Hear the voices of Samuel/HTVO: Arc 1: Samuel

Chapter 44: Skoll and Hati, The Small Tale of Two Brothers

Skoll was walking down the hallway in the hospital whistling his famous death tune. By his side were ponies either halfway turned into ash or lying flat on the ground with holes in their chests where their hearts should be at. His hands were dripping blood leaving a trail behind him as his suit was also stained by the red coloring. He looked left and right at each dead pony and simply chuckled. This was too easy. He soon stopped and looked at a closed door. He could her breathing coming from the inside. Walking towards the door he grabbed the knob and twisted it. As soon as he opened it, he spotted Nurse Redheart treating two patients. They were Dream and Trixie.

Hearing the door open, Nurse Redheart sighed in relief. "Doctor, this mare you founded in the forest injured is doing fine, what should we do when she wakes up?" She asked, turning around. Her eyes widened as her body became stiff in fear. "W-who are you?" She asked the white hair humanoid devil.

Skoll grinned and entered into the room closing the door behind him. "I'm just some devil. I'm here to claim the unholy light. Once that is obtained I can end all of their pain. And soon I will set this world free so that we no longer have to be insane." He said, walking towards the nurse. He gave her a predator look, it was haunting and alluring. It made her stiff as a rock, she couldn't even think of running away. Soon, when he was in front of her, he leaned down towards her height and let his long reptilian like tongue slither out his mouth. He licked the sides of her face tasting her. It made the mare blush crimson red and sweat. "You seem quite innocent, what is a mare doing in a hellish place like this?"

His words made her fur shiver. She could feel his finger slowly trail up her chest straight to her chin. She stared at those eyes. These eyes weren't just wolf eyes; they were devil's eyes in disguise. She could see him look over her shoulder staring straight at the other patients. A devilish grin appeared on his face as he stood up and walked in between the two patient beds.

"Did you know, that some prey make crazy actions in trying to survive from a predator? They will sacrifice anything of equal value to their predator in order to survive the day. Sometimes they will sacrifice their love ones and sometimes their bodies if you want to put it in an intimate way." Skoll said, slowly brushing the tips of his claws under Dream's and Trixie's chin.

"W-what are you trying to get at?" Redheart asked, frightened.

"Are you willing to give me something in return in order for you to survive?" Skoll asked.

"Wait, I can't just give up anything of value to you, just so I can live. It isn't right or fair- "Life isn't fair, but do you see me complaining like a selfish, arrogant bitch." Skoll cut her off. "Do you see the position you are in, this position settles down to your survival. You either give me something that I will be satisfied with or die and I will kill them to in the process. Either way, I can't give two shits less about this."

Nurse Redheart started to panic. She didn't want to die and she didn't want the patients to either. Looking left and right for something to give this wolf so he could leave her and her patients alone, she founded nothing. This was bad. Really bad. Skoll looked at his left palm watching his nails grow back into claws. His fingertips started glowing black, casting a shadowy cloud over them.

"Looks like you have nothing in exchange but your life?" Skoll said, starting to chuckle.

"W-wait, I do, it's just, I just can't find anything that would suit your needs!" Redheart said, panicking.

"Perhaps the reason you can't find anything to survive is because it was nowhere in sight to begin with." Skoll said walking towards her. Redheart shuts her eyes, not wanting to face death up close. The white wolf lifted his claws in the air, preparing to swing them down in an X pattern. "Say goodnight." He said swinging his claws down.

Redheart screams for her dear life. But for five minutes, nothing happened. She stopped screaming and she opened her eyes slowly, nervously looking at Skoll. His claws were touching her, but softly. He patted her on the head and gave her a smug smile. "Just kidding. You can live, for now, right now, I need this pony for unquestionable reasons." Skoll said.

"W-what?!" Redheart asked becoming shocked.

"That's right; I need this pony here named Dream Phobic for future purposes. You can keep the mare." Skoll said walking towards Dream's unconscious body and laid the palm of his right hand on his forehead.

"Wait, what are you doing?!" Redheart asked after seeing his hand glow black.

"Nothing too important, just assisting him in his struggling battle against his fears." Skoll answered.

"Fears?" She questioned.

