Subject of Faith: A new Paradise

This chapter is more focused on flashbacks and thoughts, next chapter will be more about the current here and now parts.

This chapter contains dark thoughts and gore filled memories, if you can't stand such things, you are warned.

Jack's point of view

I have been walking for a while now, Zecora was kind enough to tell me a bit more about this Ponyville.

It was a town where unlike some cities/towns, the 3 subspecies lived together here whether you were a Unicorn, Pegasus or Earth pony.

She also told me of her first time experience in that town, everybody feared her because they taught she was some sort of witch, and the ponies who live there are known to freak out over smaller things.

While I was not sure if it was going to be the same case with me, it may be very well since they don't seem to know my kind.

And if I am going,  to be honest, my hope of finding a place to live on this planet is going bleaker by the second.

Zecora may have been friendly but that doesn't account from every single one of them, I am certain about that.

If they end up being afraid of me or even worse try to hunt me down I already know my next course of action.

I am going to give myself a quick and painless death, putting a bullet trough my brains is the best and quickest way to do it.

And you may be wondering, why would I do something so extreme like that?

I had nothing to lose at this point, everyone I cared about was murdered or infected right in front of my eyes while I lived on.

And no matter where I would go I would always find death and destruction.

Even living in a survivor group like I used to before I got captured wasn't always that great.

Sure, you get the chance to make new friends, but that will also give you the chance of even more suffering.

Most survivors out there will never last longer than 2 years at the very most, The darkness cats are already a threat by itself but there are more dangers out there.

The blood legion consists of soldiers who have become corrupt and joined the dark powers, some of them who are ex-soldiers who served in the thundershock army.

When the darkness cats are doing a bad job at eliminating a survivor group the blood legion sends in a vast amount of soldiers who kill with fast and brutal skill, There have been active survivor groups who were actively fighting against the blood legion with run and gun tactics, even destroying enemy bases when given the chance.

Unfortunately, they always lack the numbers to carry out strong counter attacks.

Truth to be told I was in one of these activate groups at the age of 10, I met a person there and we became fast friends.

I can remember the times where I and he and some other survivors fought off hordes of darkness cats, we were armed to the teeth and those moments were very tense.

Tough me and him were rather young at the time and had only learned basic combat tactics.

We couldn't let our guard for just a moment and most of the time we tried to escape from those blood thirsty animals.

It was strange, even when we were near the brink of death, I still was happy, I guess having someone you care about you fight at your side in battle really does make even the worst scenario's a lot more bearable.

But with having someone you care about also comes with a great cost, if something were to happen to that person it would break you.

Normally someone only has something to them likes this at least once when they lose dear friends or family, I had this happen to me 3 times.

I have never recovered from all these things and after everything that has happened I have turned into a shadow of my former self.

Where I once used to be a happy but also a pretty scared boy, I have now turned into a broken wanderer who sees nothing but death and destruction in life.

But ironically this how must of us have turned out.

There was an old man among our group who kept telling us about things such as hope, how we could still see light in the darkness.

And how we should keep fighting to get a future, a better chance at living.

But even if the Blood legion was wiped out, would that make much difference?

There would still be billions of darkness cats roaming among the galaxy, and there is no way we could bring back all those people who died or even succumbed to the virus.

Among the 40 billion holycats that used to be around the galaxy only 16 million of us remain.

Is this really worth saving? I have asked this question myself countless of times, and how would we even be able to beat them?

The blood legion is led by the Recently resurrect and powerful warlord Valtrek.

He posses powers that defy the laws of physics by 1000 times, Some people manage to cut off his limbs, even vaporise his body.

Yet it didn't seem to do anything good, he would simply regenerate like he was some sort of smoke, he could even kill people by overflowing their minds with dark powers.

To make matters worse he never really did get resurrected, he simply took over someone's body and became the new host, becoming even stronger than before, wich means if someone managed to destroy the body he could simply take over someone else.

And nobody of us has any means to end him once and for all, especially with how broken we are currently.

I know this better than anyone out there, my father was one of the strongest known warriors of the Eldritch empire.

He used his blade as an extension of his body and he moved with a style that made it look like he was skipping seconds in time.

In a desperate attempt to save our planet from the destruction he went out to Valtrek all alone. It may have been a hero's decision, but the outcome was far from what a hero's death should have been.

Valtrek was merely toying with him and ripped off his limbs one by one as he was taking his sweet time inflicting pain on him.

After 3 hours of painful torture, my dad told me to leave this planet and seek somewhere safe to live.

But before he could finish his word Valtrek crushed his entire head with his feet, ending my dad's life instantly.

I was so devastated I just stood there, not even caring what would happen to me next.

And when I thought the finishing blow would come for me it never came, Valtrek instead used his dark powers to burn some sort of mark on my right arm, it hurt so much I passed out from the pain.

It was until about 5 years later when I became imprisoned that I learned what the meaning of that mark was.

I had become of Valtrek's personal proxies, a walking beacon that would give away my position where ever I went.

It also does scary things to my mind, for one thing, it floods me with crazy memories and painful headaches at times where I panic.

I also did not dare to sleep since it gives me constant nightmares that can go so far as physically hurting me when something painful happens to me in a dream of mine.

And ever since I escaped the demon realm I realised something, I can finally die.....

If I were to die in the daemon realm by some sort of event my soul would become part of the daemon realm itself and I would become a mere thought of memory. If I die in real space there could be a chance I could get reunited with my father in the afterlife.

Even tough I have no knowledge of whether there is an afterlife or not, I would be willing to end my life if it means seeing my dad again.

This is probably the first time since months that I have actually smiled, at least I now had an alternate plan if the other inhabitants of this planet would want to hunt me down.

It is now or never, i might as well just hurry up and get this whole ordeal over with as i started running towards Ponyville.