Shadow woke saw the darkness around him. He soon came to set his eyes on a door that is in the middle of the void. He went to push the cutting for his helmet, but found nothing. He looked at himself and realized that his armor was missing and his bare scales were showing. He let out an irritated growl at the fact that he was exposed.

He walked up to the door cautiously. He put his paw on it and opened it. It opened to a balcony over looking a fiery landscape with with bipedal creatures with dragon like wings on their backs as the swarmed around a castle. Shadowfall’s expression went flat.

“What’s wrong? Don’t like to be home?” A voice that he hated said as a dragon with black scales and a dark purple underbelly with four horns on his head; the smallest ones being on the outside while the bigger ones were towards the center.

“Not when your here.” Shadow said as he watched the dragon come to sit at a table with two cups on it. He took his set and gestured to the set across from him.

“I am here on....um...important business.” He said as Shadow came to sit next to him.

“And what business might that be exactly? Another one of your deals?” Shadow spat.

“Nah, no. That was with your father Shadow Demon. Yeah, he was a huge dick, but he kept me busy. So who am I to complain.” The dragon said

“Then tell me Pentagram, why are you here?” Shadowfall asked as he picked up the cup and drank from it realizing that it was tea.

“Straight to the point I see. Well, if you must know, I have been keeping a watch on, him lately and he is getting skittish. So I will ask once and only once. What did you do? This is good tea, I should drink more.” Pentagram asked as he put the cup down.

“I did nothing ever thought that something may be a part of your own faults for once instead of being a piece of shit and blaming it on someone else or is that beyond what you tiny brain can do?” Shadow said which made him turn to Pentagram only to be pick up by the neck and held over the edge of the balcony.

“I would love nothing more to drop you over the edge of this balcony.” Pentagram said as he held shadow over the side. Shadow kept struggling in his grip as Pentagram held him over the edge.

“But I know how much your need to me then you think.” Pentagram said as he shook Shadow.

He then threw Shadowfall to the ground and brought his foreleg onto his back, making Shadowfall yelp in pain.

“You forget how really weak you truly are.” He said as he pick shadow up by his wings. “Do you really think if given the chance you could kill me, you only ever fought evils that I was not allowed to deal with myself and that’s why I sent them you. Your violent nature is what keeps you alive. Your no Shadow Demon, but you will have to do until that old lizard wakes from his slumber. If I can find the little prick.” Pentagram said as he dropped a dazed Shadowfall to the ground.

“So small, so weak, and so much pathetic waste of my time, but again I have use for you. If you are so strong why don’t you ever get back up? Get back up and actually fight me, but you can’t. Never could and never will.” He said until he heard coughing and Shadow finally spoke.

“You still do your little dialogues, thinking your the Alpha, you forgot. You may be the alpha, but I am the OMEGA!” Shadow yelled as he sprung up and kick Pentagram to the railing as
He tackled him over the side. Activating the thruster on his wing he spun around once before he threw him into the ground.

He came to land a couple of feet away from the crater. When he caught his breath he saw a fire ball come at him, he acted quickly by slamming his forelegs into the ground as a red shield in front of him and the exploded on impact sending him sliding back a couple of feet. As he steadied himself he noticed that he was in a colosseum where a crowd a Demons. He heard a voice speak up from the dust.

“Demons and imps, an actual challenge that will regret he EVER EXISTED!” Pentagram said as he spread out his wings letting out a roar that made Shadow cover his ears. As he saw pentagram charging him head on.

‘Why does everyone insist on charging me head on?’ Shadow thought as he readied himself. Pentagram was inches from him. Shadow quickly jumped to the side as he made a quick and hard flap of his wings he slammed his back legs into the side of Pentagram’s face, sending him flying into a wall. As he stared at the cloud of dirt he saw two blood red eyes stare back at him. As another roar accompanied it as Pentagram’s size increased.

The top of his wings grew claws at the end of them. As his scales started to glow a orange and red as he stared down Shadowfall as he just stared back. Pentagram towered over Shadowfall as his Shadowfall’s full height only allowed him to go half the size of a full grown unicorn, which he did not care about his size.

“I remember when you came to me after you had nothing left. The day you said you wanted power revenge.” Pentagram’s voice had become demonic and sounded of as if more voices were repeating what he said.

“And it seems I pissed my employer off!” Shadowfall yelled back as that comment only pissed him off even more. As he saw Pentagram charge him as Shadowfall did the same as Shadowfall grew a smile on his face as he jumped up a couple of inches in the air and curled up into a ball as he spun towards Pentagram as Shadow’s body was engulfed by fire and spinning than anyone could see slammed right into the chest of Pentagram as he was sent across the arena. As Shadow came to land on the ground uncurling from his ball he stood up as the crowd cheered. He walked up to the place where Pentagram should be, but he saw he was missing. He quickly turned around to block Pentagram’s attack but was slammed into the wall as he felt himself being lifted up and slammed into the ground. He then felt himself get hit up into the air as he soon felt Pentagram deliver a blow to his side as Shadow was sent across the arena.

Shadowfall laid there old scares reopened and his body feeling constant pain that he knew too well, it was all he knew. He then heard a voice enter his head.

“Life is a gift, not a curse. It is only the way we use, treat, and offer this gift, is it then we unlock the meaning behind the gift.” A male voice said as it was followed by another.

“Good and evil are just sides fighting for the same goals, the only difference? Is the way one side uses what they have earned.” It was followed by one final voice he recognized.

