The following day, Kamina took it upon himself to learn from everyone how their night went. He already knew how it went for Twilight, Trixie, and Zecora, but he felt the need to know if the others had a good time.

Applejack actually had a lucrative night; getting the interest of a pony named Fancy Pants in getting deliveries of apples to his larder, and potentially supplying a few restaurants in Canterlot. This was good, and Kamina told her why; because Fancy was a complete strait-up awesome guy. That stallion kept his word, he was Honest, he was Loyal, he was Generous, he was Kind, he was capable of genuine Laughter. Damn, Kamina had to admit that Fancy was a better pony than even him. He felt that perhaps, if Rarity wasn't found; HE would have been Generosity...hm...something to talk to his mom about; finding out if the Elements had the capability to be used by others who fit the bill, in case one of his friends becomes unable to...for whatever reason.

AJ said the only damper on her night was how many nobles derided her for even bothering to try and sell such a basic ingredient, and when she was told by Tia herself that she'd been Lied to, that she'd been forced to have her life here whenever she tried to move around to try helping out family elsewhere.

Blitz actually managed to get the attention of the Wonderbolts in the VIP section, and ended up spending the night just chatting a bit. He said the night was great, aside from the Betrayal he felt of Celestia stopping him from even getting a job back in Cloudsdale, and forcing him to move away from his family.

Gilda had spent most of the night with Blitz and the Wonderbolts, enjoying chatting Spitfire up on adapting aerial techniques of pegasi to griffins, and vice-versa. Gilda also got a blush out of Spitfire letting slip she was considering contacting her about the possibility of a four-way between Gilda and Blitz with her and Soarin. They were both embarrassed by the slip, but Gilda didn't say no.... Gilda has Spitfire's address now.

Rarity had a glorious night! It couldn't have gone better! Spike was such a gentledrake, he acted the role of the prince so well she idly imagined he was actually royalty. They danced, they ate, they walked the garden and gazed at the night sky. Sure, she was disheartened to discover her greatest friendships in her life were arranged, but she was more thankful for it than upset. How else would she have met them if they'd strayed so far from her hometown? Sure, her business was barely afloat until recently, but she was much more thankful to have had her friends than not.

Spike also had such a wonderful night. Rarity just could not stop loving him for being himself, and it felt so good to know that he was what she wanted, what she needed. He couldn't ignore the stares, and the glares however, of those both spiteful of him for being different, and jealous of him for having such a beauty. When Rarity was called away to talk to the princess he was actually scared enough to seek out the undeclared protection of the presence of some door guards, who noted him, and the way some of the nobles orbited around him, and acted accordingly by repositioning so he was between them while Rarity was away. He thanked them profusely. He was going to talk to Celestia about this, but he wasn't going to tell Rarity, because he was worried she'd get herself in trouble trying to defend him.

Also; when they got home. Whoa~ ho, ho~! For him. Wa~ ha, ha~! For her~.

Fluttershy had a splendid time. With Mac reining her in; she was actually able to get the absurdly skittish animals in the garden to come to her. They just quietly spent the time together. Taking in the night, and the garden in their own ways, and communicating without even speaking. It was wonderful. When they were parting after getting back to Ponyville; she even worked up the courage to give him a kiss! It was so romantic! Mac would tell anyone the same. He about almost didn't kiss her if she hadn't made the move. They both felt they'd made a very important step that night.

Pinkie had a blast! At first; her attempts to liven up the party failed, and discouraged her. But! Game came along and turned her failures into fun-times! Whenever she didn't get something off the ground; he'd pick her up and make it work! His skill as a party planner easily rivaled, and excelled hers! After all; he'd been the event planner for a whole empire's royal and noble caste, of COURSE he'd know how to get these stiffs grooving~!

Game actually got the nobles dancing, got them having fun! He forgot how nice this was; making the stuffed-shirt stallions and the frowny-face females do a jig, and smile while doing it. He spent most of the time partying with Pinkie, and loving every moment of it. She might know her stuff for the average pony, but these were HIS party prey, and he was going to prove it! He did, and when they got back to Ponyville...Pinkie rented a room at the inn~. Didn't want to wake the Cakes after all~.

