The Wings Turned Dark

POV change Eva: 999 years 362 days later Canterlot Castle gardens

For the last few centuries, I have had to deal with the perpetual chatter of one self-proclaimed Lord of Chaos. But it wasn't all bad we actually had some good conversations that helped me keep my sanity along with the frequent visits of one Princess of the Sun to tell me she feels like she is getting close to a way to free me. Just the other day the latest in a long line of tour groups came by and I for the first time in probably a century I listened to the guide. “And here we have a unique statue known as the Winged Warrior who legend says wielded a sword of fire and a shield with a Stone Sisters face on it. Legend states that she was sent with a minotaur companion to stop Nightmare Moon from killing our princess and that she was sent by the Faceless Horned God the deity of the minotaurs.”

As I am standing here today Celestia ‘Huh I wonder why Celestia is running up to me with a bunch of guards’

“Take this statue to my chambers immediately and stand guard over it until I return” Celestia ordered before flying off.

POV change the third person centered on Celestia

Celestia flew out of Canterlot towards the Everfree Castle ruins to retrieve the sword and shield of the Winged Warrior to free her. Celestia lands in front of the ruins and walks inside and as she strolls through the ruined halls she remembers the fond memories she made here with her sister and all of the bad ones such as how she failed to realize her sister’s depression before it was too late to help her and as she walked into the throne room she remembered her battle with Nightmare Moon and the death of the one that she sent for, the Grand Master of the minotaurs. From there she proceeded up to the thrones and pushed her throne back to reveal a hidden alcove with a powerful barrier made by Celestia over it. Disabling the barrier she reaches in and finds what she is looking for then replaced the barrier over the recess, pushed back the throne and departed back to Canterlot Castle.

Celestia with a nervous twitch said, “I hope I can do this she deserves it.”

POV change first person Eva

I had been standing here for what felt like hours but was more like an hour and a half when Celestia landed on the balcony with my sword and shield in her hands. Looking to the guards Celestia says “Leave us please.” She laid my sword in my raised hand and my shield in my other just like before I fully turned to stone and candle lit the room as Celestia looked like she was channeling her magic as her horn glowed and I could see the candles were starting to blow out as the wind started to form in the room and dust started to gather making the wind visible as it circled the room. Celestia had her eyes closed during this and as she opened them her eyes glowed white as she levitated in the air slightly and the wind started going faster and faster as it blew out the candles one by one then it was like a storm was forming as it gathered towards the ceiling and it formed clouds and thunder could be heard as flashes of lightning started flying around the room and then the lightning struck my shield and it started glowing and the glow spread to my arms and continued to spread along my body and as it covered all of my body I could feel the power that was coursing through the spell and suddenly the stone exploded off me sending rainbow colored shockwave throughout the room. I started to collapse onto my knees weak from the centuries of not moving but before I fell to the ground Celestia caught me. Celestia picked me up in her magic, sword and all and carried me to the bed to rest. As soon as my head hit the pillow I was out.

POV change first person Celestia

I tippy-hoofed out of my bedroom into the foyer of my chambers and closed the door. “What are you doing Princess?” asked the familiar voice of my most faithful personal student Twilight Sparkle from behind me.

I jump startled that she would be in my chambers without letting me know.”Oh hello, Twilight is there a reason you come into my chambers without knocking?” I asked

“Well yes, Princess it’s time for our scheduled lesson today and as I was passing the statue garden I saw that the Winged Warrior statue was missing.” She said and I completely forgot about that I was too busy about releasing the girl that was trapped in stone.

“Well yes I had it removed because I needed it for a few minutes in order to do something there is no need to worry about it so shall we start your lessons,” I said and she had a huge smile on her face and we left my chambers. For the rest of the afternoon, Twilight and I strolled through the garden as I gave her lessons on magic.

After the lessons, I went to check on the girl to find her still sleeping but she managed to open her eyes slightly.

“Why?” She asked as she struggled to stay awake.

“I did it because I need your help, Nightmare Moon is going to be free in three days.”

Before she could respond, we both turned to the doors of the room slamming open, an out of breath and panicked looking Twilight in the hall outside holding a familiar book. “Princess Celestia, I think the prophecy of Nightmare Moon is about to come true during the Summer Sun Celebration!” after her short outburst, she blinked and looked to the other occupant in the room. “Isn’t that the statue you put next to the one representing Discord?”

