Vengeance is a Torch
Reign of the Night
Previous ChapterNext ChapterLook at that, here they are. The new bearers of 'harmony'. A purple unicorn with a mane and tail of various shades of purple, white unicorn with a purple mane and tail, cyan pegasus with rainbow mane and tail, tan pegasus with a pink mane and tail, pink earth pony with a cotton candy mane and tail, and a orange earth pony with a blond mane and tail.
They crossed the bridge and came towards the ruined castle, when they came closer to the gate that's were I and Nightmare Moon stood. When they saw us their eyes and mouths were wide as plates, and Nightmare Moon laughted like a villain. After a while, they all stood in combat stance, although the purple mare began starring at me.
"Nightmare Moon, who is that next to you?" She asked pointed at me.
"Why, my companion, obviously." She said in a mocking attitude while holding her right arm around my neck and shoulder. I don't mind that at all.
"You wanna know about me, you should ask me." I said, I don't really like being ignored. The purple one was about to speak again, but the rainbow haired dimwit beat her to it.
"I'll kick your flank for teaming up with her!" She yelled and charged at me instantly. I used my shield to block her attack and it turns out she hurt her right knuckle, distracted by her pain Nightmare Moon shoot a magic beam to her head and she fell unconscious.
"RAINBOW!!!" All the mares yelled.
Really? Rainbow... Her- her actual name is 'Rainbow'? Literally? You know what, nevermind!
"One down, five more to go. And we two can handle you all rather easily." Nightmare Moon said with confidence.
"Oh, but we are not two at all." I said with a smirk inside my helmet and they all looked at me with confusing face.
(Let me tell you all now. My new armor is called 'Hades Steel'. Because I have powers and abilities of Hades from the game God of War. Including the Soul of Hades, Army of Hades and the Claws of Hades.)
With my chest up, my arms folded together and my right foot lift up from the ground. I then stomped down my foot, threw my arms aside and roar, summoning the Army of Hades, flying into the sky and start attacking the other mares. The five remaining mares scattered to fight off the ghosts or run away from them. Purple’s horn glowed as she fired bolts of magic at then, she missed for the most part. That makes her distracted enough for Nightmare Moon the dash towards her and brought her right hoove-leg in the chest, I heard a couple ribs break but then I saw Nightmare shoot another spell at the purple's head and so she black out as well.
The other mares was having a hard time to fight off my Army of Hades; the orange mare trew alot of punches and kicks all around herself, the pink one just threw random objects at them at random directions each coming from seemingly nowhere, the white unicorn just threw magic bolts at them just to get herself beaten by my ghosts, the yellow pegasus didn't try to put up a fight so she lie down on the ground unconscious.
I used this as an opportunity to finish them three at once. I gave a mental command to my ghost to force them to go back-to-back on each others. I nodded to Nightmare Moon, who nodded back at me and she flew up in the air and her corn starts to glow. While my ghost soldiers flew around them to keep them together, Nightmare Moon casted one mighty magic blast strong enough to knock them all down. And so we won.
When I dispersed my ghost soldiers she flew back to my side.
"They still live you know." I said.
"If they die, the elements of harmony will replace them with new bearers and I can't risk allowing new threats to grow." She explains to me.
"Then what will you do then?" I asked her.
"I shall instead lock them all down in the deepest dungeon where there is no light or any other door for them to escape." She told me as she starts her horn again and this time she levitates them together back to back and conjured chains to bind them all. She even conjured rings and attached them to their horns.
When that was done, her horn glowed again and a then everything was white, as quick as a snap of a finger we all ended up in a room that I was very familiar with. It was the throne room of Canterlot. I remember it during my sacking of the city. When we came here, I noticed the whole place was crawling with her own guards.
"Take them all to the oubliette, soo deep they can never escape." Nightmare Moon commanded her soldiers. They all wasted no time and start dragging them away while I stood by and watched. After that, Nightmare Moon walked towards the throne and then sat on it, looking at me.
"The deed is done now, I will grant you a great amount of payment for your troubles and then you are free to go then." She offered. But out of mere curiosity I intented to ask.
"Does that means our business is done then?" I asked and then she just smirked at me.
"Indeed, but if you're interested I could use you for more things." She said, although she can't see through my helmet I'm sure she knows I raised my right eyebrown.
"You have proven to be a great warrior after all, it would be wasteful to simply let you go but also foolish to try force you to service. I would be very happy for you to still help me on future matters." She explains to me and I must say, her honesty has only enhanced my respect to her.
"What future matters do you have that you possibly need me for?" I jokingly asked her, I think she finds it amusing.
"I now rule Equestria and the Eternal Night will reign forever by me. But we both know that with every story ends, another always begins. And by that I mean I will face resistance and schemers that wants me gone. But also I have to deal with foreign leaders that will seek to take advantage of me and my position. I need all the support I can get." She explains to me before she stood up from her throne and walks towards me.
And if I'm not mistaken she is swaying her hips when walking towards me with (I think) bedroom eyes.
"I would be happy to have you as a personal bodyguard and head of military along with all the perks that brings. Your legends and prowess would help me rule Equestria much easier and my reign could last forever thanks to you. Wouldn't that be exciting for you?" She asked seductively and when she got closer to me she placed her hands on my breastplate before moving them around my neck and with her seductive eyes stare at me.
"You want me to swear an oath to you? Sorry to disappoint you, but I won't. I'm just a free travelling soldier for hire." I said but she didn't seems offended by it.
