//------------------------------// // Nocturne // Story: Nocturne // by Nerom_Fencer //------------------------------// A noise woke me up. A noise? Now? Impossible! Its far to early. I opened my eyes. A faint light shone on the wall from the slightly open door. The stasis spell was broken otherwise I would not been awake now. I tried to move but was stuck in a forcefield. I knew it.. I groaned as the guard came into the room. Ugly fuck. Here to mock me again? Have it been ten years already? "Lucky day for ya prisoner." He mocked. Here we go again. "So how does it feel to be a free mare?" Wait what? "Free?" I asked. He nodded and put his demonic claws on the wall. Blue magical circuits shone lightly and I floated gently down to the floor. "We ave no official papers on it." He continued in his strange accent and his raspy voice. "But we ain't keeping ponies here for more then a millennium. Ah will show ya out. I tell ya som'thing never thought that I would let go of two prisoners in the same year least in the same week." He cracked. This got to be some trick or something! I tried a step, it was surprisingly easy to take. Must be the stasis. For being locked up with no movements whats so ever, had made my mane and tail grow but my muscles don't decay? I decided to stretch my wings at the spot. That was a little trickier but felt good at the same time. "Ready ta go go missy?" The demon pointed a claw behind him, I nodded. "Good ah just need tha do this then." He snapped his claws and a purple spark and a small silver ring was between them. "No need for this anymoré." He put away the ring and waved me out of the cell. I walked carefully not to step on my now really long scarlet mane. I really need to get that fixed. I like my mane shorter. He stepped up on a platform with a rune on it. "Shortcut! Hehe just a teleporta to tha inner gates." I stepped up on the rune marked platform. I could easily tell that from here. I was not unfamiliar with magic in any regard. The trip was instant I felt like I wanted to hurl but resisted it. "Lucky ya that ah'm here and not Tristro like on ya usual checkups. Big meany that one. Don't worry everyone feel like hurling the first time in those ones." He once again showed me the way this time to a red gate. It was quite big. He opened it with ease showing of the strength of a demon. Inside was a grand hall with a even bigger door guarded by a Cerberus. "Morning Kelly ya being a good girl?" One of it's heads barked. "Common now nah need to be afraid of little Kelly here if ya are with me." He said. We walked trough the grand hall to the massive gate, the guard was fumbling with some kind of spell. The massive gate opened up slowly and when it's was big enough to walk trough with ease it stopped. "There ya go. Keep to the left and ya can't get ya self lost." He pointed out in a dim lit cave. I did not hesitate to go I had spent far longer in the dark so another five to ten minutes will do no difference. When the door closed behind her, Kolman got a call. "Kol was it you that opened C6? Over" "Ya cap. wardens orders on letting that Nocturne pony go. Wha ya wondering? Over" Never usually use tha insta coms why now? "Just needed to know we had a breach in C7 five minutes ago. Just checking to see that we don't have more of a mess to deal with." "How many and what rank?" I just had tha ask didn't I. "Twenty all but five B rank and four A ranks." Better go help. "And tha last one?" "S rank. And ya not gonna like this. Its your brother." "Just my lucky day." I said out loud. "I'm coming tha help with him." I said into the com spell. "Secure that gate first, lock it to yourself and the chief." "R'ger that." I sighed and got to work. He better not clear that cave before I get there or it can be messy. Making it out of the cave was easy luminescent gemstones had littered the path and the cave was broad and wide to walk in. It was night when I first got the entrance, camping in the cave for the night was a good idea for now. Sleep did not come easy. "Well that's fun.. He..He he." I said to myself as I read, I was genuinely scared. What had scared me was the sign outside. [Warning Ursa cavern. The presence of a Ursa major dwell in this cave and extreme cation is advised. Issued by her majesty Princess Celestia.] I was outside the cave but the thought about a Ursa major might had slept in my way was a little nerving or becoming lunch in in my sleep. "He could at least had warned me about that." I muttered while I looked to the sky, to my left I saw a trail of smoke. It could mean ponies lived there or a forest fire. I bet on the first and set my way to it in a trot. Not yet confident in my wings to carry me. I better practice with these soon. You see being looked up for a millenia did have it's advantages especially when your powers in the field of magic still progresses during the time spent. So I bet you can guess now that I am in fact a Alicorn. Yes it's new to me to. Wait who am I'm telling this to? I shook my head "Never mind." I walk trough the forest for about an hour only glimpsing the smoke trough the cracks in the tree tops. When I cleared the forest I how to say? Stunned. The sight was not what I had thought at all. I had in mind a small town or village. What I got was one in flames. Houses was on fire, most of them already burnt down or crushed. I decided to go down to it. Somewhere in the back of my head something screamed at me to leave. The soldier inside me said otherwise. Another demon jumped me, this was the third one sines I got to the towns plaza. I looked around me as more of them surrounded me I counted seven, two of them where bigger than the others. I struck them down when they came as there is no law against killing demons. Turning them to dust. At least when attacked by them and so far I know. maybe a thousand years had changed that but they will pay anyway. Killing ponies was unforgivable in my book. Another of the wolf like demons jumped my and this time it tasted a hoof to its temple. Bucking them had kept them away so far but I knew that it would not last long. A shadow raised over me and I quickly looked back to see a big hunk of a demon make a throwing motion against me. I jumped away with ease thanks to my wings. A few white and blood red feathers was mixed in the dust from the throw. "Ah almost two