Tartarus High

(A/N I'd like to thank s00perguy for being the wall i bounced ideas off of to come up with this chapter. enjoy the brutality! -Dark)

Trixie and Gilda had turned in after they were done sparring and had turned in almost instantly, they were exhausted. Therefore, they weren't there when something smashed through the window of the main room they were all in. when it hit the ground the object shattered and a blast of fire engulfed the area.

“Whoa fuck!” Dash yelled.

“OWOWOWOWOW!” Pinkie exclaimed, having been right next to it.

“Whoa nelly what in the hay's goin' on?!” AJ exclaimed.

Suddenly the fire went out and Pinkie was holding her right arm, shaking slightly.

“Dash. Go find out who threw that. Fluttershy, help me.” Twilight said. Dash looked at Pinkie for a moment but did as she was told and sped out of the shattered window.

“Pinkie, this is really going to hurt.” Twilight said as she wrote a glyph on bandages Fluttershy had just soaked in burn ointment. “Let me see your arm sweetie.” Twilight continued.

“Ok...j-just as long as it stops hurting after...” Pinkie sniffed, tears lightly streaming form her eyes. She shakily held out her arm, the burn extended from her wrist all the way up to her shoulder. It smelled rancid. Twilight gently began wrapping the burn in the bandages. Pinkie hissed a bit with each wrap, but soon her entire arm was wrapped, similarly to Twilight's own.

“the ointment will numb the pain a bit and the glyphs I traced on these will speed the healing.” Twilight explained as Fluttershy wrapped a second layer of bandages to protect the healing ones.

“T-thanks Twi...” Pinkie said.

“No problem.” she said with a reassuring smile. She looked up and it fell as Dash came back and threw a very familiar Valkyrie onto the floor. His wings were on splints.

“You again...” Twilight growled, getting to her feet and back onto her crutches.

“Filthy Demons...what are ya gonna do? Huh?” he challenged. The entire group paled a bit when they saw Twilight's face go stoic.

“Spike...” she said, her voice emotionless, as she held her hand out to the Dracomage. Spike sighed and cupped his hands over his mouth and blew, creating a ball of green fire. He then dropped the fire into Twilight's hand, turning it purple in the process.

“You tried to remove Fluttershy's wings so I broke yours. You succeeding in burning Pinkie...” she started coldly. The purple fire changed and became almost like a glove. “Now I'll burn you.” she finished almost sinisterly.

“There's more of us. Demon hunters. We'll fuck you up! All of y- AHHHHHHHHHH!” he started, but was cut off as Twilight grabbed his face with her flame encased hand. He continued to scream as she held him for a full five seconds before letting go.

“Go ahead Fluttershy.” Twilight said, turning around to where Celestia was standing and limping over. She leaned into her and Celestia noticed tears in her eyes.

“I snapped again didn't I?” she asked.

“Yes...but I don't think you did quite enough.” Celestia said, embracing her as Fluttershy put the burn ointment on bandages and gauze and wrapped the man's face. He wouldn't get the benefit of the healing glyph like Pinkie though, he'd have to suffer.

“He said there are more of him...he said Demon hunters...if they're hunting us...” Dash growled.

“We won't hunt them...but we will retaliate in kind.” Twilight said to her. She nodded.

“What the hell is that smell? Whoa what ha-...whoa...” Gilda said, coming down. Trixie was silent. The man had regained consciousness and Dash quite literally kicked him out while Luna repaired the damage to the manor.

“What's wrong?” Celestia asked a maid that had entered.

“We just found Rick dead...that man...he...he did it...” the maid said through her tears.

“What?!” Dash yelled. She turned to barge out of the door, but Twilight put a hand up, stopping her.

“Do you know how he was killed?” Twilight asked.

“Stabbed in the back...” the maid answered. Twilight nodded and made her way to the door, a spear held by a suit of armor floating in her magical grip.

“Be right back...” Twilight said. The group crowded around the large window to watch as Twilight limped out. Sh looked up, as did they. It had started snowing.

“Snow? That's weird...it normally doesn't snow until after Hearth's warming eve...that should be another few days.” Rarity said. They returned their gaze to Twilight, who they saw had her right eye opened and her left closed. It glowed ever so slightly in the dark. The spear suddenly glowed and launched out into the night. They tracked it's progress until it went into something and embedded into the ground. The spear still glowed ever so slightly as Twilight limped back towards them. They made out the man on the spear, pinned to the ground through the heart.

“Stabbed in the back. They are even now.” Twilight said.

“We will arrange Rick's funeral...” the maid said. Twilight nodded and made her way to her tower, Celestia following to help her up the stairs.

“Trixie...never wants to get on her bad side...” Trixie said.

“No kidding.” Gilda agreed.

“...the fuck man...” Dash growled. They had arrived at the school entrance to find a girl pinned to the wall. It looked like she had horns, but they had been snapped off. She had two gaping holes on her back, signifying wings, and it looked like what could have been talons were shattered. Written in the girl's own blood was 'DEMON' above her head.

“This...this is murder.” Rarity said.

“No it's not it's Righteous! Demons are the enemy.” a voice from behind them sounded. There was a girl with a large weapon that fired stakes. Stakes that matched the one that pinned the half demon to the wall.

“Oh shit you did that Rei? Fuck yeah!” a guy next to her said.

“Wow you're so cool!” a girl said.

“Yeah well the bitch was a demon. I just did what I had to do.” the girl known as Rei said, posing as a small mob of kids came to congratulate her. A few other kids stepped by Twilight and the others.

“...are you saying you fucking did this?” Dash asked.

