Warrior of Souls: A New Beginning
Chapter 1: The Tale Begins

There was a time long ago where I was just like you. A time when I stood on two legs and worked things with my hands rather than these hooves that I have now. A time when I could laugh and talk with my family like anyone else on earth. But in my present circumstances and time that is not possible and never will be again. For I am no longer a human, I am a pony.

But I'm getting ahead of myself here. Let me introduce myself to you, my name is Shattered Souls and I'm a pony. If your reading this then I'm sure your wondering what I look like. Well to give you a description, I stand around 4 and a half feet tall with piercing green eyes, the color of a forest in spring. My mane coat is a light ice blue like the icecicles you can see through out in a snowy wasteland, while my mane is an icy white to compliment it. Upon my flank you can see my cutie mark which consists of a pony shattered into pieces like a broken mirror while a scythe hangs above these pieces. Oh and before I forget I am a unicorn and my horn just out half a foot out of my forhead where all unicorns' horns are. I also prefer to wear a green camo type hoodie with the hood down to cover my face.

So yeah, That is what I look like now. I don't think there is any use in telling you what I looked like as a human right at the moment but then again I do have to start the story.

I stood at 5'4 inches with brown hair, green eyes, and white skin. You could normally find me wearing my favorite hoodie that depicted a dragon soaring through the sky while I wore a Pokemon t-shirt underneath. I also wore the standard blue jeans that you can get at Wal-Mart for cheap or could get anyway. Don't know if it is even still around now. I use to like hanging out with other people back when I was human but I still liked to keep my personal space and distance when I could. I would approach people I think would share my interests while staying spaced and away from other people. As for personality that will be up to you to observe through what I tell you.

At the time I disappeared from earth forever I had just started to work on a bachelor's degree in Computer hardware. I lived in a small apartment just outside of the campus of a university in North Carolina. And no I don't remember the name of the university or much else about it. Time had degraded my memory of my past as a human so I can't tell you a whole lot other than I had a routine. Get up in the morning, get ready for classes, go to classes, hang out with friends for an hour afterwords, then go back to the apartment to do schoolwork and prepare for work. I worked at a grocery store as a bagger and minimum wage was barely enough for me to live off of but I made it work.

I don't remember much about my friends other than we all liked dragons and talking about them. Oh and of course we all loved that kids TV show My Little Pony Friendship is Magic. I never did have much in the way of merchandise for the show as i just couldn't afford to spend the money on such things. I did have a couple of comics and even a plushy of Princess Luna but that was about it. I did have a couple of game systems to play like an Xbox 360 and a DS but for the most part all I did for free time was watch MLP or read fanfics for it.

The day I disappeared I had just come back to the apartment straight from classes and I needed a little time to cool down. So I sat down at my computer and pulled up Fimfiction in Google Chrome so I could read over some parts of one of my favorite stories, Past Sins. The only problem was that the page didn't seem to want to load and I irritably stated,"Oh come on. You were working just fine this morning you piece of junk."

I tried refreshing the page but that didn't help either but I tried refreshing it one more time before giving up. The odd thing was that when I refreshed it that last time text appeared on the screen saying,"Connecting to portal home of site please hold." Next thing i know the screen glows blinding white and I have to shut my eyes or otherwise go blind. While I had my eyes shut I felt this strange pulling sensation that was trying to get me to go forwards and with a jerk it did manage to pull me forwards.

I kept my eyes closed the whole time but next thing I know I'm feeling like i'm being ripped apart molecule by molecule and reassembled into a totally different being or object. I couldn't help but think,"Please don't let me be reassembled into a toaster!" Next thing I knew I was passing out from all the pain that I was feeling. I didn't even have time to scream out or anything. And all went black for me as my mind faded for a time.

When I next woke up, I still had my eyes closed but I could hear the sounds of birds and other animals nearby. I could feel a light breeze blowing over me which at the time felt very pleasant as my body felt hot all over. Opening up my eyes, I hissed in pain as everything seemed overly bright and I had to let my eyes adjust. I put my arm up over my eyes to my head to block out some of the light but the shape of my arm didn't seem quite right through my blurry vision.

Once my eyes had adjusted I could see that my forearm wasn't a human's forearm at all. It was a lot thicker and stubbier then a human's forearm is and there was no hand at the end of it like there should be. All I saw was a light blue leg where my arm should be and ending in a hoof. A freaking hoof! To say the very least I sat there for a few moments trying to process what I was seeing and I still didn't believe it. It was only when i tried moving my arm up and down and the blue foreleg responded that I was forced to see the truth that it was mine. I then proceeded to have an epic meltdown where I screamed like a little girl. And yes I'm fully admitting that I did so. My voice sounded a lot lighter then I remembered it being yet it was obviously still deep enough to be recognizable as my voice. It still had a good base to it so I was still a guy thank goodness for that.

