Magic: the Gathering, Friendship is Magic -I think?-
Chapter 16: Chapter 16: Some guys attract the ladies, I attract Demons.
Previous Chapter Next ChapterYou know, I like mountains. Other than the monsters that live there I always feel at peace when I’m hiking on a mountain trail. I was standing at the edge of the smoky mountains with my bag and cane sword. I took a deep breath and smiled. If it wasn’t due to the fact that the cottage was in the Everfree and mountains was teeming with monsters I would live out here.
“Jace, are you going to stand there or are you coming.” I looked at Moonlight as she was staring at me. She was wearing camo pants and a dark green jacket. In her right hand she carried a dark oak staff with runes on it. She had her hair in a ponytail.
“I’m coming, I’m coming.” I told her as I walked up to her. We continued on down the path into the mountains.
“So why are we here again?” She asked me. I rolled my eyes as I tipped a rock with my cane.
“I think I told you this before but I will say it again, after what fifthteen times.” I raised my eyebrow at her as she looked away.
“It wasn’t fifthteen times, it was twelve.” I laughed and looked ahead. I frowned a bit.
“You sensed something dark coming from here right.” She looked at me and nodded. I have also sensed something in the mountains that reminded me of the zombie dragon I faced some months ago.
“I have also sensed it and if it’s like the zombie dragon it’s better to kill it before it can do harm.” What I didn’t tell her is that there was something up with this. I sense something else as well. It felt demonic and something else.
“So we go in kill everything and go home?” Moonlight asked. I looked over her and snorted.
“First we figure out what’s with energy we’re sense then we kill everything and go home, information is important.” She rolled her eyes and we continued on the path. We got to a cliff face and using some magic rasid the ground so we can see what’s on the other side. What we saw were demons.
There was a lot of them. What put me on edge was that some of them I didn’t recognise from the game.
“Okay then, we are dealing with demons which means this is going to be a tough fight. We got to be fast and hit hard, I hope you know some enhancement spells because we’re… Light are you listening?” I saw that she was still staring at the demons. I looked out to where she was looking and saw what looked like succubi. I rolled my eyes and grabbed her by the ponytail and pulled.
“OW OW OW! Jace what was that for!?!” I gave her a deadpan look.
“Welcome back from la la land, now quick lesson. Those are succubi, they may be sexy as hell but they with kill you without a second thought.” She stared at me and nodded.
“Alright so here's the plan I’m going to go down there and start killing them, count to a hundred and jump in and start swinging.” She just stared at me for a moment.
“So just jump in and start wailing on them? That’s not much of a plan.”
“Hey you have any better ideas? No then we going with beating the crap out of them, now suit up it’s demon slaying time.” I turned and focus my mana into armor. After a moment I look down at myself and saw I was in knight armor that looked like it seem many battles.
My sword also change a bit as well. It looked more like a elven sword.
I pulled out Fate and checked if I had ammo. I looked over to Moonlight and saw her in her armor and that her staff turned into a Naginata.
The one thing that stood out was the fact that she looked more human than before.
“Umm question, why do you look like a human?” She looked at me and at herself and shrugged.
“I don’t know, maybe it’s the mana?” I thought about it and decided to asked that question later. Right now it’s demon slaying time!
“Alright now remember one hundred got it.” Light nodded. I looked over the edge and saw a small looking imp away from the main group. I blinked behind him and stared at it. It seems that he sense something and looked behind him. Just to see a man clad in armor staring at him.
“Boo.” The imp made a scream and I kicked him back to the main group. I got the attention of the main group and stared at me. I swung my sword and hold fate in my left hand with my finger on the trigger. “Alright, who’s first.”
The whole group roared and charged at me. I laughed and unloaded my gun. Six shots fired out as six explosions and sounds of screams was heard in the air. I lowered my arm and willed the mana into it to reload. I also poured mana into my sword as it began to glow red and I charge in. I took some swing from the demons but my armor blocked them.
I swang and cut the head off one demon and then did a down slash on another cutting it in two. A large one tried to crush me but I rolled under its legs. I heard a click sound and pointed my gun at the demon, shooting twice in it head. It fell down and crushed about ten more demons. I sent my gun away and summoned a shield and blocked a succubus as she slash at me with her claws. I push her back and cast a giant growth spell on my shield and shield bash her. She was sent flying. I turned and saw some of the demons that I did know starting to shoot at me. I raised my shield and cast a shield spell. A large white shield was made between we and the demons. I sat there for a moment as one of them came up beside me and kicked me in the head. I was knocked down and on my back. I looked up and saw the demon jump at me. I raised my sword and it got impaled on the sword. I willed the red mana to burn the demon as I got up and saw the demons that were shooting at me were beginning to fire again. Only for something to crash down onto them.
I saw Moonlight stand up and looked around. She picked up her weapon and did two slashing motions and about most of the demons got cut down. Show off. I turned as saw another giant demon about to crush me. I jumped back and was back to back with Moonlight.
“Did I miss anything?” She asked me. I snorted at bit as I saw that the demons were surrounded us.
“Naa you just got to the fun part, now quick question. How long do you think we can kill every last demon here if we go all out?” I asked her. She looked around and smirked.
“I say… five minutes, ten tops.” I nodded and felt her magic rising.
“Well if we kill them in five minutes I will pay for dinner but it we kill them longer you pay for it, deal?”
“Deal.” She said as we charged at the demons.
four minutes and forty five seconds later
I jabbed my sword in the last demon and looked around. There were bodies everywhere. My armor was torn up and I was bleeding from some cuts I got from some imps and demons. I looked at Moonlight and saw her in the same state I was in. Due to the fact that she wore less armor than me she had more cuts on her and bleeding some more. Her left eye was closed due to a slash that she got from a succubus. I moved over to her and put my hand on her shoulder. I cased a heal spell on her and saw that the wounds were closing up. The downside was that there were scars.
