I woke up to the sun rising and to the chorus of birds outside. I slowly got up and walked to the window to see the mountains and ponyville in the distance. To those ponies, I never existed. Their savior during the time of madness. Their tyrant, Princess Celestia making me invisible to the world. My long black and green mane lightly touching the floor, a slight aura emanating from my mane and tail as i remembered the past. I heard the sound of hoofsteps as i walked to the entrance hall, Celestia pacing back and forth as a group of six ponies burst through the door. "We came as fast as we could." . said Twilight Sparkle. I identified the others as Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Applejack, Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie
"Good, we must go now. Follow me." Celestia said as the other ponies followed her. I walked with them and we entered the war room, filled with maps of equestria and the gryphon kingdom. "The gryphons have infiltrated and destroyed one of our bases. We need the Elements of Harmony and the friendship arsenal if we are to defeat them."
Twilight glanced a worried look at the others. "But princess...the elements are only used for peace, not war. And we have never...killed anypony before."
Celestia stared Twilight in the eyes, boiling with rage. "You my dear, are committing treason for disobeying your monarch." I sighed. I may have taken her insanity, but her heart remained black and crimson, for it was stained with the blood of her foes.
"Of course not, i would never disobey you, your highness." She bowed as the others did the same. She glanced at me, expecting me to bow, but i merely stood there and stared back.
"Rise. You are dismissed. I need time to think." The others did as they were told and walked out of the room. I proceeded to follow, but celestia stopped me "You aren't going anywhere demon. I may not be able to kill you but i can sure as Tartarus cause you pain." My eyes began to glow faintly, daring her to try. She scoffed and walked out of the room.
I slowly began to walk to Luna’s quarters, the mare in deep thought as I walked in. "Oh Shadowheart! I hadn't realized you had entered!"
Luna was much kinder than her older sister, us both being creatures of the night we had a lot in common. "You know I was wondering when I would see you again. I was worried Celestia had done something to you."
She nudged me and i smiled back, my pointed teeth reflecting the light from outside. "Do not worry Luna, she cannot harm me. She may have taken my magic but my combat skills will not wither."
Luna chuckled and sighed. "Even after all these years you haven’t changed." She walked to a couch in her room and I sat beside her.
"I've always wondered how you've fought on your back hooves, you know."
I chuckled and responded. "Luna you know i am not a pony, i am a demon born from darkness and insanity..."
Luna cut me off. "You also have kept my mind clear ever since that incident during the time of madness." A sorrowful look crossed her face as we remembered the past, how Celestia burned all the books about that time and made up a story on how it was always peaceful until Luna got jealous.
The real story was that one thousand years ago the kingdom was in chaos. Murder, rape, theft and necromancy filled the town and all were infected by insanity. I woke in the dark in the deepest part of the everfree forest as a filly. My mane and tail touched the ground where i stood, my senses going wild with the desire for the insanity that affected the people.
I traveled from town to town, absorbing the insanity from the people. My final destination was Canterlot. I looked up at the town and wondered how i would get there. I felt a sharp pain in my back as I collapsed and two large leathery wings protruded from my back. I spread them wide and easily flew up and landed on the edge. Everypony stared at me, for i was much larger than them. There wide eyes didn't affect me as i walked past. A unicorn stepped in front of me.
"Who are you? Wherever you came from stranger, this place is for upper class mares and gentlecolts, not some freak!" I looked into her eyes as I touched my horn to hers. My horn, eyes, mane and tail glowed as i absorbed the insanity she harbored. Everypony stared at me as i looked around.
"Tell me where the source of this insanity is." The ponies pointed to the castle and I spread my wings and took flight once more.
That is where i found poor Luna, having locked herself into her tower to stay away from her sister. "S-s-s-stay back!" I walked past her and through the entrance hall to the war room where the raving lunatic Celestia stood. "Control, control it all hehehehe all mine yes yes mine MINE HEHEHEHEHEHE!!!!"
She turned and stared at me and immediately lunged at me. I dodged and pinned her down. "NO NO MUST NOT LOSE MUST CONTROL ALL ALL MINE ALL MIIINNEE"
I then proceeded to absorb the darkness that clouded her mind. When i had finished, i got off her as she came to her senses "What happened..." she looked at me and angrily stood up. "YOU... WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE? DID YOU DO THIS? CAUSE THE COLLAPSE OF MY KINGDOM? ITS ALL YOUR FAULT!"
She galloped out of the room when i heard the screams of Luna. I teleported to her room to find that she had been infected by the insanity. I ran to her side to absorb the darkness in her mind, but was then knocked off of my hooves as celestia charged in. "Luna...Luna?"
She turned to me. "YOU DID THIS!" At that moment, Luna rose as a diffrent mare. She flew out of the tower, Celestia chasing her. They both landed in a castle in the everfree forest. I arrived in time to see that Celestia had used the Elements of Harmony to banish Luna to the moon, the castle slowly collapsing because of the surge of power inside it. I was too late to save Luna, but when i went to stop the elements, Celestia turned to me.
"Looks like you're next!" She used the elements on me, but I wasn't banished. Instead, I became invisible to the world. No one could hear me, see me, feel me, smell me or taste me. Only an alicorn, a strong wielder of magic or one with the gift of magic sight could know of my existence and it has continued on till this very day,
"Shadow...Hey Shadow what's wrong?" Luna nudged me a bit as I snapped out of my trance and turned to her.
"Sorry, I was thinking about the past." Luna smiled and leaned on my side.
