Welcome to the Underdeep
where they all fall asleep
and leap into a world
that was never there
never here, never where?

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You are Death. You are the thing that everyone fears. Every pony, every person, every cat, dog, mouse, spider, everything in the universe fears you... And you love it to bits. The other horsemen are nothing without you. Sure there nice to have around, but they aren't anywhere near as powerful as you. They all remember your birth. A horseman is born when some new tragedy arises. War was first, when people started to distrust each other. Then there was Conquest, when people realized what they could do after locking there enemies in a dungeon. After that there was Famine, when all the supplies started running out.
And lastly there was you, when everything became over crowded you killed the immortal, locked them in a weapon, and bound them to your shadows.

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Welcome to the Underdeep
where the reaper's birth
shall mark a feast to give him strength
to march upon the world of day
that land of greed
with the bones of their sad and lame

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Unlike most people though, you were not teased for being the youngest. You are the strongest, you are able to fight a war against the gods, and slaughter them all. Along with your small empire, That gained the name Underdeep. It was called that because it was below the deepest point in any given planet that any given god could see. You built on the backs of your loyal demons, and used their bones to build your army, so that they could serve you beyond yourself. For anything that died with you was never truly dead.

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Welcome to the Underdeep
where the demons burn to greet
the reaper with their flaming breath
along with those saved from Death

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Everything will see your empire. The trees and bushes, the ponies and people, everything. In fact you are probably the most outgoing person ever. You do make an effort to meet everyone at least once. Everything must die eventually, just not Death.
Death is a constantly living fear. Eveything has instincts to avoid you, and some things gladly meet you. It makes no difference as far as you are concerned just so long as the army gets larger.

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Welcome to the Underdeep
where they all fall asleep
and leap into their reapers arms
with sounds of joy
and sounds of pain.

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Okay. Thats enough of that.

"Silence you festering wasted flesh or I will build a coffin out of your bones!" You yell at the runt of a demon that somehow became your servant.

"Yes Master." it hisses back.

Your scythe materializes out of the shadows that make up your body and you swing it at the demon. His head is severed with a straight line through his neck as blood pumps out of it while his body still tries to breath. His head evaporates and joins the shadows while his body is suddenly writhing with maggots leaving nothing but the skeleton in a few seconds. You then get off of your throne of bones and kick his body into the magma below you.

"Why can nothing stay quiet when I want it to? So much for my small period of reflection." You growl as you survey your empire.

Your empire is made of a massive cavern in the center of any given planet. The roof is almost always changing, The funny thing is that Death leaving the planet causes a natural disaster to occur and destroy many beings. It's the same when you arrive too. You look down upon your kingdom and see the Mighty demons of your empire resurrecting a few buildings and mining the ore that always grows back. The ore is used to make weapons that transfer souls into them and make them stronger, and at the end of every war that you wage the weapons are melted down and you retrieve the souls. As evidence of this the is a massive blackfire pit being mined out of the center of this planet called Equeas. As you look around more, and see a few demons slacking off, and swimming in the magma. You quickly deal with that problem by electrocuting the slackers with so much electricity that the burned skin turns into the equivalent of tissue paper and the bones shatter.

"Less slacking more smithing!" you yell at the weapon smiths under a big black stone pavilion beating the ore into shapes.

You quickly decide you want a new servant, and before you can call out for one, the new one arrives.

"Hello master", it bellows," I am your new servant."

"I like you", You say marveling at the choice that other demons made. "I have a feeling these are going to be a good few years."

You really do like your new servant. He is more of a bodyguard but he is getting you drinks when need them. You decide to promote whoever suggested this guy.

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Celestia doesn't know what to do. That is the first time in millennia that the horsemen have gone to the meeting, that and the fact that there was a rather large earthquake in Ponyville didn't help her either. Luckily nopony got hurt thanks to the magic she put around Equeas, but she knew what natural disasters supposedly meant and with the horsemen being at the meeting she couldn't dismiss anything too easily. Luna was in the library finding all she could about the horsemen, but she had been in there for hours and had only found three books. Celestia was reading them when a guard approached her and said she had guests in the banquet hall. The banquet hall was a lot like the throne room only there was a large table instead of thrones, and it had floor to ceiling windows. As the princess walked in the door, she stopped when she saw the visitors.

"Hello princess" Said Conquest with a voice like a choir singing.

"Hey princess!" Said Famine in his usual loud voice.

All War did was nod his head in her general direction. She wondered where the fourth one was but was glad he didn't seem to have come with them. At least now she would still be able to talk.

"Why are you here?"

"We are here on a political mission" Said Conquest.

Why did he have to send Conquest? Celestia thought, everyone knew Conquest was able to get lesser gods to agree to unreasonable terms, let alone normal people, who would do his bidding just to hear his voice.

"I have never heard of the Horsemen doing anything political other than waging wars."

"We are here to discuss your surrender"

Author's Note

Constructive criticism and compliments are accepted. Having fun Cortney?