//------------------------------// // Chapter 1: As a world falls // Story: A World Torn // by Flaring Dawn //------------------------------// I step into a dream, If only it were a dream. My world has been torn by war. Pegasus ponies and Earth ponies have attacked Unicorns. It doesn't matter the age, if you were a Unicorn... you died. My name is Storm Drift. I'm a Pegasus with sadness in my heart. Why you ask? You try walking through a schoolhouse full of dead fillies and colts, see what happens. I walk the now decomposing hallways and notice a few bodies propped against the wall. I look away and kept walking. The world wasn't always like this. There was a time when ponies lived in harmony. The town was happy and alive. Then one day a Unicorn filly was brutally murdered in a fight. Apparently a Pegasus made a comment to a unicorn and the filly stood up for the unicorn. The filly was lifted 100 feet in the air and dropped to her death, leaving nothing but a horn. The earth ponies soon got word of the horrible act and wanted to fight along side the unicorns. The Pegasus ponies quickly reacted and threatened the earth ponies with death. So now its the earth ponies and the Pegasus ponies against the unicorns. Me? well lets say i'm in the middle of a war that's been going on for ten years now, and I have no intention on killing anyone... That is until today. I walk through the hallways thinking to myself that it will all be over soon, that everything will be as it was... until the explosion hit me like a brick to the head. I fell backwards and hit the ground hurting my wing. "Son of a bitch!!" I cursed. I got up and brushed the dirt and debris. "Who the hell did that?" I said to myself. Then i heard a faint cry coming from the direction of the blast. I ran towards the cry and my heart sank to the floor "T-Twist?" I said with tears running down my face. Twist was like a sister to me. Now she was lying on the ground dying in front of me. "H-hey Sthorm...." Twist said with the cutest lisp. I cried right then and there. She was an innocent child. She didn't deserve death. I fought the words out. "H-hey there kiddo...." I said with a tear filled voice. My heart was no longer in my chest. It dropped to my stomach when i saw her wounds. A shard of glass was sticking out of her chest and she had a gash along her stomach. I walked to her and held her to my side. Twist smiled as she always did when she saw me. Something I know I would never see again. "Listen Twist... your gonna be ok... i'll help you.. I-" Before i could finish Twist looked up at me and smiled. My hearts shattered like glass. "Oh Sthorm I love you for making me feel better...but we know..... whats gonna...happen...." Twist said with tears in her now closing eyes. "Twist please don't go... please!!!" I yelled till my lungs hurt. To know avail. With her last breath she spoke. "T....tell...Applebloom.....that...I....love......." Then she died. My heart forever torn out of my chest. Twist was just a filly nothing more. She did not deserve this fate. My anger boiled to sadness and the tears fell like rain. My heart fell to the floor. I closed the little fillies eyes and kised her on the forhead. "I...I will little one... i promise... " I said through bitter tears, my heart falling even further to the floor than before. I buried Twist under a small oak tree near the schoolhouse and wrote a small poem on the headstone. I wont recite it for fear my heart will sink further. I begin to walk away from her grave after i say a prayer until i hear laughter coming from the other side of the schoolhouse. I walk towards the laughter and i instantly freeze. It was Trixe... and a few other ponies i couldn't recognize. Her laughing made me angry, to the point of my teeth digging into my lip drawing blood. I didn't care however... Trixies blood would be the next to flow. I would make sure of it. "Serves them right... heh... they should of fought with us, but they desided to go against us." Trixie said with a grin. Muy blood boiled to breaking point. She killed an inocent filly with no provacation. She destroyed a school house full of life, but now it is dust and debri full of death and decay. My mind stopped when i jumped from the shadows and attacked Trixie. "How dare you...." I said with malice. Trixie grinned at me and spat in my face. "Fuck you pegasai scum...." She said with a vile grin. I wiped her spit from my face and smiled. Trixie looked scared, like she knew i was going to kill her. "Big mistake kid... BIG mistake..." I said as I ripped her horn from her head. She yelped in pain and kicked me off sending me into the building behind me. I smiled widely. I grabbed her horn that was laying next to me and charged her. "Die you fucking cunt!!!" I yelled as i pounced Trixie and impaled the horn into her throat and pulled upward drowning her in her own blood. Trixie made a few sick noises then collapsed dead on the ground. I eyed the other two Unicorns and smiled widely. "Anyoine else care to join her?" I asked menacingly. The other two Unicorns looked at me and ran. I cried again remembering why i killed Trixie. Twist was now avenged but the pain of the loss still hurt me. She was a child... Trixie had no right to hurt her. In my eyes Trixie deserved far worse a death then i gave her... I was too mercyful with her death. I should of made her suffer like she made Twist suffer. I should of drained her blood. The day turned to night as i continued on my way. Other than just walking around aimlessly, I was on a mission. I wanted this bloodshed to end once and for all. Too many lives have been loss due to this war. It needed to end. It must end. I lost my daughter in the beginning of the war. Countless other ponies died for no reason. The element holders have either died or are missing. Word is Twilight has vanished off to god knows where and the princesses have also vanished. Oh how ponies wish they were here right now. "Tsk... All i see is death...why is this happening....why..." I ask myself as tears begin to fill my eyes. My heart began to break into pieces. This war was tearing the world apart from the inside out. It killed me to think that this could happen to such a beautiful world. It didn't make any sense to me, how could it make sense to me? How could it make sense to anypony? My mind trailed over the question for a few minutes before i continued to walk. My heart was a little bit healed but not fully. For it to be fully healed this was will have to cease to exist. "I have to stop this..." I thought to myself. Then i remembered how this could all end. Illumi Nite!!!! She was the key to stop this war. Only she was in the Everfree. Well then... I guess it wouldn't hurt to visit an old friend... could be fun...