Master's Will

Celestia was looking at the items that Luna had told her about earlier, going over the pros and cons of using the sealing ritual. Maybe it would be best if we just sealed the demon away. But I know that the seal would eventually be broken, even if it would be in a year or a century before it would happen.” She thought to herself. And if I choose to seal it away I won’t be able get back at it for doing this to my little ponies. The problem is that I have no way of saving the pony it has possessed if I don’t seal it away.

These types of thoughts ran through her mind for the next few hours as she went about her duties organizing different searching parties for the demon and her student. She had now called in more than fifty of her own guard ponies with an additional twenty of her sister’s guards to help search for this damned thing. She had also had the mayor put out a warning across the town telling all ponies to stay in their houses and to report anything out of the ordinary to the guards that were positioned on every street.

Her sun was low in the sky covering Equestria in a golden glow when Luna returned to the base camp that had been set up just outside of Ponyville’s outskirts.

“Sister you need to sleep it’s been nearly three days since you last laid your head down to rest.” Luna said while placing her hoof on Celestia’s back.

“No. I refuse to sleep while my subjects are in danger.” Celestia turned to look at her sister. Both alicorns had been deprived of more than one day of sleep because of this search. Their eyes were blood shot and had bags under them. “Anyway I could easily say the same about you my dear sister.”

“Yes I know.” Luna let out a long yawn covering her mouth with a hoof. “We both need to sleep so shy don’t you join me. The guards we have can easily take care of finding this demon for a few hours.”

“Ok Luna I guess your…” She flinched as a surge of disturbing and dark magic flared up from Ponyville. *Sigh*”I guess no sleep for me any time soon.” Celestia said in a sad voice. Turning to Luna she spoke up in a bit of a reluctant voice.”I have been thinking about this a great deal and Luna you have my permission to start preparing for the sealing ritual. Have it ready by the time I get back.”

Shortly after Celestia rushed off with guards in tow towards Ponyville to find the most recent of the Master’s ‘messes’.

A few minutes before hand Dinky Hooves was awoken by a splash of some sort of warm liquid being poured on her. She was able to see the last of the red content leaving the glass as it poured down on her. She looked up at the detestable mare that had awoken her, not sure if she should be happy that she was finally able to wake up from the nightmares that plagued her sleep or be angry that she was brought back into this one. But soon enough the memories of what Fluttershy had done to her mother returned to her and her heart filled with rage.

Dinky moved her fore hooves and found that they were no longer bound down the table she was on before. She tried lifting herself up to get a better view of the room but when she put pressure on her right leg she instantly collapsed in pain. A few of the stitches had broken causing blood to start to seep down her leg. She laid there looking at her surroundings.

No longer was she in the same mold covered room where her mother had died, instead she was a much larger one that had windows but all of them were covered by planks of wood blocking any sunlight from entering. The lights had some sort of a red fabric covering them making them give off a red glow. Dinky then look down at the floor and noticed that she was inside of a large black circle covered with runes and strange markings. But hers wasn’t the only pentacle. To her right was smaller one that had a small furry creature in it, and to her left was a pentacle about the same size as hers but empty. Each of the pentacles were connected by lines that had been carved into the floor.

Suddenly a hoof grabbed her face and brought Dinky’s eyes to meet two teal eyes that filled her with a feeling that she had never felt before. Dinky couldn’t move or look away from Fluttershy’s stare. It just left her with a horrid feeling as if her entire body was being crushed by two blocks of ice. Dinky started to shake as those eyes filled her with dread making her insides clench up into one big knot.

Fluttershy slowly walked backwards into the empty pentacle never taking her eyes away from her victim. She started muttering words under her breath as the grin on her face continued to grow larger. Her voice grew in volume until she was amost screaming demonic words that filled Dinky with even more dread.

As her chant neared its finish the runes outlining Fluttershy’s pentacle stared glowing red and when it came to a finish a great flash of light shot out from her pentacle towards the two that were opposite of it followed by a rather loud boom.

A captain of Celestia’s guards named Phalanx was wearily walking down the street followed closely by two other guards, one a earth pony and the other a unicorn. Phalanx had no idea why the princesses would need to waste so much time over something small like this, but then again he had only just arrived.

