//------------------------------// // 6: The thoughts of a demon // Story: Solar Child: Past Demons // by Bakmah Genesis //------------------------------// Satanic sat on the balcony outside of her and Nympha's room back in Canterlot. As soon as they returned from the rather eventful evening, they started trying to throw together a wedding within the last few days. Celestia was trying to try and convince the public of Satanic's sudden appearance short of telling them that she is the daughter of Lucian, the ruler of Tartarus. Her name still stood as Satanic, but she was just a nobles daughter that ran away to a more free land and ended up falling in love with Nympha. It was pretty close to the truth enough to be believed. It was so surprisingly easy that it made her feel anxious. When she entered Equus, she expected retaliation, maybe a small army. She got an empty room, a somewhat forgiving changeling, and a warm family. It wasn't what she expected but it wasn't unwelcome. "You okay, Hun?" Satanic turned around to see Nympha looking at her in concern. Over the last few days her love for Nympha grew while Nympha's love for her bloomed. By the time they were wedded, their love would be mutual. It was a good feeling for Satanic as she grew up being feared and hated. Being loved brought this warm feeling of purpose to her normally black soul. And it was all thanks to the pink mare she was about to marry. "Um, yeah. Yeah, I was just thinking." said Satanic with a smile. Nympha smiled and nuzzled up to the black demon. "Oh? I wouldn't happen to be the cause for that, would I?" She asked innocently. Satanic kissed her own the forehead below the horn, causing the changeling to purr. An odd sound for the insect like creatures. Then again, she was a hybrid. "I was just thinking about how much better you made my life." said the black alicorn, looking up at the sky. The moon was just minutes away from reaching its zenith. "How much did I improve it?" Asked the curious pink mare. Satanic sighed and leaned her head on her lovers shoulder. "All my life since I was born around the same time as Chrysalis, I was hated and feared. One day, I was searching through the memories of my host and found this beautiful pink alicorn. I watched her grow and mature and found myself falling in love with her. "When I finally got the guts to go and tell that mare I loved her and wanted to marry her, I was terrified of what would happen. After telling her, she ended up falling for me only hours after. And I could feel this black soul of mine warm up at the thought of being loved for once." "Funny. A creature that feeds off emotion saved a life using emotion." said Nympha, nuzzling the mare with a smile. "You're probably not since we do have a few changeling doctors and nurses. The love and care they show always helps." said Satanic. Nympha frowned and cuffed the mare in the back of the head. "Just when you made me feel special." pouted Nympha. Satanic laughed and pecked the pink hybrid on the snout. "You are special. To me." Nympha giggled and wrapped her hooves around the demon. "Since I'm marrying a demon, I better be special. I don't think there are many mares that have the ability to say that." said Nympha with a smile. "You will be the first." Their lips met, filling the air around them with electricity as their horns met. Magical energy lept from each of their horns as they rubbed against each other. "Well this is awkward." The two mares yelped and turned to see Luna standing the portal of the balcony, blushing slightly. Her blush paled in comparison to the two bright red blushes coming from the younger mares who had just separated themselves. "Granny Lulu." said Nympha, her face burning a bright crimson. Luna shook her head. "I told you. Just call me Luna or Lulu. Granny Lulu makes me feel old. Well, I am, but it makes me feel older." said the indigo mare. Nympha nodded while Satanic cocked her head to the side. "Why are you here, Luna?" Asked the demon, curious of the night goddesses appearance on her balcony. "Oh, I just wanted to have a walk with you, Satey." said Luna with a smile. Satanic groaned at the new nickname from the princess. It was coming to her understanding that Luna has short nicknames for everyone of the royal family members. She was soon about to be part of this huge, mixed matched family so she was liable to this. "Alright, I just don't understand how it couldn't wait till morning. I'll be back later." Satanic stood and pecked her lover on the forehead before following the indigo mare out of the room and into the halls of the castle that the royal family resided and ruled in. The halls of the castle were decorated with banners depicting various events in history as well as the cutie marks of each of the royal family members and the element bearers. A certain pink banner, however, caught her eye. A red heart sprouting silver wings adorned the center of the banner. Satanic smiled as she took in the site of Nympha's cutie mark. She went on to the next banner and cocked her head in confusion. "Luna,I thought Chrysalis didn't have a cutie mark." she said, gesturing to the black banner. On it was a turquoise heart filled with a triplet of holes. A pair of hole filled insect wings sprouted from it. It was almost identical to Nympha's. "She doesn't. We needed a cutie mark to put on a banner but the thing with changelings is that they don't get cutie marks. However, Chrysalis was able to think of this one. It represents the love and care she usually shows to others even though she is a changeling. It was very ironic that her daughter got the exact same cutie mark with the same meaning." said Luna, looking over the banner. "Like mother like daughter." said Satanic, looking over the two banners. Luna chuckled. "That seems to be common. Now that Twilight has gotten rid of her restrictions over the past few years, she is almost a spitting image of her mother when they are in public. The same can said about me and Trixie. Prism takes after Rainbow and Glimmer after Twilight. Bright is a combo of me and Tia. "Every