The Earth Pony son of Twilight contracts a demon to save Equestria.
Silver Streak, son of Twilight Sparkle... was an oddity even from birth. Where his father, Flash sentry was a Pegasus and his mother was originally a unicorn, he was an Earth Pony (or Earthling as he prefers though that's a derogatory term usually) then one day, he and his friends have to go back in time... but not even the demon Silver "contracted," Century, remembers why. and when Century's power is so strong the Sirens, THE FREAKING SIRENS don't want it... you know it had to be something big.
Silver first became aware of an intense pain in his right front leg. The next thing he knew was he didn’t feel like his usual self, at least not in body shape. Then he opened his eyes and he was… somewhere like Manehatten. The buildings, the streets… only the inhabitants weren’t ponies. They stood on their hind legs and their front legs swayed at their sides. Their muzzles were smaller and they wore clothes all over their bodies… Silver stood up and, imitating the weird creatures, found it easy to stand on two legs. He walked out of the alley and found one of the creatures looking like…
“Rainbow Dash?” he said quietly. He watched her run past then wondered where he was, what he was even.
“Mommy, that man’s arm is weird!” A little girl said pointing to Silver. It was then that he realized the pain in his left… arm?… may not have been in his head. He looked down at the appendage… and was instantly horrified. It was like the thing crawled out of the depths of Tartarus, plates of demonic skin and eerie protoplasm took on the shape of what his mother called a “hand.” he hid the thing in his jacket sleeve and ran opposite the way Rainbow Dash went. Where am I? He asked himself. What am I? Eventually he ran into someone else.
“Rider!” Silver said as he got back on his feet.
“Silver?” Rider asked. “You recognize me with this body?” Wave Rider was the daughter of a friend of Silver’s mom, though he assumed he bore more of a resemblance to her father, whoever he was. “never mind. How do we get back to Equestria?” the pain in Silver’s arm flared up, knocking him down on hands and knees. “The hay is that?” Rider asked.
“I don’t know… but it hurts.”
“We need to find someone...” Then it occurred to her. “The Sirens!”
“What?”
“If we offer to give the Sirens their powers back, they may be able to help!” it was then that Silver realized what she was talking about. It was thanks to the magic of the sirens that his parents were almost not… married or anything like that. Adagio Dazzle, Aria Blaze and Sonata Dusk used music to make the people of Canterlot High argue with each other except for the six who got closest to Silver’s Mother.
“Not a chance!” Silver said. “They almost tore my parents apart, there’s no way I’ll help them!”
“Like it or not, they’re the only ones who can help you.” Rider said. “At least they can make the pain go away.” His arm started to sting a little, so he was forced to agree with her.
“Fine! But how will we get their powers back?”
“I’m getting a lot of power from that thing, we can give some of it to them in exchange, right?”
“I think you’re talking out you tail now.” Despite the pain, Silver tried to keep the snarky demeanor that he was known for. The look on Rider’s face said everything she wanted to. “Fine, let’s go with that!” Silver followed Rider’s lead, she had a secondary talent for locating ponies (And really anything sentient) so why should she be unable to find the Sirens (or the Dazzlings as his mom called them)?
Eventually they ran into three girls. They fit the description of the Sirens’ human forms in a restaurant that sold… Hamburgers? huh… so Silver took a chance and asked them the question.
“Are you the Dazzlings?” he winced.
“That’s us,” The one with the purple skin and hair, Aria, answered in annoyance. “You want to make fun of us too?”
“No… we want to make a deal,” Rider said. the Sirens looked a little more annoyed. But the one called Sonata asked what it was.
“I need help to lessen the pain in this thing.” Silver whispered as he showed them the arm. “Rider here suggests whatever power you take that lessens it, or even return it to normal, you can keep.” The Sonata and Aria looked at him with a bit of hope, but the leader, Adagio Dazzle… her response was still on the reveal of the hand. She looked at it in horror.
“How can you still stand with that thing?” She asked. “It hurts because it’s taking your magic energy away from you!”
