"So… what do you all think about this?" asked Sasha, sipping from cup of thick scarlet blood, while looking at her colleagues: Esper raised his eyes from the bone he was gnawing on, looking the vampire, as did Zira, raising her face from a bowl full of roasted robins.
"What do you mean?" asked the werewolf, scratching a tooth with a dirty nail, freeing a piece of meat.
"I'm talking about the ponies. And the boss." Retorted the vampire, taking another sip, letting her eyes wander rapidly around the kitchen, in case any shadows were suspiciously Noxfero-shaped. "I mean, it's not something I would have expected…"
"They are a nuisance." Commented Pumpkinhead from the other side of the table, gulping down his cup full of sawdust. "They don't belong here. As soon as the portal is ready, I hope master kicks them out." he added, tapping his chin. Esper growled, nodding.
"Their smell confounds my nose. And their voices pierce my ears. And I can't even chase them and hunt them… they are useless."
"I found them quite nice, on the other hand." Purred Zira, glaring at the werewolf with her feline eyes. "It's pleasant to have around something that's not a sweaty brute or a geek." She added, with a slight smirk.
"Of course you do, pussy cat!" growled Esper, showing his fangs. "I couldn't expect anything different from a cat without spine."
"Shut your maw, stray dog, or some flies might enter." Hissed the woman, curving her back. The two glared at each other, before returning their attention to the vampire, as soon as she let out a faint cough.
"If you two stop acting like cat and dog…" she started, staring at them menacingly. "…I'd like to talk about our guests… more precisely, about the master is reacting to them…"
"You noticed that too uh?" asked the scarecrow, lowering his cup. "My guess is that he's mind controlled."
"That's stupid. No one has the power to control an archdevil." Snarled Esper. The scarecrow shrugged.
"We don't know anything about that place. Maybe those… ponies… have the power…"
"If so, they would have gotten rid of Mephisto immediately. No, I'm thinking that maybe… I don't know… I mean, the fact that he lets them sleep with him, he laughs with them, and generally is in a better mood…"
"Maybe… you know, he has some strange fetish…" started the scarecrow. "After all, he's a devil."
"Those are horses Pumpkinhead, and the master has his rules on the matter." Snarled Zira, scratching the table with her nails.
"Well, you are a panther-witch and Sasha is a corpse, but I don't remember that stopping him when he was in the mood." Growled the scarecrow. The vampire said nothing, thinking for a few seconds, the arguing between the witch and the scarecrow a low echo in her ears.
"I think that something happened in that other dimension. Something that we cannot understand." Stated a cold voice behind them. Pumpkinhead splurted out his sawdust, as the Slenderman stepped out of the shadows, a tea pot in his hands. stayed motionless as the vampire started to choke on the blood and the werewolf fell back from his seat, swearing. "Clearly something happened." The abomination continued, ignoring the reactions. "Something that we can't fully understand, due to our own nature. But pray tell me vampire… why do you care?" he then asked, looking at Sasha. The vampire opened her mouth…
The kitchen door swung open, as Noxfero and the orange mare entered into the room, the devil yawning and the mare rubbing her sore eyes. The Slenderman immediately disappeared, while the others tried to act like normal.
"Morning master! Up early, I see." Exclaimed Esper, with a voice quite more high pitched than usual. The devil gave him a glance, before yawning again.
"Yup… having Dash snoring like crazy a few inches from your ears tends to wake you up…" he grumbled, sitting at the table, while a few tentacles of shadow started to rustle around the stoves.
"Dash?" whispered the werewolf.
"The cyan one." Was the hushed answer of the scarecrow. Applejack looked at them for a moment, before yawning and sitting beside the devil.
"How is the princess?" she asked to the vampire, who shrugged, finishing her cup of blood.
"She's stable, but I don't know when she'll be conscious again. With a bit of luck, she may wake up today." She finally stated.
