//------------------------------// // My life story... // Story: The Journey of Shadow Walker // by JeremyPunk //------------------------------// A/N: This whole chapter is dedicated to Shadow Walkers back story. There's a lot of character development here. [Shadowmere] Thoughts that are not mine {Silent talk between me and Shadowmere} "So, you want to hear a story eh? Well have I go one for you." I started (WARNING!: Wall of text Incoming!) "I was born in Manehattan. My mother was a white unicorn named Mary Gold and my father was a grey earth pony named Metal Head. Mom owned a flower shop and dad was a blacksmith. Just a note; I am nothing like them at all. My mother is kind and caring while my father is rough and tough (Yay! I can rhyme!). The first two years of my life were just me growing up to be able to go to school. On my first day of school when I was three years old, I was instantly classified as an outcast for a reason that escapes me. On account of me having no friends and nopony ever bothering me, I was always studying constantly. But of course, the universe decided to hate me even more. Three years later, some colts who were known as bullies were jealous of my intelligence so they decided to take it out on me. I got swirlies, noogies than left my scalp bleeding, and more feather pluckings than you could count for four years straight, and it didn't help that I was a blank flank during that period. Now I was always sort of a pacifist, before I was ten I'd never hit anypony at all, even the bullies. After four years of constant bullying though, that bottled up rage can be unpredictable. One day during the bullies usual routine, they decided to try out new insults. Boy was that the biggest mistake of their life. Most of the insults were on the line of 'You suck', 'Freak', or 'Go die in a hole', the usual stuff. But the biggest colt there who was the group of bullies leader made a comment that he will regret forever. He called my mother a worthless whore. What he basically did was pop the cork off the bottle of pure, untamed, rage that I put in there over those four years of bullying. All I saw was red during this. I unleashed a can of whoop-ass on him and his friends. Their group was consisting of one of each race of ponies. I made the pegasus flightless by ripping of his wings....in segments, and the unicorn struggle with magic for the rest of his life due to me tearing of the tip of his horn. The earth pony? I'd rather not say something the gruesome for the sake of your sanity. After the incident I was kicked out of school and banned from the rest of all Manehattan schools. I then had a personal home school teacher come everyday and teach me until I was able to move out. One of the only problems was no flight school wanted to except me and I didn't know any pegasi that could teach me. So I never learned how to fly and I probably won't because I've never used the muscles, so they most likely have the consistency of jelly and will never be useful to me. But I've never regretted doing it for one reason, and one reason only. It gave me my cutie mark. To bad nopony except my parents cared at all. Everypony, including me, thought that it meant that i had an absolutely pure side, and an excruciatingly evil side. That was close, but not exact. It made him appear." "Who is him, Shadow Walker?" Twilight asked. "Would you like to meat him?" I counter questioned. "Wait he's here?" Applejack said. "Yup. Come on Shadowmere, get your lazy ass out here!" My shadow then moved out from under me and quickly molded itself into Shadowmere. There was a collective gasp from everypony. [Sup bitches.] Rarity and Fluttershy then proceeded to faint while Twilight, Applejack, RD, Pinkie, and Spike stared at him wide-eyed. [God, I didn't know I was that sexy!] "FYI You're not. They are just in shock about seeing a living, breathing, shadow entity." I explained. [♪I'm sexy and I know it!♪] "Wh-who is that Shadow Walker?" Twilight asked fearfully. "HE! My dear Twilight Sparkle. Is Shadowmere, my brother of sorts." "Wait...of sorts? What does that mean?" Twilight asked. "Elementary my dear Twilight! He is me, but not me at the same time." I said in a mock-British accent. "..." "Fine. What I mean is that he is a physical manifestation from my shadow but he has his own look and personality. Technically, he's my twin brother due to the fact of how I had a shadow when I was born. He just was never say 'alive' until I got my cutie mark. So now we should wait for Fluttershy and Rarity to wake up so I can tell the rest of the story." ***10 minutes and 2 buckets of water later*** "OK! Now that the two sleeping beauties are awake I can continue! So a whole year after I got my