It all started what was only eight years ago, it only feels like it happened a week ago. You could say I was only a kid, well I was. Back when I was only about eleven years of age, my mother went looking for me "Oli! Where are you?" I heard her calling out to me

"I'm over here" She ran over to me, "What's happening?"

She looked worried "Come with me, I need to get you somewhere safer than here" I ran with her

"Where are we going?" she held back for a while before replying

"The Ever-Free forest"

I got kinda scared "But you said to never go in there" She went in, I was too scared to be alone so I followed her into the Ever-Free forest, the place of my nightmares.

My mother and I had been walking safely through the Ever-Free forest until a feral, or some kind of infected Manticore came across us, "Oli take this and hide" She handed me a trench knife that my father used when he apparently saved Equestria "I'll take care of this, now hide"

I ran and slid underneath a few roots that grew out of the ground so I could see everything that was going on, my mother started to pretty much destroy the manticore, at least until its tail went right through her stomach "No!" I was tearing up, I ran over and began stabbing it and dodging when it threw an arm at me, I killed it, my first kill at eleven years of age. I ran over to my mother's body

"Oli, Oli" the tears were rolling down my face

"It'll be alright, I'm here mum" She brought her head closer to my face

"I'm not gonna make it...this poison...it's too strong" my tears were falling down to her face

"There has to be something I can do! I don't think I'll make it without a mum!" She shook her head

"Just do one thing for me Oli"

"What?" I asked sniffing and trying to wipe my tears away

"You're getting to be a big boy and I want to tell you one thing. Everything scary, they're like pictures in a book. You might feel them but they aren't real"

I choked back the tears "what?"

Her blood was running cold "Oli, you would make your father so proud. I love you Oli" were her dying words to me

"I love you too mum" I let all my tears out holding her close, a single thought ran through my mind {whose fault is it? Mine? Dad's?} It became quite clear {That manticore, no all of them! Every last one of them} I walked over to the manticore and continued stabbing it violently until I passed from exhaustion. I had been living like an animal for about a month, but at least that life style kept me fed, my mother's death horrified me for weeks.

I had my knife to my throat, just about to end it all, when I was interrupted by a Zebra "Zecora?" I don't even know how I knew her name.

She replied to me "Come little one, this mustn't be fun. Please follow me, for I have things you need to see" I got up and shoved the trench knife in my pocket leaving my mothers body behind, it tore at my heart to do that.

During my short time spent with Zecora she taught me all she knew about humans that my mother hadn't...the awful things we could do. After a week or so she said something unusual "Young Vasili I require a knife, to show you something that is not right" I gave her the trench knife and she cut me to explain to me that I was among a bloodline of people who have black blood and unnatural abilities "From your fathers words, this raises concern. Your abilities shouldn't bloom at this age, you suffer an eternal rage" for the rest of the day she escorted me back to the outskirts of Ponyville, she told me exactly where to go, I asked why she didn't come with me, she told me that she'd be attacked on sight

"So I tell them you sent me?" she nodded then left to go home.

So I did, upon reaching my destination I saw a large tree. Oh god the pain going though my head you would not believe. I knew I had never been there before but it looked so familiar. I walked up to it, the pain growing stronger, I knocked and a purple unicorn had answered, I told her that Zecora had sent me to which she replied "What? Zecora's safe, what has she told you?" Staring at her, she invited me in and sat me down "Now what is your name little guy?"

I told her "I'm Vasili"

She introduced me to some of her friends, but one particular Pegasus got exited to me, she had rarely ever seen a human let alone got close enough to talk to one. The purple unicorn named Twilight Sparkle had walked off and took the orange earth pony and blue Pegasus with her. The orange one looked back and said "...that little guy is related to..." the rest I couldn't make out. I saw the blue Pegasus look back and show both sympathy and some extent of love, or at least that's what I think it was. The yellow Pegasus who had been standing next to me had just stepped closer and rubbed up against me, I jumped a bit

"Oh I'm sorry, I didn't mean to scare you" She was very comforting to me after I told about my family, she showed me her pet rabbit Angel Bunny. She was never ordering or bossy, in fact she was shy whenever she told someone to do something, but that's just who Fluttershy was.

The yellow Pegasus had jumped back after noticing a black mark going down my arm, at first I didn't know what it was, the pink earth pony walked over to me and touched my new marking, that moment was the most horrifying moment that day, the very second she touched it things went black and a single light swung and I saw that pink pony pull out a scalpel and cut my arm around that mark and oh god the pain, that pain was there alright, then the light flicked off.

