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This is Zeal's point of view of this chapter and will change to another, but not Heartless.

The demon who framed the ponies

POV Zeal

Souls is the meaning of life for every being in every worlds that tells you you're alive and not a husk, beings thinks that having mind, heart, and intelligence tells you that you're alive. This is not true, your soul is the meaning you're alive even if it was split apart for another life. Demigods, gods, titans, and even their own creation knows about this and that once you destroy a soul it is gone forever no matter how many time you try to copy it the soul will never be the same. Psycho a demigod also knows about this and fears for his to be destroyed or consumed, but he no longer has a say in this anymore.

Kendo had pierced his heart after I nailed in the ground with his own bladed limbs, Kendo was devouring his soul while I took a look around the cave to see if there's anything. Sadly there wasn't anything useful to use or to have for materials, the blades are stained with blood, the M14 ammo can't be duplicated even with if I try to make some, the syringes are useless, and the other components used in Psycho's creations are also useless since their made of weak iron, bronze, and other useless materials. I stopped my search of any useful materials and head back to Kendo.

Psycho's soul was no longer in his body anymore Kendo was done consuming his soul and now I must return home and wait for Justin to arrive. I pulled Kendo out of Psycho's chest and sheath my sword, the body would rot away so burning or bury his body would be pointless. Flying home would get me to the mountain faster than walking, I need to be home before Justin gets home.

Fifteen minutes it took me to make it out of the cave without anything stopping me. When I walked trough the waterfall the sky was turned to an abyss with the moon and small sparkles shining the sky, with all of this in the sky means it was night time and that I've been down in the cave longer than I thought. Zecora is probably at the mansion sleeping and Justin might be continuing studying the heaven's book on a new spell. If he had a week to himself he might be able to use most of the spells from the book, but he still has to read Hell's book and this world spell book. Everything takes time and his will be shorter than a average creature just he needs to learn most things by himself.

Spreading my wings out of my armor I took flight towards the mountain. During my flight back home the castle on top of the mountain with the waterfall was lit up like a beacon, this made me curious to why it was all lit up in the night. Less than two minutes I arrived at the base of the mountain by the entrance to the grav lift. Nothing was out of the ordinary when I first build the mansion, everything was still the same no damage around the cave entrance, the grav lift still the same color, and the cliff to land on wasn't damaged.

"I should get something to eat before continuing crafting Justin's draconic armor and some weapons," I said to myself as I stepped onto the grav lift, the force of reversed gravity pushed me all the way to the edge of the cliff. Doing the walk for myself I stepped on the edge and felt the force wash away. I walked towards the door and opened it entering inside the mansion, when I was inside I saw Justin laying flat on the with a pain expression on his face.

"Justin!" I ran to his side and saw his cloak has holes in them meaning that Discord beaten him up and won or that there's a demon hunter after us. He was still breathing, but it was faint as if he was between limo and the living, his fingers were twitching from an unknown reason as to why he's twitching. I exited out of my armor for me to pick up Justin without harming him, picking him up I felt his body shiver against my skin as if there was a draft blowing through. Sounds of footsteps from upstairs brought my attention on a certain zebra wearing nothing else than her pajamas or known to her as a tribal clothing.

"What is troubling here?" Zecora asked I didn't answer her question when she saw Justin she ran downstairs to him." Zeal what has happened to him, cuts are on his cloak along with him twitching?"

"I do not know what happen nor do I know why he is this way," I said and looked down at my shivering friend in my arms." But he has to rest to regain his strength until he wakes." Zecora and I walked upstairs to Justin's room and laid him on the bed, the blankets were pulled back thanks to Zecora. After setting him on the bed I pulled up the blanket covering his body, but even with his cloak and the blankets he kept shivering." Zecora I want you to stay by his side whenever you have the chance, call my name or even yell out my name and I'll be here in a blink of an eye."

"I will watch over Heartless while he's in this state; and I will call for you to the most uncommon things," Zecora said as we sat down on the edge of Justin's bed watching over him. I walked out of the room giving Zecora her privacy as she takes care of Justin. Everything takes time even the littlest things can take a huge amount of time things can never be finished instantly, but with shortcuts on shortening the time it takes then this shouldn't last that long.

