Back From The Dead

It was now October 17, 2016, it was 1:57 in the morning, there was a storm that was scheduled to hit Topeclop that night but it was not even close as severe as the storm that was on May 22nd. The cemetery where Crimson Spellcaster was buried had a church with a huge lightning rod on it. A lightning strike from the quickly approaching storm that was scheduled hit the rod so hard that it split in half to the point where one of the halves went flying off the church’s roof. The half the flew off rocketed toward the cemetery and more specifically, towards Crim’s grave where it landed in the ground of the grave that was right in front of his tombstone. The rod may have been split in half by the lightning bolt, but the part of the rod that broke off was easily eight feet long. The rod pierced through the ground, pierced through the metal casket and the tip of the rod was now five inches into Crim’s chest. Two minutes passed when another powerful lightning bolt hit the half of the rod that was now sticking out of the ground. The electricity passed through the rod that got broke off and went into Crim’s chest. As soon as that happened, his left eye opened wide and he began to move his body. He then used the blood-red colored magic that he somehow can use to yank out the rod in his chest and teleport out of his casket. However, it teleported him outside the casket and now he had no choice but to dig himself out of six feet of dirt. After he finally dug himself out of his grave, he felt like he can breathe again. On October 17th, 2016 at 1:59 in the morning, Crimson Spellcaster officially came back to the land of the living but at a cost, he was now a mix between a zombie and a revenant with some other traits of other undead monsters, like a vampire.

There was another problem, he realized that being in the ground for five months would make a walking, talking corpse obsessively hungry and thirsty. He immediately went feral and had a craving for both brains and blood due to him having the same blood-drinking traits as a vampire. He saw a mare in a gazebo taking shelter from the rain that was starting to come down and in his feral state decided to go after her. She was so bored of being a lookout so she took out her phone and started to take goofy pictures of herself on her phone. Crim snuck up behind her and attacked her from behind knocking her to the ground. He now had fangs and with those fangs along with his brute strength, he ripped her neck open showing nothing but the muscle and squirting blood veins. He bit down hard and drank every last drop of blood in her. She was barely alive by the time he was done drinking her blood when he turned around and bucked her in the face so hard that he popped the lid of her skull clean off showing off her brain where he immediately ate it.

But he wasn’t done, he heard some talking off to his left, he looked to his left where he saw three stallions digging up a grave. All three of them were graverobbers, but he didn’t care at the time because he saw all three of them as food. One of the Stallions that he overheard was named Redneck and he told the other two graverobbers that he was going to take a leak, he found a fresh open grave, Crim didn’t waste time and attacked him from behind knocking him into the fresh open grave. Before Redneck even had the chance to scream in terror, Crim ripped out his throat and did the same thing in the fresh open grave that he did to that mare from the gazebo. Redneck did manage to get one blood-curdling scream out before Crim began to rip his throat out.

The two other graverobber’s heard Redneck’s screams, Spoiled Rotten who is the lead graverobber told Anxious Nerves to go and find Redneck. Anxious Nerves was walking in the direction that both of them heard his screaming from, he almost tripped and fell into a six-foot hole. It startled him and as he was composing himself, he noticed that it was a fresh open grave that he hadn’t noticed was there due to how dark it was out. He saw something down in that open grave, it looked like a black stallion with a very short mane and tail with a bone showing on both its foreleg and hindleg. It sounded like it was eating while standing over something. Anxious Nerves was confused at what he was seeing, but the confusion quickly went away and replace with abstract horror when Crim turned around to face Anxious Nerves. Crim stepped aside to show Anxious Nerves what he had done to Redneck. Redneck’s throat was ripped open with no blood coming out of it but there was a ton of blood that was getting into the dirt that was coming out of his head that got popped open with no brain to be found. Redneck’s eyes were wide open and his tongue was sticking out the way he died. Anxious Nerves was petrified with fear and couldn’t move his body due to the now dead body of Redneck until he saw Crim charging towards him. He screamed in response and ran for his life towards Spoiled Rotten.

