Author's Note

So this is were we introduce why the sad tag is involved. As well as some fighting.

Chapter 3

“Hold on a minute. Let me get this straight. You are the alleged god of death,” Tirek questioned, astonished by what he had just heard.

“Yes, but I am also the god of misery and strife. Why do you ask,” Pathos stated with a wide grin adorned his face.

“Because, anybody who knows a single thing about the old world, knew and feared the god of death. Now I know why Discord mentioned he was friends with death,” Tirek answered.

“Ah. So Dissy is still around. How is he fairing,” the man asked.

“He now helps the wretched ponies,” Tirek growled. Still upset by his defeat.

Pathos had a mixture of feelings flow through him, disbelief, betrayal, but mostly hatred. “So, the god of chaos has finally been tamed. But that will be a latter discussion. Right now I am still telling my story,” Pathos stated, but then paused. A thought occurred to him. “How about instead of telling you my story and wasting my energy. I show you it,” the human said, as he conjured a large ball for him and his friend to gaze into.

-o-

After the meeting Nightmare flew away into the night, not knowing that the meeting had taken that much time. She truthfully didn’t care. She just wanted to be alone. Oh, wait. She already was.

With a sigh the human shaped astral projection lied on a cloud, her mood causing the said cloud to darken, and begin pouring down rain. Nightmare didn’t know what to do. Nothing seemed to please her. Creating nightmares to innocent individuals, was not appetizing as it once were. Neither was driving people insane to the point of making them kill each other. They still blame a mirror, if only she could laugh.

But she couldn’t. All she could fill was emptiness and despair. She no longer wish to be immortal, if it meant she could not die by her own will. For now all she could do was lie on the cloud and remember how life had used to been. Wasting away, as her emotions tears into her being.

Her thoughts were interrupted, when a familiar voice called out to her.

“Nightmare... Nightmare. Where are you,” the God of hidden desires shouted. Nightmare could feel the beating of wings, as the sound continued to become louder and louder. “Ah there you are,” Sidious exclaimed with a smile.

“Leave me be, Sidious,” the Nightmare goddess pleaded.

Sidious’ could only frown. He pitied nightmare, even though as a god he wasn’t supposed to feel such emotion. Her love had abandoned her in his lust for power. All the praise that Pathos had given her, was nothing to the amount of criticism she received a few minutes ago.

“I am truly sorry, Nightmare,” Sidious spoke, with a sorrowful expression.

“I do not want your pity,” Nightmare growled, as she sat up and glared at the gargoyle.

The go could only flinch at the display. Nightmare was one of the most feared God or Goddess, other than Pathos. The only reason Discord isn’t feared is because of how much of a trickster he is.

“Um...Um-,” Sidious tries to speak, but was rudely interrupted

“Heh, How pathetic. The one trying to reassure me, cannot even assure himself. You are useless,” Nightmare bellowed. In her anger, she did not notice that the god was visibly shaking. She then noticed that she had taken it too far, and physically relaxed.

Sidious could not believe what he had heard. Nightmare had just called him useless, the one of the few gods who appreciated him. Had just called him useless. What was weird was that Sidious was shaking. Not from fear, but anger. No he was shaking, due to rage. Complete and absolute rage.

Sidious clenched his claws and started to shout at the astral being, “You know what. Go fuck yourself. I try to help, but you are being a complete and total bitch. You know what. You don’t even deserve Pathos.” the gargoyle then took a deep breath. Once finished he hissed, “I am not surprised that he left you.” With that the god flew away.

Nightmare sat there with her mouth gaped. Never in his immortality, has he ever been so harsh to her. But what truly struck her was what he had said.

“You don’t even deserve Pathos.”

The words continued to burn itself into her mind

“You don’t even deserve Pathos. I am not surprised that he left you.”

Nightmare tried to push the thoughts away, but they continued to linger.

“You don’t even deserve Pathos. I am not surprised that he left you.”

It wasn’t long before she was saying the words in synch with the voice in her head. “I don’t even deserve Pathos. No wonder he left me,” The transparent humanoid spoke, as she lied back down on the cloud. For the rest of that day, she continued saying the same phrase over and over again. Not aware of the world around. All she cared about was how much she wished she was mortal... So that she could kill herself.

-o-

As he flew, Sidious was overflowing with anger. He desire to kill a mortal. No. He needed to kill a mortal, and he knew where to find one. The gargoyle flew east to the mountain range of Katul, Home of both dragons and diamond dogs.

He smirked, when his gazed at battalion of Diamond. They were eight of them in total. All of them wearing rusty armor, and carrying dragon bone halberds. It was not the Diamond dogs that were widely feared, but rather the weapons they craft. Their spears are so delicately sharpened. One swing could cut through grass.

'Perfect,' the gargoyle thought as he carefully trailed the soldiers, making sure not to be noticed. He then began to listen into the armored forces conversation.

"Chestpaw, why the fuck we here, again," one of the soldiers asked. He had white fur and yellow eyes, his canines were more pronounced, and he stood taller than his brethren.

The lead diamond dog scoffed, “we scouting to see if dragon cave up here." Chestpaw was shorter than the rest of his kind. He had broken teeth and a scar over his left eye. He too. Had white fur and yellow eyes.

"Oh. Oh. We take gems yes," Another diamond dog happily chirped.

