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She stood in a dark room, the wall cracked and the tapestries faded with time. That castle was massive, yet run down and falling apart due to eons of not being kept up with. It had been abandoned for centuries now. She walked over towards a cracked window, once holding a brilliant stained glass mural, her silver-grey shoes clacking against the stone floors. Her crimson tail, long with age, drug along the ground behind her.

In the dark, she could see clearly. The red glow of her pupils standing out against the dark. The strands of her mane hung in her face, she looked worn, despite the fact she’ll be forever young. With sadness in her eyes, she looked out over the overgrown gardens below, remembering time long past. Her black fur rippled as she tensed, less desirable memories now coming to her mind. With that, the alicorn would look away from the window, and make her way back towards the door at the other end of the room.

“Centuries have passed, yet this place still stands?” A male voice asked her from just beyond the threshold. Her eye would rise, looking towards the voice as she walked through the door. A black alicorn stallion stood there, standing tall even for his race. Yet the female towered over even him, as she did any other pony. “Yes, young Shadow, it still stands. It will take much more then time for this castle to fall.” She would reply to him, in a tone that a mother would use with her son. As it should be, as Shadow was her son.

“Like us, like any other pony, even this castle has things that keep it going, memories forever hidden within its walls. Any can see them, if they so chose to Look.” She continued on as the two walked down the massive halls. The female had her tattered crimson batwings folded to her, as there would have been no room for her otherwise. The male, with wings similar in all but size and color, had his folded as well. He looked up at his mother, his solid red eyes hiding any emotion he may have felt.

She led the stallion through winding halls and massive rooms, until finally they reacher her intended destination. A massive hall, with a raised platform at one end. On that platform stood a single, dark throne. The throne that once belonged to her. They stopped before the platform, looking up at the throne.

“It’s interesting, seeing where you came from. Yet I wasn’t expecting this.” Shadow spoke, admiring the throne. The female turned her head and looked down at him with a warm smile. “Come, I have a tale to tell you.”

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Before anything began, there was the void. The void was vast, empty. That is, until one day, an event happened. Color, energy, formless things sprang into existence. As well as a group of beings. Alicorns. Cynder, mother of darkness, was the first. She was then followed by Galaxia and Cosmos, future parents of the princesses of Equestria. As well as others. It was they who gave form to the universe, and then life to the planets. Galaxia and Cosmos would late bare two fillies, whom would rule Equestria. Cynder, on the other hoof, would roam the universe, searching for things of her interest.

For centuries, she would find nothing. In her boredom, she retreated to Equestria, and go into hiding. In which she fell into a hibernation-like state. While her body was asleep, her mind still knew what was going on around her. Then one day, she woke.

The left ear of the large black alicorn twitched, flicking away a fly. As her dark eyes fluttered open, she stood and stretched with a yawn. She attempted to stretch her crimson bat-like wings as well, only to find there wasn’t as much room in the cave as their once was. Ducking her head, she walked towards the mouth of the cave. She squeezed out, and stopped to examine the world around her. Where there was once just a batch of trees now stood a vast forest. Known as the Everfree forest to all who lived in this time. She had not seen the growth of the forest and was slightly confused as to were she was, so she would walk off, aimlessly wondering the trees.

The young Pegasus let out a soft yawn as she limped outside and looked around one of her white ears twitched almost getting the golden feather clipped to her ear stuck in her blue mane. Sitting down she used her right hoof to fix a pare of black and gold goggles at sat atop her head, between her ears and the fake horn she wore for really no reason at all. Getting up she stepped down from the patio she was standing on but lost her footing and fell into the dusty ground. Shaking her head she sighed and used her wings to lift herself back to her hoofs, Golden always had trouble walking due to only having three legs, but she always managed. With that she walked off heading for the park with here bag of goodies she had bought from sugar cube corner, her long slender tail drug the ground behind her, the puff leaveing a trail of dust floating in her wake.

Cynder wondered for hours it seemed. She did not know why she didn't just take to the air to find her way. Maybe somewhere deep in her subconscious she felt it would be best to stay to the ground. In time, a light caught her eye. The glint of the sun off the windows of a building. She followed the shine, soon reaching the edge of the Everfree to find the town of Ponyville in the distance. The massive alicorn, standing nearly twice the height of Celestia, then slowly walked towards the town, her dark eyes scanning all that was around her.

Golden Solstice had made it to the park and was resting under a tree, munching idly on a cupcake. She finished it and lay her head down and yawned lazily rolling onto her back and watched the sun. She was not a Filly but her injury she had endured as one had left her grout stunted. Another thing to note about the white and blue Peruses other then her lion like tail was the fact she had no cutie mark. With her golden eyes she watched the clouds in the sky above her.

She soon stalked into the town. She felt the eyes of passing ponies on her, yet she payed no mind. They all seemed so different then the ponies alive when she went into her slumber. They seemed so fearful of her. Yet she walked on. Soon she found herself in a park. The Alicorn stopped to enjoy the shade of a tree as he observed the ponies around her. A certain white pegasus caught her dark eyes, yet she wouldn't approached her, as she did not know the etiquette of this age.

Golden rolled back over and got up, stretching her wings and letting out a lazy yawns . with her wings spread out it was easy to thee the red harness she wore, sitting down Golden noticed some leaves in her tail fluff and began to pluck them out, that is when she noticed the odd Pony watching her.