The two guards that he was assigned to go on patrol with were rookies, fresh out of training and looking to prove themselves. Phalanx let out a sigh of annoyance thinking about how pointless this was. His thoughts were suddenly interrupted by a loud boom that came from a nearby house.

He looked back at the unicorn guard with a questioning look in his eyes. All he got in return was a sharp nod assuring him that the boom was caused by magic. But not any magic, it was the same kind of magic that Celestia had given each one of her unicorn guards a sample of so they would know what the demon felt like.

Phalanx and the two guards rushed up to the doors of the house that the boom had come from. After knocking and not getting a reply all three bucked at the door as hard as they could making it fly inward and slam against the wall.

They took up a formation as they slowly walked into the house keeping an eye open for anything unusual.

Unfortunately for them they weren’t able to make it ten feet before the two rookies doubled over as their dinners left them because of the smell of blood that permeated the air.

Seeing her chance a dark figure darted out of a corner in the room and before any of them could react the flash of a knife headed downward into the head of the earth pony. Valance was quick to react when another knife appeared in the mares hoof and was thrown at him. He easily dodged it by rolling under it towards the mare. But the unicorn right behind him who was still emptying his stomach wasn’t so lucky as the blade entered his eye making him collapse with a thud.

With a great amount of anger towards this fiendish mare that had struck down two of his allies he turned on his fore hooves and bucked with all his might. His rear hooves made contact with the grinning face of the mare making her head fly back with a loud CRACK! Her body flew back and hit a wall with a thud.

Phalanx walked up to the unmoving body and stared at the un-neatly shaven form. He spat on the corps and walked back to his fallen comrades to remove the weapons that stuck out from their bodies but stopped when he heard a feint crying. Looking around half expecting something else to attack him he started searching for the source of the weeping. After opening three different doors in the house that only lead to empty rooms he found the right one. As the door creaked open the sound increased significantly. The door revealed a long set of stairs that lead down into a dark basement.

Valance slowly crept down the stairs, cringing as each hoof step caused the wood to protest. He fumbled around for a few minutes looking for a light switch as the crying continued on. When he finally found it and turned it on he let out a gasp as he looked upon a blood covered filly sitting in a large puddle of blood. But what really made him shocked was the dead mare right above her and what the filly was hugging.

Dinky was holding the entrails of her mother closely as she sobbed underneath Ditsy’s dead split open body. It was at this point when the captain lost control of his stomach and the hay and cheese sandwich he had eaten for dinner displayed itself all over the basement floor.
Shortly after Phalanx could hear multiple hoof steps coming from above mixed with Celestia’s voice issuing orders to search the house.

Celestia was surprised when she saw two of her royal guards face down in pools of their own bodies. She turned away from the sight and looked over at the body of the mare that was in the corner of the house. It took but one glance at the shaven body for her to recognize it as Fluttershy. Celestia could feel a tear run down her face but she wasn’t allowed to weep for much longer when a great commotion came from the back of the house.

She walked over to the doors where one of her captains who she recognized as Phalanx stopping anypony else from entering the door.

“Phalanx! What is the meaning of all this ruckus?” She asked with anger in her voice.

“Princess Celestia I cannot have any other guards entering this door for what lies behind it is fragile.” He said not even flinching at the angry look she was giving him.

“What are you talking about? What is so important that you will not allow your fellow comrades do their duties?”

“My lady through this door and down those stairs is…well I let you see for yourself. But I must warn you what you will find is not pleasant.” Phalanx moved aside and let her walk by but quickly baring the way so nopony else could get by.

When she was half way down the stairs when the soft sound of a crying filly hit her ears. When she arrived in the basement she put a hoof to her mouth as she looked over the carnage before her. A gray mare hanging limply from a table…or what was left of her was. All that was left was the hooves and a head that had tubes sticking down its throat, most of which could be seen dangling from the bottom end of the head. All that was keeping what was left of the body together was the spinal column and the coat that covered the back of the mare.

Celestia nearly didn’t notice the crying filly hugging the remains of her mother because of all the blood that covered the floor. Moving forward not even care about the blood that splashed onto her fur from each hoof step, Celestia went over to Dinky Hooves and picked her up with her magic. She forced the entrails from the fillies grasp which made Dinky scream at her to put her down and looked hard into the fillies eyes.

