Immortality, something most mortals want to reach in their short lives, to achieve a limitless life, no timer that would one day say that it's over. Mortals believe that immortality meant power, wisdom, happiness and other aspects that would come with it.

Sadly, that is wrong! The first few hundred years of immortality could be described as bliss, to live forever and have the power that surpassed any mortals, but what do you do when you have experienced everything that one could see or achieve in your life?

This is precisely why immortality is so rare. It's a curse, one that will force you to see everyone you love, you care about fall to dust while you stay young. You will slowly become immune to both good and bad aspects of life and life becomes dull. You don't want to become immortal under any circumstance unless you are entirely sure that you want to give up your own happiness for an aspect that you want to represent and share with the mortals, be love, safety fertility, or want to bring pain upon the wrongdoers and become an aspect of pain, suffering, or justice.

This is my last warning, do not become immortal, stay as a mortal, once you die, you will be reborn, can make new friends, experiences and be happy forever, but no one knows what happens when an immortal dies...

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Blackness was all that he could see, no voice, no sound. No cold, nor warmth. Eternal nothingness was all that surrounded him until he suddenly heard a few faint voices in the background, voices that made him groan in displeasure and a bit of pain, even making him squirm a little.

"I think he's waking up girls, oh, and boys of course, heh." said a feminine voice

He slowly opened his eyes, but the bright light forced him to squint his eyes. Slowly, he adjusted to the light and was able to see a few vague shapes and outlines of what looked like a horse, on two legs, weird... wait, those are my horses! *Slap* Horses! There is no 'W'!

"Urgh.. what-what happened. I feel like a train crashed into my brain... Huh?" Mathael asked a bit groggy as he rubbed his face with both of his hands.

"You passed out for about half an hour, Mathael. Are you sure you are feeling alright." I turned my head to the source of the sound and found out that it was Celestia who said this.

"I-I think I am okay. I haven't felt like that in so many years, ahh... Nostalgia, I never thought that I would not miss it." Mathael said as he was slowly standing up and realized something was off. He was no longer in the room he was before, and many planks of wood and marble pieces were laying around him. He also noticed that his power went down to 10% again.

"Ehm, What happened after I passed out?" Mathael asked as he looked around him. Everything seemed reasonable, that was until he looked up and saw a big rectangle shaped hole in the ceiling.

"After you passed out, you fell backward with the chair and broke through the ground with a lot of force and fell through 3 more floors until you landed here. May I ask why you passed out, Mathael?" asked Luna who looked at Mathael with great concern.

Mathael looked away

"Are you scared of losing us, Mathael?" Asked Darkness as she looked at Mathael with a worried look on her face and eyes.

"Why would he be scared of losing us?" Asked Twilight?

"I think Mathael is more scared of out aging all of you," explained Erebus who seemed to at least understand a little bit how Mathael felt

"Why would he be worried about it? Everyone dies one day, but it's not bad as long as you enjoy your life until you grow old. Besides, Mathael is already so Ooooooold, shouldn't he at least gotten a bit used to getting over it?"Said Rainbow Dash with a smile.

Mathael sighed loudly and said."Rainbow, you and everyone else in this room are the first pe-Ponies that I called friends in a long time. All of you are precious to me, be it as a friend or lover, but I would never get 'over it' if one of you died. I have no problem with people dying, that is just how life works, but the death of a friend, people who I am holding close to my heart would hurt me a lot more than any wound."

"One day you have to get used to letting people go, but that does not mean that you have to forget them, but just because some may go, does not mean that you can't continue living happily." Erebus tried to cheer Mathael up, but it was doing more of the opposite.

"And what if this is not how it will work? Erebus, I am pretty sure if I would go to a normal world that, if there is not a really good reason to not attack me on sight, Ponies or other creatures won't like being near me. I am what almost every creature would consider 'a living nightmare.' I doubt that People would see me as anyone here will. *Sigh*, but you are right, I can't dwell on it forever, but maybe I do not even have to crack my head for this anyways, who says I will so long." Mathael explained while trying to stay calm, he was not on the verge of tears or anything, but he did not want his voice to break.

"Mathael, what do you mean with that? You are a bit scary right now." Said Darkness who seemed to be actually worried about Mathael.

"Erebus, can you please explain how powerful who the most powerful opponent is that right now exists and I am forced to fight?" Mathael really didn't want to say it aloud as it may sound a lot worse out of his mouth than it should.

Erebus nodded and explained."The Corruption is an enemy, as old as time itself that was powerful enough to wipe out all gods at once in its first war, almost destroyed all gods in his second attempts and now it is trying its third try. Sadly, there are no longer 10 gods to fight it, now there is only one, Mathael as I am not a powerful as I once was and force can't fight, she specializes in the creation, not destruction. In other words, Mathael is forced to do something that 10 gods were not able, but I do have hope that Mathael will save the day. In the worst case, you won't ever see the Corruption win, at least not in your worlds lifetime."

Everyone stared at Mathael who looked away and snapped his fingers to repair all the damage he created, and to open the doors. Suddenly, Mathael felt someone hug him strongly as if the being was grasping him to save its life. Mathael looked to his right and saw that it was Darkness who was crying.

"Please, don't leave me, please don't leave us. Please, promise me... Promise me that you won't die!" Darkness shouted desperately.

Mathael stared down at Darkness before slowly shaking his head and stating."I would do nothing more right now than to say yes, but I am not sure if I would be able to promise this and I don't want to be remembered as a liar if I am truly gone one day. But, I want you, all of you, to promise me this. If I lose, do not cry over me, continue your lives awhile, I am not worth the tears."

*Bash*

*Thud*

Mathael felt something punch him in his right cheek, making him fall to the ground with a loud thud, but the most surprising thing was, he felt pain and a warm liquid running down his fur. Mathael shook his head and saw that it was Erebus who stood in front of him, heavily breathing while pointing her blood coated fist at him.

"Stop this crap already! You should stop thinking about sad stuff and have fun to forget your sadness a least, for now, we all should just go outside now and enjoy the day. And you Mathael, please stop being so hard on yourself, it is starting to even hurt my heart, and maybe you should consider going to a therapist, with Darkness and me. And before you ask, no, it is not because I think you have a problem, I just don't want you to destroy yourself... Stop giving me that look!!!" Shouted Erebus while I was clearly showing my mixed feelings through various facial expressions.

Later

While the friends calmed down and Mathael wounds naturally healed after a few moments, The Princesses dropped the big bomb and told them that they now were officially part of Mathael's heard. The reactions were mixed, most of them were happy for their love, Twilight hairs began to stand up as she was shaking, almost vibrating, but she calmed down after a few moments.

Darkness was a bit sad that there was less Mathael for her, but Mathael reassured her that he would never spend less time with her, not that he picked favorites or anything. Lastly, there was Erebus who was a bit jealous that everyone got a piece of him, but Mathael told her that she could join if she wanted since she wanted for him to be the father of the child so much so it wouldn't hurt if they would get to know each other a bit more first. Mathael never received a 'YES!' so fast to one of his questions.

Sadly, most of his friends had plans so they would not be able to join Erebus's plans for the next few hours as they had duties to fulfill. Mathael used ”Sound Orb” to get most of his friends home. The only ones who stayed were Darkness, Erebus, Aloe, Lotus and surprisingly the Princesses who wanted to get along too, not official, but in disguise.

Celestia went as Sunny Smile, a Unicorn with white fur and a Pink mane while Luna went as a pegasus called Moon Beam with a blue coat and surprisingly violet hair.

The seven of them spent about two hours shopping in various stores that sold herbs, clothing, books and on Erebus's wish, we even visited the finest ... Sex shop in Canterlot, Mathael was scared from half of the stuff she bought, while Mathael followed them and carried their bags around like a real gentleman and paid. After said two hours were over, the friends took a break.

The seven of them took all place on a large table and began to chat, while Mathael was mostly silent for a few minutes and rubbing the spot he was hit by Erebus. Erebus saw this and groaned loudly.

Erebus apologized."Oh come on Mathael, I already said that I was sorry several times already, besides, the wound healed hours ago, and I doubt you felt much."

Mathael rolled his eyes and said."You don't have to worry that much about me, Erebus. I am not angry, sad or anything else, I was just thinking about non-sappy stuff, mostly about the creepy stuff you bought. Also, could we place change the agreement a bit? I don't think you need two gallons."

Erebus chuckled and said."I personally have no idea what half of the stuff is I bought, I was just curious how they work, and no, we are not going to change the number. I will not risk losing my only chance to become a mother and believe me when I saw that two gallons will be little in comparison what I have in mind and what large quantities you are capable of producing if you actually tried."

Mathael thought.'Is It still too late to accept your offer? Zegrath? Sindrael? I think I found a worse fate'

Sindrael thought without having Mathael notice him.'He is the aspect of deceit, you big baby, trusting him is like slitting your own throat. Also, your little Erebus is nothing in comparison to Lysandra's hunger for lust, be happy that you are not her new mate after the old one was… Why am I even thinking this?'

After a few moments, a waiter came and took their orders. Once their food was there, Mathael paid, and all of them enjoyed some real snacks and refreshments, not the castle 'food.' The Princesses were very surprised how good food could taste if you eat in a small restaurant where people love what they are doing instead of praying to their customers, aka, the Princesses.

Fun fact, there was both the cult of Luna and Celestia in Equestria, yes, they were seen as goddesses and had their own unofficial religions.

After a few minutes of peace until a voice broke their tranquility."Well well well. I didn't think you two would have shown your faces in Canterlot again or did you came here to see me?" The Twins stiffed when they heard the voice.

The girls and Mathael looked at who said that and saw a male Unicorn noble. He approaches them with an all high an mighty air around him. Mathael noticed that the spa sisters were scared of this stallion and was already getting a faint idea on who the mysterious Pony was.

Lotus asked with a trembling voice, "W-We have o-only c-came here to b-buy some herbs for o-our spa, Stone Heart." Yep, one of the Nobles I hated the most while reading Don't Get Cocky.

Aloe said, "We h-have no d-desire t-to meet with you e-ever again."

Stone Heart became a bit angry and said, "Who do you think you two whores are talking to!?"

The nearby nobles stopped to see what was going on. Mathael was trying to cool his temper off with a cold drink as already a faint trail of smoke was leaving his nostrils. Sadly to say that with the increasing anger, his claws automatically began to silently unnoticed rip through the table, creating many scratch marks.

Lotus got a bit courageous and said, "We don't belong to someone like you and never will be!"

Aloe also got courageous and said, "We will live our own lives, and it does not involve you one bit!"

Mathael smiled that they were at least standing against this jerk but he already knew what would follow and when he heard what Stone Heart shouted with rage... "Who do you think you are you wenches! I am a noble, and I can do whatever I want with commoners such as yourselves! You both belong to me! I own you and your lives, and if you don't follow my order like good bitches I am going to own your friends as well!" ... Mathael put his drink down and coughed loudly into his bulged fist.

"Ahem!"

Stone Heart slowly turned his head towards Mathael while veins started to show on his forehead. He said silently with rage "What. Do. You. Want?"

Mathael answered politely while not even bothering with keeping eyes contact, or even looking at the walking trash can at all."Money and power maybe make you look like a Stallion who can do whatever he wants, but you are quite wrong. You do not own their lives, and you are not even worth their time. You, I or any other being in this world could be strong enough to rule or destroy the world and still not be worth their time or kindness, so. how about this, you leave, and no one has to get into troubles." Mathael’s look darkened in an heartbeat and the surrounding Nobles could’ve sworn they saw a faint red glow in his eyes.

Stone heart looked really pissed, but his anger suddenly just vanished as a smile formed on his muzzle. Stone Heart offered."I saw you pay for all the stuff they bought, which means they follow you like dogs around so you can spend your money on them, but I have a deal for you. I give you a generous amount of bits, and you will hand over your 'friends to me?"

Mathael anger was close to exploding and he no longer could keep it in! Mathael stood up and walked straight in front of the Stallion, inhaling air deeply and blowing a large smoke cloud into his face. Stone Heart was pissed from that. Mathael then snapped his fingers and create a bright gold ring around his left index finger.

Mathael took of the ring and showed it to Stone Heart and said."Do you see what this here is? This is a ring made out of pure gold, beyond 24 carats and his so heavily compressed that it could easily be as much worth as you, your children and your grandchildren will ever earn together. I do not need your money, I do not need your respect or anything from you, now, leave."

Stone Heart scoffed and said."And what if I don't?!" His Question was answered as Mathael snipped the right he wore into the air. Suddenly, the gold ring looked like it liquified with small crackles of electricity. The gold then shot towards Stone Heart, wrapping around his body and horn, immobilizing him.

Mathael smiled and began to explain while the surrounding Nobles where slowly and quietly leaving the area. "To answer your question, if you do not leave now, the gold will turn you into one ugly and disgusting gold statue. I know what you are now wondering, 'What kind of magic is that?' Simple, it's the power of the Gol Gol no Mi fruit which grants me the ability to control all gold. Hey, here is a fun fact. Canterlot is no only rich because it's the capital, but also because here are most of Equestria gold smiths and their work makes it so that there is always a small and non-health threatening amount of gold dust in the air, so I could easily just wave my hand and could turn any Pony into gold."

Stone Heart struggled against the bindings, but it changed nothing besides making his anger rise. Stone Heart. shouted furiously."How dare you threaten me you Lowly Bloodsucker! I will have the princesses banish from Canterlot, and then I will see how you protect those whores you call friends. Huh, maybe I even visit all of your friends and family and give them a lesson on how to respect a Noble-" He was cut off as *Bash*Mathael's fist connected with his face and then his head *Crash* collided with the ground, forming a huge 10 foot wide and 1 foot deep crater. Several cracks like a spider web were created from the impact, around the hole. The entire Canterlot nobles stopped right in their tracks as they all felt a small earthquake.

Silence took hold of the air as everyone in the area saw something that they could not believe would have happened. From Mathael's perspective, he saw his fist buried in the asshole's face whose head was embedded into the ground while his entire body was now covered in gold dust. Probably crushed his muzzle too.

However, from the perspective of the bystanders, they saw that in the middle of the street, which is now turned into a crater, saw the Pony punch the Noble right into the ground.

Mathael slowly pulled back his fist and stand back to his full height. He glared down at the knock out prick with disgust. A few guards came to see what all the commotion was about and saw Mathael standing in front of an unconscious noble. They recognize Mathael because they were disciplined by him at that time.

The guards approached him and asked, "Excuse me. But could you tell me what happened here." The guard asked politely because he knew how strong Mathael is and can pummel him and his fellow guards without any trouble at all. They didn't want to be buried in the ground again or tickled either.

Mathael looked at the guard with a.. with a smile... it scared him and said, "This 'Thing' did not understand that he was unwanted here and continued threatening my friends, trying to bribe me and lastly stating that his life was more worth than others. I want you to arrest him for not only badmouthing my friends but for bodily harm and forcing Aloe and Lotus to be his slave."

The guards were shocked when they heard what the noble was being accused of. However, they could not do anything against a noble and tried to deny it by saying, "Forgive me but we can't-"

Mathael looked at the Princesses in disguise who nodded as they already knew what he wanted to ask. Mathael already knew how the Guards would end his sentence and said."Boy, if you are going to say that just because he is a 'noble' that you can't arrest him? If that is the case-" He raised his right hand into the air as it suddenly turned black and formed into a huge claw made out of what looked like darkness. In truth, Mathael transformed his hand into Shadow Claws which scared everyone besides the Girls.

Mathael spoke in an deomonic voice."-then I will deal with this Bastard personaly!""

The guards swallowed fearfully because they know that Mathael will do it and no one will be able to stop him. So they accepted what he asked them to do and arrested Stone Heart and took him away.

Mathael then turned his hand back to normal and looked behind him and saw that Lotus and Aloe walked up to him and hugged him before thanking him for dealing with this bastard. They actually said it like that 'Thanks for dealing with that bastard.' The Spa sisters stopped hugging him after a few moments.

Mathael said with a small smile and rubbing the back of his head."Heh, I hope I didn't scare all of you all too much." Erebus, Darkness and the spa twins seemed to be not bothered much by it, but the princesses in disguise and Rarity were lucking at him with curiosity.

Rarity asked."You can control all gold? That sound like an interesting power? Uhh~ what else can you control and how?" asked Rarity which caused many looks to fall onto him.

Mathael replied."Simple, by consuming devil fruits and sometimes their owners I acquire their powers. Normally a person can only eat one devil fruit, eating a second one would result in exploding, but I have found a way around it. I can freely consumer any power and finding a way to regain my ability to swim after eating said fruit without any problems as I am immune to the fruits side effects. Also, I can read your mind Rarity, and yes, I have consumed several fruits that allow me control over gems." After stating this, Rarity had stars in her eyes... cartoon logic...

Princess Celestia asked."How many of these Devil fruits are there?"

Mathael responded."The exact number is unknown, but I once heard that there were about 166, but there could be many more, many of which I don't know because of my power hunger back then...Ahem, anyways, I now sadly must take my leave as I got to help the Minotaur Kingdom. I hope they won't be as aggressive and blockheaded as they are in other worlds. Farewell, it was a pleasure to spend a few hours with all of you."

