Chapters Escape from Hell and a castle (edited)
Angels, spirits, ghosts, and demon are no different from each other, they all have many things in common that gave them their names, story, and even ways to communicate with them. Everyone thinks that when a person dies his or her soul would be taken by the Lord in the sky or the Lord in the ground, but they are wrong on that belief and theory. If a human had made contact with a demon, spirit, or angel those creatures would either guild them or take the soul of their victim. I was one of these people at the age of nine when I first talked to a demon named Zeal, he was a hell knight to one of Satan's generals in hell.
Zeal wasn't that bad when we first talked through a mirror, that was a one way through Earth. Years had passed after our first conversation and we became friends, Zeal was a peaceful demon that only attacks if he's been threatened or if someone was picking on me. Sad to say I died at the age of 19, how I died was in the hospital. I don't know the rest because Zeal had done me a favor on wiping out the memory of my death, family, and my past life. It was the best though since remembering the past might bring you down into depression, but on the bright side of losing memories is that everyone can make new ones.
Right now you're probably wondering what am I doing as I speak on what happened to me... Well, let me tell you that I'm just resting on the ground letting the flames of hell bathe me as I lay down. It may seem that the flames can burn anything it touches, let me tell you the truth for me and demons, it doesn't. Though I suppose I spoke more than doing stuff like escaping from hell, so I'll start doing that.
I sat up straight letting the yellow flames slide off of my cloak like raindrops on a leaf, my name is Justin, the heartless man without a heart only a soul to replace it. The clothes I'm wearing is a black cloak along with black pants, shirt, leather gloves, and boots. What, you thought my hair was black as well? No, it's dark brown nowhere near the color black.
Hell can be well described by people's imagination of what it looks like, scary, full of flames, and on and on. I am a demon though, with a human soul, the demon body changed into my human body, except when it did that I had no clothes. It was pretty embarrassing to have no clothes in a place full of demons. Zeal had gotten me clothes in his own closet when this first happened, he was a cool demon cares about what I do and my choice of becoming an actual demon or the opposite. He taught me the transformation of shifting back into demon and human, after that he taught me how to fight with hell's energy and its weapons. The guy cares about me and would even turn his back against his demon brothers and sisters.
Now we plan on leaving to the world where I am safe on making my own decisions and away from Earth and its humans. Zeal never told me what this world is, but I trust him that has no other beings that know about humans. I was excited about this even though no demon in hell knows about me living in its flaming world. Yes, no demons know who I am or about my existence in this dimension, but they'll know when Zeal and I make a run for it.
I got to my feet from sitting on the dark crimson colored ground and snuck my way to Zeal's home. The place was like a carved cave on the outside, but the inside looked like it was built by ancient Egyptian builders. It was on big as a four room apartment with an underground blacksmith. I entered the cave and walked in the main room of this cave, there was only stone furniture in this cave and light was hell's fires. Zeal was preparing the plan on destroying the portal to this place called "Tartarus" so that demons from hell won't follow us. The place was like a second hell except it's not that populated like our is, its population is lower than five hundred thousands of cursed souls and demons.
Now I'm waiting for Zeal to return home while I just sit down on the stone couch and stare up at the carved stone ceiling. I have my own weapon in case things goes south, the weapon I have was a greatsword its width was six inches, length is six feet, and the material it was made from was obsidian, a soul of a dragon, and my blood. It was a custom made from Zeal, he said if I want to protect myself I needed a weapon to do so, and here it is a blood bond weapon. Zeal's was a gift from his general, it was a demonic sword that has one blade edge on it. The length of it was four feet long and the width of the blade was three inches, it may not be amazing, but the power of hell energy makes it a dangerous weapon.
This entire place was my home for the past hundred years making me a hundred nineteen years old, sometimes I keep mistaking myself as a nineteen-year-old teen that just has no aging issues. Zeal was... I don't know how old Zeal is so forgotten that. Silence filled the entire cave while I started to drift into a daydream until a heavy sound of footsteps stops me from doing so. Taking a small glance to the left side of me to see Zeal was in his demon form, two black horns pointing back, grey leather wings with holes in them, red glowing eyes, grey skin, and steel armor on his chest, arm, and legs. He seems to be in a good mood about something, curious on what has him in a good mood.
"Zeal, what's with the look man?" I asked and got up on my feet still staring at him. He tossed a small black crystal at me that caused me to catch it. I looked at the crystal and made my eyes widen, the crystal was a small portal device that allows demons to travel into different hells and even on Earth if they wanted to." What are you going to use this for?"
"I'm using it actually." Zeal said answering my question about the crystal. I toss it back at him and smiled knowing that Zeal will use it." When you enter through the portal I'm going to destroy it and use this crystal to travel to Tartarus."
The plan he made up doesn't sound that bad, to begin with, but the demons would try to stop me from reaching this portal to this "Tartarus." I have faith in Zeal, he lived in hell for god knows how many years he lived here, even if the plan starts going to down in the ditch there is always a backup plan. Zeal can't be seen helping me on my escape so he would be chasing me, but also help at the same time.
I put on my hoodie, on this cloak, over my head and nodded for approval of the start of this big mission of ours. Zeal nods back with a grin and walked out of the cave, he would give me five minutes to run to the gates of realms, after the five minutes are up he would chase me down and also activate a small flashing light where the portal is at. I plug my earphones in my ears and began to play "Fight Like Hell" by JT Machinima, they make great rap songs of games and other things.
Today is going to be very interesting and bloody day after I escape from hell itself. Not wasting a single minute, I ran out off the cave and towards the gates of realms to find this portal. I jumped on a platform to another platform and ran again on solid ground until I had to grind rail on giant chains, that were connected to center of hell. Not many demons were around meaning they were in the center of hell watching new sinner's souls fight each other for their entertainment, and that Satan himself is out collecting dead people souls. All of this was getting a bit too easy as the center island land was getting closer by the second, things should be difficult once I get all the demons attention on where I am. Once I drew close to ground I jumped off the chain and ran toward the battle arena, the gate of realms was further away just the arena was just in the way of getting there.
I had probably wasted two minutes of running towards the arena the only place to actually entertainment for demons. Barging in the front gate of the stadium to a hallway to one of the upper tiles of rows of watching the fight. I made my way to the center of this huge stadium. Sounds of shrieks, screams, roars, and laughs as I drew closer to the center of this place. Turning at every one-way hall to another I found myself on two floors up from the ground and at the exit to the arena. Two minutes were left after spending a minute of running through halls and now I can create havoc and be on a killing spree if anything gets in my way.
I walked over to an imp and stood by him, he didn't even notice that I was right next to him until I grabbed his head with my left hand and slammed his head into the red slab wall. His blood splatters on the wall and on the front of my cloak and the hood. The entire stadium went dead silence after what I did, I let go of the dead imp's head and ran towards the other side of the arena. A huge uproar filled the atmosphere as every demon in this stadium chase after me. I made half of the way to the other side until a hell knight got in my way, it swiped its claws at me as I slid between its legs and continued on running.
Demons that were long range either thrown or fired at me as I ran pass multiple demons on my way to the other side of the stadium, but some of those nearly hit me. They all can be very ignorant, not thinking straight when they fight. I reach the other side of the stadium and ran inside the place avoiding being hit or stun by demons attacks. The halls one way turns helps me navigate my way outside of the stadium, it can be very helpful, but at the same time can fuck you over. Roars and screeches of demons told me that they were getting close, but not close enough to catch sight of me.
'One last turn.' I drew close to a turn in the halls now avoiding claw hands that started popping out from the walls slowing me down to a jog. My breathing was now heavy pants as I started to jog my way to the turn, even in a demon body it still has lungs for breathing. Each claw hands try swiping at me trying to at least slow me down or to wound me.
"Five minutes are up Zeal is chasing me now." I indicate as the demons are now getting a bit too close, I started gaining spent into my jog then into a full sprint. The hands in the walls started reaching out to me trying to grab my cloak, some of them nearly had a grasp on my cloak, but only to be pulled out from their grip. I reach the other side of the stadium to the main ground, lava cracks were in the ground, pillars of rocks started from the ground all the way up the to a dark red clouded sky. Dozens of unwilling demons scatter most of the area of work and slavery, they were a type of demon that possessed humans and changed their appearance.
I may have to kill at least a few of them that stands in my way, the gate of realms was at the far right corner of hell making it seven minutes of travel on foot. Not wasting a single minute on standing in front of the stadium I made a mad dash to the far side of hell, any unwilling that stood in my way was either shoved out of the way or smashed their heads in a rock or ripped a limb off of one and use it to kill one of them. My cloak was nearly color in crimson blood as each demon that stood in my way blood splatters on me, but that all ended from hearing an ear-piercing screech.
"Well, now I know Zeal is near," I muttered under my breath. Zeal is closer to me than the other demons, they were probably four minutes away from me. I stopped running and reached both my hands up waiting for Zeal to grab me and give me a lift. Sounds of wings made it clear that Zeal was by me, a heavy force with speed in it, swooped me off the ground into the air.
"I'm going to throw you in the portal!" He informed me as we drew near the gate of realms, it was a big place that was heavily guarded by walls and a gate bigger than the stadium I exited out off. We flew past the way and towards the room full of portals leading into many realms.
"So plan "A" failed!?" I asked, wondering what had happened to the plan. He didn't answer my question about the plan of plan "A", plan "A" was just me running in the gate of realms and through the portal, but He threw me through the portal! "Jackass!"
Bright tunnel of light blinded me as I made my way through the portal to Tartarus. My eyes adjusted to the bright of the tunnel showing at the end a marble floor. I flew out of the bright tunnel and landed face first on the marble floor sliding across to my unknown destination. My nose might have broken from the landing on the hard marble floor, to tell the truth, it hurts like hell...no puns intended.
A painful groan escaped from me, I lift myself up from the marble floor and felt my nose snap back into place. I looked around to see where I am, the entire place was like a fancy room with a king size big, but bigger. A mirror by the drawer at the left of the room, closet by the bed, and a fireplace five feet to the right of the room's bathroom door. I would have observed more of the room, but a knock on the door interrupted me.
Shit, I look again around the room to find a place to hide, there are three choices I have. One hide under the bed and hope the person on the other side of the door doesn't see me, two hides in the closet, three hides in the bathroom. Another knock on the door tells me that the person is beginning to impatient of waiting. The door began to open, and I hid underneath the bed and peek out. My breath was caught from seeing the person behind the door was a dark blue horse like woman wearing a navy blue royal dress, black waist band with different moon phases on it, a black princess' crown, and a black necklace with a crescent moon on it.
"We hope sister would like this gift of ours." The woman horse said and walked further into the room with a cake slice of banana cake in a blue glow around them along with a yellow present with a pink tie on it. She placed the plate on the bed along with the present before leaving. Once she left the room I crawled out from under the bed and got back up on my feet, I was glad that she didn't check under the bed to see if anyone was under it.
Things could have gotten a lot weirder at that moment, but it was best not complain about what the woman was. A low growl from my stomach forced me to look at the cake. It looked delicious by its looks, I picked up the plate with my left hand and grab the cake with my right. I felt myself drooling at the sight of the cake. I brought the cake up to my mouth and took a single bite of the cake made me consume the rest of it. It was the tastiest cake I had ever tasted in the past hundred years, it was probably the first cake I had eaten.
"Ahem." A female from behind me cleared her throat. I turned my head around to see a white horse like woman wearing a white royal dress, gold waist band with a purple crystal in the middle, a gold crown with the same colored crystal, and a gold necklace with the sun on it. This is what happens when you don't pay attention to your surrounds of an unknown territory, you get caught. "Can you tell me why is a pony in my room, and why he ate my cake slice?"
"... See ya bitch!" I dashed pass this woman and out through the door, she was shocked that I said that to her. I took off my earphones since the song ended seven minutes ago forcing me to listen to my surrounding.
"Hold it right there!" A white horse like man in golden armor shouted at me. I turned around to him, his eyes widen and he aimed his spear at me. It was the blood on my black cloak from demons I had killed that was still on me, not wasting a single second I ran the opposite direction of him. He started chasing me with other guards that had wings or horns, I'm beginning to think the portal didn't take me to Tartarus.
Each turn I made of each corner, the guards that were chasing me either crashed into one another or slid across the marble floor whenever they try to make a sharp turn. It would have been amusing for me to watch if I wasn't the being chased! My choice of entering a room and barricading it was now becoming my top priority of escaping. I ran inside a nearby room full of crates, armor, and weapons, the room I am in was an armory.
I pushed a crate in front of the door to prevent the guards from barging in, the door swung forward, but due to the crate in front of the door, it only allowed it to be open to a slight crack. The crate was holding the door well though I doubt it'll hold for long. I search for another way out like a window or a second door around the room, but there were no door or window only weapons on weapon racks and three jail bar windows.
'Jail break. ' I raised my left hand at the middle jail bar window and used a fire spell at the metal bars. They melted from the heat of the fire, giving me time to pick out a weapon in this armory. I searched through the racks of sword, battle and war axes, spears, and daggers in search of finding a substitute weapon for Alduin. The greatsword itself takes a lot of hell energy to conjure the blade into existence, but now I have to wait until my energy recovers more. I picked up two steel longswords, with gold cross-guard and pommel, along with two scabbards with them. I tied both scabbards to my each of my waist and sheathed both blades in their scabbard, the bars had melted enough for me to squeeze through the window.
*Bam*
The guards are starting to bash the crate out of the way from the door, they'll be in a minute. I climbed out the window and started to climb up to the roof of the barracks. The sound of the door, inside the barracks, slammed opened with sounds of footsteps along with clanking armor. They'll see the melted bars that I escape through, but I didn't want to stay on find out that they see the bars. I ran on the roof to another then to the front part of this place.
"Heh, I guess I gave them a slip," I said to myself with a small giggle at the end. The entire building looks like a castle of a kingdom from where I'm at. Actually, I don't even know where I'm at right now, my surrounding was a bridge with a small river running underneath it, I could see a city ahead of me filled with horse-like people.
"There it is!" A male voice shouted from behind. I glanced behind me to see the same guards that I escaped from running towards my location, I looked back at the city and saw another squad of guards running towards me. In this situation, I would have put up a fight, but they didn't attack me first. With a quick look around I jumped off the bridge and ran along the river banks to the end of the cliff near a waterfall." It has nowhere to go, surround it!"
I turned around to see the horse men guards holding steel spears at me, this made me take a step back, but only to break off a piece of earth from the cliff. This is bad I'm at the edge of the cliff near a waterfall, that's probably 300 feet fall down, and these guys holding a spear at me like a native tribe. So yeah, really bad. They all took a step forward causing me to take a step back, I'm now considering on jumping off this cliff and pray that I don't lose too much blood in my body. I stood fully straight up to my full height before leaping of the cliff and fall to where the waterfall hits the earth.
POV Celestia
I stared blankly at nothing where the mysterious pony was at. I have never heard one of my subjects called me that, he must had been brave to call me a bitch or he must had been dumb enough to call me that! Staring at where the pony was at, a knock on the door brought me out of my trance to reality.
"Come in," I said giving the pony behind the door permission to enter into my chamber. Turning around and facing the door as it creaked open, one of my royal guards rushed into my chamber and knelt before me. Did he capture the pony that ran out of my chamber?
"Princess, I have news of an intruder that was inside the castle covered in blood," This spiked my interest and also caused me to be more concern about that pony. I never saw blood on the pony after I caught him eating my slice piece of cake, was the front part of his cloak covered in blood? if so then I could not have seen the blood on him. "We chased him through the castle's halls to the guards' barracks. The intruder blocked the door with a crate full of our armor, but when we finally barged in the barracks the intruder was gone. We search inside the castle before going outside to search around the area. One of the other guards found him. From there we chased him to the waterfall by the bridge, but when we had him cornered he did the unspeakable."
"What did he do to make it unspeakable?" I asked him a bit troubled at the news.
"He jumped off the cliff."
"WHAT!
Author's Note
Edited by Lone.
Music in story.
A monster or a friend (edited)
Let me give you a small advice from jumping off a cliff to a 300 feet fall into a river, don't ever try it at home! It hurts like being burnt alive. I have lost some amount of blood from the fall into the water, but I still have a fair amount of blood to keep me alive and heal any injury on me. Things had turned out well on my end from escaping both hell and that castle full of horse people. Zeal side of escaping from hell is unknown to me since he might have destroyed the portal and used the crystal to travel to Tartarus. My bones were repairing themselves as I floated in the running river and then docked on a river bank.
"Damn that hurts like a bitch," I mumbled under my breath as the last bone in my body snaps into place sending a huge jolt of pain throughout my body. Ignoring the pain in my body I lifted myself onto my feet and took a good look at my immediate area. A forest, I was in a forest full of unknown life and wildlife and terrain that I have no idea what it looks like." Well, it's away from the castle, but I need to hunt for food and learn the local wildlife and the terrain."
A growl from my stomach told me that I haven't eaten a proper meal in the last hour or two, the only thing I ate was that delicious banana cake from that one room. Remembering the after taste of that cake slice made me drool a bit, but I was brought back to reality when something splash in the water. There was something in the river that made that splash meaning I could kill for food. Time suddenly slow down as the something in the water jumped out and landed back in. The something was a tambaqui, a relative to the piranha except they eat plant and seeds. Seeing this fish meant I can catch one or kill one for food, but there was a problem I have no spear or fishing spear. I'm now starting to regret on not taking a spear from the barracks for this very moment of hunting.
"I best sharpen a long stick for a fishing spear," I suggested to myself and scanned the area, searching for a five or eight feet long straight stick. Searching around in the woods, but not too far from the river bank, I found a stick that's nearly straight and six feet long. I picked up the stick and walked back to the river bank, I can use one of the longswords to sharpen one end of this stick. After sharpening the stick I took off my cloak letting some strands of hair fall to both sides of my cheeks, I don't have to get my cloak wet anymore so I hung it on a nearby tree branch. With the spear in my hands, I entered in the cold running river and waited for a fish to swim by.
It has been a few minutes of waiting in the river that I caught three tambaqui for my lunch or dinner, actually I don't even know the time right now. I walk over to the bank with my prize from patient fishing and my meal to fill my stomach, sure I don't have a campfire ready, but I can cook without one. Once out of the cold water I place my left hand underneath the uncooked tambaqui and channeled my hell energy to form purple flames in my hand. The raw fish on the wooden stick quickly began to cook enough for me to eat. When the fishes were fully cooked, I put out my flames and started eating the cooked tambaqui.
After finish eating my meal and satisfying my stomach, I disposed of the bones of the fish at the side of the river bank and put my cloak back on. The blood on the cloak washed away from the water giving me no chore of cleaning the blood off. I look up at the sky to see it was night, the moon had a horse head on it and the stars were nearly out of place. It was the most beautiful sight I saw since I have arrived in this world and escape from the castle.
"I should rest, my strength will recover along with my hell energy and blood." I walked over to the same tree, that my cloak was hanging on, and laid down on it. Tomorrow I'm going to have to travel around and try to find a cave, near perfect condition ruins, or find Tartarus.
The sound of running water and birds in the trees woke me up from my slumber, but the sun's ray blinded me causing me to hiss like a cat and block out the sun with my hand. When my eyes adjusted to the light I lowered my hand to see the same river and trees I was around last night. I got to my feet and stretched my limbs earning a satisfying pop from each one. This morning I would be traveling around this forest for a place to stay and claim as my own. I took a look up at the sky to see on the far right was a bundle of gray clouds, it would appear that there's a storm arriving in a couple of minutes.
Time was against me now as the storm was approaching by every second I waste, the rain from those clouds would extinguish my flames making my power useless. I picked up my fishing spear and strolled into the forest in the quest to find shelter. It would be a long journey to find a shelter in this forest to live in, but I feared that the clouds would be over my head before I even had the chance to find one. Trees and vines made my travel difficult to navigate through the forest. An hour has passed from my journey, I pushed aside a branch in my path to make way to a small clearing that's not too far away from me.
When I reached the small clearing I glanced up to see the clouds were above me about to rain on me, fire demons can't use their fire in the rain, but there are some that can use different types of elements. This demon body I'm in can use hell's flames, but it can use other demonic powers like the cryokinesis, lightning kinesis, and other manipulation of black magic though I never have the training to use different elements. There are many types of demons that are in the frozen land to the black abyss. The roar of lightning boomed in the early morning rain storm pulling me back into reality and causing me to drop the spear.
"Uh oh." I ran north from where I had come from and search around for shelter before I found a cave in a small mountain a roar filled the atmosphere. It wasn't the lightning roar that made this roar it was a lion roar coming from the west of the cave. Demons wouldn't care to investigate on the roar, but I wasn't fully a demon. I headed west from the cave and saw a lion with horns, scorpion tail, and wings, it was a manticore from the mythology of ancient greek.
"Back! Back creature of the Everfree, you shall not make a meal out of me." A feminine voice spoke on the other side of the manticore, curious on who this woman is, I wanted to see this person. The manticore let out a growl ready to pounce on the woman, this lion won't be a problem to kill for food and for its lion pelt.
"You better listen to her, little lion or I'll make you." I notified the manticore and step out in the opening, it looked over at me and gave a low growl of hostility. The manticore turned around facing me showing its sharp teeth. This moment on facing a manticore is going to be exciting, but also dangerous at the same time.
"No! No, leave pony folk before the beast makes a meal you." The feminine voice said, trying to warn me. I drew out both swords from their scabbards and lowered myself into a fighting stance, speed is my key on taking this kitty cat down. The manticore lowered itself down ready to charge at me. I didn't give it the chance to attack as I ran up to it and swung my right sword diagonally to the right, slicing through the nose. It let out a roar of pain and swung its left paw, it missed me when I jumped back dodging the attack. The manticore's tail launched straight at me, this caused me to cross both swords into an x blocking it, the stinger was going to be a problem with me because of its poison, the stinger was above both blades. I chopped the tail using the x swords as a huge pair of scissors, the manticore roared in pain and swung its right paw at me, catching me off guard from its attacks. The impact of its paw sent me rolling on the grass with four claw marks on my left side of my body, a blood stain was now on my cloak after the injury healed.
"You're going to pay for that," I said in a dark tone enough to match a demon's. I pushed myself off the ground and glared at the manticore that licks its paw, that it attacked me with, with a bit of anger in my system I charged at its right side and swung both my sword in an upwards x slice. The blades sliced through its fur with a trail of blood behind it, the manticore roar and swung its tail at me, but it no longer has its stinger. I side step to the right and jumped onto the tail for a lift up to its back, the manticore did what I knew it would do I jumped off and ran on its back towards its head. It tried to shake me off its back by shaking wildly to the right and left, but it was no avail on shaking me off. I leaped forward and spun myself in mid air ready to end this beast, I brought down both blades into its skull and pushed it deeper through the skull to its brain. The beast stood still for a few seconds as I pulled both swords out of its skull, blood sprayed on me from the two holes in the manticore head. I hop off the dead creature and walk away from it, a loud thud came from behind.
*BOOM*
That was the sound of lightning I just heard along with a small droplet of rain, it was light, but soon will become heavy. I glance over to where I had last heard of that feminine voice from. My eyes widen on the owed of the feminine voice was a zebra woman wearing a brown cloak over a brown bra and a brown short skirt. She has two gold oval shape ears rings, three gold neck bracelets around her neck, four gold bracelets on her left arm, and two gold bracelets around her right thigh under her skirt. I stared at her for few more second before sheathing my blades and walk away towards the cave.
"Wait for me creature of the Everfree, as neither of us doesn't want to stay in this rain." The zebra said in a rhyme of words. I looked at her then back at the direction of the cave I let out a sigh and gestured her to follow. She didn't hesitate to be by my side, but she is cautious around me. I walked back to the cave with the zebra following behind as I travel back to the cave.
"Tell me why aren't you afraid of me, do you have a death wish?" I asked with a dark theme at the end of my question. The zebra looked at me and smiled like she knew something about me.
"I am not afraid of your appearance nor conflict; your action has proven to be a trustworthy pony." She said with a less bit of rhyming in them. It was surprising to see that she know that I'm not a monster like everyone on Earth thinks of demons, she was probably the first I have ever known that not afraid of me. We arrived at the cave entrance, I gestured her in while I walked around picking up sticks and twigs for a fire, the rain had soaked my cloak and probably the zebra's too. A fire should help dry off and help keep us warm until the storm dies down.
After two minutes of picking sticks and twigs in the rain, I entered the cave to see the zebra holding her cloak close to her. I placed the sticks and twigs in two separate pile, one that will be a fire as the other for fuel. The zebra raised an eyebrow questioning me of a lack of flint and steel, but I don't need those. I snapped my finger creating a spark in the wet wood a few more snaps from my finger the wood caught on fired.
"The fire will dry off our cloaks and keep us warm from the storm, that's raging outside," I said not caring if she disagrees with the idea. I took off my cloak and laid it on by the fire for it to try off, my purple flames are hotter than an average fire making it the best source to dry off my cloak. The zebra did the same thing with her cloak by the fire and sat down by it, there has to be named for her instead of zebra. I sat down by the fire for its warmth and looked up at the zebra, she has the looks of curiosity on her about the fire and about me. " do you have a question?"
"A question I do that is about you; just what creature are you along with your name." The zebra picked up a stick and tossed it in my fire.
"My kind is human, but I'm also a demon, as for my name is Justin or Heartless," I said both my regular and demon name, I leaned forward and held out my arm over the purple flames. The zebra's eyes widen and her pupils shrunk from the sight of the flames going over my arm not burning me." I said my name now it's your turn."
"Ah my name is Zecora and I am a zebra for your info." Zecora grasped hold of my hand and shook hands, her hand was like a human with five digits making me feel like I was shaking hands with a human. After the handshake, we both drew back our hands and put them by our sides. The purple flames were beginning to die from the lack of wood I picked up a few stick and tossed them in the fire, the flames at first didn't have any affects on them, but a few seconds later it started consuming the sticks.
The storm outside was starting to calm down by a notch, the rain was beginning to stop as the entire outside of the cave was dripping with water. Zecora and I gotten up to our feet or hoofs in Zecora's view, we grabbed our cloaks from their spot and put them on. After putting on our cloaks we exited out of the cave to see the rain fully stopped for a moment the clouds in the sky were still there, but darker than they were before.
"We should head to the east for it is freed of beasts and it is where I live," Zecora said and pointed left to the opposite direction where I first went to see that manticore and Zecora. She walked to the direction where she pointed, along with me following her. I can hear the clouds make a rumbling sound meaning that it'll rain soon before we could even reach her home. Not like the condition of the storm I looked down at Zecora who was leading the way, she seemed to know this entire forest like the back of her hand.
We journeyed through the forest for three minutes to another clearing with a huge boulder that looks like an upward cliff all moldy, it was at the other side of the clearing with blooming blue flowers of the two leaves, one on each side of the stem, four blue petals with lightning like veins in the petals. It would have been a perfect time to have a small break and look around the surrounding, but a roar came from the storm with a few drops of rain.
Zecora walked to the at the center of the clearing and looked around at our surroundings of where we are right now. I walked over to her and examined the flowers, they were interesting because of their appearance. When I was a few inches away from the flowers, I knelt down on one knee and reached out to touch one of them.
"Justin don't touch-" Before Zecora even finish off what she was about to say, I touched the plant and went flying with lightning coursing through my body.
"Note to self, don't touch something you're not sure of." I made a mental note of that flower and got back up to my feet, some sparks of blue lightning went crept up my arms and legs before fading away. Zecora ran to my aid and examined my body to see if any major damage was done to me, to do Zecora a favor." I'm fine Zecora, just what type of plant was that?"
"That plant is a Zap flower that is overpowered; they bloom in the storm like these and seize the lightning in their petals." Zecora's explanation was done. She smiled to herself knowing that the Zap flower did no damage to me, but I can feel the lightning giving me energy. A flash of lightning along with a loud roar in the sky, the rain was pouring more than last time before I touched the flower. "The storm will harm if we stay in long."
Before we even had the chance to continue our journey a howl from our behind stopped us. I turned around to see five wooden wolves, one of them was bigger and had darker wood than the others, they all share the same glowing green eyes. Zecora got into a fighting stance, but I raised my right arm up stopping her from what she was about to do. I walked in front of her and drew out my left sword with my right hand and pointed it towards the wolves. The darker one snarled at me showing its jagged wooden teeth, the others barked and began to circle around us. I grabbed Zecora's hand with my left and kept her close by me, the wolves snarled at my action and closed in on us.
"Zecora, stay by me," I commanded and channel my flames into my sword, the purple flames coated the blade from the hilt. The wolves backed away from us afraid of the fire, but that all changed when the rain made contact with the flames making a hissing sound. This is what I was afraid of the rain for even if I poured all my hell energy into a short dagger the rain would just put it out like it was dipped into water. I took this free opportunity and high tailed it with Zecora, she ran along with me I still have hold of her hand in mine.
The wolves started howling and gave chase after us through the forest, they're lucky that today was raining that gave them an advantage over me. We ran through the forest evading anything that was in our path. Zecora was still behind me because I still have her hand in mine. We made it to a tree big enough that the wolves won't be able to climb up, but the problems were that we have to stop and that one of us can climb up the tree.
"Climb up that tree Zecora!" I said and stopped right in front of the tree. Zecora looked up at the tree then at me, she not sure about something." Don't worry about me, just get up there I'll deal with the pest." Zecora nodded and let go of my hand and started to climb up the tree, she didn't have any trouble on climbing up the bark to the branch. Once she was up I turned around to see the pack of wooden wolves already here for us, but that's not going to happen. With the sword in my right hand I lifted up and walked forward towards the pack, they all snarled showing their wooden teeth.
"Shall we?" I asked, one of the wolves darted at me and jumped up into the, I swung my arm to the right slicing the wooden wolf in half, tree sap colored the ground, but was washed away by the rain. Another jumped at me and this one got lucky, it snuck behind me while I had dealt with his friend, I felt his wooden claws dig its wooden nails into my skin, drawing out blood, and sunk its teeth into my neck. I grimaced from the bite and grabbed the wooden head of the wolf with my left hand and pried open it maw, then threw it off of me to the ground, I raised my right foot up and stomped the head of the wolf, tree saps and twigs flew after the heavy stomp. The wounds and rip from the wolf healed instantly along with the cloak, but the blood from the bite marks and claw marks soak the spots on my cloak. The other three circled around me enraged about losing two wolves from their pack, two wolves had jumped at me at both sides, I didn't have a chance to kill one of them before both of them bit down both my arms and made me cross both my arm at opposite direction. I tried pulling back my arms from the wooden wolves jaws, this caused them to chomped down on my arms and ripped a bit of skin. The darker brown wooden wolf sprung toward at me, I raised up my right leg and kicked it square in its heads sending it flying back at a tree, it shattered into sticks from the impact. After that both of the wolves holding down my arm let go and looked at their fallen brother, I pulled out the other sword with my left hand and swung both blades separate at the two wolves.
POV Zecora
After the listening to Justin's fight, I climbed down to see something that gave me a fright. He was sitting in the middle panting heavily from his fight, his cloak was covered in blood on the arm, back, and neck. I ran to his aid to see if he was all right from his clash, only to see that he was alright. Justin heard me from his behind, but when he got up and turned around I find a frown on his mouth.
"You think of me as a monster do you," He said with a sad tone in his voice, he turned his head away in shame. I walked up to him and patted his shoulder drawing his gaze I smiled at him.
"Fear not my friend; you are not a demon," I said and grabbed his hand within mine before I gave him a smile. He was confused by my act of not seeing him as a beast, so his surprised expression, vanished away with a smile.
"Thank you Zecora."
Author's Note
Zecora's rhyming was a pain in this chapter, but I managed to get through. If anypony could help find errors on Zecora's rhyming please tell me so I can fix it. Hope you enjoy the fight scene in this story again not that good with grammer.
Edited by Lone
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Training, studying, and a home part 2 (edited)
A week passed after Zeal announced to me that he was going to build a home in a nearby mountain for us, he said it would take him a week to finish or a few more days with it, but since an accident happened in there it would take another week. The training with Zecora went at a bad start, but now I'm starting to do better even managed to hold Zecora and the bamboo in the palm of my hand while meditating. I started reading on one of the books that Zeal gave me before he left to construct a home, the first book I'm reading in this past week was the Holy book from heaven's library. There were many light spells and a rare amount of dark spells in this book, the first thing I was teaching myself was healing hands, a spell that allows the caster to heal any creature wounds. When I first tried casting the spell on a dying flower I accidentally burnt it to ashes, I had forgotten the first step on the spell is to let my mana pool coverage into a life energy of healing and giving life, the second try was on a vine that was cut apart, it was a small success of healing back the vines together, but mana from me wasn't that much to hold it for a mere five seconds.
During that week I went to Ponyville whenever I had a chance of free time from my training and studying, the people at Ponyville didn't pay that much attention to me like the first day I went with Zecora. I had hung out with Lyra when I was in Ponyville on the third day of the week, she was an interesting pony to hang out with along with her marefriend Bon Bon. At the first time, she introduced us to both Bon Bon and me didn't talk much when we were near each other, but now we talk a bit more often at this point. Lyra talked more about herself along with Bon Bon about their past and how they met, I only talked only a little about me, but kept some personal and unexplainable parts out.
Right now my training for today is over and my time of studying was over as well, I had nothing to do for now. The time was probably two o'clock in the afternoon of today's time and it was cool, not too hot nor too cold it was somewhere between them around seventy degrees. I would be strolling around the Everfree to see new plants, animals, and new places to relax at, but it's a cool day and there weren't any cluster of clouds looking to rain only single amount ones were floating around.
Meditation is a helpful way to clear your mind from disturbing thoughts and to help plan carefully, no wonder why Zecora meditates most of the time. I opened my eyes to see my familiar surroundings around the pond, this became a routine for my wake up clean myself, train with Zecora, study magic, visit Lyra and meditate. I got up to my feet and walked off the watery surface to my cloak, gloves, earphones, and phone. Once I put on my glove and cloak I headed out to Zecora to see what she was doing at this very moment, she and I were close to being best friends like Zeal and me.
The trip to Zecora's home wasn't that long only took a minute to arrive at her place, I no longer had trouble making my way through the vines. The candles inside lit the tree inside and out through the windows showing that Zecora was inside probably making a potion for someone or meditating on a bamboo. I entered inside and looked around the place to see Zecora stirring a seventeen inches long wooden spoon in the cauldron, she poured in a purple liquid from a small wooden bowl in the green water cauldron.
"What brew are you creating Zecora?" I asked and shut the door, Zecora looked up at me with a smile as she kept stirring.
"The brew is for a certain pony who chew a puffer, she needs this brew to heal her puffy eyes; though I need seeds of one." Zecora had answered and pointed at a shelf full of various plant seeds." Would you be kind enough to find me those seeds, they are purple with a pink tip." I walked over to the shelf and looked through it for that seed she mentioned, once I found it I gave it to Zecora who tossed five in the cauldron. She stirred the green water in the cauldron that started to turn pink then into a brighter one. The potion was ready to be used for its purposes but other than that I have to deliver it to this unfortunate pony who had this puffy eyes.
