The Wrath of Terra: Starting Anew
A barren wasteland. Ever direction you look the only sight to see was a barren wasteland littered with bodies of human, minotaur, elven soldiers that wore a gold and white armour. All around the battlefield there were giant scorch marks that scarred the once lush, green field. The only sound that could be heard trough the light grey mist that covered the place was a deafening eerie silence presiding over the bodies of the fallen, thousands of beings dead, except for one.
Atop a small hill stood a young looking human. He was wearing what looked to be similar to a long black trench coat which was unbuttoned, and under it a black long sleeved shirt. He had black leather gloves, black combat boots, and black trousers akin to those of a WW1 Earth soldier.
He had black short hair, no facial hair whatsoever, and a pair of intense soul piercing red eyes. He had a scar running from the upper part of his nose, between his nose and right eye, and that ended in his cheek.
He was as silent as the atmosphere of said wasteland. His breathing could be hardly heard. He regarded the battlefield, or what was left of it, with an unreadable expression in his face. He just stood there for what seemed like ages, just staring, not even moving his head.
Suddenly, a crackle was heard as a teleportation spell delivered it's caster behind the human. It was an orc, a red skinned orc that wore a brown and black full armour, save for a helmet, leaving his head uncovered.
"Was wondering when you'd show up." The human said.
The orc grunted in response and then said "This starting to become a tiring routine, Nox."
"Yes it is, Grommar. It is indeed. You should stop coming to scold me after I destroy my enemies."
After a moment of silence the orc said "I see you completely and mercilessly obliterated them again." with exasperation and disappointment.
"I did. Better still, the so called 'Order of Light and Justice' is no more, they're dead, each and every one of them, by my hand, the ones that started this are gone." Nox shot back.
"Oh, I see, now that you have exacted your revenge everything is much better, isn't it? You are happy again, your friends are alive now, so is your family and girlfriend, right Nox?" The orc said in a tone of sarcasm and pity.
"Watch your words, orc."
"Or what, human? You'll kill me as you did with them?" He asked signaling at all the dead around them.
"I could very well do, and rid me of your obnoxiousness." Nox said as he finally turned around to face Grommar.
The orc in question sighed. "You must stop Nox. Please, stop. You... this..."
"What?"
"Look at you, at what you did. You kill the whole Order of Light, you killed the three elder gods, you killed nearly every single major and minor god, along with their armies, so add to your kill count MILLIONS of dead mortals. When will it ever stop? Has not enough blood been shed?" Grommar plead.
"There are still other out there that deserve punishment."
"Oh please, at least half of the gods you killed did not deserve it, it was your insane blood thirst and unbridled hate that drove you to exterminate most higher being in this universe."
"They... They did deserve it!"
"No, they did not, and you know this. You killed most gods, hell, I think only you remain." as soon as he finish this sentence, the orc was hurled up by an invisible forced and started being chocked.
Nox fixed him with a deadly glare and said "I am no god. I never was, never will be."
Grommar struggled to answer "Then what are you?"
The pressure around the orc's neck augmented "I am a human, a human from Terra."
"Argh, ah- gh. A simple human does not kill an elder god, mu- gah, much less all three."
Nox released Grommar, who fell to the ground, and stood silent.
"You know what you are called? Nox, the Wrath of Terra. How did you get that name? By slaughtering everyone. Please Nox, stop."
"Stop? Stop?! It is easy for you to say, you have not been where I've been, not even close, Grommar! Not even a tiny bit fucking close."
"I know this si hard, bu-"
"Tell me, what would you even have me do? Pick fucking daisies in a nice little green field for all of eternity?"
"Start anew, Nox, start anew."
"Hah, pff, start anew. Tell me, how would I 'start anew'" Nox said those last two words with sarcasm.
"I do not know, yo-"
"A lot of fucking help you are."
"God damnit Nox. Find a planet that has sentient life, introduce yourself, try to find happiness there."
"Oh fucking sure, I'll just waltz into some planet, say hello to everyone, and live happy forever after. News flash Grommar, that's not how it works, this isn't a fucking bedtime story."
"I am aware, Nox. But you must do something other than endlessly spill blood."
"Oh I will, let me pack, and call space travel express to take me to a nearby inhabited planet, don't you worry." Nox's tone dripping with sarcasm.
"What else can you do? Keep killing? Go right ahead, I won't stop you. But is this really what you want? You have only two options Nox."
"Neither of them are any good."
"I know what's going on. I know you are afraid of meeting new people."
"Shut up." Nox warned.
"You are afraid of getting close and losing them, again."
"SHUT UP!" Nox's voice bellowed.
The orc sighed and said "Do what you will Nox, this is the last time we'll talk, ever. Please do not continue to do this, you are just hurting yourself too."
Grommar focused his magic for a moment and then disappeared with a crackle.
