> Don't go gently into that good night > by Midian9013 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Rage, Rage against the dying of the light > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Happy birthday Janie I love you." I said as I went In for a kiss on my wife's lips, it was her 29th birthday. "Happy anniversary Elliott, I love you to!" Janie said after we broke our kiss. It reminded me of how we met all those years ago, how I asked her out at the bar when she was celebrating her birthday with her friends. I love her so much and everything about her, even her faults are adorable. Her green eyes, her long flowing black hair, her perfect hourglass figure and her soft seductive voice that could make me week in the knees. But the one thing that I love the most of all is the fact that she loved me just as much. Sure I was a bit unbalanced from my time serving in Iraq, but it was ok as long as I had her and our two kids. Our daughter is the oldest at 8 years old, and her younger brother at 6 years old. I love my family so much they're my life, my everything. "Mommy, Daddy get up! Jackson and I made you breakfasts for your big day" Leighah said excitedly bouncing on our bed with a huge smile. She looked just like her mother with her green eyes and black hair. "Ok sweetie we're up, Mommy and I will be down in a minute ok." I said while grabbing her up in a hug which made her giggle. "Ok daddy don't take too long, your breakfast will get cold." Leighah said returning the hug. One things for sure she was a daddy's girl, something I hope will never change. Leighah got out of our bed and ran out the bedroom giggling. I then turned to Janie admiring her beauty with a smile on my face but then I realised what Leighah said. 'I hope this doesn't turn into a disaster like last year, oh that poor kitchen, it never stood a chance. All though I don't smell anything burning, actually the smell wafting In from the kitchen is actually mouth watering so there's hope after all' Janie had an amused expression on her face from my mental debate about the situation. "Don't worry they've been getting cooking lessons from my parents" Janie said to me as if she knew exactly what I was thinking. And to be frank 9 Times out 10 she did, and that's why we fit so well together. Ten minutes later Janie and I entered the dinning room enjoying a nice spread of pancakes and bacon. I look to my side and see my boy next to me scarfing his food down like there's no tomorrow, which makes me chuckle. "Slow down Jackson so you can actually taste what your eating there." He looked just like me with brown hair and brown eyes. He looks up at me with a sheepish look and his cheeks puffed out like a chipmunk, he then proceeds to swallow down the gargantuan mouthful. "Look who's talking there honey." Janie says with a very amused look on her face. "The apple doesn’t fall to far from the tree." She says giggling. A loud bang on the cell door wakes me from one of the few plesent dreams I've had in a long time. While my mind reboots back to reality, my cell door unlatches and slams open, revealing one of many terrors this castle dungeon holds. The royal guard, Quick Silver, a sadistic unicorn guard, one of many I've dealt with for the past 5 years I've been imprisoned in Canterlot castle dungeon by the sun bitch, named Celestia. Here's the kicker all I've done to earn my stay in the dungeon is be human, even worse it's her fault I'm here, all because her lap-dog of a student fucked up a spell that's supposed to let her see into alternative universes. So for the first week here everything wasn't so bad, I was treated with respect and hospitality, sure when I first got here it was more then a mind fuck, especially since I was soaking wet and naked cause I was in the shower at the time Sunny sharts zapped me to her world. After the first stages of shock came and went I was less then pleased, but Celestia assured me she could get me back home in a few days, she just had to rest up to replenish her magic, but if knew then what I know now; I would have stabbed that bitch in the throat with her own horn because as soon as she found out about humanity's dark side, I was locked up to preserve thier national security. See she told me in order to send me back she would have do something called mind melding in order to get the right place to send me back to because the spell her student used was quite random but what I didn't know is that it would also let her see my memories and pretty much every detail about me from the time I was born to the present which meant all my secrets were laid to bare and I know a lot of things that my government wouldn't want anybody to know that didn't have the proper clearance. But I also seen in her mind as well but without knowing how to navigate through it, it was just jumbled images and sounds I couldn't make any sense of it at all, so as soon as it was over she didn't have the same motherly look she used to have it was an ugly scoul and then she called the gaurds but before I could do anything I was thrown the the ground with magic and things get ugly from there. I wish Celestia would have just killed me, but instead I was to become thier science project. I was opened up multiple times just so they could see and play with my insides, experimented