It had been several days since Twilight had agreed to Death's offer and since then he had kept her in a room designed to house spirits and insure they didn't become what he called Lost. Despite her inability to leave the room she wasn't exactly lonely, just bored. Death came to visit her each night and bring her books for her to read but no matter how much she liked reading the fact she was trapped in this single room for so long was not fun. Twilight sighed as she finished another book and moved to the last one Death had brought her however as she reached for it the door to her room opened and Death entered. "Death!" Twilight exclaimed happily as she jumped to her feet and embraced him in a hug.
Death appeared taken aback by the gesture but brushed it off with a chuckle as he leaned down and patted the child’s head. "Hello Twilight, how are you today?" He asked.
Twilight sighed as she let go and looked up at Death. "I'm alright, just so bored, I like reading but I can't leave the room or anything!" Twilight whined earning a head pat from Death.
"Then you'll be pleased to know you can come out, I've completed the preparations needed to return you to life. Now we can only hope it works properly." He said as he gestured to the door causing Twilight to smile as she ran to it and pushed it open. "Follow me Twilight; we have a very short window to do this so we must be quick." Death said as he stepped ahead of her and she followed as he led her through the maze like corridors of the mansion they were in till they reached a small study, a large circle of runes was carved into the floor of the study and Twilight immediately began to analyze them.
"What is this?" Twilight asked after a minute of her trying to figure it out on her own and she stepped closer to the circle to better examine it.
"Step into the circle and I'll explain." Death said and Twilight did as he asked. "Now, this is a Ritual circle and one I made specifically for the task we are about to perform." Death explained as he moved about the room using a glowing stick of chalk to create several more markings on the floor. "You see, I cannot resurrect you back to life as you were; not only is it forbidden for me to do so but it would make you incompatible with my power. What I'm trying to do is create a body for you that is bound to my domain but can interact with the land of the living; and that is much more difficult than you would think." Death said with a frown. "The reason I'm doing it this way is because my power cannot be used by one who is bound to the realm of Life; it would corrupt them and drives them mad. So to counter this I have to resurrect you into my domain and to do that I need to place a part of myself inside you."
Twilight frowned as she thought about what Death was saying. "So I'll be your daughter?" She asked, causing Death to stop in his work for a moment.
"I suppose you will be..." He said quietly before returning to the runes he was writing with the chalk. "My other servants are bound entirely to my world so while they can be seen by mortals they appear as ghosts and only when one is about to die, this is not what I'm going to do for you. Instead I plan so that you will be able to freely travel across the borders of the Living and Spirit world; the ritual I'm going to perform will hopefully allow this however there will be some elements of risk involved and of course there will be the obvious side effects."
Twilight nodded. "I understand but what do you think will happen?" She asked in concern.
"First you will be able to interact with both the physical world and spiritual world; the overlapping of both will make it difficult for you to tell the two apart since you will see both the spirit world and mortal world at once." Death said as he finished the last of the runes. "Second I imagine you will gain wings of some sort seeing as you will be immortal in a sense." He said as he looked at the young child before him. "Finally, as we spoke of before you will no longer be Twilight Sparkle but Aeternum Rest, don't be surprised if your physical appearance changes; though how much it changes I can't be sure yet." He said as his hands lit up with blue fire. "Now brace yourself, I imagine this will not be a painless process." He said as he set his hand down on the chalk and the entire circle lit up, and then Twilight screamed.
As soon as Death placed his hand on the circle Twilight felt like her entire existence was being ripped apart, she was pulled, compressed and ripped apart all at once leaving her with an unbearable pain she couldn't even describe. As she was ripped apart she felt magic begin to seep into her body and then the first sensations of an actual body began to come together.
From outside the circle Death watched as Twilight's soul writhe and screamed in pain before it froze and rose up into the air as magic began to pour into it. At first Death thought he had failed and the soul was destroying itself but as he watched his fear turned to astonishment as bones began to grow. They started slow, with them expanding out from chest and then forming arms and legs, the head was the last to form before the spirit wrapped itself around the body and the eye sockets of the skull lit up with two glowing violet orbs of magic and it fell to its knees as two bony wing like protrusions grew from its back. Slowly the magic began to construct organs which were quickly covered by muscles and then flesh. As this happened feathers, hair and other parts grew from the body and then the vocal cords grew and the newly reborn Twilight Sparkle, now Aeternum Rest, screamed in agony before going limp and hitting the floor passed out, though whether it was from the pain or exertion of growing a new body Death wasn't sure.
Death knelt down and placed his hand upon the bodies’ neck and waited. Nothing happened and Death sighed about to deem his attempt a failure before he felt it, the beat of a pulse; it was slow, barely there but it was indeed a pulse. Death pulled his hand back and looked at the newly reborn child before him, as he had guessed her appearance had changed. Her skin was now a bit paler than before and the tips of her hair turned gray; there was also now a stripe of silver in her hair alongside the magenta stripe. The child’s wings glowed with a silvery color in the light of the study; Death knelt down and opened the child’s closed eyes to find that her eyes had changed to a slate gray as well.
Death smiled as he examined the girl, she had changed just enough to look both the same and different from her first life. Death picked Aeternum up and carried her out of the study and walked through his mansion, passing the servants and maids who maintained the old manor, till he reached a recently cleaned room. Standing beside the door was a woman in a snow white kimono; the woman was as white as freshly fallen snow, from her skin to her hair with the only contrast of color being her piercing ice blue eyes.
