Once I step out of the portal, — once I’m thrown out of the portal to the Upworld to fall flat on my ass, to be more exact — I look around. As always we have to think of a place to go and the portal would take us anywhere we had thought of, and usually we end up in the forest near the place. Of course, for obvious unwanted human encounters, so we would have the time to shapeshift into a human or even a animal.

As my mission was to simply kill a human and not to go into anywhere, I snap my fingers and shapeshifted into a human. It’s pretty much like myself in demon form,the  only differences is that my skin isn’t red anymore and I have way more normal clothes to wear. A white shirt with my traditional leather jacket and a jeans with boots, plus a backpack to pretend I was really going to study in that Canterlot College or whatever. Perfect.

Not that I cared way too much about fashion and I was probably just staying there for a day, but it had been quite some time since I had last stepped out of Tartarus. My missions as a Soldier weren’t so frequent as some may think,and since I wasn't a watcher anymore and that meant I wasn't allowed to stay days, weeks or maybe even months out of Tartarus. Wearing or doing something different than my ‘normal’ stuff was something rare, but always feels good.

I got up and looked around, I could almost hear the sounds coming from somewhere far away and they sounded like cars. Probably the city, Canterlot, my objective was there.

I wasn’t from Canterlot when I was a normal human. I was from Manhattan, the city where everyone was supposed to be a pop star or a important person, maybe just a person who worked on a office, but usually even working on a office was considered great work. If I was still alive I, of course, wouldn’t choose any of that. Well, a rockstar would fit more for me, but when I was alive I really never found the city amazing. It was pretty normal that you was born there, lived there and died there. The lights and constant pop star musical shows were usual and if you didn’t have enough money to go in it was because you were poor.

Canterlot wasn’t so different, it had a old charm thought. It was Equestria’s capital and a lot of important people lived here. Great and successful musicians, scientists and every other snobby person you can imagine, they lived all there in their big mansions. And of course none were aware of the Supernatural creatures that lived between them. Humans are such fools, I was actually kind of happy to know I wasn’t exactly one of them anymore, even if life in Tartarus wasn’t really the best thing to offer.

After looking around a little to check if anyone was there, I began to walk towards where the sounds were coming from. “Enough looking around, it’s time for business.” I said to myself. It was time to see who the heck was this “Twilight Sparkle” and end with her.

Walking is terrible, why the hell do humans not have wings? It’s so much more convenient . I mean they won’t even need to use cars and motorcycles! They wouldn’t even need airplanes, and to release more smoke than a large bonfire, but if Queen Faust decided to create them like that, who am I to judge?

I finally arrived at the college where Lord Tirek had ordered me to go, after walking some more blocks. The college was pretty big, with a statue of a horse in front of it and had a big sign with blue letters saying “CANTERLOT COLLEGE”.

Looks like the place is for stuck up rich people or something, I thought with myself as I began to walk, I do deserve the best anyways. I let out a little grin. It wasn’t like I was going to stay there for long, but some extra comfort for just a few hours would be received with open arms.

Obviously a intimidating, broad shouldered and leather jacket girl would be received with some looks. I didn’t really care, so I just continued to walk, entering the college. It looked even bigger on the inside!

There was a big hall with some shelves showing off a few medals and awards, probably that the college had won in the past. There was also a big picture frame hanging on the wall above a big door that probably lead towards the campus, it showed a man that looked very serious, he has dark purple hair and was dressed in a fancy way. Probably the one who founded the college. And tothe right of the campus door, there was the Principal’s Office that had a sun above the door for some unknown reason.

I shrugged and retrieved a little piece of paper from my backpack, written on it was the number and the name of who I was going to stay with. Room 42, Twilight Velvet Sparkle. That was where I was headed, to the left there was stairs leading to the dorms. I just hoped she was there, and hopefully with the ‘magic sucking thing’ very far away from me, or else my plans would be dunked.

