I reached my house, and immediately called out for Satan. She came running at me, and gave me a hug. She seemed to be scared, crying. She screeched.

"A demon has come. He sits in the catacombs. He controls the mind. He hurts people. He eats people. He wants me. He can't find me. He hates you. Please don't leave me? Can I come with you? I am scared. He has hurt sisters. He has controlled the town. He has them under his control."

"Calm down. He can't get you. This house is warded from the scrying eye." I had learned from Twilight when she had tried to check on Satan, the house seemed to be blocked from outside view. In fact, much like the house in God of War, the entire clearing my house was on was magically blocked, and trying to see it with any form of magic perception, or demonic perception, it looked like a decrepit old house, and everything was burned, blackened, and unusable as a house. I figured it out only because I had seen the symbols, and Twilight had at one point found that they did work as a magic ward, protecting the entire clearing and house.

"You can come with me, I will hide you, and you won't be found by the demon. Do you know his name?"

"No. I can't tell which demon it is. I know it is one of the rulers. He. He has come to take me back, and kill you. I can feel it. It is in the air, his intent. Please don't go. I am scared. I want to come with you. How will you hide me?"

"I have a way, just come with me, lets go to Twilight's library." She reluctantly let go, and we went out the door of my cabin. As we started to walk down the road, Sasha joined us. The raptor walked beside us, and I told her to go ahead of us and scout to see if any demon or pony was waiting for us. If it was a demon, try and kill it, but if she couldn't, get away. If it was a pony, try and lure it away from the path me and Satan were on. The raptor nodded, and rushed ahead, going off into the brush at the side of the road.

After about ten minutes, we reached Sweet Apple Acres. I headed to the house first, and knocked. Applejack rushed to the door, and came out.

"Cameron, what you doing here? My family is saying they can sense something on the farm, and it's starting to worry me. Big Mac was going to come out here and see what it might have been, but I told him to wait, I'll go check. What do you need?"

"We need a cart into town. Satan knows what is happening, and she is the one the demon is after. She says everyone in town is under its control."

"So it is a demon? Thought so, my family is acting up. I'll get the cart hitched, and say I am gonna sell some apples at the market. You go to the barn and get ready to help me out."

"Okay." And me and Satan run off to the barn.

About ten minutes later, Applejack and I are pulling the handcart into Ponyville. We make our way to the library, and sneak Satan inside.

I should tell her about the Lucifer idea, and then get started on the conversation with everyone else. I need to tell them that the CMC are coming by, and that we need to help them out.

Applejack and I head into the library with Satan, and most of the other girls are already there. Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Twilight, and Fluttershy were waiting. As me and the two girls entered, Pinkie came out of one of the bookshelves.

"Sorry Twi, everybody was trying to get me. I had to bend the gorp and blegnac planes of space to get here." I smacked my forehead.

"Why didn't I think of just spacial shifting? Gods, I could have gotten me and Satan here much faster, and saved Applejack the trouble."

"It's okay Cameron, you were just trying to think of your daughter. Or is it our daughter now? Well, at least you got Lucy here safely, without anypony finding out."

"I will tell you all about Lucy in a bit, in the meantime, she told me that there is a demon controlling the towns ponies. The CMC are coming over in a minute to talk with us, so I am sorry to say that we will have to knock them out when they come in, and hide Satan. She said the demon is looking for her, which I believe is why your family was saying they could sense something, Applejack."

Then, upstairs, we heard a thump. All of us looked at the ceiling of the library, and Twilight was grimacing.

"Sorry, I had to tie up Spike. He jumped me when I came in, and tried to jab me with a needle. I was able to get him off, and tied him up. The needle had a sleep potion in it, so they might have gotten to Zecora in the Everfree."

"It's a possibility." At that moment we heard a knock at the door. Fluttershy giggled, but I ignored it as I ushered Satan down into Twilight's basement. Fluttershy opened the door with a grin, and as the girls walked in, she grabbed Applebloom and tossed her across the room. Scootaloo got tossed to the ceiling, and Sweetie Belle was lifted up and choke slammed into the ground. The rest of the girls and I were shocked.

"FLUTTERSHY! THE FUCK DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING!?" Fluttershy just giggled.

"I'm sorry, but Fluttershy isn't here right now. If I could take a message, she can hear you just fine. I am Butchershy. And the girls are getting up, so I would recommend knocking them out, Cameron." I turned around to Applebloom, and saw that she had glowing eyes. I looked at Scootaloo, and she had the same thing. And then Sweetie Belle threw Butchershy off of her. I pulled out my axe.

