The ship lurched to a stop that threw me and the others forward. I shook off the dizziness, gazed around and saw the ship was hovering over a planet.

"Hey Evo that the planet we came from?" I asked as Evo recovered.

"Yes, yes it is." Evo said as he looked out the windows before looking to Rage. "Where do you want us to land?"

"Why don't we simply take the ODST's way down, I'm sure it will make Luna jelly," Rage said with a smirk.

"Well you guys and Elisa can do that I need to make sure the ship gets there okay. AI's can only do so much sometimes." Evo said.

"Hey I take offense to that." the AI said.

"Any ideas on where she is?" Rage asked.

"Hmmm if my scans are correct then she is in the left hanger bay. No idea why she's there though." He said as he scratched his chin, but he mumbled the last part of it.

"Alright then c'mon Bones and please try not to piss her off more then you already have," Rage said as he began to walk away so I followed while rolling my eyes.

Rage and I walked down the hallways heading towards the hanger that supposedly Elisa was in and as soon as the automatic doors to said hanger opened I saw Elisa was standing in the center playing on a violin. The song was bewitching and calm and beautiful. Both Rage and I remained silent till the song had ended and Rage began to clap causing Elisa to whirl around and spot us.

"That was beautiful Elisa. Since when do you play violin?" Rage asked.

At the sound of Rages voice Elisa let her arms dangle limply at her sides.

"It's something I usually don't let people know but I've known how to for the last thousand years or so." she said as she looked out the open hanger doors, at the planet below. "It's been a while since I've seen Equis full of life."

"Well we're certainly glad to have you back," Rage said.

"You certainly have talent with that," I said as I gestured to the violin.

"Hey you should play for the others once we're on the ground. I'm sure they'll love it. We haven't heard a violin play since...," Rage began before he stopped and looked at the ground with a saddened expression.

"Hey can someone please explain to me how we're getting down to the planet. Rage mentioned something about ODST's," I said trying to break the ice.

"Oh is that how we're getting down?" Elisa said with surprise. "Where is he?"

"Who Evo? He's on the bridge," I said.

"Why is he still there?" Elisa said before she paused. "I guess he has to park the ship. Oh well follow me I'll show you to the drop area," Elisa said as she walked past me and began to lead Rage down a hallway.

"Hey don't leave me in the dark what's an ODST?!" I shouted as I ran to catch up with them.

"It's an acronym for Orbital Drop Shock Trooper, ODST for short." Elisa said as she continued walking.

"Kay but that doesn't explain how we're getting to the surface," I said as I folded m arms across my chest.

"Oh you'll find out." she said, and I could practically feel the smirk that was on her face.

"Why don't I like the sound of that?" I asked in thought.

Elisa continued to lead us down the hallways till we arrived at a room with weapons and large strange metal objects.

"So what now?" I asked as I looked around the room.

"You get in the pods." said Evo from the intercoms, just as three of the large metal objects opened up revealing a chair.

"Now what?" I asked as both Rage and I sat inside our pods.

"You strap yourself in and get prepared. Elisa has seen the game and gone over the protocols for this so listen to her and you'll make it out intact." Evo said.

"Please follow my orders. The last person who didn't got himself killed because he didn't follow orders." Elisa said as she went and got into her pod. "Now it's time to giddy up." she said as the doors closed with a hiss.

Suddenly the door to my pod closed sealing me inside the pod then moved backwards and spun around. I saw we were hanging over nothing with the planet down below us and before me i saw both Rage and Elisa's face's appear on screen.

"Hey Bones you nervous?" Rage asked with a grin.

"Not sure what I should be nervous about since I'm still confused," I said.

"You still haven't figured out Orbital Drop Shock Trooper Bones? Surly you can figure that out now," Rage said.

I looked around and managed to piece it all together before I looked at the two on the screen.

"Dropping from orbit above a planet...Well certainly one way down I'll say that," I said calmly.

"You're freaking out on the inside aren't you?" Elisa said.

"Not really if anything I'm curious as to see what happens if I fall from this height," I said calmly.

"If you say so buttercup. Now use the sticks at the end of your armrest to angle your pod once I give the order." she said as she looked to me before looking to Rage. "Rage, since this is your area I need you to tell me where to go."

"Alright our destination is in what many call the undiscovered west it's past the forest and on a beautiful plain of grassland close to the ocean. Not much in the way of construction but if my guess is correct we may have plenty of turbulence so watch it," Rage said.

"Okay, that's nice to know. Evo you hear that?" she asked.

"Yes I did. Moving the ship over the area as we speak." I heard his voice come form one of the speakers above the screens that showed Rage and Elisa. He didn't speak until about a minute later. "We're in position, you're free to go at anytime." he said before going silent.

"Alright boys. You ready?" Elisa asked.

"Ready as I'll ever be," I said.

"How'd it go again...Oh yeah we are green and really mean," Rage said.

"Yea, we are. Now lets go." she said, and a second later we were launched down towards the planet.

I felt a burst of speed that forced me to jerk my head upwards till I managed to move my head again I then grabbed the handles by my side to stabilize myself I looked out the window and watched as we entered the atmosphere. I was above the others at the moment and I saw a large pole with flaps on the end extend from the top of the pods, slowing them down. I even felt my pod jolt meaning mine had done the same before my pod was hit with some turbulence.

"You guys alright?" Elisa asked.

"I'm good, Bones?" Rage asked.

"Same," I said.

"Good. We should be at the castle in about a minute, and hold on tight before we hit the ground." she warned.

Suddenly my pod begins to rapidly shake and suddenly my pod is sent spinning meaning the turbulence was back with a vengeance. I couldn't tell which way was up because the images in the windows were impossible to make out. Suddenly the pod hit something and all I could see was black. As I lay there in the dark I saw a sandy area filled with crumbling ruins pocking out of it. My vision then flew across the desert and as I looked I saw several weapons poking out of the ground and among them, resting against a rectangular pedestal, was a katana in a black sheath. The fuchi (collar/cross guard) was a wolf and a raven circling each other and on the handle there was the lunar phases going along it. Tied to the hilt was a white ribbon and that's when the vision went blurry and I woke up. I saw I was on my back and the sight ahead was of cracked glass and smashed electronics. I shook my head, pulled my foot towards me and kicked the door off the pod before I climbed out and saw Celestia, Luna, Nightmare Moon, the mane 6, Rage (who looked like he was gonna be sick) and Elisa.

"Well that was fun. We gonna do that again?" I asked as I leaned against the pod for support.

"The buck happened to you Bones?" Rainbow asked as she gestured to my still mangled body.

"And what happened to the clothes I slaved over?" Rarity said as she gasped at my ruined clothes.

I saw Elisa sit down beside Rage's pod and conjurer up a box of cigarettes before she took one out and lit it.

"Some really bad shit happened and I nearly died." She said as she took a drag from the thing before continuing. "If it wasn't for Bones here I may have died. Again." She finished as she let out a large puff of smoke.

"It's quite a surprise to see you here Elisa," Celestia said causing me to huff at her in frustration.

"Somepony care to fill me in?" Nightmare asked.

"And how come you all got to come down in O.D.S.T. pods?" Luna asked with a jealous pouty look which I found adorable.

"Elisa here is an old acquaintance of ours from three years ago and the pods were my idea but not a very good one. Also when do you smoke?" Rage asked as he gestured to the cigarette.

"Eh I think since a hundred and three years ago. Don't tell Faust I do this, she'd kick my ass for it." Elisa said.

"You know those are gonna kill ya right," I said.

"Well now that is out of the way why are you here Elisa?" Celestia asked.

"I'm here to help Rage and Bones with a pest problem. But I didn't come alone." she answered.

"Is Evo here as well?" Twilight asked.

"Yea he is. Who do you think is piloting that frigate?" Elisa asked as she pointed to the large ship looming a few miles away from the city.

"Strange I feel like I've seen that ship before but where," Celestia said as she lifts a finger to her chin.

"Same here," Twilight said.

"Well I don't know where you'd think you would have seen it before. It's not even from my universe." Elisa said as she took another drag.

"Also you lot should know yourselves from Elisa's world are on board after a little 'mishap' with the zebra's," Rage said with air quotes.

"Oh gosh are they okay?" Fluttershy asked while hiding behind her mane.

"Little? That's a damn understatement." Elisa said with a huff.

"Regardless the king won't be causing anymore problems," I said as I flicked a picture at her showing the king in the throne room and was impaled with so many weapons, he looked like a pin cushion with the words Stay Away written in blood below him.

"Whoa and I thought I was brutal," Rage said looking at photo.

"Also snagged these for you as well. It was how he survived your attack," I said as I reached into my pocket and pulled out the rings I took and tossed them to Elisa, letting them hit the ground with a clatter.

Elisa immediately shot up, grabbed them and held them in her hand. "Finally!" she said as she closed her eyes and she started to glow. Her hair started to raise into the air as the glow got brighter, and after a few seconds the glow died and her hair fell back down. She gave a sigh as she opened her eyes. "Ahh that feels good to have that back."

"I'm not going to even bother asking," I said.

"Hey Elisa what's up with your eye, was it always like that?" Rainbow asked.

"No. It wasn't." she said with a glare.

"Easy Elisa she doesn't know," Rage said.

"Know what?" Twilight asked.

*sigh* "You all remember the amulet Ash snagged from that Lich?" Rage asked causing most to nod. "Well it's kinda found a new home," Rage said while gesturing to Elisa.

"And the fucker doesn't know when to shut up either." she said as she sat down criss-cross and looked at everyone as she rubbed the left side of her head.

"I'm sorry to here that. If you need anything please don't hesitate to ask," Celestia said.

"Indeed now let us fix your attire Bones," Rarity said.

"No need where I'm headed now will most likely mess it up again," I said.

"Your leaving already. What about training?" Rainbow asked

I'm afraid it's going to be canceled for today because this is important," I said.

"What is it and where are you heading?" Nightmare asked.

"I just remembered where I left my Death Weapon and as for where it is, it's in the most dark and twisted place imaginable, the inferno itself," I said causing a few to stare at me in shock.

"The inferno as in the prison of the damned?" Luna asked.

"Yep," I said as I snapped my fingers and suddenly the ground opened up revealing a massive hole and a rush of hot air flowed upward along with the smell of sulfur.

"I may not have a say in this but I highly suggest before any of you say that you want to come along, don't. Hell is too dangerous for you guys." Elisa said as she pointed to the main six.

