**Warning** This chapter contains minor clop, intense gore and violence and the killing of youth. This IS a rated M fic in case some have not realized yet, so do not send me any message telling me how bad of a person I am for I do not care. You have been warned. Also, music has been added for certain scenes and it is your choice to utilize them.

During the night of Part 1 in Canterlot Castle dungeons...

“I don’t know anything!”

A black magical tendril whipped across his chest once again, sending the stallion into a painful wail. His skin ripped open and blood seeped from his wound, among the many others that riddled his body. Bruises and cuts were aplenty on him and blood covered his face and fur.

“You lie!”

Another lash of the black tendril whacked across his chest, making him yell out in searing pain. His blood ran down his body and the burning stinging sensation was almost overwhelming. He had suffered this torture for four hours, and this was only the beginning of what Princess Luna had in store for him.

“Why the fuck would I tell you anything?! You killed my family! You killed my wife and children you fucking bitch!” he roared in defiance, tears pouring from his eyes.

A silver hoof immediately was shoved into his mouth, silencing his defiant rage.

“I suggest that you hold your tongue Corporal Brass, before I have to cut it out. Your family is of no concern to me and you and I both know that they would still be alive if you would’ve just simply told me what I wanted to know,” Princess Luna snarled, “But I must admit, it’s been awhile since I had fun like that so maybe I should be thanking you.”

She pulled her hoof out of his mouth and he immediately growled and thrashed himself about his chains, trying to free himself.

“I’ll kill you! I’ll fucking kill you!”

Luna simply watched and could only help but hold back her laughter. It was amusing to see this pony try and free himself and make hollow threats at her, but what made it even better that she could see the hate in his eyes and the fury he wanted to bring upon her. He wanted to kill her and this was the most amusing part for Luna. She was almost half tempted to let him free and let him have a go at her so she could toy with him.

To think that he could actually hurt her was hilarious in her mind.

The corporal thrashed around a bit more until he finally gave up, seeing that his effort was futile. He huffed and coughed, staring into her eyes.

“Are you done yet?” she asked with satisfaction, seeing him weak and helpless.

“Fuck you,” he spat back. Luna disregarded his treacherous talk.

“Now that you have realized that your hate against me will do no good, maybe you will tell me what I want,” Luna said, putting her face close to his, smiling wickedly.

“I’m not telling you shit. Go ahead and whip me all you like, you’re better off killing me.”

Surges of excitement shot through Luna hearing him say such sweet words. How she would love to kill him and pull his innards through his eye socket, but she needed information and for the time being, that was all she cared about.

Luna’s magical dark tendrils that surrounded her horn dissipated and she chuckled. She was no novice to torturing ponies and she had met plenty of them that were defiant to her, but there were other ways to break one’s will and she knew exactly what would break this stallion.

“Very well then, but why kill you? That wouldn’t be much fun corporal. You see, I am the ruler of Equestria-”

“Princess Celestia is our ruler! Not you!” Brass yelled.

Luna cocked her head.

“And tell me, where is she now?”

The stallion suddenly went silent and looked away.

“Your beloved weak ruler is dead, by my hoof as I’m sure you know already.”

Luna backed away from him and walked over to a table that held tools for specific tortures, but she wouldn’t need any of them. She only wanted to leave the stallion for a few moments so he could muse over her dead sister. It would help further for what she was going to do to break him.

“Now, as I was saying before you interrupted me, I am the ruler of Equestria, and you hold information that is very important to me Corporal Brass. Do you dare deny your ruler of such a right?”

Brass hung his head and muttered, “I told you I know nothing. You’re wasting your time and no matter what you do to me, you won’t learn anything new from me.”

Luna highly doubted that. She was going to put this stallion through a living hell of his own and he would beg for her to make it stop, to the point where he would spill his darkest secrets. She knew he held a secret that only he knew and for some reason her sister had only told him. For what reason did her sister tell him, she didn’t know nor cared, but she knew for a fact that he knew about a certain being that she wanted to know more about.

“Very well then. I see you made your choice. I tried to be kind to you countless times corporal but it seems you simply won’t tell me what I want,” Luna said with almost a sick pleasure in her tone.

The stallion looked up at her with disgust.

“I know what you want Luna. I know along with every guard of Celestia’s that you're looking for her student and I’ll be the first to say that you won’t find her. None of us will betray the student of Celestia.”

Luna laughed at him.

“Ha! You speak of Twilight Sparkle and her pink tramp?! I don’t need you for that, I have others that are already looking for her and tracking every single one of Celestia’s little pests. How do you think I found you? ”

Brass coughed and a small strand of blood mixed with saliva hung from his mouth.

“Then what the hell you want from me you insane bitch.”

“Tell me what the name of the pony that Celestia revealed to you long ago. The name that was removed from the forbidden texts within the Clockwork Library.”

