A Lost Soul Returns: The King of Monsters

by Dark Star the Crazed

North Star the Astronomer.

Ana, Celestia, Mord, Twilight, and Fang all awoke to the sound of a scream. It had come from the room Sunset had slept in last night. The four alicorns and demon ran into the room and saw Sunset lying on the bed with her hooves over her ears. Celestia ran over to her daughter and nuzzled her. "Sunset everything is fine now I'm here you don't have to be afraid. Now tell me whats wrong."

Sunset uncovered her ears and looked up at her mother. "A-a group of eight, four ponies and four demons. They're going to massacre the other elements of harmony!" Her ears twitched and there was a small twinkle in her eye. "Wait... two of them just changed their- Nope the others talked them back into it. Gah he keeps changing his mind! " She then grabbed her head and began to scream again.

Twilight looked at Sunset with worry. "Sunset are you going to be OK?" She kept shaking but gave a slight nod. "Princess with your permission I would like to go and save my friends." Celestia just smiled and nodded. Twilight smiled and ran off with Fang following her. As soon as they were outside they took to the sky and flew to Ponyville. They then saw them. Four ponies, two unicorns an earth pony and a pegasus. The unicorns were black and blue, the earth pony was white and the pegasus was red. Each had a beige jacket on, each jacket had an image on it. From left to right the images emblazoned on the back of the jackets were a white tiger that had two tails, a black tortoise that had a black snake as a tail, a azure, serpentine, dragon that had a green frill around its head and a set of deer antlers, and a vermilion rooster who's tail feathers were every color of the rainbow. In front of them stood the other element bearers. Fang and Twilight quickly swooped down and landed next to their friends. They saw that all of the ponies were completely normal other than the jackets. There was no sign of demonic possession.

The blue unicorn stallion smiled. "Finally! I thought you were never gonna show up! Now we can kill all the elements and the king of monsters at the same time."

Fang just blinked. "Sunset said there were demons... Where are the demons!?" All of the jacket wearing ponies smiled, except the black one who's face remained neutral. The blue unicorn, who was wearing a top hat, took his hat off and levitated a card in front of his face. It depicted the same dragon that was on his jacket. The black unicorn reached into his jacket pocket and pulled out a card that depicted the black tortoise that was on his jacket. The white earth pony, he was wearing boots, pulled a card that depicted the white tiger on his back out of his front right boot. The red pegasus opened his wings to reveal he had a card that depicted the rooster on his back hidden in his feathers. They each took their card in their hooves and raised it high into the sky.

"Arise! Seiryu Of The East!" The blue unicorn's card glowed a bright white and flew up onto the ground. Slowly it turned into a statue. The stone cracked and fell away revealing the blue and green dragon that had been depicted on the card. It looked like it was big enough to curl around the library three times.

The red pegasus smirked. "Our turn! Come on out Suzaku!" He tossed the card into the air and it lit itself aflame before transforming into the vermilion rooster with a rainbow tail that it had depicted. It was the size of a house.

The white earth pony threw down his card and stomped on it. "Byakko! Get your lazy butt up now!" The card became surrounded by a whirlwind and a white tiger with two tails jumped out of it.

They all looked at the black unicorn who was just sitting now. He was looking directly at Applejack. He had a strange look in his eye. A mix of anger and sorrow. He began to shake and threw the card at the ground. A small whirlpool formed. "No! I refuse to let you hurt innocent mares! Genbu, make sure they don't harm the elements!" A black tortoise rose from the whirlpool. It had two heads. Then one of the heads grew long and lanky. It was a chimera made of a snake and a tortoise. Both heads had glowing red eyes. To the surprise of the ponies gathered the tortoise and snake nodded and shot a stream of water at the red rooster who let out a squawk and fell to the ground. Fang quickly took out one of his orbs and activated it trapping the rooster demon inside.

The red pegasus's mouth dropped open. "Suzaku! I-I'll find a way to get you out!" Fang simply released the demonic rooster. "W-what? I thought you hated demons! Why did you let mine out!?"

Fang smiled. "Because you can control it. Now I give you one of two options. One use your control over this demon for the good of Equestria like that black stallion who protected the elements. Two refuse, loose your demon forever, and go to prison." A knife flew past the head of the red pegasus cutting some of his mane off. "I wont miss if you try to harm Twilight or her friends directly."

