A Shadow's world

Chapter 3 ~ New... Friends?

I awoke to a light blinding me. I look out the window and see that Celestia already has the sun high in the sky. I get up and stretch. I have not slept that good in a long time. I shoot a glare at the sun. It is bright and I like the dark a lot better than that blinding ball of light. I walk out of the room. First pony I see is Midnight Fire. He runs up to me and tries to jump onto my back. As he ran, a crouched a little to make it easier for him, even though he would still have to jump kinda high. I am a tall stallion, not much shorter than Celestia. Midnight leaps and almost misses. I lift him up on my back with magic. I did extremly simple levitation. Just about every unicorn can do it. Midnight Fire sits on my back looking happy. I walk to the kitchen, looking for Starcrossed. I see Mist Seeker out of the corner of my eye behind me. I quickly move to the darkest part of the room. Shadows hide me pretty well in both forms. Midnight Fire stays still and silent on my back. Mist Seeker passes us without spotting me. I come out of the shadow and continue over to the kitchen. I walk in and Starcrossed notices us. "Morning you two!" She says cheerfully. I feel Midnight Fire shift on my back and I crouch so he can jump off. He jumps as far as he can, which is only about two feet. I stand back up. "He wants you to stay. You seem to know what he wanted out there and just now." She said as he ran off to go do something. "Lets just say he is not the first to want to have a ride on my back." I said, remebering my alicorn daughter. "You played with foals before you were banished?" She asked. "During. I'll tell you later" I say as I hear hoofsteps coming. I know that Mist Seeker is coming because they and heavier than Midnight Fire's steps. Mist seeker enters with Midnight Fire not far behind. Midnight Fire runs at me again. I lower myself to a hieght that he can get on without me having to help him. He lands in the middle of my back and I stand. Mist Seeker glares at me, but I just ignore him. "We're going outside!" Midnight Fire anounces. I chuckle slighly and walk out outside. Many ponies are out now because the storm is over. I see a large pile of snow not very far away. I scan it, looking for anything that would harm Midnight Fire underneath the soft, powery snow. Upon seeing nothing, I lift Midnight Fire up with magic and hold him above the snow. He starts squealing in mock terror, laughing as he does. I drop him inside and he screams happily. His scream if muffle because of the snow. I walk to the snow and walk around it. Midnight Fire is trying to dig his way out. I part the snow, making a good sized hole. I see him sitting down in the snow laughing hard. "Can you help me make a snowpony?" He asks once he is done laughing. Without saying anything, I lift him out of the snow and set him down on the ground. He starts to make a ball of snow to make one of the four legs. I decide not to use magic do the same thing. I had done the same thing with my family in banishment. We went to the villian world to do it. I hear a few young voices nearby. Midnight Fire looks up from what he was doing. "Come on guys! Helps us build a snowpony!" Midnight Fire yells to a colt and two fillies. They run over and begin to help. Soon the snowpony is done. "Who are you?" A white filly with very light silver mane asks. "Sombra." I say. "Hi Sombra! I'm Winterflake, he Clouded Storm, and she is Frozen Flare." Winterflake said pointing first to dark grey colt with a few shades lighter mane and then an ice blue filly with a few shades lighter mane that has silver streaks in it. I nod slightly to them. "Winterflake. Frozen Flare. You need to come in." A mare calls not very far away. "Bye Sombra!" They yell as they run to the mare. "Your a unicorn!" Exclaimed Clouded Storm. He must've just noticed. "What kind of magic can you do?" Midnight Fire asked. I think for a second on this. I need to do simple spells that do require dark magic. "Just a few simple spells." I reply. "Can you show us one?" Clouded Stormed asked. I nod and think about what spell. I can make it look like I use magic to grow crystals. I use a simple levitation spell and stomp one hoof. By have the magic aura, it looks like my magic is doing it and not just being half crystal pony. I finnish the spell and they climb on the small black crystal. Well, small compared to what I normally do. "That was cool!" Both of them exclaim. "Yeah, it was." A female voice says not far from us. I look around to Starcrossed at the door of her house. I see Mist Seeker glaring daggers at me from the window. I just ignore him. He can harm me, so why care? I glance at the ground to see what time it was. I don't need to see the sun to know what time it is. I haven't seen it for a while and can tell what time of day it is by seeing how bright the light is aroud me. I see Midnight Fire and Clouded Storm jumping of the crystal. I make it disapear, but still hiding the crystal pony part with magic. The two run off to somewhere. I don't really pay attention. "Let me show you around our little village." Starrossed says and starts to trot to who knows where. I trot not far behind her. Some ponies noticed me. They began to talk with their friends most likely about