The Shadow and The Spark
Chapter 1: Return of Shadows
One early morning at the peak of the Crystal Mountains, a young mare coloured white as the snow, trekked through the perilous snowstorm that occurred. The young mare was named Princess Harmony Spark, a princess of imagination and creativity in both mind and body. The alicorn trotted against the icy breath of the mountains, against the bitter, arctic temperatures. Normally, a pony with this amount of courage would turn back. But not this mare. Harmony persevered up the hostile mountain, breathing every ounce of pure air lingering in her lungs.
As she was about to collapse to the cold ground, Harmony found her destination. She found a vast, desolate cave, coloured an pitch black with only the entrance as its light. An exhausted but strong-willed Harmony then explored the cave when she discovered an ancient tomb, damaged and very dusty. The white mare tried to open the tomb with her every muscle of strength but try as she might, the tomb wouldn't open. The white mare growled in frustration and angrily used her bright purple magic to blast it. The magical energy blasted a hole big enough for Harmony to reach her hoof in and then she found the horn of the deceased, evil King Sombra. Harmony then placed the horn on top of a nearby crystal in the cave. She then stood back and focussed on the crystal. Harmony used her mind power to imagine that there was nothing else in the cave except for her and the crystal.
"Okay, here it goes." said Harmony in determination.
The alicorn began to use her magic as her magic aura turned bright, sparkling purple into a twisted black. Hazes of green and purple started to form around Harmony's horn, while her eyes emitted a purple smoke. Suddenly, she shot the dark magic onto the crystal. The crystal and the horn both combined in a pitch black colour, smothered in dark magic. Harmony was only concentrated on the crystal as her fuelled magic was burning with pure strength. Her eyes glowed a bright green and her now red irises narrowed into slits. This magic was exhilarating, Harmony thought. All her remaining energy was running extremely low, this may kill her, but Harmony had to try. Finally, the spell was complete. Harmony then feel to the floor as she breathed heavily, thankful for keeping herself alive. Harmony's eyes and her magic then reverted to normal.
She watched in unease as the crystal connected with the horn formed a black, eye-blinding smoke, the cave grew black crystals from its walls. Then, as a red and green spark was beginning to form, Harmony realised the spark gained more energy as she leapt behind a stalagmite for cover. Then, there was a sudden explosion, fumed in colossal black smoke.
As the smoke cleared, the white alicorn carefully walked towards a black, oozing substance in the middle of the cave floor. As her hoof touched it, it began to form a hoof. Harmony gasped as she witnessed the black substance shaped itself into a tall, grey stallion with grey armour and a flowing black mane. The horn connected to the substance grew onto the stallion's head, along with a small pointed crown. The stallion opened his eyes coloured a blood red, vivid green and trailed purple smoke. The stallion was King Sombra.
" It's so good to be back!" said King Sombra as he laughed demonically. "Tartarus was most unwelcoming. But hopefully, that's the last time I'll set my eyes at that hellhole. Now, who shall I thank for my rising from the dead?" he asked.
"Uh, me actually." Harmony replied timidly.
"You?" the king replied, confused.
Harmony was quite nervous meeting this sadistic creature, but she mustered up the courage to greet him with respect as she normally would.
"Um, hello. I'm Harmony Spark, the princess of imagination. I sorta brought you back to life and I'm here to help you." She meekly asked with an awkward smile.
King Sombra was surprised that an alicorn princess actually revived him from the dead. The fact that she was a ruler of goodness who resurrected him, a king of shadow and fears, was truly puzzling for him.
"Tell me, young mare. Why did you bring me back? Why did you come all this way just to let me live once more?" he asked.
"Well, as everypony knows, you've been responsible of taking over the Crystal Empire and have tried to enslave the Crystal Ponies along with it. As much I despise you for your horrific crime, I still think there's a chance to reform you. Princess Cadance has given me permission to revive you and I wanted to help you turn over a new leaf and become a better stallion." Harmony explained.
"Reform me? That's your task? To bring me back and make me one of your own low-life, pitiful subjects?!" Sombra replied in a burning rage.
"Well, yeah. Scratch the 'low-life' bit." Harmony replied.
As the king turned away, his anger grew stronger. How dare an insignificant mare bring him back to life and force him to become one of those pathetic, small, foolish Crystal Ponies who never respected him as a glorious king! His anger was forming massive amounts of dark magic; he was ready to annihilate the mare in front of him. But then, an idea began to form in his mind. This alicorn has revived him and wanted to reform him. Maybe if he can gain her trust and use her royal status to learn about Cadance's weaknesses, convince her to join his side and be ready to rule the Crystal Empire once again. Why not, he thought. She seemed an easy target and naïve. Maybe she can become his Queen if he liked her enough. He gave a conniving, malicious smile before he turned around to face Harmony.
"What was your name again, young mare?" the king finally said.
"H-Harmony Spark." Harmony replied. Even though she was confident of meeting Sombra, his mere presence did send some chills down her spine. She wasn't sure whether he was going to kill her or not, but something about him was enough for her to keep her spirits up a little.
"Harmony Spark, it would be an honour if a wandering, lost soul such as I would be reformed kind, thoughtful princess like you." Said King Sombra, as he charmed the mare.
"Hm, thanks." The princess answered as she blushed.
"Please, take me to Princess Cadance." The king smugly requested, knowing Harmony would easily accept.
With a knowing smile, Harmony then escorted the king outside the cave's entrance, where the harsh weather had fortunately died away. King Sombra was exuberant. With an incredibly gullible princess by his side, he will finally, after more than 1000 years, to finally take over the Crystal Empire once more and KEEP it that way. All his hopes and dreams, all that time and energy taken away from his life, clawing his way up to his true destiny. He finally had his chance in his hooves. He was about to achieve his destiny.
"Sombra, I'm really sorry about this." Said Harmony Spark.
"What do you m-?" Before he could finish, he suddenly fell to the icy ground, he slowly looked up to the alicorn, noticing a small syringe,that levitated by her magic aura. He tried to figure what was in it, but he slowly, slowly became weaker and weaker. Then, everything went black.
End of Chapter 1