I was falling and floating at the same time, that was all I felt when it happened.
I was just your average teenage girl – with a few minor details – and a grand endeavor and dreams. I wanted to become a Princess!
Raised by my mentor to one day succeed her, only to have all that ripped away in the blink of an eye. I wanted to prove to her that I was worthy of succeeding her, and so I ran away. Coming to a world unlink any I’ve witness before, where creatures walked on their hindlegs and survive without the use of magic.
Spending years amongst these creatures, I rose towards the top of the ladder and ruled the school with an iron fist, one day to reclaim what was rightfully mine to begin with and I would stop anyone-pony who dared got in my way.
And after nearly succeeding, stealing the crown with limitless power that could change me into a princess, I had it all within the palm of my hands – hooves – till that goody-two-shoe Princess pet ruined everything!
Twilight Sparkle – my mentor’s failed replacement of me – came running through the mirror where I ruled and managed to get everyone to band together again and formed broken friendships that took me years to break. And together with her so-called friends, Rarity, Fluttershy, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, and Pinkie Pie they challenged my rule and tried to stop me from claiming MY crown.
And when I managed to grasp the item I long seek, placing it on my head where it rightfully belonged. Darkness took hold, I felt power I never knew existed, it was so exhilarating, enticing, and addictive. I felt truly alive after all those years, baring my wings and horn like the Princess I knew I always was.
Just as I was about to claim my triumphant return of Equestria and in taking the throne, Twilight had somehow managed to regain her magic power along with her human friends and summoned a rainbow laser beam that struck me.
I felt a searing pain as my body begun to dissolve into particles. Till all was left, was nothing.
Four months after the event with the Fall Formal had Canterlot School returned to normal, with everyone now venturing on through the hallways with cheer and laughter.
When Sunset Shimmer was defeated and disappeared, there was nothing left for anyone to fear; or at least that was how it should’ve been.
‘AAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!’ A scream echoed the halls, a young boy was screaming as he ran pass the other students to get away from whatever had him freaked out.
Two girls sat on the side gave witness to the scene with concerns, "That there was the third one this month, Shy. Ah'm gettin' a tad worried 'bout what's got everyone's britches all up in a tizzy." Applejack said.
Fluttershy stood next to her with a nervous shake in her posture, nodding to what the farmer had to say, “I hope he’ll be okay.” She said barely above a whisper.
The two prepared to departer to their next class, "Well, I reckon he'll pull through, but I'm mighty concerned 'bout what's got 'em all riled up like that. What with Sunset gone and such, there ain't nothin' left to fret 'bout, or so ya'd think."
Heading off towards their classes, the two girls were unaware of a mysterious shadow that kept a close watch on them. ‘Your time’s almost up, Applejack and Fluttershy.’ It spoke with a hollowed whisper.
Applejack couldn’t help but concern herself with what happened before class; in the middle of Algebra – her least favorite subject she might add – she couldn’t help but wonder about the start of this rumor of some ghostly whisper that started after the Fall Formal.
Every student that went screaming in terror were asked what they were running from and the whole thing would range from silly things like feeling like being watched to hearing laughter in an empty room. They started making some strange tale that Sunset’s ghost were haunting this school and seek vengeance on anyone and everyone.
But that was just crazy! Out of everyone in the whole school she would held a vengeance towards were her and her friends – and maybe Flash Sentry – but none of her friends noticed anything unusual or heard some strange voice.
‘If'n we could only find a way to reach out to Twi, reckon we might uncover if there's any magic lingerin' 'round that school causin' all this peculiar fuss.’ She thought, but with the portal now closed for who know how long, they were on their own with this mystery.
Her mind couldn’t help but wander back to that night when she and her friends along with Twilight were able to face against the demon once known as Sunset.
Standing before them was a winged demon with skin scorched red and hair like fire, her torn bat wings fluttered her in the air as she glared down like a predator about to pounce on its’ prey.
“Please, what exactly are you going to do to stop me?” she mocked Twilight, preparing her invasion on the other world, “I have magic, and you have NOTHING!” she yelled with fiery rage.
Rainbow Dash stepped forward to stand beside Twilight against Sunset Shimmer, “She has us!” she called out with triumphant determination. Sparking the rest of us to follow suite.
Sunset glared at us as we joined by Twilight’s side before quickly falling to a laughter, “I see, the gang is really all back together again.” She laughed, before summoning a fireball in her hands, “Now step aside, Twilight has tried to interfere with my plans one too many times already!” and sent the thing hurling at us.
We rushed towards together to shield one another in the oncoming threat, or at the very least go out together as friends. Only to find we were protected by the magic within Twilight’s crown. And when we all gained pony ears and extended hair – As Dash, Shy, and Twi all gaining wings – we created a magical laser beam of rainbow that shot towards Sunset Shimmer.
When we headed on over towards a newly formed crater where Sunset stood moments ago, we were expecting to find her in it. Only to see it was empty except for the rubbles and debries of the ground that once stood there.
“Where’d she go?” Twilight asked in concern, looking around for any traces of the girl. Only to find no one around or for any way for her to had escaped without anyone noticing.
All the other students had returned back to normal from their brainwashing, and Snip and Snail were back to their human self.
“This doesn’t make any sense; she couldn’t have just disappeared.” Twilight said.
We’ve spent nearly the entirety of the school dance to look for the girl, only to find no trace nor hair of her before it was time for Twilight to leave on back through the portal.
About two weeks after the whole incident, that was when the rumors started popping up around the school. Everyone first thought the first few were just paranoid or pulling some sick prank, but as the months kept coming and more and more people kept talking about the strange things happening, we started to take notice and tried looking into it, thinking maybe Sunset had hidden herself somewhere while causing some cruel prank as revenge. But we were unable to succeed, every lead we got were met with dead ends and nothing but an empty janitor closet, places where she would’ve been able to escape without anyone spotting her.
Magic became our next guess, but Twilight had told us before leaving that she would be taking back the magic with her, so there couldn’t have been any way it was magic.
Even with the help of Principle Celestia and Vice-Principle Luna, we were unable to find the cause of these rumors.
‘Sunset, y'all still out there? And if ya are, where in tarnation are ya?’ I wonder.
Author's Note
Hey everyone, wanted to write this as a means of returning ~
I know many of you are wanting me to return to my stories and I'm really wanting to as well since I've got some good ideas but right now am dealing with writer's block on some parts.
This idea came while listening to the song Star. This wont be a Sci-Set love story, or any romance at all. I got some really haunting ideas I want to try and write as it will help me with some later work in the other stories I already have published and more I have in mind.
- A side note, I will make mention that I'm not good at Southern Accent so I cheated. Using AI to translate an already written (My) English text to Southern English (Those Fun Translator sites are trash in my opinion) so if there is anything wrong with Applejack's speech, that's why.
I wrote everything myself, I only cheated in translating.
