Rise of the Angel of Death

Out in the cold north the two travelers moved through a cave. Malthael looked at himself through a chunk of ice. He had to get disguised if he and Sunset wanted to go somewhere. He waved his hand in front of his face a few times until finally his hair changed to red and his face tanned a bit, looking livelier, and his eyes became green. Sunset herself looked wide eyed at this. "Seems like I can alter my appearance a bit," he said with a bit of a laugh. He pulled an oversized cloak on to help hide him. The two hid themselves in their cloaks and set off again.

The two managed to make it to the forest by nightfall letting them camp out. With the fire crackling between them the two swapped a few stories. Later, their tent was kinda small for them. Sunset shivered a bit and cuddled up to him and Malthael’s sleepy arm wrapped around her, causing her to blush. She found it warmer however as she snuggled up with death. 'This is getting weird I'm not falling for him..... I'm... I... no don't think those thoughts Sunset!' She screamed inside her head. There was something about Mal. She had given up on life itself and he had told her to embrace her second chance. He Helped her when she knew he should have ended her as death.

The morning sun rose over the forest, and a yawning sound could be heard throughout it. In a hammock Discord awoke. He jumped off the branch and with a grace few could believe he moved from tree to tree. Getting ready, as he slid down, he saw a camp fire and a tent.

Discord figured that Malthael would come around here eventually. This was where it all started, and where it all ended the first time. Discord waited patiently for Malthael to get out of the tent. However, he was surprised when Malthael wasn't alone. "Well, well, well, you seem to have quite a bit of game for someone who hasn't had any practice in centuries." Discord said with a smirk.

Sunset let out a loud ‘Eep’ and fell back into the tent. Malthael wasn't bothered by the appearance of the draconequus and returned his smirk. "I was wondering when your mismatched ass was going to show up. You and I have a lot of catching up to do, old friend."

"We barely know each other you know." Discord asked. Malthael sighed.

"Yes but I thought it sound right for the moment you know." Sunset shook her head at this. It was Discord. She once snuck into Celestia's private library and read a bit about him. Discord was extremely powerful, being strong enough to defeat both celestial princesses with little effort. He was most likely the most powerful being on the planet. "So what are you doing here?" Malthael asked. He was really bad at having a conversation with Discord. Mostly do to the fact he only met him once when he ended up in the forest a day before he faced the monarchs.

"Oh nothing much, you know this forest was once burned down right, a few trees stood and it came back." Discord looked around it. "If you go down that way you’ll see a fading crater as well as the remains of a little village form a thousand years ago." Discord finished.

"Wait so is this the place where that happened?" Malthael asked.

"You mean when you were put to sleep while the two monarchs' bodies decayed then died, where those ponies burned my kind’s home to the ground and where I was reborn the God of chaos? Yeah, pretty much."

Malthael's face contorted into a mixture of despair and rage. He had to stop himself from letting his Death Fog roll out of him. "I thought I felt a large amount of death early on in my imprisonment. For years I could hear the echoes of their screams in my dreams. Every time that happened my hatred for those two monarchs grew. I swore that I would make them feel every bit of suffering that they had caused. I don't know how I forgot what they looked like but I knew they were the only alicorns, they had told me that themselves."

Sunset had worked herself out of her stupor and placed a hand on Malthael's shoulder. "Mal," she whispered.

"Don't worry Sunset, I'll be fine." He replied, placing his hand over hers. giving her a small smile. "So tell me Discord," Malthael started, returning his attention to the god of chaos, "Why did you protect those ponies back at the castle? You have more of a reason to hate these ponies than I do. Didn't you say that you had kids when we met?"

"No I didn't." Discord stated, he almost laughed at how poor his memory was.

"Damn being asleep messed with my memory a lot more than I thought." He said. Discord rolled his eyes.

"At least you weren’t imprisoned in stone, I was forced to stay awake, no one even bothered to clean the bird poop off me until I started to stink, then I had several birds’ nests in my mouth." He finished rambling. "Anyway, the reason I stopped you was because while it would seem fun I had to act all "reformed"." He said with air quotes. "They had the Elements with them and I can't counter them unless I'm totally prepared beforehand, I didn’t want to turn around and get hit again, twice I let them do that to me." He said as he sat on a log. "Anyway, after that I had to fill them in, involving their history of racism, they really needed the wake-up call, so now I'm living out here in my kind’s regrown forest." Discord finish. Sunset gave him a look of surprise and yet bewilderment.

"So what if they come looking for you?" She asked. Discord had a bit of a smile.

