:Demon:

by SteampunkBrony

Author's notes (read after the story)

For those wondering, this is the best way for me to talk about why i wrote this the way I did.

First off, everything was the way it was for a reason, and a good reasons too. I intentionally kept you in the dark about the antagonist to get you thinking about who it would be, i left a lot of what ifs so you would be forced to make your own story for what happened if you wanted to.

In short, this was to make you think.

It also held elements to show how even someone who is feared by many is still only mortal. In the end it wasn't a clash of gods that killed Solar Flare, it was the fact that she was caught off guard. No one could hit the fortress, it was impenetrable, but one spell made it through the shield and that was it. to put this into perspective, and i'll probably end up on a watchlist or two for this statement, it's like a sniper and the president of the US, one shot is all it would take. Careful planning would be needed, but one shot and the world is changed.

So all i ask of you, the reader, is that you build the world this story has presented, I won't, i'm finished writing this world. If you write it down and submit it as fanfiction, I'd love to read it. If you simply sit back in your chair and think 'this is how i think it went' that's fine too, but look at the situation provided, and create. toss me questions below, but i'll say this, i won't be saying anything about the story's before or after, that's up to you to dream up.

~Steampunk

Comments

[SteampunkBrony]

thoughts? let's hear em.

[Starscape]

Very insightful. It was a bit cruel leaving all the 'what if's' though.

Fantastic story! Can't wait to see more like this in the future!

[Mossflower]

we where thrown in right before the big one, under which nothing special happened, which pretty much means that there was never any build-up in suspense, leaving the story pretty boring in terms of excitement.
on the other side of the coin: we're only given a few vital pieces of information about what's happened previously (and nothing about what's going to happen afterwards); leaving the rest to our imaginations, and the "big one" did end up in a pretty original manner. and you have an actual message (dl.dropbox.com/u/31471793/FiMFiction/emoticons/misc_Octavia_O_O.png ), which is kinda rare.

[CountDerpy]

1229001 I could really see someone taking the main idea of this and making a good 20 plus chapter epic with back story too.......it could easily be done....but overall you have a fantastic one shot here and the what if's kept me guessing right up to the end just like they were supposed to do. You are awesome at this stuff. Can't wait to see more one shots from you in the future.

[DoomManta]

1229001 Alright.

Are all authors incapable of self-proofreading, or just the ones I edit for? Gyvon, in a blog post, called me "a good among men," and both you and PonyBlue have trouble with capitalization and spelling.

[SteampunkBrony]

1229555

It's not that we are incapable, I for one, just find myself writing at a time of day where I really don't care much for that kind of thing. I commonly end up writing sometime past 11 PM. At that point most folks let their word processor handle capitalization and spelling.

[DoomManta]

1230160 Well you should. Capitalization is important! Don't mind me, I just really needed to go into a short editor rant, it's been a long day already.

[Grrratch]

Nice oneshot...I liked the Diablo reference even. I would love to see someone write a backstory to this. The training between Twi x Discord x Luna would have been brutal if she could overpower a god of hell the way she did.

More mustaches for you.

[Twilight at Dusk]

Makes sense to me. Being caught off guard has done in many a person. Also, you could have just said 'a leader' if you were worried about watch lists and such.

My one question would be how Twilight is going to be received now with the power she has? Is she stuck with it? Will she go and rule Tartarus, or stick around? Dunno if you will answer now, since that might be one of those 'happened after not answering things...

Either way, thanks for the explanation.

[SteampunkBrony]

1231842

Well that's up to the reader to decide. I have my ideas on what happened, but i'm interested to hear what others think.

[Misplaced Modifier]

If my writing skills didn't suck I'd have started on a fic based on this. Someone get on this, it shall please me.

-Minty

(SteampunkBrony is best Brony)

[Hope]

I would like to ask for permission to write "The Battle of Stalliongrad." set in this story line. From a soldier's point of view.

[SteampunkBrony]

1232274

Like i said, i want to see what others write so go right ahead.

[stardust flare]

i would love to do this but damn i suck at writing to static.fimfiction.net/images/emoticons/flutterrage.png
now off to mystic writing land to further skills static.fimfiction.net/images/emoticons/pinkiecrazy.png

[Gryzzli]

Very good story! I kinda hoped for the great clash of titans in the end but still, amazing work!

[SteampunkBrony]

1385566

Oh I could have gone for the epic battle route, but that wasn't the point.

[Echo Night]

Gods don't bleed... Minecraft vidio (look it up for Awsomeness*