Khaos Aksho Phaos

by Kembrius

chapter 5: we are the cloven ones,children of chaos

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everfree forest:

The four of them where going from the forest to ponyville,smolder and doe where in the front talking about how all of this is a bad idea and what to do when things go bad, Twilight was near the Bray-Shaman Ezra ClovenBlight so see if he was willing to answer some questions she had for him and ezra he was walking and thinking to him self how is this race survived for so long.

"I said NO why your small pony mind can't accept that!". Ezra said to Twilight as he kept walking.

"Because it doesn't make sense how can you be 3750 years old and we don't have any record of you in our books only in one and its say nothing about what you are,so all i am asking is a small Q&A about your self before we get to ponyville, please". Twilight said to him with eyes hungry for knowledge.

"FINE!!". He roared at her with anger.

"Doe take the child and go ahead and tell them to prepare for my arrival and of the Haadhm bhakari, and one more thing". He said to her and bringing her blood vials,"take them and use them if you feel the change".

"Yes father, come smolder lets get you back to your friends before they will send more ponies to "help". She said to smolder and she grabbed her with her tail put her on her back and started to run.

Now only Twilight and ezra where in the forest then ezra grab a tree and tear it apart from its place and he set on it,"so what do you want to know and only five questions the rest when we reach your town". He said and grabbed some ale.

"Yes yes oh this is so great!". She said with joy and grabbed a parchment and quill,"ok so first question where are you from?". She asked him.

"Forest of Shadows,Middle Mountains,the old world". He said to her in a flat tone.

The only thing she got from is answer is more questions,"can you elaborate on that". She said to him.

"Fine,the old world is the continent of most of the races of the world live on,the Middle Mountains are a desolate mountain range located at the north-western region of the realm of man and the forest of shadows is a forest Shaped like an arm wrapped around the shoulders of the Middle Mountains,its ancient trees having grown so close together that their branches nearly interweave like tightly clasped fingers. It has always had a reputation as a dangerous place". He said.

"Ok... Next question what are you and elaborate on it". She asked him.

"I am beastman or cloven one, a race of savage mutant humanoids that bear various traits of bestial appearance, such as cloven hooves, muscular human bodies, horned bestial heads and a malign primitive intelligence. Proud of our origins, it is said that we are the descendants of ancient humans corrupted and twisted by the influence of chaos at the dawn of Chaos's coming into the world. From deep within the twisted forested woodlands of the old world and beyond,we are a violent, war-driven race that seeks only to plague and destroy the civilisations of Mankind. We prey on the weak and defenseless, striking at lonely settlements without warning in a rampage of destruction before disappearing into the protective darkness of our dark wilderness, running away from the dire retribution that fails to follow. To underestimate us is a fatal mistake. We are creatures of violence and conflict, and we are far more cunning than then what the realm of man believes. Worse still, the more noble and haughty the foe, the more my kind are driven to prove their own supremacy by casting him down from his lofty pedestal and trampling his body beneath blood-encrusted, filthy hooves. As such, we would go to war with savage intent, slaughtering the civilised races like cattle, burning down and shattering their homes, and stomping on the remains with our cloven hooves until there is nothing left but devastation and ruin. So long as Chaos reigns over the world, the Beastmen shall plague the lands of Mankind for all eternity". He said to her in rage.

Twilight stop to write is words only to start shaking and fearing for her life,he is a monster of chaos and death and his reasons to live are only to destroy all life like cattle,she wanted to run but she was afraid that if she will run he will kill her and all of ponyville.

"Ok... Next...q-question what are y-you to your k-kind?" she asked him as her words were trembling as she asked him.

