The Sulreif Demigod

“Why do you think Celestia sent us to check out Twilight’s library at a time like this?” Fluttershy asked, flying next to Rainbow Dash across Ponyvillie.

“I have no idea. She didn’t even say what we’re supposed to be looking for.
She just looked and said “I want you two, and only you two, to fly to Twilight’s library to find anything that may be of use”

“Is she talking about a book or something?” Rainbow Dash asked herself.

Fluttershy looked down for a moment. “I hope Twilight and Pinkie will be alright”

They flew over several houses at medium speed until the library was in sight.

A moment later, they both landed in front of the big library which Twilight called home. Rainbow Dash silently opened the door, with Fluttershy right behind her. At first glance, the library seemed quite messy, with some books lying around. Actually, it wasn’t that bad, but for Twilights standards it was unusual. It did make sense though, seeing how Twilight has been very busy with her royal duties the last couple of days.

“So where should we start looking?” Rainbow Dash asked, not really expecting an answer.

“We don’t even know what to look for” Fluttershy said quietly.

“Let’s just… take a look around” Dash sighed.
Fluttershy nodded. A couple of minutes passed, moving books around, looking under tables and checking clothes. If it wasn’t for one of the windows being open, it would be exhausting to fly around in there. Even though it was afternoon, the air was still quite warm around Ponyvillie. Rainbow Dash was just downstairs, looking over a few books on a shelf, when a noise was heard from Fluttershy. “Eeep!”

Rainbow Dash quickly reacted and flew upstairs to Fluttershy.

“What is it? Did you find something?” Dash asked as she saw Fluttershy standing in front of an opened closet, looking shocked. Her jaw was shaking, and her eyes looked pale.

“What’s going on Flutter-“ Dash stopped her sentence as she looked inside the big brown closet.

“Oh my gosh…” she let out.

***

“Halt!” One of the guards yelled.
“You’re not getting through!” He said fiercely.

Pinkie looked slowly at the 2 guards standing in front of the door, leading to the throne room. They appeared confident and ready to attack, but she was able to see they were shaking in fear. Pinkie ignored them, and began walking towards the door they were protecting. 2 pillars were lined up before the door, with the door as a gap between them. The room was not very wide, but the height to the roof made the room seem big. The door wasn’t an exception.

“Stop right there!” the other guard commanded.

They were both white stallions with gold plated armor. To Pinkie, all the guards looked the same. Pinkie didn’t say anything; she just kept walking forward, not breaking her eye contact to the door.

“That’s it!” the guard on the right yelled, getting ready to attack. Pinkie sent him a quick intense stare as he suddenly froze.
“Arrgh!” He clenched in pain, just before puking up blood. His body was trembling, but there were no visible wounds on his body.

“W- What did you do to him?!” the other guard yelled nervously.

“I squished his lungs, and some other entrails. He will die within seconds of massive pain… and you better back off, or I’ll do the same to you” Pinkie said threatening.

The guard was stunned, looking at his comrade who was holding his hoof to his chest, gasping for air, but unable to take a breath for all the blood filling up in his throat. Pinkie took her focus away from the guards and looked back at the door.

“It’s finally time” she thought to herself. She continued taking slow steps forward while the other guard was too shocked to even move. He stared at Pinkie, trying his best to move his body, but seeing his comrade dying, slowly took away all his courage. Pinkie now stood directly in front of the door, feeling her body getting excited. Craving for power. Her mind snapped as a sudden burst was forced out of her; the door opened forcefully, almost pulling it off its hinges.

“Yes… yes!” she chuckled as she looked at the 3 princesses in front of her, standing only about 10 meters away in the other end of the room. Her friend Twilight was in the middle, sitting in the throne while Luna was on Twilights right side and Celestia on the left side. The room was beautiful, even though it was nearly empty. Only the artistic windows, 2 statues of Luna and Celestia and a few other decorations were seen.

“Pinkie Pie!” Celestia yelled to her.
“You have murdered my guards and innocent ponies. Your reign of terror ends here!”

Luna looked at Pinkie, with a serious look while Twilight had a hard time understanding that it was her friend in front of her, covered in blood and ready to kill. It seemed unreal.

