Chapters The beginning of corruption
I awoke to a nothingness unlike any other, a nothingness that would drive any one mad. Luckily I'm not anyone, I could guess that due to my lack of sanity I could handle the paradox that I was within. There was no light. It was dark, darker than anything the fickle mortal mind could think of, that's what I focused on, as a precaution, of course, just in case I started to slip into an idiotic fit of maddening rage.
Trying to find my bearings I quickly realised that there was no ground as I was simply floating there as if I myself, was part of the darkness. There was no up or down there was simply pure darkness that if I focused upon one spot for long enough I could see that I clearly wasn't alone as the darkness moved. At least I hoped it was the darkness as I could tell that these beasts easily out matched me in size. Dubbing them void beasts as I could only make an educated guess on where I was, I examined them trying my best to stay as still as I possibly could as to not provoke them on taking a quick snack. I could see that the beasts were distorted and looked like some weird mix of an alien morphed with a killer whale and a great white shark. To say that they were fascinating and yet terrifying would be a great understatement.
"welcome to the void," came a sinister voice that bled evil and malice it sounded distorted and like many were speaking at a time. It was a bone chilling voice that haunted the dreams of the innocent and guilty alike.
"Who are you?" I questioned calmly as I turned around to see a humanoid creature made Purely from a ,somehow solid, smoke-like shade of evil and darkness it's lower body was a distorted tail much like a snakes but almost a kilometre long, the upper part of the body again was distorted but clearly muscle could be seen on the chest and arms, past the distorted misty arms, shoulders and neck there was a smile made from glowing red energy that matched his red soleless eyes.
"I am the lord of the void I have sent you here as I myself am bound to the void thus cannot enter the world I am to send you to," the smile grew and twisted into a nightmare inducing smile fit only for some hellish, abomination of the Cheshire Cat.
I stared at him in curiosity. As I was about to question what he meant and what he wanted a powerful wave of dark, demonic energy shot into me as I tried to scream in pain, tried to escape the agony but nothing came out, nothing happened, I couldn't move, I was suddenly made aware as the pain stopped, of a dull blue as I looked down I realised that I had hooves! Where were my hands? I was about to once again question the demon but the pain once more had stopped my voice it lasted for what felt like hours until my eyes had stopped rolling to the back of my head I looked down and once more saw the dull blue hooves and equine body. I looked around again to find the demon responsible before I realised that it felt different when I looked around. It felt more solid, more real, it felt physical I was made aware from that statement that I didn't have a body before the pain. Which spiked my curiosity on what I looked like, was I like the demon lord of the void, was I different. I stopped those thoughts in order to examine myself, "I look like a pony from MLP," I mused under my breath.
I looked towards the demon and found another wave being hurled towards me at an impossible rate I tried to shield myself from the inevitable torture, raising my hooves in front of me in a defensive position in a feeble attempt to lessen the coming pain, but this time when it stuck my body I felt no pain instead I felt power I became aware of so many spells that came with this power. Clearly they were not of the friendly, light variant of magic but of the forbidden and dark arts this knowledge filled me with a malicious glee.
"I have given you this body so that you may blend in with the populace of the world I am to send you to, you are already aware of a much kinder version of this world as I am to send you to a darker version of the world you call MLP, within the lands of the crystal empire," his words were clearly strained as he said 'MLP' an obvious sign of discomfort and disgust I however matched his grin with a Cheshire Cat look alike of my own "you have been gifted with these powers and the knowledge to master them so that you may execute my orders as I see fit. You are hereby my new servant and you are to-"
The demon never got to finish that sentence and he never would as I interrupted him with a powerful beam of pure demonic, dark magical energy leaving the demon with the right side of his face missing along with the right arm and a vast majority of the right side of the demon's torso as the menacing grin was replaced with a look of fear and confusion as it's husk of a body fell into the endless abyss I felt the top of my head, I guessed to be my horn, feel infected with an intoxicating corrupted magic, I felt the same for my hooves as I watched as they became black just past the hoof until it stopped and I was thrown from the void into a cold land of white "I am a servant to no one" I hissed with venomous malice and hatred. As I continued to plumet into the white below.