Nox just stood there. He started to remember his past life, he hated to remember his past life. His friends and family, how he dearly missed them, but most important person in his life by far was her, Amelia was her name, she was the love of his live, she was his happiness, his reason to get out of bed every morning, she was his life. Such beautiful moments spent together, entangled in eternal embraces.
However, all changed when they came. Unbeknownst to the world of Terra, a terrible and merciless holy war between forces of darkness and light was raging across the universe. Higher beings, as they were called, ranged from mere magic users, to major gods that could destroy entire worlds with but a though. However, it is worthy no note that there was no evil and good here, light and darkness was just a division, pick this side or the other, pick who you agree with and mindlessly kill the ones you don't agree with, and so there were light soldiers fighting for the darkness and vice versa, it was all just a pointless massacre.
As the war entered its sixty-fourth year, conflict came to the Milky Way galaxy, and the midst of a horrible and bloody combat, Terra was targeted by a band of darkness warriors who served the light, and who had been given permission to do as they wisher in that solar system, they were the World Eaters. They attacked Terra, mercilessly killing all in sight, not once did the light intervene.
Nox remember vividly as his friends and family were slain before him. He remembered as his Amelia was tortures, raped, and killed in the most brutal way possible as he was forced to watch. When there was no life on the planet for him and the World Eaters, they left Nox to die.
But Nox did not die. He was laying in the scorched ground were they had left him, but he did not die, he couldn't. little by little, he felt something inside of him, hate, pure hate, this hate gave him power and strength of the most powerful kind. It was Hate Power.
This was supposed to be impossible. You were either born a higher being, or a mortal. No mortal could turn into a higher being, not even with the help of the elder gods. This went against the rules of reality itself.
However, Nox didn't know nor cared. He had power, he didn't know how, but it didn't matter. He trainer by himself, endlessly, and when he was ready, he left Terra and was introduces to a whole new world.
After a while of fighting for the darkness and learning more and more, Nox saw what was happening around him. Countless world destroyed, for what? A 'Holy' War, to what end? No one knew, but they still fought, because war was always present, since the creation of the universe.
Nox despised this, he hated all of the higher beings, and swore to annihilate them all. And he did, after centuries of endless battle, he nearly achieved his goal. But to what end? His bloodlust drove him to do something he now regretted deeply.
A tear was running down his left cheek.
"I am an idiot." he whispered.
He fell to his knees and screamed, he screamed as hard as he could, as more and more tears made their way down his face.
He eventually stopped sobbing and just stared ahead. He extended his palm and summoned an orb of dark energy, it hovered in his grasp. He then looked up, the moon of the planet was visible. Nox extended his arm forwards with blinding speed, send the orb towards the celestial object, in an instant, it collided and created a monstrous explosion which even shook the planet, half of the moon was gone, and the other half was fractioned in several pieces which were thrown across space by the sheer force of the explosion.
"Such power... and I still can't bring them back. Why do I even live? There... there is nothing for me, there never was. What do I do now? What can I do now? It's all our fault, they with stupid fucking 'Holy War', me with my mindless killing. This universe is fucked up, we were doomed since be the begging. And now, now we've done it. I killed almost everyone. So much blood in my hands, for what? Did I ever think I could make everything better just by exterminating all who I dimmed unworthy of living? I hate me, I hate the elder gods who just stood and watched the universe be torn asunder, I hate the higher beings which killed each other. I... This is the end for me I guess."
Nox pondered this is his mind, did he really want to take his own life? Was it the way to solve things? More death?
Starting anew. It did sound good, but for someone who knew death and war for centuries, it was impossible, he would just manage to somehow fuck another world up.
Nox had his right hand a few centimeters from his chest. A sense of dread washed over him for what he was about to do. He didn't want it, but at the same time he did. He didn't know if there was an afterlife, but it had to be better than this, it had to.
He started to close his fingers until they were partially closed, as if he was grabbing an invisible tennis ball. He felt pressure and pain on his chest. He continued focusing, with each passing second the pressure and pain augmented.
This was it. He hesitated for a second, he pondered in his mind, looking hopelessly for another solution, he could find none.
Nox suddenly jerked his hand away from his chest and felt as if his heart was ripped from him even tough his physical form was unharmed, his vision quickly turned to darkness, and he fell face down.
Just like that, the legendary Nox, The Wrath of Terra, The Punishment of Beyond, The Scorn of the Universe, the most powerful warrior on the universe, who defeated all who opposed him, who destroyed entire orders and alliances, all gods, all higher beings, lay dead.
Nox woke to someone shaking him. He opened his eyes and was about to instinctively punch the offender when he stopped in shock. He could not believe his eyes. This was not possible.
"What are you looking at me like that?" Amelia, who was leaning over Nox who was in the bed, asked concerned.
Nox could not answer, he just looked at her, she was beautiful as ever. Her ginger wavy hair falling on her shoulders, her perfect face contorted in confusion and concern, those few cute freckles on her cheeks, her heavenly deep green eyes that could pierce your soul.