“Sorry I used up a lot of mana in that fight, you might get some scars.” I told her. She looked at me and was taking deep breaths. We both were tired after using a lot of mana.
“Ahh it’s ok, chicks dig scars right?” I looked at her for a moment.
“Did you get hit in the head, you also a chick.” She looked at me with a eat shit grin.
“I know.” I looked at her and we started laughing. After laughing I looked around. I then frowned. I could still feel the dark power still here. Did it move or was this just a small portion of the main force.
“Hey! What’s that!” I turned to look at where Light was pointing. I saw what looked like a stallion but my senses said that whatever it was it had demon power to it and something else. Before I could say anything light had her wings out and jumped up and flew after him.
“Hey! Hold on!” I yelled at her. I ran after her and full sprint. Wearing armor was slowing me down so I blinked a few time to keep up. As I blinked up a wall I could hear some yelling.
“WHAT THE FUCK LADY, I DIDN’T DO ANYTHING TO YOU!” A male voice yelled. I saw a stallion with his head moved to the side and Moonlight’s sword inches away from his neck.
“Yeah right, and that large group of demons wasn’t your doing huh.”
“HELL NO!” He yelled again and went to a fighting stance. I blinked between them before they have at it.
“Okay! Let’s talk this out.” I looked at the stillion and got a good look at him. He had black striped fur with a light gray mane with electric blue eyes. He had a demon's tail as well.
“Jace, he’s a demon, move and let me kill it.” I frowned and glared at her.
“He maybe a demon, I uhh think but it looks like he can talk other than growl and spit at us” I turned and dropped my armor and looked at him. “I’m Jace Beleren, what's your name?” I asked him. He just glared at me
“My name is Shade Shadow Bringer, Son of Celestia Dawnbringer and Sombra Vokun Sunvaar .” The wind blew a bit as I stare at him as my brain tried to process what he just said. Luckily, Light said what I was thinking.
“WHAT!!!”
PoV: Shade
Ponyville, Twilight's castle
Six hours Earlier.
It's been months since the defeat of Tathamet and the destruction of Diablo. Peace slowly returned to Terra while few Demons chose not to fight anymore, others were arrogant and had paid the price.
I've recently married Twilight, the look on her face when I pulled out the ring and said those few words. Nyx had grown attached to me and had thought of me as her father.
The wedding was held only two weeks ago and a surprising amount of demons attended along with a few angels.
Mom and Dad were ecstatic to see that I had found true love and even more so when they found out it was Twilight.
Speaking of Twilight, Anu had explained to me that alicorns are mortals ascended to become angels. Which meant I was right, she was my angel.
Anyway, Twilight, Nyx and I have gone to the High Heavens by order of Anu himself. We had arrived and found him sitting on his throne.
He had congratulated us for our ultimate victory against Diablo and Tathamet, he had also explained to us to be wary of our surroundings for a while, there are demons who still fight for the will of Diablo.
And lastly he had wished us a happy farewell. Leaving the High Heavens and getting transported back to Terra, my home.
It was a long flight back home, almost six hours actually. We had to stop a couple of times for Twilight until I decided to carry her home.
Walking through Ponyville, I could see new houses being built and discarded wood, metal and stone in piles. I smiled knowing that Equestria, even the whole world would rebuild anew.
Arriving back home, I looked at Twilight, specifically her growing belly. Yep, you read that right. She's pregnant, with my child and I'm happy about it. She's been pregnant for a few months now, to be more specifically a day after the defeat of Tathamet and destruction of Diablo. We may have forgotten that she was in heat, though she didn't act like it due to being part angel.
Nyx is also looking forwards to being an older sister. Though my mood immediately changed when a flash of blinding light consumed us all.
Now
Were you ever hit by a truck that was strapped to a rocket? No, because I feel as if I was hit by something similar.
Sitting up and placing a hand on my head, trying to sooth my aching head. I looked around for Twilight and Nyx, finding no sign of either one.
Which means my wife, that is pregnant and could barely use her magic, is out there somewhere along with Nyx. Ignoring the pain I felt throughout my entire body, I sprung to my feet and began to search for them.
With each minute that passed I grew more worried and frightened.
I was then almost struck by a crazy woman. Dodging without effort I looked to see that it was a human? Though my confusion didn't stop my outburst.
“WHAT THE FUCK LADY, I DIDN’T DO ANYTHING TO YOU!” I shouted, rage seething through every word I said.
“Yeah right, and that large group of demons wasn’t your doing huh.” The crazy bitch said. She almost reminded me of Nyx if weren't for the fact of being human.
“HELL NO!” I shouted as I got ready for a fight. Anything to find Twilight and Nyx as soon as possible.
“Okay! Let’s talk this out.” Another voice shouted. I looked behind the woman to see someone in a suit of armor. I could guess that he’s a man due to his voice. He took his helmet off and I got a look at his face.
He had dark blue hair and short beard. He had blue eyes like mine but normal, and had a scar under his left eye. His armor change to look like more clothes. He wore a black duster, a grey t-shirt and blue jeans.
“Jace he’s a demon, move and let me kill it.” Oh she's going to get it now!
“He’s maybe a demon, I uhh think but it looks like he can talk other than growl and spit at us” The man turned to me. “I’m Jace Beleren, what your name?” he introduced himself.
“My name is Shade Shadow Bringer, Son of Celestia Dawnbringer and Sombra Vokun Sunvaar.” I said, silencing everything around us. They looked at me in shock until the woman yelled out.
“WHAT!!!” She shouted. I covered my ears from her yell.
