I got what I needed. I took a great amount of pleasure making him suffer, almost to the point that I forgot what I wanted out of him. He finally told me the location of the Purge base that Vinyl and Octavia had been taken to, at which point I finally granted him release. It had only taken me about twenty seconds to get it out of him, but it had felt much longer for the two of us. I had charged his brain with energy which caused it to create about a thousand times more signals which slowed his perception of time.

His screams no doubt could be heard from Ponyville, which meant I didn't have much time. The elements would no doubt be here in a blink of an eye, and I had to make sure these bastards weren't mistaken as victims. So I decided to just erase them. I ionized their bodies and watched them dissolved and the dust get taken by the wind.

After that was done I let my aura armor I had activated involuntarily from rage fade away before I charged myself with energy and made a break towards the everfree forest. Apparently, Purge had created a base deep in the everfree that from what the pegasus told me was very large. It's creation started when humans first appeared from the portals, and had been expanded over time. There were about a hundred members that came and went with about sixty in the base at any one time. I felt a pull at my mind as I got closer.

What is it Bael?

So you simply wish to exterminate those that stand in your way?

No... They are going to suffer. For what will feel like an eternity.

Then we have an offer for you.

I paused on my journey and stood in the middle of the forest. And what do you propose?

Let us take over.Let us take over.

A wicked smile broke across my face. I could feel the desire to give retribution coming from my soul, and they were feeding off my desire.

Give them hell. Erase the memories of any prisoners that are not my mares. And leave the one in charge for me. Those are my conditions.

Deal.

Acceptable.

Now, what do I need to do?

Just repeat these words aloud...

??? POV

Those whores were stubborn that was certain. It would probably take weeks to break them. Though if it can't be done, then at least I tried.

These thoughts were that of Night. A boring name he knew, but the unicorn thought it fit him well. His grey irises the only thing to contrast his black coat and mane. He had been placed in Ponyville directly after the human scourge had first appeared, and had been doing the will of Purge ever since. His talent in cloaking spells is what allowed the branch to grow like it had without the princess of friendship being none the wiser. He had ordered plenty of assassinations and foalnappings, and he knew the guard only knew of a fraction of them. This, along with their latest success, had given Night the feeling of being invincible.

Freeing the mares of a corrupt human guard had been a challenge. He had two stallions in critical condition and the mares were definitely brainwashed, but his plan had succeeded. No doubt the guards were trying to still make sense of those maps they had littered around that fake scene they had made. Some of the maps were real but most were fake, and none endangered their location. When his men came back with conformation that the human was dead then everything would be set. That fire crystal couldn't be traced because it was natural, so the guards and princesses wouldn't have anything to go on.

He knew eventually they might start exploring the forest. Though with the natural fear engraved in the minds of ponies, he figured it would take months for them to consider that they had built a base within this cursed place. By that point their job will almost be complete. Humans will either be dead, at war, or so terrified that they would never consider entering Equis again. Then the princesses would close the portals and everything could return to normal. Eventually ponies would thank them, and history books would write of them as heroes. No more of hiding in the dark.

First things first though. Night walked into a room with his newest prisoners chained up to the wall. The terran mare had to be restrained with latches after she broke the chains that were first put on. That had sent another person to the medical wing with a broken arm and a concussion. Then there was the unicorn...

Vinyl Scratch was well known, he had even been to a concert of hers before. To see such a beautiful mare bloated with the spawn of human trash made him want to puke every time he saw her. Of course she had a magic blocker on her horn, she couldn't be trusted after being the one to put his soldiers into critical condition. She was awake and staring at him like he was scum of the earth, and it saddened him.

"What do you want, you prick..." She spat venomously.

"You poor brainwashed mare. Don't worry, eventually you'll see the truth." I spoke kindly.

"When the father of my children finds you, you're going to wish you were already dead."

I frowned at these words. "Children? You've been tainted to that level you don't recognize you have foals inside you? You're worse off than I thought." I shook my head before I continued, "As for the human that tainted you, he's dead."

Vinyl appeared to become even more pale before screaming at him, "You're lying! He can't be dead! He's going to come and kick your ass. I don't believe you!"

