Author's Note

Edited by Mary Bloss who took time out of her schedule to edit the chapter

Prologue: The Dark Spell/A Cursed Blessing

Title: Horse of The Year
Rated: M
Genre: adventure/ fictional history
Pairing: OC/human
Warnings: Death, Human/Pony pairings
Summary: as John F. Kennedy rode on that fateful parade where he was supposed to be killed, a pony intercepted the bullet a pony with blue fur, pink mane and tail, and most curiously, a horn…
This story is AU of Court Magician AND of our history, however there are spoilers for all of my Court Magician stories so read at your own risk

Prologue: The Dark Spell/A Cursed Blessing

Being a Court Magician had agreed with Shadow Eyes, and for the past eighteen years she performed her duties to the crown, and to her foals admirably. The Changeling War had taken her lover, and nearly stolen her away from her family, but now looking at her grown foals, and the second mother of her eldest foal, she smiled. Physically, she had barely aged at all. A combination of her strength in magic, and an unfortunate blessing gone bad from Celestia and Luna meant to bless her with a long life with her loved ones. That blessing had caused a lot of discontent with her family as it had accidentally gave Shadow Eyes near immortality unlike that of the alicorns. She would still be ravaged by the passage of time, just so slowly that by the time she would get wrinkles, there would be none but herself, the alicorns, and the dragons that would name her as a Tenebrous Magus from a past age. She hated it. She would outlive her loved ones unless somebody killed her first...

This was the life Shadow Eyes had to look forwards to until one day she, on a mission for the crown she came across a pony using magic so dark, that even she refused to cast it. For it banished targets to a world, not only devoid of harmony, but also wracked with darkness so powerful it overflowed the boundaries of that world.

“In the name of Celestia, I demand that you stop!” Shadow Eyes cried as she ran towards the pony intent on stopping the fool when the pony looked as her and grinned wickedly. With a final burst of magic they cast the spell in its entirety and she was pulled with the mad pony, into another world…