"Too dangerous my flank," Rainbow said.

"Don't give me that crap I saw how spooked you six were and we weren't even in the first circle," I said.

"Oh yeah, I say bring it on," Rainbow said.

*sigh* Fine not like I could stop you lot anyway but keep in mind, you do as I say without question and what you see down there is on your heads. Got it?" I asked receiving nods from everyone.

I jumped into the dark hole without hesitation. The fall was a few minutes long till I saw the end and fell through it. I saw a vast landscape of fire, ash and dried up magma. I continued to fall and fell into a burning pit then all went dark. Before I knew it I awoke on the edge of a cliff overlooking a dark and dirty river while thousands of souls fell like comets in random places but each one stood and walked towards the river. Suddenly I heard a grown behind me and saw the others were waking up.

"Welcome to hell," I said.

"To be honest I thought there'd be more fire." Elisa said as she walked to the edge of the cliff before snapping her fingers, causing her wings to disappear.

"Oh there's fire alright but we're still not even in the first circle. We have to take Charon's boat to get there," I said as I pointed to a large wooden craft the size of an ocean liner sitting beside the shore and on the bow of the ship was a wooden figure of a man with a bright orb in his grasp to light the way.

"Bones, what's happening to you?" Applejack asked.

I looked down and saw my form was changing into my true form. Metal wrapped itself around my body becoming armour and a dark war torn cloak wrapped itself around me. Shadows leaked from the gaps in my armour and I assumed my face had become shrouded in black thanks to the hood.

"You look badass man." Elisa said as she looked me up and down as she rubbed her chin.

"It's what I really look like. The wolf you all normally see is nothing but a disguise so I don't terrify others but that didn't turn out so well did it," I said with a sigh "Let's not waste time Charon will be leaving soon."

I led the group down a twisting path till we arrived and I saw hundreds of souls boarding the ship when suddenly a thundering voice came from the bow of the ship which was the figurehead Charon.

THROUGH ME THE WAY TO THE CITY OF WOE. THROUGH ME THE WAY TO EVERLASTING PAIN. NOW SHALL I FERRY YOU INTO THE FIRE THE COLD AND THE EVERLASTING DARKNESS ABANDON HOPE ALL YE WHO ENTER HERE! Charon said in a massive voice

Fluttershy squeaked and hid behind me in fright and was shaking like a leaf.

"Jeez if you're this scared why even bother coming, besides he's not going to hurt you," I said before I led the group over to Charon's ship and made a couple of silver coins called drakul appear in my hand as payment for passage into the inferno.

"What are the coins for Bones?" Luna asked.

"Payment for passage across the river Archeron. The dead get a free ride these days but since we are not dead we must pay one drakul for each life," I said as I led the group inside and dropped the coins in a statue holding a bowl by the entrance, securing our passage before Charon took off.

"How long should this ride be?" Elisa asked as we climbed and walked through the bowls of the ship.

"If we're lucky not too long," I said as I led the group onto the deck and stood in the row between to groups of souls.

"I can see their sins. Each one that earned a place here," Rage said as his eyes scanned over the crowd of the miserable looking souls.

I then saw Celestia reach out and place a hand on one of the souls before her eye's turned white but I grabbed her and pulled her away from the soul causing her to try and shake off the dizziness when I heard a deep groan come from the bow.

"YOU WHO ARE LIVING BEGONE FROM THOSE WHO ARE TO BE DAMNED!" Charon said in his thundering voice as he looked at us over his shoulder.

"Forgive us Charon we merely wish for passage into the inferno," I said as I let go of Celestia.

"SO THE HAND OF THE REAPER RETURNS...TO WHAT DOES A SOUL LIKE YOU SEEK IN THE FIRES THIS TIME!?" Charon asked.

"My reason's are my own, all that must concern you is you guiding your ship through this gloom old one," I said causing Charon to turn his sights back on the water.

"So what do we do while we wait to get to our destination? I hope I can take a nap." Elisa asked.

Suddenly the ship lurched to a halt and I saw the souls beginning to get up and leave.

"Ain't no rest for the wicked," I said before I led the group off of Charon.

"Damn." Elisa said as she rubbed her right eye.

"You okay?" Rage asked.

"Yea, just tired," Elisa said.

"Well then this trip is going to leave you dead tired before we even reach the halfway mark," I said.

We got off Charon and I led the group over to a massive stone and iron gate before I walked through and into a strange and foggy forest where the branches looked like arms that reached out for weary travelers.

"Where are we?" Celestia asked.

"This is the first circle of the inferno, Limbo. Here are those that did not sin yet did not have the required faith. This is the realm where virtues pagans and unbaptized babes reside. I suggest none of you stray far also touch nothing," I said.

"Babies?" Rage asked in shock.

"If it comforts you they do not suffer and are freed from this place much sooner then any soul here. They probably spend a day here or a week at the most before they are returned to the world above. Contractors may be cruel once a deal is made but they still have some heart in them just not a lot," I explained as I continued to walk.

The forest was eerie and as silent as a grave. The walk was long and I could not help but get the feeling we we're being watched. I then heard what appeared to be crying, I tried to ignore it but I saw Fluttershy walking towards a human baby lying on the ground. I saw she was about to touch the child so I ran over to her but before I reached her, Fluttershy placed her hand on the child causing it to spin around and scream at her. The baby had a pair of scythe blades for arms. Fluttershy screamed in shock as the creature leapt at her but I pushed her to the side and took the blades to my chest before I grabbed the thing and tossed it into the forest before I grabbed Fluttershy and pushed her towards the others.

"Run!" I shouted.

The group did as I shouted and I ran after them. When I looked behind I saw a hoard of those things chasing after us and they were using the scythes as legs to increase their speed. I then turned my sights ahead and saw a tower standing high above the trees.

"In there!" I shouted as I pointed to the tower.

We ran for the tower, none of us daring to look back. I saw the tower's doors were wide open but it was on the other side of a large gap. Some of the group jumped over the gap, some flew and others teleported into the doorway. I jumped across the gap and looked back and saw Rarity had tripped on something. She was about to get up but the creatures were close. I then made a tendril of shadow appear out of my hand, launched it at Rarity and grabbed her before I yanked her over. Once she was inside I slammed the door closed sealing off the creatures and looked and saw everyone was out of breath.

"What...happened...to don't touch anything?" I asked with a growl.

"I'm...sorry," Fluttershy whimpered causing me to let out a tired groan.

"The hell were those things!?" Elisa yelled as she pointed one of her pistols at the door and the other at the ceiling.

"Sentinels designed to blend into whatever environment we're in while in the inferno. They take care of any trouble makers that just jump out of random portals that lead to different circles in hell, just wish they didn't look so creepy in this place," I said.

"I remember something like that back on Earth. Some bozo Templar opened up a hell gate causing demons to crawl out like crazy. Fortunately we were able to stop it and the bastard got tossed in along side them," Rage said.

"Well whats the plan? Cause I doubt we can sit here forever." Elisa said, still being vigilant.

Suddenly the sounds of whispering echoed around us.

"More sentinels?" Luna asked.

"No," I said before I led the group down the hallway

We soon came to another door. I pushed it open and we were met with a bright light and once it dimmed we saw a large circular room filled with dozens of ghostly souls who had stopped chatting and stared at us.

"Who are all these souls?" Celestia asked.

"Those who awaiting their judgement," I said before I led the group through a pair of doors on the opposite end of the room.

I led the group up a set of stairs that seemed to spiral around the tower till we made it to the top. I saw a stone walkway and at the end of the walkway was a large circular like area with a massive gap in the ground and a spiked wheel. On the edge of the gap two story stone walls that looked like the walls of a court room where spectators could watch went around the area and they were full of damned souls. Finally, at the back was a large monstrosity which was a combination of tentacles and a man with a tall headpiece attached to his head that looked like a crown. The creature then grabbed a soul from the shelf and brought the poor soul close to it's face and sniffed it before he called out it's sin. He then dropped them on the spiked wheel and pressed a button sending it plummeting into the dark abyss below.

"Bones, what is this?" Elisa whispered.

"And what is that thing?" Rarity asked in horror.

"That is Minos. In life he was a king of Greece before he was boiled alive in his own bath. Now he is known as the Judge of the Damned, sending souls to their circles for the sins they committed in life. He is blind but be careful, he has the nose of a hell hound. Best let me talk to him otherwise this won't be pleasant," I said.

"Well good luck. Hopefully he doesn't smell the sins on me." Elisa said as she looked at Minos.

I walked across the walkway with the others behind me till they stopped at the end of the walkaway leaving me to walk on ahead. The sound of my armour clanking or my smell seemed to grab Minos attention because he stopped reaching for a soul and turned towards me.

"Who comes into my house of pain?" Minos asked.

"One who seeks passage into the lower circles Minos," I said.

Minos then brought his face close to mine and gave me a sniff.

"The Hand of The Reaper, I remember your stench the smell of your sins clings to you, sins of wrath, violence and...hmm... treachery," Minos hissed with his forked tongue.

"Watch yourself Minos," I growled as thunder and lightning shook the sky from my words but Minos turned his head towards the others and sniffed the air.

"Eleven no ten living souls one is dead and overdue and also reeks of sin and another smells of wrath and bloodlust-," Minos said causing my fists to tighten with each word.

"Silence Minos or I shall rip your tongue from your throat. We are here to descend and then leave this wrenched place. Now stand aside before I decide to force my way past!" I interrupted with a yell.

"YOU DARE GIVE ORDERS TO THE JUDGE OF THE DAMNED!" Minos roared before he tried to hit me with a fist but I rolled to the side to avoid the attack.

"Bones." Elisa said causing me to look at her. "Is it okay to fight or is it a bad idea?"

"Do your worst," I said. causing rage and Elisa to charge in.

As soon as Rage and Elisa charged in we were met with an onslaught of Minos's tentacles bursting out of the ground trying to impale us, forcing the three of us run and dodge them which was pretty easy to do till finally they stoped. I then looked at Minos and saw him move backwards and began to suck in large amounts of air causing my eyes to widen in realization.

"Get on the wall!" I shouted before I made a jumping rune appear below me allowing me to jump and latch onto the wall.

