Hellpony: Rise of Chaos Millennium

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Ch.01

The night was wondrous. It was serene. Not a single cricket chirped nor did a leaf move. The calm kind of summer night that one would enjoy camping out in with a friend. But the night wasn't enjoyed by one pony in particular. Mi Amore Cadenza Wingates Van Hellpony. Or rather Cadence for she was not gifted with a short name. She was running for her life in the dungeons of Canterlot. Why? Because her deranged uncle Richard Van Hellpony was hunting her like an animal. Her father had recently died a week before and named her the successor to the family 'business'. She had no clue what that was but her uncle was practically frothing at the mouth. He was denied his seat and aimed to kill Cadence in a coup de' ta. As the pink alicorn ran exhausted she remembered what her father had said to her before his passing.

"Cadence. My time is short. Listen to me. If you ever find yourself in great peril or cornered by some great foe go to the forgotten dungeon below Canerlot. In the last one lies your salvation."

Cadence ran with renewed vigor her hoof-steps echoing in the empty stone halls. Soon enough she came to a large wooden door emblazoned by a large pentagram seal. Cadence was nervous but her determination to live grew seven fold as she heard Richard and his goons starting to catch up. She pushed open the door open with more than enough force and came stumbling in. The room was bare save for a lone figure in the corner. It appeared to be the mummified corpse of a unicorn in a black straight jacket nailed to the wall.

"Is this a joke father? If it is it is a rather poor one. Saviors need food and water to live."

"There you are!"

Cadence's blood ran cold as she heard the voice of Richard behind her. She whipped around and came muzzle to muzzle with the dark brown unicorn. Cadence gave a startled yelp falling over onto her flank. Richard charged a shot from his horn. The energy beam flew over and grazed her front left hoof. Blood spattered behind her and onto the corpse. Cadence stumbled backwards in the dark room. Her uncle grinned maliciously.

"That. Was for waisting my time. Your ears go next."

Richard advanced murder in his eyes. Cadence was scared.

"What are you uncle!? To turn weapons on your own kin!?"

He simply smirked pointing his horn straight at her head.

"Good night Cadence."

The horn surged with energy but stopped as a strange noise was heard. It was something wet on the stone floor. One of Richard's goons paled and he pointed with his hoof.

"L-lord Richard! T-t-the corpse is alive!"

"What!?"

The goon spoke truth. The corpse now a black furred mare had pulled herself from the wall though her front hooves where still tied behind her back. She was now sliding her serpentine tongue up and down the bloody stone floor gleaming every drop like a starved animal. She glanced up grinning showing off her fanged mouth and slitted teal eyes. She chuckled ever so lightly as she stood on her hind hooves and writhed around a bit. After all of two seconds the wings pinned behind her front hooves flared to life slicing through the bonds with ease. The regal undead alicorn stood in all her glory. Richard, his goons, and Cadence where mortified.

"K-kill it! Give Cadence an escort on her way to tartarus!"

The goons in their fear readied their horns without question. Too bad the dark mare was fast. She shimmered out of exisance for a few seconds before reappearing with the top half of a goon's head in her hoof. She grinned and guzzled down the blood greedily like a drunkard needing a beer. Once the blood was gone the black menace surged forward and cleaved the other goon in half with one of her wings. She turned to Richard blood matting the fur under her chin.

"N-no! Stay away!"

The alicorn didn't listen. She brought her hoof down at lightning speed taking off one of Richard's hooves. She grinned reveling in the aftermath of the slaughter. Her teal eyes slid over the room and settled on Cadence. She was sitting against the wall fear obvious in her eyes. The demon strode over casually knowing she had all the time in the world. Soon enough she stood before Cadence towering over her that shark toothed grin refusing to leave her face. Silence reigned for a few moments before the dark mare got to her knees and lowered her head in respect.

"Have you sustained any injuries my master?"

"..." Cadence was shocked. Her father had never mentioned anything such as this to her before. But as Cadence mulled things over Richard got to his hooves and charged his horn.

"I will not die! Hellpony is mine!"

Richard fired his shot. All that was heard was the impact of magic on flesh. The dark mare slowly turned her head glaring at him her eyes alone freezing him in place making his blood run cold. The mare's arm was protecting Cadence. There was a hole in her arm where Richard's shot would have entered Cadence's head.

"You are unfit to be this family's head. Your blood reeks to high holy heaven!"

Cadence charged her horn aiming at Richard.

"What is your name?"

"My master. Your father called me Nightmare Moon."

