The Darkness of Humans

Chapters

Making Plans
The Arrival
Waking to the World

Making Plans

A/N: Any speech text between \ is being spoken in Equestrian language.

Equestria, Canterlot
17 of April, 1038 A.L.B., 14:30 P.M.

"\FALL BACK\" A pony clad in a scorched golden armour yelled, trying to project his voice over the roars of the battle. "\Team Harmony has been pushed back, get your flanks unto the carriages!\" Passing him, waves of different species passed the pony, reigning from griffins, to ponies, to diamond dogs and even dragons. All showing signs of being in a recent battle.

"Don't let them escape; our Lord will not take weakness as an answer." A being, who wore a set of onyx steel plated armor, screamed his voice, calling his allies. All of whom seem to walk on two legs like a minotaur, only they lacked the lower body of a bull and the horns.

One of the beings charged at a fleeing diamond dog, thrusting its sword through its neck. The poor creature, choking on his own blood as the blade was pulled back, making the now limp body to fall to the ground. "HAHAHA, Yes, flee you cowards, no one can match the army of the Dark Void." The overconfident over their power, that he didn't have time to register as a blue blur descended and decapitated his head. Its face frozen in one of shock as the blood pours out.

"\Ha, stupid humans. They always get too cocky when fighting. Only good thing of that, is for you getting killed.\" A pegasus pony with a prismatic mane passed through the crowd of humans, her cyan coat partially cover with her armour and blood, on her flank she had engraved a cloud with a rainbow lightning bolt, slicing any human that got too closed to her wing blades, she manage to bring down half a dozen in a few seconds. "\Hey Rares, how you holding up there?\"

Across the field, a pearl white unicorn was bringing back a bow with an arrow; her royal purple mane styled in such a way that it described the mare as very sophisticated; on her flank she wore a set of three sky blue diamond shape gems. The mare wore elegant, yet sturdy armour which appear to be made of some kind of leather material, with a large quiver where arrows sat at the waiting for them to be used.

Aiming the weapon at a human who was about to bring down an axe onto a griffin. Releasing her hold the arrow raced through the air before implanting itself on a small opening on the neck armour of the human, the griffin took the opportunity to bring its razor sharp talons unto the human's chest, pricing through the armour and cutting the human's flesh and guts.

"\Apart that our plan to defeat the Dark Lord failed, I say I'm doing splendid darling.\" The mare looked to one side and spotted a group of three humans, charging towards her at full speed, swords stained with the blood of its last victims staining the blade. "\Well I never, three brutes against moi? Must be their death wish to fall by my hoof.\"

Taking one of the arrows from the quiver, the mare took a small red gem out of a pouch that she wore. Placing the gem into a small slot on the tip of the arrow, before placing it on her bow, bring it back and aiming the weapon at the charging humans. "\How touching.\" She let go of the arrow for it to sail through the field before impacting with the human on the middle of the group.

The moment the arrow made contact, there was an explosion of fire that enveloped all of them, walking out the humans were on fire, desperately trying to put the flames out. All for nought as the flames consumed them, their bodies falling to the ground, the air filling with the smell of burning flesh. “\Ugh, 10 years of me doing the same routine with this humans, and still can’t stand the atrocious smell.\”

During the mares little rant, an arm from a human landed on top of her, earning a high shriek as the mare was caught by surprise. “\APPLEJACK! Don’t you have any respect? You know how much I detest having to clean the blood from my majestic coat.\”

“\Oh can it Rarity, we are at war and all ya are worry ‘bout is getting a little dirty.\” A orange pony with a blonde mane replied, her mane tied up into a short ponytail, having to shorten it due to her wearing a very bulky armour, covering most of her body, but still allowing quick manoeuvrability, her flank sporting three red apples.

“\I’ll have you know, my coat is white and you have no idea what a nightmare is to remove th- Behind you!\” In a flash, the orange mare flipped around just in time to parry a sword from a human who managed to sneak behind her. The human was twice the size of her and his sword was as big as the pony.

“Surrender in the name of our Lord, or forever burn in Tartarus.” The human threaten the mare, pushing his sword down as to crush the pony.

“Now ya see. We no surrender. We fight fer country. So ya burn in Tartarus.” The mare’s human speech wasn’t that good, but it was good enough to get her message across. With one mighty push she made the human to stumble back a bit. Before he could recover, the mare dashed forward, swinging the sword to the legs, cleaving the right one clean off.

“ARRGH, You little piece of shit. You will regret doing that.” Using as much Strength as he could, the human flung himself to the still body of the mare, just metres before striking the mare. Only for him to feel a cut in his body, then another and another.

“You. Done” After saying that, the human body burst blood from multiple cuts that appeared across his body, the metal from his armour cut open like it was butter. “\Boy, the varmint nearly got me back there, good thing that they are so predictable.\”

********

On the rooftops, a silhouette could be barely seen, hiding its shape by a black cloak and using the smoke of the battle to further hide itself. “You are mine now, Orange Titan.” Positioning a crossbow unto the railing of the roof, the female human aimed the weapon towards the Orange mare, which had just defeated one of their allies Juggernauts. “Once I take you out, my Lord will grant me power and I’ll prove that I’m the best of our warriors.” Inching her finger closer to the trigger of the crossbow, the woman took controlled breaths, aiming the arrow carefully between the mare’s eyes.

All of a sudden, something pass right over her, she heard the sound of metal cutting through something hard. In just a second, her crossbow split in half, the arrow never having time to been released as it just disappeared from its place. “What?!”

She then felt as something thin and sharp stab her in her back, electing a cry from her. Reaching back she removed the offensive object, only to find out it was her own arrow that was about to be used on the orange mare. “H-how-?” She couldn’t say anything else as a limb wrapped around her mouth, impeding her from screaming in shock, just for her to silence her as cold metal rested on her neck.

“You try hurt friend?” There was a soft voice that was painted with acid, in a swift move; the assaulter sliced the woman's throat open. Now with her scared for her life as she tried to stop the flow of blood from seeping through the new opening on her neck. Just before her senses could stop working, she managed to sneak a glimpse of her killer.

A canary yellow pegasus stood behind her, her long pink mane tied into a long ponytail slipped in front of her. She wore barely anything for protection, only having some hoof-wrists and a small harness on her chest that hold a set of daggers and some vials of different colours. Her flank showed a trio of butterflies, which seemed to be stained with blood at the moment.

That is all the woman could see before the darkness overtook her. Falling to the ground now dead, the blood from her throat making a large pool under her body. “Then deserve dead.” The mare spoke softly, a bit of remorse in her voice as she took yet another life. No matter if it was for the better of her kingdom or her love ones; she still fined it hard to accept the fact that she killed a living thing.

********

“\Dang it, wha’ is taking Twi so long? Anypony know wha’ she was lookin’ for?\” The orange mare shouted, trying to make her voice hear as she kept at bay three Juggernaut humans.

A little ways from there, a group of humans were running desperately, shouting as they went. “Run! The Pink Demon is coming, she-” The poor individual didn’t manage to finish what he was saying, as a large hammer head smash him from the side, sending him and a few others of the fleeing humans to a wall.

