Location: Mothers Chamber

Meruem POV

*Distant Boom*

What is it now? I was sleeping.

*Muffled shouting*

What is happening? What is all that noise? It sounds distant.

*More shouting*

It's getting closer! Mom! What's happening?!

*Rumble**Bubbles**Rumble*

"Oh dear! It seems they woke him up," Mother said with a voice of surprisingly unconcerned tone, "It seems he'll be born prematurely after all."

"What are your orders, Queen Mother?" a new female voice that I heard for the first time yet felt oddly familiar.

"Slow them down as much as you can without killing them, they need to be fresh," Mother said with a voice of authority.

Without killing them?! Are we being attacked?! Why would we not kill them if we're being attacked?!

"What about the king's food?!" a flamboyant voice asked.

"The food matters no more, what matters is the birth of the Chimera Ant King!"

Chimera Ant? What's a Chimera Ant? Why does it sound familiar?

"Does this mean that this is our final stand?" a muscular almost beastly voice asked.

"We have all served our purpose in the birth of the ultimate Apex Predator, just like the god that sent us here said we would," Mother answered with a voice of wisdom. "Whether or not Meruem eats his food or the invaders matters not, either way he'll be stronger than all of them."

Stronger than who? And did she just say god? What are we? What am I?

WHAT IS GOING ON?!

...I'm hungry...

Location: The Village

Queen Faust POV

I can't believe I let my guard down like that, getting excited like a filly on her birthday and receiving gifts. Of course he would find those creatures disgusting by their hybrid appearances, if there is one thing that Solaris hates in this world, it is difference. The only reason he was okay with creatures like thestrals and hippogriffs was because they were either part pony or pony like in appearance. He saw their pony appearance as a gift of the All father Poseidon, so he let it slide, but that didn't stop him from still treating them as inferior.
The discrimination towards those of complete non pony origin is the one reason we had yet to achieve peace, they are seen as nothing more than a stain on Solaris perfect world on a glass painting, something that should simply be cleaned off. That stupid specist vision of his is the sole reason why we are still at war with the dragons, griffons, minotaur, yaks, dogs and abyssians, and why the peaceful races of kirins, deers, zebras and flutter ponies have completely shut themselfs out from Equestria.

I woke up from the sound of an explosion in the distance and was immediately met with the concerned and heartbroken faces of Nightstain and Nightblade, at first I thought that it was the sounds of cannons being fired and we were being attacked by pirates on the ship. But a quick look at the dusk red sky filled with smoke quickly confirmed that the worst had happened while I was out cold. I quickly stood up and rushed towards the cliffside, nearly falling off because I got light headed from standing up too fast and I saw the view of the nourishing village being burned to the ground by the Solar guard.

I spread my wings and take to the sky with Nightstain and Nightblade on my tail, it doesn't take us long to reach our destination and seeing the village up close makes my heart fall down to my stomach. To my left I see the same Owl and gorilla hybrid I saw in the distance lay dead with his back to a wall in a sitting position, his right arm cut off and a huge gash at the center of his head, most likely from having a magic enhanced blade shoved through it. Judging by the feathers on his head and the fur on his body being light gray, it looks like he was relatively old, questions like "Was he wise?" and "Was he strong?" filled my head as tears started to run down my cheeks and I could hear Nightstain sniffling behind me as well, making it nearly impossible to not start crying.

"I didn't sign up for this *sniffle* this is not why I joined the Solar guard."

My thoughts were interrupted by a voice coming from my right and looking to see one of the youngsters from the Solar guard hugging a small body. Judging by the size it was definitely a child and her appearance was just as fascinating as the others, her legs had cloven hooves like that of a deer with brown fur and her hands looked reptilian with red scales. She was wearing a bash brown dress, showing that she was probably a farmer child, but her head was the most fascinating of all. Her head was like that of an ant, copper brown exoskeleton matching the red scales and brown fur on her arms and legs, with deep blue eyes without pupils or visible eyelids yet despite the insect like appearance she had hair buns on the sides of her head.

I make my way towards the young stallion but Nightblade passes me and places her right hand on his left shoulder, he flinches and slowly turns around to face us, his face is filled tears and snot and his eyes are red from crying to much and Nightblade meeting his gaze with a face of silent sorrow. I walk towards them and his gaze shifts to me, the image in front of me is heartbreaking, right now I'm not just seeing a young stallion holding the corpse of a hybrid creature, but a soldier holding the body of a child he could not save from what was probably a slow death by bleeding. I see now that her body was bleeding from the stomach, a deep cut going from the right side to the left, her guts close too spilling out, it was also at this point that I noticed something I hadn't paid attention to until now but their blood, it was a dark blue colour.

"Where is Solaris?" I ask the young guard, my voice nearly cracking from sorrow.

