Lord Of Bones

-Celestia First point Of View-

"And that is why we should ban popcorn and soda." said another overly demanding noble, speaking as if it was set in stone. Why is it that the nobles only complain on the smallest of things and common ponies talk about the most important matters? It is as if they had switched places... Is this the fifteenths or twentieth time he has complained about another failed date this week? Maybe that should be his special talent... By mother, he's still going! I thought, astonished as he began ranting and complaining even more. He had already taken up over an hour of the courtroom while I was in the middle of discussing the matters on the wild fires going on.

"Lord Blueblood, your points have be taken into consideration and-" I was about to polity give Blueblood the politely fuck off, until an earth pony next to me yelled over my voice.

"Get outta here ya royal pig!" She yelled. She was an light brown earth mare with green grass mane that looked silk and had eyes that looked as if she hadn't slept for days. Blueblood gave an overly dramatic gasp in response.

"Guards, guards! Take this dirt pony away from me and throw her into the dungeon at once!" he demanded like overly spoiled foul.

"Dirt Pony! Ya royal pigs don't know how to get ya'll hoof nails dirty!" she yelled with a ragged red face, mist could be seen smoking out of her ears too.

"Ma little sisters are half starved for the last few mouth and our crops been burned to ashes for the last month! And when I getta see ya princess about helpin ma farm, ya come in, whining about how ya get some soda and and popcorn in ya mane!" she said loudly and was red as an angry bull. I was about to stop the situation until Blueblood went too far.

"Your peasant problems are nothing to be bother with royalty you dirt filth." Blueblood finished, before anyone could react, a deafening high pitch scream of fury filled the courtroom and the earth mare lunged off of her seat and drove her hoof into Blueblood's jaw. The sound of bones fracturing and teeth broken sent shivers down everypony's spine. Even mine. Blueblood slammed into the floor from the impact and clutched his now broken jaw.

"You whore!" he groaned loudly in pain, spitting out bits of bloody teeth onto the marble floor. Before she could send another blow, the guards had apprehended her in magic cuffs and dragged her away and out of the courtroom. All the way, she fought, cursing and damning me. Me, her goddess and one that has looked over the Equestria Empire for over a thousand years. She had just shouted with every being of her, damning me to Tartarus. As soon as she was gone, everypony looked at me, as if wondering what to do while some rushed over to Blueblood. Then, green flame flowed out of the window and formed into a letter. I quickly grabbed it with my magic and began reading it.

Celestia, this is Spike. A strange creature has marched into Ponyville. It stands on it's hind legs and wears a black clothing with a evil bone mask. It also has armor gloved claws that look like something from Tartarus! It hurt Rainbow Dash really badly. Twilight tried to stop it with the 'stone trap spell' and something happened. The whole block is just... Gone. The spell just exploded and took out everything in it's path. She then dropped dead as is he was knocked out, but the monster didn't do anything. It just stood their as if nothing happened! Twilight and Rainbow are being brought to the hospital as I write this. Twilight was unconscious but rainbow, she looks like she could die. Luckily Applejack bucked that thing hard enough to bring it down. She tying it up now. Please send help!

-Spike The Dragon

My eyes widen when I read the letter. I read it again just to make sure. Did another creature escape from Tartarus? If so, then this could be bad. I don't know of any with a bone mask or any artifacts with that description. And did spike say it just took full might of a high level spell? If so, this could mean we have a very serious threat in Equestria. At least they seem to have a hold of the problem. But why is it always when I'm in the middle of court? Never mind that, they need their princess. I thought, standing from my throne.

"Captain North Spear, get a carriage ready to make way to Ponyville." I announced, getting a salute from North Spear and a "Yes your majesty" as he made his way out.

"Mother's hope that their alright."

"By father's beard." I thought as the carriage brought us to Ponyville, noticing the ash gray creator from Twilight's crystal castle. My heart dropped when I noticed that what remained of houses were caught in the blast and Firefighter Ponies were dinging up the ashy remains. The carriage landed near the blast sight as my heart sunk even more with sadness for the weeping ponies. I walked over to the crowd of her ponies.

"How many?' I asked a Firefighter Pony.

"We have found a family in this one. Two fouls and both parents died being burned to ash in this house. We have found few more corpses from other houses... I believe there are more that we haven't found yet. We also are treating two dozen injured from multiple levels of strange levels of magical burns. But for the one that have died, were still trying to find out who they are. That's all we know at the moment, Princess." The stallion said with a heavy heart and trotted away to a fellow Firefighter pony. I looked around the area, only seeing chaos and sadness

"My ponies." I said, gaining crowd's attention.

"Today is a tragic day indeed. For today we shall weep for the loved and bury the lost. But, I promise that whatever did this will pay deeply for this crime." I said with all of my heart. I looked over the crowd and saw spike trying to push through. Spike jogged up to me and came to a stop near my hooves.