“\Come on guys, it’s no fun if I always win at tag. I know, I’ll close my eyes, so you can have it easy to get away.\” A pink mare with a bouncy step and mane yelled out with glee. She wore a sort of jester style armour, the metal varying between golden and silver, with a few gems encrusted on the metal, given a shine when the light hit them, carrying on her hooves was a large hammer, which had a colour scheme of a candy cane..

One of the braver humans who wore a lighter set of armour, in counter of the normal attired of his allies, stepped forward towards the mare, taking its change to kill it by surprise when she couldn’t see. When he stood but mere metres, he leapt at her, swinging his set of twin swords for her head.

Only for her to duck at the last second, the blades passing right over and making the human lose his balance as he didn’t expect for the pony to dodge the attack. He managed to recover quickly by rolling in the ground, quickly dashing for her again, only for her to move to the side, missing once again.

Frustrated with his failed attempts, he jumps to the air ready to strike her down. The mare didn’t move this time, and he was sure that he had her this time. Until he saw her take out a small ball from a pouch and smash it into the ground. The area was quickly surrounded in a thick smoke and engulfed the mare and the humans near it.

“\Let’s play hide and seek now. I’m sure you’ll do fine.\” Now with his vision affected, he struggles to find this damn pony, looking at every part of the smoke. He heard the clatter of hooves from behind him, quickly swinging his blades back he managed to make contact with flesh, only to realise he had just hit another human.

“\Nope, that’s not me.\” Following the voice he dash towards it cutting through another of his allies. “\Come on silly billy, this game isn’t hard, here I’ll show you\” The man couldn’t understand a word this pony was saying, so he thought it was a taunt to him. “Show yourself, only a coward will hide to avo-” He stopped, feeling something pressed against his back, reaching for it he brought a small black ball that had a rope which was sparking, just reaching the ball. “Oh fuc-” BOOM!

The explosion cleared out the smoke, revealing a large scorch mark on the floor and several limbs hanging around it, as well as the cleaved bodies of the other humans. “\Awwww, leaving so soon, well it was fun while it lasted.” The mare simply hopped away, swinging her hammer side to side, swatting away any human that may come across.

“\Pinkie, for the last bucking time, this is a war, not some party game. Why can’t you get it through that head of yours?\” The blue pegasus landed next to her pink friend, giving her an even stare.

Pinkie, as that was her name; just continue smiling, even on such a grim circumstance. “\Oh lighten up Dashie, I know we are in a war, I just want to make it super duper extra fun to be in it.\” She said as she continued avoiding attacks from multiple enemies.

“\Just le’ her to her antics Dash, she still get the job done.\” Applejack said, pushing back another human trying to bring her down. “\All ah care abou’ is gettin’ out of here alive. Where the hay is Twilight?\”

As if in response, a window from one of the high towers shattered, the shape of a robed equine could be seen falling out of the window. The figure flipped right in mid air, righting itself up before landing on its hooves, scattering dust from the ground.

The pony was a lavender unicorn mare; her purple mane was kept in a uniform shape, two stripes of distinct colour standed out from the rest of the mane. A large star with five smaller ones surrounding it as a cutie mark could be seen as the robe that she wore move with the wind.

“\Twilight. What happened to you, why did you jump out of a window?\” The yellow pegasus from the rooftops descended out from the air, landing next to her friend. “\Your hurt, what happened?\” She asked with concern in her voice, as she reached for a vial that she had on her, offering it to the lavender mare.

Taking the concoction, the mare stared up to the now open window. “\I had to do something involving him.\” All of the present individuals looked towards she pointed, looking at a shape in the window.

“\I’m impress Miss Sparkle, you lasted two minutes longer than our last encounter. A shame that you still can’t so much as touch me.\” The figure from the window spoke, electing glaring looks from the mares below.

“\Silence you despicable being\” Rarity shouted as she fired three of her arrows towards the figure. Only for the arrows to stop when the figure raised a hand in front of him, a gray aura enveloping them.

“\Tsk tsk tsk, now miss Rarity, I though you would have learned by now.\” The arrows started to turn around as they gained a deep glow, with a wave of the figures hand, the arrows were sent flying, passing over the heads of the mares.

The projectiles flew through the air, cutting the air as they pass, before embedding themselves into one of the carriages that was stationed for the retreating troops. A few seconds pass before the glow in the arrows intensified and then released the power all at once in one explosion.

The explosion was large enough that it took about half a dozen of the carriages, the poor souls that had been inside them didn’t have time to scream in pain or terror, as the explosion tore through them quicker than the eye could see.

“\You monster. You will pay for all the lives you have ruined.\” Fluttershy shouted, flaring her wings out ready to take off, only for a lavender hoof to stop her. “\We can’t fight him right now Shy, we need to retreat now.\”

“\Oh, don’t worry about that, you aren’t going anywhere.\” The figured started to climb out of the window, the gray aura was surrounding the base of his boots as he started to walk down in the air, like an invisible stairwell was present for him.

“\Girls, to the carriage, now!\” Twilight shouted, before her horn started to glow, weapons all around her started to float into the air, and as one entity they flew straight for the descending human.

“\Please.\” He reached for his belt, bringing forth a onyx blade that had a glow of its own, he stopped an axe that was heading towards his head before breaking it in half, the weapon feel to the ground as if it had just lost its life. “\Simple incantations spells won't stop me.\”

“\Maybe, but it will slow you down enough for us to escape.\” With that, she turned around and started to gallop towards one of the awaiting carriages.

“\hmm, we’ll see.\ Archmages, stop them.” Upon those words, three figures in robes jumped out of the window, they approached the ground rather quickly as they were enveloped in a white aura. Upon impact with the ground, they created a shield that absorbed fall, landing safely.

“You heard the Master, get them.” The human in the middle of the group said before creating a dark portal in front of him, walking through, he vanished in thin air, the portal closing behind him. The other two Archmage did the same, disappearing through their own portals, leaving their Master to finish off the bothersome weapons.

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Screams could be heard everywhere, either being from a doomed equestrian, or from a human who was too confident of himself. In the field, a group of ponies could be seen running, going towards the rescue zone, where carriages sat waiting for taking as many soldiers away from this battle.

“\Twilight, just wha’ the hay wer’ you lookin’ fer in there, that ya caught the Dark Lord’s attention?\” applejack huff as she ran ahead of the group, taking down any human that may get in their way. “\I’ll tell you when we get out of here, but right now we need to get all our troops out of here and-\” She stopped there, feeling something with the ley lines in the air.

“\What is the problem Twilight?\” Rainbow Dash asked her friend, as she swooped down onto some humans to let a group of griffins and dragons get away. “\Archmages!\” She leaped to one side, just avoiding a fist that had flames surround it.

The rest of twilight’s friends stopped in their tracks, seeing three figures start to walk out of dark portals, their robes covered most of their faces, hiding any features that they may had. “\You guys again. I swear, if I have to deal with more of you sinners in the magic arts, I may just explode of annoyance.\” twilight said as she lowered her stance, horn at the ready.

“In the name of our master, we asked of you to surrender.” The archmage in the middle spoke, before calling forth a fireball into the palm of his hand, the light illuminating the hidden features of his face, showing a bandage tied around his eyes. “Or die an agonizing death.”

“\We’ll never surrender to the likes of you\” Rainbow Dash said as she sailed through the air, aiming for one of the side archmages. But was stopped when she hit a barrier that had formed around them. “Death it is then.” The middle archmage threw the fireball, aiming to the middle of the group.

