A Reformed Evil

The morning after came as fast as the night had left. As Daniel's eyes opened up to a new day, he was greeted to something light on his chest as he barely moved his head and looked down. On his chest, he found the crow from last night on his chest, yet also of the letter on the nightstand of what Celestia had asked of him as he sits up slowly. As he does so, the crow takes off and lands on his shoulder as if not going to leave as he stands and heads to the bathroom for a quick wash. As he started the bath, he found the soap nearly gone as the bird brought him another one as he looks at it "Are you like my assistant or something?" he asks it. As expected, all it did was caw as he rolls his eyes and takes the quick bath.

As he gets out, dried and dressed, he looks in the mirror to find himself looking back, but... weirder. Instead of his usual light brown eyes, they were a piercing orange and the reflection showed a bathroom, but like something out of a post-apocalyptic place instead of the clean and pristine place he was in. As he looked closer, it roars as he falls back and the reflection turns to normal as he rubs his head. He stands up as he pants "I need to see a doctor.... or a shrink" he mutters. As he goes outside the bathroom, he starts to feels a sharp pain in his head as if sharp blades were digging into his head as his vision starts to blur. As he holds his head, he starts to hear the voices, but now it was one voice.

It was ruff and sounded of pure evil as only two words echoed in his head "Free.... me" as Daniel grabs the edge of a table and breathes slowly as he rubs his temple. He normally would of told someone, yet in this world it's possibly just a side effect of so much time dealing with history, occult stuff, and of course mythological stuff with a added mix of weird other-worldly transportation and he was sure anyone would end up like him.

As he got back up to his feet and steadied himself, the crow got back onto his shoulder as he looks at it "Well if your stuck with me I might as well give you a name..... how about Aleister?" he asks. The crow simply caws as he smiles a bit "Aleister it is" Daniel says. He walks over as he quickly takes the letter and puts it in his inside coat pocket. He figure it be best to keep it close by incase of Twilight or Spike doing room checks at some point. As he exits to the hall, he can hear the echoes of talking coming from down the hall, from the large meeting room that Twilight has for her and her friends. As he enters the room, he felt the air leave his lungs as Pinkie jumped on him all happy like as she smiles at him

She giggles and snorts "Oh! Oh! Daniel! Guess what!" she asks as she happily bounces on him.

"Your trying to crush my ribs with bouncing on me?"

"No silly! We get to plan and decorate the GRAND GALLOPING GALA!!!" she yells out loud as she bounces around happily. Daniel slowly gets up as he groans and holds his chest a bit. Despite her not being a strong mare like Applejack, she still had her own kind of strength. As he steadies himself and sits at a guest chair at the table, he feels two mares staring and looks over to see RD and Fluttershy staring at his shoulder.

RD looks at him as she speaks first "What's with the crow Dan? Is it Zapapple season?" she asks.

"Shouldn't be RD. Zapapple season ain't for another four months" the farm pony says as she leans back.

"It just came to me with some junk mail and hasn't left me. It's like I have my own assistant" he says as he pets his crow. As he looks at Pinkie still hoping around, a door soon opens and the table is graced with Twilight's presence as she sits at the head of the table with a smile on her face. Spike followed a bit after with parchment of plans supposedly from the whole planning idea.

As Twilight sits down, she has Pinkie stop as she looks around "Alright girls, I planned for this exact event given our skills. Rarity and Pinkie Pie, you both can help decorate the party, banners, and so forth. Fluttershy, I believe the birds can help in music accompaniment along with making romantic moments for couples. Rainbow, Pinkie and Rarity can help in party planning, decorations, and set up. Applejack can handle food, I can supervise and help, yet we have a wild stallion" she says. She looks up looking at Daniel "You can help when somepony needs it since your knowledge of parties can help" she says with a smile.

All Daniel did was shrug as Twilight and the others get up and start to leave. He follows as the crow flies overhead with him bringing up the rear. As they left the castle, the mares started talking of plans for the gala as Daniel's mind wandered of his life so far. It had been about a week since he had arrived in this world as a falling meteor of sorts. He remembered falling from the sky, hitting the ground without a scratch, chased by a manticore, saved by ponies, living with a princess, and having weird nightmares and hearing voices. Yeah... a average day. As he was still daydreaming, he got pulled out from a soft elbow to the arm by Applejack as he looks over "I'm sorry what?"

"I said, do ya'll know how to make apple fritters?" Applejack asks.