Mathael then shouted "Jet Voice" which covered his body in sound, and he shoots off into the air at the speed of sound, leaving his friends to stare after him in awe, at least most of them. After Mathael was gone, the Princesses said their farewells and walked back to the castle.

"Ehm... how do we get back to Ponyville?" asked Rarity with the realization that their best way home just left. The others looked at another and just as Darkness was about to open a Gate, but Erebus was faster and dealt with the situation.

Erebus lifted her right arm and slashed her nails through the air which resulted in a real cut in reality. A small rift that grew to the size of the castle gates made out of various colors of the rainbows glowed radiantly with power.

Erebus said."Just walk through it, and we all should arrive in front of Mathael's home." And as Erebus said, Lotus, Aloe, and Rarity picked up their bags and walked through the rift. Only Erebus and Darkness were left, standing in front of another.

Darkness glared at Erebus and said sternly."I don't like you."

Erebus stared at Darkness and said emotionless."If you want to talk it out, then please don't do it in public, it would be kind of said if you would be seen in the newspaper and people would go after Mathael for answers. Fragile ones first." Erebus finished her sentence mockingly as she motioned her arms to the rift.

Darkness glared up at Erebus and huffed as she walked through the rift, shortly afterward followed by Erebus before the split in reality patched itself up and vanished from sight and existence.

Once on the other side, Darkness saw that the other Girls already so far away that she barely could see them. Suddenly she heard something or someone stomped on the ground with a loud thud. Darkness turned around and saw that it was Erebus who wanted attention.

Erebus said."I am only waiting for you to get inside so we can talk about our problems like civil beings instead of just stating our view of others without explanation."

Darkness thought.'Wow, She insulted me and is a jerk toward me, but while doing said things, she isn't directing them at me directly. She is evil... wait, Mathael talks to his enemy exactly like that... Are just thinking they are smarter or is Mathael just talking 'dumb' with us?'h

"Yes, in fact, Mathael uses almost nothing of his brainpower while talking with you and only a bit more when he talks with Faust or me. If Mathael would use all of his brainpower than I doubt that he would even use his mouth and talk on a level than even the smartest mortals would look at him with a confused look," explained Erebus.

"Wait, did you just? Nevermind, let's just get inside." Grumbled Darkness as she walked inside Mathael's and her home.

Darkness walked toward her home, followed by Erebus and entered the beautiful home. Darkness showed Erebus where the living room was that they reached in just a few minutes. Once inside the Livingroom, Darkness sat down on a sofa on the opposite end of a table.

Darkness inhaled loudly before exhaling even louder and glaring at Erebus. Darkness said a bit angrily."I don't like you because of how you treat Mathael. Yeah, you want a child, sure, I can understand that, but you don't have to treat Mathael like a sperm cow!"

A single vein could be seen on Erebus forehead as her left eyelid twitched. Erebus growled."Oh, sorry that I am just a bit jumpy that I’m this' close to finally reaching my goals I have been hunting after longer than the second era of the creation. Besides, Mathael and I talked about it in more detail alone. Also, I should remind you that you are literally talking to one of one of your makers, congratulations, you pissed me off." Said Erebus angrily.

Darkness bared her sharp teeth and continued."God or not, I am not going to treat you differently. Still, Mathael is not one to just say no to a Mare who is in despair. In my eyes, you just took advantage of Mathael who can't say no to things like that, no matter how bad it would be for him."

Erebus said with sarcasm."'Exploited him?' That comes right from you? If I remember correctly, Mathael gave you more power, moments, happiness and even health than you returned to him, in fact, you gave him nothing in return, and now if something happens to you like death, it would break him. You literally made him vulnerable, and while we are talking about taking advantage of Mathael while he is not feeling emotionally well, wasn't it you who became his 'special somepony' right after he started finding happiness? It wouldn't surprise me that Mathael just took you in because he hungered for love so much that he chose the next best creature he could find, even if this one was half dead."

Darkness gasped loudly when she heard this, not just because it hurt her, but also because she was partly right, there was nothing that she could give Mathael that he didn't already have besides exactly something that literally any other Mare could give him.

Darkness barked, but less confident."T-That's not t-true! I am still special to him, even if I do not have special powers. Yes, if something bad happens, he will be sad, but that's just how love works. Next, you punched him even though he was mentally and emotionally hurt!"

Erebus stared at Darkness and explained."Mathael will be sad? Don't you mean, Mathael will hit rock bottom? Mathael literally focuses his entire world around you because you were the first one to show him the first small steps to a better life, a happy one, even though you did a pretty crappy job I might add."

Darkness was taken back from this and asked."What?! How? I tried my best to make him happy."

Erebus rolled her eyes and said."The few times he talked about his past where right steps, but that's it. In the end, he was almost only there for you, not the other way around. He carves the happiness of others because he does not know what it feels like to be truly happy, not just to be happy for a moment or two."

Darkness asked confused."What are you talking about? I know Mathael said something about him not really smiling but, oh dear Luna..."

Erebus stood up and walked in front of Darkness and stared down at her before she crouched down and was still a few inches bigger than her. Erebus said while staring into Darkness's eyes."Are you finally understanding it? Mathael's suffers from great depression and a bit of Alexithymia, but I could be wrong with the last one. He is barely happy at any time, and the only time he is happy is because others show that they are happy."

Darkness asked."But why isn't he saying anything, we could help him?!"

Erebus explained."Darkness, you heard what he was doing most of his life, right? Then you would exactly know that for him, back then, showing weakness was a self-signed death sentence. Saying that there was wrong with him is making him feel vulnerable and he learned how to hide his pain over his life to not die. Now, now he hides his pain as this is everything he is used to. He does not know what emotions are, he just knows pain, and everything else is just guessing for him. Mathael only knows no pain, and pain, that's it, Darkness. When Mathael is sad, he swallows it down, when he sees others in pain, he tries to stop it."

Darkness stared at Erebus in shock and in sadness, she did not realize how Mathael felt this entire time even though she was so close to him.

Erebus continued."All you and your friends did was give him a few 'shots' of emotions he barely understood. He just liked it because it felt better than in his regular state, almost like a drug without side effects. The reason I punched him was not only because I could no longer take it, but also because that was one way of showing him others pain. I do not want to use pain as a way to show him happiness, but it had a lot more impact on him than all romantic moments you and he had as he now could literally feel how much we feel his pain."

"I’m sorry..." said Darkness

Erebus asked."What did you say?"

"I said. I am sorry..." repeated Darkness

Erebus smiled and asked again."What? I can't hear you?"

"I said I am Sorry!!! shouted Darkness loudly.

Erebus smiled a bit as she looked down at Darkness, but her smile fell instantly when she heard Darkness quietly sobbing. Erebus asked."Why are you crying?" while

Darkness looked at Erebus with anger, but her fury was not directed at her. Darkness shouted."I was jealous! You were not even half as long near with Mathael and found out more about his pain than I did, in fact, I barely scratched the surface of his pain! It hurts me to hear that I am basically just useless weight for him, that I was too blind to see him suffering and to top it off, I was selfish."

Darkness sobbed into her hands for several moments until she felt someone pat her head. She looked up and saw it was Erebus with a small smile on her face, not the sadistic or evil kind, but a nice one. Erebus said."You should not be so hard on yourself. I did not see all of his problems in just one look. I can see others emotions, add millions of years of experience, then it is quite easy to understand others, and even reading Mathael was really hard. So stop crying, and rather think of a way to work with me."

Darkness sniffed and dried her eyes and nose on her arm. She looked up to Erebus and said and asked."Thanks, but what are we going to do?"

Erebus smiled and said."I once was very obsessed with reaching my goals that. . . Anyways, I got advice from an old friend. What we need to do is quite easy. We just have to make him socialize, not as in showing his powers but letting him be himself, no romantic, no adventures, just a quiet evening. Just remember, keep things neutral, don't mention anything outside or something that could make him worry, and, if you want to, shift a bit of focus on him."

Darkness stared at Erebus and asked confused."That's it?"

Erebus explained."Yes, at least for us, for him, that may be really hard to change from a cold rock to having a 'normal life' social life. Believe me when I say that this will take time and he may need a bit of help to be permanently happy again, at least for a certain amount of time without others help or happiness."

Darkness said with a small smile on her own."You make it sound easy, but what are we going to do until he comes back or rather when does he even come back?"

Erebus snapped her fingers, and a used a particular spell that was called All knowing scrying mirror that created a big 2 meters long and 5 meters wide mirror with an obsidian frame with many runes engraved in it, that would show the user anything he wanted to see, hear, possible even smell, and that through almost any matter.

Erebus explained."This, my dear Darkness, is an all-knowing scrying mirror, it's like the mirror of remote viewing, but many times better. It allows us to see, hear and even smell the location it is showing us, and if I want to see Mathael, then we can see what he is up to."

Darkness asked with a raised eyebrow."Isn't this stalking?"

Erebus shrugged as she hopped on the couch and commanded the mirror to show them what Mathael was doing.

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Hint: If you are confused why you will read Darkness and Erebus talking, they are saying comments and personal opinion on what they are seeing. They are not involved with anything that Mathael is going to do as they are just sitting on the sofa in Mathael's home. Have fun reading the rest of the Chapter with hopefully no confusions or problems
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Mathael flew with the speed of sound, thanks to his Jet Voice
Through the sky. He chose this way of transportation as he needed a bit of time to clear his mind. Mathael was deep in thoughts, as he suddenly felt a new presents stalking him. Mathael looked to the source of the weird feeling and saw nothing, not even his sense could see anything.

Erebus pointed her palm at the magic mirror to hide the presence of the mirror with her magic. Both Erebus and Darkness stared at Mathael in the mirror while he stared back as a few drops of sweat rolled down their foreheads, When Mathael turned his head away, both of them gave off a loud reliving sigh.

Mathael shocked his head and thought.'Am I finally going insane or what? Now even my own senses are messing with me. *Mental Sigh* I am one broken Stallion, at least in the head, body wise I am at least... I am talking with myself in my own head... again...'

Outskirt of the Minotaur Kingdom

After flying for 2 hours, Mathael saw a kingdom in the distance. He looked down upon the land and saw several corpses of both monsters, slaves of corruption and Minotaur warriors. This showed that they had a recent monster attack. The number of minotaur corpses was a lot higher than the one of the corruption slaves, but a lot less than the monsters, the weakest units of the corruption, grunts, you could say.

He landed on the outskirts of the kingdom and pulled out his dual pistols, Success and Demise, and ‘the deadly gentlemen (Walking cane mode).’ He equipped a gun to each of his thighs and used his deadly gentlemen as a walking cane and started to walk towards the entrance of the Minotaur Kingdom.

As he was walking, he stared at the corpses and thought for a moment to revive them, but then again, he was not the one to chose who would be resurrected or not. Since overpopulation was not a problem he wanted to deal with, he made the corpses explode into Exp and absorbed them. When he came closer, he was amazed to see what the kingdom looked from the outside.

Darkness said in awe."Wow, that is a wonderful and yet tactically well build Kingdom, and if there aren't any nobles, I might think of moving." while Erebus simply shrugged as she seen more than enough 'architectural wonders.'

With high walls like that, must be the reason for the Minotaurs to defend themselves from the monsters. Mathael walked towards the entrance but saw that the giant double gate was closed. He knocked hard on the door and waited. A few moments later, some Minotaur guards looked down from the walls and said, "Who goes there!"

Mathael looked up and shouted."Greeting, I am Mathael, and on the request of Iron Hoof, I came to your Kingdom to talk with him about important matters" Hey, Maybe not all Guards are dicks.

The guards didn't believe him and said, "And how do we know that you are not lying!?"

I take it back.

Mathael shouted again."We meet on the Gala in Canterlot, and he asked me to deal with your monster problem, so here I am!!!"

The guards didn't believe him and said, "Lies! Our King would never ask for help from a Pony, especially from a weakling like you! Go away, or we will be forced to attack you!"

Erebus said annoyed."Wow, they are half as racist and annoying as Canterlot's guards." which earned her a nod from Darkness.

Mathael muttered quietly."Piece of... You know what, you want to eat your own words, then so be it."

Mathael glared at the guards and began to walk away. The guards laugh behind his back as they saw him walking away and ... only for him to stop and turn back at them. Mathael crouched down and then jumped high in the air and over the wall. He landed right in the middle of the Minotaur guards. The guards immediately brought out their weapons and pointed towards him.

A guard said, "Don't move a muscle or we will attack you!"

Mathael explained as he pulled out a pair of glasses from somewhere and put them on. "First of all! I can't make all my muscles stop at once. Two! Your King has asked me for my help. Either you send one of your guards to the king and find out for yourself, or I can show you who the real weaklings are and meet him myself. What it'll be?"

The guards said, "We don't believe a word you say! Everyone arrest the Pony!" With a war cry, every guard charged at Mathael.

Mathael was not fazed by this threat and stood at full height. He used his "Hair Sensor" and "Echolocation" around him to mark his opponents. There were 29 guards around him.

Play this Song for the fight.

Darkness said exited."This is going to be interesting."

As the first Guard charged Mathael, he sidestepped in the last moment with inhumane speed, almost as if it was Superhuman Speed and *Bash* hit the guard in the stomach with his walking cane. The guard clutched his stomach in pain and went down. 1 down, 28 to go

Three Guards came from all directions and surrounded Mathael. When the guard formed a tight circle around him, he *Bash* threw his walking cane at the face of the first Guard, before it bounced off and *Bash* hit the second Guard in the face and Mathael *Bash*punched the last Guard in his stomach. Mathael caught his walking cane before it bunched off the second Guard and went back into his position. 4 down, 25 to go.

Erebus said impressed."I didn't even know you could use a walking cane like that."

Mathael's instincts told him that a minotaur stood behind him and with the reflexes of an super tiger, he turned around and lifted his hands as a large battle ax was swung down at him *Clang* only to be caught by Mathael's hand that was well-protected thanks to his scales and his Titan Armor. The minotaur was shocked that a Pony could catch his swing so easily, but his shock was replaced with happiness as he could see another minotaur rush to him, swinging his ax at Mathael down to... only to be caught too. Mathael rolled his eyes before grabbing both battle axes and throwing them with their owner into two groups of minotaur guards. *Crash* and possibly through a building. Ops. 14 down, 15 to go.

Darkness commented."I hope he didn't accidentally hit anyone." to which Erebus replied with a shrug

Mathael patted the dust off his clothes and smiled as he could feel being surrounded by 14 guards while one of the minotaurs ran away. The minotaurs charged at Mathael. Mathael closed his eyes and waited until the first one came close and *Bash* knocked him out cold with a punch to the face. Three guards attacked him from behind to which he spun around and gave them *Bash* a roundhouse kick that launched them away.

From this moment on, the guards just swarmed him. four guards from the right, trying to catch Mathael off guard, but then one of them made a big mistake, "AHHHH!!!!" he screamed a loud battle cry. Mathael rolled his eyes and said."If you wish to take me by surprise... Then don't scream like a banshee!!!" as he unsheathed his blade and slashed it through the air in front of the minotaur. the guard stopped mid charge, like all battle activities until suddenly *Swipe* *Swipe* *Swipe* *Swipe* *bash* *bash* *bash* *bash* many glimmering lines could be seen around the guards and his armor and weapons fell apart and to round it all up, a big dent appeared in their stomachs that force them to wince on the ground.

Darkness stared at the fallen down guards for a moment and shocking her head and dismissing a thought that formed in her head.

The leftover guards shook their heads before continuing charging Mathael. Mathael smirked before sidestepping a swing from a guard and weakly *Bash* bashing the handle of his Deadly Gentleman against the minotaur’s head. In the same motion as the guard fell down, Mathael made a 180-degree turn to cut through an incoming ax, *slash* cutting through it and delivering a kick into the guard's stomach, sending him flying.

Two guards charged at Mathael from left and right and simultaneously and tried to horizontally cut Mathael in two pieces. Mathael put his blade back in its shaft and threw it vertically up in the air and caught both weapons by the handles and ripped them out of their owners' hand before *Bash* bashing the weapon against the two guards heads, hammering them down into the ground like a nail with only their chest and heads pointing out.

Mathael then jumped up and drop kicked both axes and shot them with a lot of force against a guard who was hit with the blunt side before flying away from the sheer force. Mathael then made a roll on the ground, to evade the last's guard attack, landing on his hooves, catching his weapon and *Bash* slamming the blunt end on the minotaur’s head.

Mathael rose to his full height once again and patted his suit again, this time not to mock, but because the minotaur spit and dirt smelled exactly like you wouldn't expect. It smelled extremely salty. Suddenly Mathael received feedback from his Hair Sensor about another one approaching him with the guard from earlier and 12 more in tow. He put his hands into his coat pockets, and after waiting for a few moments, he saw another Minotaur coming towards him and from the looks of it, this one seems stronger than the guards.

The new Minotaur snorted and said, "What's all this? What's going on here?"

A guard said, "The Pony, no, this monster said that our king has asked for his help. We didn't believe him and denied him entry into our kingdom. He then jumped up here and started to beat us around."

