Zushakon gives a deep sigh as a excited Twilight stared at him with a huge smile. He places a hoof over his face and gives a low groan. Something tells me by the end of this day, I'm gonna regret something.
"First I must ask you before anything else, is how do you ponies tell of your time? Many species tell theirs differently, I'm asking so you can know just how long this truly goes back." Zushakon ask as he looked to a clock that was held on a wall. "My guess would be that the one you ponies use would be, of you using the sun or moons positioning...correct?"
As Twilight nods he continues. "That would also make me believe that you tell your time through the words of years, and judging by how in one of your books here you used the term '1000 years ago' I am correct." Another nod was his answer.
Zushakon places his hoof to his chin in thought. Well...that helps...now for the hard part. "Do you know of the Universe and or galaxies that are of all space?"
Silence greets him as he sees Twilight look to him with a wide eye look. Zushakon moves his hoof from his chin and back to over his eye as he gave another low annoyed groan, not even noticing Twilight as she slowly takes out a notepad and pen from under the table in her hoofs.
"To place it in the most simple of ways to understand...the universe is a all existing matter of space considered as a whole; a...'cosmos' if you well. It was believed by the species before yours to be at least 10 billion light years in diameter and contains a vast number of galaxies; which they thought was a system of billions of stars, made together with gas and dust, held together by gravitational attraction. They were right...expect for the numbers. The universe is Trillions light years in diameter and a galaxy holds quadrillion stars. This was common for lesser beings to think though as they really couldn't tell of this, due to their lack of knowledge and only being able to see in 3 dimensions. Same as you most likely."
Twilight was quickly writing this down as fast as she could, before stopping for a moment and asking. "Wait...so what about Equestria in all of that?"
Zushakon gives a scoff at this, as a small smile is visible on his face. "Your world is nothing to it. If you think itself to be truly important...then honestly think of it like this. Let's say...I kill your entire race and all life on this planet, hypothetically of course, now...knowing what I told you...do you think the Universe would care, that it would stop ALL because of the lost of your kind? I'm speaking realistically here. " Zushakon says, taking his hoof off his eyes and looks to Twilight with a knowing look.
Twilight stops her writing as she takes in what he said for a moment. As she does she thinks about all the stars that she seen on her telescope. How she felt so small, when there was so much out there that was unknown to her. "...we...are nothing, are we? Nothing but...a little pebble under a raging river huh." She says, more to herself then to him. Zushakon nods though, agreeing with her...before he notices that Twilight was somehow holding a notepad and pen with her hoofs, without the pink aura covering them.
How in the name of Azathoth is she doing that? He thinks as he sees her hoof was merely placed against them...and yet it was being held perfectly. He opens his mouth to comment but leaves it. Forget it, last thing I have need for is more questions. He thinks before he continues.
"Do not take it personal, the universe is still expanding since its creation in the Big Bang about 697 Sexdecillion years ago, and since me being trapped for MANY years after, not even I know how long it's been since the beginning." Zushakon said giving a shrug as he sees Twilight beginning to write down more on her notepad with a intrigue look on her face.
After a moment of silence, where the only sound was her writing down what she learned, Twilight looks up to Zushakon and asked. "What is the 'Big Bang'? Was it some kind an explosion? And what do you mean by trapped?" Zushakon crosses his hoofs over his chest and answers her, as best he could in human terms. "You may say that...the big bang was the beginning of it all...of every star...and every organism that lived."
Zushakon stops as he thinks back. He could help but...be reminded of his Father. How his Father would take hours of his time to tell him the story of his people and answer him any question he had. Of what to fear...and of what he is. "It's actually amazing. How one little thing could have done so much...And the best part is...it was ALL an accident."
"WHAT!" Twilight shouted in shock, dropping her pen before quickly picking it back up and instantly began writing down what he said. Zushakon gives her a moment to finish writing her notes as she continued. "How could that be possible?! You're saying that all of...'Everything' was a accident?"
Zushakon gives a single nod and replied. "Indeed...all because of him."
" 'Him'? Who's 'him'?" Twilight asked in waiting leaning closer as she could barley hold her excitement. Zushakon could almost laugh as he saw this.
The poor creature really doesn't know...she like a child with a new idea for a game. He thinks before he opens his mouth and says. "Some call him 'Daemon Sultan' others call him 'Nuclear Chaos'...some even say he's 'The Blind Idiot God'...He created the entire universe...and all of the Multiverse." Zushakon leans back in his seat as his Avatar's eyes look up to the ceiling. Memories again entering his mind of his father telling him this...making him feel nostalgic of...'happier' times.
"Blind Idiot God? Why would somepony...wait, what's the Multiverse?" Twilight asked confused, taking a quick peek at her recorder on the table to see it was still taking in everything.
"It's an infinite realm of being or potential being of which the universe is regarded as a part or instance. All hindering on the choices anyone makes. For example, let's say I look to you and I decided to rip out your left eye or right, in that way I had made two universes, perhaps four if I take both or neither. And over a thousand other ones with HOW I did it for each choice. With any choice that ANYONE makes creating another universe where that choice happened...sometimes it's big...sometimes it's small. One of you ponies could die now, there are LITERALLY...an infinite amount of universes with what his or her death caused or didn't cause. Not all of them depend on choice...it all really matters what happened...there might even a universe where you yourself are a Great Old One." Zushakon explained, giving a casual wave of his hoof as he does.
