Viventis Anathema - Story of a Cursed Mare

In the devastated machinery room, a presence loomed over her. That voice sounded both disturbing and intimidating. It reminded her of demons from a distant past that was never told before. Grimwood turned around to see the interlocutor that was towering on her. What she didn't expected to see was something out of the world.

It didn't looked like a pony, and it didn't looked like a Homunghoul either. It looked like a real demon in all it's horrible splendor.

It was a two legged, humanoid creature wearing a black cape, whose body resembled that of a dragon; full of scales from the chest to the feet and with four digits claws and talons. His head looked like that of a unicorn, except that it's visage was more feral; having a long horn, a silver mane, wolf like fangs and full-red eyes with the absence of pupils.

The creature stood tall and stared at Grimwood, scanning it like it was it's own prey. His existence was unique to her. Grimwood had saw so many creatures, but she never thought to witness something so demonic like this creature. Despite this monster being so imposing, he wasn't even close to resemble the demon of her nightmares.

But that wasn't her only preoccupation.

"How the fuck do you know my real name?" Grimwood asked with a inquisitive tone.

"You have no idea of the importance of your powers," The creature said. "The darkness that cursed your life was nothing more than a bliss in the favor of a bigger scheme. Your existence defies the natural course of this world, and that was what makes your role so important."

He raised his claw and swung them at Grimwood, who had promptly leaped away from it.

"And that's the dilemma." The creature continued.

"You have a problem with me, you bastard?" Grimwood said angrily as she pulled out the metal box, turned it into her chainsaw and pulled it's cord, revving it. "Allow me to reformulate the question before I am going to kill you for that. What the hell do you know about me?"

"You are the recipient of something great," The creature said. "You powers had awakened, but it's essence is still incomplete. You have no choice but to satisfy it's conditions. As for your question, I owe you no knowledge at all."

"You make no sense," Grimwood said impatiently. "Just get to the point already!"

"Don't even think to survive my encounter with that toy of yours," The creature declare and then pointed his claw at her. "The reason of my presence in this lair of traitors was the smell of your soul! I will take it from your dead flesh!"

"Then bring it," Grimwood provoked. "I had killed a psychotic Necro-Alchemist and her army with this tool. I don't care if it's you or somepony else. If you try to kill me, then I'll just have to return the favor to you."

"You had survived the encounter with other demons," The creature said confidently. "But you won't survive a fight with a Bloodlord. I am Geo and I will give you a demonstration of my claim as hatred given flesh!"

"Shut up already! RAGING CHAINSAW!" Grimwood shouted as the chainsaw blade suddenly stretched toward Geo, only for him to instantly dissipating into a swarm of wasps made of blood, much to her shock. "What the-"

The swarm flew through Grimwood, who closed her eyes and shielded herself with her chainsaw. The blood wasps reformed themselves, causing Geo to reappear behind her. The violet mare turned around to see him and ended up being back handed by him. Grimwood fell on the floor, with her chainsaw falling from her metallic claws.

"Pathetic," Geo said slightly disappointed as he charged toward Grimwood and jumped toward her in his attempt to slash her with his claws.

Grimwood rolled away from it's trajectory, resulting him to cut a debris into pieces instead. She then rose up, recovered her still revving chainsaw and rushed toward him furiously to cut him down. As the blade got closer to him, Geo dissipated into a swarm of blood wasps again, making her to miss him.

She tried to tear the swarm apart, but instead of dying, the insects multiplied in numbers. The blood wasps flew toward Grimwood to overwhelm her. She leaped away from them and leaved them to reform themselves. As Geo reappeared, she attacked him with her chainsaw in a surprise attack, only for him to parried it by his hand. Many sparks were ignited as her weapon clashed with the scales.

"Bastard!" Grimwood exclaimed as she jumped backwards and landed far away from him. "Your scales are not normal ones!"

"You can't penetrate my armor," Geo said. "Your chainsaw is insignificant when it's compared to my might!"

"Tsk!" Grimwood looked nervous.

"Burn!" Geo roared as his horn glowed with a dark, hellish aura, materializing five meteors that descended down
on her.

Grimwood considered herself to be safe thanks to the invisible magical barrier generated by the crystal inside her chainsaw, but her instinct was telling her otherwise. She tried to escape, but unfortunately for her, the impact of the meteor on the terrain sent her flying, slamming her against the wall while shattering the barrier. Fiery explosions utterly devastated the already ravaged room.

Despite that, Grimwood was still alive thanks to the barrier, although she was stunned by that. She was about to loose her consciousness but she resisted and forcefully rose up, ignoring her pain. By the time she lifted her gaze, Grimwood realized her opponent disappeared in the middle of the flames.

And yet the noise of the swarm was still there, and was echoing from above her. Grimwood looked up, noticing the swarm diving on her. She rolled away from their trajectory, avoiding leaving the wasps being splattered on the floor. The swarm regenerated and multiply themselves, a moment before they started to reforming themselves.