I looked and saw the other two did what I did just before Minos moved forward while unleashing a scream creating a powerful wind that would have blown us into the abyss. I saw the mares were covering their ears from the scream but remained away from the fight. Once the attack ended Minos kept his head at ground level and was searching for us. I then jumped down along with Elisa and Rage. I saw Elisa pull out her guns and empty the magazines into Minos's left eye socket causing Minos to reel back and cup the wound while blood flowed tremendously fast from it. As Minos pulled back I then pulled out my sword and gestured for Rage to help me attack and attack we did, slashing at the bottom of Minos without mercy

Minos stopped nursing his wound from Elisa and got ready to unleash another scream but like before we jumped up onto the walls to avoid it like last time and once it was over Minos stood at his full height and summoned four hunchback human looking sentinels that looked to be starving and had a demented look in their eye sockets and were armed with swords.

I increased my power and used it to grab three of the sentinels that were closest to me. I brought them closer before I leapt high into the air and charged up as much power into my fist as I could and slammed it into the ground, unleashing a wave of holy magic that burned the sentinels. Rage then stepped in and slashed one across the waist before he struck at the next. But the sentinel blocked the attack while I dealt with the third who was charging at me. The sentinel took a swing at me but I dodged the attack, grabbed it's arm and pulled it behind it's back and thrusted my blade through the back of it's head before I pulled it out and let the body fall. When I looked at the others I saw they just finished up.

"I am well acquainted with your treachery!" Minos yelled as even more spiky tentacles shot from the ground but this time they were faster then the first attack.

Suddenly one of the tentacles burst out of the ground below Elisa but fortunately Elisa was able to dodge the attack but her shirt was sliced open on the front. She stared at the shirt in horror as if her favorite and cutest plush toy was ripped apart by someone before she looked at Minos with a face full of anger that didn't sit right with me. She drew Shi from off her back and held it out in front of her.

"Scream, Shi no sakebi." Elisa said in an even voice, which portrayed no emotion, as she ran her palm down the blade and I saw the katana transform into a scythe coated in black flames that reminded me of Death Fire, a power that's exclusive only to Deaths and Elisa's ripped shirt changed into a set of bandages that covered her chest. I then remembered the tentacles were still trying to skewer us so I refocused my attention on that. "Now remember this doesn't leave here okay?" Elisa said as she looked at us.

"What do you mean?!" I yelled as I managed to avoid getting impaled.

"This." Elisa said as she held a palm over her right eye. "Releasing restrictions, level five."

Suddenly I felt a massive surge in power come from Elisa and I saw she was using power from her Lich eye.

"You stupid idiot!" I shouted at Elisa but I doubt she could hear me.

Suddenly tentacles shot from the ground and headed towards Elisa, but when they got close they instantly evaporated which caused Minos to scream in pain once again. He reared back and brought his left arm down to try and squash us but since he couldn't see us he missed. After that he smashed his arm on the right side of the arena and drug it to the other side in another attempt to hit us.

"You slaughtered hundreds!" Minos roared as he brought his arm up to smash again but once again we dodged the attack easily .

After Minos did that he continued to smash the arena form the left side to the right and so on and after a minute of us dodging his attacks he tried to hit us with his open palm. Elisa twirled Shi around as she jumped up and dug the blade into his hand. When she did that he reared back and brought his arm high into the air, and when it was at it's arc she dislodged Shi from his arm and embedded it in his forearm. Doing this caused dark blood to spew forth from the wound.

"Virtue means nothing to you." Minos said as he brought his arm to his left side and then flung it open, causing Elisa to be sent flying sideways.

But Elisa stopped in mid air and jumped back at him and began to cut up Minos's face and hands like crazy till he went to let out another scream causing Elisa to drop to the ground to avoid it. Once Minos was done he tried to nurse the wounds and that's when I then saw Minos was exposed at the bottom. Rage must have seen it too because we were both running towards it and began to slash at it building up damage with each strike.

"Your weapon will never be returned to you!" Minos yelled as he summoned more minions, but this time it was four of those sentinels that we ran from before and two big brutes wielding swords which I saw were once humans who had made deals with devils and offered up their souls as payment.

One brute went for Elisa while Rage went for the sentinels leaving me with the demon. I decided I was not in the mood for this so I ran at the demon and dodged it's first attack and managed to leap over it and placed my blade at the front of his neck. While I had one hand on the handle and one hand on the blade and I was resting on the back of the demon I then pulled my arms forward and sliced the demons head from his shoulders and landed on the ground just as the body began to disintegrate and when I looked I saw the others were done before we regrouped.

"We need to end this," Elisa said just as Minos brought his arm down once more, crashing into the ground where we once stood. "Any ideas?!"

"I got one. Rage when I say you take out an arm," I said before I ran before Minos "You know Minos I was expecting more then this pitiful display. It appears you got old and lazy you slug," I said causing Minos to raise both his arms and slam them down on where I was. "Rage now!" I shouted causing Rage to put his blades together and form one massive burning blade which was almost as long as Minos's forearm.

"Here it comes say hello to my Battle Buster!" Rage shouted before he cut through Minos's left arm as if it was made of butter.

Minos's head fell to the ground and I took the opportunity to grab Minos's tongue and began to pull it towards the spiked wheel but Minos tried to crush me with his still good arm but I just kept dodging it and when I was close enough I impaled the tongue on the top spike before I looked at Minos.

"This is going to really...really hurt," I said before I stomped on the button that activated the wheel.

The wheel spun around and pulled Minos towards it and impaled his face and under his chin. The wheel momentarily stopped because Minos was pulling in the opposite direction but in the end the wheel won and shredded through Minos head, tearing away at anything that may have been inside before the rest of the body fell backwards revealing a set chains that led down into the circles below.

"I did say I'd rip your tongue from your throat," I said.

"Well that was fun and all," Elisa said as she whipped some of Minos's blood off her. "but how do we find your weapon now?"

"We keep descending," I said as I gestured to the chains.

"Did you have to kill him?" Celestia asked.

"He's not dead. Minos made a contract with a devil and used his soul as payment that landed him a position here. He can not die till he's worked off the debt, so give it a few minutes and Minos will be back sending souls to their circles once again. So I suggest we leave now," I said as I walked over to the chains and grabbed one before I descended into the darkness.

The way down wasn't long and I jumped from chain to chain till we reached the ground I looked and saw our surroundings were made up of a violent storm. We were on a bridge of some kind and going along the bridge were a pair of human statues arching over the bridge and were reaching out to one another.

"Bones what is this place!?" Rage shouted over the howling winds.

"The second circle in the inferno, Lust. Here you will find faces like Antonyand Cleopatra. Each one of them are now forced to be blown about by the winds of Lust," I said as I dodged a soul who was flying at me only for it to smash into a statue before it was carried off.

"Wow good thing Cadence isn't here otherwise she would be furious at those who are trapped here," Twilight said.

"Enough chit chat. We need to get moving." Elisa said with a serious expression and tone.

I gave a nod before I led the group across the bridge and saw a massive tower appear out of the storm. We arrived at the main doors and I opened them to see the demon Lust herself sitting on a lounging couch filing her nails.

"Hello Lust," I said grabbing the she-demon's attention.

"Oh shit not you again," Lust said before she tried to escape.

I let out a sigh before I turned into smoke, flew ahead of Lust and solidified in her path causing her to run into me and fall on her butt.

"Calm down Lust," I said.

"That a joke cause last time you were here you killed off the group," Lust said as she tried to crawl away from me.

"I just need you to open up a portal downward," I said.

"Downward as in you want to go lower into the inferno?" Lust asked as if I was crazy.

"Exactly," I said.

"But why?" Lust asked.

"That's none of your business," I said.

"All you need to know is that it is important that we get further down." Elisa said as she walked over to me.

"And if I decide not to help?" Lust asked with a smug grin.

"Hm I kill you here and now and walk trough this circle anyway cutting down anything in my path," I said wiping the smirk off Lust's face.

"Your a heartless bastard you know that," Lust said.

"Mm-hm just means that I won't show remorse with who I kill," I said while getting into Lust's face.

Lust then snapped her fingers before a portal appeared.

"That will take you down to the next circle," Lust said.

"Can't it go lower?" Rainbow asked.

"No nit-wit I can only make portals to go either up or down to the next circle you lot want to go lower you need to use your legs," Lust said as I stopped Rainbow from trying to land a hit on the demon for the nit-wit comment.

"Thanks for your help," I said.

"Just don't come back here again," Lust said before she left.

"I'll be honest, she was hot as hell. But she sure acted like a bitch." Elisa said before she paused. "Come on we need to go I'd like to get back as soon as possible so I can take a nap" she said as she walked through the portal yelling 'allons-y'.

I just sighed before I walked through the portal and appeared in a large area the ground was rocky but had plenty of hills. It was raining lightly but enough to make puddles on the ground and all around us I could see piles of food just sitting around while fat souls devoured as much as they could.

Certainly calmer then above but what is this place?" Rage asked.

"The third circle, Gluttony. Here are those that could never be satisfied in life but now they will be forever denied sanctification," I said.

"They're devouring the food like pigs," Nightmare said with disgust.

"Yeah don't seem to be a lot of punishing going on here," Applejack said.

"Oh they'll be punished however I'd rather not be here when that happens," I said. I was about to lead the group out of here when I saw Celestia staring at something. "Something you see?"

"Those damned, they're ponies," Celestia said as she pointed at a pile showing Equestrian pony souls eating away at the pile like there was no tomorrow.

"Wait a second, I recognize one of those guys. A Templar that goes by the name of Gold Mine. Ash assassinated him at the Masquerade Party before Hearths Warming," Rage said as he pointed to a soul drinking from a puddle as if he were a dog.

"What is he doing?" Rainbow asked.

I then held my hand out and let drops of rain land on it before I gave it a sniff.

"Smells like wine," I said.

"Fitting. There was a version of him in my world and he was a complete asshole, but I don't know what he was like here so I could be wrong. But still I don't see what the problem is." Elisa said with a dismissive wave of her hand.

"They are still my subjects Elisa," Celestia snapped at Elisa.

"A subject that made a wrong decision in life that ended with him being here. Besides you didn't honestly think the inferno was just for humans did you?" I asked.

"It's not Celestia. It's for every wrong doing creature, no matter the race. I don't give a rats ass if they were your subjects, your friends, or even a lover; if they are in the inferno it's for a good reason." Elisa added.

Suddenly a massive roar echoed around us that made the dammed souls stop eating and tremble in fear.

"What was that?" Luna asked.

"Punishment time we need to move," I said as I ran in a random direction.

