The pirate crew of this ship charges at me and I grin as I release a torrent of darkfire into the majority of them turning them into ash. I then turn to the left and swing my scythe into the first pony to reach me, impaling him in the shoulder and into his gut, Thanatos sings gleefully as he rips out the pony's soul turning the body into a shrivelled husk.

I easily pull out my scythe from the dried up corpse and swing it round to my right decapitating a gryphon. I watch as his soul is ripped out and flows into my scythe's blade as an ethereal scream echoes from the gryphon's soul before it's fully absorbed.

That unnerves the crew but still they attack me. I laugh since I had to kill the Equestrian guards to protect my companions, but here? Here I can slaughter these fools for fun!

I leap over a minotaur and hold my blade down resulting in his head splitting down the middle, his brain matter slips out as the two halves fall to the sides and onto his shoulders before he collapses to the deck with his blood pooling around him. His soul is also ripped out as it screams in fear making Thanatos shiver in delight.

A female bipedal golden retriever like dog pirate howls before pouncing at me with a sabre in each hand in an attempt to impale me. I use my wings to jump in the air before coming back down on her back, pinning her to the deck. I was about to sever her head from her shoulders but another idea comes to mind.

I grin wider as I lean down, pull her head up and bite her neck making her yelp in pain as I flood her with my demonic energy. I did want to see what one of these would look like as a demon anyway. I also note her blood tastes a bit like a bitter ale.

Her fur turns a dark brown and her features change from a dog to that of a wolf. Her muscles are more defined and her teeth are much more sharper. Her eyes turn red and slitted as my mark forms on her neck.

I release her as a dagger is plunged into my shoulder and I turn to the one responsible, a male earth pony with a now shocked expression. "Nice try," I tell him and grip his face with my left hand and cover his head in darkfire. He screams as his fur burns and flesh melts, his eyes pop before his neck rips from the weakened flesh. His body hits the deck and his head still in my grasp is reduced to ash.

The now bipedal wolf slowly gets up panting and shivering, her white shirt and shorts are slightly torn from her muscles expanding, but her eyes look unfocused and hungry. I then pull out the dagger in my shoulder and drop it.

The crew look fearful at their once fellow crew member now turned demon. I smile as I circle her. 'She looks similar to a werewolf... I think I'll call her kind lycans,' I think to myself before gripping her chin and forcing her to look at me. "What is your name?" I order her to answer me.

"K-Kira Goldfur..." she replies struggling to focus on me.

"I see, you are now under my command, Kira," I tell her and look around. "And my first order is to kill this crew," I tell her and her eyes dilate before glowing red and turn sharper, more focused with purpose. I've taken her free will for now so she'll feel no remorse or hesitation killing any of her possible friends on the ship.

"Yes, Master," she replies before howling even louder than she did before. She foregoes her sabres in favour of her new sharper claws and dives into a zebra woman who screams in fear. Kira silences her by ripping out her throat with her teeth and swallows the chunk of flesh and blood.

I return my attention to the crew and carve them apart while taking their souls, letting loose like this is really good for relieving the stress I've accumulated over the last four days.

I lick my lips as I lash out with my whips, I wrap my right whip around a pony's neck and a gryphon's with my left. The thorns dig into their flesh and with a strong pull, I sever their heads from their shoulders with a spray of blood splashing the area. Oh it's been far too long since I've went on a killing spree.

I smirk as it's cute thinking that they could sneak up on me as I pull my whips and swing them over my head, hitting the mutt behind me in the face tearing his eyes open in the process, he screams in pain clutching his eyes as blood flows out like tears.

"Are you boys even trying?" I ask them as three of them try to impale me with spears. I laugh as I take to the air and whip two of them across their throats tearing out their jugulars making them choke before collapsing.

I land back on the deck and then yelp as an arrow pierces my left hip. I turn around and glare at the pony with a bow. "You dare harm my beautiful body!? Oh you are so dead foal!" I yell and fly right for him making him stumble trying to notch a new arrow. I reach him and slap the bow from his hands and I dismiss my whips.

I lunge my left hand out and grip his throat as I create a rod with small razor sharp blades along the tip in my right hand. With a frown I ram it down his throat and start thrusting it in and out. Tears flow down his face as my... weapon shreds his throat apart making him choke and sputter blood around the... admittedly phallic object I'm forcing him to deepthroat.

