We all stood, my guards, Vincent, Maximillian, along with Cadence who wanted to show up. I was waiting on my children to ready themselves and eventually Anna, Ulric, and Ben appeared, dressed in battle armor except for Anna who wore her a simple dress, all a solid color black and it appeared to be breathable and flexible with her movements. I looked up and saw a giant pink bubble before me, a white and yellow swirling one below it. All royal guards were with me, including Bardiche. I had ordered them here to witness their King make history and beauty in war again. Cadence was present on my side with Shining Armor. That meant Twilight was generating the shield.

I amplified my voice in a huge effort, the dark blade once more in my hand and sending dark energy through me in massive amounts as my armor was on me.

"You ponies have one hour to flee your city or you will be crushed in your homes as they fall. You will not be harmed if you reach the end of the shields!"

I knew all heard me, even Celestia and still so few turned up. She must have instilled a confidence in them,. a courage to stand against me. They will fall.

"I shall uphold my promise, Cadence. Only those who stand against me will be slain, pray for your people to see error in their ways now."

I turned to the guards and sprouted my wings from my back, taking to the air some so all my forces could see me.

"Today, we reclaim our Queen and solidify her return. Today, we make more history and we show even more blasphemous beings the truth. Darkness will and always shall win over any light! Let us crash upon these shields like the force of many souls embedded within our God!" I turned to the bubbles and point my blade,"Charge and bring the despair!"

My forces did exactly as told, all shouting war cries and quickly brandishing their weapons, slamming siege equipment against the first pink bubble and slashing with blade of all kinds, trying to crack and shatter it with all sorts of sharp and blunt instruments. The pink bubble fell quickly and my forces moved on to the white and yellow bubble. The seven royals jumped up and landed on the walls of it, quickly pouring dark energy into it, suppressing it's strength. I flew higher and sent a large beam of darkness. Pitch black and swirling with purple, a giant ray crashed down upon the shield and it soon gave way. I landed in the middle of the city, finding some citizens hiding in fear in their homes. My guards were quickly firing all manners of ammunition from the trebuchets, even using the urns filled with volatile dark energy that exploded in massive beauty, crumbling buildings quickly.

My armies were still making sounds of battle and war as they invaded, the fleeing ponies remaining unharmed. Sounds of conflicts were heard all over the city, blood was to be spilt for hours. I wanted to make it to the castle the fun way, through the front doors. I kept my wings out, but folded them against my armor. I smirked, knowing this was to be a fun battle.

I shot out a large rope of dark energy from my hand at a citizen that had the nerve to attempt to end me with knives. I strangled him in front of all of them, making his head burst afterwards. Guards quickly formed ranks all about me, ready with their spears and all being a slightly different variant in color than the last. I took a battle stance and begin dashing to and fro in the area they left me, making sure they would not enclose upon me. I bloodied them quickly, felling them with single strikes. Their blood upon my blade sizzled and disappeared, the master within it pleased at his offering. All the souls were being sent to the Underworld save for a third, a third would go to him. I continued the festival I was hosting for the guards for a while until I began to rapidly build up dark energy in my left hand and shot out a large spike that gave off cold air towards the castle, clearing the way by killing many guards.

It was a feat I was still working on, forming ice through manipulating water with my dark energy, the spike I formed was a light purple and barely transparent. I begin a rush towards the castle, killing any and all who stood in my way, foolish citizens, and loyal guards of Celestia alike. I continued for quite a while, enjoying the slaughtering of these ponies along the way. Many of the buildings were crumbling as I went. I reached the courtyard and blasted a hole into the gold painted steel gate, many guards awaiting me, flying and on the ground.

"You all chose the wrong side...you saw your brothers and sisters die easily." I built up energy rapidly in my left hand again.

The ground troops charged me and I quickly found myself parrying and blocking blows, focusing on charging energy until my hand was amass with black and purple sparking and glowing from it. I Quickly aimed up at the castle and shot a ray that continued for what seemed like forever, blasting a hole through the castle that was decently sized, I moved this ray to hit all guards in the air, one by one, causing the castle to undergo massive destruction. The seven royals had output their energy into cores around the city like I told them and a dark purple bubble soon came into vision around the city, Canterlot ponies were now trapped. This meant that guards were lined up at this shield to slaughter them.

As I fired the ray, the grounded ponies gained a look of shock and horror for a while that soon passed and they fell upon me again. I immediately began concentrating heavily and formed three shadow version of me to fight off the guards while I dealt while I dealt with aerial troops. Canterlot Castle already lost a lot of key stones, but it still stood in solitude. I finished the job, killing off all flying pegasi, some learning to land. I had wrecked the courtyard sculptures and some of the castle. I had even forced a tower to fall upon the horde of guards upon me, killing many and causing a disruption in their tactics. I continued to fight them for a while before I noticed a black and purple light coming from atop the castle.

"Enough!" I uproared, having a hunch as to what was happening. I once again lost my illusion fully and my armor faded away, moved back to the castle in its secret location. A large dark energy explosion killed off guards around me for many yards.