"Got you! CHAINSAW MAELSTROM!" Grimwood shouted as her chainsaw blade glowed in a purple aura and shot a barrage of energy blades against the swarm, in the same time they were resuming their real form. The blades burst in fiery explosions of violet flames.

What followed was a very chilling roar.

Geo roared ferociously in pain as he reappeared with his half of his face being almost destroyed. His left eye was butchered, his eye socket was bleeding and trails of vapor were steaming from it.

"You're predictable as a usual brute force type creature, didn't ya" Grimwood demanded with a gleeful expression.

The creature glared furiously at her. "You will pay for this trickery!"

Geo opened his mouth and channeled it with flames. Knowing what was going to happen, Grimwood promptly ran away from him, a moment before he spitted out a gigantic column of flames that destroyed the stone wall, leaving only a hole that was facing toward the outside.

Grimwood breathed heavily, looking very nervous. "In can't believe it. A two thousand grades blast of flames!"

As Grimwood was about to react, Geo glowed his horn and unleashed other five meteors. Having saw that coming, the violet mare rummaged in her bag and pulled out a red crystal. The object glowed with a crimson aura and the dissipated into a red light that engulfed Grimwood's body.

She then charged toward Geo as the meteors phased through her body without even doing any harm.

"WHAT?!" Geo exclaimed.

"That was the only crystal that I never though to use, until this moment." Grimwood thought as she approached the creature. "It allows me to phase through those meteors without getting hurt. However... It's brief duration makes it very hazardous to use. I had to attack until I can."

Having reached her enemy, Grimwood jumped toward Geo and tried to shred him with a overhead attack, but was then grabbed by him and then tossed across the room. The mare crashed on the floor, all the while keeping her chainsaw handle in her grip.

Geo made a few steps toward Grimwood, emitting very chilling deep breaths. He looked at his prey with a mixed glimmer of scorn and interest. As he was advancing, Grimwood put her metallic claw inside her bag and rummaged inside. Geo instantly noticed that.

"It's pointless resisting," Geo declared. "I will put a end to your life this instant!"

That being said, Geo charged his mouth with the flames and spitted out another columns of flames upon her.

In that instant, Grimwood tossed a very small opal that generated a barrier in front of her that reflected the flames and turned them against Geo. A very huge explosion overwhelmed him, engulfing his entire body with flames. As the flames were slowly dissipating, Grimwood took the opportunity to stood up and observe his conditions.

Geo was made a few steps back as his form was finally revealed. At this point, his body was destroyed; His scales being melted by the heat of the blast. His face was utterly melted, with his skull being almost exposed. And yet his only remaining red eye was still there.

"Time to end your wretched charade," Grimwood declared.

"Y..You cant... Escape the army," Geo said as he charged toward Grimwood. "THE ARMY OF-"

"SHUT UP ALREADY!" Grimwood shouted and she jumped in the air to dodge his attack and dived down on his head, cutting through it with her chainsaw and almost splitting Geo's body in two.

Despite his body being shredded, his blood remained still, as if it refuses to ever coming out. As that wasn't bizarre enough, his body was slowly petrified.

"What the...?" Grimwood said dumbfounded.

All of a sudden, a flux of black energy came out of the petrified body and entered inside Grimwood's body. A very lacerating pain overwhelmed her as the black flux continued to flow inside her. And then, there was another vision.

Another grim vision, just like the time with the Homunghoul of Fluttershy.

Long time ago, before the rise of Nightmare Moon, there was a unicorn who got lost in the land of the dragons. He tried to find a way back home, until a group of dragons approached him. Insulting him wasn't enough. They wanted to abuse him and putted him into tortures of the worst nature.

He escaped for his life, and tried to get out of the land, but he was always reached by them. He lived a real nightmare that lasted for about five years, until he managed to get out of the land. However, the trauma he had suffered caused him to feed his own hatred toward the dragon kind. To further fomenting his hate, his friends were killed by the same dragons that had caused him much suffering.

At that point, he begged for something that allows him to made them suffering a very agonizing death.

And then he had appeared.

A mysterious pony like creature that had bestowed him a very gruesome power that turned him into the monsters that he had become.

"You can go at your heart content. You are not Guilable Drop anymore. Your are now a Bloodlord... Geo."

These are the words of the creature that helped him to get his revenge. With that power, he would had got rid of his hated nemesises. But killing them wasn't enough. He had devoured them, literally, and his body departed from it's ponykind nature, until it resembled that of a draconical monstrosity.

A monstrosity that was baptized as the Bloodlord of Hatred.

As the vision ended, her pain stopped and the flux of energy has been dissipated; and stone statue of Geo crumbled in front of her very eyes. Grimwood was confused and doesn't know what really happened when a new surge of power awakened inside her being. She can feel it. Her powers had grown in their intensity. Grimwood can feel a new power fermenting inside her.

In that moment, Grimwood understood what happened, and that disgusted her.

"Did I had... Just absorbed his own soul?" Grimwood asked, almost horrified.

Grimwood didn't had the time to reflect about that somepony screamed from the blocked passage.

It was Rainbow Dash's voice.