My Little Pony: The Dark Age

by Dawn Darkness

Rating: mature
Tags: Horror, Violence, Death, Human, Main 6, Original Character, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Dark
Length: 4656

The Dark Master reigns! The ponies and the other inhabitants of Equestria must come together to stop him.

(This story happens after season eight of the show.)

After destroying Earth for all eternity, the evil dragon, known simply as the Dark Master, begins his universe conquering quest in order to gain more power to be nigh unstoppable.

The heroes of Equestria must get all available allies in order to stop this new threat of the Dark Master, who happens to target Equestria next on his list of destroying the planets to erase them from existence.

Will the good conquer the evil darkness in its wake? Or, will the darkness swallow the light and its goodness once and for all?

Made by Dawn Darkness. Characters like the Dark Master must not be used without permission for future stories you are going to make in using my characters within them.

Published 2018-12-29 18:00:01 UTC
Last updated 2018-12-29 18:00:01 UTC

1. The End of Earth

It was a dark day on Earth. The darkened sky was all but red, there were no clouds in the red sky either. It was completely red and dark. No sun was there either.

On the ground, at the White City, the citizens were all panicking from the wrath of a dark dragon. In truth, the dark dragon was only causing trouble because of his mind had gone mad about something truly suspicious.

The dark dragon had red scales, a golden underbelly, silver colored horns. Its eyes were all but a deep white color, like it was possessed or something. The dark dragon's tail tip was a sword shaped end that looked pretty sharp like it could take out a building's woods.

The dark dragon had an classified name, however. So, it was hard to tell what its name was.

The evil dragon continued with its obsessed wrath, destroying everything in its path as it wrecked havoc across the city streets of the once beautiful White City. It fired darkened balls out of its mouth and burned down every dragon it came across on, killing them cold-blooded and in a wrathful nature.

"Please, spare me and my child!" A mother pleaded with the dark dragon whom she had accidentally stumbled upon on, holding her hatchling close to her.

"Sorry, but no dragon shall escape my wrath," the dark dragon spoke in an dark, cold, and evil voice that sent shivers down the mother's spines.

Bringing his sharp claws up, the dark dragon hesitated when it noticed the innocence of the child, but decided not to spare its life as the dark dragon brought down its claws to the child's heart, clawing it out as the mother screamed in horror. The dark dragon, looking at the heart in its claws, crushed the heart within its evil wrath as the mother was more than horrified. She was petrified.

Looking back at her, the dark dragon chuckled evilly. "You're next!" He brought his claws to her own heart in the chest, clawing it out as the mother fell lifeless on the ground as the evil dragon crushed her heart in his paws.

The dark dragon, although evil, found rejoice by bringing the dragons his wrath from the death of his...old parents. The evil dragon cringed at the thought of his parents, wishing they would go out of his mind forever.

"Stop this at once!" Four powerful voices echoed through the skies above.

The evil dragon looked up from his position to find four great dragons hovering down around him.

The dark dragon snarled outrageous at the Guardians of the elemental dragons.

"None of you shall defy me!" the evil dragon roared out in anger, going to an defense stance as the Guardians prepared themselves for the worse.

The dark dragon attacked the one in front of him, charging straight into the chest of the Guardian, who managed to swipe him away with a paw before he could take his heart out like with that child and its mother. The evil dragon tail slapped into the Guardian's face instead, giving him a good few slaps before deciding to give him a black eye by punching with brute force at the right eye, which caused the Guardian to roar out in pain from the punch.

The second Guardian, who was an electric dragon, charged up his electricity but was predicted when the dark dragon looked at him and spewed out a dark, shadowy ball of darkness from his out and hit directly into the electric dragon's chest, making him cancel the charging of the electricity.

The evil dragon roared out in outrage, causing the Guardians and other dragons nearby to cover their draconian ears. The dark dragon gave a breathing out, smoke coming from his mouth as he did so. The evil dragon, suddenly, charged up with black electricity as he aimed for the electric Guardian and, when the black electricity were fully charged, hits him all over the body as the Guardian roared in pain from the attack by the dark dragon.

The third Guardian opened his mouth, firing an red ball of flames at the evil dragon, who dodged right underneath the fireball. The Guardian then attempted to strike the dark dragon down by charging in for an attack, but the evil dragon jumped up and struck into the Guardian's heart, clawing it out as the Guardian fell lifeless onto the ground.

