Chapters The girls had gathered at Sugar Cube corner, awaiting the news that had Applejack all excited. When they asked she said it was Tavo's letter so he should give the news. They all sat in the same room conversing about various things that have happened in the four days since the train accident and the aftershock. The engineers of the actual train arrived a day after the incident to reclaim the Alpha Prototype however they didn't know Tavo had demolished it and sent pieces to different junkyards. They were angered by the act and demanded full pay for the hard work they put into it. Then Tavo gave them a sack that was filled with enough bits to pay off everything. They asked him how he got that much money and he said he found it. They were suspicious at first but considering the hefty sum they left Ponyville with no questions asked. Then the aftershock came the next day and gave them something else to talk about.
Yet they all had the same thing on their minds, the strange Tavo. "So no pony knows anything about him?" Asked Applejack they all nodded. "Well all he does is work with you or walk around the town, wandering. And whenever they ask him he just says its personal." said Rainbow Dash "He's also a little strange with that weird thing that happens to ponies that’ve seen him." said Rarity "you mean you all felt it too?" Applejack asked, they nodded. Fluttershy shook a little remembering the horrible flashes and the smiling monster. "Wait me and Pinkie Pie never felt anything." Said Rainbow Dash. "well that's because you flew into him too fast to even notice him. As for Pinkie, I'm not sure?" Applejack said, she then turned to Pinkie Pie "Did ya feel anything strange when ya saw him?" she asked, Pinkie Pie put a Hoof under her chin and sat. For a long moment of silence, finally she broke it "nope." She said they all looked confused
"Is that all?" Twilight asked "well now that you mention it I did feel really, really happy!" said Pinkie pie, they were confused and decided to move on. "Well another thing that's strange about him is all those scars on his body." said Twilight "not to mention the creepy stitched smile on his mouth." Added Rarity "wait he wasn't smiling?" randomly added Pinkie Pie. As they conversed on about his appearance, Fluttershy was sitting quietly on the stairs. She remembered the train and the near death experience and the strange yet wonderful feeling she got when their noses touched. She didn't understand it but suddenly an unknown force forced her to speak up. "Why are we talking about the way he looks? It’s obvious he's been through so much and overcame it all, its not his fault he looks like the way he does!" she said assertively before retreating they all felt guilty for what they said. She's been acting strange ever since the accident but she was right "Plus he did save the town, the girls and Fluttershy, not to mention paid off a price that could have put Ponyville in major problems." Rainbow Dash Said "She's right, we owe him a lot." Twilight said.
"He's also very polite too." Rarity added. Pinkie Pie’s eyes lit up "We should throw him another party." She said "we should. To celebrate all that he's done for the town." As they agreed cheerfully, a knocking came from the door. They got excited hoping it was him. When they opened the door however, it was Spike carrying a letter. They were confused "spike what are you doing with the letter?" Twilight asked "Tavo said he was too busy so he asked me to deliver the message." Spike said. Twilight wondered what could have happened but shrugged it off thinking that it must have been important. "well go ahead spike, read the letter." She said. Spike opened it and pulled out the piece of paper with the royal seal at the top and began reading it aloud:
Dear Tavo
I hereby invite you and six guests to a private dinner party hosted by me and Princess Luna tomorrow, night. A train will arrive to bring you to Canterlot in the afternoon. We hope to see you here and that you and your friends enjoy the dinner.
Sincerely Princess Celestia
"A Private dinner party with the Princess!" their eyes lit up "she must have heard about what he did for the town and wants to celebrate too." Applejack said smiling. "Oh this is going to be so exciting!" Twilight Exclaimed. Now she could show the Princess the mysterious book. They all were excited and were leaving Sugar Cube Corner for their homes to prepare for tomorrow. They couldn't be more excited about it. Fluttershy was slowly flying home. She felt something happen on that day, something strange yet amazing she didn't understand. What was stranger was that on the night the aftershock hit, she dreamt something strange. A dream where Tavo was standing at the edge of an enormous fire kneeling, bleeding, smiling and crying. She didn't understand this but she kept it a secret from her friends. She didn't want them to worry.
Tavo had caught up with the thing that had tried to eat an innocent filly in the park. It was a Manticore and as soon it stopped and turned to attack, Tavo rammed it sending it flying against a tree knocking it down. Before it could escape, Tavo brought his right large hoof on its chest. It tried to escape but it couldn't move out of his force. “you think it's a good idea to try and eat innocent little Fillys while I'm around, am I correct?" he said in an Aggressive voice. When it tried to use its stinger on him, Tavo was faster and brought his right back hoof down on it crushing and severing it, then putting more force on his front hoof. Tavo was almost as large as the creature who was crying out in pain. "I wish I didn't have to do this but you gave me a new reason to change my opinion on royals if you ate meat so guess what's gonna happen to you now?" he asked it while it was flailing around its arms.
In that moment Tavos eyes changed. The black iris overlapped the whole eyes leaving nothing but a black abyss in his eyes. A thin yellow bright circle with a white dot had formed where the actual eyes should have and yellow glowing veins had formed giving him a bloodshot appearance. With this act the creature stopped and looked terrified. Then suddenly the ground it was laying on suddenly began to emit smoke and burned then it started to feel a burning inside of it. The burning grew and the creature started sweating and yelping. Then Octavio eyes glowed "Im gonna burn you from the inside out!" he said then the creature flailed trying to escape but it kept burning and kept getting hotter.
Then fire emitted from its mouth and its eyes burning and melting them to a steaming puddle. It shrieked louder and louder until the fire had burned through the skin and fur and the ground they stood upon had caught on fire. Now Tavo was standing in a circle of fire of a screaming animal. In the middle of its screaming Tavo spoke “I never believed in mercy by the way.” Then the screaming stopped. Tavo's eyes reverted back to normal and just like that, the fire surrounding him ceased leaving behind ash and a black shriveled corpse. He put more force in his hoof braking through the ashy chest and ribcage into a hot puddle of molten blood and organs. "Damn look at this mess. Hope the forest has a way of cleaning this." He said lifting his hoof up. He left the scene and began thinking to himself. If this thing acts like any animal on my world then the ponies in canterlot are the same. He grimaced and decided to walk home. "If they are what I know of, then I can't be held responsible for what I'll do."
note: i may have overdone it on the series thing but i know i am going to wright more about this and i don't own a dictionary.
Chapter 3: What will come of this night.
It was a nice afternoon outside and the five ponies waited for Applejack and Tavo to arrive so they could leave for Canterlot. "When do you suppose they'll be here Twilight?" asked Rarity "I don't know but they better hurry or we'll miss the train." Twilight answered. After a short time passed Rainbow Dash noticed two figures-one larger than the other-walking towards their direction. "There they are." Said Rainbow Dash, pointing to Applejack and Tavo, who trot towards them. "Sorry were late gals but i accidently hurt myself kickin somthin a little harder than a tree." Said Applejack rubbing her back hooves with one of them bandaged. "What was it?" asked Twilight looking at her injury. "Him." she said pointed at Tavo who was right next to her. "Huh!" they all said in unison then staring at Tavo who looked clueless "what?" he said.
Before they could say anything else the train had arrived. As they boarded the train Pinkie Pie Noticed Tavo hesitated before going on the train.
The first minutes were spent in idle chitchat with each other about the dinner party which then broke into silent thought. However the only one whos been more silent throughout the trip is the one who was invited in the first place. He just sat on the floor staring at it with a serious expression, for an hour and a half. Pinkie Pie, being the good friend that she was, sneakily tip-hoofed behind him. She silently snickered as she got closer and closer to her target. when she was at a close enough proximty she slowly reared up, raised her hoofs above her head and just as she was about to strike......
"Hey Pinkie." said Tavo from the ground, Pinkie suddenly collapsed from her attempted failieure. She then sat back up next to Tavo "Awww you caught me and you didnt even see me?" said Pinkie Pie. Her cheery mood however didn't bring Tavo Out of his glum mood and he contiued looking down. "Hey whats the matter Tavo? Arnt you excited about the party?" asked Pinkie Pie "That's exactly it, the party. I feel alittle uneasy about this party especially its location and this princess." Said Tavo nervously. Pinkie Pie suddenly sprang to her feet "Oh i get it." She said "Get what?" asked Tavo "Your nervous about meetting Princess Celestia. Don't worry she's really nice."
Tavo Looked up from his dark mood and stared at Pinkie Pie who smiled at him warmly. "Thank's Pinkie Pie, Even though i don't understand you at all, it's comforting to have you as a friend." said Tavo. Even though he didn't smile Pinkie knew somewhere inside him he was happy.
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With only a few left minutes before reaching Canterlot Twilight had thought about it and decided to take another look at the book she carried in her saddle bag. Even though she knew that it only had four written pages and nothing else, she had to see it again to figure out if Tavo really fits the description of the horrific monster. She opened her bag and let the book inside fall to the ground. Before she opened it she quickly took notice that something strange had happened to it. It seamed the cover of the giant stallion who might be Tavo and the wolf were now facing each other instead of facing opposite directions like before. The title was still the same and there still was no author just as before.
She flipped open the book reviewing over the first page and its strange phrase "When there is a killer, there is a savior, Chose your fate." Then flipped to the second page and the description of the "The Stallion who Fell From The Gates " and it was an almost perfect match to Tavo, grayish blue coat, black eyes mane and tail, blood stained knife or blade for cutie mark, scared body and smiling scar he might just be the monster. she thought the only thing that was not counted for was his smile. He hadn't smiled the entire time since he first arrived so she doesn't completely know. But like Fluttershy said he's been through a lot so she didn't blame him for not smiling at all. She turned the second page revealing that he's never found love in his world so she felt bad for him. she also wondered who this ultimate being that can stop the beast king was. She turned the page to the second phrase "Until light fades from our hearts, let us know that there is always a chance, when the world falls, let us know that he will save us from death." She wondered what this meant but still didn't quite understand the concept or who "He" is?
Curiosity compelled her and Even though she knew nothing more was written but since the cover change maybe something else has changed. When she flipped the page a new phrase was written in "For all who lose their souls to evil and madness, For all who lose hope in a god forsaken world, for all who fear The terror god, know that the answer, the key, the secret, and the cure…..is love. The everlasting gift from the heavens, the key to life and our very existence would be nothing if it wasn't for love."
The new phrase surprised her and it reminded her of her Brothers marriage. After reading about the monster then these two phrase's that depicted something good she didn't understand it at all. "was it something about Tavo?" she asked herself silently, Then asked her self again "who's this terror god?"
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After a few minutes they finally arrived in Canterlot. They were so excited to be here and for the private dinner party held by the princess herself. They stopped right at the Station and step out onto the platform. They trotted out of the station and onto the streets where the city lights flickered on signaling the night had come and even well dressed Ponies walked through the night. But to what the girls saw beauty, Tavo saw reminder. a reminder of what once was.
As the group had been walking through the town a lot of ponies started staring at them, specifically Tavo. They gave him funny looks, to which Tavo returned them a menacing glare. It frightened them enough to turn their heads away but more in to the town, more kept appearing and each one reminded him of the Federations citizens who believe that him and everyone else he fights with are cold murderous monsters who care about nothing but killing the innocent. This enraged him. As he was about close to losing it and let it out, he heard her voice " um, are you….alright Tavo?" Asked Fluttershy nervously. They both felt shy around each other and ever since the accident they've been acting strange around each other or whenever they heard the others name. yet for some reason, Fluttershy's soft voice always calmed him down. "uh, yeah I'm fine." Said Tavo sheepishly. She smiled and continued walking. Tavo-now much calmer-thought that the Ponies here couldn't be like the Federations, they responded the exact same way that the ponies in Ponyville reacted to him when he first arrived.
It was not much longer to the Castle when they heard a harmonic melody playing in the distance. They walked towards the source getting louder and louder. The music revealed itself to be played by a cello and the cello to be played by none other than Their friend Octavia.
Her eyes were closed to give more feeling to her music that flowed from her to her cello. When she played she'd let her imagination run free. The music filled her with peace as it always did filling her head with a wonderful imagination. But as she played suddenly the imagination was turning darker. She started to feel cold, the peace in her was suddenly fading turning to blunt fear. The music continued playing giving off a much darker tone, and giving her more fear. As she strung closer to the end, she saw what looked like eyes that had a black color. Soon the blackness overlapped over the rest of the eyes, a thin yellow circle formed where the eye was and a white dot where the pupil was. Then yellow like veins appeared around the eyes giving it a bloodshot appearance. Then under the eyes a wide twisted demented smile formed. As the music played to its ending the smile opened and the the words it utter shook her to her core "Life serves no other purpose then to end." Then the music stopped.
She felt a light tapping on her shoulder and a familiar voice "Hey Octavia ya alright?" She opened her eyes to see her friend Vinyl Scratch and behind her a group of Ponies, one towering over them. "I'm quite alright, now who are they?" asked Octavia " They're our friends, you remember them right?" asked Vinyl. She shook her head and remembered "Oh, why good afternoon." She said "Good afternoon Octavia." they said in unison. "That was beautiful music you were playing." Said twilight "Why thank you, but I was only practicing?" said Octavia "It'll sound even better when I join in with my beats." Said Vinyl "wait what do you mean?" asked Twilight "Well we got hired to perform for a dinner party at the castle." Said Octavia "Hey that's where were going." said Pinkie Pie "oh you all got invited too?" Octavia asked "No we are just came with the actual guest." Said Rarity " Then who's the guest?" asked Vinyl.
"That would be me." said the giant scarred Pony, Octavia gasped and Vinyl came up to him "Dude That's a sick scar you got on your mouth how'd ya get it?" asked Vinyl. "Its personal." said Tavo "And the other scars?" added Octavia. "Also personal." he replied Suddenly Octavia Realized Something "oh where are my manners, I am Octavia Its a Pleasure to make your acquaintance." said Octavia. Vinyl scratch decided to jump in "The names Vinyl Scratch, Its nice to meet ya." said Vinyl. "well good to see you both." said Tavo "so what exactly do you two do?" asked Tavo.
