I turned my gaze back to The Changeling Queen and I thought I'd kept my anger in check for long enough so I decided to lay out all she'd done to piss me off. As I did this the Elements and the elite guard took off to help the city and the ponies in it. I hadn't been this pissed off since my fight with Shining Armor and even then that was nothing compared to the rage I felt towards the bug standing in front of me. I stood there with my eye's locked on the Changeling Queen.

“What is somepony angry that I hurt his family,” said Chrysalis with a snicker as she tried to mask her fear.

“AGAIN, I'LL LIST THE WAYS YOU'VE THOROUGHLY PISSED ME OFF!” I shouted once more and this time she shut up as my body began to spark with red lightning as it had in the past.

“ONE, YOY MADE ME DOUBT MY FAMILY. TWO, YOU BRAINWASHED MY NEPHEW. THREE, YOU KIDNAPPED AND IMPERSONATED MY NIECE. FOUR, YOU ATTACKED AND HURT MY SISTER. FINALLY, WE HAVE FIVE,” I shouted at Chrysalis as my rage caused the area around me to star to glow with my aura. “ YOU HAVE THOSE OTHER DAMN BUGS OUTSIDE TRYING TO TAKEOVER THIS KINGDOM.”

“What's going on Aunt Celestia? I haven't seen Uncle Ed like this since his fight with Shining,” asked Cadance as she and Tia mad their way to the captain of the guard.

“I'm afraid it's Edward's Philosopher's Stone. Its power has always been inadvertently linked to his anger. Like when he went berserk over one thousand years ago due to too his rage. Edward has to open his mind to the souls trapped inside the stone when he uses it. While he's told Luna and I that there are many in the stone that are kind, but most of them are nothing but spite and anger especially towards him because he is there prison.” said Celestia as she looked on at me.

“What does that mean though?” Cadance asked again.

“Due to the emotional link to the stone Edward is more prone to use it whenever he is angry and the more he uses the stone in this state the more he comes under the influence of the angry souls trapped in his body,” said Celestia as she turned away with tears in her eyes.

“How can he bare having so much hatred in him? Even though I can see what a ponies true emotions are I couldn't see any sign of rage or spite coming from Uncle Ed at all, but now all I see is a massive black form of malice around him,” said Cadance as she and Tia reached Shining while trying not to get hit by the crimson lightning.

Meanwhile, I was slowly making my way to Chrysalis. I highly doubt I would have stayed in control of my bod if the focal point of my anger hadn't been in front of me. I need to get out have here in order to fight with Chrysalis and to keep the ponies in Canterlot safe, and at least get her far enough away to keep myself from going berserk on any pony that was nearby if I lost control during the fight. I dashed towards the Queen to try and grab her, but she put up a force field to keep from getting hit and this caused me to knock her through the wall behind her. I followed her in a red flash.

“Come on Chrysalis your subjects aren't afraid to fight so why are you?” I said as I approached her with a glare where she'd landed.

“I will face you and then I'll drain you of all your love for the stupid moon princess your always ogling,” said the changeling with a quiver.

I stopped in my tracks and began to shake. While Chrysalis could only smile as she thought she'd finally found a chink in my armor. But how wrong she was because she only served to piss me off even more.

“I think I take your advice though,” she said as she formed a deformed insectiod scythe from her magic. “Normally I wouldn't take on someone beneath me in power, but seeing as you're strong then you look and your royalty I'll make an exception this time. After all, I have to Shining Armor's love for Cadance to good use.”

Chrysalis charged at mean with her scythe and brought it down cleaving off my right armor at the shoulder. I fell to the ground unmoving as blood flowed from my body on to the ground. It was in these moments that I wasn't even conscious for the pain. Due to my rage that I'd connected to the Philosopher's Stone's souls and their rage, in turn, poured into me causing to black out on my feet. I got to my feet still not in control of my own body as my healing start to activate as new metal and flash reformed. Chrysalis looked on in horror as I healed with a totally blank expression on my face.

“What the bucking Tartarus was the magic you bastard!” yelled the bug.

My arm wasn't the usual steel but a crimson spiked metal looking type of demonic arm.

In my unconscious stated the souls trapped in the stone had taken over my body. They had activated arc of embodiment in an attempt to escape from my body and give themselves bodies of the own. This was the result of their attempted escape, but due to the restriction on the magic and the fact that my body was their body, they could only warp my arm into this new arm. It was an arm of Malice. The Changeling queen simply looked at my new appendage in complete horror.

