I am not dead.

Hi guys! I know it's been a long time but I have been piecing this together bit by bit and the second chapter is now up! Me and faffer are so excited to get this out to you guys so I hope you enjoy it! I will be trying to update more regularly as I want to go more into writing and reading as of late instead of gaming.

Productive faffer: Without further ado, we bring you chapter 2 of ED. Warning! This has a lemon with our best zebra friend. So read at your own risk.

Enjoy!

Blood Moon sat upon the couch in Twilight's library, thinking long and hard about what happened a few hours ago. Everypony was sitting in silent thought around Blood Moon and Twilight, trying to comprehend what exactly happened; it was a tense silence, nopony really wanting to think about what had happened. Twilight Sparkle dead, then alive again? An Alicorn turning up, rather literally, out of the blue and getting into a fight with Blood Moon, one of Equestria's most capable and fearsome fighters. A theory or two had been slung around to try and break the silence, failing rather miserably, and most had revolved around this stallion being some kind of powerful fighter who went around picking fights with other powerful fighters, but that theory had been shot out of the air when Twilight pointed out how he seemed to deliberately antagonise Blood Moon. Could he be after him? Blood Moon himself disputed that one when he noted that he wouldn't have spoken to him in town without attacking him.

With slight trepidation, Twilight spoke up again.

"So… I… died and he brought me back to life?" The ponies around the room nodded their heads gravely. Twilight still seemed a bit broken, either from the fact that she'd died and come back or the spell that he'd used. None of them would be really surprised if it had been the latter.

"Yes" Blood Moon said simply. He was sat next to his betrothed and holding her in his fore-hoof, rubbing her own up and down.

"But-but that's impossible, surly, how could he, anypony, do something like that? I've never even heard about something like resurrection magic, never even read about it." Twilight exclaimed. She stood up and took to pacing around the library, circling everypony. It was clear that she was still having trouble comprehending the fact that she actually died. In the middle of her pacing and trail of thought, she turned to face Blood Moon, who responded with a lift of his chin and swift eye contact. "Is there any kind of Umbra Linguam that can resurrect a pony?" He grunted and smiled good-naturedly; he'd been teaching Twilight the theory of Umbra Linguam, not an easy process, and it was clear from such a question she still hadn't grasped the full concept of the dark breed of magic.

"No. It doesn't work like that" he answered with what was supposed to be an air of finality. Twilight did that 'marriage-speak' thing and told the assassin to continue without saying anything. Blood Moon sighed, stood on all four hooves and cleared his throat. As soon as he did that, Rainbow Dash groaned in agony, Applejack copied Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie stopped her bounce mid-air, in that cute 'buck physics' thing she did and snapped back to the circle of ponies with an eagerness to listen to him that really confused the assassin, and Rarity and Fluttershy remained more or less neutral and Twilight sat close to him and pulled out a notepad, anxious to learn more about his type of magic. "Alright, as I've told you, Umbra Linguam is a very… odd, shall we say, form of magic, for more than one reason. It will curse those who learn it, as you know; takes shadows to properly use it; and most importantly, it has a mind of its own. I've tamed magic, so to speak, over the years but a novice of Umbra Linguam will be influenced." He took a pause. "That is what I meant, Twilight, when I said it can corrupt the mage. But the reason it does this is interesting; Umbra Linguam, as I said, has a mind of its own so it's also sort of self-aware, it wants to survive. Personally, the point is moot, considering I can't be killed anyway, but any other user becomes…more robust, so to speak, and they'll live longer than the average pony. However, Linguam is not a nice magic; it has no interest in anypony's, or anything's, survival." He looked at Twilight. "For all of its unusual qualities, it cannot bring somepony back to life. If I had to guess, that's what…" he frowned, trying to remember his name "Blaze did to you. He healed your injuries and re-grafted your soul back to your body" he finished.

"But-but not even Celestia can resurrect a pony, at least I don't think she can, and Umbra is the only form of magic I can think of that could do something like that, certainly healing magic doesn't go that far" she argued.

"But Umbra Linguam is a dark magic" he retorted "It's not meant for good. Almost all of its spells have death, combat, destruction or subterfuge in mind" Blood Moon explained "hay, since it can't corrupt me or harm me mentally it resorts to just hurting me."