Twilight places a hoof to her head as she takes this all in. "I...I...I don't what to say. I mean...I can't believe it. That one thing...made all that. And that...I can't believe it."
"What you believe is irrelevant to what is true...I haven't gone to the important part." Zushakon said as he places his hoof under his chin. "The one responsible for it all, who created life...death...existence to a scale not even I could even imagine. His name...is Azathoth and he sits and dreams in a court at the center of infinity, attended by his...'servitors' who lulls him to remain in his deep slumber. Twilight...do you think of me as powerful?"
Twilight becomes confused at the sudden question, before she gives a hesitated nod. "You're wrong...I may have some level of power within me, but that doesn't mean anything. Azathoth is more powerful then I could ever imagine. Then ANY of my kind could. Remember what I said about the Multiverse...at the center of infinity is WHERE the center of the multiverse is...HE is the center. And I...fear him...my family fears him, my whole race...FEAR him. We all fear a being that to THIS day...to THIS VERY MOMENT has slept, not once awakening from his slumber. And in all the time of all existence, in every single universe...never had he awaken."
"...W-Why? Why would you all fear him if he's never done anything? That doesn't make sense...You are all...GODS!" Twilight said, shouting at the end as she couldn't believe what he was saying. She pushes herself up, stand on her hind hoofs as her front hoofs were on the table.
It was a human trait Zushakon knew they would use when they couldn't believe what they had been informed and become aggravated.
Zushakon doesn't even turn to her though as just gives a sigh. His eyes look stare to his cup of coffee he had, it still being half full. It...was then the liquid inside...began to stir. Moving around in waves before moving to a whirlpool fashion. The Liquid then began to raise from the cup and floated right in front of the two, shocking Twilight as she...didn't see Zushakon's horn light up. Meaning there was no magic.
As the floating coffee was shifting and changing shape, Zushakon continues. "I'm no god...never was. Or...at least I never thought myself to be one. The truth of the matter is...I'm not. I am just...'here'...I exist. Lesser beings are convince that those with more power to them are gods...to be honest I am not even a creature. We, my family and race,...are neither living, nor dead. We simply are...'here'. We come from beyond your meaning of time and space, searching of realms to reclaim that what is ours. But...when the stars aren't in alignment we fall back in our cages. Do not miss understand me, though we were 'sleeping', as some would say, we weren't. My kind would use avatars to still walk the land...though unfortunately we would still bound to the planet as our avatar's couldn't leave off world. And so...many of us slumbered in our the great cities in the mountains, deep beneath the waves, under the molten rock, or in my case, the darkest cave. THAT alone shows us not to be nowhere near as powerful as many would think."
The liquid then begins to take form...before becoming a miniatures coffee solid replica of Twilight, in unbelievable detail. Right to the very detail of every stain of hair she had on for her mane. Twilight was amazed that he could make something like that without even as much as trying.
Zushakon continues once more. "Twilight...what do you know that's worse then death?" A moment of silence is all that meets him back, as Twilight...honestly didn't know how to answer him. This cause the Great Old One to give a scoff and say. "Well...there's is one, if you hadn't know. Worst then any torture or punishment that could ever be done to ANY kind of being...It's called...Not existing."
"Not existing?"Twilight asked with surprise, taking her eyes of the miniature coffee version of herself. Before sitting down and picking up her note pad and pen, writing down what he said. Zushakon rolls his eyes and continues. "Indeed. For you see...when Azathoth awakens, and one day HE WILL, all of everything will vanish and meet non-existences." He spoke in a cold honest tone, looking to Twilight's shocked face.
"A-Are you sure...how could he-" "Remember how I told you that all of everything that was created was an accident?" Zushakon said to interrupt Twilight. "It's simple...the accident was Azathoth sleeping...all of anything that ever was or ever will be...in all universes of the multiverse and beyond infinity, is nothing but his dream."
A cold silence meets him...followed by the sound of Twilight's notepad hitting the ground. "What?" Twilight says, giving a shake of her head disbelieved of what she heard. "T-That can't be...everything?"
"Everything...and when he awakes, it will all fade. You...me...your home, your friends, your family, yours hopes, your dreams, all the stars, all of light and darkness...there will be nothing left but Azathoth. His very existence creates chaos. A never ending phase of beginnings and endings...this is what it all ends with." Zushakon said, calmly. He could understand by this was a lot to take in. And he knew what she would ask next.
"D-do you know when? Is there a way to...keep him asleep?"
Her tone was full of worry, no doubt that she was thinking of not only herself...but her friends and family. Zushakon looks deep into Twilight's eyes and slowly shakes his head. "No being, not even my father or his father, knows when he will awaken...Azathoth cannot be beaten...he cannot be bargain with. I barely even truly know a thing about him or how truly powerful he even is. However...he WILL awaken...that is why his 'servants' play flutes and drums or tended upon him as dancers to lull him, hopping that it will buy time...And the simple fact is...is that we don't even know if they are even working."