"Bones the hell made that noise?!" Elisa yelled as she followed me, along with everyone else.

I leapt over a trench but suddenly I felt something grab my leg causing me to fall onto the ground before I started to get dragged when I looked I saw a pale yellow tentacle had grabbed me before I was lifted into the air and when I looked again I saw the source of the tentacle. It was a massive three headed worm like monster with four paws supporting it's body.

"Cerberus," I said to myself.

Cerberus's heads were devouring any unfortunate souls that were close to it. I struggled to loosen myself from the monster but it's grip was too strong it wasn't long before one of the heads noticed me and tossed me into it's maw as if I was a snack. Fortunately I managed to avoid Cerberus's teeth unlike the other souls but I slid too far and was sent sliding down the monster's gullet till I landed in his stomach face first in it's liquids. I looked around and saw many souls had been reduced to skin and bones while in here suddenly I heard screaming and saw both Elisa and Shi fall into more of the stomach liquids so I made my way over and coughed into my fist causing Elisa to whip her head around to face me.

"Not exactly a pleasant way down huh," I said as I offered Elisa my hand to help her up.

"No, especially when the tongue gropes your privates." Elisa said with a blush as she grabbed my hand.

Suddenly I hear screaming from above and before I could look something lands on me pushing me back into the liquid.

"Aw nasty are we in this thing's stomach?" I heard Rage's voice ask.

"Yes. Yes you are, and what happened to going with the girls!?" Elisa yelled.

Suddenly there was more screaming and before I knew it the weight on my back increased.

"Ok that...was so...not cool," I heard Rainbow say.

"So this is the belly of this vial beast," I heard Nightmare say.

"Hey can you lot continue your conversation after you get off me?" I asked as I tried to push myself out of the muck.

"Oh sorry Bones," Rage said as he and the others got off me except Rarity. "You too."

"But it's so...disgusting," Rarity said.

I then used my elbow to knock Rarity off me and into the liquids causing Rainbow, Applejack and Elisa to giggle while Luna looked around.

"The inferno can't get more horrible then this place," Luna said.

"Wanna bet?" I asked as I stood up and began to wipe off the sludge

"Well since everyone is here. We better go and find a way to kill this , least we become like them." Elisa said as she twirled Shi and stopped as she pointed her at a large collection of souls in another pool of the liquid.

"Relax fortunately this isn't the first time I've been eaten by this overgrown worm," I said

"Well then how and please don't tell me we don't have to use the back door," Rage said.

"Unfortunately we can't kill it like Elisa intended but yes there is a way out without being a pile of shit, come on," I said as I led the group through Cerberus's bowls till we arrived at a pulsing black organ.

"Is that what I think it is?" Elisa asked.

"Cerberus's black heart care to do the honors in destroying it?" I asked.

"I'd love to." Elisa said as she crouched before jumping up into the air. "Shi no surasshu!" she yelled as she spun around. When the blade started to slice into the heart the black flames that covered it started to spread onto the heart. I watched as she jumped back and landed right in front of us. "There that should do it."

"Oh I forgot to mention you all might want to hold your breath," I said.

"Huh?" Everyone asked.

Suddenly blood rushed out of the heart like a geyser washing us all away I allowed the current to wash us out of Cerberus's mouth and over some chains that were suspended over an abyss I managed to grab onto one and I saw the others had the same idea.

"Well that wasn't so bad," I said only to hear a roar come from Cerberus and when I looked up I saw him looking at us. "Crap."

Cerberus slammed his head against the chains shaking us off and sending us plummeting into the darkness.

---

I woke up to the sound of groaning metal and screaming so I opened my eyes and saw a large cavern ceiling above me. Suddenly the ground beneath me began to move and when I sat up I saw I was on a massive bronze gear and before I could do anything I fell backwards and onto a wheel belt full of souls and when I looked to where we were heading I saw souls going over the edge of the belt I then got up and jumped over the side and landed on a platform. I then looked and saw a large bowl filled with melted gold and the souls were being dropped into it. Suddenly the platform beneath me broke and I fell onto another gear. The gear began to move quickly and I saw another gear below me that would crush me if I didn't move so, crouching down, I leapt into the air and over the cog, fell to the ground and landed on my side with a groan. I looked around and saw massive piles of gold and I saw most of the group were sitting on the piles and rubbing parts of their bodies but I couldn't see Elisa anywhere.

"Good to see your all still alive," I said.

"You...you...you," Rarity said in an angry way as she approached me and as she did I noticed her fur had been coated in red.

"I what Rarity, but before you go blaming me one, there was no other way out and two, I had no idea Cerberus was going to upchuck us over the trench," I said as the others also approached.

"I have to agree with Bones this once if that was the only way out then so be it also we can't blame him for our fall either," Celestia said while her coat was also coated in red.

Rarity let out a sigh before I noticed Nightmare was looking upward.

"Something on your mind Nightmare?" I asked

"It's just that circle from before, it seemed like a harmless sin and yet the punishment is quite severe," Nightmare said.

"Those souls did more then just stuff themselves full of food Nightmare and it is a sin if they stole said food from others to satisfy themselves. But anyway tell me, have any of you heard of the saying hungry for power?" I asked causing everyone's heads to nod. "Well those that hunger for power to satisfy themselves will find a place in the circle above."

"Speaking of circles which one is this because there's more gold here then I can imagine," Rainbow said.

"This is the forth circle, greed. All the worlds treasure that's beneath the moon or ever was can not bring relief to these weary souls," I said as I watched a collection of souls being buried in gold coins.

Suddenly I hear a loud thunk beside me and I saw Shi was embedded in the ground. I then looked up and saw Elisa was on top of the machine and was fighting the zebra king from Elisa's world only he looked different. There were parts of his flesh that were ripped open as if his skin was too tight along with multiple puncture wounds all over his body which must have been remains of me killing him back at the empire. Besides his appearance the only things he had on him was a pair of raggedy shorts and a set of chains that went around his neck and under his arms.

"You okay Shi?" I asked the blade.

"Fine but I'm gonna have words with Elisa for dropping me like that," Shi said.

I looked back at the fight and saw Elisa and the zebra were now fighting beside a massive vat filled with molten gold and the king was missing both his arms suddenly Elisa walked over and grabbed the zebra by his chains and lifted him into the air before she stared at him, I recognized the ability as forcing the victims of this trick to feel the pain of the ones they hurt the zebra started screaming in pain for a few seconds before he went limp Elisa then dropped the body before she turned around to walk away but stopped when she saw me.

"What?" Elisa asked in an emotionless tone.

"Nothing but if your done playing with the damned we have five more circles to get through," I said.

"Well let's get going then." she said as she walked past me.

I walked over to the others and I saw Elisa pick up Shi and boy did Shi have much to say before I heard a massive roar echo around us.

"Don't tell me that was Cerberus or some other creatures trying to eat us," Twilight said.

"No that would be the dragons," I said calmly.

"Dragons?" Fluttershy squeaked.

"Yeah dragons who let their greed get the better of them but anyway let's go still got a journey ahead," I said.

I led the group beneath the machine and pulled a leaver that opened a hole down before I jumped in.

---

I fell into a dark forest and looked around and heard angry voices echoing through the trees and soon I was soon joined by the others.

"God it reeks of fury." Elisa said as she looked around.

"Wouldn't be surprised if it did after all this is the fifth circle Anger," I said.

"I cannot stand this place I can hear every word here being shouted at me urrgh it hurts," Rage said while clutching his head.

"Don't worry we just need to get out of this place," I said as I led the group through the forest till I saw a soul filled with golden cracks sitting on it's knees with it's arms wrapped around it as if it were cold and that's when I then realized it was a lost soul so I walked over to it.

Bones what are you doing?" Celestia asked but I didn't answer.

I stood before it and when it looked at me I grabbed it by the throat and looked into the souls eyes and saw this soul was a kind one. So with a bit of magic the soul glowed brightly before it disappeared.

"What was that all about?" Applejack asked.

"A lost soul. Sometimes rift's to the inferno open up by accident and it sometimes sucks in members of the living and when that happens the sentinels kill them. However since they haven't been sentenced by Death they become souls and can't move from where they die nor can they move on till, shall we say, a wraith intervenes and sends it to either heaven or Minos," I said.

"So that was-," Luna started.

"I was sending it off to meet God and his angels," I said before I led the group over to a black river. "The river Styx."

"The fools." Elisa said as she looked over the damned.

"Any ideas on how to cross?" Applejack asked.

I snapped my fingers and a small wooden boat rose out of the waters and at the bow was a lantern hanging off a long stick.

"All aboard those who can't fly," I said as I got on the boat.

"In that, I believe we would be safer swimming," Rarity said.

I leaned over the side of the boat, tore off a piece of my cloak and dropped it into the water. As soon as it touched it screams of anger echoed from the water and made the piece of cloth sizzle and disintegrate.

"Still want to swim?" I asked causing those that couldn't fly to shake their heads quickly "Then get in."

Not wanting to test my patience Applejack, Pinkie and Rarity got in the boat and I summoned a staff and pushed off the shore I steered us across the Styx while the others flew above I could tell the three that were in the boat with me were uncomfortable about being this close to the damned so I decided to ease their fears.

"There's an enchantment on this boat that prevents the damned from trying to attack us also even if they the did this river has a guardian that protects those that cross called Phlegyas and he was once a king in life," I said.

"Well that's reassuring," Applejack said.

"Oh, oh why don't we play eye spy first one to spot Phlegyas wins," Pinkie said.

"Really darling how are we to spot him if we don't even know what he looks like?" Rarity asked.

"Oh don't worry he's very hard to miss," I said.

We continued our path across the river till we made it to the other side and was met with a volcanic like area filled with fire, ruins, decaying skeletons all that typical stuff you'd expect in hell.

"Okay where are we?" Rainbow asked.

"We're on the boarders of the City of Dis, place called The Plains of The Titans. Long ago the city reached all the way out here that is until a great calamity from another world came and wrecked havoc through hell destroying everything in his path. Legend goes that just speaking his name is a bad omen," I said.

"He as in there was only one guy who did this?" Applejack asked.

"So what's his name?" Rainbow asked.

I looked around me just to make sure no one else was listening before I focused on the others.

"I don't know his true name but his title was 'The Slayer'," I said causing a giddy expression to appear on Nightmare, Luna and Elisa faces.

