How did it begin? That is the question always asked. When was the moment that the story was set in motion? Where was the beginning of it all?
In this case, like so many questions, this has more than one answer. The world of the story began on a sunny summer evening, in Canterlot castle. It was just about time to lower the sun, and Princess Celestia was mostly alone.
Mostly.
There were three with her, including her faithful student Twilight Sparkle, who had come to ask Celestia about an obscure facet of unicorn history, which Celestia was well versed in. The filly was happily skipping along, anticipating Celestia's answer. They were usually interesting. Celestia could make even the most boring things fascinating, although Twilight's own obsession with learning didn't hurt matters.
And that's when It happened. No one was expecting it, not any of Equestria, not the fillies with Celestia, and certainly not Celestia herself. It happened suddenly, and no one could react until it was over.
Suddenly, Princess Celestia was consumed in a ball of fire, which enveloped her and the three she was with. It vanished as quickly as it came, and Celestia vanished with it. It left behind three unchanged fillies and a very changed Equestria.
And this is where the world began, with the disappearance of Princess Celestia in that mysterious fireball. This permanently changed the world and allowed our story to begin. But this was not when the story truly began. That happened later. To find out what it is, we shall follow Twilight:
When Twilight Sparkle saw that her mentor was gone, she screamed and ran away in panic. She ran through the castle to the throne room, not noticing her surroundings, not noticing anything but her horror, thinking nothing but “She's gone- she's gone- she's gone!”. She arrived at the entrance to the throne room, and there she found ponies, nobility, mostly, waiting for Celestia's return from her walk.
She stopped and half panted, half sobbed to them “Celestia's gone! Disappeared!”
She then looked up to see that they hadn't seemed to have listened to her. If the had, they'd have been panicking, but they weren't panicking. They were intensely staring at Twilight Sparkle. Twilight began to feel nervous under their gaze, and slowly backed away.
That's when the ponies in the throne room lunged for her.
Twilight ran for it again, and they gave chase. Desperation lent the filly endurance, and a knowledge of the back ways to where she was going allowed her to keep ahead of them. She ran through the dusky streets, returning to her house, where she'd find Spike, her precious doll Ms. Smartypants, and her parents, although her brother was out of town on royal guard business.
She skidded through alleys, dashed across streets, and hid in shadows whenever she could. She hoped that she had lost the horde of ponies chasing her, but she never once looked behind her to make sure. That was against the whole philosophy of running away, as she had been taught by a particularly unlucky unicorn wizard (or wizzard, as he wasn't too good at spelling) in Celestia's court.
When she found her house, she rushed in and locked the doors behind her. She then slid to the ground in exhaustion.
Once she'd got her breath back, she walked into the kitchen and called out: “Mom? Dad? You here?”
Her worry intensified with each second that they were absent. Finally, her mother and father walked into the room. They stared intensely at their daughter, but appeared not to recognize her.
And then, they attacked. Twilight screamed again as she dodged her mother, and then her father. She ran under them and telekinetically opened the knife drawer and drew out a very big knife to defend herself. She was scared. Her parents were not acting like they were supposed to. They were her parents. They loved her. Why were they attacking her?
Twilight's father nearly biting on to Twilight's leg spurred the filly into action. She swiped at her father with the knife, leaving a bloody gash on the stallion's chest. He didn't seem to feel it, though, and it closed quickly. Twilight gasped in horror, and managed to escape from her father temporarily by running under him. She skidded towards the living room, and brandished the knife, causing a few more wounds that didn't mean much of anything.
It was then that Twilight made the panicky decision that the situation called for drastic measures. She drew the knife out so that it was directly to the side of her parents' necks, and then used all her telekinetic strength to move it very quickly to the other side of the room. Backed by the sheer force of speed, the knife sliced cleanly through the necks of Twilight's mother, and then her father.
They toppled to the ground. Their heads toppled to the ground, independently of their bodies.
And Twilight Sparkle stood there, in shock, telekinetically holding the bloody remains of the knife that she had used to kill them. Her magical strength expended, she dropped what had once been the knife. It clattered to the ground. Twilight slid to the floor.