The Minotaur snorted again and looked at Mathael and said, "So, you think you can just walk in here and start beating up the guards? If so, then we'll see how you fare against me, Stone Bulk!"

The remaining guards began to cheer for Stone Bulk. Mathael said calmly."I am sorry to disappoint you, but you guards are no opponents worth fighting with, even if you are stronger by minotaur standard. I do not want to any further harm to any of you if you would just cooperate."

Stone Bulk snorted with anger and shouted, "We'll see who gets hurt!"

Stone Bulk charged at Mathael with his huge spiky mace. Mathael pulled out his left hand and then, in a blur, *Clap* slammed his hand into Stone Bulk's face with such force that stopped him in his track.

Mathael did not stop there. He pushed with more strength and then throw Stone Bulk backward, onto the ground *Crash* with such force that his upper body was buried in the ground.

Silence reign the air as the remaining guards stare at Stone Bulk with eyes full of disbelief and jaws agape. They could not believe that Mathael was able to beat Stone Bulk just like that. He was a stronger Minotaur, but against Mathael, Stone Bulk simply paled in comparison of strength to him.

Mathael slowly and menacingly rose back to his full height and glared down at the guards with a small red glow in his soulless eyes. Mathael asked politely."Since I just demonstrated that there is nothing you can do, will you now lead me to your king?"

The guards were shaking with fear, but they still said, "We will not let someone as dangerous as you meet the King just like that as long as we can still stand!" The remaining guard then gathered into a group and pointed their weapons at him.

Mathael chuckled quietly which made many the guard's sweat bullets. Suddenly, his laughter just stopped as he looked emotionally at the guards. *Click*. With a small motion with his thumb, Mathael unsheathed his blade a little before grabbing the handle and pulling out the rest of his weapon. Mathael pointed the blade tip behind him and hunched a bit forward.

Mathael closed his eyes before opening them again, but something was different. his pupils shrunk to the size of a dot and they radiated seriousness. Suddenly, Mathael disappeared from the spot and reappeared in front of the cowardly guard with his blades end just millimeters in front of his face with his face facing the ground.

Silence reign over the small Battlefield, but this silence ended when many shout and groans of pain escaped the guards' lips, and they all fell to the ground as their equipment was shredded into hundreds of pieces and many small dents appeared all across their body except for the crotch area.

The last guard standing was shaking violently as sweat was literally running down his face. Mathael smiled before lifting his head and retreating his blade. Mathael said in a demanding tone."Now... you will bring me to your king as I have no interest in beating every last of you guards into the ground. Understood?"

The guard stuttered."B-b-but how-no why do you need me?" Mathael could literally see the sweat running down his forehead, and he was trembling to the point he almost vibrated.

Mathael rolled his eyes and explained."Because if they see me with you, they won't get suspicious about me. Now come on, I am on a tight schedule, and I would not want to be too late to meet the king."

Darkness commented."Not bad, Mathael. not only strong but also smart."

The guard furiously nodded and then started to escort Mathael to meet with the King. When they were walking through the streets, many of the civilians were looking at Mathael with interest because it was somewhat rare for a Pony, especial and Bat Pony, to walk in their kingdom. He saw that the female Minotaurs looked a bit similar to humans.

Mathael thought.'Huh, I thought Nosferatu just wanted to add these versions of minotaurs because he was joking or felt the need to add more sexiness, not that I am one who would have more interest in the body than the mind. Still, it is almost scary how close this world is to the original.'

Mathael's earlier thoughts were proven wrong as the city was not like Canterlot. The city had a lot less sins in it as his Demon Sense were only picking up little amount of negative energy. The city, even though it looked almost as rich as Canterlot, although the style was less gold and marble and more fancy middle age and seemed to be more focused around Ironwork and smithing.

Mathael suddenly halted and recognized a familiar building site. His eyes widened when he saw a minotaur wincing on the ground while holding his balls... No that's not it. Mathael looked closer and saw the female minotaur who did the unholy deed was running towards the construction site.

Mathael closed his eyes and hoped he would not see what he thought he would see. When he opened them... '...Damn you Nosferatu...' Mathael saw how the minotaur woman was running towards a little minotaur girl who looked a bit dazed.

Mathael used his Superhuman Vision to see if there were any dangers, but he only spotted a dangerously low hanging heavy load of iron beams was directly above the two minotaurs, but the rope seemed stable enough.

Mathael gave out a quiet *Phew* before walking towards the minotaurs. Once he stood in front of them, the woman stopped talking with the smaller minotaur.

Mathael said politely."I think you already know this, but it is very dangerous to just run towards and construction site. Do you know what could happen if you were unlucky? You could be hit by a load of iron beams, and that would hurt a lot." The two minotaurs stared at Mathael in confusion as they wondered why this was his problem, but the awkward moment was ended by a quiet sound above them.

*Snap*

"Fuck you murphy..."

Mathael slowly looked up as a large shadow was steadily expanding under them. Many heavy beams bars were fallings down upon them. The two minotaurs hugged the other in fear as tears streamed down their face while Mathael didn't even move a single muscle. A second before the bars fell down, everyone in vision closed their eyes to not have to see the three of them being squashed.

Silence reign overall and one brave minotaur dared to open his eyes, and his jaw hit the ground when he saw what happened. He shouted."Hey! You all have to see this!"

The crowd looked back at the crash site and gasped. All Civilians and Guards opened their eyes and gasped in disbelief at what they were seeing.

There at the crash site, the girl and woman were safe without even a scratch. How could she survive the iron beams that crashed on top of her? When the dust dissipated, they saw their answer. The very being that was walking with the guard was protectively standing above the girl while the iron beams were resting on top of him and against his body. They saw that the being was not injured at all. Even after having that massive load of iron beams crashing on him, he was fine.

When Mathael acted as a cover for the two females minotaurs, used "Tekkai" to harden his entire body. This is how he was able to stop the iron beams from hurting the two of them. He then looked down at the girl and surprisingly the two women who were hugging his leg with fear of dying. He smiled and said, "Hey little ones. You are safe now. So, open your eyes and look around."

The girls heard his voice and opened their eyes slowly and gasped when they saw a Mathael who was standing above them like a guardian and saved her life. The little girl was crying as the fear of death was still very fresh while the woman was comforting her.

The minotaur woman asked in disbelief."How did you do that? Are you hurt? Aren't the iron beams too heavy?"

Mathael chuckled as he leaned down while maintaining the iron beams on his back. Mathael smiled and said."There is no need to worry about me, miss, I am perfectly fine. Also, it didn't hurt at all, also please don't try this at home little one, I am a bit less destructible than most beings."

The two minotaurs smiled while Mathael slowly rose back to his full height and carefully pushing the iron beams off his, well, everything. To Mathael's surprise, once he stood, up, he was hugged by the woman and the child simultaneously. Mathael's jaw was slightly open, and he was a bit paralyzed as the idea of being hugged, even if it was from friends, was still a bit uneasy for him.

The two minotaurs chuckled a bit from Mathael's reaction while wiping away the tears from their eyes. The mother calmed down and thanked him again. She then left with her daughter who waved him goodbye before leaving. The onlookers were still stuck in their position of staring at him with eyes full of disbelief and their jaws hitting the ground. Mathael shook his head again before walking back to his escorting guard who was also staring at him with wide eyes and his jaw on the ground. Mathael snapped his fingers in front of his face to bring the guard out of his shock. They then continued their walk, and Mathael saw that the guard was taking him towards a castle.

Erebus commented."Aww, he has such a big heart, metaphorically speaking of course."

Darkness gave off a loud sigh and said."How can it be that he still not used to hugs?!"

Erebus chuckled and said."Darkness, that was always weird for him, even when he was a human. For his kind, it was extraordinary if a random person hugged you." Darkness groaned silently before looking back at the magic mirror

When they reached the castle's door, the two guards there stopped them and asked, "Halt! Who goes there?"

The guard escorting Mathael spoke, "I am here with Sir Mathael. The king is expecting him."

Mathael thought dryly 'Sir? I am not that old.... oh right, I am older than dirt...'

The door guards nodded and let them pass. After walking for a while, they finally reach the throne room. They walked into the throne room and saw King Iron Hoof having a conversation with an elder looking Minotaur and Griffon.

Mathael's eyes widened while thinking.'Wait! There is an actual griffon here?! I thought Nosferatu just picked the picture because it looked pretty, but there is an actual freaking griffon beside the king.'

The guard said, "My King. Sir Mathael has arrived."

Iron Hoof, the elder Minotaur, and the Griffon stopped talking and look at Mathael. Iron Hoof became happy and walk towards him and said, "Welcome Mathael, to our beloved kingdom Minoros." He hugged Mathael and said, "It's so good to see you again. You can't believe how much I am relieved that you are here now."

Mathael who swallowed down the emotions, hugged him back, firmly, and said."It is good to see you again too, Iron Hoof."

Once Mathael ended the hug, he asked."On my way here, I saw many corpses of minotaur monster and nightmares, they looked fresh, how long ago was the battle?"

Iron Hoof nodded and said, "Yes. The recent monster attack was two days ago which gave me some time to go to the Gala. We have lost many of our warriors in that attack, but I am glad I went to the Gala because I met you and you accepted my request. For that, I can't thank you enough."

Mathael nodded and asked."Who is the elder one and the griffon?"

Iron Hoof introduced him, "Mathael. I would like you to meet my father, Great Steel and his adviser, sir Schninkelton Van Featherdam."

Mathael kept his face with a smile, calm, but inside, he was laughing, very loud and it was almost painful to not shout 'T-That's your name!!!???'

Both Darkness and Erebus were laughing, no, shouting and screaming in laughter when they heard his name. One would think he had a serious name like steel claw or grey feather, but Schninkelton Van Featherdam?! That was just too good to be true!

Mathael extended both of his arms to give Great Stell and Featherdam a handshake. To Mathael's surprise, Featherdam almost shot his arm towards Mathael's hand and shook it while Great Steel took his time.

Mathael shook both of their hands and greeted them."Greeting, Great Steel, Schninkelton Van Featherdam, it is a pleasure to meet both of you."

Schninkelton Van Featherdam said enthusiastically."The pressure is all mine, sir Mathael. I always appreciated one who does not laugh, and or makes fun of my name."

Great Steel smiled and nodded his head, "It's nice to finally meet you to Mathael. My son here has been talking about you and said that you can help us with our monster problem. Is this true?" He asked with hope in his eyes.

Mathael smiled and said."Indeed. I have dealt with their armies and generals already, and I have, until now, killed every single one of them who was a threat to anyone."

Mathael thought.'I can't say that I murdered them all because of Zegrath, damn overpowered bastard!'

Great Steel became happy and said, "Oh thank the creators! This city can now be saved from the monsters. We have lost many warriors in fending off the monsters, and I don't want to lose anymore." Wait!? Creator 's' ? does he know about the others?

Iron Hoof smiled and said, "Mathael will save our kingdom father. So you have no need to worry and rest your tired body. We will win this war and our people."

Erebus raised an eyebrow when she heard creators, as in plural. Did they know? If yes, then maybe she should give the situation a closer look.

Mathael suddenly went silent as he looked out of a large window, looking for the place that Asura once described in his adventures and found it. He could almost taste the feeling of knowing that something terrible is coming his way until he saw it, something almost horrifying. Mathael said."Something bad is coming our way. Very soon, they will be here."

Silents reign over all, no sound, no butting of an annoying fly, no falling needle or even breathing, it was as if time itself stopped for a moment.

Great Steel asked."H-how do you know about that, Mathael? We did not receive any reports of an army marching towards us."

Mathael continued looking out of the window and saw a massive shadow of death looming over the land thanks to his Superhuman Vision. Mathale slowly turned to Great Steel and said."I am a fortune teller, and I can see the shadow of death slowly looming over this land."

Great Steel, Iron Hoof, and Featherdam didn't need to know what a shadow of death was, they only needed to know that the enemy is coming towards them. Just as Great Steel wanted to give an order, Mathael interfered.

Mathael looked away from the window and at the others in the room. Mathael said."Gather your best warriors at the gates, I shall try to kill as many of them off before they can even come close to the city."

Iron Hoof nodded and looked at a guard and said, "I want you to escort my father to his room and guard him with your life."

The guard nodded and escorted Great Steel to his room. Great Steel looked back at Mathael with Hope and said, "Please Mathael. I beg of you. Please save our beloved kingdom and its citizens." With that, he went out of the room.

Iron Hoof began to gather all of his warriors at the city's entrance. Mathael was also there and saw many of the Minotaur warriors. Some of them stood out from the rest, showing that they were stronger than the rest.

The Last minotaur was a mage. It didn't surprise Mathael that even minotaurs could learn magic as he has seen much weirder and even more unlikely creatures cast magic, for example, a giant hamster. While Mathael was looking over at the warriors, one arrogant Minotaur saw him and made his way towards him and said, "Who is this suppose to be? Only warriors like us are supposed to be here!" This gained the attention of everyone else.

Mathael rolled his eyes from that comment.

Everyone erupts into a small bout of murmurs. Bulk Head snorted with anger and said, "Then Tell him that we don't need any help from outsiders. We Minotaurs are the strongest warriors there is! We will deal with the monsters ourselves." The others agreed with him.

Iron Hoof narrowed his eyes and said, "I, myself have personally asked Mathael for his help, and he has accepted my request. And if you are talking about being the strongest warriors, then I am sorry to say that that title goes to Mathael."

Bulk Head became angry and said, "Why do you side with a bloodsucker pony, my king? He is not a Minotaur, and he does not look like a warrior at all."

Darkness shouted at the magic mirror."HEY!!!"

Iron Hoof glared at him and said, "HE is my friend, and he is one of the most powerful warriors I have ever met. If you doubt me, then why not test him out for yourself?"

Bulk Head snorted with anger and said, "Very well. I will see for myself if that pony is a warrior or a coward."

Darkness and Erebus said simultaneously."He got a death wish."

The others made space for Bulk Head to test out Mathael. Others cheered for Bulk Head while Iron Hoof told Mathael, "Please go easy on him." Mathael nodded, put his walking cane back into his pocket dimension and just stands on the spot.

Bulk Head immediately ran towards him and gave *Bash* a strong punch in his gut. He smiled that he hit the Pony and the cocky Minotaur looked up to see Mathael's face in pain. However, his smile disappeared when he saw that Mathael was merely staring at him at him emotionless as if he didn't even notice his hit. It was like he didn't feel Bulk Head's punch at all. He then began to hit the Pony more *Bash* Bash* *Bash* in his abdomen and even his face, but Mathael just stood there with his hands inside his coat's pocket and took the hit like it was nothing to him.

Bulk Head was getting tired and started to fear the Pony as he saw that his attacks were doing nothing to him. He needs to stop now or else things would go wrong, but due to his pride, he didn't back down and choose to continue his attack. Bulk Head pulled out his massive battle hammer and with a powerful swung, *Clang* *Crunch* he struck the Pony in the face with it.

The others cringe at the sound of crushing while Bulk Head was smiling like he finally reached his life goal or something. However, his smile turned to shock at what he and the rest of the Minotaurs saw. It was not the Ponies face that was crushed but rather the hammer being crushed and hollowed by his muzzle. The hammer with the large dent fell on the ground with a *Thud*, and everyone saw that the Ponies face wasn't even scratched.

Bulk Head was now trembling as fear started to course through his body. Mathael stared into Bulk Head's eyes and said while raising his eyebrow."Is that all?"

Bulk Head began to back away from Mathael with fear. He was now regretting to let his arrogance and pride control him like that. The two of them looked the other in the eyes, or instead Bulk Head looked into an endless, lifeless and soulless void. After a few seconds of the torment, he got scared and turned around to run away for his life. He didn't care if he was seen as a coward in the eye of the other Minotaurs, he just wanted to get away from here.

Just after taking a few steps, Mathael suddenly appeared in front of him. Bulk Head did not believe his eyes and looked at the position Mathael just stood a second ago just to make sure. Once Bulk Head realized that he could not outrun the Pony, he slowly and fearfully turned his head back to Mathael. Mathael then said three words, that engraved themselves into Bulk Head's very being."Is. That. All?"

Mathael's right arm then suddenly shot forward with the speed of sound and grabbed Bulk Head's armor's collar as his arm muscles bulged twice the size of his arm. Before Bulk Head could even begin to beg, Mathael catapulted him with a single motion, hundreds of feet into the air.

Everyone around Mathael gasped loudly when the crowd saw that Bulk Head just vanish from sight. Mathael then held two fingers at his forehead and used Soru to appear beside Bulk Head who was screaming at the top of his lungs without even noticing Mathael who was just laying there with his back facing the ground.

Mathael said to get his attention."Ya know, I hate cocky bastards, but do I hate big stains made out of cocky bastards on the ground? Well, that is debatable. Come on, convince me."

Erebus commented."Uhh~ He is evil~."

Bulk Head tried to think of something, anything to save his hide from this situation, literally."Ehm... eh... I just don't want the weak ones to fight and instantly die on the frontline! I was wrong, you can fight, please don't let me die! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!!!" With every second the ground came closer and he closed his eyes, accepting his fate.