" Well play my Cello and-"
"I lay down some sweet beats on the turntable."
Turntable?" asked Tavo. "Yep, I'm the Dj at the party and together, we'll make all those ponies cry out and cheer." said Vinyl. Vinyl then added "hey if your headed to the party, mind if we tag along?"Asked Vinyl. Tavo turned to the girls, they nodded their heads, and Tavo said "Yes." and they made their way to the castle.
They had finally arrived at the castle gates as the sheer elegance welcomed them yet as they walked through the courtyard Tavo was having second thoughts about the party. He stayed behind the group of excited ponies and thought to himself about this place. Who would even invite me anyway and how'd they know i was living in Sweet Apple Acres, news from the accident couldn't have spread this far and why of all people was it the princess and ruler of Equestria who wanted me for a party? He thought. He isn't used to this kind of treatment unless there was something else to it. As he was considering these things they had finally made it to the large doors. Its here where he'll meet this princess and prove if the ponies here are like the Federations citizens. When the doors opened he heard the breathing of certain type of beings he hasn't heard in years. This won't end well . He thought.
note: i may have overdone it on the series thing. i know this wont be the last story i write.
Chapter 4: Why would she do this?
"Are you sure this is such a good idea Tia?" asked the concerned Luna. The news of the mysterious stallion had traveled across Equestria even reaching the royal Princess's ears but they already knew about it, they saw it with their own eyes. After that Celestia had been silent for two days, not even speaking a word to anyone not even Luna. However on the third day she announced that there would be a dinner party held in honor of the so-called "hero" of Ponyville. Naturally everyone accepted this and made arrangements, everyone except Luna. she remembered something that happened on that day. When they had returned to the castle, Celestia went straight to her bedroom quietly talking to herself. Now they were hosting a party for an earth pony no one knows. "Relax Luna I have everything under control." Said Celestia.
As they waited for the Guest of honor Celestia reminisced about the last day of the other stallions' life and something he said to Celestia on the day of his departure before "it" happened. "Remember forever the day i arrived and fear the King who resembles me for he will bring the demon back." The stallion who saved Ponyville might be this king he warned them about. But they were unsure so they would wait and see if he really is the king. All of a sudden the doors opened and flew in the same mysterious fear they felt when they tried stopping the train and the monsters horrid voice echoed again in their heads "I'm back."
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They trotted right in the ballroom receiving welcoming glances from the guests (except for Tavo) with no music playing what so ever. "we'll head to the back and prepare for the performance." said Octavia as she and Vinyl walked towards anouther room. They said goodbye to their friends and kept trotting through the ballroom.
Twilight and her friends were so excited to be here, they couldn't believe how beautiful the ballroom looked. "this looks even better than the Grand Galloping Gala!" Said Twilight astonished "and the décor is just as marvelous. " said Rarity as she waved to some of the guests who waved back. Twilight appreciated that Tavo brought them here but she was curious as to why they were the only ones he asked, she went over to Applejack who was the only one that knew him more than anyone else,considering he works with her."Applejack, didn't Tavo ask anyone else to join him, like his family or friends?" Twilight asked. Applejack suddenly frowned "well i asked him about his friends and he said it's personal, then i asked him about his family all he said was dead." Said Applejack, Twilight was pensive about what had befallen on him. He was an orphan and didn't tell anyone about it and it might be the reason he doesn't smile. Twilight decided that they would help him smile and this party might just help. She was going to tell him about the plan during the dinner. As she looked behind her where He was she became distracted by what he was doing.
Tavo started feeling a strange presence as he continued walking with the group. Its was the same type of presence he felt years ago with a certain individual. he lifted his head and searched the room for any sign of it but found nothing. yet the being's presence still loomed over him.
An orb of light suddenly appeared before them and as the orb scattered its light two regal appeared where the orb vanished. Princess Celestia and Princess Luna. All the ponies in the room bowed to them, except for Tavo who didn't understand why they were bowing. They trotted majestically over to Twilight and her friends and they arose "Twilight my faithful student I'm so glad you and your friends could make it. And I see you brought the guest of honor as well." Said Celestia, Twilight looked over to Tavo who began walking over to the Princess. The two of them were the same height; the only difference was Celestia's horn that made her look taller. " so you're the Princess who's in charge of this whole land?" asked Tavo. Celestia was taken aback by his blacked eyes that she didn't come up with a good enough answer so she said "yes." He looked over to Luna who smiled nervously at him "well I'm Tavo and thank you but you really shouldn't have done this."
"But I insist, after all you did save an entire town." said Celestia. Then all the bowing ponies looked up at him with skepticism and whispered to each other. It angered him a little that they don't believe that somepony like him could save a town, but he ignored it. Celestia studied Tavo's reactions and his many features. All his scars were different in size and shape, some looked burned some looked like lacerations some were a little oddly shaped like holes. His cutie mark was also different; it looked completely violent in its form. His eyes were just black and white no other color. Yet the most distinguishing feature was the large stitched smiling scar on his face. But aside from all this, the grayish-blue coat and black mane and tail made him looked almost like the stallion she knew years ago.
"Oh look it's already time for the feast." said Luna interrupting Celestia's thoughts. All the ponies eyes lit up and they began walking to the newly built grand dining hall. "Why don't you join us Tavo, after all you are the guest of honor." She said beckoning him to follow then she left. He began walking slowly towards the grand dining room until he realized that the Princess had a look of Suspicion in her eyes. She seemed nice enough but he still kept his guard up for safety. Yet he kept having this strange feeling that bothered him. Tavo has never met her before yet she seemed so familiar like he knew her. It confused him as he trotted down the hallways. As he reached the door to the room his mouth suddenly twitched. He halted for a moment trying to figure out what happened, but then it twitched again erratically and as he tried to stop it from forming a smile he suddenly felt the left side of his stitches unwound. He felt it and was relieved that it was only one unnoticeable stitch. He cleaned the small blood droplet off, breathed deep, and walked right in.
The dining hall was enormous: it could actually fit an entire stage and the rectangular shaped table was long enough to seat every single guest, not to mention fit the entire banquet. It amazed Tavo, he's never seen so much food except since he first arrived. The food looked so delicious even if he didn't quite get used to the taste of some of it? He found a space at the table and sat on the floor because the chairs would break under him, grabbed a plate and enjoyed the feast.
Twilight and her friends sat next to the princesses who sat in their thrones at the very end of the table. Octavia, and Vinyl performed during the banquet making it a dinner and show. The harmonic melody mixed perfectly with the fast paced beats. As they were enjoying the performance and dinner, Luna observed Tavo from her seat. She couldn't see much from her distance but she did notice something strange about him. His left eye was bloodshot yellow while his other was normal. No one else noticed because they were distracted by the music. He didn't really watch the performance; he just sat and ate a slowly. As she watched him intently his left eye started darting back and forth as if searching for something, suddenly it met her eyes.
It suddenly changed its form and she started sweating and panting and she felt burning from the inside, she looked away but still felt burned. She was distressed but tried to keep her sister unaware of it, but she didn't know what to do. Suddenly the voice in her head yelled at her "Move away from his sight!" she knew the voice but never trusted it, but the burning got worse so she obliged. She quickly jumped out of her seat and ran towards an opened door. As soon as she closed it the burning vanished. Luna was relieved that she no longer burned and sighed. I hate to say it and I never thought that I would but thank you…Nightmare moon. she thought to herself. "Your welcome."
Tavo jabbed his left eye twice times, I hate it when it does that. he thought to himself. His left eye would always go off by itself searching for that type of being. This time it stayed focused on Luna and tried to burn her. The princess must have had some kind of connection with those types. She was smart enough to move away from his sight giving him control over it again. Suddenly it hit him, "those princesses must be.....gods." he said to him self silenlty He needed to get out but he couldn't just leave the girls here, but he also knew that they were friends with the princesses so he sighed it off. even though stealth wasn't his strong suit, he slowly stood up and tiptoed towards the doors. As the music came to a close, Octavia and Vinyl took a bow, the crowd cheered just as Vinyl said. This gave him the perfect opportunity to leave. Princess celestia stood up from her royal seat and cleared her throat. "Thank you all for attending the social we arranged tonight and I do hope you all enjoyed the wonderful performance and dinner. But…." She stood silence staring out catching sight of Tavo. Scowling she raised her hoof at Tavo "Guards, arrest the giant stallion." She ordered. Without question four guards: two unicorns, two pegasi, raced across the room, using magic to pin him against the wall and the pegasi held both his hooves against the wall. Everypony in the room gasped and stared at their princess who began walking over to him. Tavo didn't struggle, he wanted to know what this was about.
"I'm sorry you had to see this but it was the only way I could bring "him" here." Said Celestia, "what's this all about?" asked Tavo, she stood menacingly over him "I know what you really are?" she said, she turned from her captive and announced "This stallion is not who he seems. In truth he harbors something that should have died years ago." The six exchanged glances then Twilight stood from her seat "But Princess, how do you know if he is what you call him?" she asked feeling concern for her friend "Because Twilight, I have firsthand experience with the beast. And I know everything about it even how to call this monster out and end it." Said celestia Tavo suddenly realized the danger of the situation "Whatever you think you're doing it's a bad idea!" he said. Celestia ignored him and continued "This one here is a king where he came from but in realty he is a creature that once attempted to murder and mutilate every single living thing In Equestria! I know the way to stop him." said Celestia. Tavo eyes widened and his heart raced, She's going to call "him"! he thought, he then easily broke free from the first four guards and began running but Celestia ordered eight more guards: four Unicorns, four Pegasi, and held him in place. "Don't do it Celestia it's not worth putting them at risk!" he yelled, she didn't listen.
Twilight and her friends stared in horror, they knew what will happen. Then Twilight Followed by the rest of her friends ran towards her but were blocked by two guards "Please Celestia he saved an entire town and the ponies in it he can't possibly be that thing?" Said Twilight as her friends ran behind her "You may think he's a hero but I know that he truly is a beast and I know how to awaken it." said Celestia, she then cleared her throat. Tavo struggled to get free but it was too late "Arise Beastking!" She said.
Suddenly Tavo lost his sight, lost his ability to think and finally lost his ability to control himself as everything around him went dark. why did she do this? was his last thought.
Tavo stopped struggling and went limp. Celestia built up magical energy then pointed her horn right at his head "Guards release him." ordered celestia , when they released him he stood with his head lowered, his hair covering his eyes. Celestia was just about to release her magic when suddenly he lifted his head slowly and revealed closed eyes and.......a smile.then with out warning he opened his mouth and let out an unearthly roar and began sprinting towards her. As he closed in she shot out a solar beam at Tavo point blank before he made impact, sending him flying towards the wall crashing through it, leaving small rings of fire.
silence filled the hall. The six gazed in horror-stricken silence as they witnessed their friend burned to death. Twilights hope to make him smile was burned along with him. Tears rolled down Fluttershy's face as she watched the stallion who saved her and everyone else die, and she wasn't the only one. Luna was watching from the door of the other room and couldn't believe what her sister had done. Everypony had jumped out of their seats and gawked at the scene. Celestia felt low spirited having to kill her favorite students friend in front of them and everypony else and it was most likely they would never forgive her, but what's done is done. But before she could walk, she heard "it" again.
As the world falls apart, the beast shall rise again.........
They were shaken at the sudden voice rising from the hole where their dead friend lies. It continued:
He'll send your souls to hell.
He'll send your heads to the sky's............ ..
It sounded like a song, and a disturbing one at that. It sounded like Tavo's voice:
The devils smile is the last you see, our beast god will not sleep............
As he finished the verse a large hoof popped out and stomped the ground so hard shook the room:
Till there is no life left.............
As he finished the verse he walked out of the hole. His head was lowered and his mane covered his eyes but not his devilish grin:
and The Beastking shall lead us back to hell.
For the true terror lives in our sins..........
As he sang and trotted, the stitches of his scar slowly unwound revealing large metallic razor sharp teeth behind his normal teeth, stretching all the way behind his ears:
.........let it all fade away.........
He then stopped, the room was in a dead silence as they stared in horror at the dead stallion who came out of the hole looking completely normal,aside from the smile.With out warning, in less then a fraction of a second he "Moved" from his place and stopped Infront of Celestia. His face was so close to hers that she could feel his breath. But she was more focused on the completely black eyes that focused on hers. Her fear was about to be realized:
.....Or have it burn us for an eternity.......
As he finished, he let out another ear piercing demonic roar so powerful it pushed her back. In a second he rammed her with his head sending her flying across the room and knocked her into her throne knocking it over and crashed into the wall behind it. she staggered up and squinted her eyes at her attacker and the possible annihilation of Equestria. She was disheartened that the solar beam failed and he still stood. Her muscles tensed, her heart raced, she knew what must be done.
Note: can someone throw in like one review atleast? i'm glad that this story got a better start then the first though.
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Chapter 6: The violent night of the Goddess and the king.
Celestia and Tavo, the now formally known as the Beastking stood at each end of the table away from each other, both glared at each other. silence flowed through out the hall as the six watched in horror-stricken anticipation, who would attack first? they Thought. What they feared most however was who would survive after the battle. Suddenly two guards flew by the Princess towards Tavo, but he reared up with both front hooves stretched out and caught both guards and pinned them down.
He looked at the princess with his large, creepy, serrated teeth smile and immediately crushed the panicking guards chest's breaking through rib cages and eventually flattening the organs. the Blood curdling screams broke through the silence as more ponies in the room began to shriek in horror while a few fainted. Celestia's eyes widened, as the blood spread over the floor, and she noticed the creature that used to be a pony growl, a sign that only points to one outcome, death.
