With so much on Twilight's mind the young alicorn it took hours for sleep to take hold over her mind. Even then it did not help her in the least with so many questions running through her head. Like what is Tartarus exactly? A prison, a gateway to other plains and worlds? What did Discord mean that 'Tartarus happen' to the Wraith? What did he mean about Celestia and Luna coming from beyond Tartarus?

The questions seem to have no end in sight for Twilight, and it was becoming a pain in her flank just thinking about it.

BEEB! BEEB! BEEB!

Twilight woke up with a grown then hits her alarm clock, ceasing its rant.

Lifting the covers off herself, she got out of bed and headed towards her closet, taking her PJ's in the process.

After dressing up in some simple artier, choosing a simple dark blue t-shirt and some not too tight jeans.

Smelling the scent of breakfast being cooked from downstairs, Twilight exits her rooms domain and heads to the kitchen. Upon entree, she sees it was the only inhabitant in front of the stove burners cooking up some pancakes, was Spike wearing a gray sweatshirt and loose gym shorts. He was flipping pancakes onto a big plate next to him. 'Mmmmm, blueberry pancakes.' she could tell by crushed blue spots that dotted the brown stack of goodness.

"Morning Spike! You're up early?" The princess greeted her number one assistant.

"Morning Twilight. I slept super quick last night and ended up waking before my alarm clock went off." Spike said before flipping the flats of the blueberry pancakes onto the growing stack and Twilight moving over at the kitchen table. Sitting in one of her chairs.

"I think all that stuff yesterday just all came back to me at the end there and poofed! Out like a light." The Drake said.

"Lucky you then, I could barely sleep last night." Came the voice of Starlight Glimmer as she walked through the door, wearing a green tank top that matched the second tone in her hair and blue skirt that went down to her knees. Taking up the open seat next to her teacher at the table. Twilight was nodding her head in agreement.

"Me too. With all that we heard, felt and saw from yesterday's events from that book. Discord inviting himself in like always as usual. Then tell's all of us that Tartarus itself is not only a gateway to a place for Equestria most wanted but a system to other worlds? With both Princess Celesta and Luna being from any one of them!"

'.... Well, I was more thinking about all the dead things being under our hooves all this time."

"..."

"...Ummmm, Twilight?"

Twilight turned her head facing the baby dragon. "Do you think, Ummm, maybe, that the things we saw in that book yesterday look a lot like the the skeletons hanging around in our basement?"

"...I almost forgot about that. Do you two might think it's the one that the Wraith book was telling us about?" Twilight asked the two.

Spike sat the plate of pancakes in the middle of the three of them and sat down in his chair. "Do you?" Spike said before filling up his plate with his special gem filled pancakes.

"I'm also leaning on that thought as well. Could we have to stumble upon this 'Doom Slayers" tomb?" Starlight asked before filling up her plate too.

"The evident's that we have so far are pushing us to that conclusion. Well with the book and all?" Twilight questioned before filling her plate.

With the room quiet down as the three silently ate away at their breakfast a thought crossed Starlight Glimmers mind. "Where is the book anyway princess?"

Looking up from her pancakes to her student than to her number one assistant. "Spike, did you move the book somewhere?"

"After what that thing did! No way I'm touching that! I thought either you Starlight might have grabbed it"

"I didn't grab it?"

"I didn't either?"

"..."

"..."

The princess of friendship softly puts her hand up to her face and gave a soft 'sigh.' "It's still in the map room isn't it."

"Yep."

"Most likely."

Letting lose another 'sigh'". Let's go." The alicorn said before taking one last biting in one of her pancakes before leaving. She got up from her spot at the table and left quickly for the door. Unicorn and Dragon hot on her tail. For the quick pace, the three walked they made it to the Friendship map room in no time. There on the inactive map table was the opened Wraith book still there on the same page, the same place as Twilight last touched it. "Well, that's a relief that. No one took it."

"Shouldn't we put this someplace safe where no one would open it again? I don't think any of us want a repeat of what happened yesterday, princess." Starlight offered. She didn't want to see all that violence again, or the monsters.

"You're absolutely right," Twilight agreed with her student. "In till we find a proper way storing this book we'll hide it in my room. After that, we will send a letter to Princess Celesta about what we have learned and see if there free sometime in the next few days. For now, there is a lot of questions I would like to talk to them about in what Discord said to us." Especially if what Discord said was true about the princess being from beyond the realm of Tartarus. "Spike, can you grab the book and take it to my room? Me and Starlight will gather our friends and bring them to Sugarcube Corner to discuss what to do with it. Just head on over there when you're done."

