Sentire yawns as she stumbles into her office space and hangs onto the loose standing office walls surrounding her table. "So…bored…need…coffee," she says out loud as she sits down and lets her head fall onto the keyboard. "Ouch."
"Quit whining," a passing mare in office clothes says walking by as she holds a coffee cup in her hands.
"Can't. I need…coffee," Sentire says dramatically as she brings her head back up.
"She did say quit whining," a stallion says peeking over her wall.
Sentire gives him a deadpan glare. "You're not involved."
The stallion shrugs as he sits back down. "Your loss on coffee."
Sentire groans while letting her head fall on the keyboard again and makes errors appear on the screen now.
"Hey. You break it, you buy it," the mare says frowning.
Sentire just waves her off.
"And clean that stamp. Everyone can see it," the mare says walking off.
Sentire just stayed frowning as she looks at her hand. "It's a lifetime membership with that thing. Ah, fuck it. I'm going to get some coffee," she says getting up and scratches a little under her skirt as she walks toward the break area. "Please, wake me up," she begs to the coffee pot as she picks it up.
Thunder clashes outside and makes her look out the window to see some dark storm clouds start to roll in. "Wow. Didn't know we were going to have rain," a passing stallion says as most look outside for a bit before going back to work.
"Huh? The weather didn't say anything about clouds," one says checking the schedule.
"Weather is always wrong," another worker says still doing the paperwork on the computer.
Sentire raises an eyebrow as she pours her coffee. "Weird," she says to herself starting to drink before a thunk hits the window. "Huh?" Sentire voices as everyone looks to the window to see a raven stuck against it before peeling and falling down. "Mega weird."
"Even the weather ponies follow the schedule," the worker says before they all heard a scream.
"The fuck?" the mare from before as she peeks her head out from the main office. "Did someone electrocute themselves?"
Sentire blinks as they strain to hear anything. Sentire shrugs to herself and starts to drink again before another scream tore up the stairs and makes her drop the cup in shock. "The heck?!" Sentire yells in frustration as most of the workers rush toward the stairs and try to look inside it. "Okay, what is going on?"
"Hey! What's going on?!" a stallion yells down the stairs.
"Well?" the mare asks walking up to the crowd.
The stallion peers closer and strains his ear to listen closer. "Wait…what is that?" he asks leaning his head closer.
Sentire peeks around them from behind the crowd. "Can you…"
"AH!" the stallion suddenly yells as he was grabbed by his head by something black and carried up through the gaps in the stairs as everyone quickly moved back.
"What the…?!" somepony starts before large dark ravens fly up from the stairs and fly into the office as they swarm everyone.
Sentire screams as she covers her head with her arms and runs away from the area and runs off; leaving a whole group behind as they scramble to run and get away from the ravens who were able to pick somepony up and throw them through the window with a crash as the rest peck everyone.
Sentire pants as she kept running and flails her arms around to shake the ravens off as she rushes toward the elevators. Behind her, everypony tries to get the ravens off of them as they run where she is going; pushing furniture and equipment aside to get them out of the way.
Sentire cries out as a raven pecks at her arms and smacks it away through a glass window into the meeting room as she reaches the elevator and starts to press the buttons frantically. "Come on you stupid thing. Work!" Sentire yells and feels a peck on her back. Sentire quickly spins around and smacks another raven as she tries to wave the other ravens away.
A ding sounded behind her and Sentire quickly rushes in and starts to press the ground floor button quickly. "Sentire!" she hears and looks to see the rest of the office running towards her before the door starts to close.
"Sorry," Sentire says with an apologetic look on her face as the door closes and she hears multiple bangs as the elevator starts to move. "Solaris…what's going on?"
Sentire pants carefully as she watches the numbers go down and hears so many screams passing by the door. "No one's going to the elevators?" Sentire asks herself before the elevator dings and sees it stopped on the ground floor.