Upon witnessing the act, Luna used her magic to open all the doors in the room "Leave the castle grounds!" She yelled out and they did as commanded and ran out, "That goes for you six as well." said Luna to the six ponies Twilight spoke up "But we can't just-" she said before being interrupted by Luna "I said now!" Not wanting to have the situation escalate they did as they were told and ran out.
Before closing the doors Luna watch her Sister and the familiar monster. She hoped for her sister that to survive and closed all the doors.
The Battle has begun.
As soon as the doors closed The Beastking used his psycho lightning and dashed off towards the table. He picked it up held it above him and flung it at the princess. She dogged it and let fly out the window behind her. Her horn suddenly glowed and released a rapid stream of scattered energy at him. He smashed his hooves down and pulled up a chunk of the floor and used it as a shield. He then chucked it at her but before it made impact she fired a large amount of magic and shattered the rock to pieces. However she did not see the Beastking run up behind the rock and before she could react she felt the force of an earthquake strike her directly in her chest and send her soaring upwards towards the ceiling. But she did Hardened her bones Before the battle even though the impact might have caused a crack. She stayed on above the ceiling thinking she has an advantage over the monster. But the Beastking suddenly bent his legs and using his strength he leaped high into the air, grabbed Celastia front Legs and dropped her down hard. As she laid on her back, the Beastking stood over her and reared up.
But before he could crush her Celestia charged static electricity in her hoof and Struck his chest Where his heart was and caused him to fall over and snarl in a spasmodic fashion. But what should have killed him Only angered him. He stood up, growled at Celestia and charged for her but as he was about to slam into her she disappeared in a large puff of smoke that Blinded him. As he searched for his enemy, he twitched hearing the sudden sound of buzzing. he turned left to right then all of the sudden a large Sphere of magic flew in and landed a hit on the Beastking sending him crashing onto the wall. After that Celestia Shot out hundreds of powerful spear shaped solar beams directly at the fallen beast. After the barrage of heat ended Celestia Exhaled feeling as if the battle is over. But as she was About to rest the monster ran out howling his demonic roar and tackled Celestia on to the ground hard enough to crack the marble floor. Continuing to hold on tightly to her body, he reared up, stood on his hind legs and slammed the Princess into a wall knocking her breath out. He then threw the Princess across the room and she slid across the floor. She staggered trying to stand up and coughed a little blood out, and the Beastking still smiled through out the battle and snarled as she tried standing up. But the princess suddenly grinned "Is…..is that…..the best you got?" she said as she stood her ground. The beastking Growled loudly and stomped a hoof on the ground.
Luna was already in the courtyard watching the panicking Ponies run back home. The battle could be heard from the highest peak in the castle where the room was. A few minutes ago the table flew out the window and crashed into pieces as it hit the ground. Explosions could already be heard from their as puffs of smoke and streams of light escaped through the broken windows. Twilight and her friends approached the Princess who stood watching the battle in the castle. "Luna, what's going on, why did Celestia attack Tavo, and why did he turn into some kind of monster?" said Twilight in desperation, Luna turned her head "well….it's a little more complicated than it seems Twilight." Said Luna she couldn't tell them the truth about what happened years ago.
blood had begun pouring from Celestia's four head and mouth from receiving a blow from his head to her face. Tavo had bleeding holes spikes protruding form his right shoulder from metal spikes the Princess summoned yet he still smiled. Celestia was already growing tired from the fight; this presented the perfect opportunity for Tavo as he growled. In between breaths she lifted herself up unaware that behind her was a window towards a 50 story drop. Before she could muster up any more magic, the Beastking leaped forward and tackled her wrapping his front legs around her waist, sending them both flying out the window.
Everypony in the court yard gasped when they saw the princess and the beastking falling from the window. Luna was dumbstruck at how fast the battle was turning, she was sure she would win this time. The six were silently watching in horror their princess and their friend falling from that height.
Celestia was caught in his hold and couldn't pull him off. She tried flying away but he was strangely heavy, in fact extremely heavy. His body felt hard too like some kind of metal. She tried thinking of a way out of his hold and noticed the holes she made in his shoulders, she than infused Physical magic into her left hoof giving her a boost in strength and began beating his right shoulder. After several beatings he released his hold on Celestia, just before hitting the ground. As she flew up in the air she hoped that the fall might have killed him, but as soon as the dust settled, her hopes were dashed as she glared at the crater made from the impact and the stallion in it still disturbingly smiling.
She jerked her head facing the ponies behind her she yelled to them "leave the castle!" as the ponies were panicking and fleeing the scene, Tavo breathed in deep and let out a demonic roar so loud it went for miles across Equestria. For a moment the echoes could still be heard and silence roamed throughout the city. Then In a second the entire city was in an uproar of panic. The beastking smiled contently as he gazed at the panicking city. Celestia gritted her teeth and begun building up energy in her horn. She pointed it at the king and shot out a wide beam of heated energy.
This brought the king to his knees and Celestia kept pouring more and more magic on as she lowered down and close got closer. As she neared the weakening king she kept expelling more blazing magic onto her downed enemy. But suddenly he jolted back up and with booth hooves grabbed the princess's head and head butted her. Disoriented with ringing in her ears she couldn't see Tavo turn his body and deliver a powerful buck, sending her towards a wall.
She laid there dazed and clutching her body against the wall. She watched the Beastking as he growled and snarled as if he were thinking. He cocked his head gawking at something in the distance. Suddenly he dashed off and disappeared from view. Celestia suddenly realized where he was heading. "oh no!" she whispered.
Luna and the six had caught up with Celestia. Her eyes had widened and she looked terrified. "what happened Tia, and where's the beastking?" Asked Luna
"Luna, retrieve the Elements and meet my at Ponyville at our old hideout!"
"why? What happened?"
"There's no time, just go before it's too late!" she said before taking a running start and leaping off into the air and flew towards Ponyville.
Tavo sprinted towards Ponyville through the mountain and entering the forest grunting and panting as drool and blodd dripped from his mouth. All the while an eerie tune kept playing on repeat in his emotionless head: "Time of dyeing is upon us, time for killing is nigh. Everyone will fall, everyone will say goodnight, for the life shall be done."
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Luna and the six had got on the first train they saw which was the last one leaving and stayed in the empty car. Luna was watching out her window hoping to find Tavo running by.
Amidst the uproar Twilight realized that she had forgotten to show the book to Celestia. She then also realized that Celestia had said she knew him years before, but Tavo had only arrived five days ago. How could she possibly know him if no one in Canterlot had heard of him until the news was released. She began thinking to herself but couldn't think of one, but she knew who could.
Luna was in thought and having a "conversation" with with her inner voice Nightmare Moon.
"Eventually he will kill all those innocent ponies."
"your wrong, I know Celestia can beat him, this time."
"don't lie to yourself. Neither you, Celestia nor that changeling queen could beat him years ago, what makes you think she can this time?"
"because this time we have the Elements of Harmony and with the our combined powers we can defeat him this time."
"well you better be right because you know what happens if he gets a taste of flesh."
Luna felt something tap her shoulder and the conversation abruptly ended. It was Twilight who tapped her shoulder "Princess Luna, what did Celestia mean when she said she had first hand experience dealing with Tavo?" asked Twilight, This Peaked the curiosity of the other five. "well, like I said it's complicated." Replied Luna "why?" she asked, Luna suddenly got nervous "because….well um.." she muttered , suddenly all eyes were on her "Well?" asked Twilight suspiciously. Luna sighed she knew they would eventually find out "Something happened years ago, when we first ruled Equestria, it was a secret that only she can say, I'm forbidden to ever speak of it unless she allows it." said Luna. the six sighed in disbelief Twilight was now even more confused why would the princess keep something a secret and what does it have to do with Tavo Luna noticed "we can ask her about it when we all this is over." Said Luna. "If she survives?" Nightmare Moon silently added in Luna thoughts.
Fluttershy was looking towards the sky. She was thinking about what had happened to Tavo. She thought about the smile he showed at the party and the smiling monster she saw in her head. They weren't the same. Somehow she knew that whatever he transformed into, there was something worst inside.
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"What do you think that was?"
"I don't know but it sounded angry."
Derpy, Lyra, BonBon and Carrot Top were in the park enjoying the day. Derpy brought her Daughter with them to play with her friends when all of a sudden a loud roar was heard across Ponyville. It scared the fillies and made the mothers nervous. After a while things went back to normal and the day continued. "so Derpy what Did you think of Tavo when you met him?" asked Lyra "oh, well he looked kind of sad so I wanted to cheer him up, but I crashed….again." said Derpy "But he was really nice, he didn't make fun of me because of my eyes." She added. Lyra, BonBon, and Carrot Top exchanged looks then Carrot Top turned to her friend "so you weren't scared of him at all?" she asked.
"No, why should I?" Derpy asked "oh, no reason." Carrot Top replied. After a few minutes the ground suddenly shook. It was light but they could feel it. The Shaking got stronger and stronger and then they started feeling the ground tremble. Then it stopped, but as soon as the ponies thought they were fine there was an unearthly howl that shook them. Dinky ran over to her Mother terrified "mom what was that?" she asked hiding under her mother. Before Derpy could reply, a giant scarred grayish blue stallion leaped out of the forest. As mares, stallions, fillies, and colts alike ran from the giant, the four automatically recognized him but were confused and terrified of his new found smile. He violently jerked his head towards them and growled loudly.
They were frozen in terror by his smile and blackened eyes that showed no light that they didn't notice the blood on him. He began trotting towards them. Derpy was scared not for herself but for her daughter. "Lyra, Bon Bon take Dinky back home and take care of her, I'll hold him off!" without questioning, Lyra Picked up the Little Filly and they galloped off while dinky was calling out to her mother. The only one who stayed behind was Carrot Top "what are you doing run!" said Derpy but Carrot stayed "I'm not gonna let you go off and fight a giant stallion by yourself you might cause another fire." said Carrot Top Derpy smiled and Carrot smiled back. Side by side they faced the Beastking showing no fear "you won't hurt our friends!" Derpy yelled to the king. He reared up, but They didn't back down. But Derpy knew she wouldn't survive so under her breath she said "Goodbye Dinky."
But before he could bring his giant hooves down, three steel rods pierced his legs and chest. He lowered himself giving Derpy and Carrot Top a chance to give him hard buck's to the face and run off. As Derpy was flying she yelled out "Don't worry muffin Mommys coming home!" and flew at the direction they took her with carrot Top running behind.
The beastking pulled the rods out of him and faced the princess levitating more rods around her. She glared "you will not bring harm to my Beloved subjects on my watch!" she yelled.
When they arrived in Ponyville they were already too late. The whole town was in an uproar. The train stopped and they ran off. In the distance they could hear a battle continuing. From out of nowhere a steel rod flew and almost hit rainbow Dash had Pinkie's pinkie sense hadn't saved her.
Steel rods flew by the Beastking yet he evaded them all. Celestia grew more and more fatigued, then she came up with a new strategy. She pointed all her rods up and launched them in to the sky. Steel rods rained down on the beastking at high speeds, puncturing him everywhere except his head. Instead they just bounced off and scratched him. Yet he still lived. In raged she did the last thing she thought she would do. First she froze the beastking's legs to the ground making the ice as thick and hard as possible, once he couldn't move she began gathering massive amounts of magic. The magic buildup was so powerful she was lifted from the air as light surrounded her. The ground itself began trembling. She aimed her horn at the beastking's head, breathed deep, and fired.
The Rainbow colored beam of magic shot out from her horn and as soon as it made impact it exploded, in an enormous white eruption of Magic. Celestia was finally relieved, the blast should be able to kill someone as strong as the Beastking, and finally the threat was over.
"where did you say it was?"
"over there by the tree on the hill."
The girls had left the town and headed east of its border to an open field with a single hill and at the top, a single tree. The tree itself looked healthier then most trees even during the night but they had no time to admire a tree. Luna led them there by a secret rout through an old house down a makeshift latter that led to a cave with a little silvery stream that led to down into a pond which led them to an exit out towards the field. "What are we doing out here princess? our friend and Princess Celestia are having a death match and were out here on with this tree?" exclaimed Rainbow Dash as she viewed the lights of magic. "Rainbow's right we gotta go and help the princess, we already got the Elements." said Applejack. They all agreed but Luna hushed them "please understand that we must be here to stop the Beastking?" said Luna hinting a bit of desperation. The girls exchanged questioning glances "why? asked Fluttershy. "well."Luna paused "i'm not allowed to share much of what happened during those years but what i can inform you of is that the Beastking may be unbeatable but he can be calmed and detained." said Luna, they gasped at the thought of a way to stop something that is equal or maybe even stronger then Celestia with out hurting Tavo "How can it be done?" asked Twilight "The Beastking, although being savage will stop whatever its doing when he hears or sees something the other half recognizes and may sometimes completely return to his normal self, I've seen it happen twice." said Luna This spiked Twilight's curiosity from before "When?" Luna surprised to hear almost the same question from before couldn't think of an answer "w-well-" she was abruptly interrupted when suddenly an explosion boomed across Equestria and a white light shined through the night sky where the battle was taking place.
When the dust settled and vanished Celestia was uneasy when she didn't see his body. The blast couldn't have vaporized him or at least she thought. She suddenly heard growls and snarl's but didn't see anyone. She looked around, but still nothing, yet the monstrous growl got louder. Suddenly the growl stopped, and there was nothing but silence. This made her nervous. She then heard the sound hooves and turned around only to be hit by two large hooves which sent her towards a wall. She smashed, back first in to a wall feeling her wings break, then was suddenly struck by a large body and rammed through several houses bringing a few of them crashing down. After about twenty houses were destroyed by Celestia being used as a battering ram, she was then flung to the ground when the last house fell. She tried getting up but suddenly a large hoof stomped on both her legs, breaking them, as she yelped in pain. The Beastking stood over her and stared down at her. She looked into those black eyes of his and saw the same evil she'd seen years ago, bringing back the fear she felt.
