Truths of a prophecy

by Cookiedash

Escaping the maze

Nightmare moon smirked. Her army was already big enough to take over Equestria, albeit the beasts were a lot smaller than they had been thousands of years ago, but she had so many more. Hundreds of these beasts made up her army, each more powerful than the most magical of unicorns, strongest of earth ponies and the fastest of pegasi. However, Nightmare moon didn’t just want control of Equestria, she wanted control of the entire world, so she continued to let the beasts grow in power and number. Even now, she could see one or two sometimes inching upwards in size. Equus would be hers yet.

She glanced up into the sky. Directing her gaze to the sun, she smirked, 'How is it, dear sister? Feeling the same pain I felt yet?' She thought. The sun was low in the sky, and although nopony but The princesses themselves could look directly at the sun, the image of a mare could be seen on it. It would have reminded anypony who had seen it of the mare in the moon.

"Guards!" She called out, instantly, two large beasts quickly entered the room, "Make sure nobody disturbs me while I go and have a, chat with my sister." The two guards nodded and stood to attention just outside the room. Nightmare moon relaxed, and closed her eyes, she sent a beam of magic out to the sun as she fell asleep.

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Everypony now stood at the exit to the maze. After finding each other in the center and taking the orb, they had all stuck close together and found the end, mainly thanks to Rarity's new skill. They were, currently, debating on what the creature's name was.

"I'm telling you! It's Discord! He's the god of chaos!" Night Walker yelled

"No! It's name is Chaos! It said so on the instructions!" Twilight retorted

"Twilight. This guy created the maze, why would he tell us his name? And anyway, those flying pigs had Discord's name written all over them!"

"No they didn't silly! The pigs didn't have any writing on them at all!" Pinkie Pie jumped up between the two bickering ponies, startling them.

"Pinkie, it's a figure of speech." Twilight groaned, "Anyway, the definition of discord is 'a disagreement between ponies' or 'a lack of harmony between notes sounding together'. And what went on in that maze was neither to do with music, or disagreements! What went on in there, was complete chaos!"

"Twilight! Discord can mean a lack of harmony all together, it doesn't have to do with music. And besides, Discord is the god of chaos."

"The definition of chaos is 'complete disorder and confusion', not discord."

"Another word for disorder is discord, Twilight!". Applejack sighed, the two had been bickering for what she guessed was half an hour, she longed to put her own opinion in, but Rarity had tried that at the start, and things may have gotten a little, itty bit violent, if Rarity's black eye said anything. Suddenly, Pinkie Pie popped up beside her, an almost worried expression on her face.

"Aaapplllejaaack." She said, uneasily

"Pinkie?"

"Umm, I think we should get these two to stop fighting. My Pinkie sense is telling me something's wrong."

"What? Ya still have yer Pinkie sense? Ah thought that it weren't allowed in th'maze cause o' it bein' magic."

"Oh, my pinkie sense isn't magic silly! But, I just had a knee twitch, eye flutter, itchy nose, tail twitch, shaky hoof combo which means that an evil being that feeds on the disharmony of others is likely to break free!" Applejack's eye's widened, she didn't even bother to question about how Pinkie could be so specific, knowing that it was probably true.

"Twilight! Night Walker! Ya'll need ta stop, right now!" Applejack shouted, but she was ignored, she tried again, "Twilight! Please! Ya need ta stop bickerin'!" again, she was ignored, "Twilight! Ya gonna make things worse! still no reply. In a last ditch effort, she dove at Twilight, knocking her off guard, and halting the argument.

"Applejack! What the hay was that for!" Twilight shouted

"Ah'm sorry Twi. But Ah had ta stop ya'll from fightin'. Pinkie's Pinkie sense wus goin' off, an' if'n'ya didn't stop arguin' then somethin' bad woulda happened."

"What kind of bad?" Night Walker asked

"Creature that feeds on th' disharmony o' others, escapin' kind bad."

"What? What sort of creature is that?" Twilight asked incredulously

"A Draconequus." Night Walker replied "One that was around shortly before Princess Luna became Nightmare moon. Discord."

"Wait. 'Discord?' Stop trying to bring him up just so you can win the argument!....Who is Discord."

"He was a creature who put Equestria into havoc. Basically, he's the creature that the statue depicted." Twilight was silent for a while,

"Fine, let's say that the creature's name is Discord. Ok? We'll say it ten times, and when it doesn't work, you'll have to admit that you were wrong and I was right. How does that sound?"

