//------------------------------// // The Alicorn Amulet // Story: The Return of Sombra // by WriteAboutHorses //------------------------------// The Return of Sombra Chapter 1: The Alicorn Amulet 1000 years ago The Crystal Empire was in the middle of a large snowstorm. Without the Crystal Heart the great city wasn't guarded from the ruthless elements of the arctic north. In the castle in the middle of the city King Sombra, a ruthless unicorn with a heart as black as night, was putting the finishing touches on a new artifact that would benefit him in the future, The Alicorn Amulet. The purpose of this great amulet was to take a fraction of the king's dark magic and preserve it until a pony curious enough to put on the amulet triggers the curse which would lead to the king's return. King Sombra levitated a red gem and put it on the amulet. He then shot a beam of his dark magic at the gem, his magic was absorbed into the amulet. "It is complete!" Sombra hissed to himself. Now he would be unstoppable, nopony would see him coming. "Your majesty!" A young guard bursted into the room. He looked as if he had something urgent to tell the king. "Yes? What is it?" "The two princesses from the south of Equestria, they're on their way to liberate the empire and be gone with you." The guard explained "Here!" Sombra gave the amulet to the guard "Take this amulet and hide it somewhere where the princesses will never find it. Far away from the empire". The guard ran with the amulet as Sombra went out to his throne. Sombra looked down his seemingly endless flight of stairs which were built in front of his throne. King Sombra loved his stairs so and it would be a shame to have to leave them for a while. Before the princesses arrived Sombra put a curse on the entire empire, if he was going down, so was the empire. Sombra monitored his crystal pony slaves building him more stairs for no apparent reason. Rumour has it that Sombra was planning on building an endless stair case that he would send anypony who defied him to build by themselves. He watched as the slaves who had previously gone against his order walked in a circle around the palace. Sombra looks over to the horizon, seeing a small light getting closer to the empire. The princesses were almost here. After some final preperations Sombra was ready to be "defeated". Eventually the two princesses arrived. "King Sombra!" Princess Celestia began "You have enslaved all Crystal Ponies to do whatever you wish, that is not how a king rules his ponies. For your actions we will banish you to the ice of the arctic." The two alicorns lit their horns King Sombra watched as the black crystals that surrounded his castle began to shatter, revealing the old blue crystals. His empire was litterally falling apart around him. King Sombra felt himself turn to shadow, knowing that his time had come he did not resist. He was sealed away in the ice of the arctic. And the Crystal Empire vanished with him, leaving the two princesses hovering over just another part of the Crystal Mountains. The alicorns returned the Canterlot, King Sombra had been defeated... or had he..... 1000 years later Trixie was walking through the cold crystal mountains, it was cold, it was windy and it was kind of scary too. But Trixie knew about the Crystal Empire and hoped to find something that could get her rich and famous back home. Maybe a crown or a necklace. She used a spell to detect anything under the snow. After about an hour she still found nothing, but then she noticed something under the snow. She quickly levitated the snow off the ground to reveal something she'd never seen before. A strange silver amulet with a red gem in the middle of it. Little did Trixie know that she had discovered The Alicorn Amulet! "Hmm, Trixie has never seen this before, perhaps it is something rare and valuable, but it does look nice" She said to herself. Without thinking she tried the amulet on. Not knowing that what she was doing could doom Equestria. When Trixie put on the amulet she felt a sudden surge of power go through her, and whats he didn't feel was something waking of inside the Amulet. This thing, was King Sombra. Slowly, the amulet would corrupt Trixie until King Sombra had total control and could revert back to his true form. Trixie leviated the snow back to it's original place. The first thing she noticed was her magic aura was no longer purple, it was red. She guessed it was a side effect from the amulet and moved on the the Crystal Empire. When Trixie entered the great city, which had recently been restored she was amazed, it was much bigger than Canterlot by far. There was a new Crystal Faire being held since the last once was interupted by the brief return of Sombra, but he was quickly defeated. As Trixie made her way through the fair she noticed the Crystal Heart residing under the castle. Something inside her made her think she remembered the heart. But she couldn't figure out what. "I just know I've seen this before, but where?" she said to herself. She continued looking around the fair, buying herself some crystal cotton candy, which despite it's name did not contain any crystals. "TRIXIE!?" Trixie's eyes widened, did somepony just call her name? Something in her head told her "Hide the amulet" Trixie did a quick spell to cloak the amulet to make it look like she wasn't wearing it at all and turned around to see her arch-nemesis, Twilight Sparkle. "What are you doing here?" Twilight asked. Being strangely friendly towards Trixie "Trixie, I mean, I, am here to enjoy the Crystal Faire, what brings you to the Crystal Empire, Sparkle?" "I'm helping my brother and his wife with the fair, they are the king and queen of the empire you know." Trixie's eyes widened. If Twilight's brother was a king, that meant that Twlight was some sort of royalty as well, how dare she have a higher title than The Great and Powerful Trixie?. "Hey, how about you come see my friends, you remember them right?" Twilight began as she walked with Trixie to where the rest of the gang were. Trixie knew this would be a long day.