Stumbling to my hooves I found it harder to stand and I heard a cruching with every movement, as I looked I could see that the pristine white was actually snow. Meaning that ,with luck, I should be near the crystal empire. Hopefully I was in a early part of the timeline where Sombra has not emerged yet, as it would give me the perfect opportunity to reach equestria, (ponyville) and establish myself as someone trustworthy making it easier to take over the empire without issue.
Tapping into my unicorn magic I cast a spell that would allow me to see the direction of which ponyville was. Once I found that it was south I began my trek. "I really need to find a map" I muttered beneath my breath hoping that the world didn't have too difficult terrain as it would be hard to walk especially since my hooves were new. Coming to an immediate stop I looked down at my hooves in curiosity wondering how I was able to walk with such ease even though I was originally a biped. Chalking it up to convenience for the demon in order for me to do what it would have instructed me to, if not for the fact that I had caught it by surprise and desimated the right side of the demons form leaving it to die in the void.
"Surprise" I studied the word as it left my lips, (I was thankful to my madness as it let me have the ability to not freak out) I had caught the demon by surprise that being what allowed me the opportunity to kill it as I doubted I would have been able to do so with one on one combat. Beginning my journey once again I began to map out the poorly detailed excuse of a plan out-loud "I need to find something that will give me power or something/someone I can use my dark magic on to drain them of their power," nearing a large cliff face made of ice only now visible through the snow storm, I didn't notice due to how well the white of the snow complimented the white of the storm.
Staring into the pristine, clear mirror I could see my new body for the first time. I was a dull blue with black hooves spreading upwards just past the fetlock on all four legs and fading to match my dull blue fur, my mane was slicked back and my tail was kept short and well trimmed but both were a dark silver, noticing my horn I saw that it was smooth and curved (like sombra's horn) with the same blackness starting from the razor sharp tip and fading into my fur colour near the base of my horn, smiling I noticed my teeth: my molars were war maces, the rest of my teeth were sharpened knives whilst my fangs were more akin to daggers. Startled I looked at my imposing teeth before chuckling a deep and sinister laugh that abruptly stopped as I gazed into my own eyes: the sclera was pure void black matching my pupil, the Iris however was glowing a cold, calculative blue whilst wisps of purple smoke left my eyes in a sinister way. I couldn't help but to think about how the purple smoke was somehow a darker, deeper shade of purple than Sombra's. Turning I saw what caused me to release a sigh of relief, I had no cutie mark.
Thinking to my appearance before I began once more on my journey I decided to tap into my shadowmancy to cast a concealing spell. This caused my shadow to release a dark mist that covered my eyes with a thin veil stopping the purple smoke and causing my eyes to return to the emotionless, empty slilvery grey eyes that belonged to one many years older than myself, the eyes I was once used to.
As I came to the location of the crystal empire's capital, the crystal city ((the crystal empire was too small for the fanfic)) I Used my dark magic to sense for Sombra as he too used dark magic. After feeling his inprisoned presence and grinning menacingly at how well things had turned out, chuckling as realised how much foresight I have as back home I was on the eighth season straightening my face I continued on my way to equestria.
After an hour of walking the blizzard finally let up. Giving way to a beautiful tundra. My first thought was to build a fire till I realised that I hadn't felt the cold at all, despite the blizzard. Chuckling I decided instead to look for food, begging all that is holy and unholy for me to still be gifted the blessing of eating meat. After I had finished carving the holy symbols of my world out of wood and placing them upon a shrine of snow I prayed and bowed to them for me to eat meat, then I turned to the symbols of all that is the opposite of things holy burned into the ground or scorched upon close by trees and chanted to them for blessing me with eating meat. Once that was finished I used my shadowmancy to devour the holy articacts into the shadow realm, but not before using dark magic infused with demonology to set them ablaze with a dark blue demonic flame and then I just did the same to the trees and froze the ground with boring normal unicorn magic. Satisfied I turned around, only to see a pony staring wide eyed with fear at me.
