Between Life and Death

“Pitch Black where are you!?” Monochrome yelled s he entered the chamber. “Get your phantom ass out here so I can kick it! Pitch Black!”

“Monochrome calm down!”Twilight begged. Monochrome stood where he was refusing to move.

“Twilight, you, Agony, and Nyx lead the girls out of here, Men, you’re staying here with me.”

“Why do we have to stay?” Arrowhead asked.

“Because I said so, now get in here.” The others moaned as they walked into the main chamber. As they stood with in the empty room Twilight started guiding the others out of the palace. As they moved, Key Scales looked back to the others; they were getting ready to fight, even though there was no one there, she stopped where she was.

“Scales? What’s wrong?” Twilight asked as she stopped the group, Key Scales whisper something. “What-?”

“Not again!” he yelled as she started rushing to the main chamber.

“Key Scales, wait!” Twilight called out as she and the others chased her down, but they weren’t fast enough, she made it into the chamber and tackled Arrowhead, almost knocking him off his hooves.

“Scales, what are you doing!?” Arrowhead asked.

“Not again!” Key Scales began crying as she looked up at him. “I’m not leaving you again. The first time was a mistake, and I don’t want to lose you again.” She held onto him tightly refusing to let him go.

“Scales come on, we need to get out of here.” Twilight said, she attempted to walk into the room with them but she ran into something as soon s she got to the doorway.

“Damn it, the shadowy bastard expected this.” Monochrome groaned as he walked over to Twilight.

“What’s going on?”

“You and the others are locked out, Pitch Black Doesn’t want anyone else to enter.”

“Why not?”

“For the fight shall be, unbalanced.”  A deep growling voice announced the doors began closing, Monochrome moved away from them before they slammed shut.

“Monochrome!” Twilight called from the other side, her voice was quite and muffled.

“Twilight get the girls out of here now.” Monochrome answered.

“But what about you and the others-?”

“Just get them out of here damn it!” Monochrome snapped at her, Twilight didn’t answer immediately, and after a second she replied telling him she’d go. “Key Scales you complete bitch-!”

“Don’t talk to my girl-friend that way!” Arrowhead yelled at him.

“I’ll talk to her however I bucking want! Because of her, we can’t leave until we kill that shaded son of a bitch!”

“What did I even do1?” Key Scales interrupted.

“Pitch Black doesn’t like people like you entering his chamber.”

“People like…that sexist bastard; I’m going to kill him!”

“Are you bucking stupid or are you pretending!? Do you really think that you can kill him!?”

“How hard can it be?” she started walking to the throne. “All I have to do his stab him a few times and he’ll be begging for life.” She face him and the others but continued walking. “It’s that easy you know-“ she bumped into something, she heard heavy breathing, she looked p and saw sinister soul piercing red eyes looking down at her. She screamed and ran back over to Arrowhead. When she looked back at the man she saw him more clearly, he was wearing a black cloak with the hood over his head, he had red scars covering his body, just like the other two people she saw, and he even stood three times taller than her.

“Here I am, thinking that the female race was the weaker one.”

“Black, don’t you know it’s impolite to keep people waiting?” Monochrome growled as he turned his hands into their sword forms.

“Forgive me child, I was busy with…preparations.”

“The only thing you need to prepare for is the afterlife!” Monochrome roared as he rushed towards him, Pitch Black snapped his fingers and three pillars of black flame appeared in front of him, when they disappeared he stopped dead in his tracks, with in the pillars were the three princesses

“I should have let you known, the preparations were for the ceremony, and I am to be wed before nightfall.” Monochrome’s hands went back to normal and he began backing away from them. “Allow me to tell you the story, upon their deaths, I took the liberty of housing them, I kept them safe in the dungeons, and as they stayed there, I began to think to myself, after that reached council of winged beasts murdered my wife, I would have to find another, and what better substitute, then a princess.” H turned around and walked over to Cadence, he grabbed her by her hair and pulled her head back, revealing her neck ad a strange necklace she was wearing. “At first I thought that this one would make a perfect bride, but her heart, it made me sick, her joy was one of the few most putrefying things I ever known.” I flicked his finger and a massive claw came out of the tip of it. He held the claw up to her neck. “And because of her heart, I was unable to wed this one.” He started guiding his claw across her neck, and as he did, a line of blood started dropping out of her.