"I am Bray-Shaman or Speaker of the Dark Council,we are powerful, if primitive, Sorcerers who occupy a unique and privileged position within the brutal and bitter world our kind. We have no need to defend ourselves from other members of the tribe, for none would dare assault us. Not even the mightiest of beastlords would harm a Bray-Shaman, for we speak the will of the dark gods, and those that defy the gods pay the highest price of all. Bray-Shamans are born into magic,and wield it with an instinctive ease. A palpable miasma of fell sorcery surrounds them, and when their wrath is roused reality itself is distorted and maimed. Tree roots twist and writhe at their passing, the undergrowth boils with unholy life and repugnant parasites scurry at their feet. The Bray-Shamans can take the form of the beasts of the wild wood, the better to spy upon all. Countless are the tales of death and war presaged by visitations of evil-eyed crows, owls or foxes. Many superstitions regarding such beasts grip the hearts of men, particularly in the most far-flung townships and military outposts. As the Beastlords are the embodiment of their race's hatred for Man, so the Bray-Shamans embody the loathing of his gods. To blaspheme the deities of Man is to do ultimate honor to chaos, and the Bray Shamans enact such defilement as the greatest of their rituals. The most blessed of all are those who have counselled their chieftains to wage unending war upon the world of man, and in so doing have burned to the ground the temples of the gods of Man. To the Bray-Shamans, the ultimate act of worship is to slay Man's priests upon their own altars, to defecate upon their holy ground and to trample their sacred artefacts beneath the cloven feet of the warherd. Once the warherds are gathered into a mighty brayherd, the Bray-Shamans will lead the Beastmen in a frenzied ritual celebration, their discordant bellowing audible for many miles around. They invoke the power of the Dark Gods, and infuse the assembled herds with bestial vigour. Blood sacrifices are made and the gizzards and hearts of captives are offered to the skies as the Beastmen thrash and convulse around the herdstone. All manner of unspeakable excesses are committed before the ritual reaches its climax and the horde explodes out of the forests to ravage the lands of the old world". He said to her with pride of his race.

The more she heard him talk about himself and his race the more she was thinking in fear what if more of his kind are in the world of equus and what are his plans for all of them.

"Ok two more questions so what is this language you keep using?". She asked him in hope this will be a normal answer.

"It is the Beast Tongue the version of my kin for the chaos Black Speech, its the language of chaos, spoken by its servants and followers. It is the only language that can adequately express the mysteries of Chaos, capturing the mystical and the arcane in ways that no other language can". He said to her and drank more ale and eat meat from his bag.

"I am surprised princess to think after you heard me talk about me kin and you still stand not running in fear only seeking more to learn the more you remind me of my self when i was young". He told her and looked to the sky.

Suddenly Twilight stop to show fear and started to show curiosity, "how am i like you?". She ask him in confusion.

"Well lets start at my birth, you see in term of beastman i am a special case i was born not a normal gor but i was born as a Gave you see,a gave is a beastman child born to human parents. Throughout the lands of man and northwards, it is not uncommon for healthy Human parents to produce a mutant child. Some try to conceal their baby’s deformities, but most feel such shame that they give them up to the forests and rivers, abandoning them to die from hunger or exposure. The Beastmen are keen for the whimpers of these lost children. Such foundlings are always adopted and reared with the rest of the herd, since the Beastmen regard these infants as gifts from their gods. As they grow, they often become all form of beastman, but the rest of the herd do not apply the same stigma that they do others of their kind since they are holy (or, rather, unholy) gifts, and any Gave can rise high in Beastman society. But me i was a special case, my mother was a slave from the empire and my father was a chaos chosen the strongest of the ranks of chaos. When my mother give birth to me unlike most that give birth to monsters she was happy but my father he wanted to sacrifice me to the gods,so one night my mother and 20 more slaves had escape from the chaos war camp only to be hunted like animals,one by one the slaves were killed by marauders on horseback and warhounds til only my mother was left. She mange to run and run until she reach a large dark dead tree with a door in the center,she cry for help only to get an arrow to the heart and as i was near my dead mother crying my father came about to kill me for the gods when the door of the tree opened and she came out my caretaker,my teacher soria the deadwood crone. She was no human she was of race known as druchii and she was a powerful spell caster,she saw me on her doorstep and for some reason held me in her arms and made me her own. Now this is were thing become strange you see in the land of chaos time pass in a strange way so in two weeks of a normal year it was to me 75 years and in that time soria made sure i will learn all of what is to be part of chaos and when i was ready my last task was upon me". He said to her while he drank more of the ale.

