I found out more about myself. I am able to crawl on walls, and the ceiling. It was quite fun the first time I did so. Also, jumping from one place to another, almost like I am part frog. Its so far.

But anyways, my queen has given me an assignment. I am to go to the princesses, and tell them about how I have changed. And then, accompany the Mane 6, as she called them, to the newly come back crystal empire, and observe. Some of my brothers and sisters will be joining us, the guards of the six for the most part. I personally had my guard next to me. The Queen had allowed me to pick who I wanted to look over me, and I had chosen the Human drone. The first one. She had okayed it, and he now walked beside me, alternating between walking and crawling.

We made it to the doors to the castle, and I took my helmet off. I wouldn't need it in the castle. I knocked on the door, and it was opened for me surprisingly. I wasn't expecting guards to be at the door.

When I stepped through the door, I was immediately surrounded by the guards. Jun hissed at them, but I put my hand on his head, and he stopped.

"I am here by order of my Queen to talk to the princesses. I am Nightshade." The guards backed off, though they kept their gaze on me. I just flicked my tail in annoyance.

I was lead to the princesses though. When we arrived, I had Jun hide, and then entered. I knew he would be around, hidden in the shadows. When the princesses saw me, they gasped.

"Nightshade, is that you?" Celestia asks. I nod.

"What happened to you? What are you wearing? Why are you here, is something wrong?" Luna asks. I shake my head.

"I am only here to talk. My Queen had this done, in a hollow deep in the mountain. It was painful, but I am grateful. It made living down with them much easier. I am enjoying the sparring with them. I am also to accompany the six elements to the crystal empire." Celestia and Luna look surprised I know of the Empire, and by extension my queen. They nod after a moment though.

"Well, that is fine. We expected their guards to accompany them anyways. Though please, tell us more of what has happened in the last week or so? And about what has happened to you." Celestia says. I think for a second on how to respond.

"Well, the night you sent me back down is the night I was changed. She had me taken to the ritual hollow, and had me drink some sort of black goo. Then, she had me stand on a dais, and then some ritual spell circle appeared. After that, I started to feel an excruciating amount of pain, and I could feel myself changing. It hurt pretty bad, but after that, I ate some raw meat, and felt much better. I'm now carnivorous, and I have this tail. And I have this body. The armor came from the ancient tribe who was here before, as did the weapons. I have been training for the last week and a half on how to fight, run, climb, jump, and see like my brothers and sisters." The princesses look intrigued.

"Your brothers and sisters? What do you mean?" Luna asks me.

"When I was changed, my mind was changed as well, to help me with adapting to my new body. It also a few speech quirks as well. Forgive me." They nod.

"I understand well. I still have moments where I relapse into the old way of talking, and I find it troublesome. You don't have the same problem, but it is similar, and you have my sympathy." Luna says. I nod.

"Twilight will be here soon, and her guard Jared. He is her Xenomorph guard. When I am giving her her assignment, would it be alright if you step out? It is not out of disrespect, but I would like to speak to her in private." Celestia says. I nod.

"That's fine. I don't mind." However I will be sneaking back in to listen.

"Thank you." Celestia says. We then hear a knock on the door to the throne room, and I bow out as Twilight is called in. When she passes me, she stares wide eyed. I just ignore it, and walk out.

Outside is the Mane 5, since Twilight is in the throne room. When they see me, Rainbow Dash gets defensive.

"Hey, who are you?" She demands.

"I am Nightshade. Emissary to the Xenomorph queen. I am here to accompany you to your destination. And, if need be, protect you from harm." Rainbow relents. Rarity steps forward.

"Where did that armor come from dear? It is very showy. And the animal skulls don't do much to help." Fluttershy had been looking at said skulls for a while.

"I am sorry. The skulls came with it, and I just put them on. The armor was made by the ponies who where here before the three tribes came. It was given to me after I was changed from a pony into what I am now." That gets Applejacks attention.

"Wait, you used to be a pony? Why did they change you?"

"To help me adapt to our environment quicker. I can see just like my brothers and sisters, and can walk like them too. The tail is also useful for attacking. And, now I can actually speak to them, instead of just communicating through my queen." I then turn to the shadows in the upper part of the right hand side of the room, and screech and hiss.

Shortly after, all of the guards come out of hiding. They come up to me, and bow. I hadn't thought to much into it, but now I wondered why they did that. I lean forward, and give them all a kiss on the head, and they rise. Turning back to the girls, they are surprised by the appearance of the guards.

