THE DYING LIGHT OF SUNSET
Author's Note
Hello everyone who reads this story, I just want to let you know that I have opened a blog to be able to comment on the story, its progress, mistakes, doubts and ideas. This is so we can keep you informed on the progress and refine this fanfic.
What I modified here, in addition to lengthening the chapter a little more, was the correction of the error that they notified me and I modified some parts to raise the quality a little.
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THE CITY OF HARRAN
"I am selfish!" [A scream is heard from the forbidden section of the Canterlot Castle Library] "that book there!" [A girl screamed as a book was thrown and hit a force field.] "says that she could become as powerful as an alicorn princess!" [She said a unicorn with golden yellow fur and hair that combined that color with red while daring a book at an alicorn with snow white fur and rainbow hair who was looking at her with disapproval and anger while blocking the path of a pegasus guard who was trying to intervene] "I could rule here, you are the selfish one for not giving me the place what do i deserve!
I deserve to be by your side and be your equal or maybe even your superior, make me a princess" [She commanded boldly towards the alicorn who turned out to be his teacher].
"No" [Said the princess Celestia firmly with a strong look] "Being a princess is something you have to earn. I have tried to teach you everything you need to know, but you have not profited.
Every time you say "deserve", it is getting something without having made any effort [She affirmed without holding back] You show me that you're not ready yet" [Sentence looking at her student waiting for her answer].
"We can never get over this because you can't see how great I deserve to be" [She responded with venom in her voice and a look of hate and resentment] "Is that all you have to say to me?"
"No, the guards are escorting you out" [She said with a look of disappointment as the guards gave the unicorn steady and somewhat angry looks] "Sunset Shimmer" [Said out loud] "I am removing you from your position as my student" [She sentenced while spreading her wings giving free passage to the guards] "Since we can't get past this, your studies end here. You are welcome to stay in Canterlot, but you will no longer be welcome in the castle"
The unicorn call Sunset watched with her head bowed with a shadow over her eyes as the guards stood at her sides ready to take her away and at the moment she began to walk she looked up a little, revealing her eyes full of absolute hatred.
"This is the biggest mistake of your entire life" [Said in a dark voice, as the guards escorted her out of the castle].
[Once Sunset was escorted out of the room, Celestia looked at a loom that had an artistic depiction of her defeating and banishing her sister transformed into Nightmare Moon. She sighed and closed her eyes] "One of many"
After a few moments of pondering whether her decision was the right one or if she could have done something to prevent her promising student from ending up in something so opposite to what I was trying to instill in her, Celestia walked out of the library and headed for the throne room.
On his way he heard a quite loud noise that seemed to be the metal hitting the floor hard in the corridor that was heading towards the exit, she discovered to go check what had happened.
"What could it have been? ...I hope that-" [At that moment she remembered that the mirror that Sunset challenged her so much for was on the way out].
At that moment she quickened her pace hoping that her fears would not be fulfilled but when she turned the corner she gasped, the guards that were escorting Sunset were on the ground with signs of having been involved in a fight, Celestia quickly ran towards them and cast a spell of Scanning their bodies, he breathed a sigh of relief to see that they were only knocked out but without much physical damage other than a few bruises.
A few minutes before
Sunset was escorted by the guards into the hallway, but unbeknownst to them, she was preparing an impact spell to quickly knock them both out, but waiting for the moment to execute her plan. When he reached the corridor where the door to the Sunset mirror room was located, in a quick movement, she kicked the legs of the left guard with his hooves while quickly turning the right guard pointing his horn towards him to cast the spell on his body. surprised face, then turned to the guard on the ground who was grunting trying to get up to cast the same spell as well.
"And that's what happened, I'm sorry princess" [Answered the guard trying to control the dizziness caused by the spell].
In the present, Celestia listened intently to the guard's explanation as she tried to wake up her partner while applying healing magic on their bodies.
"Well, if you feel better. Can you help me move the mirror to a safe place?" [I ask while looking sadly at the open door of the mirror room].
The guards, when they recovered enough, moved the mirror to where Celestia wanted it to be, a fairly large room near the throne room.
"Princess, it's not to offend you, but why are we taking him to such a distinguished place? Shouldn't you hide the mirror in a safer place?" [Questioned the somewhat confused guard].
"No... I want him here" [Answered with regret] "To remind me, too, that maybe she'll come back... one day" [She said with a sad look but with some hope].
The guards looked at each other and with a feeling they left the room in silence with Celestia alone as she looked at the mirror hoping to see her student cross it instead of her reflection.
