The rain crashed down throughout the town, which grew unbelievably silent and dark. For miles around the center of town, the only sounds that could be heard were the drops of rain, the cries of distant fillies, the distant thunder, and the cries of Twilight Sparkle's friends, as they all stood over her corpse, with Spike crying the hardest.

Inside the center of town, a fountain that once stood up high was crumbled down, and broken into a large pile of stone and water. The center was surrounded by a large red bubble that contained a magic spell that kept anything from crossing it. Standing at one end of it was the Figment that attacked Twilight and Applejack, who's expression showed sheer terror at the sight of the closest figure from the bubble; a tall bipedal creature that resembled a human, but wore a cloak over it's head, and had pale skin. This figure was formerly a human that stood halfway the height that this creature stood, and was named Justin.

Justin looked at the Figment, and said in an extremely dark, spine-chilling, and demonic voice, "You are going to regret ever coming into existence..." Then, in the blink of an eye, he materialized into a black smoke. The black smoke moved towards the bubble, but instead of getting knocked back, it merely went through the bubble, and hovered one meter inside it, while the Figment took a step back. Then the smoke rematerialized into Justin's "Grim Reaper" type of form, while his hands clutched two sharp-looking blades, one in each hand that appeared to have a blade on both ends, and going through the front sides of his knuckles. Finally, once he started walking towards the Figment, he continued his former statement. "... I will personally see to it that you do!"

Quickly, the Figment's shadow hovered over himself, and soon he was engulfed by it, as it lowered to the ground. Before it could disappear, however, Justin teleported right in front of it, and reached his right hand inside the shadow, and pulled the Figment out by the hair, before slamming him into the ground behind him, leaving a crater where the impact was made, and causing blood to completely cover the Figment's face.

The Figment then yelped in pain, as he was viciously thrown into the bubble, only to get deflected back towards Justin, where he was then caught by the legs, and slammed head-first into the rubble where the well used to stand. Then he quickly jumped back up, and wiped the blood from his face, which was completely red and rock-like, with both of his eyes glowing like lava. His whole face, however, was cracked to the point where the lava-like colors covered a large portion of his cheeks and lips.

"W-WHERE did you get this kind of power?! Y-you... STAY BACK!" He quickly drew the sword that he threatened Applejack with formerly, and lunged towards Justin, only for his attack to be caught by Justin's swords in an "X" pattern.

Then, Justin smiled and shook his head. "Big mistake." That was the last sentence the Figment heard, before he found one of the blades pierce inside his stomach.

First, he spat a hint of blood, which was colored like lava. The blood landed on the ground, and vanished into thin air. Then, Justin pulled the sword from the Figment's stomach in a fluid motion, before slicing both blades in the same area, causing him to stand perfectly still. Finally, Justin's swords disappeared, before he grabbed both arms, and lifted the Figment's torso in the air, while the legs stood still. Then, he rotated his torso upside-down, and jammed his head into the insides of his legs, causing his arms to flail around, trying to escape. Unfortunate for him, though, Justin already had his legs caught in a magic grip, so there was no escape.

Then once the Figment's arms fell limply, Justin lifted his upper torso, and placed it back onto his legs, before his swords appeared again. With hatred in his eyes, Justin started slicing mercilessly at the Figment's corpse, before dispelling his swords, and snapping his right finger. With the magic grip dispelled, the Figment's corpse fell into a pile of orange-coated rocks.

Slowly, Justin walked towards the orange goo, and lifted his right hand over it, causing the entire pile to shift into a single orb of orange light, which hovered over Justin's right hand. Then, he crushed the orange orb in his right hand, causing the aura to flow around his body, before being absorbed completely, leaving nothing behind.

Finally, he turned around, and realized that the red bubble was no longer around him. At that time, however, he was the least bit concerned, for his attention was on something else.

From the distance, a group of three Alicorns flew towards the town, each of which holding worried faces. When they landed, Celestia was the first to react... and it was far from cheerful.

In her Canterlot Voice, Princess Celestia shouted, "TWILIGHT!" Her outburst caused the five mares to back away from their friend, while Spike remained crying on top of his sister's hooves.

Celestia tried pulling him off of her, only for him to yell, "NO! I WILL NOT LEAVE YOU, TWILIGHT! I WILL NOT-" He was silenced by the feeling of Celestia's left wing wrapping around his shoulders, before he buried his head in her chest, and cried even more. "P-PLEASE, PRINCESS! Y-YOU HAVE... YOU HAVE TO... Y-YOU H..." He stuttered, before the sound of footsteps could be heard from the distance.

Turning around, the entire group quickly tried to block Justin's path, the Alicorns because they didn't recognize him, and the mares because they feared that Justin would only make things worse, since they didn't think he was still in control.