"So who is this lucky pony that needs this?"
"She is Twilight Sparkle, a lavender pony that lives a tree full of books in Ponyville," Zecora said as she pours a couple spoon full in clay bottle after she filled the bottle she puts a cork in it and laid it in a satchel, and no it's not a purse. I grabbed the satchel from the table and waved my farewell to Zecora before leaving the tree to Ponyville.
I arrived at Twilight's tree to drop off the potion that Zecora made, the place was like Zecora's, but bigger and wider. Ponies around me walked around doing their own business, Lyra and Bon Bon were having their late lunch at a table with an umbrella giving them shade. They waved at my direction I waved back and knocked on the door. The door opened revealing a purple dragon with green underbelly and spikes. He was wearing a purple jacket with black pants nothing else more.
"May I help you?" He asked still holding the door with his left hand or claw.
"I'm here to drop off a remedy from Zecora about Miss Sparkles puffy eyes," I said and opened my satchel and pulled out the same clay bottle. He looked at me with surprise then snapped back into reality, he took the bottle from my right hand and thanked me before closing the door. I don't get paid for this because I won't use it for anything... Wait I needed to buy furniture nevermind I do need money. Since I'm in Ponyville I can just find a quick job and get hired, but I don't really know where to find the right place to work at.
'I might have Lyra and Bonny tell me, " I thought to myself of them knowing a place that I could work at. I walked back towards where I last saw Lyra and Bon Bon at, they may know who could hire me for work. A job that can pay me some amount of money to buy furniture for my future home, but I don't know how much a single chair cost. Luckily for me, Lyra and Bon Bon were still at the table, but no food in front of them this time. They both notice me walking towards them, both them waved at me and gestured me to sit on an unoccupied chair. I sat down on the chair and rested my arms on the table, sometimes I do this and other times I don't.
"So what are you two ladies talking about?" I asked and looked at both of them. Lyra and Bon Bon both looked each other then at me with curious eyes.
"Well Bon Bon and I had been wonder have you ever been paid for the work you do?" Lyra asked, I now know what they were talking about when I passed by.
"No, I don't."
"Oh, then we may know somepony that would love to have a help from a stallion such as yourself," Bon Bon said Lyra nodded in agreement showing that she is telling the truth. This was unexpected on hearing that someone is hiring people for this job, I took my arms off the table and crossed them then started to think. The job could be easily taught and easy pay, but there is a chance that it would be a time thing on learning what to do. Once my thoughts were done I looked up at both the girls, I smiled and nodded my head in agreement.
"Okay, Bonny show me where this mare is so I could get hired," I said wanting to see why this pony is hiring someone for a job. Bon Bon rolled her eyes from the nickname and got up from her seat along with Lyra then me, we're sometimes an unusual bunch when we talk and stroll around Ponyville. Bon Bon and Lyra guided me through the town a ranch with apple trees littered everywhere in its acre, there was an orange mare with blond hair and tail wearing a cowboy hat, red and white pattern flannel shirt that's unbuttoned, a white t-shirt underneath the flannel, and a short Wrangler jeans. She was standing behind a stand with a sign above saying "Hiring hard labor worker." The orange mare looked at our direction and waved at us, both Bon Bon and Lyra waved back as we drew close to the mare.
"Howdy Lyra, Bon Bon what brought ya here?" The mare asked in a western accent, she leaned on the flat part of the stand then looked at me. I was glad I hadn't shown my actual face to anyone in town, it has its ups and downs.
"Our friend here needed a job, so we thought you would hire him," Lyra said as gestured a hand towards me, the orange mare looked at me with a raised eyebrow, she stopped leaning on the stand and walked over to me then looked around me observing my body. After the quick observation from the mare she nodded slightly, she looked up at me with a smile.
"Ah think I can hire you, but first ya have to beat me in arm wrestling," The mare said as she walked back to her stand and rested her right arm elbow on the wooden surface with her hand up. I walked over to the stand opposite side of the mare and rested my right arm elbow on the wood and grasped her hand, we both tighten our grip ready to start." Now!"
I was taken by surprise on how strong this mare was, she nearly sent me flying off the stand if I didn't put my own strength on pulling my hand up an against her pushing I would have lost. My hand started inching away from the wood and went back to the original place from the start of this match, we both struggled for another minute before I started losing my strength. The mare started pushing my hand down near the wood and then slammed my hand against the surface of the wood, I was leaning to my right from the defeat and force from this mare.
"Well, I guess I won't be getting a job here. Good game though," I said a bit sad that I lost and didn't get the job for money, I straighten myself up and rubbed my right arm with my left hand.
"Don't jump ahead sugercube," The mare said causing me to looked at her confuse." Ya may have lost the arm wrestle, but ya did okay and played a good sport too. Ya job starts at eight in the morning to four in the afternoon." Both Bon Bon and Lyra cheered for my success on getting a job and sandwiched mine in a hug, Lyra on my left as Bon Bon on my right. I was confused on why they hugged me, but I shrugged it off. If I knew having more friends would help I would have made some more, but again I'm not sure on how they'll react.
Another week had passed after I started to work for Applejack at Sweet Apple Acres, the job I was doing at that place was help carrying wooden buckets full of apples to a cart or to the barn, it wasn't hard to carry multiple buckets around the farm and help pull the cart around. Applejack's big brother wasn't a problem to work with on pushing the cart, fixing fences, and carrying buckets full of apples, we rarely talk whenever we are doing work or when we're on lunch break. When I first arrived at work with my cloak and hoodie on with no swords Applejack suggested me to take off my cloak so I could work without trouble, but I declined and worked with my cloak on for this entire week. I had talked to Zecora that I had a job at Sweet Apple Acres and that we could change when our training would start at four in the afternoon, she agreed on this decision of time change, but on one condition that we would train a bit more than usual.
My studying on heaven's book of a spell was going at a successful rate on using spells, but I had to read the book at break time at work and study where no one could see me. I can now use healing hands for a full five minutes before using up all my mana, but when I looked at the index to find another spell I found out that healing hands was an apprentice class type of spell. So it gave me a big boost of helping me hold and gather more mana than a novice studying would do, the next spell was lightning type magic called Sparks, it was a novice spell and might help me learn a different type of elemental kinesis. Healing hands would come in handy if anyone that is hurt I could just heal them.
Applejack's friends came one of the days in this week while I was working in the fields with big Mac on carrying an apple carton around the field to the barn. Four out of the five friends of Applejack gave me curious looks, but the white one gave me a disguised look. Twilight out of the five caught me studying my magic, but luckily I didn't do any spells while I was reading, she was a lavender unicorn with dark indigo hair and tail with a pink and purple strand of hair wearing a white short sleeve work shirt and black jean pants. She kept questioning me about the book I was reading about, I just told her it was a book about plants for studying, she bought the lie and left me alone. Pinkie Pie a pink earth pony, like Applejack, she was a weird one out of all of them, she was mysterious on how she disappears or how she bounces like a rubber ball. She wears a blue T-shirt with a pink heart in the middle and pink shorts that go down to her knees, her hair and tail color were pink and nothing more. The pink mare tried to make me her friend quick when she first saw me, but it she didn't successes until on the fifth day of last week.
I'm gonna stop right now before I regret something from my poor choice of what they did last week. My training with Zecora was going well in a success rate after I managed to balance a bamboo with Zecora on top while meditating, I felt calmer at my own decision I made after the training from Zecora. Now our training came to hand to hand combat of her own tribal fighting style, to say the truth I didn't manage to deal a single blow on Zecora nor get a hold of her, she just kept dodging each time I tried to hit her until she took me down with ease.
Zeal was able to finish constructing inside of a mountain nearby Zecora's home, but still a great distance away from her tree. He said he finished the main part of an ordinary inside of a house two bedrooms, a kitchen, bathroom, and a living room, but I bet he's going to build more rooms to make it like a mansion inside a rocky mountain. Now with home build and hand to hand training going, all I have to do is earn enough bits to buy furniture. Yes, bits it's the name of money in Equestria.
Work is hard when you're in a cloak meant for cold temperature and protection from flames, but people can manage through difficult ways. Big Mac and I were on our lunch break after Applejack went with her friends about helping Twilight reshuffle her library, we didn't complain a single bit as our break continued.
"Hey Big Mac, how long still we're done hauling the apples?" I asked still reading my book and learning the spell sparks, yes I know I'm still on a novice spell, my eyes drifted off my book to the red stallion by my side. Big Mac pointed at the field of apple trees with buckets full of apples." Just that one row what about the others?" I looked at the other fields of apple trees around the barn to see none of them had buckets underneath of them nor apples in the tree." Never mind."
Our break ended with me keeping my book in my cloak and tied up in the rope around my waist, why I did this was because of Twilight wanting my book so much, she was very intrigued in the book of what's it about. One time she tried to search for it where I usually left it only to be displeased that she didn't find the book and curious on why I keep the book, there is one reason why and that reason is it's Heaven's book of angels spells she can't learn anything from it and it would bring suspicious to me. Work didn't last that long after two hours of hauling buckets full of apples and loading them into the cart and pulling it back to the barn wasn't that hard to do. After work was done I got paid with ten bits of my hard work, to be honest, it wasn't that much, but with the other bits I had saved I would be able to buy five or ten furniture for the home. I was an hour earlier after my job was done today and now I could spend it either on buying some furniture or hang out with Bon Bon and Lyra, it was one of a choice pick, but with Bon Bon's and Lyra's help on picking out which bed to buy is best they would know.
I made my decision of what I was gonna do for my hour and it was to find the two girls and asked for help on buying and probably hang out a bit. The girls should be around a restaurant or Sugercube Corner to have something to eat, it's usually where I find them after my work is over and when I walk back to Zecora's home. I strolled through Ponyville to Sugarcube Corner not that many people were walking around Ponyville due to some special event, but there are a few around the town. My walk was cut short by a minted mare that jumped up onto my back and nearly caused me to lose my balance, but I managed to regain my footing and wrapped my arms around my passenger's legs. This sometimes happens when Lyra sees a chance to get a piggy back ride, I don't really mind because I think it's a friend thing even Bon Bon does it sometimes.
"High ho Heartless!" Lyra commanded giggling at this act, I let out a small chuckle as well and hoisted her up for a bit comfortable way. Lyra may weigh a bit, but it wasn't a problem to carry her even though she always leans forward to rest her C cup breast on the back of my head. I am glad that I was heartless to feel any sort of emotions, like love, or I would have been blushing right now.
"Aye Captain Lyra," I said and began to walk to the nearest destination which is Sugarcube Corner." Hey, Lyra do you know a shop that sells furniture like a bed?" I asked her and glanced up at her, she was looking at the sky probably thinking of a shop. A snap of her fingers told me she knew a place that does sell furniture.
"There is a place, it's by Quills and Sofas," Lyra pointed forward at quills and sofas, there was a shop near that useless shop. I pick up my pace into a jog with Lyra still laying on me, the small pick up speed shorten my time of arriving at Beds and Notebooks? People really don't want a store that sells different types of furniture in one store so they just probably agree on owning a shop that sells one type of furniture and another type of random items. I stopped in front of the shop door and knelt down on one knee, Lyra got off the ride and stood up to her full height, It sad to say for Lyra height is five feet six inches tall as mine is seven feet nine inches.
"Thank you, Lyra, after I'm done here wanna grab something to eat at Sugarcube Corner?" I asked and stood back up to my feet and looked at her. Lyra nodded with a smile and grabbed my right hand with her left and dragged me in the shop. It didn't last longer than seven minutes for me to buy two beds, both of the beds were small double size, it was the only thing I could afford for eighty bits both beds cost thirty bits. After buying the beds I told the owner I'll pick them up at three forty-five, he said no later than that so it was a win-win on my side. Lyra and I had already arrived at Sugarcube Corner and order our own desert, mine a rose frosting cupcake, the frosting is vanilla just color changed with food coloring, Lyra's was a cupcake with vanilla frosting and smashed chocolate cookie crumbs in it. Pinkie Pie wasn't working today because she was helping Twilight reshuffle her library along with Applejack, I'm starting to think Twilight and the rest of her friends are helping her reshuffle the library.
Lyra and I had talked a bit during eating our treats, it really sad to hear that a few people accept Lyra as the rest just find her insane because of her thinking of humans how we're advanced in our own ways, I wish that I could pull down my hoodie in front of her to prove she isn't wrong, but I still don't want anyone else to know about Zeal's and mine existence in this world. The only thing I could do was believe what she says and cheer her up, it is the only thing I could do for now. When the time hit three forty-one Lyra and I said our goodbyes and went our separate ways.
I couldn't help on a troublesome thought on how I can get the bed to home since it's in the Everfree forest full of dangerous creatures that might rip the bed apart. There were two ways I can get the beds to home, one is turning into my demon form and carry one at a time to home, and two I get a wagon that could fly along in the sky with me. Being deep in thought that I didn't see a mare walking in my way, we both bumped into each other the mare fell on her rear while I was knocked out of thought because of the bump.
"Sorry I was in deep thought that I didn't see you," I apologized to the mare I knocked down and helped her up to her hooves. The mare I knocked down wore a purple muscle shirt, and blue shorts, she had headphones hanging on the back of her neck. Her hair and tail were two types of electric blue, one is darker and the other is lighter, they were the hair color of the mare.
"Na, it's okay man I should be the one apologizing," The mare said as she looks at me with her bright red eyes, I couldn't help to find them interesting to look at. The mare placed her left hand on top of her head and started to look sad." You think of me as a freak because of my eyes?"
"No, I just find them interesting to look at," I said still looking this mare's eyes, the mare's cheeks turned crimson and looked away, I snapped myself out of a trance and looked down to see purple lens shades on the down. I picked up the shades and gave it to the white mare in front of me." Again sorry, here's your shades miss?"
"Vinyl Scratch, but everypony calls me Pon-3," Vinyl said and grabbed the shades from my hand and puts them on.
"It's nice to meet you Vinyl, I'm Heartless," I said then remembered that I was in a hurry to get the two beds." Sorry if I sound rude, but this conversation is going to be cut short because I'm in a hurry so I'll see you tomorrow." I ran around Vinyl to Beds and Notebooks, the owner of the place had the two beds in a wagon by the shop. He saw me running towards him and gestured towards the wagon before going back inside his shop, not really wondering why he loaded a wagon with the beds I bought. The people around here are like horses that needed harnesses to pull a wagon or cart, the harnesses are straps that go around the waist and chest. Working for Applejack has its perks for carrying and pulling heavy weight along the farm and around the area, I still can't beat her in arm wrestling, but sooner or later I will.
POV Vinyl
After Heartless left me to Beds and Notebooks I looked back at the stallion to see him pulling a wagon with two beds in it, the beds made me wonder why he had them, but it wasn't my concerns. I took a single hoof step forward to feel something underneath my right hoof, I moved my hoof to the right and glanced down to what I stepped on. The thing that I stepped on was a black rectangular thing with four red tips and four side one it wasn't anything I have seen before in my life, I looked back to see if Heartless was still at Beds and Notebooks pulling the wagon, but he was gone. I looked at the black rectangular thing and picked it up with my left and looked at it better, the front of it was black tinted glass with word on top of it saying "SAMSUNG" weird name for something. The black tinted glass flashed into a picture of a weird creature with wings in the darkness, the rest was hard to tell because only the wings stuck out nothing else.
"Heartless what in Celestia's name is this?" I asked to myself wondering why he has this and what it is.
Author's Note
Hello sorry to say this everyone, but this story is going to take long because of school. Don't worry I won't give up on it just it's going to be a slow progress.
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This is not a nightmare it's my dream (edited)
"Justin, what is this?" Zeal questioned as he looks at entrance of the house seeing the two beds behind me near the hole of the gravity lift, the reason why he asked me this question because how late I was. Ten o'clock near nighttime, I had to finish training with Zecora at four then at nine I had to carry one bed at a time to the mountain where Zeal and I live and find the entrance of the place. Turns out Zeal built this gravity lift in a cave that lifts you up to the actual house entrance to home, basically the gravity lift is like an elevator except it's a reverse gravity. It was a decent add on to avoid having curious travelers to invade our home and the good part about it is that the gravity lift only lifts up a demon or ones that has a mark of one.
"Well they're beds for us to lay on or fall asleep on," I said and spread my wings before picking one of the beds by its wooden frames and lifted it in the air." The other bed is yours so you can pick or drag it to your room and place it where ever you want it to be." I continued carrying the bed in the air towards my room, the entire entrance room looks like a mansion's entrance with two stairs leading upstairs and three doors one on each side, there's one in the far side of the entrance room, another on the right side, and another one on the left side. Four stone pillars two separate near the stairs and two others near the entrance of this place, I wasn't sure if Zeal was still continuing on building, but from the mansion like inside this mountain says he is. I reached my room, that had my name on the door, and set down the bed before opening the door and carry the bed in. It was a problem to fit the bed through the doorframe, but after a few attempts I managed to get the bed inside the room. My room was like the one in Zeal's cave back in hell two drawers by where the bed is going to be, one closet at the far top right of the corner of the room facing the door, one nightstand again where the bed is going to be, and a glowing white crystal above on the ceiling in the center of the room.
After a few minutes of setting my bed in my room I laid down on it and started to unbutton my cloak then tossed it in a corner, the cloak would just keep me up because of its material, but it's one of the only clothing I have. The crystal in the ceiling dimmed its white light and started to change to a dim glowing blue light, the change of light made me sleepy even more as the scenery of the room light creating an illusion that the moon soft blue glow was lighting the entire room. My vision turned dark now after closing me eyes to sleep in my bed and in my own room for the night.
Dream
I stared at a painting of an old man with his picture melting off its portrait, my dreams usually are random every time i fall asleep, but most of my dreams I create like a horror maze, an island filled with flowers in nighttime, and ways to give me a scare. A loud roar of lighting flashed outside and illuminated the halls through the window before returning back into darkness with only candles lighting the halls. The picture of the old man turned crimson red before falling off its portrait, it didn't scare me, but it made me paranoid of what caused it. I looked to my right to see a hallway with light candles only lighting up the halls a little, another look at the opposite direction it was the same, sometimes they flicker from an unknown reason. I looked back at the right hall and walked to the right. Each step I took made a creaking sound from the wooden floor as I continued looking around to see if there were any monsters chasing after me.
"I just need to find the door to my escape, but with five other reverse doors makes it challenging to find the correct door," I spoke to myself as I came to a three way hall with the same texture and closets, tables, and windows. This usually made me flip a coin to see which hall I take, but an howling screech made that all change and forced me to continue straight in a run. A roar of lighting flashed through the window as every candle flames blew out causing the darkness to consume everything in shadows, with the lights out I reached into my pocket and pulled out a torch (flashlight) and turned it on. The beam of light banished any shadows in its way and showed the floor of the hallway, I began to walk again with the only light source in my left hand.
After spending half an hour of walking around the halls I found a door that could lead to my escape, but can also bring me back where I started at. I pulled out a charcoal and mark the door to know that I went through this door. After I marked the door with the charcoal I putted it back in my pants and opened the door, there was nothing on the other side of the door, but ignoring the the dark abyss I entered in. The ground underneath me disappeared and reappeared with the same hallway where I started from.
"Fuck!" The door I entered was one of the five that teleported me back at the beginning where I had started this dream. It wasn't a lost though since I did marked the door with a charcoal before I entered in, but now I have to find another door. Another screeching howl filled the atmosphere then groans came around the corner of the hallway I was in. I searched quickly for a closet or a something to use as a hiding place, the groans grew louder around the corner as three tip crimson claws slowly grabbed the corner, I found a closet and entered in only having a small opening to peek through and turned off my torch. The groans started to get closer to the closet, I was in, until it was stopped with another screeching howl.
'Don't make a sound! ' I ordered myself as the creature making those groans walked by giving me a perfect look on what it looks like, its skin was pale as white with a few blood splatter on its bend back and head, stitches went up its stomach to the head then down the back, its mouth was forced apart with fishhooks connected to strings to its shoulders, its front limbs were like a human arm, but was pale, showing its bones, and only had three claws for fingers, the back limbs were like a back legs of a hellhound, but more human like with pale skin, showing bones, and again three claws though for its toes. The creature looked straight at the closet causing me to freeze up as its eyeless sockets stared at the closet I was in before continuing groaning and patrol the halls.
I opened the closet door widen enough for my body to fit through before shutting it. The creature was nowhere insight as I walked again in the halls and turned on my torch to see where I was going.
POV Luna
The nightmares of foals and ponies alike were gone for the thanks to us of dealing with their fears, our duties were done for the night, but there was an disturbance in a pony dream. We walked trough the aisle of doors until we stopped at a certain unique door. It wasn't like the other subjects door made out of wood, but it was made out of an unknown metal with two pair of wings carved into it, the door handle was the same as the others.
We grasped the knob on the door and twisted the knob to the right only to stop halfway before it could open this door, it was strange to see the door not replying to open like somepony locked it or was holding it behind the door. Another twist to the opposite of the first one the door complied on opening this time, we pulled back to meet a dark hallway with no light. There was something about this dream making it an nightmare, but the scenery wasn't like an ordinary mansion hall, even the storm outside wasn't ordinary.
"What kind of nightmare is this?" We asked ourselves as we used a simple spell to cast an orb of light around us. The orb brought a small amount of light enough to light a good portion of the hall. We looked around to find strange paintings of disfigured creatures on the walls with carved symbols in the wood, this was the first we have ever saw something like this centuries ago. The atmosphere was silent along with creaking wood under our hooves, we took a step further in this nightmare and observed to find what caused this pony to have this in his or her life.
We strolled through the hall for thirty minutes of searching for the pony and thinking about what had caused such a pony to have a horrifying nightmare, no answers had came to us as we continued walking in the hallway. This could be much worst than this in anytime of a pony dreaming. A roar of lighting caused us to jump from the loud sound and quick flash of lightning through the windows, we regretted saying that. Ten minutes after of the lightning incident we found ourselves in an open area full of rows of tables and chairs, we couldn't find the pony that is having this nightmare, but we a spell we might be able to find this pony.
We were about to cast a spell until a screeching howl stopped us from casting the spell, we uncast the orb of light around us and hid behind a corner of the wall to the open area. Our eyes widen as something in the dark started to groan with a sound hoove steps came from the far left of the room, the creature causing these groans stopped as the sound of sicking snaps along with a painful cry. We do not know what the creature was doing in the darkness, but it is not going to be a forgettable memory.
After an minute of staring into the darkness a beam of light shine through the room with the sound of hoove steps. Our eyes adjusted to the light to see a figure behind the beam of light walking in the room where the creature was in, we could have ran out to warn this pony, but when our eyes adjusted fully into the dark room we could not believe what we see.
"Weird? I could have sworn that I felt something entered my dream," The pony that said this was a male because of his voice. The stallion walked further in the room swinging the beam of like to where he was looking at before he looked the opposite direction. We couldn't move our body to have a better look at the stallion because of what the beam of light had revealed in the darkness was that the creature that made those groans was up hanging on the ceiling. We could had yelled the stallion to run away or to look up at the ceiling to see this creature, but we couldn't we were scared of what it was and what harm it can do.
The stallion walked underneath the creature shining the beam of light to every direction around until the creature above it started to drool, its drool caught the stallion attention to look right, but when the creature drooled again the stallion looked up at it. We couldn't tell if his eyes widened on seeing such monstrosity above him, but the most horror happened. The creature body split apart showing multiple of huge teeth that starts from the head small to the body huge, it snapped its body of teeth on the stallion upper body with a sickening crunch. The stallion scream in pain as his legs kicked everywhere until it stopped moving not even a since twitch. To our horror we covered our mouth to prevent ourselves from throwing up our stomach from this gruesome death, we watched as blood flowed down the legs of the stallion and dripped onto the wooden floor creating a puddle of crimson. The creature opened up his body of teeth, causing the stallion to fall to his feet, and closed back up to what it looked like before it even split its body.
"God damn it, I lost again!" The stallion yelled at himself as everything broke apart the reformed into an outside environment with flowers everywhere and two big ones in the center. To our surprise the stallion wasn't an actual one, but a creature with brown patch of fur on its head, small brown eyes, tan skin, white T-shirt, black pants, and weird hoove wear. There were blood stain in his shirt, where he had the teeth of the other creature had bit him. He let out a sigh and looked at our direction like he knew we were here the whole time, but unfortunate for us when the entire place changed there was no place to hide behind.
"You don't have to be afraid of what you saw, but if you are then I am sorry for what had happened," The male creature's was calm and caring like Tia, but was more of a father. He took a step forwards towards us then another until we were face to face to each other. It was surprising to see he was taller than us almost as tall as a minotaur. We couldn't say a word on seeing a creature bigger than us with few muscles and no magic, but the eyes of his made us reconsider of our thoughts.
"What is thou creature?" We asked him concerned about his race.
"My kind is human, but I'm also a demon," we were taken back on what is he is." But do not fear I am not here to harm anyone. Just here to have a new home," The human bowed with an innocent smile, he grasped our right hand with his and kissed the back of it. We couldn't help, but to blush from his action." My name is Justin or Heartless."
"Luna the princess of the night," Heartless' eyes widen, but soon close as he started to laugh to himself." What does thou think is funny?"
"Sorry wasn't expecting a princess to visit my dream of my horror maze, I would have kept my dream like this around us," He gestured to the entire island full of flowers." But some things are sometimes not expected."
"Why does thou have nightmares, but is not fazed by them?"
POV Heartless
Luna and I had some talk about my dream and the reason why I dream of them, most were for the fun while others were for the experience of being chased by a monster or demon like creature. We talked for three full hours in my dream on the island watching the stars shine or dim. I already saw this mare before she even went inside my dream, her clothes were dead giveaway because she wore them at the first day I arrived at Equestria, Canterlot Castle.
After our talk we went through different places inside my dreams from playing with humans of death run to the haunted house of scares, we played for an hour and now I am about to get killed.
"Thou has two minutes and thirty seconds before the blizzard hits!" Luna informed me as her left-hand hovers over the button to a trap in front of me while the other holds a scythe. The trap she was going to activate was a two-inch deep water with unactivated electric wires connected to it.
"You think you can kill me think again!" I leaped into the water and jumped back onto land doing my best to trick Luna on activating the trap, but she was not faze by my trick only giving me a death glare. Time was against on this and tricking Luna on activating it or having luck on surviving would help waste less time. We both stared at each other for one of us to give, but while we were staring I jumped in the middle of the water and was about to jump out only to die in the process by electricity.
"Ah ha! We have finally got thou Heartless! Death wins," Luna cheered as she swirled the scythe staff part in between her fingers. I got up from the ground to my feet and walked towards the cheering Luna, she acts like a kid sometime when she wins, the glass wall she was behind opened up like a close door giving me access to the death trap buttons. Luna was still cheering and didn't notice me in the same place as hers giving me a brilliant plan.
I snuck up on Luna from behind and wrapped my right arm around her waist and slipped my left hand in between an opening in her death robes and start brush the tip of my fingers on her stomach. At first Luna gasped from the touch, but soon fell into laughter as each time I bushed the tip of my finger on her skin or coat. The entire background and the ground itself changed into the peaceful flower island as I continued tinkling Luna until she begs.
"Does the Princess of the Night gives up or does she wish to be tinkled more?" I asked and stopped tickling Luna to give her a break, she panted heavily as she calmed herself down.
"We yield," Luna surrendered with her breathing bad to normal. I placed her down on her hooves and removed my hand and arm from her body and backed away, she turned around and tackled me to the flowers. We both rolled around in the flowers trying to get on top of one another for dominance, I came victorious on dominance of our little fight and pin both her arms down. I stared into Luna's eyes to see her glaring daggers at me before we both laughed.
"We should do this some time again Luna," I said and sat straight up, I notice Luna was blushing madly from the way I was sitting on top of her. A quick look down I noticed why she was blushing, I got off of Luna and offered her a hand." We shouldn't mention this to a single being ever."
Luna nodded agreeing with me and accepted my offer, when she grasped her left hand on mine I pulled her up to her feet and walked away. The dream started to brighten up meaning that it was time to wake up and go to Sweet Apple Acres.
"See ya next time Luna!"
Real world
I opened my eyes to see the crystal glowing bright white like last time. The bed sheets were tossed off to the ground with my cloak, there no explanations for how the sheets were on the floor, but I ignored it. Day was now the time and that my job was going to start in a few minutes. I got out of bed and put on my cloak and headed out to Sweet Apple Acres.
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Save a dragon to get a ticket to the Gala (edited)
Some moments are meant to be a secret while other can be allowed to be known for those needed to know. Luna and Zecora are the only ones that knows about my existence in this world, they may not know what the human being is like at Earth, but some things aren't meant to be known. Zeal doesn't know about Luna visiting my dreams last night of our encounter, but he'll know about it sooner or later only time will tell. Zecora might learn about it also, but it'll probably be in training.
Home was still being constructed for more rooms to be like an actual mansion, but Zeal would try to build a basement chamber for a forge along with an armory. That reminds me he might have to construct a guest room or a gym full of training dummies, some weights, and fighting ring. There may be a way for him to build more weapons to replace both steel longswords I stolen from Canterlot's armory, I might try and buy a pickaxe to mine some ores.
Work at the farm was going well for Applejack and I though sad to say that her big brother wasn't around to help us on the fields since he was delivering some apple pie to a town two hours away from Ponyville. Applejack was in charge to "buck" the apples out of the trees into the buckets, I was in charge of pulling the cart and loading the buckets full of apples onboard. It was only us and nobody else around working.
"Heartless, it's time to take a break for now, we'll finish this after break," Applejack said and bucked the last tree for this hour, the apples fell from the tree into the buckets filling them all up. I walked over to one of the buckets and lifted one up and loaded it into the cart along with the other apples, Applejack loaded the other in the cart and waited for me to put on the straps and head to the barn.
The walk back to the barn didn't take long, Applejack and I unloaded all the buckets of apples into the barn and sat down on a hay bale. We sat in silence as we ate an apple for lunch break. After eating the apples we threw them in a bucket of no good apples for the pigs. I notice Applejack was rubbing her to thighs with her hands, but a small sign of pain in her face expression shows that she's hurting herself.
"Here let me help," I placed my right hand on Applejack's left thigh and began massage her thigh, her expression change from pain to relief as I continued massaging her thigh. Her thigh muscles were tense at first touch, but now it wasn't anymore. Hearing Applejack moan from the massage I stopped and place my same hand on her left thigh and began massaging her tense muscles. Applejack learned herself against my back and moans a bit more from the massage.
"When did ya learn how to do this?" Applejack asked as she moans more and leans more onto me. I didn't answer her question and kept massaging her thigh until the sounds of clucking chickens outside the barn made us get up and run outside." What in tarnation is going on out here!"
We ran towards the chicken coop to see what's causing the chicken to cluck like wild, but when we got there one of the confusing sight of a certain purple dragon chasing a chicken. Both Applejack and I looked at each other confused on why Spike was chasing a chicken, but a loud crash made us look at Spike to see that the chicken coop wall was knocked down. Why was Spike chasing a chicken was unknown to us, but we have to put back that wall he knocked down.
"Gotcha!" Spike cheered in victory for a fucking feather!
"Spike, what in tarnation are ya-" Before Applejack could scold him, Spike ran away with the chicken feather in his right claw towards Ponyville. I shook my head in disbelief of what he came for, but I looked back at the chicken coop with a fallen wall. If we fix this after our break the time of getting off would be a few minutes more, but if I fix it on break time it wouldn't add anymore unnecessary minutes. Applejack needs the break because of her sore legs from bucking so much trees so I'll let her have some relaxation time.
"Applejack, enjoy your break while I fix the chicken coop," I said and walked towards the chicken coop, there was no need for tools since the the as an outline of where the wall can go and stay in its place. I felt a hand on my right shoulder and looked at my right, Applejack doesn't look pleased at my decision.
"No sugercubes, I can't allow ya to work during break," Applejack disagreed with my choice and walks along with me to the chicken coop, she was by the fallen wall as I was below the roof ready to push it up." Alright Heartless lift." I did what Applejack told me and lifted up the roof enough to allow her to lift the fallen wall in its last place before it fell off.
After fixing the roof we headed back inside the barn to continue our lunch break, but not without Applejack asking me to continue giving her a massage. Something tells me that she'll be asking me to do this whenever she feels sores from work.
Five hours had passed during working at Sweet Apple Arces, Applejack had to go see Twilight about her new pet after bucking all the trees in the buckets. When she left Big Mac and I finish work and I got paid the same amount of bits, my currency of money now was thirty bits. I may be able to buy a sofa at Quills and Sofas, but that won't happen because of training with Zecora this afternoon. Things can go in a good direction on my life in Equestria, but I'm not sure if I can do that or even travel around.
Training with Zecora has its ups and downs when you're either dodging or attacking while having a conversation when the person you're training with or practicing with. This moment with Zecora and I throwing punches at each other is one of them.
"Zecora, is there a mine or a cave with ores that I could mine?" I asked and blocked one of Zecora's attack with my right arm and threw a punch at her with my left. Zecora blocked my attack and looked at me confuse.
"Not that I know of, but maybe those pony folks may know the answer that you seek," Zecora said, we both withdrew our arms and kicked at each other at the same time causing our legs to block one another.
"Maybe they do, maybe they don't," I stomped my foot down and used my other leg to kick at Zecora's side. She blocked my kick with her arms and pushed it back, I staggered back and charged at her throwing punches." But I highly doubt they know a mine in the forest."
"Then why not take a break, so that way you may speak your other friends."
"I could use a break since I'm able to lay a hit on you, but you can still kick my ass. Also you should take one too so that they can meet you."
We both collided our fist in one hit and stared in each others, there was a moment of silence between us, but silence was broken by Zecora's laugh.
"You my be right Justin, I may need a time to relax, but do not forget that it was your idea," Zecora and I lowered our arms, but when Zecora uncurled her fist she hiss in pain. Seeing her in pain I walked over to Zecora and gentle grabbed the wrist of her broken hand with my left and began healing it with my right, but when I started healing her she hiss in pain. I stopped what I was doing and began to think what will ease the pain.
Zecora looked at me confuse of what I was thinking, but that all changed when I smashed my lips on hers and began healing her hand. Zecora was surprised by the sudden kiss, but soon sunk into it and grabbed the back of my head pulling me closer. This moment could have lasted forever for Zecora since she was enjoying the kiss, but her hand was fully healed. I pull back and looked at Zecora with a smile, her cheeks were crimson with a bit of saliva on her lips.
"I'll see you tomorrow then Zecora," I said and walked away to the vines, but stopped before heading home." You can ask me on a date if you want to." With that I left to home for food and study, Zeal doesn't cook because demons don't usually eat human like food, they eat either weird stuff like gore apples, behemoth meat, and other gross food. So this made me cook for myself than eating raw meat of different demon animals, I can only cook the basic not the fancy stuff.