I hear Ironhoof crushing the other pirates while I teach this worm his place. Hmmm, seems I've got a bit of a power complex ever since Damien gave me my power boost all those years ago... Oh well. I continue until the poor sod is no longer moving and just drop his corpse before pulling out the arrow with a hiss of pain.

I huff and toss the arrow aside before conjuring my whips again and continue to slaughter these pathetic pirates.

I frown as I squash the head of another pony before a minotaur I recognise charges at me. I snort and return the charge as our heads collide with him stumbling back in a daze before falling onto his back while I felt nothing.

"Hello, Thunderhorn. I thought you went back home after I left the port?" I ask and stand beside him while choking a gryphon who tried to cut my head off.

"Ironhoof!?" he replies as his eyes refocus.

"Aye, it's me," I say and snap the bird's neck before tossing him into a pegasus trying to ambush me from above.

Thunderhorn gets up and looks at me in disbelief. "Brother... what in Tartarus happened to you!" he demands and grasps my shoulders looking me over, blood is dripping down his forehead from our collision.

"I've grown stronger, brother! My orders were to kill this ship's crew, but... I would prefer you joined us. It's amazing, Thunderhorn. The power I now have, I'm stronger than any minotaur in the world!" I proclaim and shrug my brother off me as I punch a zebra in the face, making his neck snap back and drop dead onto the deck.

My brother just stares at me with wide eyes. "But these are our friends! Our allies! How could you just abandon and kill them for power?" he asks me sadly.

"Friends? Thunderhorn, you know full well why I became a pirate in the first place," I tell him coldly. I then push him aside as a cannon fires at me and I catch the iron ball while sliding back a metre from the force.

I grin before tossing the iron ball back at the diamond dog responsible sending him overboard and into the sea.

Thunderhorn looks up at me from his prone position and sighs before getting back up. "But father wouldn't condone this! Being pirates is one thing... but becoming a monster?" he tells me with frown.

I huff and grip his shirt, pulling him so we're face to face. "That old bull can rot for all I care, we did this for our mother and sister after he left us! Now I have the power to make sure they live a comfortable life and I've gathered enough gold to secure their futures for years to come! If becoming a monster means they can continue to live comfortably then so be it!" I yell at him before tossing him aside and continue with my rampage on the ship.

I fly around the ship with two dark blue longswords made from my magic as I battle the pegasi and gryphons, preventing them from attacking our ship.

A gryphon hen rushes me with a pair of cutlasses and a war cry. I teleport behind her the moment she reaches me and sever her wings off, making her scream as she plummets while flailing her limbs to the calm sea below.

"Sister!" I hear Luna call to me as she flies up beside me so we are back to back. "We art unsure about this... thou received our joy for battle... we art not sure we cans't do this..." she tells me but still has a pair of magically made swords in her hands as well.

"Worry not, sister! We shall tear these scum apart!" I tell her and parry a spear aimed at me before throwing my left sword at the pegasi, impaling his chest. I conjure a new sword and grin at the ponies and gryphons surrounding us.

"But-" she begins but I cut her off.

"If thou art scared of taking a life, then how art thou going to aid our sister? If thou art unwilling to fight then thou canst not save Celly!" I tell her, knowing that we both care deeply for our sister that we would do anything to help her, even from herself. “Remember our battles from our past, thou knowest thee canst do it!”

I look back and see a grim expression on her face before she teleports in front of a green furred mare and using her swords like a pair of scissors, cuts her head off cleanly and moves onto the next pirate. I smirk and dodge another attempt to impale me, which I reply by melding into the Shadow Realm. I exit behind the gryphon and run both my blades through her back and out of her chest.

I sigh as I leave Gilda's room after feeding on her lust again, though I'm not sure about the possessive thoughts I've been getting about her, I'll ask Damien and Mrs Desire about it later.

With a roll of my neck I start walking towards Damien's room to see Twilight. Along the way though I see a stallion wearing a red and white striped shirt with short loose pants tied to his waist with a sash. A bandanna is wrapped around his head, but the one thing I focus on is the cutlass he has drawn in his right hand.

"Who are you!?" I demand as he's not from the crew or passengers we saved.

"Oh looky 'ere, a'nudder one of dem freaks," he says as another stallion walks into view with a sabre.