“Your no pony your a demon!” shouted Chrysalis.

“You are wrong bug,” spoke a collective of evil voices from the arm. “We are anger and hate doubt and loathing, fear and panic, loneliness and solitude, and we will consume you! So says MALICE!”

“Malice? What kind of by kind of being are you?” asked the Queen in fear.

“We are the collective of hatred driven souls trapped inside this one's body, and we would thank you for pushing his rage to allow us to take over once more,” said the demonic arm.

“What?” says the Queen in shock.

“If not for your last remark towards our host would not have gone past his mental breaking. Witch, in turn, allowed you to once again help use by cutting off his arm allowing us to manifest. So as our thanks we will consume your soul and add you to us.” say the malevolent arm as it pointed to Edward's body.

The alchemist still had an emotionless expression on his face as his body moved under the influence of the collective entity calling itself Malice. It caused him to charge forward at the Changeling Queen as he reached out for her with the demon arm barely missing her as crimson lightning shot out of Edward's body. Though the movements weren't fluid they were still extremely hard to see due to the speed at which the alchemist came at the Queen. One sweep and slash after another as Malice puppeteered the sage's demonic arm in a fury of attacks. Chrysalis tried to think of a strategy but wasn't able to come up with one due to being kept on a total defensive. Every time she lands a blow on the alchemist's body the wound would only heal itself instantly while leaving a red demonic armored shell behind.

“Keep fighting us bug. The more we are injured the more we heal and the more we heal the better our control over this form becomes,” said Malice as Edward's body now a good portion of covered into red demonic metal. “This one once earned the name The Crimson Butcher because of us so we only see it as fitting to take the title back from him.”

“That's not possible. History the legends say that the Butcher was a demon that sucked the very life from the land. It rampaged killing anything and everything around it, and that it took Starswirl, Celestia, and Luna to bring it down.” stammered Chrysalis.

“Yes, that's all true,” stated Malice.“But we only suppressed due to the interference of those meddlesome ponies. Now we will continue what we started in the Badlands all the years ago. All thanks to you, bug. The Crimson Butcher, Malice, thanks you for this once more.”

The demon possessed Edward began his assault once more with this remark.

Celestia and Cadance had managed to break Shining Armor's mind control that Chrysalis placed on him and the trio had begun watching the battle taking place in the courtyard. They could only look on in horror as the demon, Malice as it came to call itself, had possessed Edward and began to attack the Queen of the Changelings. Celestia wasted no time in writing a letter to Twilight's group to tell them to bring the Elements of Harmony. The relics were the only thing that could possibly stop her brother in this state, and as much as it pained her she knew she had to stop him at any cost. It was what he would have said and Luna would hold it against her but it was the only way to stop him without their ponies getting hurt any more than necessary.

The Elements of Harmony and elite guards had finished clearing the castle of the changeling invaders. What had made it difficult for them hadn't been the strength of the changelings but the sheer number had almost overwhelmed them. They were taking a rest with the guards as Spike belched up a scroll from one of the Princesses. He gave it to Twilight and she began to read it aloud to the others.

TWILIGHT, YOUR GROUP MUST RETRIEVE THE ELEMENTS AND BRING THEM TO THE COURTYARD AT ONCE. EDWARD HAS GONE BERSERK AND IS CURRENTLY LOCKED IN COMBAT WITH QUEEN CHRYSALIS. BRING LUNA ALONG WITH YOU IT WILL PAIN HER TO SEE HIM THIS WAY BUT I FEAR ONLY THE SITE OF HER WILL STOP HIM LONG ENOUGH SO YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS CAN USE THE ELEMENTS ON EDWARD. PLEASE HURRY!!

“Go on Ms. Sparkle the Elite Guard can handle the rest of clean up duty. You go and save the prince.” said one of the guard.

“Alright, we're off. Come on girls we've got to hurry. I can only imagine if this is like what happened over a thousand years ago from Edward's story. Then we're in big trouble.” stated Twilight as the group ran to retrieve the Elements.

They soon reached the Chamber that held the Elements of Harmony that was being guarded by Princess Luna and Polearm. Surprised to see them there Luna asked what was going on when they all noticed flashes of red and green light coming from one of the windows. The group went over and saw the berserk Edward going at the Changeling Queen, but it wasn't in his usual manner of fighting, as it was more animalistic. Luna looked at her husband in utter horror at the state he was in.

“Quickly, all of you, get the Elements we must stop Edward at once,” said Luna in urgency.

