The Necron lord of Equestria
A story that had to be done
Chapter 2. Death at Celestia’s doorstep and Raigel The Harbinger
“I am Death”
The creature (who will be known as Death for now) made a looming step towards Celestia and reached out with one of his metal claws. Twilight watched in horror as Death reached towards her mentor, the one mare who acted like a surrogate mother to Twilight in school while she still had her own outside of school and studies she couldn’t even bring herself to cry but couldn’t work up a tear or draw her eye’s away from the scene that was currently unfolding all she could do was try to shut her eye’s and never open them but a soft feeling of a hoof on her shoulder made her turn around to a blue maned stallion wearing gold and purple armour symbolising rank in comparison to his fellow guards ponies.
“I know what you are princess Celestia and I’m not going to let you harm my Tomb or my people” Death stated. His claw reaching closer almost touching her face.
As his longest finger inched closer a purple light lit up the dimly lit alley but Death took no notice to it until it was too late he was struck by a purple beam, the force of the impact sent him stumbling a few good metres as purple flames washed over his metallic form but all was futile as the flames ceased their vicious assault luckily Celestia was able to regain control of her body and move back towards twilight luckily Shining Armor appeared when he did or who knows what Death would’ve done.
“Captain! Perfect timing” Celestia announced feeling her confidence return now that Shining was here; the tides have turned she thought.
“Princess your horn!” Twilight called pointing her hoof at Celestia’s horn which had a large scratch caused by Deaths stumble when his claw was suddenly thrown back.
“I’ll live Twilight which is more than what I can say for our friend here” she assured returning her gaze back at Death who finished snuffing out the last of the flames, Celestia’s gaze was ineffective against Death for he just stood there unfazed with the amount of angry glares thrown his way.
“Now monster! we end this now, you can’t hope to defeat all of our combined power!” she shouted trying to intimidate him.
At that moment another alicorn one with a pink coat and a mane and tail of purple, gold and pink landed next to Shining carrying a blue chest with different coloured gems covering its surface in a pink hue of magic. She landed next to shining and opening the chest revealing five golden necklaces and a golden tiara which magically flew to their respected elements and connected to them with a bright flash which didn’t faze Death one bit he just stared at them not expressing anything not even twitching just emitting a low humming sound.
Once the light show of the elements ended Princess Celestia stood firm flanked by Princess Luna and Princess Cadence, Shining Armor stood next to Cadence while Twilight, Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie stood next to Luna and Applejack, Rainbow Dash and Rarity Stood next to Shining the entire group stood in a cone shape ready for the charge which wouldn’t be necessary for what they were planning.
“NOW MONSTER YOU SHALL FACE OUR WRATH!” Celestia Boomed the sheer volume of her voice shook the foundations of the buildings in the alley yet Death still stood unfazed even when a small pot plant fell off a ledge and struck his head. The entire group started to hover and their eyes started glowing, white with mist of white flowing lazily out of them.
“YOU SHALL TASTE JUSTICE!” they all yelled in unison and a rainbow streamed beam shot forward towards Death who didn’t make any decision in moving and stood firm.
The beam moved at a startling speed that would make Rainbow Dash jealous and made contact with its victim blasting through causing a large light show even in the demise of another as lights shot of in every direction the rainbow beam cut through many buildings including the castles outer walls. As the mist and dust started to settle and the group descended back to the earth gasping and panting at the sheer amount of power that was thrown at Death Celestia was the first to respond.
“After so many years you have been avenged for my mistake” she whispered quietly.
“Princess…… *Huff*…… You have a lot to explain” Twilight said between breathes.
“In the Morning my faithful pupil we’ve had a long day and an even longer night I good night’s sleep will make things clearer” Celestia reassured her.
As the group made their trek back to the castle Rainbow Dash noticed Fluttershy was still locked in her pose facing the carnage in front of her “Hey Flutters we’re going now c’mon” she waved a hoof signalling Fluttershy to follow but she was unresponsive but Dash was cut off before calling again by Fluttershy speaking.