“Yell any louder and you'll be heard all the to Washington!” I shouted in anger. Jace looked as if he was about to ask something.
“I'm not wasting my time here anymore. I need to find my wife and daughter.” I said, wings piercing through my shirt and let out a powerful flap.
Taking off into the skies, searching for Twilight and Nyx from above will take time, but I'm not risking anything and had activated my infrared sight, allowing me to see heat signatures of anything that produced heat.
But I soon deactivated that ability as I felt Nyx’s magic. With only the direction it came from, I flew towards the source. Knowing that I won't make any distance at this speed, so I did a little something.
“Fourth seal release; Speed.” I said outloud.
I broke one of my main seals, allowing me to go faster than the Flash himself. My eyes were a golden yellow and emitted sparks of the same color. The black stripes around my arms and wings grew and changed into a golden yellow, it went from my arm and ended at the bottom of my eyes.
With the seal broken and the direction I felt Nyx’s magic in front of me, I broke the sound barrier with little to no problem.
I didn't care if I cause damage, my top priority is the safety of Twilight and Nyx, any other priorities are secondary.
Zooming past a forest, identical to the Everfree and found a town. Odd, it was Ponyville.
I felt the magic coming from the town and flew towards it, landing at the center of town I found Nyx and Twilight. We ran up to each other and hugged.
“I was so worried about you two.” I said to them as I held them in the embrace. We pulled back, ending the hug.
“We're fine, just a little freaked out.” Twilight said. I felt a huge weight off my shoulders as she said that. Folding my wings and saying the ancient seal to reform.
Hearing the sound of murmurs behind me, I looked to see a crowd had formed around us. I used an ability I gained from killing Diablo, showing them their fears if they wouldn't leave us alone.
They got the message and dispersed. I looked back at Twilight.
“What even happened, this place looks like him but it's not at the same time.” I said as I helped her sit down on the nearest bench.
“It isn't, I tried to find the castle but it wasn't there, what surprised me the most was that my old library was still there.” Twilight said. Sitting next to her and placing Nyx between us, I sighed. Twilight looked at me with a worried look.
“Honey, we'll think of something.” She said. I smiled a little and gave her a kiss.
I then heard a loud pop and saw the human from before and an alicorn. She looked like a older version of Nyx. She look at me with anger.
“Listen pal I’m not done with you, I have a lot… of… questions..” She looked at Twilight and Nyx. The human rolled his eyes.
“You’re bad at this you know that right.” She looked at him then back at us. Then she put her hand on her head.
“I think I’m getting a headache.” I stand between them and my wife and Nyx.
“If it's a fight ya want, I'm happy to oblige.” I said. The human, Jace I think his name was looked at me with a frown then looked at Twilight.
“Does he always go off and fight everything than let someone talk to him.”
“Only when he's provoked.” She answered. He snorted. I glared at him as he looked around.
“Your partner is the problem.” I said, glaring at her.
“Nearly cutting my head off for being half demon, racist.” I sneered. She glared at me.
“Luckily I just came out of fighting or you would of gotten your head chopped off, half-demon or no.” I was about to punch her in the face as Jace puts his hand on her shoulder.
“Light no, I don’t want a brawl that will destroy the town and get everyone to hate me, again.”
“But Jace.” I watched this was happening then I sense something from Jace. It got somewhat colder and I saw black black mist coming off him. Light looked scared.
“I said no.” She stared at him and nodded. He looked at the three of us and smiled. The temperature went back to normal. “Let’s move this to someplace more comfortable, it’s been a really long day.”
We walked into the Everfree. I helped Twilight walk to the point of carrying her. As we got closer I saw something from the corner of my eye. I turned and saw a green looking thing coming out of the forest. That just got impaled by a sword.
“Stupid goblins, they never learn.” Jace said. After a few minutes we came to some sort of cottage. Jace opened the door and let us walk in and I took a look around. Best words I could say about the place is simple. There were bookshelves with books, a couch with some comfy chairs to the left side with a fireplace. On the left there was a table, a fridge and a wood burning stove. I went and put Twilight on the couch and sat beside her. Nyx sat on my lap. Jace went to sit down but saw some books on the table and began to pick them up. I saw one of them was a book about demons.
“Sorry about the mess, I didn’t think that there was going to be anyone here.” Twilight smiled.
“It’s fine, we didn’t mean to drop in like that.” He waved his hand.
“Trust me I’m used to it, now before we talk I want to say sorry about what my student did, it was a bit uncalled for and rude on her part.”
“Hey!” She yelled from the table. Jace glared at her for a minute then looked at us with a smile.
“Now then how about some introductions, since you are guests I will go first, I’m Jace Beleren and my student is Moonlight.” I turned and she half hearted waved at us.
“As I said earlier, I'm Shade Shadow Bringer.” I introduced myself. He looked at me for a moment.
“You said before that you’re the son of Celestia and Sombra right?” He asked me.
“Yes, I'm the son of the lord of Darkness, Sombra Vokun Sunvaar and the angel of light Celestia Dawnbringer.” I explained. He looked at me and rubbed his eyes.
“Uggg this is so annoying, you would think she would tell me something like this.” He looked at me then at my wife. “Or it could be the latter but still annoying.”
“What?” I asked, confused. He looked at me for a minute.
“Well you see, I’m her uncle.” He said deadpan.
“Never heard of you, in fact I barely know my family. Though, I think it's because you never existed.” I suggested. He blinked in surprise.
“What, she never talks about me! How rude, I feel so insulted right now.” He crossed his arms.
“Not what I meant!” I exclaimed. He looked at me with a surprised look. I grumbled and continued.
“Twilight tried to find her castle and found her old library instead. I’ve also noticed the town didn't look like it's been through hell and back.” I explained. He looked at me for a minute.
