Chapters The Four Horses of the Apocalypse
Chapter 1 - The Horse With No Name
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, monstrosities sent from Hell to bring forth the end of times, were given a task by their master.
A forgotten language was heard through the fiery halls of Hell,
"I have a task for you four "
A demon the size of a mountain, wearing red and black armor with a burning halo floating above his head was sitting on a throne of skulls comprised of different species.
"There is a world two galaxies over that has reached its expiration date and needs to be dealt with. "
The horsemen were standing idly in formation,
"I have made the portal,but your horses will go first because there is a small problem which I have not seen since that idiotic cube world.Your horses will have to go through and destroy the barrier that will stop you the way it did the last time. "
While their master was talking, War decided to test that theory. He mounted his horse, grunted his displeasure and tried to pass through the portal with his horse, only to be thrown back spine first, crashing destructively into the other three horsemen.
War became angry and produced a broad sword, running towards the portal hoping to destroy it for launching him, but Death gripped his shoulder, stopping him. Death looked exactly as any mortal thought he looked, black robes and a scythe, nothing more. War looked just like his Demon master, but had large bull horns instead of a halo. He was the strongest among them. Famine and Pestilence got up soon after. Famine was the thinnest and smallest but because of this he was the fastest, wearing a light suit of yellow and green armor. Pestilence wore a medium suit of white armor. She was the only female amongst them but she was glad she had the honor to be the first to bring forth the apocalypse!
Pestilence was always the first to go forth. She spread incurable diseases with her vials, making mortals desperate for a cure, War produced battles, fooling the mortals into attacking each other for the cure that never existed, Famine would use his bow to poison farmer's crops and basic foods, and when the weak died, Death would appear and collect the survivors and souls for torturing, for sinning, or for their master's meal.
Death looked towards Famine,
"Famine get the horses ready. "
Famine did as he was told and gave the horses their orders. Famine was able to communicate with animals, persuading them to trample on the farm fields.
"Alright Death, they're ready. "
The horses were all lined up, ready to walk through the portal,"Send them through, and stop the last one we'll give them our weapons. The last time they were sent through the portal without weapons a mortal was riding them around destroying the undead. I gave a glass eye to a poor fool of a mortal making the dead rise, I think he ate it. "
When the order was received the horses began to walk. War's horse stopped.
"Alright, Load them up! "
His horse was the strongest so caring heavy weapons wielded by immortals was up to him.
After the weapons had been loaded, War's horse walked through the portal, but half way between worlds an unimaginable pain went through the black horse. Every bone in his body was breaking simultaneously, reshaping itself in smaller versions. The pain was unbearable making the horse blackout.
Famine's Horse
A sickly green pony woke up in a hospital bed. He was deathly thin and looked too weak to do anything.
'Where am I?' He thought.
As he was thinking, a brownish-gold pony came into the thin pony's room,
"Well somepony's up. Hello, I'm Dr. Stable."
The other green pony stayed quiet.
"Our local farmer found you unconscious in her apple fields,so she had her brother haul you here."
The doctor opened the blinds to the window, revealing a colorful town and a small sign in front of the building they were in.
"Welcome to Ponyville, you are currently in one of many hospitals run by the Heart family. Doctor- I mean Nurse Redheart runs this hospital, and your likely to meet her sisters around this country."
Dr. Stable took a breath,"Man that was a lot to say."
The pony still remained silent.
"Right, well you'll have to stay her for a long time. You haven't eaten in what looks like years, so you'll be to weak to move. I'll get a nurse to send you a meal." The doctor turned around and left,"Nurse Patches can you get a meal for the patient in room 2-B?"
After a few minutes a butter yellow mare with a cyan mane came in the room with a tray containing an apple, a salad, and a bottle of water.
"The doctor said you needed this meal, but I started thinking. many other patients and doctors are hungry too, and by your appearance I'd have to say you won't last a day. So I hope you don't mind, but I'll be eating your food."
"Give me the food." The green pony said with venom, but the nurse didn't care.
"Or what? You're too weak to move because of your state, so you won't be needing this."
Nurse Patches was known to be disrespectful and cruel to the patients, but the other doctors didn't know and if a patient was planning on saying something, they would end up dead before the could. Nopony knows how the patients pass, one day they're healthy and the next they die, as if they had a heart attack. Nurse Patches was right, he was weak but by tomorrow, he believed he'd be back to full strength.
The nurse got up and looked at the clipboard at the end of the bed,
"And if you die nopony would care much, after all, you don't seem to have a name." She said walking out of the room.
The pony was left to stare at the door, then he said to himself,
"A name huh? I think I'll go by my master's name..."
"...Famine"
Death's Horse, Pestilence's Horse
A white, decaying pony awakened to find herself in a cemetery on top of a hill. It was foggy and it smelled of salt as if someone had been crying for years. As she looked around she found an open grave and in that grave was a skeleton of a pony, but the bones looked thicker and charred black as it they were burned but didn't turn to ash. She looked closer and immediately the skeleton was brought to life, it jumped in the air and landed outside the grave. It too began to look around but stopped when it spotted the white pony. If flesh wasn't falling off her, she would have looked stunning.