"How could you...how could you live like that? Knowing that...everything could end...in blink of an eye?" Twilight says as she looks to the table, her note pad and pen forgotten at this point... with a horrify expression stuck to her face. "...wait...how do you know of all of this?" She asked looking to the Great Old One. Zushakon looks away from Twilight, and back to the still floating coffee figure he made. The said coffee then began to change shape...changing...to a sign.
"This is the yellow sign...the symbol of my father." Zushakon said, feeling the nostalgia again. When his father taught him about Azathoth and the gods above them. A ghost of a smile could be seen on Zushakon's avatar. Just then he heard Twilight spoke. "Back...at the cave, you said that you were the child of Hastur...he's one of the sons of Yog-Sothoth, The Unspeakable; He Who is Not to be Named; Lord of Interstellar Spaces; Hastur."
"One of the most powerful ones of all my kind." Zushakon spoke, looking to Twilight as she was staring at the sign before she ask. "Wait...who is Yog-Sothoth?"
Zushakon leans back in his seat at this. "In order to explain Yog-Sothoth you must know what he is...A Outer God. Beings ruled by Azathoth...They are the servants that dance rhythmically around Azathoth and lull him to sleep more with their music. Do NOT let that be what makes you think of them as though. Their power...is the reason THEY are given the title 'gods'. A Great Old One, like-myself, is indeed powerful...but to an Outer God...I am nothing. The same could be said for ALL Great Old Ones. The Outer Gods co-rule with Azathoth and exists at all places and in all times in the cosmos, and multiverse all at once. My mother, Shub-Niggurath, and Grandfather, Yog-Sothoth are of these beings."
Twilight almost instantly picks back up her notes and began writing what he said, Zushakon watches as she does this. Hmm...even with all I've told her, it's amazing that that have of curiosity is still in those eyes...if anything it was growing.
"It goes at the following, first came Azathoth from him...came three offspring. They were called 'Darkness'- A being of which, I cannot even begin to describe, 'The nameless mist- Yes that's it's actual title, and final...'Nyarlathotep'- The most dangerous of them." Zushakon said...feeling something crawl through his mind as he spoke the name of the Outer God.
Zushakon holds a hoof to his head and softly shakes his head to rid the feeling before he continues. "He is known as the Crawling Chaos, the God of a Thousand Forms, the Stalker among the Stars, the Black Pharaoh, and the Faceless God. He enacts the will of the Outer Gods, and is their messenger, heart and soul. He is also is a servant of Azathoth himself, whose wishes he immediately fulfills. What those wishes are, I don't know...but I do know this, Unlike the other Outer Gods, causing madness is more important and enjoyable than death and destruction to Nyarlathotep...Your Princesses called me a monster...believe me Twilight if any being is truly the one fitting for such a title, Nyarlathotep would be the one."
Zushakon stops as he hears Twilight give a gulp of fear.
"Do you wish for me to stop?" He asked as he looks back to the pony, finding that she had sweat moving down her brow. Twilight then shakes her head and says. "No...I just...I'm just...forget it." Zushakon wanted to push forward on this but Twilight merely dodged the subject as best she could at this. With a sigh he continued.
"From the 'Nameless Mist' came my grandfather, Yog-Sothoth and from 'Darkness' came my mother 'Shub-Niggurath'. The two mated and created my father 'Hastur'-" "WAIT-WAIT-WAIT-WAIT-WAIT!" Twilight shouted interrupting Zushakon for a moment.
Twilight was then standing on all four of her hoofs with a surprised face as she said. "Your mother...is also your grandmother?!" She says with a voice of complete disgust as her face becomes a slight shade of green. This confused Zushakon as he really didn't see anything wrong with that he said. "Did I...say anything to offend you?" He said giving a tilt of his head in confusion.
Twilight gives a shake of her head as a disgusted look was on her face. "Well...you see...um...ponies of the same family-" "No one of my family are of ponies. What is wrong, you seem embarrassed. Is something the matter?" Zushakon asked completely confused by this reaction. It wasn't unnatural for this to happen, species seem to mate with one another all the time before.
Perhaps it's become Taboo? That would explain the reaction.
And it would seem he right as Twilight's green ill face, suddenly turned to red. She then began to stuttered as she tried to say something. "Um...well those of the same family...shouldn't...do that or-" If they hadn't, then I wouldn't be have been created...and why shouldn't they?" Zushakon spoke, causing Twilight to look to the ground in embarrassment.
"Well um...forget, it's just a pony thing I guess." Zushakon could hear her panic and nervousness but was completely confuse as to why she acted like this. She is a strange one...but nerveless at least somewhat entertaining.
He then continued where he left off. "Anyway, my mother and Father then mated and created Me, and my...'brothers' and 'sisters'." Zushakon said, with a noticeable bitter tone. Twilight notice this, but before she could asked he continued. "That aside, My Grandfather also had two other beings with my mother. They were called Nug and Yeb, 'The Twin Blasphemies'. Nug is a worshipped among spirit or phantoms, as some call them, that rob graves and feed on dead bodies, while Yeb is the leader of Abhoth's cult, something I have...no real need to get into as Abhoth is an Outer God. Both of them closely resemble my mother. Nug is the parent of my uncle 'Cthulhu' and Yeb is the parent of my other uncle 'Tsathoggua', both via the influence of Yog-Sothoth."
