A black void, that was all there was around. Grumbling at the sight of the black void, Hunter walked along a path he felt was there to get away from here, wherever 'here' was. There were faint eerie echos all around that grew louder as he walked. Feeling a chill go down his spine, Hunter tensed up a little something he rarely did due to the demons he's fought.

"Hunter run!" A faint but audible voice echoed must to Hunter's dismay.

Soon a tower started to form underneath his hooves and buildings far below the tower's top which Hunter suddenly found himself on. Hunter took a sharp breath and looked around not believing his own eyes. It was Temen-ni-gru, a tower with horror Hunter had witnessed at least 16 years ago but the tower was gone it couldn't be back. Perking his ears up Hunter heard the sound of metal clashing against each other in rapid and powerful motions. Looking over towards the sound Hunter froze completely, there he saw two bipedal figures -one in a red trenchcoat and one in a blue silver buttoned coat- both clashing their swords in battle. Breathing more rapidly Hunter could only stare as the two figures pressed their swords against each other trying to overpower the other. The red-coated figure was disarmed by the other figure's power and was then stabbed right in the stomach. Grunting in pain, the red figure could only stare at its opponent as blood coated the sword in its stomach. Pulling out the sword, the blue figure pulled its sword out of the red figure who stood for a few more seconds before falling limp onto its back. Feeling his breath grow more frantic, Hunter found it difficult to stand on his hooves at what he had witnessed but managed to find his voice.

"NOOO!!" Hunter screamed and drew the attention of the blue figure.

Feeling, even more, chills go down his spine Hunter's eyes widened as he saw a third figure appearing holding a book and looking at Hunter. The blue figure walked over to Hunter with its sword still red from the blood of the previous victim and unsheathed. Feeling fear let itself into Hunter's body, he just stared at the figure getting closer and closer. Standing in front of Hunter, the blue figure looked at Hunter before kicking him over to the red figure's corpse. There Hunter was laying on his side and gasped from the pain and the fear he was feeling. Looking at the corpse next to Hunter he took notice of the face and straight white hair partially covering the eyes of the now passed out bipedal and recognized who it was, it was the one who took Hunter in as a foal and cared for him.

"D-Dante?" Hunter asked even though he knew he wouldn't get an answer.

Panting as he laid there Hunter heard the footsteps of his attacker draw near and probably to finish the job. Painfully turning to lay on his back, Hunter saw the blue figure standing above him though his face was now visible with a look which was cold and ruthless. Like the corpse, this figure had white hair which was also partially covering the eyes of the figure but the eyes from what Hunter could see were filled with pain.

"W-why?" Hunter asked and groaned from the pain.

"Foolishness Hunter Foolishness. Might controls everything. Without strength you cannot protect anything, let alone yourself," the figure told Hunter before walking away from Hunter while following the other remaining figure.

Looking back at the corpse next to him, Hunter cuddled close and began crying until he passed out from exhaustion.

Waking up in what felt like an ocean of sweat and with rapid breathing, Hunter frantically looked around searching for any sign of danger only to find the light of the morning sun pouring in through the front windows. Taking at least ten minutes if not more to make sure nothing was wrong Hunter groaned and rubbed his head with his front hooves. Sitting up on the couch he had been sleeping on, Hunter gave off a long yawn and popped a few of his joints as he stretched.

"Another nightmare, same one too," Hunter muttered to himself. "Why does it haunt me?"

Getting off of the couch Hunter noticed that there were a few letters in front of his front door and when over to pick up the letters. Skimming through the letters it was mainly junk mail and a letter from an advertisement. Rolling his eyes Hunter threw the mail into the trashcan nearby and headed for the bathroom to wash off the sweat. Walking upstairs to his second-floor Hunter entered the first door on his left and entered a small bathroom. It wasn't anything special in terms of bathrooms but was still very reliable to Hunter.

Taking his trenchcoat off Hunter hang it on the single clothing hook that was installed and turned towards the sink. Taking a look in the mirror hanging on the wall above the sink, Hunter could see how much of a wreck he currently was, bags were starting to form under his eyes as well as his mane being disheveled more so than usual. Looking over his flank he noticed his cutie mark which he never really gave much attention. A single red drop of liquid with a pair of fiery wings attached to said drop with a small halo above it, that was what his cutie mark resembled yet he wasn't sure what it meant. Shaking his head Hunter turned and entered the shower he had and turned on the cold water to try and let it wash away his sweat and unease.