my horn, armor and other stuff that I don't care about. Starcrossed enters a building. I follow her. The building looks like a small caffè. Starcrossed orders something and motions for me to follow her to a table. She sits down on one side and I'm on the other. "You mentioned that Midnight Fire wasn't the first foal you had played with like that. Who did you play with?" She asked. I tried to think of an excuse and realized she needed to know. "My daughter was like that." I said. "Wait, you have a daughter?!" Starcrossed exclaimed. "Yes. Her mother is Nightmare Moon, also known as Princess Luna." I said. "How did you meet?" She asked. I explained how we met and how we had trained. "How old is your daughter? And what's her name?" I had to thik for a minute on how old Moon Shadow is. "In non- alicorn pony years, around eight hundred seventyfive. For born alicorns, around eight years. And her name is Moon Shadow." I said. It had taken a moment for me to figure out how old my own daughter was. I mainly had to think how old she would be to them, and not myself. "I consier her young. Because born alicorns age really slowly. How can you still be alive?" She asks. "Because with dark magic, it makes me as immortal as Celestia and Luna." I said simply and quietly, so the ponies around would be scared of a dark magic user. I spot a steel pony unicorn enter the caffè. "Who is she?" I ask. "Oh, she is Star Gazer. The only unicorn steel pony that I know of. She is rather snobbish because she thinks that nopony else is as good as her." Starcrossed said. Star gazer spotte me and is walking over. I stand to let this mare know I won't tolerate anything. She ignores what I do and keeps walking. "Well, well, well. I see somepony wants to pretent he is a unicorn." She sneared. I keep my cool and let her continue. "Why don't you remove that fake and stop trying to be better than me." She said. *That is because I am better than you.* I thought to myself. "What are you a mute? Ha! How pathetic. First you try to fool everyone, then you can't even talk. I shouldn't talk to low life like you." Star Gazer said and turned away. "That is because you don't know who I am." I say, hiding the snake lisp, but not bothering to try to hide the unnaturaly deep voice. "Oh, so you do speak." She said, turning to me once again. "Let's prove that that thing is a fake. Come outside and we will have a magic duel." She said and walked off. I looked t starcrossed to see what she thinks. "Beat her tail. It would be nice to see her ego beat down a bit." Starcrossed said and stood. I walk outside with Starcrossed not far behind. I see Star gazer standing not far away. "Do a simple levitation spell." She said and levitated some snow. I rolled my eyes and looked at Starcrossed. She understood and I levitated her. Star Gazer looked shocked, but quickly covered it up with a smirk. "So you can levitate. Big deal. Teleport yourself." She said and proved she can do it. I set starcrossed down and telported us both to right behind Star gazer. "Hey, where'd he go?" She asked anypony. One pointed to right behind her at me and Star Gazer jumped around. "I can easily perform any extremly simple spells that you can do." I said. Starcrossed got out of the way and stood by all the other ponies that had gathered. She performed a few other spells and I easily matched them. "This is getting boring you know." I said. She ignored me. "Show us what you got." She said. "I'm sure you don't want to see that." I said. She looked at the crowd. "Oh yes. I think we all want to." She said, speaking for the crowd that looked like they were expecting nothing good. I shrug and feel the dark magic flow into me. The white in my eyes are now green and the purple smoke that seems to flow out of them is there. "Now, do you still want to see?" I say, for the firt time in this duel speaking normally. Star gazer looked creeped out. "Yes." She said in a strong voice even though I can sense her fear. My horn shows the dark magic as I make two, kinda small crystal apear. They were small in my opinion. "Good enough?" I ask. "Y-yes." She stutters before running away. I make the crystal disapear and all signs of dark magic gone. Starcrossed run over. "I knew you could do high level spels, but I didn't kow that you are a dark magic user." She said. "Yes, I've been a dark magic user most of my life." I say as many onies begin to come close. "Who are?" "What was that?" "Where are you from?" Many questions were fired at me. "I'm King Sombra.I use dark magic and you could say I'm from The Crystal Empire!" I answer the three questions I heard the most. I teleport Starcrossed and myself back to house. I teleported us to the inside so we wouldn't be seen. "You beat her! You scared her!" Starcrossed was excited about that. Mist Seeker walked inside with Midnight Fire behind him. Mist Seeker glares at me while Midniht Fire just stands there. "Wow! You are so cool!" He says excitedly. I didn't say anything, just stood tall and out of sight from the windows. I back up a bit to hide in the shadows. I saty there for the rest of the day. Everypony just kept doing what ever they were doing. I don't want to be the center of attention right now. I slowly fall into a dreamless sleep like I always do. Well, I thought I did.