"Fears, you know, an emotion in which you or somepony else becomes afraid of something that will put you in a frozen state." Skoll said looking at her. "He has fears that would make you stay in your home forever."

"You're not going to kill him, are you?" Redheart asked.

"Honestly, does it look like I am going to kill him?" He asked.

"Yes." She said.

Skoll blinked twice before chuckling. "Well, I pretty much wasn't paying attention to that. You should run along now, there is no reason for you to be here." Skoll said motioning for her to leave. Redheart looked at him before she shook her head no. The white hair devil glared at her angrily. "Do you want me to kill you here and now?"

"I-I can't leave, I need to stay here and attend to the patients. Plus, there are crazy ponies roaming the hallways, Doctor left to find some help." She said.

"Well, too bad, leave and hide in a closet somewhere." Skoll said.

"A closet? But what if they find me?" She asked.

"Not my problem, hell, take this mare with you." He said pointing at Trixie.

"But she is in no condition to fight." Redheart said.

"Gods, you are so annoying!" Skoll growled. He placed his palm on Trixie's forehead while splitting his middle and ring finger for her horn to go in-between the two digits. His palm glowed dark as her horn started to glow dark. "You better be damn lucky I killed enough ponies and took their energy in order to make her wake the hell up." He said, glaring at Redheart. After five whole minutes, Trixie started to wake up. She glanced left and right after Skoll took his hand off of her.

"Where is Trixie?" She muttered.

"In the hospital, get up fast. Take this nurse to a closet and protect her at all times. Before you speak, listen closely. Right now, outside and inside this place is fucked up to coldest bitter of shit. There are ponies that intend on killing you because they lost their minds. You either kill or be killed. The only possible way to avoid this is to hide. That is why I want you to get this annoying nurse out of here and to, again, a closet. Got it?" He asked.

Trixie was about to question him about the trouble that was happening outside and in the hospital but when he gave her an annoyed glare, she decided to just obey and not talk back to this stranger. Something about him terrified her. "Yes, we understand." She said, taking the nurse's hoof and rushing her out of the room, leaving the son of Fenrir and the musician alone.

Looking at Dream, Skoll chuckled and patted his head. "You know, I'm quite proud of myself. I caused this to happen. I was tricked into starting a war, I became mad and gained the abilities that put Magic in a struggle, and I caused madness upon you and your friends. Without me, you and the others would have never met. So simple, so easy, so beautiful. Strife became disowned by his father because I fooled him; his mother's best friend was fooled into believing there was an actual Samuelnist family in that poor city. Boy oh boy, I caused such a show. I plotted and waited for everything to open up like a sprouting flower." He said.

Looking out of the window, he whistles a soft song. Dream started to sweat and make uncomfortable faces. He started to shake as his body glowed dark. Skoll looked back at the stallion before grinning. "Everything that I give comes with a price. For you and the others, your fate to me is just a mere rolled dice." He said walking towards the window. He stopped and looked at his own reflection. Placing his palm on the glass surface, he frowned.

4500 Years ago

Skoll had his palm pressed up against the reflection of it in the mirror. He was in a bathroom that was completely dirtied. His hair was part black and part white on opposite sides. A knock was heard on the door and the cloaked, humanoid devil walked out of his bathroom and into the empty dark living room. He got to his door and opened it. Behind it was another humanoid person who looked just like him, except he had pure blue eyes and black hair and wore a black cloak.

"Brother, you are late again; father is not going to be pleased with this absent behavior." His twin said.

"Whatever Hati, I really couldn't care less what father thinks of me." Skoll said in a scoffed tone as he passed by his brother.

Hati looked at him in annoyance before following him. "You know, father does not like that at all." He said.

"Do I care?" Skoll asked

"You should, father does not tolerate that." Hati said.

"Well, he should, hell, I been doing this all the time so he should expect this out of me." Skoll said.

The hallway they were walking in ended when they reached the exit. They both looked at one another and sighed at the same time. "But you should at least respect him." Hati said, laying his hand on his brother's right shoulder. Skoll blushed lightly before sighing again.

"Fine." He muttered.

"Good, come on, we should not leave father waiting, should we?" Hati asked smiling softly.

