Consequences 2: The choice.

Consequences 2: The choice.

Chapter Seven.

Sweet Surgot and Scitalis walked side by side each other into a ruined city. As Sweet Surgot got into the city she looked around the dilapidated run down city and saw just off to her right a demon that was impaled on a metal pike. Running up to him she could clearly see that half his stomach was lying on the ground in front of her. As she got closer to him she looked him up and down while the other half his stomach was slowly falling out of his body. Looking from the demon then back to her master she said to him as he walked up behind her.

“Look master isn’t that Tirek the demon lord of Tartarus?”

Looking at Tirek's almost lifeless body Scitalis said to his pupil as he pulled her back to a safe distance.

“Yes my student you have done very well to find him. Now remain here my student I will deal with him besides he has information that I must have in order to have my vengeance on Twilight.”

Sweet Surgot did as she was told to do, Scitalis seeing that he was not going to get an argument out of his student raised his right hand and snapped his fingers. A lightning bolt suddenly struck Tirek on the lower back melting the metal pike away from his body. As the demon fell to the ground he groaned out in pain saying as his body hit the ground beneath him.

“Save me. I will serve you if you but, spare my life queen Amora.”

“Hmph!” Grunted Scitalis as he snapped his fingers again saying as another lightning bolt struck the demon lord. “The fool has no idea that I am not Amora.” Tirek screamed out in pain as the lightning bolt burned his already broken body.

Snapping his eyes open Tirek saw Scitalis transforming into his serpent’s body. Sweet Surgot stepped back a few feet as she watched with sick grin on her face while her master began to move forwards wrapping his coils around Tireks near lifeless body. As Tirek felt his body being crushed by the tightening of Scitialis’s coils he screamed out in pain.

“Why are you attacking Scitalis!?!”

“Where is the book Tirek, tell me and I might let you live deny me and you shall die.”

Tirek screamed as he felt his bones begin to break and snap like twigs while Scitalis continued to squeeze his body Tirek cried out in pain.

“That book shall never be yours! Scitalis.”

“Tell me where the book is Tirek!, Tell me or die!” Scitalis replied as he heard Tirek’s shoulders break from the pressure they were under.

Tirek screamed in more pain as he felt his ribs start to give way from the constant pressure of being pressed down upon by Scitalis powerful grasp. As he ribs each one by one broke from Scitalis wrapping himself around Tireks body Tirek cried out to him while more blood sprayed out of his mouth.

“Alright, I’ll tell you where the book is Scitalis, just let me go and the location of that book is yours.”

Scitalis having completely broken Tirek both mentally and physically laughed coldly as he set the demon lord down on the ground. With his body nearly crushed and most of his internal organs hanging out of the hole that was now his stomach. Tirek coughed out to Scitalis who cocked his head to the right and narrowed his eyes on to Tirek.

"Alright Tirek I let you go. Now talk!"

“The book that you seek is in Amora’s castle. It is in a vault under the castle itself. You will need me to open it only with our combined power can that vault be opened.”

Cooing wickedly as he rewrapped his coils around Tirek’s nearly completely crushed body Scitalis smiled as he said to Tirek while picking him back up off the ground.

“You are right about one thing it will take our combined power to open the vault of the harpy queen. However you shall not be there to see it. Goodbye Tirek.”

“But you said if I talked you would let me live.” Tirek cried in fear.

“I lied Tirek. You are far to dangerous for me to keep you alive. Goodbye Tirek.” Scitialis replied while laughing coldly.

Tirek’s eyes went wide as he felt his body being fully crushed under Scitalis’s mighty coils. As Scitalis held Tirek in his coils squeezing him tightly his eyes fully popped out of his skull. While his head exploded from the internal excessive cephalic pressure caused by Scitalis squeezing him. Bits and pieces of his brain and skull flew up into the air and landed on Sweet Surgot who grinned while she watched Scitalis as he began to swallow Tirek's lifeless body. After finishing his meal and wiping the last of Tirek's blood from his lips Scitalis turned his attention to his pupil saying to her as she stood in front of him with Tirek's brains and skull slowly dripping from her back.

“Now that I have consumed him I will be able to use his power to open the vault doors. Come my little student we have work to do.”