Heading down into the basement I began to think what had caused Justin to be in a weak state, thoughts of a creature stronger enough to put Justin in a weaken state or that there's a demon hunter tracking us down. Arriving at my forge I continued working on the draconic armor and some weapons. I walked towards my chest for some diansteel to create some bolts, slide plates, and weapons. Opening my chest I found out that I was nearly out of diansteel and that I need to find either a diamond, steel, ebony, quarts, or other material to use. With only five pounds of diansteel I picked out the ones that won't be a pain to smash the diamond around the steel for it to shape it into a small Chinese and Yokamo three or five bladed broadhead, the insert would be made from the steel part of the diansteel, arrow shaft shouldn't be made from anything metal only wood, and both fletching and notch would be made what they have always been made from. From these I would make about ten or fifteen diansteel arrows for a wood bow.

Three hours it took me to carefully craft the broad heads and the three bladed parts on them. My supply was low down to three pounds of diansteel I would be using the bones and scales of the dragon corpse for extra materials, but with the current set up I have craft from dragon part would be hard since I do not possess the element of lighting to weaken dragon scales and cut through the bones of one. My luck was that Justin bears that element and use it as a weapon in combat, but he still lacks the skills to use the higher spells.

Done with my work I headed upstairs to check on Zecora and Justin to make sure that if she did yell while I was working, it is best to check just in case. Out of the basement forge and up to the second floor I went over to Justin's door room and opened it for a peek. Justin was still underneath the blankets with Zecora sleeping by him underneath the same blankets. It was a cute sight to see, but even under the covers I can still see him twitching every so often.

Closing the door I went back downstairs on the main floor and exited out of the mansion. My supply of metal was low meaning I have to rob a caravan or cut down a tree for some wood, the wood will be use to craft a bow. A midnight raid shouldn't be much of a cost for a demon such as I, but raiding the village near an the castle wouldn't be a grand idea so raiding either other creatures, civilization, or raid a mine. Outside I spread my wings and took flight in the cooling air, the night should hide my appearance in the sky to avoid a being spotted by someone. High in the sky I should be able to find a town or village far away from the capital of this land for my raid.

I flew towards south west away from the mountain and the ruins, where Justin and I reunited, in search of a town to raid. Flying in the sky can given everyone a perfect view of the land below of forest, rivers, railroads, and small camps. With single flap I stopped myself in the air looking down at a campsite of griffons, they scurry around the camp with food in their claws. Going down there in my demon body would just let a demon hunter know that a demon is around, but with an illusion of me as a unicorn would surely start a suspicion of the king of these griffons on the ponies on this land.

I flew down far from the camp, but close as well, and casted an illusion spell of me as an unicorn. There is no need for words of what I look like since the illusion of a creature is random, but the clothing are not. I wore a set of black leather armor covering my entire body even my hooves and a jet black mask around my muzzle, the weapon was still the same though a replacement of a weapon for killing these griffons are in order. Making my way towards the camp the griffons were talking among themselves.

"Have you hear that Discord threaten our king in Gryph Claw? He said he'll spread Chao through out Gryphus." A male griffon said. Discord the demi god of Chao that might have been the cause of Justin's state, but it's too early to decided if he did defeat him only Justin can tell me what happened to him.

"Yeah, it's sounds like the king would try and ask Celestia for help against Discord, but there's a rumor that six ponies had defeated him all by themselves," A female griffon said causing the other griffons around to gasp in shock. Six mortal ponies had defeated a demigod of Chao all by themselves sound like Discord might not be the suspect of who defeated Justin. With this news I may have to search for these six ponies and force one of the to tell me who the person that placed Justin in his state.

"And who may these six be?" I asked causing every griffon around a campfire to spin and look at my direction.

"Nogriffs knows who's the six ponies are," A female griffon with gray feathers, yellow beak, black eagle claws, dark gray fur, and pale blue eyes, wearing a hoodie, green pants, and red bandana, said as she looked at me examining me. The other griffons had different colors to dark brown, light brown, black, and even metallic silver, the eyes are not really important since they're all going to die tonight.

"That's a real shame," I walked further towards the griffons causing three of them to grab their weapon's handle ready to draw it out." I was hoping I get to know at least one of their names." A glow around my hands and horn caused the three griffons to completely draw out their weapons. I may need a weapon to use as false evidence that the ponies were the ones who killed these griffons and I know how to have these false evidence, spells, hoove prints, and a weapon to show it was done by a unicorn, a dagger would do the job and a simple fire spell would do.

With everything in plan I walked over to one of the griffons with a iron dagger shape like a fang, I misjudged the height of these griffons they're taller than a stallion by a foot high and has more muscles on them. The griffon I was walking to charged at me, using his wings as a speed boost, when the griffon swung his dagger at my throat I did a back step avoiding the bladed edges of the dagger and punched the griffon on the stomach, strong enough to cause him to loose his dinner. The other griffons didn't allow me to harm their friend, one of the swung a sword towards me, I dodge the attack by leaning forward for the sword to swing over me. Another griffon with an battleaxe tried to chop off my legs, I jumped over the battleaxe, avoiding being be legged, and grabbed his battleaxe haft, we both tried to pulled the axe from one each others grip, but that little struggle came to a victor of a demon.