Surprised by this I say the first thing that comes to my mind “don't be absurd Twilight, this is just an old friend of mine.”

“Oh? What’s her name?”

POV change first person Eva

“Hi, my name is Evangel Lucretian,” I say, nervous about her finding out I was the statue.

“Oh! Well, I’m Twilight Sparkle, I’m Celestia’s personal student… sorry to interrupt your meeting but I thought it’d be urgent to warn you of the danger.” Twilight said as she pulled out a book that was titled ‘Prophecies And Predictions’ and she opened it to a page. “I found this book on Prophecies by Starswirl the bearded and found the tale of Nightmare Moon and her return on the thousandth year of her banishment to the moon and that is this summer sun celebration.” She said and I clenched my fist in anger at that name but Twilight did not seem to notice as she looked at her book.

“My dear student Nightmare moon is only an old pony tale,” Celestia said and I looked at her in confusion but she looked back at me with a smile and I could tell she wanted me to keep quiet about it for now.

“But it is Starswirl's prediction,” Twilight said as she gave her the book.

Celestia looked at the page and closed the book and gave it back to her student “I will admit he did write this but he had gotten very old and was saying random nonsense every now and again” Celestia said and Twilights mouth hung wide open as she looked at Celestia in shock.

“Bb-but it’s his prediction.” Twilight stuttered as she held the book shakily.

“But we have another matter to deal with,” Celestia said.

“Does your old castle still stand Celestia?” I asked and her smile fell.

“Her old castle was abandoned hundreds of years ago,” Twilight said as she looked at me with questioning eyes and Celestia stepped in.

“Yes, it fell long ago to time,” Celestia said then looked to Twilight. “You see Twilight Eva has been away for a long time and has been in solitude for many years she does not know much of the modern world today.” She told her and Twilight nodded. “Also I have a task for you in a few days I want you to go ponyville to check on preparations for the celebration and I want you to take Eva with you so she can be caught up with modern times.” She told her student.

“I understand.” She said and left the room and a guard came in shortly after.

“Princess! I come with… um, is this a bad time?” He said when he noticed the situation.

“No not at all corporal what did you need?” Celestia said in a motherly manner.

“Well, not long after you told us to move the Winged Warrior statue to your room, a strange emerald pendant dropped onto the pedestal, we would’ve waited to inform you of this after some study except seconds later it began to move towards the castle, we’ve determined that it will arrive in this room shortly.” Soon after he said that the emerald pendant in question, shaped like a Pickaxe, hopped into the room towards me.

“Now that's unusual what do you think I should do” just as I said that it fell at my feet and started to speak… or rather, sing.

“Here comes a Dwarf with a bit o’ class, if yer evil I’ll kick yer ass!
But if you’re good and need some help, don’t be afraid to give a yelp!
If you want to talk and have a beer, what are you waiting for? I’m right here!
If you’re looking for a good old spar, I’ll be there, near or far!
If you pass all this, yer a friend o’ mine, just make sure you don’t cross a line!
Now with that all done and said, call my name! It’s ORGRAN THE RED!”

“Completely and utterly unbelievable it spoke!” I said and I incredulously shout to everyone's confusion “ORGRAN THE RED COME ON DOWN!”

To everyone’s shock, the Pickaxe came to life again, growing to the size of the actual tool before rising into the air and slamming the point into reality, creating cracks in the air around it as if it hit a wall of rock. It didn’t stop its work as it repeatedly struck the opening it made until eventually, reality crumbled, revealing a large earthen tunnel that led into blackness. The silence was broken as we heard screams and two sets of running footsteps, one of hooves and the other of heavy iron boots.

Panicked I looked to Celestia and said: “where are my sword and shield?” Celestia just points to them on the nightstand which I proceed to pick up and wield left-handed.

Now fully armed I prepared for whatever was coming through, which turned out to be a bipedal deer-like creature in robes with a staff, his breathing frantic as he ran out and hid behind me in pure terror. “Please help me! He’s going to kill me!!” he screamed as he cowered.

I pointed my sword at the portal as the blade lit on fire and Celestia was suddenly wrapped in light as golden armor appeared on her and she wielded a halberd she and the guard secured the creature while I faced the portal waiting for something to come out of it.

