I strolled out of the hospital. Once my sight focused on the forest, my mind thought of only one thing.

Avenge Zecora.

I felt the red mana threads turn into tendrils, then into a blood-red armor. I created two swords with them.

I heard the guards yell at me, but they spoke gibberish.

I channeled all my body and leaped into the forest.

I got into the forest; I was struck with the fear of the animals. I distinguished the killing intent and ran towards it.

I saw one chimera trotting, but it didn't have time to see me. All it felt was the pain of its body getting cut in half.

I ran towards another killing intent, but I was jumped at by a chimera when I got near it. I didn't have time to react as its teeth broke through my armor and channeling and ripped apart my arm, cutting it off in the process.

I didn't feel any pain. All I felt was rage.

I stabbed it in the goat head, cut the snakehead,

crushed the lion's head.

I began mauling the body myself. So I could get the mana, and I used a tiny amount of armor and closed the wound.

I don't have time to rest.

I ate more of the body and created a fake arm with a sword.

I was killing and mauling every chimera I saw.

Avenge a friend. Kill all of them. I'm the monster. I'm the apex of the Everfree.

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I killed them one after another, leaving none alive until I didn't feel any killing intent anymore.

I returned to Ponyville covered in blood with my arm missing and intricate cuts and strong bite marks on me.

I entered the town. Immediately guards were coming out of nowhere surrounding me holding spears towards me.

A/N: When tI use the zalgo effects on sentences, that means Mike is talking with a growling voice.

Celestia approached me slowly. She looked me in the eyes. "What happened?" She asked me firmly.

"I̢̼͇ a̫͜v̞̞̦e̝̞͇n̦̦̻g͓̦͜e̠̪͜d͎̠ Z̙͇̺e͓͍̟c̡̻o̘̦̟r̡͕̘a̞̞" I said. Looking at Celestia and bearing my teeth at her.

"What did you do?" She asked.

"I͉͉͎ k̙̼̙i͔̼̫l̞͍̻l̢̟e͉͜d̼͕̼ t̙̙h͚͕e̻͓m̟͇͚ a̫͕͕l͇͉̝l̦͜" I said.

Celestia looked at me with wide eyes, and I could hear the fear in her words.

"What do you plan to do in Ponyville monster?" She asked.

"N͕͎̠o̺͉͎t̘͎͜h̫͍͙i͇͎͕n͉͖g̞͙͜ f̡̠͖o̞̝͚r̪͇̪ y̼͖͍o̠̫͉u̝̫̘ t͖͎̘o̘̪̘ s̠̠t͖̠̺i̠̟̟c͓̫̘k̝̟̫ y͖͓̙o͔͙͖u̡̡̟r͉͚̞ n͔̪̻o͕͍͕s̢̻͖e͚͎̞ i͍͇͜n̡̘̻" I said.

She looked angry and was about to say something but stopped when she noticed the tears leaking from my eyes.

"I have failed to protect her." I knelt on the gronud.

"If only I was there," I said. Tears were increasing.

"Why didn't I notice." I was genuinely crying.

"All the strength the skills." I clenched my fist. "ALL OF THEM AND I FAILED," I screamed and punched the ground creating a small meteor mark.

I looked at Celestia.

"When will the burial take place," I said with a shaky voice.

"There won't be a burial," Celestia said.

I stood up. "What do you mean?" I asked.

I heard clopping. I turned towards the sound, and I saw them.

The six ponies, and there she was with them...

"Zecora..?" I said.

She looked at me with emotionless eyes.

I looked at her for a moment and looked at Celestia again.

"MIKE, YOU HAVE PROVEN TO BE DANGEROUS WHEN ENRAGED." She said in a loud booming voice.

"FOR THIS, I BANISH YOU TO TARTARUS."

The guards took me to a wagon, and everything finally processed in my mind.

"After all, I did. This is what I get?" I thought.

"I lost a fucking arm for you ponies... for you, Zecora. And this is what I get?"

"I'm going to prison."

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We reached a door that looked like it was carved in hell planted in a mountain.

The guards opened the door, and I was met with a large three-headed dog.

They talked to it for a moment, and it nodded its head as it understood them.

The guards took me to an empty spot on the floor and dropped me there harshly.

"What do you eat, FREAK." One of the guards said.