As are the castle guards. They have their spears and swords out, but after a moment, they put them away. I ignored them, and went about petting the guards. Suddenly, I heard a hiss, and saw Jun. The meeting was over, and he had gave me a quick summary of what had happened. Twilight was told to be nice to us, and head to the crystal empire to help save it. I nod to him, and he hides again as Twilight comes out the throne room.

Upon seeing the guards, she is shocked to see all of the guards in plain view. I give a screech, and they all rush off. Moments later, I can feel their presence around the room, and the two in the throne room. I then say to Twilight.

"Ready to go? I have to believe we are on a schedule, right?" Twilight nods.

"Okay girls, we're heading to the crystal empire." Everyone but me is surprised. Applejack comments.

"Crystal empire, what's that?" Twilight replies.

"Come on, I can fill you in more on the way. It's to the frozen north, so I hope you packed for cold weather." She says. We all follow.

We had made it to the train, and made it to the frozen north. We exit the train, and the cold hit me like a tailwhip to the face from Geralt, the praetorian. It was freezing, I called one of the guards over, and asked him if they were going to freeze. He assured me they could survive just fine, they can get much colder than this before anything will happen to them.

Finally, after a minute, the armor started to heat up. After that, it was heating up my body, and making a visible cover of steam come off me from the snow melting off my armor. We heard something from a distance, and I pulled out my spear.

"TWILIGHT!" Twilight was happy, and ran towards the sound.

"Shining Armor!" She cried. But something sounded off about the voice. I know Shining Armors voice, and it didn't sound quite like him. It was too high, like he was going through puberty again. I chased after Twilight, and grabbed her and threw her back to her friends before the creature became visible. It's body was thin, so thin it was almost bone. It's legs had been contorted and stretched into long, gangly sticks. Its fur was gone, showing skin. It's eyes were pure white. It called out again.

"Twilight!" In Shining Armor's voice. It leaped at me, and I dove to the side, getting up quickly. It quickly turned around and came at me again. This time, it caught me, and I struggled as it bit into my neck. I didn't scream, but it hurt. But after a few seconds, the creature was screaming.

My blood was all over its face, but wherever it touched was starting to be eaten away, melted. My blood was so acidic, it was eating through the organs of the creature.

Shortly after its mistake of taking a bite and getting blood in its mouth, the creature was dead, it's body eaten through by my blood. After that, we heard another call out.

"TWILIGHT! Be careful! There's Wendigos out here!" It yelled over the storm. I listened, an this sounded like the actual Shining Armor. I pointed in the direction we heard it, and Twilight ran to it.

"Shining, it's okay. We got it taken care of." She yelled out, and she saw her brother.

"Twily." He says, and hugs her. And then he sees me, and pushes Twilight behind him.

"Twily, get behind me." But Twilight stops him before he attacks.

"Shining wait, she's sent by the Queen. She's with the xenomorphs. She's here to help us." He stops, and looks at her, then back at me. I speak.

"I am Nightshade, emissary of the Queen of the xenomorphs. If you don't believe that, then talk to the princesses, as they are the ones who gave me to her." Shining armor glares at me, and then shakes his head.

"Whatever, we gotta go. We don't want to be out here when night falls. Some unsavory beasts come out then." And he starts to lead the way, with us all following. I use some of my magic to start a healing spell on my neck, and the holes where the Wendigo bit me started to seal.

Roughly five minutes later, Shining Armor started to talk again.

"So, we think that when the crystal empire came back, everything sealed with it came back too. Something, we believe it's Sombra, has been trying to break into the crystal empire for the last few nights." Twilight was startled.

"But, I was sent here to try and stop the crystal empire from being retaken. If its already safe, why was I sent?" She asks Shining.

"Because-" but he is cut off by a howl in the distance. I bring up my cane. Shining turns back to the girls, and says.

"We need to get to the empire. Now!" And starts to run, the girls following. I just raise my head, and give a shriek into the air, and moments later the Xenomorph guards run past me, and grab all of them, running for the Empire.

The girls and Shining are startled, until the see what has them. After that, they are feeling a little safer. The only one feeling okay is Twilight, who has had this happen before.

I am running with them, my brothers and sisters faster than me. Behind me, I hear something approaching quickly. I turn.

I behold a giant shadowy, gaseous entity coming from the snow. It billows out, and when it stops, eyes appear, green and red, with a purple smoke coming from them. It looks at me, and comes closer.

"What are you?" It asks, its voice deep and echoing. "I have never seen your kind before. You look similar to the ponies who where in the valley below, before the three tribes came." I nod.

