Prologue
In the age of the Goddess Faust, the first Alicorn, before the world of peace, a meteor came down from the stars and landed in the world of equestria, and became embedded in the earth ponies from all around including the goddess Faust and her most loyal servant, Deniada Cross but what they found was unexpected.

In ancient equestria a shooting star landed in the everfree forest with a loud bang and sent tree’s flying, the ancient tribes of anthro ponies came to look, most wielding spears and shields all looking down into the crater that smoked. Faust, an anthro white alicorn with a crimson main, and very tall, she wore golden roman like armor complete with a golden laurel leaf crown.

She looked down into the crater, her most loyal, Deniada Cross, a blue unicorn with a red cross cutie mark and a very light pink main and tail wearing roman woman attire, stood beside her “what is it?” she asked in awe, “i don’t know but keep everyone else away, i will go down there myself and see” Faust said, “form a protective barrier and be ready for anything” she began to walk down the crater as her soldiers put up their shields and a magical bubble formed around the crater, her magic creating a barrier around her that protected her from the smoke and fumes.

She then used her magic to send a shockwave that dispersed the smoke, the smoke escaped the shield the shockwave didn’t, she looked at the glowing object, it was a metal glove, one of a right hand with a red, yellow and blue gem fused into the metal.

Faust picked up the gauntlet, “careful goddess” came Deniada’s voice, “we don’t know what it can do”, Faust decided to heed this advice and so Faust returned to level ground, with her subjects waiting expectantly, “get our best mages to meet up in Ponyville and study this thing” Faust ordered.

And so in Ponyville a laboratory was built inside a tree and the best mages in the land of equestria, but none could figure out how and what it was and what it could do, and for a decade it was kept in a secret vault in the tree of Ponyville, but then one day an evil came to equestria and for the first time the gauntlet was used by Deniada Cross, and for the first time it’s powered was revealed in equestria.

The forest shook as the ponies of ponyville ran away and the Pegasus soldiers fell like stones to the ground holes in their hearts, literally, Deniada ran towards the tree and ran inside, she grabbed the gauntlet and put it in her hand bag before running out of the tree house, there was a roar above the town.

She looked up and saw the thing attacking them, it was wolf-like but wolves had been extinct for years ever since they were wiped out by Faust due to constant attacks upon ponies, but it was made of tree’s roots and other types of flora. “What’s going on?” she wondered if she saw Faust wielding her spear and firing at the thing with her horn’s magic. All unicorn magic came from their horns.

The monster roared and the ponies panicked more and started running vines and roots sprouted like tentacles form the creatures sides and back and came down onto the ponies, Deniada was knocked over by one of the running crowd, Faust put up a shield around ponyville as the Timber wolf? Roared once again it’s green eyes and throat glowing ever brighter.

The gauntlet had gotten knocked out of the bag and was lying some feet away, Denaida rushed and grabbed it, then there was a crash as Faust landed not too far away battered and bruised and unable to get up, the monster loomed over her, Instinctively Denaida put the gauntlet on and rushed over the wolf raised it’s massive paw ready to bring it down.

“NOOOOOO” Denaida cried reaching her hand out to the timber-wolf, and that was when it happened, the gauntlet seemingly clamped onto Denaida’s hand and a metallic substance went up her arm, tearing up her sleeve and formed around the rest of her body, tearing up the rest of her cloths forming around her chest, her arms, her legs. It left spaces for her elbows, knees, neck and shoulder.

From her outstretched arm and energy beam fired and struck the timberwolf in the eye sending it stumbling to one side, she did not know what happened, she had expected nothing to happen. But the guards arrived with 6 crystals each a different shape, one was a lighting bolt, another was a butterfly, another was an apple ect. “We have them your majesty” they said to Faust who nodded and used her magic to lift them up and form a halo around her.

She spread her wings out and flew into the air the gems giving her power and energy to move, she focused her magic the wolf watched almost curiously, after a moment her eyes glowed what and she sent a beam from her horn at the wolf who’s green glow turned rainbow colored and it began to crumble and turned to simple wood. Once Faust landed she looked at her new armored friend who looked very muchly nervous.

And after the defeat of the timber wolf, from which it’s smaller brood would roam the forest formed from its body, Faust and her friend Denaida studied Deniada’s new armor, and what it could do, it summoned weapons to do her bidding, it would protect its wearer depending on the level of threat. And as other threats came to conquer equestria Denaida would be there with an army to put them down.

The dragons had to live in the harsh and firey domain of their land, the griffons took refuge in the mountains and the changelings were banished to their domain outside equestria, but other nations joined with equestia, including the yaks and hippogriffs to form a better futures.

However over time she grew arrogant and jealous of Faust believing that she belonged on the throne, so she challenged Faust to combat and almost won.

“What makes you think you can beat me?” Denaida mocked as she swung a bladed whip at Faust who blocked it with her spear, she flew up into the air hoping to get an aerial advantage, but Denaida summoned bat-like wings on her back and flew above her with great speed and kicked her down her earth with a crash.

