Tartaro /¿?¿?¿?/ Thursday / 15/03/15/9: 29Hs

The ground on which he was lying was cold, his body was frozen and his face was on some small stones that hurt his right cheek, his ears could hear the soft fall of small debris or stones from the walls around him, the smell of Dry earth was all over the air and a pressure was exerted on his body blocking his ears, instantly irritating him on top of the hard surface that we could call ground ,"or hard earth", Tirek was lying inert and motionless. Around him all over the floor, walls and ceiling if that existed where he had fallen, there were stains of dried blood scattered all over the place.

One of his legs was a kind of filthy combination of dirt and blood as well as other parts of his body ,"Coff Coff Coff", ,"spits saliva mixed with dirt on the ground", had begun to regain consciousness little by little after his wild arrival there, but not a minute passed for him to realize how seriously injured he was, one of his legs on the part of the thigh had a huge gash that with every minimum movement several jets of blood gushed from the huge wound, his ribs were broken,"none had pierced anything important but the pain was horrible", his whole body ached, he was very beaten and exhausted. Each part of his body weighed him and grinding them meant more pain for part of his body they were full of earth, his head burned, he had a strong fever from the blow and the cold of the place to which he was subjected several hours before, he put his two hands over her face and slowly began to open her eyes.

What he saw was nothing at all, just a dense darkness that suffocated the old Centaur

""Where ... where I am, Coff Coff !COFFF¡ !COFFFFFF¡""

Was the only thing that his sore and scratchy throat could pronounce, his eyes They still couldn't get used to the darkness and he tried several times to get up from the ground but the pain in his body prevented him, returning him to the cold earth floor, this irritated him and he tried again only to fall defeated by the pain once more. still that didn't stop him and he tried again only to fall! fall out! and fall! ,"weak and angry",,"let's get up stupid body," bitter and frustrated giving several blows with his fist to the ground.

Lying on the ground, grumbling uselessly, trying to spot something in the dark without being able to get up, all that for Tirek was terrible and only made him angrier, he looked forward again, facing the darkness with his angry eyes, while he forced his eyes to make out something, even his right eye began to bother him maybe some dirt fell into it, Tirek with his skinny fingers rubbed his irritated eye trying to get the discomfort inside it, but it just did not go away, as he tried to put his finger inside his eyelid and removing the dust or dirt that was in his eye saw for an instant a clear and weak light near his shoulder in the form of a stain ,"it cannot be",

He began to move to get closer to the light and see where it came from but with just moving one of his arms the little light vanished ,"No ... no no no! NO"", where is it, where is it, it was here, to where it went", once again the small light was present in front of Tirek's eyes but this time it was smaller and fingertip, its bottom was cut out unlike how he remembered it the first time he saw it, Maybe it was his imagination but he was sure that the spot of Light had changed, it had become smaller than before but the top part was still the same as at the beginning, this despaired the Minotaur who on impulse tried to take the light from the ground even knowing that It was impossible, when trying this desperate movement, throwing himself upside down, the light spot returned to how it was before, seeing that he slowly placed his arms on his chest, when doing so the small light again cut itself, becoming just as small as before, this caught his eye, who spread both arms in the air slowly and just as he thought the light returned to make that clear spot he rested one of his arms on the ground to prevent it from getting in his way and the other arm began to grind him from top to bottom and at his sides,

Until finally he managed to make one of his fingers appear casting a shadow on the light, he raised his arm, moved it to one of his sides and now 4 of the fingers of his hand were making a shadow on the light ,"interesting",He leaned on his back using his elbow and his hooves to crawl on the ground, preventing his hand from shadowing the small light, he ran a straight path over his entire face, his left eyes, through his nose and muzzle, continued around his neck until he managed to place the light in the center of his or to investigate the ceiling without finding anything, he looked at the ceiling from one side to the other, straining his eyes even to be able to distinguish something from the darkness, even one of his His eyes began to burn, he stabbed his eye with his knuckle and a tear fell from the corner of his eye, the finan decided to place the clear light on his good eye and covering it with his hand, he returned to investigate with his gaze and finally achieved discover, the origin of light.

The light came from a small cave-in on the side of a wall, a hole that had not been covered by dirt or stones during the collision and showed ,"if Tirek had enough strength to put his head into the Hole much faster than lo, that he would do it later and look up he would find himself once again face to face with the Cerberus who had left him in those conditions, although he would not know that it was only the confused and friendly canine that he was, before ingesting the special food that Tirek had created for him", that it was morning outside, maybe after noon. He began to drag his entire body across the ground using both hands without losing sight of the hole, even if he lost sight of the Light.

When he finally managed to reach the collapse he began to try to lift his not so heavy body, holding on to projections that were in the wall. After a lot of time and effort, he managed to be level with the hole, maintaining the axis of his balance thanks to one of his hooves in more or less good condition, which was on a rock. Tirek literally put his full head inside the hole to be able to breathe fresh air and wake up his eyes, after this, using his hands he turned around and looked outside, far from where he was, he could see the collapsed bridge of the Tartar and the void to which he had been thrown by the furious animal, he did not know if it was his luck or destiny but he had fallen into a huge hole that the deeper it was, the smaller and narrower it became

Most likely, when he fell unconscious onto the end of the hole, the brittle, dry wall could not withstand the momentum of the fall and was destroyed, leaving Tirek inside as the huge hole he had made was sawed through. the falling earth.