“We know Princess Luna. Princess Celestia sent us a letter telling us to do just that and to have you come with us,” said Twilight as she and the other rushed to get the Elements they represented.

“Then we shall see you there,” said Luna as she took off through the nearest open window.

The battle had been raging for almost two hours with no signs of either side backing down. In order to defend herself, Chrysalis was holding nothing back at this point. To her, the next attack on her could be the last moments she saw the light of the living world. The demon in front of her had gone from a small blonde headed pony to a full armored beast in a matter of minutes. In the ensuing fight, Edward had become covered in a suit of spiky red demonic steel that had what seemed like shadows coming from it with many eyes in the shadows looking in all directions. Edward's face was the only part of his body not covered by demonic steel or shadow.

Malice began another round of blows on Chrysalis with its fingers pointed straight forward like the tip of a sword to allow the claws of gauntlets to piece the Changeling Queen's flesh. She was managing to parry most of them with her scythe, but the blows that did hit her very fast and deep.

“It would seem that you're starting to falter insect,” said Malice with a bit of a chuckle.

With it's on her Chrysalis brought the blade of her scythe down on Malice cutting deep into its armor and Edward body as well.

“Got you, you bucking prick!” shouted Chrysalis with proud thinking that she landed a fatal blow to the demon.

“HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!” laughed the multi-voiced being. “You thought that was enough to kill us. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!” The demon brought itself up revealing a massive eye had formed in the wound that Chrysalis had just inflicted on the demon.

“AAAAAAAA!” screamed the Queen in horror as she the passed out from shock.

“Oh well, it seems that was all she had left. As thanks for freeing us, we will consume you after we consume the Princess before they have a chance to stop us again.” said Malice.

Luna flew into the ballroom that had been made earlier on in Edward's fight. She then walked over to Celestia, Cadance, and Shining Armor to make sure they were alright.

“Sister, niece, and nephew are you all okay ?” asked the Night Princess.

“Other than Princess Celestia burn horn and a few scrapes and bruises here and there, we're all fine Princess Luna,” answered Shining Armor.

“We'll be okay Luna. What we need to do is to focus on right now, is trying to get Edward back to normal,” said Celestia with a tea in her eye.

“We saw what was happening on our flight over here sister and it's far worse than last time,” Luna said as her voice cracked.

“How so Aunt Luna?” asked Cadance with worry.

“While Edward isn't draining the magic and life force in a blind rage like last time, he has allowed the collective hatred of the souls in his body to possess him and this entity has started to call itself Malice. Malice has control over Edward to the point his body has started to manifest a demonic armor of sorts. We can only guess it's from what little access it gained from Edward's alchemagic this has happened.” explained Luna.

“Edward had said he'd put up mental blockers to shut down his powers if he ever went berserk again, but it would seem some of them weren't completely activated,” added Celestia.

“While this is all news Princesses, I might suggest that we try and meet up with my sister and her friends before Edward comes across them. I know I can hold him back for a while if I have to, but we need to use the Elements on him before this Malice thing starts to unlock more of Edward's abilities,” said Shining Armor.

“I agree with Shining, especially since I can no longer see the flashes of green and red from outside,” added Cadance.

With this brought to the group's attention, they decided to move out of the courtyard to try and stall for time. They weren't at all at odds with what they had to do as the thing they were facing wasn't truly Edward in any sense of the word, and while they knew that Edward would do everything to try and save them if they were in this situation they also understood that the might have to take drastic measures.

The Elements and Polearm had reached the courtyard and what they saw chilled them to there soul. Their friend was no longer visible in the demon as his head had been concealed in the shadows and eye with a singular mouth. The demon quickly took notice of the ponies as they came out of the castle. It charges at the Elements with its right hand outstretched only to hit a barrier the Twilight put up at the last minute as the middle claw was a mere inch away from her eye. Malice regained his balance and threw one punch after another at the force field.

“NAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!” laughed Malice laying its furry into the barrier. “Little ponies, Little ponies, Let us in!”

The demon was relentless in its assault and Twilight was already worn down from facing the changelings earlier but she was determined to protect her friend. So she held in until the demon sent flying across the courtyard by a flash of white. Twilight looked to see her brother stand were the demon had been just moments before. He'd propelled himself from the ballroom like a demon seeking missile with his magic. Shining then started to speak to his sister and her friends.

“Twilight, you have to do exactly what I tell you,” strained Shining Armor.

“Okay, Shining,” nodded Twilight.

