Duo of darkness

'Ow...' Meliodas thought as he brought his hand to his head, 'what happened, where am I?'

Meliodas' head was trobbing in pain, it was the worse headache he'd ever had. He was in a forest full of tar black tree the covered the sky He was still in his ten commandment's uniform so it couldn't have gotten here to long ago. Arising from a small bed of moss, he looked around and winced as he noticed he had a small cut on his left arm. Meliodas closed his eyes trying to remember what happened, but he couldn't recall anything that happened in the near past. The last thing he could remember was fighting with his younger brother Zeldris. But that duel was at least 2 days ago, he didn't know what had happened after but he knew a bare minimum 2 days had past.

Wait a moment...

"ZELDRIS!" Meliodas shouted in a rare burst of fear, he ran over to his brother who was unconscious but had no visible injury. The sigh of relief that came afterwards surprised himself a little bit. Meliodas wasn't used to showing much emotion, so the fear for his brother was somewhat knew to him. Something was off but he didn't know what was wrong but he knew something wasn't right.

In the distance he heard wing flaps, and a slight murmur of inaudible speech. Sounds of the murmurs became more distinct as they grew louder, and louder, as it approached. As it grew louder Meliodas could make out two different voices, both feminine, soon after he realized it the voices ceased their talking. He moved his unconious brother to a better hiding place, as a figure decended from the sky, it seemed to be an anthropomorphic horse standing at least 7 feet tall. If the body was an indicator, she was female, she had a dark blue coat of fur with a lighter blue mane that resembled the night sky.

"HUMAN!! WHY HAST THOU INTRUDED IN OUR LAND?"

Melliodas stood unshaken, staring back in her eyes with an unamused and bored expression at the towering Amazonian figure. The moonlight which trickled down through the leave in the forest reviled that she was in silver armor, very light weight and designed for stealth over protection. Shadows cast form the leaves turned her coat from a dark blue to almost black, and Her turquoise eyes seemed almost cat-like as she glared back at him with a fury that would've made some of the archangels quiver in fear. The amazoness of a horse woman move closer believing Meliodas to be human, this would be her first of many mistakes. Her long sword point straight for his neck expecting an answer she would never get. Meliodas tried to remember the events leading up to this, but his memory was still pretty blank. The only thing he could recall was his duel against Zeldris, and the only other recent event he could recall was battling against Mael causing the goddess to flee from his immense darkness. It had probably only been a quarter of an hour since he had woken up before this odd creature flew from the skies in battle ready armor and her sword drawn.

Meliodas kept his gazed fixed his aggressor, as he notice another figure, much like the one threatening him, landed not to far behind her. Unlike the first one she was about a foot tall and she had a white coat of fur, and brought a massive golden battle axe instead of a sword. One of the most noticeable difference was the armor, while the first one had small armor made for agile movements, the newer woman brought much larger and heavier golden armor that was much more durable than the silver armor the other brought.

"Luna, calm yourself, can you not see that this human is all but an adult?"

The one now known as Luna blinked a few times scanning him once more. The height that normally comes with maturity was absent, yet his muscles were very defined. He had no facial hair but he had a few scars with a very fresh wound being on his arm. Luna still felt unsure about the other's decision, those eyes of his seemed to stare right into her soul, giving her an uneasy feeling. After consideration Luna ended up agreeing with the other, thinking Meliodas was just some child soldier.

"Oh dear. I do believe you are correct sister."

Luna pulled her sword away, sheathing it as she knelt down. Meliodas kept staring as she rose her hand up, only to be slapped away as his expression changed from emotionless to disgust. Luna eye's widened slightly, expecting him to tremble in fear and attempt to run, but instead she was treated as if she was the dirt he walked on. Stepping away she allowed the taller white horse to take charge in the situation. With Luna pulled away, the other knelt down in her place, examining Meliodas as one would examine a small child. Sensing nothing coming from him, no fear nor anger, she held out a hand with more care only to get the same treatment as the other.

"Please don't be alarmed, I apologize for the first impressions. I promise you, you are in no danger." She brought her hand back to her resting it on her chest for an intro duction. "I am princess Celestia, one of the co-rulers of this land and the one who raises the sun." Then she motioned to Luna, "This is my little sister Princess Luna, She is the other Co-ruler, and the one who raises and lower the moon." Finally she gestured back to Meliodas, "Do you have a name?"

From Celestia perspective, Meliodas kept staring at her trying to process what she said, almost as they were speaking a different language. "... I am Meliodas."

"I don't want to hurt you Meliodas, this Forest is very dangerous, please let me help you."

"What do you want."

The tone surprised Celestia, it wasn't one of a perceptive child, but closer to a pissed ruler. It would be best to come clean and tell him the truth of what happened.

