Sunset in the gods

MORE THAN FIFTY YEARS AGO

Scorpan was crying lying on the ground while around him there was a city in flames.

“The council of gods only wanted one thing from you Scorpan.” Cinch said as she looked disappointedly at Scorpan. "Given the situation, they ordered me to give you a punishment that has not been given for hundreds of years."

The sky began to fill with red clouds, but Scorpan was not listening to the priestess, nor was he paying attention to the sky that was covered with more red clouds or to the humans who were trying to put out the fire in their houses, what Scorpan was seeing was the corpse of a little girl that was at the feet of her brother Tirek.

Then Cinch finishes passing sentence. "Scorpan of the Earth Faction, the council of the gods condemns you to bear the mark of wrath and all the humans of this city will be your penance."

PRESENT

Scorpan was driving the wagon out of camp until...

“Great god Scorpan, I see that you captured some humans.” A god said.

"Yes, but they don't plow anything with them, they are my prisoners." Scorpan said.

“But all the prisoners…”

“Is there something wrong?” Priestess Cinch asked.

The minor god bowed. “Sorry priestess, but the great god Scorpan was taking these humans without permission.”

The priestess looks at the cage and says. "Listen soldier, Scorpan is a god of wrath, therefore under certain conditions he can take as many human prisoners as he wishes, does he understand?" She said looking sternly at the soldier.

“As you order, priestess.” The minor god said before leaving.

“It's strange that you take some humans, especially such young humans, why?” She said with a questioning look.

“They were able to harm me in ways I never expected.”

"Oh really? Can I ask how?”

"ha ha ha! If I told you then you would never let me take them.” Scorpan replied.

Cinch looked at the humans in the cage, they were all injured and beaten but then the priestess noticed a red-haired human who was unconscious, she also noticed that her left arm was missing, Cinch could feel an energy that would be impossible to come from a human, when she was going to ask Scorpan something else a minor god interrupted them.

"Priestess! The Fallen have escaped!” The minor god shouted.

"How is that possible?! We've surrounded the place! There is no way they could have escaped!”

The god tried to calm down so he could explain. “They went to the west.”

“That is the most reinforced area.” Cinch replied.

The god spoke nervously. “They were massacred, we are still looking for survivors but we have not found any.”

“Scorpan, you can go, I have other things to worry about right now.”

“Good luck priestess.” Scorpan said goodbye before leaving. "You are lucky to be my prisoners, all the other humans who are captured will become slaves and will be sent to one of the mines." Scorpan told him.

“Then we will not be slaves again?”

“No, I have better plans for all of you.” They had no more problems leaving the camp and then Scorpan asked. “What are their names? And don't try to lie because I will know."

Sunset, with her voice still a little weak, asks Twilight to respond.

"Her names are Pinkie Pie and Applejack, they are Flash Sentry and my brother Shining Armor, I'm Twilight Sparkle and she's Sunset Shimmer."

“Sunset Shimmer...?” Scorpan was surprised again. “Maybe it's a coincidence or maybe it's not, but if you are who I think you are, then there is someone who is going to want to see you.”

TWO WEEKS LATER

After the fight against Scorpan everyone was able to recover from her injuries but Sunset couldn't move for a few days since using too much magic left her body hurt and exhausted.

"I'm almost done". Applejack said as he was carving a piece of wood.

“Are you sure it's not too much of a problem?” Twilight asks.

“It's not like there's anything else to do in here.” Applejack answered as he pointed to the cage they were all locked in. “Unless you want to play with Pinkie Pie.”

“My little eyes see something light blue.” Pinkie Pie says.

"Heaven?". Shining Armor and Flash Centry respond with very little enthusiasm.

“How is your injury?” Applejack asked Sunset.

"It doesn't look that bad." The former unicorn responded. “If I had to say something positive about losing my arm, it is that at least I no longer have the slave mark.” Sunset was actually furious but she could only suppress her anger and pretend calm.

"Oh really?!" Pinkie Pie asked surprised. "If they had cut off my arm I would be furious and crying out for revenge."

"hahaha! That's the spirit!". Scorpan said as he drove the cart. “For a moment I thought you would be more depressed but from what I notice you are very cheerful in your own way.”

Applejack wanted to ignore the god so she tried to change the subject. “Sunset... What exactly did you do during the fight?”

“Well, try to save them.” Sunset responded as if he were the most obvious thing in the world. "And i did it...". Sunset looks at the cage and sighs. "more or less".

“You know what I mean, you made the environment lose color and for a short period of time you were able to contain a god.” Applejack said.

“Please do not interrogate his majesty.” Twilight interrupted sternly. “Whether she thinks it is necessary to tell us or not is her decision.”

“But we all know that she has that strange power that she always practiced and suddenly...”.

