The Dark Sage

by thirdgod

Rating: teen
Tags: Dark, Alternate Universe, Human, Anthro, Main 6, Original Character, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
Length: 6510

How will the world of Equis deal with the self proclaim Dark Sage a master of dark magics wondering around will the ponies teach it that friendship is magic or are they all doomed to be consume by the darkness it commands

We all know how the darkness made Luna a nightmare and Sombra a ruthless tyrant, but what if their was a master of the dark , a being who uses it to the fullest but never succumbing to its influence gaining unparalleled power. How will the main six deal with this being when he finds himself equestria after his own world banishes him out of fear will he be willing to know the magic of friendship or will he use the full might of his dark powers and consume everything.

i not a big fan of the show but i do like the stories on this site so i thought i would give a hand at writing one so i apologize beforehand if i get the characters personality's wrong also i still learning the lore of MLP so tell me if i got something wrong i plan on researching on the things that my character will be involved in.

Published 2014-04-25 17:20:02 UTC
Last updated 2014-04-28 00:57:04 UTC

The Dark Sage

"We the Seer council of Zaraith here by banish you to oblivion for causing the Black Mage Revolt, which caused the destruction of the Isle's of Manith and the mountain ranges of Larthic resulting in the lost of tens of thousand lives and by our visions of the future the destruction of our world if not the entirety of our realm." spoke the head of the council looking down of the figure be for him."Any last words proclaimed Black Sage" the figure before him said nothing for a minute then the prisoner started laughing softly at first then getting louder till it could be heard all around the room the councilors and the prisoner were in.

"HA HA HA so those are crimes worthy of getting banished to the worst of all realms, oblivion you should be thanking me because of my actions all the would be tyrants and dark lords are all dead and all the knowledge of dark magic our world possesses lock away in my grimoire where no one but me can find and open it." the prisoner glared at the council "Further more as for the casualties and destruction I and my fellow practitioners caused well war has it repercussions as you and the kingdoms of our world knows fully well, and as for your prophecy, you know as well as I that your visions are not set in stone nor even accurate sometimes so you have never before used them before in a trial before so why now?"

"That is true" responded the head seer responded "we normally don't use our visions in trials, but we know fully well that dark magic all ways corrupts it practitioners which you are one of and the the fact by your own admission you now have in your possession all of our world knowledge of dark magic." The head seer calmly said to the prisoner "So when we saw nothing but pure darkness in the near future at our recent divination regarding the repercussions of your war, we concluded it was your doing. That is why it is being used in your trial here today."

The figured scoffed at the head seers explanation "That's your reason instead of imprisoning me like you have done countless others,your plan is to send me to the worst place ever conceived of by mortal mind, oblivion the end of all realms and at the same time their birthplace, a place of endless darkness where their is literally nothing no sights, no sounds, no smells, no nothing just endless darkness, where it is said i will fade to the point it would be as i never existed to begin with, a fate that even the dead gods never once conceived of as a punishment that is your justice regarding me and my crimes?"

"SILENCE!" yelled one of the council members "You don't get to tell us what is a fitting punishment for you this is your fate and we have been more than generous with letting you speak" he sneered at the figure turning to the head seer "It's time to carry out the sentence."

"Agreed" responded the head seer turning to the figure before him "Now lets begin everyone" as one the council started to chant in the language of magic. The room started to vibrate with the combined might of the council beneath the prisoner a seal appeared, suddenly amid the chanting laughter could be heard.

"HAHAHAH you know if you had sentenced me to imprisonment the prophecy you foretold wouldn't have happened, Now I'll show you why i claimed the title of Dark Sage" "HERE ME NOW OBLIVION PROGENITOR OF ALL DARKNESS HEED MY WORDS OPEN YOUR GATE BEFORE ME AND CONSUME EVERY THING RETURN THIS REALM BACK TO WHAT IT ONCE WAS IN THE BEGINNING OF ALL TIME, BLACK HOLE" suddenly the seal below the prisoner shattered the backlash threw the council back then behind the prisoner a new seal appeared it was pitch black,a black that no light could ever hope to penetrate it started to open like a massive gate from the crack a wind started to suck everything in the room trough the gate the councilors frightened at the turn of events stared wide at the opening gate one of them cried out among the wind

"THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE HOW COULD HE CAST THIS SPELL HE DOESN'T HAVE HIS GRIMORIE AND WE DAMPENED HIS MAGIC BEFORE HAND, THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE ONLY A...." the one who had spoken fell silent as his eyes widened further is fear the prisoner finished his thought for him.

