Demonic Ascension

by timemaster40

Settling In

As I sit on the cot that Star Swirl gave me to sleep on in the main room of his house I decide to look outside a nearby window. And while watching the leaves on nearby trees wave in the wind I can’t help but sigh. It’s been a month since I ended up here in Equestria in a new body and I still have no idea how to react. Should I be mad? Or scared? Or…or something? I just don’t know. Maybe I’m still in shock from all this. Or maybe I just don’t have the same emotions I used to have since I’m a demon now. Or maybe I need a shower since I’m beginning to smell from a month of learning magic and not much else. Wait, they won’t have showers here so I guess I need a bath. But even then, that would mean that I’ll need to undress…

“Ugh.” I quietly say while leaning back and putting my face in my hands.

“Towa! You’re sounding extra depressed today. What’s wrong?” Star Swirl asks from his position at the small desk he keeps in this room. I guess I wasn’t as quiet as I thought considering he heard me while he’s working on that stupid potion he was telling me about yesterday.

“I’m sorry Star Swirl. I was just thinking on my lot in life right now.”

“What’s there to think about? You survived a massive magical surge and came out with some memory loss. Considering how powerful you are you could have easily exploded. Or imploded. Or…” Ugh, I’ve heard all of this before from him. And I really don’t need to hear how all my organs could disappear while I’m still alive and in extreme pain. Once was enough and I’m just glad that hearing about that potential fate didn’t give me nightmares.

“I get it you annoying stallion.” Honestly, I respect the unicorn but his bedside manner sucks.

“Ha! See you’re already feeling better. All you need to do is think of the bright side of things. Now would you mind getting me the oak leaves in my pantry?” Even though I know that he can eat leaves I still find it strange. Actually, I haven’t really felt hungry since I changed. And I’ve been eating whatever he gives me. Have I been eating things that would have killed me as a human and not noticed?

“Oak leaves? What for?” I ask as I get up and slip on my heels. Though as I do I begin to lose my balance. Thankfully I can lean up against the wall to steady myself. And once I’ve restored my balance I begin to slowly walk into the kitchen.

“I need them to help balance out the manticore venom in this potion I’m making. With both poisons together, my potion should be able to heal a rare form of stomach affliction. Or it’ll kill any pony who ingests it. I’m not sure exactly what’ll happen yet which is why I need to make the potion so I can test it thoroughly.” As he says that I successfully make it to the kitchen and open the pantry.

“Wait, oak leaves are poisonous? Then why do you have them in the pantry?” I ask him as I begin trying to find the properly labeled jar.

“Hmm? For potions of course. Where else would I keep my ingredients?” I can’t see him but I’m sure he’d be looking at me as if I asked a stupid question.

“A separate potion ingredient cabinet so you won’t poison yourself accidentally.” Ah, there’s the jar. A simple ceramic jar which looks identical to all the other jars in this pantry except for the fact that it has the words oak leaves painted on the side. And I still can’t believe I can read and write the unicorn language. Star Swirl thinks it’s some demon ability of mine and I can’t really discount that since I have no idea what natural abilities my body has.

“Where would I put a separate cabinet? Besides I know where all my ingredients are so it’s not like I’ll poison myself.” Star Swirl self-assuredly says as I pull the jar out and start walking back to the main room so I can give it to him.

“If you say…eep!” I slip in my heels just as I cleared the threshold into the main room. And as I slip I accidentally let go of the jar which goes flying into the air. Thankfully I don’t hit the floor since Star Swirl catches me with his telekinesis. And it looks like he caught the jar as well.

“Thanks for the leaves Towa. Though I have to ask, why do you wear those crazy shoes of yours? You’re always tripping while you wear them. And if it wasn’t for your demonic physiology I’m sure you’ve have broken something. Or at the very least strained something.” As he says that he uses his magic to lean me against a wall before he releases me from his telekinetic hold.

“These are the only shoes I have Star Swirl. And while I could go around barefoot, I just feel better wearing them. They remind me of home.” And I can’t help but find it sad that heels remind me of home. But they’re the only part of my clothes or body that don’t scream demon. Even if they’re blood red and shiny.

