The Dance of darkness

"Hush now, quiet now the Moon is watching high above;

Hush now, quiet now, feel safe in all its love.

The morning light shall end your dreams,

So keep them in your heart then.

Wake up with the dawning skies,

and search them out and find them!

Oh, hush now, quiet now, time to rest that sleepy head.

Hush, now, quiet now, it's time to go to bed~"

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The Dance of Darkness

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The Moon. It was once seen as a guiding light in the dark, a beacon of hope for those in need. Once... But that was a long time ago. Few are alive that still remember the night where it all changed; the night of Princess Luna's banishment.

back then, Deca was just a filly. She served under Princess Luna as her apprentice, learning the ways of magic with her master in secret, as to keep Celestia from knowing what they were doing. The night that it happened, Luna told Deca to meet her in her personal chambers, a rare occurrence for Deca Dance, but not unheard of. She walked into the large, midnight blue doors, not being stopped by the reptilian guards due to her status with Luna. The doors closed behind her, hindering her eyesight immediately before the night-vision spell was casted.

"Greetings, my dark apprentice," Luna said, bowing her head slightly, "Hast thy journey been well? Thy final exam shall be executed when thou enters the Summoning Circle." There was another pony that she had never seen in the room, standing with her teacher.

Deca bowed to the lunar princess, "Thy greeting hath been well received, my mistress of the night." Deca stood up, pointing towards the unicorn standing next to Luna, "But, if thou doesn't mind me asking, who hath thou brought to our ritual?"

"Well, I am an expert in the study of Draconian beings, more specifically dragons themselves, " he said, in the high speech, "My name is Darastrix, and I will be aiding in the ritual process." His horn glowed, adding some runes to the circle and making it glow with a faint red light, "I was summoned by the Princess of the night, due to my magical expertise with this kind of thing." When Deca Dance only gave him a quizzical look, he replied, "Look, I swore to secrecy about this ritual. I swore on the moon to keep this in the dark."

"Well then," Deca said, obviously more trusting of him, "Thou hast my trust. Now, wouldst thou care to tell me why thou hast summoned me, mistress of the night?"

Luna bowed her head, preparing to tell her about the Princess' fate, "My time on this planet is coming to a pause, my dark apprentice." Deca Dance was taken aback, but was cut off by Luna, "Twas not anyponies fault but..."

"But whom, my mistress?" Dance said, advancing toward the circle, "Who must I destroy for you?"

Luna stepped out of the circle as Deca Dance stepped in. "Darastrix, activate the circle." At this, the mage nodded and closed off the circle. A low, humming sound emitted as powerful magic went to work. "From here on out, you will be known as: Deca Vaeri." Luna had to shout to be heard over the noise as ancient magic worked itself into her body, rearranging many of her bodily systems, "We are fusing your genes with those of a dragon, so you will be immortal from here on out. We hath done so with two others, who will be your assistants on this mission I will be gone for a period of 1,000 years. After that time, then ka will bring us together again. Your targets will be known as the Elements of Harmony! Do not disappoint me, my dark apprentice..."

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1,000 years later

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'It has been a thousand years since that night,' Deca thought, slowly getting out of bed, 'yet it still haunts my memories to this day...' She walked to the opposite bed, kicking it's occupant repeatedly. "Come on, you big idiot, it's time to get up." when all that she got was a grunt, she got frustrated and shot him with dark magic bolts. "Do not ignore me, you useless excuse for a pony!"

"Gah!" her companion yelped, jumping out of bed into a defensive posture, charging his horn. "You know that I hate when you do that!"

"Please, just because you're the only stallion that I'll allow near me without being vaporized, does NOT mean that I value your opinion at all." She made her way to the third bed in the room, only to find it empty. "Faust dammit, where the hell is Whedab?" She looked around the room for a bit, until she finally lost it. "DARASTRIX! HELP ME FIND HER!"

"Wait, that orange bitch has a name?" He said quizzically. He got locked in a sphere made of darkness, making Deca giggle.

"Listen asshole," Whedab Arcaniss said, stepping out of a wall, "If you call me a bitch one more time, I'm KEEPING you in the orb. Also, how the hell didn't you know my name? We've been traveling the world together for 1,000 years, not to mention Vaeri's constant bickering at how us two mares are better than you!"

Deca turned her head at this, staring with a bored expression at the two bickering ponies. "Listen you foals," she said, gaining both of their attention instantly, "The guards will be here soon, so we need to leave before-"

The guards barged into the room, swords, horns, and wing blades armed and ready. "You are under arrest for theft, domestic violence, murder, dismemberment of anything that moves, use of dark magic, banishing innocents to different star systems, arson, rape, clown slaughter-"

"That last one was just me." Darastrix said, smiling, "I was the one that did the clown slaughter."