“Most impressive even out of phase you were still able to hit me I may have underestimated you” her voice was cold and emotionless which sent a shiver down her spine, Dash hovered in front of her eyes were full and her pupils were small almost non-existent her face no longer bore fear but nothing no fear or joy nothing she was completely devoid of emotion.
“Flutters snap out of it” Dash said shaking Fluttershy.
“You can’t save her she is……. Mine” she muttered making the last part heard which caught the attention of the rest of the troop.
“No, no, no” Dash Argued.
“Yes, yes, yes but have courage in this….. She wanted to be strong for her friends and not shy away from danger……..” Fluttershy muttered as the group began to surround her “……. And I gave her the power to do so” he finished making sure his words were sinking in to the rest of the group.
“YOU MONSTER! WHY WOULD YOU DO SUCH A HORRIBLE THING?” Rarity shouted tears streaming her face.
“Because she asked me to help her……… actually that isn’t completely accurate she asked openly and I responded” Fluttershy responded as Rarity began to wrap her hooves around her.
“Why would you do this? What do you hope to gain from this?” Twilight cried hoping that Death would respond.
“Gain? I hope to gain nothing from this-…” Fluttershy said before being cut off by Celestia “Then why have you done this? all this needless bloodshed and possession? What could possibly motivate somepony to do such an act?” said Celestia before Fluttershy continued with a hint of annoyance lining her voice “it’s not polite to interrupt. But as I was saying I have nothing to gain from nor was I seeking such mediocre things. all I was here to do was cleanse these abominations from these lands and to retrieve my relics” Fluttershy concluded.
“Relics? Abominations? What are you going on about?” Celestia responded.
“Those wasted bags of flesh that lay on the ground” Fluttershy responded pointing a hoof towards the two diced pony carcasses that lay on the ground luckily the bodies weren’t disintegrated by the groups spell earlier.
“What do you mean? What’s wrong with them?” Celestia asked.
“Don’t let your eyes deceive you Princess; you can’t trust them when looking for them?” Fluttershy said lowering her hoof.
“Princess the blood!” Twilight shouted pointing her hoof at the splatter of Celestia’s coat. Celestia looked at her coat the blood that’s tainting her coat was shifting from a dark crimson to a sinister dark green colour, upon seeing this she shifted her gaze back towards the fallen bodies where her eyes went wide of shock the bodies were shifting back to a creature that she knew all too well they had black carapaces with long jagged horns, down their figure towards their hooves holes formed along their legs as well as their wing turned a transparent blue colour like that of an insect and their face had long sinister protruding fangs and light green eyes with a slit pupil but the other body had light blue lenses covering half of one eye.
“Changelings!” Celestia exclaimed.
“Indeed Celestia, this was my plan all along to destroy these abominations and to reclaim my relics” Fluttershy explained but Celestia wasn’t going to believe a creature like Death.
“Somehow I don’t believe that those are the only reasons here and even if they were I still wouldn’t believe you” Celestia stated bitterly.
“A wise decision if I were in your position I wouldn’t believe me either. But those aren’t my only reasons but I'm not at the liberty to discuss them with you” Fluttershy said.
“I'm also going to assume the others were…” Celestia said.
“Changelings as well, I haven’t taken any of your subjects……… yet” Fluttershy Finished.
“But you have, a long time ago you killed a troop of soldiers sent to explore the caverns” Celestia stated angrily which took everyone else by surprise even Death.
“Did I? Hmm….. I’d think I would’ve remembered something like that……” Fluttershy paused “ah I remember now the heathens that desecrated my crypts and stole my relics, I'm just sorry I didn’t kill them as soon as they entered the crypt” Fluttershy said with a hint of malice at the end.
“Heathens?! That can’t be right they were honest soldiers and they didn’t say anything about any crypt?” celestia said her mind jumbled by the new found information.
“They weren’t soldiers that raided my realm they were workers of some sort, luckily when they were running of with my treasures I was able to capture one for information” Fluttershy explained.
“A-a-and what did you do with him?” Twilight stuttered.
“I did what I always do when I need to find information quickly” Fluttershy paused watching the groups eyes were glued on her before she continued “I gave him to the Flayed ones” she finished expecting to see a bigger reaction but they didn’t know what a Flayed one was.
