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// Chapter 7 
// Story: Demon Hunter 
// by The Dude 
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I was sitting in my kitchen having breakfast when I heard a knock on my door. I set down my coffee and got up from my chair and headed to the door. I opened the door and was greeted by the friendly blond cross eyed mail mare.

"Hey Derpy." I said, I was glad that she was the pony delivering me mail, she was pretty nice and all around a lovable pony.

"Hi Iceheart. I'm here to give you this." She then reached into her mailbag and pulled out a very big package."Must be important too, it came straight from the princess!"

She held the package out to me and I grabbed. I checked the front and sure enough I could see the royal stamp.

"Thanks." I said.

"Your welcome." She said and turned and flew away but quickly turned back to me,"Wait, what would the princess want with somepony like you?"

I had to give a response, most ponies still thought I was a writer."Uh..I'm best friends with one of her students and I was able to meet her."

"Oh. That's pretty neat!" She responded."Well see ya Icy!" She then turned and flew away,probably to deliver some mail to other ponies in town.

I then went back inside and shut the door. I then set the package down on my table and pulled out of knife from a drawer in my kitchen. I cut the side of the box and pulled out something wrapped in wrapping paper with a note taped on. I pulled the note off and began to read it.

I have been working on this for a little while specifically for you. Try it it's fucking awesome. I call it a shotgun.


-Barry


Immediately tore off the wrapping paper to find a large version of my pistols. It had a red wood finish and a large barrel on one side. It had all of the characteristics of something you point at someone you don't like and go bang. To say it bluntly it was gorgeous. I grabbed it with one hoof and quickly examined it by all sides.

"Fuck yes." 





I was standing in Twilight's doorway while she was gathering things and putting things in a satchel and talking to Spike.

"Spike" She said to her green and purple assistant,"i'll be fine."

"I know Twilight." He said."Its just I don't like you having to leave at night to go find scary monsters."

"Its just a small gathering, i'll be fine." She then turned to me,"You ready?"

"Yeah." I responded.

"Alright then." She then walked outside and I closed the door and we went to go to a small party that we probably weren't invited too.





After a long walk we finally got to where we were told by the demon whore. The barn was red but it looked like it hadn't seen maintenance in years so the barn had broken windows and the paint was starting to peel off. It looked run down and abandoned and it seemed odd that it would be the party spot of pure evil.

Twilight and I approached the barn until we were at its large doors. I was able to crack open the door wide enough that Twilight and I were able to slip in. It looked on the inside how you would think it would look. Large things of hay were strewn all around the barn and there were rusty barn tools hung on the wall. It looked like an disaster.

Maybe the party had all ready happened and left us to clean up they're mess. But I wasn't going to give up that easily. I quickly tried to analyze my surroundings. I tried to look around trying to find something that would give me the answer but I found nothing. It just looked like a run down barn, nothing else.

"Iceheart?" Said Twilight.

I turned to her,"Yeah?" 

"Come here."

I trotted over to Twilight to see that she had swept a bit of the floor that had previously been covered with hay and revealed a small door probably leading somewhere important. I grabbed the handle on the door and pulled it open revealing a stone stair case spiraling down into the unknown.

I gave Twilight a quick nod and I began heading down the stairs. I kept heading down until the end when the staircase ended there was a short dark hall way and at the end stood an old wooden door. I waited until Twilight was right behind before I headed to the door. Once I reached the door I took a big breath and quietly opened it.

Behind the door was an incredibly large dark room. At the end of the side of the dimly lit room was a stage and at least thirty ponies. On the stage stood two ponies and a very large stone circle with some pony tied to it. The pony's stomach was cut open and his intestines strewn out of his stomach and on the floor. The stone behind him looked to have a star with a circle around it.

I quietly entered the large room and Twilight quietly followed. We would have kept sneaking around but one of the ponies head spun and faced us. It had black eyes buts its mouth did not look like a ponies but more resembled predators mouth or a crab.

All the other ponies creepily did the same thing one after another. Then finally the two ponies raised their heads and looked at us.

"Well" Said one of the ponies on the stage, he was a colt with bright red fur and completely black eyes, indicating he was not going to be very fond of me."your here to kill the party."

"Something like that." I responded.

He gave a slight chuckle,"And how do you plan to do that."