-----------------------Sombra's Dream------------------

I was walking around the small village. It seemed like nopony could see me. I see myself and Starcrossed in the window of the small caffè. I walk up to the window and watch as i explained how I knew what Midnight Fire wanted. I see a pony out the corner of my eye and reconize Star Gazer. She was talking to a few of her friends. "Look, there is a new unicorn." One of them said. "I bet he is a fake." Star Gazer said. "I just hope he doesn't reconize me." I hear her say to quietly for her friends to hear. I don't know what she is talking about. They go inside and I try to follow, but something hold me back. Suddenly the scene changes to when we were having the duel. It was right before Star Gazer had run away. She looked fearfully at what I was doing. Well, the past me.When she ran, this time I followed. I want to see what she was doing. She runs into a house that I'm asuming is hers. I manage to get in and find her sobbing on her bed. She is holding a picture of two foals. One has super fluffy mane that goes everywhere. I reconize the filly in the picture. She is one of my friends that was named Star Gazer. This mare on the bed is a unicorn and my friend wasn't a unicorn. I notice that the teal mane and tale look almost exactly the same. This Star Gazer just has her mane is a loose braid and her forelock is shorter. My friend had a longer forelock. The more I look at the pisture to the mare, the more I realize that she is still alive. I wonder how she lived a thousand years. "I loved you." Star gazer whispers. I look at the other foal and notice that the colt is me. The room starts to get blurry. I try to focus, but can't.

--------------------End of Sombra's dream---------------

My head snapped up. I remeber the dream. I need to see Star gazer. The house is dark and it looks like it is night. I stand up and walk to the door quietly. I open and close it softly. I sigh and begin to walk to Star Gazer's house. Nopony is awake at the hour of night. I reach her house and see a few lights on. I knock on the door. I don't expect anyone to answer though. The door opens and the light from inside blinds me. I hiss lightly at the light. I see Star Gazer standing in the doorway. "What do you want?" She asks a little bitterly. I stand tall and say, "To talk to you." She looks shocked, but invite me in. "When did you get the horn?" I ask her. "I guess I always had it. My mane just covered it." She answers. I nod and look at her. "Sorry for scareing you earlier." I say even though it feels wrong. "King Sombra, how did you become what you are?" "First, you don't need to call me that. Second, I use dark magic. It is so much stronger tha normal magic. Even Celestia couldn't beat me. It was Luna who did." I said to my old friend. "Sorry for being a total jerk earlier. I needed to hide the fact that I knew you once." Star Gazer said. "Everypony makes mistakes. There is nopony alive who hasn't made a mistake." I said knowingly. "Not the princesses." she said. "Yes, Celestia made a mistake by underestimating me, and not trying help the ponies enjoy Luna's moon. She let them just enjoy her sun. That helped Luna become Nightmare Moon. Whom I knew very well. I'm now assuming that Nightmare Moon is no more and Luna is back." I said, trying get her to realize that nopony is perfect. Celestia lack purity just like every other pony. I sense something happening to my empire. It is what those slaves want. I have lost almost all connection that I once had with the empire. I hiss at the slight pain. "What's wrong?" "Someone saved those pathetic ponies." I said. "I don't get what you mean." Star said confused. "It means that a spell has just been cast to keep me out of The Crystal Empire." I explain to her. "That means Celestia knows I'm free and has sent somepony to protect it. She will most likely send more soon." I added. "Well, then you better go prevent them from taking over, Shadow."

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Chapter 3! The pic is not mine. And I wing it for all my books. I made Sombra have some sort of connection with The Crystal Empire. It seemed like he should be able to feel when Cadence and Shining Armor get there and cast the protection spell. And he is not so dumb as he know what Celestia plans on doing next. Wait, why am I acting like somepony insulted Sombra? Sorry, anyway. That's it!