#willow wisp pony

[mason-mlp-art01]

This is my OC, Willow Whisk. She is a Willow Wisp unicorn pony who lives in a dark, swampy forest in a cottage. She lives with the Willow Wisps in the forest, which she created after the Scottish legends of the Willow Wisps. A Willow Wisp is a type of Will-o'-the-wisp, which is a ghost light that appears in the night sky. Will-o'-the-wisps are often seen over marshes, swamps, and bogs.

Please do not steal my art please thank you.

[necromancy-enthusiast]

To help everyone understand the gravity of the situation with Unity's recent bullshit, here are some games made in unity:

Cult of the Lamb

Bendy and the Ink Machine

Untitled Goose Game

Road 96

Cuphead

Power Wash Simulator

Genshin Impact

Getting Over It

Inside

Tem Tem

Kerbal Space Program 1

Kerbal Space Program 2

Rust

Rimworld

Outer Wilds

Dream Daddy

Thomas Was Alone

I Am Setsuna

Tunic

Night in the Woods

Pony Island

Return of the Obra Dinn

Among Us

Pokemon Go

Hollow Knight

Ori and the Blind Forest

Ori and the Willow of the Wisps

Vampire Survivors

Two Point Hospital

City Skylines

The Long Dark

Firewatch

Oxenfree

Subnautica

Subnautica: Below Zero

Fall Guys

Many, MANY MORE

Unless you only play tRIpLE A titles this will most likely affect a game you like. Hell, it can even affect really big games like Pokemon Go.

For a long time, starting years and years back, a lot of people have been talking about the preservation of games and being against moving to digital only games for reasons like this, and how the greed of various big companies in the game industry will negatively impact access to games and their preservation. It's happening. This will impact games that are already out. This will impact games being made. This will impact games made in the future. So if you care even a teensy tiny bit about a single game made in unity, or you care about the future of game development period, I suggest you pay very close attention.

A good article from an indie developer detailing the changes and exactly how it screws devs over:

[mlpnextgenaskblog]

Currently all of the Characters in The Au (Parents listed next to the kid if a fankid if not it will just say oc)

Some info The au takes a decent amount of time after Fim (haven’t decided actually) so hope that explains stuff.

Also when asking stuff whether to a character or about the lore or to me please don’t be rude.

I don’t have many rule just don’t be rude and don’t get upset if a ship you like isn’t in this au

In no particular order though I will post family trees and stuff in the future so there will be that, Also it should go on stated, but all of the parents and other characters are also available for asks and stuff. I just don’t have them all listed here as this is just to list the fankids and ocs and fan relatives.

Velvet Nova (Twilight’s adoptive daughter, Biologically Fancy Pants and an oc’s daughter, Unicorn, Female)

Diamondmine (Applejack and Rarity, Earth pony, female)

Sweet Apple (Applejack and Rarity, Unicorn, Female)

Prince Nox (Luna and a bat pony oc, Natural born Alicorn, male)

Snowy Starlight ( Twilight and Double Diamond, Unicorn, female)

Stellar Bluemoon (Twilight and Flash Sentry, Pegasus, female)

Zip Jetstream (Rainbow Dash and Pinkie, Pegasus, female)

Aurora (Fluttershy and Discord, Pegasus technically, Female)

Sundrop (Sunburst and Starlight, Unicorn, female)

Princess Dawn (Celestia and mirror world Sombra, Born unicorn given wings when she gained her cutie mark as a gift from her mother)

Party Popper (Dash and Pinkie, Pegasus, Female)

Lunar Eclipse (Sombra and Radiant Hope, Unicorn, male)

Willow Wisp (Twilight and Tempest, Unicorn, Female)

Honeycrisp (Big Mac and Suger Belle, Earth pony, Female)

Meadow Star (oc, Unicorn, female)

Mythic Rose (Sombra and Radiant Hope, Unicorn, female)

Dreamy Breeze (Discord and Fluttershy, Unicorn, Non-binary)

Spring Rose (Discord and Fluttershy, Pegasus, female)

Misty Glow (Discord and Fluttershy, Pegasus, Female)

Sunset Blaze (tbd, Pegasus, Male)

Chaotic Sky (Discord and Fluttershy, Pegasus, Male)

Tender Heart (Shining Armor and Cadence, Unicorn, Female)

Seabreeze (oc, Changeling/Seapony/Pony hybrid, Pegasus)

Strawberry pie (Dash and Pinkie, male, Earth pony)

Starry Sky Nebula (Twilight and Tempest, Female, unicorn)

Opalescent ‘Opal’ Apple (Aj and Rarity, Unicorn, male)

Golden ‘Goldie’ Delicious (Big Mac and Suger Belle, Female, Unicorn)

Caramel Apple (Applebloom and Scootaloo, female, earth pony)

Toffee Apple (Applebloom x Scootaloo, Female, Female, earth pony)

Will add more later

Please understand not every answer or post will have a drawing with them

[paradoxgavel]

ponysona be upon ye!!

her name's willow wisp! or just willow. she's an earth pony who lives out in the woods, just spending her days studying wildlife, listening to birdsongs, helping keep everything running smoothly in her lil neck of the woods. her cutie mark is a red-eyed vireo!

