Knocking on Death's Door

by therandomemu

What does that cutie mark mean?

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He approached the pony, just waiting for the scream of terror. All he got was a stare of a pony who lived a full life. "Why are you not frightened mortal?"

"Why should I be, I am only being carried through to the next realm, what do I have to fear."

"Once you cross, you may never go back to the realm of the living."

"Why would I want to cross back? I saved lives. I would want to stay dead, so I may let my past action guide the colts and fillies to live their life with greatness."

"Wise words of one so young. Why, may I ask, do you want to assist those that you do not know, and never will?"

"Children. They will lead on the race. Why would I want to do something evil, knowing because of that, I will have killed everything we knew, and everything they cared for."

"Your words of your world make me envious. I will allow one so wise to watch over my realm while I leave."

"Didn't Celestia and Luna put spells to prevent you from doing just that?"

"If they worked, I wouldn't be claiming souls."

"I will watch your realm, but please, begging with the words of a loving mortal, do not harm the ponies. They may make mistakes, but everyone can right a past wrong, even you."

"What are you speaking of?"

"I know that when she left you, it made you like this, but not all ponies are out to make others suffer. Give them a chance."

"I will listen to your wise words, now here is how you be death. You...

After the instructional conversation

"I will be watching, even when I am not looking, I will know if you make a mistake. Now, I will be off. Oh, before I go, what is your name?"

"I am the great and powerful Starswirl. And please, excuse my great granddaughter, she may just be showing off, but that is because she is trying to follow in my footsteps. Don't kill her."

"Anything for you... My friend." Death then opens a portal with his scythe. He changes into a pony form, with a black and white mane. His body is entirely black. His eyes are ying and yangs. His cutie mark is a white top half of an hourglass, and the bottom half is black. He is a large alicorn, and his wings are one black, one white. His horn is entirely black.

"My my my, you look larger than Princess Celestia. Maybe you should remove either the horn, or wings, and also shrink yourself. Don't want to bring too much attention to yourself.

"You are right Starswirl. I apologize for my lack of knowledge in the pony world." Death removes his wings, thinking that not using magic would be unbearable. He also shrinks himself so he was a little smaller than Starswirl. "Now I will 'Cya later.'"

Death walked up to the portal, ending up in a land full of trees. He looks around, seeing a few birds flying away. "Hmmf." Death took a step forward, only to hear crackling at his hooves. He looks down to see the grass around his hooves all dying, just crumbling. "It seems I must seal away part of my powers." He makes his scythe appear in his mouth, reaps it in front of him, making a portal appear in front of him. He takes a deep breath, then releases it into the portal, then it closed. Death took a step forward, to see that all of the grass around his feet were still alive. He lets out a victorious grunt, then walks in a straight line down a small dirt path. He keeps walking, and encounter very little. Whenever he heard a growl from the brush, he would look there, make his eyes flare with a small fire, sending whatever creature that was hidden to run. He kept walking down the path, then realized that he hadn't noticed any light coming from the canopy. Thick canopy, he thought. As he walked down the path, he started to hear a hushed noise up ahead. He started to sneak down the path, making as little noise as possible.

When he was close enough to the noise to make out words, he could see a small pink maned yellow pegasus talking to a small family of ducks. Ha, finally somepony for me to speak to. "Well hello little pony."

"EEP!"

"Hmm, not much of a greeting," Death muttered to himself.

"I'm sorry, you startled me," the yellow pegasus said to Death.

"What is your name pegasus?"

"My name is Flu-*mumbles*"

"What?"

"Flutt-*mumbles*"

"I'm sorry but if you don't speak louder, then I will be on my way."

"My name is Fluttershy, umm, what's yours?"

"Hmm, call me Chrono Necrosis."

"My, what an interesting name."

"Well, I will be on my way." Then Death just walked down the dirt path, nearly bumping into the little family of ducks.Well, seems like I have made myself a name. Now, time to find a town or village. Death walked for a few minutes before he saw sunlight. Ah, it has been a long time since I have seen Celestia's sun. Perhaps I should go find her. When Death took a step into the light, he began to feel ill. Smart Celly, using a degrading spell on the sunlight. Too bad I can't die. After a few short moments of walking through the light, he began to feel very uncomfortable. I should probably cover myself. He summoned a black cloak, like everyone expects Death to wear. He looks around with it on, and he happily notices how it does not hinder movement in pony form.