When the girls made it to the sight of the explosion, no pony was there. Then Twilight noticed several houses had been destroyed in a row. They followed the trail of destruction, which led to a large figure in the distance standing over another. It took them awhile to realize that the two were the princess and the beastking. They panicked and immediately ran towards their direction. Suddenly he reared up and positioned his hooves over Celestia's horn. Luna, Rainbow Dash, and Applejack with Fluttershy tailing behind them, raced at high speeds towards the two.
The beastking smiled even more evilly at his victim below him, her face expressing terror. With a quick downward motion he brought his two hooves crashing down on to Celestia's horn, shattering it to pieces. The Princesses eye's dilated, and then finally closed shut.
Then all of a sudden a small spark of magic emanated from the broken pieces of her horn forming a sphere of magic. The Beastking stared at the sphere in interest, as it levitated in the air above Celestia's head, then suddenly three of the girls he remembers seeing. one of them he remembers and felt his inside quiver with excitement at his original target.
Luna couldn't believe what she saw when she reached them. she felt her eyes deceive her but knew it was true. Tears streamed across her face as she faced the horrible fate. Her sister Princess Celestia the one she knew her entire life...was dead. she immediately broke down in tears. Rainbow Dash and Applejack gasped when they saw what happened. They couldn't believe what happened, Celestia with all her knowledge and power, was defeated and killed by the thing that took their new friend's body. Luna looked up from her grief and was enraged when she saw the monster's twisted smile and then tilt his head in a mocking fashion. Luna raised her self and began walking over to her sisters killer gritting her teeth all the while "how dare you murder the only being who not only showed you compassion but who also gave you the gift of freedom? "HOW DARE YOU!" she shouted at the monster as dark magic began flowing in her horn. Storms began brewing as Luna's seething rage grew with each step. She stopped and stayed in one spot to and prepared to let all her rage out onto the beast as storms cracked around her.
However in her rage she was not prepared for what he would do next. She was unaware at the time of Tavo's limited ability and the Beastking knew it and immediately used it on the blinded Princess. He ran, opened his wide jaws in a surprise turn of events for the princess of the night, felt the sharp, powerful jaws of the Beastking around her neck. In a little more then a second she already felt his Metal teeth rip into her throat, and cause blood to spurt out from her neck and drip out her mouth. As she coughed up blood, The Beastking raised himself on his back legs with the princess in mouth and slammed her onto her back. He then pressed his hoof against her beating chest and with a quick upward motion ripped a chunk of her meat from her throat.
As tears swelled from her eyes as more blood suffocated her upon watching her very flesh was ripped off and swallowed whole by this unholy beast, she fainted from the loss of blood and her knowing of what is to be brought upon by the true demon she unleashed upon a beautiful world.
As the Beastking shut his large mouth and licked his teeth of blood, Fluttershy had caught up with them only to witness the horrid Atrocities committed by what they thought was their friend. Their jaw dropped horror stricken faces were only disrupted When Rainbow Dash Flew Towards him yelling "You murderer!" But during Mid flight the Beastking rammed his head with hers causing her skull to split and bleed. In her daze she did not see his great hoof over her "Rainbow Move!" Applejack yelled but it was to late. his hoof fell hard on to her chest Causing Rainbow Dash to give out one final breath before falling back. Then Applejack ran with the same amount of anger towards him. She stopped, turned and delivered her hardest buck towards the Beastking Jaw. But The Beastking did not even flinch and he immediately bit onto her legs brought her up and over his head and slamming her onto the ground where Luna lie. He repeated the same action over and over until she could barely move, then he flung her through a window of a nearby home. Fluttershy was frozen with unimaginable terror, her eyes were filled with tears towards her friends. She couldnt speak couldnt move couldnt scream for help, she just stood there watching at what this thing did.
Suddenly it turned to her. it began walking over to her while Fluttershy noticed something strange happeing to him. The left half of his face was beginning to bleed randomly. blood dripped from his eye, ear, and mouth as the stiches that dangeld began falling apart. one half of his faces was beginning to rot, then it began opening its mouth and uttered what seemed like words "I....live....again." Now he stood over her helpless body, sensing her fear as fluttershy began seeing that same apparition in her mind becoming reality. But the next thing that happens would not only effect them but the rest of their world as well.
The small white orb that had been released by Celestia's death through her horn had enlarged, and kept growing bigger.
Every single pony in Ponyville stared in amazement at the white sphere that suddenly appeared. They stared at it overwhelmed by how huge it was. Suddenly it started spreading out. The sphere spread wider consuming everything in its path. Twilight, Pinkie Pie, and Rarity watched as the mysterious white sphere encompassed everything including their friends who were the first ones to be consumed. the sphere seemed to be enlarging and slowly approaching, as the girls began backing away from it. Suddenly it stopped. It froze in its position, lighting the midnight with its whiteness. the whole town was speechless as this house sized sphere which appeared out of no where and began growing just stopped.
but just as surprising as it stopped it suddenly began vibrating and a dark dot formed, before growing as well and overlapping half of the sphere. Then all of the sudden, it began to rapidly grow and expand, faster then the ponies running from it as it neared the girls. Pinkie Pie was consumed first then Rarity, and finally consuming Twilight before she could even react..
"what's Happening? What's going on?" she said to herself as she her body began glowing in every direction. Suddenly her left hoof began glowing bright, then her other hoof. She looked down and saw that her entire lower body had been covered in a bright spectrum of colors as it made its way up. oh no, whats going to happen? she thought before the rainbow finally overlapped her entire body.
Note: you know what ima try shutting up now and see what happens.
Wrestling and Saints Row The Third in my opinion, was a very bad Combination."
Dazed, confused and legs aching, Fluttershy's eyes opened to a strangely beautiful morning despite what had happened last night. She looked up into the bright blue sky and clouds' noticing that nothing was flying around. No birds, no bees, not even Pegasi. Looking around she noticed that she alone, The beastking was gone, so was Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Princess Luna, and Princess Celestia.
Everyone was gone and everything was quite. Yet there was no destruction, no fires, no blood and the window where Applejack was throw in, didn't even have a scratch.It was as if nothing happened. Everything seemed fine, nothing was amiss. The sphere . Thought Fluttershy, remembering the giant thing and thought that it had done something, but what?
Just then, a sharp pain shot to her legs, but when she looked down she found that the white sphere altered her. Her yellow coat was gone. And her legs seemed longer and smoother and there was an extension with five nubs at the end, which for some strange reason moved as if they were a part of her. Her left leg had a small cut, but when she reached to check it, she gasped when her hoof was gone. In its place was something that resembled a simian-like hand but smoother, hairless and smaller.
She started moving around the fingers on it and was startled when she found out her other hoof looked the same. She then poked at her skin. Thinking it was a dream she took two fingers and pinched herself. A small pain was all she felt and suddenly realized she wasn't dreaming. She made an effort to stand on her new legs but stumbled and fell over, and she couldn't walk on all four's anymore because it felt awkward, so she leaned against a wall to keep from falling. As she moved by the walls, she noticed a broken mirror on a crate.
She picked it up and looked into it. In the cracks, she saw that her muzzle had flattened, her ears shrunk, and she didn't have her yellow coat. But her eyes where still the same and she checked if her wings were still on her back and her cutie mark was still on her flank and sure enough they were. She yelped when she noticed her tail was gone.
Suddenly she heard someone calling from the distance. She followed the familiar voice, as it began calling out to others. Fluttershy, seeing a slender figure called out to her to which she replied, seeing a slender figure approach, stumbling. As soon as they drew closer, Fluttershy wrapped her arms around her and she did the same "Twilight, it's so good to see you." she said .
"Same here, I'm glad i wasn't the only one who got altered." said Twilight, when they released each other Fluttershy noticed a grand change on twilight. She gasped "Twilight, where's your horn?" asked Fluttershy. Twilight eyes looked up "I'm not sure what happened." said Twilight but the strange thing is that it still feels like it's still there." said Twilight, feeling the top of her head.
"What do you think happened?" asked Fluttershy Twilight looked at her and shrugged "I don't know but whatever that sphere did it affected everything."
"What do you mean?"
"Well when I woke up every other pony around me converted into different forms like this." She said gesturing to their new bodies. "It also appeared to have fixed all the destruction caused by the battle." Recalling what had happened in those last few moments before the sphere made it self known. "Where are the others?" Asked Twilight "They were supposed to be with me but they-" she stopped as she recalled their final fates. "Well" asked Twilight before being answered "Died." Tears rolled down her eyes.
"No. That Can't be." Said Twilight fighting back tears. But they were soon shaken when a door of a nearby house flew open with a single leg sticking out. The figure who shambled out made their tears disappear and their hearts swell with joy. "What are y'all lookin at?" said Applejack before being Tackled to the ground by her two Friends in warm embrace. "We thought you died Applejack!" exclaimed Twilight "I'm so happy your alive." cried Fluttershy.
They got to their feet and dusted themselves off "what was all that about, I just blacked out for a few hours is all. The one y'all should be worried about is rain-." The memories came back to her " RAINBOW DASH!-wheres Rainbow Dash and wheres Rarity and Pinkie Pie?" Said Applejack "That's what we wanted to ask you about? we don't know." said Twilight "Then lets find em." said Applejack as she took the lead but but almost fell over Before Fluttershy Caught her. Seeing that they wouldn't be going anywhere with their new legs she thought of how move around faster then she stared at Fluttershys' folded wings "Fluttershy, can you still use your wings?" she asked "Maybe" nervously replied Fluttershy. "Then go ahead and find out where everyone else is." said Twilight. Fluttershy nodded unsure if she could.
As her wings extended, she began flapping them, hoping that she can fly. She then felt her feet lifting off the ground and in seconds she was in the air. Feeling more confident in her wings she began flying ahead.
As she flew overhead she noticed a large group of newly changed ponies and dropped down. A lot of them were asleep but the few who had awoken, were stumbling and sometimes falling down, except for the pegasi who hovered above the ground. Amongst the crowd Fluttershy noticed a certain individual who stood out flying above everyone else. She knew straight away who it was as soon as she spotted the Rainbow Mane. It also seemed as if she spotted Fluttershy for she was drawing nearer. She soon Dropped and they met with open arms wrapped around each other. "Rainbow Dash Your alive. But how are you still alive?" Said Fluttershy "I saw what the Beastking did to you." she let go of Rainbow Dash "I don't know but when i find Tavo, i'm i gonna make him regret killing me!"
Just then, she thought about Tavo. His transformation from a local hero to an Unnatural monster, still shocked her. But what was worse was the second horrid transformation and those three words spoken just seconds before the sphere, echoed in her thoughts.
"I...live....again."
In the distance, Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy saw four others, three shambling, one actually skipping. The first two, Fluttershy recognized as Twilight Sparkle and Applejack. The Other two became recognizable as they got closer
"We're terribly sorry for being late, but it was just so difficult trying to walk on two legs." said Rarity leaning against a wall while Pinkie Pie bounced around so easily on two legs. By this time almost all of the converted Ponies had awaken from their sleep and there was still no sign of Princess Celestia or Luna. or Tavo either. Nopony could find there bodies or any sign of them at all, it was like they disappeared.
At the center of town, Twilight and the gang stood with the crowd. They began to worry for their princesses When all of a sudden, the wind began speeding up. White and black Beams of light formed from the sky and circled the center of town making whirring sounds. The beams circled closer and fused together creating an orb that spun in the air. The orb stopped as it touched the ground, and slowly began to dissolve. From the orb appeared two beings of illuminating Power. These two were the ones missing.
"Celestia and Luna." whispered twilight Sparkle as everypony around her bowed. The battle should have left Celestia badly wounded, yet she appeared fine and healthy as if nothing happened. They turned and approached them
"Twilight, you and your friends are still needed." Said Celestia.
"what's happened Princess?" asked Twilight.
"I'm not sure Twilight, but what I do know is that when the Beastking killed me, he released powerful magic causing every living being in Equestria to Change." She said. Twilight was shocked and confused. Tavo was strong enough to kill the princess but she was still here, how could it be possible. She suddenly noticed that Celestia was glaring at a certain rundown house. "Twilight, I found the Elements for you and your friends to wield against the beastking." Said Celestia
"Why do we need the Elements?"
"Because the Beastking is too powerful for me and Luna, so I'm hoping that with our combined powers we can finally stop the it."
Celestia was serious. But why would Tavo just go berserk and destroy everything and kill the Princess for no reason. All they were aware of was that The beastking is in the house and as the five put on their Necklaces and Twilight her tiara, everyone had gathered around them, facing the house and waiting for what will happen when he comes out.
Slowly opening his eyes, feeling groggy and burning in his scars Tavo awakened in a dark musty room with only a single inch of light shining through a broken window. Laying on the floor, He grunted as he stood up, aching in extreme pain all over his body. He limped towards the light hoping to see what was happening outside. But when he stretched out his right hoof to the light, he saw something he thought he'd never see again.
"I have Hands again?" he said to himself. In a corner of the room he found a large mirror and immediately walked towards it. He walked over to it and looked at his reflection. A tall, Medium-built, tanned, scared body and short bedraggled black hair and eyes and his smiling scar in his reflection. He was Human again. But there was just one problem he noticed immediately.
"Holy fuck, i'm naked?!"
He looked around for anything he could cover himself with and found a dusty old curtain. He ripped it off, and tied it around his waist, hoping it covered his large proportions. Suddenly he heard large amounts of breathing outside the house. He remembered the Princess wanting to arrest him and judging by how many breathing patterns there is, she came with reinforcements. He didn't have his machete or his revolver but he had his fists. He crept towards the door, grabbed the handle, twisted it, and flung the door open. But the second the door opened he stopped dead. His jaw dropped, his eyes dilated, his heart pounded furiously and he began sweating at the sight that his friend Daniel would describe as "Something that only happens once to lucky men ".