“Let her go!” Shinning Armor yelled as he pulled out his sword. Pitch Black smiled sinisterly and it could be seen through the shadows of his hood, he let go of her head, and when she looked forward she revealed that she was crying in pain.

“After I figured out that I was unable to wed that one, I moved on, to my favorite of the three.” He placed one of his hands on Luna’s head and forced her to look upwards; she was wearing the same necklace as Cadence. “When I moved on to this one, I began thinking of the advantages of being wed to the princess of the night.” He let go of her head and instead placed is hand on her shoulder, he also placed his clawed finger on her cheek and started cutting her, and also like Cadence, she cried in pain. “If I was wed to this one, I could force her to make it eternal night up above, I could have her eclipse the sun, or I could even have her turn back into the beautiful Nightmare Moon. But when I realized that her soul was to pure, I became angered, knowing I couldn’t be wed to the younger two, so I settled on the elder of the three.” He moved away from Luna, the right side of her face was almost completely covered with cuts and blood and her crying became even more intense. “Since I can’t be with those two, I decided to be wed to your favorite sibling; I’ve decided to be wed, to Celestia.” Pitch Black didn’t even touch her yet, but Celestia was already crying. “Celesstia will be the perfect bride, if I was to be wed to her, I shall have rule over Equestria, the sun shall never be raised and my children of shadows will be able to roam freely, and, there will be nothing to stop me, from controlling this world-“

“Your wrong about that.” Clockwork interrupted, he pulled out his war hammer. “You have us, we won’t rest until your dead.”

“Clockworks right.” Ankh agreed with him as he pulled out his bow. The others began feeling pride within them and they all pulled out their weapons.

“There is no way we’re going to let you take over our world.” Clockwork said, attempting to intimidate him. Pitch Black smiled, he flinched both his hands and massive claws shot out of all his finger tips.

“If you want to stand in my way, then so be it, but, do not expect me to show mercy during our battle.” Clockwork, Shinning Armor, and Key Scales all charged at him at once, attempting to tackle him, but they somehow missed and all their weapons fazed through him. “Do you expect to defeat me with such mortal tools?” he raised one of his hands and slashed at Clockwork, he held up his hammer to block, but his claws passed right through the handle, cutting it into smaller pieces. In shock, he dropped his hammer and backed away from him. “It shall take more than that to even harm me.” He took a step forward and as soon as he did, Dance Party shot at him and the bullet hit him in his shoulder. He looked at the wound then back at him.

“Take another step and the next one will go straight in to your ugly mother-bucking face.” He growled.

“Unless your bullets are blessed, then they shall not hurt me.”

“You want to prove that?!” he shot him again and like he said the bullet hit right in his eye. He started screeching in pain, and as he did, Dance Party smiled smugly.

“As I said, it shall not hurt me.” Pitch Black laughed, he held his head up and it revealed that his eye was starting to regenerate. “Nice shot, but it is not enough.”

“Oh bloody hell…Monochrome, do something! We can’t win on our own-!”

“Get rid of the necklaces!” Monochrome yelled.

“…What?”

“The necklaces the princesses are wearing, their enchanted, and if we can’t get rid of them, we won’t be able to save them!”

“What the bloody hell does that have to do with killing him!?”

“Just do it!” Ankh rolled his eyes, he raised his bow and released the arrow, it flew right past Pitch Black and the others and skimmed right off the side of Cadence’s neck cutting the string on the necklace and as it fell to the ground, so did she.

“Cadence!” Shinning Armor dropped his sword and ran over to her.

“Uh hey, guy, I can’t win on m own…even though I said.” Pitch Black slashed at her, she ducked down and he cut the blade right off the dagger she was using.

“Cadence, are you ok!?” Shining Armor asked as he held her up.

“Shiny, I thought you forgot about me.” She answered with a faint voice.

“I’d never forget about you.”

“Nor will I.” Pitch Black added, they turned around and saw hi, standing over them with Key Scales on his back constantly trying to stab him in his head. “To think that I almost let you live, now, allow me to fix that.” He threw Key Scales of his back then raised his hand which still had claws on it. As he was about to slash at them an arrow flew at him and went right through his throat. He turned around and saw Ankh holding his bow, he let go of the string and another arrow launched towards him, but this time, he caught the arrow when it was an inch from his face then broke it.

