"Well... what are you going to do now?" asked the gorilla, scratching his head.

"Expose Mephisto to Satan, have him stopped. And help them return home." answered Noxfero, scratching Pinkie's nape, receiving a purr.

"You know Satan will punish you for helping them and breaking your imprisonment, yes?" asked Mark, narrowing his eyes.

"Of course, he'll probably skin me."

"What? But I don't want him to skin you!" complained Pinkie.

"Maybe we can try to talk to him." proposed Twilight. "You don't deserve to be punished for helping your friends."

-oOo-

Rainbow groaned, starting to feel quite bored. It was fun meeting Nox's friends, they were kinda cool, even the white winged one seemed like he wouldn't hurt a fly. But now, all that chatter was starting to be... well, boring. She huffed, and looked with boredom at the ceiling.

"Man, this is BORING!" she growled to herself. If she could only fly a little... just that thought was enough to anger her. She scratched the sheets on the bed, recalling yet again Noxfero's fury when he had come back home, after, due to her inability to stay put, she had endangered and hurt Pinkie Pie.

She trembled and turned slightly. The others were too occupied laughing at some of Jaco's jokes to notice her. She didn't tell anyone she was feeling utterly guilty and sorry for what she did. Maybe the others thought so, and decided not to bother her.

But still, she had a continuous sensation of nausea at the bottom of her stomach. She needed to let off some steam. She was going to burst.

"So, yeah!" she loudly exclaimed, drawing everyone's attention. "I think I'll go to the bathroom now!" she exclaimed, dashing towards the door.

"Dear, do you need any help reaching-"

"Nope I'll find it!" she quickly shushed Rarity, smiling and slamming the door. After a second she started to run down the corridor. She had to fly! She had to...

She opened a window with a grunt, taking a deep breath of fresh air, before spreading her wings, and with a powerful jump, she was off, flapping her wings furiously, with the wind swirling around her, as she started to fly high towards the sky. She felt her sadness and anger fading, as the speed rose, her wings happily pumping with energy, at being once again in use after so long. She narrowed her eyes and grinned: the dangers were on the ground, she was safe up here.

After a few minutes of aimless flying over what seemed to be a desert of red sand, she started to maneuver around the big black clouds that were lazily floating through the sky. Ok, those weren't clouds, they were immense puffs of smoke... but were still good enough for her to slalom in between, her mane flowing behind her.

"I needed this." she sighed to herself, doing a barrel roll in the air and starting to fly upside down. She closed her eyes, breathing deeply. As soon as she went back, she was going to apologize, that was for sure, and then ask Nox if she could do this again. Of course he didn't need to know she had gone flying on her own...

She chuckled and rolled again, returning to flying straight. Then she opened one eye, and stopped in the air, amazed: in front of her there was the most gargantuan cloud she had ever seen. And this was a legitimate cloud: white and gray, with rumbles of thunder inside, accompanied by flash of light.

"Well, would you look at this..." she murmured, grinning. "That looks like fun!" she exclaimed, before darting into the cottony surface of the cloud. She was immediately engulfed by the soft touch of the cloud. She brushed off the cold and continued to flap her wings.

After almost five minutes through, the cloud vanished around her. She initially thought she had passed throught, but a quick glance around disproved her: she was still inside the cloud, but apparently, there was an immense empty space inside of it. It was... enormous. Quite dark due to the cloud blocking most of the light, but almost every second a flash of lightning shone somewhere around, helping to brighten the area.

At the center of the immense empty space thought, there was the most impressive feature of the place: an immense, spiky and dark lump of ice, floating at the center of the empty space. And all around it, a swirling storm of what seemed to be big snowflakes. Rainbow looked at it with amazement, then slowly started to fly nearer. She had never seen something like that, in all her years of experience as a weather pony...

Her thoughts were interrupted when she arrived near enough to the storm of snow to see that those weren't snowflakes, but... well, humanoids. They were translucent and pale, and apparently moaning in pain. Or in pleasure. That was actually hard to say. They were storming all around the lump of ice, apparently carried by some strong wind that could affect only them.

"Ok Rainbow... careful now..." the pegasus told herself, taking just a little flap forward. And in that second, the soul nearest to her started to scream suddenly, in a high pitched voice. The real problem was that the souls were constantly changing and shifting. After a couple of seconds, almost the entire storm of tormented souls were screaming, in a cacophony that made her ears flinch in pain.

"Well, that's the moment when I fly away!" she exclaimed, turning, but stopping immediately when she saw three humanoid figures emerging from the cloud's walls, flying towards her: they were humanoid as well. Not as tall as Nox was, but quite a bit more massive. Their skin was reddish, as well as their feathery wings. They were holding menacing spears in both hands, and didn't seem to be the friendly type.

The pegasus smirked.

They wanted to play, huh?

-oOo-

"For the love of..." grunted Lilith, turning her head and looking out of one of the immense windows of the room. The souls outside were screaming like crazy, probably due to some low level devil that had stuck its nose into her domain, uninvited. But her Nightmares should have already annihilated it. She groaned, and used a foot to push away the soul that had his face shoved between her legs. "Take this one back to the ice." she ordered to a couple of short haired girls wearing tight leather vests, leaving only their reddish feathery wings free. They nodded and took the man, dragging him over to one of the icy walls where countless souls had been frozen inside.

