//------------------------------// // God of Death // Story: Death Note: Alight Equestria // by DeviousNights //------------------------------// Major Nightmare Moonlit, sometimes know as Dark Side or simply as Nightmare, was a very direct unicorn. Under normal circumstances, he would calmly think about a situation before making any sort of rash action. That is what the Officer Training School of the Equestrain Royal Guard taught him. Patience, and attention to detail. However. These were far from normal circumstances. Major Moonlit briskly took off his dress coat and tossed it into his room. He couldn't afford to get blood on that thing, even considering the circumstances. The panicky Major looked through every nook and cranny in his house looking for a good spot to hide the body, only finding a couple drawers and his hidden study in the basement. He decides since she probably wasn't going to go into the study that'd be the best place to hide the body. He sprayed deodorizing compressed air around the house and shoved the body into the bottom desk of his drawer, wrapping it in a towel to soak up the blood. Nightmare, while he was thinking about it, levitated the Death Note upwards and tore two pages out of it, one he put inside of his Dress Coat pocket, the other he slid in between two books on his bookshelf. "Just in case." He muttered under his breath. He took his coat and brought it upstairs. He made his way back upstairs, levitating his coat onto the couch, but finding Ryuuk hurling up some of his coffee. "Who even told you to drink my coffee?" Nightmare asked, narrowing his eyes at the black sludge he would have to clean. It bubbled, as if it was acidic. Maj. Nightmare grimaced at the thought of what it must be like for a Shinigami to have those sort of juices in their stomachs. "It was sitting there anyways. Cut me a break." Ryuuk shot back, shaking his head because of his dizziness. Nightmare decided not to even argue. He levitated some towels and bleach over to the area where the crazed pony had entered and began to clean up the blood before it stained his tiled floor. He decided to move on to another line of questioning. "I have to ask, where are the rest of you Shinigami?" The prosecutor asked curiously. "Oh yeah, them. They're in the Shinigami Realm. You can't go there." Ryuuk said in the same banal voice as usual. Maj. Nightmare rolled his eyes. "Kinda figured that y'know." He wasn't in the mood for a God of Death to be mocking him. Nightmare picked up the mop with his magic energy and swished it across the sticky black slush, it giggling a bit as it melted through his mop. He gave a sigh of annoyance as he continued to mop up what was left of the acidic substance. "Celestia's sake Shinigami." Nightmare mumbled as he turned and stared at Ryuuk who shrugged his shoulders in response. There was then an knocking at the door. Nightmare tossed the mop into the corner and stared at Ryuuk as if he was expecting something. He tilted his head toward the corner twice, expecting Ryuuk to move. "What?" "Well, aren't you gonna disappear, evaporate into thin air, do something? She can't see you, especially with all that's going on." The annoyed Major said. "She can't see me, your right." "What?" "What?" Ryuuk asked. "Dammit nothing. At least hide in the corner." Ryuuk cackled a bit as he slid in between the crevice between the file cabinet and his bookcase, his wing somewhat poking out from the impossibly tight place. He obviously wasn't trying very hard to make Nightmare's life any easier. The annoyed unicorn rolled his eyes and calmly opened the door, hoping Rarity wouldn't sweep the room with her keen eyesight. She had always been a stickler for "attention to detail". It sometimes made the Major wonder if she was ever in the military. When the door opened fully, Rarity was calmly fumbling with her eyelash, which she was messily trying to attach back to her eye. She successfully put it back in place, looking at Major Nightmare Moonlit, attempting to cover up part of the view to his house with his puffed out chest. He had a suspicious smirk on his face. "Why, good evening Nightmare." Rarity said grinning happily, knowing calling him by that name irked him. Nightmare's smirk faded in record time, his eyes dropping into an almost depressed look. "Hi Rarity." He said In an annoyed voice. He swiped some hair from his face with his front hoof. "Isn't that sweet? You fixed up your house for me?" Rarity asked in a teasing voice as she invited herself into his