“Demon’s run when a good pony goes to war.” I mumbled looking over a trench. The fire bunnies were coming and at thousands more, just like I had guessed. “Night will fall and drown in the sun.” I pressed a switch as the bunnies reached a certain point causing bricks of gems to explode ripping apart hundred of bunnies in seconds. Then lines of brick gems exploded wiping out thousands of them.

“Commander!” Spear shouted running over to me.

“No need to yell.”

“Over two thirds were wiped out, about half of the remaining bunnies are injured and then the last bit is still running.”

“You know what to do.”

“Yes sir.” He ran off yelling in a microphone. “THROW!” Ponies started to throw the generates.

“When a good pony goes to war, friendship dies, and true love lies. Night will fall and the dark will rise, when a good pony goes to war.” I looked up as Dash launched a double rain boom making me duck a little as she wiped out most of the remaining force. Fire bennies got to the trenches attacking the soldiers.

“HOLD FAST!” Applejack shouted bucking a burning fire bunny. I caught one and broke its neck. I sliced several more running by me.

“Demons run, but count the cost, the battles won, but the filly is lost.”(By Steven Moffat. From Doctor Who. Which this story was inspired by!!!) I got out of the trench and looked around at the slaughter field. I crushed a bunny under my foot and looked past the trench. Not a single fire bunny had gotten pass. In my world they had burned down Filly Delphia, it was later replaced with New Filly Delphia.

“Seffron.” Applejack said and I looked at her.

“Yeah?”

“We have a few injured, but no deaths, we have medics working on them now.”

“Good, and good work on the battle strategy.”

“Well I figured if you can mold gems, why not make them in useful shapes that will do even more damage, but I only thought of the positions to put them because of Bouclier. He’s really a good commander.”

“And young, best kinds. He’s hit the books more than the other two. At this rate he’ll be your second in command, commander.”

“Wait you’re going to make me commander?”

“You’re already commander, I’m just here because you want training. Once you have trained forces and they are able to train more forces, I'll be working on other projects. This alone proves you didn’t need me to do anything but weapons.”

“I guess, but I’m not nearly ready for that.”

“No great commander is, the ones that think they are aren’t great.” I smiled. “Anyway, we should get clean up and back home, isn’t that right Lilly?” I pet her on my shoulder, she was blind folded.

“You know I don’t like, that I’m blindfolded.” I chuckled.

“Well I couldn’t leave you at home, now could I? Miss burn down one of Applejack’s storage barns.”

“T’was my fault.” She said looking down. Applejack laughed, and I smiled. “But I can’t stand this blindfold, it’s annoying.”

“You really want to see a bunch of dead bunnies?” She bit her lip.

“No.” She said sadly.

“Then don’t take it off little filly.”

“Hey.” I kissed her head.

“So any other things we need to know about?” Applejack asked. I looked up at the clear blue sky.

“Today’s a great day really.” I sat down. “I have nothing planned, I just keep getting dragged into thing after thing. Getting a little tired of working nonstop. I want to go screw around for a while.”

“We are near a large city.” She nodded toward Filly Delphia. “I’m sure they would have something to do.” I chuckled. “Not what you want?”

“Yeah.”

“Guys!” Dash landed sliding through a bunny corpse making me laugh as a disgusting sound of her sliding to a halt made Applejack gag a little.

“What was that?!” Lilly asked turning a bit green.

“Ewwwww!” Dash yelled and went over rubbing her hooves off. I fell back laughing too hard. “Shut up, that’s not funny!”

“Yes it is.” She shivered a little bit. “What’s up?” I asked grinning.

“The troops were wondering if we were going to be able to go into Filly Delphia or what?”

“After clean up,” Applejack said. “We can’t just leave bunny bits around.” She started to laugh and Dash frowned. We all started to laugh and Dash rolled her eyes. “Though with cha sliding through them, I don’t know how that’s going to happen.”

“Well yeah, I meant after.”

“When’s the next things?” Applejack asked serious now.

“Nothing happens for three months around here, the next thing is in Canterlot in about two days, but that can be handled by Twilight and the Princesses. It’s a simple thing that we wouldn’t be able to do much about, just that some gem explodes and causes the castle to fall off the mountain. Then the.”

“What!” Both of them shouted.