"I don't care what you believe. I had him killed shortly after we returned here. The stallions I sent out should almost be back to confirm. Then you'll hear for yourself that you have no one coming for you."

She slumped after hearing this, and started muttering to herself. I had turned to leave when I heard another voice, the other mare had apparently woken up.

"If you think that he's dead, you are fooling yourself." Octavia stared daggers with her mulberry eyes.

I chuckled at the delusional mare, "And tell me, how could he survive a fire crystal? Humans don't have magic. Any rumors that say to the contrary are obliviously fake."

"I would have thought so too, until I remember all the times that Andrew did the impossible. He overpowered me, a terran, when I almost raped him by forcing me off him. I saw him heat a blade to burn the stallion that was holding it. And he survived a lightning strike while being skewered with a wooden support. Humans don't live through those kind of things, and yet Andrew survived it all. So you can claim whatever you want, but you'll see when he comes to rescue us, that taking us was the worst mistake of your life."

I was silent as the mare ranted. Even Vinyl seemed to have recovered because of her words. So I walked up to her and backhanded her smug smile.

"Octavia!" Vinyl screamed.

"Shut Up!" I yelled an punched her in the stomach. I had no care for the filth hiding inside her. "I've had enough of your back talk. You will be reformed. Eventually you will understand why we were driven to do as we have done, and in that time you will thank us."

He turned to leave. His patience finally dissolved.

Octavia yelled and strained against her bindings at the violence he had used on Vinyl, though he couldn't care less. He had made it to the door when a chill seemed to sweep through the very core of his being, along with the room itself grew darker. Which should be impossible since they were underground.

Then he heard a whisper, words spoken directly into his mind, and they terrified him.

"When hope is gone. Undo this lock. And send me forth. On a moonlit walk."

Before Night even got a chance to wonder what the hell he had just heard, distant screams erupted from the other side of the door. Fear racked through him as much as bewilderment at what in tartarus could be happening. Each time he willed his body to move towards the door to go and find out what was happening he found himself frozen to his spot.

What found us? How can I escape if it comes this way? WHAT THE BUCK WAS THAT VOICE!?

Third Person POV

The ponies set to guard the entrance to the compound honestly were feeling fairly cocky, since nothing had ever been seen on a patrol since the cloaking spells were put in place. So to say they were surprised when they saw a human walking straight towards them like it knew they were there.

They were about to call back a warning when they saw it's eyes...

Silver orbs stared through them, that glowed with a unnatural power. Its magic did not come from Equis, this fear would not be felt if it was so.

Just when they had fought through their fear they felt a wave of pressure pass through their bodies and heard a voice in their heads. They looked at each other and knew that they had heard the same mantra. Soon their eyes snapped back to the approaching target.

They were frozen as they watched, a black vapor seemed to come straight from his body, like darkness itself was leaking out of him. With each step the darkness began to wrap around him, cloaking him until nothing remained but a black outline. Then it began to change shape.

They stared as it took the shape of a werewolf-like creature. It grew in size as well, becoming easily seven feet tall. Blue lightning arced across his body and they could feel their hair standing on end as they stood frozen in place. His lips split to reveal a horrid smile of razor sharp fangs, they heard a dark chuckle even from the large distance still between them and the beast. They were finally starting to recover from the shock, they're voices almost made it to cry out...

Suddenly for the stallion on the left the passageway was spinning, when it slowed down he saw why. His body was standing there with the beast suddenly beside it, but his head was no longer on his body. As the last flicker of thought and life disappeared from him he saw his compatriot's spine had been ripped straight out of his back, and his own body crumple with a fountain of blood spraying the ceiling and walls as it fell.

Some more ponies saw this event happen in a blink of an eye, and as the blood of their friends began to soak the ground the first screams rang out.

Terror, mayhem, and blood... so much blood. The monster ripped through anypony it encountered like a living blender. Some where brave enough to try and fight it, though their fate was by far the worst. Any blast of magic, stab of a weapon, or slam of just throwing a random object made the creature pause. Before the brave idiot could ever react the creature would be next to them like it had teleported, but no magic was used. Then it would slowly let them meet a horrid death: ripping them slowly in half, impaling offenders with whatever was used to attack it, violently murder ponies with the bones or limbs of their friends, and in the most gruesome cases it would impale its victims with a claw and then they would start glowing until they turned black and dissolved into ash.