“The Princesses, Polearm, and I are going to keep that thing busy while you and the others get into position to use the Elements of Harmony on it. Then we'll hold him down while your group does the rest.” explained the guard captain as the others rushed to their friends' side.

“Alright, Shining. But, Princess, what will happen to Edward once we use the Elements on him?” asked the unicorn.

“I don't know Twilight, he could be purged of Malice like Nightmare Moon was from Luna, or he could be turned into stone once again like Discord was. For all, I know he could be banished to some other realm, but I digress, we must stop the creature before it can in act whatever it has planned for Equestria.” answered the Solar Princess with a heavy heart.

“Yes Twilight Sparkle was must stop this demon no matter the cost,” added Luna with tears in her eye.

Twilight understood why Luna was crying. As she said this as she was fully aware she that could lose Edward if the Elements were used on Malice. Twilight also knew that Edward would willingly give his life if it meant that Equestria would continue to thrive. She then looked to the demon now getting back on its feet with a wicked grin on its face.

“WE WILL CONSUME YOU ALL! NAHAHAHA!” laughed Malice at the sight of the royal family as they ready to take him on.

The battle began with Shining and Polearm charging in as they were the only ones who could physically match Malice and take the physical punishment the demon could deal out as well. They immediately thought back to the joint training they'd did when they'd face Edward in their two on one sessions. Malice was easily keeping track of their coordinated offensive with its multiple fields of vision, but it couldn't keep block all of their blows. While it was defending against the duo's onssault, the Princesses were taking turns blasting the demon with a series of magical beams while flying around it. With Malice's eyes on Shining Armor and Polearm and the Princess consecutive blasts the demon could only defend itself from the barrage of attacks., and this allowed the Elements of harmony to surround the vile demon. Then Malice began to laugh once more.

“NAHAHAHAHAHA! We can see all of you and we know what you're trying to do and we can tell you it won't work. Even if you can blast us with those damned gems we will still consume all of your souls!” yelled Malice in its multiple voices.

“WE WON'T LET YOU COME NEAR THE ELEMENTS LET ALONE THE PONIES OF THIS WORLD YOU BASTARD!” yelled Polearm as he delivered a series of powerful kicks to the beast.

Without warning Malice let out a sudden roar sending every pony flying backward.

“RAAAAAAAA!! YOU THINK YOU CAN STOP US! NOW THAT WE'RE FREE FROM THE ALCHEMIST'S CONTROL WE WILL STOP AT NOTHING TO CONSUME EVERY LAST SOUL THIS WORLD HAS TO OFFER AND WE'LL START WITH WHAT THE BASTARD TREASURES THE MOST IN THIS WORLD!” said the monster as all its eyes shifted to Luna.

The alchemist was surrounded in a torrent of crimson angry souls watching as they mercilessly beat on his family while using his body to do it. He tried to regain control of his body but it was to no avail. That's when he saw the demon refocus on Luna.

“Don't you bastards even think about it!” yelled the trapped alchemist.

This threat fell on the deafest of ears as Malice smiled as they heard it and they could just smile the whole time.

Malice started off with a slow walk towards the Lunar Princess and it steadily started to gain speed. Luna could only look in horror as the demon gain more and more speed as it came towards her. It's multiple red eyes transfixed on her while it wore an evil smile across its face. Malice was soon running at the Princess as it laughed the whole way.

“NAHAHAHAHA!” laughed Malice as it jumped forward and lunged its right claws forward to impale the night pony.

Blood splattered across the courtyard in the next ten seconds, but the blood wasn't Luna's. It was Malice's or more specifically Edward's. The blood ran down the demon's arm and dripped on to Luna's face as she'd turned away during Malice's march toward her, but after feeling the liquid hit her face she turned to see what had happened. She couldn't believe it. The demon had injured itself with it left arm restraining the right. Luna then saw Malice's face as one of the eyes had changed color to that of glad and the mouth was now a gritted frown.

Edward had managed to wrestle some control of his body back a just the moment before Malice could strike the Princess. Edward began to argue with the demon as each tried to regain control of the body.

“I won't let you hurt Luna, my family, or Equestria you bastards!” shouted the alchemist as he dug his grip deeper into the right side of his right arm.

“WE WON'T STOP EVEN IF YOU SEAL US AWAY AGAIN. WE'LL COMEBACK STRONGER!” roared the demon.

“I never said anything about sealing you away. ARC OF BABYLON SINGLE SHOT MARS BANE!” yelled Edward as a sword launched itself upwards from the ground landing four consecutive blows on the right shoulder of Malice thus severing the right arm of the demon.

