The Pain Of Death

Death's list showed him his next targets, which were Granny Smith and Big Macintosh. "This should be easy" he said, walking out of Fluttershy's house, leaving the two deceased pegasi to rot. He spread his wings out, then took off, flying towards the farm they were at. He looked back at the house, seeing the purple one walking down the trail towards the house, he chuckled darkly. "Oh how much pain she will be in when she sees her friends, torn to pieces" he said, then looked back to the farm in the distance.

He landed behind the barn, and looking inside it, he saw Big Mac working. Granny Smith walked into the barn, lemonade on a mini table in front of her walker. "Here ya go Mac, this should cool ya down some" she said, then Big Mac grabbed a glass, silently thanking her with a grunt, he started drinking it. Death looked above them, seeing a plow suspended by ropes, and idea for their demise formed.

"Perfect" he said silently, then made himself invisible to the living eye. He walked into the barn, stopping behind Mac. He raised his scythe up, he brought it down on the first rope, making the plow fall a bit, hitting Granny Smith in the head.

"Granny!" Mac yelled, then got down on his knees to help her. Death grinned to himself, then cut another rope, making it come down a little more. Mac looked up, seeing that the plow was going to fall down and smash him and Granny, he stood up, and put his hands against it. Death made himself visible, then poked Mac's back, making him spin his head a little to see Death himself.

"I will see you in hell" he said, then cut the last two ropes, making the plow fall completely. Mac pushed it more, keeping it off of his torso, but crushing Granny and his legs. He screamed in pain, as he felt his legs get crushed, as he heard the cracking of his Granny's skull. "Oh my, how bad it would be if it had just rolled onto you" Death said, laughing as Mac noticed that the plow was halfway on it's side, and was in danger of it rolling on him.

"Hey Mac, did you get the lemonade me and Granny made?" Applebloom asked as she walked around the corner of the door, but stopped in her tracks when she saw the blood leaking out from under the plow. She looked to her left, where Death was now standing, and she screamed while falling backwards in surprise.

"Oh little one, the pain you must be feeling is strong" he said, then they both looked over at Big Mac, as his right arm gave way, letting the plow crush him, as he yelled in pain. With a satisfying crunch, Death walked over to the plow, and laughed as he pulled his scythe out.

"W-who are you? Why did you let Big Mac die! Wheres Granny?!" She asked, looking around. Death brought his hand over the plow, then did the same that he did to his first victims, and pulled the souls out. Applebloom looked at her brothers soul, as he stood by Granny's as well. Mac's soul was that of pain and regret, and Granny Smith's was that of acceptance.

"I am your worst nightmare" Death said, pulling the jar out, where Applebloom could see Fluttershy and Rainbow's souls, aimlessly wander around in there. "Now, sleep!" He commanded, doing and air punch in her direction, making her head smash into the barn door, knocking her out cold.

He finished collecting the souls, then hid in the darkness to rest, for his powers were exhausted for the day.

~~~~~MEANWHILE~~~~~

Twilight was at her friends house, crying as she saw her friends, torn and deceased. She just stood there, the pain she was feeling was strong, for she would never be able to speak to her flying friends, ever again. "Why?" She asked herself, walking into the house, she saw snake scales on the floor nearby, as well as claw marks on the floor next to Rainbow's pile of flesh. "This.....this wasn't natural" she said, picking up a scale, she felt extremely dark magic touch her soul. "No, it can't be!" She exclaimed, then ran back outside, and kept going towards Ponyville.

Once she was there, she ran straight to Mayor Mare's house, and went straight in. "Mayor Mare! We have a big problem!" She yelled out loud, then she heard something fall upstairs, then rushed up to see her on the ground.

"You scared me Twilight" she said, then got up and removed the sock she had slipped on. "Now what is it?" She asked, then Twilight extended her arm, showing her the scale she had found. She reached out and touched it, feeling the same magic Twilight felt, she brought it back quickly. "This is bad" she said, then looked back at Twilight.

"What should we do?" She asked, thinking about her friends, and how they were probably terrified before dying.

"Gather the town, we shall have a town meeting to warn every pony about the demon" she said, looking out the window, she thought about where it was hiding at. "It will most likely be picking us off at the outer edges of town, so go get Applejack and Fluttershy first" she said, looking at Twilight, she saw the pain in her.

"Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash are already dead" she said, making Mayor Mare lower her head a little, knowing that some of her ponies lives had been claimed already.

"I'm sorry to hear that, but we don't have time to mourn, we need to warn the rest of the town!" She exclaimed, running to the door, looking back to see that Twilight was following her. She ran through the town, racing towards the town hall while Twilight went towards Sweet Apple Acres. On her way, she attracted the attention of many other ponies, so they followed her to her destination.

She got up on the stage like thing, looking down, she saw that half of Ponyville was already there. "Gather every pony! This is extremely important, and it's a race against Death!" She quickly called out, some of them separated from the crowd, heading out to grab any pony they saw. "I will be damned if I don't warn all of them in time" she said, looking at Sweet Apple Acres in the distance, seeing the lavender blob closing in on it, she knew that Twilight would be able to inform them in time.