“But I’m an Earthling!” Silver said followed by a wave of pain like a lightning bolt. The sweat on his brow fell off his forehead. “I don’t have magic!”
“That’s never happened before,” Adagio said. “Either way we don’t want the power, you gotta find a way to use it yourself.”
“Can you make the pain go away at least?” He hissed.
“I don’t think we have a choice here Adagio,” Aria said.
“I agreed,” Sonata responded. “We might get some form of redemption at least.”
“Alright,” Adagio sighed. “We’ll take some of the power.” They started to sing acapella. The pain in Silver’s arm was getting lighter. The arm itself wasn’t changing aside from the plasma glowing ever so slightly fainter but it hurt less. Gemstones were starting to form on the Dazzlings’ necks. The song was approaching an end and the arm looked… no different physically.
“Okay, we’ve done all we can,” Adagio said. “That demon’s not coming off any time soon.”
“Demon!?” Rider screamed. Everyone in the restaurant looked at them while the Dazzlings and Silver shushed her.
“We made the thing rest a while longer, but we don’t want its power, go to the Wondercolt statue at Canterlot High and walk through it, give these to Princess Celestia.” Adagio said as she removed the gem around her neck. Aria and Sonata, though startled by the action, followed suit. “Tonight should be the night when you can travel between the worlds naturally, so it’ll be easier to meet Celestia.”
“If you don’t want the power, how can we repay you?” Rider said.
“You’ll owe us one.” Aria said in exasperation.
The Mirror in the Crystal Empire was disorienting to go through, it always gave Silver a headache to travel between the worlds, especially because his body changed whenever he did. Though the headache was lighter this particular time… which should’ve been the first indicator that something was wrong. He lifted his hand to his forehead and rubbed the migraine. It took him ten seconds to realized that he still had a hand. He looked at the thing, horrified that he was still… a monkey? No, monkeys have tails. He freaked out, screaming and crawling backwards from the mirror.
“Silver…!?” Rider said from the right. The affliction hadn’t spread to her at least, she was a Pegasus in blue with white mane and a cutie mark that showed a jet ski and waves on either side of it. “What Happened!?”
“I don’t know!” Silver shouted. “I don’t think I can be a pony anymore!” there were clopping hooves down the hall and then Silver realized that he and Rider were surrounded by Guards with spears pointed at them.
“Who are you?” The leader of the guards asked. Silver recognized him, he was younger than when Silver knew him as a retiree, but this was definitely his uncle Shining Armour. “This creature is possessed by a demon! Unicorn Troops, Keep your distance!” Silver stood up.
“I need to… see the princess!” He said. “Take me to Celestia!”
“Answer my question first! Who are you and the Pegasus!?” Shining demanded. Silver swallowed in fear of the worst once he said what he had to.
“My name is Silver Streak,” He said. “I am the son of Princess Twilight Sparkle!” the fact that Shining thought he wasn’t taking it seriously led to him stepping forward himself… to be blown a way by an ungeist, a demon’s astral image on the physical plain.
“Can’t let you hurt my partner!” The thing said… though it looked like whatever Silver was in this new form. It was masculine, of medium build and covered by a cloak in black with brown hair and grey sunglasses. “You okay, boss?”
“Now’s not the time to ask who you are, but why did you possess me?”
“I didn’t, we have a contract. My power for a body for me to live in.” Silver looked around to see if anypony else was seeing what he was… but they looked frozen, with the same expression on their face as when he popped out. “Can’t remember the motive behind the contract, or when it was initialized, but I do know it is a contract, not a possession.”
“Did you freeze time?” Silver asked out of nowhere.
“That’s the least of my self-saved power,” The ungeist said. “But yeah… what else do you want to know?”
“I guess now’s a good time to ask your name, and can our contract be a possible demonic contagion on magic ponies?”
“Names’ Century. And no, the contract actually prevents a demonic outbreak, even coming in contact with those gems won’t affect anyone. Any other questions?”
“Later, can you set time back on course?” Century smiled, snapped his fingers and vanished in a puff of smoke as everyone started to move again.
“Commander Armour!” one of the soldiers shouted.
