Backstory(Edited)

"Where to begin" Misty said thinking to herself.

Spike looked st her very eager to learn about the new friends he made. He was so interested in her. She was kind, funny, pretty and smart. But still Spike didn't know much about her. He wanted to know more.

" I suppose I should begin on the happiest day of my life" said Misty

(184 years before Nightmare moons return)

A filly walked through the halls of the School for gifted unicorns. She had a grey coat with a black and blue striped mane. She had the biggest smile on her face. She had passed the test to get into the school and her magical ability broke the schools record. Not only was she able to lift the egg in the exam she hatched it as well giving birth to a little baby dragon.

The judges were shocked seeing egg hatch. Not many ponies heard of a filly hatching a dragon. Celestia was immediately told and was brought to the young filly who went by the name of Mist Shadow. Celestia had seen the he potential in the filly and decided to train her personally. She should her basic magic advanced spells and even taught her about politics at one point.

The school luckily had a program for the little hatchling so it would be returned to its dragon parents.

10 years later Mist was 18 and her curiosity had been at its full. She wanted to know everything about magic and always looked up to Celestia for guidance. She wanted to master magic and make Equestria a better place so it was safe. She was Determined, curious, and always trusted Celestia.

Mist was in the Canterlot library. She was reading a book on Shield and projection spells. She had read this book multiple times but she strived to be perfect. When she had finally perfected the spell she tested it. Her horn had a red aurora that began to get brighter and brighter until she released it. She ha dot close her eyes because of the amount of light. When she opened them she saw 10 of herself standing in front of her. They had blank faces. She took a step closer to one of them and reached her hoove to touch it. To her enjoyment her hoove went right through it and the image of her made a static noise. And the image of her was dissipating.

She understood the spell quite well and now that she perfected it she could enhance it to make it better.

She looked out the window to see Celestias sun was starting to set. She didn't realize how long she was practicing that spell for. As she was putting a book back she couldn't help but notice, a book two shelfs above her was leaning off of the shelf. She thought somepony may have not put it in the right place or didn't put it back in the shelf.

She picked the book up with her magic and brought it for her to see it. The cover of the book was a horn with a red aurora surrounding it with green wisps going all around the horn. The book title was Dark Magic.

Mist had heard of dark magic before but never being in a book. If this book was here she would have know. She had been up and down this library a million times and had never seen this book before. She decided to check it out. She looked at the back of the cover to see nothing but the black hard cover that surrounded the book.

She saw there was no label saying that the book had belonged to the library. Now her curiosity was even higher. She took the book and put it in her satchel with some other books she picked up. She proceeded to the counter were a old mare was looking through books. She had a name tag that said Sunny. She was a yellow coat mare with a sun behind a library book that was open.

Mist walked up to her and took the books out of her satchel and pad them out on the desk. The sudden noise of something hitting a table brought Sunnys attention to Mist who was smiling at her with about ten books on the desk in front of her.

She couldn't help but giggle at Mist remembering her all to well. She was here almost every day checking out and returning books to the Canterlot library. She was know as the book worm in town but she still kept a social life by meeting new people around town.

"Hi sunny I'm just her to check out these books" Misty said.

"Alright I'll check them out for you" said Sunny. She turned around and started scanning the books with her magic. Once she finished she put all the books back onto the desk and and smiled at Mist.

"Alright your good to go" said Sunny

"Have a nice day Mist hope you get home safe" Said Sunny

"Thanks you to" Mist said as she opened the door and left the library.

(About 20 minutes later)

Mist had arrived at her house and went inside with her books and placed them on the table. She took the book in her satchel and looked at it intrigued. She went over to her kitchen and made a salad. She at it and went to her living room taking the book with her. She sat on her couch and began to read.

The beginning of the book had no author or table of contents. She turned to the next page and saw many spells lined up on the page. But when she tried to do the spell nothing happened. She tried and tried but every time nothing happened. She looked through the page and saw something on the top left corner.
It said to, unlock the power in which you seek this spell you must complete.

She was intrigued and next to the sentence was a spell with no name. She studied the spell and made sure she had everything right. She closed her eyes and focused she felt her horn being wrapped in a strange magic source. She felt her head become much more clear. It felt strange she couldn't describe it she felt stronger as if she could lift a city and be fine.

As her horn grew brighter so did her curiosity. Suddenly she opened her eyes and they had green mist coming out of them. Then they flashed back to normal. It repeated for almost a full 30 seconds before her eyes returned to normal.

She blinked for a couple of seconds before looking back to the book. She saw the spells much differently. They didn't change in the book but in her mind she saw them much more clearly.

For the entirety of the night she studied and tested the spells. It was amazing, she found a all new world of magic that she had the chance to learn. She stayed up all night and passed out from exhaustion .

She woke up still on the couch with the book still wide open. She rubbed her eyes and yawned. Then looked back at the book and closed it. She took it over to her basment were she had her own personal library. She put the book on a desk and went back upstairs. She had some cereal for breakfast and after she was done she heard a knock on the door. She went over to it to see a guard standing at the door.

The guard spoke " Mist Shadow I am here to inform you that princess Celestia is waiting for you in her study room".

