Rise of the Angel of Death

After the fun in the hot tub the two girls finally awoke. "Mal where were you?" Moon asked the Angel of Death.

"Well now that you and Trixie are awake I'll tell you all." So, he went into how he met up with the earthern and the small fight with them. He then added on about the Prench ponies and mercs. "So that’s basically it"

Sunset, Moon, and Trixie all looked at Mal, not sure what to make of his story. "So you took out a group belonging to the Prench army? Mal, if they find out about this they could spin it so that all of Equestria could come after us." Sunset warned.

"I wouldn't worry about that, I made sure none of them survived. Besides, they were most likely going to kill civilians. I couldn't let that happen."

"It amazes me how much you care about things like this sometimes." Moon said with a chuckle. She then started to have a serious look. "Still I think Prance may not be letting Equestria know about this." She said. The group looked at her. "I was ripped from Luna and she has access to the same documents as Celestia, Prance while both a part of and independent from Equestria. They have a military alliance with them, most likely this invasion is without them knowing and any attempted Imperialism will hurt Equestria more than help them with the nearby states natural distrust for the two royal sisters."

"Alright, that's good the last thing, we need is the Equestrian and Prench army along with the two sisters gunning for our heads." Sunset said with a sigh of relief.

"Come on Sunset I can handle anything this world can throw at me, especially when I have the three of you as my back up." The three smiled at his response. After about a few moments he had to ask. "So how good is the Equestrian guard? You know if they’re not facing beings like me, Discord, Moon etc." Moon thought for a moment.

"Well Equestria likes to think their guard is the best, but it’s unfortunately incompetent. I’d say, that in a real fight they’d either get slaughtered or run away, a few of the higher ups usually get there from some form of nobility." Mal had to laugh it was so funny.

"What’s so funny?" Trixie asked.

"Sorry, but Equestria doesn't sound like it should still exist." He finished.

Moon shrugged. "You’re kinda right."

"Oh well, I guess Celestia and Luna are probably too distracted by throwing tea parties and singing songs rather than making sure their guard is competent."

"I wouldn't underestimate Celestia and Luna, you may have had the upperhand before, but I'm sure they've been finding out anything they can about your powers in case you prove to be a threat to them." Moon warned.

"Don't worry Moon, I don't plan on doing anything to put us in direct confrontation with those two."

"Good, I, may not be the biggest fans of those two, but they are still technically my sisters." She added.

A little chiming signal was heard. "What was that?" Mal asked. A while later the moved to the second floor. There in the map room was a new map. It showed the basics of the land. It was kinda three islands with a few small ones. On there was the earthern village and where they were. Another map showed Equestria with Prance added to it. Finally a little something on the islands map was an outpost of prance. "Well this is amazing." Mal said. He looked around the home. "I thought as much, I had a strange feeling about this place, while not alive it has some kinda of magic to help map the world, it updates itself every few hours."

"How in the world did your friend do all of this?" Sunset asked.

"I have no idea. I'm starting to get the feeling he knew more than he was letting on. Hell, he may even have something to do with how I got here." Mal answered. "Still, these islands look fairly large. Huh, the map seems to have four different symbols on it. Maybe this place has four different factions. I think this would be the Earthern that I met." He continued pointing at a location close to the forest they were in. "I think we should take out that Prench outpost and then see about meeting these other factions." Mal finished.

"Why would we do that?" Trixie asked.

"Because taking out some of these invading forces could make us popular here, and it might be nice to have an entire group of islands that actually likes us." Mal answered.
The three girls gave each other a look.

"We're with you." Moon said. The group of four headed off for the outpost. The outpost in question was lightly fortified having a wall of wood with tents and a few wooden buildings.

"Ok then here's the plan, Moon you and Trixie try to keep the pegasi from leaving. Sunset will attack from above with me on ground, once the pegasi are taken care of, Trixie and Moon will flank the remaining forces." Mal said, drawing the plan in the dirt. Moon looked it over a bit.

"This is amazingly sound, how did you ever think of this plan?" She asked. Mal looked at them all.

