I look at Luna with a raised brow as she rubs her hands together with a grin on her face.

"And just what are you planning?" I ask her

She looks at me still grinning. "We shall seal him in a doll house with so many frilly dresses he shall wear!" she tells me in a chipper voice, but I feel the anger and malice hidden in her tone.

I can't help but smirk at the image I have of it in my head. "Ha! As amusing as that sounds, I think I'd like to put him on trial for the attempted murder of my people. I'm also curious about what he meant by 'his perfect world'," I reply and look back down to the struggling necromancer before looking back to the others.

Selene and Luna look at me with surprised expressions. "Trial!? Thou wish for a trial!?" Selene asks me angrily.

"Well not just for his attacks on my demons, but for the attacks on your people millennia ago. More of a formality at this point but still, I'd like to hear his side of the story first," I tell her and look to the necromancer who is looking back at me.

"You would hear the lies from a mass murderer?" Celestia asks me with a hint of disgust.

"I'm simply interested in what he has to say for himself. It wont excuse him from what he's done or attempted to do, and he will be punished for them, but I'm just curious is all," I reply and look to Porkscratch. "Let him up, but if he tries anything, rip his arms and legs off," I order him.

He laughs with a few snorts and stands up. "Oh please try something! I'd be happy to put you back in your place," Porkscratch says and steps away a few feet.

The necromancer slowly gets up with a growl while looking at us, before looking around to see he's surrounded with my demons all pointing spears or guns at him.

"Now then," I say and clap my hands, getting everyone's attention. "You will either be taken back to Canterlot or Fel Haven for your trial and judgement." I then look to Celestia. "Where would you prefer to have it? Do note that my courtroom has much better security and defences," I tell her, making her frown at the slight jab at her guards I made.

She then sighs. "Fine, we'll have this trial in your courtroom," she says, getting nods from Luna and Selene as well.

"Alright, those who want to go back to Canterlot please ask Pinkie to send you, those who are coming just wait until the others have left. Oh, and Cadence? You may want to go back as entering Tartarus may turn you into a Demon due to the high amounts of demonic energy permeating the planet," I warn her, making her wince.

She looks at shining who just smiles gently at her, though Gilda is still giving her the stink eye.

"Alright, I'll look after Canterlot until you return," she says and walks over to Pinkie who opens a portal to the lounge.

I watch as Fluttershy and her animals head back through, followed by Applejack, Cadence with Shining and Gilda, and lastly Rarity and Spike.

That leaves Celestia, Luna, Selene, Twilight, Rainbow, Pinkie, Mel, my sons, Desire, Slitherana, my demons, and the Necromancer.

"Okay next, You lot pack up and get ready to move deeper into the forest, the Alicorns want to keep this ruin as is so we're going to relocate when we return!" I inform my demons who all groan as they were ready to demolish and begin putting tools and explosives away.

I chuckle and look to the necromancer to see he's looking around, most likely to find a way out. I hold my left hand out to him and before he could do anything, I launch six tendrils at him, restraining his arms, legs, waist, and neck. "Pinkie, would you be so kind as to open a Portal to my castle throne room?" I ask her politely as the necromancer is squirming and spouting obscenities like a priest tells sermons.

Rainbow laughs at the necromancer while Luna and Selene giggle. Pinkie puts a couple of ear plugs in her ears and opens the portal I asked for.

I nod to her before walking through followed by everyone else. I look around and spot a few of the guards and city officials looking at us in confusion and interest.

"My lord, who or what is this... Charming fellow?" My royal treasurer asks with a raised brow and unamused expression. He's a fifty-three year old Goblin named Godon, or Moneybags as the staff like to call him, in a clean black suit with white undershirt and a pair of reading glasses on.

"He tried murdering some of our people, so he's going to be put on trial and punished. He's also murdered many of Equus' people as well," I reply and sigh as the necromancer is still cursing his head off. Wrapping a tendril around his mouth didn't shut him up and he's still talking.

"I see, I was just about to hand in my report on our current financial accounts and what projects are asking for funding," he tells me with a folder held between his left arm and hip.

"Thank you for your work as always, Godon. Leave it on my desk and I'll get to it tonight," I tell him.

He nods to me and starts heading to my office. "Of course, my lord," he replies and walks away.

I chuckle at his serious attitude and look to the others. "Follow me please to the courtroom," I say and take a left to the large double doors where a pair of scales is engraved on each.

