Chapter 1: The Beginning
It's Monday, March 15, 3015, around two in the morning. My mother screams as she gives birth. Unknown to anypony in this room, my birth will be marked down as one of the most important days in all of Equestrian history. Possibly the most important thing to happen in over a thousand years.
"Push Kelly push! It's almost here!", The doctor said.
"It's a girl! It's a beautiful baby girl!", The doctor said with excitement.
There I was, a newborn filly. My mane was a beautiful white with a blue trim, my coat was a bright cyan blue, and my eyes are the softest purple you will ever see.
"She's so beautiful.. What should we name her Ace?", My mother asked.
"I didn't have the filly ,Kelly, you name our beautiful child, you deserve it.", My Daddy said with a chuckle.
"Hmmm... I don't know... wait.. how about Viel?", she asked. "Viel?
"My sisters name?", He asked.
"Yes Ace, your sister was extremely brave, she deserves to be honored like this... after all she did save our lives.", She said with a hopeful look.
"You're right... If it weren't for her we wouldn't be here.. Well then it's decided!", Dad said as he looked closer at me and kissed my head. "Welcome to the family Viel! You are a Vulter now! How does it fee-" He stopped.
His mouth dropped open when he moved my hair. He saw something, something out of place. He turned to yell for the doctor when he saw the bump on my head.
"HEY VICK GET IN HERE NOW!! THERE'S A BUMP ON MY DAUGHTERS HEAD!", My daddy screamed.
Vic, the doctor from earlier, came running into the room to check up on me. He too was concerned when he saw the bump on my head.
"Ace...I don't know how to tell you this... but... That- That isn't a bump.. It's a horn.. Your daughter is a unicorn.", Vick said with sorrow. "Look Ace, you know what the people around here will do to you and your family if anypony finds out.. They will try and kill you.. you have to leave here and soon. Somepony will find out.. this part of Equestia still hates unicorns.. If they find here... they'll kill her."
"NO ONE IS GOING TO LAY A HOOF ON MY LITTLE VIEL!", My mother yelled.
"Vic, how long can you give us? No guessing. How long can you truly give us until we can leave?" My father asked.
"Eight days at max. Any longer and people will start to get suspicious of why you're staying here so long.", Vic said.
"Okay good. That's more than enough time for me to gather our things. Vic do you know of anywhere we could go? Anywhere we could stay?" My father asked.
"I don't know of anywhere off the top of my head Ace, I'll have to look around. I'll make sure to get back to you in a few days.", Vic informed my father.
"OK Vic, please hurry.. I don't want to lose my family again.", My dad said with a stressful voice.
The next few days, according to my father, were hectic. Between trying to hide me and my mother in the hospital, dad trying to pack everything up late at night so nopony would see him, and Vic trying to find us a small house, in a small town, far away from Manehatten. After six days we were finally ready to leave. It was time to pack up and leave.. Forever..
"Okay Ace, I found a small town about two days from here. The route is safe, so you won't have to worry about Timberwolves or bandits attacking you. I also bought the best electro-carriage I could afford, so that y'all can get there a little bit faster. The town I found is called Ponyting. It's a very small farming town, and it's a good way from anywhere that hates unicorns, I personally made sure of that.", Vic informed my dad.
"Thank you Vic. Without you, I don't know what we would have done, or if we'd even be alive still. Without you...", My father teared up.
"Look Ace.. We have been friends since we were fillies. I was there to comfort you after what happen to your family. After the bandit attack and them killing your sister and parents.. I couldn't let you lose another family.. I mean you even almost lost your wife.. If is wasn't for-" dad cut him off, and put his hoof on Vic's shoulder.
Dad said to Vic, "Look Vic.. just thank you.. for everything. I'll make sure to get one of those writing machines to right a letter to you every other week. I love you Vic.. You were always like a brother to me."
Vic and my father hugged and nodded. They both knew that this would be the last time they ever saw each other face to face. Vic walked over to my mom and kissed her cheek.
"Kelly", Vic said, "You are one of the bravest mares I know. It was an honor helping you give birth to your beautiful filly. I will miss you and Ace both, and please Kelly... Be safe." Vic looked down at me. I was in a deep sleep in my filly carriage wrapped around my mothers neck. "Viel.. It's such a beautiful name..", He said with teary eyes, " Watch after your parents for me, make sure you keep them nice and safe now ya hear?" , Vic said as he teared up some more.
He turned to my dad and hugged him one last time before we got into the carriage. Dad started it up, and we just left, never to look back again. Dad told me that he waved at Vic as he shrunk in the distance, tears filling up his eyes.
Six years pass, and we are living a pretty normal life. I remember walking out and seeing my father working on the farm. His bright orange coat shinning in the sun, his black mane waving in the wind, and his brown eyes shimmering. These features made him strong. He looked hardy and tough, almost invincible. My mother is just as tough as my dad. She decided to become a nurse in the local hospital.. She always loved helping other ponies. Her snow white coat, beautiful purple eyes, and blue mane, just seemed so... comforting. Her voice is very soft too. She would always sing me this song she learned as a filly. I think the name of it was Hush Now, Quiet Now, or something like that. Despite being really good at their new careers, their cutie marks made it difficult to change their life style. My dad went from doing weather control, which is how he got his cloud cutie mark he is actually one of the best weather control leaders in all Equestria, to being a simple farming pony who hardly ever has a use for his wings. My mom went from being an officer and protecting innocent ponies to being inside a building all day and helping those in need. She doesn't complain as much as my dad though, she is still helping other ponies, which is what she loves to do. My dad said he would have done cloud control, but being such a small town they don't need a lot of ponies doing cloud control. He told me that they already have twenty other ponies doing on the job.
About a year later I experienced my first taste of hate in the world. Another filly had started making fun of me because of my horn, and that it was "my kinds" fault that many ponies died a long time ago. After she insulted me more and more I finally started crying and ran out of the school. I went straight home past my dad, up my room, and shut my door. About 3 minutes later my dad came up to my room, he walked over to my bed, sat down next to it, and waited for me to look at him. I eventually lifted my head to meet his gaze, and what I saw was surprising! My dad was crying! The strong colt that I know was crying!
I asked him, "Wuts wong daddy?"
He looked at me and said, "You got hurt Viel, and your crying. When ever my little filly gets hurt.. I get hurt too. I love you so much Viel and seeing you in any type of pain is torture to me."
After saying that he quickly hugged me and held me tightly. I wrapped my hooves around him and hugged him back, this mushy gushy moment lasted for about ten minutes, until there was an knock on the door.
My dad looked at me and asked, "Are you going to be Okay Viel?"
I said to him, "Yes daddy... I wuv you so much!"
"I love you too Viel." My dad said and he kissed my forehead.
It turns out the knock on the door was my school teacher. She had found out about the girl insulting me and calling me rude names. She came to apologize to my family and say she had no idea that it was going on. She had informed us that the little filly that had bullied me came from a unicorn hating family, and that her family was killed on the road by Timber-wolves. She now lives with her grandparents here in ponyting. The teacher said that she will talk to the little filly tomorrow at school.
Two years later I learn about The Waste, a dark and terrible place. A place where nopony should ever step hoof in. A place filled with so much evil, that it corrupt even the most kind pony into an evil monster. The teacher didn't really go into deep detail with it, but it sparked my interest. When I got home I saw my dad reading a book in the living room.
I walked up to him, curled up next to him, and asked him, "Daddy, what's The Waste?"
His eyes widened and he almost dropped his book out of surprise. He turned and looked at me, and he had the most shocked look on his face.
"Viel... Where did you hear that name?" He asked with major concern.
"At school today, Mrs. Cherry told us about it.", I said with a little smile/frown.
"What did she tell you?", He asked, his voice getting more stressed.
"Not a lot, just that it's a really evil place; with monsters and goblins and all sorts of mean things, but she didn't tell us how that happened, or where it came from...and... I was wondering... if... you could tell me?", I said with a big smile.
"I'm sorry Viel.. but I can't tell you about it, at least not now, maybe when you are older we can talk about it", He said with his stern voice.
I knew that he wasn't going to tell me, at least not now not anyways. I couldn't sleep much that night. I don't know what it was, but... I kept thinking about The Waste. I felt like I had something to do with it, which was ridiculous. I mean I'm just a nine year old pony laying down in my bed, in a small little pony town. What importance could I ever possibly have? I know what you're thinking "Why and how is a nine year old having these thoughts?". Honestly I don't know why, but I couldn't shake the thought out of my head. Eventually, I fell asleep. My last thoughts were "Hmph I'm such a silly filly, I'll never have a big role in anything." How I wish that this remained true, that nothing bad ever happened. That I just grew up a silly pony in a small little pony town, but I was so very wrong. I had no idea what lies ahead, and even if I did there was no way I could prepare for it. Why did this have to happen to me.
I was about fifteen when I saw him. An orange colored pony, with a cyan mane and cute little light blue stripes, and ocean blue eyes, but that wasn't important.. the cool thing was.... HE WAS A UNICORN!!! I couldn't believe it! Another unicorn! I have never met another one before, and even better, he's moving in right next to me! It sounds a little creepy, but I could watch him. Maybe he would do some... magic? I know it's illegal.. but maybe he's a rebel and doesn't follow the rules! Oh I couldn't wait to meet him! After he looked settled in, I walked over next door, and knocked on his door.
"Hello?", A firm voice came from the other side of the door.
"Um... Hi! I'm your neighbor Viel Vulter! I was hoping I could meet you and take you on a tour around ponyting.", I said with a little more excitement than I meant to. The door slowly opened. He was about a foot taller than me. He seemed so... powerful, like nothing could phase him.
"I'm sorry Ms. Vulter, but it was a long trip and I am quite tired.", he said with a calm yet somehow firm voice.