“So you knew that, dang I thought I would be messing with two Tias instead of one, that would of been funny.”
“Your jokes suck.” Moonlight called out.
“Rude.” Jace then looked at Nyx and Twilight.
“Well I can now say I seen the future Twilight Sparkle.” He looked down to her belly. “Maybe a different version but still future version.”
“She's six months pregnant.” I said with a smile.
“Well congratulations are in order but I think a party would take to long, but first a question.” He looked at Nyx for a second then frowned. “On second thought never mind, I think getting you home is more important.”
“We don't even know how we even got here.” Twilight said. Jace rolled his eyes and got up and went to a bookshelf.
“I betting it’s a portal or something, it’s always a portal or something. Now where’s that book?” He began pulling books out.
“I think I can get us back, but I'll need a few hours.” I said, remembering a little trick I did to escape The Shadow Dimension.
“Do you want to get home in a few minutes or in a few hours?” He said without looking at me.
I looked at Twilight and Nyx.
“This place is mom's past, right?” Nyx asked me and I nodded.
“Is it okay if we stay, I want to see what Ponyville was like before mom had me.” She explained. I looked at Twilight.
“It'll be like trip down memory lane, only with a few things that never happened. I've read up on the multiverse theory.” Twilight said. I heard both Jace and Moonlight snorted at that.
“You have no idea how true you are.” Moonlight said. Jace walked back with a book in hand.
“Well I don’t think any monster or demons will come and attack the town, Who knew the evil force in the mountains was just a small goblin thing with a big bag.” He snapped his fingers and a big bag appeared in the room. I could see coins in the bag.
“What's the bag for?” Nyx asked.
“That’s treasure kid.” Moonlight said. I saw her walking behind her. I glared at her as she glared at me.
“Shade, calm down. We don't need another Tathamet incident.” Twilight said. I calmed down enough to not break the seal.
“Besides, do you think that Light would go and hurt a younger version of herself.” We all stared at him for a bit. He looked at us confused. “What?”
“I knew it, Displaced weren't rumors.” I said as I pump a fist into the air. Twilight looked at me in confusion then at Nyx and Moonlight.
“She’s overthinking it.” Moonlight pointed out. Jace snapped his fingers and the bag disappeared.
“Twilight don’t think about it too much, I already dealt with you like that, and you weren't an alicorn or ahh angle at the time.” He put his hand on his head. “So. Many. Questions.”
“I admit I annoyed ponies with my constant questioning, I can't help it.” Twilight said. Jace snorted and walked towards her and booped her nose.
“Of course you can’t help it, that makes you adorable.” He walked over to the fridge and grab a bottle.
“You have visitors.” I said feeling six magical signatures. Jace looked at me with a raised eyebrow.
“The mane six?” He asked.
“I don't know, I've only had this power since I took care of Diablo. I haven't had the chance to memorize their magical properties.” I explained.
“I see.” He looked out and I saw his eyes glow blue for a second then he had a huge smile on him. “Oh it is the mane six, it’s going to be alike the time with Spike again!”
“Better to not ask.” I said, earning a nod from both Nyx and Twilight. Jace went to the door but stopped and turned to look at us. Then back at the door. Odd
PoV: Jace
I opened the door and saw the Mane six standing there.
“Hello there, what brings you here.” Twilight stared at me for a moment and shook her head.
“Hey Jace We came over to ask why many of the townsfolk are now scared to come out of their homes, some of them said a demon came here and then I sense something here as we walked here.” I tilted my head a bit.
“Twi you should know that weird stuff happened around me.” She blinked at me.
“Why did you call me Twi?” I shrugged a bit.
“You know reasons.”
“He’s right!” I jumped as Pinkie jumped out from behind me. I looked at her as she smiled and I heard a sound that sounded like a dog toy. “By the way Jace, who’s the demon pony guy, little alicorn and a pregnant Twilight?” I looked at Twi as her eyes widen and her left eye started to twitch.
“What….?” I rolled my eyes and looked back at Pinkie.
“I was getting to that part, now anyone want’s to come in.” I let everyone into my home and move to see their reaction. Twi looked shocked of course. Everyone else looked slightly less shocked. I turn to see Shade and the other two.
“Hey, how's it going.” Shade greeted. Nyx waved at everypony with a smile as Twilight greeted as well.
“I umm this is umm, I uhh.” Twi said.
“Take your time, it's a lot to process.” Twilight said with a smile. Twi looked at herself and stayed like that. I waved my hand in front of her face.
“She’s terrible at this you know that.”
“You have no idea.” Rainbow said to me. She looked at Twilight and Shade. “Let me guess, you three are from another world?”
“Yeah, though we don't know how.” Nyx said. The rest of them nodded as I snapped my finger to make more chairs for everyone. When we are all seated (both A.J and Dash had to move Twi to sit down in the chair.) I began to talk.
“I’m guessing that everypony has questions, so let’s the questions go.” I said. About three seconds Rainbow had her question.
“Twilight why do you have wings?” Wow first question. I look over at Twi and she still looked like her brain was still locked up.
“Originally, I thought I had ascended into Alicornhood but I found out, I'm actually an Angel.” Twilight said. Everyone looked at one another as she said that.
“Wait you're an angel?” Dash asked. I opened my drink and took a swig.
“Yup, and I'm her demon.” Shade said as he nuzzled his wife.
“Ahhh! That’s so cute! Oh I need to throw you a party… wait did I already throw you a party?” Pinkie said to them, I saw smoke coming out of her ears.
“Yes, yes you did. Ranging from a Congratulations on defeating Diablo to our wedding.” Twilight said. I saw Fluttershy shrink a bit.
“Umm Diablo, as in the devil?” She said in a small voice. Shade frowned at that.
