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// Chapter 7 
// Story: After Discord 
// by Faindragon 
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I had made my decision. 

I would be the one who struck first.

But first did I have to make sure that the one I loved was safe.

I had to hide Honey, hide her from the ones that wanted to hurt her.

Wanted to hurt her to harm me.

Lightheart coughed to gain my attention. He stood in front of me, with a letter in his mouth.He dropped it on the table in front of me.

“What is this?” I asked as I gently opened the letter.

“That is your key out of here my friend. I created it as fast as I heard about the death sentence on me. If you are lucky and leave as soon as possible then you might be able to leave without anyone asking any questions or stopping you.”

I read the letter. Or, command as it turned out to be.

‘The gates shall be opened for the wearer of this letter, he is on a mission from the captains of the guards. No questions shall be asked and in fact, this letter and the one wearing it shall be forgotten, they have never passed, have never existed. 
Captain Lightheart.’


The command was signet with Lighthearts signet ring, four stars on a plain background.

I looked up at the captain.
“But this... why?”

He smirked at me, a glimpse of joy in his sad eyes.
“I’m already getting hanged for treason, so why not give them a real reason to hang me? You know that I never asked you any questions; I just allowed you to pass to the top of the tower. Each day for what? Ten years? Twenty? Each day since I was old enough to enter the guards have I allowed you to enter. You have been a company for me those years, coming there and meditate every morning and every dawn. Or at least at the times that today would count as morning and dawn. Back then it was chaos, back then the sun and moon chased each other in utter chaos, irregularly and out of order.. But two weeks ago, everything changed. the sun and the moon started to act.. natural again, following a clock.”

He looked away. He seemed, embarrassed, to ask. 
“What happened, my friend? Two weeks ago did I notice that you started to tremble during your meditation at dawn. I remember that I made it to your side as quickly as I could, forced your head up, looked into your eyes. What I saw was... I don’t know what it was. Your eyes... they were filled with hatred. They were filled with anger, of hatred, of despair, of horror. So many feelings changed place in your eyes during so short time. In the end was it only two feelings left. The last thing I saw in your eyes before you stopped trembling was anger and hate, so strong that it seemed you would kill anything that stood in your way.”

I looked at him.
“I owe you as much as an explanation Lightheart. So sit down, it might take a while. And if I shall take Honey to safety then I need to make this quick. Luna’s ho... the night will not last forever.”

Then I started to talk, describing the events that had brought me to this point, described the event that had would lead Lightheart to the noose. I owed him that much.


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Two weeks earlier.

Luna’s grace embraced the elder sister’s last shining waves of grace, Luna’s eye shone its pale grace at me where I lay on the top of the tower, meditating as so many times before. 

I closed my eyelids for the prayer.

And the world around me changed


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I sat at a throne, looking down at the two beings that stood in front of me. The sun shone in through one of the big windows from its peak on the sky. My entire being burned with hatred and anger, feelings directed at the twin beings in front of me. 

The two goddesses, thinking they could fight me at MY domain! Thinking they could defeat ME. I snarled and lifted the glass to my lips with my eagle talon. The sweet liquid found it way down my throat, cooled down my head.

The youngest of the two, a mare as black as the night it was said that she controlled, was shouting at me.
“Your time is up, Discord, we are here to make a stop to your reign, stopping you from hurting the ponies in Equestria.”

I laughed, a cold hard laugh directed at the younger sister. My eyes, however, had searched their way to the elder sister. I would lie if I said that I did not appreciate the eye candy.
“That is not the real reason that you are here is it Luna?” I asked without taking my eyes from the elder sister. “You are here because I have taken the power that was yours. You are here because MY chaos started to mix with your order, started to make the sun and moon raise and set out of order. THAT is the reason you are here, nothing else!”

I was furious. The twin sisters, stepping down on Equestria because MY nature, something I could not control, blended with what they called their order! I threw my glass into the wall. It splinted, thousands and thousands of shards falling towards the floor. Half of them was transformed into liquid by the chaos that always was close to me. MY curse!

The elder sister was the one to speak this time.
“YOU slaughtered an entire race! YOU made the ponies of Equestria forgot us! YOU took control over everything around here! Ponies live in pain and suffering because of you! Ponies die each day because of the CHAOS that is around YOU!” She trembled with the anger and hatred she held back.

I smiled, it was really a cute sight. It would be woefully to destroy her beautiful white coat with the red color of blood. But it could not be helped. I would NOT let them take all of this away from me, this was my RIGHT! 
“Of course I killed those.... Alicorns! Not only were they abominations, a copy of all the other ponie races, but they also thought of themselves as supreme! They thought of themselves as a race above the other races! They were the ones to control Equestria since they were ‘blessed’ by you two, the celestial goddesses.” my hatred blossomed again at that word, goddesses... I was as much of a god as they were. “But they gave YOU power. We both know that a god, or a goddess in your case, gain power from prayers.” A thought struck me. My curiosity was awoken.

