Rise Of The Nightmare
Chapter 37: Ending 1: To Hell Once More.
Previous Chapter Next ChapterNone of the ponies believed that Nocturne was nothing more but a normal unicorn under all that mysterious darkness, that this thing that covered his body had turned him into a living nightmare capabel of unnatural power and destruction.
"Celestia, it worked! But....is that really...." Luna said.
"I think so, there is no other explanation, he is the one who i must kill...." She said with a little hessitation in her voice.
The unicorn let out a small laugh and later placed his right hoof on his head.
"To think that i have failed, again! I guess i shouldn't be surprised, i was like that my entire life, no matter how powerful i was becoming, i had to sacrifice something! Somepony dear to me, to think that my every step into the future was made out of corpses! All of them pilled up together, all of them so warm and later cold."
All that burst of emotions was too much for the nameless unicorn burst into tears.
"It's because of my failures that i wanted to keep going! I wanted to find a way to be somepony! Even a hero but without sacrificing those around me or see others sacrifices themselves for me! But i should have known that such a path is not achievable nor does it exist."
He then looked at Celestia and said as he cleaned his tears.
"The only thing that i regret right now is the choice that i made all these years ago....back at our home..."
"Armonia....." Celestia said as memories from her hom kept on appearing in her head.
"If i had killed both you and Luna in that faithful night, none of this would have happened! I would still have my power! But even then, i was still to weak, i still had feelings of love for both of you! I just....couldn't do it....nor do i think that i can do it now...." He said and lowerd his head.
After that, the massive spell that held down the ponies around was dispeled and they were set free, able to use magic and fly once again.
"We, we are free! Princess Celestia we are free!" Twilight shouted.
The ponies around started cheering and talking amongst themselves. Celestia smiled and thought to herself.
"I don't know if i should kill him now....i mean, he won't return to being Him again, will he?"
She then looked over to the Unholy Sword that was in disguise, took a deep breath and thought to herself again.
"I will use it if i have too, i want to see what he will do. Oh i know!"
She looked over to Nocturne and said with a smile.
"Nocturne.....i have an idea, how about you-"
"No, i know what you will ask of me Celestia and the answer is no, i will not join you nor will i stop my grand plan to defeat the old Gods. I won't stop, not when so many have died!"
"But.....they are all alive now, they are back!"
The unicorn hit the ground with his hoof in anger and as a result, he started bleeding.
"Get it through your skull Celestia! There is no such thing as a resurrection spell! Only the Creator has the power to bring the dead back! And we both know that your sword is nothing more than an Unholy Artifact of Unknown Origin."
"Yeah but...."
"No, just stop. And what do you mean that they are all back? You think that i have forgoten about my Son? Linthea? You think that i don't care about them?" He said as his voice started to echo louder and louder.
"You think that i will throw away their sacrifice? So that you may live with these.....abominations?!" He said as he was referring to those who returned.
His hoof was then covered by a dark aura and later, a dark long sword appeared. When that happened, the ponies around stoped their idle chat and had their eyes locked on Nocturne.
"I will not stand for this Celestia! I will not stand for a lie! Instead, i plan to fix the mistake i made and do what i should have done....ALL THESE YEARS AGO!"
Then from his hoof, a dark tentacle came out and wrapped itself around Celestia neck but when it did, Celestia's wings and horn disappeared. He then pulled her with all his might towards the edge and let go of her neck but as the tentacle was returning to him, it got wrapped around Celestia's hoof and pulled Nocturne down with her.
"CELESTIA!" Luna shouted and started flying towards the edge where both of them fell from.
"Oh my God." Luna said when she saw her sister hanging from a small edge, while also having Nocturne just bellow her who was attached to Celestia and just like her, was ready to fall down.
"Hold on Celestia, i will save you!" Luna said and charged horn.
She then aimed at Nocturne and shot him right on his read but it proved futile because it threw both of the ponies off balance and Celestia's hoof started slipping.
"Celestia no!" Luna said and quickly grabbed her sister's hoof with her own.
"I won't leave you! I won't let him take you!" She said and tried to pull her up but she was unable because she wasn't strong enough to carry all that weight.
As for Nocturne, the darkness in his hoof started spreading into his eye wich immediately started glowing blue. He then saw a small demon statue near Celestia. He then started slowly swinging back and forth, until he finaly released the tentacle that was around Celestia's hoof and dispensed himself upwards near the demon statue, which he grabbed with his other hoof that turned into a dark claw.
Luna was doing all she could to keep Celestia who's wings and horn didn't return from falling down to her death. But she was unable to defend herself from Nocturne who was slowly rising up in two hooves on top of the demon statue.
"Quickly! Stop him!" King Cosmos shouted and all the ponies from the platforms started charging towards Nocturne.
"I WON'T ALLOW ANY OF YOU TO RUIN MY PLANS!" He shouted and pointed his hoof towards them and just like before, they were stopped in their tracks, some even in the sky without being able to use their magic.