"Former King Sombra. I am Nightshade, emissary to the queen of the xenomorphs. I am similar to them, but I am different." Sombra is intrigued.

"Xenomorphs. What are they?" He asks.

"They are my brothers and sisters, my family, after my original family abandoned and disowned me." He is surprised now.

"Then why not join me, and I can give you an even better family? I can even make you the new head of your old family, and they all will serve you. You can rule with me, and we can make them pay for hurting you." I don't even have to think.

"No. I am with a family much greater now. I may not be the same as them, but my queen took me in, and helped me to become who I am now. Even if Celestia helped raise me, I now have a new mother, and brothers and sisters who will fight alongside me. You can take your offer and shove it up your ass, Former King Sombra." And I turn to run before he can realize what is going on. The path I take had been cleared by my brothers running through. I had a straight line, and my speed was getting faster.

I hear him roar right behind me, but I just keep running. I hear him give chase, but I am close to the dome over the Empire. I run faster.

An explosion behind me throws me forward, and I feel my horn hurt from the force of the magic blast. I go flying through the dome. I am helped up by the girls, who all stare at my horn. I look at a nearby piece of crystal, and see it is covered in jagged black shards of crystal, from base to tip. I shrug.

"Oh well, I don't care. I only ever used combat magic before, with some basic shield spells." And I turn back around to address the girls and Shining.

"We got business to do. Lets go." And Shining nods before heading towards the city. About five minutes later, he falls back to beside me.

"So, what unit of the Royal guard were you?" He asks.

"The unit under you. I was a lieutenant. I protected the throne room, and was part of Celestias personal guard. When Luna came back, I helped her and the new night guard. The last post I had, was to escort the princesses to my queens chamber, so they may talk. I was grabbed, it was a game for them, and brought before my queen. I resisted, and she apparently liked that. So, she asked for me to be given to her to be her voice in Equestria. And so, here I am." Shining was racking his brain for who I could be. Finally, he had a light bulb moment.

"Wait, Harvest Night? That cant be, I was told that you had died to a manticore in the forest, trying to save a platoon of guards sent to kill them for being to aggressive towards towns close to the Everfree. I even asked the current head of the platoon you saved through a message, and he confirmed it. Why did he lie to me?" He says, getting a little louder than I want him to be.

"Shut up. I'm legally dead because I am now an ambassador for the xenomorphs. I cant exactly talk to my family if they know I am alive. Ambassador or not, they will never talk to me. I was completely disowned, and it wont change. So, I died, and am now Nightshade, emissary of the Queen of Xenomorphs. Please, keep it quiet." But it was too late. Pinkie had heard.

"What, your name isn't Nightshade? But why didn't you tell us?" Loud enough for the others to hear. They all turn to us, and Twilight asks.

"What do you mean Pinkie? She told us her name is Nightshade, why do you think she lied to us?" Applejack comes up.

"She lied. I knew she did, but I also remember her. So I didn't say a word. I'm happy your able to do something you like now, Miss Harvest." I tilt my head to Applejack. Being a part of the Apple clan, she knew what had happened to me. The entire clan did. In fact, the Apple's had been one of the only families that helped me out when I first was disowned. I even played with Applejack when they came to my orphanage to help feed us children.

"I am too, Miss Applejack. And its protecting and speaking for my new family." And I felt an odd tingle on the sides of my ass, and on my left shoulder. I looked, and I saw a picture.

It looked like my mask, with a xenomorph curled like a fetus on the forehead. It was backed by my cane and spear. I stared astonished.

"I got my cutie mark." I say incredulously.

The others look back at me.

"What?" Rainbow asks. I look to her.

"I just got my cutie mark." I say again. I look back at my shoulder, then move to see my flank. It had the same picture. Rainbow was stupefied.

"Wait, your telling me you never found your cutie mark, until now? What the hay!" She says. I ignore her. Applejack smacks her in the head.

"Shut up RD. It's rude to comment on those things, and it isn't that uncommon for an adult to not have a cutie mark. Harvest, good for you. Now, enough about this, aren't we here to save this place?" She says. Twilight and Shining nod in agreement. Shining continues forward.

"Come on, we need to get to the palace." He says, and we follow. Heading towards the palace, Rarity spends her time looking at all the buildings, commenting on how they look. I ignore it, and we eventually reach the palace. Heading in, we make for the throne room.

