A shadow's tale

by MommaWolfie

Rating: teen
Tags: Dark, Romance, Tragedy, Adventure, Alternate Universe, Sad
Length: 1831

this story contains my ocs, a friends ocs and only a few cannon charters, this is set a few years before twilight got her wings and became a princess.

A young mare called Eclipse is the next ruler of the shadow pony race, however, due to some things that happened in her life that leave her acting emotionless, how will she cope?
will she find love and friendship?
Or will she be a ruler never knowing the warmth others can give?

Published 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Last updated 2016-11-21 15:34:26 UTC

prolog: the twins of light and shadow

The sun would be rising soon, but a young white filly with black and white wings with black hair was already awake, quietly sneaking up on her still slumbering twin, a black filly with white hair and black and white wings.

All was quiet until... the young filly yanked her sister out of her bed, using her light red aura of magic.

"AH!" the expecting  twin cried out as she hit the ground. hard.

"sister..what was that for.." she muttered, as she stretched  her wings.

The black haired twin just smiled as she fluttered her wings.

"eclipse come on let's go out to play!"

"but nova....we cant.." eclipse got up off the floor, but nova just holds up a hoof, an orb of light formed causing eclipse to shield her dark red eyes with her wings.

"pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease" nova whined.

"......fine.." the dark colored filly sighed before allowing her twin to drag her out of their room and into the dark streets of their village, not knowing what the would cause...

ch2: attacked

young 10-year-old ocean was relaxing near a river. Humming a tune to herself. Waiting for the 11-year-old twins unaware of the figures behind her.

"hm. I wonder where they are. I...hope eclipse is...okay" she blushed. Over the course of their friendship, she had developed a crush on the shadow pony.

"hello...freak" two voices bellowed.

Gasping, the emerald eyed merpony turned. Cowering

"wwwwhat do you want" she stuttered. Fear shining in her eyes.

They grinned.

"to kill ya. Duh. We kill freaks like you"

The orange stallion smirked, a knife held in an aura of blue.

They got closer to her. Both held knives high.

"wait please let me go!!"  she begged.

But her pleas fell on death ears.

With two stabs to her sides, she fell into the river, Motionless.

While two teary dull red eyes watched in horror.

ch3: Forced to marry

It had been a few years since eclipse saw her friend ocean breeze get attacked by two stallions.

"Eclipse. Dear come here" the strong voice of her father sounded from the throne room.

"yes father" she replied,emotionless.

walking down the stairs she saw that her dad was not alone, instead, there was a young orange stallion standing in front of him.

"father who is this?" she asked as her red orbs stated blankly ahead.

"ah, this is Jake. He is your husband now." her father said.

Her eyes widened for a split second before she was emotionless again.

She nodded. Knowing she had no choice in the matter

"of course farther" she bowed to the old shadow king.

She may appear to be okay with the marriage.

But inside. She was not happy

ch4: Wife

Eclipse sat obediently while some mares styled her mane and tail. A white dress already on her small frame.

"you look so beautiful lady eclipse ."

One mare with a pink coat and white mane complemented.

"thank you." was all the dark red eyed mare said.

Walking down the aisle. Heart filled with dread. Eclipse saw Jake...her...husband. Oh, dear celesta did she not want to marry him. But. As the daughter of the shadows, she had no choice.

"you may now kiss the bride" the old stallion said. As Jake kissed her she tried her best to not make her shadows rip into him.

Shivering in distress she held back from harming him.

She was now a fire pony's wife oh the joy.

Jake smiled. And just faintly she could see something sinister glow in his yellow eyes.

What did her father get her into?

ch6: Punishment

The fire pony growled, Eclipse had been disobeying him a lot lately, trying to escape him many times.

He'd have to teach her a lesson, he had a number of things planned, oh this would be fun.

Eclipse sat in her room..well..more of a cell, two shadows formed into ponies, their grey eyes holding anger, sympathy and sadness.

-This is outrageous! Milady you have to get away!- the one with light grey eyes and swirls said angrily, clearly in an enraged state at the treatment his princess was getting.

_Are you well milady? Has he hurt you again?_ the one with dark grey eyes and swirls moved closer to her, trying to locate any injuries to which the mare shook her head.

the two shadow guards frowned, their lady did this every time, saying she was fine when in reality she wasn't.

But all well...they guessed she was right, as of yet she had no new injuries.

As jake stormed to eclipse's room, a large smile on his face, his fire crackled in excitement at just the thought of the red-eyed mare's screams caused him to shudder in joy.

As eclipse talked with the two shadows her door slammed open, causing her to flinch and the shadows to dissipate and hide as jake walked into the room. Fire glowing brightly.

"ooh dear eclipse~ time for a punishment"

Jake purred sadistically.

eclipse sighed and lowered her head, both in conditioned obedience and fear.

But anger, though small,  was also present.

