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My soul, corrupted by vengeance

Hath endured torment, to find the end of the journey. -(Loveless, FF7)

Lilith flew into the city, all eyes on the black Pegasus in Canterlot armor as she flew straight to her destination. It was customary to drop whatever form you had taken before re-entering the hive but for Lilith that was impossible. Anyways, Drauth's spies obviously knew she was coming; it would be pointless for her to try and be discrete even if she could.

She knew exactly where she would find the bastard too...

~

"Ah, the refuse returns to the heap. Are you prepared for your final performance?" Drauth turned to face her as she alighted in the charred ruins of her home.

Lilith opened her maw for a hateful response but instead was interrupted as she had a sudden vision.

"Not now..." She mumbled

~

"Ardith, my queen." A younger and un-scarred Drauth gave a short bow before her throne.

"Rise, speak."

"I have... Discovered a power. A very ancient power."

"Oh?"

"I come bearing a gift, Pride tells me it was yours in ancient past... Wrath." Drauth slid an ornate dagger with a gem in the pommel across the floor. It skidded to a stop inches from Ardith's hooves.

Ardith looked at it and chuckled almost merrily. "I'm sorry, did you think some trinket would be enough to pull Wrath from the recesses of my mind?"

"What?! How could you know of the power yet refuse to partake?"

"I know of the evil, yes. It has been with me nearly all my life. Wrath is safe from power hungry grasps, hidden where it will never surface."

"I see, so you are as weak of a queen as I thought... Your virtues are a blight upon changeling culture."

"You will see yourself out, if you return I can not promise your safety."

"My apologies queen." Drauth locked eyes with Ardith from across the room, a venomous glow emitting from one of his glassy orbs. Ardith's expression turned quickly from one of shock to pain. "If you will not a allow Wrath free then I will have to claim it from you."

As Drauth walked forward Ardith was unable to break his gaze, a streak of blood slowly dripped its way into her gasping maw as his gaze worked upon her.

"Hush now, it will all be over soon." Drauth whispered, nearly face to face.

"I... I'm going to have to disappoint." Ardith choked out as she grabbed hold of the ornate dagger by her feet, swiping it upwards and across his eye to stop the flow of power.

"Aaaaghhh!" He cried stumbling back holding a hoof to the fresh wound. "You'll pay for that!" He took a step forward again only to have the same dagger pressed against his throat.

"I could kill you right now..." The blade was removed and Ardith threw Drauth to the floor, walking past him to leave. "Don't let me ever see your face again."

Leaving Drauth on the floor she exited, briefly sagging against the doorframe to wipe the blood from beneath her snout.

~

"Ha, it seems the weakness of your mother is far more prevalent in you." Drauth said as Lilith stood back on her feet, the vision having only truly lasted several seconds.

"How's the eye doing Pride?" Lilith smirked. "Feeling a little powerless without it?"

"What! How could-"

"Not so proud now?" Lilith taunted.

Drauth tensed; breathing in a few calming breaths before pretending Lilith hadn't hit a nerve.

"I decided I would give you one final chance to join me. The seven do not need to share a single host to bring about the End."

"Sorry, there's only one end I care about... Yours."

"I see... Worshipers, come forth and serve you god and master." Drauth commanded and masses of changeling eyes opened from the shadows, converging on the wreckage.

"Ah so that's what Pride has taken to in your impotence..."

Drauth gave Lilith a hostile glare. "Capture her, bind her, do anything just leave the final blow to me."

"You spineless bastard." Lilith scornfully spoke, readying her weapons.

"While Pride urges me to fight you myself I hold control."

"Aww, did I hurt his little feelings?"

"Fight her!" Drauth growled out, commanding his servants to action.

The first changeling, eager to show his devotion, dove at Lilith from her side, Lilith turned rapidly, plunging a blade into his gut and rolling back with the momentum, kicking him away.

"You know they don't stand a chance, why would you sacrifice them like this?" Lilith swung her blade at another who had drawn too close, forcing them to scuttle back.

"My servants are willing to die, for they have been promised a seat by my throne in the afterlife." Several more of his servants fell to Lilith's blades as they failed at subduing her, each dying with an expression of hope... A false hope.