Once out of the training area and in a clearing I spread my wings and took to the sky for a quick journey home. The fly home didn't take that long to arrive only a few minutes. I flew in the cave and landed inside it, the use of wings won't be necessary inside a cave unless it has enough room or something that tries to kill me. Arriving at the gravity lift I stood at the center of it and looked down, the gravity lift was just a blue circle with a bunch of small ones in it spin around inside the big one. The force of the grav lift carried me up to the entrance of home and ledge.
I walked on the ledge to the entrance of my home and went inside to the kitchen, everything was different by small changes nearly everything are actual like materials from a real mansion. The floor was no longer a stone floor it changed into marble floor, pillars were made from wood, there were more decorations and furniture, and now we have wooden doors. Zeal must have been busy on redesigning the entire entrance that he might have went ahead and turned this place into an inside mountain mansion, but I doubt it took him a day to build more rooms. I entered the kitchen to see that there was a fridge, an island table in the middle with four chairs, spice rack, cabinets, a sink, stone baking oven, stone stove, and a window in front of the sink?
"I thought he doesn't want to build an actual kitchen, what changed his mind?" I wondered as the past of hearing Zeal arguing about that the kitchen was useless in Hell, but this isn't Hell this is Equis. Now thinking about it did we even have any food in the house or in the fridge? I walked up to the fridge and opened the door only to see some meat, veggies, and apples. Zeal probably does have some explaining to do.
After my dinner I walked outside to Ponyville with Heaven's book in my hand, I was ready something different than sparks since reading it for a week I was ready to test it on my walk. I didn't use my wings to arrive at Ponyville since what's the point on reading and flying you'll just waste some precious time on studying.
The spell sparks was ready to be use since the book tells you to converse mana into an electric energy inside your body and focus it on the palm of your hand so that the extra energy inside wouldn't kill you. The form of the lightning spell sparks was a blue orb with white lightning shooting out of it, damaging any magic user mana and body function. It can be use to make fire, power electronics, and rare chance of using its user's energy themselves. Using the spell sparks in the forest won't cause a problem like fire, but it does leave burnt marks on them.
The thing I used as target practice on my way to Ponyville was a zap flower, they do need electricity to survive on. The results of the spell was an success on managing to use another dark spell and element than fire, but it was a novice spell that doesn't do that much lethal damage to an enemy. The spell may be useless, but it does do damage and has its advantages against anything that's wet.
My walk to Ponyville will take me an hour giving me enough time to study another spell called Candlelight, a harmless spell that helps its caster by illuminating light. The spell can very well be helpful to diving in further in underground water caves, cold frosty nights, and shines brighter than a torch. Candlelight rank is novice making it an easy way of leaning and quick since the instructions was no more that a paragraph.
I would have kept on reading the intructions if it weren't for a twig to cause my trip and face slam in the book. Luckily it wasn't one of those fall that causes broken noses or else the book pages would be soaked in blood. Getting back on my feet I glanced around to see if I misdirected myself to Ponyville, good news I wasn't misleading myself to Ponyville, but bad news was that the moment I got up and checked my pockets, my phone was no longer in my pockets.
"Where's the fuck my phone at!"
POV Vinyl
"I'm telling you Tavi, Heartless is a good stallion and as interest in both classic and wubstep."
"Vinyl, I'm not sure of this stallion and we don't know a single thing about him," Tavi said as she was practicing for the Grand Galloping Gala, she was requested to play for the ponies at the Gala. The Gala wasn't my type of thing because of the music, the nobles, and you have to wear something so stupid like a dress." And I have to practice for the Gala."
I let out a sigh and exited out of Tavi's room and out the house, the music box device that Heartless might have dropped held some wubstep, classic, and others type I don't know about. Heartless's music is weird to say because of the music in his music box, he has to explain what type of music he has and what this device in my hand is call other than the "SAMSUNG." I plugged in my headphone in the device and turned it on and select some wubstep, especially this one! I learned how to turn it on and off, play music, and most importantly knowing that it can be plugged into headphones. It was surprising to know that little device was like a DJ scratch board where you plug in headphones and listen along with the crowd.
The song started to drop its beats as I exited out of the house for a walk and to see if Heartless was around to ask him these questions I have. Ponyville is small probably easy to find a hooded stallion taller than an actual one and maybe stronger than one. I image his face to be scared from an accident or from a service in Celestia's Royal guards.
Ponies and around me were minding their own business as the day was going well for me, but all that changed when I felt somepony arm rested on my left shoulder. I looked at me left to see if this stallion was drunk or stupid for doing this.
"What do you think your doing?" The stallion on my left was Heartless himself staring at me and leaning on my left shoulder. I couldn't find my voice because of his sudden appearance causing me to think he was just a random pony. The headphone on my ears was pulled down slowly not too forceful and not too fast to yank my ears, the music was still playing in my headphone around my neck.
"Whatcha listening to Vinyl?" He asked me and stopped leaning on me standing up straight to his full height. To be honest it kinda intimidates me knowing that he's tall, but with a voice that doesn't sound scary it brings down the fear from him.
"Oh, your wubstep from this device of yours," I answered and pulled out Heartless's device playing some sick wubstep from the headphone. Heartless let out a breath probably a sigh as he started to scratched between my ears, I'm not sure if he knew that scratching a pony between the ears is a love thing, but I couldn't complain as his fingers were scratching near my left ear. Oh it felt so good being pet there though I wish it wasn't a love thing or else I have Heartless scratch there all day long.
"Good thing I made the right choice of searching for you," Heartless said as he continued petting behind my left ear, I felt his device left my grasp causing me to look at him. His hood is the only thing I can't tell his expression and his looks." You don't have ask me questions about this Samsung, it's a device that can hold a bunch of music in it, not known in Equestria, and this is the only one I have."
"Okey, then where are you from?"
"Faraway land," Heartless answered, he stopped scratching the back of my ear and walked away with his Samsung still with my headphone plugged in, but stopped before pulling the headphone off around my neck." Tomorrow I won't have anything to do at four o'clock in the afternoon." After he said that Heartless unplugged my headphone and toss the pulg to me, I caught the plug and looked at him seeing him walk away with his Samsung.
Heartless
After yesterday of answering on what I had guess of Vinyl's questions from last night found, I was glad that she had my phone in her possession than anyone else in Ponyville, except Lyra, Bonnie, Zecora, and Applejack... Well maybe not Applejack. If anyone else had my phone like Twilight Sparkles I would be in a room being interrogated by herself or by someone else. So this was good that they didn't know about my phone and that she didn't have it in her possession.
My dream was pleasant with Luna being a friend and a princess of the night, though she is quite like child whenever she gets scared from a horror dream of mine. We both enjoyed each other company in the dream talking about ourselves of our dreams, favorite food, and thoughts about the ponies in Equestria. It was really sad to hear what Luna had to say of what every living creature in Equestria think of her as a monster, but her sister and the "main six" don't see her as a monster. I told her that I didn't see as one nor feel any demon present inside of her. My reward for saying that to her was a hug and a small mental breakdown of thank you, at first I didn't know what to do, but I did what I thought was best. I had returned the hug to and stoke the her flowing hair with my hand.
When the time of awaking from the dream we said our goodbyes and woke up from the dream. I would say I done my routine of waking up, but I don't really have one since I'm not sure of what to do in the morning, but I do know two things get dressed and eat food. After the routine I went to Zecora's home to see if she's back to her old self before I kissed her. She probably might yell or shout at me like a human girl like Zeal described bitchy, a whore, and greedy. Though I doubt Zecora is that type of a girl, or mare in her case, that is what Zeal describe as one.
I didn't have a problem walking in the forest to Zecora's, no Timberwolves, manticore, and other type of dangerous beast that wants to rip my guts out. The forest seemed to be calm in the morning than in the afternoon when everything is awake, but I'm not really complaining on how they sleep through the day. Sky clear from any clouds and the sun was rising in the sky dedicate it that it's morning and it is time to wake the fuck up.
I arrived at Zecora's home front entrance and knocked on the wooden door of the tree. Sound of movement was heard behind the door along with a familiar rhyming voice behind it. The door opened inward with the same tribal Zebra wearing her sport clothing as her sleepwear, she sometimes wears that clothing whenever she uses it as her pajamas to sleep in. I just notice that her hair was down to her back instead of a Mohawk.
"Who's there up at this hour," Zecora looked straight at me, her cheek started to turn red." O-oh Justin how you do in this early time of the day?" Zecora let out an awkward chuckle as she leans against the door and scratched the back of her head.
"I was here to see how's your hand and to see if you are taking that break today." I answered and looked down at her hand that I had injured yesterday training before we talked about taking a day off. Zecora raised her right hand up to our view and wiggled her fingers showing me that there healed. The spell I used yesterday lived up to its name and showed the results of healing another being.
"The hand you broke is not in pain, but it was is feeling better thanks to you."
"Well you're welcome Zecora, but first you need to get dressed before we head to Ponyville," I said and gestured at Zecora's sleepwear she in. Zecora blushed from my gesture and closed the door to change into her normal clothes and cloak, she only has two sets of clothes to wear, one was her sleepwear and training clothes and the other was the tribal one. How she cleans them I don't really know, but she probably cleans them in her home naked? I'm getting out of thought there. I waited for Zecora to get dress for a minute before she exited out of the house with her cloak and tribal clothes.
We both made our way to Ponyville, but not without Zecora being close to me enough to feel each other body warmth. Twenty three minutes after our walk to Ponyville on our break today. Everything was normal like it was when I first arrived at Ponyville, everybody in town were busy with their own life. Nobody gave us looks as we walk through Ponyville to Sweet Apple Acres for my job. I still have a job the job at that place for money, but I might talk to Applejack if I could take a break today since I've been working with no break from the past four weeks.
POV Twilight
Why is Spike being so jealous of Owlicious for helping around last night, he's still a young dragon that needs six hours of sleep at nights so he doesn't have to be sleepy in the morning. I just wish that Spike knows that what his action is causing was not the one that I know and love when I first hatched him, but I just can't believe that he lied to me that he burnt all the pages.
"Why Spike, why did you lie to me?" I asked myself and looked back at the direction of towards my home.
"Who." Owlicious hooted, I felt his claws moved closer to my arm. His claws weren't that long enough to piece my skin and were long enough to get his prey, but he won't have to hunt for his own food thanks to Fluttershy. We walk through the part of town to a for Owlicious food and a way to calm myself down from my anger of what Spike did.
My walk through Ponyville ended with me at Fluttershy's cottage, I could see her taking care of her animals as she was talking a few about something. I walked over to Fluttershy for a talk and a to get some food for owlicious, but when I drew near around the cottage I saw the same manticore from the day we all recreated nightmare laying down with its front paws over its eyes. It was a strange sight to see a manticore scared of something that intimidated it.
"It's okey, just what happened to you?" I heard Fluttershy asked the manticore and kneeled down on both knees petting the manticore red red. The manticore spoke back with a low roar that caused Fluttershy to gasp with her hands over her mouth, small tear went down her cheek causing me to run over to her. There was something wrong and I need to know what it is.
"Fluttershy!" I called out her name catching her attention along with the manticore, she looked up from her hands to me with puffy eyes from her tears." What happened?"
Zeal
Sticks, stone, iron, steel, and other harden minerals can kill a human, angel, demon, god, and even a titan, the souls from these beings can strengthen the weapon that it's bound to causing an change of form if both souls one weapon wielder and the other in the weapon can do great damage. The soul of Alduin the titan dragon also known as the world destorier or world eater was slain in his mortal dragon body, but when he died his went back to his original body the void of the realm of Skillem and by realm of Soul Cairn. If it weren't for me on ending his life in his weaken state Skillem would still be attacked for another thousand of years, Alduin soul itself is a titan like Krimono, the first dragon to be born as a titan and the maker of dragons. It was sad to hear Krimono was killed by Cronus to prevent anymore of dragon to be created, her soul was destroyed in the process of her demise.
Justin or Heartless soul hasn't bonded with Alduin nor did Alduin even bothered tried to bond with his in the first place hell I haven't even taught him how to bond with a would bound weapon. Yes I never tried to teach him how to connect his soul with another, but the reason why was there is a risk of having your soul being eaten by the other this can rarely be done eleven out of all life in different worlds. There are some that can eat other souls whenever the wielder kills one while others can trap the soul in the weapon its in.
Home is where the heart is what humans say, I wonder if it's true if home is where the heart is even for one with no heart. I carried a stone pillar over my shoulder in this dented female armor making my way down the basement to my forge. The pillar was going to help support the ceiling to prevent it from collapsing down if an earthquake starts shaking the earth underneath our feet and above our heads if that ever happens. Where I'm gonna place this pillar is at the forge near it. The forge was in the center of the room along with a blacksmith forge, a stone box and a water source in a stone barrel by it. I walked around the forge and slammed the bottom part of the pillar in the stone floor and pushed the top to the ceiling.
Done with my handy work I looked at this piece of scrap metal armor my soul is in and saw that it was heavily dented. My gaze went to the forge and back at my dented metal arm then back at the forge soon an idea popped into my head. I pulled out Kendo my sword, bonded with a dark soul from Xu the mad samurai from the abyss, and slammed the tip of the balde in the ground and started draw the Satanic circle with it.
"I shall recreate this armor for a male as myself and be much stronger than steel itself!"
Heartless
"Zecora this is Lyra and Bon Bon, Lyra, Bon Bon this is Zecora," I introduced both my friends to Zecora on a surprising visit from the two girls, how this happened when Zecora and I were eating at Cram Quazec restaurant for our breakfast after I had talked with Applejack. It was truly a day off because Sweet Apple Acres apples weren't ready to be picked meaning I and Big Mac had the day off. Zecora and I didn't have our breakfast this morning so we went to this place to have some.
"Hi, Zecora."
"Hello Zecora." Both Lyra and Bon Bon raised both raised their hands up for a handshake.
"Hello Bon Bon and Lyra, it is good news to now the he has friends," Zecora raised up her hand and shook both of the others before eating her daisy sandwich. This was good news on seeing all three girls getting along even though one was a zebra and was kissed by me.
From this morning to six in the afternoon of talking and messing around, Vinyl joined us in our hangout with some music in her headphone along with all of us joking around. Sad to say that when it was getting late everyone left to go home leaving Zecora and I walking back to her home along with some herbal medicine in a bag. I could say this was a best day that I have ever had during my time in Equestria. Thing can go better for me today, but I doubt it can get better than this or worst... What does this I had a bad day or a good one?
'Wonder what Zeal is doing? ' I looked at the direction of home, but I felt Zecora lean on me snuggling up to me, I think she isn't like the human women like Zeal describe.
Twilight
"Spike! Spike!" I called out Spikes name as I tried to search for him around the Everfree Forest, he was missing since five in the afternoon after I had caught him trying to frame Owlicious for his jealousy and pride. An hour later Spike wasn't around Ponyville caused me to go into a panic as I search the edge of the Everfree Forest, why he leave without telling anypony where he was going! "Spike! Spi-gah!"
I bumped into something that caused me to land on my rear, the thing I had bumped into was stuck in the ground and solid enough to give me a headache.
"Miss Sparkles, why are you out here this late?" A male voice asked along with sound of hoofsteps. I looked up to see Heartless still with his hood up covering his face from anypony that wanted to see what he looks still he is kind and polite. He was standing over me with his hidden eyes under his hood staring into mine, if he wasn't my friend I would fear of what he would have done to me." Hello Miss Sparkles?"
"Huh oh uh... Yes Heartless," I said dumbly as Heartless held out his right hand offering to help me get back on my hooves, I grabbed his hand with my right and felt him pulled me to my hooves.
"Again why are you out this late Miss Sparkles?" He asked again tilting his head to the right a bit.
"I'm out here looking for Spike," I answered quickly looking around to see if there was a clue where Spike as gone.
"Who." Owlicious hooted as he pointed at the dirt below us showing us a ketchup size hoove with three pointed digits.
"I see the owl has found his tracks," Heartless pointed out and followed where they lead." I'm going ahead." With that he ran out following the ketchup on the dirt to where they lead. Soon I ran after him following the ketchup trail, but lost sight of Heartless, he must be faster than Applejack herself.
I ran through the forest following the trail to a cave with loud roars and sound of fighting inside it I was about to enter in the cave all of a sudden Spike ran pass me to Ponyville. There were still sounds of fighting inside the cave, but I couldn't go in because a burst of flames shot out causing me to ran away from the entrance and to catch up with Spike.
We ran through the Everfree with the help of Owlicious guiding us through the dark forest avoiding the fall tree branches and logs on our path to Ponyville. After two minute of running we made it to the edge of the forest to the clear fields around Ponyville. We came to a stop by a tree both of us were panting from the escape of being burn by something in that cave once our breathing was calm I looked at Spike glad to see him okey.
"Spike, we were so worried about you. I was worried about you," I said as I regain my calm breathing." Why did you run away?"
"I thought you don't need me anymore," Spike answered looking at me with a sad expression." And that you didn't love me anymore." He looked down at his feet with tears forming on his eyes. I couldn't help to feel a bit sad that he thought of me not loving him anymore.
"Spike, sure I was disappointed, but you are my number one assistant and my little brother and always will be," This caused Spike to look up at me." And sometimes I need some help at night I can't ask you to stay up late you're still a young dragon and you need your rest. Owls are nocturnal so I asked Owlicious to help, not to take your place. No way I will ever replace you Spike, even when you're a jealous numskull."
I rubbed his scale head with my hand and stopped to see him staring at me, but his eyes widen to something.
"Oh no Heartless is back there distracting the dragon we have to-" Before Spike could even complete his sentence Heartless walks out of the forest covered in crimson on his shoulder, hoodie, an arms.
"Don't worry about me, I'm fine."
POV Heartless
Ten minutes before Finding Spike
I tread lightly in the forest keeping my guard up because of the dangerous creatures that lurks in the Everfree you can never be too careful in this forest. My time with Zecora was well since she is calm when she's around me and now she cuddled against me during our walk the past fifteen minutes before we went our separate ways. The zebra is something when it comes to training since she trained me under three whole weeks.
My gaze fell to the ground to see red like footprints that lead left of my direction further deep in the forest, what ever that was walking around wasn't hurt since the red substance was nowhere near blood related. I followed the footprints further into the forest to see Twilight calling out Spike, but was stopped on her fourth call when she bumped into me and landed on her ass.
"Miss Sparkles, why are you out here this late?" I asked her a question curious as to why she's out here this late. My eyes were on Twilight's as she kept staring at me, I still don't get why some people do that." Hello Miss Sparkles?"
"Huh oh uh... Yes Heartless," Twilight said dumbly, I rolled my eyes and held out my hand to help her up to her hooves. She grabbed my hand with her right I pulled her up to hooves and asked the same question.
"Again why are you here this late Miss Sparkles?" I tilted my head to the right a bit, curiosity can be a killer and can help you know what is going.
"I'm out here looking for Spike," Twilight answered quickly and looked around still continuing for Spike. She probably didn't see the red substance footprint on the dirt.
"Who." I looked up no moving my head to see an owl pointing at the red substance on the ground.
"I see the owl found his tracks," I pointed out and followed the trail to where they lead." I'm going up ahead." My walk turn into a full sprint into the forest still following the trail to where Spike was at. I out ran Twilight to a cave with someone speaking inside with another, but the conversation was more of a threat in it.
I ran into the cave to see Spike looking at a dragon with green scales and yellow spikes and claws, it was bigger than the town hall of Ponyville. There was a major difference on the two Spike was a teen and the big one was a adult, but more draconic like than a anthropomorphic type of one.
"You don't scare me ha!" Spike just dug his own grave if I wasn't here, he spat out a small flame and looked up at the other dragon. It was ready to shoot its fire breath at Spike! I ran over to Spike and used myself to shield the incoming flames before the dragon turns him into ashes. When the dragon spat out its flames the flames went over my cloak like its just a item that can't be burn nor allow the flames to crash into it.
The flames died down allowing me to grip Spike shoulders with both my hands and to yell one word to him.
"Run!" I spun him around and pushed him to the entrance of the cave then summoned Alduin in my right hand while the other held a different element. Turning around, I regretted doing, was met with the dragon tail slammed into me sending me flying near the entrance of the cave, it spat out another flame at me I jumped over a nearby rock and ducked down using it as cover. The flames died down giving me a chance to fight back with a bit of lightning and a greatsword ready to cut through this beast heart.
"I need some music," Yes I said that and be ready to know what I say next." And I'll sing it for you!" I reached in my cloak pocket and turned on my phone and hit random, Sarcasm by Get Scared, the song began to with me singing along with it, true the song is messed up, but I can actually copy that voice like my own. The dragon let out a roar and swung its tail at me, I avoided being hit by jumping over the tail and spikes on it, but not without causing some damaged to it by striking the tail with Alduin. The beast roared in pain and swiped its claws at me, its middle claw stab through my stomach causing me lose some am out of blood. I shot out a sparks of lightning at its claws inside me causing it to got paralyze for a bit, with an opportunity like this I cut off the claw in my stomach and jumped up on its arm and ran up channeling the element of lightning in Alduin causing the lightning to form another length of the blade in its lightning. Now I have lost all control on myself as something guided me to the dragon's throat and caused me to change into me demonic self, this feels good to kill something that's knows how to fight back, but with the lack of experience in fighting.
"YOU CAN BE THE CORPSE AND I CAN BE THE KILLER!" Just like that I gripped the handle of Alduin with both hands and swung to my left horizontally slicing through the soft scales of the beast and beheaded it with that one swing with sparking lightning on the blade edge and sides. I stuck the landing with my feet still gripping the blade where I swung and looked down I can feel myself gain control of my body along with my form, the hoody I had on was off exposing my mask and dark brown hair to the world. A loud slammed behind told me the head hit the ground along with raining blood in the cave I got back up to my feet and looked up enjoying the warm blood rain hitting my mask and covering my hair in its crimson color. I pushed the claw out of my stomach and felt it heal along with the cloak.
I gasped that I remembered about Twilight and Spike was running the forest to Ponyville and had probably worried about me. Turning back into my human form, but kept the mask on, I pulled my hoodie over my head and flew out of the cave to the edge of the forest. I can see Spike and Twilight talking to each other, but Spike had a scared expression and looked at the forest edge, my wings would give me away so I landed in the forest and heard something.
"Don't worry about me, I'm fine," I said, but it did no effect as I still have the dragon blood on my cloak. They were terrified at me because of how much blood that was on me I still have my mask on so I pulled down my hoodie revealing my mask." Sorry for you to see me all bloody up so I'll-"
"Heartless are you hurt?" Wait what I thought they were going to scream and run away. I looked up to see Twilight taking a step towards me and stopped when she was no longer than a feet away from each other.
"Just beaten up, but I can go to Zecora's for a potion," I lied and began to walk away, but I felt a tug on my sleeve.
"I'm sorry you got hurt and I want to make it to you here," Twilight held out a golden ticket with words on it says "Grand Galloping Gala" weird name for something but I wasn't complaining. I took the ticket and stuff it in my pocket.
"Promise me you won't tell anyone about this including your friends," I stared down at Twilight's seeing her eyes widen from my request. She gulped down a lump in her throat and looked up at me before finding her voice.
"We promise Heartless."
Author's Note
I couldn't really say details on the kitchen so I found some pictures that should help.
Music
A Demon and A Princess dances (edited)
Sore I feel sore right now after three whole days of just training with Zecora, studying another dark element in Heaven's book, and having a break from work. It's really kind that Applejack gave me a break after she saw me have a problem moving a single muscle in my body when I tried to pull the cart and tried to lift a bucket full of apples. The whole three days I've been taking it easy to let my sore muscles rest until their ready to be used again for the purposes.
Zeal had made our home bigger with sixteen rooms six bedrooms, one kitchen, a basement forge, a laundry room, training room, two living rooms, an armory, a satanic room, a storage room, and a room with a hot spring. We have a balcony up on the second floor out on the side of this mountain we're in with grown grass, flowers, and a single oak tree. Zeal out did himself on making a five room house into a sixteen-room mansion inside a mountain with only one person that knows about this place. I told Zeal that there was a dead dragon I'd slain when I got back from finding Spike, he was amused to hear me tell him about the dragon I'd slain and was glad even with Alduin. He can see something in the sword that I don't know about, but he made me a promise to craft an armor from the bones, scales, firesack, and even with its blood. I was glad to hear about new stuff to wear other than a cloak and a pair of clothing I had for a hundred of years.
The grave lift was modified by Zeal for another way for someone to take the ride up to our home, the person has to have a necklace or a ring with demon blood in them. I used my blood to enhance a necklace for Zecora so she could come visit us whenever she wants to visit us, the first day the necklace was made I gave it to Zecora and head back. She visited us during the three days of relaxing in my home waiting for a new type of weapon and armor of Zeal's idea of crafting and forging. Zecora had her room on the second floor three doors left of my room towards the end of the hall, she made her home with her stuff in there like she had the tree down in the Everfree.
I started to wake up from the bright light of the crystal in the ceiling and got out of bed and headed inside the bathroom. Zeal made some modification to each bedroom in this mansion. My tired eyes were opening up allowing the light in this room to adjust in this bathroom I walked over to a mirror over the sink to see my well-built body instead of a two pack I had in hell now I'm staring at myself with a four pack. Working for Applejack surely built me up into the man I am today stronger than my previous self.
"What day is it?" I asked myself and walked out my bathroom to a calendar hanging by the door with a picture of Canterlot with a night time setting behind it. Shrugging off on what day it is I went back in the bathroom to the shower and knelt down by the tub, Zeal didn't have a way to heat up the water instantly so he build a small vent by the tub in each bathroom to throw either a match in or a fireball down in it to light a neither rack to heat up the pipes with water in it. I opened the vent a tossed a fireball in and stripped myself of my white shirt, black pants, socks, and my undergarment, the stone pipes should already have some warm water for my shower.
After my shower, I dried myself off and put on my clothing back on and exit out the bathroom to see if the day was near the Grand Galloping Gala day. When I looked at my calendar to see red X's on days that pass except a few to the end of the month and one of those unmark days was where the gala starts, but with a good look, today was the day of the gala.
Panic ran through me knowing that today was the gala and that Twilight and her friends are going to be there even Luna. Thankfully I had a tuxedo for the gala and the made that made it was kind enough to make me one, even though she tried to make me strip my clothes off just for some measurements, but I didn't allow. I had a tuxedo for the gala my mask to hide my face and now I just need to fly over to Canterlot and wait till the time of day turns to night.
There was plenty of time until the gala starts so I laid the tuxedo on the bed and headed downstairs to the kitchen. Zeal was in the kitchen eating raw meat with a glass full of blood, but out of the armor, Zecora was in also with lettuce, tomatoes, and carrots, there was a plate on the table with cooked bacon on it and eggs. I walked into the kitchen and sat down enjoying my breakfast.
"Good morning Justin how you holding up?" Zeal asked with his mouth full, he usually does this whenever he eats not giving a fuck of I or someone else finds this disguising.
"Morning Zeal, Zecora, feeling great since my muscles no longer sore," I answer and continued eating.
"Good to hear that you feel well, after three days and nights from the pain of aching mucsles until you are well healed," Zecora said glad that I was no longer sore. The zebra herself stayed the night last night in my bed with me, but she wakes up earlier than Zeal and I this zebra is extreme early bird.
We all sat in silence enjoying our own meals in the kitchen, a question starts to linger in the back of my mind on who cooked the bacon and eggs, but that was soon answered. I finished my breakfast and brought my plate to the sink washing it off before placing it on a rack to dry off. Zecora was finished with hers and hands me the plate again I washed it and put it away, but not without a quick peck on my cheek. Zeal was finished with his blood drink and tossed me the glass I caught the glass before it breaks and cleaned it out from the blood stains in it. I think this is the closest that I have started to feel like I'm in a family, but sad to say that it was that close.
I was done with his glass and sent it facing down on the counter and left the kitchen to my bedroom for my tux. I remember the time it took me floating in that river after I jumped off that cliff into the water, six hours it took me to reach land and to heal every bone in my body, the flight to Canterlot castle would probably take three to four hours just to get there by flying. Entering my room I changed out of my clothes and put on the tuxedo and walked in he bathroom to see how I look.
"Man I look ok... Maybe if I comb my hair back," I suggest to myself and turned on the faucet and pulled back both my sleeves before wetting my hair enough for it to be combed. My hand was wet enough to brush it through my hair to get it wet. Two minutes I had wasted just to comb my hair back to make myself look descent enough to not look like a hobo in the streets that never brush their hair." I hope this Gala not going to be stupid."
My walk to Ponyville will be an hour the flight to Canterlot Castles three or four hours long. I exited out of my bathroom and headed out my room, but something caught my attention I needed my gloves to hide my hands not to expose skin. With a quick walk back to my other clothes I picked my gloves up and put them on, now I feel safe.
POV Twilight
The twenty-one day of May was when the Grand Galloping Gala would start at six in the afternoon of today. I just hope everything I planned out when I arrive in Canterlot Castle would go well. Walking towards Rarity's boutique while reading a book about a spell to transform an anonymous fruit into a carriage and annonymous animals into an equine animal, the spell last until midnight then turns everything back into their original self before I even cast it. Reading a book and walking along with Spike to the boutique was a breeze since I did this many times before.
"Twilight we're here," Spike said letting me know that we were here and that I can continue reading the book to use this spell on an apple and Fluttershy's mice for our way to get the Gala. I lowered my book down enough to see the boutique in front of us and Pinkie Pie bouncing up and down on a trampling near the boutique. Raising my book up I walked over to a bench to sit down and continue reading on the spell.
"Ah...I...Can't...Believe...The Grand...Galloping...Gala...Is...Today!" Pinkie Pie shouted out each time she bounces up in the air, this was starting to get me to lose my concentration on reading the spell.
"Pinkie Pie, please stop shouting I'm trying to concentrate," I said and looked up at Pinkie Pie before continuing reading.
"Pinkie Pie, Stop that right now. It's time to prepare for the Gala and I refuse to let you put on your new dress if you're all sweaty," I heard Rarity said along with the stop of the trampling. I sighed in relief knowing that the noise from the trampling will no longer bother me again in my reading.
"What's Twilight doing?" Pinkie asked Spike.
"She got an awesome magic spell she's been working on for the Gala," Spike answered Pinkie Pie's question.
"Where are the others it's getting late?" Rarity asked wonder where the other girls are at.
"Hold ya horses girl we're here," Applejack said as she and then other two girls arrived, it was good time since I just finished reading with the spell.
"Perfect, I'm ready."
"For what?" Rainbow Dash asked I didn't need to answer her question in words so showing her would answer it.
"An apple are we having pie?"
"Shh!"
I focus my magic on the apple on the ground to turn it into a carriage for our way to ride to Canterlot, the apple had my magic aura around it and started to grow into a bigger size then transform into a carriage. The girls awed in the work of my magic of turning a simple apple into a carriage.
"Thanks, but that just the start," I said and looked over at Fluttershy." Fluttershy did you bring your friends?"
"Yes," She answered as four white mice pop their little heads up from Fluttershy's hair." Will they be safe Twilight?"
"You have my word,"I cast the same spell on the mice turning them into equine mice." Ta da!" After the success of the spell, I pointed at my amazing work of turning the mice into a big equine animal. Everypony was having trouble finding their words of my work." Neat huh? And don't worry they'll be mice again at midnight."
"Opalescence, no," Fluttershy pointed behind me causing me to look back to see Rarity's cat about to scare away the mice and going to leave us with no horse to carry the carriage.
"Wait come back!" I called out hoping that they'll come back, but they didn't and continued running away." Those horses were supposed to pull our carriage. How will we get to the Gala?"
"Whatever shall we do?" Rarity asked in a sarcasm way and looked at all of us. She walked away from us to a group of stallions talking to each other about something until Rarity was talking to two stallions. I felt embarrassed knowing that even an earth pony can pull the carriage even with six mares and one dragon. Two of the stallions Rarity talked with came over to the carriage and hooked them self up to it and pulled it towards us.
"Oh right."
POV Heartless
An hour I wasted an hour of walking through the Everfree to Ponyville it was one of the best time killers to do for today's even, but I need to waste more. I reached Ponyville at the far right side to Rarity boutique and saw an apple shape carriage with two stallions hooked up to it probably going to pull the carriage to Canterlot. The main six were all entering the carriage as for Spike was climbing up to the front seat the time they'll take to arrive at Clanger from here would be five or six hours... Five or six hours hmm. The stallions started pulling the carriage with ease on the dirt road towards Canterlot they're not going to allow me on the carriage so I have something better.
I ran to the back of the carriage and jumped on holding the two decorated gold bars on the back as we all go to the gala.
After six whole hours of riding along the main six and Spike, we arrived at the castle, how I know about this was because I am sitting on top of the carriage since holding on for six whole hours would cause me to sweat in my Tux and I do not want to ruin my outfit. Being back to where I first arrive and escape was pretty weird at first because the guards paid no attention to me or anyone else, but that would soon pass when I'm alone in this place garden.
The carriage stopped in front of the castle I saw Spike jumped down from his seat onto the ground and opened the door of the carriage. Sad to say I don't want Twilight and the others to know I'm here so I jumped off the opposite direction where Spike is and walked around the carriage and in front of the two stallions pulling it. They didn't say a word as I walked by them, one of the stallions was shaking a bit of my appearance, but I didn't look at his direction fearing that he'll scream like a girl.
I followed a stone road to the castle with quick pace not to let any to have a good look at me and arrived at the gates. One of the guards looked at me with a raised eyebrow, he'll probably attack me if I showed any sign of danger. Pulling the gold ticket from my pocket I handed it to the guard and walked pass him not daring to look back. Everyone was staring at me with questioning looks as I walked up the stairs to the castle entrance door. This place was big as I first escaped from those few weeks ago, things may not go as I may have hope it would go.
Entering in the castle I followed the ponies wearing tuxedos or dresses to the main hall with the two princesses up on the top of the staircase. Celestia was in her white dress on the first day I saw her in and the same as Luna except in a black dress, the dress had a collar that kept the dress from falling down and revealing both her outer parts of her legs, the collar had a crescent and metal slippers around her hooves. No one was greeting her or even paid her any attention to her.
'Cold hearted bastards! ' Luna wasn't kidding when she says that the nobles treat her as nothing, but I'm going to make a difference. I parted from the line to Celestia to Luna up the stairs everyone in that line glared at me, but when I looked at them their glare turned to scared faces. Celestia's gaze was on me from my appearance I reached the top of the stairs to Luna and grabbed her left hand with my right and kissed it, hey sometimes you have to be a gentleman even though I was still wearing my mask.
"Huh?" Luna looked down at me with a surprise expression of my actions and to who I am also. Celestia gaze turned into a glare before she even took a step towards me Luna spoke up." Heartless?" Even though Luna couldn't see my face I smiled and stood up straight and spoke to her.
"Yes, it is Luna from what I saw of the nobles I thought you would want me to greet you." Luna smiled of knowing who I am and that I came here from the promise I made on the first night of my break. She won't be alone in the gala to talk to nor would she be sad if I hadn't come here. Celestia was probably surprised of what she is seeing this moment, but that won't long that much." Would you like to dance with me?"
"Young sir you are-" Before a stallion said something Luna beat him.
