Blood Thirsty

Razor slowly opened his eyes, staring at the night sky filled with stars shining down above him, though it was no longer night time. Slowly sitting up, he looked around him and was hit with reality when his vision cleared and noticed everything around him. He was on the moon. Startled and quickly standing up, he slowly spun in a full 360 twice, and noticed the planet at a distance on the second spin. It was far out of reach (obviously) and he was in space. In a void with no air or life, stuck on giant rock that brightened the night sky. He started panting hard, knowing this might be the end, but noticed something different. In space, there is no air...but how is he able to breathe? He quickly calmed down, slowly inhaled and exhaled, breathing like there was oxygen to spare around him. He looked confused for about 5 seconds until hearing a familiar, but different voice behind him. The voice of a younger princess, but a darker and slightly deeper tone.

“It’s quite a view, isn’t it?” Razor looked back, seeing Princess Luna in a midnight blue glitter wrap dress, but her coat was a very dark cornflower blue, her mane was a grayish Persian blue, and her eyes were a vivid cerise. Razor took a step back, seeing the change of appearance on Princess Luna. “You get used to it being trapped up here for so long. As well as viewing the other planets.” Opened his mouth to speak, but could say nothing. His vocal cords were somehow cut off. “You’re wondering why you’re here, aren’t you? And you’re concerned about the change of appearance of your Princess?” Razor continued to glare at her, not letting his defense down an inch. “I should inform you of a few things. First off, I’m not Princess Luna. I am... Nightmare Moon.” Razor's left eyebrow raised slightly, still defensive. “You’re kidding? You've never heard of me? You’re joking right?” Razor's expression changes to a “really?” look on his face. “Oh, for fucks sake never mind. You'll soon know. Anyway, secondly, you’re not dead, just dreaming.” Razor's expression changed back to defensive anger. “Don’t believe me?” She walked closer to him with a grin. Razor didn’t back down, but stood his ground. When she was close enough, he quickly reached out for her chest, going for her heart to rip out...but it went right through her without any injury. Shocked, he slowly reclined his arm. “If you want to touch me, you can just ask.” Confused and shocked by the action that did no damage to her, he tried again, but this time slowly and without an act of an attack. He reached for her face, slowly placing his hand hoof on her cheek. She slightly moaned, causing him to quickly move his hoof back. “Oh, don’t give me that. I know exactly who you are and how you act.” She walked past him, looking up at the stars in the night sky. Stopping in place 5 seconds later, she smiled. “Third and lastly, I wasn’t the cause of bringing you up here. That was Luna.” He slightly looked back at her. “You wonder why? Simple...you need to think. Time to clear your mind of everything that’s clouding it. You’re scared of the possibilities of the future for this war.” His ear perked up when he heard that.” She knew, but how? “Scared of the danger that comes and how it can affect your sister. Sapphire wasn’t it?” he turns back, facing her as Nightmare Moon is 5 feet from him facing him. “Fear is an emotion that will hold you back from doing what you need done. Don't let that overcome you. Blacklight is also fearful, but of something you and you alone possess. You can use it to your advantage, or let it crush you. Either way, it doesn't matter to me.” Nightmare Moon turns his back on him, walking away as she starts to fade away. “Hear my warning Razor Edge. Once we return, every pony will know the meaning of true fear. The blood moon will say it all.” His eyes widen in shock when hearing that and seeing her disappear. Everything around him turned white and he could feel himself fading away. Fading back to reality with a warning.

Razor slowly opened his eyes, staring at the ceiling of Celestia’s chambers. He didn’t move, but felt his surroundings by sound. A cold wet cloth was on his forehead. The sun shined through the curtains of Celestia’s chambers. The room was empty, but also with the presence of someone there. When his vision adjusted, he looked towards the balcony seeing Celestia looking out at Ponyville. He slowly sat up, letting the cloth drop from his forehead, grunting with a slight pain in his back. When Celestia heard him, she walked back inside. When he sat all the way up, Celestia sat on the bed next to him, seeing him sweating. She placed a hoof in his forehead, feeling his temperature.

“You’re really hot.” Razor grinned, looking up at her.

“Said by my wife with the sun as a cutie mark.” She looked confused for a second, but then realized what joke he made.

“Good to know you still have your sense of humor.” She removed her hoof. “How are you feeling? You know, physically?” Razor paused on the question, not knowing of what to say due to the warning given to him by Nightmare Moon. “Is something wrong dear?”

“Tia, we have to talk. All of us. Speaking of which, how are the others?”

“Rarity, Fluttershy, Twilight and Afterglow have been here all night. Shining stayed with Cadence, Pinkie, Applejack and Rainbow Dash in the hospital until they recovered. They're here now and all waiting for you. Afterglow went out to get some medicine 30 minutes ago accompanied by 2 royal guards. She was supposed to be back 10 minutes ago, but perhaps she’s still looking for something.”

