Rise of the Angel of Death

Mal placed a hand over his chest, acting as if Twilight's words were arrows that had pierced him."I'm hurt Sparky, I'm just gonna leave now. Come on Solar, Moon, Chrissy, we don't have to stay where we're not wanted." Mal stated, feigning hurt in an overdramatic fashion.

Once they were out of earshot Solar asked, "Why don't you just tell them your plan?"

"Oh come on, where's the fun in that?" Mal replied. Solar rolled her eyes at the angel.

"You've been hanging out with Discord too much."

Mal gave a laugh. "You’re right actually. Man, I must be bad at picking friends, or very good at it. I don't know sometimes."

Soon the battle of the bands was on as the Rainbooms and the Dazzlings started to climb up the ranks until the finals between both of them. Sonata was a bit afraid as the two groups had begun the final battle. A paper airplane flew by.

Don't worry,

Signed, Mal

The letter read.

The Rainbooms and Sirens fight had started to pick up as their more pony-like features were starting to show. The sirens were going through their own changes. Their eyes were glowing red and strange, fin-like wings appeared on their backs.

In Equestria Discord felt the shift in magical energy. "Oh they are getting closer." He said as he snapped his fingers and left in a flash.

At the battle the Rainbooms spell was just about to be launched. Suddenly the lights flickered off and on, until they were out, surprising everyone. A hard beat was starting to be heard. Then a bass.

A guitar sound was heard as was the fall. A new light glowed as chains wrapped around a burning metal object in the blue with Star Swirl's chains connected to the two wings of Malthael slowly his fog of death rolled in. On drums was Solar Flare beside him were Moon and Chrysalis. Twilight felt a change. Her eyes widened Malthael just high jacked their spell!

Chrysalis’ insect wings shot out as Solar Flare’s hair became flames like and Moon’s eye glowed purple. The hooded Malthael’s face glowed white showing nothing.

The music continued to rise and swell, building up to something. Malthael started to sing, his voice a bestial growl. If one paid close attention they would know that Malthael was singing about the sirens themselves, and their plight of feeding off of conflict. Every now and then the girls would provide back-up vocals, their voices sounding like an angelic choir that provided a harsh contrast to Malthael's singing. The fog seemed to move according to the song, giving the thrill of death to the whole performance. As the song built up to a climax the fog seemed to converge at one point, hanging above the Dazzlings. Once the song came to an end the fog slammed into the Dazzlings, obscuring them from view.

Twilight and Sunset looked at him wide eyed. "Did you just kill them?" Twilight asked she had seen the cloud be used before. It always ended in death. The cloud gave way revealing the sirens unharmed but strangely at peace.

"I'm not some kinda monster you know, I actually figured out that their magic can cause more than suffering, their lives have been filled with that so their power evolved into what we saw, I simply fixed the problems and gave them the one thing they never had, someone who cared enough to help them." He had a smile. The chained Star Swirl glared at him.

"You... Undid my spell! You.... Ahhhhh!" He screamed as Malthael glared at him.

"I thought you learned your lesson when you threatened my friends and me...." His eyes glowed, a vortex of souls inside them. "None can stop death!" His voice caused everyone to move back a bit. The soul projection of Star Swirl started to cry. With that Malthael had crushed Star Swirl’s will.

"Malthael, what is wrong with you?!" Twilight shrieked.

"What did I do this time Sparky?' Mal asked, pulling his hood down.

"You just all but destroyed one of the greatest minds in Equestrian history!" She hissed.

"Damn Sparky, you just have it out for my ears.” He replied with a finger in one ear. “And what I did was teach a racist prick a lesson that he hopefully won't forget this time. So, what have you learned Star Swirl?"

"No biscuits for me thanks, the tea is divine." The projection answered.

"Oh, uh, that'll go away... in a few years." Mal muttered the last part under his breath. The crowd gaped at the angel on stage.

One person in the crowd shouted, "Why does all the weird stuff happen at this school?!"

The Dazzlings looked at themselves. "What just happened?" Adagio asked. She strangely felt better.

"Well if you must know I used the spell to fix you up in a way, your powers were unstable so I fixed it. You can, not only cause strife and conflict but also undo it, I also gave you a quantum, magical semi transdimesional connection loop to the strife of the souls in me to feed you seeing as how you either need conflict you cause or undo to feed on." He finished.

"Quantum magical semi transdimesional connection loop? You made that up!" Twilight said.

"Well it’s a lot simpler than me trying to explain it." Mal offered. "Basically the long and short of it is, that as long as the three of them stay within a certain distance of me they won't have to do anything to feed." Mal finished explaining.

