Death vs Harmony

by The Zebra Hybrid


Rescuing Generosity and Laughter

Strife's Offering

Strife ran down the streets firing his pistols behind him hitting two demons in the face as more of them kept the chase. Strife then jumped on the side of the building and began to climb to the top. Once the demons lost sight of him he took the opportunity to slip in the shadows and watched as the demons ran past.

"Ugh, where am I supposed to find these elements good thing I'm got used to this new form quickly," Strife said in frustration, "Death really needs a good talking to when we get out of this."

He peaked out from his hiding place and noticed that there were no demons in sight he cocked his pistols and holstered them and began to tread down the ruin streets of Canterlot. He glanced at the damaged buildings, pony corpses littered the ground, he hadn't seen this much destruction since Earth.

"Well, even though I don't care for these things they still didn't deserve this." said Strife to himself.

He continued his walk until he reached what looked like a garden, with different kinds of statues. The statues looked like the mythology ones back in the Kingdom of Man but he put that aside as he treaded through the gardens continuing his search. He was snapped out of his thoughts when he heard a growl he quickly spun around and sighed in annoyance as he drew his pistols. Standing before were five Hellhounds snarling at him and circling him like a wolf pack trapping it's prey.

The one of the five jumped at Strife who immediately got a bullet through it's skull. Two more jumped at him and tackled him to the ground the three rolled as the other two hounds gave chase. Strife bucked one of the hounds of him as he shot two rounds into the other's stomach. Strife quickly got to his hooves and glared at the remaining three who howled in response Strife quickly looked around him to see small pits of fire forming around and more Hellhounds emerging from them.

"You have got to be kidding!" said Strife as he morphed his pistols into his shotgun.

One of the hounds jumped at the rider and Strife pulled the trigger causing a loud bang to echo through the air.


Rarity slowly opened her eyes, she had a small migraine rushing in her head. She glanced around and noticed she was tied up to a statue. Rarity looked around worriedly as she began to panic, until she heard a familiar voice from the other side of the statue she was tied up on."

"Wow! When we get out of this I am totally throwing a 'Demons took over Equestria party'!" exclaimed Pinkie Pie.

"Pinkie, darling! Is that you?!" exclaimed Rarity.

"Yeperoonie!"

"What happened?"

"OH! We were that really really fun ride, until Tirek decided to ruin the fun and capture us and split us up, he took me and you here with some other guys watching us, but they left for some reason...hmmm... oh well!"

Rarity now was worried, she and Pinkie are being held hostage by these brutes and the rest of her friends are somewhere probably being tortured. Rarity ears perked up when she saw the demons that left, according to Pinkie, come back. Sweat started to bead on her forehead at the sight of these beast. She didn't know why but they looked worse than when she encountered them in Appleloosa.

"Look one of them is awake." said one of the demons as he marched over to Rarity.

"Don't touch me!" said Rarity as she struggled against her bindings.

"Don't worry, you're lucky we were ordered not to do anything yet, or this would be much more fun."

"Why are you guys such meanies!" yelled Pinkie Pie.

"We're not meanies, just teaching you ponies a lesson."

"A lesson? About what?!" yelled Rarity in anger.

"You'll see..." smirked the demon as he stomped over to Rarity and Pinkie who were now shivering in fear.


Strife fired another round from his shotgun as the last hellhound dropped dead to the ground. The shotgun morphed back into his two pistols and he holstered them. Strife then began to proceed through the gardens, he glanced around and noticed the statues of what looked like mythological creatures. He then stopped and noticed one of them looked like Luna, but was different. First of it was male, tall too, with what looked like a golden mane and tale. Strife made the assumption that this may be her father, but his eyes widened when he saw the so called 'cutie mark' on his flank.

"I-it can't be!?" said Strife in disbelief as he backpedaled but tripped on his own hooves, "There is no way HE can be her father!"