After screaming my lungs out for about 15 minutes I finally stopped as my voice started to go hoarse and scratchy. I took a few more minutes to calm down and then looked around myself at my surroundings. I was in a forest clearing with all sorts of scraggly underbrush around it. The trees themselves loomed large and tall over me and so growing so close together that not much light penetrated into the woods themselves. Clouds roamed over head with a dark gray tint to them which signaled them as rain clouds of some sort but they didn't start raining. Little songbirds were flitting around the edges of the clearing looking down at me in curiosity.

I couldn't help but look up at them and feel a small smile come on to my face as I wistfully said,"Ah to be able to fly like you little things and see where I am." Still something about the woods all around me seemed hauntingly familiar somehow, but I just couldn't pinpoint what.

I lay there for maybe another half an hour before I worked up the courage to try and get up by telling myself out loud,"Well nothing is going to happen by just laying around being lazy." So I tried to get my new hooves down underneath me but because I had no previous experience or coordination I fell flat on my face into the dirt.

I spat the dirt out,"Pahh. Blagh I hate the taste of dirt." And with that I tried to get up again but was unsuccessful yet again as my legs splayed out to all sides as the wind was knocked out of me again. After recovering I finally decided to drag myself over to a tree by a small pond that I had just noticed. So after about 20 minutes of painful dragging across the dirt I made it to said tree.

While leaning on the tree, I finally managed to at least get myself into a sitting position as I looked into the pond to see my reflection. What stared back at me was something completely alien yet familiar at the same time. I saw an ice blue unicorn with a white spiked main staring right back at me with the same green eyes I possessed while I was a human. It was then that I realized that I lacked my clothes and I set about searching the clearing again hoping to see my clothes.

"Where could those pieces of fabric be? Its not like they have legs to get up on and walk away with." I said to myself irritatedly. I then finally noticed that my hoodie was hanging from a branch right above my head. How I had not noticed it there before was beyond me. Guess I failed my perception check at the time. I was thankfully able to reach up and tug it down and tried to wrangle myself into it. But the hoodie's sleeve seemed to keep catching on something.

I stopped trying to put my hoodie on and instead looked at my left foreleg to see what was stopping me from putting it on. And what I saw I could swear hadn't been there ten minutes ago. It was some type of watch-like device that seemed like the ultimatrix from another old favorite cartoon Ben 10 Ultimate Alien. Yet it was far different from it at the same time.

For one there wasn't even a dial to turn to look for aliens and press down to become one. No instead there was a long thing rectangular screen the size of say an Iphone's screen. Next to it were 6 slots each the size of an SD card port in the side of a laptop all arranged in a circle. And the small buttons right in the center of that circle each a different color.

"What the crap is this thing? And how the heck did it get on me without me even noticing?" I shook my foreleg a bit frantically to see if that would help loosen the device but of course that did nothing. It was like the stupid thing was stuck on just like the watch had been for Ben in the beginning of his show. I then noticed a satchel of some sort leaning against the tree on the side that was facing the pond. Again how I didn't noticed it was beyond me. I reached out with a foreleg and manged to run my leg through the strap to pull it towards me.

Once I had easily done so I managed to get the satchel flap up only to see plenty of blank SD card chip looking things inside the satchel. So many so that it almost completely filled the satchel up. Setting the bag aside for now I concentrated on trying to stand again. I finally managed to do so and silently congratulated myself.

I then set myself to working on how to walk in this new form of mine. I finally managed to work out how to do so within a couple of hours and was comfortably walking around the clearing if stumbling every now and then. And I had finally been able to wriggle back into my hoodie despite the sleeve catching on the device a time or two. I finally walked back over to the satchel and slipped my head through the strap so it rested against my side. I wanted to get out of here and hopefully to some kind of civilization that had food and water but it might be a while before I got there.

Although it appeared that I wasn't to far from the forest's edge as i could see rolling hills through the trees on one side of the clearing. So after seeing that I said to myself,"Well might as well get out of here." And headed right for the edge of the forest. I passed out of the clearing into the trees only to feel like the sense of serenity that had encompassed me had suddenly disappeared.

That's when my ears swiveled and I heard creaking and groaning that hadn't been there before. I looked in the direction of the sound which was to my left only to see piercing yellow eyes glaring back to me. And they belonged to a creaking wooden looking wolf of all things. That's when my brain recognized it and flashed a warning,"Timberwolf! Beware! Runaway or your tree food!" And with that I frantically scrambled away from it trying to get out of the forest even as I stumbled and tripped a lot in my haste. The wolf easily keeping pace behind me trying to toy with me.

