Hello everybody! This is Winr100, bringing you the (not very) long awaited sequel to my story Reaper! I promise that this story's ending WILL intertwine with "Waking the Fallen" like I ALREADY promised. You should probably go read that, too. As of the time I'm writing this, it's still a work in progress, but I already have this story's concept planned out and how it will intertwine with "Waking the Fallen." For this FF I will have a smaller challenge of at least 14.5K words (the word count for Reaper was only a little under that), and my new normal challenge of having every chapter's name based on a song (which I will mention what song at the bottom of each chapter). I would also like to note that the artwork used for the cover is done by the same person who did the cover art for "Reaper." I've been writing A LOT lately (whether it's fanfiction, regular fiction, non-fiction or whatever), so I may or may not be "in the zone." I just hope listening to music while I write helps as much as it usually does.

One last detail! I reference the song "The Unicorn Wizard" a lot throughout this story. I did all that because my friend Raven loves that song and I thought it was pretty funny (and by funny I mean just ridiculous type funny) so if you see anything a little bit… off, then it's probably that.

Chapter 1

He's Savior

As a small recap of what happened last time, let me fill you in. We fought Nightmare, Fluttershy saved me from certain death, Nightmare died, and now me and Fluttershy are seeing each other a lot. One day we heard a pony-like scream come from the Everfree Forest so we went to investigate, and to my surprise it was my cousin Steven… in pony form. He was a lime-green unicorn with an angel-wing-and-halo cutie mark. He was practically unrecognizable, but I knew it was him because he was muttering to himself like a crazy pony, so I could recognize his voice. He was freaking out, obviously, so I approached him slowly in hopes that he might not freak out more. He looked up at me and instantly got frightened. "Who are you?" he retreated.

"You know me, Steven" I replied.

He calmed down a bit as he recognized me. "Peter? Is that you?"

"Damn straight!" I said proudly. "Welcome to Equestria, cousin!"

"What the hell happened to you?"

"I'm a Pegasus"

"Then, am I…" he stopped and looked at me worriedly, "am I also a pony?"

"Yeah, you're a unicorn" I told him. His eyes widened as he looked hat his hands which were now hooves. He yelled in shock, and then reached up to feel his horn which he yelled in shock at, too. "Oh, and now that you're here you need a new name" I said, interrupting his moment of insane terror.

"Why?"

"Ponies won't recognize human names as normal… or… when given to other ponies, anyway. I changed mine to Reaper." I answered. "Considering it seems to fit you, how 'bout we call you "Savior"?"

"Sure" he said. I asked him how he died, because I remembered Bo saying something about somepony coming here. "I hung myself out of depression. I felt like I was responsible for your death, so I decided to just off myself in hopes that I could apologize to you in heaven or hell or limbo or wherever."

"Oh, you weren't responsible for my death" I assured him. "You saved me once. I chose to go back to try and save you. It was my fault. I'm sorry if I… you know… killed you."

"That's fine" he replied, much more calm now. "By the way, uh… what's so special about unicorns?"

"You can use magic" I said, unaware of what I had just set myself up for. He started snickering after a moment. "What is it?" I asked.

"Hey Reaper" he snickered. "I'm The Unicorn Wizard." (If you get the reference, have a cookie :D)

"Fuck" I sighed. "Seriously, Savior? Only you, man; only you."

"I guess that makes you Ninja Brian" he laughed. (And another one)

"You call me Ninja Brian, and I will kick you so hard you'll cough up a testical" I threatened.

"How about Princess Handjob?" he asked, giggling uncontrollably. (And one more)

"How about shut the fuck up and let's get going" I growled. He squeaked in fear and jumped up. We walked back towards Ponyville as I told him about the ponies who lived there. "Now, I've got some stuff to do, so for the whole tour, I'll leave you with Twilight Sparkle. She's also the one you'll want to talk to about shelter and whatnot considering you can't walk on clouds like Pegesai."