"Well I wouldn't worry." He said with a smile. "The moment they enter here a few special wards will pick them up allowing me to detect them.".

"Hey, I know that tone. You've got a plan, don't you Discord?" Malthael asked with a smirk.

"Oh, I don't think you'd be interested in any of that." Discord replied with a smirk of his own.

"Humor me," Malthael said.

"Well okay, since you asked so nicely. Before Celestia and Luna defeated me, I planted a few plunder seeds that should sprout up any day now. The plunder seeds should try to choke out the Tree of Harmony, the place that the Elements originated from. I have no doubt that Twilight and her little friends will stop them.... but they are a bit overdue." Discord said in a thinking pose. "After they lose the elements I wonder if they would finally have to pay their dues." Discord said and was gone in a flash.

"Well that was strange." Sunset said.

"What he is, is chaos lets not try to understand him." Malthael said as he got up. Lets get going."

The two travelers landed a bit off of nowhere on a trail. "So if you were a unicorn once, you think you still have magic?" Malthael asked.

"I don't know, I haven't tried doing any magic yet." Sunset answered, considering the possibility.

"Why don't you give it a shot? Here, why don't you start by trying to move my sickle?" Malthael held up one of his sickles so Sunset could get a good look at it. She took a deep breath and reached out towards the item without trying to grab it. Sunset strained for a few minutes but nothing happened, not even a spark of magic was created.

"It's no use. I can feel the energy inside of me, but I can't properly channel it."

Malthael scratched his chin for a few moments before he snapped his fingers as he came up with an idea. "You know how your wings grew in when you almost fell into the ice?" Sunset nodded and let him continue. "Well maybe you need to be in a situation like that so you can use your magic?"

Sunset's eye's widened in surprise. "That makes a lot of sense. Since humans in the mirror world don't have magic or wings my body might have placed a physical or psychological block that prevents me from using my magic. If I were placed in a stressful enough situation, my instincts might take over and remove the block." Sunset theorized a smile spreading across her face.

"Well, just promise me you won't put yourself in danger on purpose. I don't want to see you get hurt over a guess."

"Don't worry, I won't." Sunset reassured Malthael. "Besides, if I keep traveling with you I'm sure danger will find me." She finished with a knowing smirk.

Speak of the devil. "Somebody help Trixie!" A voice rang out.

The two looked at each other. "Looks like something just happened." He said. The two ran out to see a blue unicorn staring down a big angry bear thing, an Ursa Major. The bear thing heard a voice. "Leave." A single word with an echoing voice. Sunset looked as Malthael stood there, sickles at the ready. A few more roars were heard as two other ursas walked in. Sunset flew to the mare. Sunset believe it or not could tell who she was despite the fact that it she was a pony. After all it didn't take long to realize that most ponies had a counterpart in that other world. "Trixie Lulamoon?" She asked. Trixie shot up.

"How do you know Trixie’s name?" She asked.

"There's no time to explain that right now. Let's just get you out of here." Sunset said picking up Trixie and lifting off with a single flap of her wings.

"What about your friend? There's no way he can deal with those beasts."

"I wouldn't worry about him." Sunset laughed as the two of them looked down at Malthael.

The three bear creatures lunged at him. Only for him to cut the claw with his blades taking flight, he readied a basic fireball spell and channeled death magic into it, firing it at a bear causing it to feel pain. He dodged another attack to using a bit of his fog, infusing it into his target causing prolonged pain. He finally turned to the other bear it swung a claw and missed. He pierced the bear’s rib cage latching on to it he held is sickle in his hands and the bear’s soul fled into the blade. The bear being screamed in horror as it felt like it was being ripped apart. Malthael gave it a drop kick. The bear falling down, fear in all three’s eyes. "Leave!" He commanded. The ursa ran the fear of death right inside them.

Trixie couldn't believe what she was seeing. She couldn't imagine anything other than the Princesses being able to do something like that. And the magic that it was using, she had never felt anything like that. Malthael scanned the skies and quickly found Sunset and Trixie. The feeling around him had changed. They could still feel the soul he had absorbed, but other than that he seemed as normal as an angel could. "Hey Sunset, I've got good news. I'm pretty sure that bear should be able to feed us for like a year." Malthael called out, getting close to her.

"There is no way that I'm going to eat that thing. I'm a vegetarian."

Malthael sighed. "Yeah, I thought so." He held his sickles out and the soul passed back into the bear. It stood back up, and then puked. "Sorry, having one’s soul ripped out then returned is very dizzying, it should be fine in a few hours if it gets some sleep." The bear fell unconscious. "See?" He pointed. Trixie looked between them.

