Shadows of the Bloodmoon

by Shadowcorn

Chapter 11: The bloodmoon (Part 2)

“No. Because they wanted to kill us.“, Shadowcorn said.

The equestrians were shocked.

“What? Why?!“, Cadance asked.

“Because of the way I look like. At the start of my studies I discovered an ancient recepie for a potion allowing you do studie and use dark magic without becoming evil. But in the last days of my studies I couldn’t make anymore potions. I managed to master the dark magic but I began to became evil. So my boys and I used an ancient ritual which should have freed me from the evil completly. Unfortunatly the side effects weren’t readable. The evil came out of me but it went into my coat transforming my outwards appearance into what it’s now. Also the dark energy created during this ritual made our manes vanish. Unglücklicherweise war die Nebenwirkung unlesbar gewesen. I always was the crown prince a thorn in the eye. And now he could kill me legally. I can imagine how satisfying it was for him to command his troops to arrest me just to humiliate me, to kill my boys in front of my eyes and to kill me in the end. In my birth dimension you can only travel to other dimension during a bloodmoon through a portal like this. Luckily there was a bloodmoon in the night of our escape. We managed to get to the portal, to open it and to run through. This way we arrived in The Void, a, well, void dimension with its own rules. Only those who don’t want to find it or who was there before can find it.“

The equestrians were stunned.

“And what do you want to do now? I mean you already said you want to take revenge but is it really your best option?“, Luna asked.

“Yes. At least the way I want to take revenge. I won’t hurt the kingdom directly. In The Void I met someone with similar intentions: The former prince of the Alicorn Empire. The father of the latest crownprince rebellt against the former king and queen and killed them in front of the eyes of the former prince. He did it because he thought they weren’t worthy of ruling anymore. But before they were killed the former king and queen used a ritual to transform their son into the unnatural spirit of chaos and disharmony in order to protect him. Ironicly his name was already Discorn. After the transformation they let him open a portal. When the rebels entered the room they paralyzed him and kicked him into the portal. This way the rebels couldn’t follow him and he couldn’t come back. But he had to watch the death of his loved parents, too. In the end he arrived in The Void. At first he thought we would be enemies when we arrived in The Void centuries later. So he attacked us until we told him our story. And after some time we became friends. One day he showed us a ritual he found: The Ritual of the Interdimensional Destruction. Wit this ritual we can destroy something in another dimension through a portal. Our plan is to destroy their portal to isolate them. Also then we will can be sure that they can’t follow us. But for this there has to be a bloodmoon on both sides. And this happenes today.“, Shadowcorn explained.

The equestrian discussed something for a short time. Then Twilight asked:

“And no one gets hurt?“

“You have my word. I never wanted to harm anypony.“

“If that‘s true then there is truely no reason for a fiendship. You have your good reasons. It’s a sign of being good harded to not wish to harm anypony despite the great amount of injustice you experienced. Also we have an offer for you: After this night you can live in Equestria. Here no pony will judge you after your outwards appearance.“, princess Celestia said.

“I thank you. All of you.“, Shadowcorn said while he and his boys bow down.

Suddendly everypony heard drums.

“What’s that?“, Rarity asked.

A light formed itself. For a short period of time everything was brightened. Afterwards a grey alicorn without mane, eye brows or tail but with a blue horn, big eyes similar to Discord’s eyes, a thinn long beard at its chinn and one single fang hanging out of its mouth. Its Cutie Mark were many arrows with diffrent colors pointing from one point in all directions. All in all it looked like an alicorn-version of Discord.

“May I introduce to you: My partner and friend, Discorn, the unnatural spirit of chaos and disharmony as well as the true ruler of the Alicorn Empire.“

“How many spirits of chaos and disharmony are there?“, Applejack asked Twilight quietly.

With a high voice Discorn said:

“Hello everyone. It looks like you realized the rightousness of our doing. That’s nice.“

Then he turned to Shadowcorn.

“The bloodmoon is up. Did you completed the preperations?“

Shadowcorn noddged. His horn began glowing. A big circle appeared on the ground in front of the portal. In the middle of the circle there was another, smaller one. At the circle, there were five other small circles. Around the circle in the middle there were many diffrent symbols.

“Let’s get started.“, Discorn said.

