Inner shadows

by deathwriter990

Prologue

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I wonder how long Iv'e been in this world, months, years? I am uncertain, then again I lost interest in keeping track of time long ago. You would think being a creature that possessed unnatural abilities would be cool right? Well if you add the amount of frustration and self hatred along with that, the negative usually outweighs the positive. You may be wondering why, well maybe if i explain it to you, you might understand why.

Well I'm not from this world, I'm actually human, or at least I WAS a human before i came here. As for how I got here, I sadly don't remember any details before i woke up in this world. All I remember is the earlier years of my human life, childhood memories and memories from when I was in the years of being in middle school and high school. Any memories I had after I entered adulthood were lost, at least that's what i think.

Even though I don't remember much I still feel like i'm missing something, like something had been taken from me, a piece of my life. These kind of thoughts haunt my mind constantly and never cease. When I woke up in Equestria I noticed how I didn't look like I was in the memories i remember. My body looked as though it was made of pure shadow, but i had a physical body, I also had slim glowing red eyes, and my body structure was bipedal.

Strange right? Well I wish the locals of this world would view my appearance as just strange, they are utterly terrified of me. Even though I mean no harm to them they still either run away or faint, so it doesn't really give off a good feeling, but hey to be honest can you really blame them? Oh i forgot to mention, there ponies, that's right, this world's most intelligent form of life are multicolored ponies.

Over time I noticed this world had three different types of ponies, there were ones with wings, ones with a single horn on top of their heads, and ones that didn't have either a horn or wings. To bad their reactions were all the same when they saw me, oh well what can I do? So as you can see with the mixture of being feared and hated and losing a great chunk of your memories tend to lead to a negative output.

Anyway like I said i'm currently living in a cave deep within a forest, and conveniently not many of the ponies venture in this forest. Apparently most of the ponies are scared of this particular forest, not all of them however, I have ran into a fair share of ponies who thought they were brave enough to go wandering around these woods. That changed when they got a glimpse of me, I never seen any other creature run away out of fear so quickly. It was funny at first, but after awhile it got old, then annoying, and finally to depressing.

Other than me scaring the living crap out of the occasional visitor of the forest i called my home, things are quiet most of the time. Of course there's the occasional local forest monster that tries to pick a fight with me, but I tend to either get it to back off of or slip away unnoticed. For some reason, I prefer to use stealth most of the time, don't really know why though.

Anyway that's what its been like since I arrived in Equestria, and even though things are not looking good for me, something tells me things could be a lot worse than what they currently are. At least that's what I keep telling myself to make it seem like not all hope is lost.

As I sat in the cave deep within the forest I call my home i began to feel very tired, the weird thing is i don't feel hunger or thirst, yet i become tired when i haven't slept in awhile. I didn't know if it was night time or day time, I couldn't really tell since I was deep inside my cave, I didn't really care though, so I got comfortable and slowly, yet surely drifted off into slumber.

Echoes of voices and sounds flowed through my mind, but I couldn't see anything but darkness. It was clear that a dream was forming, although my dreams just consisted of sounds and i just figured this was just another one of my ordinary dreams. Just as this thought crossed my mind, the unthinkable happened, for the first time, my dreams were beginning to form images. I could hardly believe it since this was the first time i could actually see anything going on in my dream.

What i saw didn't make any sense, I could see myself in a green meadow at night. Another thing that was odd was i felt like i was actually there, this was different from my previous dreams because those dreams were more hazy. This dream however was as clear as day, or night in my case. After taking in my new surroundings i got up and decided to explore a bit.

After a short while of walking through the endless moonlight meadow something caught my eye, there was a book lying in the grass a few feet away from where i was standing. I walked over to it and picked it up, it had a leather cover with a symbol of a golden horse's head on the front, nothing on the back. At first i thought it was just a book, that is until i started hearing voices that seemed to be coming from somewhere, then i realized they were coming from...the book. I couldn't make out what the voices were saying, but something told me to open it, so I did.

What happened next caught me by surprise, when I opened it the pages were emitting a bright light, and i could feel a strong gravity that seemed to be trying to pull me into the book. I tried to resist the strong force but to no avail, and just like that I was pulled into a pool of light. As the light begun to die down my eyes started to adjust to where I was. I was no longer in the meadow, instead I was in, what looked to be some kind of throne room. Taking in my new surroundings again I was definitely in some sort of castle.

"Not...another...step!" A feminine voice called out.

The voice caught me completely by surprise causing me to flinch a little, I looked around the throne room for the source of the voice. When I looked in the direction of the thrones a dark blue pony emerged from behind one of the thrones. This pony was different from the others I saw, this one was taller and had both wings AND a horn, not only that her mane and tail seemed to be flowing with energy.

"Did you expect me to just sit idly by while they all basked in your precious light!" She spoke again.

I was really confused, precious light...what did that mean? It was clear she was not happy about something, but what? Who was she? What did she want from me? My thoughts were interrupted as the pony spoke again.

"There can only be one princess in Equestria, and that princes...will be me!!!" She exclaimed angrily as she stomped her front hooves into the ground with force causing the ground to crack.

This caused me to stumble backwards and fall, i was taken back on how much strength she possessed it was really impressive. As I slowly regained my composure, she begun to float upwards and raise her for legs as lightning emitted from several directions. A sphere of dark energy started to surround her causing me to stumble back yet again, as the sphere grew more intense it erupted into a burst of energy causing the mare to transform into a more intimidating form.

She begun to laugh wickedly as she shot beams from her horn causing the some of the ceiling to fall down. I begun to move frantically to avoid being squashed by the debris, I fell as i was dodging the chunks falling off the ceiling. Just then i heard the sound of hoof steps approaching, i looked up and saw another pony, this one had a white coat and a colorful flowing mane, somewhat identical to the other one yet different.

"Luna you must stop this!" She exclaimed.

"Luna...no...i am nightmare moon!" The dark mare said in response.

I took this opportunity to get out of the way getting up and moving out of the way, just as i did this the dark pony fired a concentrated beam of dark energy towards white furred mare, who countered it with a brighter identical beam. However the dark pony seemed to overpower her opponent easily. As the white furred mare was knocked back from the force of the dark ponies beam, she stood back up.

"Luna, i am sorry but you have left me with no choice" She said

After she said this her horn glowed and a part of the floor of the throne room opened up and some kind of contraption emerged from the floor that held six different colored gems. She then flew near the top of the contraption and used her magic to levitate the six gems around her, which caused her to be enveloped in a white glow.

The dark mare shot her magic towards the bright glowing sphere, a rainbow colored beam emerged from the sphere of light and overpowered the dark beam easily.

"Nooooo!"she exclaimed as the rainbow beam overpowered her. enveloping everything in a bright light.

As the i was being blinded by the white light, I swear i could hear voices chanting the words...Elements of Harmony. After hearing the words a few more times, everything started to fade and i awoke from my dream. I sat up breathing heavily, looking around to find out i was back in my cave...in the real world. As I calmed down a bit, I focused on what the voices told me just before I woke up, then...I spoke for the first time in what felt like an eternity.

"Elements of harmony..."


Author's Note

Sorry for the bad writing, not a very skilled writer, but i had an idea and i tried to make it into a story, i guess its more like the ramblings of a madman 👻💀

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