"Where are we? Are we not suppose to be at the other side of the portal and if so how, did I get in that grave?" the skeleton asked. The voice was obviously male.
"I don't know," replied the white pony,"I remember us walking through the portal, then an unbearable pain, and finally blackness."
The skeleton looked around to find a town in the distance,"we can go there and see if we can find the others."
The white pony thought for a bit,"I suppose we'll have to, but what about our appearance we might startle the mortals living there."
The skeleton looked back at her,"So? They're planet will be destroyed when we get the barrier down."
The white pony thought about it again,"I guess that makes scenes, alright lead the way." The white pony smiled but the decaying took a bit of her face so one half was smiling and the other half gave a 'dead' expression.
After the long walk they reached the edge of town, a big sign was place on the side reading "Welcome to Ponyville Population 423".
They exchanged looks,"What kind of a name is Ponyville?" asked the skeleton.
"At least it wasn't named extremely long like the last planet." replied the zombie pony."Besides with a innocent name like that, they are just begging to have their planet destroyed."
The charred skeleton looked past the sign,"Come on, we have to find the object that's creating the barrier."
As they walked they noticed other Ponies of different colors: pink, purple, yellow, green, and more as if all the innocence of the worlds their masters destroyed began living here now.
"Monsters!" A random pony screamed and within five seconds every resident was panicking.
"These mortals won't stand a chance." said the white pony.
The two undead ponies began walking around the town, scaring the residents into hiding, and looking for the magic object that summons the barrier. But up in the skies a cyan pony with wings stalked the two until they came to a stop at Town Square.
"Don't look know but there's a mortal stalking us, be prepared." The skeleton whispered.
"Alright you monsters, you're going back to the graves your bone bags crawled out of!"
The cyan pony dropped from the sky and intended to land on the skeleton's skull but the bony creature moved just in time to dodge it.
"What the-?"
The cyan pony was confuse but before she could finish the sentence the skeleton turned around and bucked her in the stomach,
"Oh It's on now... Do monsters even have names?" the cyan pony said before rushing him.
The white pony standing in the sidelines spoke,"You can call me Pestilence."
Then the skeleton spoke mid-combat,"And I Death."
The flying pony was confused,'How are they talking? They're dead!'
War's Horse
A dark red pony awakened to find he was in a small house resting on a smaller couch,
" O-oh I see y-your awake." a small voice was heard, the red pony looked around and spotted a yellow pony with a pink mane hiding behind the door leading to what looked like a kitchen.
"What happened? Where am I?" his voice deep and booming, but he remembered something,
" And where are the weapons I was carrying?"
The small pony shrank in fright,"y-y-your w-weapons are right th-there." she pointed to a wall, the weapons were indeed rested on it,"You are in my house, on the outskirts of Ponyville-"
The red pony interrupted,"Ponyville? Could be worse, the was a town with a really long name, go on."
The yellow pony liked to hear that he was an adventurer and calmed down a bit,
"I found you out side the forest, you looked in a lot of pain so I brought you here."
The red pony began to think,"May I ask what your name is? Mine is Fluttershy."
The pony looked up and back down into his thoughts,"I don't have a name."
Fluttershy gasped,"How can you not have a name?"
The red stallion stopped what he was doing and looked up, knowing he won't be able to think with all these questions,"I was never given a name."
Fluttershy came out of hiding," Would you like to pick out a name?"
The stallion was slightly surprised,"You can do that? I never knew you can make your own name."
Fluttershy got closer and sat down in a chair next to him,"Oh yes, you can do that what should your name be?"
The pony thought about it,
"Call me...War."
The Four Horses of the Apocalypse
Chapter 2 - The Glue Factory
Death, Pestilence
The day in Ponyville lasted for hours, as did the battle between Death and the cyan pegasus. Pestilence found out about her type of species when she over heard a brown pony with a gray mane yelling for Pegasi to bring rain clouds to the fire Death and the cyan Pegasus started an hour ago.
The cyan Pegasus was exhausted from the long fight she was having with Death, but Death wasn't tired. No, with his lungs no longer existing, he can't ever be tired.
"Give up now because I'll win, I always win.Me, Rainbow Dash!" The Pegasus said between breaths,
"I admire your pride, Rainbow Dash." Nopony could tell but he was grinning."Too bad there's a punishment for it." and with that said Death ran toward the Pegasus. Rainbow flew in the air as well, intending to dive bomb him, but Death was smarter. During mid-sprint, he turned in the opposite direction and used all his strength to buck Rainbow Dash in the face.
She was sent flying, unconscious before she even hit the floor.
"Come along Pestilence, we have work to do."
Pestilence walked to him with a smile on her face, she hadn't seen Death buck that hard since the attack on the cube world, where a mortal tried to mount him. Death didn't take it lightly and got him in the gut, killing him instantly.
"So Death huh?" Pestilence was walking besides him, exploring the the town.
Death was quite fond of his name.
"I can say the same thing for you, Pestilence."