Well that's it, I think it was enough", He had already stayed long enough inside the hole, when he put his head out and looked at the bottom of where he had fallen, if inside his eyes there were celestial lamps with little quality, he saw a huge circular corridor,"this surprised him since he believed he was inside a square room", just as the walls and the floor were made of hard and dry earth, despite this he could not see beyond that the beginning of the corridor, the background was an infinite nine of darkness and gloom, he looked down to distinguish his own body and he saw himself standing on a tiny rock and that the floor was not as far away as he thought ,"looking at his hand", Well I think I have enough magic to achieve this ,"Tirek began to force his horns until these, little by little they were surrounded by a crimson red aura followed by his head and neck little by little all over his body He surrounded himself with that aura", ,"sigh",, "sigh",well that's it now,"sigh", ,"sigh",,"sigh", I just have to find a way out of here,"sigh",although ... I'm meters and meters underground I wonder if there really will be a way out of this place really",

Once again he forced his horns again and from them a clear and weak light began to appear slowly creating a strong crimson light managing to see everything around him completely, at the end of this Tirek under his rock without having any contraction or collapsing down his leg scorched or the pain of his broken bones, the first spell he had performed was an aura that gave him a strong anesthesia ,"fast acting like morphine", throughout his body, preventing him from feeling too much pain and ignoring his fever and the intense pain that even prevented him from moving, despite this the serious injuries such as the large bite on Tirek's thigh, his dislocated arm and his broken ribs did not work as well as his other body parts so Tirek getting off de la roca managed to stay standing but holding his dislocated arm or kissing by resting his hand on the area of his broken ribs or reneging on one of his dislocated legs.

""¿A ... A cave?"",tired, looking around and with one eye closed

The interior of the cave had been flooded with a crimson red, revealing several roots of different sizes that unfolded from the ceiling or the floor, walls and ceiling were full of precious stones, minerals, gems and diamonds; but for him all that was of minor importance, the state in which he was was lamentable, his entire body and fur was stained or covered with dry dirt and blood, his wounds were infected and various internal hemorrhages showed through his skin . That cave was much wider than he imagined, its crimson light showing a straight path full of gems unknown to him.

""!HELLO THERE IS SOMEONE HERE¡ ... !HELLO!""

No answer,"" Tsk seems that there is no one"",begins to walk lamely observing the surroundings of the cave", this cave, it is likely that it was an ancient secret passage for escaping from tartarus, but still there seems to be no sign that anyone passed by or even lived for many years""

The cave was not very different from others in which he had hidden the first time he escaped from Tartarus, it was the kind of caves that any living being, Pony or Dragon would kill for the riches hidden within them except for him. He walked lame and slow through the enormous underground passage in search of some way out but the path went on and on and just went straight on towards nowhere. As he walked he began to notice strange hieroglyphics engraved on the walls, this at first he simply ignored it but the more he walked the more of them appeared, The hieroglyphs showed various things carved on them such as squares, triangles or circles within these letters, shapes were also distinguished , objects or creatures, several of the hieroglyphs that he saw could be easily dazzled but others were blurred or parts had disappeared on the ground ,"approaching one of them", I had never seen this type of hieroglyphs before. which were carved by hand or with knives? now that I think about it this cave could also have been a refuge from the cold for the first colonies of ponies that came to Equestria many years ago, hehe maybe even find the skeleton of some of them here", Tirek simply ignored the hieroglyphs that He had seen one more time and continued on his way.

The hieroglyphs continued to appear incessantly on all the walls that he had walked through, he managed to reach the end of the huge corridor, only to find himself in a break and many more tunnels that led to different places, some tunnels were smaller or larger, others were directly covered by Some collapse that happened many years ago Total Tirek was not sure how many there really were, some connected with others and others just by looking at him could see the end in the distance, after many grumbles, complaints and insults Tirek decided to go each of the tunnels.

Several times the course of his path was affected by landslides that completely covered his path, he tried to move the rocks with his magic but his injuries and because of how weak he was, he did not even manage to grind them out of his way, even the rocks did not even move. heavy that were ending giving up and going again the long way that he had entered, while walking the corridors of the cave many times he tried to decipher the hieroglyphics on the walls, but he could not make any progress, the shapes, letters and other things that were in them did not coincide and confused him

""Hell ... I can't understand any of this ... and the tunnels in this cave only lead to nowhere, if only I had more magic could""

His body loses balance and almost falls to the ground",I have to hurry but the aura will run out and I will return to the ground",