So, Kamina was pleased at the overall outcome. He was pissed for how they treated Spike though. He might just extend a royal title to Spike to make it harder to touch him. He'll talk to his mom about that. It was only a week later, and everything was normal. The most interesting thing lately was that the school was going on a field trip to the Canterlot sculpture garden. He hoped they found it nearly as interesting as he had, but he felt that might have been asking a bit much of such puerile minds.

A brown drop lands on Kamina's snout, and he shakes his head instinctively. “What was that?” {Ew, it was brown.} 'Gross!' Suddenly, a deluge of brown rain overtake Kamina. “AH~! GROSS! EW-HEW-HEW-HEW~!” Kamina thought it was poop, but after several seconds of frantically tying to escape the brown rain, he smelled it and realized to this immense relief; that it wasn't poop, it was chocolate! “Chocolate rain~! Some stay dry while others feel the pain~!” Kamina latched his mouth shut, and blinked. 'Where did that come from?' {Where do all our spontaneous songs come from?} 'Good point.'

Kamina looked up, and finally noticed the chocolate rain was falling from a cotton candy cloud. “Huh...does it taste like cotton candy?” Kamina flew up to it, finally leaving the chocolate milk rain, and grabbed a hunk of it before eating it; getting a smile out of him. “It IS cotton candy! This is genius!” Kamina was about to grab another bite, when Blitz shot past, and took it. “Hey! I was eating that!” Kamina flew after him, and finally caught up when he stopped outside Sweet Apple Acres, where he saw the apples were popping into popcorn?! “What? That's...unusually funny. But since she's my marefriend; hell no, totally wrong.”

He flew down towards his friends, who all seemed to have gathered here; trying to rein in the magical sugary clouds, and attempt to clean up some of the other mess. “Oh! Kamina!” Twilight trotted over to him, clearly distressed. “I have NO idea what's going on! Nothing I try will change everything back!”

“Nothing?” 'Okay, that's bad. Twi's the most magical pony in all Equestria.' {Let's see if we can't give it a try. Maybe if we force our Will over it....} “Can I try?”

“I was actually about to suggest it.” Twilight tried to give him to book she was referencing her counterspells from, but he waved it off.

“No, I don't feel like any normal magic will work.” 'This is weird...it feels like my own magic.' {At least in execution it seems. It isn't manipulated like normal magic would, it's more like it's been...forced to change.} Kamina grabbed a giant popcorn kernel, and he leered at it. His spirals glowed lightly, and suddenly; the popcorn turned back into an apple! “Ha! It worked!” He then charged his horn, and simply expelled a gentle shockwave tinted with Spiral Power, which suddenly reverted all the odd changes back to normal. It drained him a bit, but Kamina was happy to see his power put to a more constructive use.

“Woo! Thank ya kindly Kamina!” AJ crowed, and kissed him on the cheek. “But why would your magic work, when Twilight's magic couldn't?”

“Yes, it is odd. But when I focus on it; it seems as if the magic used to change all these things was somewhat similar to Kamina's.” Trixie observed, having ran a scan just before, and rescanning just now. “It wasn't him, but something of similar ability.”

“But he just dispelled all the tasty treats!” Pinkie bemoaned, and Game looked deflated too. “It's okay Game...maybe someday we can ride magical cotton candy clouds.”

“But...C3....” Game had been riding one of the clouds around earlier, and it was dispelled like the rest. “I'll miss you, dear C3~!”

“This is most disconcerting. I shall return to the library and see if I cannot find out what is wrong.” Zecora remembered one of her books mentioning things like this.

“I'll go with you. We don't know if more of these odd things will happen.” Trixie went with her for protection, and just then; Spike burped up a scroll from Celestia.

“Oh, excuse me.” Spike picked it up with his levitation. Yeah! Spike found out he could use magic like a unicorn now. Apparently; his horns were made of the same magical bone as a unicorn's. It made him wonder what other species could freely use magic like this. Anyway, he opened it, and skimmed over it. “Okay everyone; we've been summoned to Canterlot. Specifically; the Bearers, and Kamina. Pfft, right; like I'm going to miss out on whatever this is.”

