Darkness, an Eternity

by The Real Darkness

Chapter 3: All That Remains

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"There, that mirror..." I spoke before any of them could utter a word, lighting the room with a good sized dark flame.

"How exactly did you know?" Celestia asked, surprised in my knowledge of the secret portal that was a woman's elaborate window of beautification.

"Can you feel it? All the souls right there, ripe for my revenge. This is absolutely wonderful, a way of traveling into a world without accessing the Not." I was beginning to smile quite maliciously, thinking of all the ways that world would fall.

"Wait, what?!" Celestia outraged, surprised at my words.

Luna and Cadenza began to back away oh so slowly, scared of me from what they had already seen. I was a being to be afraid of after all, I did slay trillions, destroyed cities daily, and took so much joy in what I do.

"Why are you so shocked? The humans deserve every right of the death they are receiving. They did take her away from me and that will not stand, justice must be delivered. And after, the heavens will kneel before me when I blow open the golden gates and send forth their deserved hell."

"Lucius, don't do this. Everybody deserves a second chance at life, even you had a second chance, many chances." Celestia was trying her best to persuade me not to do this.

"I was not granted a second chance by them, nothing is going to change the fact that they all deserve to die." I raised up my hand to the mirror, dark energy visibly flowing to it.

"You will not be able to open it up, that portal is stuck closed for three moons." Luna spoke smugly, sure she would foil my plan.

A great gust of wind forced them all to battle it to stay standing, the portal glowing softly, opened. There is nothing dark energy can't do...

Mortal, welcome to my world

I began to approach it, my armor slowly fading in around me from the dark energies that I controlled. My armor was so very elaborate an decorative, many people wonder how my blacksmiths created it. Almost impenetrable, it is made from ruby with half a foot encasing me, quite a hard thing to get resources for, and with a black, shining obsidian coat over it. Spikes sprout as high as eight inches to just an inch, decreasing in size as it went down my my shoulders to my forearms and down my outer thighs, shorter there. Curved blades, like talons, came from my fingers and toes, just more pain infliction for anyone who dares to defy me. To top of all of it, the armor had many symbols and engraved designs in it, making me appear magnificent but also intimidating, the symbol for death in the Underworld, the symbol on my kingdom's banner, was studded into the chestplate as well as the back plate. A well made, purple fur, thick cape covered my back, purely for decoration, but that piece wasn't here today, it was time to fight, not impress.

My illusion already dropped and wings out through the special flaps that seal perfectly in my armor, pupils glowing with the dark fire in them, the hunger for spilling crimson grew within me. And with the thirst for blood, came the thirst for vengeance. As with all of that, came the thoughts and the foresight in my head, and the great things I would be doing. I found myself smiling.

I walked through the portal, remembering my unshared plan to turn the town I popped out of into a soul ranch for me. And well enough, I came out in front of Canterlot High, everyone looking at me with fear as I floated above the town and swallowed every building, every tree, every person, and every farm in it with a giant black bubble which I then proceeded to move, with quite a lot of compacted dirt and rocks below it to Equestria. A great new human town would be sustained in front of my castle, right inside the canyon.

With the town gone, I had a great aura of darkness coming off me and the crater below me, which housed a purple portal, which deposited my forces, my dragonriders with their great, bus long lances, my highly skilled elite teams, and even my great chimeric beast into the fight, which I will explain later. All my great ways of destroying these humans were here, and I could feel every counter-force coming out of the yet to be affected, other side of the Earth, every single angel, it seemed they were sending almost all in the heavens. My dark aura was too strong for them to create a portal directly in it.

And the humans, oh I forgot them so easily, their lives just mean absolutely nothing. I could taste every delectable fear and scream of terror and agony from each and every soul before my forces destroyed said soul and sent it to the darkest blade, my friend in my hand. I loved doing this.

I remembered that I was still destroying Earth, the land was already burning from fire my forces started, the land grey and ruined, following the way the Underworld is. I created a small, burning, sparking dark orb, slowly pouring my energy into it as it sat in the air, growing bigger and bigger.

I felt a holy presence near me right before I was tackled and sent flying back through the mirror with whomever had done so. I had left the mirror because it would have served as an instrument for my human cattle to escape their pin that is a city. I found myself back in Equestria, soon on my feet in the room with the mirror, the Elements of Harmony, as Celestia would call them, stood in the room now, staring wide eyed at me and my foolish assailant.

And there he was, an imperfect reincarnation of Dacius, yet another wielder of the Heavenly Sword for me to slay. That accursed blade may have had a simple, shining white blade with engravings, but the handle and handguard were a literal angel with wings, quite elaborate. I knew this blade well for I fought it countless times. The man holding it was a young boy, barely old enough to grow stubble on his cheeks, he had great wings, impressive for a kid, his armor was also matching that of an Arc Angel's, just a little more detail and work put into it.

"Good thing you are here. We get to continue the Legend today. Watch in awe, ponies, for you get to witness the history of every universe!" I boomed in the room, Dacius silently preparing himself for battle against me.

"What is going on?!" Twilight shouted, first of the ponies to say something.

I decided to entertain with dialogue, let the foolish, but I am going to enjoy this, I am going to let the brave kid have a false hope for killing me.

