This chapter contain sexual stuff. You can blame Legion on that.

I stood in front of the workbench in the Hunters Workshop, after getting it all cleaned up since the last time anyone was here for about… a couple thousand years ago, I’m happy that it’s still standing.

I looked over at the book I had open to see if I was doing this right, it has been a long time since I made potions so it’s better to practice so I wasn’t rusty.

“Everything is in order, now to let this sit for an hour and it’ll be done,” I said to myself as I sat the pot down on the table. I put everything back and went to work on tuning some of my weapons as I waited. What? I like to keep myself busy.

I took the Hunter’s Axe and began sharpening it for a bit, as I did I felt a chill up my spine. I turned a bit to see if anyone was behind me.

“Hello? Anyone there?” I called out. No one was there and I couldn’t feel any presence. I frowned at this and went back to the axe, I then heard a hissing sound. I looked up to one of the blades in front of me that reflected my face. “You.”

My reflection slowly vanished and a shadow form of a head could be seen, I heard it laughed.

"It’s… been some time since we have been free…" It said. I frowned a bit.

“You’re not free, you're still in my head,” I said as I continued working on the axe.

"You say that… but you know that we’re one and the same…" It said as if he’s right next to my ear. “Come on… let me out and we’ll hunt again… like the good old times…”

“Last time I let you out you killed and ate everyone in the other world.” I wince a bit at the memory. “I had a stomach ache for a week after that.”

"Yesss… that was so much… fun… still, you need to let me out at one point… to feed the hunger." I paused for a moment, he was right. As much as I don’t like it I have to feed the hunger at some point.

“It hasn’t happened yet so I still have time,” I told him as I put the axe back on the rack. “You were a bit normal in the other world but now you talk like that so I'm not letting you out.”

"Soon though… soon." he said as I felt his presence fade. I sighed and reached for another weapon as a letter appeared beside me. I eyed it for a second before grabbing it and opening it to read it.

I re-read it a few times before making my way to one of the rooms on the workshop. When I get to the door I wanted I opened it to reveal another room with many doors. I got this room made like the west wing from the castle from the Valley. I went to the door with the Sun and Moon symbol above it, opening it I walked into a room in Canterlot. I went and passed some guards that jumped a bit by me. I went through the halls until I got to the infirmary and went in to see Tia standing near a bed. I saw doctors leaving with a sorrow expressions. I moved over to Tia and looked at the bed, at the child in said bed.

He looked like a cross-breed but with the now almost covered in stone it’s hard to tell.

“How long was he like this?” I asked her.

“About thirty minutes, my royal doctors have no idea how to cure it. Please, Jace, tell me you have some idea.” she looked at me with a look of almost lost hope. I moved closer to the child and saw that he looks familiar.

“It’s… a long shot but I have been researching a way to cure this curse so…” I turned to Tia. “I need to take him to the Workshop, everything I need is there.”

She nodded and left the room, probably to get others to help with the transport. I looked at the child and saw that he was waking up. He opened his one eye, since the other was covered in stone, and looked at me. He looked panicked for a moment.

“Easy, I’m not here to hurt you, just to help,” I told him softly. I kneel down to be level with him. “Can I ask for your name.”

At first, the child didn't say anything. “Dusk… Shadowbringer.”

“Hello Dusk, I’m Jace Belaguard,” I replied. He stared at me for a moment.

“You… you look like my god-father, you even have his name.” He begins to look around. “Where am I.”

“Some place safe, I’m going to help you get better,” I told him. He looked at me for a moment then closed his eye. I started to hear him cry as a tear rolled down his face.

“I- I want my Mommy and daddy.” My heart felt torn when I heard that. I patted his head as I heard others heading this way.

“Don’t worry Dusk, I believe that they are going to come get you.”

Shade Shadowbringer
Four hours earlier.

I stood on top of a hill looking down on Ponyville, the sun was out the birds were singing and today was a perfect day for a picnic. Twilight suggested this after finishing up with her lesson with Starlight; she too is coming but I didn’t like it since she almost made it that me and Twilight never met; if I had to choose I would have cut her head off but Twilight said that was a little extreme.

Anyway, she was here and so were mom and dad; they too need some time off from work and came to the picnic. They look much different than normal, mom had a pink mane and wore a sundress with a summer hat and dad looked like me but older, a black mane and green eyes; he wore a gray t-shirt and black jeans.

“It been so long since I went on a picnic, it reminds me when we were dating.” he said to mom.

“Yes it does but it also get’s us away from the nobles.” she stretched a bit. “As much as I do care for them I do get tired.”

I chuckled and walked over to Twilight and hugged her from behind; I kissed her on the cheek as she giggles.

“I know you’ve been looking forward to this all week,” I whispered in her ear.

She hummed in agreement. “You have no idea, a picnic is a nice way to spend time with the family.” she turned her head and stared at me. “Also please be nice to Starlight.”

I frowned at her and looked at Starlight, she was helping setting up the blanket with Nyx and Dusk. “I don’t know.”

“Please, if you do I’ll do something special~” she gave me those bedroom eyes and I turned into a puddle. I’m the lord of Hell but those eyes are my only weakness.

“Fine but I won’t like it,” I said jokely. She smacked me on the arm and all of us joined at the blanket. We ate and talked for a bit which was fun; I watched Nyx and Dusk playing catch with a frisbee. Dusk turned eleven about two months ago and he grew up fast; he wore a black t-shirt and cargo pants. He threw the frisbee the wrong way and it flew over to us. I caught it and chuckled as I stood up. I spun it on my finger and begin walking towards them.

That is when all hell broke loose.

The sound of ripping and something breaking can be heard as a rift opened up from behind them; what came out was something that I never seen before.

It walked out and looked around before taking a swipe at both Nyx and Dusk. I dropped the frisbee and charged at it; I summoned my sword and blocked its attack. Its turned on me and it clawed at me as I jumped out of the way. I saw Twilight, Starlight, mom and dad running up to fire spells at it but it let loose a roar. I felt pain in my head but I saw everyone else in much more pain.

I glared at the beast as I flapped my wings and rocketed towards it. It tried to claw at me but I moved out of the way and cut off two of its arms. It roared in pain, I swang around and charged at it, but it saw it coming and swung at me which knocked me down to the ground.

My vision blurred for a second as I looked up to hear something that made my blood turn cold.

“DADDY!” Dusk screamed as that thing grabbed him and begin to back up into the rip.

“NO!” I yelled as I charged towards the beast, I felt my change coming on but as I got close I saw that thing look at me and a ear piercing scream was all I can hear. I fell to the ground as I watch as the beast went through the rip and it closed up. I stood up and looked back at everyone; mom and dad looked shocked at what just happened as Twilight was on the ground crying; Nyx was crying as well as Starlight was trying to comfort her. I walked over to Twilight and hugged her. We stayed like that as Twilight cries on my shoulder.

Now

We all sat around in Twilight throne room in silent. Twilight’s friends came over to try to help but it really didn’t; Twilight looked empty and I don’t blame her. I thought on the beast that attacks us, I never seen anything like it before; I looked up at my dad.

“Do you know what that thing is?” I asked him, he just shook his head.

“I have no idea son, whatever it is it’s strong enough to stop us from casting our magic with its roar,” he explained. I looked over at everyone else; Dash and Applejack looked angry, Rarity and Fluttershy was trying to cheer Twi up and Pinkie just sat there with her mane flat.

“He had his party two months ago…” she muttered before putting her head into her hands. I looked at my parents as they too look shaken; I felt my rage build.

“When I get down to hell I'll find that thing and rip it a new one,” I said angrily.

“That was no demon.” a voice rang out around us before a flash and Anu stood before us.

My father, after bowing, looked at him confused. “What do you mean that was no demon?”

“I mean that was no demon but a monster from another world; the rift between worlds has been a weakened and beings are jumping back and forth from other worlds, that creature came from such a world that was once dead and covered in nightmares.” he explained.

“Is… is Dusk alive? Is my baby alive?” Twilight asked. Anu stared at her before waving his hand and a ripple came from the map table; it turned from a map of Equestria to some sort of mirror. I saw only blackness until what looks like eyes opening up. The being slowly opened his eyes and looked around; I learned quickly that this was my son. He saw that he was in some sort of forest and he started walking; he took about fifteen steps until a sound came from behind him.