"Cthulhu...I heard about him too in the Necronomicon. That he was a 'Sleeping God; Master of R'lyeh; High Priest of the Great Old Ones'...something tells me he's very important?" Twilight asked with an eyebrow raised, to which Zushakon smiles before he nods his head.
The forgotten floating coffee then began to take a different form. It took a form of a creature...much different then what Twilight had ever seen. It could...only be descried as some hybrid of an octopus, a dragon, and a...something Twilight couldn't tell, as she sees it's pulpy, tentacled head surmounted a grotesque and scaly body with rudimentary wings. It was very strong looking and seemed to be in a 'heroic' pose of all things.
"This is the form that lesser beings calm to be my uncles. I mixed of Human, dragon, and octopus. Aside from my Father, his power is unmatched by any other Great Old One. He...is the one that rules this planet. In his deep city of R'lyeh that lies underneath the deepest parts of the sea. I do not know why but this planet seems to have a lot of impotent history for my family here." Zushakon says, giving a shrug as he thinks back to all he was taught as he grew.
"Well what do you mean?" Twilight asked, before she noticed the change in the floating coffee as it began to change again. To that of her planet.
It was there that Zushakon places his hoof up to the coffee and makes it glow a...color...one that no being lesser to a Great Old One couldn't even begin to describe.
As the color faded the coffee then began to open to a flat portal-like opening and something began to be shown before Twilight. Making her eyes widen in amazement as she sees...equestria...the planet. "It's...beautiful." Twilight said as she watches the planet, seeing how it slowly rotated.
"I will show you everything, as my father had for the history of earth, the name it was called before you ponies renamed it." Zushakon said, giving a brief look to Twilight before looking back to the portal. "I've also had to make it...less detailed as certain things seen would drive you insane, and your language lacks the means for me to translate."
Taking a deep breath he began. "Hundreds of Billions of years ago after Azathoth's creation of everything, collisions in the giant disc-shaped cloud of materials happened in the reaches of space. Gravity slowly gathered this gas and dust together into clumps that became asteroids and small early planets human called called 'planetesimals'. These objects collided repeatedly and gradually got bigger, building up the planets that orbit this worlds sun."
"Wait...orbits the sun...planets...don't you mean they orbit us?" Zushakon looks to Twilight with a confuse look on his face. He then looks back to the portal and says. "This sun here is 109 times the size of this planet, and is big enough to hold over 1,300,000 numbers of THIS planet inside of it...why would you think that THAT orbits you?"
Silence meets him before he continues.
"Moving on, as the planet form it was then that the molten rock, caused by all the heated collisions broke off, forming this planets moon. As Many years went by The collisions seemed to had stop, allowing it to cool. With that and the comets and asteroids that can contain ice, melting it helped cool everything down and formed the mass amount of water. However during its cooling that was when earth first met with my kind."
Zushakon began to look...anger as he spoke. Twilight was about to ask what was wrong, before a bright light shined from the portal...no...it wasn't a light...it was fire. A giant ball of fire as it came down to the 'old' Equestria followed by small little firefly lights as well. "You remember that adversary I spoke of...That...was him...The Great Old One, Cthugha, an elemental spirit of fire. Also...light."
Zushakon's normal composed tone was changed to a angered more disgusted one as he talked about this Great Old One. And memories enter his mind of the...'encounters' they've had. He shakes his thoughts free from that. "Ah...Yog-Sothoth d mn it. Sorry for that...old pains." Zushakon said as he looked to the worried Twilight before continuing.
"Cthugha hid himself deep in the earth's core along with his servants, the fire vampires. A billion years after it finally cool down a race called the 'Elder Things' came." Twilight was shocked at the name 'fire vampires' thinking that they were anything like the ones she knew on Equestria as vampony's...before she quickly looked back to the portal...and her eyes widen in disgust, horror, and shock. "OH MY CELESTIA! WHAT THE BUCK IS THAT!?" She shouted nearly falling from her seat.
In the portal were creatures Twilight had never seen before as they were roughly six feet tall and had the appearance of a huge, oval-shaped barrel with starfish-like appendage at both ends. The top appendage was a head adorned with five eyes, five eating tubes, and a set of prismatic cilia for "seeing" without light. The beings also had five leathery, retractable looking wings. They had five sets of tentacles that sprouted from their torsos, which looked to divided twice into finer tentacles.
It was by far the most creepiest thing she had ever seen in her life...so far.
Zushakon allows a smile on his avatars face, at Twilight's reaction. "Those are the Elder things. They are a extremely advanced race. Those five leathery, retractable wings you see on them, were used both for in-atmospheric flight and for sailing through the "ether" a cosmic substrate of empty space. Their five sets of tentacles that sprouted from their torsos can be divided twice into finer tentacles that could be used for swimming and manipulation. Both their tentacles and the slits housing their folded wings were spaced at regular intervals about their bodies. Their bottom appendage were five-limbed and was used for walking and other forms of locomotion...very interesting don't you agree?"
