Prologue: Aspiring Dark Hero
The canopy covered the surroundings in dark, damp shadows, making the shapes of the trees and undergrowth form dark and menacing shapes in the distance.
They spoke of malevolent and cruel beings, promising a quick and gruesome end to one who was not both disciplined and skilled enough to journey through the shady haunts of the Everfree Forest.
Ponies had nothing to fear however. At least not with their dark guardian stalking these vile lands, performing the gruesome tasks of keeping their bodies and minds shielded from the terrors of the dark corners of Equestria.
Dull thumps sounded when the tough hooves of the cloaked figure stalked the forest, making the wiser of the creatures beat a quick retreat, lest his piercing gaze fall upon them, followed by his swift and terrible wrath.
It was an unthankful task, keeping the threats from these lands from spilling into the heartlands of Equestria, where the normal ponies pranced and frolicked, unknowing, ungrateful, yet the guardian youth kept ever vigilant, stoic and unyielding.
A cry of terror pierced the tensed shroud of calmness in the forest, and the cloaked young stallion’s ears shot up and immediately pinpointed the source of the commotion, before taking off at a full gallop, moving through the underbrush and weaving between the trees with ease.
A pair of fillies were fleeing along what could almost be described as a trail, if only there was more traffic in this forest.
Following closely behind was a pack of timberwolves, their glowing green eyes set on tearing and devouring their prey.
The two fillies gasped and came to a screeching halt, as they noticed a dark figure standing in front of them, stance broad and ready for battle.
To their shock, the newcomer turned into a dark mist and shot past them, retaking shape between them and their pursuers.
The figure shook his hood back, revealing the handsome face of a tall colt with a horn on his forehead, and spread dark wings to further shield the ponies.
The wolves stopped dead in their tracks, and reevaluated the situation.
“I am Shadowdark, prince of Equestria,” the colt announced, unflinching in the face of the danger. “And I am here to take it to the limit.”
The wolves snarled, and charged him.
Without missing a beat, the colt leapt into action. Weaving to the side of one wolf, he beat it to the ground with a wing, causing it to shatter to countless pieces.
Another threw itself head on against him, but he blocked its attack by rearing up and holding its paws to the side, before headbutting it and causing it to fly into a tree.
The last one thought it could avenge it’s fallen fellows by jumping the colt from behind and biting on his neck, but when his jaws snapped shut, they bit only air, and he passed through his prey harmlessly.
The colt, who had turned into mist, reformed where he had stood as the wolf regained its stance and turned around, not at all comfortable with his opponent’s fighting abilities.
The colt merely lit up his horn, and blasted the wolf with a ray of white light, causing its remains to rain down across the landscape.
He turned around to make sure that the fillies were fine, and found them giving him a look of fear, mixed with a little admiration.
Shadowdark held back a sigh, but was used to this reaction from ponies, and merely put on a stoic and polite face.
“Are you alright?” he asked.
But before they could answer, a chime from a pocket of his cloak sounded, from the ‘gift’ given to him by his aunt Gabe, on request of his parents.
The blue glowing shape of his father’s head appeared before him.
“Shadowdark,” the glowing, floating head of Sombra asked, with a hint of impatience. “Where are you?”
“I’m… nowhere,” Shadowdark said, thinking quickly to find an answer that would appease all present in the manner he wanted. “Just enjoying the shade.”
“Are you in the Everfree?”
“Y… yes.”
Sombra’s head turned around, and saw the other two ponies, before turning back to Shadowdark with one eyebrow raised, and raised high.
“Senses… tingling,” a disembodied, female voice said, before Sombra was partially pushed to the side by the head of Cadence, appearing much like Sombra did.
Cadence looked where Sombra had looked, at the two fillies, before she turned to Shadowdark.
“Oooh,” she said, understanding, before turning back to Shadowdark with a comforting expression. “Oh, Shady, I’ve told you before, you don’t need to do this to impress girls! You’re more than handsome enough to get their attention the old fashioned way.”
“This is the old fashioned way as far as I’m concerned,” Sombra noted, mostly to himself.
The two fillies had started giggling at the antics of prince Shadowdark and his family.