"So what does this object look like, the one we have to destroy?" Pestilence was cheerful, having a name for once was the second best thing to happen to her. The first was the very first apocalypse she saw.
"I'm not sure, Master Famine said it was either in a hot area or a cold area. They're usually in the coldest regions of the planet so we'll look there, but we can't do anything without the other two." Death answered.
"You're right, last time one of us tried to do it alone. Turned out it needed all four of us to break it." Pestilence remembered,
"so I guess we'll have to wait here for the others."
"How do you know they'll come here?"
"I don't, I'm just guessing, I was correct last time, remember?"
"Right, alright let's just explore the place more till we see them."
War
"I must leave Fluttershy, I have to find my brothers and sister." War was trying to leave but Fluttershy was holding him back.
"B-but you can't there was an explosion a-and a fire," Fluttershy was using all her strength to stop him from leaving, he wasn't injured but what if he did, she didn't want that to happen.
"Then those must be them, thank you for helping but I must leave to assist them." War desperately tried to get out the door,
'That and your somehow making me go soft, I'm not suppose to be soft I'm War! The horse that the horseman War rides, a behemoth of strength and power, I'm not suppose to be weak!
"O-okay, I'll let you go." She hugged him,"But come back as soon as you can."
War didn't like the fact he was becoming weak, but to give up information about where he's from? Even his master's master would kill him, and he's as immortal as his rider.
"If I can." And he ran out the door, heading towards the town, Ponyville.
War was running as if the angels were coming to get him, he finally made it to the town and began his search for his partners. 'Were are they? In fact how could they not see me, I'm big, red, and on fire! It's impossible to miss those three, even if they are together.' War searched everywhere his last spot to check was the market place,' This is the last spot if they aren't here I'll destroy this place for wasting my time.'
The market place was empty, and stretched farther than any regular market place dreamed of. 'Where could they-ah there they are.' War spotted the two undead ponies, they were trying to get a vendor to sell them a black robe for Death, in the end they took it and walked a bit till they met War.
"Is that you, War's Horse?" Death asked.
"It has to be him, I mean, look at him! He's big, he's red, and he's on fire! How could that not be War's Horse?" Was Pestilence's answer.
"It's just War now, anyway, here the master loaded their weapons so we don't get mounted again."
War turned his body to the side revealing Master Pestilence's vials of diseases and Master Dearth's scythe.
"So War huh, well pleasure to re-meet you, this is Pestilence and I am Death." He point to Pestilence and to himself,"And judging by how our three names are I'd think Famine's horse named himself Famine as well, where ever he is."
"And that with all the commotion you two have been doing I think the mortal sent in their military." War added.
"what make you say that?" Pestilence asked.
"Them." War pointed up, a flock of pegasi were hovering around them and in all foot soldiers came running in all the alleyways.
"Surrender now and no harm will be done to you." A pegasus said In the flock said,"If you do not cooperate were are authorized to use force."
"To Heaven with surrender, we aren't gonna give up that easily!" War shouted in the sky.
"Very well, Earth squad attack!"The order was given and a massive amount of earth ponies cam rushing at them with swords, but the stopped moving and all of them went wide eyed.
The three immortals glowed red and when the light died down horns were place on their foreheads, and they picked up their respect weapons and began attacking as if they knew how to use it. Soldiers were being slain, Death twirled his scythe with massive speed and flung in the crowd decapitating the soldiers, Pestilence three potion after potion vial after vial and them either melting them or they dropped dead on the spot, War was the only one moving he had the alley with the most room making more soldiers come his way, but nothing passed the fiery horse and lived. He picked up his sword from his side. A grand sword bigger than the wielder himself, and began to swing and destroy everything in its path. Arcs of fire produces from the sword, burning anything that was not in range. They killed the last of the earth soldiers.
Every soldier was shocked, afraid, pissed, and some even tried to flee, but the captain ordered another attack.
"Unicorn squad, Fire!" The unicorns were teleporting everywhere, firing magic blasts at them, but the blasts were deflects and sent back. Some exploded, killing more then the blast intended. The captain was at a loss of words, he had but one squad left. Would he risk it just to save the lives of others?
"P-pegasi squad, attack!" One after another pegasi began swooping down trying to cut them with the swords manufactured to fit on the front of their wings, but every swipe was a waste. Either they would die before the can fly back up or the impact to their swords, and Pestilence's personal shield would send them flying to the floor. One even tried to head butt War but was split in half by his sword before he can even get close.
"Regroup now!" The captain ordered, not even a hundred pegasi were in the sky. The attack, no the massacre destroyed the captain's battalion. For once in a long time, he was scared, scared of what would happen next. And what happened next made him scream like a girl on the inside.
The three looked up, a red glow surrounded them and died down once more. Keeping the horns for their weapons, wings suddenly appeared, War's were big, red, and on fire,"Figures they would look like this."
Pestilence's wings were decaying as well as her body,
"Well these look pretty"
And Death's wings were just the bones of the wings but he knew he could still take flight,
"If my body can defy psychics, why not my wings."