"Subterwhaa" Rainbow piped up.

Twilight took in all this information. Then it hit her. Her eyes widened in shock at the depth and reality of what he meant.

"So," Twilight asked with shock quite evident in her speech, "Every time you use that magic, you get hurt?"

"Technically. That's how it works, but to be perfectly fair it's kind of lax when compared to being brought back from the dead, it's practically a blowjob" replies Blood Moon with a calm voice and a grin on his face, his choice of metaphor prompting blushes and small giggles. Blood Moon kept his grin, letting the girls have their fun, but in his mind he could feel something, on the horizon. Something just around a corner. And he knew he wouldn't like it.

Blaze appeared in the middle of the Everfree Forest with a bang, scaring away all of the critters around him, bunnies, hedgehogs, squirrels and racoons running for it. He fell to the ground, panting in exhaustion and covered in sweat, his whole body sore. The Overlord felt like all of his strength had just been sapped from his body. Oh wait, it had. As he tried to, he felt more and more shots of pain coursing through his legs, neck, spine and back. He felt himself grow dizzy, and felt that need to throw up, but not the 'going to throw up now' feeling, the 'really need to throw up but not gonna let you' feeling. He hated that feeling.

'This is just like what happened when I resurrected Twilight back in my home dimension.'

After Blaze's quick thought, his vision went black and he passed out cold on the ground in the middle of nowhere. A few seconds later, the sounds of hooves on grass could be heard moving toward Blaze. Then, deep and strangely rhythmical voice found his ear.

"My my, who do we have here? I had heard a struggle somewhere near." The mysterious zebra murmured to herself. She tried to speak with Blaze. "Are you alright? Your appearance is quite the fright." The zebra asked Blaze a question, but he couldn't hear her through the walls of his own unconsciousness. She decided to try one last time. "My name is Zecora my friend, have you a title to lend?" She got no response, yet again. The mare decided she needed to help this mysterious pony; she grabbed Blaze gently by the back of his neck and slung him up onto her back, showing some impressive strength in the process. She carried him to her hut where she examined him further.

"Hmm, a horn and wings? An Alicorn it seems" she noted as she took her cloak off. She places Blaze on top of her bed carefully, his stomach up, head propped against the wall and keeping his limbs in a comfortable position, for she did not want to injure him. She stood over him and took her first impression. Her first notable reaction was aimed at Blaze's build; He was built strong but agile, not a bodybuilder, more the type of pony who was athletic but did not go overboard like Iron Will, or maybe Roid Rage. She examined his body more carefully; ash grey fur, fire mane and tail a cutie mark of an eye watching a world. She couldn't put her hoof on what that might mean. His eyes were red, reminding the zebra of one particular darkly robed assassin.

Zecora's eyes trailed to an uncouth place. Her face quickly turned red and she looked away, or at least she tried to. Her head moved away, but her eyes were locked on the spot. The black and white equine wasn't sure if her luck was in a good mood at the moment or not, because it was only yesterday she'd ran out of the necessary herbs to make the incense sticks she really, REALLY wanted. But mainly, because the figure standing over Blaze was in heat, and she saw this is a bit of an opportunity to...soothe her urges.

"I don't want to be a pervert...but looking won't hurt" the zebra muttered as her head lined up with her eyes, aimed at Blaze's crotch. As she kept looking, she felt the heat, the stirrings, the strain, the NEED start to grow in her loins, and she kept staring at it, her eyes growing hungry as she licked her lips. "I don't remember the last time I did something this," she said quietly to herself, "but I need feel a sense of bliss." She leaned in, her muzzled getting awfully close to his private area, and she took a long, deep breath through her nose; small amounts of sweat and body odour, but little else. She grinned; he hadn't gotten any action in a while. Maybe he needed relief too. She noticed herself getting closer, and before long she found herself nuzzling his crotch lovingly. She was rewarded when the Alicorn's sheath eased out, the thick, almost leathery, skin that protected the delicate, much more sensitive skin, of the shaft of his stallionhood. She bit her lip. "Maybe if I gave it a little touch, but not too much; that would just be my luck, stirring conscious while I'm having a suck." She started to reach her hoof over to Blaze's stallionhood and lightly touched it. It twitched, his black member sliding out as the blood ran to it and started to harden. Blaze gave a small grunt of satisfaction as she did. She quickly pulled away, thinking he'd woken up. She stood in wait, awaiting either a scolding or a rutting, and eventually realized what was happening. It was appeared that Blaze was awake, but he wasn't at the same time. Like a semi-unconscious state, with all the cards in her favour. The zebra could do anything she wanted to Blaze and still get a reaction out of him, while he was still sleeping. She grew a slightly mischievous smile. Her heat guided every action along she made. She slowly brought her hoof to Blaze's stallionhood again and started to slowly rub her hoof up and down the soft member, watching it, feeling it and actually smelling it hardened under her touch, the erection growing as more and more eager blood ran into the organ. Blaze started to writhe around very slightly, his breathing slightly heavier, but his eyes were still closed, the fluttering of his eyes telling her he was dreaming. And the small smile told her it was a good one. Zecora kept up her efforts to please him, one eye on his cock, the other lingering on his face, but both her eyes were practically dragged to his schlong when he was at full length, and was in total shock at how big Blaze was when he was completely hard.

