Twilight Sparkle rubbed her eyes and yawned. She looked around the room and then looked at her clock. 7:00, only an hour to class, plenty of time. she thought.
She walked down the stairs and looked through her bookshelf. She selected a book entitled History of Equestria. She levitated the book to the floor, sat down and flipped to the page she was looking for. The page told the story of how Celestia and Luna defeated Discord the first and how he might return one day to wreak havoc once again.
“Catching up on our reading now are we?” said a very melodic voice. Twilight zipped her head around to see Celestia herself.
“Oh!” she said as she put the book away. “Good morning, princess! I didn’t hear you come in.”
“Yeah, I should have knocked.” Celestia said. “Anyway, we have some new students and I was hoping you could teach them.”
Twilight couldn’t help but smile. She’d graduated from Celestia’s personal prodigy to teacher of young fillies. Total win.
“Of course!” Twilight said. “I would be honored.”
“Good.” Celestia replied. “See you in an hour.” With that, Celestia opened her wings and flew towards her castle. Twilight then closed the door and rushed upstairs to Spike’s side.
“Spike!” she yelled. “Come on! We got to eat breakfast now if you expect to get to school on time!”
Spike yawned and rubbed his eyes. He cracked his back and slouched slightly.
“Okay. Okay. Hang on.” Spike said groggily.
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In a deep forest many miles from Canterlot there sat a two-story mansion. An iron wall surrounded the house and above the gate a sign read “Azkaban Manor”.
About 70 years before Twilight was born (and you should know Celestia was at least 2,000 years old), Starswirl the Bearded first held classes for gifted fillies in his mansion. No one knows where the name Azkaban came from. Nonetheless, he decided to move to Canterlot and left his mansion to Zecora, an old friend of his.
Now that you know a little back-story on this house, let’s continue. In the dining room of the house, there was a creature sitting on the main chair.
The creature sitting in the front chair was a truly grotesque creature. It had the head of a pony, the tail of a crocodile, the right arm of an eagle and various other body parts of various animals. He was draconequis. He was Discord.
And he was relaxing…for now.
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In the courtyard of Celestia’s School for Gifted Fillies, four unicorn fillies were trying to levitate four heavy rocks.
“Remember,” Twilight said “focus.”
The filly’s focused real hard and the rocks started to levitate. One was only a few inches of the ground. Another was a little higher. The other lifted even higher (to about Twilight’s height). The other levitated a few feet higher.
“Okay, stop.” Twilight ordered. “Very good.” Three of them dropped their boulders but one still was trying to levitate hers higher (already it was about as high as Twilight).
“Um, that’s quite enough for today, Dinky.” Twilight politely said. “Put the rock down now.”
Dinky sighed a sigh of relief as she sat in the grass and the rock hit the ground.
“Now, then class…” Twilight said. “Shall we try cooking next?”
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Trixie scanned the room as she approached the throne room of Celestia. Celestia had called her for who knows what, but Trixie’s thoughts were interrupted by Celestia’s voice.
“Miss Trixie.” Celestia said. “I have another mission for you.”
“Yes, princess?” Trixie said.
“Your infiltration into Discord’s army has gone well so far.” Celestia said. “He thinks you are spying on me when you are giving all the info I need to track him and imprison him once more. Nevertheless, he bound to get suspicious. For you must get Discord to explain his plan to you. Though usually he does that himself.”
“Your majesty, I will not let you down.” Trixie said, with real enthusiasm in her voice.
“Good luck, my little pony.” Celestia said. Trixie wasted no time in rushing out the door and through the gate and to the direction of the forest.
Halfway through running, she transformed into a raven and flew off. It not only looked cool and was a fancy trick but it also helped her get to her destination faster.
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Trixie re-transformed into her normal self in mid-air. She landed comfortably on her feet and walked from there. Like a boss.
There, right in front of her, was the gate of Azkaban Manor. She knocked on the gate for entrance. The gate opened and a Diamond Dog porter stuck his head out.
“Why, Miss Trixie, what brings you here?” the dog said.
“May I see Mr. Discord at once?” Trixie said.
“Why yes! Why yes! Welcome back, Miss Trixie! Right this way. Hang on, let me open the door.” The gate opened and Trixie walked through towards the mansion.
The dog opened the door. It looked just how it was the last time she was there. Cobwebs were everywhere, there was a painting of Starswirl the Bearded on the wall and the hall had two statues of cats (Starswirl owned at least 10 of them) and a staircase.
She looked to her right and there was the dining room. At the 15 foot long table sat Discord with Zecora and several other creatures.
“Ah, Trixie, my dear” Discord said. “Come on, pull up a chair.”
She walked into the room and sat down on Discord’s left side.
“Okay, now to business” Discord said. “Now that our forces are stronger, we shall strike Celestia tonight! Our spy has informed me that the time is right. And the Half-Blood will be mine.” The crowd cheered.
“Um, excuse me” Trixie said as she raised her hand. “But I don’t think that’s a wise choice.”
Zecora suddenly stood up. “You know not what you do! Don’t question the master, you stupid fool!”
“Explain” Discord said, holding up a claw to silence the zebra.
“Well,” Trixie said, “I really don’t think this is the right time. Have you trained your forces?”
Discord thought about this. “No, but…”
Trixie shushed him. “Don’t shush me.” Discord said.
“Sorry,” Trixie said, “but if you don’t train them, you and your army will die tonight unless you prepare yourselves. If we are to take down the princess, we must train ourselves and we must eliminate any completion.”
“Hmm.” Discord thought. “You, the red dragon.” he said while pointing to a red dragon with a yellow underside.
“It’s Garble.” the dragon said.
“Whatever.” Discord said. “And you too, Zecora. Take note of this. The army will train for another week. Also, send some men to take out any possible resistance. Meeting adjourned.”
With that, Discord snapped his fingers and the creatures got up in unison. Trixie walked towards the door.
“Mrs. Trixie,” Discord said, making Trixie turn around. “I must be the one to kill Celestia.”
Trixie nodded. With that, she transformed into a crow and flew through a crack in a window.