Rise Of The Nightmare
Chapter 39: Ending 3: The New Host.
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."
Celestia tried to reply to him but for some strange reason, she felt pain in her head. She grunted heavily and looked down on the ground.
"Celestia what's wrong? Are you ok?" Luna asked worryingly.
"I am fine, i am sure that it's nothing more than fatige, we have been fighting for some time after all, it is only nature that i would be exhausted."
The ponies around gasped in fear and Nocturne was worried as well because of the sight before him. Celestia was confused by this, what could be so terrifying at this moment? She then looked over to her sword that appeared to be radiating a dark glow.
"What the!"
The sword was then immediately stripped of its holy form and returned to its original form. It turned into a dark sword made out of dark flesh, multiple horrific eyes, tentacles and one big jaw at the tip of the blade.
"I knew it! I FUCKING KNEW IT! This was nothing more than a disguise was it?"
The dark glow of the sword then started growing bigger until it covered Celestia up. Inside the darkness Celestia was screaming out in pain as her body started changing. Her skin changed into dark purple with bones pocking out of her flesh, with multiple eyes around her body along with tentacles, her eyes were glowing blue like Nocturne's, her horn was split into two and one larger one irrupted and was placed in between them. Her mane was turned into a dark shadow in the shape of her original mane, then, another pair of wings immerged from her back, these wings were made out of dark flesh with tentacles and bones pocking out of them, her original wings were also affected by this and suffered the same effect.
Celestia found herself losing all hope, all sanity and it was too late for, she was consumed by their madness, like Nocturne before her. She was now one with the Nightmare God.
It was then that the dark cloud was cleared out, she let out a demonic laughter that immobilized everypony around. She started swinging her demonic sword while laughing, she then got on top of two hooves and started falling down but before she could touch the ground, a tentacle came out of the ground and grabbed her before she could fall and as for everypony else, they were left speechless. And especially Nocturne.
She then pointed her sword at him and said.
"This, this is amazing! My head hurts! But at the same time, i feel so much joy, so much happiness! SO MUCH POWER!"
It was clear to them now, somehow she too was corrupted by Phobetor's influence. Nocturne's heart was beating super fast at such a sight, he then gathered all the courage he could and spoke up.
"Celestia how did that happen?"
But instead of getting an answer, Celestia appeared in front of him faster than the blink of an eye and he stepped back in fear. Her hoof then immediately turned into a claw, she grabbed her demonic sword and placed it right on Nocturne's neck.
"Isn't it obvious? His Dark Will changed me, just like he changed you! And i feel so strong! I feel unstoppable! I am not as fragile as i used to be now! But you, you see to oppose him don't you?"
"O-of course! H-he is the source of all evil! He was the one who forced us into this, he forced me to destroy our home! This is all his doing Celestia, snap out of it!"
She then grabbed him with her other claw, lifted him up in the air and said.
"Snap out of it? I don't know what you are talking about 'brother' i am perfectly sane!" And she let out an evil laugh so powerful and demonic that the skies above started changing.
"What is going on? What happened to Celestia!?" Twilight asked.
"Oh Creator why? Why did this happen?" Crossbleser asked.
"CELESTIA LISTEN TO ME!" King Cosmos shouted from the platform.
But that proved to be his undoing. The moment he shouted, Celestia moved her claw up in the air and his neck was cut open and he fell down on the tower dead.
"COSMOS!" Queen Galaxia cried out for her dead husband.
A grin was formed into Celestia's face.
"Time to see what it feels like to Consume something!" And when she said that, a tentacle came out of her back.
The tentacle flew towards Cosmos's body, pierced right through it and was pulled right into Celestia's body and when it touched her skin, the corpse melted into her, thus Consuming him. Celestia felt pain inside her head, she could see all his memories, every thought he ever had and she saw everything from his perspective all the way to this moment of his death, it was glorious!
"Oh God! Yes! That felt amazing! Oh thank you for choosing me to be your instrument of destruction o great one!" She said referring to Phobetor.
"What are you saying Celestia!? You dare join him after all he did?!"
Celestia immediately strengthen her grasp of Nocturne's neck with her claw and slightly pierced his skin with the pointy edges' of her claw.
"Yes i am and i will bring death to those who oppose him and the Old Gods! And unlike you i won't fail! I mean, this was the reason behind your creation, wasn't it? To bring chaos and ruin? To feed him your powers? Well, you have done a very good job at it but the Old Gods still have enemies and i will be the one who will lead their dark campaign and destroy creation....for ever!"
Tentacles then came out of her claw and pierced Nocturne's skin.
"NOOO!" He shouted knowing what's gonna happen next.
His body immediately melted into her own and he was Consumed.
The ground bellow them then started cracking open along with every mountain in view, the dark skies were filled with Eldritch Horrors that were coming down to spread chaos and ruin to this world. The Old Gods were here.
Celestia let out a dark laugh and tentacles came out of her body. These tentacles pierced right through everypony around the platform and when she pulled them all back to her, all these massive amounts of flesh towards her, they all melted one after the other, she Consumed them all and none remained.
She let out a playful laugh, like if she was still a filly and just had received a piece of candy and she wanted more.
Then right in front of her, the imagine of the Fallen God appeared and she kneeled before him.
"Thank you for giving me all this power my lord! Please unleash me! Let me slaughter them all in your name! Let me bathe in their blood and take away their lives only to strength you and Them! Please! PLEASE!" She begged.
The Dark God smiled as he placed his hand on her head and said.
"Good, i am glad to hear you say that but do tell me, did you enjoy yourself? Did you love that feeling of pure hatered running through your veins? Did you enjoy the deaths of your family?"
"Family? What family? The only family i know about is you my lord! You and the Old Gods, you whose powers are unmatched! You are one and only family!"
The Dark God let out an evil laugh and said to her new host.
"Then follow my every command Celestia and victory will be ours and Creation will be destroyed!"
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.
And as for Celestia, she remained loyal to the Dark God till the end of their unholy campaign. She never questioned him nor his actions, she just did as she was ordered and in the end, she was rewarded with unlimited power.
The End.
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