“\I got this.\” Pinkie exclaimed as she went to the front of the group, standing on two legs, she raised her hammer and stood in a batting stance. “\swing batter batter swing batter batter SWING!\” Upon the fireball reaching to them, Pinkie Pie had managed to swing her hammer, hitting the projectile back to the sender.

The archmage was covered in flames from head to toe, but didn’t ran in pain. The flames started to die down, revealing an uninjured human, the having eating through the ropes, only leaving a human with some regal wear, the blindfold also having been burned on the fire, revealing pupiless.

“\Ugh. That always makes me feel uncomfortable.\” Rarity looked away, perturbed by the sight of the pupiless human. “There is no escape to your fate. Surrender and our master.” He turned around and took hold of an invisible being that stood behind him, the magic from it beginning to vanish to reveal the yellow pegasus, holding a blade on one hoof. “May give you a painless death.”

“\Stay away from her!\” A new voice rang out as something passed right through the robeless archmage, splitting him in two. The remaining two face towards the new attacker, the dust of the battlefield obscuring the view of anyone, except for the archmages, who used the magic aura of all living things to see.

The humans could see the shape of a unicorn; its magic was being projected towards a thin object that levitated in the air. “\If you dare to lay a single of your disgusting hands on her, I will make every second of your death, slow and painful.\” The dust started to slowly set, revealing a brown unicorn with a spiky black mane.

“\General Cinnamon! It’s good to see you sir.\” Twilight said with a bit of joy, keeping herself fixed on the remaining archmages. “\Not now Miss Sparkle. I need to get you lot out of here, everyone else has already left the battle, and we are soon to be overwhelm.\” He lowered himself into a fighting stance, ready to lounge at the enemy. “\I’ll buy you some time, you get to the last carriage and I’ll catch up with you.\”

“\But Cinna-\” Fluttershy looked towards the brown stallion with worry on her eyes. “\Don’t worry about me Shy, I’ll be fine.\”

“\You heard him Shy, let’s get out of here, before is too late.\” Rainbow Dash said as she started to fly towards the landing zone. In no time, the group had left the area, the brown stallion facing the two humans who stood in his path to join them. “\Lets make this quick, he launched himself forwards, towards the two humans who had summoned barriers in front of them.

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“\How much longer do we need to stay here? The humans are starting to get the upper hand.\” An armoured pegasus asked to his companion as they defended their position against hordes of humans, trying to kill them. “\General Cinnamon said just a few minutes, if he wasn’t back by then, then we should leave.\” replied his companion griffon.

One of the humans managed to jump across their heads, landing right behind the two. “Die you puny creatures.” It was about to strike until a Pink blur smashed right on top of him. “\Nope, denied.\” Pinkie Pie jumped off the corpse, the two guards surprised to see her there.

“\Get to the carriage, now!\” Came the voice of Rainbow Dash, making a path through the humans for her friends to follow. The guards did as instructed and put themselves on the drivers section, strapping themselves to it.

“\Wait, where is Cinnamon?\” Fluttershy asked scared. Looking the way they came, she couldn’t spot the brown unicorn. “\Fluttershy, we have to go. He can get himself out of this, he-\” Twilight stopped, seeing as a multitude of the humans were being sent across by an unseen force.

In a second a figure burst out of the sea of bipedal creatures, breathing hard after the hard task of fighting through so many forces. “\Here? Well that was convenient.\” The brown unicorn looked to the group in front of him with worry and despair. “\You need to get out of here right now!\”

“\What is it now? What’s the problem?\” Fluttershy came down next to the unicorn, concern clearly on her face. “That would be me” Came a familiar voice from the crowd of humans.

All of the equestrian turn towards the voice, standing right there was the human from before, the one who was leader of this group of humans. “\The Dark Lord?\” One of the guards said in shock, never expecting to see the supposed leader of the humans in person.

“\I’m afraid that all of you won’t be getting out of here. So I’ll say this once, bow before me or I’ll have to kill you all. I can be merciful.\” He reached for his onyx sword, the blade glinting from the light that came from fires all around. “Sometimes.”

He took a step towards the lands natives, but had to stop in defence as a brown blur slammed a blade into his own one. “\All of you, out of here now. I’ll hold him off.\”

“\No, we lost too many today, we are not leaving without you.\” Fluttershy started to approach the fight, but was forced back by the unicorn’s magic. “\That is an order, now get out of here, Equestria still needs you to fight this war.\”

“\But-?\” She was grabbed by her friend Rainbow, pulling her towards the carriage. “\We have to go now Shy, he is right and you know it.\” weighting her option the yellow mare boarded the carriage, with soon everyone else following. “\GO!\” With that the guards started pulling the heavy carriage, flapping their wings to make it lift off the ground.

“\Go, and don’t turn back.\” The brown unicorn said in a small whisper, seeing the carriage speed away from the battlefield. He was brought back to reality as a knee hit him in the gut, emptying his lungs, before being punched in the face and sent skidding on the ground.

“\So only one remained. Tell me, is it really worth it to die in vain? When soon all of them will die?\” The human chuckled to himself, seeing the unicorn start to stand up.

As he rose up, he noticed a small glim coming from the ground. Upon closer look, he saw that it was a small locket, inside a picture of a young yellow pegasus and a brown unicorn, petting the pink mane of the filly.

“\Sorry Shy, guess I won’t be able to keep that promise.\” He spoke in a slow whisper, picking up the locket with his magic and placing it around his neck. “\But I won’t go down without a fight.\” He took hold of his sword, channelling as much magic on his blade as he could muster.

“\So desperate to die? Very well then, I’ll make it quick for you.\” The Dark spun his sword on his dexterous fingers, each time a black aura forming around the edge of the blade, the wind that it created enough to reveal his face, blue eyes that faintly glow and a blonde hair that covered part of his eyes. “\Any last words?\”

“\Yes.\” He lowered his stance ready to charge him. “\I hope you get a new army\” With that he rocket forth, striking hard against the Dark Lord’s dark blade. Upon impact the energies trapped inside each blade exploded, enveloping a large area around them, destroying anything in its path, this being the buildings and the other humans that had remained to watch the battle unfold.

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Up in the air, the passengers of a carriage being pulled by a pegasus and griffin could see the explosion from where they were. “\Brother, NOOOO!!!\” The pegasus screamed in horror at seeing the large ball of fire.

She spread her wings, ready to take off and go back to the battlefield. Only for her friends to hold her down and she struggled against their hold. “\Fluttershy stop, you can’t do anything.\” Rainbow Dash said, pushing the mare back into the carriage.

“\No, I gotta save him, he needs me.\” She tried to push through, nearly succeeding only for her to be surrounded on a magenta glow. “\Shy, you can’t do anything, he’s gone.\” She said bluntly, hoping to bring some sense into her friend.

“\N-no, he can’t be, he is all the family I have left, he can’t be gone, he-he-\” She couldn’t hold it anymore, her last family member, her brother, her guardian...gone. She curls herself into a ball, letting the tears flow as she came to face the truth.