“Not the devil per se. Diablo was the Lord of Terror and Prime Evil. He tried to consume the world in bloodshed to reform Tathamet. He got to reform Tathamet but I took care of him and all the Prime Evils and Lesser Evils.” He explained. Flutters shifted a bit and looked some what scared. Rarity put her hand on her shoulder that seemed to calm her down.
“Well your world sounds like a bundle of joy.” Moonlight said. Shade rolled his eyes.
“Being the new Prime Evil, by just being a nephilim can do this to anyone.” Shade said, pulling up the sleeves of his shirt to show thirteen markings. The marks looked like ancient demon seals and there was one that stood out from rest.
“Let me guess, those seals keep your powers at bay?” I asked.
“Sort of, they just don't allow me to overboard without knowing. If you'd like a demonstration of the seals powers, I'd be happy to show.” Shade said as he rolled down his sleeves.
“Umm better not, Amber had a bit of a fit when a loud blast came out of nowhere.” Dash said. She raised an eyebrow at Shade “I’m guessing that’s you?”
“Blast? You mean the sound barrier. I needed to make sure Twilight and Nyx were safe, and I'll do by any means.” Shade said.
“Besides, releasing a seal won't cause an explosion without my consent.” Shade said, crossing his fingers.
“Third seal release; Speed.” Shade said as a seal shone through the sleeves of his shirt before disappearing. His eyes emitted a golden yellow hue as it sparked.
“Ok? You started to glow, I seen others glow before I don’t see the difference.” Dash pointed out.
Shade raised an eyebrow before completely disappearing. Everyone looked around before he suddenly reappeared where he first stood, except with some sunglasses and a sombrero.
“Five seconds.” I said as I looked at my phone. He looked at me and smiled.
“I can go faster than light, though it's really dangerous and can rip the fabric of reality.” Shade said. He then said something in another language, making the seal appear again. Everyone looked nervous at what he said but Rainbow. She looked crossed her arms and started to mutter to herself.
“Ah think you just hurt her pride a bit.” Applejack said.
“Think about this way, I can't go so fast without the seal released.” Shade explained.
“I don’t think she’s listening.” Nyx said.
“She’s not.” Moonlight said.
“I've also have one for strength, perception, endurance and reflexes. Since I'm a nephilim and take more after my dad, I'm more demon than angel but I can change and/or grow a few things like scales, horns and claws.” Shade said.
“I may be a demon, but I'm a pretty nice guy.” Shade said afterwards.
“You know darling when you said that you sounded a lot like Jace.” Rarity said. Shade looked at me and I just shrugged.
“People here think I’m some sort of demon but I’m just some guy with a lot of magic.” I explained.
“Who can also turn into a raging demon, a blue spirit and a girl!” Pinkie chimed in. Now all three of them were looking at me.
“Not going to ask.” Nyx said.
“Awww what’s the fun in that!” A voice said out of nowhere.
“Ghost?” Shade asked outloud. I crossed my arms and frowned.
“I wish.” I looked up to the ceiling. “JESS SHUT THE HELL UP.”
“Oh come on, you know that I can’t just sit here and let a all powerful demon to walk around.” Jess said. I mentally smack her in the head.
“OW! What was that for.” I saw a blue flash and Jess was standing behind Twi. She wore a tank top and shorts. The top said ‘B****s love cannons!’ She glared at me. I looked over and saw Twilight looking at her and had probably a million questions. Shade just looked at me.
“Shade, Twilight, Nyx meet Jess, my other personality.” Jess looked over and smiled.
“Sup.”
“Hey.” Shade greeted.
“Hello.” Twilight greeted.
“Hi.” Nyx greeted with a wave. Jess smiled and summoned a chair. I glared at her.
“What, can’t your sister come and say hi?” I snorted at her.
“Last time you did that you almost impaled someone.”
“He called me fat!” She crossed her arms and grumbled. I rolled my eyes and looked at the rest.
“Any other questions?” A.J shifted a bit.
“Umm ah do,” Before she could say anything Jess put her hand out.
“Hold on.” She snapped her fingers and water came down on top of Twi. She blinked a few times and looked around at us.
“Huh what? What happened?” I rolled my eyes and Jess giggled.
“Ok you can continued.” Jess said to Applejack. She looked at her and at Shade.
“Ya said that you came here to protect Twilight and Nyx right, did you also mean your other kid as well.” Twilight blushed a bit and smiled. So did Shade as he put his hand on hers.
“She's a few months pregnant.” Shade said with a smile. Applejack made a sad smile.
“Ya going to protect her or him right?” Shade looked at her confused.
“Yes, and we'll make sure he or she will live happily.” Twilight said. Shade looked at me and I looked at A.J.
“Darling? Are you alright?” Rarity asked her. Applejack looked at her then at me in a panick.
“Uhh ah’m fine! Don’t need to, to worry about me hehe.” We all looked at her. Her BS meter was at maxed and everyone knew it. I saw Jess rolled her eyes.
“By the Maker this is stupid, Applejack has a kid and she never told anyone.” Silance. Everyone didn’t say anything. About a minute later someone spoke up.
“I'm not sure if I should be happy or awkward.” Shade said.
“I'm with ya there.” Twilight said. Applejack glared daggers at me.
“Ya told me that you would keep that a secret.” I looked at her in her eyes.
“I did say that, I didn’t say anything about her.” I pointed at Jess.
“Oh come on, you knew that it was about to come up. I just speed it up a bit.” She lead back in her chair. I looked at A.J and saw she was looking down.
“Ok, so any other questions?” I asked. No one answered. They were looking at A.J. Jess put her hand up.
“I got one for Shade.” She said. Shade looked at her.
“Hmm?” Shade said.
“Did a big fat demon guy followed you when you came here?” We all looked at her for a moment.