The archdevil got up from the scarlet couch where she had been sitting, and calmly walked towards the window, which immediately opened in front of her, while a path of ice instantly formed in front of her, creating a refined balcony.

She rose her eyes... and blinked a couple of times, without grasping what she was looking at: what seemed to be a little azure, and winged pony that was rapidly dashing and flying all around the spikes of her palace, while a pack of six nightmares were struggling to keep up with it. The pony was fast. So fast she was able to lap the nightmares numerous times, while taunting and mocking them in a feminine voice.

"That's all you got, winged-buffs?" she called with a laugh, distracting a nightmare and causing it to smash against one of the icy extensions. Lilith's pointy ears flinched at the pony's laughter. She turned towards her Succubi, who had reached her.

"You two! Fly up there, take that thing and bring it to me!" she snapped. The two demons flinched, saluted, and immediately darted into the air, joining the chase. With not a lot of result. Yes, succubi were faster than nightmares... and yet, the pony accelerated again, starting to play with them as well, and after a couple of swirls, made them crash into each other without much effort.

Lilith facepalmed with a groan of frustration. It was true, if you wanted a job done right...

She spread her black wings, tensing her feathers, and with a jump, she darted into the air.

"Now you are mine..." she hissed, turning and darting towards the cyan horse. After all, she was the fastest archdevil after Daelus. Evidently the pony noticed that, because it suddenly accelerated again, and started to rapidly move away from her. Lilith narrowed her eyes and accelerated as well without much effort.

Rainbow looked behind her: the woman with the black wings was quickly nearing her. And she was already going almost at full speed. She lowered her ears, flapping her wings even faster. If she went any faster, she was going to...

She didn't even finish her thought, as for a second she felt the long nails of the horned woman stroke her tail. She turned, and saw the creature closing in to grasp her tail. She kicked fearfully at the hand, and accelerated even more, even more...

There was a loud boom, as an explosion of colors sparkled around the mare as she broke the sound barrier, dispersing into a big wave of rainbow-colored light, that cut through the cloud. Rainbow dashed through the air, quickly heading towards the cloudy wall. That had been enough. She wasn't going to get caught!

But then she heard another boom behind her, and when she looked behind herself, she paled, as she saw the horned lady was quickly nearing her, a sadistic grin on her face, her wings fully spread, revealing another set of smaller wings that all flapped together. Rainbow turned again to look in front of her, watching as her hooves drew nearer and nearer to the white surface.

"Gotcha." called a cold and heartless voice.

She turned just in time to see the perfect hand of the creature grasp her tail, as a curtain of ice spread from it, quickly covering her tail, passing over her back, hindlegs, belly, forelegs, wings, neck and face...

And then everything went dark and cold.

-oOo-

"What happened to Rainbow? Did she fall in the toilet or sometin?" asked Applejack, looking with slight annoyance towards the door, narrowing her eyes.

"It's more common than you think, you know?" noted Jaco, waving a hand.

"Yeah, for you for sure, that Rainbow Dash is a little bit... bigger than you. I doubt she has the same problems as you." grunted the oversized gorilla, scratching his nape. Noxfero chuckled, then closed his eyes, concentrating. After a few seconds, he opened them, frowning.

"Is something wrong, Nox?" asked Twilight, raising an eyebrow at the suddenly concerned expression on the devil's face.

"I can't sense her shadow." he answered, slowly standing up, and gently setting Pinkie beside him.

"And that's a bad thing, right?" asked Rarity, frowning as well. The devil nodded, his eyes darting rapidly around.

"It means she's not near me..." he growled. "So that means she's not here, so that's means she fucking disobeyed me AGAIN!" he blurted out, stamping a foot on the floor, scratching the stone with the metal claws on his shoe.

"Come now, there is no need to be so angry... you know how she is, she's probably just flying around..." murmured Fluttershy, trying to calm the devil.

"As if that wasn't dangerous..." he grumbled, starting to sniff the air.

"Come on Nox, she seems to be a mature girl, she's not going to do anything stupid." added Mark. As he was going to add something else, a loud boom was heard coming from the outside, followed by big aura of rainbow-colored light that rapidly spilled through the sky, passing over the castle.

"Oh, look! there she is!" exclaimed happily Pinkie, pointing at the window. "That's a sonic rainboom. At the center of that, there'll be Dash!" she cheered, before giggling. Noxfero looked at the window, looking at the spreading shimmer of multicolored light, before starting to mumble to himself.

"There is the pit of scorpions...nah, it's not that... the factory of boiling oil... nah... the desert of rust... no, that's not it..." he said in a low tone, counting on his fingers, before stopping, and paling. "Ok, I have to get her. Like, NOW!" he quickly said, opening the window.

"What? Why? what's going on?" immediately asked Twilight, looking worried.

"She's probably in trouble. You three!" he snapped, looking at the Santa, the angel, and the gorilla. "Keep an eye on them."

