I am alone.
All of my life, my brothers and sisters have left momentous of themselves. Alpha, leaving a sundial, Zeta, a bowl. Others leave behind parts of themselves, but me. I am the last, and I am alone to walk the world unknowing yet knowing it's changing around me. It's confusing, and I wish Delta was here, he would explain so much and yet so little. Theta, was a child but we got along. She was shy too, and then there's Omicron. He was brash, bold and a show off, always doing something to make himself noticed, and always making a scene. I was born last, but made the strongest, I could break trees with a kick and make craters in the ground with every step I took.
That is who I was, not who I am now. Alpha was first to be born... he was first, but weak while someone like Pi would be in-between us, not first but not last, and not strong but not weak. He would be normal... other than rambling numbers on, and on. He can be funny like that sometimes. But... that's enough reminiscing, now for how it became just me. We were attacked. No, attacked is not the right word, 'Slaughtered' is a more appropriate word. They came like wolves stalking a deer, how they knew we were here, I don't know but they found us. I was only a mere foal then, I didn't have my cutie mark, but it wasn't long for them to kill my brothers and sisters. I coward in the corner of our cave, and they came to get me and until I saw a light from outside did they stop.
She came in, the embodiment of the sun herself. I threw myself on the ground hoping she would show mercy. I heard her horn ignite and I heard a sharp ring. She had pulled a sword. My tears stained the ground and my coat. She held the sword high and it before she could strike, she dropped the sword and gasped. I looked up at her, realizing she had just adjusted to the dark of the cave, she knelt, and caressed me, and asked me my name.
"My name is Omega," I said to her, and she caressed again saying how sorry she was. I was shocked, and scared, and angry, all these feelings and I didn't know what to. So I did the next best thing. I charged my horn, and ran outside, wrapped a tree with my magic, and tore it out of the ground. The tree was strong and stiff, the bark creaking with every move. I slammed the tree back in the ground and turned back to the princess as she wore a sad smile, and worry in her eyes. Her face went to one of empathy, to one of surprise when I saw her eyes turn to my flank. There was my cutie mark, an 'Ω'. An omega symbol, and I knew what it meant... I am alone.
Omega is the last letter in the Greek-ponies alphabet, and it means 'The Last.' All my siblings had their marks after them. I was the last of my brothers and sisters, and a great fury came over me. I saw the princess come to me, and my vision went red seeing all the possibilities of pain I could inflict on her. But I was only a colt, nothing more, nothing less. I cried doing the only thing I could do, ran to her.
"I hate you! I hate you so much!" I yelled as I cried in her chest. She understood my pain and sadness, and stroke my white coat. My tears stained her pale coat, and my rage dwindled and I just kept crying, crying was I could do from that point on.
50 years later
I am still alone.
The guards look at me, with great distaste and an angry look in their eyes. I don't blame them, they're loyal to the princess, as am I. They are her personal guard, as am I. We are her friends... but I am not there's. Many of them look down me, say that I was a mistake. A failure, and a stain on the beautiful nation of Equestria. I know its not true and it doesn't phase me, until one day... they came to me differently.
"So, it looks like Omega has a test to do if he wants to move up from a normal guard to a personal guard!" Scabbard said as he look over my shoulder. A smile, a sinister smile, on his face told me to be alert. I looked at him and turned away my whole body silently telling him I didn't have anything to do with him. His brother, Short Sword, was on the other side of the table in the commons, looking at me with a almost intrigued look. Almost. Scabbard came from behind and took the sheet from under me.
I looked up to see his smile even wider as he took the paper in his hooves, and ripped it in half.
"Sorry 'Mega, looks like you'll have to start all over," He laughed and his brother soon joined. I felt something in my head, a voice almost.
"Get them," It had said. No, no I am not a betrayer.
"Kill them," It said. While Scabbard and Short Sword were laughing, they looked over at me. Short Sword had me by the throat while Scabbard came to me.
"Get. Out. Of the guard." He said with a type of anger in his tone. I knew the tone, it was the one the voice had used. My horn ignited with a red allure. Normally, the magic color of the horn is the same as the pony's eyes, however my eyes are blue, while my magic is red. I grabbed Short Sword, and threw him off of me. Scabbard looked over at his brother, to see he was still fine. He then, as I tried to escape, hit me in the face. I saw a color that I had not seen in over, 43 years.
Blood.
The thoughts came back to me as I fell to the ground. Others guards who had heard the slam of my body came rushing to see the blood pour from my nose. My eyes opened to find Scabbard and Short Sword standing over me, and he once again hit me in the face.
"Get out of here! We don't want a-" He said but was cut off...
...by the cutting of his own throat. He gagged on the blood seeping from his neck and I stood over him. He looked at me with fear in his eyes.
"I will save you," I said in a whisper only he and I could hear. "But you have to promise not to say that word," I said as he nodded his head in a rush spraying blood all over my face, I smiled and looked at the crowd.
"He is not able to save, let him be..." I said as he gagged in refusal. I smiled and him and gave him advise for the afterlife.
"No deed goes unpunished," I said as the life in his eyes slowly faded and he slumped into a lifeless husk. I sighed and took his body in my magic and made way to the Princess. After I had told what had happened, she arranged a funeral for Scabbard, and all would attend. Friends, family, loved ones, all he knew would come to mourn him. But not me. I requested that I not attend for I had business to do in a town near by. She understood and had me leave the body in her possession.
