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Three months have passed since the storm, and Solar waking up.
During those three months, he started up his career as a DJ again, and became mildly popular in Ponyville and the surrounding area. He was called “DJ-D4RK57D3”, (DarkSide). One of the more known genre's being the now popular Dubstep. He is still living in Fluttershy’s spare room, paying rent and helping out with the day to day chores.
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He opened his eyes slowly, the black swirly darkness around him like it had been for the last couple of dreams. It was extremely close, barely brushing his nose, leaving a very cold feeling behind. He got up slowly, and was frozen, like the first dream he had oh so long ago. Lime green eyes with the slits appeared in front of him. And it smiled, reveals multiple rows or extremely sharp teeth. "It's time." It mouthed, as the darkness around him whispered it into his head. It rushed forward to where he could feel... something on his own nose, its eyes right in front of him. It opened it's jaws well beyond that of a normal pony, and bit into him.

The pain was instant, feeling like his body was on fire.he still couldn't move at all, save for breathing. It bit again and again, in multiple places, the inferno of pain ripping through his body.
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He awoke in a cold sweat... "Its time.." whispered by the darkness. It biteing him... He FELT it bite into him, tearing flesh and muscle. He got up from the small bed, and slowly flapped his way downstairs, barely hovering a foot above the ground. The animals in the main room were chatty as usual. He made his way into the kitchen and got a glass of water, and chugged half of it down. One hell of a party last night Pinky... You really are a party pony, he thought, as he toasted to her, before finishing the rest.

His head having a powerful pain in it from the night before, he could only remember blurs of lights, loud music by himself, with a surprise appearance of DJ-P0n3. And drinking, can't forget the drinking... Lots and lots of drinking.. To much drinking...He yawned loudly, causing some of the critters in the room to pause for a moment then continue chattering. He made his way back upstairs, but halfway up he stopped after a soft hum made its way to his ears. He looked outside the nearby window, and saw Fluttershy, humming softly as she watered the plants and fed the outside animals. With the help of Rainbow Das- Wait... Why is Rainbow here? She never wants to help with the chores........Ever. He watched them for a moment, and noticed Rainbow looking at Fluttershy for a large portion of the time. Before the sun getting to bright for his eyes, and he made his way back to his bed.

He walked by a mirror, and something flashed out of the corner of his eye. He stopped. He took a step back, and looked into the full body mirror. Nothing was out of place, everything was fine except his coat was extremely ruffled.. and stained with what looks like some of Pinkie's... ‘fruit’ punch. He blinked, and everything changed. Everything in the mirror was pitch black, even where his white coat was. His eyes were lime green with the slits, like in his dream. He blinked again, thinking it was the party from the night before screwing with his brain.

It was still black, nothing had changed. Then, the mirror itself had changed. The darkness in the mirror reach out to him, grabbing at the ground, pulling itself to him. Tendrils flowed out of the mirror, grappling his hooves. More and more came out, multiple arms of darkness reaching out, crawling across the floor, the ceiling, even the air itself. Solar was gripped in fear, he couldn't move. The darkness advanced on him, slowly painstakingly reaching out more, the eyes in the mirror showed joy, or what Solar thought was happiness of some sort.

As the darkness engulfed him, he let out a loud yell of pain. It touched his coat and his skin, feeling like he was on fire, in lava, in the center of Celestia's sun itself. Then it didn’t hurt, and he heard “You think you can escape me?.” and the pain started back. He let out a scream he never thought he could make as he was engulfed in the darkness, the fire of its touch all over him.

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Beep...Beep...Beep... He heard the soft beeping gradually. He could feel his eyes open slowly, but he wasn’t moving them. He looked up at the ceiling, it was white... this is not the tree, where am I!?!? Solar thought wildly, trying to move his eyes around to see where he was, but to no avail. His body slowly moved, bringing his head up. Solar felt that he wasn’t in control. This is wrong.. horribly wrong, he kept saying to himself. His(?) eyes moved around, and everything was covered in a dark and shadowy haze, like everything was leaking darkness.

His body got up the rest of the way slowly, yanking off cords as it moved. It left the bed and looked around. Solar's eyes moved on their own. Somepony or something was controlling him, his every movement, down to his breathing.

His body walked by a mirror on the wall slowly, and in his peripheral vision Solar saw pitch black fur with lime green eyes. If he could, he would've yelled out in surprise. All he felt was cold, like a soft breeze always blowing on his coat, as his body slowly walked over to a large window, and opened it wide as it could go. What ever was in control, made him smile widely.

“It’s been far to long...” He.. no IT said, with Solar’s voice.

A sudden pain worse then that of any headache or hangover penetrated his mind, his brain, hismemories. And the whispers from his dreams entered his thoughts. he could hear it whispering to itself as it began to look through his memories and thoughts since birth. It shuffled through the memories with practiced efficiency and detail, that only came with experience. Memory after memory, thought after thought rushing through Solar’s head faster then he can recollect or think about the previous one. He felt IT judging him silently more and more as more thoughts and memories pass.