“Ha... Hahahaha!” Pinkie laughed loudly. Her eyes were almost bursting out a purple mist.

“Twilight…” Pinkie then said, still with a wide smile and with her eyes closed.
“You were never cut out to a princess. To gain such power” she quickly opened her eyes and looked at them. “None of you are!” she then yelled, smashing her right hoof down, creating a huge burst and pressure, shattering all the windows in the room simultaneously. All the broken pieces of glass were floating in the air, with the purple mist surrounding it. Pinkie had managed to get control of every single piece of glass.

“Now die!” she yelled again, sending all the broken glass and shrapnel flying towards the 3 princesses. Twilight quickly created a light purple bubble shield around her, while Luna and Celestia weren’t fast enough and was struck by some of the glass pieces, creating small wounds several places across their body. As soon as all the glass was on the ground or sticking to the wall behind them, Twilight removed the bubble, still looking shocked. Though her quick reflexes, her mind was still unsure of what to do. Celestia quickly recovered and took a step forward with an intense look.

“Luna, Twilight! Now, Attack!” she yelled as Celestia and Luna took off and began flying towards Pinkie, with both their horns glowing. They were flying delicately through the air while spreading their large wings.

“Why don’t you just give up?” Pinkie asked while smiling, not moving an inch.

“You will fail!” Luna then yelled and began creating a small sphere around her horn, which quickly created a dark blue beam headed directly towards Pinkie, who didn’t attempt to avoid it.

“It’s gonna hit her!” Luna’s mind rushed.

But just as the beam made contact with Pinkies body, she disappeared in a cloud of purple mist, sending the beam right through and doing severe damage to the floor.

“What?!” Luna let out as she looked across the room.

“Too slow” a sound was suddenly heard in front of her. Just as she blinked, she saw Pinkies evil purple eyes before her own, hiding in the mist scattered across the room. In a swift move, a thick substance of purple mist came from below and faster than Luna was able to make out, the mist quickly forced itself upwards hitting Luna under her jar, with strength powerful enough to send her flying backwards, falling to the ground and sliding slightly across the floor.

Celestia was still airborne, witnessing the Sulreifs amazing powers. “The- the mist itself can do damage?!” she looked stunned.

“Not only that” Pinkie’s voice was heard across the room, though she was no where to be seen.
“I can hide in the mist. Cause damage before you even see it. You can’t damage a foe you can’t see” she proceeded to laugh again. Celestia was tensing her body. Pinkie spoke the truth, seeing the mist spreading all over the room, making it hard to see anything.

“Twilight!” Celestia then yelled.
“Don’t just stand there. Help us!” She looked back at Twilight, who was still standing at the same spot, trembling.

“I- I can’t fight my friend. I just can’t” she said, keeping in a tear. She was looking straight forward as she was caught in her own thoughts.

“This is not your friend. This is not Pinkie! It’s the Sulreif spirit, and if we don’t do something now, the curse will not only take over Pinkie, but all of Equestria!” Celestia yelled in frustration.

“Enough out of you!” Pinkie’s voice was heard once again, just before some of the mist began forming a shape. Like a bat hitting a ball, the mist was swung towards her, going for a direct attack, but Celestia was quick to react and evaded it by flying downwards and landing on the ground.

“It’s no use. I have powers you can’t even imagine!!” Pinkie almost screamed. Suddenly the mist began focusing on a spot in the middle of the room and began shaping itself once again.

“What?!” Celestia let out as she saw a wolf like shape being created in front of her with nothing but mist.
“It isn’t possible!” Celestia looked surprise.
“Being able to create the shapes of animal, giving them almost a conscious of their own” she thought to herself. Pinkie had clearly mastered the Sulreif better than Sombra was able to. In a split second, the wolf made from purple mist, began running towards her with its mouth open, making it able to see the rows of razor sharp teeth in its mouth. The movement and the sounds looked so realistic. Only the fact that the wolf was created by mist; it could easily be mistaken for a real life wolf. Celestia froze; she couldn’t believe it. The mist wolf was sprinting towards her, quickly getting into to range to attack.

“Sister!” Luna suddenly yelled, sending another dark beam from her horn. The wolf had just jumped to attack Celestia, as only inches before reaching Celestia; the beam hit the wolf making the beam go directly through the wolf, misshaping it and quickly getting turned back into nothing but mist.

