A Deal with the Dead

A way to return

(I didn't want to wait anymore! So I found sometime to finish the first chapter. So here it is, the full complete of A Deal wit Death! And I would like to thank Guest L for the idea! Enjoy!)

The land of the dead is a very special place, it's a place where the departed can live in peace while they wait for the love ones to join them. Ponies can imagine their anything they want, the best moment in their lives, reliving their lives before their deaths or even a life they wish they could had have. Ponies even forget that their even dead and believe their still alive. But there was one pony who couldn't find peace, Crescent Quill couldn't peace. She was filled with regret and guilt from her pass mistakes and she desperately wants to fix them. But there one problem the dead cannot rejoin the living in anyway way.

"I must see them" said Crescent while she walk around her white world "But how can I see them when I'm dead?!"

"You want to go to the land of the living?!" as she heard a voice

Crescent turn around to face the source of the voice to see none of other then Star Swirl the breaded

"Your Star Swirl the breaded!" shouted Crescent as she couldn't believe her eyes

"Indeed I am" said Star Swirl as he smiled at her

"Wait why are you here?!" ask Crescent

"I want to help the lost souls here" said Star Swirl while he look around Crescent's world "And I see that your one of them"

"I want to see my love ones" said Crescent as she look down in shame

"Every single soul in the land of the dead wants to see their loves ones" said Star Swirl

"I know but I also want to see the ponies I hurt" said Crescent

"They will come here one day" said Star Swirl

"Not all of them" said Crescent as she grin her teeth

"Are one of them an alicorn?" ask Star Swirl as he caught Crescent's reaction

"How did you know?!" ask Crescent with a surprise tone

"Long ago there were many alicorns in Equestria but they all died off until there was only four left" explain Star Swirl as he activated his horn

"Celestia, Luna, Radius and Arena" said Crescent as she had a good idea of who it was

"Exactly but I was very surprise to see Radius and Arena here so soon" said Star Swirl as he rub his bread

"Star Swirl do you know how to rejoin the land of the living?!" ask Crescent as she desperately wanted to know

"There is only one way to return but it nopony has ever succeeded" said Star Swirl as he started to form a shape of a pony

"Who is it?" ask Crescent

"The god of death, the grim reaper" said Star Swirl

Crescent look stare at Star Swirl's imagined and saw a unicorn stallion but without a coat, eyes or even flesh. It was a skeleton wearing a black cloak with a sickle in its hooves, the pony who decides who will die and who will live.

"The grim reaper is the only one who has the power to return you to the land of the living and he is not renown for letting ponies going back"

"But I must return!" said Crescent as she was ready to risk anything to see Strong and Poetic

"He will never let the dead and living see each other" said Star Swirl as he deactivated his horn and the imagine disappear

"But there must be a loop hole or a exception?!" ask Crescent

"Nopony has ever tried to convince the reaper but there might be one" said Star Swirl as he place his hoof onto his chin "Of course nopony has ever dare to try! There're happy of their lives right here and anxiously wait for their loves ones to join them"

"Then I'll be the first" said Crescent as she turn around and started to walk away from him "I can't find peace with guilt"

"How are you going to convince him of letting you go?" ask Star Swirl as he followed right behind her

"I'll figure something out" said Crescent

"You really want to see them that badly" said Star Swirl as he smiled

"I do and I'll do anything to see them once more" said Crescent

"You're the second pony I've met who is determine to get what they want" said Star Swirl

"Second?" ask Crescent as she look back at him

"Princess Celestia was determine to bring peace between the three tribes" said Star Swirl as he place his hoof onto her shoulder "I'm not going to stop you since I know you won't listen but all I have to say to you. Is that you need to be very careful with the grim reaper, he can easily trick you in many ways then you think"

"Thank you, Star Swirl" said Crescent as she smiled at him

"Good luck, Crescent Quill" said Star Swirl as he started to disappear

Crescent walks to the end of her world and started to walk to the centre of the land of the dead and entered the worlds of the other ponies. Crescent passed many worlds of the dead. Until she arrived at what seems like a castle in clouds, it took her a few moments to remember where she saw it before but she finally realized where she saw it.

"Cloud Kingdom" said Crescent as she feared that Lightning was dead "Lightning isn't dead?!"

"She is not dead but we are" as she heard a mare's voice

Crescent turns around once more and saw two alicorns with a similar look with Lightning

"Who are you?" ask Crescent

"Well there no point by going by titles now" said stallion as he look at the mare

"Arena" said Arena

"Radius" said Radius

"Are you Lightning's parents?" ask Crescent

"We are" said Arena as she look at Radius

"How do you know how daughter? We're you friends with her when you were alive?" ask Arena

Crescent eyes widen slightly, she knew that she couldn't tell her parents that she tried to kill their daughter. She could imagine what they would do to her if they ever found out what she did to her, Crescent took a deep breath and relax.

"No" lied Crescent

Arena and Radius glance at each other and didn't says anything

"What are you doing here?" ask Radius

"I'm going to see the reaper and ask him if I can return to the land of the living" said Crescent

Arena and Radius eyes widen in shock

"You're what?!" ask Arena

"I want to see my family and fix my mistakes" said Crescent

"Are you crazy?! He would never let you go!" said Radius

"I can't find peace unless I fix everything and said my final goodbyes!" shouted Crescent

"He has never let a soul go and I don't think he's ready to start" said Radius

"Don't tell me that you never wanted to see Lightning?!" ask Crescent

Arena started to tear up

"You never wanted to talk to her once more?! You never wanted to see how she was doing?! You never wanted to see how she has been?!" ask Crescent as she knew that everypony wonder what happen after their deaths

"We do but it's impossible to see her" said Arena while she whips her face

"I've wonder so many times what she was doing, how her life was so many things" said Radius as he held Arena's hoof

"We only saw her once" said Arena

"You did?!" ask Crescent

"She died for a short moment and it was the worst moment ever" said Radius

"Then come with me! We can convince the reaper to bring us back!" said Crescent

"But nopony has ever tried" said Arena

"I'm trying right now! And I must see them once more, don't you want to see Lightning again?!" ask Crescent

Arena and Radius didn't says a word and just look away

"If your not coming then I'm going alone!" said Crescent as she turn away and started to walk away from them

"Wait!" as she hear Radius's voice

Crescent turn around and saw them walking towards them

"We're coming with you" said Arena

Continue reading for The search for the god of death

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