“Gilda; could you see about trying to keep the house safe? I don't want any of those violent clouds ramming down our walls.” Blitz was being serious; one of those clouds nearly smashed a hole clean through their bedroom wall. It was why Blitz was chasing the clouds in the first place.

“Yeah. I don't want holes in our house any more than you do. Be careful.” Gilda nuzzled him, and then flew off for their house.

“Okay, let's all cut to the chase. Mass side-along teleport everyone!” Twilight crossed horns with Kamina, who was glad to serve as a battery, and they were gone in a flash.

===//////>

They appeared in the throne room, which had been cleared since day court was canceled, beings all they would likely get are complaints about the goings-on, when they were already working on it. Celestia was extremely relieved to see them, as was Luna, who had Nyx protectively next to her. Yes; Nyx was holding onto Luna to protect her, not the other way around, who do you think she is?! “Everyone! I'm so glad you came so quickly! Come, hurry!”

“What's going on mom? What's with all this craziness? I mean, sure, it's kinda fun, but it's really disruptive to pony's lives.” They entered the Hall of Stories; which was the stained-glass hall leading to the Royal Vault, where all the most powerful, dangerous, and valuable objects in Equestria were kept.

“Listen; all of you. I'll cut to the chase, Discord has returned.” Celestia dropped on them as she continued at a brisk trot, and this got Kamina and Twilight to gasp while the others all looked confused, even Game didn't know who Discord was.

“Him?! How! Wasn't he sealed somewhere?” Twilight asked frantically, her fiery mane flickering more wildly in panic.

“Yes Twilight Sparkle, he was. But he's finally broken free. We fear last week's festivities were too much chaos in one sitting.” Luna looked back on the suddenly morose Pinkie and Game. “It was not your fault. We did not know your merry-making would produce enough chaos for him to get one final push from his seal just earlier today.”

“Yeah! Besides, it's those three fillies' faults from earlier today! He could only break free if he got a direct sample of discord along with all that chaos he built up. And; he got it. Between each of the three tribes of ponies too, which made it worse.” Nyx told them, and this got some lights to come on for Rarity and AJ, who groaned; they knew it was their sisters and Scootaloo from what Cheerilee told them just before this mess started.

“So the CMC are to blame...of course.” Rarity bemoaned, and Spike nuzzled her to ease her exasperation.

“C'mon dear, she's just a silly little filly. She didn't know something like this could happen from a single little spat with her friends.” Spike justified, and got Rarity to blush at just how...fatherly that was. “What?”

“Bro; you are going to be a great dad.” Kamina seriously informed his little brother, who blushed along with Rarity as everyone was able to calm down from their panic at the cute moment.

“Anyway. The only way to defeat Discord is to seal him back up, and this time; put him someplace even more secluded, but more under direct observation.” Celestia reached the vault, and put her key into the lock, which resonated, and the door was about to open, when instead it's lights turned on from top to bottom, with upbeat dance music playing through the cracks to their confusion, and when it opened....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAcKM90WPlM

Lyra was standing over Bon Bon, humping the air in a bipedal stance as Bon Bon sang something in Coltrean while wearing awesome shades.

“Na nun sa na ye
Jom ja na bo wi ji man nol ten no nun sa na ye
Te ga dwe myon wan jon mi cho bo ri nun sa na ye
Gun yuk bo da sa sa ngi ul tung bul tu ngan sa na ye
Gu ron sa na ye!”

Lyra wagged her eyebrows before closing the apparent elevator, and it left, leaving everyone gawking at it in shock at just how utterly random, and unexpected that was.

“WHAT JUST HAPPENED?!” Twilight screamed in terror at the impossibility that happened, and Celestia and Luna looked on the verge of fainting in fear.

“He has them....” Celestia did some breathing exercise to try and calm down. “Discord already has the Elements.”

