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Malistaire awoke early in the morning finding himself in an old throne room with the roof caved in from his fall.
"Not the worst of places I have came upon," Malistaire said while looking at the throne.
Malistaire herd a sonic boom from outside the castle walls and looked up to see a green fireball that was quickly slowing leaving no explosion where it landed.
"Darkrider, I will defeat you," he hissed walking into an odd room of the castle where an old pedestal lay in ruins.
Placing a hand over the pedestal he felt balance magic yet it was sculpted with an odd amount of life magic.
"What a pitiful thing to do, the creator of this must have been weak to use an excessive amount of life magic."
He then made his way into an ancient library where the only thing surviving was a map carved out of stone.
Using his magic he got a good idea of the area my duplicating the stone map onto paper and updating the paper copy.
Turning he tripped on a skeleton and getting an idea.
"I might need something to help me navigate this world. Now arise my minion," he said casting an animation spell.
The bones started to rise constructing themselves into a unicorn body, then the dust that the bones sat in swirled around the skeleton giving the bones strength and support. Near the flank a slashed shield was embedded in the fur.
The skeleton opened it's solid black eyes and said, "In life I was Slashed Armoring, now I am death armor." The dust from surrounding bones started to swirl around death armor as Malistaire smiled at his handy-work.
Different bones started to swirl around Death armor and a few started to embed themselves into his back as the dust started to concentrate on the flanks and back.
The mark on the flanks changed from a slashed shield to a shield with a skull missing the bottom jaw as the dust and bones started to finish constructing the drake-like wings sprouting from his back.
"Do you remember anything of the days when you were alive," Malistaire said to his minion.
"I only know of two cities," Death started, " but I am afraid that time has claimed them both. Yet if you have a map of the forest I can guide us through. My master."
Taking the map he made and handing Death Armor the map he thought I hope this minion is more 'contained' than my last two as he remembered the drakes he made that attacked him.
The minion smiled as he took the map and saw three cities and said, "If you are tracking somepony then you might want to head to the new town called ponyville."
"More like crush the only thing that tries to stop me," Malistaire said looking in the direction where Darkrider landed, "Is the town in this direction?"
"Just a bit to the east."
"Then lets go."