Dusk turned and saw what looked like weird frogs with big bug-eyed eyes and a beak. It looked at Dusk for a bit until two more came behind it. They stared at Dusk before the first one jumped up and breath out some sort of gas; Dusk began to cough and fell to one knee and I saw something that freaked me out; Dusks arms and hands were turning to stone.

Dusk started to back up but the frogs were advancing; the other two begin to fill up and breath out more of that gas which made the stone go faster.

“No…” I heard Twilight say; I saw her almost in tears again. We watch as Dusk fell to the ground as his legs turned into stone and the frogs were going to finish him off. I saw Fluttershy, Rarity and Pinkie look away as Rainbow and Applejack watched. Mom was crying onto dad's shoulder and he watched. I watched as the frogs took one more breath to breathe out gas again.

Only it didn't happen as someone fired a shot that hit the frog. Beings came rushing in to fight off the frogs, what was weird was that they wore the armor of the Solar guard. They fought off the frogs and drove them back into the forest; one of them walked over to Dusk and I saw he was a human.

“By Celestia he’s almost gone, hey help me with this we need to get this cross-breed back to Canterlot!” he yelled as the others came over and helped. The screen went to black as the map returned, I looked over at Atu.

“So… he's alright?” I asked him.

He nodded. "Yes your son is fine, he's being taken care of.” I signed with a breath of relief. “But I can't go there.”

“What do you mean you can't go, aren't you some sort of god?" Rainbow asked.

“Yes I am but there are places that even I can't go and this is one of them.” he turned to me. “But I can send someone there.”

I walked forward and stood in front of him. “I'll go.”

“You mean we'll go,” Twilight said as she stood up.

“Twilight listen-"

“No you listen, I just watched my son get foalnapped in front of me and then almost killed by some frog; there is no way in hell I'm going to sit here and do nothing.” she said as her clothes changed into traveling clothes.

I stared at her and sighed; there's no way to change her mind. “Fine just stay close.” I looked at Anu and waited.

“Before you go I need to tell you two things, one is that when you get there you need to wait about three days to return; the rules there is much different than here.” he explained.

“And two?” I asked.

“Go and search for a man with a title ‘The Hunter of Ash and Cinder' he'll help.’ he said as he waved his hand and a golden portal opened. I looked at her and took her hand.

“You ready?”

“Yeah,” Twilight answered. We looked at the portal and walked through.

As soon as we walked through, the portal closed. We looked at our surroundings. We were in the middle of a dark forest, similar to what we saw back home.

My hand shone as a familiar sword formed from the light. After the light dimmed, it revealed El'druin sheathed inside a scabbard.

“You wouldn't happen to have those gloves I gave you, do you?” I ask Twilight, gaining her attention. She looked at me and nodded before pulling out the gloves in question. A pair of black leather gloves.

Once she finished putting them on, she nodded before speaking.

“Let's go find our baby.” She said with determination. I smiled a little before frowning. We started walking north before northeast.

We've came across a few monsters, of course, it wasn't a problem but what was scary was what Twilight did to them. Her gloves were a special pair that allowed her to use very thin wires as weapons, similar to an anime I used to watch.

With a few movements of her arms and hands, the wires soon surrounded the two beasts before she flicked her wrist. The result was a bloody one, the wires closed in before tightening around them to the point that the wires were sinking into their skin. Before anything else occurred, the two beasts were sliced into pieces by the wires.

Soon the wires retracted back into the gloves. I looked at Twilight, seeing her angered look. I had decided to not push my luck and continued on.

As I looked at her I realized something, she was human… but not what she looked like normally; She had raven black hair and her eyes were green. I looked at my hands and saw that we both were turned into a human.

“What’s wrong?” She asked as she looked at me then releasing what’s up.

“We’ve been turned into humans and you look different,” I told her. She stared at me as I pulled my sword out and used it as a mirror.

“Huh… I do look good with a black mane,” she said. I rolled my eyes as I sheathe my sword.

I was about to say something but Twilight cut me off. “Do you… hear that?”

I stopped and listened as I heard the sounds of growls coming ahead of us. We headed that way until we got to a clearing where I saw those frogs.

They surrounded one person who wore what look like dark leather and the being was holding what looks like a cane. Twilight stepped forward to go and fight but I stopped her and gestured her to watch.

No one moved for what seemed to be forever until one of those frogs took a step forward, which got impaled by the beings cane. The frogs charged at the being which resulted in the latter jumping back to avoid them. The figure pulled out a gun and started to shoot at the frogs, taking three of them out; One of the frog's breath out gas which made the figure jump away.

A fair distance away the figure flicked it’s wrist as the cane changed, it then thrust forward which the cane extended to a whip and imbedded itself into one of the frogs. The figure began to slash away until it slammed the cane down to the ground and it turned back into a cane, all of the frogs were dead at this point.

The figure started to clean it’s weapon and began to turn but stopped. “You can come out of the bushes, I know you’re there.”

I sighed before standing up. I held my hand out for Twilight and helped her up before revealing ourselves.

“We're not looking for trouble, sir,” I said in a polite manner.

“First off that’s mam, and secondly yes you are you’re standing in the middle of a beast filled forest.” the lady said.

“Sorry, hard to tell from where I stood,” I said, apologizing for my mix up in gender. She eyed me for a minute.

“What are you two doing here?” she asked. I frowned before answering.

“Our son was recently taken from us and we're here to look for him,” I answered.

“Well hate to be the barer of bad news but if your son was in these woods then he’s dead, sorry,” she said as she turned to go. Twilight ran up to her.

“Wait! We saw that there were two Solar guards that found him!” This made her stop and looked at her.

“Really now, that is interesting.” she put her hand to her chin and was silent for a minute before looking at us. “You two better come with me.”

“Alright,” I said before me and Twilight followed the lone woman. We walked for about fifteen minutes until we came to a small camp; in the camp, there were others wearing the same outfit of the woman.

“Report.” she asked one of them.

“All nests have been cleared out and won’t be messing anyone for a while.” one of the others said. I saw a few of them eating some legs of the frogs. I saw Twilight look a bit green at this.

“Come on, you've seen me eat worse,” I whispered to her. She shook her head a bit.

“You I understand, others…”

“Hey who are those two?” one of the men called out.

“They are the parents of the Cross-breed that was found a week ago.” the woman said.

“What that horse looking kid?” another said. The one sitting beside him smacked him over the head. “What!”

“Watch your mouth idiot.” other said as he went back to eating. The woman turned to look at us.

“Don’t mind them, they are a rowdy bunch but they know what they are doing, now for transport.” she started to walk towards a tent and waved at us to follow. We followed until we went into the tent to see a circle with runes carved out. The woman turned to look at us and removed her face mask and hat. She had Dark red hair and brown eyes.

“This will take you to Canterlot, go look for someone named Jack and say that you want to talk the head hunter’s sisters if he says no say Emma sent you.” she explained.

We nodded and walked up to the runes. I saw Emma, I guess her name is, walk in front of us and stood there for a minute as dark red wings sprouted out of her back. She moved one of the wings in front of her as she pulled a feather out; she holds the feather for a minute and dropped it in the circle. It burst into flames and the ashes fell onto the circle which lit it up.

Mist and ash surround us and blocked our view for a moment until it subsided and I could see that we were in a castle.

“That… was weird,” Twilight said.

“And I think it's about to get weirder, look,” I said, pointing at the guards in armor closing in on us. One of them was wearing the outfit that Emma wore.

“Who are you and what are you doing here?” One of the guards asks as they had their swords out.

“We're looking for someone named Jack, we've been told that he could help us,” Twilight said while I stayed silent, trying to not reach for my sword. The man in the outfit looked at her and walked forward.

“That would be me, speak quickly.” he said as he crossed his arms.

“We looking for our son, we've been informed that you could help us.” the man stared at us for a minute.

“I could but why would I, who informed you?” he asked.

“Someone named Emma, she said that you can take us to the Head hunter’s sister's,” Twilight told him. He was silent for a bit until he sighed.

“They aren’t a threat, they are with us.” He said as the two guards put away their swords and went back to their post. “Follow me and do keep up.”

