The Monsters of Sepia’s Past

~"What happened to you, Brother?"~

A few moments of standing and the door had opened before her. She took a step a closer to what lead into another dimension of its own. At the opening of the door spilled down a wave of dark purple ooze, which had touched the legs of the two statues, standing on either side. The ooze passed along the legs of the statues, and they began to move as if they were alive. The fists of both statues came crashing down right in front of Minu, ans she lead backwards with not enough time to recover properly, landing down onto her rump.

"And did you think you were going, missy?" a voice spoke. Minu looked up and saw two creatures of great stature and renowned strength.

"Oh, look another opportunity for me to gain more power," the centaur looking beast spoke.

"Who are you!" Minu demanded of both her adversaries.

The skinny confused looking creature placed its lion paw to its chest and said, "Why, I am Discord, Lord of Chaos. And you are my little pony?"

"Faust! I mean Minu! Arrgh, don't you dare refer to me by the before or I will remove the tooth sticking out of your mouth!" Minu said as she stood up and glared at the creatures.

"None of that will be happening because I will have gotten all the power I need from you and you will be no more, just like the other foolish equines that were foolish enough to travel up here," the centaur spoke, "Since you are going to die here I will give you the honor of my own name, which is Tirek."

"Now that you know both of our names, do you have any last words, missy?" Discord said cracking his knuckles. Minu's eyes had narrowed as she scrapped her hooves along the ground and huffed as her wings stretched out ready to take flight.

In split of a moment, Discord punched down to where Minu had stood and opened a hole within the floor. His eyes moved to the side and watched at Minu who landed a great distance away from them.

"Huh, very good! Most don't survive the first blow their usually punched away from off the castle, so you must be a fighter! Oooh, now to get more action pact," Discord said as his eyes narrowed with an evil grin stretched across his face. He zigzaged through the hall at lightning speed. His lion fist made contact with her muzzle, as his body came besides her, and the force had sent Minu flying back at lightning speed hitting the wall just above the entrance of the hall.

"Ahh! Ughhh!" were the yells that came from Minu as she fell to the ground in pain. She got up and dashed forward only to have been kicked into the wall at lightning speed.

"Awww, can't keep up? Should I go slower for you? I don't want the fun that I've been waiting years for to die out so quickly," Discord said as he stood before Minu, stroking his beard. She got up coughing up a bit of blood.

Shit... these two are unique and very strong. I could overwhelm them with my power, but that might destroy the only entrance to see my brother, she thought as she got up from the ground and looked to Discord with one of her eyes swollen with blood which leaked and made part of her vision red and blurry. At the moment, she along with Discord and Tirek heard the doors to the other dimension closing.

I must escape to through the doors before the close and I have to fight to reopen them.

Minu opened her wings, but the ground began to crumbling beneath her. She looked beyond Discord and saw the crumbling extended all the way back to were Tirek had smashed in the ground. Minu's eye began to glow a bright white before she disappeared before Discord and dashed on forward through Tirek's legs as she headed to the entrance.

Discord dashed passed Tirek and was only a tongue's distance behind Minu. However, he was not fast enough to grab her whole, so he ripped off one of her hind legs. Minu went crashing down towards the portal, not knowing what to expect from the other side.

Minu dashed on to the world beyond with a few major wounds from the quick blows she had received from Discord. She made it through but had to stay within that space she was in for a while. The door had closed solidifying them in place.

"If they were able to do this to me.. then Keme must be much more sinister and powerful to have gone through these doors and remained here all of this time." Minu recovered her wounds in silence as she looked around.

The space Minu remained to heal her wounds was a small space with the doors so close on either side. The rest of the space was void, a space filled with darkness that went on forever in all directions. She couldn't figure out what the place had meant, but it was then she had realized that she was able to move freely and finish her search which was just beyond the doors before her. The door before her was much larger in size and mass. It appeared to be just a giant door of dark energy, but Minu was able to feel her brother's fading presence beyond it.

She decided to dash on through the door, but it seemed that going full speed into the door only made her journey take forever. It took her a few tries to understand that trotting was the only way she was going to reach the door. It took her what felt to her like a day to travel across what seemed like a sea of darkness and stand before the great door. She used her horn and turned her head left to unlock the door.It was then she saw her brother, Keme.

"Brother! Brother!?" Minu yelled out to him. She entered through the door with a spirit of gladness and hope, but it was all shattered away upon seeing his appearance. He was much larger than she had remembered, dwarfing her. His eyes had remained blue but his pupils were different. They had great depth, but within the deepest parts was darkness like she had never felt before. Minu felt as if her soul was ready to be taken within his eye. She had to begin using up more of her magic energy to stay put on her hooves and to talk to him without being taken by his eyes of great deception.

Minu's body began to understand what level of power her brother had in his grasp. Her brother had smiled down at her and said, "It has been such a long time, dear sister. How have you been?"

Minu was happy to respond with, "I've been worried about you. You had not come to where we usually meet every millennium for some time, and I wanted to know what happened after you had not come unto me the second time, so I went to search for you.

"I mean had an idea of why you left me, but I wanted to search for you anyways. But much to my surprise I find you locked away here, why?"

Keme smiled and said, "It was I that chose to stay here." His expression had quickly changed into a sour one and continued, "If I couldn't spend more time with you, and if you wouldn't understand what I have seen with what our father has done to us, then what was ever the point in returning?"

"It was what he had to do, Keme. What were we to do? He could see beyond what we cannot see. Was there really anything to be about that?"

"Yes, there was," Keme said.

"Okay then, what? Fight him? We are his creations, dear brother. It would be foolish to do that against him. We would lose," Minu said as she looked away from him.

