*AU: All Flash Back scenes are on Italic, in order to not confuse you my dear readers*

Chapter 5: Enemies, Discord and Friends

Part 2: Discord

Spike was currently sitting on a little desk practicing his writing and taking notes of proper royal etiquette from his new private teacher, needless to say he was bored out of his mind, his third day as the official new prince of Equestria and son of Celestia was definitely boring, granted he knew being an active part of the royal family was hard work and left little to no time to enjoy themselves, all but Blueblood who thought his role was to demand things like he had earned them just for being a good looking stallion.

“But rotten on the inside ha, ha!” Spike thought to himself, smirking a bit “I wonder what the girls are doing right now, Twilight is locked inside the royal library with princess Luna, or should it be auntie Luna now?, Rarity has been avoiding me lately and the rest returned to Ponyville……and Discord, he hasn’t done anything in this past two weeks” Spike sighed softly looking outside the window when he saw something “huh!?, speak of the Nightmare and it will appear” he thought seeing Discord float lazily towards the garden.

“I think the revelation shocked him the most, I mean c’mon he WAS the ruler of Equestria at some point in the past.........” he thought, “Mmm, excuse me Sir Quill?” he asked his teacher who was explaining to him how to properly drink wine at dinner parties.

“Yes prince Spike, what is it?” the elderly sta llion asked.

“I was just wondering, when are we going to study about the history of Equestria? Like the original reign of Discord or why was he the ruler?”

“We will get to that in due time, but there is nothing much to learn about it, Discord was crowned king because of his powerful magic but he used it to bring misery to all ponies and non-ponies alike, he played with them and even tortured them until the princesses stood up to him and turned him into stone”

“Yeah I already knew that, what I want to know is why? Why turn him into stone? Where did he come from? What happened to the Alicorns and what—“

“Prince Spike I assure you all your answers will be answered in due time but for now we must focus on your etiquette lessons.” Sir Quill said turning back to his notes and books.

“……….alright.” Spike said in a defeated way and continued to take more notes and at the same time fighting against the urge to fall asleep, wondering what were his friends doing now.

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Luna and Twilight had spent almost every single hour of everyday locked inside the royal library, ever since their little revelation on the Librarium both of them had search EVERY SINGLE book on the library in hopes to find something about the gemstone dragons or the old culture, sadly most of what they found was how the dragon rebellion a little more than ten thousand years ago claimed the lives of almost every single alicorn, leaving only five of them alive at the end of it.

Both Luna and Twilight were in the last section of the royal library, the forbidden section, books about black, demonic and life bending magic filled it, and even that knowledge was of no interest to Twilight, she wanted to know more about Spike, his past and his life, but now after all this reading something else had stirred her mind, closing the book she had finished reading Twilight turned to Luna who was reading silently the last pages of the very last book of the royal library.

“Luna…..”

“Mhmmmmm?”

“I’ve been wondering……I mean, I was thinking after reading all this books and scrolls………this dragon rebellion war……..what was it?”

Luna turned the last page of the book and closed it, sighing and closing her exhausted eyes “My sister and I were going to tell you about it in the future, but it seems you have to know now,” Luna turned to her completely, “tell me Twilight, have you ever heard the story of how Equestria was founded?”

“Yes, I was in a play once, though from what…..Waldarys was it? Showed and told us it’s a lie.” Luna nodded.

“Indeed; Equestria is a very old kingdom and was founded by the old Alicorns, I must admit I myself didn’t know the real story behind it, but the story of Hearth Warming Eve is a lie with a half truth,” Twilight tilted her head in confusion, “During the dragon rebellion the earth ponies, pegasus and unicorns began fighting between themselves, until our father, Aurora Solaris stopped them and united them once more in the name of harmony”, Luna smiled at that point.

“And in great time too, a month later dragons of all kind began fighting in the east borders of Equestria and in less than a day the ‘Dragon’s Claw’ invaded Equestria wanting to exterminate ponies for they thought we were a weak and pathetic race, our father and mother stood up to them and sent them back effortlessly,” her smile vanished, “that bastard of a king Valtach took it as a direct offense and decided to ‘purge’ us first."

"Before I continue there are five names you must know, these names are the names of those who fought in that war and it was they who changed everything, the first is the old mad dragon king Valtach, the second name belongs to his trusted general, Wrath ‘The god of greed’.”

“Wrath…….I’ve read of him………….they always picture him as a monster.” Twilight shivered in fear just remembering what she had read about him.

“Monster is an understatement, he was an abomination of life itself, he killed more alicorns during the war than anyone else, he even killed………our beloved mother”

“I…..I’m sorry …….I didn’t meant to-“

“Tis alright Twilight, you need to know,” Luna inhaled strongly pushing the sad memories behind her, “the third name is our father, king of Equestria, Aurora Solaris, the fourth name belongs to Sabarius ‘The Sage, the light of the dragons’ and lastly…………Discord ‘The Harmony Bringer’”

“WHAT!?” Twilight exclaimed, knowing this was going to be a long, long talk.

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Discord sat on the same spot he had sat on for the last two and a half weeks, under the shadow of the central tree, admiring the beauty of the garden itself, he reached a flower in front of him with his lion paw, the moment he touched it the flower transformed into a blue-green candy cane, he took it and crushed it under his lion paw, he opened his paw revealing a couple of cards arguing with each other, then he threw them to the air transforming into yellow butterflies, he smiled and spitted a black flame from his mouth, making the butterflies burn and turn to ashes, the ashes landed on the same spot the original flower was and once all the ashes landed on the spot the ashes turned back into the flower.

Discord sighed, nothing had seemed to amuse him now, he had tried to prank Blueblood (his favorite target) but nothing came out, he tried to prank Celestia during her meetings with the Mulenia ambassador but couldn’t find the spark to do it, worst of all something that he had never thought was possible happened, chaos was boring to him now, and he knew why and how to fix it, but who to tell? He couldn’t just tell about it to just anypony, he heard weak steps near him.

“I thought I said I didn’t wanted to be disturbed.” he said not even bothering to face his visitor.

“Ummm…….It’s me Discord, sorry for disturbing ……..whatever you are doing.”

“Heh……..to what do I owe the privilege to be visited by the new prince of Equestria?”

“Well…..I just wanted to ask you some things.” Spike looked up to him from his right.

“What sort of things, if I may know?”

“About you!” he said enthusiastically

“Me? What do you want to know about me, aside from the fact that you know who I am?”

“You see ever since that day I’ve been thinking about a lot of things, but mostly about you.”

Discord shifted his position to face directly at Spike “Why?”

“Because I realized I don’t know anything about you, sure you are the lord of chaos, spirit of disharmony and pretty much the strongest being in all of Equis,” Spike said, making Discord a little proud of himself, “but I don’t know where you come from……….well not exactly, why were you crowned king of Equestria and what made you, I don’t know, evil.”

Discord stared at him with a neutral stare, he knew he had the size and the mind of a child but the heart of a noble hero, he knew of his deeds towards his mother and his friends, he actually reminded him of himself when he was younger, although Discord was not as noble or humble. Discord smiled.

“So you want to know about me,” Spike nodded, “very well then I will tell you a little story but first weren’t you supposed to be taking lessons or something?”

Spike smirked “Sir Quill is worse than Twilight, once he gets into giving lessons he won’t shut up until he is done and he has poor eyesight.”