He put himself into the circle in the middle while Shadowcorn and his boys took position in the snall circles around the big one. Discorn fired a beam at the crystal on the top of the arch. The portal opened itself the same way it opened itself in Celestia’s and Luna’s childhood. Slowly the portal became more clear until you could see a big green mountain with houses and castles on it on the other side. Thanks to the bloodmoon everything had a bit red.

“Olympus. The capital of the Alicorn Empire.“, Shadowcorn explained to the equestrians.

The circles began glowing. Magical Energy came out of the horns of Shadowcorn and his boys. It foated into Discorn‘s horn. Suddendly the five Cutie Mark-less alicorns fell to the ground.

“What the…Discorn! What happened? Why isn’t our energy forming a magical ball?“, Shadowcorn asked.

Discorn turned around. With an evil smile. His eyes glew. With a terrefying voice he said:

“Why? Because I tricked you! There is no Ritual of the Interdimensional Destruction! You just gave me 99% of your magic making me the most powerful being of all dimensions! Now I can destroy those rebels!“

At first the equestrians were angry at Shadowcorn but then they saw his shocked look on his face.

“NO! THAT’S NOT WHAT I WANTED!“, he shouted.

“And that’s the reason I betrayed you! You just wanted to isolate them! What kind of revenge ist hat?! After all they’ve done to us! But I’m not very suprised. Your father was right. You are worth less then nothing. You are nothing and you won’t become anything until the day you die. So do us all a favor and make your father proud for once in your life. Fullfill his wish and die already. It’s way past time.“

Discorn took the alicorn-amulett and went theough the portal. The equestrians ran towards Shadowcorn and his boys who came up slowly.

“Shadowcorn!“, Twilight called out.

“Don’t worry. I’m alright. Well except that the one I called my best friend for thousands of years just betrayed me.“

“And what he-?“, Celestia started asking.

“My father never lied or kept something for himself. Nothing Discorn was new to me. My father said it thousand times in my face before. I don’t care anymore. But thats unimportant right now! We have to stop Discorn!“, Shadowcorn said.

“Maybe our rainbowmagic will help!“, Rainbow Dash suggested.

“It wouldn’t. His chaos magic is unnatural.“, Celestia said and Shadowcorn agreed.

“Do you have any spell or ritual which could help us?“, Luna asked Shadowcorn.

“I have one. But for this we’d need at least two opposing kinds of magic as well as the magic of friendship, family and love. Then we could strip Discorn from our magic and his chaosmagic. But where do we get the magic of love?“, Shadowcorn asked.

Everyone looked at Cadance.

“Oh. Well. Then let’s get started!“

Everyone positioned themself in front of the portal. Shadowcorn draw some symbols into the air which began floating around the ponies. The rainbow magic of the Mane Six, the light magic of princess Luna, princess Celestia, Princess Cadance, Shining Armor and Guarding Filly, the shadow magic of Shadowcorn’s boys, the dark magic of Shadowcorn as well as the magic of friendship, family and love. Together they formed a big multi-colored glowing blast which they fired through the portal. On the other side there was the apocolypse happaning: Powerful tornados and earthquakes, big fires and explosions out of nothing! Many things were destroyed already. And over the screams of the citizens you could hear Discorn laughing. Suddendly he heard something. He turned around to see a big blast coming towards him.

“Really? Well that‘s Deus-Ex-Machina!“, he complained before he was hit.

A bright light glew up in both dimensions. And with it Discorn and all the damage he has done were gone. And Shadowcorn and his boys had their powers back.

It was morning. The morning after the bloodmoon.

“Our offer still exists. My castle is big enough for you all.“, Twilight said.

“Thanks. But for now we’ll rest a bit. Afterwards we should just come for short visits until the ponies in your town got used to our appearance. And that there are non-royal alicorns, too.“, Shadowcorn suggested.

“Good idea.“, Celestia said. Then they left the place.

It was night. The portal opned itself. Two cloaked figures appeared.

“That’s where he lives? It looks nicer then I imagined.“, the one figure said.

“He is still full of suprises.“, the other one said.

“Yes. But it won’t help him. We will find him. And we will bring him back. For the Alicorn Empire.“

Comments

[Shadowcorn]

Wow.
My english was really bad back then.
Some day, I'm gonna rework the whole thing so that it is better to read.
For now, this must do.