"That's fine… I was actually thinking of calling Daelus and Belzebù." Muttered Noxfero, while one of his shadows opened a cupboard and punched Jaco, who was sleeping inside on a pile of plates. "Since Mephisto still has the portal, I want to be sure to get rid of him before sending all of you home."
"Well… anyway, I think I'll return to the fixing." muttered the scarecrow, as the door opened again and another three ponies entered the room: the purple one, the yellowish one and the pink one, carried by the butter coated pegasus on her back.
"And I think I'll return to the prison." Added Esper, dropping to all fours and darting away.
"I somehow have the sensation you four don't like them very much." Said Noxfero, addressing Sasha and Zira, while pointing at the ponies, who shared some glances.
"I'm a big man! I can't like little ponies!" grunted Zira, in a good imitation of Esper's voice. "I'm a big bad wolf!" she finished her impression, as Noxfero giggled and Sasha snorted, trying to hold back a laugh. "You know him."
"I suppose so…" agreed the devil.
"Of course he knows, he was the same not more than a year ago!" noted Jaco, finally waking up from the punches of the shadows. "Hello girls."
"Hello…" muttered Fluttershy, as Applejack tipped her hat. "You… you always sleep in the cupboard?"
"Sometimes in the oven, if I'm cold!" said happily the little demon, starting to light up a fire on the stove, while grasping a big, metallic pot. "I'll make you something asap."
"For me just a coffee… I want to go to see the princess." Stated Twilight. "can I?" she immediately asked to the vampire, who nodded in response.
"She's still sleeping, but I see no harm in letting you in."
"Ah think we should all go there… to let her know we are with her, even if she's not awake…" muttered the orange mare, receiving some nods from her friends. "And when she wakes up, she'll see some friendly faces around. Ah know that's something I would like to see."
"I think… that will surely be nice…" murmured Fluttershy. "She was really hurt… she may be happy to see us…"
"Or furious because you followed her into a place not suited for you all." snarled the devil, glaring at them. Twilight rose her eyes, looking at the ceiling, while Applejack began to awkwardly whistle.
The devil emitted a low laugh of glee, before looking at Sasha.
"Take them with you. The princess deserves to have them around." He stated. "And bring Jaco as well."
"Do you think that his humor and presence may lighten up the mood?" asked the vampire, standing up and gesturing at the mares to come with her.
"Maybe. I just don't want to have him around." Grunted the devil.
"He's right! I wouldn't want to have something like me around either." Agreed the little devil, pouring some gooey black cofee . "We should go wake up also Rarity and Rainbow as well, though." He finished, tossing the cup in the air, which Twilight caught with her magic.
"Yep, we should wake them…" she agreed, taking a sip, and giving a glance to Fluttershy and Applejack. They shared a glance as well, before standing up and following the little devil, as he carried the coffee pot on his head, rushing out the kitchen.
Leaving Pinkie Pie on the chair where Fluttershy had just dumped her.
Sasha and Zira looked in silence as the pink pony and the devil looked at each other, in silence.
"How are your hooves?" asked the devil after a few seconds, pointy tail moving slighty as he pointed at the mare's bandaged legs.
"They sting a little…" was the answer of the mare. An awkward silence filled the kitchen, as the two looked at each other. After the argument the previous day, they had avoided speaking about it, due to the other ponies' presence.
"I'm sorry for shouting at you yesterday… he was a bad guy that one, right? You told me you punish only bad guys… I reacted without thinking…" murmured the mare. Noxfero's eyes sparkled.
"It's ok, you did what you thought was right."
"Thank you Noxy…"
"But I'm still mad that you and Rainbow left here, even after told you not to." Added the devil, crossing his arms. The mare lowered her eyes in shame. The devil stared at her for a couple of seconds, before sighing and walking to her, before grasping the mare around her waist and lifting, holding her to his body. The mare blinked, but then she grasped the devil's shoulder with her bandaged hooves, smiling.