Quickly hiding herself on the side of the doors as they open and sees that most of the lobby was empty with furniture was thrown everywhere as screams filled the air from outside. Sentire peeks her head out the elevator and looks around to just see papers and folders all over the ground with upturned furniture to signal that there were some ponies here. Sentire gulps afraid and rushes out to the front entrance before screaming out as a large mangled creature that seems like a cross between a manticore and a griffon barrels past her and sends her down.
"What…?" Sentire starts to ask before hearing the ground crunch and looks to see the creature stop and look at her and she looks at herself at her large asset body. "You have to be kidding," she says frowning before quickly getting up and running off into the opposite direction as many creatures and monsters attacked the citizens around her and either sends them down to bite down on them or eat them whole. The large creature chasing after her and sending everything flying away from its path.
Sentire quickly turns a corner as she kept running and looks behind her to not see it but can hear the ground behind crushed and some carriages flying off to the side. Looking ahead, she sees an alley and quickly rushes into it and hides behind a dumpster by pressing her back against it. The monster rushes past in the street as if still chasing her and she sighs in relief. Sentire starts to catch her breath back before hearing some crunch and squelching. Looking up slowly, she spots a large shadowy dog eating away at a pony's body.
Sentire quickly gasps and catches the dog's attention as it slowly turns to her with a large piece of flesh in its jaws. Sentire gasps heavily as she tries to crawl away as the dog drops the piece of flesh. Only for the dog to bark and pounce on her, sending her to the ground. Sentire quickly gains shaky breaths as the dog growls above her as its jaws dripping with blood. The dog barks loudly and opens its jaws and snaps down onto her neck. Sentire stops shocked as her eyes became wide-eyed before hearing tearing and painful pulling. Watching through bloody eyes as the dog pulls its head back and tears off her throat.
Sentire gasps with painful and shallow breaths. The dog gulps down her flesh and clamps down onto one of her large breasts and pulls hard before tearing it off. Sentire's whole body clenches with pain as she could only watch as the dog kept eating her apart and chews on some of her limbs, breaking the bones and tearing them off soon after. Sentire gasps one last time as her open throat caught its last breath and she starts to lose consciousness. The dog seemingly grinning at her as it opens its jaws wide at her and clamps down onto her throat and twists its head. A loud cracking sound reaching Sentire's ears as her head was twisted to the side slightly.
'No…' Sentire thinks painfully as the dog brings its head up and seems to smirk at her from her lower view before it stops and slowly looks up at the sky as Sentire finally loses her sight and falls into the darkness.
"How long you gonna lay there?" a male voice calls.
Sentire painfully groans as she struggles to get her eyes open. The voice starting to wake her.
"First one I see in so long and doesn't even respond," the voice says sighing.
Sentire groans as she is able to move her hands now and slides them to herself before slowly forcing herself to push herself up. The heavy strain and pain from her muscles crying out to tell her to stop. 'Help…? But…I was…eaten…' Sentire thinks remembering the grinning dog eating her alive and now has her limbs back. The pain and shock running through her from the phantom pain. 'How…?'
"Welcome to the world of the dead or at least one of them. I know. I died, but have never seen another here with me in this place," the male voice above her says.
Sentire grits her teeth and pushes hard and gets herself into a kneeling position as her body painfully screams in pain. "Wha…what happened?"
"Didn't you hear? I said welcome to the land of the…are mares really that well endowed as the years go on?" the voice asks now standing in front of her as Sentire now sees some pony legs and slowly looks up to see a light blue stallion wearing a medieval armor and cloak.
Sentire blinks as she feels her legs crying out in painless and struggles to stand; stumbling a few times before regaining her footing. "Stallions always stare…yes. This is my natural body," Sentire says crossing her arms as the stallion looks over the pink mare with a light blue mane with a darker tone surrounding the edges of it as his eyes were mostly drawn to her large breasts and flank that still fits her figure well enough to look natural.
