Author's Note

Okay so, I will be quick:
First ever story here,
Completely new,
Made a few changes to the world,
Basis of technology exist (fridges, TVs, that kind of thing) but nothing else. Phones are a distant dream, and computers? Are you stupid, Twilight? That makes no sense! Think, next time.

Chapter 1: A Life-troubling Event

Once again, she had woken up from a nightmare.

Every night, every minute of her subconsciousness was spent making her relive the most traumatizing event she had ever lived. The death of her parents.

Whenever she fell asleep, she would find herself a filly. She was completely powerless and frozen in place.

She was in what seemed to be a blurry street. Her parents, a beautiful mare and a strong stallion, stood in front of her, on the street, a few feet away from her, looking at the stallion who rushed at them with a knife magically held to the side.

Snow kept yelling at them, at her parents to run away or use their magic – her mother a Unicorn, her dad a Pegasus – , but nothing would do.

At the end of the nightmare, she looked at the two ponies lying on the ground, blood spilling from their open throat, their eyes fixed and precisely looking at her.

She would try to cry, but nothing came out. At that moment, the killer rushed at her. And sliced her throat as well.

This was when she woke up, like every night. She sighed as she tried to calm herself down, panting softly from fear and sheer sleep panic.

"Calm down, Snow... It is nothing." She raised her hoof to put it against her forehead, her headache making her head shake and buzz. "You just had a nightmare."

She slowly used her magic to pull the blanket away and started to walk out of her bedroom, still plunged into the dark night.

She walked inside of the kitchen in a silent move. Her horn started glowing a dark blue magic, and the fridge's – situated in the corner of the room – knob started glowing as well, and it opened slowly, with a little tingle, the bottles settled into the stages on the door of the cold container shaking and hitting each other softly.

She took a bowl of salad she had left her last evening, and she went to sit down onto the couch, making her fork and bowl levitate in the air as she took a bite, chewing silently as the salad leaves crackled into her mouth. It was the best~!

Her house was very simple. A kitchen/living room/dining room, a bathroom, and a bedroom. It was all she had, and it was all she needed.

Her magic took hold of the controller of the TV in front of her and pressed into the "Power" button, as the TV flashed and started displaying early news, even though Snow already missed a little bit.

"-ess Celestia replied to this with a firm hoof. She wouldn't let chaos get in Equestria, and will not. Therefore, she called the Ponies of Harmony to be vigilant. If you ever witness abnormal hat-"

Snow turned the TV off and scoffed. "Chaos, uh? That would be fucking great in this world. Friendship, my ass..." She rolled her eyes and looked to the shut window, seeing a few sun rays get to her. "Celestia and her fucking sun..." She grumbled and kept eating as she made a book levitate from the nearby bookshelf, a book about dark magic. She opened it, and started reading, the pages flipping by themselves.

It took her a few hours to decide to stop reading. Her book was quite the one, and it was very entrancing. It was cursed. Quite fitting for a book about dark magic, right? When a book about dark magic was updated or created in the kingdom, this book would follow it, and get updated as well, with an infinite amount of pages, being why each time she finished a page, she tore it and made it magically disappear in the air. The book was heritage from her mother, who was a dark – even though very pretty – unicorn. And she would protect that book by all means.

*Knock... Knock... Knock...* She heard three distinct and slow knocks on her door. She stared at it, completely frozen, as the book fell onto the ground and betrayed her presence. Maybe it was a mistake? Maybe that pony was gone awa- oh yeh, no, they knocked again.

"Miss Moonlight... We would like to talk to you about your mother. This is the police." Even though the speech only should have set her on fire and made her panic, it was the stern, strict tone of the stallion which made her suddenly run around her place, gathering the necessary to leave the house. She was panicking. The outside world found her again. And they wanted to talk about her mother.

After a long silence on the stallion's side, the door fell after a loud explosion noise, the people in the street being calmed down by the quite numerous cops. And that, made Snow unable to contain herself.

She suddenly launched herself toward the blocked window of the living room, and used her magic to blast her way out. She jumped through the cracked window, and gulped as her wings unfolded for the first time in 12 years, clumsily starting to fly away, getting the hang of it within seconds and flying at high speed to the Everfree Forest.

Her parents were both a Unicorn and a Pegasus. She was Snow Moonlight, the first child to be born as an Alicorn princess by inheriting her parents assets...