He turned to walk quickly down the halls. We followed him for a while; during that time I looked around at the place. It was the same as the castle in Canterlot back home just with some other paintings and other stuff. We stopped in front of a set of big doors, on one said was the sun and the other the moon and right down the middle was a sword. The man opened the door and peeked his head in and backed out.

“You're in luck they aren’t busy.” He said as he walked down the hallway leaving us alone. I looked at Twilight as she looked somewhat scared.

“We'll find him,” I told her. She only nodded in response. I went and opened the doors and walked in with Twilight in tow. The first I saw was a bright flash which covered my eyes, as I did I heard voices.

“Sister, did you have to use a flash? You could've used a simple transport spell.”

“No time, killing the boss.” the other voice said. I blinked a few times and saw that we were in some different room then I thought. I looked at the table which sat my mom, well not really. Celestia wore a white dress with gold trimmings at the end as she drank some tea. Her sister, on the other hand, wore sweatpants and a tank top with the words ‘No game? No life!’ on it.

Celestia put her cup down and smiled at us. “Sorry about that, I was hoping to get you here more… nicely.”

“So blinding us is considered a good thing?” I asked in a mock tone.

“I’m not sorry!” Luna said without looking. Celestia rolled her eyes and motions us to sit at the table.

“Would you two like some tea?” she asked.

“Tea sounds lovely,” Twilight said I shook my head. Celestia eyed me before pouring a cup for Twilight.

“I would ask what would a different version of my old student and her husband are doing here but I already know why.” She took a sip of her drink. “Your son.”

“Yes,” I answered simply. She nodded at me and looked down.

“Well, now this might be hard to hear but…”

“I’m sorry travelers but your son is in another castle,” Luna said without looking up. Celestia glared at her.

“Way to be blunt,” she grumbled. Luna just shrugged.

“I’m off the clock and in that time I don’t give a shit,” she said without looking. Celestia looked at her and sighed.

“Someone would think that a thousand year banishment would teach someone something but no~” she complained. I looked over at Twilight with an odd look, she just shrugged at me.

“Someone would think that after a thousand years someone would learn to cook,” Luna said. I saw Celestia's right eye twitched as she grabbed the teapot; the big window behind her opened up and some of the furniture moved out of the way. This got Luna’s attention.

“Sister, what are you- AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!” she yelled as she was launched out of the room. Celestia poured her tea and took a sip.

“Don’t worry, she’ll be fine,” she said. Both me and Twilight looked at one another. “Now, can you tell me how this all happened.”

Me and Twilight took turns telling her what happened.

“Hmmm… multi-armed creature… you both don’t have a picture of the creature perhaps?” she asked us. I looked over at Twilight and saw that she closed her eyes and a quill and paper floated over and began making a picture. After a minute she was done and the paper floated over to Celestia; she took it and looked it over.

“I see, so this is the creature that kidnapped your son, is there anything else you want to say as well?” she asked us without looking at us.

“We got a vision of some sort that showed us that he was rescued by some of your solar guards.” Twilight said. Celestia blinked at her for a moment.

“I see… well I have some bad new for you, I have no idea what this creature is but I do know someone who does, and for your son being rescued by my guards there was a Cross-breed that came in about a week ago and is suffering from a curse so I sent him too…” she looked at us for a moment. “Guards!”

The doors behind us opened and two guards came into the room, they eyed us as they stood there. “Yes, your highness?”

“I want you to send word to prepare some transport for these two to Fairgate at once,” she ordered. They both bowed and left the room, Celestia wrote something down and handed to us. “This is an address to the place I sent your son too, the man there is working on curing him.”

“Thank you,” I said with a small bow. Twilight did the same.

Celestia smiled at us, “Well I hope you two get your son back and-” The room started to go dark as the shadows began to close in; Celestia sighed and stood up. “One last thing can you close the door on your way out please.”

I nodded and both of us left the room, closing the door behind us. As the door closed I heard a small clicking sound from the door, I turned and saw one of the guards standing in front of us.

“If you two don’t mind to follow me to-”

We heard sounds coming from the room and looked at the door, it shuttered for just a moment. “Dang, they are fighting again.”

I looked over at Twilight for a moment. “This place is weird.”

Getting transport to Fairgate was in a form of a carriage being pulled by a griffon.

Twilight eyed it for a minute before getting in it. It seems that the griffons came from Griffonstone, the place where most griffons were raised and trained.

On the way there I saw Twilight fidgeting a bit. “We’re almost there, we’re almost there,” she repeated.

“You are the weirdest woman I have ever met,” I said to her. She stopped talking and looked at me with a smile.

“But I’m your weird woman,” she said as she kissed me. We didn’t talk until we landed at the place. The doors opened and I stepped out and saw that we were in Ponyville. Wait.

“Welcome to Fairgate, probably the weirdest place to live.” one of the guards informed us. As Twilight stepped off the doors closed and the carriage took off in a hurry.

“Wow, this looks like Ponyville,” Twilight said. I nodded and looked at the note with the addressed.

“Better find the place,” I said. She nodded and we headed off. As we walked I saw others walk passed us without a second look, they talked, laughed, and did their thing as we walked through; I also saw beings wearing the same outfits as the others from the forest. I looked down at the note.

“Let’s see here, it should be in town so- AH!” I yelled as someone walked into me knocking me over. I hit the ground and groaned a bit as I reopened my eyes and I saw Twilight looking back at me. We stayed like that for a moment before she began to panic.

“AHH! I’M SORRY, I’M SORRY, I’M SORRY, I’M SORRY!!!” she yelled pushing her off me. I sat up and blinked at her, she looked like Twilight but a bit younger; she was blushing madly as she started picking up some books. I looked over at Twilight, err my Twilight, and saw that she was staring at me with a cocked brow.

“Oh don’t you start,” I said as I stood up. The other Twilight was still picking her books up.

“Again I’m sorry I wasn’t looking where I was going and I was in a rush, now I think about it I must have took the wrong turn and…” she continued going as I looked over at my Twilight and cocked my own brow.

“Don’t. Even. Think about it.” she threatened. I smiled and looked back to see something that pulled my heartstrings.

“MOM!” The human version of Nyx ran up to her. Other Twilight, ok this is getting annoying, looked at her with a smile.

“I’m fine, I’m fine I’m- hey where are the books you were carrying… and where’s Stella?” Nyx didn’t say anything for a moment.

“Ummm…”

“... Over… here.” a voice can be heard. I looked over and saw a pile of books with a leg and an arm sticking out of it.

“Nyx! Why did you throw your books on Stella!” Twilight yelled.

“I panicked! I saw you were on the ground!” she replied.

“...Help…” the girl said under the books. I walked over and started to move the books away. A girl with orange hair and yellow/ orange eyes sat up quickly. “The sun! I can see the sun again!”

“Your welcome,” I told her. She looked at me and smiled; I offered her my hand to pick her up, but as soon as her hand touches mine the voices started talking.

‘Get away! Get Away from her!’

‘No KILL her! Absorb her power! The power of a Great One is ours!’

‘We will be strong enough to face Anu with her power!’

I frowned a bit at this, ‘What the?’ I thought. I looked and saw the girl staring at me.

“You… okay? You blanked out there for a moment.” she asked.

“I'm fine,” I answered her. She eyed me for a second and started to pick up the books that fell.

“Nyx say you're sorry.” The other Twilight said. I looked and saw a sad Nyx wearing glasses.

“I’m sorry.”

“It’s fine, but next time a heads up would be nice.” she said to Nyx.

“Again sorry about that, I really wasn’t watching where I saw going,” Twilight said as she flicked her wrist and all the books flouted up in purple bubbles. “Hey you two are new to Fairgate, my name is Twilight Sparkle and this is my daughter Nyx.”

“Hello!” Nyx said with a smile.

“And the other is Stella.” Stella only waved at us and she walked over to Twilight. “May I ask for your names.”

“I’m Shade Shadow Bringer and this is my wife Lydia Ravenheart,” I said, giving my wife another name. She looked at me and I gave her a look that said ‘I will tell you later’. I looked back and saw Twilight and Nyx smiling at us, Stella, on the other hand, was frowning at us.

“Well it’s nice to met you both, may I ask where you two are going?” she asked us.