“What's it to you demon? I should kill you right now.” the girl said, raising her weapon. It shattered. Twilight turned around. Both of he eyes were glowing the purple her magic eye did, but brighter.

“You have taken an innocent life. She did nothing but have demon blood. She was your classmate, probably a squad mate. And you shot her in the back and defiled her corpse.” Twilight said. Her voice wasn't just cold. It was freaky as hell. Her wings flared as her crutches shattered in her hands. She glared at the girl, her sharp teeth gaining a few fangs.

“Yeah, what are you going to do about it? Demon bi-” the girl started, but was cut off as her head literally exploded. The stake in the girl disintegrated as she was let down to the ground gently.

“Fuck man you're going to kill us all!” one of the people screamed.

“No. you are the ones hunting us, we don't hunt you. You hurt us, we will hurt you. Kill us?...we will end your life painfully.” Twilight growled as she slowly calmed down.

“We're not the monsters here...” Dash growled. About twenty kids had taken up ranks behind Twilight, dropping illusion spells or other things revealing demonic heritage. Twilight, now calmed down, turned around and was surprised to see so many people behind her.

“Lead us.” one said.

“What? Twilight asked.

“You are strong. You have a heart. You are not a monster.” another said.

“What do you mean lead?” Twilight asked.

“We can't take this anymore. They've been doing stuff like this, though not going so far as killing, since the half-demons were revealed...now that they're not afraid to kill...” one explained.

“Twi, I think it'd be best if we get the hell away from this place.” Dash said.

“Um...I don't want anyone to get hurt...I agree with Dash...” Fluttershy said.

“Where would we go?” Twilight asked.

“the Everfree?” Emerald suggested.

“That'd work. I bet we could take refuge with the Timber wolves. They were pretty friendly and Emerald and I helped them out.” Spike said.

“Wait, we can't have everyone who's not a demon come...it'd ruin your lives...” Twilight started.

“Save it Twi, whether y'like it or not we're comin'...we're a team, a family. If we got people 'round here huntin' you we don' wanna be anywhere near 'em.” Applejack said. Twilight looked at her friends. They all smiled and nodded.

“A-alright...I guess we can try the Timber wolves...huh...guess I don't need those crutches anymore.” she said, taking a few steps and finding her legs were at least healed to that point. She looked at her new group. All of the demons had wings, the ones who didn't were her friends and had jetpacks.

“Right. We'll fly there.” Twilight said. She walked around the friends with jetpacks and sent bursts of magic into the batteries, ensuring they'd last the trip and then some.

“What about supplies?” someone asked.

“We can go into different towns while hidden, or that aren't prejudice, and get supplies we can't find in the Everfree. I hope nobody here is strictly vegetarian because the Everfree doesn't have the best plant life.” Twilight sighed.

“Ah'll catch up to y'all. Ah've got a sis and big brother to say bye too, Ah'll bring some apples from th' farm too.” Applejack said.

“Right, use this to find us again.” Twilight said, tossing a small rock to her.

“What's it do?” AJ asked.

“Just trace the Glyph with your finger and it'll find it's way back to me.” Twilight said, scratching a simple glyph with her magic.

“Thanks.” Applejack said.

“What're you up to sis?” Big Macintosh, AJ's big brother, asked when he found her searching the house.

“Lookin' fer you an' bloom.” AJ answered. Applebloom walked in at that point.

“There yuh are. Now listen you two. There's a bunch of dangerous people out there huntin' mah friends. They call themselves demon hunters. They've already killed one of Celestia's servants an' a girl down by the school an' hurt Pinkie Pie real bad. We're goin' away. Fer good. Ah don' know if Ah'll be seein' either of yuh anytime soon but if'n yuh need a place tuh hide if it gets too dangerous here we'll be in thuh Everfree with thuh Timber Wolves.” Applejack explained.

“W-what? Yer goin'?...they...they killed people?” Applebloom asked.

“Yeah, the ones that did it are gone now though.” Applejack said.

“What exactly is yer plan?” Mac asked.

“We take refuge with the wolves an' do what we've been doin' here. We'll be takin' in any others we can find. When we're strong enough we're gonna do what this Tartarus project is supposed tuh do and find that gatekeeper and put a stop tuh all of this.” Applejack said.

“...AJ...there's somethin' yuh should know first. Applebloom, say goodbye to yer sister and turn in. this aint sumthin' fer your ears.” Mac said. Applebloom saw he was serious so she didn't argue. She didn't even try to eavesdrop.

“What is it Mac?” AJ asked.

“Mom an' Dad...they didn't die in a barn fire. They went the same way Miss Twilight's did...fer the same reason. Expect Applebloom in yer camp in a few days...Mom was a Demon, you an' bloom got the blood. Granny Smith knew a bit of magic, have Twilight break the spell on you.” Mac explained.

AJ was lost for words.

“Why should Ah be expectin' Bloom?” AJ asked.

“Ah'm gonna train her up fer the next few days...her friends are like that too, Ah don' think Rarity knows about Belle...but Granny knew her parents before they passed. Ah don' think Rarity's like that too though...but Ah'm not sure.” Mac continued.

“...Right...Ah'll tell everyone...mind if Ah take a few baskets with me?” AJ asked.

“Go right on ahead.” Mac said.

“Thanks mac.” AJ said, hugging him.

“Mhm. Ah'll do what Ah can here...if'n ah meet any more half demons Ah'll send 'em yer way, Ah'm headin' up to Appaloosa an' Canterlot to supply a few places, Ah'll tell 'em to tell yuh Mac sent 'em.” Mac said.

“Ah love yuh Mac. Thanks.” AJ said. Mac nodded and AJ left.