[ponyaday]

6/22/22 Willow Wisp

[art-and-a-half]

Name: Willow Wisps

Nicknames: Willow

Orientation: aromantic asexual (aroace)

Pronouns: she/her

Gender identity: cis-ish woman??? (Kinda eh on gender but uses the label because its the "most correct")

Parents: ??? and ??? (original characters)

Siblings: Fern Velvetshine

Special Talent: identification of different tree types

Species: unicorn

Age in relation to Sunny Starscout: around the same age (I imagine Sunny to be around 21 years old, so Willow is also 21-ish)

Brief Backstory:

-Grew up very used to the lack of magic and didn't mind it not "existing". In fact, she was very disturbed by the superstitions surrounding magic and never personally practiced them.

-Upon the return of magic to Equestria, she found using it unbearable. It was painful to her, to the point of passing out. She has made contact with Sunny to work on learning magic regulation (from recovered texts from the g4 days of magic spurts) and Sunny has written down her experiences with magic and the feeling of it.

-Her relationship with Fern is very awkward, they both care about each other because they're family, but also have clashing personalities and don't think about reaching out to each other very often

-Fairly introverted. Her most social event is hanging out in the Crystal Tea Room once a week, because too much time spent there can be exhausting due to the impact of high emotions on her magic outbursts. She likes the atmosphere of the poem reading on the "quiet days" (other days they do very loud slam-poetry and when she went there, it caused her to have incredible pain, so never again).

-She will, however, go (maybe once every few months) to the local school and talk about trees and the cyclical nature of the forest and how the forest ecosystem functions

-In terms of biases towards other pony types, she never really had the energy to engage in them? She had some reservations about meeting pegasi (due to her tendency to get overwhelmed, and the teachings that they were high energy/brutish and therefore dangerous) but upon a chance encounter with Rosebud (another OC that will be out soon) she realised that it was definitely a poor assumption (and it helped cement Rosebud's realisation that unicorns weren't all "frivolous, out-of-touch" ponies)

[professionallydeadinside]

Can you believe I’m going back to my pony phase? Any way here are my kiddos, the dark blue one is Coffee Cream Dream and the pink one is Willow Wisp!

[bennyverse]

Name: Willow Wisp

Nicknames: Willow, Will

Family: Zephyr Breeze (adoptive father), Trenderhoof (adoptive father), Fluttershy (adoptive aunt), Bulk Biceps (adoptive uncle), Candid Plume (adoptive cousin), Spring Breeze (adoptive cousin), Mr. Shy (adoptive grandfather), Mrs. Shy (adoptive grandmother)

Age: 5

Gender: Female

Species: Earth pony

Residence: Baltimare

Occupation: N/A

[wild-lavender-rose]

Fighting for Love (part 3)

Sequel to Hurt/Comfort Series Saving the Enemy

Part 1, Part 2

Pairing: Legolas x fem!reader

Category: One-shot

Backstory: You are Gandalf’s granddaughter. Long ago you were captured by the Mirkwood elves after saving the life of their prince, Legolas. He tended your injuries and the two of you fell in love. But it was a time of war and the fates were cruel, tearing you and Legolas apart on separate paths. Hundreds of years later, you and Legolas meet again on a quest to destroy the ring. It’s been lifetimes since you’ve seen each other. Lost time must be made up... 

Warnings: Suggestive romantic themes (heavy kissing, touching, innuendo)

     “Gimli!” You called, hurrying down the stone staircase to where Gimli was packing supplies onto his pony. The morning was cool and foggy, causing the mossy scent of Elrond’s gardens to hang damp in the air. 

     “Everyone is prepared for the journey except Aragorn.” 

     Gimli chuckled. “Bidding farewell to that pretty elvish maiden, I assume.”

     “You assume correctly.” You slipped the pack off your shoulder and dropped it to the ground. “We will be prepared to leave in just a few moments.”

     “Excellent!” Gimli gave the pony’s rear a playful slap. “It’ll be good to get the wind in my beard and orc blood on my sword.”