"Come on, let's go with the others." grunted the devil, feeling the smooth mane brushing against his face. Then his attention was attracted by the vampire and the witch, both looking at him with enormous, sparkling eyes, and their mouths opened in a 'D'awww' expression. "Go back to work you two." He hissed, his face turning a deep shade of gray.
"Ok then, I'll come with you two to the medical bay." smirked the vampire, floating in mid-air and up beside him, floating a few inches away, staring at him with her knowing smirk. Noxfero growled a little before being shut up by Pinkie's mane as it scratched his nose.
"Well… fine then… fantastic… Zira, be a dear, and contact Daelus for me. Tell him I need to talk to him." he ordered, his voice trembling a little. The witch gave a smirk as well, before grasping a last bite of bird from her plate and leaping away, morphing into her panther form.
"We can also check your wounds Pinkie, as soon as we arrive in the medical bay." Proposed the vampire, as the devil turned and started to walk out the kitchen.
"That might be nice! They burn a little bit, other than stinging." asnwered happily the mare, suddenly back to her happy and cheerful self.
"We can check on them." Said the vampire, nodding. "I'm sure your friends won't have anything to say if you aren't immediately around your princess' bed."
"That's right!"
"And also, with Noxfero holding your hooves, they'll be sure you are safe." she added in a silky tone, causing another wave of gray over the devil face.
-oOo-
"There, all better." Cooed the vampire, finishing wrapping the new bandages around Pinkie's hooves. "But still, don't walk on your own. But for that, I'm sure Noxfero would gladly carry you." She added with a smirk.
"That would be nice. No offense Pinkie, but ya're a little heavy." Called Applejack from two beds down, sipping her cup of coffee.
"None taken!" cheered the pink pony, before raising her hooves towards the devil, who huffed and grasped her again, carrying the pink mare towards the others, who were having a full breakfast just beside the bed where the princess was sleeping.
"At least now you can just stay sitting in here until she wakes up." grunted Noxfero, as Jaco took out a croissant from the cofee mug.
"That will be boring!"
"You are still grounded Rainbow. So you better prepare yourself for some boring times." snarled the devil, before grasping the croissant with his tongue and gulping it down. "So, I'm going to assume that you six are going to stay here, And I'm going assume that this time Sasha is not going to let some of you go out." he added, glaring slightly at the vampire, who immediately nodded.
"And where are you going?" asked Rarity, raising an eyebrow. "Are you going to leave us alone again?"
"Well… yes. I have work to do, you know?" asked the devil, rolling his eyes. "You'll have to pass the time with Sasha and Jaco. Or just stare hopefully at Celestia, hoping she'll wake up. I'm actually in charge here, so people expect I do stuff."
"Such pretentious people." Said seriously Jaco, nodding. The devil slapped him with his tail, before standing up, scruffling Pinkie's mane and walking out, his raincoat swirling behind him.
"When he says work, usually he means ordering around other devils to do stuff for him." Explained the little devil, taking his cup of coffee and starting to sip it, before spitting out the bitter liquid and cleaning his oversized tongue.
"Well… not precisely." Whispered Sasha, floating above the group. "The ministry of Envy is in charge of the relationship with the external worlds: Heaven, Purgatory, mortal world, and the chaotic void. It's not an easy job, considering Noxfero also has to advertise for Hell in the mortal realm."
"Advertise?" was Rarity's question, as the mare raised an eyebrow. Of everything, that was the last thing she would have expected to hear.
"Well, of course. Understandably, in the mortal world, hell is not really smiled upon. So Noxfero's job is to… 'suggest' to the mortals that hell's a place where even humans can be someone. I mean, he's a perfect example of this as well. When he was alive, he was weak and pathetic. But after he ki-"
The vampire stopped, as she saw Pinkie's expression. Her eyes were large as plates, and was violently shaking her head, making cutting motions in front of her neck with her hoof. The vampire got the message and corrected her sentence.