Twilight was now more invested in his story then before,"what was it?". She asked him wanting to hear more of the story.

"To kill my father!". He said in anger,"you see in the land of man they say It isn't uncommon for Gaves to carry a grave grudge against the parents that have abandoned them. Typically, this results in the Gave killing and eating their parents upon reaching adulthood. but me it was personal i wanted vengeance, so one day after a raid on the lands of the empire my caretaker and i enter the camp and at first sight i saw the marauders that my father send to kill my mother so i did not think i grabbed a spear and shove it to one of the marauders head then i took his war axe and started to kill them one by one,after i killed 20 of them my father came out of his tent and i challenged him to a duel to the death. And we began the battle every hit i did was nothing he had armor and i had none but i wanted my vengeance and then he hit me with his sword on the head,i was on the verge of death hearing him taunting me,"weak beast,a worm that never should be born,useless like that broken slave that was your mother". And then i lost it i kick him full force in his body and then i grabbed his arms then i toke a deep breath and i did one of the spell only beastman can use i cast from close range to his face the Bray-Scream a spell that unleashes a howling roar of such intensity that mashes brains and bursts eyeballs.
Til his face was no more then a skull when his body hit the ground i roar to the havens and all the camp cheer for me and then that is when my true path began". He said to her as he finish his story.

Twilight was not in fear or horror but was amazed like she read a new book,she wanted to know more but Ezra cut her thinking with his words.

"That was five questions for know when we reach your home we will talk more". He said to her and both started to walk again to ponyville.

ponyville:

In ponyville at the same time everypony just finish to fix and clean the town from doe's rampage starlight was talking to Gallus and Sandbar about what punishment they will get when Twilight will return with smolder,the rest of the girls where helping the rest of the town,spike send a letter to princess celestia about what happened and not a moment later he received a letter from from the princess that she will get to ponyville as soon as possible and discord well he was sitting next to the Lammasu black-words and they just talk to each other when suddenly spike interrupted their conversation.

"You know both of you can help us putting everything back together it will be much faster you know". The small dragon said to them.

"(stupid lizard back in the dark lands i manipulate beasts larger then this town to do my every word if anything maybe i will eat him and no one will notice)". Black-words said to him self out loud.

"Oh forget about him you were telling me about your home world the how did you call it "the Plain of Zharrduk" i must say i never heard of such place or this language". Discord said to the Lammasu.

Suddenly rainbow all so came next to spike,discord and black-words,"yo what are you talking about". She asked them?.

"Well miss dash Dhar-hakchsdh was just telling me about the land he came from". Discord answer her.

"Who is Dhar-hak what ever the last word was?". She asked again.

"Its black-words name in the tongue of beasts". Discord said.

"(i miss my old body then i would have talk normal and better make that stupid pony my slave)". Black-words said to him self again.

"Hold on that is not your real body". Discord said and snapping his fingers to make a dramatic drums sound effect.

"(did you think this was my body you stupid deamon i am like this because of chaos mutation not be choice!)". Black-words roared at him.

"Well why didn't you say so". Discord said and he snap his fingers and a sudden glow was surrounding the Lammasu and then it was gone,"better?". Discord asked him.

"What did you do to me you filthy deamon!!!". The Lammasu was yelling at him.

Suddenly he was looking at discord and saw him smiling and the rest of the group just heard him speak in a loud strong accent.

"I can talk again,i can talk, hashut be praised i can talk!". Black-words said in joy.

"And now you can tell me about that land of yours like you said you do". Discord said to him drinking something out of a coconut.