Death eyes the women calmly nodding to her as she bowed before opening the doors to the room; the woman was one of the denizens of the Spirit World, a Yuki Onna, and served Death as the head maid of the manor. "I trust the room has been fully prepared Ms. Izayoi?" He asked as he entered the room to find it pristine and freshly cleaned.
"I just finished Master; I assume this will be our newest tenant?" The Yuki Onna asked as she looked at the child. "A bit young for a maid.” She commented dryly.
"That's because she is not going to be a maid." Death said calmly as he placed Aeternum on the bed in the room and covered her. "She is special Sakuya, the first soul born into the Spirit World with the power to walk among the living and she even bears a shard of my essence." He said, causing the Yuki Onna to turn paler than before.
"That means that even though she is a reincarnated soul she is your daughter!" Sakuya said in shocked fear.
Death nodded as she stood and looked down at the sleeping child. "A child of death, my little Grim Reaper." Death's voice was soft, almost wistful as he spoke.
"Do I detect a hint of fatherly pride?" Sakuya asked in a mischievous tone. "To think she was only created mere moments ago and you're already attached, Heaven help the poor soul when she finally starts dating." She teased.
Death blushed and pulled the cloak of his robes lower. "Yes well, I assume the staff will be properly notified Ms. Izayoi?" He asked as he turned away from Aeternum.
The Servant bowed, a small smile playing across her face. "I shall inform all the staff of who she is Master." Ms. Izayoi said as she rose and turned to leave. "I'm sure they will be happy to serve your daughter." She said as she exited and Dearth groaned.
"You're never going to let that go will you?" He muttered as he looked at Twilight one more time before rising and exiting the room.
why can i imaging twilight reading learning and being a bit or a prankster on the maids abd making a spell that gives dead or near dead a glow she can see to tell them apart/booping people to be adokable
... this.... has my interest.
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She better only boop the dead then else her body counts gunna rise, cause you know deaths touch and all that
media.tenor.com/images/8e93a57e29cdcdd6b551cdba64e9aab9/tenor.gif more please
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But she’s technically undead and living between realities and has a pulse
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still she contains apart of death him self, its entirely possible this could be one of the side effects
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True
Also I preread this and I love it still
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She has the ability to touch people and kill them but as she grows older and learns how to control her power more it will be something she can turned on or off. When she is working as a Reaper then she will have the ability on but when she's not working she'll have the skill off so as to not accidentally kill someone.
... was that maid from touhou? Or inspired by a character in it?
I thought this story might be a bit like Split Second, (Which I loved, so I was excited to read this) instead I found it going in a different direction that I love just as much!
Personally, I'm hoping for a chapter or two of a young Aeternum doing her job while maintaining all the innocence in the world. Just because it would be so cute!
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Not sure which you're referring to at but the cover picture was me searching 'female Grim Reaper' in google and the picture of Twilight I got from derpibooru by searching human Twilight and looking till I found a young version of her. Took forever to find the pic of Twilight but I think it was worth it since she is so cute.
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Thy wish shall be granted.
There are so many types of beings in the world. Those that don't want to go, those that have accepted the inevitable, those that want to go but don't believe they deserve for the pain to end and those that just can't stand it anymore.
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The maid in chapter two
I wonder will Spike ever be born now that Twilight has Died and Subsequently become the Alicorn of Souls/Death. Also will she ever start dating when she reaches her teenage years?
I cannot wait to see more this 😊😊😊😊😊😊
isnt this just like the web comic called 'im the grim reaper'? the cover art looks almost exactly like it
I am getting anime fives here
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The only similarity that my story has to that web comic is that someone is a grim reaper. Yes, I've read the comic and I loved it but because concepts like this are done so often I paid special attention to make sure I didn't copy anyone else's work.
Actually I was inspired to write this story years ago after reading the story The Last Sparkle Before the Night and it's two sequels written by Amaranthine Thought. So this story been in development since early 2019. You all should go check out his stories because they were pretty good.
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Sorry it took me so long to reply, I had to check my notes and that took a while.
The answer is no to both, a Yuki Onna is a Japanese ice spirit (it's not really but if you really want to know just look it up) and the name I made for her was just an ice themed pun I translated from English to Japanese with Google translate.
I can imagine Death getting a Father’s Day gift when the time arrives.
Also wonder have Davy Johns and Thanatos will react to Death’s Daughter
100th like I'll be watching this very closely. It has a lot of potential.
Somehow I can imagine the Spirit of Harmony going absolutely NUCLEAR over Twilight dying an early death. Although I can't but wonder if will now be able to a different kind of harmony now.
Lol less then a day up already featured
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Love the bna pfp
"She looked" male all the way until now, but overall great start to a new story, much potential.
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and also the cover art is really really like some art i saw advertising the comic (except the eye glow is purple instead of red). i do like this story and hope to get more chapters
This is a great read. I wish the chapters were longer. But it's fine as long as the next chapter doesn't take too long.
I'm enjoying the story but I'm a little confused. Is this anthro?
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It's not anthro but human, body types will be explained on a need to know basis.
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interesting...
This story is very interesting i can't wait for more,im sure in the end it will be quite a piece of art
*If it will be ended,but Damn i hope it will.Aaaand updated more than once a year :)
wow Love it please continue
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Please no.