I finally tripped and fell flat on my face right outside of the forest at the base of a hill when I heard it growling behind me. I couldn't run for crap right now as I had only just learned to walk at a slow pace. I turned my body frantically to face it only to be met with its muzzle 2 inches from my own. With a great sense of panic I struck upwards with one forleg and cracked the thing right in the muzzle which caused it to back off with a yelp of pain. It hurt my own hoof quite a lot to do that as I yelped too.

But I has managed to get it to back off as the device on my forleg started to glow underneath the hoody sleeve and the satchel glowed too. I froze completely and then before I know it my body was moving on its own without me doing anything. I felt like I was just watching a movie at this point as whatever force was controlling my body made it stand up and growl back at the wolf.

My hoof reached into the satchel and pulled out one of the chips which was glowing only to show it now had an image on the front. An image of one of my favorite cartoon characters from my childhood. And that character was BlackWarGreymon from Digimon Adventure 02. My body could hear shouting in the distance from behind while it used its right foreleg to move my hoody's left sleeve back while still holding onto the chip.

It uncovered the device while moving in a circle and keeping its gaze on the timber wolf which also circled. That timberwolf looked like it was going to pounce any minute now as my foreleg slotted the chip into one of the empty slots on the device. The screen of the device lit up with the words "Soul Unison Program Ready!" My foreleg then pressed the middle button, colored green, on the device and the screen changed to read,"Program executing."

I spoke out without meaning to and said,"Soul Unison Execute! Soul of the defeated be reborn again!" And with that I was englufed in a blinding white light and I could feel something about my body changing again. I just couldn't see what.

It was at that time that a purple alicorn that everyone seems to know finally crested the hill only to stare in shock at the sight in front of her. One of her friends skidded across the ground to stand next to her as she saw a figure emerge from a bright white ball of light. What emerged was a unicorn wearing some sort of metal mask over his face that had a horn right at the tip and a covering for his natural horn on his head. His natural mane seemed to be some gray and all bunched up and was mostly centered from the back of the mask. And odd black armor ran across his body with a weird shield on his back that had a sun of some sort carved into the back. Deadly looking claws were attached to armor on his forelegs and the claws dug into the dirt.

She also saw the timberwolf and called out a warning to the strange being,"Hey watch out. That's a timberwolf there. Get away from it. Me and my friend can take care of it."

The figure glanced at her and snorted before turning back to the timber wolf and saying,"I don't need your help lady." It then glared at the timberwolf and said,"Time to dance you overgrown woodpile."

He dug his back hooves into the ground and then pushed forwards practically flying through the air and slamming into the timberwolf which yelped. The figure snarled and shouted out,"Dramon Killers! Terra Tornado!"

And he lashed out with the deadly claws and ripped into the wooden wolf pulling sections of wood out with its wild slashes. The wolf letting out loud yelps and cries of pain as the wood was ripped out of its frame. Greenish blood splattered on the ground all around from the chunks ripped out.

The unicorn then hovered in the air and started to spin rapidly before a veritable mini tornado appeared and piled right through the hapless wolf turning it into kindling and killing it for good. The figure landed on the ground unperturbed and turned back to the princess looking at her horrified expression solemnly. Its once pristine, shining black armor now covered all over in dripping green ichor. A bit of which dripped down from the horn at the tip of the muzzle of the mask.

Twilight was in shock at what had just happened and then the smell hit her. The terrible smell of death and destruction assaulted her senstitive nose and caused her to feel sick to her stomach. He friend which happened to be a particular party pony we all know and love was also staring on in shock if not plain fear. Twilight finally asked horrified and tentatively,"Just what are you? And what are you doing here?"

The unicorn replied,"I'm a pony just like you who's trying to protect himself. As for what I'm doing here that's my business alone. But I should probably let the owner of this body speak for himself now."

The next thing I remember after the flash of light was looking at freaking Twilight Spark the princess of friendship looking down at me from a hilltop while I stood in weird black armor with a mask over my face. I blinked and looked up at her for a moment before I completely keeled over and passed out from the shock of seeing her and the sudden fatigue that overcame me. Thus I felt and knew no more for now.

Author's Note

A/N Well guys. I hope that you all enjoy the first chapter of this new story of mine. Its my first official fanfic published on any sight and I'm really nervous about it. Any constructive criticism you guys could give would be appreciated. Also just comment about any references you see or what you just liked in general. Thanks for reading my story!