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“And so using the right amount of water during royal and noble dinners the result will always mark a great difference between the ranks, any questions prince Spike?” Sir Quill turned to see Spike who was smiling at him “Splendid! Let us continue with the proper management of the dinner plates.”

Sir Quill went on and on with his lesson, never noticing the makeshift figurine of prince Spike, holding a pencil with one claw and smiling stupidly at the board.

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“HAHAHA, nice one, that’s a classic!” Discord patted Spike on the back.

“Well I do try, I’m not a Pinkie Pie or Rainbow Dash but I’m pretty good myself!” both of them laughed a little until they stopped and looked at each other again.

“Tell me Spike, do you notice how everypony else treats and looks at you?”

Spike turned his head a little down “Yeah, and I don’t like it…………but I do understand them, most of my………most dragons are jerks or even monsters, even if more than halve the times they are just defending themselves or were provoked to fight, but I’m not them, I’m a noble dragon I want to show them they don’t have to………….fear me.”

Discord was taken aback “Fear you?” he said ‘Doesn’t he see they hate him for what he is?’ he thought.

“Yes, I know some hate me but most of them, when I look into their eyes I can see their fear and I know what they say behind my back, even the castle staff”

“…………………Spike……………I want you to take those emotions and multiply them by a thousand, then you will understand something about me.” Discord said, looking sad.

Spike tried, but couldn’t do it and it made him wonder why would Discord say something like that, he tried but simply couldn’t imagine what was he trying to prove, little by little he tried to do it and realized something “……………………….. You……………. You are not evil, and never, never have you ever been, have you?”

“Yes, I was NEVER evil”

“B-but mom, and Twilight…….and you…..----“Discord put his claw hand over his head.

“Let me tell you a story…………….my story.” he snapped his fingers and two sun-chairs, two congas and a pair of sunglasses appeared before them. “Take a seat, this is going to take a while.”

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*Flash Back by Discord* Twenty Five thousand years ago

A baby Discord was playing with some rocks, deep down in the heart of a cave, turning them into anything the baby could imagine and even munching on them from time to time, three adult draconequus were watching him and the entrance of the cave in silent guard.

“Can you believe what he is doing?” one of them asked “He is eating rocks.”

“It’s hard to imagine, four days old and he is already using his magic,” a second one said as Discord took another bite from the rock, making it drip something blue on the floor, “He is literally transforming one thing into another, that’s freaky.”

“We do the same.” the first one said.

“No we don’t!” The third one said looking at Discord with disgust, “our magic let us manipulate matter and convert it into something else but only for a short time and low quantities.” his glare intensified, “that ‘baby’ on the other hand is manipulating, no, breaking the laws of reality at his will, he can even create things out of thin air,” just in that moment Discord created a glass of chocolate milk before him and drank the milk before also eating the glass, “little monster, that’s what he is.”

“Don’t be like that brother,” the second one said, “he is one of us, he is also our brother, he is…….strange yes but he is our brother nonetheless.”

“How can you say that!?” the third one yelled softly. “Just look at him, even his limbs are strange.”

Another Draconequus arrived at the entrance of the cave without warning making the other three unshed their swords and jump up ready to fight and cast spells, once they saw the intruder was their sister they lowered their weapons and relaxed again.

“What news do you bring sister?” the first one asked.

“Arcadia fell,” she said, “Echidna turned it to less than ashes with her flames.” she sighed, “how is our little brother?”

Discord had crawled unnoticed by any of them to where they were, poking the chicken leg of the female draconequus she turned her head down to see him looking up at her with a smile on his face, offering her a rock, she smiled back at him while her brothers looked at her amazed, the third one looking furious, the female bent down to grab him and Discord welcomed the gesture happily, she got up with the baby on her arms smiling at him while he was still offering her the rock.

She was curious as to why he was offering her a rock, looking to her brother she saw that both the first and the third shook their heads while the second one gave her a subtle nod, she took the rock with left hand, both arms were tiger paws, making Discord laugh cutely she smelled the rock finding it quite sweet, with nothing to lose she decided to bite it.

“Sister Do—“the third one was saying as the female took a bite out of the rock

“Oh……my…….mmmmhhhhh----Tastes like blueberry jam!” she exclaimed happily “My favorite! Thank you!” she said cheerfully at Discord, he in return only laughed.

“Let me have a taste.” the second one said as the female passed him the rock and soon he too took a bite from it “it’s Lemon pie, my favorite, I thought you said it was blueberry jam sister!” he said taking another bite from the rock.

“Here brother take a bite.” he said as he tossed the rock at the first one.

The first one warily took a bite from the rock. “You lie brother, this tastes like chocolate donuts!” He said munching the rock happily. “it’s amazing!”

The third one glared at Discord and the first one passed him the almost finished rock only to grab it and throw it away “See what I mean!?” he said in a high tone, “it can even change the taste of the things he transform into food to taste like your favorite food, THAT is not natural in anyway…….we can’t even begin to do that!”

“A very nice trick if you ask me ‘brother’.“ the female glared at him, “Why do you hate him so much, he is just a baby.” she said as Discord hugged her neck tightly, nuzzling into her golden fur.

“He is anything but a baby.” the third one said clenching his scaled chest. “He IS a monster, no one should be able to do what he does.”

“He even saved your life yesterday,” the second one said, “Why are you treating him like this? You should be grate—“

“IT used a high level healing spell against my torn open chest,” he glared death upon Discord, “I FELT his magic on me, it twisted everything inside me, no three day old newborn should even be able to open their eyes yet.” silence reigned for a couple of minutes. “We should leave it, it can take care of himself.”

“B-but it is our mission to guard him.” the first one said nervously

“I DON’T FUCKING CARE ABOUT THE MONSTER,” he yelled making the baby Discord stare at him innocently, he knew what they were saying but still couldn’t comprehend the full weight of those words, “our brothers and sisters died in battle, I’m not going to stay here and guard that……thing, when we could help in battle!”

“And disobey the king’s command!?” the second one said, clearly insulted at the thought.

“Open your eyes there is no more king, we are the only ones left………… We should be helping our alicorn brothers in battle not babysitting an abomina-“

A hard blow sent him to the ground harshly, breaking some stones and part of the floor; the third one looked up holding his right cheek painfully at the female who was giving him the coldest glare she could muster.

“If you want to leave then leave,” she hugged a confused baby Discord closer to her, “go to battle and die you cowardly excuse of a warrior.”

The third one said nothing and left the cave without another word, the first one was looking between him and the female, after some seconds he also leaves the cave, following the third one. The second one stepped closer to the female, putting a lizard hand on her shoulder, near Discord.

“We will protect him, don’t worry,” silence, “reminds you of someone?”

“………….. My little brother, he was barely a year old…….. It was some years ago.”

“I see,” he said, “let’s get inside,” he said noticing a now sleeping Discord. “We must rest also.”

“Will we be safe here? Will it be safe, for him?” she asked him, concerned about the future of the baby.

“I’m sure it will be…………….I hope so.”

Both adult draconequus went inside the cave for protection and warmth; it was going to be a long time before they could get out safely.

Three months later both of his guardians died at the claws of a rogue dragon, Discord had to watch his two guardians fight against the dragon with all their might, he saw with wide eys as the dragon chew, stomped, slashed and cut through his guardians, his guardians barely putting up a fight against him, it was a wyrm, a dragon with a high resistance to magic and scales so thick that not even diamonds could cut them, the battle raged on for half an hour until the male died and turned to stone, the parts of his that the dragon didn’t devoured when he killed him that is, as for the female she was about to die, smashed by the weight of the dragon, when a purple sphere hit him inside of his mouth and flashed inside of him, destroying his lungs in the process, the dragon spit blood and ashes from his mouth and fell down into the ground, experiencing a slow, painful death.