The three took to the skies, soldiers tried to flee,but we're killed before they could get far. One soldier was left and by his appearance he had to have been the captain,"Wh-what are you?" The captain was too scared to attack, know that if he did he would never return home just like the soldiers he once commanded.
"We are The Horses of the Apocalypse," Death said, pushing his scythe to the captains throat,"I am Death, this is War, and That is Pestilence. Our brother Famine is missing at the moment, but if you find him may your god have mercy on your soul because you can not run from him, you can not run from us because we will bring forth the apocalypse and this world shall be destroyed, now go and spread the word that we have arrived. You will tell everyone about us or the potion will kill you."
"What potion?" The captain was terrified.
"Why the potion I threw at you of course, not feeling the impact was one of the trigger effect." Pestilence said, dancing around in the sky with her new wings.
"You will tell the people of this town, your leaders, and tell them to send word to the leaders of the other countries that live here or your death will be painful and slow. Now go!" War ordered, the captain flew as fast as he can, on the death mission of telling everyone and his leaders about this new undying threat that has plagued this world.
The three landed and there wings and horns horns vanished,
"Aw, but I liked my wings." Pestilence said slight sadness
"I'm sure they'll come back eventually but for now let's find Famine, let's hope no one pissed him off, for a small fry he is deadly when provoked." War has answered and stated.
"Yes, let's go find our brother Famine."Death said, putting on his new robe.
The Four Horses of the Apocalypse
Chapter 3 - Wolves Among Sheep
Pestilence, War, and Death
The three immortals search the town for hours, hoping they would find their brother Famine. The only places they did not search was the hospital and the church, but night was coming and they had to take shelter.
"We must turn in War," Death tried to stop the mahmoth of a pony, but he would not listen,"Famine is probably somewhere warm with food."
"Not without Famine!" War was looking everywhere.
"When did War start to care?" Death whispered
"I'm not sure, but with the destruction he's causing another battalion might arrive with more soldiers and we might fail in the mission." Pestilence answered
"Your right, but what are we gonna do to stop him?" Death asked, he really didn't want to massacre any mortals till the job was done.
"Mistress Pestilence had theses potions, that while unaffected by mortals, can turn any immortal look like a mortal." Pestilence pulled out a hand full of vials marked 'Mortal Disguise'.
Mistress Pestilence was know to have infinite amount of any vial or potion, but no one knew how she gets them not even her master could figure out how it was done.
"I remember, Master Death lured some mortals out of hiding and executed them once they stepped out." Death called to War, "You hear that War, we have a plan to find Famine!"
Those were his last word before War came rushing in and...hugged him?
Yes War, the brute of the team was hugging Death.
"W-War are you ok?" Though he didn't have lungs Death felt like he couldn't breath," You can stop now,you might break my ne-"
*CRACK*
Deaths skull fell of his neck, his head began to roll but Pestilence stopped it before it went far.
"Well that might be a problem in the future, let's take these potions, head to the center of town, gain their trust, and find a way to destroy this planet." Death fixed his head and grabbed a vial, the others did the same.
And they drank it.
Pestilence was the first to change nothing surprising happened, her bone revealing parts grew flesh then fur, then she received a drawing on her flank. War was next and nothing happened again expect his mane and tail stopped burning, he too received a mark on his flanks.
Death was the last to change for he had nothing but bones, so the process took longer. Muscle and flesh begand to grow, then skin, next fur. His fur was black as his bones, and his eyes were crimson red. Just like the others he a mark grew on his flank.
"What are these markings?"
"I don't know why but I feel...bounded to it."
"I have a melting skull for a mark, it looks so cute!"
"But what are they?"
"You don't know what a cuties mark is?" asked a high pitch voice
"No we don't and who and where are you?" Death asked with his scythe raised in the air, pointing at the non-existent
"I'll tell you what it is and I'm Pinkie Pie." The pink pony burst behind Death and when he turned around she blooped him on the nose.
"Great."
"..."
"..."
*Blink*
"So are you going to tell us what these markings are or what?" Death was getting annoyed. He was always a calm equine, but something about her made him feel rather ticked off.
"When the writer changes the scene."
"What are you talki-
Famine - 1 day later - Night
It has been a day, and his plan was coming along greatly. Though yesterday he was confined to his bed, his abilities were still functioning. Nobody knew what was napping but when they would go through the hall where Famine is foods and plants seem to die.
"Finally every thing is ready." Famine whispered to himself,"Now let the fun begin!"
He pulled a switch.
All of the hospital lights in the went off. They came back on, but flickered as if it was abandoned, ponies were screaming by the sudden change of scenery. Famine walk from the power box to a ER and grabbed a scaple, a bonesaw, and what resembles a knife.
"This hospital is so messed up its just asking for this." He equipped the tools," I mean really, The power box is next to the indoor pool, they use what looks like a kitchen knife for surgery, AND THEY HAVE A FREAKIN' POOL! Granted the pool has nothing to do with is, I'm running out of excuses, and I've been talking to myself for this long proving I might be insane. I have to say, I think I'm ready. Let do this."