"Meli, I do not want any harm to come to you, but you must understand. I have brought you and another here to this land of harmony and peace, to help it grow and revive a lost gender to a species." Meliodas flinched inwardly when he heard his childhood nickname.

His face remained blank and unwavering

"You see Meli, Our world is populated by only females. Every species, every race, only one gender exists. However it wasn't always this way. Both genders once existed roaming freely, with equal rights and treatment. But one day a pandemic wiped out every male of every race from each species. We spent the past multiple millenia trying to locate resurgence of magic, but it never happened. Equestria need the organic touch of a male to bring back the other half of the kingdom." She then pointed at Meliodas, "Thus, we used our magic to summon you and another who both have perfect genus as an Equis stallion. Your task, no, your destiny is to bring back the male demographic."

Meliodas sat there listening to Celestia's story, understanding it very well. It was the same way that incubus, and succubus demons were pushed to extinction in his world. A plague destroying a single gender until they can no longer reproduce. They had desperately tried to stop it but failed in the end as they had a final resort of having to slay their own kind to prevent the spread and end the suffering they endured. But he wouldn't allow himself to become a breeding stock, much less his own brother.

"no"

"What?" The calmness in his voice shocked both of the princesses.

"Are you deaf along with dumb, I told you no. As in I won't do it."

"Meliodas, please. We understand your feelings but we cannot allow-"

Celestia was silenced as she felt a jolt of pain in her stomach, as she flew backwards into the trees behind her. A warm liquid rolled down her lip, bringing her hand to clean her mouth, it was stained red with her own blood. Meliodas flinched as the wound which he payed no mind to was starting to greatly hurt. Seeing her own sister be taken down in a single punch Luna drew her sword and charged at Meliodas, only to have her attack blocked as he grabbed her blade in one hand stopping it completely. Meliodas could feel the hate flowing throughout her body, yet he didn't understand why she wasn't affected by his commandment, unless...

"Are you really going to abandon you own race.. Why would you abandon your own brother?!" Zeldris shouted

"Zel... Bring Gelda with you and come with me." Meliodas said out stretching a hand to bring his brother with him.

A select number of memories came back to Meliodas, the reason why his commandment didn't work on her was because he and his brother had already left the ten commandments.

Breaking the sword into multiple pieces, Melliodas grabbed the tip of the blade and stabbed it through Luna's armor. Stumbling backwards and clasping the wound on her stomach, she gasped for some air before coughing up blood.

"Your not a human are you.."

"Did it really take you that long to figure that out?" Meliodas mocked, "I am a Demon, and I highly suggest leave me alone."

Luna eyes widened in shock as she thought she saw the face of death itself.

"Luna, this is a fight we cannot win. We have to escape now."

"But what about what we came here for."

"We can come back for him latter, I have already gotten the other one."

The two sister extended their wings and took off, with Celestia taking Zeldris in one of her hands. Meliodas would not allow such a fate to happen to his own brother. An emotion was swelling up inside of him, one he had not felt in a long time, it was an unbridled rage

"TAKE YOUR HANDS OFF MY BROTHER YOU FILTHY WHORE"

Meliodas summoned his wings and took off flying after them. He won't abandon his brother even if it costed him his life. Summoning hellblaze in his hand, he charged at Celestia launching her into the ground his a powerful punch, only to flew up with his hellblaze straight for the head as it started to consume her body. Meliodas felt a surging pain run up through his arm, the wound has started to become unbearable as he relented his attack, as he was greeted with a badly burnt and barely alive princess. He picked up his unconscious brother, only for him to be snatched away in a blue aura. He turned towards Luna who was already running off with Zeldris, only for him to run after her with another hellblaze ready. If he kept pushing himself like this, he wouldn't be able to fight much more.

"LEAVE MY BROTHER ALONE!"

Luna was forced back to the ground with a power punch as her body was covered with the black flames as well as she cried out in howling pain. Another round of surging pain flare from his wound. But once he had stopped, Luna was in the same horribly wounded state as her sister was in. Throwing his brother over his shoulder, Meliodas went back into the deeper part of the forest, he was in no shape to continue to fight for much longer. The forest was filled with many menacing creatures, all of which were to scared to approach Meliodas from the darkness coming from his body. He did have a set goal in mind, all he knew was he had to protect his brother while he couldn't fight. As he traveled deeper into the woods he saw a broken down castle, that would be completely unlivable for any sane person, taking his brother, Meliodas went into the broken castle to try and live there in secret as they recovered from whatever happened before they arrived in this mess of a world.

"Brother... Where are we?" Zeldris asked in a state of confusion.

"Don't ask"