“Oi! My grandmother made that arrow!” Ankh complained.

“I met your grandmother, she is nothing more than a harpy.” He took a step forward then immediately felt a stabbing on his back.

“Why the hell won’t you die?!” Key Scales yelled out as she pushed her sword deeper until it appeared on the other side of him.

“Shouldn’t you have learned by now” Pitch Black started turning around, and the sword that was still lodged deep within him started fazing through his body as he did. “Your pathetic weaponry cannot harm me.”

“No, but I bet they can slow you down!” she pulled out her other sword and stabbed him right in his heart then started pushing him back, she got him to his throne and pinned him to it, she began panting heavily. “See…told you they could slow you down-“

“You have proven your point.” Pitch Black Smiled at her before he slapped her causing her to fall to the ground. He pulled one of the swords out of him then walked forward and the other one began phasing through him. Shining Armor attempted to attack him, but when he got close Pitch Black slapped him and sent him flying. He looked back over to Key Scales, she was attempting to get back up. He kicked her back down then placed his hoof on her back. “You should know better, then to attack me.” He took the sword he had and threw it down, it went through her and into the ground, pinning her there.

“Key Scales!” Arrowhead called out. Monochrome went berserk and rush over to him, attacking with every chance he got, and while he was attacking him Arrowhead ran over to Key Scales who was just barely alive. “Scales, are you alright.”

“Arrowhead, I’m happy I got to see you one last time, I didn’t want to leave you without saying good bye-“she said to him, her voice was growing weaker.

“Please don’t talk like that, just hang on, we can help you-“

“I’m sorry, but you can’t, this is my time.”

“Scales.” Tears started running down his face. Key Scales reached for the pendant on her necklace, she took it off then handed it to him.

“Please, don’t forget me.” She lied her head down and went motionless and silent.

“…Scales…Please get up…Scales!” the tears going down his face disappeared and he started growing angered. He drew the sword that had killed her, he started yelling as he rushed to Pitch Black who at the moment was still fighting Monochrome, he turned around in time and managed to dodge him, but Arrowhead kept slashing at him and managed to cut him a few times. “I’ll kill you, you sick bastard!” he yelled with complete anger, Pitch Black stepped back and Monochrome took both his hands which he turned into blades and stabbed them in his back, while he was stunned Arrowhead took his sword and stabbed him in his chest.

“The rest of you, get my sisters and make sure their alright!” Monochrome demanded and the others went over to Luna and Celestia, the got the necklaces off them and carried them away from the fight.

“Release my bride!” Pitch Black demanded right before a pulse of energy sending Monochrome and Arrowhead flying into the walls. He started moving towards the others and when he was half ways towards them he immediately became stunned and unable to move for some reason, he turned his head and saw something almost as terrifying as him, someone as tall as him, half his face was black and had a purple serpent eye and the other was white with a blue eye, and long black dreadlocks.

“I’m amazed you forgot about me.” The man spoke calmly, but his voice was twisted, it sounded as if two people were saying the exact same words at the exact same time.

“How did you enter this chamber, it was sealed as soon as the gate had closed.”

“Me and the others have been here the entire time, waiting for an opening to attack. “

“I see, and how is it that you have paralyzed me?”

“Special poison I made, right before you killed us all.” The man took his two swords and using the dull sides of them he swung at Pitch Black and sent him crashing into the side wall of the chamber. “Father.” He turned and faced Monochrome. “Father you must awaken, for the battle is not yet over and you must continue.”

“…Corruption?” Monochrome whispered to himself as he stood up.

“Daddy!” a girl yelled from behind as she hugged him.

“Amber? Is that really you?”

“Daddy, I missed you.”

“Amber!” Monochrome shouted with joy as he hugged her back. His form started turning back to normal. “I can’t believe it, I came here to get you and the others back…I…I thought…”

“You thought it wouldn’t be this easy?” Amber interrupted.

“Yes, actually…where’s your mother?”

“Right here.” A familiar voice answered, he turned around and saw Gilda standing behind him holding a strange gun.

