1. Marksaline the Necromorph Queen

Marksaline - Alicorn with a affinity for anything dark & her sister

The foal learned to stand and walk in the ascension realm. It also had it very first magical surge in it. The realm of ascending was suddenly filled with more light that seem to be spawned from darkness itself. It seem to compliment the bright light with its dark light and made the bright surrounding more pleasant to the eyes.

It apparently also dispursed some of the clouds and give it more contrast. It no longer was a cloudy mist denying the ones within to see only a couple of hundred of meters. Instead one could almost see to the infinity it stretched.
Quite a view to behold.

When Celestia and Cadance would later go to sleep, would they awaken with a new version of their self that could be switched at will.

'Celestia' the 'Sun Goddess' to 'Solar Nova' the 'Goddess of destruction'.

'Cadance Mi Amore Cadensa' the 'Love Goddess' to 'Hearts Desire' the 'Goddess of lust and passion'.

Once the Alicorns of past and future would make contact with it after Marksaline had blessed and cursed it, would every immortal have the free choice of light or darkness. When ever they decided. If they would decide at all...
Stagnation is death. Permanent death would never touch the Alicorns from now on.
For better or worse...

Marksaline the newest member of the royal familie was getting her offical introduction a week later. The Necromancer of Light had sworn eternal loyalty to the filly and her sister.

Yes, apparently when Marksaline reappered in the mortal realm was she not longer alone.
She had now a equaly coatless and hairless Pink little Sister. After a month would she get her name as well. Fluffle Puff, was a earthpony. Yet she did apparently had the ability to bend reality to her will.

She could walk on walls as if gravity was a suggestion, discarded at the most conviniently of moments. She could move in the moment of a blink from one side of the room to the other as long noone observed her in that moment.
Last but not least... Did she apparently had the ability to store things in her new coat.

Like the time she pulled a Pink Lion from her coat, just for the fun of it.

Within the span of a month did Fluffle Puff become from a furless pony filly to the most fluffy pony ever recorded in ponykinds history.

Her big sister also had changed quite a lot in her first month. She had grown a black crimson coat, while her mane and tail hair become a lighter crimson color.

Both sisters seem to be always together. Two sister like one pair, inseperable. Unless they had to take a potty break or would eat.

Fluffle Puff seem to enjoy everything eatable. Marksaline would eat anything given to her, prefering meat over anything. Also she seem to like to prefer living food rather than dead meat.

Both sisters had a aura around themself. Fluffle Puff would be a joy spreading, energetic fluffball of happyness. Marksaline was rather cold and seem to observe everyone around them. As if she was seeing things beyond the exterior, waiting patiently for something very unfortunately to happen.

That said, the rare moment she would play with others than her sister, would she radiating life and content around herself. Pony loved and fear her.

The Necromancers of Light were obsessive with being near her when ever Celestia or Cadance allowed it.

With but a sentance would they depart the Castle and not return before the coming day or night was over. Than again would they pleade to be near Marksaline, as if they where only be able to feel satisfaction in her vicinity.

This disturbed Celestias motherly instincts, but also made it so that ~~HER~~ daughter's would be save at all times.

For some reason did someone seem to attempt to foalnapping her daughters. When ever somecreature tried it, would the foalnappers be found more dead than alive, pleading for mercy in death coated in some green unknown substance. If they had their wish for death granted, would they smile as if they had receive the biggest blessing in existance. If it was not granted, than for their crimes did they attempted to kill themself to atone for their actions.

After one year would noone sane ever dare as mutch as to lure the two fillys to follow them into their mansion as to gain favor with one of the Alicorns. Rare exceptions still happened.

The first year was surprisingly event less, the attempted foalnapping and shortly following death of the criminals not counting.

Fluffle Puff was a very affectionate filly, while Marksaline only seem to be cuddly with Alicorn familie, her sister, death sentanced prisoners, Necromancers of Light members and birds. Birds like Crows seem to love Marksaline like if she was a nestmate. Cleaning the feathers of her leathery wings and mane as well tail hair as if she was about to make a grand entrance in a few minutes to a major event.

Further did Marksaline had developed razorsharp teeth like a dragon. Yet she could will them to be as dull as a foal toys foam coating.

Unfortunately her new teeth would make it impossible for her to close her cheek skin. Making her a rather messy eater and spilling drinks when ever she drink unless Fluffle Puff would keep the cheek holes closed with her hoovesies or use ducktape. Marksaline preferred the first, but tolerated the second for the time of the meal.

Both filly had a affinity of the dark arts on a instinctive level.

Fluffle Puff like to hide in shadows to ambush random pony or other visitors for a short snuggel. She often gifted her random snuggel partners sweet treats as to thank them for the kindness and patients they showed her.

Marksaline used blood magic to heal anyone that had as mutch a scratch hidden in their coat. But rather than being thankfull seem everyone disturbed by this. When ask by Celestia or Cadance why, they often seem to feel as if Marksaline would do it as to stop looking at them like they are the next living meal durring diner time...

Marksaline was also very talented in walking and shifting shadows. Rather than teleport would she move into the nearest big enough shadow and sink into it as if she would dive into a pond or a sea. They where all connected like a river or a ocean to her.

Marksaline also was very found of Necromancy. Often would she play with her former meal after she stripped them from their flesh.