“\Ahm sorry sugarcube, but ther’ wasn’ anythin’ we coul’ do.\” Her friend Applejack placed a comforting hoof on the crying mare’s shoulder, trying to ease her grief. “Don’t worry Shy; we’ll make him pay soon.\”

“/And how the hay are we supposed to do that?\” Rainbow dash flew in front of her lavender friend, giving her a glare You saw us tried to take him on, and didn’t even close to touching him. Just how are we gonna defeat him?\” This draw the attention of the rest of the group, some murmuring about that there may not be hope.

“\Because we are taking the battle to our grounds.\” She replied calmly, not faced by her friends statement.

“\How exactly are we doing that?\”

Twilight reached into her coat, taking out a small vial that had a forelock of blonde hair. “\By bringing him into our base, alone.\”

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On the ground, the Dark Lord watched as the carriage speed away. He could have easily brought down the cart with its passengers, but he saw it as a waste of time. Plus he could use what they had to his advantage.

“Master, are you ok? We saw the explosion from the castle.” A foot soldier came running to his master’s aid, behind him came a group of archmages healing spells at the ready to save any of their fallen compatriots.

“I am fine Arthur. Just a small tussle with one of the inferior creatures.” He eyed his coat, which had been slightly burn in the conflict. “But my wears didn’t fare so well.”

“Master, shall we pursue them?” The foot soldier looked towards where his master was looking at. “No, leave them be. No need to waste any more man power.” He turned around, started to walk back towards his fortress, walking on top of any body that may piled the floor.

He was grinning as he formulated his plan, to bring this land to destruction for his kind to rise, as the true rulers that they are. “Soon, we will be more powerful than ever, and nothing will stop us

The Arrival

Earth, Orlando
13 of June, 2023 A.D., 7:42 P.M.

“Urrrgh, what a day.” I said as I walked through my small apartment. I had just arrived from working at the Air Base. I had to adjust the engines of thirteen F-22 Raptors, deliver the parts and ammo between different storages one mile apart from each other all day and I had to do a weapon maintenance of the whole base storage.

I still didn’t get why the US Military needed to supply SCAR-H, TYPE 25, SMR, XPR-50, DSR 50 and the lot. I mean, we looked like we were going to the front line there, I would have set for the old model G-36 as the main source of weaponary, those things were badass just by their looks. For God’s sake, we even had Launchers in the storages! just what is the Government thinking?!

Either way, I had spent like twelve hours at the base, doing non-stop hard work. I barely even got a half an hour lunch, which my comrades decided to mess it up by putting chilly on my food, I hate spicy food. And to top it all up, I have to make a two hour drive, and endure the agonizing trek between my home and work, twice.

So now I was finally home, all I wanted to do was throw myself into bed and let my frustration go. But unfortunately I still needed to do my chores around my home. The plates from past days piled up in the sink, starting to attract flies as they flew around. The living room was a mess with pizza boxes and beer bottles lying around. And don’t get me started on the bathroom! I really needed a housekeeper for when I’m out at work.

Dragging myself to the living room, I started to notice there was a small breeze which felt rather...weird. “I could have sworn I closed the door.” I turned around going back the way a came and check the door. Once in the hallway I could see the door was shut, the locks secured to stop anyone from getting entry to your home.

Deciding that it must be something of no importance I decided to head back to the living room. Once I turned the corner, I noticed something that made me stop in my tracks. In the middle of the room, I could see a tiny speck of light which floated at about three foot of the ground. The light wasn’t bigger than a pea, and upon closer examination I could spot small flecks of purple coming from the small orb.

“Well that’s something you don’t see every day.” I said to myself as I approached the ball, hoping to gain a better understanding of what it was by examining from up close. I was in front of the small orb, still just floating in the air, like waiting for something. This was really bizarre, I had seen very weird stuff from my work and from the internet, and there is nothing weirder than the internet. The curious side of me was really intrigued as to what this object could be, raising a hand slowly, I brought my finger just about to touch the thing. Big mistake.

As soon as I touched the light, I purple lighting shot out from it, hitting my sofa and making it catch fire. Now totally scared I started backing away from the now, possible-light-of-death as it started to get more agitated by the moment. Another shot of lighting came out from the orb and ziged past my head to strike the wall behind me, somehow making it catch fire aswell.

“The fuck is this shit?! I’m out of here.” I exclaimed in panic as I started running for the archway that leaded to the hallway, out of this madness.

Another bolt of lightning came out and hit the ground, making a beeline acroos the floor and setting it on fire as it passed. Soon it cut me off from my way out, as the fire started to spread across the room, the smoke starting to cloud my vision and making it hard to breath.

“Fuck, how am I suppose to get out of here?” I suddenly remember about an emergency fire extinguisher that I had at my kitchen. Knowing what to do now, I started running towards the kitchen entrance, my only hope of making it out of here alive in there.

But fate saw differently, another lighting burst out from the orb, heading towards me. But instead of hitting me, it wrapped around my arm like some kind of lasso. The another one came out and rapped around my neck, strangling me in the process. I could feel it pulling me, dragging me through my apartment floor towards the light orb.

“Oh no you don’t, I’m getting the hell out of here.” I started pulling against the pulling, taking a small step forward. But I then felt an electric surge go through my body, making my muscles spasm as they went mad. Once the surge stopped I tried again to move away from the orb, the glowing rope of energy strangling even more as I did so.

I felt another of the lighting ropes wrap around my leg, making me fall as I lost my footing. I hit my head against the floor hard, making my vision to go blurry. I could barely move, the hit to my head making it hard to think clearly, plus the lack of air in my lungs was proving to be a disadvantage.

Trying to look back, I saw as the orb started growing in size, expanding enough until it was big enough to fit me whole inside it, if I got inside and survived that is. I tried to struggle out from the hold, using my free hand to crawl as I was too weak from being electrocuted to use the one held by the glowing rope.

It was in vain, as I watched my foot start to sink inside the sphere of light. I felt a small tingle as I started to pass through it, I was scared of what would happen to me, but something told me that I would be fine. And now considering the burning apartment that would cook me until I was a human BBQ, I’ll take the chance to live from being taken by a giant sphere of light, that can electrocute you. I don’t know if I was being optimistic or I had just lost my mind by thinking of that statement. I’ll take the former.

As my head passed through the light, I realized that I could still see the apartment, even if the view was a bit tinted by pink. Looking at what my home used to be, I watched as the fire extended around, now sealing the way through the kitchen as the flame ate the wood structures. Now I was glad I didn’t run to the kitchen, I doubt I could have escaped in time if I had.

The wind around me started to pick up, swirling around me as it pushed my blonde hair around it. There were small bolts of lightning coming from the floor and the inside of the orb itself, each one hitting me and making energy surge through my body, making my muscles spasm in confusion from the electricity.

The light around me intensified, making it hard for me to see around me or at my own hands. It continued increasing until there was nothing but the blinding light, and then, blackness.

10 minutes ago

Equestria, The griffin Kingdom
17 of April, 1038 A.L.B., 7:32 P.M.

“\Repeat to me again, just what exactly are you doing Twilight?\” Rainbow Dash said as she rubbed her head, trying to rap her head around her friends explanation.

“\Like I said before, by altering the flow pattern of the ambient ley lines, I can connect two parts of the same entity to bring them into one location, allowing me to transfer a living being from anywhere in the world to the area where I cast the spell.\” She responded back without taking her eyes on her work, making sure every aspect and set up for the spell was perfect.

