Everdeath
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Previous ChapterNext ChapterWe now stood outside of the dark stronghold of Deadriser. "Listen, keep your eyes open, watch for anything that may be dangerous. There could be anything in there." I said.
"Well the door is wide open, lets go in."Twilight said, walked towards the door.
"No! I will go in first." I said to her, blocking her path. She simply nodded, so I walked in and was met with a sight that I hadn't seen since I was in Ponyville, it was a wide open chamber, with six different passages, each with one of the mane six's cutie marks on it. But something was different, there was a larger wooden door at the opposite end of the room. I walked over to it and yanked on it, pulling it open a bit. "Come on in! I think its safe!" I yelled.
"Think?" Came Twilight's voice.
"Just come on!" I replied. They walked into the room and gasped a little.
"What is this place?" Twilight asked, walking over to her corridor. The rest of the girls did the same while Luna looked around the room. I peered inside the door and saw something I never wanted to, I saw a room, the throne room. On a throne of bones sat a pony that seemed to have evil resonate off of him, he had a pitch-black coat and a matching mane and tail. On his back was a sheath, in it was a small oak staff with a gem embedded in the top.
"Oh hello Sargast! So wonderful to see you again!" He said to me.
"Deadriser." I growled.
"Are your little friends having fun?" He asked and a small smile appeared on his lips, not a sincere smile but a malicious one. "It would be a shame if they," He pulled the staff out of it's sheath and jabbed it into the ground "died." I looked down as dark tendrils of magic spread across the floor, heading into the next room.
"NO!" I yelled as I turned around to see the girls and Luna collapse.
"Now it is just you and me Sargast, what do you have to say about that?"
"I am going to tear your intestines out and hang you with them. TIME TO DIE YOU MOTHERBUCKER!" I screamed, yanking my sword out and charging him. I swung my sword at him time and time again, and he blocked each strike with his staff, then he started trying to hit me with his staff. I got up close, standing right in front of him I gave him a headbutt, sending him to the floor, he quickly recovered however and stood back, holding his staff at me.
"Oh Sargast if only you could remember how to use your powers this would be sooo much more fun!" A dark bolt shot out of his staff striking me in the chest, I went flying backwards and hit the wall, creating a crater the shape of my body in it.
"Who needs powers when they are a psycho murderer with a sword?" I asked him, jumping back at him, letting off another series of swings, this time a couple made contact, drawing blood from the dark lord.
"Sargast I have no doubt that you can defeat me, but can you defeat an army by yourself hmmm?" He said, once again stabbing his staff into the ground. This time the dark magic created a shadow covering the entire floor, and then hands started poking out of the ground.
"I will kill them all! I will litter the floor with corpses as long as I can finish off with your dead body skewered on my sword!" I yelled at him. As the skeletons started coming out of the ground my sword started sparking with dark lightning.
"Oh it seems you can use your powers, looks like the will be interesting after all." I charged into the large mass of skeletons and spun around, sending off a circular lightning strike that cut straight through the unfortunate skeletons that were in it's way, the rest however just jumped over it. The skeletons charged me and my rage reached a point that it had never reached before. I jumped into the air and aimed my sword down, I could feel all my hatred going into that one magic bolt, my hate of Deadriser, my hate of my parents dying, my hate of my friend dying. All the pain I ever felt, all my horrible memories resurfaced and I directed all of that power into my sword. The gems flashed red, then my sword started glowing red, I no longer felt it as a sword, I felt it as a cannon. I let loose all of that energy and a ball of energy the size of a train car came out, making the room flash white, when it touched the ground it exploded with the force of a supernova, on steroids. When the dust cleared I saw that the room was gone, all that was left was me, Deadriser and the seven dead ponies that were behind me.
"I. WILL. KILL. YOU!" I charged Deadriser, and for once he looked scared, I hit him, sending him flying backwards, he hit the dirt and dropped his staff. I converged on him and put my sword to him throat.
"S-Sargast? You were my student! Are you really going to kill me?" At that point his staff was in his hoof and he shoved me off of him, he put the staff to my forehead and my vision flashed white. "Have your memories, remember me for who I am!"
"Who are you?" I asked the stallion who had just adopted me.
"Oh just call me daddy." He said sweetly.
"What is that staff for?" I asked him, pointing to the staff n his back.
"What if i told you I could do magic, that you could do magic?" He said to me.
"No way! But you're an earth pony and i'm a pegasus!" I said, confused.
"A different type of magic than that, I call it, necromancy." He said to me.
"You're a necromancer?" My eyes grew wide, from what my parents had told me they were all evil.
"You are to!" He said, poking me in the chest playfully.
"You don't seem evil." I said to him.
"I'm not!" He said back, then my vision changed.
"So dad, how do you use necromancy?" I asked, holding a sword out in my hooves, it had gems going up the blade.
"Well all you have to do is imagine what you want to do, then you think of a sad memory or of something that used to hurt you." Deadriser replied. I was now in my teens, looking very bored with the stallion who had adopted me.
"Okay, whatever." I pointed my sword at the ground, lightning shot out and singed the floor. "Whoa!" I was now interested.
"There you go son!" Deadriser said to me, then the vision changed again. I was now standing in front of him, angry about something.
"I thought you said you weren't evil!" I yelled at the stallion.
"Son they were trying to hurt you!" Deadriser said back, just as angry.
"Yeah, just beat 'em up! You didn't need to KILL them!" I yelled again.
"Sargast, inside voice please." He said to me.
"NO!" I yelled at him. I then turned to the stairs and ran into my room, there I grabbed my sword. I walked back downstairs and I pointed the sword at the ground. I though of my parents death's, then a bolt of lightning shot out of the sword an hit the ground. Then three tough looking ponies popped out of nowhere.