After giving a small sigh, Justin moved his arms outwards, in a "swimming" motion, which caused the entire group to slowly fly away from him, while he slowly walked towards Twilight's body.

"LEAVE HER ALONE, YOU... YOU MONSTER!" Celestia screamed, only for Justin to continue walking, completely ignoring her command. Luna glared at the "monster", and tried to escape from his power, only to find that it was far too powerful for her to handle.

When he was within range, Justin lowered himself to the ground level, and turned Twilight's face towards himself. Then, with his right hand in the air, his eyes started to glow a bright blue, followed by his right hand.

Slowly, a gust of blue mist started to fly towards his right hand, until a purple orb appeared from within the mist, and hovered over his right hand. Then, he opened Twilight's lips and, with his magic, lowered the purple orb into her mouth. The last step he took caused all eyes to widen, though. Lowering his face to hers, he pressed his lips over her opened mouth, and exhaled a gust of air into her lungs, which caused her whole body to glow purple. Then, he stood from the ground, and walked away from her, before dispelling his grip from the others.

"W-WHAT THE... YOU HAVE A SICK MIND, JUSTIN!" Rainbow Dash shouted, before hovering in front of him. "Y-YOU JUST KISSED OUR DEAD FRIEND! WHAT KIND OF A SICK CREATURE EVEN DOES THAT KIND OF-" Before she could continue yelling, Twilight started coughing loudly behind Justin, catching Rainbow Dash off guard, before she turned towards Twilight.

At once, all eyes were staring at the formerly dead Twilight Sparkle, who weakly rose from the ground, and continued coughing. "W-what... what happened?!" She asked, before looking around.

The next thing she knew, she was caught in the center of a group hug, while all of her friends shouted her name.

"T-TWILIGHT! YOU'RE OKAY!" Rainbow Dash yelled, before nearly squeezing the life back out of Twilight.

Out of confusion, Twilight asked, "W-wait... did I just..." Then, her eyes widened. "Then how did I..."

In his demon-like voice, Justin began to speak while his back was still turned. "You died before I could save you... so I did what was necessary, and brought you back."

While staring wide-eyed at him, Celestia asked, "Wait... y-you're JUSTIN?!" Slowly, Justin nodded, before she lowered her head. "I'm... I'm most terribly sorry for calling you-"

Justin quickly silenced her with his right hand, and replied, "It's fine, Princess... I know I am." She opened her mouth to disagree, but before she could, he continued speaking. "At least I'm a GOOD monster, though, right?"

Solaris smiled, and nodded his head. "At least you're still in control, Justin... but still, I don't recall ever teaching you that spell! How did you perform a Healing Spell on her, without being taught?"

Justin shook his head, and replied, "I didn't... that was a different spell, altogether." Solaris's eyes widened. "In fact, it's a spell that has been long forgotten, since the beginning of time. Only one race was ever able to cast it long ago... and it was, according to my sources, the first Magic Spell to come into existence."

Solaris's jaw dropped. "Y-you mean to tell me... you just cast the... Breath of Life Spell?!" Justin nodded his head, which caused an audible gasp to come from the crowd. "B-but... why wasn't it ever able to be learned by anyone else, but the Nymphari and you, though?"

"Because," Justin began, now looking towards the crowd, "it's Blood Magic." Another gasp came from the crowd.

Then, Justin began walking towards the fields again, and sighed. "And since I'm surely not welcome here anymore, due to committing an act of Murder, I'll go on ahead and walk to Canterlot to be imprisoned, or banished."

"NO!" The entire town practically yelled, which caused him to stop in his tracks, and turn back towards the town.

Mayor Mare quickly trotted in front of the group of townsponies, and with a sad expression on her face, looked down, while brushing her hooves across the dirt nervously. "W-what we're trying to say is... we're sorry for the way we treated you... we were given bad advice from that... thing that you disposed of, since he was disguised as a Canterlot Scout. We had no idea that it was him who was the monster!" She was supported with the town giving an audible "Mm-Hmm", and nods of approval, before the ground shook by the hooves applauding him.

He turned to look at Twilight, and smiled. "So... you all feel comfortable with a creature like ME living here?" He asked, before walking towards his friends.

"Are you kidding?!" Pinkie Pie asked, before her mane poofed up again. "Why, with the town finally accepting you into society, I can throw you your 'WELCOME TO PONYVILLE' PARTY!" She then started bouncing around joyfully, while Justin scratched the back of his neck nervously.