“Call a meeting. Everyone needs to be there.”

[Canterlot Dining Hall]

Everyone sat in the Canterlot Dining Hall for 10 minutes, having small side conversations with each other. All besides Razor Edge and Celestia, who are sitting next to each other in complete silence. Celestia was mostly worried about Razor, and Razor was worried about his surroundings, or so it seemed. Celestia placed her hoof on his, comforting him in his worried state. His expression shows a mix of irritation and anxiety. Looking around the room, he realized something no pony else realized. Afterglow wasn’t anywhere in sight, nor heard of from anyone since earlier. Razor closed his eyes and a light barrier of white smoke surrounded him. Besides Celestia, Shining Armor and Cadence were the first and only ponies in the room to realize this certain change surrounding Razor. They looked at Celestia, wondering what’s happening to Razor. Her horn grew a bright yellow as she closed her eyes. Her mouth didn’t move, but both Shining and Cadence mentally heard her voice.

“This is something Razor does to see what he is unable to, without physically moving from his location. He calls it “Foreseeing Fate.” If this war is going to happen, this will be beneficial to all of us to foresee any enemies hiding for a surprise attack.” Both Shining and Cadence looked at each other confused, then at Razor, seeing him still in his “Foreseeing” state. He opened his eyes 3 seconds later with an expression of shock.

“Afterglow.” He whispered to himself. “She’s in trouble.” Right after his comment was made, 2 royal guards burst through the doors, carrying Afterglow with each holding one of her arms over their shoulder.

Everyone’s attention instantly turned to Afterglow when seeing scratches, open wounds, and multiple poison darts in her legs and neck. Worst of all, from all the places she was scratched or pierced, she was losing blood by the second. Carried to the table by the guards, she was barely breathing. Eyes were half closed; foam from her mouth was slowly running out of it. Furthermore when Razor came over to look over her, she was unresponsive with anything he said.

“Afterglow. Afterglow can you hear me?” She didn’t respond. “Afterglow, I need a response. If you can hear me, I need you to move your hoof, twitch your eye, or even make a small sound.” Still no response. “Afterglow, I need you now. We all need you now. Please tell all of us, who did this to you. I swear in my power, I’ll find who did this and make them suffer. Afterglow, please...we need you.” She continued unresponsive for 5 seconds, then moved her eyes over towards Razor Edge. In a very soft and light tone, she said “husband,” before she passed out. Razor had a confused expression. “Afterglow mentioned her husband multiple times...but he’s dead. What did she mean?” The others look around the room to each other, seeing who was going to speak first. “Is there something somepony isn't trying to tell me? If so, spill it.” Everyone was silent. Most were looking down. It was 3 seconds later everyone in the room looked up at him startled when he slammed his hoof on the table. “Someone better fucking answer me! Afterglow is seriously hurt and I’ll be damned if a secret is kept from me while we’re in this situation!” Everyone was too scared to answer him, seeing the state of mind he was currently in. Razor closed his eyes, slowly inhaled and exhaled, then smiled. “Alright, I’ll settle this old fashion way.” He quickly turned his attention towards Celestia.

“Raz-!?” She exclaimed before she was cut off by Razors hooves pressing on the sides of her head. Her expression of shock changed to a blank expression, as her and Razor's eyes changed to complete white while a glow. The others were frozen in place as Razor was going to find out one way or another who was hiding something. From Razors view, multiple memories of Celestia rushed by him until he stopped at one. It was her and Afterglow walking through the damaged parts of the Everfree Forest, actually visualizing what happened to Razor as he was escaping. Celestia started their conversation.

“No matter what, Razor can’t know we were here. He hates when I check the damaged grounds of past situations.” Afterglow smiled, looking around at the mess.

“Well, he knows how to make a scene. Don’t worry Tia. He’s out cold. That shot I gave him wasn’t just a pain killer. It will stabilize him if anything goes wrong when he awakens. I don’t know the full effects of those darts. I didn't want him to hurt anyone he cared for. Especially you.”

“Live in my place for 1 day and you get so used to what he does, nothing scares you about him.” They both had a small laugh until getting back to business. “Is everyone going to stay at the hospital until we return?”

“Rarity, Twilight and Fluttershy are heading back to the castle for some catching up. It sounded serious. Shining stayed at the hospital to watch over Pinkie, Applejack, Dash and Cadence. He wanted to make sure they recovered before anything else. Especially Cadence. He still blames himself for what happened though I assured him that...wait. Celestia look, by that oak tree.” Celestia and Afterglow looked over towards the left, seeing an animal lying by it and roots from the tree surrounding it, pulling it under for an eternal rest next to her family’s tree until it was out of sight. “Golden Oak.”

“I’m gonna miss her. She helped out Razor a lot.” They both focused their attention back to the damaged grounds.