     “You are quite different from your father.” You ran your hand over the pony’s silken flank, calming him after the jolt of Gimli’s excitement. “He was, shall we say, hesitant when Grandfather suggested he join the company.”

     “Nonsense, my father was hesitant about nothing.” Gimli protested, his good humor unaffected. “You know, sometimes I forget that you’re as old as you are, lassie. Time has not changed you.”

     You contemplated this, a cool breeze brushing wisps of the pony’s mane against your cheek. “It has. Just not on the outside.”

     “When father talked of you, your adventures….” Gimli cleared his throat gruffly.

     “Yes?”

     “He said…after you left Mirkwood…”

     “Spit it out, Gimli. I promise however the stories go they will not offend me.”

     Gimli smiled at this, drawing himself up a bit as his dwarvish confidence returned. “Father said you carry two scars from the journey. One on your leg, and one on your heart. The mark of love unfulfilled.” 

     “Mel nin,”

     You and Gimli turned to see Legolas walking down the stone steps. The sight of him caused your heart to flutter like the leaves on a willow tree. Your enemy. Your prince. He was dressed in fine elvish attire for the journey, a glistening sword by his side and a bow and quiver of arrows in his hand.

     “Even scars can be healed, Gimli.” You left his side and crossed to Legolas. “Mel nin.”

     Legolas ignored Gimli entirely, his eyes on you alone. “ Im baur na ped- with cin.”

     “But we’ll leave in a few moments,”

     “Ha tur- ú- darth-.” He set the bow and quiver by your pack and took your hand. “Please.”

     More than a little confused, you nodded, allowing him to lead you a good distance from Gimli and the ponies. Legolas took you to a gazebo carved out of stone and shrouded by curtains of green ivy. A creek babbled to itself nearby, telling secrets that even the wisest of elves could not understand.

     As soon as you stepped into the gazebo Legolas turned around and drew you in by the waist. “My love,” he breathed, desperation lighting his gaze. “I can’t stand being apart from you.”

     “But the others are coming,” you ran your hands up his arms as you said this, trying to use your head and failing miserably. “I, we should not, it’s too, we can’t,”

     “Am I the only one who has the honor of seeing you so flustered?” Legolas smiled, but the need in his eyes did not lessen.

     Preparations had kept you separated since your first meeting and you were just as desperate as Legolas to be alone. The dreams you had were a breath away from becoming reality. Your perfect enemy was a breath away, yet there was no time to kiss or touch, let alone talk. But you needed him beyond words. You needed to be reminded that this was real.

     “Allow me a moment, melethril.” Legolas slid his hand around the back of your neck. “I fear another chance will not come.”

     You gave a breathless whimper, your hands sliding to his chest. “I will allow a moment.”

     In a heartbeat Legolas closed the gap and kissed you, deep and passionate, consuming you until all you could feel was him. You reached up and carded your fingers through his hair, the silken strands against your skin instantly becoming one of your favorite sensations. Legolas had moved one hand to grip your waist, the other still cradling your neck. His love for you radiated from his very being, enveloping you with a warmth you had never known.

     When you broke for air he did not pull away, pressing slow, open-mouthed kisses to your lips as you breathed. 

     “Melethril,” you gripped the front of his elvish uniform hard, clinging to the final shreds of reality even as you yielded to his touch. “I cannot, I, I’m not sure that if we continue,”

     “Hush,” Legolas moved you until your back met the cool stone of the gazebo pillars. He brushed at the ivy hanging near your head and looked down at you, his hands caressing your waist. “Let me take care of you.”

     Your eyes grew wet at this, so much so that you had to blink and look away. “So long,” you whispered, scared to voice your thoughts, yet confident that Legolas would understand. “So long I waited…even when there was no hope.”

     “My starlight,” Legolas touched your cheek, his blue eyes full of love and sadness when you looked up. “I fear I cannot re-write the days we have been apart. But I wish to make up for them, starting now into eternity. Will you allow me this?”

     You nodded, heart bursting with love as you touched his smooth jawline. Legolas was surging with pride as he leaned down to capture your lips once more. You closed your eyes as his lips left and began to travel down, tracing your jaw, pressing against your neck. You sensed that he was searching for something, however you didn’t know what it could be until his lips grazed a sensitive spot on your neck that caused you to gasp and lean your head back against the pillar.

     Legolas smiled against your tingling skin. “Mine.” He breathed. 

     “Legolas!?!”

     Your eyes flew open. Legolas pulled away from you, his expression now somber as he looked through the curtain of ivy. His hands gripped your shoulders, steady and firm as you dealt with the unexpected blow of reality.

     “Legolas, where are you!?”