"The list goes on, does it not?" Deca said, charging her horn, "But, I suppose that you already knew that."

"Under the authority of Princess Celestia, I'm placing you three under arrest." The guard in the middle said, advancing on the trio, "Just come quietly, and nopony will get hurt."

They all looked back at the guard, looked at each other, and burst into laughter. "You must have us mistaken for some other ponies, good sir."

The guard looked quizzical at this, looking at his partners, then said, "Do I have the wrong apartment? You three are Deca Vaeri, Darastrix Sventlin, and Whedab Arcaniss, right?" The guard got out three pictures, looking from the fugitives to the pictures several times.

"Nonono," Whedab said, shaking her head, "You misunderstood us. Deca here said:"

"She meant that you won't be taking us away, but we'll be killing you." Darastrix said, snapping one of their spines with his levitation. "But, unfortunately for us, we must make it quick. Places to go, ponies to see."

"What are you five standing there for, GET THEM!"

The fight did not last very long, though. The guards charged at the trio, hoping to at least get a hit in, but they were highly mistaken. The first one that came forward got ran through with Darastrix's horn, leaving him to bleed to death. The next two got constricted by dark purple shackles that came out of the ground, only for those to be replaced by black hands that dragged them straight to the Sorrel Hells, an oblivion that nopony, alive or dead, should ever need to suffer through. The other three saw this, and, reluctantly, continued their charge. "Some ponies never learn, do they?" Deca, Darastrix, and Whedab each took a guard, killing them in their own unique way. Deca used her dark shackles, as well as her torture spell, to inflict searing pain on every inch of his body. After she had her fun, she walked up to him, and whispered in his ear, "If you ever, EVER, even try to mention that TYRANTS name, I will make sure you get sent to the Sorrel Hells myself." And, with that, she ripped out all of his blood veins, and melted his skull. Whedab created a force field of darkness inside her guards stomach, making it rapidly expand until he exploded in a burst of blood, guts, and the contents of his stomach. Darastrix had a much more creative way of killing the one that he got. First, he ripped the pony's eyes out amd made him eat them. Then, he did the same with his genitals and hooves. Next, he melted his legs, sticking them to the floor and causing intense pain. Then, he plucked every individual hair from his body, using magic to force him to not black out. "Holy shit, Darastrix, that's kinda brutal." He ignored this, and proceeded to rip the guards ribcage out and force that through his throat. Not down it, but THROUGH it.

"Eh, what can I say?" Darastrix said when he was done, smiling like a maniac, "I love it when they bleed."

"Dumbass, they always bleed!" Whedab said, poking him in the stomach, "It's like, a law, or something."

"Both of you shut up," Deca said, glaring at Darastrix, "Alright, that alabaster bitch on the throne is getting fed up with us killing ponies, we can't find the elements, and the guards are after us. I hate to say it, but i think that our quest has been forfeit."

The other two live ponies in the room gasped in shock, but it was Whedab Arcaniss that spoke up first, "What are you saying, Deca? That we should abandon our mistress?"

"I NEVER SAID THAT!" Deca said, growling at her, "I only mean that we should wait until she comes back to continue our quest."

"So... Vacation?" Darastrix said, practically glowing with eagerness.

"Yes, Darastrix, I say we take a vacation."

"But..." Whedab started, "Where would we go? We've been everywhere looking for the elements of harmony, and we've seen all of the sights."

"Well that may be," Deca said, grinning, "But I have neglected to go to a single location for this exact purpose."

"What?"

"WHAT?!?"

"Yes, I have hidden it from you two. But, only because it is just some small country town that could never hold something as important as the elements of harmony." She got out her map, and started to search for a certain village.

"Well? What's it called?"

"Come see for yourself, we will be teleporting to it in 3 minutes anyways." They all huddled around the map, eager to see where they would be going.

"Ponyville?"

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Authors Notes

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Thanks for reading, reader! I hope that you enjoyed it, and if you find anything wrong with it, feel free to let me know. ALL CREDIT FOR DECA DANCE AND MOST OF HER ABILITIES (Dark shackles, torture, dark magic bolt) GOES TO FreudTastic.

Whedab Arcaniss is draconic for dark magic, and Darastrix Sventlin is draconic for dragon slayer. Kinda ironic, but it works. It works.

-lunarstallion