“Indeed I do.” They all spun around to one of the stained glass windows, specifically; the one depicting the six friends all freeing Luna from Nightmare Moon. “I must say though; this window is entirely inaccurate!” Discord was part of the window, only animate, and he snapped his eagle talons. The window changed so that Dash was Blitz, and it showed Luna being protected by the Elements while Kamina and Twilight pierced through Nightmare in their final explosive outcome of the battle. “There! Much more suiting. Why didn't you make it like this in the first place? Trying to paint your heroes in more gentle light?”

“Where are the Elements Discord!” Luna demanded, only for a tiny Discord to appear next to Nyx, scratching her behind the ear, and getting her to hum.

“Oh~ little Nyx! I'm so glad to see you and your mum finally getting along! When I planted that shard of darkness into you Luna; I had no idea how far you'd come.” He flashed away as Luna tried to stomp him.

“STAY AWAY FROM MY DAUGHTER!” Luna screamed in the RCV, shaking the hall, and it would have shattered the windows were they not so heavily enchanted that they were more durable than the walls.

“What?! But she's my daughter too! Don't I get visitation rights?!” Discord asked as if offended, and when Luna sneered at him, he sighed. “Fine, fine...I'll leave our daughter be. After all; it was just a one-night stand, what do I care anyway?” He had to avoid a number of dangerous magic blasts that launched at him from Luna, Celestia, and Kamina who were all utterly furious at him for that comment. “Don't get so ahead of yourselves.” *SNAP*

“AH~!” Nyx collapsed to the floor, screaming in a bloodcurdling screech of agony, which had everyone panicking, and trying to do something, but they had to stop, because she was changing. Her body elongated, all her body save her head becoming different creature parts.

She retained her face and head, but her neck grew thinner and longer. Her body was that of a zebra, but serpentine, and more black with scattered white stripes. Her left wing was a black flaming phoenix wing, her right a raven's. Her left arm a panther's, her right a crow's. Her left leg a gray doe's, her right leg an obsidian cragadile's. Finally, her long, serpentine tail was that of a red-bellied black snake, frilled with a thin line of her hair. Nyx finally calmed, and began to pass out as she desperately grabbed her mom's hoof. “Mommy....”

“No...Nyx....” Luna wept as she cradled her transformed daughter.

“CHANGE HER BACK!” Kamina screamed so loud that it made Luna's earlier demand seem quiet.

“Hm, hm, hm. I did. I gave her the truest form she would have. Better the public get used to her now, than when she bloomed in her late teens.” Suddenly, Discord was draped over Kamina, and everyone backed away warily, ready to pounce. “Have we met? You seem...familiar.”

“If we met before; then I'm sorry I didn't rip your eyes out sooner.” Kamina stabbed his left talon into Discord's face so fast the Spirit of Chaos nearly didn't react in time, but he blocked the stab intended to gouge out Discord's left eye with his lion paw. They were both surprised; they seemed to have equal strength. {DEFILER! RAPER AND DEFILER!} Kamina blinked in shock. 'What?' {THIS FOOL HAS SUNDERED HIS CONNECTION! HIS POTENTIAL!} Kamina's eyes became filled with absolute, consuming hatred. “ANTI-SPIRAL!”

Discord grinned at the familiar term, and chuckled darkly. “My...it has been SUCH a long~ time since I heard THAT. From the old home are we?” Kamina roared a genuine dragon's roar as he breathed purple dragonfire at Discord, who quickly warped away, only to have to dodge a deadly telekinetic drill that pierced clean through the castle nearby, thankfully missing a window. “So, the old coots back home bought it eh? Finally had the Spirals come forth and crush them like they deserved?”

“Like I'll do to you!” Kamina launched himself with a primitive form of teleportation called Blink, and tried to gore Discord's chest with his horn, but only grazed him with the tip of his left wing when the serpentine Lord of Chaos used his body's nubile advantage to just barely shift out of the way, and grab Kamina by his tiger tail, making him actually squawk in pain.

“Oh look! A tiger by the tail!” Discord then flung him back at the group hovering protectively over Nyx, and he crashed through them; sounding like a bowling ball getting a strike. “Strike! Oo~ that was a nice try! But you didn't catch the lion by the toe.” Discord wiggled his lion paw, and they all glared at him as they recovered. “Now, now; calm down. There's nothing to gain from violence.”

