//------------------------------// // Friendly demon lady // Story: New Life of a Crow // by Knight of Crows //------------------------------// Griever POV I awoke with Misty in my arms feeling as well rested as you'd expect for a guy who DOESN'T NEED SLEEP ANYMORE and really didn't want to get out of bed. That, and Misty was too damn adorable, and too comfortable to not cuddle. Unfortunately, Celestia had other plans and sent a maid much sooner than I expected and had to cut it short. We went about our morning routine like usual, but I'm still too used to when I had to clean her myself and, well let's just say I'm not complaining. After an extended shower we went down for breakfast and had a few extra guests in the form of the 6 I would like to have as few interactions with as possible. Thankfully they weren't annoying this time, or rather Twilight was the annoying one. Pinkie's mane and tail deflated upon seeing me, Fluttershy avoided even looking at me, Rarity was seemingly examining me and Misty, and Rainbow and Applejack never let me out of their sight. Twilight was asking question after question about humans, my abilities, and you guessed it my arsenal before I could even get a word in and at that point, I said fuck it and started ignoring her. The princesses told me they were making great progress on the slave ring and would hold off on the trials until after they've captured everyone they could. They told me I may need to go to other nations if any manage to get out of Equestria, but I figured that would happen anyway. I decided now was a good time to ask about a certain statue. "So can anyone tell me what that chimera- like statue is about? Of all the statues in the garden it's the only one with any darkness I can sense." "That was Eris you saw, the Spirit of Chaos. We found and used the elements on her the same day we rose to confront her 1,000 years ago." Celestia said "She bent reality to her will and made everyponies lives miserable, night and day and the lives of others were all playthings to her. She needed to be stopped." Luna said "Did she ever actually hurt anyone directly or otherwise?" I asked "No, but her actions were anything but just or necessary, spreading chaos for fun got her stoned and she will remain there as long as we have any say in it." "So the moral of the story is you ponies are assholes and the elements are even more sadistic than I thought." "I beg your pardon." Celestia said "Yeah! What gives you the right to say that?" Rainbow cut in "First off, this doesn't involve you, and I have the right since I have a much better understanding of this than you. She probably suffered more in the first few years of her life than most do in their entire lives." "What do you mean?" Celestia asked "The first thing to go through my mind when I first saw her was 'demon'. Until proven otherwise, let's assume she grew up alone, an orphan. The first thing I would have done years ago upon seeing her would have been to either run, or grab the nearest weapon and I can't honestly say I would have stopped when I heard her say something if at all. She was likely feared and in many cases attacked because of how she looked, even when she tried to help, the result was the same or disastrous given the amount of control you would need to properly use her magic if she really can bend reality to her will thus adding to that fear even if it worked as intended. Spending her entire life being called a monster and hunted down as one when she probably gave no legal or morally justified reason to do so is probably what gave rise to the so called monster." The sisters looked at each other not liking where this was going, the 6 gained looks of uncertainty "The quotes that would best describe this would be 'you reap what you sow', 'an eye for an eye may make the world blind, but the world has proven itself time and again incapable or unwilling to learn in any way that doesn't involve at least 3 people going blind or a bloody massacre', 'what else can you be when all the world wants to see is a monster', and 'we are as the world makes us'. If she is the monster, what does that make everyone else who have done nothing but lie about her, hurt her, and in general give her reason after reason to avoid contact with others." I'm just thinking of all this as I go "Chances are she tried that and was hunted down anyway, she likely tried to be good, when that failed to no fault of her own she tried leaving everyone alone only to be met once again with armed ponies leaving their homes to hunt her down. Eventually she was either cornered by her would be killers or she had enough of the unjust treatment and sleepless nights and sought out her own justice, not feeling any form of guilt because the legal system wasn't an option she could count on and she would maintain the moral high ground anyway because she had every possible reason to justify her actions unlike the ponies that made her regret being born into the same world as them. That is what I would call the expected result." everyone was silent at this thought until Twilight spoke up "That's not possible! Nothing like that has ever been recorded in history, and ponies would never do such a thing." "Then not only must you have a really bad case of CRS, but you don't know history as well as you should." I told her "What?" She looked at me as if I just called her a cunt "You must remember all the arrests and summary executions yesterday for crimes including but not limited to murder, rape, slavery, and many child related crimes right? You mean to tell me ponies, nobles at that would do that to their own kind, but not something like Eris? 