"Meat," I answered and hung my head low.

They went to bring me some food, and I took the opportunity to check my stats.

Name: Mike
Level: 28
status:
Endurance: 50. Strength: 61. Agility: 60. Charisma: 55. Stamina: 60.
Physique: Muscular
Health: 67/600. Mana: 843/1000.7

You have 11 unused points.

"Damn, I leveled that much from those chimeras?" I wondered.

"And it seems that the every 10 level ups I get a perk is still there."

I leveled endurance to 55, and the remaining six, I used them on agility and strength 3 for each of them.

I purified my lost arm and opened my skills.

There were a special perk and a new skill.

I checked the special perk.

Special perk: True channeling.

You seem to use the skill mana channeling quite often.

You have unlocked the special hidden perk True channeling.

This perk will make your channeling skill three times more effective, making you even stronger and more rigid.

I purchased the perk and checked my channeling.

My arm turned black as usual, but this time strange red runes appeared on my hand too.

I checked the new skill.

BLOOD LUST.

This skill allows you to emit your intent to kill a creature and taste its blood.

It's used to emit fear in their very soul, making them not think clearly.

Getting used to this skill allows you to control the amount of blood lust aura you emit.

I purchased the skill and ran out of skill points.

"Damn, those chimeras must've dropped a lot of crystals, but I forgot them."

I looked at the creatures around me in the cells.

There were a lot of creatures I didn't think existed.

Manticores, Chimeras, but these were different from the ones I killed in the forest. There was a tiger head instead of a lion's, and this time the tiger head was connected to a neck, not in the chest area like the ones I fought.

The meal was served to me, and I ate it.

I used all of my mana on my manipulation. Then I began to meditate, waiting for the guards to go to sleep.

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The guards walked away from the cells. I didn't know where they went, but it was time for me to kill some of the monsters in here. So I could get to level 30.

I had tried to bend the bars with my hands, but some runes appeared out of nowhere, and I couldn't break them. So I used my channeling.

When I grabbed the bars, the runes began fading away with a sizzle. I walked out of my cell and looked at the creatures. I went to the manticore and killed it. I knelt to eat it and cover myself in some of its blood.

I looked some more and found a panda-bee hybrid, so I killed it.

I kept on killing everything strange, and I made sure to talk to them before I kill them to see if they were sapient.

I kept on killing, and I reached level 30, but I kept the 2 points for later use.

My stats got a 10 points buff again, and my health reached 750.

I walked back into my cell, and took a stone shard, and channeled mana into it.

I gave myself some significant cuts that may fool the guards that I was in danger, but in all honesty, it wasn't much because I purified them and covered them with some manipulation.

I laid down on the floor and began meditating while I was waiting for the guards.

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The guards came and yelled something about a breakout happening in the day or something.

One of the guards reached my cell.

"HEY, THE FREAK THE DAY PONIES WARNED US ABOUT WAS ATTACKED TOO." One of the guards yelled

"Day ponies?" I wondered.

"HEY, HE'S BREATHING. LET US TAKE HIM THE MEDICS ROOM." The guard yelled.

Two guards were carrying me towards what I assumed was the infirmary. On the way, I pretended to wake up.

"do you think you could walk?" One of the guards asked me.

"Yeah, I think so." They dropped me to the ground, but I didn't complain.

"We walked around, and I saw some guards talking to one of the weird chimeras.

"What do you mean you didn't see it?" One of the guards asked.

"As we ssssaid, we didn't see anything, but we saw the silhouette." The snake head said.

"Yeah, it was long, and it had four claws with very long pointed ears." The tiger head said.

"aaaand It had the body of a minotaur." The goat head said.

"The weird chimeras are sapient?" I wondered.

the snake head looked at me and winked.

I winked back. "This one is coming with me when I get out." I thought.

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We got out of the infirmary. wich was a tent by the way. I was bandaged taken back to my cell.

I sat down and began to meditate.

The food came, and I ate it and used my manipulation skill until I ran out of mana and went back into meditating again.

And that was my routine for a month and a half.

It began to take my sanity little by little, but I was Determined to become stronger once I got out of here.

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It's been a month and a half of me being in Tartarus. Every day in here, I spent training my skills and meditating. My body is used to every skill that I have.

"I'm used to all of my skills. maybe it's time to escape this place." I thought.

