Author's Note

Firstly, thank you for reading this chapter. We're getting closer to chapter ten were I will rewrite the first chapters

Secondly, the reason this author's note is on the top for ones is becuase this chapter has clop in it. Yup I finally tried to write a sex scene and I hope it won't the worst thing you have ever seen

Anyway thanks for reading and possibly leaving feedback.

Chapter seven: A demon's first steps

Three months of planning and building, that had Zicra been doing for all the dark mages and zebras seeking refuge in Frigidum. Of course they all provided with labor and skills to grow the city but even if they had their own currency, food production and now a school they were still all in danger. Even with the pillars around the town that hid them from Celestia's watchful eye they could still feel her overbearing presence, waiting on one of them to do a misstake and reveal where every free dark mage and zebra hid in Euqestria. The pink striped stallion hoped that Celestia would assume that what objects and ponies she could't find had feld to the other nations. Zicra wondered if the gryphin empire had followed suit and banned dark magic in their nation, maybe they were even hunting the mages and burning them like the church of light? He banished the thoughts from his mind, they wouldn't help his situation one bit. The zebra stallion looked out the war room window and saw just how large the city was, now sporting eight exits and over five-hundered buildings. They had weapon storages all over the city and watch towers looking out over the woods. If Draigh's numbers had been correct there was three thousand ponies and zebras in Frigidum now, a number that was both impressive and terrafying. That number meant more warriors to protect the city but it also meant they could be discovered so much earlier. The stallion had disscused it with the other leaders and all of them still wanted Luxri to be trained and lead an army against Celestia. However for that to work they would need time, years, years they possibly didn't have.

Zicra sighed and looked back at Zap and Razor working with their gold vires and gems, they han finally started putting up the useful lights in the town hall and so far they had light in the corridors but that was about it. He wondered about what else the scematics could show them, what inventions and concepts lost to time they could bring into the light of day again. He knew that he had seen a device that could help you communicate with someone miles away, yet so far it was more fantasy than actual technology.

"We'll be done in a week I would say" Zap told the leader of the dark frost and he nodded.

"Either we give the town hall it's own power supply or we will have to add a sixth one to the middle of the city that will power the town hall and the magical study" Razor said and Zicra thought about Salijah's own addition to the town hall.

The leader of the Hilyah tribe had added a library like part to the lower floor of the town hall, a place where one could practice or learn all sorts of magic in a safe enviorment. It wasn't a bad idea considering how many magic users lived in Frigidum. However the sheer amount of space the magical practice took from the rest of the town hall was troubling, mostly as the leaders could never get a moment of silence during the day.

Zicra had walked out to the war rook and down into the magical study area. He looked over the different ponies and zebras walking around with old tomes, objects and enchanted weapons. It was orinaized chaos within the city's place of power, Discord would have been proud.

"Zicra, over here!" A voice called to him and he turned to the origin of the voice.

A young mare was the origin of the voice. Her mane was a dark shade of pink and her coat was a dark gray. Her eyes were a light shade of blue and the horn on top of her head had cracks in it.

"What is it? Don't tell me that Draigh has found the wine storage again" Zicra said and the mare shook her head.

"No it's just that I wanted to thank you in person for letting this place be made. Before we couldn't really practice our magic anywhere but now with this place and all the help we can become actual mages" She told him with a smile and he nodded at her.

"It wasn't my idea but if it help you all then I'm glad" Zicra said and she smiled even more.

"You have helped us a lot since we arrived, you have been a true leader of everyone in this city. So I'm just wanted to thank you in my own way" She said and jumped up and kissed his cheek before giggling at him.

"What's your name?" Zicra asked her with a blush, not having expected her sudden act of affection.

"It's Rose" She said with a smile before running to a couple of friends that had yelled after her.

Zicra followed Rose with his eyes until she and her friends disapeared further into the study area. He smiled and walked out of the town hall, or rather city hall now, and took a deep breath out of the late summer air. It wouldn't be to long until winter hit them, they had to be prepared until then with full stocked basements with food and grain.

