Ch.1 The Dark Republic
146 B.C, old town of Poparta, Nightreece, ruled by the royal east alicorn, the queen Stellar rise, an alicorn, and the king Supernal rise being a unicorn of great magic capacity. Stellar was a beautiful galactic shade of blue with a pure violet mane that flowed like a steady stream, and was decked in the royal garment, which favored a blue and white color scheme that seemed to flow just like her hair did. Supernal was an imperial red with majestic grey hair, dressed in well maintained clothing, but it was only for today because he had to leave town for a little bit, but would be back by this afternoon. Supernal will give the city a speech about how they had plans for today.
The city was a bustle of energy and excitement, for today was the eve of the new year and the king and queen had plans to set up decorations and rides. The little foals who couldn't suppress their energy for the festival started toward the fields to practice their magic to impress the sons of the royals. One of them was Solar Flare, a very light yellow colt with red and orange hair and was quite the proud twelve year old. Secondly was Lunar Blaze, a prominent midnight blue, who also shared Solar's hair color of red and orange, as well as being two years older than him.
Away from the city in the field near the forest, Eclipse disguise, the only daughter of the royals, appeared from the cover of the tall grass in front of her brothers surprising them. "Eclipse what are you doing here?" Solar questioned "You're supposed to be at home studying."
"Well I thought that I should take a break and hang out with you guys," she responded. Allowing her to join in on their magic practice, Lunar moved to let her in.
Soon they were all testing their magic and having a blast, using magic that could grow a beard in seconds, Lunar pretended to be a old stallion, and other magic was tested, some could destroy some of the toughest of shielding. Then an explosion roared from the city as a mob of dark creatures engaged firing, bringing out destruction. Po-parta sent out their military, bringing intense conflict between both sides. There were loud crashing noises and crumbling as the after effects of the lasers and gravity pulling hole ridden buildings down and broke apart into a bunch of bits of rubble. "What's happening!?" Lunar cried out as the sky grew ever so darker
"I don't know and I don't want to find out… follow me!" Eclipse yelled as she galloped in the direction of the Diamond forest. They kept running until Eclipse opened a trapdoor below, taking refuge from war raging above.
Sounds of beams clashing against each other and destructive demolition blared throughout the streets as ponies ran in fear of the chaos around. Soon, the city's forces were overpowered by the invading army, and the city was soon the focus of their power, and it crumbled. Ponies who couldn't escape fell to their demise either by rubble or being confronted by the enemy forces.
After silence swept over the land the siblings rose from underground, seeing the wreckage from the recent attack. "Wha...what happened to the city?" they said, walking slowly to their former home, Eclipse starting to tear up. On entering the city, they saw bodies either of their own or those of the invaders, wearing a strange armor with an emblem of an eye surrounded by darkness. Continuing on, they arrived back home searching for their parents. "MOM!" Lunar yelled as he saw his mother. Solar and Eclipse moved toward the voice only to see their brother next to their fated mother, barely making out the words she said. "My children… please leave… they're going to come back."
Solar, began to cry as he spoke "Why did they attack us mom?" responding she whispered.
"to explain it, they are a civilization that gain power off the emotions of others and then... eat them. So they attacked us nations for food and power."
"WHAT... th-that's terrible," Solar replied to his mother's words.
"Yes, it is. But go, before they return."
"But mom," Eclipse sadly spoke
"NO! Just go, don't worry about me, please just leave. I don't you to get found because you stayed here, longer than you have to." Struck by her words, but having to face the facts, they fell into tears hugging and saying their goodbyes to their mom for the last time, then left as her time finally arrived.
Trying not to get caught by any remainders, they left the city hiding in the rubble. "How did we get attacked, we're in the safest part of the country, in relation Atmist, so how did they reach us?" Lunar bothered.
"Don't know, but if I'm thinking correctly, then we might be some of the few survivors," Solar responded. They began walking in the direction of the abandoned outpost, where they would visit to leave the busy streets of their former home.
As they walked around, all that they saw was the dark sky with small pockets of light from fire in the the city. "Hey guys what do think happened to the rest the nation?" Eclipse questioned.
