He ran, Faint Strike ran as fast as he could. He ran towards the biggest city in Equestria, hoping he could ask advice of the wisest people he knew of, the Princesses. Though when he got there, he took a moment to realize he had no money or family to help him. He found some boxes in an alleyway and sobbed all night long.

Faint's dreams were torrential, cruel, and self-hating. He dreamed of taking his life in so many quick ways it was evil. He hated his knowledge and wished he was braindead, even in his dream his sobs reached him.

However that night, Princess Luna decided to teach her sister, Princess Celestia of how to dreamwalk, should the events of the Nightmare Conquest ever happen again. They both came across the malice that was Faint Strike's dream, and tried to intervene. They found him sobbing on the floor, in a room with ever-changing words splattered everywhere across the walls, floors, and ceiling.

*First story I will have written in the MLP:FiMverse.
*Dark will only be for the prologue scene.
*Human tag for prologue only, it will be pony from next chapter on.

A boy who saw his family die in front of him, on the same day when he finds out the war had killed his friends, takes his own life to escape insanity. Instead he is brought forth before Faust the Alicorn and is told of a world where he would get a second chance at life, love, and friendship. Though what Faust never counted for, was that the insanity had followed him, he thought she made fun of him, and lashed out. Faust was forced to seal his memories, but saw a glimmer of hope within him that what she said was truth. She sends him to the Everfree Forest, reversing his age to a young 5. Coincidentally, that night was the same night Princess Luna would be flying over his exact dropoff location, where she would find him, and would bring him back to Canterlot Castle with her.