Celestia was equally happy as she was disappointed when she couldn’t sense the slightest amount of insanity in the tear filled golden eyes. She brought Dinky to her chest not caring that it might leave her fur stained with blood and wrapped the filly in a big hug.

Dinky punched her hooves against the bigger pony telling her to let go before just letting go and allowing a new set of tears roll down her face as she returned Celestia’s hug. She pushed her face into the princess’s chest letting everything go.

”S-s-she murdered her.” Cried Dinky. ”She made me watch as she killed my mommy.” Celestia let tears roll down her cheeks and cried along with the filly for nearly five minutes before a voice came down from the stairway.

“Princess Celestia is everything alright?” Phalanx said with a concerned voice.

Wiping away the tears on her face she called up to her guards. “Yes everything is alright. I’m coming back up now.” With that she made her way back up the stairs still holding Dinky in one hoof. When she arrived some of her guards let out small gasps when they saw the blood covered filly in their princess’s arm. She ignored this and turned to Phalanx. “I want you clean things up in here,” She moved closer to him so Dinky couldn’t hear. “and please try and put this one’s mother back together as bet as you can. I don’t care if you have to use magic to sow her body back together so long as she looks like nothing happened.”

Celestia moved away from the captain and headed out the door to find a place where she could get the poor filly cleaned up.

Twilight was enjoying the feeling of the warm soup that she had just eaten when there came the familiar feeling of her master’s magic flaring up.

“Well I guess break time is over. That you ever so much for feeding me Zecora.”Twilight said tapping the side of the iron cauldron with a wooden spoon while giggling.

She turned towards the front door and headed down the path that led to Ponyville. She was stuck between crying and laughing as she trotted down the road. A never ending line of random words, most of which were made up, left her mouth. Nothing dared getting in her way as she walked down the path, even the plants seemed to lean away as she passed, out of fear of what the crazed unicorn might do if they made contact with her.

Twilight made good time getting to Ponyville just several minutes after the demonic magical outburst. But before entering she quickly cast a invisibility spell over herself so she would be able to move freely without having to deal with any of the pesky guards that filled the town. On her way to the area that the outburst originated from she could have sworn she saw a red rabbit hopping away in the opposite direction. Not thinking it was anything important Twilight continued onward until she reached Derpy Hooves house.

It was surrounded by guard ponies, most of which were unicorns. ’Damn How the buck do I get in now. If I come within ten feet of one of those accursed guards they will notice me even with the cloaking spell on.’ Just then Celestia came walking out of the house making Twilight flinch in fear that she would be noticed. She darted off behind a trash can on the other side of the road knowing that is wouldn’t be able to help her if the princess did sense her. Twilight stayed there for a few moments half expecting a magical aura to throw away the trash can and bind her down while guards pounced on her.

The aura never came and Twilight tempted a glance around the trash can. ’What’s going on? At this range Celestia should have easily been able to sense my magic. So why hasn’t she?’ Twilight thought to herself as she watched her mentor start to walk down the street. ’I don’t get it…wait what is that red thing that she is holding? Twilight strained her eyes as she tried getting a better look at what Celestia had in one of her fore hooves. Soon enough she realized that the red mass was a small filly covered in blood.

’Interesting…hehe. She must be Master’s new host that lucky filly. But I wonder why I don’t feel his presence around her. Master must have some greater plan in store for her.’ Twilight quickly got a move on and followed Celestia being careful not to get to close to the sun goddess. She was able to follow the princess all the way to the camp before having to give up because of all the Royal guards positioned all over the place. Losing site of Celestia, Twilight was forced to climb up one of the nearby buildings to get a better view (which wasn’t very easy for her to do considering she was unable to use her magic without being detected).

Twilight was able to get in one slight glance of Celestia form before it disappeared inside a large tent. Cursing to herself, the unicorn was about to leave the roof top to search for away into the camp but something caught her attention in the corner of her eye. A few tents away from where Celestia had entered was a large open clearing that had multiple unicorns casting spells at the ground. From Twilight’s angle it looked as if they were drawing a large circle in the dirt. She decided to stay up on the roof to see how things played out.

Luna was watching over the pentacle’s creation with great care making sure that everything would be ready for when they would finally capture whoever the demon was possessing. But then her sister came walking back into the camp carrying something in her fore hoof. This piqued Luna’s curiosity and after making sure that the unicorn guards were doing everything that they were meant to, she followed Celestia into their tent. By the time Luna had entered the tent Celestia had already had a large tub of water brought in that was now filled with suds.