Inside, Cadance is sitting on the throne, and she looks tired. Her eyes are drooping, and she has bags, her cheeks seem a little sunk in, and she looks ready to collapse. Twilight sees her, and runs towards her.

"Cadance!" She says excitedly. Cadance looks at her, and rushes towards Twilight. They meet in the middle, and proceed to do a little greeting dance.

Afterwards though, her magic flickers, and the giant shield dome outside does too. Cadance quickly concentrates, and the shield stabilizes. Looking at Twilight, she says.

"We need to meet when the fate of Equestria isn't in trouble." She says with a tired grin. Twilight is shocked.

"Are you okay?" I almost answered her with, Do I look okay? But that was for Cadance to say. Shining Armor comes over to Cadance, and places his hoof on her side.

"Ever since the crystal empire came back, Sombra has been trying to get in. Cadance has been protecting it this whole time by pouring her love and happiness into the barrier around the empire. But she hasn't eaten in a long time, and she hasn't slept in just as long. She can't hold out much longer. That's why we need you to find out if there is some other way for the empire to be protected. Something to keep the empire safe." Twilight nods.

"You can count on us. We will start by asking around to see if anypony knows anything. And if that ends up failing, there should be a library around that has some information we can use. We'll be back with a solution as soon as we can." She turns to the girls, and points out. We move.

But as the other girls move off to question ponies, I move off on my own to head to the library. I was told the ponies would know nothing by my queen, so I decided the library is the next place to look for the information.

Reaching it, I move to grab one of the pamphlets on a desk near the front. Opening it, I find it is a small guide for the library, telling generally what section is where in the library, and giving recommendations for different books in various genres. It was nice, but I just needed the map. Looking through it, I found that the history section was nearby, and started for it.

Reaching the history section, I started to look for a book on the history of the crystal empire. Eventually, I found it.

History of the Crystal Empire.

I sit down to read, and start. A few minutes later, I hear the library doors open, and hooves on the crystal floor of the entryway. I just resume reading.

The book says about a crystal fair, to help the empire, by rejuvenating it with love and joy, that was fed into the crystal heart, so it may protect the empire. The heart itself was a powerful artifact, that was made by the first princess of the empire, and so was the fair. When Sombra rose to power, he kidnapped the princess, and hid her and the heart.

So where where they? I heard a loud groan of frustration nearby, and investigated.

Twilight was floating book after book in front of her, and the other girls were looking through the library as well. I come over.

"What are you looking for? I can help." Twilight and the others were startled by me, but relaxed after seeing me. Twilight then says.

"Where looking for a history book on the empire. It might give us some clues on how to help protect the empire." I nod, and toss her the book. Then I say.

"I'm off. I want to see if I can find something." I wanted to find the lost princess.

Heading out the library, I move towards the castle. If Sombra was smart, he would hide her close to him. So that means in the castle, as he most likely wouldn't leave it. But where in the castle is the problem. He would only spend his time in certain rooms, and those rooms are unknown to me. I stop.

But those rooms aren't unknown to him. If I could get the information out of him were the princess is, that would help out my search. So, I head towards the edge of town.

Reaching the bubble over the Empire, I step out. It doesn't take long before he materializes.

"Sombra, I have some questions. I want to get to know you. So, If you don't mind, tell me about yourself." I say. The face in the smoke is surprised, but he relents.

"I suppose telling my story before killing you isn't too bad. It gives me something to do while I wait for that princess to fall and the dome to come down. And once it does, the empire will be mine again.

"My story begins when I woke up, surrounded by Wendigos. I cant even remember the time before that day. I awoke, Wendigos around, and felt powerful. I could hear the Wendigos, whispering, calling me king. After that, I decided to become king. They told me they would help me, and the voices did too.

So, I did as told, and marched with my new Wendigo army, and took over the crystal empire. The crystal heart could not stop me, and I took it, and hid it. The princess, tried to stop me, but I turned her to stone, and hid her in the city." And I left.

I had heard enough.

"Thanks for the story, but your too boring. My story is ten times better, and has more plot, than your fat plot." I say, and dash into the shield of the empire.

She was hidden in the city, as a statue. She would be obvious, because its easier to hide when in plain sight. I walked to the nearest crystal pony, and ask.

"Do you know of any pony statues around the city?" The stallion nods, and replies in a depressed tone.

"Yeah. On the other side of the city is a large statue, with about seven alicorns on it, all of them looking like Sombra. He made them from black crystal." The stallion shudders. "I'm sorry, I really don't like remembering when he was in power." I nod.

"That's fine. That's more information than I thought I'd get. Have a good rest of your day." And I move off.