When the dragon died Discord came out from his hiding spot and crawled to where the female was, reaching her he tried to heal her but she was already turning to stone, the female was crying not from pain or fear but for leaving the baby alone, he could see it in her eyes, with whatever little strength she had left she hugged Discord close to her and kissed him on his forehead saying she was sorry the entire time, as she turned to stone only the crying sobs of a child could be heard inside the cave, Discord only remembered her name, Dissidia.

From there on baby Discord had to protect himself, his innocence and magic power helping him to survive even if he didn’t really understand it, when he was hungry he could change anything to what he desired, if he was thirsty he could create water or any other fluid he desired from nothing, but he rarely ventured outside his cave, the images of how his ‘mom’ was killed by the dragon plagued his mind making him afraid of dragons, years passed and soon five hundred years had gone by, he was barely a child and decided it was time to see the world, what he found was fear.

Every land he ventured to there was fighting specially amongst dragons and what he could describe at the time as flying horned horses, he watched in awe and fear the battles he saw, until in one occasion his curiosity made him taste for the first time in his life physical pain and his own blood, a red dragon had hit him with his tail so hard it had almost turned him unconscious, Discord tried to fight back but while his magic was strong to change things to another it resulted useless against the ferocious dragon, that day Discord barely escaped with his life.

For the next fifteen hundred years Discord went from one place to another hiding and training his powers, one thing he noticed was that nothing was limited to him except other types of magic that worked specifically against his own and even then that kind of magic could be bended to his will in time and something had changed inside him the day the world finally stood still and in silence, the battles, the ‘war’ was over, his fear for dragons turned to both admiration and desire to defeat them.

The land was dry, nothing grew over, there was no water, no shade, no sign of life, the black charcoal like sand that was all over the land promised death, even his powers were not enough to save it, the land was dead. It was time to leave, to see more of the world, to learn, to fi ght and maybe to find companionship and more of his kind.

He found none.

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No matter where the teenage Discord went he was never welcomed and the screams of fear, the harsh words and the curses towards him hunted his nightmares, “Monster”, “Abomination”, “Lunatic”, “Demon”, “TARTARUS SPAWNED!”, and many other names came to him at night offering him restless sleep, the worst of all however where the ponies.

Discord had tried to approach them, to befriend them but to no avail, the ponies ran away from him at mere sight, screaming in panic and fear, and those that did not run tried to hurt him or called him names he despised, even the winged unicorns were relentless, there was no love, no friendship and no compassion for him, yet he still tried, there was hope inside his heart, hope that nearly was destroyed when he learned ponies hated him………….simply because of his appearance and powers, he could change forms but if nopony would accept him for what he truly was then there was no point on putting on a mask, so he searched the world.

During his travels in search of company he had discovered he was immortal, while most creatures lived for sixty, seventy or maybe even ninety years he was gifted or cursed with immortality and loneliness, even the ponies who could live all the way up to one hundred and seventy years had such a small time compared to him, the only other being that shared his condition were the, he learned, alicorns but even they hated him, granted he had only knew a few of them but enough was enough.

All the undeserved hate he received, all the loneliness and all the pain he felt inside of him finally snapped at him, he didn’t want company anymore, he would become powerful, so powerful that not even dragons, not even alicorns, not even gods themselves would be a match for him, he would become a god himself, the god of all that was unnatural, all that was………chaos.

And so, for the next twelve thousand years he vanished from the world, perfecting his powers and dominating his very core, he had no name but decided to name himself, from that day onward he would become Discord, The God of Chaos.

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A young adult draconequus was cheerfully floating through the air above the mountains of an unknown land, well unknown to him, twelve thousand years could definitely change the scenery, he was minding his own business when the sound of a battle echoed in the distance, a kind of music he knew very well, a dragon and an alicorn fighting. Discord floated for a couple of minutes before finding a field where many bodies of dragons and some alicorn armors were scattered on the floor, the biggest dragon he had ever seen was fighting against a single foe, he summoned some glasses and popcorn, enjoying the show, for about fifteen minutes the battle raged on until the dragon, by a lucky hit, made his foe crash into the dirt.

“AUUGGGHHHH!!!” the white coat, red manned alicorn screamed in pain due to the new burn on his right foreleg, a crown adorning his head fell to the ground breaking itself into many pieces.

“This time*pant* you won’t be able to run, Solaris,” his opponent said, a massive red-blood dragon with blue spikes smiled, “now you will die, as well as your pathetic race!”

“hnnnggg---you call us pathetic, Valtach, but are we not the only ones holding you back, keeping you at bay?” Aurora smirked while Valtach glared at him. “How does it feel to be stopped by these ‘pathetic’ foes?”

“ENOUGH!, die you insolent scum!” Valtach opened his maw gathering his yellow fire inside of it, Solaris was trying to cast a shield around him but he was far too weak, the previous battle had taken a big toll on him.

Valtach was about to fire a great fireball when out of nowhere some kind of slime like substance covered his entire face, extinguishing his charged fireball, in the surprise that followed, Valtach took a step back and tried to get the substance off his face, a lot of it was inside his mouth and he tasted it.

‘……its sweet…….and fluffy, what in the name of Tartarus is this!?’ Valtach thought successfully cleaning his face and mouth off of the, now visible, pink substance, he heard a mad laughter coming from everywhere around him, the laughter reminded him when a hatchling made a prank and was laughing his scales off afterwards, he hated it “SHOW YOURSELF!” Valtach demanded.

“Well, well, well, what have we here? A big bad dragon huh? OOH!, I'm really scared! So you think you are powerful eh? AHAHAHA!” said the voice around him mockingly.

Suddenly Discord’s face appeared in front of Valtach blowing a raspberry at him, Valtach got enraged and covered him in a fire stream, after several seconds Valtach stopped and smirked…….until.

“ HA! You’re jokin’, you’re jokin’! I can’t believe now!” Discord sang around him appearing completely sitting on Valtach’s head “You’re joking, you gotta be! This guy’s not powerful at all!” Discord patted Valtach’s head, earning a loud growl from him and violent shocking of his head.

Discord appeared at Aurora’s side putting his lion paw over his back neck and pointing at Valtach with his eagle claw “He’s weak, he’s stupid and I don’t know which is worse! That he beat you or his face!!” In a bright flash he was in front of Valtach again but this time the dragon king slashed him into many pieces but something was wrong, the head was still smiling.

“I might just go to pieces now, IF I don’t die laughin’ first! HA HA HA!” he sang leaving both Aurora and Valtach with their jaws down on the floor.

Suddenly everything turned black and in a bright flash Discord appeared again, this time in a Valtach size form, wearing a tuxedo and smiling madly directly at Valtach’s face.

“When Discord’s master of chaos says that mayhem is close at claw,” he snapped his fingers and a giant glove appeared at his side, “You better pay attention now, ‘cuz I'm the chaos GOD!” another snap and a couple of cards wearing a crown with his face appeared around Valtach “And if you aren’t shakin’ there‘s something very wrong!” another snap and a miniature version of his appeared above his head, Valtach was so stunned he didn’t even notice when Discord grabbed his face and made him look into his miss matched pupils, seeing numerous patterns on them “‘Cuz this may be last time you hear my chaos song!”

