A Lost Soul Returns: The King of Monsters

by Dark Star the Crazed

Sunset's Salvation.

Sunset Shimmer, she was wearing a hooded cloak so nopony would recognize her, slipped through the sewers beneath Canterlot until she found her secret entrance to the Canterlot throne room. She looked at the wall in front of her and smiled. She found this place when she was still under her guidance. She had painted an image of Celestia on the sewer wall so she could find her secret entrance if she ever returned. As she was looking at it a sad smile slowly formed on her lips. "As the sun is a great ball of fire, open now for my mission is dire." The bricks rumbled for a second before floating outwards and to the side revealing a ladder. Sunset quickly climbed the ladder and opened the hatch that was in the far right hoof corner of the throne room. She sealed the way she came in and went behind Celestia's throne. She was just quick enough as the second she went behind the throne the doors opened.

Celestia, Luna, Cadence, Shining Armor, Ana, Twilight, and Fang all entered the throne room. Celestia turned around and sat down on the ground. Her horn glowed and the doors closed. "Before any of you leave I-I have something I need to tell you all." The alicorns, and unicorn, raised an eyebrow and motioned for her to continue. "I have a... Lover... The problem is that if I say his name... You all might hate me." There was a small chuckle from all the ponies gathered. That made Celestia feel more confident. "Do you promise none of you will think less of me when I tell you his name?" They all nodded and Celestia shivered. "His name is Mord Donner, and he... He is an archdemon." The room was silent. Cadence did nothing but smile, Shining Armor's eyes were wide, Ana was confused, Luna just kept opening her mouth trying to say something but no words would come out. Twilight walked over and hugged Celestia.

"I wont judge you Princess. You have every right to love somepony no matter who or what they are! Isn't that right Fang?" Twilight turned with a smile on her face and looked at Fang. Her smile instantly disappeared when she saw Fang's face. His eyes were glowing red, and his mane looked like an astral version of hellfire. His teeth had become sharper than those of a manticore, hydra, and dragon combined. "F-Fang? W-whats wrong?" Twilight was scared just by looking at him in this form. He didn't look like the Fang she knew and loved. He looked like an incarnation of pure evil.

Fang took a step forward. He looked angry but was actually very calm. "Celestia... Tell me... What you just said... Is it true?" Celestia nodded. For a few minutes there was silence. Everypony wondered and feared what he would do. He let out a sigh and looked at Celestia. "You are lucky that I am more accepting today than I was five thousand years ago." He smiled and changed back to normal before walking over to Twilight. "Sorry if I scared you my love." He gave her a little nip on the ear which resulted in him getting nuzzle form Twilight. Fang looked up and saw part of Sunset's tail. He smiled and gave Twilight a little nip on the neck before motioning for her to follow. The two took to the air and flew over to the throne where they saw Sunset sitting there twirling a knife with her magic. Twilight charged a spell to fire at Sunset thinking that she was going to attack Celestia when she sat down. Then Fang stopped her.

"Fang she is going to kill Celestia once she sits down!" They were speaking in hushed tones.

Fang just mouthed 'watch'. He pointed down to Sunset and the two watched as the knife stopped floating and fell to the ground. The other ponies in the room began to gallop up to the throne. Celestia's blood began to run cold when she heard Sunset. She was not afraid because of who it was, she was scared of what she was saying.

Twilight and Fang landed on the ground while all the others walked around behind the throne. Sunset was just sitting there. Nopony dared move. Sunset began to give short chuckles as she twirled the knife in her magic. Then Twilight realized something. She wasn't laughing, she was sobbing. Tears were falling from her eyes. Sunset was so caught up in her sadness that she didn't even know that seven ponies, six of which were living gods, were watching her. Then she began to hum what sounded like a lullaby. Celestia's blood began to run cold when she heard Sunset. She was afraid of what Sunset was about to do. Finally Sunset began to hum it aloud.

In one swift motion she broth the knife down onto her legs and ran the blade across them hard. Blood began to seep from her legs and the blade floated up to her throat. "Now they will finally shut up. I had to kill myself to get them to shut up but at least I'm going to die in the place I was happiest." Celestia took a step forward and reached out towards Sunset but pulled her hoof away to see if she was really going to go through with it. "I'm such an idiot. I just wanted mom to love me again. I should have just told her I was sorry. My immortal sun goddess of a mother hates me, her sister hates me, her niece and her husband hate me, and her niece's sister in law... She defiantly hates me the most, I tried to kill her after all. It's time for me to finally rest, to sleep the dreamless, never ending, sleep." She pressed the blade harder against her throat and drug it to the left. A small line of blood formed and she fell over. "I'm sorry mommy... I didn't want to hurt anypony... I just wanted you to love me again." She was now laying in a pool of her own blood and tears. Nopony did anything, they should been saving her but they weren't.

Finally Celestia snapped out of her trance and fired a spell at the dying Sunset. Her wounds began to heal and Celestia gave a slow trot over to her and sat down. She levitated Sunsets head onto her lap and began to run her hooves through Shimmer's mane. "Shh, shh, shh. Mother is here. Everything is going to be fine now."

Twilight just blinked. "I-I'm confused. Sunset said her immortal sun goddess of a mother and you just said mother is here. Does that mean that your? Is Sunset your?" Celestia nodded. "I-I'm so sorry I hurt her back in the human world. If I had known..." Twilight looked down and Sunset looked up. Twilight gasped and backed up, away from the pony who's head was in Celestia's lap. Sunset's eyes were not their normal blue tint. They were a solid glowing yellow. "Princess that's not your daughter!"

