Return to the Light, Surrounded by Darkness
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Return to the Light, Surrounded by Darkness

Darkness, all I saw was darkness. I saved hundreds of Monsters from that Demon of the Red, with my own Blue Soul. I fought and fought a nearly unwinnable battle to save the Monsters. I freed Gaster from the Void and gave Sans his HP back, Sacrificed my blue soul for Asriel. Gathered all the souls including the red soul, and used it with my own Monster Magic to release the prison on the Monsters. We were ready to see the sun, then everything just went dark,

I sat in the void of Darkness for who knows how long, then suddenly I fell asleep.

I opened my eyes and noticed I was still within the void and unsure how much time had passed, but something was different. In the far distance, there was a single white spot, I started to crawl toward the spot of light, "I need to exit this place!"

The Spot of light got larger and brighter until it was larger than me, and still, I didn't stop. Soon I was surrounded by a light which was surrounded by Darkness.

I awoke to the sound of chirping birds and opened my eyes. "Mom? Dad?" I sat up and looked around, "This isn't the Underground, this is above ground?" I blinked my eyes and noticed I was inside a cave, I stood up and shook my body. I looked over my body, Human body, fox ears, and nine tails! I'm in perfect shape. I looked to my side and grabbed my pistol and checked its clip, a full magazine. "Wait what, didn't I use almost all my ammo on that Red Demon?" I blinked, "Oh wait my magic refills my Ammo."

I pulled out my sword and checked its blade, "It's fixed? Didn't it end up broken after I blocked that slash for Asriel? I suppose my weapons are fixed, after all my ammo is back." I walked to the edge of the cave and looked outside, "Forest? Maybe it's the forest near the Mountain? I have to find my friends!" I pulled out my Determination and created a set of Armor that boost my physical abilities, "I did it! I saw The Evil Red Soul do this!" I crouched down and jumped away from the cave and above the tree line. What I saw awestruck me, I was surrounded by a sea of trees it was truly endless as far as I could see.

"What. Where am I? This... This isn't any place I recognize... I can't legally be away from my caretakers for this long... I'm only.. 12!" I looked around as my body started to fall back to the ground, behind me, was a small mountain. "Ezrul (Oh) my tails!" I looked at my Tails and smiled, I landed back on the ground. "Okay, Tails point me towards the largest Magic source!" They worked like a compass. My tail pointed directly away from the Mountain, "Okay, just have to travel, however far that is." I sighed and started my long journey.

I have been traveling for seemingly days, the sun went down.. a few times, and I somehow haven't felt the need to sleep. "Must be 'cause of my new Monster abilities. I am Half Monster Half Human, and I did take all the Souls I could, making my Soul half rainbow and half Monter." I stopped, "Wait does that make a God? Don't Monsters become like Gods when they absorb human souls?"

I stopped my walk and looked around for anything new, nothing changed, I mean yeah the landscape was more rocky and hilly but otherwise nothing, not even a small road!

I don't know how long I have been here, but I know that it has been many days since I started walking. I still have not slept and I feel, fine, for the most part. I had to eat and drink a few days ago and now I have to constantly consume things. I tried my Magic, and it exploded in my face, I tried my Soul Abilities, but they were just too powerful.

I had likely crossed a few hundred miles, but still, I discovered nothing. The Forest changed though, it was no longer rocky and hilly but swampy and odd. I saw wolves made of trees in the bushes, which spooked me. After that, I didn't encounter much, Though I will say I found something awesome!

It was a fresh Meteorite, and it contained this dark metal, I got it to mold with my Limited SOUL Magic. I turned it into a sword, a Katana to be specific, I had to kill an animal to wrap the blade with a Leather Sheath. I now had two swords, not like they helped at all, I was still alone!

I brushed my black hair with rainbow tips, "This is getting stupid." I used my Determination to coat my body, I jumped into the Sky and looked around. I pouted, "A town! Finally!" I landed back on the ground and ran towards the town I saw.

It only took a few minutes and I was at the edge of the forest, I sighed and breath of relief. My breath hitched in my throat before I released it, the whole town was burning! "Oh no!" I started to run, but quickly skid to a stop, "Wait... why are there so many ponies?" I looked around and noticed mares with their children running out of burning buildings. "Okay, I'm not on Earth anymore." I shook my head as I got serious, "Doesn't matter, They need help!" I swayed my Nine tails, "Okay, Fire, I gotta use my Ice/water moves!" I gathered my magic, the fraction I could control, and changed it into a Blizzard. I threw the Blizzard at the Burning town, I then watched the entire burning town become coated in a thick layer of snow and ice. I ran towards the now put-out town towards the Inhabitants, Ponies, they noticed me and prepared for the worst.

