The new story · 7:55pm Jul 7th, 2013
Hello everyone, the short 1.262 story is a sample of a project i am starting.The story is based off the game ,, Dishonored''. This will not be a ponified version of the game, but rather a story in alternative universe in the age 2000 of Celestias renued rule.If you want to ask about some details or suggest some things please feel free to.
The story will be in first person perspective, he main character will be Shadow Forge. He was originally a doctor but after proposing some great ideas and making a fue invetntions, he was elected as the lead engineer and inventor of the Equestria. Much of shadows inventions came because of the need for earth ponies to have some power, him being an earth pony as well he knew what were the most common necessities and with a few crazy ideas he found sucess.
Unfortunately Equestrias golden age is coming to an end. As a new plague starts to spread over the land ponies start to panic and rebel, some in different ways then others. As revealed at the return of her personal guard Shining Armor, Celestia was betrayed by her generals and members of the royal council. The night before Shadow had a strange dream, about a midnight blue alicorn of which he has never heard before. As far as his knowledge went Celestia was the only alicorn. The alicorn tell him of something completely obscure, a way for an earth pony to use magic.
A Shadow of Hope
(name was provided by superpony55)
He stared at the knife, seeing the reflection of a pony, but the reflection was not of him. All he saw was a cold blooded killer who had slain dozens of ponies and would not hesitate to do so again. The fact that most of those ponies had killed a lot more than he had did little to comfort him.
With a long sigh he collected his thoughts and concentrated at the matter at hoof, his target was just exiting the bar. The swine was drunk as hell and accompanied by two earth pony mares.
Shadow groaned, this just made things more complicated' he thought while rubbing his forehead, Think Shadow, think. I can't kill innocent ponies, so what sho...'
He was snapped out of his thought as a sound of something hitting a metallic surface replaced the silence. Trying to locate where the sound had come from wasn't hard at all, considering that nopony was out at this hour except for the drunks , besides the sound came from a trash can left from the balcony he was standing on.
Much to his delight the source of the sound was his target, the idiot was leaning with his back on the trash can while the mares robbed him and spoke something that he couldn't hear. Deciding to listen in on the conversation he concentrated his magic and let it flow through his body. It was still an odd feeling for him, an earth pony, to use magic. He teleported to the staircase that led to one of the, poor pony homes', he leaned on the wall concentrated on their conversation.
,, You bloody murder, how does it feel to be trashed around?'' One of the mares asked the venom in her voice clearly audible.
,, Lik ya' con ddiiooo *hic* any thingy abou' ti *hic*,'' he struggled to form the words and started throwing up, right after he muttered the last one. The sound of something hitting a metallic surface rang trough the air once again, this time he knew that it was his targets skull being bashed on the trash can. Fearing that he might be spotted he resisted the urge to see the scene.
,, Do you want to have the honours, sister?'' the mare that was yelling just a moment ago asked in a seductive voice.
,, With pleasure,’’ the other mare said in the same manner.
,, Honours?’’ Shadow thought out loud, only a moment later did he realize what he had done. Hoping that they hadn’t heard him he slowly backed away to the shadowy corner and resumed listening to their conversation.
,, Did you hear that?’’ the ,laud’ one, as Shadow decided to call her from now on, broke the silence.
,, I’ll go check it out, you stay here and guard that drunken pig over there’’ the other mare said with disgust in her voice.
Panicking, Shadow concentrated his new found magic and teleported to the water pipes just behind the two mares. It was just his luck he was in the drunken stallion’s vision range, if he looked up that is. Thankfully he was in no such condition as he lay in the pool of his own vomit and blood.
His gaze then ventured to the mare he labelled as, the loud one’. She was a slim light pink coated mare with a blue main; she was wearing a dress that rather complimented her features, although he knew the reason for that.
Just around the corner came a mere dressed the same way as the other, the only difference was that her main and coat were the opposite colour of her sisters. If he hadn’t blinked when he did he would have been found, and that would have ruined the whole plan.
Retreating to a less lit section of the pipes, just in case, he once again resumed listening and observing the scene.
,, Must have been a cat or something,’’ the blue coated mare said in a hushed tone, which made shadow resent his big mouth even more.
Once she vas by her sister side she looked at her, awaiting for her approval, the loud one just nodded and handed her a strange bulky ring. She placed the ring on to her right her hoof. The thing was too small to fit too widely on her hoof and instead it was sticking out under it, crippling her ability to walk or disabling it in the whole because of the lack of balance and steady footing.
, Anyway what was she going to do with it? Beat him to death?’ He mentally chuckled, While that would do the job it is a highly insufficient method of doing it, a knife or a blade of any sort would do a much better job’
Shadow returned his gaze toward the two sisters, wondering just how they were going to finish the job, if they were going to do it at all that is. He was pleasantly surprised and amazed when the blue coated mare swung her hoof and a blade appeared from the bulky part of the ring. The first thought to come to Shadows mind was, I want one of those’.
Then something clicked in his head and he had a pretty good idea of the reason for the shape which that weapon had. It had to be concealed, hidden from the guards, and what better way to hide a weapon but in the plain sight. Considering that their job, or just a stage job, demanded wearing a lot of makeup, decorated clothes and jewellery they concealed the weapon as one of the above. Unfortunately it looked as if it was made in haste, the design was flawed and too big, the mechanism should have been a lot smaller, considering that the only purpose of it was to stop the blade from retracting. Still who ever had made it must be pretty good at what he/she was doing to come up with something like that, let alone make it with such poor quality materials.
As he continued to watch the scenes in front of him unfold, with utter disbelief of what he was actually seeing. The blue coated mare trust her retractable-ring-dagger in to the stallions side, probably puncturing a kidney, and making a diagonal gash trough his stomach. The stallion screamed in agony of being cut open, but was quickly silenced by the loud ones hoof hitting him square on the jaw.
What followed after were both the most horrifying and the most degusting thing Shadow has ever seen in his life. The blue coated mare spread the gash, enough so that his intestine would fall out to the ground. All the stallion could do was gurgle the blood in his mouth, do to his broken jaw, he was crying in pain. The mare then took his intestine in her hooves and wrapped them around his neck, chocking him.
If not for the fact that he had been opening ponies up to perform surgeries, he would be reminding himself of what he ate today. Seeing brutality on that scale made him wonder as to what had the stallion done to the two sisters to deserve this. They couldn’t have done it for the fun of it... could they?
For who knows how many time tonight, his train of thought was cut off by one of the patrolling guards yelling, STOP!!’.He had two options: take out the guard and help the mares escape. Or let the guards catch them.
That was one tough decision.
Hello, I'm the lead admin of The Name Group, and I've come to help you with your name. Here are some options:
The Age of Darkness
The Plague of the Dark Age
A Shadow in the Dark
Light in the Dark
A Shadow of Hope
Do you like them?
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Thank you very much, I think I'll use the last one ,,A Shadow of Hope''.
I will inform you when I post the story.
1196736
Thank you and you're welcome!
1196736
And next time, please follow the rules and post it in the thread! Thanks!
1196746
Sorry, forgot.
1196760
It's okay, just remember in the future!
1196766
I won't be making any other stories, besides this one, for some time.I want this one to be a bit longer than 30 chapters, if possible.
I saw the first 5 subscribers admin add and would be delighted to help. Just to inform you I will be on vacation for the next 10 days and won't be able to fulfil my duties.I will still be working on the story in the meantime but won't have access to the internet.I hope you understand.
1196796
That's fine.