Celestia opened her eyes and looked down at her beloved daughter. "No Twilight... This is my daughter... Its just her eyes are glowing... Wait... Why are your eyes glowing!?" Sunset chuckled, her voice was deep like a males now.

Then Sunset began to float and laugh. "As soon as she cut her throat her body became mine! I have been in her body since she was born! You didn't think that she would leave you just because she was angry did you? No she left because of me! Because she was afraid I would make her hurt the ones she loved!" Her horn glowed and the doors and windows were all sealed by magic. Suddenly a knife hit her in the stomach. She fell to the ground but was caught by Twilight.

Fang had thrown the knife so that the blunt end hit her and she only had the wind was knocked out of her. He closed his eyes, faced her, and sighed. He opened his eyes and looked at Twilight. "Twilight restrain her with your magic!"

Twilight looked at Fang then Sunset. "Why should I restrain her? What are you going to do!?"

Fang just pushed both Celestia and Luna out of the way. "She is possessed! If she stays possessed for to long the demon will eat her soul and we wont be able to save her! Restrain her so she cant get away! I will be right back!" Twilight sighed and summoned some magical restraints as Fang bolted out the door. A few moments later he ran back in and sealed the doors behind him. This time however he had a small clear orb and a bag of rice. He ran over and threw the entire bag of rice on Sunset who screamed and opened her mouth.

A large, grayish, column of smoke came out of her mouth and swirled around in the air before taking the shape of a manta ray. It was grey with black spots on the top and gills on its belly. It had glowing yellow eyes, a mouth full of jagged, razor sharp, teeth, and a forked tail. Upon its head was a small silver crown. It began to fly around the room like it was swimming through water.

Fang took the small clear orb and rolled it into the center of the room. "Ana! Go over to the orb! There is a small button on the side, when I say 'open' press the button and hold it!" He turned to the others. "I need all of you to help me position the demon over the orb ok!?" Fang's horn glowed and a magical lasso appeared. He threw it around the demon and it tightened, Shining Armor, Twilight, Celestia, and Luna all did the same spell and the demon could no longer move of its own free will. "Help me get it over the orb!" The alicorns walked so that the lassos they made pulled the demon until it was struggling over the orb. "Ana! Open the orb!" Ana pressed the button and a small hole appeared on the top of the orb. "Release your spells!" The alicorns all released it and watched as a tornado emerged from the orb and formed a hand. The hand grabbed the demon and receded into the orb. Soon there was no demon in the room, the tornado had taken the demon with it into the orb. Fang smiled, walked over, and shook the orb. "Success! Now we can trap demons instead of killing them!" He picked it up and put it in a pair of saddlebags that he summoned. He looked at all the others and smiled. They all smiled back at him.

"Ow... My aching head..." They all looked towards the origin of the sound and saw Sunset sitting up. She blinked. Her eyes were back to normal. She looked and saw all the alicorns, and unicorn. "Oh no... I-I-I wont go to prison!!!" She charged a huge spell and fired it directly at Twilight. Twilight braced for the impact but it never came. She opened her eyes and saw Fang, holding Sunset's spell. He threw it upwards and it exploded into harmless sparks, like far off fireworks. They all turned to Sunset only to see her trying to open the secret exit. "I lost my freedom once! I won't loose it again! It's all I have left!" They all began to walk closer and Sunset panicked. Her eyes grew wide and she looked around for another way to escape. The only other way out she saw... Was her knife. Her horn glowed and the knife flew over to her. She sat down and took it in one of her hooves before placing it to her neck. "S-stay back or I slash my throat!" All the ponies stopped at the threat, except Celestia.

Sunset began to panic and tried calming down by closing her eyes and repeating the poem she had said before.

When she opened her eyes Celestia was sitting in front of her. "M-mom..."

Celestia frowned. "I don't hate you Sunset. I could never hate my daughter, my own flesh and blood." Sunset began to shake, dropped the knife, ran over, and hugged her mother. She began to cry furiously. Celestia smiled and ran her hooves through her daughters mane. "It's OK. Your not going to go to prison. I'm sorry I made you so mad. I nearly lost my mind when you went through the mirror. I thought I would never see you again."

Sunset just continued to cry into her mothers chest. "I'm so sorry that I was such a foal when I didn't get what I wanted! I'm sorry I ran away! I'll never do it again I promise! I missed you! I love you mommy! I was so scared that you hated me and I wanted to come back! I really did but I was just so afraid!" Celestia gave her a daughter a kiss on the forehead and told the others to announce that court was closed today. That they were all going to have a family outing. Fang volunteered his kingdom to be the area they had the outing. The others all liked the idea, except for Sunset and Armor. Sunset because she had never heard of Transylmaneia and Armor because he did not like Fang.

They soon all got on carriages and were off to Fang's kingdom. Fang then remembered. "One thing before we get there! If you see a colt wearing the suit of one of Santa Hooves' elves and he tries to give you a present... Lay him the buck out! His presents take your greatest wish and reverses it! Also do not disrespect any Kasipepo, they look like cheetah/pony hybrids." They all nodded and smiled. Even Shining gave a little smile.