“\Sugarcube, Ah think she is askin’ for ye to say it in normal words.\” Her friend applejack said as she was also trying to understand what her friend meant. “\Or equestrian, to put it simply.\”

Twilight momentarily took a look to her friends, seeing all of their confused expressions. “\Oh sorry girls, I tend to overanalyze things when I’m focused on something.\” She turn around again, going back to setting up the required symbols and gear that was needed. “\Anyways, what I’m saying is that by using this spell I can transport somepony from anywhere, as long as I have a large enough piece of their persona.\” she stopped there, looking at the nearly complete preparations.

“\Well, I gotta say darling. That spell will prove quite useful in the future if we need a quick retreat.\”

“\It’s not that simple Rarity, The spell itself needs a specific set up to work, and it only works for one pony at the time. Plus it drains a lot of the caster’s magic when its used.\” Twilight said to her friend, just finishing the last piece of the pentagram.

“\So how does it work Twilight? do you send an invitation to the pony and if they accept they get teleported?\” The pink mare was jumping around, excited like a little girl on a candy store.

“\No Pinkie, this spell will form a connection with whoever I have a sample from. The spell normally would work like any other teleportation spell, but because I’m trying to force another person to get transported her, I’m gonna have to physically drag him to where the spell will take place.\”

“\Wait, I though you just said that this would teleport the flankhole here without a problem, now you’re saying that you need to kick his flank? Not that I’m complaining though.\” Rainbow said as a small smirk appeared on her face.

“\I never said that I could teleport him that easy, just that I may be able to. Because of this, I need to weaken him first, knowing him, he will try to break free the instant he knows he is being attacked.\”

reaching for a pouch in her vest, ahe took out a vial with a forelock of blonde hair. “\I only got enough for one spell. So we need to make this count, for all Equestria.\” She looked back, spotting a lone yellow pegasus resting by a wall, looking at a small locket. “\Shy, you ok?\”

She immediately closed the locket in her hoof, putting it away in her mane as she turn around to face her friends. “\I’ll be fine, I just need to time to take it in.\” She tried to give a small smile, trying not to worry her friends.

“\Ok then, all is set and ready to go. Remember, once he is through you need to put the magik drain cuffs. We cannot take any chances with him.\” She waited for all of her friend to acknowledge her, before going to the centre of the pentagram. Opening the vial and placing the hair in the middle she walked back to the edge of the pentagram.

She took a deep breath, preparing herself for what she knew was one of her most complicated spells. “\alright, here goes.\” Her horn started glowing, the traced lines on the floor glowing with the same shine as her horn.

The purple lines raced across the floor, reaching the middle in seconds. The magic starte to reach out towards the blonde hair in the middle, upon contact the hair caught in purple fire, but it didn’t burn away, rather it just remained the same, before starting to rise off the ground.

The flame started to shrink down, wrapping around the hair like a dressing cloak, enveloping in its radiance and warmth. it kept on shrink until it was nearly the size of an apple, where it remained motionless floating in the air.

\”Ok, now to make the connection.”/ She closed her eyes in concentration, following the ley lines in here head as she went to connect the two parts of the same being. She could see as the lines traveled across with great speed, she couldn’t see the world around her, but she could feel as she passed through the land.

\”This is incredible, I can feel everything around me, yet I can’t see them. It’s so facinating, I gotta-”* She was cut abruptly as her mind hit some kind of mental wall, cutting her connection with the spell for a moment, but managed to reconnect with it before it could fade away. *”\What was that? I’m sure I was following the spell’s calculations to the letter. I better make this quick in case it happens again.\”

She concentrated back to the task at hoof, trying to make the connection with her target. She started analysing what was supposedly around her, as she lacked the ability to see in this state. she could feel the presence of the Dark Lord near her, but for some reason she couldn’t place him at all.”\The coward must be hiding his aura, I guess he felt the spell magic before it reached him, that would explain the little mental bump back there.\”

She froze as she felt something press against the back of her mind, analysing what this was, she discovered the presence of her target right behind her mental vision. ”\I got you now.\” She smirked as he mentally turned around and launched a binding spell, in the hopes to trap him and teleport him before he could try and escape.

Her magic shot out but only felt it smash against some surface that was around, now she was worried, seeing as she may lose the chance to finally capture this monster and bring it to justice. ”\Come on Twilight, think, how can you find him if he is hiding his aura from you?\” She ran the question in her head, trying to formulate a plan to help her out.

She quickly came up with a solution. “\I felt his presence before, if I can trace it down then maybe I can see him in this darkness.\” Now with a new plan on her head, she quickly started recalling the brief moment when she felt his presence, shuffling in her mind as she tried to find that needed mental note.

She saw in front of her a small spot of gray light, that quickly vanished from her view. ”\There.\” casting another binding spell in the general direction of where the speck of light appeared. Once again, her spell hit another surface in the room, making her now grunt annoyance.

Concentrating again, she managed to see the gray speck again, this time moving at a constant speed in one direction. Taking this as an act of fleeing, she cast another binding spell towards where she hoped she would meet the individual, dragging the spell in case he may try to avoid it by going under it.

Again she failed to hit her target, groan in frustration at her lack of success on what was suppose to be an easy task. She put every ounce of mind power and concentrated on that aura that belonged to her enemy. She started seeing the image, this time it made a rough shape of a human, which seemed to be running away from her. ”\I won’t lose you this time.\”

Twilight, determined to ending this launched two binding spells, making her chances even higher on completing the task. and luck was on her favour this time, as both spell hit and wrapped around her target, and judging from the movement and the position of where the spells were, she had caught one of the arms and the neck.

”\Now to reel you in.\” Twilight thought as she started pulling the magic ropes towards where she mentally was. But her target wasn’t gonna go down too easy, as she started feeling the rope being pulled the opposite way with even more strength that she had. Seeing this as a complication, she decided to give her little catch something to wear him down.

Focusing her magic through the ropes, she sent a surge of lighting energy, not enough to kill someone, but enough to make them live in a world of hurt. seeing as the ropes started to twitch like crazy in result of the human spasming around, she sent another of her binding spells, this time wrapping it around where the leg was, making the human fall to the spectral ground.

”\Well this is easier than I thought, but I shoudn’t get ahead of myself until I actually have teleport him to where we are.\” Reeling the body across the floor, she started to prepare the final step of completing the spell. ”\ok twilight, you can do this. It may put you in agony, but it’s worth it.\” When she was sure that her prize was inside the parametres for the teleportation spell, she started casting the final piece required to take the Dark Lord to them.

She focused on all the mathematical and arcane equations that were needed for the spell to work, one slip up and she could end up teleporting herself to Canterlot, transport the Dark Lord to some other location, or even switch minds between her and the human. She shudder at the though, not liking the idea of being on the horseshoes of somepony else, least of all her sworn enemy.

When the spell was near complete a though cross her mind, what if the Dark Lord tried and attack them as soon as she finished the spell. She would be too weak to try and hold the human in place and her friends may not react fast enough to deal with the threat. But she could maybe cast another of her lighting spells, the only problem was that it would affect her too at this stage in the spell.

Weighing her options, she decided to risk her own life over the other’s. concentrating on making a second spell, she focused on calling forth a lightning spell that would affect the area around her. As expected, she felt as shocking energy started to hit her multiple times, making her want to just scream in pain and just fall down to the ground.

