//------------------------------// // Prologue : The End of One Story, The Beginning of Another. // Story: Soul Nomad and the Equestrians // by Devourlord //------------------------------// *Epic Chapter Opening Music (Read title while song plays)* ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Soul Nomad and the Equestrians By Devourlord Prologue: The End of One Story, The Beginning of Another ____________________________________________________________________________________________ "An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through." - William Makepeace Thackeray Equestria, Canterlot Castle In the evening light, the setting sun shone in the windows of the castle. The halls of the castle empty, no servants, or anypony else to speak of. Save for a pair of figures. The Princesses of Equestria, Celestia and Luna, stood in silence watching the horizon to the north, where the Crystal Empire laid. Just a few days earlier, Celestia had sent her prized student, Twilight Sparkle, along with her five friends and dragon assistant Spike, to face another enemy of her past, the tyrant of the Crystal Empire, King Sombra. Celestia seemed to be frozen in thought, unmoving and stoic as she would have appeared to her subjects. Luna broke the silence after a while of staring at the horizon. "Art thou worried?" Luna asked turning to her older sister. Celestia snapped out of her trance-like and looked at her to her younger sister. "What...? I'm sorry Luna..." she apologized. "My mind was elsewhere..." "Art thou worried?" Luna asked again. "About your student and her friends?" Celestia turned away, closing her eyes and letting a small sigh slip from her lips. "I'd be lying if I said I wasn't..." spoke the Princess of the Sun. "Why do you worry?" Luna asked. "Thy student and friends have defeated Discord, Queen Chrysalis and even Nightmare Moon." Luna shuddered at mentioning her dark alter ego. "They surely will succeed against King Sombra." "I know but-" Celestia began to say but was cut off as a massive explosion of light erupted forth from the Crystal Empire. The two Princesses' attention snapped back to the horizon. The light began to fade away revealing a rainbow colored aurora in the sky. "They did it" Celestia muttered happily, a smile forming on her face. "They really did it." "See?" Luna smiled back. "Thou had nothing to worry about. " "I suppose my worries were misplaced." Celestia spoke, her smile turning sheepish. "Should I have the artists get ready to prepare the new stain glassed window?" Luna asked Celestia as she turned to leave. "Yes, Luna" Celestia answered, still smiling at the aurora. "I see a bright future for Equestria, and the Crystal Empire." She levitated the black book that once belonged to the legendary unicorn Star-Swirled the Bearded in front of her. "She's ready for her next step." Celestia thought. Celestia would later wish she could've believed those words for a bright future, because even as they spoke, a new threat loomed on the horizon; one greater than any their world had ever seen, one that would push the magic of friendship to its breaking point... Haphnes, The Maize Forest Hundreds of light-years away from the peaceful land of Equestria was a scene that would make most sane beings void their stomachs at. Dozens of bodies of the freshly slain laid in piles across the ground, the forest floor covered in a shallow sea of blood. The massive corpse of Raksha, the last of the three World Eaters, was slumped against the trees, his eyes cold and lifeless. In the middle of all of these rotting corpses stood a red haired male human, covered head to toe in a fresh layer of blood. His name was Revya, better known to the world as the dreaded Devourlord, a being who had brought an unimaginable amount of death and destruction upon the once somewhat peaceful world of Haephnes. A hollow wind blew across the now silent battlefield. "Is everyone...dead?" the Devourlord asked in a monotonous tone with a hint of curiosity. "Hehehe. Yup. Not a single one left." responded a rough masculine voice in his head. The voice belonging to Gig, Haephnes' fouled mouth Master of Death and Revya's, as Gig called it, "soul mate", mainly because the two had shared the same body and soul for a little over a year. "...I see." the red haired human responded while he looked down and nudged a dead body with his boot. "That takes care of all the annoying insects. Nobody left to bother us. You satisfied?" the god asked casually. "Oh, don't tell me you're all lonely now." Gig said in a teasing tone. "..." Silence was the only response to Gig's taunt. "Hey, I should be more than enough company, right?" the Master of Death asked. "You and me, together forever, till the end of time! Haahahaha!" "..." Once again only silence from the Devourlord. There were no more souls around to consume anymore, as far as either of them knew, and Revya had gotten hungry after the battle. There was only one soul left. *Ba-dump* "Hm?" Gig felt something. Something wasn't right. *Ba-dump* "Wha?!" the Master of Death exclaimed. *Ba-dump* "Hey, kid...what you're doing?" Gig asked a bit nervously. "!!" "Hey! Hey, what do you think you're doing?!" the god asked in a panicked tone. Gig suddenly realized, much to his horror, what was happening: Revya was living up to his title and was devouring Gig's soul. *Ba-dump* "No... No! You can't! You can't eat me! Not after all of this!" Gig said in a very panicked voice. "Wh-Why? How can yo-ughalughalbh!" Gig fell silent as the last of his soul was absorbed into Revya's. *Ba-dump* *Ba-dump* *Ba-dump* "The power..." the Devourlord muttered insanely. "(...Heh heh heh heh heh...) Everything before this was nothing. (...Mm ha ha ha HA HA HA HA!) So I can't summon anyone anymore. Now I'm all alone. (...Heh hehaha Ha Ha