//------------------------------// // Day 3-2: Sparda 'Party Demon' // Story: Judgement // by rikkuidol //------------------------------// Chapter 12-2: Day 3-2: Sparda ‘Party Demon’ *sound of bed squeaking* “Wake up!” shouted a little boy’s voice “Yeah! Wake up!” shouted a little girl’s voice “Discord! Luna! Quit jumping on sir Sparda’s bed! He might get angry” said another little girl’s voice only a bit older and sounded concerned. “No he won’t Celly!” retorted Luna as she and Discord continued to jump on Sparda’s bed. *Grunt* *Mumble* “I’m up! I’m up!” said Sparda with an annoyed tone. As much as he wanted to keep on sleeping, it was about time to wake up as he felt his stomach grumble. And as the duo jumped off the bed, Sparda sat up from his bed with a grunt. “I’m so sorry for Luna’s actions sir Sparda!” apologized Celestia as she approached Sparda with puppy eyes. Sparda was not about to scold the two for what they did, they were children, but when he looked at the eyes of the little Celestia he couldn’t help but pat the head of the little alicorn. “No worries Celly, after a month of staying here in Canterlot, I’m already used to the antics of these two” said Sparda as he eyed the two mischiefs that were near the door to his room smiling sheepishly. Celestia then gave Sparda the warmest of smiles and trotted next to the two and gave them mean looks, to which Luna stuck her tongue out and ran quickly outside the door, to which Celestia followed soon after, leaving Discord and Sparda behind. “What a handful bunch” said Sparda jokingly as he started to stretch his muscles. He then walked next to Discord and gave the little Draconequus a pat on his head. “Having fun?” asked Sparda as he looked at Discord “You bet!” answered Discord Cheeringly It has already been a month since Sparda and Discord introduced themselves to Queen Faust in the Everfree Fields. At first she was slightly taken aback with how the two looked; one was a Draconequus who was thought to be a myth. The other was a bipedal creature who emitted an extremely large aura, to which made Queen Faust shiver as she realized that, that aura was a shielding aura that contained the true aura. For a containing aura to be greater than her true aura she feared how powerful is this creature to have so much power than hers. It was like comparing a drawn knife to a huge sheathed sword. But to her surprise she did not sense any killing intent or bloodlust at all, and even though the creature did not show it, she felt that it was not here to do any harm to them; she felt warmness in its presence. And as the duo stopped in their tracks, the first to speak was the bipedal creature. ************************* *1 month and 13 days ago* “Greetings” said the creature with echoing voice. “My name is Sparda and this little one is Discord, we come in peace, we do not wish you nor your foals any harm” Sparda added, to which the two little Alicorns noticed, as soon as they saw Sparda they stopped playing and ran behind their mother. “I see, but please understand that the both of you are not normal dwellers in my land” said the alicorn as she stood and extended her wings; she was as tall as Sparda, her wings are just as long, as the sun reflected on her crown and royal accessories, she added “I am Queen Faust. I welcome you to the land of Equestria that I reign over.” Discord then noticed that Queen Faust was looking at him and gave him a warm motherly smile, to which Discord shied away and looked down. Queen Faust then looked at Sparda with a neutral expression and spoke. “Why have you come here sir Sparda?” “It seems that I have made a detour your highness” answered Sparda with his echoing voice. He then added “I was supposed to have travelled to the Human world” “Human world?” said Queen Faust Quizzically as she raised an eyebrow. “Yes, you see….” And as Sparda was about to tell his story to Queen Faust, he remembered that there were children with them, he then looked to Discord and gave him a warm smile. “Queen Faust, I wish to explain this in private for there are children with us” “Indeed” answered Queen Faust, and with a nod, she turned to her two foals and whispered to both of them. And as Queen Faust and her foals were talking, Sparda gestured to Discord to introduce himself to them. “You can do it, remember, you’re never alone” Discord then nodded and approached Queen Faust and spoke. “Excuse me, your highness” said discord as he bowed slightly. Queen Faust noticed this and gave Discord the same warm smile she gave earlier and spoke. “Luna, Celestia. Get acquainted with our guest” she said with a smile and gestured for the two to follow suit. The first one to talk was the little dark blue filly as she trotted in front of her mother. “Greetings, sir Discord! My name is Princess Luna” Introduced Luna as she slightly bowed her head. “He-hello Princess Luna” said Discord shyly. To which Luna giggled to how Discord reacted. The other slightly older filly followed next and introduced herself. “And