"Only the worst, I would say," Solar replied, clearly showing how he felt about the topic.
Night soon passed by, and it was early morning. "Mornin'," Solar said tiredly after the terrible day they had. "Morning," Eclipse and Lunar replied as they got up and started toward the outpost. As they galloped forward, they heard something approaching them. Turning around quickly, they saw a tiny flock of phoenixes fly over head. "Wow that's amazing," Eclipse said. "I heard it's rare to see even one, to see a whole flock, even if it's small, is pretty amazing." After the encounter with the mythical birds, they continued on soon arrived at the outpost, only to see it much different than the last time they'd been there.
Walking into the old abandoned outpost They heard voices nearby. "Well that's it there all gone over here" one voice said. "Yes, Nightreek is soon to no more." The other replied with an evil chuckle. "So it is true those monsters killed our mother," Eclipse said angrily, "What was that?" one asked as he walked over to the trio. Solar activated an invisibility spell making the invader go past them, not suspecting anything. Then as they began to leave, the other one snached Eclipse. "So there are still some left after all."
"Put her down," Lunar said, charging his magic. "You really should watch your tongue." He snarled. "LUNAR!" Solar screamed as the other pony began to steal his emotions, firing a powerful laser before noticing his comrade was flying away with his sister. "ECLIPSE!" Lunar shouted whilst they ran toward her, but unable to catch up, she quickly disappeared over the mountain top.
After hours of wandering around, they stumbled upon a concentration camp holding those taken by the dominion. Once put in the camp they were put to work in the mines or the armory while the young are kept in small jails. "There she is," Solar pointed out as he saw her come out of a little stone building wearing a tag saying "F#2983" and put in one of the cells. Solar and Lunar snuck around to get a better look at the place, spying a large building with huge bolted doors. As night covered the crimson sky, they covered the distance between them and the mysterious large building, noticing its appearance being very different than the rest of the structures around it. As the last glimmers of daylight faded away, the ponies who were still out got forced into their little cabins. But there was one who stayed out, an old, brown, furred pony stood there with a blank stare, like as if he had nothing left inside. As the enforcers noticed him, they soon grabbed him, shoving him into the large building, but the pony did nothing to them. Being closer than they were earlier, they noticed that there had been a foul odor lingering around them for quite some time, but when the doors opened it only doubled the smell. Once opened, they saw another door, but this one was smaller, and yet they could tell it was of more importance. Knowing not to waste any more time on checking out the place, the brothers went to an area away from the view of anyone in the camp, and set plans to destroy the it and save everyone there. "Lunar, what do you think is in that building?" Solar questioned. "I don't know, but it can't be good knowing them and what they could do," Throughout the night they discussed how to get their sister back and save everypony else .
As the sun rose above the horizon, waking the brothers, they set out to gather materials for the night ahead. Solar went out and gathered armor and weapons for those who don't know magic in case of an emergency. Lunar went to back to the city's library to search for the book on how to remove Spells casted on ponies and one on the enemies of the country. Finishing up their work both headed to a blind spot in the camps watch towers and began using matter switch spell to switch the air and the dirt to allow for stealth when digging. once under the camp they split up getting into the cabins from below waking ponies and getting them out of the camp and after all the ponies were free the then went to the cage holding the Fillies and colts. Emerging from the hole the opened the cells getting them out, once they were free Eclipse rushed toward embrace. "We are so glad to have you back" Solar whispered in order to not alert the soldiers outside. Finally after the mission was completed along with everypony being safe they decided to investigate the mysterious large building . Upon entering the foul odor was back but this time with an answer, on the inside was tables stained with red and boxes bleeding crimson liquid and rest of the place held more disturbing that are best not said.
With all things said and done and their mind tortured then knew that it would be best getting rid of everything, they charged obliteration beam and destroyed the camp along with the dominion soldiers. Once it was all over they talked among themselves on they walk to the group. Arriving at the place everypony was at they were praised for saving them from the tyranny of the Dark Republic and they celebrated with song and dance through the night. When daylight grazed the lands the group of rescued ponies and their two heros started down the path to Atmist. Galloping down the path in a hurry not wanting to waste any time near the area where the camp was to avoid the soldiers who arrived to investigate the remains of the camp.