"Help!" "Don't let it get me!" "I don't deserve to die!"

"Take him, he raped them!" "Buck you! You killed them when I was done!"

"Hurry if we go now we can -UGGK!" "I have a wife and foals, please! AHHGggg..."

In the commotion prisoners escaped and began to fight their captors or try and escape the base. Anytime they would lock eyes with the creature they would fall to the ground unconscious and it would pass them by, like a reaper passing over those who's time had not yet come. For anyone else there was no mercy. No escape from the fate that had already claimed so many. Many started to beg, but their pleas never made the monster pause for a second in its unfeeling extermination of all, it would purge them all, just like they planned to do to the humans.

One mare, who's coat was once pure white, but now almost completely crimson, begged as the creature approached her.

"Please, I never harmed anyone we brought in. I was forced to join by my coltfriend. I'll confess to everything! Just don't kill me!"

It paused just in front of her, and spoke in a voice like a growl and a whisper overlapping and speaking together, "We know what you did. Your crime is silence. You saw this and let it happen. Then you found joy in seeing them disappear." It said as it brought its claw closer. "And so We will take joy in making you disappear.

She screamed as its claw touched her and felt pain erupt from her skull. It squeezed as her eyes turned to liquid, blue flames came from her sockets as the energy he was pumping into her body caused blood to burn as her head was crushed. The flames engulfed her body like blood flowing from where her head used to be. It tossed the lump of coal that was all that remained of it burning and crushing her skull.

Bael/Korvin felt for any more sources of life and besides those of the unconscious victims, they only found five. Two of which belong to the ones, with two smaller ones within one who they was searching for. So they walked towards the sources, relishing the thought of what Andrew would do to his final victim. Many had said 'Take Night, he started all this' or 'Night is responsible, not me'. They hadn't found this pony, so they figured he was cowering where Andrew's mares were being kept. He would pay, his fate would be worst than of the others, and they would get to watch as Andrew got his vengeance. They laughed as they approached, a dark, horrid laugh, at what was to come.

Andrew's POV

I had watched, a passenger in my own body, as Bael and Korvin enacted vengeance that I doubt I could have thought of alone. Only those that were also victims where granted their lives, though they would never remember what had taken place, only the results. I could start to have feeling of my limbs again as we neared where I could feel there were still life sources that I had yet to meet. I knew who they belonged to except for one, the one who was responsible for everything that had occurred on behalf of Purge in Ponyville... and he would pay.

I had full control of my body at this point as I walked through the pool of blood that had completely stained the floors of the compound. There was a solid metal door at the end of the hallway, with only a few light shedding an eerie glow on the gore covered walls. It took me a minute but this scene made me remember something, the dreams of where I talked to Korvin.

Did you know this would happen?

You give us too much credit. We simply made a scene that would eventually acclimate you to the death and destruction that you would see throughout your life as our vessel. Because every vessel we've ever had comes to the same fate, they must fight to live. Scenes like this will be more common than you will ever wish to understand.

Such is the fate of a vessel.

So be it if that is the price to return my mares to me. I will bare it all.

As I reached the door I held out a claw and a black sphere appeared in my palm before slowly drifting towards the door. When it touched it passed through the door which caused it to turn black, I then walked forward and as I touched the door in crumbled to ash.

I could finally see trophy of my rampage, my victim that I would make suffer for the rest of eternity... a ironic black unicorn, named Night. He stood on the other side of the room, where Vinyl and Octavia were unconscious, with a look of terror that he was failing to hide behind a mask of courage. He also held a blade in his hand and he was pointing it at Vinyl... how dare he!

I charged my left hand and held it up. The blade became magnetized and was ripped from Night's hand and flew straight to mine. I twiddled the blade before ionizing it and seeing it turn to slag and fall to the floor, the molten metal not harming me in the least.

"Your sins are many, Night. Though your worst mistake was thinking that taking these mares was a good idea." I spoke coldly to him. The air itself feeling like it just dropped to icy levels.