"Oh... are you sure? I could just show you a little bit of the town, or maybe just talk?", I said sounding a little disappointed.
"Viel!", I heard my father yell my name. "Viel what are you doing? It's almost dinner ti- Oh hello, you must be the new neighbor. My name Is Ace Vulter, and I'm guessing you already met my daughter.", My father said with a smile.
"Yes.. She is quite.. energetic.", The unicorn said with a smile.
I blushed, realizing that I was being a little to excited about meeting him.
"Well, I sure do hope you find this small little town to your liking. If you ever need anything don't hesitate to come-a-knockin'." My dad said cheerfully. The unicorn smiled and started to shut his door.
Before the pony could shut his door I asked him, "Wait! I never got your name!" He turned and looked into my eyes,.
"My name is Eissen." He turned back around and lightly shut the door.
Eissen. Eissen. Eissen. I would say his name over and over in my head. I didn't want to forget it, after all he was the first unicorn I have ever met. That night after dinner, I started having weird dreams... I was standing in a circle of flames. I saw a pair of Big blood red eyes staring me down. I heard an evil laughter. It sent a shiver down my back, it made feel like I was in the coldest of snow storms. The scariest thing was... the laugh.. sounded like me. I started breathing heavy, then suddenly there's a light from behind me. I turn to see a pair of eyes that.. look kinda like mine. The only difference was that they were a lighter purple.
I heard the voice say "Do not fear the darkness, for with friendship, you will achieve perfect harmony. Never let the dark side take you over."
This voice, like the first one, sounded a lot like me, yet some how I became more relaxed. Next thing I know My alarm is going off. I looked over, and saw that it was seven o'clock. I hit the top of it with my hoof and went back to sleep. As I drifted there was only one thing on my mind now: Why did I have that dream, and was something or someone trying to tell me something? As i drifted to sleep, I heard that laughter again, only this time it sounded more real than before.
Almost a year has past since that day. I've had more dreams like that since then. Some of them more realistic than the others. I didn't bother telling anypony, because I didn't want any of them worrying about me. On the brighter side it was about a week from my sixteenth birthday! I've been talking a lot with Essen since we first met. He eventually told me his whole name: Eissen Dargwell. It also turned out that he knew magic. I would see him using it to clean his house, tend to his garden in the back yard, trimming bushes. I have decided to ask him to teach me magic for a birthday present. I already know it will not be easy, but hopefully I will be able to convince my parents and Eissen to let me learn magic, but I was determined to get them to say yes. The day before my birthday, I was walking home from the market when I heard Eissen yell my name. I turned my head and he had a box in his hoof.
I walked over to him and asked, "What's that Eissen? Did you get a new book?"
Eissen sure did love his books. I got a peak inside his house once and saw that he had tons and tons of them. He gave a light chuckle.
"No you silly pony.", he said with a smile, "This is for you! For helping me around the house and tending to my lawn when I had that unfortunate accident with my lawn mower.. I still haven't gone near that thing."
Don't even bother asking me about what he did. I still don't understand myself, I'm not going to try and explain it to you and give you a headache in the process.
"Fo- For me? I asked with a little bit of shock, "But my birthday is tomorrow Eissen, why give it to me early?", I asked.
He looked at me with those soft ocean blue eyes and said, "Because I couldn't wait to see your face when you opened it!".
Eissen sure has changed since I first met him. He use to be so quiet and to himself, but after I got to know him and he got to know me, we became really good friends. He's like the older brother I never had. He always looked after me and helped me with my problems. He was always there for me no matter what. I know that I have only known him for a little while, almost a year, but I feel like I've known him for a life time!.
"Okay! I better not keep you waiting then huh?", I said as I grabbed the present from him.
My jaw dropped when I saw it, it was a create your on clothes kit.... yes I mean knitting kit but that sounds too girly so shut up and stop laughing. I discovered that I have a nice little talent for sewing clothes. I mean yea my mom taught me a lot, but I caught on pretty quick.
"Eissen.. I-I..Thank you so much!!", I said as I got him into a death grip of a hug.
"He-Hey easy now, don't strangle me to death.", He said with a goofy smile. "I knew you would love it. I even got you some good materials to start with. I know that you've wanted a vest for awhile now, so I bought you the materials to make one!"
I squee'd out of excitement and hugged him again.
"You better get on home Viel, evil things lurk around in the dark" He said with a weird tone in his voice.
"Oh ha ha Eissen, I live right next door, I think I can walk twenty feet and not be viciously mauled by a timberwolf.",I said with a prideful grin.
He smiled back and patted my heard. He turned around and shut the door as I ran off towards my house. I got inside, ran upstairs, and began to work on my little project. It took me about five hours, but I had finally done it. I had made my own little vest! I made sure to do what my mom taught me and made it a little bigger than what I usually wear, so that I would grow into it. During the time it took me to make this awesome thing, my parents checked up on me every thirty minutes or so. They even brought me dinner to my room, which actually surprised me. We always eat dinner together; I guess they are starting to give me my own space. It felt really weird. As I was putting the box under my bed I noticed a small bag inside of it. I picked it up and it had a small note on it. The note read:
Dear Viel,
This is a little something I got you at the market place. It's one-hundred percent real leather and really durable, I know it has to be for you, I've seen what your clothes look like. Anyways I thought you might like to have this. Inside of this box Is a cloak that will cover you from your head to your tail. This way if you ever want to go to a big city you can easily hide your horn and walk around freely, and it even has a small strap to wrap around your head so it won't blow off! I made sure to buy it in the same colors as the materials you will use to make your vest. I hope you enjoy this small gift.
Regards,
Eissen D.
I put the note down and picked up the bag. I looked inside and pulled out a beautiful light brown colored vest. Eissen was right, it matched my vest perfectly. I took an extra thirty minutes to attach the cloak onto the vest, and the final outcome was awesome! I decided to call it a night and go on and sleep. That night I didn't have a dream.. It was more like a nightmare. I was running in a forest, running from evil creatures. I heard snarling and yelping. Balls of fire were flying past my head. I ran and ran and ran, but I was not fast enough. The evil creatures caught me and tied up my legs together.
One of the big creatures walk up to me and he says to me, "Get use to this position Viel, you'll be tied up like this for the rest of your life." He said and let out the most evil laugh you could imagine.
I woke up at around three in the morning. I only stayed awake for a short time and fell back asleep. What did these dreams mean? I decided that if they kept getting worse I'd tell my dad or Eissen. They could help me for sure, but I just hope that they will stop soon so that I can finally get some peaceful rest again.
I couldn't help to wonder though, what if someone was trying to tell me something? To warn me of future events? I'm too tired to think about this. I'll figure this stuff out in the morning. Nighty nighty...
Today is the big day! I could hardly wait until this afternoon, so I could ask my parents about being trained in magic. I mean yea, I was a little bit nervous as to what the might say, but I couldn't wait to ask! Through out the day I "partied" if you wanna call it that. I hung out with a lot of my friends, raced some, played ponyball, and other fun activities! Finally it started getting late, and while I had great fun with all my friends, It was nothing compared to what I had planned for this evening. I didn't know what my parents would say, or if they would let me ever talk to Eissen again, but I had to take that chance. I wanted to learn magic so badly that I couldn't let this moment pass-up. Since it's my sixth-tenth birthday I thought that maybe they would be nice and say yes. The anticipation was killing me! As I got close to my house I noticed Eissen talking to my dad. My father had a concerned look on his face, something was troubling him, and it had to be bad, my dad never makes that face unless something is wrong. They see me walk up and instantly change the conversation.
"There she is! Come here birthday girl! Give you're dad a hug!", My dad said with a big smile.
I ran up to him and gave him the biggest hug I could. I turn to Eissen and lightly hugged him. For a stallion he sure is sensitive.
"Eissen, are you staying for dinner?", I asked with a giant smile.
"Of course I am!", He said with one of his charming smiles,"I wouldn't miss it for the world".
We were all sitting at the table, having fun, eating, talking, watching me open my presents. I got all sorts of neat things. Some how my dad and mom were able to save up enough to buy me an automatic sewing machine! No more stabbing my hooves! When dessert was served I decided that it was time to ask.
"Mom, dad ca-", I was cut off by them before I could finishing talking.
"Viel, me and your father have decided that it's time you learn how to use magic.", My mom said with a smile.
My jaw dropped. Did I hear her right? Am I dreaming right now? Is this real life?
"I..I.. Really?!", I asked with excitement.
"Yes Viel, you're a unicorn and we both know your urge to use magic, it's natural. We can't stop you, so we have asked Eissen here to train you. Nothing dangerous, just simple things like levitation, teleportation, and some other easy spells." My mom said to me. "We love you so very much Viel, and we want what is best for you".
I looked over at Eissen, and he grinned at me. "Well Viel? Do you wanna learn some magic?", He said with that damn friendly smile again.
I sure did love that smile, and don't get any ideas, Eissen is like my older brother, plus he's fifteen years older than me, so yea that's a thing.
"Y..Y..Yes of course! Thank you guys so much! You just gave me the perfect birthday gift!", I said with a huge smile.
That night as a went to bed, I had another dream.. only this one was... horrid. I looked down and saw that I was standing in a dark puddle... I looked closer to see what it was and I realized it was... blood. The smell of blood filled the air, and as I looked around I saw that there was blood everywhere..and this wasn't even the worst part. I looked up above my head and saw ponies being slowly ripped apart, screaming bloody murder as their limbs were severed. Some where getting eaten alive crying out with each bite that the creatures took out of them, and others were crying to be killed as the were being slowly skinned alive. I looked down in horror, almost puking. When I look back up I saw in-front the same dark figure as before, the one that tied me up.His glowing red eyes seeping into my soul. In a deep voice he tells me: This is your fate you little bitch, how long will you scream as you are being skinned alive, along with your parents and friends. Actually, why wait when I can just have you now?! Come here you little bitch! He then laughed darkly and swiped his claw at me. I woke up in a cold sweat. That was the most realistic dream I've have so far, and the most horrifying. I started to think of an old song that my mother use to sing me when I was younger, it always made the bad dreams go away. It worked. I fell asleep again, and as I drifted to sleep I heard a soft voice, almost celestial, say to me: Everything will be okay Viel, remember to always trust in you friends. At that moment I passed out and thankfully had no more terrifying nightmares, because that's all they were right? Nightmares?
