The Great Reign of Chaos

by The King of Kings

Chapter 4: Attack on the Mortal World

They ran into the one area where the four lightning bolts struck. As they approached there, they were shocked on what they all saw.

It was Nightmare Moon, Discord, Queen Chrysalis and King Sombra!

“Nightmare Moon? How is that possible?” Twilight was puzzled, “Princess Luna is…”

Nightmare Moon laughed and said, “Save your words, Element of Magic. Your Elements only drove me out of Luna’s body. I am the spirit of grief and wickedness that possessed the princess of the night. Thanks to Tartarus, I have now taken full form even without that Luna pest!”

“I’m sorry, Fluttershy, but wasn’t I supposed to tell you a while ago that I tricked you?” said Discord to Fluttershy, “I am the Master of Chaos, and that’s my true destiny that I cannot turn down on. Your ‘kindness’ just wasn’t enough to reform me.”

“My soul is embodied with my soul of anger, hatred and dark magic,” King Sombra hissed with his deep voice, “That was not enough to destroy me!”

“Our ambitions and goals were different, and we lost,” Queen Chrysalis added, “But we now share one ultimate goal. We are sent to depths of Tartarus and we have found a way to defeat you and succeed; we now serve our new masters!”

“New masters?” Twilight wondered.

“Tartarus?” Yeshuah figured out what the changeling queen meant to say, “That means…”

Meanwhile, in the library, in the bedroom, the clock stroke to 12:00 midnight.

Outside, just before Yeshuah could say another word, a sound of rumbling came from the sky. The color of the sky turned from dark blue to dark red with flames surrounding the heights of the vast sky. The six ponies and Yeshuah looked at the burning sky in horror.

“Yeshuah, the skies are burning!” Twilight cried.

“This is no natural storm,” Yeshuah said, “What’s happening to the mortal world?!”

Meanwhile in Ponyville, from the burning skies, a dimensional rift has opened wide. The background in the rift is a black-red void.

The ponies outside the streets and inside their houses stared at the formed rift.

“Daddy, what is that?” a filly asked.

“What’s that?” a stallion said.

The ground cracked and an incredibly huge staircase made of stone slowly ascended and emerged from the cracking ground which was deformed, displacing many houses to their destruction. All the ponies ran away in panic from the ascending staircase. Twilight, Yeshuah, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Applejack, Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy ran back to Ponyville to see what was happening in the city.

Jaraxxus, Azazel, Kazzak, Tichondrius, Blaroog and Infernus appeared from the dark void one by one forming the first row of demon lords descending the stairs. Next, Seduma, Archimonde and Kel’thuzad appeared as the second row of demon lords. Finally, Kil’jaeden and Mannoroth appeared last as the third row. The first row stopped on the 12th stairledge, the second row stopped on the 28th stairledge, and the third ledge remained near the top of the stairs.

“What?!” Applejack reacted.

“It can’t be!” Yeshuah said in horror, “It just can’t be!”

“They’re… Tartarus’ demon lords?!” said Twilight.

The staircase and the inscriptions written on it glowed red and a fountain of fire erupted around the staircase of the demon lords as they shouted their war cry.

“We are the demon lords of the Burning Legion,” Archimonde introduced, “We have appeared to pass judgment to those who defied great evil.”

The ponies of Ponyville hear every word Archimonde said and everypony are in fear, except the main six and Yeshuah, who were just shocked to see the demon lords with their very own eyes.

“No need to be speechy!” screamed Mannoroth, as he raised his weapon and fired a dark beam towards an area in Ponyville, destroying a small part of the city.

The citizens tremble and ran away in despair.

Seduma laughed at the scene of death and destruction, saying, “Lovely!”

Twilight was not happy to see the demon lords do massive damage upon the town. “Girls, let’s get the Elements!” she ordered.

Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Pinkie Pie and Applejack all nodded in approval. The six ran to the library to get the Elements of Harmony.

“Wait, everypony!” cried Yeshuah aloud.

Tichondrius chuckled on Mannoroth’s destructive manner and what he did earlier. “Impulsive as always, Mannoroth.” he said.

A little later, Twilight and the others arrived near the huge stony staircase, now armed with the Elements of Harmony. Twilight’s horn glowed and the six Elements glowed in white light. The six ponies closed their eyes and levitated up high in the air.

“Stop… Stop!” pleaded Yeshuah, hoping for Twilight and the others not to fight the demon lords.

