Stolid the Draconequus
Chapter 3: Chaotic Refurnishing
Previous Chapter Next ChapterStolid was laying down on Rainbow Dash's couch admiring his work while the couch ate the carpet. The burners in the kitchen had firework sparklers coming out of a constantly changing flame of color. The ceiling fan was flapping like a butterfly while it sang an opera solo. The walls were rippling like huge ocean waves while vibrating the house like an earthquake would if earthquakes could come up to the clouds. Monkeys were juggling chainsaws in the corner of the house while their insanely long tails were splayed out randomly across the living room. The wonderbolts in the posters all over the house came to life, but were flailing around trying to get out of the poster like it was an unholy prison.
Stolid could hear elephants trampling around upstairs in the rainbow ponies' bedroom making a huge ruckus. It was music to his ears. Stolid decided to get his lazy flank off of the couch to go outside and see how much of a mess he made. The rainbows that he made shoot out towards the two areas earlier stopped about a minute later. There was a borderline between chaos and complete destruction after all, and Stolid was certainly not some ruthless vandal overlord. Stolid stepped through the doorway and saw that the town was already clean.
"What! How does this happen! That liquid rainbow was basically just a thick dye! How is it cleaned up already?!" said Stolid as he turned his head to see the cottage still covered in dye. "Well, I guess it wasn't all that lame after all.". Stolid's eyes caught sight of a purple unicorn running down the road towards the cottage. The rainbow pony shot into his vision towards the purple unicorn a second later. 'Man, she sure is fast!' Stolid pointed out as she landed.
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Rainbow Dash:
"Twilight! I was just looking for you! There was this rainbow colored dye coming down that almost hit me and Discord! Did you try to imprison Discord again?" said Rainbow as she tried to get some answers out of Twilight by shaking her silly.
"Rainbow, Rainbow stop!" yelled Twilight as Rainbow released her.
"I was just coming here because Pinkie said that the rainbows were coming from your house. And what were you doing with Discord?Did he do any of this!?"
"He probably did. I think he may have dumped me into a pile of feces earlier..." shuddered Rainbow.
"He WHAT?! That is just inexcusable behavior! I thought that he was a changed draconequus! I must inform the princesses of his misdemeanors immediately!" stated Twilight as she was about to run back only to be caught by a Cyan hoof.
"Wait, we don't know if it was really him! What if he's innocent?" thought Rainbow Dash.
"Who else would do something so terrible AND be able to make he rainbows from your house just fly towards town?" inquired Twilight.
"But Discord promised me that he would help me find out who did the feces prank. He seemed pretty sincere about it. Maybe Applejack can quiz his honesty?" said Rainbow.
Twilight responded, "No, let's leave Applejack out of this. But if you really believe that Discord is innocent, then care to tell me who else has the power to make your Rainbows shoot out of control? Hmmmmmmmm? Let's answer that question."
"Maybe my cloud is messed up. I'll go check! If I am not back within the day, then that is the problem and we can all go back to normal! I'll apologize to the others in town when I get the chance." said Rainbow Dash as she flew off towards her cloud home. As Rainbow was flying, she couldn't help but wonder why she cared for Discord so much all of a sudden. She had always hated him.
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Stolid:
The rainbow pony was coming back to her house. Stolid knew that he had no time to run to the door, so he turned into a white dove to blend into the cloud and waited for the rainbow pony to return. Stolid wanted to see her confusion when she entered her house.
The rainbow pony rather went up to check the rainbow spouts at the top of her mansion, most likely to see what could have made her rainbows go absolutely bonkers. Stolid giggled lightly as she did not find anything out of the ordinary and glided back down to the entrance of her home. She opened her door and walked inside. Stolid followed and landed on the back of the couch to look at the rainbow pony's face. Her expression was absolutely priceless! Her jaw was hanging open and her eyes were as wide as watermelons as she stared at her new home in disbelief. Stolid flew back behind the rainbow pony, turned back to his true form, and slammed the door shut. Stolid used his magic to super glue the door shut so she could not escape.
Stolid noticed that the pony jumped up into the air when he slammed the door. before she cold turn around to get a glance at him, he teleported behind her and prepared for his first impression. It wasn't long before the Rainbow pony turned around and beheld the draconequus in all his glory. Stolid with his little acts of chaos behind him set the perfect picture of trouble. What Stolid heard next did not really surprise him, after all, this mess is enough to get any mortal a little worked up.