"When you work as death you just know."

"Alright, let's get into position. I'll go in first and draw most of the fire. You three pick off any that try to run or, try to get me from behind." Mal said, face disappearing behind his hood again.

The three girls hovered in the air for a moment. "How are you going to get their attention?" Trixie asked.

"I have my ways.” Mal strode to the edge of the compound his hands holding his sickles. He stopped at the gate a moment before summoning a large gout of fire to consume it. The dry, wooden gate went up almost instantly. Ignoring the flames, Mal pushed open the gates and called out, "Death has come for you all!"

To say Chaos began was an understatement. The ponies along with a few mercenaries got up as a few earth ponies were cut down by Malthael. The pegasi flew up only for a few to fall as Sunset took them down. The unicorn leader turned to a pegasus. "Send word to one of our other outposts immediately!" He commanded.

The pegasus didn't make it very far. Moon used a lightning spell on him leaving him a charred mess. On the ground, Malthael summoned a large cloud of Death Fog and sent it throughout the entire compound. Most of the unicorns and a few others were safely behind barriers. Many others were not as lucky and began to decay immediately. The commander of the compound tried to keep order but that itself was an uphill battle.

Moon moved down as did Sunset to outflank them. Trixie moved in as well. After a while the compound was mostly taken. The Unicorn commander looked at the four beings. He wasn't commander of anyone seeing as how the death toll was massive. "Told you death had come." Mal said to him. Moon looked the unicorn in the eyes.

"Alright you, I'm guessing your compound has a few things in here, am I right? Who sent you?" She finished, magic at the ready.

"I won't tell you monsters anything." The commander told them defiantly. Moon looked like she was about to blast the unicorn but Malthael stopped her.

"Hold on there, Moon, let me handle this." Malthael stepped up to the commander and placed a sickle against his throat.

"Go ahead, Id sooner die than tell you anything."

"Foolish mortal." Malthael said with a dark chuckle. "There are worse things than death in this world." He finished before slowly pulling out the commander's soul. The commander was more than willing to share all the information he had after his soul removed and returned a few times.

The compound had rations, as well as a few things from Prance, like outfits. Finally they found some money and loot form earthern villages. "Well this is a bit more than I thought we would find." Mal said looking everything over. "Prance must really have a lot invested into this invasion." Mal finished looking over the resources.

"What do you think we should do with all of this?" Trixie asked.

"I think we should keep most of the stuff from Prance, and redistribute the stolen items to the Earthern tribes. And we should give them the armor and weapons. They might be able to reappropriate them into new equipment."

"That's a good idea, this should definitely earn us some goodwill." Moon said, nodding.

As the group did so with the house they placed the Prench items with them, rations, money, items like books and some personal objects. The other stuff was kept in Malthael’s magical bag. As they headed for Ottio's village. However, they paused. A sound of pain was heard. "I think it came from over there." Mal said they moved into the bushes.

Chrysalis couldn't believe it. Slowly, her hive had started to die out. Even she was about to starve. Her ascension was only half way as a changeling. She could match a low powered alicorn. Yet she was still vulnerable to starvation. She had a lot of holes a sign of malnutrition. She had been drifting aimlessly ever since her failed invasion of Canterlot. Failed. That word echoed in Chrysalis' mind as she drifted in and out of consciousness. She had stumbled upon the island by chance and thought that she may have found a new source of food. But the long flight took more out of her than she believed it would, and now it seemed that her life was going to end. The last thought that crossed her mind was the image of her last remaining changeling, and the hopeful look in her eyes as she gave the last bit of her energy to Chrysalis.

Mal and Sunset parted the nearby bushes and looked at the black, pony-like being."Whoa, whoever this is they don't look so good." Mal said, reaching over to the dying changeling.

"Mal, what are you doing. That's a changeling. They tried to take over Equestria. They kidnap ponies, replace them, and feed off the love of their loved ones." Trixie warned him.

"Trixie, everyone deserves a second chance. Besides, this changeling is on the brink of death, I can feel it in their soul." He explained kneeling before the changeling and placed a sickle on her barrel.