“Yes, we are looking for a building here,” Lydia said as she hands over the note. Twilight looked at it and smiled.

“Hey! We’re going to the same place! Don’t mind some company walking?” she asked us. Lydia smiled at her.

“We would love to,” she replied before I could answer. The five of us headed towards to the place. As we walked Twilight was pointing out buildings and places for us, but since we basically lived here we knew it already.

“Are you alright? Your expression changed when you helped Stella up.” My wife asked me.

“It's nothing… okay, that's not true but I don't even know what it is.” I told her. She looked at me and didn't push for any more information. We walked in silence for a few minutes until we got to a big building with a tree next to it.

I looked up at the building and felt unease at the sight of this; Twilight saw this and gave me a smile.

“It’s not just you, everyone here other than the hunters feel a bit off at the sight of the place,” she explained. She led us to a side door and stepped inside. The interior looked a bit cozier than the outside but only a little; there was a fire place on the one side of the wall and the walls were filled with either books or jars and vials. There were some chairs to sit, some chests and weapons, a lot of weapons from swords to a cannon.

As we walked into the room I heard a voice coming from one of the other rooms.

“Twilight? Is that you?” the voice called out. For some reason, it sounded familiar.

“Yes I’m here with the books you ask for, I also brought others that were coming here.” she replied.

“Oh, well I’ll be out in a minute there’s a drink somewhere out there, I believe it’s the jar that’s open,” he called out. I looked around and saw an open jar with what looks like brown sludge. I went and picked it up and sniffed it… it smelled horrible.

I put it down and looked at the books on the wall, they range from simple alchemy to in-depth monster guides. I looked at my wife and saw her looking at the books with a small smile on her face. I chuckled and shook my head. I looked over and saw a stand with two swords on it, one with a black hilt and the other a red cloth around it; I stepped forward to get a closer look and reached out.

“I wouldn't do that if I were you.”

Jace

I stepped out of the infirmary to the sight of some guy with gray hair going to grab the Chaos blade. I called out to him not to and he stopped and looked at me, I saw that he had electric blue eyes.

“Why not?” He asked me.

“Best reason, they are mine and only I can use them.” that was half true, I don’t want to say ‘if you grab them they will hurt you.’

“Jace, this is Shade and Lydia, Shade, Lydia, this is Jace,” Twilight said to them and me. I raised an eyebrow at them, about time you showed up.

“Well, it’s nice to met you two, please sit down and take a load off,” I told them. I turned and grabbed the open jar and took a drink from it… well, it’s drinkable. I moved to a chair that had books on it, I moved them to the side and sat in front of the other two. “So what brought you two here?”

“Our son. He's been taken from us and we had been informed by Celestia that we could find him here.” Shade informed me. I stared at him for a moment before speaking.

“I see, normally I wouldn't help a missing kid case but you been sent by my sister so this is important, so who or what took your son?” I asked them. They started to tell me what happened, I saw that they were leaving some things out but that's because of the other three.

Lydia handed me a picture of the creature that took their son, I frowned at it. Amygdala, how did it travel to a different world? Better look into this later.

"How did you know to go to Canterlot?” I asked them.

“A… vision of sorts, we saw some weird frogs that were attacking him but was saved by the Solar guard,” Lydia said. I stared at her for a moment before standing up.

“Follow me,” I started as I looked over at the other three. “Just those two.”

Twilight and Nyx nodded but Stella frowned. “Hey, why aren't we allowed to follow?"

"Because we're going to do boring adult stuff and it has them involved, also I said so,” I told her. I moved towards the infirmary and waved my hand towards my swords, they glowed for a second as I entered the room. There were many empty beds but I headed to the one being used and had a curtain. I got there and moved the curtain away and looked at the bed, I heard a gasp from behind me.

On the bed was Dusk, the curse was still there but it was less strong from before, only his eye and arm had bits of stone covering them. He was sleeping at the moment due to the medicine. Lydia rushed over to his side with tears in her eyes.

“My baby…” Lydia said, cupping Dusk’s cheek. Shade walked over to look at Dusk.

“Dusk… Why is he asleep?” he asked.

“One down side of the medicine I’ve been using puts anyone to sleep,” I said as I started grabbing stuff. As I did that I looked at Shade. “I have one question for you; would you do anything to save your son?”

He looked at me for a moment, "Of course, I would, why would you-”

“Good, hold on!” I twisted around and grabbed his shirt and we ported away to the catacombs. Shade backed up and looked around. “Alright, we have quite the ways to go and monsters to deal with, any questions?’

“What do you want?” He asked, not too pleased with being taken away from his wife and son… again for the son.

“Look we don’t have time for this so I’m giving you the short version,” I told him as I started walking off. I heard him follow, we passed a few drops and went down a few stairs. We entered a big room where I remembered fighting a demon here.

“Are you going to talk or walk without saying anything.” Shade said. I frowned as I walked up to a pile of bones and I crushed the skull and kicked the bones.

“The curse that almost killed your son was something I like to call the curse of stone, as the name implies when it takes full effect it will turn the person into a statue and not the Elements of Harmony statue, you turn into a statue and you die then your soul is stuck in the statute until someone breaks the statute.” we moved into more a cave like setting as the temperature begins to rise. “It took me many years but I found a way to cure the curse and save said person but it takes a week to do and well I don’t have the last part of it.”

I grumbled a bit at the fact that I didn’t have it, dang it Stripe why did you go and eat it.

“So why are we down here? Why am I here as well?” He asked. I can still hear the anger in his voice.

“We aren’t there yet, which is going to be right… here!” I said as we came to the end of the cave and came out to a giant lake with some places steam coming up. “Ok now we’re here, so to continue there’s an item here that is the last bit of the cure.”

“Right… so why am I here?” Shade continued. I walked into the water and slowed down for a bit and looked to my right. I moved slowly until I saw the giant ballista sitting there. I waited for a moment and breath I happy sigh that it wasn’t up and running. I turned to my right and headed that way.

“There're two reasons for you to be here, those are that this item, some kind of plant that grows here, is also eaten by monsters and there’s one monster particular loves eating it.”

“And that would be…” As he said that the ground some ways away burst out and a giant worm beast sprang up from the ground.

“That,” I said as I pulled out my sword. “We have to kill it before it eats the plant, it takes a long time for it to grow and this is the only place for it to grow.”

With a sigh I saw Shade grunted as bones grew out of his back, taking the shape of wings. I wince at the sight of them, I seen others do the same thing but when it happened they don’t feel pain. I should tell him that later.

“Let’s get this over with,” he said as he took off into the air. I shook my head as I charged forward. The worm saw Shade first and dove at him, he dodged out of the way and slashed at the worm with his sword. I ran up and started slashing at the worm before it got annoyed and dove towards the ground. I jumped out of the way from the bones covering the worm's body. We did the same thing a few more times and the worm roared in pain, Shade circle around to do another run but the worm turned to him and started to glow.

Out of its mouth, a torrent of lightning blasted Shade full on and sent him into the building at the back wall.

“SHADE!” I yelled before jumping out of the way of the worm. It attention was now on me as it tried to crush me. I looked at it angrily. “That, was uncalled for, blasting my friend that’s now pissed at me is not ok!”

I pointed my sword at the worm. “COME ON YOU FUCKING WORM, LET’S SEE WHAT YOU GOT!”

And… it ate me…whole… well shit.

Shade Shadow Bringer

“Ugg… really it can shoot out lightning, Jace you bastard you forgot to say that it can do that.” I muttered as I sat up. That was surprising to see happen but it didn’t really hurt. I looked forward and saw that there’s a building in front of me. I got up and walked over to the opening and tried to walk through it. I stopped as I hit an invisible wall.

“Ugg really.” I groaned. I turned around to see if there’s another way out, what I saw shocked me.

Corpses, corpses of monsters in piles around the place. I walked towards one of the piles and saw they had a trace of demonic magic about them so… these are piles of demon corpses. As I looked around I heard something, it sounded like… breathing.

“... who has come to my domain…” a voice rang out. I looked around to find the source of the voice.

“Who’s there?” I called out. After a moment the voice spoke.

“I… am an… old king... waiting to die…” the voice said slowly. It sounded gruff and weak. I continued looking around for the source. “Why… are you...here?”