"Say hi to Overload X-trol when you make it to Tartarus," I brought up the battleaxe over my head and struck down slicing one of he griffon's arms before I chopped the over off. A scream of pain and a source of anger and fear came from the others around. Maybe the battleaxe would be my weapon of choice for this demon on killing everyone in this camp. The feeling of bloodlust began to take over me along with the old days of me slaying angels and warriors who challenge a demon, my hell energy started to seep out of my body and surrounded me in crimson aura. I turned my head towards the griffon, who finished puking his dinner, in his eyes was fear and shock on seeing the aura and the gruesome death. With a crazed laugh I walk over to the griffon and casted a levitation spell around his throat and lifted him off the ground, he started choking and began to struggle against the crimson aura around his throat.

"Let him down!" The last griffon, the one with the sword, yelled at me, I kept his friend in my grip and walked towards the two last griffons. The griffon let out a war scream and charged at me, his tactics weren't even on a warrior level making it easy to knock him out with the flat side (butt end) of the battleaxe. With the male out cold I looked at the female who's staring at me in fear, she was shaking like a leaf. I smiled under my mask raising the battleaxe over my and threw at her, the bladed edged wedged between her eyes. The body of the griffon fell dead to the ground, her body didn't twitched from having a battleaxe in her head. A groan by me meant that the griffon I knocked out regained his consciousness and it was in good timing to see his other friend die.

"This shall be the day of war against the griffons!" I flicked my wrist causing the griffon in my grip to snap from a powerful force before I kicked the other griffon on the ground on his back. My bloodlust hasn't been fulfilled meaning that the griffon might be the last one alive to know about this raid.

"Why are you doing this?" The griffon asked as he tried to get to his paws, didn't he hear what I said a few seconds ago? Without saying a word I slammed my right hoove down on his chest before gripping him in my crimson aura, he was going to have a bloody death, I pulled his top half and ribbed him apart from his bottom half blood rain over the surround area cover most of the ground in red liquid. My bloodlust was now over after ripping the griffon apart, with the campers dead I began making a crime.

After two hours of walking around making it look like more than one pony had done this, loading a cart full of goods, and leaving a note on one of the griffons body. I took the weapons to have more metal and loaded in the cart, with everything in order I hooked myself onto the cart and flew towards home.

A week had passed after I found Justin unconscious on the floor, he woken up surprising Zecora and me on the day he woke up, but there was a consequence of recover. He was paralyze at the waist below since he's not fully recovered, his healing process weren't doing anything to fix this problem forcing us to wait until he regain his strength. Zecora visited him multiple time every four hours in each day, she's been staying by his side most of the days and barely left him. I had already finished the draconic armor by bonding Justin's blood to the armor creating a bond blood armor, these types of armor are repaired by the creature blood. I went on two raids last week one was the griffons and the other was a mine near a rock farm, the second raid was more of stealing than raiding. The ores of various metals and different type of crystals had filled my chest of materials I needed.

I still have a thought of the main six being the ones who put Justin in a crippled state, but that's not the reason they destroyed a seal I had on him and it won't work again. Slamming the hammer down on the a new sword, made from steel, after the final hit I took a look at the glowing tip of the blade, I dumped the sword in the water hearing it hiss from the hot steel and cold water. With the steel of the blade cooled down I took it out and hanged it on the ceiling by a hook. There was nothing for me to do today nor have any plans of what to do.

'I may have to find a creature to help Justin in a fight, it has to be strong, big, scary looking, and hard to kill,' There are many beast in the wild that would be tamable, some may be in this forest others at far lands, but there are a few beast that aren't able to be tame. I set down the hammer in my right hand and exited out of he basement to the map room, this room has all of location of Equestria and even Gryphus the land with dangerous carnivores. The portcrystals were in this room as well just between a carved in wall with a doorframe around it, with this map I should be able to know most towns and cities in both kingdoms. Looking through the map I tried to find a name on the equestria map for some dangerous creatures where about.

As I continued looking at the names on the map a loud roar caught my attention causing me to run to he main hall of the mansion and out the door. Another roar sounded a far in the east, whatever is causing these roars must have been disturbed or pissed off attacking something challenging. I flew towards the source of the sound to Rambling Rock Edge a rocky area with flat dirt surface and big climbable rock pillars, stable enough to handle a tremor on top of it, the whole area was mostly covered by these pillars I'm not surprise a predator creature would these high stands to pounce on their prey. Sounds of fighting was heard on ground along with loud footsteps and yelling, seems like the beast that made those roars was fighting with someone. It would be interesting to watch the fight between this mysterious best and people or hunters.

