Once more upon the Day

When you finally regain consciousness, you open your eyes to see six familiar mares are all standing around you. They look quite worried.

"Will he be okay!?" Rarity asks, she looks the most shocked out of anypony.

"He'll be fine" Celestia replies.

"Well you better get up, sleepy head, the big party is starting!!" Pinkie Pie says.

You really have no choice but to stand up. You look around and see that there is no one else but ponies, the princesses, and the guards. This confuses you greatly.

"But...what happened?" you ask, in a shooken up state of being. You did behold quite the sight.

"I'm unsure, the guards led you into the throne room and you passed out right as you stepped through the door" Luna explains.

"But...what about...huh...what!?" is all you can muster.

"I assure you, you passed out" Celestia says.

"I had the strangest dream..." is all you can explain about it. You really don't want to go into further detail than you have to in order to get the point across.

"It's quite alright, now, shall the ceremony begin?" Luna asks. In response, Princess Celestia just nods. And then you kneel down before her. She walks towards you with her wings up. Once she is finally directly in front of you, she puts her wings down over you. She starts the dialogue of granting citizenship, a few weeks ago Twilight had explained to you that most occassions that occured at Castle Canterlot had traditional dialogue that had been done ever since the founding of Equestria.

"By the power of the sun..." Celestia starts.

"And the protection of the moon" Luna says.

"We grant you citizenship in the lands of Equestria, may you live strong and true"

As those words are spoken, they both raise their wings simultaneously and step back. You understand that it was quite short. But really there is quite a long celebration of this.

"Excuse me, I need everypony's attention" Celestia speaks in a soft voice.

"We have been honored by our guest, the first creature from quite this far away to be a citizen of our mighty and expansive empire".

"And it is a major milestone. May Equestria continue to expand and prosper!" she finishes speaking, you'd almost say she was snickering, if you didn't know better.

As Celestia finishes saying that, enormous amounts of cheering erupt from the crowd.

"Wait, what!?" you say, surprisingly loudly for yourself. You just realized, why would Celestia make such a gesture? It doesn't make sense in the slighest.

"What seems to be the problem?" Luna asks.

"Nothing, nothing at all". you have a discombobulated look on your face. For some unexplicable reason, as you say this, Luna looks at you with a smile.  Celestia gives you a look that tells you she has no idea what's wrong.

"If you need anything, don't hesitate to tell me." Celestia said reassuringly.

"I know, but something just doesn't feel right." you retort.

You look around, you suppose it might just be good to enjoy the festivities. You walk towards the Mane six, after all, they're pretty much the only group you hang out with. You've made other friends but like a lot of ponies they have jobs to do and the like. You can understand why they might not show up.

"Is something the matter?" Twilight says, she looks perplexed.

"No, nothing at all." You try to answer, it's hard to lie sometimes, even when it's a small lie, it can feel like the truth is the most tempting thing ever, but your logic will tell you otherwise. It's like those ponies eyes, especially Twilight's for some reason, can look right into your soul.

Twilight still doesn't look entirely convinced, neither do any of the others. Rainbow Dash looks particularly annoyed with your inwardness. Maybe it's more of an inconvience that she just doesn't know what you're thinking more than she can't help you. Pinkie Pie just looks like Pinkie Pie, and the only other notable one standing out is Rarity. She looks like what's ebbing her is the fact she can't help you.

"It's okay honey, I'm fine, really." You say to Rarity, you embrace her in a hug to reassure her. It doesn't appear to do much but it's a start. She kisses you and that's enough to tell you she may at least feel a little bit better about the ordeal.

You peak away from Rarity and notice Rainbow Dash looking at something in the window. The others look too, and see some kind of humanoid shape in the window. It jumps down, and tries to hide. Rainbow Dash is looking curiously.

"is that this guy you were expecting to be here?" Rainbow Dash asks you.

"I believe so, but I can't be sure, it's too dark." you say.

"Well, I'll go talk to him." Rainbow replies, she starts walking towards him, but as she walks closer, the mysterious figure walks farther away. Suddenly everyone, even the princesses are looking in that direction. He cocks his head to the side, and looks at you. This creature starts to walk closer to you. He is completely ignoring Rainbow Dash.

"Hey, who are you?" Rainbow Dash asks him, curiously.

"Hello!? I'm talking to you mister." she says, slightly annoyed.

However, he just keeps walking towards you. You try to back away, but he just keeps coming. You can't see his face, but somehow you can tell he is smiling. His pure silence is frightening in of itself. His appearance is so much that everypony else stopped the celebration to look at him.

"I have been waiting for so long....to see the one that my rival chose for this" he says.

