The earth trembled slightly as the Spirit appeared, but nopony noticed. There was nopony around to notice, as the Spirit had appeared in a far off field, away from any towns or cities. The Spirit took a single step, the earth trembling as it moved. It could sense that what it was looking for was here, but it seemed to be hiding. No matter. The Spirit knew just to coax it out. It lurched forward in a crouching position.

Then it began to run.

It was slow at first, but it kept gaining momentum, becoming faster and faster, but never capping out at a maximum speed. It just kept going faster. The ground trembled and shook at its every footstep, it's earthly body becoming more and more blurred as it went. It's sheer mass and size seemed to do nothing to hinder its speed and movement. It's pure red eyes reflecting the furious nature held within.

Up ahead, it noticed a mountain with a castle curiously perched on top. But that didn't matter. Putting its shoulder forward, the Spirit plowed straight into the mountain, obliterating it in its entirety, destroying the castle along with it. But this did not slow the Spirit down. Thousands of screams could be heard from behind it as the debris scattered about, but the Spirit paid them no heed. The destruction it would cause was only just beginning.

The Spirit continued to run, it's speed and momentum ever increasing, as it plowed through more mountains, forests, hills, towns, and cities, reducing everything in its path to nothing but rubble and debris. Soon it became fast enough that it's sheer speed evaporated the water around it, and it began to circle around all of Equus, lapping it several times, destroying every land formation, structure and building in it's path. It's sheer speed evaporating all of the oceans and annihilated all sea life within, causing several tumultuous storms to appear, only to be quickly quelled by the spirit's rampage. The screams of the many ponies, griffins, yaks, and other denizens and creatures of Equus silenced as quickly as they appeared. Their deaths occurring before they could even process what had even happened. The world became eerily silent and dark as the evaporated oceans formed clouds above, blotting out the sun in it's entirety. There were no more screams. No more chatter of birds. Just dead silence. The world as anypony knew it, had ended.

Then, the Spirit spotted it. What it had came here for, and without a moment's hesitation, it seized it with all it's fury, all of its purpose and wrath.

Then it simply vanished without a trace, as if it was never there....

With the Spirit gone, Equus was left with naught but ruin and death.

Yet, despite the Spirit's efforts, there was life that yet remained....

Author's Note

Sorry it was short, but this was necessary. The other chapters will be longer, i promise. This is the prologue, after all.