The Darkness Lives

"So. Fucking. BORING!" Jackie exclaimed, causing Fluttershy to stir in her sleep.

"We cooouuulldd.....kill things?"

"No fuck you." Jackie was still pissed at Sadism, who wouldn't be?

"I warned you about him, multiple times. But yet, you were and are a dumbass."

"Fuck off." Jackie looked over to Fluttershy and saw her cute, little content smile. "Aww."

"HHHHHHNNNNNGGGGGG"

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(Two hours later)

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"Quiet! You'll wake the campers." Something half-whispered. Jackie got closer and recognized the small party as Diamond Dogs.

"Where are da gems?" Another dog asks. Jackie started to creep towards them when he noticed one of them was leading a small carriage full of chained up ponies.

"I don't think there are any. Chain them up so they can be sold." The largest, the alpha presumably, commanded quietly.

"Okay, Che-var, get the chains." A second dog says. A dog, Che-var most likely, returned from the cage with some chains and that is when Jackie decided to make himself known. He walked up to Che-var and calmly ripped his throat out without being noticed, leaving nothing but a limp, gargling body in a pool of blood and saliva.

"Che-var? Oh...he's dead!" Someone called before being skewered through the jaw, sending teeth, blood, and meat flying into the open.

"Were dropping like flies, boss! We need to-!" Silence. Silence followed by a sickening ripping sound as two parts of the dog's body is thrown near the leader.

"One, two, three. Dead! Three of us dead, in seconds!" This dog was facing the leader, Jackie, from the shadow, sent one of the Darkness' head through his chest, causing the blood to splatter on the leader and letting him watch as it ate his buddy's heart.

"Show yourself!" The leader shouted, loud enough to wake the camp.

"What the...? Wait...is that a...body?!" Rainbow Dash said wearily when she woke up and looked at the carnage. "Girls! Body! Blood! Teeth!"

"Huh?" Applejack yawned. "Oh...!"

"Where are you?!" The leader repeated. Jackie stepped from the shadow and walked slowly towards the leader, leaving a trail of dead grass, flowers, and when he stepped over a body, he turned it into a skeleton.

"Looking for me?" Jackie growled. The leader visibly wet himself. After cutting off his stream, the leader lunged at Jackie, stone knife in paw. Jackie sent four razor-sharp tendrils into the leader's wrists and ankles, suspending him in air. "Idiot."

Jackie pulled the top two tendrils upward, and the bottom two downwards, resulting in a loud, messy, snapping and ripping sound to echo in the campsite. "Aren't you glad you decided to try and enslave my partners?" Jackie said to the quickly dying leader, exactly before he died.

"What the hay happened?!" Rainbow exclaimed.

"Oh, you know, just some Diamond Dogs trying to chain you up, don't thank me or anything." Jackie said plainly.

"Oh...well...thanks." Rainbow said before passing out again.

"What an odd filly." Jackie sighed.

"Are ya gunna...clean up?" Applejack asks.

"I've got nothing else to do, so yeah." Jackie noticed Chrysalis walking up to him. "Yeah?" Instead of talking, Chrysalis just threw her forelegs around Jackie's upper chest, she was taller, and hugged him.

"Thank you...I know what slavery is like...and I don't like it..." Chrysalis hopped off and went back to sleep, AJ soon doing the same. Jackie turned his attention to the carriage full of ponies

"Where are all of you from?" He asks

"They got us from the outer area of Hoofington. Can you please let us out?" A tall, broad shouldered stallion says.

"Yeah, here ya go." Jackie used a Darkness head to 'eat' the lock off

"What are you, mister?" The same stallion continued to ask

"Some call me a monster, some may call me a hero, but I'm just the holder of evil, nothing special." Jackie shrugs.

"Thank you mister. You know, there is another doing this work, they call him Griffon the griffon. He's probably in Gem Fido by now, you should join up with him." The stallion rubs his forelegs where the cuffs where.

"Maybe. Get home safely." Jackie started his way back.

Jackie quickly made his way back to where Fluttershy slept, and saw her staring into the distance. "You okay, Fluttershy?" He asked. She drearily turned her head to him,

"I'm fine...just really tired..." She said slowly, ending with a yawn. Jackie sat where he had originally.

"Get some sleep, you need it." Jackie said. He was slightly startled when she fell asleep sitting up. "That is adorable."

"DOUBLE HHHHHHNNNNNNNGGGGGGG"

She slowly leaned sideways and plopped her head down on Jackie's lap, using him as a pillow. "My god, she is slowly giving me diabetes."

"YOU'RE KILLING US! HHHHHHNNNNNNNGGGGGGG"

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(Morning)

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"Wake up girls!" Jackie shouted, waking everyone up. An hour earlier, he had placed Fluttershy near the fire after cleaning up the Diamond Dog mess.

"Oh Rainbow~" Applejack moaned quietly enough to where only Jackie could hear.

