Hello, Everypony Autistic Writer here to present a story in which I title Groom of Eris. This is a gender-swap, gender-bender story of Bride of Discord. I have asked the permission of Disney Fanatic 2364 if I could. I wanted to do this correctly and not invoke her wrath by creating this story without permission. So, I hope everyone enjoys this first chapter. I tried to change it up a little bit so it doesn't share too many similarities with her story. There will be some parallels, but I will be sure to make my own differences as well.

Disclaimer: I do not own the rights to My Little Pony. I do not own the gender swap versions of the MLP characters. Bride of Discord is owned by Disney Fanatic 2364.

Chapter 1: The Escape

Eris started to giggle on her throne as she looked upon the laughable excuse of heroes that were confronting her. Dusk Shine and his friends were free of her magic and were ready to confront her again using the mystical Elements of Harmony.

"O this again" Eris started sipping down her tall glass of chocolate milk. She then threw it behind her causing an explosion that unfazed her.

Dusk Shine glared at the draconequus as he spoke.

"It is time we finally stop you, Eris" Dusk Shine continued "Look around you. Look at what you have done to Ponyville"

Eris did what he told her and smiled.

"I see nothing but pure chaos. Exactly how I like it" Eris sat on her throne looking down at the six stallions that confronted her.

"We have learned that friendship isn't always easy, but it's worth fighting for" Dusk Shine pointed his hoof towards Eris.

"You couldn't tear our friendship for long" Applejack glared at the goddess of Chaos

"O don't lie to me Applejack" She pulled on her necklace with her magic "I'm the one who made you a liar"

With a swipe of her eagle claw she pulled all but Dusk Shine to her. She grinned evilly looking at the five stallions knowing their efforts were useless. Dusk teleported in the middle of them and sprouted a magic bubble to contain them and bring them back down to the ground.

Dusk Shine closed his eyes as did the other stallions. Applejack, Elusive, Butterscotch, Rainbow Blitz, and Bubble Berry's elements started to glow as suddenly Dusk Shine's eyes lit up with a white light.

"What's this" Eris looked at each of the six until a swirl of rainbows sprouted up from them and came crashing down on her.

Butterscotch tried not to open his eyes, but the screams coming from Eris made him see what she was going through. The sheer pain and suffering were heartbreaking to the Pegasus's eyes. This would torment him to no end. He quickly closed his eyes as he couldn't bear to watch her suffer like that anymore, no matter what evil deeds she has done.

Soon, everything was erasing the effects the goddess of chaos had created. The six stallions opened their eyes, upon seeing their lovely home back to normal. Yet, something felt off about it. Bubble Berry was the first to see what was wrong.

"Hey guys, where's Eris"

Rainbow Blitz face hoofed himself "Don't you know, we turned her to stone"

"Yea, but where's the statue"

The others soon realized that Bubble Berry's was correct. In front of them lacked a statue of the female draconequus. Dusk rushed in front looking around wondering where she went.

"Where did she go" Dusk was searching with his friends as there was not a trace of the creature anywhere. "That spell should have turned her to stone"

"We didn't kill her did we" Butterscotch feared

"Maybe she vanished" Applejack was turning his head.

"Or maybe she turned into grass" Bubble Berry she looked down at the greenness of the grass.

"So, we are stepping on her…" Elusive looked down and started to be frightened that they are stepping on the creature's remains. The others soon followed with screams of disgust. Dusk Shine and Applejack were the only ones not screaming.

"GUYS, we didn't kill him" Applejack ordered the stallions to stop "Did we Dusk?"

"The elements are a mysterious bunch, but they wouldn't possess the powers to destroy something" Dusk Shine looked

"So, now what do we do?" Butterscotch looked at Dusk.

"Now, we see the Prince" Dusk declared

"I see" Prince Solaris was pondering upon the subject of Eris's escape. "You found no sign of her"

"Yes, there was not a trace of her. It was just like if she vanished out of thin air" Dusk Shine bowed before his prince before standing up with his friends who did a similar act upon entering in the throne room.

"This is quite an interesting development" Solaris stood up from his throne looking down at the six heroes.

"We didn't kill her, right Prince Solaris" Dusk Shine stumbled upon his words wondering if they did destroy the goddess of chaos.

"That is not within the elements power; their powers work on the inside of a creature's heart. When it was hit on NightTerror, he wanted to control Equestria. What he got was banishment to the moon. When he returned, there was still apart of my brother Artemis trying to get out. His shell of NightTerror cracked and my brother appeared before all of you. Eris is…"

Solaris stared at the picture of the draconequus in the glass window.