"No problem, Twilight." He said

She watch the dragon walk up casually to the book; she watches as he grabbed the book too close it only he doesn't. From her point of view, it looked like Spike couldn't get his claws under in to lift the books cover. Well, the book was heavy she did admit. Remembering she resorted to magic to carry it. But Spike should be strong enough to lift it, couldn't he?

Starlight Glimmer, Who was also observing the struggling Drake looked at him in confutation. "You OK there?"

"It's not moving guys."

"What do you mean, 'It's not moving'?" Asked Starlight.

"I know it's heavy, Spike but I know you are stronger then you look to pick with all the stuff you carry for Rarity during her shopping sprees." Twilight teased.

Lightly blushing at the comment, he chose not to dignify with a response but continue pulling on the book to get it close. With no success

Starlight seeing his struggle went over to help the little dragon. Getting on the other side of the drake she used her hands to try and get under the book. To her surprise, she couldn't. It was as if the book itself and the map table had just simply become one in the same. Nothing she did wouldn't be able to get under the metal book. If Spikes claws couldn't get under it, then neither was she with her hands. 'Well if that the case then let's try our magic' She wasn't going to mess this up. With all the training she did before and after becoming Princess Twilight's personal student. Reaching out with her magic the book was covered in her aqua colored aura when she tugged on the book she let out a 'yelp' of pain. Cupping her horn with her hands, she jerked her head back not noticing she turned to the next page of the book. Backing away from the book she ceased her magical hold of the book, feeling as if someone just pinched her horn very hard.

Seeing her student in pain Twilight rushed to her Starlight's side. "What happen Starlight, are you OK?" She asked in a worried tone while looking her over.

"I don't get it, princess? We all saw you use your magic yesterday to levitate this thing in here, but just now it felt like someone took my horn and pinched it very hard to the point it slightly hurt." She explained.

"Um, Twilight?" Spike called the girls.

"That's really odd. The book didn't do anything like that before. Wonder why it acted that way to you?"

"Guys?"

"Maybe the book has some kind of shielding spell cast over it?" Starlight suggestive

"Guys!" Spike called out in a louder voice with a panic tone in his voice.

The two girls looked over at Spike then at what he was seeing. Both their eyes shrunk at the sight of the map table sparkling over in green magic.

"Oh no, Ru--!!!" Twilight let out, trying to warn everyone away before a familiar red light and defining sound blinded her senses.

Over at Sugarcube Corner, Pinkie had an apron on and was with Miss Cake with her morning baking when all of a sudden started shaking uncontrollably. Miss Cake being a firm believer that she is in the force that is 'The Pinkie sense,' backed away from the party planner in fear. As soon as it started, it stopped.

"Pinkie dear are you alright?" Miss Cake said in a worried with a little bit of fear voice

Pinkie blinked twice before replying back. "Wow, that one was a d-"

Like a puppet cut from her strings Pinkie's eyes widen before collapsing onto the grown. Not hearing the voice of the baker mare calling out to her in a fearful shout. Nor noticing the three balloons flash on her flank.

Up in her Cloud House, Rainbow Dash was relaxing after a nice warm rain shower she took before sitting at her dinner table eating honey flavored nut cereal out of a nice big bowl for breakfast. With nothing but a set of yellow panties on with a white towel draped over her shoulders. Tank, her pet tortoise was with her on the table eating his own little breakfast.

Rainbow suddenly felt her cutie mark blink like it usually did when the map Twilight's castle was calling. Before she could comment her eyes went wide and her pupils shrunk before portraying the act of a wet noodle. Falling face first into her cereal bowl milk slashed out with its nutty contents out over her head and along the table.

Tank was giving her a worried look before rushing to his friend.

All over town, the other elements of harmony continue to fall one by one correspondingly.

Fluttershy was feeding her animals breakfast before she fell in front of them scattering their food all over the ground. Casting all of them to panic.

Right as Applejack walked out the door with her brother Big Mac her eyes widen before falling on down on the front porch. Surprising the big stallion before fear took hold of him and rushed to his sister's side with his protective big brother instincts taking over.