Nothing much happened for the next couple of years. I trained with Eissen, and boy was he a great teacher. Before he even taught me any type of magic, he taught me how to use it. He taught me about the concentration required for levitation, teleportation, and a few other things. Eventually I started to learn how to actually do the spells. With levitation we started with a small twig, then several twigs. With teleportation we started with just going two feet, then 10 feet. It was small steps, and not going to lie it got kinda boring at times, but eventually I was able to use the spells he had been teaching me.
One day while training, while we were taking a break, I decided to ask Eissen about The Waste. I never got a straight answer from my dad, so I decided to ask Eissen. He has always told me what I wanted to know about anything, so hopefully he'll tell me what I'd like to know now. We were drinking some tea outside when I asked him.
"Hey Eissen, could you tell me about the waste?", I asked him.
He let out a deep sigh and turned to me. "I was waiting on you to ask this question, you're father told me that you had an interest in it.", he said to me with a half smile. "I figure it's time you learn about why ponies hate us, but before I start are sure you want to know?", He asked me with a concerned look.
"Yes!", I said quickly.
He nodded his head and said, "Okay now pay attention, it's a long story. It all started over one-thousand years ago, back in the simple days of Equestria. Back when everything was done manually or with magic. The Lord of Chaos, Discord, was about to be accepted by everypony. This was the doing of one of the Original Six. I don't remember which one exactly, I think her name was.. Fluttershy? Any hoof that's not important. On that day something of pure evil attacked, this creature.. no this monster's name was Vigor. While Discord was the Lord of Chaos, Vigor was the God of Evil. According to history books, he has the head, claws, feet, and tail of a dragon, the body of a bear, and wings of a bat. He also had blood red eyes, that could stare into anypony's soul. Everything he did was evil, and he corrupted everything he touched. I don't know where he came from, or if he is even from Equestria, and I don't know why he chose the day of his attack either, but I do know that the result of his attack caused the death of many ponies. After the first attack, the leaders of Equestria, their names were Luna, Celestia, and Cadence, put a barrier around Canterlot to protect it's people. For some reason, according to history books anyways, Vigor only focused on Canterlot. The leaders of Equestria planned on using ancient relics called The Elements of Harmony. These were extremely powerful relics, that had turned the Lord of Chaos himself into stone. They tried using them against Vigor, but it had failed. The ponies were shocked and couldn't believe it, so they had to retreat. This was the beginning of the twenty-five year war. During this time the leaders of Equestria were looking for any type of spell that could be used to kill Vigor. Even though the library of Canterlot had many magical spells, none of them would be powerful enough to stop Vigor, so they sent scout parties out all through Equestria, searching for ancient spells. After years of searching, they found nothing. Twenty-four years into the war, Discord tells the Original Six that he possibly knows about an ancient spell , that it could possibly stop, or even kill, Vigor, however, he neglected to say anything about the side effects of it. The Original Six gathered at the border of Canterlot, and ventured into the center of the battle. It took them eight days to reach Vigor's camp. The reason they didn't use magic is that their energy had to be at it's max when they use the spell, other wise it will not work. Vigor knew that they were coming and was waiting for them when they arrived. The Original Six had over one-hundred unicorns, and even three alicorns, but this alone would not be enough to stop him. The alicorns use a spell to surround the area with a barrier. The barrier stretched about three-hundred miles long and wide. At the same time the Original Six cast the ancient spell, and to everyponys surprise it worked, but with fatal side effects. The use of this spell had drained the alicorns of their magic, and killed all the unicorns that helped with the spell. Even with the Elements of Harmony, the Original Six could not survive the spell. Another unforeseen side effect was that the spell killed everything that had made contact with it, excluding the alicorns and that was more than likely because of their powerful magic. There is one theory that the alicorns knew of this side effect, and that's why they cast the spell to make sure that the spell killed all of Vigors minions, but not all of Equestria. This area is now known as The Waste."
I interrupted and asked, "That doesn't explain why almost everypony hates unicorns.".
"I'm getting to that Viel, be patient.", he said with a smile.
"Oh.. okay.", I told him.
"Okay.. now were was I... Oh yea. After they had won the battle, they returned to Canterlot to celebrate. Discord was not there when they arrived. According to history he fled after finding out the Original Six died. I don't know why he fled. Some say it's because he knew they would die, others say that he felt so guilty about it that he couldn't face the alicorns with what he had done. For the next few years people rejoiced that Vigor and his evil was gone, but this was short lived. The creation of The Waste had blocked out many trade routes, and this cost a lot ponies money, and to make it worse, monsters that some how survived the blast, were slipping out of the barrier created by the alicorns. Unicorns were sent to kill and dispose of the creatures. After awhile people started blaming the unicorns. They thought that they were making creatures just so that they would be praised even more. Of course this is a ridiculous statement, but mix crazy theories with angry ponies, and you get one hell of a storm. Eventually earth and pegasus ponies rebelled against the unicorns and alicorns. The Crystal Kingdom was the first to go, then Canterlot was next. The unicorns tried to stop them, but there was too many. The unicorns numbers were already thin too, most were killed during the war. For the next two-hundred years unicorns were hunted and killed, almost to extinction. Some point during this, some ponies grew a heart and tried to protect the unicorns. The result of this was a bloody civil war in Equestria. This had lasted about fifty years, until peace was made. The leaders of both fractions met in Canterlot and worked out a peace treaty. Unicorns were not allowed to be killed, unless they are caught using magic. If caught using magic they would be put to death. The reason behind this is that both sides thought that it was magic that brought Vigor into this world in the first place, so they wanted nothing to do with it. Both sides appointed leaders for Equestria. They are called The High Four. They consist of two earth ponies and two pegasi ponies. They were to keep order and balance in Equestria. Eventually the hate for unicorns started to die out, and while we are still hated, there is almost no where that unicorns are killed. The magic law has been reduced as well. If we are caught using magic, we get one warning by law, if we use it again we a sentenced to death. This doesn't apply for fillies... anymore. Now we live in a world almost normal again. Eventually unicorn hate will die out and we can, hopefully, live in peace again."
When he finished I couldn't believe what he had just told me. I mean I knew unicorns were hated, but for such a ridiculous reason? I grew up with love in my life and was always accepted, except for a few occasions, about being a unicorn. I'm glad that I now know of my heritage, and why unicorns are hated. I'm sure you are thinking the same thing I am: "How can they be so stupid?" Well there are a lot of stupid ponies out there, and if you get a whole bunch of stupid ponies together, they will do stupid things.
My twenty-first birthday was right around the corner. There was really only one thing I wanted, and that would be my cutie mark. Yep, you heard me right, I don't have my cutie mark. I'm twenty years old and I haven't found my talent. I thought sewing would be it, considering I'm really good at it, but nope. I didn't plan to have a big party this time either, maybe just hang around my house all day, do a little bit of work around the house, nothing special though. Since I'm almost an adult now, I needed to learn how to take care of the farm. I have learned a little from watching my dad, but I need to know everything if I want to make a living. I would work with my mom in the hospital, but it's just not my thing. Since we live in a small town nothing exciting ever happens. The only reason anyone goes to our "hospital" is for a flu shot or a check up, so it gets really boring. From time to time I use magic to help myself out in the farm field, but I'm careful with it, and so far no one has caught me. It was about five O' clock in the afternoon when I heard Eissen yell for me to come over. I looked behind me and decided that I had done enough plowing for one day, so I dragged the plow over to the barn and locked the barn's door. My dad was inside reading another book, the I had actually got him a few days ago. It made me feel good seeing him read it, it let me know he cares about me. I mean I know for a fact my father would die for me, and I would do the same for him, but still it felt good seeing him read that book. Anyways I walked over to see what Eissen wanted.
He looked at me and said, "Here come inside, I have an early birthday present for you."
I was kinda shocked at this. He never lets anypony inside his house, and yet here he is inviting me to just walk in. I went inside his house and man I knew he loved books, but what I saw a few years ago was only a fraction of what he had. There were no electronics in his house.. it was just books. Tons and tons of books. He went into a back room and came out with two little gold bracelets, with a small hole craved in them.
"These are for you!", he told me. "The rest of it should be arriving soon."
I looked at them and they were already beautiful enough. They looked like they were made out of pure gold. How in Equestria could he get something like that?!
"Try them on!", He said with a smile.
I took the bracelets and slid them around my left hoof, they fit perfectly. I was about to say thanks when there was a knock on the door.
"Hold that thought Viel, I'll be right back." He said as he walked to the front of the house.
While he was talking to the pony at the door, I decided to have a look around. The one thing I found strange, other than his freakishly huge book collection, was that I didn't see any photos of friends or family. I thought that, since Eissen was such a nice pony, he would have a lot of friends. As I was looking around I noticed a gigantic book sitting on a display shelf. I walked over to it and it read: Advanced Magic for master unicorns and alicorns. I decided to take a peak inside and see what was in it. Inside were spells of all sorts of magnitude! From fire balls to laser beams! Spells that could move entire mountains like pebbles.
"I see you found a book that you might actually read." Eissen said behind me!
His voice made me almost jump out of my skin! I didn't even hear him walk up behind me.