Heading towards the opposite side of town, I finally come across the square that has a giant statue of seven Sombra in it. All of them are shaped like alicorns, and are in a large single statue together.

I walk up to the massive statue. Walking around the statue, I see a placard on it. Looking closer, I read it.

To destroy the heart, magic must be sacrificed.

Underneath the placard was a hole. I looked at it, then used my magic through my hand to help examine the hole. Feeling it out, I found it was roughly the size and shape of a unicorns horn. Other than that, nothing was special about it.

I then took some time to think. While I did so, I saw the barrier around the Empire flicker and go down for a minute, and I stood ready to fight. But shortly after, the barrier went up again, and I calmed down.

I finally thought of something. Looking around, I looked at the crystal ponies.i noticed that only one unicorn was present. The rest were Pegasi or Earth ponies. The hole was shaped for a unicorn horn. They had to stick their horn into it.

I got on my knees, now being taller than most ponies, and the hole was low. I then took a breath, before I inserted my horn into the hole. The black crystal shit on it just absorbed into the statues crystal, and I finally reach the end of the hole, only a small portion of my horn sticking out. I activated my magic, and started to pour raw magic into the statue.

And then I felt my horn get smashed, and broke off.

One moment my horn was there, and the next second, I felt excrutiating pain from my head, and blood poured out of my wound onto the ground and statue, eating away at both. I started to scream in pain, as my blood started to run down my face and onto my hands were I was trying to grab my horn.

From what I could feel, my horn was now a jagged stump. After a moment, my body couldn't take any more pain, and I blacked out.

I woke up moments later, as I saw a crowd had gathered around me. My eyes were blurry, and my head throbbed. Everything slowly came into focus, and so saw Twilight and Fluttershy standing next to me. I looked at them.

"What happened?" I croaked out, as my voice was shot from me screaming in pain. I hadn't even noticed it had gone out. Twilight looks at me startled.

"Nightshade, are you feeling alright? How many fingers am I holding up?" And she holds up three.

"Potato, now what happened?" And she sighs.

"You need to stay calm. If you freak out, then you might send out a magic surge, and hurt all of us in the immediate vicinity. But for your information, your horn has been broken off just under the second spiral. You passed out from the pain, and everypony in the empire heard it. What I want to know is why?" I think for a second, before looking at where the statue was. But what I see stuns me.

It looks almost like my blood got to the rest of the statue, as it was all melting away. As it did, in the center of the statue was an alicorn mare with ice blue fur, a pink mane, and a blue heart with a regal crown on it as a cutie mark. She looked to be passed out as the statue finished to melt. I tried to stand, only to fall. So, I crawled, much like my brothers and sisters do.

Reaching the alicorn mare, I checked her pulse, and found she was alive. I then call out.

"Take the Princess to the hospital, she's been out for a thousand years, and Sombra might have tortured her." Twilight was confused, before I groaned at everyponies inaction, and screeched out for Jun to come help me. He arrived,and I was able to place the mare on his back, before we started to walk to the nearest hospital he had found.

Heading in, all the ponies looked at us, but I just moved past them and to one of the rooms. Moving in, I put my guard first aid training to use looking her over as best I could, I only saw bruising around her face and her wings had been plucked

She had a few cuts, and one of her hooves looked to be slightly melted, whether from my blood or something else, I didnt know. After checking her over and making sure her hoof was wrapped and clean, I layed in a bed of my own. I had Jun resume hiding, and watch over us, before I passed out.

I woke to the sound of screaming, and felt much better, and my horn felt better as well. I shook my self awake, and moved over to the window. Looking out, I saw that ponies were yelling and screaming, and running towards the center of town. Leaning out, I looked down the road, and saw that the barrier was down, and Sombra was walking down the street, sword in his magic, laughing as he slaughtered ponies he walked by. Growling, I checked my gear, before putting on my helmet, and jumping out the window.

Landing in the street, I pushed my way through the throng of ponies panicking, towards the black king. He didn't notice me coming, and I pulled my spear off my back, and swung it at his face, smacking him into a wall. He looks stunned, before he looks to me. Just as I throw my spear at his head. He dodges as it goes right next to his face. Looking shocked, he turns to the spear, before growling. He wraps the spear in his magic aura, and proceeds to try and pull it out. However, it doesnt budge. I start towards him.

