The Dark Entity: Justice

Astraea touched the blood of the creatures that lay scattered among the ground. She identified them as pony-like, almost reminding her of a little girls cartoon. But these ones had fangs, so she assumed that there are other types of pony here, she just didn't know what kind or how many there are.

But a vast majority of the ponies in the village were small, like they were hardly old enough to know what killing is. Which only made her angrier.

She looked at the sky, almost nighttime.

She took back to the skies, and looked farther in the distance with her keen vision.

Astraea saw a castle to the northwest, that glowed a small aurora of yellow, blue, and a tint of black.

She didn't know what was making the yellow and blue tint glow. But she knew all too well what the black tint was.

"Remorel..."

She flapped her wings once and quickly headed strait to the castle, but as she got closer, she realized just how massive the place was.

It was an entire city, the castle taking only 25% of the total size. And the rest was residential or business.

She landed on a roof and gawked at what she saw.

Ponies, ponies everywhere...

She had to contain her overwhelming excitement and to keep silent from saying "Awwww! How ADORABLE!"

Astraea could see many forms of these ponies.

Some with horns, Unicorns.

Some with wings, assuming Pegasus.

Some had nothing, and just looked like an ordinary pony.

She even saw some of the fanged ones roaming around.

The moon was out now.

She didn't know any cloaking magic, but she could easily blend in the shadows and move swiftly.

She could feel Remorel's magic lingering toward the castle, along with something less prevalent but still powerful.

She stealthily passed two lazy guards who were obviously half asleep, climbed up the marble steps, and waited for a pony to exit the castle doors so she could enter.

It took a half hours until she saw a pony exiting the castle, looked like a maid due to her outfit.

"Wow...kind of skimpy even if it is a pony..."

She stuck to the walls as she advanced into the castle, quickly flying up towards the beams that supported the roof high above everybody, and so she can still be out of sight.

She walked slowly towards the area with the most concentrated magic, somewhere behind the thrones in some rooms.

She checked to see if there was patrols, and surprisingly no.

Astraea glided down to the door and opened it.

She peeked in and saw two more ponies, one blue and one white.

They both had wings and a horn, and both are bigger than the ponies outside the castle.

"Something tells me these ponies are very important here.."

What caught her off guard was their manes, flowing effortlessly and with such colors.

"Dear sister, when is Remorel coming down for tea?" The blue one asked.

Astraea's eyes widened a bit.

"They know him? How and why?" Astraea thought to herself.

As if on cue, Remorel walked through the backdoor, sitting across the table from both ponies.

"Hello Celestia, Luna, how are you both this fine night?"

"The names makes sense, but why the hell are they talking to him? And why does he sound so different..?"

As she remembers, Remorel's voice was deep and monotone. But, now it was calmer and much more normalized. Almost humanlike.

"We are good thank you. We have called you down here to spend some time with us." Luna spoke with a soft blush and a smile.

"Indeed, we hardly see each other now that we have to manage the bat ponies needs. But they will be better soon, I promise." Celestia said as she took a sip of her tea.

Astraea gazed at Remorel, he was never this nice. So what makes a difference now?

"That's always good to hear. I never really did apologize to them in the first place for not protecting Hallow Shades in time before the Undead invasion..." Remorel folded his bony hands.

"Wait...that village wasn't his doing? And the Undead attacked here as well?" Astraea tried to wrap her head around this, but she couldn't believe it one bit.

"We both know you tried, Luna even saw you trying to save the little ones..." Celestia broke her mask and frowned a bit.

"I could've saved more if it wasn't for them taking half the village into that cave then slaughtering them..." Remorel looked down, not a drop of tea was out of his cup since he sat down.

"But we still saved some, that better than them wiping out an entire sub-species. Right?" Luna tried to cheer Remorel up.

"I suppose so, at least they all have families still intact. And they were willing to take any orphans." Remorel finally took the tea cup and drank some of his tea.

His eyes widened. "Where did you find this? This is Earl Gray."

Celestia chuckled "It so happens to be Luna's favorite. She decided to share some with us from her horde of drinks and treats."

"H-hey at least I don't eat it all in one go Tia!"

Celestia's eyes widened in dramatic shock "A-at least I don't have a stockpile!"

They started bickering as Remorel chuckled.

Astraea couldn't believe it, he was chuckling. He was interacting, he was not Death. And yet...

She went cold, seeing Remorel's eyes stare strait at her. He was still drinking some tea.

She froze, unsure of what to do.

He nodded to come over.

As she got up and pushed the door open, Celestia and Luna instantly hushed.

Remorel laid is cup of tea down onto the plate, got up, and looked at Astraea.

"So...if it isn't the Angel of Justice herself."

Luna and Celestia stared, while Remorel kept narrowing his eyes.

"Y-yes...I am the Angel of Justice. My name is Astraea."