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Revis wasn't sure what it was but as he pulled himself away from the comforting arms of slumber he found a strange...unfamiliar sensation overtaking him. Blinking open electric blue eyes, the blue unicorn yawned, his blunt teeth winking in the light of the sun playfully trying to hide within the clouds, before his jaw closed with a quiet clack. Looking out his bedroom window at the at the early morning sky, the dark haired unicorn groaned as he found his mind somewhat disorientated for some reason. Lowering his head to try and figure why that was Revis couldn't recall any reason as to why that should be.

'I don't have anything important planned for today,' he thought firmly. Living as he did away from his family and what few friends he possessed meant that he didn't have a great number of people to go out and meet. So if not that, then what was the feeling crawling inside of his mind that seemed to urge him to prepare himself.

Stretching his lithe form, Revis pulled himself up from his bed, the wood frame of his handcrafted piece of furniture creaking slightly, and then walked over to the open window overlooking his forested home. A slow smile crested onto the horned stallion's face as he looked down.

'Good morning." Revis said, his spiraling horn glimmering slightly as a wave of blue washed out from the pointed tip of said head accessory all across the land which he called his own.

Being your typical unicorn, Revis lived atop a hill overlooking a large section of forest within the country of Harthstone, an expansive land normally reserved only for the hardiest of travelers. However, being a young stallion with no others there to challenge him, Revis had taken it upon himself to guard every square inch of the land surrounded by the grey mountains containing them. Because so few could traverse said mountains most of the surrounding area was still wild and innocent, though that things would always stay that way.

Revis was no one's fool. The unicorn had long since accepted that one day the land might become entangled within the affairs of the humans and anthromorphs beyond the mountains, yet blue coated horse had long since promised himself that he would do everything in his power to keep his protectorate safe from those who might cause it harm. That was why he had cast a protective barrier over the small patch of forest which sat directly beneath his house. This magical seal, kept in place by both Revis's spiraling horn and the various runes he had carved all over, would deter those with ill intentions from trying to settle within a mile wide radius from Revis's home.

Of course, that didn't mean that he didn't have the odd guest show up.

Looking up in time to see a grandiose form soar over the skyline, the unicorn chuckled as he watched an old friend onto his front lawn.

"A bright morning to you, Mavis."

"Bright morning? Hah, it's gonna rain soon, or hadn't you noticed?" the sulking gryphon complained, his long leonine tail snapping behind his black furred back irritably.

Revis chuckled, blue eyes rolling exasperatedly.

"Did you come came all this way just to tell me what my nose would have?" the unicorn teased.

"Of course not!" the half avian creature chirped. "I came to give you news of what's happening beyond your borders."

Revis snorted, his wide nostrils flaring exaggeratedly. "Mavis, you know that I stay here to keep away from the affairs of the outside world." Even at three hundred years old the unicorn was well aware of the unpleasant truths of the world in which he and his friend lives.

Some of them being the exact reasons why he had chosen to come to such a remote place as this in the first place, while the others were the reasons why he never went back.

"Yeah, but this is important." green eyes looked to the unicorn worriedly, though a quick blink hid the expression.

"What's the matter?" it wasn't like the gryphon to worry needlessly, so that must mean that something big was about to go down.

"Dragon King Azwalderthst just kicked the bucket."

Revis could have been knocked over with a feather at those words.

"Are you joking with me?" the unicorn whispered, though knowing well enough that the often humourless hybrid would never do as such.

Mavis shook his feathered head, green eyes dark with nervousness. "The news is circling the eight continents like wildfire."

Revis could just imagine.

"How?" Everyone knew that the dragon king was all but immortal, Azwalderthst having been one of the twelve gods that helped to create the planet from the sea of chaos which danced outside the firmament which lay both above and below their heads.

"I heard that it had something to do with a ring. A black ring."

Revis blinked.

Two shocks in one hours; the unicorn didn't think that he'd be able to take much more before he passed out.

"Yeah, that ring." The gryphon said with a shudder, his fur prickling. "Everyone is scrambling to try and find out exactly what's going on and how it managed to slip through the barrier, but what I came here to tell you is that you need to seriously think about vacating this place to return to the unicorn's glade."

"You know that I can't do that." as an adult male he was no longer allowed within the glade, such was the law of the white council of unicorns which made the laws for Revis's kind.

"I know about the law and all but a lot of rules are getting shuffled around right now."

"I can imagine, but all the same I won't return."

It may have been vain pride, but Revis didn't think that he could return to the place of his birth, even on pain of death. Not with the memory of his final days there still haunting the back of his mind.