"Waaaaaaaaah!" yelled the rainbow pony as she turned around to open the door, only to find that it would not open. She just stood there glancing around frantically looking for a way to get out of this mad house that once belonged to her. She flew up towards the window and opened it to fly out, but she only hit her head against a non-existent wall that did not belong there. The Rainbow pony fell down and plunged into a pile of white gelatin. Stolid started laughing uncontrollably as he watched the ponies' confusion. Stolid ran over to the gelatin, reached his talon in, grabbed the pony, and pulled her out by her hair.
"Ow, Ow! Stop! what do you want from me!? What are you!? Where did you come from!? what have you done to my house!?" was the first thing to come out of the pony since she was pulled out of the gelatin.
"Allow me to answer all of your questions, no matter how boring and cliché they are." said Stolid as he conjured up a bean bag underneath the rainbow pony with a snap of his talon. Stolid also spawned a lounge chair for him with a table next to it with some coffee on top of it. It would seem that the rainbow pony needed the therapeutical recliner now more than Stolid due to her shock, but Stolid could care less. Stolid had no concern for mortal stress.
"Lets get down to your many questions." Stolid spawned a mirror into the past to show the rainbow pony asking Stolid those questions in a panicked manor, "What do you want from me!?" said the past Rainbow.
Stolid answered, "I have chosen you to be my toy for the next, uh, whenever I decide to leave! expect much more excitement later on. You should feel lucky that I chose you after all."
"Hey you cant just-"
"I can do whatever I want, whenever I want! lets see what other questions you had before I get bored" said Stolid as he snapped his talon to resume the replay. "What are you!?"
"Well, I am a draconequus. I can warp reality and do whatever I want and I have no intentions of using my abilities for good."
"So you are like Discord?" asked the Rainbow pony.
"Hmmmm, whoever this Discord fellow is, he sure sound like a swell guy. perhaps I could meet him?" inquired Stolid
rainbow responded in a smug manner, "Well you did hit him with that Rainbow blast you shot from my house earlier, so I doubt that will happen. Too bad for you big jerk!"
"Whatever. next question" said Stolid as he sipped his coffee and resumed the replay, "Where did you come from!?"
"I came from the underground of the Everfree forest. I was sleeping soundly until you and your buddy woke me up. I dug out and the rest is history!" said Stolid as he smiled in chaotic content. "You already know why I am here, so lets introduce each other. I am Stolid the draconequus at your disservice." Said Stolid as he waved is komodo dragon arm lazily and did not sit up. Stolid continued, "I have been calling you the 'rainbow pony' ever since I first saw you. So what is your real name?" asked Stolid. The rainbow pony seemed almost relaxed now knowing that Stolid meant no harm, but was still nervous towards her surroundings and his unknown intentions.
Rainbow sat up straight and began to introduce herself the old fashioned way, "I am Rainbow Dash! The fastest flier in all of Equestria!"
"You seem quite lazy to have ever gotten any exercise to do anything physical, I like that." said Stolid. "Perhaps you need a little more rest to give you the energy an athlete needs." said Stolid as he stood up and walked towards rainbow with his coffee. Stolid dipped his finger into the coffee and swirled it around a bit. The coffee's color turned into the color of the night sky with sparkles like the stars. Stolid then proceeded to dump the coffee on Rainbows head until she jumped up into his misshapen face.
"Hey! Who do you think you are that you can just come in here and...." started Rainbow as her coat color quickly transformed into a purplish-black color. Rainbow fell over unconscious and was fast asleep. The coffee had ironically put Rainbow to sleep. Stolid touched her head and injected some of his chaotic magic to ensure that Rainbow Dash did not have the most pleasant of dreams. Stolid then picked her up and teleported upstairs to place her in her bed. The elephants stomping around earlier were now as small as mice and scurrying about randomly. Well, now that I have nothing else to do, perhaps I can go and try to find this 'Discord' fellow. He sounds like my cup of tea.
Stolid snapped his talon and turned the whole cloud mansion's cloud support into cotton candy and made it drip thick glops of chocolate milk to splatter on any unfortunate creature below. Stolid undid the super glue and walked out of the door and started flying overhead. "Who needs wings when you can just levitate like me?" asked Stolid to himself. Stolid would like to have wings to make him look more wondrous. He did not bother to try and hide because he had no other care in the world. He looked down in the cottage's fields for another tricky draconequus like himself. That is where he decided to search first.
It wasn't long before he saw a draconequus laying in the grass staring up at the sun with sunglasses just laying there pondering something.
