//------------------------------// // Chapter 2: The fall of the Canterlot Kingdom // Story: Forbidden Love // by Snug-Brony //------------------------------// Quick author note before the story: all draconequus dialogue will be bolded and all pony dialogue will be regular. When it is bold and there are no quotes than that is Discord thinking in first person. When it’s regular and there are no quotes that is Celestia thinking in first person. Chapter 2: The fall of the Canterlot Kingdom         It has been two years since the first time that Celestia and Discord had met. There had been a peace at the Great Divide that made Queen Faust suspicious. In the draconequus Kingdom the draconequuses suit up for the upcoming battle. Drakeous stands in front of his father.         “My son, you have proven yourself as a worthy general. Now this is your final test. You must lead the draconequus forces into the Canterlot castle – and claim the head of Celestia!” King Draconerus announced while hundreds of draconequus cheers boomed afterwards.         “But father Celestia is but a little girl why don’t I just kill Queen Faust herself and let the little one live?” Drakeous pleaded.         “This is why you need to be tested - you’re soft! Being a lord takes sacrifice! You must take the life of the young filly! Prove yourself worthy show us all that you’re strong! And as for Faust I want to be the one to kill her!” Draconerus shouted.         “Then if that is my duty then I shall bring you back the head of little pony or shall I be murdered in my duty. I will not come back a failure or I shall not come back at all,” Drakeous accepted.         No why did this have to happen to me? Of course this happens. Nothing good could come from befriending the pony. I know that I haven’t just befriended her though – I have fallen a victim of love with no cure. Now my brother will slay by orders of my dad. The only way that he won’t kill her is if somepony kills him. If I kill him than I can save the filly I’m so fond of. Later that night.         “Father, I have a request, I want to be in the battle tomorrow!” Discord stated.         “Are you sure that your ready? This will be the most dangerous battle yet you understand,” Draconerus replied.         “I understand and that’s why I want to be in it so badly.”         “Well you’ve trained for a while now and your very determined, so okay join the battle follow by your brother’s side.”         “Thank-you this means a lot to me.”         “We march at the crack of dawn go meet up with dragon Kahn before we leave he’ll get you properly suited and tagged.”         “Okay I will see you when were ready to take the palace.”         I don’t know how I’ll go about killing my own brother, but Celestia’s worth it. The way she is so positive in these horrible times. What if all ponies are like that? The draconequuses I feel are too serious sometimes when we can make something better than reality. We could make it rain chocolate rain if we wanted too.         Discord flew over to dragon Kahn’s cottage. Kahn was a dragon who was cursed with a disease that made him not grow from the size of a teenage dragon. The good thing about this disability though was that he could easily follow his passion as a blacksmith, being a full sized dragon would have made that difficult. Some say that it wasn’t really a disability, but he just was too generous to ever grow into a full dragon.         “Hello Kahn my father sent me to get suited up; I’ll be fighting in the battle tomorrow.”         “Non-sense you’re just a child you can’t already be fighting,” Kahn replied.         “It is my choice to fight.”         “No child would just choose to go to war. There is something else isn’t there? I’ve known you a long time Discord and you’re not the fightin’ type.”         “I wouldn’t speak a word to anypony else in the draconequus kingdom besides you Kahn. You are not filled with hate. You see weapon making weapons as an art not as a duty of war.”         “So if you trust me what is troublin’ you and makin’ you want to go to a war in which you don’t belong?”         “Two years ago I met the most wonderful filly ever -- Celestia. She is my best and only true friend all other other draconequuses only care about slaughter and war. She showed me that there is other ways to have fun and I think that I love her.”         “I see, but why are you going into battle if you believe that you love the pony?”         “My brother’s goal is to murder her tomorrow.”         “So you’re going to stop him?”         “He said that he will either come back with her head or he would’ve died in battle, what choice does that leave me?”         “In these dark times Discord you are a very different person you do not wish for bloodshed—“         “She is the reason I’m like that I would be just as blood hungry if not more if she wouldn’t of come into my life!” Discord interrupted.         “Yes well as I was saying; when the time comes make the right choice and remember there are always more than 2 options. Now let’s get you suited up.”         It was finally the day of the long awaited battle. Hundreds of draconequuses lined up behind Drakeous and Discord stood next to him leading the way. Discord was extremely anxious of the choice he would have to make. He thought of what Kahn had said, but as he saw it either Celestia dies or Drakeous dies.         “TODAY; CANTERLOT WILL BURN!” Drakeous yelled out as the draconequuses charged.         The draconequuses all gathered together and were going straight towards the castle. The ponies noticed in time to get them before they hit the palace. Spears and rocks where thrown by each side. Occasionally a pony or draconequus would be hit and fall from the sky and nopony would look back. The unicorns preformed a spell so all of the ponies would be able to levitate long enough to fight off the attack. A thousand shots of magic were blasted towards them creating a light show that ended in crimson rain.         The ponies tried there hardest to protect the castle, but their efforts were not good enough. The draconequuses used their powers to block out the unicorns spell sending many Earth ponies to the ground breaking many of their bones. Some of the Unicorns were able to save themselves from falling, but other weren’t fast enough. The Unicorns who survived threw all the energy blast they could to fend off the attackers. The draconequuses then made the dirt into a liquid trying to drown the ponies. Some Unicorns preformed a spell that would create the sea ponies.         