Shadows

Death phased out reality, which essentially meant that he was going faster than the world had time to react. Whatever had breached his domain was probably going to be big, and powerful. He began unlocking his doors, moving past the white room that held the list, and the general observation rom which held the divine telescope. He stopped in front of his red door, and wondered if he should contact the other divinity. He went back and read the list.

There was no one special on the list today. Someone was here and when he had written the list in the future he must have decided that whoever was here couldn’t die here today. He walked back to te red door, and was about to open it, when someone else opened it.

It was blue, and colorful, and warm, and loud. Then Death spoke.

“What are you doing here?” He asked, halfway dreading the answer. He tried to hide the fact he was trying to look behind the pony to try and find the actual breach source. It seemed rude to him at least to treat what could have a slim chance of being what caused a breach. It was after this occurred to him that he realized he was still out of phase, and that the small colorful pony should be in phase, aka frozen and grey.

Then she spoke.

“I don’t know what’s going on! There was a race and I went faster and faster and then boom and then everything was frozen solid and there was no color and, and there was this door and I went in it and and and…” The pony finished by breaking down in tears. She was so innocent!

Death felt something move inside him. Going off some weird instinct he gave the smaller pony an awkward hug. He felt the pony’s tears in his fur and felt the shaking slowly stop. She peeked her head out he could tell, and tried to look around. She probably couldn’t see much.

“I don’t know where I am…” she finished sadly.

“You are in the domain of Death my child.” Death replied, still holding her to him.

“But, I don’t want to be dead.” She sniffled like she was going to start crying again.

“And there is the problem. You aren’t scheduled to die today.” Death tried to stop her from tearing up again, but was unsuccessful.

“I’M NEVER GONNA GET TO GO HOME AGAIN!!!! I’m gonna be stuck here forever!!! I’m never going home and I’ll be stuck here in this grey nightmare!” She sobbed.

Death felt something for the child in his arms. A true feeling, one of which he felt as if he had never felt before. He wanted to help this child, no the feeling demanded that he help this child.

“I’ll help you get home…” Amazingly enough the crying dried almost instantly. She picked up her head and seemed mildly embarrassed.

“Oh I forgot! My name is Rainbow dash! Thank you Thank you Thank you!!!!!” She seemed excited about something.

“I am Death, and you’re welcome?” How are you supposed to respond to something like this? Death didn’t know. He kind of wished he did though.

She hugged him and refused to let go until he convinced her he was going to teach her a flying trick. She seemed obsessed with some group called the wonder bolts, who could obtain an impressive speed for being mortal. Rainbow, however could go faster than any mortal he had ever noticed, something she seemed particularly proud of. She bragged that one day she wanted to become faster than even him, to which he replied "Nothing escapes Death."

She giggled.

And so Death was roped into teaching Rainbow dash how to drop into and out of phase with the rest of the world. He trained her until she could do it at will, and then made her promise to never do it unless she really needed it. He sent her on her way, but could not stop his own curiosity from making him read ahead in the list for her name. He could not find her.

There was some creature that was not on the list.

Maybe this was a cause to contact the other divinity.