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Discord:
Discord was trying to get the past events out of his head and continue with his relaxation. Of course he wasn't going to help Rainbow Dash find out who pranked her, he could care less actually. Rainbow Dash needed some extra chaos in her life anyway. But it wasn't long enough before he was annoyed again. Sure, this excitement was good, but Discord wanted nothing more than to just sit back and relax for once in his life. rainbow Dash had landed right on his stomach pretty hard and just stared him in the eyes. Discord had never really been this freaked out by a pony before, besides Celestia on certain occasions. "Hey Discord?" asked Rainbow.
"Uhhhh, yes? Is this about the prankster, or do you wish to waste some more of my time? I mean you did only run away and not check up on me when I was attacked by a bloodthirsty rainbow." said Discord sarcastically.
To Discord's horror, Rainbow grew three fingers and reached for her face. She then tore it off like a mask to reveal what was underneath. Discord stood dumfounded at what he saw. It was the face of another draconequus staring straight back at him with its yellow eyes. Discord has never seen another draconequus in his entire lifetime. He knew that others could possibly exist, but knew that if they did, then they were extremely rare. He had a pretty killer buzz cut by the way. "Another draconequus? I never saw that coming. No, I seriously did not see that coming. That's actually the last thing that would pop into my mind thank you very much." stated Discord trying to hold in his surprise and exhilaration.
"I'm sorry that I hit you with that rainbow earlier. That was not my intention. What are the odds huh?" said Stolid as he joined Discord in his full form by lying down next to him to bask in the sun. "I'm Stolid by the way" said the other draconequus most likely trying to make amends for his act against a fellow draconequus. "I did not now that there were other draconequui roaming the land."
Fascinated, Discord tried to find out more, "Where were you when I ruled Equestria!? We could of had so much fun together! And don't worry about the rainbow, it did not hurt at all.".
"What is Equestria and what do you mean by: you ruled it?" Asked Stolid with his interest piqued.
Discord continued, "Why, you're in Equestria right now! Equestria is the homeland of the ponies. It is very boring and cliché around here because it is too peaceful, until now of course. You must have been the one who dropped that annoying Rainbow Dash into a pile of feces...".
Stolid turned his head towards Discord and beamed happily. "Why. yes it was! That was a pretty good one was it not? There's much more in store for her later, but what was it about you ruling equestrian and what not?"
Discord continued, finally happy to be talking about his own interests with a common being for once. " Oh yes, I ruled over these lands and made it miserable for everypony around. It was my personal sandbox that I could do anything I wanted with. I even made ponies fight each other because I like the drama that ensues along with the arguments. Speaking of which, where were you this whole time, I could have had so much more fun if I had a buddy to share my pranks with."
"Funny thing about that... I was sleeping underground in the Everfree for about 5000 years. I got tired, dug a comfy little hole, covered it, and the rest is just history. I guess my name reflects that, huh? When I was actually awake, these lands were pretty much uninhabited save for the occasional manticore coming from the Everfree or the rabbits running around. That is one thing that I actually remember after all this time. Eventually I just got so bored that I decided to go to sleep. Maybe I could have had more fun if the ponies came sooner..." finished Stolid
"Tis a shame," said Discord. "Your laziness costed us both so much fun..."
"Maybe we could still have some fun like you did back then?" wondered Stolid.
Discord continued sadly, "My days of fun and as a ruler are all gone and I can never get them back thanks to these ponies running around."
Stolid asked, "Why are you letting yourself get pushed around by these weak little ponies? They seem to be very easy pickings, and certainly a whole lot more fun than anything I had back then. Especially those puny rabbits."
"Well, for one they have these powerful monarchs called princesses for some weird reason. Maybe 'queen' sounded a little too imposing for somepony who claims to be a fair ruler. The princesses are pathetic compared to our level of power though, but they have these things called the 'Elements of Harmony'. That is what they used to imprison me into stone and undo all of my hilarious and chaotic changes."
"Oh, well maybe we could steal the elements of harmony and hide them." said Stolid hopefully.
"I already tried that, I hid them and gave them a riddle on it with its location. In addition to that, I made each of the ponies looking for them fight eachother with my special ability, but they somehow overcame that and united to defeat me."
"Well that's your problem," said Stolid, "You should have never told them anything about its location. Where did you hide them anyway?"
"I hid them in one of the ponies' library home." said Discord.
"That is another problem, you are terrible at hiding things." said Stolid.
"Well, I do like suspense and feeling slightly at danger. I like to take risks because it makes me feel alive. That combined with all of my chaos creating gets me into a super adrenaline rush. There's no other feeling like it in the world I tell you what." finished Discord.
