War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.

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Waking up for the seventh time, Nightsky was beginning to stare at his own body as he ran. He was wondering how long it had been, and decided to ask the weird voice in his head.

"How long has it been?"

"Two days. Look around you, what do you notice?" It asked, as if it was setting something up.

Nightsky realized that he hadn't actually looked around in a while. Most of the time he would wake up have a conversation with the voice in his head, and fall asleep again. So he decided to obey, and when he looked up he gasped. the ground around him was covered in snow, and trees weighed down with ice were scattered randomly, which he only saw as glittery blurs that flew by as bolted past them.

"How fast am I going" He asked, shocked.

"You are running at two-hundred-forty-three miles per hour, or slightly faster than a mile every fifteen seconds. You are also strong enough to send a pony through a brick wall, and no longer have need for physical energy. If you can push past the pain and weariness for long enough you will enter a state of bliss, but it will hit you like a battering ram when you stop." Its growling started bouncing around in his head.

"What? How is that possible?" He was dumbfounded.

"Magical alteration of a creature stronger than gods. I'm giving you control, I expect you will be able to sprint better than I can make you. Run towards the mountains in front of you, watch the shadows and they will point you in the right direction." The final words echoed, and he tripped.

He hit the snow with a thud, and lost his breath immediately. It wasn't from hitting the ground though, he had stopped moving and just as the voice said, it hit him like a battering ram. Nightsky lie down for a few minutes in the light of the sunset and regained his breath, his muscles ached, his lungs burned, and he couldn't comprehend the power of the feelings, but he got up on shaking legs and started to run. He was trotting at close to one hundred miles an hour. He let out a yell of enjoyment and started sprinting. He would find the pony who gave him these powers, and thank him by freeing him.

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Celestia had been lying there for two and a half days. It wasn't a pool of blood anymore though. It was more like being trapped in a lump of red concrete. She felt it the minute her bones and skin had mended, and shot out of the red structure. Flakes of her own sun baked blood fell from her red-stained wings. She took off in the direction of Canterlot. She would prepare the defenses herself. Every one of the unicorn guards at the city would hold the shield. She didn't have the technology of Earth, but Death didn't either now. Her fighting flame had been rekindled and it was blazing by the time she got back to the castle. The first thing she did was meet with Shining Armor.

"Princess! Whats wrong with you?" The guard captain gasped when he saw her red painted coat.

"Every unicorn in the guard must hold the shield this time, all the pegasi must be sent into the sky now, and have the earth ponies take up arms. Tell the builders to dig bunkers in the mountain and line them with iron wood." Celestia said as the wall in front of her burst apart.

Silver armor plates with gold details floated threw the hole and wrapped around the princess. She was covered head to toe in thick armor that protected her but still made her look regal.

"We are preparing for war captain."

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Nightsky was already halfway up the mountains when something strange happened. The entire mountain shook and half of it separated from the main rock. A massive stone giant turned toward him, and swung. Nightsky dashed up the remaining rock as fast as he could, but was launched into the air by the sheer force of the blow to the mountain. As he flew into the air along with several massive boulders, the sight of the valley took his breath away. He looked down on a beautiful picture, the valley was filled with trees that were burning with the purest flame, specks of light rising up from the landscape, and in the center of it all, was a massive swirling vortex of holy light. Then he started falling, the view disappeared, and the specks of light got closer. He noticed that the lights were actually strange looking figures clad in golden armor with weapons of all sorts. As the midnight blue unicorn fell he just barely missed the fist of the giant, and somehow landed. He started running and heard the voice again.

"Drop my cloak, it will stop the giant from noticing you. Run from the angels, I'll deal with them." It growled with happiness.

Nightsky did as he was told, undid the latch, and took off.

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The cloak flew through the air, and passed all of the angels, who tried to catch hold of it as it flew. It was sucked into the vortex, and landed directly in front of you. Clad in the same armor of light that they loved to trap you in, you stand up with ease, and the armor around you shatters as you roar. You yank at the chains and they crack their bonds like an egg dropped from several hundred feet. You take your cloak with both hands, and feel like your old self again. You are again the symbol that everything fears. Unfathomable power to kill, clad in shadow, and concealed in a tattered grey cloak.

"And now I am become Death! The destroyer of worlds!"

Author's Note

One or two more chapters and then I'll be moving on to The Angel of Death. All constructive criticism and compliments are accepted.