"Momma! That lady has a pretty mane and tail!" I hear a succupony filly with her mother say while pointing at Celestia who's mane and tail flows like a calm fire. It turns out it can change colour depending on how she's feeling as it turns a slight shade of pink as she smiles a bit from the comment.

We enter the room and see a standard courtroom with the judge's elevated seat, the defence and prosecutors stands as well as a jury's bench. There are ten guards all pointing rifles at the defendant who is also chained to the chair he's on. It would seem a court case has just finished and everyone here is getting ready to leave as the Deamon incupony is being unchained from the chair and then forced out a side door while the prosecution thank the judge and pack up their papers and bags.

"Excuse me! May I ask you all to stay for a while longer!? We have a trial to do here and it would be appreciated if you could stay for it," I say and walk up to the defendant's stand and tie the Necromancer to the chair with my tendrils.

"Lord, Damien? And what are the charges against this... being?" Judge Unwavering Will asks. He's a middle aged incupony with dark green fur and a greying dark blue mane. He's wearing a black robe with the same scales from the door on his shoulders and a white shirt.

"Attempted murder and mass murder as well as mass forced mindcontol via necromancy," I reply and gesture the three alicorn princesses to the prosecutors stand.

Most of the witnesses sit back down murmuring to each other while the Jury stare at the still struggling Necromancer.

"How many has he murdered?" Judge Will asks us.

Celestia steps forward with a frown. "Over twenty-thousand lost their lives to this monster," she replies, giving the Necromancer a glare.

"I gave them eternal life! They no longer felt pain! They no longer went hungry! No longer needed sleep! They no longer fought each other! They were perfect! All I wanted was to share this gift with the rest of the world!" the Necromancer yells angrily as he struggles in his chair.

I huff with a glare at him. "Being a mindless animated corpse is a gift huh? Ask any of the ghouls in Tartarus and they'll tell you that their undead condition isn't pleasant. They still feel pain, they feel cold most of the time despite the heat of Tartarus around them. And no matter how much they eat, they still feel a constant hunger. You're 'gifts' are more of a curse and the only reason most ghouls stay 'alive' is to stay with their families," I tell him. "If you were still flesh and blood, I'd turn you into ghoul just so you can see for yourself the pain and misery you forced onto others."

The Necromancer growls and looks at me. "You have no idea of the freedom undeath truly brings! No fear of death pulling you away from your home or family!" he replies as one of the jury stands up and walks over to us. She's a ghoul succupony with some missing patches of fur on her face and mild rotting on her arms. Her fur is dark grey and her mane is a dirty blonde colour. She's also wearing a black formal suit with a knee long skirt. One of her eyes is a deep blue while the other is a cloudy milky white.

An angry glare is on her face and her voice has a gravelly tone to it. "A gift you say? I would rather be dead than continue this existence, and you forced over twenty-thousand people to suffer this curse? I'm still alive for my daughter only until she no longer needs me, I will suffer for as long as it takes until I can finally end this misery. As far as I'm concerned, you deserve the most painful and cruellest punishment there is," she tells him before spitting a rancid glob of thick saliva in his face before heading back to her seat.

Judge Will hits his gavel a couple of times to get everyone's attention while looking at the Necromancer. "So you admit to the mass-murder of thousands?" he asks him coldly.

The Necromancer looks to the Judge and growls. "Not murder, but rebirth!"

I just look at the nearest wall with a deadpan stare. 'Okay, so he's just insane. Though that is to be expected after millennia locked away.

Judge Will sighs with a frown. "I believe I've heard enough. Jury, how do you find the... Defendant?" he asks the jury in a neutral tone.

They look amongst each other and nod before looking back. "Guilty," the ghoul succupony says with almost a snarl in her tone.

"NONE OF YOU UNDERSTAND THE TRUE EMBRACE OF UNDEATH!" The Necromancer yells out angrily and redoubles his struggling.

"Then by the power invested in me by Lord Damien, I sentence you to the highest judgement possible, soul extraction. May you suffer for the lives you have cut short and the families you have destroyed," Judge Will says and bangs his gavel one last time.

The Necromancer rages loudly, spouting his insane drivel about the beauty of undeath and its gifts. I'm disappointed that he didn't have a more in-depth reason, or perhaps being alone for so long, he's simply forgotten. Either way, he'll be judged not by my hand, but from one of the alicorn sisters.

