An overwhelming sense of confidence and a newly gained outlook on life kept the adrenaline pumping as the seven of us pushed forward into the depths of Hell. After having several more encounters with Imps and the occasional Trite, we had found ourselves standing in large, cavern like area with magma flowing down from the ceiling, creating a pool of molten rock at the bottom. To cross to the tunnel on the other side, we had to cross an aged bridge made out of bricks, supported by a single pillar.
"I'll go first." I stated. "Just want to make sure it's safe."
No one argued as I slowly trotted across the bridge. I looked around the room to see if anything would surprise us, bit it was just an empty cavern. I made it towards the other side, yelling back at the group that it was safe.
"Hey girls, the bridge is fine!" I yelled. "Let's keep moving!"
As the mane six began to cross, the room darkened. We trembled in fear on the bridge as demonic whispering flooded into our ears. Beside us, a display of orange lightning formed in the air above the lava pool. The center of the bolts flashed, and a demon teleported itself into the cavern.
Imagine a giant, floating pumpkin that's completely moldy with a set of razor sharp teeth and a pair of green slits for eyes. The Cacodemon hissed as a ball of electricity shot forth from it's mouth and sizzles towards me.
"Darkstar, watch out!" someone screamed, and I leaped back in time only to feel static electricity from the ball.
There was another orange flash of lightning, and a second Cacodemon appeared to attack the mane six. Another ball of electricity almost exploded onto the mane six, the static fizzing up Rarity's body and making her mane stick up.
"My mane!" Rarity screamed.
I couldn't see how the others were doing now, since the other Cacodemon had me backing in farther into the cavern. The Demon was getting closer, and I couldn't run off and leave the others behind.
"Darkstar!" Twilight called out. "What do we do?"
Just then, two more Cacodemons teleported into the area.
"Damn it! I'm thinking!" I yelled back, cautious of the demon in front of me. I continued to back away in fear, only to have my legs hit something. A quick glance behind me revealed a small black case with a red cross on it.
"A berserk pack? Oh, this is going to suck." I stated, quickly opening the box and picked up the syringe inside with my teeth. Inside was a red liquid, which I quickly injected into my bloodstream after stabbing my foreleg with the needle.
I felt the effects of the berserk pack immediately. My eyes went completely bloodshot, flooding my vision with a red haze. I was really pissed off at these fucking demons. I was fucking pissed about everything. These asshole, motherfucking demons were trying to kill me and my friends. I WASN'T GOING TO FUCKING TAKE IT ANYMORE.
My mind knew nothing but rage as the berserk pack took full effect. I no longer feared the Cacodemon, instead I glared at it with bloodlust. I let out an evil smirk as I lunged forward at the Cacodemon, beating the shit out of it with my hooves. The drug had increased my physical strength, and after a few beatings the Cacodemon exploded and collapsed into ash.
I wanted more blood. It wasn't enough. Three more floating demons that were full of guts excited me. The anticipation of watching their insides flurl around the cavern excited me.
"RIP AND TEAR!" I screamed, actually quoting the shitty Doom comic. "I'M GONNA FUCKING RIP EVERY NERVE OUT OF YOUR FUCKING SKULLS!"
I screamed in pure rage as I took flight towards one of the demons, using my own speed to smash it into the wall of the cavern. It deflated into ash, and my attention was already focused on the other two Cacodemons. I screamed in a demonic rage as launched myself at the demons, smashing them with my own forelegs. Every hit felt amazing, seeing the blood splatter out each time. I continued to beat down the last Cacodemon in the middle of the bridge, smashing my hooves down until all that was left was a pile of ash and blood.
"Darkstar!"
There was something else behind me. I turned around and screamed at what I thought was a demon, but I saw another pony instead. I had my foreleg raised to attack, but I stopped myself. The redness in my eyes began to fade away, and I felt my body calming down. I took in deep breaths as I realized I had my foreleg raised at Rainbow Dash. I collapsed onto the ground, breathing heavily as my heart pounded.
"Darkstar!" Rainbow Dash shouted. "Wha.. what did you do?"
I looked up at Rainbow and her friends. They were terrified. I had just gone berserk and brutally beaten four demons to death in front of them.
"That.." I started, breathing in after every word. "That was a berserk pack. It, (huff) puts you into a rage and increases your strength..."
"Are you alright?" Rainbow asked, concerned. "You don't look so good."
"Yeah..." I replied. "I'll be fine. Just a little shocked that I did that. Had to do something about those demons."
"You... you won't do that again, will you?" Twilight questioned. "It's just that, you almost hurt Rainbow Dash."
"Not unless I have to," I answered, picking myself up. "Sorry about the scare. Now let's keep moving."