He then let out an evil laugh as the darkness fully Consumed him and he returned back to what he used to be. He lifted his sword up as a sadistic smile formed up on his face.
"And he shall smite the wicked and plunge them into the fiery pit!" He and prepared to drop down the sword of Luna's head.
But before he could, the statue underneath him began to crack and Nocturne was thrown of balance and hanged onto the head of the demon statue. However, something unexpected happened. The head of the demon statue came to life and roared at Nocturne, who screamed in fear. The demon statue then broke off, sending Nocturne falling to his death.
Celestia all this had her head locked on her brother as he was falling down, she knew just how scared he was and she knew that more torment awaited him there where he was headed.
Luna used her magic and pulled Celestia up without worrying about Nocturne.
"Come on!" Luna said and pulled her up.
The two sisters looked at each other as they were breathing and later let out an innocent laugh.
"Luna, we did it! We freaking did it!"
"I don't believe it either! I mean, back when he killed Twilight and Cadence and then....me, Celestia i was so scared."
"But you managed to defeat him in the end, all of you." Crossbleser said.
Then from the crowd arround them, the Elements of Harmony, King Cosmos, Queen Galaxia and Cadence all charged towards the two sisters and gave them a big hug that almost suffocated them both.
"Please stop, i almost died a lot of times already!"
The others let out a laugh and broke the hug.
"I am very proud of you Celestia you, you saved us all." King Cosmos said.
"And you brought everypony back, oh Princess i am glad that we were able to survive this." Twilight said and her friends who where behind her noded.
Queen Galaxia then stepped forward with a sad expression on her face.
"Mother, is everything alright?" Luna asked.
"It's about Nocturne isn't it?" Celestia asked.
Queen Galaxia noded.
"I feel terrible for what happened to him, through out his entire life he wanted to become a worthy son of Cosmos but he was manipulated by The Fallen God, everything bad that he did, he didn't do it out of hatred, he didn't want power because he lusted for it, he wanted to impress you Cosmos but after he found out that he was manipulated, he wanted to fight them back, he wanted to save the other worlds at the sacrifice of ours, i just wished that there was another way." She said and lowered his head.
For a moment there was silence in the tower, without anypony saying anything but rather, they were concentrating on these few memories that they had of Nocturne of the past. A kind soul who wanted to prove himself to his father and be recognized as a hero not a monster by the world.
"But, what exactly happened to him?" Cadence asked.
Crossbleser sighted and said.
"I wish i could give you a simple answer but i can't, i just hope that he will endure the torment that awaits him...."
"Me too.....if only things were different....." Sessuena said.
Nocturne found himself falling from the sky and he was surrounded by clouds and bellow him was a giant mouth big enough as the sky. The mouth had monstrous teeth and along with Nocturne, others were falling in it too.
"Oh no, no! I am not going back!" He said and tried to fly but failed.
He then looked at himself and realized that he had returned to his unicorn form.
"Oh Creator, no! PLEASE DONT LEAVE ME!" He cried out before falling into the giant mouth and losing sight of the blue sky above him.
Knowing what's gonna come next, Nocturne shielded his eyes with his hooves.
"This isn't happening, please, i don't want to go back, i don't deserve to go back!"
It was then that he reached the ground, he let out a loud scream as he felt his back hooves break. But he wasn't distracted by his broken legs, in fact, he was staring blankly at the Hellish landscape that stood before him, the same Hellish landscape that he visited years ago.
He lowered his head and started crying.
"Creator why? Creator please.....don't leave me."
"Nocturne....."
The moment he heard that voice he lifted his head up in fear, he started shaking and looking around paranoid. It was then that he heard it, that loud breathing, that dark voice that echoed all across Hell. It was Him.
"OH GOD NO! STAY AWAY!" The stallion screamed and tried to run away only to be brought down by demons, later beaten, stabbed, mutilated and repeat.
He had returned to Hell Once More.
Meanwhile in the Absolute Nothingness.
The Fallen God Phobetor was siting on his throne and laughed a little.
He had the body of a minotaur, the beard and the ears of a goat, claws for feet, arms with chains around his wirst and three fingers in each, his hair consisted of dark long sticks pointing upwards, along with two horns on his head and fungus growing on his shoulder. He was naked and the only thing that he was wearing was a long dark and ragged dress with chains around his waist.
"Finaly, i have all the power i need." He said and got up from the throne.
He then made a gesture and the image of the Earth appeared before.
"It is thanks to you Nocturne, that i can do this." He said and clenched his fist.
When he did that, the Earth strated slowly cracking open and multiple portals appeared around the planets, from which Eldritch Horrors came through, they landed on the surface and ravaged the planet from within, rendering it ash.
"Creation will fall in our wake! Beware all those who oppose us and glory to their Unending Darkness!"
Even though it took countless years, the forces of the Old Gods won the second Cosmic War and Creation was brought to its knees. And the world ended....just like that, in the end nothing remained. Every world was destroyed, the Gods were killed and Corruption reined supreme.
The End.
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