"No Largepaw. We only scout. No gem stealing," Chestpaw stated, as he continued marching.

Although he might be named Largepaw, he was actually born with a rare mutation that made his paws half the size they should be, but also made them superior in flexibility.

‘Oh the fun. One of them is already very greedy,” the gargoyle smirked.

Sidious continued to follow the group of diamond dogs until they reached a large cave .The cave unlike others appeared to have been dug into, indicating it was not of natural origin. Large claw marks also indicated that a large beast had carved it.

“Here it is boys,” Chestpaw announced, as he halted his comrades with the raise of his right paw. Turning towards his brethren, he spoke once more, “Remember we scouting. We not taking gems.”

Largepaw mumbled something under his breath, on to receive an intense gaze from his superior

“What you say,” the dog commander asked, as he stared into the very soul of Largepaw.

“Nothing, sir,” the canine gulped, as he cringed before his leader.

“Good now we see if there be dragon inside,” Chestpaw commanded, as he wandered into the dark abyss. All the others followed their into the pitch black void. Sidious too, stalked his prey

-o-

In the cave, silence and darkness was omnipresent. If it were not for his keen eyes, he would have not been able to follow. The diamond dogs were a different story.

“OW. Stop hitting me,” one of the dogs wined.

“I’m sorry. Didn’t mean to hit you,” another dog apologized.

“Dammit, I hit a rock,” Largepaw yelped.

“I’m surrounded, by fucktards,” Chestpaw mumbled as he grabbed a light stone from his satchel, and lit it. He was then silent, as too were his friends.

There before them slept a large blue dragon, with midnight blue spikes. It was not the dragon itself that left the mutts speechless, but rather the amount of gems it laid upon.

“By the nine,” Largepaw said, as he began to drool over the gems.

Now was the perfect opportunity for the gargoyle to strike. He flared his magic, and a green glow engulfed his right claw. With a wave of his hand the aura was shot into Largepaw, and disappeared

Something strange occurred to Largepaw. He now desire more than anything, the large pile of gems that was before him. He wanted it. No, he needed them. They were going to be his. And his alone. It will fuel his greed.

With a large growl, the deformed diamond dog charged the slumbering beast. He raised his mighty blade, ready to strike. The dragon though, was awoken. With a sweep of its tail, the greedy diamond dog was thrown to the wall.

“Dammit, charge,” Largepaw shouted, as he ran towards the flying beast.

A diamond dog attempted to lunge at the dragon, only to be grabbed in midair and slammed to the ground. His body bending in ways not seemed plausible. Two more dogs rushed the beast, only for one to be grabbed by the dragon’s tail and hurled at the other, knocking him over. Three others surrounded the beast.

“Ha-ha. We got you now,” the warriors gloated. Soon after one was stepped on, by their foes massive foots. Another was grabbed by the dragon’s claws and ripped in half. The other soldier stood motionless, frozen by fear. The dragon proceeded to breathe fire on the dog. Hid cries of agony, as his flesh melted of his skin, pleased the watchful god. When the blue beast was done scorching the poor fool, the fire lifted. All that was left was the boiling of liquidized flesh.

Chestpaw had a loss of words for his comrade’s death. In a matter of a few minutes they were dead. This filled the commander with much grief, but mostly rage. With a flick of his wrist. Sidious summoned for the diamond dogs rage, only this time his hand glowed red.

Once struck the mutt, became overwhelmed with hatred. He wanted to murder the Dragon. No he wanted to hear its cries of agony. He desired the beast to feel his wrath. With a mighty shout he charged the beast, raising his weapon. The blue dragon swung its massive arms, only for Chest paw to slide under it, with a swing of his blade he cut into the belly of the beast.

With a loud cry the dragon plummeted to the ground. Lucky for the veteran, he was able to avoid getting smashed by the massive creature’s weight. He then proceeded to climb his next victim, and was ready to strike.

-o-

Xenia had never felt such pain. While trying to fight off her home’s invaders, one of them managed to cut her along the stomach. She could feel the warmness of her blood, as it flowed freely from her wound. Crying in pain, she failed to notice her attacker standing atop her. IT wasn’t until he ripped of her middle spike, that she noticed him. Screaming in agony, the dragoness turned to see a Diamond dog on her back, with her appendage in his grasp.

“Please don’t kill me,” she pleaded with tears, blurring her vision. The mutt only gave her a sickening smile, before he drove her blade into her back. With the breaking of her spinal cored, her vision faded.

-o-

Sidious had a large smile adorned his face. Not only was the fight entertaining, but it also allowed him to vent his frustration His sudden bliss, however, was interrupted by the voice of a certain draconequus.

“Oooo. What a marvelous show,” Discord announced, as he floated in midair eating a bag of popcorn.

“Oh. It’s you,” Sidious stated as he glared at the freak.

“And is there anything wrong with such,” Discord asked still eating his popcorn.

“Nothing, besides the fact you're supposed to investigate the new civilization,” the gargoyle questioned.

“Yah, but I wanted to visit my pal,” Discord stated as he put an arm over the god.

“Discord. You are so full of shit,” Sidious smirked.

“Ok. You got me,, and now that you have. I will give you a present,” discord laughed, as he dropped a present in front of the gargoyle. Only for it to explode. With even more laughter, Discord left with the snap of his fingers.

“Dammit, Discord,” The angry god shouted, as he flew out of the cave.