"Um.. Y..yea it looks really cool! Could you teach me any of these spells?", I asked him.
"No Viel, I can't even cast most of the spells in that book, and I'm almost a master in some of those spell types, you aren't near ready to learn those, plus they are way too dangerous. I promised your parents that I would teach you no such thing.", He told me.
"Oh.. well okay.", I said with disappointment. "I'll take your word on it, I don't want to get blown up or anything! So what's in the little box?"
"This is the last part of your gift. here give me your hoof." he said as he took my hoof.
Inside the boxes were two little gems. A light blue one and an orange one.
"These will represent our friendship Viel. You are the first friend I've had in a very long time, and I wanted to show that I really appreciate that." he put the little gems inside the bracelets.
"They're beautiful Eissen! Thank you so much!", I said as a hugged him.
"I'm not done either, I'm going to Canterlot tomorrow to buy some equipment for us to practice magic on, would you and your parents like to come?", Eissen asked me with a smile.
I should have said no, if I did maybe none of this would have happened. If I had said no, maybe some ponies would still be alive today, but I didn't know what would happen.
"Yes! Yes we would love to go, well I'd love to go! I'll go ask my parents if they want to come too! Thank you so much Eissen!", I said as a ran out his house to my house.
My dad asked me when it would we would leave. I told him tomorrow and he nodded at me.
"Isn't it a little early for a birthday present? I mean it's in three days and it's only a days drive from here. Maybe we should walk huh? That would take three days.", he said to me and laughed. "Sure honey, I'll be happy to go with you."
My mom walked in and I asked her the same thing.
"Sorry Viel, but I can't. There's a flu going around and the hospital needs all the staff they can get, but don't let that stop you. I want you to have a lot of fun dear!", She said and kissed my head.
"Alright mom, I'll try having fun, but it won't be the same." I said and kissed her back.
That night I had no nightmares. I haven't had them in a while actually, and I'm not complaining about it either. I couldn't shake this feeling though, like something big was about to happen. I mean yea my twenty first birthday was coming up, but it felt bigger than that. Like everything was about to change. As i drifted off into sleep I couldn't shake this feeling. Hopefully tomorrow it'll be gone and I can just have a fun time, I mean what's the worse that could happen?
"Viel, it's time to wake up! You don't want to miss the carriage, do you? It'll be here in an hour!", My mom yelled from downstairs. I slowly open up my eyes to see a beautiful, bright sunny day. I wondered why my alarm didn't go off, so I looked over at my clock and it was turned off. I didn't remember turning it off last night. There must have been a power shortage or something last night. I put on a shirt and walked downstairs to eat some breakfast. My dad was sitting there with some coffee and reading The Equestria Daily.
"Was there a power outage last night dad? My clock was turned off this morning.", I asked him.
"Yea.", he said. "There was an unexpected storm last night, I'm surprised you were able to sleep through it!" , he said with a little grin
I looked at him and said, "You know I'm a heavy sleeper dad! Once I'm out I am out!"
He smiled and went back to reading his paper. When I finished my breakfast I started to go upstairs to pack a few things when I heard my dad call out and say, "Make sure you pack enough clothes for two days! Eissen came by this morning and said that we'll be staying for your birthday!"
"Alright! That's awesome!I'll make sure to pack extra!", I yelled back.
Now i'm sure you're wondering: "Why does she need clothes? She's a pony!" Well we are more civilized now, compared to what y'all are use to. We don't just walk around naked! I mean we don't wear pants and such, but we wear shirts, vests, etc. Anyhoof I'm getting off track here. I went upstairs and got everything together. I made sure I had the bracelets, my vest, and some other miscellaneous things. I took a shower and doubled checked to make sure everything was here.
Once I made sure I had everything I threw my bag over my back and walked downstairs to see Eissen standing at the door waiting on me.
"Looks like somepony is tardy. I came here to make sure you were still going", He said with a smile.
"Yea... sorry about that! My alarm got turned off last night and I woke up an hour ago.", I told him.
"You got ready in under an hour? You're the first mare I've heard of that is able of doing that!", He said as he and my dad snickered.
I growled at that and heard my mom call out from the other room, "What was that Ace? You want how much poison in your drink?"
My dad stopped snickering pretty quick at that and his ears fell back some. I laughed quietly to myself. I don't care what other ponys say, but us women are the real head of the house. Well, at least that's how it works in my house. I gave me mom a hug and kiss before we left. She told me that if I see any of those Canterlot dresses that she likes, she wants me to get it for her if I can. Me, dad, and Eissen all got into the Carriage and we were off. I looked out the back window and saw my mom waving bye to us. I looked out the window and waved back, my eyes tearing up. I have never been anywhere without both my parents, let alone ponyting.
"Viel get back in here! I'm about to go full speed!", Eissen said.
Despite not having a lot of money, he had a really nice electro-carriage. It was really roomy, smelled very nice, and even went sixty miles per hour! At this rate we should reach Canterlot in under a day. As we were riding we talked about some random things. It ranged from cooking to my dads "good ol' days" as captain of the Manehatten cloud patrol. Man I have heard all of those stories hundreds of times, it kinda starts to get boring after hearing them so much. It was about three hours into our drive when I asked my dad about my name.
"Hey dad, I was named after my aunt right? Your sister Viel?", I asked him.
His face went pale as I asked him that. My dad didn't talk about his sister much. I felt kinda bad for asking him that question, I totally forgot that he doesn't like to talk about her either.
"Yes honey you were.", He said with a half smile.
"What... What happened to her?.. If you don't mind me asking.", I asked, kinda getting nervous about to what he might say.
He looked at me and said, "Well.. you are named after her, so I guess it's fair you finally know."
I sat next to him and got ready to listen to his story. My dad was not only a great cloud patrol commander, but we was amazing at telling stories!
"Okay just to get things clear, I loved my sister with all my heart Viel. She had the most beautiful navy blue coat you would ever see. Her eyes were a soft brown, and her mane was snow white, and she was an earth pony like your mom. She a really stern, yet soft voice too. I don't like talking about her because.... it's very painful, but you have the right to know what happened to her. It started way before you were even born. Me and your mother had just started dating when it happened. Your aunt was in the police force with your mother, that's actually how I met your mom. I was doing some cloud kicking when I got a call-in from the station. A giant group of bandits, about two-hundred of them, have been seen about sixty miles away from Manehatten. We always had problems with bandits, but never a group as big as that. I gathered my unit and flew back to our base. I gathered everypony on duty and had them ready to help defend the city. We waited for about two days when they arrived, but in a much larger force than we realized. Instead of two-hundred, there was almost two-thousand of them. They were using the cover of the trees to hide their real numbers. The had anti-pegasus weapons as well, which we did not count on. Fire started raining down on us. We tried to escape, but they took out a good amount of us before we could. The ones left tried to make tornadoes and high winds, but they had pegasi ponies on their side, and they instantly stopped anything we threw at them. It was like they were trying to take over the city with the force they had. Once they made it to the city we had some tricks of our own.
With giant arrow machines we were able to shoot down and kill most the hostile pegasi, but sadly the earth ponies were already in the city and we could no longer form tornadoes to stop them. If we did that inside the city it would destroy what we were trying to protect, but we could make it rain, and boy did we make it rain!. We made it rain hard enough to give our ponies cover as they got ready to attack the group, but again the bandits had taken us by surprise. They had some sort of high-tech goggles that allowed them to see through all our rain. Once the broke through the storm, which was dying because the clouds were running out of water. That's when the real fighting begun. Thanks to an invention we were able to hold guns with a mechanical arm, but the bandits had the same device, along with knives, bows and arrows, swords, and other deadly weapons. This fight lasted about twenty days, it even destroy one-forth of Manehatten. On one of the last days of the raid, I was helping transfer injured ponies deeper into the city for safety. On one of the runs I was on, one of the bandit leaders attacked us with a small group that had infiltrated past the front lines. He opened fire on us and we took cover, but not before he killed about six of us. Your mother was there with me, for protection, along with several other police ponies. We were under heavy fire and nopony was near us. Your mother and I thought this was the end. We kissed one last time and waited for the end. She tried radioing in for back-up, but no one responded. We suddenly heard shooting from our left. I looked up to see it was my sister and a small group of her squad sent to check up on us. Your mother got up and started shooting back at the bandits too. We had almost driven them back when their leader appeared next to us. He was badly hurt and out of ammo, but he had a large knife with him. He told us that he was going to enjoy stabbing us to death, that he would be the victor even if his raid failed, that he would have victory in the long run for killing us. As he went at us, I stood up to take him head on, but my sister jumped in the way. She told me to stay back, that she would take of this. Before I had time to ignore her commands and help my sister out, it was finished. She had got one good stab in him, and he fell to the ground dead. My sister turned to me, smiled, and fell down. I ran over to her and saw the giant knife sticking out her side. I screamed for a medic and one came running over. He tried his best to help her....but..but... it was too late..", My dad started to tear up. "She had been stabbed right next to her heart. Even if the medic had pulled it out and worked on it, she would have bled to death before he could bandage it. She looked up at me and told me words I will never forget. Words that I shall always live by.
