Chapters It was cold… that wasn’t right, It was supposed to be warm...right? I think so…
It is hard to think...
I was heading to...someplace..., hoping to have some fun with my friends and maybe buy something… where was everyone?
It came back in a flash, It was right after I bought that junk from the bum outside the convention!
light... warm... inviting... I wanted to...to get closer...it made thinking easier… I couldn’t let it get away, I had to chase it!
Sweetie Bell POV
“Girls, you sure this is a good idea? I mean, we already have our cutie marks, our Personas should appear naturally soon enough…” I looked to my two best friends, who smiled at me supportively.
“Aw, you worry too much, I mean, we are literally summoning a brand new demon! You said you saw the page form while you were studying with Twilight!” Scootaloo said with a grin, her wings fluttering excitedly at the thought of getting a cool demon friend like Spike
Applebloom nodded enthusiastically “Yeah, tha demonologica was how Twah summoned baby spike! Imagine how grateful tha scared lil guy will be ta have a home with us!”
I sighed and nodded reluctantly, pressing my hands to the freshly drawn summoner's circle as I read the chant aloud. “I am thou, thou art I, I call upon thee to the land of equus, do my bidding and protect my kith and kin! May our foes be enveloped in black!” I then looked over the name and repeated it just like Twilight did when she summoned Spike from across the room this morning “Frederick, I command thee to my side, become my familiar!”
There was a blinding flash of light as black, ink like material formed a puddle in the center of the circle. From it rose the strangest Demon I had ever seen.
Twilight POV
Oh, this is bad! This is really, really bad!
I looked to spike, who was eating an emerald idly. “Spike, we have a problem!”
I nodded “Yes! And ponyville's most important book, as well! The demonologica has gone missing! If someone finds it and tries to summon a demon, the results could be catastrophic!”
Rainbow Dash, who was reading a Daring Do book downstairs, caled up “Wait wait wait, didn’t you summon Spike from that book?”
I nodded “Yes, but he was in a room full of Wards and experienced mages accompanied by their personas, as well as Celestia and Apollo, two of the most powerful beings in Equestria, to help keep his demonic energy from overtaking me and fusing us together!”
Spike blanched “Trust me, I know a bit from the other personas and tamed demons, fusing is NOT fun for either party.”
Rainbow dash smiled brashly “So you need me to find whoever has the book, and stop them before they get fused or whatever?”
Spike then cleared his throat “Actually, sweetie bell took it,”
I looked to Spike in shock “Whaaat?!”
He deadpanned “You said she could borrow it, you were studying some spell about enhancing something?”
I blushed, knowing exactly what he was talking about. Rainbow Dash snickered slightly as she walked out the door “Well, good luck with that spell Twilight, I’ll go save the day, like always~!”
Frederick POV
I finally reached the light, finding myself at a wooden clubhouse surrounded by three small equines, I think the word was ponies? I… I was having a hard time recalling...anything. I looked to them “Where… where am I?”
The white one smiled at me unsurely “Umm… you’re in Equestria.”
The orange one whispered to the white one, which I heard somehow, even though I could tell it did not reach my ears. “So much for him being a demon of wisdom, eh sweetie bell?”
I frowned “I may not be all knowing, but I do know a rude little pony when I meet one.”
The orange one jumped as she noticed me looking straight at her. “What the hay?! How did you hear me?!”
I shrugged “I don’t know, Memory is fuzzy.”
I then looked out the window to see a rainbow maned pony and a little man with nothing but a blue hat on that seemed to be a strange kind of snowman “Get em, Hermes!”
The humanoid smiled and nodded “Gotcha boss, Agi!”
As soon as it finished speaking, it flung fire at me and I winced as a fireball , I looked to see that my shoulder had turned to ink and was burning, the ink forming a solid state to smoyher the flames. I looked to Hermes and growled instinctively “What did I do to you, huh?”
Jacks smile turned smaller, almost as if he were being smug “Well, It’s my job as Dashies familiar to keep her safe, not like I’d understand some wild demon to get that!”
Something about being called wild… it really pissed me off. “Oh, so because I’m free, you have the right to get all high and mighty?” I clenched my fist as the ink that I came out of the ground around me formed around my fist, forming a cloud of inky liquid that turned into a rock solid gauntlet as I leapt backwards, hearing something similar to shattering glass as I broke through an unseen barrier and felt a surge of power, to which I flipped around, punching a hole in the clubhouse wall as I made my way through what looked like an orchard, only for a weird scaly thing to block my path alongside a purple pony, the rainbow maned one returning with Jack as well. I looked to them cautiously “I have no quarrel with you, I just want out of here. Just let me go, and we don’t have to fight.”
The scaly thing frowned and looked to Twilight “Aren’t Wild Demons supposed to be violent?”
Twilight nodded, readying some sort of a staff “Don’t let your guard down Spike, it’s probably a trick!”
The rainbow maned mare then smiled as she took out a pair of daggers from her hips, Hermes and Spike getting in a combat stance as well.
I frowned “I really have no idea what’s going on, but if you want to fight, so be it.” I formed a pair of gauntlets over my fists and smirked, I then slammed the ground, creating a large dust cloud that blinded all of my would be pursuers and ran all the way into a much denser group of trees… what was it called? Oh yeah, a forest… It felt like I remembered more when I was out of that place I was in… wherever it was.
I looked around, eventually finding what looked like an old shrine of some sort, with a large stone wrapped in ropes and talismans all over it. As I looked at it, I could hear a voice in my head “Crush the rock… free her… ”
I shrugged, not seeing the harm in it, whatever was sealed here, it was probably an enemy of the ponies, and thus an ally of mine. I then reared my fist back and slammed it into the boulder, shattering it like a glass with a hammer.
A large grey shockwave went throughout the forest, and the trees and everything seemed… slightly darker. From the remains of the boulder, a black mist swirled. It swirled and swirled, before it eventually formed into what appeared to be a shapely, ghostly woman.
The woman held her head, as if she was just waking from a long slumber.
I waved at her, flashing her a toothy grin “Heya, what’s up?”
The woman seemed to ‘jump’ at my voice, turning to me with surprise in her white void eyes.