Suddenly Elisa lets out *squee* attracting everyone's attention.

"What's with the fan-girl crap?' Rage asked.

"I've heard of this guy and he was the main protagonist in my favorite game back when I was still human." Elisa said with a blush.

"He's a game character to what?" Rainbow asked.

"Doom," Luna and Nightmare said in sync before they looked at each other and giggled.

Suddenly I heard a humming sound of something powering up and that's when realization hit me like a train.

"Get down!" I shouted before I pushed everyone to the ground with my magic before ducking myself.

As soon as I hit the ground I heard an immense blasting sound above us and when it ended I looked up and saw the ruins above my waistline, if we were standing up, had been blown to dust and when I got up in a crouching position I looked for the source of the blast and saw a massive hulking demon with a cybernetic blaster instead of a right arm and other bits of metal scattered on it.

"Bones care to explain what that was for?" Celestia asked in a annoyed tone and clearly not aware of the new threat so I just pointed at the new demon who in response roared at us.

"A cyberdemon. Be lucky, Bones just saved your ass." Elisa said as she turned Shi back into a katana while looking at Celestia before looking at me. "You want to tag team him?" she asked.

"Why the hell not after all this guy and me have a score to settle from my first time here," I said with a grin.

"Okay then lets do this." Elisa said as she summoned a shotgun.

I drew my blade from my belt and rushed at the beast alongside both Elisa and Rage. The cyberdemon then used it's intact arm to send a wave of hell energy at us forcing us to dodge the attack. I then leapt onto a broken stone pillar and used it to leap at the demon and try and aim at his head but the demon activated the thrusters in his back and charged at me. Before I could do anything the demon hit me with his good arm sending me fling through a crumbling stone wall but I quickly got up and saw Rage was using his shotgun but it didn't seem to be having a serious affect on the demon even Elisa's shotgun was doing little damage. I then decided to pull out a gun of my own so I opened a portal and reached in and pulled out a multi barreled mobile turret.

I flicked a switch on the gun and the barrels extended outwards and in no time flat the gun let out a spray of bullets along with a roar from the gun. It was tearing through the demon really well but suddenly the gun stopped and I saw the barrels were red with heat. The demon noticed this too because he fired a barrage of missiles at me from his gun arm forcing me to dispel the massive weapon and take cover. Once the barrage ended I had a peek and saw Elisa and Rage decided to forgo with guns and try and take down the demon with their swords. The two were able to leave some serious damage on it and that's when I pulled an RPG out of a portal and aimed it at the demon. Once I had a clear shot I fired it at the demon and hit it right in the chest and once the smoke cleared I saw it's chest was a bloodied mess of exposed muscle and tissue but even that wasn't enough to stop him, instead it just pissed him off. The cyberdemon then plunged it's good arm into the ground and when it pulled it out a wall of rock shot out of the ground forcing me to dodge the attack but unfortunately the attack caused a wall behind me to fall on top of me pinning me beneath it. But before I could work on freeing myself the demon's laser cannon began to charge up like before while he aimed it me and just before the blast could be unleashed on me a familiar golden halberd with a sun etched on it struck the arm causing the arm to go quiet. Both myself and the demon turned to where the attack came from and saw Celestia, Luna and Nightmare were there and both Nightmare's and Luna's horns had an aura around them before they fired a magic blast at the demon hitting it in the face and causing it to stumble back a bit and fall to one knee.

"Take it out!" I shouted.

Rage answered my shout by appearing on the demons back with his shotgun but the demon had one last trick up his sleeve because several explosions went off on the demons back. I then remembered the demon had missiles in his back for taking on multiple enemies around him. Rage just got a face full of them but once the smoke cleared Rage was still on the demon's back and his shotgun seemed to be charged up.

"My turn," Rage said.

Rage released the trigger and with a massive demonic roar from the weapon a massive hole appeared in the cyberdemon's chest before it slumped the ground. Soon Elisa and the alicorns came over and got the wall off me.

"Thanks but I didn't know you cared Celestia," I said as I looked at the alabaster alicorn.

"I don't however I'd rather not be in your debt for saving us Bones," Celestia said.

"Well I say everything turned out well but you said you had a score to settle with that guy Bones. So what did you do to piss him off?" Rage asked as he come over while examining something in his hand.

"Long story but for the record I did nothing and finally what is that?" I asked as I gestured to the item in Rage's hand.

"Hm oh just a tooth I knocked out of our friend there," Rage said as he continued to examine it.

"I'm glad that you didn't cut his head off, but what do we do now?" Elisa asked as she stood up straight.

"We keep walking," I said.

"Can't we take a break?" Rainbow asked.

"Yeah I'm pooped," Pinkie said.

"Rest could mean death much sooner then you can blink we keep going," I said.

I led the group across the plains of ruin and came across several giant demonic corpses each one slain in a different way. Like one had several slashes and a hole in the forehead but it was as if someone did it from inside and leapt out of it. Soon we came to a wall that seemed impossibly high and before the wall was a deep moat of fire. Going over the moat was a single bridge that led to a set of thick iron doors that seemed to have seen better days.

*whistle* "Sure made this to last didn't they," Applejack said.

"Had to. This just goes to show how afraid the demons were of The Slayer when he was here," I said.

"So they built this to keep him out...Seems like overkill," Twilight said.

"Believe me when I say this guy was as tenacious as he was brutal," I said before I walked over to the massive doors and placed my hands on one and began to push but at first nothing happened so I had to dig deep and soon I managed to push the massive door open just enough to squeeze through. So I went in first and just managed to fit. "C'mon but fair warning it's a tight squeeze."

One by one the group squeezed through the gap till all that was left was Celestia and Nightmare but Celestia seemed to be having trouble getting through so now me, Rage, and Luna were pulling while Nightmare was pushing Celestia through the gap.

"I thought I told you to lay off the midnight snacks sister," Luna said as we pulled.

"But the cake had cream filling you know how hard it is for me to resist that," Celestia said.

"After we're out of this forsaken place I'm having Perfect Serve put you on a diet," Luna said.

"Not happening sister and in case you forgot I'm the eldest here," Celestia said.

"Well guess what sister I'm the queen," Luna said.

"Are the pair of you done cause if so we can get back to getting Sun-Butt here unstuck," Rage said.

"You'll pay for that later," Celestia said before we managed to pull her out of the gap.

"Alright Nightmare your turn," I said.

"I doubt I'll fair better then Celestia considering our figure is similar but alright," Nightmare said before she tried to come through but she also got stuck so I grabbed her and tried pulling to no avail.

"Ok I have an idea but it may be a little weird and uncomfortable," I said.

"As long as it get's me unstuck," Nightmare said.

I gave a nod and wrapped my arms under Nightmare's as if I was hugging her and placed a foot on the door for extra push and so using the strength in both my arms and leg I managed to pull Nightmare out in one pull but the end result was us rolling along the ground, Once it was over I regained my senses and saw Nightmare was on top of me and I was still holding her close.

"Um...thank you," Nightmare said with a blush.

"Oh uh...of course," I said as I realized it was about time I let go of her so I did.

Once we stood up I noticed we had an audience.

"Keep staring and I'll charge you 100 bits a second," I said causing them to snap out of their trance.

"So where are we now?" Luna asked.

"The City of Dis." Elisa said as she gave me three hundred bits.

"Close, this place is the combination of the City of Dis and The Tombs of Heresy

I looked around and saw thousands of towers around us. Each one made up of stone coffins and in the cracks of the coffins one could see fire flickering and hear the screams of those trapped inside.

"Who were all these souls?" Nightmare asked.

"Heretics one and all," I said.

"Hey, any idea what that thing is?" Rage asked as he pointed to a lonely coffin lying down in the middle of the path.

I looked closer and saw a small red and black imp with a long flexible tail and two horns made of flesh on it's head that curved backwards over it's head. The creature barely reached up to my knees and was sniffing around the grave.

"Follow me and quietly," I said as I went to take a path around the creature.

"Wait as in we should go around that thing I doubt he's that much trouble," Rage said as he began walk over to the creature.

"Rage I wouldn't do that," I warned.

"C'mon I'll be fine," Rage said as he walked over to the imp but I just sighed as I put in my earphones and began to play a song.

"Oh look at you ain't you cute you want a butt kicking little fella yes you do. Come on I'm gonna drop kick you to hurty town come on little gu-arggh," Rage said as if he was speaking to a baby but when he extended a hand in a way he was letting an animal sniff him the imp let out a small growl before it clamped down on Rage's fingers causing him to jump back in pain and land on his back. He then he got up and tried to shake the demon off. "Get off of me you little gremlin!"

Rage tried to shake the little terror off him but the imp was too quick and nimble for Rage and so it climbed onto Rage's head (luckily Rage was wearing his armour) before it wrapped it's tail around Rage's helmet and jumped onto the lonely coffin and began to slam Rage's head against it repeatedly.

"Ow, your scratching the helmet," Rage said before he managed to loosen himself from the imp.

As I watched the fight go on I couldn't help but laugh as Rage was being beaten around like a rag doll by the smaller creature and judging from the sounds the others felt the same way. It wasn't till the creature was on Rage's back and was trying to hurt him with its tiny fists that Rage landed a hit by quickly standing up, spinning around and hitting the creature with his forearm. But the imp wrapped it's tail around one of Rage's legs and tripped him onto his back before it began to hit Rage again. So I stepped in and introduced my boot to the imp's face and sent it flying into a flat rock. But it landed on all fours on the rock and sneered at me so I used my magic to make the rock fall forward and crush the imp beneath it. But the imp made a hole in the rock by jumping through it and growled at me before it jumped onto the coffin and ran at me. So I braced myself to take a swing at it but once I did it leapt onto my arm and crawled onto my other arm, so I shook it and it landed in front of me but the imp leapt over me and onto the coffin and charged at me but I hit it with my elbow stunning it before it could attack and with it stunned I punched it in the face forcing it skid across the floor. When it came to a stop, it growled at me but then Rage stood next to me with a heated rock in his hand.

"How about a snack ya little bastard," Rage said and just like that the imp charged with it's mouth wide open. "Catch!" Rage shouted as he tossed the rock at the imp which landed in it's mouth and went down it's throat. After two seconds the imp was running around like a headless chicken with smoke pouring from it's mouth till it ran out of sight. "Keep on running you filthy little hermit crab, that spicy meatball is on the house!" Rage shouted as he pounded on his chest twice.

