Location: Kingdom of San Palomino

Time: 1350 years ago

Sphinx POV

Another day in bondage. What more can I really say. My life doesn't hold any value other than to grant whatever wishes that the Pharaoh allows to be granted. If he feels like being generous that is, which isn't often. Villagers and travellers from far and wide come and go through these great halls in hope that I'll grant their wishes, but only if they can answer my riddles. It is what has made me and my kind into figures of worship during these dark times of the Tyrant Godking.

I was captured and taken from my homeland by Solaris around 20 years ago. He made me a slave and sold me to the Pharaoh in order to establish an alliance between San Palomino and the Kingdom of Everfree. My only light in this situation is that the Pharaoh only uses me for my magic and not for my body. These ponies are always so xenophobic in the weirdest of times. Though now when I think about it, it might have something to do with my size rather than my species. Some of the guards would sneak in to my chamber from time to time and rub one out on my body, whether or not the Pharaoh noticed is beyond me, since I'm given a bath every morning to look my best next to him. The Pharaoh has attempted to make moves on me in the past, but gave up as he couldn't reach around my body. He would get furious and decide to whip me instead, then he would take out his frustration on some of the other slaves. Though judging by what I've heard from them, he isn't anything special in bed, if what they told me is to be believed. I believe one of the pegasi slaves called him a "two pump chump", which has to be one the funniest ways to say that someone last no longer than 30 seconds. Moments of laughter like those don't last long however, as the guards had apparently heard our conversation and reported to the Pharaoh. The Pharaoh then took her away from the rest of us and I never saw that mare again.

The great halls of the throne room was quite the sight to behold. The ground was so sparkling clean that it reflected the entire room. Up on the ceiling were large light crystals, kept in huge copper bowls that was held up with silver chains, covering the entire hall in golden light. On the left and the right side were stairways with red carpeting that lead up to another level that held on large sandstone table on each side, used for festivities such as royal dinners with foreign sovereignty. The throne itself was quite simple in design, but complex in material, as well as way to large for the earth pony it belonged to. Made from ebony wood as the skeleton, with the outer shell being made of sandstone mixed with ivory, with cushions to make it comfortable and me in orichalcum shackles and adamantine chains right beside it.

Opposite to the stairway that led to the throne stood two guards. They wore leather tunics on their chests and triangular pouches, called sporrans, around their waists. They wore enchanted bronze helmets with leather padding on their heads and they wielded large rawhide shields and bronze tipped spears.
The large wooden doors would open at any moment now as the Pharaoh waited for the Alicore Family's representative.

It is weird that Solaris himself isn't showing up for this meeting. I bet he's probably out on another genocide or something... Great, I just made myself depressed by thinking of reality.

I slump down on the ground, using my arms as cushions to rest my head on. I'm fully convinced that I'll die within these halls one day, since the Pharaoh pretty much treats me like a family treasure that should be used for future generations, he's going to keep me alive for his son to use as well when the time comes. I'll never see my home again, if there even is a home to return to.
My gaze goes to the stallion which most of my hatred is directed towards, Pharaoh Zebāla. His coppar coat, sand red mane with golden streaks running through it and jade green eyes will forever be a bane in my memories. He wears a half-pleated kilt around his body with a pleated section drawn to the front. Jewelry with symbols of power carved into them, leopard skin over his shoulders and a lion's tail hanging from the side of his belt. On his head is a nemes head dress, the kind that all pharaohs are suppose to wear.

"I can't wait for the day this pig in pony clothing and his entire kingdom burns to the ground." I thought with malice.

My thoughts are broken because of an unbearably uncomfortable chill running down my spine, that makes the hair on my neck stand. I feel a powerful presence approaching from beyond the doors to the throne room, it's accompanied by two others, but they are nearly invisible to my senses as the bigger one seems to block them out and swallow them with it's presence alone. I've never felt power like this before, it's overwhelming. It makes me feel... small?
It can't be an alicorn. Solaris, Faust and their daughters are nothing compare to this thing. Whatever is moving towards us can't be anything else but a large monster. It has to be, it can't be anything else. It's like I'm being stalked by a predator.

