The Second Story of Sky Blue

by Capulus

The Perfect Wedding. Yeah Right.

The next hour and a half passed without anything serious going wrong. Soarin’ had almost choked on a piece of pie, but Rainbow had been talking with him and Spitfire at the time, and had hit him in the chest, making the piece of badly-chewed pie fly across the courtyard. Spitfire had thanked Rainbow for saving them yet again, and she had almost passed out. And when Rarity had come out to get Rainbow back into her dressing room, the pegasus had almost killed her. Sky just told Rarity to let her enjoy it. But then, the clock tower at the highest point of Celestia’s castle had begun ringing, letting everyone know that it was 3 o’clock at last. Sky was going crazy with worry. If anything was going to happen, it would happen now. Would someone die? Would Canterlot explode? Would that ‘Zoom’ colt do anything? Sky guessed that if anything was going to happen, it would be the last one. ‘Zoom’ was just too suspicious. And he was guarding his saddlebags, as if whatever was in there was of utmost importance. It doesn’t matter. If he tries anything, I’ll destroy him. Sky tried to remember a blast spell. Enough to hurt, not enough to kill. Perfect. If he tries anything drastic, I’ll use that, and then we’ll question him. That is... If he does anything. Maybe he just doesn’t like fillyfoolers? Maybe he’s coming to the wedding to be polite? Maybe to try and accept me and Rainbow? I guess we’ll see.

And now Sky was walking up the huge aisle, which was pretty much just a gap in between where benches had been placed, as The Hall Of The Elements didn’t actually have seating. Luckily, The Hall was used for weddings from time to time, so Celestia had benches stored away for when they were needed. She saw the smiling Rainbow at the head, a huge smile on her face. She heard Octavia and her ‘small orchestra’ --Rarity had been very forceful when she corrected Sky’s naming of ‘band’-- playing some beautiful music. And she saw Celestia standing at the back, behind Rainbow, a little unsteadily. But Celestia still managed to stand as tall as she could when Sky reached the head and the princess began the ceremony. They did all of the traditional stuff, until they got up to the ‘If anypony objects to this union, speak now or forever hold your peace.’ when Sky heard a weak voice from the back of the room, saying;
“I... Object...” Sky spun around, and saw Zoom collapse in a heap, his eyes slamming closed like a portcullis, his body twitching like mad. His saddlebags were shaking about, as if whatever was in them wanted to escape. Then Sky felt a telekinetic force building up inside of it.
Almost as if... NO! A bolt of energy flew from the opening, and Sky jumped in front of Rainbow immediately, going down as it hit her in the chest.
“Ah, love makes you do downright stupid things sometimes, doesn’t it?” Sky could hear mad laughter, although it was faint. The bolt had sapped most of her energy, and her chest was beginning to hurt in the place it had hit. She felt Rainbow hugging her tightly, and that was when she recognised the laughter at last.
So...
It was Him...
Discord is back.

Zoom had taken his seat at the back of the hall, and sat through most of the ceremony in silence. He was beginning to feel weak, as if his energy was just disappearing. He was beginning to question the intelligence of his idea. The thoughts he had been having were slowly fading, and he was starting to realise just how strange some of them had been. But he couldn’t stop now, not when he was so close to getting his revenge. He vaguely heard Celestia saying ‘If anypony objects to this union, speak now or forever hold your peace.’ He felt himself stand up, and just as the last of his energy ran out and a mad laughter filled his head, he said;
“I... Object...” And with this, Zoom descended into darkness, his vision going black.