"ONLY WHAT? A SAGE HAHAHAH OF COURSE I AM DID YOU ALL THINK MY TITLE WAS FOR SHOW" laughed the now truly recognized Black Sage now the gate behind the Sage was fully opened and the last words the council heard " YOU ARE ALL FOOLS NOW OUR REALM WILL FEEL THE FULL MIGHT OF MY WRATH BY JOINING ME IN OBLIVION FOR ALL OF TIME!" with that the Zaraith was consumed by oblivion.

Equestria Celestia's Bedroom twelve hours since the defeat of nightmare moon

"I'm so happy to have you back Luna" spoke Celestia princess of the sun and equestria to her little sister

"So are we Celsesta" spoke her little sister and princess of the moon while they held each other in a loving hug

"I'm so sorry I had to banish you to the moon for a thousand years" Celestia said with tears in her eyes "I didn't know what else to do, I wasn't strong enough to save you."

"We don't blame you sister thou had to we were consumed by that nightmare, we are just glad that thou student and her friends could use the elements of harmony and purged us of it" responded Luna hugging her big sister tighter

"Yes I know i'm also glad that Twilight and her friends were able to save you i couldn't bear it if if the elements had banished you again" Celestia than started crying Luna breaking the hug used here hands to wipe some of the the tears away

"Thou needn't shed tears anymore we are safe and we wont let us fall to the nightmare again" Luna said with tears in her eyes but a smile on her muzzle. Celestia looking down at here could help but smile back she was about to say something back when she suddenly felt an ominous chill down her back she saw Luna's eyes widen she new immediately that she had felt the same thing.

"Sister something is wrong, that feeling" Luna stated to say when Celestia interrupted her

"I know what ever it was it was very strong and dark magic in origin."

"But where is it" responded Luna

"I don't know but we must investigate at once because it's dangerous" Celestia spoke while looking out of her bedroom window. Else where in a ruin castle in the middle of the Everfree forest, the forest trembled and all the creatures shuddered in fear knowing that something dangers had just appeared among them. From the depths of the ruins something stepped out of the shadows and spoke to its self

"I wander what kind of realm this is" said Acerbus the Black Sage to himself amid the ruins looking out at the Everfree forest."I hope the inhabitants of this realm don't invoke my wrath I don't want to have destroy it like my home. sighed Acerbus "Oh well might as well go look around this new realm."

Author's Note

well this is my first fan fic i hope it go's well give me your feed back on it. I'll try my best to do MLP justice

sorry about any mistakes with spelling or grammar i was never good at wrighting storys so i'm using this a an aprotunuty to get better, if any one can help me with proof reading and editing it would be appreciated

Dancing with Death

"Figures that I end up in a ruin." I sighed to myself as i wandered the ruins of a castle with the sun over head streaming trough the windows and holes in the roof looking for information of the inhabitants of this realm. So far all I've seen is rubble and suits of armor though the designs of them we strange. The feet of them in particular they were competently rounded at the bottom and extremely long and strait. As i continued on my way further into the the castle I found my self in a throne room with a massive hole where the roof is supposed to be. With in the middle two thrones side by side covered in dust and with frayed faded banners on the wall as I looked closer at them I noted their strange heraldry, two horse like creatures circling each other with the sun on one side and the moon on the other.

While the banners peaked my interest they merely became a side note as I could sense two great sources of residual magic in the area. One i knew very well as being dark magic though a strange type i have never encountered before and the other it scared me I had only sensed it once before in the depths of oblivion, CREATION, the source of all life on all realms the first light that came out of the dark. "How is this possible, no one could withstand that much power it would burn not only their body out but also the soul. I need to investigate this further." I said mumbling to myself, I then reached down to my side and grabbed grimoire pulling it up to read I couldn't but have a since of pride as I looked at it.