In front of him were dozens of the most beautiful women he has ever seen, and each one was exposed! He felt Goosebumps all over, his hands shook irritably, he knew he shouldn't stare at women when they are exposed but no matter how much strength he had, he couldn't look away. He eyes ignored everything that wasn't female and kept Focus on all the girls in sight. He couldn't move, he couldn't speak, and he suddenly felt stiff.
Amongst the crowed of beauty, there was eight figures that stood out for many reasons but for the moment just being more stunning. Six of them looked like his friends on this world and the two looked like the Princesses, but at the moment he couldn't come up with a single coherent thought and started feeling lightheaded. The one who looked like Celestia spoke up "I am Placing you under arrest for the of destruction of two cities and the of five Ponies, including myself." she said, but Tavo couldn't hear as his eyes slowly closed shut, as he rocked back and forth before falling forward with a loud thud.
there was a long pause as everypony exchanged glances in confusion. They stared at Tavo who just fainted for no reason and now laid on the ground face forward. Then Pinkie Pie said aloud "what just happened?"
Note: when i said there was a human in the story i meant That EVERYONE would turn Human. the funny thing
was that originally, this was unplanned. What i meant by that was that everything up to this chapter was originally unplanned and i just wrote what ever i thought of at the moment!....I might as well add this one extra bit *Ahem*
I was a clopper before i was a brony........there i said it.
Slowly opening his eyes to a ceiling and white curtains surrounding him, Tavo Quickly took noticed that he was lying on a broken hospital bed wearing a patient's gown that was too short for him. He turned his head to the left at a heart monitor. Erratic, unbalanced, and sometimes short pulses shown, normal heart rate for him so he left it be. Out of pure habit he checked if his wrists had been chained to the side bars and sure enough, they were. As usual. With a quick tug he broke the steel chains and sat up straight hearing no breathing in the room. He then pulled open the curtains revealing an average empty hospital room with the window open letting in the sunlight and the cool breeze. He looked out the window noticing birds passing by and thought to himself. Wow, that is something I'll never see back home.
"Is he awake?"
"Yea and he broke the chains, i told ya'll to get stronger chains." Applejack said peering into the door window as they waited outside the hospital room.
When he passed out five hours ago, the altered ponies had figured out how to at least walk and very few had figured out how to run. some pegasi were nervous about flying in there new forms and unicorns didn't use magic thinking that because their horns disappeared they no longer have magic, yet each one still felt like it was still there. Because of this, the question ran through everyponys mind. How would they turn back? Everyone in the field of magic and science was already on the job, But the main task was given to Twilight and her friends while the Princess tries to keep order in Equestria. The only one who seemed to know anything about the epidemic was the one who caused it in the first place. The only problem was that he passed out right after confronting the revived princesses.
Another unknown problem had also arisen. He was too heavy. He didn't look heavy so it seemed like an easy job to move him. Unfortunately, they were proven wrong. It took thirty Ponies, including Big Mac and a few guards to pick him up and lift him into a cart made of wood and iron. The cart was made to carry anvils and other heavy objects, yet with him alone, it cracked the metal wheels. One unfortunate pony had the bad luck of getting whacked by a swinging arm, that left a very noticeable bruise.
When they finally arrived, the doctors and nurses there figured out how to still make use of their equipment in their new forms. After the ponies had to drag him to an open room and fling him onto a bed -to which it collapsed- the doctors hooked him up to a heart monitor, and were utterly astonished at his heart rate. "How could somepony even survive like this?" one asked. They decided took take a blood sample and in the meantime they had to keep an eye on him. The guards who had to drag him, informed the Doctors and nurses of how dangerous he was and could be, so they put steel chains around his wrists. Of course after he woke up, he broke the chains like they were nothing but string.
Now that he has woken up, who would go in and greet him. After the destruction he caused and murdering the princesses, they were nervous to confront him, but someone had to get answers from him. Also someone had to give him a mysterious package Applebloom found in his bed of hay. Twilight and AJ volunteered to go in. Hesitant at first, AJ knocked on the door to which Tavo jerked his head towards it
"Can we come in?" she asked.
"Sure." he meekly replied.
Yet as soon as they came in Tavo threw his hands in front of his face
"Ah shit, not again!" exclaimed Tavo. The two jumped back "What's wrong?" asked Twilight. "Well um, you don't have clothes on." said Tavo, the girls looked confused "And what's the Problem?" asked Twilight "We don't normally wear clothes." added Applejack.
"Well ponies don't wear them but humans do." He said. The girls exchanged glances "What's a Human?" asked Twilight with a puzzled look on her face. Tavo put his arms down and bit his lip before facing them "Well a human is...that." He gestured at their bodies " And the reason you have to wear clothes is because..., you girls are fully aware of reproductive organs right?" he asked, they nodded in agreement "Alright well, humans are more "exposed " than ponies and girls have a bit "more " than boys." He said timidly "what do ya mean "more ?" asked Applejack, Tavo pointed at their chests "See those "bags " right there?" They looked down at their chests and felt the Squishy bags with the protrusions which seemed to pop in the cold, and noticed Tavo tremble a little before speaking "Those are considered the same thing as umm, well the reproductive organ down there...in between your legs." Said Tavo. They looked further down their bodies and after a few seconds, they turned red faced and frantically covered themselves with the curtains. They smiled nervously "W-Well, we b-better let ya…..rest up and um here's a package that came fer ya so….bye!" said Applejack before dropping the package and darting out of the room with Twilight.
When the doors closed Tavo bashed the back of his head in to the wall behind him causing a hole. "God Damn, these ponies are hot!" He exclaimed. After he calmed down, he sat up, got off the bed and picked up the large package AJ left. On it was a note :"Wear these." That was all that was written. He tore off the paper and opened the package. Inside was a pair of worn-out steel-toed-boots and a pair denim jean's with a hole in the left knee, along with interior interior clothing. He held up the boots and pants and stared at the assortment in confusion "Who had my boots and pants?" he said to himself.
When Twilight and Applejack walked out of the room, the girls asked them what happened in there and why were they blushing. Twilight told them everything. When she finished the girls turned red faced and covered their chest's and legs and ran back home.
Along the way, Lyra, wearing jeans and a mint green shirt passed by and yelled "I told ya so."
Note: The next chapters will be serious, i just wanted to play with the idea of them turning human for the first time.
Chapter 9: A Body Gone Wrong
After leaving the hospital, some passing Ponies asked them why they were covering the bodies. Upon informing them of their new anatomy, those ponies did the same and went straight home. When the girls reached their homes, they went to their bedrooms to look for some clothes to cover them. But each one found, on their beds where new clothes, already picked out and neatly folded. After getting dressed, they each headed back towards the hospital. Along the way they took notice that ponies were fully clothed. And still red faced from embarrassment.
The first one to arrive was Twilight, wearing a lavender sweater vest, and blue skinny jeans. Along with a transformed spike, wearing a purple and green T-shirt, and purple shorts. They both sat in the seats placed near Tavo's door. Then came bouncing in Pinkie Pie, wearing a light Pink shirt, Hot Pink shorts, and striped pink knee-high socks. Pinkie ran up and hugged Twilight and spike. After a while, Applejack and Rarity walked in. AJ wore her hat, an orange western shirt, a brown leather vest, and blue jeans, while Rarity wore a white dress, and pearl necklace. They apologized for being late, Rarity was inspired by the design and clothing that she had to draw out new designs for their new bodies.
As they sat idly by the door, Pinkie took a peek through the window of Tavo's door. Even though it didn't reveal much due to the curtain, she did see a large figure standing. After a few minutes, Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy flew in. Rainbow dash wore a cyan crop top, and blue and white running shorts while Flutttershy wore a yellow turtleneck sweater and a yellow skirt. Now that all seven of them have arrived, they waited outside the door of Tavo's room. After ten minutes had passed, a doctor walked by, asked if they are with Tavo to which they nodded. Opening the door, he walked in and closed the door behind him, but curiosity took them over and they laid their ears against the door. The door, though was thick and it gave muffled sounds. They did however catch some words like "heart rate" and "blood" and "metal" and "wheelchair" but that was it. Suddenly the conversation ended and the sudden footsteps made the group jump back to their seats. When the door opened, he turned towards Tavo "Alright now if you could follow me, we can conduct X-rays in a specialized room." He said. Then out came Tavo Wearing denim pants with a ripped hole in the left leg and the short gown. And just like before, he towered over them. He also let out a sigh of relief when they finally had clothes on. He nodded and followed the doctor, and then the group stood up from their seats and followed him as well.
As they walked through the halls passing various transformed Ponies who looked sicker than before, he noticed that the ponies walking on two feet, stare at him in an unwelcoming demeanor. As they continued, they came to a room at the end of the hall way. The doctor opened the door and motioned Tavo to walk in. as soon as he did the door closed behind him, revealing a dark room with a cylindrical machine with two beeping lights, one green, one red. there was also a window. The machine looked like a pre-U.S.F. model that were used back before the revolution. As he observed the machine, the room opposite of the window was lit up and inside was the doc and the rest of the group, the doctor then pushed a button and a speaker suddenly broadcasted "Alright now we are going to conduct an examination of your skeleton and internal organs, so I need you to move closer to the machine, please." He said through the intercom.
As commanded, he walked over to the machine "Good. Now stand still, this won't hurt a bit." As he spoke, the machine opened up. The machines halves then extended forward, then they suddenly snapped shut with him in it and formed a tube around him. The tube then sealed the together while a small door shielded over him and enclosed his whole body inside.
In the opposite side of the window, they stood and watched the machine as it flashed two bright green lights. As they waited for results, Twilight was curious as to why they needed x-rays of his body, so she walked up to the doctor who was observing panels and Computer screens and tapped his shoulder "Something wrong?" he asked "yes, what is all this for?" asked Twilight. The doctor then grinned "I'm glad you asked." He said. He stood up then cleared his throat before speaking "Ever since the conversion of almost every single species in the Equidae Family we've been taking X-rays and other forms of examination to figure out what we became. The results shown are rather interesting." he said "And according to the guards this one in particular will help connect the pieces, and with the information they've given us, we may be able to figure out this whole Predicament."
Before he could continue speaking, a green light went off which made the Doctor grin. He hopped back into the chair, pressed a few buttons, pulled a knob, and then pulled out a giant screen. He then turned back to the Group "Alright lets take a look, shall we?" He said then the screen flickered on revealing an image of Tavo's body. However they did not expect what they saw on that screen.
They stared in complete and utter horror at what they believed was his bodies. His body was composed of some kind of strange metal, and he had internal deformities all over his body. Starting from the head, His eye structure darkened the screen it self with an almost burnt image. Behind a normal set of teeth were rows of serrated dagger-like metal teeth arching upwards forming into a smile like the one he had when he fought the Princess and looked almost crushed closely together. His skull also had small dents in various parts. Moving down ward into his torso, it seemed at first like a few organs were hidden behind metal bones but after further inspection, they realized that those organs were either missing, or destroyed and replaced with what seemed like machines. Because of his large bone structure, it was hard to identify certain abnormalities on his bones that were revealed to be cracks in the bones themselves that were patched up with steel plates. Half of a lung was machine, his stomach was ripped, and his kidneys replaced with some kind of machine. The only thing that wasn't a machine was his heart, but even that was abnormal. Instead of being a normal red beating heart, it was a black orb pumped with blood, which upon further examination was actually Obsidian. Moving downward towards the legs, they seemed almost destroyed and should be classified as dysfunctional. This explained all sorts of problems and abnormalities he has but it doesn't explain how he's still alive. The doctor stared at this horror struck "This isn't the bodies that we've been studying. This is an abomination!" he yelled out.
Suddenly they heard knocking from the machine, than a voice "Hey, can I come out now?" they turned to the doctor who shivered nervously. With a shaky hand he pressed a button "S-s-sure." He said into the microphone. He then extended a nervous hand and was inches away from pressing it. He faced the horror stricken-except for Pinkie Pie-group then pressed a button. The tube unlocked and the group expected some form of vile deformed creature to be where Tavo once stood. But as it slowly pulled away, it instead revealed a straight faced and tall normal being. He took another look at the tube then walked over to the door, opened it, and left the dark lit room. Ten seconds later, the door knob twisted and opened.
Tavo was met with confusion when he entered the room. They all stared at him in horror, except for Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash. He looked around the room and noticed the screen. On it was an X-ray of his body but less detailed then what he normally looks at. The doctor nervously walked up to him "Is t-this what normal humans look like?" he asked. Tavo turned to him "Naw, a normal human being looks way better than this. This is what an above average prototype Psycho looks like."
Note: so sorry for being so late.
Chapter 10: The violent Species
"Psycho? - but you ain't Crazy." Said Applejack, Tavo turned to her "Nah you're talking about the screwie's. They're humans with messed up heads." Said Tavo looking down at an X-ray of a human "so what does that make you?" asked Rainbow Dash glaring at him"Me-technically I'm not even human." The doctor had calmed down but still felt a little uneasy around him "so...what are you then?" he asked, Tavo stared at his X-ray before taking a deep breath "Well in short i'm a species that was thought to have been extinct and forgotten. Our true name could never be found so instead we were given a new name – Psychos." Said Tavo. "And what is a Psycho?" asked Twilight before sitting down on a chair "Basically a psycho is a more violent version of a human and my body developed by…" he suddenly stopped in the middle of his sentence, realizing he had said too much and rubbed his scar. His expression turned blank and his eyes down casted like he was remembering something. They gazed at him intently; waiting for him to finish his sentence and who it was he mentioned "by what?" asked Twilight, he suddenly shook out of his blank state "…Uh never mind." Said Tavo. They glared at him. They knew he was hiding something. He was always mysterious and it could have passed but now with this new situation that's spread all over the world and him being the only one with possible answers, he's still keeping secrets.