He shook in cold and fear as he answered, "T-this will only prove o-our point! Humans are w-willing to consort with d-demons of t-tartarus to get what they w-want!" His eyes speaking of the hate he held, which was the only thing driving him at this point.

"Foolish idiot. You assume I came from tartarus... but the truth is much more simple." I spoke while releasing my form.

I now stood before him as myself, and his disbelief at what he witnessed was laughable.

"T-t-that's not possible!!! Human's don't possess magic! We tested that ourselves! You must be a demon, that took human form to infiltrate Equis!"

"Wrong again. Humans do possess magic, though we are few. In truth only nine of us should ever have the power at one time, currently at least. You just happened to pick to kidnap the loved ones of the one that draws strength from loyalty and rage... Bad luck for you, bastard."

"If you try to hurt me I'll kill these two! I can do it with just a thought!" He threatened, charging his horn.

I spoke softly, a whisper really, "You will die. And it will feel like eternity."

"Is that a threat!?" Night laughed.

"A promise..."

With a wave of my hand a rune circle appeared on the ground, with myself at one end and Night at the other. I spoke one word, a true word.

"Ki."

The world disappeared in a flash, only the circle, myself, and Night remained.

Night looked around frantically, "What did you do!?" He demanded.

"This is a void. A place I created that exists outside of space and time as we both know it. It is a place that you can only leave if I let you, or if you kill me. Koeh."

With that word, earth appeared beneath us.

"Vin."

*BOOM* A clap of thunder struck, with clouds and rain appearing and drenching us.

"So you understand who you see before you, let me introduce myself." I told him as he stared at me in despair as he realized I controlled his fate at this point.

"I am Andrew Duron. Vessel of the Solest Bael aspect of Loyalty and the Umbran Korvin aspect of Fury. The eldest beings of known creation. I am descendant to the first humans to wield magic. I love only two beings in this or any world. I will stop at nothing and do whatever it takes to keep them safe, holding no mercy for those who threaten them." I spoke, with each sentence growing in volume until my voice matched that of what the canterlot royal sisters used. The winds of the storm picking me up as I rose in a grand effect. "and you... STOLE THEM FROM ME, TRIED TO KILL ME, AND THREATENED TO HARM THAT WHICH BELONGS TO ME!"

Night simply stared as he started to accept his fate. "Buck..."

"I CONTROL THIS WORLD. TIME AND SPACE ARE WHAT I SAY, AND YOU WILL SUFFER AN ETERNITY AS YOU DESERVE!"

He was struck by a lightning bolt, piercing a hole straight through his body. He was about to collapse before the world froze, before rewinding and he was left standing where he was just before dying.

"You will die when I decide." I spoke calmly, though to him my voice thundered like the world was shattering.

He was flayed, dismembered, burned, gouged, suffocated, torn to shreds by creations of shadow, frozen, bludgeoned, electrocuted, vivisected, among other forms of near death. Each time, I would reverse time and restore him. He started to try and escape, which allowed for me to toy with him. Other times he would try to attack me, only to have him nearly die in a more excruciating way that I would normally give him. A few times he tried to end his own life in an attempt to break the cycle, only to be brought back just before he would fade completely.

Though for me this lasted for a long period of time, I wasn't really keeping track, for Night it was infinitely longer. Before I enacted any near death I would charge his brain with an extra million times his normal signals, slowing his perception by an equal measure. He had slipped into madness multiple times, and no doubt could not remember anything but the pain he had endured with each near death.

After his latest resurrection I walked up to him and stared down at the pathetic pile of flesh before me.

He looked up at me and groveled, "Let me die... Please, just let me finally die."

He would tell me anything I want to hear at this point, and would have only after the second near death I enacted on him. I had finally grown tired of him. Though I wasn't going to let him die that easy.

I created a rune circle that brought him to float in the air in front of me. With a snap of my fingers he was restrained by four smaller ones around his wrists and ankles I created a orb of lightning and darkness that I sent to float just in front of him.

"You deserved all that you have received... but I haven't forgiven you. Nor will I ever." I said as the orb drifted closer to his chest. "So here is my final punishment. You wish to die, so I will let you experience how it feels to die... for all eternity."