Light retuned as she took her hoof of me, it was obvious that the yellow Pegasus saw I was in pain, the pain caused me to black out "Are you okay? Hello? Are you alive?" It was Twilight, she was calling for my response, I told her I was alive "yeah I'm alive"

"Okay you were a bit touch and go there"

"What do you mean?"

"You were technically dead for several minutes" it was that blue Pegasus, she was called Rainbow Dash

"Dead? What? Then how am I alive?"

"We don't know we assume it was in your bloodline" Twilight, what can I say about her. Smartest pony I knew, sure but she didn't know everything, let alone understand it

"What do you mean my bloodline?"

"I have had enough of this shit" That white unicorn, Rarity, scared me at first, I mean anything would after coming back to life

"Rarity this ain't you, you never swear at a confused child" Applejack would stand up for me to the end, no matter her opinion

I was tired of all the arguing and scared of what was happening "Okay everyone shut the fuck up! I have recently died. I don't know what the fuck is happening to me, my mother died a few weeks ago, and I don't know what the fuck is going on" I started to breakdown and cry

Rainbow Dash, she put a hoof on my shoulder and that was the most sympathetic, maybe it was because I was young but I don't know why, but it was then which she almost completely understood me

"I am most sorry young child, I was just expecting you to be too much like your father" said an apologetic Rarity

"Rarity, he's too young to know that. What kind of person he was" Twilight was right I was too young

"Too young to know what?" I wondered for a week, but after that I gave up.

After a few weeks I heard a message on the radio "Code 3004, repeat this is a code 3004, get to an immediate evac site. If that is not possible: lock your doors, shut your windows and keep away from the assailants" Twilight came to me after hearing this, she asked me to go get Rainbow Dash and tell her to get Applejack, so I did.

"Rainbow Dash thank god I found you" I said after a few minutes of searching

"Why what's wrong?"

"Twilight sent me to tell you to get Applejack"

"3004, am I right?" she asked as if she knew the answer

"I heard the radio say something like that"

"Ah crap. You got a weapon on you?"

"Yeah, why?"

"What is it?"

"It's just a trench knife"

"Do you know how to use it?"

"Obviously, I've been training with it for a few years now" there were moans and screams approaching

"Damn it. Get back to Twilight I'll go get Applejack" I ran back for the library, I tripped and was surrounded in mere seconds. I had unsheathed the trench knife, in one second they pounced, I stabbed a couple of them and one of them got me on my back, I thought that would be the end of me.

Oh how wrong I was...I saw a white rabbit run up and attack the pony's rear leg, on its back I displayed that attacker some mercy, stabbing it right in the head. Pulling the knife out the blood went everywhere, a soft voice called my name, it was Fluttershy "Thank goodness I found you or who knows what would have happened to you" we ran to the library, there we met up with the other but someone was missing

"Rainbow Dash, where is she?"

Applejack came over to me "I'm sorry little guy, but when we came here she got lost and going out to look for her would just be a stupid thing ta do"

"I don't care, we need her here"

"It's a lost cause Vasili, can't y'all see that?"

"I'm going to look for her, whether you want me to or not" I don't know exactly what had just happened to me, but it was a good thing it did, I left the room,

"Is it me or did he just sound like you know who?" Twilight asked. Not knowing where I was going, I ran to Sweet Apple Acres

"At least I'm dying for a noble cause" said Dash flying above the ground

"No you're not" spoke some kind of infected pony jumping out of the bush

I suddenly had two large blades about ninety centimetres long each and shaped like kitchen knives. I stabbed the creature about to attack Rainbow Dash "Vasili what the hell are you doing? You're going to get yourself killed!"

"Since when have I died on you Rainbow?" I said in a voice that wasn't quite my own

"That voice, where have I heard it before" Rainbow muttered to herself, the rest of the creatures pounced at me

"Not again" slashing at the creatures with my blades, those that didn't die crawled around me in a circle. They pounced again but before I could react my blades turned to smoke. A single bullet went through the attackers head

"Come on Vasili we got to go, now!" She made it to the library, but I didn't.

Well not for six hours, here's what I heard what happened

"Rainbow Dash where's Vasili?" asked a worried Twilight

"He was right behind me" she replied

"Rainbow Dash you know what will happen if we can't get him back"

"Twilight I swear, he was right behind me the whole time"

"Well then he should still be behind you then, shouldn't he?" she said rhetorically with anger

"Look Twilight I don't know what you want" said Dash hoping for forgivness

"I want Vasili"

"Ladies please, if he really is who we think he is then no matter what happens he will be alright"

Most of them agreed "Look Rarity, this may be true but we can't take that risk"