Zicra was brought out of his thoughts when he saw Autumn walk past him, giving him a smile. The foal in her left foreleg giggled at him and he felt a twitch of guilt. Were they really gonna mercilessly train this child into a killing machine? It hadn't felt right before he was born but looking into his innocent eyes now when he was among them made Zicra sick of himself.

Training this foal would be to destroy his innocence for a mission he was never meant to carry out. But it was either that or destruction at the hooves of Celestia. Zicra knew that they had no choice but to make the child ready to kill, to destroy annything in his path. He just hoped a shred of light would be left in him when they were done.

Autumn's POV

She had never felt this alive. Holding her child close to her as she walked in the last free city on the nation was a feeling hard to describe to anyone. It was like she could battle the world and win every time just by breathing. Autumn wished she always would feel like this.

The child seemed to feel her happiness and giggled, nibbling on a teddy bear she had given him a few weeks before. He had been born with small sharp teeth next to ones that looked similar to teeth found in a normal pony's mouth. Something that had confused but facinated the tribe healers. They were seemingly made to tear flesh apart while the other set of teeth were made for vegetables and plants, which made Autumn feel a bit weird. Did her child feed of meat like one of the predators in the forest?

Autumn quickly sent those thoughts to the back of her mind as she heard her child's laughther. Who cares if he must eat meat to survive, he was not a monster. He was her son and he was the most beautiful things in the entire world. She nuzzled him and looked at the bite marks on the teddy bear, she was lucky it was sturdy enough to somehow survive her child nibbling on it.

Lux started to suddenly cry and Autumn started to hum on a song to calm him down a bit as she found a good and secluded spot to feed the child. She thought it would sting way more than it did when he fed of her but he was rather gentle and barly nibbled. When he did though she would always start to hum on her little song again and he would stop almost immediletly.

The song had been something her mother had sang for her while Autumn was a small filly, it would always make her feel happy and relaxed. Apparently she would always wanna sleep after hearing that song which turned it into her mothers best tool to get her into bed. It seemed to hold the same affect over her own son.

She was brought out of her thoughts as Lux stopped feeding and she picked him up, patting his back a few times so he would burp before getting up and carrying him back towards their house. She noticed how her little demon followed every pony with his large yellow eyes like he was enthralled by their movements. He was altready taking a intrest in the ponies around him.

She kept musing about what her child understood and didn't understand until she was outside her house again and she opened the door. She walked inside and placed Lux in his crib, giving him the teddy bear to play with while she prepared her lunch. The child giggled as he was given the teddy bear and she smiled, noticing how he made the bear flout in a dark purple aurora. He was already showing off the magic fused with his very soul.

Autumn kept working on her lunch, looking at Lux every now and again until she finally saw something that made her confused. Lux's ones tiny dragon like wings were now three tentacles on each side of his body. The appendages were black and looked like they were made out of oil yet they didn't drip anything or seemed to make the teddy bear they were now holding dirty.

She got closer to the child and when he spotted that she was next to him the tenatcles rushed to his side in the shape of black smoke, still attached to his back, and they formed his wings. Autumn grew curious and gently pulled out his left wing until it was it's entire wingspan. It felt solid with bone within it yet she had just seen it be smoke.

As the stove signaled that her food was being over cooked with the smell of something burning she let the thoughts of her child go for just a second. All that mattered right now was that he was safe and sound. The demon stuff she could worry about later when he got older and would climb everywhere with those tentacles. Huh, she was already coming to turns with the fact that her child has tentacles. Autumn just guessed that after everything that had happened she decided to stop question everything.

After she finally had made her lunch and eaten it(much to her dismay as it tasted burned old sock by then)she carried Lux upstairs. She put him down on the bed and gave him the floating gem, to which he laughed and poked the shining stone. The blue maned mare smiled and looked on as he played with the gem. Lux seemed to love it's light and she held it in front of his face.