"We accept thou request," Luna said and grabbed my left hand and directed me to the ballroom I can feel Celestia eyes on me of that sudden yes from her sister, but before we were out of sight I flip the bird at that one noble. We walked through the castle's halls to one particular door that might have lead to the ballroom Luna was nervous of going in the ballroom.
"We can dance somewhere else with no one eyeing us," I suggested to her. Luna looked up at me with a smile and nodded we both walked away from the door and outside in the back of the castle in its garden. There shouldn't be anyone in the garden due to the gala with everyone would have their attention in the ballroom than the garden.
We walked pass a few trees to a fountain with three ponies on it spitting out water, three stone benches surround it, and a perfect view of the moon and stars in the sky. With a quick look around to make sure no one was around I took off my mask and let it burst into purple flames to put it away, since its an item that's not alive nor made from water, it felt great to have nothing covering my face. My hair was no longer combed from the seven hours before I came it cover a bit of my left side of my face while the right wasn't covered. Luna looked over her shoulder at me a smile on her lips as she walked over to one of the benches and sat down she looked back and patted a spot by her. I accepted her offer and walked over to the bench she's on and sat down by her.
"How would thou plan on having music?" Luna asked me concern that we would dance with no music. I was glad I always take my phone with me wherever I go even if I'm going in a place that doesn't allow phones. Pulling my phone out of my pocket I showed her the Samsung.
"I don't need to have someone to play music," I said and turned on the phone to a classical played in the ballroom before playing the music I looked at Luna and asked her something." Does the princess of the night knows a spell to block any sound escaping out?"
"Yes we do, why is thou asking?" Good knowing that Luna has a spell to form a soundproof barrier would keep anyone lurking around from listening.
"Cast it and I'll show you." Luna did what I told her and cast the spell the form of the spell was a dark blue dome aura surrounding us. I stood up on both my feet and held out my left hand to her, Luna placed her right hand on mine and stood up. I played the song and put it away in my pocket and placed my left hand on her back and my right holding her left, Luna placed her right hand on my left arm and gripped my right with her left.
We both began to dance like we're in an actual ballroom stepping to side to side and moved back and forth. Luna was avoiding on stepping on my toes each time we took a step on the dance Luna was happy even if it's not a pony who's dancing with her. I dislike the music sing it's a romance one for lovers to listen to, but as long Luna doesn't mind then I should not mind. After four minutes of listening to the classical music, I paused it and put my arms to my side Luna did the same with a blush on her cheeks.
"Luna?" I said her name concern of why she was blushing I took and step forward only to be caught surprised by Luna smashing her lips into mine I would have pulled back, but if Luna sees me as her special someone like Zecora then I don't really care. Returning the kiss of Luna's I pushed my lips and placed both my hands on her ass and squeezed them causing her moan in my mouth and to undo the soundproof spell. Luna leaped up onto me and wrapped her arms around my neck holding dear life.
The kiss would have gone until we're out of breath when the sound crashing from inside the castle in the ballroom we broke our kiss and looked over at the castle's windows. Luna and I ran to the castle's ballroom, but not without my mask reappeared on my face hiding my face from the world and its beings. It was a small portion of hell in the gala as everything was falling apart, the ponies in the ball was running around like chickens with their heads cut off, animals were also in the crowd of ponies, one particular yellow cream mare wearing a torn green dress trying to chase down a squirrel!
"Ahh!" A screamed within the stamping ponies meaning that someone was either being beaten or stomped on. I ran towards the source of the scream shoving anyone in my way down, the crowd was during down as I drew near the source. This has to be the worst day ever for everyone that's in this ballroom things should not get worse. Pushing the final noble out of my way I saw a goldish gray mare with raven hair and tail made wearing a pick bowtie, a black long sleeve shirt, a white undershirt, and black pants. The mare had her leg stuck under some rumble of a fallen pillar no one was helping her up from the rumble.
"Hang on!" I shouted over the screams of nobles the mare looked up at me her eyes widen as her pupils shrunk she must be scared of my mask. She raised her arms up expecting me to hurt her I ignore her fear of me and picked up the rumbles of broken parts of a pillar, I pulled off of her one by one until her legs were no longer stuck underneath them. A look at her legs were all bruised up due to the weight of the fallen part of a pillar I knelt down on one knee and began healing her legs until they were healed.
"Huh?" The made looked up at me with a surprised expression." Why did you help me?"
"I only help because no one else did," I said and ran away from the mare and outside of the castle's garden since everything went downtown. No one paid attention to me except Luna who chased after me at the same spot where we danced and kissed. Arriving at the fountain I spread my wings causing it to tear itself through the back of my tuxedo, Rarity is going to scold me and was about to fly away.
"Wait! Justin!" I heard Luna called my human name causing me to stop before I even have the chance to fly away from the castle. Turning around Luna slammed into me in a tight hug and snuggled her head against my chest." We want to thank thou for dancing with us." A smile found its way up my lips I stroke Luna's flowing hair and kissed the top of her head avoiding the horn.
"You are welcome Luna," The hug broke with Luna smiling at me and waving goodbye I waved back before flying home.
POV Luna
We watched as Heartless flew away into the Everfree to where he lives, the human may be a demon in many eyes even my sister's, but he has a kind soul that lights the darkest places in hope. This night would be the best We have ever wanted during our return from the moon, oh we wish the moment could last forever for to night, but the Gala has been ruined for many of our subjects and now was over. We walked back inside the ballroom to see it a complete mess, we made our way to our room and entered in. Hopefully, we can have a sleep without worries and the questions of our dear sister.
A knock from the made us froze as to wonder who would still be here other than Tia and the pathetic nephew of ours, still makes us wonder how he became our nephew. We walked over to the door and opened it revealing Tia on the other side of it, she had a questioning look along with a smile.
"What is it, dear sister?" We asked curiously on why her presence were here.
"May I asked who was that stallion you danced with?" Tia asked with a small smirk on her lips, we knew that question would be the first.
"Thou Heartless is a friend we had met in the dream world from two weeks ago," We answered bringing another intrigued look from Tia.
"And how you declared him you?"
We were shocked on hearing our sister wanting to know if We have claimed him for our mate! Tia was probably planning to have Heartless for herself, We thought of a perfect excuse from us and Heartless so that she doesn't plan on forcing him into marriage.
"Yes, We have." We said making sure that she doesn't get any funny ideas of taking Heartless from us. Tia giggle like she was a foal, she looked us in the eye and smiled.
"I'm glad you found somepony Luna."
Author's Note
Couldn't find the right classical music so I winged it with this one.
Like I said I winged it and found this event.
Sorry that I didn't upload this chapter I've moved somewhere closer to my school with no WiFi hope you forgive with choice I'm giving you.
Pick either 1 or 2 for something in a chapter for something. It's a choice that I'm struggling with to make because they're both the same thing of Heartless having a pet, but with a different animal and the person who finds one.
1 Is Zeal finding the pet.
Both pets are different just I can't decide with to choose.
Chao and insanity are not welcome (edited)
The Gala last night was the best night I had for a special day in Equestria or is it a holiday type of day like they had in the medieval times where the king holds a special event for nobles to spend some time and dance with each other. The others in the Gala may think of it as the worst one in history that has ever been ruined by animals and by a certain animal talking mare. All in all the Gala was descent even if no one except Twilight and Luna knows about my mask; however, Luna knows what I look like without the mask. I'm actually surprised hat Celestia didn't ask for my name and what my kind is...probably because of her sister knowing who I am might have let her slide that question away from her brain.
Zeal was done with the dragon armor and weapons he created from the slain dragon five days ago, I would have the armor right now to see how I looked in it, but Zeal needs to blood bond the weapon so in case someone manage to slice through the scales it'll instantly repair itself like my cloak. That going to take some time while I continue my way to Sweet Apple Acres because of my break was over after the Gala.
Zecora is living with us now since not that many people would just walk right in the forest to seek for her aid for something useless, but there's no reason why she should abandon her home. She only living with us in the morning and late afternoon whenever she's done with her business and done with my training. I kinda think I should go on a date with her after our training in the garden it'll probably be the best place since it has a nice view of the Everfree and flowers there might amaze her.
Today may turn out the same except with the plan of dating Zecora it might turn out well if everything doesn't go downhill to crazy town. My walk to my job was long and time wasting, but it only took an hour and fifteen minutes just to arrive there. Applejack was in the corn fields tending to the corns while Big Mac was doing his chores, I have no chores to do since I only help carry the cart and load the buckets on. It's probably because I'm still on my break for the week, but I no longer feel sore from my fight with the dragon. I might surprise Applejack by scaring her or by leading her into a trap for a surprise visit... I think I like the first one.
I head over to the corn fields and hid among them while I made my way to Applejack for a surprise, I'll might even see if she's afraid to be picked up from behind. While sneaking my way to Applejack there was something up with the clouds all pink and was about to rain seeing the weird cloud I quicken my pace to be by Applejack for a good scare. Her focus was up on the pink cloud in the sky curious as I am about the cloud.
"What in the hay is that?" Applejack asked and leaned her back on the wooden fence with her back turned against me, this gave me a huge chance to scare her and to have a good laugh. With a few quite steps I was directly behind Applejack ready to scare the living soul out of her. I quickly wrapped my arms around her stomach and lifted her over the fence and held her in the air Applejack was kicking her legs and grabbed one of my arms and tried to pry my arms off of her." Let go of me ya crook!"
"A crook? Didn't think there's one around," I said in sarcasm tone calming down Applejack from her panic of being kidnapped by a random person. When she was fully calm I tossed her up in the air a bit and caught her in a bridal style, her cheeks was red as an apple when she looked up at me. She tilted her hat down to hide her rose cheeks from the unnecessary way of holding her in plain view for everyone to see.
"Heartless was that necessary?"
"No, and yes," I said, Applejack needs to stop eating apple pie because she weighs about three bales of hay, I know she'll slap me for that so I kept my mouth shut. I put Applejack back on her hooves she looked at me with a death glare from my action, I let out a chuckle and rubbed the back of my hoodie. Applejack was about to scold me until chocolate milk started to rain from the pink clouds causing both of us to look at the sky to see Rainbow Dash covered in the same pink clumps of the cloud. I still wonder why the fucking planet Equis nature is being lazy at its job letting its inhabitants take care of nature, actually I think the clouds are fighting Rainbow Dash.
"Rainbow Dash!" Applejack called out catching Rainbow Dash attention to us. Rainbow Dash stopped chasing a cloud that covered her in pink clumps and flew over to us. Something was definitely wrong today and I have a mix feeling that I'll like and dislike it." What's going gone with this rain! Ah chocolate milk- Ah mean chocolate milk rain!?"
"There's crazy weather all over Equestria," Rainbow Dash said and stopped in front of us, at least Ponyville wasn't the main target of the pink clouds." Cloudsdale is getting soaked by a major cola storm right now, but don't worry I'm not leaving you until I get control of Ponyville." Rainbow Dash flew back into the sky chasing the clouds away, but while she did that the corns started to pop into popcorn covering Applejack and me in a pile of popcorn.
We both stuck out of the pile and looked around to see her corn field into a sea of popcorn. Now I'm not liking this current even that is happening now, things are just not making sense and it is ruining the farm. I picked up one popcorn in my left hand and tossed it in my mouth, to my surprise it actually tasted like popcorn, but it needs some butter instead of being a plain sea of popcorn.
"Why would you want to stop this?" I heard a certain pink mare on my right asked as she jumped in the sea of popcorn and popped up to drink the rain of chocolate milk. That mare never had a chance to throw me a party in this town because I have no interest in them and the weirdest female being in different worlds to never make sense of. Someone on my left cleared their throat catching my attention to Rarity.
"I heard about your troubles Applejack and I came to see if there is anything I can do, without getting wet or dirty or out from under my umbrella," Rarity said being no help with work that evolves working outdoors to get dirty. The apples in the trees grew bigger as a size of a pumpkin causing the trees to bend towards the ground due to the weight of the apples. Small animals came out of bushes and jumped onto the oversize apples and began eating them all.
"Fluttershy do something!" Apple yelled out as she glaced at each apples being devoured by the small animals. I glanced over my left shoulder to see the cream yellow mare talking to a white rabbit, I couldn't hear her due to how quiet she speaks, but a small flash of light on the rabbits legs made the mare eyes widen in shock. Okey just started to get crazy and I might need to talk with Zeal about this situation to see what he knows. In the far distance from Fluttershy Twilight with a book in her magic grasp looked down at the book them up at everyone.
"Don't worry everypony," Twilight said to calm everyone down, well except me because I'm a bit mad that the popcorn was going to get soaked in this chocolate milk rain." I learn a new spell that'll fix everything."
'I call bullshit on that Twilight, ya can't fix everything with a spell or magic. ' I thought as Twilight horn charged up along with her hands glowing the same aura, she rose her up and shot out a beam, the same color of her aura, and a bright light flashed causing everyone to cover their eyes from the bright light. When the lights died down I uncovered my eyes to see the same crazy stuff that started an hour before I scared Applejack.
"My fail safe spell...failed," Twilight said in surprise at the result of the failing spell she had. She looked over at Spike and asked him." What do we do?"
"I got one," I said gaining Twilight's attention, I made a demanding voice to convince I was serious." Get me the butter!"
They all looked at me like I was serious about that plan and that it was the most stupidest thing they ever heard, but I wasn't serious on that little joke. In the corner of my eyes I saw Rarity walked towards Twilight and spoke to her.
"Heartless, I believe that's not what Twilight wanted help," Rarity handed Twilight her umbrella, she took the umbrella in her grasp and thought of something.
"Hmm, time for plan B," Twilight stopped thinking and looked up at Rainbow Dash, that was being assaulted by a pink cloud and animals." Rainbow, could you gather all those clouds in one part of the sky?" With that Rainbow Dash shook off the cloud and saluted before flying back up to collect the other clouds." Applejack, Heartless, I need you two to bring those cotton candy clouds down to earth."
Applejack and I wasted no time to tie a rope to a nearby fencepost, Applejack threw the rope towards the pink cloud. When the rope was right around it we both pulled it down to Earth and waited for Twilight's next plan. I looked back to see Twilight whispering something in Fluttershy's ear, things might get even weirder than it is right now.
"Oh dear, I hope none of these animals see these delicious chocolate filled cotton candy clouds I would to have to share them," Fluttershy said and brought the attention of every animals eating those oversize apples. I noticed Pinkie Pie was stuffing her face in the clouds eating them like candy.
"Ah, you and me both sister," I heard Pinkie Pie's muffle voice within the clouds, but a group of animals pushed her back away from the cloud and started devouring them." Hey!" Okey animals are completely different than earth's since when do you ever see an animal eat a desert and don't get sick from or even die.
"And when you done with that feel free to have some popcorn for dessert," Everyone, except Pinkie, all met up at Twilight while we watched the animals eat the cloud. I clearly need to report this to Zeal see what he knows about this weird event that happened today or that he might know what's causing this.
"I wonder if this is just happening to Equestria?" I asked myself and imagine what was happening in Canterlot at this very moment. Spike behind me burped out his green flames along with a letter, Twilight elevated the letter in front of her and read it to herself, she gasped and looked at every single one of us.
"Come on girls Princess Celestia wants to see us in Canterlot immediately," Twilight and the others ran towards the train station leaving me all by myself with the animals and the popcorn field. I waited for a good minute before running back into the forest to speak with Zeal on what's causing this much unexplainable events that are happening this minute. No one was around and Ponyville is probably busy panicking about what's happening so they won't pay any attention to the sky. I spread my wings and jumped up flapping my wings and flew towards home.
POV Zeal
Chao can be a troublesome for a god like Krone, one of the chaos gods, his bloodlust for war, blood, skulls was a troubling god that had to be put back in place because of what he did to fifteen worlds forcing each one to be in a full world war. Nix and Hamera waged war against the god on a planet where no life no longer exist, just to avoid killing most of the mortal beings to extinction, all three gods brought their army and fought in the war for fifty years before Krone yield to the lost of his forces. He had made a deal that when a war was waged by other mortal beings to another Krone was allowed to watch over as blood was spilled, skull smashed, and bones shattered.
This was the seven billionth time that a world was engulfed in Chao, but five hundred trillionth time that a harmless Chao has plague an entire world by jokes, trickery, and humor. Whoever was causing this Chao was probably a demigod created by a god as his or her children. The satanic circle in my house held the Chao at bay because of how much darkness and sins in the hell energy, Chao is madness and other harmless trickery.
I sat cross legged by the satanic circle regaining my hell energy so I can inhabit the armor again, why I'm out of the armor and regaining my energy since this world doesn't have much fear, anger, and jealousy to form hell energy so I am limited on my powers. It doesn't take long to regain hell energy from the circle only thirty seconds for me to regain of the energy I had lost. I uncrossed my legs and stood back up on my feet and walked towards my armor, the owner of this may no longer see it has hers anymore since I made the features more of a male. Being back in armor has it's advantage against an, I would not be tire, I would not have to worry about being stab in the heart, and I can jump out of the armor to deal a blow while an enemy would be focus on the armor.
Things may not have been perfect for me as there is no war and order for me to follow, but as long as Justin is happy I can adjust and try to venture out to create mayhem for some fun and to be feared. Now thinking about adventure I know Justin would try and venture out and come back, but all things take time and with time against everything I may as well create a map room and a port crystal for him to return back at home and to teleport back where he was last at. With future plan of constructing the room I walked out of the room to the main hall of this mansion.
Zecora wasn't here in our home because she has her business in the forest as well of having feelings for Justin, she does know that he can feel no love inside him, but that doesn't mean she doesn't like he treats her. I held no jealously of seeing him loved by a female, I do not wish to be loved as it is a way for weakness to me since I do not want anything getting in my way. Zecora can take his virginity if their relationship between them goes up higher, but to Zecora surprise she may not last an hour. Demons bodies have better stamina and endurance to last over night with a female to make them beg, but there are female demons also with the same stamina and endurance as the males.
The sound of the entrance door opened bought my attention to see Justin breathing heavily as well being cover by pink stuff on him, he walked forward towards me. I walked towards him to waste no time for him to walk to me.
"Zeal, do you know anything of random stuff that's happening outside that nothing can be explained?" Justin asked as purple flames surrounded his body burning off the pink stuff on him.
"That you were attacked by some candy monster," I said in sarcasm knowing that Chao of trickery was outside and that a demigod was causing it. Justin flipped me off and put out his flames, he knew full well that I was fucking around with him." Okay, a demigod is causing the Chao out there and that it started from the castle on top of the nearby mountain."
"Are going to do something about?"
"Yup, I want to show this demigod that tricking a creature gives you bad karmas, even when it starts destroying relatiolnship," I said and walked over to the door, Justin followed behind as we descended down to the entrance of the mountain. There was another reason also, I wanted to strike fear into this demigod to show that I am a demonlord one of the bodyguard of Satan's generals. Tartarus has one of these generals and a bodyguard or two at his or her service.
POV Luna
We watched as Chao was upon Equestria from Tai and my enemy many centuries ago before my banishment, Discord has somehow escaped from his statue state. Tia had written a message to her student about this and was going to meet them in the vault. Twilight and her friends may be the elements of harmony that had stopped us when we were Nightmare Moon few moons ago, we are unsure if the elements could easily fall into Discord's tricky on turning each one of the elements on themselves. Discord may be the god of Chao, but he will not cause anymore on our subjects.
Sounds of wings were heard near my window along with a knock we didn't know who was outside of the window, nopony has any free time because of this crisis. We walked over to the window, where the knocking came from, and pulled the curtains to the right and looked out to see Justin and a living armor. The armor had wings the same as Heartless, but we couldn't figure out is why did the armor look so familiar. Heartless knocked on the window again the sound brought us back to reality we opened the window and stepped away.
They both dropped in and folded their wings before disappearing inside their bodies leaving them to look like they never had wings. The living armor by Heartless spoke to me his voice was dark sounding like a evil entity.
"So this is one of the demigod rulers of this world," The living armor stepped forward a few feet in front of me before bowing." It is nice to see Heartless' has more than one girlfriend."
"Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that."
Did Heartless had a marefriend before us?! We stared at Heartless who had a marefriend before we even kissed, he looked at me and back at the living armor.
"Is there such a law that you're allowed to have one woman?" Why would he asked about that, there is a similar law that you're allowed to have four or five made since the ratio of colts being born was shorten so the stallions can have that much.
"No. A stallion can have four or five mates, since not many colts are born commonly," We explained, Heartless let out a sigh and walked up to us. Still mad we would have question on who this mare was, but we felt his right hand cupped our left cheek and pressed his lips on ours. The feel of his lips on ours made us push aside the question and sink into the kiss, it would have lasted longer if the door didn't open and my first recruit walk in.
"Princess Luna, I-" We broke our kiss and looked back at the entrance of my room, a raven mane and tail bat pony mare wearing a purple chest plate, purple gauntlets, purple shin guards, a few pieces of armor around her thighs, waist, and shoulder, and under all that armor was a black tight pants and long sleeve shirt. It was long for the silence between us all to be broken by Heartless.
"Hello," My general Crescent Fang flitched when Heartless waved at her, she waved back for a short moment before turning her gaze on us. We have kinda forgotten that we called her for a talk an hour ago before Heartless and the living armor with him knocked on my window.
"Crescent Fang, we had forgot that thou was arriving," We said drawing Crescent Fang back to reality for our meeting about Discord and the one who freed him. Tia's Royal guards won't be able to track down the pony or ponies who freed him, but our general would have the chance at finding this pony.
"Sorry my Princess that I didn't knock before entering in your meeting with another pony," Crescent Fang apologize, she lowered her head in shame of intruding, but a certain human changed that.
"We weren't in a meeting with Luna, I just came to see if she knows what's causing these unexplainable events," So that's why he was here, we thought he just came to visit us, but is that the same with the living armor? The living armor walked over to Heartless and brought it's helmet near his ear. Heartless nodded agreeing to something of what was whispered in his ear, he walked over to Crescent Fang and grabbed one of her hands then dragged her out closing the door behind them.
"Finally," The living armor let out a sigh and looked straight at me with the blue aura eyes." Princess Luna the demigod of Equis that controls the night and the moon, I have some valuable information to tell you, but first, let me introduce myself. I am Zeal an old bodyguard of Satan's Overlords and Justin's best friend. With that aside I'm going to tell you that there was someone else involved on releasing Discord, and yes I know who he is, but I can't split myself into two to fight both demigods. So which one do you want to stop? Discord or the one that can make your "subjects" insane?"
That last word caught our attention what does he mean insane and why did he addressed us as a demigod, we are not demigods we are gods! If what Zeal said was about another creature strong enough to break Discord from his prison then this creature has to be another god, but what Zeal only hint of this helper of Discord was that he said that it came make our subjects insane.
"What does thee mean "or the one that can make our subjects insane?"
"Listen, I can practically tell you, but I am doing this because one if Justin fights Discord he won't have to fear to be a creature from another world, two if he fights the demigod of insanity of Chao then he'll feed Alduin and he would be feared. So I need you to tell Crescent Fang your general to help Justin fight Discord while I kill Psycho."
POV Crescent Fang
The silence was between me and the stallion that dragged me out of Princess Luna's room, he and I haven't said anything after that event we don't have words to say. I can still feel his hand on mine when he dragged me out my face started to burn as this was the first time a stallion didn't get discussed from my appearance and my kind. He was probably the first one out in Equestria that didn't threaten to rape me, kill me, and even mock me, I wonder what Luna sees in him and maybe I could try to know him and see why.
"Why are you blushing Miss Fang?"
"Huh?" I looked up to see the stallion's hood off revealing dark brown mane, but a mask with only pointed teeth, slanted eye holes, and faint glowing red eyes behind it. My body tensed from the red eyes through the holes of the mask my instinct told me to run and call for backup, but the tension in my body soon worn off as I continued to look in them. The eyes colors are the same as a bat pony and vampony whenever they are hungry, they held no hunger they only held protection despite them looking sinister.
"Um Miss Fang, did my eyes scared you? I can change it back to my original if you want," The stallion offered and place his right hand on his right eye hole. Something about this stallion is a mystery even for a princess, but his personality isn't. Thinking about it I wonder why he was talking with the princess during this crisis even of the escape of Discord.
"I don't really mind, but it's best so you won't scare away anypony then I suggest you to change your eye color," I said gaining a nod from the stallion, he removed his right hand from the mask the red glow from the eye hole was no longer there same with the left. This stallion has more tricks up his sleeves than a unicorn using a magic hologram.
A knock from the door behind the stallion caused us to look at it, the stallion opened the door to reveal Princess Luna standing behind it.
"We have a new mission for you Crescent Fang," My ears perked up as I looked up at Luna to see her staring at the stallion then at me." Thou and Heartless will go after Discord and help the Elements of Harmony anyway thou can. As for thou Heartless, thou would have to make sure our general and thou self is safe after this."
"I can do it, even if it meant losing some blood."
POV Zeal
Psycho a demigod of insanity the one who creates madness and paranoia to anyone that is around him, not many mortals had escaped from his insanity whenever he creates mayhem or even send his forces out to break anyone's sanity. It's really sad that he can't fight with a weapon since his hands were replace with blades, I would really like a challenge against a demi, but you can't always get what you wish for. How I know about this demigod was an incident on another earth when a certain inmate who was framed of the death of his wife and sons, that man had survive through near death experiences though he was experimented by Psycho.
His position wasn't that far from this castle it was close, but not too close. The rulers of this land don't know about his existence in this world, but it is better that way they don't. I already reached my destination at the bottom of the mountain near the waterfall, behind the waterfall I could see a cave behind it that leads to somewhere. A small form of corrupt energy mist flow out of the cave into the water where the falling water didn't hit, the mist would have been unnoticed by an untrained eye, but with the training I had been though no energy mist could escape my sight.
The corrupted black mist, that went in the water, came out as a tortured human with green glowing syringes in its back, its eyes were replaced with the same syringes. This creature was a Mainliner, one of Psycho's creations, the creature shouldn't be a problem to deal with since its a mortal like creature that can be kill easily. The mainliner groan in pain as it plucked one of the syringes from its back and threw at me. The syringe hit my armor body dealing no damage to me, I picked the syringe out of the air before it landed on the ground and threw it back nailing it in the head. The mainliner went limp and erupted into black mist, the mist dashed back into the cave behind the waterfall.
'Psycho's creations would try to stop me. ' I walked pass the waterfall to the entrance of the cave and journeyed in.
POV Heartless
Discord a demigod of confusion, trickery, and Chao was last seen in Ponyville, how did Crescent Fang and I knew where Discord was because of the Ponyville folks took the train to Canterlot. There were still a few people at Ponyville being trick by illusion and turning against one another. I didn't care to spread my wings in front of Crescent since she's Luna's general and that she wouldn't tell a single word to Celestia.
"How can you have wings?" I heard Crescent Fang ask keeping pace up with me, we were flying towards Ponyville to see if Discord was still there.
"Well when you're a demon you can hide them inside your body," I said over the wind, Crescent looked at me like I was just made it up, but it was the truth. You can hide your wings inside your body to prevent anyone on seeing them and harming them, but I don't think Tartarus demons would be able to do that.
"You're a demon!?" Crescent asked well nearly shouted over the wind since it picked up. I nodded my head to her question and saw Ponyville in the distance, the town was a wreck from all the floating houses, dancing buffalos, a pony flying in the air with her tail, and the road was replaced with soap. The sun went down causing Crescent and me to stop in mid air for our eyes to adjust to the night sky. When our eyes adjusted to the night the sun came back up and replaced it, this was hurting both Crescent's and my eyes from the sudden change.
After eyes finally adjusted to he bright sun we continued flying towards Ponyville. I saw Twilight and the other four chasing down a gray pegasus in the sky with a hot air balloon, something wasn't right with the gray pegasus, but it isn't our concerns. We landed nearby Ponyville and made the rest of our way by running there. Everything around went farther down pass crazy town to insane town for insane people, but there shouldn't be any crazy people around... Actually now that I mention crazy town the Everfree didn't even go to crazy town it just stayed up away from that place.
"What does Discord look like?" I asked Crescent Fang only to receive a confuse look and a shrug. It would seemed that she doesn't know what he looked like either, man I wonder if it's just an anthropological creature made from different body parts of others. We made it where the town hall used to on the ground, but it's floating above us upside down.
We both looked around to find something out of place, well something that's causing these events to happen. I spotted a mix body part creature sitting on a throne with Applejack in mid air, she was struggling on her neck like the creature was holding her by the neck. I tapped Crescent's arm and pointed at Applejack, she nodded and we both ran over there.
POV Twilight
"Applejack I made you a lair, Rarity a greedy pony, Fluttershy a bully, Pinkie Pie a party pooper, and Rainbow Dash a disloyal pony," Discord said and lifted each one of my friends by the elements imbedded in the necklaces, he can still take the elements away from us. I began to think of something to help my friends away from Discord's magic." Do you ever learn."
"Do you!" I heard somepony shout to my right causing everypony to look at the direction where the pony had shouted. The pony that shouted was Heartless, but something was off he had two wings on his back and two swords in each hand. I was confused about his appearance on why Heartless has wings and armed with a sword, he never brought weapons in Ponyville before.
"Ah, and who are you little one?" Discord asked, he had conjured up a pair of sunglasses and pulled them down to act like he had to get a better view. Heartless didn't say anything he crossed both sword in front of him, the sword in his left hand burst into flames and his right had sparks of white lighting and a blue aura around it. He can do magic!
"..." Heartless didn't say a word and bolted, with the help of his wings, towards Discord in great speed. When he was close to Disorder he swung both his blades at him, but a sword appeared out nowhere blocked the attack.
"Not a pony of- argh!" Disorder yelled out in pain as somepony I never seen before had snuck up to him and struck him with a curved sword." Why you-" Discord couldn't finish his sentence when Heartless kicked on the side of his face causing him to fly off his throne. Both Heartless and random pony pointed their swords at Discord ready to fight.
My friends landed on their hooves after Discord levitation spell was disrupted from the kick Heartless did and the struck from the other pony. I didn't know Heartless was a fighter and that he has experience in fight, but the other pony I don't know about she wore armor and a crescent moon on her right arm. The others were watching as well from the sight of the two challenging Discord.
POV Zeal
I swung Kendo horizontally to the right chopping a slayer in half that was on my way and back hand the top half away from he bottom. Psycho's creations kept getting in my way every time I journey deeper in this cave tunnel, his creations had scratched the paint off the armor showing where they had struck me before I had killed them. Continuing walking down the tunnel in search of Psycho I kept running into his creations each time I enter a flat ground and clear part of the cave tunnels, I'm starting to get annoyed from all the creatures that keeps scratching my armor.
Heartless should be able to handle Discord with help, since Zecora's hand to hand training would pay off and my sword one would also pay off for him, I just hope that Luna's general would be able to help him defeat Discord or at least make him surrender. My walk was disturbed by a bulleting missing me by an inch away. I looked to my left to see a marksman hunched over with his rifles in his back aiming at me. A sigh of disappointment of seeing a marksman ready to fire more than one bullet at me, I raised my left gauntlet up and snapped the steel fingers causing a spark from them and causing the marksman to burst into gray flames.
' Useless creation if it can die from fire and strong beams of light, ' I continued walking down further in the cave until I stumbled upon another leveled floor cave chamber. This one was different bodies hung from the ceiling along with prosthetic limbs with blades at the end, old military rilfes from WW1 along with rotating disk by them, and balls of chain. This was all up hanging from the ceiling the ones on the ground were different. Walking in further in the room I could hear a slayer climbing on the ceiling on its bladed limbs, the scraping of metal and stone above me became louder as it gotten closer to me.
"You have to do something better than that Psycho," I threw my blade above me achieving a shriek and a loud thud by my right. Kendo pulled out from the stone ceiling into my right gauntlet, the blade can always come back to me even if it's in another world. The slayer by my right had its right bladed limb sliced off and it was coloring the stone ground in crimson.
"YOU FUCKING DEMON!" Psycho yelled at me as he tried to get on all threes, but that failed when I slammed my metal hoove on his chest. His appearance was similar to a brute slayer though the head was connected to his body and that he didn't wore any shirt on being bare chest.
"Psycho, you knew that everyone was hunting you down because of you breaking a law even Satan had to help keep this law that every god agreed on," I put more pressure on his chest causing him to strike my leg with his bladed arms, but what the enchantment in this armor did nothing only scratched it. Putting more pressure in my leg I sheathed Kendo and grabbed both his bladed limbs.
"What ya doing demon!?"
I didn't answer his question only showed him what I was doing, my hands were on both his flesh arms. He started to struggle out of my grasp, but it didn't do any good for him. I pulled his arms up and started to pull it back further more causing Psycho to scream in pain and struggle more, a sickening and satisfying sound of his shoulder bones being pulled out of his sockets along with ripping flesh. Another scream came from him as he begged me to stopped what I was doing, Psycho was weak after his defeat from Saris and banishment from every world. I yanked my arms back causing Psycho's to rip off from his body and a scream from him.
"Please stop I'll build an army for you," He offered, the offer was useless event if he can create a million of his creation under a week. I lifter back my hoove and planted it firmly on the ground before slamming both Psycho's bladed arms into body. Blood splattered across my chest plate and helmet as it now became a puddle of blood around his body.
"Now your creations shall die."
POV Heartless
A fight can end in many ways a few is you during different times, the others are the way you kill your opponent. Crescent and mine were going to end up with one of us having a blade through the heart, but I am not going to allow that to happen to Crescent she is my responsibility from Luna. I haven't lost any blood from Discord's flying sword, yeah the sword is flying because of some spell he cast on it giving it a mind of its own. Crescent was fighting Discord by herself as for the main six they just watching us fight.
"How come a bat pony and a creature from another world is here to fight me hmm? Did Celestia have no faith on the Elements of Harmony?" I heard Discord mocking Crescent while he fights with her while I'm fighting against his weapon. I crossed both my blades together making an X blocking one of Discords sword from laying a dealing a blow on me, the blades edges of the three swords grind together along with sparks as it continues to push forward until the cross guard slammed against the flat side of my swords. The force of the slam caused my feet to lose some ground, but that was all made back up when I shoved the sword back away from me and looked back at Crescent and Discord.
Crescent was handling against Discord well, for a general she's pretty skilled for a bladed gauntlet user since you have to be up close and personal. Discord was toying with her whenever she land a blow on him only to keep tricking her each time she think he was hurt by her. There was something I noticed as each time she cuts him with her blades his wounds heal instantly. Crescent reel back her arm and took a swung at Discord self, but his lion claw caught her arm causing her to struggle free. I brought back my right hand and threw my sword at Discord, the blade edge sliced a bit of his skin causing him to yelp in pain and dropped Crescent back on her hooves.
Discord looked over at me with a pissed off face and snapped his fingers, at first I didn't know what he did, but a power force on my back told me his weapon shifted from a sword to a hammer. I was sent flying towards Discord himself who grabbed me by the throat and lifted me up in the air, I grabbed his lion arm with both hands and struggle out of his grasp on me.