"Ha, such wonderful delusions. There's no throne where you're going, but I'll take pleasure in sending you." Lilith tried to approach Drauth but several more changelings blocked her path.

Lilith sent out the apparitions of Wrath, using them to handle the enemies on both sides as she pressed forward, gutting another changeling and stepping over the body towards her destination.

"I can't help but notice you still take the form of a pegasi. Do you share sentiment for those pathetic creatures? Fear not, once I have destroyed you I will make sure they are wiped from existence." Drauth taunted her as she continued to approach.

"So many threats Pride, can you back them up?"

"You will find that I am still more than capable of doing so." Drauth cracked a grin and two dark forms separated from his body.

'Do not be alarmed, Gluttony has the ability to borrow our powers.'

Lilith whirled around, lashing out as several more changelings leapt at her. She sped her motions with Greed's power and blood flew as the changeling peons continued to approach, practically lining up for their deaths.

Suddenly mid motion her speed cut out, a changeling diving into her faster than she could react. She tumbled to the ground, kicking them away but her small error was all that he others needed. They descended upon her, pulling away her two visible knives and casting them away. Lilith struggled against them but was unable to break free as several of them held her in place.

One of the changelings stood over her and began removing pieces of armor. First her helmet was cast aside, then her bracers then the greaves. Lastly the colt ripped away her chest guard, throwing it and the several concealed daggers to the side. He looked her form over once, looking at her shapely curves.

Lilith tried to free herself another way, lightly humming the lullaby she had learned from Sloth.

Drauth quickly commanded Gluttony to borrow that power, stopping her from putting all of the nearby changelings to sleep.

"Hmm, I wonder why the five sins didn't warn you about Gluttony in advance? Did they want you to lose?" The voice of Drauth's voice drifted over. "Sin is fickle..."

"Lord, do you wish to take the final blow now, or do you desire entertainment first?"

Drauth came into view with a grin. "I appreciate the way you think captain. Yes, break her body, break her spirit, but leave the mind for me.

"My pleasure."

His hoof flew at Lilith, smashing into her ribs, she clamped her mouth shut and winced at the force behind the blow. He threw another blow, Lilith could feel one of her ribs shift under the strain as she continued to try and pull free from the other changelings holding her down.

The changeling wound up for another crushing blow, striking her yet again. Two of Lilith's ribs gave out and snapped, her maw opening in a scream as she passed her pain threshold.

The scream amplified itself on a mental level, reaching every changeling in the hive as Lilith's instincts kicked in. A queen demanding subservience.

The changeling over her grasped his head and stumbled back as Lilith pulled her limbs free. Wincing in pain Lilith grabbed a knife and thrust it into his gut, allowing him a slow death as he was forced to kneel before her.

The other changelings looked at her with a fear in their eyes as she reached into their minds and sapped the life from them with her powers. Changelings fell dead all around her as Lilith drank in their very life, only Drauth able to resist.

Drauth shook her influence from his mind, grabbing the charred blade Lilith had first seen him kill with, the same blade Ardith had blinded him with so many years ago.

"I did not anticipate such power in your blood, such strength of mind... Look at this carnage; you would have made a wonderful queen were things different. I might even feel a single tinge of remorse for killing you."

"Killing me won't be easy, not while I still have one thing left to live for..." Lilith replied, having taken the time to slip back into her chest guard to protect her ribs.

"Oh?"

"Vengeance."

"So rich, is that what has driven you this far? Vengeance against the monster who would upturn you life? Vengeance for the death of your loved ones?" Drauth began to laugh, wiping a tear from his eye. "Come child, let us see if you have the strength to add one more body to your death count for the sake of this vengeance. I'll even make you a deal, Gluttony can stop your powers at any time, but I will not steal them if you refrain from using them."

"Fine, then we do this without our sins. I didn't think they would be so worthless." Lilith growled, reluctant to give them up but wanting to get on with the killing. We will see who the superior one is."

"That is a challenge I am willing to accept."

As Lilith closed in and took the first swing at Drauth he leapt back, taking flight. Lilith launched herself after him, throwing a blade his way. It paused in the air, being stopped by a simple levitation spell.

