Scourging of Equestria

1. Why so many cliffhangers?

Complete endings are boring, and DO NOT catch the reader to stick around. This is the only solid reason as to why I have them. What? You know they work. ;)

1. I thought Isan was Ezio?

No. The Master Assassin Ezio Auditore, is not in this story. In the prologue, Isan's brother was named "Ezio" after his great, great grandfather, The Master Assassin. THEY ARE FAMILY, BUT HE DOES NOT APPEAR IN THE STORY. This is the story of his great great grandkids and their adventures. Well, at least one of them.

1. What about the whole Death scene?

I believe after we pass away, Death meets us in a void-like area, to tell us where we go next. Isan is no different. However, he was not being sent to heaven or hell, but Equestria. It's his destiny to go there, but what he does there is his own.

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A/N: Will he survive? Let's find out! WARNING: SHIT WILL GO DOWN IN THIS CHAPTER, HARDCORE.

The Light Where Darkness Resides

A Spark Neglected

Void.

It's that damn white void again.

How long have I been standing here?

Have I been standing? How do I know. Oh look. It's him again, the dark one. He was in the distance with his long dark robes moving in the wind. The wind...I don't feel any wind. That's weird. You know what else is weird? This. I can't feel anything, not even my own breathing. Am I breathing? He's so far away too. Why?

"Isan are you there?"

A voice. What voice. Who voice.

"Isan, please wake up..." Is she crying? She? Who is she? Pink. So much Pink. Why is there so much Pink? I guess I could wake up. Am I asleep?

A shock pulsed through my body and I felt myself open my eyes quickly, frantically searching around me. I was lying in a bed, white. Lots of white, maybe a hospital? Only makes sense.

"Isan..?" What was that? Voice. Her. Again. What?

I looked over and saw a pink pony, her eyes previously pouring tears all over my chest. Now she stood still, her pupils small, shrunk. She must be surprised. Why? I recognized her as Pinkie Pie. I saw her when I came out of the forest...

"Pink, are you alright?" Pink? Why did I call her that? My brain must be providing a name for the sudden overload of pink.

She wiped her eyes, still gazing at me, "You...Y-you were just.." She got off me taking a few steps back, fear clearly in her eyes.

I sat up, "I was just what? What happened to you? Why are you crying?" Her eyes were bloodshot, clearly tired. I still don't get why she was crying.

She started sobbing deeper, shaking while pointing behind me. I turned around to see the line on the life detector machine was completely still.

A straight line. I stared at it for an eternity before it suddenly started moving up and down, showing my heartbeat. It was just still...Was I dead? But I couldn't have been..I talked, I saw, I felt. How is any of that even possible? Maybe it was him. That thing in the void. That's the only explanation, or excuse I have for this. I turned back to Pinkie, she was sitting still, looking at her hooves in confusion. She might go crazy, this is too much for an innocent mare like her.

"Pinks?" Fuck it, just go with the name, maybe that will make her feel better, "I know what just happened didn't make very much sense, but I want you to know that I'm okay," she looked up at me. "All thanks to you of course. Thank you Pinks, I owe you my life." And I do. I know I wouldn't have died if she had not carried me.

She sniffed, her hair oddly puffing up back to it's original form and her smile returned. She grinned madly, "Okay dokey lokey! Well you can get up whenever you want, your wounds have healed already. I mean you have been asleep for over two weeks!" TWO WEEKS?!

"Mmhm!" she looked down, "I felt pretty guilty for not being fast enough, so I volunteered to come in here every day and change your bandages." She did that for me?

"Hey, I appreciate your kindness, but don't feel guilty at all; you saved my life, so don't act like it wasn't enough, okay?" She perked up, smiling again, "Okay! Whatever you say!"

I tried to get up, but felt an odd sensation of pain flow through my entire body. I froze in pain before flopping right back on to the bed.

"I thought you said I could get up whenever I wanted?" I asked with a raspy groan.

"Oh that's right! Here, Twilight said to give this to you. It's some kind of potion she made for you. She said something about magical residue flooding your bloodstream, but I don't know what that means. But you should take this!"

Magical residue in my bloodstream? Am I corrupted? "Thanks Pinks!" I grabbed the small liquid container, opening it, then downing it without a second thought. It tasted pretty good to be honest. "Mmm, cherry.." Pinkie giggled.