“I’m here helping a... I’m here trying to save my son from a curse.” I told it, I don’t really think Jace is my friend, sure he looks familiar but so far he just pissed me off. “What’s with these piles of bodies?”

“Those… are… my subjects… I’m their king… and I’m the last of my kind when my son died.” the voice told me.

“I’m… sorry for your lost but I need to get out of here.” I told it. It didn’t say anything so I began looking around some more.

“Your scent… it’s that of demons and… something else… a nephalem…” its voice said. I felt power building somewhere in here.

“Nephalem… nephalem… NEPHALEM!!!” It roared as a pillar of flame burst out of the middle of the room. I covered my eyes from the light when it dim I saw a shape in the middle of the place.

It looked like a smoothing demon with a giant club staring at me.

“Surprised to see me.” it said. “I doubt you even know who I am, it been so long since we last fought.”

“What are you talking about?” I said to it. Did we meet before?

“Yes… my final fight… with the one that killed me, you should know that.” It bent down and glared at me. “You killed me by turning me into a crystal.”

“Oh right,” I said, realizing what he meant before being sent onto a stone wall, cracking it from the impact. I winced in pain before looking at the beast, seeing it ready to charge. Not having enough time to move, I only readied myself before being charged with incredible force.

I was then grabbed and thrown into a pile of bodies. I opened my eyes in time to see the beast in the air with its staff ablaze and ready to strike down.

Eyes wide, I only braced myself before being impaled. The staff’s flame sparked, lighting the bodies around me and I gripped the staff the was embedded in me.

“I have won… an easy victory… you were no challenge.” he said as he dug the staff further down. I only growled, gaining his attention. He looked down at me before growling.

“Die.... Accept your defeat!” He yelled. I felt my anger well up again, but I felt another's anger as well before my body moved without me doing anything. I began pushing the staff out with loud grunts as the demon above me tried to keep it further down.

As we did this, I noticed my hands were growing familiar red scales as well as my veins slowly turning my blood into boiling hot magma.

“I will accept no defeat from a welp like you!” I yelled before completely losing consciousness.

Jace

I was stuck by a bone and a squishy place, oh and slimy; very slimy. I wiggled a bit as I reached my sword, it was inches away and I was being crushed and digested by the worm.

“I’m… not… going to… die in a… fucking worm!” I yelled as my hand hit the hilt. I grabbed it and felt a sharp stab in my arm, then I started cutting my way out. How can I do this? Reasons, that’s how.

After a bit, the worm roared and I felt a thud as it came crashing down onto the ground. I spent the next ten minutes cutting my way out when I did I burst out of the worm covered in its own blood.

“Oh god! Uggg…. Blag ugg… I’m puking out blood… and it’s not my blood… oh this is wrong on so many levels.” I complained. I looked around to see that I was standing in front of the stone building from before. “Right, with that done I can get the plant, now where’s is-”

As I said that something came crashing out of the building and landing about ten feet away from me. I blinked at this. “Oh…” I looked back and saw a sinister glow.

The dim glow grew brighter as it opened its mouth. With a flash, it breathed out hellfire.

Moving out of the way, the fire then consumed the downed body. As the fire stopped, smoke was covering the beast that fired but the stomping made it clear that wasn't finished.

"I'm not finished yet.” It growled as it made its way towards its target.

I watched the fight at one another, I believe one of them is Shade and the other… I have no idea but judging by the place I guess it was the old demon king. I hold my sword and waited for a chance to strike.

"...hunger..." I heard him in my head again.

“Damn it, not now!” I said as I felt the hunger pains. I grit my teeth as they slowly turned into fangs.

"...Hunger... Food..." the voice said as I looked at the demon king. I looked down away from them as a plan formed. I ran away from them and got far enough to work on the plan. I opened my hand as a flame was held aloft in the air, I poured a bit of chaos into it which made it flicker with darkened flames. I left it in the middle of the clearing and hid from sight.

As I waited I felt the changes took over, I smiled.

"The hunt… is on!”

Third person

The two demons fought against one another, throwing each other around. One was growling in frustration as the other was smiling.

“Yes… this is more like it, a final battle to die for." It said as it slammed his club onto the ground, sending flaming meteors at the other. The other demon dodge out of the way and charged at it. The demon king smiled and again slammed his club onto the ground, causing a burst of flames to burst out and knocked the other demon away.

The demon king laughed, “Come on, this can't be it. Even at a weakened state, I'm beating you.”

The demon growled at the king as they watched each other. That is until the king felt a source of power coming from somewhere near.

“Impossible.” the king said. The demon saw this as a chance to attack. It leaped at the king, only for him to duck, grab it's tail, and threw him back into the stone building. “You stay here, I'll be back to deal with you later.”

The demon king went off and got to the spot and saw it, a small flame with chaos coming off it. He bent down and absorbed it.

“It's… not a lot but it's something.” he said. As he turned around the demon king felt like he was being watched. He turned as something charged at him, knocking him down. He looked up to see the creature.

“What… what are you?” the king asked as the creature looked at him eyeless.

“Hunter… and you… pray~..." it hissed. It began to glow and, like a blur, started to tear into the demon king, eating the flesh, bones, everything.

The demon headed towards where the king went. As it got closer it began to hear something.

It sounded like something eating. It turned and saw the shadow of… something eating. The demon look over and saw the club that the demon king was using. The sound of the creature eating stopped and began moving towards the clearing. Instead of a monster coming out, a man wiping his mouth walked out.

Jace

"Hmm… not bad, a bit spicy for my taste, though,” I said to myself. I looked around and saw the other demon looking at me. “What do you want, I already had my meal.”

“Pathetic.” It growled.

“Meh call it what you want,” I said as I started walking. It growled at me. “You need something scaly?”

“No. I do not.” He said before walking over me.

“Oi! Quick question, have you seen a guy here?” it turned to me as I moved my hand to show the height. “About this tall, gray hair, blue eyes and really pissed off.”

It didn't answer as he was covered in smoke. The smoke shrank in size before revealing Shade or a man that looked identical to him but instead of blue eyes they were red with yellow dragon like irises. I looked at my hand and moved it.

“Okay, got the height wrong, so who are you?” I asked.

“I am Diablo, Lord of Terror.” He said in Shade’s voice. I stared at him for a minute, really? He's Diablo, alright Jace don't piss off a high demon or whatever they are called. Keep it nice.

“Really Lord of Terror, then I'm the Lord of sunshine and rainbows.” God damn it...

He narrowed his eyes and growled.

“Oh stop you look dumb doing that,” I told him as I crossed my arms. "So… Are you using his body temporary or is it ‘I'm not going to give up this body!' deal?”

“He is… unable to take control.” He said as he rolled up his newly acquired shirt, revealing a scar across his abdomen. “A fatal wound will make one lose consciousness, I happen to be the one who had taken control.” He finished. He eyed me for a minute. "You don't trust me.”

“I don't trust demons that much since the last one led me into a trap,” I told him. He let out a dark chuckle.

“I am no mere demon, I am a Prime Evil.” He said. We stared at one another for some time before he spoke again. “And you're no mere human.”

“Never was normal to begin with.” I told him. I opened and closed my hands a few times. This is one of the most tensed stares I been in, and there's no way in hell that I'm leaving here with a demon controlling Shade. Prime or not.

“Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go.” He said before turning around.

I frowned at him, I was about to say something but a thought came to mind. “Where do you think you’re going, to a place to get your ass kicked again?”

He stopped walking and turned to glare at me, I know this is a bad idea but… “The big bad Diablo, the lord of Terror and smartest out of all the evils, got his ass kicked by a weakened state of the Demon King, and trust me there’s worse than the Demon King.”

“Being in my grandson’s body takes time to get used to.” He said as his red eyes turned black. Okay… that was something. Still don't want him walking around so…

“Ugh I hate using this spell, such a pain,” I said out loud. He stared at me until I swung my arm and a chain shot out and attached to his wrist.

“What is this!” he said angrily as he began to pull at it.

“Try all you like but again I don't trust you, and you can bet I'm not going to let some 'Evil’ walk around freely, until you give Shade control when he wakes up you're stuck with me.” I told him as I turned around and walked away. The chain tugged a bit and I looked back and saw that he hasn't moved. I pulled at him with the chain. "Come spooky.”

