Prologue
A Knight in Shining Armor
1- Prologue
Dear Princess Twilight,
Today I learned that friendship is a lie. It doesn't matter how much you change, or how much you demonstrate how good of a person you are; in the end, your so called friends will turn their backs to you even when you need them the most. But I think I already knew it, didn't I? After all, it was really easy for me to separate them before.
Well, I suppose the only thing I have left is to spend this Hearth's Warming Eve alone and sad… Not that it's new to me or anything.
Yours truly,
The one that doesn't have any friends in this world.
Sunset Shimmer.
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The calligraphy was hideous and the lines were in complete disarray, sometimes overlapping with other parts of the paragraphs. It looked as if a drunken teenager had written that letter.
And it wasn't a lie.
It had been a terrible week for Sunset Shimmer. It all had started because someone going by the alias 'Anon-a-Miss' started publishing the secrets of her now ex-friends before continuing with the rest of the students'.
Naturally, everyone had blamed her, and instead of being there by her side, the girls she so foolishly had considered her friends had joined them. She had begged and cried and pleaded them to believe her, but they turned their backs to her.
Princess Twilight had suggested her to have faith in the human versions of her own friends in Equestria. And as the stupid girl she was, Sunset had obliged, ending with, quite frankly, obvious results.
Curiously enough, that last letter from the princess was the straw that broke the camel's back.
"Sometimes all you can do is stay strong. Stay yourself and find your family."
Family? What family? Her parents had abandoned her at an orphanage's door without even giving her a name. It had been the keeper that took her in at sunset that named her.
Since she became Princess Celestia's priced student so many years ago, she had thought of Celestia as her family, a mother, even. But she realized that it all had been delusions the moment that other princess appeared.
Both had been orphans; a pegasus and a unicorn. Nothing out of the ordinary. But what was the first thing Celestia told that pegasus the moment she gained a horn?
"You can call me Aunt Celestia, or just Aunt, if you want to."
It was like a dagger right in Sunset's heart. It didn't matter that Celestia had allowed Sunset to call her by her given name. It didn't matter that Sunset was her personal student. It didn't matter that they had spent so much time together. The moment the other became an alicorn, Celestia made her family.
It had been really painful, seeing how all her hard work and effort had been for naught, driven aside like dust being swept. But, on the hindsight, she now had a way to achieve what she most wanted.
She had to become an alicorn.
But that was when her fall began, and after the Fall Formal, when all the greed that wrongly grew in her heart disappeared, she thought that, finally, she had found a family.
How stupid.
And even after all the dark thoughts that Twilight's words had inadvertently brought to her mind, Sunset had tried to talk with the girls one more time.
It was before lunch when she met them. She had tried to talk to them, to make them realize that she wasn't a bad girl, that she had not spread their secrets. But, once again, they didn't listen to her.
"Why should we listen to your lies?"
"You're not our friend!"
"Secret-stealer!"
"You're not welcome here!"
She couldn't take it anymore. She turned around and, with her eyes drowned in tears, she ran. Away from the school; away from everything.
The night had fell at some point. Sunset had went to a store and somehow managed to convince the clerk that she was an adult and spent all the money she had left to buy a dozen of beers, and then some more. And when the rational part of her mind had stopped talking, she had written that letter to the friendship princess.
And now, Sunset sat at the sidewalk of a bridge. It was midnight, probably, snow had started to fall a couple of minutes ago, and she was really drunk.
For almost two minutes, Sunset stared at the blank page in her journal, waiting for an answer. Snowdrops slowly moistened the paper, but aside of that, nothing happened. Finally, Sunset came to the conclusion that the princess wasn't going to answer.
And why would she? Twilight was a princess, and she was loved by her friends, while Sunset was a dropout and an exile that nobody cared for.
With that last thought, a series of memories started to flash in her mind.
"The guards will escort you out of the palace," were Celestia's last words to her.
"Perhaps Sunset Shimmer is just eager to make someone else out to be a bad element so that her actions at the Fall Formal will become old news." Even though Vice-Principal Luna had been mind-controlled, Sunset knew that those words were her real thoughts about her.
