Chapters Chapter 1: Rude Awakening
Chapter 1: Rude Awakening
“You can’t be serious!? This isn’t fair!”
“I am sorry, but what you did was something even I can’t let slide. Even if you are a child you must face severe punishment for you actions.”
“You expect me to let that fucker slide for what he did to me? He deserved to die for that, what sickens me is that you let him go with just community service.”
“Taking another pony's life is wrong, you of all ponies should know that.”
“Oh so it’s okay for a murder to walk free even after they kill lord knows how many ponies he or she killed?”
“Yes with certain exceptions.”
“You’re a fucking dumbass if you think ponies like them will ever change.”
“Be that as it may, this doesn't excuse you of what you did.” Celestia said as her horn glowed revealing the elements of harmony floating above herself.
“Seeing how the elements for some reason can’t turn you to stone, you will be put into a deep slumber until further notice or until the end of days.”
“Know this Princess of the Sun, When the day comes when someone wakes me from my eternal sleep, I will kill you and take everything that you hold dear to you away!”
(1,000 years later)
[Crystal Caves]
“How long has it been since I enter into my sweet slumber? Five, six, maybe seven hundred years? Personally I kinda lost track of time, but I really don’t care. I was pretty much enjoying how peaceful and quiet it was wherever the hell I was sleeping. ” The Vampire thought to herself, but was interrupted by a cackling laughter.
“HAHAHAHA! Yes! All is going according to plan!” said the mysterious voice as it’s laughter died after a few seconds.
“.......Okay…..anyway back to monologuing to myself, this was pretty much a perfect place for me to-.” Before Shalltear could think of anything else, she was once again interrupted by another mysterious but familiar voice.
“You won’t get away with this Chrysalis! Twilight and the others will stop you!” yelled a soft voice full of anger.
“.......I’m getting the feeling I’m gonna be interrupted again aren’t I?” from what Shalltear can hear, she heard a door open up followed by the sound of footsteps and struggling.
“You were saying princess?” reply a mocking voice that just dripped with pride.
“Dammit and here I thought I could sleep for a few more years before waking up.” Shalltear grumbled as she turned to her side.
“Now that I have your so called defender of Equestria there’s only one thing left to do.” Shalltear felt her coffin starting to shake a bit before having it shoot up from wherever it was along with her in it. A few seconds later Shalltear felt the coffin break through something hard before stopping.
“N-No it can’t be.” said the princess in fear.
“Oh yes my fallen princess, you remember Equestria’s greatest enemy of all time don’t you?” Asked Chrysalis.
“Maybe if I go back to sleep, I can stay asleep for a few more years?” The Vampire thought as light begin to floor her coffin.
“Now by giving her my blood. I Chrysalis summon you Shalltear Bloodfallen, The Bloody Valkyrie to kill my enemies and serve your new master and the hive!” Calls out Chrysalis as her drones tried to pull the lid open.
“........I can’t have a moment of peace to myself now can I?” Shalltear asked as she slowly open the lid to her coffin slowly. As she open the lid to her coffin, Shalltear covered her eyes from the sudden burst of light that hit her hard like someone hitting you with a water balloon. A few seconds later the vampire’s eyes started to adjust to the light in the room she was in. As her eyes adjust she could see six colorful and beat up humanoid like ponies tied up, a group of changelings with spears pointing at their throats, and a while alicorn who was inside a giant cocoon hanging from the ceiling.
“Who dares to find my resting place and waketh me from my sweet slumber?” Shalltear asked as she slowly staggered from her coffin.
“That would be me, my servant.” Shalltear turned her head to see what she could guess was this Chrysalis person that summoned her here. “I have summoned you here to do my bidding, and to serve me in taking over Equestria.”
“And who might you be changeling?” asked Shalltear in a bored tone.
“I am Chrysalis, queen of the changeling.” Chrysalis said as she smiles showing off her fangs.
“ Okay.” The vampire yawned while rubbing her eyes. “So Chrysalis why is it that you summoned me?”
“As I said before servant I have summoned you here to serve me in taking over Equestria and our first step in taking over this land is to kill Celestia and the elements of harmony.” Chrysalis said pointing to the group of ponies in front of her.
“......Really?” Shalltear asked sounding even more bored than before.
“What do mean really?” asked Chrysalis confused by the Vampire question.
“You wake me up from slumber just to do something that you could’ve done yourself?” replied Shalltear as she rubs her eyes as she try to fight off another yawn.
“Your job as my servant is to do as you are told.” ordered the Queen as she glares at the vampire.
“I am no one’s servant, especially a poor excuse of a lazy ass queen who can’t do something that a child could do if he or she was mad or insane.” said Shalltear as she start to stretch.
“How dare you talk to your master that way child! I awoken you from your imprisonment, and this is how you show your respect for me?” yelled Chrysalis as she bear her teeth in anger.
“I only respect those with power, and seeing how you don’t have the power to do that.” Shalltear raised her hand as her weapon spuit lance appeared in it. “I can just kill you and leave without any trouble.”
“You little brat! I am Queen Chrysalis, queen of the changeling. What makes you think you can kill me?” The Queen commanded as two changeling guards stand by her side.
“Like this[Maximize Magic, Brilliant Radiance!] ”In a blink of an eye a column of holy light appeared under chrysalis, only to engulfing the changelings next to her in radiant light. The light disappeared as it revealed only the changeling queen to be standing with a magical shield around herself. “Damn, guess my magic hasn’t recovered yet.”
“You’re gonna regret that child.” Chrysalis said as she barrier around herself slowly vanish.
“The one that’s going to be regretting is you for waking me from my slumber.” Shalltear raised her hand and pointed a finger at her. “Eat this [Maximize Magic, Vermillion Nova!] ” Chrysalis was set on fire in an instant, but all the flames did was cause her little to no pain.
“Is that the best you can do? I seen foals that can do magic better than this.” Chrysalis dispelled the flames as she fried a magical beam of magic energy at the vampire. Only for Shalltear to summon a wall of stone to protect her from the attack.
“Dammit how much MP does she have? I better check [Mana Essence] ” Shalltear’s eyes glowed scarlet red as she saw purplish aura surround Chrysalis like a robe, and to her surprise…..it wasn’t that much. “I can’t believe these ponies lost to this bug bitch, then again it comes to no surprise that they would.” The vampire moved from behind the stone wall again and fired an invisible shockwave towards Chrysalis. “[Force Explosion!]” She said as the shockwave hit the queen sending her flying into the wall of the room.
“I’m going to enjoy disciplining you once I finish knocking some sense into you.” Chrysalis said as she pulled herself and fired a beam at Shalltear’s shoulder, causing her to grab her shoulder from the pain she felt.
“ [Regeneration] ” The wound on Shalltear’s shoulder healed up as good as new like nothing happen to her. “You’re gonna pay for that worm.”
“Good luck with that servant, with that kind of magic you have you couldn’t even beat a timberwolf pup.” Chrysalis said as she tried not to laugh at her.
“I’m just getting started worm, [Purifying Javelin!]” The moment Shalltear moved from behind the wall of stone, she fire a holy spear at the changeling queen. Chrysalis dodge the attack as she fired at the vampire again only for her to hide again behind the wall of stone.
“You missed!” Chrysalis called out with confidence getting ready for her next attack.
“So you think, take a good look at the circle on your chest.” Asked the Vampire with a smile on her face.
“What do you me-?” Chrysalis was unable to ask her question as the lance of light pierced her chest. The spear vanish from the queen’s chest, as blood started to pour out of her like a fountain spewing water.
“Guess I’m getting some of my strength back, though I’ll still need some time before I’m at full strength.” Said Shalltear as she turned her attention at the dead body of Chrysalis as blood started to move from the ground, and formed an orb of green blood above herself. “Guess that’ll have to do until I find some more.” Shalltear then turn her attention towards the six ponies that were still tied up and the changelings who started to back up a bit. “If you changelings want to suffer the same fate as your queen, then I suggest you leave now and find yourselves a new queen that isn’t a tyrant.”
Having saying that the changelings ran off from inside the room as they informed what happen to any other changelings as they ran off. Meanwhile as they ran off to lord knows where, Shalltear turn her attention back at the ponies still tied up. What got her attention the most was Princess Celestia hanging on the ceiling. “Well if it isn’t the bitch of the sun.”
That when something pink get right in Shalltear face with a huge smile. “HI! I’m Pinkie Pie! What's your name? Who are you? Why was you sleeping in the spooky box? Why did you put a hole in the Meany Queen, I didn’t like her but what you did was kind of not nice if you know what I mean. By the way do you like cupcakes.” Pinkie then hands Shalltear a cupcake with the word nice to meet you on it.
“My name is Shalltear Bloodfallen, I’m a vampire, that spooky box was my prison/bed, because I don’t like her and I don’t take orders from anyone. And I do like cupcakes.” said Shalltear as she take a bite out of the cupcake.
Pinkie Pie squealed as she then hugs the Vampire in a bear hug. Giggling as she bounces around the hall. “We’re going to have so much fun!” Said Pinkie as she let Shalltear go and ran out of the room.
“Cute…..What was I doing again?” The vampire asked trying to remember what she was doing. Until a unicorn walked up to her and gasped. “Oh darling I just love your dress! Who made this lovely thing?" asked Rarity as she looking over every part of the Vampire dress.
“Oh this old thing? This was made by the finest seamstress from the Kirins in neighpon.” said Shalltear as she looks at her outfit brushing off some dust.
“Oh I just love it! You must come to my boutique, I’m sure I can make something that with go with your eyes. Oh! I almost forgot to introduce myself I am Rarity and I love making dresses!” said the white pony as she started to lead Shalltear out of the thrown room.
“As much as I would love to Ms. Rarity, but I have a little personally score to settle with a certain princess of the sun.” Shalltear said as she pointed her lance at the freed princess.
“Can’t we talk about this over some tea?” asked Rarity as she smile weakly.
“After I kill Celestia for imprisoning me for what happened to me years ago.” Shalltear then took aim with her lance.
“Umm what did she do?” asked a soft voice that was hiding behind Applejack. It was clearly Fluttershy as she peeked from behind her friend.
“.......I prefer not to talk about it…...ever.”
“Well can you do it after the wedding party? It going to be super fun.” said Pinkie Pie with a smile and a big cake saying ‘Thanks for saving us’ on it with lot of happy faces.
“.......*Sigh* Fine I’ll hold off with the killing of Celestia, you’re lucky I’m still weak from being asleep for about 1,000 years.”
“Wait, isn’t that the same time Nightmare Moons was in prison on the moon?” asked Twilight as she walks over to them. “Just how old were you?”
“I was 15 at the time.” Deadpanned Shalltear as she put the lance away. “So…….1,515 years old I think?”
“But how can you be this old without looking old? Only Alicorns can be that old, any other pony would of died of old age or natural causes.”
“That’s because I’m a vampire if you didn’t hear me answer Pinkie Pie’s question.” this caused almost everypony within the room to back up in surprise, besides Pinkie Pie.
“Y-You’re a vampony?” said Fluttershy who was still hiding behind Applejack.
“If I wanted to drink all of your blood then I would’ve done it by now, and don’t even think about trying to use some kind of spell. You saw what I did to Chrysalis and how fast I was moving, what make you think that you could stop me?”
“............”
“Whatever, it’s not like I care what you racist jerks think of me.” Shalltear begins to walk from in front of the six ponies towards the door. “Oh and Celestia.” Celestia turned her attention at the vampire. “Seeing how you’re weak and all from your embarrassed defeat, I’ll be helping myself to whatever it is that you have in this castle of yours. You don’t mind do you?”
“You most certainly not!” Celestia protested.
“I can, really? Thanks Celestia, you’re a real‘true friend’ .” with that the countess walked out of the room with a devilish smile on her face.
“Twilight, you and your friends must stop Shalltear before she cause any trouble in Canterlot.” Applejack and Rainbow Dash were the first to get in the countess way blocking the only exit out of the room.
“You're not getting past us missy.” Said Applejack as she stands her ground.
“Ya that right chump, just try and get past us!” Said Rainbow Dash as she flying in the air.
“......Really? Did you not see what I just did to the Changeling Queen? What makes you think you two can stop me?” The vampire asked as she cracked her neck.
“Well we may not have superpowers or can use magic but that won’t stop us from trying.” said the apple farmer with a smile.
“Ha! I can do that to.” Said Dash as she moves her neck then a sickening crack was heard. “OW MY NECK!” Applejack facepalmed at this.
“.........Equestria’s greatest heroes huh?” Shalltear thought while trying not to laugh. “I’ll give you an A for your bravery, but an F for not knowing the difference between the two of us. I would recommend you back down before I have to do something I really don’t want to do. Especially seeing how I’m hungry.” She said licking her lips. “I always wanting to taste rainbow and apple pie.”
“A-are you coming on to us?” asked Applejack with a blush as Dash was still crying out in pain.
“Maybe, then again after looking at how you two look I wouldn’t mind having you two as my servants.” Shalltear appeared in front of Rainbow Dash as she fixed her neck by cracking it again in the other direction.“There, better?”
“Much better.” Dash said going limp in Shalltear arms. “You have no idea how good that felt.”
“I can only imagine.” She said sniffing her neck and was about to bite it, but was pulled back by Celestia’s yelling and Twilight magic. “Oh…..crap I almost bit her didn’t I?” Shalltear asked while giving off a sheepish smile. That when Applejack attacks with a powerful kick to Shalltear back but she didn’t move.
“What?!” yelled Applejack in surprise as she backs away.
“Just because I can’t use my magic to it’s fullest at the moment, doesn’t mean I’m weak to physical attacks like that.” Shalltear patted Rainbow Dash on her head before appearing in front of Applejack. “Though I have to say if you did that to me when I was 15 at the time that would’ve hurt me a lot.”
Before Shalltear could do anything Fluttershy lands in between them with both her arms and wings out to block her from Applejack. “Don’t hurt my friends.” She said so softly it was hard for anyone to hear her.
“Hey, your friends were the ones that attack me first, I was defending myself like anyone would having done if they were being attacked.” That when Shalltear looked into her eyes and felt fear for the second time in her life.
“I said don’t hurt my friends.” Fluttershy said sternly not taking her eyes off of the vampire.
“N-No.” Shalltear said as she started to back away from Fluttershy. “N-not again, not again.” She begins to shiver in fear while backing up even more.
“What’s going on?” Asked Twilight as she was watching this. “Why is Fluttershy stare working on her?”
“G-Get away from me! I’m not going to let it happen to me again!” tears flowed down from Shalltear’s face as she pushed Fluttershy out of the way, and ran off into the castle passing by two guard ponies along the way.
“Are you okay Shy?” Asked Dash as she fly over to help her friend up.
“I’m fine, thanks.” said Fluttershy as she get up.
“What I want to know girls is what did we just see? I mean she was just about ready to break down and cry her eyes out.” Said Rarity as she looks out the door.
“Maybe something horrible happen to her?” said Pinkie Pie. “Hey! Maybe Celestia might know why seeing how she and Shalltear know each other.” Celestia said nothing as she looked away with a look of guilt and shame on her face. “Is something wrong Celestia?”
“I’ll explain about what’s going on later, right now we need to get Shalltear before something bad happens.”
(Kitchen)
Shalltear made her way into castle’s kitchen. Still panicking from what Fluttershy did, she tried to find a place to hide so she can recover and figure out a way to escape Canterlot castle and her pursuers. In her panic state of mind she was able to find a small dark space underneath the kitchen counter where she could hide in and gather her thought. “O-Okay Shalltear, just calm down and get your shit together. What happen to you years ago is over, and no one is trying to hurt you…...well besides Sunbutt and that cream colored pony with a pink mane.” she said as she slightly open the cabinet door to see if anyone was following her. Just as she did Twilight and Applejack entered into the kitchen.
“You sure she went in here sugarcube?” asked Applejack.
“I’m sure of it by the way she was acting it a safe bet that she going to go somewhere she feels safe and can hide. So where would I go with a lot of places to hide?” said Twilight as she walks in and opens a capnet then Pinkie pokes her head out of it.
“A kitchen!” Pinkie yelled making Twilight fall over. “Pinkie!” everyone yelled at the Pink mare as she giggled.
“Dammit, I don’t have time for this. If I get caught by those fools, then it’s back to my coffin for another long sleep. I gotta think of something fast.”
“Oh I hope she alright, I didn’t mean to scare her like that.” said Fluttershy as she jumps with a spoon hit the floor.
“Ya well when I find her I’m giving her a piece of my mind, the hard kind.” said Rainbow Dash as she flew around the kitchen.
“Yeah like you’ll be able to hurt me.” Shalltear thought as she open the door a little bit more. “Let’s see how well you fare against this [Summon Household.]” The vampire’s shadow started to stretch as a swarm of bats appear from out of it and headed toward the mane six.
As most of them screamed apart from fluttershy then the group of girls started to ran around trying to get away from the small winged horrors. “Girls calm down I’ve seen this kind of bat before all you to do is-”
“Let’s get out of here!” yelled Dash as she grabs Shy and flew out of the kitchen with the rest of their friends not far behind. Shalltear popped her head out from under the cabinet as she started to laugh from what she just heard and saw.
“That will teach you to mess with a vampire.”
“Yeah that was a funny prank.” said Pinkie standing next to her with a big smile.
“H-How the hell did you get here?” she asked jumping back a bit in surprise.
“Oh I took the train to get here with my friends then we walked.” Said Pinkie as she looks around. “Oh that right I’m supposed to make more cakes for the party later. Want to help?” She asked with a large smile.
“You do realize I’m trying to escape right? Not to mention that your princess is trying to seal me away again.”
“Oh okay, there a back door right over there.” said Pinkie Pie as she points at a door to their left.
“Wait…..you’re not gonna try and capture me?”
“Why would I want to do that? You're my new friend and I need to throw you a party, not only that I’m sure once things calm down the girls would love to talk with you.” she said with a big smile. “Beside the writers want to add more funny things for later.”
“Okay…...well…..I-I’ll see you later then.” Shalltear kicked the exit door open, and ran off.
“What a nice mare.” said Pinkie Pie as she get to work cooking.
After sneaking around avoiding royal guards and a certain sun princess, Shalltear made her way towards the entrance of Canterlot Castle. She was surprise at how far she gotten without getting caught by the guards, Celestia, or the mane six. Just as she was running towards the doors she accidently bump into a certain moon princess who had just returned from somewhere important.
“Oh fudge.” Said Shalltear as she looks up at the Moon Princess in worry. “Um, sorry didn’t see you there.” She said while pulling herself up from the floor.
“It alright I’m sure you’re in a hurry to see the wedding to, tell me what is your name?” asked Luna with a smile that could melt someone's heart like butter.
“S-Shalltear Bloodfallen.”
“Well then Shalltear it nice to meet thy, come. The same armoury will begin soon and we can not miss it.” said Luna as she take Shalltear hand and walks her to the gardens.
“Uh as much as I would like to stay, but I have to go. I left the oven on at my home and I don’t know if I left anything in it.”
“Do not worry if your house burns down I will do everything in my power to restore it in every way. But for now we must join in the marrant and I heard DJpon3 will be playing to night! I do enjoy her wubs.” Luna say with a smile as she dragging the vampire along like a little girl pulling long a doll.
“Y-Yay l-lead the way.” Shalltear said while cursing to herself on the inside. “Well at least you get to enjoy a party before you get sent to jail…..wonder if I’ll be able to sleep somewhere comfortable this time?”
(Canterlot Royal Garden)
[Moments later]
“Did I miss anything?” Asked Luna as she walked up to her sister with Shalltear by her side holding a glass with what looks like blood in it.
“YOU!!!” Calls out Celestia as the main six look on in surprise.
“And the sudden fear hits me again.” Shalltear said as she hid behind Luna.
“Have you met Shalltear before sister? I must say she is an interesting being of the night much like my Bat ponies.” said Luna with a smile not even reacting to her older sister outburst.
“Luna, get away from her, she’s a dangerous being and must be placed in jail.”
“Oh please she fainted by the time we reached the party. I had to send for one of my guards to get her something to drink. Oh did you know she drinks blood, most interesting reminds me of the old traditions of the Bat Ponies of old.” Luna said with a carefree smile.
“You weren’t there at that time for what she did to Equestria’s government. Thanks to her she almost caused our economy to collapsed when she killed that one of the members of the Equestrian Government.”
“Wait, was it that fat pony who kept saying how I had no place in the rule of Equestria?” Asked Luna as she try to remember. “I never liked him, always yelling about his place in the rule.”
“This happen while you were banished to the moon, she imploded Atlas Star for a crime that I had already punish him for.”
Luna then looks to Shalltear. “What about you? What is your tale on this?” She asked looking at the vampire calmly.
“.....I-I don’t want to talk about it…..I j-just want to forget about it.”
Luna put her hand on Shalltear shoulder and smiles at her. “Do not worry nothing bad will happen to you. Sister may I keep an eye on her for now until I find out what happened between her and this Atlas Star pony.” she said looking at her sister with a knowing look.
“......Find.” Celestia said with a sigh as she pick up a piece of cake.
“Celestia what did we tell thy about the eating of the sweets?” said Luna with an annoyed look on her face.
“After what happen today and seeing…...her again, I pretty much deserved this.”
“Fine but it double the taning workout tomorrow sister. Remember what the doctors said it not healthy for you to have that much sugar in your body. Anymore and you’ll have to stop eating cake for a 1000 years.” Luna said as she crossed her arms as Shalltear watched them talk. Celestia simply just rolled her eyes as she teleported off to somewhere else to eat in private
“* Sigh*** I do not like fighting with my sister, but she needs to understand this is for her own good. Now then Ms. Bloodfallen let us enjoy the rest of the party after all the night is still young!” Luna yelled as she walks off to enjoy herself.
“Story of my life folks. One minute I’m in magic induced slumber, next saving my enemy from a queen who thought I was her servant, now I’m partying at a wedding of two ponies I don’t even know…...maybe this is all just a dream or something?” said Shalltear to herself as she take a drink of the blood in the glass. “Hmmm, tastes like cherry.”
Chapter 3: Friends to call family
Friends to call family
“Who the fu-.”
“Did you seriously have to bring the kids!?” Lance said to the mysterious woman appearing from out of the portal holding two foals.
The mysterious woman turned to give Shalltear a reprimanding look and said, “Keep your language clean around my foals, please.” She turned back to Lance. “Yes, I did. Sol and Mun are keeping watch over Golden and Light.”
“I get the feeling this is the woman named Max that lightning idiot summoned.” Shalltear thought as she glared daggers at the woman.
“Well, guess I need to improvise. Lumen, get Lucky and Rainbow to cover. Keep them safe.” Lance told her, the Breezie saluting as she had the two of them follow her, trying to help them walk on two hooves. “Now, Shalltear, please calm down. I’m only trying to help you.”
“The only time when I will calm down is when I kill Blueblood, and the rest of his family. I will not be denied my vengeance, and no one is going to stop me! Wolves, rip him apart!” The wolves bounded forward, only to freeze mid-leap when Max raised her hand. Lance used the moment to try and help Lucky and Rainbow get out of the way.
“W-What the?”
Max turned to give Shalltear another reprimanding look. “Hush. You’re being a petulant, spoiled brat. We are not your enemy, nor do we want to be.”
“Then get out of my way and let me have my vengeance dammit! [Maximize Magic, Brilliant Radiance!]” Shalltear said as a column of holy light from under Max engulfing her. “Now stay out of my-.”
Max giggled as the magic seemingly tickled her, passing through without doing harm. “Ah, I watched part of the anime you’re from and read the wiki on your powers.” She smiled and walked past the still frozen wolves. “That power purifies the unholy; destroys those that harbour ill-will for others. Me? I just want to protect my family from those who mean them harm.”
“Then take your family and get out of my way! [Maximize Magic, Vermillion Nova!]”
Max’s hand flashed white briefly before a thick shield of the same color sprang to life in front of her, leading her as she continued to walk straight towards the panicking girl.
“N-No, h-how can you be this powerful?” The countess asked while backing away in fear. “S-Stay back, I’m w-warning you.”
Max shook her head, teleporting to behind the girl and wrapped her in a hug. “Please, we’re here to help you.”
“LIES! YOU’RE LYING JUST LIKE CELESTIA DID, JUST LIKE ALL THOSE PONIES THAT TRIED TO HELP BUT DIDN’T! I WON’T BE TRICKED BY ANYONE EVER AGAIN! [Greater Teleportation!]”
Just as she was saying her latest spell Max placed a bracelet around her right wrist, preventing the girl from disappearing. “Please, calm down. We aren’t going to hurt you. Celestia hurt me as well by imprisoning me in stone in my universe. I was awake for the thousand and twenty-four years I was immobile.”
“Let me go or else I’ll implode you just like I did with Atlas star!” Shalltear yelled while trying to struggle her way out of Max’s hug.
“Shh... It’s okay, no one can hurt you while I’m here. I won’t let anyone try,” Max whispered, still holding the struggling girl close as she brushed her fingers through Shalltear’s hair. Rainbow, getting away from Lance and Lumen, flew quickly over and wrapped her arms around the girl and started nuzzling her cheek, cooing and nickering in an attempt of her own to calm the girl.
“.......Why…..why does everyone want to stop me?”
“Because, if you rush in now, you’ll only kill yourself. If you let your emotions free it will help to make you see more clearly.”
“Showing off your emotions is for idiots, those who see your emotions will take advantage of it.”
“Not if they’re truly your friends and family.” Max paused as the girl’s struggling receded. “Lance and I are the truest family you’ll ever find.”
Shalltear gritted her teeth in annoyance as blood started to drool from the side of her mouth. “Let me go.”
“Please, You’re only hurting yourself by bottling all this up.”
“Like you would know! You’ve never been raped, drugged, humiliated, or used as a test subject for someone’s sick pleasure!” Tears of blood started to run down Shalltear’s face. “You didn’t have to go through that for the past few years of your life have you?!”
“No, but Rainbow was brutally beaten and raped by her parents. I was the one who found her tied to a stalagmite in a cave with both of her hind legs broken and her wings plucked of every single feather. Do you know how hard it is to see a six month old filly like that?”
“..........”
“It was hard to keep from breaking down and force myself to carry her to the medical wi-ng.” Max’s eyes slowly filled with tears as she continued, “I can’t imagine what you went though, m-my heart breaks when I try t-to....”
Shalltear slightly turn her head to see Max’s face tearing up. Upon looking at the human, the crimson aura that was surrounding herself vanished along with her anger. “Please…..let me go.”
Max shook her head and buried her face into the girl’s shoulder. “You’ve been through so much and haven’t been able to fully absorb everything that’s happened. I-I...” Max shook her head again before continuing in a whisper only Shalltear could hear. "I can't help but picture Rainbow in your place..."
“N-no, please, just…..I just don’t want any kids like her near me….please.”
Max nudged Rainbow to get her attention and motioned for her to go back to Lance. The filly nodded and said, “Okay, mama.” Before turning and floating towards the Adept.
I nudged Rainbow to get her attention and motioned for her to go back to Lance. The filly nodded and said, “Okay, mama.” Before turning and floating towards the Adept.
“Thank you.”
Max nodded again and whispered "You don't need to hold anything back now, I'll still be here." She said as she placed a shield around them and took the bracelet off of the countess. Once the bracelet was off, Shalltear turned around and placed her face onto Max’s chest while hugging her tightly.
“It’s not f-fair! What did I ever do to deserve this?! All I ever wanted was to be accepted by someone, yet all I get is rejection! It’s not fair!” yelled Shalltear as tears began to flow down her face.
“Then you should look elsewhere for acceptance. There’s an entire multiverse out there, and yet you look to only one universe,” said Max as she stroked Shalltear’s hair for comfort, she then used her magic to form a chair from the ground as she placed the vampire on her lap while leaning back on the earth chair that she made.
“W-What do you mean?”
“I mean there are other Displaced out there you can call your friends. Medulla, Zinnia, Gilgamesh, Amaterasu....” Max hesitated before adding, “And Lance and I would be glad to be your family.”
“How do I know they won’t betray me?”
“Because their hearts are too pure. ‘Birds of a feather flock together.’ I haven’t met every Displaced out there, but the ones I named are just like me and will accept you if you give them the chance.”
“......Fine, I’ll do this friendship crap. Just as long as I don’t have to anything stupid like a weird dance or something.”
Max giggled a bit at that thought. “No, you just need to hold their Token and call for them, my daughter.”
“What did you just call me?”
Max sighed and closed her eyes for a second before answering. “Yes, I-I... I see you as a daughter.”
“.....How old are you?”
“Not counting my time in stone, twenty-five as of last month.”
“Dammit, fine you can call me your daughter. But if you do I better not be forced to go clothes shopping in a place full of royal snobs.”
Max smiled and hugged her a bit tighter. “Then it’s a good thing I’m the only ‘royal snob’ in my Equestria. Besides, I wasn’t into shopping for clothes before I got my gender switched.”
“Wait you’re a guy?!”
Max broke the hug and gave the countess a reassuring smile. “Not since a few years into my imprisonment. I had been a guy before I met Nono and bought my camera from her back on earth.”
“.......Eh beggars can’t be choosers. At least you’re okay in my book, unlike two certain ponies that I hate the most.”
“Celestia and Blueballs.” Max said as her smile disappeared. She then pulled out a picture of her Celestia and herself. “Celestia and I actually forgave each other and got together in my universe.”
“It might take me a while to forgive my Celestia, which is why I’m pretty much keeping my distance from her. Mostly because if I am near her I will punch her face in…..a lot.”
“I won’t stop you. Some Celestias need a good punch or two to set them straight. But I’d suggest trying to write to her first; tell her your side fully and ask for her reasons for hurting you. There’s a chance this just a misunderstanding and talking could help to solve this problem.”
“She put me to sleep just because I killed Atlas Star and…..part of Equestria’s government members.”
“Seems to me they needed killing then. But it would’ve helped your case if you had gathered evidence against them first. You aren’t the ultimate power here so you have to play by the laws. Otherwise you’ll be seen as nothing but a murderer, or worse.”
“Oh I’m sorry I didn’t have control over my rage and anger for past few years of being experimented on.” Shalltear said in a mix of sarcasm and annoyance. “Not everyone can fight the effect of drugs at the age of 15 mind you.”
“I didn’t mean it like that.” Max said giving Shalltear an apologetic smile.
“And for the record I did show her the proof of what he did to me, yet she gave him a slap on the wrist and community service.”
Max’s eyes hardened at that, enough that Shalltear flinched a little bit. “Then those deaths are on her hooves. She failed to fully understand and sympathize with you.”
“Best not piss her off under no circumstances.”
“I do have a spell that could allow me to copy part of your memory, if you’d approve of me doing so.”
“I’ll allow it, but you can’t share with Lance. I’m still pissed that he was able to intrude on my thoughts.”
“What did my fiance do?”
“I don’t know how he knew I got raped, but I do not like it when someone intrude on my thoughts and everything else. That is by far my third thing on the list of things I do not like.”
“He saw you about to-” Max stopped and became deathly still, the air around them growing both hot and cold. In an almost emotionless voice Max whispered, “You thought he was talking about your past, not what he saw when he first came here. I can assure you, he hadn’t known of your past and he can’t read minds unless he is touching someone. And even then it’s limited to surface thoughts and recent memories.”
“Still, he’s annoying and I don’t want him to know about it.”
“I can’t keep secrets from my lovers, not something as big as this that’s about our daughter.”
“Ugh, dammit fine. But I get a free punch to his face for pissing me off.”
Max nodded before lighting her hand. “Are you sure I can copy some of those memories into a crystal?”
“Yes…..Just be careful when you do look through my memories. I went insane when I was placed in the coffin.” Max nodded as she pressed a finger onto Shalltear’s head. The moment she did that, everything around her started to fade into darkness as she felt herself fall asleep. Moments later Shalltear woke up to find herself outside a candy-covered castle with stuffed animals lining in the middle of a scarlet colored ocean. “Been awhile since I been to my happy place.” The countess thought as she transformed herself into a chibi version of herself and jumped onto the sign on the front of the castle. Seconds after she did that Max appeared in front of the castle gate.
“Welcome to my happy place,” Shalltear said as she snapped her fingers opening the gates slowly as marshmallow elephants pulled on bars of chocolate.
“.... You do realize I’m not going to be able to take you seriously from now on, right?”
“Look this is only part of my mind that is still stable, and kept me somewhat sane for the past couple of years. So don’t judge me on how this place looks, do you want to see the hellish part of my mind then?”
“No, I guess I should’ve thought this wasn’t the full extent of your mind. But if this is your happy place, then the memories I’m looking to copy are in another castle.”
“.....The bad memories are inside the castle, just deep down in the chamber of remembrance.”
“Ah, then just show me the way. There is no reason to make you dig them up and destroy your castle.”
“It’s downstairs to the left. You’ll see the door that has the sign that says ‘Chamber of Remembrance’ on it.” Max nodded as she made her way downstairs.
“You know you could’ve just handed her your journal that you kept during your time with Atlas.” Said a white version of Shalltear.
“I prefer to keep it just incase someone tried to alter my memories or say that it was fake.”
“Yeah because someone would want to alter your mind after seeing what you went through without throwing up or something along those lines.” The figment said in a sarcastic tone. “You sure you can trust her after what happen when you trusted that maid to help you?”
“She’s a human, if it was a pony that I had no idea who or where she came from that’s one thing. But seeing how she’s a human, I’ll give her a little bit of my trust…..for now that is.”
“If you say so.”
“Now go, she’ll be waiting for you in the chamber of remembrance.” The alter version of herself nodded as she teleported of to the chamber of remembrance. Leaving Shalltear alone with a splitting headache. “Judging by the headache I got, she must be looking through month one.” She said as once again she felt herself falling asleep. Moments later, Shalltear woke up. Still holding onto Max like a mother or someone that they would consider as their safety blanket. “So…..I take it you saw my past?” She asked.
“Enough of it. Your little protector led me to the memories and told me what Celestia had done.” Max said as lifted the thirteen materia from her lap and set them in an orbit around herself. “I’m going to shove these up her ass so she knows what she put you through,”
“You might want to show Princess Luna, that and along with Twilight and her friends.”
“They can pull them from Celestia’s broken mind for all I care! No one should be treated like that.”
“I want you to show them it first before you show them to Celestia. I want her to know what it’s like to lose someone’s trust and seeing how I can’t kill her, this is the closest thing to revenge I can get.”
“Fine! But I won’t be able to copy any more of the memories, I’ve gone past my limit for today.” Max said as she started to calm down a little bit.
“You do know you could’ve asked Princess Luna to do that right?”
“I know. I would’ve had to teach her the correct spell, though.” Max said as she took a deep breath and sighed, breaking down her shield. “Let’s go find her then.” She said as she motion Shalltear over towards Lance and another displaced human that looked like Sephiroth from final fantasy 7, but female.
Sephiroth facepalmed hard enough to cause a shockwave, that sounded with a loud slapping noise. “Great. First Max tells me that I’m part Succubus and now I learn that you both forgot to mention one of your children?”
“It did feel like we were forgetting something last day,” Max said as she led Shalltear over, along with thirteen materias floating around her.
“Wait, you’re part wha-?” Lance was unable to ask his question as it was interrupted when a powerful punch from Shalltear smashed into his face and sent him into the wall.
“Well I feel a little bit better after doing that.” Shalltear said as she cracked her knuckles after punching Lance. The silver haired woman, holding Rainbow in her arms, nodded towards Shalltear in appreciation.
“Thanks, I think I needed that, too.”
“You’re welcome. No offense Lance, but you were kinda annoying me to some degree earlier.”
“Yeah… my apologies.” The Adept groaned, stumbling out of the wall. “So, what do we do now?”
Max’s expression darkened and said, “We show Celestia exactly how she hurt our newest daughter.”
“Still finding weird that I’m being called your daughter, even though we're not blood related.”
Lance sighed, clicking a button on his communicator. “What about adopted daughter?”
“That’s what I meant,” Max snapped. “I’m still going to call you my daughter regardless.”
“Fine, but don’t expect me to call you two mom or dad.”
“I wasn’t expecting that at all, Lady Bloodfallen.” Lance complied.
“.......Yep everytime I see him or if he annoys me, I’m gonna punch him in the face.” Shalltear thought as a devilish smile appeared on her face for a quick second before disappearing.
Sephiroth just shrugged. “Well, I won’t do it if you don’t want to. I just got four children yesterday and learned of a fifth right before you punched him.” She gestured in Lance’s direction. “So I’m a little overwhelmed right now.”
“Hey I don’t need to be looked after you know? I can take care of myself, hell I even got my own house over there.”
“And Max is royalty.”
“No shit captain state the obvious.”
“Already told her that,” Max said before pointing to Lance’s communicator, which was vibrating. “Looks like Aurora wants to say something.” Lance smiled, letting Aurora come out to say hello to everyone.
“Who won?” She asked, “If Lance is dead I don’t wanna stay here.”
“No one is dead, Aurora.” Lance deadpanned.
“Not yet, anyways,” Max added, spotting a white figure in one of the castle’s windows. She teleported over to just outside the window and drew a circle on the glass.
Seph sighed deeply. “She’s not actually going to kill her, right?”
“If she does, then I have no problem with that. I could always just make her into my servant if Max does kill her.”
The window shattered except for inside the circle Max had drawn, which fell and broke anyways as Max pulled Princess Celestia out and threw her towards the group.
“Did the plan have chucking her out of a window be part of it?”
A completely black wing erupted from Sephiroth's back and with one flap she brought herself into the path of the flying alicorn, totally halting her movement with a single hand to her throat, while still holding onto Rainbow and not budging one inch.
“What in the name of Faust is going on here!?” Celestia asked as she fell to the ground.
“We just need to talk to the princess, however, business hours are closed.” Lance sighed. “Princess, we need to talk to you about something important-.”
“This isn’t about that measly worm, Blueblood,” Max said, pulling one of the materias from its orbit around her. “This is about Atlas .”
“The guy from Astro? Why? He wasn’t that fun of a villain…” Aurora commented randomly.
“Wrong Atlas…”
“Bioshock’s Atlas?”
“No. It’s a Pony named Atlas Star.” Lance deadpanned. “Anyways…”
“It’s payback time jerkface!” Shalltear said looking at Celestia with a smug look on her face.
“You!” That was all Celestia could get out before Max pushed the crystal into her head, forcing her to take in the memories. “W-What was that? What did you just do to me?” She asked with a mix of shock and surprise on her face.
“I believe Shalltear can answer that.” Lance sighed, crossing his arms. Aurora hovered behind him and copied his crossed arms look mockingly and nodded once.
“One down, twelve to go,” Max said in an almost emotionless voice, pulling the rest all at once and pressed them into the mare’s horn.
