Between Life and Death

“Ugh, I can’t believe we lost again!” a female voice wined, this is like what, the hundredth time, the two hundredth!?”

“Don’t ridicules Agony, it’s only been seven times.” A male voice groaned.

“Yeah well, it’s seven times to many.” She replied. As the two walked through the forest they arrived at a cave, when they entered it, it revealed to be almost completely empty and silent. “So, what are we going to do this time? Another ritual, because the last four times we tried ended so well.” Agony ended with sarcasm.

“Close, my blood thirsty complies, were going to summon someone special this time-“

“Nightmare Moon I know, you don’t have to keep saying “someone special” you know, it’s getting on my nerves-“

“How many times am I going to have to tell you that it’s not her this time?” He pulled a piece of chock out of his pocket and began drawing on the cave floor.

“My hooves are killing me. Which remind me, we should be in charge by now, we should have nice big comfy thrones to sit in, cushioned stools to put our hooves on then a few people behind them, massaging them…I yeah, that would be nice.” She smiled as she slid down the cave wall and onto the ground. “But no, you and your stupid friends had to screw up the ritual again-“

“I told you once Agony, it was because of those stupid elements of harmony, and those stupid time keepers.” The man replied. He stood up and removed the hood covering his face; he had light blue skin and white hair and light blue eyes. “Agony do you have any chalk with you? My last piece just broke.”

“Do you have any of this!? Do you have any of that!?” She replied in a snappy sarcastic tone as she stood up. “Why don’t I ever get anything from you?”

“Just give me the damn chalk.” The man demanded.

“Fine.” She pulled the chalk out of her pocket. “Catch Mr. D. Mandson.” She threw the small bit of chalk at him and he caught right before it hit the ground. As he went back to drawing Agony slid back down the wall, she sighed loudly, and so did the man.

“What’s wrong?” the man asked in a tone that sounded like he didn’t care.

“It’s just-“ Agony removed her hood, and revealed her face, her skin was a purple color, her hair was spiky with purple tips and her eyes were a light blue color. “I’m just lonely.”

“Get over it, you’ll have slaves once we start our rule.”

“I know but-“she turned away and began to cry. “I don’t want a slave…I want a friend…one who’ll actually care about me.” The man looked up at her. “You have all you friends in that colt of yours…but…the only friend I ever had is gone…and…and…” she stopped talked and began to cry. The man sighed, he got up and walked over to her then sat alongside her.

“Come on Agony cheer up, she wasn’t your only friend you know.”

“Yeah, right, I have all the people I killed-“

“No, you have me.” Agony’s eyes lit up with joy.

“You…you actually want to be my friend?”

“Yeah, I mean, we both have the same goal, we both hate the same people, we both worship the same person, why not?” Agony began to blush as he smiled at her and whipped a tear off her face. “Come on, I need help to finish the circle.”

“Ok Spell…but, first, can you Please tell me, who the hell were trying to contact?”

“Didn’t I tell you-?”

“I need more info then just a friend.”

“Guess I didn’t tell you, were trying to contact him-“

“For the love of Luna! Him who!?” Spell sighed loudly.

“Pitch Black! Are you happy now?!”

“…I would be…If you weren’t trying to kill us!” Spell sighed again.

“Just trust me ok?”

“Fine…but only because I like- I mean, only because you’re my friend.” Spell continued drawing the pattern on the floor, and once he was finished he stood up and backed away from it.

“Ok, final ingredient, magic of an alicorn-“

“Bet you didn’t think this through.”

“Actually, I did, I never attempt to do something without thinking ahead-“

“Yet you still screwed up the first ritual-“

“At least I got it right on the first try-“

“Oh here we go again! It’s not my fault! Every time I tried, for some reason, it just exploded in my face-“

“Literally-“

“Buck off!” she turned away from him and held her head up high, spell sighed with annoyance.

“Just use your magic.”

“I would, but I’m not an alicorn-“

“Yes you are.” Agony’s eyes widened.

“How did you know?!”

“Do you have any idea how many times you made me hug you in the past?” Agony started blushing again. “You do know, that I know how you feel about me right?”

“…I don’t want to answer.”

“I know you love me-“

“Lie-!”

“I know you love me! Ok, and to be honest, I kind of like you to.”

“You…you do?”

“Yeah, you’re a psychopath who wants to kill everyone and reincarnate and evil beast, what’s not to like.”

“Oh…ok.” Agony began to smile. “Alright, stand back.” She held her arms out and her horn started glowing along with the chalk circle on the ground, she kept it like that for a moment, and when the light around her horn faded, the light on the circle remained as is. They stood there waiting for a moment, until something happened. The chalk outline began to move, it started moving together near the center of it then it started rising off the ground, when it did that, it began to form a skeleton, once the skeleton was completed its eyes started glowing red and a black liquid started oozing from its head down it’s body until it formed a cloak.

“Who dares awaken me from my slumber?” the beast spoke with a deep growling voice.

