The legend of the 'DOOM' Slayer

Vertigo hit Twilight as she slumped in her chair. Her body felt like it didn't agree to anything that just happened. Looking around she saw herself back in her castle. She saw that her friends were also there. Feeling a wave of relief hit at the sight of them. She relaxed at the thought of them being alright. OK, that was overstepping it, they were anything but alright. Especially her. What the ever living buck did she just see just see! Lines of soldiers falling in battle and towns of civilians being torn apart by bloodthirsty monsters. A civilization destroyed. A race that looked to be no more advanced than Equestria.

'Who were they?' Twilight thought over. Then her mind went over to that soldier that the deep voice told them about. The way he shouted those war cry's and showing those monsters the same courtesy they did to his people. It was horrifying and graphic.

He showed no mercy to them. No, restrain or restriction. Neither compassion or kindness.

'But.' She thought. The image of the one soldier at the end came to her.

Before she could finish her thought, Starlight had collapsed on her hands and knees next to the princess of friendship, panting like she ran ten miles without stopping, with the sweat on her face to prove it.

Taking a look at her surroundings, some of her friends didn't look too great.

Spike was looking green as he looked to be in the starting stages of evicting the contents of his stomach onto the ground in front of him. She was bout to move over to his side and comfort him when he got up and dashed out of the room. Most likely to the nearest bathroom.

Rarity was holding onto her seat looking like she just got off a pony go round moving at rain boom speeds. She looked like she was trying her hardest not to faint then and there. Fluttershy looked to be the worse out of everyone. Curled up in a ball on her chair and shaking like a leaf in a tree. Her mane covered her face and body like a blanket. Thou kept looking like she got hit by a whirlwind. Oh, wait she did.

The sound of sniffles and sobs could be heard. Seeing Fluttershy nearly broke her heart at the sight. She was shivering like it was cold outside. Her legs were up and digging into her chest with her head pushed down, fluffy pink hair covering most of her body and arms around her looking to protect herself.

Shifting her gaze over at Pinkie, the first thing she noticed was her straight hair limp and un-messy covering half her face. Her one light blue eye looked to be devoid of all laughter and joy. Now filled with sadness. Not one that she recognized from the party pony... She didn't shake or move around in her chair. Only sitting still in her seat, unmoving. Her eyebrow was high up at in inclined going upward, however. Twilight had only seen Pinkie with her eyebrow like that when she was thinking about plans to put in her party book for future events. Since her BBBFF wedding, Twilight had seen that look only when the mare was thinking about something inportent.

Thinking about what Pinkie was planning about will have to wait till later, Twilight thought as she looked at two of her remaining friends.

Applejack and Rainbow Dash looked to be doing the best out of all of them. They stood up on shaky legs looking like they both ran an iron pony competition over and over. Applejack's ponytail was undone and loose falling onto her shoulders. She breathed heavily while trying to lock her legs under her. With an arm on her chair, she steadies herself trying to calm her breathing. Her emerald green eyes were looking dilated and unfocused on any one thing. Her signature hat off her head and in a firm grasp in another hand.

Rainbow Dash was leaning on the map in front of her to keeping herself up. She breathed heavy in and out while lifting her head. Dash's face was flushed red, and with her breathing, as it was, any stallion could mistake her as a mare in heat. Her eyes were wide and looked fixated on the table in front of her. Sweat was mangled in her cyan furred of the wonder bolt.

"Is everyone alright...?" Rarity announced to her friends with general worry in her voice.

The sound of a toilet flushing outside could be heard as a response from Spike.

Applejack gave an exhausted look to the fashion mare. "I don't rec'kon I am, Rarity. I'll get back to you on that.

"I'll second that notion." Starlight called out from her spot on the floor as she attempted to make a stand on her own two legs.
Fluttershy merely nods her head letting everyone know she was still with them.

"That... Was..." Dash let out slowly... "I don't... I don't know what to think about..? What we just went through... "

A small smile graced the rainbow maned Pegasus. "Although, I don't know about the rest of Y'all, but that guy at the end there."
The mentioning of the soldier got everyone's attention.

"Has made the list of awesome in my books."

Twilight, Rarity, and Starlight gave looks of confusion to the wonder bolt. Pinkie tilted her head at the notion. Fluttershy hid her face with her hair at the mention of the soldier.