"Presenting Prince Meruem Alicore and Archmage Starswirl from the Kingdom of Everfree!" the guard shouts as the doors open, revealing a young lime green alicorn stallion with a purple mane, accompanied by a dark gray unicorn mage with a light gray mane and beard, and a golden yellow unicorn guard with a dark blue mane.

"Ahhh welcome welcome, child of the Godking, to my humble kingdom." Pharaoh Zebāla said with the most flank kissing voice I've ever heard.

"Yes," the Prince, known as Meruem, said with a slight cringe, "it is a pleasure to be here Lord Zebāla."

That was an obvious lie, it was very visible on his face that he did not want to be here. But, even that felt odd.
His face was so obvious that it looked like it was forced, like he's pretending to be nervous and uncomfortable. The Pharaoh obviously noticed the discomfort, but not that it was an act. So he just kept talking, most likely thinking the prince was just nervous to be around such a majestic stallion.
His thoughts not mine.
They mostly talked about trading and politics, but also about their families, like how the Queen and Princesses are doing, it was a bit odd that the Pharaoh didn't ask about Solaris. But non of that matters, there is something very wrong about this alicorn. I've never heard of Solaris and Faust having a son, Princess Luna is supposed to be the youngest. Is he adopted? Where did he come from? Why is his life force so overwhelming?! It's like a forest fire of every colour of the rainbow, but it isn't a pretty rainbow. It's... sinister. Like there is a mix a hatred and bloodlust hidden amongs the colours.

I was so caught up in my own thoughts that I had zoned out the rest of their conversation. I don't know how long they had talked but clearly something Prince Meruem had said to the Pharaoh had made him upset, as twelve of his guards were now surrounding the Prince and his company.

"DO NOT THINK ME A FOOL YOUNG PRINCE!" the Pharaoh's voice boomed across the throne room.
"I already know that Solaris has fallen in battle, my spies had taken notice of his absence and I put the pieces together."

"Solaris is dead?! Since when?!" I scream in my head with wide eyes.

"With the Solar Godking out of the picture, this leaves the Kingdom of Everfree without a proper ruler." Zebāla continued.
"This means that all the rulers of both ponykind and the other races will set their sites on Queen Faust's hand in marriage, as well as the princesses. I shall be the first to conquer it and take Queen Faust for myself."

My eyes were directed to the young alicorn to see his reaction. His mask was breaking and I could see clear signs of anger and hatred within his eyes. The danger I felt from his lifeforce was beginning to become overwhelming and consume the entire throne room, but Pharaoh Zebāla didn't realise any of this.
The prince's body was shaking, his muscles were bulging out and his eyes bloodshot with rage. While Zebāla was still talking, I met eyes with the alicorn. Within his eyes, I saw something that both terrified me, but also intrigued me and filled me with hope. Those eyes were not the eyes of a herbivore.

"While I'm at it, I might as well take the young and still developing princesses as my concubines and force Faust to watch as I take away their purity."

Those words were the last straw, what happened next will forever be stuck within my memories.
The alicorn's body was covered with dark purple flames of hatred, it's pressence was so overwhelming that the guards that surrounded him instantly backed away and began to shake uncontrollably. His silhouette began to change from a young alicorn stallion to a creature I've never seen before. A body covered with a green exoskeletal armour with purple markings over lighter green skin, body shape like that of a primate and long powerful looking tail with a stinger at the end.
His head looked down as the transformation finished, before it slowly began to rise and I witnessed the most animalistic and hungry smile in my life.

Pharaoh Zebāla voice was finally silenced and he was shaking in fear for his life. His instincts were screaming at him to run far away from the creature that was infront of him. A wet stain began to grow from his crotch area and I could smell urine as a yellow puddle began to form on the ground.

"Wh-wha-wha-what-what a-a-ar-are y-y-yo-you?" he stammered out.

Instead of answering, the creatures smile only grew and his two companions went down on the ground and covered their heads with their arms. I barely had time to register as to why they did this, before the heads of all twelve guards were suddenly gone and the throne room was covered in blood, skull fragments and brain matter.
The creature opened his mouth and spoke.