Twilight look to the smug Great Old One...and she could swear, though he sounded serious, she felt like he was teasing her. With her face a shad of red, Twilight look back to the portal, giving a gulp of fear as she does...before she said. "Sorry...they...really are something...please continue." Zushakon does just that.
"The Elder things landed in the arctic part of this world, in the ocean, where they founded they're first city. They held a great command of biological principles and genetic engineering, and are known to have synthesized many lifeforms. You may even need to thank them for creating all life on this planet. You see during their building stage of life, they created the 'Ubbo-Sathla'."
Twilight then sees in the portal these 'Elder Things' as they watch a being that only be described as a monstrous fecundity was made.
"From the Ubbo-Sathla pawned the prototypes of all forms of life on this planet, on accident but the Elder Things saw no harm and allowed them to evolve, though whatever Ubbo-Sathla pseudopods touch is forever devoid of life. Ubbo-Sathla is destined to someday reabsorb all living things on Earth. Something...I'm not completely sure about. But who am I to question him...an Outer God." Zushakon looks to Twilight's shocked face at this. "I know...an Outer god, artificially created by a inferior race. As of now it's resting in a grotto deep beneath the frozen earth, guarding a set of stone tablets believed to contain the knowledge of...well I'll tell you of them later. Moving on...from Ubbo-Sathla, The Elder things bio-engineered the 'Shoggoth' s a race of servant-tools."
Twilight sees the 'Elder Things' create...a thing that looks a lot like 'Ubbo-Sathla'...but different as it was a blob of self-shaping gelatinous flesh. Which nearly made her sick again. "Oh...please tell me this is the strangest your history gets?"She says placing her hoofs to her head.
"We barley have reached the surface of it all." Zushakon said as the image then changed to what looked to be many cities. So Alien and different from the ones that were around now...and dare Twilight even think...they looked beautiful. Like something ripped straight out of a painting.
"900 million years later, The Elder things cities have spread all around the worlds oceans of the world. 750 millions after that the Flying Polyp's came to this world." The portal then showed a race of flying...beings with multiple mouths and...oh seriously it's best not to know.
As Zushakon was about to continue he found that Twilight wasn't sitting in the table anymore, which confused him. "That's odd...did she disappear again?" Before he heard the sound of a toilet flushing and sees Twilight walking back to the room, looking slightly sick. Zushakon didn't have to be 'all-knowing' to know what happened.
Giving a wave of his hoof, the portal closed, turning back to coffee and returning to the cup. A awkward moment then came around as Zushakon silently watch Twilight take a seat again...before he said.
"Um...I Apologize""I'm sorry."
The Two spoke at once cutting each other off for a moment. Giving a sigh Zushakon said. "You first then." Twilight nodded and spoke. "I'm sorry for running out like that but...those Flying Polyp's were Ugh..." Twilight said looking sick as she remembered the disgusting look the creatures had, far worst then even the Elder Things.
Zushakon places his hoof to his chin as he remembers them, as they looked in the portal. "Hmm...I guess I really didn't do a well as I had hope in changing the appearance of them." He said in a honest tone that would give a 'ohhh well' effect. Twilight look back to him in shock at this.
"Wait...you mean those things could look WORSE?!" Twilight nearly shouted as her mind began to to think of something worse those things could look like...her mind coming to a blank, as nothing she could think would be worse then what she saw. Zushakon then pointed his hoof to her and said. "You must recall that I had to make it less detailed as certain things seen would drive you insane, and your language lacks the means for me to translate...and I meant it. What you saw...was nothing compared to the real things. I simply used the human's description for them. Unfortunate I didn't recall any description for the Flying Polyp that they had, so I just tried to make them less...'like them' as much as I could, which I failed in. And I apologize again for that."
Twilight nodded at this. "Um...thank you...I'm sorry for running off like that and...vomiting. We could continue..." She says with a redden face as she seems to look away from him, most likely from embarrassment.
Zushakon places his hoof back to the table and enjoys the moment of silence that they had, before saying. "How about you simply ask me questions, I would continue with the history, but we were fortunate it was a Flying Polyp. There were other Great Old Ones that came here who's form is...much more alien then those, and I do not wish to accidentally drive you insane...we wouldn't want that attractiveness of yours to melt away in madness." He finishes with a shrug, not even realizing how his final words sounded like as he crosses his hoofs over themselves, leaning closer to the table as he does with a bored look on his face.
Twilight's eyes widen, as well as her redness of her face becoming worse. "A-Attractiveness! Y-you find me...attractive?" She said with shyness that could match her friend, Fluttershy. It wasn't that she like him but...the thought of having a god-like being finding her 'attractive' was a completely boost to her self-confidence.
"Yes...were you not paying attention? Would the words 'interesting' or 'entertaining' be better?" Zushakon said with his avatar giving an eyebrow raise of confusion. "As in not 'boring' or 'dull', can I be more clearer?"
The embarrassment that Twilight had became MUCH WORSE after a moment of revitalization that he found her 'attractive' like she would find a book attractive. To which she placed her face to her hoofs with her redden face. "AH- nevermind, it's um...just a pony thing again!"