Golden Brass immediately lifted his head and his eyes went wide. He knew the name that she was referring to and the secret library that none knew except him and Princess Celestia. He was never supposed to know about the library but as a young guard, he only happened to stumble upon it on accident. He had read the texts and Celestia told him what they meant, but to never tell a single soul what he learned that day. Not one.

“No, I’m not telling you a damn thing!” he yelled once more,” Go ahead and kill me because I’m not telling you anything you fucking bitch-”

Luna immediately threw her hoof across his face and a loud cracking sound reverberated within the stone room. She felt the bone of his cheek crack under such force as he yelped in pain.

“I am getting tired of you using such words corporal. You need to show some respect towards your princess.”

More blood poured from his mouth and trickled onto the floor below him. He spoke once more through his heavy breathing and wheezing, still defiant towards her.

“I...I will not show you any damn respect... not to one...not to one who controls with fear and lies...if ponies knew the truth, they would rise up and-”

“They would rise up and all die,” Luna said, preventing anymore rebellious talk from him, “You must understand corporal, it would not matter if they all knew the truth or not, they have no pony else to look towards to and they all know I’m the only one that is fit to rule. You continue to rebel and fight me, but you and anypony that is still loyal to a dead ruler have already lost. Equestria is mine and the sooner you accept that, the better.”

Golden Brass looked down to the small puddle of blood under him and hung bound by his chains. He couldn’t fight her and what she said was truth. Equestria was hers and nopony would dare defy her... but he had nothing left. His family was all that he held dear and she took it away from him. Death was all that he wanted, but Luna was not that merciful and now that she knew the secret he held, she wouldn’t grant him such a luxury... not until he told her what she wanted which he refused to say. He didn’t know what Luna wanted with the name but it couldn’t be good, and the way Celestia made him promise was more than enough to never reveal it.

“Enough of this talk. I want the name and you will tell me it. I do not need to induce physical pain upon you to get what I want corporal. There are things that are much worse than being beaten and you are forcing my hoof to put such horrors upon you. I will break you Golden Brass.”

He smiled weakly, though inside he was terrified of what she had planned for him.

”Okay then, bring it bitch.”

That was a perfect answer for Luna.

“Very well then.”

She put her horn to his forehead and the stallion closed his eyes and shook, preparing himself for whatever hellish torture awaited him. Luna’s horn lit up and he suddenly felt a jolt of magic pour into his mind, making the world around him swirl around. He suddenly felt nauseous and he felt himself fading away.

Golden Brass blacked out.

Earlier that same night...

“Goodnight Jewel,” Golden Brass said as he leaned down and kissed the chestnut colored unicorn on the cheek. Jewel wrapped her forelegs around his neck and kissed his cheek back. He chuckled, seeing how much his daughter was so lovable.

He went over to his other daughter and began the same procedure.

“Goodnight Ruby,” he said and kissed her red cheek. The small pegasus sighed and reluctantly hugged his neck. Golden Brass didn’t mind, seeing that she was more of a tough filly than her sister. He could only imagine that she had acquired that trait from him.

He pulled the blanket with his magic up to their necks and tucked them in, making sure they were nice and snug. He went over to their window and locked it and pulled the curtain over it, blocking out the moons luminous glow over Trottingham.

Golden Brass made his way to the door and looked back one more time at his two daughters. They both looked at him and yawned as fatigue set in for both of them.

“Goodnight girls,” he said one last time, “Love you guys.”

“Love you too daddy,” they both said in unison. His heart lit up hearing those words from them. He treasured them, cherished them, and would do anything for them. They were his pride and joy, his own flesh and blood.

Golden Brass gently shut the door behind him and left the two fillies to their dreams. He went downstairs and made his way to his room, where his beautiful wife awaited him. She was sitting in front of her nightstand that had a mirror connected to it. Her mane was long and held a shiny light blue luster to it as she groomed it, readying herself for bed.

“Don’t you think grooming your mane is a bit pointless considering that you're going to bed soon Azure?” he said teasingly.

The blue coated pegasus turned around and stared into his eyes with her dark blue pools. She certainly was beautiful and he could have sworn that he was the luckiest stallion in Equestria to be married to such a wonderful mare.

“No, because I’m not going to bed yet,” she said mockingly with a smile, “Are the kids put in bed yet?”

Golden Brass puffed out his chest.

“Of course they are dear, their father is always there before they go to bed,” he said in a heroic and triumphant tone.

Azure rolled her eyes and laughed a bit.

“You're so cheesy sometimes, you know that right?”

He laughed at himself.

“I know, that’s the point.”