"What the hell?!" Jackie started laughing hysterically. Applejack shot up and invented a new shade of red with her face. "Don't worry, none of them heard. But I sure as hell did!" Jackie looked back at the rest of the crew and saw that everything, which was essentially nothing, was packed.

"You girls ready?" Jackie asked.

"Yeah, we're ready." Chrysalis answered for the girls. Jackie picked up Pinkie, AJ, and Fluttershy, letting Fluttershy ride on his shoulders.

"We should arrive in a bout two hours." Jackie said before sprouting his wings.

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(One and a half hours later)

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"Hey Chrysalis, why exactly does your dad sound like a complete dunce?" Jackie asks. They had been flying in silence the entire time, except Fluttershy, she was using Jackie's head as a pillow

"Please...stop...HHHHHHNNNNNNNNGGGGGGG"

"He wanted another boy, but he got me. He beat me constantly, if it wasn't for him," She laughed sadly, "I'd never be the way I am now, my brother would have taken control, and everything would have been different, worse, but different. He was always a jerk." Chrysalis wiped her eye. "I'm glad you're coming with me, he will probably attack, or send some guards on us." She looked at Jackie with a set of puppy dog eyes.

"Eh...semi-HHHHNNNGGG"

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(Front door of Chrysalis' father's house.)

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"Should we wait out here?" Rainbow asks.

"You girls wait out here, me and Chrysalis will talk to her father." Jackie says, Chrysalis nodding in agreement.

They walk in and spot Chrysalis' father reading in his kitchen. "Chrysalis?" He started "What are you doing here? Shouldn't you be directing an ant hill? Or being the failure you naturally are? Who is your friend?"

"I'm here to tell you something important. I am the Queen of the Changelings and you will respect that. I am not a failure, you are. This is Jackie." She answered quickly.

"Oh, I'm the failure? Name one thing you've ever done right. What is Jackie, he doesn't look anything special, like a wimp if I'm honest." He father retaliated.

"Yes, you are. One thing I've done right is leading this empire, not the invasion, just leading the empire. Jackie is human and could kill Celestia if he wanted to. Now, what I have to tell you is-"

"Wait. How am I a failure, you incompetent shrew! I should kill you where you stand!" He levitates a sword from over his mantle to himself.

"I'm not scared of you. Now I'm trying to tell you that-"

"Liar! You are horrified of me!"

"No I'm not! I'm trying to tell you that I killed-"

"I should have done this a long time ago!" He shot the sword down at lighting speeds, but it was caught by one of Jackie's tendrils wrapping around the blade.

"Don't even think about it." Jackie said as coldly and menacingly as he could.

"What the hell?!" Chrysalis' father shouted.

"Oh, another thing I've done right, I befriended the keeper of the greatest evil to have ever existed." Chrysalis says, as if on cue, Jackie releases around twenty tendrils and made the Darkness head roar in her fathers's face.

"Holy..." He mumbles.

"Yeah dad, this is real. Jackie here controls-"

"More like 'harbors'" Jackie pipes up

"Harbors the Darkness, an evil entity that could kill all of Equestria, Morphious, Gem Fido, and the Dragon Badlands without trying. Oh, and he doesn't show mercy." Chrysalis added, Jackie smiled evilly. He was actually starting to like Chrysalis. But, he liked Fluttershy as well... polygamy?(That is this chapter's question)

"I've never heard of that before! It is not of this world!" Her father argued. Jackie got into his face, pulled an evil grin and whispered,

"I know..."

"Well, what I'm trying to tell you is, I killed brother the other day, he was corrupted by the Darkness, Jackie is the same way, but he has control over it." Chrysalis sighed.

"He's...dead?" Her father sounded saddened.

"Yes dad, he is dead, but he deserved it by enslaving his own people. Now, me, Jackie, and four of the Elements of Harmony are off to Gem Fido to try and liberate the griffons from the Diamond Dogs." Chrysalis turned to leave and Jackie followed.

"That was fun, should we rest for a day? Or just go ahead and move-what the fuck!" Jackie looked at his chest and saw the sword in his chest. He reached for the handle and yanked it out of his back, expertly hiding the searing amounts of pain. "I take it THIS," He threw the sword at her father, skewering his fore-leg, "is yours?"

"Lets go, Jackie." Chrysalis nudged him out.

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(An hour later, at a nearby hot spring.)

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"This is so awesome!" Rainbow exclaimed. While Rainbow did jumps and dives, Applejack just relaxed and enjoyed the view. Pinkie was splashing around, and Fluttershy was sun bathing. Chrysalis was in the shade scribbling something on a piece of paper. Jackie was in just his pants, and occasionally he would see all but AJ sneaking peeks, staring really.

"Hey, um, Jackie?" Chrysalis started when she walked to him.

"Yeah, Chrysi?" Jackie said, looking straight at her. She help up the paper she was scribbling on: