Monk of Aura

==Mikael's POV==

The waves of filth that had started permeating our air one floor after another had hit us directly on our floor. The Seventh Floor was above the remaining bulk of the underworld and we got word that the Kings and Queens evacuated their people to other Pantheons and sealed them, isolating the threat but I was flying to the battle field as fast as my wings could carry me. I wanted to - right before I left - slap my sister across the face for playing Allen and me. Alexie never fully existed and... she was right. Her experience made it feel like I was with Allen the whole time; his games, his works, his thoughts, his grief - I cried for him as I tried to rush to his side, to hold him in my arms but when I saw him on the battlefield... his body was mutilated, twisted around and broken into something that was wheezing and hungry.

I started sobbing, upset that after I was bond to the man I loved... he was going to kill me or we'd have to kill him. I sobbed uncontrollably as tears and snot dripped from and stained my face and outfit as my fettle posture made me collapse to the ground. The Mutilated were on top of me, ready to violate my body and soul. I closed my eyes, ready to accept my fate. dub-bub What? ...a heart beat. dub-bub It's... strong. Defiant. "I will fight." dub-bub Allen? I open my eyes and the mutilated weren't facing me. They were looking at Allen's pulsing body. "I will fight." dub-bub He sounded... strange. Was he... coming together?! "I will fight." dub-bub The pigment in his skin expanded, turning to an olive complexion as heat radiating from his body. "I will fight." dub-bub The keratin in his hair increased, making it shine so profoundly it resembled pure gold as it's darker pigment tensed, making it look lighter. "I will fight." dub-bub A thin mist of royal purple rose from his skin as his mutilated body healed completely even gaining greater muscle tone. "I will fight." dub-bub His voice was so natural yet so distorted I could hear his other residence come through. "Fight me!" A ray of light consisting of violent gold, devil black and orchid purple light shot up as the mutilated bodies around him were turned into mist and merged with the beam of light.

Within seconds a slash of the same energy struck the bodies surrounding me, slicing clean through them and turned to dust as their essence was drain from them. Every mutilated turned to him and charged. One struck me without knowing and that flesh started to spread before it died and crumbled, revealing my smooth skin. In the middle of the mass of flesh and weapons, Allen's body was making contact with multiple targets. His hand ripped through one, tearing a deformed heart out the back before yanking his arm to the side, ripping it out the rib cage like a broad sword and his right leg swung behind him, catching another in an ax kick that knocked its head off and used the momentum to twirl in the air and slash another down the middle and landed on his feet, spinning around and spearing his left hand through the skull of another and kept going as the mutalist turned to dust, unable to cease Allen's momentum as he twirled back and chopped through the skull of another mutalist before his arms were grabbed by a larger, multi-limbed creature. Just as I thought he would die, the purple mist gathered and a wing of many identified forms of energy erupt from his back and act as a blade, chopping the larger arm before Allen swung it around and knocked it on the head stunning it as it let go and he ripped his hands into the beast and split it apart, absorbing the energy from it and started sprinting to the warp pad. "ALLEN WAIT!" He had already gone through the pad and to an upper level as I gave chase, before being stopped by Dante. "Out of my way edgelord!"

Dante did not move, his light plating and torn leather waving in the wind that was coming from the still open gate. "You can feel that right?" I step back, feeling a wave, a strong feeling of ferocity, burn away the filthy air and sterilize it. "If you go through that gate, you will put yourself in danger. Do you really want that for Allen right now. And what of his mental state?"

"That's why I have to go." I tried to fly over him and Sarah caught me. "Someone needs to be there to calm him down when the fighting is over." I placed a hand above my chest, my soul, feeling his burning will to live. "If he doesn't... he may fight forever, without rest or end." My sister kept a firm hold on me as I tried going after him. "I have to be there for him, so he doesn't go killing himself."

My cousin and sister probably exchanged a look as Sarah let me go and I flew through the gate into the sixth floor. In was sterile, quiet. I fly further up and out to see what has happened. Dust from the bodies filled the air of the sixth floor and some of the footprints were larger. I reach another warp pad and head up to the fifth floor and I get in just in time to hear the warp pad to level four close, so I examine the prints and drained husks, noticing that both were getting bigger. How were they getting bigger? Were they growing to get stronger?

I go through the gate to the fourth level and see a creature that looked so repugnant and disgusting I almost puked. It had a large exposed skeleton for its right arm and some tissue just barely holding onto the bones with serpent bodies making up its left leg, rotting flesh on its right leg and pelvis, two right arms, a back full of tentacles that dripped with chunky bile, six tormented and twisted faces for a head, two of three wings on its waist had their skeleton ripped out with the fourth burned to its skeleton and a mouth of jagged, jutting teeth and eyes for a chest. Allen charged it and stabbed his fist into the creature's chest mouth and the teeth closed around him and I screamed for him. Bad move. Thinking he was dead, they turned to me and slowly advanced and then... the most wondrous thing happened.