I laughed “Yeah, I’d say I sympathized, but I haven’t seen anything reflective yet, so I have no idea what I look like now.” Man, that sounded weird… maybe I should explain… “I think I might of been turned into a weird demonic...thing?”
The woman nodded, and I shrugged “I have no idea what I was before, so no real sense of loss there. Probably going to bug me until I figure it out though…” I then smiled at her “So what’s your name, sexy?”
I got the faintest sense of a blush from the shade, before she seemed to try to speak… but nothing happened.
I frowned for a second before I thought of something “How about this,” I made a drill with my finger and aimed it with my arm so that it was right over a tree, gesturing for her to come over “Write your name with my hand. We’ll figure out a way for you to talk later.” I then grinned mischievously “Unless you want me to keep calling you sexy?”
With another sensation of a blush, and a glare accompanying it this time, the woman grabbed my drill hand and quickly wrote ‘Inky ’ into the tree.
I laughed “Well isn’t Irony a bitch? My body is made of ink like stuff, and here you are, with a name that would fit me to a T.”
The woman put a hand to her mouth, as if holding back a giggle.
I then sighed “But seriously, I should keep an eye on those three that brought me here, they might try summoning something again… and I don’t wanna know what happens if a mean demon gets free…” I then looked to Inky and smiled lazily, a gleam in my eye. “So, wanna stick with me? I think we will make a good team, somehow.”
Inky tilted her head, the expression seeming rather adorable to me before the shapely shade nodded to my suggestion. It seems Inky has joined the party.
I then looked to myself and sighed “I am literally wearing nothing but bandages and a ragged kilt. What am I, Highlander?” I then gestured for Inky to follow me “I’ll look for something for you to talk with in the city, I saw it was about twenty miles due West from here, maybe I’ll find some goddamn pants there too.”
Inky nodded, before pausing. She looked at me, and then looked down at her shadowy form. I got a feeling of doubt from her.
I smiled “Hey, I’ll do everything I can to make you comfortable, if you want, I could try to get some pants for you as well.”
She shook her head, before making a faux scary pose, pointing to herself, then acting afraid. Was she trying to say we’d cause a panic?
I then realised she had a point… “I hate to say it, but we might have to go and steal some clothes, pay them back once we can walk freely in the town.” I then smiled “Although, I gotta say you look plenty nice with nothing on~.”
I could swear her cheeks somehow got darker as she put her arms over where her privates would be and glared at me.
I laughed as I made my way to the town “Hey, you are mist, I can’t even see your naughty bits. I’m just doing this cause yer cute when flustered.”
The misty female floated after me, flicking me in the forehead and actually making me stumble to the side some.
I laughed until we got into earshot of some voices,I floated out some ink and focused, my right eye teleporting to the floating bit of ink as I looked them over from above. They were minotaurs, bandits from the looks of them. I smiled and looked to Inky, signalling for her to stay back and enjoy the show as I melted into a puddle that blended into their shadows, splitting into two puddles that began to circle them as they… relieved themselves into the bushes. I’m gonna need a shower. I quickly sucked them into the ink as the two puddles reformed into me, to which I spat out their shivering, terrified, blubbering wrecks. I then smiled “Now, how about you two show me where your base is, then turn yourselves in? You’ll be the only survivors.”
They quickly nodded and pointed towards the nearest mountains base “W-we are in the caverns… p-please, let us go!”
I smiled and gestured for them to leave, to which they got up and ran for their lives.
I looked to Inky and shuddered “I need a shower of the cleansing variety after that…” Inky was doing the giggling thing again. “Laughing at my suffering, huh? Maybe I should give you a big, wet hug?”
The shade seemed to raise an eyebrow, before floating to a tree and waving her arm through it.
I kept smiling “Well, you can touch me, makes sense I can touch you.” I said. Her eyes widened, before she vanished into the tree. I smiled “Yeah, hide while I get us a place to live!”
I then walked to the cave, smiling as I saw it was behind a waterfall. I could see Inky was still following me, and seemed to be hopping from tree to tree. I smiled and removed my kilt as I waded into the water, not wanting to soak my only clothes, which I hung on a tree branch “Like what ya see?” I looked down and grinned “Dayum, I would say I grew, but I have no idea if that’s true.”
Inky, surprisingly, floated down into the water with me. She was pointedly looking away from me however.
I then froze up as something thick brushed up against my leg “Ummm… Inky? I really hope that was you, and not some monster about to-” I was then flung skyward as a massive water monster with a glowing core uppercutted me sky high. “Damn it!” I then looked down and tried to come up with a plan as I was falling, eventually smiling as I turned liquid again, forming a hollow sphere around the core as I made it solidify and crush its core, feeling a rush of energy as the monster died, the lake falling still. I looked at Inky and smiled as I looked to the water, transforming its top layer into ink as I absorbed it, feeling my density grow as I leapt to the entrance of the caverns, still completely naked.
Inky suddenly went in front of me. She pointed to my ink, and then to my clothes, and tilted her head.
“What? You think my clothes will be fine? Maybe, but I just love the idea of kicking a bunch of bandits asses while buck naked.” I then smiled evilly at her “And, it gives me an excuse to look manly for m’lady.”
She blushed again, but shook her head. She put my clothes on the ground, drew an arrow to it, and then pointed at the spot before it and my ink.
I sighed “Okay, enough playing dumb. I’ll make some ink clothes, but we still need a home.”
I focused and made myself a tailcoat and suit pants, then looked to Inky, smiling evilly as I materialized a T shirt that said “I put the plot in plot development.”and handed it to her
She seemed to silently snicker at my offered shirt, but put it on anyway. Somehow it only made her hotter.
Dear god… “I’m sorry, but you have to take off the shirt.” my perverse mind was screaming no to this, but my gentlemanly side won out this time. “Seriously, off with the shirt.” Please don’t be blushing...
She crossed her arms and refused to take it off. Inadvertently pressing her soft breasts against the ink shirt
I then sighed, trying again “Please, don’t make me explain, it is embarrassing…” Inky let up, taking the shirt off and throwing it in my face, blinding me.
“Oh thank god, I could feel you all over my ink… it was so pervy, it felt like i was feeling you up...wonderful, but bad, bad bad bad…” Somehow, I could tell despite my sight being reduced by the shirt since I wasn’t concentrating, that her whole head was suddenly a darker shade.
