Legend Of The Pony: The Dark Prince

The three ponies walked down the long dark lonesome road, staying cautious in case of an ambush from the Republic, sharing stories of their lives. “What exactly are the Ghosts of the Stars?” Firelight questioned, Skyrain looked to him, “Well, we are a group who has been around for thousands of years, our goal is to fulfill, or, in some cases, stop the prophecies of the Twilight Scrolls, you must be born into the Ghosts, like my father, and his father, and so on, but in special cases, we do let people join, like you, if you wish to do so?” Skyrain responded, “I would be honored” Firelight quickly said. “You know, you never told me your name” Firelight questioned the executioner with respect, the executioner responded, “I am Lucion, the mortal brother of the Dark Prince”, this alarmed Firelight, he stepped back hesitantly, “Do not fear, Firelight, Lucion is with us, he has been a part of the Ghosts for centuries, and if not for him, we would not have been prepared for The Dark Princes coming” Skyrain said stepping between Lucion and Firelight.

The group came upon a clearing in the woods, “We better rest for the night, we will be hitting the open plains soon, and we need to be at our best” Skyrain stated. The three settled in the clearing, making a campfire. As they lay out under the stars, they began to here talking, this startled them, they jumped to their hoofs, slowly backing to each other’s backs, they began to hear more talking, it seemed to come from everywhere, whispering from all corners. Firelight began to get angry, strangely, something was happening; he began to stumble as his eyes were becoming blurry, as he collapsed on the ground, Lucion and Skyrain looked back, “Firelight! Firelight! What’s wrong?” Skyrain shouted, raising his voice frantically, Firelight began to black out, seeing nothing now but white lights and strange stars, Skyrain’s voice began to fade away, “Firelight! Get up! Fire…” was the last thing he heard before his vision became black as he slipped into an unconscious state. The whispering became louder, now seeing black silhouettes coming closer, “It’s the Daed, a door is close, we must fight, or we must die” Lucion said with a determined look, the clearing was now filled with the souls of the Daed, whispering, the pair did not know what to do, knowing they needed to protect the unconscious body of Firelight, the souls now overwhelmed the two as they fought, but it was too much to handle.

As the Daed began to seemingly destroy the campsite and the pair, a blinding light shined, which stopped everything, the souls now backed up a step, Lucion and Skyrain lay on the ground bloody and beaten, they looked up to see Firelight’s body raised into the air, covered in fire, with glowing eyes, he dropped to the ground, with an astounding force, sending most of the souls backwards, still with glowing eyes, and an angry look, Firelight’s horn began to shine with fire like his body, now projecting fire from his horn destroying the souls and disintegrating them completely. In just a few minutes of fighting, Firelight destroyed all of the attacking souls.

He had stopped glowing, and was now back to his normal form, Firelight ran to Lucion and Skyrain, and helped them back to the ashes of the campfire, Firelight used his horn to light it again. He laid the two down, their injuries were not bad, just flesh-wounds, “Get some rest, I think we won’t be bothered again tonight” Firelight said to them, “What… What did you just do? What was all that fire?” Skyrain questioned Firelight in a daze, “I don’t know, we will talk tomorrow, get some rest” Firelight responded. As he lay next to the fire, he thought about what happened, it was odd to him, but it must be a form of his “gift”, he relaxed, closed his eyes, and fell asleep.

Firelight awoken to a familiar face, it was Skyrain, “Wake up, Fire. I went out and got some fresh hay, eat up… and… Thank you, we would not have survived last night if not for you. You saved our asses” he said with a sigh. Firelight arose, taking a bite of the hay Skyrain had gotten for him, “What did you do last night, you turned into some kind of fire engulfed creature” Skyrain questioned, “I do not know, it was odd, but I was aware through it all, I felt a sense of power, and… It felt good” Firelight responded, Lucion looked over with a hung head, “It is your power, you have the gift of the God’s, use it wisely, do not abuse it, you will use this power to save Ponywind” he said with passion.

With that in mind, the three headed off on the road again, it would not be long before they reached their destination. Somewhere along the road, they came upon a post in the ground, on the post was a wanted poster, showing a rough sketching of a unicorn, this unicorn was Firelight Stardust, “Damn, I must be on every wall by now… What are we gonna do when we go to a town?” he said with anger, “Don’t worry, Fire, when we get to the Ghosts, we will have your name erased” Skyrain responded to Firelight. Though Skyrain ensured Firelight of his name being erased and his innocence returned, he still had a small amount of doubt and fear in his heart.

The group arrived upon a large tree surrounded by small trees, though they seemed odd, the sides facing the large tree were burnt, Firelight paid no attention to it. Skyrain gestured for Firelight to stop. Stepping ahead, Skyrain pulled a large piece of bark from the large tree, under the bark was a hole in the tree, in the hole was a lever, Skyrain looked back to Firelight, “Welcome home” he said as he pulled the lever and the ground began to shake and open.