“W-what’s a F-flayed one?” Twilight asked and Fluttershy looked her in the eyes.
“To put it in words you’ll be able to comprehend they torture creatures in the foulest ways imaginable for example this worker was…. How to say it ‘Filleted’” Fluttershy bluntly stated and judging by the reactions of the groups especially Rarity who had to run to a nearby dumpster for some bodily reason.
“You sick son of a-” Shining angrily said before being cut off.
“I don’t understand why you’re getting so worked up about he was caught stealing and suffered the price for it” Fluttershy simply stated.
“BUT YOU TORTURED HIM THAT’S JUST WRONG!” Shining shouted he looked just about ready to punch Fluttershy regardless of who she is.
“Shining please don’t, at least he died quickly after it right?” Princess Cadence spoke up trying to calm Shining.
“as much as I would have wanted to he didn’t give us any information since he was driven mad the mere sight of myself and the flayed ones and the Flayed ones don’t allow their ‘Toys’ to break to easily” Fluttershy said and the rest of the group just stood there in shook.
“What do you mean they don’t allow their ‘Toys’ to break easily?” Celestia asked.
“Meaning after they were done they do what they always do…” she paused “they skinned him alive and listened to his screams as they echoed through the Tombs” Fluttershy finished.
“W-why would they do something so horrific to another living creature; don’t they have any compassion for another living creature?” Cadence cried but the comment if Death was able to would be either laugh in her face or destroy her out of anger.
“No, none of my kind do especially the Flayed ones all you can do for them is pity them” Fluttershy explained
“Why pity them if they don’t deserve it?” Cadence persisted.
“Because they Envy the living even though they made the choice to give up there mortal bodies, their minds weren’t able to comprehend what they gave up and it eventually drove them mad” Fluttershy explained with a hint of sadness in the voice which Cadence picked up on.
“Why would they give up their own bodies if it did all these horrible things to them?” Cadence asked which almost sounded like plea.
Fluttershy was silent for several minutes before speaking again “you can have her back now” She finished before Fluttershy’s body went limp and fell to the ground luckily Twilight caught her in her magic.
Cadence looked back to a darker part of the alley and saw a metal claw and green eyes through the darkness before fading into darkness and disappearing, this made Cadence think for a minute before Shining put a hoof on her shoulder and nuzzled her affectionately.
“C’mon we’re taking Fluttershy to the infirmary” he said quietly and nudged Cadence to follow him out of the alley with the rest of the group but she couldn’t help but glance back at the shadow.
“Sister you should go get ready to raise the sun, I will begin to lower it when we reach the infirmary” Luna said breaking off from the group to tell Celestia.
“No I should go with you to make sure nothing more happens-” Celestia said as she was cut off by Luna.
“You’ve done enough your main priority now should be raising the sun for our subjects” Luna finished.
With a sigh Celestia conceded in defeat “okay Luna you win, but why is it that in a crisis your always more level headed than I am” Celestia asked in a matter fact like tone.
Luna turned to face her sister but stopped half way and smiled “I work better under pressure that doesn’t involve paper work” she smiled and turned and trotted after the rest of the group leaving Celestia with a smile on her face and to contemplate her siblings answer, after thinking for a minute she conceded to her thoughts and flew off towards the palace to get ready to raise the sun.
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Meanwhile……
As Luna re-joined the group they made their way towards the Canterlot infirmary, as they neared their destination Cadence pulled back with shining and told the group they’d catch up later.
“Cadence what’s wrong? You haven’t said a word since last night?” Shining said a sense of worry growing within him.
“I…. it’s just that……” she paused and looked away from Shining “when that creature paused and released Fluttershy….. I just think there was more to it than what he said” cadence finished.
“*sigh*……. There’s no telling what his motives or what he’s thinking about all I know is that he has an agenda that he isn’t telling us about, which worries me” Shining explained Cadence just nodded.
“Well there’s no need to dwell on it anymore c’mon lets go to my parents’ house it’s just around the block” he smiled warmly and cadence smiled and walked beside him as they walked towards his family home.
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Meanwhile in the Canterlot infirmary…..