She told me: Ace... I.. I love you so much lit...little brother.. don... don't let this fill y...your heart wi..with rage. Alw..always care for everypony... I di..did this so y..you could li..live on. Tre...treat Kelly go..good little bro..brother.. I love yo..." and that was all she could say her time had run out... she slowly faded away. Your mother and I started to cry our eyes out. I couldn't believe my older sister was gone.. and I wasn't going to stand for this Viel. I felt anger take hold of me. I told your mother to stay there as I flew off. I used my radio and contacted the police Chief and told him to retreat back. It took some convincing, but he eventually listened to me. As they were retreating I got what was left of my squad and hovered over the bandits. Their numbers were small now, and could easily be taken care of. We started flying as fast as we could. Faster than any other pegasus has gone before. They tried shooting us down, but they were low on ammo for their weapons, and by the time the realized we were up there, it was too late. Their arrows were flying away from us, because of our high wind, and we were moving too fast for them to get a clear shot with any of their guns. We created on of the biggest tornadoes you would ever see in your life, and since there was nopony but the bandits here, we didn't have to hold back. We threw everything at them, like before, except now they had nothing to stop us. Name it, from six-hundred miles per hour wind to giant lighting strikes, we did it. All I saw was body parts flying everywhere. I could barely hear the screaming of the bandits as they were ripped apart by the wind. In about two minutes, it was finished. All the bandits were either dead, dying, or running away. We had won... but at a terrible price. Since that day no bandits have attacked Manehatten, and my sister was given an honorary burial. Her and the other four-hundred ponies that died. A lot might have died if I didn't do what needed to be done. I would have done it sooner, but we were hoping the police and military could drive them back first, and because of our tornado, that area of the city was completely leveled. That's the story of your Aunt Viel. That's why she's a hero to us Viel. If it wasn't for her, we might not be here right now. I might have been able to take him, but my sister was a much better fighter than I was, and she got killed by him. So that's why we named you after her Viel, if not for her; you wouldn't be here."
I was silent for a long time. I knew my aunt had done something brave, but nothing like that. She saved my parents lives! Man I have a lot to live up to now.
Eissen opened the door to the back and asked my dad, "Wasn't that the Great Raid of Manehatten?"
My dad answered, "Yea it was, and it was a bloody mess."
"Damn...", I heard Essien say under his breath.
"What is it Eissen?", I asked him.
"Nothing.. uh.. just that I heard about that along time ago. I can't imagine what it was like to actually go through it.", He said with a weird tone. I just shrugged it off and looked out the window. It was in the afternoon by the look of the sun. I looked at the clock in carriage, and it was about two in the evening. Man dad's story took up a lot of time. I decided to take a small nap. I heard Eissen tell my dad we should be there in about fourteen hours, which is sooner than we expected. We left at about seven in the morning, so getting there at four in the morning wasn't too bad. I dosed on and off for the next few hours. Eventually I feel asleep. I, thankfully, had no weird dreams or nightmares. I didn't even have a dream. The next thing I knew I was waking up inside the Carriage in-front of the Canterlot gates. I looked at the clock and it said six O' clock. I looked over and saw dad sleeping next to me, and Eissen was sleeping in the front seat. I guess they decided to wait for me to wake up before going in, or maybe Eissen just decided to sleep out in the carriage today to save some bits. I just fell back to sleep eventually, figuring they'll just wake me up latter.
About three hours later my father woke me up to help carry stuff into Canterlot. Since the city was so big electro-carriages aren't aloud, only manual ones are aloud inside the city's gates. So me and dad got out of the carriage so that Eissen could go park it. I put my hood on as I stepped out of the carriage. Even though Canterlot isn't really a unicorn hating place, I figured to play it safe and avoid any type of trouble. As we were waiting for Eissen I heard some commotion about my head. I looked up to see about five pegasi flying over my head, well only one was really flying, the other four were watching him cheering him on. He was a really good flyer, really graceful. All his moves were sharp and on point. I assumed he was part of the Canterlot guard. I haven't ever seen one in action, but I heard they were the best of the best in all of New Equestria. I looked down and saw Eissen walking up to us.
"Okay the Carriage is all parked and I even rented a pull cart to put our stuff in.", He said to me and my dad.
"I'll pull it Eissen, I can't have a day of slacking! If I do I won't be fit to work the farm! Viel would have to do all the work!", He said with a laugh.
"Oh man! I can't do it all? How sad!", I said sarcastically.
As we were walking up to the gates I heard shout from above, "Shit! watch out below!"
I didn't have time to move out of the way when a blue pegasus crashed into me.
"Ouch!" I yelled out.
"Ugh... crap.. are you okay? I lost control while doing a barrel-"
My dad cut the blue pegasus off and said, "VIEL?! Are you okay?! You little punk! I should knock your head off! If you hurt my daughter I'm going to-"
I cut my dad off and said, "I'm fine dad. It'll take a lot more than that to hurt me." My dad cooled off and asked, "What's your name boy?"
The pegasus answered, "My names Vincent sir, Vincent Rush."
My dad sat there for a bit then asked, "Wait... Vincent Rush? Aren't you captain of the Royal Guard?"
Vincent looked at my dad, sighed, and said, "No sir.. That would be my father Vincent Rush Senior. I'm his son and second in command of the Royal Guard. I'm also the fastest flyer in all of New Equestria!" That last part he said with a lot of pride.
"Huh is that so?", My dad asked.
"Yes sir! As matter of fact I ca-"
"Vincent what the hell are you doing?" I heard a voice from above ask. A black pegasus with a grey mane and green eyes flew down to us.
"Did you hurt somepony again? I told you if this happened again I was demoting you!" The pegasus yelled.
I quickly said, "That's not necessary sir! Nopony got hurt. He just had an accident. The pegasus looked at me and said, "You sure ma'm?"
"Yes.", I told him. He was about to say something when he noticed my dad. "Well I'll be damned, Is that Ace?", He said in a much friendly tone.
"Um, hi? I'm sorry but do I know you?", My father asked.
"Oh come Ace don't you remember me? Once you're pact you never go back!" he said with a smile.
"Wait.. Spade is that you?!" My dad said with excitement.
"You bet it is! I haven't seen you since Manehatten my friend! How have you been?" Spade said with a giant smile.
"I've been good.", my father answered. "This is my daughter Viel. We're visting Canterlot to get some supplies and have some fun for her twenty-first birthday party."
Spade looked at me and said, "Viel huh? After your sister? Your name carries great weight miss, I hope you know that."
I nodded my head at him.
"You already met my little trouble maker, get over here junior!" He yelled over at Vincent.
My dad looked at Spade and said, "I didn't know your name was Vincent. Why didn't you tell me? I thought Gravine Rush was your real name."
"I changed it when I moved here, I didn't want any special attention after what we did in Manehatten.
"Yes dad?", Vincent asked his father.
"Be respectful boy! You're looking at the hero of Manehatten!" Spade yelled.
Vincent's eyes got wide and he did a really big smile, it was kinda cute actually.
"THE hero of Manehatten?! The pegasus that went over twelve hundred miles alone? You're a legend!", Vincent said in a really fanboy voice.
"I'm not a legend my boy, nor am I a hero. I'm just a pony who did what was needed to be done.", My father said.
"We have to catch up sometime Vincent, but for now we have to get everything ready.", Spade said.
"Ready for what Mr.Rush?", I asked him.
"Call me Spade, Mr.Rush was my father, and we are getting ready for the one-thousand year anniversary of the creation of the barrier surrounding The Waste.", he told us.
"I didn't realize there was a celebration for that", my father said.
"It wasn't always a celebration, but around four-hundred years ago they decided to start having a celebration for it, to honor all the ponies that lost their lives during the war. I mean it's been one-thousand years since the barrier has been put up, but we've only been celebrating it for six-hundred years. It's confusing I know, but because of the Unicorn Wars, the ponies of the old days didn't really want to celebrate what "caused" Vigor to come here in the first place, but I'm actually glad they decided to have a celebration. It's a lot of fun! You three ponies should come out!" Spade said.
"Why does there need to be security? Has there been a threat made?", My father asked.
"No", Spade informed my dad. "No nothing like that. We just take precautions, just in case somepony tries something stupid." He looked over at Vincent, who was looking down. "Anyhoof I'm sorry to keep you waiting listening to an old man chat. Come on Vincent they need us back at the palace! The High Four have requested us to ask about our preparations, which is why I was looking for you in the first place. I'll race you back to the palace!" Spade said with a smile.
"You're on dad!" Vincent said with a smirk.
They both swooshed up and flew off at a really fast speed. I liked the way Vincent looked. He had a cool looking under suit on, with a black vest. His coat was a light sky blue,his mane was tri-colored. It had dark blue, green, and red mixed in it, I thought it was really cute, and his eyes were an emerald green. Overall he didn't look too bad, but I'm not really a dating type of pony. In my mind family comes first. As we walked into the city I was bombarded with all sorts of senses. From the smell of fresh baked apple pies to the sound of fillies running in the streets. There so many buildings here too! A few of them caught my eyes though. The first one was Lyra's University of Anthropology.
"Eissen, what's Anthropology mean?", I asked.
He let out a deep sigh and said, "It's the ridiculous study of ancient things called... err what were they called... ah yes humans. Somepony believed they actually existed before poines, which is completely idiotic, but someponys actual take it seriously and study it."
In the front of the building there was a painting of a little mint green pony, with a giant smile on her face, holding a sign saying: "They do exist!" We pasted a couple of other buildings that I thought looked cool: Scoot n' Dash's Flying Academy, Bon Bon's Treats, The Pink Cupcake, which had some awesome smells coming from it, Fluttershy's Nature Academy, and one broken down building. As we walked by it I saw a sign that read "Princess Celestia's School of Magic". This building was broken down and really old looking. I didn't bother asking Eissen why, because it was quite obvious why. It looked like it was a magic school, it's kinda obvious from the name, but it made my heart drop when I saw it. I guess Eissen wasn't kidding when he told me that these ponies wanted nothing to do with magic in any way, shape, or form. I did ask him about these buildings that were still standing though.
"Ah yes, a lot of these buildings are very old Viel, some are even named after The Original Six!", he told me.
"Do you know which one's are named after them Eissen?", I asked him.