“Gilda!” he hugged her tighter then he held Amber. “I can’t believe I lost you, I promise, I’ll never let that happen again.” He looked past her and saw the man that attack Pitch Black, the two of them were almost identical with the exception that the man was wearing a black T-shirt, black leather jacket, and blue jeans instead of what Monochrome was wearing, Blue button up shirt, white jacket, and black jeans, the man also had a strange black ooze on the side of his face.

“Corruption, son.” Monochrome let go of Gilda and walked over to him. “I’m happy to see you again.” He held his hand out expecting Corruption to shake it, but instead, he threw his swords down and hugged him tightly.

“Father, never make me think that you became one of those things ever again, understand?”

“Yeah, I understand.” Monochrome smiled as he hugged him back.

“What a touching moment between you two, it is a shame that it must end, along with your lives.” The looked over to him, he was getting out of the hole he formed on impact. Corruption let go of his father, he picked up the two swords he dropped and rushed to him, he started swinging the two massive blades as if they were nothing, and during the attack he knocked him down several times but each time he got back up and continued fighting. “Give up child, you won’t win in a fight with me.”

“That is what you think demon, you don’t know it, but I already won.” Corruption jumped back, Pitch Black turned his head and was immediately shot by the gun Gilda had, she pulled the trigger and a massive blue light appeared, it didn’t hurt him, but the light moved around him and broke the wall leading out of the chamber. “Now, everyone go!” everyone rushed out the hole.

“You shall not escape me!” Pitch Black yelled as he started chasing after them, when they got back to the town they became surrounded be the demon guards, and once Pitch Black caught up with them he stopped and stood within the army of guards. “You should know better than to trick me like such.” He held up his hand and there was a screaming noise as strange shadows started forming together, and once they were formed, he slammed it on the ground and the shadows vanished and revealed a scythe the handle on it was crooked and looked like a stick while the blade was massive and on the back of it was a goat skull. “This time Monochrome, I shall win.” He raised the scythe and before he could swing it, a beam of light lit up the entire area and killed all the demon guards. “No…No! What caster is strong enough to use this spell!?”

“I am.” a female voice announced from above. He looked up and saw someone flying down towards them.

“Who are you?”

“My name is Jetstream Shimmersky, Princess of Lightening, and the one who casted that spell.”

“Impossible, that was and advance spell, you couldn’t have been the one to use it.”

“Well I was, so too bad.” Pitch Black growled he took a step forward and when he did another beam of light shot down right on top of him, when this one hit, the celling started caving in.

“Mom, are you ok!?” another voice shouted from above, this time Screwball landed next to the others.

“I’m fine Screwball, nice job.”

“Jet, hey, it’s nice to see you again.” Monochrome smiled, she turned around and smiled back at him.

“It’s nice to see you to, but, didn’t you turn into one of those things?”

“I did, but it didn’t last long.” Seconds later the entire area started caving in on them. “We’ll talk later, we need to go, now!” Monochrome led the others out of the dark land, and once they got to the above world, they immediately met up with the others.

“Guys, your back!” Twilight shouted joyfully.

“Twilight!” Cadence shouted back with joy.

“Cadence, I can’t believe your back!” the two of them hugged.

“Twilight, it’s nice to hear your voice again.”

“Jetstream? What are you doing here?”

“I thought you guys could use some help so…yeah.”

“Now is Still not the time!” Monochrome interrupted as he panted heavily, he got up and turned around to face the gate way in the ground, he raised hs hands into the air and started chanting something. “By order of the land above, yadda, yadda, yadda, Close, now!” he yelled out and the gate way began closing. “Ok, now we can talk.”

“What was that about?” Nyx asked.

“Pitch Black is still alive, and I can tell that if he gets out of there, he’s going to be pissed-“

“Why would I not be!?” he interrupted, a black serpent like creature flew out of the gate way right before it closed and landed in front of them. When they looked at him, they saw he had changed, he went from a normal person, to a strange dragon. “You vial creatures, you have destroyed my home, and for that, you shall all suffer!” he took a deep breath and when he exhaled a strange green and black smog shot out of his mouth, everyone jumped out of the way, the smog hit several trees behind them and the trees died.

