Fate Sealed in Ink

by DeadlyKDPonys


[2] Meet the Dancing Demon


Twilight and her friends arrived at Fluttershy's cottage, the Black and white creature still in Her magical grasp. Zecora had returned to her home to see if there was anything she could use to heal the creature. Twilight levitated it in while her friends closed the door and pulled the curtains over the windows. The alicorn looked around for place to lay down the creature. She looked over at Fluttershy. "Fluttershy, the table in kitchen, i think it's only thing long enough for this creature to lay on" The princess said. Fluttershy knew what her friend was gonna ask and knew the kitchen wasn't the best nursing place. The pegasus nodded in agreement.

"Ok, Twilight, just promise you'll put it back" She said. Twilight reasured her friend with a nod, then used her magic to pull the kitchen table to the main room. She put it in place and layed the creaure on it. Her friends surrounded the Table with concerned faces. Rarity was first to speak up. "I do have to give it credit, even if it is a strange creature, it has a nice sense of Fashion, even if it does lack color" She said. Everypony sighed from the fashonista's comment. Rarity look slightly hurt.
"I was only trying to make this situation a little more...Normal" She said. Twilight came into the main room with a med-kit.
"And we do apriciate it, Rarity, But please take this a bit more seriously" She said, putting the med-kit on the edge of the table. Rarity sighed.

"Anyways, can you girls help me find any injuries on it?" Twilight asked, staring to remove the creatures bow tie. Rainbow Dash quickly intorupted her. "You aren't suggesting that we're gonna disrobe it, are you?" She asked. Twilight looked confused at the pegasus, leaving the bowtie.
"Is there a problem with it?" She asked. Flutteshy went over to Twilight, a bit suprised at the question.
"Twilight, what if it's not comfortable with the fact that strangers just suddenly started disrobing it without its consent? That would be REALLY inpolite" She explained. Applejack, across the table was a bit confused at that.
"But isn't it ok for us? I mean we don't normally wear clothes" She said. Everypony heard Rarity gasp in her dramatic way, looking suprised at Applejack.

"Darling, We may be ok with no clothes, but we don't know if its ok with it! We don't know anything about it!" The Fashionista said. Applejack blushed slightly in emberressment realizing it. "Ok, yeah that would be really Inpolite" She said. Twilight sighed and lifted the creature slightly up. There were no stains on the Table.

"It doesn't look like it's bleeding" She said, laying the creature back down. Everypony was confused. "But by the trail it looked like it was bleeding its butt off. How come the bleeding would suddenly stop?" Rainbow Dash asked. Twilight thought about it carefully. Then remembered the ink was mostly thickend, indicating that it had been there for a while.
"Well, there is a chance that the bleeding stopped when we arrived. Remember the Ink was mostly thickend, meaning it was there for quite a while" Twilight explained. That raised a bit more questions.

"But, It looked like the injuries must have been big. Big injuries doesn't stop bleedin' just like that. Not to darken' the mood, but if it was in the forest for that long and still kept on bleedin' before we arrived, i think it would have been dead by now" Applejack said. Twilight began thinking again. This creature was indeed strange. However since they do not know anything of this creature, then they should avoid thinking about this in 'Equestria logic'...Twilight got an idea wich made things click.

"What if the creature managed to heal itself?" She said. The ponies began thinking about that. "Wait you're saying that it has magic like unicorns?" Pinkie pie asked. Twilight nodded. "Well not exactly like unicorn magic, maybe it's something else. It's just a temporary theory that make things more clearer for me. We'll probably find out more when it wakes up" She said, Sighing. "Or IF it wakes up" She finnished the statement in her head. She started to head towards the stairs.

"Twilight, where are you going?" Fluttershy asked. Twilight looked over at her friends, one hoof already on the first step.
"I'm a bit tired, that stress of finding and bringing a strange creature here has gotten to me. Let's take a break" She said, walking up the stairs. The girls looked at eachother, then shrugged and followed their friend. Fluttershy stopped.
"Angel!" She called for her bunny. Angel came bouncing over to his owner and she lowered her head to the Bunny's leves.

"Can you keep an eye on our guest here, please? I'll make you your favorite salad tonight if you'll do it" She said, smiling. As soon as she mentioned Angel's favorite salad he instantly agreed. He quickly jumped onto the table, keeping an eye on the creature. Fluttershy walked up the stairs.