Faust rolled out of the way before Denaida crashed down stabbing the earth with a sword where Faust previously was, Faust got to her feet but then then Denaida’s whip extended around her neck and she was swung off her feet and was swung around 3 times before being flung into a wall of the arena. The crowd gasped in awe, admiration, fear and many other things.

Faust was down but not out yet but she couldn’t get up, Denaida with a mad glint in her eye formed a sword in her right hand, “now you dye” she said, she raised the sword above her head, still walking towards her with a mad smile on her face, she stopped just in front of Faust as she looked down on her, Faust looked up hopelessly at her.

The arm came down and blood showered Faust, but not her blood, she saw that Denaida’s arm had been cut off somehow, Denaida screamed in pain while clutching the stump of where the upper arm used to be, Faust looked at the gauntlet, blood poured from the gap and the remaining arm inside.

With the gauntlet severing itself from her, Denaida had no choice but to surrender, her plans failed because of the gauntlet, and so she was banished from equestria onto the open seas forever. And another was chosen to wield the gauntlet, overtime Faust hired the young sorcerer Starswirls the bearded to train her two daughters, Celestia and Luna.

However then came a new threat, an entity calling itself the Angelus, it wanted the gauntlet which it called the witchblade, it took over female warriors to be it’s host’s and built an army to conquer equestria to get it. War raged for an age until a new entity came to Equestria, it called itself the darkness, and it summoned monsters from tartarus and waged war against both Pony and the Angelus.

If it caught you in it’s sharp claws, shot you with its magical weapons of metal and fire or dragged you kicking and screaming into the mouths of the monsters in the shadows, none were ever seen again.

A patrol of guards walked spears raised around an abandoned town, “reports say he’s here remember when you see him find any lights you can” the commander said. They all were nervous but not scared, but when the commander turned around he saw 10 feet down the street.

In the shadows of the night it was hard to see but it’s armor seemed red with green glowing gems and spikes it’s main was long and it’s eyes were green, the guards all prepared their weapons and charged, then stopped in shock as a snake-like creature burst out of the ground and slithered around to face them behind the creature.

The guards recovered and charged once again pointing their flashlight beams from their horns hoping it would weaken him, they were wrong.

The serpent charged forward and went straight through first guards chest, swallowing her heart in the process, then bit into another guards face before tearing it off, “alright guys let's show them” the creatures said and from the shadows small yellow eyes appeared, then the imps that they belonged to jumped onto the guards sending them flailing, kicking and screaming to the ground while they were pounded by the imps or in some cases stabbed by the knives that were wielded by them.

Finally there was one left; he was crawling away from them and hiding in the light of a nearby street lamp while the leader of these beasts circled him pounding the ground excitedly while the serpent slithered and coiled in the air around hissing and gnashing it’s teeth.

“You-you can’t touch me in the light” he said with a cocky and confident smile, the creature didn’t stop but instead actually stepped into the light, now that the guard could see him he wasn’t any less terrifying.

“But how?” the guard asked, fearfully “creatures of evil and darkness can’t come into the light, no creatures can” “ya now shit stain that’s what i heard from the last patrol and the patrol before that and you know what” the creature said, “that’s just typical who said that creatures born in the darkness can’t become strong enough to enter the light” as if to emphasis this point and imp jumped into the light above.

“Yeah why can’t we” the imp asked mockingly, “i want information on the witchblade so this is how it’s going to work” the creature said, “i know it’s probably gonna be with someone of high authority something that valuable would never be allowed to be in the hands of a simple lower class by the higher ups, that’s how all gangs work, regardless of weather its street or well i think you get the idea”.

“I-i’ll never talk” the guard said defiantly, “respect to that man, Amen” the creatures said mocking a salute as he walked of, part way from turning it took out it’s weapon, the guard heard stories about it, a harmless little weapon that could destroy stuff with simple sound seemingly.

He pointed it up at the street lamp and pushed a button on the hilt. The sound was a loud bang and the lightbulb shattered and the light disappeared leaving the guard at the mercy of the imps.

As this war raged throughout equestria for many years the angelus and the darkness became formidable threats, so faust used the elements of harmony, out of fear for it’s subjects the Angelus retreated but the darkness was subdued, wrapped in chains the darkness’s host was sent and chained in tartarus a prison created as a hell for the punished and so the darkness was chained and tortured by the sentinels that guarded it. The witchblade was sent to a secret location and vaulted in secret forever

But the two entities left their influence in equestria and ancestral memories reminded all in the form of a fear for the dark.

Author's Note

Right okay so this is the first chapter, sorry if the pictures aren’t enough to visualise the characters easier but their the best I have.

Also this prologue is playing out sort of like a god of war assension Prologue when the words are bold and Italic.

Though with some scenes that are a bit more in depth when the words are normal

I really hope you are enjoying this story and sorry for any spelling mistakes I’m not an expert writer after all.