Over time and after going in and out of several tunnels without any results, boredom began to take hold of him, while he toured one of the caves, so many caves there were, he began to run his hand along the wall listening to the noise of the earth falling in heaps, after passing his hand or taking a small root that came out of the earth, stretching it and then releasing it and hitting the earth wall, while his bored gaze was fixed on the very nothing of the tunnel, he could notice in the distance a small white and blue glitter with pink details that changed to different colors ,""But ... what is that"", he walked slowly to the light and stood in front of her the light was covered by the earth and with his hand he began To remove it, what was under the ground left him surprised, it was a luminous wall of crystal or glass, it shone exchanging colors, its light was dense and colorful, they illuminated everything around them, scaring away the darkness of the cave while they merged with Tirek's crimson ,"Wow", was the only thing that his scratchy throat could pronounce, without a doubt those colors were beautiful especially when they worked, they seemed to form an aurora borealis over the head of the centaur.

But even despite the beauty in front of his eyes, Tirek was only disgusted and hated, the fusion of all those colors only made him remember, the extraordinary magic of the elements of harmony that defeated him so long ago and for his Unfortunately the faces of each of its bearers appeared to him like a ghost in his memory, especially the detailed face of Princess Twilight Sparkle whom he hated from the bottom of his heart, only once had he felt this feeling and that was when his younger brother betrayed him to follow the path of friendship and love, he had preferred to destroy that wall into a thousand pieces but he preferred not to do it for fear of losing what little magic he still had, Tirek simply ignored what he had seen, but not before look one last time at the disgusting multicolored flash.

He spent hours walking the long and exhausting paths of the cave, entering holes or breaking down walls making his way through the dark corridors until finally for the tranquility and salvation he could notice the end of the cave path, upon arrival he saw once but these strange hieroglyphs this time they were carved on several columns full of moss and fungi that were all over the site, all had two extinguished torches on both sides and thanks to their light he saw that there were stalactites on the ceiling.

Tirek approached the closest column he had and brought his light to the torch to his surprise, part of his light remained in the torch and transformed into fire that went from one column to the other, lighting all the torches and leaving in sight the place. Tirek had inadvertently entered a huge dome, its walls were made of a brown material with thick black lines,""they were identical to the tiger's eyes and energy stones"", the columns were made of a silver material with water stains Blue inside them, the stalactites were made of a reddish material with black dots that increased in size to the tip that showed a much brighter black and finally the floor was purple like amethysts and the Hieroglyphics appeared all over the place completely outlined by a bright apple green

""¿What is ... this cave?""

He approaches a column and removes the moss exposing the hieroglyph, it was bathed in a rocky blue", so these symbols were from here, for sure it's some kind of ancient dragon language possibly even though I don't think they were around before their appearance in Equestria""

While he was reviewing the strange place and reviewing the hieroglyphs, he realized that at the bottom of the dome there was another path that was of a different milk-white color and without hesitation he entered it twice in search of answers or the exit from that place, to As he progressed further down the road, his surroundings began to transform into a concrete gray color with shades of green, the different things that he had seen, in the other caves, had disappeared such as moss, earth, stones, roots, or stalactites, in instead there were vases or chests with the same symbols as in the columns

¿More of those symbols?

As he went further into the strange cave he began to see that inside the walls there were constructions of houses that floated immobile as if it were made of paper, some were crumbling into pieces with all their immobile remains or on a few occasions some other part of the house you could peek through the wall, next to them were strange statues which were the ones that most caught Tirek's attention, they were rare grayish ivory white statues with small hieroglyphs all over their body. Their physiology was identical to those of the Minotaurs but they did not have horns, hair or hooves on their body, they were even much skinnier and smaller than a young Minotaur ,"touching the wall and looking at the statue",,"What is that?", as he was advancing the houses sank much deeper into the walls to such a degree that they disappeared from view while the statues advanced little by little, leaving the wall completely immobile, some statues were broken leaving the wall and hitting the ground dismembered in large pieces and gray debris all over the floor, but others were intact standing staring without seeing him with their gray eyes at Tirek.

Each of the statues showed different types of styles, most of them showed a simple style, they used 2 fabrics on their body, one covered their chest, back, stomach and shoulders while the other fabric covered their legs completely, they wore identical shoes to the boots but much smaller, and they left their arms and head in view, they all had different styles, some were accompanied by pets or children or what, according to Tirek, their partners even thought some were sitting on the floor or sleeping.

There were other types of groups, these were not as abundant as the previous ones, they wore tunics that resembled the royal Ponies, among them there were some of the statues that were completely naked all in strange poses, one was in a pose Thoughtful, another was standing with his arms stretched completely straight identical to a Cross, one of the ones that most caught Tirek's attention was a statue that was throwing a javelin or Frisbee, this was very familiar to him since when he was young he read an article where this statue appeared but instead of being one of those things it was a Pony, finally he saw a woman without arms naked from the waist up and with clothes that completely covered her legs, but he did not give it as much importance as the others.

