Exiled

As I opened my eyes- oh, interesting, this new body has eyes! The first thing I saw was a bright green canopy of leaves, bright sunrays shining through it. The joy of being alive again was an indescribable feeling. I stood up and looked down. Four legs, apparently hooves at the end. I looked around. I was in a dense forest, but something was strange. Everything seemed… brighter than home. I shrugged it off and started moving in a random direction. The forest was beautiful, the birds were chirping, everything seemed so peaceful. I stopped at a small pond, with some woodland critters drinking from it. They eyed me curiously, but they didn’t run away. Strange, animals at home were shy, these apparently not. Anyway, I looked in the pond and eyed my reflection. I was a horse. A pony, to be more precise. You might think I was shocked, but it took more than that to shock a being that lived as long as I did. My coat was deep black, my mane spikey and black too. My eyes were the only thing that hadn’t changed. They were of the same deep blue as a crevasse ready to swallow you. But they didn’t glow anymore. Sad, I liked that. On my ass, or flank, now that I was a horse, was a picture of my Kanohi, the Kanohi Kraahkan. The Kanohi of darkness. In my life on Spherus Magna it had granted me the ability to control the darkness, and to toy around with the feelings of my enemies. Not all feelings, I could only make them angry or terrified. It was pretty useful in combat. I shrugged of the thoughts of home and continued walking.
Some minutes later, my attention was caught by a scream. “Stay away, you ruffians” it commanded, in a female voice, to be more precise, a ladylike female voice. I turned my head to the origin of it. I was greeted by the view of a clearance, and on it a picnic blanket. On the blanket stood two member of my new race. One of them was yellow, with a pink mane, curled together in a weeping and shaking ball of fear. The other one, apparently the owner of the voice, had a cream white fur and an elegant purple mane. She had three diamonds on her flank. She was trying to fight three bipedal dog-like beings of with a stick of bread. The dogs didn’t seem really impressed by that. One of them wielded a crude spear. That one was my main target. I had the element of surprise and thousands of years of fighting experience on my side. The three dogs seemed pretty stupid, but you should never judge an enemy by its exterior appearance. So I sneaked up in the high grass behind the one with the spear, jumped and knocked him out cold with a swift punch on his neck. I dropped down and picked up the spear, rolling under the paws of the second dog who was trying to catch me. He received a nice strike with the dull end of the spear for that, knocking him out too. As I turned around, the third one had picked up the yellow one and used her as shield. “Don’t do stupid” he told me in an angry voice. “Let her down and I promise not to kill you” He simply threw his head back and laughed. That was what I indented. He held the pony in front of his chest, leaving his throat exposed. I leaped and threw the spear. It pierced his throat, cutting of the gust of laughter. His dead body fell to the floor, the yellow one to the ground in front of him, still crying. Her friend rushed over to her and held her, trying to comfort her. “Shhhh, Fluttershy, its over” she told her in a quiet voice. Then, she looked up to me.
“Thank you so much for saving us from these stupid diamond dogs, Mister…” “Teridax” I replied.
“I’m Rarity, and this is Fluttershy” The yellow one lifted her head, fear in her eyes. I looked in her eyes and told her in a calm voice: “It’s okay, I won’t hurt you”. She looked to the ground and kept weeping. “You must forgive her, she is quiet the scared nature.” Rarity told me. “Then we better get her away from here, I assume there is a settlement nearby?” “Yes, Ponyville, our home” she replied as she helped her friend up and led her away from the corpse. “Wait somewhere nearby, and make sure not to turn around, I must… take care of the rest”. Rarity turned her head around “You won’t kill, them, will you?” I shot her a stern glare. “And what would you suggest? Leave them out here, unpunished, seeking for revenge?” She seemed to think about it, the turned round and led Fluttershy away. I took the spear and sliced the remaining dog’s throats. I threw the spear away and ran after Fluttershy and Rarity.
We walked in silence for some time, until Rarity spoke up, obviously nervous “And, where are you from, Teridax?” She feared me, I heard that. Maybe they weren’t used to killing. “Listen, Rarity, I know that for some reason you fear me, but I assure you, the rightful don’t need to fear me.” “Well, Darling, I’m just not used to… killing, so I assume that’s the cause.” She gave me a forced smile. I sighed, and nodded. It was like that back home, the small folk always feared the Members of the brotherhood for our… rather direct methods of punishment. “Too answer your question, Rarity, I’m from a lovely Tropical Island” Her expression lighted up immediately “Oh, with pure white sand beaches and Palm trees?” she asked rather excited. “Yes, just like that”. “OH, it must have been wonderful, darling!” My expression grew sorrowful as I thought about home. Yes, indeed it was…”
Fluttershy had stopped to weep at my tale of home. “With lots of animals?” Fluttershy asked. “Yes indeed, we had hummingbirds and monkeys and turtles…” as I started to talk about animals, Fluttershy’s Expression lighted up, too. “Oh look darling, we arrived” Rarity interrupted me, “I present you: Ponyville!”