Strife thoughts was then interrupted by a ear punctuation scream, he put his hooves over his ears in pain as the scream subsided. He looked in the direction it came from and quickly galloped towards it. Strife was still surprised how fast he got used to the body and how easier and comfortable it felt.

He skidded to a halt and quickly hid in a bush and peeked out. Strife saw two demons clutching their heads in pain, then glance over to two mares tied up to one of the statues. One had an alabaster coat with a stylish purple mane and tail, while the other one had what looked like a deflated poofy mane and tail and was all out pink.

"It seems I found what I came for." Strife whispered as he cocked his pistols.


The demon clutched his head in pain as so did his comrade when Rarity screamed from atop of her lungs. Rarity though still looked terrified but Pinkie gave a smug smile at the demons and stuck out her tongue.

"You guys better back off before she screams again!" yelled Pinkie.

"Damn you ponies!" shouted one of the demons pulling out a club and stomped over to Pinkie who was now looking a little nervous.

"H-h-hey now, c-c-can we talk about this?" asked Pinkie nervously as Rarity screamed again only to be slapped by the other demon and be knocked out. The demon raised his club ready to end Pinkie's life only for the other demon to stop him.

"Wait." said the demon as the other one looked at him with a confused look.

"What, I was about to have fun." said the demon putting the club to his side making Pinkie sigh in relief but then worry for her unconscious friend beside her.

"Somethings wrong, the hellhounds should've been back by now."

The demons then heard the sound of a dog whining in pain they turned their heads to the source of the noise and saw a hellhound with bloodied holes in it's body struggling to stand on it's feet but drop dead in front of them. The demons had a look of fear on their faces as a figure stood in the darkness.

"You made a mistake snatching these ponies." it said.

"And who in Lucifer's name are you supposed to be!" spat on of the demons.

"I am one of the riders of the legendary horsemen," said the figure as the demons blood then ran cold, "I am Strife!"

Pinkie and Rarity, who was now coming back to her conscious, noticed that the figure was a grey earth pony stallion, with metal hoof platings, a brown man, two tubes like objects at his sides, and what looked like a helmet that resembled a big cat. The demons then burst out laughing as Strife sighed in annoyance knowing this was the reaction he was going to get.

"Strife?! What happened to you!" chuckled one of the demons.

"Yeah, you're a freaking pony!" said the other.

"Hey maybe we ca-"

BANG BANG

Rarity and Pinkie watched as the two demons dropped dead with two sized holes burning in their skulls, Strife holstered his pistols and went over and untied the two mares. Strife was then taken by surprise as the two mares tackled him to the ground with a massive hug.

"OHHH! I knew my knight in shining armor would come." chimed Rarity.

"Thank you thank you thank you!" exclaimed Pinkie.

Strife groaned and pushed the mares off of him. ""It was nothing, but now we need to get to Death and-"

"Death is alive!" yelled Pinkie.

"Yes, but we have to-"

"Then you must take us to him so we can help the rest of our friends." added Rarity.

"Your friends are already taken care of, but now we need to-"

"Then we must-"

"SHUT UP!!!" yelled Strife losing his patience as both mares went absolutely silent. Right on cue a demon burst through the one of the statues bloodied and beaten the three turned to see the rest of the elements of harmony and the other two horsemen.

"Rarity! Pinkie!" the four said as they ran towards each other and shared an embrace.

"Have fun?" mocked Fury with a smile.

"Don't start." grumbled Strife as Fury and War let out a chuckle. The six mares broke their embrace as they all gathered around wondering what to do next. The three horsemen explained who they were and how they got here to when they saved them from captivity.

"Luna and Death! I can't believe it!" chimed Rarity in excitement, "I can see the foals now."

"We can worry about that later," said Twilight, "What do we do now?"

"Right now we wait until Death and Luna frees this Princess Celestia then we stand together and take down Samael." explained War.

"How in hay are we supposed to do that?",asked Applejack "If ya' haven't noticed the castle is swarmed by them demon fellers."

"I hate to say it but Applejack is right how do we get past them?" came in Rainbow Dash.

