Nocturne of Shadows

You want to know something? I love the rain.... It sounds incredibly relaxing, it counts as a shower along with a way of watering plants. Allow me to introduce myself, I’m Aleister your average red haired, green eyed, six foot one inch sixteen year old teen. Well... As average as you can get with a slightly insane man who was isolated from other people his age until the seventh grade, and who was teased mercilessly, but enough of the depressing dribble. I was currently walking home in Oregon during one of it’s many rainy days, without a coat.

Now... as I said I love the rain, but it’s more like a love/hate relationship. One example as to why is that I had to cut through a patch of rocks.... Wet rocks. I yelped as I nearly slipped on the fucking things, I sighed in relief before slipping and landing on my ass. “Owww....” I grumbled and began picking myself up before noticing a rather... strange rock in the mud. It looked at least a foot long and was curved like a sabre, I picked it up and wiped off some of the mud revealing a bright red coloration.

As I held it in my hands I could feel a numbness slowly spread up my arm before, and I shit you not, black fucking lightning arced from the fucking thing. I, being the insane bastard I am, did not let go of the potentially dangerous item and decided that the best course of action was to grin and play around with it. I grabbed it by the flat end and waved it a little, “I feel like a pirate right now... Avast me hearties!”

I waved it again and lurched back as an arc of that same black lightning hit the ground, causing a small crystal to appear. It slowly grew taller as two shadows slowly spread from it and caused more of the crystals to burst from the ground behind me. I panicked and began to run off before I slipped on another rock, causing me to cut my hand on another crystal. I flipped over and watched as the crystals that surrounded me began to cap off at the top.

Before I could do anything I felt something akin to bands of ice wrap around my limbs and pull me into the fucking ground, plunging me into darkness. Now... I’m not going to lie, I screamed like a bitch. Before long a faint purple light started growing in intensity before I saw something I’ll remember for the rest of my life. All around me were crystals of various sizes, colors, and shapes. Some of them were dark purple while others were sickly green, I walked over and poked one in the side causing a tone to travel throughout the area.

As I marveled at The Nome King’s wet dream a dark and rather raspy voice echoed around me. “Good... You’ve come... at last.” What the fuck? That sounded like Emperor Palpatine and Sauron mixed together. The crystals in front of me split open and revealed a hallway that led down a really long flight of stairs. “Come.... I am waiting.” Why did it have to be stairs...?

I sighed and walked through the archway, climbed down the stairs, and after a couple minutes of walking a reached a massive throne room that appeared to be made of crystals. On the other end of the room in the throne was a light grey unicorn in armor with green and red eyes with purple smoke trailing from them.... WHAT!?!?!?! The horn was curved and bright red, small amounts of black lightning arcing across it. I looked down at the rock in my hand and quickly deduced it was that guys horn... Wow.

He looked at me and nodded, “A pleasure.... Young one.”

I raised an eyebrow and nodded curtly, might as well be nice. “I would say the same, but my method of getting here was.... Rather forced.”

He sighed, “I apologize... I did not mean... To harm you.”

I looked at my cut hand and pressed it against my shirt, “It’s fine. Just... Who are you?”

He chuckled darkly and looked at me, “I am... Sombra... The former... King of crystals... And darkness.”

“I don’t mean to be rude,” I raised a hand and pointed at him, “But what’s with the pauses?”

He sighed and stood up, “I am... Dying... My time... Has come.”

“Woahwoahwoah, what!?” I made a few hand gestures, “You’re dying!?”

He chuckled again and walked towards me, “Yes... I was... Destroyed... I have... Little time... So I must act...” He stopped in front of me. “I must... Choose an heir... Somepony to... take my mantle....”

I looked at him, “Two things... First off; ‘Somepony’ Really? And second; Why the hell did you pick me?”

He looked up at me and shook his head, “The horn... Was ripped... From me... The choice... Was random... You were... The one... Who found... It first.” He took the horn from my grasp and focused a bit of dark purple energy into it, causing a flash of light to blind me. When my vision came back he was panting, and the horn was in my hands again. “I... Have done... It... You are... The new... King.”

I looked at him with a shocked expression on my face, “I’m a king?” I chuckled for a couple seconds before laughing maniacally. “OH FUCK YES!”

He looked at me tiredly, “There are... Things you... Must know... The world you came from... Will be lost to you... And the one you wake up in... Will be my own...”

I stopped and looked at him, “Pardon...”

“You will... Be in my world...”

I looked at him before frowning, “Oh... Fuck.” I paused a second before shrugging. “I’ll worry about that later.”

He grunted as he began walking back to his throne, “The second thing... Is that you... Now hold a fraction... Of my power... To use as you wish.” He sat back down in the throne and looked at me. “It will grow... The more you use it... And you... Can do... Amazing things.” He hissed in pain, “Let them know... That the king of darkness... Has returned...” He grunted again and slowly closed his eyes before fading into shadow.

As the last wisp of him disappeared the throne room began to crumble and shake violently. I looked around and screamed as the ground beneath me split open, swallowing me whole, and causing me to fade into darkness.