“YOU FUCKING BASTARD! WHAT DO YOU THINK THAT ACCOMPLISHED. WE'LL JUST HEAL AND BE EVEN STRONGER!” roared Malice with a laugh as red lightning started to form a new arm.

“No you won't,” exclaimed Edward as he grabbed the right side of his body and used his Philosopher's Stone to continuously sir the wound as to keep a new limb from forming.

“NO STOP THIS! BASTARD!” roared Malice in more anger than ever before.

“TWILIGHT, LUNA, CELESTIA, CADANACE, SHINING DO IT NOW. USE THE ELEMENTS AND YOUR MAGIC TOGETHER TO SEND THIS ME AND BASTARD BACK TO THE DEPTHS OF HELL WHERE WE CAME FROM!” screamed the Edward vying to keep what little control over his body he had intacted while trying to keep Malice restrained.

“Every pony together!” yelled Celestia.

“Loyalty!” yelled Rainbow Dash.

“Honesty!” yelled Applejack.

“Kindness!” yelled Fluttershy.

“Generosity!” shouted Rarity.

“Laughter!” exclaimed Pinkie.

“Magic!” roared Twilight.

“MAY YOUR BODY BE CLEANSED OF HATRED!” They shouted in unison.

A rainbow of magic shot forth from the Elements and their bearers, and as it did Celestia, Luna, Cadance, and Shining added the own magic to it. As the swirls of raw magic came forth it engulfed Malice and Edward in a bright white light. Malice roared in pain as its body was torn to bits. That part of Edward's face that had become visible in his struggle with the demon simply looked around to his friend's and family and began to speak softly.

“I'm sorry I let my anger unleash this monster on Equestria every pony,” said the alchemist with tears in his eyes.

As he walked forward while grabbing his shoulder at where his arm would be. The light faded behind him, but something was very wrong. It looked as if he was fading away into the wind. Celestia was the first to notice the state of her brother's body.

“Edward you're freed from Malice,” said Twilight as she and the others ran to Edward's side.

As they converged on the alchemist they all began to see what was happened to his body.

“What in tarnation is happening to him?” asked Aj.

“Is he fading away?” asked Rarity.

“I am every pony,” answered Edward.

“No you can't you have to walk me down the aisle for the wedding!” exclaimed Cadance as tears started to form at what she'd just heard.

“Princess Celestia, there has to be something we can do, isn't there?” asked Shining Armor as he comforted.

“I'm afraid there isn't Shining Armor,” said Celestia in a saddened tone as tears formed in her own eyes as she watched her brother fade from this world.

“First let me apologize for doubting you Twilight, I'm sorry. if I'd acted sooner this could've been prevented,” said Edward as he started to cry himself for the many reasons that had, have, and are happening.

“Yes we're sorry to Twilight,” said everypony in the group in unison, but their attention was soon back on the fading alchemist.

“Luna it looks like I won't be able to stay for much longer, I'm so sorry,” Edward said with tears streaming down his cheeks as he touched his wife's face with his remain hand using it to wipe away her tears.

“You can't just die though! Your Immortal!” exclaimed Twilight.

“As much as I want to stay Twilight, I can't. When I was purged of Malice I was purged of the very thing that made me immortal. Malice was the collective souls of my Philosopher's Stone hatred and the ones that were kind I used to hold back the bad.” said the alchemist as he fell into the arms of Luna where she was sitting. “There aren't a lot of things I regret in this life I was given here. I was given I home, a beautiful wife, a loving sister, a caring niece, a proud nephew, and kind friends. But I do regret that I wasn't able to spend more time with you Luna and perhaps we could've had a family of our own”

Luna looked into her dying husband's eyes and could no longer hold back her emotions. She began to cry uncontrollably while she held on to him. Edward tears would no longer reach the ground as they would fade before they even rolled down his cheeks. He then looked around at his closest friends and family as he thought to himself 'I wish I had more time'.

As these were the last things he thought as he faded into the wind, but his last words were, “I love you so much Darling Moon. And stay strong my friends”

Luna grasped her arms and cry out. Cadance buried her face in Shining Armor chest while smile tears rolled down the captain's cheeks. While all others cried their eyes at the passing of a mentor, a friend, a brother, an uncle, a husband, and above all else a protector.

BEFORE YALL SAY WTF! I want to point out to those who don't know Ed did die in the original FMA anime and came back so the story is not over by a long shot.