I woke up as the sun rose and smacked my lips a few times. I ran a hoof through my mane as I got up and went to the bathroom. I took care of business then showered. Once I got out, Max showed up, I punched him in the face which sent him back through the wall. "You warned the bastard didn't you"

He floated back through the wall rubbing his nose "Well I was hoping the warning would make him more of a challenge for you, and all you came out with was some light scratches."

"Buck you." I glared at him while I replaced my bandages and then put on my bag, that is now only glowing lightly green. Thank god its not nearly as bright as it once was. Luckily the wounds weren't bad enough to keep me from walking normally. I walked through my house, to the backyard with Max in tow. "Alright, now tell me again how I'm supposed to use this thing's power"

Max floated a few feet away from me "Well let's start with meditating." I nod and do as he says. "Good, now focus on the energy in your bag."

"OK."

"Feels different, doesn't it."

"Yeah, there seems to be a new variant of energy inside."

"That's cause you forced a soul into it last night, dumb ass" He gave a slight chuckle as I tried to glare at him through closed eyes, which in turn only made him laugh more. "Alright, focus" I nod and get back to it. "Focus on this variant, lock in on it and pull it out."

I visualize grabbing onto the energy with my right hoof and pulling it out, once I feel it has come out I open my eyes and look down to my hoof to see it missing. I scream out in confusion "WHAT THE HELL!? WHY IS MY HOOF GONE!?" Max smacks me upside the head. "What was that for?"

"Look at your hoof idiot"

I look down to see my hoof is back so I jump up and give Max a hug "Oh thank you thank you thank you!"

"Graah, get off of me!" He pushes me off of him and I fall onto my back.

"So why did my hoof disappear?" I ask as I get up and look at him.

"It was an illusion spirit you idiot, it's default ability is to hide itself"

"Ooooh"

"Yeah, now focus on the power again and this time try using that thing in your skull"

"But I want to see the rabbits George."

Max had a confused look on his face "Wha.. What?"

"Don't worry about it..."

".... Whatever, just get back to it."

"Right" I pull the energy back out, but focus on making my hoof turn into a blade. Once its out I look at my hoof which is now about a foot long blade. "Booya, I can now cut a bitch at will"

"Riiiiight, try cutting me then"

"You sure?"

"Defiantly"

I looked at him then back at my hoof blade. If he says so; I charged him and went to stab my blade into his chest, only to get a loud THUD

"See?"

The blade was penetrating his chest but nothing was happening. I pulled my blade out then pushed it back in. "The hell?"

Max smacked me upside the head again "He's an illusion spirit you idiot, he doesn't bend reality. That's still your hoof not a blade."

"Oh..."

"Idiot."

"Buck you." I looked up to the sun and realized it was now seven in the morning. I shook my hoof off to make it change back then ran through the house and out the door heading for school. I met Hammer about halfway to the school. I trotted up to him and gave him a bro hoof.

KLOCK

"Hey man, isn't that the bag you had last night?" He pointed at my satchel making me realize I forgot to grab my school bag.

"Grrtasfahgetsa *SIGH* Yes..." I lowered my head as we continued to walk to school. "I can't believe I forgot all my stuff at home."

"Yeah, and too bad you can't use unicorn magic to teleport back home and then to school so you can be on time."

"Seriously, the main downside to being what I am is the inability to use that kind of magic. You have any idea how long it took me to figure out how to hold a pencil?" This made Hammer laugh almost uncontrollably so I kicked him over. Unfortunately he didn't stop. After a few minutes he finally stopped laughing and got up wiping some tears away. "Buck you."

"Maybe on Thursday."

*Sigh* We started to run to make up for lost time. Once we got to school we parted ways, heading to each of our classes. I went about classes normally, only stopping every now and then to be questioned about the bandages on my leg. When lunch rolled around I met up with Hammer out on the field behind the school, normally used for various sports. He pulled a sack lunch out of his backpack then remembered I forgot my stuff and pulled another one out and tossed it to me. "Thanks man" I smiled at him.

"Don't thank me, thank Backpack"

OK...... "Thank you backpack"

He shook his head "No, like a pony."

I raised an eyebrow and stared at him for a bit, but he was completely serious "Thank you Backpack?"

He lifted his ear to his bag "She says your welcome."

"OK then..." I shrugged then opened the sack lunch to find a hay sandwich inside and began chowing down on it as Hammer did the same with his. We sat there and ate our food for a few minutes until I felt a chill roll down my spine making me stand up. "Whoa... did you feel that?" I turned towards Hammer to see his face contorted in confusion and fear.

"Yeah, what was that?" A loud crack made me turn my head out towards the rest of the field which began to split open. The length of about a football field and a half was opening. "WHAT THE HELL?!"

And with that Max showed up next to me as the earth continued to shake and crack "We got problems kid."

"No shit!" I pointed out to the giant hole opening out in the field. "What the hell is going on?"

"Remember those things I told you about? Demons, well your about to meet one, and he's big."

We both turned and looked at the figure that's now begining to rise out of the crack. It was huge. The thing had to be close to two stories tall. It had spikes on most of it's body with a pair of large horns on it's head. His torso was the largest part of him and began to shrink down as you looked downed towards his feet. He had to use his arms to stand due to his legs being to small to support him. The sky began to darken around him as he laughed watching everypony else run away in fear and confusion. At least I'm not the only pony who can see this big bastard. "Now where is the little one I am looking for?"