The evil dragon crushed the heart in his bloody claws, just as an electric attack was fired at him. The dark dragon dodged it just in time before going straight for the Electric Guardian's heart, clawing it out when he got near to where the heart was located inside the Guardian, as the Electric Guardian fell also lifeless to the ground. The evil dragon crushed the heart like before in his evil claws.

Only two Guardians were left, but they fled as quickly as their wings could take them.

The evil dragon chuckled evilly before deciding to burn down the White City for the lives within it. The dark dragon flew up into the air, preparing for one huge attack as a large amount of energy was boiling out of the evil dragon's body. The dark dragon aimed down to the White City, before black electricity and flames surrounded his very being, just before unleashing the two different attacks down at the dragon city, burning it to the ground as well as electrifying the living dragons in a shockwave of black electricity. Another attack was made by the evil dragon, finally crumbling the old city down to ruins as the glorious White City was no more.

The dark dragon gave off an evil and sinister laughter at his handiwork at the sorry state of the dragon city.

Once done with the laughter, the evil dragon gave an cold and dark smile as he thought of giving the humans of Earth a small visit after his work to the White City was done.

The evil dragon flew through the red sky above the ground, his cruel smile still on his face. He was enjoying bringing death and suffering to the people and inhabitants of Earth of what they deserve.

The dark dragon saw his first human town target, in the Danish state of Denmark. With an wider cruel smile on his expression, the evil dragon flew down to the western city first.

Landing on the ground, the dragon caused panic just by the looks of him made the Danish people scatter off in various directions. The evil dragon's smile widened as it walked forward with the red sky growing more black in color as well.

"Kneel before your new ruler! I am your new monarch!" the evil dragon gave off an loud roar. However, he was ignored as the Danish people continued to run off in their directions, which infuriated the dark dragon in annoyance.

Giving off a louder, much more angrier roar, the evil dragon got to his first human victim: a little boy that was no more than seven.

The evil dragon brought his claws and scratched the boy with vicious intend, causing blood to appear on the boy's scratched belly while he was crying and screaming in horror. The evil dragon found amusement in causing pain and suffering, but more death as an evil thought came to his mind.

Grabbing the boy by the head, the dark dragon started to fly up to the highest point in Denmark, which was located in the capital.

When arriving there, the adults, teens, and other kids looked at the boy within the dark dragon's grasp, who was screaming in pain as the claws continued to sink in his skin.

Suddenly, soldiers arrived at the place of the highest point in Denmark, aiming their guns at the dragon who dared to enter their once peaceful home.

"If you are going to resist me," the dark dragon growled into the boy's poor ears. am "Then, you're all going to die if you don't kneel before your new ruler. No. Your master. I am the DARK MASTER!" He roared out so everyone could hear his claim.

"Piss off!"

The Dark Master looked down at the insolent pests of the so-called human race. The one who called out, was a human soldier.

"Excuse me?!" the Dark Master sneered down to the soldier.

"You're no 'Dark Master'," the soldier called out again. "You are nothing but an dreadful and conflicted dragon who brought death upon his own people. If you're not going to stand down, and let the boy go, then YOU are the one who's going to be killed."

The Dark Master, sinking his claws deeper into the screaming boy's skin, caused the soldier to shut up from uttering another word. However, the Dark Master wasn't done yet. He brought his claws to where the boy's heart was located, bringing the claws into the boy's skin once more before taking out the heart as the boy stopped his screaming as his eyes fell lifeless. The Dark Master threw the dead boy down towards the ground, while crushing the heart in his claws.

This made the Danish people going petrified as heck, but the soldiers aimed their guns at the Dark Master, firing at him as the citizens fell on the ground from the fire that was now going on.

The Dark Master, however, felt nothing on his hard red scales. It was like the bullets had no effect on him at all.

The Dark Master roared out, causing the glass to shatter from the loud roar of the evil dragon. When the fire seized, the Dark Master opened his mouth again as he prepared his dark energy to be unleashed upon the Danish people.

After the dark energy generated around him, the Dark Master brought upon the full power of his attack by destroying the entirety of Denmark to blazes from the intensity of the dark energy that was unleashed from the evil dragon.

After burning the Kingdom of Denmark to ashes, the evil Dark Master brought about an end to nearly all the states of Earth, even the Empire of -Japan as his wrathful nature grew more by the second of bringing more death to the universe's species.

Knowing the final state was located in Latin America, the Dark Master flew to his last destination before bringing about an end to Earth once and for all.

Arriving at Latin America, the Dark Master was fired at by the soldiers' guns and weaponry as tanks, machinery and all kinds of weapons was doing no damage to the evil dragon at all.