Bone puppets to play and entertaining her and observers. Her most actually liked theater piece in the royal garden was the reinactment of war storys Cadance and Celestia read to her. Just without the blood shedding and the screams of the dying.

After the first year together, did the Alicorn familie celebrating their first year as a happy family. Towards the end of the day of celebrating did Celestia noticed a assasin coming for one of her daughters. The Abesinian assasin magical cloaking had a malfunction, but managed to shot a ruine enscribed arrow towards Marksaline before the royal guards could do more than shout out a alert and manage more than drawing weapons.

But Celestia teleported in the way of the crossbow fired projectile, only to find out why the assasin magical cloak had failed.
A glyph bypassing and magic repellent armored and body protection piercing arrow that was custom made in antique design from mythril forged used for killing magical enemies.

Arrows like that are rather rare these days and not more than a few ten thousand should still be around to be even in use.
A headpiece of any black market... mostly to find in trophy collections with wiped magic surfaces.

When Celestia fuled by adrenaline and magic boosted accelerated reflexes tried to intercept the deadly projectile, did her armored and heavy enchanted hoove shoes got pierced like a arrow would go through a cardboard box, did her flesh and bones of her foreleg didn't do mutch to rob its momentum, though it helped her force a minor change of flight path.
The flesh and bones of her main body did a way better job to overwhelming the arrows capacity for magic repellent and negation, when confronted with a alicorns personal magic defense found in her body.

To save her beloved daughter life, she used the momentum of her still moving body to chance its trajectory with her entire body.
Unfortunately was this arrow one of the more wicked designed versions, creating horrendous damage while shredding rather than cutting through her bodys mass.

If not for her heart being one of the destroyed organs she might have recovered, but as it was there simply wasn't enough time and material for something powerful enough to save a alicorn.

Three hours after Celestia had died do to a pierced body and shredded heart and other damages, did the Necromancer of Light where preparing to use their resurrection method on the sun goddess. What better opportunity to get in her good grace and be heros for all of Equestria.

Marksaline walked to her caretaker and shed a bloody tear over Celestia torso wound, when noone had fixed her until then and Fluffle Puff got upset about the mare not waking up to play with them.
It was annoying to do everything by herself, but nothing was more annoying than her sister being sad.
Marksaline would not stand for her sister being sad!

Celestia was resurrected within a minute of Marksaline magic and bloody tears bonding with the corpse of the alicorn.
That day Fluffle Puff & Marksaline had finally received a true m♡mmy.

Celestia grow slightly larger and more muscular within the next month, as her new Necromorph and old Alicorn nature properly bonded, a true hybrid, instead of magical and biological assimilation.
Her ethereal mane and tail more vibrant, with now visible glyphs like Marksaline had natural grown into her two horn structure.

Marksaline was comatose for a entire month, while her powers bonded with her true m♡mmy.
Fluffle Puff was most of the time on the side of her sister and was for the duration of her sisters napping deflated like as if her coat was water saturated.
Her mood very dulled, uncharacteristically subdued, as if she was occupied in body and mind.

When Marksaline woke up after exactly 30 days of resting, Celestia having stabilized and regained lucid consciousness, did all of Equestria had celebrated their return into public life for a entire week.

Celestia having not changed in the slightest in her behavior towards her loving daughters, though the fillies now smiling regularly when interacting with their m♡mmy in any way.
They had become a true family.
Celestia and Fluffle Puff where full of joy, Marksaline was slightly less annoyed that Fluffle Puff was happy again.
Further for once in Marksaline existence beside her sister Fluffle Puff, did someone else started to matter and be nice to be around with.
Though she feel slightly hungrier after their magic bond had extended to three individuals.

Cadance become cold calculating towards military matters, unlike Celestia who was content to glass the to slums decayed city that had housed the assassin guild of the Abesinian Queendome, did Cadance would make her displeasure known through more subtleties.

The Abesinian assasin was a mercenary without direct ties to Abesinian Queendom was the statement of their Ambassador before Celestia decided to show the weight of her displeasure, despite the Abesinian giving a formal offer of apology and don't minding the sun alicorn to send a investigation team to go after the rough assasins.

It was being known that this professional assasin exclusively was hired by their government to clean up internal issues beforepaw, but Cadance made sure with her diplomatic skills that the Abesinian Queendome had a huge problem with trading for the coming decade.
When the Abesinian could not even managed to keep their own associates in check.
Outside of Equestria as a trading partner, did the catlike bipedal species had hard time ahead if it.

For years to come would noone in high standing or entire nations leadership try a assasination of one of the foals of the royal familie.

After all... Celestia had glasses a city with a population of 100.000 as retaliation and the Abesinian Queendome had been accepting of Celestias restraint after literally having been successfully killed.
Apparently did a successful resurrection didn't fix the issues, even if the wrath of the sun was restrained by itself to only the expendable perpetrators.

Something that could have been so mutch eorse if Celestia wasn't a kind and generous friend of the royal family that had failed to keep their subjects in line.

Cadance economical attack was in comparison more than reasonable and it exclude food trade contracts, she was not a unreasonable mare after all.

Author's Note

Hope you like my new lore for the Alicorns new dark sides.
Marksaline the Necromorph Queen has blessed and cursed the realm of ascending with her powers. All that touch it will have a affinity for darkness. Now and ever after.

Stay Snuggly ♡

Edit last time:
14.04.2024