"Don't worry Nox, we aren't going anywhere!"

"Literally, the sled doesn't work, so..."

"Let me come with you!" exclaimed the purple unicorn, tugging Nox's raincoat, while with a couple of jumps, Jaco dived right into one of the pockets.

"Nope. No way. Na-ha. Nada. No. This is too dangerous to have any of you come." grunted the devil, spreading his wings.

-oOo-

"Now... what are you..?"

Those were the first words the cyan pegasus heard as she slipped back into consciousness. She groaned, as her head rang with pain. She then realized she was upside-down, and that the bottom half of her body was frozen. Her eyes snapped open in panic, looking around: she was upside down inside an immense room with azure and irregular walls, that after a second she identified as pure ice. She was attached to the ceiling, the ice engulfing her body reaching her belly and keeping her from even thinking of running away. She gave another glance around, and paled when she saw that all around her, in the ceiling and in the walls, buried deeply in the ice, there were countless humanoids, frozen in silent screams of agony.

"Oh, you woke up."

Rainbow immediately looked beneath her, and saw the female humanoid that had caught her. She was looking at her with mild interest, her arms crossed over her overabundant chest, her wings lazily folded on her back. The humanoid scratched one of her curled horns, examining the pony from every angle.

"Quite peculiar... I have never seen anything like you down here..." she softly stated, before raising her hand, grasping Rainbow's mane, sniffing it deeply, as she closed her eyes.

"H… hey, cut it out!" screamed the pegasus, trying to struggle. "Let me go!" she shouted, being utterly ignored.

"Hm… this smell... positive emotions... virtues... happiness..." she said with a disgusted face. "What are you, a new kind of angel? Disgusting..." she hissed, before stopping and taking another deep sniff. "...This is Noxfero's smell..." she finally said, with a puzzled face. She let go of the mare's mane and moved her hand. The ice holding Rainbow immediately lowered itself, bringing the mare down to her eye-level.

"Why do you have Noxfero's smell in your fur?" the archdevil asked with a slight smirk. "Are you some kind of secret weapon?"

"Let me go!" squealed the pegasus, starting to struggle again. The archdevil sighed, then suddenly grasped the mare by her muzzle, glaring at her.

"Maybe I wasn't clear. I asked you a question. When I ask a question, YOU ANSWER!" she roared, as she twisted the mare's nose, diving her sharp nails into Rainbow's flesh, who let out a squeal of pain. After a second, her expression softened, and she let go the mare's face, taking a napkin from the solitary couch that sat in the middle of the room, and started to clean the blood off her hand, while Rainbow let out a whimper.

"So, let's try that again, shall we?" she asked, softly. "Why is Noxfero's smell in your fur?" She repeated, looking at the mare. Rainbow, gulped, while studying the woman: her skin was pale, yet not sick-looking, her black hair silky and smooth, spilling from behind her head in an ordered mass. Her ears were pointed. Like, insanely pointy. And long. They reminded her of Angel bunny. Her face seemed to be perfect, her yellow eyes calmly studying the mare. She was wearing... very little, compared to someone like Sasha. She could actually see a tatoo of a scarlet heart with bat-wings and a tiny pointy tail on the demoness' side. And she also noted that she had no bellybutton.

"I'm not telling you!" she snarled, turning her face away. Then she yelped in pain when the woman grasped her mane and forced her to turn her head.

"Evidently, if you are a secret weapon, you are quite a stupid one." she said in a silky voice, passing a long nail over the mare's neck. "Do you need another lesson?" she asked, smiling and showing off a row of sharp and pointed teeth. Rainbow gulped, trying to free herself ... but with quite little result. The demoness let her mane go, grasping a hoof instead.

"Now, you have four of these. I'm sure you will do fine without one." she said softly. She licked her lips, holding the squirming mare tightly, but closed her mouth immediately when the door of the room opened slightly, one of her succubi entering, panting. "What is it?" she asked, annoyed. "I'm doing an interrogation here."

"My deepest apology, queen." panted the succubus, bowing. "But the Lord of Envy is here to meet you. I said you were occupied, but he was... quite insistent." explained the lesser devil with a groan, catching her breath. Lilith smirked, and glanced at the mare left dangling from the ice.

"Well, look at this, you seem to be important, mh?" she chuckled, then returned her eyes to the succubus. "Well then, where is dear Noxfero?" she purred, while conjuring an icy brush in her hand, and starting to immediately comb her hair. The succubus just made a faint gesture, as the other part of the door was smashed down, and a fuming Noxfero stomped inside the room, glaring at the other archdevil... while followed by a purple unicorn and a pink pony.

Lilith blinked, looking at the two, then back at Noxfero.

"I didn't want to bring them." growled the archdevil of Envy, "But they were rather convincing."

Twilight rolled her eyes, then immediately stiffened when she saw her friend hanging upside-down from the icy ceiling. She quickly darted towards her, followed by the pink mare.

"Rainbow, don't worry, we are coming!" she called, her horn lighting up with magic. But before she could do anything, a group of shadowy hands and tentacles darted out of Noxfero's shadow, blocking her and yanking her back.