“I’m… fine?” Shining queried. “aside from the throbbing.”
“Turns out I’m not contagious.” Silver said. “But I need to see Celestia to explain!” the guard stood down as he walked by them and helped Shining to his feet.
“Lt. Surge!” Shining shouted. “Escort… Mr. Streak to the station. I’ll send a message to Princess Celestia to expect him…” He looked to Rider. “… and his friend.” Rider followed them out of the castle at Shining’s command.
The military train was rolling along towards Canterlot slowly, at least from inside the train. Silver was bored and restless, the demonic arm itched constantly. He was walking around the train car, avoiding areas with military secrets (The car was huge). Eventually the train stopped at an outpost station and Rider led the way as they got off to stretch their legs. It was then that Silver heard a scream for help. An Earth Pony mare came galloping from the other side of the town with Timberwolves hot on her tail… then everything slowed down.
“Tell me you’re not gonna help her,” Century said. “Demons a common cause of magic plague, we can’t cause a panic now!”
“What do you suggest we do!?” Silver yelled at the ungeist. “IF you’re not willing to help, dissolve the contract and I’ll go by myself!”
“Why’d I have to get stuck with you?” Century said. “Fine but your low on Kinesis, you’ll need to absorb motion energy to fight them!” he vanished in a puff of smoke, as the wind started up slightly… Silver drew the motion of the wind into his arm by flexing the muscles in the abysmal appendage and concentrating on the wind. When the wind fully stopped time started to move at it’s normal speed. In order to close the distance, Silver ran, faster than he remembered possible for his pony body, and punched one of the Timberwolves closer to the mare on the ground. He punched the thing and it shattered, despite the fact that his… fist didn’t make contact with the creature.
Three of the four remaining wolves then jumped him, though they didn’t get the chance to hurt him. Silver held his hand outstretched and the wolves stuck in the air, suspended by an unseen force. A swipe of his arm to the right and the wolves hit a nearby tree, falling apart into a pile of sticks.The final wolf looked at Silver… and retreated, weird considering they never did that according to Silver’s mom.
Rider stepped up to Silver, she was the only one who moved, and asked a question that seemed obvious to answer.
“How did you do that?”
“I have no idea,” Silver lied.
“New reports Celestia?” Luna asked her older sister in the throne room of Canterlot Castle. “You seriously need a vacation.”
“I know,“ Celestia said with a knowing smile. “But the job needs doing.” One particular report caught Luna’s eye, from Twilight Sparkle’s brother. It was addressed to Celestia as if it were a letter. She lifted the envelope with her magic and presented it to her sister.
“This one seems a little… personal, doesn’t it?” she said. Celestia looked at it and, taking it from her sister, opened it. Reading the contents to herself, Celestia’s face grew ever so slightly more dire as she went down the multipage letter, until she looked scared at the end of the letter. “Something I should know about, Sister?” Celestia looked up, and in a serious tone answered her little sister.
“You’ll wish it wasn’t. Those nightmares you’ve been having… I think they’re coming true.” Luna did not like the sound of that at all. For the past month she’d been having horrid dreams that a creature with the right hand of a malicious monster was going to come at a time of ruin for the country of Equestria. “Commander Armour says we’re to expect company described almost exactly like the creature in your dreams.” The shock on Luna’s face must’ve been exuberant, but it was still a fraction the fear she actually felt.
“What?” Luna could only ask for confirmation.
“He says it’ll be here In a couple days… meaning tomorrow according to the submission date.” Luna couldn’t believe what she was hearing. If her nightmares were to come true… it meant the world would come to an end.
“Your highness!” A guard shouted as he entered the room with urgency. “Reports form Forester Outpost arrived, an unidentified monster saved the community from Timberwolves!”
“What did this monster look like?” Luna asked, realizing that the outpost was on the railroad to Canterlot. It only made her more confused to hear the guard describe the monster as the creature from her dreams.
“Thank you, corporal,” Celestia said before Luna could say anything else. “Tell the guards outside we need privacy for the time being. The guard nodded and turned, leaving with a confused stride to his steps.