“Except your death!” Kamina roared, and tried to get up, but collapsed, a look of confusion on his face. 'Ow...what?' {Connection...minimal...spiral...unraveling....} 'No! I won't be like him!' {We can't, not unless we want to be. But he interfered with our connection.} Kamina looked at his tail, and saw that the spiral of a stripe that once ran down it was now leopard spots instead, but he didn't have any leopard DNA. 'A mutation?' {Non-viable, unstable. We'll have to purge it.} 'How?' {How do you think?} “Everyone, don't take this the wrong way.” Kamina sat up, grabbed his tail in both talons, and in a screech of effort and utter agony; ripped it out, spraying blood everywhere behind him for a moment.

“Kamina! Why did you do that?!” Pretty much everyone asked in different ways, but they stopped when they saw the tail seem to dissolve into purple lights; completely different from the light blue-green of Spiral Power. “What?”

“He's an Anti-Spiral...he's someone who willingly severed their connection to the Spiral. Ceased to be an evolving being; locked as he is. Ageless. Powerful. Controlling.” Kamina grunted as his tail grew back; tiger-stripe of spiral and all.

“Yes. You see, Kamina is it? We're actually a lot alike. I used Spiral Power to eventually become what I am. Nearly all-powerful to a respect. But then when I was faced with destruction by the Anti-Spirals; I saw no reason to let them destroy me. So; I relinquished my Spiral Power.” Discord snapped his digits, and Kamina hissed and recoiled at the surge of pain that flashed up his tail, and he glared back at it to see it try to change back into a leopard tail, but it remained a tiger tail. “You see; if I still had my Spiral Power, that would have worked on you, regardless of your potency. But, a price to pay is that; a price. I regret it, but I had to buy time for me to get out from under those coot's oppressive and short-sighted thinking.”

“So you came here...a universe without the Anti-Spirals so you could rule as a god!” Kamina accused, getting a jovial laugh from the Self-Proclaimed God of Chaos.

“Yes, and no. Ruling is such a bore. You have so~ many responsibilities! I just wanted to have fun. And here I found a world ripe with life; filled with potential. I might have become an Anti-Spiral, but I still cherished the concept of potential. So I changed things. I changed them a lot. The horses, the wolves, and lions even. I made them all more.” Discord chuckled darkly as he spread his arms out. “ALL OF THIS! Is because of me! Alicorns would not have existed had I not fused one of each tribe together to get the first: Faust!”

This made everyone but Kamina gasp in shock. Mother Faust was the closest thing Equus had to a goddess, besides those that worshiped Celestia and once again Luna, or other beings of their status that now literally embody, govern, and keep the world going. In fact; a sect was forming for Kamina as they spoke. When he was announced to have ascended, and that he embodied Will; many who had a strong belief in self started whispering his name. But, that's for later.

“I basically made Equus what it is now. I even named it! I am, by all rights; the God that created this world.” Discord sighed wistfully, and floated idly as he stroked his goatee. “But, things change. While I as an Anti-Spiral may not; the rest of the world went on without me.” Discord actually seemed depressed for a moment, but then cleared his throat, and hovered over towards them, growing in size until he filled the hall, and his head was just before them. “You wish to find the Elements? To stop me? Let's make it a game, hm?”

Game perked up. “Game? I LOVE games! What are the rules?”

“Oh~ it isn't as direct as that. You must simply find the Elements, where you began.” Discord then began to fade away like a ghost. “I look forward to seeing if you are smart enough, and wise enough, to know what I mean.” Discord was gone.

===//////>

“We are in so over our heads....” Kamina pondered as he paced. “Not even I could hurt him, and I'm apparently the closest to being able to, since he's of similar mind and power as me.” Kamina looked at his claw, wishing it met it's mark and took the bastard's eye. {If only he wasn't an Anti-Spiral. We'd be able to copy his powers.} 'I'm not going to let any piece of that freak into our body.' {I disagree. He achieved his full potential, but cut it off. If we had a sample....} 'No, I won't go on the same path he did.' {Understandable.}

“Kamina, we'll be fine. He's at least giving us a fighting chance.” Twilight tried to comfort everyone.