There were heavy, iron thunks of boots as the entity drew closer, the weight of each step implied it was a truly powerful being, armored and armed to the teeth that we might risk facing, the clearly male creature groaned as he stepped out of the shadows of the entrance.

And we looked to see a short, crimson-bearded man, half my height and wielding a battle axe in one hand that would be too big for a normal sized person and drinking from an ale mug with the other. His body covered head to toe in armor marked in runic carvings and upon his back was a warhammer similar in size to the axe. On his head were tinted black goggles and upon his hips smaller throwing axes. As I finally finished taking in the sight of this Dwarf, he seemed to finally finish his drink, letting out a loud and deep burp that shook the room.

I lowered my sword as I took in the dwarf knowing he is honorable and a mighty warrior that I could trust. “Hail mighty dwarf what brings you here?”

“Oi Seraphim! Get away from me kill! He overcooked my bird and he must pay!”

“What is he your chef?” I said.

“Oh hell naw! I can list the shit he is right now; a rapist, an asshole, an assassin, a crappy shaman that can’t aim his flame spells right, but a Chef he is not!”

With a scary look in my eyes, I turned to the deer creature “did you just say, rapist?”

“Oh yeah, him and his kind-exception being four I know of-have this idealism of male superiority, so they want to take every female of any universe and turn them all into sex slaves fit only for ‘male dominance’ like the assholes they are… oh, and they kinda all serve a god that turned my homeland into a dead wasteland.”

“That's what I thought you said,” I reached down and squeezed his balls with all my might and everyone in the room hears a resounding *pop* as they burst. Suffice it to say he went from a baritone to a soprano in less than a second.

“OOH! Gone and popped the family balloons on that Dollar bill by Dranlun that was nasty!!” The Dwarf commented very colorfully. “Wait… aww crap, ya stole mah kill! Look at ‘im! He’s all bleeding out and oop, theeere ‘e goes.”

“Sorry I guess I don't know my own strength,” I said apologetically.

“Eh, is fine, at least he died a bitch… oh cool! Hey Celestia, is this Equestria’s alcohol utter shit too?” He said, waving to the Alicorn in question.

“As a matter of fact, I have some Order of the Faceless Horned God ale that I have been saving for the day Eva was freed from stone.” Celestia boasts.

“Hm…” the Dwarf suddenly pulled two kegs from… somewhere, passed one to Celestia before carving a rune into the other. “Hey Minotaur God! Try something special from another universe!”

There was an immediate puff of smoke as the keg disappears, a note of thanks left in its place.

“...well if a god’s interested, why not try some yourself, you two?” Orgran offered.

‘Might as well see if I can get drunk’ I think to myself. “Sure I'll try some,” Both Celestia and I said.

With a toothy grin, the Dwarf popped open the top and pulled two extra mugs, one for me and another for Celestia. “Hope you got good livers, I made this batch out of some Zap Apples.” he immediately pushed the Guard away from the barrel. “Keep away from this stuff, a slight whiff could eat your intestines alive!”

“Princess I don’t think you should drink you have a meeting tomorrow morning.” The guard said as he stepped away from the barrel.

“Well, I guess you're right and Eva has to go to ponyville tomorrow as well so we will hold off on the drinking for now,” Celestia said.

“OH! Is this the first episode?! Hot damn! Best Displaced meeting ever!” Orgran cheered.

“The first episode, Displaced what do you mean?” I asked.

“...OH… you’re one of those! Oh nah, nah! We’re fixing this right now! ...once we’re on the carriage.” He said, grabbing my hand and leaping out the window onto a carriage, placing down a random board before turning to the Pegasi. “Don’t ask questions, just fly.”

As we took off Orgran then turned to me and drew up a picture of a planet onto the board. “Step 1 of Displaced: Earth! You were here once as a Homo-Sapien, or ‘Human’ as the case may be, and different circumstances lead you to not being on Earth anymore, the most common being some bastard known as ‘The Merchant’ gave you a costume item that sent you here, of course for all I know you could’ve just gone the Isekai Anime route and ended up dying before being reincarnated here by some god you made a deal with… then, of course, you could’ve just ended up banging Faust like some idiot.”

“Faust?”