"I'm the beast that ate Solaris." he said before he vanish from my sight.

I had no time to question were he went before a powerful gust of wind, followed by what sound like something earth-like shattering and the left side of my entire body was covered in something wet. The smell of iron entered my nose and a look towards my left arm to see it covered in a red liquid. My gaze continue to my left and what I see feels like something out of my dreams.

The Pharaoh's throne was split in two, with the mangled remains of the stallion painting it red. His arms and legs were on each side of the split apart throne, with the wall behind it covered with patches of fur, bloodstained clothing, organs, spine and ribs. His still beating heart fell to the ground with a *splat* and I saw the creaure standing infront of the destroyed throne with Zebāla head impaled on the stinger of his tail. He brought the head to his mouth and bit out a chunk of the cranium with a crunch, like it was an apple.

"Hmmm, he doesn't taste like royalty." the creature hummed. He then spit out what he had in his mouth and said, "Completely inedible." before throwing the head with such force that the face of the stallion got stuck on it in a screaming position like a horrifying art piece.

The creature's head moves to my direction and I thought for a second that he was looking at me, until he spoke once again.

"I know you're there, show yourself."

A whimper followed by weak hoofsteps came after his words were spoken, from behind a pillar near the throne emerged Prince Hisan, Zebāla's son. Unlike his father, Hisan never spoke ill about anyone, he didn't treat others like they were bellow him and he never agreed with his father's ideals. In other words, he was the polar opposite of the now deceased pharaoh.

"Come here."

Hisan obliged and walk towards the green beast with shaking stepps. It takes him sometime as he seems to hesitate with every step he took, but this Meruem doesn't repeat himself or seemed annoyed by how much time the prince is wasting. When he finally stands before him he speaks again with a voice of authority.

"Kneel."

Prince Hisan then proceeds to not only go down on his knees, but also smash his muzzle into the ground.

"I said kneel, not smash your muzzle on the ground!" Meruem shouted with irritation.

"Sholly!" Hisan whimpered, unable to say sorry properly as he had just smashed his face twisted.

"Stand still while I heal you."

Hearing the same creature that had moments ago painted the throne room red with blood, say that he was gonna heal the terrifyed prince left me slack jawed. He showed such animalistic brutality and took a bite out of the decapitated head of Hisan's father. But despite all that, he was gonna heal the prince that just hurt himself because of his own fear.

"Pazuzu (Lord of Pestilence)"

Meruem aura covered his tail before the stinger was replaced with a black blob that began to grow. When the blob became bigger than Meruem's body, from each side it sprouted six bird-like claws with red nails and from the top emerged four white wings with red markings. The two frontal claws dug into the blob as it began to change into a black cloak, the claws brought forth a beaked mask with glass eyes and right behind it a falcon like head emerged.

"Now, relax your muscles and don't move." Meruem ordered.
"I promise this won't hurt at all."

The newly formed creature put the mask onto it's face and began to work. The red tips of it's claws split apart and turned into pincers, while the feathers on it's wings changed into tentacles with blades and tools at the end of them.
I watched with facination as the creature worked on Hisan's face, one of it's right claws sprouted a needle that injected something into Hisan's muzzle, then two of it's claws grabbed hold of his muzzle keeping it in place. The claws and the tentacles work in such synchronicity that it was hard to follow. Before I knew it, it had reattached his teeth into his gums, mended together his bones, patched up his skin, regrown any lost fur and cleaned of the blood. Lastly, it sprouted another needle, from the left this time, and injected something into Hisan's muzzle before letting go.
So much had happened in only a matter of minutes, it was just as incredible as it was disturbing.

"There, good as new." Meruem said as he backed away from Hisan and the cloaked being disappearing from sight.

Hisan opened his eyes confused as he hadn't felt a thing, he moved around his muzzle and touched it with his hands. Just like Meruem had said, it was good as new. Hisan now looked towards Meruem not with fear, but admiration. Despite the fact that his father's mangled corpse was barely more than a few meters away from them.

"Now, let's try this again." Meruem spoke calmly.
"Kneel."

