Hello, my name is Ersatz. I’m not like most ponies, and in fact my life up until now is quite unlike that of a normal pony, or any other species living in Equestria for that matter. You see, my dad is a changeling, and my mom is pretty much undead. How they met and the events leading to settling the only city of undead is their story, but this one is mine.
My parents, dad especially, is a master of forbidden arts and black magic. He’s a bit twisted in the head but he’s a good dad, looking out for his family and using his powers for the betterment of ponykind, both alive and dead. But no matter how many lives saved or commendations or diplomats to the capital, our city was seen as a curse on the land, and tensions were high.
From my understanding there was a treaty which allowed us to defend ourselves from attacks when necessary. This came about when my aunt, Flame, was kidnapped and a few ponies attempted to purify her. I wasn’t born yet, but the story speaks of my dad going on a rampage and doing not-so-nice things to those ponies. They're still in the basement, their souls bound to eternal torment for daring to harm our family.
But, pretty much the entire town knew at the back of their minds that a Great Purge would come, slaughtering us all. And so my dad made preparations. He used his vast knowledge of the dark arts to create a portal, one that would be able to take the citizens to a place where we would be able to live in peace.
Unfortunately it was far from complete and unstable at best. It was a swirling purple mist encased in a frame of bloody stone with runes glowing across its surface. I was just a filly, 5 years old and haven’t even started school yet, unknown to the horrors of this world, or the next.
I was sitting at the table in the main room of our three-story home, our imp chef Rotor was preparing a stew in the kitchen wearing his apron and chef’s hat. Minerva, the Spider Queen, clicked her pincers together at the smell from her spot on the ceiling. She was nice, about twice the size of a pony and had randomly decided to move in one day, so she’s now part of the family too.
Across from me sat another member of the family, Lilith. She was a bipedal poison pony demon. She was thrown through the portal one day when dad was fiddling with it. Some stuff happened with her boss and she was banished to this realm, so dad helped her out. She doesn’t quite grasp the concept of “being a pony” and would rather have her poison melt the flesh from your bones than say hi.
Next to her was my aunt, Flame, she helps out a lot around the house while mom is busy making sure dad doesn’t go nuts with some weird idea. Speaking of mom, she was sitting next to me, chatting with her sister about something. I was just enjoying their company, not really bothering paying attention; I was waiting on the food!
Luckily my patience paid off as Rotor came out around the corner with a large cauldron of sloppy soup; several eyes were floating on top and they swiveled around to stare at us in horror.
“Yum! I love Soup of the Damned!” I said. Oh did I mention? The hell the ponies in the basement are forced to endure is life. Chop them up and harvest their organs and they feel the pain of every piece as it’s cooked and eaten, then they heal overnight for it to happen again. Neat, huh? I like to help, I’m pretty good at carving up ponies. Mom thinks I should go into taxidermy but the tax code looks way too confusing. When I told her that she thought it was hilarious, don’t know why.
I had just poured some stew into my bowl and slurped an eye into my mouth when our door slammed open and dad ran inside. I popped the eye and sloshed the creamy juices around, savoring the taste as he caught his breath.
“Right! Well, who’s up for a trip?” He said with a large smile as he held the door shut.
“Sweetie, what happened?” Mom asked.
From beyond the door was the sound of something releasing and a juicy crunch, followed by an explosion. Somepony set off the death traps. “Well, let’s just say the peace was nice while it lasted but we need to head out.” He said. “Minerva? Mind sealing the doors and windows on all the floors? Thanks!”
Minerva chittered and a black swarm of spiders blacked out the ceiling and walls, traveling all over the place and headed upstairs, blanketing everything in a thick coat of webbing. Dad’s horn flashed when they finished, “There, strong as steel AND fire proof. Should buy some time. Come on everyone, with me.”
I quickly slurped down the rest of my stew and followed everyone downstairs. There were the four torture tables with the prisoners strapped to them and two more of the ponies hanging from the wall, and then in the corner was a large cage, housing new occupants I didn’t recognize but if they survived the trap they would die soonwould anyway. Too bad I couldn’t harvest them.
Dad stopped in front of the portal, “Okay! So, just like we practiced, I’m going to mark you with my magical signature and no matter what dimension or whatnot we wind up in or if we get separated, we will be able to find each other, most of us can access and cross the plains without issue, so Ersatz, if you get separated from us in the portal just sit tight, we will come. Got it?”
Flame cleared her throat, “We never practiced this.”
Dad paused a moment, “But if we pretend we did, then we did. Alright!” His horn flared and our family crest appeared on each of us, and then faded on our foreheads. It was basically a pentagram crossed with a spider. “If anyone can see it, they are an ally, and we can use it to track each other. Questions?”
I raised my hoof, “What’s going on?”
“Well a bunch of self-righteous ponies formed an army and are currently slaughtering everyone in the city. Well, they aren’t dying or being killed, but they are taking them prisoner and will likely try and find some way to end their life. Too bad I’m the only one with soul magic. Well, me and you kiddo.” Dad said and patted my head.
There was an explosion from upstairs and screams as Matilda fought back with her acid and venom. Dad whistled and in a flash a dozen hound horrors appeared, their large fangs dripped venom and several tentacles protruded from their backs. “Go up and stall them.” He ordered and they ran upstairs to join the fray, howls from thebacks deepest pits of despair of Tartarus rang out, striking fear in the enemies .