"Don't think about that. It was a horrible time and its over now...i've been wondering...how did you ever get to that size?"
If i was compared to Celestia, i was a bit taller and much more muscular than she was. "You see Luna...in the first four days of my birth, i grew depending on how much insanity i absorbed.Because of all the people infected i grew quite quickly." Luna smiled, me and her had a special connection. For after the time of madness, I had looked throught every book i could to bring her back.
After a while i found a powerful potion that could open a temporary portal to far away destinations, I brought her back to a place in the everfree forest where she would be away form Celestia's prying eyes.
When she woke, i realized she was still infected as she flew off to forever make it night. I followed her and arrived after the six used the elements to remove Luna’s power and her begging at her sister’s hooves to not kill her. Celestia accepted her apology as they returned to the castle where they've been living along with me.
My room was in the darkest part of the castle where nopony dared to go, excluding Luna. All the years we've been together has made her fall in love with me and now she treats me like a stallion, despite my form being that of a mare. But she didn't care. I don't care if shes a mare either, she was still special to me and we both shared a hatred of her sister.
"Oh shadow, I need to raise the moon...It was nice talking to you." We smiled to each other and she flew off into the night while I returned to my room to rest.
Author's Note
Hello People! i am back and doing better at Writing, Hopfully i can turn this fic around. Have a nice day!
I awoke to Angle nudging my face and he pointed at the clock "oh Is it almost feeding time?"
I got up and walked to the kitchen and looked around. some of the birds were awake while most of the other animals where still sleeping soundly.
"ehem...alright everypony please wake up,its almost breakfast time." all of them slowly began to wake up as i walked to the cupboard and pulled out the seeds, berries and nuts to feed them all.
"Angel bunny you don't want something crazy again do you?" he shook his head and I sighed in relief and turned to walk outside to feed the chickens. the sun was out and the wind calmly blew as i saw the trees in the Everfree forest slowly moved
"It's so calm...and peaceful" I mumbled to myself as I walked into the chicken coop and began to pour some feeder till I herd loud hoofsteps coming from outside, I put down the bag to see who It was and froze In terror. a large black pony with green stripes ran past me and Into the forest. I panicked a bit and ran back inside where I hid In my bed covers.
" it'll be okay Fluttershy, the scary pony will be gone soon!" I stayed there until I didn't hear the sounds of running anymore and i got out of the covers.
"In the name of Celestia that was one scary looking pony...I need to tell the others about It." I fed the rest of my animals and went straight to Twilights house and knocked on the door.
"Twilight...Twilight we need to talk!" i said as loud as i possibly could, she opened the door her sleepy eyes drooping as she let me in.
"what Is it Fluttershy? i was sleeping" I turned around with wide eyes I told her my story.
"are you sure? I don't think ANYPONY Is THAT big." i nodded and faced her again.
"i'm sure Twilight It was a bit bigger the Celestia and had a black coat with green stripes that glowed a bit...oh oh and I think It looked at me!" Twilight sighed and walked to a table to light a candle then turned to me.
"Fluttershy i'll tell you what...i'll see If I can find anything about the...creature and you can stay here for the night." i smiled shyly and quietly answered.
"thank you Twi oh and I hope you find somthing about the creature."
(character swap)
Fluttershy galloped out of the house In the direction of Rainbow Dash's house, as I closed the door tears ran down my face I silently began to cry as I remembered the mare Fluttershy was talking about.
In Canterlot when I was a filly when I wasn't with Shining Armour or Cadence I played with another pony, a pony who everypony thought was imagined, her name was ShadowHeart she was quite tall and really kind to me and when i got hurt she cared for my wounds and made sure i was all right and the one thing that she told me to do was NEVER tell Celestia that I could see her...and when i left Canterlot i've never seen her since...
"Yo Twi? you okay?" Spike nudged me and looked with a worried glance i got up and looked at him
"Ya ya I'm *sniffle* I'm fine" I felt one last tear move down my face as I hit the books. "Spike I'm going out...make sure you help anyone here"
"uhh...alright Twi if you...insist." i galloped out of the house towards the Everfree forest and when I arrived near Fluttershy's cottage Rainbow Dash, Rarity and AJ were there with Fluttershy and Rainbow as usual was taunting the "creature" when i got closer they all tried to calm down Rainbow.
"let me at it! LET ME AT IT! i'll buck it back to where it came from!" AJ grabbed Rainbows leg and brought her back down to the ground.
"Calm down Dash we don't know what it is and it very well could be as big as Fluttershy told us!" Dash calmed down and turn before she was tackled by pinkie.
"HEY GUYS WATCHAA DOIN?" at that moment Fluttershy stood there wide eyes in terror as everypony looked to the entrance of the forest and out dragging a deer carcass was Shadowheart with wide green eyes she dropped the corpse and slowly walked to me her blood soaked hoofs marking where she walked.
"is...is it invisible!?" Dash panickingly said, Shadow continued to walk to me until she stood in front of my eyes.
"its been awhile... hasn't it?" tears formed in my eyes again and i hugged Shadow as hard as i could when Fluttershy spoke.
"TWI WHAT ARE YOU DOING? THATS THE MONSTER!" she hid behind Dash and cowered while everypony just stood there and stared in awe as the prints on the ground lead behind Dash to Fluttershy.
"its alright Fluttershy you don't need to be afraid of me." Fluttershy looked up and calmed down a bit.
"who...who are you?" Shadow chuckled a bit and lowered her head to be in front of Fluttershys.
"I am Shadowheart"