I am Princess Celestia, sir Discord; it is a pleasure to meet you” “Li-likewise” answered Discord shyly again. To which Celestia giggled also. The way the little ones introduced themselves gave the other two observers a warm smile. Queen Faust then gestured something to Celestia, to which she complied and talked to Discord. “Sir Discord, I wish to know more about you, would you like to join us over there?” asked Celestia with a warm smile. Discord then looked at Celestia with a blush and quickly looked at Sparda, Sparda then gave a warm smile and nodded. “Sure! what do you want to know?” answered Discord as the trio walked away from the two adults. “What are you?” asked Luna cheeringly as she hovered next to Discord as they left. As soon as the two were left alone, Sparda then told Queen Faust that he is from the underworld, where the evil and damned departed souls resided. And that he wanted to wage war on a Tyrannical ruler. Whose objective is to take over the world of the living to expand his reign, so that he can rule both the living and the dead. And kill all who stands in his way. “You see your highness; I was once the General of the Army of my ruler. Not all of the Demons in his ranks are evil to the core, some of them are rational. As for me, I saw the Tyranny and Injustice he has done to my kind and even so to the humans. You can say that I ‘woke up to justice’ “explained Sparda. Queen Faust during the explanation soaked up the information she was being given. His intentions are true, his words, not a single lie came out from them, and every word he said was true to him. “These feeling of Justice you seek, I have felt that, are true and without a poison of doubt” answered Queen Faust with her eyes closed and wearing a warm smile. And when she opened her eyes, what she saw was no demon, what she saw was a knight, a hero. “But how do you plan on achieving your goals? Are you prepared to stain your hands with the blood of your own brethren?” she added. “The needs of the few outweighs the needs of the many, your highness, I would sacrifice even myself, to save the innocent. I may be a demon but I too have a soul.” “I under-------“ *Screaming* Queen Faust was cut off when she heard her foals scream, she then heard a snapping sound and Discord magically appeared infront of them with a look of worry and fear in his eyes. “Sparda! Help! Something came out of the forest!” said Discord with fear in his tone, and with a popping sound both Celestia and Luna appeared next to Queen Faust and was both afraid and shaken. “Mother! There are creatures that came out of the forest that we have not seen before!” said Celestia nervously. “We thought that it was the same as sir Sparda but---“ SPARDA!! Luna was then cut off with a scream that came out of the forest. Sparda then sighed and looked at Queen Faust and spoke. “I’m sorry your highness, it seems that they have found me, I’ll take care of this” said Sparda as he looked at Queen Faust with determination, he then knelt with one knee and placed his hands at the head of Discord and Luna “Don’t worry kids, I’ll take care of this, stay put” “But he was as huge as a hydra!” screamed Luna as she flailed her hooves in the air. “Thanks to Discord we teleported right time when it swiped its claws at as.” “Indeed, thank you Discord” said Celestia with a smile, to which Discord smiled with a blush. ”WHERE ARE YOU SPARDA?! DEATH AWAITS YOU!” “Good grief! Queen Faust, stay put, this’ll just take few seconds” said Sparda with a smirk and a sarcastic echoing voice. To which Queen Faust only nodded in agreement and gave him a warm smile. This prompted Sparda to stand, turn to the source of the voice and outstretched his hand, and a katana appeared in front of him, it had a black sheath and two white sashes attached to it. Sparda then walked to the direction of the demonic voice wearing a smile and craned his neck to which a satisfy crunch came out. And as the sound of more demonic voices was heard, he stopped in his tracks and assumed a stance where he put his hand that held the blade in his waist and the empty hand near the handle. *Shlink* And with a blink of an eye, Queen Faust could not believe her eyes. As if the air itself was cut, the edge of the Everfree forest was cut horizontally that spanned a whole acre. When she casted a shielding barrier at the three children, in the form of a small spherical bubble so that they can’t see what was outside. As the Top of the forest came sliding down, a fountain of blood spewed like a geyser. A horde of Demons then rushed out of the forest heading for their target. Not knowing that it’s ‘THEIR’ death that awaits them. And as Sparda slowly returned to his Human form, he drew two weapons from his coat and shot two bursts of electricity and fire at the horde and killed off one fourth of the horde. “Adam? Eve? Are you ready?” And as the horde neared their target, what they saw was not fear on his eyes. But what they saw was a smiling face. “Let’s get this party started”