"…After he died, he ended up becoming one of the most powerful creatures in the underworld. Nothing better than him to represent what a single mortal soul can become, down here." She concluded, rolling slowly in the air.
"I'm the other side of the coin." Cheered Jaco, taking out a carrot and starting to dip it in a new cup that was filled with tea.
"Well… Ah suppose that makes sense…" muttered Applejack. "But that doesn't imply telling people to be bad? Nox always said only bad people end up here."
"Well… yes." Agreed the vampire, scratching her head. After all, tempting mortals had always been the devils' first job. Since the first generation of archdevils, even. She remembered the good times, when she was just a couple of hundred years old, during the dark ages, when devils were most feared. She actually remembered how they had offered their help to the creatures of the night, like the vampires, to spread chaos and destruction throughout the world, arriving at its summit with the two great plagues in Europe, that had killed a whole lot of souls, and drove others into becoming like animals and assassins.
Good times, good times. Still when Lucifer (or rather, Satan, at that point) had a fit of rage against the bearded man in the sky, after a few millennia of mourning and depression, after being kicked out of Heaven... the vampire sighed, unaware of the stares that the mares were giving her, slightly concerned by her dreamy expression.
-oOo-
"Good day Master! There is a little problem in the pools of despair: apparently the bodies blocked the draining system, and the acid is starting to rise a teensy bit too high for safety standards…"
"Well, poke away the bodies! We have pitchforks, don't we?" snarled the archdevil, shoving away the little floating fly-like demon, as he continued to walk down the corridor of the castle. The ponies, of course, had seen only the living quarters of the immense castle, and had missed all the corridors that spread away from the center, like a spider's web, permitting a complete freedom of movement around the entire realm of Envy. The castle was like the black, corrupted heart, and the hundreds of corridors its veins, pumping streams of devils all throughout every sector.
The archdevil continued to walk down the large corridor, striding over the soft, white seal's skin rug that filled its center. Groups of devils swarmed around him, both to greet him with their forked tongues in the hopes of some kind of appreciation, while others just tried to do their jobs, letting him know of everything that was going on in his domain.
He was quite happy about the fact that the second group was far larger than the first one. Usually the new devils were the ones trying to obtain some favours with servility. But they learned quickly. At least, the ones that end up torn to bloody pieces.
"Master, we have a fire spreading in the wood of blades!"
"Use the heavy rain to put it out."
"But the drowning souls…"
"They will be poured down with the water."
"Clever, sir!" exclaimed the little devil, trotting away on his three legs.
"We have an ambassador from Lord Mammon, Master. He's asking about the bath of souls that he was expecting. He also asked if you intend to give some extra for the delay."
"That greedy bastard… ok ok, give him what he wants." Snarled the devil, waving his hand and accelerating.
"Master…"
"What?!" almost screamed the devil, turning. Zira was taken aback, curving her back and hissing, before remembering where she was.
"I… uh…" she murmured, blushing and straightening up. It was always awkward when her feline instincts kicked in.
"I told you to call Daelus."
"I did!" she retorted, raising an earphone. "He's on right now." She explained. The devil smiled slightly and grasped the black, contorted earphone.
"Daelus?"
"It's my name…" answered the lazy voice on the other side. "'Sup Nox? Do you need something?"
"Actually, yes…" whispered the devil, lowering his tone and covering his mouth with a hand, glaring around. "Do you remember when you asked me why I seemed to be happier?"
"Yes, I did… so?"
"So… I want to tell you what it is…"
"Nox… it's like what? Eight in the morning…"
"In Hawaii it's eight in the evening."
"Don't try that with me Nox… I just woke up."
"But this is really important. I need for you and Belze to see this! It may be our only chance to finally frame Mephistopheles." Begged the archdevil of Envy, his tail wiggling nervously.
"This might be interesting… but it might also wait a few hours…" came out the grumpy voice of Daelus after a few moments.
