Beginning and End

by Soul Reaper

Rating: teen
Tags: Princess Celestia, Slice of Life, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Original Character
Length: 1598

as all things live, so too must they die.

The end, often what you read at the end of the story. but what if the end, is the beginning? Celestia seems to think so, a brush with the end strengthens her resolve to help and support her subjects.

Published 2013-04-15 08:10:02 UTC
Last updated 2013-04-15 08:10:02 UTC

Beginning, End, all the same

Ragnarok, World’s end, Armageddon, Lord Zero, all of these things I am. I am the end of everything. It is my sole purpose to end worlds. I go from world to world ending them in different ways. Some ways take mere minutes, others take millions of years. Time matters little to me. Many worlds have fought back; one has succeeded in driving me away. But I came back as a different being, one of unrestrained fury. They stood no chance.

Now I move on to the next world, a quaint little planet by the name of Magian, a name given to it by myself. It has all sorts of creatures living on it, a shame they’re all going to die. I walked calmly towards it through the vacuum of space and eventually I arrived next to a small town. My mind reached out to the natives to learn all I could, it was something that allowed me to believe the ones I killed weren't truly gone. I looked through memories, thoughts, emotions, and even picked up several new languages all in a matter of minutes.

I looked down at my body and saw it change from a black squid like creature to a more humanoid form. My skin was tanned and rough while my clothes appeared as nothing more than a pair of loose martial arts pants that were bloody red in color. I plucked a hair to see it had turned a silvery white and my arms had a mechanical look to them. They shone with an unnatural brilliance one would see from the moon or the stars. I walked into the town after gauging my new body’s limits and started sucking the life out of the planet. Plants began to whither, animals started to die, and the native ponies became terrified losing their wits.

I walked till I reached a tree that would not die simply from my presence. I touched it and the life did drain but something was off. As soon as I took some of its life it was refueled by some source. I opened the door in the tree and saw a small dragon and an alicorn. The dragon was cowering while the alicorn was charging her horn, “What are you!?”

My voice was gravelly and menacing, “I am Ragnarok, the end of worlds.”

“Why are you doing this!?”

I waited for several minutes before responding, “I know nothing else.”

With that I walked out and continued to suck the life from the world. I walked and walked for many days before I was stopped by three alicorns, the purple one I recognized from the tree but the two larger ones were new to me. I attempted to walk past them but they just pushed me back. The white one spoke with a voice that reminded me of a mother, “Ragnarok, I am princess Celestia and I demand you stop stealing the life from our world.”

I looked her straight in the eyes for a moment before walking around her, “Once it begins, not even I can stop it.”

The purple one got in front of me, “Why not!?”

“It is against the rules.”

The dark blue one spoke up at that, “Rules? What are you speaking of?”

“Rule one; I cannot stop the end once it has begun. Rule two, each world may choose one champion to face me. Rule three, if the champion wins then another shall take my place. Rule four, he who takes my place shall not hold back.”

“What if our champion beats the one who take your place?”

“I do not know, it has never happened before. My assumption is that we would this world altogether.”

Celestia stood in front of me, “Then I will challenge you.”

I looked up at her seeing as she was a good foot taller than me, “You only get one, are you sure that you wish to do this?”

She nodded, “Luna, the armor.”

The dark blue one levitated a set of golden armor over to Celestia and as soon as she put it on her body burst into flames. Her voice was loud and unmerciful, “I offer you one chance to surrender Ragnarok.”

I opened my palm and pointed my open hand at her, “Begin.”

I began walking towards Celestia but before I could get close she shot a beam of pure energy at me. It hit me, and it hurt. It wasn't a new sensation, but it had been a long time. My outstretched arm was disintegrated and I just stared at the stump for a moment, “Huh, it has been quite a while since I have been harmed.”

Another blast hit me square in the chest and left a gaping hole. I just kept on walking towards her, showing no emotion on my face. She had just about burnt my body to a crisp by the time I had gotten to her. I got one punch in, but that punch knocked her clear out of sight. She got back in a flash of light with her nose really bloody. One more blast is what it took to take me down.

POV change, 3rd person

Celestia looked at the body of the creature that threatened her world and felt sorry for it. Twilight had said it knew nothing else; its entire existence was nothing more than destruction. She sighed and began to take of the armor of souls but the creature stirred.

POV change, End, first person

My eyes shot opened and I started laughing as my body regenerated, “It’s been a long time since I've had to come out!” I grinned savagely as I turned to Celestia, “PREPARE TO DIE BITCH!!!”

I rushed forward and let loose the energy of all those I had killed loose in my fist. I was exhilarated to see it had only dented her armor. My first real fight. We both rushed at each-other, she had impressive agility for something larger than me but it was obvious she wasn’t used to fighting either.

Just as she was about to stab my heart with her horn my body turned into a black mist and went inside her body. After I was in her lungs I solidified and grew completely tearing them. I left her body and laughed as she was still somehow breathing, “Oh this is great, you’re the first one to actually last more than a few seconds against me.”

My body turned black keeping the humanoid shape and my eyes turned pure white, “But unfortunately I’m running low on power so I have to make this quick. Prepare to face the true power of the end.”

The planet started turning black and was being sucked into me as I prepared to eradicate this world from existence. I felt the heart of the world and it was strange, most of them fight against me with a blind fury but this one, seemed to accept it with grace. Oh well, it just made my job easier. Being focused on my task as I was I didn’t notice several more ponies gather around me and charge up some rainbow thing till it hit me. And it, felt good? Like everything was going to be okay. Like I no longer needed to consume worlds.

The darkness that covered the planet slowly receded into my body and I glared at the mares, “You have been spared the end today. But I will be back, back when my soul and mind are no longer calm or happy. Perhaps your kind will get stronger, perhaps weaker, but it does not matter.”

I smiled menacingly as I prepared to jump off the planet, “For you cannot stop the end.” And I was gone.

POV change, 3rd person

Celestia stood with confidence till the creature was long gone before collapsing onto the ground in a ragged mess. She gulped in air like never before letting the magic of the armor keep her alive. That battle if you could really call it that terrified her. Every moment it felt as if the creature would just snap her in two to be done with it. Never before had she felt so hopeless, not even when she lost her mother. And even worse than the fact she had lost and had to resort to the elements was the fact that they had just delayed the inevitable.

She started shaking as she thought about when it would be back. “Sister, are you alright?”

Celestia looked up and saw her sister and the elements of harmony looking worriedly at her before shaking her head violently. No she decided, she would never let the end come. Because that would mean the end of her ponies, of all their love and potential. And she would fight to her last breath to protect her little ponies. And maybe, just maybe, one day they could protect themselves. “I’m fine Luna, just a bit shaken. Now let’s go home and have a bit of that cake you made.”

Luna smiled and nuzzled her sister, “Of course, and happy birthday.”

Celestia looked to the heavens and felt the presence of the end get farther away and smiled, “It sure is.”

End

Author's Note

This by no means a signal that i'm coming back quite yet but seeing as you're all being so patient with me i decided you deserved something. it may not be my best work but i put a lot into it, a lot of my heart was put into it...