Captured

Ponyville

Everypony was silent, they had just wittnessed one of their Princesses get decapitated in a blink of an eye. Death slowly put away his sythes as he walked toward the headless body. Death looked blankly at the body, he didn't want to kill it, but he knew it was the only way to complete his task. Twilight and her friends were crying their eyes out seeing their friend get killed so brutally. Twilight felt the worse though. How was she going to explain to Celestia and Luna that their niece is lyng on the ground dead, Then something inside her made her stomach turn how was she supposed to tell her brother, Shining Armor, that his wife that he loved dearly was no a pile of blood. The six friends cuddled with eachother trying to confort one another, until Twilight broke the embrace and looked at her friends with a daring look in her eyes.

"Twilight, don't even think about it, he killed Cadence like it was w nothin', plus we can't lose ya' too!" Applejack pleaded to Twilight.

Twilight then lifted up Applejack's chin and and gave her a warm smile to tell her that 'everything is going to be alright', but they both knew she was lying.

"I am not going to fight him Applejack."

"Then where are ya' goin'?"

"I am going to get that crown back!" Twilight exclaimed with a glare in her eyes. "Your not going to do that alone are you?" a stallion voice said. Twilight knew this voice all to well, the voice she grew up with, the one that was at the Canterlot wedding, and the one from King Sombra. "Shining!" Twilight exclaimed as she saw her brother, a white unicorn with purple armor, and about 20 of the royal gaurd. Twilight was now filled with tears and so was Shining seeing the body of his wife and the creature that had took her life, but all he was worried about att this moment was to help his little sister get the crown away from the nightmare that stood before them. "Shining what are you doing here are you supposed to be doing something in the Crystal Empire, and how did you know what was going on?" Twilight wanted to go on with questions until Shining Armor put a hoof over her mouth.

"Twily," Shining Armor said, " there is nothing that could keep me apart from you and Cadence and Spike wrote a letter to Princess Celestia telling her the situation, so she sent me and the other gaurd to help y...."

Shining armor was cut off seeing a sight which made his heart fall deep in to the abyss of his stomach. Twilight and her friends saw what Shining was staring at as they all had tears once again. Death slowly put his hand on the body of Cadence as the essence of her body started to disintergrate in a green ligh and flow in to her crown until there ws nothing left. Death smiled under his mask at how easy it was to get the soul of the first princess.

"One down, three to.....aaaahhh!" Death sreamed as a purple beam shot the crown out of his hand and in to the hooves of Shining Armor. Death was now in rage and annoyed as he took out his sythes and prpared for battle......again.

"This does not belong to you demon and you will perish for the murder of my wife!!!" Shining yelled with tears in his eyes as he raised a hoof signaling his archers on the buildings in Ponyville. Death was caught off gaurd as he felt a sharp pain in his left shoulder, he had been shot with an arrow! Shining Armor put his hoof down as arrows from every single direction started to fire. Death started to charge Shining while dodging every arrow that went in his way.

"Ground troops take him to down!" Shining yelled as about 7 royal gaurds with spears charged the creature. Death jumped over one gaurd dodging the swing of his spear slicing another gaurds face with his sythes. Two other gaurds tried to take him in the back but Death quickly turned cutting off both their heads. The other four gaurds looked in terror as they saw this creature kill three royal gaurd in under a minute. The last four gulped and charged Death, but he was ready as Death jumed high in the air putting his two sythes together making a hammer and slamming it to the ground making a shockwave throwing all the royal gaurd, except Shining who stood his ground, back in to the nearest building.

"The crown give it to me!" Death roared in anger as he raised his sythe toward the seven ponies that had resisted him.

"You won't get this crown! You brute!" screamed Rarity as her horn statred to glow.

"That's right  you don't deserve this crown when ya' killed our friend for it!" Applejack agreed pulling her lasso out of her hat. The remaning five nodded and took defensive stances around Death. 'Crowfather I am surrounded by the civilians who want to kill me." Death thought as he tried to reach Crowfather who soon answered, "Dd you have the crwn rider of death'. Death was still angered on how a pony took the crown from  but he managed to keep his emotions in check. "I did but the locals took it back and now got me surrounded<. Crowfather thought for a few moments until he finally answered' Death don't kill them, but defend yourself enough to take back the crown.' death looked confused on what the Crowfather just said usally he would just tell him to kill them and take the crown with extreme predjudice.'Why' Death asked in his head. 'Because what I saw they had a connection with that Princess Cadence if you could somehow earn their trust they could probaly take you to the other three princesses with ease'. " I'll do something better" Death said with a grin under his mask.

"You just going to stand there or are you going to show us what your made of?" Rainbowdash bragged as she did two backflips in the air.

"Your friend wanted to know who I was before I desposed of her," Death said calmly as he looked in the eyes of the seven and figured that Crowfather was telling the truth, who ever these ponies where they had some sort of connection with Princess Cadence, so he continued, "My name is Death, one of the four horseman. I already met the yellow one but thats all who I need to know, so if you don't mind I will be taking that crown." Death now pulled both of sythes back out and also got in his defensive stance.