"Eris is a creature with a heart of stone. Yet, this does not mean she is that heartless. She just refuses to show her feelings" Solaris closed his eyes and breathed in, contemplating on what to do next

"Eris must have avoided the Elements and fled like a coward. She saw that she couldn't destroy, break, or damage your friendship and belief in one another" Solaris looked down and opened his eyes viewing his young apprentice, who was full of questions and worries.

"She's still out there" Dusk gasped as he looked at his friends "we have to find her. Call everyone and search everywhere"

"Calm yourself, my young one. Eris isn't the type to rush in headstrong. She is a tactful goddess and will think and plan her next move. The best advice I can give you and your friends is to wear your Elements at all time. We may never know when Eris may make her next move, but that doesn't mean she won't. For that, we must prepare in advance" Solaris looked at Dusk

"But, Solaris" Dusk was very fearful of what was to come "how will we know"

"You will know, trust me" Solaris smiled as he lifted his hoof up to comfort the young stallion "Don't lose hope. I shall cast a protection spell on the Elements, so Eris doesn't try to take them from you again"

"Thank…Thank you Prince Solaris" Dusk bowed before his Prince

On the way back to Ponyville, the six stallions bought a secret room for them to converse in.

"So, we are just going to sit and do nothing" Rainbow Blitz glared

"She still out there" Butterscotch feared looking out the window

"O this is perfect, Eris isn't even outside the train and Butterscotch is still afraid of her. I will find that thing and give her a piece of my mind" Rainbow Blitz readied his hooves into battle

"Dusk has a point; we can't do anything but wait and see what Eris has in store" Applejack said closing her eyes agreeing with Dusk on the matter.

The six stallions waited for the moment when Eris would make her move. They waited as long as three years. They had assumed that she left Equestria for good and that it was a sign for things to go back to normal. The six stallions had agreed to hold on to their respective element just in case if Eris were to strike. Much like Eris, they had to move on themselves.

Dusk Shine had become a prince as this changed the lives of many ponies and stallions in Ponyville. Dusk would often go to Canterlot for royal duties, yet his home will always be in Ponyville. He missed his friends, but had to keep his studies up just in case if Eris made a surprising return.

Elusive's designs became top of the line. He had never been this popular in Ponyville in years. So, Elusive recruited the help of the CMC's to help create more designs and meet more deadlines. Sweepy Belle had some talent for sewing and was made the organizer of his brother's clothesline. Applebuck impressed Elusive with his own designs so much, that Elusive made him his apprentice. Scooteroll was made the delieverycolt with his scooter in hoof.

Rainbow Blitz's dream came true when he was finally recruited by the Wonderbolts. He performed all over Equestria earning praise for his tricks. Despite him joining such an 'around the world' group, Rainbow Blitz made sure to make frequent stops to Ponyville to visit his friends and give them tickets to see his show. Bubble Berry always made time to see his show and was to be considered Rainbow Blitz's number one fan. He screamed louder than the fanponies.

Bubble Berry's parties were all the rage in Ponyville, to the point of royal even asking for him to plan their parties. He threw the best parties, what was better than that was he threw them for free. He loved seeing the smiles of everypony's faces.

Applejack's apples became more popular due to Dusk Shine's status as a prince. Soon, all ponies, stallions, and fillies near and far wanted to try his apples. This made things at Sweet Apple Acres much easier. A new tractor for Macreina, fixed Pappy Smith's broken hip, and a new floor to the barn in case if relatives came out to stay by the barn. Whatever money was left over was donated to Canterlot Orphanage. For this, the orphans looked up to Applejack and his family. Whether he won a rodeo or not, he was a fan favorite and a hero to the orphans. He just wished a certain female dragon would notice him more.

Butterscotch had grown to be a handsome stallion. Having a lovely voice that ponies and stallions grew jealous of. His beauty was quickly noticed by mares, who were trying to win his affects and tell him of their feelings for him. However, Butterscotch wasn't the dating or married type. He was terrified by the idea of having a special some pony. He had to make excuse of why he couldn't date that particular mare that wanted a coltfriend. He resolved several solutions that involved those ponies eventually moving on to better stallions. This crushed Butterscotch as despite his unwillingness to date, he felt alone in his little world. He tried to the focus it on his animal friends; they noticed the lonely eyes of the yellow pegasus.