"Tavo you've been keepin secrets from us since you've gotten here from who knows where and now when we need Answers from ya, you still aint being honest with us." said applejack, hinting frustration in her tone. Tavo took notice of their frustration from looking in their eyes but even though he wanted to tell them, it still wasn't right. "It's personal, plus you don't need answers from me, you girls are smart i know you can figure it out." he said calmly before walking towards the door. Just before he could lay his hand on the doorknob Rainbow Dash flew in between him and the door, her face filled with Frustration "Enough with all the secrets "Mister-Psycho" all you've ever done is wonder aimlessly through the Town not saying a single word to Anypony, making everypony you meet terrified, and then you start killing off ponies, and now where stuck looking like you and you're still keeping secrets from us, Your nothing but a murderous Jerk!" yelled Rainbow Dash furiously. There was a long pause off silence after that. Even though they've never actually seen Tavo angry, the fact that he could kill the princess scared them.
Applejack was about to step in when all of sudden, Tavo lifted and extended his right arm and placed his hand against the door next to Rainbow. He lowered his head and leaned in close to Dash. "well, your right about one thing…." He began. Suddenly She felt a searing pain run up from her feet to her neck. as she was about to push him back he raised his head and revealed a pair of pitch black holes where his eyes should be. A thin yellow circle formed in his eyes, followed by white dots for pupils. yellowish vein-like streaks appeared giving him a blood shot appearance. She felt a burning inside of her. "…..I am a murderous jerk, but i don't need to be reminded of that little fact." said Tavo in a dark tone. " And if you feel a burning inside you Than be glad I'm a nice person or my eyes would be glowing right now and you'd be a pile of ash In less than a minute." she trembled and sweat as the giant towered over as her internal organs felt like they were being roasted over a fire. Tavo felt the surge of his violent tendencies return and couldn't remember who the girl in front of him was. Applejack suddenly Yelled "Tavo, stop!" he suddenly jerked his head, showing them his horrid altered left eye. They froze in terror while feeling the burning.
He suddenly remembered who the girl was and realize's that he is taking it too far. He reverted his eyes and step away from Dash. She dropped to the floor and panted heavily, clutching her entire body. He opened the door and walked out and as the group ran over and knelt down near Rainbow Dash, Tavo turned and faced them " i won't tell you much, but what i will say is that i don't have the answers to return you to normal, so like it or not, you'r stuck the way you are." said Tavo before walking down the hallway and out of sight.
Applejack and Fluttershy helped Rainbow dash up. They sweat and trembled a little thinking about the eye and the burning it gave. "oh my goodness, Rainbow Dash are you alright?" asked Fluttershy, RD couldn't stop panting and couldn't get a complete sentence out "Y-yea... I'm F-" before she could finish her sentence Dash collapsed to the floor, so they held her up. The doctor automatically recognized the problem "She's suffering from heat stroke and possible dehydration but how could her body temperature change so rapidly?" He said before helping the girls leading them to a bed. She had to stay and and recover, so Twilight, spike, Fluttershy, And Rarity stayed with her while Applejack goes to get an Explanation from Tavo. Before leaving, the doctor informed her that a lot of Ponies that saw the devastation and the after effects blame him.
Tavo had arrived at Sweet Apple Acres, it had started raining an hour ago before he left the hospital. Looking around he notices Big Mac, wearing a rain coat over denim overalls over a red shirt, brown leather gloves and boots standing out in the rain. Despite being shorter than Tavo, Big Mac looked far more muscular than him. He was probably waiting for Applejack to come home. "Tavo, wheres Applejack?" asked Big Mac "I think she'll be staying at the hospital. Rainbow Dash had a little Problem " Replied Tavo. Big Mac continued waiting, and Tavo left him. Tavo trudged across the muddy ground not caring about the amount of dirt or mud on his boots, until he reached the barn doors. He pulled open both doors and walked inside. He grabbed a rag hanging by the door and wiped himself off. He closed the door's and looked around for anybody inside other than the animals. Upon seeing nothing out of the ordinary he walks to a bale of hay and sits down. As he wipes off the water from his forehead, he begins recalling something, like Rainbow dash's outburst against him and how right she was. Or how the ponies he walked by stared at him the same way anyone who wasn't a psycho stared at him in his world. Of course it was something he was more used to than the smiles and waves he received from them. But one thing bugged him, even though he was accustomed to not feel anything for anyone he hurts, when he burned Rainbow Dash, he felt something eating away at him, something he remembers called guilt.
Either way it didn't matter, tomorrow he'd be leaving Ponyville. For what he did they wouldn't want him around anymore, it was just natural. As he planed where to go, he suddenly notices something sticking out from a pile of hay. He walks over to it and see's that it is a black handle with cloth wrapping over it. Wait, it can't be He thought. He gripped the black handle and slowly pulled out a long metallic, silvery blade. He ran his fingers over the shining reflective blade, he saw his reflection on the blade. He felt waves of comfort and confusion hit him as he finally recognizes it "Xico?"
Note: I should have mentioned that i'm not an expert on cloths in the last chapter. Also to The Music Man , i am sorry for swearing.
At the hospital, rain lightly tapped against the window of Rainbow Dash's room. She was told to stay due to her heat stroke so Twilight, Spike, Rarity, and Fluttershy stood by their bed ridden friend as she was recovering from her extremely high body temperature. The doctors said she'd heal up by tomorrow as long as her body temperature doesn't go up anymore.
After sometime had passed her temperature went down and she fell asleep. Visiting hours were over. The four left the room but before they could leave, the sky darkened as violent thunder storm erupted. They couldn't leave so they worried for Applejack but assured themselves that she probably stayed inside somewhere safe as well. After an hour, Spike had fallen asleep in a chair next to twilight, while she had a conversation with Rarity. Fluttershy sat in a chair holding her legs against her body. Her face had a blank expression, they knew how easily scared she was but when they tried calling to her she didn't respond. It was only until Twilight stood up and nudged her did Fluttershy snap out of her state but denied any in comfort she was in. After sometime of reassuring her, Twilight was convinced that Fluttershy was alright so she went back to her seat, but Rarity knew that wasn't true. But she had to keep it a secret for her friend.
They remained in silence. a few minutes had passed before Rarity noticed something gray stick out from the satchel Twilight had been carrying "What's that?" she asked pointing at the bag. Twilight turned, and pulled out an old book. Rarity had a funny little thought in her head but dismissed it as she took a closer look at the cover. It was a strange picture, a gray wolf on one side and a rather large grayish blue pony on the other. A second thought formed.
"That pony bears a frightening resemblance to Tavo. " said Rarity "Yea you could say that?" said twilight under her breath.
"What was That?"
"Nothing."
Upon search, Rarity made an interesting discovery. "Where is the writers name?" she asked "See, that's one of the things i discovered about this book."
"Really? What else?"
"Well, aside from not having an author, i've been doing a little research and found no other copies of this book anywhere else in Equestria, nor any single mention of its existence." Said Twilight.
Rarity opened the book and on the front page was the same phrase Twilight had read: "When there is a killer, there is a savior, Choose Your fate?."
"What does this mean Twilight?"
"I have a few ideas but i haven't come to a conclusion yet."
Rarity started shuffling through pages and one told of a creature or king, yet the most strangest thing was after the first page, came a description and warning that came late of a creature that matched Tavo and the dreaded Beastking. But after the first pages it went into a third page with a different phrase from the first:
"Until light fades from our hearts, let us know that there is always a chance, when the world fades, let us know that he will save us from death." The same question that floated around Twilight s' head the first time she read this, popped into Rarity's. who was this "He" that it spoke of? She turned the second page and it seemed stranger yet holds a message behind it: "For all who lose their souls to evil and madness. For all who lose hope in a god forsaken world, for all who fear everything around us, let us know that the answer, the key, the secret, the cure…..is love. The everlasting gift from the heavens, the key to life and our very existence would be nothing if it wasn't for love."
There was silence after that.
When she turned the page, there was nothing. She flipped to another page and again nothing. "Why are there only five written pages?" asked Rarity, "That's another strange thing about it, it originally had three pages but when we were on the train heading to Canterlot, i found this page and the picture on the cover right now is different from when i found it." Said Twilight. Rarity handed Twilight the book when all of a sudden an envelope dropped out of it.
They both looked down at the envelope with an eagle etched on it curiously. They exchanged looks and glanced over at Fluttershy, who was already asleep. Twilight reached down and picked up the note "Where did this come from?" said Twilight. She opened the envelop and with anticipation slowly pulled out a note written in a language unfamiliar to them " De Humano a poni?...what does that even mean?" asked Twilight. Rarity shrugged, they were both stumped, they couldn't understand a single word other than Poni which sounds a lot like pony Celestia's name written at the bottom. "What does the princess have to do with this. " Said Twilight just remembering to give the book to Celestia anyway. "Agreed, but we must wait until the thunderstorm clears. I'll get my hair all wet." said Rarity. She agreed and put the book back in the bag when all of a sudden she realized something "Where's pinkie Pie?"
-Earth-
Gray skies to which very little sunlight ever broke through, filled the abandoned city with grief and despair. Very few buildings still stood: some had collapsed, some had been left to ruin from the years of degradation, while a few still had some life to it. The streets were devoid of any life though, most of the people stayed inside ever since these cities were abandon and left behind for the Federation's state-of-the-art fortress cities. Broken down cars were spread throughout the streets while chain gangs and mobs of thugs and outlaws terrorized anyone who stayed out.
The only thing roaming through the street of this wasteland was a single man with a light build. He carried on his back an AK-47 with a hammer and sickle crossing painted on its hilt. He was short, blond with a green streak of hair; blue eyed, short, and wore a torn light brown sleeveless vest, dirty skinny jeans and mid top shoes. He wore a green and white bandanna over his mouth and carried two trench knives around his waist. He walked through the streets, carrying a sack over his shoulder; he looked around for anything out of the ordinary. He heard the rustling of garbage cans in an alley way next to him and suddenly a large group of thugs armed with chains, crowbars, and bats walked out. They glared at him before one of the larger ones spoke "Where'd you come from little guy." He said, the wanderer looked at his sack then back at the gang "Does it concern you where i came from." He said with an accent. One of the thugs yelled "Hey, look a short ass Russian!" and they began laughing.
"Oh well, if you don't mind handin that sack over you can go on your merry little way comrade." he said.
"I'm not Russian, and why should i?" said the wanderer, the mob grinned "because we needs a little something to fill us up?" he said suddenly pulling out a pistol. More thugs emerged from the dark alleys some carrying shotguns and rifles.
In a flash the wanderer pulled out his knives and spun them around his fingers so fast that they cut the very air around them "Come and get it shrimp dick." He jeered. The thug bit his lips "Teach this mother fucker a lesson." He said. The thugs snickered and grinned and formed a circle around him and pointed their guns at him. The wanderer stood there and raised his knives. Unbeknownst to them, there was a small child with jet black hair standing behind a windowless opening in a building. He stood their and watched at what would happen. As soon as one of them raised their bat,s he covered his eyes.
Gunshots, screams, yelps, and blood curtailing cries of pain went out and then a bullet whizzed past him. Then suddenly there was silence just as it began it ended in less than ten seconds. The boy slowly pulled away his hands and saw the wanderer standing in a circle of 30 bleeding dead thugs and not a single scratch on him. The wanderer turned and faced the child in the distance. The wanderer waved to him and the child waved back.
Then the blond wanderer kept walking. the child's father came and looked out the window and stared at the wanderer, the child looked up "Dad, who's that?" asked the child "That is one of the generals of the army of psychos and the descendant of the legendary Siberian wolf soldier." replied the father. As the wanderer kept making his way to his destination the father said to his child " And he's probably the last living psycho left." And then the wanderer disappeared from sight.
-In a dream-
Fluttershy was frolicking through a beautiful meadow with all her furry little friends giggling and singing and feeling as jovial as can be. She found a giant tree than sat down against its trunk. Feeling the warm rays of sunlight kiss her skin she closed her eyes and let out a deep sigh. This peace was disturbed when she felt a familiar presence. She opened her eyes to be greeted by a giant mountain and wandered where it came from. She stood up and began walking towards it.
When she made it at the foot of the mountain, she saw a figure in the distance. She began to run toward it. when she finally came upon the figure, she was horrified at what she saw.
A hooded man was nailed by his hands and feet into the side of the mountain with giant spikes across a painting of a white inverted pentagram. Fluttershy gasped and ran up to the man and tried pulling the spikes away but they were to deep. She looked over to the man whose head castes down "Don't worry I'll get you out." she said pulling at the spikes. Suddenly the man spoke " Do not fear for me child for my fate has sealed me to this mountain." Fluttershy stared at him wondering why his raspy voice sounded so familiar. He spoke again "Could i ask you a question milady?" The man suddenly lifted his head and faced her, Fluttershy gasped and cupped her hands over her mouth. The man was obviously advanced in age, had a ripped open smile that revealed bloody teeth and only one eye." Do you realize you haven't been as fearful as you usually are?" Tears dropped from Fluttershy's face when she recognized the face "T-Tavo?"
Chapter 12: Stories Never Shared
In the middle of the thunderstorm, while thunder cracked over the sky, through the streets ran Applejack soaking wet from the rain. She looked around frantically for any sign of Tavo but with no success. Thinking that he wasn’t in town anymore she made her way towards Sweet apple Acres. On the way, she began thinking about Rainbow Dash. RD was a Tough Pegasus but Tavo was a giant brute with enough force to stop a 10 ton locomotive. Then, she began thinking about the eyes. Those eyes of his sends chills down her spine. Even though he gave them fears-which was pretty strange- he was generally a good guy, except during the fight with the princess, but she felt that it wasn't him. Now he goes and almost kills Rainbow Dash and his eyes were filled with so much evil it burns. But why?