Zushakon's avatar gives a small shake of his head as his rolls his eyes. "You Pony's and your unusual ways...so about those questions?"
Twilight almost instantly perk up at this. "Oh um...okay...give me a second." She said before flipping through her notepad, no doubt already having questions at the ready. "Okay...first, how old ARE you? You had to have lived pretty long no doubt, but you said that your Father told you of all the history and everything right...so..." Twilight let it hang their awaiting a responds.
To which Zushakon replied. "Well you are correct. I am one of the youngest of my race being created by my mother and father around when my Uncle first came here." Zushakon said as he place a hoof to under his chin, something he just realize he was doing a lot of today, as he continued. "That and when I was trapped adds a lot of time. To be honest, I'm not quite sure of my age anymore...then again age was but a number. All I truly know is that I've existed for quite some time."
Twilight wrote down more things as he spoke, before nodding her head and asking. "Okay...You said, a couple of times that you were trapped...how could a being like you be trapped? Also you said something about the stars and when they aren't in alignment you'll fall back in your 'cages'? In the Necronomicon it said that you may have been imprison cause of some things known as...the Elder Gods."
Zushakon gives a scoff at this, with an annoyed look in his eyes. "The Elder Gods...ugh, such an annoyance. First thing through, the book that you found and read, ISN'T the Necronomicon." Zushakon said, more forced then needed to stress that it wasn't.
Twilight's eyes widen slightly at that, before he continues. "The Necronomicon is...something more than a mere book. The one I thought it was, was the the one written by 'Abdul Alhazred'. He was a human poet...in some kind of 'court' in the city of Sana'a...a human city. He had spent ten years wandering in the deserts. In that time he learned much...and had visited many places. Those who have any dealings with the Necronomicon usually come to an unpleasant end, and Alhazred was no exception. I will not go TO heavy in the detail of this, but what he learn he had written in his book 'al Azif', the original title for the Necronomicon. In there are...instructions for rituals, information on Great Old ones and Outer Gods, documents talking about the biology of certain creatures, and countless other things no weak being should know."
Giving a wave of his hoof, the 'Necronomicon' that Twilight had read appeared at the table. Shocking her as it seemed to appeared out of nowhere. The book then opened and flipping through pages. Before stopping at a certain page. Look at it Twilight found it was of beings know as The Elder Gods.
'The Elder Gods are immortal entities, generally distinguished from the Outer Gods and Great Old Ones by being less unbearable to behold (some choose to appear as Bipedal-like figures, though their majesty is still awe-inspiring and humbling to mere mortals-like beings), and by being less generally inimical to humanity. Some Elder Gods are known to help weaker beings who have dabbled in the truth of their world return to relative safety (though never to an untroubled psyche); it would however be a mistake to assume they are inevitably benevolent. At best, they are still vastly superior to weaker beings and have minds and motivations beyond normal understanding; their seeming friendliness may well be coincidental, or due to reasons we cannot fathom.
The Elder Gods have no description that could be place in human words, however some had said that they appeared in bright light, or beautiful colors. Their power is unknown, but enough to have been the ones to imprison the old ones. How they had done this is unknown though.'
Zushakon gives a scoff at this. "This is very little information...but what it says about most of it is true. The Elder Gods were the ones that trapped us. I don't know the whole story, but after my uncle had a war on this planet with the Elder Things and made 'peace' with them...the Elder Gods stepped in. They didn't do much though...but as time moved on their influence became much more...noticeable. Mainly for the race that came before yours...humans." Zushakon then moves off his seat and began walking to a window to look out.
Viewing the night sky and the beautiful stars, he knew were for different worlds.
"I don't know much, honestly...The Elder gods were very secretive. I think the only ones to truly know a thing of them were the Outer Gods. All I know was that they had some...some kind of interest in the human race. Something me and MANY of my kind didn't understand." Zushakon gives a deep sigh. "My uncle had a great city...'R'yeh'. It was beautiful and powerful. He and another race called the 'Deep Ones' built it...before it sunk to the bottom of the ocean, millions of years after it was built. He was sealed within and placed in a deep sleep along with his followers. This was the Elder Gods doing. Many other beings had the same thing happen to them were they become trapped...My Father...I...were no exception."
Zushakon becomes quiet as he remembers. He was a few millions of years old, but was still young for a Great Old One. Before he was taken from his father and placed in some dark corner of the world, confuse and alone. Not one of his best moments...he can't help but think that he was there once more right now. Alone and confuse of where his family is and what has happened.
What was that saying the human's once had...if you don't learn from your history you are doomed to repeat it. Well I am repeating it and STILL had learn nothing.
"I'm...sorry to hear that...and what about how you were trapped? Was it any to do with the Elder Things?" Twilight asked as she looked to Zushakon with pity. Wondering if he was gonna be alright.
The Black Alicron looks back to her...before looking down and giving a defeated sigh. "No...in fact, I don't even remember how I was trapped." Twilight's eyes widen as she replied. "You don't remember? Did you hurt your head or something?"