"Can someone explain to Trixie what’s going on?" Trixie asked.

"Oh yeah introductions, this is Sunset Shimmer." He waved to the girl holding her. "I'm Malthael, Angel of Death." Trixie suddenly paled.

"Angel of Death. No! I won't let you take me I'm not ready to die!" Trixie screeched, flailing around in Sunset's grip.

"Sunset would you be a dear and put a hand over her mouth?" Sunset did just that and the two of them allowed Trixie to tire herself out. "Okay now that you're done freaking out let me explain. Yes, I really am the Angel of Death, but I'm not here to kill you. If I really did want you to die then I would've let those bears tear you apart."

"Then what do you want with Trixie?"

"I may not be the biggest fan of ponies, but even I would've felt bad if I had just let those things eat you." Malthael explained with a small grin. "Also I figured that Sunset would appreciate a proper meal considering we've been living off of light provisions for the last few days. But she had to be difficult and not eat meat." Malthael chuckled at the attempt at humor.

Sunset rolled her eyes and the two set themselves down. "Ok then Trixie wishes to know how you know me?" Trixie asked Sunset. Sunset Shimmer had little idea how to tell her.

"Look there’s a mirror that leads to another world, one where everyone here has a counterpart there, I know your counterpart in that world." Sunset finished.

"So it’s a parallel dimension? Trixie used to read novels about them."

"Well that went better than I thought it would, what about you Sunset?" Malthael said with a shrug.

"I have to agree, I thought she would've freaked out more." Sunset replied, putting Trixie down and returning the shrug.

"Don't talk about Trixie as if she isn't here!" Trixie growled.

"Sorry Trixie, we were thinking out loud. So, it was nice meeting you, I guess, but we've got to get going, things to do, people to see and all that." Malthael explained waving a hand lazily in the air.

Just as they were about to take off Trixie called out to them, "Wait! You're just going to leave Trixie in this dangerous place?!"

Malthael sighed and looked over to Sunset, "What do you think Sunset, should we help her out?"

Sunset sighed. "Sure why not." Trixie jumped up.

"Thank you both." Trixie shook Sunset’s hand with her hoof. Sunset suddenly felt some uncontrollable feeling in her.

"Sunset are you ok?" Malthael asked.

"No I think its. Ahhh!" A wave of magic shot out of her. Trixie moaned as she suddenly stood up. The dust cleared only for Trixie to feel taller. And her frontal hooves were gone replaced with weird hands. Standing there was a blue skinned human girl dressed like Trixie was as Sunset remembered. "I think I had a magical backlash." Sunset said a bit dizzy. Trixie looked herself over.

"I somehow find this more natural." Trixie said surprised.

"Okay Sunset, either you stop shaking ponies’ hooves or wear gloves or something because I don't think people will appreciate you spontaneously changing their species." Malthael said, still shocked from what he was seeing. "Okay now Trixie, since you were a unicorn you might want to check to check if you can still use your magic."

"What spell should Trixie use?"

"It doesn't matter just try something simple so you don't hurt yourself if anything goes wrong." Trixie nodded and shortly after a light pink glow surrounded her hands and a small orb of light sprang up from one of them. "Okay, so Trixie seems to be fine. Now Sunset, I want you to do the same thing maybe that magic backlash unlocked your abilities."
Sunset nodded and tried one more time to use her magic one more time but once again nothing happened. Sunset continued to try until it looked like she was going to pop a blood vessel.

"Oh come on! You've got to be freaking kidding me! I can change someone's species but I can't even pick up something!" Sunset cried, folding her arms over her chest and pouting.

Malthael had to admit, he thought she looked cute when she pouted. "So before we go any farther mind telling us why you’re here in the woods?" Malthael asked. Trixie held her hat over her eyes.

"Oh Trixie caused some trouble and she ended up like this." Malthael gave her a look.

"Let me guess your own kind did this?" He asked. Trixie gave a nod.

"Kinda it was also partly Trixie’s fault, how about both of you?" She asked. Sunset looked down.

"I was once Celestia’s student, went to the other world, I kinda ascended into an Alicorn and got locked in human form." Malthael held his sickles out.

"I kinda faced the princesses’ parents and killed them, all that mess because I saved a pony village, I was deemed a monster, was imprisoned in Tartarus, and if you go there now don’t expect much of anything to be alive." Malthael finished.

