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// Waiting 
// Story: Waiting 
// by TheExhaustedBrony 
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"Friendship is magic!"

What?  Did I just say that?  How could I, the spirit of chaos, possibly submit myself to the lesser power of friendship?  I-it's strange, I feel like I have no control over my body, as I'd I've split in two.  What makes things even stranger is that I can see myself from above.  I can see Twilight Sparkle and her stupid little crown.  This is all too weird, even for a being such as myself.  Perhaps this is what they call an out of body experience?  Everything around me started to get dark and soon, the lively colors of Ponyville soon faded into blackness.

So this is what happens when one changes who they were meant to be.  I guess that I'm unfortunate to be the conscious one that gets banished, forced to spend all of eternity in his purgatory.  I was in the middle of cleaning out my right ear when I realized that I was not alone.

"You're mistaken, Discord.  Nothing lasts forever, you do realize?"

"Hello?  Who's there?" I wanted to look for the source of the voice, but someone might as well have taken away my eyeballs because I couldn't even tell if my eyes were open or not.  It belonged to a woman.  She sounded so very familiar, but who could it be?  My memory was never very good.  I learned that being imprisoned in stone means that one loses the necessity of remembering things.  It just makes everything take ten times longer.

"Discord, do you not remember me?  Can you not recall my name?  I know it's been a few thousand years since we last interacted, but I've been watching you closely for a long time now."

That voice, could it be? "Princess Luna?  I-is that you?"

"Mwuhahahahaha!  So very close, but no.  Let me give you a hint." The voice softened into a whisper, "you created me."

My eyes widened with the sudden realization, "Nightmare Moon!"

"Now you remember Discord."

"Where are we?" I asked.

"We?  Well, let me start off with this.  We no longer exist."

What in Equestria could that possibly mean?  This day just keeps getting weirder and weirder.  As I tried to wrap my mind around the large bit of knowledge I was just given, she continued,

"When our bodies had changed, we, the energy of what their minds sought after, was sent away to the void."

"Fascinating," I giggled, "when I used my magic to disharmonize you, I had no idea that it would make you smarter!"  By now, I was laughing uncontrollably.

"She was weak.  She was young.  She was stupid!" Nightmare Moon's voice echoed throughout the empty space which we resided.

"And that's why I'm so brilliant!" I boasted, "I was able to manipulate a princess and create the most spectacular chaotic event I had ever seen!" Indeed, I was still proud.  That will never change.

"Yet you were defeated.  Beaten at your own game by those ponies.  I never thought that you, the puppet master, could be manipulated."

I scratched my head, "yeeeaaaa, I'm not entirely sure what happened there either."

"What happened is that your body wanted you out.  It overpowered your control."

"Now, Night Light, dear," I teased, "I can't be stuck here for an eternity.  I need to get out and be myself.  I need to get back into my body.  Who knows what he's doing now that he has friends, pfft."

In the blackness, I could see a crescent shape forming in front of me.  It was bright white like the moon.  It was a smile, a very large one at that.

"I can see that you've been brushing your teeth lately."

"I can feel my powers draining from me.  I will soon be free once again and I shall return to Equestria to have my revenge!"

"Say what, deary?  That doesn't make a whole lot of sense.  Speak in a language that I'd be able to understand."

"Silence!" Nightmare Moon roared, "do not mock me!  Princess Luna is letting her fears and self doubts seep into her heart.  Her spiritual barrier is slowly fading away and soon I'll be able to take control once again!"

"Oh my does that sound like a swell thing!  I hope I won't have to wait long.  Although," I snapped my fingers and could feel a beach chair underneath me and a cocoanut half in hand, "I'm prepared to wait." I took a sip from my drink.  I couldn't see it, but I knew where it was.

"It's time." Nightmare Moon announced.

"Oh my, time to go already?  But we just got reunited!  Don't leave me!" I changed the beach chair into a couch and sprawled my body across it.  I put my arm over my eyes and acted like an over dramatic damsel in distress.

"I'll be seeing you soon, Discord," Nightmare moon seemed to ignore my playfulness, "We shall meet soon in Equestria, my Equestria.  We shall meet in a new world, built from my vision of an eternal night!  There will be no Celestia.  There will be no more princesses!  There will only be me!" Nightmare Moon's voice boomed like thunder and quickly turned into silence.

"Night Light?  You there?"  I called out but received no response.  She just have gone back to Equestria.  She seemed confident in her goals.  Perhaps I should come up with some of my own while I wait?  Nah.  I hate planning for things.  Like mommy always said, take things as they come to you.  I'm coming for you, my little ponies.  I'll be looking forward to our pony-play-date, hehehehe!