“Of course it is,” Azure said as she got up and went over to him, nuzzling his neck. He put his head over hers and took in the scent of her mane. It smelled of something pleasant and floral. He ran his hoof down her back and letting a little friskiness set in, his hoof went lower until it was at the base of one of her wings. He smirked and massaged it a bit, knowing full well the effect that it would have on his mare.

“Brass! I swear you’ve got to be the biggest tease” she yelped as she jerked and backed away, her face blushing. “I don’t know why you have to do that all the time.”

“Ha! Because you like it and maybe it could get you in bed with me,” he said, satisfied with his wife’s reaction.

“Oh so it’s going to be like that then, eh?” she said with a devilish grin, “Well, if that’s your intention, I’m sure I can accommodate it since we have some time alone.”

Yes! he said in his mind.

She made her way to their bedroom door and closed it, making an effort to swish her hips a little more enthusiastically. Golden Brass definitely took notice and knew exactly where this was going, and he liked it. It certainly had been a while since his wife and him had a bit of sinful fun with each other, especially after the fall of Celesta and the guard disbanding at Shining Armor’s command. He had made it an effort to protect his family and relocate to a remote place within Trottingham that no pony, specifically Lunar guards, would find them. So of course, he was always worried and stressed out and never made real time to be intimate with his wife, but she understood. At least now they had some time to get some business done.

“So corporal, are you ready to perform your duties?” she said with bedroom laden eyes.

“Always,” he said confidently.

Azure quickly tackled him to the bed and pressed her lips against his. He adored how soft her lips were and put his hoof around the back of her head, pressing her lips harder against his. A small moan escaped her and he definitely knew it had certainly been a long while. He could feel that she was already getting aroused and they had only just begun, but he wasn’t objecting to it. He brushed his tongue against her lips, asking for permission to enter. Azure smiled and gladly obliged and gave him access. Their tongues wrestled each other and took in each other’s flavor, both losing themselves in such passion that had been welled up inside for them for too long.

Let’s take this a bit farther.

Golden Brass took his hoof and began to massage the base of his wife’s wings, sending her into a small jerk and moan. He felt something warm drip onto his leg and knew that what he was doing was really getting Azure going. He ran up the length of her wing and felt her wings lift and stiffen.

“Damn you Golden,” she said in between their tonsil hockey, “Why do you have to do that to me?” she said in an innocent but pleased tone.

He smiled and replied through breaths.

“Cause I know what my mare likes.”

She laughed a bit, now kissing his neck.

“You’re so cheesy.”

I’ll show you cheesy.

He took his hoof away from her now stiff wings and ran it under her belly until he felt something wet. Azure whined and he knew he was right where he wanted to be. He began to massage her marehood and she broke away from her kisses, moaning and whining in response to his efforts.

“Who’s cheesy now huh?”

“Ohhhh...*gasp*...Shut up Golden...” she moaned, not able to really give a coherent answer.

He moved his hoof over to her small nub and rubbed it with a steady pace.

“Ahh!” she yelped in ecstasy, throwing her head up and his motions sending shocks and jolts of pleasure through her. Her arousal dripped constantly onto his leg and he could feel his own member starting to awake to the occasion.

Thump!

Golden Brass immediately stopped as he heard the loud thump and halted what he was doing. He heard the eerie noise from upstairs.

“What's...what’s wrong honey,” Azure said through her gasps of breath.

“I thought I heard something upstairs,” he replied looking up at the ceiling, listening closely, to see if the sound came back again.

Azure brought her hoof to his cheek and turned his head towards her.

“Calm down Brass. It’s probably just one of the kids coming back from the restroom. Relax, I know how worried you always are but you done a good job. We’re safe here and everypony’s fine.”

He stared into her dark blue eyes and felt reassured. Even during such an intimate moment, his guard was never down. He didn’t want harm to come to his family and he couldn’t let anything happen to them because he was negligent.

“Maybe I should go upstairs and just check on them-”

Azure pressed her hoofs down onto his chest, keeping him pinned down onto the bed.

“Brass, I said relax. The kids are fine. It’s time for me and you. Just relax please.”

He sighed and resigned to his wife’s suggestion.

“Okay fine. You're probably right anyways,” he said as he laid his head back down onto their bed.

She smiled, happy that he was at least trying to relax.

“Now, where were we,” she said in a sultry tone,” I think I remember.” She brought his hoof back to her still moist sex and he got the message.

“Well, guess I better compensate for the little interruption,” he said and resumed teasing his wife but it would not last long.

“Daddy!!!” two voices screamed from upstairs.

Ruby! Jewel!

He immediately shoved his wife off him before she could even react. His soldier’s instinct kicked in and he summoned a silver blade with a black handle. He quickly made his way to the door and looked back at his wife.