Zushakon shook his head at this before he replied back. "No...Nothing like that could harm a Great Old One's memory. The only reason for it...was if a being MUCH more powerful then I took them from me. That list a small number of beings, most of which are Outer Gods. I don't even know where to begin." Zushakon sits down to the floor and places a hoof to his head. "To know I was someone's play thing...it...it is displeasing to say the least."
Silence filled the room for a moment as Zushakon doesn't say no more, and Twilight simply waits.
It wasn't till a nearly a full minute of this that Zushakon shakes his head and walks back to his seat. "Please, continue with your questions." He said as he sat and looked to the sadden Twilight, who upon hearing his request seemed to regain her composer.
"Okay...what are those...'humans' you talk about." Twilight asked, remember how often he talk of them. "I mean...you do say a lot about them...and with the Elder gods and all-" "Humans are by far the worst race I've known of." Zushakon said, shocking Twilight by how blunt he was. She saw that he had his head looking down, and could see that he was disgusted.
"W-where they...evil?" Twilight asked with her note pad at the ready. With how Zushakon spoke...his tone told her he had known of them for a long time and hated every second of it.
Zushakon shakes his head at this before he looks to her. "Humans were a race that...are by far the most arrogant and foolish, even worse than Elder Things. They were weak...and that's what made them dangerous. Not for my race or others...for themselves." He places a hoof over his eyes as he remembers everything humanity has ever done. "I have seen their violence...cruelty...and greed. I've seen how they've take for granted all of their land and homes. But most of all...I've seen their treatment of themselves."
Twilight looks up from writing in her note pad to Zushakon, his hoof was off his face and she saw him...sad. As in he had actually emotion in his eyes beside the normal emotionless one or smirk. "It may be right for me to say I pity them...if so many weren't so disgusting or awful." Zushakon lifts his hoofs up to his face and looks to them. "Many worshiped my kind...and they did horrible things in our name." Zushakon eyes close and he gives a disappointed sigh.
"I'm sorry to hear that..." Twilight said, not helping but to feel awkward as one question bump around in her mind. "What...did they do?"
Zushakon looks at her with a stern look. "Pray that you never find out." His tone nothing but the cold bitterness, before he looks back to his hoofs. "I noticed that you ponies...have different colors for your fur. Can you imagine if you hated each other just for that? Humans did...or even something as stupid as prejudice. But...even in there darkest parts...I've seen some good in them. Those humans, very few I've learn to respect." Zushakon said remembering the few humans that stood against his race, even if all was lost.
"There were very few of them. A male named Anton Zarnak. He saw me while I was...dealing with some...'annoyance' who took something of mine. But instead of worshiping me he fought against me...I respected him for that. There was another...long before him. His name though escapes me, but there was ONE thing I remember...he killed a Great Old One."
"HE KILLED A GREAT OLD ONE!" Twilight shouted in surprise, leaning forward with her hoofs on the table. "HOW COULD HAVE THAT BEEN POSSIBLE!?" Zushakon gives a smile at this though. It was a very old memory that it happened. And word had gotten out that a mere human killed a Great Old One, most of his race...simply couldn't believe it.
"I don't know how...but there was ONE thing I remember about him. It was his choice of weaponry. It was a sword...but not. Couldn't have been...It was too big, too thick, too heavy, and too long. It was more like a slab of Iron. He wield it with the graze of the most beautiful dancer. Here's something you should know...humans come up to around one meter...this blade was slightly bigger and weight twice as much as him." Zushakon said with a smile as Twilight's jaw just fell open.
"That's...impossible." She mutters as he mind tried to imagine what a human would look like, to be that powerful to kill a Great Old One. Zushakon just keeps his smile as he looks to scared pony. "Relax...He died a long time go, unless he founded immortality." Zushakon said placing a hoof under his chin with a curiosity look on his face.
As Twilight began to spaz out Zushakon feels something coming from his avatar's throat. It took a moment till he realizes...he was chuckling. This snaps Twilight out of her spazzing as she hears him, before blushing and looking away. Zushakon then continues. "But...there's one human, I remember perfectly...that managed to do THE impossible."
"Wait...as in more impossible to kill a Great Old One!?" Twilight said looking back at him in surprise. "What was his name?"
Zushakon just smiles without saying a word, confusing Twilight. Till she heard the sound of a book closing, and moving towards her. She looks down and right in front of her was the closed Necronomicon. With Zushakon's hoof pointing to the name 'H. P. Lovecraft'.
Before Twilight could say something Zushakon spoke. "I didn't recognize that name at first...but while I was reading that book...I began remembering that way of writing...of him. The one that listened." Twilight looks back to the book as she hears it open again, before it began turning page after page...before landing on one.
It was a black and white picture of some...creature. Twilight didn't know what it was, but it had two eyes, a nose, a single mouth, and two ears...it was surprisingly normal compare to the other things that Zushakon showed her. "This...was Howard Phillips Lovecraft. He was a...strange man to say the least."
"What did he do?" Twilight asked as she begins to read some text that was under the picture. Saying that he was an author. "I mean...to get your respect...he must have done something..."Twilight goes silent to try to think of what this human must had done.
"He listened." Zushakon said, his voice barely above a whisper. Twilight blinked with a widen eyes for a moment and asked. "He...listened? What do you mean listened...like with how I'm listening to you?" She said with a confuse tone, which only grew as Zushakon shook his head.
