Location: Mothers Chamber

Nightblade POV

I want to protest, I really want to, but I can't bring myself to get my voice out. Is it because I'm scared? Or is it because I feel bad?
No, it's because I know that even if I do say something Faust won't change her mind. When she makes decisions like this, which she don't do often, there is nothing changing her adventurest mind. We don't even know what this childs species is. The only thing we do know is that he's a carnivore, an infant apex predator that somehow rivals fully grown apex predators, some type of insektoid, an orphan and the last of its kind.

I love Faust just as much as I love my brother, but she sometimes gives me such a headache. She's been like this even since I became a Night guard, no it's been longer than that. How is it possible for someone who has over a millenia of experience to be so childish yet so motherly? Now when I think about it, that describes Faust perfectly, Childish yet Motherly.
Now she decides to adopt what has to be one of the stranges creatures I've ever seen on Equis. And I've seen alot thanks to me being friends with both Faust and Starswirl.

The child skin tone is a light green, or is it an exo-skeleton it's hard to tell. His body is incredibly muscular despite being just born, wide shoulder and a thin waist with a six pack.
His shoulders have these purple ring markings on them, matching well with the light green, his arms are purple with a green line going from the end of his shoulders, to his elbow and continuing down to his hands, his hands are the same dark green with light green spots on his knuckles. He only has four digits on his hands, three fingers and a thumb, all light green like the skin on his body.
His thighs and knee cap are covered in a dark green exo-skeleton and the back of his lower legs are musclular and light green, the front of his legs are covered in a purple exo-skeleton with three thick horizontal green lines going down. The above part of his feet have a dark green exo-skeleton while the underside along with his four toes are light green. His nails on both his toes and fingers are dark green.
Out of his lower back is a long elastic but powerful tail like a snake, its colours changes from green to dark green and back, at the end of his tail is cylinder shaped with a needle like stinger at the end.
His face is like similar to that of a human, flat face with a small pointy nose and a small mouth, tho I saw his mouth expand when he was eating Solaris. His antennae hang down at the side of his head and are connected to his small ears, making it appear like he has long ear lobes hanging down to the top of his chest, the end of them are dark green.
On top of his head is a helmet like dark green shell protecting his cranium, it looks like a combination between a turtle shell and a beetle, with three exo-skeletal protrusions two purple and one dark green in the middle going from the front of the shell down the back.

As I'm analysing his appearance, Faust picks him up like a small child, holding his face down towards her large chest, shielding his eyes. She stands up and gives me and Nightstain a quick glance and nods signaling to us that it's time to leave. As I'm walking I look to my left and see the handle of Solaris shattered sword, I kneel down to pick it up.

"Sister, what are you doing?" Nightstain asked.

"We will need evidence to prove that the king is dead," I answer as I look back at my brother, "a shattered sword that belongs exclusivly to him is a good sign of a new era."

He smiles lightly and looks back at what remains of Solaris, he walks back and picks up the tyrants torn apart golden chestplate and says:

"What about a bloody torn apart chestplate? Is that good enough evidence?" he asked with an innocent tone.

"*snort* If that isn't enough to convince those cultists that their "God King" is dead then I dont know what will." I say as I'm trying not to laugh, "I can't wait to see their faces."

And with that we leave the chamber and make our way back to camp. This is definitely gonna have consequences.

Location: ???

??? POV

"Why? *sniff* Why did this have to happen to me?" I say crying as I sit alone under the rain in a dark forest.
"I've lost everything, *sniff* there is nothing left that I care for." I stand up and look towards the sky.
"Why!? Why have fate been so cruel to me!? What did I do to deserve this!?" I shout towards the night sky.
"I wanna go back... *sniff* No, I want a restart, a new chance at life." I say as I give in to despair. "Someone... or something... just end it."
...
......
*KRAKOOM*

There was a bright light and a quick sense of heat and pain... then there was nothing but darkness.
I don't know how long I was in that darkness but it felt like an eternity, I can't feel my body and I can't move. Am I dead?

Then a small green orb surrounded by a dark purple flame appeared in front of me followed by a another orb that was blue and surrounded by yellow sparks.

"Wow, how unlucky can one mortal be?" a voice coming from the green orb says.

"No kidding, his mother died from cancer infront of him followed by his father dying in a car crash as he makes his way to the hospital. Then his kid sister gets murdered while he was out with his friends, then he sees all of his friends getting run over by a truck right in front of him as he stops to tie his shoe." the blue orb followed up.

"All in a week! And then he gets struck by one of your brothers lightning rods! That has to be a new record of bad luck, right?"

"How do you know it wasn't your brother?"