Every action, reaction, and movement he made in each memory was under the scrutiny of IT. The closer his memories got to current time, the more IT slowed down. Some painstakingly slow, and others faster. It finally hit the present and stopped, calculating Solar and what to do next.

What are you...? Solar thought. It ripped that thought out of his head, and examined it, tearing it and breaking it down. Then he heard the whisper form his dreams again, coming out of his own mouth

“WHO is what you should be asking.”

Then who are you?

“I, have many names now... the most common of this time is ‘Grim Reaper’. but nonetheless. I, am Death. The Ultimate Balance.”

Get out.

“Hmm?”

Get. Out.

“I don’t think you are in any position to order me around, puppet.” The voice got harsher, colder.

I am no one’s puppet.

“Then do tell why I can make you hit yourself, move you around while you can just sit and watch me do what I want? Oh and, if your not a puppet, then how come I can do this?”

Death lifted up Solars’ hoof, and smashed the heart sensor, sending it flying with a horribly loud crash against the far wall. If anypony was asleep... They’ll be awake now. Death forced Solar to dive out of the window, unfolding his wings and taking flight. He, like Rainbow Dash, had a trail. only his was like black ink in water. Living. Moving. Darkness.
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From what Solar saw, he was heading to the Everfree Forrest, to the (what he had heard from the stories of the six mares) was the Old Castle. Solar fought against the intruder with all his might, and faltered Its landing, almost breaking Solar’s leg. But still, thats something huh? Solar thought, fighting back with more vigor

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He is becoming more of a headache then I thought he would be... Death thought, as he used Solar’s hooves to rub his temples slowly. Stubborn.. And he won’t stop fighting... I admire that last part.

“ ‘Balance’.” Death heard in his mind. His powers work to ways, he can hear them, and they can hear him.

“Yes young one? Finally giving up now?” He responded to Solar.

“Nope.”

“Aww... You disappoint me... I thought you would be smarter then this.”

“Maybe we can strike a deal?”

“A deal? I do enjoy deals... I’m listening.”

“I have control of my body for the entire day... and you have it for the night.”

“Tempting... but lets alter it just a bit. You have control unless I want to be in control.. Basically your always in control unless I want to have some fun... I warn you, however, it may be a long time between you getting control back.”

Intresting... the only one wanting to make a deal with him in the last couple centuries was War...

“Deal.”

“One more thing young one, when I’m in control, you can’t fight back. You cannot go against my wishes. You must do as your told at all times.”

“Deal.”

“So quick to accept... Why?” Death was genuinely confused

“Beats having to watch you do what you want...”

“True.” Death said, letting a blood chilling laugh escape his lips into the frigid night air.

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The dark haze that clouded his eyesight finally disappeared, and he felt that he could only describe as if his entire body had 'gone to sleep' and the thousands on 'pin-pricks' that came with it. And Solar had control. All was normal... If you call it normal.

“I saw him fly this way!” said the familiar somewhat raspy voice of Rainbow Dash

And lo and behold, ran in six ponies. (really four ran in, two were flying, herp derp)

“We heard the crash in the hospital room, and Rainbow said she saw you leap out the window and fly here... Is something wrong?” Twilight explained fastly, short of breath from the running.

“Y- No, I’m fine... just a different place to wake up in you know?” Solar thought he was yelling because for the past half hour he could only use his thoughts.

So quick to lie to your comrades?
Chill Death, I’ll tell them later... and if not they’ll find out. Twilight’s a smart one.

Is that so... Death’s voice trailed off, deep in thought.

“Are you sure? You look sick?” Twilight said after she caught her breath.

“I’ll tell you later... okay?”

“Okay...” Twilight said, not to certain that he ever was.

Twilight stepped back to the group, who each had different expressions on their faces. Fluttershy with concern, Applejack obviously thinking about the ‘I’m fine’ lie, Rarity was looking at him with... something along the lines of interest and curiosity... What was going on..? Solar wasn't quite sure. Twilight was confused, over what might have happened. Rainbow was looking at him with something in her eyes close to suspicion, then looked at Fluttershy, and her look changed to something... Softer? Pinkie was the only one bouncing around in circles, saying “Get well party!!! Woooo!!! Everypony to my placee!!!” and she bounced away humming happily, obviously cured of whatever hangover she had gotten the previous night... IF she had gotten one... Solar never seen a pony drink like that without ending up in a coma of some sort.

You know you can ask me anything you want about the past or the future, right? I’m not a very good liar, Death whispered into Solar's mind.

All the more reason not to trust you. How can I trust you? How can I know your not lying right now, or won’t make me regret it?

Considering the fact we’re both in here until either I take over your mind, or until you die, there’s no reason to lie to you. Let alone that I know every pony who is, was, or ever will be.

Sorry mate, but I’m still trying to cope with the fact DEATH is inside my head.

Death was silent at the remark, but Solar could tell he was laughing on the inside... If that was even possible.

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