As I roam Canterlot, I noticed a white unicorn and lavender filly by his side.
"Shining, when are we going home?" She whined and he rolled his eyes.
"After we get the milk from the store. It wont take long," He said as she jumped up on his neck. For a filly, she was nimble. I got an idea, a great idea.
"Hey!" I said as the both turned to me. The shared a nervous glance and began walking to me.
"I noticed that the little filly could jump, and was wondering what she would like to do when she got older," I said as they mentally sighed a breath of relief. She jumped from the stallions neck and the ground.
"When I grow up, I want a library!" She said as she pulled a book from his saddle bags. The book read, 'Canterlot Librarian'. It was a book on how to be a librarian, a smart filly and a strong brother.
"Tell me then, what do want to be when your older?" I asked the white stallion. He tapped his chin in thought and came up with an answer.
"The Royal Guard, like you," He said his voice speaking true for all those to hear. I smiled and took my helmet off my head. I placed it on his as he looked at me with a confused look.
"Go, there's a spot open and... I am not fit to be in the guard. Whats your name?" I asked as he shook his head out of the shock he was in. He told me his name was Shining Armor, a fine name and a strong one at that. He then asked me mine, I told him it was not important.
"Okay, Not Important," He said as a smile came to my face. I laughed. I had never laughed before and now, I know what it feels like. He shook my hoof and walked away, the helm still on his head. I smiled warmly as I walked to the stand outside a restaurant.
"Excuse me?" I said as teal blue mare came up. "I was wondering, where do those two live?" I asked as I pointed a hoof at the pair before they disappeared in the store. She looked at them and thought for minute or two before giving an answer.
"They live at the Canterlot Library. Shining Dusk and his wife live there as well as there children," She said with a smile before it faltered and she looked down. "Not now Trixie, later alright?" She asked as the little blue filly ran inside. She sighed and I thanked her for the information. I mailed the rest of my armor to the library and as soon as i shed myself of that armor I went to the princess telling her to give me and honorable discharge. What she did gave me a feeling, a feeling that I did not know until now
I was happy...
During the slaughter I escaped and ran for my life, leaving my sons and daughters behind. I am a horrible father, but it is all I can do, for I am the beginning, I am Alpha, and this is how I survived that day.
50 Years Ago
They came to us, followed me and wife, Horizon, to the cave where we hid for a millennium and killed us. As an alicorn, I cannot die, but to maintain balance, only three alicorns are permitted life, and including me... there are four. Only an alicorn can kill another, and it was either me or Celestia... my first born. As my name say's I am Alpha, which means the beginning and my first wife, was a lovely alicorn named Faust. We loved each other like a bumble bee loves a flower, and when we had Celestia, I left her for the good of myself and her.
75 Years Later
I am... lost I cannot find my way back to the southern forest and I must do the one thing every male despises...
*Knock-Knock-Knock*
"Hel-" The purple unicorn stuttered.
"Hello, I was wondering do you know the way to the Southern Forest?" I said in a polite voice. As her eyes roll to the back of her head and faints, I sigh and pick her up in my magic and bring her inside. I am very careful with mares, making sure they are never uncomfortable. As I walk a little dragon looks over his shoulder, looks me up and down before going back to his books. Give or take in a few minutes after reading he would hot on my trail, but I did say a few minutes.
Looking at the young mare infront of me I can't help but to think of my darling daughter Iota...how we laughed together each day. Now she is most likely dead, along with my last child Omega...his heart will be here as I travel a world I have not explored. I set the young mare down on her bed and watch over her, her chest rising slowly up and down. My horn ignites and I touch her forehead and I tell her my story of my many years of life.
As she rests on the bed I can see a tear come to her eye, I wipe it away and pet her mane.
"Shhh... I'll be fine..." I whisper to her and shakes her head while in her sleep.
"How can somepony do that? Why..." She asks as my spell fades and I leave her to her thoughts, But not without doing one thing first. I lean down and give her a small kiss, not a long minute lasting kiss, but a small one. My lips move away from her's and I walk away to the door but not without being stopped first.
"What is your name..." She asks getting up from her bed, I look down at her and smile.
"My name, is Alpha, and I want you to remember me and my sons and daughters, my wives and...well you already know one of my daughters..." I said as my horn lit a vibrate rainbow of colors before I wink out of existence, leaving only the unicorn who stood there confused and wondering, what I had meant when I told her these things.
Frozen North
"Sombra! Leave at once!" I shout as the shadow cloud draws nearer. Green and red eyes greet me along with a faint laugh.
"Alpha... its been to long..." Sombra says as he manifests a artificial form of his former self. He stares at me with a vengeance if not anything else. I was once the high concealer for him and I told him that he did not stop his ways, he would only find corruption and be defeated. He only laughed at my warning, but here he is now, a shadow of himself.
"Sombra, I told you to change you ways, to change how you acted, but did you?" I said gesturing at him. He only looked down at himself and cast his gaze downward. Sombra muttered something I couldn't hear and reformed his shadowy ruse.
"I do not wish to fight an alicorn...but please Alpha, leave me be..." He said, a hint of sadness in his eyes. I nodded and winked out again leaven the former unicorn behind in his icy prison.
"I only wish... to be happy again..." Sombra said as he too winked out and made his way around his icy prison.
