Help from the depths of hell

Twilight, Celestia and Bendy were walking back to the Castle. Bendy was leading the way while Celestia and Twilight followed behind him.

This gave Twilight the opportunity to talk with Celestia about what she just got themselves into.

“Princess…. Why do you know a Demon? I thought they were all gone.” Whispered Twilight to Celestia.

Celestia didn’t reply as she only glare and the walking demon in front of them. The way he stood and walked with the help of his cane really made him look like nobility, but Celestia knew that no Demon could ever approach the humility and modesty that is a noble.

“He is… something I’d rather not talk about…” Whispered back Celestia.

“Ahhhh. This reminds me of the old times when we would stroll around the Castle.” Suddenly stated the Demon, not even turning around to look at them.

“Quiet Demon.” Said Celestia but Twilight could see a slight tinge of… red? Was her mentor blushing?

“Ah sorry if I had offended you little princess.” He apologised but without even a glint of sincereness.

Silence fell on the group once again and Twilight didn’t know what to talk about with the Princess. She could obviously see that the demon and Celestia had a history together, and she wanted to know, needed to know what history was between them.

“Oh, I see what troubles you so much that you had to come to me.” He said the moment we went back to the Castle, coming out of the uncomfortable darkness that was the Demon’s lair.

The view that opened in front of them was that of a nightmare. The entire city of Canterlot was on fire, red and blue beams of magic would appear around the city. Celestia was watching in hopelessness as her subject’s screams could be heard even in the Castle. Twilight watched in shock as the innocent ponies burned as they ran around the burning world.

“COME OUT CELESTIA AND SEE WHAT YOUR WEAKNESS BROUGHT UPON YOUR PRECIOUS SUBJECTS!” Screamed the flying alicorn of fire on top of a burning roof.

“Ah yes, the little sun… I forgot about your heated friend little princess.” Said Bendy, not even bothered by the sight of the end of the world that was in front of him. He only stood there, a hand on his chin as if thinking about something.

“Well, I guess I can cool her down for now.” He said before turning into a puddle of ink before flowing outside of the Castle.

Twilight only looked at the puddle of ink in shock as she didn’t sense any magic being used in the process of transformation while Celestia only looked away in shame before looking at the ground.

“I… didn’t want to resort to this…. I’m sorry.” Was all Twilight could hear from the sad fallen Princess before the sounds of pain and fire died down.

When she turned around, she was shocked and was even about to fall to unconsciousness when she saw a sight she would never forget.

On the building where Daybreaker once was, stood the Ink Demon in his monstrous form. He held the obviously dying Alicorn in his inky hand. Not only that but the aura she saw in his lair was now larger than she could ever imagine. The aura had completely taken over the entire city of Canterlot, ink could be seen flowing everywhere in the city which stopped even the fire of an Alicorn from spreading further.

Instead of the flaming hell was now complete darkness, shadows of ink slithering the ground, walls and even the sky itself. The city was covered by an inky darkness, a darkness that turned every light down leaving only the tiny tinge of brightness emitting from the Sun Alicorn. Her mane and tail was no longer a deadly fire, they were now only remains of a dying Sun.

The demon let go of the Alicorn, her lifeless body fell on the rooftop of the building they were on. Then, the demon seemingly devoured her, not with his mouth but with his entire inky body, the ink was engulfing the body of the dead Alicorn before disappearing into the puddle of ink.

Then the aura disappeared and the darkness slowly disappeared, leaving a surprisingly untouched city.

Canterlot looked as good as new, like nothing even happened to begin with. Twilight looked through the windows of the castle and not a single trace of destruction could be found in the city.

“H-how?” She turned around to look at her mentor who was still looking at the ground in shame. Twilight didn’t understand why Celestia acted that way, the entire city was untouched and the ponies were even walking around without a single one of them being wounded or in danger.

“I see…. You’ve grown quite fine little princess.” Suddenly said a voice from behind Twilight. She jumped around to look and saw the Ink Demon in his “normal” form standing in front of her. He was staring in contemplation at her mentor.

“Well! Why don’t we go see the other one for now?” He asked her without even looking at Celestia.

“Your teacher will need some time alone after what I did.” He said with a hint of malice which sends shiver down Twilight’s back.

She could only nod in silence at the being in front of her. She couldn’t talk in front of him, his presence troubled her to the point of making her voice disappear.

The demon then turned towards the direction of the main gate of the Castle, possibly to exit the Castle to go find Nightmare Moon who was still alive it seems.

While they were walking, Twilight could only see her mentor’s unmoving body looking at the ground. She could not even move towards her, she felt guilt like none other as she saw herself being incapable to comfort the very pony who helped her during her entire life.

But she also knew she had a duty as a Princess. The duty to save her kingdom from this madness. And she needed to know what was between the powerful being she was following and the Alicorn she followed her entire life.