Prologue: Escaped slaves.
~Nighttime, somewhere in the Everfree Forest. . .~
??? POV:
I don't know of how long was I was running and hiding.
Perhaps maybe a few days or more, though I doubt if it was that very long.
~~~Flashback, the Crystal Empire~~~
It all started at the Crystal Empire. My family were separated from me in different slave groups of humans. Each one were heading towards multiple locations of who knows where.
I didn't even get a chance to say goodbye to neither Mom, Dad, and my sister.
Who knows what has happened to them since then, possibly either separated or worse.
Now I'm stuck in this Tartarus of a "PEACEFUL" Empire. Being beaten up, abused, and neglected by numerous cruel guards and other species as well while I'm chained up and defenseless of never fighting back.
My own kind hasn't had the courage nor the will of fighting these heartless beasts and their leaders.
Then one day, something happened to me and I couldn't exactly explain why.
When one of those abusive crystal guard ponies opens up my cell room, I somehow gotten my body up from the cold floor and yanked both of these metal chains off my wrists and legs which catch the guard in shock & awe.
"W-Wha-"
Blinded from an instinct of rage, I catch him off guard by immediately tackling him on the ground with all of my strength and begin to brutally punching him multiple times from all of the cruel torment, abuse, and even tried raping me.
Gagging from the amount of blood on calling for help, I quickly grabbed the guard's knife from his waist and stabbed him multiple times before I used his knife to stab at his manhood below and finish it off with slitting his throat.
He began to choke and struggle to get off as I covered his mouth before he momentarily went silent.
After that and calming down from my unexpected rage, I grabbed the dead guard's cell keys and unlock the other cell doors of only nine humans left alive. About four males and five females, including two children. The rest of the humans are either dead, broken, or replaced.
I signal my kind if they want to live, follow me to freedom, and out of this hellhole.
They were shocked at first, but seem okay to go along with me.
I didn't know of what they shocked about, either me a mere human fighting back the guard or being a leader?
I shook my head no and continue on to a way out of these horrid dungeons.
Finally reaching towards the surface of light and fresh air, I hid among the hiding spots with my humans to make sure no other species have perhaps spotted us.
Thankfully there was some kind of celebration or festival going on so there's probably less guards around here.
When the coast is clear, I led my kind out of the capital tower and hiding to multiple buildings, just to make sure if there weren't any other guards nearby.
Then, I spotted a ticket of getting out of here.
There's four trains station nearby.
We all took one of the trains on-board while no one saw us as the train starts up as it leaves.
Unaware that neither one of us is being watched from far away.
~~~12 hours later. . . ~~~
Not long after finally escaping from the Crystal Empire, it was perhaps the first time peaceful.
Though we did steal some of the food & drinks on the train, but I'm not complaining.
I did get to know my kind a little with names and anything else.
One of them was also separated from her family while others are either probably missing or dead.
Sadly however, our conversations is cut short when the train suddenly stopped.
I hushed my group to not make any sudden noises or movements as I peek at one of the train windows. From what I've seen got me paled and scared. Outside the train were perhaps more than fifty guard ponies, no doubt looking for any escaped human slaves that's hidden on board this train.
"SPREAD OUT EVERY PONY, FIND THEM!"
Then my body got more paler when one of them spoke again.
"FIND THE ONE RESPONSIBLE FOR KILLING ONE OF OUR OWN, CAPTURE HIM ALIVE!"
It looks like they must be looking for me after I killed one of their guards.
I thought of something for a minute before I whispered to the others.
"When I draw the guards away from all of you, make sure to find another way to a safer place from these scums, okay?"
One of the males spoke up to me, William if I remember correctly.
"Are you sure it's really necessary, going in alone like that?"
"I'm sure it'll work, just make sure to hide when the trains starts moving again."
"B-But what if you-"
"Don't worry, I'll make sure they don't catch me that easily."
After that, they each gave me a hug and good lucks to me.