One of the amalgam creatures, the same one that Allen fought, started to look like its chest mouth was glowing before the rest of it paled, died and fell to dust outward. Dust fell from an object in its chest. That object was Allen and his body had changed. A wing of purple flames burned from a formation of crystals on his right waist and his right arm was covered with the same crystals to his fist. He looked so... dazzling. I didn't see his face and I wanted to, to know what he was thinking, if he was still there. With a load roar from him, the mutalists tried to run but streams of purple flew from their bodies and to Allen's body as the flames grew intensely with his left leg now growing the same crystals with a sharp cracking similar to glass when struck or gently cracked. 'Is his body trying to compensate for consumption?' After they left for the third floor, he gave chase. "Allen wait!" He didn't acknowledge me and just flew through the gate.

I followed him and my family and the six ponies that followed him with Alexie came through and we all saw the next fight. Mutalists were cannibalizing each other and growing in size, armaments and power. Allen flew to one that had all weapons on its right side and made those weapons aim at its head before forcing down the trigger, shooting it. He bound to the other with energy pods as missiles and a barrage was launched his way. With a gesture, the energy was turned to his current color and sent back as the mutalist was then bombarded with its own missiles. All gruesomeness aside, that was amusing to watch. The girls were getting nauseous looking at these things and I don't blame them. Not only that but they were getting bigger. In a last ditch effort, the two beasts started to consume each other. The result was a bit smaller but the life force coming off it was all kinds of wrong. Weaker demons felt nauseous, dizzy, weak, had headaches and some were vomiting.

I know he heard the screams because Allen flew straight for the monstrosity, dodging missile and gun fire while lassoing and throwing the missiles back. The beast covered it's vulnerable parts as best it could only to leave itself open as Allen flew into it and the monster screamed as its vitality glowed before it shrank and the shrinking field was met with fossilization before the creature fell to dust like then rest. When I saw Allen, it was from the side and now he had two full wings, his arms and legs sporting bright crystals in one seam each and I could see a glow coming from his chest. 'Well... he's eating healthy.' Yep I'm making bad jokes. I'm scared. What'll happen if he absorbs too much? I really don't want to find out.

Before I could get a word out to calm him down, the first floor emanates a wave of filth so visceral and foul to my mind, I actually puked up whatever I had in my stomach as Allen flew off. "Mikael." Before I could fly the long way, Markus had called up and pointed to one of her pads. We use it to head straight for the first floor and saw a mutilated body the size of a three story building. It spotted us and a foul aura collects in front of its mouth in a high density ball. Thanks to Alexie hanging out with Allen for so long, I know that this is going to be some manner of beam, regardless of the matter that makes it up. Just as it fired, something flew in front of the beam and toward the beast.

As the light dimmed, we saw it was Allen again and his multi-energy flames were now closer to plasma emissions after that beam and he flew into it, spearing his way in as his aura covered his hand. The massive creature writhed and screamed as it clawed at its body, trying to remove the invasive creature that forced its way in so effortlessly. It screamed, drooled rabidly, flailed like a schizophrenic prisoner and finally roared before its skin cracked, but instead of turning to dust, all of it turned to purple mist and compacted into a high density ball of aura before the aura collected onto Allen's body. This had to stop. "ALLEN!"

His gaze flinched to me and he moved so fast he may as well have teleported. He got so close to me I moved back and fell on my ass. He was on top of my, supporting himself with his arms as he sniffed me. If this were any other time or situation this would be so fucking hot, but right now I'm scared and confused. "Allen...?" I reach up slowly, about to caress his face when another wave hits. Before he could move, as he was turning his head, I wrapped my arms around him. It hurt. His body was burning from all the aura he absorbed and he leaned down so I let go. He looked at my burns and, ever so gently, parted some of his aura to me as the intense charring was slowly, gradually peeling, mending and generally healing.

He went to touch me and I understandably flinched before the heat wave withdrew and his soft hand caressed my face. I held his palm to me, holding him as best as I could. He caressed my cheek tenderly and used his aura to safely lift me to my feet. He then goes to the gate leading to the entry and we followed closely behind with better ease. We make it to the entry where a few lesser mutalists were just shambling around. With a wave of his hand, a blast of his aura reduced their bodies to dust and we headed for the gate only to be greeted by a sight straight out of The Shining.

Another, and likely the final mutalist, consisting of the force from outside, peers in with a sharp, toothy grin as it looks at all of us in perverse hunger as it drools, licking its teeth. I actually cover myself, feeling violated. Allen didn't seem to take that too kindly and started to rise from the ground, the heat wave covering all of him again as every aura emission cycles to his wings as they encase him. With a scream, the unnamed attack launched all of the built up aura to the beast in a column of flame as the gate to the underworld leading to Equestria was burned further open and the doors destroyed.