“Stay here Azure and do not move from here. Do you understand?” he said firmly and quickly. Her eyes were wide and he could see she was now just catching up with what was going on but he didn’t have time to calm her. She nodded her head and he closed the door behind and rushed upstairs to his daughter’s room, wasting no time.

With his blade held out in front of him, ready for use, he busted through the door and saw two Lunar Guards standing and trying to subdue the two fillies.

No! No! They found us!

Sudden fear and terror filled him but he had no time to take it in. Adrenaline rushed through his veins and he charged the two black stallions.

“Get the fuck away from them!”

Both guards quickly withdrew their blades and let the small filly’s go but they were not nearly quickly enough. Golden Brass sliced the throat of one, sending spurts of blood spraying across the room and the guard fell to the ground and choked. Brass wasted in no time to make sure if he fell as he quickly plunged his blade into the chest of the other one. He pulled his blade out and blood poured out to the ground; the light’s of the guard’s eyes leaving him.

He turned around and saw Ruby and Jewel huddled in the corner, terrified and confused of what was going on. Brass quickly went over to them and knelt down to their level.

“I need you to follow me, okay girls? I’m going to take you to my room and you stay there. Daddy has to make sure there are no more bad ponies in here okay?” he said as calmly as he could. He could see the terror in their little eyes and tears beginning to come down. They both nodded their heads, too confused to say anything.

“Okay good. Stay behind me and stay close.”

He got up and positioned his blade in front of him. All three of them left the room and carefully made their way down stairs. His eyes looked to and fro, making sure there were no more Lunar guards that were waiting in the shadows. If there were two, then there had to be more, and what was worse was that they were coming for his family.

We have to leave...we can’t stay here.

He needed to get his family out of here but he needed to make sure everything was safe first. They were downstairs and began making their way to his room.

Crash!

He turned around and saw the window in the common room was being broke into and knew that more of them were coming. He turned to his kids.

“Run to mommy and daddy’s room and when you get in there, do not come out. You all stay in there okay?”

“Y...yes daddy,” they both stuttered.

“Go. Hurry.”

They obeyed and Ruby and Jewel ran to his room. He listened and heard the door open then close behind him. He couldn’t have them near him or they could get hurt... or worse.

“Find him and the rest of them!” he heard a voice say in the room.

No way in hell you're touching them!

Golden Brass trotted to the common room and there stood blatantly in front of him were five Lunar guards with silver glowing eyes, staring at him as he made his entrance. They all wore black armor and only one wore a helmet.

He must be the commander of the group.

“Golden Brass,” the guard with the helmet said, stepping up in front of the rest.

He put his blade up, pointing it right at the commander, ready to take him out within seconds.

“What the hell you want? What are you doing here?” Golden Brass said with an underlying hatred in his voice.

“You and your family are under arrest for treason against the high ruler of Equestria, Princess Luna, and for also still retaining loyalty to the late Celestia. We have been sent by her majesty to apprehend all of you and bring you in for questioning.”

“Bullshit. She sent you here to kill us, didn’t she? I’m not fucking stupid.” he quickly retorted, not buying any of it.

There was an eerie silence for a few moments that seemed to last forever for Brass, but it was broken from a smirk from the Lunar Commander.

“It seems you are smarter than you look. Very well then, by Princess Luna’s command, all former guards of the late Celestia are to be executed along with their families, but she specifically commanded that you be taken alive, Golden Brass. So, you can come quietly and not have to endure watching your family die in front of you, or we could take you by force and make sure their death’s are long and painful.”

A sudden rush of anger welled up in Brass and he gritted his teeth.

“Then come get me then. Not one of you will lay a hoof on my family!”

The commander sighed.

(Begins Music Sequence: Sent To Destroy)

“So be it then.” He looked over to his soldiers. “Get him.”

They drew their swords and ran towards the corporal.

“C’mon then assholes! Let’s go!”

He charged at them, blade already stained with blood of their comrades. He met the first one and the guard swung his blade foolishly and Brass had no trouble disabling him. The corporal dodged the attack and swung his blade upwards, slicing both of the guard’s forelegs clean off, sending him straight to the floor and blood poured out of his severed limbs. The blood splattered across Golden’s face but he didn’t care. Adrenaline and the thought of his family pushed him to leave none alive.

The second and third came at him simultaneously; one swung at his head and the other at his legs. Brass quickly summoned a spell with his horn and s shield appeared over him, sending both the guards blades bouncing right off. Brass took the small opportunity and spun around, slicing both guards head’s right off. Tendrils of nerves and splintered bone was all the was left of their severed top’s and their bodies fell with a sick thud with both heads rolling on the floor.

The fourth stopped charging at him after seeing what he had just done to his fellow soldiers, but Golden Brass could spare none of them. They threatened his family, and any pony who intended death for them had to die. The guard stepped back away from him but Brass wouldn’t give him the chance. He threw his blade right at the frightened Lunar Guard and it sped at him, lodging itself right into the stallion’s throat. Sending him falling and an immediate death. He went over to the body and pulled it out and now turned his attention to the commander who stood there, stiff.