“It is I, Spell Nexus, follower of Nightmare Moon.” Spell Nexus stated as he bowed

“And I, Agony, worshiper of Nightmare Moon.” Agony stated as she took knee.

“You two must want me to reincarnate your princess, don’t you?”

“Not quite, we wish for you to cast a plague across all of Equestria.” Spell Nexus requested.

“A plague you say?”

“Yes, we want you to damn all those who oppose us.” Agony added.

“I’m afraid I cannot do that-“

“Why the buck not!?” Agony yelled as soon as she heard him.

“Because, I have signed a contract Monochrome, in exchange for my life, I am not to use my magic to create and form of virus, disease, plague, illness, parasite, or any other form of biological creation that can be…fatal-“

“Does it look like we care!? We just escaped the most elite prison in Equestria just to get you to kill everyone, and you are to do so!” Agony demanded.

“When was this contract forged?”

“Two months from now-“

“What!?” Agony shouted with anger.

“How is that possible?”

“The ones you seek to destroy, have already conquered the plague and have bested me in battle.”

“That’s right, and since you two are still at it, we thought it would be appropriate for us to come stop you in person this time.” Spell Nexus turned around and Saw Monochrome and the other 6 standing behind him.

“How…how?”

“Long story, we’ll explain while you’re in jail-“

“Not again!” Agony yelled right before running back into the forest.

“Monochrome-“

“I can see Twilight, just let her run, I already got everything set up.” Monochrome walked over to Pitch Black and grabbed him by his cloak.

“I have not violated the terms of our agreement-“

“No, but you are using black magic, and that’s illegal.” And suddenly, Monochrome’s eyes lit up and he sent a wave of magic down his body and on to Pitch Black’s and when he let go, he fell straight to the ground.

“What did you do to me?”

“Petrifying spell. Nothing special though.”

“King of shadows, forgive me for what I am about to do next.” Spell Nexus said to him right before running off.

“You coward swine, I shall watch you suffer for this!” Pitch Black yelled at him. Spell Nexus looked back and smiled thinking he got away, bu when he turned back around he saw Nyx in front of him holding a sword to his face

“You!” he growled at her.

“Nice to see you to.” She waved the sword in front of him and he fell to the ground just like Pitch Black.

“Why-?”

“Paralysis spell, Monochrome taught me.” She interrupted him, she sheathed her sword then picked him up and started dragging him back to the others. Meanwhile, as Agony ran through the forest, she began to slow down, thinking she was free, she continued walking and out of nowhere someone tackled her to the ground and she was no longer able to move.

“Damn you, you little bitch!” Agony yelled in anger. “I should have known you had something to do with this!”

“Nice to see you to.” Agony smiled as she began to drag her evil-self back to the cave. Hours later when dawn had risen, Celestia, Luna, and their royal guards arrived at the cave.

“Tia, you’re just in time for the party.” Monochrome chuckled.

“It’s nice to see you to big brother.”  Celestia smiled as the two of them hugged.

“Brother!” Luna called out happily as she hugged him.

“Nice to see you to Luna.” Monochrome smiled. “Come on, their all inside.” Monochrome guided the two princesses and the royal guards into the cave. When they entered, they saw that the three were still paralyzed on lying on the ground.

“This was an excellent plan brother, I’m amazed.”

“Thank you Tia, I’m flattered.” Monochrome smiled as he picked up Pitch Black and carried him outside, and while he was doing that, the royal guards took the other two and followed him, when outside, he threw Pitch Black into a cage and closed the gate to it, and as soon as he was in it, his paralysis wore off and he started slashing at the bars, but every time he did, there was a quick flash of light and they remained in perfect condition.

“Why can I not free myself.”

“Because that cage has been blessed by your truly.” Jetstream said smugly, the two of them looked up and saw her and Screwball sitting on the cave entrance, Pitch Black Growled at her. When the other two got out of the cave they were thrown into the same cage.

“I swear I will kill you Monochrome!” Agony yelled at him.

“Yeah you go ahead and keep saying that, whatever makes you happy.” Agony growled at him then started yelled and shouted as the cages were taken away.

“This was a great idea Monochrome, I’m amazed you thought of it.” Twilight told him with happiness.

“Thanks, it took a while to make sure it was full proof, but, it was worth it.” He looked down at her and saw she still had the feather, and with interest he took it from her and started examining it. “You know, I bet this all could have been avoided if we just carried this things with us, there’d be a lot less dead people, a lot less B.S.”

“Yeah, guess there would be.” Twilight agreed, Monochrome smiled at her and put the feather in her hair.

“You did great Twi, and heck, if it wasn’t for you finding that thing, we would have lost, so, congrats.” Monochrome patted her head then walked off. When he was out of sight she took the feather out of her hair and looked at it one last time before putting it in her pocket. “Yo Twi, you coming or not!?”

“Yeah, hold on!” she called back before running to catch up with him.

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