She grinned and got on top of Blaze, her pussy dripping onto his chest, and brought her head down to it. She started to slowly lick at the tip, the head of his member seeming most sensitive as he seemed to twitch more when she slurped at it, while at the same time slightly tease Blaze by putting the head in her mouth and quickly taking it out and licking the tip some more, all the while rubbing the shaft with her hoof. Her tongue swirled around his cockhead, getting a good taste of his member; it felt harder than the organs of most other stallion-parts she'd tasted before, the pulse of blood making it twitch, as though it was trying to force its way into her maw, but with a playful grin, she denied it entrance. This was driving the sleeping Blaze insane. Eventually, she got bored of teasing and leaned her face down to his crotch before she let her tongue out and ran it up the length of his member before she smacked her lips and dived onto his dick, a small 'om' coming out as her lips enveloped him and went deep, took as much as she could into her mouth. Her deepthroat seemed to satisfy her Alicorn, a small sigh escaping his sleeping form and Zecora decided he liked being deepthorated; she grinned, mouth full of dick, and ran her tongue up and down it while holding her breath and salivating all over it while she kept it in her heavenly mouth. Zecora wrapped her tongue partially around his thick stallionhood and ran it up and down, jerking it off with her oral organ. The sleeping stallion thrust into her mouth a little. She giggled at his unconscious enthusiasm, feeling him throb in response, as though his cock were applauding her efforts. She decided to thank him. Zecora released him with a small 'pop' and used her luxuriously think, skilful tongue to lap up the thick bead of pre cum before she gasped slightly for breath, looking like a mare who'd just finished gulping down a glass of water. Although, it was more like she'd just finished eating a carrot. Zecora clamped her lips around his schlong and started to bob her head up and down. Her left hoof strayed down to her slit and began rubbing it, rotating along and around it and flicking at her clit. She took her other hoof away from his cock and let it move down their bodies, almost against her will, and let it help out her other hoof in pleasuring herself. What she wouldn't give for him to suddenly wake up and probe her marehood with his tongue.

…

Well, worth a try.

Her hooves danced around her pussy, one rubbing vigorously at her clit while the other kept stroking up and down its length; she took both away for a second before she put them both at the sides and spread them; she came close to biting the cock in her mouth in her pleasure, a squeal vibrating through his organ as she pleased herself. Zecora pulled her hooves away and stopped blowing him for a second. His cock seemed to have gotten harder, gotten slightly bigger. She grinned as she decided to take it up a notch. She put one of her hooves to his balls and fondled them, before she let her tongue out and took him right in, going right to the roots and not stopping until her face was pressed against his crotch and his cock was buried down her throat deep in her throat. Her other hoof went into her pussy and she quickly inserted her hoof, making her moan and sending vibrations through Blaze's erection and his body. He couldn't take it anymore, the vibrations of her lustful moans, her tongue going up and down his shaft and her hoof squeezing around his testicles. With one final grunt, the sleeping Blaze came hard inside of the zebra's mouth. She swallowed as much as she could, which was almost everything, but some of it got on her face and her hoof when she lifted her mouth from his cock and her hoof from his balls and sat up on his hard chest. She sat there, with her left hoof still clopping away. She started to speed up the process, and eventually looked at Blaze's erection again-

Wait, it was still hard? The zebra figure couldn't believe her eyes. She scooted herself further towards his cock top and started to rub the shaft of Blaze's erection against the outer folds of her vagina. She started to moan. A minute of grinding later and she was almost ready to cum. She was so absorbed in her pleasure that she disregarded the fact that Blaze was going to cum again soon too. She stood herself up a little more so that Blaze's cock was once again standing at attention. She lifted herself up above Blaze's cock, ready to let herself be penetrated.