     “Aragorn,” you muttered, exchanging a look with Legolas. “I swear I will kill him for this.”

     “I am coming, mellon.” Legolas waited until he was sure you were steady before moving his hands away. 

     “I’m sorry.”

     “Don’t be.” Legolas matched your stride as you left the gazebo. “Another moment will come.”

     “But I still don’t understand why we can’t just throw the ring in a creek or something and leave it at that!” Pippin announced. He and Merry had joined the group, as well as everyone else.

     “How many times do I have to explain it to you?!?” Merry rolled his eyes. “The water won’t work, Pippin! It needs fire and rocks and lava and stuff.” 

     “There you are,” Aragorn’s eyes were dancing as he looked between the two of you. “Discussing strategies, I assume.”

     You shot him a look. “Just as you and Arwen did, I’m sure.”

     Legolas smiled at this.

     Aragorn gave an awkward cough. “Are we ready then?”

     “Aye,” Gimli shouldered his axe.

     “Ready!” The hobbits chorused.

     “Ready.” Gandalf was looking between you and Legolas, his eyes sparkling like Aragorn’s.

     “Lead the way, Aragorn.” Boromir gestured to the path leading out of Elrond’s gardens into the great world beyond.

     “Are you ready?” Legolas scooped up his weapons and shouldered them, then held your pack out to you.

     You smiled, accepting the pack and slipping it over your head. “Ready, mel nin.”

And so the journey began.

- Read the extended NSFW edition here -

Part 4

Mel nin = My love

Im baur na ped- with cin = I need to speak with you. 

Ha tur- ú- darth- = It can not wait. 

Melethril = Lover

Mellon = Friend

Fanfic Masterlist

[random-but-classy]

MLP Adopts for sale, plus some that were never sold! I am taking paypal only!!

•Combined Ponies•

①Sassy Saddle + Fluttershy>>Pin Cushion $15

②Octavia + Apple Jack>>Jazz Hooves $15

③Lyra + Bon Bon>>Sweet Heart $15

④Rose+Luster Dawn>>Sunny Bloom $15

⑤Minty+Linky>>Candy Loops$15

⑥Randomized!>>Holly Pop $15

•Foals and Follies•

①Kirin Foal>>Willow Wisp $5

②Kirin Foal>>Sun Glare $5

③Kirin Colt>>Chestnut Roast $5

④Bat Pony Foal>>Scarlet Night $5

•Proud Pegasi•

①Pegasus>>Cream Puff $5

②Pegasus>>Seafoam Soar $5

③Pegasus+Zebra Hybrid>>Melon Sprint $10

④Pegasus Crystal Pony>>Pearl Petals $10

•DM me which adopt you want by either stating the name of said adopt, or stating the number assigned to the adopt along with it's appropriate category, ie 'Combinations', 'Foals and Follies', or 'Prancing Pegasi'. I will then give you my paypal and after recieving the proper payment i will give you the adopt without the watermark.

•Afterwards you can do whatever you want with it, just dont claim you drew the art or made the design yourself or resell it straight after it's initial purchase for more money.

•Crediting me is not required but is appreciated. If you wish to reblog or share this post it would be greatly appreciated as well. ^^

•I will be updating this post marking the ones that are sold.

•All purchases are final.

[doeblossom]

May we see your pony form, Darling? Is it Earth, Unicorn, Pegasus, or other?

click to see their full details! if you can't tell, i've always been unicorn biased. more info about them is below the cut!! but i've really had so many ponysonas, it's bonkers.

pony prime is called "the original" since she was the first oc i ever made. i couldn't decide between being a unicorn or a pegasus, so i just picked both! i knew that having an alicorn oc was considered "cringey," but i justified it due to being native hawaiian and being related to the former bloodline (but honestly it's not as big of a deal as i thought it was then). i also liked the color turquoise at the time, and couldn't come up with a hair or eye color, so i just picked my own.

pony number 2 was a modified version of the original. chopped off her wings, changed her hair color and made it more show-style big-poofy-curl, and added accessories. i was leaning more into liking purple along with turquoise, and started going through a FNAF phase, which brought about the bowtie. it phased out in later drawings of sketche, but i figured it deserved a spot here. another important note: i drew all of my ponies with the same body type, and was still having a hard time drawing/accepting my own, so all of the ponies up until the most recent are thin.

here's a more literal case of FNAF phase. wisp isha was literally a ponified version of my FNAF insert, wisp the wolf. she was also the first ponysona to have a cutie mark, with a red cross symbol and wrench (she performed repairs on the other bots). originally her second name was "urufu," which was the word that google gave me for "wolf" in japanese. it's just "wolf" written out in japanese kanji. i don''t remember where i got isha from, though.