In her bathroom Rarity had gotten out of her shower and was now sitting in front of her mirror brushing her tail making it lovely and beautiful from the 'horrors' that is bed hair. When she finished, she felt her cutie mark shine before her eyes went wide before flopping straight to the floor.

~

The wind blew into Twilight's face putting her back into the reality of the situation she was in. Looking around she insistently sees Spike and Starlight Glimmer with her along with the rest of her friends.

Applejack looked surprised to be here. From the look of her, she was in her usual get up for when she works at her farm. From her dirty blue jeans, tan work shirt, and brown stetson.

Pinkie Pie was there in a blue t-shirt, white short shorts with a white apron on. She looked like something scary was going to happen. With her main and tail all straight laying over to one side instead of its natural poofieness curls. Fluttershy was the closest to her, so she went to her. She was wearing a green skirt and a pink top. Starlight went over to calm the mare down too.

Looking at Spike, he just stood straight as a board, wide eye and ... was blushing very hard?... With blood coming out of his nose...?

Turning to what he was looking at Twilights own face blushed heavily with heat.

Rainbow Dash and Rarity were back to back to each other not looking at each other or at anyone. But soon everyone else's eyes were on the fashionest and athlete with their own crimson blushes.

Sensing eyes on them, they both turn to their friends and immediately noticed the faces that were looking at them. Rarity looks at them with a confused look then looks to herself. Seeing purple towel, she resiliently had on currently on the ground while she showed off her freshly groomed fur for all to see. With a load 'shriek,' or what would look like Rarity shrieking if her friends could hear her. She went down to her knees garbing her towel and placing it over herself. Face full of crimson.

Spike upon seeing this made the drake stagger back from an abrupt nosebleed before swaying side to side and collapsing face first into the dirt.

Rainbow Dash was looking at Rarity then to herself, then to her other friends then back to herself. All in all, she just shrugged it off. She wasn't that embarrassed to her honesty. She had to get used to it when she showered with other cadets at the wonder bolt Academy and again after every show and practice she did with the Wonder Bolts. Being naked in front of her friends and others didn't bother her in the slightest.

Tempered by the fires of Hell,

Said a Deep voice, startling that everyone. The same voice that seemed to act as a narrator to what is shown around them the last time this happen. The area slowly stirred with the moment as the scenery change and took hold a new.
All seven mares with the exception of Spike, still being fully knocked unconscious, were retaken in what could be only described as Tartarus was shown in front of them.

The sky was covered in many thick layers of clouds that look like they were on fire. They burned with a fiery red, a pale yellow and with a strong sickly orange. Like the sun was had just angry with everything and decided to burn the sky.

Stone buildings began to be built on one side of them whit a great gorge was formed on the other. Rainbow Dash was closest to the canyon, and she saw that the rock face they were on curved inward. As they all watched their surroundings appear The mares notated a bunch of giant chains began to form on the ground with some just lying there while others were connecting to floating hunks of rocks? Sure enough, logic was thrown out the window as massive formations of rocks were formed in an arc pattern that spans off into what had to be mountains the twice the size of Canterlot, if not bigger. They couldn't tell with the huge banks of fog that seemed to swallow up the base of it.

Tall yellow pillars of something seemed to form around them-them in some sort of walk way to an ancient stone building. But as the details began to fill in. The more scared they girls got. All around them bodies started to appear. Dead bodies.

What's worse all of them were cover in crimson red blood and decorated with what had to be there guts. Just piles of them were thrown on over the top of each other in a spacial way. Some piles had metal stakes coming out of them with skulls and guts impaled or hanging off them. As the ground began to morph under them they truly know the meaning of fear when puddles of what had to be blood were settled where they now stood.

If any of them could scream their voices would echo across the mountain range.

his iron will remained steadfast through the passage that preys upon the weak

With the deep voice that filled the air, the mares stopped there panicking and listened. As he spoke a tower with wall spanning on either of its sides appeared before them. At its front was a wooden gate covered in iron bolts. The walls ramparts were teaming with activity, the little monsters that they seam before reminded them of little Imps that jumped along the wall crying out in their own language issuing to what sounded like orders Twilight thought.

She then noted one of them screaming frankly and pointed at them. She was about make a run for it when the sounds of heavy footsteps reached her ears turning around. Her eyes widen in both fear surprise as what felt like her breath was taken away. She saw him. Right. There..

