Author's Note
I don't own MLP,clearly.
I also don't own the music and lyrics to Hercules's "The Gospel Truth" song, it belongs to it's respective owner and creator aka Walt Disney.The song in this chapter is,obviously,a parody and nothing more.
I also don't own other movie references in this story, for they belong to their respectful owners.
Please enjoy:)
The Beginning...
Screams…
The screams of perpetually,anguished souls echoed throughout all of Tartarus.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
That’s an example,just in time.
Pain…was indeed a clear emotion of the prisoners,the moans said so.
It’s natural of course,why wouldn’t it be?
Thousands upon thousands upon hundreds upon billions of souls forever here.
Forever stuck in this infinite abyss, never any prisoner will ever have the chance to take even a single glimpse on the light of the day or even the light of the moon in the night ever again.
This realm,this place,it was made for the damned and the worst of the worst afterall...
Now,there is no denial of course;
everyone indeed has sinned,and no one has escaped from that, but no one could ever hope to match them.
Murderers,abusers,rappers,thieves,tyrants,traitors,and much more,we are all here,no one ever missing out the ‘fun’ in here.
What can someone ever possibly do in this place you may ask?
To rot…
To sit and rot,simply, my dear reader.
What did you think?That it was all fun and games?
Tartarus no.
Despite the fun times like; sharing a good laugh with a joke they heard from a fellow prisoner,yeah, that’s much the only source of entertainment you’ll possibly wish to get in here,or maybe perhaps Discord,Cerberus or Arrist taking out their anger in one of the prisoners,depends, if you find it entertaining or if you’re the one they take their anger out.
But that’s it.
The guardians take their job seriously, heck even Discord,The Lord of Chaos and Disharmony knows better to be patient with them and just completely ignore them,and he does.
Now, about The Guardians…
You have undoubtedly heard of Cerberus, ah, that 3-headed dog is so good at ripping heads…Cerberus, The Main Guardian of Tartarus, everyone has heard of this guy. Despite his…Bumpy history with keeping Lord Tired in check, he really does his job well! Unless you distract him with a ball that is…Anyways! He guards the main entrance of Tartarus and, if you happen to stand on his way…My prayers are with you…Yeah, Cerberus does not treat whoever tries to break in very well…Let’s just say he has quite the experience at eating ponies alive…Hey! Don’t blame him,there are warning signs before someone enters the prison, it’s his job to make sure that no one breaks in...Good or bad, he doesn’t give a damn…
Now Discord…
“Wait, did I heard it right? You said Discord?”
Yes,deaf reader,you heard it damn right,Discord is a part of this whole ‘charade’ too…
You wonder;”Wait, why Discord?They trust him enough after The Tirek incident?”
In fact yes, you know why?Because he co-created the damn-place, who did you think made it an infinite abyss?Surely not Cerberus.
If you wonder what the buck he does here;he checks every prison to see if there are any prisoners missing…
“Now,way,way,way,way,wait a second!You said that there are like billions of them in here!How does he keep track of ALL of them?”
Simply put:he senses it, he knows if there is a prisoner missing, he will feel it for sure,even if you see him using a checking list, he doesn’t need it,and it would be intellectually,physically impossible to list all of the prisoners in there,he doesn’t really use it, he just has it for fun.
And last, but not the least,Arrist…If you are not familiar with her;to sum it up she is The Spirit of Order and Discord's elder sister.Yep,if you want an entire explanation,just read the previous story!I don’t have all day here!Anyways…Moving on, she basically does the same thing that Discord does,the first two Saturdays of the month are her shifts, and the last two his.She also does something else;keep in track of The Titans…Uhhh, those scumbags!I don’t even wanna mention those bi-Oh, you’re here, I forgot…Now, as I mentioned;Discord keeps in track ALL the prisoners, not those 4 Titans though,no,no,no,no,she takes personal care of them.
Who are The Titans?
You are wondering,well, if you haven’t watched “Hercules” once in your lifetime,then you don’t know the elementary…
*Ahem*
Well,Muses?Could you do thy honour?
