I've had an epiphany; I recently started to re watch the Death Note anime again when I got to thinking what if a god of death dropped their notebook in Equestria, and a pony with a use for it picked it up. Anyway that idea bloomed into the story that you are now reading. This story is rated M for violence, gore and language. Anyhow tell what you think off this story and if you whether or not it's worth pursuing.
Boredom.
In the world above our own lies the Shinigami realm. The Shinigami realm is an empty world that houses no life and is just a dark vast plane of sand and dust. This world is populated by Shinigamis; also known as gods of death. The shinigami's purpose, if any is to shorten the lives of the living. Shinigami's have the ability to kill anyone in the human world as well as the worlds parallel to our own. After the events in the human world; gods of death were longer allowed to drop their notebooks into the human world. This made activity near the human realm slim to none. Today one such Shimigami would be watching another realm. A Shimigami perched himself on the ledge overlooking the world below. The Shinigami's name was Sin. Sin had the head of a horse with a white mane and yellow eyes with blood red pupils. His torso was bone that had been wrapped in jet black leather. His arms and legs were also bones wrapped in leather. He had hooves for feet but had hands that were made of bone with long spiky fingers that each wore several rings. Lastly he had a black whip like tail with a diamond at the end. The world that he was starring into was Equstria. As he looked into it two other Shimigami walked up behind him and called out to him. "Hey Sin what are doing," one called out to him. Sin said nothing back but continued to stare into the world. Becoming curious the two flew over and joined him on the ledge. "What are you doing Sin, planning on killing a pony; you know the years we gain from their lifespans are never very large. This was true, when a Shimigami kills, it shortens the lifespan of their victim, and the remaining years of that victim are transferred to the Shimigami that kills them. Sin had actually tried to kill Princess Celestia in hope of gaining eternal life but his notebook wouldn't kill her nor would it Luna which he also tried. Sin finally spoke, "I'm going to let you in on a secret," The others gathered around to hear. "I dropped a notebook into Equestria. The other two weren't shocked but rather confused. "Why would you do that, the old man made it a rule not to?" The first one said getting up from the edge. "In the human world perhaps but not in Equestria," Sin said never taking his eyes from the view of the world below. "Well has it been picked up yet?" the second had asked him. "No, but it's only a matter of time." Sin said. "Well good luck with that," the first said before flying off. The other flew off behind him. Sin just waited for someone to pick up the note. After that the real fun would begin.
In Equestria, a train was driving through the country side going from Manehatten to Ponyville. On the Train sat earth pony with a gray coat and black mane. On his flank was an old fashioned iron pen for his cutie mark. His name was Sakujo Pen. His father was a merchant from Clopan that moved to Manehatten. His mother was born in Manehatten had the luck of meeting a Clopanese merchant whom she had fallen in love with. After getting married they had a son and named him Kashu. His name translated out to singer, which was what he had been. Kashu had been one of Manehatten's best upcoming singers with several record deals trying to sign him. Sakujo was born two years after and had the greatest brother anypony could have. It was Kashu that had helped him discover his ability for writing and ultimately got him his cutie mark. It was these great memories that were the reason that Sakujo had to get out of Manehatten. Only three days ago, Kashu had taken Sakujo to a concert. On their way home they were cutting through a park to save some time on their trip home. As they were nearing the exit, they were mugged. Three stallions had robbed them at knife point. Kashu and Sakujo had given them all money. Right before the robbery had ended, one of the stallions had notice the golden horse shoe that Kashu had worn. The muggers demanded it, but the horse shoe had been in their family for generations and had made the trip from Clopan and had been given to him. Naturally he refused; instead he took the shoe off and punched the stallion holding Sakujo. Once he was freed, Kashu threw the shoe to him and told him to run home. He was about thirty feet away when he stopped and turned around. Kashu was fighting all three muggers and was so far holding his own. Kashu had seen that Sakujo was still there. "Go home; get the hell out of here!" He yelled out to him. At that moment one of the muggers pulled a knife and stabbed him in the back. Kashu fell to the floor dead. As he galloped home, he told the police what happened. He then made his way home and told his parents what had transpired. He showed his father the gold horse shoe. His father said nothing; Kashu was his pride and joy. He took it as an insult, that his son would dare return while his brother died. "It should have