I put my hands up in a sign of submission, "Is everyone okay-"

"-Monster, Demon, Child of Darkness leave us alone!" I blinked entirely confused. "You first curse our village with flame then with ice!" It was an old elderly stallion, he looked completely off his rocker, but it seems the other ponies agreed with him.

"B-but... I was trying to help..."

A shrilly mare screamed, "Help?! You froze our entire town, it is going to take months to fix! Not to mention creatures like you burned our town, to begin with!"

I started to tear up, "B-but..." I did the only thing I could, I ran. I ran as fast and hard as I could, still, I could hear their yells. Even though I already knew I had left them behind.

Twilight Sparkle Princess of Friendship, The Triarch of Equestria's Diplomatic Leader, had just heard of 'Mysterious Fox' and grew curious. "Hey, Celestia? What is this about?"

She looked at the report and rose an eyebrow, "A Misunderstanding, I can tell just by looking. They are putting a lot of blame on a single being after their Town was attacked by the Demon Tribes, This being even used an Ice attack to put out the fire, and still, they were angry. I have to punish the Town Citizens, Luna, and Twilight. Do you wish to come with me?" Luna frowned and nodded, while Twilight happily nodded.

I found myself in the middle of a clearing surrounded by trees, I was crying, and that's when I heard the all too familiar sound of footsteps on the dirt, "Hybrid. Don't you know how to greet an old pal?" I could have cried, I wasn't alone anymore, I had found someone I knew. "Turn around and shake my hand- Yo wait!" I jumped into the arms of the funny skeleton, he was not ready for that. "What's wrong Kid, why are you crying?"

I sobbed into his large coat, "I missed you guys, I have been alone for so long, I don't know how long it has been!" Tears leaked down his parka, and my grip on him tightened, "That's not even the worse of it! I went to save a whole village that was burning and used my Ice magic, they called me a monster and slung insults, all for what?! All I wanted to do was help!"

San's expression grew darker until his left eye finally ignited with blue flames, "Don't worry kid, now that I'm here no one will bother you." His magic eye flickered away. "Hey, kid have you seen anyone, no wait you haven't. Dammit! Where is Papayrus, I have been looking all day." he looked at me and smiled, "Since you are here, have your Magic found any traces of magic?"

"No, well I haven't tried." I blink before realizing, "Ooh."

I look at all my tails, "Find them!" My tails glow with magic, they all point directly in front of me, behind Sans. "Huh?" I look behind Sans and blink, "What's that?" It looked like an Orc, but its skin was red and so were its eyes. Sans looked at it and frowned, "Kid careful, that's a Demon, I have a few today, I think one of them burned that village down."

"Demon? But, I thought those don't exist, it has a lot of magical power, not on our levels but still a lot."

"I know kid, I had to fight one earlier, Didn't stand a chance against a volley of magic bones."

"What should we do, my magic is unreliable, I would have to use my pistol and swords."

Sans frowns, "Didn't you know Magic before."

"I do, but... my magic pool is too large for my Magic skill." Sans frowned, "I know it's stupid, but remember I have the souls of the children, plus the Red soul."

Sans pulled his hands from his pockets, "Fine, I'll do this my way." The Demon's eyes widened as his soul turned blue and Sans threw his hands into the open sky, the Demon was sent flying. "Welp."

I blinked, "Sans! That was very very rude!"

He shrugged, "It was a Demon, I don't care."

Sans looked at me, "Kid I gotta see your soul alright?"

I nodded fully understanding.

My soul appeared in my Chest as Sans stood in front of me, my soul was half white and upside down while the other half was Rainbow with Red as the main color.

San's eyes narrowed, "Kid, where is your original soul?"

He found out already, "Asriel, I gave it to him." I answered nervously.

Sans frowned. "You gave your soul to the Goat Prince, and took the Soul of the Killer?"

"I wanted to make it into a force for good, I even used my Magic to clear ... most... of the negativity..."

"Most?!"

"The Hate was too powerful to be destroyed, I'm sorry."

Sans scowled, "Dammit kid, This could end very badly, Hate is one of the most dangerous soul traits!"

"Sorry, I just wanted to make the soul into a better thing."

My eyes suddenly widen as both Sans and I teleport away, (Miss), I look over to where we were to see a larger Orc-like demon. "I think we made it mad!" Sans grunted.

