Dante

“Okay, so maybe he’s a bit different, but he is a growing boy!” Celestia said arguing with her sister away from the crowd.  “There’s nothing wrong with him blowing off some pent up steam how he was taught!”

Luna laid her face in her hoof shaking it in disappointment. “You cannot be serious Tia, you send a boy who is barely the age of sixteen years to fight a grizzly war for so long and you say that he is fine? He’s clearly in need of help!” She lifts her head to glare at her sister. “He is an alicorn, not some simple unicorn. His magic is dark and destructive just as his father, but it’s not enough, no! He has your power as well, who knows what he is capable of! Look, Tia, look at his mark. A skull and bones crossed… Does this not worry you?!”

Celestia looks over her shoulder at Dante laying in a lounge chair alone away from the guests, he stared out the window ignoring the party. “He… Just needs some time is all, Luna… Please… Just let that be it…”

Luna turned to him beside her and stood sorrowfully “If he breaks….”

“No banishment, death.” Celestia uttered in a mere whisper.

“Tia... You can’t do tha-“ Luna sputters out only to be cut off by Celestia’s  voice choking back tears

“I will not have my son suffer anymore than he has too… He has one thing you did not, he is my son… I cannot live with knowing he is in torment… I will end his misery.” She turns to wipe a tear away, her back to Luna. “I will hear nothing more on this matter. Understood?” Celestia turns and walks away leaving Luna to herself.

Dante’s horn ceases to stop glowing as the conversation was over, he wasn’t surprised of the decision, a whisper picks up his ear. The ballroom became cold, dark and empty. The main doors creaked open as a mist leaked in, it was black as the night itself, through it stepped a dark figure Dante snarled as it grew closer.

“Hello, my son.”  The black figured muttered sympathetically keeping distance in the dark. Its mane cut short into the military buzz hawk that the guards all wear, eyes glowing a very light red in the dark.

“Go away.” Dante said with shame turning to look away out the window as the figure grew closer, stepping into the light, Dante whom refused to look him in the eye was a spitting image of the alicorn aside from the bat-like nocturnal wings, eyes and curved horn.

“Is that anyway to treat your father?” The stallion said staring out the same window.  “I expected that I raised you better than that.”

“You’re dead you should have stayed in the ground where I left you.” Dante snapped back at his father angrily.

“Son… I know that you’re upset.” He walked to put his hoof on his back “But I need you to listen, I need you to not lose yourself like me.”

“Why?! You seemed perfectly fine! You found no trouble in trying to kill me! You son of a bit-“ The stallion booms over Dante with ease as he interrupts him.

“But you did not when you ran your horn through my chest! You can’t look yourself in the mirror now without seeing that moment, over and over. And now I do not want you to go through it, I do not want your mother to have to do the same. You’re better than this, you’re the only one of your kind, you walk in the plane of death and amongst this world. You are the reaper the dead fear, you are death. You’re fearless! You have the blood of Void in you!”

Dante looked down and got out of the chair and looked his father in the eyes. “I’m sorry dad..”

Void laughed heartily and smiled “You didn’t kill me, you killed the other me, you know, kinda like your aunts other persona?”

“And I took your life as well..”

“It was the price son, and you paid it without hesitation… I’m proud you made that decision. You’re the last of our kind in this world now, remember that. Half breed.” Void gives Dante a fanged smile as he fades away. The ballroom comes lively again as Dante is left standing, Luna waving her hoof in his face.

“Dante! Hellooooooo? Wake up child!”

“Huh? Oh hello aunt Luna!” Dante cracks a smile looking at her.

“Are you alright? I called your name you kinda just stood up and stared off for a while…”

Dante shakes his mane to get out of his eyes “Yeah, I’m fine, I uh I just had to think for a moment is all… I heard the talk… Don’t worry Aunt Luna, okay?”

Luna couldn’t help but look down, sadly. “I know what it’s like, not having control.”

“Don’t worry okay? I got this.” Dante smiles and poofs a jacket on him. “This place isn’t me, I’m going out to a bar, you have some fun. I’ll be back later.” He makes his way to the front door gathering two guards along with Crimson as they walk out he stops and makes eye contact with that white pony he met earlier. He smiles largely offering a wink as he leaves catching a blush on her as her blue friend nudged her grinning. Walking in He, two guards and Crimson make their way to the bar, Dante is nudged by Crimson as he drinks a bottle.

“We’re here to get hammered and get into a brawl aren’t we?”

“Oh hell yeah we are.”

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Celestia receives a letter in the morning from a guard and glares reading it as she stands up, putting her tiara on, she flies out of her window towards ponyville landing at the local guard station, she follows a guard who brings her to a cell with Dante and Crimson, scuffed up a bit, and six farm hand looking stallions who are beat down. The two guards are nowhere in sight as Dante told them to leave before they got caught, he smiles up at his mom missing a tooth.

“Yeah, those two are mine…” She huffs annoyed glaring at Dante.