"Please do excuse them... they came out quite emotional." he said with a slight smile. Twilight glared at him, before understanding, from the gestures of both Jaco and Pinkie, to play along. She stopped squirming, and as soon as the shadows freed her, she walked back beside Pinkie, head low.

"My apologies... master." she said with the most contrite tone she could manage. Noxfero let out a brief smile, before shrugging.

"Whatever. Lilith, dear you have-"

"One of your creatures, right here." she chirped, fluttering her eyelashes. "Is she one of yours then?" she asked, while gesturing to her succubus to leave them alone.

"Yeah, she's with m- she's mine yes." nodded the archdevil.

"Well, you should keep better track of your experiments, she was wandering near my castle all alone." said Lilith softly, snapping her fingers. The ice immediately retreated, letting Rainbow fall to the icy floor. The pegasus raised her face, avoiding looking into Noxfero's eyes, trying to stand up.

"Although..." continued Lilith, snapping her fingers again, and the ice immediately spread up from the floor, sealing around the pegasus' legs. "...She's technically mine. She entered my territory. Finders-keepers, loser-weepers."

"Lilith..." growled the other archdevil, flexing his claws. "I need her back."

"Yeah, come on Lilith!" chirped Jaco. Lilith glared at him and pointed ,enclosing the little devil's head inside an icecube, then returned her eyes to Noxfero, smiling slightly.

"Oh, don't worry..." she said sweetly, starting to walk towards the other devil, swaying her hips seductively. "I'm more than willing to... negotiate for her." she continued, stopping right in fron of Noxfero, who glared at her, even if his body had stiffened. Gently, the demoness passed a hand over the archdevil's chest, before raising it and stroking under his chin. "So... what do you think...?" she whispered.

Twilight raised an eyebrow at this, while Pinkie growled slightly. Jaco was stumbling around, trying to balance the huge cube of ice on his head.

"I give you your precious winged horse... and you give yourself to me for-"

"One time." growled the devil, his eyes narrowed and glued to the demoness' face. She giggled, then shrugged.

"Ok, ok, one time... is more than enough to remind you what I feel like..." she nearly moaned, while snapping her finger, the ice retreating from Rainbow's limbs once again. Immediately, Pinkie and Twilight rushed to her, helping her to get up.

"Is he angry...?" whispered the pegasus, trying to hide her scratched muzzle. Pinkie hugged her without answering, cuddling her friend, as Twilight frowned a little.

"He has every right to be, Rainbow." she scolded, while massaging the mare's legs to get her blood circulating. "You disobeyed him again."

"And got yourself in trouble." scolded Pinkie as well. Being scolded by Pinkie: that wasn't a good sign. "You could have hurt yourself a lot."

"Well at least it wasn't-" started the pegasus with a little grin, before she was distracted by a loud thud behind them: the three mares turned their heads, just to see Noxfero laying on the ground, glaring at Lilith, who was right above him with a slight smirk after apparently having punched him. She purred, waving her long and pointy tail like an excited cat, licking her lips with her forked tongue, while Noxfero just turned his head, trying not to look at her.

"Can't we just go somewhere else...?" he asked, before flinching when he felt Lilith's hands caressing his chest. She smirked, biting one of his bat-wing ears.

"My, you never had this kind of problem. Is the floor too cold for you?" she asked with a silly giggle, starting to unbutton his shirt. Noxfero growled and tried to push her off, with little result, causing another little fit of giggles.

"Just... I mean... I don't want to have an audience." he hissed, avoiding looking towards the mares. Lilith glanced at them, and giggled again.

"Don't worry about them." she whispered, lowering her face. Noxfero tried to reply, but was silenced by the other archdevil's lips, as she lustfully pressed against his, her tail wiggling happily. Pinkie paled, while Twilight assumed a deeper purple color and Rainbow's mouth fell open. Jaco was still trying to sustain the weight around his head.

"You taste sweeter." declared the demoness when she finally detached, licking her lips. "Might be the long abstinence." she giggled, lowering again and continuing her work. She wasn't discouraged by the lack of cooperation from the other devil, who was staying stiff and rigid beneath her. She knew that was just a question of time.

"Good to know." growled Noxfero, his eyes stubbornly glued to the ceiling. Lilith smiled, continuing to give quick bites to the pale flesh of the other devil. Noxfero gritted his fangs, trying not to give in, stiffening even more when he felt Lilith's hand crawling down his thin abdomen, towards his belt. "Lilith, I'm warning you..." he hissed, before letting out a surprised yelp when she slid her hand even lower, followed by a reluctant raspy moan, as he grayed even more.

"Now now Noxy, shush, let me do my thing..." cooed the demoness, before being quite rudely interrupted.

"HEY! I'M THE ONLY ONE ALLOWED TO CALL HIM THAT!"

Lilith turned her head, annoyed, glaring towards the ponies: the purple one was covering her face with her mane and had her ears plugged with her hooves, probably looking everywhere else except in her direction, while the cyan one was looking away as well, even if her attention was now caught by the third one: the pink pony was staring angrily at her, with a few tears in her eyes, as she glared at the demoness. "And let him go, he doesn't want that!" she added, angrily, stomping her hooves. Lilith raised an eyebrow.