After literally dragging the Prime Evil around we came to a cave. I walked into the cave and came out into another big room with skulls of dead bodies. I felt a tinge of regret as I walk through the place. On the one side of the place I saw a solid black helmet.

Sighing I walked over to one of the walls and saw some plants there. I bent down and grabbed a handful of the plant and checked it before putting it in my bag.

“There we go now we can leave.” I said as I move to the center of the room, dragging Diablo as well. We got to the center of the room where a circle was. Standing on in I waved my hand making the runes glow.

“I hate you.” I heard him growl at me. I smiled.

“I get that a lot.” I said as the spell took place. Steam blocked our vision for just a second before going away to reveal the workshop. I saw Lydia sitting in front of the fireplace fast asleep, I saw Diablo staring at her as I move to the infirmary, dragging him along.

As we entered we headed towards the bed where Dusk is sleeping. I checked to see everything is alright and turned to the table beside it, without looking I pointed at Diablo.

“Don't touch anything, don't do anything, just stand there and be quiet.” I told him. He growled at me as I muttered something under my breath. I took the plants and began to boil it in water while pouring in other potions into it. When that was done I poured it into a jar and quickly cool it.

“You ready?” I said out loud as I turned to the bed.

“Of course my Lord.” a voice said. I looked up and saw that Yorshka appeared on the other side of the bed. I saw her looking over at Diablo with her neutral stare. I looked down at Dusk and poured the drink into his throat slowly. After that was done he whimpered at the taste of it. I looked over at Yorshka nodded.

“Wait,” Diablo said. “Let… let me help.”

I stared at him for a minute and saw him eye roll. “I may be the Prime Evil but I’m not heartless than I was long ago, this isn’t the first time that I took my grandsons body before.”

I looked over at Yorshka as she stared with her neutral stare. “He’s not lying.”

“... Alright.” I said to him. He looked at me and showed me the chain. “What? That thing doesn’t block anyone's magic.” He groaned as he put out his hand, the same as both of me and Yorshka. I saw snow white and blue pour out of Yorshka’s hand and Shadowy gray from Diablo’s, Mine was gray and orange. The magic poured into Dusk and after a moment a flash of light burst out. After the light I saw Dusk, now human, was sleeping soundly in the bed with no curse whatsoever on or in him. I saw the chain break off as I grabbed my notebook and starting writing down notes. Dusk slowly opened his eyes and looked at Diablo. The latter's eyes turned to a familiar blue.

“Rest, my child. You must sleep to regain your energy.” I heard him say. I looked back at him, seeing a perfect impersonation of Shade as he held Dusk’s hand.

After Dusk closed his eyes, snoring lightly afterwards, Diablo stood up before his eyes turned black again.

“Do it. My grandson cannot stay in his mind much longer.” He said to me. I nodded and snapped my fingers.

I heard him grunt a bit and looked up. I saw that a sword was sticking out of his chest. He looked at it and at me with not a look of anger but a calmed man. “Died, dies, will die.”

As the sword disappeared he fell down to the ground. I looked and saw that he was now passed the hell out on the ground.

I closed the book and went to pick him up, I saw that his wound has already healed so I set him down in one of the other beds to sleep, I checked if he was breathing and he was.

I looked over at Yorshka, she bowed and disappeared. I walked out of the room and picked up Lydia and moved her to where Shade is and covered them in a blanket. I looked over at Dusk.

“You have one hell of a pair of parents, kid.”

Shade

Being unconscious not only made my own body vulnerable for another to take over but it also sends me to my own personal hell. I know what I am and will soon become but I refuse to accept it.

When I had regained control over my body once again, I had felt an incredible amount of pain. Opening my eyes, I winced in pain and was forced to close them again for a minute or two before finally being able to open them.

I saw that I was in an infirmary. Looking down at myself, I saw my human form and silently cursed. It took me a few minutes before my mind had rebooted itself but when it did, I sprung out of my bed before looking around the room, not able to see Dusk.

“Dusk?” I called out, not receiving a reply. I heard the knob of the door turn before opening, I saw Lydia walk in with a tray that held two cups of steaming hot tea.

“You're awake, I've thought you’d sleep in, seeing as you’ve slept through the day yesterday.” She said as she walked over to and placing the tray on a table next the bed I slept on. She then gently pushed me back down to the bed to sit.

“Where's Dusk?” I asked her as she picked up both tea cups. She looked over to me and handed me one.

“He’s out, getting used to walking after being in bed for a week, at least that's what Jace said.” She said before taking a sip. She frowned a bit. “I yelled at him for an hour straight when I first woke up and saw that he wasn’t in bed.”

“So he's alright.” I said out loud. Lydia nodded before pecking me in the cheek.

“Come on, I made the tea myself and it is gooood.” Lydia said to me before taking another sip. I did the same and tasted what I could describe as almonds. Lowering the cup, I looked at my wife.

“You made this? You, the woman who nearly burnt down the kitchen trying to make some pancakes?” I asked with a few chuckles. She pouted as her cheeks showed a bit of rosy coloring.

“Shut up.” She said. I narrowed my eyes.

“Make me.” I said with a smirk. Lydia only gave a sultry look once I said that and placed her tea cup onto the tray before pouncing onto me, locking her lips with mine. I felt her tongue asking for entrance, allowing her inside our tongues soon wrestled for dominance and by luck, mine won.

Before long the passionate make out session escalated into something a bit more intimate.

“Someone's excited.” Lydia said. I looked down to see her finger circling around the bulge in my pants.

“What can I say, you just excite me.” I said to her.

With a flash of magic, the door was locked and we both then started discarding our clothes before resuming on the bed.

Jace

“Easy Dusk, take it slow.” I told him as he leaned on a bar for support. As I thought a week in bad and a curse of stone made his legs weak and stiff. I had him out walking so he can get his strength back, which he was getting pretty fast. At first he needed to hold on with both hands but now he just wobbles a little.

“We been doing this for hours, can I take a break I seen that tree for about a hundred times already.” he complained. I chuckled and walked over.

“Alright you can stop.” I told him as he sat down in the grass. I went to the tree and kicked it as three apples fell off. I grabbed them and handed one to Dusk and another to Stella who was also there watching.

“Why do you have to walk back and forth? Can’t you use magic to heal his legs?” she asked me. I saw Dusk looked at me with wide eyes.

“Magic can heal wounds Stella but not everything can be fixed with magic.” I told her as I took a bit out of the apple. I saw Dusk stand up and stretch a bit.

“I don’t like frogs anymore.” he said.

“Yeah I don’t like them either, always a pain.” I replied. I looked over at the workshop, Shade should be up by now so… “I’ll be right back, I going to see your parents.”

Dusk smiled brightly when I said that as I walked over to the workshop. It was empty since all the hunters, about five plus the others from the Valley, were out at the moment. I moved towards the infirmary but something caught my eye, an open jar on a work desk. I went over and looked at the label.

“Who the hell used almost all of the Guarana?” I said until I looked over a bit. There was a teapot with the stuff in it and I sensed a bit of magic in the air. If Guarana comes in contact with magic it’s properties become stronger and by the looks of it someone used a lot of it… and they made some tea with the stuff… and the only ones here are… oh.

I looked over at the door of the infirmary and sense magic on the door and muffled sounds and moans… “Oh you gotta be kidding me.”

I walked out of the place and back to the other two. I saw Dusk look at me funny. “Where are my parents?”

“In… the building.” I said.

“Doing what?” Stella asked.

“STUFF! Umm… just stuff, say how about we go to Sugarcube corner.”

That did it, they both started running towards the place, well Dusk wobbled a bit but kept going, I looked at the workshop and shook my head.

A of couple hours later, Night

I sat in the chair reading notes by the fire. Both Stella and Dusk were passed out on the couch with a blanket on them. I read until I heard a door opened, I looked and saw two beings walk out with some messed up clothes and big smiles. They stopped when they saw me and opened their mouths.

“Don’t, just… go take a shower. I can smell you two from here.” I told them. They walked off towards the bathroom, hopefully to clean themselves. After a few minute Shade walked out with a towel around his neck and a smile on his face. “I swear if you did it in the bathroom-”

“No, we didn't so don't pop a vessel.” Shade said. I looked at him and then back at a fire.