Spoiled Rotten saw Anxious Nerves scared out of his mind and saw something chasing after him. Spoiled Rotten was scared at the thing chasing Anxious Nerves like he was seeing the walking dead. Anxious Nerves begged Spoiled Rotten to do something about the thing that had been following him as he hid behind Spoiled Rotten. In response to his cries for help, Spoiled Rotten yelled out

“I’m too young and handsome to die! Here take him!”

and push Anxious Nerves closer to Crim. Crim started up his blood-red magic just so he can make Anxious Nerves march toward Crim against his will.

“YOU SON OF A BITCH!!!!!”

Anxious Nerves yelled out in anger at Spoiled Rotten. As soon as said that, Crim started to do the same thing to him that he did to Redneck.

While Anxious Nerves was getting his throat ripped open as well as his skull popped open, Spoiled Rotten turned tail and ran for his life trying to find a place to hide from this monster that was attacking his partners in crime. He was hearing Anxious Nerves begging for help and his screams of utter pain due to what that monster was doing to him. Spoiled Rotten ran a few yards away and decided to try to hide in an old, very small mausoleum that was locked. He easily managed to buck off the very rusty lock off and quickly got inside. While inside the mausoleum that was covered in spider webs, Spoiled Rotten was trying to not make any noise to the point where he was trying not to breathe. But, unfortunately not even a minute later, the rusty metal door of the old mausoleum violently swung open to the point where it was on its last hinge, and a bolt of lightning gave off enough light to give Spoiled Rotten another good look at the monster that killed the rest of his graverobbing crew. Spoiled Rotten was now cornered and there was no way out of this. He screamed in absolute terror, Crim didn’t waste time by tackling him, he started eating him alive in that small mausoleum. Out of all four of the graverobber’s deaths, Spoiled Rotten’s death was the most gruesome due to the large amount of blood spilled in that small mausoleum.

After he killed, drank the blood, and ate the brains of all four graverobbers, it did get Crim out of his feral state and knock some sense back in him. He looked around at the carnage he caused and sure he was appalled at the fact that he did all of that but then he quickly realized that they were all graverobbers, after all, The Grim Reaper told him to kill the bad and the wicked.

Meanwhile, the town’s police station was getting calls from some residents that live near the cemetery saying that they woke up to hear disturbing screams of terror coming from the cemetery. Officer Taser, a rookie unicorn cop was told by the police station’s dispatchers to go investigate what the commotion was that they got reports from.

By the time she got to the front entrance of the cemetery it was raining, she used her magic to hold a flashlight to shine past the entrance to see what looked like a unicorn-like figure up against a tombstone. Officer Taser discovered the body of Anxious Nerves sitting up against a tombstone, she clearly knew right away that he was clearly dead. His fur coat was pale with no blood coming off him, his throat was severely ripped open to the point she can almost see the bones in his neck and his head was caved in so hard that his head popped open but there was no brain inside.

Officer Taser was sickened by this and was about to throw up when she saw a trail of blood leading to a pretty small mausoleum that was a few yards away. She followed the trail and as she got a yard away from the mausoleum, she saw the door opening. At this point, Officer Taser was getting freaked out but she kept her nerves steady. She teleported a double-barrel shotgun for protection. Crim walked out of the mausoleum with Officer Taser’s flashlight shining into his left eye. He had a large piece of the brain and Spoiled Rotten’s whole foreleg in his teeth and his mouth was dripping blood.

He turned to look right at Officer Taser, still looking pretty feral. The double-barrel shotgun that Officer Taser cocked and she simply said trying to hide the fact that she was terrified at what she was seeing

“FREEZE! Don’t take another step or I will shoot!”

Crim ate the piece of brain, dropped the foreleg out of his blood-soaked mouth, and started walking towards her. Officer Taser fired twice with the double-barrel shotgun at Crim and he landed hard on the ground back first. Officer Taser took in a sigh of relief thinking that it was over, but that was short-lived because she saw Crim sit back up. One slug got him in the chest and the other shot on his right-side skull part of his face. While he was getting back up, Officer Taser watched in shock and horror as half of his right-side face and his chest started to regenerate back to the way it was after he was burned alive. Crackling noises were coming from Crim’s right side of his face that got shot by the slug and then after a second, the noise just stopped. The right side of his face repaired itself like nothing ever happened. Officer Taser muttered under her breath in a shocked manner

“Holy Shit!!”

and started to walk back in fear saying to him

“I’m calling for backup on this good-for-nothing freak!”