“Celestia, before I tell the others, I have to tell you of the history of my husband.”

“The one that’s back from the dead?”

“...yeah. Him. Those darts that were in Razors skin weren’t any regular poison darts. Like I said before, they’re strong enough to kill the size of an adult dragon. This biggest thing is, it only needs one dart to pierce the skin. There’s no antidote for it nor can we ever create one. My husband focused so much on the deadliness of them that he ignored the treatment needed for it. I didn’t try to persuade him to do so either. I was scared of him at the time. Fear overcame me, so I avoided the subject. The significance about my husband and his creations is that he creates more than one, but changes the patterns of them.”

“He doesn’t make them the same way.”

“Exactly. Some are less deadly, some are more. Not one of his new creations or ideas he’ll make the same way.”

“What’s his name?”

“...his name. He got it for a reason. Everyone called him “Darts” for his poisonous creations. His name...is Bloodbath. He changed it after brutally killing his parents then becoming a shadow, until I found him. I don’t know his legal name, but that’s who he lives by now. He’s a shadow who lives his own rules and he’ll kill by any means necessary. Blacklight helped him learn control. Since he’s back, control is out the window. He only knows death, and he’ll kill me as well if it comes to it. That’s why we all need to stay as family. Even one of us left out could mean the end of all of us.”

“Razor can handle him though, right?”

“If I know my husband as I did before...nobody stands a chance unless the sun comes into contact with his coat.” Razor let go of Celestia, seeing their eyes change back to their color and an expression of confusion and shock on his face.

“Tia, you kept this from me? Information about another deadly vampire pony and you and Afterglow kept that from me?”

“Razor, please, you have to understand. This isn't something I wanted to keep from you.” The situation between Celestia and Razor was broken up after hearing a demonic voice from the door. It was a dark hooded unicorn holding 2 Pneu Dart Guns with his magic. One was pointed at Razor, the other was at Pinkie Pie who he held captive with his hoof over her mouth and an arm wrapped around her neck.

“I can see in her eyes that she speaks the truth, but with a truth comes fear. Tell me Razor, do you feel fear? Not for yourself of course, but for your loved ones. How they know they’ll die beside you with their blood in your hooves. How they know you won’t be able to save anyone that comes in contact with you. The pain is unbearable, almost as if like-” pausing his sentence, he shot Pinkie in the back with a dart seeing her body slowly decay away to ashes. Everyone stepped back with a look of fear. “Something inside of you is decaying away to nothing. The feeling is mutual between you and I.

The difference is I went to hell and back to relive the same shit as before.” Razor glared at him, easily figuring out his identity.

“Bloodbath.” Bloodbath smiled, revealing his razor sharp and bloody teeth.

“The displeasure is all mine. Forgive my appearance. I had a little snack outside from the Royal Guard. They’re a lot better when they fight back.” Rainbow Dash looked down at Pinkies Ashes as tears ran from her face. “I take it the Pink one was a friend of the Rainbow Pegasus?” Before Razor got to speak, Rainbow Dash darted at Bloodbath, but was shot as he stepped out of the way. Her body slowly decayed as Applejack took charge after Bloodbath.

“I’ll rip you a new hole for killing her you fucking-” Before she finished, she already hit the ground as her body slowly wasted away to ash.”

“That’s 3 in fewer than 10 seconds. Shall we make it 4? I like to keep things even.” Bloodbath looked over at Rarity and Twilight. With a grin, he raised his dart gun and shot it at Rarity...but Twilight took the hit by pushing her out of the way. Twilight trembled from the pain, but she wasn’t turning to ash. She was turning back to an Alicorn. Twilight dropped on her face 10 seconds later when she fully turned back. Rarity rushed to her aid as Bloodbath turned towards Cadence, seeing her trembling. “Forgive me for startling such a beautiful facial feature.” Shining Armor pulled out his sword and Fluttershy revealed her fans and hissed, but was stopped as Razor lifted a hoof, cutting off the interaction and altercation in process.

“Cut the shit Bloodbath. You wanted me, so focus on me. Leave the rest of them out of this.” Bloodbath looked back at Razor with a grin.

“That’s a weakness in your blood holding your true self back. You’re a vampire pony, but very well.” Bloodbath removed his hood, revealing his white coat, grey mane & tail and dark blood red eyes. “You and I are no different from each other. Were bloodthirsty monsters that feed on the living to survive. We kill anything with a heart. We have to fight to survive. The ponies, they’re the true enemy. They kill us on sight. They have no need for us in this world so they torture and kill our kind. All of us, we need to stand together as one against them.” He darted his eyes at Razor's wife, Celestia. “They’re the reason we have to hide. To be in the shadows slowly wasting away until we're nothing. Our existence has to lock ourselves away from the world. I refuse to hide anymore from this. This is our world, and it no longer has to be earned. We need to step up, burn this bitch down, and rebuild it in our own image. We deserve what we can take. This is survival. We’re already killers, why not do more? Kill off the weak and let the strong take over. The higher orders won’t have a choice but to serve us, especially that dark coat Alicorn bitch.” A beam of light energy hit Bloodbath directly in his chest throwing him back through the doors of the Canterlot Dining Hall and through the wall of a portrait of the Mother and Father of Celestia and Luna. Razor smiled, feeling the heat from the magic from Celestia slowly cooling down. Celestia’s horn lit up again; glaring at the hole in the wall she made waiting to see Bloodbath again.