“And the constant tripping?” He asks as he mixes up his potion while reading from some notes.

“…I’ve never worn shoes like these before so I have to learn how to walk in them through trial and error.” I shyly admit as I slowly walk up behind him.

“Bah! Just go around without them. It’s not like it’ll hurt you.” Star Swirl says dismissively.

“I’m getting better at walking in my heels Star Swirl. I just need more practice.” I say slightly petulantly. Ugh, I sound like a child.

“I suppose I can’t fault you for wanting to practice. And speaking of practice, how’s your elemental magic coming along?” He asks as he puts his potion on an enchanted stone that will heat it up. It’s still surprising that he doesn’t use an open flame for that but he told me he likes using his enchanted stones to heat things up. Something about the enchantment giving him more control over the heat.

“I’m getting better at water and wind manipulation. But I was wondering, is it normal for someone to pick up magic as quickly as I’ve been doing it? I mean, I learned telekinesis in an afternoon. And even though you taught me elemental magic last week I’ve already moved onto journeyman level fire and earth spells.” I think he can hear the worry in my voice since he actually turns around to talk to me face to face.

“It helps that I insist on you learning the theory behind any magic I teach you first. Still I wouldn’t worry about the speed you’re learning magic at. Part of your quick learning curve is from how powerful you are. As for the rest, well it’s likely that you used to know magic like what I’m teaching you before your amnesia. And because of that your magic already knows how to properly shape itself for the spells you’ve been learning.” I guess that makes some sense from his perspective.

But the problem with his theory is that I never knew any magic as a human. Though I guess my body may have known some. I may even have some instinctive magic since I'm a demon. I was able to use that magic blast, or whatever it was, to defend myself from that manticore. Though I should probably put my musings aside since I think something’s wrong with his potion. It’s starting to aggressively boil while turning yellow.

“If you say so. Um, Star Swirl?”

“Yes?”

“Is your potion supposed to be turning yellow and boiling that much?”

“Yellow? No, no it’s not. It’s supposed to turn violet if my theory is right. If it’s turning yellow that means that the manticore venom is overpower…”

*Boom*

“…ing the oak. Hmm, I’ll need to decrease the amount of manticore venom next time. And it looks like I’m going to have to replace my potions set. Darn, this is the eighth time this year.” As he says that both of us, and most of the room, are covered in a slightly warm yellow gunk. A yellow gunk that smells horrible.

“Is this poisonous Star Swirl?” I ask as I wipe the surprisingly cold gunk off my face.

“Hmm? Well it should be considering how much manticore venom is in it. Oh dear, we better get cleaned up as soon as we can.” As he says he casts a spell at a nearby mob and bucket which begin moving on their own to clean up the room.

“And how do you plan to do that?” I ask while happily finding out that my clothes protected most of my body from touching this gunk. If only my clothes provided protection for all of my body. I don’t really like the feelings I’m getting from my midsection.

“One second…” as he says that his horn glows again and the two of us are covered in in a bright light. When it disappears, we’re no longer covered in the gunk. Though as I hold my hand near my face I can still smell it on me.

“…there we go! Though we should probably go take a bath in the manticore’s lake. It’s been about two months since my last one and you don’t exactly smell that good yourself.” The manticore’s lake? What is he talking…wait, did he just insult me?

“Are you saying I smell?” I say with an undercurrent of malice. Huh, since when do I care about such things enough to threaten someone?

“Well, you haven’t bathed or changed your clothes since I took you in.” He says in a confused voice.

“Then why haven’t you said anything about that until now? I mean, you just admitted to not bathing for two months.” I can’t help that coming out defensively. I just don’t understand why I care about my appearance right now.

“I know some spells that allow me to extend the time between my baths. Now let’s go before it gets too late.” And then the annoying stallion begins walking for the door completely forgetting about how I’m a demon who doesn’t want to be seen by his neighbors. And while they may be far away they’re close enough to check up on him every so often.

