Kira lunged forward and hit Gaia with full force, the hit however was blocked by a spiritual shield. "Pathetic, your gardening tool will not harm your own sister. Mortals tools are completely useless against us you should know by now."
"And you should know that this is not a simple scythe either Gaia." The elder goddess glance behind her and noticed that the shadow of the scythe had cut deep into a tree that was about to fall on her.
The tree feel on Gaia with a force that would turn to pancake any normal living beings. A second later the tree exploded sending bark everywhere. "How annoying. I had completely forgot you liked to play with shadows." Gaia replied simply.
Gaia closed her eyes for a second then a green aura appeared behind her and took the form of a giant black beast. When the magical aura vanished Kira saw a old looking dragon looming dangerously over him.
"You can play with your tricks all you want brother, but I am the goddess of life I created every animals in existence that mean I can summon all the force in the multiverse I need with a snap of the finger."
"No you can't" Gaia glared at him at this statement. "You can summon all the animals you want, but you can't summon the great minds of sapient beings even you couldn't do it the mortals evolved by themselves."
"Are you trying to make a point? I don't care about sapient beings the only ones worth mentioning are the ponies and even them have put more torns in my plans more than I would like." This honestly surprised Kira. The peace loving ponies resisiting against the Reapers? Why hadn't he heard of this before?
"My point is that you're not as powerful as you think you are sister, death always win over life it is a sad fact but it is true."
Gaia laughed at this. "Maybe death win over the mortals but for a goddess death mean absolutely nothing you're useless against me." And with that Gaia gave order to the dragon to attack. The beast roar echoed through the wasteland.
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Me and Star Secret arrived at my mother's house. I growled as I saw the brainless ponies and humans banging on the door of the cottage. "Oh what is it Winter? You don't like that my friends come partying in your town?" Asked a horribly familiar voice in a sarcastic tone.
I could feel Star's spell wavering in panic for a second but fortunately she was able to control herself. "Titiritero order your ghouls to back down or I swear I will kill you!"
"Oh no a pony has threaten me, I'm so scared!" He rolled his eyes.
I glare at him. "You know you;re a pony too right?"
"No I'm a vampony totally different thing." He said with a childish voice.
"Whatever, you better get out of Ponyville before I lose my patience." He was probably going to do some witty retort but we were interupted by the sound of a massive spell being cast nearby.
Before we knew it a giant pink dome was placed all around Ponyville. What the hay is happening?
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Half an hour ago...
Oh my goodness sis just fell through the roof of that house I hope she's okay, through Meek Sky after seeing the confrotation between Winter and Titiritero. A lot of ponies were surounding her to see what was going on.
"Was that the Sea Pony?" A mare in the crowd ask.
"Yes I think it was. I was hoping for the bearers to come instead we get two freaks fighting each other. I heard she keep frozen ponies in her house for decoration."
Meek Sky gained a painful expression, after all these years there was still ponies that saw their power as unatural? "Winter Song isn't like that." She said to the rude stallion, unfortunately due to her quiet voice no one heard her.
Fortunately through somepony stood up to her sister. "If she's as evil as you say why didn't she took power of Ponyville arleady?" A colt asked.
"Because she's not powerful enough to challenge the princesses that why." The same stallion replied.
"As of right now no, but she could have easily took control of this town if she so wish a while ago, didn't you heard about the Shard of life that fell into her possession? If she wished to overthrow the princesses she could have easily done it with that yet instead of abusing that power she gave it to Author as soon as she got it."
The stallion snorted. "Do you truly believe a filly could have stumble upon a shard before the council? Don't believe everything you hear and beside even if it's true who to say the shards are that powerful individually? almost nopony saw one of them."
"Well to give you a exemple somepony was born with a shard as their soul a being that easily captured Celestia and Luna with a scheme he did long ago but that just took action recently. You know? The one that is friend with one of the bearers Discord."
The colors on the stallion face vanished at the implication of how powerful these shards were. But then he tried to look brave. "I still don't trust that filly not after she brainwashed everypony on the radio."
The colt sighed in exasperation.
Then a commotion was heard inside the house Winter fell through a green and blue blur shot through the hole of the roof followed by undead creatures breaking down the door. In a instant everypony was thrown into a panic and began to run in the opposite direction.
Meek Sky through was paralyzed on the spot and couldn't move even when a ghoul was an inch away from her face she couldn't muster the force to move. she through this was her end but it's seem fate had other ideas as the ghoul was sent face first in the ground.
What shock Meek Sky the most was what sent the ghoul on the ground in the first place. Two rhinoceros hooves attached to the body of the colt that defended her sister earlier. Before her very eyes the rhinoceros hooves turn back to normal ponies hooves.
"W-what are you?"
"Well I'm many things, a hybrid, a changeling, your coltfriend and the son of Fleur but most ponies call me Leaf."
"Leaf? Why did your change your appearance?" Instead of a brown colt like he normaly was he was now green and his mane instead of black was now blonde.
"I don't like clothes so I change my colors instead." That make absolutely no sense, through Meek Sky.
"Wait! What was that about being my coltfriend?!"
"What? Are you not happy with how far we are in our relationship? We can get marry later if you want after we get away from these weirdo who think scaring cute filly is funny."
"What Married?! I'm only sixteen!" But instead of answering Leaf put his head under Meek Sky belly and lift her on his back, making her yelp in surprise in the process, before running at his full speed in direction of Flutershy's cottage.