I stiffly walked down the cavern and absorbed the shirt “We shall never speak of this!” I then looked to the freakin army of bandits “Just what I needed, a bunch of freaking bandits to murder!”
One massacre later
“Okay, that’s the last of em, now let’s get rid of the bodies.” I thought a moment before turning to Inky and say that she was eating something, and seemed to have a… rather attractive slightly muscled physique without changing her form too much, and exuded more power than before.
I smiled at her “So… I’m taking it you’d be okay with me absorbing the bodies, what with you basically eating their souls?”
The woman tilted her head, as if questioning why I even bothered to ask.
I shrugged and sent out an ink blot to each of them, each about the size of a thimble, before I slowly ate them whole and absorbed the ink back, feeling even denser than before. “Guh, starting to feel full. Don’t think I can hold any more matter...”I looked to Inky and smiled “Welp, looks like we have a place to sleep, hope you like hammocks.” I sighed and laid on one of many hammocks “Well, I say hammocks, but you’ll prolly have to either sleep in midair, or on me.”
She proved me wrong by floating on a hammock, laying on it. This hammock happened to be right above mine, and I blushed as it outlined her… posterior.
I sighed and flipped over, not wanting my... little friend... to give me away. I then looked back at Inky and imagined feeling her tush on my lap… mmmmffffff…
Inky seemed to move a little, and now instead of outlining her butt it just outlined her side, which was much safer on my mind.
Although… I kind of liked the view… She seemed nice, she had a good personality, and even though I teased her, she really was beautiful. Makes me wish I was a ghost like her too, then she might be interested in me. Nah, I was too weird for anybody. Should probably get to sleep anyway… Thinking of the impossible will only bum me out.
“Goodnight, inky”
She's heere... AND I LOVE HER!
“Hey, careful! We wake up this demon, he might curse us er sumthin!” a voice sounded out, making me stir.
I looked around to see I was no longer in my hammock, but in a glass ball of some sort, my body trapped in it’s liquid state. ‘Shit, shit, SHIT! Inky! Help! ‘ I tried to talk, only for a burbling to come out, I couldn’t move, couldn’t talk, hell, this ball had me powerless! I felt so confined… like all my being was trapped in that tiny crystal... To quote a certain genie; phenomenal cosmic power, itty bitty living space.
Looking around, I saw I was being carried by a big blue eyed and blonde furred anthro dog and another, smaller dog with black fur. The larger was the one who just talked. “No worries, bubba! That crystal can contain a duke of hell! There’s no way that this little guy could break out, not with how little soul power he’s developed, he’d need at least a week with a good master first… or half a horde of minotaurs,”
As if that’d summoned her by sheer proxy, I felt Inkys presence nearing us. And she was pissed . There was a literal shadow tornado storming towards us, from what I felt.
I tried to break free, but I think all the soul power went to Inky... we should really ration that out in the future… I looked to where I felt inky coming from “Help, I’ll do anything, just get me out of this damned crystal! ”
I saw Inky, and she looked as she felt. Pissed. There was hundreds of stick and stones orbiting her like she was a sun and they were her planets, and the most surprising thing was the pack of strange wooden wolves at her side, their eyes gray where I felt they should have not been.
“Holy shit what’s that?!” I heard the smaller of the two dogs shout as I looked to the large dog holding me, he was trembling in fear before he dropped me on the floor, beating a hasty retreat as he carried the smaller dog after him. Inky pointed at them, and the wolves bounded after them while she set the twigs and stones hurtling after the two.
Now bereft of anything that may get in the way, she floated over and grabbed my container… shattering it like glass. I fell to the floor and reformed before I quickly got up and hugged her “Oh thank you thank you thank you!” I looked to myself and saw I was wearing my clothes still, thankfully, and I hugged her some more “I could kiss you right now!” I then remembered something from earlier “Oh, and we have to split the souls from here on out, okay?”
The ghost nodded, before she did something surprising. She squeezed me back, giving me a kiss on the lips that was fairly quick.
I froze up as I looked to her “Uhhhh…..” I think I was blushing like mad, but I could not tell, the screams of those two dogs were drowning out any attempt to focus my mind enough to know. Soon, the wood wolves dragged the two dogs back, both almost dead.
Inky gave me the impression of a smile, gesturing for me to finish them.
I nodded, firing an ink shard into their skulls, instantly killing them both as I grabbed one of the two souls, the bigger one at Inkys insistence, absorbing it and the body whole, me having apparently lost some mass from my kidnapping, as in over half of it. “S-so… Inky… do you… do you like me like that? Even though I tease you, and flirt too much?”
The ghost gave me the impression of blushing, shyly letting me go and floating back a little, doing the most adorable wriggle as she nodded.
I blushed and rubbed the back of my head as I looked to her “So… do you want to be my girlfriend? Like, hold hands and stuff?” I looked down and smiled “I can’t say if you’d be my first yet, cause I honestly am fuzzy on my memory at the moment… but I can say that I really like you…”
She floated over, wrapping around me once and making me chuckle at her foggy forms ticklishness, before taking my hand in hers.
I smiled and kissed her cheek before I blushed even harder. “I wish we could go someplace nice… but those ponies would freak out at the sight of us…” I then sighed “maybe I could carve a balcony in the mountain, and we could eat there?”
Inky nuzzled me a little. Whisps of her darkness formed words in front of my face. ‘Whatever is fine, because i’ll be with you,’ they said.
Still smiling, I hugged her and kissed her cheek again “How about I find us some non talking eats? I feel like eating some rabbit, those things are tasty when fried up.” I then sensed a life force due east and in the air and flung an ink shard by it, viewing it through the shard to see it was a large dragon, heading for a village…
‘What is it? ’ The words changed to, her looking worried at me. ‘You look concerned ’
I sighed “I think that a dragon is heading for the pony village...that I came in from…” I sighed “Guess we are eating dragon tonight…”
Inky looked eager. ‘Fire, magic resistance! ’ She changed her text to, providing me with two very good reasons to kill the dragon.