inky emerald didn't even really have a name! i was experimenting with my ponysona, and tried a ponysona making challenge, which spit this girl out. things like species and hair length were determined by your date of birth, of course. she's called "inky emerald" because she has ink covering her legs and hooves, which you can't really see due to the frame. around this time, i had a few other place holder ponysonas, but they all culminated into inky.

snow blossom was one of my favorites when i made her, but as her name implies, she is as pale as the snow itself. and as much as i'll joke about being "reflective" online, i'm actually not this pale haha. anyways, this is where i started leavning more towards a flowery theme and using green in my designs. i think i drew her a couple of times, but after that, she faded into the background and i stepped back from drawing ponies for a long while.

lilac was my return to ponies after about a year and a half of not touching them. it feels like the break was longer, but it wasn't. couldn't get rid of ponies in my brain if i tried ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. lilac willow was a direct redesign of sketche wolf. she was the second pony to have a cutie mark, which was a half-drawn flower. i aws experimenting a lot with how i wanted to draw ponies, so her design was one of the furthest from the MLP style. she looked nothing like me, though; the curls were much more relaxed, she was extremely thin, no glasses... but her design was fun. i may try incorporating her into the main blog at some point, but just in the background.

hmmmmm, i think i recognize this one.... nope. jk. this design was made when i decided to make a blog about lumerde. i wanted to incorporate my NOW favorite colors, green, pink, and yellow, and almost accidentally made fluttershy... but i think the result was fine. she's also chubby, like i am irl! i know i talk about my weight a lot but i'm trying to be more comfortable and confident about it.

and then, our current narrator herself! well, myself, i suppose. i really like this redesign and the new hair texture, and i hope this design communicates everything about how i look properly. i originally tried avoiding putting too many fur marks on my characters since the show rarely did that, but heck, it's barely even attached to the show anymore.

this feels like a lineage. but in a fun way!

[lunawlw]

MLP NEXT GEN

some next generation ocs ideas that I hope to draw one day （＾＿＾）☆

Rarity x Maud Pie :

Onyx Glaze

she / they

nonbinary bi

talent: ceramics

unicorn

Pinkie Pie x Princess Skystar

Sponge Cake

she / her

trans girl lesbian

talent: cake decorating

hippogriff

Cheese Cake ( lil cheese )

he / him

cis gay

talent: comedy / improv

earth pony

child of pinkie & cheese but broke up

Prawn Pie

he / they

nonbinary gay

talent: marine biology

earth pony

Rainbow Dash x Applejack

Zap Apple

he / him

trans boy gay

talent: field racing

pegasis

Thunder Cider

he / she

nonbinary lesbian

talent: brewing / mixology

pegasis

Fluttershy x Tree Hugger

Orchid Blossom

she / they

trans girl lesbian

talent: gardening

pegasis

Willow Wisp

she / they / fae

nonbinary bi

talent: watercolor painting

pegasis

Bog Marsh

he / him

trans boy bi

talent: singing

earth pony

Twilight Sparkle x Sunset Shimmer x Tempest Shadow

Prinx Solar Comet

they / them

nonbinary bi

talent: potions / spells

alicorn

Princess Estelle Eclipse

she / it

nonbinary lesbian

talent: book writer / author

alicorn

Starlight Glimmer x Trixie

Jade Jester

she / he / they

genderfluid bi

talent: fortune telling

unicorn

Sunburst x Stygian

Luster Dawn

she / her

trans girl lesbian

talent: magic teaching

unicorn

child of starlight & sunburst but broke up

Misty Morning

she / her

cis bi

talent: chemistry

unicorn

Princess Celestia x Queen Novo

Princess Skystar

she / they

trans girl lesbian

talent: arts & crafts / diy

hippogriff

Princess Sunshine Siren

she / her

genderfluid bi

talents: singing

hippogriff

Princess Luna x Queen Chrysalis

Princess Luminosa

she / they / it

agender lesbian

talents: astronomy

alicorn adjacent changeling

Shining Armor x Princess Cadance

Princess Flurry Heart

she / her

nonbinary lesbian

talents: knight

alicorn

Princess Skyla Radiance

she / her

trans girl bi

talents: jewelry making

alicorn

Princess Star Catcher

she / her

trans girl lesbian

talents: animal-assisted therapist

alicorn

Prince Aurora Amor

he / him

agender gay

talents: piano playing

alicorn

Discord X Capper Dapperpaws

Curiosity

he / they / it

agender gay

talents: detective

cat adjacent draconicus

[lr-scarecrow]

@r4ttus ‘s character Willow Wisp. I love her design so I had to draw her!

