The Sad End Of Twilight Eclipse.
Twilight Eclipse gave a loud yawn of defeat high into the stagnant air around her, dark black baggage hanging firmly around each dull violet eye. Her dull purple coat was covered in filth from days without bathing, slender frame fragile yet sunken in around the waist.
The only vibrant glow emanating from this sickly creature was her lovely dark violet mane, streaked through the bangs with two separate colors of purple and pink. Indeed it was as soft as silk and twice as durable, many ponies whispering that it was able to grow at an outstanding rate.
The unicorn mare a simplistic creature by design, she enjoyed her solitude above all else. The better the silence allowed for more detailed studying, her discoveries would soon become that of equestrian legend.
Hence why she moved away from her busy home in Canterlot, too many visitors on a daily basis. Sometimes as much as two ponies in a whole day, she'd have to place her research on hold, just to prepare tea.
She found it absolutely a practice in insanity to build friendships, a vast waste of time and resources to create a foundation that was simply worthless. With all the minutes wasted on tea, she could've created a automaton capable of creating thousands of gallons of the beverage per hour.
Nothing needed to stand in her way of greatness, she was a mare on a mission, to become her society's greatest mind of innovation and creation. Just like her mentors before her, Professor Daybreaker and Dr. Moon.
Two of the greatest minds in all of Equestria, they taught her everything she knew, she'd love to thank them too. Yet they went missing mysteriously without a clue nearly five years ago, now simply a hoofnote in history.
Shimmering Sunset, taking over the main academy in Canterlot after they vanished, the annoyingly upbeat unicorn trying to spread the gospel of Friendship across the land. Yet another reason Twilight had left her old life behind, found an adorable cabin deep in The Evermore Forest and begun her research.
Though now nearly a year into her work, she had come across the most vile of all abominations in this world. Her mind was blank, no new ideas, conspiracies or theories, she felt as if all knowledge was catalogued deep within her mind.
Nothing new to learn.
“Is there truly nothing left to learn Spike?” Twilight gave a delicate sigh in deep thought, placing a frail hoof atop her chin.
A tiny purple dragon suddenly popping out of the shadowy abyss of the neglected bathroom area, his size petite yet purple and green scales razor sharp as blades, his gleaming green eyes circled by dark black baggage.
“Nonsense Twily, you never learned to cook!” The demented dragon flashed a large toothy grin of yellow fangs.
“But I did, twice!” Twilight pouted in utmost despair, her frail body sinking deep into her favorite red sofa in the living area.
“Huh, how about The Studies Of Parallel Universes and Quantum Mechanics!?” Spike flaunted a razor tipped claw towards his mistress, her dull eyes full of disappointment.
“Thrice!” Was her somber reply, tears forming on the edges of her eyes.
“Need something new to learn filly!?” A melodic sweet voice giggled out from across the claustrophobic room eerily.
“Spike, did you hear that!?” Twilight let her ears perk up in surprise, her eyes dashing around the room franticly in terror.
“I can't be sure Twily, I'm just a manifestation of your loneliness.” Spike spoke up in a honest tone of voice, the mare spotting her childhood doll of Ms. Smarty-pants sitting in the center of her messy living room.
“Smarty, did you become sentient?” Twilight swallowed the tight lump caught in her throat slowly, the old rotting doll on her rug never budging.
“Hello!” Smarty lifted her head upward, flashing a dark gaze of swirling shadows where her eyes once were.
“Ahhh!” Twilight screamed in utter anxiety, her whole slender body trembling in terror.
“Don't be afraid, I'm not malicious!” The raggedy doll lifted up to her hind hooves dementedly, her decaying fabric peeling back to show swarming maggots within.
“Spike, what do I…” Twilight turned to her side, the tiny dragon gone from this plane of existence.
“You can trust me!” Smarty giggled skipping across the floor at an alarming speed, worms and spiders falling from her body with every step, splashing to the floor.
“Why!?” The unicorn spoke in a horrified squeak.
“Because I have knowledge to share, forbidden knowledge.” Smarty lifted her head upward to the mare with a loud crunching noise, standing at the base of the red sofa.
“The Sombra Arts!?” Twilight gasped in shock, pouncing off the sofa and landing next to the toy with a loud thud.
“Indeed, knowledge of the dark queen herself!” Smarty let her voice grow smug with superiority.
“Those spells were lost, nearly a thousand years ago!” Twilight kneeled down to face level with her possessed toy, locking gazes with it's swirling eyes.