on with magic, tortured and abused mentally, physically and sexually non stop for the last 5 years. I was broken mentally, physically and spiritually, and all I wanted was to see my wife and kids. But I knew I would never see them again and I just wanted it all to end. I even tried to kill myself by starving to death, but Celestia doesn’t want her "toy" taken away from her. That is why when the door opened to reveal Quick Silver I scrambled to hide under my bed. It's pathetic what I've been reduced to, a once decorated veteran of war now a broken, malnourished man lost to fear and insanity jumping at shadows. "I got your breakfast Monkey." He tosses the funnel down on the floor with his magic. "but first it's play time." Quick said with a dark tone. my wrists and ankles lit up with magic and I was ripped from under the bed violently and lifted up to be put on the bed face down. I knew what was to come, it happens almost every morning when Quick Silver was denied sex from his wife the night before. I was then strapped down, I knew from past experience to just be quite and let it happen or else he would rape me dry. It would hurt a lot more then if I just let him take his time and be gentle, so that's what I did. I stopped fighting and yelling and went limp. "Such a good monkey" he said getting up on the bed and straddling my backside. I could already feal his disgusting hard cock sliding in between my ass cheeks slick with spit, and then gently he inserted it into my abused asshole. He put his hooves on my shoulders and started to thrust. Slowly at first but then he thrusted harder as I started to loosen up, which didn't take much from the past abuse. It didn't take him long to cum but it never usually does. I felt more shame today because I was forced to cum as well from the stimulation on my prostate. “Oh almost forgot, it’s breakfast time.” He said with a devious smile. He pulled me back up and put me in a sitting position, then he shoves a funnel down my throat. “Don’t fight me on this one or you will ‘accidentally' choke on eggs.” He said mocking me. He started cracking eggs into the funnel. I had to breath right before he cracks another egg or I won’t be able to. Sometimes he will be an asshole and puts cracked egg shells into the funnel, making me gag as I feel the sharp piece of egg shell goes down my throat. After he pulled the funnel out my mouth. I gagged, and wheezed because of the eggshells that are stuck in my throat. Quick Silver left and locked the door behind him. The fucking ponies knew better then to give me utensils, because I've tried to kill guards, and myself in the past with anything I could get a hold of, even Celestia has a nice little scar under her muzzle from a sharpened spoon. It's also the reason why they don't let me out of my cell to exercise anymore. I haven't seen the outside of my cell in 4 years and 7 months. As soon as I was done my “breakfast” I curled up in bed, feeling dirty, ashamed, and tired. This is my daily routine. Wake up, get raped, eat, and then cry myself to sleep because the only freedom I'm ever gonna see again is In my dreams. Little did Elliot know that things were about to change because today was the day that the changelings were going to invade Canterlot, more specifically the royal wedding and Elliott's afternoon guards were already replaced by changelings. > Chapter 2 Monsters are not born, they are made (edited) > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Today is going to be perfect" Queen Chrysalis said to herself while looking herself over In the mirror. Chrysalis was putting the finishing touches on her wedding dress in the privacy of her chamber in Canterlot's castle. 'Such a dreadful design, so tacky and bright, too much pink for my taste. It's bad enough that I have to parade around disguised as the pink alicorn slut.' Chrysalis thought to herself. Chrysalis then tapped into the hivemind to see if the operation to acquire their contingency plan was on its way. She was never one to put all her eggs in one basket so to speak, so that is why she sent a couple dozen of her best spies to infiltrate the castle a few months ago to dig up any possible intel on anything useful to use against the Princesses just in case the invasion was a failure. One of her spies was able to terminate and copy one of Celestia's top scientists and was able to get a ton of information, but also found detailed files on a creature they called a human. It is currently being held in the dungeon. Chrysalis considered herself quite merciless and cunningly deviant, but what she read in those files sickened her to her deeply, what the princess and her team of scientists did to that poor human, she would not wish that on her worst enemy. What intrigued her most about what she read was the fact that Celestia was keeping it a tight lip secret and anypony who found out weather it be a servant or a guard who did not have proper security clearance, Celestia would erase their memories and have them sent away to the farthest reaches of Equestria, and if what she read in the files were accurate not even Princess Luna knew of the human's existence. Even if Chrysalis was successful in taking Canterlot, she was not going to keep the creature incarcerated any longer. That is why she sent two of her best