But she kept going, determined to seeing this through. Clenching her teeth, she pour more magic into finishing the spell, while still keeping the lightning spell up. She could start feeling as her mind started to travel again, the darkness from before and the ley lines appearing again as her mind returned back to her body.

What she wasn’t prepared for, was for her brain to suffer from the wildest, and most violent migrane in her life. The pain she was feeling was so great that saying it was torture would be an understatement, with her brain now in a state of pure agonising pain, she fell to the inviting floor. But was stopped when a pair of yellow hoof caught her in mid fall, stopping her face from meeting the floor.

“\Twilight! Are you ok? say something!\” She could barely hear the voice of Fluttershy, as it was like she was talking even lowered than a whisper. Looking from the corner of her eye, she managed to see the shape of a cuffed human laying on the ground unmoving, it’s blonde hair all spiky from being electrocuted. At this, she let herself smile, knowing that their plan had worked. Before darkness overtook her, sending her into unconsciousness.

Waking to the World

Equestria, Griffing Kingdom

18 of April, 1038 A.L.B., 09:27 A.M.

Everything was dark for twilight, all he could see was darkness for miles ahead of her. She couldn’t feel anything as she focused all her attention to the area around her. But soon she could a small speck in the distance, a light that cut through the mist of darkness.

She soon started feeling her senses coming back to her, feeling the soft fabric underneath her as her body rested on top of it. She could smell the air as it had a sterile odour, she forced her eyes to open slowly, but closed them as light stung her eyes.

She tried again, allowing her eyes to adjust to the new level of light so she could see around her. As the world came into focus, she could see multiple beds with patience varying from ponies to griffins and diamond dogs.

She soon heard a beeping sound that came from her right, looking towards it, she found a heart monitor which was connected to her body, as she came aware of the presence of the attached equipment to her.

”\I’m in the hospital, guess the spell did a number on me.\” She tried to stand up on her bed, but regret it as she felt her body groan in unpleasant pain. She heard the sound of hoofs coming her way as she soon noticed a griffing with a doctor coat come to her.

“\I would recomend of avoiding any unnecessary movement. Test shows that you nervous and magik system suffered a great deal of electrical damage. But I’m glad to see you awake Miss Sparkle.\” The doctor gave a gentle smile as he flipped through his clipboard.

Relaxing on her bed, Twilight let out a sight. “\How long have I been out Doctor...?\”

“\Dr. Saw Bone. And according to our schedule, you have been out for 12 hours. Your friends are waiting outside if you wish to see them.\”

“\Yes, thank you.\” Nodding, the doctor walked away to the exit for the room. Soon afterwards, she saw as her friends came in through the door, plus a large dark blue alicorn, its mane waving in an invisible wind as the stars on it shined like the real stars. “\Princess Luna! What are you doing here?\”

“\She insisted to accompany us after all the hardship you have endure darling.\” Rarity told her friend as they stopped around twilight’s bed.

“\after I heard of your state, I feared that we have lost you. I’m glad that I was wrong in that matter.\” She then had a small frown as she looked at the lavender mare. “\But what you did was reckless, you should have asked the council about performing that spell, or even me. You could have died in the process.\”

Twilight’s friends looked surprised at this news, as they never thought as Twilight to do things without permission. “\Is she tellin’ da truth sugarcube?\”

Twilight looked down a bit in shame. “\I did, but I did it because I knew the council would never approve of the spells use. I know that the spell was still being worked on, but at the rate that it was progressing and how little progress we achieve against the Dark Void’s army, we wouldn’t have been able to get it done in time.\”

“\But even so, you should have brought this to the council’s attention. We would have consider your words and we amy had been better prepared if something went wrong.\” Luna said, as she placed a hoof onto Twilight’s shoulder.

Letting out a long sight, she looked to the mare’s eye. “\I know, but it was a chance I couldn’t take. After the last attempt I noticed how powerful the enemy has grown on numbers and strength. while we were losing so many of us.\” She then broke a small smile, as she recollected the events of last night. “\But at least we got the Dark Lord in custody. We can finally end this war.\”

“\Well, not before I have a go with him. He deserves a good painfull buck from me after all that he has done.\” Rainbow said as she let some steam out through her nostrils.

“\We all have the right to that Rainbow Dash. But we can’t just kill him like that, as much as he deserves it. We need him alive if we want to make his army surrender.\” Luna said as she had a frowned on her face, not liking how she needed to keep that monster alive.

Twilight looked down, remembering the day that all of this started. A new race had been discovered, but soon they attacked the capital of Equestria, taking them from themselves. And in the process, they took Princess Celestia out. Her mentor and friend was gone that day, leaving Equestria with only Luna as their ruler.

Even after all this years, it was still difficult getting over that fact, especially for Luna. Just having her sister killed by such heartless beings must really tore someone inside. Just like the recent lost for Fluttershy’s brother.

Upon thinking of her friend, she noticed that her yellow feathered friend was missing from the group, which seemed weird for her as she would always worry about her friends well being. “\I just noticed, where is Fluttershy?\”

Pinkie hopped up and down as she raised her hoof, just like a little filly. “\Oh, I know I know I know. Pick me, pick me pick m-\” Putting a hoof onto her friends mouth, Applejack let out a small groan as she really didn’t want to deal with her antics this early in the morning. “\Jus’ tell us Pinkie.\”

Letting go, Pinkie calmed down somewhat, as she started explaning. “\okey dokey lokey. So I was by the sweet shop, looking for my favourite treats. They had Cherry bombs, chocolate candies, sugar snaps, toffee twists, flapjacks, caramel swirls...\”

“\Pinkie.\”

“\And the banana fritters. But they didn’t have the bubblegum-mint-blueberry jawbreakers. And I was really sad, but then I had the idea of making my own at my workshop. But then I remember I ran out of blueberries...\”

“\Pinkie!\”

So I had to go all the way to the market place, and there were so many people there. I had to hop on their heads to get across, and some started calling me for something but I just ignored them and then I-\”

“\PINKIE!\” All of them yelled at her, making her stop talking. “\We just want to know where did you see Fluttershy.\”

“\Oooooh, why didn’t you say so silly billies?\” Everyone present had to fight the urge to face hoof right in the spot, as they had to endure Pinkie’s randomness. “\Well I saw her going towards the north-east of the city, which I found strange because the hospital was in the opposite direction, as we all agree to come visit you in the morning.\”

“\Now why on pete’s name woul’ she be goin’ to that part of the city? The only thin’g of interes’ is.\” Applejack stopped as she saw the look of pure terror on Twilight’s face “\Twilight? You ok?\”

“\That’s where the city’s dungeon is. And there is only one prisoner in there at the moment.\” When she said this, all of the ponies present had the same look of horror as her, knowing well what was she trying to say.

“\You don’t really think? Would she really just do it?\” rarity asked scared a bit, as she pictured what her friends would do.

“\She lost her brother because of him, do you really think you would miss the chance if you had it after experience the same?\” Twilight said, now trying hard to get out of bed, fighting the pain that she was feeling from moving.

“\Twilight, you need to rest if you want to recover fully.\” luna said as she tried to put the unicorn back on bed. Only for her to get out of her hold.

