A New Life For Death

Twilight POV

"Ok girls, Celestia's message said we just have to stall it for 15 minutes"

"Is that it, I can take care of that Dragon in 10 seconds fl-ROOAAAAARRR" she's interrupted by the dragon spewing some kind of... shadow flames?

The flames set fire to a luckily empty house and seem to actively MELT the brickwork.

"WHAT IN THE HAY IS THAT?!?" Applejack practically screams, now seeming to fully grasp the situation

"I-I-I I don't know, I've never even heard of a dragon with this kind of ability" I can't help but panic, how can we hope to hold this thing off for FIFTEEN MINUTES?!?

Death POV
I speed along as fast as my wings can carry me, that dragon just let out shadow flames, and given that only one dragon has ever been capable of using such without being corrupted, and she was a damn sight smaller than this fucker, I'm gonna go ahead and assume he's corrupted, whether by his own power or someone else's we'll soon see.

Closer, closer, closer...

Twilight POV

"Ok girls let's try and distract him while everyone else evacuates, Rainbow Dash, can you fly around his head and try to distract him while we see what we can do from the ground" 'how can we possibly do anything to that thing, we couldn't beat a dragon half this size?!?'

"Don't worry Twilight, I got this"

I watch as Rainbow launches her self at great speeds right at the dragon, when out of nowhere the dragon displays immense speeds and launches a fist at her too fast to dodge! She lands hard against the ground in a crumpled heap. We all scream "RAINBOW DASH!!!" and the others run over to her to help her, the dragons sees them and goes to breathe its shadow flames on them, I fly in front of the others and poor every ounce of strength I can from all three of my alicorn magics, earth pony, pegasus and unicorn in my poor horn... it hurts so much, I launch the beam right at the dragon, it too slow to dodge and takes the attack head on with a resounding BOOM, the entire area fills with smoke in the aftermath.

I can barely breathe, I don't have any strength left to hold myself in the air and fall straight down, luckily Fluttershy catches me, she's not very strong so she can only slow my descent and we both fall to the ground. Fluttershy helps me stand, if you can call it that, my horn is killing me, I don't think I'll be able to use any complex magic for at least a week if I don't want to crack my horn.

"ugh, thanks for the help Fluttershy, I can barely move, let's go check on Rainbow"

"Okay, but be careful, your horn looks really red, we'll need to get you to a doctor... um if that's okay with you that is."

We walk closer to the others as they look at Rainbow, "are you okay Rainbow, you took quite the hit back there" I feel a heavy breeze come in, must be some pegasus clearing the smoke.

"GUY'S NEVER MIND ME LOOK OUT BEHIND YOU"

3rd person

Everyone turns to see the dragon preparing to fire on them, time seems to slow down as it opens its mouth to fire on them and they prepare to die.

'This can't be how it ends, I want to spend more time with my friends... with Rainbow'

'I'm so scared... I'll never see Angel Bunny again, who'll look after my animal friends... oh who am I kidding, I'm so useless, they'll be fine without me'

'Ah don't wanna die... Big Mac, take care of Applebloom, you and her are the only things left of ma and pa now'

'...No more smiles... I wanna see Marble one last time, I wanna hear Limestone yell, I wanna talk to Maud'

'They're gonna die, and it's my fault, if I were just faster I could've done my job, I'm so sorry guys'

'Huh... This... This actually is the worst possible thing... no it's not, it could be worse, sweetie belle, my darling sis- no, my precious daughter, you're safe, that's all that matters, I wish I could've told you... I love you so much'

As if acting on instinct, they close their eyes as they prepare for the inevitable.

BOOM

"HEY FUCKFACE"

Everyone opens their eyes as they see a robed hooded black winged creature slams at astonishing speeds with a resounding *crack* right into the snout of the dragon launching it rolling down the street a hundred feet onto its back. The creature lands a few feet in front of them in a bipedal stance holding a large scythe.

"Let's see how you handle a real challenge shall we"