"I know you are, I have no intention to recieve an oath from you. You want payment, sure I can provide it." She said politely before continuing.
"Not just coins. But also a payment in soft touch~" She said in a seductive tone. You can all guess how suprise I was to hear that.
"So inexchange for this 'payment', I shall aid you in military matters and look after you." I said because I decided I had enough of games.
"Correct. Stick with me and you will find I can be very benefitting and interesting to you." She said half-happy and half-flirting to me. Ok, I think I'm going to like this employment.
"Fair enough. But don't go looking for me to bend the knee and "my queen" you every time you get drunk. I'm not your lapdog and I'm not your friend yet." I said. But she didn't seem disturbed by it.
"'Yet', I'm sure I will earn your friendship soon enough. But don't worry, we're in no hurry." She said before snapping her fingers and two of her guards immediately walked up to her and silently bowed.
“Escort this stallion to one of the guest chambers. And make sure he is 'comfortable' as well.” She said calmly and those guards bowed again before comming to me and motioned me to follow them.
And so I did, it was a ten minute walk through the castle to find a room that to my surprise had a king size bed. I though the royal bed chambers was the only one that had one. Once I entered this room the guards gently closed the door behind me and no doubt guards it. I could finally remove my armor and I put my warhammer aside. I changed into a normal brown leather armor.
I was without a helmet so now everyone can see my face (although I am alone in this room). I went to a desk that had a bottle of red wine and a glass next to it. I simply took the bottle, open it and drank it a little. I walked to the window where I can see the city from a far. As I keep watching it from here I reflect and remember when I once came here with my army and sacked the city in search for Queen Faust's daughters. Perhaps during the sacking my soldiers must have cause harm towards the city's civilians. If it was true, it was never my intention. I came because I knew the daughters of Faust would seek revenge for the death of their mother and also Canterlot was the home of Equestria's entire nobility, in short home of wealthy corruption and it must be taken care of. When a monarch dies all the other nobles would use their wealth and influence to enhance their power and the kingdom would fall into civil strife for the crown of Equestria.
I drank the red wine bottle a few more times as I looked out side the window. I kept watching the city getting stired up by Nightmare's martial law to get the city in order. There has been a few protests here and there, especially from the nobility that served Celestia, or claimed to serve her. All nobles only wants more wealth and power through her. They are so lucky that they didn't live during that time I sacked Canterlot because I would love to see their faces when my soldiers takes their wealth, destroy their homes and give them a few right and left hooks in their faces. Priceless if you ask me. Now I can see those who supported Celestia are now rounded up and brought away to be dealt with while Nightmare Moon's followers are now in power. If she was serious about bringing the eternal night, then she sentence the whole world to death.
An eternal night would mean no sunlight to grow crops, which means no food. And also the whole world would turn into an ice cube in the long run. So what Nightmare Moon is doing would be killing the whole world and all life on it. If I ever talk to her again then I will absolutely advice her about that. I drank the rest of the wine bottle and put it back where I got it and now I started to remove my leather armor, putting it right next to my warhammer. It didn't take long before I became a topless man with only my underwear on. I closed the window, pulled the curtains together before I slowly turned the lights off. I remembered where my king sized bed was and slowly went there and under the large sheet. It was very comfortable, furry and soft. Even the pillows are large and comfy, I have no doubt that I will sleep very good for the first time in thousands of years since my stone prison.
However, something is off. After a few minutes I felt something around me, the bed was somehow moving, or something moves around the bed itself. Whatever it is, it felt like something or someone is crawling around me. Correction, make that someones because it felt like two, I mean three was crawling around the bed towards me. I quickly open my eyes to see, even though it is dark I could somehow see something and it look like three shadowy figures with female shapes and they had glowing eyes, two of them were yellow and the third in the middle had green. After looking at them for a few seconds, I could see clearer who those three are. Two of them were the twins I meet when I fought the Celestial guards but I don't know who the third mare is. And if I'm not mistaken they are all completely naken. I remember those twins had dark blue-green fur with both dark-purple and blood red hair, although it is dark I could see the third mare have dark grey fur and have black and white hair in stripes.
Just when I said 'What the?' and tried to get up fast, those three mares pounced on me and lay atop of me. They where quick enough to remove the sheet away enough to feel my upper body and I swear I could feel all their breasts pressing down upon me while their faces were very close to mine. I just couldn't move as I kept looking at them as their seductive voices echoed in front of me.
"Afraid of us handsome? No need~" The twin named Shadow Rose said.
"You didn't see us but we were in the throne room, and our queen sent us when she said to make you more 'comfortable'. The other twin explains to me. Oh, that make sense, Nightmare you bloody vixen!
"For giving us and our queen this victory we would like to personally reward you, with us~" The third one spoke, licked her lips at their prize.
I tried to speak but I was interrupted when the twins start nibbling my ears, pressing their breasts at me and their hands caress my belly and nipples. While the third when down towards my manhood and slipped her hands inside my underwear.
“Oh don’t worry sir, tonight is your paradise. As well as ours~" The third mare giggles as they kept arousing me and make my manhood harder. No doubt I'm going to have a wild night. Kind of like I had before my stone imprisonment.
Author's Note
Nightmare Moon and Arton Ravenheart will be like Tyrion and Bronn from the Game of Thrones and the three mare image belong to Grimm-Days in Deviantart.
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