Shock and embarrassment rushed to her head as she remembered she was supposed to meet up with the princess today for some studying and practice. She had not even seen the princess in some time. She would talk to her and visit but the princess was always busy. But Mist had moved on and was spending time with new ponies around canterlot. She had quite the group of friends. But It was still nice to see the princess every once in a while.

"Oh of course let me grab my satchel" she said as she ran to her kitchen table and grabbed her satchel that had a couple of books in it.

Misty and the guard made there way to Canterlot castle. Then the guard led her to where Princess Celestia was. She was sitting on a couch reading a book that had a crystal bubble on the cover labeled shield spells.

She smiled greeting Celestia and thanking the guard.

"Misty it is good to see you again it has been some time since our last get together" said Celestia

"Of course what will we be learning today princess" said Misty

Celestia giggled remembering Misty exitment of studying.

"Well my student today we will be......"

(4 hours later)

Misty was saying goodbye to Celestia as she was trotting out the door. She had a wonderful time learning from Celestia about shields and protection spells but she had learned a lot about them in the book she had read last night. She was deciding if she should tell Celestia about the book she had found but she decided not to because she wanted to surprise her.

She returned to her home and ate lunch she had a wonderful time with Celestia and wanted to relax but something in the back of her head told her to keep reading the book she found. As she went downstairs she Saw the book was floating wide open and pages were being flipped by a unknown source. She watched in awe as the book just sat there levitating.

She moved down the stairs but they made a creaking noise and he book instantly shut. She trotted over to it and looked at it with her magic. She opened it only to see a green line under one of the spells on the first page. She looked at the spell it read "Dark magic element summon" warning this will requires high amounts of magic and is dangerous. She was going to close the book and leave the spell there but the green line became even brighter.

Something or someone wanted her to preform this spell. She debated it for a while and decided to preform the spell.

She closed her eyes and focused remembering he spell in her mind and started to preform it. Her horn Began to grow bright. It kept glowing until she realized which knocked her back against the wall. She rubbed her head with a hoove moaned in pain as she started to open her eyes. When she opened them she couldn't believe what she saw.

Now where she was standing a black liquid was floating that was almost the size of her. It was floating in circular motion in place. She slowly trotted forward nearing the strange liquid. She observed it circling around it. She grabbed a flask from a chemistry set she had and scooped a little into it. She the put the rest of it into a see through bucket.

She took the flask and examined it shacking and stirring it to see if something would happen to it. Nothing did. She had a idea and put some raw magic into a large cauldron. Raw magic wasn't very easy to produce and when a unicorn would make raw magic they would definitely be very tired. But as misty was producing raw magic into the pot she felt perfectly fine she wasn't getting tired at all.

After about 15 seconds she opened her eyes to see that the large cauldron was filled. She was surprised maybe that spell she used made her more resistant?

After she filled up the cauldron she took the flask and poured some of it into the cauldron. It sank to the bottom before all of the raw magic began the become black. As that was left was the black liquid in the cauldron no more raw magic. It was amazing the black substance was able to transform raw magic into its own material. She knew how to make more of the substance but she still wanted to find out more.

She wanted to test one more thing before finishing her work. She took some of the liquid back into the flask and began to preform a simple shield spell the would put up a shield in front of her.

The shield appeared in front of Misty and she threw the contents of the flask on the shield. It soaked it for a couple of seconds before spreading through the whole shield. It was covered in the liquid. Then the black liquid began to dissipate. After all the black liquid was gone and the shield was back to its original state. But Misty could see that it looked slightly darker and had a weird shimmer on it.

Misty tested the barrier for any difference. She ran a statistic spell to see if there were any changes. She was shocked to see that not only was the shield more durable but it appeared to be bigger. The spell she used to construct the shield was only supposed to make a shield durable for a small blast but now the shield could withstand a nuke and more.

Misty had the biggest smile on her face. She found out how to make more of the substance and she new what it did. It could enhance spells and make them better. She had never heard of any type of magic or spell being able to do that. She had just discovered somthing that could change equestria forever.

Months went by and misty was able to test the liquid on all sorts of spells. They all had a different affect with the black liquid. Some detection spells had there radius expand. Some beam spells that would just fire a low power beam could now put holes in stone walls. Even physical objects like swords were enhanced. A regular dull sword could be turned into a sturdy and sharper sword that could slice a whole tree in half.

But while she had spend almost a whole year reasearching and documenting she had not seen Celestia or her friends for most of that time. They were getting worried about her and every time they asked what she was up to she just said studying.

Celestia was not one for liking secrets and had went to Misty with some guards to find out. Celestia was not one to be forceful but mistys lake of being outside and communicating worried her.

She came to her house and had asked what she had been studying and why she hadn't talked to her In quite some time.

"I decided to tell her, I was so exited I thought she would be happy but..... she wasn't" Misty said as small tears formed in her eyes.

She suddenly felt something warm touch her side and turned to see spike giving her a hug.

"If you aren't comfortable talking about it than that's fine" he said in a sincere tone.

"No, no it's fine" Misty said. She sighed and continued.

