//------------------------------// // Chapter 2: Dark Depths // Story: Equestrylvania Chronicles - Demon Child // by Reizthefakebrony //------------------------------// The following day, the Mane Six, the inhabitants of Ponyville and the Royal Guard were left to cope with the destruction that the horde of monsters and horrors had inflicted. Multiple piles of dead bodies were transferred in their respective improvised burial grounds. As for the destroyed buildings, it will take more time to repair all of that damage. This was what Matthiel, or so the stallion is called, observed a moment before being escorted inside an enormous tent by two Royal Guards and Shining Armor. That didn't bothered Matthiel, but he got no sympathy from any of them. Traversing a corridor, they finally arrived at the entrance. Shining Armor gestured him to enter without making any trick. The stallion entered, expecting to find Princess Cadence, who was presiding during the incident but much to his surprise... He found Princess Celestia instead, with her horn and wings being bandaged, her face looking a very stern and yet comprehensive expression. Her eyes were pointed at Matthiel, who didn't expected her presence. There was a silence in between the two until she spokes. "A very surreal circumstance I had assisted, like your powers, Matthiel Von Viltheim." Celestia said. "Celestia," Matthiel said confused. "Should you-" "The health of my subjects counts than my own, as well as their safety," Celestia pointed out. "Besides, your powers are not from this world." "Trust me I never wanted that power to begin with," Matthiel remarked. "I understand how you feel, but there's still the point if we can surely trust you," "Especially since I am actually a former human who ceased to be as such and was reborn into this." "You better explain your story. I need to know what kind of savior I am looking at." Matthiel sighed uncomfortably and then started to speak with a very frank tone. "You are asking me to tell you the my background and the dark tale of my origins... Fine, since i'm not of this world anyway. In the human world, I came from a Austrian family who had made a deal with the devil. You know, the guy in which the castle made in his honor being in place of Canterlot appeared. Contrary to the children of my era, I am a cursed soul, and yet my mother loved me despite the odds. I was the illegitimate son of Andrew Von Viltheilm and the bastard son of the one who violates my mother without being punished, the Duke Henry De Guillcorte. All the three of us didn't made the deal with the devil but others did it, starting with Katharina, who was seduced by Lucifer. Others followed her in that path that doomed their bloodline. Gerof wanted to be the greatest hunter ever lived. Leopold lost his mind in his pursuit for necromancy. Liesette wanted eternal beauty and ended up dying and becoming a wretched ghost. Willhelm becomes and vampire. Friederich was defaced by one of his experiments and ended up wandering in the mirrors. And there are others who preferred to be anonymous. We used to live inside the Viltheilm Castle, considered a Holy Place. But after what happened, such horrible decisions made my mother decide to leave the Viltheilm Castle with me, not wanting to be associated with our family anymore. Katharina called my mother a whore due to the abuse taken by Duke Henry, she responded. "Better a whore than a slave of the devil" After that, my mother, my father and I escaped our castle and went far away toward our private home, and I am not talking about Gerof's estate. We lived in a isolated peace for a few years, but were then taken by the Inquisition. I managed to escape but I got to see my father and my mother being burned at the stakes for being accomplish with the devil than instead they weren't. After the stake had been consumed, I was alone, crying in front of their burnt bodies. In a fit of rage, I was taking one piece of wood to commit suicide, until I was stopped by a demon dressed as a nun. Her name is Costance Albaret, part of the Duchy of Guillcorte. Yeah, that bastard that violates my mother. I was forcefully took under her wing and was fully admitted at Guernon University, were I studied and spied for Albaret. Only thanks to my unwitting rule the demons managed to invade the university. As for me, Albaret killed me when I was no longer useful to her and that bastardous duke, and guess what... I ended up in hell and saw my mother... My mother? There? There must be a mistake. She never made a deal with the devil. But she soon informed me that she took her soul after she died. I also encountered Katharina and the other Von Viltheilms in their wretched forms. Before I were to the point to express my anger, something strange happened. My mother, Katharina and the others suddenly molded in a black slime and wrapped me. My soul. Yes. Our souls fused together. I struggled to set free. I managed to escape and go in another world... You know the rest. In the outskirts of the Crystal Empire, two guards were patrolling the iced area but then stopped upon seeing something. "Hey, look at there!" The guard exclaimed. "I can't believe it, but how did he ended up there?" The other guard asked. They were observing a wall of ice with a pony with an emblem as a cutey mark being encased inside of it.