The Nightmare Verse

1. Hepted, Who Was Above All

He had the face of a man
And the voice of a God
And he looked upon us
And we were nothing

To all native creatures of Equestria, this would come to be known as the greatest battle our planet would ever face.

Tirek, lord of Tartarus, rallied his great army. Chrisylis, the great Hive Mother, prepared her children.

And I.

I crafted the great magic engines. Huge, asymmetrical, crawling abominations of steel and magic, and I felt as a Goddess, for I had created that which would slay the abominable Devil Gods which had infested our once great land!

They simply watched.

Nightmare Moon, Gorpondret, Prarr, and Rel stopped their horrific works, and gathered together, and watched as our armies marched to meet them.

The bellowing laughter! Oh how it echoed throughout the planet, and we were undeterred, and we fired the first of the great magic engines, and Gorpondret fell from the sky, and a great scream was heard from her as she crashed to the earth! Oh how we cheered!

But only for a moment.

The scream turned again to laughter, and Gorpondret's great eye split, and hoards of contorted oily masses of tumorous flesh galloped from within, and that was when I realized what they were! There were, or once were, our friends and families! They charged at us, and the armies met them, and blood and screams filled everything, and the laughter continued!

Gorpondret returned to the sky, and Nightmare Moon mocked us from above!

"Little Twilight, what can one such as you do to a God?"

The enemy soldiers fell, and yet they kept attacking, and we could do nothing to stop them!

"ENOUGH!" a loud voice called, and the ground shook, and a huge crack in the earth separated our armies, and many from both sides were eaten by the earth itself!

The creature was only the size of a Minotaur, yet the great Daemons all lowered to the ground, and bowed their heads as he approached.

He was thin, and stood on 2 legs, and had a shape like the creatures from beyond the great mirror!

"Hear now the words of Hepted, right hand of the exulted Neglorik, and heed what I am to say!" he said, and once again struck the earth with his wooden cane, which appeared as the branch from some great tree!

It was a sight to behold! All of the awesome monsters which had laid waste to our planet seemed to feel great fear for this man, and they did not speak nor move before him, and they trembled!

"Look upon them, and see why I have come. You have been careless and dreadful in your wastefulness! You should have finished your work by now, and yet you toy with these lesser beings!"

He rose his great cane, and Gorpondret once again fell from the sky, and this time she did not laugh, and she did not scream! She began to melt, and her body joined with the great swamp!

The swamp began to put forth a pungent gas, and all who breathed it were turned into a writhing beast!

"HEED THIS CALL, CHILDREN OF NEGLORIK, AND KNOW THAT YOU MUST MAKE HASTE, AND HE WILL SOON COME! IF YOU DO NOT FULFILL YOUR PURPOSE, YOU SHALL BE RETURNED TO A CATALYST!"

And with that, he was gone, and all looked on in awe, and, when we were able, we retreated back to Tartarus.

The game was over, and the true purpose of the otherworldly beasts was at hand!