Despite the water being cold, Hunter let the water run down his body and was lost deep in thought about what happened last night. He fought an Ursa Minor bigger than an Ursa Major and it had also been a host to some sort of demonic power hence the tentacles it had sprouting out of its back. What also puzzled Hunter was why his newest devil arm Lucifer manifested from the bear after he killed it. Hunter knew he wouldn't really understand it since he wasn't the brightest when it came to how or why demonic things were happening so Hunter just let it slide for now and finished his shower before he'd start using too much water. Grabbing a towel to start drying himself off Hunter made a mental note to go to Canterlot as soon as possible to meet the princesses and hear about how Alastor came in the possession of Princess Luna and hopefully only to talk to Celestia and not Luna.

Feeling clean and dry Hunter grabbed his trenchcoat and put it on and went back to the main room to find the current fan favorite book on his desk, 'The Great Demon War'. The book described the adventures of a bipedal demon hunter saving Equestria from being conquered by demons who wanted to take over the world to absorb the magic and use it for themselves. Having skimmed through the book over the past few days since he got his hands on it Hunter had made a mental list of areas he'd have to go investigate at one point. As of now, Hunter would keep his office closed for today and go wherever the day might take him.

In Canterlot, Princess Luna and Princess Celestia were currently sitting in a small conference room in the castle. Luna has brought her sister's attention towards Hunter, a single stallion capable of wielding demonic weapons, whilst possessing incredible speed, strength, and healing capabilities. Something that needed to be kept a very close eye on in case it should be of ill intent.

"So as thou can tell sister, this stallion is too dangerous to be doing as he pleases which is why we want the royal guard or the night guard to apprehend him before he does any damage to our littlest of ponies. Especially with the demon blood running through his veins"

Taking a sip from the teacup Celestia held in her magic, she could understand the concerns Luna had but going as far as calling him a demon was a little too much. Sighing the solar princess spoke.

"Luna, we can't just apprehend him because you think he's a danger to ponies around him. Do you remember what I told you from the incident in the Everfree forest? He saved me, Twilight and all of her friends before taking the sword and leaving. He could have taken it and just left us to defend ourselves but he didn't."

"Celestia art thou even listening to thyself? He's taken a sword with incredible demon power, killed an Ursa Minor heavily mutated with demon power, recognized Alastor a sword no one except us and Dante knows of and he destroyed a piece of Equestrian history! How art thou so calm about tis?!" Luna asked in a demanding tone.

Taking another sip from her teacup Celestia looked at her sister not even fazed by her sister's claims since Celestia has heard even crazier claims.

"The reason why is simply because there's a familiar aura about him if you will. One that I'm sure you'd recognize." Celestia said and got out of her chair. "But if you're so inclined to prove he is indeed a demon that means harm I shall send a letter to Twilight to keep an eye on him and report back to me."

Sighing in defeat for trying to tell her sister of the demon among them, Luna just nodded in acceptance.

"We guess tis the best we can do for now."

Roaming around through a vinyl store Hunter had been there since they opened a little before noon and was browsing through the small store in hopes of finding some interesting vinyl records but so far nothing piqued his interest. Having listened to all of the records in his jukebox back at his office, it was certainly time to get some new ones and not go insane from all of the same songs. There were all kinds of records including, Pop, classical, symphony, etc. but most of them didn't look worth it. Picking up a few random records Hunter walked over to the cashier and put them on the counter which made the mare behind the counter nervous.

"H-hello sir I s-see you got a t-taste in the odd types of m-music?" the cashier mare asked nervously. Clearly, she was not a social butterfly.

"Yes? Anything wrong with these records? They're not broken are they?" Hunter asked in confusion.

"N-no of course not! I-it's just that those r-records are very loud and obnoxious in the s-style it's m-made in."

Hearing this Hunter's eyes almost went wide in shock. Did he hear that right? This is supposed to be loud and obnoxious? like most of the music, he listened to in his early life? Either way, Hunter paid for the records -even though the cashier tried to recommend a lot of other records different records that weren't as 'obnoxious'- and happily took them with him back to his office while feeling gitty on the inside.