Drauth's dagger flew at her, assisted by magic and Lilith batted it aside closing the distance while grabbing another blade. She crashed forcefully into him, her knife gashing open his leg in a quick swing. Lilith continued to press on, grabbing on to him and repeatedly stabbing a dagger into his side as they tumbled to a nearby roof.

She flared out her wings just as Drauth struck the hard slate, landing softly. One knife still in his side she pushed one from her other hoof down, intending to end the fight then and there by slitting his worthless throat.

Drauth grinned and Lilith leapt out of the way sliding across the roof as Drauth's magically propelled dagger flew past her.

"Oh Lilith, I learned from my past defeat. I have delved into magics dark enough to rival any Sin." As he spoke the cut on his leg closed itself and he pulled the dagger from his side, throwing it down by Lilith's hooves.

Lilith quickly retrieved the blade and rushed in again, slashing a green line in Drauth's chest that healed nearly as fast as it had been created. He gave a wince from the pain, but the otherwise fatal cut meant nothing in the face of his dark magic.

"Enough of this, you are unworthy to stand in my presence whelp!" Drauth exerted his magic to grab Lilith, holding her in place as he walked over. "How pathetic you are without your precious collection of Sins... And in your current form you can't even stop a simple spell."

Lilith tried to move, her strength not enough to overcome the magic as Drauth pulled her chest armor away yet again.

' Whether you die now or he, we still win.'

"Pride had wished you could put up a better fight, but its time to end our little game. So now, die knowing you have failed your pathetic little mission. Die knowing that all you have ever loved has been taken from you. Die, and remember the face of the god who shall forever torment your afterlife."

Drauth took his dagger and plunged it into Lilith's heart, holding her steady as he dropped his hold on the magic binding her. "Finally, your line is purged from the world, and all the power shall be mine. " He pulled the dagger back out, looking at the crimson blood.

"What corruption is this? You are no changeling!"

Lilith gave a pained laugh. "That's right." She spat in his face; her second heart still beating strongly even as the one he had stabbed oozed blood from the jagged gash.

In her final flash of time energy she dashed around him, flicking out the twin Daggers she held. In one quick motion Drauth's insectile wings were shorn clean off.

He stood there stunned, not having anticipated her ability to survive a knife in the heart. Another swing later his twisted horn was severed, preventing the use of magic.

Lilith shoved against Drauth, pushing him over the precipice. Drauth flailed as he fell, smashing into the street below. Lilith spread her raven black wings, she was the messenger of death, and her revenge was near complete.

She swept down upon the stunned and unmoving Drauth, landing beside him. She took her daggers once again and stabbed them into both of his kidneys, he cried out as he was forced into wakefulness and pulled from death's door by an infusion of energy from Lilith.

"You took my mother!" Lilith pulled one dagger out.

"You took the one I loved!" She plunged it into his lower spine, paralyzing him.

"Revenge is a bitch." She whispered quietly into his ear.

Drauth wheezed out a few words past the sheer agony. "End it."

"Death is too good for you but it's all I can offer." She tore both daggers from him, causing another pained cry.

"So know this, everything you love I will destroy. Everyone you care for, I will kill." She brought the two daggers to his throat, the metal already dripping with his blood.

Drauth began a pained chuckle, the daggers tickling against his jugular. "I hadn't thought to ever see this day..."

"Die in despair!" The words flew from her maw as the knives cut deeply into flesh. The light in Drauth's one functioning eye faded away to nothingness as the final gurgles left his throat.

Lilith dropped the knives as a disgusting and putrid wave of energy washed over her. She was forced to absorb it into herself, the sickly aura racing through her. Lilith stumbled away from the fresh corpse, blinded by the visions that assailed her.

~

Destruction and Death, far worse than any ever known would sweep over her people. And none other than herself would be the cause.

Lilith had all seven sins, and their dark minds would twist her own until she was no more than a vessel to do their bidding.

Hell would be brought upon Equestria and she would be the Devil.

~

Lilith stumbled back, the dark realization hitting her as her eyes shot open. In her vengeance she had become what she hated, she had sacrificed any chance at innocence.