“Sister what is it thou art doing?” Luna asked with a puzzled look on her face.

“Sister this demon has done the unthinkable once again.” Celestia said a heart broken tone while moving aside so Luna could see what was sitting in the tub. It was a small filly half covered in blood and half covered in foamy white bubbles. It was painfully obvious that she had been crying a great deal and looked as if she was nearly on the verge of tears right now. “Luna that damned demon killed this one’s mother right in front of her while she watched.”

Celestia had her hooves in the tub and was gently scrubbing the shaking filly’s main to get the blood out of it. Luna watched
with unbelieving eyes for a few moments before noticing the line of black stitches running down one of the light purple legs.

“Celestia have you not noticed that this filly is hurt.” Luna stated. Celestia quickly looked over Dinky urgently before her eyes looked upon the ghastly mixture of stitches and scabs running down her leg.

“Doctor! Get in here quickly!” She yelled pulling Dinky out of the water and lying her down on a nearby table. She quickly ran a towel over just as a guard with a white leather jacket that had a red cross on its back came in. She quickly showed Dinky’s cut to him and he immediately got to work. But when he reached out to check the stitches Dinky screamed, jumped off the table, and was barely caught in time by Celestia’s magic before she hit the ground.

“No! No please. He’s going to hurt me no!” Dinky screamed, struggling to break free of the magic that was binding her body. “No more please!”

Bringing Dinky to her face Celestia started to talk to the filly in soothing tones to calm her down. “It’s ok now. Come on now just calm down. This kind pony here just wants to look at that bad cut on your arm.” She pointed at the doctor with one of her hooves. “Do you think you can stay still for a moment while he examines you?”

Dinky looked into Celestia’s eyes and nodded softly. After putting her down, Celestia felt Luna tugging on her tail and when she looked back at her sister who was gesturing with her head that she wanted to talk outside. Celestia said some reassuring words to Dinky that she would be right back before following Luna outside. Once out the younger sister gave Celestia a very stern angry look.

“Sister what is wrong with you.” Luna said in a quiet but fierce voice so nopony could hear them. “Did you even consider that that filly might be possessed by the very demon we are looking for!”

“No I know that she doesn’t have that damned thing in her, I have seen into her eyes and they hold no insanity that would even hint that he was in her.” Celestia replied in an angry tone.

“Is it that your lack of sleep has derived you of your sense of protocol! Why didn’t you at least check her with you magic to be sure.”

“Me not getting enough sleep has nothing to do with it! She was so traumatized when I found her I didn’t dare to check her.” Luna gave Celestia a look of disbelief.”For bucks sake Luna! When I had found her she was crying while hugging the innards of her mother. If anything it is you who’s judgment is being distorted by a lack of sleep, how do you explain how she has been acting up until now. All I see in there is a scared little filly who was forced to watch a demon kill her mother and she is in need of comfort! If I can’t at least do that then I am not fit to even rule anymore.”

Luna was speechless at her sister’s words. Never had she ever her Celestia doubt her own resolve before. “Sister…we are sorry. No pony else is fit to rule Equestria but you. You have worked harder than I have ever seen anypony else to catch this demon. If that isn’t a sign that you are fit to rule then what is? You care for everypony as if they were you very own...well excluding Blueblood maybe” Luna said chuckling to herself a bit.

This put a smile on Celestia’s face and she looked at her sister with thankful eyes for the encouragement that was just said to her. “Thank you Luna. I-I’m just so tired of my little ponies dying because of what this demon has done.” Celestia pulled her sister into a hug and held it for a minute or two. When the embrace was done Celestia said in a tired voice. ”If you wish you can conduct a scan of the filly.”

“Thank you sister.” Luna said smiling.”Shall we?” She asked while holding the flaps to the tent open. The two walked in just as the Doctor was finishing his inspection of Dinky’s leg. Celestia dismissed the doctor after he gave her a full report on what he thought had caused the cut and what he thought they should do about it.

“Now little one I need you to hold still for a few moments.” Celestia said with soothing tones to Dinky who was looking at her with unsure eyes.”My sister here wishes to do a simple scan of your mind. You won’t feel a thing and it will be over as fast as it starts so you have nothing to fear.”