Flashing my teeth with a smile, forgetting that within my mouth are not teeth but the weapons of an apex predator, the pony ran only for me to sink into the shadows and reappear within the pony's tackling them to the ground I pinned them and gave them a hard menacing glare realising that the pony was male from this close "who are you? Where do you come from? And why are you here?" I sternly questioned giving off a strong sense of authority as my voice sounded like sly vipers luring the mouse into a trap.
"I-I-I'm lieutenant shield wall o-of the eques-equestrian royal guard," stuttered shield wall as he frantically looked around in fear and panic. I let him up to try and calm him so that he wouldn't stutter anymore as it grew annoying very quickly "I'm here on a mission by order of the princesses of the sun and moon to scout this area and report back if anything out of the ordinary is found," he finished standing up with a lot more confidence than before. This confidence quickly disappeared when he looked straight only to be greeted by my legs, his head a good few inches bellow my stomach.
Grinning I could tell with the help of this earth pony that I was as tall as or taller than celestia. I needed to greet him so I thought of a name after searching what could suite my new body, powers, personality and ambition I decided to be called Beelzebub the demon prince as I planned to become royalty and I was given my new form and powers by a demon. After much consideration I had decided that my last name should be that of a god in the roman pantheon as the Romans in my personal opinion had the best military history, stuck between mars the god of war and Jupiter the god of law and the Sky I decided upon Jupiter as he was the leader of his pantheon. Bowing my head slightly in respect for one within what I could assume to be the equestrian equivalent to a military I greeted him "I am Beelzebub Jupiter and I request two things of you. One: that you escort me to equestria," in order to lower suspicions I made myself shiver a little as I saw how cold the weather was to him "and two: that you get me a cloak it's bloody cold out," letting my London English accent be known I looked at his saddle bags and used my shadowmancy to control the darkness and shadow inside to sense what he had. Satisfied that he posed no threat I relaxed.
"Of course I'll help you but I'll have to take you back to camp first so that I can check in with the sargent and see if we can get a detachment," smirking I nodded and let him lead the way. However stopped as he looked upon my flank in curiosity, fear and awe as he never saw a pony at least with my age without a cutie mark. Realising that he was staring and where he was staring he quickly shot his head away from me and marched off as I snickered.
After arriving at the military camp I could tell that that they were stationed to stay there for a long time, the supplies and equipment would last them years at least so the hope of being escorted by the guard to seem less suspicious became steadily more unlikely. However my thoughts were interrupted by a white rabbit hopping infront of me and my stomach growling ferally. Leaning down at the fear stricken rabbit as it froze I opened my mouth and within less than a second I slammed my sharp deadly teeth upon the unsuspecting prey taking the top half of its body off as its hind legs bled a beautiful ocean of crimson red upon the pure white snow tainting it yet I stared into it with amazement and wonder as I swallowed with blood dripping from my chin I finished off my meal. I felt someone behind me, as I turned I saw Stone Wall stare into the blood painted upon the snow in fear and shock as his eyes became desperate when they met mine "I'm sorry It-it's just I've never seen that before, not a pony I mean I have griffin friends so..." he trailed off as he started to calm.
Flashing him a toothy (fangy?), feral smile that dripped madness and danger I chuckled a little "Oh I like you," his eyes widened a little but I noticed and licked the blood from my lips in a slow, flirtatious way with half lidded eyes, taking great joy in seeing embarrassment cross his face "well are you going to leed me into you camp or not?" I asked playfully as he started to walk with a rather fast pace I started to wonder on why I was being flirty to a pony. My conclusion ended up being that with a new body came a new 'taste' of course I was already more than happy to swing both ways so I wasn't panicking on whether I became gay or not. Plus his embarrassment was rather fun to play with.