So I spoke the true word that would enact my final judgement, "Mai-deth..."

The orb entered his chest and he started to scream. I had no need to manipulate his sense of time, for this would be forever. He would be frozen, endlessly screaming without ever needing to breath. His body would eventually turn to dust, though his soul would continue to endure and suffer the pain of eternal death, until the end of time itself. My runes would prevent anyone from ending his suffering, not even the princesses combined could break this spell. So he would remain, that was my final punishment. I cast a final rune of silence so I wouldn't have to listen to his screams, now it was finished.

I let the circle I originally made to create this world break, releasing us back into the real world where I could finally see Vinyl and Octavia again. Barely a minute of time in this realm had passed and nothing had truly changed. The girls were still unconscious and bound by chains, Vinyl was slumped and bleeding from small lacerations covering her body and Octavia's wrist and ankles were chaffed of fur from straining against her bonds.

Tears rolled from my eyes as I slowly and carefully released them from their bounds and laid them on the ground. Their was a large bruise on Vinyl's stomach, which at seeing made my anger flair again as I looked over at the silently screaming unicorn that I had tossed in the corner after returning to the material realm. I examined they're bodies and found they were not in critical condition, but they were still in bad shape. I couldn't tell anything about my children other than the fact that two life forces still remained within Vinyl, I had no way of knowing their condition and it angered me. Though that is not what overwhelmed me, sadness did.

I cried as I spoke softly over them, letting my tears fall on their faces, "I-I'm sorry, my loves. I wish you hadn't pulled me from my house that night. I could have died and you would have continued on. This would never of happened and you would never be suffering as you are now. I will never be able to express how much I hate myself for letting this happen."

"Don't say such things..."

My eyes snapped open to find that Octavia was awake and looking up at me with a strained smile and tears in her own eyes.

Her voice was a little stronger as she continued, "You couldn't have known, and to wish that you had died that night is selfish. Vinyl would never had been able to tell you how she felt, and I would never had discovered my own feelings. We don't blame anything on you. Though I will thank you for coming to save us... how did you do it?" Her expression turned curious.

I chuckled, "That is a very long story and this is not the time nor place for such a thing."

She was about to speak again when a sound of hooves and feet met our ears, with orders coming from guards no doubt. They were two type of steps we could hear, many hurried steps that were rushing around the compound, searching the compound, and then slow measured steps, coming closer to us. I could hear the splashing of blood as the people or ponies approached, and I had a good guess of who it might be.

My suspicions were confirmed when a radiant white figure became visible down the hallway. Following close behind was its contrast of dark blue and an outlier of bright purple. The three entered the room and looked around at everything else in the room before finally focusing on us.

I spoke calmly, my mares still resting on my lap, "Princesses, I'm surprised you arrived as quickly as you did. You'll find their leader in the corner, though I don't think he'll be of any use to you."

Twilight went over to examine Night, while Celestia and Luna remained focus on me. Luna was the first to speak.

"What happened here, Andrew... or am I addressing something else?"

I nodded at her question, it was perfectly reasonable, "You are addressing your friend Andrew Duron, Luna. Though I'm not exactly the same as I was before. As for your first question, I happened here. All that you saw before reaching me was my doing, I am responsible."

Celestia cut in before Luna could respond, "If you are responsible then tell us how. How were you able to slaughter over eighty ponies that are stronger and better armed then you appear before us now? There is not a speck of blood on you, and there is no weapon that you could have used in this room." She looked over to the writhing Night that her student was observing with a look of pity on her face. "And what happened to that pony? I don't recognize that magic, I can't even tell what it is doing to that poor pony." Sadness filled her voice.

I also looked over at him, no feelings of remorse coming as I stared and answered, "I did that to him. With a force I don't fully understand. Human magic, it appears, works much differently than that of ponies.

Celestia and Luna shared a look of uncertainty before asking, "When did you acquire this magic Andrew?"

Wouldn't you like to know. "I don't really know, it could probably been in me for years. It might be left from that demon that was in me, or remnant void of magic that Equis' natural ambient magic filled. Could be because of something else entirely. I can't tell you for sure."

