The tale of Celestia and Luna's father, King Solace.
Solace, the King and ruler of Equestria, had lived peacefully with his brother Discord, and his two young fillies Celestia and Luna. However, after a war was declared by the dragons, Equestria became a ravaged battlefield, and Canterlot was Ground Zero. Fighting a losing battle at Discord's castle in the Everfree forest, King Solace had left his two fillies with his brother to save the ponies he was sworn to protect. Through a forbidden spell to annihilate the dragons, the original ruler of Equestria had not instead found himself dead, but now in the present.
Now Solace must fit in with the new residents of Ponyville and Canterlot, all while at an attempt to see his two young fillies grown up, and to stop his brother, who sold his soul as an alicorn to become a monster, bent on taking his rightful place on the throne.
The Dragon's Invasion . [Golly, I'm so unoriginal.]
An Alicorn. He sat at his throne, his white coat gleaming and well-groomed from the royal caretakers. His mane, flowing, as bright as the sun, yet soft like silk. A little filly, no, a small foal, slept quietly upon his lap. The male alicorn looked down at his foal.
"You look just like your mother..." He whispered, stroking the foal's dark coat, and nuzzled her mane, it was a light shade now, but when she grows up, her mane will be as dark as the night... much like her mother's mane. The small foal giggled at the touch upon her mane.
There was a knocking on the entrance door, all royal guards on each of the alicorn's sides tensed up, in case it was a breach or ambush. The two royal guards by the door looked to their king on what they should do.
"Brother?" A deep, masculine voice asked, "May I?" The tone of the voice was unmistakable, and the alicorn gave a nod toward the two door guards.
The door opened, to reveal two figures. One, a male alicorn just as big as the king himself, if not bigger. His coat was a somewhat dark shade of brown, his black mane running down his back, and yellow eyes, with his red pupils looking around, intimidating the 'Rock-Hard' royal guards. The second figure, much smaller, a white filly with a pink mane, also an alicorn.
"Daddy!" The filly shouted, running toward the king.
"Solace." The other large alicorn said.
The filly jumped on King Solace's lap, waking up the young napping foal, pushing the foal into a crying fit. "Celestia, look, you made Luna cry." Solace informed the young white alicorn.
"Oops! Sorry Luna!" Celestia said, nuzzling her young sister Luna. Luna stopped crying, and began to giggle at her sister's touch.
"Why don't you two go and play in your room Celestia?" Solace suggested.
"'Kay! C'mon Luna!" Celestia galloped off into the main hallway, poor Luna crawling after her. Everypony there just watched in an awkward silence as the foal crawled out of Solace's throne room, the door guards shut it once the two young alicorns were out.
"Discord, my brother." Solace stated, Discord rarely took things into his own hooves, if he did, it was important.
"King Solace, my brother. I have an important announcement." Solace's brother stated.
"And what must that be?" Solace asked, leaning to one side, board of such things like 'Announcements.'
"The Dragons have declared war against us." Discord told him.
"Excuse me?" Solace hoped he was getting old, and his ears were merely playing him a jest.
"The Dragons. They have declared a war against us." Discord calmly repeated for his elder brother.
Solace was shocked by what he was told, he looked around his throne room, astonishment and shock painted over the normally blank expression of his royal guards, their faces confirmed his fear that what Discord told him, he didn't mishear.
"Just like that? Was there no negotiation of any type?" Solace asked, a hint of panic clear in his voice. He cleared his throat and spoke again, calmer this time. "Did they not demand anything?"
"They did. They demanded quite a lot, land, foods, you know? Also the enslavement of everypony alive." Discord responded. Not seeming distressed.
"Why wasn't I informed of this?!" Solace asked, shouting.
"Because, I was the better choice for this. Obviously." Discord answered.
"Brother!" Solace lost his composure, and began to yell. "Do you know what you have done?!"
"So what? Things could have been even worse if you had went and attempted to negotiate!" Discord exclaimed.
"How could I have made it even more worse?! I'm the King! I've done this many more times then you!" Solace argued.
"But look at yourself brother! You're a wreak! You've been like that ever since the Queen died!" Discord brought forth.
Solace flinched at the mention of his deceased wife. "How? How am I a wreak?!" Solace demanded, getting off of his throne to face his brother face to face.
Discord raised a hoof, and put it upon his elder brother's chest. "Look at you right now. You would never argue before. You've changed brother. You're yelling and screaming. If you were really yourself, you would've had no problem with me taking this problem upon myself. You would've been thankful." Discord was correct. Solace had changed. He was just too foolish to realize it.
