Upon a field of battle, old armor and weapons lay scattered about like relics of a forgotten time as the path of war led to a large fortress of darkness. Upon this path stands a warrior of justice, the last of his people to stop the evil that has fallen upon his pony brothers and sisters as he was dressed in armor of steel and silver. Within his magic grasp was a simple sword, but one that served him well over the years of battle and servitude to justice and freedom of his ponies. As he trots down the path, he stops before the obsidian like gates as he calls out "Queen of Darkness! Thy reign of tyranny has gone on for long enough! Below in yonder town, many ponies strive off hunger and disease to survive from your treachery! I, Infernum the Righteous, will put an end to thy wickedness!" he calls out.
Infernum was a great stallion of a fiery red-orange mane and tail all adorned on a golden yellow body with green eyes as he stands outside the gates. As he stands his ground, a evil laugh is heard above him as he looks up and sees the Queen of Darkness descend to him in a robe of black. She looks at him with piercing blue eyes as she smiles "Little foal. Why must thee stand against what is to come? Why can't thee accept thine fate as a worker?" she asks as she smiles evilly. Her black wings and horn shine under the dying sun as the hero speaks no words, but charges to defeat her. Before he even got close, he was hit with a large torrent of water as he is knocked onto his back and bopped on the muzzle with her own sword. He looks up as she smiles "I win" she declares.
The truth was the battlefield didn't have armor or weapons or even relics of any sort. All it had was nice, luscious, green grass and a dirt path as the area around it was a nice garden. The swords were actually mere wooden swords and the castle was a collection of books and boxes painted black. The stallion's armor was just some cloth he put together, same as the 'Darkness Queen's' robe. As the stallion looks up at the Queen, he pouts cutely "That wasn't vewy nice Woona" he says. The final truth is that the stallion and Queen were actually just a couple of fillies playing pretend outside as their respective parents were in boring meetings.
The young colt called Infernum was actually a young Alicorn named Prince Infernum. He was a young colt with fur black as night, but with a small horn and wings that were different from regular Pegasi wings. His head was a light hue of red-orange and his tail is short to only cover his flank and nothing more. On his flank was also his cutie mark, a pair of hammers infront of a large flame. As he sits up, water drips off his head as he spits water out as he looks over at her 'spell'. In reality, all Luna did was pour water on him like a water spell as she smiles and hugs him with her forehooves. He smiles a bit "But I fowgive you" he says as he hugs back. As he lets go, he gets back on all fours as he is the same height as her.
His friend next to him was a slightly dark blue coated filly with also small wings and a horn. On her head was a small black crown that sat behind her horn, but also on her light blue hair. On her flank was a black splotch with a white crescent moon on it. She was Princess Luna, a once shy friend upon first meeting, yet afterwards became a fun friend of the stallion. As he and her walked side by side through the garden, he gets a mischievous smirk and shakes himself dry while also drenching Luna. She squeaks in surprise as he looks at her smiling, yet with her pouting and growling a bit.
Inside the castle, a tall white coated, crimson haired alicorn was doing paperwork with the help of a male alicorn as they look up, hearing a rumble outside. As the two got up and walked over, they could hear yelling of Luna "I WILL DESTROY THEE!" she yells followed by male laughing.
As they opened the door, they see Infernum running and laughing as he is followed by a dripping wet Luna. The female alicorn sighs "Again?" she says softly as she looks at the male. The male alicorn is the same height as her, as a adult alicorn with a coat as red as her hair and with a mane and tail of ethereal orange and yellow colors. The mane and tail moved and flickered like fire as his eyes were a light shade of grey. His name was Helvette, a alicorn who ruled a kingdom within the world of Equus that was designed like a prison for the most evil of spirits and ponies. From his power and kingdom, many of the nobles called him 'The Immortal Judge'.
He chuckles at this "Yes Faust, it's happening again. It's still quite nice to see them getting along despite kingdom differences. She would make him a wonderful wife one day" he jokes as that got a sharp headslap from Faust's wing. He rubs his head "I was half joking.... besides, what other pony have you seen make my son laugh like that?" he asks as he was right.
When they had first came to the world above, Infernum was shy of everypony around him. Noble, commoner, it didn't matter, he was shy of everypony, but then again so was another alicorn. The first meeting was of Helvette and Infernum meeting the three alicorns of Canterlot only three months ago. While the two adult alicorns talked, Infernum went exploring as this kingdom was quite impressive from others. It was of marble and tile, but also shined like the sun as he followed the halls. Before long, he felt himself run into something soft as he looked up and saw he had run into a white fur alicorn with a sun on her flank. She turned and smiled as she leaned down to eye level "Hello little one" she says. As Infernum looked at her, he looks away and tries to hide his head under his wing, but no luck as she giggles softly "It's alright little one. No need to be shy" she says.
