Little Shadow

Little Shadow giggled softly after Princess Celestia and Luna decided to spend some time with him. Playing pretend and making aluminum foil crowns.

"Thou shall not pass!" Luna chuckled, standing in front of the colt.

The colt raised an eyebrow "Oh yeah?!" He giggled and ran right past her to the jar of cookies. Luna simply smiled and made a fake worried expression, "Oh no! Not the cookies!" She gasped and walked to the colt who helped himself to some of the cookies.

He blinked and swallowed a mouthful of cookies.

"Too late. They're mine now." He laughed which turned out to be a snort at the end. Luna chuckled and levitated the jar and put it back in its shelf. She hummed and ruffled his mane.

Celestia was reading a book after playing with Luna and Sombra and let out a tired yawn. Little Shadow trotted over to her and lied down under her wing and smiled.

The alicorn blinked and looked to her side seeing it was just the small colt.

Luna yawned and made her way to the door "I shall go now sister, I have to visit dreams." She trotted out of Celestia's room. Celestia nodded after Luna shut the door behind her. The alicorn closed her book and set it aside. The small colt snuggled close to Celestia as she felt a smile creep across her face.

She sang softly to him of a lullaby she knew, she glanced down at him seeing he was fast asleep under her wing. She sighed and kept the smile on her face.

She eventually fell asleep next to him, keeping her wing over him so he would stay warm.

-/-

Celestia woke up in the morning and got up quietly so she could raise the sun, Sombra was still asleep, curled up cutely.

The princess came back soon after rising the sun for Equestria. Sombra was still asleep which wasn't really odd, she knew he would sleep a lot anyways.

Princess Celestia walked across the floor quietly and decided to send a letter to Cadence asking if she may come over to the Royal castle. After sending it she blinked hearing a cute yawn escape Sombra's mouth. He stretched and had bit of a trouble to keep his eyes open since he was never used to waking up early.

She chuckled softly seeing this and swiftly walked towards the small colt, "Goodmorning little one." She sat down besides him.

He blinked and flattened his ears "I had a bad dream.." Little Shadow frowned, Celestia perked her ears with slight worry and tilted her head "Hm?... What was it about?"

The colt stared absently and shrugged after he couldn't remember "Can't remember."

Celestia simply nodded, "Anyways.." She added on "Remember the pretty pink alicorn in that castle when you met me? Her name was Cadence."

The colt tilted his head for a moment but nodded soon enough, "Yeah she was pretty." He smiled.

The white alicorn glanced out the window and looked away, "She'll be coming to visit soon, today." Sombra perked his ears cheerfully "Really?" He felt a rush of sadness go through him for a moment but payed no attention to it.

Celestia nodded, "Indeed."

She blinked hearing the royal door knock, "That must be her, come along." She got up and trotted down to the door to let Cadence and... Shining armor in?...

Shining armor snorted "I didn't want to leave her here alone."

Cadence rolled her eyes as a little baby alicorn popped out of her mane. She cooed softly and nuzzled her mothers mane. Celestia frowned seeing Shining but nodded "Come in..."

Sombra blinked and looked up at Shining armor when he walked through the doors. The grown stallion returned a glare at the foal, pinning his ears back. It was obvious Shining never liked Sombra or even this new form of him.

Little Shadow whimpered softly and moved away from him, tucking his tail between his back legs. Cadence blinked and heard his whimper, she shot a angry look at her husband...which terrifies him half to death.

Sombra lowered his head and walked away from the group of ponies, sitting down in a corner away from everyone. He sighed quietly seeing Shining armor had a smirk on his face.

God... Little Shadow just wanted to slap that stupid smirk off his face an--

The colt blinked and shook his head, rubbing his face. Was he really beginning to have violent thoughts?..

Cadence saw the little foal and moved towards him, "Hey there. Don't mind Shining, he's bit of an butt sometimes..." She wanted to say the other word but didn't want to teach him bad things.

Little Shadow nodded and looked away from her, letting out another sigh and moving away from the alicorn princess. He walked to a room and slammed the door shut.

-/-

"They're stupid ponies..." He muttered to himself quietly.

Inndeeeedd. Theeeeyyy arrrrreee.... A voice called out to the small colt who jumped in response.

"W-Who's there?!" He asked, trembling now from the sudden voice that appeared in the room.

Yoouu doonntt reememmbeerr yyooourrr owwn moottherrr...?

The voice took form of a tall dark grey mare with a horn just like Sombra's, she had a queens crown on that shimmered in the sunlight that passed through the window.

