When I arrived at the borders of Frozenfalls, Discord already knew I was there. I had not even tried to hide my arrival. He was grinning and looking down onto me and I just smiled back, knowing it would be his last grin.
“What makes you think, such a pathetic little pony like yourself could just march through these great streets of mine?”
He laughed.
“I am just kidding. Actually, I am quite curious about what you are doing here. It would be a pleasure, if we could discuss it with cookies and tea.”
He created a small table with some teapots, teacups, dishes and spoons on it. He sat down on a chair next to it, dressing in a suit and hovering a monacle in front of his eye. I was – to say the least – not amused by his childish behavior.
“I am not here to drink your tea. I am here to take vengeance.”
Discord laughed again, but certainly unsure this time.
“To take vengeance for death is like trying to extinct fire with a lighter.”
Without giving him further time to fool around, I threw a ball of liquid stone towards him. It had been supposed to just be a big stone, but while it was flying, I could feel my magic echoing behind uncontrollably, heating the stone, until it turned into a ball of lava.
He easily defended himself, but not quite as expected. Instead of simply changing the trajectory or evading, he created a straw, took one step to his left and drank the whole ball, while it flew by. Afterwards, he spat out little cobblestones towards me. I easily created a shield and the cobbles bounced off. Instead of attacking again, he was waiting for my attack. I created molten steel, which erupted from the ground below him, but he was just standing on top of it, without even getting burned.
Again, I had wanted to create spikes to pierce him, but my magic had just continued long after I had used it.
“I am a draconequus, do you really think, you could hurt me with fire?”
He did the same thing as last time, sucking up the molten steel and I already prepered to be fired at by bullets. Instead, he created a falling anvil just above me; However my shield just deflected it. Then I tried to crush him with a giant, amphibious island of stone. Although it did not turn into lava again due to its massive size, the trees on top of it still started to burn. Normally, I could have never lifted such a huge thing, but the explosion seemed to have caused more than just an attack of Frost Trees. It almost seemed as if also some of the strength from inside the dream had carried over into reality.
At first, he withstood the weight, but within hearbeats he had to give in. He got crushed by the immense island of rock and dirt. The island had even two houses on top of it, so I thought he could never withstand such a weight. I already wanted to turn around, when he theatrically cracked open the whole island and jumped out with a lot of confetti and streamers.
“Haha, is that all you have got?”
He would stop laughing soon enough.
I, myself, was not powerful enough to really fight him. Without further playing around, I relaxed to a point, where I could feel the distant pull into another world. My shield saved me from drifting into there. Today, I wouldn't journey into that world, I would just use it's power. I could feel the bond getting stronger and stronger, while it was getting harder and harder to not drift away. Despite that, I could also feel my magic potential still growing. The stars started to shine through reality, as if it had become translucent. Discord had placed himself on a seat by now, laughing at me and my magic.
“Haha. You want to fight me? Your tiny stones and spikes cannot harm such a beautiful creature like me!”
He created a mirror and some makeup just to underline his statement. I threw an electric charge at him, which erupted with sizzling and cracking into many lightnings towards Discord. He created, out of nothing, a giant wall of metal, which lead the current down into the earth:
“Do you need more evidence to be convinced, that I am invincible? There is no way to beat me, I am unbeatable, impenetrable, incomprehensible, virtually impossible, but just real enough to beat you. How is your friend doing, by the way? Don't blame me for her death. I just started a fire... Who could know, it would start to burn the whole city?”
In the next moment, I released all my tension into one single explosion. Every single bit of my anger, my disgust, my hatred, my sadness flowed into this explosion. It felt like the final moment; The light blinded me and it even shined through my closed lids. I could feel all my energy draining, until my shield collapsed and I embraced the well-known darkness. Still, I was sure to have my victory.
Was it over? It had been the final moment, hadn't it? Still, time was going on. I was not far from where we had fought, lying in an avenue. By judging the ground below me, I must have been thrown over here by the explosion. I wanted to check, whether I had been truly successful or he was still there. Slowly, I trotted towards the area where we had fought. There he was, fallen over onto the ground; Not dead, but not alive either. He was a statue of thick black stone, glowing in a light-blue light. This was impossible! Was he invincible? At least, he wouldn't hurt anypony anymore.
My work here was done.
What now? Should I go home? Better not. There was still a risk of another encounter with a population of Frost Birches. Go to the small village? The memory of her death was still too fresh and only hurting. I should have not even mentioned it here. Her face is still there, in my unconsciousness, waiting to be revealed whenever I think about it. The last place, I could have really gone was the encampment in Ponyville.
I tried to hover Discord behind me, but I realized, that this immense magic definitely had disadvantages. Instead of neatly following me, the statue just flew through the air, thousands of hooves high and to a point, where I could not make it out anymore. I knew, that I would have to pull the statue with ropes instead of just hovering it with magic. Luckily, I was still inside a city, even though it was completely ravaged. The buildings, that had flown through the air had just crushed onto the ground. Most creatures were normal again, but still behaving strangely. The city was still chaotic, but at least it was clear, that it was not reigned by chaos anymore. I found a suitable rope and a harness, to which I would be able to knot the ropes to. After that, I started to trot towards where Discord had landed.
While I was slowly trotting around, firstly without the weight of Discord and afterwards with the weight of a huge statue behind me, I had enough time to think about everything. There was one question, which followed me: What did this mean? With this power I would be stronger than... even Twilight Sparkle? There was something definitely wrong here. She was the Alicorn Element of Harmony and I was a mere unciorn. Although I was not sure, if that really was the right idea, but somehow I just had to ask somepony about all of this. I had to know, what was happening to me. There were just a couple of ponies in Equestria, who could possibly answer this. Excluding ponies, I didn't know, and excluding ponies, I definitely didn't want to see, there was only one choice: Twilight Sparkle.
So, I actually started to make my way down south with the huge weight of Discord behind me. Into sun, into warmth, into life once again. It would take days for me to arrive.