“Wooooah!” Discord sang

“Wooooah!” the glove sang

“WoooooAH!” Discord Sang

“WhooooAH!” the miniature Discord sang

“WHOOOOOAHH!” Discord sang in a high tone

“WHOOOOOAHH!” all the cards sang in the same tone simultaneously

“HE’S THE CHAOS MAKIN’ GOD!” the glove, the miniature Discord and the cards sang while Discord basked in the glory of his song.

Valtach recovering his senses shouted at him outraged “You insolent scum, just who the fuck do you think you are, don’t you know who I am!???”

Discord turned around laughing ignoring Valtach “You’re joking, you’re joking, I can’t believe my ears!” Discord teleported in front of Aurora again with his original size, this time embracing him as Discord cried on his shoulder “Would someone shut that dragon up? I'm drownin’ in my tears,” and with that he teleported again in front of Valtach, startling him. “It’s funny, Im laughin’, you really are too much, but now with your permission, Im going to do my stuff” he said almost whispering to Valtach.

“And what are you going to do you spineless piece of shit!” Valtach yelled at him, Discord smirked, leaning closer to him.
“Why of course……..only the best I can!”

“WOOOOOOAAAAAAHHHHHHH!, The sounds of the crazed is like music in the air" out of nowhere two giant roll dice hit Valtach on his face and stomach sending him to the ground “Cuz’ I'm a gambling draconequus, although I don’t play fair!”, Valtach was rising again, ready to maim the insolent thing before him, when he appeared over him, again in his giant size “It’s much more fun, I must confess when a life’s on the line, not mine of course!, but yours, weak fool?, now that’d be just fine!” Discord sang as he grabbed Valtach’s neck with his eagle claw.

Valtach was furious, with a loud roar followed by a stream of his deadly fire he managed to free himself from Discord’s grip.

“You shall pay for this humiliation, I'm the Dragon God Valtach, remember it for I shall be your executioner!” he opened his wings ready to charge, Discord turned and closed his eyes teleporting to where Aurora was, still unmoving, facing him.

“Oh brother, he’s something, he puts me in a spin” Discord turned around with his eyes still closed pointing at Valtach “you aren’t comprehending the position that you’re in, it’s hopeless, you’re finished, I'M THE ONLY GOD HERE!” he turned to Aurora again raising his arms in victory “’Cuz Im Discord, now you know, and I think it’s chaos time!” he finished singing ending his little show, he turned around to face the dragon opening his eyes and charging both his paw and claw with raw chaos energy balls, only to find an empty field and the figure of a dragon flying to the distance.

“OH C’MON!!!” Discord screamed “It took me a whole year to come up with that song and the motions!” Discord began to grumble, curse and complain about the whole darn thing.

Meanwhile Aurora was having a hard time trying to understand what had happened, so far he knew what he was and who he was, sort of, but his powers and his attitude were so strange but one thing was for certain.

“Thank you.” Aurora said

“And above all it was so perfect I'm not going to have a chance like that in... I beg your pardon?” Discord turned around confused to face the unknown alicorn “Did you just……..thank me?”

“Yes I did, thank you Discord was it?, for saving me” Aurora bowed slightly at him.

“Pfffftt, I didn’t saved you, I was watching the fight and I decided I was going to wait and see who won.”

“I see…….for what reason, if I may ask?”

“To defeat him of course, but that dragon was soooooo weak, you two must be weaklings.” Discord said crossing his arms, mocking the alicorn and the dragon that fled. “Who are you anyways?”

‘…………It’s the first time somepony called me a weakling.’ he thought as he smirked at him amusingly “Well, you see my name is Au-“

“King Aurora!”

Both Discord and Aurora turned their heads upwards seeing two black alicorns wearing blue-purple armor that covered every part of their bodies except their faces and necks, the alicorns landed at each of Discord sides and pointed their horns towards him with a spell on them ready to be casted, Discord smiled and lifted his paw and claw to the air.

“Are you alright my king?” the one on the left asked.

“Who is this creature, what is this creature?” asked the other one.

“It’s alright, lower your horns, his name is Discord and he is my savior.” Aurora smiled at both of the guards who looked at him surprised but did what their king said, Aurora’s smile turned into a scowl as he focused his attention on the battlefield. “We were ambushed, Valtach himself led the attack,” the guards looked at each other with deep concern, “we lost another eight during this fight, Valtach and his forces are getting relentless, any news from the north?”

“Y-yes my king, our forces were fighting a legion lead by Wrath himself and defeat seemed certain for them, but another legion of loyalists arrived just in time to save them, they were lead by Lord Sabarius himself, they also rescued the three sons of Valtach and are on their way to the hidden fortress in the forest.” the guard on the right said.

“Excellent, what happened to Wrath?”

“He was wounded severely by Starswirl and retreated.”

“Let us return to the castle then.” both guards nodded and looked at Discord who was motionless. “Care to join us?” Aurora asked but Discord didn’t move “Discord?” Aurora asked as he took a step closer to him, lifted his right forehoof and touched him, Discord fell backwards shattering into millions of pieces, the guards and Aurora were frozen in fear.

“BOOOOOOO!”

“AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!” The three of them screamed, jumped and fell to the ground by the same thing.

“ HAHAHAHA you should have seen the looks on your faces, priceless!” Discord said floating above them laughing his tail off, both guards were breathing heavily due to the surprise while Aurora was……laughing!?

“Hahahahaha, ohh----pffffttt----hahahahahaha…..I……I don’t even……Hahahahaha” he tried to say something but his laughter was too great, he was actually rolling on the floor, hitting it hard and crying at the same time, moments later he finally calmed himself enough to try to stand up, a lion paw offered him help to get up, he took it with his left hoof “Thank you……uhhhffff…….I needed that, it has been a long time since I last laughed like that.”

“Chaos is my game and pranking is my reign” he lifted Aurora to his hooves again, Aurora looked at his destroyed crown and sighed. “Let me fix that.” with a snap from his fingers the crown was fixed and placed over Auroras head.

“That’s the most advanced fixing spell I have ever seen in my life,” Aurora said amazed, “Not even Celestia or Luna can do the kind of magic you do, what kind it is?”

“It’s chaos magic, basically it lets me do whatever I imagine, up will be down, fish will be cookie, flowers will be blood thirsty monsters, you name it.”

“Impressive, by the way do you know who was the dragon that you made flee moments earlier?”

“Nah, I’ve been back for only some days don’t know who he is, but he was pretty weak” Discord crossed his arms.

“No he isn’t, that was Valtach the dragon king, self proclaimed dragon god, he was just very, very tired our previous fight had lasted for three hours, he would have put a serious fight against you and your incredible powers if he wasn’t tired.” a smile formed on Discord’s lips.

“My king, I hate to interrupt but we must go.” both guards took flight and hovered above their King and Discord.
Aurora opened his wings ready to fly “Care to join us? You will be welcomed as my guest of honor”

“I don’t know, I'm not very “social”” he said looking at the guard who were looking at him with disgust “if you know what I mean”

“Maybe you could tell me more about your powers and yourself” Discord seemed to like that idea “and I will tell you about this war we are fighting and more about Valtach and his feared general Wrath” Discord smiled widely.

“Lead the way”

The three alicorns and the draconequus flew towards the hidden castle of the forest.

