Discord's disembodied spirit stared into the hospital window, at Rainbow Dash and Peter.
Well, well, our rainbow friend is near insanity...and our human friend believes this place is truly his home...let's change things a tiny bit... He looked into Rainbow Dash's soul, forcing the painful dreams to surface. He smiled as she curled into a ball, teeth chattering.
Now...time for that meddlesome human...may as well have our little pony reject him...

He changed Peter's mindset, pushing an idea through the back of his head. The only way to get her out of it...is to smack her. Hard. The sound of skin meeting skin played music to his ears.

Discord delved into Peter's mind, watching things click as the human panicked, worried that his friend would come to reject him. However, something else clicked. Something Discord hadn't expected.

"God damn it, Rainbow Dash, you can trust me because...because...because I love you!"

He...he...what?

"You...you what?"

Discord's disembodied spirit banged on the glass of the hospital window, staring in rage, his amorphous form as it spiked in his anger. No...my carefully constructed reality...the dreams I pumped into Rainbow Dash for all those weeks...all destroyed by a simple, fledgling emotion!

He banged against the glass harder, trying to breach the wards that his old friend had placed around the hospital room.

Him...again...I thought I killed him many years ago...

He shook his head. The Seventh Element can't possibly have returned...

He was proven wrong.

Discord stood behind Twilight and Spike, blinded by the darkness.

Before him floated the Sword of Harmony.

Discord blinked, putting on sunglasses.

Well...it seems as though he has returned...I can only hope that Magic does not find the manuscript of his legend...

The world went black, returning Discord's vision as he stared out of the never-seeing eyes of his stone statue.

And if he does return...I will kill him.

A spark entered his mind.

I will use him to kill every damn pony in Equestria.

He slept, his mind tired by the amount of time he had spent out of his body.
-------------Celestia and Luna----------------
The two alicorns sat across from each other, in the middle of a debate.

"'Tia! We can't make assumptions! How do we know that he will return? He's been dead since Discord first reigned!"

"Luna, we both saw the signs. We both saw the Light. All we must do now is wait."

The Princess of the Moon gritted her teeth, frustrated with her composed sister.

"'Tia, how could you possibly be so calm!? Discord is waking up, and you suggest we just wait!? We HAVE to do something!!"

The Princess of the Sun looked at her sister, eyes full of rage, causing the substantially darker alicorn to shrink back slightly.

"Listen to me. We. Must. Wait. If we don't, all could be lost! We must wait for the vision to come, Luna! After that, we can take action. But if we do so before, then he will never return!"

Luna gulped. "V...vision?"

As if on cue, a spark of energy traveled between the tips of the two alicorns' horns.

"It begins now."

Before them, in the Darkness, was the Sword of Harmony.

"'Tia...what is that?"

"It is the Sword of Harmony. I must meet with a certain pony..."

Luna nodded. "The Dreamer?"

Celestia nodded in return, serious and sullen.

"I know what this means, but I must be sure. If the Seventh Element truly is returning, and its wielder as well, I must know where the Guardian will be, and what form he will assume."

Luna looked at her. "The...Guardian?"

Celestia looked down at her.

She spoke the Guardian's name, the two words reverberating throughout the Day and the Night. Luna shivered as the words traveled down her spine.

"Oh...him. I thought...he was dead."

Celestia shook her head.

"Luna, he is. Nothing can change that. But his soul lives on, and with that soul, the Seventh Element of Harmony. Its new wielder must first find that soul within him."

Luna looked down, disappointed, wanting to speak to the pony who had sacrificed himself for all of Equestria only once more...

Celestia put a hoof on her shoulder, reassuring her sister. "All in due time, my sister. All in due time."

And with that, she left, seeking the Dreamer.