Finally Tirek's eyes fell on some imposing guards who were wearing armor that resembled the Imperial Guards of Canterlot, these guards unlike all the other statues that were scattered throughout the place were grouped in rows of 6 one side by side with serious looks, they were tall and stocky, their mere presence among the other groups differentiated them from any of them. Like his troops they carried weapons from swords, spears, and axes, but this was nothing compared to the last soldiers of each row that stood out even among them, these unlike all used bracers on their shoulders and chest and their face It was covered by a helmet that only showed their eyes, some had leaves coming out of their hands, even Tirek would swear that the way in which one of them was carved could distinguish that smoke was coming out of his back or the most curious thing for him, were threads that come from all your fingers coming together in the center and creating a cylinder.

Curiosity ended up beating the Centaur, he approached surprised, while passing one of his hands over the face of the statue

""¡What are these things! Minotaurs no but¡ ... not impossible although maybe""

Looking at them head on", some ancient race of dragons ... Hmm! Noo, it's impossible, these things even have signs that their body is about to evolve into a hybrid, with their distinctive current characteristics, neither their wings or scales are shown on their skin, these things have nothing to do with dragons ... ¿But then what are they? ,"his eyes rest on the hieroglyphics scattered throughout the statue",clear so all of these scribbles have to do with you,"but all those questions were forgotten when his eyes were instantly fixed on the crimson depth of the missing path,""! NO DON'T TELL ME THAT! ESSS¡"",what He had felt, it does not matter if it was for a micro second or if it was a hallucination from being down there so long but he had felt that pure energy, something that he had not felt since before his return to the clutches of Tartarus, something that he only had to be yours, something none of that s Useless ponies or other breeds deserve to own. Suddenly a sinister smile was drawn on his face triumphantly, he knew perfectly what it was",! MAGIC¡ ,"quickly as if his dislocated arm, his broken ribs and the dog's bite had never began to run with all his forces leaving behind any old interest in statues.

""! HAHAHA I CAN'T BELIEVE IT, WHAT IS MY LUCK, I KNEW ... I KNEW THERE WAS SOMETHING DOWN HERE! HAHAHA ALL THAT POWER DOWN HERE, I CAN'T WAIT ANY MORE TO GET OUT OF THIS PIT, AND PLASTER ALL THOSE BASTARDS, I WILL REMOVE EVERYTHING FROM THEM, I WILL NOT STOP UNTIL I TAKE THE MOST MINIMAL DROP OF MAGIC FROM EACH PONY OF EQUESTRIA; I'LL BECOME UNSTOPPABLE AND FINALLY GET MY REVENGE, I'M GOING TO CRUSH EVERY ONE OF THOSE UNHAPPY WHO DARE TO HUMBLE ME AND LET ME PUDDLE IN THAT CELL¡""

Each of the dark corridors that were in the cave were quickly illuminated and then returned to its glorious darkness in seconds, of course his entire body was weak and the aura prevented him from falling asleep but his legs had enough power to run a marathon.

He traveled each of the paths of that underground cave with his powerful hooves until he reached the source of that much desired energy. His surprise was great when upon reaching the source of the magic, he found nothing, there was nothing, just the same countless corridors from before where you could easily get lost for the rest of your days. The centaur began to experience nerves and concern throughout his body, he knew how long he had been down there and in his thoughts the idea appeared that he could be losing his mind for the time he had been inside Tartarus.

If there was one thing that prison was known for among the worst villains it was for its popular 4 floors, one much deeper than the other and that was enough to win the fear of anyone when hearing the terrifying stories that were spread by word of mouth. all over Equestria. During his stay in Tartarus, he witnessed the state of many of those confined in the deepest floors of that prison, some looked emaciated similar to Zombies, others had resorted to cannibalism or self-mutilation and the last, those who began to hallucinate and spoke to Alone with himself pacing, these lunatics were responsible for the majority of murders within Tartarus.

Tirek shook all those thoughts out of his head by shaking it from side to side and concentrating on the possible hiding place for the magic

Where is it, !Where is¡, !WHERE IS¡

Gulping air and saliva, began to force his eyes through the crimson darkness, searching for any objects or clues he missed

""you are here, I can feel it""

Swallowed air and saliva again

""I know you are here, but where are you hiding""

Again swallows air and saliva", Tirak's body remained motionless, still, inert for seconds, none of his muscles made not the slightest movement, around him there were only walls with beautiful colors just like the one Tirek saw at first, quickly without warning all of Tirek's hip and crazy eyes focused on the wall to his left

""!HERE YOU ARE¡""

A crimson bolt with black stripes was produced from its horns and the beautiful wall with its shimmering colors had disappeared and in its place a bright red had appeared. oderated from a large part of the wall showing a large hole melted from the attack. Tirek fell on his knees to the ground holding his head, the state his body was in was very weak and the use of magic in excess caused a sharp headache, but this was the worst, it was as if his brain was swelling and his skull was about to explode, his eyes bulged out of orbit and his ears began to bleed.