The ground began to rumble beneath them.
"Guards! Get out! Protect and secure the perimeter!" Discord commanded, to which all the guards obeyed without hesitation. Discord looked back at his brother frozen in realization. Discord raised a hoof and slapped Solace, the King of Equestria.
"H-huh?!" Solace recoiled from a sharp pain on his cheek.
"Come, we've got company." Discord addressed Solace, a stronger rumble this time, sending some fragments of the roof ro rain down.
Solace hesitated a bit.
"The guards are out, get Celestia and Luna." Discord commanded his brother. Something large hit the side of the throne room, sending a few pillars to collapse, one was to fall on Solace, but a gray aura enveloped it.
Discord stood there, horn glowing. "Then get to my castle at the Everfree Forest." Discord discarded the pillar to his side, the room beginning to collapse. "Hurry!"
Solace shook himself awake. He was the King of Equestria, he needed to save his little ponies. But first, he needed to save his little fillies.
Discord exited the throne room, galloping towards the balcony of the castle. Solace galloping to Celestia and Luna's room.
Discord exited out onto the castle balcony, his hooves hitting the polished stone stairs, a shame, as the dust from the roofs and walls were coating the recently polished stairs and floors. As Discord stepped onto the balcony, he looked out. The chaos around him filling him with fear. His name may be related to chaos, but he scorned the thought of chaos, opting for peace. Dragons left and right, destroying buildings, looting farms and marketplaces, and crushing any resistance they encountered with ponies. A Pegasus, not one of his or Solace's royal guards flew up towards him.
"Lord Discord!" The Pegasus shouted upon decent.
Discord looked at the Pegasus, a rainbow mane, or it would be, as it seemed to be more of a gray-ish hue with a grayish coat. Simply put, this was a pretty gray Pegasus. Discord hoped his personality wasn't gray as well, though he wasn't sure it mattered. "Who are you?"
"Thunder Chaser! My Lord! Where's the king?" The Pegasus asked.
"Securing the citizens." Discord stated.
"Ah-" Thunder Chaser meant to say something, but a large dragon landed in front of them on the balcony.
"Well... Isn't it the negotiator..." The dragon said, voice deep and gruff.
"Thunder Chaser..." Discord addressed the Pegasus as the alicorn began to spread out his wings. "Help me kick this dragon's flank, will you?"
Solace galloped down the long hall, the walls on either side of him collapsing, there is no actual route back any more, he'd need to use a teleportation spell to get out. With his two fillies of course. Solace came to a door, it was cracked and dented, likely from all these hits the the castle is taking. Using his magic, he chucked the door off it's hinges and charged into Celestia's room. What he seen was a white filly guarding a bawling foal from a medium sized dragon that crashed into Celestia's room.
"Stay back you meanie!" Celestia yelled, once she spotted her father, she screamed out. "Daddy help!!"
The dragon turned around to face Solace, who promptly chucked a chunk of a wall on to it's face, knocking it over and out of the room via the hole it made coming through.
"Daddy!! What's happening?!" Celestia cried out.
"War. Now come, we need to leave." Solace picked Luna up on his front hoof and put Celestia on his back, he looked up to see the roof falling in on them.
"Daddy hurry!" Celestia screamed. Solace didn't need to be told, he teleported promptly outside of his castle and into Canterlot.
It was Chaos.
His little ponies, his responsibilities. Being crushed left and right. There was nothing he could do, there were too many dragons for him to possibly have a chance at stopping their reign of terror. His Castle, it was being relentlessly plumbed down by multiple dragons. There was nothing he could do.
"D-Daddy?" Celestia called from behind him.
Solace kept quiet, and merely teleported to his brother's castle.
Discord fell upon the old pavement of the streets, the street moist from his blood. He struggled to stand up, but his right hind leg was broken, making it difficult for him to keep a balance. He looked up to see Thunder Chaser in the dragon's grip. It'll be it for him if Discord didn't do anything. Discord stood up, and utilized a simple teleportation spell to get on the eye level of the dragon. The sight of Discord teleporting in front of the dragon temporarily shocked him, giving Discord enough time to use his good left hind leg to buck the dragon in it's left eye, causing it to recoil in pain and release Thunder Chaser.
"Hot Damn!" The Pegasus shouted.
