Master of the Monster

“Darkness is coming”  mumbled Seras to herself one night.  As a being of darkness herself, Seras learnt to know when it was coming… even if that wasn’t the darkness she was used to fight.

Two months has passed since she became Flutterhsy’s slave; and peace and harmony filled her dead heart, but in the bottom of it, Seras felt it won’t last forever.

Secretly, she prepared for the worst; ready to protect her young master, even if that meant to give her unlife.  She didn’t know why, but after all that time without even think about quit; she felt she was ready to give all she had only to assure her new master’s happiness.

And after two weeks of a peaceful existence, Seras knew it was time. Seras just locked herself in her coffin when a strange smell made her woke up.  Seras sniffed deeply trying to guess what it was.  Cotton candy and chocolate milk?

“Seriously, what the hell is that?”

Fluttershy woke up too because of the strange smell.

“Discord, come on! Is too early in the morning!” she grumped half sleep while walking to the front door.

Then, she opened the door only to gasp in horror.  Ponyville, her beloved home town was in pure chaos; with all the citizens running away from the mutant animals and trying to protect themselves of the strange rain.  But the worst of all was that the town was under some kind of magical dome, just like the one Trixie conjured when she attacked a few months ago.

“Discord! What have you done?” Fluttereshy screamed shocked.

The chaos spirit manifested in the middle of a creepy laugh.  Fluttershy couldn’t believe it, the pure evil was bursting in his eyes.  With a devilish smile he bowed to Fluttershy.

“Oh, is so nice to see you my friend.  Don’t you love what I did with your home?  I think it needed a little of chaos so I added it, but I think I probably exaggerated”

Fluttershy couldn’t believe it, something was very wrong.  This wasn’t the Discord she knew.  The Discord she knew wasn’t evil; only very annoying.

“I thought we were friends!” screamed Fluttershy crying.

Discord laughed louder than before.

“And we are friends, my dear.  That’s why you’re safe in here, outside of my chaos utopia.  Come on, what about a present to prove you I’m still as friendly as I always?”

And before Fluttershy could react, he clacked his claw making appear her five best friends and Princess Celestia immobilized by his magic.

“What?”  asked Fluttershy.

The chaos spirit grinned.

“You see, I started all this at midnight and your friends tried to stop me; but without their Elements it was too easy to get rid of them.  Then Celestia came to rescue, but again it was easy enough to defeat.  That’s it”

“But… but…”

“They tried to call you but I was faster.  Come on, I won’t kill them, just…”

Again he clacked his claw.  To Fluttershy’s horror, their friends started to turn into stone slowly.  She couldn’t believe it, why was Discord doing all that?

“I was thinking what could I give you to celebrate our friendship, and then I realized you have a pretty garden; but you can use some statues to decorate it.  Come on, your friends will stay with you forever and ever.  Isn’t that good?”

“PLEASE STOP! I WON’T BE YOUR FRIEND ANYMORE IF YOU CONTINUE DOING THIS!”

Discord laughed more and more.

“Do as you please.  I’ll still thinking about you as a very dear friend so I don’t care”

Fluttershy was scared, but now than her friends were in danger, she had to do something about it.  She flew to Discord and Stared at him hoping that work… but it didn’t. He kept laughing.  Fluttershy cried impotent and pathetic.

Twilight looked at her and said something… but Fluttershy couldn’t hear her.

“Aw… she’s saying good bye.  So lovely”  mocked Discord.

Something broke inside the shy pegasus.  Slowly, the fear and sadness were replaced by an unmeasurable rage.  Fluttershy her friends only had a few more minutes, so she had to act fast.

“How dare you?” she asked with her voice trembling because of the fury.  “HOW DARE YOU, DISCORD?!”

The creature sighed.

“Come on, I’m Discord; spirit of Disharmony and Chaos.  What can you do against me, besides quit to my friendship, Fluttershy? What?”

“I’ll show you: SERAS!”

Discord raised an eyebrow; what the hay was she thinking?

A bunch of bats came of  Fluttershy’s cottage and formed a red blond pony with red eyes.  The red pony bowed to Fluttershy expecting her orders.  Discord teleported to his dome; not knowing why that creature was unnerving him that much.

Fluttershy could see her friends looking at her confusedly, but she only gave them a confident smile… that disturbed Discord even more.

“Seras, I know I told you to not hurt anypony, but… he betrayed my trust and is hurting my friends.  Seras, I need you to teach him a lesson and save my friends.  Don’t kill him, only show him what happen when you betray me; so I release you from your Restriction Selas 3, 2 and 1.  GO SERAS, GO SAVE MY FRIENDS! ”

Seras nodded and turned to Discord, who felt how monstrously her power increased when Fluttershy ‘released’ her.