“Like I told you before, Celestia, this is the stuff that jerk you gave me away to did to me for the past 13 months. I even had physical proof of what he did all over my body, but you still gave him a less if not harsher punishment than what I got.”
“If it weren’t for me or anyone else here, your nephew might have forced her to relive those same pains,” Lance added on. “They don’t see her for a living being. Unlike us, they only see Shalltear as property.”
Celestia shook her head as she tried to regain her composure. Seconds later she pulled herself up from the ground while whipping some of the dirt off herself. “Be that as it may, what Shalltear did was against the law. Not on-.”
“She acted because you did nothing! ” Max shouted, slapping her into the lake. Celestia skipped several times before finally sinking into the water near the opposite shore.
“Wow… I heard of the phrase knocking some sense into her , but that is beyond me.” Lance sighed. “Remind me never to tick you off.”
“Duly noted,” Aurora said. “She seems a bit of a… Moronic, is the best way I can describe it.”
“Which one?”
“The one currently drowning,” Max said, stretching her back. “Dammit...”
“Easy there Max,” Lance said, standing by her side. “You should take a rest. Don’t overdo yourself.”
Sighing, the one winged woman snapped her fingers, making a room-full of water appear with Celestia in it. “Oh… woops.” She snapped again and the water vanished, leaving the Alicorn behind.
“I can’t help it. I just-...” Max sighed and shook her head. “It was just my hormones taking over there.”
“Just try not to wreck the place please? I still have a home here, and I prefer not to have it get destroyed.” Shalltear said while petting one of her shadow wolves for comfort. “Plus I don’t think Princess Luna would like that you killed her sister like that.”
“Speaking of Luna, where is she?” Lance asked, curious to find out the answer.
“Over here.” Luna said while watching from the sidelines. “Not to interrupt or anything, but why are you beating the living daylights out of my sister?”
“Take a look at Shalltear’s memories I gave her,” Max growled, giving Celestia another glare.
“Oh... right…”
“Wait you knew about what happened to me?” Shalltear asked focusing her attention at the moon princess. “When did you do that?”
“During your stay at Canterlot when Nightshade told me that you were having a nightmare.”
“So, you can walk into others dreams…” Lance summarized. “That sounds very handy… at times.”
“So you knew of this and you did nothing?” Max snapped. “Why didn’t you share that with your dear sister?”
“It’s kinda hard to talk with your sister when she’s too stubborn and hard-headed to listen.”
“I could knock some more sense into her if you want.” Max raised a fist and half-turned back to Celestia.
Sephiroth chose this moment to firmly place a hand on Max’s shoulder, holding her in place. “Max. I can understand that you are furious, but do you really want to get any more violent in front of your children?”
Max growled once more but lowered her fist, visibly forcing herself to calm some. “Go look at some of the memories. It’s far worse than what was done to you.”
“I’m not doubting that, not for a single second. But this won’t help for real in the long run. None of them.” She exerted a little pressure on Max’s shoulder. “Celestia is to blame for a lot of what happened, but she wasn’t the one hurting Shalltear. If she has to answer for that, then it should be to the victim, not to you.”
Max closed her eyes and took a deep breath and let it out slowly, calming a bit more. “Here I thought you would be the one at her throat for letting a fifteen year old girl get raped who knows how many times.”
“You know me, Max. I’m struggling not to draw my sword. But I won’t ever deny a victim his or her compensation for pain and suffering. Also I think that we should not outright kill a princess in another universe, at least not before checking for other options.”
“I wasn’t going to kill her. I actually thought she’d at least faint from seeing what Shalltear went through.”
Lance watched as the two of them continue to talk. Then, when the two of them were taking a breath, he then spoke. “I know that what happened was over 1000 years ago, but Celestia should be held responsible for not dealing with the situation properly. Rape is a serious crime and it isn’t something that you just give someone community service for. However, we are only outsiders and therefore, should not bother with this world’s affairs. I believe Luna would be the best candidate to deal with the situation.”
“That is true, but I think Shalltear should be the one that decides on a suitable punishment for my sister. Wouldn’t you agree?” Luna said.
“Like I said before, I think it’s up to Shalltear. So yeah, I agree.” Turning her head to face the girl in question, Sephiroth nodded.
“My only concern with that is that Shalltear would want to punish them by killing them because of how angry she is on the matter,” The Adept brought up to the three of them. “What if the two of you came to a compromise?”
“I’d rather have Blueblood’s head on a platter,” Max said, giving Celestia a dirty look.
The one winged woman looked into Shalltear’s eyes for a moment, before closing hers. “If she wants to kill them, then it should be this way. I trust in her judgement, because she is more than capable of handling her own situations and considering the consequences of her decisions. She won’t condemn a pony to death on a whim, or if they don’t truly deserve it.”
Shalltear appeared right in front of Celestia with her spear pointed at her throat. “Every fiber in my being wants me to kill you for what you did to me.” She said as she lowered her lance. “But seeing how I’m friends with Luna, I’ll let you live for the time being. Blueblood on the other hand dies along with his bloodline, unless there are decent ponies in his family tree that aren’t jerks then they will serve me until the end of time.”
“Hmm… Luna, do you have a scroll on the bloodline of Blueblood? So Shalltear can look through it when she has the time?”
“They’re in the Canterlot archives, I’ll get them tomorrow seeing that it’s nighttime and I have to deal with my former nephew.”
“I guess that settles that then.” Lance sighed, looking back at Shalltear, who was with his two fiance’s. “Max, Seph. Make sure to help Shalltear with getting her token ready and give her yours too. Aurora, Lumen and I are going to have to depart. We have some work to do back where we are from.”
“Who’s ‘Seth’?” Asked Aurora.
“She’s mine and Lance’s fiance,” Max said, gesturing to the woman beside her. “And her nickname is Seph, not Seth.”
“Right. Aurora, you ready to go back to Scootaloo?”
Aurora floated there for a moment, then, “You two have a weirder love life than Aunt Rarity’s fantasy’s.”
“Just be lucky that she didn’t hear you say that.” He sighed, waving goodbye. “Max, Seph, I’ll see you back in your world later, okay?”
“Okay,” Max said.
Lance, before he left, hugged his children and kissed both Max and Seph before he looked at Shalltear. “I hope to see you again soon. Just make sure to behave yourself.”
“I make no promises, but I’ll try not to cause that much trouble.”
Lance smiled, messing with her hair a little. “I mean with your new brothers and sisters.”
“Oh... great.”
Sephiroth fixed Lance with a stare. “I need to talk to you before you leave. Preferably alone.”
“Oh? You want to talk someplace private?” He offered to Seph
“Yes.” Her tone was dead serious and she handed Rainbow over to Max before walking towards Lance. The two of them began to walk, but then, Lance realized something. “Hey, Aurora. Lumen. Seph wanted this as a private talk. No exceptions.”
“Aww… Okay.” The Breezie said, before floating over to Dash’s nose.
“Request received.” Aurora droned, then shook her head, “I- I mean, sure thing!” Having saying that Lance teleported Sephiroth and himself to somewhere private leaving Shalltear alone with Max, her children, Luna, and Celestia.
“So…...what did he mean by helping me make a token?” Shalltear asked.
“A token is something you send out to allow others to call on you for help or to just talk with another human,” Max explained, gesturing for the group to head towards the castle. “It has to be something unique or personal. Something that will remind the one summoning you of you alone. Take mine for example, it’s nothing more than a picture of me, but that’s enough for others to summon me.”
“So I just need some kind of object and then other displaced humans can summon me?”
“Not if you just have the object, no. You have to give it a phrase of sorts saying who you are and how someone can summon you. It would be a good idea to limit who all can summon you, as well.”
“Okay.” Shalltear snapped her fingers as a bat plushie appeared in front of her. “I am The Bloody Valkyrie, Shalltear Bloodfallen. If you need any assistance depending on what it is, then let me know and I’ll help…..just don’t piss me off or summon me when I’m asleep.” The countess said as she turned her attention at Max. “Like that?”
“Yeah. Now you just need to get it into the Void.”
“And where do we find one? Incase you haven’t notice I can’t just summon one up seeing how the elements of harmony locked away most of my magic.”
“That’s easy, the one that Displaced you will open a portal to the Void for it if you toss your token away,” Max said, opening a door into the palace and holding it.
“O-Okay, but can you do it for me then?” Shalltear asked as she began to stagger a bit. “I-I’m starting to get really tired from all today and I just want to go home and sleep it off until tomorrow.”
Max smiled and lit her hand, picking the girl up and placing her in her arms. “Alright. Let’s get you to bed, then.”
“T-Thanks.” The countess said as she fell asleep in Max’s arms.
“I believe I will take my leave seeing how you seem to have the situation under control.” Said Luna as she begun to fly off into night heading off back to Canterlot. Celestia said nothing but glared at Shalltear before she too flew off to Canterlot.
Chapter 4: Guardian Pony
(Nightmare)
“WHAT DID I TELL YOU ABOUT TRYING TO ESCAPE!” Atlas yelled as he punched Shalltear in the stomach. “I told you the next time you tried that, I was gonna beat the living hell out of you didn't I?” He asked delivering another punch this time to face. “DIDN’T I!?”
“I-I’m sorry.”
“Sorry isn’t good enough you little freak. I told you what will happen if you do that.” Atlas punched Shalltear to the ground as he pulled out a syringe with a mysterious green substance.
“N-No, please, anything but that!”
“You brought it upon yourself, now let’s see if you can endure what we did last time.” Atlas said as he started to walk up towards the vampire.
“Please! I’m sorry, I won’t do it again I promise just please-.” Before the countess could say anything else, she felt Atlas reach for her throat and the syringe being jabbed into her neck.
“Shut up and accept your punishment like a good slave freak.”
“AH!” Once again just like in Canterlot Castle. Shalltear found herself in a cold sweat laying on her bed; only this time it not in the guest room, but in her own home. “Dammit!” She yelled slamming her head against a pillow. “I thought I was over these stupid nightmares the moment I killed that asshole Atlas. Why the hell do I still have these nightmares?” Just as she was about to throw something from off her bed, she notice a bat shape plushie laying next to her. Out of curiosity and how adorable it looks, she decided to pick it up and remembered about what Max said.
“Guess this must be my token that Max made for me huh?” She said as she lifted herself from out of bed and headed towards the kitchen. “I’ll have to figure out how to send my token to the void. Normally I would’ve done it by now, but a certain sun princess locked away most of my powers away.” Shalltear made it to the kitchen as she levitated a bowl from the cabinet, cereal from the upper cabinet, and milk from the refrigerator. “But for now I’ll get something to eat before I do anything else.” Just as she began to pour cereal into the bowl, a black diamond fell onto of the cereal.
“The hell?” Shalltear picked up the diamond and started to examine it, mostly just biting it to see if it’s real or just a toy that kids would get just like you would see off of commercials. “Gotta give these ponies credit, they make real good toys if they’re giving you a diamond as a toy.” She said as she tossed the diamond behind her. Just as she did that a strange noise sounded out right behind the countess; which took her by surprise. The noise got louder and louder until, right before her very eyes, a old wooden shed materialized into existence.
“......I really gotta stop thinking that said object is nothing but junk.” Shalltear said as she started pouring her milk into her cereal. “If you’re a displaced come on out, you’re in no danger of being attacked by anyone.”
The door to the shed opened up, revealing an olive green mare with auburn mane along with a little pink filly with wild purple mane and wearing a set of thick rimmed glasses. “Whoops, looks like I misjudged the landing,” the mare said with a slight British accent. “Apologies madam.”
“It’s alright, not like anyone else lives here but me. So who are you if you don’t mind me asking?”
“Ah yes, introductions. I’m the Guardian and this my young wardess, Screwball.”
“Hiya!” the filly waved.
“....H-Hi?” Shalltear said waving back at the filly while trying to smile.
The mare suddenly clapped her hooves together. “Aha! Now I recognize you! Madam Shalltear, the Vampire Countess of Equestria.”
“How did you know about me? I didn’t even tell you who I am.”
The Guardian chuckled, walking completely out of wooden box, Screwball closing the door behind them. “Oh honey! I know every Displaced that ever existed! Past, present, and future, I know it all.”
“I don’t know whether I should be worry about that or not.” The countess said as she started eating her breakfast. “So you’re a time pony then?”
“Time mare, yes. I’m surprised you’ve heard of us. My kind isn’t really known throughout the worlds. It makes me a little giddy that you know of us.”
“I just guess really, but then again this is the multiverse so this comes to no surprise to me when I think about it. But what I don’t get is why you’re a pony when you used to be somewhat human?”
The Guardian let out a single, loud laugh. “I have always been equine in shape. A human? Me? Now that’s a laughable thought!”
“But there was that one world where we-”
“Not now, Screwy.”
“You brought it up,” Screwball muttered.
“Just because you can hide it from others, doesn’t mean you can hide it from me. If you know who I am then you know that I can smell it right?” The vampire asked as she took another bite from her cereal. “Don’t worry though, I won’t tell anyone about it.”
Screwball gave the Guardian a strange look, but the mare herself was unfazed. “Honey, I know precisely who I am and I have never been such a form in a previous regeneration. I am around similar creatures on a daily basis, several times a day actually. That is probably what you are smelling. Now,” she took a seat across from Shalltear, “how can I help?”
“I-I don’t know what you are talking about?” Shalltear said as she started drinking the milk out of the jug.
“The TARDIS took us here for a reason, Madam Countess. And I am here to help you in anyway I can so long as it’s to better yourself. I may know your future, but it can always change.”
“*Sigh* Man I pick the wrong time to try to be nice.” She said as she whipped the milk from her mouth. “Seeing how you know my past, present, and future. You know what I’m going to do to Blueblood right?”
“I can’t answer that,” the Guardian shook her head. “I can’t tell you anything that I know of, except for vague hints and strange trivia.”
“Ugh! I’m gonna kill him and the rest of his bloodline. The only ones that will be spared from my wrath are those who are not assholes like Blueblood or Atlas Star.”
“Why would you do that?” Screwball asked, taking a seat next to the Guardian. “Would killing really solve anything?”
“Just like his ancestor Atlas Star. He tried to rape me and make me his slave. I’m not gonna relive that hell of my childhood again, and to make sure no one else have to go through what I did. I’m going to end it…...personally.”
“Can’t you just report him to Princess Celestia and let the courts deal with him instead of committing mass murder?”
“Celestia is the reason why my life went to hell!” The countess yelled, as a scarlet aura surrounded her. “She gave me to Atlas Star all those years ago. Yet even though she knew what happen to me, she pretty much just gave him community service and let him walk free. When I heard about that I decided to kill him for what he did to me, and yet I was punished for it.”
“Hmm,” the Guardian mused thinking things over for a moment before letting out a long sigh. “I shouldn’t be doing this, but… I will help you in a more… suitable way. Come along, we shall speak with Celestia and Luna.”
“Hey I already got the okay from Luna, saying that it was okay to kill Blueblood and have any good family members of his as servants. Why do I need to go back and deal with Celestia?”
“Because I will not allow another Displaced to fall into infamy for simply upholding what is right,” the Guardian replied with a serious look as she stood from her chair. “Now come along. We have a princess to meet.” Screwball rushed forward, opening the door to the TARDIS for them.
“Dammit, I can’t get a moment to myself without something weird happening huh?” Shalltear asked as she followed the pony into the TARDIS. “Geez isn’t this a bit much?”
“I have been around for over one hundred thousand years, Shalltear,” the Guardian said from the console. “I have seen many things I wish I could have prevented and I refuse to sit back while your life falls even more than it deserves. You’re a beautiful woman who does not deserve the hand she has been dealt. I will correct this injustice to the best of my abilities.”
“Good luck with that. No offense but if Luna couldn’t try to knock some sense into Celestia, what makes you think you can?”
She smirked as she walked over to the switch, “Because I know how to break her.” She flipped the switch, the entire room suddenly jerking as shaking as that strange sound from before echoed about.
“Why do I get the feeling I’m gonna get blamed for this when Sunbutt see’s me? And for the record the only thing I was pretty much planning was just kill Blueblood when Luna say I can, and only do passive aggressive stuff to Celestia. Mainly just steal her sweets.”
“Shalltear, I know your future. If I am so stuck in doing this, what does that tell you about what’s in store?”
“Oh what, like I become an evil ruler trying to take over the entire multiverse or something?” Shalltear asked sarcastically.
“Smaller, but you’re on the right track.” There was no humor in the Guardian’s tone. The TARDIS landed and the Guardian and Screwball headed for the door. “Are you coming?”
“W-What do you mean by that? How can I be evil in the future when all I wanted was to kill Blueblood, and live in peace for the rest of my days?” The countess asked as she follows Guardian.
“It’s a very slippery slope, Countess. A very slippery slope,” she said simply as they walked out and locked the TARDIS behind them. “Let’s go interrupt Court, shall we?”
“I still have a few questions after we do this, you know that right?”
“And there will be time for it, but for now, let’s see if we can’t get through Celestia’s thick skull.”
“Good luck with that. I’m just gonna stay next to Luna seeing how she calms me when I’m around…..her.”
“If that makes you feel safer, than go for it,” the Guardian said, marching up to the throne room entrance.
“Guardian,” Screwball said, “at least try to keep your cool this time? You’re, uh, rather scary when you go off the deep end.”
She patted Screwy’s head lovingly. “Don’t you fret, Screwy, I’ll keep my head on this one. I promised you after all.” She walked right up to the guards. “Greetings gentlecolts, would you mind opening the door? I have business with Celestia.”
“She’s busy, nopony is allowed to enter. Especially the vampire, sorry those are our orders madam.” Said a bulky earth pony.
“Oh, of course! You’re only following orders. But, you must realize something, boys.” The Guardian’s horn lit with golden magic. “I wasn’t asking.” Both guards were shoved aside and the door blasted open in the same moment. The Guardian strode forward, Screwy and Shalltear following closely.
“Starlight.”
“Yes Ironhide?”
“I think I’m planning on finally retiring from the royal guard this year.”
(Court Room)
“Well that’s one way to make an entrance.” Shalltear said walking next to Guardian and Screwy.
“She’s a dramatic one,” Screwball whispered to her. “Angry dramatic is one I don’t like seeing, though.”
“Who dare to interrupt my court-.” Celestia’s eyes harden the moment she saw Shalltear. “Oh, it’s you. I thought I told you that you will have your chance to kill my nephew when I was done with court.”
“I am the reason we have come, Celestia,” the Guardian spoke up. “I’ve come to understand you haven’t been particularly fair with the Countess here. I’d like to hear you side before administering some logic.”
“Her action almost caused equestria’s economy to fall. Something like that would’ve cause problems seeing how she killed off all of the members of the Equestrian Government.”
“I’ve come to understand her actions occurred because you allowed a criminal to get off basically with a slap on the wrist for committing atrocious acts. Care to explain yourself?” Her tone was mocking, as if she was talking to a misbehaving child.
“Atlas Star was an important and vital member of the Equestrian Government. He was in charge of for foreign affairs, moneycontrol, and debates when with other countries. When he and the rest of the members died by that little monster’s hands, Equestria went into a state of disaster for the past 200 years.”
“YOU THINK THAT EXCUSES HIS CRIMES!” the Guardian shouted at her in the Royal Canterlot Voice. “You honestly believe that if a pony has enough power than they are exempt from the laws of the land?! You allowed a pony to get away with slavery and attempted rape simply because they were a government official?! They get a simple slap on the wrist yet you banish your sister to the moon for a thousand years simply for not setting the moon for one night?! What kind of hypocrisy are you running you old hag?!”
“SILENCE! How dare come into my court and disrespect me like you’re my mother! Atlas Star along with the other members were the only ponies that kept this kingdom alive with my help, when they were killed, Equestria was forced into a depression that kill almost 10,000 ponies due to poverty because of that monster! I gave her a chance hoping that she would be accepted by other ponies, but after what she did. I made the right choice in sealing her up for the past 1,000 years!”
“Do you even hear yourself?! You are the most powerful pony on the entire planet, you control the very sun itself and yet you’re saying you can’t even keep your own country running without a bunch of pompous morons who only care about themselves?! And did you just try to justify a thousand year banishment of your own sister?! Really showing the love for her, aren’t you? As for my tone,” the Guardian stepped right up to Celestia, staring her down, “I will refer to my minor however I please, Tia.”
“I don’t have time to deal with somepony like you. I have important things to do, and one of them isn’t talking to somepony who thinks she can force somepony into doing something they want them to do.” Celestia said as she pulled herself off her throne and began to walk off. “Court is dismissed until tomorrow, we’ll finish this up another time.”
“If you walk down this path, you doom your country and every single pony within it,” the Guardian said in a deathly serious tone.
“This is my kingdom, not yours. I am the ruler of this kingdom, and it will stand even if I fall.”
“I never said you would fall,” the Guardian replied. “But if you so simply choose to be ignorant to anypony’s problems but your own selfish needs than I declare this: you should be removed from power and have somepony else take the throne. At this point, your sister Luna would be a much better ruler than you. At least she knows the true troubles and desperations of all peoples living in your country and can help make it better.”
“Keep you nose out of other world’s country’s problems.” Celestia said as she left the courtroom.
The Guardian screamed in frustration. “You spoiled little child!” she shouted after Celestia. “Your actions will condemn everypony and you sit back and watch! You have learned nothing over the years! You’re still that ignorant little brat from way back when!”
“I work too hard to let this country fall to anypony. You think I’ll believe somepony like you who just waltzes in and think she owns the place. No, this is my country and I;m doing a fine job running it for this long.” Celestia turned around and began to walk off. “Now if you’ll excuse me I have work that needs to be done.”
“You showed such promise before, Celestia,” the Guardian said in tone of disappointment. “I thought you would improve over the years and yet you still have too much to learn. I may wear a different face now, but I still remember one of my favorite students. It surprises me how much you’ve failed.”
“I don’t know who you are pony, but don’t think I’ll forget you face after what you just did.” She then turned her attention at Shalltear. “As for you monster. Sooner or later you will snap from the nightmares you’ve been having, and when you do I will be the one to put you down.”
“You know very much who I am, Tia,” the pony said stepping between the two again. “I’m the Guardian.”
“Don’t you dare use her name like that! The Guardian died 1,000 years ago protect Equestria from Discord. And you don’t look a thing like her.”
“I’ve always been a special pony, Tia. But if you require proof,” she looked to Screwball. “Screwy, could you please go grab my memorial box from the TARDIS?”
She gave a salute before zipping off and returning a moment later holding a green tool chest. “Foooound it!”
The Guardian took it with a smile. “Thank you, Screwy.” She placed the box down, opened it and leaned nearly half of her body into it. “No, that’s not it. No. Nope. Oh, I didn’t even know that was in there. Ooh, I’ve been looking for that. Aha! There it is!” She pulled back out, holding a little golden picture frame. “Remember this Tia?” she asked, making sure she could see it and the picture within of young Celestia and another purple pony. “It was such a sweet birthday present. I still remember what I said to you: ‘I will always treasure this little Tia, just as I will always treasure you’.” The Guardian looked at Celestia with her eyes full of sadness. “What happened to that little Tia I once knew? Where is that little filly that wanted to make the world a better place? Because she certainly isn’t the mare standing before me.”
Celestia said nothing as she turned around and started to walk off. From what Shalltear could tell she could see tears flowing down her face. “She died the moment you left me by myself.”
“Tia…” the Guardian softly called. She turned to Shalltear before looking to Screwball. “Keep an eye on her Screwy. Keep her safe, I need to fix an old mistake.” Without another word, she raced after Celestia.
“Well…...that was something.” Shalltear said as she turned her attention to Screwball. “Wanna watch some TV with Luna?”
Screwball clapped her hooves together as she began to hover thanks to her propeller cap. “That sounds like fun! Can we watch adult cartoons?!”
“If this world has any then sure, I don’t see the harm in that.” Shalltear said as she lead Screwball to the guest room she was in two nights ago.
(Elsewhere)
[Celestia’s Chamber)
Celestia entered into her private chamber as she levitated a glass of water and two painkillers next to her. With what had happened to her during the past few hours, not to mention seeing the countess she needed them to dull the pain she was getting for her head. “Why can’t I have a normal day without anything stressful happening?”
“Because this is Equestria,” a familiar accented voice said from the doorway.
“What do you want?” Celestia asked in a vile tone, not turning her head to look a Guardian.
“To talk,” she said, closing the door and turning the lock. “Because… it seems we really need to.”
“What’s there to talk about? You left and I had to run Equestria by myself.” Celestia said as she swallowed the pill; along with some water to help it go down.
“And it seems to me that, you were not happy about what happened.” The Guardian made her way further into the room until she was right in front of Celestia. “Tia,” she said softly, “I am still your friend. Please, tell me what’s wrong.”
“Really? Who wouldn’t be happy when their so called friend fake their own death, then appears out of nowhere after 1,500 years?” Celestia said sarcastically. “So you tell me what’s wrong?”
The Guardian let out a long, pain-filled sigh. “It wasn’t supposed to happen like that,” she admitted. “I faked my death to Discord so it would give you the push you and Luna needed to take care of him. That’s how history was supposed to be written. I had planned to come back afterwards to show you I was still alive, but…”
“A lot of good that turned out didn’t it!? Do you know what is was like trying to run a country by myself after my sister became Nightmare Moon, and having her sealed within the Moon!?” Celestia took another drink from her glass before continuing. “I WAS BUCKING HARD! Especially when that little monster came and made it even harder for equestria to recover from Discord’s ruling.”
“You’re angry, I get that,” the Guardian nodded. “But who are you really angry at? Because it doesn’t sound like you’re mad at Shalltear or Luna or Discord. If you have something to say, Celestia, then say it.”
“I’M MAD AT HOW EVERYTHING TURNED OUT! MORE SPECIFICALLY YOU MOST OF ALL!” Celestia yelled as she tossed the glass of water past The Guardian’s face. “Called yourself my friend but you’re nothing more than a bucking liar, and an abandoner!”
The Guardian was silent for a moment. “You’re right. I did abandon you. I left you, but not because I didn’t care about you. I left because I knew you were ready to leave me behind. I knew that you could lead, that you would be the greatest ruler this kingdom ever had. I left so I wouldn’t hold you back from greatness. But it seems that… I was wrong.”
“I never wanted to rule this kingdom.” Celestia said as tears started to flow down her face. “All I ever wanted was to just be normal like everypony else. After the battle with Discord we’re suppose to just leave and let somepony else run the kingdom. But you had to fake your death and run off with somepony else.”
“Somepony else? What are you talking about, Celestia?”
“That pony with the swirls in her eyes. Who else?”
“Tia!” the Guardian sounded hurt. “Do you honestly believe that I… I replaced you?!”
“Why else would you leave me alone for all these years?”
“Because I died!” the Guardian shouted at her.
“You faked your death! If you were dead then why the buck are you here if you did died!?”
“Because I’m not like other ponies,” the Guardian said. “I’m not normal. I didn’t die that day, but a few years later, I did. And then, I died again. Our time together was two lifetimes ago for me. Many, many, many millennia ago for me. And every time I die, a little part inside of me dies to, sometimes even my memories.” The Guardian hung her head, yet Celestia could clearly see tears streaming down. “I forgot about you and Luna and this entire world. I’ve been trying desperately to reclaim the memories that have faded with time. Yet, here I am, with somepony I care about so dearly only to learn that not only does she hate me, but that I let her down. I’m sorry, Tia. I’m so sorry.” Her words turned to sobbing as her sadness took hold, crying in front of the princess.
“.....J-Just go, you’re not the pony I used to know and loved.” Celestia said as she started to walk towards the window.
“I won’t go!” the Guardian shouted. “I am her. I will always be her. I messed up, I’ll admit that. All I ask is a chance to make up for it. I want to be there for you again, Tia. Please… just give me another chance. Please!”
“.........Fine, I’ll give you a second chance. But I swear to if you buck this up, and I mean really buck this up like you did last time. I will never forgive you.”
The Guardian gave her a teary smile. “Thank you, Celestia. I just want to make it up to you for leaving. If I had known, I never would have left.”
“Yes, you should have known.”
“How can I make this up to you?” she asked. “Please. I want to make things right.”
“Don’t ever lie to me ever again, and don’t pull that crap you did with Discord got it?”
“I promise,” the Guardian nodded. “Then let me tell you the truth about what will happen with Shalltear. Please, just lend me your ear.”
“I don’t have a choice do I?” Celestia asked as she took a seat next to the Guardian. “Okay then tell me about what will happen to that little monster.”
“She kills you,” the Guardian said simply. “You, and Blueblood, and the nobles. Luna is the only one she doesn’t kill, instead making her into a… a pet, I suppose you could say. And all that happened because she was treated differently. Instead of being treated like a living creature, like any other pony, you allowed her to be treated like property. In her rage, she gave into the bloodlust that lurks deep below.” She looked up at Celestia. “I shouted at you because letting you die is not something I could handle. Will you listen to me now and trust me?”
“It pains me to say this, but fine I’ll listen to you seeing how I’m giving you a second chance.”
The Guardian reached behind herself, “I know it’s a little late, but… I do have something for you.”
“If it’s another one of those jack-in-the-box pie prank like last time, you are so gonna get pranked hard.”
She chuckled at the joke. “No, actually, it’s uh…” She pulled out a little wrapped present. “Your, uh… your birthday present. The one I had meant to give you before Discord happened. I kept it, hoping one day, I could finally give it to you.”
Celestia levitated the present towards herself, and began to unwrap it. The sun princess’s eyes widen and begun to cry at what she saw. “A little late than never huh?” Celestia gently levitated the sun shaped picture frame to the side of her bed.
“‘To my little star pupil, may your future shine ever brighter than the light you have shone in my heart’,” the Guardian read from memory of what was encarved in the frame. “I know I messed up, Tia, but I promise to you that I will never do it again. You were special to me then, and you’re special to me now. I don’t replace ponies in my heart, especially not the ones I cared about the most.”
“T-Thanks.” Celestia said, as she whipped away her tears from her face. “Faust, I’m such a fool and an idiot for letting this happen.”
“No, you’re not. You are a wonderful, beautiful mare who just so happened to have a fool and an idiot for a teacher.” The Guardian pulled Tia’s head down to her level and placed a tiny kiss on her forehead. “You’re more than I could have hoped for in a student and a friend.”
“So now what?”
“Now? I think you owe Shalltear another chance as well. Don’t you?”
“I get the feeling she’s not gonna be happy about this.” Celestia said looking away from Guardian. “After what I did to her I wouldn’t be surprise that she would kill me.”
“I won’t let her kill you, but you and I both know that what has happened must be fixed. And after that… after that, you and I will spend as much time together as you wish.”
“I would love to, but I think you might want to help Shalltear with her problems that I caused to her.”
“I can only help her so much, Tia. She has her own path to walk, just as you did. Unlike with you, however, I know for certain where my interference must end. After this, my position in her life is done. In yours, though, it has just begun again. I have many thing to show you, Tia; many wonderful, frightening, and amazing things.”
“I would love to listen to what you have been through all these years on your adventures my friend.” Celestia said as she lifted herself up from Guardian. “But there’s something I need to fix before we do talk.”
The Guardian chuckled a little. “I was gonna do more than talk. But it can wait. Shall we, my little sun?”
“I thought I told you not to call me that?” said Celestia as her face turned red in embarrassment.
She only smiled. “Oh, but you’re just so cute when you blush~,” she cooed.
“L-Let’s just go please?”
“Alright,” the Guardian giggled.
(Elsewhere again)
[Luna’s Chamber]
“So how long before your sister is done talking to Guardian?” Shalltear asked laying on top of Luna.
“We have no clue, this is the first time we seen her like this.” Luna said as she pressed the remote to change the channel on the TV. “1,000 years away from home and still there’s nothing on on TV.”
“I’m surprised that you this place have a TV, you don’t think Guardian would be mad for letting Screwball watch this stuff do you?”
“Eh,” Screwball shrugged, sitting right in front of the TV. “I see worse at the orphanage. Half the time it’s lesbian porn. I was just hoping for something that’s at least entertaining.”
“Dang, really?” Shalltear said, as she changed her position as she is now cuddling next to Luna. “And here I thought the orphanage I was in was odd.”
“It’s a decent place, Den Mother Loving is just a big push over. The colts run the place basically. I mean, at least it’s not some rundown dump. I get my education too, so that’s a plus. Heh, if it wasn’t for that part, I don’t think I’d ever have run into the Guardian. It’s weird though, she keeps so many secrets that even her secret secrets have secrets. You never know what you’re dealing with when it comes to that Time Mare.”
“I’m pretty sure that’s with anyone that can travel through time and stuff.” Just as Luna was about to change the channel. Celestia and Guardian appeared next to them, only a few feet away from the bed. “Speak of the devil she’s here, along with sunbutt.” Shalltear said as she glared daggers at Celestia.
“Shalltear, my little sun here has something to discuss with you,” the Guardian said, walking over to Screwball.
“Hi Guardian,” Screwy greeted.
“You’re not watching anything age appropriate are you?”
“Nope. Adult shows, the non-porn kind.”
“Good, enhances the brain.”
“So how did your little talk turned out?” Shalltear asked.
“Go on, Tia,” the Guardian encouraged.
“*Sigh* Shalltear, what I have done to you in the past was wrong.”
“Really? You finally figured that out?” The countess said sarcastically.
“I guess I deserved that; anyway I would like to apologize for wrongfully punishing you and for what happen with Atlas Star.”
“Apology not accepted.”
“I figured as much. So as a way to try to make things right with you, I’ll allow you to do whatever you want to my former nephew Prince Blueblood.”
“This isn’t some kind of joke or trap is it?” Shalltear asked looking a Guardian to make sure.
The Guardian shook her head. “We’ve all made mistakes, Countess.” She gave a comforting smile. “And we could all use a second chance.”
“...Celestia. Normally I would’ve killed you, Blueblood, and all the nobles in Canterlot for what you did to me. But seeing how I’m starting to get….somewhat back to normal, I’m willing to give a second chance under one condition.”
“And that is?”
“I still want Blueblood dead and anyone else in his family that is corrupted and can’t be turned. What I want is for you to unlock whatever it is that is blocking from getting my powers back to full strength.”
“That might be hard to do seeing how the seal can’t be broken by me or anypony else.”
“What seal?”
“Seeing how you couldn’t be turned to stone, the elements simply sealed your powers away. The only way for your powers to be back is for the seal to wears off.”
“And how long will that take?”
“I have no idea, I’m sorry.”
“Well fuck.” Shalltear said as she laid on the bed next to Luna. “So I’m stuck like this until the effect of the elements wears off?”
“It will take some time, but I can guarantee that that time won’t be wasted. You have a strange adventure ahead of you, Countess. But it will be something you will never regret.”
“I’ll take your word for it.” Shalltear said as she turned her attention at Guardian. “If by any chance if I do see you again during your final days, will we still be friends? Or are you gonna be one of those crazy ponies that throw stuff at ponies saying ‘get off my lawn’ or something?”
The Guardian deadpanned. “I’m old, but I will never be that old. And my ‘final’ days are a long way off. I have seven more lives to burn through before I finally kick the bucket, as it were. You should learn to be less rude, it’s unbecoming of a lady your age.”
“You and I both know that part of me died off 500 years ago. And I’m just saying ponies who lived long tend to rude, jerks, or have no love left in them.” Shalltear said as she and Luna points to Celestia jokenly.
“Oh haha, very funny.”
“Oh come now. My little sunny is still a loveable filly. She just needs to use that brain of hers every once and awhile.”
“I get the feeling I’m never gonna hear the end of this huh?”
“Nope,” replied everyone in the room.
“Ugh, I’m going to my room for the rest of the week. Luna have the guards take care of noblemen problems for me while I deal with other things from my past.”
“On it.”
“And as for you mon-I mean Shalltear. Ask for anything and I will let you have it. Think of it as an apology for doing you wrong all those years ago.”
“.....Fine, I’ll accept it for now. But that doesn’t mean I’m friends with you as of this moment.” Shalltear said as she pulled herself away from Luna. “Now if you’ll excuse me I have somewhere to be at the moment.” She said as she started to walk off towards the palace dungeon.
The Guardian looked between Shalltear and the Princess. “Tia, I do intend to keep my promise. However, I would like to state that I cannot stay forever. I will have to leave again soon.”
“So soon? How come?” asked Celestia.
“Well,” she chuckled good naturedly, “I have to get Screwball back in time for school of course. But just because I leave, doesn’t mean I won’t come back.”
“Guess that’s understandable, just don’t be away for too long okay?”
Screwball taps the Guardian’s shoulder. “Hmm? Yes, Screwy?”
“Um, I just thought I’d remind you… today was Friday and it’s a three day weekend. Can’t we stay a little longer?”
The Guardian smiled, looking to Celestia. “Well, what say you, Celestia? Can we stay?”
“I don’t see why not.” Celestia said with a smile on her face. “It’s not like anything bad is going to happen.”
The mare and filly face hoofed. “Now you jinxed it,” they said in unison.
“What do you mean I jinxed it?” Celestia asked, only for her question to be answered as a blood cover Shalltear came back into the room with an adorable smile on her face.
“I’m back!”
“......I don’t know whether to find that disturbing or adorable.” Luna said.
“Disturbing,” the Guardian said with a simple nod. “You could have at least cleaned yourself before coming back. It’s just common curtesy.”
“Do you know how big this place is? It’s kinda hard to find a bathroom without have to look through each door and finding out it’s a fucking storage room.”
“Better than the alternative,” Screwy said with a disturbed look. “Wish my glasses weren’t on so I don’t have to see this.”
“Oh sure you didn’t have a problem seeing blood when we watch that zombie movie a few minutes ago. But seeing me covered in blood you have a problem with?”
“Real life is always more disturbing than what’s on the screen.”
“Whatever. I got what I needed don’t so I don’t really care at the moment.”
“And what, exactly, did you need down there?” the Guardian asked.
“Well I was about to kill him until the dumbass tried to escape. Only when he did he slipped and fell on a rusty file.”
“I did not need those images,” Screwy moaned. “Stupid overactive imagination.”
“Then why are covered in blood?” Luna asked.
“Well seeing how my breakfast was interrupted by somepony.” Shalltear said looking at Guardian. “I wasn’t gonna let that blood go to waste so~.”
“Oh no, don’t you go putting that on me. You very well could have brought your cereal along. It was your own mistake, Missy. You make defending you very hard; I feel sorry for anypony that ever becomes your lawyer.”
“Oh sure because soggy cereal taste so good.” Shalltear said sarcastically. “Anyway it’s not I’m gonna cause trouble or anything; just as long no pisses me off then we’re good.”
“Well, I’m going to have Screwball keep an eye on you. In the meantime, I will be spending some quality time with a dear friend.” The Guardian smiled lovingly at Celestia.
“You honestly don’t trust me?”