“Well, this only adds confusion,” Luna said as the guard stepped out of the door, closing it behind him.
“Not entirely,” Celestia said. “You only said the creature would come with imminent destruction, not that he would cause or fight it.”
“Still, can we even trust it?” Luna asked.
“Considering it saved one our people, I’d say we can’t know for sure the intentions of this thing until it get’s here.” Luna realized her sister was right… as she so often tends to be. Nonetheless the fear in her stomach was undeniable, and only adding to it was the worrying possibility that this creature wanted to help… but would ultimately be the cause of the destruction accidentally. Luna knew she’d be restless going to sleep tonight.
Twilight was laying in her bed, her stomach swelling with the new life growing within her. She hadn’t told the father, Flash Sentry, the captain of the guards for her castle, but she would when it became a little too obvious that she was pregnant. It was at this point that he and Spike came in with a letter from her brother, Shining Armour.
“What’s this?” Twilight asked. Though the look on Flash’s face was… concerning.
“What we did, last month,” Flash brought up the night they spent together. “Did it have... repercussions?”
“Why do you ask?” Spike handed Twilight the letter, as she took it with her levitation magic she wondered what about it brought the question out of Flash. Then she read the letter.
Twily
You have to tell Flash you’re pregnant. I just had a run in with a creature possessed by a demon, claiming to be your son, Silver Streak. From what I gather of him, he’s got no interest in seeing you, but I thought I should warn you, since he is, as I write this, headed to Canterlot to discuss something with Princess Celestia. I had Lt. Surge take a picture of Streak, which I included with this letter, if you see him, be careful.
Love you sis
Shining.
The picture of this Silver Streak was of one of the creatures at Canterlot High. He had blue hair and white skin, a stark contrast to what he wore. A grey coat around his waist, a black long sleeve shirt with a skull and cross bones on it, denim jeans. His right arm was definitely demonic, it was plates of brown and blue ether in the shape of a monstrous hand… wait, that’s not possession. She had to look into that, but right now… she had to tell Flash about the foal.
“Yeah… I’m pregnant.” She said to Flash. “I would’ve told you when it was obvious!” She said in her defense.
“You didn’t trust me… to take the news well?” Flash asked. Twilight didn’t know what to say. “Well, I’m not my dad, he ran away. My child will know their father!” the discussion was far from over, but Flash walked out of the room, asking if she needed anything.
“A book on Demon Plagues,” She responded. Flash nodded and went to the library, though the confusion on his face was very apparent.
“Is it really your son?” Spike asked. “That would explain how he was possessed, huh?”
“I don’t think he was possessed,” Twilight said. “I read about Demonic Possession and the afflicted don’t show signs where his are.” Spike looked at Twilight with something akin to worry. “What?”
“Nothing.”
“Spike, you know you can tell me anything.” Spike turned around and asked a weird question.
“What do you think his Special talent is?” Twilight only shook her head as Flash returned with the book she requested. She turned to a page titled “Contracting” and skimmed the information on it to see what she needed to know. It was all she needed before she understood that her self-proclaimed son contracted a demon, he wasn’t possessed. But this meant he had to take after his father. Demons could only possess Unicorns and Alicorns, Pegasus and Earth ponies were immune to possession, but they could willingly lend their body to a demon in exchange for their power. He had to be a Pegasus… right?
Silver and Rider split up, Rider headed for Ponyville as Silver went to Canterlot. Rider was a little hesitant about seeing her mom, before she was even conceived only added to the hesitation. But it couldn’t have been as bad as what Silver thought meeting his mother would be like. Growing up, he was always angry. He only wanted for one of two things as the son of a princess… he always wanted to fly, and he equally wanted to use magic. But as an Earth pony he couldn’t have either of these things.
Then one day a dragon attacked Rider while she was exploring the Everfree Forest (Doing so at the age of six was probably not the best idea in hindsight). In response when he saw them heading for the town, seven year old Silver Streak rammed the Dragon, and beat it to a pulp that was barely recognizable as a dragon. The only thing the dragon could’ve done in response was break his front leg, but that hardly stopped him. It was that day, after fighting a dragon and winning, that Silver got his Cutie Mark, a flaming drama mask depicting anger.