I nodded “Yeah, but I can’t handle heat, ink is too flammable. I would like the magic resistance though…” I then realised something very important. “Damn it, I can’t fly.” I then looked to the dragon and thought for a bit “Hey, Inky, hon? Could you make one of those tornadoes go from here to the dragon?”
She gave the most evil of smiles, before nodding. She held her arm out, and a tornado formed, catching the dragon in it’s grasps.
I then chuckled as I flung shard after shard of my ink into the tornado, making them fly around the dragon while impacting him, his scales preventing them from piercing his hide. “Okay, plan B, We gotta get the dragon over here, maybe we can drown it in the lake.”
Inky tilted her head. Looking to the trees, she called not only twigs, not branches, but a couple dozen full grown trees over to herself. She did some complicated motions with her hands, forming a wooden dragon .
I looked at her slack jawed “I need to get more souls. You got totally badass!” She blushed a bit at my praise, before thrusting her hand forwards, the tornado carrying the wooden beast up into the sky, and she made it wrap around the real dragon. The tornado soon vanished, and the two were sent hurtling to the ground.
I absorbed all of my ink back before running to the Dragon duo, I looked it in the eyes and smiled “So, what brings you to pony lands?”
The dragon growled “I need not explain why I came here to my lunch, you insolent worm!”
I chuckled “Aww, you’ll have to try harder to hurt this demons feelings, big boy.”
The dragon huffed “Or what? Your ghostly whore will send me another hunk of splinters?”
At this, my smile disappeared, my body prickling like a porcupine's quills as I got the angriest I have ever been… I reached back, forming a drill with my hand “You should of not insulted her .”
I then rammed my drill arm into his eye, going straight into his brain and killing him instantly before I grabbed his soul and ripped it in half, offering the parts that gave off a fiery feeling to Inky as I ate the tougher parts, her getting more soul this time, but I did not even care, I have plans for this bastards body…
My wonderful girlfriend, just before I could eat the tough bits, mixed half of hers with half of mine, giving us both an even half and at least some magic resistance and fire powers once the soul halves were consumed.
I smiled and grabbed the dragon's corpse as I absorbed the tree dragon, careful to sever its connection to Inky first, then pumped the corpse full of ink, making it into a sort of puppet by taking over it’s ‘nervous system’ and repairing the damage to it’s ‘brain’. I then looked to Inky with a mischievous grin“Say hello to our new security system! I’d like to see anyone trap me now!”
She seemed to silently giggle, hugging me. ‘That date now? ’ she asked.
I smiled “i was having so much fun I forgot.” I then cracked my knuckles before I had the dragon corpse, whom shall now be known as snuffles, claw out a small balcony for us. I then looked around, before I saw a large gator like thing with a rocky outer skin “Looks like we’re having Gator stew!”
Inky rubbed her tummy as if hungry, giving me the impression of a smile.
I chuckled as i walked over and killed the thing, gutting it and putting it to cook over a fire for awhile as I looked to Inky “S-so… what do you wanna do while it cooks? Should take about an hour and a half, maybe two because of the rocky outer layer.”
She made a little shrug, summoning a tree log and sitting on it.
I thought for a bit, eventually smiling as I made a flute out of my ink, playing a little tune for her to enjoy as I made other instruments that played themselves from Ink as well . She seemed to sway with the tone, her eyes making little eye smiles that made my heart throb.
After we played a few songs, I sensed that the gator meat was ready, so I put out the fire and pulled off a haunch for her, putting half of it’s soul on the meat. “I hope you can taste this…”
I smiled hopefully before taking a haunch for myself and smiling as I put my half of the soul over the meat and ate it, the soul somehow made the meat very tender and juicy, me having scraped off the skin already before handing either of us our meals. “Mmm… good.”
She held her own up, before seeming to concentrate. Suddenly, a small light went off, blinding me. When it was over, she looked different.
She now had clothes and was somehow even hotter than before, her sleeves dangling as she bit into the meat and hummed happily. Her soul power felt weaker like this, but now she was more physical.
I scooted over to her and hugged her, smooching her on the lips “I’ve been wanting to do that for awhile.”
She let out a real giggle, shyly hiding a little in her large coat. I then blushed as well before looking to her, ruffling her hair. “You know, I don’t think I’d be here, if not for those three young ponies… I’d really like to thank them…”
“We… could try…” She whispered, her voice heaven to my ears. After speaking, she quickly finished her food.
I nodded slowly “Yeah… but if they say anything bad about you, I’m afraid I’ll lose my cool again.” I then looked to her and smiled “I just don’t want them to hurt you.”
“I… won’t be,” She promised, Inky hugging me tight, her boobs pressing against me.
I blushed and tried not to think perversely, making my mantra for the moment ‘ Don’t fuck this up, don’t fuck this up, don’t fuck this up! ’ I eventually had to avert my pelvis though, as she just felt so nice against me… Damn it, Why do I have to be such a pervert?!
“Wanna… go… try now?” She asked me gently.
I looked to her for a moment, before I put two and two together, “Ummm… yeah, I think I’d like that...” I then looked up “Wait, it’s night time… they’d be in bed… maybe we leave them a present, instead? I...I think I liked presents when I was a kid...”I then thought some more, trying to figure out what to do “Maybe I could try to get to the leader of these ponies, and talk things out with them?”
The now white Inky nodded. She turned, and pointed forwards and a bit up, bringing my attention to a castle on a mountain.
I then realized something “Hey, you think those bandits were causing trouble for ponies? I saw some sort of bandit emblem in their base last night… maybe we could bring that with and say we wiped them out?”
“Ponies… herbivores… peaceful… killing… taboo… likely…” Inky said, shooting that down quickly.
I nodded thoughtfully, sitting on a fallen tree “Dang it, I’m not a plan kind of guy…”
I then looked to the castle, right before I felt a massive pain in my back “Gah!” I looked back to see a skeletal pair of dragon wings ripping free of my back as my ink formed a thin membrane of flight tissue, and my body slowly morphed into that of a dragon, yet, it was more bestial than that of the dragon we had slain…
I looked to Inky curiously, wondering if she would morph as well. “You okay, sweetie?”
She nodded, before turning into her misty black self and floating next to me. Seems she didn’t need to change, she could already fly.