Celestia quickly snapped out of it and looked at Luna, who was bleeding slightly from her under her jar.

“So you’re up again?” Pinkie said slightly frustrated.

Rage was building up inside Celestia, seeing her sister wounded. “Nobody gets away with such cruelty” Celestia said quietly. “I promise you Pinkie. We will force the demon out of you, one way or another. You are simply fighting for power, but we are fighting for something bigger. We are fighting for the lives of others, making us more powerful than any evil spirit can ever get” Celestia ended with an angry, yet calm look in her eyes”

“Now you keep mention ‘we’… I’ve been thinking, 3 against 1 isn’t quite fair is it? Though, one of you seems to be out of the game” Pinkie grinned.

Twilight was still standing in the same spot, trying to move, but the whole thing was overwhelming. She wasn’t sure if she had it in her, to take the duty of a true princess and protect the land. Especially if it means fighting your best friend.

“I think I’m going to make it a little more fair” Pinkie continued.
Again the mist began moving in different directions, spreading across most of the room. Each piece of mist began shaping itself once again. Celestia and Luna was standing by, preparing themselves for the worst. Since the mist had spread into smaller amounts, visibility got clearer while the shapes were beginning to take form. Not only did the scattered mist begin taking the form of ponies, but the mist even changed it colors. It was beyond belief… the mist shaped into the form of Pinkie Pie, with such details it was impossible to tell them apart. Meaning they were now surrounded by some sort of clones, created by nothing but the magical mist. The clones began laughing.

“Try to find the real me” they hummed. The all looked exactly the same, but the mist was all gone, meaning one of them had to be the real Pinkie. They were around 50 of them, scattered all around the room.
“Luna! Now!” Celestia demanded.

Luna quickly nodded while looking nervous. She began focusing her magic to her horn, as well as Celestia. In two bright flashes, a weapon appeared in front of them both. The weapon appearing in front of Celestia was a long metal pole, with two blades at each end. A little sun mark was glowing in the middle of it. Appearing in front of Luna, two smaller weapons, both looking like dark blue daggers, though they were a little longer, with a sharp blade on each one, with an added small moon at the shaft of them both.

“Mere weapons?” One of the clones said.
“You’ll need to do better than that to defeat me” another clone said.

Both Celestia and Luna were holding their weapons up with their magic. The weapons were slightly glowing, making it able to see the magic that rushed through them.

“See if you can block this!” all the Pinkies said loudly before about 20 of them began running towards them both.

Celestia and Luna quickly readied their weapons, getting ready to attack as well. Just as one of the clones jumped Celestia from the front, she swung her weapon, making the blade on one of the ends slice through the clone, resulting in it turning back to the purple mist. Just after, another clone jumped towards her from behind. Again, Celestia was quick to react and she forced the end of her blade through the clone, stabbing it. Once again, it returned to the purple mist; a slight hope was now felt in Celestia, but there was no time to rest as two clones both jumped her this time. In a quick moved Celestia ducked, then began spinning her weapon fast over her, slicing both the clones across their faces. Once more, it turned out it was only clones that turned back to mist.

“Don’t let them get to you, Luna! A good hit and she can force the mist into your body, shutting down your muscles or even you heart!” Celestia shouted.

“Got it” Luna responded as she was busy fighting the clones as well. She was attacked by all sides, but at amazing speed she managed to slice or stab them, just inches before they reached her. Luna was under pressure, but she managed to fend off all the clones attacking her. One of the clones began yelling while running towards her. Luna was quick to react and levitated the two daggers down on the ground, with their blades facing up before her. Just as the clone was ready to jump, she hurled the two daggers upwards, making the blades pierce through the clones jaw, but just as the others, it immediately dissolved into purple mist. Both the princesses were breathing heavily as they observed the mist of the clones they had defeated, began to shape back into more clones. It was clear to see that there were not fewer clones than to begin with.

“This is a waste of energy! They just keep reforming themselves” Celestia tried to catch a breath.

“Quite irritating isn’t it?” One of the newly formed clones smiled.

“We will never find the real one at this rate!” Luna said in frustration.