Was this the afterlife? It was pretty good if it was, he had all that mattered here. Nox was beginning to wonder why didn't he do this before, he did still have to find his friends and family too. However, if she was here, they had to be too, and since the place he was in was actually his old apartment, it was safe to assume that this was Terra too. Perhaps even h-
"Hey, are you okay?" she asked once again growing more and more concerned.
"Oh, uh, yes, sorry, I..." Nox could finally formulate some sort of answer.
Amelia breathed with relief "You idiot, you scared me for a second, I didn't know why you were looking at me like that."
"It's nothing, I had a night mare, don't worry."
"Aww, my poor thing." she said as she pinched his cheeks playfully and got off the bed. "We overslept, so I'll just go make lunch, while you mister take a bath, alright? Alright." Amelia turned to leave.
"Wait!" Nox called after her.
She turned around as Nox got off the bed, he walked to her cupped her face between his hands, looked at her and said "I love you." and then kissed her.
When the kiss was broken, Amelia giggled "I love you too silly. I'll go make lunch, okay?"
As she was about to exit the room she felt an excruciating pain in her stomach that caused her to drop to the floor. Nox rushed to her side in panic.
"It hurts!" Amelia cried in pain.
"Don't worry, I'll call an ambulance!" Nox was about to go get his phone when Amelia stopped him.
"No Nox, don't." She said with a serious tone, as if the pain had vanished.
Nox? She called him Nox, but that was not his real name, it was not what she called him.
She locked eyes with him. "It is useless. I am dead. You couldn't save me before, you can't now."
"What the fuck?" Nox recoiled in confusion.
"You failed, congratulations. You are good for nothing."
Suddenly, he felt reality distorting itself, and in a split second, he found himself in an eternally black void.
"What the fuck is going on?! Where am I?! FUCK!"
"Calm down young one." He hard a voice say.
"Who are you? Where am I?" Nox demanded answers while growing angry.
"You are in the void. As for me, I am just the one that decides what happens to you."
"What the fuck do you mean?"
"I can destroy you, put you in an paradise, or in the worst hell."
"You fucking... ah, never mind, come on then, do it, end me."
"End you? Why?"
"If you decide what happens to all, then you know everything they did, you know how the feel, what they want. So you know the answer."
"Hmpf, you are smart, but not so smart is you want to be completely gone."
"Wait, where is Amelia, my Amelia?" Asked Nox with a glimmer of hope.
"She is gone forever, she was not a higher being, she did not have a soul like the one higher beings do, so she is gone, as all mortal are gone when they die." Said the voice in an impartial tone. "However, you will not die, you will return to life, you will try to build a new life on a new world. I think there is one that will teach you a lot."
"No! No! I don't want to!" Nox called forth his power, he felt it wash over him, the hate, the blood thirst, the sorrow, all coming back.
Suddenly, his power faltered. "This is my domain." The voice said. "This is my will, I think you can redeem yourself."
"I have no redemption."
"Yes you do, you just have no hope and no motivation, Nox."
As he felt reality warp around him, Nox cursed his luck, this was a nightmare, he couldn't even decide over his own life.
In the Canterlot gardens Luna, Calestia, and the elements of harmony walked at a slow pace as the Luna explained what the nearby status represented. The diarchs of the sun and moon, decided to take a day off their royal suties, and since the elements were visiting Canterlor, what better than spend the day together?
"And this statue represents Borus." Said Luna.
"Wow! That is the legendary Borus Startshield? The same one that lead the vanguard in the battle of The Horn?" Twilight excitedly asked.
"The very same one, Twilight." Luna replied, smiling at the thirst for knowledge of the young alicorn.
"It is nearly time to set the sun Luna." Celetia informed the group. "How about we meet in the royal halls for dinner?"
"That sounds great princess!" Rainbow answered vigorously.
"Ah reckon' it's 'bout time to get some grub yer highness" Applejack agreed.
"It's settled then, Luna I will take care of this, and then we will have dinner together." Celestia told them.
However, before anyone could move, they had a strange feeling.
"Sister, do you feel that?" Luna inquired as she looked around.
"I do Sister, girls, stand behind us." Celestia commanded.
Some distance from were they were, reality started to twist itself, producing a loud humming noise. Celestia and Luna got in battle stance and ignited their horns, prepared for whatever was happening.
Suddenly, there was a bight flash and a deafening crackle. When the ponies recovered from the shock, all but the princesses gasped at the sight.
There lying on the ground, was a biped creature wearing black clothing. Silence reigned for a few seconds, Celestia and Luna still had their ignited horns pointed at the creature when it stirred. Tension filled the atmosphere.
The creature got up, dusted itself, and looked at the ponies. Confusion and unbelief in it's face.
"This is not possible." He uttered.
Lune and Celestia had their jaws open in disbelief.
Celestia composed herself and asked "Nox, is that you?"
"You... you were dead..." Nox almost whispered.