'Wait a minute, she thought, he is asleep, for me to do this to him would be cheap. I would be taking advantage, my conscious would not be able to manage.' But then she looked down at his huge, big, pulsing, black cock, waiting, desiring, demanding, begging…

"Apologies my young Alicorn, but the feeling of heat does make one lust-lorn" she whispered as she felt the very tip of his cock tease her opening. She dumped herself onto his stallionhood, feeling him spread her walls with such unbridled force that she couldn't suppress the scream of pleasure. She threw her head back, her fore-legs fell limp to her side while her waist muscles seemed to fail her as she fell back onto him, wishing he weren't asleep so he could hold her as he fucked her. She got up again, her fore-legs shaking as she did so; she turned herself around on his cock and fell forwards, onto her hooves; she rested on steadied herself and took to lifting her flank and slamming it back down on his groin, causing her bubble butt to giggle around as she groaned onto his face, her slightly closed eyes locked onto his closed ones, watching his face clench in pleasure as she slammed down onto him. She moved forwards and kissed his neck as she fucked herself on him. Zecora couldn't hold it down anymore, she pulled back and groaned heavily, moaned deeply and took deep sultry breaths. She felt him throb heavily inside her and felt her pussy clench. She pulled out and grinded her pussy along his stallionhood; he didn't cum, he seemed to linger on the fresh hold and her hips were getting tired. She got up off his chest and sat between his hind-legs, her femness grinding along his stallionhood. She jerked him off with her right hoof while her right rubbed against her pussy. She felt him throb and her cunt clench as she got closer to her climax; she bit her lip and moved her hooves faster, faster and faster until they were nothing but blurs until she felt like she was going to explode.

And then she did.

Zecora's pussy burned and suddenly she contracted and her whole body clenched as she came, squirting slightly onto his cock while his volcano erupted, a white, thick, sticky substance rocketing out, rope after rope of his seed and all of it fell onto Zecora, her eyes widening as time seemed to slow down for her, her maw opening in awe as some of the sum reached the ceiling before splashing down onto her and turning her white and black fur to just white. Though instead of the colour of zebra, she was now the colour of slut. And she didn't care a bit. She fell back, having subconsciously rotated her partner in sanguine so they could lie peacefully on the bed in her post-orgasm bliss. And colt, was it bliss. She looked over her well-fucked body at her mystery stallion, it suddenly occurring to her that she didn't even know her name. She felt a little dishonest but after the things she'd done before to slate her lust, she didn't dwell on it much. Zecora hummed in post-cum fuzziness before she realized she was stinky with sweat and covered in cum.

She looked over her sweet tummy again and noticed something big and black poking over; her eyes widened and she felt like crying: he was STILL hard!? Her jaw hung low, she got back up, shock wiping out any fatigue of lust and just stared. How? How was it he still hadn't given up yet? She huffed slightly as her pride took a little hit and she told herself she would stop until this horny stud went flaccid. She used her tongue to clean her hooves off before she moved back to his pole and grinded her body, lips, ass, pussy and hooves along it, never really jerking him off or sucking, or licking or letting him penetrate but just rubbing him with her whole body, using their cum as a lubricant. After a while she gave up with the pole/lap dance when she noticed she was a little horny again herself. She decided to resort to finishing herself off by clopping while still rubbing Blaze's pulsating erection. After they came he was still hard, so she decided to suck Blaze off again, swallowing more of his warm seed. And then she did it again. And again. And twice more until this seemingly unbridled lust died down and she was covered in more seed than she could ever hope to swallow down. With a small, but satisfied, sigh she stepped away from her partner and took to cleaning herself off.

