I was woken up by the sound of tapping on my bedside table, I looked over to see the spider from last night frantically tapping its legs on the table. "Woah, is everything alright little guy?" He shook his head and pointed to my window. "Is something going on outside?" He nodded his head. "Alright, you go wake up Zanny and Wasp while I get a quick breakfast so I have some energy for what crazy shits gonna happen today." He nodded and scurried down the table and out the door.

I got up and stretched a little, then I felt a pain in my side. I lifted my shirt to see a large gash in my side, a wound I received from the alternate Celestia in our fight, I also found three stab wounds but the weren't deep. I walked to the bathroom and opened the medicine cabinet, I took out some bandages and wrapped them around my waist, leg and chest, after they were secure I saw a red stain start to form. I ignored it and put the bandages back.

I walked down the stairs to see the spider enter the basement. I walked into the kitchen and took a muffin out of a paper bag. I began slowly chewing it as I heard hoofsteps coming up from the basement. I looked down to see the spider scurrying up to the kitchen counter. Zanny and Wasp appeared in their changeling forms, still trying to wake up.

"Morning Symbol, what's up, Scary here seems to be on edge."

"You called the spider Scary?"

"Yeah, I heard you say it last night and I think it suits him, plus he likes it." They looked to Scary and he nodded.

"Who am I to judge, I named myself 'Symbol'. By the way, the ponies don't know about the whole turning into a demon thing, so let's keep that quiet ok?" They nodded. "Good, now put on your disguises, we're heading out." They changed into their pony forms and headed for the door. When we stepped out we were greeted by an atmosphere that could fill the bravest man with worry. Ponies were hugging each other for comfort and some where crying their eyes out. "What the hell?"

We sprinted towards town hall, finding more ponies crying along the way. I started to notice that a few mares were hugging photos of what appeared to be their foals.

We reached town hall to find the mane six talking about something with serious expressions, with Rarity and AJ looking worried out of their minds, something told me this wasn't a friendship problem. We were about to ask what was going on, then I heard something that made me stop in my tracks, Derpy crying.

I turned to see my friends sitting around Derpy while she cried. Wasp and Zanny looked at me and stopped as well. I struggled to contain my rage, I walked over to them and placed my hand on her shoulder. "What happened?" Derpy tried to say something but broke down into sobs. Vinyl was about to say something but Twilight walked up from behind and explained.

"There's been a foalnapping, a group of criminals came into town last night and took all the foals." If you thought I was angry before, you were dead wrong, right now I wanted to lift up the nearest pony and snap their neck, and that's putting it mildly.

"Where..."

"What?"

I leaned down. "Where were they taken..."

"Symbol, this isn't something you can do alone."

"What is Celestia doing about this?"

"Well, she has t-"

"As I thought, Celestia, princess of a nation who is basically a god, can't even rescue some foals from a group of thugs."

"Now wait just a-"

"Don't lie to yourself Twilight, you know she's just going to make you deal with situations like this just because you guys use the Elements of Harmony, and I don't know what your plan is to deal with this but I can garunte that you'll just do what ever Miss SolarAss says because she's meant to be your 'beautiful and powerful teacher' now you are going to tell where the hell those thugs have taken the kids or I swear to you I will rip each mountain range apart, destroy every forest and burn every abandoned building until I find them, are we clear?"

The look of fear and shock that plastered her face didn't surprise me, my friends all looked at me with shock but Octavia just murmured something with a twinge of red on her face. I looked back to Twilight, she shakily pointed a hoof towards a mountain. I told Wasp and Zanny to introduce themselves to the group while I took care of business. I ruffled Derpys mane and began walking towards the mountain.

When I was about ten meters away from Ponyville Celestia appeared.

"What do you think you're doing?"

I just kept walking.

"Symbol, stop this."

Again I ignored her.

"I said to s-" I cut her off by giving her a backhand that launched her into a large rock.

"Stay out of my way." With that I walked off, leaving Celestia to process what just happened.

Over the previous nights Celestia has been haunted by the same dream, night after night, and it always struck fear into her heart.

Her dreams were about Symbol, not the normal Symbol, the demon Symbol. In her dream she was always beaten in a battle, when she looked into his eyes she saw only darkness, those dead black eyes and red pupils made her shiver. The way his skin changed haunted her, the blood that seeped from his eyes disturbed her. The power he held within him frightened her, and what just happened showed that her nightmares were visions.

He hadn't yet unlocked the full potential of his power, but he was dangerously close. There was something inside him that she knew all to well, and it was waiting to break out.

Meanwhile

Deep inside a cave in the mountain, there was a huge steel door. Behind said door was a group of ponies surrounding a crowd of foals. In the next room sat the leader of the thugs.

"Uh, boss, one of the foals wants to talk to you." The pony groaned and got up from his chair.

"What can't those brats keep quiet until we get our ransom?" He walked through the door and was guided to the foal that wanted to see him, Dinky.

"What do you want kid?"

"You hurt my mommys feelings, Time Turner."

"So what?"

"Symbol won't like that, he'll get angry."