Then, out of nowhere, nine mares appeared from a nearby staircase, three of them unicorns,three of them earth ponies,and three other were pegasi, all had brown-coloured bodies, white manes, and wore almost the same silky white dress,undoubtedly sisters.
“Sure thing!”One of them, the tallest of all nine,a Pegasus,assured.
“Hey, are we paid for this?” The chumpiest,an earth pony,of the nine asks.
“Just roll with it,”The shortest,a unicorn,replied sarcastically waving a hoof.
“Can we begin already?I haven’t sung in days!And I need to work up my vocal cords ya know,”The slimmest, a pegasus,complained putting poudra on her cheeks.
“Let’s…Not keep the reader waiting any longer,”The one with the waviest hair suggested,an earth pony, quite annoyed and determined.
“Well…Let’s begin then,”The one with the shortest hair agreed,a unicorn,already preparing some instruments to play on their own.
Bring it on ladies~
Then an upbeat tone started
“But you are wondering;who the heck are we?”She with the longest hair,a pegasus,guessed at least one reader’s thought.
“Well, if you haven’t watched “Hercules”,no wonder,though,if you have…You know where this is going,”The one whose eyes changed colour every second,clearly hinted where this was going.
https://youtu.be/RPSGRd3eLuA
“*Ahem*”The tallest coughed.
[i]“We are The Muses. Goddesses of The Arts and Proclaimers Of Heroes,”
“Heroes like The Pillars of Equestria,The Elements of Harmony…”One appeared a leaf and waved it to make air for herself.
“Our story, actually begins long before them, many eons ago,”She then appeared a scenery just below their hooves
“WAAAAH-HAAAAAAAA!” They all began and they slided down some stairs that led to the scenery, but stopped in the middle of them and began simultaneously walking and dancing slowly .
“A long time ago.In those lands and beyooond,there were gigantic brutes called Titans that ran amok,”
Then, the scene showed four beasts causing havoc and destruction, all in a stained glass, but then, some pieces that had homes were destroyed by an earthquake as the window showed,and the pieces that had the homes fell on the floor,then one of The Muses stepped down to continue the song.
“It was a nasty place,”She stopped and shivered.
“There was a mess whereeeever you stepped.”She then tried not to step in some broken pieces of the shattered glass.
“Where chaos reigned, and volcanoes, seas,tornadoes and earthquakes never slept,”
The stained glass continued to show that the four gigantic beasts were still causing destruction to the poor unfortunate lands,not only Equestria...But other lands as well,for example right now it shows them melting some of the Dragonland’s finest gems and left the dragons starving and simultaneously destroying Griffinstone's homes.
“Ooooh! Sing it girl!”
And the Muses continued dancing and with their hooves they pointed back to stained window.
“And then along came The Guardians!”
And it showed three figures watching from a distance the wrongdoings of The Titans with a cold expression,those figures namely Discord,Arrist and Cerberus.
“They planned to built the prison,”
And it appeared them discussing the structure of Tartarus then stopped and glanced at them destroying nearby lands,almost approaching close to them,and sped up the process.
“They did it!”
And as said ,Cerberus began digging a vault big enough for the four gigantic beasts,which was a matter of minutes for him, Discord was on guard for them and occasionally sprinkling a certain magic dust on the vault that Cerberus was in the process of creating.
“And locked those suckers in a vault”
And then Arrist appeared and whistled to The Titans,they stopped their ‘work of art’ and spotted her,then she stung her tongue out and they started chasing after her,while she was luring them to their doom.
“They’re trapped,”
Discord made the finished vault invisible so they couldn’t see it,Arrist stopped and gasped for air just a few meters ahead of them and in front of the trap,and as they were about to finish her...she snapped her fingers and teleported away right before they fell in the mentioned prison,as they fell ,bars of blessed iron appeared in the opening of the prison and they screamed and banged the bars but with no use.