Daniel shakes his head as he looks over at Applejack "All I know how to make is breakfast stuff. Never even heard of a apple fritter" he says honestly. Before the conversation could of continued, they had all reached the train station as Twilight paid for the tickets since Daniel's bits got stolen by a side-show pony calling herself Trixie. As they all shuffled onto the train, he looks at the color coated train as he shakes his head. In his world, trains had a bit more organization to color, yet he had to remember he was in another world so it wouldn't make sense to him. As he got on, he found his own seat to sit in, away from the mares who were busy talking about how to organize and set up the Gala. His eyes wander down to his crow as he rubs the bird's head as it rested on his lap. He was a bit glad to have a crow with him since he never saw a lot of them and to him made it a rare bird to really find, but more importantly of their symbolic meaning in some circles.

As the train kept rolling, Daniel got knocked out of his own little world by a turn the train took, making him slide into a wall and groan. He forgot he was on a train for a minute as he rubs his head and sits up to find the girls still talking. He just sighs and rolls his eyes as they were still a good hour from the station in Canterlot. He keeps his thoughts to himself as the train stops. He gets up and leaves with them as he looks around Canterlot as if it was some kind of ponified version of Beverly Hills with all the snobs and nobles. It didn't take long to find the castle, just find the golden armored guards and follow the purple leader. As the doors spread and showed the palace, everypony worked to make the gala as spectacular as ever before, but with a human's help of parties they added a bit of human flare to it.

At the end of the whole decorating and preparation stage, he collapses into a chair as he looks around "Marvelous..... simply marvelous" he says of the design as he smiles. He looks at the girls smiling as they all come towards him and hug him "Thanks for the help Daniel"

"Yeah, your a pretty awesome human!"

"Oh this gala will be the most superriffic, splendiferous, super spectalour gala ever!"

"T-Thank you for your um... help"

"Your pretty handy there partner"

"Simply marvelous darling"

Daniel just chuckles and blushes "Well... I may not be able to reach high places or easily move stuff by myself, but... well I try" he says. He smiles as he sees them simply beam with happiness. He looks around as the place was definitely worthy of the term of Gala. He stands up as he looks at his attire "So... when is the gala?" he asks.

Twilight simply smiles "Tomorrow! Oh I am so excited!" she says as she bounces around just like Pinkie normally does. All Daniel did was shake his head as he feels exhausted and leans back in the chair, feeling his eyes get heavy. He didn't do much in helping except offer some help of how a human arranges the decoration, which isn't all that different from when they did it, but it also felt like something was calling him to sleep. As he closes his eyes to snooze, the girls all let him rest thinking he is resting to get a lot of energy for his first Gala. In all honesty, he was just tired as in his head all he saw was darkness.

As he wandered around the darkness, he started to feel.... warm, like someone just lit a fire under his chair. As he stops, he sees the walls start to crack and crumble to show a town on fire, a human town at that. All around him were demons and creatures of another world, killing people or taking them away to some kind of red portal. As he walked around, he found one of the humans fighting back, a shirtless man who is cleaving through the armies with a large sword, but also of steel armor. It hit him that this was a place of a lot earlier era, middle ages perhaps, judging from the buildings and the creatures.

As he watched the man slice through demons, the man is soon overwhelmed by sheer numbers as the whole image dissipates before him. Daniel looks around to see another town, but this time it was of Canterlot, yet so..... different. The town itself was in burning ruins, blood splatters on the walls as not a single pony is seen. As he wanders around, he hears something crack as he looks down to find him stepping on the frame of a pair of purple shades. As he picks them up, he hears loud explosions and parts of the castle flying off as he runs to it, curious and worried about what the hell happened. As he enters, what he saw shocked him beyond all reason.

Around the castle, three ponies in gold and blue clothing, the Wonderbolts he believe they are called by Rainbow Dash, lay on the ground beaten and bruised. He looked over at another wall for the Mane 6 to be in worse shape, but Twilight had it the worst. Her wings were ripped off and horn broken in half as a bright light blinds him and brings him over to find Luna and Celestia bearing down every ounce of magical power on a sole being. A evil laugh is heard as he turns and sees a dark coated being, simply blocking the magic with a hand "You thought you would defeat me? How foolish of two princesses to think this" he says. His voice sounded demonic, but also dark as he forces his hand forward and knocks the power back and them to the ground.

The being walks forward as Daniel sees it's him, but... different. Orange eyes, black spikes with black and orange armor and a weird plated tail. His skin was pale, pale as ash as he radiated evil. He walks over as he grabs both of the Princesses by their necks and lifts them up. As he does so, he grins "I shall let you live, just so you both may watch as I destroy your kingdom and leave nothing, but my laughter" he says. As he does so, he lets out a loud monstrous roar that shatters the glass windows and soon consumes the room in flames, eradicating all but those three. As the flames race to the door, Daniel flinches making him get consumed in flames.