...

...

...

"Ehem"

Bulk Head slowly opened his eyes and saw the ground, an inch in front of his eyes. He exhaled loudly as he felt someone strong pulling him up on one of his legs, but his comfort was ended when the being let go of him, and he kissed the ground.

Mathael lectured."I think I agree on that point, general, but I am highly advising you to stop fighting your allies and rather try to defend your home with all help that you can get."

With that said, Mathael jumped over the wall and began walking towards the middle of the soon to be Warfield, while trying to ignore the slowly advancing and concentrated amount of negative energy formed into a monster army. Once in the middle of the field, he snapped his fingers to create a cushion and a tea set with freshly made green tea.

Mathael sat down, took a sip of the tea and began to think about his enemy whose name presumably Karn was.'Karn, Back then, when I just read the Chapter in Don't Get Cocky, I like everyone else thought you were the plain villain that everyone hates, but if you look deeper, you might see more. . . Did someone just take control over all of my Starports on Terra?! . . . It does not matter now. I don't want to just sweep him aside like a fly, no, I must do something to honor his death as he has too much of his old life in his husk, at least that's how it sounded in the fanfiction. I might fight him a little bit more serious, not like every other 'villain' I fought up to this point. Hm, looking back, I never fought an enemy serious in a long time, even in a deadly and dangerous situation, I would just add more power, but would not care about fighting.'

Darkness asked."What is he doing?" with great curiosity.

Erebus responded."I hope he is just meditating or planning his tactics instead of worrying about earlier today." to which Darkness only could nod.

Mathael's train of thought was interrupted when he heard many footsteps and war music thanks to his Superhuman Hearing. He looked at the horizon and saw a huge army slowly advancing towards the city. Mathael used his Superhuman Vision to get a closer looked at the incoming army of monsters he is going to fight soon.

Satyrs

Cthulhu

Cyclops

Watchers

Sectoids

Then he saw some Monsters that looked like Minotaurs or they were Minotaurs, at least that is what looked like to him. The first batch of monsters were about an 8 foot tall Minotaur who had several cuts on their bodies. They also had some wooden stakes impaled on their back which by all accounts, it should have killed them but were still moving. Their teeth were pointing outward and were very sharp. These ones looked like they were brought back to life and turned into a zombie. He named them Undead Minotaurs.

The next batch of monsters were like the Cthulhu, but instead of a bulky body, they were slim. Another difference was that their eyes were glowing yellow. Mathael looked closer and saw that these 8 foot tall, slim Cthulhus were waving their scrawny arms around that made the Undead Minotaurs move about. So they are controlling the reanimated Minotaurs. He named them Mind Flayer.

The next batch of Minotaurs were 9 foot tall, but they had razor sharp claws, and their horns were long and sharp that looks like it could impale others with ease. He named them Blade Horn.

Behind the monsters, Mathael saw some huge Minotaurs at the size of 30 foot. They had no eyes and held a massive spike mace. It also had very sharp looking horns. He named them Goliath.

To Mathael's surprise, or not, a new kind of enemy showed up. It looked like a gigantic humanoid armor from which dust and a red powder were falling off. Mathael could smell rotten flesh from the thing which only made him guess that something died in there. It was huge with its 40 feet of height, and it's massive battle ax and a just as large tower shield. He named it Undying Knight.

Mathael then saw a larger unique Minotaur that was at least 12 feet tall. He had a shield gauntlet on his left arm and held a huge spear-like weapon in his right hand. He had spike shoulder guards and had white horns and hairs. Since he looked like a general for the monsters. Mathael already knew that this being was called Beast Master.

Mathael saw another unique Minotaur at 13 foot tall. This one was wearing battle armor and held a great battle ax that had some red aura coming out if it. He also saw that there were some red runes present on this Minotaur's horns. His eyes were also red. He looks like the leader to this army. Mathael could tell that this being was not a complete slave to the corruption, but enough to be just a pawn. He already knew who he was, he was Karn The Destroyer

Around the Unknown Leader, several creatures looked like Minotaurs but had wood in place of their skin. They also had razor sharp teeth and claws. They looked like they were crossed between a Minotaur and a Timber Wolf. He named them TimberTaur.

Mathael listened thought while Iron Hoof was talking.'It Seems like it is almost time for Karn or whatever his old name was to appear. If you think about it, Karn only wanted to rule, but apparently, his brother would be next king which means he won't have the throne. In his anger or sadness, he must have accepted the deal with the corruption, thinking it would make him happy if he would achieve his goals with power. I feel sorry for him.'

Darkness stared at the undead Minotaurs with disgust and fear as she was shivering. Erebus saw this and rolled her eyes before scratching the back of her ears which made her shiver in pleasure. Having claws had benefits too.

Mathael didn't expect these undying knights to show up, but then again, this world is just similar to Don't Get Cocky. He already knew that he, no matter what would happen, had it worse than Asura had to deal with.

'3...2...1 And talk dear Karn' thought Mathael

Karn said with a smug expression, "Well look who is here to greet us, Beast Master."

Beast Master said with a chuckle, "Indeed. I thought that he would have been dead by now."

Iron Hoof shouted, "Enough! Tell me, brother, why have you betrayed me!? Your friends!? Your Kingdom!?" And who would've guessed, I was right, where's, is my price?

Karn scoffed and said, "I am no brother of yours, Iron Hoof! I have forsaken my old name and gained incredible powers! I am now called Karn The Destroyer!!!"Uhh~ that and that sounds so menacing, I am trembling in fear, and this evidently was not sarcasm.

A guard shouted, "How dare you cut your loyalty to the King!!"

Karn laughed and said, "Loyalty!? Ha! My loyalty lies with the master of these monsters. He has given me an army so I can and will conquer this pathetic kingdom. After I'll kill Iron Hoof and end his bloodline, I will take the throne and become the ruler of Minoros!!! Ha hahahahahaha!!!"

Iron Hoof became angry and said, "You may have an army of monsters Karn, and you may be stronger than them, but know this that every citizen, guard, warrior and even myself will not go down easily!! We will fight to the end and take as many of you monsters with us to the afterlife!!!" The other warriors began to cheer for the king.

Karn scowled and said, "We shall see who prevails at the end. And that would be me." He and Beast Master then returned back to the army of monsters and began preparing for the assault on the kingdom.

Iron Hoof gave orders to the warriors to prepare against the monsters. Archers took their places on the walls and warriors took place at the entrance. They all were preparing themselves against the monsters attack, but this time they face an army.

Mathael stared at the army without moving a muscle or even twitching. After a few moments, he shook his head and said to himself."This is so stupid."

To everyone surprise, Karn heard Mathael and asked in confusion.."What!? Can't you see my power? My army? I have everything!"

Mathael shouted with fury and malice in his voice that even the very rock under his hooves was beginning to melt."YOU HAVE NOTHING! YOU HAVE SOLD EVERYTHING THAT YOU ARE, WHAT YOU HAD AND EVERYTHING YOU WILL EVER BE! Why !? what was so tempting to take the corruptions offer? What could have driven you to do this?"

Karn glared at Mathael before snorting loudly and saying."Hah, you are wrong, I was a nothing before I made the deal. I was a normal minotaur of royal blood, yet I was treated as an outsider, not even like at least a commoner, but as lesser Taur that was always in the shadow of his brother! I would have never gotten the throne on my own, but now, I will have everything I have ever dreamed off."

Mathael's anger vanished in a heartbeat as he looked down in sadness and exhaled loudly. Mathael stay like this for several moments while silently using his Echolocation and Hair Sensor to mark everyone in his sound map. This is what he is going to fight against.

Satyrs 600
Cthulhu 275
Cyclops 312
Undead Minotaurs 579
Mind Flayer 248
Blade Horn 578
Goliath 198
TimberTaur 324
Watcher 100
Sectoids 15
Undying Knights 40
Beast Master 1
Karn The Destroyer 1

Mathael said after a long pause."Karn the destroyer... at the end of this battle, you will die. I will kill every last one of these abominations. I will fight and win this day, but not like I usually do. You are going to be my first enemy in a very, very long time that I will fight who I will show as much of the true power I hold, in other words, I will fight you as seriously as I can. I am sorry that I can not fight you actually serious, but, as much as it hurt to tell this to another warrior, you and your army are not worth it."

Mathael thought with a small smile on his face while concentrating.'It has been a long time since I have fought an enemy that I did not look at as if my opponent was a mere insect. Not even Lysandra was worth it, but Karn, although he is so much weaker, he has at least a bit of his mind left, he still has his warrior's heart, and I will not bash him aside like a mere beast.'

The ground under Mathael began to tremble as cracks formed in the very earth and pebbles started to float in the air from the power Mathael was releasing. Mathael lifted his bludged fist above his head into the air as a dark aura began to form around him.

The minotaurs around him could've sworn they saw two large and soul piercing eyes in the aura above him. Suddenly Mathael let out a powerful growl as he swung his arms aside. The gourmet cells in Mathael's yearned for a battle worth their might, and now they had one and empowered Mathael's body.

Mathael's clothes for his upper body exploded as they, even with the help of his might tie, were not able to hold his power and large cracks formed across the entire battlefield while simultaneously an unnatural wind blew across the land. Mathael slowly and menacingly lifted his head while and a creepy smile spread across his face, he felt alive.

Play this Song during the battle.

Mathael then bent backward with his face facing the sky and inhaled tons of air, so much in fact that he created a miniature tornado in front of his mouth from the huge amounts of air he inhaled. Mathael then shouted loudly."Voice Meteor Shower" and shot a large red ball into the sky which made the monster look at him as if he had lost it.

The Monster army stopped inspecting Mathael's tactics and charged forward, but doing this only made Mathael's smile grew bigger. He slowly crouched down dug both of his claws into the rock like it was sand. Mathael then slammed both of his hooves into the ground behind him, creating a large crater and shooting towards the army like a bullet.

The monsters didn't even see him fly towards them, they only saw him disappear from the spot. Suddenly Mathael repeat, but something shocking happened, the monster that was in his way exploded into blood, not an organ or bone to be seen. Blood was dripping off Mathael's claws as he slowly pulled out his guns as the hordes advanced towards him from all sides.

When Mathael grabbed his gun, he said proudly."These are my guns and your end."

Before pulling them out with lightning speed and pointing demise in his right hand to his right side and success in his left hand pointing it to his left side. 95 Satyrs, 52 Chutulu and 41 Cyclops, charged and jumped in at Mathael, but they had no idea what they unleashed.

The moment the monsters came to close, Mathael unleashed a bulletstorm the world has never seen before. His fingers tapped so fast on the trigger that they looked very blurry. The bullets flew through the monsters' bodies like butter, even though they weren't as accurate, they still murdered and turned Mathael's foes into Swiss cheese.

*Bang**Bang**Bang**Bang**Bang**Bang**Bang**Bang**Bang**Bang**Bang**Bang**Bang**Bang**Bang**Bang**Bang**Bang**Bang**Bang**Bang**Bang**Bang**Bang**Bang**Bang**Bang**Bang**Bang**Bang**Bang**Bang**Bang**Bang**Bang**Bang**Bang**Bang**Bang**Bang**Bang**Bang**Bang**Bang**Bang**Bang**Bang**Bang**Bang**Bang**Bang**Bang**Bang**Bang**Bang**Bang**Bang**Bang**Bang**Bang**Bang**Bang**Bang**Bang**Bang**Bang**Bang**Bang**Bang**Bang**Bang**Bang**Bang**Bang**Bang**Bang**Bang**Bang**Bang**Bang**Bang*

The bullets filled the air as Mathael already killed a third of the invading fools. Mathael's eyes switched from target to target in less than a millisecond while moving his arms just as fast. Mathael's fun was interrupted when an Undying Knight charged at him.

Mathael pointed both of his guns at the knight and fired a barrage of bullets at it, but to his surprise, his armor glowed with a purple light each time a bullet hit its armor. Mathael said quietly and angrily."Damn projectile protection." When the Undying Knight reached Mathael, it slammed it's ax down upon him, but Mathael was faster and jumped dozens of feet into the air and saw that the Knight created a massive creator from just one hit.

Once airborne, the Satyr jumped up as well, but Mathael was prepared. Mathael gripped both of his guns tightly as the Satyrs were covering the very air around him. Mathael pressed the trigger of his arms even faster, but this time with much better accuracy and hitting all of the Satyrs in the head. It was raining corpses, and Mathael loved it.

Suddenly Mathael's guns stopped shooting and to his surprise, they were glowing with intense heat, but instead of worrying, Mathael got an idea. Mathael fell down very fast and landed an Undying Knight like on a Gumba, crushing it. Mathael then crossed his arms and pointing his guns in the opposite direction of the arm that holds said Gun.

Mathael held down the trigger of both guns for a few moments while said guns' ends glowed with energy. When Mathael released the trigger, a bowling ball sized energy bullets shot out of it and turned every monster into ash that stood in its path until both projectiles each hit an Undying Knight.

The two Undying Knight saw this and slammed their shield into the ground and growled."Iron Guard" that made their shield glow with a purple light. They were trying to block the bullets. When the bullet hit their shield, the bullets evaporated, but the magic and head of the bullet made the Undying knight melt and thus killed it.

Mathael thought.'These monsters are immune to projectiles, but they don’t seem to be invulnerable against magic and heat.' Mathael's train of thought was interrupted as Beast Master summoned a large purple spear of energy and shot it towards him. Mathael jumped hundreds of feet back to evade his attack and to plan his next action.

(This is the animated version of what Mathael pulled off, just in Knocking Master Jirou style)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDAH07_2VM0

*Drip*
*Drip*

Darkness stared at the mirror with awe as she has never seen someone kill so many monsters with such accuracy, but her moment of awe was interrupted when she head something dripping beside her. When Darkness looked to her left, she saw that Erebus was drooling, but there was a second dripping noise she head. When Darkness inspected Erebus, she soon found out that a small puddle was forming between her legs,

Darkness shouted."Ewww!!!"

Erebus only responed with a slightly angry voice."I have a Power fetish, no, it is more of an instinct! I haven't leaked in more than... When did the second era of the creation begin? Since a very, very long time! And don't look at me like that or I am going to show Mathael you memories of your heat seasons."

Darkness blushed and gasped loudly and threatened."Don't You Dare."

Erebus was about to make another cocky comment, but then again, she wanted to see how Mathael would continue the battle and said."Nah, I have no time to mess with you now, you would lose either way."

Darkness raised her finger to which Erebus countered with creating a picture of Darkness’s first heat season in her room alone. Darkness has never lowered her finger so fast in her life.

Mathael named this attack Molten Shot.

Mathael killed 95 Satyrs, 52 Chutulu, 41 Cyclops, 3 Undying Knights, and 100 Undead Minotaurs who stood near his charged shots. Our entirely not overpowered Protagonist landed with a loud thud on the ground in front of the army. Mathael knew that he could just use more power, but that would just not be right, at least not now.

Beat Master shouted."You think you can win? You only killed few of us many, there is no way you will survive this! You are too weak to accomplish anything in this situation!"

Mathael glared at Beast Master for a moment as he hates being called weak, not that he would show it of course, but he was a bit pissed. Mathael pulled his arm back and used "Flying Fork" to shot a huge and super fast fork at Beast Master, but four Undying Knights walked in front of Beast Master and used their annoying defensive ability.

"Iron Guard"
"Iron Guard"
"Iron Guard"
"Iron Guard"

*Shing*

But fortunately, or rather unfortunately for them, their shield did nothing and the four Undying Knights were impaled, and thus killed, by the "Flying Fork" as Mathael's attack was not an ordinary projectile because it was made out of appetite energy which can only be either evaded by getting as far away as possible.

Beast Master, obviously angered by Mathael's attempts to get rid of him, send his wooden pets after super mailman Mathael released the hounds- I mean TimberTauers!

All remaining 224 TimberTaurs Charged Towards Mathael as a horde. Thinking number can overwhelm him? What a dumb idea. Mathael pulled his arm back as it suddenly was surrounded by black flames and punched the air in front of him. To everyone surprise, the fire formed into a spear, or rather a "Fire Spear" that burned down 117 of the TimberTaurs that were not smart enough to jump away from the infernal projectile.

The 107 survivors of the attack mindlessly continued their charge towards Mathael who pointed his fist at the TimberTaurs and used "Burner Shot" to turn the remaining TimberTaurs into Changeling coal.
No Changelings were hurt in the process of this attack.

The monsters and Minotaurs were shocked to see how quickly the Pony has dispatched the incoming monsters easily. The rest of the Satyrs understood that they can't take on this Pony. So they changed their target from Mathael to the city behind him. The remaining 505 Satyrs then ran towards the city while keeping a considerable distance away from Mathael.

When Mathael saw this, veins could be seen on his forehead. If there was one thing that pissed him off on a new level, then it was hurting the weak and innocent. Mathael gritted his teeth and snapped his fingers to create a dozen or so kunai and stuck so many explosion tags on them with his magic. In the end, he stuck to many tags on them that they almost looked like paper daggers and wanted to launch them at the Satyrs with his Psychokinetic Powers. At the moment, he shot the Kunai, he felt something trying to enter his mind and caused his kunai to not hit the Satyrs directly *Boom* and so 298 of them survived.