"I wonder what that pony is up to now" Twilight muttered to herself and the crowd of ponies around her at the same time. As if on cue, Pinkie's body started to twitch in a weird way. Everypony looked up to watch and everypony but Blood Moon regretted it. Her whole body started juddering on the floor as the rest of her body and her confused face bounced violently up and down until she stood up, and that's when things got awkward; her flank, rapidly and uncontrollably, started giggling up and down, making a rather arousing display for the stallion, and one or two of the mares (names will not be named) in the room. The her giggles stopped and her hind-legs seemed to go wobbly and loose, like jelly, and her flank fell to the floor when her legs spread, unable to support her weight. Lastly, her tail shot up, ridged, completely revealing herself to everypony in the room. Pinkie seemed completely confused as to what in the hay had just happened and Blood Moon's brain couldn't even begin to understand what had just happened, primarily because his stallionhood was hogging the blood. He suddenly felt a hoof around it and looked down to find Twilight covering it for him. He gave her a kind smile in thanks, to which she returned. After the their short glance, they looked back at Pinkie. Every pony stared in shock at the new sequence of actions, primarily Blood Moon who got used to things quickly.

"What does that mean, Pinkie? I've never seen that combination before." Twilight asked with a curious tone before she looked around. "I don't think anypony has." Pinkie looked at her with a dumbfounded expression.

"I don't know Twilight, I've never twitched like that before" said Pinkie. At those words, she perked up as something seemed to catch fire inside her. And it felt good. She became very aroused to and very fast. She was the only mare who knew what she was feeling inside of her, but she really wished there was a stallion who could feel inside her too. "I, um..." She was sweating now, her right flank cheek twitching provocatively. "I…reeeeeally need to go home, I-I-I for…got…to… fill… out… an ORDER! Yeah, that was it, I gotta babysit the twins! I'm glad you're okay Twilight, and I'll….seeyalaterbuy!" She said the last words as fast as she could as she ran outside of the library and back to her house to relieve her Pinkie Sense, her speed blasting a gale of air around her. She really had to figure out what that Pinkie sense meant.

'I've never felt like this twitche- twitch-twitch before. And why does it feel like there's a party going down in my fun place' wondered Pinkie.

Meanwhile, everypony else was wondering what the buck just happened.

"Wut. Ju'.Happened" asked Applejack, who was still sitting next to Rainbow Dash and now looked like she wanted to go after Pinkie Pie to find out if anything was wrong. As she was speaking, a mustard yellow Pegasus landed just outside Twilight's door, looking behind himself at something, no doubt Pinkie Pie, and trotted inside before shrugging it away, as the old stallion did.

"Forget about her, I know something that may interest you, Blood." Sand Stalker, a long time friend of Blood Moon and the rest of the mare, specifically Rainbowdash, her unofficially adopted uncle. Said mare flew over to the old mercenary as he stepped into the Library and hoof bumped him. The other ponies rose to attention when they saw the figure enter some smiling, nodding or doffing her hat to him. "I know where that pony you fought went." When they had gotten back to the library, they had found the merc reading up on griffon biology for reasons he wouldn't give up. Blood Moon had asked him to keep a nose out for a grey furred and fire mane and tail stallion. Blood Moon was happy to hear that he had information, but was stopped himself asking when something occurred to him.

"You saw us fight?"

"Blood Moon, the whole town saw. They all saw Twilight die, they all saw that pony resurrect her" he revealed, making Blood Moon flinch. "They also saw him flirt rather blatantly with your wife. I don't know what kind of arrangements you may have made with heat and codes and all that, but what I do know is that kinda thing is what earns you a one-way ticket to the morgue." Blood Moon relaxed a bit when he heard that.

"So, the whole town saw him" a nod "knows what he looks like" another "so now he's not gonna be able to keep a low profile" he muttered. Sand Stalker nodded.

"That's all true, but they also saw you swing first" he pointed out.

"Is this the face of a stallion who gives a buck?" He pointed at his own, mangled, ugly, wrinkled face, a flat expression on it. Sand Stalker gave a 'you got me there' shrug. The assassin had never truly cared about what the residents of Ponyville thought of him. "So, what do you know?" Sand Stalker seemed to remember why he was here.

"Oh yeah, I saw him just now, not ten minutes ago." Blood Moon grinned.

"Where is he?" Sand Stalker took in a deep sigh, to which no one understood except him.