I smiled with my now draconic form, flying to the castle. It was smooth skies at first, only for a massive fireball to fly at me when I got close to the castle! “Inky! Fly away, I’ll take care of this!” I honestly was just terrified that they’d hurt her, whoever it was that was flinging these fireballs.
Inky nodded and flew far out of the way of the incoming orbs.
As she did so, I spat out a glob of ink at the fireball, making it explode in mid air as I approached, using the smoke as cover, I flew right up to the source of the orbs, seeing a winged, horned pony that was all white with a multicolored mane and a yellow cloth like dress… a toga I believe? I reverted to my normal form as I landed, frowning at her as another being, who seemed to be equally as powerful, if not more so than her, appeared at her side.
I sighed “Just because I am not working for anyone now, does not mean I am some horrible abomination.”
The being seemed to stiffen “Are you unaware of what you have done to that poor unicorn filly?”
I tilted my head “What do you mean?”
The being looked to the pegasus unicorn thing lady, who sighed before speaking to me. “You honestly did not realise that by breaking free like you did, you endangered her life? She is in horrifying pain right now.”
Upon hearing that, I felt a horrible twinge in my gut, shit… I needed to make this right. “How do I help her?”
The red one seemed to chuckle warmly “It seems I have underestimated you, you are no wild demon. Okay, I’ll tell you how to help her. You have to become her familiar, it will then become your responsibility to protect and look after her, as if you were her Persona, and when hers materializes, you will work alongside them.”
I nodded “And… can a pony have more than one familiar?”
The two beings looked to each other “Why do you ask?”
I smiled and waved to where I sensed Inky, whom I was hoping could see me “Because I have someone whom I cannot leave behind.”
At that moment, Inky appeared, wrapping around me briefly before floating next to me.
The red being looked briefly to her before nodding “I believe it is possible, Inky could become a familial guardian, while you become a familiar to Sweetie Bell, it is fortunate she is strong enough to become such a prestigious thing.”
I smiled and hugged Inky, accidentally groping her breast but quickly fixing it before I twirled her around and kissing her right where her lips would be “Ya hear that, sweetie?! We can stay together, and still help those little fillies!”
She nuzzled me back, kissing me and even squeezing my ass a little subtly.
I blushed before looking to the two of them “So…um... when do we start?”
The white one smiled “How about now? I do not like the thought of my little ponies being in such agony.”
I nodded “So… how should we get there? It is not like we can just fly there, well, Inky can, but I can’t exactly turn into a dragon again without causing a panic in their village.”
Smirking, Inky suddenly swept me up bridal style.
The two beings laughed now, “It seems she has things handled.” Celestia said mischievously
Giggling, Inky turned to Ponyville and shot towards it. As we flew, I felt her hand stroking my back. I blushed and held her close before giving her a kiss on the cheek as we made our way to ponyville.
Inky set us down at what looked like a schoolhouse. I frowned, not sensing Sweetie Bell there… “I guess she’s at home, must be really hurting from the summoning circle being broken… Damn it!” I looked for her life force, eventually seeing it in a carousel shaped building as I leapt into the air, flinging a bit of myself into the tree next to it before pulling the rest of me to the shard before I leapt into the windowsill that was open for some reason. I frowned when I saw Sweetie Bell and I walked to her, seeing a letter appear next to her sweating, sickly looking form with the same symbol on it as on Celestia’s hands, I grabbed it and opened it to read it.
‘Dear Ink Demon;
You must follow these steps to save Sweetie Bell, DO NOT break the order of the steps.
Kneel to the pony and recite, with your eyes closed. “Child of the mortal realm, I pledge unto you my form and my life, may your foes know fear, and your friends Joy, to the end of your days.”
Take her hand in yours, and press your forehead to it, eyes still closed. “May my eyes see any threat to you, your kith, or thy kin, and may my hands be quick in snuffing them out, no matter the challenge.”
Finally, open your eyes and look upon her cutie mark, and whisper your true name into her ear before placing both hands upon the ponies hand, one on either hand, and recite: “I am now as thou, thou art now as I, may we walk the path of thy life together, no matter the turns it may take.”
Sincerely;
Celestia and Apollo’
I follow the steps to the letter, the rituals power feeling immense as it felt as if I was giving this young Filly a portion of my being, and vice versa, as the ritual finished, I looked to Sweetie Bell to see her opening her eyes as she looked around confusedly “What… What’s going on?”
I smiled timidly “Hello, young one, I hope you are not too upset with me, I knew not the damage my escaping Hermes had done to you.”
Sweetie Bell smiled and shook her head “No, I knew you were a good seed, I was pretty sure you’d come back eventually to check up on me.”
I smiled and nodded slowly “I sincerely hope your friends are well too?”
Sweetie Bell nodded “They’ve been checking up on me pretty much every day, in fact, they should be here soon, wanna surprize them with my recovery?”
I grinned “You, little girl, have definitely got my kinda style.”
Right then, there was a knock at my new master's door, I stood up and sat on her bed as I looked to Sweetie Bell, I smiled and nodded towards her door “Go get em, little bell.” As I said this, another scroll appeared with the same insignia as the last. I looked to it before grabbing it and opening it, Reading it for a moment before closing it “Seems you have mail Inky, mind coming out? I know you are there.” I looked to my shadow and patted it right where I sensed her tush would be.
I heard her mental giggle, before her face appeared in the shadow. She was soon out of it and floating next to me, wrapping around me in a hug.
I hugged her back as Sweetie Bell started to come back, I gestured to the chair across from me “Why don’t you take a seat, hon? I can read Celly’s letter for ya, if you want. That way you can stay all misty.”
As I said this, Sweetie Bell came in with her two friends, who froze upon seeing me “Hey! Aren’t you that demon we summoned? What are you doing in Sweetie’s room?” the orange one, Scootaloo I think her name was, exclaimed as she pointed at me accusingly.
I felt Inky twirl around me quickly, making her look like just a black smear across the ponies vision before she was suddenly in front of the three, sending a mental ‘boo!’ across the room.
Applebloom screamed like a little girl as I broke down laughing “Ok, honey, that was kinda mean…” I held out my hand “Heya, I’m Nill, how about we start over? I’m Sweetie Bells new familiar, and my girlfriend Inkie here is going to be her family guardian.”