I could tell the mane six were concerned about their safety around me. I could very easily allow Hell to corrupt me as it did Star Swirl, and help destroy Equestria. But I wasn't that heartless though. These ponies had done generous things for me even if I didn't appreciate it.
The wide-open cavern areas were getting thinner and thinner, and it wasn't long before we were travelling through cramped hallways inside hellish temples made of blood-stained bricks. I was starting to get concerned realizing we hadn't fought anything in a while.
"Maybe we're almost at Star Swirl?" Twilight suggested. "We've overcome many demons so far."
"Not likely," I replied. "There are still demons we haven't fought yet, and I'm not excited about our inevitable battles with them. This has been too easy so far."
"I sure hope you're wrong." stated Applejack.
The hallway came to an end, leading us into a perfectly square room. As we squeezed out of the cramped space, we realized that the room was a dead end.
"No, there has to be another way!" I exclaimed, checking the walls for any secret doors. "The path lead us right here!"
"Maybe we should head back?" Twilight suggested. "We may have missed something."
At that moment, there was a slight tremor as a deep, disgusting groaning sound emerged from the walls of the room.
Uuuuuurgh
"Oh no," I spoke, remembering the sick groaning sound. "This isn't good."
"Is it another demon!?" Fluttershy shrieked.
"Sounds like it has a cold!" Pinkie Pie noted.
"Um, pardon me everypony, but the floor is moving!" stated Rarity.
Looking down, we noticed that the floor of the room was descending like an elevator, gaining speed as it carried us deeper into the demonic dimension.
UUURRRGGH
"Darkstar, if there's anything you wanna tell us before this thing reaches the bottom, now would be a good time!" Applejack shouted.
"There's going to be more than one," I replied, making sure the others were listening. "They can't move very fast, but the projectiles they fire at us are. Just dodge their fireballs, and don't get too close."
The walls at our sides disappeared, revealing an even bigger room with a red fog floating above the ground. There were four rocky monoliths in the corner of each room, with wide-open holes at the base of each one. The floor came to a stop as we reached the bottom, and we braced ourselves for the battle. The ground shook more and more violently with each groan became closer.
"Here they come!"
At my left, a Mancubus emerged from the hole at one of the stone structures. Using the cannons that had been genetically engineered into both of it's arms, the demon was able to crawl itself onto the surface. It stood at about six to seven feet tall, resembling a hairless, overweight, anthropomorphic turkey. Pieces of flesh hung off it's mouth and dangled in front of it's slimy, folded chest, dripping blood down to it's elephant-like feet.
And at the three other crevices, three more of the disgusting Mancubi emerged with the intent to kill in their eyes.
I didn't really have to say run this time, by now it was mandatory for every new demon we encountered. Rainbow and I bolted up into the air as Twilight and Rarity used their magic to teleport them and the others out of the path of the incoming plasma balls the Mancubi shot at us from their arms.
While the fireballs exploded upon contacting each other in the center of the room, one of them missed and smashed into one of the demons. In painful rage, the Mancubus forgot about us and proceeded to begin firing shots at the other Mancubus that hit it.
"That's right!" I screamed in sudden realization. "You can make them fight each other!"
By now the two Mancubi were head to head, slowly killing each other with their own cannons.
"Girls, run in front of them! Make them hurt themselves!" I commanded.
One of the Mancubi fell and dissolved into ash, and the surviving demon turned it's attention back to us as we raced around the room. Balls of fire blasted into the walls behind us as we bolted past the other Mancubi.
As the demons became enraged at each other, it seemed they had completely forgotten about us and only focused on killing their brethren. We stood near one of the walls, watching in awe as the now final two demons beat each other to death with their organic arm cannons, eventually collapsing into each other before dissolving into ash.
"They can't even get along with each other," Twilight stated. "They couldn't even tell it was us making them hurt each other, and they were willing to harm one another over what to us would be an accident. These demons simply have no harmony with each other at all!"
"HIDEOUS!" Rarity screamed. "Those were the most HIDEOUS looking demons we've encountered yet!"
"Aw, I even made them soup for their colds!" Pinkie Pie stated as she tossed a bowl of noodle soup into a puddle of magma.
"But... wha?" I stuttered at Pinkie's behaviour, but shrugged it off.
We all turned around as the wall behind us began to crumble, the bricks falling apart as a new path emerged. As the dust cleared, we all caught sight of what lied ahead.
"Sweet Celestia...." Twilight stated with her mouth wide open.
"We... we have to go there?" Fluttershy asked in fear.
"It's the only way through." said Applejack.
"We've come this far, and we're so close!" Rainbow Dash exclaimed.
I looked up at the spiraling path that lead up to the top of an underground mountain sitting on top of a lake of magma. A aura of hellish fire was shooting up from the top of the mountain, forming what appeared to be some sort of portal. And below this portal, their power being harvested to open the portal, were what appeared to be the Elements of Harmony.