"Well, sorry. Haven't seen another liv…you aren't living so I can't say that. Ah. I haven't seen another pony in…I don't know. I can't tell how much time has passed," he says looking at the mountainous like a wasteland in the distance.
Sentire follows his stare and doesn't see any other life beyond where they are. In fact, no plant life and just cracked dry desert hilly ground that blew in the sandy wind. "I…do you know how you died?"
"Yeah. Blood loss after killing a ton of enemy soldiers and an emperor," he says.
"Lucky. I got eaten alive by a big bad wolf," Sentire says frowning and huffs looking away. "After being chased by a manticore monster thing…and ravens."
"Nothing I haven't seen before," the pony says.
"I just watched my coworkers get pecked and eaten by crows and my kind gets killed and eaten alive on the streets. And you say you saw this before?" Sentire asks madly frowning at him.
"I died in a world of monsters. The soldiers were just a side thing," he says shrugging.
"And what a world that is," a deep voice says as Sentire freezes up as the dog that ate her now walks between them suddenly without either one of them knowing. "Or rather was."
"First one, then two. I'm guessing you died too?" the male asks.
"Oh please. If I died, neither of you would be here. She knows. I ate that sexy body of hers. Too bad I was hungry otherwise I would have rutted her to death instead," the dog says turning to them and grinning toward Sentire who quickly backpedals away.
"And what about me? We have never met," the male says catching the dog's attention as it looked to be thinking or analyzing him.
"Hmm…ah. Yes. Now I remember you. The idiot who faced an entire castle of soldiers on his own…that was stupid," the dog says shaking its head.
"And yet I still won. I accomplished my goal and avenged my team," the male says.
"Yippee for you. You want a bone?" the dog asks sarcastically as it rolls its eyes.
"No…but I would like something to eat even if raw as I don't know how long it has been," the male says pulling out a sickle from seemingly nowhere; causing the dog to backpedal a bit.
The dog growls heavily now as it glares at him. "Mortals. You are here for a reason. I would advise you behave for it."
"Like I give a damn. I bow to no one," the male says before rushing forward and slashes with the sickle; making the dog dodge barely avoiding being cut in half but received bad gashes on its front paws.
Sentire watches in shock and some hope that this stallion can kill the dog that killed her. However, she shivers as a cold chill went up her spine and a breath of cold air came out of her. "Mortals," she hears behind her and gulps nervously as she slowly turns and sees a heavily cloaked being standing behind her as it seems to stare at the stallion and the dog still fighting. "Doesn't want to wait. Never learned patience," it said as Sentire couldn't see anybody part of it. Only the old and tattered cloak was all she could see as the dog calls out in pain, losing a leg.
The dog growls heavily towards the stallion before yipping as the cloaked figure grabbed the leg partly into its cloak. "Enough mortal. This sort of violence is not needed here. And I would rather you do not harm your benefactor," the cloaked figure says in a raspy voice.
"You say, benefactor. I say meal," the stallion says.
"You'll have your meal soon enough. Now listen or would you rather be eaten like this mare here?" the figure asks as it seems to glide across the cracked dirt and not leave any marks.
"Look around. What do I have to lose, my life?" the male asks sarcastically.
"I told you this one wouldn't be disturbed by that," a feminine voice says as a second cloaked figure appears.
"It was worth a try," the first male sounding figure says tossing the leg to the dog; having it swallow the leg and regrow the limb and test it by stepping on it.
"We need to get them moving. It's been too long," the feminine cloaked figure says turning to the first.
"Quite, so we can…" the first starts.
"What is going on?!" Sentire demands as the dog steps up between the two figure as the stallion step up beside her.
"You both are banished from death," the three says together.
"Really? That's the whole reason I have been here for this long? I am held back for what?" the stallion demands.
"Simply, handle the trouble back in the mortal realms," the first cloaked figure explains.