“I don't know what happened exactly.” Sunset usually didn't care about others' arguments but given her situation she had to avoid arguments in the group. “What I can tell you is that the loss of color was something I never expected.”

"It's called 'monochromatic'." The god said, not caring that he was getting into the conversation. "It is a divine power that drains the strength of everything that the user considers an enemy, but for a human to use a divine power is supposed to be impossible, also what you did was something slightly different, it was not a divine power, I would say that It is a kind of imitation, and only All Master has that divine power.”

“Great god Scorpan, what exactly do you want from us? Why did he take pity on us? Twilight asked, trying not to offend the god.

“What makes you believe I had mercy?” the god asked. “All living beings fight to survive, I like humans with a great force of determination who fight to survive, bringing them with me was not an act of mercy, I only give them a second chance to challenge me, that's why they must become stronger... .”. Scorpan looks at Sunset. “If they achieve it, they will be able to continue living.”

“And where are we headed exactly?” Sunset asked.

“To the City of Beasts.”

Sunset noticed that everyone remained silent due to the god's response. "What's going on? Do you know what that place is?” Everyone except the god looked at Sunset, surprised by his ignorance. The former unicorn remembered that Velvet and Discord were not there to clarify some things for her and that she should have been more cautious with his questions.

“I guess it's normal that some people don't know.” Applejack said as she continued carving the piece of wood. “It's supposed to be a story for children to behave well, Granny Smith once told me a story…”

"HISTORY!!". Pinkie Pie shouted excitedly and sat down to listen.

Applejack ignored the interruption and continued. “More than fifty years ago there was a city in the middle of the desert, the original name of the city was lost a long time ago but today it is known as The City of Beasts.”

“Wow!!, it gave me chills.... say it again!” Pinkie said, but a look from Applejack hinted that he didn't want any more interruptions. "sorry".

“The city was very prosperous as it was a crucial point if one wanted to cross the desert, the governor of the city was a god who was kind and generous with humans, but the god became too close with humans, but the actions The god's benevolent actions angered the council of the gods and the order was given to punish the god and the humans who lived in the city.

"Why?" Pinkie asked, getting a little sad at the story.

“They had to set an example.”

“Granny Smith told me the same thing when she told me the story, but continuing, the god's punishment was to become the first god of wrath, which drove him mad, by extension the entire city was cursed, turning humans into wild beasts, Their bodies are no longer of this world and their souls were condemned to suffer until the god redeemed himself from his sin and to calm the maddened humans all the gods of wrath fed them with criminals that other cities handed over.”

“Did it happen like that?” Pinkie Pie asked Scorpan.

Everyone was scared by the daring way in which Pinkie spoke to the god.

"Mostly, yes". Scorpan responded without caring. "But we don't only take criminals, as long as they are powerful humans...."

So they continued in silence the rest of the day.

It had been a month since the attack on the Fallen camp, a month since Scorpan had captured a small group of humans who had put up a good fight.

For a while they tried to plan how to escape, but they realized that it was impossible to escape in the state they were in, so they decided not to make any effort and just focus on recovering.

“Finally!” Applejack said with satisfaction as she finished carving, “Sunset, is your shoulder healing okay?”

“Yeah, my body always heals fast.” Sunset answered, but Twilight was taken aback by the answer. “It looks good.”

“Let me adjust it for you.” Applejack says as she adjusts her arm. “Good thing our jailer didn’t mind me having a knife, carving this prosthetic helped me relax during the trip.”

“I’ll help you.” As Twilight and Applejack adjusted the wooden prosthetic Sunset couldn’t stop thinking about what they would do next.

After training with the Fallen, Sunset was supposed to head to Canterlot where they would have to find Night Light to plan the recovery of Equestria from this world. Sunset knew that crossing the mirror was a gamble into the unknown but meeting another version of herself who would give her her own identity made some things easier for her but she never liked the fact that it was all part of a plan based on Discord's divination. Now he had to plan how to escape from a god who seems to be impossible to kill.

Kill... Sunset never thought she would use that word lightly, she still remembers when Grampa Gruff told her war stories and the times the princess told her about the chaotic ancient era of ponies, Sunset wondered how far she would go to achieve her own ambitions, using all that magic hurt her too much, but she also realized that if she could use her 'royal voice' then she could use other complicated spells, she just had to find a way to use magic safely.

Sunset starts touching her forehead and whispers. “I miss my horn.” Sunset noticed that everyone was suddenly looking at her, maybe everyone heard what she said? The former unicorn got worried. “Was it something I said?”

“I see I see something absolutely strange.” Pinkie said surprised.

“Pinkie, we told you we didn't want to play anymore!” Flash complained who was trying to take a nap while Shining Armor had just woken up and was surprised by what he saw.

“Your majesty, what is happening to you?” Twilight's brother asked.

Then Sunset lowers her hands from her forehead without realizing that she was touching her forehead with both of her hands.