The vampire put her demonic energy hoof in the ground completely surrounding Ponyville with its shadow.  Several red eyes appeared all over the shadow and stared at Discord who was shacking in fear.

Then, the shadow started to irradiate a red light that tried to penetrate his dome… but at least it resisted.  Discord sighed relieved and looked at Fluttershy, who seemed to be shocked.

“No…”

“Fluttershy,”  said Seras turning to her young master “ back in the cave you awoke me I have something I can use to destroy the dome. But I need your permission to get it”

Fluttershy nodded and Seras disappeared like al lighting returning with some kind of giant pipe.  The ponies didn’t know the fire guns… and less one as powerful as the Fallconnen.  Seras grinned and shot.

The explosion was devastating, reducing the dome to nothing… but keeping Ponyville intact.  Discord gulped.

“But how?”

Seras showed him the weapon.  “My bullets are blessed by the Humans’ God; nothing I shoot does ever back up again. You’re lucky Fluttershy wants you alive… because one more shot and is all over”

“There’s no such thing as humans”  mumbled Twilight half the way to turn into stone.

Seras smiled.

“I used to be a human before I turned into this creature”

“What? A pony?”  asked Celestia.

“Vampire” answered Seras putting her hoof back on the ground, summoning her shadow.

Discord screamed when the shadow caught him; but disappeared to another spot.  That was useless, Seras’ shadow caught him again forcing the spirit to face the vampire who was waiting.  To everypony’s surprise, she released Discord.

“What?”  asked him.

“I want to see your power.  Come on, summon your familiars, transform your body.  This is only starting, so HURRY!”

“What about this?”  he asked calling his mutant animals.

The unusual wild mutants attacked Seras, who turned into bats to stay away from them, remembering Fluttershy forbid her to hurt innocent creatures.  Besides, those weren’t ghouls and she felt they still had hope to return back to normal once she took care of the spirit.  Once she was free form the animals, the vampire put her dark hoof back on the ground, surrounding Discord with the shadow.

He sent the mutants to stop her… but this time the shadow prevented them to attack without hurting.  Seras grinned, this was over.  Turning her shadow to Discord, the vampire immobilized him cruelly.

Discord screamed and tried to use his magic to scape… but the demonic energy from Seras counteracted his magic.  He was trapped like an animal.

One by one his victims returned to normal.  The girls gasped when they felt Discord’s spell was reversing and now they could move freely.  Twilight saw at Discord and Seras.

“What’s going on? What’s that thing? Is making Discord use all he have to resist her but is useless”

Discord was crying in fear.

“WHY? WHY? YOU’RE LIKE ME, A CREATURE OF DARKNESS.  WHY ARE YOU FIGHTING TO PROTECT THIS PATHETIC PONIES?”

“Because I’m a slave and Fluttershy is my master.  I only exist to serve Fluttershy my master and she ordered me to stop you and save his friends.  Don’t worry I won’t kill you; my master wants you alive”

“What?”  asked Rainbow Dash paling.  “FLUTTERSHY’S SLAVE?”

They all turned to Fluttershy, who was as calm as she could.

Seras showed her fangs and slowly approached to Discord’s throat.  He screamed and tried to use more magic but there was nothing he could do.  The monster was too powerful for him.  At the end Seras bit his throat, drinking his blood with pleasure.

Twilight shivered when she remembered the animals they found in the Everfree forest long time ago.  So that’s what happened to them…

Seras released Discord cleaning her mouth.

“Fluttershy… this is wrong”

“What do you mean?”  asked the pegasus.

Seras looked at Discord who as crying in fear like a child.

“He’s not doing this because he wants to; somepony is controlling him and even if he’s fighting with all he have to make it stop… is useless. The plan was to get rid of you and your six friends… but apparently he only had the strength to keep you safe, Fluttershy, since you are the one he cares the most”

Fluttershy gasped and shivered.  “Oh no, what have I done?”

“Fluttershy, is not your fault”  said Seras.  “If it wasn’t for you, he would transform you friends into stone forever.  You saved them; besides, the spell that’s controlling him has weakened since I neutralized him.  I can release him, but the choice is all yours; remember I’m just a servant without free will”

Fluttershy nodded.  “Yes Seras, release him please”

Seras approached to Discord, who shivered pathetically; but ignoring him, the vampire took him by the neck and looked directly to his eyes.  Discord screamed and tried to escape… for the first ten seconds.  Then, his eyes turned red as Seras’.

Seras let him go.

“You’re free”

Discord stayed still for a few minutes and then began to cry. Fluttershy approached gently.

“Discord, I’m terribly sorry.  I should never release Seras against you. I, I…”

He hugged Fluttershy.  “Just keep that thing away from me.  Please, I’ll do anything. JUST KEEP HER AWAY!”

All the ponies keep staring at the strange scene for a while.  They needed explanations, but they were still shocked for what just happened.