Chapter 22

“Now act calm Dave” Odio whispered “I made a few adjustments which allows me to talk to you without anypony else hearing” Odio squeaked happily “Finally nopony can disturb us!”

Dave snarled as he gritted his teeth, he continued to hold Celestia as he suppressed the urge to start yelling. He kissed Celestia’s head again as Odio groaned in disgust

“You are still with Celestia?” He sighed “You have two other females that would love to ride you like a… pony” Odio chuckled at the joke “Anyway if you can dump this one and we go on an adventure that would be great”

“FUCK YOU ODIO!” Dave yelled, causing Celestia to jump in shock. Dave groaned as he grabbed his head, “I don’t want you messing with my life anymore!”

Celestia frowned “Odio?” she slapped Dave’s head “Are you inside Dave again? Was it you that brought him back?” Dave fell to his knees as he held his head

Dave coughed as a black fog floated out of his mouth and two flaming red eyes burned into existence “Oh no you caught me” Odio sighed in defeat “I brought Dave back to kill him again, I planned to make him sleep with Chrysalis and make hundreds of changeling humans so I could take them and start a rampage throughout the galaxy”

Celestia’s horn began to glow as she glared at the fog “You have no remorse, no compassion, no respect and…” Celestia was interrupted as Odio’s burning eyes dwindled to a couple of embers “What do you want?”

“I want…” Odio looked at Dave before he hovered over to the window, a few black wisps of black smoke connected Odio to Dave “I went to Earth and had fun, played games, the odd bank robbery, stole a jet”

“You stole a jet?” Dave chuckled “what did you do with it? Actually wait… you did some barrel rolls?”

Odio laughed, “Yeah until I was shot down by some missiles so I parachuted down whilst firing dual pistols” He sighed before his gaze swept back to Celestia “The only thing that would have made my time on Earth perfect would have been…” He swirled to face the human “him”

“Me?” Dave chuckled as he stood up “A being of hatred and you are lonely?” the human walked over to Celestia and wrapped an arm around her “No wonder you hate me being happy with Celestia, you are worried that I will stop being your friend”

“FRIEND?” Celestia gasped as she looked at Dave “You are telling me that you and Odio are friends?”

Dave shrugged “He did do a lot of good… even if it did involve blowing me up and letting me sleep in dirt for almost four months” he glared at Odio as the fog appeared to shrug

“It’s true that I have no friends, mainly due to them trying to kill me, but Dave has been the only one that has ever been the tiniest bit nice to me” Odio swirled around Dave as if he was giving him a hug “He is my B.I.T.C.H”

“I am not your bitch” Dave waved the fog away

“B.I.T.C.H stands for British Intergalactic Travelling Companion Human” Odio pressed Dave’s cheeks together “You are British, travelled across the galaxy, Human and my friend!”

Dave rolled his eyes “I am more Celestia’s companion than I am yours” he smiled as he attempted to pet the fog “It is good to know that you are back though”

“ARE YOU SERIOUS?” Celestia yelled as she pulled Dave away from Odio “He killed you remember?”

Dave nodded “Yeah but Odio had to kill me in order for some upgrades to take effect” Dave looked down at his body “That’s the reason that I came back and still have healing”

“Yes Princess Celestia, you may thank me for allowing you to spend eternity with the one you love” Odio floated smugly as he stared at the leering Celestia “Any time you want to say thanks… any time now, I’m in no rush”

Celestia groaned as she looked at Dave, she let out a long sigh before looking back at Odio “Thank you Odio for making Dave immortal”

Odio swirled happily “Oh you, there was no need to thank me” He chuckled as Celestia glared again “But you are welcome, now come on Dave we must be off” the fog began to float towards the door before Dave let out a loud cough

“Yeah, I’m not going anywhere” Dave scratched the back of his head “I am glad to know you are around and everything but… I have responsibilities now, I have a son”

Odio nodded “I know, that’s how I found my way back to Equestria, I left a tiny bit of me behind as a beacon” he floated onto the charred bed as he sighed comfortably “When your offspring got mad, the beacon was activated and allowed me to head straight for the changeling egg sack”

“You were that huge changeling!” Dave realized “No wonder you looked familiar” he tapped his chin as Celestia nudged him to a corner of the room

“Dave, can you please not seem so happy about this?” Celestia glared at Odio as he attempted to listen in “I know you like him but I don’t and I would prefer it if he wasn’t… inside you”

Dave’s smile faded as he glanced at Odio and then back to Celestia “Come on, he has done a lot for us” he smiled reassuringly “He wont bother us if we don’t want him too”

Celestia groaned as Odio began whistling “I want us to be a family, you, me and Nox” Celestia moved closer to Dave as he hugged her “I don’t want him ruining anything”

“I know it might be weird but I’m sure we can come to some arrangement” Dave stroked Celestia’s mane until she pulled herself away

“If you loved me then you would have told him to leave already” Celestia turned her back to Dave “I love you, that’s why I didn’t vaporise Odio when he showed up”

Odio looked up at the mention of his name “I am right here you know”

Celestia turned back to Dave as she held back watery eyes “Do you want to be with me or do you want to be with Odio?”