A black shell enveloped me once more and I had soul boned with Mortis Lamina, forcing a large amount of happiness, satisfaction, and so many other positive emotions into me. I was just a black skeleton again, with armor integrated into my bone, impenetrable armor of a sorts. I soon found the gems were in their proper place on me, one in each limb. I quickly had Dimarin glow upon my right arm, the crystal shining bright in its color. I jumped high from an earth shaking spout of dark flames that roasted those below me. I began to float, my wings outstretched, but not flapping. This is what made me different to all immortals. I formed large black clouds of my energy overhead and soon, shards of dark energy poured from them, spearing and impaling the guards, causing screams of agony and pain below me. I continued the storm and rose above the clouds. I floated over to where the odd purple and black light was coming from. On the roof of the castle, there was Celestia, trying to perform the ritual I performed a a fifteen year old lad.

"You have everything but an angel." I spoke and soon, I had saw a truth in Celestia. I hadn't lef the castle here that well prepared for battle, so she most likely snuck in when Ponyville was under attack and kidnapped her. Violet was tied up in one of the circles, a pony walking into the other one, Luna standing in the third with a charged horn.

"Lucius, I will enter your realm, I will see it for myself, and I will stop your entire kingdom." She spoke, giving me a look of hatred.

"You already made a grave mistake taking my wife like this, especially against her will!" I was enraged and Dimarin faded, Evarkenite soon replacing it, the dark blade in my hand melting into a metal form and covering my entire body, forming an even more elegant armor, one that has destructive powers.

Violet looked at the ponies, afraid, and she was most surely afraid. She looked to me with a neutral expression, still scared beyond words. She was most likely trying to judge me and what she saw me as.

"Take one step closer, and I will end you." Celestia threatened.

"Your people will soon be mine, your kingdom is already gone, your guards here will die and so will any other form of resistance. Equestria will be ruled by me or one I place to rule it. Attacking me won't change it. Besides," I floated all six Elements of Harmony out of my armor," I win, and Luna may have her place ruling over her people if she stays loyal to me." I knew I neede someone who could run Equestria better than me and who understood it here.

"She will never-" Celstia began.

"Shut your sluttish mouth! Let her speak for herself." I shot a burst of dark energy out that was too quick for any of them to see and it be shot through her horn, breaking it off easily.

"I wo....won't-" Luna began to speak, looking down at the ritual circle, the design being my kingdom's symbol.

"Do not speak for Celestia, speak for yourself." I approached slowly, the Elements or Harmony surrounding Luna as I allowed them, "I know you wish to see to it that your people live normal lives after all this and I wish to have someone govern them who understand them better than me. I will rarely interfere with their daily lives as long as they conform to me." I finished.

"I refuse. I apologize, Lucius, but Equestria will not bow so easily to you!" She attempted to take the Elements from me, but I quickly took them back and began pouring dark energy into each one, rapidly causing them to decay and become destroyed, each one falling to the ground below, making them useless.

"Foolish! I am an unstoppable god now! I will have my vengeance!" I roared and Luna attempted to shoot a dark energy orb into the circle in the center and succeeded, causing Violet to soon writhe in her binds, afraid and in pain. I zoomed to her before she could be consumed by the spell and took her, carrying her in my arms, my dark aura now revealed causing a terrible uneasiness to her, "Do not fear, you are safe once more." I looked to Luna, the ritual now ended. None of them saw how fast I moved. I landed and set Violet upon the ground,, walking slowly towards Luna.

"You will be defeated." She spoke, I knew she faltered in her words.

"You will rule alone...my attack is done. Listen." I began and they did listen, there were cries of victory from my forces and only buildings were left to be destroyed, and they were indeed being destroyed quickly. Fire was heard all throughout the city, "This is how it will be Luna, and how it will be with the rest of the six elements. You may be an alliance with me, an enemy with me, or simply stand aside and stay out of my way. You'll choose soon." I finished.

I once again amplified my voice and ordered all the soldiers to leave and take the shield down. I told them all to return to their duties and fortify our castle here more. Twilight had remained silent for all of these events.

"Now, Celestia. I have one more piece of business to conduct here, seeing you can't you magic after I destroyed your pride." I spoke and approached her.

"Lucius...don't..." Twilight spoke from behind me. I turned back and faced her, tears in her eyes.

"You'll rule Equestria too...and you'll always be welcome in the Underworld for your services, as well as Rarity and any of the other elements if they behave themselves." I spoke, silencing her, my words sounding extremely shocking to her bran, "And this must be done."

I shoved my hand through Celestia's neck, bursting out the other end, my claws gauntlet covered in blood.

"All this could have been avoided if you had surrendered, I hope you learned that much before you die, you worthless piece of meat." I formed a fist with my hand and lowered it, her neck sliding down and hanging on my fist. I then walked to the edge of the rooftop we were on and tossed her off. Her fall would be her final countdown in her life.

I silently walked over to my wife and cut her bindings, letting her stand before I picked her up and rushed back to the castle. She surprisingly offered no resistance. I entered the castle and set her down in my bed, covering her up, letting her relax as she was definitely tired. She now acted like a respectful guest here, it was a major change from the hatred she originally showed me. I formed the dark core once more that Celestia somehow managed to destroy and secured the room again before walking to the balcony and staring out at the rising sun. Equestria had gone through a massive change. A good change no doubt.

Author's Note

This is not the last chapter, I assure you.

I hope you enjoyed this story so far, and there are plans to make two to five chapters.