In the real world, Daniel is forced awake by the nightmare as he falls out of his chair and rubs his head as he looks around. He was the only one in the room as he stands and pushes the chair in. He catches his breath as he relaxs a bit, pushing another nightmare from his mind all before the girls return to get him home to the castle. At this point though, he has called the castle his home since he figures Celestia will send a note of any updates to the whole 'cross world traveling' situation.

The rest of the day went without any sort of problem, save the usual contest between RD and Applejack. This time of 'Who can capture the human the fastest'. Suffice to say, they had not taken into account of his reaction time and of course his running speed when being chased. He found a way to outrun and hide from them by hiding out in the library till they had to get some sleep for the gala tomorrow. After they had left, Daniel decided to do a bit of research into demons and monsters of Equestria to try and see what could cause such destruction in his dreams. So far in the books only creatures called Demons could do this, but whatever it was he saw felt something more horrible then a demon, like a super demon. He rubs his temples as he moves the book and lays his head down to catch up on his sleep.

As the day came yet again, all he heard were squeels and screams of happiness as that woke him up worse then any alarm clock as he got up. He looks around to find himself in the library as he walks over to the door and leaves, but to find quite the sight. Before him were six mares, all in beautiful dresses as they see him in the same clothes as yesterday. He shakes his head "Sorry, didn't mean to stare. Just... wow" he says as that brought a giggle from Rarity. As he went back to his room to get ready, he finds his crow waiting yet again and a suit that screams 'Rarity design'. It was a baby blue with gems all over it. With it were a pair of regular blue pants and white shoes. In all honesty, he was not a fan of blue, but put up with it to not seem ungrateful.

As he sighs and goes to put it on, his crow flies over and lands on the outfit. Daniel sighs "Move Aleister, I can't play games" he says. All it did was caw as it started to preen it's feathers. He rolls his eyes and tries to move the bird, yet it doesn't move. As he looks at it, the suit seems to start to change before his eyes. Instead of a gem studded, baby blue outfit, it was now a black silk made jacket over a crimson red shirt and black neck tie. The pants also turned to black and the shoes turned black as well. It looked like something he would normally wear as Aleister flies to a bedpost. Daniel smirks as he changes clothing and looks himself over in the mirror. If he didn't know better, he say he was someone else since the clothes were a bit too rich for someone on a teacher's salary.

As he walked out of the room, he got looks of interest from the Mane 6 as he looks over. Rarity though thought she should ask "What happened to the suit I left you?"

"This is the suit just... got changed" Daniel responds as he rubs Aleister's head. She seemed a bit down, but smiled nonetheless "It's still your design, just a bit more modernized for my world" Daniel explains as he walked over and hugged Rarity. She seemed confused "Call it thanks for making me a suit" he says. He then goes and hugs the others "For giving me a roof over my head, for being good friends, for... hell everything to make this a comfortable stay. I don't know if I can return to my world, but if I don't, I at least know I got friends who can help me through this when I need it" he says. That got everypony smiling except Pinkie who just giggle-snorts as she bounces into Daniel's arm for another hug.

After a few minutes, the group all got up and left for the train station as Daniel is repressing a chuckle at looking at the small 'penguin' next to him. Seems Rarity thought it be cute for Spike to be in a tux and honestly the dragon looks more like a penguin then a dragon. The ride seemed to of taken a lot less time then before, but then again they are going to a fancy party as they arrive to see many ponies filing into the castle for the gala. He was actually quite stricken with how many showed up for this and weren't nobles, though the disgusted looks he got from them was a bit uncalled for. As he walked through the front doors, there they stood at the top of the stairs, Princesses Luna and Celestia, in regal attire as they bow to the guests arriving.

As the group made it to the stairs and bows were exchanged, all the mares went their separate ways, even Spike, as Daniel was left all alone. As he simply did what he wanted to and wander around till he found the bar. He got a simple shot of Griffonian Vodka as it was like real vodka, but with a larger spicy kick to it. After paying for it, Daniel walked around till he ran into somepony. He ran into a white unicorn with combed blonde hair and a all white suit. He scoffs "How date you run into me you cur! I demand a apology and a kiss on my royal hand!" he says.

Now Daniel was a man of a modest upbringing and he knows of nobles from history. He looks over at him as he shakes his head "Kiss your own hand"

"Ugh! How dare you, you insolent commoner! Do you know who I am? I am Prince Blueblood of -"

"Sorry, Prince Blueballs?"

"Blueblood!"

"Blueballs?"

"Blueblood!"

"Alright Blueballs" Daniel says as he is really just trolling him at this point for being a snob.