"No...he truly listened to us." Seeing the confuse look on her face only increase Zushakon gives a sigh. He then beckons Twilight with his hoof to come closer. Though heavily confused Twilight lean her head closer to him as he wanted, giving a slight blush as she feels his snout of her ear. Before she could ask anything...Zushakon whispered to her...in his true voice.
"L'iK,e`Th^I's."
With just two simple words Twilight falls from her seat to the ground screaming in pain.
She hoofs kicking wildly as blood leaked from her ears with tears in her eyes. The inside of her head ringing in pain, worst than any other pain she ever felt. Her horn was lite up with magic, casting random blast of spells to shoot from it. Hitting random things around the room, as well as knocking the table over.
Zushakon calmly moves off his seat and looks to the down pony. Screaming and crying. He tilted his head to the side, avoiding a blast to his head. He watches it hit the wall, leaving a noticeable hole in it. Zushakon then trots to the down pony and places his hoof to her head, not caring for the blasts that stroked avatar's body. "Calm yourself." He called to her struggling form, keeping his hoof to her head. As her thrashing began to be a nuisance Zushakon focus on her body. Twilight stood stiff, as if she were dead, and even stopping her constant blasting. Her screaming was stopping though "I will repeat myself...calm yourself." Zushakon says, more harshly as he focus more on her mind to fix what had just broken.
Just then Twilight's screaming began to stop, she gasp for air as her eyes began to quickly move around her before falling on Zushakon. "W-what happened...why can't I move?!" Twilight said, in a panic as she struggled to look around, seeing that the kitchen was damaged, looking to had a mini-tornado run throw it...or Pinkie-Pie on a sugar rush.
"Relax Twilight." Zushakon says before taking his hoof off her head. Suddenly Twilight could feel her body again. Moving to a upright position she looks around her, taking in all the damage. "I spoke to you in my real voice through this avatar. Your mind and body rejected it though...I had to hold your body down and erase your mind of it." Twilight looks to Zushakon in shock at this.
"Your...real voice?" Twilight asked before remembering what he said about H.P. Lovecraft and how he listen to them. "You...all spoke to him. And he didn't...react like I did." Twilight said before she place her face in her hoofs in embarrassment.
Zushakon sees this and places a hoof on her shoulder, a comforting thing he know that humans did, and said. "It is find. Your species is young and not really for anything of my true form, wither it be physical, mental, or even sound wise. The human man known as H.P. Lovecraft to many was unlike any that I or any of my kind had seen. Too be honest some of us were even sure he was human at all. As he spoke and look at our true forms. He was honestly a wonder- and I just realized you urinated on me during all of that."
Twilight quickly looks up from her hoofs and found that she indeed...'urinated'. No doubt from the pain and fear that she felt earlier, and Zushakon's other hoof was in it. Her face the brightest shade of red it could be, she looks to Zushakon. "Uh...um...Zushakon...are you okay?"
To say that she was scared would be understandable.
Zushakon though...simply looks to the wet hoof. Picking it up to his face even and looking closer at it. He then looks to Twilight and back at the hoof. Then back to Twilight. He does this a few more times before he then looks up with a confuse look on his face. "Huh...I just got peed on by a pony...who ask if I'm okay. Me a Great Old One...was just...hmm this is amazing, I believe I'm numb with unbelievable rage. I mean if I was in control of myself now, I think I rip your organs from your skull while you beg for mercy. Do you have a wash room that I may use?"
"Um...upstairs." Twilight says, a little hesitant. Zushakon nods his head and leaves the room, leaving Twilight to clean...the mess. As she grabs rag from her sink and cleans the spot with her magic, Twilight mutters to herself.
"I can't believe that happened, I mean for UGH!" She shuttered as she was disgusted with herself. She then looks around the room. The table was flipped, holes were everywhere, and it smell of pee...all thanks to her. She gives a deep sigh. "This is unbelievable...how can this get any worse?"
Suddenly a very distinguishable light appears behind her, in the other room with her still sleeping friends. "My goodness! Twilight are you here?! I brought the elements, what happened?! Why is everpony sleeping!? Why do I smell urine!?"
Twilight throws the rag to the floor and walks to the other room muttering. "Had to f cking tempt fate didn't I!"
(Oh by Cthulhu's AMAZING beard. This took TOO freaking long and with TOO much words. I mean sweet Zushakon tap-dancing Hastur with dinner with dinner a show and a kiss good night. Thank ANYONE, or anypony if that's what someone of prefer to be called on here on this site, for waiting. I was GONNA put the WHOLE Cthulhu Mythos in this chapter...but after about 11,000 words of JUST THAT, and was so boring...I gave up, erase EVERYTHING, Restarted the chapter, had a bit of issues here and there. But here it is. I'm sorry I could put the WHOLE Mythos, seriously it's only like 15% of it all, but trust me, the other was TOO much.
If you want the whole Mythos, there is a video on YouTube to explain, just look up 'Cthulhu mythos' on it, I think it's literally the first video. Watch it if you want...
Anyway, thank you for waiting, please tell me what you think.)