infiltrators in to free him and get him out of the city as covertly as possible. Elliott was currently sitting in the corner of his cell, knees held tight to his chest and head down. When he heard what sounded like a yell outside off his cell door. Just then the door was unlatched and slowly opened to reveal two creatures he had never seen before. They were like ponies, but all black with holes in their legs and had both a jagged horn and wings like a bug. One of the bug like ponies approached him while the other stayed at the door as a lookout. The one that approached him spoke, "Don’t be afraid we are not here to hurt you. We are here to take you out of this place" what I assumed to be a mare since her voice sounded feminine said to me with a hoof outstretched and beckoning me to come out of the corner. I just stared at her like a dumbass not believing what I was seeing and said the first thing that came to mind "w-what are you?" The black mare took another step closers to me, "right now it does not matter. We must hurry if you want to get out of here, the invasion is about to start and you can ask me anything later when we are out of the city." Just then a deep rumble came from over our heads "buck it’s already started, something must of went wrong!" the bug pony guarding the door said, this one sounding male. "Ok come on we half to move now" the bug mare yelled. I got up onto my feet but when I did the two bug ponies had a look of what I could tell was fear, I guess they did not expect me to be so tall but their look of fear was then replaced with look of embarrassment for the mare, It was the I noticed they were both staring at my junk. "U-um could you possibly put it back in your sheath please?" The mare said with what looked like a tinge of green to her cheeks. "No can do sorry humans don't have sheaths" I said, not giving a shit about their discomfort. I've been naked for 5 years so I've been desensitized to any nudity taboo I may have had in the past. "O-ok then well let's hurry up we don't have much time" the mare said as I started walking out of my cell, the first time in so long I was out of my cell and I was not going back if I could help it. We turned the corner out of the cell block and came to the guard post where I noticed two guards on the ground not moving, one being Quick Silver. I got my liberators attention to ask a question "Are they dead?" I asked hoping that at least Quick Silver was still breathing. "No just unconscious." the bug stallion said. I then walked over to the downed stallion looking for anything sharp to use, that's when I noticed his sword was still in his sheath. "Where's your fucking magic now bitch" I said as I grabbed his sword and unsheathed it. "We don't have time for this, we have to go now!" The mare said she trotted past me. It was then that I brought the sword down onto the unconscious stallion's horn and severing it with little effort and oozing out blood and a viscous yellowish substance. This effectively woke Quick up in a fit of blinding pain, Using the butt of the sword on the side of Quick's temple I successfully knocked him unconscious again and picked him up and pulled him over my shoulder. Both bug ponies where looking at me in a mixture of fear and disgust at my actions, but I didn't care. Quick was going to pay for what he did to me on an almost routinely basis. "I'm not leaving here without my next meal" I said with a shit eating grin. The two changelings looked at each other then looked to the human with the limp unicorn thrown over his shoulder not knowing what to make of the situation, but the human just walked past them and down the dark corridor. "The Queen better know what the buck she is doing" was all the changeling whispered to her companion before they to, follow the human down the corridor. > Chapter 3 Freedom isn't free (Edited) > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The human and the two changlings made it through the castle almost completely unobstructed with the exception of a few servants and a couple guards which were taken care of easily enough with changling magic. It turns out the invasion kicking off early worked out to their benefit because it distracted most of the royal guards. They just needed to reach the court yard where the rest of their entourage was waiting to open a portal back to the hive and then wait for further orders from the queen. Elliott was currently walking behind the two changlings with a still unconscious and hornless unicorn thrown over his shoulder, dried blood caked his back from the Quick Silver's forehead. The ghastly sight even made one of the servants they came across vomited before the changelings knocked her out with a blast of green magic. The three then rounded the next corner to find the entrance to the courtyard, they made haste and exited the castle to find four changeling elder mages in a circle pooling their magic together to form what appeared to be large sphere that looked like a floating ball of mercury which would ripple every so often. When the four elder mages laid eyes on the naked and obviously malnourished human and the incapacitated guard on his shoulder, they almost lost their concentration on the portal but quickly found their resolve and continued. "So what, we just walk through it and presto