He carefully looks up as he sees this young alicorn was a bit taller, like a older sister with a slightly bigger horn and wings. Her hair was a light pink color and a slightly big golden crown on her head with a purple gem in it. As he looks at her, she smiles and motions for him to follow "My name is Celestia and welcome to my home. I can show you around um..."
"Infewnum."
"Infewnum?"
"No. Infernum" he sounds out while also forcing his cheeks to sound out the words. Celestia nods and motions for him to follow as he does since she seems like a nice pony. As the two walked down the hall, they had ran into a small Luna who was trying to get cookies from a plate on a table.
Celestia walked over and helped her down "No Luna. No cookies for thee till after dinner" she says. Luna looks up and sees Infernum as she hides behind Celestia's leg. Celestia helps bring her out "Now don't be shy Luna. Thee stallion is a friend" she says as the two look away from eachother. It was a awkward minute of silence till Luna spoke up "Hello..."
"Hi..."
"We are called Woona"
"Woona?"
"No, her name is Luna" Celestia says as Luna cutely pouts from her mispronunciation. The three simply talked for that day and more to come.
Back to the chase, Infernum is laughing as he runs from Luna who glares at him and is chasing him. As they went through the twisting and turning corridors as he tried to lose her. It would of been easy to lose her, if he was a bit faster and found a way to distract her. All these thoughts though stopped when he and Luna both slammed into something soft as it was Celestia. She looks down and smiles "Another game of chase I see?" she simply asks as they nod. Celestia gives a mischievous smirk "Well then. Why don't I join you? First one to catch Infernum wins?" she asks stating the condition of the game.
Before a agreement is met, Infernum had already taken off as he is laughing at how much fun he is having as he looks back at his pursuers. Yet as fun as it was, it wasn't all real to him. Before long, the hallways and ponies started to blur as everything went dark to the young alicorn prince.
His eyes opened slowly as he laid in his bed as he looks up at the polished black ceiling of his room. Another memory, nothing more. More and more memories of a time when he was just a Prince and not the King of his father's kingdom. As the Alicorn prince got onto his hoofs, he looks over to his nearby mirror to see himself looking back. It wasn't the young alicorn prince as in his memories, but a older one and with noticeable changes. For one, he was between the height of Celestia and Luna in terms of Alicorn size. A few more changes were, of course, his wings and horn grew as well as his wings were of a black frame and grey wing skin, all in the appearance of bat wings. His horn was black and pointed as it adorned his head along with a large two color mane of crimson red hair and the fiery red-orange as before, yet now it held a crown. The crown was one his father made for him, a crown of silver with a black gem in the center of it, circular in form and of ten spikes, the center spike a good five inches long with the two spikes flanking it at four inches. The remaining seven were three inches long.
His coat had also gone through a change as well as it had become darker as well to show his cutie mark as well. His tail had grown as well and looked split into three parts. The top and bottom part were red like his hair, but the middle was red-orange. As he goes and walks over to the window, he looks outside and sees the large rock wall with the massive black doors used to separate his kingdom from the prisoners in Tartarus. The door was hidden behind a illusion spell to make it look like a rock wall to anypony who enters that isn't a prisoner.... which is practically no pony except those who live there.
As his gaze shifted to the small town, he could see all of his kingdom's residents walking about their daily routines. His residents were ponies who considered themselves 'outcasts', ponies who wouldn't be accepted by the others up above. Then again if a pony was grey and green with a mask on that looked like a pony skull, but with a mane and tail of blue burning fire then not many would. To put it simply, all his residents were once outcasts, mismatch ponies, demonic ponies, undead ponies, even griffons and minotaurs who needed a place to live. Infernum is the king of this kingdom and of course followed the open gate policy on Underworld residents that his father had made years ago. As he shakes himself from his thoughts, he looks around his room which only consisted of a table, a few bookshelves and of course his bed. The room was made of walls of black stone, same as the ceiling, yet the floor was made of crimson tile.
He walks over to one of the bookshelves as he looks around for something particular as he spot it. With his magic, a aura of red and orange comes around the object as he looks at it closely. It was a old picture, one of him and the Princesses as children as he sighs "The past cannot change. Only the future" he thinks as he puts it back on the bookshelf. A loud knock is heard as his chamber door opens to a large unicorn walking in. He could tell it was a unicorn only from the horn that stood out from it's cloak that covered it's body.
As the unicorn bows "Forgive me my lord, but it is almost time to check on the prisoners" the unicorn explains.
Her voice was soft and calming as he nods "Thank you Shadow Core" he says. Shadow Core was his personal advisor, but also one of the few who did not fear him for his position and power. He walks over and leaves the room with Shadow Core as the two go to check on the prisoners. Ever since the escape of Tirek, he had to made backup plans incase such a thing happened again and he had to oversee their completion.... then again, after the new punishment was placed, he was sure that Tirek wouldn't try to escape again.
Unbeknownst to him though... six little mares had the same idea of checking on him.