“We have to destroy them all at the same time” Celestia looked serious.

“But sister” Luna looked at her.
“The amount of magic and energy to clear them all…”

“We have no choice” Celestia was quick to respond.

Luna looked down for a second. “Very well” she sighed.
“Then let’s d-“ before she was able to finish her sentence, a clone suddenly attacked Luna off guard, hitting the side of her neck with its hoof, sending her flying across the room, landing hard on the ground and sliding a few meters across the ground.

“Luna!” Celestia yelled in concern. To her horror she saw her sister was unconscious. Another clone quickly jumped towards Celestia as well, but she reacted fast enough to violently swing her right hoof, hitting the clone on the cheek, hurling it away before turning into mist.

“Enough of this!” Celestia yelled in anger. She then proceeded to stomp her front hooves down and began focusing magic in her horn. A small light appeared at the tip. She lowered her head as the light became slightly bigger.

“Aaaargh!” she suddenly yelled loudly, just before lifting her head back up, making the light rapidly bigger, ending up in it exploding, sending a massive shockwave through the room. In a bright flash, all the clones were sent flying, eventually disappearing into mist. All of them dissolved but one; which kept sliding across the floor, with scratches across her body. As soon as she stopped sliding across the floor, she slowly tried to get up.
“So you found the real me, huh?” the real Pinkie coughed. It was clear to see she was hurt, but she managed to get up again, with an angry face.

“But it seems you’re a little worn out as well” she then smiled, looking at Celestia that could barely stand up and a small smoke coming from her burned horn. She had used most of her magic and Luna was still unconscious. Celestia couldn’t stand anymore and feel down on a kneeling position. The massive amount of magic she released had weakened her body badly.

“Too bad. I was hoping for more fun. Guess that only leaves one pony to be taken care of” Pinkie locked her eyes on Twilight, who was covering her eyes… whether it was from the bright light or to hide her tears; she couldn’t see. No matter, she thought.

“Pinkie…” Twilight weeped.
“Why are you doing this? What about your father?” Twilight looked up, with wet eyes.

Pinkie looked at her for a little while. “Oh, you’re right. I should thank him for pressuring me to consume this spirit and become the most powerful being to ever have walked on earth” Pinkie had a small grin on her face.

“But…” Twilight continued.
“What about your friends? Are they not important to you? You’ve always been the one to bring a smile to my face. Making me laugh… I thought us 6 had a connection that would never be broken. I- I thought we we’re friends” Twilight looked away, keeping in tears.

“Don’t worry Twilight. I will never forget you” Pinkie said slowly.
“I will always remember this day. The day I killed the 3 princesses. After that, I will probably kill our friends, but that’s not important. Enough talk” Pinkie stopped for a second then looked up with a smile.

“Time to die my friend!” Pinkie yelled as she sprinted towards Twilight. All the mist scattered across the room, quickly began floating towards Pinkies right hoof. Just a meter before her defendless friend; she jumped into the air, bending her right front leg, as getting ready to make a punch with all the mist focusing at that exact point of her hoof.

“DIE!” she screamed, just before smashing her hoof towards Twilight, who was doing nothing to defend herself. Pinkie could feel her hoof making contact but before she expected. She quickly opened her eyes, seeing Twilight had a small bubble shield surrounding her.

“What?!” Pinkie let out shocked. She tried to retrieve her hoof, but it was stuck in the shield.
“I’m stuck!” the thought rushed through her mind.

Inside the small bubble, Twilight stared cold at Pinkie Pie.

“That’s enough” Twilight said, remaining her almost demonic stare. The hole Pinkie made through the shield with her right hoof began tightening slowly. It continued as Pinkie panicked when she could feel the bones in her hoof cracking. The pressure was tightening so violently; you could even hear the bone shattering sound.

“Let go, let go, LET GO!” Pinkie screamed, before using all her power to just break her hoof away from the shield, landing a safe distance from Twilight. Unable to support much weight on her right hoof due to some of her bones had been broken. While she stared mad at Twilight; the mist began circling around Pinkie. She looked back up at Twilight. The shield had disappeared, but she was still standing still, staring down at Pinkie, with an angry look in her eyes.

“Now it’s my turn” she said, with her horn beginning to glow.