“What do you mean what?” I asked confused.

“Canterlot get’s destroyed!” Applejack yelled.

“No, just the castle part, no one dies.”

“You don’t see that as a bad thing?” Dash asked.

“Not really, no.” Both of them sighed. “Well I mean I guess it can be stopped if we remove the gem, but I’m not sure if Celestia will go for that.”

“Why not?” Applejack asked.

“Well it can only be removed by using the blood of an aged phoenix, her bird is the only one around which we could use to do that, and it would kill it. Removing it any other way will cause the gem to explode.”

“We should go there and talk about this,” Dash said. “Maybe find another way.”

“It’s a dark gem, you can’t just remove them, they explode after a while, but they offer a great amount of power when you need it. Celestia also knows about it.”

“Teleport us right now.” Applejack said and I sighed. I pulled out a coin and flipped it teleporting us to the gates, Lilly took off her blindfold. The guard saluted us as we went to the throne room.

“Seffron, Dash, Applejack.” Twilight said looking at us. Celestia was on her throne.

“How is it going with the fire bunnies?” Celestia asked.

“We won.” Dash said.

“Oh, is clean up not going well?”

“Yes mam,” Applejack said. “We were just worried because some gem was going to explode here.”

“Yes I was informed about it, and I agree it seems to be about to explode. It is nearly unstable and I am having staff evacuate to a safe location in Canterlot. We will rebuild the castle after it explodes, of course it won’t be in the same location sadly. It will moved south to the old ruins, we will rebuild.”

“Is there no way?” Dash asked.

“I’m sure Seffron told you the only way, I will not use the blood of my pet to defuse it and save this castle, it is merely a castle, it can be replace. My pet’s life cannot be replaced, so I will not give it willingly. He has been my friend far too long to do that, it was my mistake for not removing the gem earlier when it was stable.”

“Wait a second, aren’t the ruins by Everfree forest.” I asked.

“Yes they are.” Twilight said.

“Oh that’s not nice.”

“What?” Dash asked.

“Okay let’s remove this gem.”

“I’m not giving you my bird.” Celestia said.

“Don’t need it, just a bit of your blood, Twilights and a lot of mine.” They all stared at me a bit confused. “Blood magic, if I give enough blood I'll stabilize it enough to teleport it to a safe location.

“I’m game.” Twilight said.

“Guard fetch a nurse please.” A guard ran out of the throne room.

“Wait so why didn’t you speak up sooner?” Applejack asked.

“This will hurt, I’m not just going to bleed blood, I’m going to bleed essence, but I would rather the princess not be within walking distance. In my world they moved more toward Neighagra Falls. Thought you would do the same.”

“Oh yeah.” Dash said and we all looked at her as she realized why I didn’t want it near my clay mines.

“What?” Twilight asked.

“Nothing, just remembered something, nothing important.” A nurse came and took a vile of each of their blood. She handed them me and I popped the viles drinking them making all of them stare at me.

“Sorry, I needed to get drunk for this.”

“You get drunk on pony blood?!” Twilight asked a little panicked.

“Of course, hello dragon that feeds on magic to live, you haven’t exactly seen me eating in my weight class have you? Also it’s not just any pony blood, you two are extremely powerful, so your blood is heavily enriched. Now to the stone please.”

Celestia got up leading us out to the gardens and she moved a bush showing a black stone in a time dial. I went over to it and chuckled a little. I took Lilly off my shoulder and handed her to Applejack and she took her.

“What now?” Twilight asked.

“Stand back,” I growled. “This is rotted world ground.” They all backed up at my dark voice as it made everything darken around me, as if the light was being shaken. I slashed my throat spilling my blood onto the stone and after a few second it stopped pouring becoming a green glowing mist getting sucked into the stone.

I growled as pain coursed through my body. Glowing green magic symbols appeared across my body writing through my scales into skin making them back up more. The ground withered around me, and I grasped the time dial’s edges as my throat healed shut.

My eyes turned green pouring glowing green blood from them. I stepped back away from the dial burning the ground with green fire, with each step, I fell to my knee breathing out ash as my inside burned. Spikes ripped out of my back spraying the ground around me with my blood, starting it on fire on contact with my blood.

“What do we do?” Twilight asked. I got up and pulled the stone from the dial smiling at it shivering a little.

