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// 1. Elements of Harmony 
// Story: Johnny Powell's Personal Journal 
// by Nightmare_0mega 
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Oh boy, here we go. This is certainly something the Angelus would drool over. After spending some time in this world, keeping to the shadows, digging in trashcans for food, and stealing the odd book from the tree-house/library combo pack, I ended up discovering information on some rather powerful artifacts. That is, of course, the Elements of Harmony.

The Elements of Harmony are nothing short of the McGuffins to end all McGuffins. Six jewels designed to specifically fuck up evil forces with gusto, and fix what was set asunder. If reality had cheat codes, these fashion statements are the buttons to push. According to some books dedicated to this world's version of the occult, they were artifacts of unknown origin found by the Sun Goddess known as Princess Celetia and the Moon Goddess Princess Luna. Real original names, I know. Anyway, their first recorded use was against a being known as Discord, the God of Chaos itself. I originally believed this would be their version of The Darkness, but after what I saw days ago, I have a feeling the Darkness would have lost its mind a second time over if Discord stood in front of it. In the case of extreme good striking against extreme evil, it didn't obliterate that being on the spot as I would have normally assumed when first reading these texts. Instead, it sealed Discord in a stone prison. To be perfectly honest, I would have preferred total annihilation over eternal imprisonment in solid stone, just because I doubt I could hold in a piss for that long.

The second ever recorded use of the Elements was during a moment in history known as the Lunar Rebellion. A moment in which the moon butted co-ruler of this little girl playset became jealous of her sister's adoration, despite the fact that equines are normally diurnal and, ya know, need to fucking sleep during the night. It was at that time that she became the mother of all she-bitches, Nightmare Moon. Seriously, who came up with these names? In a desperate throw, Princess Celestia collected the elements once again, and banished her deranged loon of a sister to the moon for nearly a thousand years. I guess the artifacts felt that imprisonment by stone was too harsh, and opted for seclusion, oppressive silence, and suffocation due to the lack of atmosphere as a much kinder punishment. Upon her dear little sister's banishment, in order to keep the world from getting an everlasting case of frost bite, Celestia took hold of moon duties for the time being while her sister was in time out. I'm hard pressed to believe that those two actually have the power to raise the sun and moon, but after what I've seen, anything is possible at this point.

According to the books I could find, old Sunbutt stashed the gems away during the era after the Lunar Rebellion, with rumors and notes in the books claiming they went inert. I'm guessing she thought that, despite how useless they became then, they would still be rather dangerous if they fell into the wrong hands, or be eaten by whatever mythical creature that got a bit too curious. And for a thousand years, nothing major happened that required their intervention, which is so absurd on the coincidence-o-meter that I think it broke. Never the less, that wasn't the last time we ever got to see the Elements. 

Fast forwarding to a few months before my arrival, apparently Nightmare Moon returned from her vacation on the great barren rock in the sky, and was understandably pissed. At the same time, Celestia mysteriously disappeared, and it was up to her protege and a band of merry mares to not only find the elements' hiding place, but also reactivate them and somehow save the world. All I managed to find out is that they succeeded, and were even able to remove the crazy from Moony. I'd have found more info about this, but the most I managed to scrounge up was a newspaper clipping of the moment in question, and even that seemed to be overshadowed by something called the Summer Sun Celebration (stroking your ego there a bit, Celestia?) and the return of the un-crazied relative diarch.

However, and that's a BIG however, the best info I could gather on the Elements at the time of writing this was what I witnessed not too long ago. Apparently, when the Elements went inert, it was likely that whatever imprisonment spell that was placed on Discord started to weaken, slowly but gradually. Upon his release, he decided to turn the world into his own personal funhouse. It made running and hiding a very traumatizing experience, especially for someone as twitchy, crazy, and paranoid as me. You don't know fear until you've had a lamp post bark at you and fling bees in your general direction. I'm still treating some of those stings. I was at least lucky enough to get my first real glimpse of the mad hatter that did this, whom promptly summoned a glass of chocolate milk, drank the glass, and tossed the still formed milk away to cause a fiery explosion of ice. Please don't ask me how that makes any sense. It was also my greatest privilege to see the Elements in action. Jesus fucking tap-dancing Christ. I didn't know rainbows could look so scary. Not only did the ground quake as if the world was going to split open after being fired, but a massive shockwave exploded from where the colorful beam of fucking love and joy hit Discord, reverting everything back to relative normalcy, and sealing him back to his prison of stone. If I had pants, they would be brown.

Never the less, as frightening as these pieces of bling are, they just might hold the key to my escape from this place, and perhaps return me to my normal human body. Maybe give me a million dollars as compensation, too. I'll keep an eye on them while I'm here for at least THAT possibility.

Mental Note, if the Angelus ever finds a way to this place, do NOT let that crazy bitch get her claws on the Elements. It'd probably spell doom for everyone, especially everyone with a dick.