Rage, hatred, vengeance, blood, and a lust for power was all the Dark Master could be feeling at the moment.

The Dark Master's dark energy was then summoned to his body as he grunted before an massive earth golem appeared on the ground of Earth, making the last colony of humans panic as they knew one thing that creature was doing.

To destroy Earth in the Ring of Fire.

The massive earth golem slowly walked to its destination to bring about the Earth's end while the Dark Master watched it in gleeful, but strange happiness as he saw what the human race was experiencing for the first time in ages.

Suddenly, coming to the last colony of humans' help, was a group of twenty Guardians as they looked at the vengeful dragon who was bringing their lives to their end.

"Do you know what you're doing?!" A Guardian shouted in anger to the Dark Master, who merely smiled cruelly.

"About to end your pathetic lives, that's what I am doing," the evil dragon growled angrily at them for their annoying persistence.

The human soldiers aimed their guns at the dark, wrathful dragon as the Guardians halted them in their movement.

Looking at the evil dragon once again, the same Guardian tried once more to reason.

"If you want to destroy Earth, then what would your parents say to that?" the Guardian questioned the Dark Master, who gave the most evilest glare at the Guardian.

"Don't you dare speak of my old and forgotten parents ever again!" the Dark Master roared in rage, as he looked at the earth golem's slow walk. His eyes glowing purple for a bit, the evil dragon brought the massive golem's slow speed to fastened a bit as the Destroyer of Worlds walked a bit faster than normally.

Looking back to the Guardians and the last human colony, the Dark Master gave off the cruelest smile to them as he began to speak up once more.

"It's time for the dragons and humans...to end." An evil laughter escaped the dark dragon as the last remaining of the two species widened their eyes in horror as the massive Destroyer of Worlds was now near the Ring of Fire, before it went down into the large tunnel going down to the Earth's core as the dragons and humans was powerless to stop it as they were so horrified they didn't even move to do a thing.

Opening an black portal to another dimension, the Dark Master looked back one final time at the dragons and humans.

"Say goodbye to your dear and most precious planet!" Then, he went into the black portal as the massive Destroyer of Worlds made contact with the Earth's core as the whole planet, literally, exploded into a million pieces as Earth was no more in the galaxy.

2. To Prevent a Prophecy

While going through the black and purple swirling portal, the Dark Master decided that, if he should manipulate some of those people on that other world, he might as well play innocently.

Giving an cruel smile, the Dark Master transformed into his other self, who opened his eyes as he saw freedom finally.

After going through the portal and coming out to an different atmosphere, the dragon flew down towards the planet's surface of Equestria, which he found was a weird name for a world.

Landing near the dark forest of the Everfree Forest, the newly arrived dragon looked around to find nothing but creepy trees and ground.

The dragon decided that, if he should navigate this world, he must find a suitable name for himself.

He had just found the perfect name for himself when he observed the dark forest of the Everfree Forest.

After a while of observing, the dragon, named Moon, began to walk to the safest part of the path to take in order to get out of the forest.

However, he didn't get very far until he heard sinister growling in the nearby bushes. This made Moon get on guard for any potential attack.

The attack came, in the form of a pile of an wooden wolf that had eerie green eyes. But, as the Timberwolf tried to strike the dragon, just a mere glare from the inside of the dragon scared off the Timberwolf by one second and it scurried off in another direction instead of fighting this scary-looking dragon.

Moon merely shrugged this off, as he ventured to the safest path to get to the nearby town as he predicted there to be one outside this forest.

When he got to a clearing, Moon saw an old-looking castle within the clearing as he thought of one devious plan. He decided to investigate this old castle, and see if it's any worth being his very own castle of this world with its throne room.

Walking towards the gate of the old castle, Moon made it inside the palace as he ventured through the castle to find anything worth stealing for himself.

Walking into the library of the place, Moon found a book of dark magic spells when he looked through the many aging books of ancient times.

Carefully pulling the book of dark magic out, Moon gently opened the book as to not break it. He carefully went through the many old pages of the spells for dark magic, and he found one spell interesting.

Turning the world into a dark and ominous place, as well as making all the plants die in an dark world.

Moon smiled deviously at the dark magic spell within the book he found. He decided to storage it back to the shelf as he now know how to work with the evil magic spell casting.

Being an evil dragon, the Dark Master was only interested in dark magic spell books than light magic ones. He found the latter boring and not worth the power. He's more into the ones that was going to be used with a lot of power than just a minimum amount of it.

The Dark Master, or Moon, chose to stay in this old castle for a few more months in order to renew it to his image to be his own palace for his dominant of this world.