"The core did not know what was good for us. For eons, our father thought he knew of the right thing for us, but I always knew he did not know what was best for us. Who's to say he wasn't planning to wipe us out and create new beings?"

"Your talking foolishly brother, stop," Minu responded.

"Why because you're afraid?" Keme asked.

"What does that have anything to do with being afraid? It's just what it is brother. Why do you refuse to take to the side of logic? Do you think you, or I, or even us both stands a chance against the one and only god of the universe?"

"Wrong," Keme responded.

"Wrong?" Minu spoke back, "How?"

"Because he isn't."

"Because he isn't? Keme, brother! Have you lost all that was left of your intelligence!?" Minu said as she opened her wings out.

"No, I haven't. In fact, I have more intelligence and insight into the future than our father would ever have."

Minu's wings had folded as she watched his wings open out. He leaned in towards her, stretching out his hand and showing her what appeared to be a small half core. She looked at the half core and then looked to him.

"Eat it."

"Why?" Minu responded.

"Together, you and I will be able to overthrow our father once and for all. Then we could rule the universe and make our own rules. And their will be no one there to rule over us again," Keme said as his eyes narrowed with his evil grin. He moved his tail from behind and placed it down between them both, showing her a book.

"This book has much more power and ancient knowledge and secrets of our universe. You won't regret eating it if you do. I assure you that dear sister."

"Where was the other book that was given to both of us?" Minu had asked.

"I threw it away. No need to have something that is rendered useless to a greater and more knowledgeable book, right?" Keme smiled, bearing his sharp teeth, "Ever since I began chatting with the other core, she has given me more power than I could have ever imagined. Now I see the entire universe in a more informed lighting. You will too, just take it sister," Keme brought the half core closer to her, but she stepped away. "Please?"

Keme used his manipulative eyes to try and convince her, but she quickly caught on and looked down at the ground to avoid his deceiving gaze.

"No. And that is final, Keme," Minu had said.

Keme was very disappointed by his sister's final decision on the matter.

"...Fine then, sister," He then swallowed what was left of the core's power and became whole. He turned into a full-fledged core. Minu asked him how come there was two cores in the first place, and he told her, "...In the beginning, there were two cores that coexisted with each other, but the core we listened to and referred to as great, all knowing, almighty, was actually jealous of the core that is now within me, banishing him to this planet never to be seen by anyone again."

He then went to explain to her why the core they served was jealous. Although it sounded convincing to Minu's ears she couldn't change her mind until she heard the core's side to the story he was telling her so she still refused to go along with the other core's will to ruling the universe. Keme went further into saying that there wouldn't be much of a difference and that they would be able to spend all the time we want together.

Minu then said, "...But look at you, there's nothing of you that I remember in your appearance save your essence."

"Don't worry about that, sister," Keme replied, smiling and swinging his long neck around her. "Look at me now, for I have become a new creature through the power of the core, more powerful and knowledgeable too. So shall you be if you yield your mind and thoughts over to the core's voice like we did, listening to the core before now.

"The choice is yours dear sister. The time is at hand for the world to change back to the way it was, and have an even better and larger universe. Consider these things which I lay before you sister."

Keme's voice became hazy, and he backed away from Minu confused at what was happening to his beautiful voice of boldness. Minu was also confused and became afraid as she watched him grow very large. She flew away from her brother to escape his quick growth. When Minu sensed that he had stopped growing, she looked up but could not make out his size. All she was able to see were the massive claws of his feet that stretched for miles.

"...What happened to you? Where did you go?" Minu said, looking up to the void space above her.

I guess... I just grew larger. However, you have wounded me by your decision sister. The only thing I could do now is... the only thing... I could do to you now... is put to an end all the torment and misery in your existence.

Keme pressed down on to the surface below to crush his own sister with the palm of his hand. Minu moved with lightning speed away from his attack, but the winds had knock her off balance in flight, spiraling out from that dimension and entering in and through the void out through the great door. She spiral off of the castle and down on to the desert grounds below where she, upon landing, had broken her left wing and both her forelegs.

The force and shock had knocked the mare out, leaving her almost unconscious. Minu began to process things very slow, having flashing images that passed on through her thoughts. Rocks falling, Walls crumbling, Sky darkening, then a massive blue fills her entire vision. Her senses fully recovered upon being shaken by a huge explosion from that happened atop the tower followed by a gravitational pull, she was pulled up along with huge rocks and chunks of metal were pulled up along with her as well. She tried using her magic before reaching the source of its pull, but she couldn't fully perform her spell in time to lock its entrance.

When she neared the portal, Keme's extraordinarily gargantuan arm came out of the portal with much speed, knocking Minu back away into the distance. He opened out his hand and gripped around the edges of the portal, pulling himself from out of the small dark void back into his own space of the universe. His eyes narrowed and a smile dawned upon his face.

Yes... for so many years I have waited for this moment. To finally bend the course of this very universe to my own will, and then I will guide its future by my great wisdom. Time to bring the dawn of a new age.

Minu, getting up from the massive graveyard of fallen equine soldiers, looked up at her brother who was already halfway out of the portal. His giant wings seeming to have blot out the heavens, turning it all to pitch black.

"I cannot see anything. Had it not been for my natural glow, I would have been completely blinded of my surroundings," Minu said as she watched as Keme's tail slithered from out of the portal. The castle crumbled down into a giant mass of rubble upon the crushing weight of his hand. His feet had slipped from out of the portal crashing down onto what then became ruined remains of the old castle. Keme rose up from the ground to the heavens and sneezed out the dusty remains of the ancient castle. He closed his eyes and breathed out.

"...Father"