They were activating, and fired the shapes of the cutie marks glowing in their respective color from their respective Elements, simultaneously and continuously towards the eleven demon lords.

“Mortals, dared to attack us?” Infernus implied.

The six ponies opened their eyes, with their eyes glowed in pure white. The power of the Elements of Harmony was fully harnessed and fired a huge beam of rainbow beam directly at the demon lords.

But, Kil’jaeden shielded himself and blocked the beam with his left wing until the firing has ceased. “Know your place!” yelled the Ultimate Demon Lord as he shot a fireball from his right hand, directly hitting the levitating main six altogether. The six ponies were sent flying and were hit to the ground hard.

“Everypony!” Yeshuah screamed as he approached to the six defeated mares who barely survived the attack.

They frustratingly looked at the eleven triumphant demon lords who are laughing and mocking the defeated mane six.

“Following in the customs of the Burning Legion, we have come today to give a divine message,” Archimonde declared, “Doom will come later. The invasion shall commence tomorrow. You along with the world will be burned in flames. Then realize your foolishness as you die.”

They all laughed evilly one more time before the dimensional rift closed and the skies returned to their dark blue color with flames dissipated.

The ponies, terrified on what they heard from Archimonde’s divine message, ran away, scared in fear and despair, with most entering the houses and some hiding in barrels, dumpsters and boxes, until the town became deserted with nopony wanting to be outside.

Twilight, Rainbow, Rarity, Applejack, Pinkie and Fluttershy stood up groaning and grunting, frustrated at their defeat. “I don’t care if you’re lords or not… We’ll never lose to thugs like you!” Twilight cried aloud, “Next time, we’ll definitely… kick your flanks—no, not flanks… They don’t have flanks-- what do you call that? It doesn’t matter! We’ll unleash on you tenfold! No matter what!”

“No, you can’t,” Yeshuah denied, “You girls mustn’t fight the Burning Legion.”

The six were shocked to hear what Yeshuah, with an angry mood on his face, just said.

“We mustn’t fight?” Rarity said.

“What’s that mean?!” Applejack exclaimed.

“‘The Burning Legion will destroy ‘till nothing is left.’ ‘The mortals of this world must never be allowed to defy them.’ ‘If they are defeated once, they will come back and hit back those who had hit them.’” Yeshuah explained, “This is what the ancient legends say about the evil Burning Legion and its demon lords.”

“Then… are we supposed to wait for them to destroy us?!” asked the impatient Rainbow.

“And what about Princess Celestia?!” said Twilight irritatedly grappling his foreleg, “They might have her!”

“I will fight,” replied Yeshuah, “I’m not from the mortal world. I have fought them before and I will do so again. I, the Champion of Light and Son of God, can fight!”

“All alone?” Fluttershy cried.

Yeshuah toss away Twilight’s hoof from his foreleg and turned away, saying, “The legends of heaven and hell are absolute!”

Meanwhile, in the demon lords’ court in Tartarus, Tichondrius was walking around the startled and scared Nai and Mea. The dreadlord was intrigued of seeing the two mares and laughed.

“How interesting! Phantom Spy,” Tichondrius said, “So you can become two?”

“I got bored of always being alone,” Nai replied nervously, “I’m Nai!”

“I’m Mea!” she said nervously.

“I’m Tichondrius,” he introduced, “I am a demon lord, actually the most arrogant if they would mention. I’m the leader of the dreadlords we traditionally call them as Nathrezims. I’ve got it! Why don’t I introduce everyone?”Nai and Mea groaned in fear. Tichondrius grabbed the two mares with his hand and placed them on the 7th ledge of a stony staircase, saying, “Which lord should I introduce first?”

The Nathrezim saw Infernus and Kazzak fighting in a duel with their fists.

“First, the two fighting there. That’s Infernus. He’s the lord with the most fiery body and soul and leader of the abyssals and infernals. And the other one is Kazzak, he is the most masculine.”

“Are you using your head, asshole?!” screamed Kazzak as he struggled from Infernus’s fiery fists.

“You never know what he’s thinking.” Tichondrius said as Nai and Mea nodded nervously.

“I’m starving!” Blaroog groaned as he picked up an open glass bowl full of puny red-skinned felorcs trapped inside.

“The one licking his lips is Blaroog. He’s the leader of the doomguards and the biggest glutton.”

“There you are,” the gluttonous demon lord said. Blaroog picked up a felorc, tossed him into his mouth and ate him. The two mares were disgusted by it.

