Yay! Prologue time!

werewolf99: Okay, I'm done. Comment whatever you want, but if it has any relation to your fan characters or is insulting toward me at all, it gets deleted, no questions asked. I've been tolerant up till now, but I said it once and I'll say it again, NO EFFING FAN CHARACTERS! Do I make my point clear?

kittypwer56: I can't really make the chapters longer because I have lots of other work to do and keeping it as at least one chapter per week with as long as the chapters I have is pretty much my limit, but I can do more cliffhangers, and as for your other ideas, I like them and may use them at some point.

spisaacman: I don't think she'll stop any time soon. She's still not sure about her own emotions at this point.

graysean86: Thanks! I really tried to make that chapter good.

BLTSweg: I did… sort of.

greninja32: I like to do as many episodes as possible, but unfortunately season 2 only has a few ones I like.

SubZPhantomX: Thanks!

A cloaked pony ran along a long path in the forest, her hoofsteps erratic, as if she were being chased. She reached a clearing, and just when it seemed that she would be able to get away, the things that had been chasing her appeared in front of her, blocking her path. Her crystal blue eyes flaring in panic, she whirled around to try and go back the way she'd come. This hope was squashed as well when another rank of enemies appeared that way, seeming to appear as a wisp of black smoke and gain solid form.

A white pony with all black armor and a large sword attached to her side leaped down from a ledge that overlooked the clearing. "Merluna!" she began, shouting through the helmet that veiled her face. "Thy attempts to escape hath been valiant, but thou knowest it is in vain!"

"Not so, Celestia, for I have one further trick!" Merluna shouted back defiantly, throwing back the hood of her cloak. She narrowed her eyes and her horn glowed a soft blue as she muttered words under her breath. "Hero from another world, come to my aid!"

All of a sudden a rift, like a vortex, opened up in the sky and a dark blue form fell out of it. As the rift closed and all who were on the ground looked up in awe, a quiet sound could be heard from the sky, growing louder the closer the blue form got: "aaaaaaaaAAAAAAHHH!"

The blue form hit the ground and sprang back onto his hooves almost instantly, looking around wildly. He glanced up and noticed two tiny specks falling after him. "No, no, no, no, not the chili toast!" With surprising speed and agility, he dove to one side and caught the first falling toast in his teeth and swallowed it in one huge bite, then seemed to roll backward and perform a similar dive to catch the second one in a similar manner, but keeping it in his teeth this time rather than eating it.

He fluttered into the air using his wings and settled back down on his hooves, looking about in confusion with the toast still in his mouth. "Mmph?" he offered up as his opinion of what was going on. Shaking his head, he rubbed his eyes and spat the toast out into his hoof. "Luna? Why are you–no…" he trotted in a circle around the cloaked blue pony and examined her from all sides. "While the cloak is extremely flattering for your figure…" he began, causing Merluna to blush. "I don't think you're who I think you are."

"I am most certainly not." Merluna agreed. "But I am in grave peril."

"Grave peril, eh?" the blue pony looked around once more at the shadow warriors and the armored pony. "Oh, I get it. I've done this sort of thing before." Without hesitation, he tossed the toast up in the air and appeared to vanish, though that was only because he was moving almost too fast to be comprehended by the naked eye.

A trail of dust was kicked up in front of the shadow warriors, and when it went away, they were gone, destroyed by the blue pony. Said pony returned to his previous spot and caught the toast he'd just tossed in the air. He'd moved so fast that it hadn't even had time to complete its arc in the air before he was back where he started.

He smirked and stared at the black armored pony, slowly tossing the toast up and down on his hoof, his wings spread and his narrowed eyes indicating that he was ready for another fight. He almost looked as if he was hoping for some sort of conflict, some excuse for violence.

"Thou art a skilled fighter." The armored pony remarked.

"Yep." He replied, his confident smile turning into a thin frown.

"But thou standest not a single chance against ME!" she drew her sword, clenching it between her teeth.

"We'll see about that!" the blue pony prepared to launch himself into what was likely a fight he would never return from, but found that he could not move. He looked around in irritation and saw that he was surrounded by a light blue aura, which was holding him still. "Hey! Lemme go!" he glared at Merluna.

"No, young one! We must retreat!"

His dark green eyes flickered from the armored pony to Merluna, as if judging his options. After a millisecond of intense though, he ceased fighting against the magic and nodded. "Okay, let's go!"

Merluna stopped the flow of magic and started to run once more, but then felt herself being picked up and carried at a far faster speed than she could've gone on her own, and glanced around to see that the brash blue pony was carrying her as he flew at high speeds back toward the forest.

Once they had disappeared, the armored pony growled and yelled out to the other ponies on top of the cliff. "FIND THEM AND KILL THEM!" then she rode off to do just that herself, if possible.

The four armored ponies on top of the cliff glanced at each other.

"Our leader wishes us to slaughter those which have committed no crime." The purple one said. "Is it prudent to continue with that course of action?"

"Dost thou suggest treason against the Queen?" the orange one said, in what sounded like an odd blend between a country accent and medieval speech. "Ah for one think that these are strange orders as well, but our greatest loyalty is to our Queen."

"We must obey her to our last breath if that is what she requires." The yellow one agreed.

"And if the Queen says they are worthy of death, then so be it." the cyan one finished the collective thought.

"You are right, Percival." The purple one sighed. "Though I wish that the order was merely capture and not execution. I suppose it is to be expected, for the Queen's behaviour of late grows strange."

"This is true, Lancelot." The yellow one nodded. "I have witnessed this as well. It seems she is ailed by something beyond a mortal sickness."

The orange one laughed. "Ya speak of a mortal sickness, Galahad, but the only mortal sickness evident to me as of late is the sickness consuming our kingdom."

"Aye, Gawain. It appears to be falling toward a dark fate." Percival agreed. "The Round Table is splintering before us, and we are powerless to stop it."

"Unless the cause is Merluna!" Lancelot broke into the dark discussion with a hopeful idea. "I may be construing this in all the wrong manners, but some say she has been practicing witchcraft!"

"If witchcraft has caused this, then the fall of witchcraft will be its cure!" Galahad caught onto the idea.

"Then we must pursue her and the other at once!" Percival decided. "Let us go!"

The four galloped off into the woods, in hot pursuit of Merluna and the strange blue pony that fell from the sky.

And that's done! Wow, I think I did better than I expected, and twelve thousand words! That's gotta be some sort of record for my prologues!

I've also been reading Shakespeare, and I like the way he writes, so I've decided to incorporate repeated words and phrases into my writing, as well as implications and twists of phrase like does. Look out for that as the story progresses.

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