“What.” Me and Shade said before we all heard a loud roar.
“Fresh meat!" I looked over to Shade and saw him wide eyed.
“Someone you know?” I asked him as I got up.
“Yeah.” He answered as He walked up to the door. I saw Moonlight follow.
“No, you stay here.” She frowned at me. I nodded at the rest of them. “Protect everyone else.” She looked at me and nodded. I walked out with Shade and Jess. Wait.
“What are you doing?” I asked her.
“Coming along, there’s no way I’m missing this.” I sighed at her and continued on. Then we saw it.
“Well, he’s ugly as fuck.” I said out loud. I sensed some dark magic in him. Some demonic and some that I knew as black mana. Well shit.
“And he's got a friend.” Shade said.
“Well no point of sitting around.” Jess said and looked at me. “I have a feeling that we need to go all out on this.”
“I'll take Diablo.” Shade said. I nodded.
“I guess we take on the ugly one.” I said as my eyes went red. I could feel the red mana throughout my body. I tapped into the mana and went full demon.
I rolled my shoulders a bit. “Ahhh much better.”
“It been a bit since you went this far.” I heard Jess beside me. I looked over and saw that she change to.
“Really?” I asked her. She looked at me which was hard that she didn’t have a face.
“What I wanted to look cool, anyway less talking more killing!” She faded to mist and went after the fat demon. I looked at Shade as he stared at me.
“Have fun.” I Blurred towards the Demon with a smile. This is going to be fun.
Shade PoV
Running up towards Shadow Diablo as he did the same, morphing into my shadow.
Our fists collided, sending a massive shockwave. He mirrored my every movement.
“Diablo and The Prime Evils are dead, your existence is unnecessary.” I said to him.
“And so is yours Nephilim, yet you're still alive along with all the evils inside of you.” He said, mimicking my voice.
“Let's end this once and for all. Twelfth seal release!” I shouted. Soon my body started to change, I needed to be in this form for me to summon the only thing that could kill him but not before having a proper fight.
I grew in size, I could've been mistaken for a colossus. My fur coat was replaced with demon scales and armor. I felt my jaw change drastically as four horns grew out of the side of my head.
Finishing up the change, I looked over to Shadow Diablo and saw that he mimicked the change as well.
I roared as I lunged at him, surprising him as I tackled him to the floor. Once I sat up on him, I started delivering strong punches at him before he kicked me off. I need to do this for only ten minutes.
Landing on my back, taking a large portion of the forest, I growled at the Shadow as he tried to stomp me.
I took hold of his foot and twisted it the wrong way, earning a loud crack and snap. I pulled the foot, tearing it off of the leg with ease.
Shadow Diablo roared in pain. I took the chance to lunge at him again as he grew the foot back. We crashed into each other, trying to push one another to the floor.
“The will of the Lord lives as I still fight!” Shadow Diablo shouted as he kne kicked my stomach. I coughed out some blood but still held my position.
He kept trying to punch my back, trying to make me let go as I kept pushing him away from the cottage.
He then pushed me off and delivered two strong jabs to my face. As he tried to hit me with a third punch, I took hold of his fist and crushed it. As he staggered backwards and regenerated the hand, I shoved him further away from me, allowing me to have a bit of running space.
I ran up to him and jumped, delivering a dropkick and falling on to the forest again, seeing Shadow Diablo crash onto a mountain.
His hand grew back and he tore off a large chunk of the mountain and threw at me. I smirked as I took a deep breath and shouted a famous skyrim line.
“FUS RO DAH!” I shouted, suspending the mountain chunk through the soundwave as it crumbles into pieces.
Jace
“COME ON YOU FAT FUCKER, JUST DIE ALREADY!” I was getting annoyed with fighting this demon. Every hit we did to it he just heal it off. Jess cut it’s head off but it just put it back on and kept going. I charge at it and shot tendrils at it which paired it torso but it just cleaved them off.
“MEAT!” It roared again. I jumped out of the the way as it swung it’s cleaver at me. I was between it and the cottage as it threw its chain hook at me. I grabbed it and broke it off it’s chain and blurred to it and jabbed it’s hook in it’s shoulder.
Jess flew up above it and swiped once at it. I saw the air shimmered a bit as the demon got hit with ten slashes at once. Black blood poured out from the wounds as Jess landed beside me.
“I think that got him.” I saw that it looked at us and chuckled as his wounds closed up. “Oh come on!”
I looked over at the other two demons fight. They were huge and they looked the same. Only one of them looked like a shadow. An idea came to me.
“Jess can you make restraints that can hold two demons for a bit?” She looked at me for a moment.
“Yeah? Why, you have a plan.”
“Sort off, just fly up and wait for my signal.” She nodded and shot up. I looked at the fat demon as it charge at me. I poured my mana into my fist and slammed the ground, sending a shock wave to it. It tripped and it’s chain unraveled. I grabbed it began to tie it up. When I was done I used all my strength to start spinning. As I spun around the demon was flying in the air. I went around faster and faster until I spun around and aimed for the shadow.
“SPECIAL DELIVERY!” I yelled out as I let go. I saw the shadow look this way as the fat demon slammed into it. They fell down and were trying to get up. “JESS!”
Jess was above them and her hands glowed blue as Blue chains shot up and wrapped around the two demons. I focus my mana and slammed down on the ground. A torrent of fire erupted from them and I heard screaming. I knew that it hurt them but didn’t kill them.
“Shade if have anything to help now would be the time! I yelled out to him.
Shade stood motionless before raising both his hands.
“Behold! The Power of The Ultimate Prime Evil, Tathamet Shade!” He boomed out as his hands soon started glowing into a crimson red orb. The orb soon changed its color to look like the Elements Of Harmony blast.