Right as I said this, The rainbow maned pony, as well as her familiar Hermes and Two other ponies came running upstairs, accompanied by their personas. The white one was accompanied by a strange humanoid woman wearing a full white body suit and a strange skirt while holding a spool of thread in one hand, the orange mare with the stetson looked to me suspiciously as her persona, which looked like a humanoid made out of leaves, crossed his arms.
The first to speak was the leaf man, oddly enough. His voice like a whisper on the wind, yet loud enough to be heard with ease. “Why should they trust you? You are the reason that Sweetie Bell got summoning sickness in the first place. While I know that you cannot undo the ritual, I recommend you keep close tabs on him, Sweetie Bell.”
I looked to him and frowned “And she should listen to a living compost heap because… why?”
Rainbow Dash snickered slightly “Okay, that was a good burn there.” She then looked to me regretfully “Hey, uh… Sorry for attacking you like I did, I didn’t mean to cause trouble.”
I nodded slowly “I’d say we are cool, but I’m still a little miffed about the fire on my shoulder.” I gestured to the still somewhat singed part of my shoulder. “ That stung, bad.”
While we were all talking, I saw Inky doing the Ritual and snickered a little, trying to make them not notice.
I then kneeled and looked to Sweetie Bell, smiling as I tousled her hair “I’m happy I could fix the problem though.” I then looked to the white mare and smiled warmly. “And you must be Sweetie Bells sister, right? You have too eerie a resemblance for ponies not related to each other, and you are far too young to be her mother.”
The white mare smiled back at me “Yes, I am indeed her big sister! ... I must say though, your clothes are simply atrocious! Why, they are hardly more than rags!”
I shrugged and willed my rags into a frock coat and bowler hat with a cane that I leaned on comically “Does this look better madam? Or should I go for the minimalist approach and wear just my knickers?”
I saw Inky pause to nod to me at my second suggestion before continuing.
I smiled to Rarity “Or… is that what you want, madam?”
Rarity gasped and blushed hotly “How dare you even imply that?! I am a lady, not some common strumpet!”
I frowned at the two other ponies “Is she always like this? So uptight, I mean really, I was joking.” I then looked to the three fillies and gestured to them “I mean, seriously, there are children present!”
I saw Inky reach over, looking at the end of the parchment and taking a hair from Rarity’s tail, continuing the ritual.
Rarity looked behind her, right at Inky “What in equestria is that, and why did it take a hair from my tail?!”
Clotho Smiled mischievously “I was wondering when you would notice, the Meldling there has been doing a ritual to become a family guardian for you.”
Rarity looked to Clotho in shock “And why did you not tell me earlier?”
Clotho smiled to the leaf man “We found it funny, and did not notice any malevolence.”
The orange one snickered “Well, at least the ceremony is done now, she’ll guard you and your family like Epona protected mine, before she became the town guardian.”
Inky floated over to the two, tilted her head… and booped them.
The leaf man seemed to rustle his face a bit, while Clotho chuckled “Why did you do that? We are not ponies, booping does little more than make us feel odd. A boop to most ponies, by the way, will make them very confused for a few moments, mostly when they are not focused on you.”
I smiled at inky and walked over to her as I hugged her “Love you hon.” I kissed her where her cheek would be as Sweetie bell d’aawed and the orange filly gagged audibly. The black poltergeist nuzzled me… before reaching over and booping all the ponies. Somehow… Guess she was stretchy. No, bad thoughts, not in front of the fillies!
I looked around to see that everyone but Rarity was standing there with a perplexed look on their faces, Rarity however just looked to Inky with annoyance “Please stop the booping, it is considered rude in polite company.”
She earned two more boops for that.
It was about a week since I had become Sweetie Bells familiar, me and Inky were doing some hunting in the whitetail woods, as it turns out we still need physical food to survive, even with a master and/or family to guard and supply us with spiritual energy, I eventually noticed something in the brush and knelt down to pick it up, finding a strange plush of a red fox with black tips at the ears and feet. It simply looked like something from a gift shop.
I raise my brow curiously as I notice it is warm to the touch “Ummm… huh...Hey Inky?”
Inky then flew over to me, noticing the odd plush and tilting her head as if to ask what I had found.
I shrugged “I don’t have any idea, but I sense it can hold a mystical charge... maybe if i put some magical energy in it something will happen?”
Inky looks to it, then nods, the words “Don’t sense any danger.” Showing up in mid air.
I nodded and let my magical energy flow into it, smiling as I noticed it flare to life and shine brightly, only for a rift similar to the one I apparently came from to appear.
The token disappeared, and in its place was a woman. She had silver hair that was done up in a pony tail. Her clothes consisted of a black and red tanktop with a gray coat over it. She also wore red shorts with black flames on it and combat boots. She also had a object on her back, looks like a bat or a something metal. I was able to see this since she was facedown on the ground as she simply appeared in mid air and fell onto the ground. I heard a groan coming from her.
I looked to Inky and gestured to the stranger “Should we help her? It would be rude not to, right?”
Inky nodded before I knelt to help her up “You ok? That fall looked painful.”
She muttered something to me before pushing herself to be sitting. She had sorta tan skin with red eyes. As she rubbed her face I noticed some other things about her, like she was carrying these odd containers of orange and red light.
“Owww~, walking through the Everfree just to get teleported onto the ground sucks~...” she looked around before looking at me and staring. “... who are you?”
I shrug “Just call me Nill. It’s the only name I remember. Something about the spirit realm sealing away my memories.”
Inky flew over to her gently, careful not to scare her, before the words “How did you get here?” And “Where did the plushie go?” Appeared around her. Her reaction was… well not one I expected. She simply stared at Inky for a moment before pulling something out that looked like a black bar with a red center to it. There was a flash that came off it before pointing it at me and the same thing happened.
I looked to her oddly “Was that like… a really tiny camera? I remember taking a picture with Sweetie Belle yesterday… Wait, where is the picture? I don’t see anything coming out of it…”
Inky nodded before she had the words “And why would she take pictures of us anyway?” appear in front of her.