Applejack was the one to look in disbelief.

"Are you kidding me RD? Because that was the worse joke, I ever heard after what we just saw just now!" The apple farmer couldn't believe the Pegasus said that.

"Oh come on Applejack, Did you see the way he just fought through the monsters! The way he literally destroyed all those things! And that name the monsters called him? The DOOM Slayer. Did not see the guy? " Dash glared at the Apple mare.

"Of course I di..."

"After those things destroyed his home?!"

"We'll I.."

"Cuss I did! And it's exactly how I'll act if something happens to all of you!" Dash let out. "Now don't you say anything cuss you do the same thing he did if that happens that your family!"

Twilight reared back at that announcement of the weather pony. Everyone could only stare slack jaw of what was quickly said.

Applejack looked like she was about to say something but remained quite. There was nothing the farm mare could say that would disagree with Rainbow on that statement. For it was true. Applejack would be in rage if her family were ripped apart by monsters.

"Thank you, Rainbow." Rarity said looking her friend. "Although you could have worded it a little bit better in my opinion. But you made your point. I too would want pay pack some sort of if something ever happens to Sweetie Bell. "

Applejack looked at her two friends and sighed in defeat at their valid point. She admits that would likely be the case for her also if something terrible happened to Granny Smith, Big Mac or not especially Applebloom.

"'Sigh.' Alright, Rainbow you made your point. But what I don't understand is why Twilight has a tomb for this stallion in the castle, to begin with?"

"That question is what confusing me," Spike said, as he said walking back into the map room looking more healthy than when he left.

"I mean not just that but why haven't we seen this-this guy there before. I mean you would think that we see this guy when we first toured this place." Spike explained.

"It was hidden with magic Spike." Twilight explained

All eyes turned to the bookworm princess. Some like Applejack, Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash had held looks of confusion. Starlight and Rarity held looks of interest. Spike just sat back in his seat and just listen in. Pinkie just sat there looking at Twilight with a neutral face. Which was creeping Twilight? Never seeing the party planner ever not smiling.

"Remember girls my whole home was made up of magic and me being sensitive to magical items like that of our elements. The tomb below us was magically sealed making me blind to it." Twilight explained. "It's like covering up and closing the lid something that smells sweet with something stronger. No one would detect the difference, not even me. Also, who knows how long that's been down there? He could be older than Discord, and we wouldn't know it."

"Who's older than me?"

A voice spoke out. The group looked up and saw the miss match form of Discord standing upside down with a smirk on his face. The draconequus was lounging upside down on the ceiling, on a sun lawn chair with a glass of chocolate milk in his talon.

Discord!" Everyone said with a surprise.

"The very same!"

"What are you doing here?!" Rainbow shouted at the mismatch pony. To which he responded by teleporting next to the rainbow maned pony.

"Rainbow settle down. I'm sure he has a reason for being here." Fluttershy said, being the friend of the two of them.

"Thank you, dear Fluttershy. You always know what they say, why I'm here though is as I was on my way here to see Fluttershy here for our usual get together for tea." The god of chaos said making Fluttershy gasp.

"Oh no, I'm sorry Discord some things came up, and I have forgotten about tea time. Please don't be mad at me..." Fluttershy pleaded with hints of tears forming in the corner of her eyes.

"Fluttershy my friend, there nothing could make me mad at you." Coming down the pink hair ponies level embracing her in a quick warm hug with Fluttershy returning it with a smile.

"Besides when I felt that strange pulse of magic that came from Twilight's castle earlier, I know you girls had to be involved somehow. The lot of you practically a bunch of magnets for chaos and random happenings." Discord said happily, making the mares shy away, some with sheepish smiles at that statement of fact.

As Discord looked at each of the mares, he felt something off about something. Some sort of forgone magic that had appeared here in this room. It seemed foreign to the draconequus, but something the god of chaos's mind shouted he should know this magic. Till his eye saw the map table.

"Twilight what ever happen to your fancy dancy preci.... Girls, where on all that is holy on this plane of existence did you find one of those?! " The draconequus eyes were now on the the big book on the table; all amusement was gone from his face. To girls surprise, Discords voice went from curious to what sounded like a demanding voice.

Walking up to the map table that held the metal page book with a look that almost looks that took even Pinkie was surprised to see. Absolute disbelief. Discord made his way up to the book, eyes never leaving the book but also kept a safe distance away.

