The Four Horsemen of Equestria 2: Lucifer and the Seven Deadly Sins

Back in Canterlot

The clock tolled 10:00 pm.  The ball was about to start.  Oh, side note, it is customary for the Four Horsemen to dance first, and then the other ponies joins in.  Oh, and the boys, stallions, and colts don't see their partners 1 hour before the ball starts.  Chase was breathing heavily while adjusting his collar.  "This is a ball, not a wedding" Jack said.

"I know, but the more I see Princess Twilight, the more I get the urge of proposing."

"Look at Cale, he's dating Princess Celestia and he has his game face on." Jack gestured to me sitting on the handrail by the stairs tossing and catching a pouch containing 100 bits.

"Again with the Princess Celestia bullet?" I asked.  I tucked the pouch in my inner suit jacket pocket.  Remy was leaning against the wall, staring at the door.  I jumped off the handrail and approached him.  "How are you holding up?" I asked.

"I'm nervous" he said to me.

"I am too.  The Horsemen Ball was officially announced 3 months ago so this is the first time it's happening" I said.  Just then, the doors clicked and when they opened, we all poured inside.  As soon as the last stallion entered, the doors closed.  And now we wait for the mares to be on the opposite side of those doors.   Staying in the center of the large ballroom were me, Remy, and Chase.  "Oh, for the record, I did get a date.  I just didn't want to say it" Jack said as he stepped to the center.  The room was heavily decorated like it was a wedding rather than a ball.  "So I guess that you no longer own the bet money."

"Shit" I muttered.  I pulled out the small pouch and handed it to Remy.  "Split it with Chase."

"Later" he said with a grin as he took the pouch from me.

"Nah you can have mine" Chase responded.  Remy grinned a little wider and tucked his new earnings in his left pant pocket.

"So who's the lucky mare?" I asked, nudging Jack a little.  He only smiled and put a finger to his lips as a response.  I rolled my eyes when he did that.  Just then, the doors opened and wouldn't you know it? The mares were behind the doors.  (Picture the same gown the Princesses wore during Twilight's coronation and imagine what Spitfire wore during W

  "It's like high school prom again" Remy said as he adjusted his hat.   The four mares that entered through the doors first were Princess Celestia, Princess Twilight Sparkle, Spitfire, and Princess Luna.  I was so lost in Princess Celestia's eyes, that the second she approached me, I didn't care what was happening around me anymore.  All that mattered to me was the mare in front of me.  Behind us on the stage, a group of ponies began to play classical music.  Princrss Celestia rose on her hind legs and placed a hoof on my shoulder and another on my hand.  I in return placed my free hand on her shoulder and waltzed.  Using my peripheral vision, I saw my three Horsemen comrades get into a waltz position with their partners and waltzed around the room.  Several seconds later, the rest of the ponies got with their partners and waltzed.

"I'm sorry I asked you at the last minute" Remy apologized to Spitfire.  He cleared his throat.  "I didn't know that the ball--" Spitfire placed a hoof over his mouth.

"Don't worry about it, soldier.  Next time, try to ask me a little earlier." She released her hoof from his mouth.

"Yes ma'am" he said.

Behind Remy, and past a small crowd of waltzing ponies, Jack was waltzing with Princess Luna.  From where Jack stood, he could see the moon outside.  Unlike the usual full moon, the moon tonight was crescent.  "I like what you did with the moon.  It's not a common thing to see the crescent moon" he commented.

"Thou art impressed?" Princess Luna asked.

"Very" Jack said, as he pulled her aside so they won't be in the way of the ponies behind him.  "Now I know me asking you to dance was very unexpected.  I blame Cale for not telling us sooner."

"I did" I said a few feet away from him.  "But you seemed frantic to find a partner and I assumed that you didn't hear a single word I said."  Jack rolled his eyes and turned his attention back to Princess Luna.

"Now what was I about to ask? Oh yeah."  Before he could talk, a hoof tapped him on the shoulder.  "Not now, I'm in the middle of--" when he turned around, he gasped.  "Mom? Dad?" He asked.

"Hi son" Princess Cadance said, hugging him.  (Again, picture her attire from Twilight's coronation).

"Please, not in front of Princess Luna, not everypony in Canterlot probably knows about the adoption thing."

"It's been two years Remy, everypony knows" Shining Armor said.  (His attire is the one he wore at his wedding).

'I forgot' Jack thought.  After his encounter which he found embarrassing, but Princess Luna found sweet, the two continued waltzing.  On the other side of the ballroom was Chase.  Pushing aside his proposal plan, he put on his game face and focused on the event he's currently in.

"Chase, who taught you how to dance so well? The last time we danced, you were so fidgety and nervous." Remembering that time, the reason for that was at the time, he planned to propose to her but after thinking about it, it was too soon. Thinking of lie, he gulped.  "I was a practicing my dance.... With a mannequin.  Kind of embarrassing if you ask me" he laughed nervously.  Princess Twilight smiled and rested her head on his chest.  Chase blushed a little and smiled as the two continued to waltz.

"The more comfortable I feel about this ball," I said as Princess Celestia and I sat on the sidelines.  "The more I have to realize that this is the first time it's happening."

"Yes, and everything is going as how I imagined it" she said.

"I'm glad you did, otherwise I wouldn't be seeing that" I pointed to the side and saw Remy and Jack dancing with each other.  We could even hear their argument.

"You and your big mouth" Jack grumbled.

"Come on Jack no disgrace in this happening" Remy said.

"No disgrace? We're two grown men dancing together." He then imitated Remy.  " 'Oh Your Highness, can I ask Jack something? It's important' " he returned to his normal voice.  "Asshole" he muttered.  Remy looked around the room.  "Ok" he said.  He then threw Jack so hard, that when he bumped into Princess Luna, the two ended up in a perfect waltz position.

"Strike!" He said happily.  He then turned to Spitfire.  "Now where we?" He asked as he bowed and held out his hand to her.  Princess Celestia and I laughed at the scene.

"Two years" I said.  "We've been in Equestria for two years." As I let the thought sink into me, Princess Celestia hesitantly placed her hoof on my hand.  I glanced down at her hoof and looked at her eyes with a surprised look on my face.  Again I was lost with love when I saw her purple eyes.  So lost in fact, that I absentmindedly leaned forward to kiss her.  Before our lips could touch, a demonic face flashed in my head.  I cried out and grasped my head.

"Cale?" Princess Celestia asked with worry in her voice.

"The time has come, War!" A demonic voice rang in my head.

While Remy waltzed with Spitfire, he saw me curl up on the floor.  "Cale? He asked

"Death... It's time to raise hell!" the same demonic voice that got me reached him.  Remy groaned in pain and grasped his head, giving Spitfire a worried look.

"Goddamn it..." He moaned and he knelt on the floor.  "What the fuck is going on?"

"Famine!" The demonic voice rung in Jack's head.  The thief and gambling expert moaned and collapsed on the floor grasping his head.  "Famine! The time for the Horsemen to ride has come!"

"Ah shit!" He yelled.  "Make it stop!"  Princess Luna was by his side, cradling him in her hooves.

Chase was on the ground, curled up, grasping his head while screaming in pain.  As the ponies in the room looked at us with fear and worry, the demon's voice rang through the walls of the room.

"The time has come my Horsemen! Ride out to Hell City and cause the apocalypse! I will be there to witness the mayhem you were made to cause!" His laugh echoed loudly through the room until it slowly resonated.  As soon as the laugh stopped, I got to my feet and turned to Princess Celestia.  "I'm going to library to find out what the hell happened."