The red pegasus gulped and looked at the other two ponies who were still uncertain on who's side they were on. "What do we do?"

The white earth pony smiled and looked his demon who nodded. "I think we should take the first option." Then they saw Fang activate his orb once again and watched as the dragon demon was sucked in.

The blue unicorn gave a growl and ran at Twilight. He was so fast that almost nopony saw the knife in his mouth. A split second before he struck Twilight with the blade Fang's lag blocked it and all the ponies watched as some of Fang's blood sprayed over Twilight's face. There was a small growl from Twilight who ripped the knife out of his teeth and bent the blade into an L shape with her magic. "You have three seconds to get out of our sight you piece of filth!" The blue stallion just laughed.

"Or what princ-!?" He was cut off when he received a hoof to the face. He blinked as Fang pulled his hoof away. He felt a small gap in his teeth and gulped down the tooth Fang had just knocked out.

Fang smiled at the stallion. "Leave or I will knock out the rest of your teeth, one at a time, and feed them to you." All the mares gathered blinked and thought for a second. Sadly they could see Fang doing that to the pony even if he wasn't angry. The blue unicorn gulped and ran away before he lost anymore teeth. The four remaining stallions, Fang, Western Wind, the one who commanded the tiger, Southern Hospitality, the one who commanded the rooster, and North Star, the one who had the chimera, all laughed.

North star walked over to Applejack and smiled. "Just know it was you who caused me to refuse to harm you or your friends." He turned to walk away and Applejack saw his cutie mark. A constellation in the shape of an apple, the tip of the stem on the constellation as the north star.

Applejack pulled out her lasso and threw it around his neck before he could get away. "Now hold on a minute! Why is your cutie mark a constellation shaped like and apple?"

North sighed. "It is a constellation because I am an astronomer, one who studies the stars and the patterns Luna weaves with them. I just try to make new constellation in my mind when I look at the night sky. Not literally of course. It is shaped like an apple because... I honestly don't know I think the first time I 'made' a constellation it looked like an apple." He gave a shrug and continued to walk away when Applejack gave a small tug on the lasso making it tighten around his neck slightly. "Yes?"

Applejack had a slight blush on your cheeks. "I-If y'all don't have a place to stay... We got a spare bedroom at the farm. That is if you help around the farm." North gave a small smile.

"That sounds nice." He levitated the lasso of his neck and looked at his demon who nodded with both its heads and turned back into a card. The card then flew into his jacket pocket. "What would I have to do?" The unicorn and the earth pony walked away from the group. "Planting, cooking, dishes, feeding and cleaning the animals?"

"Well ya could just do apple bucking instead." Aj gave a smile. Then she frowned at the confused look on his face. "It's what my family calls harvesting time. We call it that because we buck the apple trees with our hind legs to knock the apples down."

North Star smiled at this explanation. "Now that makes sense."

Applejack looked at his jacket. "Ah just have to ask... How do you control that turtle?"

North smiled. "Did you have an imaginary friend when you were a filly Applejack?"

Applejack nodded. "Yeah when I lived in Manehatten I used to always imagine a small little thing that looked like one of Santa Hooves elves cleaning my room. Weird huh?"

"That was possibly a Brownie. A demon that only the young, extremely old and in touch with their inner child can see... You still see him don't you?" She nodded. "Anyway I grew up on the streets and that's where I met Genbu. In a small cardboard box beside the apartment building where a Mister and Misses Orange resided. They would occasionally give me some food when they saw me."

Aj's eyes went wide. "Now I remember where I've saw ya! Mr and Mrs Orange are my aunt and uncle. You were the colt who was always such a mess despite living in the upper part of Manehatten weren't you? I always thought you were just a wild child!"

North gave her a pearly white smile. "I was. That's why ponies kept sending me back to the orphanage until I ran away. Genbu helped me find a place to keep warm and I gave him a little bit of the food your aunt and uncle occaisonally gave me. We have been friends ever since."

Aj smiled at him then looked ahead. "Well here we are! Sweet Apple Acres." She watched as North walked over to an apple and plucked it off a tree before trying to smash it. "Hey we gotta sell those!" His horn glowed and the apple lifted up and turned forty five degrees. There was a worm hole. "Oh... OK you can smash it." He promptly did so and half of it flew into the air and landed on his muzzle. The two ponies shared a laugh before going to the farm house and Aj explained that North would be staying with them for a while. Luckily Granny Smith was asleep.