"Please Daelus, there are those ponies' lives on the line and-" almost screamed the devil, but stopped when he felt the line go dead. After two seconds, the corridor's wall exploded in a shower of black bricks and dust. A few devils jumped away screaming, while others totally ignored the fact.
The enormous body of the archdevil known as Daelus dusted off the fur on his shoulders, a few electric sparks dancing around him, before he walked into the corridor, looking at Noxfero.
"So, what are we waiting for? We should move." He said, smiling slightly. Noxfero smirked, before briefly turning towards Zira.
"Please, be a dear again and fix that wall." He asked, before starting to walk back towards the main body of the castle, followed by the longer and slower steps of the enormous devil.
"I still have to figure out one thing, Daelus. You are supposed to be the Archdevil of Sloth. So, why, in the name of all the flying blue bananas, is your correlated element lightning?"
-oOo-
Celestia's ears flicked, as she started to emerge from the deep sleep she had fallen into, a few seconds after the little creature that had saved her jumped towards a sea of lava. Now, she wasn't sure how it felt to land in lava. But she was pretty sure it wasn't as comfortable as this felt.
And she definitely didn't feel like she was burning. Actually, her sore muscles where singing with how relaxed they finally were, resting on this soft surface. The only thing that was hurting now came from a stinging pain in one of her wings.
She opened one eye slightly, and was greeted by a dim light coming from a bright bar encased in the ceiling. The second thing she noted were the couple of purple eyes staring at her. She had just realized that the murmurs she could hear were actually familiar voices, when the owner of the eyes suddenly hugged her, almost crushing her windpipe.
"Princess! You are awake!" screamed Twilight, almost strangling Celestia.
"Ok Twilight, you are happy, we can see that…" snickered the vampire, trying to pull away the unicorn from the white alicorn's neck, to no avail. "But it's better if you let her go."
"Yep. Even if is funny to watch her face turning blue, that's not a color that suits Celestia very well." Added Jaco, watching how Celestia's face was indeed becoming a darker tone, due to the lack of oxygen. Twilight immediately let her go, placing herself on her seat again, her eyes sparkling.
"Princess, you are ok… that's a relief…" huffed Fluttershy, feeling the tension fade away from her heart.
"Of course she's ok. She's the princess!" grinned Rainbow Dash. "She's too cool to not be ok."
Tha alicorn blinked, letting her eyes pass over the six mares' faces, all of them safe, all of them happy to see her, all of them…
"What are you six doing here?" she asked with a light frown on her muzzle. She noted with the tail of her eye the red maned humanoid floating near one of her wings, checking on a needle that was injecting some clean looking liquid inside her.
"Well we… we're here… to rescue you, princess!" exclaimed Twilight, flushing a little. "Even if… I have to admit, it was mostly my idea…and I got carried away a little…" she admitted, looking at the floor.
"And now they are all stuck here, passing their days being annoyed and also making us worried!" exclaimed Jaco, taking out another croissant from the coffee mug. "Hi Celly. Do you want something to eat?"
"She's not going to eat anything…" muttered Sasha. "Not until I say so."
"Oh come on…" muttered Jaco, lowering his gaze, depressed. The vampire rolled her eyes, before floating back behind the ponies, deciding to give them space to speak with their ruler. Since she was the reason why they where there in the first place, she thought it was quite important they had the chance to talk.
"Twilight please, explain to me what's going on… I'm having a little bit of… confusion, at the moment." Murmured Celestia, lowering her head and placing it on her pillow, closing her eyes. She had to get a clear picture of the situation.
"Well… from what Noxfero told us, one of his fellows archdevils attacked our world, for still unknown reasons..." started Twilight, straightening up and assuming her composed and know-it-all attitude. "He proceeded to capture you and held you captive. Acting on instinct, we managed to follow Noxfero in his homeworld… and well, that's the whole story, basically."
"Ah'm sure Nox will just tell us what's going to happen now. He owes us some explanation, after all." snorted Applejack.