"You can deal a blow on me that I can't heal, but how come you have that mask on, Hmm is it to hide your fears?" Discord eagle claw reach at my mask I began to kick out at him to at least hit him, his claw digits wrapped around the edge of my mask and pulled it off my face. A gasp of surprise came from him along with other gasp from seeing my face." Ah now I know why you wear and I thought you just wore it for show, but no, you wear it to hide your identity from everypony hahaha!"
"Fuck you," I spat directly at his face causing him to stop laugh and look at me with an angry expression.
"Now young boy that's no way to treat your elders," Discord lowered me down then flung me up in the air, I didn't get a chance to get my control in the air because of a huge baseball bat slammed me back to the ground by Crescent. The feel of my bones threatening me that they'll break more didn't stop me from getting back on my feet, my healing process took care of threatening bones back to their normal condition. I can feel everyone's eyes on me.
"Heartless?" I felt Crescent place her hand on my left shoulder causing me to look over at her, she had a scared expression on her face probably scared of what I am. A sigh came from me as I placed my right hand on hers and panted it before looking back at Discord. His right claw had a gold aura around it and jerked his claw back, in the corner of my eyes I saw his weapon shifted into a spear and darted at Crescent.
"Move!" I shoved Crescent down and looked back at the spear, but I caught by surprise.
"Heartless!"
POV Twilight
We watched from what Discord did revealing what was behind his mask, he wasn't even a pony nor a creature in Equis Heartless didn't eve have the same magic like unicorns. Discord threw Heartless up in the air and conjure a giant bat and hit him towards the other pony and watched as he hit the ground.
'Did Discord knock him out?' ' I thought this question to myself, taking a step forward I felt a hand on my right shoulder causing me to look at the pony who's belonged to. Applejack, the hand belonged to Applejack and shook her head.
"Twilight, ah think it's best to use the Elements no-"
"Heartless!" Applejack and I turned our heads to Heartless and the other pony, but to our shock a spear went half way through Heartless chest. He was standing up for a few second before falling back, the spear that went through him kept him from landing on his back, his body went limp as red liquid flowed down the wood staff of the spear. Discord let out an evil laugh from what he did and sat down on a throne that conjured up behind him.
The other pony by Heartless was telling at Discord and pulled out her sword and pointed straight at him, she has no chance against him since can conjure up random things to help him. She took a step foward, but something stopped her from taking another. We all watched as she stepped back and flew over to us abandoning Heartless and running away from Discord. I looked back at Heartless' body to see him standing up with no spear stinking through his chest, his mask appeared in his hand, he putted on his mask and crouched down on all fours.
"What is he-" Before Rainbow Dash even asked her question Heartless body changed, two extra limps popped out from his shoulders looking like black obsidian scythes, his cloak changed from white to black then into obsidian skin, a tail grew out to five feet, his hands turns into claws, two horn grew it of his hair, and his mask teeth opened up like a mouth along with a forked black tongue. I couldn't find the right words to talk on what had happened in front of our eyes as the creature in front of Discord, once was Heartless, let out an ear piercing shriek. He charged at Discord not wasting a second of time.
"Fluttershy is that the creature?" I asked Fluttershy from what had killed one of the manticores in the Everfree forest, she said that the manticore was burnt by fire and then was smashed by a creature stronger than a major ursa.
"N-no, the monster that killed the manticore was bigger than the town hall itself," Fluttershy said shaking from the terrifying fight happening now. If Heartless wasn't the monster that killed the manticore then what did, a blaze hydra isn't near Equestria, and the only hydra we have was in Froggybottom swamp. I have to sent a message to princess Celestia about this after we deal with Discord.
A loud shriek brought me out of my thoughts bringing me back to reality seeing Heartless on longer solid obsidian, but blue mist swinging his scythe limbs at Discord in great speed faster than swinging a stick in a levitation spell. With this I saw our opportunity to use the elements to turn Discord back to stone, but for Heartless we don't know what to do for him all we know is that he's not a pony. The fight broke up when Heartless held down Discord by his arms and his tail coiled around his stomach preventing him from escaping.
"Now's our chance girls!" I called out letting all my friends know that this chance won't come again. We all active our elements and made a circle when I felt my element ready I made the first color in our rainbow then the rest did the same until there was a rainbow around us. The rainbow went straight at Discord and Heartless engulfing them in the rainbows, we couldn't see what was happening due to o the short blindness while using these elements. When the rainbow vanished we all landed back on ours and looked to see if Discord was in stone and he was, but...
"Where's Heartless?"
Author's Note
Sorry everyone for not uploading soon I was working on another story. Don't worry this story is still be worked on just it's a slow progress from having another story in my head.
The monsters Zeal fought was from The Suffer an old Xbox and PS2 game I played back then. The second form of Heartless would be discussed in the next chapter.
Don't forget to comment to pick either number 1 or 2 for something in a chapter for something. It's a choice that I'm struggling with to make because they're both the same thing of Heartless having a pet, but with a different animal and the person who finds one.
1 Is Zeal finding the pet.
This the last chapter to vote on before I start picking up votes
The demon who framed the ponies
Author's Note
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Heartless 1
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.
A date with a Shaman part 1
Being hit by rainbow from Twilight and the other five was painful like laying on a metal sheet while a fire burns underneath it, that's how painful it was. My reaper form was helpful against Discord since the speed in the form is fast is in a blink of an eye, but downside of that form is that my body doesn't have that much armor skin and supernova wastes my energy more than using a fire clone. Didn't really suspect the rainbow to drain most of my hell energy nearly leaving me with no hell energy only my mana kept me from losing my conscious. Really can't say I wasn't happy from the fact that everyone saw my face and what I had turned into when I was fight Discord.
Being in a coma for a week makes you feel like weeks had passed by, but in truth in a bridge between life and death I found something out that I prefer to keep away from Zeal. Everything is in the past and that those events should be forgotten. Luna hasn't seen me in my dreams the past week because of "him", he trained me during my small coma of spells and other things. I can let Luna in my dreams now since I learned some things from him, but maybe later when I sleep tonight.
Waking up with Zecora on top of me giving me warmth except the warm body above me felt a bit more warmer than the average body temperature of a human. Opening one eye open I saw a black bulk creature laying on top of me curled up, not know what this creature I carefully scooted out of from underneath the creature to have a better look at it. Once I had my legs out from under it I swung my legs over to edge of the bed and tried standing up. I am able to stand now after regain some of my strength, but my legs were wobbling from the weight of my body.
Taking baby steps I made my way in front of my bed to take a good look at the creature on my bed. After many baby steps to the front I saw that the creature color was black and neon blue, faintly glowing, pure white spikes were sticking out its back, same neon blue color in its eyes, and the size of it may be twelve feet two inches tall. I continued observing the creature before a knock from the door caught my attention along with waking up the creature.
"Hey, you awake?" I heard Zeal's voice behind the door, I looked back to see the creature on my bed was wide awake with blue glowing eyes. Silence was between us as we stare at each other in the eyes until Zeal opened the door causing the creature on my bed leap over me and landed between me and Zeal. Zeal pulled his sword and pointed it at the beast.
Studying the creature's action on how it stayed very close me by an inch, it had its claws ready to strike Zeal if he gets close to me. After my quick study I discovered that it's protecting me from Zeal and that it won't let him get near me.
"Zeal wait don't attack," I demanded causing him to sheath his blade, with Zeal swords sheathed the creature in from of me dropped its defensive stance. With the creature calm I stumbled over to the creature and scratched its hard hide with my right hand while the left patted its back. The creature's muscles loosen as its leans into the scratch and purred, I don't recall ever seeing something with a dangerous appearance would be ever so calm by a scratch and a pat. As I continued scratching I started to notice its body shape and a slim body... Oh in the names of titans it's a FUCKING FEMALE!!!
I stopped scratching her and looked straight at Zeal with an raised eyebrow questioning on why there's a feminine creature here and why it was asleep on my bed. She turned around and looked straight at me, yup the thing was female due to her cup being around the B size. Zeal cleared his throat catching both of mine and hers attention.
"Justin, if you're wondering why there was a female Goliath on your bed was because of an egg I brought in for you," Zeal said answering my question in my head, but still hasn't answer the other." And another is that whenever you're not around home you will always have help." Well the other question has been answered. I no longer like being called that name anymore because of something.
"Guess that answered my question," I looked back at my "pet" thinking of a name for her something that might fit her. She growled at Zeal when he opened the door and pulled out his sword she guarded me, she didn't attack me when she heard the knock on the door meaning she sees I'm not a demon nor reassemble as one. She sees something Zeal that is a sin,but doesn't see any sins in me. After the quick playback of seeing her action a name popped up in my head." Taliha. I'll you Taliha."
I scratch the same spot on Taliha's hard hide to show she'll be call that name in her life spam. Sounds of footsteps outside my room in the hall told me that Zecora was awake. With nothing to do now since I lost my job, life, and trust in Equestria I had a plan today that Zecora would probably love.
I stopped scratching Taliha and stumbled over to the door, but when I nearly tripped on my own feet a pair of claws stopped me from face platting the stone floor. Taliha had caught me and pulled me back to my feet, I leaned onto her for support. Feeling comfortable of walking again with help I began walking towards the door.
"When you get the chance come downstairs to pick up a bow I created from oak wood," Zeal said as he walked out of the door to his own work place. Taliha and I walked out of my room downstairs into the kitchen, I can already smell something cooking in the kitchen causing me to drool. Zecora was probably cooking our breakfast this morning, but that will be no longer necessary for now. Walking in the kitchen I saw Zecora cooking some eggs on a small frying pan and chopping some vegetables on a chopping board near her, she was multi tasking cooking and cutting as she makes a breakfast.
Being silent as possible Taliha and I made our way over to Zecora, she's too focus on cooking breakfast that she didn't hear Taliha's claws tap on the stone floor. When I was close enough I stopped leaning on Taliha and stumbled over to Zecora wrapping my arms around her waist letting them climb down by her inner thighs. Zecora made an cute "eep" sound and looked at me in the corner of her left eye.
"Heartless, you're awake early than I expected, did the smell of food wake you up or is it something?" Zecora inquired as she lifted up one egg on the pan and laid out onto a plate on the table, her movement was limited because of me holding her from behind. After she did the same with the other egg, set it on the other plate, Zecora spin herself around in my embrace and kissed me.
I fell into the kiss pleasing Zecora as she moan each time I stroke her back with my hand, I lightly pushed her forward,but not close to the hot bars stove, and scratched behind her left ear with the other. Zecora started to fumble the straps on bra, but was stopped by me.
I don't really want to this a quick thing only a slow one with a date or two before I take her virginity, if she has one. Zecora looked at me with a confused face asking why I stop her.
"It's best we take it slow," I said, picking up a plate with an egg and walked towards the freezer. In the freezer were various of animal meat from pigs to dragon meat, but there wasn't much in there. Picking up two strips bacon and closed the freezer door with the flat heel of my foot and began cooking both bacons in the palm of my hand." Don't worry though our date would soon at noon when the sun is high in the sky."
When the smell of cooked bacon hit my nose I stopped cooking the strips of bacon in my hand and placed it on my plate. Taliha's gaze was on my bacon she whimpers a bit as she reaches out for my bacon. I looked down at Taliha and patted her head before giving her a single strip of bacon to her. She eagerly ate the bacon I gave to her and looked up at me.
"I may have to hunt food for you Taliha," I quickly ate my breakfast and laid the plate on the table. Taliha crawl on all fours by my side allowing me to lean on her and helping me walk around. Going downstairs I rode on Taliha's back on the way down since I would have stumble on my own feet and fall down the stairs like an idiot. I had to be careful not to stab myself with her spike as she jogged down the stairs to the basement, these spike aren't not for show they probably keep any creature off her back.
Reaching the flat floor of the basement I got off of Taliha and made my way towards Zeal's forge, he had many weapons hanging on the walls the weapons were made from iron to other metallic metal that I can't really name. Sounds of ringing metal filled the entire atmosphere as I walked towards the forge.
"Not everything has to be up close and personal," Zeal's voice echoed through the entire basement- Event some enemies has to be attacked from range. This is a reason why range weapons and firearms were invented because-" Another ringing of slammed metal ranged through the basement.
"With range weapons you can have some advantage in the air and ground, but everything has a price," I finished his sentence and walked through the barrier he has up all time. The entire basement was littered with weapon racks, chests, hooks, and three doors.
"Bow is on the rack with a quiver full of arrows," Zeal pointed his hammer towards a right by me. I picked up the bow and quiver and flung them over my shoulder, every living creature that owns a bow always has their bow over their shoulder to carry their bow. With a bow and quiver full of arrows I stumbled out of his barrier and met up with Taliha, in a few minutes I'll be hunting some critters for Taliha. Something tells me that she'll be growing up soon.
Hunting takes time and experience for one to hunt, sure a beginner can kill a deer with a gun, but with a bow it surely takes time to practice with. I don't really have to worry about training Taliha to hunt a animals, she already knows how to kill a animal like its instinct tells it to. Great thing having her with is that she can sniff out any predators nearby and avoid them since she's still not full grown, but that would change in a year or two.(wrong)
Aiming a bow can be difficult sometime during a hunt since the arrow doesn't goes straight like a crossbow and gun, but I can lean during my hunt. I had trouble shoot a bow at a bear or a fox each miss I did the predator I'm hunting gets irrigated very easily and tries to attack me, if it weren't for Taliha brutally killing a enraged predator she eats them not caring about the fur. She leaves a bloody mess of bones, organs, and limbs when she's done eating a dead animal and leaves them there for others to eat.
Messing up kinda helps you know what you're doing wrong, I wasn't doing anything though just kept missing from my aiming. My aiming was slightly approving even every time I let go the quill of the arrow firing a yard or two away from my actual hunt. Things was turning in my favor after I started practicing each time Taliha feeds on the dead animal, each shot of arrow I started getting a bit better at it.
"Man this is your tenth kill Taliha how hungry were you?" I questioned and fired another arrow at a tree I'm practicing on. There was no reply from Taliha only the sound of crunching, snapping, and tearing from her. Pulling out another arrow from my quiver I placed the sting of the bow in between the nock of the arrow and pulled back letting my strength pull the string back. With a two deep breaths I let go of the nock from between my fingers firing the arrow into the tree.
'The date should take place in the garden on the side of the mountain. ' Lowering my bow I walked over to the tree full of seven arrows in it all stuck in the bark. Pulling them out was a breeze since my strength is greater than a demon. After pulling out every arrow stuck in the tree I placed them all in the quiver before I head home with Taliha.
POV Zecora
Two hours passed after Heartless left with the creature with to somewhere, interesting to see a creature not even heard or written I books of creatures in all three books of creatures. A bulk creature having more muscles than a minotaur and tall as one, but a fierce and terrifying look to it, but if it's following Heartless then I have nothing to say of its looks. I may have to asked hIm what creature is it after our date.
I laid in bed waiting for Heartless to come back on for our date since he's had time to think of where it should be at. There wasn't anything for me to do while I waited so I got up from my bed and walked over to the bathroom to get ready for when Heartless arrives. Entering the the room I looked at myself in the mirror and began to brush my hair down from its mohawk to a flat down hair over and behind my shoulder. After brushing my hair down exit out of the bathroom into my room and picked out my training short and bra, Heartless has seen me wear these clothes whenever we train together.
Sounds of water reached my ears meaning that Heartless was here taking a shower, our rooms aren't that far away from each other only two doors away. Ever since the first kiss I started to fall for him even though he's a demon he has a soul of an innocent ze- person. The small patter of water drops stopped meaning his shower was over.
Not wasting time I took off my tribal clothing and put on the other ones before exiting out of my room towards Heartless. Muffle sound of music was playing behind the door, I couldn't hear it that well because of the door, but it had to be playing from his small device. I knocked on the door causing the music behind the door to stop along with the sound of how footsteps behind the door. Soon the door was pulled back revealing Heartless wearing only pants standing there with a confused expression on his face.
"Hey Zecora do you need something?" He asked looking at me. I felt my cheeks burn from the sight of Heartless top half being expose to me, he didn't have the slightest red on his face meaning that he doesn't care.
"I-I just what to see if our date for today was going to start," I said as I started to feel a bit unconformable about seeing his naked top half.
"It is noon so the date starts after I grabbed my shirt." Heartless turned around showing his back and a black symbol covering his most of his back. Curios on what it is I decided to ask him what it is.
"Heartless what is the symbol on your back?"
"Don't really know neither does Zeal," He answered and putted on a white shirt with hole by the shoulder in them." Had it when I first changed into human and Zeal didn't know what mean." After he had the shirt on he turned around with smile on his lips." And don't worry the place where our date is, the place is closer than you think."
I was confuse on what he meant by that I knew the Everfree forest safe and beautiful spots like a map just how is there a spot closer to this mountain. Heartless let out a small chuckle of my confuse self and grabbed my right hand in his left. He lead me through down to the first floor in front of an stone door, I don't really know what's behind the door, but I'll find out soon.
Heartless opened the door for me to see the most unique sight of a indoor garden, every flower in the Everfree forest was in a single enormous room with sunlight shining through the roof the mountain. Confused and speechless I continued to stare at the entire area.
"Zeal made this place after he finished his forge, that guy can create an entire inside of a rock like a one way see through window," Heartless said walking forward towards a tree by a small stream, if Zeal can create something like this who knows what he can make a base with. I followed Heartless to the tree. I can absolutely say that this is the first time in Equestria that demons would live in a land for peace.
Both of us sat down near the tree in the shade watching the water run by the dirt edge, Zeal must have found a way to cause the water around and caused the water to be directly inside the mountain. While I started forming questions in my head I didn't notice Heartless offering me an apple.
"Want one Zecora?" He asked as he held up and apple in his right hand while he ate another apple in his left. I nodded and took the apple from his hand. Taking a bite from the apple I decide to ask some questions about his past.
"Heartless do you know any of your human memory to tell a tail of your past self?" I asked after I took a bite of my apple before speaking again." I have never heard of your old life from who you were before you became a demon in this new life living in the Everfree forest?"
(Lots of talking here)
POV Heartless
Time seemed to slowed as what Zecora had asked about my life caused me to cringe of human life, but I did not show it, there was many chances I could have told her and yet I hadn't. Taking a final bite in the apple I placed the core apple on the ground and began to tell of my human life.
"There weren't much memory of my old human life, but there are some I can remember easily. I'll start when I was six years old," I now began to tell some bits of my memories." I was a little guy no shorter than four feet, the rest is blurry but there was a girl that had feelings towards. Every boy would be a bit embarrassed to share the same feeling towards a girl they like or the one that likes them though...I wasn't like those type of boys. I was a kid with a fighting spirit of getting into fights and defending, but when this one kid tried fighting me he ended up on a wheelchair. The kid was a son of a police officer I would have been scolded by him, but he didn't yell at me nor reported me. He just let go, at first I thought he can't do shit to me though he actually was glad that I kicked his son's ass. Next memory is when I was fourteen, five years after I met Zeal, in a building full of teenagers the same girl that had the same crush on me. She followed me through that day and told me her feelings, but I didn't have any towards anyone ever since my fighting spirit went down when I first met Zeal of hearing my soul was turning dark despite my kind nature. I didn't feel any love to anyone so I told her this I am sorry to tell you this that I don't love everyone even my own bloodline so please find someone to love. Ever since that day my emotions became nothing as I felt my body give off a relief of a sin off my back."
"What happen to the girl that loved?"
"I don't know," After saying that I looked at Zecora, she probably thinks that I won't show any emotions towards. I can copy the emotions, but I can't really feel any love." But that doesn't mean I can't make you feel loved."
"I have never thought of you not returning the feelings, though you can't feel them. Just don't forget that I love you my demon don't ever forget that."
"Ah, you're right on that...just there are a few that really want their love to feel their own. And don't worry training me I no longer need it." I got up to my feet and looked up at the branches and leaves of the tree seeing some of the sun's rays finding their way to the grassy ground. Some moments are meant to be remembered as others to remind you of what ya done. Turning my gaze away from the tree I looked at Zecora and held out my hand to help her up to her hooves. She accepted the help and was pulled up to her hooves.
I think today's date would end now. Without saying a word I pulled Zecora closed to me and walked towards the exit of the garden, tomorrow would be another day of another date
Author's Note
Sorry for not working on this and updating since I had problems with the dating part. Hope you enjoy this everypony.
The symbol
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A date with a Shaman part 2 (unedited)
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You can’t assume what you are going to be right off the bat after you find something you like, I don’t want to be something that I enjoy so much I’ll end up regretting in the future. Killing to protecting someone against those who dare wants to cause harm their whatever they were protecting, Zeal had done the same thing killing those that want to cause me harm things I can’t fight against until I get more training and handle fighting like an actual demon soldier; a soldier who takes commands from many high ranking demons. This was my rank a demon soldier ready to die for orders, but I’m not going to die for orders I’ll die whenever I want to die. Zeal was the only friend I had ever since waking up in this body, a body of some demon, he been their training me to a rank he sees fit for me ranks of demons and dark lords. What’s a dark lord you may ask, well I only know them because how Zeal tells me stories how he saw one of the dark lords; a dark lord is below the rank Devil’s Cards but they can still earn the rank of being one to serve the creator of hell.
Three days had passed after relieving Zecora of her needs. I know it was uncalled for as it could have been avoided but it was so tempting and the chance of surprising her like that was low. Sometimes taking a risk is worth it if you know the outcome. Zecora has been acting like herself when we first starting dating but a bit more on loving and clingy. I don’t really care what’s going on through her head as nothing seemed to be bothering her at all, she’s just acting more of a clingy type of girlfriend. Just hope it doesn’t bite me in the ass.
Zecora my “marefriend” or girlfriend, I don’t know much about emotions as my heart was nothing more than a flickering soul pulsing my blood through the veins in my body. All I can do to keep her happy is wearing a mask but one that I try to fake my emotions to at least keep her happy. Being heartless has a terrible price to pay as I can’t feel any love that Zecora wants me to feel, Is there a book about faking emotions if so I’ll read that book in a hea-I mean soul pulse. That doesn’t sound right.
Taliha has been acting normal as usual, she learned more commands where she could finally listen to my command for attack, hold back, capture, and sit. Yes, I had to teach her the word sit in Spanish but thankfully it didn’t too long for her to know the word sit means. She’s been growing a tiny after every hunt in the day I have taken out or when strolling around the forest to find someplace to mine for materials. The bite mark I gave her were still there on the side of her neck, I still may be the alpha to her and that bite mark proves it but Taliha could challenge again if she wants to be alpha. A goliath like her could easily take me on if I were human tearing me apart and leaving my corpse a pile of parts, I have to thank Zeal for that.
I had recovered fully after taking it easy on my body and letting the days past by me, I had recovered all of my hell energy within me staying in the room where Zeal gains him to keep himself in his form on this world’s surface. The blood in my body can regain some from drinking other animals blood; yes after biting Taliha I came to a craving for blood, but I kinda don’t feel well-drinking blood of animals to gain what I had lost and knowing that my body can replace the lost blood by time. Drinking blood made me feel less than what I wanted to stay as wanting to be the same as human and demon, but I feel like I could be something else. Something I don’t really know.
Four more days until Zecora’s and mine date starts again, four days until we have our quiet moment with each other. I already know Zecora loves me after I kissed her to occupy her mind off the pain of a broken hand. Does love really work like that when someone you spend time with each other gaining trust from one another before finally declaring your love with a kiss? What does Zecora see in me, and Luna the demigoddess of the moon, another mare that loves me for who I am; How Luna fell in love with me is something I never asked her about. Maybe I’ll have a word with her when the time is right.
The voice in my head has begun to sound like a wise old man with a deep voice and every time it would echo like being in a cave yelling out with every breath. I still do not know who he is but the more I start to piece together of how I managed to hear him after being hit by rainbows. Did something inside that rainbow entered in me or did it collided Discord’s conscious into mine? That rainbow was something I have to know about so I can prove that A or B is correct if not then all the pieces I gathered up to now of that voice was for nothing.
Magic, I only managed to learn about two more in my dream. Blessing touch; another type of healing spell being under apprentice, but this one able to repel the undead sending them back to the dead if their an unwilling soul that wishes not to be controlled. And Fury, a different spell under illusion; a deception spell that messes with the mind of the victim blinding them in some kind of cloud of emotions.
The sound of chirps from the birds above the tree, where I’m napping under, waking me up from my nap. I opened my eyes to see green leaves above me and a couple of birds chirping at one another some seemed to look like a couple having a conversation with one another as the others were flying from branch to branch. Noon, that was the time of the day. I was in the Everfree just to keep Zecora company for the whole day as she continues living in her tree house making potions for those in Ponyville. The reason why she’s here instead of being on the mountain was that of someone having some illness from some plant. I can’t do delivering again since everyone believes I’m dead and revealing myself to the folks in Ponyville word of me being alive would spread like wildfire except this one cannot be put out.
‘The sun is blinding as always it gives life to those who bathe in its light, but those who love the darkness will have hatred towards the gods who created it, Lenith, Davo Dawn, Star Breaker, and many more. Who do you hate, does the sun make you fear the light? Does darkness love you? What path will you choose one who hates the light and bathes in darkness or one who hates the shadows and loves the light? TELL ME!’ I clutch both sides of my head and bolted up straight into a sitting position, the voice had to yell in my head like a gun being fired right by your ear. The ringing in my ears soon began to stop. This is what I had to deal with a voice that questions the choices I make, gives advice if he wanted, and one that’ll give you a migraine from how loud he yells.
“For the last time, I do not know, ever since I went into rage of wanting to be alpha you started asking me this question every day…” I looked up at the leaves feeling my hood falling back, the small warmth of the sun’s beam touches my skin. The Light does not harm me and I do not harm the light, Darkness I live in and wish to control it but what is the cost? “...I don’t truly know, my soul feels like it's being pulled by the two wanting to know which side my soul is one. Is it with the Darkness? Or is it with the light? I don’t know.”
‘Very well, but do not think the darkness and light are fighting for you. ’ What? The last part left me shocked, darkness and light are not fighting me; darkness that all evil prays to and light where all holy prays too.
My gaze fell upon something different, below the tree was snake staring at me with its cat-like eyes gazing into mine. I’m not sure if this snake was just an ordinary snake slithering through the forest looking for small prey it can feed, but in those eyes, I see this snake was no ordinary snake. It looked away from me breaking eye contact before slithering away into the forest.
Having enough of sitting around and waiting for Zecora to come back I decided to go visit her before anyone else has the chance to go find her. I stood back up on my feet and pulled my hood up if there were someone at Zecora’s house then keeping myself hidden would be a smart move to make. I journeyed back to Zecora’s tree.
The branches and vines in my way were pushed aside, rocks and fallen trees were stepped over, and poisonous plants were avoided. The Everfree was still a dangerous forest that ponies here fear the creatures lurking within the woods and in the caves that are scattered around the like secret dungeons in a game, but what game I don’t know. I only encountered three kind of dangerous creatures living in the Everfree Timberwolves, Manticores, and a dragon, which I only encountered once. More had to live here it just can’t be a small bunch of animals living here being the only residents living in this forest.
“A brew to deal with Poison Sue; one that gives those eats the flower will have an unsettling hour. The taste of this brew will be sour.” Zecora walked around picking herbs and flowers petals to grind in the mortal or let some soak up water in a small water before adding them to the cauldron. I sat at in the corner watching her pour ingredients into the cauldron before going back for more. This potion she was brewing was, like she had mentioned, for a poison to cure because how some filly didn’t know what a Poison Sue is; it’s a type of flower, the flower’s pollens if someone would have stiff one they experience feeling light-headed before their limbs weaken and leave them paralysed from the neck down.
The way that Zecora brew her potions would help anyone that wants something cured or someone dead seeing how she knew most of the plants here in the Everfree forest, but I can’t say for that she knew every type of plant here in the Everfree and every combination of potions and remedy. I can handle being poisoned because how my body would carry the venom into my blood and cause me to puke out blood. It was better to lose a small amount of blood than cutting my body where the venom was injected and wait for my blood to seep out the cut losing more than puking.
“And this filly that smelled the flower is in the hospital at Ponyville?” I asked wondering if the parent was being responsible and acting like a true parent? Zecora just nodded and poured another ingredient into the cauldron before stirring the concoction with a wooden spoon.
As Zecora was working on the potion for the unfortunate filly I got up from my seat and walked over to the window. Outside was like you expect to see when living in the forest, trees, overgrown bushes, flowers, and vines. Nothing much interesting outside.
I took my gaze off the window and looked back at Zecora to see her dipping a glass bottle into the cauldron letting the brew fill the bottle up before pulling it out and sealing it with a wooden cap. She walked over to a leather satchel, on the counter near other herbs, and placed the potion inside the satchel.
“I will be back before dark.” Zecora strapped the satchel over her shoulder and walked over to me. She pressed her lips against mine and left without saying anymore.
“Great, guess listening to the voice in my head would be the only conversation I have.”
POV Zecora
After exiting out of the Forest I made it past the plain to Ponyville’s hospital where the young foal resides at. The parents did not expect Poison Sue to grow in their garden as they live deep in the Everfree where the Silver hornets gather its pollen, but after the incident of knowing that their foal had been poison the parents pluck the flower by its roots and gave it to me. I knew of the conditions if one smells the flower as knowing that I had time to worry less and brew the cure without hurrying.
In the hospital, I gave the potion to Nurse Red Heart and departed knowing that my presence would no longer be needed there. As I exited out of the doors to the outside I noticed two particular ponies that Heartless used to talk with whenever he came into Ponyville, Bon Bon and Lyra if I do remember him speaking of them during training. I had already known the two and it's no secret that they are a couple.
Lyra noticed me quickly and ran up to me with hopeful eyes. Why she has the look of hope was how she, Bon Bon, Vinyl, and Applejack had known Heartless had delivered potions to the pony that requested for their problem.
“Zecora, did you see any sign of Heartless? I know he’s still out there I just have a feeling.” It hurts me from lying to one of Heartless’ friends has he spends time when them whenever he comes to Ponyville. Applejack had come to the thought that Heartless was gone forever because of the elements, but she’s wrong as he is still alive.
“Lyra.”
“I fear to bear the news for you; but no sign of our friend not even a clue,” Lying again I observed Lyra’s expression to see her sadden of hearing the same lie from me.
“Oh,” Lyra let out a depressing sigh as her eyes stared down at the ground. “Well if you do then come see us first as he’s our friend and I want to know if he’s okay.”
“Of course, when I spot sight of him; I will come soon and speak you.” Lyra happily smiled and looked up at me glad to hear me say that.
“Thank you Zecora.” Lyra gave me a quick hug before taking a step back by Bon Bon side.
“Do you want to talk with us, Vinyl and Octavia are joining us at Sugercube corner,” Bon Bon offered. I could have denied the offer and go back to the Everfree where Heartless was doing his own things being himself, but if I did then Lyra and Bon Bon would be saddened.
I nodded, both Lyra and Bon Bon smiled liking the response they saw. I had time to waste before the sun hits the horizon. Both began to walk off to Sugercube Corner with me following behind them.
Heartless would want to know how his friends miss him and maybe he might want to see them again. Hope was the only thing I could believe in as Zeal wasn’t glad to hear about Heartless being weak and the cause of that being the ponies who turned the chaos god himself to stone and save this land from him. I can’t really blame Zeal being angered about a race thought to be peaceful only to know the next thing everything went somewhere that no zebra knows.
When I first came here before Applebloom had the courage to go search for me ignoring all the fear that the ponies here had, if it weren’t for her bravery everypony here would still be afraid of me. Being seen as a monster was not what I wanted, my kin would have told me to move than bear the burden of having these pony folks fearing me. What would have happened if Heartless arrived here earlier before Applebloom spoke with me, would we have met in kindness or the opposite? If it were the opposite him acting like a true demon my kin believes then would I have been taken a slave or eaten?
At Sugercube Corner the mares were talking about their own day how everything was, Vinyl and Octavia haven’t brought up their concern about Heartless making me feel as if they too have the same conclusion has Applejack. Do they believe that Heartless is dead that Twilight and her friends had killed them? I wish I could speak for Heartless well being that he still lives hidden in the Everfree, but would Heartless wants them to know he lives or would they spread the word of his survival.
“Zecora?” My thoughts were drowned out by the voice of the grey mare sitting across from me. Her face says it all she was worry, possibly because how quiet I was. “Do you think Heartless is still alive out there?”
“Yes,” I answered without even thinking. “I believe Heartless is alive, but he would strive to keep hidden; but do not worry my little ponies, as there is a chance he lives in the Everfree.”
“If so then why don’t we go looking for him,” Vinyl respond with joy in her voice, she stood straight up out of her chair and rested her hand on the table as leaned over the table. I mistook the silence, they do care and are eager too.
“Vinyl,” Octavia began as she pulled the DJ mare back into her seat. “We don’t know for sure where he is at in the Everfree forest, and let’s not forget about the dangerous beasts lurking within the forest where Heartless might be fighting off defending himself like how he fought Discord!” The mare grabbed hold of her friend and pulled her close that their muzzles touched. “And seeing the thing he turned into had frightened everypony that they won’t want him to be alive. Tartarus he could go against Celestia and Luna herself!”
“Octavia, I know you’re just over thinking it.” Bon Bon stood up from her chair and rested a hand on Octavia’s shoulder calming the mare down. “We all saw what he changed into after Discord removed his mask, not that I’m scared of what he changed into, a creature that may be faster than Rainbow when she performs the Sonic Rainboom when it comes to close quarters, but we all know him and still think of a friend don’t we all? And to top it off with a cherry on top he would have attacked us since he had multiple chances of harming everypony in Ponyville.”
The gray mare finally calmed and sat in her chair the others did too. The three had caused other ponies to look over at our table some unsure what we’re talking about as other, including Pinkie Pie, were interested in what we were talking about. I just hope that none of them heard what we were speaking of. Surely they couldn’t have heard us because how we kept using our inside voice to keep other ponies from listening in.
“Bon Bon is right,” Lyra spoke up agreeing with her marefriend. “He would have attacked at any moment in Ponyville and even would have harmed Applejack when we showed him, Sweet Apple Acres.”
Lyra had made her point if Heartless was a monster that everypony here sees him as then he would have attacked before Discord even broke free from his prison. The other mares sitting around the table agreed with her and Bon Bon. I already knew Heartless wouldn’t do these things they feared, but I couldn’t help myself from speaking out.
“I have known Heartless himself; he wouldn’t ever do those things of ponies who would for oneself.” I leaned over the table still seated in my chair and pulled out a piece of Heartless’ mask, how I achieve on acquiring a piece of the mask was when he arrived after the incident of Discord. The mares all leaned in and looked at the piece knowing for sure who it belongs to.
“Is that what I think it’s from?” All the mares leaned over to take a closer look at the piece in my hand. I pulled back the piece from their gaze and put it away in my satchel where it has been for most of the weeks.
“Yes, from the one who changed into the beast we saw; but do not expect the least.”
Everypony was silent not a single sound came from the other mares, the background noises were from the ponies around us talking to themselves ordering their sugary treats and desserts. What were they thinking after I have spoken, do they believe that Heartless has changed or stayed the same? I observed them looking for any signs of negative emotions, but I found none as glanced at each other.