I pull out my twin swords, I charged at the Demon this time fully ready for a fight. It threw streams of dark fire at my body, I ducked and weaved around most of the flames, only catching a few streams of fire. I appear in the Demon's face with my Katana ready to strike, my face blank of any expression. My blade cutting the air, I swing my blade fully prepared to decapitate the Demon, only I missed. The Demon leaned back as if expecting the attack, I jump back and use Act and Check the Demon's stats. "100 HP, 120 DP, 60 AP, and LV:10" I shout to Sans, and he nods.

I charge back in to attack him, my blade cutting the air again, this time I would put all my effort into making contact with him to check his SP. I appears to the side of the Large Demon, who looked more like a Giant, and swung my blade again this time with practiced precision. My blade glows red with Determination as I put my literal SOUL into the attack, my blade makes contact but for some reason does not cut. Instead, the Demon was sent flying from the force of the attack, my jaw gapped as I realized how much sheer power I now possessed. Sans expected such a result but still, it surprised him slightly, "Thanks for the Opening kid!"

Sans disappeared in a Teleport and appears above the Demon with Gaster Blasters surrounding the demon, his left eye engulfed in blue flames, "Time for a Bad Time." Sans unleashed the Barrage of Gaster Blasters. Sans teleported to my side after his attack but frowned as he looked at the dust cloud. "He's not defeated yet." I nodded.

The Demon suddenly rushed out of the cloud of dust and appeared in my face, fully surprised by his sheer speed we both did the only thing we could, "Bone Shield!" "Tail Shield!" We Shouted in Unison as Sans bones created a full spherical shield around the both of us, and My tails wrap both of us in a Magic Tail creation. The Force of Demon shattered multiple of Sans's bones but they still held, and we were sent flying from my attack. We hit the ground a good distance away as our Magics flickered away revealing us, unharmed.

The Demon stood half a Football field away, he looked so angry that I didn't think he could be any more red. "Sans... I think we should..."

"No Kid, we will fight, this Demon is not even close to us, we can take him."

"Go all out then."

Sans's left blue eye spread to his right eye causing both of his eyes to turn Blue. "With Pleasure."

I frowned, "Okay, I'll try and use my magic now." I closed my eyes and opened them again to show my eyes have changed color now Rainbow leaking the same color flames.

I pulled out my Pistol and Regular short sword, "Time to Play." I popped my fingers and launched toward the demon, My body left behind a blur of rainbow light, I streaked past the Demon in a split second not expecting to move so fast. I did a U-turn and ran up behind the Demon, I jumped into the air and flipped around firing off Precise volleys of magic bullets. Sans appeared behind the Demon after I jumped over him and fired off a point-blast barrage of Gaster Blasters, Magic bones flew in from every angle toward the demon, I was not done so I pointed my Sword hand at the Demon. "Fire Bolt!" I launched a literal Bolt of fire into the Demons face, The Bolt of fire looked like a Rainbow.

The Demon reeled from being attacked so quickly. Not letting up Sans did something, He grabbed the Demon's soul and turned it blue, "Bye-bye!" Sans threw the Demon across the Clearing and into trees on the other side, he then fired off a near-endless barrage of Gaster Blasters, By this point Sans was sweating quite heavily, "I gotta take a break, I can't keep up..." The Moment he said this his Gaster Blasters and bones all shattered and faded away.

I frowned, "It's okay Sans, I know you haven't trained since you got your old magic and Health back."

I looked over to where the Demon was and watched as it charged from the Smoke, only now it looked almost dead. Suddenly I heard all too familiar music, a Music I had hoped to hear.

My eyes widened as I gasped as the Armored Royal guard appeared, with her familiar magic spear. "Undyin!" She looked over at me and looked back at the Demon.

"Good. I was hoping for a battle!"

She jumped towards the Demon and started her fight, I was too magically tired to help much. I looked over to Sans, "Sans, are you okay?"

The Skeleton nodded his head, "We found Undyin, that's a good thing."

"Yeah, but why didn't she show up on my Magic sense?" It is supposed to be all-knowing, How did it miss her?

Suddenly Undyin ran up to us with a deep frown, "I can't seem to beat him, and if you and Sans combined were insufficient I doubt anything I could do would scratch that beast."

I nodded, "It's too sturdy, for some reason Sans magic doesn't seem as effective." Said skeleton frowned, "Yeah I know, usually I can defeat tough opponents with some difficulty but that is just absurd."