I looked to the lady “Hey, uhh… whatever your name is, mind walking with us to sweetie Belle's school? She likes us walking with her and her friends to school, I think she wants us to make friends with them too.”
Inky seemed to giggle as the words “Little sweetheart” Appeared in front of her. The woman looked at the two of us, still with a look that says ‘uhhh…’
“We just meet… and you want me to walk with you to a school? You two are oddly trusting.” she pointed out. “My mother did told me not to talk to strangers… and then my aunt said something else that I don’t remember…”
I nodded “Yeah, taking a stranger to meet Sweetie Belle is not my first choice, but it’s better than leaving someone in the woods, even the whitetail woods.” I smile “Besides, what kind of dick would I be if I left you all alone in the forest?”
“Huh…” the woman said before standing up in front of me. “Names Viri by the way.”
I smiled and nodded as I started walking towards the school house, about a twenty minutes walk from here. “So, what was that thing with the plushy? Are you some sort of minor demon, summonable by an item?”
“That thing is a plushy,” Viri raised her hand up as said plushy appeared in her hand. “And it’s also my token, I’m part of the displacement world stuff which, in short, is me jumping from world to world that look the same. Sure I could do it without it but I prefer not making a mess of things.”
I nod slowly “So… the displaced are people who hop dimensions? Huh… I wonder if i was a displaced…”
“Kinda, it’s mostly hopping from one Equestria to another then back to their own. And maybe,” Viri said.
As we reached the schoolhouse, Sweetie Belle ran to us and smiled excitedly “Hey, Nill! Inky! And… stranger I don’t know.” She hid behind me from Viri and I smiled.
“Hey, no worries, this is Viri, I don’t know why, but I feel we can trust her. I Just hope Rarity doesn’t try to make her a dress, I don’t know how long she’ll be staying, and I know she’d be bummed if she left before getting it.”
“Hi,” Viri greeted Sweetie before looking at me. “And hey, I can stick around as long as you want me to. Just don’t try to keep me here or I’ll burn you.”
I nod uncomfortably, remembering what it felt like to burn “U-ummm… anyway, let’s get going.”
Sweetie Belle then sniffed the air a moment “Hey… you smell that? I smell something burning…”
Right as she finished asking that, a massive boom shook the ground and the schoolhouse, thankfully empty at this point, collapsed as a short, buff looking creature came out of the dust cloud “I wagered my boys this was where I’d find ya.”
He smiled, his teeth primal and sharp, a mix between a shark and a dog's teeth and large, bat like ears adorning his head, along with a pair of massive metal gauntlets with gemstones inlaid in them at his hands, the gems glowing a strong white as electricity crackled along them, his torso covered by a torn t-shirt with several holes on it, from which more crystals could be seen inlaid in his flesh, with odd red metal surrounding them and linking each gem to the other like a circuit for those TV’s I saw in the junkyard. He had a large lizard like tail with barbed hairs at the end as well, the hairs looking sharp and hard enough to pierce skin. He smiled at me cruelly “Now, how should I make you pay for wiping out one of my outposts?”
He seemed to think for a moment before grinning even more evilly. “First, let’s see about killing your master!” He leapt at Sweetie Belle, only for Inky to push her out of the way and get punched instead, her body getting annihilated by a shotgun blast of magical energy!
I looked as she fell to the ground as a fine mist, my body filling with a level of rage unfamiliar to me, I wanted… no, I NEEDED to hurt this bastard.
‘He took her from us…’
I grunted as two pairs of long, spindly extra arms made of ink erupted from my sides and my normal arms morphed to match as what looked like pipes erupted from my flesh and ink leaked up from them, like lava lamp material.
‘He must pay…’
My face was the next thing to morph, my mouth turning sideways as eyes formed on either side of my mouth, four on each side, as my hands seemed to be malformed, almost inhumanly thin, yet also, somehow, unnaturally strong.
‘We demand blood!’
Out of my backside grew a long, lizard-like tail ending in a blade in the shape of a double sided question mark as black electricity arced along my body.
I then looked to Viri, unaware of my eyes changing to a more bestial state. “Take Sweetie, keep her safe. I have a sick freak to kill.” My voice had changed, sounding like three different people speaking at once.
Viri blinked at me before looking at the other guy, pulling out that camera from before and taking a picture, then at me again. “Who’s that?”
I growled “I don’t know… but I know he’s going to pay.”
As I looked to him, he seemed to be chuckling “Seems like I’m going to have a good fight! Perfect… it’s been far too long!”
“Right…” Viri said before picking up Sweetie. “Come on you, time to get to a safe distance away.”
I grabbed at something from thin air, it becoming corporeal as I gripped a blade of chiton and steel, the handle wrapping around my wrist as I grabbed it with one hand, four of these swords materializing as a pair of chiton and steel shields formed in my bottom two hands “Let’s get this done with.”
I then rushed at the bastard, and promptly blacked out.
~???~
“Greetings, body brother.”
I looked around to see I was in what looked like a bar, with the strange thing I turned into playing the piano as if nothing was wrong. “Ummm… hello?”
I saw him turn around, and he smiled at me in a kind manner, at least, I thought it was kind… hard to tell with his mouth taking up half his face. “It is good to finally meet you, I must say, you have done quite a good job of learning how to be Elderkith on your own.”
I frowned “What… what is that?”
The being smiled “Elderkith, a bridge between the worlds of mortals and the realm of the old ones, normally attempting to bring understanding to both sides, and often developing powers unique to each one.”
I looked around until I saw a strange crystal pillar through which I saw the bastard that killed Inky! I looked to the apparent Elder one “How do I get out there?! I need to make him pay!”
The elder one smiled… I think. “I know how you feel, brother, but I need to command our body for now. Any damage done unto our body while you are in control is doubly threatening to us, as your mindscape is what we are currently in, and where I am forced to reside as of now.”
I frowned “And… when can I leave?”
The Elder one smiled “Soon, for our foe will retreat, and your memories will be restored.”
Oh, well that’s nice- WAIT WHAT?! “I’m getting my memories back?!”
The being nodded “Yes, oh, and as to the question you would of asked in about two minutes, my name is Dhsuth-Actu, or Dhsuthu for short if you prefer. And as a warning, I foresee a summons in our near future, we should be prepared.” He then sighed “Now, brace yourself, your memories being unsealed will cause great pain to you, and as a result, me.”