"Minion, you should really learn your place." she gently said, then lowered her head and gently smooched the other devil's neck. "Of course he does." she continued, chuckling.

"No he doesn't!" the pink pony nearly shouted, biting her lip. Lilith raised an eyebrow and straightened, her eyes now glued to the mare. Then she took a deep breath, sniffing the air, her ears waving slightly. She stayed motionless for a couple of seconds. Then she started giggling uncontrollably, pressing her face to Noxfero's chest to hide her laughing face. Noxfero slightly raised his head, confused, still holding back any... compromising moan.

"Wha... what's happening...?" he asked in confusion, looking at the black mass of hair of the demoness.

"She..." started Lilith, before snorting and letting out another laugh, before calming down, patting the scar on Noxfero's chest with her free hand. "Nothing, just...that pink minion of yours." she smiled deviously. "She's so jealous right now. Almost as if she wants to be in my place." she giggled. "As if. And she smells utterly sweet and disgustingly loving. You may want to recycle her." she purred, lowering herelf again. "So what do you think if we-"

"You know what? I think we are done here." suddenly exclaimed the archdevil of envy, and with an effort more of will than might, he shoved Lilith off of him, quickly standing up and starting to close up his shirt. "This has gone on long enough." he snarled. Lilith blinked a couple of times, confused, standing up.

"W... Wait Noxfero, why? Come on, we were having fun!" she said, watching as the other totally ignored her, turning towards the mare. Lilith bared her fangs, exasperated, and took a deep breath. And what she smelled made her flinch, then start to boil in rage.

"You smell just like her." she hissed, in a low, menacing voice. Evidently Noxfero noticed that, because he immediately turned, standing between the ponies and the other archdevil. "Oh, I understand now... you have chosen someone else over me..." hissed Lilith, her yellow eyes thin and menacing, her tail raised above her head threateningly. "How DARE you choose someone else above ME!" she screamed, hissing. "She's not EVEN A HUMAN!"

"That's none of your business, Lilith." hissed the other devil, his eyes narrowing as well, his tail raising high as well.

"Minions my ass. What are they?"

"They are my friends. And now we are going to leave here. And you are not stopping us, Lilith." he growled, baring his fangs. Lilith glared at him, curving her back, her wings slightly opened. Her eyes moved to the mares that were now hiding behind him. She glared at them, before lunging forward, catching the other devil's hand in her own, while biting into his neck, blocking his head.

Noxfero let out a growl of pain, before hissing and trying to free himself, as the mares stepped back with gasps of fear, surprised and scared by the sudden attack. But Lilith wasn't finished yet. She raised her tail, and suddenly she stabbed Noxfero's shoulder with it, causing another yelp of pain. Apparently satisfied, she retreated with the help of her wings, the tail still dripping a mix of Noxfero's black blood and a green, gooey substance.

"Now, why should you leave so soon, Nox? Take your time." she said softly, flapping back, watching as the other devil raised a hand to cover where the demoness' tail had stabbed him. Noxfero staggered a little before almost falling to the ground panting.

"Noxfero!" called Twilight, rushing to his side. "Ohmygoh ohmygosh ohmygosh, let's see, that's poison, ok, we need some things, I know a purifying spell, don't you worry, I-"

"You...need to stay away from me..." hissed the devil, panting, while scratching the icy floor with an unnerving creek with his free hand's nails, the other hand still pressed to his neck. "Run...back to the castle..." he continued to murmur, his vertical irises becoming thinner and thinner.

"What have you done to him?" shouted Rainbow, glaring at Lilith, who was now calmly sitting on an icy ledge and looking down at them.

"Nothing dangerous, really. Just... gave him a little help with... expressing himself." she chuckled. Noxfero panted, his body twitching, as his reason started to fade away. He knew the aphrodisiac powers of Lilith's poison. And by giving that to him...

"Girls!" called Jaco's voice, as the little devil finally managed to shatter the ice cube around his head, "We have to run away like, now! Nox is going to become really unreasonable in a few seconds, you have to get out fast!" he had the time to scream, before being engulfed in ice once again. The mares exchanged a few worried glances, before looking back at Noxfero.

The devil's eyes were completely red, his mouth panting and gaping open, his long, forked tongue dangling out, smelling the air like a snake.

"Noxy...?" carefully called Pinkie, taking a step forward. The devil raised his head, and sniffed towards the mare. Just before pouncing on her with a hiss. The mare was unable to fight back, as the devil pinned her under him, hissing slightly.

"Noxy, what the-" started Rainbow, before stopping when the long tongue of the devil lapped slowly over the muzzle of the pink pony, who froze. The devil purred, narrowing his eyes, his ears flapping out of control. "Noxy...?" asked again the mare,before flinching when she saw the mass of darkness that was slowly rising from his clothes in the form of hands and tentacles. Absolutely not reassuring.

"Yeah, he always enjoyed using his darkness." explained to no one in particular Lilith, smirking. Noxfero growled, looking with his completely scarlet eyes at Pinkie, panting.