"Princess Celestia." He said, happy to see me, but had a look of something when my guards had bad news.

"What is it Spike?" I asked, looking into his eyes. His green eyes, showing he had something important going on in his mind.

"We need to talk."

"I can see... where are the others?" I asked, looking around, seeing none of elements of harmony.

"There all at the Ponyville General, except for fluttershy, she just left to go check on them but we need to talk in private." I raised an eyebrow at his demand.

"Wouldn't it be better if we were with the other elements?" I asked, Spike shaking his head.

"They would all say things revolving around his actions, not his reasons." He spoke. This statement struck me to being confused. I knew Spike as much as Twilight from her letters, but this was definitely not how he acted. Not at all. I began taking note on his body language. He sounded a bit firm with me and very serious. He had his teeth gritted and looked... a bit taller maybe?

"Well then, let's talk in Twilight's castle." I said walking over to Twilight crystal home with Spike at my side. We walked inside, spike closing the door and made our way to the dining room. I sat on the long side of the crystal table while spike sat on the other side, facing me directly.

"Princess Celestia, that guy didn't do anything wrong." Spike stated, gaining shock from me, but unlike other snobby nobles, I let him continue.

"His name is Malus and by what he told me and the other elements, he is old guy that is lost and happens to be a real jerk about it." Spike said, gaining my interests for more details.

"Lost?" I asked, gaining a role of his eyes. Disrespect? What is going on with spike?

"Let just start at the beginning..." He said, taking a few deep breaths.

"It all started when Fluttershy had crashed into the balcony and kept saying monster. No sooner had Twilight left, eveypony was in a panic from seeing Malus because he looks something of Tirek. Twilight probably wanted to talk of find out his intentions, but Rainbow Dash attacked him before she could negotiate. The fight was short, ending in her being shot with a ton of lightning and getting burns all over her body. He then looked over to Twilight and asked, "Twilight Spackle, I presume". He then was shot by Twilight with one of her high level spells, I think it was a knockout spell or something. Anyway, he raise his hands, forming a glowing shield, and boom. In a flash, all was left was him and Rainbow Dash in the crater. Then Twilight just passed out, as if she had been using her magic all day. Then Applejack charged and bucked him a block away. Applejack then tied him up with her rope and he just was stuck there." Spike said, his fist tightening as well as his jaw.

"Then he began talking, trying to reason with Applejack. Pinkie Pie then appeared out of nowhere as usual and told me to write a letter to you. I followed Pinkie and found Applejack about to barf for some reason. Anyway, Rarity came back because she had found Red Nurse Heart and gave Rainbow and Twilight to her and the other medical ponies. Rarity came back and told Applejack and Pinkie Pie on Rainbow and Twilight's status. Applejack then asked what we should do with it. Rarity said that it should go to Tartarus and Pinkie said something about no parties for him. Applejack on the other hoof was trying to talk logically on the situation. Things lead to another and Malus had called Rainbow dash, "Gay Rainbows" and Rarity said something about them not being gay and it was a "one time thing". Then Malus yelled out to the world about how they were… Gay. Rarity just lost it and began hoof stomping him to no end. That is when my trusty frying pan came in." Spike said, pulling out a very heavy iron frying pan with a few notable dents from meany times being used for knocking out ponies.

"I did whenever Twilight didn't get enough sleep or when she just lost it. And Rarity was definitely not in her right mind. So I kind of knocked her out... Anyway! I then came in and told Applejack to take Rarity to the hospital and Pinkie Pie to go make some cupcakes for Rainbow Dash when she wakes up. I then began to do what Sherlock Hooves would do in this situation and began to interrogate him. He didn't hold anything back and told me everything." Spike said proudly.

"He told me he was just lost and wanted to find out where he was. Yet he wasn't sorry for hurt Rainbow Dash, saying an eye for an eye or something like that. When it came down to names, he said he had many titles... I remember that he said he was Dragon Slayer and Reaper of Soul, but he preferred his most feared name, Malus. And when he said his name, his eyes started glowing red totally and began acting really strange. He started calling me mortal and creature. He the told me to give you a message." Spike then paused for a moment, remembering what this Malus had told him.

"He said I'm going to rid this world of the princess's corruption, free the innocent, eradicate the evil, and bring prosperity to those that follow. Besides the whole crazy uprising thing, I think that he has something like the Alicorn Amulet, making him go crazy. I think it might be his mask maybe? Even though I just met him, he seems to be a bit outta wack. As if he has two personalities or something like that." Spike finished, leaving me to think upon what he had said.

"Thank you Spike for shedding light on this, Malus." I said, standing at my full height again. I was about to walk out until the little dragon spoke up again.

"Oh and Princess."

"Yes Spike?"

"What puberty?"

