Chapter 6: Demonius Revealed

(Flashback: 1,138 years in the past)

There was a small, white alicorn colt running through a green, grassy field. Not far behind him was another white alicorn, this time a filly, who was slightly older than he was. Way behind the two was a dark blue alicorn filly, who was somewhere in the middle of the other two's age group. Neither of them had earned their cutie marks yet.

The white filly was quickly catching up with the colt, and she has soon tackled him, the both of them laughing.

"Demonius, you'll have to run faster than that if you want to be a foot soldier," the white filly told the colt.

"So!" the colt, Demonius, said in the same accent he does nowadays. "I'm only 5. I won't be able to run that fast for a few years."

"You can do anything you put your mind to," the white filly told him.

"You are ever the optimist, Celestia," Demonius teased.

"Couldn't you guys have slowed down for me, I'm not as fast as you!" said the blue filly, just catching up to them.

"Luna, I know you can go much faster, you just don't want to try," teased Demonius.

"NO, I JUST CAN'T GO ANY FASTER!" Luna screamed angrily, and she started blushing (she was a terrible liar).

"Relax, sis," Demonius said calmly. "I was only teasing. No need to get your hooves in a knot."

"Sorry," Luna backed down, a little embarrassed. She could have quite the temper for some reason she could not explain.

Suddenly, out of nowhere, came a bright flash, and shortly after a loud BANG pierced their ears.

"What in hay was that?" asked a confused and scared Luna, and another bang was heard soon after, this time shaking the earth and causing the foals to fall to the ground.

"What was that!" screamed Luna, scared half to death. "It's scary!"

"Calm down, Luna," Celestia told her sister. "Everything will be OK."

"Look again, Celestia," Demonius said. He was right, there was something very, very wrong going on, and the mountain just to the west of their location was proof. These weird looking creatures that looked like jade green ponies with bat wings were coming from behind the mountain and through the caves in it. They charged the nearby castle, killing all that dared to get in their way.

"What do we do!" Demonius screamed, scared.

"Notsing, but come vith us, or die fillies get es!" answered a demonic voice. Demonius turned around, only to see a ponylike creature with a weird looking crescent shaped horn. It looked like one of those bat-ponies, only at this distance you could see more of the details that separated them from ponies: they all had jade green bodies, they had a red scruff in a thin line on the back of their necks, only some had manes, they had little horns on the tips of their noses, they had paws, and those paws had two sharp claws on them. Some of these ponies had wings unicorn horns, or none, only they were bat wings and the horns looked very weird (they curved down towards the nose in a crescent shape).

Demonius only noticed this one, eh, creature, until he heard a muffled scream. It sounded like...

"CELESTIA!" he blurted out uncontrollably. One of these creatures had her firmly in it's grasp, and another one had Luna. They were holding claws up to their necks.

"Hey! Du! Jetzt!" said the same creature, who then picked up Demonius. It walked them up to the castle, which they had just finished taking over. They threw the foals into a jail cell, which was very cramped, even with their small size. They were wondering what these guys were, so Demonius asked one.

"Excuse me, fine sir," he started off. The creature just looked at him with pure evil and growled.

"Uh, I was wondering, what exactly are you?"

"Wie bitte?" the creature said, not understanding English.

"What?" Demonius asked, not speaking whatever language they spoke.

"I don't think they speak English, Demonius," Celestia informed.

"Oh," Demonius said, defeated. He sulked at his failure (he hated to fail).

"Here, let me try," Luna said. She walked up to the guard and asked "Hi. Was sind Sie?"

"Ich bin einen Dämon." The creature, the 'Dämon', answered.

"Danke, Herr," Luna finished.

"Wha'd he say?" Demonius asked.

"He said he was a demon," she informed.

"Well, that's descriptive," Celestia said sarcastically.

"How do you speak their language!" Demonius practically screamed.

"I used a spell when they were dragging us here that instantly taught me their language, grammar and everything," Luna explained.

"Oh..." Demonius droned.