In Ponyville, a purple alicorn was trotting alongside her best friend and assistant, Spike, through the streets until she stopped for a moment when she reacted to a strange power source.

"Twi, what's wrong?" Spike asked her.

"I thought I sensed something from the Everfree Forest..." Twilight responded carefully when she reacted strangely to the power source. "I thinkn that an new foe might be on the horizon."

"Oh, please," Spike shoved that aside. "We've defeated all the villains together, haven't we? What more could there possibly be if there was going to be a new villain in Equestria?"

"I'm telling you," Twilight started the arguement. "There is in fact a new villain nearby. I don't know who it is, but we've got to do something before it reaches its maximum of potential threat."

"Okay, jeez. Calm down, Twilight," Spike rubbed the back of his neck. "I just asked what it was. No need to cause a panic while we're here."

Twilight flushed a bit when she noticed the many looks of the citizens of Ponyville, her cheeks being a little red color before shaking her head as she decided to call the rest of the gang to the Castle of Friendship.

A while later, after getting all her friends into the throne room, Twilight explained their situation.

"Apparently," the Princess began, "there is a new and powerful source of dark magic within Everfree Forest. This villain may just be stronger than that of Tirek or Discord when we had to face him when he was a villain back then. However, this new foe is immensely powerful and a really strong dark magic user."

"How can ya tell, Twilight?" An orange pony named Applejack asked in wonder.

"I just have a hunch," the Princess replied. But, Applejack just stared at her for the truth. Twilight sighed. "Okay. I just know this new enemy is the strongest dark magic user in Equestria."

"Stronger than...King Sombra?" the shy pegasus called Fluttershy, fearfully asked.

"Probably," Twilight nodded her head.

"Say, Twilight," the blue mare named Rainbow Dash started. "Why haven't you called for the Princesses and Shining Armor about this new enemy? Are you that feared by this strong magic user?"

"A bit, yes," Twilight admitted to Rainbow to the latter question. "I haven't contacted Princess Celestia, Princess Luna, Cadance or Shining yet. I figured to get you first so we can get into the bottom of this new enemy."

"Sounds cool to me," Rainbow nodded as she approved of Twilight's plan.

"But, this enemy is a...dark magic user..." Fluttershy reminded Rainbow Dash. "And...we're not even that powerful without the Elements of Harmony...how can we beat the enemy if we don't have them?"

That seemed to question Rainbow as well. She looked at Twilight for clarification.

"I believe," the Princess started, "if we get the other nations' help, we might be able to beat our new threat if it is supposed to be that strong. However, before jumping straight into action, we may have to wait for a while before doing anything to immediately attack it if it hasn't attacked us first yet. Are you with me?"

"Sure," the gang nodded in understanding as they soon heard an amused chuckle from around the room.

"Why, you have forgotten to invite me to the party." In a flash, the Draconequus, Discord, appeared behind the Mane Six as they smiled apologetically to him.

"Sorry, Discord," Twilight apologized.

"No problem, my dear Princess," Discord waved a hand in dismissing. "I understand you're afraid of this new enemy, but with my help, we might be able to get rid of him quicker than before than just waiting for 'a while'."

"Would you?" Twilight asked him.

"Of course, Princess Twilight," Discord bowed to Twilight jokingly as he disappeared in a flash.

"With this new palace, I'll rule as the King of this planet!" the Dark Master cackled to himself as he sat on his new and comfortable throne.

His renovation complete for his new castle, the Dark Master took control over Moon once more as he decided to not give that damn goody-two shoe freedom for long. By just finding that dark magic spell book, the Dark Master quickly took control again and decided to imprisonment the good side within their shared mind.

"Are you really sure about that, O almighty dragon?" A new voice echoed through the throne room.

The Dark Master narrowed his eyes as the Draconequus appeared in a flash in front of him.

"Who might you be, creature?" the Dark Master demanded threateningly at the Draconequus.

"Why, allow me to introduce myself." Discord bowed in a mock-manner to the Dark Master. "My name is Discord, the one and only ruler of Chaos, a mastermind behind chaos control, and friend to the people of this world."

"If you're the 'mastermind of chaos control' in this world," the Dark Master questioned. "Then, how come are you a friend to ponykind if you couldn't defeat them in your old ways?"

Discord shook his head at that belief. "You shouldn't underestimate me. Even if I am friend of ponykind, I am neutral in many ways. I still cause chaos, but in a fun way."

A wide, evil grin spread across the Dark Master's expression.

