Prologue: A Strange Crystal

11/13/17

It was a cool autumn evening in Canterlot Mississippi the wind was cool and blew lightly through the forest rustling the leaves that had not yet fallen some being blown down by the wind. Through this forest cut a long path that leads into a pasture while the trail had been listed as public property the pasture was private property separated by a barbwire fence across the pasture was another fence, behind the fence was a small lake behind a medium sized blue two-story ranch house. On this trail in the dark covered with leaves and sticks, a young woman walked this woman was fairly short at 5ft 4in tall and fairly thin with long flowing pink hair and yellow skin, a light blue skirt, a yellow sweater, pink socks that went nearly to her knees, and black and white converses. In her hand was a small black flashlight shining it’s bright LED light in front of her shining down the trail. She hummed lightly as she continued the leaves crunching lightly beneath her feet the sound of crickets and frogs echoing throughout. As she walked she looked up and noticed that the moon was full so she clicked off the light and put it in her pocket letting the moon guide her way. She smiled as the environment relaxed her it had been a stressful day, her boss was angry at her since she hadn’t filed the reports she was supposed to on time, she also had a major exam in the online Veterinary courses she was taking, and her car broke down so she now needed to borrow her girlfriend’s car to get places so this was very refreshing to her. the trail was three miles long and she was now one and a half miles down the trail when all of a sudden the crickets and frogs went silent and all that she could hear was her footsteps and the sound of a distant freight train its horn the loudest while the rumble was low and hard to hear. As Fluttershy walked down the trail she began to feel uneasy as if she were being watched, not just behind her but all around as if thousands of hungry eyes were watching her every move, her every step, her every breath. She then noticed a small glow beneath the leaves about twenty feet away from her for some reason it called to her as if it were whispering in her ear on the wind.

She walked over to the glow and got on her knees brushing the leaves off curiosity overtaking her instincts usually she wouldn’t do things like this but it gave off a warm glow and a comforting feel. She picked it up and held it in her hand it was a long hexagonal crystal with points on both ends. It was very warm and was getting hotter but she didn’t wanna drop it, it was mesmerizing she felt its sting in the palm of her hand but she stayed entranced upon it. Then it shot into her chest puncturing it and going into her heart sending pain shooting throughout her breast as she gripped it in agony, she took deep breaths as the pain began to die down. Once the pain left her chest she got off of her knees and ran for her life back down the trail towards where her car was parked just outside the trail in an empty gravel lot, she climbed in her car and slammed the door panting hard she lifted her sweater and looked at her breast there were no markings, no cuts, no scars, and no bruises not even slight discoloration.

After catching her breath she reached into her purse in the passenger seat and pulled out the keys to her girlfriend’s blue 2010 Camaro, she inserted the keys into the ignition and started it driving out of the lot and back towards Canterlot. As she drove she felt nauseated and had an almost migraine headache, she had to stop a mile from her house and lean out of the door to throw up one thing she noticed about her vomit was it was filled with black bile. After this, she drove back home and parked the car her head still pounding but having died down to that of a normal headache, she got out of the car her face pail, and her cheeks flush she took a deep breath and opened the door it was late and her girlfriend Rainbow Dash was asleep on the couch. She untied her shoes and left them by the door before locking it and tiptoeing past Rainbow Dash to her bedroom, she bent over the toilet and vomited up more bile. After this, she took a stomach pill and pulled off her sweater, skirt, and socks throwing them all in the hamper before getting in bed and falling asleep.

As she attempted to sleep she felt a strange feeling as if she were being watched by an intimidating presence. She also felt a sharp pain in her stomach while she was no longer nauseous a pain still lingered deep within her abdomen where she couldn’t tell it was just there. She felt the strange presence drift towards her she heard footsteps and she sat up not finding her room but a black void, bed was a pile of worms she got up and stood floating in the infinite blackness still in her underwear. She watched as the bed melted before her eyes, she then heard music begin playing behind her it was a bass riff with the same drum being hit repeatedly, slowly, then electric guitar joined in and then the words

“Pride you took, pride you feel,”

she turned around and (get ready for this) she saw Metallica standing behind her performing the song The God That Failed. Shocked by this she stepped back and fell down a hole and landing on the ground in a dark stone tunnel, she props herself up and looks at the ground she found wooden planks with rocks between them and spikes driven into them to hold steel rails down, she was in the middle of a train tunnel. She felt the ground rumble and saw a bright light appear around a curve behind her, she felt the rumble of a diesel engine and then heard a loud horn as the train plowed into her. SHe awoke screaming at the top of her lungs Rainbow Dash ran in to see Fluttershy sweating profusely her eyes wide in terror.

Author's Note

So I cut it off here because I wanted it to be somewhat suspenseful as if it cut to a commercial