The pain was temporary but still bothered him, when he managed to stand up, he looked into the hole that had been formed and a smile was drawn on his face, among the molten remains of the wall in the background you could see a wooden box with the highlighted metal edges and a gold lock, this was on the melted hands of one of the previous statues that he had seen, this was different from the first ones he had found, he had a hooded robe that did not show his face anywhere of his body such as the arms, hands, parts of the head or the chest were melted and the remains had fallen on the box melting part of the metal and burning the wood, he reached out and took the box and brought it to him taking it out of the molten hands of the statue, was in poor condition, thanks to the explosion and the remains of the statue that carried it. With the box in his hands, Tirek took advantage of the parts that were covered by the remains of the statue that had strongly adhered to the wood and metal, with both arms destroying the box piece by piece, among the remains of the box. I drop a necklace, Tirek notices this and throws the remaining parts of the box to the ground, he took the necklace in his hands lifting it with a victorious smile.

Despite his appearance he could feel the overwhelming magic within him. The necklace was silver with copper details, it had 3 cylindrical shapes, 2 were small and one large, in the middle of each was followed by a purple diamond, each one surrounded by pearls with different square, triangular or circular shapes, the hieroglyphs were also seen carved with blue gemstones, the three cylinders and diamonds were joined by a metallic flower-shaped relief and in its lower part a triangle that connected with all the parts of the necklace, the string that held the necklace was made of gold with pearls Plated.

Tirek's smile reached each end of his mouth, he had found the answer to all his problems, that source of power was the largest and strongest he had ever seen, inside his head appeared sequence by sequence of how he crushed Twilight and the elements of harmony, and seized all the magic in Equestria and became the strongest master and lord there has ever been in a unique and happy moment for the old centaur

""!HA ... HAHAHAHA. ..YES...YES...HAHA ... HAHAHA ... IT'S OVER NOW ... NO MORE EVER AGAIN ... IF HAHA ... IT'S OVER NEVER AGAIN I WILL BE HUMILATED, NEVER AGAIN I WILL BE DEFEATED AGAIN ... THE PAST DOESN'T MATTER ANYMORE, ONLY THIS MATTERS ... ONLY THIS AND NOTHING MORE THAN THIS PRINCESSESS NOW IF WE ARE EQUALIZED LITTLE TWILIGHT, CELESTIA, LUNA, CANDACE ALL OF YOU WILL LEAN BEFORE ME I WILL FINISH THEM AND I WILL NOT LEAVE THEM TRACE OF YOU, ALL THE MAGIC WILL BE MINE HAHAHAHA¡""

All those delusions of grandeur and power disappeared in no time when the necklace string took on its own consciousness and wound itself around Tirek's skinny arm clinging with incredible strength ,""B-but What"",, "surprised", WHAT THE HELL IS THIS,"takes the object with his other arm and tries to remove it

"" !SHIT ¡I CAN'T TAKE IT OFF! ¡HEEEE! ¿HOW IS IT POSSIBLE THAT THIS CONTAINS SO MUCH STRENGTH?¡ ""

The sensation of his arm disappeared as if it were never there and Tirek with his own eyes witnessed as seconds later his full arm rushed against his chest making him fall.

Tirek did not understand what was happening, his own arm had attacked him with incredible brute force, he had come to stop his arm by holding it by the wrist with his other hand, although it looked more like a kind of carnivorous plant trying to tear off the face

""SHIT ... SHIT ... PIECE OF JUNK WHAT DOES THIS THING WANT FROM ME ?! EEEEE¡! AGGGGG¡! AAAAAAAAAA!""

Out of nowhere a pain began to seize from deep within his flesh and bones, the necklace that was coiled around his arm was beginning to fuse or dissolve within his skin like it was a parasite.

When the last remaining trace of the necklace disappeared inside Tirek's arm, he began to drag Tirek across the ground at high speed crashing his body against the stones and the walls of the cave corridors, Tirek's light had disappeared and he was being dragged by his own arm helplessly

¡WHAT THE HELL IS THIS THING! ¿Where is it taking me?

As soon as I finished saying this, Tirek's front part crashed against one of the walls and his infected arm placed the palm of his hand against the wall, Tirek managed to regain his crimson light and saw how it peeked through his arm

Little by little the necklace was expelled from the inside of his arm and began to create a crack inside the wall, disappearing its colors and leaving a light gray tone in it, when the necklace came completely out of his hand the sensation of overwhelmed his arm ran through his entire body

""What was that ... what the fuck is that supposed to be""

Closes his hand over and over again while looking at her

""It all happened so fast that still I don't understand, what was that necklace, ¿Some kind of cave guardian?""

He stared at the wall where minutes ago the necklace came out of his own hand had entered",,"that Now it does not matter then I will try to find that necklace again and discover what the hell it was, for now I must get out of here, Colorful walls, unintelligible hieroglyphs, those strange statues and now a necklace attacks me and as if it were not enough I have lost the only one source of power that existed down here, if I don't get out of here I'll go crazy or commit suicide, if or if I have to get out of is ta cave then plan my revenge against all of Equestria".

If Tirek's condition when she woke up was terrible, now it was worse, her wounds were open and streaks of blood spilled over her skin, her legs and chest were covered with red-hot scratches and her blood traced the ground. Luckily the aura had not faded and little by little the pain of his new wounds were disappearing, thanks to this he was able to remain calm and prevent his injuries from taking him to his last breath.

