Fallout equestria : Monarch of a new world - Prologue

        Shining Armor continues to shove cloth in the crack under the bedroom door as best as his shaking hooves can manage, his old age and arthritis making it almost impossible to keep his limbs from convulsing in his nervous effort to fight the pink mist that streams through every crack in the room.

        “Please let me do it, you have to sit down,” I say as I put a hoof on his shoulder. “You need to keep your strength to help the princesses with the barrier.”

        Shining Armor looks up from the floor, tears in the corner of his old wrinkled eyes. Fear is etched into his essence, but his features are still perfect to me.

        I smile and tears stream down my face as I nuzzle him. We have been hearing screams cut short outside our doors along with the glass of our window cracking from the pressure of the mist. The pink mist burns to the touch and my beloved's cape had already been melted to his coat as he rushed into our home. The walls ooze a revolting slime and the window is a warped and bubbly wall of pink with red velvet curtains.

        Shining nuzzles me again. “Cadence, I love you with all of my soul and I don’t regret a thing we have done together. My only wish would be to spend more time with you before we die.” He lifts his head from my neck and tilts his horn to our window. It glows a soft blue before a light shoots out of the window and into the pink void, carrying only a few feet past the wall of fog before disappearing, only to collide with the barrier above. It melds with the pink force field to create another protective layer around the city. His small pulse of magic did little to defend the city, but it fills in any cracks that are made by the weakening wills of Celestia and Luna.

        I continue to push random pieces of cloth and fabric underneath the crack in the door as my husband had done only moments earlier. I lift up a scarf with my magic and shove it into the edges of an air vent. The air around us has gained a slight pink coloration within the past half an hour, but the only effects I notice are a slight burning in my throat when I breath and an itch along my mane that doesn’t go away. Shining had to run through a thick concentration of the deadly mist on his way back to our house and is now coughing profusely into his forearm. I can see specks of blood on his hoof, even if he attempts to cover it up. We tried our hardest to take his cloak off as soon as he got into the house but the hair had melted into the fabric. Shining continues to fill the cracks in the door frame, along with clearing the air with any spell he can think of, but neither are doing any good. The cloths he put underneath the door barely keep anything out and no spell has any effect on the mist.

        I put a hoof on my husband’s shoulder and let out a deep sigh. Shining halts his spell and glances at me for a moment, only to lock his eyes on mine. His fearful expression changes to sadness, then to a prideful acceptance in a split moment. Our horns touch with a spark, our eyes lock, we grip each other's hooves, and a familiar draining sensation starts at my horn and sucks the energy from me. My vision darkens, my body starts to wobble, and I lose the ability to concentrate on anything other than him. Suddenly our contact brakes and my eyes shoot open.

        In front of me my beloved stands, only shimmering as the barrier placed around me morphs his features. “No!” I scream as I pound on my egg shaped prison. Tears flow down my face but I keep my focus on the stallion on the other side of the pink barrier.

        “It has to be done, my love. You are still so young, and to push the fog away would be to send it out across Equestria, to all of the towns, forests, and wildlife out there. We can not condemn the rest of our world just to save one city. I also can’t let you suffer such horrible pain as the rest of us will.” Shining puts a hoof where I continue to smash mine.

        I cry out for him to let me go, to let me die with him, but he just shakes his head sadly and calmly, smiling with all of his beauty. “As I aged throughout this war, you have done nothing but stay the same in appearance. You have hundreds, even thousands more years to live while I could only live another 10 at most. I love you, and please don't change.”

        My vision starts to darken, and my energy is sapped from me again. The pink barrier blinds me in its brilliance, and I am forced to close my eyes. There is little more than an ounce of strength in my body when it finally stops, and I am able to look again to the face of my true love. “I don't want to leave you,” I say between sobs. “Please, I can’t live without you.”

        “Yes, you can. And you will, if you love me, for that is my final wish. I have put all of our strength into this barrier so that you can have a chance of living again, a chance to help those who need it.” Shining slumps down, exhaustion played across his face like it had ever since the war had started. The glass of the window starts to crack dangerously behind him, and he once again has a sad smile I have seen played out across his face many times since this terrible war had started. “I love you Cadence, and remember, wherever you go in life, whatever you do, I will always be there with you, and I will always help you through any troubling times.”

        The window shatters inwards, a stream of glass and fog spraying into Shining Armors back. He collapses against the egg in which I am trapped, unable to help him. He falls to the ground, blood and glass boiling on his cape, melting into the fabric and into his white coat. He lifts his head off the ground, part of his hide ripping off onto the carpet, and he places his hoof next to mine. He mouths the words ‘I love you’ then his horn lights up one final time, and my world becomes dark.

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Starter perk! : Empathy - You have an uncanny (If not magical) ability to feel others emotions!

Starter perk! : Lover’s touch - You have the ability to spark love where it has touched before, be it family love, true love, a simple.. fling, or friendship in itself!