"Fine fine lets see how about this the Plain of Zharrduk, it is the great mineral rich meteor crater that is the main population area of the Uzkul-Dhrazh-Zharr. It houses the capital city, Zharr-Naggrund and also much of the industrial projects. The Plain is choked with pits of molten tar, rivers of burning oil, massive stockpiles of coal and other effluence of industry, pock-marked with countless pits and mines and home to many thousands of workshops and factories. Nothing is able to grow there, but despite this the Uzkul-Dhrazh-Zharr remain in their ruined homeland because of its near-inexhaustible mineral wealth. Only one watercourse passes through the Plain of Zharr, the polluted River Ruin which enters from the mountains to the north and leaves choked with filth and waste". He said to him in joy.

The group heard him talk about his home land and were disgusted by this and then he said more about this place,"i miss it so much the oil,the tar and how can i forget the thousand upon thousand of slaves that worked to death or were sacrificed to the great hashut". He said in so much glee.

Everypony in the area stopped to work only to look at the Lammasu in disgust,but AJ was also very very angry,"what kind of hell is this place what kind of monsters are your kind!!". Applejack yell at him.

He only gave her a smile and said,"in Mingol Zharr-Naggrund the strong are slaves and the weak are dead".

Before things started to go south from there like the wind doe was running to the group with smolder on her back when she reached the group smolder started to get sick and she said,"never again". On repeat.

Starlight,Gallus and Sandbar went to her asking her how she feel and what happened only to get see her running to the castle and a sound of vomiting can be heard,"well i was wrong she can't handle the liquor". Doe said with a chuckle.

Starlight now with anger shouted at doe,"you give her alcohol!!!".

Only to get from doe a flat,"yes, yes i did".

"WHY". All of them shouted.

"Oh don't be like that it was just cider... Well i think it was cider i kinda repurpose the bottles in my 500 years of living". She said to them then she toke the bottle and smell it and had a face that was a mix of concern and laughter,oh boy i need to say sorry to her that was not cider". She said laughing like crazy.

"Well what is it?". AJ asked her.

"Let me let me". Pinkie said grabbing the bottle.

"Hey i want some to". Rainbow said also grabbing a bottle.

"So dear what is in this drink of your i never saw a bottle like that before". Rarity said looking at the bottle.

"And you never will the one that made the bottle is dead for like 200 years,originally it was mulled wine made with love extract so when you drink it you will have a state of euphoria,but when changelings where hunted mistaken for monsters he stop making it. Now i use the bottles for my special brew it contains fish oil,bone meal,mushrooms,vinegar and manticore poison". She said in a proud way.

Rainbow,AJ and rarity started to spit the liquor only pinkie finish it and said,"yam".

"ARE WE GONNA DIE". Rainbow shouted in her face.

"What no you just gonna have a hangover for like a month". Doe said and started to drink an entire bottle of her ale.

"Well i like it". Pinkie said while doing a burping loud as a bear.

"Why did you make such a horrid beverage?". Rarity asked her while she was trying to get the flavor out of her mouth.

"And why did you have to use animals for that?!". Fluttershy said in anger.

"What are you on about this drink don't contain any animals". Doe said to her in confusion.

"The manticore poison is from the manticores that i have back at my dad's place and the fish oil is from merchants that trade with me because i can get them items that no one can bring them". She explain them.

"And the bone meal?!". Fluttershy asked in anger.

Doe was looking at them like nothing is wrong and she aid,"i don't use animals for the bone meal".

They where looking at her with concern then at the beverage then at her again and then rarity asked her,"darling if you don't put animals in the drink were do you get the bone meal?".

She said nothing at first then she made a wicked smile and said,"take a guess".

They looked at her with more concern then Gallus took a sip of the drink and said something no one expected,i know this drink grandpa gruff have bottles of this stuff hiding in his house".

"Hold on that bird brain gruff is alive well damn i need to pay him a visit". Doe said with a smile.