Before entering the camp I took a cloak from the lieutenant's saddle and raised the hood over my horn in attempt to hide the fact that my horn was smooth, curved and sharply pointed with the top half being black and fading into my dull blue fur colour. All talk ceased once I made my presence known. It didn't require much I only had to walk into the damn place! "Hello this is customer service right?" I joked getting a kick out of my own joke as Stone Wall also seemed to enjoy it too as he (poorly) held back a laugh.
"Halt!" Came a booming posh voice that bled authority and reaked of silver spoons, luxury and brown noses. When I saw him I saw that he wasn't white like all the other guards with the golden armour but rather a bright orange with electric yellow hair, he wore no helmet and sported a golden armour with two studs on the chest piece (a sign of his rank) "lieutenant, explain immediately who this is," the prick ordered.
As sweat dripped from Stone Walls forehead I noticed that he had a singular stud on his chest "hm" I mumbled in curiosity as I turned and looked dead into this pricks eyes I lifted my hood with normal unicorn magic finally seeing the colour was a dark purple, akin to the smoke that came from my eyes if not hid, and without the sparkle that every other magic user had on the show which I quite liked as it demonstrated my devotion to the dark arts. Staring into his orange eyes that matched his fur the prick shrank and took a step back with a fore hoof as he stared into my Soulless, old silver eyes "I am Beelzebub Jupiter however you are to address me by Mr Jupiter or Sir. Only my friend can call me Beelzebub." Without taking my eyes off the trembling cowered I flashed a toothy grin to Stone Wall making the entire camp ,bar Stone Wall, flinch back in shock and fear "isn't that right Stoney?" I questioned in a mockingly innocent playful voice.
Shying away from his new nickname Stoney frantically gave me a begging look that clearly read 'please leave me out if this' chuckling I looked to the entire camp and said in a clear, calm voice that shook through the camp with authority, purpose and command "I require a patrol to grant me safe passage to the equestrian border, I can travel the rest of the way from there," seeing some faces tense and then calm that they won't have to take me that far I looked to Stoney and grinned wolfishly "that's Lieutenant Stoney Wall's job," opening and closing his mouth I chuckled as a few in the camp relaxed and released a few laughs of their own which increased as one whistled. As the cowardly prick which I now registered as the Sargent was about to protest I slammed my war mace of a hoof into his jaw knocking him out cold with blood dripping from his now broken and fractured snout and jaw I looked down satisfied with my work before giving an unhinged wide grin that flashed my sharp knife like teeth and significantly larger fangs that always showed as they poked out of my top lip when my mouth was shut "whoopsy" I jested in a playful manor.
Arriving at the border, I saw that there were checkpoints surrounding it's entirety. Most likely stretching across the entire border of Equestria, isolating it from the rest of the world. As I discovered went by the name Equis after listening to my escorts talk. Looking at Stone Wall I could see that he commanded those of a lower rank with great precision as they all seemed to remain loyal and put great trust in him. He was worthy of much more than a rank of lieutenant but rather a captain or even a general.
Once we had reached the border the guards at the checkpoint stopped us and cast me a fearful and suspicious glance before they used some magic to what I guessed was to scan us for something. Panicking I used as much normal magic as I could and brought it to the surface of the powers and knowledge in my mind whilst also using anti-magic to cancel out any dark or forbidden magic I had, for a short amount of time as this power drained me of my life force as I did it. After being let through I I realeased the anti-magic and relaxed, wiping my snout as blood dripped from my nose. Sighing I realised how close that was and how everything I had planned could have ceased to come to fruition had I been caught there. I had unfortunately learnt how taxing anti-magic is as it has caused me to sweat from my brow and bleed from my nose.
