Light of a Soul

To Alter One's Past

"Soul Light!" Nashadow runs up to the Pegasus about to take flight to his college.

"What?" He hovers in mid-air, waiting for her response when she says the unthinkable.

"I know how to change your past!" She breathes heavily while Soul looked at her like she was an alien.

"You do?"

"Yes! Just follow me!"

Dad...

"O.K. So we just strap this on, and this on." Nashadow straps a belt into a machine that she had used a long time ago. It collects dust and had electric bulbs overhead, with a generator to go with it. Soul was surprised to see that such technology existed in Ponyvile.

"I'll set it to some years in the past, And I'll-...are you O.K?" Light stared at her...his mind drifted to the moment where his parents died. How his hair was colored, how he met Rainbow Dash and turned his life around. What would happen if that didn't happen?

"Soul Light?"

"Yea? Sorry I zoned out for a bit." Nashadow nods and the two of them strap themselves in the machine. Jolts of electricity surged through them. Light felt he was going to be ripped from his hide. Holding her hoof, he can only hope that the trip to the past won't kill him on the way. They were transported through time and to the same alleyway where his parents had died. Looking at the current time, Soul Light had only three days to prevent his parents death. Nashadow had leads to a murderer that wore a black trench coat and was a unicorn in grey. She said that from the newspaper, the murderer had escaped and waited three days for their next victim.

Soul Light wanted to prevent his transformation, but if he interfere, he will cease to exist. They had to find a place to stay soon. With a few bits from the job Soul Blood gave them, they stayed at a hotel with red blankets, two bathrooms, and a maid. Nashadow was cold in the bed, shivering actually.

"Hey c-c-can I get warmer?"

"Sure," Soul hands the blanket over to Nashadow and she accepts it entirely. "O.K Nashadow, you want to cuddle up?" She nods as the two crept closer together. The closer they went, the warmer their breaths were to each other. As they touched their lips, they were interrupted by a maid vacuuming the floor.

Damn! Why now!?!

The sun rises as the birds sang their early song. Soul expected to greet one of his marefriends but he remembered why they are here. Two days left. A murder was committed last night to their neighbor. The two searched for clues before the guards had arrived. They were sleeping at 11:00 PM and they couldn't hear anything from the maid vacuuming. All they found was the lock of grey mane, some sparks of struggle, and a dead strangled body. The victim had been strangled by magic during 11:00 PM to ??:?? when the maid had vacuumed the floor. Thinking she was an accomplice, she was taking into question by the guards as the time travelers sneaked out of the hotel.

"We're wasting time! How are we going to find the murderer of your parents?"

"Look! Maybe that pony knows!"

"Please...You're asking random ponies now."

"Excuse me! Sir!" A brownish grey pony looked at them with a khaki trench coat. He had on a dark brown mane and had a deep voice.

"Hello there! What can I do for you two?"

"Do you know anything about these murders?"

The pony looked around and whispered in their ears.

"My name is Doctor Whooves, and yes, I do know the murderers you're talking about. But to find them, you must find the hideout of the murders."

Soul Light and Nashadow looked at each other and started to gather evidence about the murders. One started in Side. St., another started in the Cathedral, one was in Cloudsdale, and another was in Canterlot. All these points formed a square and they searched near the center of the square. Which lead them to a dance club.

CLOSED

"I guess we will have to wait at night."

Hoot hoot, hoot hoot. The owl stands on a tree, watching the two ponies about to enter the dance club. A guard had a guest list and wore a black suit with black shades and a white shirt.

"Hold it ma'am!" That voice sounded more generic like any other voice, almost as generic as Bob Jones ( No offense ).

"Great, he has a list, now what?" Soul Light whispered to Nashadow. Nashadow smirks and decide to work her magic by confronting the guard and doing the most risky thing tonight.

"I know who you are and you don't have to hide it from me." The guard stood right up as the mare was welcomed to the dance club. Soul Light followed up but was blocked by the guest guard.

"State your name and age."

"Uh..."

Come on! Think of something!

"Soul...Light."

You just had to say that Soul Light?

Shut the fuck up.

"And your I.D Soul Light?"

"Easy there you, he's with me." Soul turned to look where that deep voice came from. To his surprise, it was his father.

"You may pass." The guard stepped aside and let the two stallions go.

"So, my son decides to go back to the past eh?" Soul Light was seated to a table next to his father.

"How did yo-"

"I know a Soulkeeper when I see it. And what you are here for."

"Yes, dad...I'm here to prevent your death."

"Well I cannot let that happen."

"WHAT!?!?" Nashadow joins in the conversation and sat next to Soul Light.

"So my son has indeed found his special somepony too?"

"Never mind that Dad! Why would you want to die?"

"Son," He orders a shot from a bottle of Devil's Kiss. "You cannot just go to the past and change it without destroying the future."

"Then what will Light do then? Let you die?" Soul's father take a sip from his shot and orders another one.

"No, you need to prevent my murder, but still, the timeline has to flow as it is."

"I think I know what you're talking about. You're saying I capture the murderer of many ponies, but find a way that you will still die."