Famine's first stop in his spree was the lovely nurse, Ms. Patches.
"Hello nurse, isn't it a lovely day?" Famine looked down at the nurse, for she fell when the lights went out.
"W-what are you talking about? Did you do this?" Nurse Patches ended getting mad, creepy lights just to scare her? Too bad it wasn't for that, "Your gonna get it you- wait, y-your supposed t-to be dead. I-impossible, you had no food all of yesterday and it looked as though you haven't eaten for years! How are you alive!?"
"Miss Patches let me tell you a secret," The lights went out, when they came back on he was in her face,"I can't die. I'm immortal, look!"
He cut his throat, but no blood spilled out. He began to cut and stab at fatal spots on his body, but as before nothing happened. Organs that should have fell out, blood that should have been spilled did not fall nor spill.
Nurse Patches was gonna scream, but the lights went off and on again, leaving no trace of the maniac. She looked around, but to no avail, Famine wasn't spotted until...
The lights went out again and when they went back on Patches found Famine in front of her grinning wide*, blood everywhere, the patient she was "caring for" gone. She screamed but nothing came out, then she felt a pain. She looked down to see that she was ripped open, the blood on the walls was her's.
"Farewell Miss Patches, your hereby sentenced for a soul collecting, you have sinned and therefor will be punished. Again, farewell Miss Patches." The lights began to flicker slightly faster, showing Famine walk out as if someone was blinking.
Miss Patches closed her eyes, she knew this was coming. She knew she would be punished for her cruel behavior, just not like this. Then she realized something.
She was dead the moment the lights went out.
The Four Horses of the Apocalypse
Chapter 4 - The Hunt And Its Reward
Famine
Famine's hospital massacre was about finished, he just needed to repaint last room with the last few doctors hiding in it.
The hospital was now quiet for everypony in the hospital was dead. When he finished Famine walked out of the hospital, he looked back at the building.
It was in shambles. Windows were broken, lights still flickered, and many other stuff like electrical and the sign was dangling from ceilings and walls, some bodies were on the grass out side and some were visible inside.
"Well, now that I had my fun I think it's time I find my brothers and sister." Famine said, walking away with his 3 tools attached.
Death War Pestilence | Pinkie
"And that's what a cutiemark is." It has been 15 minutes of pinkie explaining how a cutiemark works, not even a single bit of air was inhaled nor exhaled.
"Okay, so we just have to figure out what our cutiemarks mean." Death was thinking and looked at Pestilence,"Your melting skull must mean you use potions and vials for the death of others."
"That was an easy one, try and figure out what War's is." Pestilence pointed to War's cutiemark.
War's cutiemark was a bull skull in front of two swords clashing, sparks were flying off the two swords.
"Hmm, well the swords clashing must mean a battle and the bull skull must signify his strength." Death looked at his mark and back up,"He is the strongest one after all, strength of a bull and with the swords it must mean Master War's power in you."
"And your cutiemark, what does your's mean?" Pestilence asked again.
Death's cutiemark was a skull with a soul floating out of the eye sockets.
"Well its a skull like your's and War's, so it has to do with Death or the dead, and the soul possibly means reaping. It does make sense, Master Death was commonly know as The Grim Reaper, so I must be a reaper as well.
"And my special talent is party throwing!" The pink annoyence said," just look at the balloons!"
"..."
"..."
"Right..."
Death whispered to War,"Now that we look like mortals, lets go find Famine." He turned to Pinkie,"If you'll excuse us we need to find-"
Pinkie was gone when he fully turned around, no trace of her was left, so they looked at Pestilence.
"What, you think I did this? Well I didn't." She pouted,"Meanies, thinking I would do such a thing."
"Sincerest apologies, now let's go find Famine."Death said," We have two places, the church and the hospital."
"Well the church idea isn't a smart one, I doubt we can enter it." War said
"Right, holiness and such." said Death.
On the many planets that had been destroyed, they all seem to have had a church or religion, the four steeds were never allowed to enter with fear of dying, only the horsemen and their master was allowed to enter and destroy it. For odd reasons the churches took no damage from outside but from inside anything happened.
"So, the hospital then?" War asked,"Alright let's get going." he motioned to the hospital on the top of the distant hillside.
Twenty minutes later.
They have been walking silently, each thinking of something differently.
'Where could that barrier making object be? It can be anywhere! Maybe a strong energy coming off it would let us know.' Death thought, trying to figure things out.
'This world is so colorful, bunnies and tiny horses! They're soooo cute, I just wanna melt them away with The Eruptor vial." Pestilence's thought, while fiddling through her potions, disease wasn't always the only thing she carried. If it caused health problems she's had them, the Eruptor vail made a small volcano form, erupting and burning anything.
'If it's a hospital then nobody there can piss Famine off. If they did, the entire hospital would be in-' War thought, only to be interrupted by the appearance of the hospital.
"-Shambles." War thought out loud.
Death walked up to one of the bodies laying outside the door and inspected it.