It was one of a kind made by my own hands thanks to the knowledge from my days as a Artificer, It was small about twice the size of my hand so it can easily be held conformable one handed, with a color of black that seam to absorb light, with a pure gold binding for the spine with a silver clasp stylized with a summing seal and the book itself was a masterpiece of magic normally a grimore can only hold a thousand spells but mine, well i made it out of a fragment of oblivion it can hold an infinite amount of spells. Though being made out of oblivion is a bit of a problem if anyone grabbed it they would immediately know something was wrong with it seeing as it didn't have a feel best way i ever been able to describe it was it was like holding the night sky in my hands.

Luckily for me if anyone else did take it they couldn't open it as the spell on it was tuned for me and even if they forced it open the seal I put on the clasp would summon Kazerak one of the Sigoth demons that are the only natives of oblivion."Enough musing" I scolded my self, opening my grimore looking on the first page i found the spell i needed finding it I started speaking in a loud clear voice "COME TO ME SHADOWS OF THE PAST, OF MEMORIES MADE AND FORGOTTEN BY THE LIVING KEPT SAVE IN YOUR EMBRACE, NOW SHOW ME ACERBUS YOUR MASTER THE MOST RECENT EVENT THAT HAPPENED IN THIS PLACE!"

With the spell complete I watched as the shadows started to move and convene in the center of the room. Then they started to rise up and take shapes in about another minuet they fully formed into seven human looking female shapes thought strangely two of them had horns in the middle of their foreheads and another two had wings on their backs and finally the last two had nothing special about them. Then they started moving the seventh one was much bigger than the other six with massive wings on her back and a much bigger horn on her head they seam to be talking to one another the taller one suddenly stomped its foot down on something that isn't their anymore the other smaller six seam to bow their heads in defeat when suddenly one one at the for forefront lifted its head up and what seamed to shout at the taller on then suddenly smaller shadows appeared looking like many fragments of a single or more object the one in the front continued to talk to the bigger one while the fragments converged on the other six them they came together as necklaces each with a different shaped center piece. One of them look like a lighting bolt, another like an apple, then a butterfly,a diamond, then balloons that one confused me, then finally on the one who i presume is the leader of the six the fragments formed a tiara with a strange looking star in the center of it.

From the reaction of the bigger one it was afraid, then the six other shadows rose into the air then suddenly shot a massive beam from their body's it hit the bigger one then started to swirl around her faster and faster suddenly the shadows just dispersed then in a few seconds they reformed the smaller females were sitting on the ground panting with exhaustion, on the other side from them where the larger female was the shadows had become a much smaller version of herself but still slightly bigger than the other six. For about a minute nothing happened then suddenly a shadow of the biggest woman i have ever seen appeared like the now smaller shadow of what i now know as the "villain" she had even bigger wings and a much longer horn on her head. Her shadow looked to the smaller one of its kind and looked to say something the small one responded by hugging the bigger woman tightly with her arms then the bigger one returned the sign of affection with a hug of her own.

Then the spell ended and the shadows returned to normal "well that explains a lot" I said to my self "so it looks like the bigger woman at the beginning was the dark magic user seeing as she was closer to the strange source of dark magic and the smaller six with the artifacts are the source of CREATION spell and by the looks of it they purified the bigger woman judging by how she became much smaller, I'll have to be on the look out for those six they could destroy me utterly with the artifacts they now wield. I can only hope that the two with horns and the two with wings are uncommon here other wise it will be difficult to avoid them." after finishing analyzing the event that had played before me I couldn't repress a sigh at the fact that while the SHADOW SHOW spell can show me past events it works like a shadow puppet used it certain shows back home they have the flaw of not having colors beyond typical black of shadows nor do they show any definition of a person or in this case beings face making hard to avoid the six women who had confronted the now ex-villain.

"I could use necromancy and ask a spirit about their identities or summing the demon that had posed the seventh woman ?" I spoke musing out loud to myself, I then immediately scoffed at the idea while I had plenty of spells that could do either it wasn't possible for two reason. One, strangely I couldn't sense any trapped sprites here and two the demon that was possessing that woman was more than likely destroyed when it was hit by CREATION. I was about to leave to go further into the castle when i heard a bunch of female voices coming from behind me.