“You’re a vampire,” the Guardian said. “If I couldn’t even trust myself when I was one, why would I trust a relative stranger?” She smiled smugly.
“Oh come on, what can I possibly do that you wouldn’t trust me?” Just as she said that a black mane pony with gray fur wearing a black dress, and a blue mane unicorn wearing a magenta color glasses and some revealing clothing that you would see in a rave club, appeared in the room.
The Guardian blinked. “Well, she happened.”
“Um...pay no attention to two ponies appearing behind me.”
“Sup little master, we took care of Blueblood’s body for yeah.” said Vinyl.
“You chucked his body off the cliff Vinyl.” said Octavia. “I don’t think that what she meant by taking care of the body.”
“Why are Miss Scratch and Miss Melody vamponies? And looking like they should be on the lesbian porn channel?” Screwball asked.
“I have no idea what you’re talking about.” Shalltear lied as she tried to look innocent.
“Shalltear,” the Guardian said in a scolding tone.
“Okay so maybe I drank too much, and accidentally bit them in my blood craze moment.”
There were four face-hooves at that moment, all of them groaning as well.
“What? It was an accident.”
“That doesn’t make it better,” the Guardian sighed.
“Well it’s not like they can die by sunlight or getting stabbed in the heart. And besides what’s the worse that can happen?”
Screwy and the Guardian both double face-hoofed. “Is everypony cursed to jinx themselves in this world?!” they cried together.
“I’m pretty sure you just answered your own question Guardian.” Luna said as she changed the channel on the TV.
Screwy deadpanned at Luna. “You’re not helping.”
“Who said I was? Anyway the damage has been done so it’s not like you could undo it or anything?”
“Anyway. I think it’s time for Shalltear to be heading off to Ponyville don’t you think?” Celestia said looking at Luna.
“Oh right, after what happen last night. Shalltear still hasn’t been fully introduced to the ponies in Ponyville.”
“Do I have to? Can’t we just pretend I went there and call it a day?” Shalltear asked annoyed at the thought of meeting new people.
“You know you can’t do that Shalltear. Plus I’m sure my little ponies will get along with you just fine.” Celestia said.
“Plus, you’ll have me!” Screwball zipped over, sitting on Shalltear’s head. “Come on, it’ll be fun! We can make fun of the ponies too!”
“Fine, but I swear to god if I heard somepony say I’m vampire from that stupid Twilight movie. Heads will roll.”
(Ponyville]
[Town Hall]
“I’m starting to regret this already.” Shalltear said, as she felt sick to her stomach. Moments after returning to Ponyville, Princess Celestia and Luna ordered a town meeting to be held in the center of town to meet the new resident in Ponyville. But it was mainly a Q & A panel for the ponies to ask the countess questions about herself. “Is it too late to bail and run away?” The Countess asked, turning her attention at Guardian.
“Eeyup,” she said simply with that smug smile of hers.
“I hate you so much right now.”
“Ladies and Gentlecolts! Now I know you all been wondering who is the new pony that tooken residents in the house near the entrance of Ponyville. Well I would like to introduce to you all Ponyville’s first vampire to ever live here, Shalltear Bloodfallen! Let’s all give a warm happy welcome to the little girl shall we?” Celestia said as she very pony applaud awkwardly for a while, until the countess stepped on stage and spoke in the microphone.
“U-Um, hi everypony. M-My name is S-Shalltear BloodFallen. It’s very nice to meet you all.” Shalltear said trying not to stutter that much due to being nervous. There was an awkward pause for a few second until the vampire ran behind Guardian for someplace to hide. “I-I can’t do this. I haven’t be able to talk to ponies in the past few years.”
“You’ve been fine around us,” Screwball pointed out.
“That’s a good point, Screwy.” The Guardian looked at Shalltear. “Just be calm. You can do this, Countess. There is nothing to fear.”
“That’s because it was with a small group of ponies, there has to be at least 600 ponies out there. That’s something I’m not used to.”
“There’s nothing to fear,” she reasserted. “What’s the worst they can do? You’re a vampire for Death’s sake.”
“A vampire who is limited on power, but I get what you’re say.”
“Um, so does anypony have any questions they want to ask Shalltear?” Celestia asked as a young adult colt raised his hand.
“Are you vampire from the Twilight movie?”
“....Really? Do I sparkle in the fucking light?”
“A little bit.”
“....That’s it, I’m going home before someone else says something involving Twilight.” The countess said only to be stopped by Screwball and Guardian.
“You can’t run forever. You’ll have to face this, so you might as well get it done and over with now.”
“UGH! What are you my mother? Because I already have Max as my foster mother, I don’t need another one.”
“Just do as you are told,” the Guardian said, trying to be stern yet holding back a giggle. “It will be better for you in the long run. Trust me.”
“Dammit, fine.” Shalltear turned back around and grabbed the mic from Celestia. “So does anyone have any other questions...that doesn’t involve Twilight?” asked Shalltear as another pony raised his hand. “You there the nerd in the back.”
“Do you suck ponies’ blood.”
“Only if they’re evil, other than that no. Anyone else?” another pony raised their hand, this time it was a mare. “You, sexy mint color mare in the back.”
“C-Can I touch your hands?”
“M-Maybe after I’m done with the Q & A panel I’m doing right now.” She said as the mint color unicorn screamed in joy before passing out. “Okay….anyone else?” another pony raised their hand, this time it was an overweight pony with what looked like to be a sex pillow “Oh god please don’t tell me he’s one of those kind of ponies.”
“Uh yeah, that outfit you’re wearing. Where did you get, and how can I get it so I can add it to my collection?”
“Crap he is one of those ponies.” thought Shalltear as she put on a fake smile. “This outfit was made by the finest silk gathered from all across equestria. There is no other clothing like this.”
“Oh, can I have yours so i can make a copy of it?”
“No. Anypony else?” Shalltear asked as a little filly with magenta colored hair raised her hand. “Yes the pony with the kickass scooter.”
“Do vamponies get cutie marks?”
“No they do not last time I checked. Anything else you wanna ask me?”
“Wanna join our club seeing how you don’t have a cutie mark?”
“I’ll think about after tomorrow.” Shalltear handed the mic to Celestia as she began to walk off.
“I think that will be enough Q & A for today. Anyway let’s welcome Shalltear to our home, and hope she feels at home here.” Celestia said as the ponies began to clap before leaving. As everypony left to continue what they normally do, Shalltear rushed over to a trash can and began to throw up in it.
“Well, at least she didn’t throw up on stage,” the Guardian quirked.
“Geez I didn’t think you had a problem with huge cowards of ponies.” Luna said patting the countess on the back for comfort. “Is it really that bad?”
“If you haven’t notice I have trust problems, and be in front of huge groups of people. Or ponies seeing how I’m in this world.” Shalltear answered as she threw up again.
“There there,” Screwball said, rubbing Shalltear’s back. “Just get it all out.”
“Ugh, I am never going to do something like that ever again.”
“That might be a problem in three days.” Celestia said.
“What do you mean sunny pony?”
“I might have told some of the other nations about you, and they’ll be coming over to meet you during the grand galloping gala.”
“Oh the gala! That sounds like fun,” the Guardian said with a smile. “I do so love a good gala. Though not the snooty ones, they can be such a bore and I always feel as if I need to smack somepony. Which I usually end up doing sometime during the night.”
“Care to explain why I have to go?”
“That was my bad. I was hoping to expose you as a monster so I thought of doing it during the gala.” Celestia said, while rubbing the back of her neck. “Again sorry.”
“Fan fucking tastic.” said Shalltear as she remove her head from over the trash can. “Well I’m not going.”
“Language, my dear,” the Guardian chastised. “Screwball may be used to such crassness, but it’s still very rude to curse in front of a young filly. For goodness sakes, Countess, she’s only ten.”
“Guardian I been raped, abused, experimented on, having nightmares of my living hell, and been put to sleep for the past 1,500 years or so with nothing but my thoughts. I’ll say whatever I want until I can figure out a way to get a goodnight’s sleep, or until I’m tired of cursing.”
The mare actually snorted in amusement. “Call me after a few thousand years of that, then we’ll talk. Until then, keep it clean, shall we? I’m trying to be a good and decent influence on Screwball.”
“Ugh, fine I’ll try to keep it clean. But I make no promises if the moment calls for it.”
“I suppose that’s the best I’m going to get, anyways! Since Screwball can take the time off, I believe we should be able to stay for the gala. Afterwards, however, we will have to make our leave. Until then, I believe we should make every moment count, wouldn’t you say everypony?!”
“She does have a point.” Luna agreed. “As for where you two will be staying Guardian and Screwball, you will be staying with Shalltear for the next three days.”
“Oh you gotta be kidding me?” said Shalltear as she rubbed the temple of her head. “Doesn’t she have room in her TARDIS thing? The rooms that I have are already full.”
“Well, yes, it could be. In fact, I was going to suggest, well it may seem a little foalish, but a sleepover in the TARDIS tonight. I would like to show my old and new friends my home. After tonight, we can work out the living arrangements. Sound good to everyone?”
“Fine I guess I can Vinyl and Octavia share a room together. But for now I need to get myself ready.”
“Oh those two are more than welcome to join us as well. I have plenty of room. Speaking of getting ready, I need to get back to the TARDIS to get everything ready for tonight!” The Guardian gasped. “I don’t have anything prepared! I need to get snacks, and beds ready, and entertainment, oh so much to do, so much to do!” She raced off from them, frantically going over her party plans aloud.
“This is going to be a long three days.” Shalltear said as she began to walk home.
Chapter 5: Monster House
(Morning)
[Shalltear’s Home]
Shalltear once again woke up in a cold sweat from reliving another part of her nightmares. This time however it wasn’t as long as the others were, but it was still annoying that this was the fourth time this happen. During the fourth time Luna did try to help her in the dream world, but due to how fractured her mind was. It was kinda hard to to keep the nightmares away from Shalltear while she was dreaming. Shalltear was about to throw something out the wind, until she smelled something was cooking down stairs.
“Is someone cooking?” The Countess thought as she sniffed the air. To what she could smell it smelled like eggs, bacon, and french toast was being made. Like a bat out of hell, Shalltear rushed downstairs to see who it was that was cooking. At first she thought it was Octavia seeing how from what she told Shalltear she can cook, but when she entered into the room she wasn’t expect to see what was making breakfast.
Standing in the kitchen was a girl about the same size as Luna with red hair, serpent like skin on her cheeks, pointy ears, was wearing a yellow shirt; along with a black skirt. What got Shalltear’s attention though was the lower part of the woman’s body being like a snake. Shalltear turned to her left to see Guardian and Screwball eating happily at the dinner table. “Um….care to explain why is there a lamia cooking in my house?”
“She’s like you,” the Guardian said between bites. “Another one of Celestia’s ‘reformees’, if you will.”
“Okay, so why is she here?” Shalltear asked only for the Lamia to use her tail to hand her a letter. “Oh, thanks.” she said as she began to read the letter for a few seconds before burning it. “Oh this is just great.”
“Something wrong?” Screwball asked, eating her breakfast like a dog, syrup dripping from your muzzle.
“Screwball, use your napkin.”
“Yes, Guardian.”
“Apparently she’s another victim just like me, only Celestia thought she was a monster attack her ponies along with two others.” Shalltear said she head towards the refrigerator. “And she wants me to bring them to school today to help them get a custom to how things are now.”
“School?” Screwball tilted her head, almost doing a complete three-sixty.
“Yeah seeing how I’m 15 years old I have to go to school. And so do the other three monsters that she sent me. Speaking of them where are the other two?” Shalltear asked as she open the door to the refrigerator. As she did she saw a girl made out of blue jelly wearing a raincoat and rain boots sitting in the fridge. “Well I found the other one.”
“Oh, a jelly girl, how quaint,” the Guardian commented with an impressed nod.
“Okay so we have a lamia and a jelly girl. I’m afraid to ask, but who’s the third one?” Just as she said that a loud crashing sound came from the living room. Shalltear rushed over only to find an young adult woman wearing a black long sleeve shirt, with horns on her head. At first she thought this one was an oni due to the horns and her skin being pale bluish grey. Well she wasn’t far off from it, as the woman stood the countess was taken by surprise by her eight legs, long tail, and had three claw like fingers on both of her hands. “And we have an Ushi-Oni...who crashed the living room.”
“A what?”
“A spider girl, Screwy.”
“Oh… ew.”
“Actually they’re kinda like demon spiders.” Shalltear said as she looked at all three monster girls. “Care to tell your names?”
“I’m Sally Roberts.” said the lamia still cooking over the stove.
“Rebecca Amamiya is my name.” said the ushi-oni shaking Shalltear’s hand.
“And I’m Janelle Dickinson.” said the jelly girl walking out of the refrigerator.
“Oh ho ho, sticking to your original names. Kudos to you young women,” the Guardian praised.
“Well it’s not like these monsters have any original names like most monsters do.” said Rebecca moving from out of the living room, into the kitchen. “Plus it’s the name I was born with, and the name I’ll die with.”
“Cherish that,” the mare said, taking a sip of her tea. “Not everypony can say the same.”
“She does have a point.” Shalltear said, as she walked over to coffee maker to get some coffee.
“Then what’s your real name vampire?” Rebecca said while folding her arms. “From what Celestia told us you never gave anyone your real name, so I’m guessing you forgot it.”
“It’s Veronica...Veronica der Vogelweid.”
“What about you, Guardian?” Screwball asked. “What’s your real name?”
The mare smirked. “You already know my name. It’s the Guardian.”
“That’s not a name.”
“There are many different types of names, Screwy. Mine is just different from what you’re used to. That doesn’t mean it’s not my name.”
“Going with the cryptic excuse?”
“You still doubt my honesty? After everything I’ve done for you? Hmph, how rude.”
“Well I find it odd that pony would be displaced, not to mention she has a token. So you can help me but wonder what your real name is?”
The Guardian actually laughed there. “Me? You think me a Displaced?” She laughed some more before wiping away tear and calming down. “Ah, no my dear, I am most definitely not a Displaced. I’m just a simple Time Mare out on adventures. Though this token makes me wonder which you refer to. I’ve seen so many that I rarely find one that surprises me anymore.”
“Whatever you cryptic pony.” Shalltear said as she took a sip from her coffee. “Anyway Celestia want us to go to this school here in Ponyville.”
“How come?” Sally asked.
“It’s because we been encased in stone or sealed away for lord knows how long. And seeing how we all have little to no knowledge of how Equestria is now, we need a refresher course on how Equestria is now.”
“Well, that will be interesting. Considering Ponyville only possesses a primary school,” the Guardian said with a smirk.
Screwball giggled. “You guys are going to elementary school!”
“S-Shut up.” Rebecca said while blushing. “It’s not like we can go anywhere else to learn. I mean look at us, you think anypony would let us go to school with them without having to call the guards on us?”
“You raise a fair point. So… do you girls need me to walk you to your first day of school or are you gonna be big girls and go on your own?” she said with a smug smirk.
“You’re gonna keep doing this to us aren’t you?” Janelle asked.
“I’m old, dear, I can’t help it. You try being my age and we’ll see how you turn out.”
“Fair point. Come on girls, we have a school to go to.”
“I get the feeling this won’t end well.” Sally said as she followed the Jelly girl, the countess, and Ushi-Oni outside.
(Moments later)
[Cheerilee’s School]
“Dear god it’s 1st year of elementary school all over again.” said Shalltear trying to ignore the fillies and colts looking at them.
“Yeah, but only this time it full of ponies instead of humans.” said Rebecca trying not to break anything.
“This is embarrassing on so many levels.” Sally said hiding behind Rebecca along with Janelle.
“This is a new low even for me….I think that fat kid is staring at me.”
“So Celestia sent these four here to learn about Equestria?” asked Cheerilee trying to keep her composure. “H-How old are they?”
“Well,” the Guardian paused for a moment. “Biologically, the eldest is fifteen if I remember right. They have been alive for roughly fifteen hundred years, though. They’re still mentally their age, so it’d be close to have high schoolers in here.”
Screwball groaned. “You know, most fillies wouldn’t spend their free weekend from school at another school. This has to be considered torture on some planets.”
“It is, but let’s go into that another time. I’ll tell you the story some day.”
“So they’re old, but have minds of a 15 year old?”
“Yep, sums about most Displaced,” she replied with a cheeky smile.
“Alright, I guess that’s okay. I mean there’s nothing in the rules saying something about that, so I guess we have four new students to add to the class.”
“Would you like me to sit in for a while to clear up any… interesting questions?”
“Yes, that would be nice thank you.”
“Great another Q & A panel.” Shalltear said, as she held her stomach. “I can already feel like my gut is being punched again.”
“I sure the kids won’t be afraid of us,” Janelle said appearing from behind Rebecca. “I mean we don’t look that scary... well one of us is.”
“Bite me, slime girl.” Rebecca said as she tried to take a seat in the back, but ended up breaking it due to her weight. “My bad.”
Screwball and the Guardian sighed, simply taking a seat off to the side near Cheerilee’s desk.
“Okay class, now you’re all wondering why we have four….very interesting creatures in our classroom. Well I would like to say that not only will Shalltear be joining us for school, but her friends will also be joining us as well.” Cheerilee said as she turned her attention at Guardian. “If anypony have any questions they want to ask, feel free to ask their caretaker, the Guardian, for your answers.”
“What are they?” asked Diamond Tiara. “They look like the offspring of Discord, only more messed up and uglier.” she said causing her friend Silver Spoon to laugh.
“Note to self, scare the living hell out of them during halloween night. Or in the middle of the night.” The Countess said to herself.
The Guardian smiled. “That’s a simple answer, Miss Tiara. They’re monsters. Not the kind that eat ponies, mind you, but monsters nonetheless. And you should know, it’s not a very good idea to make the big foals mad, wouldn’t you say?”
“Please, from what I heard from my dad they can’t hurt us ponies unless they want to go back into being statues.”
“....Guardian is it okay for me to eat her?” asked Rebecca as everypony in the room were shocked at what she said.
“You’re not making this any better Rebecca.” whispered Sally.
“What? She started it by calling offsprings of some guy named Discord.”
“No, I’m the offspring of Discord. They’re a bunch of people who are in need of a second chance of life. And they never agreed to not hurting ponies, Diamond Tiara, they agreed not to kill any,” Screwball said, sticking out her tongue.
“Temper temper,” the Guardian chastised.
“Um any other questions?” the teacher asked only for Applebloom to raise her hand. “Yes Applebloom?
“Do you and your friends want to join the Cutie Mark Crusaders?”
“Um….sure?” Shalltear said, as the country pony smiled with delight. Once her question was answered another pony raised her hand.
“Have you ever eaten a pony before?”
“Once, but that was an accident on my part.” said Sally, rubbing the back of her head. “I got lost in a forest for the past few months, and I was really hungry.”
“Are you a snake?” asked Scootaloo. “Because you have the tail of one, but not so much anything else.”
“I’m a lamia. We’re half snake, half human.”
“Who’s the weird looking ponies behind you all?” Twist asked. “Is she the taller one your mommy?”
The Guardian chuckled a bit. “No, honey, I’m no one’s mother. Not anymore.” Her voice was a whisper, being that only Screwball was able to make out, yet the monsters heard her quite clear. “I am the Guardian and this is my little friend, Screwball. We’re aliens.”
Screwball face planted. “I thought you had tact!?” she screamed, though it was muffled from her face being one with the floor.
“Any other question?” Cheerilee asked only for Diamond Tiara to raise her hand again. “Yes Diamond Tiara?”
“Why is Celestia even allowing these monsters into our school?” the rich filly asked in a disgusting tone. “For all we know they might have plans on killing us, or worse eat us. I mean even that snake over there said that she ate a pony, who to say they won’t eat us?”
“Hey she said it was an accident!” yelled Janelle while comforting the lamia.
“Accident or not she still ate an innocent pony. You expect us to believe we can be safe with you four freaks wandering around Ponyville?”
“Well,” the Guardian intervened, “perhaps if you don’t aggravate them they won’t kill anypony. Seems to be a good trade off.”
Diamond Tiara said nothing, but gave a ‘humpth’ and looked in outside the window that she was sitting next to. “Okay, if they’re no more questions. Will our new students please find a seat, and we can begin today’s lesson?” Cheerilee asked as she turn her attention at the chalkboard. “Now today’s lesson we will be talking about addition and subtraction-.” before she could finish saying what today’s lesson was, there was a loud crashing sound coming from behind her. As she turned she saw Rebecca on the floor due to her breaking the desk she was trying to sit in, again.
“Um….it was like this when I got here.” Rebecca said, as the ponies in the classroom laughed.
“This is going to be a long school year for me.” Cheerilee thought as she went back to her lesson.
(three hours later)
[Recess]
“Well….that was an interesting three hours of awkwardness.” said Sally, as she coiled up to Shalltear.
“How do you think I feel? I threw up in class when the teacher called me up, and had me explain what addition was.” Shalltear said grabbing her stomach. “Ugh, I’m gonna need to drink a lot of blood after today.”
“Try this,” the Guardian said, floating what looked like a soda can over to her. “You should really see a therapist about your anxiety issues. It’s not healthy, even for the undead.”
“I don’t like therapists.” Shalltear said, as she finish drinking the soda like substance. “They always say that it’s your fault that this and this happened. Also I don’t have anxiety issues, anxiety has issues with me.”
She just shook her head. “Ah, youth. So brash and bold, never truly knowing what’s best for them. Don’t miss those years at all,” she said with a cringe look. “That was blood soda by the way. Very popular on Ventari Seven.”
“That would explains why it tasted like blood.” The Countess said as she balled up the can, and tossed it into the trash can. “3 point shot, still got it.”
“So what do we do know? I mean I get that it’s recess and all, but I have no idea what to do?” asked Janelle.
“We try to make friends....though that might be hard seeing how they’re keeping their distance from us.” said Rebecca.
“I bet if it was closer to Nightmare Night, you four would be amazingly popular,” Screwball giggled.
“Dude, I’m pretty sure we’ll win any Nightmare Night costume contest due to the way we look.”
“Too bad the it’s only August.” said Sally turning her attention at Guardian. “Hope I don’t sound rude or anything, but how old are you Guardian?”
“Don’t know, actually. I’ve been trying to figure it out ever since Screwball brought it up a few odd months ago. From my best ‘guestimates’, I have reason to believe I’m in my three hundred to four hundred thousands.”
“Wow, that is old. Hey you said were a mother once? Care to explain what that you whispered in class?”
“You weren’t supposed to hear that,” she sighed. “Screwy, why don’t you go find somepony to play with. Just don’t take too much of their money.”
“No promises~!” she sing-songed, propelling off to play with the other foals.
The Guardian turned back to the monster girls. “As I have said, I am old, very old girls. That means there is very little I haven’t done in my many years. Unlike me, however, my children… they did not have the capabilities of longevity.”
“Oh. I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to ask you that question if it made you uncomfortable.” Sally said with a worried expression face.
“It’s alright, my dear. It has been a long time since I’ve been anypony’s mother. There will always be pain, but it gets easier to deal with as time moves on.” The Guardian leaned back against the school house wall, a lone tear making its way down her cheek. “I simply wish you four never have to go through the pain of burying your own children.”
Shalltear, Rebecca, Janelle, and Sally looked at each other for a moment. Then back at Guardian as they all walked over to her and gave her a warm comforting hug. “You looked like you needed a hug.” said Rebecca.
The mare smiled. “You’re all so sweet. Now go on, make some friends or what have you. Allow this old pony to reminisce a little.”
The monsters nodded as they went off to play with Screwball, and the other ponies in the playground.
(Five hours later)
[After School]
After recess and finishing up today’s lesson for the day. Our four monsters, and two ponies make their way into Ponyville to do some shopping for some food. While Vinyl and Octavia were busy trying to haggle some ingredients for a sour that Sally wanted to make tonight. The four monster were busy looking around the colorful town of Ponyville, mostly to get used to where everything was and where they could go to get what they may need later on.
“Man this place is colorful.” Shalltear said looking around at the buildings. “It’s like something from out of a child’s coloring book.”
“Well, on Earth this is child’s television show, so keep that in mind,” the Guardian said, browsing the stalls.
“Still it’s kinda of an eye sore if you’re not used to these bright colors.” said Rebecca looking through a stack of comic books. “Not to mention this place is parallel to earth. Only replace humans with ponies, along with the pony puns.” she said as she pulled out a comic book for an example. “Sider-mane? Really?”
“I liked that one!” Screwball said, snatching the comic like a dolphin grabbing a fish. “Ooh a first edition! Mine!” She scrammed off in a random direction, a trail of dust being kicked up as she ran.
"I get the feeling she might end up as one of those closet comic nerd later on in life.”
“That or she really loves comic books.” said Sally as she looked through another stack of comics. “What next, they gonna have X-Mane here as well?” she asked as she pulled out a comic with name she just said. “Never mind.”
The Guardian giggled. “You’ll get used to it, given time. And don’t mind Screwy, she’s a special case. She doesn’t look it, but she’s quite intelligent. Her curiosity is strong and her mind is open to any possibility. That was one reason I agreed to bring her along on my travels.”
“If you say so.”
“What do you mean this cost 20 bits?!” Vinyl yelled as Octavia was trying to calm her down. “Last time you said it was 4 bits each, now you’re saying it’s 20?”
“Look junky, it’s 20 bits each. Either you take the deal or leave it, other than that I’m not haggling with you anymore.”
“Sir, maybe we can make a deal of some sort?” asked Octavia. “I mean surely you can’t expect a normal pony to pay that much for just two apples right?”
“Nope, not changing my mind, not get out before I-.” The colt behind the counter stopped as he pulled a bag from behind him, and start to back to two apples. “On second thought never mind, take them. They’re on the house.”
“Huh?....Well okay then, thanks.” Vinyl said as she took the apples and walked off, still confused as to what just happen.
Rebecca turned her attention at Shalltear who eyes were glowing while staring at the colt behind the counter. “Cheeky little minx.”
“Normally I’m against such blatant misuse of your powers, but… I’ll pretend I didn’t see anything. This time.”
“What? The guy was being annoying. Plus 20 bits for two apples each, that’s just to expensive for most ponies.” Shalltear said, while trying to act innocent. “Plus even if somepony saw me do that who would they believe? A 15 year old like me, or a money grubbing jerk like him?”
“They would believe the pony,” Screwball said, suddenly beside her. “They usually trust their own over the outsider.”
“Really? You would trust that guy who; from what I heard from a bunch of gossiping ponies, would rather sell his own mother than to give anypony else money?”
Screwball and the Guardian shrugged. “Ponies are a herd race. They keep to their own rather than branch out.”
“Oh joy this is going to be interesting if an angry mob is coming after us for something we didn’t do.” Rebecca said sarcastically. “Let’s just hope nothing weird happens that might lead them into thinking we’re the cause of it.”
“That’s why you’ll need friends. Especially very loyal ones. They’ll keep you safe from the prejudices of pony nature.”
“Who would want to hurt us?” Janelle asked only for her and her friends to hear a familiar annoying voice yell out at them.
“There they are daddy! Those are the five that kept hitting me with dodgeballs during recess!” Diamond Tiara said as she pulled a tan brown colored pony with black mane wearing a business suit up towards them.
“I told you to play, not antagonize!” the Guardian whispered harshly at the monsters.
“She started the war when she threw a rock at me. Not to mention Screwball joined in to defend us.” Rebecca whispered back.
The Guardian sighed. “Well, hopefully I can smooth this over before it gets too out of hoof.” She trotted forward a bit, putting herself in front of the girls. “Hello there, what can I do for you, fine gentle stallion?”
“Care to explain why my daughter is covered dirt and bruises?” the stallion asked, pointing to Diamond Tiara. “Because from what she told me she was attacked by four monsters and a pony with swirls in her eyes.”
“A simple recess game taken a tad too far, Mr. Rich. I assure you, no harm was intended upon your precious little… angel.”
“NO HARM! I LOST TWO OF MY FRONT TEETH!” Diamond Tiara yelled show Guardian a hole where her front teeth used to be.
“I said no harm intended ,” she said, shooting the four girls and filly a glare. “I can gladly pay for any medical costs. And I can assure you that it will not happen again.”
“That means she gonna have the bill sent to Celestia,” Screwball whispered to Shalltear.
“I’m pretty sure she’ll be able to cover for it.” Shalltear whispered back. “Though I have a feeling that she going to lecture us about what happened at recess.”
“You better be lucky that I’m a reasonable pony, unlike some ponies.” Rich said as he began to walk away. “Make sure you keep those things on a leash.”
“Excuse me?” the Guardian asked. “Please tell me you did not just say to put four young girls on a leash.”
“Girls? Please, you expect me to believe that they can walk among us ponies. I mean look at them, they look like the pets of Discord and should be put on a leash.”
The Guardian took a long, slow breath. “Mr. Rich, I will tell you this only once, so please pay close attention. These four are lovely young women with a lot of heart who have been dealt terrible hands in life. Simply because they do not look like creatures you are used to does not give you any right to judge them as some simple monster. And another thing.” The Guardian bore into Rich’s eyes with the harshest glare he’d ever seen. “If you ever try to have them put on a leash or anything similar, I will come for you and skin you alive in front of your wife and daughter. No pony will do anything to my girls, do I make myself clear?!” By the end of her rant, she was directly in his face, true rage boring into him.
“C-Crystal clear,” Rich said as he turned around again. “C-Come along Diamond, I think we bothered them enough for today.”
“B-But dad!”
“No buts Diamond, we are leaving, NOW!” he said as they both walked off back to their home.
“Damn. She scary when she’s mad.” Janelle said hiding behind Rebecca.
“Wait, did she say we were her girls?” asked Sally.
The Guardian huffed, turning around and walking back into the market. “Come along, girls. We have shopping to finish.”
“Um...yes ma’am.” said the four monsters as they followed Guardian without a second thought.
(Moments later)
After having a little shopping spree, and buy food for the house Shalltear and her friends return to the house that they live in now. As Shalltear was about to unlock the door, she notice that the door was already unlocked. “Hey did anyone remember to lock the door back before we left?” Shalltear asked.
“I think we might have been in too big of a rush to check. Shouldn’t be a big problem, Ponyville has a very small crime rate,” the Guardian assured.
Shalltear opened the door and hit the light switch. As she did she was taken by surprise the entire house was wrecked. To what she could tell it looked like someone was either looking for something valuable or something to eat. “Shouldn’t be a problem huh?” she said sarcastically.
“Well, I said it wouldn’t be a big problem.”
Screwball floated around, looking down at the wreckage. “Do you think somepony could have been trying to send you a message?”
“I doubt it seeing how they would of wrote out ‘get out of Ponyville, you freaks’ in blood on the wall.” Sally said, as she looked around the house. “I looked like someone or something was looking for something in here.”
“Anything come to mind?” the Guardian asked, using her magic to begin the clean up. “Could there have been anything they’d be so desperate to go after?”
“What is there to go after in here? If you haven’t notice this house was made two days ago. So I doubt will have anything valu-.” Shalltear stopped her statement as she looked at Guardian to see and smile right behind her. “I think I found out who did it.”
“Well that was quick.” said Rebecca turning her attention at the countess. “So who did it?” she asked, only for Shalltear to point at the visible smile behind Guardian. “Oh so that who did it.”
“Hmm? What? Who?” the Guardian asked, wondering why she was being stared at.
“Ever heard of the Cheshire Cat, Guardian?” Sally asked as motion her to look behind her.
“Unfortunately, why do you a… there’s one right behind me, isn’t there?” the Guardian asked with a deadpan.
“Straight up pumpkin head.” The cheshire cat as she made herself known to them all. Standing on top of Guardian’s head was a cat girl with purple and black hair. She was also wearing a somewhat kinky outfit that had the same color as her hair; only with color patterns. “Greeting roommates. My name is Suzy Anderson the second, it’s very nice to meet you all.” she said bowing to them all.
“Oh good Death around, not this again,” the Guardian groaned, not looking very pleased.
“Oh dear, what seems to be the problem?” Suzy asked, as she levitated off of the pony’s head and onto a chair. “You don’t seem fond of us Cheshire Cats I take it?”
“I have had many occasions of meeting one of your kind… I didn’t enjoy a single one of them, though they most certainly did. Save for one, but that’s not a story I’m sure you’d want to hear.”
“Well unlike them I don’t mess around with other ponies, mostly because I got turned to stone just because I played a prank on Celestia.” Suzy said as she summoned a teapot full of tea, and a cup to pour it in. “And I hate to be the one that would piss you off.”
“I’ll get over it, I suppose,” the mare sighed. “I’ve already exploded on one pony today, I’d rather not make a habit of it. It’s odd really, usually I’m in quite control of my temper.” She went back to putting everything in it’s proper spot.
“Really? What happened that made you snapped?”
“You can ask her that later,” Shalltear said, as she appearing in front of Suzy with a angry look on her face. “Right now I wanna know why you’re here and why did you wreck my house?”
“Celestia sent me here, saying that she was sorry for turning to stone all those years ago.” Suzy said as she took a sip from her tea before continuing. “Plus she said I can start a new life here in Ponyville.”
“Well at least she’s fixing her mistakes that she made in the past.” Janelle said, as she started to fix the couch. “But why did you wreck the house?”
“Oh that wasn’t me. While I was busy being invisible, a pink color filly with a tiara on her head came in and wreck the place with a bunch of bulky stallions.”
“Seriously? And you just watch while this happened?” Shalltear said.
“And get my ass handed to me by them, if you haven’t notice I’m not up to full strength thanks to the elements. So I’m only good at making myself invisible, and sometimes able to break the fourth wall.”
“Please don’t,” the Guardian partially pleaded.
“The Guardian doesn’t like when the fourth wall is breached,” Screwball explained.
“I only use it to make myself invisible to the naked eye, or to escape. You would not believe how hard it was to keep myself out of Discord’s radar during his rule over Equestria.”
“I can!” Screwy waved her hoof in the air with a big smile. “Daddy’s good at what he does in every universe!”
“Well lucky you kid. So care to explain who you two are?” Suzy asked pointing at Guardian and Screwball.
“Ah yes, right. I’m the Guardian and my friend is the ever clever Screwball. We’re visitors here for the next few days.”
“Oh okay, so what about them?” Suzy asked pointing at Shalltear and the other monsters. “I know Celestia told me their names, but she never told me much about why they’re here.”
“Same reason you’re here. Celestia fucked up, so she giving us a new life here in Equestria.” Rebecca said fixing the dining room table. “Have to give her credit, at least she doing something about it. Instead of getting somepony else to do her work.”
“I like to think I had a part in that,” the Guardian said, restoring a vase. “I’m just glad my little sun is fixing what mistakes she’s made instead of making more. It gives me a little more hope inside.”
“Let’s just hope she doesn’t turn back to how she was before you came.” Shalltear said fixing the picture frames. “Lord know we don’t want to have to fight her, or worse.”
“I’m pretty sure you could take her, but I wouldn’t think about something like that anymore.” Sally said sweeping the kitchen floor.
“Tia will keep her word. None of you are in any danger from her.”
“It’s not her I’m worry about.” Suzy said, as she smile disappeared. “It’s Discord who I’m more worry about.”
“Isn’t he still encased in stone?” asked Rebecca.
“Yes, but Celestia is planning on giving him a second chance.”
“Don’t worry about that plan,” the Guardian waved off. “It’ll work.”
“Are you kidding me? After what he did to Ponyville 1,000 years ago and got me stoned, you expect for that plan of hers to work?”
“I do. Because it has worked in the past and will work in the future.”
“I’ll believe it when I see it.” she said as she vanished into thin air. “Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ll be sleeping until tomorrow.”
“Well….this has been an eventful day.” Rebecca said as she finished fixing the tables.
“Indeed it has. But it has been quite fun getting to spend a normal day again. I’d almost forgotten what a typical day could be like it’s been so long.”
“Well things are gonna be more interesting.” said Vinyl appearing next to Shalltear. “Apparently Twilight and her friends want to have a word with you five tomorrow, something about going over what’s going to happen at the grand galloping gala.”
“Dammit, I was hoping they would forget about that.”
“Well, I hope she’s not intending for Screwy and myself to be in attendance to her party planning party,” the Guardian quirked.
“I’m pretty sure she does, mostly because of you don’t look like how we ponies look like.” Vinyl said pointing at mirror. “Not to sound rude but you are on your four hooves.”
“And? It’s not as if I am going to reveal the secrets of existence to her or something. Well, I could, but that would take days to lecture her on just the simple basics.”
“Still they might find you dangerous at the gala so you might want to head over there tomorrow.”
“Dangerous? Me?! I am no danger to anypony at all!”
“You keep a laser sword in your pocket,” Screwball pointed out.
“...they didn’t need that, Screwy.”
“Just sayin’...”
“Case in point.” Vinyl said with a deadpanned expression on her face. “Just be there tomorrow to go over the plan or whatever she want to talk you all about.” she said as she vanished to her room.
“There goes sleeping in for the weekend.” Rebecca said entering back into the front room.
“Well, I suppose if we must. But I won’t be answering too many questions nor allowing any tests. Don’t need her freaking out anymore about my biology.”
“I’m sure she won’t be doing something like that to you.” Shalltear said as she just finished fixing the TV set. “I mean what’s the worse that can happen?”
“....Seriously? Why do people say that?” asked Suzy as she appeared next to Screwball.
Screwball shrugged tiredly. “I dunno, maybe some people just like asking for trouble.”
“Possibly, well I’m gonna hit the hay. See you all in the morning.” with that the cheshire cat vanished.
“I think we can call it in for tonight, don’t you agree?” Shalltear asked as her monster friends nodded in agreement.
"Have good rest then girls. Screwy and I shall retire to the TARDIS.”
“Goodnight.” Shalltear said, as all four monsters; along with Octavia retired into their individual rooms for the night.
Chapter 6: Preparing for the Gala
Chapter 6: Preparing for the Gala
(The Next Morning)
[Twilight’s home]
“Okay, tomorrow is the Grand Galloping Gala. And every important being from each nation is gonna be there,” Twilight said as she levitated a book with the title ‘how to be a civilize pony 101’ on it. “So for the next few hours we are going to teach you five on how to act at the gala.”
“Are you saying we’re not civilize?” Shalltear asked only for Rebecca and the others to start throwing books at each other.
“Hey, that’s not fair, you have more books than we do.” Sally said while using Janelle as a shield.
“Oh, I’m sorry, but your bitchiness is not recognized in fort-kickass.” Rebecca said as she chucked a book at the lamia’s head. “Eat books, you snake butt!”
“We will take over fort-kickass!”
The Guardian and Screwball sat off near Twilight with exasperated expressions, shaking their heads. “This not okay in any universe.”
“Books are supposed to be cared for and cherished. I’m a literal chaos spawn and I know this!”