But while he was on the floor, a sudden tremor was present making debris fall to the ground ,"of course perfect, what I was missing ... this could be the best, the only thing I was missing take me to hell of a time", as he tried to get up off the ground and keep his balance, the wall behind him suddenly exploded surprising Tirek and creating a dense black cloud that swallowed up the smoke dissipating and exposing a large hole in front of the Centaur

""Coof ... Coof ... What ... has happened to,""!EXPLOITED¡""

A finite noise coming from under their hooves took him out of his thoughts, when he looked at the ground, Tirek dazzled the necklace that had led him there, this time was wound on a dark spherical stone identical to black tourmaline, when looking more closely behind a stone it looked like glass. He slowly approached both objects with his gaze fully on the necklace and ready to act if he attacked him again.

,"Craakk", his whole body tensed when he heard the finite noise of glass cracking, just like the necklace had done with his hand, he was compressing against the cylindrical stone opening huge cracks on the upper layer of the stone while dark smoke was expelled from this. The smoke in contact with the walls, causes a drastic change in her, the different colors became a bright white that in contact with Tirek's eyes cut him off, while he rubbed his fingers against his eyes the necklace had finished destroying the stone and release the rest of the smoke inside it, when Tirek was able to open his eyes, he saw a huge black cloud above his head covering the entire ceiling.

His tongue could not build words to express how surprised he was, in front of his eyes the floating dark mass began to compress until it was nothing more than a dark black point between nothingness itself, and suddenly it exploded creating an expansive wave full of screams, whispers and deep voices that distorted each other. Cracking the wall surfaces and throwing Tirek himself to the ground.

Along with the shock wave, the darkness made its way to Tirek's feet, what happened was almost unusual, the darkness surrounded as if it were a hand, the necklace that was on one of Tirak's hands and took it to him. Inside, in the center of the darkness, the pearl necklace shattered, each fragment changed its metallic physiology to a kind of floating black water in turmoil, transforming into different black bones! Femur, clavicles, jaw, ribs, humerus, kneecap, tibia , fibula, sternum, and many more bones! to later join each other, creating a skeleton like the black night while it was illuminated by the radiant white lights of the walls

From each of his bony surfaces, muscles emerged, followed by flesh, veins, skin and skin, while the same darkness that surrounded him submerged inside his body his body parts such as the beautiful scalp, nails, eyes and body pole began to reincarnate out of nowhere. When the darkness disappeared inside him and the howls, screams perished, only one being was left standing with his head staring at the immobile floor. Tirek witnessed everything with his eyes wide open, when he managed to stand upright, the strange being moved for the first time, placed both hands on his head with slow and deep breathing, checking every detail of his face while his skin and flesh filled parts that left see his dark bones and his haggard face and hands.

His fingers caressed his eyes, touched the tip of his nose, ran through his hair, with his four fingers touched his hairy chin and his thumbs the lobes, he pressed his cheeks and inside his mouth his tongue brushed all his teeth and molars, for the first time. Once his eyelids opened wide showing his dark eyes that little by little were gaining his white eyeballs, only his iris and average creature 1.80m left in black, the only clothing he wore was a tight jean on the sides with boots black (all these clothes created from the same darkness that surrounded him being all practically black). Above he was not wearing clothes showing a skinny body with a wide waist as well as his back, he was not fat, but he was not skinny and the only remarkable thing about his body were his shoulders, he had hair on his chin and his hair was long black falling down to His neck also had hairs on his chest, belly and arms, the first two being clear almost invisible while those on the arm were thick and noticeable

It should not be noted that seeing a black skeleton formed spindle by spindle, alarmed the Centaur who was on guard and tried to speak as low as possible, almost whispering

""That just happened""

His attempt to hide his presence caught the attention of the subject who noticed Tirek's presence behind him, he simply stared at him without moving a muscle

""Hey I swear that if you try to do something will blow you to pieces! YOU HEAR ME!¡""

Tirek and the subject looked at each other for a long time, to Tirak's surprise the strange subject was the one who broke that gloomy sensation that was in the air and only limited himself to approaching the wall and placing the palm of his hand to calm the intense glow of the wall

What did you just do,"Observing the claimed brightess", ...!Heee¡, do you hear me or are you deaf""

His words reached his rebuilt or reborn ears and the subject looked at him over his shoulder

YIJOHA MHI RANODA / The light returns to me

""What ... What did you say,"Confused", ... I didn't understand you, ¿Repeat it?""

The stranger just smiled mockingly but that smile disappeared when the black iris of his eyes turned brown and he fell to his knees and put his arms on the floor with heavy breathing ,"hey you are fine", asked Tirek, his concern disappeared when he began to hear low whispers that little by little transformed into quiet giggles, the strange subject got up and fell on the wall supporting his shoulder to keep his balance

Suddenly their eyes connected, the next thing Tirek would never have expected, the strange creature smiled at him.

