'nope, just insane!' the ponies voice was in his head now? "are you in my head?" 'yup, listen, this is no illusion! your great ancestor was trapped here, and chose me to be YOUR future guide. he knew what the god of this place knew, until he was taken, but he didn't go without a fight!' now the conversation was all in his head, 'my ancestor? was here?' 'yes! there is not much time, soon, corruption will destroy what you love. you family.' 'how can i stop him?' 'he's not like the corruption you and the undead warrior defeated. this one's no brute, he plays mind games on everypony! but he can't reach you, not while you under 61 corruption. i fell victim to it, and was trapped in this book. listen, i'm in your head now, meaning no one can hear me, nor your thoughts when talking to me.' 'sooo... what now?' 'just keep reading that book, you will see your own cuie mark in there, and the same goes for the others too.' 'i hope that your right.' Steel Skull started reading the book some more. - - Auto Merge - - "huh?" steel skull looked at the other book, and noticed the one he was a blank. 'don't you fall for it!' the little pony said in his head. 'i guess i'll play along then.' he thought. he had put down the other book and started reading the other one. This one angered him however. he knew of his origins already and put the book down and leaned back. trying to think of a song that will calm him down.
"Serketh is very nice. And very evil. I've been here for 400 years. I should know at least a bit." The lights flickered and when they came back, Lillith was gone. A large square of the floor missing underneath where she had been standing showed a massive drop into darkness. Her toy sat just on the edge, as if she had dropped it a moment before.
Steel Skull noticed the incident, "Well, sucks to be her." SSM didn't care who died and didn't, he had seen it all. The blood shed, gore, violence, none of it helped one bit for this situation though. "So, who wants to go down there first, or should i be the only volunteer?"
"Why are we still sitting in this room?" Silver scowled, and shouted at whoever was controlling the maze. "Nice try, but you'll need to do better than that!" Drawing his swords, he flew around the room, slicing at the bookcases. As the blades struck, the shelves and books disappeared into clouds of black smoke. When he was finished, Silver landed in the center of the room and sheathed his weapons. "Illusions, designed to keep us here indefinitely. Clever, but not clever enough." With that said, he picked up the stuffed cat and dove into the hole after Lilith.
"hey, guy!" SSM yelled pointing at midnight, "you come along? can't just leave the guy by himself." - - Auto Merge - - "well, if your not coming, then i guess i'll go by myself!" Steel Skull Magnum jumped into the dark abyss, going that he will finally be able to fight and kill something.
"I'm coming, I'm coming." Midnight said. "Still abit tired." Midnight lept forwards into the large dark hole and dove head first into the black abyss.
As the hole continued. 'WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!' "having fun" 'your going to die!' "so?" Steel Skull was having fun just falling down a bottomless pit of death, "HEY GUY, YOU LIKING THIS THING?! IT'S ALOT OF FUN FOR ME!!!"
The tunnel opened up into a massive cave, filled nearly to the top with water. A small bit of land was just to the east of where they came out, but Lillith was nowhere in sight. The cave was lit only by a single beam of moonlight coming from nowhere. The light shined on the small bit of land, but provided minor light to most of the cave around them. "We are sorry for the minor inconvenience. Please be patient while we determine what room Lillith fell into."
As Steel Skull belly flopped into the water, the splash turned into huge waves. SSM swam to the small island, laying o his back. "I... I will never do that again." He said.SSM then got up, knowing what pain he was in. "Now where the hay is that one general guy?" steel asked himself.
Just before striking the water, Silver opened his wings and glided lazily to the small island nearby. Still holding the stuffed cat, he began searching the area for Lilith. He was still unsure just who or what Lilith Necro was, but his gut told him that she knew more than she was letting on. Silver Crescent was hunting the Dark God, and she was his best lead.
The stuffed cat glittered slightly once it was in the light on the island, and it's button eyes spun. It started moving, lazily, as if it was a creature waking up. It slid away from Silver's grip and onto his back. It looked around slightly before collapsing back into a state of inanimation on Silver's back. It whispered in a faint voice "Lillith is a good girl. I promise she'll get better..."
the voice from the dream had come back, only, this was not a dream."HAHAHAHHAHA!!! YOU WILL NEVER SURVIVE THIS REALM. THIS TWISTED, CORROSIVE WORLD, IS YOUR TOMB. YOU WILL ALL DIE." as the voice said that, the cave began to rumble but stopped. 'now we have problem' the little pony said. "Yeah, now I have to deal with two voices." 'Hey, thats not nice!' "well sorry but i never asked for you to be stuck in my head." As SSM walked into the cave, he noticed the general pony walking strait ahead, "So, do you think that Lillith isn't all that innocent?" 'wouldn't surprise-' 'Stop Speaking Or I'll Tune You Out!!'
