Darkness, an Eternity

It was time to unleash full darkness upon the heavens. The portal was left open, I made sure of it.

The sight...it was glorious. Blood everywhere, death in the air, dark energies overwhelming the holy auras. I began to let my darkness seep in, causing drastic effects of the environment in this supposed paradise. The golden clouds began to turn to black and rage with the fury of storms, the stone buildings carved and sculpted to look like masterpieces began to slowly crumble and age thousands of years in mere moments. The shining sun that hung so close to the land has slowly dimmed before it burst and roasted many angels. I could feel her aura far in the distance...the darkness that mixed with holy. I began rushing through the battlefield that was all of the heavens. And of course, the damned beings attempted to stop me, but they could not do much, none could ever do much, they quickly fell by my blade or fell ill from my dark energies.

Yes, sickness, the worst kind of "virus" known. Humans dubbed it Descent, which thoroughly sums up all of it, the hopelessness that falls over you and all those around you, knowing you'll die and become one of mine regardless of what you do. It was the best illness to hit the world. And it looked glorious. First came the color loss from your skin, your eyes, everything and you began to turn a beautiful mixture of black and deep purple, the colors that often ran with dark energy. At this point, the carrier of my blessing was ostracized from all others as their mind slowly went more and more insane until they went right past mania into dementia and went on to being extremely paranoid and violent. They would attempt to kill anything near them that moved from their paranoia and the added anger.

Soon, yes soon, I stood at the entrance to a great building, shoving the door open and seeing all the familiar faces, thirteen...I quickly turned around and ran out, chased by angels with great wings and holding very well known blades...the previous users of the one thing I despised the most. I kept on going until I went through the portal, stopping among the rubble, the ponies staring at me yet again and the figures who came out. I needed to fight them all somewhere that wasn't their territory, somewhere where they couldn't manipulate the environment, and Equestria was perfect.

All of them had brought the assault on me and I was stuck defending myself, even with all my current power. This would be a difficult battle. I quickly sent out a message and a soul, a very familiar one zoomed from the dark blade in my hands. A large form of a royal guard stood, Siegfried, returning in all his glory, holding the sword that would rival the size of any monument, just a simple, black edge and white fuller made up the sharp blade, the handle was half the height of himself. He held it with ease, dark energy coming off of him. He quickly began swinging about the room, crushing more of it to clear structure for his massive sword to swing more properly. I had made the entire place once again grow gloomy with my presence. I quickly began the fight, charging in at them with Siegfried standing behind me.

I was on the offense for a little while, swinging rapidly and with precision, trying to end each life around me quickly. The minute one swipe came at me, I found myself defending. I heard a large wind motion and soon jumped, a few did with me and we continued battling in the air. Two of the twelve had been clearly crushed and sliced in half by Siegfried's great blade. I was pushing off other angels to remain in the center while changing to offensive yet again. Blood has exploded all over the rubble and the remaining combatants.

I only managed to get a good slash on one of them that I achieved after using the force of one of the angels parries and turning it into a quickly made attack on the leg of the now bleeding angel. It was after this that I had to go right back to being on a defensive stance. Seigfried had begun to swing his great blade at us in the air, knowing I would move out of the way. He caused the Angels to have something more to worry about. I quickly gathered dark energy within myself before letting out a powerful burst of it, causing the angels to fling back. I chased after one of them, impaling it onto my blade, defeating it with ease. Nine of the twelve remained. I used my force to fling myself off and back into the air.

They soon were upon me once again, harsh on their offensive. I had to use everything I knew to come out as winner in this, and I knew it, they knew it. I quickly began to charge even more dark energy up, this time I had a different idea in mind. There was a very hard to do thing that few powerful beings could do, and I began to manifest two shadows forms of me on the ground, near Seigfried. My mind began to process much more acutely as I took in the same analysis three times, save for what I was touching and me view point. I was seeing through three pairs of eyes as the black and purple swirling forms of me formed shadow blades and rushed at the angels in the air, Seigfried still swinging, his own form slowly dispersing as his soul's power waned. He would soon return to the Death Sword, without a doubt. Some of the angels soon got distracted, focusing on the other two forms of me. They divided quite well, three for each of us. I was able to slowly turn the tides of my own battles and began to take the offensive side, moving with great speed, the angels barely able to counter, parry, or block any of my attacks.