“It’s one thing to threaten the takeover of Ponyville as well as myself. But once my sister is brought up, I’ll fuck up the half of Ponyville to find and obliterate the soul of the perpetrator.” Bloodbath came out of the pile of rubble on top of him with a giant steaming circle sizzling on his chest up to his neck, but something about him was off. The blast touched a part of his face...but his coat changed color. Also, a part of his skin from his coat was hanging off his face. “What the hell?”

Razor removed his trench coat and instantly pulled out 2 3-foot Falchion Swords as Celestia pulled out a golden bladed 5-foot Longsword with her magic. Bloodbath slowly looked up, revealing his teeth of razors. “What the hell are you?”

“Well, I wanted to play this out for a while, but it seems we have to cut time a little short.” Blacklight ripped off the mask, revealing a Midnight black coat instead of his white coat. The rest of it covering his body faded away. Razor and Celestia were both shaken by this new appearance.

“I see you both are not familiar with this new appearance of mine, yes?” Nevertheless, they both kept their guard up. “Oh, I’m not the one you both should be afraid of right now. Just ask your dear sister, princess of the sun. I’m sure your little sister would love to hear sympathy from her older sister.” All 3 heard footsteps from the entrance of the door coming closer. As Bloodbath healed himself, Celestia and Razor slowly lowered their guard, seeing Luna dressed in a Black Chains Faux Leather Lingerie Outfit. She walked over towards Bloodbath, placing her arms around him and kissing him. Once his wound was completely healed 5 seconds later, they disconnected. Luna turned back, seeing both Razor Edge and Celestia stunned and shocked.

“Is something wrong sister? You seemed surprised by my appearance. As well as your husband. Well, surprised is an understatement for his case.” Not turning to look at Razor, Celestia glared and asked with a stern voice tone.

“Don’t tell me you actually have an erection for seeing my sister dressed like this.” Razor was silent, staring down Bloodbath and Luna. “Razor, I asked you a question-” Interrupting Celestia, he slightly lowered his sword and responded in irritation.

“Is this really the time to be asking this? We have an intruder who killed 3 of our friends, almost took out afterglow, and mind fucked you sister, and my dick is your main concern on your mind currently?” Celestia opened her mouth to say something, but Razor’s eyes turned towards her, making her mouth close and focus on the main situation. “We’ll talk about this later.” Razor’s eyes turned back forward, but widened when seeing Luna’s arms were wrapped around Bloodbath's neck and her left leg lifted 90 degrees and rubbing against him. Razor stared at Luna, feeling this action arouse him even more, but shook his head and stared down Bloodbath. Luna grinned, releasing Bloodbath to Face her sister and Razor.

“Admit it Razor. You’re turned on by this. You love this, and I could make more-” In the middle of her sentence, she cupped one of her breasts with a hoof and moved the other over her groin area. “Entertaining.” She closed her eyes and moaned, feeling herself up. When opening her eyes back up, She saw fire in Celestia’s eyes. “What’s wrong sister? Jealous?” Celestia wanted to hurt Luna for what she became and more for trying to taunt her husband, but she knew she couldn’t lash out. Not with Bloodbath there. Bloodbath smiled at Celestia's response, but had an idea in mind.

“Luna, you know it’s not polite to tease your older sister. Heel girl.” Luna moved back beside Bloodbath, sitting next to him as a dog would. He placed his hoof on her head, petting her. Focusing back on Razor and Celestia. “Let’s get to the real shit. As you know Razor, we have Zecora and her book of potions and witchcraft...well, had Zecora at least.”

“What do you mean had?”

“Well, we needed information that only she could give. Once we got it, we had no more use for her. We disposed of trash that needed to be removed. We have what we need, now all we want...is you.” Razor lowered his sword with a confused look. “Why you ask? A message from Sapphire came. Family sticks together-”

“I’ve had enough!” Razor Charged at Bloodbath, but was sent back by a blast of Luna’s dark magic. Landing on the table where Afterglow was lying, he stayed there for 3 seconds until the small wound on his chest was healed. He immediately leaped back up, but wasn’t expecting a dart to be coming his way. He felt like the world around him was in slow motion, seeing the dart that killed 3 friends, now about to kill him. He knew he would be too slow to dodge it and too slow to catch it now, so he accepted his current fate...until it was caught inches from his face. Startled, he slowly looked over to his right to see Afterglow. “What?” She stared down Bloodbath as his smile grew wider. Dropping the dart, she took 4 steps, then stopped still staring him down. Bloodbath lowered his Pneu Dart Guns with his magic, setting them back into holsters connected to the sides of his waist. Luna looked at Afterglow, then to Bloodbath, then back to Afterglow.