“So what the hell you were saying here to come and do bitch?”

The commander shook and his silver eyes were wide.

“I suggest you get the fuck up on out of my house and tell Luna that she’s going to have to fucking kill me if she wants to kill my family”, Golden Brass said, pointing his bloodied blade at him.

The commander quickly turned and went for the door, taking Golden’s advice. The corporal wasn’t worried about if he told where they were, for him and his family would be long gone before they came back for them.

The Lunar Commander opened the door to run away in cowardice but was stopped and Brass watched as a black blade was plunged into the armored pony.

“What a shame... it seems I can’t even count on my own soldiers to get something so simple done without being slaughtered by some weak pony.”

Golden’s body went cold and his heart pounded in his chest. He knew the voice that spoke and now threw the impaled commander to the side, leaving him to bleed out and die a slow death. He could never forget that voice that laughed maniacally as it slaughtered Solar guards within the Grand Hall of Canterlot Castle. The same day that the guard disbanded and Celestia fell.

The dark alicorn appeared in the doorway, blood spattered across her regalia, and she smiled wickedly at Brass.

“So, you’re Corporal Brass of the former Solar Guard? It seems you specialize in more than just communication and defensive magic.”

No! NO! She can’t be here...Fuck!

He couldn’t fight her... he already knew he was no match for her. Fighting her would be suicide and now things were much more serious. His family was in his room, probably frightened for their lives.

I have to get them out of here...

He could try to transport all of them away but he didn’t know where it would take them. Did it matter?

Luna held her dark blade covered in what looked like a black fire next to her and simply stared at him. Her teal eyes glowed under what little moonlight was coming in and something about her terrified him. She seemed to be almost demon-like.

“So you know why my incompetent guard was here I assume, so let’s not waste any time. I require some information from you Corporal Brass and it’s very important that you tell me what I need-”

“Fuck you. I ain’t giving you shit except a big, old fuck you up your ass!”

Luna’s face scrunched into disdain and what almost looked like a sudden flash of anger. He didn’t know what he was saying, but his mind was going thousands of miles per minute. He could only think about his family and how he had to get them away from here.

“You insolent peasant! How dare you use language like that against your ruler! I was going to grant your family a swift death but I see that if any pony is willing to breed with you and raise foals, they deserve to die painfully!”

Fuck!

There was only option. He had to run to the room and just shoot his family somewhere, anywhere in Equestria but here. Golden Brass turned and bolted.

“You’re not going anywhere!” Luna laughed out hysterically.

Luna’s horn lit up and a black tendril shot out of her horn and quickly shot at him. The strand of dark magic grabbed him, pulling him back and throwing him right into a wall. He slammed against the brick, scraping his face against the hard texture and fell to the ground with a sickening crack. He quickly got up, a bit dazed, and fired magical bolts at her with his horn.

The dark alicorn deflected them with her blade with ease and scoffed at him.

“Pathetic. You’re going to have do better than that, corporal, if you wish to save your family because as far as I’m concerned, their good as dead because of you.”

A blinding rage filled him to the brim as images of his wife and children.

“No! You will not touch them! You hear me you fucking bastard! Not one!”

Luna eyed him and beamed disturbingly.

“And who’s going to stop me? You?”

“You're damn right! Let’s see what you say once I have my sword shoved straight up your ass!”

Luna positioned her blade and laughed at him and at his vulgar threat.

“Let’s see if you can even get that far.”

Brass immediately shot several bolts of magic at her once again and charged at her. He hoped that he could have her defend herself from his magic and she wouldn’t have the time to block off his physical attacks. He just needed to disable her for a few moments and her horn was his target. She wouldn’t be able to use magic without it and it would buy him time to get his family somewhere safe.

Luna summoned a quick shield and absorbed the magical bolts. The dark shield broke at Luna’s command, sending a forceful shockwave throughout the room and hitting the desperate unicorn. Brass flew back and crashed onto a glass table, smashing it to pieces with his body. Shards of glass pierced his skin and he cried out in sudden pain. He felt the shards lodge into his body and felt the warmth of his own blood trickling down his sides.

Get up! Get up damnit!

He staggered and lifted himself up with much difficulty. His body felt like it had just went through hell and back and she hadn’t even touched him with her blade. He looked up and was met by a pair of teal eyes. His eyes went wide and his pupils shrunk; Luna’s face was right next to his and he could feel the heat from her nostrils blowing across his face.

“I think I had enough of this small game.”

Her silver hoof went across his head with a powerful force and cracked against his skull. The stallion unicorn dropped to the floor, blackening out with one last thought in his mind.