we're out of here?" Elliott asked the bug pony mare in front of him. Which in turn she just nodded, walked into the sphere and disappeared. With a raised brow Elliott shrugged his shoulders and stepped into the sphere, which felt cold on his body but once he was inside he felt an intense pull, his heart raced as he accelerated through what looked like a tunnel of light, before he knew it he and the unconscious stallion were tossed from the other side and landed with a thud in the middle of a desert and only a few meters away from the hive entrance. Back in the courtyard in the castle the stallion changling that aided in the human's escape was just about to trot through the portal when the sound of an explosion sounded from the throne room of the castle and a pink dome shot out from all directions, violently expelling the invading changlings as well as their queen out of Equestria. The portal was destroyed and the remaining changlings in the courtyard were expelled along with the rest. -Southern Badlands- "Well that fucking sucked, and now I have sand in my ass crack" Elliott said trying to regain his footing, "Well it's still better then being in that cell and being that Sun Bitch's science project, now where's that fucking meat bag?" Elliott said wile looking around for his newly acquired prisoner/food-bank, which at the moment was only a couple feet behind him and slowly regaining consciousness. "AHHHH, OH CELESTIA MY HORN, YOU BUCKING CUT OFF MY HORN, YOU MONSTER!!!" Quick Silver screamed, afterwards vomited quite violently. "M-maybe you should just put him out of his misery, instead of letting him suffer like that." The mare changeling said to the human, a little unsure of the situation. "Fuck that noise, this dirty little rapist has got a world of pain ahead of him now that he's got no magic to fuck me over with" Elliott said as he stepped over to the now sobbing stallion, grabbed him by the scruff of the neck and held him up so he could look him in the eyes then began to scream in the stallion's face, "YA HEAR THAT YOU DIRTY LITTLE HORSEY, I'M FAR FROM FINISHED WITH YOU, YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT WE DO TO HORSES BACK IN MY WORLD, WE FUCKING MAKE GLUE OUT OF THEM, BUT THERE STILL GOOD EATTING IN MY OPINION." Quick Silver was in an intense amount of pain and he was never more frightened in his life then right now and as some point he pissed all over himself out of shear terror. "I-I-I'm s-sorry p-p-pleas d-don't hurt me" Quick Silver was reduced to a stuttering, sobbing mess of a stallion. K The dark frown on Elliott's face quickly shifted to a manic grin, "SORRY? YOUR FUCKING SORRY? oh well then that changes everything...let me just check something first!" In that split moment Quick Silver felt a sliver of hope as the human stepped back and turned around then started looking around for something with puzzled look on his face. The human even walked over to the changeling, grabbed her tail and lifted it to take a look as if still looking for something he lost, at the changling's apparent discomfort and embarrassment she just stood there as if not able to comprehend the situation. "Yep just what I thought, I can't find any fucks to give, too bad." Elliott said sarcastically and briskly walked back to the pathetic form of the stallion, quickly grabbing the sword off the ground, seeing this Quick Silver tried to get his legs under him to get back up and run away but the pain from his severed horn was too disorienting and caused him extreme dizziness from blood loss causing him to stumble and fall back down. "Where the fuck you think your going, I ain't done with you yet" Elliott said as he quickened his pace. Once he reached the stallion he started stomping on his head and muzzle, causing the stallion to scream in pain as fresh wounds opened up on his face and knocking out a few teeth in the processes. The changling that was still present turned away, not able to watch the brutality of the human any longer. Eventually Quick Silver slipped into unconsciousness again after the seventh or eighth stomp to his head. Elliott's breaths were haggard and the excitement from the past few hours finally catching up to his skinny, dirty and sweat covered form and with dehydration starting o set in he sat down in the sand and leaning back against Quick Silver. Elliott let out an exhausted sigh and wiped the sweat from his brow, his attention now on the lone changling sitting a few feet away trying not to make eye contact with him. "Well I guess I should say thanks for getting me out of that shit-hole, so thanks...I guess, my name's Elliott by the way" Elliott said trying to break the ice with the changling. The changling looked back at Elliott trying not to let her fear show but replied in kind, "oh, um... your welcome...I guess and my name is Nyx and it was our queen who wanted you freed I was just following orders." Nyx said reluctantly making eye contact with the human, which in turn made her flinch once she noticed the sour expression on his face. Before she could explain any further he was back on his feet and making his way towards her sword in hand. Nyx quickly formed a magic barrier around herself know there was nothing Elliott could do against magic. "I'M NOT GOING TO BE ANOTHER TYRANTS SCIENCE PROJECT!" Elliott yelled as he swung his sword down on the green tinted bubble that surrounded Nyx. It was then that something in the distance caught Elliott's attention, it looked like a cloud of black was approaching and fast, he focused his eyes to get a better look and as the black anomaly got closer he could make out hundreds of changlings just like Nyx, but he could make out one in particular, it was much larger then all the others, which he figured it was their queen. "Fuck this, I'm out" Elliott said as he turned and started running the opposite direction. 