Behind the Bleeding Veil

All good horror stories begin with a death and this is no exception. Although in some ways it begins with two. The first begins in an alternate timeline. A poor girl by the name of Fluttershy was born to an abusive mother. The years of constant physical and psychological battering had made the poor thing into a shy, waifish creature who's best friends were animals. As she grew and eventually reached out and made friends; she became stronger, more self assured, and eventually ended up leaving her mother. In a novel, this would have been the end. Good girl escapes bad situation and lives happily ever after. Unfortunately; life isn't like that and Fluttershy is eventually killed by her mother.

Sad, yes I know. Such is life I'm afraid. Except it's not that simple. You see Fluttershy was a very special girl indeed with even more special friends - namely Twilight Sparkle and Sunset Shimmer who happened to be the latest inheritors of The Goddess Forces (more on that later). They, along with one of the previous Force holders would go and rewrite the timeline after a particularly brutal battle with a dimensional fusion ( a dimensional fusion is where two versions of the same person but from different dimensions fuse together into one; in this case it was one Trixie Lula Moon). Fluttershy lived and would go on to help battle and defeat an ancient evil set on unleashing The Black Gods of Death (also known as The First Ones).

Timelines are like stains or cracks - you can cover them up, but they're still there. Once something happens; it can never un-happen. It just gets folded within the larger timeline. Just one more pocket dimension of what was or could have been. These little pockets, if powerful enough, can still reach out and effect the main timeline. Such was the case with our dear Fluttershy. Her death in the alternate timeline left such a psychic scar that when it came to the time it would have happened in the new timeline, she actually fainted and went into a mini coma.

Now before I go on, I just want to say that like life, each person experiences death differently. Some pass into nothingness. Some are reborn. Some go to Heaven, while others go to Hell. There are some rules as to who goes where and why but most are incomprehensible to mortals. Most simply just cease to be. This was Fluttershy's case (originally). It was this that allowed for her eventual corruption.

I also feel that now is a fine time to fill you in on a few things. First -The Black Gods of Death (or First Ones); were the first beings ever to exist. Powerful and vicious, they are like rapid animals; no intellect just pure, seething hate. The warred with each other for time untold until the Second Born came into being. This was the Goddess. She did battle with first ones and eventually splitting herself in two to become The Goddess. Unlike The First Ones, The Goddess were intelligent, self aware, and moved with purpose. Once again, for time untold, they did battle with The First Ones. Neither could achieve victory over the other so The Goddess created what would later be known as The Elder Gods. Finally, with The Elder Gods' help, they sealed The First ones away in The Abyss. This allowed for the Third to come into being, The Multiverse.

From their home, The Nexus, The Goddess kept watch to make sure no other would arise to threaten the multiverse. But while The Goddesses kept watch outward, trouble breed from within. The Elder Gods had grown corrupt, decadent, and narcissistic. They waged war on each other with one, Yahweh, killing all the others (including his wife, Asherah) to be the only one left. The Goddesses found out and cast Yahweh out and renamed him Lucifer.

It was after that The Goddesses felt they needed to not only look out but in as well. The split their essence across the multiverse and gave it two representatives in every dimension. Each would hold it for a while and then it would be passed on to two others; so on and so forth for all eternity. They also created forces, or powers to help their incarnates. These were: The Warrior - the perfect soldier. Strong, agile, and cunning, The Earth Mother - loving, nurturing, with the power to control plants, The Healer - can cure anyone of any physical or emotional damage, The Mystic - empathic, can see the far distant past, commune directly with The Goddesses in The Nexus, can also talk to and control animals, and The Trickster - can change shape, become invisible, can be one person or two. And unlike the incarnates who held onto The Goddess Force their whole lives, the other forces could be bestowed on whoever was around the incarnates at the time and wasn't linked to just one person.

The Goddesses didn't know how they or the others existed nor did they care. As far as they were concerned, they all just simply happened. As long as nothing came along to challenge them, destroy the multiverse, or unleash The First Ones, they were fine.

As mentioned before, Twilight Sparkle and Sunset Shimmer were the holders of the Goddess Force. Fluttershy was granted the power of The Mystic. The rest of the squad consisted of their friends Rainbow Dash (The Warrior), Applejack (The Earth Mother), Rarity (The Healer), and Pinkie Pie and Sonata Dusk as The Trickster. Together they fought the evil wizard Morgorith who wanted to unleash The First Ones who would have devoured the multiverse. And, as previously stated, they won. That was 2014.

As the years went by, each girl dealt with what had happen as best she could. Most put it out of their minds as best they could. Twilight struggled with what her responsibilities were in this world with her powers. Rainbow sought to find a higher meaning in life. Fluttershy started going down a dark road. She became moodier, quicker to anger, slower to forgive. Still she was still herself at heart. That was until the second death - Rarity's.