He struggles to pull the spear out, but it doesnt budge. As I get close, he moves away, and I grab the spear, before pushing the button that retracts the spikes that make it latch into whatever I hit. Pulling it out the wall, I turn towards Sombra, and get ready to fight. He charges at me, and I grab him as he comes close. I lift him up, and then slam him into the ground head first. He grunts in pain, before bucking me in the face, and I let him go as my head snaps back. The helmet mask took the blow, and wasnt even scratched by his blow.

Sombra grabbed his discarded sword with his magic, and sent it at me point first. I deflected it with my spear and throw it at him, before charging. As Sombra dodges the spear, I grab his left forehoof, and throw him into a wall. Though, before he hits it, he turns to smoke, and just stops himself. He then starts to laugh.

"You think you can beat me? You are nothing more than an annoyance. I will kill you, and sip your blood as if it was a fine wine." I smile.

"Why wait? You want some blood, then have some." And I take one of my hidden blades, and stab my hand. Blood starts to pour out the wound, and I fling it at Sombra. When it hits him, it starts to melt his fur and flesh, his muzzle having been the most coated. He starts to yell in pain.

"What did you do? What is this?" He asks angrily. I laugh.

"You wanted my blood, so I gave you some." He growls, and then he sends his sword at me. I just stand, and it hits into my stomach, sinking in almost half way. I grunt in pain, before smiling, and grabbing the handle. The sword just falls into my hand, and I toss it back towards Sombra.

The blade has been almost fully eaten by my blood, and is almost gone down to the hilt. He looks at it, and then at me.

"What are you? I know every creature on this continent, but I have never seen or read of anything like you? What kind of abomination are you?" I snarl at him, and he visibly flinches.

"You don't need to know." I then raise my head, and screech. He just stares at me, and he looks scared. After nothing happens, and neither of us do anything, he looks at me cunfused, before smirking, and laughing.

"What good did that do? Your still alone, and about to die." He then made some black crystal spikes, and made one into a sword, before shooting the rest at me. I just used my cane to deflect the crystals, and he ran out after a moment.

"Why don't you just die?!" He yells. Before he turns to smoke, and flies up.

"Fine, I just have to use my natural element, and kill you with it." And as his horn glows, the sun is blocked out, and the world looks to become pitch black. He laughs.

"Lets see how you long you last in the dark." I just smile, and stand there. Sombra suddenly appears, and cuts at me. But I'm not there. An afterimage just fades away like smoke. Now he starts to look around, trying to find me. I laugh, maniacally, and with great pleasure.

"The dark. You think the dark is your friend. You merely were adopted by it."I move around Sombra, as he starts to freak. He cant see me, in his own magic darkness.

"I was born in it. I was molded by it, shaped, and loved, by the darkness. My Queen, my mother, my brothers, sisters, and I were born in darkness." I silently move closer to him, my hiss starting to sound from all around Sombra, as he started to panic. The darkness around him was thicker, darker, less friendly to him. He couldnt see, and he was scared.

I moved forward, towards him. The darkness to me was like a normal day. I could see Jun, Jared, and the other Xenomorph guards, all of us circling Sombra like sharks. All of us hissing. We could smell Sombra, and he practically glowed in my eyes as I could see his fear radiating off him.

"The darkness was never your friend, Sombra. It mearly tolerated you. And my Queen, is darkness incarnate. My brothers are too." Sombra, in a fit of panic, casts a spell to light up the area.

It only illuminates a small area, and from there, he can see them. The xenomorphs, circling him. He screams in fear, but being surrounded, he cant run. I move forward, into the light, and he sees me. I move through the ring my brothers made, and stride towards the terrified king.

"My Queen gave me orders. She told me what to do with you. Do you know what she said to do?"I say, rhetorically, but he still shook his head. I grab his horn, and force him to look at me. I lean in, and get close.

"She said, have a nice meal." And I hiss, as I open my mouth. My inner mouth can be seen by Sombra then, and he screams, before it shoots out, and breaks through his skull into his brain, killing him. After that, I start to feast, and my brothers join me.

We feast on his body, and finish it. He was a bit stringy, I'm not gonna lie. But my hunger was satisfied.

Suddenly, I heard noise, and looking around, I could see light returning, as suddenly, the world started to get extremely bright. Me and my brothers screeched as the light was blinding, and we all moved to shadows, as a wave started in the center of the empire, and spread out. It went over everything, and everything it touched had more sparkle and shine. When the wave passed over us, we all screeched in pain, as our chitin became much harder to move. I told my brothers to stay hidden, and went out onto the main street. Looking atound, I saw everypony at the castle.