'I'd rather die alone in the desert then be another rulers fucked up plaything. I don't know what she wants with me but I ain't sticking around to find out' Elliott thought to himself as he was running as fast as he could, his body protesting with each breath. Elliot looked behind every so often at the approaching swarm while still running as fast as he could. Chrysalis was beyond pissed, her plan to take over Equestria ruined by that purple little bitch "Twilight Sparkle." If it wasn't for her meddling, Queen Chrysalis would be the new ruler of Equestria. It was then she noticed the human she ordered freed sprinting away from Nyx and the entrance of the hive. "Buck where does he think he's going, there's no way he will survive out here alone, especially since nightfall isn't far off." Chrysalis said as she prepared a teleportation spell to intercept the human. Elliott was still running when a changling as tall as him materialised in front of him with an audible "POP" he then skidded to a halt and brought the sword in his hand in front of himself at the ready. "I'll make you kill me before I let you lock me up to be your pet!" Elliott said readying himself for what was to come. Chrysalis was not at all happy with how things went today and she had no patience with what was happening now so quicker then the human could react Chrysalis shot him with a knockout spell and watched him crumple to the ground, then trotted over, bent down till her muzzle was mere centimeters from his neck, opened her mouth and then sunk her fangs in to inject her venom that would cause paralysis for the next 32 hours, when he comes to he won't be able to move and hurt himself or any of her children and she needed to have a long talk with him without him getting violent so this was her best option. What was left of her children after the failure in Canterlot were standing in formation awaiting orders, Chrysalis pointed to the four changlings closest to her and told them to bring the human down into the hive, more specifically to the underground river and have him washed up and have a moss bed made for him to be laid down in until his paralysis wares off. "What of the unconscious stallion he brought with him?" Nyx asked. Chrysalis looked over to the battered form of the former unicorn and shuddered when she noticed his horn was severed off. "What? did the human say he was going to do with him?" Chrysalis inquired "H-he said he was going t-to eat him.... My queen." even just saying it made Nyx sick to her stomach. Chrysalis's character of superiority faltered just for a split second with a flinch which does not happen very often. As quick as her discomfort came, it disappeared just as quick and the intimidating look of a ruthless queen was back. "Very well bring him as well and secure him down in the lowest end of the underground river, in fact I want the human brought down there as well, that will be his new quarters and nopony is to go there without mine or his permission after he is settled, if we wish not to be on his violent side we must gain his trust and ensure he can trust us, there is much we can gain from each other, taking away his....Food isn't going to help us" Chrysalis said as she watched the human and the stallion guard were picked up and carried into the hive entrance followed by the rest of the changlings. Once all her children were out of sight Chrysalis sat down in the sand, the stress of the day weighing down on her. "I really hope I don't regret this..." 458 views > Chapter 4 white lies and the boogie man (Edited) > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Darkness, darkness was all around Elliott as he lay on the ground, not able to move a muscle. He could hear water rushing to my left, the air smelt musty, like soil and moss. His heart started to race, not knowing where I was or why I couldn't move, I felt numb all over. His heart started to pound even faster once he started to hear multiple disembodied voices, he couldn't make out what, or who they were but as the voices got closer they stated to sound familiar. "They...took...you...away...from...us" the voices wispered, repeating the same six words over and over again at the same time getting closer and closer. Elliott couldn't talk all he could do was blink and make small grunts, although he was frightened something about the familiarity of those voices was slowly calming him down, then it stopped. Elliott then started to see three figures manifest at his feet like a glowing mist they started to gain familiar features. He then blinked and before his very eyes Janie, Leighah and Jackson were standing there in front of him and looking the same way they did before he was brought to this hell. All he wanted to do was get up and hold them and never let go but he couldn't move, he couldn't even say how much he loved them and missed them. 