All I can see is... darkness... I don't feel anything, it's like I'm floating in some kind of vacuum.
Would this be the limbo mentioned in Starswirl the Bearded's book? the space between worlds that separates them?
Wait... is there something in the distance?
My thoughts are interrupted when I saw a light on the blackened horizon as I approached against my will, like a metal to a magnet, I felt as if the light took over his body.
"That... is the door, it is as mentioned in the book Starswirl, and now according to the book I have to close my eyes to avoid temporary blindness caused by light"
I thought with excitement and curiosity with this new world that I was about to visit, although my thoughts turned a bit bitter when I recorded why I was there, I frowned when I recorded my expulsion and humiliation that I felt at that time.
She took from me what I deserved, but now she will regret it when she returns to conquer all of Equestria with the power of that world that will belong to me no matter what it takes, I thought, turning my face into a look of malicious determination.
At that moment I noticed that the brightness of the light d = was becoming more powerful every time since it was very close to the portal, so I closed my eyes and waited.
After a few seconds, I felt my body being affected by gravity again, hitting the ground with some force.
"Oh hell… that hurt huh because I feel stran-"
I had noticed when I landed something strange with my body, it didn't feel the same, when I opened my eyes that took a while to get used to the light I moved my limb in front of me to see it, but when I saw it I gasped in surprise and felt a shock of fear and fascination.
I watched with wide eyes and mouth as I examined my new member in fascination as I moved it trying to fit in, then searched for the rest of his body that was completely unlike a pony.
My upper part was very similar to that of the centaurs with two limbs that ended in what they called hands, but my rear hooves were something completely different and more similar to the monkeys that they saw in biology class having two limbs to maintain balance , in fact I look like an ape but with a more vertical body instead of curved. My fur had also disappeared and now I had a soft and delicate skin of a fairly pale pink color, although my hair had been preserved, which I was grateful to at least have something familiar from my previous body.
Then I noticed that my body was covered with clothes and I must say that I like the outfit, although when I looked under it I noticed that it also had some kind of underwear where it should have....
I better leave my clothes on and don't take them off.
In that I noticed a small brightness behind me, when I turned around I saw that I was at the foot of a statue of one of those beings on something similar to a pony although this seemed to be more primitive than those of his world.
"This statue reminds me of the founders of the cities- wait a second"
After that I quickly checked my surroundings noticing that I was in a kind of square which was abandoned but co-.
"Th-those stains s-are"
At that moment I began to panic as I noticed the silence and the amount of scarlet stains on the ground around me, which confirmed my hypothesis when I saw signs of a fight and a barricade. Something very bad had happened here.
In that notice a hand protruding from the corner of the statue which was stained with blood and had a baseball bat.
Sunset looked at the hand with fear, she had studied about the violence of her world and its strange occasions when a war occurred, being an example of her country that had not had any war or battle since Nightmare Moon. But it was one thing to read it and another to see it in person. At that moment he was regretting going to that world, but when he tried to cross the portal his hand was stopped by the cold cement of the statue.
"Oh, come on, come on!" [Sunset said desperately trying to cross a portal that had already closed].
At that moment she began to despair, she realized very late that crossing the mirror without knowing what was on the other side was a big mistake.
After a few minutes of pushing against the statue she fell exhausted, then sat up against the statue while putting her hands on her face. Then she stared at them.
"This- this shouldn't happen, the book said that the portal would stay open for two days!" [Shouted angrily as he hit the ground until at one point he stopped and stared at the ground] "I must calm down I must calm down b-what... what should I do?" [She wondered while looking at his hands].
Then she scans her surroundings again as she watched the silence begin to affect her then she looked at the hand at her side to quickly look at the bat she had, she stared at him.
"It's risky but... what other option do I have" [She said to proceed to carefully take the bat and bring it towards her, taking it from its previous owner with a disgusted face on her face].
When she had a defense method she tried to get up so she could walk, although she tripped while trying.
"A uh" [Grunting as she tried to get up again using the bat as a cane].
Sunset, after keeping her balance enough to walk, began to explore the square avoiding going to the part where the body to which the hand belonged was located.
The first thing that Sunset noticed were large objects, some being small and others similar to boxes that were gigantic, there being 6 in total, which had wheels. Of course they were a type of float although he was confused because they did not have a place to be pushed, also the ones that most caught his attention were two of the small ones and two of the large ones since they had symbols on them and they were colored more striking.