They sat there for around three hours until a larger demon with both a horn and wings came up to their cell. He opened up the cell door, walked in, closed the door, and sat down. He looked rather calm and nice, but the foals didn't buy it. He still had an aura or pure evil surrounding him, and it was easily noticeable. Luckily, three hours is a long time to sit in a cell, and you definitely have time to make a plan to get out, and this guy was a part of it.

The demon sat there for about a minute before it talked "So, you two are za rulers of zis land, ja?" His voice was monsterlike and sinister, and really deep.

"Oh, goodie, you speak English! We've all been wondering, what exactly are you?" Celestia rushed out.

"Ve are der Dämons," It replied triumphantly. "Ve took over zis land, und you now have to tell everyzing to us."

"Not to be rude, but I don't understand your dialect, sir," Demonius said, trying to stall.

"You know very vell vat I vant!" the Dämon alicorn snapped.

"And, besides, I asked what exactly are you, and I meant it," Celestia helped.

"OCD much?" the Dämon alicorn joked, and laughed, but he was soon cut off by a feminine voice screaming something in Dämish, or whatever the language was.

"It's German!" Pinkie Pie exclaimed from beyond the fourth wall.

"Pinkie, shut up!" Celestia snapped, also from beyond the fourth wall. She was on a short fuse from everything happening lately.

"Vati! Vati!" a feminine voice called out from down the hall from where the Dämon alicorn was.

"Was ist es, Tochter?" the Dämon alicorn asked to the female, who was just a small filly, no older than Celestia. She only had a horn to her, literally: she was a very slight filly, just skin and bones and nothing else.

"Vati, ze ponies sind retaliating!" she told the Dämon alicorn.

"Who is this?" Celestia asked Luna.

"This filly is the big one's daughter," she informed. "And, apparently, she's saying that somepony is trying to win the castle bac..."

"I know that, Luna. You don't have to tell us," Celestia interrupted.

"Sorry. It's the spell," Luna admitted. "I can't tell the difference between English and German."

"Oh."

Suddenly, the castle began to shake. Then, the wall exploded, and a pony was screaming something, but everypony was too startled to understand.

"VAS IST DAS! ICH HABE KEIN ZEIT FÜR DICH! FICK DICH! ICH BIN EIN BERLINER!" the Dämon alicorn screamed.

"What is he saying!" Demonius yelled at Luna, who seemed confused.

"I believe he's saying: What is this? I have no time for you. Fuck you. I am a jelly donut."

"DU!" the Dämon alicorn turned to the foals, leaving his own. "I'll take you for ein minute," and he grabbed Demonius.

"AAAAHHH! Somepony, help!" Demonius cried. But the fillies were too scared to help, much less move.

"Celestia! Celestia!" a voice was crying in the background.

"Stay back!" the Dämon alicorn spat at the voice. "Or ze young colt gets it!" and he held up Demonius, who looked very scared.

The voice stopped, along with the pony, but the screaming of Celestia's name was still going on. It took a minute for her to realize that this screaming was coming from the real world, not a flashback.

(present time)

"Celestia! Celestia!" cried the voice, and the pony it came from soon entered the throne room, out of breath. It was the leader of the sniper core, Sharp Shot.

"Sharp Shot, what is it?" Celestia asked, trying to suppress her rage in him for interrupting her story.

"Demonius...army...attack...downtown...Canterlot!" he struggled to get out through breaths.

"WHAT!" Celestia exploded, her voice going into the Royal Canterlot Voice.

"Just look...out the window..." Sharp Shot told her. And he was right: downtown Canterlot was being destroyed; buildings burning and were exploding, ponies were dying, and Demonius was standing on a tall building, watching the event go down.

"Sharp Shot," Celestia said calmly.

"Yes, Princess?"

"GET YOUR FLANK OUT THERE AND SHOOT SOMETHING HOSTILE!" Celestia ordered, kind of ticked off.

"Yes, Celestia," Sharp Shot said, saluted, and left the room.

"Loud Mouth, get outside to your battalion!"

"Yes'm."

"We need to evacuate the the premises, now!" Celestia snapped, just as the castle was hit by something, causing some of the ceiling to fall.