"Let's Go!" Discord yelled, putting a hoof on Thunder Chaser's head and teleporting toward his castle.
Nowhere as majestic or royal as his brother's castle, Discord's castle was a few sizes smaller then Solace's yet, it was still a castle none the less. When Discord and Thunder Chaser teleported into his castle, Solace was there, attempting to comfort his two fillies.
"King Solace!!" Thunder Chaser exclaimed running towards the King.
Solace didn't want to talk, in fact, he wanted to smack the Pegasus. Couldn't he see he was busy with his fillies? But would a real king do that? Solace just looked up upon the gray pony.
"The Dragons are invading every one of our settlements! Even Cloudsdale! You need to do something!" The Pegasus panicked.
Solace looked down at his two fillies. Every one of our settlements! Solace was their king. He had failed. For that, Equestria was burning from the flames of his failure. He could've prevented this, but he let it happen. Now, as the King of Equestria, he had to end it. He nuzzled Celestia and Luna, then stood up, and proceeded to exit Discord's castle.
"D-Daddy?" Celestia whined.
"Pegasus." Solace addressed Thunder Chaser. "Watch my fillies for now."
"Yes my Lord." Thunder Chaser saluted.
"D-Daddy!" Celestia tried to gallop after her father, but was held back by the strange Pegasus. "Let me go!" She screamed.
Now outside of Discord's castle, the two brothers looked out at the chaos upon them. Three dragons much more larger then Discord's castle, had landed in front of them.
"Well look, the king of ponies. Who would have thought he'd just let us burn down his cities and towns, you know? Just watch while his ponies die." The one in the middle stated.
Solace just wanted to beat the living potato sacks out of that dragon. "Who do you think you are?!" Solace demanded.
"Well, I'm the one leading this invasion. I like to actually be doing something. Not like you should know. Pitiful really. Now, begone." The Dragon leader stated, and motioned for one of his dragon grunts to kill him, the dragon to the right of the alicorn brothers had took a mighty swing against Solace. It never did hit. Discord teleported in front of Solace and put up a magical barrier, though dragons are naturally imbued with magic, and broke the barrier, shattering it before colliding with Discord, flying him into his castle's front wall.
"Ha ha ha... how amusing. Your little or... regular pony went and tried to save you... and ended up ending himself! No matter, you're still going to die." The Leader spoke, as the dragon to the left of Solace prepared to strike.
Solace closed his eyes, and reminisced on his past.
He was a great king. Not boasting, but merely truth. He remembered most of his every day activities.When he would stroll through Canterlot, greeting his loyal ponies. When that shop keep spilled her items, he spent an hour helping her fix up her little stand in the marketplace, and gave her bits to help her with her broken items. When a small colt's clown fell ill, and their parents needed entertainment for his party, Solace made a puppet show for all of the little ponies to enjoy. And when a certain mare's house collapsed after a feud with a unicorn, Solace spent three good weeks helping her to rebuild her home, only for it to fall yet again from Solace's bad carpenter skills. So he brought the mare to his castle to live with him. Were they fell for each other... Discord was right. He changed, he just couldn't accept the lost of his wife. He neglected his duties and his responsibilities. Worse of all, he neglected his ponies. Now he had to fix this problem that he was responsible for.
He looked back to his brother, on the ground, limp figure. It was time, to use a spell nopony would dare to use. He was to re-write history, and prevent this from happening. Even if it meant he had to write himself out.
Discord seen it all. After that bright flash, Solace was gone, and the dragons. Everything was normal, Canterlot was okay. Discord wasn't in pain, in fact, he wasn't hurt at all. He stood up, Thunder Chaser ran outside, two young alicorns on his back. "My Lord Discord! Where is King Solace? What happened?" Thunder Chaser asked, staring in awe at the peaceful landscape.
Discord was silent.
"Uncle Discord? Where's Daddy?" Celestia asked.
Discord stood there, looking at the three ponies.
"Da...da?" Luna uttered.
Discord then began to tear. Luna's first words. About him. And he wasn't there to witness it.
It has been 7000 years since Solace had took himself out of reality. Discord sat at the King's throne. He smiled as Celestia came up the isle. She wasn't going to be Celestia anymore. She was going to be Princess Celestia. Luna bounced along side her sister up to where Discord sat. "Celestia, are you ready to accept your rightful place as ruler of Equestria?" Discord asked.
"I am." Celestia nodded in response.