"Twilight, prepare for it to get cold in here. Girls, get behind Twilight's barrier." I then used the light runic attack wrath of the frost ancient. I braced my hands on the axe, and I unleashed a beam of ice at the girls, freezing them in place. After a few seconds of the attack, I stopped it. Twilight lowered her barrier, and I jumped for Fluttershy.

She reacted by bringing out her new saw cleaver and blocking me. She giggled.

"Cameron, that's not nice." Her right eye changed color to red, and her left stayed blue. Her fur became white. Around her right eye, some makeup like substance burned away, revealing a red burn patch above the eye, and her mane became blood red. "There is no need to worry. I don't care to kill any of you."

"And how do I know you aren't lying? What are you, and what have you done to Fluttershy, if she is still in you?"

"Well, you know how you said that all the demon voodoo was off my saw? It wasn't. i am the residual voodoo. I just made my way into Fluttershy, and then met with her light, and became Butchershy. I think it was her harmony that I merged with, because I really don't care much to kill any of you. Her kindness must have rubbed off. I am not going to hurt you. Now the little one's, well, that was because the demon was controlling them, and had made it so we would be captured by them. They were protected."

"And how did you know that?"

"I could see it. I am part demon, so I could see the power that was exerted over them."

"Fine. We can talk about this more later. In the meantime, Twilight, do you know anything that can get them out of under this spell?"

"I can look around, and try and find something. I think I know a few spell that could help us."

"Get on it. Butchershy, go get Satan. And if you hurt her, you die."

"You are one of the strongest beings in Equestria. I wouldn't dream of it." She opens the basement door, and Satan comes out. She runs over to me and hugs me.

"Okay, according to Satan, the demon is somewhere in the catacombs. Do any of you know where the entrance is?" they all nod. "Good. We need to gear up and then head down. Get weapons and supplies, and any healing potions you can find. We will have to be careful, the demon knows we aren't under its mind spell, and will try to take us out. I have my raptor as over watch right now, so two ponies can go. I take one, and the raptor takes the other. Who first?" Applejack and Rarity raise their hands.

"I need to head back to the boutique and get better prepared. These clothes were to make me inconspicuous, but they do not work for fighting. I also have my second weapon there. I haven't used it since my element, but I still remember how to use it."

"Okay, you can go with the raptor. Applejack, your with me." As we exited the library, I called over Sasha. I told her to follow Rarity in silence and only attack when she was being attacked. I also told her not to kill any ponies, but to immobilize. Then me and Applejack moved off to head to her farm.

"Hey, Applejack, do you have another weapon at home?"

"I did, but it actually got absorbed into my element. I don't have anything at home but a woodcutting axe." I take the Leviathan axe off my back, and hand it to her.

"Here, take this. Use it wisely. Also, if you throw it, hold your hand out and think of it coming back to your hand, and it will return. Don't be scared though, because it will be coming back through anything." She thanks me, and we continue to her house.

As we got close to the orchard, I started to hear music.

"Applejack, do you hear that?"

"I don't hear anything but some wind. Why?"

"I hear music. It is coming from this direction." As I headed off after the music, it obviously got louder. After about a minute of searching, I found the source. I saw on the ground in the middle of one of the rows of trees, a stone that had a hole in it. It took a minute of me thinking before I finally realized what it was. I had never played the games, but I had done a little research on the games at one point to learn lore. It was a Howling Stone, from one of the Zelda games. I couldn't remember which game, but I remembered the stone. I reached down to pick the thing up, and I saw that it had wind swirling in the middle of the hole. It was roughly the size of a ruler, and about 6" in width.

"What is that? And why is the wind so loud?"

"It is called a Howling Stone, and that is the wind magic in the stone."

I suddenly felt a feeling to start humming along. So, I did. I didn’t do too great, but I did it.

Suddenly, a familiar melody filled the air, it sounded like someone was playing on a piano that echoed throughout the fields. But this time, Applejack heard it too as well.

“The hell, what is that sound? Is that the song yer hearing?”

“Yeah. But it didn’t sound like this.”

A fierce howl was heard as the swirling wind started to pick up. Suddenly, something leapt out of the eye of the stone, landing in front of us with its back turned.

I immediately backed Applejack away from the creature, trying to quickly figure out what the hell it was. I decided to move away, and draw its attention towards me, and away from Applejack.

“Hey, what are you? And where the hell did you come from?”