“He's toying with us Twilight.” Spike spat in revulsion. His pride was building up since he became a kirin. “I'd rather die choking on his heart than be overlooked like this.”

“Spike! I will not let you needlessly endanger yourself!” Rarity declared, looking at him commandingly, only for him to glare at her, and she shrank back in surprise. “Spike?”

“I have limits to where I can be calm, or rational Rarity. That bastard hurt my friends.” Spike pointed to the corner of the room they'd retreated to after the encounter, where a bed held the unconscious and transformed Nyx, being protectively cuddled by a silently crying and morose Luna. “He threatened my family!” Spike, began to become bigger, and to everyone, especially Kamina's, surprise; his horns had spirals begin carving into them, running up them from base to tip. “He threatens all I've lived and worked for!” He was taking up the room, his body scraping the ceiling, his wings spanned the whole 20 foot length from wall to wall, and he became more draconic; but remained a kirin with more pronounced traits. “And I will not just sit by when I can DO something!”

“S-Spike....” Rarity was blushing lightly, trying not to let on just how HOT he was to her right now. 'Oh~ Spike...you're so surprisingly sexy when you're assertive.' She then looked him over, and licked her lips, which he noticed and made him start to blush too. 'Oh~...and when you're big enough to fill a room~....' “Spike...can you do that whenever?”

“Y-yeah...I've been able to control it for a while now. I've been practicing in the Everfree. I've been getting Spiral Power for a few months now.” Spike then cleared his throat, and began to shrink down.

“Not yet!” He paused his shrinking at Rarity's demand, and she pulled a camera from her hammerspace, and she smiled nervously. “Can I...get a picture?”

“Why? I'll do it whenever you want Rarity.” Spike asked, and she fidgeted, which made him smirk. “Oh~ Rare! You could have mentioned you have a thing for macrophilia!” This made Rarity squeak, and shrink in on herself like Fluttershy, getting everyone to look at each other in surprise; they never figured Rarity to have such tastes.

“I-I do not! A lady does not-EEP!” Spike picked Rarity up in his hoof like a big doll. “P-put me dow-mmph! MPH! Mmm~....” Spike had his long, serpentine tongue snaking down Rarity's whole throat, and she was actually twitching as her eyes rolled back, getting everyone to gawk at just how erotic and sudden this was. When he withdrew his long tongue from her, she gasped and panted, and her eyes refocused, but were glazed. “W-why'd you stop?”

“I thought you didn't like such raunchy things.” Spike teased, and Rarity blushed so much her whole body turned red in embarrassment at being so thoroughly caught out by her significant other...who was significantly larger than her. And she could not believe how turned on she was by the idea of being his toy.... “Regardless. I'm going to go face Discord, you with me bro?”

“Hell yeah!” Kamina stood next to his awesome brother as said kirin levitated Rarity back to the floor. “We're going. We're going to find him, and keep him busy so he doesn't spread as much chaos as possible before you find the Elements.”

“Oh! I'll go!” Game suddenly popped out from under Kamina's left wing, getting the prince to roll his eyes. “Please? I haven't been in a good fight in four hundred and eighty seven years!”

“Then how do I know you can-?” Kamina suddenly found himself pinned, Game sitting on his chest and actually wagging his tail like a dog. “Alright...you're good, I'll give you that. We're going; you girls get a move on!”

“Just...be careful.” Twilight pleaded, moments before Kamina's horn lit up and the three stallions; one kirin, one hippogriff, and one crystal earth pony, all vanished to face perhaps the most dangerous being on Equus. “...We love you....”

Author's Notes:

YES! Discord is an Anti-Spiral! I'm so devious ain't I? Or did you see it coming? I had to come up with a reason for Kamina to be unable to copy his DNA, and I felt that this was the juiciest option. Also, in this AU: Discord is essentially the God of Creation as much as he is the God of Chaos. He more or less gave all the races of Equus their traits, their sentience over time even. He does care about Equus as a whole; but his own personal amusement comes first. And here's someone from his old home universe who he can toy with...let's watch the fireworks!