""I'm sorry I didn't want to confuse or scare you, I was still sleeping HOO! I think I was in a dream, sometimes I can't tell one from the other""

""So you can speak"",surprised

But the unresponsive creature is limited to moving away from the wall and putting his hand on the wall

""I already remember, there was a terrible noise, and I was entangled in ... in ... in chains and threads and that horrible light that ... would not let me see, but there was someone, a name, yes! It was a name, ¿Greing? ¿Fein? ¿Deyn? And it was someone important to me but he chose the wrong side and ... and then what happened, I really don't know, I only see images that go from here to there like a pedestrian path with people passing every two seconds""

""What ... are you ... talking about"",disorieted

""I don't know,"Lookig at the ceilign", I don't remember ... now that I think about it, who I am and where I am""

""!YOU¡ don't even remember how you got here ,"he looks at his arm where the necklace was rolled up but it didn't seem to hurt him like it did with it", and what can you tell me about that ,"pointing", to the necklace on your arm you know what that is or at least you remember what it is""

! NO¡,"look at the necklace", although I think so, but that doesn't matter right now, what matters most now is that we know what year we are in, Tirek

""Why do you want to know ... ,"he looked at the stranger with distrust", at some point I told you my name""

""! No¡," answered Smiling", but that doesn't matter now ,"he approaches Tirek",! but let's go back to how important the year is""

Tirek could easily have refused or even attacked him, that subject seemed confused and for him it made it very easy for him to faint and remove his necklace but there was something about him that made him doubt or left him immobile without understanding because he did not know if it was because of his way of unfolding or how natural it was for him

""Ok ... we are in 2016 in the reign of Celestia and Luna right now we are in an underground cave through which I was escaping, since above us there is a jail in which I was locked up when I found you by accident""

""I see 2016! Heee! ,"looking around", so I've been trapped down here for over 100,000,000 years hehe interesting""

""!YOU HAVE BEEN TRAPPED HERE FOR MORE THAN 100,000,000¡, that's impossible"", surprised

Before his mind processes what he heard the stranger was close to him, crossing his arms and moving closer to Tirek until he is in front of him

""! Hooo¡, yes it is, and I have just one last question for you ,"looking at him from head to toe", ¿Why are you here?""

"" ¡¿Sorry?!""

""I'm sorry, maybe I said it too quickly, I'll repeat it. ¿Why are you here?""

""I already told you above those caves there is a jail and I..."",serious

Before I could continue speaking, the stranger's full fist buried itself in Tirek's diaphragm

""¡HOOOOOG HAAAAAAAGGG!""

Falls to the ground supporting himself by his skinny arms and spitting saliva

""What do you think ... What are you doing ... Crazy Shit ... OOOOGGGGHOOOOO""

Couldn't speak due to shortness of breath and saliva instantly accumulating in his throat".

The unknown squats down and looks Tirek in the eye

""I'm sorry it's an old habit ,"putting his hand on Tirek's head and caressing him", you will see there are only 2 things in the world that provoke this reaction in me and they are ,"counting them with the finger", that betray me and lie to me And you, my friend, were about to do the second, so I'll ask you again, what are you doing here? How did you get there? and if you barely know what the hieroglyphics on the statues you saw before I doubt very much that you know what this is ,"pointing to his necklace", I still have to apologize since the jail thing was true""

""!¿HOW THE HELL ... DO YOU KNOW THAT?¡"",angry and immobile

Before his question the stranger fixed his face looking into the dark

""I'll summarize it for you in a few words ,"placing his hands on his knees", I can practically read people's faces and expressions and decipher their intentions and feelings,"click", just as fast and your friend is extremely easy to read ,"placing a finger in his hundred", now you will answer my question or I will keep hitting until I kill you, you choose Tirek!""

The aura of anesthesia had completely disappeared and the pain was present once more. Once again he was lying on the floor humiliated at the feet of someone and his victory was gradually moving away from him, having to swallow dust in order to survive once more.

""I fell here, ... trying ... to escape my prison ... and I came here in search ... of the incredible power of that ... necklace that you have on your wrist ... until ... you appeared you ... I don't know what ... those ... walls or statues ... from before ... I don't even understand those hieroglyphs ... or what this cave was before ... god I was even lost among the corridors of this cave for almost a whole day"", with heavy breathing

His answer made the stranger smile

""it wasn't that difficult or yes"",he approaches him and puts his hand on Tirek's back and when pulling it out, Tirek gets up off the ground without feeling the slightest pain

What did you do to me,surprised

!HEHE¡,"smiling", you really think I'm the type of person who abandons the people who help him, I just had to make some changes here and there and play with your feelings a bit, right now you don't feel any of your previous pains, but they still remain in your body so if it were you, I'd be more careful with sudden movements

""¿What are you?, go back""

""My name is Lockdown and I am an ancient being, much older than anyone you have ever met and I think you are the right person I have been waiting for ,"looks him in the eye", and you my friend I think you are the one If I think I will explain it to you ,"he walks backwards pointing to the entire cave", for centuries I have been locked in these walls waiting for a being that is worthy of the darkness within me, you seek the power to crush your enemies and I I have that power but I also need allies to support me in my mission, if I am your only hope you are also mine""

