In a dark cave located in the Dragons Land, Earth Ponies were digging in the walls, looking for gems and metals.
"Come on, we need these gems and metals by sundown!" A brown pony wearing a yellow hard hat yelled, he looked out of the cave to see that it was already noon, and so far they have only gotten a small amount of gems, and a handful of metals. One of the workers was using a jackhammer on the stony wall, and as the machine tore through the wall, the wall crumbled away, leaving a gigantic stone door in the way. The worker turned off his jackhammer and called out to his boss.
"Uh Stone Shovel, you should take a look at this,"
Stone Shovel went over and saw the stone door, his mouth gapped open at the site.
"What should we do about this Stone Shovel?"
"Inform Princess Celestia, tell her that... What the!?" Stone shovel said, thecave started to shake, many of the miners lost their balance, the stone door opened, to reveal a giant creature, the creature toward over the miners, the strangest part about the creature was that the lower part of the creature was that of a black horse, and the upper part of what resembled a red hairless ape wearing a black chest plate and helmet. The creature looked down at the miners with disgust.
"So the ones that freed me are a bunch of worthless ponies?" the creature asked, his voice low and sinister, the miners quivered in fear.
"You! What year is it!?" the creature asked, pointing at Stone Shovel, the miner covered his head and stuttered his answer.
"I-I-It's the 1002nd year of Princess Celestia's rule,"
"And who was the last ruler?"
"Laur Faustia, she died on the 2000th year of Laur Fastia's rule"
"I see, so I've been trapped for 3000 years since Laur Faustia imprisoned me," the creature said, he went out the cave and saw the world before him.
"Well since I am free, I better get my army ready to conquer Equestria," the creature said, the miners were scared.
"Uh.. creature..."
"My name is Tirek pony,"
"Tirek, what is why Equestria?" Stone Shove asked.
"I choose Equestria because of how much magic it contains," Tirek said to himself, he looked at the miners, who were all cowering.
"If I have to make my army, I must start small" Tirek raised his hand and a dark ball of magic appeared in his hand, the magic then dissipated to the miners, covering them in the dark magic, they screamed in agony as their body began to transform. When the magic disappeared from their bodies, in their place were pure black ponies, with glowing red eyes, they were wearing armor as black as their fur, and some have been turned into pegasi and unicorns, the black ponies bowed down to Tirek.
"Lord Tirek, we are ready to conquer," Stone Shovel said, he was now a unicorn, and gained knowledge on how to use dark magic.
"Stone Onyx, tell me, is there anything that might stop me from my conquest?" Tirek asked.
"Only one thing Lord Tirek, the Elements of Harmony,"
"And where can the Elements of Harmony be found?"
"In Canterlot, the capital of Equestria,"
Tirek nodded in response.
"I see is the city well guarded?"
"Yes Lord Tirek,"
"Than find me a dragon,"
In one of the many caves in the mountains, a green dragon was sleeping on his pile of gold and jewels, he was releasing black smoke from his nostrils every time he snored, but his sleep was interrupted when he heard movements outside his cave.
"Alright Dark Ponies! Capture the dragon for Lord Tirek!" A black unicorn yelled and 20 other ponies rushed in to capture the dragon.
The dragon roared and bought his clawed hand down to the black ponies, but was stopped by a grey magic surrounding his hand, it went to breathe fire but was knocked to the ground by a pegasus crashing into his stomach. When he tried to get up ropes went around his body and forced him to saty on the ground, where he struggled to get free.
Tirek walked in to see that his Dark Ponies has captured a dragon, his hand was covered in the black magic, and sent it to the dragon, the dragons body was covered in the back magic, then disappeared leaving a pure black dragon with glowing red eyes.
"Dragon, I want you to go out and find Canterlot, and when you find it, destroy it," Tirek ordered the dragon spread his wings and flew towards Canterlot. Tirek looked at his army and said.
"Find more subjects for me, I want my army finished, and a temporary castle made,"
"Yes Lord Tirek,"
In Ponyville, Twilight Sparkle and her number one assistant Spike, were walking to Sugarcube Corner to order some pastries.
"Well Spike after this, the checklist is done," Twilight Sparkle said smiling.
"It's a good thing to; I don't think that my claws can hold the quill for any longer,"
The two were at the door to the pastry shop, when Spike belched up a letter.
"A letter from Princess Celestia?" Twilight Sparkle asked to no one in particular, she removed the ribbon and unrolled the letter.
My Faithful Student Twilight,
I urge you to come to Canterlot immediately, a black dragon has attacked, and the royal guards cannot subdue him, bring your friends with you, I have sent a couple chariots to pick you up, please hurry.
Princess Celestia
Twilight Sparkle's eyes widened when she read the letter.
"Spike get Rarity, and Fluttershy and tell them to meet me at the Library,"
"Okay, but why?"