She then remembered what he had said to Rainbow Dash “And if you feel a burning inside you, than be glad i’m a nice person or my eyes would be glowing right now and you’d be a pile of ash in less than a minute.”
What did he mean by that? She thought. She didn’t understand why all this was happening but what she did know was that he was hiding something.
She was too busy thinking to see what had jumped in front of her and was knocked down. She fell on her back, getting mud all over her, but straightened back up to see who it was she bumped into. In front of her was a wet, pink haired muddy girl who snickered and wiped her face off. Applejack immediately recognized her as pinkie Pie and laughed a little as well. Seeing Applejack, Pinkie Pie’s face lit up and she jumped over and hugged her. “Pinkie, where have ya been?” asked Applejack.
“When Tavo left, i had to use the little filly’s room, but when i got out, i looked outside a window and Tavo was standing outside and i think he saw me cause he waved.” said Pinkie Pie. She jumped off and helped Applejack up to her feet. But before she could continue, a loud blast of thunder shot across the sky and startled them. They yelped and held each other shaking
“We should probably head to the farm.” Agreeing, Applejack and pinkie pie decided that it’d be safer at the farm.
At the gate of the farm, Big McIntosh stood at the gate, soaking int the rain. Upon seeing him, Applejack and pinkie Pie ran towards him. “Applejack, what happened? It’s getting dark and the rain’s hittin hard, and we’d best get inside. You two pinkie Pie.” said Big McIntosh handing them each a rain coat.
“We were at the hospital waitin for Tavo to wake up, by the way you haven’t seen around have ya?” Said Applejack putting on the coat along with pinkie Pie “Yea he came and went straight to the barn, he still had those hospital dresses on.” Applejack turned and headed towards the barn Pinkie and Big mac following behind. As they strolled along Applejack suddenly stopped when they reached home and turned to her brother. “Big Mac, go on inside, me and Pinkie have to see
him bout something.”
“Why, what happened?”
“let’s just say someone got hurt and I wanna know why.” She replied. Big Mac nodded and the girls left headed for the barn.
Applejack and Pinkie Pie stood at the gates, they grabbed each door by the handle “Alright on the count of three we open the doors"
"Okie dokie lokie."
"….One…two…THREE!”
They swung open the doors. Inside was dark save for that one spot on the wall where the moons light bled through, revealing an empty barn with a bed of straw. The girls exchanged glances then crept in the barn. Not a single sound could be heard other than their breaths and footsteps. Applejack started thinking that Tavo might have left the barn. She searched for any sign of Tavo when all of a sudden the barn doors behind them closed shut with a loud bang. They shouted when it suddenly turned pitch black.
“Pinkie?” called Applejack “Where are ya?” she suddenly heard giggling “Are we playing hide and seek? am I it? One, two.....”
“pinkie, this isn’t a good time to play games.” Called applejack her arms extended to feel her surroundings. After a minute of searching, she suddenly felt something grab her arm, AJ yelped then sighed in relief “Pinkie ya scared me half to death.”
“But I haven’t found you ye-WHOA!”
“Pinkie what’s goin on…who’s got ma-oh my.” Said Applejack, when whatever grabbed her tightened its grip and lifted her arm. She tried pulling away but it was too tight. Suddenly she couldn’t feel the ground under her feet. She dangled by her right arm, and kicked her feet hoping to be released when the light suddenly flickered on. The brightness blinded AJ causing her to feel disoriented for a few seconds. She suddenly heard a familiar voice “Now why would you wake me up in the middle of the night.” Her vision began clearing up and in that instant, her face was inches away from Tavo’s. She gasped when she saw that Pinkie had been raised off the ground, dangling by her left arm. Applejack was wondering where Tavo was hiding- seeing as how he was a seven foot giant-it looked like they might have interrupted something because he had a serious expression as his eyes inspected both of them.
“Uh would ya mind puttin us down please?” asked Applejack aching from Tavo’s grip. Tavo shot a glance at Applejack then let go of his grip. They landed on their rumps. Being dropped on the floor made them wince. The giant held out both hands to help them stand but before AJ could stand, she notices a long object at Tavos left side. She gazed at the black leather handle and the leather covering of some large object tied to his waist. ”What’s that?” asked Applejack. Tavo darted a glance at his side “This? its Xico?” said Tavo. Applejack stared at him in confusion “who’s Xico?” asked Applejack. Tavo grabbed the hilt and pulled out a long silvery blade. “This, is Xico?” he said letting the light shine off the blade. Pinkie was mesmerized by the blade. Applejack gave it a glance before remembering what it was “ wasn't that your cutie mark?” asked Applejack
“Yea cept its not covered in blood and tattooed to my ass.”
“why’d ya give your mark a name?”
“Because this machete is my symbol of freedom.”
“Freedom? From what?” asked Applejack to which Tavo hesitated for a moment and put the blade back in its sheath “It’s personal?” Applejack remembered those words. They were the same words said at the hospital, the same words that angered Rainbow Dash, and the same words that got her lying in a hospital bed drenched in sweat.
“Tavo, I've had enough of that excuse, either you tell us why your hurt our friend or I‘ll have to teach you a lesson with your own mark!” she yelled. Pinkie pie gasped and cupped her mouth with her hands. Tavo stared at her for a long time watching her reaction, it almost seemed like he was studying her. Then in a flash of lighting, Tavo pulled the blade out swung it close enough to AJ’s throat making sure not to cut her. She gasped at how fast the blade moved from his waist to her neck. She froze in terror at his speed, feeling the cold blade against her neck. She gulped, Then Tavo spoke "What ever kind of help you girls need from me i'll be there, but keep asking me about that and you'll all see what the inside of a real human looks like before you even realize what happened."
Applejack gulped, feeling the lump slide against the cold steel blade. “And another thing: don’t make threats at the guy with the sharp object.” said Tavo. He lowered his blade and set it back in its sheath. He turned and walked over to his straw bed, while the girls were still frozen in fear. “If you can, go home and sleep. If not, then make you’re selves comfortable.“ As he walked over, he set his blade aside the bales of hay that would make his seat, while the girls stood motionless as they were. As he sat down he suddenly realized he still had the hospital gown on and proceeded to tear it off. When it came off, Applejack really noticed those scars. Hundreds of scars, of different shapes and sizes, each telling a story he refuses to share.
"Why?" the word emitting from her lips, reaching his ears "Why what?" He asked
"Why won't you share your past with your friends?"
A deep silence hovered over the room, only broken by the brutes deep voice.
"Because i've lived long enough to know that things of the past, stay in the past."
Just then he straightened up violently out of his seat "You hear that?" he said "Hear what?" asked Pinkie Pie. Tavo started towards the wall and placed his right ear against it. He began walking along the wall still with his hear placed flat against it. The girls were thrown by this act after his serious tone yet continued to watch with curiosity. He suddenly stopped at the barn gates and stood there listening. Suddenly, His right arm reached back, and with hand turned to a fist, he shot it forward, blowing the gate away with brute force! as the dust settled the silhouette of a winged feminine figure darted off in the distance, where soon after Tavo ran for her.
"Wait Tavo, Where are ya goin?" Yelled applejack "Someones gonna have to fix this mess you made!"
Chapter 13: The Life Style Of The Violent
The midnight rain poured on the bare skin of the Hispanic behemoth, hunting his new prey in the dark night of the town. He knows nothing of this being but she must have known something of them, why else would she have been sneaking by the farm in the middle of the night. she was a fast prey flying through the air but he could hear her rapid breathing from a mile away and would make sure not to let this one go. Her features were near indistinguishable but what he could make out were merely a tail and a pair of wings. this didn't matter to him; violent intentions were his main goal.
As the chase proceeded through the rode, the form made a sharp turn into the Everfree forest. Perfect grave spot. He continued to chase her into the bush. Just as he expected, the thick woods made it impossible for her to fly anywhere but straight. The thick woods and thorns didn't bother him the slightest, he merely sprinted on. as the rain poured on and the thunder roared across the sky, he continued his relentless and savage pursuit of this helpless victim. However, she made a quick turn and disappeared in to the bush. He reeled back at suddenly losing her and stopped only until he could hear her breath again. Around that same time he found three other breathing patterns heading towards him. He found the girl and started back on her trail, ignoring the others. As he approached, the ground shifted from dirt to stone and her breathing suddenly slowed.
The stone road suddenly led to a precipice which jutted out like a needle, on what seemed like a steep cliff. And only fifty feet away sat his next number. It seemed she had caught sight of him as she suddenly jumped up and made a b-line towards tip of the cliff. She was too far away to catch at his current speed and he really didn't want to let her leave so he decided to take a risk. He unsheathed his clean blade with his right arm and took one step, forward feeling the sudden burst of extreme energy shoot straight to both legs. Sparks shot out from his legs as the pain began setting in and when he had fully charged legs, he took a second great step, initiating the Psycho Lightning.
She had just barely got off the ground and silently rejoiced for thinking she had escaped this beast, until she heard the boom of lighting and felt a strong squeezing pressure around her right ankle, stopping her in mid flight. As she floated in mid air, she started thinking about all the things she could have done with her life and regretted all the mistakes in it. And she had so many. She never turned her face out of pure unrelenting fear and merely floated there, silently crying about the thought of being so close to freedom.
As soon as he got hold of her ankle, Tavo stepped back, twisted his body, and tossed the would-be survivor to a close tree. As she made impact, there was a loud cracking sound and a sudden yelp of pain. He couldn't tell if it were her spine or her ribs breaking, he just wanted her to be alive. He held his blade tighter feeling the sudden excitement of getting to kill something with actual intelligence. The manticore he killed before didn't give him this kind of feeling. For him, killing something with his blade felt way better than with his eyes. If he could smile right now, he would.
the girl whimpered silently as he closed in and stood over her helpless body, lifting his blade to touch her neck. The sudden flash of lightning gave him a clear enough image. Short white hair with thistle colored tips, thistle shaded eye shadow around golden yellow eyes, brown wings slightly larger than pegasi wings, and a brown almost feline-like tail. As for clothes, normal but completely drenched in rain and possibly blood flowing out her mouth. Either she couldnt speak out of shock or because the blood was filling up her throat, it was hard to tell. He pulled back and straighten out the arm holding the blade to form a spear like position. he planned to lunge it through her skull and out the other end of a tree. This was one of his favorite methods of executing a helpless victim. It was clean, it was fast, and it was a way to make up for the lack of any mercy. He stared into the girls eyes one last time and lunged the metal forward!
"STOP!"
That sudden familiar southern-accented voice stopped his blade from hitting its mark. And it was so close, it literally touched her forehead before making its sudden halt. Standing just a couple feet away from them was the southern farm girl and the pink-haired socialite near frozen in shock at what this monster would have done. The rain suddenly halted as if also affected and those two would-be witnesses ran towards the fallen prey. "What have ya done!" she screamed, The king didn't know what the problem was. Killing and murder came as natural as breathing or living. "We have to get Gilda to the hospital or she'll die!" she screamed again. She turned to The Monster one last time "Don't even think about comin back to the farm. You've overstayed your welcome." She said as they ran off, carrying the one called Gilda to some hospital they'll find. The king stood there, thinking how close this place was starting to feel like home.
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in the darkness of the early morning, as the hour to daylight slowly faded, at the top of Canterlots prestigious castle was the princess of the sun in all her benevolent beauty. Yet on this day, she couldn't find joy in one of the few things she loved most in her immortal life. Why? Because she knew.
Outside she stood, on her balcony where she watched over her beautiful home waiting for the sign to act upon. She felt the presence of her dear little sister at her door before she started tapping. "Sister, are you alright." She asked with a tired expression on her face."yes, i'm alright." she yawned. They hadn't slept since the conversion and wouldn't plan on sleeping till they got some news from Celestias faithful student.
She was hoping more for any news against their new occupant. She still believed he is pure, raw, evil. He attacked and destroyed nearly half of Ponyville, killed seven ponies including her sister, her self, and her students closets friends and endangered the lives of a hundred more. And he was the cause of the conversion. So why did she let him live?
Twilight still believed that he wasn't himself. That something was controlling him. It was because of this that Celestia had to promise Twilight not to "hurt " him unless she received any wrongful deed caused by him. For now she had to wait for news, but secretly she was hoping for round two.
It was nearing around Celestias part in Equestrias daily routine. She still felt the magic flow so she believed she could still use it. As she was focusing magic on the sun, a sudden green flame appeared in front of her. It dropped a note on the floor and disappeared. Celestia bent over to pick up the note, silently hoping it was news of aggression. But she opened it and began to read it and suddenly froze still. Her eyes cemented to the note, her hands began to tremble. Luna noticed her behavior and shifted closer to celestia. She soon regretted her decisions to look over her sisters shoulder.
"what shall we do about this?" asked Luna. For a moment celestia stayed silent, possibly still in a fear based trance. She suddenly jerked her entire body towards her sister and handed her the note. When the note touched Lunas hand, Celestia leaned foward at incredibly fast speed; her face nearly touching Lunas.
"DO NOT send this note back." She said with eyes like blades slicing through her very being. Celestia leaned back out and walked back in her room, leaving Luna in still breath. Before her actions would have been considered wrong even unjustifiable, but due to the current situation she has every right to act the way she does.