I went upstairs and searched for my room, to my surprise there were even more rooms on the other floors, the place sure was enormous! But just to my luck I didn’t had to walk more as my room was on the second floor. I knocked the door two times and opened it slightly to see who probably was the Twilight Sparkle trying to groom the room, the girl didn’t even noticed me standing beneath the doorway, as she was turning around putting some books onto a shelf that was hanging on the wall.

“Hey, you are Twilight Sparkle right?” I said as I entered making the girl jump in surprise, turning back to face me, still with one book in her hands.

The girl had a purple blouse and a small white jacket over it with dark purple skirts, a pair of nerdy looking glasses, a hair tied in a bun with a simple pencil and which has pumps on. Pretty nerdy and a little cute herself, that’s what I was expecting. It will be SO easy, I almost laughed internally.

She winked a few times at me. “Y-yeah. You must be my roommate, right? I actually thought I saw ‘Pinkamena Diane Pie’ written in it, are you sure you’re my roommate?” Twilight asked nervously, like she feared me. Well, she could stay fearing me actually.

“Why don’t you check?” I asked with a mocking grin.

“Aaaalright,” Twilight agreed with a distrust in her voice and turned to get something in her handbag that was sitting on a bed, that was next to another bed. She took out a piece of paper from it and read, “Oh. Looks like it’s actually ‘Sunset Shimmer’, weird I could swear Pinkie was going to be with me.” She narrowed her eyes.

“I’m Sunset, then that’s me. Guess the Pinkie you mentioned or whatever isn’t going to be your roommate this year,” I gave her another grin as I left my backpack to sit in the room’s corner. Talking about the room, it was kind of big. Had two beds in the center of the room, a computer in a desk in the other corner, two big windows, some shelves hanging on the walls and a big shelf in the corner where my backpack was now in. I thrown myself on my new bed, “So… won’t you even give me a welcome or something?”

“I… uh… you know me already. I’m Twilight, you just said it.” She shrugged, “Plus I didn’t expect my roommate to be someone else other than Pinkie Pie, because if it was her I’m sure she would be the one to make a party about it, not me.” She explained, murmuring while getting back to putting her stuff in the proper places.

“Heh, I was just kidding, lighten up.” I said as I sat in the bed for a moment to put off my jacket and put it hanging into the bed’s backboard and then laid back again. “So watcha doin’? Some science stuff or something? You look like you enjoy those things, for some reason despite the Star Wars stuff you have in there.”

Twilight, who had finally put her things in place, looked to me with widened eyes and a small blush spread through her face. “Well that doesn’t mean anything, I just got a mug in the form of Darth Vader’s head! And all the books… And all the movies… But that still doesn’t mean anything!” she exclaimed as she sat back on her bed and coughed. “But yes, you are right, I do like science. And actually I am here to get graduated in the scientific area!” the girl said in a proud tone, like if she was thinking I though those stuff were cool.

“See? You can tell a LOT of things about people only seeing the stuff they enjoy,” I gave a small smile to Twilight, who crossed her arms.

“But what about you? Are you here only to mock me or something? Because I think Principal Celestia didn’t get this.” She said with a frown.

“I’m here for theory of music actually, and don’t worry as you won’t need to cope with me the entire day.” I winked, “Besides, I don’t think you will need to cope so much in any way.” I shrugged, it was always good to give hints to humans. They always get confused, I had a slight obsession with seeing humans confused.

“What… ugh. Alright, if you say so.” Twilight said with a hesitant tone in her voice, “So you-” Twilight stopped once she saw a little light was coming from her handbag, laying next to her in the bed. She leaned on to check what was that, “Oh no… wait, what?” she looked around for a second and zipped the bag. “Uh… You can stay here right? Alone, for a moment?”

I giggled, “What are you afraid of, a goat monster eating my soul? Don’t worry, I’ll be fine. Besides, you just met me, why the hell do you care?” I asked receiving a sigh of what seemed like relief from her.