"*sniff*He is...*sniffle* Last I saw him..." he stops to wipe his eyes with his left arm while still holding the little girl with his right, "Last I saw him, he was making his way towards the large structure*sniff.*"

"Thank you," I said in a sympathetic tone, "What's your name?"

"Sentry,*sniff* Pride Sentry." he answered with a face filled with resolve.

"I'll remember that, Pride Sentry."

I turn towards Nightblade, "Let's move, hopefully we can stop Solaris and maybe resolve this without further bloodshed." but that felt like nothing but wishful thinking at this point.

As we run through the burning village we come across more and more corpses of the villagers. I would more than anything like to stop and study their appearances, but right now we have more important things to be concerned about. We see a few more rookies from the Solar guard trying to follow the orders given to them by there Solar Tyrant, but judging from the fact that there isn't a single drop of blue blood on there swords and spears, it would seem that they have failed and will likely be punished later for disobeying orders, some are crying while others gaging in an attempt to throw up.

We finally make our way to the entrance of the structure and we can hear the battles that are going on inside, I realise something odd that seems to have just registered to the Night guards minds as well. We have not seen a single corpse of a Solar guard, I know that the Solar guard are some of the best in Equestria, but the fact that there isn't a single corpse of a guard fallen in battle is too bizarre. We make our ways through the halls of the structure and run past several veteran guards shouting praises to their God King and their absolute victory. I notice that a lot of the guards seem to remain at the bottom level of the structure for some reason.

Keeping a poker face I asked one of the guards, "Why is everyone here at the bottom level?"

He recomposes himself and answers "Because my Queen, we can't get to the upper levels, there are no stairs and the only way up are these tunnels."

I look up and just as the guard said there is a perfect circle shaped tunnel leading straight up presumably to the upper levels of the structure, what a strange way to design a way up, now I'm even curious for answers of what these creatures are capable of.

"Did the king go up alone?" I turn my attention back to the guard and asked.

"He said he would finish off whatever ruler could live in such a disgusting place like this." The veteran guard answered with a shrugg.

I look up once more, make a quick calculation in my head, proceed to bend my knees and with a powerful flap with my powerful wings launch myself up through the tunnel and with elegance land perfectly at the upper level. I quickly realise that there are four corridors leading to completely different directions, since I have no idéa which way Solaris went. I close my eyes and focus my magic into my horn in an attempt at sensing the most powerful magic signature in the structure. It doesn't take me long to find what I'm looking for, I see an image in my head of a white sun surrounded by a golden flaming aura taking the shape to that of an alicorn stallion, but he is not alone.

In front of him are three other magical signatures, the one to the right is the shape of a large butterfly with beautiful rainbow colored wings surrounded by a purple flowing aura, the one in the middle is the shape of a white feline surrounded by a blood red raging aura, the last signature is shaped like a red bipedal creature with six arms surrounded by a pink compressed aura that looks like it's about to burst.

I quickly turned around facing the direction I sensed was right, making eye contact with both Nightstain and Nightblade who got up from the tunnel as I was concentrating. I wordlessly point towards our destination and fly past them down the hall, they quickly follow behind not wanting to leave me alone facing Solaris. The halls are wide enough for me to fully spread out my wings quickening our pace towards our goal, I can't see the end of the hallway but judging from how I have to turns slightly to the right as I'm flying, the halls seems to form some sort of circle and considering that there was four of them, the entire upper level most likely forms into a giant spiral each hallway leading towards one of the towers in the structure.

I immediately start to slow down as I make out a figure lying on its back on the ground. The creature is a large muscular red bipedal who appears to be male with furry brown legs with two large toes on each foot. He has six arms, two at the end of his shoulders, two out of his shoulder blades and two out of his lower back, his arms have three joints in them giving each arm an extra elbow resulting in a total of twelve elbows. His head has been cleanly cut off by the neck leaving a bald head with multiple red eyes around it lying in between his legs. Such a fascinating specimen unlike anything I have ever seen before, and here it lies dead at my hooves, killed by the stallion I once called my husband.

It doesn't take us long to discover another corpse of the silhouettes I saw, this one was another male, unlike the previous one who was naked with only fur covering his privates, this one was wearing what looked like a butler uniform, black pants, white suit with a black tie, black gloves and what appeared to be shoes made of cragadile leather. His skin was a light purple, he had a blond mane with two ant-like antennae sticking out from his head. His face was practically burned off presumably by a powerful magic blast, but I can see two mandibles sticking out from his mouth. His back was covered in blue blood with a giant cut wound from upper center down to the lower part of his back, perfectly cutting his spine in half vertically. I thought at first that he was wearing a cape of some sort but I quickly noticed that it was in fact a pair of giant rainbow colored butterfly wings. It's so sad to see something so beautifully colored destroyed by cut wounds and blue blood.

