The Nightmare Verse

5.The Bubbling Waste

It gurgled as it rose
And it bled a foreign substance
And it laid barren all it touched
And it was the bubbling waste

I must apologize, for I have taken what was meant to be a historical tome, and turned the narrative into a story of my own experiences, but please understand, I am one of the only Ponies on this planet who can bare a true witness of what happened in the days leading to the deepest dark, and so I find that I am unable to remove myself from these accounts!

Now I will tell you of the twin Daemons, who laid waste to much of our world, and who bubbled forth from the great swamp created from the remains of Gredvan, and their names were Prarr and Rel, and they were known to the other beasts, yet they had not yet been born, and Neglorik had planned the coming of these creatures, and they took form within the great swamp, and the swamp bubbled and screamed, and oh how they screamed!

Gorpondret averted her eye, as if she was witnessing a holy birth, and could not allow herself to view the resplendence! And Nightmare Moon flew in great circles around the swamp, and she caused the moon itself to go dark as they were born!

Prarr! The great Daemon princess! Prarr was the first to emerge, and her body was of sludge and stone, grinding away the vegetation of the earth, and leaving behind a oily substance which would never allow anything to grow on that spot again!

Rel! The great Daemon prince! Rel sprouted wings of gas and flames, and he burnt all that he touched, and even moutains fell before him!

"GLORY TO OUR FATHER NEGLORIK, FOR HE BIRTHED US IN THE HELLSPIRES OF GREDVAN!" they cried over and over! Soon it became the balled of our new hellscape, and they flew and slithered across the earth, causing great destruction and death, and none could stand within 10 miles of them without melting into a pile of flesh and blood! And we came to call these damned siblings The Bubbling Waste, for all fell before them and turned to oozing heaps!

And that is when the door was opened!

Tartarus was opened! And the great beasts poured forth from deep within, yet they did not harm a single Pony! No! No instead they scooped us up, and took us to far off, hidden places! They brought some to deep pits, and some into Tartarus itself, for even though they had been creatures of evil, they wished to stand against the great plague of sin that had invaded our world!

And he came for me! He took me in his arms, never looking at me, knowing that I must hold great hate for him, but truly I was joyed to see anyone who I had known, and so Tirek brought me to Tartarus, and it became a stronghold for good and evil alike, for we were to face those that go far beyond evil, and for the first time in many days, I felt hope once more!

The swarms came! They stormed Tartarus, and I thought we were doomed, but no! No, it was not one of them, it was the great Chrysalis! She had brought her swarms to help on our war against hellish creation!

We hunted, and gathered, and found friends and old foes, and soon we numbered in the tens of thousands, and we would forge great magical weapons, and we would fight!

And I had hope.

And Hepted was near, and we were still as nothing.