"This is not the time to be stubborn!" Mavis screeched causing the blue unicorn's ears to flip downward. "If that ring really managed to slip into this world then you know who'll be coming to find it sooner or later."

Revis tipped his nose down at that, a subconscious nod following a second after.

"Azwalderthst's sons and daughters are scrambling to try and keep awaken the other gods to tell them of what has happened, but they're also sending out a number of soldiers to prepare for the worst possibility."

Revis shuddered as he thought over what the 'worst possibility' actually meant.

"How long has it been since we've last had a demon invasion in this world?" Revis inquired sorrowfully.

"Long enough that a great number of tomes are being ripped from their shelves in order to figure out a way to defeat them." Mavis sighed, his green eyes looking tired all of a sudden.

A hand found the gryphon's shoulder.

Blinking, Mavis smiled as he felt Revis's magic flow into him, his fears and frustrations melting in the wakes of the blue coated unicorn's natural healing properties.

"I can't say that everything will be ok, but don't give into your worries, Mavis. They'll only consume you if you do."

"While I know that," the half avian began while carefully sweeping the younger male's fingers from his shoulder blade. "The fact of the matter is that if demons enter into our world it won't be long before they bring with them their taint."

Revis could say nothing as he brought his hand to his chest, a fist forming over his heart as he thought over this.

As creatures of corruption and decadence, a demon could only bring suffering to those around them. With power that could twist and warp nearly anything and everything that they came into contact with, the gods had early on decided to create a world for them, separated by the pure white barrier called Alicor, so that they would never had a reason to try and venture here. There had been a couple of times in the past when Alicor had failed to fulfill its duty but usually these times held great significance to the world, such as during the birth of the dragon king's seventh son. All the same though, there had been much blood and tears spilled from the demons slipping through, even though the were banished back from whence they had come, those that had survived the twelve god's wrath, that is.

"I take it that you and your mate are preparing yourselves for battle?" taking a good look over the other Revis noticed that Mavis was wearing a chainmail shirt over his upper torso while down below on his leonine flank a fine plate of mythril armor had been securely fastened onto his black hide.

"Of course." the gryphon preened a bit at that.

Revis rolled his eyes again but said nothing as he fought to keep down his laughter.

"We gryphons will do whatever it takes to protect this world, even if that means fighting against the god of demons!" Mavis roared, his fist pumping into the air just in time for a stray beam of sunlight to crash onto his backside.

"I'm sure that, that won't happen. After all, if there really is a demon god out there, then the other gods will awaken and take to arms before they allow it to try and destroy control of this world." Revis replied patiently.

According to legend it was said that centuries ago a god had risen within that world and bore a black ring which was said to be the embodiment of chaos, death, and suffering. Most thought that such a thing was impossible, this world's gods having been born from the formless chaos which sat outside the firmament, however with Azwalderthst's death and the talk of the fabled ring dancing onto Mavis's lips...perhaps there was some truth to the stories the old wives still told.

"All the same, you should prepare yourself to leave. Who knows what may happen in the coming days." Mavis spoke while lowering his fist.

Revis drew in a breath, the cool crisp air of the morning filling him with serenity, before he exhaled slowly.

"Thank you for your advice, Mavis, but I still won't go."

"ARE YOU AN IDIOT!!!" Green eyes glared with the intensity of the summer sun at the blue unicorn. "You know what happens to those who get tainted by demons!!"

They become demons, Revis thought.

"Yes, I know."

"Do you want that to happen to you!!!"

"No, I do not."

"Then why won't you...

"Because this is my home, Mavis." The gryphon was ready to squawk out a terse reply but before he could Revis gently said, "I would no more abandon this place than you the land of Marduk." a quiet click filled the air at that.

"That was low." the gryphon growled, though there was no malice within the reverberation. "Marduk is a sacred place to we gryphon, the same as the glade is to you unicorns. Me abandoning it...that would never happen!"

"It's the same with this place." electric blue eyes turned to survey the wind swept forest which now seemed to cry out for its protector. "This land which I claimed as my own protectorate...it's more than just 'a place' to me. This is...the land in which I hope to one day take a mate in." Dark blue hair danced within the breeze forcing Revis to run a hoofed finger through it in order to brush down the long locks teasing at his snout.

"But if a demon were to get to you out here...you and this land would end up twisted with corruption, you know that." Mavis pleaded. The thought of his friend turning into a nightmare version of himself filled the gryphon's mind and heart with a dread he had only ever felt once before when he had nearly lost his mate in a war against a wizarding human nation seeking to enslave the gryphon race.

