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// Chapter 2 
// Story: Shadow of Death 
// by Blackdust 
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The hunt begins

When Sol came to, he was being carried away by two medical ponies. One had a syringe with pegasus wings tied around it. Made sense since that one was a male pegasus. The other was a earth pony with a pair of bandages in a X on her flank, and a red and blue pill in the middle.
"Aurana..." Sol said, though he didn't know why.
"I'm sorry, did you say something?" asked the pegasus.
"That bloodied and dismembered corpse was named Aurana. We were going on a date..." Sol felt a tear roll down his cheek bone and onto his neck, but he didn't care. He was shedding the tears that she couldn't now.
"Can you tell us what happened to the town? Incidents like this cover this town like a blanket, you're the only survivor of whatever attacked this settlement." said the earth pony.
"A... thing is the best I can describe it, attacked us. I think it thought I was dead after it hit me with a parking meter it had." Sol said, then thought to himself, No point telling them I died last night...
"A... thing? What was it? A pony with a disguise spell? Or a conjuration spell that went haywire?" asked the earth pony, curious now.
Shit! How can I play the fact that it was a demon or revenant or whatever the heck it was that Death called it without getting more attention?! "I... I don't know. It was to solid to be a conjuration spell, plus if it went haywire, as you put it, then it would kill the pony that conjured it and that would be all. And it was too strong and fast to be a disguise spell. I don't know what it was, but it wasn't a pony." Sol sighed inwardly.
"Well that's about as helpful as a armadillo in the Sahara." said an earth policepony, the cutiemark they had was a pair of hoofcuffs in both the foreground and background of a gun. "You sure you ain't hiding nothin'?"
Sols heart pulsed. Is he a demon? I'll have to get him to touch me... This won't be fun... With a flash Sol was on his hooves and running at the cop. When he touched him, he felt a different sensation from when the demon possessed guard touched him.
As the two fell to the ground, they looked at each other. "You..." the cop started trying to say before the medical ponies pulled Sol off of him. "Stop! He's an old friend of mine. I didn't recognize you at first. You've changed old friend."
Is he giving me a bone? Better roll with it. "That is has. But you haven't changed one bit." Sol replied.
To this the medical ponies let Sol go and nodded slightly. "Sorry Officer Bluemane... We were just taken by surprise when he did that, that we thought-" the earth pony started saying before being cut off by the Officer.
"Just thought what? That he went insane and killed an entire village in one night and decided to hang around one of the kills and take a nap? It was his special somepony for crying out loud!" Officer Bluemane yelled at them. "I'll take care of him. He likes things a certain way, and I don't think you fools would be able to notice if something was wrong with him mentally."
Sol took the chance to cause a distraction in the medical van that was off to his right.  Luckily they were to ashamed by what they had done to notice his horn glowing. All they knew was that something important suddenly burst and set off several alarms in the vehicle. It got their attention and sent them running towards it and let Sol and Officer Bluemane to themselves.
"Good call. Now let's hurry and get the hell outta here before they notice something." Officer Bluemane said before running away n the opposite direction of where the medical ponies were. Sol followed, having nothing to lose, and realizing the the cop was the only one that might be able tell him what he was going to hunt, fight, and kill.
"So what the tartarus are you?" Sol asked Bluemane, after catching up with him and turning enough corners to be near the forest that surrounded the village.
"I'm a Spark. A pony chosen by the essence of life long ago. You're a Shadow. A pony cursed by the essence of death. Whether recent or predetermined, you're now one of the undying. Something tells me you had a run-in with a shadow last night." Bluemane says, as if it's common knowledge.
"Spark? Shadow? What the tartarus are you talking about!" Sol said, stopping in his tracks, refusing to continue without a better more reasonable explanation.
This, of course, causes Bluemane to stop and turn to face Sol. "Look, if you want to know more, then you need to come with me. The Shadow that I was tracking  went through here and killed everything in this town. Even the pets. And something tells me, you. If you want to know more, then you need to come with me to the House of Balance. Trust, me. If I had wanted to kill you, then you'd be dead by now." As Bluemane said those last words his eyes started to glow. The exact opposite of what the guards eyes did. Where Bluemane's eyes were now glowing, the guard's eyes were a bottomless pit of darkness.
"Wha... What are you..." Sol asked again, though he knew the answer in the core of his being. Dangerous. Life threatening.

To be contiued...