"Do you swear yourself to Equestria and it's citizens?" Discord asked.
"I do." Celestia nodded again.
"Do you promise, that no matter what happens, in life and in death, that you will protect your little ponies in all your entirety?"
Celestia and Luna took care of the royal duties. Discord was free, so he decided to take a trot through the Everfree Forest. Solace's castle was now Celestia's, and his was Luna's. So he figured he could drop by and see how the young filly, though technically mare, was doing. Discord wasn't sure where he was, but that's when it happened. The Voices.
"Hey. Alicorn."
"What?" Discord looked around. "Who's there?"
"More important. Why are YOU over HERE?" The voice asked.
"None of your business." Discord began to walk, but the voice didn't fade, in fact it seemed to follow him.
"You should be in Canterlot. On the throne."
"What?" Discord stopped. "What do you mean?"
"You ARE the rightful ruler. Not Celestia."
"It doesn't matter. She's the ruler, not me." Discord began to trot, more quickly now.
"Why? Why do you refuse the throne?"
"Because." Discord stopped. "I'm too weak. I couldn't even save my brother."
The voice was quiet for a bit, then spoke up.
"If it's power you seek, then I can help you."
"How?" Discord stopped his trot, and merely spoke with the voice.
"I am also an entity, you see. I can give you the power to save the ENTIRE Equestria, if the time came."
"What's the catch?"
"Hmm?"
"The catch."
"Ah yes, just your form, instead of an alicorn, you become a powerful being named a draconequus."
Discord stood there. Deep in thought. He wouldn't take the throne, just help with his increased abilities. He'll trick this voice into granting him power, and use it against it. "Fine." Discord said.
"Excellent. We'll begin now..."
Discord levitated into the air, he could feel power surging through his veins as his body changed. His right hand turned into a lion's arm, his left an eagle's claw. He felt taller. But a pain hit his head, so great, causing him to black out. Missing his transformation.
The cloud of smoke vanished. Revealing a new creature. A draconequus. Discord. He then began to speak. "Ah yes, I forgot to mention that I'll take over your mind, didn't I?"
Solace must've messed up, because when he woke, he was still on Equestria. Not in Canterlot however, there was a sign in front of him.
Before you read, ask yourself about THIS ALICORN Discord. is he a good pony, or bad? Sacrificing himself for his brother. Or was it merely a jest? Your opinion shall change dramatically. Let the butthurt begin.
This will synch with the events of the first chapter, split by that line ^^^ to match the times of the events. We'll start with the negotiations.
"My Lord Discord. We have company." A royal guard announced.
"And who may that be?" Discord asked.
"A diplomat. Seems to be dragon. Should we call King Solace?" The guard asked.
"No. The king has his own troubles. Send him to me." Discord commanded.
"By your will, Lord Discord." The Guard bowed, and promptly left.
Shortly after, a small Dragon, about Discord's size was ushered in.
The Dragon looked to Discord, and snorted. "You're not the King."
"And you're not important. Speak." Discord lowered his voice down a few levels, seeing that his room in Solace's castle was devoid of guards, He took a suggestion and he lowered his voice to a level to which only he and the dragon could hear. "Or leave..." Discord's voice then became an echo around the room as he hissed out the next sentence. "Or become a prisoner... We could always use a dragon or two..."
The dragon stifled a laugh. "You're a pony, ponies can't hurt any living thing for a sack of potatoes!"
Discord's eyes narrowed into slits. His horn began to glow, enveloping the diplomat in a gray aura. The dragon stopped laughing, as a cold sensation crawled over his neck, and began to tighten around it. The Dragon stopped and began to gasp and flail around for air, he was thrown to the foot of the chair Discord sat upon. "Are you going to speak?" The Dragon looked at Discord, then the feeling over his throat return, being strangled again as he was lifted to Discord's eye level. "Or are you going to continue postponing time?"
The Dragon began to babble incoherently, Discord released him, and he struggled to regain his breath, gasping lungfuls of air in pain.
"Speak. Now." Discord simply stated.
"F-Fine..." The Dragon whispered.
Discord sat there, listening.
"W-we need help..." The Dragon gasped. "We're low on food and land. We require your assistance..."
"So?" Discord asked.
"We're just asking for a plot ( BEGONE DIRTY MINDS ) of land... and some provisions..." The Dragon asked.
Discord sat there for a while. He knew what the choice should be for the dragons.
"No." Discord simply responded.