They all had a crystalline coat of fur, and their manes looked to be crystal as well. I look at myself, and see I now look as if I am made of Lapis Lazuli and Emerald. Fur and mane respectively. Heading through the throng of happy crystal ponies, I remember my Queen telling me about this. This must be the crystal hearts doing.

Reaching the center of the plaza, I see Cadence and Spike, standing beside a floating heart. I look around, and see 5 of the mane 6. I walk over to them.

"Girls, what happened? I can barely move now that I'm partially made of crystal." The girls look at me, and they answer.

"Well, Cadence eventually lost her battle to stay awake, and the dome came down. Sombra came in, and started to cut ponies down, and everybody ran. But, for the last twenty minutes, noponies seen him. Twilight eventually figured out where the crystal heart might be, and found it. Though, apparently she gave it to Spike since she didnt know when Sombra might appear, and she was trapped. So Spike jumped from the tower, and Cadence needed some assistance to get off the ground since she was so tired, so Shining tossed her, she grabbed Spike, and they brought the crystal heart here. Then, the crystal ponies poured their love and joy into the heart, and the shockwave you saw that changed us like this came out and swept over everything. And then, a few moments later, you show up. By the way, where were you?"Applejack says.

"Oh, I was dealing with Sombra for the last twenty minutes, after my horn got broken off. After he tried to blind me by making it dark, I killed him. Me and my brothers then had a nice meal, and then the shockwave happened. Now they are almost incapacitated by the fact that they are all made of Onyx." They just look at me. I then remember.

"Wait, I forgot, the princess, Mi Amore, is still in the hospital. We should go see her." They all nod in agreement, and we head off. Cadence and Spike join us shortly. They ask me where I had been, and I tell them. Only Spike seemed to get what I meant though when I had said we had eaten. We eventually reached the hospital, and I saw that Mi Amore was awake, and being taken care of by doctors. After they finished checking on her, they left, and we entered. When we did, she saw us.

"Who are all of you? And what's going on?" Cadence stepped forward.

"I am Princess Mi Amore Cadenza, but please, call me Cadence. You've been locked in a statue for a long time. What was the last thing you remember?" She asks. Mi Amore thinks for a moment.

"The last thing I remember was Sombra attacking our castle, and the Wendigos rounding up the civilians, before I heard a laugh, and then, I woke up here. What happened?" Cadence sighs.

"I hate to say this, but Sombra captured you. He trapped you in a statue, and Nightshade here was able to free you. Her horn was broken in the process though. After the statue was destroyed, she got you here, and treated you as best she could, before she finally had to stop. Though, she later went out and killed Sombra. We have returned the crystal heart, and then came to see you." Mi Amore nods, and then asks.

"Thank you for saving my kingdom. I'm glad someone was able to save it so quickly." Cadence winces at that.

"Princess Mi Amore, I'm sorry to tell you this, but the Crystal Emire has been gone from Equestria for the past thousand years or so. Only recently has it reappeared. It's been a thousand years since the world has last saw you. In fact, I dont think anypony knew that you were still alive in any way. I was appointed by Princess Celestia to come and rule the Empire. Nopony knew you were alive." Cadence finishes. Mi Amore is shocked.

"So, my advisors, my subjects, died a thousand years ago?" Cadence shakes her head.

"No. When Celestia and Luna fought Sombra, they were able to banish him. But when they did, he placed a curse on the empire, making it vanish in time with him. So, your advisors and subjects, are still alive." Mi Amore gets excited for a second, before deflating.

"But, I failed them. I can not look at them, and call myself their princess when I failed to protect them." She hangs her head. I sigh and step forward.

"If I let me being disowned by my family, thrown out onto the streets when I was a filly, and everything that was thrown at me stop me from living, you can take a guess where I would be. If you let one mistake, that wasnt your fault, force you to stop looking your people in the eye, then they never trusted you to rule them in the begining. You will go out there, tell them what happened, and they will forgive you. For now though, get better. Then, you can leave. Cadence, I recommend you being the new ruler. The empire need somepony new to rule them in this day and age. Somepony who knows about it well. I need to get a message to my Queen, and a hive will be started here. Chrysalis can take it over." Everypony didnt listen to me unles I called their name to speak to them directly. The only one who was looking at me was Mi Amore. Everypony started to leave, and soon we were the only two left.

"What are you? I remember the tribes before, but you look different from them." I nod.