==Celestia POV==

I was going over my reports of the cities tax percentages, which is fiercely boring without a slice of cake and some tea to wash it down, and I had felt these sudden waves of disgust that made me put my slice of sugary heaven down multiple times. I was about to lose my temper if this kept up. Reeeee-doooooooooome "What in the buck?!" I look out and see bright purple flames erupting from the location of Tartarus gate. "Oh no. Oh buck. Oh no! Oh buck!" I fly out, leaving my cake in my study. A decision I would come to regret.

==Mikael POV==

After the kicked up dust and glaring light settle, Allen's body had return to a relaxed state and started to fall. I quickly flew up, catching him in my arms as his weight makes me drop some. I look at his face and he was passed out. He looked so peaceful as he gently snoozed in my arms. I start bringing my lips to his, desiring a kiss from his resting lips. "Oh my." Until that damn fashion horse had to take interest in my business. Though it was probably a good thing for the moment. He still deserves an explanation and while I have my chance to be with him... I still feel like I took his wife away from him.

"Mikael." I look to Sarah and she smiled. "You may want to use the changeling's shapeshifting." I look at her with an accusing expression since I don't have such ability, at least to an extreme. "Changelings can, for the lack of a better word, shapeshift into any creature they encounter. Think Ben's Omnitrix as their naturally occurring trait." I was shocked by that and thought it would be a good idea. I set Allen in her arms and look at the ponies as my teal eyes flashed and I was enveloped in emerald green flames. Before I could ask, Sarah had produced a mirror and I looked... nice. I was an emerald green pony with furry tuff on and in my ears with forest green for my belly and strips along my arms, legs, back and streaks across my cheeks while my tail had become more equine and tied at the end with some magic. My dark horns and tribal marked feather wings had not changed but that's fine, I'm a demon for hell's sake.

Though that may bite me in the ass since a certain white, self-proclaimed goddess, alicorn lands in front of her world's gate to the underworld looking triggered about the comments of her weight. She saw Allen, still unconscious, and fired a beam at him. I got in front of the beam without thinking and threw my arms up as a barrier manifested before me, blocking the attack. "What the fuck you crazy bitch?!" The mares gasps with the white unicorn fainting over-dramatically.

"DO NOT SPEAK TO ME WITH SUCH A TONE HELL SPAWN!" Celestia commanded as she brazenly used her royal voice, which made Allen stir in my sister's arms. I turn to see he was still sound asleep and he mutter the cutest thing.

"Mikael could you keep it down, you'll wake up the house." I blushed hot and even covered my cheeks with a smile. "I know you like my methods but I like our bed too." I started swaying trying to control myself as I could see his thoughts so clearly. So lewd. So spicy. So hot~.

It took the bookworm tapping my should for me to see the bulge in my pants. "Long story, talk later."

Celestia cast several barrier spells as she helped her ponies out of the entry. "You are no leaving here, and neither is he."

Thanks to Alexie's memories I gathered my emotions and looked her square in the eyes with my family joining suit. "To confirm that Allen was telling the truth, I was seeing his Fallen, Zarafell. But my feelings for Allen were still strong."

Markus chimed in, firm like any teacher. "He named his demons V and Urizen, after two characters from Devil May Cry. They were his anger and obsession which all three by what I'm hearing were consolidated then accepted."

Sarah set Allen in my arms and my body warmed up as I knelt and Sarah spoke. "His angels were reflections of his honesty and teaching. He named one Ralph after his Grandfather. The other was a bit difficult though I assume he chose Johnathan as the name." Celestia was in shock, as where the six. We had just confirmed everything he and Alexie had already stated in the past.

Before anyone could say a thing, Markus stepped in. "I am that human's teacher and the reason he knows about us, so if you call us a liar there will be no taking it back." Caught and defeated, Celestia took the barrier down and looked at the gaping entrance. "Worry not dear princess, we intend to rebuild the gate to keep the undesired in, though I do request that Mikael and his family be allowed to leave at their leisure, and no, only his direct family, such as his sisters, brother and parents will be allowed. Cousins will be negotiated." Celestia looked backed into a corner and Markus pressed it. "Unless you're saying you'd rather banish someone, who has actively helped your subjects, than risk his supposed wrath like he's an Ashura from his India?"

Celestia had lost her fight, agreeing to let us four out to help Equestria with the fighting. When we got to town, many ponies screamed and ran before I, thanks to Alexie's memories, directed them to the Embassy while I went to Allen's house and sat in the living room with his head on my lap. I honestly didn't know what to call him. Half of our souls were with each other but I still felt... disgusting. I took his wife from him and we still have to explain what happened with that. 'Allen, for whatever my words are worth to you... I'm sorry.' Tears fell from my eyes, hitting his cheeks as they shined like rainbows. 'Please forgive me, my angel.'