“The one over there is Azazel,” Tichondrius explained as he turned his head to Azazel, growling, roaring and stomping on ground, rampaging. “He is the most beastly of the lords. His attitude is close to a wild animal’s.”

“What the fuck?!” Blaroog reacted to Azazel’s actions.

“And over there is Jaraxxus, the one with the bloodiest soul of all.”

Jaraxxus was sitting at the corner a loner. “Boring~” he said.

“These five with me form a six-person group,” Tichondrius explained further, “Within the demon lords; we’re called the Six Warrior Demon Lords.”

Back to Infernus and Kazzak dueling, Infernus punched Kazzak right to the floor. Infernus was about to give Kazzak another deadly punch to the ground, when…

“That’s enough!” Kel’thuzad yelled as he raised his left hand, a flash of red light appeared on Infernus’s right hand, stopping the direct punch, “The duel is decided!”

“That lord filled with bones is Kel’thuzad. He’s the wisest among us and leader of the army of the living dead called the Undead Scourge. Ner’zhul was once leader but was destroyed when he was proven no worth of being a demon lord.”

Seduma approached to Kazzak with a disapproving look. “Kazzak the Supreme, you weren’t trying your best, were you?” she asked.

“That voluptuous lady that just arrived is Seduma,” Tichnodrius said, “She’s the most sly and feminine demon lady.”

As Seduma heard what the dreadlord lord said, she turned and the snakes which act as her hair hissed at Tichondrius. Nai and Mea shrieked.

“And, those two great ones… the Two Ultimate Demon Lords,” said Tichondrius.

“The Two Ultimate Demon Lords?” said Nai and Mea.

The dreadlord turned his head to Kil’jaeden, standing on the high ledge and his arms were crossed.

“The winged one with a majestic stance is Ultimate Demon Lord Kil’jaeden. He’s the most reliable demon lord and the right hand man of the Dark Titan,” he explained.

He turned his head to Mannoroth standing on the same ledge and humming impatiently.

“The one who is super-tall, humming and killing time is Greatest Demon Lord Mannoroth. He’s the most violent one and King of the Pit Lords we traditionally call them as Annihilans,” Tichondrius explained further, “Those two are the most respected among us eleven. Twelve, if the Dark Titan would be counted.”

“E-everyone seems so strong…” Nai said in a nervous expression.

“Who is the strongest?” Mea asked.

“Everyone’s fantastic!” he replied, “But the Dark Titan would probably come the closest. If not, Archimonde would.”

“Lord Archimonde?” the mares said in confusion.

“With Kel’thuzad and Seduma, they’re called the Three Wise Demon Lords,” said Tichondrius, “He’s essentially our leader under the Dark Titan’s absence and the left hand man of the Dark Titan. Archimonde is invincible!” As he finished his sentence, Archimonde, who actually arrived earlier, was actually standing beside Tichondrius, saying, “You talk too much.”

Tichondrius turned around and was a bit shocked to see Archimonde. “Archimonde!”

“How long are you going to play with a vampire horse? Hurry up and squish her.” Archimonde ordered.

“But,” Tichondrius contradicted, “She can travel into any world. We can use her as a spy.”

Nai and Mea whimpered and merged again into Vancuria. She flew around Tichondrius and Archimonde, and landed on the ground.

“Phantom Spy Vancuria at your services, Lord Archimonde,” she pledged with honor.

“Do as you wish,” Archimonde replied.

Suddenly, a slab made of stone suddenly rang loud and its inscriptions and marks written on it glowed yellow. Sooner, the whole slab glowed entirely.

All the demon lords responded to the ringing slab and gathered together at the center of the court, creating a ring formation of them.

Vancuria flew towards Tichondrius, asking, “What has begun?”

“A sacred ceremony has begun. Don’t talk!” Tichondrius growled as he swiped his claws to Vancuria, sending her flying away. She landed on a ledge of the staircase. “That hurts…” she whimpered.

The eleven demon lords placed their right hands on top of each other’s hand.

“Slab of Judgment,” Archimonde called, “Now, show us the demon lord who would be given the right to deal judgment, by burning the world.”

The Slab of Judgment glowed again and let out a huge yellow ball of light. The ball of light flew and circled around the arms of the demon lords whose hands are conjoined. The ball of light stopped and landed on Infernus’s right arm. They all realized that Infernus was given the right to lead the armies on invading the mortal world.