Undyin looked at the both of us, "Didn't something change in the both of you? SOUL Magic is from the soul, so your SOULS are not actively helping and your Monster Magic is heavier, denser, and stronger but you are using it like you did before. Sans your Magic is back to normal, but you lived without it for so long that you have to readjust. Anyway, we have to get out here, do either of you guys know where we could hide?"

I looked at the Demon, "Yeah, hold on!" I slapped my hands to the ground, We were suddenly engulfed in a large cloud of smoke, completely obscuring us.

Princess Twilight, Luna, and Celestia all arrived at the Burned Village, otherwise known as Trotsome. It was a Backwater place that the Princesses tried to Regulate but they actively resisted, so Instead the Guards were pulled from the town. It was the perfect way to attack, it was defenseless and most of the ponies were inbred making them frail and weak.

When the Princesses convey landed there was almost instant disapproval from the citizens. So the guards took action and restrained the frail citizens who tried to be a physical hindrance, The Princess disembarked and looked at the Burned Village. Celestia looked troubled and Luna wore a frightened and angered expression. Twilight looked at the village with calculating eyes, "What happened?"

Celestia looked to Twilight, "A Demon from the Underworld, a Leader Demon most likely. An Orc Boss Demon, one of the most dangerous types, burn, pillage, rape, kill, and consume everything they can get their hands on. I suspect they were planning on attacking when this Mysterious Fox Intervened and put out their fires. Orcs are very superstitious, they use fires as a way to claim territory, if the fires go out, they believe they cannot attack a target without dire consequences. A better way to explain it is the Fire represents their will to fight, if it is 'put out' they lose their will to continue fighting."

"So when the Mysterious Fox put out the fires burning the village the Orcs retreated and they would likely challenge the Fox, right?"

"Yeah, it's part of their 'code of honor', challenge the stronger and use the weak."

Suddenly there was a huge explosion in the far distance, Suddenly a huge hulking figure jumped from the tree line towards the Village.

It was the Boss Orc Demon!

I along with Sans and Undyin retreated after I used my smoke technique, only I didn't know the consequences of my actions. We all heard a large roar that shook us to our core, "That was the Demon! It's attacking something, likely the Pony Village, we should help!"

Sans scoffed, "Why should we, they blamed you for something while you only tried to help!"

My only needed response was, "Innocents!" I ran from the place we hid towards the sound of the Roar. My Rainbow eyes glowed softly as I blitzed past the trees and towards the Hulking Demon, "Yo Ugly!" I screamed, I pulled my fist back and punched the Hulking beast directly in the torso with all my strength/speed. The result was an incredible shockwave that likely shook the forest surrounding us to its foundations.

The Demon spat up a glob of blood and its eyes rolled back for a split second before it refocused on me, I jumped as far back as I could. "Gaster where ever you are, I wanna thank you for this ability." I point my open palm at the Orc Demon who now looked enraged. I charged up some magic and shouted. "Fox Blaster! A Fox skull appeared in front of my body and hand, and a beam of Rainbow SOUL and Monster Magic exploded from the Foxes mouth. The Magic beam slammed into the Demons chest sending it flying without much issue, only problem, was I collapsed. I was out of magic.

"D-did I win?" Sans appeared next to me in a Teleport, his smile was wide, like always. "Good Job kid. You actually, 'defeated' the enemy."

I giggled, "No puns?"

Sans hummed, "I can't seem to think of any that would be good for this kind of situation."

Undyin ran up to us and blinked, "Yep, you are a Super Legendary Boss Monster, Good job squirt."

I felt a new presence that was unfamiliar, "Who is that?" It seems both Sans and Undyin felt the presence as they looked behind me both suspicious and confused. I turned my head to see three ponies all with wings and horns, one was tall white with... a rainbow flowy mane? The next ... Pegicorn was black or dark blue with a star-like mane and tail, the last one was the most normal out of the lot. She was purple, lavender maybe, with a purple mane and tail with a pink stripe down the left side.

"Uh, what?" I looked at each of the ponies, "What are they?" I asked Sans who shrugged. "I'm so confused, what is happening here?" I looked between the two, totally confused.

The Tall white pony looked at each of us with a concentrated expression, "So, this is the one who the Village ponies saw, I'm guessing these two are her friends or allies."

I looked at her and blinked, I gulped nervously, "Yeah, that was me, I was trying to help, they didn't like that much."

"The ponies there are very foolish, anyone could tell you were just trying to help, but using ice on fire. Most ponies would not enjoy the sudden shift in temperature."