I looked over at Twilight as she was trying to examine Night and the state he was in. I thankfully noticed when she activated her magic and was about to do something very stupid. "STOP!" I yelled at her, lifting up my hand and firing a warning shot of lightning in front of her.

Twilight yelped as she jumped back fearing she would be hit, and Celestia and Luna immediately went on the defensive lighting their horns and demanding of me. Octavia had just enough strength to turn and cover Vinyl as they where still on my lap.

"Explain yourself now!" Celestia threatened me.

"She doesn't understand what she's dealing with, and was about to attempt to dispel those magic circles. I stopped her because when I made them I designed them to prevent change to the spell, by force." I explained.

Celestia looked over to the startled Twilight to confirm. "I-I-I didn't know." She stuttered out.

Celestia sighed, "My student you should be more cautious when dealing with magic not of Equestrian origin, or you might find the consequences to be very severe."

I looked down at Octavia and Vinyl, and stroked their manes in a calming manner. Twilight walked back over and stood behind Celestia looking a bit ashamed of herself. Luna looked unsure what to do, while her sister looked like she was deciding my fate.

We all heard running that grew louder so the Princesses turned to find Captain Iron Hide running up to them before stopping and bowing to them.

"Princesses, we've searched the entire compound. All purge members appear to have been terminated, all survivors appear to have been prisoners. None of which have any recollection of what happened here." After his report his eyes fell on me and he blurted out, "Lieutenant! What are you doing here!?"

"Rescuing my mares." I stated plainly.

"Y-you what? None of the guards have seen you since you disappeared from the raid. They thought you had been taken. Now you're telling me you're responsible for what happened here. What's going on here!?" He looked like his mind was about to break from attempting to understand.

So I danced lightning across my fingers as a demonstration. His jaw almost unhinged itself as he saw this, stuttering came soon after.

Celestia used her magic to exude a calming aura to calm the captain before answer for me, "Yes Captain, he has magic, he is still human, and apparently this is very new to everyone."

"What do you wish for us to do your Grace?" Iron Hind asked.

Celestia sighed as she thought, looking to Luna and seeming to communicate telepathically to decide. After a minute or so she finally made her decision, "Lieutenant Duron, you are to be carefully monitored as to determine what nature you magic is. You will continue with the local Ponyville guard, and Captain Iron Hide will report to me weekly on any observations he determines I need to know. We will personally transport you to the local hospital to have Octavia and Vinyl placed in their care. What happens after that will be up to you." Celestia decreed.

Luna then addressed about our current situation, "What happened here will be controlled in what is made public. According to the Captain, none of those that have been rescued know exactly what happened here except for us. We will keep it that way for the moment. Andrew's magic will have to be made public eventually, though until there is another case of a human having magic, we will treat this as an isolated incident that Twilight will study to determine how this came to be." A squee came from Twilight from hearing she was going to get to study something new. Luna ignored her as she continued, "The ponies that died here were criminals, and what is done can not be undone. So instead of dwelling on what should have been done we will continue and try to learn as much as we can to prevent this from happening again."

Everyone seemed in agreement until Captain Iron Hide brought up the other body in the room.

"What happens to that pony there? Also who is he?" He asked.

I looked over to the writhing mass in the corner with contempt. "It's name is Night. The one that used to be in charge of this Purge faction. Won't be any use to you anymore. I placed it into a permanent state of dying. Not dead yet and never will be, but dying all the same."

Celestia and Luna suddenly looked very concerned at my explanation. Twilight looked pained at conflict of the fascination of how I did it, and the pain it was causing someone to suffer. Iron hide just looked at me, trying to determine something I could only guess at.

"Spell like that are often considered part of dark magic, Andrew. You shouldn't tamper with such things." Celestia warned.

"In all due respect Celestia, collectively the knowledge of human magic is tiny. Dark magic for you is a force that corrupts because it allows demonic magic to reshape a pony's mind. You know exactly what it is and can detect it. Human magic likely operates on a different set of rules, just like that of zebras, dragons, and changelings magics do. To say that what I did is dark is probably true, but that doesn't make what I used to be dark magic." I countered.

