//------------------------------// // The Birth of a New Era (Prologue) // Story: Rebellion // by Symphony //------------------------------// Insanity, disharmony, chaos... Those were the words which swam in the thoughts of the lavender unicorn as she gazed through the window. She sighed and turned around from the madness outside. She had grown up in this condition, as had her parents and their entire family. A lifetime of misery in the talons of a mad creature, that was the destiny for the land they resided in. As she walked into a sparsely furnished kitchen, the ponies inside turned their heads lazily toward her. Twilight Sparkle sighed and walked to them. Her mother, the soft grey mare stepped forward and nuzzled her daughter. Twilight knew that her mother would shower her in lies about how everything would become better in time, Twilight however, could see through her mother’s facade. Before her mother could fire off the lies, Twilight turned away from her and directed her attention to her father. He had ordered her, and the rest of her family to stay indoors at all times, as it would be just as insane as the world outside to go there. That also meant that their supplies for food were very limited, often leaving them unsatisfied and starved. Twilight knew that somehow, somepony would have to end this chaos once and for all, but she was much too weak to do it on her own and her father would never allow her to go through with such a dangerous scheme. Her brother would have been a pony capable to do so, but he disappeared when he was out and scavenging for supplies and was never found. Her mother had been crying for days on end and her father turned to the bottle for answers that were never heard. Somepony had to stop all of it, but nopony had the strength to face Discord on their own. Only a fool would try to stop the draconequus alone. She would have to rally the masses for a rebellion to overthrow the beast once and for all. But how would she even be able to do that? She wracked her brain for ideas, and all it gave her was one possibility; she would have to run away from her parents and kick her plan into action somewhere else rather than here... It would be hard to leave her parents when they had already lost their son, but they’d get to hear about her if the rebellion succeeds. It would be a gamble, but the bets in this gamble were worth more than anything. She would have to win. Not just for her, nor her family. She would save her entire world if she would succeed in her quest for liberation from the chaos. Twilight sighed once again and trudged to her room, where she prepared herself for the departure which could change everything she knew. In the gardens of a castle long forgotten and decayed from years of harsh punishment via weather and time, a lone figure stands with his mismatched hands behind his back and glaring at the statue in front of him. A sadistic smirk crossed his features as he stroked his eagle talon on the cheek of the imprisoned pony standing frozen in obvious surprise and pain. He dug his claws into the stone hide of the pony and dragged it alongside its neck. His golden orbs glimmered with insanity and the wisdom of one who had seen it all before. Harmony... Boring, old harmony... The mismatched beast sneered and turned around to leave the statue in piece, before he stopped with his back toward the frozen alicorn which he still remembered clearly. She and her sister tried to stop him, and they almost did. He could barely make it against them. It all ended up with him abandoning his ways and turned her into stone to save his own ancient behind from becoming stone himself. Her younger sister had been so fueled by hatred for the draconequus that she had turned into something... Else. He banished her to the moon and with nopony else around to stop him, he had claimed the throne and turned the land into his own private playground. Discord had been thrilled at first, and he still was, but ruling this country with a talon of steel and cotton candy, he had started to become bored again. Nothing really exciting happened these days, so the creature would often find himself to be bored out of his mind. If only something exciting would happen... Then he would be one happy Spirit of Disharmony. But anything that those ponies figured out to do against him, he would be able to stop them by a snap of his talons and then happily skip away out of harm’s way. He reached out with his eagle talon and snapped his fingers, teleporting away to where he needed to spread more of his beautiful, beautiful chaos... Unbeknownst to the oblivious spirit, a faint, barely noticeable crack started spreading from his claw-marks across the back of the imprisoned alicorn. The crack grew and spread into several new cracks, all of which made a sizeable chunk of stone fall to the ground, revealing the rich alabaster coat beneath. Discord wanted some fun, and fun he would have... It was now nearing midnight, or what would be midnight according to the clock, but the sun and the moon continued their unnerving dance of switching places with eachother every 10 minutes. The ponies and the habitants of the world had grown accustom to the ways of the beast who ruled them. Almost all of the ponies were asleep, except for one single unicorn who was strapping her saddlebags to herself. Twilight Sparkle was ready to go. She had packed some memorabilia of her parents and fillyhood. One of the objects she brought with her was the doll she was given to by her lost brother. She had decided to look for Shining Armor as well while she was fulfilling her task. Succeeding could change everything for the better, or possibly make things far worse. She had also packed a small amount of food, just in case she couldn’t find anything she could sustain herself. She stepped to the locked door leading outside and unlocked it while choking back tears. Her parents would be positively devastated by the loss of another child. She knew it, but she hated thinking about it too much. She held her breath as she stepped out into the crisp night air, which had a distinctive scent of fudge. With that, the quest for finding harmony began. A/N: Short prologue chapter! The next chapters will be longer and this was pre-read and edited by frieD195! Ladies and mentlegen, I give you the Chaosverse!