“You know, fighting monsters and dealing with being a hunter the last thing I expect was that.” I looked over at the other two, sleeping soundly. “One hell of a couple months.”

“Whatever you say.” He said before his hand emitted an ash grey hue. Shade was then covered in a bright flash before revealing him in clothing.

He wore a pair charcoal colored pinstripe dress pants, a black double breasted vest in black and a black dress shirt with pinpoint collar and french cuffs. I raised an eyebrow at him.

“Right, got to go with black clothes?” I said to him

“Meh, it's my preferred color to wear.” He said to me. I rolled my eyes and stared at the fire for a bit.

“Dusk has grown since the last time I saw him, it’s been… what eleven years for you?” I asked him.

“Twelve, you were close.” He answered. He walked up to the sleeping Dusk before taking a seat next to him. I stared at him for a bit.

“How are you holding up with them.” I asked. He looked at me confused as I tapped my head. “Those seven, I've seen one of them.”

“It took a while but I had pushed them back into the abyss I call my mind and tuned them out.” He said.

I shuttered a bit. “Please can you not talk about the abyss, I been there and I don’t want to go back.”

He stared at me for a minute before Lydia walked out into the room. She smiled at him and sat on his lap. I again rolled my eyes. “Just to say it now, if you want a second kid go to one of the hotels in town.”

“We don't plan on having another baby, at least not yet but that can change.” Lydia said. Shade only chuckled at her.

“... You know that a magic filled Guarana tea can increase the chances of becoming pregnant by 90%” I told her. They stared at me for a bit.

“... really…” She asked me.

“No not really.” she let out a sigh at that. “It’s more 85%, might want to check with your doctor when you get back.”

Lydia went a bit pale at the thought as Shade glared at me. I only shrugged. “Don’t look at me I wasn’t the one who made the tea.”

“We know but it isn't nice to frighten someone, no matter what they did.” Shade said before looking at Lydia.

I looked over at Dusk and Stella for a second and looked down at my hand, I hold a necklace with a stone and blue gem on it, I saw markings on it that no one can read but I know them from a past life, daddy.

“Are you alright?” I heard Lydia asked me. I stared at her as I felt a tear down my cheek.

“Oh… uhh yeah just… just remember something.” I told her as I wiped my eyes a bit.

“About what?” She asked me. I tried to think of something to saw until I heard something.

“D-daddy?” I looked over and saw Stella still asleep but with a scared look. “Where are you? Daddy?”

I sighed and got up and walked over and gave her the necklace. She brought it close and smiled, I went back to the chair and sat down. I looked over and saw that they were staring at me.

“If you have something to say then say it.” I said as I looked away to the fire.

“You're keeping something from her.” Lydia said. I frowned a bit.

“What that her dad isn’t coming back, that’s he’s dead…” I closed my eyes at a thought, changed.

“No, I'm sure you know what she means. You have that same look when you first saw me, you had the look of a man who remembers something from long ago.” Shade said. I stared at the fire some more before answering.

“She talks about her dad sometimes and that he’ll come back, but I know that he’s not coming back, he died a long time ago.” I told them. “I just… I just can’t say that to her.”

“She will find out eventually and I'm sure it won't be a good thing.” Lydia said.

“Of course not… hearing that the person you’ve been waiting for is dead.” I felt the room get darker as I stared at the fire. “It never is.”

Third-person

Shade and Lydia looked at one another after what Jace just said.

“Did… did his voice just… changed?” Lydia asked.

“Yes… I believe it did.” Shade answered his wife’s question. Lydia frowned and looked at Jace for a moment then saw something over him. She looked up saw something that made her eyes go wide.

“What… what is that.” she asked. Shade looked over at where she was staring and saw it. It was a shadow of something over Jace, it had a slim body with two sets of arms, one with claws and another with what looked like scythe blades. It curled over him and had it’s mouth open, what look like razor sharp teeth filled its mouth.

“Jace…” Shade said. Jace didn’t answer, only staring at the fire his mind was elsewhere.

“Jace!” Lydia called out. Jace blinked a few times and the room got brighter; he looked over at Lydia and Shade was sitting.

“I’m sorry what? I kinda blanked out there for a second.” he said. Shade stare at him for a second and about to ask about what happened but decided against it.

“So… how do we go back?” Shade asked him. Jace looked at them then nodded and stood up.

“Everything is being taken care of, by tomorrow afternoon you’ll be on your way home.” He said as he moved over to the two sleeping kids and picked them up. “There’s an empty room for you down the hallway, they get their own room for the night.”

The three of them left the main room and headed down the hallway to two doors. Jace softly kicked open one of them and went in to set the two down in the bed. He walked out of the room and allow Lydia and Shade say goodnight to their son.

With that done Jace showed them their room, which was right across from the other room, it was a simple room with a big bed. Lydia looked over at Jace. “Don’t you have a room?”

“Not really, I can sleep anywhere and I also have insomnia so I rarely sleep.” He told them as he closed the door, he stopped right about to close it. “By the way if you two do have your… ‘fun’ these walls are soundproof, a bomb can go off in this room and no one will hear it.”

And with that the door closed. Shade shook his head and chuckled a bit. “Nice to know you jackass.” Shade sniffed a bit as different smells came to him, mostly gunpowder, alchemical stuff, and… oranges? Shade looked over at Lydia as she was standing a bit away not moving. “Honey? Are you alright?”

“Shade…” she said as she turned around, her face was was red and she was biting her lip. Her hands were on her shirt fidgeting with it.

“Is something wro-MUUPH!” Shade was interrupted as Lydia literally pounced on him and tore his clothes off.

Outside of the room Jace was reading a herb book and he came to a page about Guarana.

“-if a Guarana is touched by magic, even by a simple spell like a levitation spell, it will increase the chance of a female to become pregnant to 85%.” Jace was about to flip the page as he saw a little note below it. “Note: Also if female drink the magic Guarana tea they will also become more likely to mate with their partner for long periods of time, multiple times, effects last for 24 hours. Farmers use this to breed farm animals.”

Jace reread that part over again and looked down that hallway. “... Well shit.”

Shade Shadow Bringer

I woke up sore, like really sore. I’ve been in battles, got stabbed many times and did things that no normal man would do, but that was nothing compared to how sore I am.

I looked over at Lydia as she was clinging onto my arm, making her D cup sized breasts envelope it. As much as I love her dearly, I can safely say she can be… freaky. The good kind.

“I don't really much care for how this happened or why but a night of love making is fine by me.” I said. I got out of bed and groaned in pain as I got dress. I looked back at Lydia and saw that she was still asleep. With what happened last night, it's no surprise that she is. I got up and walked out of the room and headed down the hallway. I looked up to see Jace working with some potions, he turned and saw me walking down the hallway. He nodded at a cup on the desk in front of me.

“That, is for your soreness that you are feeling right now.” he told me. I took the drink and drank it down in one go. It tasted like shit but the pain and soreness was going away slowly. I watched as he poured another drink in a cup.

“What’s that?” I asked him.

“This is a brew that would help counteract the tea Lydia made yesterday.” he said. “There were… some other side effects to the tea, you… probably notice.”

I stared at him for a moment then nodded. “Yeah, yeah I did she was like a animal in heat.”

“Well… she kinda was.” he picked up the tea and showed me it. “This would lower its effects to a more… manageable level.”

“A manageable level? What do you mean?” I asked him.

“What I mean is if I don’t give her the tea she will wake up and hunt you down and do what she just did last night again until the 24 hours is up.” again showed me the tea in his hand. “This will make it that she would still want to do it with you but not go crazy.”

“Right… though I wouldn't mind.” I said as he walked over to the bedroom and was out a few minutes later. We stood there for a few minutes in silent.

“So… want to get some coffee?”

“Yeah.” I said.

A couple hours later in the Everfree forest

I stood in the middle of the field watching Jace finishing up the last bit on whatever was going to send us home. Lydia stood beside me fidgeting a bit and blushing.

“Are you alright, love?” I asked her. She looked at me for a moment.

“Y-yeah I’m fine, just warm.” she replied. I nodded and looked at the two hunters standing there. Jace stood up and walked over to us.