“You were saying, Shalltear?” said Twilight as she levitated the books away from Rebecca and Sally.
“Hey, it’s them that need the lessons not me. I can be civilized when I wanna be, just as long no one say anything offensive to me.”
“My apologies, Miss Sparkle,” the Guardian sighed. “I was unaware the girls were this bad.”
“It’s alright Guardian, I’m pretty sure we both didn’t know they were this bad.” Twilight said as she turned her attention back at the countess. “Anyway you five are gonna be learning on how to be a proper lady. And I know just the pony that can help with that.” In a flash of light, Rarity appeared wearing a teacher’s outfit.
“That would be me darling.”
Screwball screamed before diving behind the Guardian shouting, “Kill it with fire!”
“Relax little filly, I’m not here for you. I’m here to teach Shalltear and her friends on how to be a proper lady.” Rarity said as she summoned a blackboard with today’s lesson plan on it.
“Oh this should be interesting.” Suzy said taking a seat on Rebecca’s back.
“Now, in order to be a proper lady. One must always remember the the three basic rules.” Rarity started writing on the board. “Looks, eating manners, and speech. I know Shalltear has the looks and the eating manners down, though her speech could use some work.”
“The hell that’s supposed to mean?” Shalltear asked.
“It means you curse a lot.” Janelle said bluntly.
“Which is why we’re gonna focus on speech first before we do the others. Now when a stallion walks up, and ask you to dance what would you say?”
“Sure let’s dance like crazy people!” Rebecca answered.
“Um sure, if you don’t mind getting slime on yourself. Or mind getting your hand eaten.” Janelle answered.
“I don’t have any feet buddy.” Sally answered.
“Sure, can I have your feet afterwards?” Suzy answered.
“I would love to dance sir.” Shalltear answered.
“Well Shalltear has it right, as for the rest of you….we have a lot of training to do for the next few hours or so.” said Rarity.
“Um, I’m not expected to dance with anypony, right?” Screwball asked, still hiding.
“You’re too young to dance with any of the adult ponies.”
“Oh good,” the filly sighed.
The Guardian gave a good-hearted chuckle. “Don’t worry, Screwy, you’ll be with me during the gala and I certainly won’t be dancing with anypony.”
“Lucky kid.” Rebecca mumbled only for Rarity smack her with a ruler. “Ow!”
“Focus, a proper lady must pay attention to what’s going on around her. Now as I was saying. Instead of what you four just said, you simply say ‘why it would be a pleasure and honor to have this dance with you sir.’ Not trying to scare them, and let them think you are scary.”
“Isn’t the way we look gonna pretty much scare the living hell out of most ponies?” Suzy asked.
“Which brings us to the next lesson; the looks.” Rarity said as she pulled magical images of noble ponies wearing fancy outfits. “A lady must always look her best when attending a royal dinner or a royal banquet.”
“What’s wrong with the way we look?” Rebecca asked.
“Shalltear, Suzy, and Sally are okay. You two on the other hand look like you got your clothing from the lost and found bin.”
“Well sorry if we couldn’t find any clothing that fit us, or get dissolved when we wear them. If you haven’t noticed, we’re monsters and most ponies are afraid of us.”
“Be that as it may, you still need to pick something that will be acceptable by the other ponies. And seeing how you’re kinda...big on height and length side due to your legs.”
“Perhaps just a fancy dress shirt for Rebecca. Jannelle, however, is a tougher case. Hmm… Twilight, do you think you might be able to help her mold herself to make it seem like she’s wearing a dress?”
“It’s kinda hard to mold her without getting your hands stuck in her, plus the only way to do that is to freeze her; which would cause Janelle problems when trying to move. Yet for some reason the raincoat she’s wearing, is not affected by her ability to dissolve stuff for some reason.”
“Maybe it’s the material?” Screwball suggested.
“Possibly, I’ll have to look into that later. Till then let’s continue with the lesson plan.”
“How long is this going to take?” asked Rebecca.
“Until you five become proper ladies for the Gala.” Rarity said, as she turned her back and started writing on the board. “Now, the next lesson is your eating habits.”
“What wrong with the way we eat?” Janelle asked.
“You eat meat...well four of you eat meat, but that can be a problem for the ponies in Canterlot and Ponyville.” answered Rarity.
“I’m sure Tia keeps some stocked for certain ambassadors,” the Guardian reasoned. “Besides, they should be able to go one night without carnivorism. Just make sure there’s some proper vegetables and fruits available.”
“That and the way you all eat. I mean really, don’t you have some manners when it comes to eating like a proper lady?”
“Hey, we eat just fine thank you.” Sally said.
“Oh really? Then how come when Sweetie Belle told me that you acting out like a monster in a movie, pretending that your food was innocent ponies, and ate them while pretending to scream for them?”
“.....To be fair we have the mind of a 15 year old, what do you think was gonna happen when your sister asked us to do that?”
“Either way we’re gonna be focusing on proper table manners.” Rarity walked behind the board to get a few items for today’s lesson. “Now, I know some of you aren’t used to hold silverware, but with a little bit of practice I’m sure you can-.” When Rarity returned from behind the blackboard, she was both surprised and shock that all five monster girls disappeared from where they were sitting. “What the, where did they go?”
The Guardian gave a mirthful chuckle. “I think your practices, Madam Rarity, finally scared them off. They are young girls gifted with extraordinary powers. It will be hard to get them to listen to anything they don’t want to, especially with a clique mentality. I’m sure you can understand from your own high school years?”
Rarity sighed, as she turned her attention at Guardian. “I guess you’re right, let’s just hope they don’t cause too much trouble at the Gala like we did.”
“I wonder where they went?” Twilight asked as she looked outside the window. “You think we should follow them? You know just to make sure they’re safe and all.”
The mare looked at Twilight with a raised brow and small smirk. “You just know I’ll be after them and want to ask me questions, don’t you, Miss Sparkle?”
“Maybe.” Twilight said, blushing from embarrassment. “You can’t expect me not to ask you question about them.” she said, levitating a scroll and quill next to herself. “So mind telling me who they are while we look for them?”
She sighed, walking Twilight out the door while Screwball floated about around them using her little hat. “I suppose I could give you the rundown, as the kids say. Your new ‘monsters’ are members of a special brand of being known as Displaced. These beings were once another species, typically human, but were granted new powers and abilities as well as being transfered to this world. Most of the time, they never had a choice in the matter.”
“Interesting,” Twilight said as she wrote what Guardian told her. “How many of theseDisplaced are there?”
“At this present time? Oh, I’d have to wager roughly over five hundred are currently documented. At their peak, there millions if not billions of Displaced throughout the multiverse.”
“Fascinating. Mind telling me what species of monster Shalltear friends are?”
“Well, if my knowledge of the mythological and cryptozoology are still maintained, Sally is a lamia, or a snake woman. Janelle is a slime girl, no real official name for her, I’m afraid. Rebecca is what is known as an ushi-oni, a monster of Japanese folklore depicted as half human half spider.” The Guardian leaned closer to Twilight and whispered, “Be careful with her, they’ve been known to have quite the… debaucherous side.” She resumed her typical speaking afterwards. “And our final monster, Suzy, is a cheshire cat. Personally, I’m not a big fan of those beings as they tend to be trickier than Discord and are rarely straightforward with you. I knew one a while back in my travels that every time he spoke it was in riddle. Oooh, drove me up a wall, that one! I’ve never been a big fan of cats in the first place, but that one… I wanted to throttle him!”
“Okay.” Twilight said as she finished writing down what Guardian said. “Anything else I need to know about them? Like, dangerous wise?”
“Hmm,” the Guardian mused. “Danger wise, the best advice is not to make them overly upset or angry, especially due to volatile teenager syndrome.” She laughed at that. “Just treat them as you would anypony, I suppose. Don’t go too overboard with special treatment or you’ll start to make them feel entitled. Make the girls feel welcome in this town, accept them as your friends and they’ll treat you right. I believe that’s true of anybody, wouldn’t you say?”
“That is true, but some ponies are still a little bit on edge due to-.” before the mare could finish. There was a loud earth shattering sound come from outside; followed by the sound of ponies screaming. “What was that?”
“Something tells me that whatever that sound was had something to do with our little monster friends.” said Rarity as she went outside to see what was going on.
“This is not gonna help relations,” Screwball sighed.
(Outside)
[In an open field]
“Bastards! You think you dogs can take us on!” Rebecca yelled as she punched a diamond dog in the face, sending him flying into a tree; killing him upon impact.
Somewhere in the middle of an open field. Our five little monsters find themselves surrounded/ambushed by a pack of diamond dogs, when they made their escape from Rarity’s lesson on how to be a proper lady for the gala. Normally this wouldn’t be a bad thing for the countess, and she would’ve killed them in ten seconds flat. But due to the fact that her powers are still sealed up, she’ll have to have her friends to help out in this situation.
“Can someone please explain to me how we ended up in this mess?” Sally asked as she used her tail to knockout an oncoming diamond dog holding a club in his hand.
“I have no idea really, but for now just focus on taking them out.” Shalltear ordered as she cast Brilliant Radiance on a group of diamond dogs grouped together. The countess turned her attention at Janelle to see how she was holding up. It came to no surprise that their attacks couldn’t hurt her, nor damage her.
“Where the hell is guardian when you need her?” Suzy asked as ducked from a speared dog’s attack, only for her to counter with a claw through his chest. “Not that we can’t take care of ourselves, but this is kinda one sided if you ask me.”
“Give up now creatures, else we break legs and force you to come.” said Rover, as he pointed a blade at the five monsters from a few feet away from them. “If you can’t work for us, then we eat you.”
“Geez, and ponies thought we were monster.” said Rebecca, as she turned her attention at the dog with the red vest. “Oh yeah! You and what army?!” She asked. The Diamond Dog snapped his fingers as a group of tall bulky dogs appeared around them from below the ground they were standing on.
“You just had to say that huh?” Sally said as she dodged a right hook; only for her to counter with a tail slap. “Now what do we do?”
“Just keep killing until they’re nothing left standing.” Shalltear said, as she gutted a diamond dog with her lance. “And can we please make this quick? I’m kinda running low on MP here.”
“You get the others a few feet away from here.” Rebecca ordered, as she cracked her knuckles. “I’ll handle the bulky muts.”
“You sure you can handle them?” Suzy asked. “No offense, but you don’t seem to be that strong to me.”
“Look just get to a safe distance from here. I don’t wanna get you girls caught up in the crossfire.” With that Suzy teleported herself and the others to someplace safe. Leaving the ushi-oni alone with the diamond dogs. “Now then, let’s see how many I can-.” Rebecca was cut off mid sentence as a paw appear from under her, and grabbed her face for a split second; only for her to knock it away and slide a few inches back. Out of the ground came a really tall amber color diamond dog wearing a rusty looking armor, and a club in his left hand.
“I take it you’re the leader of these jerks?” Rebecca asked; only for the dog to nod yes. “Care to explain why you’re after us?”
“You all strong, work in mine to dig up gems. You and kids in Ponyville will work for us until you are no use.” He said as he flex his muscles. “We are dominate species, all ponies are for us to use as we please.”
“Yeah, because you’re doing such a good job at trying to do that.” Rebecca said sarcastically. “If you haven’t notice, we just killed at least what 20 of you bitches. You really think that-.” Rebecca stopped at mid sentence as she counted how many diamond dogs are standing. “50 of you are a match for me?”
“Because I am alpha,” He said pointing to his pack. “And these are strong diamond dogs. We can take care of one weak monster like you.”
“Funny, that’s what the bitch told me before I crushed his skull in.” The amber dog’s eyes glowed red as he delivered a right hook to the ushi-oni; only for her to duck as she countered with a strong punch to the alpha dog’s chest. At first nothing happened, that is until she removed her fist from his chest and his upper body exploded into chunks of flesh. “Huh, guess you were all talk; but no bark.”
“Bastard!” yelled Rover as he was about to hit Rebecca; only for her to dodge into the air, land on top of a diamond dog’s head, then jump again as she landed a few feet away from the group. As she landed four diamond dogs followed her as she dodged, another one came after her with a kick; only for her to dodge again and launch herself in mid air. As she was about to land, one of them tried to attack her from behind; as she simply ducked. To her surprise three of the diamond dogs surrounded her as they were about to slam their fists onto the ushi-oni. In a split second Rebecca blocked the oncoming attacks as the earth around them started spew up pieces of the land.
“Damn, I’m really am out of practice.” She thought as she lower herself down a bit, and spun around to knock the dogs off their feet. As they were slightly off the ground, Rebecca delivered a strong bone shattering punch to the first diamond dog, sending him flying into the other two, and then into a piece of earth that was sticking out from behind them. “Is that the best you flea bags got?! I’ve seen hellhounds that fight better than you lot!” She yelled only for the rest of them jump at her one by one. Rebecca grinned as she punched one of them in the face, another one with a strong kick to the chest, and two more with a split kick. This seemed to go on for a while. That is until when she kick another dog in the face, a certain time mare decided to intervene with Rebecca’s fight.
“What in Equestria is going on here?!” the Guardian’s voice screamed over everyone, stopping even the Diamond Dogs in their tracks.
“G-Guardian, um...w-what brings you here?” Rebecca asked nervously.
“That’s not important right now. What is important is this question: who started the fight?”
“They did,” Rebecca answered, as she pointed at the diamond dogs. “They wanted to kidnap us along with the kids in Ponyville to be their slaves. So we decided to kill them so they won’t do that.”
The Guardian gave the girls a fierce glare. “We will talk later.”
“Yes Guardian,” they all replied.
“As for you lot,” she said, turning to the alpha. She slowly walked up to the dog, getting right in his face and whispered in a dark tone, “If you ever come after my girls again, I will personally shove your ugly mug into the crack of a cyberman’s ass and blow you both up. Do you understand me?!” she snarled, her eyes boring into the alpha’s very soul.
“Y-Yes ma’am! Boys were leaving. NOW!” He said, as all the diamond dogs that were either still alive; or still able to walk dug into the ground and ran off.
“We’re in trouble aren’t we?” Suzy asked.
“Home. Now,” the Guardian ordered, walking passed them.
“Yeah we’re in trouble.” Suzy sighed as she and the others followed Guardian to Shalltear’s home.
Moments later all five monster we sitting on the living room couch, waiting on Guardian to say something to them about what happened outside of Ponyville a few hours ago. Normally Twilight would try to say something, like she normally does. But something told her not to get involve less she to would suffer Guardian’s lecture. For the past few minutes it had been nothing but awkward silence. That is until Guardian spoke.
“Just what, exactly , did you think you five were doing?” she asked in a forced calm tone.
“W-We were defending ourselves along with the ponies in Ponyville.” Sally said, while trying not to stare at Guardian.
“Y-Yeah it’s not like they would’ve left if asked the nicely.” Rebecca said, trying to put up a tough act. “They wanted to make us into their slaves.”
“And you thought it was a good idea to fight them instead of, oh I don’t know, running back to town to get help?!” she half shouted at them.
“W-Well, w-we didn’t want to worry anyone in town. Plus this would be a perfect chance to show them that we’re not just monsters, but we can defend them from others that want to hurt them.” Janelle said.
“And what if you all had gotten hurt, huh? Or worse?! What then?! You needlessly risked your lives so you could all play hero! Well, you’re not here to be heroes ! You’re here to live as normal of lives as you can! Heroes end up dead!” As the Guardian continued chewing them out, the girls noticed that tears had begun growing in her eyes, streaming down her cheeks as she yelled. “What would getting yourselves killed have proved?! Did you ever think of the people you were leaving behind by doing that?!”
“W-We just wanted to protect our home, that’s all.” Shalltear said, as she wiped away the tear coming down her face. “We were scared okay, we just didn’t want to end up like before. Imprisoned by someone else.”
“I understand that,” the Guardian said a little calmer. “But it was still reckless and could have ended very badly. At least one of you should have backed off to let somepony know what was happening. If something terrible happened to you girls… I don’t know what I’d have done,” she said, more tears falling as she tried to repress a sob.
Sally used her tail to wrap around Guardian as tears started flow down her face. “W-We’re sorry.” she said, as her friend also said they were sorry as well. “We just wanted to protect our home.”
“I know, I know,” the Guardian whispered, rubbing a hoof lovingly against Sally. “Just put in a little more thought next time, alright? Promise me you’ll do better in keeping yourselves safe.”
“We can’t make that kind of promise, but we’ll try to keep ourselves safe for your sake.” Rebecca said, as she whipped away her own tears.
The Guardian sighed. “Alright, I can accept that. I’m not mad at any of you, just concerned, that’s all.”
“Concerned? About what?” Suzy asked.
“Girls… I’ll be frank with you. I’m old, amazingly old, far too old for any one being to be. I’ve seen many things in my life, more than I wish I could have ever seen. And one of those is the deaths of all my closest friends. As of my point in time, Screwball is the only friend I have left that is still living.” She paused for a moment for her words to sink in. “I just don’t want to see you following their path.”
“You do realize we’re in Equestria right? This place is a hot spot for lord knows what kind of evil villain that wants to take it over.” Shalltear said.
“That doesn’t mean you throw yourselves right in the middle of it. Just because you have some new abilities, it doesn’t mean you’re expected to become heroes. I’m not saying you shouldn’t help out from time to time, but it doesn’t require you to throw yourselves head first into danger.”
“Well we know that. Just because we’re young, doesn’t mean we’re that stupid to fight someone that’s tougher and stronger than us.”
“Good, then I hope you remember that. I don’t want to be hearing one of my girls got themselves killed by being a hero.”
“We’ll leave the hero job to Twilight and her friends.”
“Gee thanks.” Twilight said sarcastically. “Glad to see you’re putting that much pressure on the adults.”
“We’re monsters with the I.Q of a 15 year old, what do you expect?”
“Now that all that is out of the way, it’s time to dole out your lot’s punishment,” the Guardian said smugly.
“Aw what!” Everyone except Shalltear said in union.
“Knew it, so what’s our punishment?” Shalltear asked.
“You five all belong to Rarity for the rest of the day. And if you run off again, you will be much bigger trouble. BIG!”
“*Sigh* F….M…..L. Fine we’ll go with Rarity for the day, god it’s like the orphanage all over again.” Shalltear said in defeat. The Guardian flinched at that, her ears drooping as she shrunk back.
“Nice going idiot.” Rebecca said, smacking the countess upside her head. “You made Guardian sad.”
"Ugh, let’s go before she does something else I will regret.” Shalltear said, as they all left to go to Rarity’s home. “I really hate to make her cry.”
(Hours later)
“This is another reason why I hate being fancy.” Shalltear said as she kick to front door to her house open. So far throughout the entire day, Shalltear and her friends were forced to continue Rarity’s lesson on how to be a proper lady. Normally to some degree they would’ve left after she mention the word fashion show , but due to the fact that they would’ve gotten in trouble with Guardian they decided to endure the lecture, and continue through it. For the past 5 to 6 hours they were forced to wear very uncomfortable outfits, practice table manners, and how to properly speak to other ponies of higher class.
“Not only that, but tomorrow we have to use what we learned at the gala.” Suzy said, laying in Rebecca’s back. “I have a feeling that it won’t turn out so well.”
“We look like Discord’s rejected projects, of course something bad is gonna happen tomorrow.” Rebecca said, as she enter into the house with Suzy, Janelle, and Sally on her back. Upon entering the kitchen, they found that a large meal had been prepared of all their favorite foods.
“I hope you girls are hungry~!” the Guardian said as she placed another plate of food on the table. “I made plenty to go around so help yourselves!”
Without even a second thought, all five monsters ran and took a seat at the dinner table; as they grabbed a plate full of food and began to devour the food. “Finally! Food that we can actually eat without getting our hands smacked at, or taste like crap!” Rebecca said, almost choking for a split second; but had water to help her food go down.
The Guardian smiled happily. “I’m glad you all like it. I made it special for you all. Screwball helped of course too.”
“Where did you even get this food from? I can understand to vegetables, but where did you get the meat from?” Sally said, as she sink her teeth into a piece of meat.
“I keep stockpiles of every kind of food in the TARDIS. Storage is unlimited, after all. Plus! It’s a time machine, food never goes bad.”
“Wish, we had something like that here.” Janelle said, dissolving her meal before getting seconds.
“I wish I could help fulfill that, but I can’t. Don’t have the proper technology to put a proper time fridge together. I might be able to leave you some spare meat, however,” she teased.
“Space meat? As in meat from space?” Rebecca asked, as her eyes started to sparkle.
“Well, space meat as well as many different variations. I’ll leave you some options, how’s that sound?”
“Fair enough,” Rebecca said, as she went back for seconds. “So why did you cook this for us?”
“Because I could, of course,” the Guardian smiled as she started doing the dishes. “Do I have to have a reason to cook for you?”
“Mostly it’s either that or an apology or something.” The ushi-oni said as she drank her glass of water.
“Just cooking for my girls,” she assured. “That’s all.”
“Anyway, ladies. Tomorrow is the grand galloping gala, you all know what to do right?” Shalltear asked as her friends nodded. “Good, because I’m not repeating myself again.”
“You’re not going to cause any unnecessary trouble are you?”
“Unless raiding the food in the gala counts as unnecessary trouble, then no we’re not.” Janelle said, with a innocent look on her face.
The Guardian face-hoofed. “Just… just at least wait until the party's almost over first.”
“What? We’re only going after the food for the Equestrians. Plus it’s going to be so boring!” Shalltear said rolling her eyes. “I mean you should know how the gala is right?”
“I’ve been to many, more than I’d wish to admit. But you never know,” a twinkle was in the Guardian’s eye, “anything can happen.”
“Until then we’re just gonna do what we do best, and that’s pretty much just be ourselves. Until the gala is over.” Sally said, as she burped. “Excuse me.”
“Yeah because nothing bad will happen if we be ourselves.” Rebecca said sarcastically, as she grabbed another piece of meat.
The Guardian sighed, knowing it was a losing battle to continue. “Well, just try to have some fun, eh? One night of being proper ladies won’t kill you.”
“Fine, but if somepony attacks us we have every right to defend ourselves.”
"I doubt we need to worry about that.” Shalltear said. “I mean who would want to attack us?”
(Elsewhere deep in the Everfree Forest)
Deep within the Everfree Forest; mainly the castle of the royal sisters. Stood a dark alicorn wearing a slightly revealing outfit, with her mane similar to that of Luna’s. Sitting in the ruins of what used to be her castle, while looking at the little vampire with lustful eyes. “Oh my sweet little countess.” She said as she made the crystal ball focus on Shalltear. “You have no idea how much I want you for my plan. Those skills, that body, and your fragile little mind. Soon you’ll be my adorable little pet for me to play with.” The alicorn said as she moved from the crystal ball and headed towards the window. “Now let’s see if we can break your mind quickly before the party begins?” the alicorns body turned into a midnight color mist, as she headed towards Shalltear’s home.
(Nighttime)
[Dream world]
Moments after finishing up dinner, cleaning up, and getting herself ready for bed. Shalltear found herself in a dimly light room, similar to that of Atlas Star’s room when she first came to Equestria. “Shit, not another nightmare again.” She said as she tried to find a way out of it, only for someone to catch her attention from what she’s doing.
“Hello , my little countess~.” The voice said, as Shalltear quickly turn around to see an alicorn sitting on the bed. “I must say you look so cute up close.”
“W-Who are you?”
“I am Nightmare Moon, and you my little countess are my meal ticket to take over Equestria.” She said as she slowly walked up to Shalltear.
“What do you mean meal ticket?” Shalltear asked, glaring at the alicorn.
“You are going to help me take over Equestria, pet.” Nightmare Moon said,as she appeared next to the countess. “After seeing how you took out Chrysalis and those Diamond Dogs. You’re just the girl I need to help take over Equestria.” She said as she showed her a vision of what would happen if she joined Nightmare Moon. “Think about it~. You and your friends will live the good life, no pony will ever judge you five, and you’ll finally get revenge on Celestia for what she did to you. So what do you say Shalltear, leader of Equestria?”
“Hm….not interested.” Shalltear answered.
“E-Excuse me?”
“I said I’m not interested. I’m finally get to live a normal life, and you want me to just throw this gift from the heavens away?” Shalltear turned around and began to walk off. “You can do it yourself, I want no part in your takeover of Equest-.” The Countess couldn’t finish her sentence, as she felt something pierce through her stomach. Just as she was about to see what it was a, magical collar appeared around her neck and dragged her onto the wall.
“Let me make this clear pet.” Nightmare Moon said, as she once again appeared next to Shalltear. “You either join up with me in taking over Equestria, or I put you in a never ending loop where you’ll get to relive your first time in Equestria. Until your mind is shattered into many piece then how it was before.”
"F-Fuck you! You think something like that will make me become your servant?” Shalltear said as she spat at Nightmare moon.
“Well then if you don’t want to be my pet, then how about I just leave you in the nightmare loop and see if I can break the mind of your friends then?” Nightmare Moon said as the countess’s eyes went wide. “Yeah, that sounds like a better idea when you think about it. I’ll break your friends minds first, then come back for you in about a few years or so.”
“Wait! Stop!” Shalltear said as she lowered her head in defeat. “I’ll do whatever it is you want me to do, just please spare my friends.”
“Good, but as a safety measure. I’m gonna keep you in a dream loop for a while.” Nightmare moon said as she slowly reach towards Shalltear’s head. “I prefer to break my pets so they won’t get any ideas on trying to rebel against me.”
Shalltear began to panic as she tried to move away from Nightmare Moon’s hand as it got closer to her by the second. “Guardian! Suzy! Sally! Rebecca! Someone help me!”
“Scream all you want little one, but your so called friends can’t help you within my dream.” Nightmare moon said as she placed a her hand on Shalltear’s head. “Now be a good girl, and submit to me. Your new mother.”
“I think not.”
“Wha-” was all Nightmare could speak before her ears were assaulted by the most horrific noise that could ever have been made.
“Ow! Who is making that sound?” Shalltear asked, as she covered her ears in pain.
“Sorry, honey,” the voice said again as the Guardian stepped out of the shadows of the realm around them. “Desperate times called for desperate measures.”
“Who are you, and why did you interrupt me and my daughter’s little talk.” Nightmare Moon said as she glared at Guardian.
“She is not your child,” the mare retorted with a similar glare. “I won’t allow you to corrupt her mind with your mischief. I couldn’t care less if you go out somewhere else, but when you mess with one my girls, then…” The Guardian’s horn lit with a purplish-black energy, bubbling all over the appendage. “Then I get dangerous.”
“You think you can stop me little pony?” Nightmare Moon asked, as she chuckle at Guardian’s statement. “This is the dream world fool, this is my domain. What can you do to stop me?”
“Because of one, simple fact: I’m the Guardian.” She smirked darkly before unleashing the energy in her horn out into the sky. The energy burst outward, sending waves of magic into the entire dreamscape around them, causing ripples and tears to form. “Begone from this realm you treacherous monster and never trouble my Shally again! For if you do not, I will destroy you. I’ve learned more magic than any ever should be capable of, and I will bring it all down on you like the fires of hell itself! Do not test me, Nightmare Moon, for it shall not end well.”
“Fine, I’ll leave.” Nightmare Moon said as she began to fade away. “But know this fool, as long as her mind is still as messed up as it is now. She’ll soon hit her sanity point, and when she does hit it, I’ll be sure to make her my personal daughter/pet for the rest of her pathetic life. I’ll be keeping an eye her until then.”
“And so will I! I won’t lose another to a monster like you! I’ve waded into your darkness before and triumphed! Do not think for a second that I can’t save her because I will go to the ends of every Equestria to save a being I love! You won’t win, Nightmare! I won’t let you!”
“Um...y-you do know that she left right?” Shalltear asked as she rubbed her head. “Not that I’m questioning you or a-anything. Ow. Damn my head hurts.”
The Guardian rushed over to her, worry written all over her face. “Are you alright? Did she do anything to you?”
“I-I don’t think so-.” Before Shalltear could say something else, a surge a pain flowed through her head. Causing her to kneel down and grab her head in pain. “D-Dammit. It’s getting worse.”
“What is? Shally, please, tell me what’s wrong.”
“The nightmares that I have been having for the past 500 years. I did place a barrier so whenever one got loose I would end up in my happy place, but it would seem that the barrier finally broke and my sanity is starting to slip by the night.”
“Nightmares?” the Guardian parroted to herself. She took a seat next to Shalltear, a hoof on the girl’s leg. “Tell me about them. Tell me what these nightmares show you,” she said a in calm, caring tone.
“.....It’s the hell I went through when I was 15 years old during my...time with Atlas.”
“Tell me everything,” she repeated. “Help me understand you so I can help you.”
Shalltear sighed as she imagine a bean bag to lay on as she told Guardian everything. The beatings, raping, the sexural abuse, and the twisted experiments done upon her. What go to her the most was telling her about how she would sometimes wake up to find herself inside her coffin/tome and try to claw her way out, but failed.
"Shally…” the Guardian said with moist eyes. Without another word, she wrapped her hooves around Shalltear, hugging her close.
“The worst part is, that every time I feel asleep. I can feel my sanity, my memories of who I was, all of starting to slip away.” Shalltear hugged Guardian back as she began to shiver in fear. “And the scary part is. I’m even losing some of my emotions as well. If this keeps up, then….oh god I don’t even want to think about it.”
“Then don’t think about it,” the Guardian said as if it were the most simple thing in the world.
“How can I not think of it! Look at me Guardian!” Shalltear said as she made her clothes disappeared. “Look at have become of me! How can I not think about it when every scar I have on me keeps reminding me of what happen to me?!”
“Because that’s not you anymore,” she said calmingly. “You’re not his anymore, you’re your own person again. These scars do not define you, they only show your past. Your actions, your decisions, your friends, that is what defines you.” The Guardian pulled Shalltear’s face close to her own, looking in her eyes. “You are still Veronica, not just Shalltear. And I know that you are a strong woman, capable of showing that she can beat Atlas and his trickery. You have the power and the support. Are you really going to allow him to win?”
“N-No.” Shalltear said as she stopped shivering in fear.
“Then you are going to beat these nightmares and show Atlas that he can never control you. And Janelle, Rebecca, Suzy, Sally, Screwball, and I will be there the whole way.”
“...Thank you.” Shalltear said, as she kneeled down and hugged Guardian. “But there’s something I need to do before I can have a piece of mind.”
“Then let me help you while we have the time,” the Guardian said, hugging Shalltear back. “I’m here for you.”
“Okay,” Shalltear let go of Guardian as she summoned her alter ego of herself.
“You called me?”
“It’s time. You know what to do.”
"If I do this, you do know I won’t be here anymore?”
“I know that. You’ve been with me for the longest time, and it’s time for the two of us to finally find some kind of peace.”
Shalltear’s alter ego smiled as she opened a door that lead to somewhere else. “It’s been nice serving you as your friend.”
“Same here, goodbye other me.” With that the countess’s alter ego went inside the room, as the door disappeared behind her.
“Are you alright?” the Guardian asked.
“By tomorrow morning I’ll have no memory of my past.” Shalltear said as she turned her attention at Guardian.
“W-what?! B-but… are you sure that’s something you want to go through with? Forgetting memories, no matter how painful, will never bring you true peace.”
“You and I both know that you can’t stay here for long, and knowing how Nightmare Moon is she’ll try to use my memories to try and break me. This is a good thing for me and for Celestia and Luna, seeing how Luna can help protect me from Nightmare Moons magic. While Celestia and I can get a fresh start at getting to know each other.”
The Guardian looked like she was going to keep arguing, but, instead, she hung her head. “It’s your choice in the end. But just remember that no matter what you choose, I’ll still care about and love you.”
“That’s all I need to hear.” The countess said as she started to glow into light particles. “By the way when I do way up, you better not try that stupid I’m you from the future bullshit that most people do to screw around with their friends.”
“I wasn’t going to do that,” the Guardian shooker her head. She looked away for a moment, her cheeks a little red. “I figured I’d rather trick you into thinking I’m your mother,” she muttered. Unfortunately for her, Shalltear’s hearing was still good enough to hear her.
“I would actually like that really.” Shalltear said, as she started to fade away. “You really have to remember that vampires have really do hearing Guardian.” The mare just gave her a sad smile before everything faded to blackness.
(The Next Day)
“Ugh, why do I feel like I just been hit by a truck or something?” said Veronica as she fell from off her bed and on the floor. “Ow!”
“You alright down there?” a snarky, British voice asked.
“Yeah I’m fine...who are you?” Veronica asked.
The voice sighed. “You really did erase it all,” she said sadly. “I’m the Guardian, a pony who cares very much about you, Veronica.”
“Okay….am I dreaming or something? Because if I remember correctly ponies don’t talk.”
“No, you don’t remember anymore, but you’re on another world. You’ve been here for many, many years and have built up a… reputation, let’s say.”
“Reputation as in what?”
“Not good I’m afraid. You’re not entirely human anymore, honey. You’re… well, you’re a vampire, known commonly as Countess Shalltear.”
“....Oh god I’m I one of those gay ass vampires from that Twilight movie?”
The mare giggled a bit. “No, honey, you’re an anime vampire.”
“Oh thank god, for a second there I thought I was.” Veronica said as she pulled herself up. “So are all the ponies here look like the way you do?”
The Guardian nodded. “For the most part, yes. There are four basic kinds of ponies: unicorns (like yours truly), pegasi, earth ponies, and alicorns which are an amalgamation of all three.”
“Okay, well that answers a few of my questions. So what now if you don’t mind me asking?”
“I believe it would be best to reintroduce you to your house mates,” she said, getting off of the stool she was sitting upon.
“What, there’s more than just me living here?”
“Oh yes, it’s a regular monster house. Girls just like you that were also turned into creatures. Though, it’s going to be hard to explain your new condition.”
“I’m pretty sure it can’t be that hard to explain to them...right?”
“Honey, you’ve given your mind a reset. You’ve literally deleted a millennium's worth of memories overnight. That won’t be easy to explain in the slightest.”
“Wait, I have the powers to do that? Since when?”
“The mind is a powerful weapon, my child. It is possible of many things.”
“Really? I’ll have to try something out later, but for now lead me to the other girls.” Veronica ordered.
“Sure thing, they should be downstairs having breakfast. Let’s get you down there, honey,” the Guardian said, leading Veronica out of the room.
“Sweet! Lead the way magical talking pony.”
Chapter 7: Hellhound at the Gala
Chapter 7: Hellhound at the Gala
“So let me get this straight.” Vinyl asked while she was busy cooking. “Our little master pretty much just reset her brain after being attacked by Nightmare Moon, last night?”
The Guardian nodded, Screwball happily chowing down on a bowl of cereal next to her, refilling it every couple minutes or so. “I tried to talk her out of it, but she was dead set on destroying her horrid memories. Not that I can completely fault her, I have some myself I’d rather forget.”
“To be honest I’m not surprised that she would do something like this.” Octavia said as she made a cup of coffee for Rebecca. “I mean have you read her journal log? This would pretty much want anypony to forget if they were in the master’s shoes.”
“A journal log?” Screwy asked between swallows. “That’ll make remembering certain things easier, at least. Though,” she said, turning towards the Guardian, “why is she acting like you’re her mother or something?”
“...no reason,” the time mare said, finding the ceiling rather interesting all of the sudden.
“I wouldn’t be surprise if she was her mother really.” Vinyl said as she looked at the time mare and the vampire. “They do look cute together when you think about it.”
“Not to change the subject or anything,” Janelle interrupted. “But how are we gonna explain this to Celestia and Luna about what happened to Veronica?”
“I believe a half-truth would be the best method,” the Guardian said, letting out a small breath from the subject change.
“A half-truth?” Screwball asked.
The Guardian nodded. “We don’t lie to them, simply give a vague portion of the truth.”
“That sounds like lying.”
“It may, but it most certainly is not. You leave the princesses to me and everything will be taken care of.”
“And what about Twilight and her friends?” Rebecca asked as she took a sip from her coffee. “I know we can get away with it with five of them, but Applejack might be a problem.”
“Leave that to me as well,” the Guardian said with a smirk. “I have a certain way with the farm mare.”
“Okay, so when does this so called grand galloping gala start?”
“The dance itself starts roughly around eight o’clock tonight. So, make sure you’re all ready by then.”
“I doubt will be dancing due to the way we look.” Sally said pointing at the way all of them look. “We pretty much gonna scare some of the ponies once we get there.”
“You shouldn’t worry about what they think,” Screwball said, squeezing the cereal box to look inside it, presumably for a prize. “Just be who you are and have fun,” she stuck her tongue out to the side as she reached inside, “that’s what I do!” She yanked out an oversized magnifying glass, looking at all of them through it, as it comically enlarged her eye.
“Where did she even get that?” Veronica asked.
The Guardian chuckled mirthfully. “She’s Screwball, don’t question it.”
“Does my eye look big?” Screwy asked.
“Pretty much yeah.”
“Good. That’s very good.”
“Okay so when do we leave for Canterlot?” Janelle asked.
“Whenever I suppose,” the Guardian shrugged, taking a sip of her tea.
“Guess we’ll leave around four seeing how we don’t want to be late, that and so we don’t miss out on any of the good food they have.” Suzy said licking her lips in hunger. “I wonder what the food will look like?”
“Um, hello?” Screwball said, looking at them like a bunch of idiots. “Time machine literally in the next room. And goes anywhere.”
“Oh right, I keep forgetting that you’re a time mare and all that jazz.” Rebecca said.
“It’s not your fault. I’m not all that different from any other pony.” She took another sip. “I’m just not content with sitting still all the time. So much to do, so much time to do it. Adventuring is the only entertainment I have left.”
“Is that why there’s, like, fifty different ph.d’s and other degrees in your memory room?” Screwy asked.
“That’s correct. Advanced schooling was one of the first ways I entertained myself. Though, those fifty I have out are only the ones I’m most proud of. There’s many more hidden away in storage gathering dust. They take up quite a bit of room; good thing I don’t have to worry about fire hazards.”
“Well I better get going.” Octavia said as she grabbed her cello, and began to make her way towards the door. “I have get the rest of my friends and head off to Canterlot early for the gala.”
“Good luck with that Octi, while you’re doing that I’ll be at home making sure no one tries to enter and steal anything.” Vinyl said, waving to Octavia before she left the house.
“I will admit, you’re certainly vamponies I’ve met thus far.”
“They’re nothing compared to you, Guardian,” Screwball smirked.
“We don’t speak of her ,” the time mare gave a light glare at the filly.
“Just sayin’,” Screwy muttered, looking slightly miffed.
“Eh, not so bad being a vampony. I mean it’s not like we go out and suck the life out of innocent ponies or something.” Vinyl said as she belly flopped on the couch, and turned the TV on. “We’re just lazy to some degree.”
“Trust me, I know it all too well,” the Guardian grumbled.