"I'm much stronger than that, Mavis." the unicorn grunted as he remembered the training the gryphon had tried to give him long ago when the two of them had been a colt and chick, respectively. "I think that I can handle a demon, should one attempt to accost me."

Fate found itself laughing somewhat cruelly at such a statement as a small slivers of darkness tore itself through Alicor like a droplet of water down the roof of a house. The milky gloom touched down onto a small country some two thousand miles away from the land of Harthstone, followed soon after by another and then another. The natives of that land were completely unaware of the formless substances as they crept from the place where they had spawned outwards, trails of black following in their wake.

By the time Mavis and Revis had finished their conversation - the gryphon shouting and chirping at the unicorn about how much of a moron he was and that he could become a one eyed imp for all the other cared before soaring off - the young stallion was mentally exhausted.

'Maybe I should take a nap before going to find something to nibble on.' the unicorn thought as a yawn broke free from his lips, however, before he could a little robin came up to him, landing on his window and then looking up at him angrily.

"And how can I help you today?"

The red breasted creature chirped its head off before turning to fly away.

Revis chuckled.

'I guess my nap will have to wait.' it seemed that a young crow had snuck into the robin's nest and pushed its eggs out onto the ground.

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It was weeks later when a strange disturbance crept across the mountains and into Revis's patch of forest violently rousing Revis from his peaceful rest. Springing up, the blue coated unicorn leaned over to grab the sword Mavis had given him from underneath his bed and then hopped out of bed. Quickly finding something to wear from within his nearby dresser, Revis snorted in annoyance.

It seemed that one of his runes had just decided to snap.

With the deadly silence of one of his magical glyphs ringing throughout his soul, the unicorn could only ask one question of himself, 'So the day had come?'

Exiting his wooden shack, a chainmail shirt and brown leggings wrapped around his equine frame, Revis let his pale horn glint in the light of the dying sun for several seconds as he tried to concentrate his magic on where the source of the disturbance he felt was emanating from.

'Southwest.' that was close to a running running which lead to the local pond for which most of the animals in that area drank from.

Taking off as fast as his hoofed feet would carry him, Revis prayed to the gods that he would make it in time to keep the waters from being tainted. He had no wish to see those of his forest being twisted by the creature which he assumed was a demon.

Passing through the underbrush on his path the forest opened for him, the unicorn was mildly surprised when he found himself staring over the form of a dark red stallion bearing onyx wings and hair, glowing yellow eyes, a pair of curled back horns, and a long spaded tail. The sound of Revis's approach drew the other's attention, which was a blessed thing indeed as the demon was barely two steps away from taking his first step into the babbling river in shuddering in front of him.

Revis didn't know why, but as those flaring gold orbs bore into him with quiet curiosity the stallion felt a strange feeling overtake his soul.

"Who are you?" Revis asked with a whiny, male dominance shoving the unfamiliar feeling out of him as he noted the naked form before him. Electric blue eyes narrowed slightly as the other stallion smiled at him.

"You must not know much if you don't know that a demon never gives up his name willingly." the other smirked as his molten gold eyes traced lines all along the frame of the lithe yet muscular unicorn. "I take it that this land belongs to you?" the infernal creature asked, a condescending smirk splitting his crimson muzzle.

"This land belongs to no one. I am merely its guardian." Revis answered, his right hand drawing close to the hilt of his blade sheathed onto his belt. The demon scowled as he noticed the movement the other was making. "Have you come here to find sustenance, or are you here to spread your taint within these lands?" Before the nude demon could answer Revis cut in with, "I warn you, the latter answer will be met with great disapproval."

"But what if both questions could be given the same answer?" the crimson equine returned.

"What do you mean?"

"You really are ignorant if that question leaves you confused."

"I have no issue with my own ignorance, however, if you would find it within yourself to educate me, I would greatly appreciate it."

The horned horse began to laugh at that.

"Wow, such sincerity." shaking his head, black hair flying around wildly as the creature spread his wings and then popped his neck. "Well, since you decided to ask so nicely." a quick crouch followed by a powerful pump of hips sent the naked stallion into the air.

Revis watched, stunned, as the demon twisted into the air, wings folded, only to land in front of him, their two muzzles nearly touching.

"Demons like me feed on many different things." a quick grab found Revis's sword hilt being sntahced up. "One such thing is souls while the other is flesh, tainted flesh to be exact." The unicorn let out a whinny as his sword was taken from him and then tossed over out of the way into the brush. "Now, a more important question you should be asking is which of the two you would like to offer me before I decide to take the both from you."