Flying down I landed on to of a rock pillar and peeked over the edge to see a creature from a world called Shear, a world full of monsters nearly strong as a demonlord on their first stage. This creature was called a Goliath, brute monster that is nearly hard to kill. The Goliath was fighting against were three hunters, two were unicorns and one a minotaur.

"Markus, you're protected!" A pine green mare shouted holding both her hands out at the minotaur, a light blue aura shot out of her hands engulfing the minotaur in it. The spell she used was probably a shield spell. The minotaur didn't say anything only raised a his weapon and fired electricity from it, the weapon was like a tesla rifle a type of human gun that slots out lighting to weapon this type of monsters. The Goliath roar swung at him hitting him, but dealt no damage due to the shield spell, the Goliath looked back at a mare.

I could tell that this Goliath wanted to finish this fight soon.

POV Zecora

"So what happened in Ponyville after I went unconscious?" Heartless asked as he took a sip from his tea. I looked up thing what had happened last week after he was in a coma.

"Twilight and her friends went looking for you along with them a batpony," I said leaving out the event that Twilight had tried to create a problem to solve, but the young unicorn has much to learn as making a problem would only back fire.

"I see ," Heartless sat up straight and reached over to his crutch, it sad to see my love temporary crippled, but from what Zeal said his upper body strength should help him travel around the mansion." Can you help me down the stairs to the kitchen?" I nodded my head and walked over to he door opening it for him, Heartless made his way out the door by the stairs. Zeal is still in the basement crafting weapons and tools while I take care of Heartless.

POV Zeal

'Wish I'd be the one fighting this Goliath,' I though as the Goliath had finished of its last hunter ripping the organs and meat from the healer mare corpse, the fight last for a good five minutes until mister monster wanted to finish off his enemies. With a sigh I jumped off my rock pillar and landed on my feet, the Goliath looked at me before letting out a roar. Fighting a Goliath is challenging since some can regenerate their armor with eating, I just hope this one are those.

Before I could take a step forward toward the beast fell flat on its side growling, it moved its right claw to its stomach and putted pressure on its stomach. Confuse on how the creature was already down and weak I walked over to it to see if any of the wounds were the cause of it collapsing. I walked around the twenty two feet Goliath looking at all the wounds on its back and sides, blood lost had cause this beast to fall though why is it putting pressure on its stomach? With this question in mind I walked back in front of it, the creature still has its claw on its stomach, but when it trailed up to its neck I notice it was trying to cut its own stomach open. Sad story on the Goliath side is that its claws was dull and broke so it can cut it stomach unless it puts more pressure.

"What would Justin do?" I looked at the Goliath who kept trying to cut its stomach open, it really wants its stomach to be cut opened I wonder why? Summoning Kendo I rested the tip of the blade on the Goliath hide and pushed the blade deep enough to draw blood from it, I began to walk forward cutting the skin as I walk to the beast chest. Looking back at the beast I saw its life leave its eyes as blood pour out of its cut stomach. I sheathed Kendo and opened its stomach open to see why it wanted to open its chest. After searching the insides of this dead Goliath I found out why it wanted its chest opened. The thing in its chest was an red egg nearly tall as me, I carefully pulled the egg out of the body.

"Great even the gender of the Goliath is different," I groan and gently sat it down by the corpse before I grabbed the weapon the minotaur once had before he died. In the future I'm going to examine this weapon to know how they built this with out any technology, the tesla rifle is one of the advance weapons that these beings shouldn't know about these weaponry.

Heavy, the egg was heavier than a floater, I had to carry it on the ground to prevent myself to from being weighed down by this egg and become a target to a hunter. The entire walk took me forty minutes to arrive at the mansion, going through a forest full of predators while carrying a giant egg was no easy to have a simple stroll through the forest. Luckily the only encounters I had were Timberwolves and why that is luckily because burn can catch on fire.

Zecora was now out of the house for the moment leaving Justin in his room to continue recovering. I went upstairs in Justin's room and sat the egg at the far corner of the room near the bathroom door, a Goliath egg shouldn't egg until tomorrow since it did came out of the Goliath. Justin was sleeping in bed recovering his strength as his rest, he would question me about this though not while rest he won't. I exited out of my room and went down the straits to the basement for my examination of this weapon.