The castle now had a force field around it and the royal guard shot like machine guns to kill the draconequuses troops. Griffins and Pegasus tried their best to save the drowning ponies and get them safely inside of the force field. The draconequuses rammed their selves into the force field by glowing in a white glow of anti-force field magic. The force field began to crack and was splitting open. Queen Faust stepped on to a balcony and with the Elements of Harmony and created another layer of the force field so powerful that some of the draconequuses were blasted into the ground.         “Celestia get into the basement protection cell now!” Queen Faust shouted as she stepped back into her chamber. Two guards quickly levitated Celestia in between them while they ran towards the basement. Suddenly, a giant booming explosion occurred where the windows burst and shattered into millions of pieces. After that hundreds of draconequus began to attack the castle. The guards holding Celestia stood dumbfounded when Drakeous flew into the corridor.         Besides Discord this is the closest I have ever been to another draconequus. He is much taller and broader than Discord though. He also has much more darker colors partly because he is covered in dirt, ash, and blood. Discord also always has some sort of smile on his face, but this draconequus had an evil smirk with scars surrounding his face. He was the kind of war stricken draconequus that Discord has described to me.         “Hello ponies welcome to your deaths,” Drakeous chuckled.         “Not if I have anything to say about it,” One of the guards replied.         Both of the guards begin rapidly firing their magic blast. Drakeous just deflected all of their shots. Drakeous then jumped up to one of the guards and sliced his head clear off making his blood shoot 8 feet in the air. When the unicorns head came off it broke the spell holding up Celestia dropping her to the floor. The last guard attempted to perform a quick defense spell, but Drakeous’s claws were already sunken into his heart. Drakeous then started stepping forward at Celestia who was backing up.         “By now I have had a full analysis of you. Your specialty is your speed and quick blows. You also enjoy what you do greatly. You also appear to know that I’m no regular filly. By that you are going to enjoy killing me, so you attack slowly and you also see me as no threat. So my conclusion you’re showing two weaknesses hesitation and underestimation,” Celestia spoke.         Just as Celestia finished her speech she covered the room in pink fog. Drakeous was blinded and she blasted his face leaving a black mark around his left eye. Celestia stormed down the hall, going into a secret passage way leading into another path when suddenly she runs into a draconequus.         “Discord! Wait what are you doing in that armor and with that sword? I thought you were different,” Celestia’s eyes watered up as she began running again.         Discord caught back up to her “Celestia, this isn’t what it looks like. I’m only in this battle to protect you from my brother, Drakeous.”         “I…I don’t believe you,” Celestia was still crying.           “You know I wouldn’t lie to you. You have to get out of here!”         “What if you’re just saying that, so I won’t see the dark soldier side of you?”         “Celestia trust me!”         Discord then grabs Celestia and passionately kisses her. Celestia starts to blush.         “…Okay…I…Believe…You,” Celestia nervously says.         The wall then burst open splintering the floor. A furious Drakeous dashes out. After the dust clears up Drakeous sees his brother next to Celestia.         “Brother kill her, kill her now!” Drakeous shouts.         “I…I can’t,” Discord stutters.         “You are so weak! I’ll do it myself then!”         Drakeous then bolts towards Celestia with his claw ready to strike. Right when Drakeous makes it to Celestia Discord thinking on impulse pulls out his sword. Discord the precedes to shove the blade into Drakeous’s stomach.         “Brother…why?” Drakeous said as he fainted.         “I don’t know what to do,” Discord states as he backs away from his brother.         Two draconequuses march toward Discord.         “Discord what are you doing, oh my glob Drakeous!” One of them said.         “Teleport away now,” Discord whispered to Celestia.         Celestia nodded to Discord and followed his instructions.         “Well sir it’s kinda a long story,” Discord tried to explain.         “Come on help me take his body back to the royal fortress,” One draconequus said to the other. “And follow us Discord.”         The draconequuses and Discord start to leave Queen Faust appears floating with glowing white eyes.         “You shall not come to my castle and expect to live,” Queen Faust shouts in the loudest royal Canterlot voice every spoken.         After that the Elements of Harmony start to orbit her. Burst of Faust’s magic starts hitting draconequuses everywhere. One of them screams to retreat and they all fly as fast as they could away from the castle. Not many survivors get away from her wrath. Discord hopefully was far gone when Faust began blasting. Faust then goes back to her chamber exhausted when all of the draconequuses were gone.         “My Queen that was amazing what you just did there. We won the battle!” One of Faust’s royal advisers cheerfully announces.         “No, my noble companion that was a loss on both sides. They may have retreated, but are causalities are high and our castle is in shambles,” Faust declared before falling asleep.         Discord stands before the grand draconequus council on trial. His Dad being the supreme judge with Drakeous at his side in bandages.         “Discord, Drakeous has told me that during battle you slayed him while he was trying to kill Celestia do you accept or deny these charges,” Draconerus asked.         “Father, I am guilty. I was too nervous to kill the filly when I confronted her and I tried to when Drakeous charged towards her. I missed the filly and hit him instead,” Discord stated in shame.         “Accident or not I will be sending you to 1,000 year banishment to a locked dimension. In this dimension it will be 1,000 years, but you’ll only age 500 years and when you get back it would only have been 500 years. You shall be placed into the Hell-dimension,” Draconerus sentenced.