The unicorn ducked low and then jammed his forehead into the demon's midsection. A pained yowl split the growing night as blue light spread throughout the forest, the demon feeling the full effects of Revis's natural purification ability.

"Son of a whore, that hurts!" the demon shouted as he pulled back to kick the blue stallion into the face.

Revis grunted as he was flung backwards onto the forest floor, blood splattering from both his forehead and muzzle. The former however, was smoking as the unicorn's powers neutralized the malice within the other horse's life fluid before evaporating whatever was left over. Revis saw none of this as he shook his head, his vision dancing slightly.

"That was very cute, my little pony, but now you've made me kinda upset." Revis turned to watch as the red stallion spit into his hand, yellow slime flowing into his palm, before the demon slapped the fluid onto the hole nestled in between his pectorals. "I was really not looking forward to dealing with any kind of resistance when I came all the way out here in the middle of bum-fuck-nowhere, but I guess I need to make a change of plans, don't I?" the demon snickered.

Revis said nothing as he pulled himself up onto his feet, his body wobbling slightly.

"Leave now and I won't bring anymore harm to you."

"Really? You think I'd give up just like that?" pulling his hand down from his chest, the red stallion revealed that the hole that had been created by Revis's assault was now nothing more than a pink tinted memory. "Besides, I kinda like it when my food squirms. It goes down so much easier after I've given it a slight tenderizing." the demon then pulled his fists up, wings snapping closed behind him.

"You're determined to do this?" Revis asked as he counted the other's gesture, his stance widening subconsciously just the way Mavis had taught him.

"Oh yeah!" the red stallion rushed forward, his left fist going out long. Revis dodged, the blue stallion letting the other's momentum take him forward, but not before receiving a quick sweep to the face by the red stallion's long spaded tail. "When I take your soul and land, I'll turn this place into my own little sanctuary." the demon spoke as he turned to face his opponent. "Once that's done, I'll then build up my power enough to go and look for my lord's ring."

"Your lord?" Revis inquired as he blocked another punch by the crimson demon. Ducking a sharp kick aimed at his head, the blue unicorn slid around the other horse, his blue eyes racing as he tried to find a weak point that would help him take the other down.

"You probably know him as the god of demons or whatever, but to us, he's our lord and savior." the nameless demon backed away and then flew into Revis, his fists raining outwards like barrage of arrows as he tore into the blue male's defenses.

Revis grunted as he took all of the hits, the demon just too fast for him to try and dodge. Slowly being forced back, the unicorn was startled when he felt the bed of the river slip underneath his foot. The shock of this was just enough that he lost his balance, unconsciously tripping over himself, yet because of his unplanned motion the red stallion was unable to pull himself away in time.

Both males landed with a crash into the river, thankfully Revis was able to pull legs up under himself in order to kick the demon away before his naked body could taint the crystal clear waters.

The nameless male grunted as he landed muzzle first onto a patch of dirt. Grunting, yellows eyes turned to watch as the blue unicorn picked himself up from the river. The red stallion found himself blinking as he watched Revis's long blue mane sweep behind him in arch, small droplets of water flying into the air, some of them catching onto the pale moonlight to create a midnight rainbow as they did so.

"Why do you call him your savior?" Revis asked, startling the other equine out of the sense of awe he had been caught him.

"Wha...? Oh!" wings flapped into the air, the demon pulled up onto his hooves and then returned to his fighting stance. "He's our savior because he gives us order and purpose." fist pulling into the air again, red stallion charged at Revis again, his black blood boiling slightly within his veins in a way that made his long hanging erection drip slightly.

For several minutes the pair danced around each other, Revis desperately trying to find an opening in the other's surprisingly strong sturdy defenses while the nameless male worked to quickly end the fight before he embarrassed himself. The demon was caught slightly off guard when the blue unicorn took a blow to the chest, before he could gain any satisfaction from feeling the other's ribcage creak a little bit he found his head snapping upward as a quick jab to the face greeted him. Because the body follows the head, the black haired equine found himself falling backwards without much preamble onto to then receive a knee found his solar plexus. Gasping, the red stallion watched as the other male used the momentum of his attack to flip backwards away from him, his lithe body looking almost ethereal under the pale moonlight.

"Then you're not here to conquer our world?" Revis asked after completing his backflip.

"Nah, not really." the red stallion couged. "Nice one, by the way. We're here because our lord wants what was stolen from him. If we just so happen to raise a little hell here in the process, then so be it."

"If that's true then why not work with those of this land to find what you need and then return home?" Revis cocked his head to the side when the other horse licked his tongue out across his lips.