I felt a strong sensation pulse through my body, and it didn't feel bad to be honest. Instead of pain, I felt power. I don't know how to explain it, but it just felt good. My eyes were bulging, or at least thats what it felt like. My veins started sticking out, glowing light red. I felt as if my body was being torn apart, yet at the same time sewn together. It felt amazing, I felt like I could just explode. Pinks was getting worried as she watched me smile with excitement over the changes.

Luckily I had my clothes on. as I hopped out of my bed feeling as amazing as ever. Is it getting hot in here, or is it just me? My right arm still had the metal arm on it, I guess they just didn't want to remove it. It started to steam, and I felt the searing pain of my right arm being melted inside the metal. I fell to the ground, screaming in pain. What the hell is happening?! My skin, it's being burned straight off my body! I looked down to see that it actually wasn't, but was steaming hot air instead. I suddenly felt it hard to breath, along with the pain of my right arm being forged in a case of metal.

Finally the pain stopped, and everything stopped. All of it, all the pain, everything. I laid there, breathing heavily. I looked over at my right arm incased in the metal armor, and tried to remove it. It wouldn't budge. It melted to my skin, to my bone. That's it...I've had enough of these fucking ponies!

"Pinkie Pie..." I managed to get out.

Pinks ran over to me, placing her hooves on my shoulders, "Isan! Are you okay? What happened? Are you alright?!"

"What.." I breathed in, "the hell" breathed out forcing myself to my feet before grabbing Pinkie by her neck, holding her in the air, choking, "did you give me!?!" I screamed, tightening my grip.

She gurgled and coughed, yet somehow managed to get out a small response. "Isan! Stop! Please, I can't breathe!" She squirmed, but it was useless, that little bitch is mine now. I don't know what she tried to do to me, but I don't die that easily. Tears started forming in her eyes, giving me the cutest little face ever. And by cute I mean she was in absolute terror, which for some reason made me feel 'oh so good' right now.

Finally, I let go of her, and she plopped on the floor coughing, and crying hard. I felt awful for doing that to her, since there was no way she would have done that on purpose. It wasn't her...It was Twilight. That scumbag..

Realizing Pinks could never forgive me for what I did, I gave her a cold hard stare. "I'll let you live Pinks, I owe you that much. However, I don't think the same will be for your purple friend."

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As I walked through streets of Ponyville toward Twilights house, I thought of a theory. Pinks said something about magical residue. Magic. In MY bloodstream. Do you think it would be possible of I were to..? It's a hard theory, but worth testing. I felt that power surging through me when I was in pain. So...Let's try this.

I sheathed the blade from my metal arm, and took a quick slice at my left arm, blood leaking out, along with a lot of pain. My theory was correct as I felt that same sensation surge through me. It felt hot, like fire. Fire, that's it! I concentrated all my energy into my dragonstone arm, using mental power. As I suspected my dragonstone arm started to heat up, then fire was starting to leak from around the edges of the metal knuckles. It worked, IT WORKED! I CAN USE MAGIC, YES YES!

Twilight...What a stupid unicorn. She tried to kill me with her demon magic but instead gave me power. She will be surprised when I burn her body to a crisp. Nopony tries to kill me, and get's away with it. I focused harder on the magical energy, and thought of a ball. I read about this in Twilights books, how to use offensive magic. I focused all my energy into this mental ball, and before I knew it a small fireball was floating around the palm of my hand.

One last thing...I tried to move the fireball to my blade, and surround it like an aura of some sort. After a few tries of failures, it eventually surrounded the blade. This could be useful, a more painful death for her. Maybe now she will experience the pain I went through, when her throat is being seared.

I looked up and before I knew it I was at Twilights house. I saw a carriage outside, with some royal guards there too. Oh the princess must be here! This will be great as she watches her murderous student die before my hands. I smiled to myself, remembering my training. I smiled cheek to cheek, laughing to myself as I approached the door, alerting some of the guards. Both of them motioned to stop me, but I quickly killed them both. Slicing the one of the left with my wrist blade, and burning the one on the right to a black crisp.

"No forgiveness, No mercy, No emotion. This is the way of the Dark Brotherhood."

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A/N: WHOA WHOA WHOA??!!? WHAT THE HELL?!?! Now before you guys get all butthurt, let me tell you there is a flashback next chapter, that will explain ALL OF THIS EVILNESS! I also had a great time writing this chapter.

oh and not the dark brotherhood from skyrim, lol

Some of you might be thinking, really? Magic? Yes, magic. I wanted to enforce magic on my character to give a sort of twist. I will work on development of the whole magic situation later, for now; "Death has called, and we shall answer."