Princess Amity

In a field behind the high school, a game between two teams of hoofball players entirely composed of teenage male ponies is intensely occurring. The participating players from each team are wearing matching uniform tops while the referees on the field have black and white striped tops and caps. The players are sweating profusely while the coaches' with their deep raspy voices yell at the top of their lungs. The score is 2-2, and the game will end when the next team scores. The players, coaches, referees, and bystanders observing the game are on edge.

There are two groups of ponies watching the game one on each of the opposite side of the field, and Amity stands among one group with smaller female ponies around her anxious to see how the game will end. The game continues with one player controlling a white and black ball and passing it to another member. The crowd cheers loud including Amity.

As she cheers, a unicorn beside her screams, “Come on! Move it!”

An earth pony then joins, “Move your orange butt, boy!”

Amity hearing these comments makes her laugh as they continue shouting statements. Then, a whistle goes off, and Amity sees that one team wins the game. "We won! Thank Celestia, We won!" Amity screams while hugging the two ponies beside her.

"Too bad it's the last game of the school year," the earth pony replies.

"True, Vanilla," Amity responds, "But at least we won."

"Heck yeah, girl," the unicorn says. She then notices a particular tan colored team member giving hoof bumps to his teammates on the field, and the unicorn elbows Amity against her shoulder. "Hey, Amity. There's your boyfriend."

She and Vanilla giggle while Amity sees the player, blushes, and swiftly talks back, "He's not my boyfriend! Sure, he's a sweet, handsome, talented, smart, caring, and...but I don’t like him that way!"

"Suuure, you don’t," the unicorn replies sarcastically.

"Shut up, Evening! I mean it!" Amity yells at her friend.

The friends giggle as they leave with the rest of the crowd of ponies leaving, and the trio of friends walk down a road which leads to the city of Canterlot. They walk down the path having a conversation until an older earth pony approaches them. Beside her, a pegasus who looks like Evening but has lighter fur color lands next to her and looks at Amitys pegasus friend.

“Vanilla, it’s time to go home,” the older pony says.

“Oh Mom, can’t I hang out with the girls a bit longer?” Vanilla asks her mother.

Her mother shakes her head, then Amity intervenes, “Um, Mrs. Lockheart, it was our last school day, and we really want to spend time a bit together tonight.”

“Yes please. Mom, speak some sense to her,” Evening interjects.

“I don’t know. Will you be safe?” Mrs. Lockheart asks.

“It’s dangerous out there,” the pegasus mom states. “Even here in Canterlot.”

Amity answers with an idea, “Would it make you feel better if they spent the night at the castle with me?”

Her friends jaws drop hearing such an idea which is followed by Mrs. Lockheart saying, “Uh, well...”

Evenings mom replies, “It’s okay with me.”

“Mmmm, okay,” Mrs. Lockheart agrees.

The two friends smile and hug Amity, and the mothers walk away. Then, just when the mothers are out of sight, Vanilla says, “Are you crazy Amity? What wil your mom say?”

Amity giggles and replies, “Um, you forget who she is?”

The earth pony puckers her lips, “I stand corrected.”

The trio continue walking down the road telling jokes and having conversations then eventually come across a straight road to the castle. They start walking down the road since the castle is straight head, but the atmosphere was unnerving with no other ponies around the trio. They get a bit nervous and keep looking around. Amity feeling worried spreads her wings and stretch them over her friends. Suddenly, a bone chillingly slow laughter is heard down an alley and emerging from the shadowy alley is an earth pony.

The colt is perfectly groomed with his blue mane slicked back, blue tail straightened, gray fur sparkling, and a cutie mark of flame. "Ah," the colt says with a heavy country accent, "what is this before my eyes? A trio of defenseless teens walkin’ about. Oh... innocent." Vanilla and Evening step back a bit while Amity step forward, and the colt looks directly at her. “Well, if it ain’t Amity, daughter of Celestia. I have been lookin’ for you. For a princess, you were surprisingly hard to find like a needle in a haystack.”

Amity stares at the earth pony intensely and replies, "Who are you?"

"My apologizes, Your Majesty," the smiling colt says, "my momma named me Diablo on account of..." He opens his eyes wide showing off his orange and yellow iris which stands out from the rest of his body. “My unique eye color.”

“What do you want?!” Evening behind Amity asks aggressively.

“A simple message from Momma to this princess only because you are special, Amity. Klaatu barada nikto.”

Suddenly, all around Amity the world vanishes into all white. She looks all around but no body else is around her tries shouting. However, she cannot make a sound. “There’s no use in trying Amity,” a somewhat seductive female voice echoes sound her. “It’s only me speaking to you. You have some much potential, my dear. Celestia is holding you back because she knows you can overthrow her. Why do you think you haven’t had the opportunity to do something great or earn your cutie mark? Because she’s scared of you. You have so much magic within you that if you let it go, you can even kill her. You want to be great my little pony? You just have to embrace anger. You have been holding back so much anger, haven’t you? I can sense it, and She loves it and will be free.” Then, a second voice is heard but is muffled. “You are struggling. Very well. I will let you go but remember this, dark magic isn’t evil. It’s who you really are. The way of honesty, loyalty, generosity, kindness, and laughter are all lies and tools to create a false image. Only dark magic is the true way of life and peace. Keelah Se'Lai.”

The whiteness disappears, and the muffled voice become clear quickly, "Amity! Wake up!” Vanilla screams.

“AMITY!" Celestia's voice suddenly echoes from a distance.

Her vision becomes clear and looks around to see everything is on a tilt with hooves right in front of her face. She can also see a bright yellow light shining over her and realizes she has collapsed. The pink alicorn stands up with her friends tending to her.

Celestia lands, approaches Amity, and hugs her. The pink alicorn asks, “W-what happened?”

“You just collapsed,” Evening responds.

Celestia breaks the hug and looks into her daughters eyes. “Are you okay?! Who am I?! How many horns do I have?!”

“Mom,” Amity replies. “I’m fine just...what happened to that guy?”

The two friends look where Diablo appeared from but see nothing. Amity looks around but to no avail. “Who?” Celestia asks.

“A weird guy named Diablo,” Vanilla answers. “But he’s gone.”

“I’ll give word to my guards and the Wonderbolts to find him.” Celestia states with an intense tone.

The pink alicorn asks, “How long was I out?”

“Like a minute or so,” Evening says. “When you fell, I shot a magic flare in the sky to get your moms attention.”

“Okay,” Amity understandably responds. “I think we should fly to the castle.” Celestia nods her head and allows Vanilla to get on her back while Evening gets on Amity, and the two alicorns with the friends fly to the castle.

A shadow from the alley Diablo emerged from slithers into the middle of the road and forms into the grey colt. He smiles wide and licks his lips while watching the alicorns fly off. “I have to say Momma, you were definitely right about her.” He pauses. “Mmm, a great sister She will be. I wonder what her name is.” He then looks down the same alley he came from and walks towards it. “As you wish Mama.” Diablo chuckles. “I can’t wait to see his reaction to Pandora.”