That Monday, I went to work. It wasn't much, dish washing with Pinkie. I helped her cook too, mixing batter and getting her ingredients, tools, and pulling things out of the oven for her when she couldn't. Not that she needed all the help, she easily was able to do it on her own. I just helped so I could pay her back for smacking her in the face. She accepted my help with joy, and I had a fun time. It go to be lunch time for us, so we went out to a little restaurant near the bakery.

She was talking about her pet Alligator, Gummy, and I was crying lightly at one of her stories she had on him, about a mother's day present she had gotten from him.

The story was, he had gotten in the chocolate cake batter on that mother's day, and had made a mess. Pinkie had been cooking, and hadn't noticed Gummy making the mess. When she finally did, she had started to scold him, when she saw what he had really done. The little alligator had crawled over to a clean corner of the room, and had written Mama in a heart on the floor. When she had seen it, she had cried for hours after words, with happiness fluttering in her heart. The story was so cute and happy that it had me crying at her telling of it.

As the optical waterfalls where drying out, we saw that some people where running from the direction of Sugercube Corner. We went outside, and headed towards the bakery.

As we got close, we could see fires burning some of the buildings. We ran for the bakery, and saw Mr. and Mrs. Cake run by us. We stopped them and asked what was going on.

"We where making some cakes when a woman walked in, demanding us to bow down and give her everything. We refused, and she got angry, transforming into a scorpion like centaur. We rushed the customers out the back, but she started to cast spells and burned the Corner. We didn't know what to do." Mrs. Cake answers.

"Pinkie, go get your friends, and have them get everyone out of town. I am going to fight whatever this thing is."

"No, you are going to come with me and we are all going to fight it." She says, starting to get a scared look in her eyes, realizing the seriousness of the situation.

"No, I am going to fight it and you are going to get everyone to safety. You know why I was sent here right?" She nods her head. "Then you know that this is my actual job, not hunting or helping you at the Corner, which is now burning. Besides, you are faster at bending reality than I am. Get your friends, and have them get everyone to safety. Please? I'll come back and all that cliche bullshit that people say, just go and get everyone to safety." I then run off, pulling out my gun and checking my ammo out.

I have found that she gave me unlimited ammo, I just still need to switch mags. I actually didn't mind that, as it gave me an extra challenge when fighting, that I have to get to safety before reloading. The ammo counter is full at thirty.

I round the corner for the final stretch to the bakery, and see the demon that has burnt most of the town. I see three little fillies screaming in terror as the demon yells at them in a voice that sounds old, like it hasn't been heard on the planet for a VERY long time. It was like a bunch of scorpions where crawling over each other, their exoskeletons rubbing each other as they passed.

"BOW BEFORE ME! I AM YOUR NEW RULER! BOW, OR PERISH BEFORE THE DEMON ACARA!"

I don't even hesitate. I bring the rifle to my shoulder, aimed down the sights, flipped it to full-auto, and emptied the clip into the demon. She screeched in pain, allowing the CMC to run towards me. They reached me, and started to thank me, but I just shoved them out the way and pointed away, never taking my eyes off of the creature that was before me. It had the upper body of a dark gray woman. Her hair was a dark, dirt colored brown chitinous plating that resembled dreadlocks. Her lower half was a scorpion. The color of her armor was the same dirt brown as her hair, as it reached up her back to wrap around and cover her breasts. Two pincers came from around where her waist met the armor. She carried a spear like weapon made of a metal I didn't know.

"WHO DARES TO ATTACK ME! SHOW YOURSELF, SO THAT I MAY FEAST ON YOUR FLESH, AND LAY MY EGGS IN YOUR CORPSE!" she roars, looking around and spotting me.

"Sorry, I don't take orders from demons. My shirt may tell you how I feel right now, due to you having destroyed my town."

I looked down at the shirt that I was currently wearing, having changed it before walking out to her.

"You flipped the Bitch Switch, so buckle up and enjoy Asshole

I was proud of my choice.

"YOU DARE MOCK THE DEMON ACARA! YOU WILL BE PUNISHED FOR YOUR INSOLENCE, MORTAL!" She lunges at me with her spear, and I dodge out of the way, running behind her towards the burning Corner. I turn around, saying to her.

"Ma'am, I am going to have to ask you to piss off, or I will have to use force. I will let you go free from hell if you leave town now. Otherwise, i'll beet your ass bloody, and send you back to Tarturus with Cerberus. Hey, that rhymed."

Sadly, not paying attention left me open to attack, and that is what happened. I felt my left boob get stabbed, and looked down to see her spear stuck in to my heart. The demon rips it out, and it pours out blood. I just sigh, as I feel the scabbard of the holy sword start to heal my wounds. I found it only heals physical injuries, but not poisons or mental distress. I turn to the demon, her face one of puzzlement.

"My turn."

I pull out my God-Eater, and let it feed. It roars as three heads appear out of it, made of whatever entity that the blades are made of. It surges towards the demon, who starts to spear, sting with her stinger, or grab with her pincers on to the entity that is rushing towards her. It is useless.

The entity reaches the demon, and bites down on her pincers and tail. She continues trying to stab it with her spear, but it does nothing. The beast of the sword rips her pincers off, swallowing them whole, before tearing off the stinger, throwing it to the side. Acara screams in pain, and turns to run. The heads of the sword latch onto her legs, ripping them off, eating them. They latch on to more of her legs and tear them off as well. The demon is crying now, using her hands to try and pull her massive body away from me. The heads just keep on eating through her body, ripping chunks of her off and eating her alive.

I continue with the slaughter, allowing my blade to gain energy from the being it was eating. After the human part was the only piece of the demon remaining, the blade was satisfied. I put it back in hammerspace, before walking over to the scorpions stinger, and then it's spear. Picking up the stinger, I walked over to Acara's body, still whimpering in pain, scrabbling at the dirt trying to get away, but not moving anywhere. I grab her hair, pulling her up to face me.