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Kira was hiding in a tree while the dragon was searching on the ground for him. The dragon began to sniff the air and his eyes widden for a second before he look up at the tree Kira was in. Mmh for a puppet he seem to have enough intelligence to detect me impressive, the Elder through to himself.
The dragon began to flap it's wings and when he was at eyes level with the Elder God he began to take a deep breath. "Oh no you don't!" Kira exclaimed before unleashing a force unseen by the eye.
The dragon body began to produce black particles and only in a few seconds his entire body was reduce to nothing.
"Without any soul to protect the body from the ravage of magic energy it was all too simple to destroy his body with magic of level S."
"Who are you talking to Kira? Even if you had an audience nobody actually care enough about you to sit still to your lessons about magic." The feminine voice of Gaia said with a hiss.
Gaia appeared on the same branch as her brother and tried to hit him with moves that would put many dancers to shame. Kira expertly dodge and block all of them. The last punch hit the trunk of the tree leaving a gaping hole where she hit. Gaia look at the hole with pure fury.
"Look at what you made me do! My beautiful forest! You will pay for that you disgrace of a Elder God!"
"Well if you weren't a genocidal maniac this wouldn't happen in the first place!" Kira replied, this didn't help to calm the goddess at all.
"Die!" Gaia released a wave of spiritual orb, Kira wasn't fast enough to dodge them and was sent crashing on the dirt down below. Gaia scream in rage and tried to land on Kira. this time he was able to roll out of the way before she could land on him.
Something wrong, he told himself, I didn't attack her seriously because I was too worried she would use one of her trump cards but she seem to restrain herself, the question is why. Then he through about her reaction when she damage the tree.
I get it, even in a situation as serious as this she's more distracted about the well being of her forest than the real fight. How ironic that someone who have no remorse to try to kill billion of living being is so concern about simple plants. But I can use this weakness to my advantage.
Kira close hies eyes in concentration, in a few seconds he created a massive spiritual orb bigger than his own body. "Do you want to impress me with your powers? Because it isn't working" Said Gaia in a bored tone.
But instead of throwing the orb at her ;like she anticipated Kira threw the orb at a row of trees. Gaia eyes widened in horror without thinking she jumped in the way of the spell taking the hit in full force.
When the smoke cleared Gaia was still standing, but she had a few scratches and was panting heavily. "How dare you! I made this forest from literal ashes those trees are some of the last living beings of Oasis and you just attack it?!"
"Oasis is long gone sister, it's time to let it go and help the world to be a brighter future." Gaia glared in response.
"You want me to help those filthy humans again don't you? There no way I will let those ape stain my new world, they think their race is superior to my plants and animals while all they do is slowly killing their world they're a virus to the entire multiverse and it's about time someone made a cure."
"So be it look like the Elder God of death will have to bring back the tradition of executing the most dangerous criminals." Kira said with resolution. His body began to glow and four forms began to emerge from where he once stood.
In his place was four bony humanoid beings, they float in mid-air and showed no signs of having legs, their body was covered by black robes and each of them carried a scythe. "You say you can beat me Gaia, but can you beat four of me?"
Gaia smirked confidently, "you fool do you think I don't know that technique? I know that your power is now divided in four parts, what good will it do to be four if you are too weak to beat me?"
Kira let a battle cry in response and his four formes charge at the elder goddesses.
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"Are you sure the ghouls won't be able to suck your magic from the shield this time?" Luna asked with concern to the captain of the royal guards, normally she would have use her night guards, but Shining Armor was the stallion she needed when it's come to magic shields.
"I'm sure, if they get too close I put a light spell around the shield it's should only blind the common ponies but it will be fatal to the ghouls. But they're a downside, since this failsafe take a lot of magic I won't be able to hold it for more than three hours."
Luna nodded, "We should be over a lot sooner than that and if the shield should fall I will immediately rise the sun."
"But... Won't you risk to lose your title as a princess and also the priviledge of dream walking if you do that."
Luna nodded. "It's a lot of risks since a lot of ponies need my help at night but the ponies of Ponyville are too important for me to risk. Beside maybe Epona could take my place, with how often she sleep she must know a lot on the subject."
Luna sighed and prepare herself to cross the barrier, but before she could do so something strange happened a sort of giant screen covered the sky of every country in the known worlds. The only things the screen showed was a white infinity symbol that is before a hooded mare appeared on screen.
"Hello everyone of the Kira branch I am Grim Reapers leader of the Sould Reapers and I have a news that will change this world forever." The figure smirked before dropping the bomb shell. "Kira is dead, he became one with our shards of life. Muerto Titiritero if you hear this retreat. We don't need Discord anymore, I repeat Discord became useless to our plan come back to the base."
Luna eyes widden in shock. "This... This can't be true a Elder died? I knew those Soul Reapers were dangerous but I never imagined they were that dangerous. I need to speak to Author right now!"
Luna was about to open her wings but was stopped by Shining Armor. "What about the ghouls?" Without responding the Alicorn lit her horn and the sun came glaring down on the small town. Then when it was done she took off in direction of Griffonya.
"What about your role as a princess?! The coucil won't appreciate this!" Shning Armor cried.
"I have no time to deal with such trivalities, this is the biggest tragedy that ever happened in the last three thousand years and we must know what exactly we're dealing with." With that the princess dashed in the sky leaving the shocked and confused guard in her mist.