"This is a gift I bought just for you, is yours little one" She said with a smile and Lux giggled in response.

The child kept poking the gem until Autumn started to hum on her song again, making Lux give of a happy sound and hug the gem to his chest. The gem seemed to respond to her singing by glowing brighter and Lux was soon asleep from the song, tired from the mornings walk and play time.

"Sleep well my little light" Autumn whisped and kissed her forehead before laying down next to him and brinning out the book on dark magic, she wanted to know even more about it now when Lux was born.

Now the book itself didn't actually say exactly who wrote it but it had to be someone that was well practiced in the dark arts so it had most likely been Luna's. The first chapter of the book spoke about how the first dark magic spells had been formed by creatures very similar to Discord a few hundred years ago.

These creatures had been magic lovers and made everythin in their power to birth new life into the world. The result was of course dark magic and the spells that followed were used to create gigant crystal pillars that have sadly disapeared as time have passed. The one thing known about the creatures though is that they all disapeared by the beginning of the sun and the sun queen's rule, seeimgly just having decided to leave the world alone.

The next chapter spoke about dark magic within the invention field and what could possibly be created with the help of this kind of magic. Some of the pages were dedicated to the schematics she had found in the book, a few which had lead to the creation of the city's light system. It also spoke about weapons dark magic could be used on. One idea was a sword that could only be levitated by dark magic another spoke of a shield that would only protect a dark mage.

"Intresting yet it holds no real value to me so much as it does to Zap and Razor" Autumn mumbled to herself as she flipped the pages to the next chapter.

This chapter was rather detailed with what dark magic could do and not do, something that drew her intrest. The book spoke about how children that was trained from a young age with dark magic would surpass children trained the similar lenght in light magic when it comes to raw streght. It seemed that the her child was powerful already.

Autumn was about to pet Lux when shh heard a knock on her door downstairs and she slowly made her way out of bed and sneaked downstairs. She opened the door and was met by the face of the Hilyah tribe's leader, Salijah. He looked calm yet tired, like he had been reading away the night.

"Shadow mother, we need to talk" The strange zebra stallion said and let himself into her house.

Autumn was confused by the stallion's sudden visit, he hadn't told her about it prior to this moment and his manorisms were strange too. He didn't carry himself with the pride and streght he normally did and he had dark bags under his eyes. He looked even more tired now when he was out of sight from the ponies outside.

"What did you want to talk to me about?" Autumn asked him and the stallion sighed.

"The future of your child Autumn, the shadow walker's future" Salijah said and looked at her with a sigh.

"What do you mean? He's safe here, right?" She asked him and he shook his head.

"No one is safe here, only hidden for the time being. But what your child will face is training. Merciless and hard training" He said and Autumn looked confused.

"Why would he be trained in such a way and who would train him? I'm not ok with anyone putting my son through hardships" She said with a scoff and the stallion nodded.

"I understand but the training he will be given is from all of us tribe leaders. He must be prepared to face Celestia when the time is right" He told her and Autumn paled.

"You want my child to face off against that monster?.." She whispered and he nodded.

"He is one of the few creatures on this planet that could most likely grow enough power to defeat the queen of the sun. This is the reason why the original cheif of the dark frost saved you shadow mother. Your child is the key to victory" Salijah told her and Autumn growled.

"I will not let you hurt my child! He will be safe with me and he will never battle against Celestia!" She yelled and the zebra sighed.

"We have no choise. This is the only way to bring the truth to the ponies of Euqestria and the only way this city and your child survives. Do you think we can hide here forever? The sun queen will find this place and use her light to burn it to ash" He told her and Autumn flinched.

"But.. I can't let you put him through years of hard training and give him a destiny he was never meant for.." She murmered and Salijah looked out the window.

"We won't brake him, but we won't be gentle either. He will be trained and he will kill the alicorn of light." He said before looking at her.