There was blood... so much blood... blood pooling on the floor where they had fallen... blood on the knife... blood on Twilight Sparkle.
“Twilight? What's happening?”
Spike's voice cut through the deathly silence. The baby dragon walked down the stairs and into the living room, where he saw the bloody scene. He froze, mouth open in shock.
And it was then that Twilight Sparkle, overwhelmed by everything that had happened to her, everything that she'd done, began to cry.
And it is there that our story begins, with a filly who had just killed her parents. A filly thrust into a dangerous world. A filly defending herself. She is our protagonist. But she wasn't, before. When she used that knife to kill her parents, something changed, and she became a different Twilight than she was. And so the story has begun.
I Am Legend with ponies? Sign me up! Just please don't be one of those people who let their stories end unfinished.
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Don't worry! I have an ending planned out.
DUDE! Awesome.
Will this have the same or similar ending as the original book?
O MAH GERD DOES OWLOWISHIOUS DIE LIKE SAM!!!
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That's spoilers.
5239275
What? I'm not sure I understand you.
Looks pretty good so far, hope you continue it.
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Oh, I sure will.
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well in the movie I am Legend there is a Zombie like apocalypse and Will Smith (actor, I forgot his name.) had to kill his dog while it was getting infected heres a link to show you I am Legend IMDB.com.
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I don't think that Owlowiscious is going to appear. This story mostly takes place before the beginning of the show.
This pun's even better than Twi Hard!
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Hmm oh well it was worth a try.
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OK well if THE LAST EQUESTRIAN HERO staring Swats and Daggers...(reference to the last American hero staring Arnold Schwarzenegger.)
Discworld reference? Cause I couldn't stop laughing.
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Yes, it's a Discworld reference.
5248216 And a really good one at that.
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Thank you.
the pacing seamed a bit fast and could use some work. Alsi Twi wouldn't have been able to kill her parents like that (she's just a filly) it shoul fave been her magic-ing them away from her and something heavy falls on their heads or something, but it seems good so far, I awiat the next chapter.
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Please note, this is just the prologue. And as to your statement about how she couldn't kill her parents, I'm not if you meant whether she wouldn't be able to bring herself to do so or if she was physically incapable of doing so. I think that she would be capable, as she was always a good magic user, and she was channeling all her magic into that one action.
As for her mental capability, she wasn't in the best of mental states by that point. She was panicking and in shock, and I don't think she really thought through all the consequences of her actions until she'd already done them.
5250487 I mean mentally, not many kids are capapal of killing their parents, those that are are normally psychopaths.
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I fixed my first post to include the reasons why she was mentally able to do it. And it's not like she did it without consequences- the poor filly was scarred for life by that experience.
5250603 all I'm saying is that it would have been more believable if she killed them by accident, also now that I think about it she wouldn't have been able to do it physically either, that was only a common kitchen knife, it would have shattered if it went that fast into a spine, it is exceptionally hard to decapitate a horse, they have very thick spines.
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Magical enhancement and sheer force of speed. Although, now that I think of it, I should put in an edit about how the knife was mangled by what happened. Thank you for pointing that out to me.
And, just so as you know, I know just about nothing about real horse biology. If there's any biological inconsistencies, that's why. Please let me know if I do anything wrong again, and thank you for telling me about horse spines.
5253295 well think about it this way, humans are hard to decapitate, horses have much thicker spines than humans to support the extra wait of their head, tell you what if you want someone to look over it before you post it to make sure it makes sense or something like that, or just want a wall to through Ideas at, just throw my a PM.
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Thank you for your help. I've never had any experience decapitating a human (and don't intend to ever gain any), so, yeah. Thank you for your offer. Editors are great.
5253325 I haven't ether, I just pick stuff up from places, and I would most likely only be able to pre-read, I'm not the best with grammar, but I'll point anything I do see out.
so when the next chapter?
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When I finish editing it. Probably pretty soon, but I make no promises.