//------------------------------// // The Accident // Story: The Godly View Universe // by Polaris Solarmoon //------------------------------// It was a rather nice day in Ponyville, the Sun was shining and everypony was walking around doing their own things, even Princess Twilight Sparkle was just enjoying her day walking alongside her faithful assistant Spike who was simply flying by her side, everything seemed so peaceful and quiet until... "Hi Twilight!" a certain somepony said as she suddenly appeared before Twilight. "What is it now Pinkie?" Twilight Sparkle said with a deadpan expression. The mare giggles then says,"You're silly Twilight, it's me, Glitter Brightstar!" "Glitter!? Oh I'm so sorry, What are you doing here?" Twilight asked the hyperactive unicorn. "I thought I'd check up on you. How's the Universe Swap spell I taught you going?" Glitter says cheerfully. "It's going well, I just need to test it one more time and I think it'll be fully done." Twilight says to her. "Yay! That sounds good, well I gotta go, see you!" Glitter Brightstar says cheerfully before vanishing. "Well that was odd, who was that Twilight?" Spike said as Glitter left. "It's a long story Spike,but she taught me that spell which can let me go to other worlds." Twilight said. "Come on Spike, Let's go home and test that spell." "Ok Twilight." Spike says as he follows Twilight home. As they made there way home Twilight tells Spike the story of Glitter Brightstar and her odd Universe. After a long walk the two eventually reached home. Using her magic, Twilight opens the door to her castle and goes inside, almost bumping into Starlight Glimmer as she was leaving. "Oops, sorry about that Starlight." Twilight said. "Oh, that's ok Twilight. So what are you up to?" Starlight said. "Well I'm going to test the Universe Swap spell once more to see if works on other creatures aside from ponies."  Twilight says. "Oh, can I help?" Starlight Glimmer said. "Sorry Starlight, I have to do this alone." Twilight said. "Oh, alright then, good luck with the spell Twilight!" Starlight Glimmer says as she leaves the castle. "Thanks Starlight, c'mon Spike let's go to the library." Twilight says. "I'm right behind you Twilight." Spike says as he flies behind Twilight. The two make their way to the castle's library. Once they made it there,Twilight made sure to close the door. "Ok Spike, are you ready to test this spell for me?" Twilight asks her assistant. "This won't hurt right?" Spike said. "Don't worry Spike, you'll be fine. What's the worst that could happen?" Twilight says. "Please don't say that..." Spike said. "Here we go!" Twilight said. Twilight then casts the spell on Spike and he was sent to places unknown, however on Twilight's side it appeared that the spell failed to do anything as she sees what looks like an angelic version of her assistant knocked out on the floor of the library. "O-oh no...Spike! Please wake up! please..." Twilight says frantically. When Spike woke up, he had found himself in a very odd place. He tried to look around but all he saw were dead trees, plants and even some dead animals too. It was like if everyone had somehow vanished from the world. "W-what happened here?" he said to himself as he started to wander on foot. He had kept walking around until he accidentally bumped into something. "S-sorry about that, I wasn't paying attention." he said to whatever it was he bumped into. He then hears an eerie sigh followed by a near monotonous voice say in a hushed whisper, "Another lost soul...", hearing this made Spike turn as white as a sheet. Spike turned towards the voice and saw a horrifying sight, it was the pony of Death itself! He knew  them by the black hooded cloak they wore and the scythe that they carried, he read about this creature in one of Twilight's books. However after doing a double take, he noticed that the being in front of him was an equine and was also a mare, yet he was still afraid of her. "Y-y-your.....D-Death! P-please don't take me, I'm too young." he pleaded. The being sighs then says," Relax, I mean you no harm...". He suddenly recognized the being's voice, there was no mistaking it this being was Fluttershy.  No matter how bad he wanted to dismiss the notion, all the hints were there. "F-Fluttershy? I-is that you?" Spike asks the being in front of him. Death smirked then removed it's hood to reveal that she indeed was Fluttershy. However her mane was black and pink and she had an ear piercing in one of her ears. Despite her smirk, she had a dull almost bored look in her eye, she even had a horn alongside her wings. "I thought you'd never say that." she says emotionlessly. " I am known as the Whispering Reaper, but you can call me Nightingale..." "O-ok. " Spike says. "W-what's going on?" "Come, I'll bring you to one who can answer your questions better than I..." Nightingale said. "Ok I'll be right behind you." Spike says. "Good... Follow me" Nightingale says as she starts to leave the dark area. "W-wait up!" Spike said. "Try to keep up dragon, this place is not as empty as it appears" Nightingale says emotionlessly. "Ok." Spike says as he starts to fly behind Nightingale. The two make their way through the dark area, weaving through dead trees and plants to wherever it was Nightingale was taking them. Spike wanted to question her but he decided that he liked living and decided to keep it to himself not wanting to make his new ally angry by pestering her with questions about her and her home. His only hope was that Twilight will be ok without him... Twilight was still try to get the other Spike to awaken and finally she was able to do so. "Unnnngh... Oh my aching wing..." The dragon said. "Oh Spike, your ok!" Twilight says as she hugs the Spike lookalike. "Ow, ow, your crushing me Wisdom Spark!" The dragon said. "Oh, sorry about that. Did you just call me Wisdom Spark? My name is Twilight." Twilight said. "Oh oops, sorry Miss. Twilight.  I'm Icarus, Wisdom Spark's assistant and the guardian of the Queen of Life." Icarus said. "Wait... What! You're the Icarus? You know the one who flew too close to the Sun and fell to his doom?" Twilight says in awe. "Please don't remind me... That wasn't one of my best ideas." Icarus said. "I'm sorry, I just like that story so much. It's so surreal to see a character that's in a book in the real world like this." Twilight says. "That's ok. So do you know of SkyLand? It's a huge place where all of the goddesses live , we also call it The Godly View Universe." Icarus said. "No, no I haven't. Wow, it must be really beautiful there." Twilight said. "It is, there are clouds everywhere you look and it's always so bright and sunny... Well, except for one place. " Icarus said. "What?" Twilight said. "It's the Dark Zone, the land were Death lives in exile because of how dangerous she is... She has the power to make immortals mortal, and can literally just touch you and you'd just die right there. She decided to exile herself just because of that." Icarus said right before Twilight faints from fear. "Well crud..."