Before life was created... two beings existed, light and darkness, once together, they created the first living being... life, life was the moderator of the new world... but every being that was born had to decay, after light and darkness went to a long sleep they created the moon and the sun, two powerful sisters that helped his brother in the world named earth... but after life became death... they were separated into many powerful kingdoms... powerful beings were born from the ashes of the titans and they created new kingdoms... the sisters had to create, with the help of several tribes of earth ponies, pegasi and unicorns, a new kingdom named Equestria...

What is this pain? Where am I? I could only see darkness… only one thing kept me conscious… the screams, the ponies inside this crumbling city were dying and I was helpless, I was badly injured by the ruins of what was before, the tallest building in Trottingham… but what was this pain that I could feel in my lower left leg… the blood coming out from my injuries was being absorbed by the cold concrete, I couldn’t see how bad my injury was… the big piece of building had landed on top of me and it was pressing my inferior against the ground, but I could see how a metal rod was piercing through the rock and through my leg… I couldn’t feel the end of the leg anymore… as I brought my eyes to see my other wounds I could see how bad I was… I had two options… Die there… or cut my leg… but the pain wasn’t the only thing that made me want to do that kind of action… a voice from outside was yelling my name… it was her… I could hear she was in pain and I couldn’t do nothing… so I did it, first with my strength I lifted the big piece, but that made the rod move from side to side… it was extremely painful, then grabbing my spear I cut the muscle, it wasn’t enough strong to break the bone… the pain was unbearable, but I had to do it… then grabbing a rock of a rather big size I struck my leg, the sound of the bone cracking and the extreme pain, made me scream in pain as I became free of the metallic deathtrap.

Now only one obstacle was standing between me and my family, the pain didn’t cease, but I had to bear with it if I wished to saved them both… grabbing my spear and with all my strength that I had left I made a small hole in the wall, enough to get out… it was like hell outside… I could see the green fire burning the buildings, melting the steel and stone that was on its way, as I got out the building crumbled into a pile of rocks that began to be consumed by the hellish fire, I had to crawl to get out of the blazing debris… I knew that fire and I knew what it did to you if you were touched by it… the scene on the outside was awful, everything was being consumed by the flames and the agonizing ponies were scattered all over the broken streets and I could hear ponies yelling names, trying to localize the others… this was worse than Tartarus itself, with corpses lying all over the streets, agonizing earth ponies, pegasi and unicorns trying to save their loved ones with their strength… only to find the disfigured bodies of the ones they used to call the closest to them.

Where is she? Where is her scream coming from? I tried to find her from what was left of the hospital in front of the building that had just crumbled and fell hiding the remaining ponies that were there… I knew she had just gave birth, I knew she was really weak, I knew I couldn’t make much in the state I was… but I need her to scream and tell me where she is “N-Nightshade…” I could hear a weak shout under the pieces of concrete, ignoring the pain, I found a force that helped me get all the debris out of my way and by the second the voice was becoming weaker…

“P-PLEASE TWINKLESHINE!” I was desperate to find her “DON’T GIVE UP…” I knew I was bleeding too much… I was about to lose conscious so I did something rushed… I burned around the leg to make the hemorrhage stop, the feeling of the fire burning the flesh of what was left of my leg was too much to handle, I screamed as the pain was overtaking my body and the feeling of adrenaline was filling my veins making me start to lose conscious faster, but my military training taught me to withstand the pain because on war you have to make decisions that might end in the worst pain you could imagine… from surgeries without anesthesia to amputation of damaged members in heat of battle… it wasn’t pretty, but it will work for now, I continued with my duty, to save not only my wife, but to save my small newborn.