"Nox, please stop this!" squealed Twilight, her horn starting to shine a bright purple. Noxfero seemed unable to hear her, as he lowered again his head and started to lap the pink fur on the neck of the other mare, emitting a panting groan, as the darkness slowly started to stroke her body, slowly crawling up along her form. Twilight flinched before closing her eyes, and reluctantly, cast her spell. There was a blast of purple magic, and the devil was pushed away, hitting the icy wall with enough force to cause a series of cracks to form in it. Rainbow immediately dashed towards Pinkie, helping her to get on her hooves.

"Come on now, Pinkie, we gotta goet away from him!" she shouted, while with a growl the archdevil turned towards them, hissing and darting his tongue around. He tried to dash at them, just to be pushed back again by a blast of purple magic.

"Jaco, what should we do?" cried out Twilight, breaking the ice enclosing the little devil, who immediately glanced at his fuming and growling friend, tendrils of shadow starting to rise around.

"Ok, ok, I got this!" cried the little devil before pulling a cellphone out of nowhere, starting to tap in numbers. Twilight looked at him with disbelief before she was shoved aside by the rampaging devil, who aimed himself straight at the other two mares, hissing furiously.

"Oh no you don't!" growled Twilight, catching the devil's tail in her magic grasp. She was thankful that whatever had happened to him had also numbed his brain, or her magic wouldn't likely have been enough to restrain him. The devil growled, trying to free himself, as his shadows started to dance around, trying to grasp everything in their reach.

"My my, this is so much fun!" giggled Lilith, dodging one of the tentacles. "He's certainly quite pumped up, isn't he?"

"You did this to him!" shouted Pinkie, looking furiously towards the demoness, but she only giggled more, before another blast of energy caught her attention: Twilight was trying to maintain a constant ray of purple energy energy against the devil, who, even if he was hissing in pain, was slowly approaching them.

"Ok, Got it, help should arrive quite soon." chirped Jaco, closing his cellphone nonchalantly, a second before being stomped on by Noxfero. With a roar, he flapped his wings, dispersing Twilight's magic, before dashing yet again towards the mare. Sliding slightly on the icy floor, he manageg to pin Pinkie down again, while Rainbow Dash jumped on his back, trying to make him budge in some way.

"Stop it Nox, this is not funny!" the cyan mare shouted, before she was grasped by the devil's tail and tossed her away with an annoyed growl, so he could completely concentrate on Pinkie. The pink mare was trembling, but didn't look away from the bloody pools that were now the eyes of the drugged archdevil, his mouth slightly open, drooling over her fur.

"Pinkie!" shouted Twilight, before screaming in fear as ice started to encase her, as well as Rainbow Dash. Lilith giggled, flapping down, sitting on the back of an almost totally frozen mare.

"Now now, I enjoyed all of this ruckus and fighting, but now, I want to see something else." she cooed, before placing her yellow eyes on the other archdevil. She made a little gesture, and muzzles of ice formed around the other two mares' mouths, so she didn't have to listen to their whining. With a soft smile, she relaxed, and narrowed her eyes.

Noxfero was panting slightly, studying his prey, shadows crawling over his back, slowly dripping over the mare, caressing her like smoke, as if not daring to do anything more. Pinkie was trembling slightly, but didn't move her eyes away, staring sternly at Noxfero, as his tongue stroked again her cheek. The archdevil emitted another panting groan, as he lowered his face, starting to gently bite along the mare's neck, his sweaty and trembling hands holding her forelegs. All the while, shadows continued to pour out of his body, sliding along Pinkie's, crawling over her skin and causing shivers of cold and discomfort. Noxfero growled, sliding down to lick the mare's belly, sniffing her fur with an animalistic fervor. And then suddenly, Pinkie raised a hoof, slipping out of the devil's grasp to gently poke the devil in the side.

Noxfero yelped and trembled, stiffening and raising quickly up, before the mare poked him again, causing another yelp, and making him fall belly up, with a surprised expression on his feral face.

"Ah-Ha! I remembered right! You are ticklish!" exclaimed Pinkie Pie triumphantly, stepping over the devil, before lowering and quickly starting to tickle him on his sides, causing a series of yelps and other groans, as the devil squirmed under her, seemingly powerless. Lilith blinked, then rubbed her eyes. What the fuck was she even watching?

"Who's my little Noxy, who's my little devil?" cooed the mare in a baby voice, while the devil started to kick the air with a leg between his squirming, his tongue sticking out, satisfied. The mare lowered and kissed his nose, causing the devil to raise his head, with a curious hiss coming out of his mouth.

"Silly." giggled the mare, and kissed him again. "You don't need to be all aggressive about this, you know? Ladies don't appreciate that." she said, serious, then smiled again and hugged the devil's head. "Wanna cuddle?" she then asked. The devil blinked, then emitted a little wail. The mare giggled, and lowered her head, placing it on the devil's chest while, while rubbing it with her hooves.

