My Little Pony: Queen of Shadows

It was the day after Winter Wrap up, and Sombra was enjoying some time. Twilight had went up to Canterlot to reconcile with her old Canterlot friends. This left Sombra behind at the castle.

However, as he was doing a quick sweep of the castle, suddenly a myserious creature that was transparent showed up.

"What the hell; who are you?!" Sombra exclaimed.

"Relax. I am no enemy. My name is Shallor. When I was alive, I held the title of being the Shadow Lord." The mysterious being said.

"Shadow Lord? Wait how long have you been dead?" Sombra asked.

"Longer then your world's recorded history, even before the time when you were banished by the two sisters." Shallor stated. "But that's not important. I have appeared to you because of this." He added. Shallor proceeded to show off a shard of something. "This is a shard of The Overseer's staff. The other seven shards have been scattered across your world and found their way to seven distinct ponies. You need to find those shards and take them from the ponies who hold them. You will have to most likely battle those ponies when you do however." Shallor explained.

"Why would I need to do that?" Sombra asked.

"Because by obtaining those shards, those ponies became overwhelmed by the light held within the shards of the staff. Only you and I are fully immune to this side effect. Me because I am dead, and you because of what you are." Shallor said. "Once you've restored the staff and brought it back here to Twilight's Castle, the Overseer will be restored to normal and he will no doubt crown you properly as the Shadow King." He added.

"But...isn't light a good thing?" Sombra asked.

"Too much light is just as bad as too much darkness. And those staff shards are making those ponies act very evil despite being filled with light. That's why people like you and me exist though: We are ones who can exist on the thin line that divides light and darkness. There is a force that can take out the ones overwhelmed by the light and those whose hearts are pure darkness. That force is the source of your power: It is the power of Shadow." Shallor said.

"The Power of Shadow..." Sombra said. "...I'll have to write Twilight a letter in case she gets back before I do. I do assume you can get me a map of the locations of the seven ponies overwhelmed by the light." He added.

"You won't need a map. The shard I gave you have will guide you to them." Shallor said.

"That admittedly makes more sense." Sombra said and then headed off.

"Once you become the Shadow King, your lack of a cutie mark will be rectified." Shallor said.

Using the one staff shard he was given, Sombra arrived first in Apalosa, where a shariff was making arrests for the littest things.

"...Huh. Didn't think these ponies would be so easily found." Sombra said as be began battling the local shariff. Eventually Sombra managed to defeat the shariff and claim the second staff shard.

The shards continued to guide Sombra, this time to Manehatten.

"This place is huge." Sombra said. But then noticed that something weird was going on in a nearby bar. Once inside, Sombra discovered that the barkeep was forcing everypony inside to become drunk and never leave. "These shards have some crazy ways of making ponies get overwhelmed by light." Sombra said and began battling the barkeep.

Eventually Sombra came out on top and retrieved the third staff shard.

Things like this would continue as Sombra collected the staff shards, with each one effecting each pony differently.

"I'm guessing that these ponies being overwhelmed by the light makes them do what they are best at doing to such extreme levels that it would cause problems for all involved. First that sheriff arresting ponies for the simplest of crimes, then that barkeep forcing other ponies to get drunk, then there was that stage magician forcing ponies to watch her show non-stop with no bathroom breaks. Now I can see why Shallor said that too much light is just as bad as too much darkness: If you tip one way too much, you'll end up becoming obsessed with what your doing and end up causing problems no matter if it's because of the light or because of darkness." Sombra explained. "I'm guessing that's why the power of shadow exists on that thin line that divides light and darkness; Shadow is there to control the light and make sure darkness doesn't become too strong for the light to deal with. It's as if there's a balance in all things." He continued.

Sombra eventually returned to the Castle of Friendship with the eight staff shards with Twilight and Spike waiting for him. Plus a unicorn mare Sombra has never met before.

"Sombra, your back. Did you get those shard things you were after?" Twilight asked.

"I did. Whose the new mare?" Sombra asked.

"This is my old friend Moondancer. I had to spend a few days to patch things up with her, and I figured I would introduce you two." Twilight said. Moondancer approuched Sombra.

"So...Twilight says you've been treating her well. Is this true?" Moondancer said. Obviously Twilight left out all the special details.

"Yes. I apologize if it caused you two any problems." Sombra said.

"It's nothing you did. But Twilight did do a lot to make up for skipping out on my party the day before she left canterlot." Moondancer said. "At least she made up for it and helped me reconnect with some old friends of mine too." She added.

"That sounds like something Twilight would do." Sombra said. Suddenly the mysterious translucent creature showed up again.

"GAH!" Twilight was taken off guard.

"GHOST!" Moondancer shouted and hid under the map table.

"I see you have collected the missing shards of the Observer's Staff. Good. I can take things from here." Shallor said before he used some kind of ability to take the shards from Sombra.

"Wow, a real life ghost. I must make notes of this!" Twilight said, writing things down.

"Somethings never change." Moondancer said with a sigh but smiled all the same. Admittedly she was curious too. Shallor and Sombra said nothing as the former began to use other powers to make the shards come together into one staff.

"So, this is the completed form of the Observer's staff..." Sombra observed.

"Yes. It was broken apart when..." Shallor was interupted when suddenly a dark mist came out of the staff. "...Funny, that's not supposed to happen." He added before a dark figure suddenly appeared from the staff.

"WHAT IS THAT THING?!" Moondancer exclaimed.

"I don't know; this was not supposed to happen. I was just told how to restore the staff, I was not told about some safty precaution." Shallor said.

"Now I'm going to have to fight this thing? Well alright then." Sombra said. Sombra managed to eventually defeat the mysterious shadow creature which made the staff reappear and then a light shine forth. When it died down, holding onto the staff was a mysterious individual whose entire identity was obscured.

"Ah it'd good to be back. Thought I was forever gone after that mysterious black creature thing destroyed my staff." The new individual said.

"What the what now?" Twilight asked.

TO BE CONTINUED!