"If this was your plan all along then why didn't you just enter the battle of the bands yourself?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"I'm glad you asked." Mal said. "You see Sparky here blasted me with the Elements of Harmony. At first I thought it did nothing to me, but in reality it gave me a connection to them. But, my connection is weaker than yours. I needed you all to harness the Elements so I could use their energy to form my spell." Mal explained.

"Really?" Twilight asked. Mal gave her a serious look.

"No, you six have limited control over your magic in this world I have full control of my magic it was very easy to take the equestrian magic I needed form you." He rolled his eyes. "I used Star Swirl as a lightning rod to collect it, then my death fog to transfer it."

Twilight's eye twitched. "Why didn't you just tell us all this from the start?"

"You needed complete concentration to use your magic. If I had told you, you probably would've worried about all the different ways my plan could've backfired."

"And is that why you didn't tell me?" Sunset asked, an annoyed look on her face. Mal took in a sharp inhale of air when he saw the look on Sunset's face.

"Yeah, sorry about that Sunset. I would've told you, but you decided to help on their end. Please don't be angry with me." Mal pleaded trying to look as sympathetic as possible.

"You and I are going to have a very long talk about this later." Everyone winced at that, knowing the implications of that famous line.

Sonata was the first of the sirens to recover from the news. She broke out in a wild grin, rushed over to Mal, and wrapped him in a near bone-crushing hug. The siren’s hug was a surprise, not only to the other sirens, but also to the human six and Malthael’s girlfriends.

"Sonata is there something you haven't told us?" Adagio asked. Sonata had a blush.

"I've kinda been dating him in secret." Sonata revealed. The sirens, six and sunset all had the same thought. 'You have got to be kidding me.' Solar Flare and Chrysalis raised an eyebrow at this. As for Moon, she had a smile.

"You really do seem to have a way of collecting them. Though, this one is pretty cute."

"Sister, can you please just reign in your libido just this once?" Solar asked, pointer finger and thumb on her temples.

"Like you're one to talk, what with all the things you told me you want Mal to do to you." Moon countered, sticking her tongue out at her sister.

"I told you all those things in confidence!" Solar shrieked, her cheeks bright red.

Mal took one of his hands and drug it across his face. "Girls, you do realize that all of this has been said in front of an entire school, right?"

Before anyone could act a vortex of energy suddenly opened up it expanded and after about ten seconds Twilight, Mal and his group and the sirens popped out of existence. On the other side Discord was pulling a chain of magic.

"Ok, I got them!" With one final pull out first came Twilight in her pony form. Next were Mal and his group. Finally came the sirens, who remained in their human form. "That’s strange three more girls." Discord said. Adagio looked wide eyed. He looked shocked. "Sirens? I thought your kind were gone."

"No, Star Swirl sealed us away in that world long ago due to what we eat. After the rest of us were wiped out. We're the last three sirens." Adagio explained somehow keeping her composure.

"Oh yes I'd heard that, nasty business feeding off of conflict and misery. I'm guessing Mal here found a way around that?"

"Yeah, I did. By the way… ow Discord, couldn't you give us a little warning before pulling us through dimensions?" Mal said picking himself up.

"And what did you expect me to do?" Discord asked.

"Really, did you just say that?" Mal replied. "You could've sent a projection or something of yourself to tell us that you'd be bringing us back, and then do it."

"We just wanted to get you back as quickly as possible. By the way, there's someone who's been missing you." Discord said pointing out Trixie.

Trixie came up to Mal and buried her head in his chest. "Trixie is glad you're back."

"We were only gone a few days Trixie. Oh I met your counterpart in that world.”

"You did?"

"Yeah, does the name, 'Great and Powerful' Trixie ring any bells?" Mal asked with a goofy grin.

Trixie turned beet red, "Trixie may have referred to herself in that manner at one point."

Sonata stood up. "Um Mal..." The angel sighed. This was going to be a long day.

A day passed since then Malthael was looking though his bag. "Weird." Malthael said. It looked like a smaller sickle. "I wonder...." He held it up. "I am Malthael , call on me when whenever." He tossed it only for it to do nothing but shatter on the wall. Discord appeared behind him.

"What were you doing?" Discord asked.

"I have no clue, multiverse traveling by a token?" Malthael asked Discord blinked.

"That's not how the multiverse works..... beside a bunch of tokens so summon people? Who would think of something like that? That's just lazy." Discord said. Mal shrugged.