"Promise me that this is not just for you but also for him.. Promise me that this will in the end save him.." She said and looked back into his eyes.

"We are doing this for him Autumn. He wouldn't stand a chance otherwise" Salijah said and before Autumn could say something he left the house and left her alone with her thoughts.

Was he lying? Did they truly belive that the only way to save Frigidum, and to an extent Lux, her child would have to face Celestia? Everything was so wrong, nothing seemed to brighten her day anymore as those news shook her to the core.

Lux could not fight Celestia, he just couldn't. She wanted to scream, hit something or cry but nothing came out. She just thought harder and harder about the situation she was in. She could refuse them and keep Lux away from them as long as possible. However that would most likely end with her being accused of wanting the city to burn or having them forefully tale Lux from her.

She could run away. It was just to sneak out and avoid and watch towers and she would be long gone. But it would also mean that she would have to hide Lux and herself from others and raise her child on the run. That would never work, she would either be dragged back to Frigidum or killed by Celestia' troops.

There was only one option and she knew it, despite how much she hated the idea. To agree with the training and let her child be trained for years to face the queen of the sun. Autumn hated the idea to allow them basically hurting and stressing her child but if the other option was to let the city die.. What option did she really have?

Autumn heard cries from upstairs and hurried up to comfort her crying child. They wouldn't start to train him until he was older, so she would have a few years to shower him with love until the hardships started.

Six months later, Zicra's POV

Zicra panted and kissed Rose again, her lips felt like clouds and she tasted like strawberries. He just couldn't get enough. The mare giggled at his needy kisses and pushed him down onto the bed, sliding her tongue over his neck to which he shuddered.

He could never had imagined something like this five months ago. Being so close to a mare and showing her every uns of his affection. Zicra was still suprised every time she agreed to go out with him, especially the first time he had asked her out.

She had worn a red dress and her mane had been braided beautifully by her mother before they met up outside the town hall. She had joked and teased him to no end, swishing her tail in his face whenever she could. To say that he had been hot and bothered was a understatment.

When they had arrived at her house she had been quick with letting him inside and showing him around. He had picked up on many tings during that date. She could play the guitar and she sang beautifully, her voice just melted him to a puddle of blushing stallion whenever she sang. Something she knew as sha sang often for him.

Another thing he had picked up on was how neat her home had been, everything orginized to perfection. The books in the bookshelves had been orginized after the first name of the author and even her kitchen tools had been orginized from small to large.

The last thing he noticed just from the surface of her home was her love for the colour pink, every room was painted in some variant of it. Even the paintings of her family had a pink frame along with the carpets that seemed to be a very light shade of pink.

When she had finished making them dinner Rose had started telling Zicra stories from her past. One of them was about how her brother had stole a couple of apples and decided to hide them in the first best barrel he could find. It wasn't until later her brother had realized that the barrel had been full with worms for fishing that had eaten into the apples he had stolen, leaving him with nothing.

Zicra had just sat there with a smile plastered on his face for hours as she told him more stories from her childhood when her family had lived in a small town just outside the gryphin kingdom. She went on and on about what panks she and her brother had played on the different inhabitants of the town and how they gained and repuation of being true trouble makers.

It wasn't until she had asked Zicra about his that he was brought out of his happy dream like state, something she had giggled at. He started with telling her about his first years alive with the tribe. Apparently he had liked playing with wodden swords from a young age, indecating that his path in life was the one of a warrior.

Rose had had the same expression he had been wearing a few moments before as he told her about his youth when he had been trainig along with Zap and Razor to become a warrior. The other two stallions had been his friends since childhood and while he had always obeyed whatever order his mother gave them had Zap and Razor taken every opertonity to disobey their parents. Something that seemed to always end with them being grounded.

He went on about how he had killed his first timber wolf during the first year of traning to become a warrior. The creature was just about to attack one of the zebra foals that was playing with a butterfly when Zicra had spotted it and gotten it's attention by forming a ring of fire around it with a spell.

