The Taint of Equestria: The Double Shadow

by TheUltimateBrony-Class-S

Chapter 1: The Arrival of the Ponies of Shadows - Part 1 of 2

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~~~POV: Third Person: TheInvertedShadow~~~
~~~Location: Ghastly Gorge~~~
~~~Time: 1:07 a.m.~~~

Ghastly Gorge, a dangerous place for ponies of all kinds, near impossible air currents to fly in, giant pony-eating worms that seem to be able to come from around any corner. Yet, whenever there is no immediate danger, this place seems have its own beauty, a peace that seemingly cannot be disturbed-

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-!!!"

*CRASH*

-until today.


~~~Timeskip: 1 hour later~~~

Letting out pain filled groans as he came to, The Inverted Shadow slowly looked around, blinking, as he tried to get up...

*thud*

"Oof!"

... to only fall back onto the ground, though he notices something was off:

1: He can feel two extra appendages on his back.

2: His face feels... longer...

3: Some of his limbs feel... for lack of a better term, improperly shaped.

4: Why is there a hat on his head and how is it still on?

After he blinks a few more times to clear his vision he looks at his hands... nope not hands hooves.

"GAH!" he shouts in both confusion and fear, jumping a few feet into the air before comically landing on his flank.

"How in the actual fuck?" he asks himself, borderline shouting at this point, then start to look over the rest of himself.

The first thing that becomes noticeable to him, is the wings, he has fucking wings. He looks the rest of himself over and realizes that he looks a lot like his OC, Shadow Rush.

He then lifts his hoof to his head and takes off the hat he felt there earlier, and notices two things:

One, this hat is the same one his OC would be wearing, and two, he is holding a hat with a hoof.

He blinks a few times before making a deadpan expression.

"I can only hope that this may be a dream," he states out loud to himself, then looks around, "...or that I'm in a version of Equestria that I may enjoy."

He once again looks himself over and realizes a few problems, the first being he will have to relearn how to walk again, this time as a pony, and will need to learn how to fly at some point.

Shadow, slowly and shakily, gets on to his four hooves, without incident, and takes a few steps. He then remembered something about 'two left feet' and then looked at his hooves as he started to walk, making sure to walk properly.


~~~Timeskip: 3 hours later~~~

A hoof emerges over the edge of the gorge as it pulls the pony it is attached to up from inside the gorge, who seems to be a little roughed up.

"I..." Shadow says, gasping for air in between words, "am going... to learn... how to... fly, as soon... as I can..."


~~~POV: Third Person: Princess Celestia~~~
~~~Location: Canterlot Castle~~~
~~~Time: a few minutes before TheInvertedShadow crashed into the ground~~~

Princess Celestia walks up onto her balcony and looks across the way to see her sister, Princess Luna, and smiles. In sync, they lower their heads as their horn light up. The moon gained a slight tint of blue to it as it began to lower and the horizon began to light up with blues, purples, reds, and oranges, as the sun started to appear. The sun and the moon passed by each other as the sun began to take the previous position of the moon.

Once the moon vanished behind the horizon and the sun settled into position in the sky, Princess Celestia and Princess Luna both raise their heads and look to each other with a grin.

Suddenly, there were two large sources of magic within Equestria that they both visibly expressed their feeling about the sudden existence of these sources of magic. Then, as suddenly as they came, they vanished, leaving two different sources of magic in their places, while not as powerful, it was still quite noticeable.

Celestia and Luna looked to each other with worried expressions as they looked in the two different directions of the sources.


Author's Note

And here is our first arrival, the one, the only, TheInvertedShadow!

For those of you who don't know who Shadow Rush is here you go:

Well now, it seems Princess Sunbutt has become aware of the arrival of our favorite GMod/SFM user and MLP animator, what will happen in the future? What will happen to Inverted Shadow? Will he become a background character, a hero... or a villain? We will see soon enough.

Don't forget, you can put your OC up and I can try to implement them into the story.

I am willing to take any criticism, and if there are any mistakes, please let me know, and I will get to them when I can.

EDIT #1: As of the moment you are reading this, you may not know it, but it is TheInvertedShadow's 8 year anniversary for being a YouTuber.

EDIT #2: I just realized that I made this chapter 4 months and 3 days ago, adding these edits in.

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