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// Discord/Impact 
// Story: The Nightmare Chronicles 
// by Maxypony 
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The Nightmare Chronicles
Chapter I
Discord

This was her only chance to follow her mistress Nightmare Moon down unto the ever changing green, white, and blue blur ever so far below.
Sapphire had heard stories of the place down below from her mistress, tales of the tyrannical sister Celista, who banished her to the moon. She also heard the stories of the earth ponies who walked upon the ground with four legs, as time went on sapphire fashioned herself four legs from the life giving clay of the celestial  pool crater.
Then her mistress went on to the mystical lore of the unicorns and their powerful magic, guided by the horn on their heads. There were now horns to speak of upon the surface of her lunar home, so sapphire recut the twin sapphire tinted ruby's that formed her life essence, into two horns which she grew into her clay skull. The burgundy magic becoming blood to flow in her vains.
As a final touch sapphire using the tall tails told of the pegasii as a guide, took the skin from several aquabats and formed herself two wings to fly with. The final touch was to give the rest of her new body new colors besides that of the silvery gray of moon clay. Her coat a lustrous black, to match her mistress. Her mane and tail, formed from the fibrous filaments that make up the tails of comets and shooting stars.
The firey energy in her mane bought to its full strength through the expert weaving of the whispy blades that she pulled from any shooting star that passed by near enough. The regal flow of her tail came from the soft whisps of comet cotton.
These both colored of her trademark sapphire blue.
Her eye slits where colored from the place far below that she wished so desperate to visit. Her eyes were twin mesmerizing emeralds with swirling flecks of silver and sapphire throughout. 

Looking too deeply into those eyes might just cause one to fall forever into a headlong spin into nothingness, such was their chaotic beauty. 
With the world below torn apart into chaos with the release of an ancient deity there was no one below with the unity to prevent her from diving down  to that tri-colored blur below.  Of course that still left the most difficult part of the journey, crossing the void between her world and the one below.
Sapphire spent so much time staring into that void that the power of its empty nothingness had seeped into the void behind her own eyes, enhancing the already terrible pull her eyes held. With their power sapphire went eye to eye with a star, staring it down. The only way to cross the void was to ride upon the back of a shooting star. It took nightmare moon a thousand years to convince the stars to fall with enough  power to allow her to cross the void and breach the magical wards her sister had shielding the kingdom of Equestria.
However with discord disrupting the balance of things it was a simple matter to stare down a star and ride it down to the mystical beacon that the ruined alicorn castle emanated. The beacon in place long before the two princesses feuded,  long before Equestria was ever formed, long before ponies even walked upon that continent, the beacon came from the true antiquity; when sapphires shapeless ghostly people still held power over the land below, taking many forms, or every form in the case of discord.
However sapphire was the last surviver from the obliterated empire that once stretched to the moon and beyond.
The remaining members of her species had either gone completely insane or prisoners entrapped by the very magic they had eons ago.
Or in the case of discord, both.
There were others, the true primortal spirits, but they only existed as slumbering entities drifting through the endless void.
Besides all of this sapphire was only partly of the ancient kind, she came into being because of Nightmare Moons magic, so her spirit world essence was also part pony.
Now she was falling through the sky clinging to the ebbing contrails sputtering off of the dying star.
As the star burned its last ember sapphire made ger first encounter with that wonderful element that was air, she felt alive for the first time in her existence as her spread her leathery wings and soared through wave after wave of new sensation.
The world look and felt completely different this close to the ground, just a few more moments and she could touch the highest cloud.
The first clouds were mildly cold, then they became warm and wet. Wet was by far the strangest sensation she had ever encountered. It was so... Weird.
But soon sensations were outclassed by sights, the greenery was just too far away to see clearly, sapphire tucked her wings and rolled into a numbingly steep dive. Rocketing toward the trees below. The trees looked so soft and squishy, sapphire was rapidly approaching them, the just a moment after she reached out to touch the trees, a frightening new element reared its terrible head, pain shot through her entire body the most shocking and different sensation she had ever encountered. Then came something very familiar, darkness...


Chapter 2: Impact

Scootaloo flexed her tiny wings, tensely waiting for Dashie's signal.
Suddenly the crystal clear sunlit skies abruptly dimmed, as a billowing wave of black fire burst from above the suddenly shell shocked tree tops of Everfree Forest. The ominous shockwave of ghostly flames, swiftly dissipated  into the horizon, but left behind  foreboding storm clouds forming above the fading gold-orange sunset.
Despite the ominous cause, the breathtaking beauty created by the dying sun's last rays lighting the darkness above with a perfusion of fiery beams of golden colour, stopped everypony in their hoofprints. Slack jawed, the inhabitants of ponyville stared into the sky as the final rays of light crept bellow the horizon.

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"What in all of Sweet Apple Orchards was that... Th-" The rest of Applejacks verbal quandary was cut short by deafening, keening ear splitting metallic hoof on chockboard screech reverberated throughout the valley, echoing around the neighboring hillsides, only fading into the distance at an excruciatingly languid pace.

"Could it possibly be?" Twilight implored to no one but the solitary tree under which she was studying a dusty tome on ancient pre-equestrian history.
Swiftly flipping to the index in the back, before tearing through the pages until she settled upon a short chapter on "off hoof" archeology from eons before the three tribes had even formed.
Twilight skimmed across a free paragraphs before finding the faded passage she was searching for.
Twi look up at the air space above the gnarled Everfree Forest. And to her horror she saw the last fading filaments of fire burning in a downward spiraling pillar.
"OH NOOOO. Its! Its... Its a DemonicPainDoom! Mother of Celestia..."
Twilight bemoaned in horror.
"Is that even possible!?!! Wait what is it?" Spike enquired as he crested the top of the hill.

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Rainbow Dash stared at the sky in dumb struck awe struck  stupification. 
Words began to form on her trembling lips. "What is this, I don't..." her voice broke and trailed off into silence.
At which point the ever perky but starstruck Scootaloo chirped in with mind blown enunciation. "THIS. HAS. TO. BE. 9000% COOLER!!! Than anythING!!!" Ending with a high pitched squeal.
Just then Scoot looked down, tracking movement from the edge vision, to see Dash hit the ground in a  dry puff of dust.
In throughout all the shock and awe Dashie's shattered and paralyzed brain forgot to flap.
"Outch." She winced.

"Heehee" Scootaloo giggled. "you /should/ see your /face/"
Stretching out two of the words in a excessively dramatic fashion.
 
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"Well, darn. I ain't never seen anythin' the likes of /that/."
Stretching the last word out as if to set a record in the syllable in Equestria's vocal history.
Big Mac replied in a similarly drawn out fashion. "EEEYYEUUPP..." 

To be extended in a stylistically identical looooooooongcaaaat