“Master, shall I go as well?” Lilith asked, her scythe at the ready and dripping her green poison.
“Na, we’ll need you later, and they will overrun you anyway. Now enough talk, through the portal!” Dad said, more flashes summoned three iron golems, ten foot tall behemoths that would be hard to destroy. “Destroy the portal once we’re through and then kill anyone who approaches.” Dad ordered.
Mom picked me up and set me on her back, “Ready to go sweetie?” I nodded. “See you soon honey~!” She said as we vanished into the mist.
Now, I’ve never traveled by portal before, especially an unstable one, but the feeling of being stretched and compressed at the same time and spinning in every direction at once was a bit nauseating. I almost lost my stew! I tried to hold onto my mom but I couldn’t find her in all the chaos. Suddenly it felt like I was punched in the stomach to the sound to glass shattering, then I was whole again, falling through the air. I saw a break in the sky as I fell, a jagged hole and a million cracks racing across the blue expanse. As I watched they seemed to mend and repair, leaving a small speck as I fell through the weird orange clouds.
I righted myself and unfolded my wings, buzzing them to slow my rapid descent. The ground below me was rather barren, mostly sand and dirt with a few buildings here and there. I tried to think of what realm I was in, but the scene didn’t describe any of the abyssal planes that I learned about.
Instead I decided to head towards the nearest buildings I was able to see. As I approached I was able to see that the natives were at least ponies, mainly earth and unicorn. They all seemed to be carrying some weird metal and wood staffs and pointing them around all over. I ignored that and dropped altitude to land in front of the main gate.
I had just about landed when a loud BANG rang out, followed by a sharp pain as my chest exploded in blood. I felt myself fall to the ground as my vision began to fade in and out. My chest heaved as I tried to see who hurt me, but I landed on my side, facing away from them. I let myself relax and felt my chest with a hoof weakly.
It was slippery with my blood and there was a large hole that lead pretty deep. I grit my teeth through the pain and forced my hoof into the flesh, widening the hole as I felt around. I quickly reached the sternum, and felt the alien lump now imbedded there. It took a bit of coaxing but I was able to pry the object out of my chest.
I removed my hoof and looked the invading item over. It was a round metal ball, just a few centimeters in diameter. I tossed it aside and massaged my chest, that had really hurt! As I massaged, the hole slowly closed as my blood was re-absorbed. I heard hoof steps approaching.
“What the hell is that thing?” One of them said, a stallion.
“It looks like a new radiated bug, think it tastes good?” A mare asked.
“Looks like a bug filly! What a fucking freak! Think the body is still warm? I haven’t had a lay in hours!” He said.
“You stick your dick in anything that moves, alive or dead don’t you?” The mare said.
“And you like being stuck don’t you, whore?” There was another BANG and the stallion yelled in pain. “What the fuck bitch! You shot me in the ass!”
“Only for being as ass. Come on, take your healing potion and toss it with the rest of the meat, if it’s still alive, cage it with the others, it might fetch a good price.” The mare commanded and walked off.
I heard the stallion drink something and the clink of an empty bottle. “Fucking bitch, telling me what to do. Fuck her! I’m going to rape this thing and then I’ll rape her in the ass!”
I had no idea what he was talking about, but I had almost fully healed when I felt him grab my rump and rolled me onto my stomach, he placed a hoof on my back, pressing me into the dirt as he mounted me, the other hoof between his legs. “Come on… Come on… Ah, there we go!” I had no idea what was going on, but my body was still recovering and it was hard to move like this.
I suddenly felt my tail get flicked to the side, exposing my private area to him. Then I felt a pressure and a searing pain rake my body! He had shoved something inside me, and it was tearing me apart! I gasped and convulsed as a pain I never felt before exploded through my body!
“Still alive? Ha! Fuck you bitch, I’ll make you mine!” The object was forced in even deeper, “Fuck! You’re the tightest bitch I’ve ever had!”
I had no idea what was going on, who these ponies were or what he was doing to me. All I knew was that I was angry, and that he was not a friend. I felt my blood trailing down my backside and willed my control over it.
There was a wet slicing sound as all of his movement stopped, several spears of my blood piercing through his body. I sat up and shoved him back, the object leaving me as he did. I turned to see what it was. In my lessons in anatomy, I knew what a dick was and how it was meant to be used, and I felt violated as I glared at him.
His one working eye swiveled and locked onto me, quivering in fear as I used my blood to slowly tear him in half, my horn glowing as I captured the light glow of his body and forced it into my mouth. His body turned to ash as I consumed his soul.
Oh, and did I mention? My blood is black.
Class: Black Blooded Terror
Level: 1
Abilities:
Minor Blood Manipulation
Minor Regeneration
Minor Damage Reduction
Soul Absorb
Health Boost
Stats:
Strength: 7
Perception: 5
Endurance: 10
Charisma: 6
Intelligence: 6
Agility: 3
Luck: 3
Author's Note
Had this idea for her for a while now, I will be updating this as well as the parent fic "A New Life" side by side. In the meantime, enjoy a dangerous blood mage in the fallout universe!
