//------------------------------// // Ch.1 Killer of Light // Story: The Prince Of Stars // by Judaskiss //------------------------------// Chapter 1: Killer of Light We all have heard the story of Princess Celestia and Princess Luna. The rules of day and night. One raises the sun in the morning and puts it away at night telling the ponies of Equestria to wake up and start their day of work and play. The other brings out the moon in the evening when the ponies are tired of the light and want to go to sleep for the next day. But next to that moon are an incalculable number of bright lights. Many ponies have looked at them and quickly forgotten about them, others say they are the work of Princess Luna as a gift to them and yet others still question the meaning of them. ''Did Luna actually put them there?'', ''How many of them are there?'', ''How do they hold such a perfect pattern?'' It was to easy to call it coincidence or some other ponies work. But no pony ever questioned the existence of a third royal pony. A great and powerful pony to control the stars of the sky. Far beyond the city of Canterlot, in the frozen wastelands of the Frozen Nurth lived an alicorn with just such powers. He lived in a tiny shack that did not do justice to his greatness. He lived there all alone forever spiting his sister Celestia for casting him out into this...this Hell. He never deserved this! NEVER! His mind now twisted from the cold and the pain can only focus on the revenge and destruction of that one pony. But the stars! Oh, how could he forget the stars! His beautiful children. They would never betray him. Every night they smile down on him from high above believing that soon they will be reunited with their father, but...but he can never see them again. Not while Celestia has her hold on him. That spiteful bitch. She would never understand him. Still in his home...if you could call this pathetic excuse for a building a home... he builds his children. Putting together all the elements needed to create a star. He can extract hydrogen from the water in the ice around him and his magic can fuse hydrogen into helium. By condensing these elements so tightly eventually they ignite and another beautiful star is born from him. He needn't travel far to make one. But no matter how many stars he creates Celestia never leaves his mind. ''Celestia, my sister, I will have my revenge, I will not rest until you know the pain you put me through, I WILL have my revenge!'' Every night the air around him is a chorus of his pain. Screaming these words as though they will be carried straight to her ears in Canterlot. Eventually when the alicorn's throat was sore, or his eyes were heavy he would retreat to his fire to warm his numb body. But his heart would remain as cold as the ice outside. In the light his emerald mane and tail shone brightly and his dark gray coat seamed to draw the light away from the room into himself. His cutie mark was white in the shape of a four pointed star, one for each point on the compass. Never forgetting about Celestia. He could feel his mind breaking. He was called Prince Accretion when he lived in Canterlot. The creator of stars and planets. He liked that. It meant power. It meant respect. But all that is gone now. No power, no respect. Nothing. He could no longer do that name justice. He did not deserve a name that meant everything when he had nothing, he only deserved nothing. No name. That is all he has now. Some thousand years or so have passed since his banishment. Maybe more. Years mean little when there are so many to count. During one seemingly normal day the alicorn formally know as Prince Accretion was collecting materials for a star when he noticed something...different. The air was slightly warmer than usual. Ignoring it he pressed on collecting ice. But he could not shake this feeling. Something was watching him, he said 'something' because it didn't feel equine, but it felt...wrong. As he returned to the shack he saw something outside, as he got closer he noticed it was a creature of some sort. This creature was large but it stood on two legs unlike anything the pony had ever seen, even in Canterlot. He felt no fear however as being a Prince it is extremely bad manners and even worse strategy to show fear to a potential adversary. He cantered straight up to the creature and put his carry baskets to one side. The creature did not move. The Prince decided to speak first. ''Excuse me, are you a creature of this land?'' he asked as nobly as possible. The creature stood up slowly, on its hind legs of all things, still looking straight ahead. The creature was about as tall on two legs as the pony was on four. It had no hair on its body except on its head and under it's armpits. It wore some coverings on its legs. The pony would have been amused by his appearance if he wasn't shocked and furious at its presence at his home. The Prince was about to ask the creature to kindly leave the premises but looking at the shack reminded him that he was not a prince and was about to say something much ruder when the creature spoke. ''In that direction, there is life there, correct?'' The pony gaped at the creature. ''Y-you can talk?'' ''Of course I can talk. Now in that direction, is there