Fuck...

“Ahh!” Brass yelled, waking out of his blackened sleep. He felt burning jolts of pain course through his body and his skin felt like it was on fire. Black electricity sparked across his body and he writhed in pain. A few long moments later, the pain ceased and began to slowly go away.

“Daddy!”

Ruby!

He quickly looked around the destroyed common room and saw his daughter, but only then did he realize what was going on. Ruby and Jewel were bound by some black aura that surrounded their bodies and they were trying to free themselves. Next to them was his wife Azure, and her once beautiful light blue coat was now bloodied and riddled with cuts and bruises. Blood poured out of her nose and a black and bluish ring circled her left eye. Her head hung and she seemed dazed.

“Azure!” he called out and tried to move towards her but the same black aura that held his family also bound him, keeping all four of his legs from moving.

“Azure!” he yelled again.

His wife looked up, finally hearing his desperate calls to her.

“Gol...Golden...” she said weakly.

His heart felt like it was cracking seeing his wife beaten so badly and his children bound, and he couldn’t help them. He wiggled around and tried to break free of this dark magic that held him but it was of no use. He tried to use his magic and free himself but something was keeping him from using it.

“You can try all you want Corporal Brass, but you will only be wasting your time.”

The two fillies whimpered hearing the dark voice and Brass looked over to Luna who stood behind his family, swinging her blade around nonchalantly.

“What have you done to my wife?!” he demanded, seeing her in such a horrible state.

“Oh her?” Luna said, looking over to the pegasus, “I was having fun with her while I waited for you to come back to your senses. You should have heard her screams... she called for you multiple times... it saddens me that you couldn’t see the beating I gave her. Alas, it wasn’t all bad. Your precious children...,” she went over and ran her hoof across Jewel’s cheek, sending the filly into tears and terrified whimpers.

“Don’t touch her!” Golden Brass yelled, his heart pounding furiously and terror setting in.

Luna smiled with satisfaction.

“Your precious children were a wonderful audience as I made them watch me beat their whore of a mother.”

“Get away... from my children...” Azure said weakly, blood dripping onto the floor below her from her muzzle.

Luna looked over to her and frowned.

“It seems you still can’t quite that tongue of yours... maybe I have to teach you to be silent.”

The alicorn went over to Azure and slammed her body onto the ground, making the mare yelp.

“No!” the stallion cried. “Please, don’t do anything to her!”

“What? Are you begging me Corporal Brass? I’m sure earlier you were going to try and kill me and now you're begging me?” Luna said with amusement. “You had your chance and I really have other families to kill, so let’s just get this over with since you're finally awake.”

Everything went silent for Brass and his mind screamed at him.

She’s going to kill them! She’s going to kill them!

“No! Please! I beg you, don’t hurt them! I’ll tell you whatever the hell you want!”

Suddenly, a black aura held his mouth shut and silenced his begging.

“You’re going to tell me what I want regardless Corporal, but you decided to make things hard for yourself. So now you must watch as I kill your beloved family and make them suffer because of you. Keep in mind while I draw the life out of them, that this was you’re doing by ever serving my sister.”

Tears began to stream down his face and his very soul broke within him. He felt helpless; weak.

Luna’s horn lit up once more and two black tendrils shot out and grabbed at Azure’s wings, grabbing the base of them. Brass yelled but his voice was muffled.

“So tell me Azure, do you value your wings?” Luna asked the beaten mare. She didn’t answer but instead turned her head slowly and looked over to her children.

“Close your eyes,” she whispered to them.

The two fillies whose eye’s were red from tears did just that, but Luna would not have it.

“Oh, I don’t think so. You two fillies must watch and see the fate that awaits you in mere moments.”

Luna cast a spell and forced both filly’s eyes open and turned their heads to watch their mother. They screamed and cried, confused of what this alicorn was doing to them and their beloved mother.

“You’re a damn monster...” Azure said weakly, tears trickling down her cheeks.

Luna scoffed at her.

“Does not matter what you think, whore. You will be dead, and the dead have no voice in what I do... you can ask my sister about that. Now, any last words to your husband before I end your miserable life?”

Azure looked into Brass’s eyes and he looked back into hers. His heart shattered and hearing the finality of Luna’s words broke his very will.

“I love you.”

(Music Sequence 2: Counting Bodies)

Luna rolled her teal eyes and looked down at the mare disgustingly.

“Enough of this. Love is a ridiculous and weak feeling. I will enjoy killing you and your offspring.”

NOO! NO! Brass yelled but Luna’s damned magic wouldn’t let his protests be heard.