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“Wait, wait, wait, Discord saved your father just by mere coincidence?” Twilight asked Luna who only nodded in response “But the Discord you are describing is so…….calm compared to the Discord we fought and a total contrast to the Discord we know from h istory, why would the historians, why would you hide something like that?” she asked Luna pointing at her with one hoof and almost glaring at her.

“Please Twilight let me finish this story first” Luna closed her eyes focusing on remembering those old days, a smile appeared on her face “When father arrived to the castle we were so happy to see him again, mother hugged him as he was telling us his little story, Tia was only twenty years old and I was twelve years old, it was a blessing mother had two child in less than ten years”

“When he was done with his tale he presented Discord to us, I remember the first thing I thought about him” Luna giggled a little “I thought he was some kind of miss matched puzzle or some kind of giant strange plushie, Tia on the other hoof didn’t trust him at first but she was very thankful that he had saved our father, mother on the other hoof after freeing our father from her hug she walked direc tly to Discord”

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Discord was staring down at the dark blue alicorn with silver mane and tail, blue soft eyes looking at him tenderly, Discord was getting a little uncomfortable with her gaze over him then suddenly she hugged him.

“Thank you…….thank you for saving my beloved” she said in a soft tune “Thank you Sir Discord”

Discord pulled away from the hug, taken a back from her action, it was the first time ANYONE or ANYTHING actually showed some kind of affection towards him “Pfffft, it was nothing, I was going to fight whoever was winning, it was just a happy accident”

“Accident or not you saved him” Moon Light vowed before him “I am at your service”

“T-There is no need for any of that!” Discord said blushing “I only want to fight those stron g bastards!”

Moon Light looked at him, face red of embarrassment, and simply giggled, everypony else around just laughed lightly.

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“Later on Discord told us what he wanted to do, he simply wanted to fight the strongest of beings to prove his strength and to prove he was the most powerful creature in the world, even then he called himself the God of Chaos” Luna took a deep breath while Twilight was putting deep attention to every single word she was saying.

“For two weeks he was all the time with my father discussing about Valtach, Wrath, our forces, the enemy our allies, everything, Discord was a lot more serious and had a thirst to know about everything, that didn’t stopped him from pulling pranks every so often, no one was spared and he loved pranking Tia the most, every time she got so furious h er coat actually turned red from anger” Luna giggled “and don’t tell her, but I joined him from time to time on his pranks, eventually he leaved for some months and then returned joining our cause against Valtach and his forces”

“Little by little over time Discord showed that while he was fighting for himself most of the time he had a deep appreciation and a sense of loyalty towards our father, both of them bonded so much, you should have seen them Twilight, they fought together, they ate together, they practiced magic together, they were like brothers and even when they fought against one another they always smiled and laugh it off” a sad smile appeared on Luna’s lips.

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“I saw Aurora as a comrade, a partner………maybe even as a friend but in all those years I never asked him nor did he asked me upon th e subject” Discord smiled “ but………Moon Light she was a different story, at first I thought she was just playing some kind of game with me, pretending to be nice to me or something, soon I discovered she was truthfully kind to me, she always treated me with respect and equality, she went all off her way to defend me when she caught somepony talking bad about me”

“S-she sounds a lot like Fluttershy” Spike said

“You have no idea how much” Discord clenched his fists “Two years before the end of the war something happened” his face turned serious “Moon Light, Celestia and Luna went out to practice their routine exercises I……I…….Moon Light asked me if I wanted to come along but I refused, she ……she gave me a light peek on my left cheek and left saying good bye, it wasn’t the first time she had done it but it was the first time she had in front of her daughters………………….then………it came”

Spike was listening carefully at Discord seeing something he had never seen in anyone before, not even the sight of his mother’s pain and sadness, the power of her regret could match the life tearing regret Discord’s eyes were showing.

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Discord was hanging upside down a branch all the while drinking……..something blue-ish from a golden cup when he heard the rapid hoof steps of a guard coming near him, opening his left eye he saw the guard approaching him with a look of dread on his face.

“Sir Discord *pant* have you seen *pant* his royal majesty *pant* King Aurora!?”

“Yeah, he went to the swamp with Sabarius for a secret meeting a while ago, he should be back soon, but what’s the matter?”

“It’s *pant* WRATH! A report says he was spotted nearby!” the guard pr actically shouted at Discord.

For a second nothing was heard, until the sound of a metalic cup clashing with the ground echoed through the air.

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Wrath was flying across the skies over a rocky plain in search of preys and possibly to find the blasted secret castle of the alicorns “Lowly creatures, such a pest they are I can’t wait to add another kill to my record” Wrath spotted something in front of him and slightly below him, he recognized the mane in an instant, she was out in the open, alone and for the looks of it noticed him, he smiled wickedly and launched himself at her, queen Moon Light was going to be his.

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“She hid us the moment she saw Wrath in the distance, made us promise on her life that we wo uld not interfere no matter what, after that mother did all she could to fight against that brutal monster but she lost, he tortured her, made her scream, made her cry, I don’t know exactly what she did to her but he……he….*sniff* he e-even made her beg f-for death” Luna couldn’t take it anymore and broke into a desperate cry “oh T-twilight *sniff* her screams *sniff* they w-w-were so----so……*dampen cry*.”

Twilight held her ever so tightly, crying herself at the horrid loss of the pony sisters, for a moment Twilight tried to wonder if she could keep such a promise if her mother made her promise that but was unable to, mainly because she kicked the thought out of her head as fast it came.

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Discord was flying around the skies at his maximum speed trying to find Moon Light and her daughters, he was already two kilometers away from the usual areas they used for their exercises, he had hope in his heart that they were already back at the castle, that they were hidden, that they were ANYWHERE away from Wraths grasp and sight, both of them had fought in the past and Wrath was so strong that it was difficult even for him to hold him at bay, he truly was a murder machine, a powerful reason to re-double his efforts in finding Moo-

“*AARRRRRGGGGGGGGGAAHHHHHH ……………KILL ME PLEASE!!!!!!!!........NOOOOOO!!!! *”

Discord’s heart stopped for a moment before engulfing himself in chaotic energy and launch it at the same time at the source of the horrid screams.

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Queen Moon Light had begged for death and as merciful as Wrath was he gave it to her, devourin g her entirely, destroying her with his back fangs, he was about to scream in victory when he saw two alicorns standing in the top of a dirt pillar, crying, enraged and ready to fight, Wrath smiled, not only was he going to kill the queen of the alicorns but he was also going to end her daughters, Wrath was about to pounce over them when he heard a noise, like a whistle.

Both sisters also heard the noise but did not lose the sight of their hated enemy, Wrath looked up to see where that strange noise was coming from, he didn’t had to wait long as a great sphere of energy impacted right against his face sending him backwards, both sisters saw something land in front of them, they saw a bat wing and a blue wing, a tail with red scales with a patch of white fur on the top and brown fur molding a slender figure before them, it was Discord.

“Run” Discord said.

“B-but we must av--!” Celestia tried to argue but shut up as soon as Discord looked back at them showing both sisters a face and a glare of pure hate, his miss matched pupils were gone showing only a deep purple light from his eyes, his teeth had grown transforming into vicious fangs including his single snaggletooth and his horns had grown and deformed making him very, very intimidating.

“I said, Run” his voice was deep and full of authority.

Wrath got up in time to see the royal sisters fly away as fast as they could, he plunged himself into the air to pursue her but something smashed against his left cheek with tremendous force sending him down to the ground, before hitting the ground he managed to get himself upright and land with his four claws first, looking above he found it was Discord who had sent him to the ground, they had fought many times in the past years but this was the first time they were going to be completely alone, Wrath roared and sent a powerful stream of fire at Discord .