“I take it you know this bitch dear?” Right after that comment, Luna was blasted back through a wall by a massive amount of energy. Bloodbath looked back seeing Luna struggling to move, then back at Afterglow, surprised to see the magic come from her. A glowing orb of energy surrounded both hooves as her eyes changed to yellow.

“Afterglow, how-?” Bloodbath was silenced from taking a swift direct hit to the gut from Afterglow, making him cough up blood. She instantly continued her assault with a strike to his face, sending him through 4 walls. Razor Edge, Celestia, Shining Armor, Cadence and Rarity all stared, frozen and stunned of what they’re able to see what afterglow was able to do. And it wasn’t over just yet. Bloodbath was slow to get up, but managed to get to his feet. Looking up through the multiple walls he went through, he was instantly knocked through 4 more by another blast of energy from Afterglow. Completely confused by this hidden power, Razor looked at her bracelets glowing a bright white. Afterglow looked back at him and smiled. Turning her head back forward, she was met face to face with Bloodbath taking a strike at her. Her hooves connected with his trying to force each other back and seeing black bracelets on Bloodbath glow a darker shade. “You dare oppose me woman?!” Afterglow grinned, kneeing him in his crotch and making him drop to the ground in pain.

“You should've thought about that before you shot me.” Bloodbath kept his body tucked, but started quietly laughing 3 seconds later. “You find this situation of conflict humorous. Why is that?” Everyone looked over to the wall Luna was in, hearing a growl like a hellhound. 5 seconds later, Luna crawled out with her eyes bloodshot red, blood and saliva dripping from her fangs, and glaring at Celestia. While they’re attention was turned towards Luna, Bloodbath pressed his hoof on the ground, sending out a ring of dark energy reaching as far as the back end of the dining hall. The ashes from the fallen ponies Bloodbath shot, all rose back up to in their normal body figure. Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie and Applejack all stood back up as if they were never hurt nor dead...but they were different from before. Their eyes were dark red, their coats were 1 or 2 shades darker than their usual color, and their expressions...were blank. All 3 of them had blank expressions, but each held a weapon. Pinkie had a scythe, Applejack held a pair of bladed Tonfa, and Rainbow Dash held a 6-foot Nagamaki with a 2 foot handle. With the 4 shocked of this, a feeling of a sharp breeze hit the back of their necks. Shining was the only one to look back from the feeling, and was shocked from what he saw.

“Twily?” Fluttershy looked back after hearing Shining, seeing Twilight with dark red eyes, a 1 or 2 shades darker colored coat and a blank expression. Just like Pinkie Pie, Applejack, and Rainbow Dash. She was holding an already out cold Rarity by her neck with her magic. Dropping Rarity, Twilight held up in her hooves an Eiserne Drossel. Shining turned back to face her with his sword out, prepared for anything his younger sister was ready to bring at him. “Twily, I don’t want to hurt you, but I will if it comes to it.” Twilight smiled, taking a couple of steps closer to him, stopping right by Cadence. Without looking up at her, Twilight’s speaks to her.

“Cadence, take Rarity somewhere away from here. My brother and I have something to sort out. I’ll give you this one warning to leave, or you can die with him. That’s your only option currently.” Cadence stared at Shining with a look of concern. Shining looked back at the others, seeing Afterglow facing Bloodbath, Celestia glaring down hellhound Luna, Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash ready to Face off, Razor prepared to face both Pinkie Pie and Applejack. He looked back at his younger sister, then his wife. Shining knew the only right thing to do so his wife didn’t get hurt.

“Cadence, take Rarity somewhere safe, and make sure our-” Interrupting Shining Armor's sentence, everyone heard a crying child from close by. Bloodbath smiled.

“A child hm? Pinkie, go deal with it.” Pinkie nodded and grinned as Shining looked back in shock.

