Duo of darkness

Zeldris sat upon one of the pinnacles of the ruined castle, overviewing the forest that surrounded them. A boredom crept across Zeldris's face, nothing has happened all day, nothing really has happened since they had arrived in this accursed land. Meliodas had left the castle early in the morning without telling his brother why he left. Exploring the ruins became pointless after he discovered all the secret passageways in under an hour. This world was truly disgusting to him, it was all some sort of sick joke to him. What he once though of the lush forest quickly faded when those whores-of-princesses sent guards to try and capture them.

The memories from what had happened didn't necessarily frighten him, but he didn't really like it. Battalions of guards had showed up at the castle demanding they turn themselves over for the greater good. When both he and his brother refused they tried forcing violence on them, whilst a few of them tried forcing themselves onto them. He remember all the bone that got broken and how many were pushed to the brink of death, even though they had lost their weapons before they had arrived they were going to put up a fight if it meant they weren't going to become breeding stocks. Screams of anguish and pain ran through his head at the memory of the blood bath while most survived and ran, there was only one completely dead, she took a direct hit Meliodas' hellblaze to save a few of her comrades.

"SOMEBODY PLEASE HELP US!"

A voice cried out from within the forest, snapping Zeldris out of his memories. the screams were obviously feminine, yet much younger, almost like a young child. The sound was surprising close despite the forest being so vast. The cries for help made Zeldris feel such pity...

No...

It wasn’t pity, he felt compelled to help them, as if the screams were calling specifically for him. What if it was a trap, would those princesses really go that low to use hostages of their own race to try and lure one of them away. A pain welled up within his chest as the screams had a small echo within the forest possible alerting other predators. Feeling unsure of welled up inside of him, he honestly wanted to help others, but he didn't really want to kill others.

"PLEASE! ANYONE! HELP US!"

But the screams, they were genuine, ones of terror and fearing for life. If he was ever going to start his plan, it would be now, he made a promise to Gelda and he doesn't intend to breaking it. Looking in the direction he saw it was in the Timberwolve's domain, taking his sword off of his belt, he sprouted his wings and flew out over the trees, with only one thing in mind, 'I will do this for you, Gelda.'

Exploring the castle, Meliodas was trying to remember where he had left his sword. He probably should've asked his brother where he'd left it, but thought it would be best to not bother him at the moment. While he walk around looking diligantly for his sword, he stepped on something as his foot sank into the ground slightly, the sound of stone moving on stone sounded beside him. A passage had opened, one the he had noticed before, while all the corridors he had previously encounter had some sort of torchlight powered by a well of magic, this one was completely dark with way to light it at all.

Stepping inside a cavern of darkness surrounded Meliodas, only be illuminate by his black flame. As he continued down the infinite hallway, he lost all concept of time as he traveled deeper and deeper, there was something calling to him, like how one would lure away a child from their parents. As he continued a dark presence had start to become strong enough to be know. The cave was obviously made intentionally and not by nature. Thousands of holes were in the wall that were stacked vertically and stretch a long distance containing cobwebs, and old scrolls the would turn to dust at the slightest touch.

As he continued the power grew more powerful, the air became thinner and chilled as he moved closer. A faint red glow could be made out just barely only to grow brighter each step he took. Shadowy figures flew beside him, as if they were racing him to the faint glow only to disappear once they had barely pasted him like a wisp of smoke dissolving into air. Sounds came from what he could only assume were their mouths, like they were speaking to him but only the sounds of rushing wind followed. He stayed on the path unfaced as he kept his goal in sight.

“Meli~”

An familiar yet eerie voice called out to him from one of the shadows wanting to lure him closer to the faint glow. Cold air flew through his coat as it sent a shiver down his spine as he continued down the never ending hallway. The darkness kept growing every step he took as the cold air became an icy-fire much like purgatory. Dark silver with red accents surrounded the red glow it was in the shape of one of the ponies that ruled this world, The eyes were painted red to match the glow coming from the center of its crystal. The amulet was letting out a dark aura almost as if it was designed to lure people to it so it could find a new host.

"Come join the corruption Meli~ We promise it will be fun~"

"Be quiet."