Trixie audibly gulped, thinking she might have picked the wrong traveling companions. But, the logical part of her brain reminded her that Malthael had just saved her, so it wouldn't make sense for him to kill her now. "Hey Trixie, do you have any supplies nearby?" Malthael asked. "You're not carrying anything and you look like you've eaten recently."

"Yes, Trixie has her caravan parked close by. Trixie was just out foraging for food before those Ursa Majors attacked her."

"Do you think there's any room in your caravan for the two of us Trixie?" Malthael asked, trying and failing to give Trixie the puppy dog eyes.

"Trixie believes that she may be able to squeeze you two in considering you saved her precious life."

"Yes!" Malthael cheered before turning to Sunset. "Did you hear that? No more sleeping on the cold, hard ground for us Sunset!"

(A bit away)

Discord himself was resting in a hot-spring. This spring was special. Only once had he ever been here. It was during his childhood with his parents. He shed a tear. The water contained special healing properties as well as being able to reenergize beings with chaotic magic. His mind wandered to the beings that would visit from far and wide to come here. The sibling races of chaos, beings who changed the world. As he sank into the water he heard voices.

"Cutie mark crusaders forest explorers!" He heard.

Discord almost groaned. 'Great them.'

"Hey Apple Bloom, look, a hot-spring." The voice of Sweetie Belle was heard.

Discord stayed still. Sweetie belle touched the water and gave a gasp in pain. "It’s hot!"

'A hot spring that's hot, who's ever heard of something so preposterous?!' Discord snarked in his mind. 'How did these three brats hear about this place anyway?' Discord racked his brain before the answer became obvious. 'It must've been that zebra Zecora. Her coming here I'll let slide she was probably doing some traditional healing or cleansing rituals. But these three are just going to desecrate this sacred place whether they mean to or not. Huh... no Discord you're supposed to be "reformed", just listen to them prattle on for a little longer and then see if you're going to make them cry home to their mommies.'

The three fillies looked at a statue. "Oh what’s this do?" They knocked it over, breaking it. "Oops." Discord’s blood boiled.

"Hey is the hot spring boiling?" One of the fillies asked.

The water gave way as Discord rose up. He however took the form of a dragon. "How dare you destroy that object!" The 'dragon' demanded. The CMC looked on in fear. "This is my home!" The dragon screamed. "Do I go to your home and destroy your things?" Discord in dragon form glared at them.

The three fillies held onto each other and screamed at the top of their lungs. However, none of them moved. Dragon Discord gave them a few more moments before his patience ran thin. "Leave now and never return or I swear that I will devour you as slowly as I can manage." Dragon Discord boomed, blowing smoke onto the fillies. The Cutie Mark Crusaders listened to his warning and ran as fast as their little legs would carry them.

Once Discord was unable to see the fillies he undid his transformation and picked up the broken statue with a tear in his eye. "Don't worry old friends. I will never allow anything like this to happen again." Discord whispered before he repaired the statue with his magic.

At the edge of the forest Rainbow Dash, Rarity and Applejack were at the edge of the forest they were with the CMC helping them go out the forest for something. "We're a long way from Ponyville what if something happens?" Rainbow Dash asked. Suddenly, three screaming fillies came running at them.

"What’s wrong?" Applejack asked.

Apple Bloom jumped up. "Dragon, a scary dragon!" The younger sibling screamed.

"How the hay did tha three of ya manage t'run into a dragon?" Applejack asked, half concerned, half angry.

"We were exploring the forest thinking we could earn our cutie marks by being awesome adventurers like Daring Do. Sweetie Belle found a hot spring and tried to dip a hoof into it. Apple Bloom and I saw these weird statues close to the spring and we knocked one over." Scootaloo explained. "As soon as it broke a huge dragon came out of the water. It said that we had broken a part of its home and threatened to eat us if we ever came back." Scootaloo finished, on the verge of tears.

"That thing did what?!" Rainbow Dash boomed. "Come on girls. Let's go teach that dragon a lesson in manners." She was about to fly into the forest but Applejack stepped on her tail and stopped her.

"Now hold on there pardner. Ah don't think that's such a good idea." Applejack said, hoping to calm her friend down.

"I have to agree with Applejack, darling." Rarity added. "The girls trespassed in another's home and most likely destroyed something of sentimental value to that dragon. Normally I'd recommend apologizing but the dragon has made it clear that they didn't want to see them again. We should just be thankful that nothing untoward happened to the dears." Rarity reasoned.