“And on their own stopped them in their traaacks,”
Following after the defeat,The Spirits of Order and Chaos turned everything back to normal,with Discord being a troublemaker and causing his own mischief now and there without his sister knowing,and he seemed to have a fun time doing so.
“And that’s the debt we owe them!
They were not too hearless to just relaaaaaax!
And that’s the world’s first,somehow,heroes,”
Then The Muses formed a white flower and when its petals opened ,they appeared in top of the petal,and the flower was in the centre of a dish that was separated into 9 sections,and each Muse pointed to one of the section.
The first section clearly showed The Guardians in front of the infamous Tartarus prison,
second showed Lord Tirek being banished in the mentioned abyss,
third the banishment of King Sombra including The Crystal Empire to the far North,
fourth The Pillars of Equestria banishing The Pony of Shadows to Limbo,
fifth the imprisonment if Discord,
sixth the banishment of Nightmare Moon to the Moon,
seventh showed the return of Princess Luna,Discord,The Crystal Empire,The Pillars and The Pony of Shadows,one side showed their evil selves,excluding The Pillars,and the other side showing their good nature.
Eight showed Lord Tirek’s second banishment while also the appearance of The Castle of Friendship
and last but not the least the all-famous reformation of The Changeling Kingdom...
“Yeah baby!”
“They tamed those beasts while still in their ‘youth’”
“Though,honey it may seem impossible,that’s the debt we all oooowe”
“On our world life became much more neat and smooth as sweet vermouth”
“Ooooh”
“Though,honey,it may seem impossible,that’s the debt we ooooooooooooooooowe~”
And then they all together formed a circle and pointed once more to the dish...
Thank you ladies, amazing performance.
*Clap* *Clap*
“No problem,”They assured and then a portal appeared and they all jumped on it and left.
Well, now that we lighted up the mood with some catchy music, let’s continue, shall we?
Are you wondering as to why Arrist and not Discord is keeping track of them?
Well, because, as The Muses mentioned earlier: they created havoc and destruction,why it is true that one unmistakable way to destroy fire is with fire, though, sometimes, water is a little bit necessary from times to times.
And as the song said,the trio sealer them down here, to the darkest and most deepest pit of Tartarus.
The Titans are the first prisoners of Tartarus, they have been here for, eh, maybe two millennials or so, somewhere there, don’t quite remember.
Okay, now their names a little quick;
The Titan of Earthquakes Adamantus
The Titan of Volcanoes Fireflame
The Titan of Floods Katara
The Titan of Winds Flowind
They will be useful later on.
Let’s continue then….
Tartarus is a terrible place as you may heard.
How terrible you ask?
Very…
The screams will confirm that.
The constant yells,groan,anguished screams pretty much consist a part of this place.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Another one.Those prisoners never learn to close their mouths...
There isn’t anything The Guardians can do to interfere obviously,they just roll with it,it has even become a part of their daily routine.
A side note:you forget time in here,there is no time in here,you think that you have been in here for a month but you have actually been here for a day!
Fun right!
It’s not something the place itself does,it’s just your mind tricking you into believing that you’re here longer than you think you are.
Like school!
You’ve been there right?
Well,remember that boring class that for you it always seemed like an eternity?
Yeah that’s how the place makes you feel.
The prisoners are placed in cages,not very cozy,but at least not very small ones,there are very high temperatures in here by the way.
Yeah,they are hideous by the way.
You don’t want to know any further.
So,let’s say you just can’t take it,you want to get out,to return to your sweet cozy home where no screams,no yells,no tortures are in there.
Hate to break this up to you,but there is no way out.
So yeah,don’t expect that you have any chances.
So,what’s the best thing you can do you ask me?
Sit.
Sit and try to get lost in your thoughts.
Though that might be impossible since thy screams will not quite assist you…
Well,you can have a silent voice like the other prisoners who could no longer try to bare with all this.
While in here,if you are a deep sinner,you will regret a whole lot of things in your living life.Remember that...
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‘Is he a friend, or is he a foe after all?’ the reader wonders.
I can assure you... I am no friend.
Welcome to Tartarus
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