"W-What?" The dragon asked, confused. He thought ponies were kind and caring.
"No. If you want it." Discord stood up and faced the young diplomat. "Then you'll have to take it by force."
Discord and Thunder Chaser circled the Dragon. His magic seemed to be ineffective against this dragon. His scales seem to be made to resist magic... The Dragon raised his hand and smacked Thunder Chaser out of the sky, he fell on one of the roofs under them.
Help Him...
Leave Him...
He's there to risk his life for you!
He did, and now he's out of his usefulness.
He'll help you!
He'll hinder you!
Discord thought better, and brought Thunder Chaser back from the ground towards their fight.
"T-Thanks!" The Gray Pegasus shouted.
Discord disregarded it, and opted to dodge the Dragon's strikes instead.
The Dragon was able to hit Discord, and get an iron grip on the Alicorn, Discord could hear the sick, wet snap of his hind leg as the Dragon's grip broke it. Discord thought he was done for, until a bolt of thunder struck the Dragon square in the face, Discord was released upon the pavement, only to look up and see the dragon grab Thunder Chaser.
[Lets save time here, shall we?]
Discord looked down at his body, limp and helpless, he felt pathetic.
Fool! Why did you risk yourself?!
It was the right thing to do. Solace was safe.
Solace was worthless!
No!
Yes!
He blacked out several times over the next few seconds, he seen Solace enveloping himself in a bright light, then all of a sudden, he was gone, and everything was normal.
Discord sat at the throne of Equestria. He had been a ruler for quite some time, and had been feared by Zebra, Griffon and Pony alike. But now, he had to step down, and crown Celestia as the true Princess and ruler of Equestria.
What do you think you're doing?
Putting the rightful ruler of Equestria in her place.
No. You're the ruler, don't you see that?
No. I never was.
Yes you are!
Discord looked up, as Celestia walked down the aisle.
Sorry. Hotel 626 messed up my ideas. I'm just whimpering in the corner with all my lights on me.
ANYWAY
His head still retained it's shape from his alicorn form, the antler of a deer on the right, a goat's horn on the left, one long fang protruded from his mouth, his different-sized pupils feeling funny, a snake like tongue, with it's strange pointed ends, and a beard. He grew the right arm of a lion, the left claw of an eagle, the right leg of a lizard, and the left leg of a goat. Dominating his old form's hooves. His wings changed a bat's right wing, but retained his left wing, and topped it off with a snake tail.
"Ah. Now. The Throne." He laughed.
The door to the throne room opened.
"Who goes there?!" Celestia demanded.
"Why, I feel sad. Don't you remember your Uncle Discord?"
-Just to keep your mind on the right tracks-
Discord was stuck as a statue. The Elements of Harmony turning him to stone. No way for him to regain the throne.
"So that's it?" Luna asked.
"Yes, my sister. Nopony shall take this throne." Celestia confirmed, walking away. A voice came into Luna's head.
You should be the rightful ruler... ponies don't appriciate the night...
I'm sorry, read the comments, I'm an awfully busy guy. Guess what? I did a combo of 'The House 2' and 'Hotel 626.' If you google it, be warned. You may not like the thumbnails. Also. **** The Luna Game. **** it to the deepest pits of hell.
[Continuing from where 'The Voice' had spotted him.]
Solace had slumped down the side of the shop, where the white Alicorn and the six young mares ate. He didn't understand this at all... After awaking in front of the settlement by the name of Ponyville, he had set his mind straight to return to Canterlot. The large Castle on the side of a mountain made it painfully easy for Solace to spot it. He, being the very controller of the Sun and the Moon, made it to the castle without much difficulty.
He was correct, he found himself back in Canterlot, his home. Yet, the place itself seemed different. The clothes ponies wore were quite... strange to say the least. There were no longer any lanterns on the walking paths, instead there were these strange poles that had emitted light from it's tip. As Solace walked down the paths of Canterlot, nopony had greeted him with any variation of the sentence: "Greetings, my King Solace." Instead, ponies had opted to stare and whisper about him to their nearby companions.
Solace found this entire scene to be quite strange. He certainly hadn't hoped for this, he was hoping more for the "Oh Solace our King! You have returned from saving us from a horrible fate!" Type of welcome from the ponies of Canterlot. He had felt a strong urge to cause a solar flare and burn everypony there into a charred corpse for their incompetence. Instead he just looked around and offered a smile, to which nopony chose to return.