Angel was still on the Table watching over this creature that is in his owner's house. The bunny could occasionly hear the ponies voices from upstairs. He doesn't really understand what's going on, and he wouldn't want to be part of it but atleast he's getting something good out of it. Suddenly Angel could've sworn he saw movement in his peripheral vision. He looked over at the creature, but saw nothing different. That is until its eyes snapped open and gave him a wink, wich gave the bunny a near heart attack. Angel, scared out of his mind jumped off the table and headed upstairs towards the ponies.

The ponies noticed Angel bouncing the final step in a panic and came over to Fluttershy, freaking out. Everypony could see the terror in his eyes. "Angel, what happen?" Fluttershy asked, concerned. All the ponies could hear were squeaks that Only Fluttershy was able to understand and her eyes widden. "You saw it do what?! You mean it's awake?!" She asked. Angel nodded furiously and gestured the ponies to follow him. The girls looked at eachother before quickly heading down the stairs. Only to find the creature in the same state as before. Everypony looked confused as they circled it to check for anything. Fluttershy looked at her Bunny. "Are you sure of what you saw? You're not pranking us, are you?" She asked in serious tone. The bunny, still frightened quickly shook his head.

Fluttershy looked over at the creature and walked closer. She didn't see anything strange, neither did her friends. But then thay saw it slightly twitch and startled the group. Then it evolved to hearing a voice...laughing. The creature was laughing. The mane 6 backed away in unison, they were starting to freak out. They hadn't prepared themselves on what to do when it woke up. The creature's laugh, what started as a low chuckle slowly became an almost maniacle laugh as it slowly started to sit up.

When it sat up at the table, its laughter started to calm down. It drew it's.....paw? Hand? through its black hair. "Oh dear, that was so hilarious. That was incredibly worth it, i haven't pulled a good prank in ages" It said. Its voice was that of a male, so the ponies assumed it's a Guy. Although, there was something about it--His voice that seemed.....Enchanting. He opened his eyes, reavling the irises to be pitch black. But for some reason, the same with his voice, his eyes also seemed enchanting.

Rainbow was the first to snap out of her state and quickly flew up the guy's face. "How long were you awake?" She asked. The creature smirked. He looked over at Twilight. "Ever since this Purple Pony lifted me up with her Magic" He said. Twilight was shocked to hear that. He was awake this whole time?! In fact everypony was shocked at that. The creature chuckled at the ponies reaction, and he could tell they were about to ask him why he didn't show it sooner.
"I would have given a sign that i was awake sooner, but i was curious to see how long you little ponies could take it. I got to say i was pretty impressed with how you dealt with the situation....and entertained by a certain 'near misscomunication'" He said, snickering.

It took the Mane 6 a while to understand what he meant, but once they did all their faces turned burning red. He was awake when Twilight suggested to disrobe him. Said pony shoved her face into her hooves while internally screaming, emberressed out of her mind. This creature didn't want to make it any better, either. "I'll admit, i wasn't expecting to hear a young lady suggest to disrobe me. Although i wouldn't say it was the first time" The creature said, with a Seductive smirk making the ponies turn even more red if that was even possible. He was clearly toying with them. Fluttershy and Rarity instantly went over to him.

"We are so sorry! It wasn't what it sounded like, we swear! Twilight just wanted to check if you had any injuries!" Fluttershy, who's face was practicly on fire from the amount of blushing, Apolagized to the creature.
"And we didn't want you to feel Offended. Of course, being disrobed by a bunch of strangers would impolite without asking for permisson" Rarity suddenly realizing a different way to take those words and facehoofed herself. "Not like we'd want to now, we know you don't have any injuries so there is no need to!" She quickly said.

The creature just sat at the table, almost about to laugh hysterically at the panicking ponies. Deciding that this was enough, he lifted his arm in the air and snapped his fingers. Causing everypony to go quiet. The girls were suprised at that, it was like they lost control over themselves for a second. "Relax, Ladies. I was only messing with you" The creature said. They looked a him dumbfounded. "I am quite Thankful that you girls were concerned about me, even when you didn't know what i was" He said, getting off the Table. The ponies could now see how tall this guy is, He was nearly twice their height.

"And that gives you the rights to Mess with us and play tricks on Us? Who are you anyway?" Rainbow Dash asekd, Flying next to the creature. He closed his eyes and went over to the other side of the room and turned towards the Ponies.
"The name is Bendy" He made a Cane apear out of thin air. "Bendy the Dancing Demon" He made a spin and then Bowed. "At your service, My ladies" He finnished. The Ponies just stood there quietly, until Applejack whispered to her friends.


"Did he just call us 'His ladies'?"