I nodded slowly as he pulled a ball of mist and light out of mid air, pressing the strange orb into my forehead as I grunted from the strain of not shouting from the pain. Only for it to increase a hundredfold as I felt my mind expanding, sealed away memories returning in a flash as I remembered my old name.
I was.. Ron… I had no family, no friends, I conned everyone I could out of house and home, not even caring about what I did or who I hurt… only how I could get enough money to support me and my own… I was scum, a trickster of the worst kind, I was vain, cruel, and crafty… I felt sick, once all the memories of my past life finished I looked to Dhsuthu as the last thing of my past life came to me “I… I had a daughter… she… she’s gone now…”
Dhsuthu nodded “I advise you to stay quiet about this, Demons are supposed to be sterile unless a breeder or drone for a Demon lord or Queen.”
I sighed as looked behind me, a door appearing behind me as I turned toward it, Dhsuthu smiling “It is time. He has fled, and my time at the forefront has ended. May we meet again, in the realms of slumber, my brother.”
I smiled as well “I hope so…” I then walked through and was suddenly back in the real world… or… at least the world outside my mind...my mindscape was so vivid. I looked around to see various arcane runes etched into the pieces of the schoolhouse as a note was attached to the back of my hand via a sticky note.
‘Dearest Nill:
A little favor for the child. Simply repeat the incantation and the schoolhouse will be good as new.
-An old friend~’
I looked to the back of the sticky note and saw a strange word that I assumed to be the incantation “Ummm… Relca...ratia...cora?” As I spoke the last word, the pieces of the schoolhouse floated into the air around me and began to reassemble! Forming the building in a manner of moments as if it were brand new, the schoolbell even losing the dent from Pinkies skull, honestly, I dare not ask why it got there.
I walked out of the building as I looked at where Inky had fell, tears threatening to fall freely from my eyes without end, only for me to notice a black mist rising from the ground and combining to form Inky, a little shaken and disoriented, but alive!
I ran to her and held her close as I kissed her, holding her close as I wept tears of joy. “Inky… I thought… I thought I lost you!”
Inky giggled weakly “Not that easy.” She looked behind me and paused “Thought it was broken…”
I nodded “Umm… yeah, about that.”
~one walk to ponyville later~
“And… that’s what happened. Who I was… what...what I was…”
Inky looked to me thoughtfully “Was, not am, never will be. Beautiful person, love you.”
I smiled as we saw Sweetie Bell and Viri in the distance, The girls all grouped around her protectively.
As we drew closer, we noticed them speaking accusingly to Viri “How can we know that you aren’t working with this Vorgo character? You both have weird metal weapons, and are definitely not a ponies demon, familiar, or persona!” RD said accusingly to Viri.
“Actually, it’s not really metal. It’s really a sorta material that supercharges heat and enable me to control it,” she smiles a bit. “It also makes sure no one else uses it unless it’s me.”
With that said she pulls her weapon out, it didn’t look like a weapon from where I’m standing, and drops it on the ground, daring for someone to pick it up.
RD smiled smugly as Hermes appeared next to her “Hey, boss… I don’t think that’s a good idea…”
RD laughed “Like it’s anything I can’t handle!” As she grabbed the stick, she yelped before releasing the now red hot stick, her hand blistering badly…
“I warned ya,” Viri said, picking up her weapon as if it was alright. “Also if I was a bad guy, wouldn't I have kicked all of your butts already?”
I decided to step in before the situation got any worse “Girls, she is a friend! She helped keep Sweetie Bell safe while I fought off Vorgo.
Twilight, with Spike and her persona Merlin, a robotic looking wizard that was ensconced in a clear glass orb of runes with a staff in his hands that seemed like it could double as a whetstone. Looked up from a book “I knew this Vorgo character sounded familiar… take a look here!”
In the book, which was titled ‘Ancient legends of the mythic era’, the following was plainly written, followed by a description of Vorgo that fit him to a T.
Loss of the Tunnel Troop
The troop was sent, numbering twenty and ten, and all that left planned to come back again.
Of the gremlins lost kingdom they were sent to find, but they didn't realize who they were leaving behind.
For the halls they searched and craved, disregarding the darkness and warnings for paths unpaved.
Months at a time were spend end to end, until one day their path and the gremlins together did wend.
Enraged were the Gremlins, and shocked were the Guards. They never thought treachery did wait in the cards.
Their King lead them on, and the troop was outmatched, so one after one they all were dispatched.
Ablaze was his rage, and his followers too. They all seemed to know how much more we could do.
I sat there and watched at the end of the rout, at the king that still raged so much the fire would never go out.
His back ram-rod straight and his face carved of stone. The look in his eyes I swear cut through bone.
Now the moral of the tale as i'd rightly say, is to stick with your friends and never let them away.
If through triumph or sorrow you can stay steadfast friends, then unlike the King, the Undaunted who'll naer make amends.
“Well he sounds… charming,” Viri said.
Twilight nodded slowly, a sadness to her features “He used to be a loyal ally to the people of Equestria, until Starswirl disappeared, and the Diamond Dogs overtook his people, destroying their kingdom… He hates all of us now… he is determined to bring us to ruin, as he is certain we left him to his kingdoms ruin as well.”
“Lovely,” Viri said crossing her arms.
Fluttershy looked to me curiously, her not having a persona for some reason. “I… I have treated wounds for soldiers who faced him… there… there was rarely anything I could do but limit the pain as they passed… how did you beat him?”
Inky flew up to her and made a shushing motion “Trade Secret.”
I grinned and shrugged “Sadly, I think it’s in my best interest that I keep that a secret for now.”
Viri opened her mouth to say something but closed her mouth… wait, she was there. She she would’ve seen a bit of it. We looked at eachother and she made the gesture of zipping her lips.
I nodded, before I saw Pinkie with a suspicious look on her face ‘Oh great… keeping this under tabs is going to suuuuck.’
I then heard laughter as I felt Dhsuthu in my mind ‘I agree, my brother. Quite the annoyance indeed.’
Author's Note
Here is the story that I am crossing over with for my next two chapters, read this fic for knowledge of goings on