"Correct. Son, Look in the screen. In there is many people on that screen. The one who isn't there on the screen is my murderer. Find them, and take them to custody. Whatever means nessessary."

O.K There's a grey pony with a purple mane, a white unicorn with a blue mane...God there are so many ponies!

Relax, Remember. The murderer is grey maned.

There were three grey maned people on the dance floor. Two unicorns and a pegasus.

O.K. Now the victim was strangled by magic. So that leaves two left. Time to look up at the screen.

The only grey maned unicorn that didn't appear on the screen was a mare with black eyes.

Medila?

Soul Light snuck up to the unicorn while she was chatting with a young blue colt with a green mane that had streaks of sky blue.

SOUL BREAK!!! If he sees me, then I'll compromise the time flow!

Soul snuck carefully up to the two. He asked Nashadow to distract his brother. Succeeding, she asked embarrasing questions about Soul Light's past.

"So what was Soul Light when he was a foal?"

"Uh...crying, alot since I had fought with him and none of us won."

"Oh? How come?"

"How do you know him anyway?"

"I'm just his uh..."

Say something Nashadow! Get him away from Medila!

"Nevermind I asked, well he wanted something and I wanted another."

"You want a drink?" She slowly inches away from Medila, forcing Soul Break to continue the conversation and follow her.

"Sorry, I'm too young."

"Then how did you get here?"

Way to go Nashadow!

"Soul Break! Wai-"

"YEEEEEE AAAAAAAHHHHH!!!" Soul Light tackles Medila and she counters with a bolt of magic against him. Everypony was dancing until they saw the two fighting.

"Medila? Fighting...Is that Soul Li-"

"Oh look! Water is here! Drink up!"

"Bu-" Nashadow forces him to turn around and forces him to drink water that she had drugged with sleeping pills. Instantly, Soul Break falls asleep and Nashadow takes him back to a cab that sends him home.

Soul battled against magic with his wings, hooves, and his mind as she continously fires magic bolts to his direction. After multiple blasts, she falls to the ground exhausted and was tackled by Light. Light grabbed her horn in his mouth and started to bite it off. To Medila, this was more painful than dieing of parasprites, but to Soul Light, this means murdering a pony's will to do anything. Soul Light weakened and weakened her body. He let go of her horn, showing rough bite marks. With more hoof restraints on her, he charged his head to her horn, shattering the tip of the horn.

"NOOOoooo..." She lays unconsious, on the ground as everypony stands in shock. The guards arrested him and took him to Celestia, where his father decides to excuse him.

"What have you done young pegasus? Why would you ruin another pony's pride and joy?"

"Celestia!"

"Soul Enchant? What buisness do you have with this stallion?"

"Your majesty! He is my son going back in time!" Every guard looked at him, not believing a word he said. Celestia faces the pegasus.

"Well, time traveler, why?"

"Your maje-"

"Save the royalties. Now answer my question." Celestia looks crossed. Meaning he was in a deep mess that he won't clean up against a pony that lived for eternities.

"I broke her horn because she is a murderer!" Soul Light says that he was trying to prevent his father's death but the timeline must flow. Or he will cease to exist.

"You must find a way to fix this time change. Or you will not have your journey back to your own time."

"How your highness?" Celestia hands a magic dagger to the pegasus. She orders them to go to the alleyway where a guard will escort them.

"Hey Ginka." He said to the royal guard.

"How do you know my name?"

"I'M FROM DAH FUTURE!!!" Light waves his hooves frantically but stopped when Ginka didn't get his joke.

"Oh yea, and Ginka. Tell my doppleganger that his father is in this alleyway. And don't tell Celestia."

"Understood, although my duty is to serve her."

"Don't worry, you'll know what to do in time."

Soul Light and his father went to the alleyway. Knife in hooves, Light wonders what she could mean by "You must find a way to fix this time change." His father knew exactly what she meant.

"Son, It's time."

"Time for what?"

"Time to fix time."

"...uh..."

"You must...murder me."

"WHAT ARE YOU CRAZY!?! You must've drank too much Devil's Kiss."

"No son, you must fix time."

"I had enough hallucinations of my own, now what will I do knowing that I killed my father?"

His father smiles, as he brought Soul's mother to their location.

"Maybe this will help." Soul's father touched his mind and put every good memory he had into his mind. Soul's mother was told that now was the time for them to pass on.

"Soul, you must do this." Tears streamed down his face, he remember his feelings during their death and now he knows that he caused it. It was somehow all his fault. None of this would happen if it weren't for him.

"Do it son."

"N-N-No dad..."

"Do it." Soul Light sniffed in his tears and draws out the blade from it's sheathe.

"We love you son..." His mother's voice echoed in his head.

"Do you love Equestria son? Your mom? Your dad?"

"Yes, Dad..."

"Good I'm glad...to...hear.........that..........."

"DO IT!"

Shik! Blood came from his father's wound. Making him bleed severely. His mother died of a heart attack to ease his pain. Then he realized that of all the things he had done, this was the worst. But his father had accepted it.

" Where is my father?"

Time to go...