My max mana clapped again at 3500.

And I figured out that my mana manipulation depends only on the max mana I have.

For example, if I have 1000 mana at max, I can create 100 swords. Anything more, and the box will appear with an error.

You don't have the needed max mana to create more objects.

When I was in the cell, I pointed my nails making them look like claws, and always channeled mana to them, making them unbreakable extremely sharp claws.

"I need to get to level 50, so I could meditate again." I thought.

"Let me check my stats real quick to see what I need to work on when I get out."

Name: Mike
Level: 30
status:
Endurance: 65. Strength: 74. Agility: 73. Charisma: 65. Stamina: 70.
Physique: Muscular
Health: 500/750. Mana: 843/3500.

Your health will be maxed out at 500 because you lost a limb.

"I'm ready," I said and broke the bars.

I got the chimera that I got to know was named Trinity, so no one of the heads will be offended.

We headed to the exit door.

"So, what is your plan?" Trinity asked.

"Intimidation" I anwered.

"WHAT! Don't joke around. You can't be serious." Trinity said, and I didn't answer back.

"Damn it Mike, how do you think you can possibly intimidate Cerberus?. You're missing a limb, for maker's sake." Trinity said.

"You can get back to your cell if you want. I'm not forcing you to come with me," I said.

I was bombarded with questions from Trinity, but I ignored him until we reached the door that Cerberus was guarding.

Cerberus noticed us and stood up.

The three heads showed their teeth, and one began barking, and the other two growled.

"W̼͖͇h̢͎o̻̞ d̙̻̝o̞̘ y̝͔̻o̡̦̪u̺͇͕ t͚̺̠h̞̞͖i͇͇n̠̙͜k̙͖͚ y͙͎͜o͙̼͇u̡̻͜ a̟̝͇r̦̫͎e̡͚̼?͍͎̘" I said and used a tiny amount of blood lust.

"Y͍͙̟o̡̺̼u̘̦ t̡̡͚h̢̟͚i͇̼͎n̡͍͉k͕̞̟ t̙͔h͍͍͇a̡͖̼t͓̫͚ I̢̙͓'͖̙̝l̠̻l͎̦̫ l͉͕͕e͇͕͎t͎̼̟ y̡̠o̼̻̟u̪̘̙ g̡͇̞r̼͉͜o̢͖͍w̢̼̝l̠͚͕ a̺̘̙t̘̻̫ m͍͕͇e̢̟͖ j͚͇u̢̟̼s̼͇͜t͔͜ l̙̟̘i̠̼͜k̢̙̫e͚͓̫ t͙̻h̟̦͜a̺͖͖ț͕͜?͓̘" I said and I began forming a large wolf head above me.

I used more blood lust.

"K͕̪͔n̠̞͜o̺͖̝w̦͇̫ y̢̡o͎̺͜u͇̺̞r͖͙̟ p̙͎͉l̢̫͓a̠̺̫c͇͍͜e̙̦͜.̢͇͇ F̙̼̠o̢͇͍o͇̠̞l͉͚͚" I said and used all of the blood lust I can muster.

"I͕̪ w̼͖͚i͉̙͍l͖̺̦l͍̺̪ g͕͖̙e̘̻͍t̡͕͔ o͙͉͕u̫͔̻t̟̪̪.͇̘͓ I͚͙͍f͖͎ I͇̼̻'̠̼͔m̦͖ f͓͚̻o̡̻̦l̡̙̼l̘̪̠o͎̼̝w͙̞͕e͍͖͇d̙͔̠.̟̪͓ I̡̠͉'̺̞͚l̺̫̙l͍̼͖ k̠̝̫i̼͎̘l̻͎̞l̻͍͔ y̠̼͉o͎͚͍u͍͚͚" I said, and one of the three heads went limp and passed out.

I felt its fear. It was indescribable.

I walked to the door, and formed a giant arm in place of my missing one, and punched the door sending it flying.

"Come on, let's go," I said to the chimera.

"R-r-right." The tiger head said.

We walked down the mountain, and I looked at the chimera.

"I guess we should say our farewells," I said.

"Yeah, we are grateful for what you did to us."

"Hey, I was in your debt. Thank you for not snitching on me." I said.

"What it snitching?" The chimera asked.