"Girls you need to be quieter princess Celestia said that a large dark magic prescience was felt here not to long ago"

"Don't worry about it Twilight with me and the elements here there is nothing to worry about"

"Nothing to worry about, darling what about all this dust and grime all over the place i can feel my pristine coat getting all dirty"

"Now listen here sugar cube their's nothing wrong with gettin a little dirty time from time its not the end of the world, right Fluttershy i mean with all thous critters you take care of you probably get mighty dirty time from time"

"ah oh sometimes i give my animal friends baths regularly so they're not all that dirty most days"

"Girls focus what ever set off that prescience my still be here and princess Celestia is counting on us to investigate"

"OH OH do you think its a new pony that came to town, no wait maybe its a being from another realm, oh oh i know lets trough it a WELCOME TO PONYVILLE party and ask it to be friends with us so it wont be a meany pants"

"Pinkie Pie how did you come up with that conclusion? Further more why would you throw it a party."

"My Pinkie sense told me that a new pony arrived recently plus I always throw a welcome to ponyville party like i did for you yesterday"

"What? oh never mind i'll deal with that later"

"Well BALRICK, this isn't good it seams that the very six I was going to avoid is coming over her right now" I cursed in my head "I better prepare myself hopefully they wont attack me on site though given my appearance that probably wont happen. Well at least I can use my nonlethal spells and hope to negotiate I still rather not destroy two realms in one day though it sounded like they had the artifacts with them so they could just as well destroy me first" i sighed to my self. "Oh well time to as the Yeldek mercenary's back home used to say when they went to fight its Time to Dance with Death."

Author's Note

I hope every one enjoys this as I said I hope i have gotten the personality's right so far let me know your impressions and you are more than welcome with your critics

i feel ashamed as a southerner i had a hard time trying to wright AJ's speech and probably have trouble with it in the future so bear with me

A Meeting of Perceptions part 1

A Meeting of Perceptions part 1

Twilight Sparkle

"What? oh never mind i'll deal with that later" I sighed to Pinkie Pie while she just looked at me with that same insane grin on her face."She really gets on my nerves, no Twilight that's mean she's your friend now" I scolded myself, though to be fair to my self we had only been friends since today after we defeated Nightmare Moon thanks to the Elements of Harmony in the very castle we were in earlier today back now because I got a letter from Princess Celestia telling me to go back to the Everfree castle because she and the newly freed Princess Luna silenced a dark magic presence appearing and fearing it was possibly Luna's nightmare come backed. I couldn't helped but think of my newest friends as we wondered down the hall of the castle going to the throne room ahead to start our investigation.

Applejack the bearer of the Element of Honesty a very tall orange earth pony mare with a blond mane and tail and bright green eyes at 6' 0" with a very toned body thanks to the small but strong mussels she had developed working on her family's farm Sweet Apple's Acre, and with her ample C cup bust I was sure many a stallion wanted her with her customary stetson hat on her head, flannel work shirt, denim jeans and her cowboy boots and accent she was a regular old timely cowpony.

Then their's Rainbow Dash the bearer of the Element of Loyalty a average sized cyan blue pegasus with her namesake rainbow mane and tail with purple color eyes at 5' 10' and with a toned body herself but with a more athletic feel to it than Applejack's and the smallest bust size out of us at an A cup. She was in her running shoes, jogging shorts, and her T-shirt with her wonder bolts logo was the picture of an all star athlete which she bragged all the time she was.

Rarity a pure white unicorn at 5" 7" with her perfectly styled purple mane and tail and dark blue eyes and her curvy hour glass body, hated to get sweaty or dirty in anyway was complaining to herself under her breath about getting her predestine blue blouse which showed a modest amount of cleavage from her DD bust a pure white short skirt that showed off her long legs along with her black high heel shoes they were of a kind handmade by her own hand because of her skill she was a accomplish clothing designer in Ponyville and because of that level of skill she already owned and ran a clothing store the Carousel Boutique along with being the bearer of the Element of Generosity.

