Dark Light

by John the brony and yknow

Rating: everyone
Tags: Original Character, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Other, Random, Adventure, Princess Celestia, Main 6
Length: 1903

An isolated pony discovers the meaning of her life through unexpected but simple things, and learns how to live the way she always wanted to.

Dark Light is a pony that lives in the woods far away from any population, since she moved to her own home, every single day of her life she has been living the same way, a monotone boring way of life that gets her tired of, she's got enough of that, and the only thing she wants is to know her meaning, why is she here? She is more than willing to search for that answer herself, or with help of others.

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Published 2016-07-29 03:10:01 UTC
Last updated 2016-07-30 05:32:58 UTC

Dark Light: III

After relaxing a bit at the lake, Dark Light remembered that she had a goal in mind, and she wasn’t going to spend all day dazzled by the lake’s majestic look and calm ambient, so she (a bit resentful) left the lake and continued her way.

After a good walk Dark Light is getting tired, the sun is at it’s top, and the place where she is right now isn’t really helping her feel better, she was around a plain field with dry grass and a few trees, some of them are dead trees, it is like a savannah, the air is dry too so breathing is a bit painful, good thing she packed water bottles.

She stops near a tree that casts the most decent amount of shadow and spreads a blanket in the ground that she had packed before, she has traveled just for a short time, maybe some hours, but she really can feel the change in the ambiance and the diversity of the surrounding places around of where she lived, she thinks about this for a moment, contemplating the sky, the landscape, the little bugs in the ground, she had been missing this for so long, and just because she thought she was doing what she liked, because she thought she was going somewhere the way she lived, but she was wrong, she didn’t know how to live, and that is what she regrets the most.

Brushing those thought aside, she opens a water bottle and drinks from it, the slightly cold water refreshing her in many ways, and giving her more clarity to her mind, but that isn’t enough, she still needs some rest, she had walked through a forest, a long forest, and that is tiring, she remembers going out of her house at seven o’ clock, and by the position of the sun she can tell it’s almost noon, did he walk that much? It just felt like some minutes, maybe that’s what you feel when you do stuff you really like, right?

Feeling very tired, she lies to the tree and enjoys the shadow that it’s casting over her, the gentle breeze brushing her mane and against her coat quickly relaxed her and she felt the world around her fade away slowly, she stops fighting her tiredness and decides that she deserves some sleep, so she shuts her eyes and lets her mind rest to sleep, until finally falling asleep.

Author's Note

Idea of the chapter by Joseph Castle

Dark Light: I

Author's Note

Dark Light is an OC made by me:

She's a mare
She's Dark gray
She's got a dark blue mane
Her cutie mark is a Ruby
She's an unicorn

Dark Light: I

Sitting on a chair at home, is a pony called Dark Light, reading about spells and magic in the night, her only source of light is a nearby candle, her house is very dark, and is very far away from town, although she goes there from time to time to visit her friends, though not so often.

Her daily life is a bit boring, always at home with nothing exciting to do. She oftenly sits in the couch and stares at the wall thinking about her life, what she lived, what she will live and how she lives actually, when she thinks of the past she always gets melancholic, and desires to go back in time and live a happy life again, when she thinks of the future she always gets scared and paranoiac, because she thinks of the thousands of hundreds of possibilities that the future holds, but it is worst when she thinks about the present, and the way she lives.

Ever since she was a kid, Dark Light had a lot of interest in magic and books, and when she was old enough, she left her parent’s house to keep studying and move forward, but there is something missing, she isn’t moving forward, she has been stuck in a static and constant way of life for roughly three years, she of course didn’t mind at all, she was doing what she liked, but the fact of not doing progress in any way worries her so much that she feels like she’s been killed from the inside every time she thinks about her life, Is she doing something wrong? Is there something missing in her life that she hasn’t discovered? Probably, there is always something that you don’t know.

With that in mind, this very day she is sitting there at the couch, she will do something for herself, to be better and to move forward in her life, she will have to go out and discover the world, it will be hard for her, but she knows she won’t regret it, this is not living, and she must change that, there are a lot of opportunities out there and a lot of ponies she can know, things to discover, new cultures, new places, new ways to see the world, different perspectives.

And to do so, she will wait untill tomorrow.