"I'll be sure to come back and find a way to free humanity, once and for all."
I got up from our small hideout and see three guards out the window, not knowing that I'm watching from behind them.
"That, I promise to all of you."
Steadying to myself, I jumped out the window and plunge my knife to the guard's back neck. He didn't notice me from behind as he collapses on the ground dead. The other two from beside me froze in shock from what I just did before they charged at me. I dodged the sword from my left side as I went behind the guard and plunge the bloody stained knife to the guard's side neck. The other guard uses his spear towards my stomach. Reacting quickly, I threw the now deceased guard and dodged the spear while I picked up an iron sword on the ground.
The guard tried using his spear at me now aiming at one of my legs. I jumped from the impact just as I used my left foot to kick the guard in his stomach. He grunted in pain as he loosen his grip on his own spear. I took the chance to take it from him and used the spear, aiming it towards his head. I thrust the spear forward as it impact while blood leaks out before the guard collapses onto the ground dead.
Finally resting for a moment, I started to shout out loud for a distraction.
"HEY YA PONY BASTARD GUARDS, I'M THE ONE YOU'RE ALL AFTER! COME AND GET ME!"
It worked, all of the remaining guards look towards me and found their own three guards already dead.
"AFTER HIM!!!"
I ran as fast as I possibly could to a nearby town in order to lose my pursuers.
I dodged several kinds of magic blasters and spears that're aiming towards me, but one of those magic lasers managed to hurt my right arm as I suppressed from yelling and continued onward.
~~~3 days later~~~
I managed to lose them from hiding behind an alley for now.
Thankfully I did patch up my right arm with some useful bandages I stolen from another building.
It's really painful to heal it, but it turns out fine.
So now, I'm currently hiding in what appears to be a big tree house?
Eh, I'll worry about it later. For now I'm starving for more food. I started search for any kinds of places, though I perhaps knocked over some books by accident and ignore putting them back up.
I finally found some good food in a fridge, though I never liked any hay or flowers that's good for my stomach.
I ate some pie, apple, and a bottle of fresh water.
After that, I decided to get a change of clothing and funny enough, I found some in a big room upstairs.
Most were probably girl sizes while a few are perhaps baby, kid, or teenage sizes.
Luckily, I found one pairs of shirt and pants that really fit me.
Unbeknownst to me however, a duo is coming inside as I was too busy to hear or notice their presence.
~~~25 mins later~~~
"AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!"
I covered my ear from a sudden noisiest scream downstairs.
Carefully looking out the door, I see a dragon and a purple unicorn with wings that began started ranting about something and picking up those books I knocked down.
Then all of a sudden, another pony in pink color ran inside, talking fast to the purple pony about a party or whatever in Tartarus she's saying to her.
Feeling that there might be more on the way, I carefully tip toed to a window by a big bed.
Before coming close to it, I accidentally have one of my feet stepping on some kind of noisy squeaky toy.
"Aw dammit not now."
I quickly got on the bed and jump to the window, barely squeezing through it halfway.
Then those three I saw from downstairs has saw me escaping to the window.
Not deciding to getting captured or try talking to them out of it, I made it out and climb down the big tree as I made a run for it into a deep dark forest.
~~~Present time at night~~~
Now I'm currently alone in a huge dangerous forest that I probably shouldn't have wisely entered.
All of my remaining food & drinks are gone, some either stolen or went missing.
I'm almost running out of energy from my weakened body.
It didn't help much when my stomach started to growl again in starvation for more food.
After walking for who know how long, I made it out alive with a small smile.
Thinking I finally gotten out of that weird crazy town and patrolling guards.
That is . . . . .
Until my smile lowered when I saw multiple guards right in front of my eyes, including the three from that big tree home. I see their faces and from what I can tell, they really don't like me and wanted me either alive or perhaps dead.
As soon as I tried to slowly back up before try booking it back into the forest, one of those ponies with blue wings flew fast straight forward and gave a couple of hard punches on both my stomach and left eye.