Walking through the town Hunter could hear the gossip of the nearby ponies talking about a giant Ursa Minor outside of town suddenly vanishing, some of the gossiping ponies even looked at Hunter as he walked by as if they thought he had anything to do with it. If only they knew what had happened the night before. Reaching his office Hunter did the only sensible thing he could think of which was to kick the front doors open.

"Good to be home in the office again."

Entering his office and closing the door behind him Hunter put the records on his desk and gave the records a look. Looking at them there was not really much to see on the sleeve the records were in. It was just blank sleeves with the records safely tucked in them It didn't really matter to Hunter only if the songs were actually worth listening to. Walking over to his jukebox with the records Hunter opened the glass panel up and put the new records in some of the empty record-holders. As he was about to pick one of the new songs he had put in, Hunter heard a knock on his front door and swore to whoever was listening that they had a horrible sense of humor and timing. Sighing, Hunter walked over to his front door and opened it to reveal the elements of harmony on his doorstep. This couldn't be bad, right?

"Can I help you all?" Hunter asked in slight annoyance.

"Sorry to disturb you, sir. I'm Twilight Sparkle and we'd like to ask you something," Twilight said.

"Sorry babe, but if this is about a job the office is closed for the day."

Getting slightly flustered at Hunter's words, Twilight Sparkle coughed into a hoof and tried regaining her composure.

"No! N-no no. It's not a job, what made you even think that?"

"Well, this here is my office and I take on jobs that ponies can't do themselves and pay me for it. Now if that's all I wish you all a good day," Hunter said as he started closing the door.

"W-wait m-mister!" a timid and barely audible voice called out to Hunter raised an eyebrow and looked at Fluttershy.

Realizing that Hunter was looking at her she 'eep'd and quickly hid behind her mane. Turning his attention to the rest of the mares, Hunter could see the determination in their eyes and that they wouldn't let him be without doing whatever it was they wanted with him. Hunter gave a sigh as he lowered his head slightly and opened both of the doors and walked in.

"You girls comin' in or what?" He called out to them.

Nodding to each other the mares entered Hunter's house and closed the doors. Upon seeing the inside of the house however the mares were shocked. It was completely and utterly disgusting. Pizza boxes were littered across the tables, there were a few burn marks on the walls and floor. How could someone live like this? The mares looked at Hunter with a bemused stare, which he just shrugged and leaned back in one of the couches in the office the only somewhat clean pieces of furniture in the room.

"H-how can you live like this?!" Twilight asked in a somewhat scared tone.

"Well, living with my father I was usually the one to do the most chores since he was out of the house a lot working, so excuse me for not being able to clean up if I have to be outta my office a lot," Hunter said and took a slice of pizza from the box on the coffee table in front of him.

The mares slowly got over to the couches and had Applejack, Pinkie, and Twilight sit in the couch opposite of Hunter while Fluttershy, Rarity, and Rainbow Dash sat on the couch next to him. Finishing his slice Hunter looked back and forth between the mares and waited for them to say something. Hunter could see they all had a different expression on their faces, the white mare had a look of disgust as to how things were looking in the office, typical of a ladylike mare. Fluttershy was mostly nervous and scared judging by the amount of shaking Hunter could see on her form, while Rainbow Dash had a glare directed towards him, probably because of the events the day prior. Pinkie had a smile on her face like she usually did as she seemed to never take any danger too seriously for whatever reason. Applejack had a calm look and waited patiently as she was sitting on the couch. Twilight looked like she was about as nervous as Fluttershy but that would mean it's an important task she's gotten.

"Alright, let's get the show on the road since I'm sure this isn't about thanking me for saving you in the Everfree," Hunter said and looked at Twilight while ignoring a 'hmph' from Rarity.

"Well there are a few questions that have come to our attention and you are the only source of reliable information sir," Twilight said trying her best to keep calm.

"Oh really? and what sort of questions are we talking about here? Why I'm always wearing a coat? Why my office is a mess?" Hunter asked sarcastically and gave off an annoyed snort.

"Hey! Twi didn't do nothin' to ya, why the hostility?" Applejack asked growing irritated.

Rolling his eyes Hunter lifted his right front hoof and gestured Twilight to go on so they could finish faster and he could relax.