"You don't." said a deep voice as the three riders drew their weapons and the mane six got into their defensive stances. Tirek then came out of the shadows followed by a group of demons snarling in anger.

"Tirek." growled Twilight.

"Twilight Sparkle, it seems you and your friends have escaped......as expected."

"Wait! What! You knew we were going to escape!?"

"Of course I did, but I didn't expect to do it so quickly which makes me take precautions." Tirek then let out a mighty roar, the mane six and the three horsemen covered their ears to keep their ears from bleeding. As Tirek kept on roaring demons from every direction surrounded them until they were completely trapped.

"Nice mating call," commented Strife as Tirek stopped roaring.

"How many of these guys did you call." asked Fury as Tirek gave them a menacing smile.

"All of them." Tirek answered.

"You know these won't be a problem for us three, even without Death by our side." explained War.

"HAHAHAHAHA! You think these demons are here to fight!? Then you are sadly mistaken!" the nine looked at him in confusion at what he meant but soon realized when he opened his mouth and all the demons in the area howled in pain as their very essence was being stripped from their bodies and being absorbed by Tirek. As he did that he grew ten times his size his horns increased their length and also growing two more horns as well his teeth was full of canines like a shark and his eyes was a blazing red. The mane six and the three horsemen was shocked at not only his new form but the entire demon army that was rampaging and destroying Canterlot was now bones and ash.

"He doesn't look so tough." said Strife as he pulled out a pistol and pulled the trigger only for Tirek to catch the bullet in his fingers and crush it into dust. Strife eyes widen in shock, no one could crush his bullets! Let alone catch them!

"Now if you want to get to your friends you have to go through me." said Tirek as he fired a giant yellow beam at the group.


Canterlot Throne Room

Death and Luna burst through the doors of the throne room, to see Princess Celestia on the ground.

"Sister!" yelled Luna as she ran towards her.

"Luna wait!" Death tried to warn her, but it was too late. For she was blasted back by a minor beam of demonic magic. Lillith and Samael came from the shadows with a smirk as Death helped Luna to her hooves.

"Look who came to play." said Lilith

"Give me by my sister!" demanded Luna as she charged up her horn only for it to dimm back down, she frowned and tried to charge it up again only for the same thing to happen. She then looked to see Samael's hand glowing a reddish-orange. She put two and two together and found out that he was limiting her magic! But how?

"Not so fast, you need to earn her if you want her." said Samael sitting on the throne while spreading his demonic wings for effect. Before Luna could answer Death stepped in front of her with his scythes drawn.

"You will not...argh!" Death screamed as he surrounded by an orange aura and paralyzed. Luna looked in fear as Death screamed in pain.

"STOP IT!" yelled Luna with tears forming in her eyes.

"There is only one way to stop it my little pony," said Samael with a smirk, "See if you can take your sister from me and I will let him go."

"Are you sure?"

"I maybe a demon but I never break a deal." Luna glanced at her sister then at Death, then back at her sister again. If she chose her sister she would run the risk of failing and letting all of Equestria down, but if she didn't Death, now her special somepony, would perish.

"Don't...do it!" Death painfully screamed out. Luna then gave an apologetic look towards Death and glanced back at Samael.

"I'll do it" said Luna now walking towards her sister.

"Excellent, go on take her." motioned Samael with his hand. Luna nudged Celestia's limp form, when she did not respond she started to worry, but then Celestia began to stir Luna's eyes beamed with happiness. "Come on sister let's-" Luna was cut off by Celestia's eyes shining yellow and her mane and tail engulfing in a bright ember of flames. Luna braced herself as she was bucked of her hooves and on to the ground.

Death struggled in the magical grasp trying to help Luna but to no avail. Luna slowly got to her feet and looked at Celestia with a worried and confused look.

"Celestia, sister, stop! This isn't you!" cried out Luna.

"Celestia is no more!"boomed Celestia in her royal Canterlot voice, "You may call me Solar Flare!"