Torchlight fell upon the thing and it was even more hideous in the light, the pustulating and squirming flesh fusing, bleeding, and other liquids were ejected as the organs were split apart, then fused back together, that is until the eyes of a newly formed head saw the champions, and with a mighty heave, all the flesh coalesced and suddenly four segments surrounded the group, one head made of teeth and eyes, little mouths salivating, where the flesh touched the ground, next came something made of gristle and bone massive ribcage held together with nothing but tough translucent cartilage, next the ass a horrifying mass with an undulating hole, surrounded by small tentacles made of flesh that hid something darker, and finally the heart, a small thing made of intestines and veins.
"Its time, don't let the back end poison you, and be wary of those teeth," Dante called out before he transformed.
"You two are the experts, what do we do," the gristled man asked.
"Try to dodge the head and ass, don't let it bleed you or poison- AHK," the jester cried as an eel type thing shot from the hole, grazing the top of the jesters head, but it was enough because the blood that poured out was a nasty reddish green, the wound rapidly festering, acidic blood further ruining his face, but the Vestal was on it in an instant, holding up a book while the torch burned brighter, the light causing the wound to close as she gave him some of the anti-poison they carried.
"This is how you lost your eye, and the side of your face, that thing your fighting, its disgusting," Twilight stated.
"It is, but the worst is yet to come," the jester answered.
True to his words, after a few direct hits to the heart, the thing became even more vicious, the spine crumbled and from the pile of gore came another head, which went after the Vestal who was already weak, after realizing that the wounds it inflicted were being negated by the Vestal, it was targeting her heavily while the grisled man defended her, but it was not enough, because soon the man fell to a bite that took his head right off, the vestal screamed gaining the attention of the remaining pieces which were locked in a deadly dance with the crazed jester and fierce abomination.
"Our man-at-arms is dead, WE ARE GOING TO DIE DOWN HERE," vyan screamed, until another eel smashed through the back of her head, brain matter shooting everywhere alongside pieces of skull, this did not phase the last two heroes because they only fought harder, until single piece remained, the weak heart that was barely staying alive, that is until the jester cut the beating heart out, holding it up above his head as the flesh around the room no longer pulsed, the flesh rapidly rotting as the spirits that maintained it fled.
"Dante, it is done, we're done, gather the bodies," The jester said, as he gathered the remaining torches.
The two made their way to the surface, where the carriage waited, they loaded the bodies into the far back, and set off in silence they made their way to the hamlet where the townsfolk regarded them with fear and apprehension, they noticed the rotting arm of the vestal in the back, and assuming the worst, one came up and asked.
"Did you do it, is it dead," the frightened women asked.
"Its dead, the beast is finally dead, the last remaining pig folk will die out now, without a leader they will be unorganized and lost," Dante said
A celebration was held in honor for the fallen, and those that survived, but after, both drank until they blacked out, which at that moment, the memory ended, the Cutie map returning to the normal map of Equestria.
"How many times," Twilight started before stopping herself.
"A great many died, down in the mud and dark, when we were new, the dead barely got a second glance, we were cannon fodder, but the more we survived, the greater the respect, but it wasn't worth it, I saw many young men and women sent down into the dark, never to come back."
"Your world is a horrible place," Twilight said, unrelenting pity in her gaze.
"My god agrees, which is why I'm here," the jester said.
"Are you a follower of theirs," Twilight asked.
"when she is no longer busy, I'll let you question her, but for now it looks like your friends have returned," the jester said nodding to the five that rounded the corner.
"what did we miss, other then the horror show over there," rainbow quipped before both Blueblood and Twilight glared at her.
"so dear, what did we miss, because you look a lot paler then you were when we left," Rarity asked, the looks not lost on her, while rainbow simply looked confused.
"he showed us a little bit of his world, it's not a nice place, I saw a perverted kind of magic, it makes the magic that Sombra used against us, child's play in comparison," Twilight said, trying to hide the horror in her voice.
"What could be worst then Sombra, if it hadn't been for spike we would have been slaves, or worst," Applejack said.
"I saw a monster that would give even chrysalis nightmares, a monster made of organs and bone, teeth and eyes, capable of binding into whatever shape could kill the fastest," Twilight said, staring at the table recalling the monster.
"There were three, plus the king of those things, it took three attacks to finally wipe them both out," the jester clarified.
"But how and why?"
"when the ancestor stopped, he had more possessed pig flesh then he knew what to do with, so he dumped it into the ancient sewers beneath his estate, but it wasn't alone, after summoning the first demon capable of cognitive thought, he found it was brutish and stupid, so he too threw it down in the sewers where all the experiments went, but it wasn't alone, and competing for dominance it did battle with the flesh," the jester answered.
"so how did it survive?"
"they battled to a standstill, where the brutish demon was crowned king and defender of the pig people, alongside his companion a smaller pig that helped it hunt, because the flesh blinded it, and lost its legs, but before that, it cut it into three chunks that survived by either being fed humans the creatures hunted or killed the pigs themselves."
With that answered, they asked questions and he answered so long as it had nothing to do with what he fought and how they were made, this lasted until late in the day, they were about to take their leave for the day, until knocking came from the front door, which Twilight answered, looking into the solid gold eyes of a young woman.