shining from the light of sun, now covered under a layer of dust. His once toned and muscular body was now pile of bones with skin.

Then, he heard it. The doors, they open once more and light of the outside shone his eyes. He moved slightly, making the cobwebs that had accumulated on him fall off as well as the dust and grime.

The doors slid open, pushing the dust away as it did and letting air inside the dome. The Undead Man looked at the door and expected to see an Undead in armor, sword in hand and ready to take the throne but what he saw was a young woman, a human and another behind her.

The woman's gaze met his and he stood up, taking his sword and shield. No one dared to break the silence, the woman only stared in shock at the Undead man in armor.

The Bearer, seeing as she isn't like him, gave a bow before walking passed her, wanting to see the sun again before withering away.

Author's Note

Here's something I came up with just by playing the game Dark Souls 2 (PRAISE THE SUN!)

Editor: CommanderWolffe

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