"I'll say it only one more time, who are you!?" I demand again.

They don't answer and the pony with the cutlass thrusts it at me with a grin. I quickly raise my left arm creating a shield with my demon magic blocking his thrust, I then create a broadsword with the same demon magic and thrust back. It seems my conjuration was enough to surprise him long enough for me to impale his throat, dropping him to the floor.

"Longblade! You're gonna regret that you bastard!" his friend yells and swings his sabre at me, only for it to get stuck in the hallway ceiling.

'Is this idiot serious? Who swings a sword in a narrow hallway?' I wonder with a raised brow and then stab him in the head quickly.

Once he's down I make my way through the hallway towards Twilight's room and burst through the door.

I go wide eyed seeing Fluttershy and Twilight with bruises tied up on the floor with a gryphon and zebra about to pick them up. I notice the zebra has a deep cut across his chest, most likely from Twilight resisting, I then feel myself snap and create two gauntlets from my demon magic with spiked knuckles. With a cry of rage befitting a dragon, I lunge at the zebra and punch him right in the face, the sound of his jaw shattering makes me grin as I turn to the gryphon and parry his sword with my left gauntlet before uppercutting him with my right.

I don't waste a second before pinning him to the floor and repeatedly smash his face in over and over, making his beak crack then break off followed by his eyes bursting and his feathers to be ripped off from the force I'm using.

After a full minute of non-stop pummelling, I stop and breath heavily as I look down at the now unrecognisable gryphon who's barely twitching under me.

I frown and look at my gauntlets and see they're coated in blood and feathers, and I can't bring myself to care... am I becoming heartless? I then look back to a wide eyed Twilight staring at me with a sad expression. No, I'm not heartless, I did what I had to to protect my sister and her friend… I guess I understand Damien a bit more now.

I dismiss my gauntlets and make my way over to the mares then untie and ungag them both.

"ANGEL!" Fluttershy screams and picks up her pet who has a deep gash in his left side. I guess he was the one to injure the zebra, not Twilight.

"Twily, lock the door, I'll go get Damien or Mrs Desire, maybe they can help Angel," I tell her. I glance over and see the rabbit is still alive but in pain as Fluttershy tries to press a cloth to his wound to stem the blood flow.

"A-Alright, just be careful," my sister replies and hugs me.

I pull her off and hand her the zebra's sword. "Do not hesitate to use this if somepony you don't know tries to get in," I tell her with a stern tone.

She looks at Fluttershy and her pet, and then back to me. "R-Right," she says and shakily takes the cutlass.

I nodded and get up, I smile at her before heading to the door with my demon gauntlets back on and an angry expression on my face. 'How in Tartarus did pirates get on board!?'

I leap over another pirate and plunge my left hand into his back and rip out his spine, but unfortunately it snaps at the base of his neck. I need to practice that some more, I never can seem to rip the skull out with it as well... unless that's just been movie logic all along...

Tossing the vertebrae aside I glance to the lycan still tearing into the rest of the crew with a single minded purpose. She's suffered some cuts and gashes but if she survives I'll be sure to help her heal, now I just need to find more of them to bring back to Tartarus, more new demon types means better variety and options in both my army and as civilians.

I kill the last crew member on the deck as Kira limps over and just stands beside me waiting for new orders. I look over towards Skullcove Bay and get a wonderful idea, I can just turn the bay into a new demon town. It'll weaken me a bit and force us to stay to recover, but it'll be a good foothold in this new world.

"Where are they!?" I hear shining yell out looking ready to fight.

"Shining? What are you doing up here?" I ask him as I fly over to him. Kira follows after me and leaps from ship to ship but trips with a pained yelp due to her injuries.

I sigh and place my hand on her back and give her some on my energy to accelerate her healing. She whimpers on the deck while her wounds slowly begin to heal, which isn't at all quick as she's only a lesser demon right now.

"What do you mean!?" he asks me angrily. "Twilight and Fluttershy were just attacked and almost taken away, I killed the bastards responsible and came up here to find out what the buck is going on!" he tells me with a scowl.

"Well, if you couldn't tell, the pirates tried to take over the ship," I reply and look out to see the other two ships heading towards us ready to board. "Excuse me for a second. Kira, stay here," I order the lycan.

"Y-Yes, Master," she replies emotionlessly but still in pain.