'History is a tale told by the winners of the fight', just because it wasn't recorded doesn't mean it didn't happen. You know her name and her crimes, but not her past, or at least her side of the story, her past from her perspective." "What did you mean when you said the elements are sadistic?" Rarity asked "I'm going to assume you know about Daybreaker, she was suppressed after causing a bloody massacre and trying to become the supreme ruler of the world, Nightmare was imprisoned for 1,000 years ON HER OWN MOON for trying to become Celestia's equal the wrong way and assuming magic didn't protect her she must have been writhing in agony on the moon for various reasons such as temperatures being VERY FAR below zero and lack of air which should have killed her, then suppressed her after her return. Eris gets petrified for 1,000 years for doing exactly what others wanted her to do. The process was likely very painful and humiliating after what with being turned into a lawn ornament and going through the same shit every day, getting shit on, hearing the same shit every day, and if she gets out will likely be suffering a minor case of severe rigor mortem, assuming she's still alive that is. I think I would be more surprised if she doesn't come for blood if she get's out. An entire life of meaningless pain would do that to a person. If pain truly is the best teacher, then what do you think she learned having pain as her only teacher, the closest thing she ever had to a friend?" everyone once again left speechless at this, especially the princesses "You mean to say we might have imprisoned and tortured an innocent creature for 1,000 years because of our subjects' fear and hatred of other races? That I could have killed my own sister?" Celestia asked while facing Luna "Yes and yes, but if her physical and mental states are anything to go by she either has an unbreakable resolve or she only suffered solitude. With all that said I'm going to the gardens to officially meet Eris. Before I go, is it strange that I actually like her looks?" silence "No? Okay bye." I went into the gardens and spent about 10 minutes looking for Eris before I said fuck it and flew straight up to see if that would help. I recognized the location, but not something in that location. "I don't remember this pedestal being vacant. This happened much sooner than I thought." "Oh, and what'd you expect to happen later hmmmm?" I heard a female voice say, but the source nowhere to be seen "You breaking out for one is unexpected. The lack of rigor mortem and bloodlust is another. Could you please show yourself? Talking to a disembodied voice is uh what's the word I'm looking for?" "Don't know, don't care, but since you asked so nicely I'll show myself. Look down." "Why do youuuuuu uuuuummmm" I looked down to see her tangled around my leg and now grabbing my ass "I'm sorry, but I-" "Already have a marefriend, I know." she teleported in front of me and wrapped her arms around my neck "She doesn't have to know~, or you could form a herd, I don't mind sharing." "Again, I'm sorry, but I also have 3 questions now: the lack of insanity, herds, and how did you know I already had a girlfriend?" "I was only suffering these annoying ponies, not anything else you were expecting. As for how I knew you had a marefriend, I was able to see the world around me even in stone. You caught my attention after the dragon, but I couldn't watch you until you entered Ponyville. You've only made me want you more and more, especially after all that chaos from yesterday and" she paused for a moment "how much of me you so accurately guessed just from my body." she sniffled "Why? WHY COULDN'T I HAVE MET YOU ALL THOSE YEARS AGO? IT'S NOT FAIR!" she broke down and fell to her knees. She suffered just as if not more than I did in her life and she's still so reasonably sane, so reasonably stable, I don't think she'll cause much trouble. I got down and held her close before turning to the side and seeing the princesses and Misty, judging by the tears rolling down Misty's cheeks and the conflicted looks on the princesses faces, they've heard enough. Misty ran over here and started helping me out with this. Eris now crying even harder after hearing Misty say yes. Yes to what? Someone still needs to explain what these herds are.