“Go, Infernus!” Archimonde ordered, “In the name of Tartarus.”

“Leave it to me! The hot magma flowing in my body is going wild!” Infernus shouted as he left the court.

Later, outside, Infernus gathered a massive army composed of 1,350 abyssals led by him and 500 changelings led by Queen Chrysalis. They were all assembled near the gates of Tartarus.

“Let’s go! We shall finally bring down the mortal world once and for all!” Infernus commanded.

Infernus, Chrysalis, and the army of abyssals and changelings left to the gates of Tartarus, as they approached towards the mortal world for their invasion.

Meanwhile, in Twilight’s library, Twilight and Rarity are the only ones inside. Twilight was making pancakes. She thought in her mind, “I am a princess. I have to know much about being princess. Such as, how I can cook well like a mother? I may remind of what Pinkie Pie taught me on baking.” After thinking that, she continued her baking and cooking.

“Yeshuah, how mean!” Rarity acted, “We finally know Princess Celestia is trapped. We should be going ‘Let’s find and save her!’” Rarity then imitated Yeshuah, “‘You mustn’t fight.’”“Right?” Rarity continued, “It is only natural Applejack and Rainbow Dash are in a bad mood. The library—no… Ponyville has this horrible atmosphere to it. And Spikey-Wikey is alone in the other side of the building.”

After all Rarity had said, Twilight just ignored and kept continuing to bake. “So, Twilight, are you listening?” Rarity asked.

The white unicorn and the purple alicorn looked at the sky through the windows. They noticed the skies becoming red and orange with flames surrounding them.

“The sky is burning!” Rarity exclaimed.

“It can’t be… again?!” Twilight said. “Look, the fire is raining from the sky!”

They saw a huge rain of fire of both orange and green colliding to the ground.

“Wait, I know those green things… The changelings must be here!” said Twilight in realization and shock.

The rain of changelings and abyssals collide down to the streets of Ponyville, the deep parts of the Everfree Forest and other areas across Equestria. All the changelings and abyssals are gathered to Ponyville for the arrival of Infernus. All the ponies ran and scream in panic and fear as an army of the Burning Legion arrived.

“Scream and cry! Be grateful as you witness the arrival of the changelings’ new master!” Queen Chrysalis shouted to the panicked ponies.

She flew away as Infernus arrived in Ponyville and with flames surrounding in the area where he’s standing.

“Mortals of the world, I am Demon Lord Infernus!” he introduced, “Those of you on the mortal world wallow in your sins, I have come to turn the world into ashes of nothingness! But before that, I give you time to repent.”

Infernus raised his right arm, pointed his hand and as he absorbed all the induced flames to his right hand, shot a beam of fire to the roof of the Ponyville Town Hall.

“Oh, my Celestia! Oh, no! Our city hall! It’s burning!” the civilian mares and stallions cried, seeing that their town hall is on fire.

“It will be deferred until the flame burns out,” Infernus said, “Shriek out the pleas for your lives. Be grateful as you shiver with fear and await your death.”

However, in the streets, Yeshuah, without his robe, leaped in and said, “So, even after for ten thousand years, you still plan to do mischief in this world?” Saying that, he took down every abyssal and changeling one by one. He defeated them using his horn by either cutting them with a light slash or blasting them to pieces using bright laser blasts. After taking down majority of Infernus’s army, Queen Chrysalis leaped in.

“Don’t get in our way!” hissed the Queen as she charged toward Yeshuah, but the stallion jumped through Chrysalis, kicked her hind neck with his hind leg, flapped his wings and confronted the gigantic Infernus.

“Gou Luuma Goludo!”

As his horn glowed, glowing branches of light uprooted from the ground.

But when the branches were about to entangle Infernus, he glared at them, evaporating the branches completely.

“What?!” Yeshuah exclaimed.

“Know your place, Champion of Light,” Infernus growled as he shot a blast of fire.

Yeshuah created a magical barrier, but the blast of the fire broke the barrier and sent him flying and crashing to the ground by the recoil.

As Infernus shrunk to the size of a mortal, the skies restored to normal, becoming sky blue with flames disappeared.

“At the mortal world, it’s easier to move around at this size,” Infernus in his mortal size explained. Infernus and Yeshuah fought in a combat. Just when the Champion of Light was about to slash him with his horn, Infernus grabbed his horn and toss him away, hitting the walls and falling to the ground.