“Zecora what day will you be free?”
POV Lyra
Tuesday, that is when the girls and I supposed to be ready. What was our plan when Zecora had shown us the piece of Heartless’ mask at first I had thought we go out instantly and start searching for him, but we all have responsibility here and we can only use one day as an excuse and what day is that? TUESDAY, the day when Zecora was able to come back and help us through the Everfree forest. How I knew that Heartless was wearing a mask I saw him took off his hoodie once in Ponyville when he came back from Sweet Apple Acres, he was sitting in a shade in an alleyway where no pony would know he would be there no pony except for me, I saw him walked in the alleyway and sat down behind a barrel with his legs sticking out. Curiosity what drove me to see what was under his hood. I managed to catch by surprise he said seeing that creepy mask of his, I don’t find it creepy...okay a tiny bit I do. How did the others know about the mask was from Octavia because Heartless helped her out when her legs were crushed under a pile of rubble from a pillar.
That mare was lucky to see Heartless without his coat, I wanted to see more than just his mask and brown hair. What did he looked like than wearing that coat of his, was he covered in brown fur that feels soft or rough, or was he similar to a minotaur having a top half furless and bottom half furred? I can just imagine him having that coat off and seeing that top half of his body naked is a dream that I wouldn’t mind seeing. I wonder if he gained more muscles than Mic Mac, but a mare can dream.
The day we had asked Zecora was four days ago, last Friday of October sixteenth. She didn’t seem to mind this until she began to sweat a bit after realizing what she said. I don’t know why she was acting nervous Zecora is a strange zebra and I have to say that at least.
Bon Bon and I had been packing two separate bags, one was packed with clothes as the other packed was packed with a tent that we would share. We also packed food and water in two satchels before going to the Everfree to meet up with Vinyl, Octavia, and Zecora. Where we all agreed to meet at, near the edge of the forest where it’s easier to spot one of us.
Sure ponies around would find it strange that a Candy shop owner, a Zebra, a DJ, and a cello musician going to camp in the forest in the third day of the week would be found suspicious. We can’t stop any pony from seeing us suspicious, but what we can do is still go into the Everfree and search for Heartless. Camping does sound fun only if it weren’t in the Everfree.
After packing the bags and satchels Bon Bon and I went out to the Everfree where the girls would meet us at. We made sure to go out around five since most ponies won’t be up around that time and it gives us less of a chance for somepony would follow us. I can’t say I’m not scared of going into a forest filled with beast that either wants to eat us for dinner or kill us just for the fun of it, Zecora knows more about the Everfree than we do since she lives in the forest itself and had met many dangerous beasts lurking behind every tree and dark caves. That’s why she’ll be guiding us as we search for Heartless.
“Do you think Heartless would be the same pony we met before the incident?” Bon Bon asked worried that Heartless won’t be the same pony that we hang out with. I couldn’t help but think too, would he be the same?
“I don’t know…” I truly don’t really know. “...Maybe he might be the same or might have changed a tiny bit.”
In the corner of my eye, I saw Bon Bon nod her head as we crossed the plain to the edge of the forest where we saw Vinyl, Octavia, and Zecora waiting for us. They all saw us, Vinyl waved her hand being the DJ mare she was her smile shows that she was glad we were doing this, I think? When we approached the mares Vinyl was the one who spoke out.
“We’re all here Zecora let’s get going!” The mare pumps her right fist at the sky acting like a filly that’s excited to go on a trip to the beach in Fillydelphia. Octavia shook her head at Vinyl childish acts before she looked over at us.
“Very well; but be wary as the Everfree is a dangerous place.” After Zecora had warned us for the final time we all entered in the forest where Heartless may or may not be in.
I have to say the Everfree was a creepy place to travel through. The magic this place had was not to be taken lightly as how some creatures lurking within this place were created by the Everfree itself, from what I had heard, like the Timberwolves and the Thorn viper (basically a viper made of sharp-ended twigs) how they're common further in the Everfree. The clouds moving on their own isn’t the worst part of the Everfree as there were more about the forest that I don’t even know. If there were books about the Everfree then Twilight might have at least some of them if not then she’s lacking on learning more about the environment around Ponyville that may help her if she ever thinks about taking a stroll in the woods.
Manticores, a type of animal that has the full body of a lion, scorpion tail, horns, and leather wings. I do believe that Fluttershy has managed to befriend one and kept him or her from harming any more ponies that go in the Everfree, but that doesn’t stop the other creatures living in the forest from harming us. What if we do run into a predator of the Everfree? Would we be able to fight back with magic or would we be killed easily? Will Heartless be around to save us like some heroes in those novels I had read when I was a filly when the innocent were in danger? Is Heartless going to hear us if we ever be in danger or would he just ignore us and leave us to our fates?
‘Lyra don’t ask stupid question like these, you already have the thoughts of Humans in your mind and you don’t need any more stress than you are going through. ’ As if Celestia was listening to my thoughts a branch that Octavia pushed out of her way smacked me across my breast causing me to yelp in pain. And having your boobs being hit with a stick wasn’t the best feeling to have and should not be thought of any stallions of making a mare’s tits to jiggle or bounce.
“Lyra!?” Octavia called out and turned her whole body in my direction, her face was full of worry that someone who meant to do that.
“I’m fine,” I said pushing the branch away and rubbing the spot where it smacked me across. Didn’t expect things to happen bad in a short amount of time. The gray mare nodded and continued following Zecora, while I tried to soothe my breast by gently rubbing them to numb the pain.
I glanced over my shoulder for a quick look at Bon Bon. She seemed to be handling all of this like it was second nature for her, it was probably a good thing that she’s handling this well since walking through a forest with creatures lurking around would frighten a filly. I turn my attention back to the three mares ahead of me and felt the throbbing pain slowly numbed away. If we find Heartless I’m not going to show him any mercy on how he could have just left us like that.
POV Third
As the mares traveled through the forest in search for a friend of their the man they were looking for was just located deeper in the Everfree sitting on the ledge carving a stick figure of himself into a tree with a steel dagger. He no longer wore that plain black cloak of his instead he wore something new, he still had the mask but only it covered half of his face from the base of the nose to the chin. The clothing he wears was made of leather and fur from the beasts he hunted with Taliha or alone by himself, Zeal didn’t make the clothes for him because how the voice wanted Heartless to learn by himself how to craft and survive on his own. He even persuaded the demon to start training on his swordsmanship or any weapon he has and practice with his magic.
Reasons, why Heartless wasn’t with Zecora on misleading the mares searching for him, was because he didn’t know and Zecora hadn’t mentioned about the mares, but she did say she’ll be busy for the whole day meaning Heartless had to use this time for training and honing his skills. He didn’t like the fact that she’ll suddenly be busy today he was looking forward to seeing how their third day would go and so did the voice. Actually, the voice wanted to see some action on their third date than seeing one being pleasure to their climax as the other not; it makes him a bit irritated not seeing both Heartless and Zecora having a sexual intercourse with one another. He doesn’t declare himself a pervert because it’s not the best thing to be known for he can’t help himself to start yelling silently how Heartless could have taken Zecora just by having sex in the shower and seal the deal, but Heartless was a bit stubborn in his mind having a normal relationship instead of an exotic one.
Both the voice and Heartless share the same pair of eyes seeing the world in different perspective. Heartless sees himself in his eyes a creature that can’t be killed with a simple stab to the heart, someone who can’t love or feel any emotions, and a demon who wants a simple life in living. The Voice sees Heartless a careless person who just ignores the fact of consequences, doesn’t take hints that are obvious to the eyes of a young one, a man that lost his personality, and a person that needs to be guided with a demanding trainer that wants to see his student succeed.
‘Carving a stick figure of yourself does not count as training Heartless. ’ The voice said sound unpleased of the man’s action.
“You didn’t tell me how to sharpen my skills on using a sword better and haven’t mentioned what spell I should practice,” Heartless remarked dragging the tip of the dagger in the tree’s bark. Both of them were getting on each other's nerves, each one wants to shut the other up and continue what they want, but they couldn’t physically or mentally do anything they want to each other making matters worse, yet.
‘Ever since I began to speak you started to cope with me, but now! NOW, you’re just being a teenager that wants to ignore the advice of an elder that lived longer than you and has more experience with life, what happens to the Justin I once met when you were in the coma? ” Heartless could feel a small pressure on the back of his conscious. It felt as if something had moved and was pacing in back and forth. ‘Did that little temper of being angered made you come out of a shell and move to a crappy one that is filled with negativity? I know releasing your anger would set your mind calm but does it have to change you want to become a demon stronger than other demons? If so then stop it and listen, I can help you but some being a little shit and calm down back to yourself. ’
A thud was the only thing that heard from Heartless, the dagger was stabbed in the tree is only an inch deep. His breathing was shallow as his soul was flickering wildly around boiling the blood flowing through it like a pan of water over a burning inferno.
There was a moment of silence as the man slowly nod his head agreeing with the voice. After he had let loose some of his anger out on Taliha he found himself becoming something that he once didn’t care, but thinking about Zecora changed his mind. Turning into a demon is one thing but becoming one fully is another.
“Okay,” Heartless murmured pulling the dagger out of the bark and sheathing the blade back into its leather sheath, below his armpit. “I may have not fully meant being a demon when Taliha was trying to be the dominant one, but I just want to be stronger. Ever since you began talking. After , I was hit by the rainbow, I start to realize how weak I was and that Discord could have taken me easily even when I changed into my reaper form I could not have won that fight.”
‘Then become something else there is no such thing as good or evil, both are just words that have definition behind them. You can stay neutral by not picking a side, but that does not stop someone from forcing you to. ’ The voice’s words calmed Heartless a bit knowing that he can stay the unemotional type self instead of being a devil that many (or some) look down upon.
“Where are we training at?”
‘That my sir is an excellent question one that you already know where peace and tranquility reside at. ’
“So that waterfall I accidentally found yesterday surrounded by roses making it the perfect place to bathe in cool water and fish in?”
‘Umm...no, I was talking about the pond Zecora and you trained at, but hell that works too! ’
Hours had passed from the early morning to night, the mares searching for Heartless were exhausted. They had set up camp near a river where the source of water was near them and the area around them was clear of trees where no Timberwolves would catch them by surprise. Zecora had done her best to avoid any landmarks Heartless had made around the Everfree where he either uses them as navigation. She did her best to keep the mares with her from suggesting the path to go and leading them to safer parts of the forest where the dangerous creatures lurked in.
All in all, they were tired of wandering through the forest and the spot they’re at was the perfect place to relax and sleep until morning comes again for more searching around, but for a few hours, before going back to Ponyville. A small campfire was in the middle of three tents its flames had warned off those who were afraid of flames and kept the mares around it warm. Ponies would believe that this would just be an ordinary camping trip if they ever wanted to journey through the woods to a river where they would tell campfire stories, but these group of mares had a goal of finding their friend even if it was a wild goose chase.
“Did any of you pony folks know of a way to explain your actions; knowing Heartless, he would have a confused reaction?” Zecora had said this because she wanted to know more how dearly these mares cared for Heartless. The four mares glanced at each other wondering if one or another would like to go first. Out of the four Octavia spoke out and stood up from sitting on a log, she knew what to say as it always been stuck with her ever since she was saved.
“I do…” All attention was on the gray mare as she began to speak. “...Ever since Heartless saved me from the pile of rubble from the Gala, I know Vinyl had mentioned him before the events at the Gala had happened and I had the chance of knowing him, but I didn’t take that of knowing him. After he had saved me, I wanted to have a word with him for the choice he made of helping me instead of walking away leaving me trapped under the rubble.”
Octavia sat back down on the log and kept her eyes locked on Zecora wanting her to know full well that she had said was truly what she meant. Soon Lyra stood up and so did Bon Bon both having the same reason for finding their friend, wanting to know why he didn’t return. They want an explanation to why he did not return to his friends or even send a letter to let them know that he was alright. Vinyl was the last pony to explain her reason for her action of finding Heartless, She wanted him to talk, not about why he didn’t return like Lyra and Bon Bon wanted but to why he hid his own identity from everypony. The DJ mare was their when Discord had attacked she saw his face when the god of chaos had revealed his face to everypony that was the battle between two different beings. What are his species, he never took off his hood in front of them and never let anypony see his face even with the sun shining on his face he would always avoid it.
Most of the time was discussed among the mares about the chance that Heartless might be alive and could have listened. But the possibility was low as the demon wasn’t near them to hear what they talk about instead he was up to the river stream, under the water surface. Why was he under the water’s surface? The voice in his head had managed to convince him that training with swordsmanship is to forget his demonic strength and use his human body’s own muscles to be his own strength, mass doesn’t change when submerged in the water but it makes you feel lighter because how water pushes you up to the surface. Lifting up the Alduin would help gain muscles for the demon, but that was with the help of water pushing his arms up as the density of the metal is more than the density of water.
There were a few times where Heartless nearly drowned and had to swim up to the surface for oxygen. His very own human strength was capable of lifting Alduin up over his head for a few swing before needing to rest his muscles. All things needing to be improved and learned would take time and build up endurance and strength. These things were needed to become a strong swordsman, but strength alone would be a waste if there weren’t any knowledge in a warrior’s head then he’ll be running into battle without a strategy for victory.
One cannot trust their own strength as knowledge could beat strength if the cards are set in the right place. A few know about the cycle how there can be three sets of cards when against strength and intelligence. Both are the main sets of being mostly used on one another, but the third was an optional card that only a rare few had used. Using both intelligence and strength.
‘Isn’t there a spell where I can give myself some kind of bubble to breath in? ’ The man asked the voice in his head as he swung his sword, his muscles were beginning to sore from countless tries of lifting the blade up and putting force in each swing. His blade struck the rocky surface it scraped along the smooth surface.
‘There is, ’ The voice said. ‘But learning how to hold your breath more is better than breathing water for sixty seconds. ’
‘Sixty seconds? ’ Heartless repeated sounding more confused at the time that the reason. ‘You’re telling me that there is no water breathing spell that last thirty minutes? ’
‘In that book of yours? Fuck no, those two books are human type spells, not the actual titan's spells. ’
A moment of silence was between them as Heartless mind began to register what he said. Human spellbook not some legendary book from Heaven and Hell, instead he was given a human spell book by his friend Zeal. Staring down at the rocks littering the river’s floor Heartless looked up at the dark starless sky. He began to wonder if Zeal was truly his friend or a demon that had tricked him to believe he was his friend.
Feeling his lungs burning from the lack of air Heartless dropped Alduin letting the blade vaporize the water around it before returning inside his body. Heartless surfaced and gasped for air. The feeling of oxygen refilling his empty lungs was a great feeling, but the splashing water caused somepony to yelp in surprise.
“Huh?”
POV Heartless
I stared at the red-faced zebra wearing nothing else, her own clothes were by her hooves away from the river bank. When did she arrive? Zecora was naked on the river bank and I was too in the river which was deep enough for me to dive in a few feet. Did that zebra followed me here and waited for me to resurface for another breath of air or did it just became conveniently well time that when I swam back to the surface the zebra was ready to dive in.
Not even a minute of silence Zecora stepped into the water letting it soak her white and black striped legs. Her tail followed suit behind her slithering in the water, her hips swayed side to side with each step she took on the shallow part of the water before it reaches up her hips. She was planning something that had to do with the river but I couldn’t tell what that something was.
I met her half way before the surface of the water hand reached her breast giving me the best view on the show on seeing how hard her nipples looked and how her breast lifted up and lowered down with every breath she took. We gaze into each other's eyes closing the distance between us with her breast pressing against my bare skin. Yep, from how hard Zecora’s nipples looked they were definitely hard.
‘Something is not right she’s burning up as if she has a fever. ’ The voice was right Zecora felt warmer than usual. I place a hand on Zecora’s cheeks and felt the burning heat radiating from her skin from the physical touch. Was Zecora sick? No, she doesn’t look weak how fevers would cause your body to feel heavy and breathing would quicken with every breath.
‘She can’t be- ’
‘Zecora is in heat from lust not from that time of year. ’ I arch a brow at the thought of Zecora being controlled by her own lust just so to have the courage for getting in this river with me. Can lust really make someone go for sexual interaction or seeing someone or something in some type of fetish?
“Heartless,” I heard Zecora say my name. I glanced down at the zebra see her face no longer red like a tomato, but she still had a faint hue of red on her cheeks. “It’s the day our date begins; however my body yearns for your sins.”
Alduin gave me a quick and simple explanation, Lust was a sin as I already knew that. I was a bit concern about Zecora being controlled by lust and wanting to satisfy it with sex, but the main concern I have was how to please Zecora needs if her lust doesn’t like it. The main question I have was that of Zecora was she ready?
“Zecora, we don’t have to do this,” I told her as I wrapped my arms around her body pulling the zebra close as possible.
“I know you worry about what is happening as my body burns with my desires; do not worry as my feelings are no liars.” I chuckled lightly happy to know she wasn’t forcing herself on me. My hands travel down her back all the way to Zecora’s rump causing the zebra to hum from the touch before our lips connected. I felt her tongue slid along my lips asking for entrance, giving what the zebra wanted I open my mouth letting the zebra’s tongue brush against my canines. The feeling of someone’s tongue brushing against your teeth and tongue felt weird at first seeing how useless this action in a kiss, but I guess you just roll with it.
Our kiss broke when we pulled back making a string of saliva. Her hands snaked their way into my boxers sending a shiver up my spine as I felt her hands slide along my shaft. I felt my body softly shake from her touch as Zecora's soft hands quickly made work on getting me hard and making a tent in my boxers as she used one hand to grasp my member and the other to pull my boxer down. I felt my body burn from the inside from the zebra’s delicate touch her soft fingers stroke the side of my member.
Zecora giggles like a child before pressing her body against mine slight bouncing wanting more attention on her body than the hands. I lifted the zebra up an inch off the river’s floor and walked out of the water to the shore where we don’t have to worry about anything swimming along the river to ruin this moment. While carrying her I rubbed my middle finger around her back entrance teasing her second hole. I slid the tip of my finger in and out of her hole causing her to grind her teeth and clutch her ass together sandwiching half of my finger between her firm cheeks. When the water reached up to my ankles Zecora’s hand jerked back bringing me to a halt from the small shiver of pleasure. She got me standing still like a statue as her hand began to work pulling back and forth, the pleasuring stimulated my senses making my vision began to changed everything around red except for Zecora, she still had her white coat with black stripes.
‘Interesting. ’ My breathing became short gasp as if my lungs lost the ability to breathe before a sharp pain erupted from my back. The sound of flesh ripping apart and wings spread apart. I saw Zecora’s eyes shrank and ears fell flat back. For some reason, there was an itchy feeling inside of me wanting to be scratched, a feeling that felt reasonable that the answer was staring at me in fear. Soon air returned to my lungs giving me the ability to breathe again.
“It’s alright Zecora it’s probably a demon thing,” I told her removing my other hand from her rump and scratching behind her ears. It took a small hint of reality for the zebra to be knocked out of her trance. Our eyes met; hers filled with worry as mine would be filled with no emotions.
We didn’t make any movement or break eye contact, seeing the zebra being worried kinda made me feel like a jerk that just lies to their friends about the problem that him/her are dealing with. I held her chin up, the hand I used to scratch her with, and pulled her into a passionate kiss hoping to replace her worry with comfort. It worked as she was kissing back, but a bit too much that I could feel her body warming up like burning ash. Zecora used her free hand to pull my head down closer to hers keeping our lips locked together as we slowly began to lower ourselves to the ground.
I pulled back breaking the kiss and went straight for a bite, or a nip, in the crook of Zecora’s neck causing the zebra to freeze up before her legs wrapped around my waist. Each bite was gentle to make Zecora feel safe. The zebra moan softly I felt her hand began to jerk my rod causing my body to tense a bit from every motion she did with her hand. My hand, on Zecora’s rump, grip tighten causing the zebra to moan out louder than before out of pleasure or from a fetish of pain. On some random instinct, I suck my teeth on the side of Zecora’s neck causing to scream out as I felt myself cum on her coating her stomach with strands of semen.
I pulled my stained blood teeth back and looked at the results. A small stain of blood coated the zebra’s neck where I had sunk my teeth into her flesh, but thankfully I didn’t pull back while her neck was still in my mouth. I felt stupid of the action I had done and rested my left hand on her neck using Healing hands to help seal the puncture holes; however, it didn’t remove the bite marks from her skin and didn’t regrow the fur back to cover that mark.
“Sorry.” Was the only thing I could say feeling a bit ashamed of biting my girlfriend. I sat up with my hands on my knees and wings folded on my back. The position we were in now looked awkward seeing this from a distance with a demon on his knees with his dick in a zebra’s hand and a female zebra on her back looking down at the demon. I felt Zecora’s fingers unwrap around my hardened member and traced their way up my stomach all the way to my right shoulder where she pulled herself closer to me pressing our bodies together and coating my stomach with my seed.
“Do not worry about what you did; as you brought no harm to me, hun.” Zecora nuzzles my cheek as wrapped her arms around my neck keeping us close together. Her words don’t help to forget what I had done to her, putting a bite mark is one thing but ripping the side of her neck out is another that should never happen. I grasped Zecora’s round rump and lifted her up a bit where her collarbone was eye level to me.
“If you say I brought no harm then are you ready for this?” I asked her resting the tip of my dick between her soaking wet pussy. Her fur brushed against my cheeks as she nodded giving me an improved nod. Taking a deep breath I lowered her down causing her thighs to spread apart and press against mine.
“AH,” Zecora yelps in my arms her breast to bounce up a bit. Halfway inside her, I could feel her inner walls squeeze my member inside her. Her breathing was slow as every breath she took was deep, her breast was pressed up against my chest as she took her time adjusting. “You can go.”
I lowered her down more having her pussy take in more of my length inch by inch spreading apart her inner walls, Zecora’s hands gripped my shoulders her expression turned to painful one, she hissed as I felt something warm flowing out of her. She was too tight that it was causing her pain and it was starting to worry me. Thinking of a way to replace that pain with pleasure I only thought of one thing to do.
Removing a hand from the zebra’s rounded cheeks I took Zecora’s right breast into my hand and lifted it up to my mouth and started to suck on her nipple causing the zebra in pain to let out a moan. The milk coming out of the zebra’s hard nipples tastes great making me wanting more of the warm milk from her breast. I felt Zecora loosen up giving me the chance to lift her up slightly before bringing her back down causing a shiver up my spine and me to groan slightly from pleasure.
“Hmmm,” Zecora hummed as I slowly lifted her up and brought her back down while sucking on her breast for more of her milk. It started out slow with Zecora’s upper limbs wrapped around the back of my neck then soon we began to pick up the pace. I thrust into the zebra’s pussy causing her to scream out in pleasure. I switch breast sucking on her right nipple drinking more milk from her.
‘You’re taking this well Heartless. ’ I ignored the voice inside my head and leaned down putting myself on my knees and Zecora on her back as I began to thrust in faster and harder making the mare scream. Her eyes were rolled up inside her head as well her legs around my waist locked together giving me easy access to slide into her pussy. Zecora’s inner walls began to tighten around my cock making it more pleasuring to thrust into her.
“H-Heartless! I’m cumming!” She screamed out and arched her back as I felt her walls around my dick tighten and squeeze as her love juices squirted out. Do zebras have less endurance when it comes to holding in until you couldn’t hold it anymore? Zecora’s body went limp making me feel a little disappointed. I pulled out of her and looked down at my work to see her chest lifting up and going down with every breath she took and breaths out.
“You can’t leave like this Zecora,” I whined not even having the chance to release my load into her. The zebra below me looked up at me staring at me with those gorgeous eyes of her before she gestured a finger for me to come closer. Leaning closer to the mare and tilting my head she began to whisper.
“Help me up and I will give you relief of your love seed.” Zecora didn’t go into rhyming but it was clear as to what she wanted to do. I lifted the zebra up keeping my left hand on her hips with the other hand below the sides of her ribs. I laid back letting the woman do her work as the female she is. It took Zecora some time to gain her balance on sitting up even with my help before she managed to perfect lift herself up enough to line up her dripping pussy over my hardening dick.
Slowly she lowered herself down taking my length, her inner walls spread apart as my member slides into her with much ease this time than the last time. When our hips touched one another’s Zecora began to raise herself a bit before dropping down causing me to gasp and her to moan out. The soft sound slapping muffled out the running river as Zecora continue to take it slow. It cost me my tongue to keep myself from moaning out in pleasure as the mare riding me began to move her hips back and forth. I dug my fingers into the dirt under me and looked up at Zecora, she was staring down at me with a smile as she slams hips down.
I smirk as I watch the zebra do all the work, she started to pick up the pace slamming her hips down. She rested both her hands on my chest keeping herself up. I let my right hand slide down Zecora's side and rest it on her hip. Zecora doesn't seem to mind as she slammed her hips down until I thrust into. The zebra on top moaned and shut her eyes shut as I thrust into her again.
My body began to burn as if my blood was on fire burning through my veins slowly burning me from the inside out as I thrust into Zecora’s making wet slaps. I tasted copper in my mouth meaning that I had fully bit off my tongue or punctured a hole in it. I felt Zecora’s inner walls began to squeeze my dick in her meaning she was close and I wasn’t too far from her.
“H-H-Heartless, I’m-” I didn’t let her finish when I thrust into her and held her down as my dick twitched before releasing the load inside of her. Zecora’s body arched up a bit causing her tits to jiggle, she screamed out cumming as well.
After our climax, the zebra on top of me went limp and fell over. I managed to catch her before she fell into the water, I pulled her close and lifted her lower half up, pulling my limp member out of her.
“I could have told you that I was about to cum too, but I bit my tongue,” I told her brushing a strand of wet hair out of her eyes seeing them close as she breathes softly. She was already fast asleep. I sighed seeing how I’m going to carry back to home, but not without dressing her up in the clothes by the shore.
“Heartless!” My blood froze as I looked at the shore to see a group of familiar mares.
“Shit.”
Author's Note
First time writing clop... not sure if I did well or horrible, but if those who are more experience in writing clop then give me some advice.
New voice and a choice (unedited)
Waking from my slumber I arose from my bed or so I had thought. The bed I have awoken on was a sleeping bag with a. The bed I had woken up on was a sleeping bag made out of fur, the same I had brought with long ago when I started to away from my homeland until I came across the land of ponies. Ponies do not hunt for materials they gather from plants and sheer other animals with permission, but that does not mean that some don’t hunt. Downcast ponies that kept to their old ways hunting again before the creation of Equestria, I only remember coming across few that sees me as a threat but they couldn’t keep up with me because of their gear.
Tirely I glanced around to noticed that I was inside a tent. Did Heartless had to set up camp because of me? I tried to stand up on both my hooves only to tumble down onto my knees. A small sting of pain around my thigh kept me from trying again. Cramps, I didn’t expect myself to get cramps after mating, but then again I have never mated before only relieved myself from my needs with a finger or two or even a toy.
My ears softly rung as my mind and body began to wake up, I could barely hear anything other than the ringing in my ears. As seconds began to past the ringing in my ears starts to fade away as sounds of wood burning outside told me that somepony was out there kindling the fire. I stared at the entrance of the tent watching the flap move from the wind.
‘Where is Heartless? ’ My eyes traveled along the tent's walls seeing the orange glue of the fire, from outside, illuminated the room as I looked around. There wasn’t much to see other than me in a sleeping bag and the or glow on the side of the tent.
I laid on my side and rubbed my thigh hoping that the pain would soon numb away. On my side, with my hands rubbing my thighs the sound of hoofsteps caught my attention and soon made me froze. A shadow a soon appeared on the side of the tent as the hoofsteps gotten louder and louder until the shadow was no longer on the side of the tent but now at the entrance. My eyes were glued to the entrance of the tent as claws pulled the flap back. Acting quick I cover myself back up and closed my eyes than listen.
The flap was pulled back along with the sound of the crunching sound under somezebra’s hoof, the sound got closer and closer until it was right behind me. I kept my eyes closed and ears still acting as if I was asleep. More movement could be heard, whoever it is was above my head their breathing can be heard meaning they could be on their knees. I felt its claws brushed against my cheek, I couldn’t help but shiver at the touch feeling the cold claw touch my skin under my fur. Its other claw lifted my head up before I felt an arm wrap around my body and pulled me close to it and out of the sleeping bag.
The heat radiating from the zebra or person holding me close felt like laying on a warm blanket that was heated by a fire. I cracked an eye open to see a familiar face, my heart beat faster as memories of last night flashed before my eyes. Heartless eyes were halfway closed glowing a faint red too as I felt his hand and claw pulled me closer to him. With my back against his body I could feel his chest lift up and down with every breath he takes in and lets out, for a male without a heart and being a demon he’s a gentlecolt or man.
I closed my eye and leaned into him resting my head on his enjoying the body heat he was sharing. The sound of the tent entrance being pulled up caused my ears to twitch but also caused Heartless underneath me to move his head.
“Is this how lovers cuddle?” I heard Heartless asked to whoever was at the entrance. “Not exactly sure if this is how one loves someone then I’ll try it, but isn’t there another way for me to show “affection” of loving someone?”
“Well yes that’s one of the ways of showing your love for her,” The voice was female and belong to a mare I know. Did they actually found him? When did they found him and how did they react to seeing him? Was it my fault for leading them here, a question I have but not answer were not given. “It’s how I treat Vinyl, she usually loves it when I give her some attention and affection.”
“I’ll take your word for it Octavia,” I heard Heartless say as the sound of the Octavia walking away the tent told me she left. Now it was just him and I al-
“Hey, Justin!” That excited voice I knew who it belonged to the one mare that was the first pony folk to make friends with him. The sound of clopping hooves at the entrance told me she was here, not even a second late Lyra came in. “You still have to show me more of your human body, I know it sounds strange but you have no idea how it’s exciting to see an actual human even if one isn’t fully human you still have the form.”
“I’ll think about Lyra.” I wasn’t sure what Lyra did but after a few seconds, she left. Waiting for more interruption from the ponies outside seeing how I tried to relax into Heartless’ hold and enjoy the “affection” he was giving me. What felt like an hour had passed I can fully say that the ponies outside won’t interrupt me from relaxing again and this time I can spend the time now to take in his scent and feel loved by him. Shifting my body closer to his I lifted my butt slightly and sat on his crotch.
Heartless seemed have noticed my movement his hand and claw trailed down my stomach to my waist and finally down to my thighs. He kept his hands on my thighs before slowly rubs them. I could feel my body burn as his hands' stroke up and down my thighs, I couldn’t help but to shiver from his touch he could do anything he wants with my body right now and I wouldn’t stop him from doing it unless I don’t like it. Letting out a low hum I lean my head on his as Heartless continues sliding his hand up and down my thighs.
Time felt like it was going by slow, I didn’t want to fall asleep nor did I ever want this to stop each time his hands rubs down my thighs. My body felt like a pouch of burning coal, I couldn’t stop myself from breathing heavily. Heartless must have noticed how hard I was breathing he stopped what he was doing and pulled back his hands.
“I know you’re awake Zecora”
POV Heartless
Zecora’s ears twitched slightly as she opens up her eyes, I knew she was awake because how her ears twitched earlier when Octavia opened the tent’s flap. The zebra could have fooled someone who doesn’t pay attention closely but I was giving my full attention to her making sure she feels loved. I find it a bit funny how something without a heart could have someone love them even if they are different creatures. Her eyes stared into mine, I could see how much she enjoys my company when I was rubbing her legs with a hand and a claw. My right hand, I turned it into a claw when showing the girls my demon form. I have never thought they would find me out in the forest where dangerous beasts lurk within the place such brave or dumb friends I have managed to make in Ponyville.
The zebra in my grasp smiled slightly and rubbed her cheek against mine. I let have her way with me since I see no harm coming to me from letting my girlfriend love me. Closing my eyes I begin to go into deep thinking of the situation happening now since my friends found me, except Applejack, out of eight of my friends four of them came to the Everfree just to find me. All this is just going by a bit too fast that I may want to read up on slowing time down or increase my speed. Guess normal is something that will never happen as there might be something strange happening.
I found it funny how the girls reacted when they saw me naked holding Zecora, who was also naked, on the shores where we had sex at. All four had red faces. Lyra out of the four kept her eyes on me but the other had their eyes somewhere else, she was the only mare that observed me when I was dressing up Zecora in her native clothes sadly mine was on the other side of the river. My wings had come in handy when retrieving my clothes. I can say the whole explanation of what I am and who I am. It began with the twenty questions from each mare asking me the things they had on their minds.
They all wanted to see the other form I had my body’s original form is a demon, so I gave them what they asked for. In that form, my masked was cracked as if it was smashed by a hammer then put back together and been glued to stay on. I like having that mask it what kept me hidden from those wanting to see my face and made me felt a tiny bit safer.
The girls were surprised of seeing my body having a slender tail, leather wings, claws, and horns, but I was also surprised how my body changed from the first form being scarlet red to ash gray and my the armor scales around my body changed to leather this was the first time that happened me. Thankfully the voice in my head told me why. Turns out my body is slowly changing as if the choices I make affect it, could I follow the path of a fallen angel or follow the devil’s path?
In my arms Zecora wiggled around, she slowly managed to turn her body around where she has her thighs spread out, legs folded back, arms around me, and her breast pressed up against my chest. The look in Zecora’s eyes was something I wasn’t familiar with she was staring at me without a care her lips curled up into a smile showing me her pearly white teeth. What does one do when in this situation?
‘Well it’s pretty obvious kiss her, ’ The voice told me. Another thing I gonna has to take note of. Leaning forward I pressed my lips against hers giving the zebra what she wanted a kiss, right?
“Hmmm,” I heard Zecora moan as she pulled herself closer to me keeping our lips locked and tilted her head to deepen the kiss. I trailed my right claw up Zecora’s back making sure I slight dug into her skin, not enough to cut her skin just enough to leave claw marks. As the lack of air began to take its toll Zecora and I pulled back staring into one another's eyes as we breathe heavily. We continued staring at one another before a new voice spoke inside my head different than the other.
‘That’s enough loving time now is training! ’ Whatever the voice was they sounded like a crazed person who’s too energetic and loves destruction. A low growl sounded out along with the sound of...glass breaking and screaming? Wait, how is there glass inside my head, if they’re inside my head? What?
‘ARGH, LOOK WHAT YOU DID! NOW HOW WILL WE BE ABLE TO SEE NOW!? ’ That was the first voice one who was helping but he sounded mad as if the second voice inside my head did something. The sound of laughing coming out of nowhere was starting to make me feel uncomfortable.
“You should rest Zecora,” I said out of the blue. The zebra looked at me with a raised eyebrow as I laid her down on her side. Having one voice with a booming voice is enough but having another that sounds like a psychopath is something I don’t think I can handle.
“My love is there something troubling you; please tell so I know what to do.” More crashing sounds came inside my head giving me a small headache. Was that an explosion? A sharp pain suddenly erupted inside my head, anyone that didn’t know how to handle pain would have collapsed and screamed out but I didn’t.
