Ponysiders - Demise Lives

Part One: A Portal To Somewhere

Note: This is when the storyline turns from the original to original... If that makes sense. Also, if by this point, you're thinking 'man, he's spelling color and armor wrong. Well, wrong. I'm spelling it right, but I'm English. Not American/Canadian. Thank you.

"Ugh... Where am I?", groaned Demise as he got up off the lush green grass ground which he was laying on. Slowly recovering from the teleport through time and space, he let his eyes adjust to his surroundings. "What... Dusty, see what you can fi-"

"That will not be necessary, horseman.", said the Ravencolt, seemingly appearing out of nowhere and speaking in a calm demeanour. "I cannot stay here long, but you must listen; follow the road, it is close, but I cannot say in which direction. When you find the road, follow it until you come to a town. You can look out for yourself after that."

"But Ravencolt, wh-" Demise would have continued, but the keeper of secrets had gone already. "Perfect.", he grunted.

After roaming around for thirty minutes in the green meadow, he found the road, with the assistance of Dusty. The realm he was in was in the past, he knew that much, but what had the Ravencolt said about friend ships? 'Oh, friend...ship? Why in the nine hells would he have me find out about... *That? I doubt even Furiee would care about such trivial things. What ever. I just hope this doesn't turn out as stupid as it sounds.' So he was a... *Bit skeptical about the situation. But although he didn't know it, this pursuit would change him forever.

"FOREVEERRR!" shouted a pink pony that popped out of nowhere in front of Demise.

"What?" Seriously what?

"Oh nothing, anyway-I'm-Pinkie-Pie-and-I-saw-you-walking-around-and-then-"

"Calm down, give me the short version but slower. Also, what did you say your name was?" Demise questioned the random, eccentric pony.

"My. Naaame. Iiiis. Piiinkiiie. Pieeee. Aaan-"

"Normal speed..." He had only been talking to her for two seconds and was already getting tired of it... What was her problem?

"My name is Pinkie Pie. I saw you walking around near the town and then I thought 'Omygosh I've never seen you before' and if I've never seen you before then that means you're new because I know everypony-"

Demise groaned at the incoming assault of words, just wanting to move on.

"And I mean, if you're new, I get to throw you a WELCOME PARTY! And I love parties and this is going to be SO fun and-"

"Which way is the nearby town?" Demise asked her, growing bored of listening to her ramble.

"we can- Oh it's that way!" She answered, pointing in the direction of the town he was heading for, as they were at a crossroad now and there was no sign. "Anyway we can have it at Sugarcube Corner and I can make cupcakes and-" She carried on with her pointless, persistent rambling, while Demise paid no attention, not caring anymore.

"Demise, are you even listening? Helloooo?" Pinkie Pie asked.

The mention of his name caught his attention even though he wasn't paying the slightest bit of interest. "No, I am not... Wait, how do you know who I am?"

"Ohhh, it's obvious. You're one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse. I can tell because you're wearing the mask and have two scythes on your back and-" She carried on talking.

He didn't care anymore. Not one bit. He was used to meeting some crazies and listening to them but this was just too much. He needed to get any information he could from her without going insane, and then be rid of this crazy pony.

'If I find the Ravencolt ever again...' He began thinking of ways to get payback for what was happening to him while the clearly clinically insane pony walked alongside him.

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Two minutes after he stopped caring the tiniest bit, he and the pink pony were still walking, and she had not stopped talking. At all. but thankfully for him, wherever he seemed to go, trouble always seemed to follow. Remember those measly little frosty skeletons? Forget about them.

ROOOAAARRR!

Another, louder roar came from the same direction as the last about 5 seconds later. The roar was coming from in front of them.

Quicker than he could react, two large beasts came barreling towards Demise. Luckily, they jumped over him and the pink one, and carried on running.

Something is not right...

No sooner than he thought that, did a huge red dragon with yellow spines shining brightly in the glory of the sunlight came flying straight at them from the sky. "Run!" Demise shouted, realising that it was going to land on them. But it didn't. They carried on running, with the dragon closing in, until Pinkie turned around and said "Look!" And so Demise turned around, only to see a yellow pegasus pony with a pink, flowing mane staring at it.

Not in fear, but in a fearless way.

He was about to shout at her to move, until something wondrous happened.

The dragon yelped, turned and flew away.

What? Demise walked over to the yellow mare, as she tried desperately to hide behind her own mane, until she saw that Pinkie Pie was with him.