The creature in question looked like a wolf, but what confused me was its strange coloring. Most of it’s fur was red, with shades of green that faded to gray. On it’s forehead was some sort of symbol I couldn’t exactly recognize, as I hadn’t seen it before.

Other things i’ve notice was that the wolf was rather battleworn, it’s right ear was clawed while its face has claw markings as well. On it’s chest was some kind of odd star shaped pattern of lighter grey. The last thing to make this wolf odd was that it’s body was like of a spectral being, especially the blue-eyes that stared into mine.

“What the hell? What are you? I know that you aren’t any wolf around here.”

It gave no answer only than the body language of it being ready to pounce, but before I could get ready, it leaped high into the air straight towards my head, causing my vision to swirl and brighten. The next thing I knew, I was laying on the ground as if I was passed out. When I looked up, I could not believe my eyes. I was high above the clouds, everything looked a little brighter than before, I could see all of Equestria from here

“What, the, crap. This is trippy. What are you, and what are we doing here?”

The wolf rose it’s head skyward, letting out a gentle echoing howl, causing it’s body to shimmer and change. There was no longer a wolf, but now a human wearing a red cloak, it’s face hidden within the hood. My eyes soon spotted some similar, the being was wearing a green tunic, white tights, and brown leather boots.

“Oh my god, you’re Link. I at least know that much about the Legend of Zelda series. But what is going on, and why are we on this astral like plane? Because, this doesn’t look like the blarthaac plane, and Pinkie is probably wondering what is happening.”

Link reaches up and pulled back his hood, revealing his face, however it was different than the Link I remember. Other than the scar on his face, and the damaged clawed right ear, he looked older, especially the mustache and goatee he was sporting. “This is a mindscape, a plane in our minds so we may speak to each other in private. Time moves much faster here, an hour here is a minute out there.” he explained.

“Oh. That actually makes sense. Okay, so what is going on, and why do you look like Link? Also, if you don’t mind, I understand the whole time displacement, but can we hurry this up? I have to go fight a demon that has the entirety of town under it’s control.”

“I was forced into this body a long time ago because of some treasure chest I opened up that was left at my doorstep, the rest is pretty much history and would take a long time to explain. As for what’s going on, well you just used my token’s summoning methods; singing the song that radiates from its eye. I made it this way so that I can see who my summoner is, you can’t be too careful considering that not all Displaced are good. So by meeting in this mindscape, I can see who you are, how you react, how you speak.” Link explain in detail, his face remaining neutral, but his eyes… his eyes were like a predator ready to pounce if I tried anything.

“Displaced? Token? What are those? Also, you are going to have to tell me that story at some point.”

“....Am I the first displaced you’ve summoned?” Link asked in a minorly annoyed tone of voice, he placed his leather gauntlet covered hand to rub along his face.

“Yes. I haven’t summoned any other ‘Displaced’. Hell, I haven’t even…” And that was when, I realized, yes, I actually had heard of Displaced. It wasn’t probably what he was talking about, but the point remained the same. I had heard of Displaced.

“Well, shit. I guess I have heard of Displaced. It might not be the same Displaced you are talking about, but I have heard of it. No, you are the first one I have summoned.”

“It can both ways though considering the multiverse theory, there is no end to what can be a Displaced,” Link said as he held out his arm toward the mindscape. “For now, I can sense the urgency in your voice, so I will explain more later. Judgement has been past.” Link said as the mindscape started to fade, like a dream that was just interrupted.

I had a feeling that Luna had joined the metaphysical chatroom for a second as we left, and I would probably be getting a talking to later that night.

As I snapped back to reality, wup there goes gravity. I looked around to see that Link was now with me and Applejack. Link was glancing at the farmer with warrily, mostly to see her reaction.

“Ok. Cameron, who the hell is this, and what is he here? Also, what the HELL JUST HAPPENED TO THE GIANT WOLF!?”

“Applejack, calm down, he is a friend. Also, he was the giant wolf.” She looked at me like a two headed goat.

“Uh, look, I can explain more later. Right now, we need to go get you second weapon, then head back to the library. Okay? Okay. Let’s go.”

We entered the library, and I could see Butchershy look at Link.

“Well, I see you found the multiverse. Hello, I am Butchershy. Please, I don’t actually want to hurt anypony here, I just want to kill the stupid demon.”

“Your names like something from a creepypasta.” Link mentioned to Butcher.