“That said, who are the ones to pray for you now? How many is it that pray to give you the power to overthrow me? How many needed to pray to create THOSE!” I screamed the last, the claw on my lion paw pointing at the chest of the white mare. Three gems sat in a necklace that hung around the mare’s neck. I did not have to look to know that a matching set hung around the neck on the black mare.

“WHO helped you re-locate the Elements of Harmony? They was supposed to be lost forever!”

The black mare talked to me again.
“You are wrong Discord, the power does not come with the sheer number of ponies that pray towards you. The power comes with how much they believe in their prayer, how close to the heart the prayer is. The same goes with the elements.”

I drew my eyes from the elder mare, locking them onto the younger sister. She had really awoken my curiosity now. I snapped the fingers on my eagle talon and vanished in a bright flash.

I could not help but laugh to the horror on the younger mare when she reared back after finding herself eye to eye with me. 
“That does NOT tell me how you found the Elements again! I hid them a long time ago, hid them on a place where you would never find them.” The anger heated my voice even more now. This was not supposed to happen!

“We did not find the Elements, Discord.” The white mare spoke up, a grim smile on her face. “The Elements found us, searched up us to stop you! The Elements strive towards natural order. They strive AGAINST you.”

I struck the younger sister in the stomach as I turned around, my veins burning with fury. I could hear the sound of the black coated alicorn smashing into the wall on the other side of the room. The sound of bones breaking made its way to my ears.

I looked down at the white coated mare in front of me. She really was candy for the eye. I laughed coldly as she took a step back. 
“So you mean that the Elements strive against my very nature? You mean that I, a fellow god, is a threat against the balance and harmony of Equestria?” 

I snapped my fingers again, disappearing in a bright light. The moon took the sun’s place at the peak of the sky. I reappeared next to the younger sister who tried to get up on her hooves. I lifted her up with my tail and held her in front of my eyes. I smiled at her as I lent forward, whispered in her ear.
“You know that she will betray you, do you not? Be it after you have defeated me or in a thousand years, it does not matter. In the end she will want to have the power for herself. And the ponies you will watch over? Do you think they will appreciate the one who takes the souls of their beloved ones? Will they appreciate the night? The answer is no, they will loath you. They will not care about the beautiful night. All they will see is the day. Do you not see it?” 

I smiled, knowing by the look in her eyes that it was something that she would not throw away in a long time, it would grew inside her. I had planted a seed inside of her. In time it would grew up to be a big flower.

“I WILL NOT LET YOU GET AWAY WITH THIS DISCORD!” the elder mare shouted behind me.

In my surprise did I drop the alicorn that I had held in my tail. I swiftly turned around and saw the beautiful white alicorn look at me, hatred in her eyes and her horn glowing with magic. A thick beam emerged from her necklace and embraced me. It burned but I knew it was not the full power, her sister would have to join her too. I laughed, a grim laugh.
“That will not work, Celestia. Your sister is not in... harmony with the Elements.”

“WHAT have you done to her Discord?” anger filled the white mare’s voice. 

“I told her the truth Celestia, that is WHAT I have done.” I laughed and brought up my paw to snap my fingers, when a sound from behind me made me stop.
I looked back, and for the first time did I feel fear blend with my anger and hate.

I looked straight into a pair of turquoise eyes, pupils as narrows as dragon pupils.

Luna laughed.
“Do you really think you can put me out of battle that easy Discord. You underestimate me!”

Her horn glowed and a beam rushed out from the necklace, hitting me in my open paw.

I felt how my body turned to stone.

I did not have long before I would be completely turned into the stone that had already begun spreading.

And with my last powers did I start my revenge, a revenge that would take years before it would be fulfilled. I sent chaos straight into the Elements wielded by the black mare.

I laughed and looked at the white mare.

“I will see you again, Celestia!”

With that everything turned black.


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I had told nearly everything to Lightheart, I had kept the information about the corruption for myself. I ended it with what he knew.
“And then I woked up from that strange dream, woke up looking into your eyes.”




Authors note:

My impersonating of Discord, Luna and Celestia is no where perfect. I have tried to use them in a way that works with the story. And I have some really bad reasons behind it all!

Luna and Celestia is of course furious, the memory of how Discord slaughtered the alicorns still fresh in their mind. Then the fact that he made ponies forgot about them and in that way making them powerless. But most of all he, or his very nature at least, took control over the sun and the moon.

And yes I say in this chapter that Discord is a god. That is because I believe that you need the chaos that Discord create to get the harmony. 

And the things that Discord said to Luna? Yepp, thats the thing that I wrote in Chimes.
“But Luna, riser of the moon and goddess of the dead, became corrupted in heart. She believed the tale of a since long defeated enemy, a tale about how the ponies of Equestria feared her and only loved her sister.”