They both knew
Morning had finally come and washed over the chaotic night before. At the hospital, after Twilight woke spike up to send the notes from the book to Celestia, Applejack and Pinkie Pie burst through the doors carrying an unexpected visitor. Applejack searched and demanded the doctors to save the near-death victim of what looked like a savage animal mauling while Pinkie tried every move she had up her sleeve to keep the victim awake; it was the first time she came close to running out of moves. When they finally found her a room and began surgery, the situation slowly died down. Rarity was with Pinkie trying to keep Gilda awake and Fluttershy awoke from her dreams and cowered next to Twilight and Spike. When the scene finally died down and everypony had settled down, Twilight eagerly waited for her reply from Princess Celestia. She would never get it.
As morning came and sent the moon to the other end of the planet, It brought with it an alive and slightly aggravated Rainbow maned girl.
"What happened? Why is she in there!?!" All six of the girls stood by Gildas room, Spike had left when morning came. Rainbow Dash awoke from recovery to find her has-been jerk of a so-called friend in the room adjacent to hers. She did care that she was badly hurt but she still didn't like her being there. "You'd think that after almost dying from sudden heatstroke, she'd be a little worn-out." commented Rarity. Rainbow Dashes face was pressed up against the window through which she could see Gilda wrapped in casts and connected to machines "But seriously, why is she here?" She asked in a less aggravated tone. Immediately, their attention turned towards the ones who brought her here. "I'm not sure how ta say this?" she said indecisively. "What more needs to be said?" said Twilight "It looks she's been attacked by a rabid animal."
"Kind-of." said Pinkie meekly. For the first time shes been rather calm then usually. A thought sparked up in Twilights' head. Pinkie Pie has actually been growing incredibly less random and spontaneous, though she has been disappearing a lot. Twilight tried to remember when this trend started and couldn't quite pinpoint the exact time. She remembers it was after the earthquake and possibly when Tavo showed up. Twilight couldn't know for sure. The thought of Pinkie Pie being not-so random was a calming one, but it was also a frightful one.
"Why's that?" She asked. They both exchanged glances Before Applejack responded "I-It was sort of like an animal but more like us." The hallways seemed silent just for this response.
"Who was it?"
"...Tavo."
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When she had finished her first obligation, Celestia retired to her bed room. Her vision became blurry and she gained a terrible Migraine. She then decided it would be best to rest a little while. Luna passed by her sisters room and wasn't sure enough if she wanted to wake her up. She continued down the corridor towards her room. As she made her way, she began thinking about Celestias failed plan to against the false hero. But unlike the regular thought process of regular ponies, with hers, it sometimes gets interrupted.
I knew that plan was a Failure.
It was a sure-fire plan, how were we to know that the creature had forgotten about her.
Its been nearly a hundred years, of course its going to forget.
He was in a different body, that may have been why he forgot.
Does that even matter, i mean you still retain my memories.
We're technically the same pony so that doesn't really matter.
It does to me!
"Luna, your thinking out loud again, please stop." Celestia's groggy request snapped Luna out of her Thought-conversation with Nightmare. "Forgive me Sister, i was just out here wandering if i-"
"Yes, you can come in Luna." Luna slowly hovered in. She didn't want to aggravate the migraine any further. Celestia's bed was empty. Instead the sun goddess lie on a mound of pillows. "Forgive me for losing myself Luna." Luna walked over to a window.
"It's alright, i read the letter and hold nothing against you." Luna Unveiled the curtains, letting the suns ray shine on Celestia. The light eased her pain a little. "But it's written in his language, How could you read it if he never taught it to you?" Asked Celestia. "Well i didn't read it, i merely found a word that looked like something he wrote." She snickered. Celestia then decided to bring up her failure.
"My plan was foolish wasn't it?" Celestia smiled trying to make her failure entertaining. "It was both our faults, neither one of us shouldn't have tried the same trick on the same animal with a different personality."
"I thought it would remember us. It was still in the first stage and it hadn't eaten any flesh yet."
"It did take a bite out me though."
"And we were lucky it didn't completely turn, or we would have had a much more worse fate then this."
"But with all of the worlds inhabitants turned human and some more turning still, what can we do?"
Celestia stood up and turned to her worried sister "The most we can do now, is wait For Twilight and her friends to find way to revert to our pony forms and keep the Dead King from the public's view."
After that Luna decided to check for any more news and rumors of dragons turning and bid fare well to Celestia. But just as she was about to leave, celestia added one more thing to the moon goddesses troubled thoughts.
"I just hope that the corruption hasn't started yet."
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Another thing Twilight noticed was Applejack suddenly withdrawing her southern accent. Though it was a small thing to worry about, she can't shake the feeling that something else might be wrong. But their was another matter to attend to; Tavo's sudden bursts of violence.
"It doesn't make sense, how can someone who just a couple of days ago wouldn't even hurt a fly, goes and does something like this." She gestures to Gilda. She wondered why that in only a few days, so many events happen. She wondered why Tavo became so violent and almost evil, she wondered why pinkie pie suddenly became more bland, she wondered why Fluttershy kept her head buried in her arms, and she wondered why so many things keep happening. And above all these things and all theses changes, she wondered why Princess Celestia still hasn't answered her letter.
"I don't care what he was, right now hes nothing but danger." Applejack spoke and only Twilight seemed to realize that her voice was becoming less her, though it might be because there's still a lingering southerness in her voice. "I swear, the minute Tavo looked at me i thought he was gonna tear me a new one, literally."
"Shes right, he nearly killed me all because i wouldn't let him leave." Rainbow Dash spoke up and Twilight felt a faint hint of fear in Dash's voice, though it still seemed that only she could perceive it.
"What are we going to do about him then?" when Rarity spoke, there were sounds of disgust and vague secrecy in hers.
Twilight kept wondering why she was the only one to perceive these little things.
"I say we leave him be, hes too dangerous to be in Ponyville. Its a lot safer if he just doesn't come back."
"Well i say we find him and make sure he never comes back. He can't beat all of us at once right?"
They both looked at Twilight, like she had the answer. With everyone wanting an answer, Twilight couldn't keep track of her thoughts and began having headaches. "I-I-i don't know what to do, this is all too much." she couldn't focus and she felt short of breath. She nearly fainted when all of a sudden, a loud bang came from the window of Gilda's room. Then Gilda's door suddenly flew open. "CAN YOU DWEEBS KEEP IT DOWN, I'M TRYING TO SLEEP!" she furiously yelled but soon coughed up blood and collapsed at the door. The girls gasped and carried Gilda back to her bed. Rainbow Dash knew that she could still be angry enough to yell even though her lungs were punctured.
When she finally woke up Twilight walked next to her "Hi Gilda, how are you feeling?"
"Like i was smashed against a tree, how do i look." she said in a sour tone. Twilight ignored it and asked the second question "Why was Tavo Chasing you?"
"And why were you sneakin around my farm?" They all stared at Gilda, which seemed to put her in a worse mood.
"...Fine, you wanna know why? I was told to."
"What!" Exclaimed Rainbow Dash
Gilda Than told her story:
"I was told to come here, back to Ponyville by my Dad. Not in a nice way either. He said i had to go back to Ponyville and drop some very specific things off at very, very specific places, and at very VERY specific times. When i asked him why he said ''Its none of your concern." well i want to know why i'm dropping cloths and sacks full of gold in alleys and farms so if i don't know why, i ain't going. He then slaps me...really hard and Yelled at me to obey him. I didn't want to get another back talon so i said fine. If i had known i was gonna get killed because of this, i would have taken a ton of beatings then then tossed around by some overgrown jerk."
"So you were the one who dropped off those packages at my farm." said Applejack.
"Yea and your buddy should have been great full for what i had to put with."
"So that means you don't know anything about Tavo?"
"I didn't know why i was leaving stuff there in the first place."
Tavo became more and more difficult to understand and with all these things happening, Twilight still has no clue who Tavo really is. She just hoped nothing else would happen.
"AAAAAHHHH!!"
A loud scream hit the girls like air horns and it sounded like it might have come from town square. And they weren't the only ones to hear it. With out another word all six ran towards the exit.
"Darn it!"
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Tavo was laying under a tree when he suddenly heard a familiar breathing pattern.
"I thought i killed that thing already?"
A/n: After a year and a half of writers block and procrastination i finally published this chapter.
Chapter 5: Monologue of a Monster
Should it matter if she dies?
Does it matter if they all die?
How should i know?
I came out to be shown.
So it should not matter if they go.
It never mattered before.
After all it's what i was called for.
But....
This goddess gave me mercy.
This being gave me kindness.
This soul who compared to Circe,
is by far the finest.
Yet....
Why does she strike?
Why do i fight?
Why does it matter,
when the end is nigh,
I ask in this mental Chatter......
Should it matter if she dies?
Chapter 1: A Letter from Royalty
"Tonight....we will all BURN, and there will be no afterlife for us!"
Tavo suddenly awoke panting and in a cold sweat. He looked around noting animals hadn't awoken yet from their sleep. Unsure why he looked around but saw nothing out the ordinary. Just before he was about to fall back asleep he heard a bark. He got back up and again saw noting, than another bark. He then looked down. It was only Wynona barking. He let out a sigh then got up from his straw bed. The day has started. The barn doors opened and in came Applejack to greet Tavo "up an at em Tavo, theres work to be done." She said with a smile. Wynona ran back outside, "Good morning Applejack." said Tavo "So whats there to do today?" he asked eyes still getting used to the sunlight. "Well we still gotta replant some trees that had fallen since the aftershock of the first earthquake, still cant figure out why it took so long for one ta come. Oh and we also have ta clean the apple cellar cause the aftershock knocked some barrels open." She said they left the barn and headed out to do their jobs till breakfast.
Its been four days since the accident with the train, so far the only bad thing that's happened was the aftershock that surprised a lot of ponies. As he was moving trees that had fallen into some piles on the fields, he was recollecting some more things he'd learn about these ponies and they're world. what he has mostly learned is that almost every animal here talks, except for small animals. There are also creatures here that in his world only existed as myth. Yet practically everything here is harmless but he never went out to confirm it.
He also learned some characteristics about the six girls that apparently called him a friend. They were a bit strange and got into situations that to him seemed kinda funny instead of serious. But they called him a friend, and as such he would keep them alive and safe no matter what. But in this case why would he, the only dangerous thing in this world was him.
When he realized it, he was already done with one of his jobs. When he was about to get to another job a cry went out "Breakfast is ready!" AppleJack waved over alongside her brother and sister. He was a little confused at how fast time went but didn't really pay much attention to it. He was just glad to be given food and a bed that wasn't made of rocks and broken glass. When he caught up to them the four made their way to their home. They sat around a table and were served plates of Apple slices with a side of hay and oats. It took some while to get used to eating hay and oats but then again, he's eaten worst things so he just ate silently enjoyed what he never had. They were having a conversation but it wasn't anything that he should worry about so he naturally tuned them out.
Applejack was enjoying the conversation with her family. Granny Smith was telling a funny story about the past that involved a Pegasus trying to win a bet. They laughed like crazy "she kept flyin and flyin all across town but could never find the fifth piece of the puzzle set." Granny smith said "an then what happened?" giggled Applebloom "well she just about given up and went home ta get some sleep, but when she looked in the mirror she found the piece was stuck in her mane the whole time and she felt all silly n such." Chuckled Granny. "and when she showed the piece to her unicorn friend, he jaw dropped straight to the ground and the next day he put on the pinkest and pretties tutu and danced around town in front of every pony and the Pegasus just laughed and laughed like there was no tomorrow!" she laughed and they all broke out in laughter! As she was lauhing and wiping the tears off her eyes, Applejack noticed Tavo hadn't spoken a single word and just kept eating.
She noticed this going on for the four days he's been here. On the second day she was going to ask him but the aftershock had completely took them by surprise so she never got to ask. She felt like today was the day she had to ask so she cleared her throat and said "hey Tavo?" he froze and looked up from his plate "yes?" he said she breathed in "where exactly did you get that scar on your face?" she pointed at his mouth. Everyone in the room stared at him in anticipation, they also wondered. "It's personal." He said rubbing the back of his head. "oh….alright." she said. There was silence in the room then Applebloom broke the silence "Hey Tavo, where'd you come from before?" she asked "well..its kind of complicated." he said "what do ya mean sonny?" Granny Smith asked. Tavo didn't know how to answer these kinds of questions they were asking. If he told them about the life he had before and the things hes done he won't know if they'll still accept him. He was already hated by enough people already, he didn't want to add ponies to the huge list.
"Uh its just complicated right now, lets just leave it at that." He said hoping they would believe him "Okay then." She said. When he was done he got up but before he left Applejack stopped him. "The mail came in, here's a letter for ya." said Applejack "who's it from?" he asked. "Don't know, there's no name on it but it has a canterlot royal seal so i reckon it must be important." She handed him the letter and he stared awkwardly at it. "Thank you I look at it later when I'm done." He said and he left for his chore. Applejack stood at the door way wondering where he came from and where he got that creepy scar.
-an hour later-
Tavo was done with all his chores and had already finished helping the others with theirs. Nothing else left but to read the letter. He went to the barn where he left it and picked it off the ground near a bale of hay he used as a pillow. He stared longlly at it wondering why anyone from royalty would send him a letter. He didn't know and frankly he couldn't care. He hated royalty, to him it was just a fancy word to cover rich and he hated the rich. They made up most of the federations politicians. He was considering ripping the paper to pieces but reconsidered feeling that they might be different from the ones in his world. Everything else was and so he opened it and read silently.
Applejack knocked on the barn doors "hey Tavo ya in there?" she yelled "yeah, come in I need to speak with ya for minute." She opened the doors and inside was Tavo sitting on a bale of hay, reading the letter. He looked up from his letter "AppleJack, I need you to gather the girls and wait for me at Sugar Cube Corner." He said "why" she asked he handed her the note and her eyes lit up. "YEEHAW!-This is great news I'll gather the girls and we'll wait for ya ta give them the news!" with that she headed out to find the girls smiling all the way.
He stood up and began walking "Hmm…hope this ends well."
Note: i bet its gonna have the same outcome as the last one.