“Fire!!” His voice boomed as he fired a large beam at the two demons. They saw this and the only one that reacted was The Butcher. He showed fear before being consumed in the beam while the Shadow laughed.
Soon Shade turned back to normal, shrinking back to his regular height. He still looked ready for a fight.
“Dude, you killed them.” Jess said.
“No, I only killed one of them.” Shade said, looking at the crater he made as he held a spear with what looked to be a Quartz crystal tip.
Soon a shadow version of Shade leaped out of the crater.
“You can't kill a shadow!” Shadow Shade said as he summoned an identical spear.
“Right.” Shade said as he charged at the shadow. There spears crossed time and time again.
Shade managed to only scratch the torso, making it bleed out some sort of black liquid.
Shade tried to jab the spear only to be blocked by the Shadows spear.
It looked like the fight could for eternity but that thought was soon thrown away as the shadow swept his leg, causing Shade to fall. Shadow Shade’s spear was soon inches away from his face.
Though Shade’s reaction was not what I expected. He started laughing hysterically as the shadow looked at him until he had the face of sudden realization. He looked at his torso, seeing the now crystallized wound. He then looked back at Shade.
“No.” Shadow Shade said, stepping away from the real Shade. He ripped of his legs, trying to stop something but as he grew another set of legs, they appear fully made of crystals.
“Secure.” Shade said as The shadows legs were encased in crystal. The crystal the encased the pelvis and moved up towards the chest.
“Contain.” The crystal moved upwards towards his chest, it then got to his arms and consumed it in crystal.
“Protect.” Shade said as the crystal soon engulfed the rest of the shadow.
“AHHH!!” The shadow shouted in agony before his head was crystallized. Shade crawled away as fast as he could from the now crystallized Shadow Diablo.
“And there's your new lawn ornament.” Shade said as he walked back to us. I looked at it and dropped my form.
“Great now I have a crystallized demon in front of my home.”
“Give it twenty minutes, in the meantime, do not and I mean DO NOT touch it.” Shade warned me.
“OH! I got something for that!” Jess said as she snapped her fingers. A sign appeared by the statute that says ‘DO NOT TOUCH!’.
“In twenty minutes it'll explode with great force, sending shards everywhere. Don't get hit by one, or else.” Shade said. I blinked at him and snapped my fingers. An orb of air shrouded the statute.
“That will make sure that the shards don’t kill someone, now then.” As soon as I said that a wave of exhaustion washed over me. I stumbled a bit but Jess caught me. I smiled a bit.
“Hehe, forgot about that, I used to much mana.”
Shade kept staring at the statue, seeing if something will happen.
“Four-zero-nine is contained, probability of the shards being incinerated are high. Subject had now started creaking and cracking, fifteen minutes before combustion.” Shade muttered out. I stared at him and decided not to ask.
“So now what?” Jess asked.
“Now, I do this.” Shade said before passing out. We stared at him for a moment.
“Well shit.”
It took some time to get both me and Shade into the cottage. Shade was laying down on the couch with his head on Twilight's lap. Twi was helping her with getting some water. The rest asked me and Jess what happen. To speed things up I gave them the cliff notes.
“Two Demons came to destroy everything and me, Jess and Shade took care of them. Also don’t touch the statue outside.” The last part was aimed at Pinkie.
“Awww.” Jess looked over to Twilight.
“So, do you know how to get home?” She asked.
“Not me, Shade does.” Twilight answered. Jess looked at her and then at Shade.
“Well I may know a way.” She looked at Twilight with a smile. “I just need you permission though.”
I looked at Jess and knew what she was going to do. I looked at Twilight.
“It’s up to you, if I had to guess Shade isn’t going to wake up until later.”
“Anu, hear my prayer!” Shade shouted, eyes wide open. There was only white in his eyes as he did so. It seemed as if someone left the lights on but no one was home.
Soon a loud thunderclap could be heard. Then a set of loud foot stomps, then a set of knocks on the front door.
“Jeez I wonder who could that be.” I said dryly. Rainbow went to the door and opened it.
“Don't be alarmed, I'm here for the Nephilim and his family.” I heard from the door. I was about to say something but I saw the five gems glow bright. I felt power coming from him. Jess stiffen at the sense of it.
“Whoa…” Is all she could say. I looked back at the man. I had a feeling that I met him before.
“Hello~” The man said, waving a hand. The others waved back. Twilight and Nyx smiled as the rest not so much.
“I’m guessing you're Anu.” I asked him. He nodded. Jess went to help Twilight up. Shade seemed to float over to Anu. I saw Jess smiled and whispered something in Twilight's ear. She blinked a few times and looked at her.
“And why would I do that?” She asked her. Jess just smiled.
“Because it would be funny.” Twilight stared at her then nodded. I looked back at Anu and narrowed my eyes.
“Have we met before? I’m getting a feeling that we met before.” I asked him.
“I'm afraid you'll have to elaborate.” I frowned at him.
“Well that’s just it, I don’t have a clue. I just have this feeling that I met you before.” I thought back. His aura is the same as the white robed one from my dreams. I shook my head. “It’s probably nothing.”
“Anyway, I'm sorry for the inconvenience. There was a small tear they must've gone through. Regardless of what it was, I'm here to bring them back to their rightful home.” I shrugged at him.
“Don’t worry about it, what just happened is just a normal day for me. Anyway.” I looked back at Twilight and Nyx. “I guess your ride is here.” Twilight and Nyx walked over to Anu and said their goodbyes.
“Don’t forget what I just said!” Jess said with a smile.
“I won’t.” Twilight said with a smile. Anu walked out of the front door. I saw a flash and then they were gone.
“Well now that’s done.” I looked back at everyone else. “I like you all to leave, I feel like I’m about to pass out.” They began to ask questions but I stopped them with a hand.