Mathael turned his head around and saw that 129 Mind Flayers trying to enter his mind, but it did little to him as his mind was on the level of a Xel'Naga. Still, the voices in the back of his head and that they made it harder for him to use his psionic abilities was almost as annoying as a headache.

Mathael created another ten explosion tag stuffed Kunai and threw them with his own strength at the Mind Flayers, but to their luck, a Sectoid jumped in front of the Kunai in last second and took the blow... and then landed in a group made out of the remaining 14 Sectoids.

*Boom*

Mathael looked at what just happened, and even double took it as he was confused and amused about what just happened. Mathael's joy was ended when he slowly felt a small headache. He looked at the Mind Flayers again and saw that now 200 of them were now trying to get into his head.

Mathael thought.'Crap. Their attack power is not stacking with their number, it is multiplying! Damit! All those years of gaming made me forget that numbers do count when you are fighting against a boss monster! Ouch! Stop it you damn Squidwards!

While the Mind Flayers were trying to mind-control the Pony, 197 Blade Horns, 48 Watchers and 84 Cthulhu charged him. Mathael saw the incoming fools and snapped his fingers which made many hearts appear in front of the Blade Horns and Cthulhu, but to his surprise, the Watcher hearts were purple and empty.

Mathael left eyes suddenly glowed with a blue light and snapped his fingers. Suddenly dozens, if not hundreds of blue spears made out of magic appeared out of thin air behind him. Mathael gave the monsters who tried to stop one last smirk before smirking and unleashing the barrage of spears on the monsters. The result was quite satisfying when he heard exactly 329 sounds of shattered glass.

Mathael's headache suddenly intensified. Our soon drowning in aspirin Protagonist looked at the Mind Flayers and saw that now all 248 of them tried to enter his mind which made him angry on a new level. Not only did they try to take away his mind, one of the few things he truly treasures, but also now tired to force him to dark deeds as a huge group! They were like bullies, and Mathael hated bullies.

The glow in Mathael's left eye stoped as now his hands' crackle with star formed lights and lifted both of them towards the sky. The monsters looked at him like if he was crazy while others thought that he was surrendering, oh how wrong they were. Mathael used"Shocker Breaker" as suddenly dozens of rainbow-colored rainbows mercilessly rained down open the Mind Flayers. The Mind Flayers died within the first few bolts of lightning as they had to bunch up to make their futile mind domination attack more powerful which in the end was their downfall.

Mathael then looked back at the Minotaurs and wanted to fall back to the walls to aid them, but then he saw that the Minotaurs were able to hold off the Satyrs on their own. Minotaur archers began to shoot several arrows at the Satyrs while the Minotaur warriors met them head on and started to cut them down. Mathael smiled to see warriors hearts burning with fire.

After killing the Mind Flayer to not let the pharmaceutical industry become rich, a group of 80 Goliaths charged at Mathael very fast. Mathael thought for a moment before an evil smile crept across his face. He has not been fighting a lot with his flesh at all, so why not catch up?

Mathael lifted both of his arms high up while pointing both of his bulged fists at the ground before *Crash* slamming both of them into the ground. Mathael then turned some of his execution points into biomass and replicated the attack of the Lurker.

(Here is what a Lurker looks like)

Basically, Mathael created a very long extension of his spine on which very sharp and powerful spikes are attached to. When the group of 80 Goliaths came into range, Mathael let dozens of spikes *Shing* *Shing* *Shing* shot out of the ground and impaled 73 of them with his spikes before retreating his used biomass.

Mathael then dashed forward to the remaining 7 Goliaths who still charged at him. Mathael smiled when the first Goliath came in range and even though they were about three times his size, they weren't scary for him. The Goliath raised his huge spike mace and slammed it down on Mathael.

Mathael saw this and smiled before punching the incoming mace *Shatter* Everyone jaw dropped when they saw this, even the blind Goliath. Mathael's fist was not hurt from this attack as he not only had scales all across his body but his Titan Armor kept his knuckles save as well.

Mathael then pulled his fist back and jumped at the Goliath. Mathael then used "Spike Punch" and punched the Goliath in the abdomen which *Bash*Splört* created a large hole in the Goliath.

The other Goliaths felt their allies death and charged Mathael even more ferocious than before, which was a dumb idea as Mathael simply rinse and repeated the process a few time.

Jump
"Spike Punch"
*Bash*
*Splört*
Jump
"Spike Punch"
*Bash*
*Splört*
Jump
"Spike Punch"
*Bash*
*Splört*

The remaining three Goliaths realized that they lost and retreated despite Beast Masters command. Mathael said quietly to himself."Smart cowards."

When Mathael reached two of the three remaining Goliaths, Mathael grabbed both of their legs and slammed both of them together with such force that their torsos *Boom* exploded into a gory mess before throwing away their legs. Mathael then used Soru to appear in front of the last running Goliath and pulled his fist back. The Goliath saw this and eld his mace in front of his abdomen. Mathael's fist then shot forward which not only *Bash* *Shatter* destroyed his weapon but also made him fly straight into the sky and made him vanish from sight. In other words, he might see Equus from above.

After Mathael started MMAP (Mathael's Muscle Aviation Program) Mathael looked back at the incoming horde of all 197 Undead Minotaurs as from what it looks like, Beast Master lost control over his own pets.

Beast Master shouted in anger."Come back insolent rats! I did not tell you attack!" but despite Beast Masters demands, the undead varmints continued their path on the highway to hell.

Mathael could only smile, his anger had no reason, it was not like they would've been able to accomplish anything anyways. But just as Mathael wanted to finally end the trotting dead, many shadows traveled past him. Confused, Mathael looked up and saw that there a lot of boulders flying through the air. Mathael looked at their origin and frowned when he saw that 25 Goliaths decided to throw rocks at the people they didn't like, how childish.

The Minotaurs movements stoped when they looked up and saw dozens upon dozens of large boulder flying through the air towards their city. They lost hope for a moment as there was nothing they could've done to stop them, but just as hope was lost, a miracle happened, the rocks turned to lava... Lava that was slowly, but steadily descending towards the city! But, just to keep things interesting, the lave stopped a few feet in the air before shooting towards the battlefield.

The Minotaurs stared at the floating lava before seeing Mathael making some weird dance moves? No, upon closer inspection they saw that he was controlling-no bending the lava which was precisely what he was doing, Mathael was using the arts of Lavabending.

The lava then formed itself into meteors that crash-landed into the incoming horde of 197 Undead Minotaurs. *Boom* With a mighty explosion, most of the Undead MInotaurs were destroyed, and those who survived were slowly sinking and burning in the lava lakes that were created through this attack.

Mathael liked the move so much that he called it Lava Meteors

The Minotaurs cheered for Mathael who was destroying wave after way of way of the monsters and booed at the attackers, Karn and lastly at Beastman- I mean Beast Master, of course, we don't want to rob Skeletor of one of his minions. Please don't sue me again, I don't get paid for this.

Just as Mathael was about to launch his next attack, he heard something quiet thanks to his Superhuman Hearing and this was what he heard someone shout "Corrupted Spear".

*Shing*

*Boom*

Beast Master threw a spear at Mathael with such speed that he had no time to dodge it and was impaled by his weapon through his heart. But this was not all, the spear then flew with Mathael in tow toward the wall of Minos with the speed of sound until he was pinned on the wall of Minoros.

Hundreds of jaws dropped, even Karns and Beats Master were stunned from what they saw, but then once who indeed were shocked were Erebus and Darkness as they didn't believe what just happened. The to girls couldn't believe that Mathael would be beaten so easily. But then, the silence was broken by none other than Mathael himself.

"hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah!!!"

While Mathael was laughing heartily, not madly or desperate, his muscles slowly began to bulge and grow. Even his body size became larger and larger until he looked like he had at least thrice as many muscles, and then he made literally every jaw drop. Mathael flexed his chest muscled with such force that the spear in his body shot out like a bullet and many monsters, even several Undying knights had to use their defensive ability to block the spear from hitting Beast Master for the cost of their un-life.

Mathael thought with a grin and with fire in his eyes.'Yes, This is the stuff I have been carving! A battle, worth my time. Not a fight for something great. Not an evil to vanquish or even to save anyone, no. This is a battle just for the sake of fighting. The adrenaline through my veins, the heat of the fight and the sweat and blood running down my skin and fur. Yes. But first, I have to get rid of the trash monsters.'

Mathael grinned and then looked into the sky. This confused the incoming monsters as they too look at the sky and paled at what they saw. It was Mathael's first move that was still high above in the sky and the massive group of monsters that was directly below it. The enormous red orb looked like it was about to explode with all the power generated inside of it.

Mathael chuckled loudly and said."Now, the time has come for you to fall down upon these fools! Rain down and bring death and destruction "Voice Meteor Shower" Thousands of small voice meteors rained down on the battlefield that filled with the sound of uncountable *Boom* *Boom* *Boom* *Boom* *Boom* explosions across the entire battlefield turning the land and monster army into a dead wasteland.

Darkness stared at the mirror in shock and asked."What!?; But, how? Just a moment ago he was impaled, and now he destroyed the whole army with just one attack? Can anyone explain me this?"

Erebus wiped away her drool and said."Didn't you listen, Mathael said that he would more fight seriously, and so he did. I mean, you who watched his battle should have seen that he was always holding back. Fighting more serious only means that his attack will do a lot more damage, but he still won't be able to use stronger attacks that require a lot more power, but as you saw, fighting serious doesn't really make him any more durable."

Darkness stared at Erebus with a wide open mouth and asked in shock."Wait a minute, then how much stronger is he when he fights more serious?"

Erebus thought for a moment while trying to guess at what level of power Mathael was and said."I guess he is at about 10% of his power, but fighting more serious could make him as strong as 30% of his power. I have no doubt that he could easily be able to be much more powerful with his 10% of power than with 100% of his power if he fought completely serious."

Darkness stared at Erebus and waited for a 'Got you!' or a 'That was just a joke,' but it never came, Erebus simply turned her head back to the mirror with a small smile.

After the dust dissipated, the Minotaurs gasped in shock at what they saw. The meteor shower that hit the monsters not only killed them and tore them apart but the land as well. There were hundreds of small craters were once the monster army stood. The Minotaurs were really impressed to see an attack that can cause such area-wide destruction.

*Boom*

Mathael looked at a large pile of debris and saw Best Master who jumped out of it with a massive explosion. Beast Master looked extremely pissed and charged Mathael with his spear. To Mathael's surprise, Beats Masters weapon glowed as several floating purple magic spears appeared behind him before shooting at Mathael extremely fast.

Mathael held both of his arms in front of him and pointed his palms at the sky as suddenly back flames appeared and took the form of a scythe above his hands. Once the fire disappeared, Eternal Justice landed in his hands. Mathael then began to slowly rotate the scythe until it was so fast that it looked very blurry, barely visible. When the spears from Beast Master hit Mathael's scythe, they were literally shredded into magic dust.

Listen to this Song during the fight

Mathael then pulled his scythe back while his muscles bulged making them almost twice as big. When Beast Master came close, he jumped at Mathael, only for Mathael to *Shing* ram his scythe with a wide arc into his chest and throwing him into the air.

Mathael then slammed weapon into the ground and again inhaled tons of air while looking at the airborne Beats Master. Once Mathael was done, he motioned his hands like if he was pulling something apart in front of his mouth and surprisingly, four thin strings of sound appeared. Mathael then shouted "Voice Cutter" as four strings of sound shot into the air and *Shing* cut Beast Master into many pieces.

Mathael smiled as he could feel the blood rain down onto him before his mind actually caught up with what was just happened and bludged his muscles once again with such force that they blood flew in all direction. Karn looked at Mathael in shock and a bit disgust, like everyone who watched him and charged with a loud battle cry.

Mathael thought.'Wow, that was a bit creepy, even for my standards, but hey, what can I say, I am still a demon.'

Mathael then pulled Eternal Justice out of the ground and awaited Karn next move. Mathael could easily end it now, but he wanted to make his death special, there was still at least a bit of his former self in that husk. Karn, you are the first creature I willingly and intentionally will kill and afterward will honor his death.

Once Karn cam close to Mathael, he pulled back his two-handed ax and swung it horizontally at Mathael in an attempt to cut mathael into two pieces, but Mathael blocked his attack by throwing the staff of his scythe at his ax. Karn's ax stopped, and he almost lost balance from the sudden halt in his offense.

Mathael used Karn's staggered moment to ram the bottom of the scythe at his chest with such force that a small dent formed in his chest many ribs could be heard breaking. Karn shouted in pain as he dropped his ax in pain and stumbled a few feet back.

Mathael sighed as he pointed his open palm at his dropped weapon- Mathael asked."Would you be kind enough to pick the weapon up, Jerry." To everyone surprise, Mathael's shadow formed itself into what could be best described as a nightmare with a crown on its head and two red eyes. The shadow grabbed the shadow of the ax, and the real ax then levitated towards Mathael's hand.

Mathael said."Thanks, Jerry."

Mathael looked at the weapon while Karn waited for him to make his next move, but to everyone surprise, *Shing* Mathael threw the weapon at Karn, only for it to embed itself in the rock in front of him.

Mathael said."The weapons in made out of nymph metal and your weapons blade was covered in a thin layer of dust from a very low seed of corruption. In other words, it may may be able to kill me, not as efficiently as your pals spears, but still somewhat effective. Now, pick up your weapon and fight me." Karn only snorted angrily before picking up his weapon.

'He has already lost, his anger and malice only make him more predictable. Still, I will at least try to give him somewhat of a chance.' thought Mathael

Karn gripped his weapon tightly with both of his hands and shouted loudly before charging at Mathael. Mathael went into a defensive position and awaited Karn's attack. Karn swung his weapon at Mathael, this time, with less power. Mathael gave the ax blade a quick slash, redirecting its path to just barely hit his head and cutting off a few hair tips.

Mathael did not counter, not that he couldn't, but he wanted to see where this was going, but to his surprise, Karn did something only an idiot or a genius would do. Karn pulled his weapon back in one quick motion that his weapon cut through Mathael's left shoulder during its return.

Mathael's grit his teeth, the pain was very much real that he was suffering, he, this was still no reason to panic. Mathael used the through Karn action created gap to slash his scythe across his chest. Karn yelled in pain as Mathael jumped back with a shocked look on his face just as Karn swung his ax down.

Karn's attack was so strong that he created a large dent in the ground, but that was not the reason was shocked Mathael. Mathael saw a faint purple light in his chest. A shard. This moment of thinking was a bad one as the runes on his horn began to glow as he screamed with rage.

Karn charged at Mathael while swinging his ax so fast around in every direction that his arms and ax were almost invisible. Mathael reacted swiftly and swung his scythe at each and every attack of Karn with the same speed, making many crackles and spark appear in the air in front of him.

After several minutes of this battle of the blades, Karn stopped, his runes light snuffed out, and his body from whichever pore sweat was running down, was exhausted. Mathael was barely sweating, but breathing heavily, Mathael then pulled his scythe back and swung it at Karn's chest making a deep cut and throwing the minotaur back.

A wave of black fire washed over Eternal Justice as his weapon vanished before he walked towards Karn the beaten. Once mathael reached Karn, he looked at Karn beat body and saw that he was defeated, his muscles were severely damaged, stretched and a few of them possibly even ripped.

After making sure that he has lost, Mathael crouched down and *Splört* showing his right hand into the large 'x' wound on his chest and searched for the shard. After a few seconds, he found it an carefully pulled it out, not trying to let Karn die from the shock of suddenly losing so much power.

Once the shard was free, Karn's body crackled with purple lightning, and he shrunk in muscles and body size. When the light show finally ended, Karn was only 3/4 of the size of a regular Minotaur, his muscles barely visible and his runes gone, but he was alive. Mathael snapped his fingers to put Karn's and Beast Master's weapon into his pocket dimension and to create a large silk towel as Karn's armor fell off when he shrunk.

Mathael then began to wrap the towel around his body when he heard Beast Master voice, and his jaw dropped when he saw that even though he was only a head and a piece of his torso connected with his throat.

Beast Master said maniacally with a large creepy smile on his face."Y-you think you won? You actually believe this battle meant anything in the grand scheme? You fool! Hahahaha *Cough* *Cough* *Spitting blood* You have saved one, one out of millions of fools, congratulations on your wasted efforts. You think... You think my death meant anything, right? WRONG! I am just a summoned monster, a being one would summon with a bit of magic to keep bugs like you out of the way. I am just one out millions of my kind of summoned monster. Hahaha *Cough* *Spitting even more blood*... My death... in the grand battle we are.... fighting in... meant NOTHING! Hahahahahahahahahaha..." and with his last words spoken, his body slowly disintegrated into purple particles that soon vanished.

Mathael stared at the spot we Beast Master was for a few more moments before continuing to wrap the sheet around Karn and lifting him up in bride style, not that he had any interest in him or wanted to harm his manliness.

The Minotaurs at the gates stared at Mathael who bringing Karn towards them. When Mathael reached the gates, one Minotaur or rather two Minotaurs and a griffon pushed their way through the crowds towards Mathael and more importantly, Karn.

