In the cul de sac of a neighborhood, three boys and one girl were sitting down on the curb board as they did not know what to do.
“Man, this stinks.” The shortest one of them, Eddy, said. "It's been two days since our last scam, and I haven’t come up with a single scam.”
“Well, then maybe you should take this opportunity to do something productive with your life.” The second-tallest of them edd, sometimes known as double d said.
“I quite agree,” the only girl in the group, Sunset Shimmer, said. ”I mean, don’t you learn that most of your scams do not work or end in failure because you either cut corners or because you don’t think it's through ?”
“I feel a craving for butter toast.” The tallest and dumbest one of the group, Ed, said.
Sunset just rolls her eyes, having gotten used to his idiotic nonsense. It has been almost a year since sunset moved into the cul de sac, since she lost her friends due to Anon-A-Miss. After months of bullying and being shunned, she ends up just up and leaving her old home of Canterlot to Peach Creek. She got rid of everything that would remind her of her old life, from the picture of her friends to her old journey, which she left at her old apartment after writing to Twilight one last time and thanking her for being her first and only true friend. She even went so far as to delete all her friends counted numbers. After moving to Peace Creek, she met Ed, Edd, and Eddy, and they were instantly friends.
When Eddy revealed his business of scamming people, she didn’t want to be involved in it but eventually started helping out. Sure, they didn’t get much money from most of them, but she generally enjoys spending time with them. Actually, if it wasn’t for her, most of the time they would get into trouble. Like the time Jimmy framed them for ruining friendship day. Not only through her help did she unravel that Jimmy was the culprit, but Jimmy got some well-deserved karma when the Kakers sister decided to get back on him by torturing him since they got hurt and didn’t even get their men. Or the time the Kakers nearly ruin their boat ride scam, but sunset manages to turn the table on them by pushing them into the river, and whats more, their scam was even better when they took the Kakers boat for themselves and used it for their scam. Or the time sunset was able to get back on Kevin for revealing eddy middle name and humiliating him by uncovering his dirty magazine collection under his bed and threatening to reveal it to his parents if he did not do what eddy said for a week, from giving him back his money that he took and buying him jawbreaker to dancing in the middle of the curl de sac dress in a ballerina outfit when the week ended, she even revealed to everyone in the cul de sac that his middle name is Trisha, which is more embarrassing than eddy middle name. Her favorite one was during the time Eddy, Sarah, and Jimmy opened up a make-believe country club and only let them in to play as servants. After being humiliated by them, she devised a plan by opening their own club, which serves barbecue burgers and sausage, which many of them were interested in. When they try to get some eddy, charge them a hundred dollars as only club members eat free. Since there had no money, especially for admission, to be a member since it costs the same amount, they have to work as honor members, which involves serving them food, cleaning the dishes, and giving them back massages. By the end of it all, they had already eaten it all and instead served them tires and Caron.
After everything they have been through, it can honestly be said that these three are her only true friends, beside Princess Twilight, as they are sick together regardless of what they go through. She feels especially close to Double D due to his kind and understanding nature and the fact that she would reveal her past to him. Of course, she leaves out the part about the magic since she knows he would not believe it. After revealing her past, his opinion of her did not change, as he assured her that she simply made mistakes, that making mistakes is part of growing up and becoming a better person, and that she is not a terrible person, as a terrible person would not regret what they did or admit that what they did was wrong. The fact that she acknowledges what she did was wrong and is making an effort to change is proof she is a good person. He assures her that he will not think any differently of her and that if the rainbooms were her true friends, then they should at least hear her out first and not jump to conclusions and think of the worst of someone, especially when they have been trying to prove that their change. After their talk, he agreed to keep this information a secret and not tell anyone, especially Ed and Eddy, unless she was ready to tell them.
“Oh, oh, I know what we can do,“ Ed said, gaining everyone's attention. He then grabbed Eddy, dragging him away. Both sunset and double d look at each other before shrugging with one another and following Ed to his house and into his room.
As everyone reached Ed's room, Ed let go of Eddy before he went to his closet and pulled out a big book with an arcane symbol on it. To sunset, it looks like one of those ancient tomes she saw during her time as a Princess Celestia student.
“What is that?” the former unicorn asked in curiosity.
“This is the one-of-a kind big book of occult that I got from the back of my favorite comic,” Ed said.
“And what should we do with that thing?”Eddy asks in annoyance.
“We can use it to summon a monster.“ Ed said it in excitement.
“Ed, magic isn’t real,” Double D said. ”Didn’t you learn anything from the incident with that evil Tim ritual?“
“But this will work,” Ed said as he went through the book pages and stopped at a page. He then began reciting the chant on the page. When he stops, he looks around, expecting something to happen. When nothing happens, he has a look of disappointment.
“See lumpy.” Eddy said"It’s a dud.”