"Discord do you know what this is and who made it?" Twilight asked in somewhat curious voice while trying not to rail up chaos.

"THAT beloved princess... Is a very, and I do stress the word,' very' rare tome. Made by the races known by kind as
'the Wraith'."

He had a chill in his voice that that was made the air feel it was either getting colder or warmer, everyone got a diffident reaction. But kept their opinions on that notion to themselves.

"Who or what were the Wraith? I've never heard of such of a race." Twilight said unable to resist asking questions on the subject. Discord was never leaving the site of the book, gave the girl a small grin.

"I would be surprised if you did know about them, and when did I say they were a 'race' I said 'races.'"

"They were a collective of many races, species, and creeds. That included some ponies, scimitars, and zebras that had lived within their domain in peace."

The princess' mind was blown away to the other side of Equestria and mailed to Griffinstone. The rest of the girls were also paying attention. Even Rainbow Dash was giving her rare undivided attention to what Discord had to say. Pinkie pulled up another bag of popcorn from no were as she listened in.

"I did have a small book that held some information in my library way back when before Sun butt and Moonie turned me to stone. I don't remember what they did to it, so you have to ask them. Otherwise, they were a powerful and secretive people even back then at the height of both the Draconequus empire and their realm, more than 25,000 years ago. Mine and there's never got along back then, so there was little to no iteration between us."

There was now a workout routine going about for all the jaws in the room as they stretch. Nothing could-could be hard as they tried to find their voices, so Discord continued with his story.

"From what I can recall there was a race of them with The Wraith that were the original Wraiths. They were also the minority of their realm but also the most powerful. Their skills and powers from the strength of their magic runes. With there already heighten speed, mobility and incredible feats of brute strength. They were a class of their own."

Starlight Glimmer, 'finally finding her voice' asked a question to the draconequus. "What happened to them?"

Finally tearing away from the book. He eyed Starlight and gave her a frown face with an answer none of them expected.

"Tartarus happen little Starlight. Tartarus destroyed them. " Discord said in a chilling voice.

"As we all know deep within Equestria guarded by Cerberus is the gate's of Tartarus. But what many do not know is that Tartarus is not just a place for criminals to be banished too but also a void to other worlds internally."

"WHAT?!" Twilight let out. Looking like she needed to go for emergency spa treatment the way her hair just fussed in no time flat.

More worlds out there? Other than the one Parallel to this one where Sunset Shimmer is currently living. She knew Star Swirls theory of the multiverse but with another way to them without the mirror?

Discord was seeing the questions popping up in the mare's head. A small grin slowly inched up his face the next piece of info to drop on them.

"Why of course Dear Twilight, just where did you think Celesta and Luna came from, outer space?" Discord said smiling at their reactions.

If Discord had his disbelieve handheld sensor ready from out of his shop, then it would be flying off to the moon at what there just witness.

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"......Twilight....?" Spike spoke out.

"..Yes, Spike...."

"I vote we call it a day... I don't know how much of 'this' i can take." With one by one, the girls agreeing

"Me Too Twi, I've got to get back to the farm and finish up my chores. This ordeal is a bit much for much for me to get a grip on all in one day ... Lest restart this tomorrow OK sugar cube?'

"I... second that dearie. While I admit, this has been, 'fun' learning all this history. I think I need to take a trip to the spa before they close down for the day and take care of Sweetie Bell's dinner for tonight."

"There's also rain storm the weather team needs to set up for tonight, and they need me there to watch over them for it."

"Um... I also do need to get home Twilight. Angel gets cranky if he doesn't get fed on time....um .... if that's ok with you..."

"Ya Twilight, Mr, and Miss Cake are going to need me to help them close down Sugar Cube Corner pretty soon! And I don't want to miss giving the twins their nightly bubble bath!"

Twilight let out a soft 'sigh" at her friend's choices. Even she had to admit all this talk was slowly getting the better of her. She needs a rest sadly.

Looking over at her friends she gave them the go ahead and went home. Agreeing to meet again tomorrow morning for lunch to continue to talk about what they all recently learned. Discord lingered a bit looking over the book before he to vanished to who knows where.

With their friends gone, the three residents made a small dinner for themselves and promptly headed off to bed. With all manner of questions going through their minds.