[graphicpolicy]

Rainbow Brite #1

writer: Jeremy Whitley artist: Brittany Williams covers: Paulina Ganucheau (A), Tony Fleecs (B), “Classic” Cover (C), Tony Fleecs (RI-Virgin), Paulina Ganucheau (RI-Virgin), “Classic” Cover (RI-Virgin) FC | 32 pages | Children’s | $3.99 | All ages

Wisp and Willow are best friends who live in a small town. They are inseparable, until one night Wisp discovers something is stealing the color from the world! To escape their grasp, Wisp must use her wits and the help of a new friend…from somewhere else! Then the adventure begins! Follow along with writer Jeremy Whitley (My Little Pony, Unstoppable Wasp) and artist Brittney Williams (Patsy Walker, A.K.A. Hellcat!, Goldie Vance) as we find out how this seemingly normal girl becomes Rainbow Brite and how it changes Wisp, Willow, and their world!

Rainbow Brite #1 preview. Wisp and Willow are best friends who live in a small town. They are inseparable, until one night Wisp discovers something is stealing the color from the world! #comics Rainbow Brite #1 writer: Jeremy Whitley artist: Brittany Williams covers: Paulina Ganucheau (A), Tony Fleecs (B), “Classic” Cover (C), Tony Fleecs (RI-Virgin), Paulina Ganucheau (RI-Virgin), “Classic” Cover (RI-Virgin)

[skydrawsadopts]

I have a new pony style by the way, this is my oc, willow wisp!

[sanderssides-fics]

The quest

Plot: fantasy au (my own), Roman only

Tw: swords, violence, dark, candles, pirate mention

Tags: @lampisimportant @polysandershell @analogically-prinxiety @the-prince-and-the-emo @princeyandanxiety @softlogic _____123_____

In the kingdom of the everlasting crystal waterfall, where the trees glistened with morning dew in the evening, and the animals were in a harmonious symbiosis, lay the kingdom of ash. The royals that slept and loved in this kingdom were the kindest of all Royals in the universe. Allowing orphaned children to stay in extra rooms until there was a family for them, in times of need the royals provided shelter, nourishment, and wisdom to keep young and old alive and well until all was safe once more. Every morning was concerts and every evening the jouster told jokes and stories to the children of the kingdom, the cicadas would hum in the day and the crickets charmed at night. The kingdom was peaceful, and war was never waged because the royals whom lived in this kingdom would help their neighbours. Gems were no issue, money was no issue, fresh and clean water was a simple task, and assistance in their own wars was assisted.

The streets of the town that was guarded by stone and clay walls were lined with carts and stands, making money was fun and easy here. The butcher performed knife tricks, cleaver flips, and fillet shows. The baker would decorate cakes and pastries so delicately and satisfactory that the queen purchased a cake every week, sometimes two. The shoe maker and shiner were lovers that worked together to create the best shoes in the valley, kingdoms far and wide ordered their shoes by the dozens. The blacksmith was held in high regard, she made the knives and tools for the entire town, she also made presents for the kingdom. Specifically necklaces for the princess.

The royals were a merry group of folk. The king was kind souled. An addiction to animal friends was his only flaw, the backyard was home to a series of creatures ranging from the moles of the west valley to the elk of the east valley, he loved all creatures. His wife, The queen, better known as Lady Willow for her days caring for the willow forests with the faeries and gnomes, was a lover of animals as well but not to her husbands extent. She helped humans and the great creatures of the Willow stretch, that was her pride and joy. Some days Lady Willow would leave for days to the willow trees and only come home when safety returned to the stretch. They had 3 children together, 2 Princesses and a Prince.

The princesses were born 6 years apart with the prince born in the middle. The eldest Princess was named Orchid, after her godmother, the fairy queen. Orchid was a stunning sight for any suitor, but was orchid was not interested in love, she found her self fallen for art and books instead. The princess would spend days if not weeks in the library, a velvet reading chair was her thrown and the characters in her fantasy future books were her loves. She insisted to her mother and father, if they gave her time, to read all the books in the library, and paint all the art the castle walls could hold, she would then marry. The royal parents had no qualms with such requests.