Discord charged at the fire stream like nothing turning every strand of fire that touched him into water which at the same time extinguished the surrounding fire creating a dense mist, Discord landed a powerful chaotic punch on Wrath’s maw sending him over his claws and landing on his back. Wrath wasted no time and grabbed Discord with his tail sending him to crash against the nearest rock pick, doing a barrel roll he got up again and sent a massive stream of purple fire towards where Discord had crashed.

Wrath stopped and moved to his right just in time as he saw another sphere of energy, like the one that had caught him by surprise, emerge from his previous fire stream, charging he clashed against the mountain wall destroying it and started to smash, crack and burn all the rubble, once he stopped the rubble moved violently, parts of it transformed into deadly sharp candy canes, Wrath dodged all except one that got him on his left rear leg, they were candy canes but where more sharp than his own fangs so it was no surprise it went through his thick scales effortlessly making Wrath roar in both pain and anger.

Discord emerged with small dribbles of blood oozing out from his body, charging his claw and paw with raw chaos magic he launched himself against the dragon punching him hard several times all over his body, with a swift movement Wrath caught Discord, as he was about to punch him, with his maw, trapping him inside his mouth which enveloped with his flames hoping to roast him alive.

A sharp pain inside his mouth made Wrath open it releasing the fire stream that was been held back inside and a very piss off Discord, using his magic, Discord lifted several boulders, turned them giant and tossed them to Wrath. Seeing the upcoming danger he tried to move but something was grabbing his legs, looking down he saw a green substance covering his claws and a good part of the ter rain, instead of trying to free himself he opened his reversed wings, lighting them up with his purple flames he began to batter them to his front, creating a tornado to change the direction of the boulders.

One boulder passed through his purple flamed tornado directly at him but with a loud powerful roar of Wrath the boulder was rebounded back to Discord at twice the speed, the boulder hit Discord square, sending him to crash on the ground below, Wrath used his flames to free himself while Discord was down, Discord got up between the ruble he had landed on, he put his arms in front of him, clenched his paw and claw into fists looking like he was focusing on something and opened his mouth, Wrath was too busy to notice his movements, once he was free again he searched for Discord, he saw him charge something due to the size of the magical aura around him, Wrath began charging an massive amount of flames inside his maw, ready for anything Discord could throw at him.

He didn’t have to wait long as a bright yellow beam shot out from Discord’s mouth directly to him, wasting no time he sent his own purple fire stream against the yellow beam of Discord, both deadly techniques collide against each other creating a bright light, followed by a massive explosion that made the earth beneath them tremble and a dome of fire and light that could be seen from hundreds of miles away.

Celestia and Luna turned around to look at the source of the light, seeing a massive pillar of purple and yellow rise to the skies and felt that the air and earth themselves trembled due to the immense power of the battle behind them. Both of them used their magic to accelerate their flight wanting to tell their father what had happen and that somehow Discord had arrived just in time to save them and was fighting Wrath by himself.

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Discord arrived at the castle of the forest minutes later after Celestia and Luna had arrived, he saw a total of fifty alicorns ready to fight, Aurora was giving some sort of speech when he saw the looks of his daughters, nephew and soldiers, he turned around to see Discord bleeding from all over his body, his antler horn was broken, his lion paw was twisted in an unnatural way and his right eye was closed with a patch of blood over it, Discord walked towards Aurora and with his left arm handed him a dark crown with the symbol of a full moon in the center of it.

“It was a draw, Wrath fled, I was going to pursue him *pant* but this was more important” Aurora took the crown with his forehoofs sitting in the process “Im sorry Aurora……….I couldn’t *pant*……..”Discord dropped to the ground exhausted, before he could hit the floor Celestia and Luna took him with their magic and retreated to the hospital wing, several uncomfortable minutes of silence and sadness went by around Aurora and his troops.

“Uncle” a white alicorn with blue eyes and a flowing yellow mane approached the king from behind “What must we do?”.

“…………………Disband the meeting Blueblood, prepare everything for a soul engraving ritual” Aurora said not looking back at his nephew.

“As you command”

Blueblood did as he was told and soon only Aurora remained in the room they were at, he wasn’t moving and was making no sound but that didn’t made the tears flowing down his eyes any less hurtful.

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Discord was sitting on his chair silently; a sad look adorning his face, Spike was looking at him in the verge of tears.

“Fluttershy is the very first true friend I’ve ever had Spike” Discord said looking at the sky “She reminds me so much to Moon Light it almost scares me” a couple of birds chipper before continuing “She was so kind to me, from the very first instant she saw me she only showed kindness and gratitude towards me, it was the first time in my entire life that I actually felt……..loved”

“They are so similar, for chaos sake they even share the same mane style, her voice was so soothing, so caring” a small couple of tears fell from his eyes “she defended me from all those that hated me just for how I looked and my powers, even when I played pranks at her she always laughed them up” more tears fell from his eyes “one time, one time I woke up due to a nightmare, a memory from when I was alone and a child, the loneliness, the pain, the sadness overwhelmed me, she came to me and held me in her hooves, it was the first time I actually felt what a hug was like” a free torrent of tears were falling from his eyes, bringing those wonderful and painful memories back to him “I could have go with them…………I could have say yes………..I should have say yes” he gritted his fangs “I could have save her………….and I didn’t” he said while he was crying his heart out.

A couple of minutes passed for them to calm down “You *sniff* *sniff* l-loved her” Spike said in no better condition than Discord.

“Yes……..I loved her……..even with the huge age difference we had……….I loved her or at least what I felt how one must love, a mother” Spike jumped from his seat to land on Discord hugging him, Discord was startled by this for a moment but eventually relaxed and put his claw over Spike’s back “Her screams cut down to my very soul and when I arrived it was already too late, hate almost took over me, only my promise to look after Celestia and Luna managed to hold me under certain control of my actions”

“She was my pillar, my control if you could say that, with her help I was able to ignore all the hate, all the comments and all the looks to myself…………..but………..after her death, that was when I started to crumble”

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“NO! You can’t go, you can’t leave us!” Luna screamed at her father who was wearing his royal battle armor.
“I don’t want to but I must”

“Then let us go with you father!” Celestia protested “We have been training with Discord for over two years, we are ready to fight now!”

“…………….Im sorry but you can´t—“

“WE ALSO WANT TO AVENGE HER!” both sisters yelled in unison.

Aurora looked to the ground and then behind him, the remaining thre e hundred alicorns, a vast army made from ponies, zebras, griffons, minotaurs and diamond dogs all of them armed with weapons and protected by enchanted armor, and their dragon allies led by Sabarius and the youngest son of Valtach, Euphrinos, were looking at him expectantly, he looked at Discord who was at Celestia’s side but he didn’t move, he looked at his left side to his general Starswirl who did the same, looking at his right he found his nephew Blueblood who shook his head from side to side, looking back he saw Sabarius also shocking his head from side to side, looking again at Discord he saw this time a simple nod.