“Until now!” The toy dislocated her lower jaw with a snap, dark yellow drool oozing off onto the floor in a powerful foul stench.
The unicorn gagged in disgust at this display, the toy motioning for her to reach inside. Twilight shivered with dismay, a stench of rotting pony flesh filling the room swiftly. She closed her eyes and dug deep inside the living doll, her hoof plunged deep into warm black slime.
The black liquid pulsing and moving as if alive, Twilight scrunched nose cutely with a revolted gaze. Suddenly feeling a hard object in her hooves, tugging with all her might she relinquished a tiny black book from its prison.
The doll exploding dark slime across the living room, Twilight coated in the foul smelling ooze. Her violet eyes shimmering in awe as the book fell to her floor, a tiny pony skull embedded on the front cover wickedly.
The Sombra Arts were found!
And it belonged to her alone.
She spent the first two hours trying to clean the horrid scent out of her house, the slime resistant to every attempt to clean or purify it. With the oder becoming increasingly familiar and less putrid, Twilight simply decided to ignore it for the time being.
Her full attention soon falling to the book of forbidden spells, to her surprise the book was written in a odd cypher of ancient pony languages. She couldn't read even a single word of the book, it would take decades to research and find a way to decipher it.
Time she didn't have sadly, her heart about to shatter as she flipped through the pages of the dark tome. Spotting a unique page written recently in a readable print, inked in this odd substance littering her house.
It was a spell, not just any spell.
But one able to grant the user, the knowledge of any language!
Her heart exploding in pure delight of ecstasy, jumping up to her hooves in excitement as she dashed into the master bedroom. Also known as her private workplace, books tossed haphazardly around the cramped space carelessly.
Twilight was a simple spell away from knowledge thought to be extinct, soon she'd be a mistress of the dark arts, able to see through the fog of reality and so much more. The mare mumbling the spell aloud, memorizing each ingredient with care.
A pinch of Foal's Breath.
Twilight used her magic to fling over a large cauldron from under a pile of trash, smashing it onto the floor before her loudly. Her dark violet magic rummaging over her potion shelf hastily, tossing in the Foal's Breath in one clean swoop.
A dash of pegasi feathers.
Twilight screamed out in unbridled excitement, ripping the feathers off her pegasus appreciation wall swiftly. Destroying a few pegasi replicas in the process, a small price to pay for making history.
A drop of blood from a virgin.
Twilight blushed a bright pink across both cheeks, glancing around her private sanctuary slowly as if expecting somepony to be watching her.
With the coast clear, the mare suddenly plunged her teeth roughly into her hoof. Wincing in pain as she sharply ripped open her flesh in a single tug, lifting her hoof gently over the cauldron to allow a tiny drop to plummet within.
Lastly it needed a single hair, plucked from the mane of a mare.
The unicorn snorted aloud smugly, using her magic to pluck a fine piece of hair from her mane with ease. Tossing it with glee into the brew, a sudden explosion of purple mist sending the mare flying back in a large shockwave.
Her fragile body smashing against her wall roughly, leaving a large crack across the wooden frame. The world was spinning out of control as Twilight watched in horror, the same black ooze began to bubble forth out if her cauldron wildly.
She had no time to react, the slime bouncing across the room frighteningly fast. Splashing over the mare boiling hot, she howled in agony from the burning sensation spreading across her body.
“Help!” She stumbled forward blindly, the ooze seeming to dissolve her quickly.
She groaned feeling her body crunch and compact, shrinking as she started to melt into a puddle of slime. Heart racing out of control, her cries falling upon deaf ears.
“Pleeeease...helsh...meeeeh.” Her voice faded, the goo bubbling on the floor sickeningly.
Twilight was no more.
Erased from this existence forever.
But not from another.
One reality, she'd soon become quite acquainted with.
Day.1. Not Taken Seriously.
Black slime bubbled out of the cold damp earth, pooling into a large puddle of foul scented liquid. The sky a bleak grey hue that stretched endlessly for miles into the horizon, the land a blur of monotone colors and indifferent settings. Nothing in this reality stood out, nothing was truly alive or blessed with vibrance.
The world was dark and cold, a icy chill caressing the dew ridden grass with a delicate touch. The puddle soon tripling in size before starting to harden and calcify into a molded object, curves blossoming and muzzle forming out of the abyss, as if being shaped by expert hooves.