We had found Applejacks weapon, which was an old farmer’s scythe that her father had repurposed for fighting. She now carried it on her back. Butchershy giggled.

“That technically is what I was based off of. I am more of a cyberdemon, that was brought to life. I was brought here by something though. Something of the light. It told me to help, and gave me to Fluttershy. She is safe in here, by the way. She says hello.”

“Well, that was more than she told the rest of us. Anyways, Satan, where you at?”

As Satan comes down the stairs, she sees Link, and starts to screech out.

“Hello, who are you? What are you? Can you help us?”

Link blinked once at the name, then blinked again when she saw the little girl, then flinched when she screeched out. Link’s reacted by reaching toward his sword that was held by the right side of his hip.

I held out a hand to stop him.

“Hey, you touch her, you fight me. She was abused in hell, so don’t even start. I am trying to place her on the throne of Tartarus, after I raise her right. That way, we have someone who WON’T try and invade Equestria ruling that pit.”

“Why did she screech like a high pitched Redead?” Link asked as she eyed the child warily. Link relaxed his arm and allowed it to return at his side. “Is there anyone else I need to know about?”

“Yeah, we have a few kids locked up in the basement right now, and a dragon on the second floor tied up. They are being controlled by the demon, so yeah. Also, she screeches? I thought she was speaking regular.”

“No, she screeched loudly…” Link said as she looked at me with puzzlement. “Not unless this is some sort of strange language.” he said as he reached into his pouch, he started shuffling through it until he found what he was looking for. When he pulled it out, at first it was small, then it suddenly got bigger. It was some sort of red and white mask with a single eye, it wore a expression as if smiling widely.

“Damn, that mask looks sketchy. Which mask is it though? I only know of Majora’s, and that was about it.”

“This is the Mask Of Truth, while it normally allows me to read the minds of animals, it might work for… Satan.” Link said with a frown, he still couldn’t get over that name.

“Yeah, I know. Surprised me too. I told her about what humans usually did for her, and I am thinking of naming her Lucy. You know, after Lucifer? But I had to fight her demon stepfather who abused her. After that, I offered to raise her, and am planning to put her as the head of Tartarus after I raise her to be good. But I can understand what you mean with the mask. I don’t know if she counts as an animal or not. It never hurts to try though.”

Donning the mask on, Link turned to look at Satan.

Satan looked at Link and started to screech again.

“Hello. Who are you? What are you? Why are you here? How are you here? Have you come to help? Please help? I am scared. The demon. He is underground. The catacombs. He is there. He has an army. He has undead. He has champions. Help please?”

I couldn’t tell of Link’s expression or what could be going through the Hylian’s mind. A minute had past before Link finally answered it.

“A little garbled but I understood a bit. My name is Link, I am what you would called a Hylian. As for why i’m here, your father summoned me here to help, I arrived through the use of a token.” Link explained as he pointed at my neck- wait, when did the Howling Stone get there? Around my neck was a necklace holding it, but it was now oval shaped.

I decided to question the disregards for the world and multiverse for now. I still needed to get the demon.

“Well, I would like to continue chatting, but we need to get moving. We have a demon to find, and according to Satan, it has some undead minions, and champions she said. Twilight, will the CMC be held back by the basement door if we leave, and are Spikes bindings tight?” Twilight nods her head.

“Well then, let’s move.” We all head out, and I don’t know what happened, but the town just turned to us.

“Aw, fuck. Girls, I don’t think we are going to make it to the crypt that easy. The townsponies are looking at us funny.”

I thought that we might have to fight our way to the crypt. Somehow we were going to have to do that, without hurting anypony in town. With that in mind, I started to turn into my Howler form. But this time, I didn’t turn into my werewolf like form. No, I turned into the original Howler form. I was now a large, glowing hyena.

I started to laugh. And it was beautiful.

“HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA”

I looked at the down at my new body, and saw the Howling stone still on its necklace, attached to my neck. But now, it had some particles of some magic flowing around it. I guess it was Twilight particles, because I remembered the stones were from the Twilight realm.

OH YES! I am able to turn into the OG Howler. I turned to the girls, and saw that Link had never taken off his Mask Of Truth, he also had his hood raised to hide the rest of his head. I decided to test something out, and laughed some instructions out for him. Link glanced around, noticing all the ponies that look at him and the group.

Link nodded to my words. “The ones who can’t fly need to get on Cameron’s back.” Link explained to the girls.