Dark Light: II

After waking up Dark Light didn't lose time and instantly went to pack her things and go out, she packed many things, clothes, paper, ink and quills, food, tools, and many more things, she had already eaten and was ready to go, now, she is walking in a dirt path that normally leads to the town she goes to from time to time, there is a part of the dirt path where it splits, she took the right way every time, since that is the direction of the town, but she thinks about it very well, very deeply, deep down she knows she want's something new, what's hiding behind the tall grass to the right way of the dirt path? It's something she wants to know since she moved to her house.

She takes the way to the left and enters an unknown place, there is tall grass around the dirt path and there is some grass growing in it, so it isn't a dirt path anymore, it's now a grass path, and as she proceeds, she notices that the trees are getting leafy, and the sunlight is slowly decreasing, when she finally reaches the point where she can’t even see ahead of her, she uses her horn to light the path, she sees that there are mushrooms growing at the bottom of the trees, there is hardly any grass in the ground now for the lack of light, and the air around her is getting a little cold.

She hears some strange sounds as she walks, but that doesn’t scare her at all, she knows very well how to defend herself from foes, and nobody is going to stop what she started, she is very decided to do this, and she is not going back.

A few more feet from where she is, is a sign that is pointing to the right of the dirt path, there is an eerie looking cyan light coming from the place the sign is pointing, but she is curious about what that is, she comes closer and closer and the light slowly fades away, until she reaches the sign and notices there is something written, it reads:

Welcome to the truth lake.

The words ‘Welcome to the’ are actually craved in the sign and not written in chalk or whatever that is, this makes her hesitate and think for a moment about what she is doing, she looks to her right and sees a beautiful blue lake surrounded by glowing flowers and fireflies, it’s one of the best things she’s ever seen in her life, now she doesn’t regrets going out of her home at all.

Dark Light approaches the lake and when she’s there, she sits on the ground and she looks around with admiration in her eyes, this was here all along, and she didn’t even know it, she is amazed by this fact and she is now more than sure that she will love to explore the world even more.

Author's Note

Forced 500 words out of me.

Dark Light: IV

After waking up from her rest, Dark Light felt much more mindful and alert of her and her surroundings, she noticed that the sun was much lower than she expected, she really had slept very much, much more than she wanted, so she continued with her journey.

As she keeps walking towards a fixed direction, she notices that the dry dirt below her was starting to feel a bit grassier and soft, there are no trees nearby and the terrain ahead her is now in the form of wavy undulations, and it also has a lot of grass and flowers. In the distance are some mountains with high, steep peaks, so high up that the clouds cover them, they are miles away from her, but she still wonders, do I have to go through there?, she looks at the mountains with concern, but as she hears her stomach growls, she stops to eat something.

She puts her backpack in the ground and starts searching, until finding a pair of shiny red apples, she unpacks them, puts her backpack on again and continues, munching at the apples as she walks.

In her way, she passes a hole in the ground, at first it looks like any type of hole, but it was a rabbit’s burrow, with a brown rabbit in it, as Dark Light passes the hole, the smell of fresh apples attracts the attention of the bunny and it hops out fast, having nothing to eat, the bunny’s only option now is to ask some food from a gentle souled pony, and that pony is Dark Light.

As the bunny hops towards her, the noise makes Dark Light turn her head to see what is happening, and when she sees the bunny she stops to see what it wants.

“Hello little fella, are you lost?” Dark Light says, getting closer to the bunny, in response, the bunny hides away from her, “What? I will not hurt you.” She says, the bunny comes closer slowly and stares at her, then at the apple.

“Oh, you must be hungry, here.” Dark Light takes a carrot from inside her backpack and gives it to the bunny and turns around, as she walks away from the bunny, she hears the bunny’s hopping again, and before she turns around to see what is happening, the bunny hops onto Dark Light’s back.

Dark Light sees the bunny that is now onto her back, and besides its normal face, she can also see a thankful face, a gesture that she didn’t use to see often, and regardless it is an animal, it is the first living thing that she feels she has helped by herself, this realization fills her with happiness and joy, she had not felt like this for a long time, the last time she remembers feeling in such way this was when she was much younger, when she was a filly, full of hopes and dreams, and now, she is once again full of hopes and dreams. With such feelings, she continues on her travel to discover the world, even when she felt like she needed nothing else.

Author's Note

Written by me.