Turning around I saw my escorts waving me a goodbye before marching back north, looking to my left I saw that Stone Wall was looking at me with curiosity and slight concern. It was nice to know that someone cared though I doubted it was anything more than out of fear. Smiling I tasted iron, realising my nose was bleeding once more I wiped the blood away before playfully lapping it up like a dog, taking great amusement in Stone Walls look of utter disbelief and confusion.
"Why are you only a lieutenant Stoney?" I questioned snickering slightly at the nickname I had given him before continuing "I mean, you lead those guards with enough skill to at least consider yourself a Sargent," I pressed trying to see the reasoning behind his low rank as he would be useful in the military of my empire, should my plans succeed, I would have to put him in charge of my military due to his skill but I needed to see if he was truly worthy.
He looked down sadness washing over him as he slowed his pace, "The Sargents that were going to promote me decided against it because of my friendship with a griffin and they were, like most of equestria... They were," He hesitated clearly uncomfortable with saying the word that I already knew he was going to say, "They were racist and most of equestria is, to anything that isn't a pony, apart from other herbivores like us ponies or dragons but they fear dragons so," trailing off he was clearly distraught and angered as I heard the venom drop from his words this time, as he mentioned the racists and the equestrians.
"I see," looking him in the eyes I knew that he could be of use to me and would make for a grand general "well if it was up to me you would of been leading the guard by by now," looking up to me I saw that his eyes were filled with wonder, awe and determination. With that one look I knew that he was not only hooked but I was already reiling him in and I couldn't help but flash a toothy grin.
Pausing, I looked upon the fields and felt a warm breeze that was rather uncomfortable whilst the cold felt calming, slowly my eyes found their way to a mountain that harboured a poorly constructed castle that seemed to be more for aesthetic purposes as it didn't seem practical in anyway possible as it seemed a single pebble could cause it to fall off the cliff face. Continuing to walk I turned to Stone Wall "Come on then I have somewhere to be" I ordered in a calm telex manner that still spoke dominance.
"Oh, yes sure" Stone replied before hurrying to catch up as he struggled to keep at my pace. My anticipation increased as I longed to clarify where I was in the timeline along with my determination to win the ponies trust and unyielding desire to screw with the ponies heads. However I slowed for a second when Stone mumbled a "thank you. For what you said," grinning I picked up the pace once more and couldn't help but swell with pride and feel my hunger for power increase as the thought that I now had him reeled in filled me with tyrannical glee as I felt madness slip through the cracks in my shattered sanity as I Invisioned him as my general commanding my armies as I sit upon my throne.
As we went passed Canterlot I could see the village Ponyville a few miles away, my intrigue grew more as I looked down at it. My thoughts of meeting the main 6 and messing with them were abruptly stopped when Stone decided to speak up "you know I still can't believe you knocked the Sargent upside the head," his comment however caused a reaction he clearly didn't expect, as I snapped my head towards him with my neck lowered so that I was at eye level with him and began laughing maniacally, my howls of insanity piercing the air as my eyes widened, my pupils but pinpricks, the iris' became more blue and hardly visible wisps of dark purple smoke began leaking from my eyes. Stone's face contorted to one of horror at my cackling mad self, he took a few steps back before stopping "hey, Beelzebub I know it was funny but I'm not sure it was that funny" he chuckled nervously before cautiously stepping towards me and patting me on my back in a slow manner, still on guard and ready to run if I were to do anything. This caused me to calm a little as my eyes returned to grey and my laughter subsided into just a light chuckle that I still couldn't stop as seeing the prick Sargent sprawled out on the floor with a broken, bleeding face and the stunned faces of all his subordinates and Stone's look of shocked glee filled me with a twisted joy.
"Thank you Stone Wall" I commented "now then about Ponyville, we both know that the elements of harmony live there so we will need to be careful even though I plan to meet them but avoid the pink one" he gave me a confused look as he tilted his head to one side, akin to how a dog would "I've heard stories of the pink menace and believe me she's not someone to take lightly," I responded to his unspoken question, half-lying about only hearing stories about her as in fact I had watched the show and came to two conclusions on the reasoning behind 'pinkie being pinkie'.
