Author's Notes:
Thanks to Deadinlight for beta-reading and helping me edit
Post Common Era Chapter Nineteen/War of Stars Chapter Fifteen: Corruption
Masao sat in front of a worried Princess Celestia, she had heard about the attempt on Masao’s life and was worried that her ponies would try to attack their long time allies, she was also worried about Willow Leaf, if the news she heard was to believed, Willow Leaf was communicating with a god of chaos.
“There is nothing I can do about this, we have to trust her not to fall to chaos” said Masao as he avoided mentioning that he had been talking with a god of chaos for a long time now…
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“H͢ave͠ ̕you ̢dec̡i̶ded ̕m̧o̵ŕt͜a̧ĺ? Ha҉ve̴ ͏y͝ou͏ ̸d͜e̴c̷ided̵ ̸t̡o҉ ͟ser̕ve ́t͢h͟a̢t ͟w͡hi̕ćh͟ is̷ ch̨áo̶s͏?͠”
“Will you let me live my life in peace? Will you let me love Masao and be with him until the end of his days? If so I will give you the lives of all the foes I slay”
“D҉o̷n͝҉̴e̸͞”
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“Well, this is interesting, last time a pony willing served chaos was when I was in control of Equestria” said Discord as he floated in on a pink cloud Willow Leaf was standing over a black eight pointed star burnt into the ground panting.
“Oh shut up” said Willow Leaf as she looked at the draconequus, her eyes now bloodshot from the pain of having her soul itself branded with the mark of Chaos.
“Now why should I do that, if anything you fall under my command, what being a servant of Chaos on Equis. So what should I—”
“I serve Khorne, and my heart, I will never serve you Daemon”
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“You did what?” asked Masao as he swallowed, he was used to hearing the promises of a chaos god and ignoring it, but to learn that one of the mares he loved had just given herself over to a set of beings that reveled in bloodshed and in chaos itself. While granted it wasn’t illegal as Celestia encouraged freedom of religion, Masao was worried that Khorne would ask her to kill the citizens of Equestria or…
“I am now a servant of Khorne, sort of, he will let me live my life in peace, as long as I give him the lives of the ones I kill in combat” said Willow Leaf calmly she had spent the last few hours thinking of how to defend herself from Masao’s line of questioning.
“You know he can demand you to kill anypony in his name! I told you everything I knew about him! He is the only Chaos god besides Slaanesh that is purely evil! So why would you tie yourself to him?”
“For you, you said you corrupted your soul for immortality, and I don’t want you to go through the loss of a loved one again! You said, you lost me twice before, well now I can’t die. And no he can’t, that was part of the deal, he leaves me alone and the ones that I kill go to him”
“So what is it? The ones you kill in combat? Or the ones you kill period?” challenged Masao but what happened surprised him, he expected her to either get upset and attack him, or for her to run off, instead she just asked him a simple question.
“Does it matter?”
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“by darkness done, by light undone, by light done, by darkness undone, push and pull, pull and push, GRAVITY” said a dark mage her horn glowing with a black green light as she summoned a gravity field that pulled her opponent away, her eyes were cerulean and her fur was light blue and her mane and tail a bright pink, on her back was a cloak reminiscent of Trixie’s except it was black rather than purple.
What made her unique was the fact she was blind, evident by the sunglasses she always wore.
“Why don’t you BURN!” she suddenly said as her opponent threw a magic bolt at her, she was one of the top mages that were taught in Celestia’s School for Gifted Unicorns, she also was one of four students in her entire year that chose to practice dark magic, the others chose to stay within the confines of light magic, she scoffed at her former classmates, she knew real power and she didn’t hesitate to use her magic to attack the foolish Twilight mage that thought it could face her on equal grounds, she had a personal mission and that was to be the best dark mage in the world, and that meant doing things that the law would never permit. Though she counted her good graces that the royals hadn’t taken an interest in her, as she would never had… No she probably would be stronger had she been taken an interest on, but then she would have to move on after she learned everything there was for Prince Masao had to teach.
“Feel the lightning creep!” that was all the warning she got before a bolt of lightning struck her quickly erected shield. She extended her magic field to ‘see’ farther and noticed another mage near by, and she grabbed the twilight mage with her telekinesis and threw her into a wall before she teleported out of the area, her magic field granting her some semblance of barings…
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“I object!” Minder Three scowled at a council member. What did this pompous windbag want now? He had dealt with them for several months now. While, yes, they had dropped their request nay, their demand, for Prince Masao to return to Earth but when he had mentioned their magic, something the soldiers could have cared less about, the council started to demand unicorns for their forces, something about controlling the very forces of nature, funny seeing as it was pegasi that controlled the weather.
“What is it this time?”
“You told us that you could get us unicorns, and now you are saying that—”
“First off I never said I would get you unicorn, all I said was that I would attempt to talk to Princess Luna about a military exchange program, and she said she was fine with it, as I was saying”
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She finally stopped teleporting as she came to a familiar wall, it was the wall that separated the royal family from the rest of Canterlot, with a slight spell she change her pink mane and tail with a light blue one and her fur to a darker shade before she snuck in and made her way to the maid quarters and getting into her uniform.
“Hey! Shadow Eyes!” said her fellow maid, making her jump, “Oh! Sorry! I forgot you can’t see…” putting on a fake smile Shadow Eyes turned around and ‘looked’ at the offending party.
“That wasn’t nice Ivory Wings”
“Yeah… Sorry…” said Ivory Wings, like her name implied she was ivory color her mane and tail included, Shadow Eyes started to head to her day job as it was called cleaning when Ivory Wings spoke up again startling her once again. “OH! Prince Masao said when you showed up to let you know he wanted to see you, he didn’t say what”
“Thanks, I’ll head there right away” No she wasn’t she wasn’t going to risk running into the Prince of Dark Mages, so she rushed her way out only to walk right into the very man she was trying to avoid.
“Ah, Shadow Eyes, I was looking for you, the Princesses and I would like a word with you”