"Hey Zake, do you got any recent newspapers? One that are not fifteen days old?" I asked. He had come back and had organized everyone from being in chains to being free. I had asked the other three to prepare for feast I had planned. It was meant for celebrating the Diamond Dog’s freedom and I planned to explain how I’m going to run this place.

"I have today newspaper." He said, grabbing freshly wrapped newspaper with the rubber band around the scrunched up paper out of his coat. It look as if it was brand new.

"Where did you get this?"

"Found lot in red cart by apple tree house."

"Hmmm. Well could you give it to me?" I asked, him bringing it to me like a dog running to his master. I took the rubber band off and began to read the front page.

Equestria Daily: Malus Still At Large: Wanted Alive
10,000 Bits
information, whereabouts, or captured

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The Princesses of Equestria have finally issued on the matter on the incident in Ponyville. After fifteen days of waiting, Princess Celestia has made an announcement in canterlot. "It has been a tragic day in Equestria, for the disaster in Ponyville, fifteen ponies have been found dead. We is believe this terrible tragedy is to be a terrible accident from a different magical energies colliding and forming the blast. The creature, Malus, has evaded us without a trace for the last fifteen days. But what we know is that he is a master mage in magics that are not known to us, but as far as his intention go, they are unknown. This makes him very unpredictable, and forth, dangerous. No pony has seen him or heard of him since the accident. We are still offering 10,000 bits for whoever has information, whereabouts, or have captured him. If you do see him, do not make drastic moves or agitate him. If you have sighted him, report to the royal guard at once." -Princess Celestia. Search Parties have been sent throughout Equestria and have come up with nothing. Is this really true? What if this all a cover up to protect the newly added princess Twilight Sparkle? Are the two Element of Harmony still in love? Dose their love for each other break apart as one lays on her deathbed as the other walks free from pain? Why have they denied their love? Read on pages-

"10,000 bits? Am I really worth that much?" I said out loud, then coming up with an idea. A very rich idea.

"Zake I have an idea that can bring prosperity to this pack." I said, gaining his attention.

"I'll tell you the plan after dinner, but right now we need to get things ready for the feast." I said, Zake nodding in agreement. I set the newspaper aside and walked down the main tunnel, Zake following me by my side. We soon found ourselves in the makeshift dining area that used to be a huge dried out gem vain. I watched as the guard dogs made twelve foot by three foot long tables out of scrap wood. They had made over a dozen of these in the dried vein that was the size of a football field. The guard dogs as they call themselves, are the protectors of the pack and had actually hatted Iron Wall. The only reason they follows was because he killed their pack leader and claimed rule over them. But they seem to be respectful about me, but most were fearful of how I went all ape shit on Iron Wall. And I can't blame them. I would shit my pants and run if I saw a creepy unknown creature doing that sort of thing to someone... Damn, I am scary as murder and horrific as a psychopath. Damn it!

But I decided to dwell on that latter as I had a dinner to set up. I spent an hour helping and organizing the setup of tables. Once that was done, I had everyone attend for dinner. When everyone was here, I gained their attention by shooting a bolt of lightning into the sealing. They instantly became dead quiet as silence filled the room. I began to focus my magic into my voice. No I wasn't going to use the Thu'um or dragon shouts. I don't even know how to use it if I even had that power... I focused my magic in my vocals, trying to amplify my voice.

"May I have your attention!" I said as if I was speaking in a megaphone. Damn that was a bit too loud.

"Ahem, we are here to celebrate for not just for the defeat of Iron Wall, but for the gift of freedom I have bestowed upon you!" I said loud enough for everyone to hear and not blowing their ear drums. As

"And as pack leader, I say we feast and dine not as slaves, but free!" I finished, the guard dogs knowing the signal and bringing in the gems and other foods that these dogs ate. I learned that they didn't just eat gems, but mostly meat like normal dogs do. Gems were just more like a desert or a "treat" as they said. How Ironic. But as soon as they got their paws on the food, the room became a mad house. Dogs did not just devour the food, but destroyed everything in the process. It was a living food frenzy as the tables cracked and forks were bent and plates were cracked. Hell, the guards themselves joined in the food massacre. Though their was not that much fighting and just devouring, it was quite the sight to see. luckily Zake sat next to me and ate normally like nothing was wrong in the room. I just sat on my wooden chair with my jaw dropped the whole time.

"By god..." I said in awe.

"Wut?" asked Zake with a lizard like chicken leg in his mouth. I just stared for a minute before gaining my train of thought back.

"I have never seen so much food be eaten under five minutes." I stated, Zake now looking at the mess of destroyed tables and chairs. The room was littered with garbage and junk. Nothing was left broken, bent or eaten.

"6 minutes and 27 seconds." He corrected, showing me a old fashioned stopwatch. He grabbed his bones of whatever he ate and walked out of the room, leaving me alone. I sat in my chair, still awe struck had. But I had only three word to say.

"Where's my food?"