“Shadowfall remember there is no good or evil, light or dark. There is only our deeds that make us what we are seen by others, it is their views that what makes you a side, but it is your choice if the side you choose is the right one. There is no good or evil, only a choice, on what you see as the right thing.” A female voice said.

He began to move as he felt pain all across his body. He saw that Pentagram was close to him. He was picked up by the throat and held in front of him as he let out a laugh.

“You thought you could stand a chance against me? I have lived for far more millennium than that Demon. I was king until he took over the armies of hell and unleashed his fury upon the dragon city.” Pentagram said as a smile grew on his face.

“And for the record I took great pleasure in taking the life of them all for you.” Pentagram whispered in his ear as Shadowfall’s rage increased as his scales flowed red as symbols appeared on his shoulders, chest, and wings as he let out a roar that made Pentagram drop Shadow as he landed on the ground and jumped up bringing his back legs up and delivered a flurry of kicks to to his head making him stager back until Shadow latched onto the back of Pentagram’s neck as his right foreleg flowed as he outstretching it, a wrist blade that was blood red appeared as he stabbed it into the neck of Pentagram. Pulling out he went up to his horns while trying not to get knocked off. He swung up cutting his horn off. Letting the blade go away, he let the horn land in his paw, gripping it in his paw he raised it and stabbed it into his Pentagrams eye making him roar out in pain.

Shadow jumped off landing a couple of meters away from Pentagram. Shadowfall let out a roar as the symbols on his body flowed brightly, and black armor with blood red lining going through out the armor. His wings had armor covering the webbing of his wings. When he turned around Pentagram was gone. He turned around again and only saw the darkness, the endless void. Shadowfall sat down and noticed the armor that was on him.

“Why did you enter my head?” Shadowfall said with murder in his voice.

“You know why dragon.” A female voice said as he turned to face a pony with a dark blue coat with a stary mane and tail, as she had both a horn and wings.

“I assume introductions are in order, because you can forget it.” Shadowfall said.

“You need not tell me your name for your little confrontation was me using this pentagram character to look in your memories.” The pony said as an idea came to his head.

“If that’s the case see you in the waking world.” Shadowfall said as he made a standard assault rifle appear as he pointed at himself and fired.

Shadowfall shot up as he looked around and found himself on a couch in some sort of home. He made to look at himself and looked just in time to see the armor going back into the symbols where they came from. Letting out a sigh he heard voices which made him look up. He threw the blanket off of himself as he got up only to fall down. Why was he bandaged up. All he remembered was being In pain then that dream with the pony and now this. He looked at the couch in thought.

“What happened to me?” He asked as he a gasp and turned to see the same group of ponies as before standing there three of them in a defensive stance.

He got in a defensive stance as well ready for anything that came at him. He decided to break the silence.

“What happened to me?” Shadowfall asked trying to sound calm. He noticed confused expressions on their faces as the orange one walked up and spoke.

“Ya tellin me that ya don’t remember a thing?” The pony named Applejack Asked as he calmed down a bit which he noticed the purple unicorn and the cyan pony calm down a bit the cyan one was not showing it, but Shadow could read that she was
More at ease.

“No mind telling me what happened then?” Shadow asked as he noticed on thing was missing.

“Wait? Where is my cybernetic?” Shadow asked looking around when he did not hear a response he noticed their confused expressions. He raised the stub that was his right wing. It soon clicked and the yellow pony, Fluttershy, walked in carrying it with her. As he saw it his eyes went wide as he noticed that it was heavily damaged.

Parts of the webbing had been destroyed or beaten and dented. While the main lining was bent upwards as sparks of electricity shot from it. He felt a since of sadness over come him. As he had one response.

“I can fix this later. Now, tell me what happened.” He said which made them kinda worried.

“You um kind went on a rampage after
you passed out.” The cyan Pegasus said, but the purple pony’s answer is what caught his attention.

“Yeah, and your eyes started to have red and purple fumes coming from sides of them.” The purple one said.

“What did you say?” Shadow asked walking to the unicorn.

“Your eyes, the were red and purple. Is that bad?” The purple unicorn said as he growled in frustration.

“I know the reason behind this.” Which made every pony look at him.

“Do any of you know a pony that is dark blue, contains both wings and a horn?” Shadow asked them which all of them nodded in which the purple one known as twilight spoke up.

“That’s Princess Luna, why?” Twilight asked.

“Let me tell you magic users for future reference so that you don’t cause what your Princess caused. If a Shadow Demon’s memories are attempted to be looked at or tampered with it will cause us, or me, to go on a rampage until they leave or the owner finds a way to kill him or herself in the dream.” Shadowfall finished.

“And yes I am aware I am a demon, but I am a special type of demon.” Shadowfall finished.

“And one more thing.” Shadowfall said which made them look at him.

“I wish to see the damage. Please.” He said as deep down he felt guilt. He did not know what was wrong with him he had feelings again, but why. He pick up his broken wing off the ground and walked with the group of ponies to see what he knew would be a disaster.

Author's Note

I rewrote this chapter because to me it needed a better direction to follow that what I at first intended.

I wished the pro final version was better then what my original plan was. The original was to quick to out of the blue. And overall came with more questions than answers. As for chapter orders there is a certain order they go in. As a wise person once said.

“Just because there is a big fat 2 slapped on it or if it comes after something, does not make it a sequel...”

-MatPat.