Revertere

by Mr Septonic

Second Contact

~~Revertere~~
Mr Septonic
Chapter 11

Chaos stared up into the bright afternoon sky with a smile. It had been a long time since he had been outside, and he loved it. The warm feeling of the sun on his face, the wind blowing past him. He missed it all so. He took a look all around, to find only plains that stretched for a couple miles in every direction. "Perfect..." He muttered to himself.
Luna emerged from the tomb a minute or so after Chaos, as she was interested in his coffin. She found it fascinating that a simple stone box could hold that much power without being destroyed over such a long period of time. But she was soon distracted by a sudden feeling in her mind. A feeling that closely resembled the nervousness that accompanies danger. This frightened her to a degree, making her gallop outside to investigate. Her findings did not please her.

What Luna found was Chaos, standing a fairly good distance away from the tomb. And he was putting out a lot of power, but only in the form of pressure, so things weren't being destroyed by raw magic. The air around Luna however, started to vibrate, obstructing her vision of him. What she could make out though, was that he was holding a small sphere of magic in front of him.
"What are you doing!?" Luna yelled over to him, hoping he was not going crazy. Chaos turned his head to look at her, then smiled. Normally there was no mouth on him or Ordinis, but this time there was a jagged crack over the lower portion of his face, making a very crude mouth. And just like his eyes, there was only white within. Chaos then looked back in front of him, and threw the little ball that he was holding.
The moment it left his hand, which Luna still didn't fully understand what it was, the pressure from his magic stopped. Seeing a chance, Luna teleported herself right next to Chaos blurting out, "What was that? Do thou intend to do the same as Ordinis?"
After wincing from the sudden boom of Luna's voice, Chaos replied. "I'm sorry if I took you by surprise, but I am sure you can imagine what time can do to one's power." Luna started to say more, but he continued. "I needed to stretch my legs, so to speak. And that little ball that I threw surely did the trick. I feel much better now!"
"You mean to tell me, that that little tiny ball of magic was enough to..." Caught in mid-sentence, Luna was interrupted by the "little ball of magic" exploding. Making a near acre size crater off in the distance. After staring at the result for a few seconds, Luna started to walk away from Chaos replying, "I think I need to lay down for now."
"Good idea! I was just about to suggest that we wait to go see my good friend Ordinis."
"You want us to wait?" Luna replied.
"Yes." Chaos said, sitting down a few feet away from her.
"Why is that?"
"Because," Chaos stared off over the plains, "an opportunity is about to be made."

Canterlot

Ordinis stared at the city walls with a blank stare. He was still pondering on the statement Celestia threw at him before he left, and he was getting annoyed at being confused by it. Rarity on the other hoof was nearly exploding with glee that she was so close to being back with her friends again. Ordinis looked over to her, noticing the envy in her eyes. Sighing, he went over to her saying, "I'm going to teleport us both in. When that happens, you're free to go at your leisure." At the mention of her being able to leave, Rarity looked at him smiling.
"Thank you Ordinis. I'm sure that you will find that pony you're looking for. Maybe I can even convince the others that your cause is just, and our first impressions were a little misguided."
"Don't bother yourself with such troubles." Ordinis replied. "I do not wish for any more distractions in my mission, so please. Do not do that." Rarity looked at him with a spark of confusion in her eyes, but she agreed. Ordinis then teleported her into Canterlot, so she could return to her friends.

Rarity appeared right next to a bakery, on the edge of the main road leading up to the castle. She didn't know if Ordinis had planned where to shoot her to, but she was thankful nonetheless. Taking up a brisk pace, she started to make her way up the the palace, in hopes of possibly finding a guard on the way there. "Oh how I hope Ordinis doesn't cause too much trouble out there."

Rarity did not know how far off she was from the palace itself, but she was hoping that if she found a guard nearby, that he would be able to get her there in no time at all. What she was hoping for, however, was a little different from what was about to happen to her. As she made the next corner, rather quickly, she collided with a stallion who was making the same corner in her direction. Startled at the sudden pony in her face, Rarity screamed. And proceeded to topple over the fellow completely, leaving him quite bewildered.
"Ooh, I am so sorry!" Rarity turned around very quickly to apologize to the stranger she ran over, hoping she was not in any serious trouble for the accident.
"That is quite alright. This is not the first time somepony has ran into me head first." The stallion looked up to look at her, holding a hoof to his forehead. "Besides, you seem like you are in some rush. Mind me asking what?"
"Oh, um." Rarity's brain went numb for a second trying to think on what to say. She didn't want to blurt out that she was going to the palace like she was taking a stroll, but what was the harm in saying it with vague details? "I'm heading up to the palace to see some of my friends. We left each other's side a few days ago, so I came by to check up on them." She smiled wide at the end of her sentence, hoping he would buy it. While she looked at him, she found herself staring at his coat. She had never seen a stallion's coat that black before. It did not shine, even with light directly on it.