house, obviously making fun of how his living room was a wreck. She walked straight forwards through the living room, stepping over books, papers, pins. A giant black figure was blocking the way to the kitchen. He stood, arms crossed. A smirk crawled across his blue face. "Well, well, Nightmare, she's pretty cute." Ryuuk commented staring down at the white unicorn. Nightmare stared at Ryuuk in disbelief. All the hairs on the Major's neck stood straight up as he froze in fear. However, Rarity simply walked straight through him and into the kitchen. "Told ya. Nothing to worry about." Ryuuk said, shrugging his shoulders. "Shut up you idiot!" Nightmare said gritting his teeth. The appearance of Ryuuk still freaked him out a bit but he'd be damned if he backed down from anyone in front of her. "Yeah, she can't hear me either. Not until she touches your Death Note in specific. Nightmare narrowed his eyes and shook his head, looking up to find Rarity staring at him. "Who are you speaking to Nightmare?" She asked, tilting her head. "Oh...sorry. I was thinking aloud." The fore lorn Major said hoping that he could somehow talk his way out of this situation. "Your thinking aloud, calling somepony an idiot?" Rarity employed, showing him the fallacy in his logic. Nightmare curled his lips. He shrugged his shoulders, running out of possible ways to escape the situation. Her thinking he had schizophrenia or something like that was a lot better than her knowing about a God of Death roaming around near him and a killer notebook that can kill just when a name is written in it. Speaking of where was that thing? Rarity plopped herself in one of the high seats in his kitchen, facing him, waiting for him to come sit across from her. Major Moonlit surveyed the room, looking for the note. He must have lost it in the confusion of hiding the dead body and cleaning up the blood stains. He shook it off, hoping that he would find it after she left. He had to get this meeting over as soon as possible. Nightmare sat across from Rarity, facing her directly with a neutral expression on his face, swiping hair from his eyes once again. He made a mental note to put his hair into a single ponytail after this all boiled over. "So Nightmare... Ela Kuran is at it again." Rarity said grimly with a sad expression. "I should have figured as much. She's stealing your styles again, I assume?" Nightmare asked, leaving back a bit in his seat, twirling a salad fork in midair with his magic. "It's not even that...every style I get, she gets it out onto the designers floor before I even finish making it. I would have the prints and designs done, but mid process, she would release an exact replica of the dress out in her shop." "Sounds like someone's doing some underground work here." Nightmare said, impaling the fork forcefully into the table. "I figured as much too. However I don't know how she does it. And I don't have any proof that she's stealing anything from me. It's just a giant mess, I wanted to see if you could do anything about it." Suddenly, Ryuuk appeared from nowhere behind her, staring at the surprised Major. Nightmare was about to say something, but remembering that she can't see Ryuuk anyways, he left it be. It reminded him of something though. Something that could easily fix this problem. And all he needed was a pen. "Well Rarity, sure. I'll fix the problem. In fact, I'll have it done for you tonight. I'll file the papers and see what I can do. Do you, by chance have a picture of her face?" "Well Nightmare, that's a strange question to ask out of the blue. I do not." Rarity said, raising her eyebrow at the question. She could see Nightmare mouthing the word "Damn". "In any case, I'll handle it, just trust me with it. Stay right here. I have to go check my mailbox." The major said before walking outside. Rarity had a look of confusion on her face as she lie her head down on the table trying to make sense of it all. He knew a newspaper dispenser was at his local post office, which was a 2 minute walk. He inserted a quarter he had tucked away in his ear while on the way out the door and grabbed a newspaper from the dispenser. As he expected, she was one of the cover stories. "Ela Kuran eh?" Nightmare said with a smirk. No ones gonna miss her. He made his way back to his drab, one story house and sat the newspaper inside his mailbox, for safe keeping until Rarity left. He walked back in, the door still open. "I'm surprised I haven't been robbed blind." Major commented as he walked inside. Rarity