The sky darkening high above suddenly as shadows of the void engulfed the area, two large eyes of fiery orange coals burning through the nothingness. Razor sharp fangs forming out of the abyss mockingly, curling into a large devious grin full of mischievous glee.
“My such a gullible little filly!” A dark voice of malicious intent spoke loudly, the coals gazing down to Twilight sleeping upon the wet grass, the last few droplets of the ooze seeping into her coat.
“Enjoy the calm while it lasts, you'll have much to do instead of reading!” Dark orange flames engulfed her tiny book of secrets, absorbing it into a distant realm with a sly giggle.
“The Codex is far beyond your comprehension, how about you do some exploring first!?” The voice dripped with hatred and a sadistic sense of madness.
“Would be quite a shame if you starved, fufufu!” The shadows lifted high into the sky above, absorbing into a swirling vortex of orange flames as demented laughter filled the area.
Vanishing just as quickly as it appeared, Twilight slowly opened her dull violet eyes in confusion while the world seemed to spin around her mockingly. Those fiery words of warning pulsing painfully inside her mind, she had to find a way back home or perish trying.
Twilight suddenly swung up to her hooves wobbling in place uncontrollably, her eyes quick to survey the surrounding area with ease. Miles of dull grey grass stretched to the east seeming to taper off into a miniature desert of sorts, the west more a less the same boring landscape, except it was quite easy to spot towering hills over the horizon.
Her two options of travel seeming quite pointless at the moment to be honest, her eyes glancing down to the odd looking grass her haunches sat upon idly. This small patch of nothing seemed decent enough, flat with a good reach of visibility and all the grass she could graze on.
“Ha, you desire me to feast!? So be it!” Twilight snorted warm air out of her nostrils in a loud huff of annoyance, standing on all four hooves, she lowered her head to the earth calmly.
Her tiny muzzle opening wide before she sank her teeth deep into the wet dying grass, her eyes widening in horror as she began to chew upon this terrible treat. The moist grass becoming extremely dry as if turning to dust, the taste foul and rancid much like a mouthful of spoiled milk.
Twilight gagged in disgust vomiting out a wave of this mysterious black slime, a small puddle of bile forming at her hooves as she shivered in horror. Droplets of the dark liquid dripping off her lips slowly, grazing completely out of the question at this point.
“I think the land demands to be worked, not to be squatted upon.” Spike exploded his head out of the warm puddle of bile, grinning with glee.
“But I've never toiled before in my life, I couldn't phantom where to begin!?” Twilight gagged up a tiny bit more of ooze, spitting it in the eye of her companion softly.
“Good for you I can help, if you don't mind looking a bit crazy!” Spike shook the foul ooze off his scales, scanning the west with much interest.
“Who could judge me, that foolish rock?” Twilight scoffed sarcastically, flaunting her hoof towards a tiny pebble to her right.
Though oddly enough, it did have an air of smugness about it.
“I say you go to the west towards the hills, best to gain the high ground eh!?” Spike was quick to go dashing off into the distance giggling, his swift little feet not even leaving footprints behind.
“Wait for me Spike!” Twilight hurried to her aching hooves in quite a bit of pain, galloping off towards the west with paranoia in her eyes.
That cursed dragon nowhere to be found as she sped across at least a block of wet grass in haste, her lungs on fire as she collapsed into the dew ridden earth with a wet plop. Eyes scanning to her right to see a odd sight, a tiny white rabbit chewing on a large carrot in his paws, mere hoofsteps away.
“Phst, little bunny!” Twilight folded her ears back ever so slowly, locking desperate gazes with the pathetic animal swiftly.
“Aroo?” The bunny tilted his head to the side curiously, twitching a small pink nose cutely in place.
“Mm-hmm, would you like to share that carrot?” Twilight forced a smile across her lips painfully, her lower jaw nearly cramping.
The rabbit glanced down to the vegetable in his paws then back to the helpless mare, quickly shaking his head in a definitive no manner. Twilight feeling her heart sinking deep into her chest cavity, a sense of spite filling her soul at an alarming rate.
“Come now love, don't be despicable!” Twilight narrowed her eyes slowly, hooves inching forward ever slowly in the damp cold dirt.
The rabbit sensing the growing hostility in this odd little creature, taking half a step backwards in a preemptive strike to flee. Holding the oversized carrot in his mouth, ears twitching side to side frantically.