"Please, I've fought with my brother more than enough times to recognise his lighning, that was Zeus not Thor."

"Bet that idiot got drunk after partying to much. *sigh* Well, what are we gonna do with this one now?"

"We could send him to one our universes that we created on our free time, we can even reincarnate him as a creature that isn't native to Equis. But what universe should it be? Level 1 - 5?"

"I'd say one of the level 3 universes during the early ages."

"You mean the ones were you're worshipped as the All Father? You know it really pisses me of that you have the same title as the old man."

"Well I created them after all, it makes sense."

"Yeah, but I gave birth to one of their gods!"

"After you had intercourse with one of my creations."

"Hey, have you even tried a thick long juicy horse co-"

"Don't you dare!"

"Chill I was joking! Back to topic, what creature should he be? Hmmmm, OH! I know let's look through his memories and see if we can find something interesting!"

"That's a good idea. Those mortals have gotten really creative during the last couple of centuries."

"UWU, what's this?"

"Please stop."

"A chimera ant? Ohhhh, I like this one, let's make him a king as well."

"Is that a good idea? A species of apex predators that literally eats creatures to extinction can have a massive impact on the ecosystem and the future of the planet."

"Eh, let's just make one queen, give her a mission with a promising reward, dump her on an island, make the soldiers weaker than usual and then create an unavoidable event that brings their species to extinction."

"So you wanna take a soul of a mortal who lost all of his loved ones, only to reincarnate him in a world where he will be the only one of his kind?"

"Yep!"

"... You really are the God of Mischeif."

"And a damn good one as well, my Ocean God Friend."

"Why am I friends with you again?"

"Because I'm sexy~"

"Shut up and lets get to work. *sigh*"

As they finished their little couples argument- HEY! -followed by breaking the fouth wall, the two orbs started glowing brigthly and spin around eachother before colliding into one another and exploding into a colourfull blast that reminded me of the big bang.
Then there was darkness once again, as well as the faint sound of a heart beat.

*Thump thump*
*Thump thump*
*Thump thump*

Location: Campsite

Meruem POV

*Thump thump*
*Thump thump*
*Thump thump*

"What was that dream? Or... was it a memory?" I say as I struggle to wake up.

Last thing I remember from last night was being carried away from Moms chamber by Faust, who I can with the best of my abilities describe as a goddess. Even with her equine features like her hoofs and short muzzle, she is absolutely gorgeous. Being 2,6 meters tall, her hour glass shaped body covered with milk white fur, two large wings on her back, a long spiral horn from her forehead, rose red mane that glimmer like a clear night sky and crystal blue eyes shining like stars, you have yourself the definition of an equine goddess.
Not only is she beautiful but she's so kind, even after seeing me perform what I can only imagine as savage carnivores hunger, she still looked at me with love and care in her eyes. Just like a mother would her child.

"...Mother......Mom..." I mumble as tears start to form in my eyes.

That's right, my Mom died and Faust adopted me. I became an orphan before I was even properly born, this is the second time I've felt this. The feeling of losing a loved one, but how have I felt this before? Was that dream really a memory? Didn't I also kill someone? My second chance at life and the first thing I do is commit murder.
This is to much, I was literally born yesterday and already I've commited one of the worse crimes imaginable and lost another family. I don't want to get up, I don't want to leave this bed with this incredibly soft and warm pillow.

*Thump thump*

"*sniff* Mom *hick*" I cry weakly.

"Shhhh, there there," says motherly voice, "it's alright, I'm here."

I feel something wrap around my back and pull me closer to the soft pillow.

*Thump thump*

Only that it's not a pillow and the calming lullaby like sound I've been hearing is a heartbeat. I look up with tear filled eyes and see Faust beautiful smile, holding me in a comforting hug and pressing my head towards her chest so that I can her her calming heartbeat. We're both lying on a mattress covered with blankets in what appears to be a tent of some kind. That's right, Faust carried me back to their camp.

Faust sits up while still hugging me, I look up towards her and see her summon a napkin out of thin air, she then wipes my face with it. She is wearing a rose pink nightgown with a big opening around the neck, exposing her cleavage, she looks at me with a conserned expression.

"Had a bad dream?"

I shake my head, "No, I just remembered last night." I barely get to finish before Faust pulls me in for another hug.

I may have had my eyes closed for most of the journey back to the campsite, but I could still hear and smell the area around me. The smell of blood and burnt flesh accompanied with the cracking of fire, chears of arrogant victory and distant crying. I had an idea what the booming and shouting meant when I was in Moms stomach and my worries were confirmed once I got outside. My people where slaughtered and I'm the soul survivor, all because I was saved and adopted by Faust. I'm starting to cry again, hiding my face in Fausts chest.