Doing it calmly and properly this time, Hisan went down on one knee and lowered his head before Meruem. Meruem brought his stinger and gently placed it on Hisan's left shoulder before placing it on his right.

"In the name of the Alicore family, I, Prince Meruem Alicore, coronate you, Prince Hisan, as the new Pharaoh of San Palomino."

Hisan head shoots up with wide eyes, most likely completely dumbfounded of everything that has happened in just one day. As he meets the eyes of Meruem however, his shocked expression is replaced with smile of pride and respect towards the creature in front of him.

"Gather up the servants and clean this place up, then let's search for and annihilate all that were loyal to Zebāla." Meruem says with a smile.

Hisan nods with enthusiasm as he rushes out of the throne room to give out the orders, his mind probably filled with hope and expectations for a new age. Meruem's gaze falls towards me and he grimaces as he sees me.
I flinch under his gaze and feel my world for a second time in my life shatter. Whenever someone has looked at me with a face like that, it was with disgust or malicious intent. I try to crawl away from him but don't get far as I'm still chained to the ground right next to the throne. I close my eyes as he approuches, feeling tears beginning to form in my eyes out of fear for what he will do to me.

*SHATTER* *Clatter*

The sound of metal being destroyed and hitting the ground is what follows, I feel myself getting lighter and my strength returning to me. I open my eyes slowly and see my shackles and chains destroyed and on the ground. Something touches me gently on the my right cheek and I meet the eyes of Meruem staring at me with not disgust or malice, but care and worry.

"My apoligies, I didn't intent for you to get so filthy." he looks to me with a shamed expression.

"I-It's f-fine," I stammer, "I'm kinda used to getting covered with unwanted liquids."
"Why did I say that!?!" I scream in my head.

His eyes go wide in shock, which is immediately followed my by teeth gritting anger.

"I swear to you," he starts with a low tone, "I will kill every last one of these pigs, even if it's the last thing I'll ever do."

I'm speechless. No one has ever gotten this upset over something that's happened to me. Even back home, I never got into enough bad situation to know what it feels like when someone worries about you.
It is... Refreshing?... Nice?... I'm not sure what this feeling is, but I like it. Is this the feeling of having someone to rely on?
My eyes meet Meruem's and I feel my heart skip a beat as I look into them. Before they were like the eyes of an apex predator, but now they seem so gentle. In fact, they're beautiful.
Meruem looks done at himself, seeing his body covered with blood and grimaces in disgust, he looks up to me with pleading eyes.

"You wouldn't happen to know were the baths are?" he asked with slight desperation in his tone.

"I do, in fact, I happen to know were the royal baths are." I say with new found energy.

Meruem smiles back at me and holds out his left hand to me.

"Care to show me?" he asked with a smirk.

Once again I feel my heart skip a beat and my face heating up. He wasn't giving me an order, but a request that felt like it had more than one meaning behind it. Had been anyone else, I would have turned them down without hesitation, but him...

I smirk and answer with: "It will be my pleasure, your majesty" as I take his hand.

"Please call me Meruem... I never got your name."

"Oh... It's Asha." I say shyly.

"A pretty name for a beautiful queen."

My brain takes a sudden stop and tries to process what he just said. Did he call me that because I'm a feline or because he plans to-
"Prince Meruem!" my thought are broken by a sudden shout coming from the middle of the throne room. The two unicorns, who I honestly forgot were still here, was trying to get Meruem's attention.

"What's wrong Pride?" Meruem asked with a headtilt.

"Well, it's just that..." the unicorn named Pride begins, "The ritual you performed on Hisan was not for the coronation of a new monarch, but rather a dubbing for knighthood."

"..."

Meruem's silence makes me lean forward slightly to get a better look at his expression, it would appear that his face has gotten several shades darker.

"Pride Sentry." Meruem says calmly.

"Yes?"

"SHUT UP!"

On the same day as I was freed from my life of bondage, was also the day I met the love of my life.

"Oh Lord of Change above! He's so cute when he's embarrassed!" I screamed in my head.