Ha Ha HA HA HA Ha ha heh heh heh Ha HAHA haHA...!)" Well, he was almost all alone. In a small pocket dimension, two gods, one male and one female, looked upon the now seemingly unstoppable human. The woman turned to the male god and began to speak. "Drazil...by consuming Gig, this soul has attained the power of an Overseer." the goddess spoke to the male god. "And the path to the other world is still open. At this rate, both worlds..." She trailed off. The male god, now identified as Drazil, spoke up in his deep voice. "Indeed, Haephnes. We must make contact." As the Devourlord began to walk toward the portal to the world of Drazil, a female voice began to echo everywhere around Revya. "Devourlord...Devourlord..." the voice called gently. The Devourlord stopped and drew the Onyx Blade from it's sheath and looked around warily. "Who's there?" he called out. In a flash of light, a young woman with green clothing and green hair appeared before the human. "I am Haephnes, god of this world." the woman answered. "What do you desire?" she asked the madman. Revya sheathed his sword. "Nothing" Revya answered simply. A second figure appeared before the Devourlord, this one was male, clothed in red robes and had a head full of blue hair. "And I am Drazil, god of the other world." He frowned at Revya. "The power you've gained rivals even our own. But with such power comes a certain obligation. You have to stop this senseless destruction." "No, I don't want to" the Devourlord sneered. Haephnes took a step forward with a look of concern on her face. "Don't you understand? Our two worlds might disappear completely! And you along with them!" Revya shrugged his shoulders. "Fine by me." A guilty look crossed Drazil's face as he turned to Haephnes. "...Haephnes, I'm sorry... This is all my fault. I planted the seeds from which this disaster grew." "So what?" Revya asked folding his arms. Haephnes sadly shook her head. "No... it's my fault. My words... They couldn't reach this lost soul." "Yeah, sure." The Devourlord answered sarcastically. "Then there's nothing we can do." Drazil remarked as his frown deepened. "We have only one path left to us." Haephnes nodded grimly. "Very well... if that is our only choice. That which rules all... Ashur! Please grant us your divine grace!" "..." The Devourlord stood silent as the two gods drew in power from around them and raised their hands level to him. "Power...!" The two gods shouted in unison. A surge of lighting bolts struck from the heavens directly down upon of Revya, resulting in a massive explosion that rocked the battlefield. "We must use this power to stop the evil!" Haephnes and Drazil spoke at the same time. The dust from the attack settled and showed that not only was Revya alive, but the attack had done nothing to him at all. "Just try it." The Devourlord said leaping into the air and hovered above the two World Rulers. He pointed the Onyx Blade at the gods. "Demon Blast!" Revya roared. Dark energy gathered in the black sword and surged forward and slammed into the gods, knocking them to the ground. "How...?" The World Rulers questioned in unison, unbelieving in Revya's overwhelming power. "Even without Gig...!" "Demon Blast!" Revya shouted again. Another wave of dark energy smashed into Haephnes and Drazil. The ground below them began to fracture and split. "Ahh! The world!" the gods yelled together in painful tones. The entire world seemed to tremble and shake from the attack. "Demon Blast!" The Devourlord fired another blast. "Into nothingness...!" Haephnes and Drazil shouted in despair. Massive fissures split the earth and the ground crumbled. Revya channeled even more power into the Onyx Blade and unleashed one final attack. "Demon Blast!" Revya shouted at the top of his voice. A final blast of dark energy slammed into the World Rulers. Huge chunks of land sunk into the earth and the fissures spread across the planet's surface. "Ashur..." Haephnes and Drazil asked weakly. "Is this...is this what you wanted?" The Devourlord only gave them a wicked smirk. "It doesn't matter. It was fun." The two gods faded away in a flurry of flames, leaving nothing behind, not even their souls. Another maniacal laugh began to slip from Revya's lips. "Heh heh heh ha ha HA HAH AH HA HA ha AHA Ha ha ha eh..." However, Revya's victory laugh died out as he looked around, seeing the planet begin to shake violently. Without it's god to support it with life, the world of Haephnes was on the brink of self-destruction, and he was still on it. The ground cracked and swelled under Revya, intense heat from the fissures surged forth as the planet broke apart and exploded sending millions of tons of rock and debris into the vast coldness of space. The Devourlord could only desperately cling on to the piece of land he was standing on as it hurtled into the upper atmosphere. The human shakily stood and began to leap from chunk to chuck with no clear destination in mind. Not paying attention to where he was going, a rather good sized part of the planet sideswiped him, throwing Revya onto his back on a nearby rock. Through his dazed vision, he looked up to see a large piece of land floating directly towards him. "Ugh..." The Devourlord muttered. "And today was going so good too..." The giant rock smashed into Revya's chunk of land head on, shattering both rocks. Where a normal human would have been nothing more than a bloody red paste on the pieces, the impact merely caused Revya to lose consciousness. His body began to float away from the remains of Haephnes, and unfortunately, was headed in the direction of a certain equine populated planet we all know and love... End Prologue "Hero" Stats Devourlord Revya HP: 76,267 Lv. 2,376 ____________________________________________________________________________________________