“\I can’t Princess, not when my friend is in danger of herself or from that human. You have to let me help her.\” She looked into the mare’s eye pleadingly, having the urge to go and help her friend.

Knowing that there was no use on arguing with her, Luna agreed with her. “\Very well, but as soon as we are done, you are to come back here and rest until Dr. Saw Bone allows you to.\” As Twilight nodded she asked all to gather around her, reading a teleportation spell to take them as close as possible to the Griffin Kingdom’s dungeon.

Griffin Kingdom, Griffin Kingdom’s Dungeon

I didn’t know where I was, all I could see was darkness as far as I could see. I tried to do anything but I couldn’t feel my body at all. ’Great, I’m knocked out. Just what happened to me? All I remember was me getting home and then...nothing’ I never knew how I was able to think while my body was unresponsive, it was weird to say the least.

As I laid there, or stood there, or whatever you want to call it when someone is unconscious; I could start noticing a noise coming from somewhere around me, as time passed I could start hearing it better, and it sounded...like me, but with a hint of darkness. Do not worry, help is on its way...

well that it’s just creepy, hearing my voice like that was just messed up for me. But what did it mean by ‘help’. As I wonder about this, I soon started to feel some of my senses come back to me. I started moving my arms a bit to find them...cuffed?

’Oh please, tell me I not being used as a sex toy again?’ That is something I rather forget for the rest of my life, for more than one reason and you are not hearing about it. as the rest of my senses started to come back, I could feel that I was actually suspended against the wall by the cuffs on my arms.

But I wished I hadn’t recovered my sense of smell, as I was assaulted by strong stench of sewers and corpses. ’Oh God, this is worst that being trapped inside a portable toilet for days.’

I grunted as I tried to get the smell out of my nose. “\well you’re finally awake\”, I heard someone talking, but I couldn’t understand a word that they said. It sounded like one of those languages that you would hear from some kind of indigenous tribe.

Opening my eyes I noticed that I was inside some kind of medieval cell, strange. “Hello? is someone outARRRRGH” I felt something really sharp and thin stab me on my shoulder, and it hurt even more because I think there was some kind of chemical on it, as I felt my shoulder burning.

I forced my eyes opened and looked to where I was stabbed, buried inside my skin was a spike which was maybe as thick as my thumb. “\What happened with all the playing around with the enemy? Too scared when you are the victim.\” I heard the voice again, turning towards the source I found...

“The Fuck?” In front of me was some kind of small horse with wings which was flying at my eye level. It had yellow fur and pink hair. Who would go to this extreme to painting a horse like this? I then saw that it was looking at me with...Oh God, it was like looking at death itself as it was about to take you away.

As I looked for longer to the horse, I felt like I had seen it before somewhere. I was brought out of my thoughts as I felt another jab of pain coming from my other shoulder, making me cry in protest. “\You made so many souls suffer. You took away our princess, our land, our peace.\” I looked and could not believe it, the horse was talking, in some weird language.

“You talk?! What is this, some kind of twisted game? whoever is in charge let me-” I was silence as the horse punch me hard across the face. “\SHUT UP! You don’t deserve the pleasure of living in a dungeon, or even being alive after all you have done!\”

“What in the fuck are you saying? How are you even talking?” I was sent in pain again as the horse brought both hooves down on my shoulders, burying the spikes deeper into my flesh. “\You well know what I’m saying. You killed thousands of innocent lives, including my brother.\” At this point I could see tears forming at the corner of her eyes.

“What...What are you saying? I can’t understand you.” This seemed to make the horse even angrier as it took out a large knife from the vest that she was wearing, which I somehow manage to miss until now. It brought the knife right to my throat. “\Do I need to say it in your pathetic language?\ You. killed. brother. my!”

It turned around and kicked me on the chest, electing some cracking sounds as some of my ribs broke. But in the fraction of that second, I noticed two things about it that made me remember where I had seen this horse, no, pony; before.

The voice, right now it was harsh and threatening, but it made me remember of another voice that was the same, and was sweet and caring. And second I noticed a tattoo on its flank, three pink butterflies with a blue body.

I knew who this pony was. Yellow coat, pink mane, wings, teal eyes, and a cutie mark of three butterflies? Fluttershy? My mind has just gone, in front of me was standing an old cartoon character that I used to watched when I was a teenager, having died after a couple of years and had forgotten about it till now.

But how was this possible? they are not real, and if this was some kind of hallucination or dream, then how was I feeling this much pain and what would make me remember this character in the first place? “How? But it can’t be, I-” I was silent again as I was punched in the face with her hoof, this time making blood come out of my mouth.

“\I don’t care what you have to say. All I want is for you to suffer like we all have.\” She reached inside of her vest again, taking out a bottle with some brown liquid inside. “\I spent all night making this especially for you. This poison will make you inside burn slowly, you’ll experience a combination of chills and burns through your whole body, and you will convulse as your body experience pain beyond believe. Until it makes your heart explode, but I doubt the last one will happen, since you have no heart.\”

She took the cork out of the bottle, and brought it towards my face. After seeing her make me go through all that pain, I was sure that whatever was in that bottle wasn’t good. I looked away as I tried keep the mouth of the bottle away from mine. Both Fluttershy just pushed one the spikes on my shoulder, making me groan in pain as I fought the urge to open my mouth to scream.

She kept pressing harder, making it more difficult for me to keep my mouth shut. I could see her grinning as she brought the bottle ever closer to my mouth. It was scaring, seeing one of the most gentles characters from a show turn so dark and evil. I couldn’t hold out for much longer as she now was using both of her hooves to press the spikes harder into my shoulders, holding the bottle with her mouth.

The bottle was about to touch the lips of my opening mouth when. “\ARRGH\” I heard the yellow pegasus scream in pain as she let go of the bottle, as they both fell to the ground, the bottle smashing on the ground, letting its contents spill out everywhere. I looked towards Fluttershy to see a knife stuck on her back, her blood spilling out on the floor.

“I found the target. Prepare the portal archmage.” I heard someone say, a girl by the voice. From the shadows I saw a woman on onyx armour walk towards me, from behind her I saw a tall robed man walk with her. “Just what would the Dark Lord want to risk comin-” She stopped as her eyes laid on me, making her gasp. “My Lord! How can you be here, when we? Wait.”

She walked closer to me, before stopping and grabbing the collar on my shirt and pulling it, ripping the fabric apart, revealing my bare chest. I was taking about by this, was she trying to hit on me or something? She looked at me for another second before turning to the tall man.

“This isn’t our Lord. But orders are orders, we are to take him back to the capital.” She took out a sword out of her belt, before slicing the chains and letting me fall on the ground. “Get up, we have to get out of here.” I saw as the tall man extended both arms out, some kind of aura surrounding his hands.

I was taken aback when a large portal appeared in front of me, inside it all I could see was darkness, which made me hesitate about going in. Until the woman started pushing me inside it. “Move already, we don’t have all day.” I saw as the tall man entered the portal and disappeared through it.

I was about to walk through until I heard the small moan of pain coming from the floor from where I was trapped before. “\N-no. I w-won’t let y-you get a-w-w-way.\” I saw as Fluttershy started limping towards us, struggling to walk with a knife stuck on her back.

I didn’t get to see anything else as I was finally pushed through the portal by the woman, closing behind me and leaving a hurt Fluttershy behind.