Iron Hoof shouted."B-Brother. Mathael, what happened to him to turn him into that monster?!" Mathael responded by first giving Karn into Iron Hoof arms and then pulling out the seed of corruption.

Mathael said."This is the reason why he changed, this is a shard of corruption, like a crystal of corruption, but much weaker. It poisoned his mind, turned him into a monster, everything that he did while having the shard in his chest was not his fault, and I don't want anyone to punish him for what he has done, especially considering that all he wanted was to be treated like someone equal."

Mathael then was about to turn around when Karn said weakly."W-wait... why did you.. spare me?" Mathael turned around and smiled.

Mathael replied."It was not your fault, Karn."

Karn stared at Mathael in disbelief and said still weakly."No. My name is not Karn, it is Copper Hoof, but I am afraid, that this fight is far from over. There is a second army coming here soon." Many mumbles and gasped could be heard in the crowd around them.

Iron Hoof looked at Mathael with hope, to which Mathael responded."It seems like my duty is never over." Mathael then turned around and walked in the direction where a second army was slowly making their way towards the city.

Darkness stared in disbelief at what she was seeing and shouted."Are you bucking kidding me!?! You can forgive him for trying to kill thousands of innocent while he had half of his control over his body, but can't forgive yourself for having not having any control after all you did!?!"

Erebus sighed loudly and said."Be happy that he at least doesn't shrug it off like it was nothing, I believe it would be far worse if Mathael would show no remorse, but the actual problem is that he never shows that he is hurt."

Mathael used "Echolocation" "Hair Snesor" while he walking towards the monster army to to see how many there were and found out to be a lot. Just like Cooper Hoof said and it was like in Don't Get Cocky a lot bigger.

Satyrs 800
Cthulhu 363
Cyclops 403
Undead Minotaurs 719
Mind Flayer 311
Blade Horn 714
Goliath 242
TimberTaur 510
Watcher 199
Sectoids 39
Undying Knights 68

While Mathael was healing rapidly and walking toward the enemy, he saw it, The creature that made so many ponder what it really was. It stood at 10 foot tall and had a mouth on its abdomen. Three small heads were present on its chest rather on his shoulder. A creature that Asura named a long time ago, a Delraich, a name that was not even beginning to describe how disgusting it was.

The Delraich was standing behind the army of monsters and was drawing something on the ground. He usually would not be able to see what it was drawing because the other monsters were getting in the way, but thanks to his Byakugan and saw that it was demonic summoning circle, strangely he could almost read it, but the Delraich's writing was just so bad.

Mathael thought while casually walking towards the monsters who were already hissing and shouting at him.'Hah, thanks mom for showing me how to read and write demon.'

When the Delraich finished with the demonic summoning circle, to Mathael's surprise, a big portal opened. Behind the gateway was a truly hellish landscape, oceans of magma and land made out of a dead rock. A loud stomping noise could be heard behind the portal, and Mathael's jaw dropped when he saw the monster that was charging at the gate.

The demon that charged at the portal was a 20 feet big Hell Guard. Its body was covered in cumbersome armor that not only looked demonic, but also made other think that the red skin like spot were weaknesses, but in truth, they were the strongest part of the armor. His body was augmented with machines that were far too advanced for hell and wielded a large, far too big, broadsword with a swirling vortex of fire in his right red and with scales covered hand.

This thing was a monster. Mother once talked about Hell guards, and they are the top of what any regular demon could achieve, they are so strong that they could easily go par on par with a powerful demon lord, maybe even a hell Prince. Not only that, they were the first and foremost last, line of defense in hell's army, in other words, they would be even above and archangel high up in the council if it's about power.

Mathael, he who sure as hell didn't want to die, instantly raised his base power up to 50% as he was not in the mood to take the risk. A wave of black fire washed over him and turned his body into his very draconic form, but used his virus to eat his horn just as the flames reached his hat. Just as the Hell Guard was about to jump out of the portal...

Wall of Flesh has awoken!!!

Ehm... sorry, I couldn't resist. As I was narrating. Just as the Hell Knight was about to cross the demonic gate, a wall of fat knocked him out of the way, and the owner of the fat shouted rudely."Out of the way half-portion!" And instead, this big piece of gluttony appeared that we all know, hate and believe is the nightmare of every fitness coach.

There, behind the army of monsters, was a massive 60-foot giant. It had no arms but in their place were large mouths filled with long sharp teeth. It had several crab-like legs. There was one huge mouth in its abdomen and several smaller mouths on its body. Its head had two long horns and had three eyes. Behind its head were some long spikes or tentacles. Mathael knew that it belonged into Don't Get Cocky, but why here!!!?

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Demon Faction

The Devourer

He with the bottomless stomach
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Mathael already knew what he was going to say, so he was initially not even going to listen to it, but the small chance to hear a slight difference was already enough for him to use hisSuperhuman Hearing to stalk- I mean listen to their conversation.

The Demon said, "Ah, it is good to come into the mortal realm. Who is the one that has summoned me?"

Delraich said, "I... I think I did summon you? That does not matter! My master has told me to summon a powerful demon here so that it can help us by conquering this city." That guy is an idiot and knows nothing about demons

The Demon nodded and said, "I thank you for bringing me here. I have been starving to feast on mortal's flesh and drink their blood. Let me reward you for your service."

The mouth that was in place of the right arm on the Demon's body opened, and a giant arm came out of the mouth. The arm then grabbed Delraich and brought it towards its face.

The Delraich was struggling in the thing's grip. It shouted, "Hey! What do you think you are doing!?"

The thing grinned and said, "Didn't your master tell you anything about summoning a demon? I am the Demon Lord of one of the higher levels of hell, something beyond the weaklings of Tartarus, The Devourer! And I feast on the mortal's flesh and blood. And every summoned Demon requires a sacrifice!"

Just so everyone understands it, for demons it is the opposite when it comes to ranks, the lower demons are stronger, the higher ones are weaker. Oh, and the fun fact is that apparently, no one understands that first comes Tartarus and underneath it is Hell. Tartarus is just the place where the weak demons are or just the animals that are far too annoying for real demons to deal with, like Cerberus, but that is a story for another time.

Delraich began to panic and started shouting, "No! You can't do this! I am the one who has brought you here! You owe me!"

The Devourer said, "I owe you nothing." It then *Crunch* ate the Delraich that shocked the rest of the monsters.

After eating the Delraich, the demon looked at the monsters with hunger and said, "You all look tasty!" It began to feast on the monsters who either ran away from it or attacked it and got eaten by it.

Mathael looked at the thing with an annoyed expression. Gluttony. The sin of Gluttony was the lowest of all sins, even lower than sloth, it was generally not a very appreciated sin as it's worth has been falling a lot after civilizations found out how to feed most of their citizens and becoming fat was less of an evil thing, but more of an piece of sloth.

Here is the order of the original sins that in which the hell's council was segregated a long time ago. First came Wrath, pride, lust and greed, then came envy, sloth and lastly Gluttony, but I think the power was slowly shifting so that Lust would become the second highest sin. How things are today? I have no idea.

Mathael had enough of these jokes and walked towards the Azmodan rip off. Mathael was not all too disgusted that it feasted on his allies, they were mindless monsters that were only made for the purpose of destruction after all.

Surprisingly, when the Devourer saw Mathael, he stopped his feast and slowly lowered his head to get a better look at Mathael. The fat, hungry and slightly cocky attitude was suddenly gone and replaced with something serious.

The Devourer, his face only one foot in front of Mathael's, said mockingly, yet very serious."Well well well, if it isn't the bitch of a traitor's bastard son, fucked with an angle, betrayed her kind and even went so far to disgrace all demonkind, making your brother and you..."

Mathel glared deep into the trash's eyes and said calmly."It seems like I'm well known in the hole you call home. As for the choice of my mother, Amorosa, she, at least, a choice to do more with her life than spend her days waiting for a contract and then backstabbing everyone in her path."

The Devourer began to chuckle loud while grabbing a few monsters and throwing them into the deep and stinking hole he calls his throat as suddenly something entered Mathael's sensor range.

Mathael looked up and saw that-

"Ahhhh."

*Crash*

"Ghlk?!"

The Goliath who wanted to see if the moon really was made out of cheese came back from his mission and crash landed, slightly burned, in the throat of the Devourer and made the glutton choke. After what seemed about 1:19 minutes, he managed to get the Goliath down his throat.

Mathael asked as he was not sure about what was going on anymore."Will you now finally finish your 'meal' and go back from where you came or do I have to bury you myself?"

The Devourer said mockingly."You think you stood a chance against me? I will remember that sentence when I chew on your flesh, maybe I am even going to keep your carcass as dessert after I have eaten the soft and delicious flesh of the small innocent children."

'You damn piece trash will die!!!'

Listen to this Song during the battle

Mathael slammed both of his feet into the ground with such force that he shot like a bullet towards the Devourer's face and *Bash* punched him in the face and throwing him on the back. The creatures that were behind the behemoth screamed as they were crushed by his weight.

Mathael landed on the ground and saw that the demon was recovering fast from his attacks. The demon growled as raised his body from the ground. The large then raised his right hand, and it became shrouded in darkness. Then three demonic skulls were formed while being surrounded by darkness.

The Devourer shouted angrily."Maybe you should eat something too since this will be your last meal!"

The Thing then shot three skulls at mathael who could feel the dark magic radiating from the boneheads, but his magic immunity would protect him, he could even just erase this attack with his Magical Disintegration Field, but he wanted to show the beast at least how inferior it was.

Mathael shot both of his hands with each three stretched out fingers at the skulls, grabbing them like bowling balls and redirecting them at two monster groups. When the last Skull he stretched out his right hand once again and *Crunch* began to eat it literally.

The Devourer, the monster around him switched several times between watching the hit monster groups screaming as they were slowly turning to stone and Mathael who casually ate the skull.

Once Mathael ate the skull which didn't taste as bad as he thought, he charged the Demon with anger, but the fat sack reacted fast enough and used his to kick Mathael. Mathael jumped on top of the crab leg and pounced at the Devourer and grabbed his flesh with his hands.

The Devourer growled in pain as Mathael's burning hot claws dug into his hide, but before he could react, he was once again thrown to the ground and rolled with Mathael down a small hill.

Mathael used the momentum to rooting both of his feet into the ground and slamming the Devourer on the ground. Mathael then jumped forward and grabbed the monsters head and slammed it's body several times in the ground more.

Mathael then jumped on the Devourers throat, and furiously bash into the ugly things face. *Bash* Mathael punch the demon again. And *Bash* again. And *Bash* again. And *Bash* again. And *Bash* again. And *Bash* again. And *Bash* again. And *Bash* again. And *Bash* again. And *Bash* again. And *Bash* again. And *Bash* again. *Bash* *Bash* *Bash* *Bash* *Bash* *Bash* *Bash* *Bash* *Bash* *Bash* *Bash* *Bash* *Bash* *Bash* *Bash* *Bash* *Bash* *Bash* *Bash* *Bash* *Bash* *Bash* *Bash* *Bash*

The Devourer screamed in pain as much as he could between Mathael's punch and shot his left hand at Mathael, but our demonic Protagonist saw it coming and *Bash*
*Crack* slammed his elbow into the joint of his left wrist, dislocating. The Devourer yelled in pain for his broken hand and the bloody pulp he called his face.

Mathael then jumped off the Devourer and gathered as much strength as he could while summoning the true gluttonous demon. Mathael summoned the The Devourer as an enormous 100 feet high draconic, and demonic beast appeared out of thin air and shocked even the minotaurs to the core.

The true Devourer said maliciously and slightly pissed."Ha... ha... ha... well, look at this little shrimp trying to act so big and mighty... You are nothing but a heart attack sausage inside a truly ugly gut!!!" On this day, thousands of jaws dropped simultaneously.

Mathael then grabbed one of the Demon's crab legs with all his might and strength and began to spin the demon around slowly until the demon rotated so fast that he looked very blurry. Mathael then let go of the Demon after a few seconds and let the thing fly. Huh, Pigs can fly...

*Crash*

The impact of the Devourer not only hundreds of monsters but also create a powerful earthquake and *Crash* *Crash* *Crash* *Crash* *Crash* several small ones as it bounced over the battlefield like a rubber ball.

The Devourer groaned loud in pain as it tried slowly lift its body, unfortunately for it, it was only able to try as it was in too much pain. The Demonlord looked around and found a few barely alive monsters that it took with it during its fly and greedily showed them into his mouth as his body healed at an alarming rate.

In just a minute, the demon stood back on his legs, and with no sign of Mathael being around, it was already on its way to eat the citizen of the minotaur kingdom.

The devourer said with a cocky tone."Hah! Did you really think that would be enough to kill me, a Demon Lord?" To his surprise, he got both an answer and instant karma showed into his face.

"No"

A meteor of fire slammed into the face of the Devourer and its open eyes. He shouted in pain and tried to rub his eyes, but he was not even given a single second from the endless swarm of fireballs.

The Devourer snapped, and both of his hands were surrounded by a dark aura as he summoned many skulls and threw them at the incoming fireballs. The skulls caused the fireballs first to turn grey and then turn to ash.

This game continued for several more seconds until a humongous 50 times 50 large block of stone flew at the Devourer who furiously shot more skull at the rock which turned the massive stone into, well, stone.

*Bash*

*Thud*

The Devourer groaned loudly in pain as he slowly pushed the stone off him. His body was covered in his own blood, many innards
ruptured from the pressure, and most of his rips were shattered.

The Demon Lord looked around to find more bodies and saw that he was where everything started, surrounded by countless crushed corpses and a few surviving monsters. The Demon Lord slowly reached out towards the nearest corpses, but Mathael's voice caused him to flinch and stop.

Mathael said with a very deep, rough and slightly angry voice."Flawless victory".

The Demon Lord turned towards Mathael and saw that he stood in front of a line of fire, looking around him, he saw that the flames almost formed a circle around him except for a small piece directly under Mathael's raised foot.

Mathael then shouted."Finish Him!"

When Mathael's foot touched the ground, the circle of fire was complete, and the flames started to glow extremely bright. The last thing the monsters and the Demon Lord saw was Mathael, before a massive spire of fire shot into the sky like a beam of light, blinding everyone watching the fight. Mathael used Ring of annihilation to end the battle.

*Thrrrrooooommm*

When the light subdued, everyone stared in shock at the sight of a gigantic black and a perfectly cut hole in the land in front of which Mathael stood with both of his hands on his sides as he looked how deep the hole was.

Mathael thought proudly.'Wow! That is a deep hole! If the glutenous monster would've survived that I am sure he would've landed in hell again.'

Mathael then gave his work a nod and snapped his fingers, making all the corpses explode into exp. Mathael knew he could just let the bodies turn themselves to execution points, but it was a habit of his that he liked a lot.

Gained New Power From Mind Flayer
Lesser Mind Control
Can control the minds of beings with lesser intelligence.

Blade Horn
Can create or summon creatures with razor-sharp horns.
Mathael can now summon charger beasts.

Goliath
Can create or summon giant creatures.

TimberTaur
Can now grow wood on his body. Can now summon wooden warriors.

Beast Master
Can now summon or create a Beast Master class monster.
Can now lead wild, beast and monster units under his command without having to control their mind or using his psionic powers.
Enhanced Undyne's Spear’s speed and power.

Karn The Destroyer
Can create or summon stronger warriors now

Demon Lord The Devourer
Can create a gigantic hatchery that will spawn numerous infected being. The infected being will bring enemies and feed them to the hatchery to make more infected zombies.
Can now summon or create weak to medium demons.
Cursed Skull
Mathael can create a skull projectile that will turn weak enemies in a large radius into stone. Also tastes like garlic bread, if you survive eating it, that is.

Undying Knight
Thanks to the power he gained from the Undying Knight, his Fortify has been upgraded to Dark Guard.
Mathael can now summon Dark Guards and Golden Guardians.
Dark Guard
Using this ability makes Mathael extremely resistant to physical Damage and roots him to the Ground. While this ability is active, it is tough to move Mathael, unless the Opponent or force is mighty, but Mathael's movement is minimal while using this power, making him almost unable to move.

The Undead Minotaurs were just reanimated Minotaurs, so he didn't get any new powers. As for the Delraich, it was digested by the, and since he was not the one who killed it, he did not get any execution points. There may be more of these Delraich out there.

After making sure that the monsters were all actually dead, Mathael walked towards back towards the city with a smile as he could see all those hanging jaws. Still, he could not get rid of the feeling being watched.

Darkness stared at the mirror for whole... 2 minutes and 12 seconds without saying a word due to the shock from seeing the colossal demon lord just being obliterated. Destroyed. Pulverized.

Darkness said after making sure that her eyes were still capable of seeing and fell on the cushion behind her."Wow... I think I have goosebumps all across my skin. But, after seeing all of this, I wonder why Mathael just doesn't do that! to all the monsters that attack and what was it with the duel between him and Karn? "

Erebus who 'totally stopped leaking' said."Like always, I have an answer to this question as well. Mathael is a warrior, and he doesn't like just to turn all of his foes to dust without worry or care, at least when he fights something else than monsters, and the attack he used would probably create more destruction that the monster could in a week. I doubt that he kills beings with an actual free mind just like that without a good reason or at least regret. But I don't have an answer why he fought that duel."