A single magical bolt was heard sounding about the room before it fell totally quiet once again.

~~~~~~~~~~~
10 years later,

It was a beautiful night just like the one 10 years ago. Cadence now head of the Hellpony organization was called out to a small town called ponyville. She was very much familiar with the town being the former foal-sitter of one of its residents Twilight Sparkle. Cadence remembered the happy little filly. But a few days after her own ordeal Twilight's house was robbed and her parents killed. She had been found with a magical burn in her abdomen. Fortunately Queen Celestia took her in. A few days ago she was sent to ponyville to learn of the magic of friendship. Unforunatly it didn't seem to be working. She was as withdrawn as ever despite living in a library. Cadence looked out the window of the chariot as it came to a halt. She adjusted the tie on her olive green suit and stepped out. Placed in front of her was a large command tent. The guards at the front opened the tent door for her. As Cadence stepped in she was greeted by utter chaos. Authorities where squabbling amongst themselves. Fortunately enough all came to attention when they realized she was there. As the room fell silent another pony entered. He was a grey pegasus in a suit with a monocle perched over his left eye. He was the Hellpony family butler Walter C. Dornez.

"Ahem. Gentlemen give me an update."

One pony who must have been the one in charge stepped up.

"Of course lady Hellpony. You see there was an occurrence in ponyville that moved into the everfree. We have sent in units but there are no replies."

"Of course there aren't. What you are dealing with here is a very bad thing."

Cadence levetated a picture.

"How long ago was this taken?"

"About an hour or so ago why? What are they?"

"As I feared. They are ghouls. Once a pony attacked by a vampony. Ghouls are made from a non-virgin or pony of the same sex as the original vampony. They are now nothing more than mindless puppets."

"Ghouls? Vampony? You expect me to believe this?!"

"I really don't care. Of course a low ranking officer like you wouldn't know. Hellpony has been fighting a war in the shadows for centuries now. Like it or not your men are nothing but a meal to the 'effected'. But this is where Hellpony comes in."

"How many have you dispatched?"

"One."

"One!?"

"Correct. She is our trump card. When it comes to vamponies and other creatures of the dark nopony is more specialized than her."

~~~~~~~~~~~

In the middle of a dark meadow a lone figure stood. She was large wearing a blood red trench coat with a matching wide brim fedora hat. Covering her eyes where circular orange tinted sunglasses. Beneath the clothes was a set of cyan blue armor. Occasionally the wind would pick up and her coat fluttered showing off her crescent moon cutie mark. She leaned her head back looking up at the full moon. She breathed in deeply drinking in the atmosphere.

"Ah such a beautiful night. Makes me want to have a bite to drink."

Nightmare Moon continued forward to her target.

Somewhere else in the forest a lone figure ran for her life. A purple unicorn was darting through the forest heart racing. She hoped she left that ... Thing! Behind.

'Oh Faust! How did I get myself into this!? Sure random pony priests aren't immediately suspicious as they casually wander into the everfree with a small army behind them."

Twilight sat catching her breath.

"I told you it was useless running!"

'Oh buck me!'

Twilight snapped around to see a pale white earth pony with a black mane in the garbs of a priest. Twilight in defense shot a few spells at him. He simply chuckled disappearing and reappearing in front of her. He continued his dark chuckle as he lifted her up by the throat.

"Please magic is useless here! Magic could never kill a vampony! Still I don't want another vampony with free will running about do I? So I will take your virginity before I take my time draining you! In the end you will just be one of my ghouls."

Fresh fear gripped the unicorn's heart and it burned through her veins. Knowing nopony was around to hear she let loose one last word hoping against hope for a savior and praying to Faust.

"NOOOOOOOOO!!"

"I think that is enough fun for one night don't you?"

The vampony vicar dropped Twilight and whipped around stairing at the larger newcomer.

"Who the hell are you?"

"Your death."

"My death? Oh really? Hehhehheh how pathetic. Kill her."

The vicar stomped one hoof and ghouls emerged from the forest armed with all sorts of weaponry. They hacked, slashed, and shot at the tall black pony. As she went down spilling blood and losing limbs her dark twisted smile never faltered nor faded. The vicar didn't notice and Twilight was in too much shock at witnessing this. The phony pony priest laughed over the corpse of his fallen foe. But another darker laugh coated his own. It was emanating from ... The corpse!? As Nightmare Moon lay on the ground her various body parts dissolved into shadow. The one new blast of shadow flew up and twisted into the air before crashing down some feet away. All that could be seen in the shadow was a shark toothed smile and a pair of teal eyes.