""And you think I'll help you like that, just because you ask"",angry

""I'm afraid you don't have many options,"serious and smiling", it was me who helped you to stay on your feet and if I wanted to with a simple click you would be nothing more than a dying piece of meat rotting little by little waiting for its tortuous agony to end ,"Lockdown he moves away from Tirek and a green light begins to appear from his index finger, Lockdown uses it to cut his hand and drop the blood that gushes to the ground, on contact with the floor the blood crystallizes, transforming into a dark crystal and the wound on his palm disappears, taking the crystal from the floor and showing it to Tirek". If you accept this you will get all my powers, your strength and speed will be unmatched, you will have complete control of your entire body, you will be able to regenerate, create weapons and even be intangible to the damage and attacks of any user, your reflexes and senses are sharpened, everything this power will be yours with a single condition that you let me see all your memories""

""And when I accept this, what will happen"",looking at the glass

""The game will begin, at first it will be easy, my friend, but as we progress, everything will become much more difficult and our enemies will rise up against us with everything they have, all this will be possible if you agree to say a few simple words ,"moving his fingers from one side to the other", YES OR NO, it's your decision but choose quickly because I already want to get out of this place""

Tirek brought to process as quickly as possible analyzing the pros and cons of the deal, but could not continue when when looking face to face at Lockdown, his eyes darkened like a shark smelling blood

""Okay"" ,take the glass

""Let the game begin""

Tirek breaks the glass by squeezing it with his fist when opening it, there was no remains of it, but Tirek did not feel any change or side effect either

Nothing has happened,disappointed and angry

""Or calm down now you will only feel a little headache"",turning his back to him

Quickly the pain of his wounds and fractures appeared suddenly but much worse than before this time his whole body burned as if his insides were burning inside him little by little. The headache was unbearable, the centaur began to run towards the wall with everything he could, to start hitting every part of his body against the wall, he continued like this for a long time until suddenly all the pain disappeared and a finite and sharp beep appeared in Tirek's ear his eyes closed and reopened, when he stood up and looked at himself he could not believe what he saw, his weak body radically changed, now being the powerful centaur that he was when he stole all the magic of Equestria .

His size had grown little compared to that, only maybe a few centimeters from when he was a thin old man, his body was stocky, and his horns became an oval, his face rejuvenated and the irises of his eyes turned green, his His arms and legs grew as his muscles and his back and front became just as muscular but his inner power was completely different, his wounds had disappeared all the pain he had suffered in the cave and in Tartarus had disappeared. When he looked at Lockdown he was completely stunned, his eyes emitted a light, that within it could be reflected all his memories since he was a child to his adulthood, his brother and all the knowledge that he had, the beginning of his conquest plans and his first and second losses, the lights went out and Lockdown opened his eyes with a winning smile

! Heh¡, it's been a complete success and how do you feel,putting his hands inside his pockets

""I feel ... I feel ... ,"clenching his fist and showing a smile", incredible, what is this power"", looking at his hands

""This my friend is the solution to all our problems ,"he takes his hands out of his pockets", now we are ready, I have a mission and you have revenge to accomplish

""Tell me something ,"curious", what is your mission""

""bring peace in our times,"Smiles"", to me and to my people and there is only one way to peace to reach that desire "THE EXTINCTION OF LIFE ON EARTH" and you will be my colleague and my right hand, only if you you want it""

Lockdown approached Tirek and placed his hand on the Centaur's shoulder immediately his arms, elbows, heads, bodies and legs were surrounded by a dark mist and the walls began to be illuminated with an intense mowing light, when the black cloud ended. To form, there was no trace of solid matter, only a gaseous black cloud flying at full speed through the corridors of the cave and in its surroundings the glassy walls exploded, leaving huge fragments of light everywhere, both flew until arriving in seconds at the hole through which Tirek had fallen, on the outskirts of Tartarus everything was normal, the routine had once again returned to what was considered by all to be the worst villain prison in the world, after suddenly part of the prisoners from the first and second floors were mysteriously massacred, everything returned to tranquility, the unfortunate inmates in their small cells guarded by Cerberus, who could not remember anything during his break. ethical outburst of rage the only thing strange about him was the sudden taste he developed for the corpses of the dead.

It was a calm sunny day with few clouds, it was already falling midday and Cerberus was on the 4th floor observing what were considered the worst inmates of Tartarus suddenly he began to feel that his feet were not moving and from a moment by moment a black cloud at high speed crossed the back of Tartarus leaving it without architectural balance causing the collapse of the building that little by little fell into the deadly lava, each of the four floors of Tartarus had fallen inside or outside from the volcano, that day Tartarus was completely swallowed up by the voracious Vala along with all its inmates and its faithful guardian Cerberus without the hope of escaping its cruel destiny, while a black cloud disappeared between the confines of the orange-blue sky.