"GAH!"
I grunted in pain from that mare's punches as my body flew several feet and onto the ground.
I tried getting up, but the same mare pony who hit me used one of her hooves on my back & pinned me down.
"I got'em Twilight, he's not going anywhere this time!"
Dammit, I was this close of escaping!
Now they'll probably lock me out or perhaps execute me in front of my own kind.
"Great Job Rainbow! Now we can-"
I didn't hear of what that mare said next as an unexpected bright light appeared out of nowhere from above.
I became blinded from the light along with the other ponies covering their own eyes.
As soon as the light decreases, I see a strange woman appear before me.
My eyes widen upon seeing beautiful wings behind her back, colorful blonde hair, and dress in a nightgown?
"Get away from him you BITCH!"
I heard the woman said that in a venomous tone.
The next thing, I saw her speeding towards us and she gave the rainbow mare a swift kick to the face as she got grunt in pain and flew towards the ponies and guards.
My whole body froze from what just happened, until my lack of sleep starts to take over as my body starts to shut down.
I didn't hear of what that blonde woman was saying before everything went dark in my eyes.
~Meanwhile in another world, the castle training grounds. . .~
NO POV:
Two monster women are seen in the plain training grounds outside of the large castle.
One that's a lizard woman practicing her sword techniques & movements.
The other one is a slime woman watching the lizard warrior nearby and didn't bother of moving.
Suddenly, the lizard woman stops when she heard something in the distance.
"Hm?"
Curious, she sheaths her sword away to her side and proceeds to investigate.
Upon reaching near a few boulders & bushes, her eyes widen and gritting her teeth with her fists clenching while the same slime woman come to see what's wrong.
"What is it, Granberia?"
The lizard woman named Granberia turns her head towards to the slime woman and spoke in venom serious tone.
"Erubetie, contact the Monster Lord at once."
"I've found the traitor unconscious, along with a human in her arms and unknown creatures with them."
Author's Note
Had an interesting crossover idea in my head from looking back on some slave stories. Not from this website actually, but in other ones that were dark or something else. I did look at some of the scenes & game play of this interesting RPG game online. I put this one only on rated teen for some reasons cause I didn't feel like putting it on mature if anyone asks.
Be warned that this'll have gore and deaths, but not too much for the reading viewers.
Let me know on what you think so far.
Chapter 1: Hateful reunion and recovery.
Equestria, Canterlot throne meeting. . .
3rd POV:
It has been five days after a sudden huge explosion close by Ponyville. Reports on newspapers indicate that several guards are dead while multiple guards and citizens were injured, along with multiple building that have collapsed. Authorities are working on the case of what exactly happened at that town and there no signs of Princess Twilight Sparkle and Wonderbolt member Rainbow Dash to be seen yet from the explosion. Some guards in Canterlot were stationed to Ponyville & helping out the injured ponies while Princess Luna and her night guards find the whereabouts of two former bearers.
Even the rest of former element bearers and Spike tried their very best to find Twilight and Rainbow, but sadly there wasn't no luck and no trace of them anywhere to find at.
Although, Canterlot and Ponyville weren't the only ones on alert as the news has also spread over to the Crystal Empire, Appleloosa, Griffonstone, Cloudsdale, Badlands, Manehatten, Las Pegasus, Dragon Lands, etc. Both Princess Mi Amore Cadenza and Prince Shining Armor went to board a train to Ponyville after reading about the shocking news with the looks of worry and sadness of their sibling/sister in law. The Wonderbolts Academy also received the as well and Captain Spitfire ordered her best platoon cadets to look for her rookie/secret marefriend, Rainbow Dash.
In a Canterlot meeting though, all the nobles were ranting and arguing on the whole discussion about the shocking news and most of them thinking it was the humans who did it. Princess Celestia however, is annoyed and perhaps frustrated on this meeting, but is worried about where her former prized pupil could be.