"Forget it. Well, then it was nice meeting you, Trinity." I said and began forming wings to look around for a place to settle in for a while.

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I found a city at the top of the mountain inhabited mostly by gryphons. It seemed in a poor state, so I continued my search.

My eyes landed on something in the far north.

"What the hell is that?" I thought because the strange what seemed to be a tower was glowing at the top.

I created another set of wings so I could be faster.

I was reaching my destination and saw it.

It was a vast city made out of crystal.

"Damn, this one seems nice," I said.

I circled it a few times, noting every detail.

"...Why are the ponies in here look shiny" I wondered.

The city was big and nice, and there weren't only ponies. There were gryphons, bipedal dogs? , zebras, and minotaurs.

"This place looks like the heart of this land," I said.

"...Thought this would happen sooner or later," I said and began looking at the direction my watcher is looking at me from.

"Great. another multihorse." I said and looked at the winged and horned horse, who looked at me for a few seconds.

Another horse walked out. It had a horn only and looked at me.

What appeared to be a he widened his eyes and said something to the multihorse.

She narrowed her eyes at me for a moment, then smiled.

"What's her deal?" I thought.

She unfolded her wings and began flying towards me.

I turned around and was about to leave because fuck them, ponies, they are ungrateful and manipulative.

"Wait, please." She called.

I turned around and looked her in the eyes.

"Fuck you, and don't come after me," I said and began descending into the city.

"...Goddamn it," I said because she was still following me.

I finally stopped and turned around.

"Didn't I say that I don't want you to follow me?" I said.

"I'm the princess of the crystal empire. I do as I please with my land." She said with a smile.

"Oh great, I was thinking about how yo- wait, didn't I mention it?. I. Don't. Give. A. Fuck." I said

She was about to say something, but I cut her off.

"Look. Whatever you have to say, just so you know that I don't give a fuck and won't give a fuck no matter what."

"Why are you so angry?" She asked, the smile still on her face.

I began to read her feelings, and she was neatural.

"That's none of your business," I said.

"Then why did you come to the crystal empire?" She asked.

"I'm not answering any of your damn questions," I said.

"Is it just me, or are you acting like this to anypony you meet?" She said.

"Yeah, I'm about to treat every.PONY with this bitchy attitude." I said.

"May I ask why?" She said.

"Because- wait, you already know the answer. THAT's none of your business. You could go back to your princess business."

I felt something.

I felt fear coming from the tower balcony.

I looked around, and I saw her.

"...Twilight," I said.

"Oh, you know Twilight?" She asked.

I didn't answer her.

I just stared at Twilight, who stood there with her mouth agape.

Another bitch walked out.

"Oh, this is going to be great," I thought as Celestia walked out too.

She looked at me and stiffened for a moment, but she took hold of herself and flew at me, and her horn began to charge.

I channeled my arms and flew as fast as I can towards Celestia.

She shot multiple beams at me.

I didn't have enough knowledge about flying with wings, so I deflected them with my hands.

I got near her and punched her in the chest.

I managed to bruse her a little.

After all, I wanted to kill her slowly.

"AHH," I yelled. I was shot in the back I saw the pink horse shooting at me.

I deflected her shots but was reshot by Celestia.

"Damn it. I can't fight them in the air. I need to get them down." I thought.

I created long arms and shot towards them.

I wanted to grab them so I could drag them with me.

A bubble formed around the two, and my created arm didn't do what I planned for it to do.

I looked at the castle and saw the stallion using his magic to protect the two.

"I should get rid of him first." I thought and formed a blood red blade.

I shot towards him with all of my speed, planning to kill him, but I stopped.

"When did I get that cold" I wondered.

"I planned to kill him with no hesitation."

"Will I prove to them that they were right."

"That I'm a monster?"

"I don't think so."

I looked at Twilight with a pained expression.

"If only you knew how I felt that day," I said and turned around and shot towards a forest.

I landed in a ravine and began digging a hole in the wall.

"I will sleep here for the night," I said.

"Tomorrow, I think I will get a map to wander around this place."

"That will do for now," I said and laid down.

I drifted to sleep.

Author's Note

This chapter was rushed a little because I'm an idiot who managed to delete the 2000 extra words that came with this chapter so I improvised.

I think the jujutsu kaisen reference was nice.

And how did you like the image of the red armor?