“Alright, you can come too, but if the battle turns against us you will return, understood?” Aurora said to his daughters, who only nodded to him, Aurora turned facing the entire allied army, his horn lighted up “Im not a fan of big speeches” his voice echoed all around the camp and the ready to fight army “and Im also not very good at them, my nephew Blueblood always writes them down for me” a multitude of light laughs and giggles were heard “but I always speak with the truth and the truth is, this is the final battle, for almost two hundred years we have fought by ourselves a common enemy, and enemy that has formed an army themselves, that in raw power, is more powerful than ours, but that enemy fights because he wants to exterminate life and all those who he considers weak, but here we stand, the very same things they consider weak united and ready to face them and just by that single fact we will triumph this day, this day Valtach WILL PAY FOR ALL HIS CRIMES!”

A loud roar of screams and battle cries united as Aurora flew into the skies followed by all those who could fly and those who couldn’t started to move forward, ready to face the now on sight, incoming dragon legions led by Valtach and his subjects. The armies advanced against one another steadily until both erupted into a crazed run and clashed against each other, the big dragons from both sides faced against themselves on the skies, the alicorns fought both in land and sky aiding their allies and disrupting their enemy, on the ground unicorns, minotaurs, zebras, earth ponies, allied drakes and diamond dogs clashed against the enemy drakes and the wyrms. On the skies pegasus, griffons and allied dragons fought against the superior number of the dragon forces but held valiantly keeping them away from their ground allies.

The fiercest fights were between Aurora, Sabarius and Euphrinos against Valtach and some of his personal guard, and Celestia, Luna and Discord against Wrath, screams of pain, the smell of blood and death filled the air but that was not important, what was important was who would be the victor of this battle.

The battle continued for almost two hours, both sides suffering heavy casualties but the impossible was happening, Valtac h and his forces were being defeated, Valtach was getting desperate his personal guard was now defeated and he was getting tired, he needed a miracle to turn the tables around, a miracle that came in the form of his son. Euphrinos charged at his father with all his might but as he was about to clash against him Valtach used his spear point tail to pierce his heart, Euphrinos had charged so fast that he couldn’t stop in time the last thing he saw was a bright flash before returning at Sabarius side.

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The echo of the sound stopped all the fighting and made everyone look at the source of the sound, the found king Aurora lying on the floor………….his lower half at least.

“FATHER!” Celestia cried looking at the superior half of his father been held in the air by Valtach’s tail, Luna has stunned by the sight, Valtach laughed hard and darkly feeling the warm blood and insides of his most hated foe on the tip of his tail.

For a moment the battle seemed to be lost for the allied forced as Valtach laugh only grew more and more, the sun above them started to lose brightness and was getting smaller, suddenly six bright flashes of light appeared around Aurora, the flash lights turned into spheres of colors, Aurora moved his head upwards, he was not dead, not yet.

“With my death…………….the…..ele….ments……….are……..free” he whispered “find….your……bearers” he commanded before falling a long way to the earth.

The six spheres seemed to understand him as they began flashing and flying around the entire field, meanwhile Valtach in his astonished state didn’t saw Discord above him until it was too late, Discord sent Valtach crashing down with a powerful kick to his head, as if a horn of war had been played the battle renewed, there was still hope.

Sabarius and Euphrinos joined Disco rd on his fight against the dragon tyrant while Celestia and Luna fought like mad mares against Wrath who could barely keep up with their rages state, they were so powerful now, all that training with Discord and their father was now paying off, Discord showed no mercy against Valtach who was fighting with all his might against his three powerful foes, each hit, each spell from Discord, every single insult they were throwing at him was sending him over the edge until he finally snapped and anger consumed him, with a single but powerful tail swipe he knocked out his son Euphrinos.

Jumping high in the air he launched a deadly fire stream of fire against Discord, who stood there as the fire engulfed him, diving from the air at supersonic speed he landed on the back of Sabarius and grabbed his head with his claws, before Sabarius could free himself Valtach roared right in the back of his head, the loud roar combined with the pressure over his head was eno ugh to knock him out as well, the fire around Discord dissipated reveling a magic shield around him, the enraged Valtach looked at Discord and threw himself at him.

On another side of the battle Wrath was having a rough time fighting against Celestia and Luna, he was already tired from his previous battle with them and Discord, but now their powers had somehow multiplied, Celestia engulfed herself in a ball of fire and launched herself against Wrath hitting him right in his chest, Wrath was sent backwards as he saw Celestia was going to hit him again, Wrath smiled, the same trick wouldn’t work on his this time, and it didn’t, as Celestia was about to hit him he tried to knock the fireball with his right claw but before he made contact with her she stopped and went upwards he looked up to see what she was planning but was brought back by a stinging pain on his chest that sent him backwards again, this time leaving a silver mark over the injured zon e, he looked straight forward to see a silver-blue ball of fire similar to the one Celestia did, this was Luna.

A sharp pain on his back made him hit the ground harshly; he looked up to where Luna was to see Celestia arrive next to her, the fire balls began to swirl against each other, ready to attack him again, he closed his eyes, seemingly accepting his fate, as the balls were about to hit him he used his wings to pull himself up and jumped right before the fire balls crashed against the ground, using all his power he shot a very thick stream of his fire against the fire balls now leaving the ground, for ten seconds he continued to send more and more of his deadly fire against the royal sisters, he stopped and waited to see the result of his attack, he didn’t like it.

The six spheres of light floated around the sisters who were unharmed from his attack, three spheres of light for each one, the pink, the blue and the purple lig hts were around Celestia, changing her normal pink mane and tail into flowing multicolored ones, a flash of light appeared over her flanks, the image of a sun.

The red, the orange and the yellow lights were around Luna, changing her mane and tail much like it happen to Celestia just this time they were turned into a deep blue-black color with dots of light inside them, like the star on the night sky, a flash of light appeared over her flanks, the image of a crescent moon.

The three spheres of light each one had disappeared reveling a crown and a necklace with two spheres of different color, Celestia’s crown had the purple sphere on it while her necklace had the blue and the pink one, Luna’s crown had the yellow sphere on it while her necklace had the red and the orange one. Both sisters felt incredible powerful and connected to each other in a way they had never imagined, they could practically speak with each other mentally, the power within them was telling them to do something, to activate it, to set it free but they didn’t knew how.

A load roar caught their attention as Wrath charged at them, using his reversed wings to give himself more power and speed, the massive green dragon wanted to end the thread this change would bring to them, before he had a chance to get near them a bright rainbow like whip emerged from them covering Wrath entirely, the dragon roared and screamed in immense pain as the rainbow swirled around him hitting him every so often, each hit felt like a patch of his scales taken of cleanly.

The enraged Valtach gave no attention to this for he was focused on destroying the draconequus but again and again the cunning draconequus eluded him and humiliated him, he was sick of it and decided to end it once and for all, Valtach stopped and focused every single bit of energy he had left inside himself, opening his wings he lifted to the air going as high as he could, once he was about two miles above the battlefield he prepared to fire his Death Fire Ball, a fireball so big and dense that nothing would be able to survive its impact, he was about to spit it when he felt something covering his mouth.
Discord kept Valtach’s mouth close, using his own body as a rope around it. “Boom”

A great booming sound and the fireworks that caused it made the fighting stop and for the next several seconds no one could see due to the brightness of the explosion, soon after it was over everyone was focused on the rainbow that was retreating to where it had come from. The royal sisters opened their eyes and were surprised to see Wrath unconscious just fifty meters before them, there was smoke coming out from him and several parts of his body were missing scales.
Moments later a battered and exhausted Discord landed between the sisters.

“Valtach went bye , bye” Discord smirked and as if on cue parts of the old dragon king fall from the skies in all their visceral glory. The spheres of light appeared before them again only missing the purple one, the crowns and the necklaces disappeared as the spheres turned into round rock spheres with a diamond like figure in their center.