Sombra flattened his ears "B-But... I thought..." He choked on his words "I thought...Celestia was my mom..." He looked up at the mare.

The mare chuckled and shook her head, placing a hoof under her sons chin, "No... My dear... I am your mother." Her voice was now sweet instead of the endless echoes through the room.

Little Shadow broke into tears and flattened his ears more "She lied to me..." He sobbed.

Queen Ebony wiped his tears away gently with her hoof and looked at him "No. My little Sombra... Celestia shall never be your mother, only I." She hummed and made a prince crown appear with her magic.

"How about you keep pretending to be a king and maybe one day... Just possibly one day you shall?" She lowered the crown on his head, it looked almost like his crown he wore when he was grown, except it was coal black.

Sombra blinked and smiled "Okay, mother..."

Ebony made little coal black armor and a kings cape appear and allowed him to try it on. He happily perked his ears and ran around in his new armor "I love it, I love it! Mo-- I mean... Celestia never wanted me to be king."

The queen made her way to the now armored Sombra, "Now listen to me, my son, do not speak of my presence." She adjusted his mane like any mother would, the little prince nodded "I won't tell any pony." He smiled brightly at her.

Woooonndeeeerrrffuuuulll... She instantly disappeared into midair.

-/-

Little Shadow opened the door and blinked seeing that there was no Celestia, no Luna or even the other ponies looking for him. They probably don't care.

He pranced around in his new armor, humming to himself when he accidentally bumped into Shining Armor. The foal blinked and moved away from him, Shining's eyes widened seeing the armor he was wearing and ran to tell the princesses.

"I'm a king. I'm a king." He chuckled quietly. He saw the painting of the same stallion that he was pretending to be.

Celestia stepped in front of Sombra as well as Luna and Cadence, "Why are you wearing that?" Celestia asked and looked down at him.

The colt blinked and looked up at his... Well... He wasn't sure if she was much of a friend, she wasn't much of a mother-like figure either.

Little Shadow frowned "I made it." He lied swiftly, remembering not to speak of Ebony's presence.

Celestia pinned her ears back "Little Shadow I know you did not make that, now where did you really get that armor from?"

Shining armor levitated the crown off the foals head and crushed it underneath his hoof, the princesses stared at Shining, worried about how the foal will react.

Sombra snarled and bared his fangs at Shining, "I hate you." He spat and flicked his tongue out.

The grown stallion blinked, realizing what he did and quickly tried to fix the crown but ended up making it ten times worse than the damage that actually happened to it.

The foal stared at the princesses "I hate all of you!"

Princess Luna stomped her hoof and growled "That is no way to speak to your mother, me and Cadence!"

Sombra simply laughed quietly and stared at Celestia, "You are not my real mother. I've realized it since the day I got here. You've been blinding me ever since." Celestia blinked and flattened her ears "I..." She stuttered looking for words.

The colt walked away from the group and out the royal door, Celestia ran after him but he was already nowhere to be found in the snow.

Celestia sobbed and ordered a search party to look for the colt.

-/-

Little Shadow shivered while walking through the empty streets of Canterlot. He wasn't sure where his mother was at but he needed to get away from this place for sure.

The foal blinked and saw a small ledge that seemed to go down straight to Ponyville. He was surprisingly good at climbing for his age.

He sneezed and walked carefully down to Ponyville.

The snow was heavy and blew against his fur, causing him to stop and let out a breath a few times. He eventually made it down to Ponyville grounds after forcing himself to walk through snow.

Ebony was soon to be found behind a building as Sombra quickly ran up to her and hugged her.

"Wonderful my little Sombra." She blinked and stared at his head "Where is your crown?"

The foal sneezed and coughed "A stallion broke it on purpose."

The queen nodded and ruffled his mane like the princesses would do "That is fine, little one. We can always make you a new crown."

The foal blinked "Where will we stay? It's cold..." He shivered.

Queen Ebony hummed and looked around, "Where everyone else is staying at."

Little Shadow tilted his head curiously "There's more of us?..."

The mare nodded and motioned him to follow her, she used her magic and made both of them appear in a dark castle.

-/-

Little Shadow blinked and stared at the decor, everything was neatly in its place. He stopped looking around as a pure black stallion with feathering on his hooves walked in front of his mother, he had a curved horn as well.

"I see you have brought back our little Sombra?" He asked gleefully and looked down at the small colt.

Ebony nodded and shooed him away from her child, she walked to her throne and sat down, "Do what you please, little one, we shall be teaching you the right magic when the sun rises again tomorrow." She hummed and added onto her sentence "If the princess is even sane enough to rise the sun." She muttered.