cutie mark I started to notice my shadow wasn't in total sync with me. Over a few weeks I observed it get more and more out of sync with my movements and actions. Then one day after class, before I was about to take a shower, my shadow literary moved out in front of me and formed into Shadowmere over here." I said [And then from that point I introduced myself and explained what I'm all about and what his cutie mark really means. What it means is that there is two sides of him. Just not in the same being. I am the Yin while he is the Yang. In case you don't know, Yin is all things bad about a pony. Greed, Wrath, and Envy for example. As a matter of fact. Those are the only seven deadly sins on the Yin side. All of the rest are on the gray line in between. Yang is all things good about a pony. For example, Chivalry, Compassion, and Love. All-be-it, we are both more towards the grey line but more or less on opposite sides. The only Yin attribute Shadow Walker has that exceeds expectation of the Yin side itself is smart-assery. All in all, I represent Yin and he represents Yang.] "Wow...this is a lot to take in so suddenly." Twilight stated. "Well how would we know that. I mean, you seven are the only ponies besides my parents that know about Shadowmere." I explained. [Yeah. You're the first ponies/dragon that we've told at all about me.] "But..why us darling?" You should know who asked that... "Well, for one you all are the Elements of Harmony. I can trust you not to tell. Plus, due to Shadowmere being in close proximity to me, I have enhanced senses. Some of them are not just the five normal ones either. Like the second I looked at Pinkie Pie I instantly knew that most of the laws of physics are blatantly disregarded by her. But being around ALL of you, I can feel this odd trusting aura around you girls and boy. But back to the story because I can see Rainbow Dash about to fall asleep. Like Shadowmere said, he introduced and explained himself to me. To be perfectly honest. I wasn't scared at all the whole time. Actually, I didn't feel much emotion at all after the incident. Shadowmere helped me out in that regard though." "So after my parents got over their shock of Shadowmere existing in the first place, they started keeping a close eye on him. Even during my classes. While they were watching my classes, which by the way were advanced, they noticed how everything was coming to me with extreme ease. After a whole month of 'observing', they decided I didn't need classes anymore. I knew all I needed to for school. So then for 7 more years I learned more about Shadowmere and what he can do. So when I turned 18 I moved out and started the 1 year travel across Equestria, getting bits by doing odd jobs in whatever town I would be in all the time.Whats sort of funny is how I am finally telling this story at the end of my journey. Ponyville is my last stop. I decided that once I've been to everywhere that is a civilization in Equestria I would decide which place I would finally settle down in. Now we are at the present in which I am telling you this wonderful tale. Any questions?" [Are you gay? Answer, yes.] "And fuck you with a cactus Shadowmere." I retorted "W-why are you two f-fighting all the time?" Fluttershy timidly asked. [He's jealous of my sexiness.] "Eeyu-nope, Chuck Testa. We fight because for one, like I said, we are basically brothers. But also because we both know we don't mean it. So we have no hard feelings. It's only when it goes to far is when we get a little pissy about it." Applejack and Rainbow asked simultaneously, "How strong are you!?" [I will answer this truthfully. We are both actually stronger than the average stallion, even if we don't look it. I'm strong naturally because you know, shadow entity and all of that, and he's strong because when traveling in places like Fillydelphia you learn to be strong or get mugged by punks.] "Prove it" Well...they asked for it. ***3rd Person*** As both pegasi and the earth pony set up on the table, a certain Draconequus with golden and red eyes was sitting on a cliff, overlooking Ponyville and Canterlot simultaneously. "Oh my little ponies.....soon my revenge will be complete. Starting with that damned unicorn. Look out world. Because Discord. IS. BACK! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!" Just to be cliche, lightning struck in the background. ***Shadowmeres' POV*** Huh...my cliche meter just exploded...I have to check that out later... Well people. It's finished! I finally fought the writers block and depression and got it done. I hope you enjoyed it. Oh, and I still want to know how you guys think how well I write for an eighth grader. Hope you like the longer chapter, JeremyPunk