I thought Celestia would be happy that I found this new magic. But I was very wrong. I had shown her the dark magic element that I was able to control. I showed her how it worked and what it did. But the whole time I was showing her she didn't say a word she just looked at me with a blank face. After I had finished showing her everything she looked at me with a angry expression. I thought she would be happy with what i discovered but she wasn't.

She looked at me with eyes of angry and whispered something to herself I couldn't make out what it was but what happened next changed everything. The guards came behind me and slipped a ring on my horn. I thought they were attacking me so I tried to charge up my horn. It didn't work. I realized they had put a inhibitor ring on my horn to stop magic flow. They tied my forehooves and one guard watched me whil Celestia told the other to watch the door.

I was shocked why was Celestia letting them put cuffs on me. She then looked at me with a cold glare and proceeded down the stairs to my " laboratory". I watched her as she walked down the stairs.

As I sat there being watched, I saw the guard had the keys to my cuffs so when he moved to the left side of me I tripped him with a hoove and he fell to the ground rubbing his head. Luckily they hadn't tied my backhooves to anything. So I was able to get up and knock him out with a hit to the head. I grabbed the keys and unlocked my cuffs. I then got the inhibitor ring off my head.

I then started to smell smoke. I didn't know where it was coming from until I got to the basement stairs where my fears became true. Celestia was burning my research. I ran down the stairs as fast as I could only to see books tables and shelfs in fire. Things were collapsing it was chaos.

I spotted Celestia firing a beam at a chamber where I kept most of the Dark magic liquid. She destroyed all of it. I began to feel tears form in my eyes. All the work I had done was destroyed in a instant I looked around me to just see more fire around me. Everything was burning.

Misty looked into the fire to see Celestia again looking back at her she had a blank expression showing no emotion. Mistys sadness turned into angry as she stared at Celestia. She got on her hooves and fired a beam at Celestia. She put up a barrier and blocked it. Still no expression on her face.

Misty anger suddenly rose to limits she had never been to. Her eyes turned green and her pupils red as blood mist began to come out of them. He horn had a red aurora coming off of it. Celestia face turned from blank to shock seeing her student controlling dark magic.

She herself lite her horn as well getting ready for anything. Misty fired first letting a giant beam release from her horn going at a tremendous speed. Celestia fired her own beam that seemed to be much smaller. The beams clashed energy could be seen coming off from each beam.

As both Unicom and alicorn kept there beams going Celestia could be seen sweating. Trying to keep her beam from being overpowered. Misty was relentless having her beam staring to push against Celestias. It got to the point where Celestia was just struggling to match Misty power.

Then..... Celestia was hit. Misty had overwhelmed her in power which was unheard of by many ponies. Even Misty herself couldn't believe she beat Celestia in a magic duel. As Celestia fell to the ground a small smile appeared on Misty's face as she approached the downed Celestia. She was now standing over a huffing Celestia and was about to finish her off when suddenly she felt lightheaded.

Her eyes turned back to there original color and her horn stopped spouting out its red aurora. She put a hoove to her head closing her eyes in pain. She slowly opened them back up to see in front of her a exhausted Celestia on the ground. She heard hoovesteps coming from the stairs. The royal guard outside must have called for back up she thought.

She quickly took one last look at Celestia and focused her magic. She then teleported right as the royal guards came downstairs and saw the beaten Celestia.

In a bright flash she was outside of Canterlot in a grassy field. She saw Canterlot to her left and dirt road to her right. Celestia would be looking for her absolutely. She would need to hide and get all of her reasearch back. She trotted on the dirt path. Not looking back to Canterlot. She could never have her old life back.

"After i followed the dirt path I ended up miles away from Canterlot and near a small town. It was ponyville. During the time it was barely a town. Buy night everypony in equestria would be looking for me. So I went to the only place I could. The Everfree Forest. I eventually made a home here and rebuilt all my research. I had a place to call home" she said while looking at spike.

Spike was shocked to say the least. He didn't expect that at all but now most of the blank questions in his mind where now answered. But one question still plagued his mind.

"Um Misty you said the story began 184 years ago if that's true why do you look so young and how are you still alive" Spike asked.

"Well Spike dark magic was something that could have positive and negative affects. I found out on my 30 Birthday. You see Spike I was using dark magic on a daily basis. It was like a was using regular magic. I would practice it everyday because I wanted to perfect it. I eventually realized that since I used it so much it became a part of me. It was now my main source of magic and it gave me my youth. I realized this when I didn't age in the slitiest. I didn't look older at all. So dark magic changed me forever. It was as if I was compatible with it. It has never harmed me in any way." She said.

Spike sat there taking in everything that she said. She had a very eventful life. But she seemed to be happy with it. Spike noticed small tears In her eyes. She had cried when she was talking about Celestias betrayal to her. But Spike wanted to comfort her.

He couldn't do much but he did what he could. He wrapped his small arms around her body and gave her a hug. At first she was to lost in thought to realize but when she felt his warmth she turned her attention to him. She hugged back, happy she had someone who she could trust and someone who she could talk to.

Author's Note

Hope you enjoy. Did the best I could to elaborate on the characters past. If you have any questions leave them in the comments. Thanks have a good day :)