"Pfft, and what is that freak gonna do about it? Those doors are made of the strongest steel money can buy, what's that ape gonna do?" He broke out into a historical laugh and his subordinates followed. Turner was about to say something else when a loud bang shook the cavern. "What was that?"

He looked at the steel doors to see a large dent in the middle, then another appeared with an even louder bang. The banging continued, Turner grabbed a sack and shoved Sweetie Belle and Dinky into it. "You guys take care of whatever is doing that, I'm using the back entrance." With that he ran out of a secret exit.

I continued punching the door that blocked my path, my skin was now snow white, my fingers were claws and I'm pretty sure my mouth was gone. My blue shirt had become purple for some reason. I had left multiple dents in the doorway, I stepped back and swung my fist around, I then launched it forward and the door burst open. I heard some of the foals scream in surprise. I slowly walked in, making sure to look as intimidating as possible. The ponies that had kidnapped the foals fell into my sights and my anger rose, resulting in more purple mist to seep out of my body.

In one swift move I cut the kids bonds and pointed to the door. "Go."

They nodded and rushed out, one of the thugs tried to block their path, I shot towards him and whacked him with the back of my hand, sending him flying against the wall. "Go!"

Once I made sure the kids were safe I turned to the offenders, a few charged me with some knives. I dodged and sunk my claws into one of their necks, I grabbed his corpse and threw it at one of the thugs that tried to blast me with magic. I felt a sharp pain in my back, I swung my leg back in kicked a pony off, I reached my arm back and pulled a small blade out of my back. While I was distracted the thugs surrounded me, then, when they were close enough I pulled a move I wanted to pull ever since I saw Sanji in One Piece. I flipped upside down and stood on my hands, I started spinning and stretched my legs out to do the splits, kicking each of the ponies in the face.

They recovered one by one, in which I finished them off with a stab of my claws. I walked out and was greeted by a crowd of cheering foals, I hid my blood stained hands behind my back. I looked out at the small crowd and searched for four ponies in particular, I saw two, but the other two were missing. "Where's Dinky and Sweetie Belle?" Applebloom shoved through the crowd.

"Time Turner ran off with em though a door in the back!" My eye twitched at the sound of that assholes name, that was the reason that Derpy was crying so hard, her and Turner had been dating for a few months, even before I got here. I told the kids to head back to the town and tell the stallions called Crystal and Flare Blossom to find me. They agreed and shot off towards the town once the were out of sight I let my anger show itself. When the mist flooded the cave I followed it to the back of the room where some of it was flowing in a small air current in the wall. I punched the wall and a long passage way made itself known. I sprinted down the passage, I spotted a reinforced door at the end, I picked up speed and readied my shoulder. I crashed through the door and found myself outside the mountain. Then I spotted Turner running into the Everfree.

Time Turner sprinted through the forest of thorns, he heard a crash from behind a few seconds ago and was sure that Symbol was catching up. He turned a corner in an attempt to lose Symbols trail. He ran for another minute before coming to a cliff in a small clearing. He was about to turn around when he heard a loud crash. He looked around to see Symbol, in his second demon form. His skin was dark grey, his hair jet black, his eyes were black with only red dots as pupils, blood seeped out of his eyes and formed red lines from the bottom of his eyes to his chin. He had four sharp black tentecals growing out of his back, his teeth and fingers were razor sharp.

Thinking quickly, Turner grabbed the sack with the two foals inside and held it over the cliff. "Don't take another step Shattered, or these foals won't see the light of day again!" Symbol just stood there with an unamused expression, with a snap of his fingers the sack was out of Turners hoof and at his side. He loosened the knot on the sack to let some air in the sack, but not enough for them them to be able to see what was about to happen.

With the foals safe I returned to normal, what I was about to do, I was going to do it personally, not in my demon form. I began to walk towards him with a look of pure rage on my face. He charged at me but I kicked him and he fell towards the edge. I lifted him up by his tail.

"Of all the stupid!" I slammed his head into the ground. "Asinine!" I set him down and stomped my foot into his stomach. "Shark jumping bull shit!" I lifted him up and slammed him bac into the ground. He staggered to his feet and stumbled backwards falling off the edge of the cliff. He slid down the steep slope and hit his leg on a rock, causing it to break. I then heard the growl of a timberwolf, I looked into the trees in front of him and saw three wolves closing in on him. He screamed for help but I just stood and watched as the wolves tore him to pieces. Once the wolves devoured every last inch of him they retreated under my gaze.

I turned around to see Dinky and Sweetie Belle with their hooves in their ears. I walked over to them and took them in my arms and started carrying them towards Ponyville. A manticore was about to pounce on us but cowered when I shot it a look. I looked back down to see Dinky looking up at me.

"Why did Time Turner have to die?" I sighed.

"That stallion had committed a great crime and had hurt a lot of ponies with this stunt, especially your mother. Sometimes the world is better off without ponies like that."

"I understand..."

"Don't try to understand it Dinks, I'm sorry you had to see that, you too Sweets."

"He hurt my momma, he deserved to be hurt!"

"He did kid." I looked at her as she closed her eyes and fell asleep. "He did."

Author's Notes:

Yep, we now see the really dark side of Symbol, his backstory is coming soon, as well as a few unwelcome guests.