The Wanderer

Death was like a very numb sleep. Nothing to feel.

Except that very annoying light in front of me.

My senses were gone, well sight is still there, but I couldn't smell anything or taste or feel anything.

Just that annoying light that keeps getting closer.

I tried to move for the seventh time, nope, still dead.

Wait...is that laughter?

"Yes, come closer."

What!?

My senses came back all at one, giving me a major migraine.

My body was dropped onto an invisible with an echoing thump.

I looked at my hands, still with everything I had. Bloody gloves and that fucking weird ass weapon.

Then that voice came back.

"Good. Now that your down, lets chat for a bit." The feminine voice said in a calm manner.

"W-who are you?" I asked, my voice echoing in the strange abyss.

"Why, I'm War. Your element and weapon." She said with a somewhat cheery tone.

"What? You mean your that Galil?" I asked.

"Is that what it's called? Learn something new everyday I guess. And to answer your question, yes, I am that....what did you call it? Ga-li-el?" War attempted to pronounce.

"Galil. Anyway, what are you, were are we, and what happened?"

"Wow, Dejavu, anyway. My name is War, well actually I'm a combination of many other elements than that. I'm just the dominate sister to all of my other sister elements." She explained.

"W-what? What are you talking about? What elements?"

"Hm? Oh right, your kind isn't Equisen. You see, we were the first elements to appear on my home planet of Equis. We were originally supposed to 'keep the balance' between Lightness and Darkness. Or good or Evil if you shall. I'm a combination of all the darkness elements, well most anyway, my other elements are Despair, Depression, and Hatred, all combined to create one element to make the balance more manageable. That is me, War."

"But, the gods at the time thought that combining of elements was a great punishment. And so banished me to another planet. Leaving my other sisters. Who of which are Nightmare, Chaos, and Greed. And so I came upon your planet and slepped for a good amount of years, and then you came along and took me from my bed." She finished.

"But, why a Galil?" I asked.

"I saw one wile coming back to greet you, I thought it looked kinda cool. So I took the form of it."

The blinding light then slowly shrunk to the ground. And formed a Galil with that 'War' mark, at least i'm going to name it something.

"Is that why my planet has so many wars? Because of your presence?" I asked.

"Probably, I had no bearer for me. So my power kinds had to fuel itself somehow. But now that I have a bearer, it will be much easier to draw energy from you."

"Wait, draw energy from me?" I asked questioningly.

"I mean your life force, you humans have a lot of it for one being, especially ones who don't use magic." She explained.

"Magic?"

"Oh yeah, my kind has magic. But there not that advanced like you humans are. You humans are amazing..." War said with somewhat more friendliness.

"If your the element of war, shouldn't you be more, you know, evil?" I asked.

"It's just a title, besides, it's just a job to keep the balance so that the Equisen's don't completely turn over to one end of the spectrum. If that happened. Armageddon will happen." She explained.

"Wait, how long have you been on my planet?"

"About...well, since it was a smoldering pile of rock. Why?" War asked quizzically.

"What's happening to my planet right now?"

"......oh no. I think since I was apart of your planets development, and you took me away, I think its now experiencing Armageddon." She said apologetically.

"Why does this happen to me? I'm dead. My home planet is gone. I'm stuck in some abyss with a talking Galil who is controlled by a element and is claiming to be from another planet called Equis. I'm done at life." I said in defeat.

"No, your ageless now.  You are dead, but I brought you back to my domain, and now we can return to my home planet and hopefully balance the balance...if that makes sense." War explained.

"Do I have a choice?" I asked slowly.

"Yes actually, you can stay here with me for all eternity and do nothing except tell knock-knock jokes, or, we can save my planet from total annihilation."

"Save your planet? My planet's gone because of you! My entire family is gone! My life that I worked so hard for is no more than space dust! And YOU, expect me to help you save your planet!?" I shouted at the weapon.

She stopped talking, and stayed that way for several seconds.

"I-I'm sorry, I'm just extremely stressed out by what's happening. Please, can you forgive me?" I asked apologetically.

I heard a sniff, then she spoke.

"I guess Humanity isn't dead, your still here, and you have some good in you still."

I smiled, and picked her up.

"Are you ready?" She asked.

"No choice, I'm as stuck with you as you are with me." I said trying to make some humor.

"Nope, and you better get used to it. As long you don't get killed by dragons or a cocatruce." She said in a more giddy manor.

Wait. What about dragons!?!?

(Everfree Castle)

My mind was everywhere and nowhere at the same time, a very odd feeling.

There was a bright flash and we were standing in the middle of some told castle.

"What's this place?" I asked.

"Were I was banished from. But now it's just rubble. I need to save energy Mr...um"

"Jason Blackwell by the way."

"Right. Sorry that I didn't ask for your name Mr. Blackwell. But now I must rest, that teleportation took a lot out of me. So for now, you'll be on your own. Remember what I told you about wile we were teleporting. So long for now." And the glow from my gun dimmed to a purple color.

"So long War." I said quietly.

Now, lets see. Ponies. Right. Not what I expected for my afterlife but whatever.

I walked out of the castle gates exactly were War told me to go.

The whole place felt pretty surreal. Like it's a dream, but I can feel it. I can breath it. I can see it.

I am not dead.

Now I can at least live without dying from old age. But, I can still die from everything else.

And fucking magic? What the fuck? Magic!? I knew I should've stopped drinking.

My mind still had unanswered questions. But I shoved them in the back of my mind for later.

For now, I just focused on the task at hand.

Some ponies called the Elements of Harmony? I think that's what War said.

I still don't now how she knows these things if she's been asleep, but, i guess it's not important right now.

Ok, but how am I going to get myself out of these woods?