I looked at the others and saw they were watching the both of us but Elisa seemed to be staring off into space.

"What was that cause Rage had his butt handed to him," Rainbow snickered causing Rage to growl.

"An imp the most annoying little pest's in hell," I said.

"So that wasn't a demon?" Nightmare asked.

"No those little bastards like to pick off pieces off damned souls whenever they find them," I said.

Suddenly the ground began to tremble violently causing us all to collapse and for the ground to fall away leaving a dark abyss in it's place before the shaking stopped.

"I didn't know Hell had earthquakes," Luna said.

"It doesn't, that was the Harrowing of Hell. Christ's death forever shakes this place," I said.

"So what now the way forward is gone," Applejack said.

"Not necessarily for you see we just need to go down," I said.

"And how do you purpose we get down?" Celestia asked.

"Oh lord in heaven do I need to spell it out to you?" I asked as I walked to the edge and looked at the others. "We jump."

"Okay that's just crazy," Rage said.

"Most of you have wings to carry others remember and if it's height your worried about don't sweat it's a lot further down then it looks," I said as I jumped backwards while doing a spin and began to plummet face first into the dark and after a few seconds I began to lounge on my back while I fell "I AM STILL FALLING," I shouted back to the others.

"REMEMBER TO FALL WITH STYLE!!" I heard Elisa yell after me.

---

I fell for a solid 10 minutes before I saw the ground coming up quickly so I reached out to the shadows and created a pair of wings to slow my decent before I landed on the ground gently. When I looked around I saw I was on a shore before a river made of blood and I could feel intense heat coming from it. I also saw large statues standing or were partly submerged in the heated blood and finaly, also in the river, were damned souls screaming in agony suddenly. I hear something land behind me and I turn to see the others had joined me but everyone besides Rage and Elisa were staring at me in awe.

"What?" I asked.

"You...have...wings," Nightmare said.

"Oh," I said before I made made my wings vanish. "It's a spell I use when I need to fly."

"So what circle is this?" Rarity asked clearly disgusted by the river.

"The seventh circle, Violence. Here are the souls that did violence against others and now they are left to be boiled in the blood they have shed. Here you'll find souls like Alexander the Great, Xerxes, Hitler, Attila and countless more," I said.

"These souls seem worse off then the ones in The Styx," Luna said.

"As they should after all these were the kings of bloodshed," I said.

"Any ideas on how to cross?" Celestia asked

I responded by clapping my hands together and placing them on the ground and soon a massive bridge appeared out of the river.

"God knows we should be in here." Elisa said as she looked to Rage.

"No kidding. You, me and Ash probably spilled enough blood to fill this river a hundred times over during our years," Rage said.

"I just prey we don't find him among them," Luna said sadly.

I led the group onto the bridge and walked across it many of the group stared at the river probably hoping they don't see Ash among the damned.

"I don't believe it," Rage said while looking over the right side of the bridge.

"What is it Rage?" Celestia asked.

Rage simply pointed into The Bloody Phlegethon and when we went to look I saw what looked like a small village standing in the river.

"Is that...Sunny Town?" Rainbow asked.

"You all know what that is?" I asked.

"Yes we do. Ash sent this place here after we saved a mare and her daughter from the town." Elisa said as she looked at the town in pure hatred and the others had slimier expressions.

"Must have done something really bad if they got under your skin or fur," I said.

"Oh believe me they did," Rage said.

"We'd better keep moving cause I'd rather not be standing over a river of boiling blood," I said.

I led the group across the bridge and soon made it to the other side where we came to another set of woods I don't feel comfortable entering.

"Something wrong Bones?" Rarity asked.

"It's these woods...I can't stand them," I said.

"Why what's wrong?" Luna asked.

"You'll understand once we enter but you must listen to me when I say that you need to stay on the trail and be mindful of what you touch," I said causing the group to nod before we entered.

"So Bones," Elisa started.

"Hm?" I hummed.

"How strong would you say you are?" Elisa asked.

"I guess that would depend on how you see me. Example emotionally I'm not good with expressing myself because I'm not in total sync with my emotions but physically, well you saw me push open that massive door in the city why do you ask?" I asked.

"Oh, well I'd just like to know where you stand in the terms of power." she said with a shrug. "I'd like to know how strong you are at full power and what destruction you can cause."

"Well if you want to be specific I'm basically the one that deals with rouge wraiths and by dealing with them I mean kill them. A regular wraith is said to be unbeatable in a mortal world but they can't stand fire. As for me I have all of a wraiths strengths and more but no weaknesses, not including soul steel. As The Hand of The Reaper it is my job that no life leaves the world before it's too soon. I don't always succeed in this Elisa because there is only one of me. As for destruction I could bring down an empire just by snapping my fingers and in a few days said empire will be reduced to nothing but ruins and a graveyard," I said.

"Oh," she said looking saddened.

"Something wrong?" I asked.

"It's just that you are so much weaker than I had hoped for and I really wanted someone to fight!" Elisa said.

"Don't sell me so short Elisa not sure if anyone told you this but never underestimate your opponent till you actually fight them," I said.

"I know, it's just when I release my level zero restriction I have the power to destroy an entire planet with one of my ceros." she said as she opened her right hand and a ball of blood red energy appeared.

"Elisa, I need you to listen to me. What you have in your eye is not something to be used when you have little to no control over it. I can tell just by looking at you that you haven't had it for very long and that is dangerous. The power is rebellious and growing stronger with each second you leave it and that is what creates the most dangerous of beings to exist. You need to understand control before you release anymore levels then number five because when you unleashed four you almost lost yourself," I said.

"I have no idea what your going on about. These restriction levels were placed on me by my wife after the changeling invasion in my world." she said as she brought her hand to her side. "The litch eye has nothing to do with it. Hell the damn thing just makes me intimidating as I can easily overpower it's influence because the one thing that I can't stand and will not stand for is when someone fucks with me or the things I care about," Elisa said

"If you think that's the case you are more foolish then I thought. You may not see it now but you will. The eye want's you to think your winning and once you think you've silenced it, the eye will destroy you for it loves nothing more then to crush hope and leaving despair in it's wake and once it's done with you it will go after and destroy everything around you. Take it from someone who has seen it countless times," I said.

"If you say so." she said dismissively. "By the way I'm sorry for punching you back on the ship. I was totally in the wrong for it."

"It's cool I understand Shi is important to you," I said when suddenly I hear a snapping sound come from behind causing me to spin around and see Rainbow holding a branch in her hand.

"She did it," Rainbow said while pointing at Applejack which in turn earned a scowl from the mare.

"Why must you break me haven't I suffered enough?"

"Who's there?" Celestia called out to the forest.

"I am here among the bark,"

I looked around and saw what looked like a body made of wood leaning against the tree but the body looked to be a female pony of Equestria.

"Bones this is no normal forest is it?" Rage asked.

"No this place is the Woods of Suicide where those that have done violence against themselves are left to be punished," I said.

"Punished for taking their own life?" Nightmare asked.

"Life is a precious gift given to souls and when that soul destroys it's own life Minos judges it to this circle where it sprouts and shoots up like a sapling no bod only the pain of what had killed them," I said as I place a hand on the tree. "This one was placed here two day ago after she slit her own throat."

"It is true I couldn't take being raped constantly by the caribou and so I...*sob* *sob*," the soul said but no tears fell from the now wooden eyes of the soul. "I lost so much to them I just wish I could take it back.

I saw Celestia approach the soul before she knelt down and embraced the wooden body in a hopeless attempt to bring it comfort. I heard some sobbing among our group and I saw Elisa and Rage's fists were tightened to the point their fingernails would split their skin, hell even I was as angry at the caribou for causing this mess.

"This is not right surly there is something we can do. This mare doesn't deserve this not after what happened to her," Luna said.

"I couldn't agree more with you even if I tried. In fact I distaste this place just as much as you all here do but sadly that's how this damned place works," I said.

"Here young one." Elisa said in a surprisingly motherly voice and she walked over the the soul and placed her hand on the bark. A second later the tree started to dissolve and disappear. "Now be free." She said as the tree was finally gone, before bringing her arm to her side.

"Elisa you-," Celestia started.

"Sent her to Heaven. It's our fault for being here so long and not up there freeing them." She said with a sad smile as she looked at where the tree once was before turning away and facing the group. "Now let's hurry and get that weapon."

Suddenly a massive roar rings through the trees which was so loud it forced us to halt dead in our tracks.

"Aw shit I knew this was gonna happen," I said as I tried to move my feet but couldn't.

"What's going on and why can't we move?" Celestia asked.

"Elisa freed one of the damned, surly you all know that something like that doesn't go unnoticed by the guy who runs this place. Now we're in for it," I said.

"Shit sorry! Thought he wouldn't notice." Elisa said as she drew Shi from her back.

"Forget it cause if I'm being honest with myself, if you didn't do it I would've," I said when suddenly a massive beast came charging in through the trees and roared at us.

"Bones, ideas now!" Elisa yelled.

"No idea!" I shouted while struggling to move.

The demon let out another roar before slamming both his arms on the ground before he walked over to us and kneels down and stares at them one by one in the eyes leaving them to collapse to the ground in some kind of a trance finally the demon marched over to me and stared into my eyes leaving me with a feeling of dizziness and I saw the demon walk away just as feeling of movement returned to my body soon the dizziness wore off and I stood on my own before I glared at the demon which had stopped and slowly looked back at me.

"You know I could use a punching bag about now for all the pent up anger I've got. So do me a favor and stay still so I can take out my frustrations," I said while cracking my knuckles.

The demon roared and several smaller demons appeared from behind the trees. So I growled at the demons before I decided to play some music to get me in the mood and decided to use a double barreled shotgun that's designed to shoot Soellkraft 8 Gauge Shells. I then placed the shotgun on my side for later before I cracked my knuckles.

