Manehattan, one of the largest cities of Equestria and a perfect place for tourists. On the sunniest of days, families would be out and about in an activity or shopping.

Speaking of shopping, there was a store famous for its handmade clothes known as the Carousel Boutique - but do not be confused with the original, for this is actually the second Carousel Boutique and was run by an earth pony mare named Coco Pummel.

This mare had a coat color of light amberish gray, her mane a pale, light grayish cyan and light opalish gray. During opening hours, the shop would smell like roses from her scented candles. One had asked why she had them and her answer was that it helps her keep calm.

Today started out like any other day, wake up, eat, brush teeth, get dressed and go to work at the boutique while seeing a few friendly faces on the way. Her first and only customer of the day was a strange mare asking if she could fix her jacket. An hour later it was done and Coco returned the jacket to the mare but the mare left without pay, leaving Coco shocked at the rudeness.

But she calmed down at the smell of roses, if only she could do so now.

Ash and rot was the only thing one could smell in the city. Bodies of innocent ponies were either hung for fun or completely mutilated but there were corpses that still walked, patrolling the city by the order of their new mistress.

Coco didn't know how it happened or why but at first sight of panic she bolted away from the boutique just in time as a Reaper fell from the sky and landed inside the shop.

Coco, and those who fled with their lives from the initial blood fest were now being hunted down like animals for their souls. Being their new mistress, she was able to collect plenty of souls for her father but if she wanted to impress her father, Kemrael needed more.

And with the rate that ponies are dying, it won't take longer than a couple of hours and she laughed, she never thought it'd be this easy.

“You!” Kemrael yelled, pointing at a nearby Reaper.

“Double your search for more ponies, the more the merrier.” She ordered and received a nod before the Reaper floated away. As soon as the Reaper left her line of sight, Kemrael let out a loud yawn before looking at her watch and seeing that it was midnight.

Shade Shadow Bringer

Walking up the hill, I knew I had arrived. But as I saw the city on top of the hill, though I never been to the big city, I knew at first glance it had begun.

Gripping El'druin, I knew that I was late but I didn't let that stop me, so with one last glance at the burning city, I started sprinting towards it.

On the way, I could see a few silhouettes through the dark of the woods. I called out to them but received a low growl and a few snarls.

Once the shadows stepped into the light of the moon, I could see their grotesque faces and mutilated skin. The limped towards me as they snarled, I knew their was no to talking out of this so I swung my sword to the left with much force and I received the sound of flesh being pierced and cut before being splattered with its blood.

Turning to the other two, I spun the sword in my hand before swinging again and decapitating both of them in one go. Their heads rolled off into the grass while the body, specifically the headless neck was shooting blood like a geyser before falling onto the ground, coating the grass in the crimson liquid.

Lowering the blade, I sighed.

“At least you're no longer suffering.” I said out loud with my voice muffled through the mask before turning towards Manehattan’s direction before sprinting again. Though on the way, I had to kill a few ghouls and I'll be honest, it's fun.

Arriving in the city, the smell of rot and decay were the first thing I was greeted with. Though the smell was horrid, I continued forward, fighting undead mares, stallions and children. With each thrust, each swipe and slice, I noticed that I had been enjoying the situation to an almost psychopathic level but of course I chose to ignore these though, only wanting more blood to spill.

Arriving at the Equestrian equivalent to Time square, I could see hooded people from afar. Narrowing my eyes and focusing my sight, I noticed their robes and hood were identical to one another's.

I then saw the one item they all held, a large Scythe. They searched through every nook and cranny around the area.

“Found you.” I was pulled out of my spot by another one of these hooded figures and now that I got a good look at one, I realized these were Reapers like the ones from the game Diablo. I was held up by its scythe.

Before it could try to take my soul, I had headbutted it, making it reel back in pain and allowed me to take hold of my sword, with a strong thrust of the sword, it impaled the Reaper.

As quick as I embedded the sword on its chest, the body quickly dispersed into dust before being blown away. I was then dropped back onto the floor and picked up the sword before looking up, seeing two more Reapers.

I stood up and moved my head around, earning cracks from doing so. They stood there but weren't idle, they were swiped their scythes upwards, firing a crescent beam at me.