Darkness thought about Erebus sentence for a few seconds while tapping on her chin and asked."But what about Swift Wing? Sure, he was a monster and in my opinion deserved it, but as far as I heard, Mathael just killed him with his weird Ball of pain."

Erebus gave Darkness a smug grin as she pulled out a large book and a pair of glasses out that she put on and began to read."Any Guard who attacked royalty without any given reason or possible intention for the national safety can be executed by a civilian without any fear of being punished as long as the Royalty is aware of who is going to do it. The current ruler(s) have to agree to the execution or didn't cancel the ceremony of death for the previous law to come into effect ." Erebus then put the stuff she pulled out of somewhere behind her and added."In other words, Mathael just followed the law that stated that he will not be responsible for this deed and yes, that actually count, even for the god of darkness."

Darkness stared at Erebus with an awestruck look and asked curiously"How do you know all of that from memory?"

Erebus chuckled and responded."I am or at least was the god of darkness once. Other titles for my position are:' The Judge, The Necessary Evil or the embodiment/spirit of Justice.' Anyways, I don't anything exciting is going to happen anytime soon so I think it's time to prepare for the evening."

Darkness asked as she stood up."And what about the others?"

Erebus kindly smiled which creeped Darkness out a bit."They are either sleeping in the castle, or with one of Mathael's friends. Anyways, dear Darkness, I want you to promise me one thing, ok?"

Darkness nodded a bit unsure about what was going to happen, and she got her answer when Erebus grabbed the collar of her clothes and pulled her a few centimeters in front of her face.

Erebus said seriously as her eyes stared into the soul of Darkness."Do. Not. Screw. This. UP! Mathael's is my only chance of finally getting a baby, so I am going to be as clear as possible. This evening, I will make Mathael's heart feel alive, and in those few important moments, I ask you, no, I demand you not to say anything that could change his mind and freshly opened heart. Capiche? When the moment comes, and I am sure you will know when it comes, no sappy stuff, no sad things, nothing bad about the situation of anything and most importantly... Say nothing that could affect his affection to me or my Body.".

Erebus let go of Darkness who made a created a bit of safety distance between her and the former goddess of darkness. Darkness was scared, not to the point of screaming, but she was intimidated, but also felt a bit of pity and caution since she could feel a bit of desperation in her voice.

Erebus continued. "I don't want to play the bad guy, but this is too important for me. You don't have to be scared, it's not like I will murder you, no, Mathael would probably end me and all my years of doing my job made me get used to controlling my bloodthirst. Although, let just say I would do anything to get Mathael in bed, even if it means to do something as dirty as to wait until you died of old age and then be the last person left for him. Oh, and fun fact, Alicorns can die of old age, I think they die after eight thousand to ten thousand years. Believe me, when I say, you don't want to live forever with Mathael's help, becoming old enough to make stars look old is really something that would turn someone mad, at least if he or she doesn't have support from an artifact like a soul of a creator."

Darkness audibly gulped as sweat was running down her forehead. The nightguard forced a few words out."O-Ok. I-I w-will try not to cause a-any t-troubles."

Erebus rolled her eyes as she walked up to a trembling Darkness and patted her on the head."Oh, lighten up sweety. I don't mean it like say to him that having sex with a non-pony is strange, he would probably think a lot, but then make his mind up and treasure his relationship more. I meant it more in the way of saying like wouldn't it be weird to have more than having one love? Or, I think even your parent would be surprised that their sound found an even weirder love life than their ways."

Darkness sighed loudly and emptied her lungs throughout 10 long seconds until she asked bravely."So, what are we going to do now?" Erebus answered that question in the form of a portal that opened in front of them through. Darkness hesitated at first, but eventually dared to walk through it, she had to learn to trust her, the two of them would one day be part of one big weird family one day. The thought alone caused shivers to run down her spine.

A few dozen meters in front of the crowd that cheered for Mathael’s victory, Mathael suddenly lost the weird feeling of being watched, which was not only odd but also made him realize that maybe someone was stalking him. Mathael shook his head as now was not the time to overthink about everything again as he didn't want to get a headache from the pathetic Mind Flayer assault and his own brain.

When he stood in front of the Crowd again, the warriors and even some civilians rushed forwards with happiness to see their savior of the day. Copper Hoof and Iron Hoof stepped forwards out of the crowd. Also, Copper hoof was a bit shaking.

Iron Hoof stood in front of Mathael with a happy face. He said, "Mathael. For what you have done today for my kingdom, you have my eternal thanks. You have saved not only my city and its civilians, but you have also dealt with the monster's army and gave me my brother back. If you have not arrived today, then I fear that Minoros would have fallen to the monsters. I can't thank you enough for your help Mathael. Truly, I thank you from the bottom of my heart."

Copper hoof then added with a smile of his own."Yes, I must thank you too, Mathael. These voices in my head, they almost turned me mad. Thank you for saving me from myself and these monsters."

Mathael said with a smile and surprised himself by actually being proud."There is no need to thank you. I did what I did not for fortune or money, I did it because it was right."

The Minotaurs around him smiled at his kindness and generosity, but this moment of happiness was interrupted when a female Minotaur, who wore a dress mostly made out of plants and vines, walked in front of the crowd. Her eyes bulged, her jaw dropped, and she fainted when she saw what lay behind Mathael.

A Minotaur Guard rushed towards the- how did you call a female Minotaur? -towards the fainted female Minotaur and shouted."Bring Shamaness Green thumb to her chamber and bring her a cleric!"

Mathael raised an eyebrow at the knocked out Minotaur before looking at the view behind him and realizing why, just maybe, possibly, hopefully, and likely why she fainted.

The land looked like an actual Warfield in a war between zerg against an orbital bombardment! The monsters have crushed all plants, and flowers on their path of destruction, and maybe his Lava Bending played an important role too. The land would've been trampled flat if it wasn't for the hundreds of thousands of holes his Voice Meteor Shower had to do with it. Oh, and there was also a GIGANTIC HOLE created through his Ring of annihilation

Mathael awkwardly chuckled in embarrassment while rubbing the back of his head. Mathael said."Oops, it seems like I overdid it a bit..." he said while looking at the destroyed and stretching the end of his sentence for a second or two.

Iron Hoof saw what he was talking about and dismissed it with his hand saying, "There is no need to fear, Mathael. The Land will heal in time, and I am sure we can survive until then."

Mathael silently exhaled in relief. Even though he was 99,9% sure that Mathael would be save from anything that they could do to him for this 'crime,.' Still, Mathael liked to at least act as if he wasn't 'above' them... he was just above the law...

Mathael looked back at Iron Hoof, Copper Hoof and all those Minotaurs that had so much hope in him. Mathael smiled at the crowd, it wasn't evil, sadistic or faked one, but a real one. They weren't like the Ponies who either saw him as an instant save, a monster or if one would see his horn, a god, but a hero, not the one from comics, but one that would be looked in awe, but not while looking up. In other words, they saw him equally, yet respecting him, funny, this was the first time he did anything, and someone wouldn't try to kill him. Darkness doesn't count, she was too wounded. As for the Minotaur Guards, they weren't racist, they were proud, and a bit vain, but their intention was not to get him hurt since his strength was unknown to him and the first Minotaurs he met at the gates were just very tense from the attacks.

Mathael said happily with a chuckle."I am not that good with creating things, I am better at destroying stuff, to be honest, but see it as a little thank you from me."

Mathael made some hand signs and said, "Earth Style Ground Restoration" and slammed his hands on the ground. The part of the land that was destroyed began to restore themselves while the holes in the ground were being filled up. In mere seconds, the land was restored right in front of the Minotaurs who were impressed by this.

Mathael didn't even give them rest from his moves. Mathael then said "Wood Style Grand Forest Formation" before burying his claws into the rock hard soil. This time, all the Minotaur's eyes bulge out of their eye sockets when they saw grass and trees growing all over the land. In just a few seconds, the once barren land was now filled with greenery. Trees with many fruits waiting to be plucked away. Grass that they can lay on and have a peaceful sleep. The Minotaurs were amazed by this.

Mathael chuckled and said."Oh, shush, it wasn't that impressive. Besides, there are beings far better at doing this than me." He didn't like being praised, even if it meant to break their reality even more.

Iron Hoof returned to the world with the people who head their eyes in their skulls and said with words that were stuffed with gratitude."I-I can't thank you enough, Mathael. You not only saved my people but also brought our lands to a state that was better than when the founders found this land. How can we repay you? And please answer me why you are thankful to us? We didn't do anything."

Mathael smiled and patted the head of Iron Hoof which looked a bit weird considering he was a sentient being, a Minotaur none the less, and not a kitten.

Mathael said."You would be surprised how much a little conversation, a few looks of hope, and joy can be for someone who is used to fewer nice people. I think I would've moved here if I didn't land in Equestria. As for wanting something return, I would be more than happy for you to become friends and allies with Equestria,"

The Minotaurs stared at Mathael for several seconds, waiting to add more to his list of request, but nothing came, even after waiting a whole minute silence was all that came out of Mathael's mouth.

Iron Hoof did not believe what he was hearing. Iron Hoof would've given up everything for his deeds, and all Mathael asked was something so small, even though there was nothing they could do to stop Mathael from doing anything. Yet, here is Mathael, just asking such a small and humble request that it brought Iron Hoof to his limits off holding his manly eyes of watering with the salt water of the weak.

Iron Hoof said shakingly."A-After all you have done for us, you just want our Kingdom to become friends with Equestria?" Mathael nodded. "I-I don't know what to say, but I promise you that you won't regret your decision."

Mathael smiled and said."I doubt you would let that happen either way, anyways, I hope I can take the time to visit your kingdom in the future, until then, Farewell, my friend." With his sentence spoken, Mathael used Soru to teleport him to the outskirt of the Kingdom, invisible for the Minotaurs behind mountains and trees.

Mathael sighed loudly before walking in the general direction of Equestria while his mind was in deep thought.'Why Did I do things this way? Am I really that bored or just wanted to make a show?' Mathael kicked a rock into a pond a few feet beside him causing a giant-sized wave of water to sweep over onto the grass.

Mathael sighed with a hint of frustration as he rubbed his forehead and nose bridge with three fingers before lowering his power to 5% and returning to his base form.

Mathael continued to dwell in the dark realms of his mind.'I evaded most of Beast Master attack by jumping back in the right moment, and I used my virus to create realistic cuts to evade being hit by the crystalized darkness. These crystals sting worse than the actual damage; still, I could've ended all so fast, yet I took so much time just to beat those two up.'

Mathael walked up to a rock in front of him and sat on it before repairing his tuxedo with his magic by snapping his fingers.'Lastly, the fat jerk, I could've killed so quickly, yet, I chose the long way. Hmpf, even if it took longer, why did I even bother with the whole duel? Yes, I did save Copper Hoof, and things ended well, looking back at my decision, it sounds so dumb. No, it wasn't foolish, it was just a careful thought, to feel more than just for my friends. I am not Asura, I am not Ash, I am me, Matthew... I mean Mathael.'

Mathael looked at the sky and saw that the heavens were slowly turning red as the lifeblood of the day slowly runs cold and the night embarks to cover little and small with a cloak of silents and protection.

Mathael smiled and thought.'Funny, I just wanted super awesome powers back then, be a random superpowered dude that would rarely even show up and maybe be a huge troll, and now, I am saving Princesses. This is my life, and I wouldn't change it for anything in the world'

Mathael jumped up with new found happiness and said to himself."Yes, thinking about the past, I am and should be much happier. From a random number, a cog in the machine of society to my new life. No rules and laws to bind me, I am free to do whatever I want whenever I want, and I enjoy it to its full extent! From signing papers to saving kingdoms, worlds and princesses from the forces of evil, a hero, a legend and someone who finally achieved something nerd could only come as close in their dreams!!!"

Mathael smiled happily as he inhaled the cold and fresh air of the evening and said."It's time to stop being sad, I am much happier than back in my human life... Huh, If I really would've been normally displaced, I would've never even touched Darkness, maybe see her as a friend, but then things would've stopped. Pony or not, I was never really a friend of those furry fantasies and having sex with one, ho no! And now? Well... I am not sure. I mean, I did do those two things, but that wasn't with, well... what does my tool even look like? Argh, stop it head, you start to even make myself think that I am insane!"

And with these words that totally reassured us of Mathael's perfectly healthy sanity, he decided to walk a bit further for a few more minutes before using the fast ways home.

While Mathael is continuing his way home, let's see how things are going with Darkness and Erebus.

Darkness screamed."Ahhhhhhh!!!!"

...

A Few minutes, hours or who knows how the time goes wherever they are.

Erebus and Darkness have exited the portal, and the Thestrals eyes widened to the point they almost fell out. In front of her was a land of beauty and fertility and peacefulness. If words could describe it, she would say it was heaven with how peaceful the plants and creatures looked.

Erebus chuckled and said."I know, right? This is what they human only know it from legends, and it is said to be the most fertile in the universe. I am sure Gaia would disagree, but for human standards, this as well maybe heaven, as the food here allows a being to achieve an age that goes several times beyond than the one of a healthy specimen."

Darkness said in awe."Wow..."

Erebus nodded and said with a hint of sadness."Yeah, kind of sad what that Neo monster will do to it in approximately 38 years, two months, 3 weeks, 5 days, 16 hours 7 minutes and 8 seconds."

Darkness frowned and rolled her eyes at the unnecessary amount of information until she realized what Erebus actually wanted to say and asked in shock."What? Why would anything want to destroy this place? And even if so, can't you stop it, miss 'Goddess of darkness'?"

Erebus only pouted and said."Former' Goddess of darkness, my dear, without the soul of the dark god I am by far not as powerful, but yes, I would be easily strong enough to crush that thing, but if I do so, I will alter the timeline a bit too much."

Darkness asked with a raised eyebrow."Isn't that what Mathael has been doing all the time?"

Erebus patted Darkness on the head and said."Nope! Mathael merely bends it in the right direction, but by killing this Neo guy, I would change things so much that the story might end with less of a 'Happy ending.' In other words, I might save this world, but the things that happen later could make matters even worse if a much more powerful Villain rise to tyranny. Anyways, it's time to collect some fruits, and please don't kill anything."

With their conversation finished, the two of them began to gather the ingredients they would later have for the evening. The temptation to just pluck one of these fruits Darkness picked from the trees was great, but in the end, the thestral Mare was able to resist just barely.

Erebus had no problem with picking a bit of everything and even had some time left with petting one of the flying pigs who enjoyed the attention a lot, not that they have been staring at her while she was on work or the fact that they stared whenever she bent down.

After everything she needed was collected, Erebus turned to Darkness, and her smile instantly was replaced with a frown."Darkness... why did you only gather mangos?"

Darkness was chuckling in embracement with her hands and pockets filled with mangos while trying to hide the giant pile of mangos behind her. Darkness evaded the question and said."Ehm... Thestrals really like mangos, and I am sure Mathael will like them too..." Erebus then waved her left hand which caused their gathered fruits to just vanish without anything happening, no sound, no effect, just gone in a blink of an eye.

Erebus sighed loudly while massaging her temples. Erebus then said."You know, you are right, maybe he will like it if it's a thestral thing. Now, I think it's time to get the meat so please come along again." Erebus then slashed her claws through the air, creating another dimensional rift, gate, portal or whatever you want to call it before the two of them walked through it.

Toriko's Gourmet World
Baron Archipelago

The two Girls exited the portal and ended up on a large and very unwelcoming island that was surrounded by many sharp rock spikes. The island itself looked rather exotic, still not as nice as a park but more like a jungle, it still was not the place one would visit during a vacation.

But the two Females didn't exit the portal over the water, or over a spike and they surely didn't exit their way of transportation near the beach, no. The two Mares exited the portal right in the middle of the jungle just a few hundred feet away from a rather... 'interesting' friend that would not get a dentist visit in... well, ever.

*Raaaarghh!!!*

The female Thestral turned her head with a neck-breaking speed as she gasped in shock as she looked a beast that made even the mightiest Cragadile look like a joke.

The creature was not an ordinary one. It was the Galala Gator, a, to put it bluntly, humongous crocodile. It was 18 meters long and 4.2 meters tall. Its body was adorned with red scales that with no doubt were able to even stop armor-piercing bullets, its claws on its four pairs of arms were sharp as swords, and its massive jaw was filled with knife-like teeth.

Darkness yelled in fear and worry."What is that thing!!" which was apparently not the right decision in the current situation as the Galala Gator now focused his undivided attention towards the Bat Pony snack-Mare...

Erebus looked at Darkness with a small smirk on her smile and said." Looks like you will play the bait, try to not get eaten while I try to find an angle to make a clean cut to not waste the blood." And before Darkness could even reply, Erebus already ran away.

Darkness looked away from Erebus back that was rapidly shrinking and saw the red Alligator shooting towards her like a cannonball with high speed towards Darkness who only had one thought on her mind.