Then, Spike slowly walked towards him, and motioned for him to get closer. When Justin did as he was requested, he was caught by surprise as Spike wrapped his arms around his chest, and cried in it. "Y-you saved Twilight, Justin! Y-you're... you're the BEST friend I could ever have!" Justin's eyebrows lowered, as he looked between both, Spike and Twilight, who smiled weakly, before slowly trotting towards the two. Then, when she was within reach, she also wrapped her hooves around him, while also embracing Spike.

"T-thank you, Justin... you saved us all from that Figment... I don't know how we could ever repay you!"

Finally, a small black tear fell from Justin's pitch-black eyes, before his arms wrapped around the two who had him caught in a hug. This, of course, received an audible "Aww" from many of the town's inhabitants.

When the hug ended, Justin stood back up, and smiled, before backing up slowly. "Thank you... ALL of you..." Then, he slowly started to emit a pure blue aura around his body, which ended with a pure white glow which caused all heads to turn away from him, until the glow ended. When it did, they all looked towards him, only to find that he was in his human form again.

He held his smile, until his eyes closed, and before anything else could be said, he fell, back first, onto the ground, as his consciousness quickly faded.

When he woke up, he found that he wasn't in Diamond Heights, but rather, inside a hospital bed, with a white blanket over his head. Quickly, he removed the blanket from his head, only to find a pair of nurses staring wide-eyed at him, before rushing out of the room, screaming, "HE'S ALIVE!" in unison.

At first, he started to get up, only to stop himself, and look below the covers. As he feared, his clothes were removed. Then he groaned, and looked to his left and right, hoping they were at least somewhere in the room, so that he could leave the room. Unfortunately for him, his clothes were nowhere to be seen, and the door to the room was left open, while a few passersby trotted through the hallways.

Finally, he decided to wrap his waist and below with the blankets he was covered in, and walk towards the door, only to be greeted by Twilight Sparkle, who stopped in front of his door once she made it to that point. Then, before five seconds could even pass, Justin found himself pinned to the ground by a tear-filled Lavender Unicorn, who seemed to not care about his current clothing situation. Thankfully for him, he was prepared enough to at least tie the blanket around his waist, and below it as well, in a double knot.

Nervously, Justin asked, "T-Twilight?! What's going on, why are you crying?!" Before returning the hug.

Twilight sniffled a few times, before replying, "W-well... I know that when you die, you usually disappear... but this time, it seemed like you didn't... and when you just lied there motionlessly, we... I thought that you were..." She cried before she could continue her sentence, before wrapping her hooves around Justin, and burying her head in his chest.

Justin sighed, and patted her back with his right hand, while rubbing her mane with his left, which caused her muscles to intensify. "It's okay, Twilight... I'm here now, and I don't plan on leaving, either... and since the town's alright with me living here, now I think things will be smoother for once." Then, his cheeks turned red when he realized the position that he was in. "Oh, but Twilight? Do you happen to know where my clothes went?"

Twilight's eyes shot open at that remark, as she remembered what he told her about Humans and their need for clothing. Instantly, her entire face turned red, before she hopped off of his stomach, and backed up to give him room to stand, while turning towards the door. Then, she closed it with her magic, and nervously turned to Justin again. "Yeah... about that..."

Justin placed his right palm over his forehead, and asked, "Considering it's a clothing-related problem, I'm pretty sure I know the answer to this, but... Rarity has them, doesn't she?" Slowly, Twilight nodded.

"I'm really sorry about that, by the way. We didn't think you'd wake up... you were out for a week, after all!"

Suddenly, Justin's eyes shot up, as he quickly locked his gaze on Twilight. "Wait, REALLY?!" She nodded. "Then... what was the latest significant event to happen?"

At first, Twilight looked up, and placed her right hoof over her snout. "Hmm... well... three days ago, Pinkie Pie revealed something that kinda... seemed odd to me, at first."

Justin's eyes glowed blue for a split second, which caught Twilight by surprise. Before she could ask, he said, "So, you recently learned about Pinkie Pie's 'Pinkie Sense', which seems to involve her muscles reacting in what she calls a 'Twitchy Tail' a warning that something's about to fall, as well as combos, involving an 'Ear Flop, Eye Flutter, Knee Twitch', AKA, 'Beware Of Opening Doors'," Twilight tried to say something, until Justin pointed his right finger at her, and smiled, as he continued, "and you were in for a surprise when she did an ordinary 'Ear Flop', which meant that somepony was about to get dirty, and was gonna need a bath, to which you were introduced to the 'Achy Shoulder', and met her pet alligator, Gummy. Eventually, you and Spike followed her for a good bit of time, until y'all ended up in Froggy Bottom Bogg, to which you, Applejack, Pinkie, and Fluttershy encountered a Hydra, and managed to escape, only for the Hydra to end up not being her 'Shudder', or 'Doozy'. Instead, you merely believing in her 'Pinkie Sense' was the real Doozy." He smirked when he saw Twilight staring wide-eyed, and jaw-dropped at him, clearly not believing what she heard. "Oh, and Applejack has a new Apple Cellar, which you happened to fall into... did I miss something?"