Raising an arm Meliodas grabbed the amulet, only for it to lash out with dark energy temporarily blinding him. Sight which had been lost quickly returned as he awakened in a void of emptiness, no light nor dark just him and a shadowy figure towering above him. The eyes were blue and had slits running down the middle of them as it began to stare into his soul.

"Surrender yourself to the darkness and fulfill your destiny."

The voice sounded familiar to Meliodas but it was heavily distorted, as the words of what she had said registered in his head he could stop his psychotic smile from spreading across his face. Meliodas knew completely well that who ever she was, she did not know the full power of demons, especially not the two sons of the demon king.

"Surrendering myself into darkness? That's the stupidest thing I've heard."

Summoning his demon mark, he shaped the darkness into a two handed sword where the blade was almost as big as he was. A single slash fazed right through the figure as it vanished fasted than he could've seen. He felt darkness creep into the void, but it wasn't the same kind that he uses, the darkness began to lure him to give up and surrender into it. Having his eyes grow heavy and his limbs grow tired, he changed his darkness from a massive sword into a small dagger, he stabbed himself jolting him awake while also wincing at the sharp pain.

"You cannot defeat me, I am all powerful in the realm of the alicorn amulet."

The voice pounded in his head as he tried to stay standing on his feet, screaming in pain. He began to cast hellblaze as the voice in his head slowly became clearer. Clenching his fist, Meliodas couldn't stand to listen to the gut wrenching sound of the younger princess. Slowly raising back to his feet, he readied his stance as he prepared to retaliate.

"Surrender yourself, It is your destiny."

"Get.. Out.. OF MY HEAD!"

The black flames of hellblaze went from small sparks into a raging inferno as it began to eat away at the void letting both darkness and light inside. The light was so bright that he was completely blinded. When it died down, he wasn't in the amulet's realm, but rather outside the door way of the corridor, Meliodas wasn't in control of his body while he was within the void. Looking around he felt a small weight on his neck, he began to look down, the amulet had made itself attached around his neck, when he tried to remove it, it had already started to fuse itself with his skin, chocking him when he tried to do so. Being annoyed and not will to go through all this trouble again, he dug his fingers into the underside of the amulet in places it hadn't started to fuse with him.

*Crack*

In the royal castle of Canterlot, the royal sister were preparing for the first session of night court, when the younger sister collapse . Rushing over to her side, Luna was out a breath and clenching her head. It seemed as if she had finished running for her life, barely escaping with her life. Her eyes had widened in horror as words began to fall from her mouth.

“Sister, it’s gone.”

“What’s gone Luna?”

"The amulet, it got destroyed,"

"That's impossible, it is enchanted steel, even lady Tirek couldn't have destroyed it if she obtained all the magic in equestria."

"Sister does it look like I am joking?" Luna grasped her head as she was still in quiet a lot of pain.

"We must prepare the elements of harmony."

Flying over the trees, Zeldris kept hearing screams of pain paired with the low growl of timber wolves. Having looked around in the domain, he saw a small clearing where the pleading was coming from. Circling the small clearing like a predator circles it prey, he examined the opening and saw at least 5 Timberwolves cornering 3 younger fillies covered in sever scratches and bruises. While Zeldris hated this world that he and his brother were forced into, he would not make others suffer without cause.

One of the larger timberwolves, probably the alfa of the pack, charged at the three fillies when Zeldris dropped out of the sky and crushed the large timberwolf into tiny splinters. Zeldris stared back at the remainder of the timberwolf pack, in a stance ready to strike the wolves if needed. Seeing the seriousness in Zeldris's eyes, the wolves began to back off slowly before taking a full on run. Turning around the three little fillies were all shaking in fear as he looked at them, each one of them was from a different race of pony, an orange pegasus, a white unicorn, and a yellow... what was it called, 'Earth pony?' Each one of the trio were all roughly the same height stand only slightly below both zeldris and his brother.

"Don't you know that this forest is filled with dangers," Zeldris said, "What brings you this deep into the forest so close to nightfall."