“In some Equestrias, she is the goddess of the world and in practically all of them, she is the mother of Luna and Celestia, which brings me onto step 2: Equestria! You’re not special honey, there are multiple Equestrias, each with their own quirks and traits be they good or bad, for example, a bad one is Fall Of Equestria, in which Caribou, like the guy you just castrated, succeed in taking over Equestria and turn the entire female population into slaves! Slowly breaking their will with horrible devices of sexual torment until even the noble princesses are mindless fucktoys!!” He was on fire by the end of his rant. “...yeah, it displeases me greatly.”

I am holding onto the side of the carriage in a barely restrained rage almost breaking it with my strength. “please tell me your world isn't one of those.”

“Well no, but they are trying, but I am working to prepare Equestria for the war ahead… and practically the rest of the world after I broadcasted their plans to the entire planet… so how did you end up off of planet Earth anyway? Convention? Death? The inexplicable third thing I can’t be arsed to describe?”

“all I can remember is making this contract with Betsuni,” I said as I hand Orgran my copy of it.

He skimmed it before looking me deadpan in the eye. “...do I have to make him beer too? I only brought two kegs.” Suddenly a note appears in front of us that says ‘no you don't the FHG shared with me.’ “Huh… alright then, now… do you have any questions? Because as you have a lack of memory I bet you have no fucking clue what in the hell you’re supposed to be… or rather what in the heaven, really…”

“All I know is I am a six-winged human called seraphim.”

“Angel, you are a six-winged angel called a Seraphim.”

“Come again?” I asked confused.

“Only for my wives, now pay attention. An angel is not a human, rather it is more than human, you are an entity born of the light of heaven in order to ward off the evil of demons, and as a Seraphim you are the most elite angel, the personal enforcers of God! Or gods, depending on various religions that I will not go into detail about for the sake of our sanity. Point is you are a Super-Angel, and Angel is Super-Human, got that?”

I just nod.

“Good, now, of course, that means you are a master of divine magic and holy light, I don’t know what the fuck that means for religion’s sake but in anime it means you can conjure up spears of holy light and toss them like missiles!” he noticed my confused expression. “Think a javelin that flies on its own and is able to turn if they try to dodge.”

“Where are we going?” I asked.

“We are going to Ponyville to watch destiny unfold! This is the beginning of six great heroes who fight for harmony and friendship! Oh yeah, that kind of cheesy explanation reminded me, these universes are kinda based on a show for little girls called My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic which somehow birthed a fanbase of adults both male and female.”

“wow, have you ever heard of a mare named Pinkamena Diane Pie have you?”

“Pinkie Pie? Lets see, she’s the one who will inherit the Element of laughter, becoming one of the six heroes in question, loves to make people smile with parties and baked goods, is absolutely cheerful-which is good because she’s terrifying when she’s sad, and you can tell when she is because her mane is flat when she is-breaks physics, breaks the silence, breaks the fourth wall, is theorized to be some unintended descendant of Discord, in alternate universes she’s a homicidal maniac that turns ponies into cupcakes aaaand she owns a cannon designed to set up a party in a single shot! I may have forgotten some things, but that’s what I remember.”

“Damn so that is who I have to talk to, to get a quest,” I said.

“Right, well she’s bright pink and will throw you a ‘welcome to ponyville’ party the moment she sees you… and me… they’re fun as hell.”

“I'm not sure if I like parties.”

“You ever had one?”

“I don't remember.”

“Then don’t knock it ‘till you’ve tried it, in fact, I’ll give you a tour of the whole town while she sets it up! Can’t be much different than how Ponyville is in my world… well, maybe the structure might be slightly different since the town in my Equestria had to be renovated to help with the transition from feral to anthro.”

“Feral?”

“What, you think a children’s network is going to allow a show involving pony girls with big knockers? No, ponies in the show and in most universes are quadrupeds, that was the same with my world but you see the Caribou had this plan involving dark magic crystals to turn the world anthro and conquer it while everyone was adjusting, I turned it around on them though. See, the crystals could be reprogrammed so I made a big bomb with them so that the races of my universe would have a more seamless transition, and therefore could not be disoriented by the Caribou’s own crystals… of course, I feel sorry for every crotch-plate wearing royal guard that got a boner when the maids burst out of their clothes with massive tits… I have no clue why everypony became incredibly sexy when they transformed anyway… not complaining though.” He blinked then looked over the side. “Oh look! We’re here!”

To be continued…….