"I think I do, that one over there, The Scoot n' Dash one, is named after Rainbow Dash The Loyal. That one over there, The Pink Cupcake, is named after Pinkie Pie The Laughing. That one over there , Fluttershy's Nature Academy, is named after Fluttershy The Kind. I don't see any other buildings that are named after The Original Six, but I'm sure there are more in the city somewhere. I mean after all this isn't even a portion of the city! This place is gigantic!", He with a smile.
Our hotel was in the middle of this massive city, which sucks because it's a far walk. I know I'm not out-of-shape or anything, but I hate walking on a hard surface for a long time. All the roads and sidewalks here are made of tile and marble, so my hooves were killing me. After what felt like forever, we finally made it to the center of the city. This looked like the most busy part of the city. I smelled all sorts of yummy treats from all the stores around, the sights were beautiful and amazing too! I could even see the Canterlot Castle from here! The coolest thing, though, was the statues in the middle of the city. I couldn't read what their plaques said, but I was guessing they were statues of The Original Six. I decided to check those out later tonight if I got the opportunity. We eventually made it to our hotel we were staying at. I am really glad I came with Eissen, he seemed like he knew his way around this city quite well. We got settled in, called up room service, ate, and even watched something Eissen called a T.V. I have always heard of these things, but have never actually seen one. They could transmit pictures into a box and make them move, and it even had different channels you could watch! This place truly had everything! Later that evening I decided to go out for a walk, after the crowd died down a lot, and go look at those statues.
It was about eight O' clock when I left. I walked up to the statues and there was a big plaque in-front of them that read:
These statues are a tribute to the six brave ponies, who lost so much and gained so little. Let this be a reminder that, when even in a time a peril, friendship can and will conquer all. Let these statues always remind people of the others lost during the twenty-five year war along with The Keepers of Harmony. Let us always be reminded of their courage and bravery.
Signed,
Princess Celestia, Princess Luna, Princess Mi Amore Cadenza
The names of The Original Six were on the side of the statues. I read them in order: Rainbow Dash The Loyal, Rarity the Generous, Pinkie Pie The Laughing, Fluttershy The Kind, Applejack The Honest, and Twilight The Spark of Friendship. These statues were really detailed, they looked really old, and where actually really beautiful. I turned around from looking at them to meet with a pair of emerald green eyes.
"Hi!", said the pony. I yelped and fell over in surprise!
"Haha! Nice one Viel! Need help getting up?", said the pony.
I recognized that voice.... oh wait.. it was that pegasus from earlier! Vincent!
"No, no I'm fine, you just startled me is all. You really shouldn't do that sneak up on other ponies Vincent! You scared the hell out of me!", I yelled at him.
"Heh, sorry! I thought you heard me come up, I mean it's not like there's a lot of noise around here.", He said with a smirk.
"I was looking at these statues! I wasn't paying attention!", I yelled.
"Calm down Viel!", he yelled back. "I was just messin with ya! I come out here a lot after I get off of work. It's really quiet and peaceful, and the lights make it even more beautiful."
I looked around and found out he was right. I didn't really look at the streets or the lights, but they were beautiful! These weren't normal lights, they were full of life. Every other light was a different color, it went from red, blue, green, yellow, purple, and all sorts of other colors.
I asked, "Why are they like this Vincent?"
He looked at me and said, "No idea, but I love to stare at them and just relax."
He then flew over to a bench and sat down. I decided I should join him, since he was basically my only friend here. We sat there for about forty-five minutes when Vincent finally broke the silence.
"So what's it like?", He asked me.
I asked, "What do you mean?"
He smiled and said softly, "What's it like being a unicorn?"
My heart sank, I didn't know what to say. My mouth just hung open. I tried to answer him, or ask him how he knew, but I just couldn't talk! After about five minutes I was finally able to ask, "H...how did you know?"
"Well, this morning when I crashed into you, your hood fell down for a bit, and before you could put it back on I saw that you have a horn. You don't need to worry about me. I love unicorns, and I've always wanted to meet one! My dad also likes unicorns, it's the main reason we left Manehatten that place hated unicorns!", He told me.
I answered, "Well.. I guess it feels the same as being an earth pony or a pegasus pony. I don't feel to special at all honesty."
"Well, can you use magic?", Vincent quietly asked me.
"Yea, but only simple things. Nothing more than teleporting fifty feet.", I quietly answered.
"Wow! That's so cool!", he said with a lot of excitement.
For the next hour we just talked about me being a unicorn. I had never had so much attention from being a unicorn before, and I'm not going to lie; I kinda liked it. When somepony would start to walk by, we would just quickly change subjects. Vincent had told me so much about this city! He told where to get some great hay bacon, where to go for a good drink, he even told me about a club called DJ Pon3, which, according to Vincent, is the best place to go for a party.
"Well you know I'm a unicorn, so I wanna know something about you mister.", I said to Vincent.
"Sure, what is it?", Vincent answered.
"Why is your hair tri-colored? Do you take after your mom?" I asked.
He blushed really red when I asked him about that. It looked like his hair wasn't the only thing that could change color.
"Well... you see.... I'm a big fan of Rainbow Dash", He said with an embarrassed tone.
"Why are you such a big fan?" I asked him.
"Are you kidding me?! She's the fastest pegasus to ever live! She did the legendary sonic rainboom multiple times! What isn't there to like about her?! I dyed my hair three colors to show my respect... and to be a little bit like her... man what I would give to have met her!", He said with an exciting tone.
"Haha I bet Vincent! You sound like a big fan!", I said with a smile.
"You have no idea Viel!", he said with extreme excitement.
We talked about rainbow dash and the other Original Six for about another hour. Eventually we both started feeling pretty tired, so we decided it was time to go on home.
"Well I guess it's time for me to hit the hay!" , Vincent said with a smile.
"Oh very punny Vincent!", I said while I pushed him
Fun fact about me: I love puns. We had become really good friends in such a short time. He was pretty smart too, despite being a little bit on the arrogant side. He also knew a lot about the Original Six, and when I say he knew about them i mean it. He told me everything he could about them! I got back to our hotel and lied down in my bed. I looked over at my dad who was sitting in a chair watch that T.V. thing.
I turned to him and asked, "Did you have T.V. in Manehatten?"
"Yes, but I didn't watch it much though. Now that I think about it, the only time I watched it was back at the Cloud Academy." He told me.
"What about your top speed thing? The tornado you said went 600 miles per hour, but yet you went 1200 miles per hour according to Spade.", I asked him
He looked over at me, smiled, and said, "We had speed trackers in the body armor we wore when we were doing our patrols. It was kind of like a a competition between us at the station. after the tornado died down, I heard a beeping noise going off. I hit the button and the speed monitor came up. It informed me that I had hit a max speed of 1200 miles per hour for about twenty seconds.If I maintained that, I would have more than likely been torn apart by the force! We pegasi aren't use to flying at those speeds anymore, so it was a really big deal when I survived it."
"Okay... one more question!", I said.
"What is it Viel?", he asked.
"Why is Gravine's nickname Spade?", I asked.
"Oh that's not much of a story. I met him back when I first joined the Academy. We were paired up as a team and no one could beat us in anything. Whatever sport it was, we would always come in first place. Since my name was Ace everyone at the academy gave him the nickname Spade, because the Ace of Spade is the best card in a lot of card games. We were the best team, so that's why he got the name, and we just rolled with it.", He said and yawned. "Well Viel it's time for us to go to sleep, we have a big day tomarrow!" He said with a smile.
"Alright.. oh and dad... could you... tuck me in?", I asked, feeling really embarrassed.
He looked and me and said, "Sure thing honey."
I don't care what anypony says, but being tucked in by your parents, even when you're twenty-years old, is the best feeling in the world! It shows that they really care about you. It also helped me go to sleep. I'm so glad my dad could come with us. I do miss my mom, but I couldn't wait until I got back to tell her about how much fun I had in Canterlot! Oh mommy.. I miss you so much.
That night I had a another dream.. only this time it was almost real. It actually felt like I was there. I looked around me and I saw... ponything, but everything was burning. I saw my mother and father on the ground.. they... they were dead. I looked over and saw a giant monster standing next to her. He said something to me that I didn't understand, it was in some ancient language. All of a sudden it was all dark around me. I looked around for anything, any sort of light source. Suddenly A light came down on me, and I saw that I was standing in water. I looked down into the body of water I was standing in and... I saw myself.. at least I think I did. My mane was black, my coat was a dark grey, covered in blood. My eyes were blood red... and my teeth were as sharp as daggers. I then heard screaming and looked up, it was the same monster... holding Eissen. I saw him get slowly ripped in half, and I stood there and did nothing. I didn't do a fucking thing! I just stood there and watch my best friend, my mentor, scream bloody murder as he was ripped in-half. I felt a rage build up in me... a rage I have never felt before. I looked up at the monster and shot him with some sort of dark sphere, and he broke into pieces like glass. I heard the deep voice say to me: "Embrace the darkness Viel. With it anything is possible. You'll be the most powerful pony in Equestria. Nopony will stand in your way. NOPONY!" I looked down and.... and.. I saw all of my friends dead at my feet. Everypony I have ever met was there.... and there blood was on my hooves, on my coat, on my main.. it was everywhere. I started screaming and woke up in a cold sweat in my bed. I looked over and saw Eissen and my dad were sleeping. I slowly laid my head down and fell back asleep. I really wish these dreams would stop.
"HAPPY BIRTHDAY VIEL! TIME TO WAKE UP!," I heard both Eissen and my dad shout.
I shot up out of bed, heart pounding like no tomorrow! I mean who does that to a girl?! We need oursleep!