"So many young souls gone to waste, at least we know Famine wasn't here to long ago, maybe thirty minutes." Death looked around the body to find multiple stab wounds, but that wasn't what killed the doctor. What did the job was when this body was thrown through the door, for a gaint shard of glass was embedded in his skull.
"Well, if I'm just like Master Death, I better start reaping." He took out his scythe,"You guys go on ahead this wouldn't take long."
Death saw how his master collected souls, it was a simple three step process:
Step one was to raise scythe so the end of the staff is point up and the tip of the blade is pointing at the body.
For stop two, Death brought down the scythe and made a big cut across his chest, no blood spilled.
Finally step three, Death reached into his chest and pulled out a white ball, it was a soul. Though the body was deceased the soul lived screaming in pain for its flesh vessel.
As he was doing this to another body he saw War and Pestilence walk away to investgate around the hospital, to fnd leads on the where abouts of Famine.
War, Pestilence
War was looking around the side of the hospital, he was the one looking to be honest. Pestilence was to busy trying to melt and burn the flowers and butterflies, and Death was reaping souls. The more War thought about it the more it bothered him
'How did our horns and wings appear, how are these mortals so peaceful and innocent, and how are we not dead?'
The fact that they couldn't die was easy, they are immortal after all, but War never felt pain in the other worlds when he, his siblings, and his masters were attacked.
The first time in his immortal life did he actually feel pain,'Is that what pain felt like? A horrible sensation that did not feel good, is that the defenition of pain?" War began to think more,"And where in Heaven did Famine go!
"H-h-help." A faint voice cryed.
"Huh?" War snapped out of his thoughts
"H-help me." The voice cryed again.
War continued to here the faint voice looking around to find the source underneath a chunk cement, pieces broken off when Famine was slaughting and destroying the hospital and the citizens inside. War wanted to lift up the rock but he couldn't,he didn't have his horn and his hooves certainly couldn't pick anying up, that would be impossible.
'Wait my horn, of course! Okay, how does my horn appear? Um let's see...'
"Appear! No. Erm, horn! Nothing."
War was unable to pick up the builder, and know the pony underneath the rubble will die.
'I just wanted to pick this up.'
And with that thought his forehead began to glow red and then a small bust came out, letting him know it appeared.
"Oh, just had to think of picking it up, I knew that." War said.
War consentrated on the chunk of concrete, his magic slowly began to inch fowards, finally reacing the concrete sourounding it with a red and black glow. His head began to feel heavy and was forced to look down. He tried to retaliate, but when he did the concrete did, too! He was finally gonna get some answers.
War walked up to the surviving victim.
She was a white mare with a pink mane(Nurse Redheart)," T-thank you, after what that monstosity did, I would have thought there would be no survivors. If there were they would would have given up search, nopony could have survived what ever that thing was."
"What did he look like?" Asked War. He knew it was Famine but he wanted to make sure.
"He had a sickly green coat, a nasty mane, and was extremely thin." answered the mare.
"Where did he go?"
The mare weakly pointed to the direction to ponyville,"H-he went that way."
War looked back on saw the town in the distance,'What the- We just came from there!'
War looked back at the mare and began to lower the concrete.
"W-wait what are you doing!? Stop, you're gonna crush me! No, Sto-!" The red and black aura around the concrete disperesed and War's retracted his horn, disapearing. The concrete fell and the height of the object came down fast enough to fully crushing the the white mare.
"A lot of good that did us, Pestilence we're heading back!" War said to Pestilence, who heard he screaming mare.
"What did you find?" She asked.
"The possible where abouts of brother Famine." He answered.
"So should head back to brother Death?"
"No, there's too many souls to reap, we'll leave him to his job. Let's go find him ourselves."
The two walked off towards the town, hoping to find Famine in one piece.
Death
Death had reaped twnety four souls, but who was keeping count? Death was, he had to keep track of every soul, for they just followed him, not contained. He feared they might wander off and corrupt a mortal, but the end was coming why would he fear this? Becuase corrupted mortals are tough to kill, he had to learn that the hard way the last time his master trusted him to kepp watch of these nusenses.
"What am I going to do with all these souls?" The Reaper asked out loud. Souls just lingered, floating around him.
*Sigh*"This guy seems to be the last one." Sighing one last time, he brought his scythe up," Let's just get this ove with. If i knew it was this boring I should have asked them to stay."
*Clink*
"Huh, What was that?" Death looked behind him to see the souls gone, but replaced with a light blue glass bottle containing a white essense circling inside.
"These must be the souls." He began to think a little,'So when fifty souls are collected, they are put into a glass bottle for possible further uses, fascinating.'
He poke it with his hoof so when it fel he can investigate it.
*Clink*
The bottle fell over and a sticker was under it, Death read the title and the warning:
"Bottle O' Souls. Warning: Only open when a major sinner is near!"
The bottle said nothing else, no directions, what it's made out of, not if an experation date, but Death picked it up with his mouth and set it on his back. The bottle was slighty heavier then he expected.
"Okay souls are harvested and contained, and I believe he last time I saw them they were walking back towards town." Fixing his robe with his magic, so the bottle doesn't fall and he had somewhere to put his sycthe, Death walked down the trail leading back to town.