The witnesses and jury make their way out of the room while I pull the Necromancer off the chair and lift him a foot into the air in front of us.

I summon Thanatos and hold him out to the three sisters. "Since they were your subjects he killed, it's only fair that one of you be the one that punishes him," I tell them.

Selene without hesitation steps forward and grips Thanatos tightly before looking to the struggling Necromancer.

"This is for Starshine, the rest of our friends, and our subjects," she says in a deathly clam tone before pulling back the scythe and screams in rage. Thanatos swings forward and impales the Necromancer in the chest, the hard material he's made of splinters and cracks around the entry and exit wounds and black ink like blood flows out of both.

"RRRAAAAAAAGGGHH!" The Necromancer screams in agony as a grey see-through pony with a permanent frown on his face, thick eyebrows and a full short beard, slicked back mane, and frail looking body is ripped out and absorbed into Thanatos. The doll like body cracks and splinters all over before rotting and crumbling to dust.

Selene looks at Thanatos in her hands and smiles as she closes her eyes and sighs. She turns back to me as I dismiss my tendrils and she holds him out to me.

"Feel better?" I ask her and take Thanatos back before then dismissing him.

"Much, we've always felt the Elements never truly punished him for all he did, but now... We feel that all our friends and subjects can truly rest now that real justice hast been dealt," she replies with a sad smile, no doubt thinking of those friends she lost.

"Well then," I say and clap my hands, pulling her out of her thoughts. "Now that, that's over with, I believe I need to find a nice location for my new demon town in the Everfree, then get some of our best mages to create a new set of portal gates. Oh, I also need to figure out how to release Olestra from her curse as well," I say and frown in thought. Is it a simple matter of overpowering her curse with demonic energy, or will we have to dismantle the curse piece by piece?

Celestia sighs and rubs her eyes. "And I need to write up a peace treaty with you or Desire later... Sun and moon above I need a drink..." she says and mumbles making Luna giggle.

That comment makes me chuckle a bit at the thought of her sitting at a bar and face on the counter, drunkenly mumbling all her problems to the barkeep. "Okay then, ask pinkie if you want to go back to Canterlot or Ponyville. I need her help in moving supplies to the Everfree and locate a nice spot for a town," I say and walk over to one of the maids sweeping away the splinters and dust of the Necromancer's remains. "Can you go to the forge and ask three of the smiths to go to the throne room? Then get the quartermaster to gather enough supplies to start a frontier town ready in the courtyard," I ask her. The harpy maid smiles and bows her head.

"At once, my Lord," she replies and jogs out of the room.

Twilight then walks over to me and holds my arm and speaks up. "Can I help with the town? I'm curious to see how you construct those large buildings out of mostly metal," she asks me with a smile.

"Sure, since you plan on staying with us, it'll be good for you to learn how things are done here in case you want to help out," I reply and smile back at her.

"Blergh. Enough with the sappiness already, now that's all over with, I need to get back to Ponyville and see if I still have a job with the weather team," Rainbow says impatiently with crossed arms.

I huff at her for ruining the mood. "Then talk to Pinkie, not me," I simply say and make my way back to the throne room.

We wait for a good ten minutes where Celestia, Luna, and Selene have gone back to Canterlot and Rainbow is back in Ponyville while my sons have gone off to the guard barracks to do their jobs.

Mel is looking around my throne room while talking to a harpy maid while Pinkie is going through her pog collection. Twilight is sitting on my lap gently rubbing her stomach while Desire is talking with Slitherana.

The maid I sent returns with the smiths, a succupony, an imp, and a boarus, all in sturdy clothes, smithing aprons, and tool belts. Behind them is the male goblin quartermaster Pirion who is holding a folder with lists of all our currently available resources and equipment. "Good day everyone, I've called you here as we're about to build a frontier town on Equus and we'll need your services to maintain tools and equipment. Once all the supplies needed are gathered, we'll be heading back to the Everfree forest to find a nice spot to build on. Any questions?" I tell them and then ask.

The boarus steps forward. "Will I be able to bring my son with us, my Lord? I've been training him in smithing and this would be good hands on experience for him," he asks with a snort at the end.

I smile and nod. "I don't see why not, go get him and wait in the courtyard until we're ready to go. Anything else?" I reply and ask.