life?'' it asked again. ''Yes'' said the pony bluntly. ''And why are you here and not there?'' it asked. ''You ask a lot of questions for such a strange creature. Please leave me alone.'' he picked up his baskets, placed them on his back and began to walk away. The creature followed. The pony was quickly becoming annoyed with the creature. ''You would leave a civilization behind you, millions of creatures like you, just because one of them told you to. Hmm, I'm not far off am I?'' The pony spun around and looked the creature dead in the eye. ''Look I never asked you too come here and interrogate me. What in Equestria are you doing here in the middle of the Nurth, huh?'' the pony retaliated. His wings were flared upwards ready to go at a moments notice, his horn was lowered threateningly pointing at an upward angle, enough to show that he meant business, but still keeping the creature in view. ''If you want to go to the other pony's so bad then go on.'' The creature ignored the question. ''Do you have a name?''it asked. The arrogance! In Canterlot no pony would ever ignore a question asked by a royal pony! The alicorn snorted. ''I gave up my name a long time ago. I was a prince but a prince without subjects has no place in royalty.'' The creature considered this a moment. ''Why don't you go back to your subjects? Surely they need you.'' The pony found this strange, not because of what he asked, but the way he asked it. He seemed to say it to himself rather than to the pony. He answered anyway. ''Of course they need me, but they don't want me. They have a ruler anyway... Enough of your questions, you showed up without warning and expect me to answer all these questions. Who do you think you are?'' the pony asked rhetorically. ''Fair enough. What do you want to ask?'' it said. The pony was slightly surprised it didn't put up a fight or change the subject. ''We...well what are you, first of all? Where did you come from?'' he asked. ''I believe I am a human. That word sounds familiar to me. I do not know where I come from. My only memories are of this wasteland.'' it replied very 'matter of fact'-ly. The pony considered the word human. ''Uman? I have never met a creature called that before. I'll call you Uman for lack of a better name.'' The creature laughed. ''Ha ha ha ha. Well then it is only fair that I get to name you as well. Not after your species though. I'm much more creative.'' The pony snorted. Was that an insult? ''What are your goals in life?'' Uman asked. The pony thought, he shouldn't really tell Uman anything. After all he's a strange creature and they just met. On the other hand if Uman was meant to harm him he would have done so already. Celestia already knew about what he wanted, she would have nothing to gain by sending a spy. ''Very well, I'll tell you.'' The pony sighed. ''Ever since I was banished here the sun has been mocking me, toying with me. It is the one star that would not bend to my will. Every single star in the sky belongs to me, but this one, heh, this one LAUGHS at me. The insolence!'' The pony was getting really angry now. ''But my sister could control it. Oh the great Celestia master of the sun! She was worshiped, but our little sister and I received nothing. I've tried to make a sun myself but nothing I make comes close to that.'' He pointed a hoof to the sun. ''If that star won't obey me then I want to block it out. Get rid of it altogether to stop it from forever laughing at me.'' The pony was furious by this stage. He wasn't even really talking to Uman anymore so when he spoke the pony started. ''There is a word I heard before long ago, it means the cutter off of light, a killing planet. The word is abscissor. That is you. You are Abscissor!'' The pony thought about the name he was given. He could not be called Accretion any more. Royalty comes with that name and he was not royalty. But Abscissor, that was different. That to had power. A power earned not inherited. But also dark and threatening. He liked that. It was a name that sounded like it would whispered in fear not spoken with confidence. ''Abscissor. That's got a ring to it. I like it.'' the alicorn said. At that moment a historical change occurred in the pony, now called Abscissor, a change that would affect the future of Equestria. His cutie mark changed from pure white to the darkest of black. Of course neither Uman nor Abscissor noticed this physical change, Abscissor long since forgotten the mark was even there, but Abscissor knew deep down that Uman would become a great ally to him. He knew that he would finally get his revenge on Celestia and the sun for there disrespect and arrogance towards him. It would be good and Uman would help him. Abscissor will destroy the sun and become the ruler Equestria forever! That would be his rightful place. Beside Luna his beloved little sister. The pony looked at Uman. ''It is quite cold out here. Will you join me inside my home for lunch. We have much to discuss.'' ''Very well, I am very hungry.'' And so a friendship was born. A friendship that could potentially destroy the sun and Equestria. But don't blame Abscissor. He is simply a broken pony and this is just the beginning of the story. There is much more to tell about the Prince of Stars.