'I wonder how Famine is doing.'
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Famine
Famine walked around Ponyville, ignoring the commotion around the block, all he saw was smoke and rainclouds.
After a few minutes of looking he stopped to think.
"If I was an immortal horse disguised as a mortal pony, where would I be?" Famine looked down,"Oh wait..."
Famine proceeded to walk to different places, looking for the other three. After an hour of searching, he decided to rest.
"That looks like a good place to lay down." Famine walked to a tall tree with enough shade to let him rest in the cool breeze, but the odor of iron was in his coat."I'm gonna need a wash, but not now, I to need rest."
Famine slowly closed his eyes to drift into a short nap.
"Hey, what are yah doin' 'ere?"
Pestilence, War
"This was a bad idea, they just slam the door on us before we even ask them." War said to himself.
He watched Pestilence talk to a pony at a stand, but the pony fleed after Pestilence said something. Pestilence's came back with an unhappy face.
"That was rude, I walked up to that stand over there and asked them if they know a place that has meat." War gave a questioning look,"Don't give me that, I'm hungry. Mistress Pestilence fed me meat instead of the imp oats, she said it was bad for me."
Imp Oats were fed to the horse before and after they get sent on a mission. It was nothing special, just the tiny bone fragments of grinded down imps. The meat Pestilence was given was always different kind of meats, human, fish, bear, hurbflumb, even horse, to both Mistress and Sister Pestilence, meat was meat and nothing would change that. The only reason was becuase they couldn't taste it.
"I'm getting hungry myself, go ask another stand where we can get something to eat." War said
Pestilence gave a small sigh and walked back to the stands, she came a one stand and asked the question they pony pointed to a small shop that looked way to colorful. Pestilence looked both ways, leaned in, and asked the pony another question, but before Pestilence could get an answer the pony ran away like the last stand owner. Pestilence sighed and walked back to War.
"The pony said we can get something to eat in that place over there." Pestilence point at he same colorful shop.
"You asked for meat didn't you?" War asked
"What makes you say think I asked?"
"The pony ran away in the same fashion as the last one you asked."
"Oh, you saw that huh? Well um... Let's head to the shop."
Pestilence ran ahead a bit and walked the rest, War slowly walked there sighing half the time.
They reached the door to the shop, it had white walls, a brown roof, and a small tower in the middle. The tower resembled a human pastry, a cupcake.
"Sugarcube Corner
"Well the name isn't so bad." Pestilence said to War, who just barley caught up.
"As long as there's food." War walked in hoping to get a bit a food, but the lights were off.
"The store must be closed." Pestilence said,"I'm so hungry I'd consider eating Imp Oats."
"But then why is the door unlocked?" War pulled back Pestilence and summoned his horn to drew his sword.
"SUPRISE!" The light came on and the store was filled with ponies and party supplies, but they the gasped when they saw War's great sword pointed at them.
"What is this?" War kept his stance, but Pestilence ran towards the food table.
"It's your suprise party for you and your friend overthere." replied a pink pony,"Remeber me? I was the pony that told you about cutiemarks, remeber now?"
"Yeah, I remeber. Listen mort- I mean Miss, we are just trying to find our third nrother and be on our way." War thought for a moment, "You wouldn't happen to know the coldest place on this is planet would you?"
"You mean the Crystal Kingdom? That place is the most shivering cold bringing kingdom in Equstria... I love it there, but not as much as Ponyville." Pinkie said, wearing a snow cap out of no where.
"The Crystal Kingdom huh?" War said to himself,'This might be the easiest armogeddon, all we need is to gather the- '
"HEY!" The crowd of ponies and War looked towards the commotion, where Pestilence looked at everpony with anger.
"Where's the Meat? I'm starving and if I don't get meat soon I'm gonna eat a-mmphf." War quickly covered Pestilence's mouth before she finished the sentence and ruined a perfeectly good opportunity at getting to the Crystal Kingdom.
"W-what what d-did she say?" A teal pony asked in the back
"And what did she say s-she'd eat?" Asked a magenta one with streaks in her mane.
War had to think fast, if he said a lie they might accept it and move on, but no Pestilence already said meat so that won't do. He coud slaughter them and let Pestilence devour them, oh but if she did she would be punished for gluttony...
'Maybe, if I reveal ourselves they would flee and all we would have to do is regroup with Death, and Famine is supposubly in the town so if they send their Military again we could stand a chance, sounds like a good plan.
'
"Alright you want answers?" War reached for a glass of water, "Here's your answer!"
The Water splashed War and a bit got on Pestilence, War began to change back. His coat began to burn, then his mane to catch fire, next his eyes burst into flames then died down leaving an a dim light in the empty sockets.
There was enough water to shift Pestilence as well, Bits of piece of flesh begon to rot and fall of like a lepper.
Ponies screamed and ran but stopped cold in their tracks when they heard laughing from outside.