Nearing Atmist they started hearing the sound of combat get louder and louder, then suddenly a group of Republic soldiers came into view as they were blasted into oblivion. Continuing forward over the horizon they saw Atmist come into view, most of it, Everypony was in awe as they saw the might of its army actually winning. "Oh… OH NO" a pony shouted as enemy reinforcements arrived turning the tables instantly, as soon as Solar noticed this he started planning something with his siblings. "Alright let's kill these monsters" Eclipse said powering up her horn soon shooting it in the air and exploding as it hit a battalion of dark dominion soldiers. Once hit they started to fall and hit the ground at deadly speeds, as that happened the brothers began making a shield spell around the their new friends. Shielded by their magic everypony galloped toward Atmist, but to their surprise the enemy was showing no sign of noticing them. Enemy numbers began dropping fast as Eclipse started firing at them , saved by the combination of the shield spell combined with invisibility. As the battle neared its end the enemy fled to the place they had come from, inside the great city the siblings headed toward the castle. Venturing ever so closer to the castle they started noticing that there weren't any unicorns there in the city from what they saw from their walk toward the castle.
On entering they were greeted by two guards who stared at them with astounded looks as if they had just saw royalty ,which they did, but it was weird in a town the visited very rarely, they continued forward deeper into the large building. Entering into the throne room of Earth switch ,who looked very nervous, "Oh hello i didn't expect to have my niece and nephews visit, but also where's your mother", she said. First they just sat their Lunar looking away as a tear fell from his eye there ,But the then the queen began to tear up as she realized that her beloved sister was no more. "Come here" their aunt said trying to show them a smile, "It was terrible all of Po-parta was destroyed" Solar said as he galloped over and embraced his aunt, along with Eclipse and lunar.
Once they all calmed down they smiled at each other glad they arrived there safe, except for when eclipse got captured. "Okay, well i guess That can't be looked over like it was nothing, but your here now and your father is in the other room he…, well let's say he is not in the best condition but i think that he will be happy to see you. The three led by their aunt went to their fathers chamber , they saw their dad covered in bandages, most likely attacked by the enemy on his way here, his children walked over to him asking him what happened amongst other stuff. Finishing the questions he asked one, the same question as their aunt, the kid looked at him in displeasure knowing that they had to tell him about his faded wife. Earth seeing this walked outside to give them some space. After some miniscule amount of time Lunar mustered up the courage to say something "Po-parta was attacked, we were safe from the attack because we were outside the city and well when we returned she..., she was barely alive" Lunar spook in a dim accent. There father looked at them with disbelief, but his face quickly changed as he looked at his children's faces.
Nighttime grew close as the family talked about their new experiences, most were unpleasant, but were comforted by their kinship of one another's voice, making them sound better than it actually was. After the some time had passed, they noticed it had been dark outside for awhile now, and they were quite tired so they went to rooms that Earth had set up for them. But their father stayed there, his wounds aching every time he tried to stand. The night tortured the kids as they recollected memories of the slaughter house that they saw the day before, as well as the thoughts of what could've happened to the old pony they saw who was sent in there. Then as if it wasn't bad enough, the republic had attacked once again and the sounds of crumbling and explosions, bringing fear to the people of Atmist. The only thing that was weird was that they seemed to focus on one thing, then suddenly, one of the walls to the bedroom holding the royals' kids was blown open, and the republic soldiers flew in toward the kids with murder running through their veins, and their eyes fixed on them. Suddenly the Atmist military barged in, holding them back, and lucky enough it was right after the wall was blown open. "Get out now!" one soldier shouted, the kids looking up at the armed pegasus that told them to leave was one of the guards that were at the entrance.