While looking around, he saw a small village near him. He began to approach it, only for him to feel a presence behind him. It was coming at him with high speeds. Death just waits. Why did he stop moving, thought the rapidly approaching entity. Right as it was about to collide with Death, he just took a step to the side, making the entity crash into the ground. Death just looks at it, only to realize it was a pegasus. He just stares at it with his ying-yang eyes. It slowly got up, and the dust around it clear. He looked at it, seeing that is was a female cyan pegasus with a rainbow mane, though it looked kind of brown due to the dirt.

"Well, that is not a very nice welcome," Death says to the slightly dazed pony.

"Who are you, and how did you know I was flying at you?" asked the cyan pegasus.

"You should not bother those you do not know. I could have been a soldier, and you would have been arrested."

"No I wouldn't. I'm Rainbow Dash, fastest flyer and Element of Loyalty." Ah yes, the element of loyalty is always given to the self-centered one.

"Whatever, you should show me around this town."

"It's called Ponyville, and why?"

"You owe me for almost hitting me."

"Fine." So Death and Rainbow Dash slowly entered the town. As they walked, all the ponies stared at Death. "Hey, you got a name?"

"Yes. My name is Chrono Necrosis. I would appreciate if we could pick up the pace. I do not like all these watchful eyes."

"Ooh, the shy one are we?"

"No." Just that bad things will happen if I do not start to see fear.

"Well, I will drop you off here at my friend Twilight's. She lives in this library. She can finish your tour of this place, also she has a guestroom you can probably stay in."

"Well thank you young pegasus." Then Death opened the door to the library to see thousands of books. I wonder if this Twilight is home. "Hello?"

"Yes, how may I help you?" A purple unicorn mare comes down the stairs leading upstairs. As soon as she sees him, she starts to examine him. "Why don't you take off your cloak and then we can talk."

Death took off the cloak and set it down on the side of a couch, then sat on said couch. The unicorn, on the other hand, sat right across from him. "Hi, my name is Twilight Sparkle, and I am Princess Celestia's protege and element of magic."

"Hello, my name is Chrono Necrosis. It is a weird name, but it fits. Anyway, I'm new here. I was told by a pony called Starswirl to come here."

"Starswirl? Oh my Celestia! You spoke to him? You must have been lucky. He went into some woods a few years ago and disappeared. He was like, 300 years old, using spells to increase his life span. He is one of my idols. Of course Princess Celestia is my other idol. So what does your cutie mark mean?"

"Well... It is a long story. You wouldn't believe me."

"C'mon, you can't prove that unless you tell me."

"Fine. A long time ago, I was in love with a mare. Do not ask me her name, she ruined my life. I asked her to marry me, and she said yes. We were happy together, but then one day, she just left me. I was so crushed that I started to think about my existence, about our time left alive, then I realized, I knew how long everyone would live. I was like a clock of life. Anyway, I began to live my life like that, I would get payed to know when someone would die, but it was not cheap. I had a few customers, but one was the most determined to know, and she is the one that made me leave. She made me leave her home, made me leave her forever. To never come back. I have been alone for years since then." Well, that is mostly the truth.

"Wow, that is crazy. How long do I have?"

"That is not something you want to know. When I told people how long they had, it would decrease greatly because they were not supposed to have that knowledge in the first place. The people would do reckless things, thinking that they would die later, but me telling them reduced it to about a few weeks."

"Oh, well... Um, want to be friends?"

"Sure." My 2nd friend in thousands of years.

"I guess tomorrow we can see my friends. Do you have a place to stay?"

"No."

"Then you can sleep in the guest room upstairs."

"Thank you Twilight."

"Your welcome Chrono, your welcome."
A/N

GASP! What is going to happen? How old is he really? What was he lying about? If anyone reading this has read any of my other stories (2 others) I will be finishing the League of Legends crossover, but probably not the Ace one. I never know. Anyway, if you want an oc in my story, my answer is derp. Love you all. If this story gets enough likes I will write more.

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