Rider never let go of the pity she felt for Silver. He was born to a world that he couldn’t be part of the way he was expected to, and that made him angry, to the point where that was his special talent, whether he wanted to be or not. He was even scolded by his mom for the dragon, despite the fact that he got his Cutie Mark.
She stopped in front of the door to the Castle of Friendship, and before she could knock, her mother opened the door and bumped right into her.
“Heh heh, sorry ‘bout that,” the rainbow haired mare said. “You okay?”
“I… I’ll be fine.” Rider said. “Is Princess Twilight in?”
“She’s on maternity leave from the whole, ‘Princess’ thing.” so it was at most a year before Silver was born.
“Actually that’s why I’m here… this is about her child.” Rainbow Dash didn’t seem to understand, but she took Rider to Twilight anyway. Twilight looked at Rider with some familiarity.
“You’re Silver’s friend, right?” Twilight asked. “I saw you in the picture my brother sent me with a letter about you two.” “Look… I came to warn you about Silver actually,” Rider said. “I have to tell you… when he was a pony… he was an Earth Pony.” The shock on the princess’ face was understandable. “whatever you do… try not to make him mad, he saved my life by being angry… but it killed the dragon that he took it out on.” Twilight was looking ever so slightly more horrified with each passing word. She finally took a deep breath, and asked for details.
Silver was being escorted to the throne room of Canterlot Castle by two guards that obviously knew very well where they were going, but they didn’t know what to make of Silver himself. Zecora’s fomulae were working to keep his anger manageable enough for modern society (though his training with some monks from the other side of the Forrest helped him manage his fury into a weapon when he needed it), so he was mildly annoyed by the strange looks at worst. Silver eventually ended up in front of Princess Celestia herself. She looked at him with some surprise, like she expected something to be different about him. He ignored this and bowed before the ruler, one knee on the ground, one hand on the other knee, other hand touching the ground.
“You may rise, stranger,” the Princess said. “May I ask who you are?”
“My name is Silver Streak,” Silver introduced himself “ And honestly I don’t know whether to say ‘nice to meet you,’ or ‘good to see you again,’ your majesty.”
“I know at least the name of every pony in Equestria… but Silver Streak is not one of them.”
“Your student, Twilight Sparkle is pregnant, right?” Celestia looked shocked that he knew this. But in explanation, Silver spread his hands as if the answer was supposed to be obvious.
“You’re her son...” Celestia looked horrified at the revelation. “Would you destroy Equestria?” Silver was confused.
“I could, doesn’t mean I would,” Silver half-heartedly assured. “Then again, all I have to do is get angry beyond belief to do it.” Celestia’s face betrayed her concern. “When I was seven I beat a dragon half to death, after it chased my friend to Ponyville, I took out my rage on the thing and had to be forced to stop. That was when I got my Cutie Mark.”
“Never heard of anger as a special talent,” Celestia said. “But it would explain my sister’s nightmare of the future.” Celestia wouldn’t go into details, but she instead asked something he didn’t want to hear. “You want to see your mother, don’t you?”
“No,” he said. “I’m too much of a disappointment, to myself and her. Probably doesn’t even miss me.” There was a hoof in Silver’s stomach after he said that causing him to keel over in pain. He looked up to see a very angry Celestia looming over him.
“How could you say that!?” She yelled. “It’d be one thing if it were my student, but she’s your mother! I know Twilight Sparkle, and she would miss her son no matter what got between her and her child!” Silver Lay there in shock for a few seconds… then he began to weep.
Rainbow Dash knew that Twilight had heard enough about her son thinking of himself as a failure from this pony. She’d gotten a lot of advice from her own mother on how to be good as a mother, but to hear that she didn’t have the best relationship with him… that hit hard. It was way too obvious to Rainbow Dash, this pony was making her angry, or scared that she wouldn’t be a good mother.
