The Soul Reaver

A/N: Alright peeps, this chapter is going to be a good one! enjoy!

(Later that night)

I Can't sleep... These dreams are becoming much too frequent. With a sigh, I get up from the sleeping bag. Before I can even move, I hear a sigh coming from outside the tent. I move the flap and spot Fluttershy sitting by the fire looking nervous.

She must still be scared of this place... I guess I can try to calm her down. I exit the tent and quietly step towards her. I sat down next to her, and she squeaks in surprise at the sight of me. She calms down after a few seconds and looks at me apologetically.

"I'm sorry. I didn't wake you, did I?" Fluttershy asked nervously. I smile lightly and shake my head. I feel a lightness in my chest, it... it isn't attraction. I feel a wave of kindness. It's strange, how does one feel kindness?

Wait, could it be that little chunk of her soul that I took when I first met her? Strange... I look at fluttershy with a raised eyebrow.

"Your scared of this place, aren't you?" I ask her. She nodded.

"I can't help it, it's just so unnatural." Fluttershy explains. I look to her questioningly. "The weather moves on its own, and the animals take care of themselves! No other place I've heard of does that." She tells me. I sweat drop at the explanation. Really... It's just like home.

"Fluttershy, It's fine. Back home, that's the way things worked for me and the other wraiths. So you don't have to worry about getting hurt here." I reassure her by petting her mane. She moves into my hand and seems to be enjoying the sensation. I can't help but grin. "Besides, I couldn't let anything as adorable as you get hurt!" I say. Fluttershy blushes. Good lord, if I wasn't dead, That smile would have given me a heart attack. Or diabetes, whichever comes first.

With a chuckle, I began to lightly push her towards her tent. "Now go on! Off to bed with you. We have a big day ahead of us." I tell her. With a smile and a nod, she begins to trot off. Before I could relax, I felt fluttershy hug me. I look at her in surprise. I'll be honest, I didn't expect that.

"Thank you... Dean." Fluttershy says softly. I chuckle.

Priestess...

"Anytime Fluttershy." I grin at her. With a smile, she trots off once more to sleep. I sigh. Geez, I'm going soft. Then there was that voice. I'm still wondering what that was.

"That was nice thing you did Dean." Twilights voice sounded off form the right of me. I look at her with a grin.

"About time you came out. I was wondering if I was going to have to drag you out." I say. Twilight giggled. "Still, trust me. I'm not that nice." I chuckle sardonically. With the life I led, It's kind of hard to believe that.

"Oh, I don't believe that. You've had plenty of chances to hurt us," I stare at her with a deadpan glare. "Okay, while you did take some, you've still proven to be a good person!" Twilight assured me. I scoff.

"Whatever floats your boat." I reply. With a sigh, she trots over near the fire and lies down next to me. "If your going to ask How I died, don't. I'm not going to answer." I glare at her. She looked at me annoyed.

"I wasn't going to ask you that! I just want to talk, that's all." She exclaims quietly as to not wake the others. I stare for a little while and conceded.

"Alright, what do you want to talk about?" I asked cautiously. Twilight thought it over.

"You, I guess. What did you do before you became a wraith?" She asked curiously. I thought it over, and it seems like a harmless question.

"Businessman." I reply. It's somewhat true... I did run a business, just not entirely legal. Twilight looked surprised.

"Really? You don't exactly look like the type to be selling products." She says with smile. I mock-glare at her.

"Hey! I'll have you know that I am a wonderful and charming businessman!" I exclaim jokingly. We both laugh.

Magician...

We spend the rest of our time just talking the night away. mostly small talk, but talking none the less. Finally, it wasn't untill much later until we decided to go to bed.

(Arcadia)

Nex was pacing back and forth. He couldn't get his mind off of Dean.

'Why? Did you plan this Death? Was it you who sent him after me?' Nex asked himself over and over. Nex abruptly stopped and then a disturbing thought came to him.

'If... if I do end up fighting him... will I be able to finish it?' His eyes widened. He couldn't. No matter how often the scene played in his head, he just couldn't do it.

'But... if I could get him to join us...' The butler allowed himself to smile. It's amazing. He hasn't showed this much emotion in a very long time.

Not since Dean was just a child.

'It's no use thinking about it now. I may as well rest.'

With that in mind, he braced himself for tomorrow.

( Morning)

Morning finally came, everyone was up and about. Rarity was fixing her mane, Fluttershy smiled at me for last night, Rainbow dash threw a grin at me, Pinkie was chatting with Applejack while the Noobs were talking with Twilight.

I however, was looking over the map once more and writing down notes.

"I see everyone is ready."