"Canterolt has been attacked, and Princess Celestia wants me and my friends to stop the dragon,"
Twilight Sparkle, along with Rarity, Pinkie Pie, Applejack, Fluttershy, and Rainbow Dash were on two separate chariots, flying towards Canterlot, all of them were worried about what was happening, but some were hiding it better than others.
"So what's the plan Twilight? Do we go in and kick the dragons flank!?" Rainbow Dash exclaimed, she slammed her hooves together, ready to fight the black dragon, but inside her mind, she knew that it was crazy.
"I don't know Rainbow Dash, I was thinking of having Fluttershy talk it down, but if that doesn't work, than we will have to improvise," Twilight Sparkle answered, in her mind she was worrying about her family, was Shining Armour okay, did her parents get out safely, and what about Princess Celestia? Did she get hurt by the attack? Her thought were interrupted when she heard screams and shouts, she looked towards Canterlot and saw the carnage that was happening, buildings were on fire, ponies were fleeing, and the Royal Guards were either fighting the dragon, or bringing the ponies to safety. All six ponies looked at the destruction with awe.
"Woah nelly, I don't think we were ready for this Twi," Applejack said, fear prevalent in her voice. The purple unicorn couldn't answer, her thoughts exploded with questions, the main one being "Why is this happening?"
The two chariots landed and the six ponies got off, in front of them Shining Armour was ording the guards to get the citizens to safety.
"Shining!" Twilight Sparkle called to her older brother. The white unicorn looked back to see his younger sister.
"Twilight! It's good that you are here! We need all the help we can get!"
"Shining, why is a dragon attacking Canterlot!?"
"We don't know Twilight, but right now we have to get the citizens to safety, we need you and your friends to help us with that,"
"But what about the dragon?"
"Keeping the citizens safe is our first priority Twilight," Shining Armour said, a brown Pegasus guard flew up to the white unicorn, injured and breathing hard.
"Shining Armour, the dragon is coming this way, we tried to fend it off, but it's too powerful,"
Shining Armour closed his eyes and gritted his teeth, he hated to do this, but he had no choice.
"Change of priorities, stop the dragon," Shining Armour said, the guards saluted and ran towards the dragon.
"Twilight, I want you and your friends to help, see if Fluttershy can calm it down,"
"Okay Shining,"
At the scene, the dragon was taking down the royal guards, Shinging Armour, with Twilight Sparkle and her friends ran to the fight, they stopped and Twilight Sparkle got a good look at the dragon, it was black and had glowing red eyes, and the unicorns magic were having no effect on it.
"Captain! Glad your here! We are losing against the dragon it's too powerful" a orange unicorn guard said.
"Fluttershy, go and try to calm it down," Shining Armour ordered.
"O-Okay," Fluttershy said frightfully, and flew up to the dragons snout, and took a deep breath.
"Now look here mister! You have no right to hurt these innocent ponies! What have they done to you!? You should be ashamed of yourse-aaahhhh" Flutteshy was saying, anger prevalent in her voice, but was cut off when the dragon slapped her into the ground, where she laid in pain.
"Fluttershy!" everypony yelled, Twilight Sparkle ran up to the hurt Pegasus and made a force field around her, Rainbow Dash was seething with anger.
"All right you overgrown lizard! Nopony hurts Fluttershy!" Rainbow Dash yelled with anger and flew towards the black dragon, the others following her. Twilight Sparkle looked at the carnage with shock, the dragon swatted Rainbow Dash away like she was a fly, it kicked Rarity to a wall, Applejack was caught in its claws, and Pinkie Pie was slowly getting up from almost being burned, all this caused something deep inside her to snap, and she seethed in anger as a black aura surrounded her body. The dragon looked at the purple mare with confusion, but dismissed it and breathed fire on the mare, but the aura deflected the fire. Everypony looked at what was happening at Twilight Sparkle with fear.
"You dragon, you dare hurt my friends!?" Twilight Sparkle yelled, the black aura encased her body, and an explosion occurred where she stood, Shining Armour made a force field to protect everypony from the shrapnel. When the dust settled, a black unicorn mare stood, her eyes were red and pupils slit, her hooves bore silver hoof gauntlets with a purple edging and a pink jewel in the middle, her Cutie Mark was a silver eight point star, with a pink jewel in the middle and 10 small purple stars surrounding it, her tail and mane where stripped with the colour blue, purple and pink, her chest was covered by a silver six point star with a pink jewel in the middle, and she wore a silver helmet with 3 pink jewels on the part that went down her snout. Everypony backed away in fear at this mare, afraid of what she might do. The black mare looked at the dragon and proclaimed "You must now face me, Dawn, the Dark Element of Magic!"
Here is the picture of Dawn art/Sparkle-no-more-274518731?q=gallery%3Agiuliabeck&qo=3, made by Giuliabeck