“He doesn’t blame you for being a bad parent,” this Wave Rider said. “you or his father, who he lost contact with after five years.”
“Then why does he hate me!?” Twilight sobbed.
“That’s just how he is, angry,” Rider tried to assure her. “Right down to his Special Talent.”
“I wanna know why he’s so angry,” Rainbow Dash asked. “How could anypony who’s mother is as caring as Twilight be angry enough to kill a dragon!?” “He… was an Earth Pony… though you’d normally call him an Earthling to appease him.”
“I thought Earthling was a derogatory term,” Spike said. Rider shrugged.
“So… who’s kid are you?” Dash asked. Rider looked at her for a full ten seconds… neither saying a word… before Rainbow Dash got it. “Whoa, What!?”
Silver got up and wiped the tears from his eyes. He then remembered the gems from the Sirens. Taking them out of his pockets, he placed them on the floor in front of him.
“What are those?” Celestia asked.
“I got them from the Sirens,” Silver said. “They told me to give them to you after they pulled them from Century.”
“Century? Not Sentry?”
“Leave my father out of this,” Silver looked annoyed. He touched his right arm. “I’m talking about him.”
“The demon you Contracted?” Silver had to wonder how she knew the difference… but then again she was a live longer than him, and he remembered a possession or two from his youth, and the afflicted area on the ponies’ bodies were always the green glowing cornea not the limbs.
“Yeah, though we don’t remember why we formed this contract.”
“What’s the last thing you remember?”
“My fifteenth birthday… but I somehow know that was at least a year back.” Celestia looked concerned… but she changed the topic back to Century.
“I have an idea why you and This Century would form this Contract. A demon contract amplifies the capabilities of the pony’s special talent; the more they do pertaining to it, the more they can do with their talent. You’re a very angry pony for your special talent, the angrier you get, the angrier you can get with a Contract. By that logic…”
“The more I fight, the more I can fight.” Silver finished. “And I needed to fight… but what was the cost?”
“No one will remember you on their own.” Century said in Silver’s head. “Unless records are kept of your existence, you’ll fade from history the minute you die… same can be said for me.” Silver thought the idea of him fading from everyone’s memory sounded more like a good thing… for everyone else, he was still scared of being forgotten.
“Is there any breaking the Contract?”
“It’s never been done,” Celestia said. “Everypony who tried… couldn’t.”
“So, I’m stuck with him for the rest of my life!?” Silver shouted waving his arm.
“No,” Century said in annoyance. “I’m stuck with you for the rest of my life.” Celestia used her magic to very carefully pick up the gems on the ground.
“While you two are arguing, I’ll have the research team look into these, and send you to your mother.”
“Wait, what!?” with that Silver was teleported to Ponyville, just outside the castle of friendship.
It was this all-knowing, benevolent, trickiness that Silver hated about Celestia the most… not saying a lot really, as he didn’t hate totally her. There was a Pegasus guard trotting over to the palace with a basket of apples, stopping at a look at Silver.
“Silver?” He addressed the strange creature. He got a good look at this pony, who recently he could only recognize from photos. Blue mane and tail like his own, and pale gold coat. The blue eyes and shield and lightning Cutie Mark…
“Dad!?” he hissed.
“So, you really are my son,” Flash said. “What’s wrong? You look traumatized.” The fact that he could say that so casually was almost a mockery of everything that Silver came to know as truth.
“You died in service when I was five,” Silver just blurted. Flash looked shocked… all things considered… the news that his job was gonna kill him… he took it pretty well. Then he chuckled.
“It feels weird saying this about my own death,” He said. “I’m sorry to hear that. Were we close?”
“Pretty close, mom took it harder though.” Flash hummed and nodded in understanding.
“Well, your mother is probably wondering where you are now. Want to head inside?” Silver looked apprehensively at the doors to the crystalline castle.
“Not really, we didn’t get along a lot after I got my Cutie Mark.” Silver realized what he just said and how weird it was. “I almost killed a dragon with my bare hooves to get it.” He could tell Flash was having a hard time deciding whether or not to back away slowly.