"Because that would be boring. But enough about that. How about we get to something a little more fun?" crouching down onto all fours, the demon pawed at the ground like a bull.

"And what fun could you suggest that I would comply with?" Revis didn't know how to prepare himself as he watched the other's glowing yellow eyes begin to burn more sharply within the darkness.

"How about a small wager?" the demon shot forward, his horns glinting in the light of the rising moon like daggers.

Revis gasped before crouching and then pumping his legs. Shooting into the air, the blue unicorn thought he heard a faint 'gotcha' before he found his pant's leg grabbed. Time seemed to slow as he found himself forcibly dropped onto the ground. The very breath inside of his lungs decided to take that moment to abandon him as pain lanced its way through the unicorn's backside once he met the grassy knoll underneath him. When two strong hands reached out to grab his wrists Revis could only grunt and struggle when the demon sat himself up onto his chest.

"If you surrender to me, I'll turn you into the first of the many cock warmers that I plan to amass for myself before we're called home by our lord. What do you say?" a lewd grin covered the other male's face as he gazed down at the prone blue stallion.

Down below the demon's cock was now pulsing with pre, however unlike the normal fluids of a mundane mortal the ichor the red stallion released was black and as night and currently trying to eat through Revis's pants in an attempt to get into his flesh.

"And why would I do that?" the unicorn's horn sparked with a blue aura before a small bolt of magical energy hit the red stallion into the stomach. A painful yelp split the night as the demon was bodily flung away. "I happen to like being a unicorn just fine, thank you very much."

A groan filled the night at that comment.

"Yeah, I can see that." the demon moaned. "But you'd make one heck of a nightmare if you let me have my way with you." the other groaned before lifting his head to stare at the other. "One good shag and then you'd be just like me and we could avoid this rather exhausting foreplay you seem to be really keen on."

"No thank you." Revis replied as he stood back up, his blue eyes blinking rapidly. He really hope that he didn't have a concussion at the moment. "I have a counter statement for you."

"Go on."

"You are welcome to surrender to me, I'll patch you up, and then bring a friend here so that the three of us can talk like civil adults. I'm sure that if this were to happen we could speed up the process of you acquiring your lord's ring while also ensuring that no one is tainted by you, provided you attempt no form of trickery." Revis finished, sounding almost parental as he closed his mouth.

"Hmm, let me think about...no."

"And why not?"

"Because I'd be the biggest laughing stock of the demon world if I let myself be taken to your gods like some broken mare." the demon snorted with a laugh.

"No one of any character would think so lowly of someone attempting the more civil route to ensuring his goal." Revis stated firmly.

"Oh yeah, you REALLY don't know anything about demons if you seriously think we have any 'character' to begin with." the red stallion replied before winking at the other causing the unicorn to gap slightly. "You take my idea."

"No, you should take mine."

"No, mine!"

"It would be more practical for you to take mine."

"Practical, smacktical! Take my idea already!"

"No, you take mine!"

"No mine!"

"Oh this is ridiculous!" Revis snorted.

"Aww, oh well." the red stallion giggled as he hopped up onto his hooves again. "Don't say I didn't try to be nice." leaning down again the demon prepared himself for another assault.

Revis promised himself that he would be ready for it when it came.

Hours passed with the pair trading a number of blows back and forth against one another. Revis, to his credit, was able to adapt quite well to the other male's chaotic fighting style, however, the number of assaults that the winged creature was able to get in on him made it all the more clear that he was sorely outmatched. Yet, fear and protectiveness gave the unicorn the strength, and adrenaline, he needed to counter and recover from every blow the red stallion sent his way.

For his part, the black haired demon found himself slowly losing more and more of his patience as every trick he tried on the blue horse seemed to be easily countered or avoided by the unicorn. It got so bad for the other that at current all the red stallion was left with was trying to lash out with wild, unfocused strikes in order to chip at Revis's seemingly unbreakable defense. Not that this was a bad thing in the back of the demon's mind. It had been such a long time since he had found himself so wound up with an opponent.

It was a strong punch to the gut that sent both males crashing onto the ground.

Panting, both males laid on the ground their respective eyes looking up into the sky as the first rays of sunlight begin to pierce through the gloom to reveal the fiery wings of dawn.

"Are we going to keep on?" Revis asked, his mind already willing his knees to lift the rest of his bulk northward.

"Don't know. I never really planned on things going this far."

Silence gripped the forest as the sun tracked up higher and higher within the sky. By the time the forest creatures were waking up to begin their day both Revis and the demon found themselves out like lights, sleep taking the pair into its gentle embrace.