"Y-yeah." Skoll said smiling back softly.

Skoll and Hati were both twins. Half brothers that had a bond of true brothers. Skoll's mother was an angel named Angelica while Hati's mother was a devil named Lilith. Hati was nice and always helpful around others who needed it. Skoll on the other hand was bitter and rude that he always enjoyed doing things for himself. But when it involved Hati, he would do anything for him and his brother would do the same.

The two brothers loved to do a lot of things together, most of those things were chasing after the Sun goddess and the moon goddess. Skoll admired the sun, Sunni, while Hati admired the moon, Mani. They would always run away from them on their chariots, giving the wolves a challenge to chase them. Time by time, Skoll and Hati eventually caught these fleeing goddesses. For a while, the wolves and goddesses were a perfect pair, but with an odd taste beyond the mix. Sunni didn't mind Skoll's rough nature and Mani didn't mind Hati's gentle nature. Sunni was calm and peaceful, while Mani was abrupt and violent. Opposites.

Soon, Skoll and Hati entered into a throne room where Samuel and Azazel sat on their throne chairs side by side. In between them was Fenrir. Their father, who was a large, black wolf with large fangs. His golden eyes pierced through any soul that attempted to go up against him. The two brothers stood up straight, showing respect in their humanoid forms. But through Fenrir's eyes he saw through their illusions and saw their actual forms sitting down straight, looking at him. Skoll was a white wolf while Hati was a black wolf.

"Skoll, for the first time in my life, you are sitting straight down. Care to explain why you have performed that sort of behavior?" Fenrir asked. His voice sounded rough and commanding. Skoll looked away nervously. He wouldn't expect his own father to notice and question him on this sort of factor.

"I don't know, maybe I just want to show you some respect, pops." He said, looking at him again.

"And you finally pick a day like this to actually come. Let me guess, you're own brother had to drag you out of your bed again?" Fenrir asked in a displeased tone.

"Hey, come on, at least I came." Skoll said, glaring at his father.

"Yes, at least you did, but for what purpose, that remains unknown. Do you even know why I call you here today?" Fenrir asked.

"No." Skoll answered folding his arms. Hati still stood straight, not speaking. But he did watch as his brother started returning back to his old ways again.

"Syoku was destroyed from someone in this realm. Due to that incident, the cult of Lulik is blaming us for destroying their prison. I want you and Hati to investigate the devastated prison and return to me with the clues you found. We need to know who did it and why." Fenrir said.

"Okay, that doesn't seem hard." Skoll said as he started to crack his arm and neck.

"You can handle this right?" Fenrir asked.

"Of course I can." Skoll said.

"No, not you, Hati, you my son, tend to destroy everything in sight." Fenrir said, looking at Skoll, causing him to glare at him angrily again.

"Yes father, I will make sure Brother does not go wild while we are investigating the prison." Hati said calmly.

"Good, you are both dismissed." Fenrir said.

When Skoll and Hati left the room, Fenrir sighed looking back at Skoll. When they were in the hallway, Skoll punched a hole in the wall, huffing angrily. "That guy is an asshole!" He growled.

"Do not say that about father, brother. You should have expected that to happen when you finally went with me to the meeting. Look, let us just get this over with, okay? Once we finish this perfectly. Father might give you some of the respect that you have been looking for, for a very long time." Hati said, patting Skoll's shoulder.

"Fine, let's just do this. That guy really is a prick towards me." Skoll said walking away. Hati watched as his brother continued down the hallway and sighed in frustration.

"How am I going to handle you?" He muttered after he facepalmed himself.

Syoku Prison Ruins

The sky was completely blue as the clouds drifted slowly across its blue ocean of air. The wind was calm and the sun was out. Hati and Skoll walked on rubble inside a devastated large building. No bodies were found and the only thing that they saw was the sky through the broken ceiling and the collapsed debris around them. It seemed that there was nothing else to find in this devastated place, but there was a lot of energy that these two could feel spiraling in the place.

Skoll growled and picked up a rock. He sniffed it for a few seconds before throwing it through a hole in the wall. Hati was scanning the ground of any dropped item evidence but so far they founded none. Skoll was growing bored of this mission. He started to believe that this place was simply just sabotaged by some random stranger, but Hati on the other hand was thinking something different but with the same concept of sabotage.