As soon as the song began to play a demon charged at me but I stepped backwards and let him pass me before I grabbed him by the arm and ripped it off and began to strangle him with it. Once I did I saw a demon charging at me with his head lowered in an attempt to impale me on his horns but I managed to stop him with one hand before I grabbed one of his horns and ripped it off. I spun it around and jammed it through the demon's right eye. I then spun around and delivered a kick to another demon who was sneaking up on me and knocked him to the ground. I then placed my boot on his chest and grabbed his legs before I ripped off his lower section and used it to hit another demon. I saw three demons charging at me so with a snap of my fingers I made dark tendrils pick them up and rip the demons apart limb from limb. I then moved my head backwards to avoid being slashed b a demons claws before I kicked the demon in the chest knocking him onto his back before I punched him in the face, shattering the head. I kicked another demon only in the side of his knee shattering the limb before I kicked the head off with the soul of my boot and as the song went on so did the thinning of the demon ranks, till finally all that was left was the big guy and me. The big demon seemed scared of me so I ran at him and leapt at him and knocked him onto his back before I put fresh shells in the shotgun and wedged it into the demon's mouth. The demon gave me a pleading look and shook his head slightly but I just pulled the trigger blowing the head apart leaving only the lower half of the head intact and when I looked back at the others I saw that some were staring at me in shock while others were just coming out of their trance.

"Holy Hell," Rage said as he looked around at the remains.

"Rage you and I both know there's no such thing," I said as I sent the shotgun away and folded my arms across my chest.

"Sweet mother of me what happened here!?" Celestia asked as she recovered from her trance and saw the surrounding area.

"Forgive the mess had a lot of pent up anger I needed to vent," I said.

"No kidding, you practically butchered them," Rage said.

"Enough about me what happen to you lot?" I asked causing everyone to avoid everyone's gaze.

"We...we saw our greatest failures," Twilight said.

I looked around and saw Elisa was still out of it so I walked over to her and saw the enchantment was gone but she was blocking everything out like she didn't want to come out.

"Hey Elisa kinda need you to wake up here," I said as I tried everything from shaking her to slapping her across the face.

"What's up?" Rainbow asked.

"Elisa's locked herself in her head. What ever that demon showed her must have really gotten to her," I said as I picked her up and placed her on my shoulders.

"What now?" Luna asked.

"Now we get out of here and hope we don't run into anymore sentinels or demons as we do," I said as I began to lead the group out of the forest.

We walked through the haunting trees and saw more members of Equestria much to the sadness of the princesses. Once we were out, we were met with a vast desert where ruins were scattered about and I even saw the wreck of an old tall ship with an old rusted plaque on the bow the words were almost faded however I could still make them out which said The Flying Dutchman.

"No way," Rage said after I read the plaque.

"You know this ship Rage?" Celestia asked.

"Every sailor worth his salt knows this ship. Long ago the captain of this ship Hendrick van der Decken wanted to go out to sea however a storm prevented him from leaving and it was also Easter Sunday but Decken wouldn't have it. So he spat at God before he declared loud and proud 'If I shall not sail with god then I shall sail with the devil' and so on Easter Sunday morning Decken sailed however the skies became black and the storms battered against his ship but in a flash of lightning the ship disappeared. On that day it is said Decken became cursed to sail the seas for eternity, never allowed to rest. As time went on many people claim to have seen the ship, old and weary, simply drifting in a fog with a ghostly crew on board," Rage said.

"So it's basically a ghost ship," Rainbow said causing Rage to sigh.

"Yes Rainbow a ghost ship, way to sum it up but why it's here is beyond me," Rage said as we resumed our walk.

"Well the story is pretty accurate Rage but what you don't know is that God cast the ship down here for disrespecting his son's day of resurrection and in doing so he had harmed god. So Decken and his crew were sent here and will sometimes return to the land of the living to sail the waters before being dragged back down here," I said.

"Harm, so we're still in the seventh circle?" Twilight asked.

"Indeed, the Abominable Sands. Here are those who did violence against God," I said as I felt something on my foot and when i looked down and lifted my leg I saw a decaying skeletal arm had grabbed me. I gently shook my leg free before I crouched down and used my magic to wipe away the sand revealing a soldier clad in third crusade armour causing me to shake my head.

"What kind of souls will we find here?" Nightmare asked.

"Those that went to war in gods name like this guy. Ones that have disrespected god in the worst ways, even Necromancers," I said as I stood up.

"Necromancers!" everyone shouted.

"Mm-hm they disrespected God by toying with his most sacred gift, life," I said.

"I fear the more I know about this circle the more certain Ash is in it," Luna said causing Rage to place a hand on her shoulder in comfort.

"Well I cannot say for certain but if Ash is even half as good as you all claim he is, he may not even be in the inferno but as I said I cannot be certain," I said as I led the group through the sands.

"So any idea on where your weapon is?" Applejack asked.

"I'm glad you asked for you see it's somewhere around here," I said.

"Great any ideas on where to look?" Rainbow asked.

"I can sense it out so just follow me and I'll find it," I said.

I led the group through the sands following the call of my weapon till we came to a wide area filled with countless weapons and off to the side was a rectangular stone block with my Death Weapon resting against it. I set Elisa down before I walked over to the katana and picked it up and felt a massive rush of power enter me.

"That it?" Rage asked.

"Yes this is my Death Weapon Hingure or in the English translation Nightfall," I said.

"Interesting name," Nightmare said.

"I found it appropriate. Most of humanity use the word for the coming of the night and some use it for the end of something, say the year or perhaps a life heck some even say it's darkness," I said.

"Darkness...well I can't have that know can we."

I was about to look around for the source of the voice when suddenly the middle of the area began to bulge before it burst leaving behind some kind of monster. The creature's lower half was black and it had feet with thin yellow claws on the ends of its toes. Its upper half was a grey like blue with cracks in the chest and claws on its hands, two upward curved horns sprouted out of its forehead and its eyes were magenta in the white’s area and yellow with slitted pupils. The head was equestrian for sure and the creature had spiky silver grey hair on top of his head and also I saw parts of it's body were rotting.

"Moloch!" everyone but Nightmare and myself screamed.

"So you remember me I should feel honored," the figure said.

"Friend of yours?" I asked.

"Defiantly not this...monster. Moloch is the head of a cult called the Radiant Dawn created to worshiping Celestia who are also responsible for the death's of hundreds of Thestals, kidnapping Luna, Pip and Midnight, starving Pip for days and torturing Ash. They also planed to sacrifice Luna and Midnight to Celestia," Rage said.

"Wow now I'm beginning to understand on why Celestia was worried about those ponies worshiping Ash," I said.

"Worshiping the beast of the Night Mare just how low has Equestria sunk since my death," Moloch said.

"The world is better off without you in it Moloch," Celestia said scornfully even more so when she's talking to me which begs the question how much does she hate this guy.

"Your Immortal Shining Majesty even if it's with scorn your voice fills me with warmth," Moloch said.

"Is this guy for real?" I thought.

"Now if her Grace will step aside it appears I have two Night Mares to rid you of," Moloch said before he disappeared.

Everyone but me scrambled around to find Moloch but I was well aware of where he was. He was moving so fast it was impossible to find him but for me I was looking for the tiniest changes in our surroundings like a sword vanishing or rocks falling from old walls, even if the sands were disturbed and when it was time I jumped in front of Nightmare and held my blade defensively and managed to block Moloch's attack while my sword was still sheathed.

"Sorry pal but I've kinda grown to like Nightmare's company, so killing her will only happen if you get past me," I said as I raised my knee into Moloch's stomach before I hit him in the face with the bottom of my scabbed forcing him to stumble back while holding his face. "Rage grab Elisa and take the mares. Head that way till you come to a massive hole with three waterfalls while I take care of this," I said as I gestured to a direction.

"Bones this guy is not some average guy he-," Rage started.

"I'm aware of what he is I can practically smell it but you seem to forget what I am, besides I don't need to beat him just keep him busy," I said

"Alright," Rage said as he picked up Elisa and left with the others.

"You believe a little distance will save the Night Mares from me?" Moloch asked.

"You are not much of a threat to me down here I bet even if I was blind I could take you," I said.

This seemed to anger Moloch because he rushed at me in a blind rage his very presence was like a battlefield what with the demon part of himself fighting against whatever was left of his mortal self, if both sides of him were working together against me this would be bad for me. I dodged Moloch's swing and placed the tip of my scabbed in the sand and dragged it along as I dodged again when he attacked as I dodged his attacks I read Moloch's sins like a book along with his life story. I discovered he had always admired Celestia and if anyone had disrespected her he would have them punished even made a cult to worship her. But when Luna returned he feared she would overthrow her and that made him angry and that anger only grew as more alicorns appeared. I read everything all the while I kept dodging his attacks.

"Stop moving!" Moloch roared.

"Why?" I asked smugly.

"You have a sword so why don't you fight back!?" Moloch roared.

"I don't draw my sword on trash like you. I mean you wouldn't be able to even cut a log in two, even if it was stuck in the ground," I taunted.

"Then how do you expect to beat me?" Moloch asked as he took a break from his attacking.

"I don't need to beat you remember, but trap you on the other hand," I said after I stepped backwards and dragged my sword across the ground in front of me completing the circle that went around Moloch.

"When did you-?" Moloch started.

"As you were attacking me I dragged my sword in the sand making this," I said as as I clapped my hands together and placed them on the circle causing a purple rune circle to appear before several chains leapt at Moloch and captured him. "Now that your taken care of I bid you adieu."

I walked away from Moloch and placed my blade on my left shoulder and watched a strap appear around my torso holding he weapon in place and soon I caught up with the others and saw they were staring into the hole I mentioned.

"You're alive!" Nightmare cheered when she saw me before she rushed at me and hugged me tightly.

"I'm fine but not exactly alive remember," I said before Nightmare released me but smiled at me.

"So what happened to Moloch?" Rage asked causing me to look at him and saw the mane 6 were giggling at something but I decided to ignore it.

"He's been dealt with now onto the next circle," I said.

"So more free falling?" Rage asked.

"Yep should be an opening in the wall down there somewhere so eyes peeled," I said.

The ones who couldn't fly were picked up by the ones who could before they dived into the hole and I followed them and as we fell I felt a presence behind me and when I looked I saw Moloch was flying after us.

"Your not getting away!" Moloch yelled

"Oh so you want a piece of us on the way down huh fine by me," I said as I created my wings.

I then flew up and hit Moloch in the face sending him into a spin but he flew back at me and hit me in the chest sending me into the wall. I managed to recover and saw him fly at Nightmare again but I flew at him and before he could hurt her I pushed him into the wall and held his head against it causing his face to drag against the wall. He elbowed me in the chest knocking me off him.

"You will not stop me," Moloch said.

"Wanna bet?" I asked as I drew Hingure with my left hand revealing a soul sucking black blade with silver running along its back.

Moloch charged at me but I flew upwards dodging his attack and sliced off his wings in one swing causing him to scream in pain.