Fluttershy the butterscotch yellow pegasus at 5' 0" she was by far the shortest of us with pink main and tail with teal eyes, and the bearer of the Element of Kindness and where Rarity was a obvious beautiful mare Fluttershy was absolutely adorable and was by far the most quiet and ironically shyest mare I have ever met in my life even her hair and clothes went about to hide her. With he long pink mane covering her face and wearing a big baggy sweater that hid her body ad also did a good job at mostly hiding her rather huge bust I don't know how big she really is but to still show curves in that thing they must be at least F(and to be honest i was jealous)and a long skirt though surprising she tends to wear thick but comfortable boots probably dew to her work with animals she did at her cottage that she liked at near the Everfree. Actually she was the first pony i meat after getting the letter from Princess Celestia and before I got the others I was surprised when i saw her at my door. After telling her about the letter she told me that's why she was their, she had said all of her animal were suddenly afraid of the Everfree even the manticore she had befriended earlier today had showed up afraid.

And finally their was Pinkie Pie the bright pink earth pony with matching pink mane and tail thought of a darker hue than her fur and bright blue eyes and despite the copious amounts of sugar she must consume to have all that energy was skinny but at 5' 4" she was a inch taller than me wearing a bright yellow blouse with a short frilly blue skirt and pink tennis shoes. Though I worried about the baker and her sanity as I watched her C cup bounce while she laughed and hopped around though being the bearer of the Element of Laughter I really wasn't all that surprise and being the towns proclaimed party pony she spread a lot of laughter around. Coming out of my train of thought as we entered the throne room, turning to the girls behind me to get ready to split up into groups of two and go investigate the castle when I heard a ominous voice from the shadows yell out combined with a massive surge in dark magic suddenly me and others were wrapped up in black chains, as i looked up at the source of the voice I felt my heart freeze in fear at the being before me with a swirling black cloak with a dragon skull for the hood its bone yellow with age seemed to snarl at us, his hand ended in vicious claws and it's eyes glowing with an emerald green glow seam to pierce my very soul.

Acerbus

"I HOPE THIS WORKS GO SOUL SHADOW CHAINS!" I yelled as the spell took affect the pitch black chains cover the six woman before me. Though I was more concerned with the leader of the group seeing as she was more than likely she was needed to trigger the CREATION spell.

"What n' tarnation are this things"

"OH WHAT THE BUCK ARE THESE"

"MY CLOTHES YOUR RUFFIAN THIS IS NOT HOW TO TREAT A LADY"

"eap"

"HAHAHA they tickle"

"Girls are you okay"

"Now seeing as that worked all of you lady's calm down for a minuet and hear me out please" I said to them, now that were bound up I took a closer look at the leader seeing as she was the most dangers. I was shocked by her appearance not only was she a beastman but a pony with purple eyes and fur with a mane and tail with a pink and purple stripe so with that horn in her head she must have been what was called a unicorn back when they were alive back home, she was wearing a simple black blouse that some what showed of her mildly plumb figure and with her modest B cup bust with black pants and simple but function black heels and as I looked at the others I saw the other unicorn was white, the two regular ones were orange and pink, and the last to the ones with the wings must be called pegasus a flying cousin of the unicorns back home were yellow and blue they all looked to be about my age and of course each of them had their artifacts with them and I have to admit they are all pretty cute.

"Let us go now you you thing" the purple one said while glaring at me I realized I had been starring at them for about a minuet and with my current appearance it must have been frighting "Oh I'm sorry how rude of me let me explain, I need you all to promise not to unleash CREATION on me and have a discussion with me as calm and rational person and beastmen we are."

"BUCK YOU WHEN I GET OUT I"M GOING TO KICK YOU FLANK" the blue pegasus shouted at me.

"I'm with a rainbow, you their thing I'm going to show how an apple fights when i get out of this here chains" the orange regular pony said.

"BEAST who are you to call me a beast i'll teach you a lesson about insulting a lady" the white unicorn said then her horn started to glow and i could sense magic building up in it.

"UHUHUH I would't do that" I said then raising my right hand I showed them the black orb that had appeared in it "See this,see all the colors in it?" I spoke to them they then all turned to the orb and watched the blue, pink, orange. yellow, purple, white, and silver colors swirl in it.