In their fame and fortune, the stallions quickly forgot the Evils of Eris; except for one stallion. Butterscotch was having particular dreams of a dark creature chasing him all around. He thought it was nothing until the dreams were staring to increase night after night. This caused Butterscotch to become exhausted during the day time, sleep in the middle of lunch, and scream whenever he heard the mentions of the goddess of Chaos. He had hoped the nightmares were gone. However he was wrong.

One night, Butterscotch was tossing and turning in his bed. He was having the same nightmares again. He tried to tell his friends of them, while they just gave him the usual answer of nightmares. They weren't real and were a figment of his imagination. He decided to listen to them and have a good dream without the worrying.

In his dream realm,

Butterscotch hummed as he was feeding the birds up high in the tree.

"There you go little guys. You are going to grow nice and strong for mama and papa" Butterscotch smiled as he flew right down. He saw a trio of butterflies past him.

"Good day to you madams" Butterscotch said while putting away the bird seed and saying hi to the butterflies that past him.

"Good day to you too Butterscotch" the trio of butterflies whispered. This stopped Butterscotch cold in his hooves. Only one female spoke like that and he knew those butterflies never talked in his dreams.

The light yellow pegasus turned to face the female draconequus. She was being very flirtatious to him.

"Why so frighten my love, I have come for you first" Eris grinned an evil smirk at the young stallion. He tried to retrieve his element, in hopes of his friends rushing to his aid. Eris caught him by the tail and pulled up as he was upside down facing the goddess of chaos and disharmony.

"You will be mine forever" She laughed as Butterscotch feared for his life.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" he screamed and rose from his bed with beads of sweat running down his face.

"O goodness it was just a dream" Butterscotch uncovered his hoofs as he was to be sure to keep two of his eyes open for next time.

This would be the first of many frightful nightmares for the welder of the element of kindness.

All sorts of questions rose to Butterscotch's head. When will she strike? Is she really gone for good? He looked out the window in the night sky. Everything seemed safe for now, but the incoming fear began to frighten the poor colt.

No pony knew what would they be in for?

Well, what does every pony think? I know I probably didn't do as good as I had hoped. I am looking forward to the Bride of Discord audio episode six. So many secrets to be awaiting our ponies, I know what they always say. Good things come to those who wait. We just have to understand DF's ways of making the videos, editing them, putting them into place, making sure it's perfect for use to see the BoD audio, yet we are all human. I understand those things since I writer fanfic. Which is so much easier than creating something like that, so I am not really going to harp on DF too much for it?

Now, I know people will either be enraged or like this story. So, I will state my reasons for making this story.

One. I love BoD (Bride of Discord) so much, I was inspired by it.

Two. This is a tribute to that story and those artists, writers, and video makers that make their own gender-swap ponies.

Three. Wanted to be one of the writers inspired by BoD, so somepoint I was going to do this. Had the idea of looking at the fanart and the story itself at the time.

Four. Draw in fans that liked the original story.

Five. Some writer was going to make a Fluttercord gender-swap story about Bride of Discord at some point.

Six. If Disney Fanatic 2364 can make a story about Fluttercord, (Due to her I am a fan of Fluttercord) then I can at least try to make a gender-swap story about Fluttercord.

Seven. Not too big of a fan on Gender-bender stories, so I created one to show that I can make a genderbender story.

Let me state this again, I DO NOT OWN THE GENDER-SWAP PONIES. I have no way of getting in touch with those artists. If they are reading this then, I just ask for your forgiveness. I will apologize to you and make sure you get the proper crediting for the next chapter.

So, that's all for now, I hope DF isn't too mad at me for making this story. To all those gender-swap ponies' artists, writers, etc. never stop making them as they are a good side to share in the MLP fandom. Keep up the good work and pleases show me mercy; I just wanted to create a gender-swap Bride of Discord story. Please spare me *Arms himself with a banana and a shield as he keeps up his guard* until then I will see everypony later.

Just one little something before I leave everyone to review this, I had bought Equestria Girls over a year ago and I still haven't watched it. Not that I don't have the time, it's just that I can't decide if I should watch it or not. I know I shouldn't take critics sense of how bad a film is, but I am not sure how good or bad the film will be. I have had mixed reviews saying how bad or good the film is. I also see it is being made fun of which worries me. So, should I watch Equestria girls or just skip it. Let you comments about it in the review.