“Nothing, you just needed some rest and I have something to do,” I lied. Zecora doesn’t need to worry about me having voices in my head, especially one that suddenly popped up. Before Zecora had a chance to speak up I exited out of the tent and made my way to the river.
‘Oh come on big guy just because your a soul of a god dragon doesn’t mean you have to act like that, ’ The second voice or should I say Jes, short for Jester, was mocking Nuk a god dragon that soul is cursed within the greatsword. The second voice has both a female and male voice switching from the two. Turns out if you listen to a psychotic voice, they yap out the truth as if they took some kind of demon drug. Seems like Jes wants me to get stronger in both mental and physical state.
Alduin, the blade I thought had a soul of a titan was not what I thought it was. I now want to ask Zeal personally about the truth of what really happened, did I really met him or did he found me and saw the opportunity to train a human soul? Will Zeal lie to me if I ever asked him or would he just come out with the truth? All this thinking was starting to take its toll on me as the screaming and over thinking was making my brain hurt.
‘Don’t you dare try to tell me what I should act like I am the dragon god of Courage and Strength, I watched as mortals pray for courage to face the challenges they counter and strength to move other obstacles that dare gets in their way. I watched my kind pray to us, I will not act like someone else. Heartless may have been a mortal but he still has a soul of one, his gods should be proud that corruption did not taint his soul! ’ That’s probably the nicest thing Nuk could say to me ever since he started speaking inside my head...na there were probably going to be more in the future if I stay as myself. Knowing more about Nuk was interesting as this was the first I met an actual god, not in person though, but spoke with. How would one be calm if they knew that they were speaking with a god, would they be calm and speak to them like an ordinary person or would they freak out and beg to the god forgiveness?
‘FOR FUCK SAKE WILL YOU TWO STOP YELLING I’M STARTING TO GET A HEADACHE FROM BOTH YOU’RE BICKERING ABOUT YOUR FUCKING PAST!!!’ No one spoke up after that. I rubbed the side of my head to numb down my headache as I sat on the tree above Vinyl’s and Octavia’s tent, both were asleep mind you as it’s past midnight.
‘He started it, ’ Jes said sounding like a child. Another moment of silence filled the atmosphere, no spoke after that, Nuk didn’t retaliate on Jes blaming him for starting up this argument of theirs. I leaned up against the bark of the tree and swung my leg down, my body had relaxed a little after the event with Zecora by the river. The fire in the middle of the camp was still going with no one but me watching it.
“Rough night Justin?” I turned my head to the right where Zeal’s voice came from. He wasn’t wearing the armor he possed but he had pieces of steel armor on, mainly the chest and legs, and his sword on his hip.
“Adink,” I answered not really caring that I spoke in demonic language. The branch I was sitting on shook a bit as he climbed over to me before sitting down beside me. A moment of silence was between us as we stared down at the camp below watching the campfire slowly die.
“I noticed how we spent less time together and how we haven’t talked that much after arriving here in Equestria,” Zeal said he shifted a bit to have a comfortable way of sitting on the branch. My “friend” wasn’t wrong we hadn’t spent much time with one another other than talking a few second before departing off. Nodding I agreed with him. “So I’ve been thinking Justin how about we go on a small hunt towards the east, I spotted fair game there where we can hunt and talk getting back together as friends we used to be.”
“How far is it.”
“Eight hours if we walk, six if we run, four if there’s no bad weather, or two if there is clear weather this morning,” Zeal answered. I now have a choice between hunting with Zeal or spending time with the girls below. Which one should I choose?
‘Hunting will make us stronger! ’
‘Keeping contact with friends will help us know about new events. ’
Author's Note
There are two choices you guys and gals can vote on.
The first one is 'Friends'; Heartless will stay with his friends from Ponyville and turn down Zeal's offer on hunting in the East, deepening his relationship with the mares and also know what was happening with Luna and Crescent Fang. Heartless' soul would stay neutral not being corrupted or pure.
The second one is 'Hunt'; Heartless joins Zeal in his hunt leaving his friends behind and not knowing what was happening with Luna and Crescent Fang, both Zeal and Heartless trust would increase and corruption would build up in Heartless' soul.
News for you and...what? (unedited)
After turning down Zeal’s offer I stayed at the camp watching as the fire dies down before starting it back up again. Time seemed to fly past by as I sat near the fire, sometimes I would stick my hand in the fire and watch it charred up before pulling it back out. I had continue wasting time until the next thing I knew it was already morning.
The birds were singing, insects were chirping, and a certain light mint color mare screaming in delight was the only thing that could probably be heard a good mile away. Lyra’s squeals of over gratification of having to study my body a bit more than last light probing her finger in my mouth feeling my canines and molars against her fingers. The mare could have gotten carried away with her enthusiasm for wanting to study and observe my body more but the mare had to be restained by two other certain females, one obviously being my girlfriend.
“Do remember our deal, or your pain will be unreal.” Zecora’s threat wasn’t a joke as she would indeed bring unimaginable pain to Lyra if she ever did go out of control from all her touching. I can’t really see the side darker of Zecora breaking one of Lyra’s fingers, but she has been more protective of me from the other girls. She sat on my lap her left hand had mine in her grasp and her body was well pressed up against me as she kept an eye on Lyra.
Bon Bon on the other was watching Lyra as well, she just thumps her on the side of the head whenever she sees that Lyra was getting too excited by touching me or feeling my touch. Still can’t really comprehend Lyra’s reasons on why she’s so fascinated by the human race there as to be something else she must be fascinated by something else than humans, right?
“I know, I know it’s just so fascinating to see how he actually shares the same similarity as the humans I seen in my dreams, their body structure, smooth skin, small nose, a single patch of hair, and their little toes.” Lyra squealed out in excitement as she pulled her finger out of my mouth. Dreams of humans, I want Luna to take me in Lyra dreams. Closing my mouth I looked over at the other two girls who sat on the log in the opposite direction from us.
They had my phone in their hands searching through various music I had on it, some of the music they played was Vinyl’s type of music and the others were Octavia’s type of music too both had been skipping through the different variety of songs. Octavia was a bit disgusted with most of the non-classical type of songs especially the rock type of music. Vinyl, on the other hand, was liking some of the other music genres that good beats, the mare would occasionally switch to hip hop or to dubstep whichever one she enjoys.
I felt Zecora shifted a bit before getting more comfortable, she leaned her head back rubbed my cheek against hers. Love, I still don’t understand what having emotions is or how it truly feels to feel love but I guess this was a start to feel love by Zecora, how she never leaves my side or would kiss me whenever she saw the chance of doing so. Can one feel love if they don’t have a heart?
“Hmmm.” I softly hummed as I leaned my head on Zecora’s, listening to Lyra and Bon Bon’s conversation.
“Lyra, I know he’s fascinating because you saw his race in your dreams, but don’t be like Twilight, she’s always studying and invading someone’s privacy without their permission and almost always takes them without them knowing what she wants. I don’t want somepony who’ll stay up all night reading on books and lose their sanity when things don’t go their way,” Bon Bon said sounding a bit irritated about Twilight but I guess it’s something that the mare had done in the past. Future note, don't get spotted by anyone in Ponyville or else Twilight might know about it and do something worse than sticking a finger in my mouth.
“I know Bon Bon, but you never had that feeling when everypony thinks of you as some crazed pony that dreams of a mythological being that had never exist on Equis. Seeing Heartless as somewhat similar to a human is just a dream come true I just can’t help myself from seeing him.” Lyra pointed at me which I raised a brow at that. A sigh was the only response that Bon Bon could make. Wait, what would have happened if she knew I was a human from the very beginning when we met, would things be a bit more different back then than now?
“By Celestia’s sake, what am I going to do with you now after we found Heartless in his human form, next thing I know that you’ll be taking pictures of him.” Right after Bon Bon had said that everything went white when something clicked. I couldn't see what was going on for the few seconds but I could hear Lyra giggling. “When did you get a camera?”
“Oh, you can’t go everywhere without a camera or else when you see something rare you don’t have any other way of proving that you saw something uncommon in Equestria. Think about it Bon Bon what would you do if you created a new candy and wanted to remember the day of something uncommon to sale that could be making you more bits than you can imagine. I’m just taking a picture of Heartless to know the moment when we all found him hiding in the Everfree Forest,” I heard Lyra say as my vision returned. The first thing I see was Lyra holding an old camera in her hands and Bon Bon shaking her head as she lightly tapped her hoof.
‘Why do I feel like that Lyra’s picture is going to backfire? ’ A low growl came from Zecora herself as she moved closer to me which was kinda impossible seeing how she already had her entire body pressed up against mine. The whole conversation that Lyra and Bon Bon were having seemed to be irritating Zecora. I don’t have a clue on what to do to calm down someone, but I guess there are ways to occupy one’s mind.
My other hand on Zecora’s side slowly trailed down her body, the fur on her body felt soft to the touch as my hand travels down her coat. I heard a silent gasp come from the zebra in my arms when my hand was on her thighs. Zecora turned her head and looked up at me with a broad smile showing her pearly white teeth, she gave me an approving nod then laid back on me. With her approval, I gave her thigh a single with my hand the mare’s response was a satisfied sigh.
With Lyra and Bon Bon busy talking and Zecora receiving a massage from me, I focused my attention to the music mares who appeared to be listening to one music through Vinyl’s headphone bobbing their slightly bobbing their heads to the beat in the song they were listening to. I leaned back, causing Zecora to come along, far enough that my back touches the dirt then pulled my left hand out of Zecora’s and gestured the music mares over. Vinyl apparently had her eyes close behind her pair of shades as she bobs her head to the beat of the music, but Octavia didn’t she noticed my gesture.
Her cheeks her bright as her eyes were on Zecora and me. Was there something wrong? I looked down at Zecora then noticed that her cheeks were red as well. Something was obviously wrong, why would...oh. Zecora was wearing her tribal clothes which meant that her own panties were showing and the other mares could see them if they looked directly at me.
‘Wooh! Free panty shot, quick minty mare take a picture! I’ll grant you one wish if you do! ’ Jes quickly yelled out in excitement, luckily nobody can hear him only Nuk and I can. In one swift movement, I raise my back slightly off the ground then spread my wings out and wrapped Zecora in them. Now no one can see her undergarments when they look at our way.
‘NOOOooooo, the perfect panty shot. You fucking bastard! ’ Jes whined as he sounds like a child now with a squeaky voice. I didn’t care what Jes thought of me. My actions seemed to catch everyone’s attention as they now stared at us.
“Heartless, what was all that about?” Lyra asked.
“Zecora’s undergarments were showing,” I bluntly told her not caring that hers and the other mares around were blushing. Zecora underneath two wings pinched me for that, but it doesn’t really hurt it; the pinching feels like I’m being lightly poked by a stick. Ignoring the fact that the zebra underneath was trying to give me pain I return the favor by pinching her back.
“Fucking hiyo huumiza,” Zecora hissed at me in her kind’s native language. It’s easy to not know what she says when you don’t know her native language, but for those who do know understand and speak in her kind’s language they could understand what she said. Still going to question whether I’m treating her like she’s being loved.
In my head, I heard Nuk chuckle and Jes giggle. The three mares standing up were smiling awkwardly as for Vinyl, she’s just shaking her head with a smile on her lips. Guess I made Vinyl’s day seeing how she’s enjoying what I’m doing.
‘Justin, I’m allowing you to ask about Luna. ’ Out of the blue Nuk has spoken. I was surprised that he now allowed me to ask of Luna even though I could have let her in my dreams weeks ago, but I followed Nuk’s order on keeping her out. Will Luna forgive me if I ever show my face, show her that I’m still alive after being blasted a rainbow, or would she not forgive me instead just give me the cold shoulder until she’s ready to have a word with? Asking questions is the only thing I could do at the moment.
‘I thought you didn’t want a demigod to be a demon? You said it when we’ve first met in my dream how you prefer no distractions and that a demigod of the night does not deserve a demon by her side, you thought of me as a demon when we first met if I remember correctly, ’ I said remembering the first time when Nuk has spoken, he and I didn’t exactly had the best introduction with each other him sounding wise and displeased while I was still recovering from getting blasted by a rainbow. It’s funny if you think about it how a demon’s Hell energy could be sucked out of their body then they turned into a peace creature wanting to spread joy or something like that, luckily I still had some Hell energy inside of me to keep myself who I am.
‘Our first time speaking was because how you follow Zeal blindly and I do not want an innocent soul that holds responsibility to be brought down by a soul that possesses a demon’s body not until now that is, you have changed and now you body takes a form of a neutral creature one that does not side with demons or angels. ’ At that point Nuk lost me for a second my ‘my body takes a for of a neutral creature,’ does that mean whenever I transform back into my demonic body it won’t be the same like last time? A body that was once pure demonic now slowly changing back to whatever the body was before, is this redemption if a demon was ever given a chance to be good?
A flashed of black and white brought me back to reality as I blinked a few times. Zecora was looking up at me worried. I must have zoned out for a few seconds there seeing how the other mares were staring at me with confusion.
“Heartless, you okay?” I nodded my head answering Lyra’s question. I sat back up, causing Zecora to do the same, and looked up at the mares in front of us. If asking how the princess of the night was doing, then I would probably cause them to question the reason why I ask and that reason for that question would be that Luna fell in love with me despite me not really trying to be loved. Now I want to know what was going through Luna’s mind when she fell in love with and what did I do to cause her to fall for me in the first place.
“How’s the Princess of the Night doing?” I asked the mares causing Lyra and Bon Bon to be curious about the question, but Octavia and Vinyl were smiling for some reason unknown to me. Did they know that Luna and I were a thing, if so then how do they know? Lyra opened her mouth about to say something until Octavia beat her to it.
“From what I had overheard from Twilight, Luna has been locked in her room for quite some time ever since you disappeared, she would only come out her room to eat, do her duty as a princess, and look down at Ponyville from the castle’s garden. I believe she’s feels lost after losing somepony special, one that’s not even a pony himself.” I felt Zecora moved a bit underneath my wings as the two curious mares were now surprised to hear this. Octavia and Vinyl knew, but I don’t think it would affect me. Seems like my absence must have made Luna feel lonely like how she was before we even met.
I closed my eyes thinking deeply of what I should do since Luna was lonely and the general that was with me was probably blaming herself of what she could have prevented, but it couldn’t have been. Flying there right now would be abandoning Zecora and my friends, but I can wait until the sun goes down. The general, on the other hand, Crescent Fang, she might be a difficult one to find as she was there when the rainbow hit me, I got over the feeling of Hell energy being sucked out of my body, one of the few many that saw my face. What was going through her mind now after witnessing Luna’s love being struck by the rainbow, does she truly blame herself like I imagine she would or does she not care?
Asking about the general is something I want to ask Luna about or find out for myself if I ever run into her. Octavia and Vinyl already know that Luna and I are a thing, somehow, but I would prefer to have fewer people to love me than the two I already have. If I would have a heart right now at this moment then maybe Zecora would be able to feel it beat in my chest, but my soul is used as a substitute for my heart.
When I opened my eyes another set of eyes stared into mine. Lyra’s gaze felt like she was trying to stare into my soul and see if I had any more secrets that I have, but I highly doubt she has a type of ability or magic to do that. I pulled my hand out from under my wings and grabbed her horn causing the mare’s eyes to roll back and her tongue sticking out the side of her mouth as her breathing was now heavy.
‘Hey look a unicorn’s horn serves as another way for pleasure! The greatest way to please your Luna. Oh I could only imagine what you would be doing to her now if she were to come to you tonight, eat-’
‘SILENCE!’ Nuk shouted making the psychic voice inside my head to be quiet as well give me a small headache from how loud he shouted. The minted mare in my grasp was soon pulled out of my grip by Bon Bon, who had an apologetic smile as she pulled her marefriend back with her.
Maybe this was the reason why Bon Bon said not to become another Twilight because how she invades your personal space and hearing Octavia explain how the Princess of the Night is doing saying that her special somepony had disappeared brought her spirits down must be already obvious that special person was me. I would wonder what would happen if Lyra was replaced by Twilight and she heard that Luna and I are a thing, what would be her response to that? On second thought I don’t want to know.
“What of Crescent Fang, the batpony that was with me in the fight against Discord.” I rested my head on Zecora’s as I used my other hand underneath my wings to massage her thighs. Octavia had to think for a moment to know what happened to that batpony, she even had to show that she was in thought from how she places her right hand under her chin as she thinks. In the corner of my eye Vinyl seemed to know what happened to the mare, she hops off the log she was sitting on and walks over to me with a big smile on her lips.
“Heartless that mare has been in a few of mine parties and she’s been drinking whenever I catch sight of her.” Her smile soon turned into a frown and her ears fell flat on the sides of her head. “She’s been drinking too much that last I heard from the other Lunar guards in my parties was that she took responsibility to see if you made it out alive, so she went searching for you in this forest trying to find any evidence that you survive. I have to say a mare like that makes me believe that you have another crush and you just met her on the day when Discord was freed.”
‘Drinking won’t solve anything it would only make it worse, Justin, I believe it would be best to find her first than going to Luna, ’ Nuk said sounding much less pissed than before, but he was calmer now than before. I can’t help but agree with Nuk since now I know that the batmare is out here in the Everfree Forest looking for me. All this was possibly my fault, if I never got hold on Discord then she wouldn’t be out here looking for me and drinking too. I’m surprised that Zecora hasn’t run into the mare or Taliha would have picked up her scent for easy prey, but the mare might be running around in the dark rather than in the morning or afternoon.
‘You think we might find her drunk? She might possibly strip for us when we meet her in her drunken state. ’
‘What? ’
*Smack*
Author's Note
Language that Zecora had spoken is Swahili. That's the only language I could find that doesn't tamper with the words.
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(Side Chapter) Journal entry and documentary
September (I think) 24th, year...I don’t know. What do beings from other worlds with different religions sees in a demon? Do they see a being that has committed a sin and wished to continues carrying out his or her cruel nature spreading darkness and corruption? Or do they see a being that can be reformed from the sins he or she has committed to becoming an angel? Such questions I have asked myself when I first became a demon, I wanted to be an angel for all the lives I have saved back then before I became...this. Zeal it’s just a name I took after killing the general’s pet, a reward I didn’t want. You know, it’s funny when you think that there is just one hell and heaven in the world you’re living you never thought that there might be only one but there are many of them. The “hell” that I lived in belong to Genest (a weird name I know, but every name is pulled out of someone’s ass or has the purpose for that name) the “earth” I found Justin on when he accidentally finished a ritual. A child like that could have been easy to corrupt or possess, but I saw potential in him that he could be the one his soul matches his.
The kid didn’t know what he was just like those children books of heroes never knowing who they are. I was fortunate to be the first to meet him in person, well behind a glass mirror, he was scared when he first saw me. His reaction was funny I must admit saying not every day you see a human see a demon for the first time just turn around and march like a soldier before exiting the room, it left me confused and amazed. Normally when a being that summons a demon would either be excited or scared but this, this was interesting as he just behaved normally and walked out the room leaving me stuck in a mirror for three whole days. Little bastard.
On the fourth day he came back, I was still stuck in the mirror, with a KitKat in his hand. Back then he still had his emotions; therefore, he felt bad that he just walked away without asking what or who I am. Justin had opened the wrapper and handed me one chocolate bar saying, “I’m sorry that I walked off, I p-panicked.” I didn’t know what to do at that moment I stayed silent and nodded then reached out my hand to take the bar of chocolate in his hand. The mirror that separated us rippled when my hand phased through the glass. It was shocking to say that there was no barrier between us, but I didn’t want to scare him off so I stayed in the mirror with my hand on the other side.
Justin wasn’t scared when he handed the chocolate, he didn’t even have an aura of fear radiating from him. The kid was only twelve if memory serves me right when I met him. Heartless may or may not remember since wiping out a soul’s memory would require some parts of it being removed, which might cause the soul to get another piece to fill in that empty space from another soul. It’s a rare sight to see a mortal that knows about heaven and hell not afraid of a demon that could possess his body.
On that day when Justin touched my hands, after running out of chocolate, he says that he finds it soothing from how my scale covered hand felt so smooth and warm like a snake’s skin. To find a demon blushing from a child’s worlds is embarrassing and worth to blackmail. I can’t remember a day when he wasn’t massaging my hand as we spoke…
The third dot was bigger than the rest after Zeal pressed down a bit harder on the paper, he didn’t care that the third dot was bigger than the rest but the memories of a young mortal boy and an old demon talking made Zeal smile at that. Softly laughing Zeal shook his head and wiped away the blood tears he felt burning the corners of his eyes before setting down the quill. With quick hands, the demon closed his journal and took out another with a symbol of a shield and sword on the cover. Papers on the desk he sat behind crumbled as he pushed some aside to make more room for the bigger book.
“Heh, what happened between us, Justin? We were best friends I know you better than your very own mother, yet I feel as if you’re not really the child I saved.” Zeal shook his head slightly getting rid of the emotional thoughts of the boy before going back to work on a documentary of weaponry in Equestria. Opening the book Zeal turned to a half-finished page with the weapon design for his new ‘collection’ from the hunters. The ‘Heavy Duty Lightning Gun,’ HDLG for short, was drawn on the right page looking like a pipe connecting to other pipes with various parts that had arrows pointing to the spots where they’re supposed to go. On the left page had two different paragraphs that nearly explains what the HDLG does and how it operates.
The Heavy Duty Lightning Gun (HDLG) I came across this weaponry when out looking for a pet for Justin. The weapon type was a Tesla rifle, but the material is used to craft such unique and advance like weaponry makes me wonder if the minotaur crafts heavy weapons for stronger warriors then that would mean every weapon they create would always be a heavy weapon, which is the reason why I called it the HDLG. The HDLG doesn’t need ammunition from the many tests I have done as the crystal inside recharges at a slow state that would take about a full minute for it to recharge a quarter of a way which will take the HDLG a full four minutes for it to recharge completely. Copper is obviously the important metal for making one of these guns as it channels electricity through easier because how it contains free electrons for the electricity inside the crystal to flow through the metal, but I also believe that copper is common to find and easier to bend than iron and steel. Rubber and few other components that are common on earth were also used to help make this weapon. The crystal is something I figured out that it was made by someone with magic than being natural as I can see some carvings on the crystal, can’t read what they say because how I’m not used to reading the symbols on the crystals. If I were to craft this weapon it would be easy since I have taken it apart and rebuilt it to see which goes with and what the mental and material were they had used to craft this weapon. And if I had to give the HDLG to Justin, I could only say that he’ll shock himself a few time before understanding how the gun works.
The design of the gun could use some modification so that it could store more power and be less of a burden to always carry it with your hands. Who or whatever had thought of this must not have thought of other beings that do not have the same strength as the minotaurs, but I believe that someone might be working on that as I am writing this. The weight of the gun feels like carrying three-foot steel pole, for human strength. My thoughts on this weapon would be having it weigh less and easier to carry.
“The crystal could be another modification add-on for any type of weaponry if assembled correctly.” Zeal tapped his chin as he glanced around his forge/armory, his lips twitched up as he smiled like a madman. “I could think of many ways to enchant the weapons around me with elements! No more hiding the monster now is the time for blood to fill the land.”
Author's Note
Another chapter out for this story and I was starting to realize that the relationship between Heartless and Zeal wasn't fully clear. So I began to make side chapters of Zeal's past and friendship with Heartless. Hope you all enjoy this small idea of mine, but I won't get back to the story right away.
Diamonds aren't pretty blood is. (unedited)
Three days had passed after the girls found me. Three days I’ve been searching for the general only to find barely any trace of her. There were moments that I managed to find old campsites that had been abandoned a while ago, some had noticeable damage to wild animals attacking the camp. The old rags of a clothing had the scent of the person that camped in the Everfree, but even with the scent, I have no way of tracking her down Taliha was not some bloodhound or a type of animal trained to track down the owner of a scent.
I had ventured deeper in the Everfree. I never knew that more beast had lived deep in the forest. My first run-in with one of the animals that lives this deep in the forest was a challenge the animal was something I never thought would give me trouble because of its size. A Kamaitachi a creature that has its limbs replaced with sharp bones that are able to slice off a finger, the creature’s appearance would be similar to a weasel. It took me a good solid three hours to manage to get a hold on that rat before squeezing the life out of it, luckily Tahila wasn’t there when it attacked me or else I would have been busy healing her up than continuing my search for Crescent.
The bat pony has been in some troubles from the evidence I could find at each campsite. She must have been fighting more than scavenging for food the dirty blooded rags, broken glasses, torn cloth, traps set around, and an empty bottle of alcohol. I never had the chance to know what alcohol tastes like.
Zecora has been busy on the first five days after I began searching for Crescent, she been making potions to help Applejack’s tree problem. Apparently, there’s a parasite that’s slowly sucking the life out of the tree’s inside of the wood, now if it were Jes and I both of us would have burned down that tree saying, “Oh well.” Can’t expect a tree to have a soul if it’s just a plant that grew out of a seed.
The relationship between Zecora and I was going smoothly. For a zebra mare having some endurance with the pain, she can be flexible if she wanted to be when give a quick kiss or surprise me whenever I have a hold on her. I wouldn’t be amazed if she wanted to try to try that whenever we mate, she’ll want to do something abnormal that I can’t do without breaking a bone in my body for that. Wish I could do the same but I highly doubt that body would be able to handle being squished like a bug or taking an iron fist to the ribs.
Zecora mentions something about her family wanting to visit them after Nightmare Night, no clue what that is but the word nightmare kinda sounds like demons would come out and mess around on the surface, but she wanted me to come with. I don’t know if it would be a good choice just to dumb everything like searching for Crescent and trying to find a way to speak with Luna, one that doesn’t involve the dream world. Thankfully Nightmare NIght was five weeks away from giving me plenty of time to continue my search for the general.
Nuk and Jes have been arguing in my head most of the time ever since I found the first campsite. Jes has been rambling on saying that the bat pony would give us a good flash of her “goodies” if we find her in any sort of danger like a damsel in distress. I’m not sure why he uses different words to define her boobs and cunt he said that every body part has their own names. Should I be calling Zecora’s boobs jiggle jugs? I never did mention how big her boobs were, did I? I could make a guess that it’s somewhere around a B I preferred her breasts than Luna’s since I’m not much of a breast type of guy, or demon whatever you want to call me. Things like aren’t much to catch my attention.
Zeal has been gone for the past few days after I went searching for the general, he must be hunting or something like that not entirely sure what’s he up to. I know that Zeal must be hiding something from me and it’s stupid to not have a word with him, but I just can’t really bring myself to do it. Instincts are what kept an animal alive, right? My instincts kept me from confronting Zeal, I don’t know why however it feels like I should just forget about it and continue living on like the days in Hell. Maybe one of these days I might have the chance to ask him out for a stroll around the old ruin castle, possibly destroy it some more.
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Jes just sighed as I lifted a piece of a broken sword. The sword seemed to have been broken by another blade that had stronger metal than this. My search for Crescent was starting to feel pointless since almost all the clues of her being here were old, now I’m no detective and Taliha is not a bloodhound I can tell that there was a little chance of us tracking down that mare, she could have been eaten or killed.
‘I guess the drunk mare won’t be showing us her fun bags? ’ Jes asked sound disappointed that we still haven’t found anything fresh clues to tell us where Crescent went and if she was still alive.
‘Crescent is like a vampire she would be asleep in the morning than being active. Wouldn’t be surprised if she had been searching for me during the night. ’ I searched around some more this deserted campsite still might help me know where Crescent went even though most of the clues could have been a few weeks old. Most of the stuff around the camp were useless none of them told me where Crescent went it just shows that this camp was attacked before, just like the rest I found.
‘Do not lose hope she has to be near how else could a campfire ashes still be warm. ’ Dropping the broken sword I continued following the tracks that littered the place. Most of the footprints were paws belonging to a type of dog they lead into the forest as well out of the forest, but one set of the footprint was actually a hoofprint. Sadly I couldn’t tell where the hoofprint began at and lead to since most of them were overlaid by pawprints.
‘Something obviously happened here. ’ I followed the pawprints that lead back to the forest. ‘Nuk is there a spell I can learn that can light up certain types of footprints? ’
‘There is. The spell should in the book of light under the alternation detection spells, the spell is easy to learn after knowing candlelight. ’ I pulled out the Book of light, we started calling it that than Heaven’s book and looked through the glossary. He was right the spell was under alternation being on the apprentice level. This spell shouldn’t be that hard to learn since I know how to use candlelight, still learning magelight, seeing how all I have to need is a piece of the person’s DNA or a track that he/she made.
Reading furthermore of the description this spell can be used for tracking down animals just by touching candlelight on the tracks the animal, or person, left and keep a steady flow of mana pouring out your body to keep the spell active. Doesn’t seem that hard. The footprints would faintly glow depending on the caster’s magical aura, and if the animal was a flying type or one that travels underground the spell would act like fireflies taking the shape of orbs.
‘Why does the spell take the shape of fireflies if it couldn’t find a trail? And why didn’t we start using this spell at the first campsite? Finding Crescent could have been easier than finding old clues. ’ I closed the book of light and returned it back in my satchel. Without my coat I can no longer tie the books around my body to keep them with me instead I got myself a satchel a little gift that Bon Bon and Lyra gave me to help me carry some stuff. I like the gray color it has.
‘If there are no tracks of a creature’s footmark then they would find whatever that relates to the being saliva, poison sack, blood, and many other ways that a being of the hunt could use to track down a prey. As to why you didn’t use it is because how none of the thought of it, I can say that not every being can think when they’re desperate to find someone. ’ What Nuk had said was true I didn’t know that spell existed. ‘Personally I have to say that the bat pony has been drinking too much that in human standards she would have alcohol poisoning, but luckily she’s another species meaning she could handle more than a normal human or less. ’
‘You know that’s not making me feel any better, ’ I said feeling a bit more desperate to find the mare.
‘Will they make you feel better? LET HER SHOW HER TITS!’ The sound of Jes getting smacked for that made me smile. It feels a bit “comical” to have someone being smacked by a stupid idiotic thing.
Focusing on my left hand I concentrated a small amount of mana to flow out of my hand creating the shape and light source for the spell. I can never get used to the feeling of how the mana just flows out of my sweat pores. After the spell was cast I followed the directions of what the book has.
It took some time to perfect the spell since I kept on getting all the footprints rather than the hoofprints, keeping a steady flow of mana pouring out of my body was difficult to do because now I either use too much out causing the tracks to glow brightly then disappear or less causing the spell to disappear too soon or the tracks would barely glow. The number of pawprints glowing that evening could be seen in the sky above the forest if those actually did have the courage to fly over this place. With the spell perfected I managed to see that the hoofprints around the camp lead to the forest with some paw prints following them.
“What am I looking at?”
‘That would be a giant ant hill Heartless, ’ Nuk answered. I stared at the pile of dirt that towered over me never have I ever seen a giant ant hill and one so narrow too. The hoofprints or drag marks now lead me here to this towering narrow ant hill. Whatever got Crescent was inside this ant colony...do the ants stand on two legs too?
I climbed up the hill and looked down to see it all clogged up with dirt. The feeling disappointment over me as I stared at the dirt. Now I follow those tracks for two whole days without eating anything and having no rest, I wasn’t in the best of moods right now when I got shot by darts from some flower plant shooting needles at anything that flies. Let’s just say that I didn’t like having things getting in my way when it comes to something I want to do.
‘IN COMING WATER JET GET YA HEADS DOWN! ’ Now I know what most would be thing what’s the “Water Jet” well it’s a new spell I read in the book of darkness that combines both mana and hell energy. You hold your hands close together making a cone shape and focus both magic and hell energy, magic for the water to pour out your hand hell energy to focus the pressure of the water so that it could slice through metal. Sadly being disturbed would cost your hands being blown up by the pressure and not having enough mana won’t create water.
I went to work on clearing the clogged tunnel in the hill keeping my wrist touching and fingers spread apart. Water Jet made quick work of the dirt clearing most of it and remaking the tunnel as I continued pouring both mana and hell energy into the spell while ignoring the two voice inside my head.
‘I wonder if water jet could slice off a dragon’s head, would that count as a hard kill since most beings in different worlds say that they are one of the most difficult creatures to kill. The image of killing a creature that many fears or sees it as a god until one being just chops off its head with that spell. Man, I would love to see the reaction! Oh mighty hero thank you for saving DEATH by water jet. ’ Jes almost caused me my hands when he started speaking. I swear that I might get killed by him one day that when he starts yapping I’ll probably too focus on listening to him that I won’t pay attention to my surroundings. Despite him nearly blowing up my hand he does have a point, what if I could just slice off a dragons head with this? I don’t have to work on fighting one with Alduin or any other weapon I possess and it won’t be bothersome to kill one, just one swipe with this the reptile would be dead.
‘Even if Heartless does use the spell against one it has a certain range, not all spells in the human version of the book of darkness would bring massive destruction. Water jet could slice through a dragon’s scale, but that range is the downside to the spell and let’s not forget about how much concentration is needed to maintain such spell unless the caster wants no hands. ’ I heard the dragon sigh as Jes began to make his annoying (add link) sound. Wish I could see what the psychotic being was doing.
Once the entrance was now cleared and reopened I stopped the casting the spell. Now I never been in an ant tunnel before and wasn’t sure what to expect when crawling through one, but I don’t think bipedal dogs are supposed to be in an ant tunnel. I encountered these dogs while crawling in the tunnel. They weren’t the friendliest bunch much like the ponies, but a few sparks of lightning did the job of killing them.
Crawling over a corpse in a small tunnel was a pain to squeeze through because how the dog had some muscles that gave it a bigger look. The other dogs that were behind the first one met the same fate, except the last one I burnt him because how I was hungry. I had to crawl through the tunnel on three limbs while eating a cook dogleg.
I made it to the end of the tunnel to a bigger chamber that splits off in four big tunnels that lead to different paths to where ever they dragged Crescent. People could easily get lost in this cave system and without those glowing crystals on the walls, I highly doubt anyone would be able to see anything down here unless they have a torch. I cast the same spell to find the mare’s trail, hopefully, I could follow it to where they have her at.
Crescent POV
How long has it been since I last saw the Luna’s moon? Five? Six days? First I lost the stallion I’m supposed to bring back unharmed, second I lost my position has the Lunar general, third got addicted to drinking, and finally, I’ve been captured by diamond dogs! Out of the whole species in this country, why did it had to be diamond dogs!? Was this the price I must pay for losing one thing? Does Luna not care where I’m at after I left the Lunar guard? This was all my fault, all of this my fault.
Now I just sit in jail with others species all looking tired and loss of hope. Just what god did I piss off other than Luna herself?
“Hey, hot stuff.” I silently groan out of annoyance. Leather Fuck, no that’s not his name that’s the name I gave him. He was an alligator that was a prisoner same as I was. “You still think that moon bitch is going to help us. It’s been like two weeks since you came here, and you did say that she’ll know about then when she visits your dreams; however, I’m seeing a problem there because it has been two weeks! Two weeks for one ruler just to prepare to rescue her little pony! If we weren’t in the diamond’s jail cell then I would have-”
“Zat vould pe enough Leatherhead!” As if the gods above had answered my silent prayers. Dexter, a griffin mercenary, stood up to the reptile standing taller than the cold blood jackass. “Ve all do not know how many of zoze mutts are out zere. Arh ! Luna may pe vize to pring ein army to fight akainst zeze prainless mutts. Leaffe zee pat bony alone or elze you pe fighding me!”