I smiled sheepishly, "Sorry, my magic is... hard to control, I have to use a means to contain them."

"Which is the Skull you used right?"

"Correct," My voice became happy and almost clinical, "It's a Magic device created by Gaster, He made it to harness a max of around 300 terahertz of Magic energy. This amount of Magic energy becomes unstable and is unleashed in a concentrated beam of Pure Magical Energy, the effect is similar to Absolute Zero flames, or Void Magic. It absolutely erases anything it touches, but... the Demon I assume..." Yeah, that thing took the strongest Blast she could manage with ease. I looked around, "Have you... ponies... seen any creatures like us, there should be hundreds of our kind."

The White Pegicorn shook her head, "No, we have not heard of anything, it has been normal until you arrived at this village. Took a few hours to arrive though."

I nodded, "What can we do to help you?"

The dark blue Pegicorn looked at us, "Join our country please, we could use some help with this outbreak of Demon attacks."

"Sure, oh and I don't think we really introduced ourselves, Im Kayleen Hybrid Princess of the Dreamuur Family." I pointed to Sans, "Royal Scientist/Judge and Jury of the Underground." I pointed to Undyin, "Royal Guard in defense of the Dreamuur Family line."

The Mares looked surprised, "A Royal? Well, you sure look like some kind of Princess, though you look filthy." The dark blue mare spoke, "Oh forgive us, I am Princess Luna, with my Sister Princess Celestia and our colleague Princess Twilight Sparkle."

"Three princesses where are the King and Queen?" The two sisters looked at each other.

"Equestria is ruled by princesses who all possess equal or similar power, The King and Queen never truly existed in this country, but our Mother and Father were royalty."

I nodded, "Okay, when can we get going?"

"Now."

I sat in between Sans and Undyin, I was by far the shortest of this group, at one inch shorter than Sans. So I was completely overlooked for the most part, I instead created a Bone with my magic, almost identical to Sans's only it had a sharpened tip. I grabbed the bone and started to use it for a toothpick, what it's my magic!

Suddenly my eyes caught something amazing, "Wow! That's a city on the edge of a mountain, how does that even work, it looked to be almost solely made of Gold and Marble!" My eyes widened, "The very concept of such an idea is truly astounding, how does it hold all that tremendous weight? Magic I assume, It just leaks Magical power."

"What kind of Magic Princess Kayleen?" Twilight asked, I reached out to the Magic and frowned.

"Pure Chaos." That made Twilight's eyebrow raise, "Oddly it's neither hostile nor Peaceful, just Neutral."

"Discord." I looked at Twilight with confusion, "He's the Lord of Chaos in this world." I nodded.

"Okay, So this Discord made it so this Cliff would stay intact even when Gravity would have pulled it down."

"Apparently so, did you know this Celestia?" Twilight asked her Colleague.

"Yes, but I assumed the Magic would have dispersed after so long, It seems I was wrong."

I looked out to the City and frowned, "It is truly just Chaotic Magic, I don't understand how such Chaotic Magic exists so easily, Chaos and Harmony are balanced why is this just Chaotic?"

I looked over to Sans who looked just as Confused upon detecting the Chaos.

We landed inside the walls of the Giant castle, My eyes were wide with wonder as I spotted the pony guards. "Is that golden armor?!" I looked at Celestia and Luna, "How?! Gold is very expensive and kinda useless for anything other than Economy!"

"It is Gold plated High Carbon Steel." I looked to Twilight who blushed upon gaining the attention from me and the two Monsters.

"Wow, You guys High Carbon Steel? That's impressive, most need an Industrial Forge to be able to create something so Advanced." I rambled on about how impressive it is to find a species that can create a metal that is difficult to create.

Elsewhere two eyes opened and looked around, his blue magical eyes looked up into the forest leaves. "Sis?" The Beings voice spoke up, "What happened where are we-" He sat up and looked around, realizing he was alone he panicked. "Sister?! Where are you, sister?!" His small budding horns brushed against a tree limb causing him to wince, It was Asriel Dreemurr The God of Hyperdeath, or Demi-God of Hyperdeath. He looked around and his panic only grew as he noticed he was surrounded in the forest for as far as the eye could see.

"Where am I? Kayleen! Kayleen where are you, this is not funny! Come out Kayleen, I can't lose!" He looked around hoping to find Kayleen, But Nobody Came. He shouted, begged for Kayleen to find him, But Nobody Answered. He started to cry, his panic started to overwhelm him, and he cried until he passed out surrounded by the Forest. Completely surrounded by the Darkness he knew for so long.