AN. sometimes watching the show from the beginning can give someone ideas to continue. I am continuing my Book of Souls theme with this chapter. I do however need 2 more ocs, but ill talk about that at the end of the chapter.

"tell me reaper, why dose Celestia want me dead?" we were at Rarity's place sitting on one of couch's.

"She never really told me why. All she told me was that i was to destroy any village i looked for you in if i didn't find you within 5 days of being there." the blood red unicorn Reaper Mandalore replied to me. "i destroyed one village on Celestia's orders, then decided to head to the town where the survivor i left headed to. He headed here and then died of blood loss. I assumed that you were in this town and started looking for. I found you and then you know what happened after that."

"Yeah, i almost died when we first met."

"well i was sent to kill you." he chuckled. "but if you are in contact with Princess Luna, why aren't you telling her about me?"

"i get the feeling that she has a lot on her plate right now. Don't worry thought, i tell her soon."

"okay. Why are you being so kind to me, i tried to kill you and i held the mare you live with hostage."

"i don't really know. I guess because i took the time to look into your memories."

"Yeah how did you do that Shadow?" Rarity asked.

"Well memories are just a form of dreams, and since Luna taught me everything she knows i was taught how to enter dreams and with a few tweaks of the spell i was able to enter memories. Even Luna can barley believe i managed to do it."

"that's amazing, with your skills you can rival your own sister in a magic duel." rarity commented.

"i don't know about that, but i could hold my own in a magic duel." i replied. "stay here im going to go grab something"

"okay" the both of them said.

I returned with the book i use to contact Luna.

"whats that" rarity asked.

"its a special book Luna gave me, it allows me to contact her, i used more as a way to tell her about the quest she sent me on. I have a lot of memories in here." i opened it to a later page. "a month ago i was sent to learn how to defeat various creatures. Luna has some unorthodox teaching methods. I was sent to an arena on the edge of Equestria, i took up the nickname Painkiller and entered the arena armed with only my katana. Most of the creatures were creatures from the everfree forest. Most of them were easy to defeat except for the last creature."

"what was it?" rarity asked.

"one of the hardest creature i have battled with. An Ursa Major."

"are you sure it wasn't a Minor?" Rarity questioned.

"it was a major alright. I managed to defeat it and i got this scar on my left eye." i showed them my left eye close and on it was 3 scars from an Ursa major claw.

"and that's all of the damage you took?" Reaper asked.

"surprisingly, yes."

"well, don't tell snips or snail this. They will want to see it for themselves and lure one here to Ponyvile just like they did with Trixe."

"they lured an Ursa major here to ponyvile?"

"a minor. Thankfully twilight managed to put it to sleep."

"that's is reason she is better at magic then me. I use magic in every way possible but don't really specialize in a certain style. It makes me unpredictable and vulnerable at the same time. Where as twilight uses her magic more for defensive uses. It makes her harder to defeat yet easy to predict."

"so what you're saying is that if you and your sister had a duel it would lead to a tie?"

reaper questioned.

"im saying that if the elements of harmony and i teamed up we will become unstoppable, with my offence and defence balance, my sister defence based magic, each of the element holder own style of combat and the elements of harmony themselves would make us a force to be reckoned with."

"well im off to bed, Reaper do you have a place to stay?"rarity said. While yawning.

"i have a room at the hotel."

"okay then, have a good night"

"you to," reaper replied.

"it is getting late, you should head off. Ill meet you around noon tomorrow at the castle."

Reaper nodded and left.

The next morning i woke up at 6 am and started my morning routine. At 8:10 i started working on another song i am calling Painkiller, after my arena name. 20 minutes after i got the guitar line done i heard a knock at my door.

"come in"

the door opened to reveal rarity.

"good morning shadow" rarity said. "you said you would let me play the bass you got."

"well sure." i used my magic to grab the bass and levitated it towards rarity. She held it similar to how i was holding my guitar, and for the next 30 minutes we worked on getting a bass line for the song i was working on earlier. We avoided talking about anything that happened yesterday. Talking about yesterday as unavoidable.

"so, i guess spike is going to hate me." i said after silence

"that's what i was thinking." rarity replied.

"i take it your going to talk to him about it?"

"eventually, i think im going to let him calm down before i talk to him about it."

we went silent after that.

"well go on, kiss" i voice shouted from the door way.

We both looked and saw Rarity's sister, Sweetie Bell.

"were you spying on us?"

"sort of, ill go now." she said as she left.

"got any plans today?" i asked rarity when her sister left.

"Fluttershy needs some help, wanna come?"

"sure, i don't see why not."

Before rarity got up a kissed her on the cheek. Rarity blushed and headed off to get breakfast.

"called it" i heard a voice. I just chuckled.

We were at Fluttershy's at 9:30. when we got there she was outside feeding her animals.

"Fluttershy darling, you wanted some help?"

"huh, oh yeas, thank you for coming Rarity. I see you brought shadow."

"yeah, i have nothing to do until noon. So i decided to come help."

"oh don't worry, even i got something else at noon."

"oh. Whats that?" rarity asked.

"i have a lunch date."

both me and rarity were shocked

"with who?" we both asked.

"with me" a brown Pegasus with a green mane said.

"this is Forest, we met a few days ago."

"you two must be Rarity and Shadow Seeker. Fluttershy told me about you two."

"i never would have thought that Fluttershy would get a date." rarity said.

"even im surprised" Fluttershy said.

We spent the time until 11 helping the animals.

"well i think that's all of the animals." forest said.

Just after he said that a little black wolf ran out of the forest being chased some timberwofls. Knowing that timberwolfs don't hunt with other wolves i headed towards the wolves. I used my magic to teleport behind the black wolf and kicked the leading timberwolf. The wolf shattered. I used my magic to attack the other ones. When they put themselves back together they ran back to the forest. The black wolf was with Fluttershy. She was making sure that he was uninjured.

"is the little one OK?" i asked Fluttershy.

"yes he OK." she replied. "one thing thought, hes to young to go back to the forest. And i don't have any room or more animals."

"well, i could take him as a pet." upon me saying this the wolf made his way to me.

"it seems he likes you." forest said.

"you don't mind having another pet in your house do you rarity?" i asked the white unicorn.

"i would love to have another pet in the house, hopefully opal will be kind" she replied.

"well that settles it, i just have to think of a name for him." i said.

"im sure you'll think of something" Fluttershy said.

After that e said our goodbyes and headed to the castle.

AN, okay, im open to names for the wolf, if i don't find any i like his name will be Feng, if you have any suggestions tell me. On to the ocs. I have one open slot and he or she has to take the water element slot. While i was writing this i got a oc, again from bluecatcinema. If you want to be in this story you don't have much time left. The oc Forest comes from the story 'Flutterheart'. I will be putting my other story, Psychotic Reaper, on hold for a while and focus on this one. But i do need a prophesy, pm me if you want to write, if i cant find any i will probably use lyrics from Avenged Sevenfold's 'Hail to the King'. Also, either pm me or put in the reviews any bands you would want to be mentioned in this story, so far ive put, Imagine Dragons, Led Zeppelin, Device and Judas Priest. As you can see i prefer heavy metal music. I do want feedback as well so feel free to criticize any of my story's. So to recap, feel free to criticize, send in ocs, ask to get bands referenced in the story, and im putting my other story on hold. See you all soon.