He had fought off the creature for around twenty minutes when he finally saw his chance and had stabbed it right through it's heart, turning it into a bunch of leaves and sticks. The tribe had cheered for him that day and he had earned the respect from the chief becuase of it.

Rose had been on the edge of her seat throughout the entire story with the timber wolf. She had showered him with praise for his heroic actions and he had blushed in return, smiling at her as he then spoke of how he had met the former crystal king.

Zicra told her how the chief needed to get supplies for the tribe before the true winter hit them. So with some help from Zicra and a few other warriors he had lead hia special warriors that also worked as diplomats, advisiors and personal guard. The jounery was hard at first as they were all forced to walk against the hard wind and snow as they tried to make it to the crystal empire.

When they did finally arrive Sombra had met them at the entrance of the empire and invited them all to the castle, something everyone had agreed on and they had walked to the grand building in the center of the empire. The crystal ponies had greeted them with smiles and waves as they passed, something that had supprised Zicra as he had not often seen kindness from ponies.

It didn't take long after they had rested at the castle for the chief to starts the negotiations with the crystal king. Zicra had firts assumed the stallion would ask of them large amounts of gems or similar things but he had only asked them to pay back when they could.

Zicra had been supprised while the chief had thanked Sombra and then lead them all to some carts loaded up with supplies for the winter. They had started to drag the carts with them and before they knew it they were back on tribe land and the tribe celebrated their arrival with song and dance.

Rose had smiled at that story and they had both talked about more memories from the past until their convoration turned to more intimate subjects. He still remebered how much he had blushed when she had asked him how many mares he had been with. The first time he had responded had been so quiet she hadn't been able to hear him while he practically screamed out his answer when she asked him the question again. He answered her that he had never been with another mare.

Rose looked suprised at first before laughing. She told him how cute he had looked when he had answered her and before he could ramble on about how sorry he was for telling her something so personal(even if she had asked him for it)she had leaned over the table and kissed him.

Zicra could still in the back of his mind taste that first kiss. It had caused his brain to shut down and made him more turned on than it probally should have. Rose had no intention on stopping however as she pushed him down on the floor and kept kissing him.

It hadn't taken long after that for their kisses to turn more hungry and soon she was trailing her kisses lower and lower down his body, causing him to shudder. He had bit his lower lip to hold back a moan as she finally reached his stiff member and blew a sultury breath over it, causing Zicra to gasp and his cock twitched.

Rose had grinned at him before she took the tip his member into her mouth and sucked on it before taking more and more of him into her mouth. Zicra was drooling at this point and looked at Rose as she worked her way up and down his cock, the pleasure that alone gave him made him groan loudly.

Zicra was just getting used to the pace Rose was using when she suddenly started to speed up and take even more of his member into her mouth. Zicra was squirming under the treatment and he moaned like a mare in heat when she finally swallowed his entire cock, her throat bulging from the cumflesh she was currenly keeping trapped in there.

It was now Rose started to work up and down his lenght with a fast pace, her eyes filled with lust and need as she wanted his warm sticky seed. It didn't take long for Zicra's breath to become ragged and he groaned louder and louder. He tried to tell her that he was close but the pleasure only made moans escape his lips until she finally felt his flare widen and rope after rope rushed down her throat. She moaned and pulled off his lenght, sucking out the last drops of cum before finally letting go of his half errect member.

Zicra was panting and his back legs felt numb from the pleasure he had just endured. He was about to say something when Rose simply lifted the dress of her body and turned around before flicking her tail to the side, revealing her dripping marehood. The message was clear, fuck me.

Without any hesiation he immedietly mounted her and his now stiff member twitched as it awaited him to thrust into her. It took a few seconds for him to mentally prepare himself for what to come before he slowly pushed into her wet snatch, causing them both to moan.