"What have I become mother? If I take his place I only doom Equestria. I have become worse than the very evil you once fought to prevent."

Lilith sagged to the floor, a pool of her own blood swiftly forming below.

With all the power she now possessed she could easily save her own life, possibly even mend her second heart completely, but for some odd reason she didn't want to. The hatred and darkness inside of Lilith urged her live, but she was able to push it aside for now. In time though it would consume her very existence.

"My time, however short is up... I know what must be done. I cannot continue to live this way if fate decrees that I will be become the monster." Lilith felt strangely cold, the pain having left her as her very life slowly drained away. She could hear the splash as each new droplet added to the crimson puddle below her.

Lilith turned a dagger in on herself, lining if up with her beating heart.

"I'll see you soon mother." The blade plunged quickly into her flesh, ensuring her demise by ending the beatings of her second heart.

~

, Wrath, your host is dying, do something. ,

'The fool is still too strong for us to control. I only we had more time, our fulfillment was nearly upon us.'

-Farewell Lilith. -

Lilith's mind was emptied, one voice at a time as her possessors fled from her dying form. A great weight was lifted from her shoulders and a contented expression fell upon her face. This world had nothing more that she desired, it was time to let go.

Her vision slowly grew fuzzy and grey, her eyes drifted shut of their own accord. Death wasn't so bad; it was just one short nap away.

~

And so Lilith lay, a pool of crimson spreading its way along the charred floor. The blissful tide of eternity beginning to take her away.

"Oh Lilith, you strange creature..." An ethereal voice shook her spirit. "Neither the realm of heaven, hell, or anything in between has a spot for a creation such as you. At least not for twelve deaths more..."

Lilith was torn away from the voice, and thrown from the calming tides, stranded on the verge of Death's door who refused to take her.

A sharp pain bolted through Lilith's chest, pushing past her numbness. Her maimed hearts kicked back to life as a strange heat and energy surged through her. She stood once again in confusion, opening her eyes to a strange glow.

Moats of light steamed over, and even out of her. The strange heat slowly became an inferno, a cleansing fire to burn away all that she used to be. As the process continued Lilith could feel the hold on her physical body slipping away.

The energy was far from contained, the very wall she stood next to shook as she was transformed. Chunks rained down as Lilith lost touch with reality, the burning energy tearing away at even the ground beneath her.

-

Dr. Whooves stood in the Tardis, puzzling at the noise it was making. He looked to the console as it flashed wildly. The display screen showed the equestrian world, pinpointing an exact location.

Words scrolled across the screen. "Regeneration energies detected."

But that meant...

The Doctor bolted up to the console, flipping levers spinning dials in a frantic fashion. The Tardis lurched into action, weaving its way through time and space to his destination.

He rushed over to the doors, flinging them open to the spectacle, witnessing the final moments of transformation through the dust and debris from the crumbling building. A hope within him that he had not felt in a long time.

The girl's eyes opened for the first time, a new view of the world and of the galaxy just waiting to be absorbed. Her eyes looked up to the Tardis, the magical blue box that she had heard about in another life.

"Come with me." The Doctor spoke, standing silhouetted in the light streaming from inside.

A hand grasped on to his extended hoof, and the naked form pulled itself from the rubble, standing shakily on two feet.

The time lord DNA within her had taken hold. She was still something new, one of the universe's mysteries, but the Doctor now knew he was truly not alone.

She followed the Doctor into the large control room, taking his coat that hung upon a rail to place over her cold bare skin. The garments general shape and size assured her that the Doctor's normal form wasn't actually that of a pony either.

So maybe they weren't that different after all? This new life, this second chance could only be filled with new wonders.

~Fin

Author's Note:

Thanks for sticking through till now!

Next up on my writing list is Predilection (The Sequel to Penchant if any of you were fans)

I would say, for my clop fans out there, that it will have some of my kinkiest and most unique scenarios yet as I work to expand my own comfort zone.

And please people, feel free to talk to me anytime (shouts, PM's, comments, anything) . If it weren't for the daily climbing story views I would swear nobody even reads these with the extreme lack of commentary by all but a select few.