The Root of my Pain, the Core of my Growth
Chapter 20: Chapter IV-I: Teridax (April Fools!)
Previous Chapter Next ChapterI let out a sigh as I glide on a thermal, wondering about how I'm going to breach the subject of Proditor with Celestia.
Before I can start thinking about the first thing to speak to her about though, I feel myself tumbling down through darkness.
"Augh!" I exclaim in surprise, before bouncing off the ground and rolling across a stone floor. I slide to a stop after a second.
I groan in discomfort and sit up. "Ow... what the hell?" I ask aloud.
"So it worked... excellent." A metallic voice says.
I look in the direction of the voice and I freeze.
Of all of the displaced that exist that I've heard about from reading other stories, this one is the one that fills me with the most dread.
Makuta Teridax. The one displaced out there most worthy of the title "The Bad Guy" when it comes to displaced. The nemesis of Auric Fulcrum and one of the most powerful and dangerous beings to exist short of a void dweller.
And that's as far as I'm able to comprehend before the ground beneath me lurches and I'm suddenly somewhere else that inspires terror in my heart. The moon.
"There you are." A voice rasps. I whip around to face Nightmare Moon. "I've been waiting for you." She says with a glare promising death.
No, it's not real, it's just a... an illusion?... where am I... what's happen-move! I have to fight... I have to keep fighting. Don't stop! Don't let her bring you down. Don't let her get you vulnerable again.
The moon is lit up by the flashes of lightning and spellfire.
Teridax stares at the dazed and comatose form of the displaced he'd dragged to his world as an experiment with his powers.With a bit more fine tuning of the void, he's able to remove the memories of how Baelor wound up back on the moon, as well as his glimpse of Teridax, from the forefront of the dragon's mind.
"Mmmm... an intense and interesting fear. He could be of use with the level of darkness within him." He contemplates aloud while looking into the vision he's put the dragon, named Baelor apparently, into.
"But how did this situation develop?" He ponders, mildly curious. Was this displaced of villainous descent? He does not recognize from where his form is derived.
Teridax looks through the memories of Baelor and finds an instance that occurred in the past. His curiosity turns to displeasure upon seeing the dragon "heroically" throwing himself onto the back of Nightmare Moon, wrapping his hind legs and tail around her barrel to restrain her wings, and gripping her horn and pulling her head back. The blast of the Elements of Harmony from Celestia soon sends them both careening towards the moon of his world.
"Disappointing. He will be of no use. Though the darkness and fear within him is strong, the risk of him breaking from my hold is too great of a risk. Now... how to dispose of him..." He muses. He searches through Baelor's memories again for the answer. Surprisingly enough, Baelor would be harder to kill than most, but by no means impossible or even difficult for one such as Teridax. He just has to take out what Baelor has dubbed his "core" and then kill him as any other mortal creature.
So Teridax does just that. He strides over to the still-standing drake, shoves his metallic hand into Baelor's chest, and rips out a glowing yellow organ that looks like a symmetrical version of a heart, and crushes it in his grip. Baelor seems to sag slightly in his stance, but otherwise is still alive, though bleeding profusely from the hole in his chest.
"Goodbye, displaced." Teridax says emotionlessly.
With a flick of his finger a tendril of shadow shoots out, and punctures through Baelor's skull, and the dragon slumps lifelessly to the ground.
Next Chapter: Chapter XX: A Little Bit Answered Estimated time remaining: 1 Hour, 31 MinutesAuthor's Notes:
And that's how Equestria was made! The End!
"This is a very sad ending."
I know. Good thing the date today is what it is!
"Yep. It is an official/totally unofficial rule that any destructive/sad/unfavorable/completely ridiculous chapters/endings posted on April 1st are more than likely not canon to whatever story they're in."
"APRIL FOOLS YA DUMB SHMUCKS!!!
And in case you're all still salty about me killing off Bael... tough. I do what ah want!
Teridax is from a story from the original displaced stories... you know, the really old ones that more or less are either completed, really long, never getting another update ever, or just any combination of the three. You can't actually find his story anymore, but that's not really a problem since the last time I checked, he has a completed story, and also preferring to be the big bad dude in other people's crossovers. Namely Auric Fulcrum. I also can't find Teridax's story anymore(Link was provided by a helpful commenter), just know that he's the evil one, not the "newer" Teridax that's trying to be a good guy in his story. No I didn't collab with him, because this isn't canon either way and it's not even that long, so why bother.
Happy senseless Holiday day!