"You don't belong here, Sunset!" Applejack had yelled.
"You don't belong here!"
"You don't belong!"
It was true. She didn't belong to this world, and she didn't belong to Equestria either. She didn't belong anywhere.
She had been a nuisance to the princess, to the teachers, to the principal, and to all the students in Canterlot High. The only reason those five girls had supported her was because Princess Twilight had asked them to do it. But they had soon reached their limit. Anon-a-Miss didn't make them hate her. No, she had only given them an excuse to get rid of her.
Sunset sighed. Her mind was full of depressive thoughts, and her blood was flooded with alcohol. She couldn't feel the cold air against her skin, and maybe it was for the better. She stood up and turned around. Her movements were clumsy, as she couldn't control her balance, but she somehow managed to climb the railing and get to the other side, landing on the very edge of the bridge.
She looked down, and for a moment tottered. The river below was at a very far distance. Maybe it wasn't enough to die from the fall, but in her state, she'd definitely drown. She kicked a small rock and watched it disappear in the dark water.
This was normally the moment where people that tried to suicide reconsidered their actions, where they'd remember a reason to be alive. It was a basic survival instinct, as the mind tried to convince them not to jump with memories of their beloved ones and how much they'd miss them or something like that.
But Sunset couldn't think of someone. She didn't have family or friends or anyone that cared for her. She was just a no body. No one would care if she died, in fact, they would be happy. At least there was one good thing she could do that everyone would appreciate.
She gazed at the last of her beer with a void expression. She couldn't feel her fingers anymore, and the dry tears in her cheeks felt like ice rivers against her skin. With one last swing, she took the can to her mouth and swallowed the last drops of beer in one go.
She sighed, dropping the can to the river. Now she truly didn't have anything left in the world. She lifted a foot and leaned her body forward to put an end to everything.
"Stop!" Someone yelled.
But when she turned around to see who it was, Sunset lost her balance.
And she fell.
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Interesting.. Make more please
Very interesting. I'll be keeping my eye on this.
-ThePortalPonies
It has potential, I'd like to see more for sure.
Spike approves.
But really though, this is good.
I have to agree, it a new concept and love to read more.
While i do want Sunset to forgive the others. I think it shouldn't be over night, in fact the others should work hard to regain the trust and friendship they threw away.
As for the ones who did this I don;t think she should hate them but she should be angry if not furious, since it was the three sisters or two sisters and sister figure to RainbowDash, Apple Jack and Rarity.
Holy Moon and Stars above, that was beautiful.
Where's the rest of it? *Nervous chuckle* More? No? Dangit...
Princess Twilight's reaction to what happened should be... interesting.
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Impressive story, I can't wait to see how this plays out.
Also you're Spanish? Nice, we are neighbors. (Portugal)
Well, look at this. Very interesting start here. I see a great story hidden here, so I'm going to be keeping an eye on this story.
Moar.
You've got me hooked! Props to Hakuno, the word choice and grammar is better than half the other fics I read! I can totally relate to the language thing--Inglés es mi lengua primera y mi Español es horrible!
5984354 I bet she freaks out and blames herself. Then she hops through the portal a nervous wreck and spouts incoherent apologies to Sunset for at least half an hour while bawling her eyes out. This is all assuming she finds out at all though, because who's going to tell her? Not Sunset I'm sure.
This story has a lot of promise, but it also has a lot of basic grammatical mistakes. I would suggest an editor.
(I was gonna post a funny picture here, but I got distracted by TVTropes)
Aww! This one is so sweet and sad. I can already tell my heart is gonna be destroyed at the end of this.
Welp! Time to go buy some Kleenex!
I would love to see how this develops
I'm going to be keeping an eye on this. I've been hoping to find an interesting Shining-Sunset ship fic.
Jeez, Celestia, just focus entirely on the alicorns, huh?
Ok, good start, good start, I'll stick here for a while.
And then she died. The end!
Love it!!!
Welp, what an end to this, hehehe. Nice job!
Looks interesting.