“I just fought two demons and before that a huge group of them, I want to sleep.” They all nodded and left as a group. I saw some of them looking at A.J. I guess they would want answers. I looked back at Jess and Light.
“I don’t know about you but I’m going to sleep.” I went into my room and flopped on my bed. Passing out as soon as my head hit the pillow.
PoV: Shade
One week later
Ponyville Hospital
Sitting down in the waiting area, waiting for a doctor to tell me that I'm allowed in. Nyx sat beside me, worried for her mother.
I held onto her, saying that Twilight will be fine. That it was normal for this to happen when a mare is having a foal.
I'm getting impatient and I shouldn't be, because these things take time. The table next to me was covered in plastic bottles of water, half of them were empty.
“Mister Shadow Bringer?” I heard a stallion call out. I looked back to see a doctor with a smile.
“I'm happy to announce the well being of your newborn child and wife.” The doctor said.
“Am I allowed to see them?” I asked, only feeling slightly relieved. He nodded and told me the room she is in.
Picking up a sleeping Nyx, I headed towards the room. On the way a few nurses congratulated me for the newborn.
Stopping in front of the door and opening it, I was greeted with the sight of Twilight cradling our newborn foal in her arms.
I walked up to them with a smile, then placed Nyx on the bed beside her mother. Looking at Twilight's eyes before kissing her and looking at the foal.
“It's a colt.” Twilight whispered to me as my newborn son opened his eyes and saw me.
“Hey little guy.” I said in a soothing tone, earning a small laugh from him. I looked at Twilight.
“You named him yet?” I asked her, earning a nod from her.
“I've thought on naming him Shadow Dusk.” She said. I looked back at the foal.
“Ya hear that, Dusk.” I said as took hold of my finger and started wiggling it. I stayed like that for only a few minutes before I heard a knock on the door.
I looked up to see that it was Mom, Dad and the rest of the girls. They walked in as quietly as possible, I noticed that Little Dusk fell asleep.
“Congratulations you two, I’ve never been this happy since Shade was first born.” Mom said.
“I have a grandson, I'm happy for the both of you. Especially you, Shade, you've made me very proud of you, more than I ever was before.” Dad said as I patted my shoulder. I looked at the rest of the mane six that now surrounded Twilight and Dusk.
“Celestia?” Twilight called out to mom.
“Yes, Twilight?” Mom asked.
“Your uncle said hi.” Twilight said, earning a confused look from Mom. I explained the reason for that joke, earning a laugh from her.
I blinked as I felt something in my pocket. I placed a hand in and pulled out a note.
Dear Shade,
I left you my token for you if you ever want to visit and talk and stuff. Twilight and Nyx can come to so you can tell them that since and they never went down memory lane. The rest of the mane six would also like to see you all as well and maybe your new kid.
All I asked is that you don’t bring any demons with you.
-Jace
P.S: The statue exploded and now I got a few crystallized flowers and grass in front of my house. Thanks.
I chuckled at the last part, knowing that four-zero-nine did its job. I was about to crumble up the note but decided against it.
In fact summoning a small pen, I began to write on the back.
Jace
I told you to contain it, but as long as no one touches the crystal flowers or grass you'll be fine.
Anyway, Twilight finally had the foal and now I'm the father Shadow Dusk, my son.
But in any case I just thought I'd ask, how does being Dusk’s Godfather sound?
-Your Friend, Shade Shadow Bringer, Lord of Hell
P.S. My dad is forcing me to write down the lord part.
With that done, I focused my magic to send the note back to its sender.
Once it was gone, I walked towards Twilight again.
Jace PoV
Place: Canterlot castle
“No” I said to both Tia and Luna. They looked at each other for a moment.
“But you have to uncle.” I frowned at Tia and crossed my arms.
“I said no, I’m not going to the Gala and that’s final.” I muttered at myself of how stupid this is. I would of battled the lords of hell then go to the Gala. Oh wait I did.
“Uncle this isn’t much of the matter of you liking it or not, it’s more the fact that you can show the nobles that you’re not a monster.” I looked at Luna and frowned at her.
“I don’t give two shits what the nobles think, they have sticks so far up their asses that you can use them as puppets.” I said to them. I saw the corners of their mouths twitch a bit. They both look at each other and nodded. What are they?
“PLEASEEEEE!!!!” They both said while giving me puppy dog eyes. I looked away from the looks but the sound was still getting at me.
“UGGG! Alright! I’ll go! Just stop please!” I yelled. I looked and saw them both smiling. I glared at them.
“Well I guess that you have to..” Tia stopped as a note appeared in front of me. I felt demonic magic from it and grabbed it. I unrolled it and read it. I slowly grew a smile and put the note in my pocket and summoned a pen and paper and wrote on it.
“Uncle what was that.” Tia asked as I finish my note and used my magic, sent it away.
“Oh just a letter from a friend.” I thought about it and got a evil grin. “Oh and Tia.”
“Yes uncle?” I smiled at her.
“Your son said hi.” I turned walked away. As I walked away I pulled the note out of my pocket. I could hear Luna yelling at her sister which made me laugh. I reread the note and remember what I wrote in my letter.
Dear Lord Shade
Congrats on you kid, I hope you be happy with your new family. Also I think a few animals got into the crater. I have an idea for it but that’s for later.
As for being Dusk’s Godfather, well I done it before I think being one again would be fun. Come visit, my door is always open.
-Jace.
Next Chapter: Chapter 17: I got to punch a jackass in the face! This IS the best night ever! Estimated time remaining: 4 Hours, 49 MinutesAuthor's Notes:
Another crossover with Legion, I'm open for crossovers if anyone wants just PM me.
See you all in the next chapter. :)