"Really? Hm. Interesting. If you're still causing chaos, then how about joining me in my world conquering quest of this world? I'll have a spot for you as the commander of my army of the dead once I am in my final stages of conquering this world."

Discord's eyes widened in fear as he soon knew why Twilight was afraid of this new enemy. It was a dragon who utilized Dark Elements that could summon the dead back to the living. A really dark spell, by dear Faust.

"Oh, I believe no one told you about me and my quest?" the Dark Master asked Discord. "I am the one responsible for disrupting the dimensions from the Destroyer of Worlds that caused the destruction of Planet Earth. That's right; I plan on destroying this world as well once I find it is no use for me anymore when every species of the world are nothing but corpses that are going to be part of my Army of the Dead."

An evil laughter escaped the Dark Master afterwards, which sent cold shivers down Discord's spines.

"You...you are...a true devil!" Discord shouted to the evil dragon. "No. A true demon who causes nothing but death and destruction in his path! How many other worlds have you destroyed beside this planet Earth?"

The Dark Master cackled evilly. "Why, the other worlds that had ponies on them, of course. And other worlds that are part of this multiverse. I plan on destroying all dimensions, leaving nothing but death in my path of universe conquering within my wake!"Another evil laughter came from him.

Discord's body began to shake violently from this dark conversation with the Dark Master. Then, without a second thought, he disappeared in a flash, and away from the Dark Master.

The Dark Master had a wide spread evil grin on his face when Discord vanished in front of him. Perfect, another reason to corrupt and manipulate the monarchs of this world.

Then, as he was about to turn to his new bedroom, the Dark Master froze when he sensed a strange power from the land of dragons in this world.

Humming in interest, the Dark Master vanished in a dark flash.

Ember had a visit from Spike once their egg had been laid. She knew that Rarity was jealous of their marriage instead of hers with Spike, but she was happy for them nonetheless.

After his visit to his mate, Spike was about to fly back to his home of Ponyville when he suddenly saw a dark flash in the distance near him.

Frozen in place, Spike saw that the being appearing was the enemy they sought after a few weeks of waiting had passed.

In front of him in the evil glory, the Dark Master grinned evilly to the younger dragon as he began to speak up in his cold voice.

"Why, hello there, little one," the Dark Master greeted strangely to Spike, his demonic voice echoing into Spike's ears.

Spike was shaking at where he was standing, knowing this enemy was too powerful for even him to take on.

"Not planning on saying a greeting back?" the Dark Master asked, then shook his head in dismissing. "Anyway, I am here to see your egg. I believe there is a prophecy that I must keep from occurring."

"W-Wh-What prophecy?" Spike asked in a shaking voice.

"The one of a special dragon that is destined to stop me," the Dark Master snarled to Spike angrily. "I must prevent that from happening of my universe conquering."

Spike suddenly felt anger within him boil. "There's no way you're taking my child!"

"On the contrary," the Dark Master started, "I do plan on taking your child, no matter what it takes." Suddenly, he felt something more powerful from the egg nearby, making him grin maliciously as he said: "I think I have other plans for your child, though."

Spike felt afraid by the tone in the evil dragon's voice. He spread his wings, taking flight and tried to charge the Dark Master, who simply knocked him back with a closed paw, causing Spike to flung right back to a nearby mountain.

Cackling evilly, the Dark Master spoke coldly to the near unconscious Spike. "You shouldn't underestimate the power of the Darkness. The darkness is greater than the light and brightness altogether. But, I think I should end this right now."

Raising his claws into the air, the Dark Master saw fear in Spike's eyes when a slow motion happened. The claws of the Dark Master was slowly reaching for Spike's heart, when suddenly, the younger dragon vanished in a flash of light, prompting the evil dragon to stop all of a sudden.

But, that didn't stop the Dark Master from walking towards the cave Spike had just gone out of before confronting him. There, the evil dragon saw a light blue dragoness with a blue colored egg underneath her wing.

Ember noticed the Dark Master when she growled viciously at him for intruding her territory.

"Please, none of that," the Dark Master said coldly to Ember, knocking her out with an dark spell from his glowing right paw before it stopped glowing. "I am merely going to take your egg, safe-keeping it, and make it the General of my Armies."

The Dark Master grinned darkly when he reached the blue egg that laid harmlessly under the unconscious Ember's form. The evil dragon took the egg in his cold paws, before vanishing in a dark flash of darkness.

The plan already in motion, the Dark Master was none too happy with how this is going to turn out in the next few days once the egg hatches.