As soon as Eddy said that, an energy column blasted out of the floor in the center of the room, gaining everyone's attention.
“What is that?” Eddy asks. Sunset: look at it closely. She can tell what it is: magic, powerful magic. The column eventually stops, leaving a small black stain on the ground that eventually rises up, forming a figure, much to everyone's shock.
The figure resembled a skeleton covered in black, and on one of his hands he held a black scythe. The figure looked around before he started talking.
“Who dares summon the grim reaper?” The now-identified grim reaper said it in a Jamaican accent.
“Me, Me “ Ed said in an enthusiastic voice as he raised one of his hands.
“Well, then be prepared to lose your soul.” The reaper said, raising his scythe towards Ed
“Wait!” Sunset said, running in front of Ed and blocking him from grim. “What are you doing? It is not Ed time yet.”
“Look at the page of that spell,” the grim reaper said.
Curious Sunset took the book and saw the page Ed read from. There was a warning on the page that said not to use the spell as it uses the user's life force and will kill them.
“Oh,"Sunset said in realization, “so Ed is technically...”
“Dead,” the grim reaper finished. ”Now move.“
“Look,"sunset said. ”Ed is an idiot and didn’t know what he was doing. Can you make an exception this one time?”
"No, I can’t,“ the grim reaper said. ”I have a job to do.”
“Look, can we talk about this?“ Sunset said. “Is there a way for you to let Ed stay.?” She pleaded.
“I quite agree, Mr. Reaper,” Double D said. "Can’t we resolve this reasonably?”
The grim reaper moved his fingers across his chin in thought before snapping his fingers. ”Ok, I know how we can resolve this,” he said, gaining everyone's attention.
“You,” he pointed at sunset, ”just have to beat me in.“ He then snapped his fingers and saw fire appear on the ground, and rising from it was a TV that had a gaming system attached to it: "Galaxy Fighter 3." As he said, the screen turned on, showing the start screen of the said fighting game.
“ If I lose, which I won't, “he said. “The idiot stays. However, if I win, I will not only get the idiot but also your soul.” He raised his hands to the sunset, who hesitated for a moment before shaking his hand once she reminded herself what was on the stack.
“Now let’s start the game,” the grim reaper said as they went to play the game.
“I hope you know what you are doing," Double D said in a worry tine for her friends.
“Don’t worry, I am good at this game; trust me,” Sunset said in a confident tone.
Five minutes later….
Sunset sat at the screen in shock, having lost the game, before turning to the grim reaper.
“That’s not fair, using cheat codes." sunset said angrily.
"Hey, there were no rules that said you couldn’t use cheat codes,”he simply said.
“Well, he does have you there,“ Double D said before shrinking back as sunset looked at him with a look of anger.
“Which side are you on?” she said angrily.
“Well, enough with games, so come on, let go,” he said, using his scythe to tear a portal open.
“Wait, can we have another game?“ double d pleaded, ” one last game.”
The grim reaper looked at him in thought before answering, “All right, I suppose one more game can’t hurt. For me, that is.”
“All right, final game. If I win, not only will I take their souls but also yours and that one over there,“ he said, pointing to Eddy.
“What?" Eddy yelled in shock.
“But if you win, which you won't, you all can stay, and I will be your best friend forever, so do we have a deal?” he said, raising his hand in a handshake. Double d hesitate a moment before shaking it.
“Hey, wait a minute,“ Eddy said before having a sock stuffed into his mouth by sunset.
“All right, the competition is a staring contest; the first one to blink loses.”
Both close their eyes before opening them to start the competition. It looked like Grim might win due to his having the advantage of having no eyelids. But sunset has an ideal and quickly goes and takes double d hat off, revealing what underneath it. Seeing this, the grim reaper screams and closes his eyes.
“Ahhhhh,“ he screams as he closes his eyes. ”It burns,” he yells as he backs away until he slips on one of the comic books, falling to the ground.
“You lose,” Sunset said as she put a double hat on his head.
“But…but," the grim reaper said as he sat up. ”This isn’t fair.”
"Hey, you cheated first,“ Sunset said.
Then suddenly Ed smiled as he realized something: “And now you are our best friend forever,“ he said, running and poking the grim reaper.
“This can’t be happening,” the grim reaper said. ” I am the grim reaper, master of the forces of life and death.”
“Not anymore,” Sunset said plainly.
….
Later than night, after greeting a glass of water, Sunset was walking through her living room to get to the stairs to get to bed when she stopped for a bit and looked at her coach to see the grim reaper, or simply known as grim as he called himself, wearing pajamas and sleeping on the couch with a pillow and blanket. She then went back up to her room and laid down on her bed. As she lay in bed, she was processing what had happened. She thought that after leaving her old life, she no longer had to deal with any more magical nonsense, but she turned out to be wrong. She did not know what to do or what to think of everything, but the only thing she did know was that things were about to get interesting.