Before Celestia tried to silence the entire room of nobles, one of her servant messengers has arrived and whisper something into ear which caused her eyes to widen a bit.
She then looks over to the nobles and says in a serious tone to them.
"This meeting is needed to be postponed for now. I have urgent business to attend elsewhere."
After saying that, she walks out of the meeting room with her messenger whilst ignoring the nobles of their excuses and telling her to comeback this instant.
Celestia arrives at the throne room door and sees a patched up guard with one eye covered and an injured right leg waiting for her.
"Shouldn't you be waiting in the hospital to recover private Burn?" Celestia asks him.
"M-My apologies your highness, but these are urgent news that need to be address to you."
Hearing this, Celestia as her full attention to the private.
"What is it?"
"There's something else that I must inform you about near Ponyville. Moments before the explosion when me and my friends tried to recapture the escaped human and a sudden bright light appearing out of nowhere from above us. . ."
Meanwhile, inside the Monster Lord's castle at night. . .
???POV:
I gasp in shock as my eyes open wide to find myself somewhere in a dark room.
When I tried to either walk or move my hands, they weren't as I feel that all my hands, arms, feet, and legs are tied up in chains. Even my own magic power isn't responding to me. So I stopped struggling and calling for help a few minutes.
Until I notice something heading straight towards. A strange yellow dot appears a few feet from me and it begins to write something in the air without on any solid paper.
It suddenly stopped writing as I can see what it actually wrote.
'A lone light that was once pure to it's good friend of darkness. . .'
'Neither light nor the darkness hasn't gotten along over ten thousand years, until that fateful day. . .'
'When their own balanced creation tried to obliterate them with his deadly weapon. . .'
'The darkness shielded the rival from a fatal attack. . .'
'Thus, the war ended with both light and dark kill their very own creation, in regret and sadness. . .'
'But for light and darkness however, peace would not last forever. . .'
'As darkness falls into the abyss from the deceiving light, leaving the remaining creations to battle against the light. . .'
I was confused of what this writing is talking about before the whole writing disappeared as the yellow dot again wrote one more thing to me.
'TREAD LIGHTLY IN THIS UNKNOWN PATH OF REDEEM, FALSE LIGHT. . .'
My eyes widen when the yellow dot suddenly vanished when a strange weapon sliced it up.
"W-Who's there?" I asked a bit shaken in fear.
"It's been a very long time, Ilias."
I froze when someone from the shadows appear in front of me. I didn't know of who this person was, but yet a part of me feels that I need to run away from him.
"You remember me, right?"
I shook my head no as he sighs and gritting his teeth.
"A shame that you completely forgotten about me. We have so much catching up to do."
He pulls something out of his robe and reveals multiple knives.
"Heh. Heh. Heh. How about a little pain for practice, shall we?"
In fear of what he's about to do, I tried to struggle from the chains holding me as this person walks slowly over to me. When he finally stops walking, he uses one of his knives and plunges it on my left leg. I screamed when it pierces into my skins as my own blood comes out.
"W-Why are you doing this to me?! I didn't do anything to you!"
He ignores my question and continues to put more knives onto my body as I shouted out loud and my tears were down on my face. After the 30th knife, he immediately stops and looks at me with a hateful evil smirk.
"How pathetic, it saddens me to know that you haven't improved on your lack of fighting, skills, and resistance since the last time we've fought."
He turns his head to the right and frowns while twirling his knife in his hand.
"A shame the first Monster Lord didn't witness this poor embarrassment to all angels."
His eyes looks at me again and returns back to his uneasy smile.
"Care to try more pain again, little helpless birdie?"
Before he tries to get a new weapon out, he suddenly stops and sighs as he walks away.
"Guess we've run out of time. See ya later, Angel reject."
That is the last thing he says to me before everything went dark in my own eyes.
"AH!!!"
I gasp awake with sweat on my forehead when I see myself in a normal warm room somewhere.
I check to see if any scars or holes were on my body, but thankfully they weren't there.
"It was only a dream." I said, but flinch a bit.