“Let’s change the subject, so Guardian. What are you gonna do during the gala?” Asked Veronica.
“Oh I was going to spend a lovely evening with Twilight and Celestia. Screwball was going to spend her night in the gardens.”
“Animals are nature’s chaos,” the filly said ‘philosophically’.
“You sure it’s okay to leave Screwball with a bunch of animals?” asked Sally.
“Of course! Screwy may be young, but I trust her completely. She’s nothing like her father in the regards of compassion. She’ll be better off with the creatures of the earth than the stuck up snobs of Canterlot.”
“Fair enough I guess.”
“I just hope nothing weird happens while we’re at the gala. Lord know that if it does then we’re gonna be blamed for it.” Rebecca said in annoyance.
“This world is destined to bring hell upon itself, isn’t it?”
“Language, Screwy.”
“Sorry.”
“To some degree yes, but at least they give you warnings when something’s about to happen.” Rebecca said as she finished her cup of coffee. “Welp we better head off to Canterlot. We don’t want Rarity or Twilight to nag at us for not being their on time, and I prefer to get it over with.”
“I suppose we can cheat a little and use the TARDIS to get there fashionably early. And yes, that is a real thing. We’ll meet you all inside when you’re ready.” The Guardian and Screwy hopped down from their chairs and off into the adjacent room, the sound of the TARDIS door opening and closing moments later.
“Alright girls get whatever you need and let’s head off to the gala.” Veronica said as her friends nodded and went off to do as they were told to do.
(Moments later)
[Nighttime]
“Where in the name of Equestria are they?” asked Twilight, as she paced back the forth. “It’s almost eight and they still haven’t arrived yet.”
“Take it easy egghead,” said Rainbow Dash, as she tries to calm the lavender unicorn. “It’s not like it’s the end of the world if they don’t show up on time.”
“Are you kidding me? Celestia invited all the leaders of each nation to Canterlot to see Shalltear and her friends. How can this not be the end of the world?”
“At least things didn’t turn out like the last time we came here, and besides I’m sure they’ll be here at any moment.” Just as the cyan pegasus said that, the TARDIS appeared right next to the two. “See told you they would be here on time.”
The door burst open wide, the Guardian strutting out wearing an elegant gown of a pure silver, glistening in the lights of the gala, her hair done up quite nicely and simply all around beautiful in appearance. Screwball followed after her, wearing a simple purple dress, adorned with a swirls of green that made her look like a walking painting.
“Oh I do so love making a fabulous entry,” the Guardian said, her voice much more pompous than usual. “Ties everything in together juuuust right.”
“Your definition of fabulous entry didn’t mention just almost hitting something.” Sally said as she exited the TARDIS. “I mean really, do you even have a license for that?”
“Of course not. You really think they’d let a pony drive this thing? Are you mad?” the Guardian said with a cheery smile, completely nonchalant about the question.
“No, but I’m not driving with you after what just happened a few seconds ago! I mean really who taught you how to drive, a crash test dummy?”
“I taught myself, actually. It was quite a fun ride for my old self.”
Screwball floated up and whispered into Sally’s ear, “She actually drives like that on purpose. She’s trolling you.”
“I...but….you know what screw it, I’ll take the train back home when this is over.” Sally said as she slithered inside the castle.
The Guardian just had on a big grin before addressing the others. “Now girls, behave yourselves tonight, but try to have fun. If you need me, I’ll be with Celestia and/or Twilight otherwise go find Screwball and she can contact me directly.”
“Okay Guardian.” The monster girls said as they entered into the castle.
“What took you all so long?” Twilight asked as she walked up to Guardian. “You’re almost a few seconds late for the gala.”
“Fashionably early, darling,” the mare replied. “Plus,” she knocked on the TARDIS, “time machine~.”
“W-What, as long as nothing odd or weird happens, then this gala will go as smooth as marble. I just hope the leaders of each nation won’t be shocked at how Shalltear and the other look like.”
“About that. There’s been a… development with our countess friend.”
“What do you mean?”
“What wrong with the kid vampire?” Asked Rainbow Dash.
“Her memory. She has completely erased the past fifteen hundred years from her mind to destroy the memories of her time as a slave.”
“WHAT?!” Both ponies said in union. “How did that happen?!”
“A failsafe in her mind by the looks of it. The mind is the greatest weapon of any sapient being, after all. It can do wondrous things, even the impossible.”
“If that is true, then what caused her failsafe to activate?” Twilight asked.
The Guardian made sure Screwy and the others had wandered off before leaning in close. “Not here, it’s too public. Tia and Luna will want to be made aware of this as well.”
“They should be inside greeting the other ponies as they enter. Is it that bad that you need them?”
“A great threat has returned to your world. And she wants the blood queen as her pet. I would say it’s very bad.”
“....Let’s go. Celestia and Luna must know this.” Twilight said as she motion Guardian to follow her and Rainbow Dash inside the castle.
(Elsewhere in Canterlot Castle)
While Guardian was busy with Twilight and Rainbow Dash. Veronica and the rest of the monster girls made their way to ballroom of the castle. Just as they enter into the room everything went dead silent as all the royal ponies stared in both shock and disgust at what they saw.
“Well...this is awkward huh?” asked Rebecca.
“Pretty much what you expect when we’re the only monsters here.” Janelle said looking around the room at all the ponies. “I’m starting to wish Guardian was here right about now.”
“Well she’s not, so we just have to make do with the situation.” Veronica said as she made her way towards a table. “Let’s get this over with so we can go home, and never have to deal with these royal jerks again.”
“They better have some decent food here for us? Because after looking at the food that we walked by on the way here, I’m not at all amused.” Rebecca said as she took a seat next to Veronica, only for her to break it and fall onto the floor. “Dammit.”
“You should know by now that you can’t sit in a normal seat right?” Suzy asked appeared across the table in front of the ushi-oni.
“Don’t remind me cat.” Rebecca said as she pulled herself back up. “Anyway, how long before we meet these leaders of the nations?”
“Don’t know, Celestia didn’t really give me that much detail when it comes to stuff like this. But I’m gonna guess in an hour or two depending.” Sally said as she notice the looks that some of the ponies were giving them. “I get the feeling some of them want us to leave.”
“Unless they have the power to make us leave, then they can bite my undead ass for all I care.” Veronica said rubbing her head in annoyance. “God I’m hungry, where’s the damn waiter when you need him? I’m starting to get hungry.”
“I don’t think we’ll be getting any service anytime soon unless Celestia is here, and orders them to come to us.” Rebecca said as she started to play with her silverware. “Hey did anyone seen where Screwball went to?”
“Don’t know, I’m surprise she isn’t here with us.” Suzy said as she to was playing with her silverware. Soon an idea came to her mind as she looked at Rebecca. “Hey Becky, wanna screw around until dinner time?”
“Depends, what’s the idea that you had in mind?” She asked, only for the cheshire cat to smile devilishly.
“Oh something fun for all of us to enjoy.”
(Celestia’s private chambers)
“So Guardian. Twilight said you had something important to tell me and Luna about.” said Celestia, as she took a seat.
“Yes, but first, how have you enjoyed the week I had planned for us?” the mare asked with a smile. “I certainly hope it turned out like I’ve been planning.”
“I have to say that was the most fun I have ever had in years.” Celestia answered with a smile on her face. “Though no offense or anything, but you are a crazy driver and should never be given an chariot to drive.”
“You’re one to talk sister.” Luna said. “It took you two hours to figure out how to work the bumper car at the carnival.”
“Says the mare who freaked out at the haunted mansion ride.”
“...No comment.”
“Good, at least I get to have some charming adventures with two of my favorite students after all of this. But now, on to business.” The Guardian paused for a moment, breathing slowly. “Nightmare Moon has returned, and is seeking to use Shalltear as her latest power pet.”
“What?! But how can she be still alive? Twilight and her friends defeated her with the elements of harmony. How can that monster be still alive after that?”
“As the horrid saying goes, ‘evil finds a way’. At the present moment, it doesn’t matter how she came to return, but what she’s focused on. And that is Shalltear, who has already started to combat her advances, yet via a drastic method.”
“What do you mean drastic method? What did Shalltear do?” Luna asked with a worried tone in her voice.
“She erased the past fifteen hundred years of her memory. She has no recollection of Atlas, Equestria, the Displaced, or even either of you. She doesn’t even remember becoming the vampire known as Shalltear.”
“I never thought she would so something like that, but then again it come to no surprise when you think about really.” Luna said as she rubbed her neck. “Though it’s gonna be a pain to explain things to her.”
“Maybe this is for the best,” Celestia said. “I mean granted she may have forgotten everything, but this will be a good thing seeing how Luna can protect her from Nightmare Moon.”
The Guardian nodded. “I don’t agree with her decision, but I’ve been doing my best to get her back into things. But remember, she does not recall ever having any form of relationship with either of you, no bad and no good. She’s even calling herself her original name: Veronica. And, though I hate to admit it, I may have taken advantage of her memory loss a weeeeeeee bit.”
“What did you do this time teacher?” Celestia asked. “Faust, don’t tell me you that future thing like did with before did you? Because that was a awful joke and you know it.”
“No! ...it gets old if I use it too much!” the Guardian huffed, getting giggles out of the other mares. “I… may have… told Veronica… that I’m… her……. mother….”
“....You do realize you’re gonna have to explain to her how can a pony give give birth to a vampire right?” Luna said with a deadpan expression on her face. “I mean really you decided to go and pretend to be her mother?”
“Adopted mother,” she corrected. “It’s just… I really bonded with those girls out there over the past week. I’ve grown… attached you could say. They looked up to me and depended on me. It’s been… a very long time since I’ve had that feeling.” She looked at Celestia and Luna with moist eyes. “You both were the last time I can remember having anything close to that.”
“I know, I know, but still you sure you’re up for it? I mean don’t get me wrong I know they’re not evil or anything, but you do realize that they tend to...you know? Take things a little too far in some cases.”
“I know I have a tendency to get over attached, believe me it’s gotten many hurt in a long time. But I want to show these girls that even if I’m not here, there is still someone out there that cares about them. I can’t be here forever and I will have to leave, but that doesn’t mean I won’t ever come back. I can still return when and wherever I choose or am needed. This is about them too, not just me, and they need someone to show them care and love.” The Guardian put a hoof on Celestia’s knee. “I failed you on that aspect, my little sun, but I want to show that I can do better and be there for them.”
“Ugh, I hate it when you do that. Alright fine I trust you with this, I just hope they don’t try to strangle any of the royals in Canterlot or something.” Celestia said kneeling down to hug Guardian.
The Guardian hugged back, smiling. “Thank you, Tia. I’ll do what I can.” She looked over at Luna after letting Celestia go. “Oh and Luna, check your night table drawer tonight before you retire. I left you a special gift.”
“I’ll make sure to see before I go to sleep.” Luna said as she was about to hug Guardian, only to hear a loud exploding sound coming from the ballroom. “Why do I get the feeling that a certain group of monster caused that sound.” She asked as a night guard rushed into the room.
“Princesses! We have a problem!”
“Let me guess the monsters?” Luna asked.
“No...well yes, but there’s a bit of a problem.”
“What problem?”
“There’s some kind hellish dog monster in the ballroom, and it’s fighting the countess.”
“Oh that’s not good, that’s not good at all.”
“Dog monster?” the Guardian asked. “Oh no. I have a feeling I know what form of monster has appeared.”
“We better head over to the ballroom before something bad happens to Veronica.” Celestia suggested as she teleported herself and the others to said location. As they appeared they the countess standing on one side still looking as elegant as ever. While on the other side stood a darkish gray girl with certain hellish dog like features wearing a metal like bra, and a blue daisy do shorts.
“What in the name of Equestria is that?” asked a kirin who was wearing royal garb.
“Crap the leaders are here.” Luna mumbled.
“Oh I was so hoping I was wrong. That’s a hell hound,” the Guardian said with a wince.
“What’s a hellhound?” Celestia asked.
“A literal cousin to Cerberus, only far more ruthless.”
“Celestia.” said a male zebra wearing a military like outfit. “Would you care to explain what’s going on?”
“Um...we...you see Ambassador Ardamon, this is...”
“A little scene that the monsters do whenever they’re bored of waiting.” Luna interrupted causing everyone to have a confused expression their faces. “This is just how they do things from time to time to fill the boredom. Right Guardian?”
“Hmm?” the mare said, finally paying notice to the ambassadors. “Oh, Oh yes! Yeees, that’s all. Just a little stress relief is all. You know how teenagers are,” she said, waving her hoof to give a sense of no concern.
“Are you sure that’s what they’re doing?” asked a female griffon. “If that’s the case I might actually enjoy this year’s gala for once.”
“O-Of course!” Celestia said, trying to smile with certainty. “You know how the youth can be sometimes.” the sun pony pulled Guardian to the side while the others were watching the show that Veronica and the hellhound were displaying. “What do we do now?”
“I’d say we stop them for now so they don’t make a mess, eh?” the Guardian said, trotting off in the girl’s direction. “Can’t have the party destroyed before it fully starts, right?” she grinned.
“For the love of Faust, please don’t do anything rash or bold Guardian.” pleaded Celestia, as she watch Guardian trot away.
“Is that the best you got mut!” Veronica yelled as she cracked her knuckles. “I’ve seen little colts that can fight better than you!”
“Oh I am so gonna enjoy beating you to a bloody pulp.” The Hellhound said, as her body started grow along with her fur. “Because once I’m done with you, that spider demon girl is next on the list!”
Veronica’s eyes widen as she saw the Hellhound starting to grow by the second. “Great, so she’s one of those kind of monster. If push comes to shove, I might have to pull out my armor for this fight.” The Countess snapped her fingers as she summoned her lance into her hand, and pointed it at the hellhound girl.
“NOW YOU FACE THE TRUE FIRES OF HELL THEMSELVES!” The Hellhound roared as she was about to charge at the countess, until a certain time mare interrupted her. “What the?!”
“Now now ladies,” the Guardian said, stepping between the vampire and hound. “Is this really something you should be doing at a party like this? I’m sure we can work something out, can’t we?” She smiled at Veronica then at the Hellhound… who backhanded the mare a moment later, firing the Guardian through a far wall.
“I DON’T KNOW WHO THE FUCK YOU ARE PONY, BUT STAY OUT OF THIS FIGHT! THIS IS BETWEEN MONSTERS, NOT SISSY PONIES LIKE YOU!”
“Oh she is so gonna get it now.” Rebecca said while hiding behind a table.
“Dead girl walking.” Janelle commented.
“I hope Guardian doesn’t kill the poor girl,” Sally said.
The dust around the new hole in the wall began to clear, allowing everypony to see the Guardian’s limp body covered in debris and broken stones. From where the girls were standing, it didn’t even look like she was breathing.
“Oh shit, don’t tell me she’s dead?” Suzy asked as she appeared next to the limp pony.
Veronica’s eyes turned scarlet red as she charged at the hellhound, getting ready to kill her. “BASTARD! YOU’LL PAY FOR WHAT YOU DID TO MY MOTHER!”
“Heh, I like to see you try.” With a grin on her face, the hellhound charged at the countess. “But then again you’ll just end up like her any!” just as the countess was in striking range, the hellhound surprised her with an uppercut sending her flying to ceiling. Before Veronica could hit the ceiling, the hellhound appeared above striking her down to the floor like a volleyball. “HA! Just as I thought, you’re just as weak as these ponies are!” she said, landing next to the countess as she picked her up by the throat. “Now then, any last words before I kill you and bring your body to my mistress?” Something suddenly struck the hound in the back of the head. “Who dares to hit me from behind?!” she yelled as she looked around to see who did that. When she looked behind her, though, she sorely wished she hadn’t.
The doors to the castle gardens were wide open, a blazing thunderstorm raging outside while a certain pink filly was glaring at the Hellhound with eyes of the purest fury. The very air around everyone felt charged with magic and power as Screwball’s hair began to flow in the fierce wind that was blowing in from the magical storm. The floor beneath her hooves began to crack and break, transforming into either animals or inanimate objects that were brushed aside as she made her way towards the Hellhound. “You hurt the Guardian. Now I’m going to hurt you.”
“You are so gonna get wrecked.” Veronica said, as she was dropped to the floor head first. “Ow!”
“O-Oh s-so you think you can take me on kid?” The hellhound asked, trying not to be afraid.
“My name is not ‘kid’,” she said, her voice lacking any emotion. “It’s Screwball, the daughter of Discord.”
“W-Well then Screwball, prepare to get wreck just like that stupid mare just did.” The hellhound said, as she charged at the pink filly, with her now burning hand getting ready to punch Screwball in the face.
“My money’s on the offspring of Discord.” Suzy said as a both appeared in front of her. “Place your bets mares and gentlecolts!”
Before the hellhound knew it, she ended up stepping on a banana peel and slipping a few meters before landing on her butt. Upon landing, a loud flatulence sound rang out, making her look down to see a whoopie cushion under her. “Hey fur face! Catch!” Screwball shouted before throwing a brown cylinder at her.
The hellhound eyes widen, as her dog like instincts forced her to jump into the air and grab the cylinder with her mouth. The moment she did that, she heard a loud hissing sound coming from it. “.....I hate you so much right now.” she said as the cylinder exploded. Sending her straight into a wall. “Ow….so much pain.” A giant, green, rubbery hand slapped itself to her chest and yanked her down to the floor. Then it slammed her against a far wall then to the opposite wall before going back to the floor again.
Screwball was now floating, surrounded by pure chaos magic as she her now pure yellow eyes stared at the Hellhound. “You hurt the one pony to ever give me a chance. Who ever takes me seriously. All she ever does is help everyone at the cost of herself and you hurt her. For that, I will show you the true terror, of chaos!”
“W-Would it help if i said I was sorry?” The hellhound asked while trying to recover from Screwball’s attacks. “I-I was just following orders kid, that’s all.”
Before the filly could retort, the Guardian’s voice rang out, “Screwy, that’s enough!” All eyes turned to see Suzy supporting a limping Guardian, battered and bruised from the early attack as well as a thin trail of blood from her lip. “You’ve won, Screwy. Now power down. You’re not him, remember? You’re better than this.”
Slowly the energy around Screwball began to fade whilst she floated back down to the floor. The raging storm died away as well, with all of the damage Screwball had caused magically restoring itself. The little filly quickly ran over to the Guardian and hugged her, crying and sobbing into the mare’s barrel.
“Shh, shh, it’s alright, I’m fine. Just a little banged up is all,” the Guardian cooed, rubbing Screwball’s back soothingly.
“Called it.” Suzy said with a grin on her face. “It’ll take more than that to bring that pony down.”
“H-How? That should of kept you down for at least a few hours or so.” The hellhound said, still shaken up by what happen to her moments ago.
The Guardian gave a weary smile. “It takes more than that to keep me down. I’ve been hit much harder than that, ya wimp.”
“What did you call me yeah-!” before the hellhound could say anything she felt herself returning back to her normal form. “Dammit, not now! I can’t lose like this.”
“You’ve lost, young one,” the Guardian said. “Surrender before you make things worse for yourself.”
“I-I can’t, if I do mistress will put me in another nightmare loop again for disobeying an order.” The hellhound said as she lowered her head in fear.
The Guardian looked over to Celestia, giving the princess a nod.
“And that my ponies concludes today’s scene that our little monster played out. Now while we leave our honored monsters to tend to their wounds or possible wounds. How about we move to the dining hall and have ourselves a feast.” Celestia said as she and Luna motion everypony and important leader to the dining hall.
“We’ll leave you with the hellhound, see if you can get her to tell us what happen to her and the whereabouts of Nightmare Moon.” asked Luna, as she left the room with Celestia.
The Guardian sighed wearily. “I’m getting too old for this stuff. Alright madam hellhound, what’s your name and how are you connected to Nightmare Moon?”
“My name is Monica Amamiya, as to my connection with Nightmare Moon. She was the one that let me out of tartarus when Sunbutt put me there for the way I look. Normally I wouldn’t work for anyone, but seeing how Nightmare Moon had that nightmare loop thing….well I pretty much didn’t have a choice in the matter.”
“Well, I’d say you have a choice now.”
“What do you mean by that?”
“From the look of things, I’d say you have two choices,” the Guardian stated. “At the present moment, you can choose between either being locked away in the Canterlot dungeons and endure Nightmare Moon’s punishment in a cold cell where only the guards can hear you scream. Or…” The mare smiled kindly at her. “You can join us. Fight against the mare of darkness and show her that you are not her puppet.”
“*Sigh* I don’t have much of a choice do I?” Monica said as she looked away. “Fine, I’ll join your little crusade of yours.”
“It’s not my crusade,” the mare chuckled. “It’s theirs. But don’t mistake their inexperience. Inside, they have the heart of the monsters they’ve been transformed into. With your power on their side, Nightmare Moon will never be able to torture you nor anypony else ever again. You’ll also gain some very good friends.”
“......Is she always like this with corniness?”
“Sometime, but she adorable when she does that.” Suzy replied.
The Guardian grinned. “It may be corny, but why fix what isn’t broke, savvy?”
“Stop calling me that, you know I hate it when someone calls me that.”
The time mare deadpanned at Suzy who was smiling innocently. Eventually, the Guardian sighed, muttering, “Dang cats.”
“I heard that my little time mare~.”
“Call me that again and I won’t buy you that collar with the little bell you wanted.”
“Alright I won’t call you that again.”
“These people are either stupid, insane, or both.” Monica thought as she turned her attention at Guardian. “So now what?”
“Now? Well, I suppose we go back to enjoying a pleasant evening of course.” She smiled, though with a slight wince. “It’s still a party. Might as well have our fun while we can. Suzy, be a lamb and tell the princesses everything has been handled.”
“Do it yourself, you have legs don’t you?” Suzy said while sticking her tongue at the time mare playfully.
“Yes, but at the moment, I’m pretty sure three are strained and one is definitely broken.” The mare winced again. “I may be standing, but I am in unDeathly amounts of pain.”
“Ugh, fine I’ll go to the princesses. You know for all powerful pony, you are so fragile.” In a blink of an eye, the cheshire cat left the room to get Celestia and Luna.
“Teenagers,” the mare sighed, shaking her head.
“Maybe I can help with your broken leg?” Veronica said as she placed a hand on Guardians broken leg. [“Regeneration!”] A green aura appeared around them both as the damage they received from Monica slowly started to heal. “How’s that?”
“Well I don’t feel like passing out from pain anymore, so I’d say you did a wonderful job.” The Guardian nuzzled Veronica’s cheek for a moment. “Thank you.”
“You’re welcome, mother.”
“Okay not that that’s taken care of, I suggest we head over to the dining hall before they run out of food.” said Rebecca as she began to walk out of the room. “Because something tells me that they’re gonna run out of meat real soon.”
“You all go on ahead. I’m gonna get Screwball to a guest room,” the Guardian said, looking down at the filly that had cried herself to sleep against her chest. “The poor dear is exhausted.”
“After what happen a few minutes ago, I’m not surprised.” Veronica said, as she motion the others to follow her to the dining hall. “Try not to be late for dinner mother, that alicorn with the sun on her butt looked like she wanted to talk to you later.”
“Yes dear,” the Guardian smiled, watching them leave before trotting off to another room. She gently laid Screwball under the covers of the king sized bed, smiling more as the filly snuggled unconsciously into the soft pillow and warm blankets. The Guardian brushed some of the hair from Screwy’s eyes. “What am I gonna do with you?” she said softly. A burst of pain washed over the Guardian as her spells finally wore off, causing the mare to fall into unconsciousness on the floor next to the bed.
(Dream World)
“Hey….hey! Wake up pony!” yelled a young but raspy voice. “I know you can hear me Guardian, so wake up.”
It took a lot of effort and groaning, but the Guardian finally brought herself to open her eyes and take a look at her surroundings, as well as search for the being rudely waking her up.
“Finally you woke up. I thought I had to do the bucket of water thing on you.”
“Who are you? And why are you waking me up? You whippersnappers need to respect your elders!”
“Oh I’m so afraid of the old hag.” the voice said as it made itself visible to Guardian. Standing in front of her was a small female child with light purplish pale, white snow color hair, and a hood cape. “Haven’t seen you in a while Guardian.”
“Oh, we’ve met? Was I older or younger?”
“Does the word the grim reaper ring a bell? Or are to old to even remember him?”
She giggled. “You’re going to have to be far more specific. I’ve met several entities of death.”
“The one where you punched my dad in the face when he was trying to tell you something 50,000 years ago. Ring a bell you crazy old bat?!”
“Ohhh, that grim reaper… he’s not still sore about that is he?”
“I don’t know why don’t you ask him seeing how he’s oh i don’t know. NOTHING MORE THAN A FUCKING HEAD NOW!” The lich girl yelled sarcastically. “I mean really who blows someone up just like that?”
“Well sorry, I was going through an angry phase back then! Different regeneration, different Guardian! I most certainly am not her anymore.”
“Oh sure blame it on the regeneration thing why don’t yeah? Figures. Not only do I have to keep an eye on Veronica, but now thanks to you I have fill in my dad shoes and be ready for when you kick the bucket.”
The Guardian gave the grave keeper a strange look with a quirked brow and her head tilted to the side. “Me? Why would I be on your list? Especially with the many regenerations I have left.”
“There are two paths for your death and it pretty on the when the end of time comes, or you die from living the rest of your life in peace. You’re on the end of time thing which won’t be happening anytime soon.” The grave keeper open her book to see if she was correct. “Yep says her you won’t kick the bucket until…..well I can’t give an accurate date, but it happens during your final regeneration cycle.” she said trying not to laugh that she’s trolling the pony.
The Guardian nodded with her lower lip slightly out, thinking it over. “Doesn’t sound too bad to me.”
“Yeah, which I’m dreading the moment you kick the bucket.” She said slamming the book close. “After all stuff you done in the past and stuff whether it was good or bad. You’re still going up to big kingdom in the heavens. Then again what I’m dreading the most is I have do my father’s job and keep Veronica and her friends alive.”
“I thought that was their mother’s job?” the Guardian said with a grin.
“I mean death wise jerk face. Those little monsters save Equestria and gain a little immortality boost from killing Nightmare Moon and her plot to take over the omniverse. Then again that machine she makes wasn’t going to work, but it would cause some problems in the omniverse. And lord know I don’t want a repeat of displaced wars. Gremmy is kinda of pissed that made him into a four legged pony, and Derpy is still calling me because she thinks I’m the muffin god.” The grave keeper narrowed her eyes at the time mare. “And it all your fault.”
She chuckled again. “Take a number. I have many people giving me that line. I only do what I feel is right. As for Gremmy, I’m honestly surprised he’s still alive, but beggars can’t be choosers. Just don’t tell him where I am, we didn’t end our friendship on the best of notes, after all.”
“He’s imagination incarnation, it’ll take more than a monster like Drake to kill him. And for the record he still see you as friend, he was just mad that you hit him below the belt…..five time” The grave keeper said as she handed her a letter. “He also wanted me to give you this letter, and says he want to see you at this location in the Equestria Girls universe. Personally I would go and make up for what happen, just like how you did with Celestia four days ago.”
The Guardian took the letter and stuffed it behind her mane. “I’ll think about it. Now then, why is you’ve brought me here? It surely can’t be to try and give me spoilers or to complain about your job. So, what’s the real reason?”
“Guess I can’t keep anything from the Great Guardian huh? Well the reason why I’m here is because of Veronica’s alternate future really.” The grave keeper said with a grim expression on her face.
“Oh no, don’t you dare tell me about any futures,” the Guardian warned. “You reapers and other beings may not believe in set time, but I have seen it in action in the worst of ways. Once you tell me the future, it is set and there’s nothing I can do to change it. I don’t want to hear any spoilers.”
“Not that, you crazy idiot! I’m warning about her evil self from an alternate timeline where she’s evil. This happens a few years after she kills Nightmare Moon with the help of Lance.”
The Guardian dragged a hoof down her face. “Alright… I’m listening.”
“You remember this being in the history books called Crystal right?”
A calming breath was taken in by the pony. “Yes, I very clearly remember that Displaced. What of her? She died long ago, why bring her up now?”
“Imagine Veronica like that, but different. Instead of causing a war, or stealing other Displaced powers and junk. She’s pretty much going to other Equestria and stealing energy from the mane six, the elements of harmony, the tree of harmony and royal sister’s along with Cadence. She’s pretty much a power junky that does from world to world doing it over and over again. Worse part is whenever a Displaced try to stop her….they meet a fate worse than death.”
The Guardian gulped, slightly pale. “O-oh dear.” She sighed, shaking her head. “I never thought the past here was that bad. This is why I haven’t time traveled through Displaced universes. There’s so much that isn’t recorded that is absolutely horrible.”
“This Veronica is fine, but her evil future self is on her way here for her. And I’ll say this much, compare to Crystal. If she were to meet Alt Veronica, she would be nothing more than a small boat against a giant tidal wave.”
The Guardian was desperately trying to fight off tears now, sniffling as the worst of thoughts started flooding her mind.”Please… please tell me what I can do. I don’t want to lose her, or any of them. What can I possibly do to help them?”
“There are two that can help you with this. One being a certain imaginative pony that you hit below the belt, and a cross-eyed mare that can help Veronica to be able to have a fighting chance against herself.” The grave keeper said as she notice a uneasy look Guardian’s face. “Look those two are the only ones that are at the same level as her, so whatever pride you have left just swallow it and go get Gremmy’s help. I know Derpy doesn’t mind helping, but even she can’t protect Veronica’s friends alone.”
“I’ll… I’ll do anything to protect my girls,” the Guardian said with determination.
“Good, now in about one week you’ll need to come and get Veronica and her friends. This little 20 year window opportunity is only one you’ll get to have them train their asses off. You need to take them to Derpy’s Equestria seeing how she won’t follow them there due to her having the powers of Shitama from one punch man. But it’s also the closest world where it acts like a hyperbolic time chamber for Displaced.”
“I’ll do what I can,” the Guardian said. “I’m a mare affecting the past here. I should only perform so much, but I will do what I must to ensure a brighter future for them… until the inevitable.”
“Which I’m pretty sure won’t happen until the end time like you, but anyway just keep them there in Maretropolis with Derpy for 4 years or so. After that bring only Veronica, Suzy, and Monica with you. The rest will watch from inside your TARDIS until the fight is over.”
The Guardian nodded in understanding. “I will return when I can to help them, that I can promise.”
“That good to hear, at least this version of her I can save this time.”
“Is that all?” the Guardian asked, sounding hopeful.
“Yep that’s pretty much it in a nutshell really. Oh and if you see your sister tell her that I’m not here in this world.”
She chuckled without any humor. “I have no siblings, Reaper. Your kind know that more than anyone.”
“True, but that doesn’t mean we can’t accidentally hit a time paradox bubble, or accidentally fall into other Displaced timelines and get ourselves caught into whatever it is they’re doing. Oh and my name is Azula not reaper if I haven’t got the chance to tell you my name.” She said while rubbing her next. “And when I met your sister, she wouldn’t stop cuddling me.”
“...If I see that woman, I’ll be sure to mention it,” was all the mare said.
“Good, now if you’ll excuse me, I have job to do that you made me do you little monster of a troll.”
“Blame the old one, not me. She was a different pony from me.”
“She still you you crazy old….you know what fuck it. I’m gonna go before I will say some I will regret.” Azula said as her body start to disappeared. “Just do what I just told you to, and don’t tell Veronica this until after a week. Also don’t become a bitter old mare around Veronica and her friends when you hit your final regeneration. That was main reason why there was an evil Veronica appearing in her alternate future timeline.”
The Guardian chuckled again. “That life is a long ways away. Besides, have you met me?” She grinned. “As if I could ever be bitter. It has been nice meeting you, Azula, but you should get back to work. Don’t want to get on Hades’ bad side would you?”
“Ugh don’t remind me, but still I have seen a lot being like you that lived long and as time marches on they become bitter old beings with no love left to give..we to certain being. Just promise me that you won’t do that to Veronica okay?”
“I would never give up my love for Veronica and the others. And don’t you dare ever insinuate that I ever would again.”
“Okay, okay, I just want to be sure that’s all. Anyway I’m going, oh and while you were asleep, I did a little prank on you. Seeya!” With that the lich disappeared into nothingness. As Guardian woke up from the dream she was in. Upon waking up she notice that she was in a different room than the one she was in moments ago. To what she could tell it looked similar to Veronica’s room back in Ponyville, only blue with the night guard symbols around the room.
“You’re awake!” Veronica said as she appeared next to Guardian. “I was worried something happened to you when you didn’t return after an hour had passed.”
“I’m alright, I’m alright,” she said, slowing sitting up. “My spells wore off and all the pain crashed down upon me all at once. It was overwhelming and my mind shut down because of it. Sorry if I worried you, my little blood sucker.”
“D-Don’t call me that.” Veronica said blushing from the nickname Guardian gave her. “It’s so embarrassing.”
“You’re my child, it’s my job to embarrass you.”
“Ugh!” Before Veronica could reply a certain hellhound banged at the door.
“Hey! Is the mare up?! If she is tell her that her friend Screwball won’t stop asking me for a piggyback ride, and I’m getting annoyed by it.”
“You attacked a gala and slammed me into a wall. So you’d better give that filly a piggyback ride or I’ll get out the dog whistle!” the Guardian called out.
“Alright damn! You make one mistake and you get branded as bad guy because you don’t want to get killed by a nightmarish alicorn.” Monica said as she began to walk off.
“Don’t you think you could go easy on her mother? I mean she did what she did out of fear and all, so you could at least not bite her head off.”
“Oh that was to just to get her to do it. If she didn’t, Screwball was gonna make me give her a piggyback ride. And those can be quite terrifying.”
“I’m afraid to ask, but how terrifying are they with her?”
“Do you recall from your memories of Earth of a smart device app known as ‘Robot Unicorn Attack’?”
“Yeah but what does that have to do with...oh shit Monica might be dead right now.”
“Mother of Celestia! What is that little filly doing with that monster!” yelled a random zebra guard from outside the room. “Oh no! She coming this way!”
“Someone help me?!” Monica cried. “This evil pony won’t stop making me move like this!”
Veronica looked at her mother with a deadpan. “You’re evil, you know that?”
The Guardian clicked her tongue with a wink and nod before getting out of bed. “Let’s go, shall we, my dear? If my memory serves, Tia wished to speak with me before I passed out. Better late than never, right?”
“Fair enough, I’m pretty sure she wants to introduce you to the other leader before the night is over.”
“Well that’ll be fun!” the Guardian said, leading Veronica out of the room. “Mayhaps I’ll tell them a tale! Should scare the buggers right!”
“This is going to be a long night I can feel it.”
(Hours later)
Hours past as the Grand Galloping Gala was coming to a close. To Celestia surprise the ambassadors from the Zebra, Griffon, Kirin, and Minotaur nations actually got along with the six monsters. Hell even the Queen Sakura asked for Veronica hand in marriage, but was quickly shot down when Guardian interrupted and told her she was not ready for marriage. Still that didn’t stop her from giving Veronica her number when the time was right. Other than that, everything went well. Well almost everything if don’t mind a few guards knocked out or were sent flying do to Screwball’s piggyback ride adventure. But anyway our little monsters were outside of Canterlot Castle, as they said their good-byes to Guardian and Screwball.
“Do you really have to go mother?” Veronica asked, trying not to cry. “C-Can’t you stay for a few more days or so?”
“I really do,” the Guardian nodded, smiling back at her. “I have a duty to protect and defend any world I can. As well as a promise to show Screwball all over the Displaced multiverse. I have my own responsibility, Veronica. But this isn’t goodbye, do you understand me?” she asked softly.
“I know but,” Tears started to flow down her face as she rushed over to Guardian, and hugged her. “I don’t want you to go, Mother!”
The pony felt tears beginning to fall from her own eyes as she hugged the vampire back. “I know. I know,” she whispered. “But I’ll be back soon. In fact, I promise you that I’ll be back in one week’s time. How’s that sound?”
“*Sniff Sniff* P-Promise?” The Countess asked, as she whipped away her own tears.
“Cross my heart, hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye,” the Guardian recited from memory.
“Okay, I’ll trust you to keep your word about it.” Veronica said, as she let go of the time mare.
“Be sure to come and visit us from time to time teacher.” Celestia said as she and Luna hugged the time mare.
“Oh, I’ll be back before you know it for you two,” the Guardian chuckled, wiping away her tears. “How exactly did you think we were spending the week together when I’ve been with our monsters the whole week?”
“Fair enough old friend.”
“Bring back some cool stuff for us from you adventures.” Suzy said appearing on Guardian’s back. “We want something to remember from your adventures you been on while you’re away.”
The Guardian let out a loud laugh. “I’ve got more trinkets than I know what to do with in this old girl!” she said, patting the shed. “I’ve got storage rooms upon storage rooms upon storage rooms of junk I’ve gathered from my travels. Remind me next week and I’ll let you all go treasure hunting through them. Find anything cool that’s not dangerous, you can keep it… if I don’t feel I need it. Probably not, most of that is kept in… where do I keep those again?” She started going off into tangent after tangent, talking purely to herself as she paced in front of them.
“We’ll be sure to reminder next week.” Rebecca said as she waved at the time mare. “Do be careful on your adventures, and try not to cause too much trouble.”
“Since when do I cause trouble?”
“You really want the answer to that?”
“Hush Screwy.”
“Just sayin’...”
“Says the little filly that caused a lot of trouble in Canterlot while riding a hellhound.” Suzy said, while trying not to laugh.
“Hey! I’m a chaos spawn, it’s basically a part of being born that I have to cause trouble. Time Lords are supposed to prevent trouble!” Screwball defended.
“And how’s that working out for yeah?”
“Suzy don’t piss off Screwball,” Monica said while cracking her back. “It’s bad enough I was her play toy, I don’t need to have her think of something else to do that involves me.”
Screwball giggled maniacally as the Guardian rolled her eyes. “Anyway, we’d best be off for now. But I just want you all to know, that I care about each and everyone of you. You’re all my girls, all of your precious to me in every possible way. And yes, that goes for you too, Monica.”
“W-Whatever,” Monica said while blushing. “J-Just go and try not to get yourself killed on you adventures.”
“Safe travels Guardian!” Sally said waving goodbye to her and Screwball.
“Bring back some good food too.” Janelle said as she waved goodbye as well.
“We’ll see you all soon enough!” the Guardian and Screwball said, waving as they entered the TARDIS. They all watched as the engines roared, the shed slowly disappearing before their eyes. And like that, they were gone.
Chapter 8: Personal Problems
Chapter 8: Personal Problems
A few months have passed since the monster girls became residents in Ponyville. So far nothing odd or weird has happened yet since then. Well despite Suzy, Pinkie Pie, and Rainbow Dash pranking the towns folk in Ponyville, Veronica accidentally turning Fluttershy into a vamp pony, Rebecca chasing Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon with a butcher knife, and Sally, Janelle, and Monica pretty much just sometime steal apples from Applejack farm from time to time, and Celestia releasing a lot of innocent monsters from their imprisonment. But other then that everything seems to be a normal average day in Ponyville...well almost perfect as Equestria’s Countess was busy covering herself in blankets.