“This is not good” I was sweating, I couldn’t bear with this much longer… the pieces were heavy and the only thing I could use was one leg, without my staff I couldn’t do any kind of spell to lift the concrete and the more time I spent the more dangerous the situation was, I could hear the noise of my bones breaking thanks to the heavy rocks but I wasn’t going to give up, the voice was staring to hear closer and closer until I finally reached the end, there was a small hole that was covered with some rocks, I knew I was trying to remove the debris from the second floor… the first floor appeared to be ok and the reinforced walls allowed the whole floor to survive the attack, I jumped to the level below, I could see some survivors… but as well as bodies and pieces of what was before ponies… on the back of the hallway I could see her, lying on the wall… she was weak and on one side she was embracing a small orange filly, a small Pegasus “T-Twinkleshine!” I tried to ran the fastest I could… but I fell to the ground three times, my 3 legs were exhausted and the pain of the wound made me scream each time I got up again, I caught the attention of everypony as I trotted around the room with what was remaining from my leg, they saw my determination to get to where my wife was… they started to help me, two colts helped me by putting themselves on my sides and carefully lifting me up, the grey with red mane on my right and the brown one with the white mane on my left… I was being transported by them… I was helpless; when I got to her side they sat me on the corner on her left side… close to her… I could hear her heavily breathing, exhausted and I could see my filly, with a beautiful purple mane and eyes… she was seeing me than went to sleep again… “H-Hey…”

“Hey night shade” said the pink mare as she got closer to me, her beautiful metallic pink mane was disheveled and some, she was weak but those blue eyes still made me fell in love… “Look at her, isn't she gorgeous?” she had a smile.

“yes…” she was the cutest thing I ever saw “she looks exactly like your mother…” she truly did, but this small filly brought me a warm feeling inside me… something I wished for since a long time “finally we have a family filled with beautiful mares…” my tone was low and smooth to not wake up the small Pegasus…

“So how should we name her?” she said to me, she had her eyes closed and was resting in my shoulder.

“I don’t know…” I always wanted to name my first foal “how about Scootaloo… that was your mother’s name, right?” I remember her mother; it was thanks to her that I found Twinkleshine, I remember when I was in the war, everyday coming to her house to eat since her husband died and I had to give her the news, I went because she was sick and I helped her do the cooking, she raised Twinkleshine and at first Twink and I weren’t “friends” but time cures injuries and she forgave me… it was never my fault, but I took responsibility every time I had to deliver the news to the families, taking hate from almost everypony… but miss Scootaloo was different, when I lost my home she offered me a place to stay and when I was tired a place to sleep… but then her disease caught up to her and she died shortly after… I married Twinkleshine a year after.

“It’s… it’s” she was tired, and was starting to fell asleep; she gave a yawn “It’s beautiful” then fell asleep and as she slept I began to hum the lullaby that made me remember every time I went to that colorful house, tears of joy began to drop and I fell unconscious as I heard some yelling coming from the outside… finally some help has arrived…

The memory started to fade, leaving me on the middle of Ponyville

“DAD!” Said Scootaloo as she ran to his father’s side “where were you?” she began to cry and sob “I was worried *sob* dad!” she was hugging my right leg.

“Don’t worry Scoot” I said softly, trying to comfort her “the train was late because it had to stop in Manehattan, so please stop crying”

“B-But dad!” she was scared “the witch and… and the ponies… t-the witch has captured p-princess Celestia!”
The word went through me like a shock of electricity “W-what?” I don’t know what she is trying to tell me… it’s this a game or a dream? Am I still sleeping in the train?

“S-She said she was called N-Nightmare Moon” now I know this is real… but now? Why? I thought she was still imprisoned in the moon… was this what Celestia tried to warn me about?

“Where’s vinyl?” I remembered that I told her to guard the entrance of the everfree forest “Let’s go Scootaloo, I will leave you in home” I knew the myth, I knew it was real… but why now? We aren’t prepared for something like this, we have problems all over the kingdom that we need to solve, and we don’t have enough soldiers to fight off the changelings, plus is relatively close to a town filled with civilians, we ran to the cottage made out of beautiful brown with a touch of red and a wonderful smell, that combined with the morning mist, made me relax. The terrain was big and it was just outside the everfree forest, it was a large house, on the right side there were some small sheds filled with tools and some weaponry, as the door opened the moonlight entered, then I turned on the lights with the small switch on the wall next to the door.