A blue glow surrounded his sickle and went into the dying changeling queen. Her eyes started to flutter open for a while, before she slowly came to. "Wha... am I still... alive?" She got up to study the strange being looking at her. "Who are you?" Chryaslis asked. Was this the being that saved her?

“I'm Malthael, I am the Angel of death." Chrysalis eyes widened in horror.

"Am I dead?" She asked herself.

"No, you’re, not I actually transferred some of the energy that your race feeds on to you to let you live." Malthael said standing up. Chrysalis almost couldn't believe it, was death actually doing this?

"Wh... why would you do this? What do you want from me?" Chrysalis asked, unsure of the situation she was in.

"Nothing, you were dying, I saved you, it's as simple as that." Mal explained with a shrug. Chrysalis used her ability to sense emotions to see if Malthael was lying to her. Her eyes widened in shock. She could tell he was being genuine with her. Chrysalis couldn't control herself and threw her forehooves around the angel.

"Thank you so much!"

Chrysalis had known those who did something for nothing. However this was basically death letting her live, and he wanted nothing in return. Sunset moved to break it up. She reached over to Chrysalis and attempted to pry her off by the hooves. Her magic backlashed once again. The blast sent the small band a bit back. For Chrysalis she felt slightly off. She put a hand to her face. She froze at this. While she was human, her body still retained some of her changeling attributes. Her hair was silk and her skin a carapace that acted like skin. Her body was slender, and her bust rivaled Moon’s. Finally, she had cute little fangs and slit pupils. Her outfit was very tight on her body with a bit of cleavage freed.

"Sunset, from now on, no more shaking hooves or any other species’ appendages, this is the third time you've done this, and I don't think it's going to stop."

"I'm sorry, I thought that since my magic is under my control now that this wouldn't happen anymore!" Sunset blurted out. "Are you okay?" Sunset asked Chrysalis.

"I'm not sure," Chrysalis replied, looking herself over and touching her new body parts. "I always wondered how you mammals handled having these teats. They're so unwieldy." Chrysalis started cupping her breasts for emphasis.

Mal turned away. "Well that's awkward." He said. Moon however walked up to Chrysalis. The two looked each other in the eyes.

"You're Nightmare Moon, aren't you?" Chrysalis asked. Amazingly she wasn't completely surprised. She knew of the cults of nightmare and if she was traveling with the angel of death.

"Yes I am." Moon looked her over. "And I like what I'm seeing." She gave a kinda predatory grin. Chrysalis had a feeling of both fear and excitement.

---------- Twilight and her friends had returned from Prance. The events there were more tense than she thought. As they stepped back to the town, they found the CMC acting like guards. "What are you doing?" Twilight asked.

"We’re seein' if we can get our cutie marks for bein' in the military." Apple Bloom said. The mane six looked at each other.

"I'm afraid to ask but why are you lined up like that?" She asked.

"Because I'm here." Walking up dressed like a general was Discord.

"Discord, what are you doin' with mah sister?" Applejack asked her eyes narrowing at him.

"I'm just trying to make amends for scaring them with that whole "dragon" nonsense a while ago. Besides, I already owe them for all the chaos they spread." Discord said with a chuckle. "Recruits, at ease." Discord told the fillies in his best general voice. The three fillies complied and turned back to their sisters and sister figure.

"So how was your trip to Prance, Rarity?" Sweetie Belle asked.

"It was fun actually, I may try to open a shop there." Rarity started. Applejack turned to Discord.

"Wait a minute, ya'll were that dragon?" She asked. Discord gave a kinda smile that was goofy yet serious.

"Well yes, you see that hot spring they found was actually an important place for my race one of the few places still in existence mind you and I can't have it ruined it would be like me up and destroying every piece of history your race has." Discord finished. The CMC decided to remove some of the armor. Like always they didn't get their cutie mark.

"Again this is almost ridiculous." Scootaloo said. "I think we may never get cutie marks." Scoot said with a depressed tone.