Rose started to hump back into him as he entered her and demanded him to fuck her until she couldn't walk for a week. He had no objections against this and quickly started to thrust in and out of her pussy, groaning in plueasure. Rose moaned loudly and seemed to drool from the ever hardening pounding he was giving to her, something that just made him thrust even harder into her.

Zicra kept thrusting into her with a fast pace until he felt a familiar tingling sensation in his balls. The only reason he had lasted this long was becuase of Rose's amazing blowjob earlier. He groaned out he was close and had gotten a smilar response and a order to cum inside. With those orders in his head he thrust even harder into Rose, wet smacks echoing across the house as Rose's moans became more and more high pitched until she screamed out in pleasure and came, her juices covering Zicra's balls and the floor. He couldn't hold back any longer as her inner walls massaged his member through out her orgasm and he burried himself as deep within her as he could before he came, his seed filling her to the brim.

Zicra pulled out of her panting up a storm and they both laid on the floor before laughing and nuzzling each other. The rest of the night they spent either cuddling or fucking each other, finally falling asleep when the city's clocktower chimed three in the morning.

The following months was spent showering each other other in gifts and affection, often showing up unannounced and the fucking the other's brains out. However it wasn't until Zicra's birthday Rose had truly suprised him, showing up in make up, having her mane in a bun and wearing a pair of laced black panties. To say Zicra had almost fainted at the sight was a understatment.

So now Zicra was busy trying to kiss his birthday into submission, her taste like strawberries and scent like pure lust. Rose moaned his name and giggled at him before rolling them around so she was on top. The mare grinned at her zebra lover and kissed his neck before grinding her pantie covered folds against his hard cock.

"I bet you just wanna tear these panties of me and rut me until your balls are empty~" She purred and Zicra groaned.

"I want my birthday present if that's what you're asking~" He moaned as she grinded against him again.

"Well I wanted to give the birthday boy the ride of his life~ I hope he don't mind~" Rose said and stood up before sliding the panties of her and kicking them off the bed.

Zicra bit his lip in anticipation as she slowly lowerd herself on his cock and she moaned quietly as she took him inside. He groaned in response as she started to ride him slowly and kiss his neck, making him pant and pull her into a deep kiss. Her hips moved slowly at first before she finally started to speed up, moaning louder and louder every time her hips met his.

This went on for a long time, Rose slowing down when they both felt close before speeding up again. However it couldn't last forever as Zicra felt ready to burst at any second, moaning similarly to Rose as they both suddenly came. Zicra's eyes rolled into the back of his head as rope after rope of cum was pumped into her marehood and Rose screamed his name to the skies as her juices covered his stomach and crotch.

They both panted and exchanged slopey kisses before they cuddled close and Zicra embraced Rose with his strong fore legs. She purred at the action and rested her head on his chest as they both rested for the upcoming hours of birthday sex.

"I love you Zicra" Rose said and kissed him.

"I love you too Rose" He said and kissed back.

Autumn's POV

Autumn had been running around the house looking for Lux. She had been right about him using those tentacles to climb on everything. Though he had started much earlier than expected as he now could climb out of his crib and stumble around the house.

She was lucky that she used things to block of the stairs when he was up there with her but when something was in his way he would use his other most beloved trick, travel between shadows. Sure he couldn't travel very far but it was far enough to scare her, something the little foal also loved doing.

However he had escaped yet again, and this time she couldn't find him! She ran around the house looking for him until she finally heard the sound of tiny hooves following her. She slowly turned around and was greeted by the sight of Lux walking behind her while his little wings twitched. Had he followed her the entire time? Wait, was he walking?

Indeed was her little foal walking and running around without a problem, his laughter bringing a smile to her face as she picked him up and nuzzled him.

"Mommy's little light is growing up so fast!" She said and Lux giggled, poking her nose with his hoof before disapearing in a puff of smoke and reapearing next to her in her own shadow. Autumn giggled and started playing hide and seek with the foal, following his sounds to figure out where he was. Today was a good day, today was a very good day indeed.