"My Queen, is everything alright?" a male voice says to my right, "I heard crying."

"It's alright Nightstain, Meruem just had a bad dream." Faust answered.

The guard called Nightstain walks up to us and kneels down to look at me with a sympathetic look. One of the things I quickly realised about the Night guard is that despite his large intimidating build and soul piercing eyes, he's actuelly quite kind and gentle. I wonder how I guy like him became a guard?

"Poor thing." he says before continuing, "As much as I would like to leave you two here, we have a bit of a situation outside."

"What kind of situation?" Faust asked sounding worried.

"One of the veterans among the Solar guards picked a fight against one the younger recruits. It's same recruit we talked to yesterday." Nightstain explained.

"Pride Sentry? Well, I better hurry and get ready then."

Faust stands up and is envelopt in a dark blue aura that changes her nightgown into a light armored night blue and silver dress. She walks towards the tents exit before turning around to adress me and Nightstain.

"Nightstain please remain by Meruems side and make sure nothing happens to him." Faust ordered.

"Yes my Queen." Nightstain answered with a salute.

There was an awkward silence after Faust left the tent, neither me or Nightstain was sure what to say. Nightstains previously stoick build is starting to falter as he's trying avoid eye contact and sweats nervously. He really is one big softy trying to look mean and tough.

He breaks the silence by asking a question I never saw coming.

"Sooo, how did he taste? Solaris I mean." He asked sounding really nervous.

"Truth is that I'm not sure." I answer unsure, "While I was eating him, everything was just blurry. I was so hungry that it felt painful, so I just ate whatever was nearby not really caring about the taste."

"Oh um, sorry, for the awkward question," he said chuckling nervously as he scratched the back of his head.

He paused before continuing, "It just... felt kinda nice I guess, to know that there is another carnivore among us now."

It took me a second to realise what he had just said, then another second give a shocked answer.

"Wait, you're a carnivore?" I asked with wide eyes.

"Yeah," he answered while lifting his lips to show his fangs, "while thestrals can survive by sucking out juices from fruit, our teeth aren't made to consume fruits and vegetables. We need to eat meat at least three - four times a week to remain healthy."

"Huh, I guess that's why he was okay with asking a question like what his former king taste like." I thought to myself.
"Wait does that mean you eat ponies?" I asked.

"NO, nono, that would basically be cannibalism." he answered defensivly completely dropping his guard.

After such a silly display I couldn't help myself from simply chuckling over how silly such a strong looking stallion is acting. After a while both me and Nightstain are laughing together finally letting the stress from last night dissappear.
Our happy moment is interupted however from both of us flinching from the sudden increase in volyme of the shouting coming from outside.

"What is going on out there?" I asked worried.

"Seems the situation is getting a bit out of control." Nightstain answered as we both started making our way towards the exit of the tent.

3rd person POV

The situation that had played out on the campsite went like this, one of the veteran Solar guards had gotten drunk and attempted to force himself on one of the pegasus maids to releave his stress. Before he could get far however the young recruit Pride Sentry had put himself in between the veteran and maid before he delivered a right hook to the veterans jaw.

Pride Sentry wasn't the biggest stallion but he was still relatively muscular. His body was covered with golden yellow fur with a dark blue mane and he had emerald green eyes.
The maid he was protecting was as curvy as Nightblade, she was a beauty with her child bearing hips and modest chest. Her body was covered with fire orange fur with a ruby red mane and her eyes were a sapphire blue colour. Her name was Flash Gem.

What followed was a foolish argument on why unicorns are superior to pegasus and the maid should have felt honored that he would even consider using her. That was answered with Pride calling him a psychopath that slaughtered civilians and served a false king, which follow with Pride taking a blow straight to his muzzle and Nighblade jumping in to tell the veteran to "Buck off!"
Nightblade was then called a freak and monster wearing pony skin as clothing by several of the other veterans who decided to gang up on her. It was at this moment that Faust had jumped in.

"Enough! What is wrong with you all? Do you have no shame?!" Faust voice boomed over the entire campsite, catching every guard, servant and worker off guard.

It was this increase in volyme that had caught the attention of Meruem and Nightstain, convincing them to leave their tent. On their right side they could see Faust, Nightblade, Pride Sentry and Flash Gem, while on their left they could see the drunk veteran accompanied by all the other Solar guards that were loyal to Solaris.