Location: Edge of San Palomino desert

Present Time

I open my eyes as I return from my trip down memory lane. To think that it's been more than a millenia since that era.

After Meruem had passed out from the injuries he recieved from the Portal that lead to the Warp, I immediatelly went into action and healed his wounds using my magic. While restoring his injuries isn't an issue, recovering his energy is gonna take some time. When my ear picked up the sound of approuching hoofsteps and the clattering of armour, I didn't hesitate to leap into the air and fly as far away from the village as I could. Which is the reason why we are currently staying in a cave, within the mountains located near the Rockfarms. Weird that those things are still around, I wonder if that Pie pony's family still owns it? Their descendants perhaps?

Except for a couple of mountain goats, bats, birds of prey and cave dwelling insects, there weren't any animals that could be considered a threat. Well, there's not that many things in this world that could really be considered a threat to Meruem, but considering he's currently unconsious I don't want to take any risks.
Looking out into the night sky with me sitting in a lotus position and Meruem peacefully sleeping in my lap is like a dream come true for me, I just wish the circumstances were different. My gaze goes down towards the ant that stole my heart.

"*Sigh* Oh Meruem, what happened that day." my eye begin to water as my memories makes themselves present once again.

Location: What's left of the Kingdom of San Palomino

The Day of the Great Feast

3rd person POV

The Kingdom of San Palomino was only one of many kingdoms that fell during the Great Feast. The melodies of destruction was flying throughout all of Equis, without anyone knowing why it was happening. Burning light was falling from the sky, beasts of unknown origin was destroying all that moved, turning them to ash and consuming them, bringing them back to the monster that spawned them. The world was in so much chaos and confusion that even the Lord of Chaos himself would be confused and terrified. Ponies, griffons, dragons, abyssinians, diamond dogs, yaks, minotaurs and all other races were being annihilated without anyone knowing why.

Within the royal palace of San Palomino, a young adult pegasus mare was running for her life. With her left wing broken because of a nasty fall during the chaos, rendering her grounded. With no other choise and nowhere else to go, Somnambula was running through the halls of the pyramid, desperately searching for her friends.

"Please be alive, please be alive, please be alive, please be alive, PLEASE!" she was muttering as her eyes were desperately searching through the halls.

Ash covered armour and jewelry from both guards, servants and nobles covered the smoking halls, having gotten hit by the burning light from the white beasts. Desperatly she was searching for her Pharaoh and Goddess.
Without looking were she was going, she ended up running into one of them.

"Ooof!" a male voice grunt.

"Ouch!" Somnambula yelp in pain as she landed on her already damaged wing.

"Miss Somnambula!" Pharaoh Hisan gasps as he quickly stands up to help his dear friend.

"Hisan!? Thank Faust!"Somnabula shout with relief as she embrasses her Pharaoh in a hug, both of them overjoyed that they found eachother.

"Pharoah!!!" multiple voices shouted down the hall.

Both ponies look down the hall and see a group of Hisan's royal guards approaching in a hurry. Both sigh in relief at the familiar faces, but the happiness they felt is quickly destroyed as a screeching sound followed by a bright light that consumes the guards. The group didn't even have time to scream in pain, before their ash covered armour fell onto the ground with a clatter.
Somnambula and Hisan watch in horror as all the ash of the guard began to float together and into the non-existing mouth of the one of the white beasts that attacked their kingdom and the rest of Equis. The creature was shapeless, it had no body, no mouth, no eyes, no ears, nothing. It appeared as nothing more than a living pile of snow white feathered wings, six sets of wings just piled together. It wasn't flying, more like floating and not even using it's wings.

Now when they are so close to it, both Somnambula and Hisan think back to something they saw when they walked through the ruins of one of Solaris churches. There were paintings and texts on stone, depicting divine entities that served a higher being, with names that translated to the Burning Ones.

They were called

Seraphim

The white beast begins to move, twisting its feathered covered body towards the two ponies. Slowly the beast began to expand, the feathers covering it's body standing and a gentle humming sound could be heard.