"Don't worry about it, you just haven't found your special talent." Rainbow Dash said. However, Discord reappeared right next to her, wearing a lab coat.

"Actually this is suspicious if you ask me." He grabbed Scootaloo in his hands. "Let’s see?" He looked her over, then Sweetie belle, and Apple Bloom. He even gave Sweetie Belle a lick with a snake tongue. He finally got up. "Yeah, you three are incapable of getting cutie marks, and it’s not me being mean or evil, It’s a fact, you three are genetically nigh immune to harmony kinda like my cultists, only this is natural."

"Wha... you mean... we're gonna be blank flanks forever?" Scootaloo asked. The three fillies exchanged a look before bursting out into tears. The mane six all glared at Discord.

"What the hay did you say that for?!" Rainbow Dash growled.

"I suppose I could've been more tactful, but I'm the lord of chaos, subtlety isn't exactly my strong suit." Discord answered.

"Still, what do you mean they're immune to harmony?" Twilight asked. "That doesn't make sense."

"Allow me to explain," Discord started. "Equestria is naturally saturated with harmony magic. It's what allows you ponies to manipulate the weather and the land. It's also what gives you ponies your cutie marks. Now, through some delicate breeding and time, these three have a natural near immunity to harmony magic. It's also why most of their endeavors end up in glorious messes. These three don't have one singular talent. They could tackle just about anything if they didn't have their child-like attention span."

While Twilight had to agree with some points, in others she was still confused. "So is it just these three or what’s going on?" Discord sat down in a fancy chair wearing a professor robes and a pipe.

"Well if you must know this happens given enough time, sometimes a random mutation will spring up to either aid or harm a species, now there are races immune or resistant to harmony magic or like mine the natural opposite, During my time ruling you ponies about 10% of the earth ponies 5% of pegasi and around 8% of unicorns had a gene to help resist harmony. Amazingly, I must add that this gene has become more common than ever and these three are the logical end of it and most likely your species’ future being immune or highly resistant to harmony."

"But, how is that a good thing? Isn't working together the entire reason we've gotten through all of our trials?" Fluttershy asked.

"True, but you are forgetting the biggest drawback to harmony, stagnation. You all need chaos more than you think. Chaos can be as damaging as all out anarchy, but it can also be that creative little spark that leads to the creation of the greatest of inventions. Rarity here uses chaos whenever she thinks of new fashions. A little chaos is what makes life as interesting as it is."

Discord was now back to his normal self. "My kind despite being total opposed to harmony magic amazingly did not act without thinking, we chose to live with nature itself, so even races totally opposed to harmony magic can form bonds." He finished up. "Well I'll let this sink in I'm late to go surfing." He held a solar surface proof surfboard and a lot of sunscreen. "Cya." In a flash he was gone.

Rainbow Dash scratched her head with a hoof for a moment before saying, "I don't know if I liked the old Discord better than the new reformed Discord."

"Me too!" Pinkie exclaimed. "I mean I know he turned us against each other but chocolate rain was amazing! Oh, and he didn't claim to be my daddy. That still gives me nightmares." Pinkie finished with a shudder before returning to her usual self.

"I don't know girls, he has been oddly helpful lately. He's still a jerk, but he's really illuminated a few dark spots in our knowledge." Twilight offered.

"Well he seems to be planning something too." Rainbow pointed out. "Then there’s also Malthael and his group, Nightmare Moon’s with him, so is Trixie and that Sunset girl, then there’s Prance." Rainbow finished. Twilight thought for a moment. Things seem to be starting to become complicated very fast.

"It almost seems like Discord is actually planning ahead, yet it’s impossible to say what he will do." Twilight said.

On the sun Discord was surfing the solar storms looking out at the star system almost laughing as he fell into a sunspot. He put his claws into the air, in Equestria Celestia saw what looked like the sun color shift. She chose to ignore it. Elsewhere Malthael's group saw the light of the sun flicker. They shrugged it off. In Prance however the council looked at it for a moment and took it as a sign of good luck.