"Now now, that's ok, this is not you, it's not your fault. You are not so mean." he cooed softly. Lilith's eye twitched again. What was that?! Why wasn't her poison... She lowered her eyes, and rage exploded at the sight of Twilight's victorious smirk. She jumped to her feet, screaming, her charming voice distorted with rage, sounding like a nail scraping against a barrier of ice.

"Noxfero of Envy, what are you doing?! Are you a toy, a pet, a joke of a devil? You are one of the seven holding the sins of humanity, and yet you are here, being treated like a little pet by an insensate creature of another world! I bestowed on you the ability to live your sins, while being free of any responsibility! Do what you want, what your heart desires, what your body craves! Take her, make her your toy, possess her in every way your dark mind can imagine!" she screamed, her words making the poison boil inside the archdevil's veins. He suddenly growled and shoved himself off of the pink mare, standing up with a hiss.

"Noxy please..." murmured Pinkie, taking a step back, now starting to feel afraid. The devil took a step forward, then stopped, emitting a roar of pain, raising his hand and grasping his head, his ears flapping in pain.

"Come on Nox, you can fight that poison!" screamed Jaco, waving his hands from the other side of the room. Lilith growled at him and moved a hand. Pinkie screamed, as a series of pointy, sharp icicles started to raise from the ground, trapping them in position. Except for one that impaled the little devil.

"Evidently you need another little taste..." she growled, her tail slowly raising again. She started to move towards the other devil, while glaring in hate at the pink mare.

"That is enough, shepherd of Lust!"

A bright light shone through the room, as the icy window exploded in a shower of water before the light dimmed down. Mark flapped gracefully into the room, his wings gracefully folding behind him, a look of controlled fury on his face. Lilith hissed, before groaning, reassuming her composure.

"Oh, for the love of Satan, why does everybody keep coming into my castle? What is it, a fucking brothel?"

"Well, technically, it is, mistress..." called a succubus from behind the door, covering her eyes from the sacred light the angel was emitting. Lilith groaned, before squinting her eyes, trying to identify the intruder.

"You are out of your land, angel." she hissed, before sniffing the air. She barely withheld her laughter at what she smelled. "Oh... a cherub? And here I was, almost worried." she chuckled. "A bringer of love eh? This is not the place for you..." she started, then stopped. "Wait... I know you... you are one of Noxfero's prohibited friends..." she murmured, then chuckled again. "Here to help your friend? You think you can stop my powers?" she giggled. Mark didn't answer, before pointing a finger. Inadvertently, the demoness flinched. He moved his finger over Noxfero, who was still hissing and babbling, shaking and holding his head. With an acute whistle, a golden composite bow started to form in his grasp, as well as a scarlet arrow. He tensed the string, and before Lilith could do anything, he shot the other devil.

Noxfero roared in pain when the arrow pierced his flank, starting to flail his hands around, while his shadows started to whip back and forth, smashing the icicles and beating on the ground and the walls, causing a series of cracks.

"Please! Don't hurt him, please!" squealed Pinkie in terror, while easily dodging the shadows and the icy spikes, as well as the crumbling pieces of ice falling from the ceiling, her tail constantly twitching. Mark narrowed his eyes, a new arrow forming, and shot again. And again, and again. The archdevil continued to roar, scarlet arrows sticking out of his chest. Lilith chuckled.

"Do you really think a few tiny love arrows would be able to nullify the power of my sinful poison?" she asked softly, while starting to conjure an icy blade in her hand. Mark smiled sternly.

"No, I hope they just help him to see things a bit more clearly." he said, while dashing back with a flap of his white wings and breaking the ice impaling Jaco, who immediately jumped on his tunic and crawled over his shoulder.

"Well done Mark! Now, we can run away like cowards!" he said with a confident frown. Markus chuckled, before he was distracted by an inhuman scream: Noxfero emitted another scream, before letting his head go, frantically looking around. Pinkie stiffened, ready to run, but the devil was searching for something else. He grasped a big icicle, breaking it with ease, and without a second of hesitation, he shoved it into his groin. He emitted another roar, his irisies suddenly becoming visible in his eyes, as a trail of blood and green poison started to drip down the icicle, as he fell to his knees.

"DEAR FUCKING GOD THIS FUCKING HURTS!" he screamed, panting. "Jesus tiptap-dancing Christ!"

"He did take a class for tapdance, once, but he wasn't very good." commented Jaco. Mark sighed and smiled.

"Pain over everything else eh? Well, better than nothing."

"You have no freaking idea how much this is hurting." squealed Noxfero, breathing heavily. "Fuck. You'll need to start calling me Noxina." he whimpered.

"I like Noxfero."

The devil raised his pained eyes, and met Pinkie's, who was looking at him with concern.

"I'm so-"

"This wasn't your fault. And look at what you did to fix it." she said gently, before looking at the piece of ice still shoved through the devil's trousers, blood and poison still dripping down. She bit her lip, and then just hugged the demon's head. Lilith's eye twitched for a third time, and with an inhuman screech, she dashed towards them, her ice dagger ready in her hand.