“Little master! It’s time to get up!” Vinyl said as she knocked on the countess’s door.
“I’m not coming out!”
“Oh come on little master. I know it’s winter and you hate it, but you can’t stay in there all winter like a bear.”
“Watch me!”
“Any luck Vinyl?” asked Octavia.
“No good, she still won’t come out.” said Vinyl as she sigh.
“Well what do we do now? We can’t just leave her in there for the entire winter.”
“Don’t worry, I have an idea on how to get her out.” Vinyl said as she rushed outside.
“Vinyl, what are you doing?”
“I’m going to drop that base that’s what!”
“...Oh dear Celestia.” Octavia rushed outside to see Vinyl with a base cannon pointed at Veronica’s room. “Are you insane!”
“To some degree yes, but I think this will get the little master out of her room.”
“By blasting her with your base cannon?!”
“Well I don’t see you coming up with any ideas on how to get her out of the freaking room.”
“I was gonna bait her with food!”
“Oh...well too bad I’m going with this plan.” With a flick of a button, Vinyl activated her bass cannon as it hit Veronica’s room with wubs of destruction. “You think that worked?”
“WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?!”
“Does that answer your question VInyl?” Octavia asked as she turned her attention at the Countess. “Good morning Master.”
“Don’t you good morning me you little bitches. Mind telling me why you blasted my room with wubs?”
“I can explain that...it was Vinyl’s idea to do that.”
“Really? Why don’t you back a bus up on me why don’t yeah?”
“I don’t care who did what. Right now you two are going to fix my room by the time I get back.”
“Ah what? Why do I have to do it?” Vinyl asked.
“Because you’re the one that hit my room with her quote on quote wubs of destruction. ” Veronica said as she snapped her fingers, causing her nightgown to change into winter clothing. “I’ll be at Twilight’s Castle until you’re done.”
“You need me to make you some hot chocolate when you get back?” Octavia asked.
“You might as well make seven seeing how you two will need it after fixing my room.” With that The Countess made her way down the snowy of her home. “Stupid winter, stupid snow, stupid cold temperature. Who the dumbass that created winter in the first place?”
“I’m pretty sure it was mother nature that thought of it, but then again I don’t think that applies here in Equestria.”
“What do you want Suzy?” Veronica said as the cheshire cat girl’s head appears in thin air.
“What? Can’t a fellow monster sister check in on her favorite little countess?”
“Only when you done something to piss somepony off. So what’s up this time?”
“Relax, I’m not here because of something bad I did...this time. I’m just here to see how you’re feeling.”
“And like I told you and the girls, I’m fine.”
“You sure? Because after you read the chapters in your journal about your...well….”
“How I was raped and made a person sex toy for Equestria’s world government?” Veronica answered, causing the cheshire’s expression to darken a bit. “I take it you’re here because you want to know what I’m planning to do about it?”
“Look it’s not that I hate Celestia or anything, but you been acting kinda moody whenever she comes to visit or when Twilight been asking you certain questions.”
“Your point?”
“My point is that you still hold some hatred towards her after what happen. The girls and I have seen the way you look at Celestia.”
“I don’t know what the hell you’re talking about Suzy, but I would recommend changing the subject.”
Not until you tell me what’s wrong between you and Celestia.”
“I’m fine Suzy. There’s nothing wrong with me and Celestia.”
“Oh really? Then why are your eyes glowing scarlet red along with a bloodlust aura around you right now?” Suzy said as Veronica looked at herself in surprise. “Now will you explain?”
“Fine.” Veronica took a deep breath, before answering. “After reading the journal of what happen to me in the past, and what Celestia did us. I pretty much hate her.” She said as she balled her fists. “I hate her so much that I want to turn her into a vampire, kill her, bring her back to life, and kill her again until she’s nothing but a pile of flesh.”
“You know mother won’t allow that, nor would she like that you would even think about doing that.”
“No shit captain obvious. That the second reason why I can’t do that.”
“What’s the first reason?” Veronica didn’t answer as she looked away with a blush on her face. “It’s Princess Luna isn’t it?”
“....Maybe.”
“You have a crush on her don’t you?”
“Shut up! I do not have a crush on her! S-She’s just the first pony that ever been nice to me, that’s all.”
“Sure it is?” Suzy said sarcastically.
“If you’re done with this idle chatting, I’m going to Twilight’s Castle until my room is repaired.”
“What do you mean by that?”
“Vinyl blew my room up with her bass cannon.”
“Well that’s what you get for hiding in your room for most of the winter season. You have been in there since September.”
“Well I don’t like the cold, so I’m going to be in my room until Winter Wrap up begins.”
“Which won’t be until next year seeing how it’s December first.” Suzy said which caused Veronica to turn her head, and glare at the cheshire cat. “What? You know it’s true. You have to wait until next year for them to start it.”
“Well be prepare to see me in my room until next year then.”
“Unless somepony forces you to get out.” She mumbled only for The Countess to throw a snowball at her. “Hey!”
“If you’re going to talk about something involving me, then you might want to do it someplace where I can’t hear you.”
“Whatever.” Suzy said as she stuck her tongue out at the countess. “Anyway you might want to talk to Luna about this. After all she still cares about her sister, and you don’t to lose the only royal friend that was actually nice to you.” With that the cheshire cat vanished into thin air. “We prefer not to have a war between monsters and ponies like it was 1,000 years ago.”
“Fucking cat. She needs to mind her own business and worry about herself.” Veronica said as she begun her walk towards Twilight’s place.
(Twilight’s Castle)
“So you’re gonna be staying here until your room is fixed?” asked Twilight as she handed Veronica a cup of hot chocolate.
“Not like I have a choice in the matter really.” She said as she took a sip from her cup. “I don’t like winter that much, and my room was the only place where I can stay in until next year.”
“Why not just go into one of your friends room if your room is being rebuild?”
“Nothing against my friends, but I prefer not to stay in a room where I’m woken up by either loud music or something exploding near me.”
“....Um.”
“Don’t ask, it’ll just be a long story that’ll take about a day or two to explain. But I will say this though as a warning. Never share a room with Suzy or Janelle, they will do write stuff on your face when you’re asleep. Took me hours trying to get the marker stuff off my face.”
“Okay, I’ll take your word for it.” Twilight said as she took a sip from her cup of hot chocolate.
“So can I stay here until spring or what?”
“I’m sure Barbara doesn’t mind having you stay with her in her room until then. She doesn’t come out sometimes during winter as well, so you two can keep each other company until then.”
“Perfect, then I’ll be in Barbara’s room until then.” Veronica said as she levitated toward the dragoness room.
“Do you even know where her room is?”
“It’s not that hard to find someone, especially when you can see their heartbeat from a mile away.”
Chapter 9: Relapse
“Ugh… Damn paperwork…” A half awake Twilight Sparkle groaned to herself. She had been trying to take care of something that the Princess had requested for her to accomplish and had been pulling an all nighter to where she was right now half awake. “Why am I stuck with having to do this? My brother is helping Cadence during her maternity leave and I’m stuck with this… Man, life isn’t fair at times.
“Well what do you expect when you’re the nerd of the family.” Veronica said as she appeared behind Twilight.
“And just when I thought it would be Barbara with my morning coffee…” The Alicorn groaned, closing a book she had before applying a seal on it. “What are you doing up this morning?” She asked.
“Barbara kept on kick me in the face, so I couldn’t stay in until the afternoon. Also, be prepared to see her walking in from outside.”
“And just when I thought I had to handle one excruciating headache today,” Twilight groaned, dragging herself into the kitchen and leaving her work unattended.
“So what’s you up to Twily?” She asked, before a bolt of magic barely missed her face.
“First warning… Only my brother calls me Twily. Not you.” She groaned.
“Geez, what did you have this morning? Wheat constituted bitch?”
“No… A case of morning paperwork that had me pull an all nighter while you were trying to sleep.” The Alicorn groaned. “The royal parliament is trying to clean up a major mess now that one of it’s members is dead.”
“Which one is dead?”
“A prick of a stallion if you ask me,” Twilight said, using her magic to levitate the creamer she was using over to where she was. “Want some coffee?”
“Eh, sure. It’s been awhile since I had some.” Twilight then nodded, getting a second cup for Shalltear as she poured the hot coffee.
“Cream and sugar as well?”
“What am I Sweetie Belle? Surprise me.” Taking the notion, Twilight added in a small amount of cream while placing it on the nearby table. For her, she needed two sugars and some cream for her to properly function at this hour in the morning.
“You do know you could’ve gotten somepony else to do that paperwork. Octavia might be able to help with that.”
“Well, last I heard, she was busy having to undergo some tasks for Princess Celestia. Not to mention that Princess Luna is reforming the Night Guard and Cadence is on Maternity leave with her foal. And yes, she is pregnant.” Twilight replied. “This whole mess with the dead parliament runs deep.”
“Well that’s how it is with the government. It’s always corrupted with something.”
“Yeah, but this is a different case. This Stallion had friends in the guard to allow him to get away with many offenses. Including fraud of the royal treasurey, sexual Harrassment and Rape.”
“And Celestia was this gullible and stupid to let this stuff get pass her?”
“Actually, he was straight up lying to her in her face. I told her personally that he was not to be trusted, but now she’s learning the hard way.” Twilight groaned. “Goddess damned Blueblood…”
“From what I read in my journal this Blueblood guy is dead so why should they be doing stuff like this for a dead guy?”
“Many of his victims are still alive, so we need to-.” Twilight was speaking, until she noticed Shalltear shaking a little, almost dropping her coffee. “Shalltear, are you okay?”
“........” Shalltear said nothing as tears began to appear around her eyes.
“Shalltear? Shalltear, you’re making me worried. What’s wrong?”
“.......I remember everything.” Shalltear said as a crimson aura appeared around herself. “So what the journal was saying was true then.”
“S-shalltear, what are you talking about-!?” Twilight asked, panicking to herself a little now as she watched the aura radiate from the vampire.
“Twilight….where is Celestia now?”
“S-she’s overseeing day court proceedings in Canterlot.” She told her, a little worried and scared. “I can write a letter to her on your behalf though-.”
“Don’t.” Shalltear said coldly as the atmosphere around Twilight began to freeze. “I’m going up there myself to have a…… personal talk with her.”
“W-wait!” Twilight tried to interject. “Let me at least come with you. If you barge in there unannounced, it will disrupt current proceedings. I can get her to talk to you on the side and have Luna take over in the courtroom. Plus, wouldn’t you burn with the sun out?”
“I’m not a low level vampire! And unless you want to get caught up in my wrath, then I suggest you stay clear of me until I’m done talking with Celestia.” Shalltear roared, before storming past Twilight and disappearing a few minutes later. Leaving the Alicorn to stare at what just happened in disbelief.
“W-what went wrong… Oh horseapples, what did I do wrong?”
(Canterlot, Royal Court)
“And that is why we should place the monsters in a separate town where we don’t need to deal with them.”
“I acknowledge that you have some concerns with them, Mr. Pocket Watch,” Princess Celestia replied. “However, there is no evidence as of right now to support your claims. I am taking it as a possible consideration, but as of right now, there isn’t anything to back up your suggestion. Case dismissed…” The Alicorn then took a brief sigh, feeling something in the air as she soon made a small announcement in the courtroom. “Court will now take a one hour recess and will resume once this recess has been finished.”
With that, she began to step down away from the podium and walk back towards her room and catch her breath. But when she opened her eyes, she said one word. A name. One that she knew was in the same room that she was in.
“Veronica?” She said, turning around.
“That’s Shalltear to you maggot.”
That caught Celestia by surprise. “W-what’s with the abrupt response? Is something wrong?” She asked.
“I remember everything. Everything that involved about my past in Equestria, and especially what you did to me.”
“W-what!? I never laid a hand on you!” Celestia snapped. “Why would I want to harm you, Shalltear?! I respect you!”
“Oh? So that wasn’t you that sealed me in a coffin for the past one thousand years then?”
“I mean now! I made mistakes back when I first became a princess. Mistakes I regret… Shalltear, why do you remember these things? It was you
“Maybe…… but.” Shalltear appeared in front of Celestia and grabbed her by the throat. “That was something I starting to regret doing. And you’re gonna pay for fucking my childhood and life up in Equestria. You may have gotten away with it then, but now it’s payback time.”
“O-oh…? What about Luna then? What do you think she will do when she see’s that you killed her sister. Someone she sees as family...”
“Who said I was going to kill you? Oh no my dear little princess, I’m going to beat the living hell out of you.” It was then though that Shalltear noticed something. Something that she did not see before. She was seeing the fur on Celestia’s body fade, instead revealing burned and singed skin that was turn multiple times. Wounds that left permenant scars.
“You think you can hurt me? I’ve been hurt worse than I’ve ever had to handle before… You know why? It was when Luna turned into Nightmare Moon. When she gave into her anger… But do you really want to know the reason why she turned… It wasn’t her jealousy towards me…” She said, now pushing Shalltear off. “She changed because the jealousy in her was inspired by what you did to Atlas Star… You created Nightmare Moon.”
“Don’t you fucking dare blame me for what happened to Luna. You should’ve done something other than just give that bastard a slap on the wrist after what he and his friends did to me you bitch!” Shalltear’s grip on Celestia’s throat tighten until she heard a familiar voice from behind.
“THAT’S ENOUGH!!! ” A new voice boomed throughout the room, as Shalltear turned to see Luna. “My sister is not a liar and I will not tolerate you treating her like one. Details of everything that Blueblood’s family had done are now coming to life and we are now taking proper actions. Let go of her… Now. ”
“Stay out of this Luna, your sister has to pay for what she did to me all those years ago. And I been waiting a long time for this.”
“What she did to you was only a slap on the wrist. She BANISHED me. What do you think your friends will think when they hear of this from you? Atlas is dead! Blueblood is dead! Spit on their graves and defile their tombstones. They do not deserve to be honored if they treat you the way they did.” Luna snarled. “Because if you dare harm my sister… I will make this ever so painful on you.”
“What makes you think you can beat me?” Shalltear said letting go of Celestia and appearing in front of Luna. “What makes you think you can hurt me, and not get away with it?”
“What makes you think you can hurt my sister and not get away with it?”
“You didn’t have a problem with it when Max did it.”
“I always believed that she needed to learn her lesson on Blueblood. Now though, you are angry over having you sleep in a coffin in the castle all this time.” Luna grumbled. “If it were her, she would’ve banished your coffin to the sun and have you die in an inferno. But she decided not to. Because there was one person who she had to fight that caused her injuries to be worse than when she fought me… but convinced her to spare you.”
“Oh? Then who was it?”
“Luna, don’t-.”
“Amelia,” The Lunar Alicorn said. “That was her name. It was the only other warrior besides you that beat Celestia in combat. In return for winning, she was to spare you. If Celestia had won… well, she would’ve had you be with him instead.”
“You expect me to believe that? If this Amelia actually did beat Celestia, then where is your proof? Where is she then?” It was then though that a dark eerie feeling drifted throughout the room, hovering above the vampire as she turned to see the face of the figure that entered the room. She covered her face originally with a hood, but it was when she took it off that Shalltear’s eyes widened.
“Veronica? Is that you?”
“W-Who the hell are you?”
“Really? You don’t recognize your own sister?” The woman said. “It’s me… Amelia.”
“A-Amelia? It can’t be, you were announced dead back home.”
“Surprised?” She said, Holding out her hands to the side. “Things are a bit wonky for me if you asked me… You would not believe all the shit I have been through, sis.”
“What are you doing here anyway? Can’t you see I’m in the middle of something.”
“Yes and I’m trying to tell you not to do it unless you want to go off the deep end like Eric.”
“What do you mean by that, and what does Eric have to do with this?”
“The moment that he beat the living shit out of some fools, he lost his sanity and went full on psychopath.” Amelia explained, having a holographic image spawn in her hands of her brother.
“Unlike him, I won’t go full blown psychopath when I finish beating the hell out of Celestia. And right now I have a lot of pent up rage and it’s starting to annoy me like it did when I was in a coffin long ago.”
“Seriously?” Amelia sighed. “You could’ve been given worse. Hell, Eric was turned to stone before breaking out and I’m glad that son of a bitch is dead.”
“And you couldn’t gotten me out of my imprisonment?”
“What do you think you would’ve done the second you were freed?” She questioned. “Unlike me, you can’t change time and space to your will. Therefore, your choices will have consequences… I have an idea though…” She said as she floated down to the courtyard. “Fight me. You win, you get to do what you want with Celestia. I win, you have to calm down… a LOT.”
“Hey, I’m right here!”
“You’re not involved in this anymore, Sunbutt!”
“I feel pretty involved.” Celestia groaned, looking back at the Esper.
“I don’t waste time with those who’ll fight someone else battle for them.” Shalltear said as she was about to leave. “Be warned, Celestia. As long as my rage is still with me. I will make you pay for your past mistakes.” It was then though that the Esper down below sighed, using a finger to pull the vampire down into the quad area. Causing her to crash from ten feet above ground and land on her face.
“Now I want to fight, not for Celestia though I could care less… I want to see how strong you are. Besides… I’m five times stronger than her or Luna… combined.”
“I’m not interested in fighting someone like you. My business is with Celestia, and I wouldn’t be so bold as to try and hurt me. Other wise Guardian would have a fit with you.”
“Well then… that was quite a mood killer.” Amelia sighed. “Plus, I thought you just finished your business with her. You did seem pretty contempt on leaving… Shalltear.” As she said that, a spark of lightning grazed past her face as she notice Shalltear’s crimson eyes.
“The reason why I’m leaving is because you’re here. I’m not an idiot unlike most people. The moment you leave is the moment I will fight her.” Shalltear said before she teleported back to Twilight’s castle.
“In that case… I’m not going to be leaving anytime soon.” Amelia grinned… “Hmm… Bloodfallen… I wonder how she would manage… Oh this will be hilarious.” She grinned, grabbing a familiar blood red diamond from her back pocket. “Oh Amy… I got someone I would like you to meet.”
“And who would that be?”
“My sister… She’s now a vampire named Shalltear Bloodfallen… I was thinking that if she wanted to wreck the living shit out of her Celestia… she could use a good companion. Besides, you should never bring a man to a woman’s job, am I right?” Amelia asked, chuckling to herself a little.
“Oh haha very funny.” Amy said sarcastically. “How much anger does your little sister have towards her Celestia? Is it I’m gonna do passive aggressive kind of anger like I do, or the kind where she would beat the crap out of you and goes back home to sleep off the anger and rage built up?”
“Well, think this. She was assaulted and raped by somepony, Celestia let them off with a slap on the wrist, she kills them and then Celestia has them sleeping in a coffin for almost a thousand years… So right now… To put it lightly… She’s fucking pissed.”
“Truth be told I would possibly be in the same boat as her, but I think I might know a way to solve it.”
“That’s why I was asking for your help. She’s not listening to me and I needed someone to help her. Be glad I thought of you first instead of Molly.”
“From what my mom told me, you can’t keep one from attacking the other or keep all that anger bottled up. Seeing how both side were in the wrong in this case why not have them fight each other until they both are burned out. It worked with me and Molly when you suggested it.” Amy suggested. “Plus you’ll be the ref so this shouldn’t be a problem.”
“Alright, I’ll bring you here then.” She said, channeling her energy into her token as she yanked Amy out of wherever she was. Causing her to land flat on her face… again.
“Seriously?” Amy said as she Amelia notice that Amy was naked and covered in soap. “You could’ve just waited until later? I was getting ready for bath sex with RD.”
“Yeah yeah. You two can do that whenever. This is more important because my sister is a fucking time bomb right now.” Amelia said, using her powers again to pull in Amy’s gear. “Get dressed, we’re going to Ponyville.”
“Fine, but you owe me for this. You know that?” Amy said as she grabbed her gear and walked off behind a rose bush.
“I know… Also… you might want to be careful… those have large-.” SHNK!
“OW! SON OF A BITCH! WHO PUT THIS ROSE BUSH OVER HERE?!”
“......I get the feeling that this is going to be a long and painful day huh?” Celestia asked.
“Well you should’ve thought of that before you did all those past mistakes.” Amelia said as she teleported off to get Shalltear.
“.....She does have a point sister.”
“Don’t you start.”
Chapter 10: Forgiveness
[Shalltear’s Room]
“Fucking assholes, every last one of them.” Shalltear said as she turn the TV on in her room. “All I want is the beat the hell out of Celestia, is that so much to ask? But no, I have to deal with these idiots that keep getting in my way.” In her frustration, Shalltear kicked her own bed as a small green gem fell onto the floor. “The hell is this?” She said as she levitated the gem close to her.
As soon as she held it in her hand, it started to glow blue as Shalltear heard a voice. “I am Asphyxious the Iron Lich. If you need my aid just take this token and call my name.”
“....Great a displaced token.” Shalltear said as she open the window to her room open, and tossed it outside. “I don’t need someone who might get in the way of my revenge.” Just as she was about to close the window, a portal appeared right near the doorway of her room. “Dammit, I not in the mood for this shit.” She said as man with a dragon tail walked out of the open portal. He had what looked like armor on and a eye patch. He looked around before saying this.
“Where have I ended up this time?”
“Whoever the fuck you are, get lost. I’m not in the mood to deal with a displaced human at the moment.” Shalltear said as she glared at the man.
“Okay, but can I at least get your name before I’m attacked?” He asked as he raised his hands up.
“Shalltear, not leave before I use you as a bath towel by ripping your skin off.” She said as she went back to watching TV.
“...Okay, I’m Asphyxious. Something tell me you pissed about something… Want to talk about it?” Asphyxious asked as he stay where he was looking around the room.
“I don’t need to talk. All I need is to beat the living hell out of Celestia, and I’ll be fine.”
“Let me guess she locked you away for a 1000 years right?” He asked as Asphyxious crosses his arms. Shalltear’s facial expression darken as she tossed her journal at him. He caught it and looked at the book in his hand.
“Take a good long look at it, and you’ll see why I want to make her pay.” She said as she grabbed a bat plushie for comfort. “Sunbutt is going to be my bitch once I finish teaching her a lesson.” Asphyxious looked at Shalltear then at the journal. He then sat on the floor and started to read. It took him over two hours to read it all he then slammed the book shut.
“I can understand why you're angry, But tell me what would you get from hurting Sunbutt? From what I readed she was not the one who did these things to you. And the one who did is long dead.” said Asphyxious as he put the journal down by his side. “But for what happened I agree the slap on the wrist was to light, but killing him. No I have a better idea, where his grave?”
“Don’t know, don’t care. All I want is for Celestia to pay for letting this happen to me. Trustworthy pony my ass, she to naive and stupid to tell who’s good and who’s bad.” Asphyxious then walked up to Shalltear and took her hand.
“Then I say let go find him and ask him what he thinks.” Asphyxious said as he leads Shalltear out of her room. And two ghosts of diamond dogs appear by his side. “All we need is a name and they can find him. Well?” Asphyxious asked as he looked back at her. He had the look of someone who knew pain and suffering.
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“Hmhmhm, Hehe, HAHAHAHAHA! That hurt like hell! Why didn’t you tell me you wanted a fight!” Asphyxious yelled as he walked out of the smoke covered in burn marks and blood was dripping from his face.
“My anger is only towards Celestia and her alone. I don’t need to go after someone that I already killed. Now stay the hell out of my way of me and Celestia.”
“So that’s it then? You just having a tantrum because you were locked away. Let me ask you something. Did you know what was happening whiles you was locked away?” Asphyxious asked as he drawed his cutlass.
“Celestia stoned or imprison 3,456 other monsters likes me that appeared here in this world while I was locked away.”
“I didn’t ask that… I’m asking was you aware when you was imprisoned?” Asphyxious asked again sounding oddly calm.
“Yes, I was.” Asphyxious walked up to Shalltear and looked at her. He reached out with a hand for her to take it.
“I know what it like, for your mind to fall apart as you know you have no way out.” He said looking sadly at her.
“Yeah well you didn’t have to relive the same nightmare over and over again.” Shalltear said still glaring at him. “Now fuck off, I have important stuff to plan once my sister leaves.” Asphyxious appeared behind and hugged her.
“It okay, you have nothing to fear anymore. You won't be hurt if you cry or feel sad or feel fear. Your suffering Shalltear, I want to help you.” said Asphyxious as he just stands there hugging the vampire.
“Cut the emotional crap.” Shalltear said as she teleported away from Asphyxious. “I have no more tears to spare. Now if you don’t mind I have someone to go meet with.”
“Mind if I tag along? I won’t get in the way.” said Asphyxious as he rest’s the cutlass on his shoulder.
“No.” With that she teleported off towards the Castle of the royal sister.
(Castle of the Royal Sister)
Moments after leaving Asphyxious back in Ponyville. Shalltear appeared in the throne room of the former home of Celestia and Luna. The Countess quickly looked around to make sure she wasn’t followed as she notice a figure in the distance.
“Were you followed?” The figure asked.
“Were you?”
“Hopefully.” The figure said as she walked from out of the shadow. “It’s hard to keep yourself from being notice when you’re trying not to make yourself be notice.”
“For a Hinezumi. It kinda makes sense seeing how you have fire on your wrist and ankles.”
“Whatever, anyway the king wanted me to give you this when you choose to fight against Celestia.” The Hinezumi said as she handed the countess a oddly colored veil. “This should give you a fair advantage against her, so you’ll both be on even levels.”
“Perfect.” Shalltear said as she levitated the veil to herself. “Now to place this in her tea or something, and I’ll have my revenge on her soon enough.”
“You sure you want to do something like this? Not that I’m judging you or anything, but wouldn’t this cause some problems between monsters and ponies?”
“I’m pretty sure they’ll be pissed off at me more than you monsters. And besides, Celestia is fucking pansy. She’s not that stupid to cause a war between ponies and monsters. If I can’t get her to drink this stuff, then I’ll use my lance to do the job for me.”
“And what happens if Celestia ponies go to war without her? ” Asked a deep voice from the shadows.
“I thought you said you weren’t followed?” asked Shalltear as she summoned her lance into her hand.
“I made sure I wasn’t followed. Maybe you forgot to make sure no one was following you?” said Hinezumi.
“Now now no need to be upset, after all Shalltear was the one who summoned me. Remember how you blasted me with all that magic? ” The voice asked as a breath of blue fire showed off the Lich’s out line and metal body.“Tell me you didn’t forget my name already? ”
“I thought I told you to leave me alone and fuck off?”
“And miss you starting a war? Why would I miss that? I mean it not like there are other dangers in the world that could come along. I mean what to stop some insane displaced from showing up and turning this world into hell? ” Asphyxious asked as he moves into the light. “I have seen many evils and sometimes think of myself as one of them. ”
Asphyxious then went off to a wall and ran his metal fingers over the stone. “I will not stop you, but if you have nowhere else to turn I can offer you some place safe to stay. Or hide in guilt, it’s up to you. ”
“I don’t need your help bonehead.” Asphyxious growled as he moved over to Shalltear and towered over her.
“Then show me you don’t, and not fight Celestia. If she as weak as you say her own ponies will be her downfall. ” Said Asphyxious as he stared into her eyes. “I want to help you but you're too blind to see that. All I can do is slow you down but in the end if you kill her what do you think will happen? ”
“I’m not going to kill her. I’m just going to beat all my anger out on her so she’ll end up in the hospital.” Shalltear said as her eyes glowed scarlet red. “You can trust me, can’t you? Especially for a pretty lady like myself can’t you~?”
Asphyxious let out a soft growl as he turned back into his human form and smiled at her. “I think I could if you do one thing for me~” He purred to her. “Join my hoard~” Asphyxious asked as he slowly wrapped his arms around Shalltear.
“Sorry, but I’m into dragon hoarders.” Shalltear said as she looked into Asphyxious’s eye. “Now look into my eyes, and obey your new master puppet.” Asphyxious then did something that shocked Shalltear, he kissed her. “What the hell!?”
Asphyxious shook his head and looked at her, He then blushed at Shalltear and let go. “Sorry! I thought I had that under control! I got a little lost there and was acting on my dragon instincts. Sorry…”
“.......Hinezum.”
“I have a name you know? It’s Aris.”
“Whatever, how many of these magic dampeners do you have?”
“A few, why?”
“Because I’m gonna have to use one on this pervert for what he just did.”
“It not my fault!” Said Asphyxious as he started hitting his head on the stone wall. “Wait… You said you liked dragons?” He asked looking at Shalltear.
“I never said that you idiot. Now hold still while I beat the living shit out of you.” Shalltear said as she slowly walked towards Asphyxious while cracking her knuckles. “A weakling like you will do as a punching bag.”
Asphyxious laughed at that. “Me weak? Let see if your right?” He then transformed into a 16 foot tall author dragon. He growled softly at Shalltear and looked at her up and down.
“......Maybe you shouldn’t fight him.” Aris suggested, only for Shalltear to hit him with a lightning spell to the face.
“Ha! Take that you perverted freak!” Just as she finished a large clawed hand grabbed her and slammed Shalltear into the stone floor.
“Stop this or I’ll have to hurt you and I don’t want to.” said Asphyxious as he towers over her.
“Good luck with that fool! [Maximize Magic! Roaring Dark Lightning!]
“I woulder.” Asphyxious said as he slowly walked over to the dust cloud. Only for his eye to widen seeing a sword sticking out of the countess abdomen. “Who there!” He roared and spread his large wings. “Release her at once or I’ll burn down this whole forest to kill you!”
“You caused it idiot.” Aris said as she appeared on a stone pillar. “You knocked her through a wall and she was impaled by that statue of Celestia holding a sword.”
“Well… Talk about irony.”
“I-It hurts…..” Shalltear said as tears began to fall from her eyes. “Make the pain stop mommy….it hurts all over….make it stop.” She said as Asphyxious walked over and carefully pulled Shalltear off the statue and held her in his arms.
“I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to hurt you like this. Do you want my blood.” He asked calmly as he looked down at her. Shalltear said nothing as she curled herself up, and began to mutter something that he couldn’t make out. Asphyxious held her to his large neck and try to hear what she was saying.
“I’ll be good master, please don’t hurt me anymore.” Asphyxious moved her head and mouth to his neck. “Drink Shalltear you have no master and you’re good. No one will hurt you as long as I draw breath.” He said softly as he felt her fangs bite into his neck.
“What’s this? The Countess of Blood having a mental break down?” “This is interesting, I never imagine my puppet to have something like this.”
“Leave before I decide to eat you little shadow.” Asphyxious growled holding Shalltear close. As bone like blades come out from between the armored scales in his arms. “I can do more than breath fire. I can destroy your link to this place and her.”
“Oh I’m so scared of a monster like you. I wouldn’t suggest doing that unless you want the monsters I have suffer a fate worse than death?”
“I already have, I do not fear, you but you should fear me. I am Asphyxious Hellbringer, The dragon of Instinct, and you have no power here. Only on those who believe you’ll give them power.” Asphyxious said as smoke came out of his mouth.
“And you’re a good guy, which means you not that stupid to attack somepony who have hostages with them.”
“Let’s hear her out first before you do something stupid.” Aris said.
“There nothing stupid about killing and eating her.” Asphyxious growled.
“True, but even you’re not that heartless when it come to the lives of the innocent right?” Asphyxious only growled but waited to hear Nightmare moon out.
“Good, glad to hear someone is reasonable. Now then, onto business. I have some of the monsters that Celestia sealed away long ago, and I’m pretty much having some fun with them.”
“Show us.” asked Asphyxious as he growled. “If they don’t show up I know your lying and I can kill you.”
Nightmare Moon’s horn glowed as she screen appeared with monsters being locked up in cages, or chained against a wall. “Still don’t believe me fool?”
“How do we know these aren’t faked or there even still alive? For all I know you're just putting on a show because you're scared of losing Shalltear?” Asked Asphyxious.
“It’s not a fake.” Aris said as she looked at the screen to see a mouse girl locked in a cage. “Because one of them is my sister, and Nightmare Moon never even seen her.”
“Oh, so that mouse girl is related to you? That would explain why she keeps on saying that you would come and save her.”
“You son of a bitch!”
“No duh hot head.”
“No more games, Tell us where they are or so help me I’ll take your soul and give it to Toruk!” Asphyxious growled as flames licked at the sides of his mouth.
“You seem to be forgetting that I’m in control of the situation fool. With just a snap of a finger, I can kill these freaks without even trying. So unless you want these kid’s parents to go to their funnels, then I suggest you don’t make anymore threats around me, got it?”
Asphyxious didn’t say anything as he try to find out where they are without nightmare knowing. There was one idea but it’ll take some time.
“Oh and if you try to use some kind of magic of magic that would teleport them out, or try to track them down. The collars around their neck will explode and kill them.”
“I see, good thing I didn’t try that thanks for letting me know.” said Asphyxious as he felt Shalltear move.
“What are your demands?” The countess asked.
“You, in exchange I’ll release all the monsters I have and remove the collars I have around them.”
“I can find them with some help from some friends of mine, but if your apart of my hoard I can track you down anywhere. If you go I will find you.”
“......I need you to do something for me, and relay a message to Celestia.” Shalltear whispered as she moved in closer to Asphyxious. He listened and slowly nods.
“I will do as you asked.” Asphyxious said as he slowly put her down.
“Tell her that I’m sorry and that I forgive her for what she did to me.” Shalltear moved away from Asphyxious as she moved towards Nightmare Moon.
“I have one thing to ask Shalltear, about before would you.” Asphyxious asked hopping she understand his meaning.
Shalltear turned around with a melancholy smile on her face. “Sorry, but I already have a family that I joined a while back…..though I do wish they visit me more often.”
“I will find you!” He roared as he fly off into the night sky. But kept watch over them.
“So….do we have a deal, Countess?” “Good, I’m glad you took up my offer.” “The monsters have been teleport to Canterlot, mainly the throne room. Now all you have to do is jump through the screen, and you’ll be in my castle for me to have you to myself.”
“Yeah, yeah, I know how this works.” Shalltear said as she secretly levitated the veil that Aris gave behind her back, and walked through the portal. Before she reached the end, Shalltear could hear Asphyxious voice. “I will find you, stay strong no matter what you face.”
“Easy for you to say, you’re not the one she’s after.”
“Oh Shalltear I’m so happy you could join me, tell me what should I do to you now?” Nightmare Moon asked as she smiled at her.
“I wouldn’t be so smug if I were you Moonbutt.”
“That master to you.” Nightmare said as she stands up and walked up to Shalltear. “Hmm I don’t think that will do, take it off.”
“Take what off?”
“Why your dress how will I discipline you if you're wearing that?” Nightmare Moon asked as she pulled out a wipe.
“I’m not taking my dress off, but I would be more worry about what I’m gonna do to you seeing how I have you right where I want you.”
“I don’t think so… Sit!” Nightmare Moon ordered and Shalltear reacted to the sharp tone in her voice and did so. “See that wasn’t so hard now was it?”
“Just by your time Shalltear, all you have to do is hit her with the veil and you’ll have the advantage over….wait a minute….where did the veil go?” The countess said as she tried to figure out where it went, only to feel a sharp pain hit her neck. “What the hell!?”
“You’re mine now Shalltear and I’ll never let you get away.” Nightmare purred as she held the chain to Shalltear coller. “Now do as your master say and, S.T.R.I.P.”
“I don’t take orders from a shadow. Especially one that couldn’t even defeat Celestia.” Nightmare Moon’s eye twitched as she once again used the wipe on Shalltear. “Bastard, wiping me won’t change a thing.”
“Oh I’m sorry but I think you misunderstand, I didn’t wipe you for that. I did it for not calling me Master~” Nightmare grinned as she wiped Shalltear again.
“Dammit, where’s that stupid veil.” She said only for Nightmare Moon to draw her attention towards her as she had the veil Shalltear had floating right next to the alicorn
“Are you looking for something?” Nightmare Moon asked in a sweet tone. As she pour the content into a needle. “Now then what do you call me?”
“Y-You wouldn’t.” Shalltear said as she slowly tried to back away from Nightmare Moon.
“Say it and I won’t.” said Nightmare Moon as she drags Shalltear closer and held the needle to her skin.
“I rather rot in hell then to call you that, you rejected knock off of an alicorn.” Nightmare looked angry then injected the needle and smiled as Shalltear cried out in pain.
“Say the magic word and I’ll make the pain stop~” Nightmare Moon sang as she went to a table.
“D-Drop dead you monster.” Shalltear said as she fell to the floor holding her stomach in pain. Nightmare came back with scissors in her hand and slowly started to removed the countess dress by cutting it off.
“Oh don’t worry now I’m a good master and will treat you well. All I have to do is remove this and.” With one move Nightmare Moon pulled the dress off and laughed. “Much better don’t you agree? Now then, what should we do next?” asked Nightmare as she looked at the many tools on the table. “How about I do a little bit of an….experiment on you, and see how your body works.” She said as she placed Shalltear on her lap. “When I’m done with you, you’re gonna be my personal to toy to play with.”
Shalltear was about to reply, but was unable to as she felt something pulsing against her back. The countess slowly turned her head around in horror at what she saw.
“Do you like it? I made this just for you~” Nightmare Moon said with a smiled. “Don’t worry I tested it, it works just like the real thing~” She purred into Shalltear ear.
“I-I am the countess of blood, Shalltear BloodFallen, and you will release me at once!” Shalltear said as she fired a blast of holy magic at Nightmare Moon’s face.
“Not anymore you’re my toy now. You know what that means? I can do whatever I want to you~”
“G-Get away from me!” Shalltear yelled as she tried to push the alicorn away from her. Only for Nightmare Moon to push her onto the ground with her butt in the air.
“Now you just stay like that the fun about to start~” Nightmare Moon said as she position herself over Shalltear, while rubbing her cock on the countess’s ass. “You ready~”
“Please, don’t.” She begged as tear began to run down her face.
“Don’t worry my little toy, you’ll love it once I’ve broken you~” That when the sound of a cave in was heard and made Nightmare Moon stop. “What was that?”
Her answer came in a bloodthirsty roar that echoed down the halls. “SHALLTEAR WHERE ARE YOU!” Roared Asphyxious as the sound of more walls being destroyed followed. What bust out of the wall was a angry 16 foot dragon, a girl with red hair covered in a crimson aura, two alicorn princesses, and a pissed off female esper snarling at Nightmare Moon.
“H-Help me, please.”