"That is all, my Lord," he replies and nods his head before stepping back. The others also nod their heads while the quartermaster steps forward.

"The construction of a three-thousand population town will take sixteen percent of our current supplies in Fel Haven, my, Lord," he tells me.

"That's okay, then get your tools and anything else you need ready and we'll meet you in the courtyard in 10 minutes, dismissed," I tell them and get up after letting Twilight stand first.

"Well then, who else wants to tag along?" I ask those present.

Mel turns from the maid after saying bye to her and walks over. "I'll go. Sounds more fun than being cooped up in here," she says and crosses her arms.

Desire and Slitherana come over and smile. "We'll stay here and keep things running smoothly, you go build our first town in another world. And build us a... what did you call it? A summer home?" she tells me with a smirk.

I just smirk back. "Ooooh, so you want a little get away where we can be alone and undisturbed?" I ask as my smirk turns into a sly grin.

She walks up to me and circles her finger on my chest. "Not just us, but Slitherana and Twilight as well. Imagine all three of us pressed against you, caressing you..." she says until we're nose to nose. "~Pleasuring you~" she says huskily and biting her lower lip.

The thought of all three of them pressed against me, moaning and in bliss, brings a smile to my face and I grin seeing Twilight with a flushed face obviously imagining the same thing.

"Sounds like a good time, but first," I say and grab the back of her head and kiss her hard.

She inhales through her nose before moaning deeply as she feeds heavily off me.

After a good ten seconds I pull away with a grin. "There, that should hold you off for a few days," I tell her, making her giggle.

"Perhaps, but I'd still prefer a proper meal though," she replies, licking her lips at me before she walks off grabbing Slitherana's hand pulling her away to our office, both of them giggling.

I shake my head and look to the others. "Alright everyone, let's head to the courtyard and wait for the supplies to be ready," I say to them.

Twilight grabs my hand while Pinkie and Mel follow us out. We pass by maids and guards in the lobby before stepping out into the courtyard. Crates of ingots, nails, bolts, and hinges are stacked to one side while a few stacks of timber and cloth are on the other. The whole courtyard is packed with materials and ready to be moved, the smiths and other craftsmen such as carpenters and builders are standing by.

"Are we all ready to go!?" I call out, getting the quartermaster to walk over with a clipboard.

"My Lord. All of the supplies are here and we're ready to go," he tells me while double checking his files.

I look to him and nod. "Good, get everyone ready to carry them through the portal," I tell him, making him nod and head over to the workers.

I then turn to Pinkie. "Please open a portal close to the demons in the Everfree," I ask her.

She salutes with a goofy grin. "Okie dokie!" she replies and slaps her hands together before pulling them apart.

A pink blob is pulled and stretched before she then pushes her hands together, squashing the energy. She repeats this over and over, the energy getting bigger until she then moulds the energy into a ball and tosses it at the castle wall where a splat sound echoes throughout the courtyard and the energy is now in the shape of a large doorway.

I can see the Everfree forest on the other side where my demons have set up another camp. I can also see a few of the local wildlife dead in a pile where a few demons are skinning and butchering them.

"Alright people! Let's get these supplies through and start building!" I call out to the workers, getting cheers in return.

They begin hauling the supplies through while I turn to Twilight and Pinkie. "I want you two working together to try and get a functional portal working that'll only allow demons with my mark or a special pass to walk through to Fel Haven. Maybe even have a secure building made on both ends as well," I tell them getting a smile from Twilight.

"Sounds like a fun project, I should be able to design a frame that'll hold one of Pinkie's portals and power them via a magical battery or with a generator as well," Twilight says and conjures a notepad and charcoal pencil.

"Ooooh! I've never done magic experiments before!" Pinkie says in excitement as she bounces in the air.

"Good, while you two do that, I'll be overlooking the town's construction. Now that we have a plan, let's get to it," I say and start walking towards the portal.

"What about me?" Mel asks.

I stop and turn back to her. "Hmmmm, what do you want to do? Oh, I know, want to help with the refreshments for the workers? You wanted to own your own bar right? This'll be good practice as a barkeep," I suggest to her.

She raises an eyebrow and slowly nods. "I guess so, alright, I'll do that then," she says and heads towards the portal.

I smile at her determined expression and follow her through, with Twilight and Pinkie close behind.

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