And like that, we are right there where everything started.

Darkness screamed."Ahhhhhhh!!!!" as the Gourmet beast opened its jaw and like if time slowed down, and the teeth lurked closer with each passing millisecond. When the walls finally closed and she was to be impaled, she only felt many small pokes on her skin instead of the agonizing pain of being ripped apart.

Darkness looked at the teeth that were using her as a chewing toy and saw that they weren't even able to pierce her skin which was really odd, but what made her so durable? She highly doubted that Erebus would use an armor spell around her.

Darkness tried to wiggle her way out of the maze of teeth, but her attempts were interrupted when gravity itself played against her and did a 180-degree throw upwards. Darkness spun a dozen times the second in the jaw of the beast and felt really dizzy and started to feel a bit sick.

"Thud"

At last, the spinning torture of the cursed bingo ball drawing machine ended its reign of terror upon the poor Mare known as Darkness Bloodheart and was released from the fate of a vertical Beyblade.

Before Darkness was even able to regain her areal awareness to understand where right, left and Caneighda was, she was forcefully pulled out from the mouth as something or someone gripped her leg.

In less than a second, Darkness hang upside down while being held up by Erebus who gave her a sly smile, but her attention was needed somewhere else when she saw that Erebus's other hand, the one that luckily wasn't touching her, was coated in blood.

Darkness then glared up to Erebus and asked quietly with an anger filled voice."Let me go..." to which Erebus responded with a careless shrug and un-handed Darkness.

*Thud*

"Literally"

"Ouch..." said Darkness as she groaned on the ground before realizing that it didn't actually hurt. The Thestral Mare flapped her wings once to get on her hooves once more and boy oh boy was she unhappy.

Darkness inhaled for several seconds as her hands folded in front of her mouth and nose. Suddenly she shouted."Are you bucking insane!? You almost let me die!!!"

Erebus looked at Darkness for several seconds before finally giving the angered Pony an answer. The answer was the one that could solve every problem in the universe, and it was a simple shrug. Darknesses eyes were twitching, and Erebus could've sworn she saw steam coming out of her nostrils.

Erebus smirked and nudged Darknesses shoulder before saying."Why did you scream so much? Did you not know that the more magic a being has, the less killable it is? I mean, you saw it first hand after Mathael gave you so much magic when your Changeling friend turned into VenUlk. Without the extra magic, your head would've popped like a grape which was not even that hard to realize considering that beast shredded entire hills."

Darkness stared at Erebus trying to think of an argument but ultimately failed to which she replied with an angry pout and looked in the opposite direction. Her eyes widened when she saw the Crocodile beast dead with a puddle of blood between its...

"What is wrong with you!?" Shouted Darkness at Erebus who shrugged again, but this time with a smile on her face. Erebus then waved her hand to make the body disappear in a cloud of smoke.

Erebus then waved her hand once again to make a two one feet times one footstone block grow out of the ground before sitting on the left one and tapping on the right one, indicating that the Bat mare should sit down.

Darkness stared at Erebus for an eternity, but no matter how many minutes she waited, nothing happened, like waiting for a page to turn. In the end, Darkness sighed and walked up to the stone seat and sitting down.

Erebus said with a kind smile."You should really relax once in a while, you know? Being angry about anything isn't healthy, even if it's just me you are mad at. I mean, sure, I can talk easily, thinking about it, I already got everything I want, and since I am sure Mathael won't be backing off from his promise, I can lean back and chill. You on the other hand maybe make a break to not overheat. You got a nice job, have hit the Stallion Jackpot and you’re healthy and good looking too, as for me, sure I got a nice body, but I am not one to steal your Stallion, and you should be happy about it. If I were you, I too would try to keep him as close as I could so please try to remember to not hurt him with your words, you are quite literally the world to him which may not sound like a lot, consider we are talking about Mathael, but hey, it’s true."

Darkness thought about her words for a moment before replying a bit shy."You are not as bad as I thought, and yes, I still didn't trust you after our conversation. Huh, thinking about it you are almost like a teacher, an old one that probably would be a too big distraction to teach, but still a good teacher."

Erebus chuckled heartland said."Oh please, I am a lot older than any teacher, so old, I make the Princesses combined look like unborn foals. Anyways, It's time to get home and maybe do something with the meat because I am not a good cook, are you?"

Darkness chuckled nervously and asked."Would you believe that I set water on fire?" Erebus raised a finger and was about to say something, but Darkness was faster and added."I also summoned an imp from Tartarus when I once cracked open an egg, a plain egg..."

Erebus slowly lowered her finger and sighed loudly before saying."You know what? We are just going to make some Crocodile jerky and call it a day before we give Mathael the master chef a heart attack." Darkness nodded in agreement and so our two heroines returned to Mathael's home to make preparations for the evening.

Back to Mathael

*Sneeze*

"Who-!"

*Hiccup*

Is-!

*Sneeze*

Talking-!

*Hiccup*

About-!

*Sneeze*

ME!!!

*Hiccup*

Mathael was furiously sneezing and hiccupping while shouting into the blood red sky that was slowly being swallowed by the darkness of the cold night.

Suddenly, Mathael's torment ended, he shouted angrily."First I feel like being stalked, and now I am apparently today's jabbering topic or am I missing something here!?!?!"

Mathael then waited for another conveniently placed answer of the universe, but this time, nothing happened. Mathael was not sure if he should be happy about this outcome or scared, in the end, he decided that it would be best, for now, to return home. And so, Mathael used "Gate" to create a portal to his home.

A colorful vortex opened approximately 100 feet away from the luxurious mansion Mathael called his home, base of operations and, occasionally, snuggle cave with his fluffy Thestral love.

To the Narrators dislike, instead of a Mare dream, an exhausted warrior exited the gate who frowned at the sight of seeing that his teleportation aim may have gotten worse.

With a groan, Mathael walked towards the door while hoping he could just fall onto his bed, even if it would probably crash through the ground from his carelessness at the moment.

Once he opened the door to his home, he felt the presence of two beings that he knew all too well, Erebus and Darkness, in the living room, surrounded by something that smelled divine, no- it probably was...

Tasty... said his Gourmet Demon, The Devourer with hunger and greed.

Mathael thought with almost dangerous amounts of suspicion.'Those two are up to something... probably plotting something I won't like at all at the moment...'

With a sigh, Mathael entered the living room where both Erebus and Darkness sat, with giant grins on their faces, on the couch and several bowls in front of them filled with either divine smelling fruits or delicious looking Jerky.

Mathael narrowed his eyes at them as this was far too good to be true and asked suspiciously."What are you two planning?" The two of them were broken out of their mood and looked a bit shocked.

Darkness said with a reassuring smile."We aren't planning anything Mathael, we just want to spend a nice evening that's all."

Erebus then added."Yes, we just want to spend a bit of time, we even went spent a lot of our time gathering all of the food you see in front of you. Why don't you sit down and join us?"

Mathael was way too tired to now start arguing with his loved one and, should he also call Erebus his love? Was she even part of his herd? They didn't have a lot of interaction between them and even so, it was a bit weird, In the end, he just sat down.

A long awkward silence followed while the smiles of the girls were slowly creeping him out.

Mathael asked cautiously."So... Did you two have fun while I was away and did you get along well with the other girls?"

Erebus grabbed an apple slice from a bowl in front of her and took a bite before answering."Not much happened. While we were busy, nothing worth mentioning and it was a bit boring." Saying this earned her a glare from Darkness as her opinion of being almost eaten wasn't 'boring.'

Darkness then acquired the title, 'Choking Darkness' and forced out the kindest words at this moment."I would not say it was 'boring' and 'not worth mentioning,' but rather 'Should not be mentioned.' But yes, we went along without too many problems. " with every word she said she neutrally stared at Erebus while trying to not look angry.

Mathael was silent as he kept his hands close to him and twiddled his thumbs as his mouth became smaller and smaller with each passing second. In the end, as their conversation seemed to grow into a full-scale flame war and the room began to taste with a poisonous amount of hate, he coughed to get their attention.

Once Mathael got the attention of the girls, Mathael asked."Anyways, what is it with the food you brought? My Gourmet Demon seemed to like it a lot, and now I am going to guess that it's gourmet food, right?"

Darkness answered instantly."No idea, but they do smell divine. I am quite surprised you didn't take one yet because I had to catch myself a few times to not eat them yet." Darkness then chuckled with a bit of shame

Mathael replied with a shrug."I am not a fan of mango, I ate a bit of it, and It was not that good." Mathael then heard a faint sound of glass shattering and saw the devastated look on Darknesses face.

Darkness said in shock after several seconds of her face being frozen in time."But, but why?! I haven't met a single Thestral that could resist a Mango! Wait, you said you ate your first in the castle?" Mathael nodded. Darkness sighed loudly in relief and replied."Besides the fact that you only ate your first mango today, the castle only rarely provides tropical fruits, so they usually make them through transmogrification of other fruits or jelly that just taste like that."

Mathael groaned quietly as the thought of seeing artificial and microwave food again in a decade or so... was burning down a research lab for the instant food forbidden if it was for the future's greater good?

Mathael who realized that he was keeping the girls waiting, took a mango slice and put it in his mouth before closing his eyes and starting to chew.'Hm... It's okay- *Mind Gasp* This. This stuff... IT'S LIKE A DRUG. IT'S SO SWEET, IT'S LIKE THE ULTIMATE COMBO OF NECTAR AND AMBROSIA IN A SOFT, SLIGHTLY CHEWY FROM THAT MELTS ON YOUR TONGUE LIKE BUTTER!' Mathael had stars in his eyes while thinking every thought in his mind.

Mathael was brought from his state of bliss when he smelled something that at first didn't bother him, but then, the scent of what truly was hidden in it filled his nostrils. Mathael turned to Darkness who had a small vial with blood in her hand, probably then blood rations she once talked about.

Mathael swiped the vial out of Darknesses with his Superhuman Speed before Darknesses even noticed it and took a small sip from it.

Darkness who didn't feel the pleasant taste on her lips staring at her empty hand to see that her blood ration 'wandered' to Mathael. A "Hey!" came out of her mouth, but was ignored by Mathael.

Mathael glared at the vial for several seconds before he made sure his suspicions were correct. Mathael snapped his fingers and created a trash can in which he spat the 'blood' and threw the vial in. Mathael then snapped his fingers again and created a note in which stood 'do not consume' before he teleported it into a different dimension.

A group of Eldritch abomination that lived in a universe full of their kind looked at the trash that appeared in front of them. They sighed in annoyance as they knew who sent it. They looked through the content but were too disgusted to even touch the red liquid. Not even Eldritch Abominations wanted to drink that garbage!

Mathael turned her head at an angry thestral Mare and explained."There was as much blood in that vial as pudding is in dark matter. That stuff was pure poison and could fill a long list with side effects like shortened lifespan, high heart attack risk, kidney failure, immune system damage, and even impotence. Whoever made the stuff really hates Thestrals."

Darkness stared at Mathael for several seconds and had no idea what to say next. Yet, she knew that she needed to consume blood or eventually the blood frenzy would set in which would end badly. Thankfully her prayers were answered when Erebus handed her an entire bottle of blood which probably came from the giant crocodile. Darkness, who was not used to see so much blood as a ration, downed the whole bottle in just five seconds while Erebus cheered for her to drink even faster.

Mathael could only smile at the sight. It reminded him of one time where two of his friends visited him on his birthday when he was just an eight-year-old Human child. Mathael chuckled quietly, but his voice, was full of sadness and sorrow, yearning for times where his joy was at its peak when life was simple but fulfilling.

*Crack*

Mathael felt a sharp pain, a stab maybe even a shot in the right side of his chest and grasped at it. Mathael looked down and saw that there was nothing, but he could taste blood, his own blood and his virus couldn't heal the wound where ever it was. Mathael clenched his teeth, trying to ignore it.

Erebus turned away from Mathael and smiled before asking worriedly."Are you feeling okay, Mathael?"

Mathael coughed blood onto his hand, but hid it and replied with a smile."Y-yes, I am fine, there is no need to worry."

Darkness asked too."Are you sure? Asking for help is no sign for weakness, Mathael. If you need help, just ask, and your friends are going to help you, like us."

Mathael stared at Darkness as he could feel a simultaneously cold and hot dull knife was slowly creeping down his spine. Mathael could swear he saw, the demon he called his mother in Darkness’s placed who said the same sentence once when he was trying to act strong even when he was so fragile in his youth. Was he hallucinating?

*Crack*

Darkness asked in confusion."Did anyone else hear that?"

Mathael replied weakly."No... I heard nothing..." Of course, that was a fat lie.

Erebus was filled with joy to see that her plan was working smoothly and pulled out a book, a large one that was beautifully decorated with gold and jewels and held it in front of Mathael with a playful toothy smile.

Mathael was no longer confident and said."Maybe you are right. It's already late, and I should go to bed now. I think one of them poked me a 'bit' too hard with his stick and now I have an annoying sting in my chest. Good night everyone... one... Please don't look at me with those puppy eyes." Upon hearing Mathale wanting to leave, Erebus gave Mathael the ultimate puppy look with large star-filled and watering eyes.

Mathael sighed and took the book and muttered under his breath."It's not like it's going to kill me... right?" The pages were filled with fairy tales, myths, and legends, but there was one that interested him most, and that was the only one that has been bookmarked.

Mathael opened the page, and it was a fairy tale with a large picture of a castle and a raptor-like princess in a pink dress. Mathael gave the girls a confused look but was met with curious eyes and stares, their full attention was his.

Mathael shook his head before look back at the pages and began to read while looking at the girls once every few sentences."Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, a place so mystical and magical one might believe it doesn't exist, a castle stood proudly in a fertile land of beauty and wisdom..."

Mathael made a small paused as he could feel a warm tingling in his chest, not warm as in comfortable, but more in the way of washing your ice cold hands and hot water. Mathael cringed as he forced a smile. It was not that it felt wrong, no, it was the opposite, but he was not used to it.

Mathael cleared his throat and continued with his voice confident, yet soft voice that put even the narrator of old Disney movies to shame."In this very land, a princess lived, so beautiful like a thornless rose and smart as a teacher. Yet, in the angle like girls beat a black heart."

*Crack*

Mathael swallowed the pain, all of his spit and a lot of air down his throat and continued."The Princess was not evil, but cold in her feelings. She would still be like any other royal, acting and looking perfect, but she didn't even share her true feelings with her closets ones..."

*Crack*

Mathael knew that this pain could be stopped by stopping reading, but why couldn't he just say no?! Why, did he want to risk his own health for... fro... for them... This answer was the same he used for every decision in his life a sighed before continuing to read. In the ned, it was worth it to see their eyes becoming brighter with happiness and their smiles growing.

Mathael smiled before reading more of the story."Her life miserable under the facade, a stranger, one who was interested in what hid behind the scales of the most well known princess of the land. At first, the girl would ignore his question, but every time he came back again and again. One day, she gave in, and she told her true feelings. The two of them would continue talking to another every night, and every day she became more alive. After the twelfth time they meet, the Princesses dark heart was.. freed... from... the..." Mathael tried to choke out more words, but he didn't feel, nor hear his heart and lungs anymore.

*Crack*

*Crack*

*Crack*

*Crack*

*Crack*

*Crack*

*Shatter*

Mathael fell to the ground, the shouts and screams from Darkness and Erebus were so silent and far away for his ears. Blood was flowing up his throat, and a puddle was already forming on the carpet, dyeing his clothes in his life force.

A burning sensation was his torment as something was trying to eat through his lungs and other inserts in the path of the painful thing in him. The pain penetrated his stomach and was slowly traveling up his throat.

Tears began to form in the corners of his eyes as he gagged in an attempt to vomit all that was hidden under his skin out. Seconds became minutes and minutes hours than then formed into an unending pain.

After what felt like an eternity for Mathael, he vomited something out, he didn't care at first, but what he saw made disturbed, maybe even traumatized him.

Under him, in a puddle of blood, tears, and vomit, was a plum-sized heart. The heart, as pitch black as a black hole seemingly consuming the very light around it as only it outlines, were visible.

Mathael was visible, his virus working fast to replace the heart, but the corners of his sigh were slowly fading into nothingness. But even after this pain, the torment, he smiled as tears streamed down his face. Only realizing now, that his feelings, no longer felt so dull, so empty, cold lonely and hollow. He felt so happy knowing that the girls even cared for him at his lowest points. He could feel his very soul responded, as if it only now feeling his hearts emotions, he and his soul felt whole.

His mind was so peaceful like it wasn't in such a long, long time and he felt like he could stay like this. 'Tired... I am so, so Tired like I haven't in such a long time... yet... so Peaceful and... Happy?'

In the last few moments the screams were silenced, the light was dimmed, the feeling of his body was numbing, so sleepy, so tired, so exhausted. It’s time to sleep, at least for a few horus on the world he called his home, surrounded by his loved one. Never in his life did he feel so relaxed, so free and relieved as if something lifted so much weight of his shoulders. It sounded insane, but after all of his adventures, all of his fights and loses, he finally, once again, found peace, but not in death as he always thought. Maybe, just maybe, one day he will have his own little happy end.