I fly off towards the left ship and as I circle it, I launch darkfire dragons at it setting the ship on fire as they explode on the poor buggers. The flames quickly eat through the ship reducing it to ash and anyone it touches. The crew that can fly take off and head back to the bay, most likely to warn their leader, but those who couldn't jump over board, taking their chances with the sea than with the flames.

I head back to the ship and watch as Luna and Selene fire balls of magic that detonate upon impact blowing holes in the other ship sinking it quickly.

I revert back to my human form and stretch my limbs. "Well, these pirates have royally pissed me off, so I have two options: one, I destroy the entire bay and all the scum within it. Or two, I convert the pirates into demons and claim the bay for Tartarus," I suggest to the others as they gather around.

"You want to WHAT!?" Shining yells in disbelief.

"Burn the bay down?" I reply with a raised brow.

"I think he means the conversion option, darling," Desire tells me with a smile.

"Oh, what's so surprising about that? It'll increase my forces and give us a safe haven here for when or if we return," I tell Shining.

Scarlet walks onto the deck dragging a few corpses with her. "Found these blokes below trying to tie up some of the passengers, so I killed the buckers. What do you want me to do with them, Sir?" she says and asks me.

"Toss them overboard," I reply and walk over to the body of Blackhide and place my hand on his still warm back.

"What are you doing?" Ironhoof asks me in confusion. I'll ask him who the minotaur next to him is later, so far he seems docile enough.

I ignore him and pour my energy into the body which begins twitching. After a few seconds he jolts awake and coughs violently.

"Sweet Celestia! You can revive the dead!?" Shining asks in shock while the hole in Blackhide's head is still there.

"Sort of, he's now an undead ghoul. His body is still a corpse, Using Thanatos' soul manipulating abilities I bound his soul to his body and he will serve me until I release him," I reply. I hate making ghouls but having him alive... ish, will help me convince the Pirate King and his pirates to be converted into my demons or be destroyed.

Some of our crew wince or grimace while one throws up over the railings. "Undead? You mean like a zombie from those cub comics?" Jock asks me while eyeing the still twitching Blackhide warily.

"Well, almost. He's not a mindless brain hungry monster, but he has no choice but to obey me," I reply and slap Blackhide on the back of his head. "Wake up already," I tell him and he shakes his head before looking around.

"The cluck is going on!?" the undead gryphon asks with wide eyes and looks around. "What happened to my ships!? My crews!?" he demands and then spots me.

"Well, I had them all killed," I reply and cross my arms. "You brought it upon yourself when you ordered them to take us," I tell him coldly.

"You filthy piece of yak shit!" he roars angrily at me and I smirk as he tries to swipe at me, only to freeze and convulse in pain from the demonic energy I left in him as it tortures his soul for attacking his master.

I lean down and grip his throat as I pull him up off the deck and dangling in the air. "Your first order is to get us into Skullcove so I can talk to this... Pirate King of yours, think you can do that?" I ask him.

His eyes glow red and he goes limp. "Yes, Master..." he replies lifelessly.

"Good," I say and put him down. I then look to the lycan who doesn't appear to be in much pain anymore but her wounds are still healing. I let her have her free will back and she gasps before looking at her claws covered in blood.

"So, how do you feel, Miss Goldfur?" I ask her and she looks up at me fearfully.

"W-What did you do to me!?" she yells shaking in place while backing up a couple of steps.

"You're now my newest demon, a lycan. You will obey my orders and be treated fairly, or refuse and I strip you of your free will again, understood?" I reply and tell her.

She looks back to the ship she was on and at the corpses strewn about, mostly the ones dismembered and gutted by her. She then looks back into my cold gaze and gulps before nodding quickly.

I smile and pat her on the head. "Good girl," I say and look at the others. "Get this ship over to Skullcove now, we have a King to visit," I tell the crew who quickly get to work.

“Damien,” Shining says getting my attention. “Fluttershy’s pet Angel was injured trying to protect her and my sister, he needs medical attention,” Shining tells me but looks unhappy with what I have planned for the bay.

“Thank you for informing me, I’ll go and see what I can do,” I reply and head below deck.

Part 3 next, Skullcove Bay is in for a surprise!

Also lycans! Werewolves who stay in werewolf form permanently.

Also what kind of demon do you think a zebra would be?