Chapter 1: Back in Black… err Sage

I was encased in stone and put in a hedge maze for fifteen hundred years with my only company being Discord. He used some of his remaining power to create a link that we could communicate through, but after a few hundred years the amount of random things to talk started to run thin.

The only thing that kept us relatively sane and entertained for so long was the fact we could still see and hear the world around us and we saw some interesting things in that garden. They ranged from arguments between couples, to hearing the myths about Discord and I that would change every few years.

Our favorite to date was that I was a demon from Tartarus that Discord summoned. I entered battle with flames of blue and orange around me, shooting them from my hands while laughing like a psychopath, and all attacks against me were blocked by a wall of flames.

We also heard that Luna was banished after her transformation into Nightmare Moon fueled by her jealousy pointed towards her sister. This bit of information came from a drunk guard

In reality, I almost broke down on my first two kills until I told myself that I had to do it to get home and see my family. I then later almost mentally snapped and quivered from the nightmares I received from the experience, PTSD is not fun to live with but is dulled down to just a distant memory after five hundred plus years.

Anyway, on year one thousand five hundred I was freed due to a purple burst of magic being deflected by a rainbow shockwave hitting my stone encased body. Both of us knew that it would free me, “Lucky bastard” Discord said through the mental link.

“Shut up grandpa, you’ll get out in time.”

The stone encasing my body crumbled, as the magic that sealed me in the stone was disrupted by the blast. I deactivated the energy sword that still was in my grip when I was encased in stone and shook off the remnants of stone that still clung to me.

I walked through the garden wanting to find a way out of my current location. After a little walking I found out that I was in a hedge maze, not wanting have to solve it I activated my energy sword and cut my way out.

My exit lead me to end up in the guards training yard, wanting to find out my new location. After being moved from ‘Greyfort Castle’ or as most called it ‘Castle of The Royal Pony Sisters’ the conversations near us grew rare. So to find out, I just found the nearest guard. The pony was a white unicorn stallion with a navy blue mane and tail with a lighter blue going through it, and before the guards noticed me I grabbed him by the neck catching the attention of the others.To my surprise they did not attack like I expected, instead just looked at me stunned. I turned my attention to the struggling pony in my hand “Where in Equestria am I?” I interrogated, My voice was even and devoid of emotion.

His hands grasped at my own as he tried to get free, “Buck you!”

I punched him, making sure I pulled it so he would not be killed “Again where in Equestria am I?”

“You're in *cough* Canterlot *cough*.” He answered back still struggling a little but not as much as before.

I was a little surprised myself that he relented so easily instead of another verbal insult I hashed it up to the long period of peace but did not pay anymore mind to it. Instead focusing my attention back to the pony in my grasp

The next question was obvious but I just wanted to be sure.“Is Canterlot the capital of Equestria?” I replied, ignoring his attempts to escape.

Before he answered my motion tracker detected someone moving towards me. I turned my head and saw the pony charging at me a spear held in their magical grip. I just rolled my eyes inside the helmet. Once he was within reach of my energy sword, I decapitated the guard and watched as the body collapsed and the head rolled off. The kill was bloodless, the cut cauterized by the blades heat.

The energy sword still activated, I looked right back at the pony in my grasp, he fully gave up his struggle after seeing what I did to the guard that attacked me. “I ask again, is Canterlot the capital of Equestria?” The pony nodded and I let go of him, the guards were not even scared anymore but instead demoralized after I killed the attacking pony with such ease. Finished here I walked away to find the Princesses or Princess in this case.

They were my enemy once but that was only because Discord would get me home if I helped. With some luck I could convince Celestia to tell me if she could reverse the transformation and send me back home, and most importantly actually do it.

At the same time I was scared, multiple questions flooded my mind, What would I do if I could not go back? Would I carve a home, or continue a legacy of blood and death. What would my purpose be then? I would be doomed to be on this planet with Ponies, Griffons and other races that possess a similar shape to a human, just enough to remind me that I was the only one of my kind to exist on this planet, that I was the outsider and the freak.

I found it ironic, Celestia and I were in the same boat now, she lost her sister, the one she held close, the only one that understood her and now she was alone. I too lost my family and friends when I was brought here, I also was alone in this world, and finally both of us wanted things the way they once were. I shook myself out of my thoughts and musings really not wanting to think about the what ifs and other distractions from my goal.

I noticed that I was in the castle, and in front of two giant gold doors with many engravings and what seemed like runes written across them guarded by two ponies I presumed that this was infact the throne room. I put my badass mask back on and looked at the guard on the right, “Tell Celestia the Demon wants to speak to her.” The guard was shocked from his stoic facade, now forced to notice me his eyes dilated to a comical size as his spear dropped from his hand and did nothing I assumed the other was doing the same. “Well there goes my dramatic and cliche entrance.”

With an exaggerated sigh I push open the doors and entered. This was not unnoticed by Celestia who conveniently was not busy at the moment. She looked at me with shock and rage, a snarl present on her face, her wings spread out and magic charged in her horn, “How did you get out?!”

Author's Note

Well here is long awaited (Due to laziness and Roleplaying) Chapter 1

Thank the Editor Aussie Hard-Dick for it being of better quality then it was.

(To Aussie): I'll try to make your job easier and get better with grammar and such but thanks for editing.