Rainbow dash groaned a bit at this. "I still say we should show him a thing or two." A flash of lighting was seen coming form a nearby cloud.

"I see I got your attention." Flying there was a Pegasus with multicolored wings, and his eyes where slightly off, being different colors the right being green the left red and the right one's pupil was a slit. His cutie mark was three twisters twisted around themselves. "Is it me or are you thinking of attacking a dragon who’s home was damaged? What kinda pony would do that?" His face fell. "I'll tell you the kind, the kind that has a griffin friend but doesn't even bother to learn a thing about their culture, tell me, did you know that they rarely form bonds with other races? And when they do they basically see you as their family? The griffin’s unique outlook made her see your friends as a threat, and instead of showing concern or understanding, you just kicked her out of your town.." the pegasus looked her in the eyes. "What you did is treason in their eyes, be careful when you enter the griffin lands for your life becomes forfeit if you do." In a flash he was gone. Everyone’s eyes were wide.

"You don't think." Rarity asked.

"Discord." AJ said.

"You don't think what he said was true, do you girls? Rainbow Dash asked crestfallen. She didn't bother to let them answer and kept going. "Did I really betray Gilda by not knowing about what griffin's are like? I... when I met her as a filly I didn't see her as a griffin. She was just Gilda to me. And after Flight Camp and I grew up I wasn't going to study, that stuff's for eggheads like Twilight. I mean I always just thought that griffins couldn't be that different from ponies since Gilda and I got along so well. But even then, when Gilda blew up at her party I didn't try to talk to her I just told her to get out. I basically told my oldest friend that I hated her guts. Some Element of Loyalty I turned out to be, huh?" Rainbow Dash finished trying and failing to hold back tears.

"That was mean of him." Scoot said.

"Actually it’s not." Rarity said. The three fillies had looks of confusion. "Until a few weeks ago we didn't know Discord’s past, his race was killed when their forest burned down turning him into the god of chaos." Rarity finished. The three fillies suddenly felt bad.

"We're sorry we didn't know." Apple Bloom said.

"Who could have done something like that?" Sweetie Belle asked. Rarity didn't want to answer that at all.

"It's not for ya'll to know." Rainbow Dash herself felt rotten.

In his forest Discord appeared lounging in his hammock. He had to change their outlook. Most ponies saw chaos as evil, it wasn't naturally like this. In fact, chaos also meant freedom and change. He lived by it and could use it in any way he wished. For too long the ponies refused to change in the slightest. Hell, most of the stuff here wasn't even different; those guards were still wearing the same crap from a thousand years ago! Last time he checked every other race had begun to change their armor, but no, not the ponies. 'One day they’re going to wake up to their neighbors being advanced enough to simply run them over.' He thought. He stood up using his talons he created an image on a viewing screen.

In her library Twilight was looking over the books as Spike put the ones she’d read back. On a book an image popped up. It was discords face. "Hello." He said twilight jumped back and the image came out and standing there was an alicorn version of Discord, with a cutie mark of three circles inside a twister.

"Ahh! What the hay Discord?! Can't you use the door just once!?"

"I can't do that Twilight, I have an image to maintain." Twilight sighed and took a few painkillers to preempt the headache that came with every conversation she had with Discord.

"Alright Discord, to what do I owe the pleasure of your visit?"

"Oh Twilight, this isn't about what I want, it's about what you want." Discord stated while spreading his alicorn wings.

"Okay, I'm listening."

"I happen to know what Malthael's plan is." Discord said in a sing-songy voice.

"What?!" Twilight screeched, pressing her muzzle against the image of alicorn Discord. "What is it? Is it something bad?"

"Oh no, he's just going to travel around Equestria and beyond for a while." Discord replied with a chuckle.

"That's it? If his intentions are so basic then why'd you bother telling me?"

"Because if I didn't then you would've poured over every book in Equestria in hopes of finding Mal's weakness, and with the things to come you really need to keep your focus."

"What do you mean by that?" Twilight asked, concerned.

"Oh I don't know how about the fact that you're a princess now." Discord said rolling his eyes. And with that the image of Discord started to fade.

"Wait!" Twilight cried, still having one question on her mind.

"What is it now Twilight? I already told you I can't talk about your future."

"It's not that. It's just, when I ran into Malthael in the Crystal Empire he looked like he was going to attack somepony, but Sunset Shimmer was able to stop him. Why was that?"

"Oh that would be due to the most wonderful kind of chaos there is."

"And that would be?"

"You'll find out someday Twilight." Discord said finally disappearing.

"What do you mean by that?" Twilight asked, concerned.