They began to heavily endorse the uses of their holy energy, forcing me to expend even more of my own. Our battles were taken everywhere in the room, fought on walls, the floor, sometimes using the roof as an advantage. I had to avoid blasts of yellow beams and orbs, but eventually, they had tired themselves out after many hours of battling and must have slipped up, allowing me to off each of them, one by one. Each time I was swift, and thorough, making sure my blade ended them. I had my two copies disappear and Seigfried was already back inside my dark blade, his last duty performed.

I continued to have dark energy pumped thoroughly into me, gaining more and more strength to continue on. I landed on the floor silently. All the ponies present were indeed smart and chose to watch the battles from afar and stared at my in fear and awe at what I had done. I slayed the souls of all twelve who were once wielders of the Heaven Sword...except one who once was, the main reason why this siege began.

And there was the reason, my wife, returned. Long blonde hair, reaching to her thighs, blue piercing eyes that were almost always soft, but this event probably had her emotions spiked. Round cheeks that were described everything cute, a button nose to further show the femininity present on her, she was the most beautiful mortal that lived...now immortal. In a regal white dress trimmed with real golden embroiderings that accented her beauty even more. She was perfect inside and out, her palish skin seeming to glow as she stood in front of the portal. I continued to stare at her, overwhelmed with emotions.

"I told you it was for love...all in the end, he really did love her to do this." Cadence spoke. I ignored her completely, I ignored all my surroundings, nothing mattered right now.

After a while of us just staring at each other, I finally began to slowly walk towards her, her piercing gaze never changing. There was complete silence in the room until about halfway there was a great cheering coming from the portal, no more sounds of battling...My forces had indeed won...they were probably soon going to gather fallen brothers and sisters armor suits and prepare the ceremonies for honoring them...and then come out and close off the portal.

I continued walking once the cheering ended, she still never changed her gaze, though she did look down to the fallen twelve wielders, her own angelic wings outstretched, she was the only person that could morally call herself an angel. About ten steps away she formed a yellow orb in her left hand and held it up as if she was going to throw it, the heavenly blade soon forming in her hand, she pointed the legendary blade at me.

"Take no steps further or I will end you..." She spoke in a commanding voice. They had to have changed her, filled her head with all these false intentions of mine. She accepted that I killed and destroyed before all this, it is what I do.

"I see they've done things to your head...to change your view on your husband. But what of your own kids?" I questioned, hoping to play at some strings in her heart.

"They are all dark, just like you." She retorted.

"Even Ulric?"

"Him too." I was astonished at these words...and I was forming a plan even as we spoke.

"How will you end me? you know my powers surpass anyone's now." This was a mind game now.

"Because I know you won't dare hurt me."

"And so you'd rather like me to spiral downward into such a mad descent that I bring even more ruin, suffering, and despair to mortals as are my ways when dealing with these things?" I knew I had her.

"I'll save them from you, easily. I've grown with my powers now..." She became something so very different.

"Can't you see that he's trying to recall memories and bring the real you back? He loves you with all his heart, he did this siege to bring you back!" Cadence spoke, probably the only one of them to be on my side.

"He only did it to wipe out all the angels." Her mind was too changed, it'd take so much to undo this.

"That's only one reason...the other was to get you back." I slowly walked toward her again, she lowered her blade.

She once again thrust it up to my face but before it hit me, I grabbed it, despite the cut it left that burned in my skin with such a maddening pain. She tried blasting the orb at me but I quickly nullified it using an overwhelming amount of dark energy. And I just embraced her, I hugged her tight, and I didn't know why. I hoped that it would bring her back...somewhere, deep down inside me, even though that the thousands of years of knowledge within my head told me it wouldn't...but I experienced for the first time in forever, such a human emotion, such hope within me.