A/N: Hey! Back with chapter 2. Anyway, Read, enjoy and review, everyone!

Chapter 2: New Residence

Ponyville, the Crystal castle…

Rainbow Blitz made his way through the halls of the giant structure until he managed to find his daughter and her family in the castle's living room. Rainbow Dash was snuggling with Twilight Sparkle while the latter was reading a story to her and their two companions, the purple dragon known as Spike and their adopted foal, Scootaloo.

He was glad to see that they were at least still happy. As he turned to leave, he heard Rainbow Dash spoke. "Hey Twi?" the alicorn paused her reading and looked at the other mare. "Do you think my dad is happy where he is?" the pegasus asked nervously. Blitz's shoulders dropped when he heard this. Twilight hesitated to answer. "From what I know, I'd say he should be happily watching us from the furthest clouds, along with your mother, Dashie."

This made Rainbow Dash smile softly and look at the sleeping forms of their foal. "Yeah, I guess so." She muttered in thought. The zompony wanted nothing more than to leap out and tell her that he was there, that he still loved her and wanted to take away the pain she must have felt from his death, but he knew he couldn't do that until whatever threat Death Bringer talked about was defeated.

Rainbow Blitz made his way out of the palace and decided to go back to Golden Harvest's home, knowing she'd allow him to stay with her since his estate was most likely either a national monument under the Hero Act of Sir Brave Heart, which was emplaced after a unicorn named Brave Heart died saving an Equestrian settlement during the Gryphon War over five centuries ago, or Dashie had it locked up since she was living in the castle with Twilight.

After he entered the small, lively home of his friend, he was greeted by the purple mare making vegetable stew. "Hi Goldie." He said, surprising the mare. "Blitz?! What are you doing here?" she asked, looking him over, still not used to his new appearance.

Blitz smiled and walked into the kitchen. "I was hoping you'd let me sleep on your couch for a few weeks or so. I need a place to stay until I reveal that I'm not dead to Dashie and everyone else." Golden Harvest blushed at the thought of her crush living with her, fantasies and lustful ideas running through her head. The mare quickly shook her head to clear the thoughts of the dark blue stallion tied to her bed and answered.

"Sure, but I do have an empty spot on my bed, you know." She flirted.

Having lost his wife in a tragic accident over thirteen years ago that left him with nightmares, Rainbow Blitz was somewhat clueless to romantic advances. "I wouldn't want to impose. I'm fine with the couch, really." The mare sighed in disappointment. "Alright. But you're welcome to my bed whenever you want to." Blitz smiled and looked around her kitchen. "Anything I can help with?" Golden Harvest shook her head. "No thanks, I've got everything set and the stew's almost done. You can go sit down and relax. I know you're day has been quite stressful."

The stallion decided to heed her words and sat down by the table, waiting for her to finish the stew. After a few minutes the mare exited the kitchen and placed the steaming pot of stew on her dining table. Blitz looked with surprised eyes at the delicious-looking stew as some of it was poured into two bowls.

The stallion thanked her and tasted some of the food, moaning in delight as the warmth enveloped him. "You never said you had cooking prowess." He teased, taking another bite of the stew. Golden Harvest blushed again and shook her head. "My skill lies with baking, you know that. But my family is a line of amazing chefs who have passed recipes down and creating new ones since the first chef."

He looked impressed at her statement. "And have you made any recipes to pass down to your children?" This sent another blush to her cheeks as she nervously answered. "W-well, I never had a lot of coltfriends, you know, and well… the stallion I have my eyes on is kind of…impervious to my affection." This made Blitz frown. "What? But how can't he notice you? You're sweet, kind, helpful, friendly, beautiful and caring."

Every compliment sent another rush of blood to her face, up to the point where she looked like a stoplight. "E-excuse me for a moment…" she said before rushing off to her bathroom to go splash her face with water.

After a few minutes, she returned to see him pouring himself another helping of her stew, which made her smile. "Enjoying the stew?" she asked playfully, to which he nodded enthusiastically. "Yeah, sorry. If there's one thing I really enjoy besides racing or being with friends and family, its food." This made the mare giggly which embarrassed her guest. "I think I'll turn in after I do the dishes."

Golden Harvest glared at his words. "What?" he asked, seeing the glare. "I do not let my guests do any of my house tasks. Therefore, you will not do the dishes." He then tried to protest. "No, I can't let you do all that for me. I need to at least do something as payment for letting me stay here." The mare shook her head and began pushing him towards her couch. "No. If you want to repay me so badly, consider the fact you told me about your return first enough. I will NOT let you do any of MY chores."

Blitz sighed. "Goldie-" "Incident fifty-four, Blitz." She said coldly, which shut him up.

During his close friendship with the other Daemon Jewel-wielders, they had so many small, comical incidents that occurred between them that they wrote them down on a list. The last one he remembers was incident seventy-two, which involved Fancy Soufflé, a cup of pudding and a bear on a log.

Sadly he couldn't remember what exactly happened, but he knew most of them at least.

Incident fifty-four, or the Barbequed Bastard incident as they dubbed it, happened during their college years, shortly before he met Speedy Blue, where two stallions messed with Lyra and Bon-Bon, and were then nearly barbequed on the football field by an extremely angry Golden Harvest. If Blitz hadn't managed to douse the entire bonfire the mare built, then quite a few ponies would've gotten hurt…

The dark blue stallion made his way onto the couch and watched as his friend moved the dishes to her sink. "Has the List been extended since Incident Seventy-Two?" he asked, curious about the madness his friends might've gone through since his death.