"OH pretty i want one" the pink one gasped

"Now let me explain this thanks to the spell I cast on all of you, you can't move further more if you use magic on me it will also affect you seeing as the colors in this orb represent our souls and the fact that they are now bound together now I don't now if it would work if you all used CREATION but seeing as if you used it on me I would most certainly die and it could possibly kill you all too. Now as I said I need You to calm down."

"Why should we trust a monster like you" the purple one said to me calmly.

"A good point I have three good reasons why, One I knew very well that you had the capability of destroying me and seeing as I heard ya'll coming instead using SOUL SHADOW CHAINS a binding spell I could have used BLACK BOLT which would have flayed all of your skin off." I calmly said to them. At this all but the blue, orange and pink one faces paled a remarkable feat for the white one the pink one on the the other hand had a big smile on her face and the yellow one outright fainted afterward and the two who had threaten me just kept their glares on me."Two after we talk I'll be letting ya'll go and finally what you see before you is not how I actually look like and I will revile myself when ya'll agree to talk."

"Oh very well we promise not to use CREATION though I have no idea what that is." the purple unicorn said to me with a sighed. "Now do as you said and show us what you really are."

"BUCK THAT Twilight why should we trust anything that monster say's, I say we go right on and kick his flank" the blue pegasus snarled while looking at me.

"Now hold up their Rainbow we can't because of thees here chains and also that monster seams to be telling us nothing but the truth." the orange spoke to the blue one trying to calm her down.

"Applejack is right Rainbow our only option is to talk while I can still use my magic that orb is giving off allot of magical energy and it may work as it said." spoke Twilight the purple unicorn whose name I now knew. Turning to look at me I could see the fear in her eyes as my spell DARK PRESENCE working its affect on her but I could see her gathering her courage to speak to me. "Now as I said we promise not to use the spell you mentioned so now show us your real form and tell us your name."

"Good, thank you very much for promising I would rather not fight cute girls such as yourselves." I spoke with a smile on my face as I reached up to take my hood off which will also be temporary dispelling the DARK PRESENCE I told them my name "I am Acerbus the Black Sage a pleasure to meet all of you."

Twilight Sparkle

I was in complete shock when I saw what Acerbus really looked like I was suspecting a monster but instead what was under the dragon skull hood was a boy about my age, with a silver mane of shoulder length, though his eyes were still a very bright green they were no longer glowing with their previously piercing glow and at about 6' 6" he was only about a couple inches shorter than Applejack's brother Big Mac. What struck me most was his face, it was much flatter than i have ever seen before and wasn't covered in fur or scales or even feathers when he had said what we were seeing wasn't his true appearance I assumed he was from a another country but not an entirely new creature with his smooth but pale skin, with his nose being much sorter than a pony and with a more rounded face. From his smile I could see canines among his teeth meaning he was probably a meat eater. Further more his cloak was no longer as black as it was a moment ago if anything it looked a bit dirty and ratty, and while his hood was still a dragon skull it wasn't as intimidating anymore and his hands were no longer claws.

"Now that the DARK PRESENCE is no longer active and you all have calmed down let me lay down the ground rules. One this is an exchange of information so any question you ask me I will answer so I expect the same from all of you. Second after we are all satisfied with answers I will let you go and if you still want to fight I will honor you dissension but be warn I will not go down easily and their is no guarantee that any of you will walk away alive understand." "So are we all in agreement with the rules?" he asked as with a surprising soft voice.

"I guess the voice I heard be for was from the spell he mentioned" I thought to myself. "Okay we agree but you answer my question first." I said to him

"Fine by me Twilight what do you want to know" the said to me with a smile on his face. I was surprised he knew my name but then I realized he must have heard one of the girls saying it. I thought about a minute what to ask him when I realized he was speaking equestrian and being an unknown creature that was impossible. "How are you speaking our language?"

"Oh that's easy it a translation spell called TRADER SPEECH,Now for my question where in Derwrath did I end up in I could have sworn I ended up in a undiscovered realm but here you are a clan a beastman pony's?" I wandered at this statement does that mean he came from another realm but that was impossible while the theory of other realms was agreed upon no pony has ever been able to prove it.