"He is in the Everfree Forest, at Zecora's hut. Be careful though. When I looked through the window, I saw him doing something questionable with Zecora." Blood Moon grunted.

"He's here for not even a day and he'd already under her tail" he muttered. Blood Moon put a thinking face on. "So what do we have? A guy who gets around a lot with the mare. But he's also quite powerful..." Blood Moon put his hoof up to his chin in thought. "Perhaps she was in heat, what was she doing exactly?"

"She was sucking his-"

"ALRIGHT!" Blood Moon interrupted him before he could taint the ponies' minds and the baby dragon with that word. "Subtle" he said, pronouncing it as a curse "only needed one keyword there, Sand."

"Heh, sorry." He gave a toothy half grin and scratched the back of his head. "Anyway, I doubt she'd in heat if that's the case; a mare, stop me if I'm wrong ladies, tends to cater to her own needs rather than that of the stallion's." He made a grim look of thought. "I don't know, something doesn't add up, we've gotta find out what's going on" he declared. Blood Moon thought for a moment before agreeing with his suggestion.

"I'd say he's right, let's go guys. We need to find out what this 'Overlord' is up to." The ponies all nodded their heads in agreement before trotting out of the house and heading to the Everfree Forest. On the way, they passed Sugarcube Corner and heard a loud, lust filled and rather satisfied moan come from Pinkie Pie. The elements of harmony all turned red in the face and trotted faster than usual to get away from the sounds, Blood Moon stayed completely straight faced and Sand Stalker just said 'nope' and cantered faster.

Once they reached Zecora's hut, Blood Moon cued every pony to hide, knowing their guy would think something was up if he saw them all, and knocked on the door. Zecora took a second before hesitantly opened it.

"Oh, hello there Blood Moon. What brings you here this afternoon?" The assassin's paranoia shot up, his hackles standing on end and practically hissing at the zebra.

"Hello Zecora. Say, you wouldn't happen to be keeping a pony here by any chance? Grey coat, red and orange tail and mane, kinda looks like fire?" Blood Moon didn't bother rhyming his words. At those words, Zecora started to sweat and her whole facial expression changed.

"I think I have who you're talking about. But he is asleep, so he cannot come out." Zecora replied. Blaze slowly trotted into the doorway, wondering what was going on, and Blood Moon's heart rate rose when he saw the godlike pony.

"Zecora? What's going on- !" He quickly noticed Blood Moon.

"YOU!" Blood Moon's hoof shot forwards at and sent a swift right hoof into Blaze's jawline; the Overlord stumbled back a bit, but then got angry.

"You..." He echoed in a near demonic voice. He returned the strike with three times the calibre, sending Blood Moon flying back into a tree and causing a huge dent in the bark. Afterwards, he put up a full-body shield so neither Blood Moon nor his spells could hurt him. It wouldn't last long, so he had to calm him down quickly. "I'm not looking to fight. I'm sorry. What are you doing here?"

Blood Moon regained his composure before responding, stepping out of the dent like nothing had happened and cracked his neck still pissed off.

"I'm here for you, you sonofabitch. And Zecora, what have you done to her?"

"What are you talking about?" Blaze started to trot up to Blood Moon, who gripped his sword with his magic and sank gracefully into stance. Blaze sighed. "Look, would you calm down? I mean no harm to you."

"I severely doubt it, kid." Almost instantly, Blaze put the shield down and snarled at the assassin.

"Quit calling me KID already" he ordered. As the immortal assassin of Equestria, the oldest and most powerful being in its lands and an equally immortal god, sworn to protect his universe from dark, ancient being of immense power kept throwing 'yo mamma's ' at each other, Sand Stalker trotted up to Zecora.

"Zecora, I saw what you two were doing in the window." Sand Stalker told her rather bluntly. Her face instantly flushed red and she looked as embarrassed as she had ever been.

"It...it was a selfish feat. You see, he was asleep but I was in heat." He explained to Sand Stalker. It kind of surprised him to learn he'd been asleep, but not as much to learn that she had, indeed, been in heat. Mainly because SHE had been servicing HIM. After she said that, it suddenly clicked in his head; he realized that he jumped to a conclusion, suspecting foul play in their foreplay and ran over to Blood Moon and Blaze, who were still arguing it out.