Instantly eclipse felt the sensation of fire biting her sides, causing her to let out a strangled yell as jakes red flames violently pricked at her body.

"haha learning yet!?" jake laughed loudly over eclipses sounds of pain.

While in the corner, two shadows frowned in anger.

Quietly hissing at the pony of fire.

they wanted to help their lady, but if they did they risked causing the plan to fail, and they could not have that.

-I will kill him for this!- the older shadow hissed, glaring at the pony of fire.

_as will I, but we must wait, milady has a plan and I will not let it fail_ whispered the younger,

both were mad, they were fuming, but they had to stay hidden, for the sake of their lady they would stay as calm as they could

ch7: it's alright milady, we're here

Eclipse panted in pain, body shuddering as she tried to control her magic from lashing out in both fear and rage.

She was the next ruler of shadows! and yet she was allowing herself to be treated like dirt!

The shadow pony wasn't even aware she was crying until two forms curled around her, cold hooves stroking her white hair.

-milady.. please do not cry.. it will be okay- the older shadow calmly spoke in a hushed tone, worried for his lady's well being.

he hadn't seen her cry since the death of ocean.

_my brother is correct, the plan is still in motion, the others have almost located your sister, and once she finds out what this...thing.. has done. he will wish he never messed with you_ the younger spoke to her, trying to calm her down,

which was slowly but surely working.

"thank you... I can always. count on you..two" she replied tiredly, dark and dull red eyes dropping,

the shadows merely smiled,

_- just rest milady, you'll be fine-_ they hummed,causing her to fall into  a restful slumber.

hopefully, tomorrow would be a better day.

well.. one can only hope.

ch1: a new friend

As the twins wondered around the village eclipse stuck by her sister's side as her dark eyes darted around.

"so..what are we looking for big sister?" she raises an eyebrow in confusion.

Nova just grinned before she picked up her pace, heading for a small park "follow me~and you'll see~ follow follow follow-" nova was cut off by her sister,

"I am following you..so shhh please" she sighed as she followed the older filly  into the small park.

After a while of playing eclipse fell over something, yelping as she hit the ground.

"sis!? what happened!?" the ruby eyed filly asked, helping the younger filly up, her gaze lowered to the ground, seeing something shine, a gem.

"sister? what is it?" eclipse asked as nova picked the gem up with her magic, smiling.

"its a gem! let's keep it, I mean, if its just laying here there must be no owner right?" she gazed at the ocean coloured gem.

eclipse looked around, nervous.

"um...well...I don't know.."  her wings fluttered nervously.

Just as nova was about to respond a splash was heard from their right. slowly turning their heads, there was a light blue filly with a dark blue and green mane, and a....merpony tail?...not a normal tail.

"can..i..have my gem back please.." her voice was soft and quite.

eclipse hid behind nova, not knowing how to deal with this situation.

nova smiled." sure. sorry, I didn't know it belonged to somepony" she rubbed the back of her neck.

"t...that's okay" her emerald eyes looked at Eclipse, she smiled,

eclipse blushed, that colour of eyes...suited her... nova saw this and smirked a little. but didn't speak up, she did, however, give the gem to eclipse "you can hand it over" then she flopped down.

eclipse slowly walked to the other filly and gave her the gem.

"thanks.."the green eyed filly smiled.

"no..problem" eclipse felt a smile tug at her muzzle.

"hey, girls I have an idea" nova's voice echoed around them.

"yes?" the younger filly's looked at her

"let's be friends!" she grinned.

silence.then they smiled

"yeah. let's all be friends"

and so the mere-pony, shadow pony, and solar pony became friends, and from that day forth they were always together at the park, playing games and eating together. Life was perfect... Until..

ch5: three months later

Eclipse woke up. She had been married to Jake for 3 months now

And it was hell.

He got a doctor to implant an electric chip into her neck while she was asleep.

eclipses p.o.v

I stood in a plain room. Jake next to me.

"okay now you know the drill," he said. Then he pets me on my back. I tensed. This meant to entertain or I will go to bed with injuries tonight.

I nodded, not allowed to speak unless ordered to.

I raised my right front hoof and the room's lighting started to dim.

"good girl. Now. Form a large shadow"

He instructed.

I rolled my eyes. Not liking how he was treating me and as I lower my hoof I felt a stinging pain in my neck.

"gGah!" I yelled. Jake smirked.

"do as your told eclipse"

I sighed and did as I was told.

continued this for the rest of the day and by the end, i was exhausted.

As I got into bed my mind wounded. How was Nova?  And..did she know about ocean's de-...

ocean..that name made my heart throb in pain..she was my filly-hood crush... And then I saw her get murdered...and I did nothing...

As I lay on my side in the darkness I couldn't help but think.

Was it my fault she's dead?

Could I have saved her?

Needless to say, i got no sleep

Well. that's the 3 time this week.

Hopefully, i am able to sleep tomorrow.