//------------------------------// // Burnout. // Story: shimmering hope. // by dragenfire68 //------------------------------// CHS was once a proud school, where many students hopes and dreams came to fruition, but that was a long time ago, now the school was overgrown, while many bodies threw themselves at the doors, some literally falling apart, but there were always more, some taking the broken away while new bodies replaced them. one year ago A blizzard was blowing in, causing the streets to be abandoned, and they were except for one red-headed girl clutching her jacket to herself, she kept walking as the wind picked up, then the flakes came, finally the blizzard hit full force, taking the visibility down to zero, the girl was trapped in the storm where she just kept walking, until she started glowing, and then gone, distorting the space in front of her, and then she was gone, her footsteps wiped away by the snow, masking her disappearance, or her escape, but all that mattered was that she was gone, leaving nothing but a book with her name on it. 3 days later, after winter break CHS was in full swing, the Students happier then they had been in a while, the reason was because Anon-a-miss was gone, the account was taken down and Sunset shimmer was nowhere to be found, in fact, many of the honor roll students who knew her noticed she hadn't been to school in three days. "Can applejack, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, and rarity please come to my office immediately." The intercom sounded. "why did you pull us out of class," Rarity asked "well, as you know or I think you did, that Sunset was our best student, top of her class in everything, she was the brightest student we had." The girls rolled their eyes, they thought that with Anon-a-miss disappearing, and Sunset not showing up they were rid of her, but here they were hearing the principle talk her up. "Look, I'm sure she had you fooled, but she really was at fault, why is this our problem, she is gone and anon-a-miss is gone with her, why are we even talking about her?" Rainbow asked acidly. "Well, maybe this is the reason," Celestia said as she pushed a familiar journal forward, the girls leaning in too read the text. Dear, former friends. As you know, Someone on your side ruined The life of my friend, Sunset Shimmer. Well, I'm less then pleased, and if I could, I would chew you out in person, but I can't, be thankful for that. The journal that connected our worlds and the mirror were destroyed so that If something ever happens on your side, it can't bleed into my world or escape back. Sincerely, your former Friend T. S. The girls stepped back in horror unable to believe that the magic princess of friendship has abandoned them to whatever fate is in store, but before they could rationalize, the book promptly burst into flames for a few seconds before turning to ash. "so that it then, if there are any more magical beings or artifacts, we're screwed!?" Rainbow Dash cried out, now that the realization was voiced it hit them like a train. "B-but she can't leave us, she just can't, she wouldn't leave us, her friends?" Pinkie asked before she promptly became wide-eyed and stopped, her mind shutting down for a few minutes as the girls walked around trying to come to terms. Celestia simply looked ahead with no warmth or empathy, instead, she simply asked Luna to show them back to class, and she did, the girls were in a state of turmoil, unable to focus on any classes, or even eat lunch instead they all went through their day empty. Meanwhile, on Innistrad, right after the jump. A fiery-haired girl fell out of thin air glowing brightly, like she was on fire, in fact, when she opened her eyes, she found she really was on fire, which caused her to start screaming and patting herself, but no matter what she did she could not put out the flames, before long though she realized that the flames were not hurting her, in fact, they didn't even singe her clothes, for which she was grateful. "where am I?" Sunset asked nobody in particular. "well child, you're on Innistrad, and by the looks of the fire, you're a new planeswalker, I thought Chandra was the only pyromancer, guess I was wrong, oh well, come child, I'll teach you to use of your powers, but be warned, my teachings are not looked upon kindly around here, be ready to face indefatigable scorn and isolation." A Women with Purple tattoos on her face, with glowing purple eyes, gesturing for her to follow her. "Well, I got nothing left to lose, show me the way," Sunset said following the women into the nearby forest, where the shadow's bent in on themselves and skittering was always heard all around her, eventually she found the women waiting in a boat made of bones, the ferryman a decaying corpse with glowing eyes, causing Sunset to jump back, but the women in the boat simply gestured for her to sit, so she steeled herself and sat across from the women who didn't shy away from Sunset's burning body. "so Child, whats your name, it's not often a fellow walker falls out of thin air, especially one as young as you, so tell me your story." the women asked warmly. "my name is Sunset Shimmer, I don't remember where I come from," Sunset said, lying about where her origins. "Well, well child, you learn fast, hiding your origins from me, very well, but tell me the way you found the spark since the spark is only discovered under distressing circumstances." Sunset eyed the women, before she took in a deep breath, and started sharing her tale. *** SECRET STEALER!!! YOURE NOT OUR FRIEND ANYMORE!!!! GET OUT OF HERE YA VARMIT!!! YEA YOUR NOT WELCOME HERE!!! they shouted, but Sunset had an answer for them, so took out her phone with a shaking hand and in a flash, she smashes the phone across the ground, before turning and running into the human CMC. "you win, you can have them to yourselves, I hope that your crusade was worth I really do because you girls can tell them, I'm not coming back." with that, she turned towards the coming blizzard and walked. *** Sunset finished her story, leaving out the suicide part, but she didn't have too, the woman across from her knew. This is going to be easy, making her my student, a blank slate ready for my teachings. She thought. "by the way, the name is Lillianna."