"Bones the opening!" Twilight yelled as she pointed to the opening in the wall before she and the others flew towards it.

"No!" Moloch yelled as he tried to attack the others but I turned him to face me.

"You're not going anywhere Moloch now stay and burn," I said.

"You-," Moloch said before I kicked off him and went for the opening leaving Moloch to plummet, screaming into the darkness.

I flew into the opening and landed on the edge before I looked into the darkness before I gave a snort then I looked at the others.

"I thought you said you took care of him?" Rage said.

"I did but if you thought I killed him news flash if he's here then he's already dead," I said.

"I'm curious as to why he was cast into that desert I thought it was reserved for those who did violence against god," Rarity said.

"Isn't Faust a god for creating Equestria?" I asked causing everyone to look at each other. "Think about it, Gods create and rule over worlds. Faust created Equestria so she is labeled as a god and since you alicorns are her children that technically make you gods also and since Moloch tried to kill one of you that earned him a place back there," I said

"So what'll happen to him?" Rainbow asked as she looked into the hole.

"No idea anyone who fell in hasn't come back to tell the tail," I said.

"So now that you have your sword back Bones I believe it's time we left," Celestia said.

"Agreed you all might want to huddle up for this next part," I said as I tapped my foot on the ground twice.

Suddenly the area around us changed to an icy tundra causing everyone but me to huddle up for warmth.

"Where are we?" Celestia asked over the cold wind.

"The lowest circle in the inferno, Treachery. Here are traitors of all kinds much like the Fallen Angel Lucifer," I said.

"You mean that pile of black feathers is here?" Rage asked in anger.

"Judging by your tone I say you have a bad history with him," I said.

"Damn right in fact we all do," Rage said causing everyone to nod.

"Wait a second Bones we passed through eight circles I thought there were nine," Twilight said.

"There are nine however we skipped one because I teleported us down here the one we missed was Fraud which is the one above," I said.

"If you had the power to do that why did we walk through hell in the first place?" Rainbow asked angrily.

"Without Hingure my power is restricted Rainbow. I couldn't activate 85 percent of my power without it but now that it's in my possession again I'm a lot strong-," I started before I caught wind of something.

"Bones what is it?" Nightmare asked.

"There are two living souls nearby *sniff**sniff* and one of them oddly smells like you three," I said as I gestured to the alicorn siblings and Nightmare.

"They must be Equestrians," Celestia said.

I followed my nose through the icy area and saw many souls trapped in the frozen walls and ground till we came to a wall and I saw beast like sentinels made of ice clawing at a wall. I gave a sharp whistle getting their attention and causing them to growl at me. So I reached for Hingure and pulled it out slightly causing the beast's to shrink back and run away.

"What was that all about?" Luna asked.

"They were just realizing who the alpha here is," I said as I sheathed my blade.

I walked over to the wall and tapped on it discovering it to be hollow so I drew Hingure and slashed at in an X pattern. I placed the tip of my katana in the centre of the X and pushed it in causing the wall to crack and shatter revealing a cave. I then summoned my soul lantern and sheathed Hingure before I walked inside the frozen entrance with the others following me. I kept my eyes on my surroundings till I saw an orange light reflecting off the walls. I stepped deeper into the cave but my foot hit a loose chunk of ice and sent it skidding across the ground causing the sound to echo around the cave. Suddenly a crimson bolt of energy flew out of a passage on the right side of the cave before it ricocheted off the wall and flew at us causing us to move to either side of the cave to avoid the blast.

"Well someone doesn't like to be disturbed," Rage said.

"Look whoever's down there we mean you no harm so can you not shoot at us?" I asked causing another bolt to fly past.

"Stay back unless you want to be turned into a jackalope," a voice called which sounded male.

"Wait a second I know that voice, Discord is that you?" Fluttershy called causing many of the group to stare in shock.

"F-Fluttershy?" the voice called again.

"We're coming down," I announced as I led the group further into the tunnel.

We walked down the side path and followed the orange glow till we came across a camp fire with two occupants sitting beside it. One was a male Draconequus with a white goatee and also seemed to have a resemblance with Eris and wore a mismatched business suit. The other occupant was a white furred female alicorn with a crimson mane and she wore a white shirt and amber jacket along with a pair of jeans.

"Mother, Discord!" Celestia and Luna shouted as they ran over to hug the two.

"What's happening?" I asked.

Family members," Rage said as he and the mane 6 walked over to the alicorn and Draconequus leaving me with Nightmare Moon who was looking at the other alicorn nervously.

"Well that explains a lot," I said.

"It's wonderful to see your all safe but why are you here and why is Elisa here and unconscious?" the alicorn asked.

"She came to help us against the caribou but then we came down here to help a wraith named Bones find a fancy sword. While we were down here Elisa got attacked with some magic from a demon that showed us our biggest failures but-," Pinkie said in one breath.

"Whoa whoa slow down, a wraith, who is this Bones?" the alicorn asked causing the group to point at me and Nightmare.

"Oh please tell me Dream Cather is just pretending to be Nightmare Moon and that she wasn't possessed b a demon again," Discord asked.

"Actually Nightmare here is with us. You see after I was ahem cleansed by the elements of harmony, Nightmare Moon was ripped from my very being and given a body of her own. She's been living on her own till our hooded friend found her and brought her to safety from the caribou and during our short period of time I've come to accept her as Ash accepted Rage," Luna said.

"So I see and you must be Bones correct?" the alicorn asked.

"Indeed and I presume you are uh...Faust, the maker of Equestria," I said.

"Correct now tell me why did you bring my daughters along with a handful of my civilians down to this place and why are you with them in the first place?" Faust asked in a stern tone.

"Ok first I didn't want them to come but they are a persistent lot and secondly we have a common enemy Diann, King of The Caribou," I said calmly.

"I'm listening," Faust said.

I then gave both Faust and Discord a brief rundown on what I was and what was happening and when I finished I waited for Faust to speak.

"It appears Diann and his sons have much more to answer for then I thought but in the mean time I owe you my thanks for aiding my little ponies in this dark moment," Faust said while I just nodded.

"Mother I do not wish to be rude but why were you hiding in this cave?" Celestia asked.

"We weren't as much as we were imprisoned in here K.K. We tried as hard as we could but there was just no way of getting out of here till our undead buddy here opened the way," Discord said as he patted me over the head annoyingly.

"Discord I told you not to call me that," Celestia said.

Soon the two started bickering and I saw Faust pinch the bridge of her muzzle in annoyance.

"Do these two squabble from time to time," I asked Luna.

"More then you think," Luna said.

I gave a nod before I gave out a sharp whistle that caused everyone to cover their ears because of our surroundings.

"Now that I have your attention can we leave. I'm pretty sure many here are freezing their tails off so how about you lot argue when we leave," I said.

I then led everyone out of the cave and into the cold. Now, unlike the other circles, this one was the largest and the easiest to get lost in but I managed to get us to the very centre of the circle which was a massive frozen lake surrounded by massive blocks of ice.

"Now what?" Applejack asked.

"I just need to unlock the portal out of here," I said as I looked around the the frozen lake and found a slot.

I drew Hingure from my back and inserted the blade into the slot before I turned it causing the ice to rumble and a bright light appeared in the centre of the lake. When we walked over to it I saw the gardens where we first entered the inferno.

"Time to go but only one can pass through at a time so make it fast cause once it's closed it can't be opened for another year," I said causing everyone to start entering.

First it was the mane 6 then Elisa then the princesses and just as Nightmare was about to go through there was a massive explosion of ice sending the rest of us flying backwards and onto our backs I managed to recover my senses quickly and heard the sound of footsteps and when I sat up I saw a figure dressed in black and gold roman centurion armor he had short black hair and a rough face and a pair of eyes that told me everything i needed to know about this guy...trouble.

"Lucifer!" Rage shouted.

"Geeze how many lives do you know in this dump?" I asked no one in particular.

"Ah Burning Rage I thought I could smell the scent of vengeance and I can see you were kind enough to open the portal to escape this place for me," Lucifer said.

"If I were you Lucifer I'd get lost before this get's nasty," I said with a growl.

"Ignorant speck you dare threaten me," Lucifer spat as he summoned a blazing whip and attacked me with it forcing me to dodge it so the whip hit the frozen ground causing it to explode throwing me a fair distance from the portal

Lucifer then used the whip to lash out at the others causing them to dodge and the same thing happened with the ground.

"Lucifer stop this now have you not learned your lesson," Faust growled.

"Oh I have learned much while I've been imprisoned here Faust and in that time I've made an important decision I believe it's time for a change in management. This portal will send me back to heaven where I will kill god and take his place before I destroy that half breed's brat Midnight Star," Lucifer said.

Hearing the words destroy and Midnight had set me off because one of the things I will not forgive is someone planing to harm a young and innocent child. So I pulled out my shadow blade and turned it into a whip before I flung it at Lucifer wrapping it around his neck before I flung him into the ground and dragged him around me till I had my back to the portal and Lucifer was in front of me.

"You lot get out of here I've got Lucifer," I said

Not wanting to argue the group nodded and took off while I turned to face Lucifer.

"It is clear you are not a mere mortal," Lucifer said.

"Damn right I'm not," I said as I charged at him.

Lucifer then flung his whip at me sending me flying towards a wall but I dug my fingers into the ground and managed to slow myself down. Suddenly the ground beneath me was pushed upwards so I pushed off the ice stack before anymore damage could be done and onto a wall before I slid down it.

"I grow weary of this game," Lucifer said as he summoned several bright glowing orbs around him.

The orbs then fired laser beams at me forcing me to dodge them while sliding down the wall. When I reached the floor, I slid under another blast before I leapt into the air. I drew Hingure from my back and slashed at his eyes forcing him to scream in pain while covering his face. I landed behind Lucifer and made a beeline for the portal.

"Later Lucifer I'll be sure to drop in again so we can finish this," I said.

"No!" Lucifer shouted as he sent a blast of magic at me but he missed me entirely.

I jumped into the portal and in a flash of light I was sent tumbling across the ground in the Aephoceria gardens before I stood up and saw the others were staring at me before I saw the portal was still open and Lucifer was on a war charge for it. I then twirled Hingure around before I slashed at the portal closing it just before Lucifer could leave.

"Damn you all!" Lucifer shouted as the portal closed leaving me to collapse on my back with a sigh before my body changed back into a wolf.

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