Death
"Okay, that seems to be all of the souls, lets see that makes...1, 2, 5, 7, 12, 56 souls! Better get to Brother and Sister and help them find Famine." Death made his way out of the hospital and just in time too. The hospital collapsed on itself, rubble and dust clouds filled the air, making it impossible to see.
*Cough*
"Damn it!"
*Cough, cough*
"Wait, I'm dead this doesn't affect me."
Famine slightly emmbarresed walk out of the fog and down the hill to Ponyville.'Demons, that name is annoying.'
On the way to the town center, he saw a gingerbread looking building. When he looked through the window he grew a smile on his face. It was Brother War and Sister Pestilence, but their disquises wore off, he laughed when the mortal tried to leave, but when the door openedthe froze in place staring in his direction.
"Oh. don't mind me. When these two are done I'll be right here...Collecting your souls. War, would you ever so kindly pass me a water?"
"What ever you say, BoneBag!" War summoned his horn a picked up a glass of water, he pushed open the window next to him and chucked it at Death, hitting square in the face.
Ponies gasped in horror when glass shards were inbedded in Death's face and eyes. When the water settled in, he immediatly burst into flames, coat and all maelted away by the heat of the fire, when the fire dispersed charred bones were on the floor. More Ponies around the street began to scream, some threw up a bit, others fainted.
But when the bones began to rattle, that's when things began to get worse.
The bones threw themselves up and slowly rebuilt a skeleton of the ony, when the jaw was locked back into place a red dot appeared acting as the eyes, then when the skeleton looked around, he began to luagh. Harder and louder sickening luaghter became, horn summoned, scythe equiped, ponies trembeled in fear. Trying to piece together who he was.
Everypony ran when an old green pony yelled,"I't be the scythe wielding demon himself, It's Death run for yer lives!"
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Chapter 6 - Forced To Sin
Famine
"Eat up now, gotta put some meat on them bones."
"I'm fine woman, now leave me alon- mmphf!"
Famine had waken up to find that he is not under the original tree he rested at, but to have waken up on a couch in rustic old home with a fire place and other western items that resemble the many other races he helps destroy, but that's already been told.
When famine woke up he didn't have much to look at other than objects in front of him and an orange equine in his face. She offered him food, he politely (as polite Famine can be) declined, but was forced to eat anyways.
He wanted to spit it out, but before he could The Orange One kept putting more into his mouth.
~After an hour of feeding~
The Orange One looked dumbfounded, no mater how much she fed him his stomach wouldn't even bulge, she went through different foods, from a regular apple to apple pie to apple cakes to other unnameable apple products.
'Rares would do anythin' tah be dis stallion' The Orange One mumbled, but Famine was able to hear catch it.
'Who ever this "Rares" is, is possible gonna real prideful with stones on her neck!* Famine was angry, granted he finally gets to do his job, but even the weakest of planets with the weakest of beings can have sinners.
As he was thinking of who this "Rares" was he started to notice that the red monstrosities called apples started to taste...better?
They were starting to taste good, he swallowed off the first bunch and when his mouth was clear he asked.
"Orange One, how did you get the snakes, rats, and toads mixed in with your food? It's tasting better already!**"
The Orange One went pale and dropped the long spoon of apple cubes she had in her mouth.
"S-s-snakes, rats, a-and toad-ds?" She sputtered.
"Yes snakes, rats, and toads, are you deft woman? This is marvelous, I can already taste disease from the rats and the sickness from the toads, so I believe I should be-"
Famines thin stomach started to bulge abnormally with lumps everywhere.
"Ah that was good..." Famine leaned back from the couch moving a bit to get comfortable, by doing so he burped and a some red cloud smelling like iron came out.
"What's your name Orange One?" Famine asked.
The Orange One was in too much of a shock it too her a while to talk.
"A-a-apple J-jack" she stuttered
"Well A-a-apple J-Jack,odd name for a pony, the snake venom is about to take affect so when you can, can you be a good mortal and get me a horn from a goat to suck on. With out it I'm going to be tasting venom and toads for weeks. 'kay Thanks!"
And like that Famine was knocked out by supposed snake venom, while he was unconscious (obviously dead), Applejack was starring at the red cloud that floated there, above Famine and in front of her. The cloud dispersed seconds later, but not before making a cloud form of an upside down 't'.
"T-t-t-t-w-w-w-i-i-i-l-l-l-i-i-i-g-g-g-h-h-h-t-t-t-t!!!!" Applejack ran as fast as her legs carried her searching for her another by the name Twilight.
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Long Hiatus or Just Gonna Give Up
gonna put it bluntly here.
The story is messed up, I need to fix my own grammar, and it needs more work
Hiatus
Only until I can get all this fixed up and such, I can leave it like this and you guys can use your imagination and imagine how how the story will end.
Or I can give you guys the spoiler on how it ends, or just delete it.
I'm sorry guys it's just, that I can't think of anything for this, and I dislike the story myself. I mean when I write my stories, I want to write it without knowing the ending, but when I thought up of the ending around the first chapter, I found it boring for me. I dont want to keep writing this to be honest, but you guys are the readers, so if you want more or something let me know.