Suddenly he teleports in front of you. You can't resist his mere strength as he grips your head, raising it up, examining it, so to speak.

"And I see you've made some friends, that's cute, really" he says.

"And what are YOU doing here!?" Luna asks, she seems angry for some reason, like this creatures presence offends her.

"Let him go." Celestia says in an affirmative voice.

As she says this, he only grips your neck tighter, raising you in the air. You can see clearly now that he looks similar to the creature in the dream, only he is black, with glowing green runes. His voice is raspy, thick, and deep.

"And why would I do that?" he replies almost directly Celestia, looking right at her.

"I am the princess of the sun, and I command you to let him go, immediatley!" Celestia says, in almost a barking tone. She seems to be offended by this creatures outwardness, like she knows something you don't.

"Cute, really." he says, mocking Celestia directly.

"Nopony disrespects the princess!" Twilight shouts. She seems really peeved by his disrespect, she really has a thing for Celestia.

"And what are you going to do about it?" he snickers at her.

"I'll, I'll, I'll....." Twilight says, as if deep in thought.

"I would have thought so, being the student of one so weak, and misguided" he says, in a voice that tells you he does not take Twilight serious in the loosest sense of the word.

At such disrespect for her friends, Rainbow Dash charges at this creature. As she does this, this entity throws you with great force against the wall of the room.

"Guards, assist Adept, and apprehend this monstrosity" Luna commands.

Rainbow chases the creature, it flees towards the balcony. Rainbow and the guards back it up towards the railing.

"You're surrounded, surrender now!" a guard barks authoritarily to the intruder.

"You'll have your chance to throw a punch at me one day, pompous fool" the thing responds. Never for a moment letting up it's mocking 'I'm better than you' tone that it has had since it's arrival.

"But today is not that day, I have no intention of going peacefully" he says.

This suggestion actually makes some ponies gasp. At this point, Fluttershy is on the floor crying. Some guards notice that you're still lying against the wall and run to your aid.

"Sir, are you alright?" one says, with a look of shock.

"I feel alright." You reply, looking at him confused. You feel no pain, but you feel like some of your memories are gone. Like you're forgetting something. The guard extends a hoof to help you. Once you regain your posture, you run towards the balcony. You look out the doors to see guards surrounding the creature. You are brushed aside as Luna walks by you. She has a snarl on her face.

Luna walks directly past the guards and Rainbow Dash. You also noticed that Twilight and Rarity were standing by your side.

"Are you alright?" Rarity asks, with a grim look on her face.

"I'm fine, thanks" you say.

"Are you sure? You're bleeding." Twilight asserts.

"I am?" you ask in bewilderment.

"Yes, but let's see what happens here, we can tend to it later." Twilight says.

You just nod in agreement, and you both get closer. You see Luna is stepping closer to this thing, by this point, Celestia herself is standing beside you. Luna walks ever closer to the creature.

"Foul abomination, why do you graze me and my sister's land with your form?" Luna says, in her Royal Canterlot voice.

"Oh, and who might you be?" the creature replies in a voice that says that he really doesn't care about what the answer to that question actually is.

"I am Luna, princess of the night, sister of Celestia, and co-ruler of Equestria. Now answer me, what are you, and why are you here!?" Luna shouts. She was being loud even for her Royal voice.

"I...am a sign of things to come, I bring you the message of the end of your reign. I have disposed of my brother, and now I wish to claim what is mine." he says, you could almost tell that he was grinning at Luna, even though his helmet completely covered him.

"You...didn't.. you did not hurt him!" Luna yells in an almost crying voice.

"Oh, you're husband wouldn't want to see you so weak, Luna" he says, laughing all the while. He puts his hand on Luna's back.

"Don't touch me you brute!" she says, at this she actually bites onto his hand. However, the armor is hard enough that Luna flinches with pain. He thinks this is hysterical, he starts to laugh quite loudly.

"Well if you're not going to arrest me..." he says looking Celestia right in the face.

"Then I guess you really are the weakest ruler of Equestria. Knowing how weak Luna is I'd assume you'd be stronger, but you really give Equestria a bad name. You haven't even done anything to stop me." he says, amused.

Celestia's horn starts glowing..

"You invade my kingdom, dispose of my sister's husband, hurt my guest, insult me and my student, disrespect me and my guards, invade my castle, and you think I'll do nothing?" Celestia says. She looks like she's still calm for some reason, even though she is practically yelling. Celestia's horn's glow grows into a large ball of energy. Suddenly the ball flies towards the creature. He laughs, as if this is what he was waiting for. He...he..he just...stands there, doing nothing. The ball hits him.

Suddenly there is a flash, and everything goes white.