"You know grandpa gruff how?". Gallus asked her.

"Oh it was a long time ago i had a thing with him when he was in his twenties but i called him ruff gruff if you know what i mean". Doe said to Gallus and giving him a wink with her one eye.

His eyes open twice the size and he said,"i gonna have nightmares for life".

"Oh i forgot to tell you all Twilight and my dad are going to show up soon so you need to tell all the ponies to get to their houses and not to get out till he will leave". She said to them.

"Why what is the problem with your dad?". Starlight asked her.

From another part of town suddenly screams of terror were heard and ponies running for their lives shouting words like,monster,run for it,is gonna eat us or save us.

"That's why". Doe said in a flat tone.

From the entrance of the town Twilight and Ezra were looking at ponies running and screaming like sheep.

"I don't think they know we are coming". Twilight said to the Bray-Shaman.

Ezra was looking at her unamused,"OH YOU THINK". He yelled at her.

Ezra started to walk to the town like nothing is happening and Twilight from behind saying to him to stop to better introduce him but he ignore her and kept walking.

Not soon after the rest of the group started to have headaches and they kept smelling something like swamp water and rotting bodies. Not a moment has passed and they saw a huge minotaur like monster in black robes,8 horns,yellow eyes,scars,a deformed arm and a long staff walking to them. His every step made the ground to turn black and dry,non of them moved paralyzed by fear even discord was afraid of this thing he felt it while discord was a more casual form of chaos that thing was nothing like that he was pure primal form of chaos.

When the monster was next to them they saw more of him his hooves had spikes in them,blood covered his mouth,a third eye was on his forehead along side a mark in shape of star with 8 points,his body was cover in strange letters and symbols,on his side he had a sword like cleaver the size of two adult ponies the size of celestia,a huge black armor cover in dry blood, fangs and a third arm behind his back that was looking nothing like an arm but a pincer like claw with spikes in it.

"More bhakari and other worms so weak that i can smell the fear of them from the forest". He said to them only to see discord then he opened his third eye and was looking at his magic then he said to him something strange,"a creature born from chaos yet your magic is not of true chaos you are no child of the dark ones you are but a mortal using its power and calling yourself a god!". The monster said to him in anger.

On every word he said they started to get more headaches like he casting spells on them,doe came in front of them and started to talk to him,"father can you stop using your miasma of fell when you talking to someone they never felt wild magic before". Only to get a flat,"fine". From him.

After he turn off his miasma the group started to move again but the only thing they did was shouting at the same time to doe,"THAT IS YOUR DAD".

Not so far behind him Twilight was running and breathing heavily,"why...did...you..not wait for me". She said between breaths.

"You where to slow and you have wings". He said to her.

She steered at him with a look of why i did not think of that.

"Anyway before anypony do something we will regret i will like to introduce you to". Before Twilight finish talking a sound of magic was heard from behind them.

A large group canterlot royal guard where standing in a battle formation and at the front was celestia in golden armor and a golden sun spear,"get away from my little ponies NOW!!". Celestia said to him in anger with fire in her eyes.

"Akhamshy'y Aks Feb did you come after all this time only to die!". Ezra said to her and unsheathing his sword.

"You will pay for what you did 300 years ago for what you did to the town of silent meadows!". Celestia said pointing her spear at him.

"Really is it vengeance for that town you want or for something else or somepony,what was his name of that unicorn ha yes grand master pure dawn of the order of the celestial sunlight,yes i remember him his death was like his body a delicacy". He said to celestia with a grin.

Celestia no longer could hold back her anger and tears and with full force she charged at Ezra ClovenBlight and at the same time he charged at her like a feral beast in a rampage.

Twilight saw what is happening and horror took hold of her only to hear a familiar voice calling her,"Twilight what are standing their like that stop that sun wielding lunatic and i will stop my father". Doe said to Twilight in a calm way.

Twilight nodded with her head and both of them went to the battle zone before someone will die or worse.

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