The frustrated Yeshuah stood up and his horn glowed with a yellow aura as he hissed the words, “Luuma Gogika Goludo!” letting out three simultaneous laser blasts with the color of yellow from his horn.

However, as Infernus glared at the blasts, they evaporated.

“Before the attacks reach him, they were evaporated!” Yeshuah said in shock.

“What a laugh, defying a demon lord. Interesting!” Infernus mocked, breathing fire, energized from evaporating Yeshuah’s attack, from his mouth directly at Yeshuah. The breath of fire hit Yeshuah and sent him flying.

Infernus was about to approach to Yeshuah, when a voice interrupted them, yelling, “Wait!” Yeshuah turned his head to where the voice came from.

It was the six mares armed with the Elements of Harmony. “Don’t forget we’re here too!” Twilight yelled to Yeshuah and then to Infernus, “Where’s Princess Celestia?! Give her back!”

“What are you talking about?” the demon lord asked.

“We have a vision that she’s trapped in a world with a burning sky and briars!” Twilight replied.

“Of course, so that’s what you mean,” Infernus said in realization, “Very well. If you fight me and win, I will tell you.”

“Then, we won’t forget those words!” Rainbow Dash yelled.

The six ponies closed their eyes, Twilight’s horn glowed bright, and they were about to use the Elements of Harmony onInfernus, but Yeshuah pointed his horn to the main six, yelling, “Luuma Gonga!”

As a flash of yellow light appeared, the six stopped moving, froze and were paralyzed. They were trying to move their bodies, but to no avail.

“My body…” Applejack groaned.

“What’s going on, Yeshuah?!” Rarity complained.

“I told you guys before!” scolded Yeshuah, “You girls must not fight the Burning Legion or one of its demon lords.”

“You’re worried about that legend, right?” Infernus said, as the seven turned their heads to the abyssal lord, “The one where ‘The Burning Legion will destroy ‘till nothing is left’? ‘The mortals of this world must never be allowed to defy them’? ‘If they are defeated once, they will come back and hit back those who had hit them’? ‘If a blade is directed at the powerful flame carried by the legion, not only the mortal world, but the heavens would be destroyed too.’”

Everypony was horrified to hear what Infernus said.

“What’s that mean?!” Pinkie yelled.

“If everypony here fight the Burning Legion…” Fluttershy said.

“The world and Heaven will be destroyed?” Rainbow finished.

“Is that true? Is that why, Yeshuah?!” Twilight asked, as Yeshuah scoffed and turned his head away from her.

“You‘re truly fools. All cowards who are afraid to fight,” mocked Infernus, “Just be silent and wait for the time of the apocalypse to finally arrive in this wretched world!” After saying that, he disappeared and fled in flames.

Yeshuah felt disappointed after what happened just that time.

Back in the library, Twilight’s microwave sounded and her pancakes were baked already. She smiled, opened the microwave and magically placed the hot pancakes on a plate.

Meanwhile, in the main room, the rest of the five ponies, Spike and Yeshuah were there.

“That’s just a legend, right?” Applejack said without worry.

“We don’t know it’s only just that,” bragged Rainbow.

Yeshuah stomped his hoof in frustration, saying, “You girls don’t understand anything.” He stood up and began to walk away from the five mares, “Do you know how serious my world’s legends are? They’re absolute.”

“Yeah!” Rainbow sarcastically spoke as she ran to Yeshuah, “I don’t know that!”

“The atmosphere in here is really bad,” Spike scoffed.

Rainbow turned Yeshuah around and roughly held her hooves on his neck.

“Are you saying you don’t care what happens to my world?!” Yeshuah asked angrily.

“What about you?! Are you saying you don’t care what happens to Princess Celestia?!” Rainbow Dash told the Son of God defiantly, “You can say that because you’re not of Equestria! You’re not one of us!”

Yeshuah shoved the blue pegasus away and punched Rainbow hard to the ground with his hoof.

The four ponies and Spike turned their attention to Rainbow Dash and Yeshuah.

“Hey! What’ya doing punchin’?!” Applejack yelled.

They all approached to the cyan pegasus and the white alicorn stallion quarreling and fighting to stop them.

“Everypony, everypony! Please calm down!”

“Wait!”

“Let go of me!”

“Stop it, darling!”

The fighting stopped when Twilight arrived with a cart carrying pancakes and cups of tea.

“I baked pancakes,” she said, “Let’s have tea.”