Dave glanced at Odio before embracing Celestia in another hug “You, it will always be you” Dave pressed his face into Celestia’s neck as she wrapped her hooves around Dave’s neck

“Hold up” Odio pushed the pair apart as he turned to Dave “Are you telling me that you don’t want me to empower you? Push your potential to the max? Halo?”

Dave shrugged “Sorry dude” He walked past the fiery red eyes as he held Celestia again “But I love Celestia and I never want to make her cry again”

“What about me?” Odio floated closer “I can cry too!” Odio began making wining noises as sparks and embers shot out of his eyes “See this is emotion!”

Celestia nuzzled Dave’s shoulder as the human gave Odio a sympathetic shrug. The fog of hatred glowed crimson as he growled, his body shook with rage as he saw Celestia holding his only friend

Finally, Odio groaned in defeat as he began floating away, his eyes became dimmer as he floated out the door and through the castle corridors. Cadence and Nox came bouncing around the corner as they laughed playfully, they both stopped as the saw the giant fog in the centre of the corridor

“Oh no” Cadence stepped in front of Nox as she bared her teeth and lowered her horn “What are you doing here King Sombra?”

Odio shook his eyes “Who the fuck is King Sombra?” he growled, his eyes rolled as Cadence gasped and lowered her horn again

“What are you doing here Odio?” She snarled until Odio floated over her head “Where are you going?”

“Leaving” Odio spat “I have no time to mess with you or anypony else, returning to Equestria has been a complete waste of time!” the black fog continued for a few more meters until Dave appeared from around the next corner

“Wait, wait” Dave held his knees as he caught his breath “I had a talk with Celestia and she has agreed to let you stay on two conditions”

Odio stopped swirling as he glared at Dave “Alright what are these conditions?”

“One, you don’t use me as your personal taxi all the time” Dave waited as Odio hummed before finally nodding “And two, you don’t do anything that might split me and Celestia up or destroy Equestria”

“But I am lazy!” Odio groaned “lazing in your brain and coming up with diabolical schemes is all I am good for… well I do make a mean lasagne but that is besides the point”

Dave shrugged “It is either that or you will continue to be hated by everyone” he smiled as the fog parted and Nox ran into his arms “At least if you keep to these rules for a little while then you could earn Celestia’s trust”

“How many millenniums do you think I will waste trying to make friends with some princess?” Odio sighed, his eyes moved down to look at the grey colt in Dave’s arms, “This is your son I take it?”

Dave rubbed Nox’s mane as the colt giggled, “Yeah this bundle of joy is Noxporta, Nox for short,” Dave pointed to Odio “Nox, say hello to Odio”

“Umm… hey” Nox flinched as Odio raced closer and inspected him

“I was there when you were conceived!” Odio chuckled “Your mom moans a lot and your dad is extremely unlucky… but your name is interesting”

Dave frowned “What’s up with his name?”

“I learnt Google Translate” Odio hummed “I have a rough translation… did you name him?”

Dave shook his head “Celestia named him” he sighed as he tickled Nox into a laughing fit “I wanted Houdini”

“That would have better” Odio rolled around the corridor as he made way for Cadence “Hello princess of love, can I have a welcome back kiss?”

Cadence scowled at Odio before she stepped next to Dave “Why is Odio back and what is this about him staying?”

“Odio is responsible for making me immortal and for allowing me to spend time with Celestia” Dave smiled at the giant black fog before he looked at Cadence “I heard something about a King Sombra”

“Oh… him” Cadence rubbed her hooves together “Just something we dealt with whilst you were dead” she looked down at her cutie mark “I ruled for a short time but the crystal ponies managed to get their old council to take care of things”

Odio groaned, “This King Sombra… you mistook me for him” He glanced at his fog before looking back at the pink princess “I don’t recall anypony being as beautiful as I am” he said with a small chuckle

“Basically you but he knew how to keep his mouth shut!” Cadence snapped

“Touchy” Odio swirled around the princess as he hummed “but let it be known that I was the original fog of hatred!”

“He was around a thousand years ago and enslaved the crystal ponies!” Cadence growled as she used her wings to flap the black fog away

“I was around a thousand years ago and I was responsible for Princess Luna turning into Nightmare Moon and for her being banished to the moon!” Odio cheered as he spun in the air “Checkmate!”