“No!” Pinkie darted for the room they heard the child in, but she was kicked down by a completely blacked cloth pony with a martial arts Rattan Bo Staff. Pinkie instantly got up and charged at the pony, already starting a death battle between the two. Shining looked back in time and held up his sword in defense to see Twilight strike down on him with her Eiserne Drossel as Cadence and Rarity teleported away. He pushed Twilight off at the time Cadence took Rarity in her arms and teleported away to safety. Twilight charged again at the same time Luna charged at Celestia, already trying to spill blood from her sister and starting a brawl with her. Afterglow and Bloodbath already started with their power of energy flowing around the room from the pressure of the fight. Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash started their battle in the air, already making a full scene of yelling and striking each other. That left Applejack and Razor with their death battle, already running at super human speed through the castle fighting each other. Every strike Razor did was blocked by Applejack and vice versa. With both using dual wield blades, Razor found it difficult to try to strike her in any way possible. As Applejack continued to repel and counter strike against Razor, she took a shot and connected a slice across his left eye. He instantly stopped from the sight of his left side blocked by blood. Though he was still cautious of Applejack attempting to strike him, half of his vision caused him to have a disadvantage against Applejack in her new state. Furthermore, the slash across his eye wouldn’t stop bleeding. He was used to easily healing from any injury caused to him, but this...this wasn’t something different. More blood was coming out than usual, he wasn’t healing like before, and his own blood was making him...hungry. He looked down and took a lick from his own blood running down from the slash over his eye, and grinned. Little did he know at the time Applejack was right behind, but little did she know what was about to happen. She finally spoke, prepared for another attack.

“Had enough?” There was no word from Razor. He just kept looking down, ignoring her.” Ah'll take yer silence as a yes.” She walked up behind him and used both opposite blade ends of her Tonfa, and cut his neck to separate from his head. Applejack moved back, expecting a reaction of Razor's head to fall off, but there was nothing.

With her confused expression, she noticed black smoke appearing from his slices across his neck. Slowly his wound was healing and a low demonic growl came from him. “So, yer no givin up quite yet hm?” An even darker Demonic voice came from Razor.

“Oh, nowhere close…but I could tell something was different about the blood I tasted. It wasn’t mine.” Applejacks eyes widened in shock and stood in defense prepared to repel a surprise attack. “You didn’t think I wouldn’t notice, but I don’t get hungry like this from my own blood. Your body is made of your left over ashes that were left, but the weapon is an attachment that came when you were revived. That wasn’t made of leftover ashes...that were made of the DNA that is currently being used to keep your body intact. The DNA that your former bodies had before you changed was used to make an extra attachment.” Applejack lunged at Razor with the opposite blade end of her Tonfa aimed at his neck, ready to finish him off. Once the tip of her blade touched him, his body changed into a black smoke cloud. Applejack quickly turned back to face him, but the cloud of smoke was still there. She stood up and watched the cloud slowly form back into the body of Razor, but with a different attire. His trench coat was gone, his fangs were larger and longer than usual, and his body was covered in solid white thick decorative lining. What Applejack noticed out of everything that changed was his eyes. They were pitch black and a dark mist formed around him, just like the first encounter the girls had noticing him like this when he first came back to Equestria. Shocked of his appearance, she stepped back keeping her defense up. With no change of his expression, he slowly proceeded towards her. At the same pace, Applejack moved back, away from Razor.

“Stay back or I’ll-”

“What? Kill me. You already tried that. Try something more…” a grin grew on his face with blood covering his teeth and running down his fangs. “Deadly.” Out of instant reaction, Applejack stabbed him in his neck from Razor being closer than she thought, but her blades were unable to pierce him. It was like trying to stab a brick in a wall. Razor took no damage from Applejacks attack. While she was frozen in shock, the black mist around his body wrapped around her neck, lifting Applejack off her feet and suffocating her. With her inability to break free, speak, or even breathe, Razor stared her down still with a grin. He walked up to her, as the mist lowered her down to his level but not enough to let her feet touch the ground. Hearing her choking and gasping for air, he leaned in next to the right side of her, closed his eyes as a solid white third eye on his forehead opened (opposite of how his regular eyes would). He whispered in a low demonic voice as his hoof pressed against her chest. “This is your own doing. For a heart you control that can’t comprehend one as dark as my own-” Razor presses his hoof through her chest and out of her back, where the blood, intestines, and internal meat rested on the edge of Razor's hoof. “You don’t deserve this heart.” Applejack gags and coughs up blood, staring into the third eye or a true demon amongst her, until slowly; her body starts to disintegrate, turning into ash again. Before she was completely gone, her eyes changed to a color of green. A familiar color he noticed. She whispered to Razor with a familiar voice.

“Help me brother. Please.” After her body was now nothing but dust, Razor’s third eye closed as his form changed back to his normal state. Keeping his eyes closed, he thought to himself of what just happened. Applejack's eyes changed from red to green, her voice changed...this never happened before and yet, he couldn’t move when he heard it. He dropped to his hooves and knees as tears ran down his face. Tears of blood ran streams down his face as he continued to cry, his anger growing even more.