Scitalis’s body began to glow bright white as he absorbed what was left of Tirek's body within his own body. Once his body was done glowing and he returned to his normal velvet hue he nodded to Sweet Surgot who was just whipping off the blood and brains that had fallen on her back. Walking past her he said to her as she finished cleaning herself up.

“I know where to go now my pupil we need to head to the river I will….No actually you will be the one to force Charon to take us to Amora’s castle. Consider this another test to see where your loyalties lie.”

Sweet Surgot finished wiping off the last of Tirek's remains from her body and started to follow Scitials out of the ruins they both were in. Looking back at the city as it slowly disappeared from view while the two of them walked again side by side. Sweet Surgot said to her master as they each walked on a ruined road towards the river.

“Master what was the name of that place were just in?”

“It was the city of the vampires, I believe it was once called Lamia civitatem. But, now it is no longer ruled by the vampires. It is nothing more now than a ruined dilapidated broken memory of a time from long ago.”

“Really? What happened? To the city and its ponies I mean?” Sweet Surgot inquired as she perked up an ear.

Seeing the inquisitive look on her face Scitalis smiled as he laughed coldly saying to her with a scaly hand resting over his chest.

“What does it really matter Sweet Surgot, all within Tartarus will come to the same fate as Lamia Citiatem did. All will end in fire and bloodshed. Now there will be no more talk about this I want you instead to concentrate on forcing Charon to take us to where we need to go.”

“Yes master, I will do as you have asked of me. But tell me why must I kill my sister she never did anything to me? So why must I kill her it doesn’t make sense to me.”

Stopping in his tracks Scitalis looked at his pupil with narrowed eyes fully fixed upon her as she too came to a stop he knelt down in front of her. Saying to her as he placed both of his scaly hands on both the left and right side of her head and his eyes began to glow green then turned red.

“You mean to tell me you do not remember how your sister would beat you? Or how your sister would lock you away at night so she wouldn’t have to hear your mewing and winning. Or how she made it her life's work to embraces you in front of the two you called friends.”

Holding her tightly in his hands Sweet Surgot screamed out in pain as wave upon wave of lies and false memories filled her mind. Twisting her mind and further corrupting her soul into darkness. As Sweetie Belle struggled in his grasp Scitalis thought to himself. When he saw the look of pain and hurt in Sweetie Belle's eyes while he filled her young mind with his lies and many false memories.

“Good she is responding well to my lies and to the false memories I am planting within her mind. One more spell like this on her mind and she will do as I have ordered her to do.”

Sweetie Belle passed out in his scaly hands as Scitalis picked her up and continued to walk down the ruined road leading to the river he laughed coldly. Several hours later Scitalis came to the river and found Charon coming up to a dock that stood not more than twenty feet from him and Sweetie Bell. Putting the young unicorn down he splashed water onto her face waking her up as she came too she moaned out while he looked down at her as she slowly woke up.

“Oooh what...what happened to me?”

Grinning wickedly Scitalis thought to himself as he looked at Sweetie Bell. Who in turn seemed dazed and confused as she started to look around her at her new surroundings.

“Good now that she is confused all I have to do is tell her a few lies and she should remain under my spell. Hopefully she will remain under spell long enough for me to get the book that I came here for.”

Sweet Surgot looked up into her master's eyes as she said to him while slowly standing up and shaking herself to try to relieve herself of her confusion.

“Master the last thing I remember was…..”

“Telling me how your sister beat you as a little foul and how she tied you to a tree during a storm in the hopes of killing you. You also told me how she never tucked you in at night and how she never spent any time with you.” Scitalis interrupted Sweet Surgot as she started to cry.

Seeing that his lies had worked he knelt down in front of her then took the little unicorn into his arms and held her on his shoulder while she cried herself dry. Once she was done crying she said to him as she sniffed hard then grew angry growling out to him as her horn started to glow red as the hate in her soul began to boil over.

“Master tell me how to kill my sister so that I might seek vengeance upon her and all of Equestria for how I was treated.”

“Good my little student” Scitalis said as he nodded towards Charon's boat. “Your first task if you want vengeance is to force Charon off his boat. On it he is too powerful but, off it he will become weak as a kitten.”