"HE SAID IT AGAIN I AM NOT A BEAST I AM A LADY" yelled Rarity at Acerbus he turned to look at her with a confused face.

"Why are you so angry at me calling you a beastman that is what you are and that's what ever one of your kind has called themselves." he responded to Rarity still with a confused look on his face. Rarity getting redder in her face with rage was about to yell at him again when I interrupted her.

"She's right we're ponies not beastmen and this is Equestria not Derwrath I have never head of that place and what do you mean another realm does that mean your from another realm?" I asked him.

"Well yes I am, I'm from Zaraith the war realm well used to be its gone now that I destroyed it, sorry about that i know how you beastmen were the avid users of it. Though I had never heard of your clan or heard of Equestria before but I never got to explore Derwrath and so I thought the only clans were the Cat, Bird, Rabbit, Snake, Bear, and Dog". He responded calmly which frighten me seeing as he just told us he had destroyed his entire realm without hesitation I could here gaps coming form the girls behind me at his confession.

"How can you be so calm, you just said you destroyed your home without hesitation like it was an after thought how could you be so evil but I shouldn't be surprise seeing as your a dark magic user how many died from your actions." I asked him slowly with an edge in my voice from my rising anger.

"Ya'll must not really be bestmen and this isn't Derwrath because if it was none and you were that question wouldn't be asked because you would have already know the answer to your own question, Zaraith was already dead. Now I'm putting a stop to the questions for now seeing as it's let what with the sun setting and seeing as you have kept your word so will I. I'm going to release the binding spell and if ya'll still want to fight I I'll oblige it but if ya'll still want answers i'll be more than happy to answer them so what will it be?. He told us as he simultaneously released the spell and looked at us waiting for our answer.

"Ah yea you already know the answer I'm going to kick your flank" Rainbow said as she took off into the air getting ready to dive bomb Acerbus. Suddenly black lightning started to crackle around his body remembering his early warning I yelled out to Rainbow Dash.

"RAINBOW STOP HE'LL KILL YOU" thankfully she stopped mid air, she turned to me wearing a confused look on her face. "Now Acerbus I don't trust you but I can sense you are very powerful and are correct that in fighting you we may all die so I'll take your proposition and continue our talk back at my place in Ponyville provided on two conditions. One you must leave your hood down seeing as if you left it up you would scare everpony and second you swear you will not use your magic until we have finished with our discussion." I calmly spoke to him while looking directly at his eyes while he still crackled with the black lightning.

"Very well Twilight I'm more than happy to meet thous conditions provided you meat one of mine."

"Okay what condition"

"You provide me with a place to sleep I don't care where but I would like a bead seeing as it's been a year since I've slept in one"

"Very well I'll give you a bed for the night now promise not to use your magic"

"Fine I Pro"

"WAIT you have to Pinkie promise" Pinkie suddenly interrupted mine and Acerbus's conversation by appearing in his face.

"Pinkie what are you doing and what is a Pinkie promise?" I hissed at her as she turned to me with her big grin on her face.

"It's a promise that you never ever break because it's a promise between friends" she responded looking extremely serious at me.

"Pinkie he may very well be evil their is n way he'll keep such a promise!" I exclaimed I was about to continue when I heard Acerbus say.

"It's fine by me but I don't know what a Pinkie promise is" Acerbus told her with his own grin on his face.

"Oh is easy all you have to do is say cross my heart, hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye and den do this" Pinkie then crossed her heart and put her hand to her eye.

"HAHAHA marvelous very well cross my heart, hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye I will not use any magic until our discussion is over." He promised with a chuckle I just sighed and turned around to leave before the headache I was getting got worse.

"Okay Okay lets's get going back to Ponyville then, Oh will someone please either carry or wake you Fluttershy."

Author's Note

Sorry for the long chapter this was suppose to be the info dump by itself seeing as i had been intentionally been vague with details in the other two chapters so the next one will finish the introduction Acerbus and the main six along with more information on his world hope you all still enjoy this story and be more than welcome to tell me of any mistakes I made