After they got on, I took off. Before I sped off to where we need to be, I heard faint music being played behind me. Pinkie sat near my head to guide me, and shortly after, we made it to a graveyard like place on the outskirts of Ponyville. I looked around for Link, then I realized he was right beside me, I thought I had left him behind. Link was putting away something blue but I didn’t get a good look at what he had.

I transformed out of my Howler form after the girls had gotten off, and the Butchershy and Rainbow landed.

“Shoot dude, didn’t mean to forget about you. My bad. At least you’re here. It makes it easier.” I didn’t want to pry into his stuff. He has powers, I have powers, we both have powers. It happens. As I looked ahead at the cemetery, and I saw that it looked like something out of Silent Hill. It was foggy as all get out, and I could hear something walking around in the fog. Something big.

Link reached up and removed his mask seeing as he wasn’t among the townsponie. Link put away his mask, only to bring out some sort of purple object with round eye lens at the top, he glances through it, and I assumed it was to see the truth that hid within the fog.

“Well, if that does what I think it might be doing, what do you see in there?”

“Some kind of creature that reminds me of the Beihl from breath of fire four…” Link commented as he watched it wandered aimlessly.

“Okay. You see anything else, cause I can hear something HUGE walking around in there? It sounds like a golem might be here.”

“You’re accurate about it,” Link said as he continued to look around for more enemies. “Let’s just hope they haven’t seen Dash and the others flying above.”

“Kay. Well, girls, this is going to get dicy. So, you all follow me and Link, Applejack, your right behind us, Twilight following her. That way, our two strongest are first backup support. After that, Butchershy, you attack anything that isn’t us, and is moving. Your cleaver is made to go through anything, so use that to your advantage. Rarity, Pinkie, bring the rear. Pinkie, you have a mobile party cannon, and can it fire actual cannon balls?” She nods her head, and Rarity looks indignant.

“Cameron, why do I bring up the rear?”

“Well, aren’t you an archer?” I point to the bow in her hands, and she sighs.

“Fine. But when we get home, I am going to get compensation.” I nod, and turn to Dash.

“Rainbow, I want you to try and scout as best you can. If you can’t see well enough to fly, just find us and join the group. Give us a little warning though so we don’t accidently try to hurt you.” She nods, and flies off into the fog. I turn to Link.

“So, how many graveyards have you been to?”

“Only one and it was back when I was trying to help the Buffalo tribe with a ghost that couldn’t find any rest.” Link explained as he lowered the lens. For a moment, he looked a little fatigue. “The second was when I faced some giant wolf that was capable of wielding a sword in its teeth.”

“Wait, you fought Sif? Dude, tell me you also have the greatsword?” I say this as I pull out my Greatsword of Artorias, placing it over my right shoulder. I then realize, I am about to head in with only light clothing on. I need to get something better on.

I start to browse my selection of armors, before deciding on the wardens armor from For Honor.

“Is that the name of the sword he had in his mouth? If so, I didn’t.” Link said as I gave him a shocked expression. “I have no use for other swords when the Master Sword has done the job just fine.” he explained.

“Yeah, that is the name of the sword. It comes from the game Darksouls. Ah, oh well, it doesn’t matter. Well, I do have a small weapon arsenal as well. I have the Leviathan axe, which is an axe version Mjolnir. The Blades of Chaos, the set of chain blades that Kratos used to slay the entire greek Pantheon. And this, the Greatsword of the knight Artorias. Forged with his soul, and the soul of the wolf Sif, the wolf you fought. You shouldn’t worry to much as you have to do the same thing in the game.

“I think these are two different Sifs though, remember when I said about multiverse theory?” Link asked as he put his lens away.

“Yeah. I understand. But the point is the same. The sword is fine, and if it is still there, give it to someone who can use it. It makes a great gift to the wife if she is a warrior. And the move set in the game was wicked.”

“A bit late to suggest that.” Link said with a quiet chuckled, reaching over his back to pulled out a blue shield he had attached to his back, I recognized it as the fabled Hylian shield, who wouldn’t? Link reaches over to his hip’s scabbard to pull out the Master Sword from its sheath, the blade’s edge gleaming with light of evil’s bane.

Link noticed me staring, and chuckled. “Fan?”

“Who isn’t? But anyway, let’s get this dungeon crawl moving.”I said

And with that, we all make our way into the graveyard.

Author's Note

Shout out to DisplacedWriter and his Link displaced story for the start of my first displaced colab. He helped me on his Link parts, and I did mine. The next Chapter should be coming out soon.

Have a Jivin day!