“Well well well. It would seem my little puppet is finally spent. Very well.” Sky, who was slowly getting her strength back, heard a yell from the ‘small orchestra’ and saw Octavia flailing about, as if she was trying to bat something away. Then she shook from head to hoof, and when she spoke, she did it in the familiar smooth male voice of Discord, which was extremely strange coming from Octavia’s slender frame.
“You see, when you girls destroyed my body, I managed to get a few pieces away. My friend over there, ‘Zoom’ found my talon. Definitely my biggest piece. I got incredibly powerful feeding of off his hate. That little spell you used in the Changeling attack had an unseen effect, it would seem.” Sky sat up, and spoke to Discord, her voice weak, but magically amplified to fill the room. She had muttered a small spell that would ensure he heard her.
“I know. The spell that killed those Changelings. I didn’t mean to! I apologised to the family! We made sure they were properly taken care of! It isn’t enough to bring their daughter back, but they understood what had happened! They forgave me! They knew it was an accident!”
“My little friend did--” Octavia’s body screamed and fainted. Then a light blue pony --who Sky recognised as Lyra Heartstrings-- in the middle of the ponies sitting on the benches started flailing about, much like Octavia had. Then she stopped, and as the ponies around her bolted away, Discord continued talking through her. Sky stood up slowly as he talked.
“Sorry, these ponies don’t have much energy. Anyway, ‘Zoom’ didn’t know that. He thought you had killed her for revenge of a sort. He was actually going to come to Ponyville and talk to you rationally about it. He was going to try and make some sense out of what had happened. Well, you know how I feel about making sense. I teleported my talon to his considerable hateful energy and he found me, and I’ve been feeding off of him and supplying him with some absolutely poisonous thoughts ever since!” Then Lyra screamed as well, and she passed out. Then yet another pony --this time a male one, who Sky had heard was named Doctor Whooves-- clutched his head.
“No, no, no! I have faced worse than you, draconequu--” Then he shuddered, and said in Discord’s voice;
“I doubt it. Anyway, since you girls destroyed my body, I’m being forced to borrow these pathetic ones. But... Celestia, you have always been so strong, perhaps you could lend me your body for a while?” Doctor Whooves yelled and fainted. Sky thought as quickly as possible. He said he would go for Celestia, yet he must know she is practically disabled at the moment. He wouldn’t go after the others, as he knows I would easily get him out of there and he knows how powerful my mind is... Who next? Sky was jerked out of her thoughts as she saw a blonde grey pegasus jump up, yelling and clutching her head. Sky saw her crossed yellow eyes, and recognised her as Derpy, the odd-job pony. She hovered in mid-air for a while, as if she was fighting some internal struggle, but Sky could see sweat running down her face, and knew she needed help. Sky flew as fast as she could with her dress on, and as she flew towards the stationary Derpy, she saw four different things happening below. Ponies were looking around wildly, as if they weren’t sure if the Derpy thing was just a trick. Octavia was being looked at by a white unicorn, --who Sky recognised as Vinyl Scratch-- Lyra was being looked at by a cream coloured pony, with a pink and blue mane --Sky’s mind put up the card Bon-Bon-- And Doctor Whooves was being healed by a pony with an orange mane --Carrot-top--. Sky reached Derpy, and put her forehead against the grey pegasus’. She pushed past her oddly varied defenses, into her mind. Sky was taken aback when she saw it was just a huge room with a colossal pile of muffins in the middle. Derpy was sitting on top, a smile on her grey face. Sky was even more surprised when she saw Discord failing to penetrate Derpy’s subconscious, as whenever he got close to her, Derpy just threw a muffin at him. She was laughing lightly, and Sky could see Discord was getting angrier. But every time he fell, Discord managed to get closer before the next muffin hit him. Then he reached the top, and was about to invade and inhabit Derpy’s mind completely, when the pile of muffins shifted backwards. Discord was knocked to the ground, and he went to climb up the pile again --As Sky could see his wings were gone, for whatever reason-- while still being bombarded with muffins. Sky flew towards Derpy and landed next to her.
“What’s going on? How are you still in control?” Derpy threw another muffin and looked at Sky with her oddly aligned eyes.
“This is my mind, right? So I should be able to control it!” She threw another muffin at Discord, and the Draconequus screamed with rage as he fell back again.
“Why am I doing this? I have no need for this weak mind!” Discord made to pull out, but Sky leapt off of the pile and tackled him, smashing his face into the floor of Derpy’s ‘Sanctum’. He yelled with pain.
“Oh, can you feel pain inside others’ minds because you no longer have a body? Oh, too bad! I guess I shouldn’t do this! PEINE! You’ll pay for ruining today of all days!” The spell hit Discord directly and he screamed in agony, and he continued screaming until he just faded, making sure Sky heard the message;
“I have other pieces of me stashed around Equestria! You’ll have to destroy them all if you wish to destroy me!”
Sky just lay down for a moment, before standing up and whispering;
“Challenge Accepted.”
Derpy landed next to her.
“Aww, is he gone already? That was really fun!”
“It was, Derpy, or at least it could have been if he hadn’t just ruined my wedding.”
“Don’t worry. We’ll calm everyone down and finish the wedding. Then we can talk to that Zoom guy once the wedding is over. Don’t worry Sky.”
“Okay... Thanks Derpy. No offense, but I never would have pegged you as one to comfort me about something like this, especially not in the same room with a colossal pile of muffins in it.”
“None taken. I understand that ponies see me as a bad luck magnet because of my clumsiness.”
“Are you okay? I’ve never seen anypony last that long against Discord.”
“I’m not like other ponies.” Derpy shrugged. “Something happened when I was a filly. I just wish I knew what went wrong.”
“Nothing is wrong with you! You’re unique. But not like everypony else. Listen, I have to get out of here and calm everypony down like you said.”
Derpy waved to Sky as she pulled out of Derpy’s mind.

Comments

[Konybronyftw]

oh my god derpy throwing muffins at discord. thats hilarious.