"Brother, did you find anything?" Hati asked.

"Nope, nothing but stupid rocks. I feel like blowing something up." He said looking at a wall to his right. He started to charge up an energy beam from his right palm and pointed straight at the wall. Suddenly, his hand stopped glowing when he felt Hati grabbed his right wrist. Skoll glared at him only to get glared back.

"Do not destroy anything, Brother. If you fire that you will disrupt the energy here and all of our hopes of finding any evidence will be lost." Hati said, letting go his wrist.

"Fine, sheesh, daddy's boy." Skoll said looking away while he rubbed his wrist.

"Skoll..."Hati gave him a disappointed look. "You know that Father loves you, right?" He asked.

"Heh, nice joke, got anything else to say that will make me laugh?" Skoll asked folding his arms giving his brother an annoyed glare.

"Look, he cares a lot about you, he just does not have time to show because he is always busy. Today was just one of his bad days." Hati said.

"Bad days? That guy always treats me like the black sheep and you the white. What I see through him is that he cares a lot about you. Me, well, I bet he couldn't care less if I die." Skoll said angrily.

"That is not true." Hati said in a shocked tone. He didn't expected Skoll to feel this way towards their father.

"That's a typical statement I would hear from you brother. Look, let's just stop talking about this and get this over with. I don't want to talk about an asshole who plays favorites." He said walking away from Hati.

"Brother..." Hati glanced back frowning at Skoll. "What is going on with you?" He muttered to himself.

After searching for evidence for fourty-five minutes, the two discovered some demonic energy that were scattered in parts of the prison. The energy seemed familiar, but the rest of it was impossible to figure out who the saboteur was. They decided to call it quits for the day. As the two prepared to enter through the portal, they suddenly stopped and turned around spotting a large purple wolf bearing a wolf skull that blocked the upper part of its face.

"Who the hell are you?" Skoll asked.

"The one who caused this destruction. I am Ieudus." He said in an ominous tone.

"Bold enough of you to actually reveal yourself to us, whoever the fuck you are." Skoll said.

"Bold, no, but a mere warning for you and the future ahead of you." He said.

"Warning my ass, I'm just going to kill you." Skoll said dashing forward.

"Skoll!" Hati yelled getting in front of him.

Skoll stopped and glared at Hati. "Move out of the way!" He yelled.

"No, we are supposed to take him into custody. We cannot just simply kill him. If we do, then we will be left with no evidence as to who caused this destruction. We need him alive." Hati said.

"Come on, brother, we can just kill him and tell them that it was him. The fucking cult won't be all prissy about this because we actually solved their problem." Skoll said trying to go by his brother only to be stopped by the side of his right arm.

"I am sorry, Skoll, but you need to stand down. We need to finish this mission." Hati said.

"What? We can finish this mission right now if you move and let me kill him!" Skoll said in an aggravated tone.

"I'm sorry again, Skoll, but no." He said in a defensive tone.

Skoll gritted his teeth, never had he once been through this kind of situation with his brother. He swiped his arm away from his brother's grip and glared at the wolf. The wolf returned his glare and gave him a grin. Skoll wanted to run at him and rip off his head, but he, out of his brother's sake stood down from the taunting. Hati looked back at the wolf and narrowed his eyes suspiciously at him. The wolf was not doing anything, he didn't even run away from them when he was busy calming his brother down.

"Why are you still here, you had the opportunity to run away, but instead, you stood, what, are you waiting to be arrested by us?" Hati asked.

"I believe that your father wants me, since he is the one who sent you to get me, you have no authority to question but to just obey the order. The questions that I will be answering, is from your father, Fenrir." Ieudus said.

Hati gritted his teeth angrily, but decided to not question him any further. "You are under arrest Ieudus." He said.

A few hours later

Skoll waited outside in the hallway, resting his back on a wall while looking up at the ceiling. His brother was busy interrogating Ieudus, after gaining permission from his father. He didn't enjoy waiting for his brother finishing his interrogations. They took very long and Skoll was not the one for waiting. After an extra twenty-four minutes of waiting, Hati exited out of the room, closing the steel door behind him.