"I don't care if she's good, evil, or neutral. All I care about is killing this foolish 'dark god.'" He continued searching for Lilith, ignoring the pony muttering to himself nearby, and completely unperturbed by the fact that a plush toy had just spoken to him. "Miss Necro is my only lead at the moment. I'd like to find her soon."
"Well the sooner the better. I'm just hoping that we can get out of here." SSM followed the general. "I have a question that maybe no one knows the answer to, not my self either. If that "girl" had been trapped here for four hundred years, how the heck is she still alive? there is no source of food, and we awoken there was no source of water. So my best guest is that the girl is not a pony, but something else. But, i know i might be wrong."
Silver laughed. "Kid, I'm over a thousand years old. I've seen everything from gods and demons to creatures from other planets. This isn't my first time in an broken world. In a place like this, where the rules of our universe do not apply, absolutely anything is possible."
SSM sighed, "Well, I shouldn't tell ya' how old i am, but this place. you probably don't want to know about Twisted And Corrupted. he turned every upside down, warped time and space into skrewed up pieces, successfully committed genocide on seven different races, turning into nothing but ruble and ashes. my mom use to tell me, "one day, one day your father will return as the great destroyer, and he will have defeated Twisted and Corrupted. at the age of 19, i had join the rebellion, to stop the only god from destroying the world i lived in. 5 months later, i was in an armada on the to the platinum city, tethesda, but we were ambushed. Twisted and corrupted tore through us like we were nothing. I was the last one standing, the last to fight. i had a broken ribcage, broken chest bone, broken arm and leg, and my stomach was punctured. but somehow, i was still standing. But the god had end my life in flash. i was then sent here, to these... these ponies. When i was born again, i new everything from my past life. at the age of 8, i knew how i died, and that was when i went mad and killed my own family. i can continue how i turned into an evil being, that is, if you allow it."
Silver sighed. "Look, kid. If you've got a story to tell, then tell it. Just make sure you can walk and talk at the same time, because we need to find that Lilith mare if we're ever going to get out of here. She knows something... I'm sure of it."
Steel continued walking, "at the age of 11, I met the powerhouse god, or so claims, Corruption. he chose me to be the leader of an armada. at the age of 17 alone, i had destroyed 9 towns, and was promoted. age 67, i retired, vacating a small island with a nice little cottage. But, corruption wanted to spread his influence around the world again and chose me to the leader, i refused. after years of fighting and murdering,i was getting old, and i decided to give all of that up. 2 months after the god corroded the planets core with dark energy, he visited my cottage. he wanted me to lead his army of corruptorain, but i refused. he stabbed me through the throat, then the heart." as SSM continued walking, he was finishing his story, "somehow though, when i died, i was given a second chance of life. i was reincarnated into a "pony". i was born with my cutie mark, and the family that had me knew what i was. so, they put me in a small basket, and tossed into a flooding river. now when i was reborn, i had already knew my past life. i would have died, but then an old pony came around and found the basket floating through the river. he swam and got, as soon as he got home, thats when he discovered me. he took care of me, like i was his own son. at the age of 10, i regained the strength and speed i had in my past life, and was gaining even more. at the age of 13, the pony had died, giving me his sword. it was weird though because it always glowed. the last words from his mouth were "you must live on, you, are my legacy, you must continue your legacy." and i did. now, when corruption had finished the rest of the armada, i had finally shown my face from the forest. i got there just in time too. he saw my cutie mark and knew who i was. i took the beating of my life for 5 hours tops. i broke free of his torture. as the god charged at me, all i did was raise my sword and swung down hard. i don't even know how it happened, as he was about to kill me, corruption fell to the ground. the pony guard that had come from auranada saw the massacre. i told them what had happened, and they took me to their city of glass. i was then named king for some odd reason, didn't have a clue what i did. so, after 81 years of peace, i was given the chance to be young again. i took that chance, i was young, yes. but i ended up here as well. that ends my story i guess. any questions?"
Midnight remained silent, looking around his environment on the small island. He could had just lit up the entire area with his magic, but was unsure of what could have happened. Nonetheless, he did so anyway by creating a ball of light which hovered around the area, taking away the darkness.
'can we trust this guy?' the little voice asked. 'yes we can trust him, this is the ninth time you have asked' 'i don't trust him one bit' 'yeah, well everyone has their own opinion' SSM was still walking, thinking what this self proclaimed god wanted. "Do you think Lillith knows more than we actually think she does. well, i mean, you probably think that she knows a lot more. Now that i think of it, i think she's just a crazy child."