“Don't you dare…” Twilight hissed in a growl of anger, pouncing forward at the woodland creature in a flash, missing her mark by a mile as it darted off into the distance.
The mare quick to gallop off after her prey in blind anger, her hooves burning with soreness as she nearly closed the gap in the chase. The rabbit screaming loudly in shock as it flung across the open field, barely sliding into a hidden hole on the ground with a whoosh.
“Don't think you can hide, I know magic!” Twilight cackled out in ecstasy of the hunt, her horn covered in black goo lighting to life with a vibrant purple glow.
The odd substance not agreeing with her inner magic, suddenly causing a large shockwave to blast the mare clear across the open field. Her frail body rolling through the dirt wildly as agony filled her hooves, the sky seeming to darken above her, as what little light begun to fade in the horizon.
“I'll not forget this bunny, one day I'll slaughter you!” Twilight whimpered in despair, her limp head lifting towards the hole weakly.
“I won't even give you the courtesy of being eaten, I'll simply have you spoil!” The unicorn collapsed in the muddy soil with a thud, her stomach growling loudly from malnutrition.
“It's getting dark.” Spike sighed with a shake of his head, popping into Twilight's view casually.
“What of it!?” The mare groaned aloud in defeat, the tiny dragon frowning as he pointed off towards the left.
Twilight watched in growing terror, puddles of that cursed liquid bubbling out of the grass in multiple patches. The unicorn lifting up to a kneeling position as she witnessed with concern, inky black hooves reaching out of the abyss of the ground, lifting towards the sky with loud screeching howls of agony.
Twilight shivering in fear as odd shadow like beings began to blossom forth into existence, the mare closing her eyes to count to ten with a trembling voice. Slowly creeping her eyes open to this horrible world, noticing the puddles and creatures had vanished for now.
Yet she could feel their presence extremely close by.
“They claim the lazy or unprepared.” Spike gave a large shiver, extending a claw to help his mistress back to her hooves.
“I don't have much time, what can I do!?” Twilight forced herself to stand, eyes flashing around the clearing in fright.
“Quick grab a rock!” Spike spoke in a calm collected manner, his very existence on the line.
“That smug bastard!” Twilight was a blur of purple stampeding back towards her starting point, that small full of itself flint stone still loitering about.
The mare quick to snatch it up, grinning in delight like a crazed pony.
“Next find some dry grass!” The dragon ushered the mare along in haste, the light in this world beginning to dim into bleak darkness.
Twilight searched the moist wet grass in utmost horror, not a patch of dry grass anywhere to be found. Her eyes spotting a small group of large trees off in the distance, her weak frame rushing off to investigate as time dwindled away.
“It's all wet!” Twilight screamed galloping betwixt the group of trees in a panic, running straight into a shielded patch of dry grass, protected by the treetops from the elements.
“Thank you nature!” Twilight sobbed with glee, scooping up a large hoofful of cut grass quickly.
“Now place it somewhere safe, hurry!” Spike screamed with a stern voice, the land plummeting into the abyss with ease.
Twilight was out of time and resources to survive the night, her dull violet hues barely catching a glimpse of a rotting stump a few paces away. The unicorn flinging herself into the air rolling over to its side, tossing the grass upon the decaying surface.
“Take this nature!” Twilight screamed in fright as the dark abyss swallowed her up with ease, the howling of the void ringing loudly in her ears.
Her hoof slammed the rock down in one fluid motion against the tip of her horn, to her absolute surprise a spark of fire splashed forward onto the stump. A sudden explosion of light engulfing the immediate area gently, a tiny orange campfire glowing warmly against Twilight's wet coat.
“We did it!” Twilight sighed in relief, her gaze looking around the empty circle of light in dismay.
Her only friend once more vanishing into the darkness, a sense of regret and sorrow building deep inside her soul. Twilight allowing herself to fall to the ground with a loud plop, ears pinning back as she watched the flames dance before her in silence.
Her stomach growling in hunger from this wild depressing night, she had a few more blades of grass near her hooves to try and nibble on if she pleased, yet thought it safest to use them for fuel instead.
This night would be her longest.
Cold, weak and hungry.
If she didn't take this seriously in the morning, then perishing tomorrow night would be a real possibility.
At first light she'd start anew, forge ahead and build a foundation of survival.
She just prayed that no more surprises would rear their ugly heads, after all...
Starving would be tragic.
Twilight Eclipse.
Sanity: 30/100
Health: 75/100
Hunger: 40/100
Deaths: 0