“Star Swirl, do you honestly expect me to go walking outside?” I ask him while I levitate my staff over to me. Hopefully I can use it as a cane if I need it. Or I could just take off my heels. That may be a better idea.

“Oh. Heh, I completely forgot about that. I’ll just teleport us there.” What! I still need to take my heels off. And you seem to have forgotten to bring soap and towels for us.

“Wa…it.” Before I can even finish I’m blinded by a burst of light and a popping sound. And when it fades we’re no longer in Star Swirl’s house. Instead we’re surrounded by trees and in front of us is a big crystal clear lake.

And while I’m surprised at how quickly he teleported us, I can’t help but be exasperated by his cavalier attitude. Well, at least I don’t feel that bad from the teleportation. I was kinda expecting some nausea or something. But as good as I feel, I better remind my absent-minded companion of what he forgot.

“As amazing as your skills with teleportation are Star Swirl, you forgot to bring soap and towels along for the ride. Unless you plan to materialize them out of thin air or something.”

“…Darn! Why do I always forget the soap and towels? Well at least this time I don’t have to teleport back to my house wet. I’ll be right back Towa. Stay here.” And there he goes popping away again.

Sigh, that unicorn may be intelligent but he can still be an idiot at times. Really, how many times can you forget soap while bathing? Still with him gone I can start getting ready for my bath. Well first thing first, I better take off my heels. There’s no way I’ll be able to walk with them around here. Besides, I need them off for when I need to take…off…my…clothes. And how do I even do that?

*Growl*

What was that? Panicking a bit, I look toward the source of the growl and I see a massive manticore sunning itself on a rock that overlooks the lake. And it’s looking right at me. Huh, I guess that’s why Star Swirl called this place the manticore’s lake. But even with that figured out I keep staring at it.

Should…should I run? I mean it’s not moving. Though maybe that just means it wants a chase. Like a cat chasing a mouse. Thankfully before I can start running I’m blinded by another flash of teleportation and Star Swirl reappears. This time he has a bar of soap and some towels floating next to his body.

“I’m back Towa! Did you miss…are you okay? You seem a little pale. Well pale for you.” Ha ha ha, Star Swirl. Let’s see you not turning pale when a massive manticore is staring you down.

“Star…Star Swirl? Do…do you see that manticore over there?” As I say that I point at the sunning manticore. And it snorts at me. Gulp.

“Hmm? Oh, don’t worry about him. This lake is his territory but he lets other creatures use it as they see fit. Well, as long as they don’t start anything. Now come on, we shouldn’t be wasting daylight when we could be bathing.” With that he begins trotting down to the shore.

“Wait up!” I call as I pick up my heels and follow him. Well I guess it’s time to find out how to get out of my clothes. Though I’m keeping my eye on that manticore while I’m here just in case it decides to do something considering the last time I met a manticore. And if he does I’ll be ready for it.

Comments

[Shadow of doubt]

Yay more blue lady

[Cozybro]

Bath time?

I want you to write it next chapter for the sheer awkwardness that will likely stem from it.

[Blackholelord]

With no picture, it took me a while to figure it was Towa from Dragon Ball universe. As the name was used for a male character, and thus until I heard about the staff and white hair, well, it too me a while. I will state that like what I have seen, and it would be unique see how this version of Towa adapt to this world of ponies.

[The A I]

more please!

[BlackoutSampler]

Well, You hit almost every cliche on the way out of the SI pile, but that is not necessarily a bad thing. Star Swirl is excellent in this, and is the biggest reason this has caught my attention. I do hope I can see more from this in the future.

[Sylica telca]

MORE PLEASE!!

[Bass Blitz]

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heh it took me two guesses to figure out who it was as to me the suit, hair and staff gave it away though my first guess was him turning into Smurf

[armatrax]

More please this story is genial

[PinkiePieFox]

It looks like it could be interesting...

[Nonameknight]

Definitely an interesting idea. A pity that you likely wont continue this, but the idea is pretty solid.

[Donald]

I love this story I hope it comes back it’s a great story

[ARKLIGHT SNIPERSHY]

More? Are u ded?

No pulse bois..... he ded.... quick steal his story and his bacon!!