"Um... what?" said Daring Do, dumbfounded by the blunt statement from the True Monarch. The undead warrior jovially laughed for a second before speaking again.

"Ah, I have wanted to say that for a long time. Nut anyway, the note told me to talk to 'Princess Celestia', and as you said earlier, this kingdom is ruled by her and her sister." The Monarch explained to his unwilling companion as he looked off towards the Majula Monument.

The first thing he noticed about that side of town, was that instead of a large cliff with the ocean at the bottom, a dark forest stretched away from the settlement, the Monument having the top half sliced cleanly off.

The Monarch walked up to the monument acknowledging the sacrifices of everyone whom lost their lives fighting the giants. A faint smile crossed his face as he remembered one of those warriors, whom he met in the memories of the Giants.

Captain Drummond, whose greaves he now wore, in remembrance of the proud warrior, whom had lost both his father and grandfather to the war against the giants, whom had also worn said armor.

"Well, if I'm going to take you to Canterlot, we're gonna have to go through the Everfree Forest to reach Ponyville, which has the nearest train station for miles" Daring said as she walked up to the Monarch. "Are you ready to go, or do you want to stay here for a while longer?" the Monarch smiled at the pegasus' worry for him, they had only known each other for an hour at most, and she was already being incredibly kind to him.

"Let us be off, there is nothing more for me here. I may return in time, but that will be to live the rest of time in peace" the Monarch said with a small nod to his companion, whom smiled softly before leading the way through the dark forest.

The unlikely duo trekked through the forest, talking of their pasts, getting to know each other as they traveled. However, a rustling in the bushes caught the Monarch's attention. As he turned he noticed piercing golden eyes in the shadows around them.

"Daring, not to startle you or anything, but I believe that we have company" the Monarch said, slowly, making sure not to make any sudden movements. His pegasus companion looked around them as well, quickly noticing the golden dots all around them.

"Timberwolves" she whispered as she crouched low to the ground, in a combat stance. The True Monarch placed his Scythe upon his back and retrieved his Sunset Staff from it's perch beside his Greatbow.

The True Monarch knew what spell he was going to cast almost instantly. Charging forward a few steps towards the golden eyes he mumbled out the incantation. Almost instantly, a writhing mass of darkness coalesced around the tip of the staff, forming a blade of pure darkness. He swung the ready spell horizontally, the darkness slicing through trees and wooden wolves alike. Once the swing was ended, a wave of darkness erupted from the air where it slashed, flying forwards ten feet, slicing even more trees.

The True Monarch smirked at the now revealed corpses of his foes, before they started to twitch with movement. His eyes widened as he noticed a dismembered head at his feet snarl before recreating it's body out of the scattered debris. He rolled backwards before springing back to his feet beside Daring.

"Never have I faced such foes, most everything I have fought before now has stayed down after defeat. Barring skeletons of course, the nasty creations of necromancy they are." The Monarch said, quickly replacing his staff upon his back. Daring quickly looked around, seeing no means of escape.

"We can't run, they have us surrounded. Do you have anything that uses fire by chance?" the pegasus said, looking around at the wolves slowly circling them, the True Monarch chuckled slightly.

"Fire you say? Yes... Yes, that will do nicely" he said menacingly before he reached into his pouch, grasping a white bound hilt. Slowly the blade came into view, it was a large, thick and curved blade, the color of the metal was a dark ash grey, the polar opposite of the pure white cloth wrapping around the hilt, flames danced along the cold, metal blade.

"This blade, the Murakumo, is fortified with a stone known as the Firedrake Stone, a unique variant of titanite imbued with fire" the Monarch stated menacingly as he took it in both hands, letting his shield fall to the ground. And then he danced.

The dark blade of the sword swung skillfully through the air, dismembering Timberwolves here and there, the fire enchantment igniting the remains of the wooden abominations. Quickly, there were no wolves left, only the smoldering firewood that was once limbs, bodies and heads.