"With this." I stood on my two hind hooves,something I started doing more then usual, and pulled the "shotgun" out of my jacket and held it like I would my pistol. 

"What does that do?" He asked.

I gave a smug smirk,"Your about to find out." I fired my new gun and immediately was flung back into a wall. As soon as my head stopped spinning I tried my best to stand up.

"Uh Iceheart, I think your supposed to hold it with two hooves." Said Twilight.

I was gonna make some sort of assholish comment but I was too surprised and in a little too much pain to think of one.

"Kill them." Said the pony on stage, he waved his hoof and then a swarm of evil demons suddenly started running towards me and Twilight. Mostly Twilight. I was able too see that the demons were headed for Twilight. I stood up and dashed for her while I pulled out my sword. 

I saw one demon that was with in a few feet of Twilight, but I was able to cut a demon in half before it could reach her. I saw two more monstrosities headed straight for me. I sliced the head off one, the other one tried to hit me but I was able to dodge it and stab it directly in the throat. I pulled out the sword and turned directly to one demon that was a safe distance away from me. 

I ran directly towards the demon and saw it was preparing for what it thought I was gonna do. As soon as I was close enough I jumped and placed both my hind hooves on its face. My hooves were still planted as the demon fell back on its back. The demons skull met the floor, and the pressure caused by my hooves caused the brain of the pony to explode.

I looked forward just in time to see a demon swing its hoof at me. I didn't have enough time to dodge so it collided with my skull. I backed up a bit but I quickly recovered and jumped forward and returned the favor by cutting of it's lower body in half.

My sword wasn't going to cut it right now. I flung my sword in the direction where the most demons were bundled. I immediately began shooting demons left and right. They were dropping like the bass in Vinyl Scratch's songs. All of the demons had their attention square on me at this point, which means they weren't going to attack Twilight. 

I was too busy shooting demons to notice the demon behind me that was brandishing a lead pipe. Luckily I was able to get out of the way before It hit me. I turned back to the demon, it tried to hit me again but I grabbed the pipe and pulled myself in and placed the gun against its head and pulled the trigger.

By this point the only demons left alive were the two on the stage. I finally paid attention to the other one on stage. It was wearing a big black robe. Suddenly it pulled off its hood revealing its face. It had black skin and bright red eyes. It wasn't smiling but you could see it's teeth, Very long and very thin.

It lunged for me. Now I could see its arms, they weren't hooves, they were more like long black blades. I jumped backwards barely dodging its blades that embedded itself in the floor. It pulled its arms out of the floor and jumped to kill me again. Again I jumped back before it stabbed me, but this time I took advantage of the situation and I jumped forward and dropped my elbow on its head and kneed it in the jaw.

It stumbled back but quickly regained its position. I ran in and slashed its arms at me and I tried to get out of the way, this time I didn't escape unharmed, it cut my arm pretty deep. I quickly jumped back as far as I could to try to create a safe distance away from the monster. I began clutching the wound to try to stop the bleeding but it wasn't helping, I needed to end this fight soon and seek help.

I ran at the monster and it began sprinting towards me. When I was close enough I quickly leaped over the monster. And when I mean leaped I mean front flipped. While I was spinning I quickly found the right moment when I was looking down at the monster and I placed my gun to its head and shot it. I landed directly behind the monster and I could hear its body drop to the floor.

I looked to see the bright red colt still standing on the stage. Before he had time to do anything I jumped onto the stage. He was about to run but I shot one of his hind hooves and he fell onto the floor and began screaming and trying to clutch his wound.

I trotted up to him and placed my hoof on his stomach and aimed my gun straight at his head.

"Go ahead!" He said,"You'll never stop the invasion!"

"Wait..wait what?" I dumb foundedly said.

"You know,the invasion of Ponyville, you will never stop it!"

I was still confused,"Wait what?"

His face turned from fear of dying to a look of confusion that was mirroring my own,"You know, the invasion of Ponyville. Isn't that the reason your here?" 

"No."

"Oh well I hope you have fun with that." He suddenly kicked me with his good hoof and sent me hurling off of him. He suddenly stood up as best as he could but he suddenly flew to the side and hit the stone tablet, blood suddenly leaked out of him.

I turned to see Twlight holding my shotgun with magic, "I did it! I did it!" she started screaming.

"Um Twilight" I said,"I think we have a bigger problem on our hands."