A few days after the assassination of Blueblood, all of the ponies around me been more tense but some seem somewhat happy that he is now dead. Still the royal that sent me to do the deed have not hold the other end of the deal. So I took my time reading the books at Twilight’s tree, and answering very vaguely on what Daisho can do.
“So can he breathe fire or not?” Twilight asked me.
“Yes, he create flame” I answered “two different types”.
“Two different kinds of flames? what are they?”
“This will be my last answer for the night, green flames and purple. The green can heal, while the purple burn and restricts healing”.
“How is that even possible?”
“I don’t know, but that's enough information”
“You still never answer my questions with much detail” Twilight responded in frustration.
“There are still things you should not know until it actually comes” I said while opening the door, making sure Daisho wouldn’t slide off my back while he sleeps.
Stepping outside, it was clear I been there longer than I wanted as it was several hours into the night. Continuing down the path towards the forest where I have set up camp slightly deeper inside. I kept down the path while keeping an eye out for any danger.
“Must be getting paranoid” I muttered
“You are indeed very tense” a voice came from above me
I looked up and saw a dark blue alicorn coming down to land next to me, “what you want with me?”
“I am Princess Luna, and I am holding my end of our deal”
“I wondering if I had to go hunt you down or not”
“I do not break my word unless is required. May I see the blade that killed him?’
“No”
“What reasons do you have to deny?”
“It wasn’t easy for me to get a hold of them, one of them I dang near died to get it. Then again, I think that was the case for most of my weapons”
“I’m not going to take them away from you, or do you rather... show me your true form?”
“Wait ,what?”
“I saw you transform right as you teleported, you do not need to hide from me”
“Not like your much of a threat to me, considering you ponies with the horns rely on magic a bit too much”
“I am the princess of the night, my powers are greater at this time. I can still put you in for the other crimes you have committed”
“I don’t think you want to go down this road, just ask me a thousand questions that I will answer vaguely or not at all” I said while lowering Daisho to the ground.
“Just answer this question with your full hon...”
“No” I said interrupting Luna as I saw something in the forest near us move.
“So you are just going to lie to me?”
I dropped my voice to a whisper, “get down and stay down”
“Why?”
Without putting in another word I shoved Luna aside, and threw one of my shurikens at the figure, then ran towards it.
Suddenly, a small green fireball came out near where I saw the figure and hit my front left leg, knocking me off balance and tripping.
“There are only a few things that can use fire like that, good guess being an imp”. I stood up, while my leg still partly in flames, I continued my run at the last spot I saw the figure.
More green fireballs started to come from the forest, but unlike the first, I was on guard, so I was able to dodge them left and right. Running around the nearest tree, I was hit by a small purple ball of energy, knocking me down.
“How in the world are you able to throw that shuriken, you don’t have hands” said a thick voice.
Moving my head to see what talked, I saw a short but hardy biped, with a long red beard and purple wings sprouted out of his back. Quickly as I saw him, the wings vanished.
“Unless my eye is failing me again, I have to say this is a welcomed surprise” I thought, “hold it, I thought you were something else”.
“I never seen something such as you, are you some sort of twisted horse?” the figure said.
I chuckled a little “no, I’m not one of them at all Krelas. I’m lucky I pulled this off at all”
Krelas’ eyes widen with realization, “I blew your cover didn’t I?”
“Not really, I lost part of it already, I don’t know how much is still intact”
“How you pull that disguise off, it seems so real...”
“Remember how I told you I once tried becoming a druid? well this is as much I could do”
“What was that thing you were talking to?”
As I was going to answer, Luna yelled “YOU TWO COME HERE”.
“Guess we better get out there before she wakes up the whole town, and try to keep any of that warlock thing hidden. I don’t think they know much at all about demons” I said to krelas.
“Ey, guess we better not keep the lady waiting”
Walking out of the forest with Krelas in tow, I noticed that Luna had some dirt on her from when I pushed her aside, “before you say anything, a little dirt doesn’t hurt anyone”.
“I don’t care about the dirt, its just that I don’t want you to go killing each other, especially when this one's intentions are unknown” Luna replied.
“you don’t have to worry about us killing each other lady, we already tried killing each other several times, never could succeed” Krelas said.
“You know each other?”
“We do, although we been rivals longer” I responded, “and um, how did you get here?”
“Most likely the same way you have, though we might have more coming along this time” Krelas said.
“So they are finally starting to try and take control of those ruins, and they sent you to scout out what was behind the portal?”
“Got it on the mark. They are saying you betrayed them”
“What is going on here? What ruins and what portal?” Luna asked with irritation.
“I really don’t know what created it, just that it ends with a portal that opens into the forest out there. Although I don’t think its two way”
“Hey Accel, I don’t know your relations with this, umm...”
“Pony” Luna said
“Umm yes, but I think we need to talk about what I seen in those ruins, or more so on the energy I felt”.
“Krelas, as much as I don’t like sharing information that can be critical, I think Luna here can keep a secret” I replied
“Alright if you say so. Back when I was in those ruins, especially near the end, I notice a faint hint of demonic energies. Very weak, but there”
“How long ago you think think was the last time anything step in there?”
“Hard to tell, but I don’t think it was some crazed warlock”
“I really hope they don’t have some connection...or all is lost here”
“There is plenty of magical energy here, maybe not”
“Don’t you remember... our home is the only place they failed to destroy, we have hardly anything left to defend ourselves now, not from them”
“What are you two talking about?” Luna asked
I turned to face Luna, “A massive and destructive force. Something that desires nothing but undoing life, The Burning Legion”