Prince Constel

by WriterofFantasy

Rating: teen
Tags: Dark
Length: 1395

Far future. Long-forgotten Prince Constel's inner struggle between love, and power-lust.

Prince Constel, brother to Celestia, and Luna, the one who truly holds the stars in the sky, turned vampiric from his escape from the prison in the moon with his father has fallen in love with Sapphire Shine, the last pony he must devour's soul, from a distance, and must choose between his love for the young colt, and his desire to gain enough power to release his father from their once-shared prison, and rule the world alongside him.
The bloodlines of the main 6 have all ended, save Twilight Sparkle's, and if he kills Sapphire, the last of the bloodline will fall, and he will have the raw power of the Elements of Harmony, and be able to corrupt them into Elements of Hatred. Giving him the power to release King Dark.
The reason for the gore warning is that in every numbered chapter, not the prologue, there will be an instance of what I can only describe as cannibalism, as Constel kills, devours the soul, and then feeds off of the flesh of a pony, to survive until another night.

Published 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Last updated 2012-11-10 22:30:46 UTC

Prologue: 'History of Equestria' to this day

Once upon a time, before there were cutie marks, there were only two beings.

The true unicorns: Dark, and Light. They flew upon their wings, bright, and shadowed. They were all in the emptiness, and the magic.

They lived in harmony, and, yet, in discord.

They did very little together, only truly building land, and the stars.

They only bore two children together, Luna, and Celestia. Bearing resemblance only to their parents, King Dark, and Queen Light.

The fighting continued though, and in the battles between king and queen, creatures were created, the dragons, the draconequus, the changelings and more.

The world filled with life, and yet, it was eternally twilight.

Soon the two fought, and the young princesses chose the side of their mother, Queen Light, and helped her to seal their father in the form of the moon itself, hanging in the sky, creating night.

Then, drained of power, Queen Light told her children that they must keep the night from lasting too long, as it would release him from his prison, and she wouldn't be able to help them seal him away once more.

Her body faded away, and glowed with the purest golden light. That light floated into the sky, and condensed into the sun, creating day to balance the night.

The young princesses, Celestia, and Luna, still did not truly understand the world, and set forth to find the answer to why they were there.

Soon, as the night ruled around, and they found the moon emanated a deep blue glow, Luna raised her head to the sky, and opened her wings wide, summoning an ancient power, given to her by her father, to control the darkness, and shrunk it away, forcing the moon lower in the sky to end the night. Celestia, copied her sister's motion, summoning a power granted by her mother, to control the light, and lifted the sun to bring forth day.

They had discovered their purpose, to fulfill their mother's dying wish, to keep their father from escaping his prison above.

They gathered beings that looked most like them, and granted them names,

Earth ponies, Pegasus ponies, and Unicorn ponies. They then gave their own kind a new name, the Alicorn, being the only children of the original, winged unicorns.

Soon a palace was built in the center of a dense, but peaceful forest, named Everfree, to symbolize the freedom of those who lived on their land.

They kept this balance going for centuries, growing steadily wiser, but appearing not to age, though their subjects would die all too quickly, replaced by new ones in a turning of generations.

Before long a young  draconequus decided he didn't like the way the land was, and used his power to create chaos, and discord. His true name was lost in time, but he is known to this very day, as Discord. He brought the sun and moon out of the sisters' control, and held them both in the sky, before making rain spurt from the ground, and fall onto the clouds. The roads were turned into quicksand, and fires burned dark, and cold, while snow burned at the touch. His laugh echoed for a century, until the sisters discovered six unique crystals, that reflected six traits that brought about peace, and harmony: Honesty, Kindness, Laughter, Generosity, Loyalty, and Magic. They harnessed these 'Elements of Harmony' and trapped Discord in a small box, with no apparent way to be released.

Almost two millennia passed from that moment, and the two sisters left their land, as the people warred, to ask for the help of ethereal creatures, known as Windigo. They begged them turn the world colder if the ponies continued fighting amongst one another.

The century echoed on, and the tension drew thicker. And soon the world was coated in snow, even though the sun still shone above in the day. The ponies sorted their differences out on their own this time, and soon all was well once more. The kingdom was then granted a new name, Equestria.

They gave kingdoms to demi-alicorns, children of not the original winged unicorns, but of pegasi and unicorn ponies. Those kingdoms surrounded Equestria, and they moved the capitol of this central kingdom out of the forest, and to the top of a high mountain, so they could watch over the land and protect it.

Luna, though, soon grew jealous of her sister's day, and how she was adored by all, beautiful, with flowing mane. She looked to the moon, and asked it if she could be given the love her sister was, and a voice, familiar, but forgotten, echoed in her mind, “Let the night continue on, the moon in the sky, and should it last through a year alone, left there, I shall be free, and grant you the power of darkness...” She listened to this voice, and tried to keep the moon in the sky above, but her sister remembered her mother's words, and knew what she had to do to keep granted their mother's dying wish. She grabbed the Elements of Harmony, and banished her sister to the same prison where their father was to be forever kept, for a thousand years, to understand why she must not free the evil, fanged creature.

Celestia then had to summon upon her dark blood, and raise and set the moon as well as the sun. She grew wiser through this age, than any being before.

When the thousand years passed, Luna, then controlled by the darkness tried to drag the world into eternal night once more, when a disciple of Celestia gathered her friends and forced the darkness from Nightmare Moon. Luna was released from the darkness for eons more, Discord was imprisoned eternally in stone after escaping, and an evil unicorn was destroyed and an empire of the arctic north saved.

This is the history as the citizens of their country understand...

But as time goes on, blessings will turn into curses, and all light must fade into darkness, as all darkness must dissolve into light.

This is far since the time of Twilight Sparkle and the Ponies of Harmony, as they were named only a few thousand years ago.

And I, the third, forgotten, child of Dark and Light, must return my father to the world. I escaped the moon, and pay a price for it, needing to feed off the souls of ponies near. Vimera Pyra, 'Vampire'. That is what I am. My name? Constel, I am the only son of King Dark and Queen Light. I sided with father, but knew better than to appear at the final battle, I hid in a small cave. When father was imprisoned, I was not, and when mother was gone, I had shown myself to the light, but could not stand how it lasted, so I raised the moon into the sky, and forced the sun down.

I was the one who was denied the time needed to give the world to King Dark, and locked, weakly, in the moon for it. I was the one who whispered sweet lies into my sister, Luna's ear. I was the one who brought forth Nightmare Moon, by breaking boundaries within her subconscious, and escaped with her when she returned to the world. Twilight was trying to prove my existence when she...

Disappeared...

Her soul was my feast that night, and I was happy to dine upon such a pure one.

That was ages ago, and her bloodline still stretches into this era. Not through her, she took a vow of chastity, but her brother.

She is the only one whose bloodline survives, and once I end all the bloodlines that spawned the Spirits of Harmony, I will gain power enough to refuse my sister's attempts to bring the sun back into the sky, and lower the moon, so that my father can return, and with him, the power of true darkness.

I just have one left to devour, a young colt, Sapphire Shine.

His soul will be mine...

And I Constel, Prince Constel, with help of my dragon of jet-black scales, Nightshade, will be the second in power from only my father.

Or perhaps that is what I would have said, had I not fallen in love with the colt I was to kill.