This is a preview of the sequel to Chaotic Harmony, Children of Chaos. The first part in the prelude, then some "trailer" scenes after. I hope this get's you interested.
After Into the Black: A Mare's Tale, I have one more story lined up and then this one will begin in full. ItB:AMT is half way done, and Star Bright (working title) won't be very long, so it won't be too long. In the mean time, enjoy...
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Twilight Sparkle, princess of the night, sat slumped on her floor, her husband Dohi Waya wrapped a wing around her in comfort. Her regalia was tossed unceremoniously in the corner. This was a bad day. It had been a week since the disappearance of her friend's children. What was supposed to be a fun summer road trip became a nightmare. Somewhere along the road, they vanished. The moment Shining Armor heard, he dispatched search parties to locate the six missing college students, but nothing had been found...until three days ago.
A report came in about a cave-in in the Crystal Caverns beneath Canterlot, one of their planned stops. For three days ponies searched, clearing rubble and scanning for life, but came up short, until an hour ago. A unicorn had burst into the throne room with a tiny piece of green cloth, and a blood spattered crystal shard. Twilight recognized the cloth as a piece of the green ribbon Surprise had in her mane when they left.
No bodies were found, but Twilight knew better. The crystals down there resonate with magic in strange, often violent, ways. Most likely, there was nothing left of them to find. Now Twilight had the daunting task of telling several of her best friends that their children were dead. Twilight was wracked with grief herself. Those colts and fillies were like family to her. A steady flow of tears streamed down her face.
Waya fared no better. He already said that he would break the news to Shiro. After all, he was his best and closest friend. But how does one tell someone that his only two natural children, the only two that could carry on his bloodline, were gone? And what about Midnight, Applebloom and their soon-to-be addition? Their unborn foal would never get to meet their aunt and uncle.
Twilight was thinking about how to tell Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie and Applejack. Applejack was strong and would eventually be alright. Rainbow still had Shizuka Arashi, her second son. Pinkie, however...that one was going to be especially painful. Surprise had been her whole life and Twilight feared for her friend's mental health.
“Should we go to Ponyville or invite them here?” Waya asked, breaking the long silence.
“I think we should go to them,” Twilight answered, “...it's going to be hard enough on them. It's bad enough that they need to be told their children are...” She broke, throwing her hooves around her husband's neck. “Oh, Waya. They were right here, just under our hooves. Why couldn't we have done something to stop this?”
The blue prince wrapped a wing around her and tried comforting her. “There was nothing we could do. It was an unforeseen accident.”
“I wonder if it was?” Twilight said accusingly.
“What do you mean?”
“Kataya...what if she saw this and never said anything?” Twilight asked.
Waya was silent for a moment before speaking. “If she saw this and said nothing, it would be because it was meant to be. Though, I doubt she did. Her 'sight' isn't as strong as Laalia's was.”
“And what if it wasn't an accident?”
“Then may the gods have mercy on them if Shiro ever finds out!” Waya answered.
Before they could continue, they heard the shrill sound of the guard's alarm. They gave each other a confused look and jumped up to investigate. They followed the sound of the commotion until they found a large group of guards with several palace staff watching. As the princess approached, the sea of ponies parted until she was met with a sight that left her confused...a little relieved, but mostly just confused.
There, being held against a wall, was a familiar, yet very different tigony. His face was pressed against the marble, while his right paw was twisted around his back. The guard already had his wings bound and were in the process of cuffing his rear legs.
“Razor?” Twilight asked breathlessly, “Is that you? Oh mother! Are the others with you?”
As she approached, she noticed four parallel scars running across the side of his face and head, and the hard, cold look in his eyes. She followed his gaze and gasped at what she saw. The body of Gentle Word, one of Shining's advisers, lay in a pool of blood with a blade buried to the hilt in his chest. An icy cold gripped her chest at the realization. Razor just murdered a pony.
“R-Razor...why...” Twilight looked at him with pleading eyes. “Why would you do this?”
His eyes softened a little when he looked at her. “It had to be done. For the sake of Equestria.”
“What do you mean? What did he do?”
“It's not what he did,” His eyes drifted to the dead pony again. “...it's what he was going to do.”
The amount of hatred and venom in his words made her flinch. This was not the same sweet innocent young cub that would still shed a tear when he killed an animal for food.
“What’re you talking about? What's going on? You were gone for a week, and now you show up looking like you've been in Tartarus for a month. As if that's not enough, you decide that the first thing you should do is murder one of my brother's advisers!” she demanded, “You’d better start talking right now, because I'd much rather have told your father that you're dead, than to have to tell him you're a heartless murderer!”
“Look in the pouch,” he gestured to the bag by his hooves.
“What?” she asked, still fuming.
“Open the pouch and look inside.”
She levitated the bag and removed a solid black crown, and cringed. It felt wrong...evil. She looked up at him in confusion. “What is this?”
“You got somewhere we can talk?” asked Razor, “It's a long story...”
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“No way...” Razor and Surprise crested a hill and froze in shock, “Did we take a wrong turn?”
“No, see there's the Everfree. Raz, are we even in our Equestria?” asked the changeling.
Before them, rising into the sky, was a metropolis. Over one of the roads leading in was written, “Welcome to Ponyville”.
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“I've been waiting for you, Razor.” an elderly pegasus mare with a faded yellow coat and long gray mane stood in the door to the cottage.
Razor rubbed his eyes in disbelief, “Kataya? Is that you? Y, you're old?”
“Yes, well a thousand years does that to even a dragony,” she said with a playful smirk.
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Snow drove her hoof into the soldiers skull again and again, screaming obscenities. Blood splattered on her otherwise pristine black and white coat from the multiple open wounds on his head.
“Snow... Snow stop!” Autumn pulled the filly off the stallion, “Yer gonna kill'em!”
“Good!” shouted the half-unicorn.
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“I love you for who you are,” Razor said as he looked into Surprise' baby blue eyes, “I think you're beautiful in your real form. Your velvety black fur, the way your wings shimmer.”
“I know you do,” she said, “But admit it... the fact that I can change into anypony you want is a plus.”
Razor grinned, “Like Pinkie?”
“I'll cut you.”
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“You sure they're in there?” Oak asked.
“Yeah,” Blaze said, “I can smell them.”
“How are we going to do this?”
“You're gonna sneak in,” said the pagasus.
“What are you going to do?”
Oak gave him a cautious look, and flinched. Claws were replacing the cyan colt's hooves. His snout elongated. Feathery wings grew and flattened into leathery sheets. Black scaled formed along his sides and legs, contrasting with his fur.
“I'm going to teach these guys what happens when you fuck with my family.” He looked at the earth pony. The fire in his eyes made Oak start to pity the soldiers standing guard. “Slip in when their focused on me.”