Prologue

Prologue

It was a dark and misty afternoon, and a strange creature was slowly walking step by step across a dusty and old mountain trail. The creature stood on two legs and was covered in what appeared to be traditional Samurai armor. Upon his left eye was a sharp and destructive looking jagged scar and his helmet disclosed most of his darkened black hair. He stopped in his tracks when he heard rustling in the thicket behind him. He carefully and stealthily let his left arm drop, his hand cautiously on the handle, ready for whatever was to come rushing up from behind him.

For a few moments the Samurai just stood there, ready to strike at whatever would attempt to sneak up on him. After a few minutes of waiting, he decided to continue moving. His hand was still ready to strike if need be. To the Samurai's surprise, the attack came from below, as a hole opened up dropping him down to wherever it led to. To anyone viewing it, it would appear like a child going down a water slide, only without water, a tube, and a happy person.

The Samurai attempted to free his blade from its sheath which proved fruitless as the walls were too compressed, and he could barely move as it was. The tunnel started to curve as the Samurai was sent forward towards some kind of black abyss like hole. As the Samurai met with the hole, everything went dark and the Samurai seemed to no longer fall. He just seemed to float there. After what seemed like hours, a loud booming sound was made. It was much louder and more sinister than simple thunder or the fire of a gunshot. Immediately after the sound was made, a bright flash engulfed the Samurai as he screamed out in agony at the sound vibrating within his head at a dangerous volume.

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It was a hot and overactive day in the outskirts of Ponyville, Vigil was relaxing in the sun thinking of his life and how it came up to where he is. Vigil stretched as the sunlight shined beating down upon his green fur and grey mane, ruffled and dirty from his time as a drifter. Vigil had just been kicked out of Canterlot for disturbing the peace one too many times, and after spending the last year going back and forth between Canterlot and Ponyville, he had no choice but to give up being a drifter.

Sighing, he arose and prepared to head into town on his usual quest to find odd jobs he could do for money to get himself enough to rent a room in the local tavern. As Vigil followed the road, he immediately stopped and dropped to the ground in surprise as a loud noise shot through the air. He remained there for a minute, slowly and gingerly he stood up, knees still buckling involuntarily from the shock. He looked around at his surroundings to see what had made the sound and to his surprise, he had found it.

A floating blue-ish yellow orb stood where he had just been relaxing previously. The unicorn's jaw dropped in realization at how close a call it would've been. The orb was smooth and glossy, but seemed to give off a violent static discharge as tiny bolts of lightning crawled across its surface. The green unicorn just stood there, too surprised to react when suddenly the ball started to grow and take a different shape.

Vigil managed to get enough of a grip to mutter something as he watched the orb continue to contort and twist into shape. "The fuck is that?"

After a while, the form began to change faster and more violently. The whole time, it still continued to glow violently. The form began to turn into something living, and armor and a few alien like objects started taking form upon the creatures body. Vigil quickly gained his sense back and ran behind a rock, peering over the edge precariously.

The creature that now laid before him, still blanketed in the light, stood on two legs, similar to a minotaur. After another moment, the light around the creature vanished and it fell to its knees, frantically gasping for air.

Vigil quickly ducked back behind his rock, hoping the creature had not seen him. After a few moments, the thing caught its breath and stood up, his hand grasping the hilt of what appeared to be some sort of bladed weapon.

Thoughts passed through Vigil's head faster than Pinkie Pie could speak. 'What is that thing?' 'Is it going to kill me?' 'Where did it come from?' 'I don't want to die!' 'Maybe I can make a run for it?'.

That last thought caused Vigil to pause, considering the option. He told himself that it was too much of a long shot, he was still far off in the outskirts of Ponyville and he wouldn't likely make it, considering his unathletic nature. The unicorn continued to think of a way of getting out of his predicament when the creature spoke up.

"You. Come out now or I'll make you come out." The voice sounded male and fairly youthful. This only brought more frantic thoughts and eventually he figured his only hope was to make a run for it.

To Vigil's dismay, the creature had already circled around and cut his escape off leaving him to the mercy of the creature.

"Who are you? And what are you?" the creature asked without a hint of emotion in his voice. He broke his stare from vigil and looked at his hands and his body. "... and who am I?"

Vigil's mind was back to working at a rapid pace at this new revelation. 'It can't even remember it's own name? How does that even happen?'

"U-um... I'm....Vigil, a unicorn." He responded nervously.

"What of my other questions? What did you do to me!?" The creature asked, frustration finally breaking through his once emotionless voice.

"I... I don't know! You just suddenly came here out of some kind of orb that shot lightning out! It was all like: 'BOOM!' and 'ZAP' and-" Vigil was stopped mid-sentence, his fore hooves still flailing about to emphasize the sound effects and motions.

"Where are we? What land are we in?"

"Equestria." The unicorn said. "A-are you going to *gulp* eat...me? Or something like that?" Vigil was sweating madly, still panicking about what was unfolding.

"Why on Earth would I do that?" The creature asked curiously.

"Whats Earth? And you look like some kind of monster. Isn't that what monsters are supposed to, like, do?" Vigil stopped panicking, he was now curious as to what on Equestria was he had just gotten himself into.

"Earth is the planet I reside on. Is this not Earth?"

"I've never heard of 'Earth' before in my life." Vigil returned."But you're still not going to eat me right?"

"No! Stop it! I'm a human! I don't eat sentient beings!"

"A what?"

"A human!"

"O-kayyyyy." Vigil said sighing before continuing. "Would you care to accompany me to the next town?" He coughed slightly. "I suppose I could use the company, since you aren't like.. going to eat me and all."

The human just shrugged and they both left for Ponyville. Vigil wondered how the townspony's would react to such a peculiar creature.

The human was having a completely different thought process going through his mind, still trying to wrap his head around his lost thoughts. 'What the hell is my name? Why can't I remember anything?'

Vigil tried to make conversation with a simple question. "So whats your name?"

"..."

"You're freaking weird, you know that, right?"