"Well, what are you doing now, shouldn't you try to get rid of the princesses and start causing more chaos. Chaos is the best medicine after all..." said Stolid.
"Ever since I made a new friend that just so happened to be a pony, AND one of the bearers of those elements of harmony, I made an oath to myself to never try to turn the world upside down anymore. By the way, why did you turn into Rainbow Dash? She's one of the bearers of the elements of harmony too you know." said Discord.
Stolid started to slowly bear a smug grin on his face when Discord said that last part. "She is, huh? How fascinating! You just might be able to cause some more chaos yet! I have Rainbow in my custody at her own house. Let's just say that it is now my house considering that it is the more chaotic version."
"No," said Discord, "You heard me say that my days of tyranny were over did you not? I only like to cause small amounts of chaos now whenever it gets too boring, not a whole storm of chaos!"
"Well whatever." Said Stolid. "But if something ever changes your mind, then you can do it now with no strings attached." Stolid started to fly away and turned back to Discord, "It was nice meeting a fellow draconequus after so many millennia!"
"Likewise" said Discord as he watched the wingless draconequus hover away back towards Rainbow Dash's cloud home. It looked a little more pink than usual, but maybe it was just the sun getting in his eyes. Discord pulled his sun glasses back over his eyes and smiled as he slowly dozed off in the grass. "That was most pleasant indeed."
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Stolid:
Stolid had arrived back at Rainbow's cotton candy cloud home and noticed chocolate milk draining out from underneath the front door. As Stolid phased through the door, the whole floor was leaking chocolate milk and formed a pool that was about an inch tall. Stolid waded his feet through the chocolate milk and went upstairs to see a shivering blue Rainbow Dash. She was not shivering from being cold, but from the horrid nightmares that were starting to take over her mind. Stolid tapped her on the head with his komodo dragon claw and pushed magic into her head. "Have fun with Slendy, he likes to play hide and seek, especially in forests for some strange reason." said Stolid walked downstairs feeling bored. He certainly should not limit his chaotic changes to just this household. "Perhaps I should go find some other place to have fun with for awhile. Stolid turned into a sparrow and flew/phased through the front door to find another place to have fun with.
Stolid was flying around the village in order to hopefully find something else to mess with. It wasn't long before he came across a huge orchard with trees as far as the eye can see, or at least half a mile. "Woah, that is one huge orchard! I wonder who owns it, must be some rich big wig somewhere across the world in his mansion eating rich people food over a golden toilet. Stolid descended to the ground and turned into a cat so he could prowl around. "What can male cats do exactly? They can mark their territory with powerful smells!" Stolid walked over to a tree and released his urine all over the tree to mark it as his territory.
Not long after Stolid's tree marking, he heard the distinct sound of a dog barking in the distance. 'It must have smelled me in all my glory' mused Stolid in his head as a dog with brown and white fur with a red collar ran through the short grass towards Stolid. Just before the dog reached Stolid, he transformed back to his draconequus form with a flash of golden light which made the dog slam into his ostrich leg. The dog looked up horrified at the draconequus, and found its horns to be the scariest part. The dog turned around to run but Stolid grabbed its tail and yanked it into the air. Stolid took his hands off of it and left it floating helplessly in the air and unable to move. "Hmmm, what shall I do with you?" Stolid asked the dog. He looked at the collar and saw the name 'Winona' there. "Winona, huh?" asked Stolid to none in particular. "Aha!" yelled Stolid as he had a eureka moment. Stolid then took the dogs tail in his talon and popped it off with his magic. He then placed it on her back and then removed her two front feet to place on her forehead. "Oh, you look much better now my little abomination!"
Winona was now a bipedal dog with a tail on her back and two legs on her forehead that resembled horns. "Have fun!" yelled Stolid to Winona as she ran away on two legs. It looked rather unnerving, but also hilarious. Stolid once again turned into a cat and ran through the orchard and eventually found a house and heard some talking from within the house. He hopped up to the window and saw a family of four ponies sitting around a table eating lunch. Stolid did not return to his normal form, but instead just turned his left cat arm back into his talon. He snapped his finger and made the apple pie in the center of the table explode onto all of the ponies' faces. It made the orange and red one jump, the old green one fling her food across the room, and the small yellow filly with a bowtie fall backwards in her chair onto the floor. "What in tarnation was that!" was all Stolid heard before he left and started rolling around laughing in the grass.
"Now those reactions were priceless! I can't wait to do more tomorrow!" exclaimed Stolid as he hopped into a tree to sleep for the rest of the day and night. His name is Stolid after all.
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