We all turned and found Death standing under a tree. Pinkie raced up to him.

"Ohmygoshwhoareyoudoyoulikepartieswhataboutcupcakesand-"

"Pinkie!" Me and the Noobs shout. She stops and looks at us curiously.

"What?" She asks, not at all understanding the situation.

"Can you give the boss some room?" Jay says with a chuckle. Pinkie 'ohhh'ed and backed off. I walked up to death and looked at him waiting for him to say his piece.

"Well, with that paradox out of the way, I have something to tell you three." Death looked to us. " You may find specific... Items scattered about the city of Arcadia.These are actualy arcane artifacts that were stolen from other wraiths across the multiverse." That kind of surprised us, what are Wraith weapons doing here of all places? I wasn't the only one with that question, as the other two looked curiously at death.

"you see, I believe that a renegade wraith is behind all of this. The only way they could have hurt them, was to damage their soul, so he or she stole other wraith weapons. I specifically crafted each weapon to fit the user, So I don't want them lying around here somewhere. I want you to find them, and give them to me." He commanded. He then had a look of realization. "But keep in mind that is only a secondary objective. The sentiments are your primary targets." He corrected himself. He then had a thoughtful look. "However, do be careful. I don't want any of my wraiths dying again." He said with a microscopic smile. With that said, he disappeared into the shadows of the forest.

"I swear, that appearing and disappearing thing is going to kill me... again." I sighed.  We return to the ponies and my leader face immediately comes on.

"Alright everyone get ready! Finish packing up, and we'll head out afterwards!" I shout out to everyone. I receive nods of affirmatio and proceed to my tent to unpack it. I manage to roll it upand pack it, allowing to think on Deaths mission.

A renegade wraith? I didn't even know you could do that! Not only that, but he or she ended up stealing from other wraiths! With a sigh of exasperation, I leaned against a tree. I have my work cut out for me...

"Dean! We're ready when you are!" Tech's voice interrupted my thoughts. With a nod, we all began our trek towards Arcadia. We found the river, and began to follow it.

As we walked alongside the river, Applejack wanted to ask me a question. "So how come we're  followin' the river? Y'all lost?" She asked curiously. I shook my head.

"No, Arcadia follows a river system that runs to Trottingham. Thus, we're following the river to get the quickest route to the Capital city." I explained to her. She nodded in understanding. Well Dean, it's now or never. "Listen, Applejack..." I got her attention. "I'm sorry about when we first met. I shouldn't have you kicked you like that." I said with an apologetic frown. To my surprise she actually smiled.

"Ah, don't worry about it none! Twi' told me the whole story about behind it, and how you saved her from that hydra." She accepted my apology easily. With a smile on both of our faces, we continued forward.

It wasn't until much later that we encountered a fork in the river that split down the middle. This wasn't part of the map! how could it-

"So where to now?" Rainbow dash floated along side me. I was stumped. I decided to go with my gut and made my decision.

"The one on the left." I suggested, and we all followed the left path.

The atmosphere became heavy with tension. I felt some sort of dark presence that seems to be following us, and I can tell the Noobs are feeling it too. We look at each other and nod grimly. We each prep our weapons, and I get the chance to finally see Jay's. It looked like a pretty thick pipe, but when I look at it more I can see multiple layers. So, it's probably a staff.

After an hour of silence, we came across a large field with craters strewn around it. This must have the place where Arcadia made their last stand. Off in the distance We all spot the castle of Arcadia. Even from here, it looked amazing.

"I told you guys that we'd get there." I say jokingly. However, everyone seemed scared for some reason. I was about to ask what the problem was until I felt the temperature drop drastically. I tried looking around for the source when I spotted a crucifix made out of ice.

"What the hay is that?" Rainbow dash shivered at the sudden drop. As soon as she asked that question, the ground opened up in a light blue portal. Slowly, an armored figure ascended from it. The armor was pure white, With streaks of black scattered about. The helmet hid the face with a black visor, but I have a feeling that I'd find nothing under it. It had a flowing white cloak wrapped around its shoulders. It began to walk forward, we all tensed, ready to fight at a moments notice, until it stopped directly behind the ice crucifix.

"Remember the name Gelus..." A deep voice whispered in my ear, The others seemed to have heard it as well, as they looked around to find the source of the voice. The Being reached it's arm forward and gripped the top of the crucifix and shattered the Ice, revealing a long sheathed katana.

(Team Wraith V. Gelus Gestator)

Rebel 1, ACTION!