was missing, but his bathroom light was on, so he assumed she just had to use his latrines. He say at the table looking blankly at Ryuuk, who had taken it upon himself to help himself to his bowl of fruit. "I hope you realize those are spoiled." Nightmare said, not caring at all that they were spoiled. He rethought what he just said, not wanting to mop up some more black sulfuric acid. "As long as they aren't sand." Ryuuk said eating the core of the Apple that he ate. He grabbed another Apple, chomping the sides before swallowing it whole, licking the sweet juices from his fingertips. "Well I guess it's alright now, nothing I can do. Not buying any more. You better steal those things while your here." Major Nightmare said aloud with a miffed voice. "I have morals too kid." Ryuuk said bending down to his level momentarily. "A God Of Death with morals? That's kinda defeating the purpose isn't it?" Ryuuk shrugged his shoulders, grabbing another Apple, simply swallowing this one whole. "Y'know Ryuuk. This could be something the world needs. I mean, is it really a crime if I murder a murderer?" Nightmare asked Ryuuk, a dark expression on his face. It did not faze Ryuuk at all. "I once heard a quote. "If you kill a killer, the amount of murderers in the world remains the same"." Ryuuk said, referencing a quote he heard back in the human world. Nightmare slid the piece of the Death Note out of the coat pocket that he concealed earlier. He turned on the TV to the local news station. "Oh trust me. I'm not just gonna kill a killer. I'm gonna kill until I'm the only killer left. Ponies are going to be too afraid to even commit crimes. Minor robberies won't even exist any more. In a world that's in need of justice, where the clouds are nothing but darkness, I'll be the light that will see. However. I can't kill too quickly. I'll get noticed. Gotta take it nice and slow. I also better use a variety of methods. If everypony just starts dropping like flies in Equestria with heart attacks, police will start investigating. Tell me Ryuuk, I can still kill somepony even with a page torn out right?" "Yeah, even fragments of the page contain the full effects of the notebook. "I figured as much. I had to take some sort of precaution. I'll hide more notebook pages across the city tomorrow. But in the meantime." Nightmare dipped a quill into ink from across the room and levitated it over to him. "Gray Hound, a convicted serial killer from Canterlot has escaped confinement after killing two guards in cold blood. He is believed to be on a boat in transit to Hoovingtin. If you see this pony, it is advised you get to the nearest phone line and contact your local authorities. He is to be considered armed and dangerous." "Welp. Here goes out next victim. Murder someone will you?" Nightmare said with a deathly serious look on his face as he penned down his name and continued writing for the next minute or so. "What exactly are you writing?" "You will see." Three minutes later, a breaking newscast interrupted the weather. "Breaking News! The escaped prisoner has taken the S.S. Hoovington and its passengers hostage! Police are attempting to negotiate as we report. Our News Pegasus is giving us live footage right now, take a look." The camera, though shaky, displayed a group of ponies on the edge of a small ship packed into the corner with a single brown pony facing them with a metal object in his hoof. Nightmare stared blankly at the TV, not showing any signs of emotion. Suddenly, one of the passengers, a light blue earth pony, rushed the assailant and shoved him into the edge of the ship, causing him to lose control of his front hooves, accidentally forcing the knife into his throat. He stumbled backwards and fell over the edge of the ship. The water began to turn a hellish blood red, bubbles coming up from where he fell in, tracking backwards. Then, a large "Thump" was heard as more blood was flung up by the propeller, and the body of a mangled, pony rocketed from the propeller. The body was barely recognizable any more, as most of the flesh had been torn off by the speedy propellor blades. "Oooh, sadistic?" Ryuuk asked, a bit surprised by how he killed the inmate. "Trust me. That could've been a lot worse. Just had to test the extent to where I could carry it. See, I had originally wrote "Blue, rainbow-maned Pegasus", referring to an old friend of mine. However, obviously she was nowhere in the area. So the Death Note must've just chose whoever was closest to the description I