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.