Dodging the beam, I pointed El’druin at the closest Reaper and the sword fired a sword shaped beam at it, stunning it. That done, I looked at the other one as it shook its head before looking at me.

The Reaper began to spin the scythe, after the third spin the scythe was engulfed in a grey light. A loud screech pierced through my ears as dozens of soul arrows were fired off the scythe.

I broke into a full sprint, dodging only three while the rest had followed me. I held my arm out just before grabbing a trash bin and using it to block a few more.

The sound of metal being bent and pierced where blocking the sounds of the soul arrows. Once the silence settled in, I threw the now pierced trash bin away, seeing holes and large dents on it as it hit the floor. I suddenly flew and smacked against the shop window behind me.

Getting my bearings, I looked and saw the same Reaper swiping its scythe upwards, firing crescent beam of grey light towards me. I didn't move this time, instead I took a firm grip of El’druin and swung the blade, cutting the beam in two allowing both beams to miss me completely and crashed onto a wall, destroying it in the process.

Enraged, I blinked and suddenly saw myself inches away from it before grabbing its scythe and cutting the Reapers arm off. With the Scythe in hand, I embedded El’druin in the Reaper's face, earning a feminine screech just before positioning the scythe behind the Reaper.

With a mighty pull, the scythe easily cut through the abdomen of the Reaper, as this happening, I raised the sword higher and saw my work.

The Reaper’s upper body was now ripped off the bottom half and I grinned at this just before the body turned into dust like the last one.

Yes, embrace your bloodlust, use it and kill your enemies. LEAVE NONE ALIVE!

I had let out a dark chuckle as I spun my newly acquired scythe in my left hand.

“This is getting better and better by the second, I love it.” I said before seeing a large flash of light a few blocks away from where I stood. Holstering El’druin on my back, I took hold of the scythe with to hands now and went towards the source of the light.

Meanwhile the destruction of Manehattan, a train was heading towards the dead city. In the trains passenger cabin were six familiar mares, AppleJack, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie and Twilight Sparkle.

They were sent to Manehattan with a platoon of guardsmen to investigate the cease in communications with the city. Princess Celestia even handed the guards enchanted weapons of the highest caliber and Solar Armor.

It had been over a month since Shade had left Ponyville and things have been getting worse by the day. Unexplained murders, disappearances, and on one occasion strange behavior.

Some ponies even went ahead and accused Shade for the crimes just because he left before this all happened and almost everypony believed it, except for a few ponies, the girls being them as well as Nyx and Scootaloo.

Twilight knew Shade wouldn't do such things. He kills, yes but for self defence and even then Shade would try to find his way out of killing.

Thinking about Shade saddened the lavender Alicorn, they had finally gotten together after Twilight made the first move and a day later he left to prepare for a fight he did not want a part of.

Through the corner of the Alicorn's eyes, she could see her usually energetic and bubbly friend looking out the left side, this wouldn't be such a big deal if her mane wasn't straight.

“Pinkie, dear, what's the matter.. Oh my Celestia.” Rarity said as she too was shocked at the sight. One by one the girls looked out as well and their reactions weren't much different.

Twilight was the last to see what was Manehattan, buildings were ablaze, robed creatures flew around the city with large weapons.

“What happened?” Fluttershy asked, scared beyond belief from the sight only. Twilight knew something bad happened but no pony could have ever thought it be..this.

They were brought back out of their shocked states by something landing on top of their cart, followed by the screams of the guardsponies. The train screeched to a stop, making the six mares fall to floor by the sudden action.

“What's goin- Ahh!” Rainbow was soon attacked by skeletal creature outside through the window and held her with both arms around Dash’s neck. Applejack started punching creature before finally kicking its head off its shoulders.

The body fell apart and a blue aura left the skeleton. Not seconds later more came around but were soon blasted away by a powerful force.

“I said capture them, not kill them!” A mare's voice was heard as a large grey winged human flew down with a few cloaked figures behind her.

“Whatever, take them in, I'll deal with them myself and do make sure not to kill them or else.” The woman said before taking off into the sky. The two robed figures pointed their weapons at the girls before suddenly darkness consumed them all.

Author's Note

Sorry for the delay