"H-h-hello Pinkie..." she said in such a quiet and shy tone that Demise barely heard her. "w-w-who is this?" she asked timidly, but thankfully not as quiet as a feather hitting the ground.

"Ooh ooh ooh I know this one! He's Demise!" Pinkie shouted, although she was the one that was asked.

"D-d-demise?" She seemed terrified by his name. Rightly so, too.

"Yes... My name is Demise... You are?"

"I'm... uttersy..." she said so quietly that he couldn't tell what she'd said.

What is wrong with everypony around here? he could already tell that this town was going to be full of strange ponies.

"Ooh oh ooh I know this one! Pick me! Pick me!" Pinkie shouted while jumping around "Me, me! Me meeee!"

"Alright!" He shouted at her, starting to get immensely annoyed.

"Her name is Fluttershy! She's one of my best friends!" She said, still speaking loudly.

"Okay okay! Calm down Pinkie Pie. Now, can you tell me why you two mares are out here?" He was curious as to why they happened to be in the right (or wrong, depending on how events turned out) place at the right/wrong time.

"Well DUH I'm always there when a new pony shows up, and Fluttershy was looking for me, I think." She said, answering Demise's question.

"But how could you even kn- never mind..."

Demise didnt usually get worn out, but purely by just having to try to comprehend the pink pony, he was feeling tired.

'Ugh, I need to get away from them...' he thought. 'As soon as I get to this town, I'm finding a way to ditch them.'

As they turned a corner on the path, they walked into town.

"Welcome to PONYVILLE!" Shouted Pinkie Pie with glee.

"Great..." He groaned.

'Now to ditch them.' Demise thought.

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Although she was so quiet and shy that Demise wouldn't have realised that she had been with them the whole time, he knew she was because of the sound of her hooves adding to the noise of both his and Pinkie Pie's.

And Pinkie Pie was still talking as though he were listening.

'I really need to get rid of them...'

It proved, however, much harder than he thought, because although Fluttershy decided to go home, Pinkie would just not budge. He tried and tried again. But he failed each time, as she would just appear out of nowhere. He tried to get her to wait outside a general store, and then exit through the side door. But nope, she just popped out from behind a house. He tried to lose her by sprinting away, but just found that even though she just stood there as he ran, she would be in front of him as soon as he returned his gaze forward.

He was tired of this, and therefore gave up, defeated. Demise had been defeated by a pink earth pony who didn't even know she had defeated him. This was not his day.

'I'm going to go mad soon...' Still feeling defeated, he decided to ask her something.

"What do you know about the elements of Harmony? And..." He shivered "Friendship."

"I don't know much about the elements, my friend Twilight knows more, there was this one time when-"

Demise just stopped listening at this point, sensing incoming rambles.

"Where can I find this 'Twilight'?" He questioned once the pony stopped talking for two seconds.

"She's usually at the library, Books and Branches. She's really clever. Rainbow Dash says she's an egghead, which is-"

'Why do I *always** have to stop listening to her mid sentence?* He quickly then reminded himself that it was so that he remained at least partially sane.

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They arrived at the library inhabited by none other than Twilight Sparkle, who Demise had learned (over a long period of time because of Pinkies rambles and tangents.) was the monarch Celestia's personal protégé.

Things where so crazy in this place that he half expected to walk in, and be greeted by Twilight spinning around in an office chair and saying, quote the film starring Goldhooves, "Mister Demise... I've been expecting you."

Luckily for him, Twilight wasn't as strange as the others. Not all of the time, anyway.

He walked up to the wooden door embedded in the trunk of the treebrary, dreading what was going to happen upon meeting this one. He knocked three times, loudly.

"Come in! I'll be down in just a second."

Crash!

'Oh dear lord, what will it be this time!?'

He and Pinkie walked through the door of the library only to find very messy and large pile of books on the ground, covering a lavender coloured pony with a dark purple mane which had a pink streak through it.

"Umm... Sorry about the mess. I was just trying to re arrange some of the books and then- wait, why are you wearing a mask and furthermore, who are you?"

"My name is Demise. I wear this mask because..." He cringed as he thought of how an innocent pony like her would react to his truthful answer, so instead lied. "Because... I don't want to be recognised by unfriendly faces."

"Demise... Wait a second... I know who you are!" She said in a tone of horror.

Demise cringed again as he realised that this would lead to a bad reputation.

'Here we go again, I'm going to be recognised as the Reaper of Souls... Or... Someone else?'