foal takes after part of their parents while gaining their own traits. It's what makes each of us special. I have no doubt that your own foal will take after you when it is born." Luna turned to Satanic with a warm smile. It quickly vanished as she took in the saddened look on the demons face. "If they take after their parents, what happens if one of them is a demon?" Asked the demon, casting a small flame in her hoof without the aid of magic via the darker side of her being. "Foals are sensitive know not of the power they hold. In Tartarus, you want to stay away from a demon foal. But, what about a demon/pony hybrid? Are they more dangerous? I....just don't know if I should even bring something like that into this world due to how other ponies would react." "You are afraid of other ponies rising up to purge Equestria of the demon in the castle." It wasn't a question. It was a statement. Satanic nodded. "I'm not even pregnant or a mother and I already fear for my children. And my soon to be wife. The public will not take kind if they ever knew of my true origin. And of my past." Satanic sat against the wall and banged her head slightly on it. "If and when they find out, we will fix it. We did it once, we will do it again." said Luna, sitting down next to the black mare. "Yes, not all of us are exactly one hundred percent comfortable with you. You just have to give that time. But you still are practically family now. Tomorrow when you stand at that alter in that beautiful white wedding dress, and you say those vows, you become an official member of this huge, wacky family. And we look out for each other." "You sound a lot like Moony." said Satanic, chuckling slightly. Luna laughed. "She can be fun when she does not get set off and tries to throw Equus into eternal darkness." agreed Luna. "That plan would have never worked. I mean, the ponies would have died after a few years. Food would have ran dry and they would eventually die of starvation. It had so many holes in its plot." Satanic said with a shake of her head. Luna giggled and nodded. "We were powerful but not every gear was turning." The two shared a genuine laugh. It wasn't forced, or awkward. It was as if the two had known each other for years. And they had, in a sense. It made the moment all the more special between the two. And there were plenty more of those moments to come with each member of the ever growing family. ~~~~~~~~ Tartarus was an eternal pit of fire and agony. There was a castle at its very center. It's where it's King ruled and where his daughters would meet for their own private meetings. The house of their father would have been the last place, but it is also ideal. "What should we do? Father is not exactly happy with this devolving matter." said Nightmare Moon. The mare was sitting at the round table where her other sisters met. The meeting room was blood red with an obsidian table taking up the center. At it sat the powerful alicorn demons and the one demon that provided as the equivalent to Equu's Rainbow Dash. When Nightmare Moon showed Rainbow the Shadowbolts, she showed the actual team of advanced fliers in the realm of Tartarus. Which, in sense, was also a dark realm of Equus such as Purgatory was a lighter realm. A paradise. "Well, I'm not keen on betraying my sister. But I'm not sure betraying father is not bright either." said Solar Flare, her blue fiery hair was normal and unlit as it flowed down her neck. "Defying Lucian is not wise but we shouldn't betray Satanic either. She is one of the first one of us to achieve something more in her life and something we all want. We should support her, not betray." said Solar Eclipse. The others nodded. "So do we just go ahead and betray Lucian?" Asked Chrome, a Pegasus demon. "What else can we do? Betray our sister and take away her first happiness? Or betray the father that never shows love to use and sees us as tools? I'm sorry, I prefer supporting sister over some self-righteous asshole." said Nightmare. The others nodded. "Well, I think our best bet is to try and contact Satanic and see if she can get us out so we can try and gain the same goals. I'm not keen on staying in Tartarus." said Lunar Eclipse. "What if she can't?" asked Solar Eclipse. "Then we will get out the same way as Satanic. Use our built up dark energy and bust out that way. Let's just hope they don't kill on site." said Flare, sitting back in her chair. "The things family do for each other." said Nightmare, shaking her head and chuckling. ~~~~~~ Lucian was a grey stallion a whole head taller than Satanic when she is normal height, a head taller than Celestia. His hair was a pitch black and blood red, mixing together as it fell down his shoulders. In front of him was a list that contained the names of every new sinner that fell into his hole of despair, waiting to be placed into their proper realm depending on their sins. Next to that was another. A list that showed the names of souls that wandered in Limbo. It was just outside his realm and was up to him to choose wether to destroy the soul, keep it in limbo, or to bring it into Tartarus. The high demon sighed. He turned his head and looked at one of the many paintings that hung on his office wall. A black mare with a blood red mane and eyes sat in front of a field of fire. She had a scowl on her face as she looked off into nowhere. The painting was suddenly lit ablaze with black fire, devouring the black mare it depicted in a matter of seconds. The mare was soon replaced by a black scorch mark on the wall. "All that work creating the perfect demon and she turns on you and becomes soft. Ha! I don't need her though. Plenty of others to replace and fuel my escape." said the high demon, smirking as he signed a soul to destruction. The brutal process of having a soul torn apart and thrown over the universe to the point where it could not reconstruct itself. "Soon. Soon I will have me revenge on Equus, then on Purgatory. I will show them that I'm not insane and that ponydom is a failing race that needs to be exterminated. I will have my revenge."