Goldie giggled. "Yeah, but only two. Incident Seventy-Three happened about ten months after your burial. We all went out to a new restaurant that opened up, as opposed to just eating out at Fancy's place, and when Windstorm, who had been stung on the tongue by a bee somehow earlier that day, tried to place her order, refusing to let any of us do it for her, she nearly murdered the waiter with a candle."

This made Blitz frown. "How did she try to-" "Apparently inserting objects up far enough can kill a pony." She shrugged, making the stallion cringe. "Also, the waiter was a stallion." That caused him to cringe again. "Ouch."

Suddenly Goldie perked up. "Hey, have you ever been interested in-" "No." "But-" "No." "Not even-" "No, Goldie! I'm a straight stallion, therefore I don't prefer using toys!" he almost yelled, making her giggle. "The closet is a very cold place, Blitzy. You can come out anytime you want to. I won't judge." She said, referencing to an old tease the group did on Blitz because of his rainbow mane.

The stallion sent a ferocious glare at her, before gaining a predatorial smirk on his face. "If you don't want to believe me, I'll just have to prove it then."

Before Golden Harvest could react, Blitz softly pushed her down on her back and locked her in a deep kiss.

After a few minutes he finally came up for air. "That enough proof for you?" he asked breathlessly, smirking at her dazed look as he helped up and steadied her to keep her balance.

The group of friends never believed that they'd ever break up, due to the strong bonds they all had. So all the girls have kissed all the guys and vice-versa in their group. Kissing was seen as a form of proving their friendship with one another in their group. Though rumours did fly when classmates saw them kissing, but they never cared much for rumours.

Snapping out of her daze, she answered. "You've improved from what I can tell."

He merely laughed and shook his head. "So, what happened in Incident Seventy-Four?" Golden Harvest smiled as memories of the event poured into her mind. "Incident Seventy-Four happened over five months ago. We held a bonfire at a small lake near the Everfree, with booze and snacks, and Fancy brought a few of his special cigars. He and Zecora wanted to smoke after they took in a few bottles. Zecora was still sober, luckily, but Fancy was apparently drunk since he lit his cigar at the wrong end and ended up puking into the fire." She pulled a disgusted face as Blitz laughed. "The smell of burnt puke will never be erased from our memories, I'm certain of that."

The stallion nodded. "I could believe as much." Their laughter slowly died off and they sat on the couch, looking at one another with happy smiles in memories of what they had gone through.

As the night went on, the two friends talked about their friends and what happened in the past two years, with Golden Harvest talking about their friends and Blitz's daughter, while the stallion in return told her of his time in Heaven and what he had seen there, along with how happy Speedy Blue had been to see him.

That hit a snag in the mare's heart, resulting in her claiming to suddenly be tired and excused herself from the stallion's companionship. Blitz, believing her to have been overwhelmed by the information he had shared with her, ignored it and went to bed himself, fading into his dreams…

Blitz's dream…

The stallion noticed Ponyville was ablaze around him. He saw stallions running into the fiery mess of buildings while mares and foals were running away. Fearing for his daughter, Blitz flew into the smoke, looking for the distinct cyan coat of Rainbow Dash. He finally found her, in the arms of a strange black, draconic creature. "Food…" the thing growled, sniffing at the unconscious mare.

With a growl, Blitz rammed himself into the beast's side, causing him to drop the mare onto the ground. "Pay…" the creature growled, trying to hit Blitz with a slash of his claws. Blitz was about to attack again when he saw a group of the creatures, tossing dismembered limbs of ponies onto a pile.

What he saw on the pile made him pause.

A purple leg, two pairs of familiar pegasi wings, a neck with golden rings, and two unicorn horns and two familiar tails as well, but the thing that chilled him to the bone was the dull-purple shaded head that once held two warm, happy eyes, now a lifeless husk of a dear old friend carelessly tossed on top of the pile of their friends' remains.

"ENOUGH!" Blitz watched as his dream dispersed, revealing a white surrounding and the Princess of the Moon standing a few feet away from him, giving him a curious and welcoming look, mixed with a hint of apology. "Greetings, your Majesty." The stallion said with a bow to the Lunar Princess, who raised her hoof in objection. "Do not bow to me when I am present in your mind, Flight Master Blitz." She spoke as he stood up.

He nodded and stepped closer to her. "And what provides me with the prestigious honor of being greeted by the Goddess of the Night herself?" Luna was uncertain how to respond to the stallion, having not been treated like this since before she was shunned. "We have come to question you." She finally responded after a while.

"We were informed that you had perished when you saved Equestria from a demon and sealed away his soul using your own as the seal. How are you here now?" Blitz sighed. "I wish I knew, Princess. The only knowledge I have is that the being who brought me back said my time was yet to come, that I still had threats to deal with." He looked sad when he saw an image of a once happy, complete pegasus family manifest itself nearby. "The one who reawakened me told me he was named Death Bringer, and that Equestria still needs me."

Luna frowned at this. "We will inquire to our sister with regards to this. Do not fret, Rainbow Blitz, for you will have our aid if things get out of hand." She said before flying off, leaving his mind. He smiled as he watched her disappear, before shaking his head. "I hope it will not come to that, Princess Luna, for even with everything you have observed, you know not of the horrors that I have seen. May your innocence remain intact, should I require your aid." Blitz said before allowing himself to wake up.