"We were trying our cutie marks by spotting wild animals when we got attack by the timber wolves." the Earth pony said

"But that's when you came out of the sky and saved our flanks." the pegasus said

"Thank you for saving us ma'am," the unicorn said

"Sir." Zeldris corrected, "I am not female"

“That impossible!” The unicorn exclaimed, “Everypony knows that there hasn’t been a male in over 10,000 years.”

"So it is true." Zeldris said to himself while the others just ignored him.

“Ah don’t think he’s lying.” The earth pony said,

“And how so?”

“Well I do think he is lacking in the boobs department.” The Pegasus said as she gestured to her own breast to emphasize her point

Zeldris let an annoyed sigh as he began walking away, letting the mare continue their argument much to his own annoyance. The trees surrounded his path as he began continuing down the path back to the castle. But only a few minutes have past when he heard a small branch snap from behind him.

"How long have you been following me?" Zeldris asked in a monotone voice

"about five minutes" the pegasus

"Shouldn't you get going home?"

"The quickest way back is back through the Timberwolf territory." The unicorn said as her ears started splaying backwards, "you know how that went."

"And I assume you are following me in hopes of staying for a while?"

"That's pretty much it." the earth pony said

Zeldris sighed as he considered his options, "Fine. But don't get any ideas."

"Yay!"

Begrudgingly, Zeldris let the three ponies follow him back to the castle, judging by how they acted with one another, they were probably only children being somewhere between 10 and 12 years of age. Night began to fall upon the forest as they continued their journey back to the castle, Timberwolves stared them down from behind the trees but all were to scared to even approach Zeldris for fear of their lives. The land had been made into a clearer path from Zeldris's common hunting trips. Arriving at the castle, even in it ruined state it still was able to tower over them as they continued to proceed into the castle.

"You live here?" the unicorn asked

"For now." Zeldris said in his signature cold voice

A gust of wind blew behind the four of them, causing the three fillies to jump in fright. They had been followed here, who ever it was didn't want to be seen. It jumped from shadow to shadow as it began to circle the group of 4.

"Someone's here," Zeldris readied his sword to strike.

The shadow figure landed in front of Zeldris as he began to swing his sword faster than any eye could see. The only thing that was visible was sparks flying from the swords clashing, only for it to stop as quick as it started. Zeldris's from became relaxed as the moon started to illuminate the figure.

"It's just you brother." Zeldris said as he put away his sword.

"Seriously Zeldris," Meliodas began, "You should've told me we were expecting guests, if you told me I would have made something to eat." His tone was jovial, which contrasted his brother's cold and serious tone.

"Wait," the unicorn said, "there are two of you?"

"Yup, I am Meliodas and this is my little brother Zeldris."

"Pleasure to meet y'all," the earth pony said, "Mah name's Applebloom."

"I'm Sweetie Belle,"

"And I'm Scootaloo."

"AND WE ARE" the three ponies said in unison, "THE CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS! YAY!"

The midnight sky fell over them like a blanket of darkness, with the moon light being the only source of light. Zeldris had ask his brother to meet him just outside the ruined castle's gates. A few timberwolves could be seen taking a glance at Zeldris and proceeding on their way, it only made sense for what he had done to their pack leader. Seeing a familiar pair of dark wings in the sky, Meliodas dropped right in front of Zeldris and only made a small dust cloud appear.

"Why have you called me here so late at night?” Meliodas asked

“You know how much we both hate the demon king and the way he rules.” Zeldris explained and meliodas nodded, “We cannot return home for the foreseeable future, so why don’t we make the most of this world.”

Meliodas’s face turned into a scowl, “are you implying that we turn ourselves over?”

“ No I am not implying that,” Zeldris said, “I am trying to say: What is stopping us from being the gods of this world?”

Meliodas thought about the question. Why would they have to hide any longer, it only a matter of time before the princesses come back for a rematch. Meliodas smiled as the thought of ruling beside his brother would bring much joy.

“There was nothing ever stopping us but ourselves.” Meliodas said before his eyes sparked to life as he remembered something. “While we are the topic of gods, I have something to give you.”

Meliodas out stretched a hand and summoned an orb of purple magic. Zeldris eye went wide as he knew what this was.

“It can’t be,” Zeldris said in disbelief

“It is,” Meliodas confirmed, “godpower”