Soon the shadows settled reforming Nightmare's clothes.

"Is that all!? Weapons could never kill a vampony! Well .. Ordinary weapons that is."

Nightmare slid and armored hoof into her coat. What Twilight noticed through her shock was there was a clamp on the horse shoe. When a click was heard she feared what sort of hedious thing would be produced. What kind of nasty weapon? The question was answered when she pulled a long silver object. Engraved into the barrel of the gun was 'Hellpony .454 Cassul'. Twilight and the vampony of course had no clue as to what a gun was before Nightmare leveled it at a ghoul's head. She used her magic to pull the trigger. A loud bang was heard and the ghoul's head was taken clean off. Its body disintegrated into ash. Nightmare continued shooting rapidly turning in a slow circle killing the ghouls.

"What!? How can she be killing them!? And why is a fellow vampony with the ponies!?"

Nightmare dropped her spent clip reloading. She put the barrel of the gun in her mouth sliding it back completing the reload process.

"You short sighted punk! Are there no morals these days? That's the problem with you little shits. You go on rampages whenever the urge hits you. If ponies die out so do we! And besides I CAN'T disobey the ponies. Its a long story unfit for trash like you. Now die!"

Nightmare leveled the gun with his heart. The vicar panicked. He appeared behind Twilight and held her up like a shield. Nightmare smirked.

"No need to get our jimmies rustled right? I'm not asking for much. Just a bit of help. You could turn a blind eye. Say I escaped."

Nightmare wasn't listening to the scum talking she was staring into the frightened eyes of Twilight. She took in a deep breath and now knew the answer to the question she was going to ask.

"Hey filly you a virgin?"

"Eh!?"

"What the hell are you getting at!?"

"Answer me."

"Well .. Umm."

"Stop this nonsense!"

"Answer me!"

"Y-Yes! I am!"

A single crack from the gun was heard. Twilight and the vampony now had holes in their chest. Twilight was dropped and Nightmare Moon rushed the vicar. She leaned back on her hind legs and thrust her right front hoof deep into his chest and through his heart. The vampony exploded in blood his soul presumably sent to the flames of hell. Nightmare turned and walked over to Twilight.

"I'm sorry but I had to shoot through your lung to hit his heart. You are dying. You have a choice. Die here or fight on."

Nightmare loomed over the bleeding unicorn. Twilight was bleeding heavily and she was crying. Before her eyes flashed her short life. She wasn't going to die here. She wasn't going to disappoint Queen Celestia. It wasn't her time yet! Shaking violently her hoof lifted into the air towards the dark alicorn. Nightmare grinned. Finally the last bit of energy left Twilight her hoof fell .. Into Nightmare's. The pentagram designs on the shoe armor glowed red. Twilight was reflected in the glasses.

"Tonight truly is .. A beautiful night little mare."

Nightmare leaned in and sank her fangs into Twilight's neck. After the process was complete Nightmare folded Twilight up in a security blanket and took her back to her master.

Some time later Cadence stood waiting. She saw Nightmare with a survivor on her back. Cadence waited and Nightmare finally drew close.

"Status."

"Enemy vampony was killed. No survivors."

"Who is that then?"

Nightmare pulled Twilight around who looked up at Cadence with her big purple eyes. Cadence failed to note they where slitted. Cadence seeing the young mare she had foal-sitted for so long couldn't maintain a distant or leadarly posture. She surged forward and scooped up Twilight.

"Oh Twilight! What are you doing here!? Oh my Faust are you ok? Oh I'm so glad you are ok! Nightmare why didn't you count her as a survivor?"

"Because she isn't alive... Master."

"Wha?"

Realization dawned on Cadence and she looked over Twilight once more this time noting the slitted eyes.

'No! Please let this be some cruel trick like with the cupcakes Nightmare!'

Cadence found the last nail in the coffin by examining Twilight's neck. The puncture marks were indeed there. The alicorn paled. Twilight teared up and clutched the alicorn.

"I'm so sorry Cadence! I had to or I would die! I don't want to end up like mama and papa!"

The alicorn held Twilight closer trying to calm the sobbing, shaking form.

"Shh everything will be ok. Calm down."

Cadence tried calming the smaller mare the entire ride back to the Hellpony estate. Walter didn't ask questions as he drove. Cadence stared icy daggers at the still smirking Nightmare Moon the entire ride.

'Oh how amusing! I wonder who this pony is to get master so riled up like this.'

To be continued.