When Cadence and Shining left the rest of the group made their way into the infirmary where Fluttershy was placed into her private room while her friends waited until she awoke Rarity was sitting on one of the infirmaries chairs nursing a cup of freshly made coffee why Rainbow Dash was taking her anger out on a defenceless wall, pinkie pie however was taking the worst of the shock her coat was darker and greyer In colour than her usual bright colour and her mane and tail lost its bouncy attitude and just slumped down to the side of her head, Applejack was just sitting next to a window facing the city and castle but not saying a thing, Twilight was doing what she always did in this kind of situation and paced a grove in the ground while trying to figure out what it was that Death wanted but her musing was cut short when she walked past Fluttershy’s door and saw her Rousing from her sleep, Twilight took it upon herself to go check on her friend and as she neared the bed Fluttershy became more and more distressed until she eyes shot open and she lunged at Twilight, but on quick instincts she caught Fluttershy in her hoofs as she collided with her.
“Fluttershy calm down you’re okay, noponies going to hurt you!” Twilight said trying to calm the squirming Pegasus from running away .
“NO TWILIGHT NOPONY IS SAFE WITH RAIGEL (Pronounced: Ra-I-Gel) ROAMING AROUND!” Fluttershy screamed tears streaming down her face.
“Fluttershy please stop who is Raigel?” Fluttershy stopped flailing when she realised where she was.
“I-I'm in the Infirmary?” Fluttershy asked all of the gang soon piled into the room when they heard Fluttershy’s cries.
“Please Fluttershy who is Raigel?” Twilight insisted as she placed Fluttershy back on her bed.
Fluttershy sat there quietly as her friends surrounded the bed waiting for her answer, she then looked Twilight in the eye and began to speak “Raigel, The Harbinger I-is……w-well I mean that is if he is a he I mean but he’s s-something called a N-N-Necron” she said, her friends gave her a confused look.
“Necron? What in Celestia’s name is a Necron?” Applejack asked.
“That big metal thing is a Necron, and from what he told me he was here because of Princess Cadence” Fluttershy said.
“Cadence? Are you telling us that Cadence created that thing?” Rainbow dash asked.
“N-no I didn’t say that, Raigel is older than cadence……. Actually he’s older than Princess Celestia and Luna as well” Fluttershy finished, Twilight giving her a sceptical look “it’s true, though he didn’t say how old he was he just said he was sleeping for I think fifty or sixty million years I don’t quite recall” she explained blinking a few times seeing that her friends jaws had dropped.
“S-s-sixty million years but that can’t be? It must be a lie, it must be……. Pinkie pie stop that!” Twilight said trying to think but was distracted by Pinkie pie scratching her left foreleg knee, with a burning vengeance in her eyes.
“I can’t help it Twi? My knee is pinchy” Pinkie said before biting at her knee.
“Wait?.......... Ain’t a pinchy knee a pinkie sense?” Applejack asked, pinkie stopped biting her knee to answer.
“Yeah, it means something scary is about to happen, and believe me it’s going to be a dozey” pinkie pie said before going back to biting her knee.
“Oh sweet celestia….” Fluttershy paused and began to hyperventilate as her pupils shrank “Twilight I just remembered something very important that you need to hear….” Fluttershy said grabbing Twilights forelegs, which caused Twilight to stare at her.
“….. Your parents have something that belongs to Raigel and he is heading to your parents’ house……… Twilight if he gets there and your parents are there he’s going to kill them” Fluttershy cried.
Twilight couldn’t believe what she was hearing, her own parents are in danger and what’s worse she heard Cadence and Shining were going there, she couldn’t believe this, she didn’t want to believe it, but she had to believe it.
“Okay…….. We are going to confront this Raigel and stop his plan” Twilight announced the rest of the girls nodding in response and following after Twilight as she ran out of the room.
‘Don’t worry I'm coming, and I will make sure that this Raigel doesn’t harm you or so help me Celestia, I will make him pay’.
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Well that’s chapter 2 done and I can’t wait to see the comments, actually I want there to be more comments like the first chapter, all the hate ones mainly because tough love is needed to make a successful story.
Next chapter: Chapter 3. Resurrection Orb and misunderstandings.