Dinky looked at Luna with a bit of a fearful look as she approached lowering her head so her horn would be level with Dinky’s.

Luna was just a few inches away when something unexpected happened. A flare of demonic energy came from the filly and she screamed in agony as her soul was consumed by dark energy. Dinky’s eyes immediately turned red and before either of the two Princesses could do anything two small gray hooves grabbed hold of Luna’s head and closed the gap between the two horns. A massive burst of red evil energy left Dinky and shot into Luna’s horn with a resounding BOOM!

Luna reared back screaming in pain as the demon started ravaging her mind, slowly bending her to his will. For any other creature it would take seconds but because this was a goddess he was possessing it would take him a considerable amount more to bring her under submission.

It took a few moments for Celestia to process what had happened. Dinky was on the floor and she wasn’t moving and Luna was opposite the filly hitting her head as she screamed out with ear piercing screams. But when her senses returned to her she immediately bond her sister with magic and teleported both of them to the pentacle outside.

”QUICKLY YOU FOOLS BRING THE ITEMS AND START THE RITUAL! I CANT HOLD HER BACK MUCH LONGER!” Celestia yelled out infusing her voice with magic making it boom throughout the camp. Three nearby guard unicorns were shocked at first of her abrupt appearance but once her voice hit them they rushed into their places around the pentacle. A fourth unicorn came out levitating a vial of moon dew, the diamond dog heart, and swallows feather behind him and placed them in front of each of the other unicorns.

Once the required items were placed in where they needed to go the pentacle glowed with a white light that ran through all of the carved out lines. Celestia severed the magic binding her sister and quickly had the ritual book levitated over to her. The incantation was in the Zebra language so Celestia was the last pony within a hundred miles that could read it properly.

”KECH KAYA TICH MABER EROKAMANO,” She said starting the incantation as she read from the book.

”NYINGI NG’A NYATHI SKUL,” There was a sudden commotion coming from the edge of the camp but
Celestia couldn’t break her concentration for anything.

”DHAKO DICHUO RAWERA DUWE,”

Two bursts of magic flashed past Celestia striking two of the guards in the pentacle making them collapse instantly.

”JA RATENG KAWUONO KWAR ADWARO CHIEMO,”

“Master! Nooooo!”

”ORITI, ORITI, ORITI!”

As the last words were spoken the light emanating from the pentacle increased in brightness. But just as the purifying spell was about to be released on Luna a flash of purple appeared out of nowhere. Before Celestia or anypony else could do anything a unicorn jumped in the pentacle colliding with Luna just as the spell was released.
In a blinding flash of light the spell did its work consuming Twilight and Luna in magic. Every pony that was looking was either forced to look away or cover their faces. All that could be heard before the light started to fade was Twilights voice screaming out one last time to her master.

The light faded and Celestia looked into the pentacle with a concered look that quickly turned into one of shock at what she saw. Her sister was completely fine except for the face that she was huddled in a ball crying to herself. But what made the princess shocked was the purple little filly that was slowly pushing herself up onto her fore hooves looking around groggily. Lying next to the filly Twilight was a glowing red gem the size of a button.

“W-what’s going on? Where am I?” Twilight said in a squeaky voice as she started to tear up.

“Twilight are you ok?” Celestia said as she hesitantly approached.

Twilight snapped her head in the direction of the princess looking at her with a confused expression. “Umm…miss who are you?” she said. Celestia let out a sob and wrapped Twilight in a big hug and started crying. “Miss what’s the matter is everything alright?”

“Yes every thing’s alright. Everything is fine. Now that it’s finally over.” Celestia said in between sobs.

The small rabbit waited patiently behind a barrel as he waited for two royal guards to pass. It seemed like forever until they passed and seeing his chance he made one last run towards the Everfree forest. As he was about to enter the blood covered bunny known simply as Angel made one last glance behind him at Ponyville with a large hellishly insane grin on his face.

Dont ask if im doin a follow up caust I dont know. Anyway for those of you that liked it your welcome. Tell me what you think and here is a little secret about this story...I did not proof read it because i couldnt bring myself to read something this gory and horrid. :P Oh well its been fun trying something new like this. Thank you for sticking with me and sorry if i went to far on the fillies of Ponyville.

PS. I regret nothing Bwahahahahahahahahhahahahaha!