Asphyxious roared as he tackled Nightmare Moon off of Shalltear and slammed into a wall. “I’M GOING TO EAT YOU!” He roared in rage as everyone heard the crunching of bones and Nightmare screams of pain. Asphyxious was blasted back out of the new hole in the wall he made by Nightmare Moon. He growled before standing between the new opening and Shalltear. When Nightmare Moon walked out of the hole in the wall her left arm was missing.
“You… Bit my arm off…” She said in a mix of horror and rage.
“Oh you think that’s bad?” Amelia said as she appeared behind Nightmare Moon, and grabbed her by the throat. “Compare to what he just did is nothing to what I’m going to do to you for trying to rape my little sister.”
“What could you do to me?” Nightmare asked smiling. “All your going to do is lock me away right?”
“I vote we eat her.” Asphyxious growled with blood around his jaws as he held Shalltear in his arms.
“I vote we throw her ass into the sun.” Amy suggested. “I wonder how roosted alicorn taste like.” This made Asphyxious growl in agreement.
“Normally I would do that, but something tells me that she’ll come back from that.”
“The void then.” Said Asphyxious as he starting to calm down and see to Shalltear. As he walked away. “She can be fed to Toruk for all I care.”
“Or you could have her be this Toruk’s personal stress relief if you catch my drift?”
“His not that kind of dragon.” Said Asphyxious as he sat on the floor with Shalltear. “He’d see her more as a snack then that.”
“Fine, do whatever you want with her then.” Amelia said as she placed Nightmare Moon in a small cube. “Now, then on to a different subject.” Amelia turned her attention at Celestia. “I believe this has gone on long enough Celestia. Whatever problems you have with my sister, I would recommend you put that aside and start the forgiving process. That also includes you Luna.”
“Before she went into the portal, Shalltear asked me to give Celestia a massage. She said she forgives you.” Asphyxious said coldly as he looked down at Shalltear in his arms. “I on the other hand, do not know where I stand with what just happened. All I want to do now is help her.”
“I… I don’t know what to say.” Said Celestia as she stands there.
“I do.” Said luna as she looked to her sister and walked up to Asphyxious carefully seeing as him being protective of the vampire.
“Shalltear it me Luna can I speak with you?” She asked looking at the countess in worry. “I just want to say I’m sorry for what happened. And that I wasn’t there to stop this from happening.”
Celestia slowly walked over and looked at Shalltear with sadness in her eyes. This was the real Shalltear that she couldn’t see all this time. A scared girl looking for someone to help her.
“I’m sorry as will Shalltear, I know it not much but I understand if you never forgive me. I don’t believe I deserve it after everything that happened.” said Celestia as she looks at the floor. Shalltear said nothing as she whispered something into Asphyxious’s ear.
“She said. She forgives you but it’s too soon to be called friends.” Asphyxious said as he nuzzles Shalltear.
“If I was in her position I wouldn’t blame her for think that way.” Amy said rubbing her neck. “Guess the fight between her and Celestia is off huh?”
“Amy do you have anything Shalltear can wear?” Asphyxious asked as he wrapped one of his wings around Shalltear.
“Hm, I might have something that can help.” Amy said as she pointed a finger at the countess. “Clothes Beam!” Asphyxious just stare at Shalltear wearing a hoodie and shorts.
“Umm Amy what is she wearing? It make me want to ask her to be apart of my hoard even more.” He asked as he try not to blush and failing.
“What? I figure she needed something different then her old outfit.” Asphyxious just facepalms at this.
“Anyway what do we do now, I don’t think she ready to go anywhere by herself.” Asphyxious asked as he looked down at Shalltear. “Do you want to leave this place?”
“I’ll take her home.” Aris said as she appeared next to Asphyxious. “It’s the least I could do for her saving my sister.”
“Is it alright if I go with you.” Asphyxious asked as he slowly get up. “I don’t feel right leaving her alone. Even if she does have someone to help.”
“If you want to sure.” Asphyxious turned back into his human form and helped Aris take Shalltear home.
(Monster Girl’s house)
“Any news from the others?” Twilight asked only for Monica and Rebecca to nod no.
“We looked all around and still can’t find her.”
“We even tried using Max’s and Lance’s token. But we got no call back from them.”
“Dammit, and I haven’t gotten a response from Celestia after sending her a few letters. Oh where is Shalltear?” Twilight said as she paced back and forth. Just as Rebecca was about to say something, they heard a knock at the door.
“Who is it?” Monica asked.
“Hi is this Shalltear house I’m trying to find it and everyone pointed me here.” Said Asphyxious from outside. “Are you a friend of hers? could you let us in please Shalltear had a long day.”
Twilight rush towards the door as she opened it to see Shalltear sleeping on the back of a humanoid like dragon. “Oh thank Celestia you found her. I thought somepony might have kidnapped her.”
“Your kind of right… Can we come in. This isn’t something to talk about at the front door.” Asphyxious asked as he helped Shalltear inside careful not to wake her.
“Yes, please come in.”
“Sorry about this but let say things got crazy, Do you know where her room is so I can put her down?” Asphyxious asked as he walking through the house.
“Upstairs to your left. Vinyl and Octavia are standing out there.”
“Thank you, Aris can explain thing while I put Shalltear to bed.” Asphyxious said as he go up the stairs. Once upstairs he see Vinyl and Octavia and walked up to them. “Hi could you open the door for me or do I just try and hand you Shalltear?”
“What the hey happened to our little master?” Vinyl asked.
“Nightmare happened, could you open the door please.” Asphyxious asked. “I’ve been carrying her for the past three hours.”
“Of course.” Octavia said as she open the door to the countess room. Asphyxious sighed as he walked in and carefully put Shalltear to bed. He was about to leave when his arm stuck on something. Asphyxious looked back and saw Shalltear was holding his arm.
“Oh crap… Well, I’m in for a long night.” Asphyxious said as he set on the floor next to Shalltear bed. “Oh well looks like I’m going to stand guard then.”
Next Morning
“How’s Shalltear doing?” Sally asked as she placed breakfast on the table.
“Still depressed, but she’s still eating.” Janelle said as she looked over at Rebecca. “Any luck on calling her parents?”
“Still nothing. I been at this for the past 24 hours.” Rebecca said as she tossed the token at the wall. Only causing something to slam into it as a cloud of smoke went off.
“Oww… For gods sake, treat a token with respect!” Said a familiar voice as the dust cleared. The blond like figure coughed a little because of the dust, weakly standing up to see the group around him. “Wait… Where am I-?”
“You son of a bitch!” Octavia said as she appeared in front of Lance, and slapped him in the face hard. “Where the buck have you been?!”
“What the hell are you talking about? I’ve already had a lot to deal with Lady. First off, one of my daughters almost died and second, I just found out that another one chose to erase her memory. Plus, I’ve been in the void for the past few hours and because of that, I couldn’t be summoned. So can someone please tell me where I am?!”
“You’re in Shalltear’s house, and right now she need your help with coping with almost being raped by Nightmare Moon.” Aris said.
“... Tell me what happened… NOW.”
“I can help with that.” Amelia said as she appeared out of the kitchen. “Nightmare Moon held a bunch of innocent monster girls hostage, and in exchange for their freedom my sister had to become her sex slave for the rest of her life.”
Lance said nothing. But his facial expression deeply changed. His eyes just widened and the bottom of his jaw was ajar as they continued to explain. Only when the story was finished did he do something that was unexpected… By all of them. Taking his right arm, he slammed his right arm into the wall, almost causing the wall to shake. “DAMMIT!!! ”
“Temper Mr. Lance, I prefer not to have my sister’s house destroyed.” The Esper said. “But to be fair you shouldn’t beat yourself up, stuff like this is common.”
“Don’t… you DARE lecture me about this. I promised to myself that I will make sure this does not happen again, only to hear this!! On TOP of that, I was gone because of that damn guardian and on top of that, she told me that her memory was erased! So to me… I failed my daughter… Some father I am.”
“Oh get over it.” The Esper said bluntly. “No one’s perfect in this world, and beating yourself up over it is not going to solve your problems. Right now my sister needs you and your wife to help her cope with what happen to her. Now get up off your ass and go do what a father is suppose to do.”
“That’s rich coming from the fact that hearing about her memory lapse caused her to freak.” Lance replied. “I want to help her… but… she won’t even know who I am. She’ll just see me as a blond freak invading her apartment.”
“Oh for the love, you parents are always so full of self doubt and drama.” Amelia grabbed Lance by the collar and begun to drag him upstairs. “Let’s go mister drama bomber.”
“Says the fact that you’re being worse than Max when she’s angry.” He said, releasing Amelia’s grip from her. “I’ll go see her… Just tell me where her room is.”
“It’s the room with a bunch of anime style bats covering the door. It’s not that hard to miss it.”
“Okay…” He said, walking up there and going to the door. Softly knocking on the door to try and not disturb her. Only for it to creak open… and find a passed out lich on the floor. With Shalltear holding onto his arm like the arm of a teddy bear. “Really Asphyxious? Really?” He sighed, walking in quietly as he stood by Shalltear’s bedside. “Shalltear? Honey, it’s me…”
“Been awhile since you came for a visit dad.” Shalltear said as she stared at Lance.
“... Oh my god…” He said, a couple of tears forming as he hugged her. “Y-you remember me… My god, you remember!”
“Dad, please let go. Not because that I don’t mind you hugging me, but you kinda smell like garlic and it’s messing with my eyes.”
Lance just did the first thing he did and threw his jacket aside. “You scared me and your mother, Shalltear. Guardian told us of your decision and… Max was heartbroken because of it. So was I when I heard of it… You scared me half to death Shalltear, and you are a very important person to me.”
“Yeah I had to do that so Nightmare Moon didn’t use my memories to try to break my mind. And for the record.” Shalltear levitated a note book towards them. “Always write stuff like this in a journal incase you lose your memories.”
“Shalltear… You had us worried sick…” He said, holding her tighter. “I am very sorry Shalltear… I don’t want this to happen again… You are very important to me dear… Just like everyone else in my family… And I would gladly die to protect anyone of them. That’s how much I care for you.”
“I know dad, and I’m sorry for making you worry…..wait didn’t Guardian tell you that I wrote all my memories in a journal?”
“No, she never did. All she said that it was just your choice. She never told us why.”
“Guess being old can make you forget important details.” Shalltear said. “Oh well, no one’s perfect. Mind telling mom about this as well?” She asked as she levitated a blue cube next to her.
“Y-yeah… I will.” He said, his movements causing a gold coin to slip out of his pocket. landing on the floor as it shined with the sunlight.
“You dropped a bit on the floor dad.”
Lance, looking at it, chuckled a little. “Oh that’s not a bit. That’s a token. It’s for my cousin, Sun Wukong.”
“....Is he a monkey?”
“Faunus. Human with animal traits. He has a monkey tail and a pair of nunchaku that are also shotguns.” He clarified.
“Oh the monster girls in town are gonna have a field day with him.”
“That’s an understatement… He wears an unbuttoned collared shirt half of the time with the other half being an unzipped jacket.” He sighed. “And get this… his marefriend in his world is Fluttershy.”
“Really, well let’s just hope she doesn’t turn into a vampony like I did with mine… by accident.”
“Accident? … Don’t tell me you fell on her and in doing so, you sank her teeth into her, did you?”
“It was more like I was hungry and I forgot to get something to eat…..hehehe.” Shalltear said as a sheepish smile appeared on her face.
“Well… Accidents happen don’t they?” He said, noticing that Sun’s medallion had shined a little during the conversation. Only to notice someone on the windowsill. “Oh you got to be kidding me…”
“What?”
“Look at your window.” He sighed, looking back at her as he put Sun’s token in his pocket. Only when did Shalltear look outside that she saw a surprise.
“Umm… Good morning I guess-?” He said, turning his head and noticing Lance. “Lance? What are you doing here?”
Shalltear’s eyes widen as she levitated Sun inside her room. “Are trying to get the others to see you?”
“Wait… Others? Also, not to be rude, but who are you?”
“I’m Shalltear Bloodfallen, The Blood Countess. And this is my dad Lance.” Shalltear said pointing to Lance.
“Woah, Dad?” He said, looking at Lance. “I know that you and Max are getting married, but I honestly did not expect that…” He sighed, noticing Asphyxious on the floor. “Aye yae yae… What happened to Asphy?”
“It’s a long story that I prefer not to relive again.” Shalltear said as she shook the box she had in her hands up and down. “And this bitch in the box is the cause of it.”
“Sun, I got to go.” Lance replied. “Can you spend some time with Shalltear?”
“Sure I guess. Oh and before you leave, I might need to tell you something. I’m starting a Displaced Academy.” He said, catching Lance’s attention.
“Seriously?”
“Yeah. I thought that Displaced who get pulled in don’t necessarily have to go in alone and endure many hardships. Plus… Asphy here is going to be one of the teachers.” He replied.
“Seriously?” Shalltear said as she eyed the lich. “You do know this guy is hornier than most of the monsters here in town right?”
“I know. When her daughter tried hitting on me, he was chasing me for a few hours during a christmas party.” He replied. “Plus, last I heard, he’s been trying to cut back recently.”
“Sure he is.” Shalltear said sounding unsure about his claim.
“Yeah, but he’s not a teacher for that. He’s a teacher for Spellcraft, Rune Magic and is also a combat instructor.” He replied to her. “Speaking of which… should we get him back to his home? His wife and hoard might be worried if he’s gone for too long.”
“I’ll do that afterwards.” The countess said as her eyes glowed scarlet red with her knowing it. “I find him...comfortable to be around with.” She said as she licked her lips.
“... Well… I’ll better get going… Sun, don’t try anything crazy.”
“I won’t. I’ll do anything to help her out man.” He replied as Lance left the room and returned back to his world.
“So….what now?”
“That depends on you. I’m only here to help…” He replied. “What do you need assistance with, Madam Shalltear?”
“One, don’t call me madam I feel old when someone calls me that. And two, I need you to get me a veil of jelly extract from one of the slime girls in town.”
“Okay, what’s her name?” He asked, taking out a notepad and a pen was being held by his tail. “One veil of… jelly extract.”
“Anyone of them would do really. Just tell them I asked it from them.” He nodded his head, walking out from the window as he went across town, looking for what he was tasked to find. Soon, he found one of the shops as he landed on the ground and opened the door to the shop.
“Welcome to the item store, my kakuen friend.” The Ren Xiongmao said as she greeted Sun.
“You must be one of the slime girls right?” He asked. “Shalltear wanted me to pick something up for her. A veil of jelly extract.”
“No, I’m Ren Xiongmao, or Panda Girl for most folks.” She said as she took a martial art stance.
“Momiji Chung lao. At your service.”
“Sun Wukong. Monkey Faunus… Uh, miss Lao? Shalltear needs the extract so where can I find the girls?” He asked. “I rather not make her wait.”
“We got what you need here cutie.” Momiji said as she used her bamboo stick to get the veil of slime jelly. “That’ll be 100 bits please.”
Sun went into his back pocket and got out the necessary change, setting it on the table with his monkey tail. “Here you go.”
“Thanks.” Momiji slammed her fist on the counter, as the bits flew in between her breast. “Come back if you need anything else.”
“Sure thing.” He replied, walking out the door and waving goodbye as he began to walk back towards Shalltear’s house.
“Ah, good you made it back. I was worry the the slime girls would’ve gotten their hands on you by now.” She said as Shalltear stood by the windowsill while Sun climbed up.
“Actually, I ran into a panda girl named Momiji in the shop. Paid the bits I needed before coming here.” He said, handing the veil over to her.
“Perfect, with this I’m halfway there to making a lust poison for Nightmare Moon.”
“Lust poison?” He asked.
“Nightmare Moon want to make me into her sex toy, so she injected me with the same poison I’m making.”
“Is it suppose to make it worse or is it suppose to work like a vaccine?”
“Yes, right now, I’m using her as a test subject to see if I can figure out a way to get the poison out of me.”
“Well, that sounds risky.” Sun replied. “Beforehand though…” The Faunus took out his staff and used one of the ends to poke Asphy’s head. “Yep, still asleep.”
“Hmm… No Len… We can’t do this here… Shalltear will be mad at me….” Asphyxious wines as he culls up on the floor.
Sun just glanced at him, with a raised eyebrow as he withdrew his staff. “Do Liches have wet dreams?”
“Hmmm… Shalltear what are you doing?… No if you bite Len this will get worse….” Asphyxious said as he sleeps on the floor. “Gwen?... How did you get here?... No stop I don’t want to blight you...”
“And that just answered every question I had.” The Faunus sighed. Taking a blanket from nearby the couch, Sun gently set it over the lich as he tried to not disturb him. Asphyxious just purrs in his sleep as his tail moves from side to side. “Boy… I wonder if Ken had to deal with anything like this…”
Asphyxious then hugged Sun leg like a teddy bear. “Hmmm… Oh yes…” He purred in his sleep.
Sun, taking a moment, had to try and use his staff like a crow bar in order to pry himself loose. Only for the lich to grip him tighter. “Well… this is just great… ” He said with a bit of sarcasm.
“Hmmm… Beef…” Asphyxious mumbles as his licks his lips then opens his jaws to try and take a bite out of Sun leg. Only to instead have Sun’s tail tickle his nose and have a familiar scent stir his slumber. “Sun…?”
“I was beginning to wonder when you might wake up.” He sighed. “You’re kind of… grabbing onto my leg.” Asphyxious looked at his leg then back up at Sun.
“I had a dream I was going to eat a roasted Beef leg.” Asphyxious said as he let Sun go then looks around and yawned.
“That… probably wasn’t the only thing you were dreaming.” The Faunus sighed. “Good to see that you have come to your senses at least. Lance was here earlier to check on Shalltear.”
“Oh, is she okay?” Asphyxious asked then seeing her walking to a table.
“Better yeah. But what surprised me was when Lance told me that she was one of his daughters.” Asphyxious nodded until his mind fully woke up and he stare at Sun.
“Wait, What?” Asphyxious asked staring at him.
“Shalltear is a daughter of Lance and his Fiance Max. Adopted into the family, but something tells me that now I am Uncle Sun.”
“Oh… Okay….” Asphyxious said with a far off look in his eye. “Ummm… Okay…”
“Something wrong man? You look like you were caught red handed in something.” He replied.
“Nope, Nothing at all! I’m fine… Really, it’s good!” Asphyxious said smiling nervously.
“... You are a horrible liar, you know that right?”
“I… I know…” Asphyxious lowered his head in defeat as he sighs. “I… Asked Shalltear if she could… Join.... My… Hoard…” He mumbled as he played with his tail. Sun himself was kind of surprised at this, raising an eyebrow as he folded his arms.
“And?”
“I’m… Not sure… If she said no because of the plan she had for nightmare moon. Or if it has to do with her misunderstand my meaning. I just don’t know…” Asphyxious said as he looks at his tail.
“Well… You need to give her some time.” Sun replied. “She may think that something like that was a little too soon, so you should have her think a little before making a final decision.”
“I guess you're right… I don’t want to push her into anything right now. With everything that happened.” Asphyxious said as he watched Shalltear work. “Do you know all the details?”
“Bits and pieces. Why?”
“I… Felt I could of done more to keep her safe…” Asphyxious said as he looks at the floor. “I also… Ate Nightmare’s arm… I never questioned this before. How can I eat another living being so… Carefree?”
“Anger and rage can lead to many things. If I were in your position, I would’ve blown her head off for what she tried to do.”
“But I’ve done this before, when I helped another displaced his home was under attack. I killed and ate a minotaur. The only thought going through my mind was he tasted of beef…”
“Would that explain why you thought my leg was beef?”
“I don’t know… Maybe I’ve lost more of my mind then I thought.” Asphyxious said as he laughs a little at that. “Maybe it because I’m part dragon or I’m crazy I don’t know… All I know is when someone becomes my enemy, I see them as more than a threat… I see them as food.”
“Maybe it’s that protective instinct of yours.”
“Maybe… I need a drink.” Asphyxious said as he lay the back of his head on the bed.
“Kitchen is downstairs… Plus I need to do something with Shalltear. I think some lady named Amy is down there as well too and it looks like she’s looking for an opponent in a drinking contest.” Asphyxious laughed at that.
“It been forever since I’ve seen Amy why not could be fun.” Asphyxious said as he get up. “Just get me if things get wild okay?” He asked as he walks out the door. With that, Sun sighed, looking back towards Shalltear.
“Sorry that took a little while,” He apologized. “Ready to get started?
“Okay, now I need another sample from another monster girl.” Shalltear said as she place the slime jelly into a beaker.
“Should I make a list?” He asked. “Something tells me that I need to go shopping for a little bit to get everything you need for your test, Lady Shalltear.”
“Don’t call me lady, that also makes me feel old as well. Anyway this is the last thing I need for what I’m making.”
“My apologies,” He said, getting out his pen and notebook again. “What’s the item and who do I need to get it from?”
“A blood sample from Suzy, the cheshire cat.”
“Alright,” he replied, writing those two things down. “Where can I find her?”
“She should be around town, though be warn. She can break the fourth wall.”
“That… sounds like Pinkie.” He replied, only to feel something from behind as the hairs on the back of his neck went up. “She’s right behind me, isn’t she?”
“Sup monkey butt.” Suzy said as she appeared on Sun’s head.
“If you’re Suzy, then we were just talking about you. Oh and my name is Sun. Sun Wukong. Shalltear said that she needed a sample of your blood for a test she’s doing.”
“I could give you that, but I won’t.”
“You do realize she’s right there right?” Sun replied, tilting his head in the direction of the Countess.
“Yes, but that doesn’t mean I’ll fill out your request.” She said as she made herself disappeared. “You want me, you’re gonna have to work for it.”
“Oh really?” Sun replied. “Is that suppose to be a challenge?”
That when everyone heard a noise downstairs and Asphyxious yelling. “I’m a MOTHERFUCKING BEAST!!!” Even Suzy heard that as the loud noise startled her out of her disappearing trick. With an opportunity at hand, he used his tail to pick up a syringe that Shalltear had with her and quickly get behind the chesire cat. He only needed a small sample, so he only withdrew some blood for about… five seconds or so before she noticed what he did.
“You might want to look closely at the syringe Sun.” Shalltear said as she the syringe was full of soda.
“Nice try, but you need to do better than that.”
“Well… Guess I have to then.” he said, only now was when the cheshire cat noticed his exposed set of abs and shirtless chest as he emptied the syringe.
“Oh my, I’m surprise the girls in town haven’t gotten their hands on you.”
“Honestly, I’m surprised that you
“Sorry, you’re sexy… but you’re not my type.” Suzy said as she notice a few monsters looking through the window. “But I think they have you as their target.”
Sun turned around, noticing them. “Well shit…” He cursed. However, what Suzy did not see was the Monkey using his tail to hold the syringe and try again. This time, with the Cheshire Cat’s back turned and her being unaware of what he was doing until after the withdrawal. As in an old saying he knew… You can’t fight off what you can’t see.
“....Oh you are so gonna pay for that.” Suzy said as she glared at Sun.
“Yeah… Maybe next time.” He asked, zipping away from her and into the room that Shalltear was in nearby. Locking the door behind him. “Okay… here you go, Shalltear. Some blood in exchanged for an angry feline.”
“I’m surprise she didn’t toss you outside when you did that.” Shalltear said as she grabbed the syringe and poured it into the beaker.
“Technically, I did it with her back turned and used my tail to do it. Sometimes, the art of deception can be quite useful.” Sun replied as she watched the Jelly and the blood mix. “So what happens now?”
“Now to let it set in the refrigerator to cool off, and it’ll be done.”
“... I’m a little worried that Asphyxious might drink that.” He said. “He is drunk downstairs.”
“I’m pretty sure he’s not that stupid to drink something like this.” Shalltear said as she place the potion in the frig. “But if he does drink it, at least I’ll have him to myself when it does happen.”
Asphyxious was mumbling something about being a captain, as he lay on the table with Amy laying on the floor. “I win, da captain always… Wins!” He said as he laid there.
“Bull crap! You didn’t win anything.” Amy said as she tried to full herself up. “I’m still standing dragon butt.”
“Haha! Then let us have your strongest broe wee lass.” said Asphyxious as he stumbles to his set. “One more round! Winner takes all da giblets!”
“Alright, let’s see if you can last without passing out.” said Amy as she heads to the frig taking two bottles one of them not a bottle but a becker. “Prepare to *hic* lose.”
“Ha! I never *hic* Lose.” Asphyxious said as Amy pasted him the becker. Asphyxious took it and held it in his hand. “Ready?”
“Ready.” Amy said as she began to drink. Asphyxious did the same with the becker as he chugged down the Lust Poison.
“...Huh, that didn’t have any taste to it?” said Asphyxious as he blinks at Amy. “What did you give me?”
“Don’t know, *hic* don’t care…..I won.” Amy said as she passed out on the floor.
“Hahaha no I won.” said Asphyxious as he stand up. “I need a nap…” He said and walked off to Shalltear room.
Sun was waiting for Shalltear to come back to the room, but upon hearing the door open and seeing a familiar substance run down Asphy’s mouth like drool, that served as a major problem. “SHALLTEAR!!! Asphy drank it!!”
“Keep it down… My head hurts.” Asphyxious grumbled as he pulled a pillow over his head. Only for Sun to smack him in the head a few minutes later.
“You idiot!!!”
“What? What going on? Last thing I remember is winning the drinking game with Amy.” Said Asphyxious as he looked confused at Sun.
“Then tell me why did you drink what was in the beaker in the fridge?! That was suppose to be Shalltear’s vaccine for the lust poison!”
“Ummm I thought Amy was trying to pull a prank on me by putting the drink in a beaker. And why would you put something like that some where anyone can drink it?” Asphyxious looking at Sun.
“It needed to be refrigerated in order for the liquids to cool down properly.” The Faunus explained to him carefully.“I warned Shalltear this would happen, but she didn’t think you would be that stupid in order to do something like that.”
“Hey Amy’s the one who gave me the thing. I didn’t pick it up out of the fridge and think of this looks good.” Asphyxious grumbled at Sun.
“Well this is just great,” He replied. “Shalltear’s going to freak out once she hears about this.” Asphyxious points at the door as Sun saw Shalltear standing there.
“........You do realize you’re an idiot, right?” Shalltear said with a deadpanned expression on her face.
“I was drunk… Everyone is an idiot when they're drunk.” Asphyxious said as he sat on the bed. “Go on then I deserve what ever coming.”
“Just leave, we’ll talk about this later. Right now I have some important business stuff to take care of.” Asphyxious looked at Sun then at Shalltear as he get up.
“Umm okay?” He said as he walked out the door.
“I mean you can go home now until I call you again.”
“Oh, why didn’t you say our contract is complete then?” Asphyxious asked smelling something in the air. “Do you guys smell that?”
“And part one of the side effect is starting to kick in.” Shalltear said as she pulled out Asphyxious’s token. “You can go home now Asphyxious. Our contract is complete.” A portal quickly opened underneath Asphyxious and sent the half dragon home.
“And as for you Sunny, you can go home as well.”
“I wouldn’t mind staying a little longer. Something’s telling me that Asphy’s escapades are more than just drinking that… Plus, wouldn’t that mean we would need to make another?”
“After what happen to me yesterday and from working on that potion. I think I’m gonna call it a day and relax for the rest of the day.” Shalltear said as she levitated towards her room.
“Alright. Well, I’ll be outside your door then. Jst call me if you need me for anything.” Sun replied. “I want to help out a bit before I leave so a bit of guard duty won’t hurt right?”
“Fair enough I guess.”
“If you need anything from me at all, just tell me and I can help the best I can.” He said, sitting down by the door.
“Ugh, why can’t I be left alone for a while?” Shalltear said in annoyance. As the day continued to pass on, Sun still stood guard… But a new question rose in his mind. One that actually… sounded helpful.
“Hey Shalltear?”
“Yeah, what is it?”
“May I ask you something?” He asked, sounding nervous as he spoke.
“I guess, so what’s your question.”
“Remember when I told you about the Academy I was going to open?”
“Yes?”
“Well, I would like for you to be a student,” He said. “Along with any of your monster friends that want to come too… There are a few other Faunus besides myself, one being a cat and another being part Rabbit and I was thinking it might be good for you besides Asphy being a teacher.”
“.....Maybe, but not right now. I’m pretty much the representative of the monsters here in Equestria. And I can’t really leave them at this time.”
“Oh? Why is that?” He asked. “Is something going on?”
“I don’t know why, but something big about to happen here in Equestria. And I can’t shake the feeling that if I leave for even a second, something bad is going to happen.”
“... Should I stay then? If something bad does happen and you need to fight… you are going to need allies right? I know some others that can help too.” He said. “You’re important to me, Shalltear. Lance see’s you as a daughter and I see you as family as well.”
“Well, never thought I see a ghost from the past again.” said a mysterious voice fills Sun’s head.
“Who said that?” He thought to himself, springing to his feet and holding his staff.
“Oh uncle Sun, it’s forever since I’ve seen you.”
The faunus soon recognized the voice. “Wait… Shalltear?”
“Well aren’t you just a smart monkey. Guess you’re not as dumb as before when we first meet long time ago.” Outside the window, the faunus could here where the voice was coming from as he dropped down to follow it and meet the one that was talking to him. But… this was not the Shalltear he knew.
“If you want to talk with me, meet me outside of Ponyville.”
The Stray complied, following the shadow of the vampire as he was now outside of the town and looking at what looked like Shalltear. “I’m going to go on a whim here and say that you are Shalltear, but not the one that I know.”
“You are correct mortal, but you should know who I am seeing how this is the multiverse. But something tells me that your mind wouldn’t even understand so I’ll explain it to you” The Vampire said as she appeared in front of Sun in an instant. “I’m Shalltear’s future self if she chose to kill Celestia and rule over Equestria and part of the multiverse.”
“And why exactly are you here?” He then asked.
“Simple really, I want more power. So where else but to go back in time and go after an alternate version of myself. That and along with my former friends and family.”
“ …… Sorry, but that just sounds like Terminator to me.” Sun replied.
“Unlike the terminator, I can steal other displaced powers.” The vampire said as she performed one of Lance’s abilities on a tree. “Oh how fun it was to kill mother and father. The look on their faces were laughable to watch.”
“...... Look, that may be in your timeline, but things are different here.” He growled. “And I’m not taking what you said of Lance lightly.”
“Oh? And can you do about? I’m going to do the same thing I did back home with him, but before I do that. I’m gonna have some fun with my alter self, slowly and playfully.”
“Really now?” He said, a new aura fading around him. One that represented the Night sky. “Do you honestly think I would want to let that happen?”
“Ah, pointless fighting from a weakling.” The Vampire said as she backed away from Sun as a crimson aura appeared around herself. “Just like last time. Do try not to disappoint me like last time uncle Sun.”
“Oh trust me…” He said, vanishing almost instantly before reappearing behind her and hitting her point blank. “You made a wrong decision coming here.”
The Vampire simply just scratch the back of her head and turned around to look at Sun. “I hope that wasn’t the best of you abilities uncle Sun. Because if it is, then you need to train more.”
“Actually, This is just the beginning.” He smirked, his weapons forming Gunchaku as he fired off multiple rounds. What this Shalltear couldn’t see was that the dust ammunition he was using was different than before. Whenever he shot point blank, he was using Steam Ammunition. Giving off hot blinding wisps of air to prevent his opponent from seeing his next attack. That followed up by a semblance filled punch to send her skidding into a tree.
“Interesting little trick monkey.” Shalltear said as the she appeared from behind his shadow. “But you should know the difference between a time double and the real one. You can thank Max for teaching me that little skill of hers.” She said as she grabbed Sun by the tail and toss him towards a rotting tree.
“Says the one that can’t tell which one was a decoy!” He said as the one she threw exploded along with another one by her feet before the real Sun landed a blast of explosive dust in her face. “I’m a trickster after all. I have many tricks up my non-existent sleeves.”
“Almost forgot about that trait of yours.” Shalltear said as she grabbed the real Sun by the throat. “But even tricksters have moments of screwing up.” She said as her surge of energy started to form around her other hand. “Now you die-.” Before the countess could finish her sentence, her eyes widen as she saw a familiar girl standing behind Sun. This caused her to drop Sun on the ground as she teleported off.
Looking behind him, the faunus flinched. “Uhh thanks…… Who are you?”
“The Grim Reaper.” Azula said without any emotions in her voice.
“O...kay. Thanks for the help… Why is that Shalltear afraid of you though?”
“Everyone is afraid of death. Even you were the moment you felt that surge of power flowing from her hand.”
“You may be right… But still… thanks. I owe you for that.”
“It wasn’t your time to die yet.” Azula said as she looked through her book. “I prefer not to collect a soul that isn’t ready to pass on.”
“I understand what you mean… Do you have a name?”
“Sun Wukong, Age 18, displaced June 25, 2015. You’re real name is Sean Jiris before you got displaced along with your mother, who I had the pleasure to bring back from the dead along with Jane Anderson.”
“Wait… You brought back my mother?” She replied. “My god, I really am grateful for that.
“Just don’t act so reckless around an enemy that years beyond your understanding. Had I not come in time, she would have killed you and stolen whatever knowledge and powers that you have gain.”
“I’ll take your advice.”
“Now I take you have questions about what just happened I take it?”
“Yeah I do,” He said. “Can you explain to me what that was about?”
“What you just faced was Shalltear’s alternate future self. Think of her as a power hungry monster that wants nothing more than power.”
“ …… Like Cell in Dragon Ball Z?” He asked. “Future being, absorbs energy and does anything to become Perfect?”
“Think of her like Majin Buu, but more….evil and loves to play with his foe.”
Sun nodded his head in response as he folded his arms. “Well, she will definitely be a handful.”
“Hate to break to you, but she’s not your problem to deal with. It’s Shalltear’s problem.”
“Any way to possibly help her?” He asked. “She’s like my niece now with her being in Lance’s family. I would do anything to help her.”
“I know, but this is fight between one’s past and one’s future. This is the point in the countess’s life where she needs to make a choice.”
“Whether or not to pursue revenge?” The Faunus asked.
“Pretty much yeah, but I’m pretty sure she’ll refuse to pursue revenge.”
“After what just happened recently…” He said, sighing a little. “What can I do to comfort her then? Show her my support?”
“Recommend you inform Lance and Max about what I’ve told you. Because in about one month, the fight to determine the fate of Shalltear and her friends will begin.” Azula said as she closed her book. “I prefer that she loses before more souls are lost, and make my job more troublesome.”
“You mean future her, right?”
“No the one that can poop out cotton candy. Of course her.”
“Sorry, I couldn’t tell.” He said, scratching the back of his head. It was then though that he noticed two index cards on the ground, having images of certain items on there. Picking them up, he soon looked back at her. “Thanks!” He replied as he raced back to Shalltear’s house.
“I’m hoping that she wins….otherwise you guys are screwed. And don’t tell Shalltear about this, that will be my job to.” Azula said as she disappeared. it took a few more moments for Sun to get back, while avoiding any of the monster girls that were in the streets as he returned back to outside Shalltear’s guest room.
“Hey Shalltear, I found something I think belongs to you.” He said, knocking on the door.
“What is it?” Shalltear said as she opened wearing nothing but T-Shirt and panties on. “It’s 12 midnight, can’t you see I was busy master…..sleeping.”
“Well, you might want to see these.” He said, handing the two cards to her. Both of them glowed with Shalltear’s touch, the first card forming a set of metallic crimson armor. The Second forming a legendary class weapon that could only be used by Shalltear.
Spuit Lance
“Never thought I would see these two again. Where did you find them?”
“That’s a bit hard to explain… I found them after running into a girl who turned out to be the grim reaper.” He said, not stating anything else. “You said you were worried that something bad might happen soon. Maybe these could help you get ready for whenever that day comes.”
“Only thing left is to remove the magic seal that Celestia had on me when she hit me with the Elements of Harmony, and I’ll be back to my former glory.”
“What about the lust poison? Wouldn’t that need to be taken care of too?” Sun then asked, curious to hear her answer.
“I’m working on it. The side effects haven’t hit me yet, so I’m pretty much in the clear until I smell something sweet.”
“Riiiiiight… Says the fact you were mastersleeping .” He said, chuckling a little and noticing what might have looked like a blush on her face.
“.....you do know I can throw your ass out on the street, and the monster girls in town will have a field day with you right?”
The Faunus gulped a little, scratching the back of his head. “Sorry, sorry! I didn’t mean to offend you, Countess.” He apologized frantically.
“Good, now then I’m going back to sleep before something weird happens.” Shalltear said as she walked back to bed. Sun himself just laid down, leaning against the wall in a relaxed pose. Trying to fall asleep… Until he heard several panting noises as he leaned his head against the wall before they slowly died down.
Next Morning
“Nice to see a certain vampire up this early for once.” said Sally as she placed breakfast on the table.
“Shut up, after what happen yesterday and Uncle Sun giving me my real
“Wait, that monkey dude is your uncle?” Rebecca said. “How many family members have you not told us about?”
That was when they heard some rustling upstairs and heard someone jump up off the floor to walk downstairs. “Morning Shalltear.”
“Morning Uncle Sun, how did you sleep last night?”
“Alright for the most part. Slept on the floor since I didn’t want to try sleeping in your bed and possibly make you mad for not asking beforehand.” He said, walking over to where they were and then sat down at the table. “Did I miss anything?”
“Nothing much really. Janelle and Suzy are at Sweet Apple Acres, Monica is busy helping around town, Vinyl and Octavia are off at work. So that just leaves Me, Shalltear, and Rebecca alone in the house.” Sally said as she sat at the table.
“And I’m going to take a guess that almost everyone except Octavia and Vinyl are Displaced?” He asked, getting a banana from the bowl of nearby fruit. “Just curious, that’s all.”
“Pretty much all the monsters in town are Displaced that have been sealed away for the past one thousand years or so. You can thank Celestia for the blunder.” Rebecca said.
“Well… That just makes things more interesting.” Sun replied. “Most of the displaced in my world are Human or Faunus. Humans with animal traits… Not to mention that I was telling Shalltear something that I thought the rest of you might be interested in.”
“What would that be?”
“Back in my world, we’ll be opening an academy for Displaced in the Spring. That way, Displaced don’t have to be sent into the void and have to figure out what happened to them. I asked Shalltear if she and the rest of you would be okay with possibly being students. Asphyxious is even one of the teachers.” The Faunus told them as he used his tail to tear off a banana peel before taking a bite out of the banana.
“Huh, that would be interesting. But we would have to decline that offer of yours.” Sally said as she took a sip of coffee. “I’m sure Shalltear would join seeing how Asphyxious is there, but we can’t. Mostly because the king of monsters is holding an academy for monsters like us.”
“I see… I was going to say that you could make your own weapons and that where I’m from, almost every weapon is also a gun. But-.”
“It’s interesting, but like Sally said we have to decline.” Rebecca said as she interrupted Sun. “But I’m sure some of the monsters in town wouldn’t mind joining.”