Luna’s magic took hold of Azure’s wings and began to pull slowly. The corporal watched his wife’s face as she closed her eyes and she gritted her teeth. He could hear the cracking of her bones and a sick pulling sound. Luna pulled harder with her magic and blood began to spurt out from the base of Azure’s wings The mare yelled out in searing pain and his children cried and screamed as they watched the dark blood squirt out of their mother.

“Yes! Scream and cry all you want! I will silence all of you soon enough!” Luna cackled maniacally.

With one final tug, both of the mare’s wings ripped clean off her back with a disgusting cracking sound, making the corporal’s wife scream even louder and the kids shake in utter horror. Splintered bone and nerves was that was present as the stubs on her back spewed blood.

Luna threw the wings to the side and positioned her blade over one of the openings of the mare’s bloodied nubs. She grinned, relishing the pain that she was going to put this mare through while her children and husband watched in grief and terror.

She thrust her blade down into the opening, plunging it right into her body and the tip of the blade coming out of her chest. Azure screamed bloody murder and globs of blood squirted out from her mouth, but Luna wasn’t finished with her. Her blade began to radiate a black aura around it and black bolts of electricity shot through it, sending it through Azure’s body. Her body wriggled and thrashed as she screamed at the top of her lungs. Brass bawled and heavy tears poured from his eyes. He was supposed to protect her and here was watching Luna torture her in front of him while he watched.

Oozing blood began to pour out of her eyes, ears and mouth. Luna was melting Azure’s innards from the inside and within moments, her very flesh began to bleed blood out its pores. Her fur began to burn and the smell of burnt flesh filled the room. Azure looked at Brass one last time as blood covered her face. He could see the pain in her eyes but also the love she still held for him, even in her last moments. He screamed and cried but still no sound could be heard from him.

I’m sorry! I’m so sorry! his mind screamed, hoping that somehow his wife could hear him.

The pegasus’s eyes exploded, splashing its contents onto his face and her body went limp, blood still oozing out of her mouth and eyes. Azure, his wife and the mother of two, was dead.

“Mommy!” Jewel yelled while Ruby bawled her eyes out. Brass hung his head and let his hot tears fall to the ground. His entire world was crumbling around him and he did nothing. He was her husband and failed her, but it was too soon to mourn, for only more was to come.

“Now, let’s move on to the small ones,” Luna said with a disgusting pleasure. Brass lifted his head and knew that only the worst was yet to come. His children, his pride and joy, were going to suffer by whatever sick way Luna planned for them.

Luna brought her blade across Ruby’s small neck and placed the edge neatly against the small filly. Ruby’s chest heaved in and out and she sobbed and gasped. Golden Brass thrashed around, screaming and hoping that somehow Luna’s hold on him would break, but there was nothing the stallion could do.

The princess brought her mouth close to the filly’s ear and whispered into it.

“Tell me child, do you love your father?”

Ruby replied through her scared whimpers and rapid breathing.

“Y..yes.”

“Please don’t hurt my sister Miss princess,” Jewel bawled.

Luna whipped a small blast of magic against Jewel’s face, cutting her cheek open. She screamed and Ruby began to scream again seeing her sister’s face.

“I’m not talking to you whelp. Wait your turn.”

DAMN YOU! DAMN YOU TO HELL!

Golden’s mind screamed curse after curse and he constantly tried to break whatever magic that Luna kept on him.

“Now,” Luna continued as she whispered into Ruby’s ear, “Tell your daddy that you love him and you're going to miss him.”

Ruby obeyed and looked at her father and said the words.

“Daddy, I...I lov..love you and... and ...I’m going to miss-”

Luna quickly dragged the blade across her neck and sliced her throat, cutting her off and letting her fall to the ground, gurgling on her own blood and her eyes rolling back into her head.

“Ruby!”

NO!

“She was too slow. Maybe if she stopped blubbering like some foal, she might have been able to finish,” Luna now looked to the last one and smile sadistically. “I have something special for you.”

Suddenly, the magical binding that silenced the corporal came undone and he wailed and screamed without hesitation.

“You bitch! They were innocent! They did nothing to you! I’ll kill you for this Luna, I’ll fucking kill you!”

Luna laughed at him openly as he roared his threats and he cried hysterically over his now dead wife and child.

“None of us are innocent. You and your family are tainted with weakness, something I cannot allow within my kingdom. All of you and your fellow companions that hide in fear of me will meet the same fate, and none will be spared. You only did this to yourself, but don’t fret... I will not kill your last daughter.”

Both Jewel and Brass looked at Luna, wondering what she was thinking. Luna chuckled with a darkness and glared at the broken stallion.

“You will.”

Without warning, Luna shot a black bolt at the stallion and he suddenly lost all control of his body. The black binding that kept him from moving was removed and he gritted his teeth, trying to move any part of his body but he couldn’t.

“You, Corporal Golden Brass, will kill the last of your blood. By your hoof, you will end this cancer that you call a family.”