(Gelus Battle theme)

"FOR IT WILL BE THE LAST NAME YOU HEAR AS I SEND YOU BACK TO HELL!" The being whispered loudly. He got into a battle stance with a hand hovering over the grip of the blade, ready to pull it out any time. As soon as he was ready, balls of light began dancing around us.

"What the Hay is going on!?" Rainbow exclaimed as she dodged the spheres.

"He might be summoning help! Okay, you six!" I look to the ponies. "You'll handle the minions, While Me and these two take care of mister whisper over there!" The ponies nodded in understanding. With a sadistic grin, i look towards my enemy. "Alright chums, LET'S DO THIS!" With that, we all run to our respective objectives.

Dean was right about the balls of light. They entered the ground and sets of armor rose from their old graves. Through the cracks of the armor, a teal fire scorched through them.

Twilight blasted one that tried swing its sword at her. 'This is crazy!' Twilight frantically thought as she dodged another swing. She never would have thought she would end up doing this!

Rainbow dash was doing fine, she would dodge and weave past each attack, and buck whoever attempted to hurt her, same with applejack.

Pinkie protected Fluttershy with her party cannon as she blasted each and every one of them. "Say hello to my little friend!" Pinkie shouted as round tore through a couple of the spirits.

"Way to go, you rock! woohoo!" Fluttershy said in her usual tone. Rarity was actually doing a fairly descent job! She would dodge, and then rip off chunks of the armor on the walkers with ease. It must be due to her extensive fashionista lifestyle.

Twilight managed to deal with the last of her walkers and was able to sneak a peak at Dean and the other two's progress.

The black and white ghost seemed to dodge every strike the three threw at it and counter with his own slash.

Twilight saw a sort of seal appear in front of the ghost as it braced his arm for an attack.

"Empty sky form..." Dean swung his ethereal blade at the seal and a flash of Ice froze him in place. Gelus teleported behind him with his sword outwards. "Winter's Ripost!" He sheathed his sword and multiple cuts appeared on Dean and the others.

'He's just so fast...' Tech thought. He had it worse. He had more wounds on him than the other two, since they relied on a weapon they could defend themselves. He then had an idea. 'Well... I never could do it on earth, and it was just a fantasy of mine to do it, but since I'm a wraith...' He charged at the sentiment, surprising the shit out of the two other wraiths, even the sentiment. Tech gave a flurry of punches at the sentiments helmet, creating a small crack. an aura of Tech's soul gathered at his fists as the flurry became faster and faster until it was a blur

"Gatling Fist!" Tech dubbed his attack. With one last punch to chest, he sent the sentiment reeling. That gave the others the opening they needed. Dean dashed forward and launched a kick under the chin.

"Infernal Rapture!" Dean activated his. A giant black beam lauched from the ground and forced the sentiment to ascend. Jay took that chance to run up to twilight.

"Use your levitation to launch me at him!" Twilight looked doubtful, but did it none the less. Jay soared towards the rising spirit, and latched onto the sentiment. A green aura surrounded the two as they descended.

"Emerald Driver!" The two collided with the ground and launched dust everywhere. When the dust cleared, A crater was visible to everyone. in the middle of the crater, was the sentiment face up on the ground not moving. Jay was kneeling over him with that grin on his face.

The sentiments body began to disintegrate, leaving a floating blue soul that gave off snow flakes.

JESUS CHRIST! That was a Sentiment!?! I'd hate to see what's more powerful!

"Well done you three." I jump in surprise and spot Death standing Idly. He walked slowly into the small crater and stopped in front of the floating soul. "hmm..." He held the soul in his hand as he inspected it. A smile graced his face and he turned to three of us. "It seems that if one of you absorbs this soul, you'll have dominance over Ice. Which one of you would like it?" Death asked us. Well, Ice isn't really my thing, but it does look useful. Jay thought the same thing, since I saw that glint in his eyes. He looked at me and we nodded in agreement.

I placed a fist in front of me and he did the same.

"One... two... three... Shoot!" We both said. I had rock he had scissors.

"SCORE BEYATCH!" I jumped in joy. jay snapped his fingers in annoyance. Tech rolled his eyes at the display. I chuckled and grabbed the soul and immediatly placed it in my mouth.

Sweet jesus~... It's like ambrosia in my mouth... I felt a surge of power and a rush of cold run through out my body, and it felt rather pleasant.

For some reason, Light yagami comes to my mind...

I'll take a soul... and EAT IT.

My mind. it's full of fuck. Oh well, I look at the others, since I have a feeling death already left, and grinned.

"I guess we should rest here a for awhile, huh?" I ask looking at everyone. I get various sighs of relief as we begin to set up camp again.

Tomorrow, Arcadia.

A/N: And done! Well, what did you think?