The youngest daughter answered to Maple, though that was not her name, her name was Veeva. Maple preferred the name she chose for herself, because she spent her time in the back ground’s trees. Maple, being only 14, was not up for lovers yet. She was thankful for such as she was not interested in Princes like her ghastly brother. All the sweat and danger that came with such boys made her cringe. She spent her days with the talking trees and the scared mice. Veeva was however interested in the sea, oh how she longed to venture out to open water with a crew and a huge sail. To hoist on ropes and shout ‘Heave HO’ like in her favourite stories that Orchid would read. To ride in a crew of pirates, to be a captain of a ship, she told her parents of this though. She did tell her lovely mother about her dreams of the sea, of visiting far away kingdoms and finding love. The king and Queen did not see flaws in this plan of love quests, however they wanted her to grow older before her journey but nevertheless allowed the kingdom sailors to teach Maple about the ways of the sea.

Their only son was called Roman, and he was like any other boy growing up. He played the games, he sung the songs, he made belief and then some. What made Roman stick out though was his love of Adventure and quests. It was always a quest to clear the garden weeds. An adventure to the market, and his miniature pony was a noble steed! So for his 16th birthday they gifted Roman a beautiful Pegasus, Roman was so pleased that he wept. When he was 16 and 3 moons, a dark storm arose in the west. The black clouds originated from dead trees of the south where the coven of the lone star took settlement. The witches had brawn something disastrous in that pot of theirs and it had seeped into the outskirts of their land. The black clouds stole the sunlight and in 4 days flat, the crops had died and the flowers stopped blooming. The willow stretch was fading of life and the kingdom grew worrisome.

“Daddy when is the son coming back?” Asked Maple, as she turned away from the window of the commons room. The scarlet curtains seemed much more dark in the lack of sunlight, the candles were dying out quick as well.

“I have no idea, my dear, but when she does come back you must thank her for shining once more” The king responded and Maple responded with a single nod and went to sit on her father lap, curling up in her black dress that matched her Raven hair. Her blue eyes shone brighter than any candle had ever flicked. Orchid was reading on witches spells in the scrolls of the south, to learn what might have happened. Meanwhile Roman was clipping his red Cloak on over his princely attire. His adventure boots were clipped tight and shone to the shimmer. He had to save his kingdom.

“Where do you think you’re going?” Lady willow spoke in her butterfly silk voice. She was always a soft speaker, never once raising her voice at the children. Mainly because they never misbehaved.

“to save the kingdom” without another word he left, he was 16 and could do as he pleased anyways, he had been training in combat and safety since he was 7 so they also knew their precious son would be as safe as he could be. Roman walked through the corridors with his cloak flowing behind him. Determined look on his face, the ruby encrusted sword in its sheath bouncing against his hip. He walked out to the stable in the deathly dark outside, it was only 5 it shouldn’t be dark like this. Roman had to fix the witches mistake. He took his memorized route to the stables and easily found his Pegasus by her glowing mane.

“Come with me Maleficent, its time to save the world” Maybe Roman read too much fantasy, or maybe he was just very determined in his quest. He opened the stable door and Maleficent left the stall easily and helped Roman on to her back before running forth and her great white wings extended their lengths to pick at the sky and lift them up, Roman kept hold on the leather strap as they flew through the air, though Maleficent would never let him fall.

They rode for hours through the thick smog and over barren valleys of decaying and dead plants, the crops were all lost. This dark curse was of deadly intent, and Roman needed to stop it. It was a few hours after that that Roman had maleficent land at the entrance of the Forest of Lights, a deep forest filled with mysterious lights that whistled and sung as they left their dissipating trails in and around the trees. The black oak trees were old, older than the Kingdoms themselves. These trees were taller than every castle and stronger than the strongest dragon. Roman had spent many years here during his training, learning how to climb the trees and befriend the lights. Roman whistled out a tune before he began to sing in his favourite voice, a red light continuing the whistle for him.

“My friends, I travel here to thou. To beg for help, from your loving sounds. My kingdom’s dark, from the witches spell. Lady willow, she needs your help.” He sung and at the mention of his mother many lights surrounded him. “her daughters Orchid, and Maple vee, they’re scared of the dark so help me please. Travel far to the ever lasting waterfall, the kingdom ash will hear your call. Light up their rooms so they can sleep and never hear our princesses weep. oh please, please do as I say. Please keep the dreadful creatures away” many lights began to leave the forests at Roman’s pleas.

They made their way to the kingdom as fast as any light could, spun in circles in whistling tunes in all the rooms, some even lit the streets to halt the village children’s sobs as well. The village had light again and everyone knew that Prince Roman was doing fine. Roman kept his journey going, Maleficent having a little wisp light on her mane, the blue light that followed Roman year after year. He had named it LB, short for Little Blue. It was as blue as a mid day sky where the clouds met the son but they were too light to be white. A nice soft blue that was comforting. The journey was still long, but maleficent made it quicker. She took off once more with Roman heeled on her back, the little wisp flew into Roman’s cloak to stay as the wind blew strong and hard, making Maleficent slower. Roman kept his praise in her ear, so that Maleficent wouldn’t give up. The valleys and meadows below were dried up and dead, the little wisp made a sad hum seeing the damage the darkness had caused. It wasn’t long before they were flying over the land of the white stag. It was rare to see such a creature but it was also considered the best thing in any humans life. However this was probably the worse way to see the stag that roman saw now. Lain bloated, fallen on it’s side as its coat was tainted red by beasts of the dark land. How dare they kill such a great creature.