The boiling sap that was once flowing through the bodies of the wolves slowly slid off the hot blade of the Murakumo. With a flick of the blade, the sap flew off of the immense sword, and with slow and precise movements he replaced it into his pouch, blade first.

"H-how did you do that? That pouch is tiny compared to that sword!" Daring exclaimed, the Monarch chuckled once more as he picked his shield back up off the floor.

"It has what is known as a 'Bottomless Box' inside it, said box literally has no bottom and one can retrieve anything they put in there with nary a thought, I have many blades and armor inside" the Monarch explained before waving a hand in the air. "'Tis complicated magic and even I do not know how it is done."

Daring looked down at the mention of 'complicated magic', she knew of a unicorn in Ponyville who would jump through hoops to get a chance to study such a thing, she blanched at the thought of said Princess of Friendship getting her hooves on the Monarch.

"Well, we can't be too much further from Ponyville, admittedly, the mountain isn't too far in, so we should reach the outside pretty soon if we are quick" Daring said, quickly cantering down the path they were headed, the True Monarch quickly jogged after her.

The pair finally emerged from the dark forest, thankfully they had not encountered any other creatures on their way out. The bright sun shone at it's apex, high in the sky, and the True Monarch quickly noticed it. He fell to his knees at the sight of the glorious sun.

"It... It is beautiful... I have not seen it in such splendor in a long time, oh... It is so grossly incandescent" he said, almost in a whisper, before standing once more, he turned to his companion before speaking again.

"Daring, let us make haste to this 'train station', I wish to arrive at Canterlot post haste" the Monarch said, Daring nodded before the pair headed towards the small town not too far away, Daring silently hoped that they could reach the train station and get on a train before any of the Elements of Harmony could spot them, little did she know, they would not have the luxury of evading any of the six.

She noticed almost instantly a polychromatic blur racing towards them already and she cursed silently, realizing that she should not have even thought that, simply because some evil deity could make sure things happened for comedic relief.

(Crap! She's onto me! Okay... Okay... Mind wipe!)

Daring shook her head, wondering what she was thinking about. She then noticed Rainbow Dash was not slowing down as she approached the pair, the tan pegasus' eyes widened as she realized what was happening.

The True Monarch noticed this as well, and raised his shield to intercept the rainbow projectile, and with a metallic 'thump' the rainbow maned pony slammed face first into the large lump of intricate metal.

"Are... you okay?" the True Monarch asked the cyan pegasus, whom slowly slid off the face of his shield. A single hoof raised off the ground where she was sprawled over the ground before she spoke.

"Yeah... Gimme a sec..." she moaned into the dirt. After a minute, she sprung onto her hooves, crouching down into a combat ready stance before she spoke again.

"This creature followed you out of the Everfree Daring!" exclaimed the new pegasus, Daring simply facehooved while the True Monarch simply laughed a jolly laugh again.

"Hah! Hooooooo, man, never been called 'creature' before. Seriously though, you don't wanna mess with me, colorful. I doubt your princess would like it if I had to kill one of her subjects in self defense before I could talk to her" he said, Rainbow Dash blinked dumbfoundedly at the Monarch, her jaw dropping to the ground, the undead warrior simply waved before speaking.

"Hi! I'm the True Monarch! great to meet you!"

Author's Note

HUZZAH! there is now more, I was on a bit of a roll, so I got this out pretty quickly if I do say so myself.

Now then, the Murakumo used in this chapter is the special one that was available for a time after the Sunken Crown DLC came out.

And again, here is a list of things this character has equipped, but this time it is attuned spells

Dark Orb (1 attunement) Hex, Staff
Dark Weapon (1 attunement) Hex, Staff
Recollection (1 attunement) Hex, Staff
Dark Greatsword (2 attunement) Hex, Staff
Soothing Sunlight (2 attunement) Miracle, Chime
Sunlight Spear (2 attunement Miracle, Chime

equaling 9 slots in total, three of which are from the Southern Ritual Band(which is the +2 version)