"Son! Good job! Now send them back." Deadriser said.
"No, I am using my magic for goo, so goodbye asshole." I said, walking out the door.
"Okay then, if you want to leave, then leave." I looked around to see Deadriser with his staff, a bolt shot out at me, shocking my brain.
"Where am I?" I said, dazed and confused. I was then thrown out of the house, my sword taken from me. I fell unconscious and the three thugs stole whatever I had on me and threw me into the woods.
"See Sargast, II kept you alive! I showed you your powers!" Deadriser said, confident again.
"You, you bucking threw me out! I, I can't believe I called you father once. I can't believe that I used to love you! You are a monster, you are a shell of a pony, you have no soul." With those final words I jumped him, putting my sword to his throat. "Thank you for giving me even more pleasure to do this." I said, then I cut his head off. I stabbed his body until it was nothing but a mutilated corpse, it looked as if I had just threw him into a spike wall. I then fulfilled my promise, I cut open his gut, and tore out his intestines, I then made a noose out of them and hung him on his staff. There was blood all over my hooves. "What did I just do?" My mind was only now recovering from the shock of my memories coming back. "What did I do?" I was just like him! I was a monster, why should I live? I dropped my sword, and I crawled over to one of the far corners of the building's rubble.
*Point of view change*
Fluttershy was the first to wake up, she felt like she had just been in a deep slumber, she shook the rest of the girls awake, then she turned around and nearly fainted, she saw Deadriser's corpse, hung on a staff. But the reason why she didn't pass out was in the corner, in the fetal position, rocking back and forth. "Sargast?" She called softly to the pony in the corner, there was no reply. She walked over closer to him, and saw that he was shaking and could faintly hear him talking to himself. "Sargast?" She said again, a little louder this time. She knew what had happened, Sargast must have went psycho and did that to Deadriser, but then went back to normal, saw what he had done and slowly lost his mind. She had seen this type of thing before in animals, except there was no killing involved, just usually hurt paws and things. She walked over and stood next to him, she put a hoof on his shoulder. "Sargast, listen to me, you didn't mean to do, that." She said, pointing towards Deadriser.
"Yes I did." He mumbled. "Yes you did, you are terrible, a monster. No, Fluttershy is right, you need to snap out of this!" He seemed to be having a three-way conversation with himself, and the side that was calling him a monster was winning. By now the rest of the girls were slowly approaching him as well.
"Sargast?" Twilight asked softly, Fluttershy made a motion for her to go away. Twilight and the rest of the girls nodded and backed up.
"I am a monster, and nopony can help me. You should just stay away from everypony so you don't hurt them. I guess you are right." Now he was entirely on the side of him being a monster.
"Sargast you are not a monster, you didn't mean to do what you did!" Fluttershy insisted.
"Potato!" Fluttershy was now extremely worried about him, he seemed to have completely lost his mind.
"Sargast come on, listen to me!" Fluttershy said.
"NO! I WON'T LEAVE FLOOR! FLOOR IS MY FRIEND!" Sargast yelled. Rainbowdash elbowed Applejack.
"Well he is now officially nuts."She whispered to Applejack. Applejack elbowed Rainbowdash as hard as she could.
"This isn't funny!"
"Jeez fine." Sargast had now started talking to the floor, acting as if it was his only friend.
"Oh floor! You are my best friend, nopony is going to split us apart!" Sargast yelled, stroking the floor.
"Sargast, we have to go now." Fluttershy said, Sargast didn't budge. "Sargast! We need to go now!" Fluttershy insisted, but Sargast still never moved.
"Here, watch this." Twilight said, her horn lit up and a bolt of magic shot our, breaking a chunk of floor off of the rest, she picked the chunk up and walked over to Sargast. "Sargast! Look! It's the floor!" Sargast looked up, saw the chunk and rushed over and grabbed it from her, he then put it behind his back and hissed a Twilight. Girls come over here, I think we can teleport back." Twilight said, her horn lighting up, the girls all huddled together, Sargast was in the middle, holding onto the chunk of floor as if dropping it would make the world end.
"Why didn't we teleport here?" Rainbowdash asked Twilight.
"I can only teleport to places I have been before." Twilight replied.
"Why did we come out here?" Rainbow asked.
"Sargast's visions implied that we had to, and necromancers are very evil beings and they should be stopped before their evil plans even begin." Twilight said, and Luna winced. Then the spell took hold, whisking them away to Canterlot.
***
"Princess Celestia, we defeated the necromancer, well Sargast did." Twilight said, bowing down in front of the princess.
"Where is Sargast?" Celestia asked.
"We had to drop him off at the nuthouse." Rainbow said, then she put a hoof over her mouth.
"What? Why?" Celestia seemed worried.
"Sister, the necromancer used a spell before we could get to him, it made us pass out but it did not affect Sargast. When we woke up Deadriser was Dead and the stronghold was nothing but rubble. As well Sargast was huddled up in a corner, talking to himself before he started, um, he acted as if the floor was an animate object and that they were friends." Luna explained, sadness in her voice. Her and Fluttershy seemed to have taken it the hardest, Fluttershy thought she hadn't done enough to prevent it and Luna knew that it was something about Sargast's past that had done this to him, and that she could have helped him somehow, even a little bit of support could have kept his sanity intact.
"I must go see him, would you all like to come with me?" Celestia said, and all of the girls nodded their heads, with that they teleported away, to the mental asylum.
THE END OF EVERDEATH
Author's Note
This was probably not the ending that you expected, and you are probably disappointed that I didn't do some huge fight scene. The reason why is because this is being continued, in the next part of this story: Insanity. And also I really can't do fight scenes.
-Darkportal.
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