been you." His father said. Sakujo said nothing but rather walked upstairs to his room. He grabbed his backpack, filled it his notepads and pens. He walked to the center of the room and lifted up a loose floorboard. Under it was a box that contained a little over 750 bits. He put that in his bag as well. As he made his out the door he was stopped by his mother who stood in his way. "Where are you going?" she asked. "Isn't it obvious, I'm leaving." Sakujo said back. "Like hell you are," She yelled back. "Well when you dad tells you that you should have died instead of your brother, you should hopefully get the clue," He said back. Sakujo's mother snapped and ran into the back room where his father was. Sakujo took the opportunity to run out. Even outside he could hear his parents yelling. He made his way to the train station and bought a ticket to Ponyville which lead him to where he was now. He was sitting there and looked over to a young mare on her right of him; two stallions walked up to her and began to touch her. Sakujo thought to himself. "This world is rotten." He waited for two more hours until the train entered Ponyville. As he entered town, he saw an open restaurant. He walked into it and took a seat and open table. After a few minutes a pink pony made her way over to his table. "Hello welcome to Sugar cube Corner, wait you're new in town, we have to throw you a party." She screamed. "No that's okay, that not necessary, what is your name?" Sakujo asked. "Pinkie Pie, what's your name?" The pink pony asked. Sakujo decided to use an alias knowing that she didn't need to know his name just yet. "Um…Kashu," "Oh you're a Clopanese." Pinkie said. "Yep," Sakujo said back with a smile. "Here, the first ones on us," Pinkie said handing him a cupcake. After finishing his cupcake, he thanked Pinkie and walked out. As he walked out he saw a black square object lying out on the pathway toward the inn he walked up to it and looked at it. On the front in silver writing was the word Death Note. Sakujo opened it to the front page. On the other side of the cover was several paragraphs also written in silver but it was too dark to see. Sakujo made his way to the inn and rented a room. As he got into his room, he pulled out the Death Note and began to read. "The pony's name who is written in this note shall die, whoa" Sakujo said to himself he continued to read. "This note will not take effect unless the writer has the pony's face in their mind when writing their name. Therefore ponies sharing the same name will not be affected. He read the next paragraph. If the cause of death is written within 40 seconds of writing the ponies name it will happen, if the cause of death is not specified the pony will simply die of a heart attack. After writing the cause of death, details of the death should be written in the next in the next six minutes and 40 seconds. "This has got to be some kind of sick joke." Sakujo said to himself. "Although this seems pretty detailed to be just a prank." He stopped thinking realizing that he was starting to scare himself. He turned on the T.V. to a news report. "This morning a stallion broke into a school and is now holding 8 students and their teacher hostage. The suspect is a Pegasus named Top Gun" The news then showed a picture of the stallion. Sakujo pulled out a pen and thought about it. "Hymm, on the off chance the note works; I want to make the death as indiscreet as possible. Probably just want to use a heart attack. Sakujo quickly wrote the name then looked over to the clock in the corner of the room. He counted down 40 seconds, nothing happened. "Hmphh I guess it didn't work." He said to himself. Suddenly the news pony came back on screen. "Wait something's happening, yes the hostages are coming out of the school. The police are entering now. After a minute of silence, the news pony began to speak again. "Alright the police have just announced the suspect is dead inside the school. As this time they are calling the death natural causes. More on this story as information becomes available." News pony said before it went to commercial. Sakujo stood in disbelief as he had just come to realization with what had happened. "I can't believe it; the Death Note….it's for real.
Back in the Shinigami Realm.
Sin watched in pleasure, everything was working better that he thought. Not only had the note been picked up, it had already been used. "Ha Ha Ha and just like that my fun is already beginning, Two more days then I can't meet this pony named Sakujo in person." He said to himself. "I have a feeling that this is going to ease my boredom quite nicely.
Okay chapter one completed. This is going to be a regular updated story, but if you've seen Death note to the end you know how this will end. The other regularly updated story is going to be Twilight's foal. Just in case you cared Sakujo is Japanese slang for eliminator. So Sakujo Pen translates somewhat to Eliminator Pen or even Eliminator by Pen, which is what Sakujo is when he uses the death note. Also I'd like to thank Doomlord1234 for letting my use the character Sin so go read his story it's really good. Anyway when I update next, Sin comes to Equestria to visit Sakujo about his Death Note. Till next time sayonara.