Twilight and the rest of her friends, plus Luna, were galloping at full speed as they came closer to their destination. Twilight had mange to get all the way, even with her injuries. “\Hurry, something tells me that something bad is happening.\”

“\Ya and me both sugarcube.\” Applejack responded as she showed no sign of slowing down.

“\Nearly there everypony, I can see the dungeon entrance.\” Ahead of them was a tunnel build onto the wall, leading down underneath the city. Stationed on the entrance were two griffin guards with a silver plated armour, somehow resembling that of the royal pony guards.

“\Halt, state your business here on the dungeons\” One of the griffins spoke in a commanding manner.

“\No time to explain, we have to see the prisoner. Twilight barged inside, passing the guards on her way in. Everyone else following her along, except for Luna as she stopped to better explain the situation to the guards.

Everyone ran down the stairs, all heading towards the cell that they knew housed the Dark Lord. When they arrived upon the door, they found it had been left open, and inside laid the prone body of their yellow friend with a knife sticking out of her back. “\Fluttershy!\” Everyone ran in, Rainbow Dash flying next to the mare to check on her.

“\Fluttershy, please talk to us.\” Rainbow Dash was trying hard to wake up her friend, witch laid on a pool of her own blood. “\Rainbow, step aside so I can help her.\” Twilight stepped in, reading her horn to cast a quick heal spell on her friend as she removed the knife from her back.. Closing the wound as the blood stopped pouring out from it.

They laid her down again, hoping that she would be alright again. “\Come on darling, talk to us.\” Rarity was now at the verge of tears as she feared to lose one of her dear friends. They soon saw Fluttershy open her eyes slowly, which brought ease on their minds knowing that she would be alright.

“\Phew sugarcube, ya got us worry fer a secon’ there.\”

“\Not h-h...\” Fluttershy mumble barely loud enough for them to hear.

“\What did you say Fluttershy?” Twilight said as she leaned closer to hear her friend better

Trying to gain a bit more strength, Fluttershy forced herself to speak louder. “\It...wasn’t him...he wasn’t...The Dark Lord.\”

“\What do you mean?\”

“\Two members of the Dark Void...Came here and took him away...But one of them said that he wasn’t their Master.\”

“\But that can’t be\” Rainbow Dash was furious at both having their prisoner escape and at hearing that this wasn’t the guy they were fighting against? “\He was exactly the same, there can’t be two of the same.\”

“\Fluttershy, did you notice anything at all, anything that may confirm what those members said?\” Twilight asked her friend, who was now sitting down on the floor.

“\Well...All I can remember is that one of them took his shirt off. But there wasn’t anything on it that may tell me anything. I’m sorry if that doesn’t help.\” She hid herself in shame as she wasn’t very helpful on the matter.

“\Shy, would you say that his chest was clean? As in free from any marks or scars.\” Twilight asked as she had a curious look.

“\Umm...yes, yes it was. Why? Was there suppose to be something there?\”

“\Yes. An emblem of symbol was suppose to be on it. But only those that haven’t join the ranks on his army lack said markings.\”

“\What are you getting at Twi? That this is someone that looks the same like him?” Rainbow stepped in, having calmed down from before.

“\No, he had the same aura as the Dark Lord, and even the magic DNA scan was the same.\” She sat there pondering the thought. “\I can be sure, but I could guess that this is someone totally different but yet the same. Either way, the important bit is that the Dark Lord is still out there.\” She had a small frown as she said plus at what she was about to say next. “\And there may be more than one now\”

When the portal closed behind me I saw a new one appearing in front of me. walking through it, I appeared in the middle of a large chamber which was made with marble. There were red banners adorning each of the columns and standing on poles across the whole room. The banner had a like some kind of devil or bull head which I found quite ridiculous.

I then notice the number of people working on tables, checking maps as they pointed at different locations on it. Others were writing what I thought were messages. And I could see some sparring each other with swords and maces.

I soon came back to the real world as I felt someone push me from behind. “Move already, the Dark Lord doesn’t like to be kept waiting.” The same woman said as she pushed me along. The tall man from before walking away to another section of the room.

As I walked out of the room and into the corridor, I notice a lot of the people were eyeing me as I walked along. maybe it was the fact that I was shirtless and with a chick next to me, but it could have been anything.

I kept walking along, with the woman still pushing me like I was some kind of slave or prisoner. Everytime I tried to ask a question she just told me to ask them to her Lord. Was I suppose to talk to her lover? She really seemed like date material, with that body of hers, I would just love to grab her and...ok maybe I’m going a bit far there.

Anyways, we soon arrived in front of a set of double doors, guarding it were two giants! ok, maybe they weren’t actual giants, but they really were huge, maybe two and half metres. “Who dares come into our lords quarters.” One of the guards said in a deep voice, making me flinch a bit from it.

“Our Lord requested to bring this one to his presence, saying that he wishes to talk to him in person.” The woman behind me told them, nodding, the guards pushed the double doors inwards to reveal a large throne room. In the middle sat a hooded man with black robes. He had a black leather armour with metal plating adorning the shoulders, chest, knees, part of the arms and legs and the top of his boots.

I was once again pushed by the woman. By this point I should just call her ‘Pushy’ or something, for more than one reason~. Walking forward, I started to notice that the ceiling was about ten metres high. I looked around and notice a set of stained glasses.

One of them showed a white pony with a horn and wings fighting a dark pony with also a horn a wings, the white one sending a ray out of six gems which surrounded her and the black pony was shown being turned into the moon.

Another one showed the same black pony being defeated by six smaller ponies, who were lavender, cyan, yellow, orange, white and pink. The cyan and yellow had wings while the lavender and white one had horns. Around them where the same gems like on the last glass.

Another of the glass showed as the same six ponies were fighting aganst something that looked like a dragon, only it had lion’s paw and eagle claw for arms, and a bull’s and dragon’s leg as its own, plus a large red tail.

Another one showed a large group of insect like ponies were pushed back away from a city by a force field that was being created by a white pony with a horn and a pink one with a horn and wings.

the last one showed a crystal heart projecting its energy into the same pink pony with the horn and wings, under the crystal was a small purple dragon with green fins as it connected to the crystal itself by the same ray of energy.

“My Lord, I have brought the individual as you requested.” I heard Pushy next to me, as she was bowing in front the hooded man.

“You have done well Lieutenant, please leave us be, I have urgent matters to discuss with him.” So the lady I had my eye on was a Lieutenant, well there goes my chance of hitting with her. I watched as the Lieutenant bowed once more before leaving through the doors again. I was now alone with only the hooded man. Yep, not creepy at all.

He rose up from his throne, walking down the small steps leading down to the main floor. As he came closer, I felt like scared out of my life for some reason. The aura that he let out made me want to surrender right in front of him like a defenseless animal.

He stopped once he reached me, he was the exact same high as me, and even so I couldn’t look under the hood, like it was meant to cover your face totally for no one to see. Until he reached for the top of the hood and pulled it back, making me gasp in shock and surprise.

“Hello Michael, I’ve been expecting you.” Said the man, who was just smirking at me while extending a hand to me. But I could not do anything as I saw he was exact look alike of me.

Author's Note

Please tell me of any grammatical errors that you may find. And I hope you can enjoy this story as much as I enjoy making it. :twilightsmile: