The Demon's Within

Ravestorm was galloping fast through the meadows, looking for a doctor for Trixie, he looked back at her and she had a bunch of cuts on her back. "It's all my fault that she got hurt….I'm so sorry Trixie" Ravestorm said still running as he was shedding tears, but he had to stay strong just enough to get back to Ponyville. He could feel her squirming which meant that she was in a lot of pain. All Ravestorm could do was shed tears. "I am such a crybaby…I should let her get doctored up…and then leave. She needs to be away from me for a while so that I can control myself." Ravestorm said as he galloped to the front of Ponyville.

It was nighttime with the moon glistening in the night sky. Ravestorm ran over to the Ponyville Hospital and entered through the front doors.

"Excuse me sir, but Hospital hours are closing." one of the nurses said as she pointed over to the sign which said "Hospital Hours 8 A.m. – 1 A.M"

"Please, it's an emergency." Ravestorm said as he gently let down Trixie, the nurse saw Trixie's cut coat and painful expression. And she knew she needed immediate care.

"Okay, we need a doctor." The nurse yelled as two doctors came running over. They had a wheeled stretcher and placed Trixie on it. They then wheeled her off. Ravestorm tried to follow but the nurse stopped him.

"We need you to wait out here sir." the nurse said as Ravestorm looked at her as an emotional wreck. "It's my fault she's like this, the least I can do is watch over her till she wakes up, can you at least give me that much." Ravestorm said as he looked on very depressed. The nurse couldn't do anything but let him go into the room with Trixie.

Ravestorm entered the room to see Trixie with a plastic mask over her mouth filtering the air in her lungs, also a cooling vest for her coat. "Doctor….how is she?" Ravestorm asked.

"She has been cut very badly, but with enough rest she will be fine," The doctor said.

"I see, I have to go for now, tell her that Ravestorm loves her, and he will be back as soon as possible." Ravestorm said as seriously as he could. The doctor didn't know what to say as Ravestorm walked out the door. He held himself until he got outside, but then he started bursting out in tears. He cried right outside the hospital for several minutes until he got up and walked out.

As he was walking out of Ponyville something had stopped him. Up in front was a shaded figure in the dark.

"Ravestorm…why are you walking by yourself? You do know how dangerous it is in the night do you?" The shaded figure said as he walked out of the shadows. It was a stallion, he had a red coat, a dark red and orange mane, his cutie mark was a black moon.

"What do you want?" Ravestorm said very serious.

"The boss wants to have a word with you in private; he has had his eye on you for a while. He knows about the problem you have with the evil organization known as "The Dark Sun" and he needs you." The Stallion said. All Ravestorm could do was follow him.

"What is your name?" Ravestorm said walking along the stallion that had asked him to come with him to meet 'The Boss.'

"My name is Red Blaze, I am a soldier in the 'Equestrian Secret Defense Force", or if you like 'ESDF'." Red Blaze said with a serious look.

"Why does your boss want me?" Ravestorm asked.

"It's due to you having Shadow Midnight inside of you." Red Blaze said.

"What does he want?" Ravestorm asked again.

"Listen, Shadow Midnight is a demon of the darkness; the boss wants to protect you from the 'Dark Sun' organization. They plan to extract that demon within you, and use it to take over Equestria; if they can't then they will make you use his power to take over Equestria. So, if they even get their hooves for you, Equestria is doomed. The boss wants to insure that you are safe from their evil grasp." Red Blaze explained.

"Who is this boss?" Ravestorm asked.

"I can't say in public, you will see soon enough." Red Blaze said leading him outside of Ponyville; they walked over to a small ditch.

"What is this?" Ravestorm asked.

"Just watch." Red Blaze said with a smile as he pulled out a button and pressed it as the dirt from the ditch grew metal and split apart, the metal door split apart as a secret passage was seen. Red Blaze looked around for any spies and pushed Ravestorm into the ditch.

"What the hell!?" Ravestorm yelled as he pushed down the ditch, he landed through the metal door, but instead of a great fall, there was a slide, he smiled greatly as he slid down the loopy slide happily, he eventually made it to the bottom as he began to try to walk with a daze, almost falling in the process. Eventually Red Blaze made it to the bottom.

"You will get used to it." Red Blaze said trying to make Ravestorm stop spinning. Ravestorm eventually gained his composure, and put on a smile.

"That was fun." He chuckled a bit; he looked around as he saw the inside of the huge base. It had the big slide in the middle of the room, the walls were dark and had black metal with blue magic flowing through them, it has glass doors that looked like they were mechanically opened like the trap door that he had fell through not long ago. They also had different words above the glass doors that resembled different elements. It had Fire, Water, Thunder, Earth, Ice, Light, and Dark. Ravestorm cocked an eyebrow at the strange sight.