Blueblood has a noticeable vein pop on his head "I demand respect you creature of filth! I am the nephew of the Princesses!"

Daniel looks at him "Okay two things. One.... Respect is earned, not demanded you prick" he says putting his drink down. He pokes Blueblood in the chest "Also I am not going to apologize to some damn unicorn who thinks he is 'holier-than-thou' and whom, I am sure, runs and whines to his aunts when something bad happens or doesn't go his way" he says. He picks his drink up "How about this. I'll apologize once you learn to grow a pair and quit being a bitch" he says as he walks around and past Blueblood, leaving him to fume.

As Daniel reaches the main entrance he hears somepony yell "Creature!" as he turns around. He sees Blueblood, angry as hell, as he blasts Daniel was a blast of white magic. As it connected, Daniel got blasted out the front doors as he fell down the stairs. As he fell, he could feel his joints hit the steps and a sharp pain go through him as he soon reached the last step. At that step, the back of his head hit it as his world went black. Ponies rushed out to check on him as Blueblood stands smugly up at the top of the steps, unaware of the eight mares and dragon glaring at him.

Within his head, Daniel is surrounded in blackness as he stands up and walks around. He calls out for anyone as all he hears is the echo as he sighs and sits down. As time passes and his boredom rises, soon the world shakes violently around him as slips of orange light start to appear soon five large bladed pillars come up as to him, a single pillar stood a good eight feet tall. As he feels himself get lifted, he looks over and sees a large monster rise from the ground as the room crumbled to leave a entire world of fire around them. Daniel gulps "W-What are you?" he asks. The creature was taller then any mountain with a body of black armor, a few orange bits and flesh of red. It's head was adorned with four horns and it's body with four arms, two of which had blades on them. Lower down, the creature sported a large tail and two arched legs.

As the creature looks down at him, it's voice echoed like a earthquake, sent a chill like a reaper coming, and radiated of pure evil "I am Al'Diabalos. Your new master" it says. As it brings him higher, Daniel can see that it held now eyes, but two pits of orange flame pools. The creature hisses a bit "Your soul is mine. Your body is mine. Your mind is mine" he says as he is about to eat Daniel.

Daniel panicks as he gasps "Wait! If you eat me then they will kill you!" he yells as the creature stops. Daniel looks at him "T-Think about it my lord. Your powerful, your strong, but you had just awoken and are not at full power." he says. The creature looks at him and seems to contemplate this. He spreads his other claw as a large pillar of fire pops out as it vanishes fast.

It looks at him "Very well. You have bought yourself time mortal, but be warned. Once my power returns, I will take over and you will vanish. To be sure you keep true to your word, I shall leave you with a gift along with other gifts. It will protect you, since you are my host and still useful. Be warned, should you tell anyone of my being before I take over.... I will consume you ahead of time. For now, rest and relax, for you need it mortal" he says as all Daniel did was nod.

His hand turns as he drops Daniel, who shoots up awake, but in his bed. He looks around as he sees large dents in the walls, broken glass, torn clothing and of course a torn green dress as he groans like he is hung over. As he moves, he finds that on his chest was a small crater scar from where Blueblood blasted him as he groans from stiffness. He goes to roll over as he hears a soft moan and looks over. Next to him was a black skinned woman with teal hair, a black horn that looks twisted and gnarl a bit. As she rolls over, her cute yawn shows to small fangs, but her eyes soon flutter open as they are a toxic green color to him. She smiles as she wraps her soft arms around him as she speaks. Her voice sounds like two speaking as one "Good morning... love" she says as Daniel's face goes pale.

She had just said love and he doesn't remember a thing as she curls up closer to him "Oh you were quite the animal and filled me with more love then any stallion" she says. She was a good eight feet tall, same as Celestia and chest size to match as he hears the door open. Luckily, the covers covered both of them as he looks over to see the Mane 6. They seem shocked as Daniel gulps.

He looks between them and this lady "This isn't what it looks like" he says. Soon her covers fall to show her voluptuous, naked form as he chuckles nervously "Now... it is exactly what it looks like" he says. They seem to sigh as he sees them look at him like he is someone else as he turns to the naked mare next to him "Um.... can anyone explain what happened last night?" he asks.

He looks over as Twilight nods "We can... after you get dressed" she says as he gets a shiver from the mare next to him nuzzling his neck. As they left, Daniel looks over "Um... who are you?" he asks being nice.

She looks up as she licks her lips "My name is Queen Chrysalis, but you may call me Chrysalis love" she says. Already, after a few words, Daniel felt like today was going to be one hell of a day of trying to remember what the hell happened last night.