On her way to the spa however the mane six saw Luna. "Princess what are you doing here?" Rarity asked. The princess of the night turned to the unicorn.

"I need to let off my stress, I almost started a fight with Discord."

Twilight interrupted, "The whole, his face on the moon thing?" she asked.

"Yes and Malthael’s removal of Nightmare Moon isn't as complete as I’d like to believe, I share my dreams with her now."

"You share your dreams with her? What's that like?"

"I'd rather not talk about it." Luna said shuddering.

"Is something wrong? Is she threatening you?"

"No, nothing like that. Like I said, I'd rather not talk about it."

"Well, uh, I hope you have a good spa visit." Twilight said.

"Oh, I intend to. This is over a thousand years overdue." Luna answered with a chuckle.

-------------The group led Chrysalis back to their home and let her get settled into a room, Chrysalis sat across from the other three while Sunset sat between Moon and Trixie. Mal went back to the map room alone to figure out where he wanted to go next, while the girls stayed with Chrysalis. She looked along the rather strange group of girls and had to ask. "How did all of you meet Malthael?"

Sunset was the first one up. "Well I was once Celestia’s student, I kinda had a falling out with her, ended up in another world... Anyway, I found him in a frozen cave in the north." Sunset finished. Trixie was next.

"Trixie was being attacked by ursas when Malthael and Sunset saved her, after Trixie touched Sunset’s hands she became this."

Then came Moon, "Technically I met him when he walked in and ripped me from Luna’s soul, however I was revived by my cultists and like this little cutie." She gave a wink to Trixie who blushed. "Sunset here turned me into this.... I must say it’s an improvement." She gave Sunset a kiss on the neck causing her to shudder from it, a hard blush on her cheeks.

"Malthael seems to have a thing for saving lives doesn't he?"

"Yeah, he kinda does." Sunset said with a giggle.

"He calls himself the Angel of Death yet he saves ponies left and right. Trixie must admit it is one of his more admirable qualities." Trixie added.

"I agree, he's quite powerful, and yet he never lords it over others. If I had his power then I don't know what I'd do with it." Moon said.

"I know if I had his power then I would've been able to save my hive." Chrysalis added. "Instead, I watched them all slowly starve, giving me what little energy they had left in some vain hope that I'd be able to start over. If I had his power then I would've never had to invade Canterlot. My hive… my poor children... they would've never had to suffer for my incompetence."

Moon was touched by the poor dear. She had Luna’s memories and knew that the Changelings lived in the bad lands. She walked to the Changeling/human and gave her a hug. "It's ok you’re with us now... You can start a new family with us if you would like." Chrysalis herself returned the hug to moon. She didn't know why but she felt happiness with them.

"Thank you." She said. Sunset gave a sigh.

"Ok I have something to tell you, Moon Trixie." The two looked at her. "Mal agreed to being with you... And Moon...." She sighed again. "That includes me as well." Moon pulled her to her with a bit of magic. She gave her a kiss right there.

Sunset pulled away before the kiss could progress too far. "I really should've expected that reaction." Sunset said with a slight grin.

"It's because you don't that makes it so satisfying." Moon returned with a mischievous smirk.

"Still, we should continue this conversation later." Sunset said, backing away from Moon. "Chrysalis you're welcome to stay as long as you like. Is there anything else you'd like to know since you'll be living with us?"

Chrysalis herself had just seen the two kiss and could feel lust and even love in there. It was tasty and yet addictive, she blushed. "Well do you think that maybe I could... ummm." Moon giggled a bit at this. It seemed like Malthael may have unknowingly snagged another girl in his little harem.

"Oh I'm sure of it." She said getting right up into Chrysalis’ face. She then moved to whisper in her ear. "Maybe we could have some private time as well? Or maybe the two of us should have all the fun?" Chrysalis felt herself heat up. This was unlike anything she felt before. Sunset watched as Moon was seducing Chrysalis, and succeeding. Sunset’s mind flashed an image of those two together. She blushed immediately.

"Sunset, is it just Trixie or does Mal have a way to collect girls." Trixie whispered to Sunset.