“No! You can’t make me... I won’t!”

“Are you so sure?”

He got up but not by his own accord. His eyes widened now realizing what the magical bolt that Luna was doing. He looked at the alicorn and saw by the movement of her eyes that she was controlling him against his will.

“Come now...I think it’s time you end this.”

He tried to fight it, but her magic was overwhelming. Luna threw her dark blade on the ground in front of him.

“Pick it up.”

“No! NO! I’m not doing this!”

But he was.

He picked up the blade and his hoof began to burn from the black aura that surrounded Luna’s weapon.

“Now corporal, I want you to plunge that blade right through your daughter’s little chest, slowly, and watch her die.”

“No Daddy! Please don’t hurt me!” Jewel begged, blood still seeping from the laceration on her face.

All he could do was cry and hang his head. He couldn’t fight it. Like Luna said, he was too weak.

“Do it.”

His forelegs lifted the damned blade and pointed the tip right at her small chest. She began to scream and cry and it destroyed his very sanity. He was going to kill his own daughter... because he was too weak.

“I’m so sorry Jewel.” he whispered keeping his head hung. He couldn’t bear to look at her for what he was being forced to do.

“Do it!”

And so he did. His forelegs began to move in and pressed the tip of Luna’s blade against Jewel’s chest and applied increasing pressure.

“I don’t want to hurt Daddy!”

Extreme sadness, grief, hate, and loathing filled the stallion and knew this was it. He had nothing left and her last words rang through his head.

Jewel...

The blade pierced her flesh and began to dig into her. She let out a shrill wail and Brass did not look. He couldn’t look. He was doing this to his beloved child. The ones he swore that he would protect and die for, but yet he was killing them under Luna’s accursed magic.

He pushed the blade deeper into the little filly and her screams turned into gurgles and gagging. Every fiber of his being screamed within him and all that made him who he was, was gone. He was empty and void, letting only the screams of his little girl fill him. Deeper the blade went until he heard the blade come out the back of the small pony.

Jewel no longer screamed and stayed silent, now and forever. She was still with the blade impaled into her by her own father and he shook. His family was gone. His daughters, his wife, everything that he held dear to him were gone.

“Good work my dear Brass. How did it feel to rid yourself of such pests?”

She relinquished her control of him and he fell to the floor along with Jewel’s body. Princess Luna pulled the blade out of the corpse and stood over to the surrendered stallion.

Their gone... their gone...I killed Jewel...Ruby....Azure...Luna killed them and I watched...

He laid there on the floor and looked up, expecting to see a victorious Luna, but she wasn’t there. The unicorn looked around and nothing was there anymore. Everything had become a black void. His house was gone, his family’s body’s were gone, and Luna was gone. Only a black emptiness met him. Confusion set in and he lifted himself up, looking around.

YOU KILLED HER!

“Gah!” he yelled grabbing his head.

YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO PROTECT THEM!

“Stop!” It was his own voice and it screeched within his mind.

YOU’RE WEAK! YOU ENJOYED KILLING YOUR DAUGHTER DIDN’T YOU?!

“No! Shut up!”

SHE SAID NOT TO HURT HER AND YOU KILLED HER... HER OWN FATHER!”

His eyes sunk into his head. He was going mad and the voice wouldn’t stop torturing him.

“No! Shut the fuck up! Stop it!!!!”

Then tell me the name!

It was Luna and he knew that she was now toying with him. He immediately realized this was her magic and she was making him relive his family's deaths.

YOU WATCHED THEM DIE AND DID NOTHING!

“AAAGH! Make it stop! I...I’ll tell you the name! I’ll tell you the name just make it stop!” he sobbed and begged. He had enough of this hell and he only wished to die.

Good.

Golden Brass woke up and was back in the stone room, hanging by his chains and freed from Luna’s induced nightmare. He breathed heavily and his heart pounded. The screams of his wife and children reverberated in his mind and he could only cry.

“Now, tell me the name corporal. Tell me the name that Celestia removed from the forbidden texts.”

He didn’t care anymore. His ruler had made him swear to never reveal the name, under no circumstance, but what now? Celestia was dead, Equestria was a living hell with a merciless ruler, and there was no pony that could stop her. He had nothing left and his very will was broken. He could only hope that Luna would be kind enough to end his life once she had what she wanted to know from him.

“I’ll give you the name...” he muttered, hanging his head in final defeat.

Luna put her face close to his and listened.

“Tell me the name.”

And so he gave it, and his answer was not one that pleased her. No, it was one that sent a sudden fear even in the alicorn. It was a name that she hadn’t heard of since Celestia and her defeated Discord. It was a cursed name, a name belonging to a pony that Celestia had barely defeated, but at a terrible price.

“The name....

…is Malum. Malum the Destructor.”