"How did it go?" Skoll asked.

"It didn't go as I wanted it to. Actually, it didn't go as I expected it to. This demon said that he only did it, just so he could make a point to all the cults that he was not to be taken prisoner. I guess that he was once a prisoner in that prison and he wanted revenge, so he destroyed it." Hati said cracking his knuckles.

"Heh, really, that's why? Wow." Skoll chuckled.

"Hey, I will be right back, I got to inform father of the information that I was given." Hati said starting to walk away. "You can handle watching the door, right?" He asked.

"Yeah, it's not like he's going anywhere." Skoll said, staring at the door.

When Hati was gone, Skoll stared deeply into the steel door with a worried expression on his face. He could hear the soft whispering coming from behind the door. Each syllable spoken through the ominous chattering. Unfolding his arms, he started walking towards the door, curious to the words that were flowing through his highly sensitive ears. He grabbed the door's knob and twisted it. He opened it and saw the wolf staring at the wall. He entered into the room and closed the door inside.

"What the hell are you doing?" He asked, causing the wolf to slowly turn its head to the side staring at him with its soul piercing eyes.

"Do you think your father loves you Skoll?" He asked earning a confusing glare from Skoll.

"What do you mean?" He asked.

"Your father despises you for being you. You despise him for not liking you. Why do you still carry the thought that he still cares for you in your head? If you look at it closely, he still doesn't like you. He still does not even like you. Why should you like him back?" Ieudus asked chuckling at him.

"Shut up!" Skoll yelled.

"Can you see it, Skoll? He doesn't care about you. He cares a lot about your brother. Your brother is way better than you. He listens to him. He is the special son that he always wanted. You, you maybe, perhaps was just a mistake." He said.

Skoll growled and dashed towards him quickly grabbing his throat and smashing his back into the wall. "Shut up, now!" He yelled raising the palm of his right hand and smashing it through the wolf's stomach, causing blood to spray on his face, ruining his cloak. The wolf only laughed in a gurgling tone. Blood was choking his throat as he stared straight into his eyes.

"This is a reason why he doesn't like you. You have no self-control. You believe that you are the best and your father needed to notice you, but all you got in return was negative praises from him and saw positive praises to your brother. Or should I say, half-brother." He said.

"Shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up!" Skoll started yelling stabbing the wolf's stomach with his fingertips. "Shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up!" He yelled continuously in anger.

Ieudus didn't laugh anymore or even breathe. He started to fade into dark glowing energy being absorbed by Skoll. He growled and backed away. Hati opened the door abruptly and gasped at the sight before him. Skoll looked at his brother with a furious scowl on his face. "W-what have you done? What have you done, brother?!" He shouted grabbing his collar and slamming him into the wall. "Have you lost your mind?!"

Skoll stared at his brother calmly, before he started grinning. He chuckled and pressed his palm on his brother's chest. Hati looked at his brother confused. He could see the evil in his brother's eyes. This wasn't like him at all. Soon, a sharp pain was felt through his stomach.

Looking down, he spotted Skoll's claws dug deep into his gut. He slowly looked up at him in pure shock. He slowly let go of his brother's collar and touched his wrist. Blood dripped to the ground as he pulled the hand out of his wound. His hands started to move up and touch the grinning man's face. "Why...we...are brothers." He said, kissing Skoll's forehead before he backed his lips away and laid his forehead on his brother's shoulder. "Skoll..." His voice soon faded away as his arms went limp. Skoll held Hati still grinning, until realization struck him.

"H-Hati..." He shook his brother becoming frightened. No response came from his brother. "Hati, brother?" He called his dead brother's name softly. "N-no...no...no!" He muttered beginning to shake in terror. "HATI!" He yelled.

Present Time

Skoll took his hand off of the window and glanced at Dream. "You should be lucky that you still have a brother that cares a lot about you. You should be lucky that you still have a family that still loves you, even if they are dead." He said walking towards the sleeping pony. "I know why I killed my brother; do you know why you killed yours?"

Dream's closed eyes started twitching as he mutters, "Grief."

-End-