"You think I'M the evil one here" Blaze had shouted at Blood Moon.

"Knock it off, the both of you!" They kept at it. "Both of you, else you'll both get a time out" Sand Stalker roared as he galloped in between the middle of them. The pair of them shut up at that, either through confusion at such a threat or actually listening to him. The Elements, minus Pinkie Pie, were still waiting in a nearby bush and were kind of impressed with his foal skills. "There's been a misunderstanding." Blaze and Blood Moon stopped arguing and looked at Sand Stalker. "It seems that our little zebra friend over there was in heat and that he was asleep while all of it happened, so you couldn't stop it or, I dunno, contribute. That true?"

"Yes! That's what I've been trying to tell you the whole time!" He redirected his anger to Blood Moon once more. Blood Moon looked narrowed his eyes at the grey stallion once more. He looked over to Zecora.

"You mean to tell me that you basically sucked him off while he was asleep and couldn't say otherwise?" Zecora cringed at the words, still red-faced.

"Yes, it is true." Zecora said with a sigh. "But that phase is through. Blaze I am sorry for what I did, but I promise from now on that this action will be forbid."

"It's okay Zecora, I understand." Blaze replied to the zebra.

"Sand Stalker, girls, let's go." He glared at Blaze. "You're coming with me. We need to talk. I have questions and I'm pretty sure you have and want answers." When he called for the Elements, the five ponies came out of the bush.

"Wait! Th-they were here to see and hear all of that?!" Blaze instantly went a bright red in contrast to his dark grey fur colour. "Can I at least have a moment with Zecora?" The mares and mustard stallion nodded and found something more interesting to look at while Blood Moon shrugged a shoulder and trotted to his wife. When he saw that they were no longer looking at him, most had turned away, and ran up to Zecora before he smashed his lips into hers and started to roughly make out with her. She moaned into it and he quickly slapped his right hoof into her right flank. Another moan came from his zebra companion. He pulled the kiss away before it could go further.

"What was that for, Blaze? You are driving me into a craze." Zecora said huskily, a grin on her face and even more red-faced than before. Blaze kept rubbing her flank but started to speak.

"I wanted to thank you for what you did to me. I didn't know zebras were so good at that. I'll definitely be coming around again." He could hear Zecora's unsteady breaths. She nodded in acknowledgement before he kissed her one more time and teleports to the group who had already taken to trotting away, most likely at Blood Moon's suggestion, or more likely he'd just left and they'd followed him walking. He appeared behind them and cantered to join the group of them and started to trot with them.

"What were you two doing" Blood Moon asked Blaze, his voice gruff and hard. He decided to answer truthfully.

"I decided to thank her for what she did, but that's not important. I want to know what you want from me, then I'll ask what I want to know from you." Blood Moon took notice of what he said. He lets other ponies speak first, lets them say what they have to say before he speaks after they had. He listened, observed, and at the least seems to be the caring type. Well, sometimes at least.

'We'll see where this goes.'

"First off, why are you here?" His first question came out of his mouth as they were just exiting the Everfree Forest. Blaze thought for a moment before answering.

"I have been told by Princess Celestia that something is coming to destroy this universe and turn it into its anti-form. Basically meaning, everything is dead and non-existent. I had a nightmare once about it. It's a grey, dull landscape. There is no sun. There is no moon. There is no life. The only thing that still exists is anti-matter which is what makes up the ground. I don't know why, but I didn't get sucked in. There was no air, there was no matter left. I'm surprised I could see anything. Light doesn't exist. It's nothing but a wasteland." Blaze looked around to see that he dampened the mood of everypony knowing that they may not exist in a little while. "But have faith, for I am your guardian. I am here to eradicate this evil from-" Sand Stalker and Blood Moon had burst out laughing. Blaze looked angry and was about to give him a few choice words.