'This couldn't be real, how?' He thought frantically trying to move anything but only making small twitches here and there. As if sensing his distress Janie knelt down to his side and cupped the side of his face with her hand and in a comforting way stroked his cheek with her thumb "It's ok baby don't worry you will be fine soon just be patient, I know you love and miss us and we miss you too, you've been gone for so long but we will be together again in time, but you still have a long journey ahead of you before we will be together again... you just need to do something for us before we can be together again" It was then that everything changed and Janie and the kids forms flickered for a split second and all he could do was stare in horror because they were now covered in blood and there eyes were gone but in there place was static like a television and a black substance was oozing out of there mouths and noses, It felt like his heart was going to burst from his chest. They all spoke in unison there voices sounding unnatural like it was coming from an old Time radio. "Make them pay, make them suffer, set THEIR world ablaze and let them burn in their sins for what they did and when you kill the princess, then and only then will we be together" In a blink of an eye they were gone but he was not scared anymore he knew what needed to be done now, he had a purpose again just like when he was in the military he felt a fire growing in his soul that replaced all the fear and shame with anger and rage. He started feeling the numbness subsiding a bit more and he was able to move his mouth again and speak "first things first I need to regain my strength and health again and then I have to find a way to not be manipulated by magic anymore." Chrysalis watched and listened as the human spoke to himself in the darkened cavern. Not knowing what to make of his insane ramblings, Chrysalis feared that his sanity was hanging by a thread and thought back to what she read in his files and reports on his stay in Canterlot and waged a war within her own mind on how to proceed with her plan, but before she could think it through she accidentally kicked a few pebbles when she shifted her wait and caused the human to take notice that he was no longer alone. "WHO'S THERE? WHERE AM I? AND WHY THE FUCK CAN'T I MOVE?" He yelled. Chrysalis illuminated her horn in a bright green glow and quickly made her way towards the human. "Be calm you are in no danger, my name is Queen Chrysalis and the changlings like the ones who freed you are my children, you are in my hive under the southern Badlands, as for why you can't move its because I injected you with a non lethal douse of neurotoxin only because you were in a panicked state and I did not want you to attack me while we had our discussion, fear not for you are not my prisoner, I recently came into possession of some rather disturbing information about your existence and imprisonment in Canterlot and if it were me who brought you to this world I would have sent you back as soon as possible, I could never bring myself to separate somepony from their family like Celestia did and I was appalled from her actions so much so that I attempted to overthrow her and free you and make her send you home but I was only successful in freeing you and lost many of my children in doing so. But all is not lost because I think we have much to gain from each other." Though Chrysalis felt a bit of relief when the humans expression changed from anger to understanding, she still felt a bit of fear considering this could all end very badly if he found out that she lied to him to gain an alliance with him. "To prove that I have no ill intentions with you I'm giving you this entire cavern under my hive to reside in and you are free to wander the entire hive as you please, also I injected that guard you foalnaped with the same neurotoxin and had him secured to the wall over at the back of the cavern, so when you have your mobility back and you feel your able, you can dispose of him however you see fit." Chrysalis said as she pointed with a hoof to a part of the cavern that the human could not see because it was too dark. While the Changling queen spoke Elliott could feel the numbness leave his body completely and was prop himself up on his elbows, though his movement's were slow and took a bit of effort he was relieved that he could move at all. "Before I leave you to play with your....friend I wish to know what your name is and if you require anything else?" Chrysalis cringed internally not wanting to think about what horrors lie ahead of the guard. "Well I guess I should start by saying thanks for getting me out of there, my name is Elliott and if what you said is true then it would help to have someone in me corner, let me make something perfectly clear to you Chrysalis," Elliott said as he struggled to get to his feet and succeeding on his third attempt. Chrysalis took a defensive stance not know what Elliott's intentions were but relaxed a bit when he did not approach her. Once Elliott was able to steady himself he began to speak again. "You are not my queen and I am not, or ever will be your subject, that being said I see no problem in