As she ran off and as he was getting back up from being shot in the face and chest by that shotgun she used. It knocked him out of his feral state of mind. The word “Freak” started to echo in Gravedigger’s mind. “Freak?” he said in confused manager. He turned around to look at an extremely filthy glass window on the mausoleum, it was so filthy that he couldn’t see inside it. He saw his reflection when the lightning flashed. His eye went wide open. Of course, he freaked out when he saw himself for the first time after the fire. He saw how half of the right side of his face was bone that went down and how his right hindleg was now nothing but bone. He also saw that he now had a new cutie mark, it was a now horse skull and crossbones just like what The Grim Reaper said when he came back to the land of the living. Despite this, he honestly thought that this was a big fat nightmare due to how he looked and what he did.

He then realized that all of this wasn’t a nightmare and he knew where he had to go: home.

When he teleported himself to the end of his family’s driveway it was three in the morning and it was pouring down rain. He walked up the driveway and knocked on the door, no answer. He knocked again this time a little bit harder, again no answer. He tried the doorbell and he heard something on the other side of the door, it was his mom’s groggy voice. As she turned off the security system to the house, she opened the door and got a good long look at now very wet and soggy Gravedigger. Due to her seeing half of his face being nothing but bone and looking like a zombie that was standing right in front of her, she screamed in horror which immediately woke her up fully. The screaming that his mother made was so loud that Gravedigger thought the whole house shook and it woke his dad up. His dad ran out of the bedroom to see Gravedigger’s mom at the front door screaming at Gravedigger. Of course, that did freak his dad out and at the same time, he thought that this was a cruel prank to make fun of them for losing their son. Gravedigger told them that it was really him and that he was back from the dead. He told them that he’ll explain everything. They were both pretty skeptical about it, but they both allowed him to come inside the house in the pouring rain. Gravedigger explained everything to his parents and then his family. After telling his parents what happened, he also told his Grandparents and other close family members what happened. Thankfully, all of them were just really happy and grateful to know that they got their nephew, their cousin, their grandson, and more specifically to his parents, their son back.

On the afternoon of Nightmare Night of 2016, Gravedigger’s parents were at work and he was at his house minding his own business when he heard a pop-like sound like how a unicorn uses its magic to teleport something, it was then followed by a loud clacking notice that was coming from the counter in the kitchen. He ran into the kitchen where he found what looked like a weird-looking scythe but it had a sword-like body with a weird ball-looking thing on the other end, it also had “R.I.P.” engraved in big letters down the supposed sword body of the scythe. There was a note tied to the handle of this strange weapon that said:

Gravedigger:

Every Soul Hunter has their own personalized scythe and you are no different. This is your very own personalized scythe; it was made out of an indestructible dragon femur bone with a solid black granite handle with the horse skull part of your new cutie mark in a blood-red band around it. But, it’s not only a scythe, it is also a one-edged sword with a war hammer that is the femur of the bone. Have fun using it and I hope that it will come in handy when taking souls.

Sincerely: Grim

After reading this, he feels like he now has a higher purpose. He feels that he has the ability to take the souls the right way now.

At least that’s the story of how theorists and professionals in mythology across Equestria describe the modern-day Soul Hunter that a lot of ponies have been seeing. Some of these ponies believe that this modern-day Soul Hunter has a lair that is extremely haunted on a mountain top outside of the Crystal Empire but there are no signs of this lair on any mountaintop on the maps of Equestria. Even if there is no lair on the map of Equestria, ponies still believe it’s in the mountains. If this is true or not, remains a mystery.

The story of the Soul Hunter is extremely old and is a horrifying story that’s been passed down from one generation to the next as a cautionary tale about not being a bad pony throughout one’s life.

That this tragic story of the death of Crimson Spellcaster and how some ponies believe that he came back from the dead as the new Soul Hunter in line. Maybe some crazy thought that it is made up just to scare modern-day ponies and who knows if this whole story about the Soul Hunter is maybe some crazy tale that has been passed down since life began. But on the other hoof, if it is true and that he is back as the new Soul Hunter that ponies have been seeing since late 2016.

Then that leaves us with two very frightening questions. Are Soul Hunters real? And

Do they live among us?