"Oh shut your mouth you Royal whorse!" everyone gasped over what the drunk veteran had just said to their Queen.
"Like you're one to talk about shame with a body and clothing like that! You're like every teenage colts wet dream! No wonder Solaris only married you for your body, shame that you turned out to be such a nagging hag. The fact that you fell for Solaris royal charm proves just what a massive whorse you are!"

"Yeah!" "That's right!" "All hail Solaris!" the other Solar guard shouted.

At this point the rest of the of the camp had gathered around to watch, making quite the audiense. One of the older pegasus butlers that looked similar to Flash Gem and three of the Solar guard recruits had joined in on Fausts side, both to check on Pride and Gem, as well as defend Faust from the veterans vocal assault.

"What is wrong with you all?" one of the recruits ask, "How can you talk like to our Queen?"

"We were loyal to Solaris not the throne! In fact, she holds no power over us or our loyalty! She's just meant to stand next to our glorious God King and look pretty, but she just had to make everything harder for everyone!" one of the veterans answer.

"Yeah now when you say it. Isn't it weird that she and her pets were the ones that came back, she even had one of the freaks with her." another veteran says, "I bet she and her monsters stab Solaris in the back and killed him while he had his guard down. They would never have been able to defeat King Solaris fair and square."

"Yeah!" "Murderer!" "Cowards!" "Freaks!" "Monsters!" "Pegacorn!" "You're no Queen of ours!" the veterans started shouting insults towards Faust and Nighblade.

At this point Meruem has had enough and started walking towards Faust, Nightstain tries to stop him but his words falls on deaf ears.
The maid Flash Gem notices Meruem approaching and gasps at the sight of him, having never seen a creature like Meruem before. Faust hears the gasp and looks to her left to see Meruem standing next to her with Nightstain to his left.

"Meruem! What are you doing here?" Faust asked worried.

"Look! See! What did I tell you? She did bring back one of the freaks! HAHAHA-!" the drunk veteran laughs and points towards Meruem like a child. Only for his laughing fit to be cut short by a green blur and his right hand he used to point with, now gone.

Faust was first furious that the drunk dared to laugh at her child and was even prepared to blast his head off. But her wrath was replaced with confusion followed by realisation when she looks at Meruem, seeing three fingers sticking out of his mouth and him crunching down on them.

Meruem makes an audible gulp and says, "Hey Nightstain?"

"Yeah?"

"To answer your question about what Solaris taste like. Well, he taste better than a intoxicated unicorn." Meruem answers not caring over the stares everyone is giving him.

The drunk started screaming, the pain and horror finally reaching his brain. While he is doing this the veterans shake in fear and then stop as they realise what Meruem had just said. But before they could take action, Meruems tail winds up and lashes out, turning into a green blur that obliterates the screaming drunk head, silencing him and covering the rest of the veterans in blood, brain matter and skull fragments.

"Quiet." says Meruem monotoned.

"Y-yu-you Monster!" one of the blood covered veterans scream.

"Yeah, I am, what of it?" Meruem answers, shocking everyone. "I killed and ate your king and beheaded your comrade. What are you gonna do about it?"

The Solar veterans horror turns into fury as they all draw out their weapons, swords, spears and axes, all aimed at Meruem.

"If you want to get to him you'll need to get through me." Nightstain says as he draws his broad sword.

"And me." Pride Sentry says as he draws his short sword.

"Hey, don't forget me!" Nighblade says cheery as she dual wields two curved blade.

Flash Gem walks forward and rips her dress apart revealing a dagger strapped to her thigh.

The old butler stands next to her and flicks his wrist revealing a hidden blade in his sleave.

The other Solar recruits walks forward, as well as some of the others that were keeping their distance. All drawing out their weapons.
The pegasus servants in the camp also join Fausts side as they reveal hidden blades and daggers as well. Accompanied by the Earth pony workers, wielding sledge hammers and tools as makeshift weapons.

The veterans are starting to realise that they are outnumbered and are starting to look nervous, but before they can surrender or say anything else Faust summons her silver rapier and points it at those loyal to Solaris.

"Let's remove the stain of Solaris once and for all, starting on this island." Faust says and the battle starts.

It wasn't much of a battle, it was in fact incredibly one sided. Despite the fact that the veterans had more experience than most others, years of serving Solaris as they fight against opponents that can't fight back had made them all rusty. It didn't help with the fact that the majority of them were drunk.
Faust had takin it upon herself to make sure that the servants were equipped with hidden weapons for self defense and make sure that they were ready to jump into action. The new recruits also took their training and duty a lot more seriously compared to the veterans that had slacked off during the latest years. The earth pony workers were also naturelly bigger and much more muscular than unicorn that the entirety of the Solar guard consist of. With numbers and more variety on their side Fausts army made quick work over the Solar veterans, with them only suffering minor injuries and no casualties.
But the battle was brought to a stop when everyone was left slack jawed at seeing Meruem take on the remaining ten guards.