“Alright that should do it, this should send you back home.” He said. He looked back and raised his hand as a flame ignited in his clawed hand. Odd why does he wear that?

He sent the flame to where he working and it burst into a gateway of smoke and ash. He looked over at the two hunters and nodded to to gateway. They nodded and made their way into it.

“What are they doing?” I asked him.

“Well just in case I messed it up and sent you to some other world it’s better to have some help.” he said as he walked over to the gateway and we followed. “Anyway I hope you get back alright.”

“Yeah, and uhh thanks for saving Dusk.” I said to him.

“Anytime man.” he said. He bent down to Dusk. “And you listen to your parents and be good got it?”

“Yes.” he said. Jace ruffled his hair a bit and stood up.

“Umm Jace.” Lydia began.

“Yes?”

“If… I was wondering, if you ever wanted to come over for a visit, you're free to come by.” she said to him. He tilted his head a bit and nodded.

“I’ll keep that in mind, oh and Twilight.” he started. She looked around surprised for a moment. “Black hair looks good on you.”

She smiled and the three of us walked through the portal home.

Celestia DawnBringer

I sat on my throne sighing after a long Day court. It been three days since my son went to another world to rescue Dusk, I keep telling myself that he and Twilight would be fine but I still worry. I looked down at Nyx who was staring out of the window.

“Is everything alright?” Shining asked me. Both he and Cadence came to help with Nyx but so far it didn’t work.

“I’m just worried.” I simply said.

“Well don’t worry, both of them are tough they will come back.” Cadence said to me.

“But just in case, we have some unicorns looking into these rifts, then we can go in and find them.” Shining stated as two of the crystal guards saluted. I opened my mouth to say something but a burst of magic that I have never felt before appeared in the throne room. A gateway made of ash and smoke opened up and two beings walked out of it. They wore leather, they look like hairless apes, and they are armed with weapons.

“Guards!” Shining called out. The two guards rushed over to them to fight them but didn’t last three seconds. One grabbed a guard and slammed him into the ground and the other simply punched another guard in the face. They simply stood there as more figures stepped out of the room.

Shade Shadow Bringer

The light through travel always annoys me, it varies from either blinding you or you're forced to walk inside a psychedelic tunnel with Anu knows what. After being forced through the very same tunnel I had previously mentioned, we had arrived in a familiar room, a throne room to be exact.

I looked around, seeing the knocked out guards on the floor and the hunters standing above them.

“Thank you for the escort but~," I said, waving my hand around as it shone an ash-grey hue. The effects were immediate, two large arms appeared through the portal and quickly grabbed the hunters. They struggled to free themselves.

“You anymore.” I said before mimicking a baseball throw. Looking at the two arms, they were mimicking me before I threw the imaginary ball, causing both arms to throw the hunters through the portal before it closed.

Dusk only watched in amazement, he always does whenever I use my powers. Let it be flight or conjuring, the little tyke always seems interested in them and of course uses this interest as an excuse to be with me most of the time.

Twilight only shook her head before being enveloped in a bright blue light. The light vanished and revealed that Twilight was back to being a pony.

The same light took both me and Dusk before leaving us as ponies again. I picked up Dusk before placing him between my shoulders and looking up at the throne, seeing my mother and father watching with mouth agape.

I rolled my eyes. One would think that they're impossible to surprise but when you add multi dimensional travel, I'm sure they've been trying to make sense of it.

What happened next had confused me, one second I could see then the next my vision went white.

“I was so worried that you wouldn't make it back.” I heard mother. I was being hugged by her, hard I might add and I swore I could hear the snapping of my spine.

“Honey, you suffocating the poor man.” I heard dad say before mom pulled away from the hug. I looked back, seeing Twilight holding Dusk up with levitation before gently putting him down.

Not even a second later, I was tackled to the ground.

“Daddy!” Nyx, my twenty four year old step daughter shouted behind me. Honestly, she still acts like a kid even after going through High school.

I groaned from the pain before getting up with Nyx still on my back, thank Anu for my strength. I held her up as if I was giving her a piggy back ride.

“As much as I love you, Nyx, you need to get off of me.” I said and moments later, she was gone. I could hear her talking to her mother, saying that she was sad the entire time we were gone and that she felt like it was her fault that Dusk was taken.

“So, are you going to tell us what had occurred in the other world?” Mom asked me as I dropped onto the floor cross legged. Dad sniffed the air before looking at both me and Twilight.

“And why do you reek of sex?” He asked me with a stern and whispered tone. I groaned, knowing I might get scolded for this but hey, best night I've ever had.

A Month Later
Ponyville

“I blame you.” Twilight said before continuing to vomit into the toilet. I was crouched next to her, rubbing her back as she hurled once more.

“May I remind you that you were the one that made the tea.” I said with a straight face. She didn't reply neither did she throw up.

“Feeling better?” I asked her. She gave a slight nod before I straightened up. I helped her back up to her hooves and I saw the state she was in. She has seen better days.
Her mane was a mess, her eyes were bloodshot and she had been having morning sickness for the past week, it was only today that she had vomited.

“What-” she began before putting her head back into the toilet and vomit some more. She turned to me with a glare. “What do you think.”

I sighed before rubbing my eyes. The room was then filled with silence with the occasional Twilight throwing up. I stood up and summoned a scroll.

Finishing the letter, it soon lit ablaze in blue flame. I crouched back down to comfort Twilight again.

Minutes passed before another scroll appeared in orange flame. Opening it, seeing a blank scroll with a single pill in it and took it.

Looking over to the other side of the bathroom, I saw the medicine cabinet and walked over to it before opening it. I took out the small cup inside and filled it with water.

Once the cup was filled, I walked back to Twilight.

“Here, this'll help with your nausea and vomiting.” I said to her. She looked at me then at the pill before weakly taking it. She swallowed the pill before taking a sip from the water.

“Ugh, what was that?” She asked me, disgust in her voice.

“Some medicine from Earth. I've taken health class and it was only by chance I didn't cut class that day.” I said to her with smirk. She stayed silent before punching me in the shoulder.

“You dick! You knew about the medicine all along!?” She yelled. I scratched the back of my head.

“Hehe, must've slipped my mind.” I said with a nervous chuckle. Her glare was cold enough to freeze hell ten times over. Her eyes soon started shining her lavender magical aura and with that I had tried to run but was blasted out the door instead.

“I'll notify Starlight.” I said, dizzy and with headache from the impact. I looked at Twilight, seeing that the effects of the pill were almost immediate.

“You're getting it tonight.” She said in a threatening tone, one I'm most familiar with. A single night of Revenge fucking, it beats having to scrubbing the entire castle with a toothbrush.

Jace

Day: 14 of research on the rifts.

Rifts, or what I been calling them, have been popping up all over the place, each time different beings come out -mostly monster- and try to eat someone. Most hunter groups are working on ways to close the tears but unable to predict where the next one going to show up. With the Gala coming closer and closer it became harder to cover this up, especially when a giant red lizard comes out of one of the tears and start torching everyone.

The portal I made to send Shade back used one of these rifts as a gateway to his world, the spell I used made sure that it didn’t open it even more, though with what the two hunters that came back, more like flung back, they came back about two days later, which they said they were gone for ten seconds, they also said that it seemed the rift came from inside the castle in Canterlot.

So far the creatures that jumped over have been fairly easy to deal with but how long will that last?

I sighed as I pinched the bridge of my nose. This was getting annoying and I have a feeling that it's going to get worst.

I remembered what Twilight/ Lydia said to me about coming over to visit and stuff but if I do find a way to close the rifts I would probably never get to see them again. That was fine, as long as nothing from my world goes over and start tearing through everything then it would be fine.

Speaking of something going over there;

“Now what have you learned about going over to a different world and kidnapping my friends son?” I asked to the being behind me. Amygdala was on the ground with all of it’s arms torn off and chained down, it groaned at me as I nodded.

“That’s what I thought.” I said. I was about to close my journal but I remember something.

Note to self: Remember to build a special vault to keep everything from Guarana to Angel's Trumpet from anyone, don’t want to have what happen with Lydia again.

Author's Notes:

And that's it! That's the arc!

hope you enjoy :)

(Edit: The Boldness has been fixed, sorry again -_-)