“What was that?” Twilight asked in her panicking state.

“I have no idea, but I think it’ll be a good idea if we avoid it!” Monochrome replied. He did the same thing again and this time aimed for Twilight, when he exhaled Monochrome shoved her out of the way, but at a cost, when he shoved her his leg got caught when they landed on the ground Monochrome started screaming in pain, when he looked down his leg was starting to rot away.

“Monochrome? Are you ok?”

“I think I know what that does now.”

“What a shame to, now you have to die.” Pitch Black taunted them, he started inhaling, when they attempted moving they noticed the Monochrome couldn’t get up and they ended up stuck there. Twilight closed her eyes and waited for the end, then everything went quite, she opened her eyes and everything was completely black, she looked around and there was nothing there, she looked down and saw Monochrome wasn’t there so she stood up.

“Hello?” she began walking around, she eventually bumped into something, she attempted to move past it but it was like attempting to walk through a wall, she eventually heard a twinkling sound, she turned around and saw the golden feather she got rid of before all this started. She started heading towards and as she did, the world of black started turning white, she started moving faster and when she grabbed it the entire world vanished. When she opened her eyes again she noticed that all the green smog was moving around her and Monochrome, like something was protecting them, she looked at her hand and saw she was holding the feather. “Monochrome?”

“I know, I’m seeing this to.” Monochrome interrupted her. Monochrome looked down at his leg and noticed that it was healed so he got up then helped her up. When smog cleared away everyone noticed that they were fine.

“How are you not effected!?” Pitch Black Roared at them.

“Don’t know, but I think it has something to do with this.” Twilight showed him the feather.

“Impossible! That item has been locked away for centuries!”

“Well that’s interesting, since I found it floating around the Everfree.” Pitch Black growled at them.

“Hand it to me now!” he took a step forward and the ground lit up at his claw. He looked down and saw a circle with a strange pattern in it.

“Look at that, and here I am thinking you weren’t that stupid.” Monochrome chuckled.

“What kind of joke is this?”

“Joke? Buddy, if that was a joke then it be one hell of one. No, that there is a special circle, forged a while ago-“

“What spell is it?”

“You tell me, you brother made it.” Pitch Black’s eyes widened with fear.

“You foul, this spell is too dangerous for mere children like you!”

“I’m not a child, and no it isn’t, only to you.”

“Monochrome, what are you doing?” Twilight asked.

“Twilight let me tell you something, that circle, is a holy spell made by Purity, it’s called Raptures Blessing, and it destroys all things unholy, including him.”

“But do not forget child, if I die, I am reborn in Tartarus-“

“Which is why I destroy it-“

“You destroyed it?” Jetstream interrupted.

“Alright fine, We destroyed it, point is, since it isn’t there anymore, you don’t go there upon death.”

“And where do I go then?!”

“To a non-existent realm, banished for all eternity.” Pitch Black looked down at the circle again.

“In exchange for my life, what do you want?”

“First on my list, I’d like you to revive a friend of mine.”

“Which friend-“

“Which one do you think?” Monochrome interrupted with sarcasm. Pitch Black closed his eyes and a moment later there was a flash of light and Key Scales appeared in front of him.

“Scales!” Arrowhead shouted as he ran up to her and caught her before she fell over.

“There is your friend, now what is your second request-?”

“I want to make a contract with you. In exchange, you may live.”

“Very well then, what is the contract?” Monochrome went up to him and started whispering in his ear, Pitch Black groaned with annoyance. “Very well, the contract shall be forged.”

“Excellent, Jetstream, I need your help.”

“With?”

“I need to open up a time rift, I need to go alert a few people, oh, and also, put a memory lock on him so he won’t be able to break our agreement.”

“Forward or backwards?”

“Both.” Jetstream smiled, she held up her hand and a ball of light appeared, she then threw the ball at Pitch Black who began snarling.

“Good, ok, let’s go-“

“What of me!?” Pitch Black demanded.

“Oh, you…right…you can just wait here-“

“What?!”

“Hey, you bargained for your life, and since your still alive, I guess the deal is still in play-“

“You treacherous swine-!”

“Yap, yap, yap, come on everyone let’s go.” As they walked off, Pitch Black started roaring as if he really was a dragon.