Enter the shadows…

Warning for intense violence, swearing and some grim dark content.

You take the peace that comes so easily for granted.

For you are about to hear the dark tale of the ashes…

That nopony is truly insane.

for that certain things happened that made them insane are sometimes worse...

Shade Fire and Sky Fire gazed upon their beautiful daughter.

These two earth ponies had no cutie marks.

Hardly any bits.

And a single daughter.

They named her Dark Fire, she had a dark blue-gray coat with a darker mane and tail. She also had ice blue eyes.

When she turned 5 they sent her to the school. The teachers name was Cherry, her daughter Cherilee was in her class, she already had her cutie mark, so did Rainbow Dash, Crimson Sky, Fluttershy, Cloud Kicker, Spitfire, Lyra,

Bon-Bon,Rarity,Whooves, and Filthy Rich. Applejack didn't have hers, but she moved. Dark Fire was the only blank-flank. She had no friends at all.

Another day in hell… Dark Fire thought sadly to herself as she went to school. Applejack had come back with a little surprise, she had a cutie mark… "UGH!" Dark Fire wailed. Even the youngest foals had their marks!

"Hey look! It's a pony" A familiar taunting voice jeered.

"Thats not a pony! Thats a mule! Ponies have cutie marks!" Another voice chimed in with the other. Dark glared at them. It was Crimson Sky and Rainbow Dash. Crimson Sky was a dark red pegasus colt with a white and lighter red striped mane and tail. Rainbow was a cyan pegasus filly with a rainbow mane and tail. Her worst enemies.

"Just shut up! Get a freaking LIFE!" She snapped back.

Crimson got up and charged towards Dark.

"NOPONY talks to us that way and gets away with it! You WILL regret saying that at recess today!" He snarled. Dark Fire's heart froze. "Rainbow! Get the needles and knives!" He snapped over his shoulder at the filly.

NO! No no no no no no! They are gonna kill me! She ran into the school building in terror. "CHERRY!" She cried.

Cherry stopped her with a hoof. "Dark Fire! Calm down! You're in school! Not at recess!" She scolded

"But Crim-" She started.

"NO BUTS!" She snapped "Go back to your desk."

Dark went to go sit down at her desk. Tears welled up in her eyes but she held them back.

"Today we will be taking a lesson about the history of our glorious Princess Celestia!" Cherry started. For once Dark Fire had listened to try to get her mind off her coming death.

"A family had awoken to find that two alicorn fillies had shown up at their doorstep. They took them in. They both were newborns but already had cutie marks. The family named them Celestia and Luna. They began to take over the role of raising the sun and moon. No other pony had both wings and a horn, so they became princesses easily." Cherry continued with the lesson but Dark wasn't listening. She sniffed once but no tears appeared from her eyes.

"Recess time!" Cherry announced, dismissing the class.

This is it. Goodbye cruel world. Dark thought gulping in terror. Almost instantly when she went outside Crimson Sky grabbed her by the shoulders and pulled her away.

"You've seemed to have forgotten where you belong in this school, you are the victim remember?" Crimson snarled.

"Yes, Yes I remember." Dark stammered, holding back tears.

"Well you forgot that today, so you need to be punished!" Crimson spat. "Lyra! Get the knife!"

The mint-green unicorn levitated a knife over which crimson gripped with her hoof.

"Well you never had much of a life anyway, this won't be much of a loss after all eh?" Crimson said grinning. She dug the knife into the filly's flank. She gritted her teeth so she wouldn't scream.

The torture got worse.

"Ha ha! Give me the needles. Open your goddamn eyes slave!" Crimson spat. Darkfire opened her eyes and Crimson drove the needles into them. "Not fun being blind eh?" Crimson mocked.

I could end this for you.

What? Who are you?

I am the creator of Equestria, my name is Darkness.

Thank you! HELP ME PLEASE!

Be careful what you wish for…

Rainbow flew around. Everything seems normal… Why do I feel like something is wrong? She landed at Twilight's house.

"Rainbow! I'm so glad your here! The princess has called all of the elements to her castle, NOW.!" Twilight said, slightly panicked. The rest of the elements gathered behind her.

"Well lets go then!" Rainbow said. There IS something wrong! I was RIGHT!

When they finally made it to the castle, the princess was pacing the floor, her eyes wide in… terror? What could be so scary that even the princess was scared?

"Your finally here! Equestria is now in crisis!" She gasped as she saw the six ponies walk in.

"Is Discord back?" Twilight asked.

"Much worse than that Twilight."

"Then what?" Pinkie asked from the back of the group.

"An old enemy I thought I had banished to Hell a few years ago is back sooner than expected! We need to not banish her, but kill her!" Celestia said in a panic.

"You did what?" Pinkie gasped. "What did she do?"

"Went on a massacre in a school."

"Wow, that's har-" Pinkie was about to say but, could you talk with a blade jammed into the back of your neck?

"Ring around the rosy…. Pocket full of posies…" A sickening voice sounded around the room. "Ashes to ashes…" Everyone gasped in horror. "We all…" A red magic lifted the blade out of Pinkie's neck.

"Fall…" The blade was aimed at the group of terrified ponies.

"Down." The blade shot towards Fluttershy and speared her neck. When the red-colored magic lived the blade out of her neck, blood spewed out of the wound making puddles around the group of ponies' hooves.

A dark cloud materialized to reveal a jet-black ailicorn with a blue-gray mane. The creepy part was her cutie mark. All ponies had colorful fruit and horseshoes…

Hers were three droplets of blood