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"This is me speaking"

'I'm thinking...I'm thinking'

Long ago, in a time before the princess. Before this land became known as Equestria, there was a being that called this land home. A dark being, who claimed to have traveled from a different world, and his appearance verified this; his shape resembled a young dragon, but he had no tail or wings.

Or skin...or organs.

Yes. A living, walking skeleton...a Lich he called himself. He commended powerful dark magic, and could use necromancy to an insane degree. When ponies first began to colonise what would become Equestria, Clover the Clever tried to fight against his dark magic, but ultimately lost.

Though Clover survived the encounter, the Lich began to wonder, leaving a trail of rot behind him, killing a third of our plants in a plague. But then he disappeared, as if he just vanished from the face of the earth. Though the he left the ponies one last gift. For from the place where he disappeared, up grew the Everfree Forest.

It is unknown what happened to the Lich though many ponies believe that he left Equestria, and returned home. But I theorize that he remains hidden, in till the day we lower our guard. We must keep watch, so that the plague of the Lich never returns.

Reedited and released by Open Book, original written by Starswirl the Bearded

"Are you reading that crap again Moondancer?"

I looked up from my book and turned towards the speaker. Standing in his blue robes that did nothing to hid his hands, and feet made of bone. His hood covered his skull but not his face, allowing the black sockets to stare right into my soul. It was a far contract to my white coat and long red mane with purple.

Patrick O'Connell was a strange sight alright. It was nearly 17 years ago when i first meet him. I was studying the plants in the Everfree when I was stung by a poisonous purple flower. I tried to walk back out but fainted before I could make it to Ponyville. I awake in a bed inside a cabin, with Pat staring down at me.

I screamed, then he screamed and that scared me more. I tried to teleport out but my magic sparked and didn't work. I was terrified. I backed away from him, closed my eyes, and started to cry. I heard him walk towards me, but I opened an eye when I heard him sit down.

He spoke first, breaking the silence that had settled in the room.

"Ahhhh...hey." which he followed with a simple wave.

Then we just sat there, looking at each other. Even now I don't know how long it took, but eventually, we began to talk to each other. He explained that the poison basically corrupted my magic, making by body defended against it. My body would have fought against my own magic, and would have killed me within a day and a half. Lucky, he found me when he was gathering rare plants. His powers as a Lich allowed him to quickly identify and cured the poison.

I didn't understand why he would save me, when he was...what he was. He told me that he was originally a human living on a planet called Earth. He said that he remembered dying in something called a car crash and awoke in Equestria, though it was long before any Ponies would get there. He told me how this was the form he had awoken in, but that didn't mean that the book matched the cover.

He offered to show me the way out and I gladly excepted. It took a few hours but he showed me the way to Ponyville, where I could take the train home to Canterlot. I quickly returned to my normal life, but the Lich came to occupy my thoughts. After a week, I returned to his home, with a large stack of books as a thank you gift.

I scared him pretty good that day.

And I kept returning, in till one day I just decided to stay. And 17 years later, there I am. Talking to a skeleton.

"What's so bad about?"

"Well first off," he said, his hands going towards his hips "It paints a very negative picture and feeds into ponies racism against the undead. And second I didn't cause that plague...the zombies I accidently left alive did."

"I think that the fact that they were YOUR zombies is the point they making. And I don't think being "undead" counts as a race."

"Clearly you've never played World of Warcraft."

'What?' "I don't know what that is."

"Oh yeah. Earth reference."

I rolled my eyes and closed the book. Walking outside I looked at our home. The large hollow cavern was alight with the artificial sun Patrick created. Large trees and plants of all kinds covered the cave that could easily hold Ponyville, and underground river feed the small lake that gave us our water supply. Pat said that he had spent a century turning what was a glorified hole in the ground into a home, one protected by the Everfree and hidden away from the world.

I walked towards the lake, where a figure quickly came into focus. She noticed me as I got closer.

"Hi Mom."

"Hi Honey."

After a year of living down here, Pat found a way of restoring his living body, but only for a time. We celebrated, and learned that day that humans and Equestrian ponies were compatible in the reproducing department. After a day he returned to 'normal', and eleven months later Spirit was born. That's when we learned that when Patrick returned to his undead form, so did any parts or genes that had separated from him.

Spirit had a pony's shape, a light blue coat, and long mane and tail similar to mine only black. However, there were many things that she had gotten from her father.

The skin on her cheeks were gone, revelling her molars. Her right front and left back legs were pure skeleton, with her shoulders covered in fur. Her spine segments were enlarged, as were her ribs, which were half exposed outside her body. A large boney horn jutted from her skull and while her left eye was a beautiful green, her right was milky white, though it still worked fine.

While she was only a quarter undead on her father's side, and she had the internal organs of a pony, she really didn't need them, allowing her to take damage that would kill any other pony and laugh it off.

I walked over and settled next to her, "What are you reading?"

"It's about Nightmare Moon. It talks about how she was released and became Princess Luna again."

"Really?"

"Yeah," She said a smile growing on her face "it also talks about the elements of harmony. Hey Mom?"

"Yes dear?"

"Do you think I could meet them one day?"

Spirit looked at me, with her large eyes full of hope.

"Maybe one day dear." Which I followed with a kiss to her forehead.

She went back to her book, as I got lost in my thoughts. While the six had lost the elements during the Everfree invasion, they had recently gained a new rainbow power that seemed to have similar effects. And I didn't have the heart to say, that upon seeing her, they might use this power on her.

"Maybe one day."

I closed my eyes, and put my head down.

On the surface, Patrick and Spirit would be called monsters, but down here we were a family.

So this is a little something I put together, as I haven't had much time to work on my other story.

So while this won't be a one shot, it won't be updated regularly. This is more something that I will work on when I need a small change of pace. That said, I hope you liked it.

And to the people who read my other story, I am sorry to say that I haven't worked on it, But I will start this upcoming weekend. With my exams coming up, I barely had the time write this. but I hope you like it.

Here's a picture of Moondancer from the comics.

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