“Dear Scoot…” then opening a small closet door in a hallway just between the kitchen and the living room “go upstairs, bath yourself and go to bed.”

“And you dad?” she was still agitated, but I think she was more tired “are you going to bed?”

“No…” I said while searching through all the trash inside the surprisingly big closet “I will be… late” then grabbing a helmet from the ground and putting it on… “I have some business to attend to…” she obeyed and went upstairs, she knew me; she knew what I did and what I always fought against to… she just has to bear with it… she is stronger than me, but I never knew my father nor my mother, I tough of good memories with master… her wife prepared the most wonderful meals, his son was my best friend, almost my brother… I had no siblings so it was hard to know the feeling, and master was the greatest person I knew and the only one who inspired me to grow stronger… they died in front of my eyes… I was putting my armor on my body, I had no tears, because they died by my own hoof...

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“MY HOOVES HUUUUUUUURT” vinyl was whining out loud “come on Tavi, do we really need to save them?”

“Yes, they are civilians…” she was just like a little filly, she does not want to take the responsibilities she has acquired when we were assigned to this mission, I wished we could go back home and have some wonderful dinner… but somepony has to do it, but I’m still curious… what was that mysterious figure we watched earlier, I am certain it was not a pony nor animal… it was almost a mass of energy that was levitating and then disappeared from sight… maybe everything will become clear when nightshade comes back from his reunion with the leaders of the light alliance… but for now it will remain a mystery “now, hurry before they end up in a lot of trouble…” as I was about to finish a light illuminated the whole forest, I could tell the source of such and it was just ahead… “maybe too late” then one strong wind blew from the site, the trees started to being lift up in the air as an enormous sphere of light consumed the terrain and the earth started to crumble as it broke into pieces, from the center a beam of colored lights was fired to the skies and six lights of different colored levitated at the sides and were connected by a beam of light making a massive hexagon around the sphere, we had to run, the shock wave was coming our way and anything that was struck by it force was ripped to pieces… pieces of rock and trees were threw as we ran at full speed… what was this great force… It was almost like…*BOOM* “WHAT THE…”*RUMBLE*the shock wave was too fast “VINYL” we were airborne, the powerful wind destroyed almost the whole ground… What the hay happened!? The sphere just disappeared and was replaced by a column of dark matter and a hellish fire of a black color was burning the forest… oh no… no, no, no, no, NO! “VINYL! GET OVER HERE!” we have to use the spell… we were flying at full speed towards a big wall of rock… “FAST”

“I'M TRYING!” She jumped from rock to rock, still the powerful wind was destabilizing us and the wall was approaching… we had no time now, it was in slow motion, just as we were about to hit the wall a big flash appeared and then the next millisecond we were crashing in the ground… we transporter outside of the forest… from the point where we warped to where we are now… we rolled pretty much, I had some cuts and bruises but nothing serious.

“Are you ok Vinyl?” I approach to her and with my hooves I helped her to get up from the grass field “Well you seem to be in one piece… except for your shades, they are broken…”

“Damn it… three times this week” I knew her… she wasn’t responsible enough to take care of any-thing… “Well…*Sigh* they were old anyways”

“Well… you had used them since 10 years… and anyways, you have a spell that can fix them” I said to her.

“Yeah…” she replied taking off the dirt of her white mane “But I’m lazy” at least she can admit it…

“It is pretty simple…” I was interrupted by a loud *BANG* then the ground started to shake as an enormous explosion destroyed what was left of the ruins… the explosion embraced the six lights and then a second one threw them toward our direction… something was happening… and it was pretty big…

-10 minutes ago-

I was ready to kick some flanks now, I had my golden armor with obsidian decorations and rubies in the front of the helmet, my spear was made out of unichrome and the blade at top of it was made from pegasium… they are long lost materials left by the gods and the spear was given to me by Celestia… those were the strongest material on existence, even now it’s hard to get 1 milligram of pegasium hardly pure enough to be called it by that name… my sword and my gauntlet (an acient glove with “fingers”, it worked by using magic to move them, it was really hard to learn but when you know how to use it, then it’s pretty easy and a neat way to grab stuff) were made out of the same material… lucem ac tenebras, a powerful alloy made from two rare metals… once put together I could transmit magic to it (as a Pegasus I needed a tool to use magic, after almost a year of research, my master found an amulet that… after using some strange spells, his properties and powers were sent to me and I became a Pegasus with the ability to use spells and complicated magic… I recall the name of it… alicorn amulet…) then I was able to create a great damage.