Sweet Surgot wasted little time in turning to face Charon who was looking right at her with a sick smile plastered on her little face Sweet Surgot charge at him. Taken back by her sudden charge Charon tried to duck out of the way as Sweet Surgot leapt into the air as her body hit him she knocked him into the floor of his boat. Landing in the river with a loud splash Scitalis laughed as he watched Charon get up and swing his oar at her missing Sweet Surgot by four feet. Leaping at him again Sweet Surgot landed another blow this time knocking him over the side of his boat. Placing his oar into the steering hole of his boat and using it a balancing pole Charon was able to keep himself from falling to the ground. As he righted himself Sweet Surgot used her magic to break Charon's oar in two causing him to fall and hit the right side of his boat. Sweet Surgot saw the shocked look on Charon’s face as he looked from her then to his broken oar that he was holding in his hands. As he got up to say something to him she blasted him in the face with her magic ending the fight and fully knocking Charon to the ground. No sooner did his body touch the ground did Charon scream out as all of his magic left his body leaving him as helpless as a new born baby.

“What have you done to me?” He screamed out in rage.

“Nothing much just took away your magic for a little bit. I need you to comply with my orders and no before you go off saying that I must pay you for passage across the river. Remember this, this is the same pony the beat you the first time when first came here asking you to show us where Tirek was.”

“What do you mean ‘was’....Tirek is immortal he can’t grow old and he can not die.” Charon spat back with anger as his body began to wither away to dust.

"Tirek is dead my master killed him and unless you want the same do as we have come to tell you to do." Sweet Surgot chimed in with lust in her voice as she licked her lips wickedly in front of Charon.

Looking from Charon then to his student and back again Scitalis said to the demon as he started to fade away to dust.

“You don’t have much longer Charon what will it be? Take us across without payment or lose your life...tick tock, tick tock Charon you are running out of time. Make your choice and make it now!” Scitalis shot back with anger in his voice.

“Alright I will take you wherever you want to go get me back aboard my skiff before I turn to dust.” Charon replied with pain showing in his voice.

Looking to his student then to Charon, Scitials raised his right hand snapping his fingers. Sweet Surgot immediately used her magic lifting the Elohite demon back up off the ground and setting him down onto his boat. Once he was safely back aboard his boat he snapped his fingers as his oar put itself back together. Pushing off the dock as Scitalis got into the skiff he said to Scitalis as he moved the small boat out into the river styx.

“Where do you want me to take the two of you?”

“Take us to Amora’s castle and do not play games with us. Do not try to use your death stare on my student for if you attempt it I will be the one you must contend with. I am not as…...forgiving as my little student is. Now I must transfer more of my magic into her so she will be ready to face the ones that have come after her.”

Sweet Surgot stood on the bow of the skiff as her master came up behind her placing both hands on her left and right sides of her body. She closed her eyes and laying her head onto his right wrist as her body began to swell with his power flowing into her. As her body took in his dark magic Sweet Surgot gently moaned out to him.

“Master that feels good.”

“What you are feeling my little young student is the power of pure evil. It will flow in you until you have completed your task. Which is no less than for you to keep Twilight from from interfering with my plans. You needn’t actually fight her just keep her here while I set up a little surprise for her.”

Sweet Surgot soon fell asleep with Scitalis smiling wickedly at her. As he watched the river bend and twist to the right then to left while Charon navigated the skiff down the river styx he thought of his daughters and of how they died without him there to watch over and protect them. Charon pulled the skiff up to the same dock that he had dropped Twilight and Rainbow dash off earlier as the two disembarked from his boat Charon said to both of them.

“Sweetie Bell, when you are ready to be cleansed of your hate for you sister, Twilight will be able to help you.” Turning his attention to Scitalis Charon said to him with a wicked and murderous glare in his eyes. “Scitalis when you are dead and lying before Amora’s sword I will sing of your defeat at the hands of the demon queen.”

Scitalis growing angry with Charon for insulting him stuck out his hand as his hand glowed bright red he struck Charon with an energy bolt. Sweet Surgot not wanting to be left out of hurting Charon used her own magic on him. As her own energy hit him in the chest she lifted him up and out of his skiff completely tossing him several feet onto dry land and laughed while she watched him turn to dust. Looking back at her master she smiled him as she said to him while he looked down at her with a raised eyebrow.

“That was fun, who else can I kill today.”