The third of the trio was further down the hall and appeared to be female, she was in a sitting position towards the wall on the right, the wall was covered in blue blood looking like someone had thrown a bucket of blue paint on it, it looks like she had been pushed too the wall with great force resulting in her sliding down in a sitting position. She was wearing a button up blue sweater and wood brown shorts, she had muscular exoskeleton covered legs with a skin pink colour, her hands had clawed fingers and there was white cat-like tail sticking out of her lower back. She had a gaping hole at the center of her chest seemingly created from a powerful magic blast and what I can assume created the giant blood stain on the wall.

My analysis was interrupted by her body twitching and I realised that she was in fact still alive and struggling to breathe. I knelt down and placed both my hands on her cheeks so that I could see her face. Her mane was white like her tail with cat ears at the top of her head and her eyes were a beautiful golden colour with slitted pupils. What I found shocking was her face, because it was like that of creatures that I thought were only a myth. She had the face of a human, flat face with a small nose, yep, exactly like a human.

"...please..." she said weakly with tear filled eyes and blue blood running down her nose and mouth, "Please... save the... king... he hasn't... been born... yet..."

As I see the life fade from her eyes I'm no longer filled with sorrow, but instead I'm filled with incomparable burning rage. I look behind me and see that Nightstain and Nightblade are standing behind me with the most rage-filled faces I've seen them do in a long time, their fangs showing and their slitted pupils appearing like nothing more than vertical lines.

"Tonight..." I say as my magic is flaring, raising the moon outside increasing my power even further, "Solaris dies tonight."
Whatever consequences that follow tonight, I no longer care.

We finally make it down to the end of the hall, seeing Solaris holding a javelin made of light in his right hand, preparing to throw it towards a bloated insect like creature, unlike the previously seen creatures this one just looked like a 3 meter tall ant queen, only difference being she had only four limbs instead of six, two arms and two legs. In between her legs was her swelled up gaster that appeared to be filled with some green liquid. I notice some form of silhouette inside of her and quickly put two and two together, realising that she is pregnant and Solaris is aiming right at her.

With magic flaring in my eyes, I focus on Solaris javelin, cancelling the spell mid-attack resulting in it combusting in his hand badly burning him. Solaris roars in pain and turns around looking straight at me with bloodshot eyes, he no longer looks like a proud Solar king in my eyes, now he looks like a mad dog prepared to bite any that comes near him. His white fur stained with blue blood from all that he has killed and his golden mane standing out on several places on his head, making him look truly insane as he is holding his burned right hand with his left.

"That's enough Solaris, if you so much as dare to raise a weapon against her then I'll cut you down myself!" I shout as I summon my silver rapier to show my resolve.

Solaris let's go of his burned hand and silently starts laughing, I notice a small flash of white light in his left hand and he quickly turns around throwing a thin golden dagger towards the Ant Queen.
I panic as I try to grab the dagger with my telekinesis, before I can however, the dagger hits the Ant Queen in her left eye with the tip of the dagger sticking out at the back of her head. Her arms that were previously caressing the gaster fell to the ground showing that the attack killed her instantly.

Falling to my knees as I give into despair over the fact that I failed to save anyone of these creatures, the last remnant of their people killed right in front of me.

"Once again you fail to change anything that I decide," Solaris starts with a mocking tone, "let us return to Equestria and tell our people how their heroic king and his guards stopped a potential threat from invading and hurting our ponies, while you stand by my side and look pretty like the trophy you're supposed to be."

Staring up at him with rage and sorrow in my eyes, I was considering making an attempt to slit his throat with my rapier, but that is immediately replace with a shocking feeling of danger as my eyes widen and Solaris seem to be experiencing the same feeling as I can see his body starting to shake with terror. A huge wave of powerful magic is being pushed past us from behind Solaris, a type of magic that is often released by starved wild magical beasts as they stalk their prey.

"Where is all of this coming from?" I ask in my head, "The only creatures that would be capable of releasing this much wild magic would be Ursa Majors or Elder Dragons."

I tilt my head to the right to look behind Solaris and see movement inside the Ant Queens gaster, soon after a green limb shoots out from the corpse followed by another, each one grabs at the new opening tearing it open, resulting in everything that is inside to fall out. A small body covered in a greenish yellow liquid slowly stands up, it seems to be roughly the size of a ten year old foal, not much larger than Celestia.

"I'm..." a tired voice snarls, "I'm hungry."

Author's Note

Second chapter, hope you all like it.
It became much longer than I was expecting.

Fun fact: the reason why I called Poseidon the All father, similar to Odin, is because Poseidon is the god of the Ocean, Earthquakes and Horses.

PS. Thank you to everyone that favorite this story, tags might change in the future depending on how I want the story to go.