"Yeah, looks like I've got another person who's going to share his bed besides me."

"Are you sure you're okay with this?"

"I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a little jealous, but Mal and I agreed we'd give it a shot."

"Okay, so, would it be fine if Trixie spent time with him?"

Sunset gave a Trixie a smile. "Well you better hurry before Moon gets to him." Trixie moved out of the room to get to him. Sunset turned back to see Moon giving Chrysalis a surprise kiss. The Changeling/human was shocked at first but slowly she gave in and kissed Moon back. Sunset herself watched on as the two groped each other. Moon gave Chrysalis a squeeze on her breast. Chrysalis moaned at this. Sunset blushed. Moon finished the kiss and turned to her.

"You know you can join in if you wish?"

"Yeah, I'm actually gonna go study. Now that my magic's back I need to see how much I've forgotten. You two have fun though." Sunset said, blushing and walking out of the room.

"Don't worry, we will." Moon called back to her.

Trixie walked into the map room and saw that Mal was still in there, a serious expression on his face. "Hi Mal," She said pulling his attention away from the map.

"Hey Trixie, how's tricks?" Mal asked, his normal grin returning.

"Trixie was wondering how your planning is going?"

"It's going alright. I was thinking of going to this area here." He replied, pointing to the northern island which looked like it had a volcano near the marked settlement, while Trixie moved in next to him.

"Sounds good, so Sunset told us something interesting," Trixie started placing a hand on Mal's chest.

"And what would that be?" Mal asked, looking a little flush.

"That you two are willing to share." Trixie finished before planting a kiss on Mal's lips.

--------------------Rainbow Dash was on a cloud. She really needed this time to chill to relax. The last few days were hectic to say the least. As she opened her eyes she saw armored griffins with swords and spears at hand or talon rather.

"What's going on?" She asked, getting up and saw a griffin male. A scar came across where his left eye was he had other scars along his face his claws sharpened with feathers in a weird position and signs of massive scars on his body. Not only that but he had the kind of build that basically screamed fighting him was suicide.

"I am Gurfon, I am Gilda’s father." Suddenly, Rainbow Dash felt the kind of dread you get when you know you’re going to die. He held his claw out with lightning literally channeling in his talons.

'He can use magic! Come on!' Rainbow thought.

"I am here to kill you for what you did to my daughter." Somehow, Rainbow blamed Discord, it didn't matter if he did this or the fact that he warned her this may happen.

"Yeah I'm out of here." Rainbow took off going as hard as she could. The griffins amazingly followed closely behind her. Finally, she sonic rainboomed away. "Yes." A roar of thunder was heard as a bolt of lightning slammed into her. Well more of a body sized blast. Rainbow fell on the ground and felt a foot of her chest.

"I must commend you on your speed if I hadn't acted fast enough I might not have reached you in time." He said picking her up by the neck.

The rainboom was seen away in Ponyville. "What do you think rainbow needed to do in a hurry?" Pinkie asked.

Rainbow herself hit her hooves on the griffin’s face. His grip never lessened and he turned back to her. 'Sweet Celestia.'

The fact that the griffin looked amused said it all. "Good I’ll find this more amusing if you can actually fight back." He said. By the time the others got there, they saw Rainbow slam into a nearby rock and a bolt of lightning in the air as Gilda’s father’s talons charged up more lighting.

He fired it at her and Rainbow somehow got out of the way in time, the attack crashing into the bolder, well it was now pebbles. A gust of wind slammed into her causing Rainbow to smash into the nearby tree. Twilight attempted to use her magic only for it to somehow not work. The necklace around the griffin’s neck glowed signaling an attempted magic attack. Right as he had his talons on Rainbow. "Who dares to interrupt her execution?

"I do, Princess Twilight Sparkle. Who do you think you are to attack one of the Elements of Harmony?" Gilda's father let out an amused chuckle before turning towards Twilight.

"It seems Celestia has neglected teaching you a few things if you cannot recognize me. I am Gurfon, king of Griffonia and Gilda's father."