"Hammer I think you should leave."

"Yeah, me and my backpack will cheer for you on the sidelines.... damn it now I sound like a sidekick"

"Dude, GO!" He nodded and trotted off taking cover inside the school building. I trotted out in front of the giant demon and took a fighting stance "OI! Bi,g Spiky and Ugly! You looking for me?" He looked down at me and raised an eyebrow.

"HA! Here I thought I was going to need to destroy this city to find you and you come straight to me as soon as I get here. You made my job that much easier" He placed his hands flat down beside me while smirking. I winced from the smell of his putrid breath. The smell of sulfur leaking from his jagged, yellow teeth.

"Yeah..." I backed up a bit looking him in the face. "Well before you kill me I make one request"

"What would that be?"

"Well.. I challenge you to a ROCK OFF!" I jumped forward and had a big grin on my face as I heard Max facehoof. The demon sighed with a frown on his face. He flicked me with his finger that sent me flying across the field. I hit the ground and slide against the grass and dirt. I lay on the ground for a moment in a large amount of pain. My body is now covered in scrapes, cuts, and bruises; I can feel the blood begging to run down my leg as the wound reopened. I struggled to get up, my body shaking as it yelled at me to stay down. "Owwww, lets try this again." I charged my energy throughout my body to help dull the pain as I started to charge the demon. He brought his hand up then slammed it down. I jumped to the right barley dodging him and continued with my charge. As I was getting closer he decided to swing his hand in a sweeping motion. I dived down and tried to press my body into the ground as much as I could. His finger brushed across my mane making my eyes widen. Holy crap this guy is really going to kill me. Well I might as well go out trying then just running away like a scared little foal. Besides if I die then at least he will leave the city alone. I got back up and continued my charge until I was right under him and began punching his knees. I continued to deliver blows but they only made him laugh. He continued laughing as he lifted himself up with his arms then swung himself back. He swung his feet at me and kicked me in the gut which sent me flying all the way back into the side of the school building making me leave a small dent in the stone building. I slid down the wall till my flank hit the ground. I coughed up blood as my vision went extremely fuzzy. I guess this is it. My head fell forward as everything went black.

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Perspective: Strages

I was surrounded by darkness for what now had felt like an eternity. That heartbeat in the distance hadn't changed much, except now, now it was beating much faster. Faster and faster the noise went on. It continued like this for a few moments then it slowed down until it stopped. Was my imprisonment over has my cage died and shall I with it? I will not let this mortal kill me, I shall take control and release myself! I charged my power and shot my flames across this void as far as I could. I filled everything I could see with my fire. All I was able to see was my black flames as suddenly a bright light flashed, forcing me to close my eyes. I shook my head and opened my eyes to find myself looking at a field with a large demon in it. HA! I had done it! I am on earth. I was over joyed until I realized who the demon was. It was one of the old man's lackeys. He isn't known for much, he's actually pretty weak, just big and always wanting to impress the old bastard. I stood up and stared him down which made him only give me a confused look in return.

"STRAGES!? HOW?! I just killed your host's body, you should be dead along with him."

I shook my head "All you have done is wake me from my slumber. I shall now take over this world then make my way back to hell to take my rightful throne!"

"You will have to get past me first Strages before you can even hope to look at Lord Lucifer's throne."

"That'll be almost too easy for me" I smirked at him and summoned my swords only to have them fall out of my hands. The hell? I looked down to see I had hooves. HOOVES! WHY DO I HAVE HOOVES?! I inspect the rest of my body to find I'm now an all black pony lightly covered in small metallic scales that were lightly tinted with blood. My mane and tail were dark red. I attempted to pick up my swords again only to have my hooves make a klock sound. KLOCK..... KLOCK.... KLOCKLOCKLOCK "GOD DAMNIT!" This caused the fat bastard to start howling, laughing his ass off and almost falling over. "You know, you have made one grave mistake!" I walked to the side a bit staring him down.

He wiped a tear away from his face looking down at me "Oh, and whats that?"

"PISSING ME OFF!" I began to flare my fire across my body making it replace my mane and tail.

"LAAAAAAAAME!" I turned around to see an all white pony with blue hooves and blue streaks going through his mane and tail. I punched him in the chest which sent him through the doors of the building, probably knocking him out if it didn't kill him. I turned back to this demon and shot my flames at him, covering his body. He screamed in pain as he smashed his hands around and tried putting the fires out. I just smirked at him as he body slowly turned to ash that fell back into the hole he came from. As the remains of his corpse disappears the sky started to turn blue with fluffy white clouds.... disgusting. I fell down to my knees as I suddenly felt weak.

"The hell?, I did nothing, how can I be so weakened, was it all the power I used to get out here?" My flames started to disappear and my scales began to recede into my skin "NO! NO! I'M NOT DONE YET!" The world around me turned black as I began to hear that oh so similar heartbeat. Now the darkness was a tad lighter and along with the heart beat I heard soft breath then some shuffling.

Author's Note: I have to apologize for taking so long with this chapter, sickness along with a few writer's block hit me on this one but I assure you I'll be picking up speed in these next few chapters, MAY THE CHEESE BE WITH YOU!