Somnambula recognises the sound and doesn't hesitate when she roughly drags Hisan down the corridor to their left. They barely make it around the corner as the screeching sound they heard earlier returns and a blinding white light is released from the beast. The smell of burning enters their muzzles and they immediately increase their running as they narrowly avoided the same fate as the guards.
The beast takes haste, using eight of it's twelve wings as legs, it swiftly crawls through the halls after them, like a feather covered spider, while the rest of it's wings covered the source of the light.

Corner after corner. Door after door. Somnambula and Hisan were running for their lifes through the halls of the palace, the halls were covered in burn marks, ash and armour, filling them with dread for what would happen if they slowed down. They did not stop running, because the beast was either just around the corner or just beyond the door they past. But they were both running out of breath.

"We can't *pant* go on *pant* like this." Somnambula stated, "It's going to *pant* get us at this rate."

"I *pant* think *pant* I *pant* have an *pant* idéa!" Hisan barely got out as they rounded another corner. "We need to *pant* reach Asha's chambers, *pant* she should be there."

Now, normaly the sphinx named Asha would be with her lover Meruem in the Kingdom of Everfree. But despite how the previous pharaoh treated her, she was still worshipped and loved by the ponies of San Palomino. In their eyes, just like Queen Faust was the goddess of the Everfree, Asha was the goddess of San Palomino. If anyone succeeded in solving her riddles, she would reward them with a wish, as long as that wish followed a set of rules. What these rules are however, no one but Lady Asha knows. The ponies of San Palomino believes that her not telling them the rules are another form of test to see if they really are worthy of having their wish granted and not just recieved for selfish reasons.

Finally, the two made it to the violet door covered with star-like patterns. Signifying that it was the door that lead to the chambers of the Goddess of Wishes herself.
Roughly opening the door, nearly pulling it of it hinges, and closing just as roughly when they hear that dreaded humming sound followed by that horrifying screech from beyong the closed door. Heat begins to build up on the door and both immediately back of from it as the heat becomes unbearably. They feared that it would break through but oddly enough, it didn't seem to make any proggress.

"Don't worry, it won't get through, the doors enchanted." A female voice spoke from the large bed in the center of the room.

Lady Asha's room was large, larger than even the pharaoh's and any other royalty and noble within the kingdom. It made sense considering how large she was compare to the ponies. Her bed was so large that ponies had trouble even getting on it.

Asha was wearing a veilchen violet nightgown, with golden markings sparkling like stars on her body. Her eyes were bloodshot and her nose was running, showing clear signs that she'd been crying. Her entire body was shaking as she was curled up in a fetal position on the bed.
Seeing their friend and goddess like this disturbed both ponies and they didn't hesitate to approach in order to comfort her, despite the fact that both of them had a near death experience.

"Lady Asha, it hurts me to say this while you are like this, but we need you to be strong, our ponies are dying out there." Hisan pleads.

"What even are those things?" Somnambula questions, "I've never seen monster like them before, they came out of nowhere."

"They are Nen-beasts." Asha says shakingly.

Both ponies go wide eyed at this revelation, as there was only one creature that they both know that could create Nen-beasts.

"You mean... that this is all Meruem's doing?" Hisan asked in disbelief.

"But why!?" Somnambula shout with tears in her eyes, "Why would he do this!? Why would he betray us!?"

"He didn't..." Asha states, making them both confused, "it isn't just San Palomino, it's happening all over Equestria, even beyond it's borders."

They're both speechless, the scale of this attack was bigger then they both could have imagined. Why was this happening? There must be a reason.

"Something's very wrong," Asha mutter, "Something happened to Faust, something bad, I can't sense her anymore."

Dread began to fill the ponies and sphinx. Something had happened to Queen Faust. This was most likely the reason why this was happening. This attack wasn't a betrayal, it was the result of a child mourning the death of his mother and taking out his rage and sorrow on the world that took her away.
A loud boom snaps them back to reality, they need to take action.

"We must do something, the ponies of San Palomino will be annihilated if something isn't done." Hisan struggles out with sorrow.

"... ... ..." Asha remains silent and deep in thought, thinking about her options. She sighs as she can only think of one thing that could possibly stop this.