“Sapphire...my sister. The only one who I could protect...I was a damn fool. To leave you like I did as a coward. To let you fend for yourself against a monster. I was a damn fool...for not being the brother like I should’ve been. Blacklight currently has control over you, but she will pay. If I have to go the longest distance, climb the highest mountain, go farther down than the gates of hell to find her and make that bitch suffer for what she did to you...so be it.” Razor gritted his teeth as more blood tears ran down his face, but seconds later, they slowly changed from blood to water like a normal pony. “I will do anything to get you back Sapphire. Hear me now Blacklight. You will pay for what you did to my family, my friends, my wife…” His head shot up as he yelled out towards the roof. “You will pay!!!” A massive screech echoed throughout the castle, shattering windows, glass, even the tile on the walls and floor. When it reached the main entrance where the small war between Canterlot Versus Blacklights henchmen were, everypony immediately stopped and covered their ears from the loudness and pain of it. Fortunately for Fluttershy, it didn’t affect her. Seeing Rainbow Dash covering her ears from this made an open attempt for Fluttershy to Finish off what was started. After a swift attack and the screech ended, Rainbow Dash couldn’t move. She was frozen in place in midair. Only with her eyes, she looked down to see her body cut in half and it started to slowly turn to ash. Fluttershy was behind her with the Nagamaki held out like she just used it, and she did. With the pain brought towards everyone by the screech from Razor, Rainbow Dash dropped it to cover her ears. As more of Rainbow Dash's body disintegrated, she happened to slightly turn her head back towards Fluttershy. Fluttershy finally spoke.

“This fight is over.” Rainbow Dash lightly laughed as Fluttershy turned to face her.

“That’s where you’re wrong...it’s only the beginning of hell.” Rainbow Dash was now gone, and so was the Nagamaki equipped to her. As the other fights continued, Celestia did her best to fight off her hellhound formed sister, sufferings with scratches, bites, and blood covering her as well as Luna. Knowing the amount of her stamina she used to fight off her sister, she still stood her ground and fought to get her sister back. Luna growled, slowly crawling to Celestia again from the hole in the wall from earlier. Luna grinned, seeing how injured her sister was.

“Isn’t this a shame sister? You fight me as much as you can and you still can’t win.” Celestia was breathing hard with her Longsword still held with her magic, trying to ignore the pain from Fighting Luna. “Quite pathetic actually. The only thing you used before that could defeat me was the Elements of Harmony, but where are they now? Nothing you do now will save you.” Celestia’s vision started to get blurry from the amount of blood she was losing and how long this was actually taking. Seconds later, she dropped to her hooves and knees, unable to use her magic or any energy she had left to fight dropping her sword. Luna stood up and walked to her as Celestia slowly fell to her stomach. Stopping in front of Celestia, Luna grinned, using her magic to lift up Celestia, holding her by her hair to make her face to face. Celestia didn’t even have the strength to open her eyes. “Like I said, you still can’t win. No matter what happens. I won’t deny that you did put up a fight. I liked the effort. You tried so hard and got so far, but in the end…it doesn’t even matter.” Celestia whispered for 7 seconds, barely for Luna to hear. What was that sister? You’ll have to speak up if you want to me to hear you clearly.” Celestia managed to open one eye, and spoke again.

“I said-” Quickly using her magic to get her Longsword again and stabbed it in Luna’s back with an inch coming out of her stomach. Luna’s eyes widened in shock and took to slow steps back, then felt the sword being pulled out of her as a large line of blood was spat up from her mouth, dripping down her chin. “I’d have to fall to lose it all…but in the end, it doesn’t even matter. Luna dropped to her knees as her magic released from the grip on Celestia allowing her to stand on her own. Celestia was still shaking, trying to keep herself on her feet though she was weak. Luna’s body slowly started to drop to ash. 3 seconds later, Celestia dropped to her knees facing Luna seeing the blood on her face turn to ash. Tears ran down Celestia’s face, seeing what she did. What she didn’t want to do, she had to do. “I’m sorry, dear sister.” Celestia looked down as more tears ran down her face. Slowly, her chin was moved up by Luna’s hoof. Facing her sister again, Luna’s face was halfway gone and on the floor in ash. She used her other hoof to wipe a tear away from Celestia’s face.

“Forgive me, dear sister.” Luna’s last words she spoke, before her body turned into a pile of dust. “Celestia smiled, feeling her vision as well as strength give out.

“I forgive you…sister.” Celestia dropped to her side, out cold still with a smile on her face.

Shining Armor was only defending against the attacks from Twilight. Externally, he knew he had to kill her to stop this, but internally...he didn’t want to hurt his sister. Caught in his mental thoughts, Twilight managed to knock the swords out of Shining’s grasp and was knocked back on his back with Twilights Eiserne Drossel at his neck. With a slight injury to his left eye, he only kept the right open. Twilight had a mischievous grin on her face, knowing that she won the fight against her brother. Shining’s emotion turned towards anger.

