EPILOGUE 1:
Where the nightmares came from

Alternate timeline:

In the Royal Sisters’ castle library everypony was in dead silence. Interrupted only by an isolated sob.

They had reach their breaking point. Since Starlight have destroyed their Cutie Marks they spent countless sleepless nights looking for a way to recover them and be able to face Starlight. But nothing they have tried have worked so far. Not even joining the Nights of Silence gave them the power to get back what they’ve lost.

At least the Knights of the Silence were powerful enough to fight against Starlight’s Equalitarians.

Their last hope was to find the nature of the spell Starlight have used to take away their Cutie Marks. They found the information they needed… but that also crushed all their hopes. The spell she have used it was a powerful curse made for criminals, to make them talentless and helpless for the rest of their lives. It was an ultimatum. There was not going back,

“Then what should we do?” asked Rarity sobbing.

“We cannot let her win!” shouted Rainbow Dash. “I won’t let her defat me!”

But she was crying already, knowing there was no hope. She extended her wings and tried to fly to Ponyville, but her speed was only a sad memory and she stopped halfway through and cried in desperation.

Twilight began to cry as well. “We’ve failed. We tried to fight until the end not realizing it was the end already!”

Fluttershy joined to the cries as Applejack looked to the wall, crying on the inside. Pinkie Pie was only drawing sad faces on the ground with her hoof.

It was the end. Equestria’s greatest protectors had given up.

Or maybe not.

Pinkie took the closest book and looked for a solution. But couldn’t find anything, and threw it again, then she repeated the process over. She refused to give up, there had to be a solution.

Then she found it. Pinkie threw the book to Twilight.

“Here you go! We may not have our Cutie Marks back but we can have some revenge!”

“Pinkie?” asked Twilight in disbelief.

“Revenge, yes revenge! Don’t you get it? We are useless now. I am done being good and being a hero! I don’t care about Equestria anymore I just want to kill that bitch!”

Pinkie’s mane have gone straight, and her fur darkened. She was not okay.

And the worse part was that Applejack joined her. “A’m with Pinkie in this one Twi. It’s been a while since A’ cared about savin’ Equestria. A JUST WANT TO KILL HER!”

The pink pony showed Twilight the spell she had find. “See? A pact! We cannot be Equestria’s heroes anymore, so we can do this.”

Twilight read the steps of this ritual and gasped horrified. “You realize we have to kill ourselves in order for this to work?!”

Fluttershy sighed sadly. “To be honest, I’ve been wanting to kill my self since this started Twilight.”

Rainbow Dash nodded. “Yes, and if this doesn’t work at least we could end this once and for all.”

“But our lives would descend directly to hell if we do this!” tried to reason Twilight.

“We are already in hell!” cried Rarity.

“Please Twilight, we wouldn’t mind just stop this once and for all! Most likely it wouldn’t work so please at least give us the try to die trying. I just wanna die!” cried Fluttershy.

Twilight could see the desperation on her friends’ eyes. And that broke her. Yes, this was the end. They have fell and there was no way they could recover from this. Twilight was just trying to fulfil her role as leader and set up an example. But she was lying to herself, she knew it was the end and also wanted to die so hard.

But she wanted revenge too and if there was a small chance to get revenge, she’ll do it.

“Okay let’s do it!”

The others sighed relieved.

“We need black candles and a sharp knife.”

They got what they needed in less than a day. They covered themselves in large hoods and went to Ponyville to get what they needed, then returned to the castle to complete the ritual.

Twilight set up the candles as the book indicated and looked at her friends.

“There’s no way back.

“We know.”

“Hurry up Twi!”

The girls held hooves and lighted one of the candles, praying to the fallen Angel. A lonely tear came from the corner of their eyes when Twilight took the knife and cut her veins. She gave it to Rarity, who did the same and then she passed it to Rainbow. Rainbow completed the ritual and passed it to Applejack who then passed it to Fluttershy and finally Pinkie Pie.

They prayed together one last time as their were bleeding.

It was painful, their vision was getting blurry and they fell how life abandoned them as their blood continued to burst out of their cuts.

Then it happened. When they were about to die the blood started to form a pentagram. Their prayers had been listened.

“You have called me. What do you want from me?” asked a cold voice in their minds.

“Give us the chance to revenge! Starlight Glimmer took everything from us so we want to give her a painful end! Please, let us fulfil our revenge!”

“And in exchange…”

“I only accept one thing. Yes. Six pure souls who have dedicated themselves for the greater good is a rare opportunity. Your souls would descend to hell now and in exchange your bodies would become my messengers of death.”

The girls smiled as they continued to weaken.

“So be it!”

The last drop of blood abandoned their bodies as they embraced death.

The Devil extended a hand to take what it was rightfully his, when a golden light surrounded the six bearers stopping him.

“What is this? WHY I CANNOT TAKE WHAT IS RIGHTFULLY MINE?”

The Power of Harmony forced Him to retire. How could this be possible? He wanted those six souls more than anything but they were so close and so out of reach at the same time.

Damn it, no!

“But one day I’ll come back and take what is mine! Listen to my words, you cannot cheat the Devil!”

Six pairs of red eyes opened.

They looked around confused.

“Is this hell or are we still alive?” asked Fluttershy.

“I wouldn’t say we are alive darling” said the white unicorn, examining her new Cutie Mark. Black diamonds. “As a matter of fact… I want to kill. Yes, kill! I want to kill somepony so badly!”

The six grinned, noticing their fangs for the first time.

“So I propose Starlight as our first victim! Who’s with me?”

“Mee!” said the other five in the unison.

They felt cruelty filling their minds, and they smiled at the anticipated carnage. Yes this would be so much fun.

Author's Note

And here it is, epilogue 1 telling the origin of the Undead Knights. I hope you liked it, and well thank you for joining me for this story. It was a pleasure to translate it for you all.

Read ya’ later!!