working together but Celestia is mine when the time comes and I'll kill anyone who stands In my way." Chrysalis was a little upset about not being able to assert her title over him but thought better of it because the last thing he needs is to deal with another tyrant if she was to gain his trust. "As much as I hate Celestia, my quarrel is not with her, its with her niece Cadance and her husband Shining Armor and Celestia's student Twilight Sparkle, if it wasn't for them I wouldn't have lost so many of my children and you would already have your revenge on Celestia." Chrysalis said gritting her teeth at her devastating loss. "But before we can get to them Twilight and five other mares need to be eliminated because they possess a powerful weapon called the elements of harmony and pose a great risk to our plan if not dealt with, also Celestia has a sister named Luna that co-rules Equestria, but we have a massive advantage with all this, Luna nor the elements know of your existence the only ponies who know are Celestia, her team of scientists and a select few guards and she went to great Lengths to keep it that way." Elliott was shocked at the new information, if what she said was true he realized that he couldn't just storm in there all willy nilly and kill Celestia like he originally planed, he had to come up with a strategy because now he didn't just want to kill her, he wanted to expose her and in a big way at that but before he could take any actions he needed to be at 100% again and that was going to take time and with the new information time was on his side. "As much as I'm enjoying our conversation I have other duties that need my attention but before I make my leave is there anything you require?" Chrysalis said she mentally patting herself on that back for successfully planting the seeds for the her and Elliott's alliance. Elliott brought his hand up to his chin in a show of thought, "well if your taking request some lights wouldn't be a bad start I can't see shit down here also the means to make and keep a fire going at all times for heat and for cooking, I like my meat cooked I'm not a total savage I'll have you know." Elliot chuckled seeing Chrysalis turning green, "although pony meat isn't my preferred source of much needed protein, it will due for now but I also require vegetables, grains and diary. I'm not too sure how to get those things as of yet, in my world we have farms dedicated to such things like growing crops and raising animals for food such as chickens, pigs and cows, so I don't see how I would grow anything down here with no sunlight. what's wrong? you look confused." Elliott asked at the look Chrysalis was giving him. "May I ask you something?" Chrysalis inquired. "What's up?" Elliott said in response. "How many sentient species are there on your world?" Chrysalis asked, a little frightened at what the answer might be. In that moment Elliott understood what she was getting at and had to repress his amusement, not wanting to upset her. "Humans are the only sentient species on my world, we're the apex predators, only due to our insatiable thirst for knowledge and unrelenting drive for development and technology. For example everything your world can to do with magic, humans can do with technology more or less, so don't worry I won't eat any of your children and to be completely honest it is unsettling to eat a sentient creature, but that fucking guard I snatched has it fucking coming for what he did to me on an almost daily basis for the last five years" Elliott spat letting his contempt for the guard known. "Well even though it's a relief I don't have to worry about you snacking on my changlings its still disturbing that your going to eat a pony even when ponies are our main food source but in a different way from what you think." Chrysalis said relived that she didn't free a complete monster that would eat one of her children at the drop of a hat. "What do you mean by that?" Elliott asked. "We can sense and feed off of their emotions like love but any positive emotions will sustain us, just love is more powerful and tastes better and it doesn’t have to be a pony. We can feed off of any creature, which is very unsettling to be in your presence because I cannot sense nor feed off of your emotions and in all my years I have never encountered such a creature." Elliott was a little angry that she may have been trying to feed off him but pushed the thought aside once she mentioned her inability to do so. "Well that's good....I guess? So any ideas on how I can keep myself fed over a long period of time?" Elliott said wanting to change the subject. As if a light bulb lit up above her head Chrysalis was struck with an idea, "actually yes I do, that river behind you is a good source of fish plus the mushrooms that grow down here are edible as well, as for anything else when ever we attack the occasional passing caravan for our own benefit they usually have a plentiful amount of goods with them and it just so happens that we attacked a group of bovines last week so there's your dairy and they had a very large amount of fruits and vegetables which I could put a preservation spell on them before they go bad. Now I would love to stay and chat more but I have things to do but before I forget you asked for light and fire so