"Simple, Twilight, my dear. The extinction of Earth and those damned humans on them. Darkness is always going to reign supreme." I smiled to myself, hidden under my helmet as I walked toward the holy being, my footprints burning with pitch black fire from my intense dark aura and energy stored up inside me. You can actually feel the hatred for the wielder of the heavenly blade, the inevitable murder, and death all around me. I had this power and I loved it.

:Death is eminent for you." My voice got even more demonic, dark, and fear inducing than before, striking terror into every creature that heard me.

I struck my blade over him and he amazingly blocked, but at the cost of his weapon quickly digging deep into the floor of the Crystal Palace from my blow, digging it all the way to the handguard.

"Lucius, stop this!" Celestia regained her senses and foolishly chose to oppose me. She shot a ray of heated, holy energy at me which I easily took, corrupted it into my own dark energy and shot it back towards her, scaring her before I changed it around to my real foe, who impressively blocked it with his reclaimed weapon, continuing to block it as I sapped the energy out of her forcefully, causing her to collapse unconscious when she ran out.

"Stop!" Luna cried over her sister, opting to not attack me, knowing it would in fact help me.

"Not until he dies a great suffering death." I responded, glaring back at Dacius.

"Before you even think of overcoming me, consider that I conquered hell and extinguished her flames, I destroyed universes in my wake."

"I will still destroy you." He retorted quite simply."

"Foolish mortal, I hope you have been training."

I had been charging my dark energy this whole time, and now I am pumping it into my body and powering myself. My body size increased slightly as my fingers and toes under my armor grew out into sharpened blades. Black fire began to race all over me from my immense power as I kept getting more and more from the Death Sword. Death was my essence.

Everyone in that room shuddered at the sight of me except for Dacius. He simply came at me, charging, jumping up and laying his blade upon me.

This boy had courage, which was just about all he had other than being well trained, but he was still stupid to even try. I quickly grabbed his foot and tore him from the air and introduced his front side to the crystal floor. I picked him up and began strangling him, laughing just a little, showing that I was having quite a lot of fun.

"You are very amusing to toy with." I said clearly to his face before I sent him straight through the thick crystal wall, leaving a good gap.

I raced after him, catching up easily before he hit the next wall, and then the floor. I drove my hand through his chest and pierced his heart, engulfing his body in dark flames, watching as the Heaven Sword disappeared from his hand in white flames.

I walked back through the gap in the wall, sensing my forces have finished up slaying the angels and the humans, already gone from Earth. I began to send the great orb, now three times the size of Earth into the planet, causing it to break apart into the smallest pieces, destroying everything that was left of the humans.

"Was there every any doubt?"

I smiled, knowing exactly what was next. It was time to get the very last thing for the portal to the Heavens, blood of the wicked, which meant it was time to go to
Tartarus. Celestia was awake as I began to revert my form, my armor fading as I put my illusion back up and was dressed in my normal royal robes.

"All of you will live, I want you as friends, not enemies." I spoke and Rairty trotted up to me.

"We are all wondering, what are you going to do, King Lucius?" She asked quite politely.

"While I enjoy the recognition, please call me just Lucius, Miss Rarity. My plans are to strengthen your entire nation, from security to magic and everything in between." I smiled and patted her head, my blood lust sated.

"And also to bring back someone dear to me." I added after a slight pause.

"And who is this person thou speakest of?" Luna inquired.

"My wife, who now lives in the Heavens against her will..." I responded, saddened, remembering that she was slain by those damned humans.

"We can't let you do that." Celestia spoke, daring to rival me yet again.

"I already know that your sister is starting to accept that I am far superior. Watch your words as well, an elite team or an extremely high ranked guard is all it would take to end your life, Celestia." I responded, glaring at her, defying my plan of actions.

"I am also improving your own kingdom, so maybe you should let me do what needs to be done." I added.

I know I already had the wing from one of my dragon's to serve as the opposite of an angel's wing. I also knew that I had a captured angel. All that was left for the portal ritual to the Heavens was blood of the wicked and I already mentioned where to go to get that.

"Do you still plan to stop me, Celestia?" I asked, wondering if her opinion changed.

"Only if you bring harm to my little ponies." She responded, once again calm and regal.

"Now then, I need somebody to point me the way to Tartarus. I have things to slay." I stated, receiving confused looks from all of them.

"I need blood of the wicked, and I need it quite badly." I explained myself.

"If that is the case, then I can show you where it is." Twilight spoke shyly, still very scared of me. I can not even blame her for the nightmares she would surely have of me while she slept.

"Good, but we can do so tomorrow, I need my rest to regenerate all this lost dark energy and so do you all. I am sure I have traumatized many of you. When I do go to Tartarus, I want you to come with me, Miss Rarity, so you can at least inform Twilight to not be afraid of me as much and explain to her why I am doing what I am doing along the way." I spoke and with that I left in a puff of dark mist, appearing in my room of the castle in Equestria.

I quickly took off my robes, leaving myself in my sleeveless vest like shirt and pants, taking off my boots after. I then collapsed on my bed, knowing I would not be disturbed with three of seven of my royal guards watching over me while I slept and rejuvenated my dark energy. So, slept I did.


Author's Note

You will find that two chapters have been added, but why so suddenly? To celebrate someone's, whom is very close to me, birthday which is today.

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