Twilight just stood there speechlessly, until she finally shook her head out of her trance, before replying, "H-how... HOW did you even know that?!"

Justin shrugged, and replied, "Um... just a guess?"

Twilight merely backed into a chair, and sat down on it, while her eyes remained wide. Her mane started to become undone, until it appeared as a frazzled mess. Justin scratched the back of his neck nervously, and walked closer to her.

"Anyways, so what else do you remember that happened?" Finally, her mane straightened itself again, after she shook her head, and looked at him once more.

"Oh, sorry! Well... hmm... oh! I almost forgot!" Her horn glowed for a second, until the ticket that she planned on giving Justin appeared out of thin air. "I was supposed to give this to you last week... the Grand Galloping Gala is supposed to be coming up, soon... and... I'd kinda... sorta..." Her face started turning red.

Justin sighed, and accepted the ticket that she floated towards him, and replied, "Thanks, Twi... I'm sure that I'm supposed to go, but... don't expect me to be 'Enjoying the Festival', or something like that."

Suddenly her eyes widened, while she asked, "What? No! I mean... I know you're supposed to go, but... I kinda wanted to go..." She paused for a moment, which caught Justin's full attention. "I kinda wanted to go, like... on a... a..."

Before she could answer, Justin tilted his head, and asked, "Wait a minute... are you... asking me out? Like, on a... Date?!" Slowly she nodded her head, while sweating bullets. Hearing that news caused Justin's cheeks to turn red, while he scratched the back of his neck again. "Gee, Twilight... why would you even want to be seen with me, though? In case you haven't noticed... I'm a human."

She nodded her head, and replied, "I'm aware of that, but... you may be able to help me! Y'know... I don't really know how humans dance, so this could be great for research!"

At that statement, Justin shook his head. "Sorry, Twilight, but Dancing is a 'No-Go' for me." This caused Twilight's smile to drop.

"What? W-why?! Why won't you dance?"

Justin groaned, and replied while rubbing his right hand on his forehead, "Because... I don't necessarily... know how to... y'know, dance."

After giving it some thought, Twilight said, "If it helps..." She smiled, and placed her right hoof over his left shoulder, "...we could go together! I don't really know how to dance with a partner, but I know that they know I'm an Element of Harmony! If they see you around me, then there's no doubt that they'll know you for who you are, and respect you, as such!"

Justin gave a long sigh, and replied in a worried tone, "Yes, but just who am I, exactly? I'm a Human, an Undead, literally the only one of my own race, a renowned Killer, a Monster! Honestly, Twilight? What else could I be?" Twilight's smile dropped, as she looked concernedly at him.

Then, after a long moment of silence, she pulled him into a hug, and replied, "You're Sweet, you're Selfless, you're Brave, and you're a Hero, who not only saved Ponyville, but the world, by bringing an Element of Harmony back! Don't you even realize just how much that means to all of us?! In fact, I overheard Mayor Mare talking about building a memorial for you! And Rarity took your clothes to use as a basic outline for a trend that she could use to remember you by, and convert your style into a pony's fashion!"

Justin smiled as she continued speaking positively about him, until he silenced her by placing his right finger over her mouth. "Alright, then... I guess you've proven your point."

Her eyes beamed open, and her ears perked up. "S-so you'll go?!"

Justin shrugged, and nodded. "Sure... but no dancing!" Then, his eyes glowed blue again. "...And I would highly recommend that you not dance, either... alone, at least. No offense." She was about to object to that, until Justin pointed out a truth to her. "You don't even know how to dance, do you?"

She smiled sheepishly, and replied, "Not really, no..."

Justin smirked. "Thought so. But also, I want you to remember one thing, before we go." She nodded, and motioned for him to continue. "I want you to enjoy your time. I'll try to keep a distance from y'all, but not too far. I need to make sure you all remain safe, after what's happened lately. I can't afford to drop my guard, even for a second. Understood?"

Her sheepish smile brightened into a normal one, while she nodded, and replied, "Oh, of course! But..." She rubbed her hooves nervously. "Do you think that you can... kinda spend more time with me, though? Y'know... since we'll be entering together?" Justin nodded, and held his hand out, which she placed her hoof in, and shook.

Author's Notes:

:SNEAK PEEK:

|To Be Announced|

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To Be Continued...
...In Another Story...

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