gave, in this case the Earth Pony. Also, I wrote his cause of death was "Drowning". However, that also wasn't possible. With those injuries, he couldn't have physically swam away from the propeller blade fast enough to actually lose enough oxygen to drown. So instead the blades cut him up. In short, the Death Note is still limited to the basic laws of physics of this world. I can't make deaths unreasonable. This'll be nice to know." Nightmare reasoned in a blank tone. "Yeah. I've had one of these for eons. I know kid." Ryuuk said. Ryuuk rolled over a bit. "Y'know kid, you should make a great Kira." "Kira? I won't even start to humor that." Nightmare rolled his eyes for the third time that day, questioning as to why Rarity was taking so long. He turned the television to a different station. His sick expirement was done. He brushed it off, and began to clean up the mess in his living room from his encounter with the demon. He picked up his desk and put it back in its normal spot, levitating all the papers on the floor back onto the desk. Before he was done, however, Rarity flushed the toilet and began walking back towards the kitchen. "Oh, I'm sorry darling, just had to-" Rarity stopped right in her tracks as she felt a tingling sensation go all the way through her body. "The hell? What's the Matt-" Nightmare looked down at her hooves to see that she had just stepped on the notebook. Rarity stared in disbelief forwards. A grand, dark, monster-like creature stood before her. It had to be ten feet tall, for its head to be almost to the roof of the house. Rarity let out an ear splitting shriek, grabbing onto Nightmare as she fell backwards in fear and shock, taking him down with her, she held on to his hood tightly, flinching her back hooves quickly in an attempt to flee from the monstrous creature. "NIGHTMARE! WHAT IS THAT?!" Rarity screamed, still attempting to get away. Nightmare Moonlit clinched his teeth and looked around trying to think quickly about what to do. He had to think of some way. He decided convincing her that she's not actually seeing it was the best course of action. "I seriously don't see anything. Are you sure your seeing things right? Are you tired?" Major Moonlit asked, bombarding her with questions, hoping they would redirect her attention to something else, just for long enough that she could calm down. "IF ITS NOT THERE WHY IS IT STILL THERE??" "Rarity calm down I seriously don't see anything!" Nightmare said with a fake look of concern on his face. "Hiya." Ryuuk said, waving at the frightened fashion pony. The stress of the entire situation was too much for Rarity, and she fell out right then and there. "Damn it Ryuuk, you ruined my plan." The Major said with disdain in his voice as he put a hoof up to Rarity's neck, feeling her heartbeat. "Is there a way for me to erase her memory of the Death Note? If I'm going to continue being her lawyer or even her friend I can't have her seeing you every time that she is around me. That wouldn't do anything but confirm that your actually here, and I am connected to you." "Nope. I'm here to stay. I suggest you find a way. Remember, I'm not obligated to help you at all. Just call me a spectator." Nightmare shook his head solemnly as he lie Rarity down on his beat up couch. He spent the next thirty minutes thinking up his course of action. He levitated the Notebook onto his lap and a pen. He went outside and retrieved the newspaper, writing down the name of the thieving fashion designer. "40 seconds, right Ryuuk?" "Yep." Nightmare sat back and watched the television. Surely if she died, then the media would be all over it within the next few hours. He watched through multiple news stories, controversy involving politicians, other criminal, who Nightmare took a note of in a separate notebook than the Death Note, he would punish them for their crimes later. Some people are so ungrateful to live. To live committing crimes. Nightmare got where he got on his own. Why can't everyone else do the same? He shook his head condescendingly. Ryuuk floated downwards and sat next to the Major. He crossed his legs and looked at Nightmare with the same sharp toothed grin. "So what exactly are you waiting for? He asked. This was the first time Nightmare had noticed that Ryuuk's mouth didn't move when he spoke. He decided against commenting on it. "The news to report her dea-" Nightmare stopped in his tracks as he witnessed Ela Kuran, in all her thieving glory, presenting a diamond encrusted dress. And it was live.