Though somehow, it felt real when I received those wounds and seeing my blood ooze out.
While continuing to look at my body, I didn't notice someone open the door and closed it.
"Looks like your finally awake."
I turn my head left to see one of my enemies, Granberia glaring her eyes at me in anger.
Everything in this room was silent as neither of us talk for a minute and continuing to look at each other.
Granberia then takes out her sword and aims it straight at me.
"If it wasn't for Tamamo, Alma-Elma, or Erubetie, then I would have gladly killed you without mercy nor remorse." She said in venom tone.
I had my head down and frown. Understand that she would have and the other as well, after all I have done to the humans, monsters, and to my own kind all these years ago. From Betraying the first monster lord and all the way to the end where I had my last battle against my arch enemies.
I heard her sheathe her sword back.
"You have some nerve coming back here after what you've done over three years ago. However, they told me not to kill you and I given my word. Although, I'm not quite sure of what Alice will do to you when she sees you again. Possibly put you on trial from all the humans, monsters, and angels that you've killed."
I look up at Granberia again and she sits in a wooden chair, along with putting her weapon down beside her before she crosses her arms.
"Before I take you to her, I'll ask you this one time and I want an honest truth from you."
"Why did you come back and bring this injured boy with you?"
My body felt shaken up and I didn't know of what to say until I whispered.
". . . . . It's a long story."
Somehow she heard me say it and went silent before she uncrosses her arms.
"Alright, I'm all ears, but make it quick."
Elsewhere in another room, several hours later. . .
Erubetie POV:
A few days has passed and everything felt uneasy at our Monster Lord's Castle. Only us Heaven Knights had to keep Ilias hidden from every monsters and humans, least to avoid another war that we don't want right now. When I reported this news Alice however, she wasn't in any good mood as I heard her thrashing around the room filled with negativity and sadness. So we decided to leave her alone until she cools down.
Both Tamamo and Granberia have decided to keep an eye on Ilias while me and Alma-Elma to our shift turns to watch over this injured boy as we wait for these two to awaken.
Alma-Elma had to take care of some important things while I'm the only one currently keeping an eye on this boy and healing his gravely injuries & fever. He had a fever yesterday and we were having difficulties curing his fever, except for me as my own slime body helped heal him.
I hummed quietly and gently stroke the boy's hair, along with my slime body massaging him to relax like a bed as everything seems quiet.
Whatever has happen to you, young human?" I gently whispered to him.
Before I tried to use one of my slime cells to look into his memories if Ilias did this to him, a door knock was heard from the other side and I stopped from what I was doing.
"Come in." I said.
The door slowly opens up and I could see Alma at the door and she doesn't look happy.
"Yes Alma Elma?" I asked her when she sighs and answers back with a frown.
"Alice needs all of us to report in her throne room, immediately."
"Why, what happened?"
"Ilias is awake."
After she says that, I froze and felt my body heat up that 'she' is finally awake. Though I had to quickly cool down since I don't want to to harm the boy from me. I sighed and nodded my head to her.
"As you wish, Alma."
I carefully pull the boy out from my body and put him back to bed. After that, I moved away and walk towards Alma before taking one last glance at the boy and gently close the door behind me.
Now me and Alma-Elma went to walk in the halls and begin to talk with each other.
Unaware that neither of us notice something else would enter in the room I left later on.
??? POV:
Phew, they're finally gone and nothing or no one have found me yet.
Whoever those two are sure definitely seem to be strong, better to keep my distance away.
I need to hurry up and find a way out of this old castle before more of those unusual things appear.
Author's Note
Hey everyone, how's it going? Sorry it took so long. I had been busy of clearing my mind up by helping around some chores, rack up coins on my ps4 system, and learning some other plots from each author's stories.
Also some time after Christmas is over, I'll perhaps download the MGQ game in order to understand the whole MGQ world mystery and story since I want to try it out.
Anyway, merry Christmas everyone and a happy new year!