“Such a beautiful gem, this could rot so many, perfect for a dead army.” My mouth watered. “Such tasty vermin, you’d hardly think you ponies were worth the trouble, dying so easily and tasting so good.”

“Seffron come back!” Lilly said and I looked at her scared hiding behind Applejack’s leg, cowering. I looked around and all of them were scared of me to some extent, Celestia looked like she was ready to fight with Twilight and Dash.

“You can’t hear the song?” I asked grinning as I carved off my rotting face.

“Seffron!” Applejack shouted. “You’re scaring Lilly!”

“But, she can.” I reached out and Dash moved in front of Applejack shaking.

“Seffron, stop, do not attack Lilly!” Dash shouted at me. I stepped back shaking my head a little bit.

“But I could do so much worse than just hurt her, she.” Dash swallowed. “Oh my.” I growled lightly making the ground rumble. “I'll.” I sighed. “Oh how you understand so little Dash, I'll feast on you soon enough.” I grinned ripping my cheeks. “So soon.”

“Stop!” Twilight shouted. I fell to my knee as my shin shattered from rot.

“Delicious thoughts, cannot be acted on in this condition.”

“Give me the stone.” Celestia said.

“This sad excuse for evil.” I held it up looking at it. “It dare not compare, I’ve.” I punched the ground. “Cannot say that.”

“Give it to me.”

“But it reminds me of home.” My neck snapped tilting my head.

“Give it now!”

“Daddy please!” Lilly shouted and I dropped it, Celestia caught it teleporting away with it. She appeared a few seconds later and she looked up.

We all looked up and it exploded making the sky glitter beautifully. I took in a breath of air and my bones repaired instantly. The fire died, but the ground didn’t heal, everything within a few feet of me was dead, and wouldn’t grow anything for hundreds of years. I got up and they tensed.

“I hate doing that.” I snapped my neck healing it correctly. “Always hurts and brings out the best in me.”

“The best?” Twilight asked. I fell back into the sun dial as my body lit ablaze burning away all the symbols and renewing me. I fell forward throwing up blood which evaporated instantly once it hit the ground.

“Such annoying creatures, the living.” I breathed out a blackened blue fire cleaning my system the rest of the way. I got up and shivered cracking every bone in my body. “Always suffering without reason.” I growled as my body normalized going back to before I had dealt with the stone. I walked forward and Celestia backed up a little bit.

“What?” She asked nervously.

“I am going to pass out.” I blacked out, I didn’t even feel her catch me, nor did I feel the ground.

I opened my eyes looking around a hospital bed, then sat up. Dash and Lilly were asleep together next to my bed. I smiled a little bit and then frown. I had forgotten for only a moment how good it felt to be evil, such a thing was rare and wouldn’t happen again.

“You’re awake.” Twilight said and I looked at her.

“Hello.”

“You evil or something?”

“Evil?” I chuckled lightly. “Come closer my dear.” I smiled and she gulped. She came closer to me. I rubbed her neck a little bit making her gasp as I made her body radiated pleasure, she fell onto the bed breathing a little hard. “Does that answer your question?”

“Y-yes.” She got up blushing.

“Now can I ask you a favor?”

“Ah, sure?”

“Can I have more blood, I haven’t felt that good in decades.” She stared at me for a few moments and looked around.

“I guess.” She reached for a needle and I pulled her close to me. “Wait what are you doing?”

“I won’t take too much.” I bit into her neck lightly making her wet herself. Unlike most blood sucking creatures I did it with style, I made my victims feel good while I drained their live away. I stopped and she stepped back breathing hard. I licked my lips feeling the effects completely wash over my body.

“That didn’t hurt.” She said

“Of course not, I wouldn’t hurt you over blood. Thank you, that felt really good.” She blushed a little.

“Um, excuse me.” She went off.

I looked at Lilly, I had let it slip from my mind that power tasted good, I was going to have to teach Lilly plenty to get her really powerful and taste just perfect. I picked up Lilly and she kicked a little bit as I set her on my chest wrapping her up in my blanket.

She nuzzled me a little getting comfortable again. She licked her nose a little and she stretched a little. She was simply darling, I had taken care of filly’s before, but this was the best one yet, and I hadn’t intended to do it.