The mention of Luna’s name caused me to look away from the griffin. I can’t bring myself to say that Luna does not know we’re all here. Standing up for me is stupid, but Dexter is one of the few griffins that were born away from the Equestrian borders in distant lands.
Leather Fuck just laughed, he probably knows that Luna has just abandoned me. I barely understood what Dexter had mumbled, something about Leather Fuck being unintelligent The sound of hoofsteps, or paw steps, drawn everyone’s attention to the door. A pair of diamond dogs entered the room slamming the door, but they were carrying someone by his arms. I wasn’t sure what he was. As they drew closer to our cell my eyes widen when I spotted the mask it wore, half of a full mask only covering half of his face.
“Heartless?”
The jailer opened our cell and threw the person in our cell not carrying that they might have caused more harm than dragging him in. They left us soon after dropping off the unconscious male. I scrambled up to my hooves and stumbled over to the male, I haven’t gotten the chance to know what he fully looks because of his cloak. His body wasn’t bruised or cut, his leather armor was cut and torn.
When I reached Heartless’ side I rolled him on his back to see if he was breathing. His chest wasn’t moving, I couldn’t hear his breathing, and he still felt warm meaning that he was barely alive. Barely. I removed his mask and pinched his nose then brought my mouth close to his. Before I even had a chance to perform CPR I felt a hand on my breast stop me.
“You smell different Crescent.” I reeled back my head and looked down at Heartless in surprise, he was alive and breathing, but he wasn’t breathing when he was thrown in. Was he holding his breath the entire time just to get me to kiss him!? I felt like scolding him for acting dead but before I even had the chance to yell Dexter beat me to it.
“Do you know him Crescent? You zeem eager to kiss him zo guick zat mein vife vould pe chealous of your aczions.” I looked over my shoulder to see Daxter and two other griffins grinning. My face was burning, maybe I might have been too quick on saving his life that others think I was too eager to kiss Heartless. I open my mouth to deny it, but I didn’t get the chance to say a word again.
“When did Crescent start having feelings for me?” Before Daxter had a chance to speak again I quickly snatched up Heartless and dragged him over to the over the side of the cell while laughing like a mad mare. I set Heartless sitting against the wall and knelt down beside him.
“Heartless what the fuck!?” I Whispered slightly panicking inside while trying to not make this more embarrassing as it was. Heartless stared at me with a blank expression. He lifted his right hand up and…
‘Oh that feels nice. ’ My mind went blank after feeling Heartless scratch behind my ear. This felt so right, so good that I don’t think the world matters to me now. I didn’t know that my body betrayed me instead of kneeling down beside Heartless, I resting on him my face rubbing against his as he continued to scratch my ear.
“It’s okay Crescent, I didn’t think you started having feelings for me or else I would have told Zecora that there was another mare interested in me. Maybe you might get to know me more like Zecora does.” I could tell Heartless was joking or was he, the way he sounded so careless makes me believe that what he said was to lighten my mood up. “I bet Zecora could teach you something, what it is I don’t have a clue.”
It took all the will I had to pull myself out of the trance Heartless had me in. I pulled my head back away from his hand and glared at him. He was lucky that I didn’t punch him then and there or else we wouldn’t be having this conversation.
“I don’t have any feelings towards you.” Maybe a bit of anger. “But you’re already taken because how you, the princess, and this Zecora are already in a herd. If I try to join then both the Princess and Zecora would have to...a girl thing.”
My answer caused the male below me to tilt his head in confusion. Heartless opened his mouth to speak, however, one of the other prisoners here beat him.
“Excuse me, sorry to intrude on this private talk here.” I yelped and jumped forward wrapping my arms around the Heartless’ head.
Heartless POV
‘BOOBIES, YEAH! WE FINALLY GOT WHAT WE DESERVED! BEING SMOTHERED BY SOME TITTIES!!! ’
‘When did we deserve boobies? I don’t think I helped Crescent by being smack in the back of the head with a crystal club. ’
‘I got this Heartless .’
SMACK!
‘Owwww! ’
Crescent POV
“What! No! You’re not intruding on anything Stormbreaker.” Chuckling awkwardly I looked over my shoulder again to see Stormbreaker, another griffin, staring at us with a smile that’s starting to annoy me. “I was just...uh...having a little talk with Heartless, he’s been wanting to say something in private and I thought dragging him here would give us that privacy.”
“Hmm Hmm.” He wasn’t buying it. I tried to come up with something else to help make this situation less awkward than it was, but I knew this griffin won’t buy any of it. “Are you going to let your ‘friend’ go or are you going to continue squeezing him between your breast?”
“Hmm hpmh hmph phm.” (I don’t mind this.)
As if my face couldn’t get any redder, I quickly push Heartless back causing him to hit his head against the wall, which doesn’t seem to faze him and looked down to see the position we were in. I was sitting on top of him. My makeshift skirt didn’t hide my nether region that well and the torn shirt barely manage to hang on my shoulders hiding my breast but also exposing my stomach. Why must my life continue going south?
Being quick I hopped off and covered my crotch now embarrassed more than ever. Heartless didn’t seem to care, or I think, he just stood back up and held his hand out to me. I couldn’t tell what he was doing until it hit me. Handing over his mask Heartless put it back on then held out his hand again, but this time I grabbed hold of his hand. Without a warning, Heartless pulled me up to my hooves.
“Now since the heartwarming moments are gone by, who the fuck are you?” Leather Fuck asked or demanded Heartless. I took a step towards Leather Fuck to scold him, but Heartless stopped me with a hand on my shoulder. I glanced over my shoulder to see him shaking head before pulling me back behind him.
“I am Heartless the man you see, what I am I will not tell to those who don’t know me. For those who think I’m a prisoner think for a second before you act; I am a being that should not be attacked. If you believe me as such an easy prey, then think again as I will slay.” D-did Heartless just rhymed? I stared at him, surprised that he rhymed like a zebra in Selfriva. “Mmm...Zecora’s rhyming is getting to me. I’m starting to talk in rhyme like my trainer, though she would probably laugh at how I rhymed.”
I heard someone softly chuckle on the other side of the cell. I looked over to see the old zebra standing up limping slightly over to Heartless and me. His lips were closed, but he was smiling, the old zebra was happy and I found out a day later after I was captured that he had three daughters and two sons.
“You know my little filly’s name and speak of her as your mkufunzi. How do you know my daughter’s name?” I wasn’t sure how Heartless would react to such a question from a father.
“Uh? Oh! Zecora’s my girlfriend she lives with me. She trained me in hand to hand combat, I never knew that having such flexible body would be a great advantage on getting a hold on someone.” That’s how he responded to a father of a daughter he’s dating!? I stared at Heartless not believing that he spoke natural of this Zecora, and does the Princess know about this? Of course, she does know about this other mare Luna was in Heartless’ herd! “Those potions she made would make a unicorn envy of her abilities in alchemy, a guard that serves under the Princess of the sun won’t be a challenge for her, and an earth pony would wish they could be like her. I cannot say that my heart beats for her. But because she loves me for the being I am I will return her feelings and treat her as she wishes to be treated.”
“...”
“Hahaha, if only Little Feral was here, he would have the way you speak of his big sister, but don’t think I won’t keep an eye on you. Hurt my daughter or break her heart I’ll break you,” The zebra said pointing a finger at Heartless. After that he limbed back to where he was before. Again Heartless doesn’t seem to be afraid or worried about what the old zebra said, but I could tell he was thinking.
“Hah! Never saw that old fart act like that other than in battle,” I heard Stormbreaker say before he pushed, more like shoved, Leather Fuck to the side and held out his talon to Heartless. “Name Stormbreaker, I already know about you when Crescent talked in her sleep mumbling out your name. I thought you look more like a Dreagur, if one had wings, from how Crescent describe your looks, but I don’t see any wings, mandibles, tails, scythe-like limbs, and tentacles. Crescent are you sure that this is the same Heartless that you describe of? He seems to be a Dreagur without any of those things other than the grim mask and squishy skin.”
I looked up at Heartless worried that he might have been offended by Stormbreaker’s comment on his appearance, but he still kept that calm look, or I think can’t tell when someone is wearing a mask. He shook Stormbreaker’s talon, but suddenly his appearance began to change to what I had described him when he fought Discord. Standing behind him was a mistake as I felt one of his tentacles coil around my leg. My reaction of course what squeezing my thighs together and covering my crotch hoping he doesn’t plan on doing anything else with his extra limbs.
“I must say, I never thought my reaper form would have similar looks to these ‘Dreagurs.’ Do they share the same hunger as I do?” Heartless’ voice was different his fatherly carefree voice was now replaced with a deeper voice if a snake could speak then that what Heartless sounded like.
“The hunger, I don’t know what they eat other than meat.” Both men pulled back their hands and looked at ME ! “Hah! I bet you could satisfy every female’s dream with those tentacles, and Crescent seems to be enjoying the one around her leg.”
“I’m not!”
Stormbreaker laughed at my reaction. I never understand how some females could love tentacles, what’s the reason for having some weird fetish of eight tentacles that could squeeze you to death? The tentacle around my leg removed itself but coiled around my hand.
“I wish to stay and chat,” Heatless began to speak. “But I only came here for Crescent. However, since Zecora would never forgive me I will take you with me, sir.”
Stormbreaker stopped laughing and looked at him with wide eyes. I can’t say for sure that Heartless could get us out of here we’re in their domain and if any of us try to break out we’ll just get punished again for it. Before he had a chance to do something stupid I pulled his tentacle back gaining his attention. Instead of pulling over to the other side of the cell I pulled his face close to mine, not caring about his extra limb in my hand.
“Heartless, we can’t escape. Take a look around there are four females with us in this cell with six males.” I looked over at the four females, there were three female griffins but one female minotaur, two of the griffins had children being held hostage in case any of us try to break out. “If any of us try to break out those children would die because of our actions, I can’t go with you Heartless because of this. Please just think of what you do before taking actions.”
My words seemed to cause Heartless to think, I don’t think having him think was a good idea I may have killed those children because of this. I opened my mouth to say more something to make sure that Heartless doesn’t try to break out, but no words came out of my mouth instead I close it. Time seemed to slow down for a second as his brown eyes stared into mine. I could tell he was thinking hard coming up a plan.
A full five minute has past and Heartless was still thinking. Suddenly his eyes went red. My body shook out of fear as I stared into them something that hidden a beast in the chain behind them. I tried to look away but some force kept my gaze on them.
Flames caused me to close my eyes from the sudden heat. If I was a few inches closer to him those flames would have burnt me. Opening my eyes I stared at Heartless, he no longer wore his torn leather armor instead he was wearing the clothes when I first met him, but his mask was cracked.
Without saying a word Heartless just walked past me to the jail cell door, he literally ripped the door off its metal frame. The dog that was stationed to guard us panicked. He tried to run out the room but Heartless stopped him. Poor dog didn’t stand a chance when Heartless chucked the door at him cutting the dog in half. I didn’t know how should I feel about Heartless now, should I be scared of him now since he’s different than the man I barely knew or should I be worried of what happened to him.
The others with me had different expression the females that had children looked sicked, the rest of the gryphons were shocked, Leather Fuck lost the green color in his scales and was now looking pale, both minotaurs, female and male, were smiling, and Zecora’s father had mixed emotions that I could only tell was fear and joy. We all watched as the man who just killed the dog walked out the door shutting it behind him. I’m glad that the door was able to muffle out what the guards were saying, but it didn’t help how they screamed in pain. The sound of one of the dogs being ripped apart made my stomach twist. More agonizing screams caused me to flinched they were all being slaughtered and what kept us from seeing the slaughter was a wooden door. Each scream had we heard sent a cold shiver down my spine as more and more sickening sounds of flesh being ripped from the muscles, bones breaking, limbs being torn from a body, and the sound of something or someone eating.
Does Luna know what Heartless was capable of? Of course, she probably does; she sent him and I to fight against Discord, but was I merely a distraction for Heartless to use, or was I just a puppet of the Princess of the Night staying silent and not telling anyone what I saw? Did those that took order long before felt like this? Like a tool for someone to use? Was Heartless a tool for her to use?
‘Mother, would you be mad if I have these thoughts of our savior? Does the Princess feel pity for those that lost their lives in battle for Equestria? A god does feel pity, do they? ’ My thoughts were interrupted when I felt someone’s hand touch me. I turned around to be face to face with someone I didn’t know of.
“You must be Crescent Fang,” The creature said, his voice was low and sinister. His eyes traveled down my body, I felt a sudden cold breeze blew on me causing my body to shiver a bit from the cold. “I never thought you would be a fruit bat pony, I thought you would be a vampire or somewhat similar to one. Heh, I have to say he has a taste if he wishes to seduce you, but knowing him he’ll continue to act carelessly unless he mentally grows up.” I looked around to see the others still staring at the door, they don’t seem bothered by the sudden appearance of this creature. “Such a curse he must go through having a child’s personality not knowing much. His fragmented soul only holds the memories he wished to keep, but a soul that is torn to pieces and put back in another way, throwing away the useless memories for the importance has its price. Tell me do you know the price?”
“No.”
“Hmm, not even a mortal with magic and knowledge of souls shard knows the answers that gods, angels, demons, and spirits know of. I’ll tell you but you can’t tell Heartless unless you want his soul to finally break apart.” The creature leaned close to my ear whispering. They explain what the purpose of his body, the creature that it once was, the price that the souls had paid to live again, and the secrets to unlocking certain seals on the soul. Before he pulled away he told me his name.
“Time seems to be catching up, the runes are starting to break, and a war threatening to break out,” I heard him say sounding excited about the last part. “Remember to keep this from him, if you wish to use him as a weapon then do so. If you don’t want a weapon but a lover then change him. All it takes it a few words to unlock certain seals that hold his emotions.”
In a blink of an eye, the Soulless was gone, he was no longer there where he stood. I blinked again and rubbed my eyes hoping to numb the burning sensation they had. Never do I ever want to be caught in magic, or was it magic at all? Shaking my head from what had happened I glanced around the room to see that things have changed.
Everyone was no longer looking at the door. The female griffins were silently praying to their god, Storm and Daxter were armed with rusted weapons, Leather Fuck was eying a broken spear that seemed to be stuck between the rock wall, both minotaurs were sitting by each other whispering, and Zecora’s father had his eyes closed mumbling something in his native tongue. I didn’t know how long I’ve spent talking with him, but it felt like a minute.
I noticed how quiet it has gotten there were no screams of pain, no sounds of fighting, and no sound of blood splatter. How long have we been talking? It couldn’t have been that long our conversation was short.
My ears twitch as the sound of the door opening caught my attention. There stood Heartless soaked in blood, but there were also five little griffins behind him. The children ran around Heartless to their mothers, who met them halfway. I couldn’t take my eyes off of the man standing in the doorway. His body was different than before. Both his hands were gray claws, his wings were back, he had a slender tail with an arrow-shaped tip at the end, and a black heart above his with a red outline.
The man before me stretched out his arms, slowly swayed his tail like a snake, and stretched his wings out. His voice was much deeper than before when he spoke.
“Crescent, ¿tienes cerveza? Porque quiero saber cómo se siente estar borracho.”
Author's Note
Hey everybody, I see that you reached the end of this chapter. If you did then comment down below of the errors you saw when reading this. And if you want to ask questions about the Kingdom hearts thing then you're gonna have to hold onto those questions until later chapters. The project of using my oc has been...difficult to say since I just got another story in my head that just popped up in my dreams about a mage trapped with a talking flesh book, I honestly can't remember that game.
I hope you all enjoy this chapter and I will see everyone in the next chapter I post.
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Training, studying, and a home part 1 (edited)
A day had passed since my encounter with Zecora, the shaman of the Everfree Forest, we had gotten to known each other on that single day in her tree. It's surprising to know that the horse people were actually ponies and this land was called Equestria. Celestia and Luna are the rulers of this land and their "subjects." Zecora told me more about herself on why she moved to the Everfree and how she met seven ponies that helped her fit in at Ponyville, these ponies sounded nice for helping Zecora, but they take action without thinking straight first. My end of telling her of my past life was that I'm still in training of fighting with a weapon or hand to hand, Zeal was my trainer on using the hell energy and my wings, but when he got promoted he didn't have time to train me anymore. I told her that I literally have no heart at all, only my soul is keeping me alive and that my blood is a fuel source to keep it lit.
Zecora told me that I can live here with her anytime that I wanted to, this was my first to have a friend that's not a demon or a male. She's very nice in the way that she'll help someone that needed her aid. I asked her to train me hand to hand since Zeal wasn't around to train me, she was surprised that I asked her that, but she agreed on helping me train on hand to hand combat in her tribal fighting style. The training would start nearby the tree house, but it won't be straight into fighting, Zecora said that we need to focus on being calm and elastic. Her tribe fighting style requires to be calm in a fight and be flexible on avoiding being hit so easily.
Zecora and I were getting ready to head to Ponyville to pick up some herbal flowers from a flower shop in Ponyville. We had our cloaks on us, but I had my hoodie up since I don't want anyone to see my face. I made Zecora promise not to tell anyone about me because I don't know their reactions and that Celestia would hunt me because I called her a bitch. It's best to keep my face hidden from view and that I don't want anyone to know about me.
We walked out of the tree and followed a path towards Ponyville, the trip wasn't that long only a seven minute walk, from what Zecora had told me. The forest was chirping from birds in the trees and far distances, skies were clear of clouds making it a sunny day free of clouds. Everything around was a bit humid because of yesterday storm, it won't affect my flames in any way possible. To be truthful about this morning it was amazing though it's not really impressive like the night sky.
"Hey Zecora," I called out Zecora's name and caught her attention." After we get the herbal flowers from the flower shop what are we doing after that?"
"A good question you have asked, we would go back home for your training to begin." Zecora said answering my question, it was nice to have someone else to talk to. We strolled out of the forest to a huge clearing showing a small town at the far side away from the forest, I can see the roof of houses from this distance. We continued walking to the small settlement, the entire clearing was grass with a few flowers and little of trees.
Zecora and I went into town everyone was staring at me confused or scared, I didn't pay any attention to everyone in this town. People kept on looking at us and whispered to one another about me. They seemed to be a bit scared of just looking at me, but a few of them just don't care and went back to their own activities. It's probably my swords that caused most of them to be scared and the other to be curious on why I have my weapons on me. We both arrived at the flower shop where Zecora would buy some flowers for her potion making and to be grinded in the mortar and pestle.
"I'll wait out here for you, Zecora." I told and sat down on a chair near pots of various flowers, except for the Zap flower plant, I had unlucky encounter with. Zecora went inside the shop while I sat on my chair and watched everyone walking around doing their own business, some of them took small glances at me with either a scared look or a confused one. Out of one of these groups was a minted pony with a brilliant cyan hair and tail with a white streaks, she was wearing a dark yellow T-shirt, minted hoodie, and pair of blue jean pants. This girl has been staring at me for quite sometime now and it's starting to get a little annoying and creepy at the same time. The woman walked over to me and looked down at me, I'm glad that my hoodie shadow covers my face.
"What do you miss?" I asked but didn't move my head up to look at her.
"Oh sorry, I was just wondering what are you?" She asked and lowered herself a bit down to get a better view of my face. I pulled my hoodie down some more to prevent her from seeing even a small part of my face.
"I'm just a traveler with many scars and lost of memories, so I don't know about my kind." I lied and crossed both of my arms and lowered my head some more. The pony let out a sad sigh and looked back up at me, she was still leaning down towards me.
"I'm sorry for that question. My name is Lyra Heartstring." Lyra said her name and raised up her right hand up." What's your name?"
"My name's Heartless, and it's nice to meet you Lyra." I said my demon name and unfolded my right arm and shook her hand. Lyra smiled at the friendly handshake and pulled back her hand, I did the same with mine and folded my arms again.
"It's nice meeting you Heartless, but I have to get back with my marefriend."
"It's nice meeting you too Lyra," I said my goodbye and waved at her, she did the same and walked over to her girlfriend. I'm guessing that their is such a thing of lesbian in this world, now I'm wondering how many males are out there to cause this to happen. The door in the flower shop opened with Zecora walking out of it with a brown bag around her waist." So did they have what you needed?"
"Ah yes they did for the right price that is, but do not fear as I had enough bits to purchase the herbs that I need." Zecora rhymed and gestured me to follow. I got up from my chair and followed her back to the Everfree forest, everyone that we had passed the first time no longer looked at me, except a few. Our journey back to Zecora's tree at the Everfree, the walk back to Zecora would take thirteen minutes to get there.
Zecora and I made it back at her place with the herbal flowers safe in her pouch, I had taken a liking on the forest. Zecora told me to met her at a pond northeast of the trees, pass a couple of vines that can tangle a timberwolf if one ever tries to get pass the vines, she had to put away the herbal flowers away before training me. I made my way towards the pond and followed where she told me to go. Vines hung in my way to the pond, it was difficult to climb the vines and tried my best not to get tangled in them.
After getting through the vines, I found myself by a pond with no sunlight piercing through the leaves. The entire place was only lit up by glowing cyan blue crystals emitting light. This whole place looks very peaceful because of the quietness, the pond with one huge cyan blue shard crystal under it water surface, and the light from the crystals. The pond seemed to be deep enough for someone to swim in, I walked over to the edge of the pond water and sat down on the dirt.
With no sounds in this area I started to get bored and pulled out my phone, this device only held music nothing else. I scrolled through songs in search of finding a peaceful music that can kill my boredom, but all my searching came to a stop on a song " Shadows" by Lindsey Stirling. I plugged in the earphones and put them on and started the song, while the song was playing I took off my cloak and my gloves then threw them away from the pond on the ground. The song was pleasant to listen to and with the scenery made it look like this was a perfect play for dancing shadows.
After the song ended I pulled out my earphones from my ears and put my phone and earphones on my cloak, a snap caused me to pull out my swords. From behind a tree Zecora walked over to me with a three feet long bamboo in her right hand, she had different clothes on. She was wearing a black sports bra along with same color sports shorts, there was probably a reason why she's wearing those clothes. When Zecora was close by the pond edge, I sheathed both swords and stood by her side, she hands me the bamboo in her hand and walked on the water.
"Here is where I train you, but do worry as the crystal beneath the watery surface would keep us afloat. Now sit right here and meditated as take play everyday, until you are ready to be train," Zecora explained and gesture at the center of the pond above the crystal under the water. I hesitated at first on walking over the water to the center, but that all changed when I set foot on the water surface. It felt like another ground, except it's water, I walked on the water towards where Zecora had pointed and sat down both legs crossed." Hold this and keep it straight as I would make a leap on it."
I did what Zecora told me and took the bamboo from Zecora's hand and held it in my right hand keeping it straight as possible. She took two steps back before jumping on the top end of the bamboo and balance on a single hoof. I had trouble on keeping the stick straight because of the force of Zecora's landing and her weight, but I finally manage to keep it straight.
After four hours of meditation on the water surface of the pond we headed back to Zecora's home, don't think I mastered it first try when Zecora told me I had to meditate, I couldn't hold the bamboo straight without it shaking in my hand. I can hold Alduin's pommel on the palm of my hand with my eyes open and using my strength and focus on keeping the greatsword balanced. This case I had to meditate while holding a bamboo in my hand and keeping it balance along with Zecora on top of it, but each time I do it she would jump off and I would fall in the pond. Not everything can be done at first try it takes time to master something even it is so basic, this is one of them that would take time.
"Zecora, I'm gonna walk around the Everfree forest. So I'll be back in three hours." I said, there are still more things I have to know where is where. Zecora nodded and opened the door in her tree and entered in, I still really don't know how she hollowed out a tree in this forest with dangerous animals around, but something's can't really be explained. I walked away from the tree and headed to a nearby clearing for me to take flight, being a demon with wings can help travel better like areas like these, in the air I might see Ponyville. At a clearing I spread out my wings and stretched them out first, being hidden in my body in three days can cramp them. After my stretch I jumped into the air and flapped my wings keeping me airborne, the wind was blowing in the air, but not enough to push me.
I scanned the entire area to see a ruined castle, a castle up on a mountain, two mountains with waterfalls, a cavern, and a mountain with a cave entrance in it. The rest was just trees and small clearings all around, except those other terrains I saw. There were choices on adventuring around the woods to explore these place, but not the castle in the mountain with a waterfall that place I had escaped from. The ruins were starting to catch more of my interests on exploring there to see what I could find or even make it a small home for me. The ruined castle won my choice of exploration first, I flapped my wings and flew over to the ruins.
Flying can get you to places faster than traveling on foot, it took nine minutes to soar through the sky to the ruins and it would have taken me triple the amount to walk on the ground to this place. The place was in ruins from the time it has spent here and plant life grew on its stone walls and ceilings. I flew down close to ground and dropped out of the air landing on my feet, the landing would have just strain someone's legs if they hadn't jumped off a two story building. The sun was still up in the sky, but it was getting close to night.
I took a look at my surrounding to see if anyone had been here and to see if there was anything useful, but I found none that can be any use. When I able to take single step towards the castle, I saw crimson mist coming from the castle front doors. It was strange to see mist flowing out from the cracks of the door, it wasn't right and it felt very familiar to me like hell energy itself. Not taking a chance of being caught unguard I drew out both my swords and walked to the castle's door, the mist flowing out of the cracks was recharging my own hell energy. Now know that the red mist was indeed hell energy itself means that the demons had opened a portal to Equis, I opened the door enough for a peek inside.
There was someone inside this castle standing in the middle of the great hall standing on a satanic circle, the circle itself was glowing like fire, except showing no flames. I pushed the door quietly to avoid being detected by this person by the satanic circle, the circle sometimes meant a demon just came out of hell or it's just gathering hell energy from it. I snuck to left of a doorway and hid behind a corner, the doorway was actually stairs that led down.
With my hell energy full I could summon Alduin and used it against this mysterious person, but my cloak won't do well on hiding my face. I looked down on my hands and focused on my hell energy to change my form from human to demon. My body started to change as violet and blue flames appeared at all my limbs and made their way up to my head. My skin was no longer white to scarlet red, hands were claws, my cloak and clothes underneath changed into scale like skin, my hair stayed in place as two horns grew around back and one grew back down, a mask formed around the front of my face with two slanted eye and a row of sharp white teeth, two my wings sprung out with pointed tips, and last my tail grew out five feet long. I raised my right hand up and summon Alduin, the same colored flames appeared at my hand then went to the left with the greatsword conjured behind it. After summoning my sword, I walked out of the corner and towards the mysterious person.
When I drew near the person, he or she noticed me and looked back behind him or her, the mysterious person was wearing blue armor with two crescent moons on both side of his or her hips, helmet with four holes in it two for the eyes and two for the ears and a spike in between two ear holes. The person wasn't a pony nor a zebra, the way I can tell because a pony or zebra ears would be showing through the holes on top of the helmet. I stopped a yard away from the person, he or she turned around revealing more...it's a female, the armor was meant for a female because of the breast plates.
"uoy era ohW?" The person in the armor questioned in a deep male voice, I had mistaken it as a girl. I knew the language of what he asked me in, it was demonic language, but I also recognize his voice though I can't place a finger on it.
"tsrif uoY!” I relied back not wanting to give this demon my name, only one demon knows about me and he is Zeal. The demon looked behind him at the satanic circle then he looked back at me, he raised his left hand and conjured a sword out of shadows, the blade was also familiar to me. I raised mine and pointed it at him and formed a purple flames on my left hand, this battle won't be easy since I don't really know what type of demon he is or what rank he's on. We both waited for one another to make the first move, we both darted towards each other with our swords ready to strike, we were two meters away from each other I swung Alduin at his side causing the blade grinded against the stone floor, the demon blocked it with his blade by colliding his blade with mine. I aimed my left hand at the head of the demon and prepared to fire a fireball at his head, but he grabbed my wrist and flung me over him to the stair, my body slammed against the stone steps. The demon threw his sword at me and impaled me in the stomach causing me to cough out blood and stopped me from sliding down the steps, he was definitely ahead of my league and was much more experience on fighting than me, the demon ran over to me and pulled out the sword then flung me across the room.
I had lost some amount of blood and even more if I keep on fighting, the gash in my chest healed instantly, but I didn't get up or move. Sound of clanking armor drew near me and in my view was the demon in that armor, he knelt down one one kneel and brought the bladed edge of the sword up to my neck.
"eman rouy em llet, em llik uoy erofeB." I said wanting to know this demon name before I died.
"laeZ," When he said that name I changed back into my human form catching Zeal off guard." Justin! I could have killed you!" Zeal pulled me up to my feet and brushed off the dirt on the back of my cloak, he examined me to be sure that he didn't do any serious damage on me. A sigh of relief came from him knowing he didn't do any serious damage on me and to tell the truth it hurts like a bitch to be stabbed through the chest.
"What happened to you Zeal and why are you in a woman armor?" I asked.
"It's a long story so here's the short version.” Zeal began to tell his short story of what happened to him and why he was wearing girl armor.
Zeal had a rough time of getting out of hell to Tartarus, he had three errands of his own to do and the three errands were books. There not ordinary books like reading and not learning about history or entertainment, Zeal stolen three books one from each library of Hell's library, Heaven's library, and a library in this castle. Zeal had difficulty on stealing a book of spells from heaven, but managed to not get caught by any angels, hell's library wasn't a problem to him since he is a demon. The crystal did take him to Tartarus in front of its gates, but the crystal took a lot of hell energy from him making him weak. Tartarus was located near the Everfree at the far Southwest passed the mountains, it took him two whole days just to travel through the forest to this castle.
Tartarus doesn't give off any energy making that place useless to live in, but the satanic circle and seal still works for offering energy and makes it useful to have a forever lasting energy. Zeal told me after the two whole days he found the female armor, he's wearing right now, since he couldn't recover any hell energy to keep himself alive, Zeal placed a possess seal inside the armor. The reason why he choose this armor because it was strong enough to hold his soul in it, the other armor he tried to possess would break apart. The satanic circle in the middle of the great hall was recharging his hell's energy, but when I cut in and fought him recklessly he didn't get that much from it. At the end of his short story the result it brought me in was a uncontrollable laugh of him being in girl armor.
"This is not funny!" Zeal yelled at me being mad that he's in that girl armor and mad that I haven't shut up." It was the only armor that's strong enough to hold my soul and I don't have a forge for me to reconstruct this armor!" My uncontrollable laughter died down for a break and to stop the pain my stomach, once I calmed down I looked at Zeal who had his arms crossed.
"Sorry," I sheepishly smiled and regain my composure I now had my serious face on." Anyway, while you weren't here on Equis I made a friend and she is my trainer." The last part was mumbled, but Zeal heard it though I can't really see his facial expression due to his helmet head.
"Well, that's good I wouldn't be able to train you anymore. Now will I see her or will you just waste more time than we have until dark," Zeal said and unfolded his metal arms and pointed it at a broken window above us, the sun light was dimming as we just stood here. I had completely forgot that the sun was going down and that the moon was soon going to replace it. With that news in my head I gesture Zeal to follow out the castle, but before Zeal complied he destroyed the stone that the satanic circle was on and followed.
We walked out through the castle door and headed towards Zecora's home, she'll be probably surprised to see Zeal or to see a demon in a girl armor.
POV Zecora
It has been two hours since Justin had left to explore the Everfree and it's starting to worry me about his safety, he may be a demon from another world, but he can still die from anything. The sky was filled with stars along with the moon giving off a white glow from it, I had already started cooking some stew for him and I. It won't be long until he comes knocking on my door from his short exploration he took, I gather the required ingredients to make vegetable stew along with minted tea. In the cauldron was water along with berry flower and pepper.
A knock on the door caught my attention and caused me to walk over and open it, on the other side I could not believe it Justin was back along with a guest behind. He sheepishly smiled and looked back at the pony behind him and back at me, he cleared his throat and raised his right hand at his companion.
"Zecora this is Zeal, Zeal this is Zecora the one who's training." I was surprised to hear that this pony behind Justin was Zeal the one who trained him before what Justin said: "he was promoted."
"Ah, a Zebra, never thought a creature from this world would train him, I would have to say thank for taking him under your care," Zeal said his voice was dark and low, he sounded pleased that Justin was under my training." But where's my manners as Justin already introduced us it is a pleasure to meet you Zecora." He raised his left gauntlet hand up towards me pass Justin, even for a demon he seemed to be well mannered like a pony.
"It is pleasure to meet you as well," I said and raised my left hand by his, we both shook and let go. A growl from Justin's stomach made him scratched the back of his with small smile on his lips, he was sniffing the air." Ah I see that you are hungry, but do not worry as I'm cooking dinner in my cauldron." Justin grinned knowing that the food I am cooking is one of his favorites, I gestured them to come in and walked back to the cauldron, the water in it was boiling readied to for me to cook in. With the help of Justin on cooking vegetable stew was ready to be eaten for the night meal, but Zeal insisted on not eating he was thinking of something.
Zeal
A home, we are missing a home in this world, a place to call as one of our own land and one for shelter and a place to call a home. I looked at both Zecora and Justin they were eating their stew, I am glad that she took him in and train him in her ways. There were many places I could build a home in a tree or out of stone, but with this forest full of different types of human mythology it would be wise to build a home inside of a mountain. The time it will take to carve the insides of a mountain would take months for a regular builder with magic or spell to use. Luckily for me that cave I had was what I did over two days when I first turned eighteen, but a home in a mountain would take a week or a small bit longer to finish. Breaking the news to the both of them, but I know that Justin would be happy to know a place to call home was going to be built, but he has to buy the furniture.
Both of them finished their stew and set the wooden carved bowls on a wooden table near them, this was a chance to tell Justin my plans. I got up from a chair by the door and walked over to the both of them, Justin noticed my presence because of the clanking metal from this armor, Zecora got up and took the bowls and wooden spoons with to a homemade wooden sink.
"Justin, may we talk?" I had ask, his reply was a nod." I have been think about building a home in a nearby mountain, but it will take a week or a bit than that so I'm just letting you know that you're buying furniture for it. Don't think I'm forcing you on leaving Zecora's home you're still going to live here, but I'm leaving these here for you to learn spells." I opened up my chest place where I hidden the books and handed them to him, he looked at them with wide eyes before hugging me." So just keep training with Zecora and learn ways that can help you, who knows that you might have two different pools of energy." The hug broke as Justin pulled back with a smile spread across his face, he must be excited and happy that we're having a place to live later and that he can continue his training.
I walked towards the door of this tree and waved my right hand for a farewell goodbye then exit out of the place. The forest atmosphere was filled with chirping crickets, a night like this with a full view of the moon would make Justin feel like he was in a safe place where nothing will ever go wrong... I might build that as a garden balcony later on.
Author's Note
There are those don't know any demon language so I give those that don't know how to translate backward words, read it backwards.
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