“Well Twilight, what are you waiting for? End it...here and now.” Twilight’s expression changed down to an evil smile. “It’s clear that I failed to get my sister back. I failed as a soldier, a father...most of all as a brother.” Twilight’s hoof started to shake as her expression changed once again, to anger, confusion and depression. “Twilight, I couldn’t be the brother you wanted me to be. The family you could depend on. I couldn’t come to you in your time of need. I couldn’t comfort you when you needed me the most. I was so focused on Flurry Heart and the job...I didn’t include who mattered the most to me.” Tears started to run down Twilight’s face as Shining continued. “You’ve saved my life countless times, and I didn’t do anything for you in return. All I ever did was going back to how it was before. I didn’t even think about how to make it up to you. I failed you not only as a brother...as a guardian-” She interrupted him crying as she spoke.

“Shut up! Just, shut up.” She glared daggers into his eyes still keeping her position. “You don’t know what it was like. You left. After everything I did, you never saw what the true meaning for it was. It was only work and Cadence for you. The pain I felt, the emotions, everything I did…was for you. And you never saw that. You haven’t experienced to pain I went though. You don’t know what it was like to feel alone. To be alone. Not able to call to anyone when you needed them the most. I looked towards you…and you weren’t there. You were never there when I needed you the most-”

“Then just end it!” Twilights eyes widened in shock of hearing this from her brother. “Everything you said is true. I left you. I didn’t care. I never took your feeling into consideration…and all I can say, is I’m sorry. Just words won’t change what I’ve done. Its actions that show the most, so if you hate me that much-” Shining closed his eye. “Then just end this. I chose not to fight back against you because I didn’t want to hurt you more than I already have. I give up Twilight. You win. A silence fell around them for 5 seconds until Shining opened his right eye when hearing a sound of a dagger piercing someone’s body. He saw Twilight, holding his dagger in her magic with it pierced in her stomach. She stumbled back, dropping the Eiserne Drossel and falling on her back. “No!” Shining quickly got up to rush to her aid, seeing her body slowly deteriorate to ash. He dropped on his knees by her, slowly picking her up to hold her in his hooves. Twilight looked over towards him seeing tears run down his face. Barley having enough energy to speak, she spoke what she could to him.

“Can’t…kill…you. Won’t…make…you…suffer…as…I…did. Finish…job. Take…care…of…family. I…love…you…B…B…B…F…F.” Twilight’s body changed to a pile of ash, ash Shining’s tears dropped down on the ashes of his sister.

“…Twilight.” He started crying out loud.

[Alternate Dimension]

Afterglow and Bloodbath fought furiously against each other’s magic in a different dimension. A mixture of light and darkness flowed around them as they continued there brawl, managing to match each other’s strength and speed. The only difference between them was Bloodbath was losing his energy the more he fought against her. After a physical connection of a blast of their energy together, they were both forced back the pressure and power. Bloodbath was breathing heavily, trying to catch his breath from the energy he used. He looked up at Afterglow, seeing her glare more deadly than before.

“Face it, you can’t win. Even in this dimension of your own creation, you still can’t match what I can do. After you left, you lost power, control, and energy. You did well keeping up with me, but now it’s over.” She pointed her hoof at Bloodbath, hitting him with a blast of light energy and sending him back 20 feet to land on his back. Barley able to move now, the dark magic surrounding him disappeared. Afterglow walked towards him, looking down on him once she got there. “Something tells me I should send you away to a dimension of another creation to let you rot and face your consequences. Fortunately for you, I still have a heart, so I’ll give you a choice.” Afterglow lifted her hoof towards him, charging a bright light of energy as he still lay unresponsive. “I’ll let you rot, or I can kill you.” Not hearing a response from him, she opened her mouth to answer for him, but was cut off by a different voice.

“Sorry sweetheart, but I still need this one.” Afterglow jumped back and the light energy disappeared as black fire formed around Bloodbath, engulfing him and disappearing. “You’ll your chance again, but I need him for a certain emergency. We’ll meet soon enough. Besides, I knowing you’re dying to get at all of us-” In an instant of anger, a white flame surrounded her. She closed her eyes and extended her arms out by her side and shouted back.

“Shut up!” The flame expanded out, erasing the dimension she was in and bringing her back to the castle. When she opened her eyes, she was immediately shocked by the sight. Shining was crying over Twilight’s ashes, Fluttershy was on her knees over Rainbow Dashes praying, a Rattan Bo Staff was sticking up out of a pile of ashes with the hooded pony gone. With the little concern of the identity of the pony, she saw Razor Edge was holding Celestia in his arms next to a pile of ash, which happened to be Luna. Never before has she seen an emotion of sadness from Razor, or even tears run down his face. “Razor…Celestia-” She was quickly interrupted by Razor.

“I know. That’s why I wanted her to stay out of this situation. Celestia…is carrying our child.”