She looked at me warily, before nodding, "You're correct. That is a fault on my part. I shouldn't assume something so terrible just because I don't understand it." She acknowledged before looking to the rest. "We have lingered in this place of death for long enough. Captain finish escorting survivors back to Ponyville and take their statements. Any needing medical aid are to be brought to the hospital. We will take the Lieutenant and his mares there ourselves and make the staff aware of your coming. If there is nothing else, we are done here."

After looking all around and seeing no decent Celestia nodded to the Captain before teleporting us to the hospital.

Three Hours Later

I sat in a chair in the room where Vinyl and Octavia were. They were both asleep at this point, but I couldn't even though it was long past midnight. The door opened a crack and I saw Luna look into the room. When she saw I was still awake, she beckoned to me and I walked outside to talk to her.

The hall was mostly devoid of staff so we were alone for the most part. So we stood there waiting for the other to speak, until Luna finally moved and gave me a hug.

I stood there stunned for a second before returning the hug. "I'll say, I certainly didn't expect this Lu. Though I like that you aren't afraid of me all the same."

She chuckled at that, "I was worried when I first saw you in that place. It was difficult to tell who I was looking at. Then when you started to explain I realized you were still you, and I wasn't scared anymore. Though I was still very worried for you." She released the hug before continuing. "It isn't common knowledge, because my sister didn't want me to look like a complete monster, but I have killed before, as Nightmare Moon... and before."

"You weren't exactly you when you were the nightmare, Luna. You know that." I reminded her.

"I should be more clear. What I did to ponies, and how I did it, lead me to become the nightmare in part. My confrontation with my sister was the tipping point, but I had done horrible things before that had happened. I feared that you were going down that same path, and truthfully I still worry, but I believe you're stable as you are right now. I wanted you to know, so that you could trust me."

"I do trust you Luna, and I'm glad you trust me enough to tell me something so personal. Where's Celestia?"

"She returned to Canterlot. She needed to prepare for news of the Purge base being found and taken care of. There are many factors that need to be controlled, no thanks to a certain someone." She explained giving me a bit of a glare at the end.

"I'm not going to apologize. They deserved what they got."

"That very well might be true, but that doesn't give you the right to be judge and executioner combined. Even when Celestia ruled alone she had a council for determining the fate of criminals. When one being alone controls power like that, it often corrupts and many innocents are affected as a result."

"Human history definitely shows that to be true. I'll do my best not to go off the rails again Luna, you have my word on that."

She nodded, "That's the best I can hope for I think. I must return to Canterlot. Twilight will be here in the morning to check on you three. She'll likely ask to do some tests on you, what you do is up to you though we both know how Twilight can become if she is prevented from learning. Just a warning, please don't do anything rash."

"I'll try to leave the building standing." I chuckled. She gave me a worried look and I sighed, "I'm joking Luna. I probably couldn't even do something on that scale, I think anyway."

"All the more reason for Twilight to run some tests. I must go now. Take care Andrew, we hope to see you again soon." Luna said before giving a final hug.

She then stepped back and her horn glowed briefly before she teleported with a pop and I was left alone. I returned inside Vinyl and Octavia's room and looked over to find Vinyl sitting up looking out at the moon, Octavia was still out cold. When she noticed the sound of my footsteps her ears twitched and she turned to me with a weak smile with tears coming to her eyes.

I returned it as I walked over and sat on the edge of her bed and whipped away her tears. "Hey you. I'm surprised you're awake, you know it's not good for the twins for you to be up this late." I tried to joke, but I could feel the tears threatening to fall.

She just put her hand on mine, in an attempt to calm me. "I've been asleep for long enough to stay up for a little bit. What did the doctors say?"

"They said it was hard to tell. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary, but they want you coming in for weekly visits just to make sure." I explained.

"What about Octy? Is she ok?" Vinyl's voice shook a bit when asking.

I laughed at that a bit, "Yeah, yeah she'll be fine. She was a bit battered and had a number of cuts, but nothing serious. She was so adamant about waiting for you to wake up that the nurses finally just gave her a shot to knock her out. She'll probably wake up a bit pissed she didn't get to see you wake up, but I think she'll get over it pretty quick. Are you sure you're feeling ok?"