“Morning.” Dash said.

“I think it’s afternoon, how long did I sleep?”

“Just the rest of yesterday, last night, and then to now. Not more than a normal amount of time to sleep, I guess.”

“Yeah, and the clean up?”

“Finished a few hours ago, Applejack sent word. They are moving back to Ponyville to keep training.”

“That’s good.”

“Oh the factory was finished.”

“What?!” I sat up.

“Yep, one minute to the two week mark to, they are now steaming toward the one month mark on the foundry.”

“That’s wonderful!” Lilly snapped up looking at me half asleep. She yawned showing a surprising sight, sharp teeth and K-9’s. I groaned not happy, she had tasted dead fire, at some point a drop of my blood had entered her mouth.

“Hey daddy.” I opened her mouth waking her up all the way. “What are you doing?” She asked confused.

“Did you burn your lips or anything?” I let go of her mouth.

“What’s up?” Dash asked now interested.

“Yes, a tiny bit of your blood hit my tongue when spikes shot out of your back.” My head hit the bed board breaking it.

“Damn it.”

“What’s wrong?” Dash asked.

“She tasted dead fire, she just became an omnivore. She can now eat meat, like of animals. She also just became an extremely powerful meal to several creatures. She’ll be hunted as she matures.”

“I don’t understand.”

“Dead fire is rare, only the dead get to eat it normally. When I fought the Lich I ate a lot of it and infused it into my body. It allowed me to become extremely powerful. It would make your Celestia look like a candle compared to me. It was because of that I was able to kill the tree of life in my world. I still have a heavy amount of it dormant in my body.”

“Okay, but why would that make her a meat eater?”

“It changes whatever creature to its greatest form. You ponies have a weakness of not being able to eat meat. One bad winter can wipe you out, meat eaters live till nothing is left alive. I am used to it because I’m a dragon, she on the other hoof.” She licked her teeth a little bit and smiled.

“So, she’s more powerful?”

“Basically yes, when she grows up she’ll be more powerful than Celestia. She’ll also be dangerous for me to be around. She’ll be a tasty little snack to me, or at least smell that way, and taste that way.” I kissed her head.

“You won’t eat me right?” Lilly asked and I licked her neck.

“When did you decide to call me daddy?” She paused and looked away.

“Well, you’re my daddy.” She looked at me shyly. “I also ain’t got a daddy, and you act like one.” I hugged her and she smiled.

“I wouldn’t eat you, maybe just a little nibble.” I blew into her belly making her giggle. She curled up a little.

“That ain’t funny!” I chuckled.

“I see someone’s awake.” Celestia said walking over to us smiling.

“Yep, and my factory building is done, I have work to do.”

“Are you safe? That gem had a lot of darkness gathered into it.”

“Please if darkness could affect me I would be a different dragon, I would’ve bottle fed my filly dead fire.” Celestia’s eyes went wide. “A drop burned her tongue, she is going to have a hard live ahead of her.”

“That’s not good, I wish I knew, I could have cured her in the first hour.”

“Yeah, good to know in the future, anyway it doesn’t matter now, I'll deal with her, my cooking will slate her, and my blood will fill her.”

“She’ll become extremely powerful if you do that, feeding on dragon blood, especially your blood is like drinking magic energy.” I chuckled a little, hers was the same to me, and would be to Lilly in a few years.

“Anyway, it doesn’t matter now.” I sighed and Lilly looked a bit confused. “I’m going to rest for a while longer, maybe a day or two, then get back to it, I have around a few days from now before the Rat Race, and a day before the goblin army attack on Los Pegasus.”

“Rat race?” Dash asked. I hadn’t told her about the rats, we had been getting ready for the goblins for the most part.

“Yeah, huge rats racing, Vanhoover is right in the middle of the race, and they’ll kill a lot of pony if we don’t stop them. So, Dash will you take Lilly home, I don’t want to have to protect her while I sleep.”

“Come on Lilly, he needs to sleep.” She put her onto a bag on her back and walked out of the room.

“I assume it’s fine with me staying here a while longer.”

“You did save this castle, so yes you can. Just don’t have me wake up with you about to kill me or something.” We both chuckled lightly. “Anyway, sleep well, I have to go lower the sun now.”

“Alright.” She left and I fell asleep.