"Well first off and probably one of the most important questions. How are you alive?" Twilight asked. "We saw you get stabbed by at least 5 demons and you just shrugged it off like you weren't even phased by it. You should've passed out from pure pain if not outright dying."

"Well, I'm harder to kill than I look let's just say that," Hunter replied with a smirk.

"But that doesn'-"

"You wouldn't believe me if I told you, so just leave it at that."

"Urrgg... fine but we'll return to that question at one point," Twilight said in annoyance. "Question two: How are you able to teleport small distances without being a unicorn?"

"Easy, I picked it up from my dad years ago," Hunter replied with no hesitation.

"But how? You're not a unicorn! Were there runes involved? Spells? Rituals? Magical studies even the princesses don't know?!" Twilight frantically asked to try and make sense of it.

"No, I just learned it from my dad. No fancy spells, rituals or any of that kind, just pure and simple training."

"So you're saying you could just teach me something like that?" Rainbow Dash asked with interest.

Looking at the rainbow-maned mare Hunter shook his head with a plain and simple 'no' in response. Grumbling at the fact it could've been useful for pranking other ponies Rainbow Dash was disappointed that she couldn't be taught or maybe it was because Hunter just didn't want to teach her? Either way, Rainbow Dash wasn't happy.

"Any others wanting to question things about me so princess over there has a chance to calm down?" Hunter asked as he noticed Twilight was getting frustrated with his answers.

"I-I do mister H-Hunter. H-How long have you been searching?" Fluttershy asked.

Raising an eyebrow at this question Hunter leaned forward towards the yellow-colored mare.

"Fluttershy? What kind of question is that?" Rainbow Dash asked her fellow pegasus in confusion.

"Searching for what?" Hunter asked.

"H-How long have you been searching for him?" Fluttershy asked.

Looking at Fluttershy, Hunter just stared at her for a few minutes. Did Fluttershy make him angry? Sad? She hoped she didn't and was nervous of how Hunter would react to the question. Finally, after much silence, Hunter lowered his head.

"Long enough for others to give up." Hunter finally replied as he got up from the couch and walked over to his desk to sit on the chair behind the desk. "Do me a favor and get off of my property I'm not in the mood for more talking!"

Surprised at the sudden change in Hunter's tone from annoyed to angry, the mares just took a glance at each other before Fluttershy gently nodded and headed for the door as the first one while the rest of the group slowly followed suit. A few minutes passed before Hunter dropped his attitude and reached into one of his pockets and pulled out a silver amulet and a picture and put them on the desk. The amulet was wrought in silver with a red jewel in the middle and even though it was meant to be worn around the neck Hunter never did.

Looking at the picture Hunter saw three individuals, Hunter and two furless apes known as humans. The tall human was a male, who wore a red trenchcoat similar to Hunter's and had white hair with bangs somewhat covering his blue eyes and wielded a friendly smirk. The other human was a smaller female human. She donned a white blouse and a skirt which Hunter always thought were too small for her. She had ragged bob black hair and a heterochromatic set of eyes with the left one being red and the right one being bluish-green, which always fascinated Hunter as well. Despite the relationship between both of the humans, Hunter always would know them as his parents no matter what.

"One vanished and the other is probably worried sick not knowing where I am," Hunter muttered to himself. "I'll figure things out always have."

"Ah don't understand it. He's an earth pony stallion that can teleport small distances and fall from heights that would break a leg on Big Mac. None of them things he said were lies either!" Applejack said as the group of mares had left Hunter's house. "He makes me so annoyed that ah'm tempted to go with Dash's plan and tie him up to interegate him!"

"While I do agree with you Applejack darling that it's not right nor the way he treats us, maybe it would be best if we didn't try and tie him up," Rarity told Applejack.

"But it still kept giving us more questions than answers," Twilight said. "Has he something to hide? Does he have a connection to what happened in the Everfree and last night? And probably the most important one. Who is he searching for?"

Author's Note

Hey there been about one and a half months since my last chapter hasn't it? I am sorry I've been distracted and had a hard time getting back into writing but I'm back with a chapter and I tend to keep on writing.

Also, I feel like I could've done better with this chapter but 'You are your own biggest critic' also comes to mind so I'll just put it up and see how it is. I will probably re-write it at one point.

I hope you enjoyed and feel free to tell me of typos or grammar issues. Have a good one!