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// II. 3 imps  
// Story: Fiend of the Apples 
// by Eon Seb 
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	The girls blinked as Murphy was knocked over by - A group of foals?! "Hey kids, can you get off my lungs please?"
The fillies quickly jumped off him after that, looking a tad sheepish.
The three spoke in unison as they apologized "Sorry boss".
At first, the girls had thought the CMC had ran in but once they saw the fillies clearly, it was obvious they were new - oh and they all looked like alicorns! This, coupled with the fact that they and Murphy were speaking in a language that made all of them nervous, just hearing it made them cautious.
After several minutes of listening to them talk in a strange guttural language, Twilight cleared her throat to gain their attention "Hem, Hem"
Murphy's head jerked up before he looked back at the girls "Children, turn around and introduce your selves to these young ladies."-
The 3 fillies turned to face the girls and quickly went quiet, realizing just who was in the room with them. After a moment of silent staring,	Murphy intervened "Right this little one on the left is Molly" The filly was pink with green eyes and a purple mane, she waved a hoof to the girls with a cute smile on her face.-
"Next is her younger sister, Hellfire"- this filly was red with a flame colored mane and blue eyes with black sclera, and she was glaring at Twilight-
"Last is their sister Moon" - This one was almost too familiar  to the girls. She was black with a lavender mane and light blue eyes she looked like.
"Wait Moon? As in Nightmare Moon?!" Twilight was just staring at the fillies in bewilderment.
The black filly grinned at them. It was a strange blend of condescending and cute "Did you really think I was gone? I am the queen of shadows. You can't kill me that easily."
As the girls eyes widened in horror, she continued-" Yes, I'm back and I will have my revenge! AH HAHAHAHAHAHA HA, Ha, Ha, ha, ha," she trailed off and fluttered to the ground (from where she had flown up to seem bigger), her eyes drooping the next moment she toppled over snoring softly.
Murphy just shock his head "I told you not to try flying yet. It takes too much energy. You 3 are lucky you can stay up here at all." The girls stared as he put Nightmare on his back.
Fluttershy spoke up "W-what did you mean about them being lucky?" Shy had a desire to care for all creatures even though she knew they were not safe. She did not want to imagine anything happening to the young, even demonic young.
Murphy's face became downcast  "Most demons were wiped out more than 1000 years ago by the sisters. I'm the leader by default as the oldest and strongest left alive." The girls were staring at him in shock again before he elaborated "I will be honest with you. My  purpose is to care for the young of my kind and, due to the fact that we feed on negative energy, most of them are stuck in the spawn pit to stay healthy." He stopped to let them  process this information, and wait for any more questions.
The girls were taking their time to process the fact that the princesses had basically committed a near- genocide. They knew, intellectually, that the demons were and would always be evil. But it was hard to think of any reason to try and wipe another race out. Not wanting to think on this too much right now, Twilight looked at the red filly "Why are you glaring at me so much?"
"Because you hit me with a giant rainbow of friendship. I have to go through puberty a second time now!"
Twilight had to take a step back (both literally and mentally) to recognize this pony, of course the last time they met she was trying to make an army of teenagers. "Sunset? W-what happened to you?" What had been done to her friend to create the monster before her?
The demon pony grinned "I'm not Sunset anymore. That little wimp is still on the other side of the mirror. I am Hellfire Shimmer, the imp of magic."- here, her grin became playful-"but don't worry. I have years before I'll become strong enough to do anything to you and, with the power the tree gave you, I'd have to be quite stupid to try anything now."
"Hey" -the pink filly jumped up- "Leave Moony alone. Why do you two have to fight all the time?" She looked close to tears at this point.
Fluttershy scooped her up without thinking "don't cry" The next moment, she dropped the filly with a neon blush after she felt a hoof somewhere it should definitely not have been.
She turned to apologize to see a look on the filly's face more at home on an adult pony who had drunk a little too much cider. "Aw, you dropped me on my rump." Her eyes went big and teary again "Kiss it better, please?"
Fluttershy took a half step forward before her brain stalled, realizing what she was about to do.
Murphy was unamused. 'Molestia! No traumatizing our new neighbors. If we want to live in this town, we have to behave, so that means no molestation."-he turned to look at Hellfire- "No hypnotizing"- Finally he cast his gaze on Nightmare who was just waking up. " and no night-terrors . At least not where they can find out" The 3 fillies bowed their heads in shame before apologizing. The girls were still stuck on the name of the last filly however.
"What the samhill kinda name is Molestia?"
Molly turned to face the girls "I was separated from Celestia centuries ago, I'm all the things about herself that  she locked away. Now, she doesn't have to hide them because they aren't there anymore and I get all those emotions from her to feed on. That is why we can leave the pit; because we have a direct line of negative energy from our counter parts "
Twilight was rebooting her mind, trying to connect the dots between this, this pervert and her mentor. Meanwhile, AJ remembered one of his earlier comments "Wait. What did ya mean by new neighbors?"
Murphy's smile could have made paint dry. "I just bought the house  down at the end of Mane Street  I managed to collect enough negative energy that I don't have to live in the pit anymore and I can set up a portal to home from there so get used to seeing us around, girls. Now, children lets go get the new house set up and get you 3 enrolled in school."
The demonic family left, uncaring of the utter brain malfunctions they had caused the 6 greatest heroes of Equestria(who, when their brains rebooted, were going to be getting to the bottom of this mess one way or another).

It took 3 weeks for things to go back to 'normal', but things had been quiet after the new family moved in. Murphy found himself as the only stallion at a meeting for single parents at the school through which he met Berry Punch, Ditzy Do and Love Tap. The girls had checked up on him several times, but no problems in town could be linked to them. However, the short-lived  altercation between Murphy and the Flim-Flam Brothers was still talked about. No pony had ever seen a unicorn bucked through a wall before. Even Twilight could not find any fault in what Murphy had done this time.
The next major incident involving the new family happened when the town bullies picked on the only filly of the trio to act nice. After making her cry, they were told to apologize, and were gone for an hour. When they got back, they proceeded to apologize to every one of their former victims (including and especially the Cutie Mark Crusaders) before solemnly promising to never bully again. They had been model students after that. The girls knew something had happened, but they had no proof so they sat and waited.
The only other major incident involved Scootaloo's parents who, after a conversation with Murphy, sent her to live with her cousin Ditzy. When confronted, all he said was "I simply made my displeasure of the way they were treating their child quite clear to them. I have no idea why they now seem afraid of cacti?" His face was so deadpan that no one believed him, but you can't arrest some one for talking. Even with all these changes things were slowly getting back to normal in town.
Until one day when Twilight received a very strange journal.