let me take care of that before I leave." Chrysalis said with a smile. Elliott watched as her horn lit up brighter and then in a blink of an eye shot a bolt of green magic that branched off into several different directions hitting the cavern walls and forming what looked like bright green orbs that illuminated the entire cavern. That in turn made Elliott gasp in astonishment from how vast the cavern really was, then Chrysalis shot another green bolt but this time to the ground a few feet away from them and before his eyes large green flames burst from the ground and then and then the flames shrunk to the size of a moderate camp fire. Elliott was brought out of his amazement when Chrysalis stayed to speak again. "There lights and fire, I'll have to send one of my children down every so often to feed more magic into the lights as well as the fire, but they should last a few days before that happens, now if you think of anything else just ask one of my changlings and they will relay the message to me as long as what you request is within reason of course, now I must make my leave." Chrysalis said then turned and trotted out of the now illuminated cavern, leaving the dumbstruck human to his own devices. Once Chrysalis was out of sight Elliott shook his head and continued to look around his cavern but was then distracted once he heard a grown coming from the back wall and noticed Quick Silver was stuck to the wall upside down with some kind of green resin, which was quite convenient considering what Elliott planed to do with him. While walking over to the immobilized stallion Elliott noticed the sword he took from the stallion was laying on the ground and quickly grabbed it by the hilt and running his thumb across the edge of the blade to test its sharpness, realizing it was sharp enough for what he needed Elliott smiled and closed the distance between them. Quick Silver awoke dizzy and still in a tremendous amount of pain from his severed horn, his heart started to pound in his chest once he noticed he was upside down and not able to move and when he saw the human approaching him, sword in hand and with a maniac-grin he almost past out from shear terror. "P-please don't h-hurt me, just l-let me go l-I have a wife a-and foals, p-please have mercy." Quick Silver pleaded as tears poured from his green eyes. Elliott knelt down in front of the stallion and grabbed him by his silver mane violently. "FUCK YOU, WHERE WAS THE MERCY YOU SHOWED ME WHEN YOU RAPED ME OR FORCED A FUNNEL DOWN MY THROAT, OR WHEN YOUR SUN TYRANT LOCKED ME UP FOR NO GOOD RESON, I HAVE A WIFE AND KIDS TOO THAT I HAVENT SEEN IN FIVE FUCKING YEARS BECAUSE OF YOU FUCK PONIES SO I SAY FUCK MERCY AND FUCK YOU, SO YOU BETTER MAKE PEACE WITH WHATEVER GOD YOU PRAY TO BECAUSE YOUR GONNA DIE AND THERE'S NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT!" Elliott screamed in Quick Silver's face. Elliott was breathing heavy from his bout of anger but quickly calmed himself down, Quick Silver was absolutely bawling now and babbling incoherently. "Now as much as I would love to prolong your pain and suffering for as long as possible, I need to bleed you out as quickly as possible or the meat will spoil, but don't worry I don't plan on wasting any part of you when your gone." Elliott said with a sadistic smile while patting the stallion on the side of the muzzle. "Y-y-your going to e-eat me? YOUR A BUCKING MONSTER!" Quick screamed out. "I am what you ponies made me so it's your own fault really, it won't be that bad I plan on sending a lot of your friends to keep you company when your burning in hell so take your death like the soldier you are, God knows you deserve it for what you did to me." Elliott said as he brought the edge of the sword to Quick Silver's neck, and with one quick movement sliced his throat and let him bleed out chocking on his own blood. With the deed done, Elliott quickly went to work gutting and skinning the now dead Quick Silver and butchering the carcass for its meat. "I'll have to find a way to cure most of this meat so it will last" Elliott said out loud to himself when he had an idea and walked over to the cavern entrance finding a group of changlings trotting by in another tunnel. "Hey you guys come here I need to ask you something and make a small request." Elliott called out to the changlings. The group of changlings tentatively made there way over to the blood stained human, "what is it you need creature?" One of the changlings said nervously. "Call me Elliott not creature, as for what I needed was as much sticks and twine as possible, a box the size of a ponies head and salt lots and lots of salt" upon his his request one of the changlings said it would take a little time but everything would be brought to him, which in turn Elliott said his thanks. Before the group of changlings could leave however Elliott asked another question. "Is there any way to send a package to Celestia? Anonymously of course." One of the changlings turned back to him and said it could be done just to leave the package outside his cavern. With another thank you Elliott headed back to his task. An amusing thought struck Elliott as he made his way back to his "butcher shop" "I wonder if these ponies believe in the boogie man? Well if they don't, once I get started they will..."