3rd person POV

"HOW DO YOU KNOW THOSE NAMES

"Fucking hell Luna, do you really need to be so loud, and anyway I'm feeling a little insulted you don't even remember your Godfather"

At that everyone looks shocked, even Celestia and Luna are gaping like fish.

It's Celestia that breaks the silence "What are you talking about?"

"Have you never looked at your own documents, under 'Godfather' you have the initials..." Death gestures her to finish.

"...A.O.D, A.O.W"

"Correct my dear Tia, and those would stand for...?"

"...Angel Of Death, Angel Of Wisdom, but why would you be our Godfather?"

"Perhaps it would be best if we continue our little conversation inside the crystal castle over there, hmm?"

"Oh, umm, yes, right, stand down my little ponies. Shining Armor, would you kindly send most of the troops back to Canterlot, but accompany me, Luna and the Elements to talk to Death."

"Yes Princess, ALL RIGHT EVERYPONY, all but 6 of you head back to Canterlot."

As he commanded, all but 6 headed back to the chariots and proceeded to board them and fly back to canterlot, leaving the princesses' chariot behind, 4 pegasi stay with the chariot, and 2 unicorns guard the palace doors.

5 minutes later they're all in the map room.

The elements sit on their thrones while Celestia and Luna sit on either side of Twilight, while shining armor sits on the other side of Celestia.

Luna starts "So... how, or rather why, are you our godfather?"

"Starting off with the big one eh?" he smirked, "It was your dad who suggested me, and your dear mother agreed."

"So," celestia continued "you knew our father, what was he like, we can't remember him."

"Not surprising, you two are different sizes, but you were only born a year apart, sadly your dad died a few months after Luna was born."

"How did he die?" they asked simultaneously.

"The man was a fan of smoking a pipe constantly, he got cancer as a result and passed away in his sleep."

"umm, excuse me mr death." came the voice of the young purple alicorn.

"Yes, what is it miss?" "Twilight" "Miss Twilight?"

"Well, I thought that alicorns heal from such afflictions due their high magic levels."

Death smirked "Faust, their mother, was an alicorn, their father was an earth pony."

The silence was palpable, Twilight and the other elements had their jaws dropped, even Pinkie was deathly still at the info.

Applejack spoke up "so he was an earth pony? Musta' been mighty strong to impress the princess's mother like that."

At that death literally started rolling on the floor laughing... for 5 whole minutes.

"ha ha ha... ah... haha... uh, no he was *ahem*, he was not what you would call 'physically gifted', he was actually her librarian before he was her mate, he was thin, not at all muscular, and not at all comfortable with others, choosing instead to remain inside all the time with his precious books, but the man had a heart of gold, and he couldn't stand to see anyone get hurt."

Everyone in the room slowly turned to twilight as he spoke about the princess's father.

"why is everyone looking at me?"

"Oh... no reason." came everyone's reply

Luna spoke up "I have a question?"

Her tone was quiet and serious, which death took note of. "Go ahead."

"Couldn't you have stopped his death?" Everyone looked to death for an answer, and were surprised by the sad look in his eyes.

"...you sound just like Faust, I cannot prevent someone's death, I allow it to happen, I can't just resurrect people or anything like that, even if it was me doing it, it would still be necromancy, and if that doesn't shatter a soul it at least renders it damaged beyond repair" his tone was somber "Faust didn't care for details, and we didn't speak for a while, 74 years if I remember correctly."

In an act of bravery, fluttershy came and hugged him "You really cared for her didn't you?"

Death hugged back "I did, so much, it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say I loved her, but it wasn't exactly the way you ponies would recognize love, immortals are different in that regard, me and her were the best of friends, and occasionally we slept together to deal with the stresses of eternal life"

"You... slept with our mother... what about when she was with father" Celestia asked

"When she was with Noble Spirit, your father, we did not sleep together, and your father became a true friend to me and I trusted him, if I didn't trust him I wouldn't have let him near Faust. I thought he might be after the throne of Equestria, but he never cared for the throne, he actually did his best to stay away from the spotlight. He was a good man."

Everyone had a smile when death mentioned that.

"Umm, can I ask a question... if you don't mind that is"

"What is your question miss...?"

"My name is Fluttershy"

"A very beautiful, and fitting name miss Fluttershy, your question?"

Fluttershy blushed and hid behind her hair and asked "Why did you call the princesses what you did?"

While Celestia maintained her happy smile... Luna looked mortified.

"Well it's quite simple, when she was younger Celestia didn't like how log her name was, so she just went by Tia... Luna on the other hand, a little bit of background is necessary." The others leaned in, interested. "Luna was always smarter than Celestia, even learning how to speak earlier than Celestia did... unfortunately she also had a bit of a lisp at the time so... oh hell I'll just show you my first time meeting her when she was about a year old, if you're wondering about when I stopped talking to faust, it was when Luna was about 4 or 5 years old, anyway here you go."

He reached up to his head with his right hand with his index and middle fingers, and seemed to pull a small white orb out of his head, he stretched it out with both his hands and a memory showed up in the middle, everyone looked as the memory showed death looking down as a tiny foal version of Luna had seemed to have accidentally run into him.

"awww"

Then Death in the memory spoke.

"Oops, careful there little one" he helped her up, she looked shyly at him, "what's your name, little one?"

"My nameth Woona" The memory ended.

Everyone 'Awwed' at the still picture of little Woona.

Fluttershy spoke "That is SOOO CUUUUTE, she looked so adorable there"

At this point Luna was blushing HARD.

"Yes she certainly was cute, that day Faust asked me to bab- I mean uh foalsit Luna, I spent the day getting to know her, she was quite bright even at that young age, though Faust told me it was strange that she accepted my presence so quickly as she was usually shy around new people, unlike Celestia who used to love the attention." At this, both of them blushed.

"By the way, it's good seeing you six again"

Everyone looked confused

"What do you mean" twilight asked

"You six always find each other, it's an inevitability, your bodies have passed many times, you get reincarnated, you live, you find each other, eventually you die, all those times though, you found each other every single time, I had a feeling you were destined for something, it's surprising it was the elements of harmony though I will admit."

The girls looked at each other and smiled brightly at that revelation.

"In one of your lives you actually met as enemies, but became friends and banished the Wendigoes from the land"

"Wait wait wait, so we actually were those ponies from the Hearthswarming Tale play?!?" said Rainbow Dash

"And I really was a PRINCESS" said Rarity... who then fainted onto a couch pulled from hammerspace or something.

"Yes... to both those questions... is she gonna be okay?"

"She'll be fine" deadpanned Twilight

After Rarity woke up.

"So why are you here now anyway" asked Twilight

"Oh, right I never mentioned did I, well-"

*FLASH* "HELLO EVERYPONY" Asked discord, "what's going on here toda-"

"DISCORD" hissed Death

Discord recognized the voice instantly and literally turned white "Ohh crap"

TBC

Author's Note

Sorry I haven't updated in a while, I've just not been feeling up to it, I just got a sudden burst of energy from somewhere and finished the chapter.