Rushing out they ran toward the room that held their father, and again another boom roared through the halls. They ran into the room seeing their father being held in a chokehold as he tried to use his magic but it strained his body so much that he cried out in pain as he used it. Solar and Lunar tried to fight them off, but the large quantity of them overpowered their magical attack and sent them flying due to the shock wave. The force that hit them against the wall caused them to faint. Eclipse, for split second, nearly screamed when she saw this, thinking that more of her family had been taken, but was reassured as she saw that they were still breathing. Then flying right past her was Earth beginning to yell, "Get out of here! Take your brothers and leave, i'll get your father." Following her orders, she nudged her brothers awake and told them to follow her, they started galloping at full speed down the passage and toward the exit.
Leaving the castle, they saw a massive army demolish the city, going from the outside in, destroying everything. Behind them at the castle, was a flock of republic dragons to hold soldiers on their back. Crumbling roared inside as Earth flew out of a hole in the castle being tailed by the enemy and getting showered in lasers, but was able to dodge the majority of them and the small amount that did hit here, she powered through. Finally the inevitable happened, and she fell out of the sky , her wings riddled with holes and losing blood. Once she hit the floor there was a huge gasp from the siblings, then suddenly there was there was yelling from them, but it was odd and strangely in sync as well as being very loud, "You destroyed our home and murdered our mom, but it wasn't enough you had to get rid of everything else we loved, so now i'm going to get rid of you all!" Every single creature stopped and looked straight at them, some with their mouths ajar as they trembled at the sound of the creepy scream. Seeing what happened made those who could now sneak away did and leave the city leaving the soldiers behind, then an explosion of whirling energy appeared around the three as their hatred for the enemy grew larger and larger. Soon it Colasped causing a huge flash of light, what was left was three figures with eyes of a devil and the teeth of a snake. They kept their original colors but with an add of a mythical fire hair, taller compared to before, and the features that could scare anyone to death.
Light giggling could be heard from the group as they walked toward the army and as they got closer the louder they laughed until it changed into large fits of it and they moved faster, much faster. Then as if the signs haven't portrayed enough of the swarms fate, the nightmares moved around Atmist getting "rid" of them and what scared them more was the fact that they couldn't leave.
As the sun rose over the horizon the crimson city was empty, everypony who was inside had left, if they had lived that long, and what was left of the invaders had been torn, burned, or erased entirely. The city had become a ghost town filled with its new ,executed, inhabitants now taking refuge and the only living thing was the three kids who had just finished the job. "What happened, I fell kind of funny, like I had done something very bad yet I feel good about it. and the only other thing that feels weird is how the entire city has been emptied" Solar asked,
"That is strange, mostly because I feel the same way" replied Eclipse,
"Hmm, I guess that means we all feel that way. Know that I think about it, what happened to Earth and dad, do you think there alive, even if it's low chance that there alive I feel its best look for them" Lunar said in a concerned tone, the others looked at the other and nodded. For some time after they had started looking they found Earth lying in a ditch with a shallow breath as well as her being covered in almost any form of injury, Lunar ran up to her and, his face getting covered in tears with relief as he saw that she lived after all she went through. His horn began to light up as he prepared use some healing magic, but when he did he was hit with a massive headache, he tried again, but again he was hit with the surge of pain. "Whats happening?, it hurts when ever I try use magic" he said frightened,
"Let me try" requested Eclipse, She tried to levitate a stone but to no avail she to was struck with pain, than Solar, but the same thing happened. "What happened to us" Lunar questioned,
"I have no idea but if we want use magic we have deal with the pain" Solar said with his face cringing. Lunar sighed "Well it's worth it if we want to save her", he began to power his horn, he started to sweat due to the pain, the wounds started to heal a little and others had a scab go over, he started to cry by the time he was finished but it worked, even her breathing was smooth. Getting up she looked at the pony standing in front of her, looking at him she began to cry and she started hugging him, the others went up to her and joined in embrace of one another. "I'm so sorry about your father, when i went in to save him it was too late" she sobbed while in embrace of her niece and nephews
Daylight flew over the tallest mountains in a fiery yellow and the city did the same mimicking with buildings burning and light flying over the tallest of them, in the middle of the town was a family. Walking out into the open they had lost hope that their civilization was still standing and their minds raced with questions like what happened that night, how did they sneak up on us, where did the unicorns go?. But they didn't perceive what would happen next and what had happened of them that night... yet.