"You will be helped by your friend here. Or rather eater," the female figure says as the dog grins toward Sentire who frowns back; taking a small step back.
"It would be simple. You are to end this destruction. Find who or what caused it all and end it. A straightforward job and you will be rewarded well," the male figure explains.
"And what happened is the big question for me," Sentire says frowning to him and kicks sand toward the dog and makes it move back.
"Simple. Monsters and spirits were released into the mortal world when it shouldn't have. Some idiot probably unlocked the gate," the female figure says giving a shrugging motion.
"You said rewarded well," the stallion says frowning to them.
"Yes. Even your life back," the male figure reiterates.
"We dictating terms?" the stallion asks.
"It is at your discretion. Handle the matter the way you want," the female figure says.
"I see. What do I get out of it?" the stallion asks.
"Your life back on the world. Isn't that what all mortals want?" the female says with a bit of mirth.
"And when I die, I wind up back here?" the stallion asks suspiciously.
"No. You move on. Where all other mortals go," the male explains.
"Not a good enough offer. Feeling like passing," the stallion says.
"What do you want then?" the female asks almost annoyed.
"Well, first, I want all my weapons and equipment when I was alive," the stallion says.
"That can be arranged in some way," the male says.
"Now, after I die, I don't want to come back here. I want to spend all of eternity in paradise with all my comrades," the stallion says.
"That's the thing we promised already," the female says and they can feel her rolling her eyes.
"No. You promised where all mortals go. That can be good or bad from a point of view. I want a guaranteed paradise for me and my comrades," the stallion states.
"He's good at reading contracts," the male states and the female nods along.
"Agreed to or not?" the stallion asks.
"Done," both of them says immediately.
"And to hire me, you have to bring back my partner I had in life," the stallion says.
"Oh. The cute one? That's simple…but she isn't here or was chosen so you may have to find her once you are back," the female says almost happily.
"As long as she is alive I will find her. Also, all of her equipment and magical artifacts have to be with her," the stallion adds.
"Arranged," the male says simply.
"And to take the stick out of your ass," the stallion says pointing to the male one making the female laugh.
"Now this dead one has a sense of humor. I must commend him," the female one says.
"I will kill you later," the male says to the female.
The female keeps giggling at his expense. "Funny hubby? Isn't he?" she asks looking to Sentire who could only nod slowly as she leans back from how the female was leaning forward too much.
"Anything else?" the male asks sounding like through gritted teeth.
"Can I eat the dog?" the stallion asks.
"No," all three of them says firmly.
"You don't get a say in this," the stallion says pointing to the dog.
"My body," the dog retorts.
"Can we move on?" Sentire asks crossing her arms frowning.
"Oh yes. Forgot about you," the female says as they look to her.
"You have no idea how to fight. You got eaten on the first fight," the male says as the dog licks its lips at Sentire who frowns at the action.
"It was just a…" Sentire starts.
"Fluke. You were never intended to be banished. However…we all had to intervene," the male explains.
"So…without the permission of the other ruler gods and watchers for the souls, we present you with this," the female says clapping her cloaked sleeves together; leading to Sentire getting bonked on the head by a bony staff that clatters to the ground as a scythe blade is attached on the end.
"Ow," Sentire groans getting up and grabbing and picking up the scythe and sees it grimmer like with how much she was getting uneasy from it. "Wait…are you two…?" Sentire asks looking up at them.
"Death," the two said together.
"Keep it clean. That's my only one," the female says.
"Wait. You want me to work with someone who can't even hold a sword, right?" the stallion asks.
"You want me to work with this without training?" Sentire asks as well as she holds up the scythe and the stallion ducks from the swinging blade.
"Yes," they both say to them.
"You grab a training weapon. We are going to be here till you don't instantly get killed," the stallion instructs.
"Oh, we can supply that," the male says and a wooden scythe drops and bonks Sentire on the head, sending her down.
"Ow," Sentire groans.
"This is going to take a while," the stallion says.