My musings were inturupted by Stone "umm don't you mean 'somepony' instead of 'someone?" he questioned putting emphasis on the 'pony' "and when you say to be 'careful' do you mean because of the little bit of dark magic that leaked from your eyes" he continued my eyes widening as I prepared to dispatch of the stallion, "don't worry I won't tell anyone. Even though I'm an earth pony I've dabled in the dark and forbidden arts before, of course I couldn't do magic but I could summon a few things," he finished, chuckling as I relaxed and saw Stone in a new light.
"For one, that's surprising to hear and I'm sure there's a story behind it but no I don't mean 'somepony'" I replied jokingly but finished with pure disgust oozing from the word somepony "I find it rather racist. specist?" I continued though not sure what to call it due to there being a different vocabulary.
"Well that makes sense, guess I'll have to get used to saying 'one' instead of 'pony'," he commented with a look of contemplation as we continued on our trek. After an hour had passed Stone decided to mention "by the way there is no story, just I found an illegal book and found that us earth ponies are good at summoning, Pegasi are good at necromancy cause of their wings and something about electricity" he waved off "and unicorns are good at it all. Course everyone gets corrupted and turns evil through continued use, kinda why I stopped before it could get to me." he finished his small lecture/backstory with a proud, shit-eating grin.
"Ok smart ass well done. You cheated," I countered before laughing at his shocked and mock-hurt face. "I've never stopped, but then again I was never sane nor was I ever not corrupt," I chuckled as his face remained shocked but I also saw another hint of concern. Without another word we arrived at the entrance to Ponyville, smiling a sinister smile I strode into town pulling down my hood with a low ominous hum and a dark purple glow getting a good laugh out of the gawking and panicked expressions. Until the mane 6 showed up, this only made my grin widen.
"Stop! Who are you? And what are you doing here? Why are you here? Why are you frightening the other ponies?" Demanded Twilight in one breath with a stern, action ready expression. The rest of the mane six were the same, except Fluttershy who was struggling to keep up the (admittedly adorable) charade and Pinkie Pie who was bouncing on one spot and grinning widely.
"Whoa one question at a time you'll give me a headache you annoying element bearing, over-bearer" I complained whilst moaning at her. I looked at Pinkie Pie and warned her "Now now we both know you shouldn't use that too much or just not around me. I mean I know you are living proof of the string theory not being a theory, and can use it but not all the time for the simple reason that it starts to loose its effect, oh and I can not be held accountable for what I will do to you if you appear behind me," I lectured her in a parental way as if I was telling off a small child.
She immediately stopped bouncing, pouted for a second before bowing slightly and replying to me "of course sire," in a serious tone that shocked everyone in ear shot but only left me rather happy with my self.
I laughed before realising "oh well done Miss Pie you just inflated my ego" I complained then went on a tangent "I didn't know I had an ego before that. Oh my... that's a blumming huge ego. How did that even fit in my head. Wow that's impressive. Oh there we go again with the ego," I stopped catching my breath as I came to realise everyone was staring at me like I needed serious help. Whispering I asked them "can I trust you to show me around, or do I have to do it myself?"
Scrambling and struggling to find words they all fumbled with their mouths as they seemed speechless before Pinkie screamed "yes! Of course we will!" Satisfied I gave a nod and looked to Stone wearing a cocky victorious grin.
"Oh I can't wait to mess with them," I whispered to Stone. As the elements slowly started to walk off with confusion and shock bleeding from their steps and expressions, Pinkie however was bouncing as usual yet somehow managed to make her leaps in the air seem slightly more dignified.
Stone's face became plastered with shock, horror and disbelief as he looked to me and with a hushed yell asked "that was not Messing with them?!"
"Nope" I answered with a wink