All eight of them stood in the same position which felt like hours until Twilight finally shot a beam of magic, which Death quickly blocked. He then turned around to see Rainbowdash charging toward himwith speed he hadn't seen before, he was about to punch he in mid air until Applejack lassoed his arm as Rainbow head butted Death in the stomach. He fell to his knees as Rainbow was about to strike again, without hesitation Death grabbed Applejack's lasso and yanked her in to Rainbow knocking them both cold. Death then felt something creamy hit his back, he turned and got pelted in the face with cake as he fell on his back. He slowly got to see Pinkie on a blue cannon with her man deflated and a look in her eyes that reminded him of Lilith.

"Taste my party cannon meanie,beanie!!" Pinkie yelled as she took another cake out of her mane and stuffing it in to the cannn and getting ready to fire. Death then combined his sythes to create a doubled-bladed staff, spinning it like a helicopter as Pinkie continued firing cakes at him, but it was no use every cake she fired was sliced with the spining blades with Death unharmed but covered with icing. When he finally reached Pinkie he un did his sythes and jammed oe of them in the hole of the cannon making it explode knocking pinkie back ten feet to be caught by Rarity.

"Why you ruffian! How dare you hurt an innocent pony like Pinkie Pie!" Rarity screamed as she lowered Pinkie as she lowered atwo carts and chucked them towards Death as he ran up and cut through both of them and instantly kicking Rarity in to a tree knocking her out as well.

Death turned to see Fluttershy who he first met when he got to this world.

"So Fluttershy what do you have for me?" Death chuckled as Fluttershy fainted, "That's what I thought."

Death slowly noticed the last two standing with worried looks on there faces."Don't worry their not dead, I only kill when someone gets in my way."

"So that's why you killed Cadence?!! Just because she was in your way!!!' Twilight yelled with her wings spread and her horn growing with magic.

'This ones a strong one I got to be careful unless it is all over' Death thought as he dodged and blocked each magical attack Twilight and her brother shot at him. 'They can't keep this up for long soon their magic will depleat and that will be mt time to strike" Death planned in his mind. Twilight and Shining fired magic bullets nonstop until Shining Armor horn flickered as it ran out of magic just as Death predicted. He quickly kicked dirt in the white unicorns eyes as he stumbled back on the ground hitting his head with a thud on a piece of debris knocking him out. Death quickly grabbed the crown from Shining looked at it with victory.

"Why.....just why?" Twiligt muttered trying to fight back the tears.

"Listen all of this might look bad but I am doing it for a good reason." Death tried to explain

"Then what is so good you have to kill my sister-in-law, hurt my friends, and knock out my brother!!!!!"

"Because I have to save....eeerrrgggh!" Death sreamed as a yellow beam struck his back but this wasn't like the same beams Twilight and Shining was shooting at him. This one made him feel drowsey as he fell on one knee to try to keep his strength. He turned around to see a tall white horse with a horn and wings with a coloful mane flowing by itself. Death tried to reach for his weapons but couldn't when the same horse knocked hin back with a paralyzing spell. Death fell to both knees and quickly balcked out face in the dirt.

"Princess Celestia!!!" Twilight screamed as letting out the tears to go and hug her teacher. Twilight broke the embrace and started to speak sniffling through her words, "Princess Celestia, Cadence is...is...," Celestia put a hoof on her students shoulder. "I know Twilight she is gone, but we have to take your friends back to Canterlot this is going to get alot worst."

"What do you mean" Twilight asked with a concerned look.

"There has been another sighting of more of these bipedal creatures here and is described one on having crimson skin, bat wings, two horns coming out of it's head."

"Then what about him?"

"What about him?"

"He said the the only reason he killed Cadence was because he tried to save something."

Celestia looking curious stared at Death on the ground thinking of the same question. "Then we must put him in chains and take him to Canterlot with us so we can interrogate him." Celestia said in a stern voice as three carriages flown by the royal gaurd landed to pick up their passengers. Two of the carriages looked like it was just for travel on a vacation while the one looked like a cage with hand cuffs and chains.

The rest of Twilight friends and her brother started to come back to reality as Twilight tried to fill them in on what happened. They were agape when she told them about when Princess Celestia knocked out Death, but their expressions went even more down when they heard there were more like him in Equestria somewhere.

"Elements and Captin Armor we need to get to Canterlot as quickly as possible." Celestia said in a hurried voice. The seven nodded and boarded the two carriages while the royal gaurd chained up Death still knocked out in the cage on the third carriage.

"Alright gaurds we're ready to go." Shining Armor ordered as the gaurds took of and made a course for Canterlot.

The Mild West

"Where are we?" said a female voice looking sternly at her demon soldiers.

"We don't know my lady, but this is where the master said Death will be." one of the demons said with a scared look on his face. "If Death is here that means....." she paused before the thought clicked in her head, "He never restored humanity or rescued his pethetic brother, Hahahahahaha!" The demonic woman laughed until she was cut off by one of her soldiers  rushing towards her. "*what is it?!*" She asked in a terrorrfing voice even Discord would pee his pants. "My lady me and the scouts found a nearby town, populated with the locals what do you want us to do?" asked the demon.

"Well we are a little hungry won't hurt to have a little snack. Hey, who knows they might know where Death is. Commander let's go have dinner." the woman said with a evil grin.

The demon motioned the rest of the demon army towards the town and bowed to his higher ranking official. "Yes, Misstress Lilith."