“Alright. I’ll be right back, I need to uh… talk with Principal Celestia,” Twilight got up and before she leaved the room she turned again to me, “Hey… uh… Don’t mess in my bag, please. You know, personal things.” She seemed nervous while saying it, I just nodded and then she gave me a little wave and was finally gone.

I raised a eyebrow. “Would that glowing thing be…” I questioned myself before getting up and, despite what she had told me not to do, I unzipped the handbag and found the glowing object.

It was a collar that had a pendant that looked like a clock, a purple one with some blue details that were glowing. It became brighter and brighter, and I had no idea what that meant. I shrugged and analyzed it, but then it started to make a strange sound like if it was going to explode. “What the heck-” Before I could say anything else the thing opened and it looked like I guessed what that was. It was the magical pendant that Twilight Sparkle has for some reason. And to my “luck” it began to suck out my magic, it felt like someone was trying to suffocate me because I couldn’t breathe as the collar began to suck out a red dust from inside of me.

Demons were made out of magical dust and human bodies. And it didn’t felt nice to get it sucked from you.

I tried really hard, to close the pedant, but I had no way. I was going to fail because of my curiosity, I was going to be kicked out, I was going to be revealed as a demon and the humans would kill me. Isn’t things perfect being Sunset Shimmer?

But in a last try I thrown the collar away in a corner and I could finally breathe again so I took deep breaths, panting still looking at the collar in the corner of the room with widened and surprised eyes. I felt weak, but it looked like I still had only one piece of my magic left and that was for shapeshifting, the most weak of magics.

“Shit,” I murmured. That’s when I heard the door’s opening sound. Great, she’s already here.  “Eh, oh, hi Twilight.” I gave her a little wave with some difficulty as she looked at me with curiosity, that nerd now had a small black bag in her hands.

Then the girl looked to the other side of the room where the collar was next to the computer’s desk. Twilight gasped, almost dropping the small bag in the floor.

“What was that, uh?” I gave her a weak smile, “That sure is… a device that sucks, huh?” I made a pun, but Twilight only looked at me with widened eyes. Well, at least a pun was better than a skeleton pun. “C’mon it wasn’t that bad!”

“Y-you… I told you to not mess with that! You could’ve hurt yourself!” She exclaimed and retrieved it from the floor, putting it inside her bag. “What happened? It sucked from y-” Twilight stopped and gasped again, “What… wait… You messed with my collar and it got open, and it sucked what I think it sucked from you?!” she exclaimed.

“Hey don’t worry, I’m still good.” I gave her a little laugh  and a thumbs up. “What do you think, hehe, that I’m some sort of magical creature? Meh, stop playing those computer games, it might get you a little crazy,” I mocked her who had put the bag with the collar in a shelf hanging in the wall.

Twilight turned to me with a mix of determination and fear on her eyes. “If it opened and did something that means you are something.” She said and slowly walked to the door and locked it then turned to me again, “What are you?”

“I’m Sunset Shimmer, duh. You already know that.” I played with her. I couldn’t do anything to her now, I have no power other than shapeshifting and it wasn’t too useful right now. And there was no knives next to me either…

“If you don’t wanna say it, that’s okay… But I kind of need to do this, okay? So… sorry.” She gave me a weak smile.

I chuckled while sitting back in my bed with my patented, trademark shit eating grin. “Sorry for what? Are you-” Before I could say anything else to Twilight, she, without saying anything, hit me hard with something metallic. I didn’t even saw what, but it knocked me out cold. I dreamed, demons never dream, but as I was a human for now I did. It was all about mad scientists. That wasn’t exactly a relief.

Author's Note:

Twi u crazy? Anyways, those who get all references in this chapter will have virtual cookies from me, the references put in this one is only from one singles game actually

(everyone have or should have played it) I hope you guys are liking this because now things go down hill from that!

Thanks Articuno, Vital and Exterminate for the editing and polishing

See you later, alligator