“If you’d just let me style your mane,” Cadence continued. “And Rarity showed me this wonderful pink topaz earring, perhaps with some–”
“Auntie!” Shadowdark whined. “I don’t like dressing like that.
The remains of the wolves, including one mostly intact head, were sniggering where they lay.
“You shut up!” Shadowdark shouted at them.
—
Shadowdark walked through the remaining part of the forest in silence with the two young mares behind him in silence, vaguely aware of the intense whispering behind him.
When they exited through the edge of the forest, they noticed a dark cloud shooting down from the sky towards them, moving fast, but not threateningly so.
It coalesced into the, for Shadowdark, very familiar sight of his father.
“Hey, dad,” he said.
“Hi, your majesty!” the young mares said in excited unison, doing little curtsies.
“Greetings to you young ponies and all that,” Sombra said. “Are you alright?”
“We’re fine,” they said, and relapsed into another fit of giggles.
“Nopony else in there?”
“Nope!”
“Good. Now run along.”
“Bye, your highness!” they said to Shadowdark, giggling as they ran off towards town.
Sombra turned to his child, and nodded. “Well done, but what were you doing in there?”
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9728607
Oh yeah.
Or, well, it's supposed to be an edgy alicorn OC, but I'm hoping that being self aware to that fact will elevate it above the stereotype. Characters who are overpowered in combat aren't interesting to read about the martial exploits of, so I'm going to have the appeal lie in other things, like self discovery and relationships.
9729322
You have a lot of stories on your page. How did it go?
9728959
It's definitely a big risk, but I think you're a good enough writer of non-combat interactions to pull it off quite well. And I like your sense of humor.
The only thing I'd be cautious of is having this many ongoing stories at the same time.
(I'm certainly not one to talk, but I do wish I had saved some of my ideas for later, and focused on two or three stories at the most.)
But you might have a lot more success than I did.
9729432
Aaw, thanks. And I've promised that I'm gonna take a look at your stories once I've finished mine, so I'm moving that up on the list
"Uuuhurhurhur," he laughed, sounding both nervous and dumb.
Yeah, that's gonna be tough. One of the reasons I released so many first chapters was that I wanted to see which concept people would appreciate of all the ideas I had. All of them, it turns out
That's why you should post on discord. Especially after I've read your stuff. We'll talk stories, its fun
Oh, that's easy! He was giving us a new interesting tale to read!
I would also have this problem if my name was Shadowdark and both my father and aunt were corrupted with the nightmare and happy to get rid of it. -_____-
9729950
Sounds like you liked it. Me happy
9730524
So if he is corrupted by something too, well, that's an opportunity for bonding
Kid, you need to work on you're one liners
Being an angsty teenager
Also, what coloration does Shady have ?+
9730818
Something dark. What would be your color scheme if you're the son of Sombra and Celestia. I'm thinking dark grey coat, black mane, and something that makes him more "special" like kaleidoscope highlights or something
9730825
Dark grey coat and Celestias rainbow mane in shades of grey ranging from ash to iron to mould. And an edge for a cutie-mark. However that would look.
9730938
That would work. Cutie mark though? Hmm, he'd want to call it "destiny emblem" or something, I'm thinking a chrome skull
I mean, no matter how dumb you look, legitimate martial prowess will make potential foes wary. As will the political fallout of harming royalty, of course.
Muah ha ha. Poor guy.. He has a lot to live up to.
9736220
He sure does
I will admit, I'm a little sad he didn't call her "big sis" or something like that
Heh! With a title like this, it’s almost a prerequisite that there’s at least a Barnabas and/or a Quinton of the Collinshoof family to show up.
I’ll get around to reading this someday, I promise, but not just yet.
9730944
Okay, I couldn’t resist, I read it, already, and the comments....
Speaking of which, how about his cutie mark be the silver wolf’s head from Barnabas’ cane?
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/26/Jonathan_Frid_Barnabas_Collins_Dark_Shadows_1968.JPG
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You said you wanted to check out the sequels to mlaabq, and... well, I kinda started losing interest in the show after Starlight Glimmer got so much focus, which zapped a lot of my desire to write fanfics for it and... this story might have to go
10444433
Oh, don’t let that stop you. Just slap that ol’ Alternate Universe tag on there and you’re golden.
Works for everyone else here.