The small ones were white with a blue line in the center which had a hole where something was written in a language that he did not know, on the front he saw a symbol that was a shield in which there was a circle that had a writing around with a star in the center.
And the big ones were yellow with a red line following the same pattern as the little one, but the difference was that their shield was a red cross that Sunset could easily recognize, realizing that this apparently belonged to the medical service of the city in the one that was although she was not very excited to know what happened to the doctors because of the dried blood stains around her.
Finally, what both shared in a general way was a symbol and the number 112.
The buildings, although intact, had signs of struggle such as broken railings, windows and doors, marks of a fire on the windows and blood marks on some balconies. And this only increased on the outside as there were even barricades at the entrances, although not all of them were still standing.
Sunset was still looking at the blood uncomfortably to imagine what happened to the inhabitants of the city and the reason for its current state, being the first thing that came to mind the image of a great battle.
She shook her head to get those images out of her mind and focus on her current situation.
"Well think that this place could be of use to you..." [Sunset thought to herself as she looked in all directions trying to find something useful until her eyes fell on the nearest ambulance she had][/b ] "Hmm, maybe there's something useful in that kind of... carriage?" [He wondered what these things were called and what they were as he slowly approached, although it was obvious that they were used for transportation, inspecting the ambulance found the rear doors ajar, although not enough to see inside] "Maybe there is something inside mmm..." [She approaches the doors and leans her heard, after a few moments of silence Sunset knocks on the door] "Hello is anyone there?" [I knock and wait for an answer, but there was none] "Uff it seems that there is no-" [Opening them the smell inside caused Sunset to fall on her back in shock and trying to avoid vomiting].
Inside there was a stretcher where the body of a person was found with a blanket over it to cover it, but the smell of putrefaction suggested that it had been abandoned there for some time.
Sunset breathed deeply trying to keep from throwing up from the smell of death coming from the ambulance. She had never witnessed something like this in her life, so when she opened her eyes and saw the cause of that aroma that invaded her nostrils, she was shocked and tried to look away.
Inside there was a body covered by a blanket which was stained with blood but there was a hand outside the stretcher that showed a grayish color suggesting the state of advanced putrefaction that it possessed.
Once the initial shock passed, Sunset looked inside trying to find something useful without throwing up and noticed a red box with a cross in the center lying in the background, and you didn't have to be a genius to know what it was.
"A first-aid kit, that'll come in handy" [He thought excitedly, but then looked back at the body and grimaced] "I'm going to have to go in..." [Said, Sunset he closed his eyes and inhaled forcefully] "Ok" [Then he opened them with a look of determination and mustering all the courage he possessed he entered the ambulance].
Upon entering Sunset tried to be as far away from the body, she even made a face of disgust when she felt the smell that emanated again.
"Let's go a little more" [Sunset said with effort]
He was only a few centimeters away from getting the long-awaited first-aid kit.
Got it- AHHH DISGUSTING DISGUSTING! [Sunset screamed, altered, since when grabbing her prize the hand of the corpse had fallen on her arm, staining the section that had contact with blood and stench].
In one street there was a figure of a boy who was walking as if in a trance.
"Ah ah... brotherr"[mumbled softly in a soulless voice].
AHHH DISGUSTING DISGUSTING!
Suddenly the figure turned sharply and almost unnaturally in the direction of the source of the scream.
"Ah ah AH AH AH" [The boy began to breathe very aggressively while his chest rose and heaved as if in total euphoria] "GrrrrrRRRRR GRAAAHGGGGG" [The young man suddenly gave a scream like an animal wild and ran towards the source of the sound with surprising speed].
"ug" [Sunset groaned as she sniffed her arm] "I have to find something to clean myself before whatever it is has it sticks to me" [She looks at the medicine cabinet and tries to open it unsuccessful] "Come on.... damn... HANDS... agh" [He complained about not being able to open the package because of the complex movement he had to perform with his new limbs][ /b]
"Ah ah ah ahah ah ahah ah ah"
Sunset heard something or someone approaching, and pretty fast. She thought quickly and hid behind the ambulance and looked in the direction of the panting that was getting closer.
She saw as a being with the same structure that stopped abruptly due to the speed at which it was going and began to inspect its surroundings trying to find something. Sunset would have tried to talk to him if it wasn't for his appearance, his clothes were dirty, his skin was pale and his behavior was too strange and he didn't exude confidence, he was panting hard being able to see his chest rise and fall from a distance, his His movements were rapid, aggressive, and he suffered from what seemed like sudden spasms.
[Incomplete]