"My Queen changed me. I am part Pony, part Human, and part Xenomorph. I used to be a unicorn guard for the princesses, but when we went to the crystal caverns to talk to my Queen for the first time, they played a game. Hunt. They picked off our group one by one until only I was left, and then they grabbed me. After they took me to the Queen's chamber, I got angry, and didn't stop trying to resist and trying to escape. Eventually, her personal guard got angry, and came over to get me to stop, but I threw a fireball, and after seeing my Queen's children covering the wall, I stopped, because I didnt want to die. After the princesses finally found us, the Queen asked them to give me to her, to be her emmisary. The princesses asked me if I wanted to accept, and I did. That night, I was changed to this. That was a week ago." She is astonished by my story. She nods eventually, and then says.

"You said that a Chrysalis would be making a hive here in the empire. What do you mean?"

"Chrysalis is the changling queen, who was impregnated by a royal facehugger. She died, and a new Xenomorph queen was born from her. Chrysalis is just the name we gave the new xeno queen. She will still be under the control of my Queen though, and she won't be allowed to kill the ponies of the empire." Mi Amore is shocked by what I say, but I dont give her time to talk, and say goodbye, and exit the room. I need to go take a nap.

We eventually left the empire. I was glad, as I didnt like the place. It didn't have enough places to hide, and it wasnt dark enough. My brothers agreed, and we where glad to be heading home.

When we arrive, I am to head to the caverns and report what happened to my Queen. It wouldn't take long, and then I was to come back to the palace, and introduce myself to the nobility.

We finally reach Canterlot, and me and Jun make our way to the castle with the girls. I am stopped by the guards at the gate.

"Halt creature. Your not allowed in here. If you do not leave, we will be forced to detain you." Said one guard. The others see what is happening, and I wave them on. They need to talk to the princess. I sigh.

"I am an Emmisary. Let me through." The guard who spoke scoffs.

"I've never heard of any creature like you. And I got no letter of an arriving emmisary. So either you leave, or you go to the dungeon." I sigh.

"Let me through, or my Queen will have some new children." I say, giving them one more chance to not get hurt. The guard captain laughs.

"Was that a threat. Well, since you threatened us, now we have to throw you in the dungeon. Guards, detain her. Then we'll drag her to the princess to answer for her crime." I shrug.

"Fine, come at me." I would have to use violance. I decide to use my hidden blades in my gauntlets. Flicking my wrists to my sides, the two small blades fling out from under my hands. As the first guardsmare attacks me, I grab her spear, and slice it's head off, before using the spear head to knock her on the head.

Another guard uses a special blade made for unicorns, that's just a blade. It's just a piece of metal that is enveloped in the unicorns magic, and launched into the target at high speeds. It then repeats the process, until the enemy is either dead, or to tired to continue fighting. I deflect the blade, and send it at another guard. It is stopped before hitting him, but it's close.

I grab the sword of one guard that is attacking, wrench it from his grip, and slap him in the head with the flat. As I do that, my tail whips around, smacking another guard trying to reach from behind. My tail then curls around a spear thrust towards me, and snaps it with no effort. The spear is discarded, and I tail whip the pony. I use my hidden blades to block blows from swords and spears, dodging and knocking the guards unconcious.

I remember training in the guards. We were taught to be better fighters than this. We were also told not to be assholes to other species though too. And to treat ambassadors as if they were the princesses.

"You all are better than this. Blue Heart, you know to thrust with the spear, not try and swipe. Swift Strike, when you pull the blade back towards you, you try and hit me. Heavy Shield, you need to defend your team, not just yourself. Block my attacks." As I say these things, the guards slowly stop fighting me. They back away.

"How do you know our names?" Swift Strike asks me. I shrug.

"Is that any way to speak to a former lieutenant? Now let me through. My Queen grows impatient." The guards snap to attention at the word lieutenant, and I walk into the castle. I need to go see the princesses about that sergeant. His xenophobia will cause a war if he does something like that again.

Heading into the castle, I head to the caverns. When the guards at the door see me, they open the door. Heading in, I breath deeply at the scent of my new home. As the doors close behind me, I can feel myself almost change, I feel more alive in the darkness.

I screech at the top of my lungs, calling out dominance over the darkness, my cry echoing of the crystals and walls. I then take of, crawling like my brothers and sisters, Jun beside me, racing me to the queens chamber.

It feels good to be home.

Author's Note

Hello everypony, good to see you again. This is all going to be posted at once, I know, but I like typing it out as if they are all seperate. So, have a good day, night, afternoon, morning, so on and so forth.

See Ya!

Oh, also, from here on, this story will be from Harvests points of view.