"You-you" the assassin could get no further before he fell to laughs again, faltering in his steps so he could wipe a tear away with his hoof. Sand Stalker was laughing just as heavily, his old voice croaking slightly as he held himself up on Blood Moon. "You" he laughed again "you're our HAHAAA you're supposed to be HAA w-what did he say Sand, what did he say?" He straightened and spoke in Blaze's voice. "But have faith, for I am your guardian" he repeated before he fell to his front "Wh-why so serious, kid" he hollered. Sand Stalker was on his back now, holding his side before he laughed so hard it was silent. Blood Moon glanced up at Blaze's furious face and the gathered mare, who were wondering what was going on, and almost fell back to laughing. After a few seconds of deep breaths and small 'woo's and 'hehs' he stood up and trotted up to Blaze, putting his hoof on his shoulder. "Listen kid, I don't mean to put you down…well I do, put the day you're my saviour is the day I die" I told him before he trotted away. "You're too serious kid, learn to lighten up" he advised. A dark voice made him stop.

"Do you have ANY idea, as to what I could do to you" Blaze fumed. Blood Moon turned back, his face a little more serious now.

"Do you have any idea as to what *I* could do to *you*" he retorted. Blaze took a few deep breaths as Sand Stalker picked himself up and moved past him, coming to a stop a little ways away from Rainbowdash. Blood Moon cocked his head as he looked deep into Blaze's eye and saw the things he'd seen and the scars they'd left. What he didn't see was that Blaze was about to say a few choice words, but very carefully placed.

"We can both kill your wife on sight right now..." Twilight gasped at this statement and faltered, trembling a bit at the idea of dying again. "But can YOU bring her back to life? I chose to bring her back because I care about you ponies, as much of a cocky, arrogant bastard stallion as you may be. Now I suggest that you listen to be because if you don't, then your wife will die. Sand Stalker WILL die, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Applejack, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, Celestia, Cadence, and Luna WILL all die along with them, all because you thought it was a better idea to laugh at me instead of help me defeat this bucking annoyance of an evil force!" That did it. Mentioning the idea of Twilight and the princesses of day and night dying for good hit Blood Moon like a thrown brick to the muzzle. Blaze decided to drive it home. "I don't know what you find funny about a universe ending force, but I don't find a find it even mildly amusing, but if you find the death of everypony around you dying funny, then so be it!" Blood Moon's expression instantly changed and looked away from Blaze. His pride told him to rip out the stallion's spine, whip him with it before he throttled him to death with it. But when he looked to Twilight his heart shattered at the thought of seeing her die for good, die again, and he changed his song. He imagined what Blaze described; a dull, grey landscape where not even matter exists. Truth be told, he cared very little about the fate of Equestria, should what the Alicorn described happen he'd probably just go to Tartarus again, but with out Equestia, even the immortal Celestia and Luna would cease to be. His spine tingled in a strage sort of silent rage as considered the two things; the thought of something turning up and killing everypony pissed him off no small amount, but having to swallow his pride and having to suck up to this kid who was thousands of years younger than him made him want to strangle HIMSELF with his own spine. Blood Moon didn't do much to bow down to others, and the last thing he ever, ever did was swallow his pride. Because in the same way it's impossible to swallow something bigger than your own head, Blood Moon couldn't swallow something bigger than a planet.

He really does want to save us. If it's true, what am I doing sitting here laughing at him? I don't know how he knows all this, where his power comes from or how powerful he is but I have to admit it...resurrecting ponies? This kid has gotta be more powerful than Celestia, very probably more than myself, if only because of the magic he uses.

He narrowed his eyes at Blaze, more inquisitive than threatening. "Alright kid, what's this…what did you call it, 'mega evil' gonna do?"

"I already said; this land is fated to end unless I can stop it. All this around you" he motioned at the trees and fields "all this will be gone." Blood Moon looked back at Twilight.

"Twi, have you ever heard anything like this before?" He spoke very tenderly with his bride. The mare shook her head and came forwards.

"No, never." Blood Moon caught Blaze's look at Twilight and stored it away for future reference.

"So…this evilness of mega portions…only you can stop it?" Blaze shook his head.

"No this time…it's more…complicated" he answered. Blood Moon stayed quiet for the longest of times, him and Twilight glancing at each other every now and then as they spoke in a silent language with each other.

"So…what can we do?" Twilight asked from beside Blood Moon. Blaze shrugged.

"Well, Princess Celestia said that it was going to take a much stealthier approach. Probably one that was going to possess ponies and make them do his bidding if I had to guess. So as for now, we need to lay low and make sure that he does not figure us out." Blaze responded as they just about reached the edge of Ponyville.