"I told you to leave. You didn't. Then, you stabbed me, ruining an awesome shirt. I could have lived with that. But what really made me end you, was destroying this town. That is why you are going to die. Have fun in whatever Tarturus, just don't let me see you when I finally join you."

I then thrust her stinger into her throat, squeezing it to release the poison. She starts to shudder, her blood that's left starting to seep out of her orifices. Her eyes started to bleed, her mouth dripped more blood than before, her ears leaked blood from them. And her lower half started to flow freer than before, blood gushing out faster than ever. In moments, she was a lifeless husk, all of her blood drained out by her poison, an anticoagulant that makes it overproduce, and blood vessels explode, making you bleed to death in the most painful way possible.

I throw the corpse away, and look up. Sugercube Corner and most of the buildings around still burning. Quickly, I warp reality to a small lake, and make as much water pour out of the lake onto the fires, putting out them in moments. I couldn't save everything inside the buildings, but I could save as much as possible from destruction. After that, I closed my rift in reality that had been opened, and headed towards the edge of town.

As I reached it, I was starting to fall asleep. The fight had taken more out of me than I had thought, mainly cause I hadn't done much fighting.

The mane 6 see me first, and start to rush me, before the rest of the town sees me, and follow suit slower than the 6. Pinkie tackles me, and the rest of the girls pile on for a big hug. I wonder why? Did something happen? Was someone killed that I didn't know about?

"You STUPID MOTHERFUCKER! WHY!? YOU COULD HAVE BEEN KILLED! DO YOU KNOW THAT IT'S BEEN AN HOUR SINCE YOU TOLD ME TO GET EVERYONE TO SAFETY?! WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO?! WHY DID I FEEL A TEAR?! What happened to the demon? Why did you leave me? Please don't leave me."

I look at the other girls as they get off of me, asking them with my eyes what is making Pinkie like this. Rainbow Dash answers.

"She has been crying ever since you told her to come get us, and get everyone to out of town. We didn't know why. What did you tell her?"

"That I would be back, and whatever else cliche bullshit promise that people make, before I ran off. Oh, actually, this makes much more sense now that I put it out loud like this."

"YEAH, IT BETTER! YOU MADE ME WORRY! THOSE BULLSHIT CLICHES ARE BULLSHIT AND CLICHE FOR A REASON, YOU KNOW! Now, answer my questions. What the hell did you do to the demon? And why did I feel a spatial warp of dimensions 9 and soda, leading to approximately 1700 gallons of the pond on the other side of Ponyville to be emptied into the town?"

"The can we go to my house to answer those questions? I am feeling a little tired. Also, the people are going to have to do some heavy rebuilding of Ponyville. They can go back in now, but Sugercube Corner was lost, along with a few houses for about a block from the bakery, where lost to fires. I did what I could, which was pour approximately 1700 gallons of Ponyville's pond on them. That's the answer to the tear. The other question can be answered at my house."

"Cameron, I am going to have to send a report to Princess Celestia. I am going to have to requisition for construction workers, and materials for rebuilding. And I am going to have to tell her about the demon that attacked. I didn't report the last one, as it was in the Everfree, and wasn't hurting anypony. But this was to bad to withhold. I am going to have to mention you, and explain you to her. She will want to meet you. Are you okay with that?" Twilight informs me.

I mull this over for a minute, before relenting and saying fine, she was bound to learn of me eventually. Better to be on her good side for saving her subjects, than piss her off for not meeting her sooner. She nods, and conjures up a quill, ink, and scroll, penning out a letter to the princess. We move on to my house as she starts doing so, Pinkie for some reason not letting me go the entire walk to my house.

As we get their, I see a grey mare with wings come down the path carrying something. As she draws near, I see that it is the spear of the demon I slew, as well as the stinger, which had for some reason been refiled, as it was now full from when I had emptied it into the demon. I also saw that she had said demons carcass with her. I immediately pushed Pinkie off me, and ran to the grey pegasus, grabbing the carcass and stinger from her. The mare touched down, and said to me.

"The mayor saw these on the ground in town, and told me to bring them to you. She says that they are your trophy's, and you should be responsible for what happens to them." The mare looks at me, and I see that one eye is perpetually staring up, while the other is more or less focused on me, but slightly pointed downwards at the same time.

"Thank you Derpy. Tell Mayor Mare that I will be there soon to help her figure out what to do." Twilight steps up to the mare, taking the spear from the pegasus. She salutes us, then takes off back down the path, never hitting a tree.

We head inside, and the girls are keeping their distance from me, including Pinkie. I toss the stinger down beside the door, before heading back outside. I walk over to an unused patch of ground that has little to no grass in it, and toss the carcass to the ground. I then proceed to light the bitch up, using a lighter and some fire starter.

With that done, I walked back in, to see Twilight and the girls examining the spear. They were fascinated by something on it, and glanced at me as I entered, before turning back to the spear.

"Something about the spear?" I ask, hoping someone would fill me in on what is special about it.

Fluttershy speaks up then, looking at me with a serious face. "Cameron, do you know who this spear belongs too?"

"Yeah. The demon I fought. Her name was Acara. She was some scorpion lady. Real bitch. Stabbed me with that spear. Right in the boob, too."

They all are staring at me after I say this, before Applejack clears her throat, and says.

"Cameron. You just killed one of the twelve rulers of Tarturus."

Author's Note

Cliff hanger. Sorry, but it is late as I finish this chapter, and I wanted to leave on a note that helps with setting up the rest of the story. Twelve rulers of the pit. It will be a long and arduous battle. One that I am determined to win.

Have a Jivin day!