"I have an idéa, but we'll need to go to the throne room if it's gonna work." Asha says with determination.

"The throne room? Why there? And how are we going to reach it with those Nen-beasts outside?" Somnambula asked rapidly.

"Don't worry, I can create a barrier around us that will not only protect us, but also make us invisible." Asha says with new found confidence.

"What are you going to do once we reach the throne room?" Hisan asked concerned.

"I'm going to sacrifice one of my hearts and contact the Lord of Change."

"Sacrifice your heart! Have you lost your mind!?" Hisan yells.

"I said 'one of my hearts'," Asha explains calmly to their confusion, "we sphinxs have 9 hearts. By sacrificing one of them, we can contact the Lord of Change to gain power."

"Who is this Lord of Change you keep mentioning?" Somnambula asked more confused then ever.

"Where do you think Chaos magic comes from?" Asha asked with a smirk.

Back to the present

Asha's POV

I return to the present as my thoughts are broken because of movement near my thighs and look down to see Meruem moving in his sleep, his face scrunching in discomfort as he mumbles about something.
I gently lift him up using my arms as I change my position, laying down on my side as I use my right wing as a mattress and my left wing as a blanket. I move Meruem close to me and let him use my breasts as a pillow as I hold him close. Me and Meruem would often sleep together in this position, it fills me with nostalgic joy as I get to hold him like this again. I can't help but smile over the fact that I'm finally reunited with the love of my life, it makes me wish that the others could be with us like this.
... Great... I just had ruin it myself by thinking of the ones that aren't with us anymore.

"*sigh* Celestia, Luna, Nightblade, I miss you girls." I speak in a low tone.

*Mumble*

I look down to Meruem as I here him mumble in his sleep, this time I can actuelly her what he is saying.

"Tia... Lulu... Blade... I'm sorry..." Meruem mumble with tear running down his cheek.

Hearing him thinking about the others brings a smile to my face, and I just can't help but to place a gentle kiss to his cheek.

"I'm here Meruem, I'm here now." I wisper gently.

"... Mom..." my eyes go wide as he speaks about someone that I nearly forgot about.
"... Mom... you're going to be okay..."

Tears run down my face, the image of the mare that gave us her blessing, the one who saved me from being violated by Solaris that cold night, the one I have to thank for raising Meruem as her own.

"*sniff* Yeah, I miss her to Meruem... I miss you... Faust." I wimper as I fall asleep.

Author's Note

Sorry that this chapter took sometime, I think I experienced my first writers block.
Either way I had fun writing it and discovered a couple of fun fact around it. Apparently the word used to descibe a female cat that hasn't been sterilized is called a queen. Which is the reason behind Meruem's comment about Asha's name.

Pazuzu (Lord of Pestilence)
Nen-type: Specialist
Spawns a cloaked Nen-beast with six arms, four wings and wears a plague doctor mask. It is the evolved and mutated form of the Chimera Ant Neferpitou's Hatsu, Dr. Blythe, and works in a similar maner. Pazuzu can perform all sort of miracles in medicine and can perform complex surgeries that would take hours in only a matter of minutes, putting professionals to shame. However, the Lord of Pestilence is also capable of performing it's namesake. Spreading Plagues. Within one of it's tentacles spawned from it's wings, Pazuzu can inject someone with a Nen-virus, that attacks and spreads through the victims aura. The virus is airborn and covers the victim in a 2 meter wide field. If anyone enters this field, they'll become carriers of the Nen-virus. Only Pazuzu himself possess the cure and just like the virus, the cure is airborn and spreads through a 5 meter wide field from those that carry it. When Pazuzu is spawned, it is unable to move from the spot it was created, thus locking both him and Meruem in place, since Pazuzu is directly connected to Meruem's tail.

Seraphim (???)
Nen-type: ???
A white Nen-beast with twelve wings that makes up it's entire body. Utilizing four of it's wings, it protects the source of the burning light that is released from the center of it's form. Further description is unknown.

PS. I don't own any of the artwork used in this fanfic, I find them on google and deviantart, and only use them as a way to help picture what the Nen-beasts look like.