Meruem was swift and fast, but more importantly, he was effective. Weaving and dodging while waiting for his opponents to strike before he does. After a while it stopped looking like Meruem was fighting and more like he was dancing around his enemies.

Nightstain was looking on in astonishment, he brought out a small notebook and before he realised, he had started sketching Meruems battle. Being an artist and spending several days without inspiration to paint, made it so that Nightstain went into auto-pilot and started drawing his heart out. He can't wait to make an official painting from his sketches. But he was brought to a stop when he heard a word he never thought he would ever hear from a certain voice, from his sister Nightblade.

"Beautiful." she said simply staring in awe at Meruem, while Nightstain was starting to think he'd gone insane.

There was only three things Nightblade admired, strength, skill, and passion. And right now Meruem was displaying all of that and more. A young creature taking on ten older creatures, all twice his size, yet he was punching, kicking, grabbing, stabbing and slashing around them like he was performing a Dance of Death.
In all of Nightblades life she has never seen anything that she would describe as beautiful, maybe pretty, but never beautiful. It was actuelly one of her brothers personal goals to make a painting that she would call beautiful. Right this moment however, beautiful was the only word she could think of.
In the eyes of others with less experience Meruem might look like he was just buying time and striking randomly, but in the eyes of those with experience like Nightblade, that was not it at all. Meruem wasn't striking randomly, he was aiming, aiming at the joints and opening of the Solar guards armour.
First he would punch or kick in order to deform the metal, then he would shove his fingers into the opening and rip the armour off. Followed by a stab from his stinger to weaken his opponents and then, the finishing blow with his powerful tail, causing blood to spray out off their bodies and turn into a red mist, painting the ground red like field of roses.

When the last guard was finally obliterated, Nightblade hadn't realised it at first, but she had walk up to Meruem, staring him straight into his beautiful purple eyes, with both her hands each holding his head gently. This was it, this was true beauty in Nightblades eyes.

Queen Faust POV

I'm not sure what to say, more than the fact that I'm absolutely amazed over Meruem skill and strength. No that's not right, when Meruem was fighting he wasn't fighting using skill and he had no experience. No, Meruem was fighting with nothing more than pure talent and instinct. Like he was made for combat.

Watching Nightblade holding Meruem by the sides of his head and staring at him with pure admiration and facination, while Nightstain is making some sketches, truly puts a smile on my face. I look around and see that my ponies have started celebrating while others were looking at Meruem with facination and caution. I can't wait for Meruem to meet Starswirl, Celestia and Luna.

My happy thoughts about the future was brought to a stop when I received a tap on my right shoulder. I turn around and see Pride Sentry with the maid Flash Gem close to his side.
"Looks like someones getting popular." I thought to myself.

He looks like he wants to ask something, he looks worried.

"Your Majesty, I just realised something that might concern you." he said unsure.

"What is it?" I asked with curiousity.

"Shouldn't it be daytime by now?"

The realisation hits me like sledgehammer. That's right, with Solaris dead we won't have someone to raise the sun. Celestia isn't ready yet, her mana is still too low to match Solaris.
Oh how could I miss something so important! What should we do? The sun should have been up an hour ago! That stupid drunk bad mouthing stallion along with all of Solaris other dogs! I didn't even realise that it was still dark because of the torches and fireplaces around the camp, I even lowered the moon before I helped Sentry and Nightblade!

But just as I was about to have another panic attack, a tingeling sensation made itself precent in my horn. It was a sensation I've felt many times, it was this sensation that made me discover Solaris and that I wasn't the only one of my kind. This sensation meant that alicorn magic was right now being used, I was starting to get scared that maybe Solaris death was nothing more than a dream and Meruem was just my imagination. But I was brought out of my thoughts when I heard a gasp from Flash Gem and saw both her and Pride Sentry looking behind me.

I turn around and what I see leaves me dumbfounded. The end part of Meruems tail was covered in a flowing golden aura and was pointing towards the horizon, and the sun was slowly making it's way upwards towards the sky with the tip of Meruems tail following.

Once the sun was up in the sky, Meruem shakes his head and turns around. He flinches when he realises that he is being stared at by everyone in the camp, eyes the size of dinner plates and mouths wide open, his gaze eventuelly lands on me.

He tilt his head to the side and ask: "What's wrong?"

Author's Note

Here's a link for those that have a hard time picturing Meruem.