"Oh, I couldn't tell you that, even I don't know all the details." Discord finished, starting to disappear.

At the small caravan the three beings looked it over. "You were right about it being small." Sunset said. Malthael himself sat down looking over his stuff in his bag. A few things were way down in there.

"Hold on what's this?" He asked himself. He reached in and pulled out a small charm. With it was a letter written with something that he had no idea. It seemed to have a button. "Let's see." He pressed it. In a flash the caravan disappeared and all three of them saw a different looking thing made a bit of metal. Malthael looked at it.

"What happened to Trixie’s caravan?" Malthael opened its door and walked in. He walked out and looked it over.

"Ok you won’t believe me but come inside." The two of them were wide eyed, as it seemed to be bigger on the inside! Malthael walked down the railings. Malthael’s memories start to return a bit. Before blizzard con his best friend got an idea watching Doctor Who, he created this kinda house van thing in a picture ANC gave one to him. "I know right." He sat down. "I little parting gift form a friend, it seems to have our stuff in here, a home we can pocket." He said.

"How in the... Trixie can't believe what she is seeing. This place is as big as a house for a family of five! What manner of sorcerer was your friend to make something like this?"

"A huge nerd with way more free time than anybody should have." Malthael simply said.

"A nerd, that's it. I'm having a hard time believing that." Sunset said taking a seat on the large couch in the middle of the room.

"Honestly, I don't really know how my friend did it. When he told me he was going to try and do something like this I thought he was screwing with me." Malthael said, running a hand through his hair.

"Trixie thinks we should worry about such petty details later. For now we should decide where we're going next." The two couldn't argue with Trixie's logic and Malthael found a map of the continent so the three of them could decide what they'd be doing.

"Okay, do you know where we are on this map Trixie?" Malthael asked.

Trixie looked it over. She pointed near a forested area. "We’re here, the nearest town is Duskwood." Trixie said, pointing at a town near the border. Sunset’s eyes were wide.

"Duskwood isn't that supposedly the place where dark things happen?" Sunset asked.

"It is, it was mostly abandoned but now, word says a cult lives there." Trixie started. Malthael had a frown. He vaguely remembered some kinda silly fight over beliefs. Honestly he found that stupid and childish, fighting over which was the right belief or that there was no belief. Now he was in a world with a God of chaos, alicorns who could be near divine and him an angel.

"A cult of what exactly?" He asked.

"Nightmare Shard was its name, so I'm guessing Nightmare Moon." Trixe said recalling what she last heard.

Malthael raised an eyebrow. "Nightmare moon? That sounds like she’s some kinda evil princess Luna."

"Are you being serious?" Trixie asked. "Princess Luna was Nightmare Moon. She had allowed herself to be corrupted by jealousy and tried to throw the world into an endless night. This is something everypony knows."

"I was locked away in Tartarus when Luna was still a filly, so I'm a little out of the loop Trixie." Malthael explained.

"I'm sorry, I forgot about that." Trixie said dropping her normal speaking pattern for a moment.

"Don't worry about it Trixie. I'm just trying to put that part of my life behind me. Now back to this cult. I think we should check them out and see if they're a threat or not."

"What if they are dangerous?" Sunset asked, though she already knew the answer.

"Then we give them a different kind of Nightmare." Malthael stated, pulling out his sickles for emphasis.

The group headed off, Malthael pocketed the house in his bag. They came into a foggy forest as they moved. Night started to form as they walked into the town. The placed seemed deserted. Malthael got a strange feeling. Holding up a sickle, and a bit of a glow was seen. He suddenly recalled his fight with Luna, he didn't rip out her soul but he got something. "Follow me." The group did.

They moved into the forest voices were heard. The three of them found a grove. "Our mistress is not gone, Celestia pawns attempted to destroy her. Bat winged ponies were seen with others. "However behold, a feather of Nightmare Moon, a gem holding a piece of her blood, and finally a sacred object of hers, the Sword of Nightmares." The cult started to chant in an ancient dialect. Malthael held his sickles up. A blue glow was seen in them. 'I wonder.' He held it out, the soul raced to the objects in an instant the moon flashed the Mare on the Moon symbol. The cult moved back. A dark shadow came from the feather and the gem. Finally, standing there was Nightmare Moon. Their eyes widened.
"I did take something form Luna, the Nightmare Moon side of her soul." Malthael said. Nightmare Moon collapsed, tired. The cult turned to see Malthael, Sunset and Trixie.

"Get them!" the cult leader shrieked.