"Okay. What does this "Twilight" pony do?" he asked

"She's the intellectual type. She lives in a library, so I'll assume you're gonna get along fine" I answered him, remembering how much he used to read in his spare time. We walked in silence for the rest of the way. I knocked on the door as loudly as I could, and when somepony opened up, it wasn't Twilight. It was… a dragon? A baby dragon, but still a dragon. "Hello, Mr. Dragon." I greeted him awkwardly. "Is Twilight here?" He nodded and waved her over. She trotted over to the door and the second she came into Savior's view, I saw his eyes light up like lanterns in the middle of the night.

I could tell that he had practically fallen head over heels… or head over hooves in this case, for Twilight already. What he saw in her from that very first moment was a mystery to me, but I guessed it would just allow him to get along with her even better. Although it may seem a little strange, I thought it was kind of funny. Savior was (and is) the most introverted person/pony I've ever known. Then again, Twilight was never the most outgoing pony in Ponyville herself, so I guess that made them even more alike. Regardless, I already knew that it was a matter of opinion, so I couldn't do anything about it…

Not the point.

"Hi there, Reaper" she said. "Who's you're friend?"

"This is my cousin Savior" I told her. "I have some stuff to do, so I was hoping you could give him the whole "tour and introduction so Ponyville" thing."

"Sure thing!" she chirped.

"Thanks Twilight. Bye Savior." I turned around and walked off as I heard Savior and Twilight start talking. It just made me wonder how they would get along… meh, who knows? Fluttershy trotted up beside me. She had been silent that whole time, so it felt as if she wasn't there.

"So… that was your cousin?" she asked quietly.

"Yeah" I replied. "Not a bad pony, but he can be a real pain in the ass sometimes."

"Oh, well… I'm sorry I brought it up"

"You apologize too much, 'shy" I laughed. "Anyway, I'm just not too sure how well he'll get along with Twilight. I mean, they both read a lot and they're both pretty smart, but I'm still not sure how it'll go."

"If you don't mind me saying, I think he'll be fine. Twilight is really nice" she assured me. We went back to her little woodland house. It was getting pretty late when I heard a whisper at the back of my head.

"GO… TO… THE… MIRROR…" In confusion, I walked into the bathroom and looked into the mirror. "Reaper, I think something big is going to come up soon." It was Bo.

"What makes you say that, Bo?"

"Us down here in the Equestria department… we've got a really bad feeling ever since Nightmare died." He gulped and continued. "We're afraid it might be something worse than Nightmare. Trust us on this, too! When we have a bad feeling about something, it's usually true."

"We'll blow up that bridge when we get to it" I retaliated. "Savior just got here and we just killed Nightmare a little while ago, so let me rest while I can, and we'll deal with shit as it comes, ok?"

"Okiedokie" Bo agreed. I walked out of the bathroom to be greeted by Angel bouncing happily up to me.

I smiled and hopped over him. Fluttershy was curled up on her sofa. I walked over and sat down beside her. She looked up at me with deep eyes and then curled back up, putting her wing around me. I decided to curl up next to her. "Reaper?" she said quietly.

"Yeah?" I responded.

"Are you still worried about Savior?"

"A little" I told her. "Why do you ask?"

"I was just wondering" she answered.

"Thank you" I uttered.

"For what?"

"For your concern about me, silly" I chuckled quietly.

"Oh, well… Ok"

"'Shy?" I called her gently.

"Yes?" she muttered.

"I'm sorry I never properly thanked you for saving me from Nightmare" I apologized.

"No, it's okay" she said.

"No it isn't" I continued. "You saved my life and… I… I never really thanked you for it…"

"It's okay" she repeated. I still felt as if I didn't give the thanks necessary for her saving my life. I wanted keep talking about it, but I just decided that it would probably be better if I kept my mouth shut.

I knew it was important… but priorities can change… They can change so fast it can make your fuckin' head spin.

Chapter title based off of the song "Savior" by Rise Against