"The palace?" The stallion asked, catching her attention. "Doesn't surprise me that much. After all, at first glance I wouldn't expect less of somepony like you. May I ask for a name?
"It's Rarity. And you?" Rarity blushed at the statement.
"Chance. Pleasure to meet you Miss Rarity." Chance gave a little bow before continuing. "Aren't you a little far from the palace? I'm sure I could get you there much faster than you simply walking."
"Oh no that's quite alright."
"Nonsense. I couldn't call myself a gentlecolt if I left a mare such as yourself to walk." Chance put his hoof around her neck swiftly, and put an aura around the two of them. Rarity was surprised to find that he was a unicorn, as she was staring at his body most of the last minute, and did not notice the horn on his head. When she looked up at his face, however, there was no horn on his forehead. She then, quickly, looked at his sides finding wings. If he was a pegasus, then how was it possible that he could use magic? Ordinis had told her that he didn't appear as a unicorn as it made a better disguise. Was that the case here? Realizing she might be in danger, she tried to struggle free. But the teleportation spell was already cast, and they disappeared.

Earlier on the plains...

"Remind me, what is the reason for us waiting here like this?" Luna questioned Chaos with her head turned to look out over the plains.
"I want to wait for the perfect moment to make myself known to the world again. After all, it's not everyday an ex-god wakes up." Chaos said this as he played with fire in the grass. Normally the fire would spread, and burn the surrounding area. But Chaos held perfect control the entire time, making sure the fire never went farther than a couple inches from its starting ember.
"Ex-god? What do you mean by that?" Luna was curious. Chaos did not consider himself to be a god anymore?
"You did not know?" Chaos looked over to her, confusion in his face. "Discord has been the god of chaos for some time now. Since there cannot be more than one reigning god of a particular path, you can say he has taken my place. I am no longer of deity status because of this."
"That makes sense...in a way." Luna's face contorted with confusion.
"It makes perfect sense. Now, go back to waiting." Chaos said this with a smirk on his face, knowing that Luna would get annoyed with him. Which she did.

The two of them sat in silence for what seemed like hours, but was only twenty minutes. Chaos looked down at his watch, realizing this, and sighed.
"Wait. I don't have a watch." Chaos chuckled to himself and de-materialized it, leaving himself now bored. "I wonder what would happen if..." Turning around to look at Luna, laughing maniacally to himself, he called out to her. "Hey Luna!"
"What is it."
"Race ya."
"What...?" Luna turned around to ask Chaos what he meant, only to find that he was now running away from her very quickly. In the direction of Canterlot. "He did not."
"See ya there Luna, don't dally!" Chaos yelled out to her, laughing while he did so. He then started to phase forward, started his jump towards Canterlot.
"Thy will regret this!" Luna yelled out. She then took flight, racing after him at top speed.

Chaos felt bad about leaving Luna behind, but only for like six seconds. After all, he did meet a very beautiful mare on his way to Canterlot's Castle. Who was, conveniently, heading to the same place. So, being the gentlemen he was, he picked her up, and carried her up to the palace himself. There, she pronounced her love for him, and they embraced.

To bad that's what Chaos was thinking, and not what actually happened. Their meeting was by mere chance. After he teleported the two of them to the castle, Rarity found herself in the throne room. Right in front of Celestia. This of course, scared the daylight out of the princess, not literally though. Chaos, however, might have been going for that.
"Wha...Rarity?" Celestia's eye grew with shock at the sight of the two ponies before her.

"Ah, hello your majesty!" Rarity quickly dropped into a bow, while Chaos rolled his eyes at the sight.
"I did not expect to see you for another hour or so. Speaking of which..." Rarity turned her head to stare at Chance. "How did you get us in..." Rarity cut her sentence off halfway to gape at Chance's forehead. A black horn was now protruding from it, and the wings previously at his sides were now gone.
"Well, about that." Chaos put on his best mischievous look, just for hoots. "Seems like the wards around the castle aren't as great as their cracked up to be. Oh well." Yawning, Chaos put his hoof up to his mouth. "I really should be going now. Really tired and all."

"Hold on a moment please." Chaos looked up towards Celestia as she spoke. And immediately groaned. "I would very much like to know how exactly you two got in here. I myself overlooked the set up of the barriers, and you bypassed them like nothing." Walking up to the two of them, she continued. "I find that quite hard to believe, especially that you also managed to get into the throne room itself, which is quite a ways in."

"OK, firstly." Chaos began. "This room is not far in at all, and I pride myself on my movement techniques. So yeah. And secondly, if those barriers are as good as you say they are, then why is there no alarm for when somepony does get in? Not a very good security system if you ask me."

When Chaos finished, Rarity starred at him in shock. He clearly knew who he was talking to, yet he spoke in such a common style, like she was a neighbor of his, and not one of the Princesses of Equestria. Celestia also noticed, but took no offense. Sometimes it was refreshing to hear somepony talk her like an equal. But under the current circumstances, she was quite annoyed with this particular stallion. Not only did he infiltrate her Palace, but he did so accompanied by Rarity who appeared to have no idea he would do what he did.
"Now," Chaos started once again, "Like I have said before, I am quite tired. Why not chat about this silly thing some time later? Plus, I'm sure Rarity here wants to ask me some questions of her own." Celestia looked at him for a time, then called for a guard.
"I can assume you will stay in your room for the meantime and stay quiet?" Celestia questioned. She hoped that this stranger would cause no trouble around the palace, but just to be sure she was going to send some guards to standby in the hallway outside his room.
"Yes, but I will say this." Chaos smiled at her before turning around to face the door at the far end. "I can get bored fairly quickly."