“Well, it’s under construction right now. But it will be open in two months. It’ll give you some time to think on it.” He replied to them. “Besides, one of the humans there named Ruby has a scythe/combat action sniper rifle.”
“......I get feeling that this Ruby girl has low IQ.” Shalltear said.
“You’re right on that… The second she saw my Celestia and Luna, she thought they were in league with the FBI.” Sun sighed, groaning a little upon recalling his first encounter with her. “Besides Ruby, her sister Yang is there too… Along with Weiss and Blake, who is a black cat faunus.”
“Dude, your friends are weird.”
“Trust me… I just ran into them. Ruby thought I was a saiyan at first glance. So yeah… Like Shalltear said… Low IQ.” He replied, finishing his banana and putting the peel in the trash.
“.....Welp I’m not going to your world anytime soon.” Shalltear said as she munched on a piece of toast.
“Right now, yes. It’s either that or get stuck in Lance’s universe… Would any of you be familiar with the comic books they have here? Like Power Ponies?” He asked, thinking that Spike would be one for reading an issue right around now.
“.....And that’s another world on the list of places I won’t be visiting anytime soon.”
“Maybe once you guys decide to use your vacation days-.”
“WE HAVE VACATION DAYS!?!” Rebecca and Sally shouted in unison. This in turn just caused the Faunus to look at Shalltear for a moment before looking back at them.
“Well, I gotta get back home. Just summon me if you need me Shalltear.” He replied, setting down his token on the table by the Countess. A gold medallion with a monkey insignia on it that looked to be an ancient coin.
“Well do uncle.” Shalltear said as she hands Sun a bat plushie. “Here’s my token if you need me.”
“Thanks! Oh Fluttershy will have a kick out of this. Thanks Shalltear!” With his own token, Sun soon leaped through the tear in the void that was created by him as it disappeared a few seconds later. A long pause in the conversation occurred… until Rebecca was the first to speak.
“No seriously, we actually
“Ugh, this is going to be a long ass morning.”
Chapter 2: Living Arrangements
Chapter 2: Living Arrangements
(Throne Room)
After the wedding and getting everything under control after Queen Chrysalis’s attempt to take over Canterlot. Shalltear and the elements of harmony were ordered to meet Celestia and Luna in the throne room to discuss the living arrangements for the young countess. Granted Shalltear would’ve left and used the abandoned castle in the everfree forest, but a certain moon princess convinced her to stay and listen to Celestia’s offer.
“After talking it over with my sister…...I have decided to…..let you stay in Ponyville.” Celestia said, still a bit angry about her forced decision. “But during your stay in Ponyville you will be watched over by Twilight and her friends to make sure you’re not up to anything evil.”
“Yeah because I’m sure I’ll do something evil while in this magical world of sunshine & rainbows.” Shalltear said sarcastically.
“.......If it wasn’t for the fact that my sister has an interest in you, I would’ve left you to be homeless.”
“Like that’s gonna stop me from finding a home.”
“Can I finish what I was about to say?”
“I don’t know, can you?” Shalltear said as she and Celestia glared at each other for a while, that is until a certain rainbow mane pegasus broke the awkward tension by saying something.
“Can you two please stop fighting with each other? You two haven’t stop arguing with each other since the party, and it’s start to get annoying.” said Rainbow Dash as her friends agreed with her.
“......Fine.” Both Shaltear and Celestia said in agreement.
“As I was saying, Luna was able to provide you Shalltear with a suitable house to your liking. The house is debt free and will be covered so you won’t need to worry about paying any bills. But you will have to help out around Ponyville whenever somepony is in trouble, or in need of assistance in any daily work they do.”
“Is that it?”
“Yes that is all.”
“Well this was a waste of my time.” said Shalltear as she started to make her way to her coffin.
“You’re sleeping in your coffin?” Luna asked in surprise.
“Well it’s not like your sister is going to provide me with a bed to sleep in.”
“That’s true.” Celestia said bluntly which caused Luna to give her an annoyed look. Luna teleported in front of the vampire with a motherly smile on her face.
“Nonsense my friend.” said Luna as she pulled the countess in for a huge. “We will provide you with a bed to sleep in.”
“T-That’s not really necessary Princess Luna. I’m fine with just sleeping in a coffin, it’s kinda comfortable once you’re used to it.” Luna snapped her fingers as two bat pony maids came in.
“Nightshade, Stardust. Please provide my friend here with a room and anything she wants.”
“At once Princess Luna.” said the maids as they left the room.
“Really you don’t need to do this.” said Shalltear trying to pull herself away from Luna’s huge.
“Don’t worry about it’s what friends do.”
“W-We’re friends?”
“Of course we are. Now come, we have much to talk about.” Luna said as she held Shalltear by the hand and began to walk out of the throne room. Moments later after they have left the throne and talking with each other, the two made their way to the now prepare guest room. To Shalltear’s surprise the room almost resembled that of an old renaissance style room from the history book she read back home during school. The only difference is that the room had a mix of old and modern lifestyle of living.
“Wow, very old style renaissance with a mix of modern style living. I have to say it looks nice.”
“We knew you would like it.” Luna said as she lead Shalltear into the room. “This will be your room for tonight until tomorrow when you leave for Ponyville. If you need one of the maids to get get you something, just ring the bell next to the bed and one of them will assist you in whatever it is you need.”
“I’ll do that if I need to.” Shalltear said as she jumped onto the fluffy bed. “Till then I would like to be alone please, if you don’t mind Princess Luna?”
“As you wish, I will see you in the morning before you leave.” Having saying that Luna’s horn start to glow as she teleported out of the room as requested from the vampire.
(Nighttime)
“G-Get away from me.” said Shalltear as she was slowly walking back from a dark figure in the shape of an adult colt unicorn.
“Come here little filly, I just wanna play a little game with you.” said the dark figure as he grabbed Shalltear by the arm. “It’ll just be fun, trust me.”
“I said let get off me you creep, I’m not interested in whatever it is you wanna do.” Shalltear pulled away from the Stallion’s grip as she tried to reach for the door, only for the unicorn’s horn to start glowing and lock the door.
“Oh dear, looks like we’re gonna be here for a while.” said the figure as he slowly walked towards the vampire with a lustful grin on his face. “I wonder what we can do to pass the time?”
“I-I warning, if you so much as to lay a hand on me I’ll-” Before Shalltear could say anything, she felt something wrap around her throat.
“You won’t be doing anything while I’m around creature.” The unicorn pulled Shalltear close to him as he forced her onto the floor. “Not unless you want me tell Celestia that you went on a killing spree across town?”
“That’s a lie! I would never do something like that!”
“Really, you didn’t? Because these pictures of you attacking the citizens of Canterlot begs to differ.” The unicorn levitated the false pictures of Shalltear attacking innocent ponies and drinking their blood. “Now if I have read the law of Equestria correctly, but wouldn’t these kind actions get you sent to jail or turned to stone like Discord right?” Shalltear said nothing, but simply nodded to the unicorn’s question. “And who do you think Celestia would listen to? Me one of the most trustworthy member of Equestria’s government, or you a creature who just came out of nowhere who; if I’m not mistaken is feared or shunned by everypony in Canterlot?” Once again she said nothing as tears began to run down her face at the sudden facts given to her.
“Thought so, now here’s the deal.” The unicorn said as he pulled the vampire up by her hair. “I won’t show Celestia the false pictures of you killing, if you can pleasure me.”
“I’m not going to-!” Shalltear couldn’t finish her refusal as she felt a hard slap to the face.
“Let me remind you something. You don’t get a choice in the matter, freak.” He said as he started to take his pants off. “You have no friends, nor do you have any family members that are in Equestria.” With his pants finally off, the unicorn pointed Shalltear to the direction of his member. “Now get on your knees and suck it, whore.”
“NO!” Shalltear woke up to find herself laying on her bed covered in sweat and shaking from the nightmare of what happen to her years ago. “D-Dammit!” The vampire said as she grab a pillow next to her for comfort as she began to cry a little. “Even after I kill him, I’m still having nightmares of what happen. Why can’t I have a peaceful night of sleep for once?” Shalltear was lost in her thoughts for a moment until she heard a knock her door. The vampire pulled herself from under the covers of her bed as she made her way towards the door. With a twist of a knob Shalltear open the door to find one of Luna’s maid standing in the doorway. “Can I help you Nightshade?”
“I was hearing a lot of discomfort coming from your room. Is there something wrong? Do you need anything?”
“N-No, no I’m fine. I was just trying to get comfortable that’s all.”
“Are you sure? I could always get you something to drink if you want?”
“......Well…...could I have a glass of blood then?”
“At once Madam Bloodfallen.” said the maid as she left to get Shalltear’s request, moments later the bat pony return with a glass of blood on a silver plate. “Here you go, madam.”
“Thanks.” Shalltear took the glass and began gulping down the blood quickly than usual.
“If you’re having a nightmare, maybe Princess Luna can help or you could talk to me about?”
“No offense to you or anything, but I’m not ready to talk about….”
“Oh I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to intrude or anything.”
“It’s fine really, if you don’t mind I would like to get some sleep please?”
“Of course madam, if you need anything just ring the bell and we’ll be here to help with anything you need.” said Nightshade as she once again flew off into the hallway.
Shalltear sighed as she hopped back into bed while hold a pillow for comfort. “Maybe I can finally sleep without having that dream again.” She said as she closed her eyes trying to get back to sleep again.
(Ponyville)
Morning has just arrived as Shalltear and the mane six said goodbyes to both Princess Celestia and Princess Luna and made their way to Ponyville by taking the friendship express from Canterlot. Hours later and answering a few of Twilight and her friends questions, they’ve reached Ponyville. While Applejack and Rainbow Dash were busy taking care of Rarity’s belongings, Fluttershy walked next to Shalltear and lightly shook her to wake the vampire up from sleeping.
“Um, Shalltear?”
“Ugh….huh?”
“We’re in Ponyville now. I wanted to wake you up a little bit earlier, but it looked like you need some more sleep. Did something happen to you last night?”
“I just had a rough night sleeping, that’s all.” Shalltear said as she rubbed her eyes. “You don’t need to worry about it.”
“Are you sure you’ll be okay? I could get Twilight to see if she could help you with you bed troubles.”
“I said I’m fine Fluttershy,” Shalltear said with a bit of an annoyed tone in her voice. “But thanks for asking.” The countess pulled herself up from her seat as she made her way out side. As she made it outside Shalltear covered her eyes from the sudden brightness of sun. Seconds later her eyes started to adjust to her surroundings as she was taken by surprise at how really colorful Ponyville was. “So this is Ponyville? It’s kinda…….well colorful to say the least.”
“Just wait until tonight Shally!” said Pinkie Pie as she appeared from out of nowhere. “You get to meet everypony in town!”
“I get the feeling I don’t have that much of a choice do I?” asked Shalltear as she turned her attention towards Twilight.
“Well seeing how the party is going to be held at your place, you pretty much don’t have a choice in the matter.”
“Wait, what do you mean the party is being held at my house?”
“Celestia said that it was okay for Pinkie to throw her usual ‘Welcome to Ponyville’ party at your place. She said you wouldn’t mind it seeing how she wanted to show that she forgives you about what you did years ago.”
“Oh I can not wait to get my powers back to full strength.” Shalltear thought as Twilight saw an annoyed/angry look on her face.
“Are you okay? If you don’t want the party at your place we could have it at Sugarcube Corner?”
“No,no. We can have the party at my place, just let me get well adjusted with my home and Ponyville.”
“Then we might want to head over to town hall.”
“Why is that?”
“Because Mayor Mare would like to meet the new resident in Ponyville seeing how Princess Luna sent a letter to her about there being somepony moving in.”
Shalltear sighed while rolling her eyes at what Twilight said. “Fine let’s just get this over with before I change my mind and watch TV.”
“Wonderful! let’s head over to town hall and get you registered as a resident of Ponyville.” Twilight said as she grabbed the vampire by the hand, and ran off towards town hall.
(Town Hall)
“So…...this is the…..being that will be staying in Ponyville?” Mayor Mare asked trying to keep her composure.
“That is correct Mayor Mare.” said Twilight.
“Um…...not to be rude or anything, but what is...he...she….it?”
“First of all my name is Shalltear Bloodfallen, I’m a girl or mare seeing how I’m in a land full of ponies, and I’m a vampire if Princess Luna didn’t tell you what I was in the letter she sent you.”
“Y-You’re a vampony!?” Mayor Mare said as she fell out of her chair and hid behind it. “Wait are you a vampony from that movie that’s named after Twilight?”
“Wait? There a pony version of that awful movie?”
“You have your own version of that awful movie?”
“Sad part about that is that we do have that.”
“So are you like them?”
“God no!” Shalltear said as she summon her lance into her hand. “Unlike them I have magic, and I don’t sparkle in sunlight.”
“Okay…...Twilight you sure Princess Luna wants her to stay here?”
“You don’t have to worry about her drinking or turning anypony into a vampony, right Shalltear?”
“I won’t drink anypony’s blood and I won’t turn anypony into vamponies unless they ask me to or if they’re on the verge of death.” said Shalltear which in turn made Twilight and Mayor Mare raise an eyebrow at her
“........Really?”
“What? Princess Luna said I can do that. I just need to go to her when I do to inform her about it.”
“Well as long as you’re not forming an army then I have no problem with you staying here. Just don’t cause any trouble while you’re here, Faust knows this town has been through enough problems as it stand and I prefer not to have anymore problems.”
“I’ll try, but I make no promises.”
“Good enough for me.” Mayor Mare said as she move from behind her seat and back behind her desk. “I’ll just need you to sign this and you’ll be set.” She said as she reached for the cabinet next to her desk and pulled out a sheet of paper.
“What is it?”
“Just standard paperwork, making it legal that you live here in Ponyville. Once you fill that out you will be given an Equestria license stating that you lived here, and you will be starting up school once you get yourself settle in into your new home.”
“Wait? What do you mean I have to go to school?”
“Well, in the letter that Princess Luna sent me, it said that even though you are almost the same age as her and Princess Celestia. You still have a mind of a 15 year old filly.”
“Hey that’s…….fuck you’re right. Not to mention that I have not that much memory about how Equestria is now.”
“So I take it you’re going to school here then?”
“Fine I’ll go to school, but don’t blame me if I get into a fight with somepony at your so called school.” The vampire grabbed a pen from off the mayor’s desk and beginning to sign her signature. “Ah shit… Have another one of those papers? I accidently signed it with my old name.”
“Your real name is Veronica?” Twilight asked as she looked over the countess’s shoulder.
“Just be glad it isn’t Victoria. Because I don’t have any secrets for any of you.” She mumbled, looking towards the door as another familiar face soon entered.
“There you two are, I been looking for you all over town.”
“Why hello there, Ms. Rarity.” Mayor Mare greeted the Unicorn warmly as she trotted into the room. “I’m glad you can be able to make it.”
“As much as I want to stay and chat with you Mayor Mare, but we have a bit of a problem and I need Twilight’s help.”
“Problem?” Shalltear asked, raising an eyebrow as she turned around. “What kind of problem do you mean?”
“Prince Blueblood wants to speak with Twilight for some reason, I don’t know why but something tell me it involves you for some reason.”
“Oh… Was he the one that was referred to as the “Royal Douchebag” ? Or was that just me?” She asked, only leading to Rarity facepalming herself and groaning a little.
“I’m pretty sure everypony calls him that behind his back, anyway Twilight he wants to have a word with you involving Shalltear.”
“Why does everypony come to me whenever one of my friends did something to them by accident or something else?” Twilight asked as she walked out the room.
“Might as well see what’s all this about.” Shalltear said as she was about to head out the door only to be stopped by Rarity.
“Darling, before you go, I found this at my boutique and I thought that you should have it.” she said to her, handing a silver hairpin the looked like a pair of open stretched out wings. “I think it would work well with your mane.”
“Hm.” Shalltear looked at the hair pen for a while before placing it into her hair. “How does it look?” She asked showing off her slightly new look.
“Beautiful, darling! You look marvelous!!”
“Thanks.” Shalltear giggled from Rarity’s comment.
“WHAT DO YOU MEAN SHE’S YOUR SLAVE!?” yelled Twilight. Shalltear and Rarity turned their attention towards outside as they ran towards where the yelling came from. Standing outside in front of town hall was Twilight and Prince Blueblood who had an unamused look on his face.
“The correct term is servant for pleasure in my book, Ms. Sparkle.”
Shalltear though, was unimpressed. “Look, when I agreed to being on even terms with your kind, I did not ask to be the royal bitch of this creep.”
“I know that. This is unacceptable and outrageous, Blueblood. You’ve crossed a line this time.”
“My great ancestor, Atlas Star owned that freak before she killed him. And seeing how Celestia didn’t change the rules for the past 1,000 years from what I checked, this means that whatever Atlas had belongs to me. That includes the vampony.”
“Oh, so you’re the descendant of that Douchebag… Now I see the resemblance.” Shalltear replied before storming off. “I need to get some fresh air. This place stinks of him and his sins.”
“And where do you think you’re going servant?” Blueblood asked as he teleported in front of the countess. “I didn’t give you an order to go anywhere.”
“Fuck you and your orders. You don’t know what your ancestor did to me that made me hate my life here. And just when I thought that I could start anew, you show up.” Shalltear spat at the ground as she flipped her middle finger at the Prince. “When the Princesses hear what I have to say, they’ll never think of you the same way again.”
“Really now, who do you think they’ll believe? You the one that almost destroyed Equestria’s economy, or me their nephew that have help them throughout the years?”
“You… are nothing…” Shalltear snarled, running off before Blueblood could even say anything. She didn’t want to hear any of his bullshit. None of it. After what had happened all those years ago, she didn’t want to relive the events of that horrific night again. The night that still played on in her head as nightmares haunting her sleep.
“How can he treat somepony like that without even feeling bad?” Rarity asked with a concerned look on her face.
“If only we knew, Rarity… If only we knew…”
“Whatever, while you two do that I’ll be going after my belonging that used to belong to Atlas.” Blueblood’s horn started to glow as he teleport off after Shalltear.
“Rarity, go inform the girls about what happened.” Twilight said as she ran off towards the library. “I’ll send a letter to Princess Celestia, while you and the girls go find Shalltear before Blueblood does.”
“On it.”
(Nighttime)
[Shalltear’s Home]
After running through the streets of Ponyville and mostly hiding due to not wanting to be seen by Blueblood or any of his personal guards. Shalltear made it back to her home given to her by Princess Luna as a gift. With one final look outside, the countess locked all the doors, along with the windows and downstairs door as well just to be safe. Having making sure everything was secured, Shalltear let out of sigh of relief as she turned around and was about to relax. Only for Prince Blueblood to appear in front of her.
“Nice try servant, but you forgot about the tracker magic placed on you by Atlas years ago.”
“Fuck!”
“You said it, not me.” The unicorn now snapped his fingers, unbuttoning his shirt . Before Shalltear could say anything, her hands were forced to the back of her head by Blueblood’s magic. “Wouldn’t want you now struggling now, would I?”
“Bastard! The moment I get free, I’m going to enjoy killing you! Just like I did with Atlas!”
“Ahh ah ah. Not this time. You see, you’re just getting on even terms with my aunties. Which means that if you even think of murdering me, they think you’re going back to your old ways. Now, in here, no one can hear you scream.” The stallion soon got to work on his pants, but while this was going on, Shalltear felt something warm up her hands. Not Blueblood’s magic, but the hairpin on the back of her head. She thought she heard someone speak, but couldn’t focus as she tried to struggle.
“Whoever you are, Please… Help me.”
“Trying to pray? Well, times up-.”Just as the stallion’s pants dropped to the floor, a bright flash went off in the room, blinding Shalltear’s captive. The next thing she noticed was Blueblood hitting the back of the room and that surprisingly, a third person entered the room.
But it wasn’t a pony. This one looked… Human.
“Now, this is just too sick.” He said. Shalltear turned to see a human with blonde hair wearing a sleeveless hoodie and dark navy jeans with a pair of leather gloves. However, the one thing that she immediately noticed that at the end of his braid was a hairpin. The same one that she was wearing.
“W-Who are you?”
The human turned to Shalltear, freeing her from her restraints. But before he could say anything, Blueblood tried to attack him with a spell. However, much to Shalltear’s and the Stallion’s surprise, all the human did was take a gem and radiate some power into it before making Blueblood’s magic fade away like dust.
“W-what?!”
“Wrong decision.” His opponent snarled. Shalltear was shocked when his savior pulled out a weapon that appeared to be a pistol and shot Blueblood three times before surging electricity throughout the course of his body and sending the stallion flying out the window. Before he flew out the window though, the mysterious figure used a strange energy to bind Blueblood’s hands and hooves.
“Sorry about that.” The man apologized, offering a hand to Shalltear. “I’m guessing you were the one who summoned me?”
“Y-Yes I- Wait, what!?”
“My token. You used it to call out to me.” He replied, pointing at the hairpin. “Anyways, I’m Lance. But before we deal with anything else, we should make sure that your… attacker has been dealt with by the authorities.”
“Way ahead of you.” Shalltear summoned up a lance had of holy light that was aimed that Bluebloods head. Until Lance put a hand on her shoulder
“Not like that. Put it away, someone’s coming.”
“Tch…… fine, but don’t blame me if the fucker gets back up and attacks me again.”
“I would already have other ways of dealing with that. Plus, I highly doubt he’ll get of those restraints.”
“SHALLTEAR!!” The Vampire soon turned to find Princess Luna and the mane six running in her direction, shocked to find Prince Blueblood in his current state. “What in the name of the night happened!?”
“Long story short. Prince Blueblood tried to have his way with me, that is until Lance came out of nowhere and saved me before anything happened to me.”
“To be more explicit, Blueblood was going to rape her.” Lance interjected, causing some ponies to gasp in shock and horror. “If I had not intervened and restrained him when I did, I don’t know what would’ve happened.” He looked to see the stallion squirming on the floor and a tent being pitched in his midsection. “Oh for god’s sake, somepony get him out of here!!”
“Guards!” yelled Luna as two bat ponies suited in armor appeared. “Take Blueblood to the dungeon until we can have a word with him in the morning.”
“There won’t need to be a word with him.” Shalltear interjected, enraged. “His ancestor is Atlas Star, the same pony that I killed all those years ago. I killed him because he did what Blueblood tried to do and was actually successful at it. And all Celestia did was give him a slap on the wrist with a community service punishment.”
“......I will have a word with my sister about that, till then he will be in the dungeon until we find a suitable punishment for him.” Luna snapped her fingers ordering the bat ponies to take Blueblood away.
“Shalltear, are you okay?” Pinkie Pie asked as she began to hug the countess for comfort. “When we heard from Rarity about what happen we tried to make it here as soon as we can.”
“I-I’m fine Pinkie, just a little bit startled but I’m fine.”
“You sure sugarcube? Blueblood didn’t do anything else before we got here did he?” Applejack asked.
“If that jerk did do something then he’ll pay for what he did to the kid.” Rainbow said as she cracked her knuckles.
“L-Look can we please just forget about it? I…...I just wanna forget it and move on.” said the countess as her grip on Pinkie increased. “I just wanna forget.”
“Not to change the subject or anything, but who’s the colt the long ponytail?” Rainbow asked looking at the teen suspiciously. “Is he in league with Blueblood?”
“No, he’s the one that saved me from Blueblood.” Shalltear said as Luna turned her attention at Lance.
“You there, boy. Are you the one that saved Shalltear from my nephew?”
“Why yes, that would be me.” He nodded. “My name is Lance. Lance Walker. Nice to meet you… Hang on a second. Lumen? Are you okay in there?” Luna was about to ask who was this ‘Lumen’ that he was referring to, until a small butterfly like figure emerged from his jacket and nestled itself inside his hair.
“Next time Lance, warn
“What the-!?” Luna responded, backing up a little.
“Yeah. That’s my friend Lumen.”
“What is she if you don’t mind me asking? She kinda reminds me of that annoying fairy from the legend of zelda.” Shalltear muttered while eyeing the small breezie.
“She’s a breezie.” Lance told them. The response got Twilight to be curious and start looking inside her book on Equestrian Species to find it.
“What’s a breezie?” Rainbow asked before she was cut off by Twilight.
“Breezies are a race both rare and intelligent magical creatures native to Equestria.” said Twilight answering Shalltear’s question.
“Well, that’s one thing that reminds me of our Masked Matterhorn.” Lumen whispered. However, Twilight’s hearing was better than Lumen realized.
“I’m sorry but who’s this Masked Matterhorn?”
“...... Maybe we should explain about where we’re from first before we dive into specifics.”
“Yes, please. Because right now I’m getting a little bit annoyed about all that has happen to me over the years, and moments ago.” said Shalltear as she pulled herself off of Pinkie Pie.
“Well, first off, you need to understand the Multiverse to understand us-.”
“Here we go…”
“Lumen, please be patient.” Lance sighed.
“Can you make it short, sweet, and to the point?” The countess asked. “If you haven’t notice I would like to know how you got here, and to be left alone after this.”
“I didn’t just get here. You summoned me.” Lance replied. “You see, Lumen and I aren’t from this Equestria. There are multiple others in the universe, each one with other people like you and I who got Displaced as who we are. It is also the reason for my powers.”
“......You could’ve just said multiverse theory.”
“Right. Still though, you used my token to summon me when you needed it, so I’m going to do my best to try and help you.” He replied, sighing a little. “I know two other displaced that have been in the same situation as you and I think it would be very beneficial for you to meet them.”
“I don’t need help alright? All I need is to be alone for a few days, and I’ll be fine.”
“Yeah… Your words say one thing, but your tone means another.” Said Lance as he motions Shalltear to follow him. “How about we go on a walk… friend?”
“......Fine, but if you do anything or trying anything.” Shalltear summon a pack of wolves from her shadow. “Then my friends will have something to eat tonight.”
“Are you sure if they want to eat lightning?” Lance asked. “Plus, I just wanted the chance to get to know you a little better. I did save your life a few moments ago.”
“I’m just saying, because after the shit I went through today you can’t actually expect me to trust you that easily.”
“.....*Sigh* Fair enough I guess. Come, let us have a walk by the lake then seeing how you want to get to know me.” said the countess as she began to follow the Adept near the lake.
“I don’t mean it in a weird way. I just thought that you needed someone to talk to.” Lance replied. He noticed a huge boulder and blasted it with his Ki. After a few more blasts, the stone turned into a set of two throne like chairs for them to sit in. “Would you like a seat, Shalltear?”
“Sure I guess.” Shalltear took a seat while her pets simply laid down next to her. “So what do you want to talk about?”
“Well, I would say about my abilities, occupation and that. My family back home is not something I want to talk about though.” Lance then noticed the clothes she had and the Umbrella she carried. “You look quite elegant in those clothes. The Umbrella fits well with your outfit as well.”
“Thanks I guess, so mind telling about yourself before I tell you about myself?”
“Well, I’m an Adept. They’re humans with psychic abilites. Mine is my lightning. Besides that, I’ve been taught to control Ki by a friend of mine and I have another partner with me too, but that I can show later. Where I’m from, I’m basically a hero.”
“Is that all? I was expected something a little…..well interesting to say the least.”
“And when I mean hero, I mean Justice League. My world is filled with superheroes and Twilight and her friends are like their own Avengers.” Lance told her. “But I didn’t want to tell you everything because I didn’t want to be a showoff. The gun I used is only one of two that are linked with my powers as well as an energy blade… If Aurora was here though, she’ll surprise you. But enough about me for right now. What about you?”
“My name is Shalltear Bloodfallen. I’m a vampire that have lived for over 1,000 years, though I maybe old I still have a….somewhat stable mind of a 15 year old. Skills…..well I prefer not to show you.”
“If you think I can copy them or something, then you got me mistaken.” The Adept explained. “I only have my powers, combining them.”
“Still I don’t trust you so I won’t be showing you much.”
“Well, I saw you summon those wolves and a holy spear. I think that’s a plenty if you didn’t want to show me much .” He mentioned. “Plus-.” He then heard a beeping notice from his communicator and looked at it. “Excuse me.” With it, he pulled up the screen and a filly was seen on screen.
“Aurora? Why did you need to call me? Did something happen?” He asked the filly, who looked upset.
“Apple Bloom called me a wannabe hero!” Aurora whined.
“Ah didn’ mean it like that!” Apple Bloom’s voice was heard in the background.
“That was uncalled for!” Scootaloo was heard, “She just came back from the dead and you insult her?”
“Ah said Ah didn’ mean it like that! All ah said was ‘what kinda hero were ya’, and Aurora over reacted!”
“Okay, all three of you calm down.” Lance told them. “Aurora, you can come here if you need to take your mind off of things. Applebloom, please think what you’re going to say before doing so.” With that, he ended the call. “Sorry about that, Ms. Bloodfallen. Sometimes it’s hard to manage work, family and life.”
Aurora suddenly appeared, her wounds of the past looked extra fresh though. “Especially when they’re combined.”
“You have children?”
“Actually yes. First, there’s this little filly.” Lance pointed at Aurora. “Even if she is a partner for me in the field, I see her as a daughter. But also, I have children yes. Two foals, a Filly Rainbow Dash and then a colt named Lucky.” Lance then took the photograph he kept with him so Shalltear could see for herself.
“........I hate kids……” Shalltear said as she handed the photo back to Lance.
“I think I can speak on behalf of all kids, we dislike people who say that.” Aurora stated.
“Easy you two,” Lance tried to calm the tensions down. “Kids can be annoying and bothersome at times, but they learn and grow over time. Both Max and Seph realize that, Aurora. Can you try your best to show some respect to them?”
“Tch, I could care less if they hated me because I said it. I only show respect to who I see who doesn’t annoy me. And I still stand by what I said about kids.”
Aurora’s throat gushed with black liquid as her body flickered between red and blue, “Whatever…” She whispered.
“Does it look like I care about you opinion kid?”
“You okay, Aurora?” Lance asked. “You don’t look so good right now.”
“I’m fine…” She growled, “Never better…”
“Your old wounds are opening again.” Lance told her. “I think your emotions are affecting the healing process.”
“There isn’t a healing process for ghosts. I have to stay this way until I get a new body.” Aurora said.
“Yes, but your wounds look like they have been… reopened. How about you take some time to rest while I talk to Shalltear. Get your mind off of things. Watch a Movie.” Lance suggested to the filly.
“As you wish-” Aurora stopped herself and shook her head, “Okay.” She started fading into Lance’s communicator.
“Sorry about that. Aurora is a bit… determined to be right on certain subjects.” The Adept replied. “Where were we?”
“I lost track after that annoying kid interrupted us.” Shalltear said while rubbing her head in annoyance.
“Aurora has good intentions. Just ill timing. I think you were asking me about the kids Max, Seph and I are raising. I think you might have some things in common with both of them though.” He mentioned.
“Tread carefully about what you’re about to say next boy, because right now I don’t need anyone’s help and the sooner you leave the sooner I’ll take care of Atlas’s bloodline.”
“Murder won’t do you good. With Blueblood exposed though, they’ll start uncovering more of whatever he’s hiding if you let their investigation continue. You should find something to get those things off of your mind instead of on your mind. Trust me, they will pay for his crimes and more than just against you.”
“Stupid and naive, just like how I was when I was young. You think that’ll stop? Don’t make me laugh. In case you haven’t notice, ponies like Blueblood have connection with either other ponies or other being from different nations around the world. Even if that does happen that won’t stop his side of the family to continue in hunting me down for their own personal gain. The only way to make sure that this never happens again is to burn, kill, and slaughter the family bloodline until nothing is left.” A crimson aura slightly formed around the countess. “Then, only then will I know peace.”
“Well, I hope you succeed…” Aurora’s voice said without sarcasm, or humor, “Daddy taught me when to kill. Only when there’s no other choice.”
“Well, There are two things to keep in mind.” Lance replied. “If you looked at Blueblood’s face. He’s not angry anymore, but afraid. This time was the first time you fought back. They might bring others from around the world, but you can bring Displaced from other worlds to fight for you. The second thing is a proposal… Blueblood will be getting a huge sentence for sure. Rape is no small crime. But maybe, you can convince the Sisters to have you either kill him if he gets the death penalty… or make him your servant. Either will teach him the error of his ways in the long run and will also provide you with blood.”
“Mortal... Unlike you who still have his morals and values,” Shalltear appear in front of Lance. “I threw mine away when I imploded Atlas along with the rest of his friends or family that join in his little play time with me.”
“Then force Blueblood to see it from your perspective.” Lance retorted. “I’m trying my best to help you here Shalltear, because I see you as a friend. Only if we let go of the past can we move on with our lives.” Lance told her. “Besides, other ponies might be afraid of you, but I am not. I see you the same way I see my other friends, Max and Sephiroth. I see you as a friend in need.”
“ENOUGH!” The countess yelled as she summoned Spuit Lance into her hand. “You expect me to forget the hell I went through for the past 1,000 years? To forget how Altas star treated me and experimented on me?”
“I’m not asking you to forget what Atlas did. I’m telling you to put Blueblood through the same hell that you felt. Drive him insane, force him to confess not just his deeds, but the deeds of the entire family.” Lance then took a glove off of one of his arms and showed the bare skin. “You seem thirsty. Feel free to have a drink.”
“I don’t need you blood. What I want is for my revenge to be unleashed upon Blueblood and his family.”
“And the first step to do that is in your own room. You remember that his pants are still there. Which would mean that the keys to his home would be there too.” The Adept told her, “ Given that the rich bastard lives in a mansion, he must have a library or study room where they keep records of everything. You find enough evidence on more than just your situation, then not just one member, but all of his family will be exposed, caught and arrested.”
“Lance, stop. I don’t think she’s going to listen to you.” Aurora tried.
“Well, she needs to listen to someone. Shalltear had just got back on even ground with Celestia and Luna. If she kills Blueblood, she’ll be encased in stone again or worse.” Lance pointed out. “Plus, Blueblood is corrupt and did a very bad thing. He must be brought to justice.”
“I’m only on even terms with Princess Luna, that idiot of a sun princess will pretty much give that pig of a unicorn community service just like she did with Atlas all those years ago.”
This though, got Lance thinking. He remembered the orbs that Max could make to place her memories in and let others see them. Maybe this could work. “What if you had Celestia see your memories? I know they may be personal, but a witness account can serve as crucial evidence.”
“I had enough of this, if this is your attempt in trying to change my mind then it’s not going to work. I’m going to kill him and the rest for their ancestor’s sins against me, and there’s nothing you can do about it.”
“Good luck.” Aurora mumbled, still no humor or sarcasm.
“... I can help. If Blueblood is in a dungeon… Why not cause a riot?” Lance suggested. “The commotion would cause him to try to find safety and that is when your opportunity will present itself. Rich folk like him would try to find a place to hide. Make that his downfall.”
“I don’t need help, I’m going to kill him and the rest with my own hands.” Shalltear began to walk off, only for Lance to reappear right in front of her.
“Just trust me. You may be over 1000 years old, but your mind is only fifteen. If you don’t think this through, you can end up killing yourself in the process. I even know a few people that hate Blueblood just as much as you do.”
“Lance, she isn’t going to listen at all.” Aurora groaned.
Lance sighed. “Well, isn’t this a tricky one… Guess, I’m going to have to get on an even playing field for me to help.”
“And what pray tell does that mean?”
“I can feel your power and I feel that… you’re not at your strongest. If so, you would use [Silence] to prevent him from not hearing you, [Mist Form] to disguise yourself, and [Implosion] to make him collapse inward on himself before making it look like an accident with [Wall of Stone] .”
“How the hell do you know about that?”
“When you first introduced your name, I had my communicator run a search on it and see what it will bring up. The first thing I found was an ability like with the powers you would be capable of.” Lance explained, showing the screen with the list before dismissing it. “There’s a difference between using your skills and then using them in ways that aren’t limited to where your character is from. Don’t be afraid to shake things up a little. That’s what I was told. But something seems… different for you. Were your powers affected somehow?”
“I don’t know what you are talking about? My powers are not affected by anything.” Shalltear said as she look away from the Adept. “Dammit, how did he know about that to?”
“Prove it.” He said, standing with his arms stretched out and letting his jacket fall to the ground. “Your emotions might say one thing, but if you do have the power and the will to kill me, then all I say is try.”
“You seriously want me to try and kill you? Did you land on your head when you were just a kid or something?”
“I’ve been wondering that same thing…” Aurora added.
“Fine, but don’t blame me for your stupid mistake kid.” Shalltear raised her arm as a spear of light appeared. “But if you do die I get to have your body, and make it into my personal servant.”
“That’s if it happens.”
“Then let’s find out! [Purifying Lance!]” Shalltear tossed her lance at the Adept as a runic circle appeared on his left shoulder. “Don’t think you can block or dodge this attack.” A large cloud of smoke went off in the area as the Lance made contact. But as it faded, something caught her attention. Lance just stood there. Unharmed. Like nothing happened to him. But like before, she saw the jewel in his hands and soon began to feel drained.
“Not the smartest of moves. This gem that Loki gave me allows me to negate the use of magic on a specific target or specific area. You may recall Bluebroke trying to attack me before and his spell fading along with your restraints? This is the same measure.” He then put the token back in his pocket, looking back at the Vampire. “However, it can only be used three times and after each time, it takes two hours to recharge. I’ve already used it twice.”
“Then try this then [Maximize Magic, Vermillion Nova!]” In a blink of an eye the adept’s body was covered in flames. “Hope your body isn’t too damaged once I kill you-.” Shortly after saying that, the flames disappeared.
“You forgot what I said. Cancels all magic in a specific area. The area is as big as the lake and invisible to the naked eye.” Lance sighed, picking up his jacket off of the ground. “Now, as I was going to say, I want to help you gain your powers… and in the process, meet someone that I think can help you.”
“I don’t need anyone’s help especially someone that is getting in my way of my vengeance. [Summon Household!]” Shalltear’s shadow expanded as a pack of wolves appeared from out of it forming around the countess waiting for the order to attack.
“I’m being serious now, Shalltear.” Lance told her, grabbing the hilt of his energy blade as it hummed to life, the black feather dangling by his fingers. “Please listen to me, I do not want to hurt you. But if I have to do this, then it’s because it’s your own fault.”
“Shut up! I don’t need help from anyone, NOW DIE!” With a snap of her fingers, Shalltear ordered her wolves to attack the Adept. As Lance prepared his stance for battle, only one thought lingered in his mind as his had was now holding onto the black feather. He seemed to be speaking to someone, but Shalltear wasn’t planning on that to happen.
“You think calling for help is gonna change anything? Call whoever you want, it won’t change a thing!”
To her surprise, it did do something though. Something that took her by surprise.
A butterfly portal opened then and spat out the woman who held two passengers. “Da fluff d’you say?!”
“Who the fu-”