with one throw." The flying demon cried in laughter. "Not so though now little one! Now are you?" To my surprise it came an answer from the dust cloud. "It's not that easy to kill me you son of a Woobajack." A blue blot of magic fired from the could an struck the demon in it's wing hurling it to the ground. The force of the shot had cleared the cloud and before me stood a small be winged bipedal creature. "Not so though." she mocked in a childish voice. "You there Alicorn you should get out of here." she said throwing me a glance. "I can fight and seeing what these demons did to this town I will not leave in till they are all dead." I said this as I sapped one of the demons with lightning effectively stopping its heart and it started to become a dust cloud. The girl smiled at me. So far I had not seen her eyes. "So i'm allowed to kill them? Well that changes everything!" She clapped once. "Time to wipe house." A unseen force kicked up dust around her, she raised her arms and quickly pointed them to the ground the paw like appendages on them standing outwards like she pressed the air around her. The seven demons that had surrounded me vaporized into dust. "Now for the big guy." She said. What in Equestria is she? "You get to that house I think there might be survivors there. I saw somepony slip into the cellar." She said this without looking at me. "And beware there is more of these demons out there." I just stared at her. "Go that building might collapse soon! It's not safe for that foal and whoever more is in there." She pointed at what I presumed was town hall. "Deal with that thing and get to me after then." I said no response. "And make sure it suffers for what it did." This time she nodded. "Roger that." She said with a smile. It felt bad somehow to leave the girl alone. I think its a girl anyway because of the voice. But did so anyway, this time I used my wings to get around quicker. I found the cellar entrance shortly there after and used magic to open it when I found it locked. Down there I could here a low whimpering as somepony crying but trying not to. The whole building cracked and whined. Not good this place is coming down soon. The faint sound of fire could be heard above. The whimpering became louder as I made my way into the dark. "Ohh sweet Luna" I looked away from the corpse in front of me. "Who do that to a dragon. Least It killed it's assailant." A small layer of demon dust covered parts of the corpse. Another whimper sounded almost next to me. I looked over to my right and saw a small unicorn filly pushing her dead mothers shoulder she was covered mostly by her mothers wing. She can't be older that. than? One, two tops. "Don't worry little one I won't hurt you." I said softly as I lowered myself to come closer. Nothing more intimidating that a big black and red Alicorn in the dark towering over you. The white filly sniveled. "Mommy no move." She said a hiccup between every word. Poor thing. "I know sweetie. Mommy won't move again... Are you hurt?" She shock her tear eyed head. "Good sweetie, now you need to say good bye to mommy it's not safe here." She looked at me for what felt like a hour or even more. Then she nodded and crawled out. Oh god. The filly was not a unicorn. "A natural born alicorn? If Celestia knew about this attack guards would be all over the place." I mumbled. A loud 'CRACK' made me swoop up the filly and rushing out the cellar. I barely dodged a falling support beam. Shity shit. "Great timing." The winged creature said as I stumbled up the stairs. She calmly walked over to the demon she had felled. It did not become smoke and dust. She went around the demon and it started to crumble. "Looks like the bigger ones don't become dust so fast more like a bristle stone." She crushed the demon with a light jab when she came back around. "Are they all gone?" I asked. I got a nod from her. "More demons came." She pointed to the plaza. "Guards they say. To be fair if I did not know that already I would had killed em." She fiddled with magic. "No more alive here. You two were lucky." The magical energy stopped. "I'm not from around. Means this little one is the only left." She took a look at the filly. "Natural born Alicorn? If Celestia knew I'm sure she would be here already can say the same goes for Luna.. Maybe." She said in her childish voice. Luna is back? "What will happen now? To her I mean." I asked. Silly question I know. "That's not really my problem seeing that I'm not a pony. Did not stop me before tho. I say you take her. I'm off to Canterlot, maybe they have records about her there seeing that she is a alicorn. That's a way to look for her family anyway." she said as she had taken an thoughtful stance. "I'm going there myself so that's will be no problem and seeing that Town hall here is crushed and burning. I think that's our best shot. How long to get there?" I asked, I did not expect an answer. "Three days in a slow flying phase, Five if you walk. Not that it matter to me I just need to be there before Saturday." She said. "So it's what day today? I have kinda lived in a hole for a while." She looked at me weirdly and the answered. "Sunday and if your going with me we go now. I had enough of demons for one day." She said and started walking. "This way to Canterlot by the way." This is the weirdest thing that ever happened to me in a long time And what is she anyway? Is it even a she? And is Princess Luna free and ruling again? Does this mean my plans are not needed? It felt like only time would tell and that was something I had gained much of. So I set of after the creature. That screaming in my head was back and I was starting to wonder if it warned me about her. I did not want to take my chances with the ''guard'' demons. Not with this filly with me. "Sir I have bad news. Over." I said trough the com. "Hit me." crackled the com. "All escapees are dead. Regulation 1.3.5 Sir." "Outsider? Well I have to say the ponies can fight." I sighed before establishing my speech on the com. "Not ponies. Som'thing else and Nocturne took em out. Called itself Angel. Me and tha boys did nothing. A whole town is lost." "Damn... Clean up and fall back I have some nasty paperwork before me. Darn enclave town why does you house ponies and dragonkin." The communication died. I sighed again. "All in a days work I guess."