"Mark!" squealed Jaco, but the angel was already on the move: he sharply flapped his wings and moved himself behind Noxfero and Pinkie, as the devil grasped the mare to shove her behind him, as the demoness was flying for them. Mark aimed carefully, and let loose an arrow. "Wtf Mark?! You didn't aim at that bitch!"

The arrow flew through the air, and as the little devil had said, it hit Noxfero's back. Still, it didn't stop there, passing through him, hitting Pinkie's chest. And still it didn't stop, shooting out of her back. But now, instead of a slim red arrow, a blazing mass of pink and scarlet light dashed out of the mare, aimed at the demoness. Lilith had just enough time to widen her eyes and start to screech in fear, before the concentrated mass of light hit her, stopping her flight and shoving her back. She tried to stop it, flapping her wings frantically, the energy scorching her skin, but to no result. She was smashed against the opposite wall at first, but the light was tireless, and continued to push, melting and breaking through the ice, shoving the archdevil of Lust deep into her own castle, cracking and melting everything in its way, until it disappeared from view.

"YOSHA!" exclaimed Mark, striking a pose. Jaco looked at him with the face of someone who was clearly done with this shit.

"Mark?"

"Yes?"

"Don't quote anime or manga."

"Uh? But-"

"No."

"But I-"

"No... just...no."

"But-"

"No."

The angel chuckled, before flying quickly towards Twilight and Rainbow, rapidly melting the ice with his light. The two mares fell to the ground, trembling and shaking, but they quickly warmed up as the angel's light shone over them.

"That... was so AWESOME!" were the first words from Rainbow, as she looked in awe at the angel. "How did you do that?!"

"It's just a little trick we cherub can do. Nothing special." he said politely, watching as Pinkie helped Noxfero to stand up, his legs shaking violently, blood still pouring down his legs. "Is it bad?" he asked, turning towards them.

"No, it's funny. Really, you should try stabbing yourself in the dick sometime. A fun experience for all the family!" snapped the archdevil, yelping in pain.

"My apologies for the stupid question." said the angel softly, then gently grasped Twilight's body under her belly and took her in his arms. "It's better if we move, before this place starts falling to pieces." he said gently. As if on cue, down in the blue depths of the ice, a bright scarlet-pinkish light shone, followed by a deep rumble, followed by cracks rapidly spreading across the ice. He looked at the archdevil and shrugged. "What? All that energy had to burst, somewhere."

The archdevil groaned, and carefully started to flap his wings, while grasping Pinkie. The angel and the demon quickly flew out of the icy palace, followed by Rainbow Dash, as the external walls and spikes started to fell in the void below, followed by greater chunk of the structure. Pieces as big as icebergs started to fall into the void, as the cloud of souls flying around the palace dispersed in fear. The Nightmares didn't even try to stop them, quickly flying towards the crumbling palace, falling down like a castle of cards.

"And yet again, there is only one thing able to defeat evil." proudly declared Mark, looking behind him. "Lo-"

"If you finish that sentence, I swear I'm going to make you swallow your legs." hissed Noxfero, coming up beside him. "I fucking stabbed myself in the dick!"

Mark rolled his eyes, smirking, but didn't finish.

-oOo-

"You stabbed yourself in the DICK?!" asked the Santa with an astonished face. Noxfero groaned, laying on the bed in his room.

"Yes, I did." he mumbled. "Dear god, I should have just worked today." he added, covering his face with a hand. "Dear fucking god, I hate Mondays."

"But today is Wednsday!"

"Shut up, Jaco. And you all, can't you leave a suffering devil to his torment, so he can regenerate?" he snarled, looking at the little group of worried ponies (with a very ashamed mare) and his friends: Mark looked slightly worried, the gorilla totally uninterested, and the Santa had a box of popcorn. The devil snarled again, as a series of shadows started to grow, menancingly. Jaco groaned from behind the bed.

"Ok, ok, we got it. Come on everybody, he has to enter bear-mode, leave him alone, chopchop." he exclaimed, starting to push everybody away. Noxfero leaned back against the pillow, covering his eyes with one hand. The pain was acute and stinging, coming in waves, and he had the sensation that he could feel every drop of blood falling. He relaxed when he heard the door closing. Then he uncovered one eye: there was no one in the room. He sighed and turned his head. And saw Pinkie's muzzle a few inches away from his.

"...The only reason that I'm not screaming and falling off the bed right now is because that will leave me in torment with this wound. Sorry to make you lose the comedic value." he groaned, returning to look at the ceiling. "What do you want?"

Pinkie looked at him, a little bit of concern in her eyes.

"Are you going to be ok?"

"I am. Just... give me time to regenerate. Wounds from other archdevils take longer." he said, closing his eyes, as another wave of pain arrived.

"...Are you angry with Dashie?"

"I'm not angry..."

"Ah!"

"I'm furious."

"Oh..."

"But I'll express my anger once I'm not dripping blood everywhere." he sighed, flinching. "Anything else?" he asked, sounding more annoyed that he intended. The mare looked at him, and gently placed her head on his chest.

"Wanna cuddle?" she asked gently, then winked. "The others are never gonna know, I Pinkie promise." The Archdevil opened one eye and looked at the mare.

"Yes please."