Vinyl nodded as tears threatened to fall again so I whipped them away, "I was so scared. I kept trying to tell myself that you'd come for us, but then that awful pony told us you were dead, a-and I just couldn't help but feel he was telling us the truth. Then he hit me and I blacked out and I woke up here to find you standing there, I-I was just so happy to see you."

I moved so I was a bit closer and she pulled me into a hug. "I'm so sorry I didn't get to you sooner. I made sure that bastard paid for what he did if that means anything."

She pushed me back but kept her hands on me, almost like she was afraid I'd disappear if she did. "What do you mean? Are you saying you rescued us personally?"

"I did. There's something I need to show you, it kinda happened because of you being taken." I told her, sadly having to pull away so I could show her.

I stepped away so there was a decent amount of space before letting lightning dance across my fingers. I slowly built up energy so that it started to dance along my arms, the blue arcs continued to dance before I felt a tingle in my fingertips. It wasn't that I had felt before so I charged my body more and I started to see lines appear on my skin, like the time I fought Bael, except these were not yellow but instead silver. I channeled more energy until the lines were complete with the triquetra on my chest, it didn't stop there however. I felt my power plateau, but there was still more, like a wall I needed to break through, so I broke it.

With a flash of white light I felt my body itself shift and change until I was in new shape, and this wasn't like when the shadows had wrapped themselves around me and I became that werewolf. My body itself was changed. The light was gone and Vinyl was staring at me with awe and a bit of fear. I looked at the window to find a wolf in the reflection. It's coat was silver and cased a soft white glow, the eyes were a shining blue and also seemed to glow. I looked like Bael when he manifested except my eyes weren't made of pure energy like his had been.

I was then reminded why this had happened in the first place when Vinyl spoke, "A-andrew? Is that still you?" She seemed worried.

I found it a little difficult to get words out with this new physical body, but I got the words out. "Y-yes it's me Vi. This is new for me too."

"That's an understatement." She tried to joke. "Have you been able to do that the whole time?"

"As I said, it's a bit new to me. I kind of lost myself when I found out you were kidnapped, and I sort of got magic as a result. Though the wolf thing is new to me too. I felt something and got curious when I was demonstrating and this is apparently the result." I explained.

"Can you change back?" She sounded a bit worried.

It might have been a new body but I could still feel my magic, so I did the same as last time and when I felt that plateau again I pushed through and in another flash of light I felt the change happen again. When the light disappear for a second time I found I was back as a human. I walked back to Vinyl who took my hand with one of hers and held my face with her other.

"That's incredible. Do the princesses know?"

"The magic yes, the shapeshifting no. Kinda just discovered that. They found us soon after I had rescued you. I was actually just talking to Luna before I came in and saw you awake." I told her.

She pulled me into a kiss which I gladly returned. She broke it and stared into my eyes as she spoke, "I will love you no matter what, magic, shapeshifting, everything. Don't you forget that, understood?"

"Perfectly. I love you Vinyl." I said putting my forehead to her's.

"I love you too. Oh and Octy! Can't forget her." She said with a giggle.

I chuckled, "Yeah definitely. Though for tonight I think you are the one I'm sharing a bed with."

"You'll make it up to her, I'm sure."

"I'll think of something." I answered.

Our lips met as I moved myself into the bed and pulled the covers over us. My fatigue finally hit me, as Vinyl laid back and I rested my head on her for a change. It was over for now, they were safe, I wasn't likely to be banished, and Purge had been punished. They won't let this lie for long with any likelihood, but for now I wasn't going to worry about it. I was just going to fall asleep listening to Vinyl's heartbeat with a hand on her belly, a subtle kick letting me know that my twins were there. I smiled as I felt myself pulled into the realm of dreams.

Author's Note

It's finally done. It took longer to complete than I thought but I did it.

It turned out to be harder than I anticipated to write the vengeance scene and get across the total hate I had for Purge, but it's in a place I like. Combined this is the longest chapter I've ever written and with how little time I had to write is why it took so long. I probably wont reach my goal of completing this story by the end of the year, but it will be a lot closer.

Thank you all for the support and I hope you guys enjoyed these chapters. That's all for me guys.

Stay awesome everyone, Lyruil out.