"Sure, fine, let's just get out of this stupid maze." Night Walker said, almost indifferently.

"Right, everypony ready? We're all going to say 'Discord', together, ten times." She looked at evreypony, who all nodded, "Right then, on the count of three. One, two, three." And everypony spoke in sync, ten times, 'Discord'.

A bright flash was seen, and then, in front of them, appeared the statue. Except, it wasn't a statue anymore, is was a real creature, stretching it's limbs out until they popped, and yawning loudly.

"Well, it looks like you completed the maze, even if you did manage to cheat." The creature said, looking pointedly at Rarity, "Well, hello there, little ponies...and Timberwolf, I am Discord, god of Chaos. Now, you have freed me from my prison, I must return you to back outside of the maze." And with a pop, they were gone.

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Nightmare moon appeared before her sister, in a flash of silver light.

"Hello, dear sister, enjoying your vacation?" She asked mockingly

"Luna, please, I beg you. Let me free, we can rule together, like we were meant to. You don't have to do this!"

"Oh yes I do, Celestia! You would never let us rule together. It was all about you. Ponies adored you because you brought them light, and they barely even knew me! Just because I brought the night. And now, after only 1000 years on the moon, they have forgotten me completely, Nightmare moon is merely a foals tale to be told at bedtime, and Luna doesn't exist. I've lived in your shadow since I was born, everything always had to be about you, every celebration happened during the day, ponies worshiped you, they worshiped the day, they loved, and now, they still do. They love you even more, you even have a celebration to celebrate the day, for ponies to worship you, and remind those few who remember, that Nightmare moon was never important, Nightmare moon was the evil child who wanted to usurp the tyrant."

"Luna, please, that was never the case. Ponies are naturally wake during the day, of course the celebrations will happen then. And I never mentioned you after I had banished you to the moon to protect you! I was afraid that ponies would start to despise the night for what you did if they knew! And there are celebrations that happen during the night. Nightmare night is one of the biggest events of the year!"

"Nightmare night depicts that the night is filled with ghouls and monsters, the celebration does not celebrate the night! It is a superstitious party to ward off monsters that aren't there! In fact, most of the dangerous creatures come out during the day! Very few are nocturnal! You are a tyrant, who only wants power! But,"Nightmare moon said, calming down, "I did not come here to argue about this. I came here to gloat. My army is growing by the second, I have more than enough to take over Equestria, but, I have decided to finally follow your advice on taking things slow." Celestia's eyes widened, "It seems that, at this point, biding my time will come as an advantage to me. If I were to take over Equestria now, then your allies would likely invade from all sides and push me back once again, so, instead of doing that, I am waiting in the shadows, toying with your precious student and the elements of harmony, I am letting my army grow, grow to a point where nopony will be able to defeat me, that way, I can spread across the entire planet, invading and conquering every country until I rule the world! Muahahahahahahaaahaha! Nightmare moon cackled loudly. "And even better, even if, the elements of harmony do manage to reach me in my castle, they'll never be able to defeat me."

"Yes they will, I know they will, the elements of harmony will be able to defeat you, no matter how strong their army is!"

"Muahahahaha." nightmare moon chuckled darkly, "No, they won't. You see, your precious element of Loyalty gave herself up to protect her friend. She long gone now, dead. And, without her, nothing can stop me! Aahahahahahahahahahaaaaaa!" Celestia's jaw dropped, her eyes fixated in front of her, she was too shocked to move. "Oh yes, you can have a look for yourself if you so wish, you'll find that the little Rainbow pegasus is no longer with her companions." Celestia snapped to attention

"R-rainbow?" She whispered

"Oh yes, such a vivid mane, one that stands out from mile away, it is a shame that she had to be squashed, I have much more difficulty finding the elements now."

"HOW DARE YOU!" Celestia snapped, tears had started to fall from her eyes, "HOW DARE YOU HARM HER!"

"Oh? you're taking this a lot more personally than I would have expected."

"SHE IS MY DAUGHTER! HOW DARE YOU!"

"Huh? Your daughter? Oh how rich this is! I suppose this would be the perfect revenge, nopony ever loved me, so why should anypony love you? Oh yes! I live it." Nightmare moon smirked, "You know, I think I'll let you sit there in your agony. Goodbye sister, I'll be back to gloat soon." And with that, Nightmare moon disappeared in a fit of mad laughter.