"I'm sure you'll be able to ask him whatever you want when he's back… now, if you don't mind, I should check your pincess, and see if everything is ok…" started the vampire, floating slightly towards the bed.
The door swung open, as Noxfero walked in. And a moment later, the wall beside the door exploded and collapsed to the floor, as an enormous devil dusted off his hair, stepping over the rubble.
"There is a door here!"
"Oh, come on, it's too small for me."
"You could have crouched." Snarled Noxfero, receiving a little ashamed smile from the other archdevil. He sighed, and turned towards the ponies: they looked slightly scared of the enormous creature that had just walked through the wall and reduced it to a pile of crumbled stones. Well, he had expected something like that. Daelus was the biggest of all the archdevils, and with his three meters of height, he was quite the sight.
"Girls, this is Daelus, a collegue of mine, and Archdevil of Sloth." He introduced, gesturing slightly with a hand towards the immense devil. He saw the mares tremble a little, at the word "archdevil". He also noted that Celestia, who was now apparently awake, was staring at him menacingly. "And he's probably the least evil creature you'll ever find in here." He quickly added.
Daelus stayed silent, examining the ponies, without moving. Then he suddenly raised a finger, pointing the polished claw at Twilight.
"She's the genius one." He said calmly, before pointing at Rainbow Dash. "She is the fast and cool one… the orange one is the honest one that never lets her friends down…" he continued, moving his finger. "She must be Fluttershy, the kind and sweet one… the marshmallowy one must be the fashonista that makes wonderful dresses…"
"He can read our minds! We had to get some tinfoil to put on our heads and protect our brains!" exclaimed Pinkie, cowering and storming under Celestia's bed.
"…And that one… I suppose she's Pinkie Pie." Finished Daelus, smiling. "Nox told me all about all of you."
The mares moved their gazes to the other devil. Even Pinkie popped her head and looked at him.
"What?" asked the devil, raising an eyebrow. And a moment later he was tackled over by Pinkie, who sprung out of the bed with no apparent method of propulsion, and takled him down.
"I knew the things you said when you were going away weren't true!" she screamed happily.
"Well, that was sure, darling." giggled Rarity, while Noxfero struggled to get free, to no avail. Daelus let out a small, deep laugh, before taking a step forwards, his enormous, spiked tail dragging on the floor.
"I think you might tell me why they are all here. With their queen as well." He stated calmly, looking at Celestia. A gurgle was the only response he got for almost five minutes, until Noxfero grabbed the crowbar that Jaco was holding up to him, and used it to dislodge the pink mare from his neck.
"She's a princess… but anyway…" he gasped, clearing his throat. "By the way Celestia, it's nice to see you, even if under these circumstances."
"Which are…?"
"Mephisto got his hands on my last portal, and kidnapped Celestia." Grunted Noxfero, sitting on an empty bed and starting to pat Pinkie's head, trying to calm her. Daelus frowned slightly, and looked at the alicorn again.
"Why would he do something like that, anyway? I mean, the kidnapping." Muttered Twilight, moving her eyes between the two devils. "I mean… he was trying to…"
"Probably just to gather power in some way." Commented Noxfero. "The princess is, as far as I know, the biggest source of energy in your world, right?" he asked. The alicorn nodded.
"I think this is true…" she muttered. "The elements are actually a stronger force than me, but spread out as they are… I can see why he didn't chase them."
"But why did he do that anyway?! You said that archdevils only have to…well, do their job, punishing souls and such…" noted Rarity, giving a quick glance at Daelus. "Why did he kidnap the princess?"
"Actually…" grunted the enormous devil, scratching his chin. "I think he was just trying to gather energy for his plans of conquest. I should have understood that."
"Conquest?" asked the alicorn, raising an eyebrow. That was worrying.
"Conquest of Hell. He wants the boss' throne. Everyone knows that. The boss just tolerates his behaviour." Explained the big devil. "Assuming your world is as pure as Nox described it…"
"It was quite pure." agreed the other devil.