“Maleficent! Fly down!” Maleficent did as instructed and landed in the brush nearby, Roman unsheathed his sword and held it with determination, as he ran towards the shadow creatures that looked like skeletons of demon-deer dressed in unholy cloaks of death. He sliced his weapon at the shadow beast, slicing its darkened exterior and chopping its head next. That beast laid dead now as he continued to the next. Defeating beast after beast in a fruitful fight that was easily won by Roman. Their glowing yellow eyes glowed no more as each beast fell broken in shards of what they once were like a stained glass mural. Roman ran to the white stag after he was done and found it breathing heavily, its innards lain on the grass.

“I am so greatly sorry, I will avenge you great stag.” Roman spoke with broken tears, stroking the fur of the dying creatures head and neck that now rested in his royal lap. Its antlers falling off in its defeat, their golden shimmer staying true, it eyes shutting as its final breaths drew closed. Roman sobbed for minutes more, allowing his emotions to better him before getting help from the gnomes that came from the edge of the willow stretch with rocks in their hands to dig a grave for their lost one. They laid the great creature to rest and buried him deep. No one and nothing could hurt him no more. Roman placed the antlers in a bag on the side of Maleficent. Roman sheathed his sword once more and they left, the blue wisp taking hostage in the bag to stay safe as they kept on their journey towards the darkness origin. He needed to stop this deadly reaping before it got worse.

The journey continued, Roman both got more determined and more angry as they kept on their journey. There was no way of time telling at the moment, but roman grew tired, they couldn’t rest anywhere though because no area was safe from the darkness beasts, no place was light enough other than home. Roman was about ready to waste some time by flying west to the mountain crest to sleep in a closed cave, when he noticed a light in the near distance. “Maleficent, that way” he called out loudly, cloak hood blowing off as the winds grew stronger towards the light.

Maleficent landed sloppily, exhausted from the journey, Roman instructed her to go sleep in the stable they saw a few minutes back, the wisp would shield her from darkness. Maleficent left, the wind assisting her journey this time. Roman crept close to the building the lantern light flickered inside of. An old log cabin, home of the witches of the Coven of the lone star. Roman peered inside quietly and stealthily and heard the witches cackle.

In a voice that sounded like orchids creepy echo sound when she read to Maple, a witch gleamed “They’ll be running to us for a cure in no time”

“Too bad they’ll never get it” another cackled, laughing loudly.

“Takes a white stags antler to cut this darkness” they all cackled and Roman smirked, he decided now was a good time to enter so he kicked down the front door for his own added drama he deemed necessary.

“witches, you’ve just spelled out your plan to the wrong prince!” He growled and pulled his sword out as the witches scrambled for their wands. Roman hated killing witches or anybody, but this had to be done or they’d do this again. He sliced at a witch, which happened to free her hands from her wicked body. She could no longer hold a wand, roman plunged the blood soaked sword into her chest.

“Night Night” he removed it once more and spun around and chopped another witches head off, the witch that was last flung a fire spell at him, which singed arm and caught his shirt on fire, without a second thought he removed it and began his attack on her, she attempted to push him into their cauldron, which he ended up just knocking over, spilling its watery contents on to the witch whom screamed in fright and agony as her feat dissolved and she fell into the puddle.

“Don’t mess with a Prince” Roman stressed every word as the witch died in front of him. Roman went outside and whistled for Maleficent, it took a moment for the white Pegasus to fly back to him, roman used a spark from his shirt that still was in flames to set the antler he hoisted from the bag on fire and threw it into the house. Roman watched as the flames spread from window to window, travelling to take the whole house as it’s meal. Roman took a deep breath as the house blew up after they moved away, the darkness shattering and falling away, every beast that sprung from it died in a melting, slithering mess and the winds halted to their usual light breezes. It would take a while for the land to return to its natural state, but they could wait. Roman took his journey home at Maleficent’s speed. Which so happened to be, as fast at Pegasusly possible.

He was welcomed to a party and an overjoyed family, Roman had did it, he had saved the world. He proceeded to quests and adventures as often as they came. Maleficent was his steed, and the sunset was their favourite direction.