It was the one from before. The one the voice called the Doom Slayer. His steps were like iron weights hitting the ground, eyes of death within them. Twilight couldn't help but examine his armor like she did before. As he got closer to them not even hinting that they were there, she noted some changes to his armor. Like before it was scared and dented, but it looked, changed to Twilight. Last time it looked like it was plated steel, this time it looked ceramic. He had had shoulder pads unlike last time, and he wore gauntlets that looked like he used to beat down a one to many walls, which he might have done for all Twilight know. Along his whole body had an assortment of strange items on his hips and back. The only thing the princess could recognize was wicked looking chainsaw on his back. Then there was his helmet.

It looked different than before. It seemed like the same helmet as before but was added on a few new features the most noticeable being a face mask. It covered over the middle and lower parts of his face only revealing his the area around his eyes. His red crimson eyes.

By this point, the seven mares couldn't tell whether or not to be revealed or even more scared.

The herd the 'Imp's' Started wailing as they all saw the slayer walk towards them as if he was on a casual stroll. Nearing the wall, they open fire with fireballs that they conjured from their hands.

The girls all stared in fear and awe as the Slayer rushed past them as he dodges the incoming fireballs like they were coming at him in slow motion. When he was haft way to the wall jumped behind a rock for cover as the balls of hellish fire scorched the rock. They noticed one of the strange devices he had on from his back cradling it in his hands. It reminded Twilight of the crossbows used in the royal guard. But replace the bow and string with a metal pipe and a box and that what you seem to get.

The Doom player jumps from cover and letting a stream of light and sound with what could only be described as quick flashes of light out of its pipe at the monsters above. It then it started raining. Red rain and bodies. His weapon destructive power shot through them leaving behind gaping holes killing them before they fell off the wall.

For he alone was the Hell Walker, the Unchained Predator

As he finished killing the imps, the gate at the front of the tower opens up letting lose all kinds of monsters that charged the lone demon slayer. A pair of muscle bound brutes that lacked eyes were moving fast on him, followed by bloated fat blobs that had tubs from their backsides connecting to red glowing cannons that were fused to its arms. They shot red masses of energy at him as they exited the gate. There was also some kind of parasprites that looked fifty times its normal size going at him shooting breathing purple fire.

Within a matter of moments, it seemed to the girls perspective, the slayer utterly destroyed the imps on the wall. With them dead, he quickly moved to the gate to face a new threat. He sidestepped to the right when the brutes charged him while letting lose more fire as they passed him by. As he staggered the first one, he jumped on its back grabbed its head to face his effectively breaking his neck. A second one then came to delivered an over the shoulder punch but ducked under his arm while pulling out a what had to be another weapon. This one was smaller than the other one he used on the imps. It had two twin barrels and looked like the handle was made of wood. He pointed the said weapon up to the monster's ribs and unleashing a single twin blast into it blowing pieces of gore and blood. The brute fell to his knees clutching his expose chest before falling face first onto the ground dead. The walking blobs and the unnaturally large parasprites didn't stand a chance with them gone with the help of the bloodied chainsaw before making his way towards the gate. As he busted through the gate, the world shifted the group to a new place. It looked like an underground network of some deadly dungeon. The walls were hellish and filthy while they were decorated with chains with some skeletons hanging from them.

who sought retribution in all quarters,

They saw a doorway appear next to them and though it saw a battle going on between the Slayer and what had to be the biggest skull of a ram ever!

dark and light,

Its massive maw opened up letting a flood of all kinds of monsters out.

fire and ice,

They charged the lone warrior with feral cries of bloodlust. All were wanting a piece of the soldier that brought them so much anger.

in the beginning and the end,

They stood no chance. One by one they all fell before him in some manner. With him taking each of them a part. Whether it be one of his weapons, the wicked chainsaw or his bare hands. None was spared when he went up to the oversized ram skull forehead with its head split open exposing its gray matter underneath.

and he hunted the slaves of Doom with barbarous cruelty;

With a massive explosion from the defeated skull, another doorway opened up underneath it revealing a new area for them. They were back outside in the wasteland with hellish skies and rocky terrain. With more strange structures in the distance. The girl's vision was starting to blacken out meaning it was almost over.

for he passed through the divide as none but demon had before.

They saw the Doom Slayer pass through the door before he walked the wastes towards the structures. Then once again everything went dark.

Author's Note

This chapter took longer then I thought But it turn out better then I planed for.

Enjoy