The remaining enemy forces either surrendered or fled seeing their two leaders were defeated, the allied forces cheered in unison at their victory, the day was won and the war was finally over.

But alas, as victory came so too did the price it had to be paid for it, many hundreds of their allies had died and worst of all, only five alicorns remained, king Aurora Solaris was by some sort of miracle still alive, his nephew, his daughters, Starswirl, a dark alicorn and Discord surrounded him on his last moments, he had explained what those artifacts were and said that while he wasn’t there when they were used the legend passed on between the generations on the family, all the way to his great grandfather, and how the legend said that in time of great need they would show themselves again through bearers.

The sun above them was getting smaller and smaller each passing second, turning red, just like what had happen to the moon when queen Moon Light died, Aurora knew about their connection with the celestial objects and that if the link bearer died, so would the celestial object, using the last of his strength he passed the Sun link to Celestia and the Moon link to Luna, in less than a second the sun above them returned to its original state and in the other side of the world the red moon shined once more it silver light upon Equis, Aurora smiled and with a soft sigh he turned to light.

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“No pony, no dragon and no one cried our father’s death, he made us promise that we wouldn’t cry for him” Luna said sadly “Discord had killed Valtach, for us in that time Valtach was evil itself, so when Discord killed him he gained himself the title of ‘Harmony Bringer’, as for Wrath we wanted to kill him but Sabarius convinced us to imprison him instead, to take away his hoard, to let him live knowing he was defeated by those who he considered inferior and that he would never be able to claim revenge, that would be a much fitting punishment than death”

“Five of us remained and the problem was who was meant to rule Equestria, Blueblood was the most fitting one but he declined saying it was not his place to do so, we wanted to take the place but sadly we still lacked practice and had to control our new gained powers” Luna got up and walked to the window “Starswirl decided to study all kinds of magic so he leaved Equestria to travel the world, Shadow Jumper, an ascent alicorn decided to leave Equestria with some of her forces, many years after we find out she founded a city in the distant north” behind her Twilight was looking at her attention ably.

“Equestria was leaderless, the noble houses wanted to take command but the rest of our subjects demanded that royalty should rule not the noble houses, we asked who they wanted to rule, Discord the name they shouted” Luna looked back at Twilight who was surprised at the revelation “He accepted but only until we were ready to rule by ourselves, for the first two hundred years everything was under control, Discord had adopted something called ‘Organized Chaos’, basically a schedule dividing his time between ruling and causing chaos, but it never went more than a prank or two a day”

“When Discord was crowned king almost everypony liked him and knew he would protect them” a scowl appeared on her face “but after those two hundred years our subjects changed, slowly but dreadfully, their opinion went from good, to bad, to worse eventually turning into describing him as a monster, our subjects, the noble houses even our very own guards started to dislike and mistrust him just because of his appearance and his powers, he tried so hard to make them see he wasn’t evil, that he was just doing his part as fit ruler, he even stopped his pranking, but it didn’t change anything”

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“I always tried to remember Moon Light and her words, but it was harder and harder each day, in just three generations I went from Discord ‘The Harmony Bringer’, to being a monster to their eyes, they wanted me out of the throne, they wanted me gone but Celestia and Luna weren’t ready yet they barely could perform the spell to move the sun and the moon correctly, I even had to do it for them most of the time” Discord le t out a sigh “This went on for another hundred years until they actually got the guts to attempt an assassination against me, they failed but they somehow managed to kill Blueblood, something inside me snapped that day, if they wanted a monster, then they would get one”

“I learned I could turn upside down personalities and even manipulate the hearts of living things, to torture them emotionally, seeing their pain made me feel good in the inside, it made me laugh and that filled the void in my heart, if I was unhappy and hated, was it so wrong to make them feel like I did too?, Celestia and Luna tried to stop me many times, convince me to stop and return to what I was before, their friend, for a second I was actually about to do it but…………….Celestia betrayed me in the last second” Spike opened his eyes in disbelief “She didn’t tried to kill me, just knock me out, Luna was outraged by her actions and then we fought, they used the elements against me, Luna didn’t want to but Celestia convinced that something evil was i nside me and was meant to be destroyed, I laughed so hard at her statement that I actually started to sing”

“Being turned to stone was the way to deal with dangerous criminals back in the day, Celestia was glad to do it, but me?, I hated it, it’s not like when a cockatrice turns you to stone, inside you are still alive but when they use a spell to turn you to stone, you die, the last thing I remember before I felt my body hardening was ‘Is this how I die?’”

“Fortunately I didn’t die, since now I know Im suppose to be balance and not disharmony I guess it kinda makes sense that they turned me to stone and not nearly kill me like Wrath or destroy me like that Echidna dragon” Discord sighed “I was furious at Celestia for what she did to me, thankfully I was able to hear everything around me and somehow what Celestia, Luna, Starswirl and Shadow Jumper said all the time, after my imprisonment Celestia went to Sabarius and asked him to hide the elements for her”

“The rest is history, Starswirl wanted to comprehend the nature of the elements but with them gone he couldn’t and also he was sick of living, so he gave up his ascension and some years later he died, known as Star Swirl The Bearded, Shadow Jumper built an empire, the Crystal empire where mostly earth ponies lived in, slowly they transformed into crystal ponies, Shadow Jumper had a son, Sombra, he inherited somehow the immortality of his mother and a great amount of power, Shadow Jumper killed herself some years later, the early loss of her husband was too great for her”

“W-was mom …..ermm…..sorry for what she did? To you I mean?” Spike asked.

“There is no a single day she doesn't regret it, and I forgave her already, doesn’t mean I won’t prank her from time to time as revenge though!”

“Was Sombra always a tyrant?”

“Don’t know kiddo, I couldn’t hear him, but for what Celestia told me he was corrupted by dark magic”

Both Discord and Spike sat under the shadow on the tree for a couple of minutes, Spike knew the tale was over and now he could understand Discord better, he was changed by the hate ponies felt for him and because he didn’t had any friends who supported him back then.

“But why keep all of that as a secret?”

“That was Starswirl suggestion, his idea to bring peace, a lie yes, but in the end it would bring peace to the ponies minds also to put their faith into Celestia and Luna, smart guy he was always right about everything”

“…………….I see………………….hey, I still have an hour left before Sir Quill ends his lessons, can I help you pranking?”
Discord smiled “Yeah sure, I need a good laugh after getting all, ugggg, sentimental and stuff” D iscord stretched a little before getting up “Thanks for listening Spike, you are a good little guy”

“Thank you Discord, for trusting me” Spike smiled at Discord who smiled at him back “so, who should we prank first?” Discord smiled wickedly.

“Spike, take a letter”

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Celestia was watching from her balcony, ignoring her beloved cake at her side, seeing Discord and Spike planning something, she had seen it all and was happy to see Discord open up to him, further more to see him stable, content even again, he had missed him so much, after all Discord was like a brother to both her and Luna, it pained her heart what she had tried to do to Discord in the past, she was young and stupid, she smiled knowing Discord had already forgiven her even when she still havent so--

Suddenly a letter appeared in front of her; a bit confused she opened it.

“Dear Princess Celestia”

End of part 2

Author's Notes:

Sorry if it took so long but man, this chapter is big!

Special thanks to Inferno Demon Dash for proofreading and for being awesome!

Special thanks to Bennet001 for proofreading!

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