"Why do the rooms have different elements on them?" Ravestorm asked.

"They are training rooms for the various types on magic's, you see this is a fighting facility, it trains the ESDF for the battles that they have against the Dark Sun." Red Blaze explained.

"That's cool, where is this boss of yours?" Ravestorm asked as he took another look around the room, there was a small opening that had the heading over it called 'Sector 4'.

"Well, we are in Sector 4, which is the opening chamber, she is in Sector 1." Red Blaze said.

"Why are the rooms in Sectors?" Ravestorm asked.

"Well, Sector 4 is the opening room in which we come through to get into the facility; it is also where the rookies train to fight. Sector 3 is where we take breaks and have fun, we have a swimming pool, a lunch table, a few games and we have a small bar. Sector 2 is where we train the advanced members of our squad, it's where we learn the advanced magic's like Inferno, Hydro, Shock, Earth Shatter, Blizzard, Holy, and Shadow magic's. Sector 1 is the boss's room." Red Blaze explained.

"This seems like an awesome place. How do we travel between sectors?" Ravestorm asked.

"That little opening with the Sector 4 sign above it. There is a slide like the one we came through, but it's a very long one." Red Blaze smiled.

"Why do you guys have slides, and how do you get back up?" Ravestorm asked.

"You ask a lot of questions. The reason is because when ponies try to come through the entrance they become dizzy, if an enemy infiltrates the base, he will be too dizzy to fight and the rookies can overcome them easily. We come up with a secret magic that only the ESDF is taught, it's more of a code given in a magic form that we cast upon the slide, the slide turns upside down and we are able to slide up the slide." Red Blaze explained.

"That's awesome, so…let's go meet this boss of yours." Ravestorm said with a determined look.

*Back at the hospital*

Trixie had awoken from her bed with an ache. She groaned in pain as she tried to get up from the bed, but then she heard an unfamiliar voice.

"After all this time of love, your lover has left you." The voice said as a mysterious figure came out of the shadows. All she could see was red eyes and a smile.

"What do you mean?" Trixie asked with a groan.

"I mean that Ravestorm left you. He left you alone in agony because he felt that you would be better off without him." The voice said.

"Shut up, you don't know anything about Ravestorm." Trixie said trying to yell, but is came out as a silent voice.

"Neither do you my dear magician." The voice said with a smile.

"Tell me then." She said with an angry expression.

"Oh I shall," The pony in the shadows smiled.

*Back at the base*

Ravestorm and Red Blaze slid down the slide all the way to Sector 1, Ravestorm collapsed on the floor as Red Blaze fell right on top of him, when they came to realization, it had appeared to look like Red Blaze was mounting Ravestorm, and they both blushed as they got up.

"Um, that was an accident." Red Blaze said with embarrassment.

"Yeah, let's leave it like that." Ravestorm said as he gained his composure and knocked on the door as it was surrounded by a dark blue glow, it had opened as Ravestorm stood at the door and looked to see who the Boss was.

"Princess Luna..." Ravestorm said with an expression of pure surprise.

"Don't bother with the Princess part, around the ESDF I am Boss Luna." She said with a smile.

"Okay, Boss Luna. What do you want with me?" Ravestorm asked.

"You know I am a princess, so the fact that I'm the Equestrian Secret Defense Force's Boss should come to as a surprise to you. But I am not here to protect Equestria in the fullest intent. I am here to stop the force of the pony behind the Dark Sun, his name is Dark Midnight. He is Shadow Midnight's brother." Luna explained as Ravestorm stood in absolute shock. "The reason I called you here is to not hold you here against your will forever, but it is to train you for any attempts of taking your life by Dark Midnight. I need to train you due to the fact that they could possibly infiltrate this base and take that demonic demon inside you; they could do that and make Equestria a hellish domain for the demons. The only way to do that is to train you to become more powerful than that very demon inside you. But the only way to do that is…"Luna was about to say as he got out of her chair and walked over to Ravestorm. She looked at him with a smile as she pressed a hoof on his forehead.

"I need for you to meet with your demon." She said as her hoof became shrouded in dark magic as Ravestorm collapsed on the floor.

"What did you just do!?" Red Blaze yelled with worry.

"I sent him on a journey inside of his mind, a journey to see Shadow Midnight." She looked at Red Blaze with a serious expression.

"Will he survive?" Red Blaze asked with a serious expression.

"That depends on Ravestorm's will to survive." Luna said as she walked back and sat into her chair.