Many thought he was gone for good, that his evil, vicious soul had left the world. But as the light can destroy the darkness, there's always shadow when there is light.

When King Sombra was defeated by Cadance after Spike have brought the crystal heart to her so she could channel all the love and happiness from the crystal ponies, his body was completely reduced to dust, except his horn that managed to survive the procedure and was thrown away. Predicting that his defeat was imminent with the crystal heart in Cadance’s hooves, Sombra managed to be fast enough to cast a spell that put his soul in his horn, hoping he would survive the impact with the light of the crystal heart, something that happened.

King Sombra’s horn landed in a remote corner of the arctic, where it stayed there for a long time, with Sombra himself inside of it, thinking of how he would proceed with his revenge and regain what he had lost. With the months passing, his desire for revenge was deepening and deepening.

Two adventurous stallions dared to adventure in the icy regions of the arctic. One of them was a earth pony and the other was a unicorn. The two friends liked to explore regions that other ponies had ever explored. After long hours walking through the snow and wind, the two decided to stop to rest, deciding to build an igloo to protect themselves from the cold.

They began to get snow that could use to the building. It was then that the earth pony found something while picking snow.

"Hey, come take a look at what I found" he said to his friend.

"I hope it's not some useless thing again" the unicorn replied, approaching. "Don't forget the night is about to fall and temperatures will start dropping even more."

When he reached the edge of his friend, he showed to him his finding, saying:

"Check this out."

And he showed what was King Sombra’s curved red horn. That made unicorn to gasp.

"I've never seen anything like this" he said. "It looks like a unicorn horn, but the form simply does not fit the normal standards."

"Cool, huh?" the earth pony said, looking to the Horn. "You'll see that we're going to be famous when we arrive to Equestria with this."

"I don't know..." the unicorn said with a certain fear. "I have a bad feeling about this thing."

"Come on, it's just a horn" the earth pony said. "It would only be dangerous if it was connected to the rest of the pony it used to belong.”

Unfortunately for this pony, that horn’s owner was listening every single word they were saying. After months of waiting, Sombra had managed to finally find what he wanted: somepony who could release him from that state of bodily death.

The horn began to be surrounded by the same dark aura that used to appear when Sombra used his magic. Seeing that, the unicorn was able to identify that type of aura and said:

"Oh no, it's dark magic. Drop it!"

But the earth pony couldn't do it. The dark aura was having a hypnotic influence over him, preventing him from dropping the horn. The unicorn tried to make his friend drop the horn by force, but some sort of invisible barrier appeared suddenly and throw the unicorn a few hooves away.

On the ground, he raised his head and saw the horn levitating in the air and heading directly to his earth pony friend’s forehead and attaching itself to it. That made the aura go through all his body and the earth pony began to scream in agony, as if he was suffering the worst of tortures. The dark aura covered the earth pony’s entire body and the unicorn could see the same body changing its shape: mane and tail, and even flesh and bones, to his great horror.

It was then that the aura began to pull back and returning to the horn, revealing what the earth pony's body had become. He was now a unicorn with a strong and slender body covered with dark grey coat with red crystals as Cutie Mark and coatless black hooves. His mane had a very deep shade of black, representing the darkness that inhabited his heart. But what was more terrifying were the eyes that were now brilliant scarlet with pupils in a darker tone and with the same type of aura involving them. Those eyes conveyed coldness, evil and cruelty the unicorn explorer had never seen before. A smile appeared on his face, revealing sharp teeth with two fangs, something that was impossible for a normal pony to have. But that was not a normal pony. Actually, that was not any the earth pony that the unicorn known. That was now King Sombra, the former ruler of the Crystal Empire. He gave an evil laugh, while thunders were heard.

"Finally, I'm back!" he exclaimed. "That reincarnation spell worked perfectly. Now I'm ready to recover what I lost and fulfill my revenge!"

The unicorn was paralyzed with fear with the sight of such evil creature. He wanted to run, but couldn't.

"However, I have to know more details about everything that happened since my defeat" Sombra said.

And he turned his attention to the unicorn that was there that started shaking like a leaf when he saw that deadly and evil look looking at him.

"But what do we have here" Sombra said, starting to get close to him. "It's my lucky day."

The unicorn was trying to take control of his legs to run away, but the fear was too strong and was paralyzing them. The only thing he could do was to stutter:

"Where... Where is my friend?"

"Oh, that friend of yours no longer exists in this world" Sombra answered, stopping in front of him. "His soul left his body so mine could take its place and then it shaped this vessel according to mine."

"What... What... What do you want?"

"Right now, I just want information" Sombra answered, lowering his head to stay on the same level as the unicorn’s. "And I'm sure you will be able to provide that to me."

And, having said that, Sombra blew what appeared to be part of his magical aura that entered through the unicorn’s mouth, which made his eyes stay in the same color as Sombra’s, though not so vivid. With that, Sombra was able to access all of his memories and knowledge.

He could see Princess Twilight’s coronation, repairing also in her ascension as alicorn. He recognized her as being the pony who tried to reach the crystal heart and eventually to fall into his trap. He managed to know her connection to Princess Cadance, something that interested very much. But the best was when he found out that Twilight had received castle located in Ponyville, beyond that he found the great affection she had for her friends. Apparently, that mare had really a great magical potential, making her maybe even more powerful than Celestia, Luna and Cadance. He also managed to know that Discord had reformed, something that surprised him a lot.

Having known what he wanted to know, Sombra made the aura that was inserted into the unicorn to leave and return to his horn. After release him from his influence, the unicorn looked at Sombra with pure fear and pleaded:

"Please, don't hurt me!"

Sombra smiled with pleasure at the sight of a pony begging for his inexistent mercy. He liked to watch ponies begging him, because it made him feel immensely powerful. But he had no mercy, plus that pony had ceased to be useful and Sombra didn’t need somepony who could ruin his plans.

So, he charged his horn with magic (in his case, dark magic) and launched it against the unicorn, piercing his chest in the place where the heart was, causing blood splatter everywhere, including Sombra’s face. That had managed to obliterate the unicorn's heart and he died, as the blood that was coming out painted the snow in red. Sombra licked the blood that was close to his lips, while savoring the taste.

"Delicious" he said.

After that, he used his magic to turn the unicorn’s corpse into snow and then made his magic aura wrap his own body to summon his old armor. The blood that reddened the whiteness of the snow rose in the air and was turned into his cape that was putted on his back.

"Now that I'm back into this world, I'm going to make it bow before me and my power. And I know the best way to do it."

And he turned into his shadow form and began to move away from that place, heading to Ponyville.

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