"Hu..huh?!", I said with shock., "Oh yea.. thanks y'all.", I said with a yawn
I was still very tired, but I was able to have a lot fun with dad and Eissen. We ate a birthday breakfast that dad and Eissen woke up early to fix for me. It was hay bacon with flowers, and not just any flowers they were roses! They taste the best! We ate, I opened some presents, and we talked a lot too. The whole day we walked around Canterlot, shopping, buying magical supplies, well supplies we would use for magic, and a few other things. I was having a lot more fun for my birthday than I had expected. just two days ago I thought I would just be in my house doing nothing, not in Canterlot having fun with my daddy and Eissen. We spent the whole day just wondering around Canterlot. I say it was about five O' clock by the time we were finished shopping. We decided to go to the celebration thing that Spade mentioned yesterday. I even bought a dress! It was pure white with a blue trim. I also bought a cool looking hate to go along with it, to obviously over up my horn too. I was wearing my little cloak and vest under it too. It might look pretty, but it did chaff. I have never worn a dress before, but I thought I looked pretty sexy in it. When we got there the festival had started way before we got there. This thing was amazing! It had all sorts cool clothes, masks, food, drinks, decorative cups, all sorts of cute things! I heard trumpets sound and everypony started to settle down. Me, dad, and Eissen walked with the crowd to see what was going on. There was a big stag right in-front of a big, purple, see through wall, then it hit me! We were at the barrier! I knew it was suppose to be big... but man this thing was huge!
I saw Vincent and his dad fly out onto the stage. They were both wearing bright golden armor, with a red trimming. Eissen told me earlier that elites in the Canterlot guard had different armor than the normal ones. I looked around and to my left I saw a giant pegasus drawn carriage pull up, then next to it was a highly guarded electro-carriage. Somepony ran up to Spade and gave him a horn and then ran off.
Spade then shouted: "Please everypony quiet down! I would like to announce The High Four! Please welcome earth ponies Giga Rushdo and Youder Rushdo!"
The two ponies then stepped out of the Electro-cart and onto a giant red carpet. They both had green eyes, a red coat, and white manes. I'm guessing they're twins.
Spade then continued, "Also I am proud to present our pegasi leaders Lukin Doe and Ikdon Val!"
Lukin had a weird looking coat and mane. They were both green and orange. His yes were redish purple. I didn't really like the look of him. The other one was kinda cool looking though! He had a grey coat, a black and white mane, and red eyes!
All four of them walked up to the stage and said at the same time," Welcome everypony welcome! We are so glad you could attend our celebration! While you enjoy your food and drinks please remember the brave ponies that put their life down to save us all! Remember the all of them! Pegasi, Earth, and Unicorn!"
When they said unicorn I heard mixed chatter in the crowd about it.
They continued, "Now, now everypony! Let's put those old emotions behind us! We live in a new time, a newer and better Equestria! We need to show love to everypony!" Now join us in the Canterlot Ple-"
Before they could finish there was a huge explosion, from behind the barrier. Everypony just kinda stood there for a bit, we were all in shock. Nopony knew what was going on, but then we all heard it. The noise of something cracking, breaking into pieces. Next thing I knew everypony was running. The barrier was coming down! I couldn't believe my eyes! This thing was suppose to be unbreakable! It was suppose to last forever! How was it coming down? Why was it coming down? Who was doing it? Eissen and my dad stayed right by me the entire time. We starting running back when I heard it. It was that laughter.
"No... It can't be...", I thought to myself.
It was the same laughter from my dreams.. the same dark spirit! I stopped in my tracks and turned around to see what it was. I just had to see who the hell has been torturing me for the past five years! I just fucking had to! I couldn't see anything through the barrier. I looked hard, but I just couldn't see through it. My dad and Eissen came running up behind me.
My dad yelled, "Damn it Viel! We have to go now! We don't know what's coming through that thing!"
"NO!", I shouted back. "I have to see him! I have to see who he is!"
My father and Eissen was trying to pull me back, but I wouldn't let them. I looked up and saw Vincent and Spade lining up the men and women of the Canterlot guard. They had sharp wing blades along with mechanical guns mounted on them.
"Protect the civilians!", I heard Spade shout. "We can not let anything happen to them! Ready your weapons! Whatever comes out of that barrier, we aim to kill!"
Then another explosion happened, only this time the barrier broke. The shock wave sent everypony flying backwards. I hit the ground pretty hard, almost enough to knock me out. I strained to get up and look around.. and what I saw.. was unimaginable. I saw tiny imp creatures start running out of the barrier and started ripping apart the guards, giant Minotaur crushing them with their giant hooves. The were goblins, wolves of gigantic size, demonic looking creatures, some were so deformed I couldn't even Identify them. I saw Vincent and his dad fighting with all they had. As much as the creatures tried they couldn't catch them. I guess he wasn't lying about being super fast. They were able to kill the little imp things with ease, but the Minotaur were a different story. after about five minutes the remaining forces of the guard were able to get up and start retaliating against the creatures. They were doing good too, they truly were the best in Equestria. I got up and looked around for my dad and Eissen. I heard the evil laugh again and I turned to see...him.
It was him. The beast of legend. The God of Evil. The destroyer of Equestria. Vigor . I couldn't look away. I was paralyzed with fear. The legends Eissen told me were true. He was massive, and his glowing red eyes were starring into my soul . He had to at least stand almost twenty feet tall. Nine other creature walked out behind him, all of them ugly and distorted. He turned to one and said something I couldn't understand. Some sort of ancient language. He then turned to the Canterlot Castle, spread his wings, and said something I could understand. He said it so loud it was if he was speaking to all of New Equestria.
He said in he dark, evil voice, "Attention you worthless creatures of Equestria! I ,your King Vigor, have returned. All those who choose not to accept my rule will die.. slower than the rest! You are all now my slaves! I will feast on your flesh! Your blood shall quench my thirst. Welcome to the rule of King Vigor!"
He then flew off toward the Canterlot Castle. His nine minions then started attack the guards, Killing them like flies. The weapons had no effect on any off them. The blades broke on contact with their skin, if the pegasi were lucky enough to get that close. Most of them were sliced into pieces before they could even get to them. The bullets bounced off their skin like it was nothing. I was so busy looking at this scene that I didn't notice they giant Minotaur in front of me , until it was too late. He raised his foot up.
I heard Eissen's voice off to the side say, "You get HELL away from her, you abomination!!"
A light blue flash of light filled up my eyes and the Minotaur went flying backs, blood coming from a hole in his stomach. Essien and my dad ran up beside me. My dad threw his hooves around me and asked if I was okay. I was quiet for a little bit, but then I was able to say, "Y...Yea dad I'm fine."
"LOOK OUT!", Eissen yelled.
Out of no where a giant green ball of magic came crashing down onto us. It threw all three of us away from each other. I felt my front leg get burned really bad. I opened my eyes and saw a giant bat creature.
He looked at me and said in a sinister voice, "Well, well, well. Look who we have here. It's little miss Viel! About time we met! Allow me to introduce myself. I am Arak Yüen. I am the right hand man of our Lord Vigor, and I am sure he'll love it if I bring him the head of the one he's tortured for the past four years.... no wait I mean five. Happy birthday. No wait I have an even better idea! I'll your take friends here, bring them along with you, then Vigor can eat them, alive, in front of you before skinning you alive and slowly consuming you! Oh it'll be perfect!" He laughed and smiled at his own idea.
"N...No.. You... you won't hurt my friends.. I can't... no.. I WON'T LET YOU!!", I screamed.
All of a sudden I felt a power rise up in me. It wasn't evil, nor was it rage. I felt like purity was coursing through me. I got up, and saw that my leg ,which was badly burned, was now healed. Along with that, my coat was turning white! I saw my hair turning a gold color, no not blond I mean it was literally the color of gold! I looked to my left and saw my reflection in some broken glass. My eyes were a lighter purple now too! I looked at Arak who was now full of fear.
"YOU. WILL. NOT. HURT. MY. FRIENDS!!!" I shouted at him.
I felt the power flow into my horn and I shot a beam of light purple light at him. Arak screamed in horrible pain and went flying backwards. I turned towards the creatures coming towards and starting shooting beams of magic at them. I couldn't let my daddy or Eissen get hurt again! I tried hitting as much of them as I could. Despite never using, or even knowing for that matter, this spell, I had great control of it. I heard a that Celestial voice in my head again say: Control Viel, remember what I said. There is no greater power than friendship. Always protect your friends, never seek vengeance..
I heard Arak scream, "RETREAT TO THE CASTLE! SHE HAS AWAKENED HER POWERS!"
I noticed he seemed to be missing an arm. The creatures stopped what they were doing and ran towards the Canterlot Castle. I looked at them and tried shooting, but I was completely drained. Everything started to go black, and the last thing I saw before passing out was Vigor standing on top of the castle. I heard his blood curling scream, then fainted.
I woke up inside a normal old carriage. My dad was in there with me waiting for me to wake up. His face was full of so much joy when he saw me open my eyes.
He said to me, "Viel?! Thank goodness you're okay! I didn't think you would wake up! Here have some water!"
I took a drink from the bowl my dad had water in. I noticed in my reflection that I was normal looking again. I started to sit up, but almost fainted.
"Take it easy Viel! You used a lot of powerful magic, and it'll take awhile for you to regain your strength.", I heard Eissen say from the front. He was pulling the cart with his magic.
"How long was I out? What happened to me? What spell was that?", I asked quickly. I almost fainted again just from that sentence.
"Whoa Viel one thing at a time!", Eissen said.
"Yeah Viel take it easy.", My dad told me.
"Alright.. sorry, but what the hell happened?", I asked Eissen.
"Well Viel, it looks like you have a magic source of pure magic, or light magic as some call it. This means that your heart is truly pure. That you care about the ones you love. When that Arak guy attacked us it must of been awakened inside of you, to protect me and your dad. I have no idea what spell you used either. It looked like it was some sort of light spell. Whatever it was, it took of Arak's left arm. You were even able to kill some of the other monsters.", Eissen said
"I...I killed something?.." I asked.