"…Then I can see why he might try and take any source of energy he could." Concluded the big devil. "But now, you are afraid he may try to catch them back?"
"Of course I am!"
"We can defend ourselves, you know?!" snapped Rainbow, flapping her wings angrily. "We are not afraid of that red thing!"
"I am… a little…" murmured the other pegasus, hiding behind her mane. "He…he was able to hurt the princess really badly… he's dangerous…"
"He's not going to get you, if you stay in my domain." Snarled Noxfero, glaring at the mares. "I hope that now that the princess is here, you don't try anything stupid out of boredom." He growled, shooting a glance to the pink mare, who blushed a little.
"Now, the plan is, of course, keeping all of you in here. He may be rebellious, but he wont attack me directly. After all, he doesn't know that the one who rescued Celestia was Junior. You will all be safe staying in here."
"But that's not the thing that makes you worried… right?" asked the big devil, raising an eyebrow.
"Of course not. What makes me worry is the fact that he has a portal, that apparently he can use whenever he wants." Growled the other devil.
"Doing anything would indeed be useless, if that creature can strike whenever he wants in Equestria." Muttered Celestia, shifting a little under her sheets. "Can you do anything about that?"
"Can't you just kick his butt?" asked Rainbow, flapping her wings angrily. "Because if you don't, we'll do that!"
"We can't act in any aggressive way against each other." Muttered Daelus, moving slightly his tail. "It's one of our boss' rules."
"I'm recalling that Noxfero and that… creature were quite aggressive against each other." Noted Rarity, raising an eyebrow. Noxfero snickered, while scratching Pinkie behind an ear.
"Rules are made to be broken. But mostly, we acted like that because we were in a world where our boss doesn't have any power." He explained. "But here, we can't do anything. We have to follow our leader's laws."
"And he can't do anything about this?" asked the alicorn.
"Well… that's actually why Daelus is here. I have to ask for the support of the other archdevils and officially accuse Mephisto of disobeying the boss' orders. I'll probably end up punished as well for disobeying him, but at least it'll take care of Mephistopheles. And take care of the portal."
"But it's not fair that you are going to be punished too! You just helped us!" blurted Fluttershy, drawing the others attention. "It's not fair."
"You also want Belze's help, right?" asked Daelus, looking at Noxfero and holding back a little smirk at the little pegasus' outburst. The other archdevil nodded, standing up.
"I'll just wait 'till Celestia is better, and bring them to him. I'm sure she can help me convince him to be on my side."
"I'll do whatever is necessary to help you and Equestria." Stated the alicorn, before flinching a little in pain. Immediately, the vampire who had been floating away from the scene quickly rushed towards her, starting to check her eyes, while placing a hand on one of her forelegs.
"I think this is more than enough for today." She finally stated. "All of you, out of here." She ordered, starting to push the mares out, while glaring at the two archdevils. "She had a horrible encounter with liquid corruption and other garbage. She has to rest."
She didn't listen to the complaining from Twilight and the other mares, who were pushed out of the room mercilessly, while Noxfero held Pinkie in his arms and carried her out, as Daelus passed back through the hole in the wall.
"You have my support, Nox." Muttered the immense devil, while walking away from the medical bay. "I suppose there weren't any doubts about this."
"Of course not." Grinned the devil. The other devil nodded, before disappearing in a burst of sparks that startled the mares. "I think you got another ally."
"That's…nice…" murmured Fluttershy, looking at the empty spot where Daelus had been standing a second before.
"Nice?! Don't be silly, Fluttershy! We have to gather some tinfoil before he returns!" screamed Pinkie Pie, while looking around with concern.
"Oh boy… I see that my crown of being the most silly creature of the castle is being claimed by someone else." Grunted Jaco, popping out of Noxfero's pocket, frowning.
Oo-oOSorry, SORRY guys for the insanely long wait. I was kinda passinf a low ispirated period for this fic, but I'll try to restart writing chapter for this one too, on a more or less regular base.