Chapter 1: A picnic interrupted.

It was dark. Not the kind of dark that night would hold but the absence of everything kind of dark. It was a void. My body-less mind floated through the darkness uninterrupted. Clearly with nothing else to do I had an abundant amount of time to think, so I began to talk to myself.

"Who am I?" I asked.

After about ten seconds of silence I felt rather silly as I realized I was expecting an answer. But in truth I had forgotten.

"Did I ever even know?" I thought to myself unsure of the answer.

My memories were blurry at best. At that moment my head disagreed with the idea of trying to remember by giving me a slight migraine. As my head swam in disapproval I frowned, or at least what I think paced for a frown in this black space. It was dark and now that I was done thinking it was cold too.

It was a beautiful day in Equestria. The sun that princess Celestia brought up every morning beamed with warm, there was just enough cloud cover to keep the temperatures pleasant, and the birds were singing. All in all, a pretty average day in Equestria. The inhabitants of this land were pleasantly going about there happy lives. In a small town know as "Ponyville" Twilight was overlooking her list of what she was to do today.

Today's list was more of a reminder than her usual tick off list because the only real big thing she was doing today was going on a picnic. But what made this picnic special was that was not just with the elements of harmony and Spike. Oh no a new pony known as "Octavia" was coming. In fact she even offered to set everything up before they arrived. She even said she would convince her loud room mate "Vinyl" to come along insisting "She could use a relaxing environment every once and awhile."

Not only did Twilight think this would be fun, she considered it to be a wonderful opportunity to make more friends. She got so joyful at the thought of making new friends she started to bounce up and down like Pinkie Pie. After a moment she regained he composure and called upstairs "Spike take care of the library while I'm gone."

After a few seconds the small purple dragon came down the stairs with a face of pure excitement. Clearly just as happy about the picnic as twilight. With that Twilight happy trotted out the door.

Despite how my head protested I still probed for my lost memories. Thankfully the effort was not entirely fruitless. But what I had uncovered was not all that pleasant. Although most of what I had remembered were just images of places I had seen they were all along the lines of destroyed cities, and battlefields. There was not a single image of a nice place like a green meadow or even a warm home. However when I uncovered these fragments of my memories I strangely felt nothing for them.
My lack of emotion caused me to feel slightly sad, but after a short moment I smiled at having the sad feeling.

But images of places were the first things I found the last thing I had found was a Clear image of myself. I had finally found out what I had looked like. As if on cue I could feel something materialize around my body less soul. The physical shape of a body filled the dark space around me, and to my surprise was under my control. I contracted my muscle in my arms bringing them to my fave to confirm what my memory had shown. I gazed at my arms crystal like composition in awe. My hands consisted of 5 fingers that ended in a talon like manor and were completely composed of this glass like material. I say glass like because it was only slightly transparent if I focused really hard, but it seemed to more like mirrors reflecting my face. That brought me to my second observation. My head consisted of two blue dimly lit eyes and no mouth. I mentally frowned at this discovery but continued to look over my body. I was wearing a brown leather trench coat that had additional leather padding on the shoulders and fore arms. As i looked down the coat i notices i was not wearing a shirt under it as it was open, but I did spot a pear of what I think was were black pants.

I would have continue admiring on how totally awesome they look but a disturbing sound caught my attention. I was hear very faint but very noticeable sound of shattering glass. I hesitantly turn my head which actually cause the sound to be heard more, My blue eyes widened for behind me was a tail. the tail was the same as the rest of my body only slightly transparent with fine edges, smooth and extended to about 4 feet, I also had a a pony tail that did about the same thing but was maybe about a foot and a half long. But that was only half of the reason my eyes were widening and getting increasingly more worried. With every swinging motion the tail made the crackling of glass could be hared. I watched in horror as pieces of myself drift away from me. My first thought was to go catch my fleeing fragments. I started to turn my waist only to be stopped my the same sound that was coming from my tail. My eyes widened in realization that if I moved it would only make these matters worse. I was in a state of dispear not sure of what to do. However fragments that had broken away from me started to slow in there distancing from me. I just looked pleading that they would come back as if they were my children that had just run from home. As if hearing me they slowly returned to me embedding themselves back into their home. I allowed my self to calm done as i soon found that they would all leave and come back on their own.

Once I had calmed down I actually liked watching these pieces (which I am now calling fragments) of me drift and return. They were so beautiful I deliberately tried to get more off my doing lots of unnecessary motions. Once I was finally satisfied with the amount that were out and about I placed me hands behind my head and observed them with great interest. There were hundreds of them majestically floating about the open space. Upon closer inspection the largest piece that had broken of seemed to only be about an inch long and 1 forth of an inch wide. aside from that they were of all shapes and sizes.

I mentally smiled. Not because I was happy with the beauty of my form (although I certainly was) but because I had decided what I was going to call myself. These "Fragments" were pieces of me who was so similar to glass, I will take upon myself the name of "Shards". I tried to physically smile but was denied the right. Not having a portion of your face can do that So after a heavy sigh I settled for a mental one. However my mental celebration was short lived as I could feel a strong tug from an unknown force.

"Oh, this is going to be so much fun!!" beamed a usually excited Pinkie Pie.

"Ah agree with Pinks, This will be ur good time." said a honest Apple Jack.

"Ya bet it will AJ!" exclaimed Rainbow Dash. "We are about to meet the third coolest pony on the in Equestria!" she continued with the excitement burning in the eyes.

"Oh Third? Then who is first and second my dear?" Asked a curious Rarity.

"To answer your obvious questions in order. That would be Vinyl third, me first, and spitfire second. Duh!" She answered with a boastful tune.

A small argument ensued mostly consisting of Rarity asking Dash to stop being so cocky, and Rainbow just brushing aside all of the things she said to her. Twilight was deep in thought thinking about the pick-nick with a worried face. Apple Jack must have noticed her deep in thought and closed the gape between her and Twilight and spoke.

"Ya'll don't have ta worry bout a thing Twi." She said reassuringly. "Just be yourself." She finished.

Twilight let out a heavy sigh and said "Your right AJ I should loosen up." She let a smile stretch across her face.

As the six friends walked on the conversations continued.

"It was very nice of Octavia and Vinyl to offer to set up the picnic before we arrived." said Fluttershy.

"Ah agree" said Apple Jack With a huge grin.

Just then the sound of a sonic boom was heard followed by a loud crash. Fluttershy let out a very loud cry and started cowering.

"What was that?!" yelled Rarity.

"I think somepony just broke the sound Barrier!" exclaimed.

To which Rainbow Dash responded with " Impossible I am the only pony who can do a sonic rainboom!"

Another argument broke out debating the possible existence of another pony who could break the sound barrier. Rainbow Dash seemed especially touchy on this subject. The only only that was not park of the argument was Twilight. She Stared eyes wide open at the location the crash sound had come from.

"Girls..." said twilight being completely ignored

"Girls." She repeated. The bickering continued.

"Girls!" She repeated again as horror started to make an appearance in her voice. She could still hear her friends arguing and made on last attempt to get there attention. With every ounce of her energy she cried "GIRLS!!".

Everypony was stunned and focused now on Twilight. Twilight friends eyes grew wide as saucers as they saw the horror in her face. Her friends became concerned but soon there faces were filled with the same horror as Twilight's. The direction the sound of the crash came from was the designated location of the picnic. The picnic that Octavia and Vinyl were setting up before Twilight and her friends arrived.

Author's Note

Thanks to 'Bk201z' and 'Dagon M Dragoon' for editing