Chapter 1 : How To Begin
Hello there. Well um this is my first fanfic ever so I hope you enjoy.
'Well I'm not sure how I should begin, I mean I know most of these stories begin with "once upon a time", "1000 years ago" or "it all started here" but I don't think I should start this story like that so you know what I'll start with an old foals tale called:'
'The Featherless Pegasus'
When Cloudsdale was just Cloudstown there was a Pegasus born to two high ranking ponies this Pegasus was unlike any other his wingspan was much greater than any other Pegasus alive but from birth he was ridiculed because of an 'unsightly' defect, those great wings lacked something important they had no feathers at all making him the only pony in all of Cloudstown that couldn't fly. But no matter how many names he was called or how many things were thrown at him his courage never wavered, even with him being unable to fly he still trained for days on end believing he could do something even with his featherless wings and by the time he was an adult he was by far the fastest Pegasus on all four hooves, which is quite the accomplishment for a pegasus.
He was unwavering in anything he did, unable to be stopped or swayed... But in the end his great courage was his greatest weakness.
On one faithful day the towns weatherplant erupted in blazing flames, no pony wished to enter out of fear, fear they would die in those flames. The same went for the featherless pony but that all changed when he heard a cry coming from the inside a young fillies cry rang out from the factory and as it did everypony watched in amazement as the Featherless Pegasus rushed in to find the filly
'At this point the story has been changed so many times that no one knows the true story so I'll just skip to the end'
The pegusai watched in awe as a young filly ran out of the burning building screaming "HELP SOMEPONY, ANYPONY HE NEEDS HELP" but before a single wing could even flutter the building collapsed on itself leaving the brave and foolish featherless pony no where to be seen and to this day his story is told reminding everypony that no matter what you may be you can do incredible things as long as you stay strong and never give in but it also helps show ponies that foolish acts can cause unhappy things.
'I always believed in this stories meaning that no matter what you may be bravery is all you need and I've lived by it or well I did until my body was taken over by an evil spirit of some sort who I named Dusk because his dark personality. Unfortunately I was not alone in this evil takeover there were seven other ponies with me each under the control of another spirit and each wearing a long black hooded cloak and what they called themselves terrified me, I tried to pay no attention to that fear, they called themselves The Elements of Disharmony... I had no idea what there name meant at first but we'll get to that later.'
'I remembered very little from before I was taken over by Dusk only a few things like a young filly hiding behind my legs and fire spreading all around me but that was it no name, no family just those two images etched into my mind... now enough with the sappy amnesia stuff back to the exciting and sad story ya see Dusk was my only talking companion from the moment he took me over, man that's a weird thing to say I mean come on my only companion was some parasite like spirit that stole my body that's just plain weird even for Equestria... Oh I lost track there, so Dusk was the only pony like thing I could talk too for all those years I was trapped inside my own mind, we had talked about random crud that was happening or whatever was around us at the time but our most interesting talk happened around five years after Dusk came into my life, well took over my life would be a better description.'
Deep in a uncharted forest a group of eight pony figures in hooded black cloaks trudged through its wilderness the leader of this group seemed to have grey fur which was barely seen under the shadow of its hood it's eyes glowed a brilliant yellow like a wolfs in the night. The creatures kept walking and walking when suddenly the leader heard a deep but soothing voice inside his head "Ok where are we this time Dusk?" said the mysterious voice "well I'm surprised it took you this long before talking today Pegasi" said the grey hooded pony in his dark toned voice
The voice grunted as he said"can you stop calling me that it's just plain racist"
The hooded pony smirked and asked "than what pray tell do you want to be called?"
"I don't know..." the voice huffed "just something less racist to my species"
He pony pondered for a moment and replied "ok well then how about White it is the colour of your mane from what I can see" he snickered "and hopefully it SHUTS YOU UP FOR A DAY" the pony growled
"well someone's touchy today wake up not the wrong side of my body did ya Dusky" White replied with surprise and annoyance in his voice
"you are starting to agitate me, you vile pony, now shut up before I get any more angry" this surprised White as Dusk's voice was far more menacing then a before but his composure never wavered
"your stuck with me no matter what Dusky" White's voice grew steady "we've been like this for five years now, if you could do something about me you would have a long bucking time ago" he said with a sense of pride and fearlessness in his voice
Dusk grunted and growled as he kept walking with the other seven ponies in toe and after a while the question he'd been waiting to ask finally escaped his throat "ya know Dusk you haven't told me what you actual plan is, I mean you've been walking for five entire years now and you've barely stopped to sleep, where are u going anyway? and what're you gonna do when you get there?" This questions kept ringing in his head over and over yearning to be answered
But all he got was a grunt and a "that's none of your business White, I suggest you drop it before you start asking too much"
White voice began to weaken for he knew he wouldn't get far but he wasn't about to give up now "I've been stuck in my own mind for five years I want to know why?" And finally an idea came to mind "I want an answer as to why you chose my body to walk around with for five long flanking years so either you tell me what's going on or I will never ever stop talking to you for the rest of this journey, Do you hear me Dusk I will never stop talking EVER!" finally he had the upper hoof and he knew it
Dusk shuddered at the thought on never having another quiet moment for the rest of his journey so he gave in "fine I'll tell you... We're going to take over Equestria using each of our elements of disharmony"
Dusk pointed to each one of the other hooded ponies individually, it was difficult to see there bodies under the cloaks but White could still make out their gender, fur colour and manes from underneath their hoods. The first was a large stallion earth pony with blood red fur and an orange mane "Wrath", the next was a slender unicorn mare with navy fur and a long flowing purple mane "Lust" beside her were two other mares one a tall earth pony with pale brown fur and short golden hair "Pride" and the other an average yellow unicorn with a sparkling green mane "Envy" after her was a unicorn stallion with purple fur and a pure white mane "Greed" and at the back was what looked like twin stallion pegasi both with orange coloured fur and one a stallion with a dark brown mane "Sloth" and the other had a light brown mane "Gluttony"
Once Dusk had finished his introductions he began to monologue "first we plan to take and destroy the elements of harmony and then we eradicate the princesses MWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH"
White may not have his body but he could still feel a shiver shoot down his spine as Dusk ended his rant "well haha... now I regret asking (Oh crud I've got to figure out how to stop them I can't let them hurt my... Uh Ow anypony else)" and under his breath Dusk said "now HOPEFULLY that shuts you up for a long, long time"
'And for a while Dusk got his wish I didn't speak a word for the next four years, it's a long time huh I bet you couldn't stay quiet for four entire years it's torture but it had to be done I had to think about how to win and if I could win. I wondered if I'd ever take back my body from dusk and after those four long, torturous and completely boring years I finally got my answer!'
'Ya see Dusk and the other elements were testing their powers, training if you will they wanted no chance of losing to the elements of harmony or to the princesses. They had been fighting the beasts of the everfree forest for the past month and were beginning to tire and after only two more days they collapsed from exhaustion and then something seriously unexpected happened, I took my body back!'
Well that was long now wasn't it. Sorry about that but it is the first chapter so what you gonna do. Anyway thanks for reading, I hope you enjoyed and feel free to leave a review or comment or whatever you do on here. See Ya next Chapter.