“Tenebrosam Noctem!” I shouted at the darkness and from the ground a shadow appeared, then, as coming out of some dark goo, a dark figure spreading enormous wings and shouting a frightening cry came out of the shadow, the figure was a enormous bird and his red bright eyes pierced through the night, it had a long tail and a black fire was coming out of its back… it looked like something that came from the darkest pits of Hades. It was a umbra phoenix, unlike the nocte phoenix (ice) or the nova phoenix (fire), this was the guardian of the Tartarus and darkness, in night a frightful creature, but in day a majestic bird… we were together since a long time ago and one of my most powerful and trusty companion, then with another cry the bird became a solid form “come on, you don’t have to be so formal Tenn” I knew him… he was giving the shout of war, much too formal for my style.

“Sorry, master…” the deep voice of his, had as well, a tone that always gave him certain knowledge or wisdom, he was too my own personal encyclopedia, he was, from all the birds of destiny, the wiser “this is a tradition for my kind and…”
“Don’t worry…” I really liked him acknowledging me as his master, but we were companions, but now wasn’t time to be formal, it was time for action “we have some work to do…” then I heard a voice, It was a small violet dragon with green scales coming at me with some kind of scroll in his hand…

“H-Hey!” he was out of breath… he ran a mile or so… that’s how far our home is from the town… he looked somehow familiar… “a-are you nightshade” he had in his hand… oh no… a red paper… this was something only reserved to the top of the top of the academy… in simple words… me, Shining Armor or the right hand of the princess…

“Where did…” I was interrupted…

“Princess Celestia…” he couldn't talk much… he was nervous, tired and out of breath… this was serious.

“What!?” With full force I grabbed the item and with a serious look on my face as I began to read…. This was awful; the whole Canterlot guard was defeated by some kind of unknown silhouette… and the princess was kidnapped, this was sent from her right hand, Day Spark, a unicorn mare with a great magic and one of my most admirable rivals for the head of the Royal Canterlot Army… occupied by Sharpblade, the earth pony with the power to slain dragons with his hooves… for her to write this kind of documents meant this was an all-out war against this menace… at least I know what I’m fighting against, but that didn’t affects the odds… as I read I knew I needed my whole team (I only had Vinyl and Octavia… for now).

“I-I wish I could fight…” then he remembered the experiment and the egg… it was him “I met this mare and…”

“I can help you… but I need you to come with me to my cottage…” if he was him… then he would be just like his old self… “But it’s all in your claws…” he was really agitated… maybe his adoptive family was in danger… “You want become strong?… or do you want to become stronger?”

He stood there thinking… then “Y-yes…” by the look on his eyes he was serious, I could tell he was exactly like his old self…

“Come with me…” I started walking towards the house as the darkness began to consume my silhouette… “Tenn… go” as a response he gave a powerful shout and flew at full speed towards the place where vinyl and Octavia were… who was I to guess that right after that cry a big sphere of light began to consume the forest… then a column of black fire replaced the light and the six lights surrounding that sphere started to fly towards the point where vinyl and Octavia were when I assigned her to guard the entrance… “Hurry…”

Author's Note

well... new update... i'm sorry the time... i was going to update a week ago, but i had tests to do in highschool, projects, etc. but no worry, i will try all i can to update 1-2 chaptes for week... and sorry if you don't like it... but this is just the beginning of a LONG (im being serious with this long) series and a really confusing story... so bye.