Iniblia

By Lemon Slices

• January 20, 2016

Age: 15

Gender: Female

Species: Earth Pony

Appearance: Light gray coat, fluorescent vivid blue eyes with great detail in irises, dark mane often covered under a dark blue hood, and soft leather horseshoes.

Cutie Mark: A dark blue whirlwind, meaning the ability of being light and deadly at the same time.

Personality: A mixture of an elder soul with a bit of a deceiver mind. In other words, she already had seen everything in her life, and that's why she seems slightly indifferent to things around her; However, she can get notably surprised when something of her plans goes wrong.

Backstory: Iniblia born in Glyan, a hidden village, near the Everfree Forest. She grew with her only family, her older brother, a sorcerer, which life was dedicated to studying the hidden force that unicorns used to manipulate energy and matter, magic. What nopony did know was the fact that an army of changelings was approaching from inside the forest.<br /><br />The changeling army invaded Glyan, draining love and affection from the villagers. As they were starving for days, some cases of draining were so severe that some Glyaners were unable from feeling love again. One of the victims were Iniblia's brother, who managed to fight back and take his sister to a safe place. The last words she heard from him were: "I am no longer... Able... To help you anymore. I feel very sick. Something happened with my mind... I am going away. But don't worry. I believe in you. You will find me someday... Bye."<br /><br />Of course, she wouldn't let fate steal the only remaining pony of her family in that way. She went away from the safe place to try to get him, but she got surrounded and suffered heavy mind abuse. Minutes later, that seemed to last hours, they finished their meal. She wanted to scream and hurt herself, to cover the pain inside her soul. However, the only thing left for her to do was just to watch, laying on the ground, the ponies that used to be her friends, losing their feelings.<br /><br />Then Iniblia realized they could get back and try to dry her mind out again, so she did her best to get up and flee unnoticed.<br /><br />She tried to live her life out of the picture, in Equestria's borders, seeking for her brother. However, it seemed that she would never find him. Then she had the idea of going back to the village she spent her innocence in, Glyan. And it looked like the forest had invaded the now ghost town. Looking for anypony there, Iniblia entered the temple which the sorcerers used to live and study inside. Unsurprisingly, there weren't anypony.<br /><br />There were ten chests, each one with the belongings of the sorcerers. One of them was names with the name of her brother. She opened, and found several scrolls with valuable information about the magic force. It said: "The best method of strengthening the soul is by strengthening the mind. Magic comes with concentration, and can be done by anypony, however unicorns just have a stronger biological set for canalizing and loading this force".<br /><br />With months of training, Iniblia managed to lift objects with her mind, but spells were just impossible. With nothing left to learn with the scrolls, she burned them and went to the Everfree to train survivability. And she found something very surprising: A cottage, in the middle of the woods! "This must have been abandoned", she thought, getting in. The cottage was smelling old, and was almost empty, aside from some fresh fruits on a table. "What?" She asked to herself at the moment when she heard footsteps behind her.<br /><br />It was a strange mixture of creatures. A fox, with a pony. The fox-unicorn, staring deep at her eyes, made a question: "What brought you here?" as she answered: "I am just passing by. By the way, have you seen somepony around?"<br /><br />The fox smiled and told her that she was the only one making sounds in the forest minutes ago, and that he haven't seen anypony for a long time. After staying the night there, Iniblia said she needed to go, but the fox told her that the forest is dangerous to a pony who isn't accostumed to the life of stealth and stalking. He was willing to teach her about being silent. After thinking twice, she accepted.<br /><br />The fox-unicorn knew an interesting spell: Invisibility. As she didn't have a horn to perform spells, he at least taught her about an alternative: Melding soul. The point was about forcing her soul to temporarily meld with the environment, improving vision and making to normal pony eyes difficult to spot her. With some lessons, she graduated herself by completing a hard task: Trying to escape the forest unnoticed by that fox.<br /><br />Now, she is running in Equestria after the one who believed that would see her again, and as well, after the ones that almost broken her mind.