I have never killed something before. I felt really sick to my stomach. I mean I know I had to so that I could save my dad and Eissen... but still I felt sick. Eissen must have noticed that, because he gave me a concerned look when I met his eyes.
He looked over at me and said. "It's okay Viel. Killing something is never easy, but you had to. If you didn't, then we would all be dead right now."
Eissen was right. I should dwell on the past. If not for me we would all be dead. I looked over at my father and asked how long we have been traveling.
"We've been traveling for almost three days. We should be back in Ponyting by nightfall. Once we are there I can warn our little Village and get everypony out of there." He said with concern.
"W..What happened to Vincent and his dad?" I asked my dad.
"Well after all those abominations went towards the castle, Vincent and spade... helped clean up. They helped get the remaining ponies out of there, and then Vincent found us. He helped us find a carriage to put you in. He even gave us some food, water, and blankets to help us. He saw that you and Eissen were unicorns, but I know he wouldn't care too much. After all his mom was a unicorn, or at least I think she is. I was the only one who knew that Spade had a thing for a Unicorn girl back in Manehatten. Last time I saw him in Manehatten, they were still together. Guess it doesn't matter right now huh?
I shook my head, took a sip of water, and laid back down.
"Oh Viel, before you sleep, congratulations." Eissen said.
"For what?", I asked, thinking he meant about saving his life.
"For your cutie mark, looks like your talent is magic.", He said with a smile.
Shocked, I looked down at my leg, and sure enough I had a cutie mark! I really wish it was at a happier time, but you gotta count your blessings. It was a purple gem surrounded with purple magic. I thought it looked really nice. I laid my head back down and fell asleep.We walked for about twelve more hours until we reached Ponyting. I slept on and off the whole way there, so most of my strength had returned to me. We got out of the car when I smelled something.. burning.
"Dad... What's that smell?", I asked him. He sniffed the air, as did Eissen.
My dad's eyes widened, fear flowed over his face.
"NO! NO, NO, NO!", He shouted and ran off towards Ponyting. Eissen and I were right behind him.
When we got to Ponyting.. there was nothing left. Only a few buildings on fire. Without thinking about it I ran towards our house. My dad tried to stop me, but I was too quick. I kept thinking in my head "She's okay, She's Okay. She got somewhere safe". I found my house and started going through it. My dad and Eissen started helping me.
That's when I heard a feint voice say, "Help...". It was my mom.
I ran over to where I think the voice came from. Since it was so dark, I couldn't really see. That's when I heard voices coming. It was monsters. I saw that two of them were part of Vigors nine. They both looked like big hairy two-legged timberwolves. We quickly hide, but I quietly kept looking too. Eventually I found her. She was cut, bruised, and slashed.
"H...Hi Viel", She said weakly.
"Hi mom.", I said back. By this time my dad and Eissen had quietly came over next to me. Dad couldn't even speak. He just got down, hugged her, and kissed her.
I started talking in a quiet voice and said, "Mom, it'll be alright. We will get you out of her. We will find you help"
"V-V-Viel.. W-we both know- it's too late for that.. My-my wounds are t-too deep.", she said weakly.
"Damn it mom.. don't talk like that! We can save you." I said. My eyes tearing up.
"Viel.. y-you've grown so much... I-I am so proud of you...", she weakly said as she teared up. "I-I couldn't.. have asked for a better daughter..."
It started to rain. When I say rain, I mean it started to pour down like no tomorrow.
"Viel... Take...take this. It's... an amulet... from... my mother...she said...to... to pass it on... to my daughter...", she said as she took off a purple amulet and gave it to me.
"Viel.. I... I love.. you..." She said as she let out a breath.
"M..mommy? Mommy?! Wake up! Please wake up mommy! Don't leave me please! I need you! Please come back mommy please!!" I was yelling at this point.
My dad started crying, as did I. All of a sudden two big hands swiped all of us away from her and into the middle of Ponyting. It was the two Timberwolf creatures.
"Oh looky here, it's the hero of Canterlot. The little bitch that took Akra's arm. I'm sure he'll be pleased if we bring her back!" said one of the monsters.
I couldn't move, I was still in shock, and I was still crying too.
"Was that your mommy? Haha! She put up a good fight, actually killing two of our Minotaur, but we put that bitch in her place. It was so much fun cutting into her."
I felt a snap in me. I felt something dark coming.
"Shut the hell up!", said the other one. Do you want her to go all pure like and kill us?"
"Ha! She hasn't mastered it yet! If she had, then we'd already be dead", Timberwolf #1 said.
"Yea.. I guess you're right.", Said Timberwolf#2.
"I wish her mom had lasted longer though. Her screams gave me so much pleasure. He blood spilling out was the best sight in all of Equestria or New Equestria. Whatever the hell you stupid ponies call it now." Timberwolf#1 said.
That's when I felt it. I felt power coming over me again, but this time was very different. This time it hurt. It felt like it was consuming my body. The wind started to pick up, it started raining harder. I started hear to pulsing around me. Thump thump, thump thump,thump thump. It sounded like my heart was outside my body is was so loud. I looked up, or tried to anyways, and it seemed like no one else had heard it. I was just standing there, in a puddle of blood and water. Tears were pouring down my face. The pain started to rise over my body. I felt a darkness start to consume my heart. I felt all the good emotions in me slowly leave my body.. I slowly got the wanting to... murder... no... to TORTURE them to death, then I felt it. The pain started shooting through my body. It hurt so bad I couldn't even scream. It felt as if someone was ripping out my soul. I felt no more love, no more kindness. I didn't know what was going on, but I couldn't stop it. I wanted to kill these things so bad. I felt like ripping them to shreds. I wanted to leave nothing left of them.
"What's wrong with me?", I asked myself in pain.
"Nothing..", I answered back.
"Hey what's wrong with her?" I heard one of them ask. I didn't know which one. I didn't care.
"Nothing, she's just having trouble accepting her sad little fate.. is the wind picking up?", said the other one
"Yea it is.. what's going on?!", the other one asked.
The wind had picked up even more, as did the rain. It was raining so hard that I could barely see. A thunderstorm had formed too. The strikes of thunder were almost deafening. All of a sudden I felt this evil truly come over me. The pain was even more now, it was burning me to the bones. I screamed out in horrible pain. I heard my dad scream my name, but I had no idea where he was, and I didn't care. I felt the evil consume me, and it felt great. I let it take me over. I wanted to teach these bastards a lesson. I felt the evil come over me, and when it completely consumed me, the rain and weather stopped. I looked up and I was surrounded by a red aura.
"What.. what is that!?!", I heard one of the creatures yell.
"I.. I don't know.. Kill her men!", the other one said.
" I don't think so", I said in a cold voice. All i did is look up at them and focused.
"Boss.. I can't move!" one of the Minotaur shouted.
"You guys are weak let me... what the hell? I can't move?! What are you doing to us?", He asked me.
It felt as if someone else was controlling me, and it felt good. I looked over at Eissen and dad and gave them the "stay there" look and walked over to the bastards who killed my mom. I stopped when I got to them. I looked on the ground and saw my reflection, and did this look familiar. My coat was a dark grey, my mane was black and red, my eye color had turned blood red. I smiled and saw that my teeth were sharper. I looked back up and turned my head. My cutie mark was different too. It was now red surrounded by black magic. I turned back and looked at the monsters.
"So... You like pain?", I said with almost no emotion. "Do you like pain?! If you love it so much, then why don't I give you some of my pain?!"
I thought of every sort of pain I could. From being dissected alive to being impaled, and I made them feel it all at once. I made them feel every pain imaginable. I started to grin at their screams. I laughed at their cries.
"P..Please s..stop!" One of the wolves shouted.
"Stop?... Stop?... STOP?! DID YOU STOP WHEN MY MOTHER CRIED?! DID YOU STOP AT HER SCREAMS OF AGONY?! DID YOU?! NO, YOU DIDN'T!", I screamed at them and I heard my voice echo.
All the memories of my mom flooded back into my head. When she would tuck me in at night and tell me story. When she would sing to me when I was scared. When she would hug me when I was sad. All the things she did for me.. and I could protect her.. I couldn't save her... and no one was going to save them.
"It's time to die, you abominations!", I said with a sinister smile. I started laughing, and slowly pulling them apart with my magic. Their screams of pain was pleasure to my ears. I slowly ripped them apart, one body part at a time. From their toes, to their fingers, they were going to die.
While I was doing this, Eissen's words popped in my head. "You used light magic Viel, that means you have a pure heart. I laughed at this. If that was true, I wouldn't be doing this right now. I didn't care though.. all I cared about was getting my revenge. Eventually all the monster were dead, except the timberwolves. For them I made them suffer anything I did before, only this time ten times worse. After I was finished I used what magic I had left to rip them to pieces. A spray of blood went everywhere. It got all over my coat and mane, and I licked it off my face. It tasted good. I felt really tired then. I started to slowly black out again. This time though, I heard two voices
"Embrace your dark side Viel, and we will become unstoppable.", I heard an evil voice say.
It wasn't the same voice as before. This one sounded more like the good voice, except a lot darker.
"Do not listen to her Viel, you must maintain your good side. Without it Vigor will win.", I heard the good voice in my head say.
Great now I have two voices in my head. I had no time to respond to them before I passed out, but as I hit the ground I heard a different voice, one that sounded Celestial. The voice I heard all those years ago as a little filly.
She said to me, "Remember Viel, always trust your heart. Friendship is the only way to bring back the harmony. Never forget Viel, you need your friends."
I slowly faded away at those words... Friendship... that was something I didn't need right now. All I wanted was my mommy back.