"Oh Twilight don't worry..." A voice had sounded from a shop nearby. He stopped, the voice sounded motherly, tender, caring. He decided a quick peak wouldn't hurt anypony. He quietly looked through an open window and seen it. A white Alicorn with a Rainbow mane that moved as if a wind was gently blowing through her hair, he knew, that it was her hair flowing of it's own accord, since he hasn't felt a single breeze throughout the night. A new ruler? How long has he been gone? He took another peek. Yes, the alicorn was the ruler, a princess maybe? The crown was unmistakeable. That crown was only to be possession of the rulers of Equestria. He sank down, resisting the urge to grab the crown and run.
Then he felt two different things, he felt as if he was being watched himself, not him doing the watching. He looked around him, scanning his surroundings. There didn't seem to be anypony around that could possibly be watching him, though, in the space behind Solace, for a split second he thought that it appeared to look a bit foggy. Within a few seconds however, the sensation of being watched slowly faded away, leaving him only with the other feeling, a feeling of connection between him and the other Alicorn that was inside of that shop. Solace didn't know how, but there was a connection, a bond between the two. Solace felt like he should just interrogate the new 'Ruler' of Equestria, but he thought better of it.
Solace thought about it for a few minutes, then came to the conclusion that since nopony seems to acknowledge him, it would be better for him to go around and to avoid suspicion, in the mean time he could go ahead and gather some intel about this new place. He recalled the events that led up to this, with the dragon's invasion, and the...spell that he had to use after Canterlot was burned down, and he had to make a stand at Discord's castle.
Discord! His brother! He should still be alive, and should be able to help him!
With his new goal set in mind, he decided to go off to where Discord would most likely be: The new rebuilt Canterlot castle. A small smirk appeared upon Solace's face, but was slowly dissolved upon the next few seconds.
"Halt!" A voice called out from behind him, it was a feminine voice, but it was deeper and more strict. It carried power and authority. Solace had one guess on who it was before he turned around. There she was, the alicorn ruler, then six other ponies, all mares, all facing him, ready to fight him should he retaliate. She then gave him a cold glare, then shouted:
"Alicorn! State your name now! Any attempts to escape will be dealt with the appropriate force!"
A/N: Well, isn't this bloody wonderful? An update~! I know I haven't touched my fics in how long, but I have justified reasons that I will not state. Anywho, I plan to finish this by December 15. Why that date? Well, I don't believe it, but if the world DOES end by December 21, at least you'll know how this story goes. I also want to make progress before season three comes out, because from what I know, they might introduce Celestia and Luna's REAL parents, and Solace doesn't like that, not one bit. Now, I thought about this chapter for a while, as well as the rest of the story, and geeze. You're in for something big. Also, one last note, I realized at times, I have a REALLY short attention span. Anyway, enough of me, have some fanfiction. Midway note: Damn, I'm sloppy.
Solace sighed softly, and cursed his luck for being spotted when he had just formulated a plan. He looked the Alicorn Ruler over carefully, he had already gathered up that she was the ruler of Equestria from her demeanour, general appearance, not to mention her mane, the fact that she was much larger from other ponies, and that she was an alicorn. Solace smirked to himself, who where these ponies? Thinking that they had a chance against him?
"Little old me. . .?" Solace widened his eyes and gave an innocent look to the alicorn and the six mares along side her. "Why, I'm just passing through, what would make me different from the other ponies passing by?" For a king, Solace could be a real wise-ass if he wanted, and being dumped into a different time period didn't exactly help either.
The white alicorn's eyes where narrowed into slits, although her cold stare didn't seem to be a bother to Solace at all. "I haven't seen you around before. Where did you come from?"
"Where have I come from...?" Solace seemed to look out into space, as if pondering his thoughts, then he formulated the most direct answer possible. "That's none of your business." He responded with a smile. The ponies watching where surprised by the attitude he was showing their ruler, but then what the other alicorn, with a white coat to match their Princess', yet with a mane smiler to a liquid sun, had said next shocked all of the bystanders and the mares that were with her were also confused when he had asked her "Just who do you think you are, interrogating me like this?"
The Princess made her response had short and efficient as possible. "I am Princess Celestia, the ruler of Equestria. I demand that you raise your hooves and surrender to the Equestrian Government."
Solace felt a chill go down his spine, not at the fact that the ruler of Equestria was right there, but the fact that it was his daughter, Celestia, was right there, threatening to bring him in. If he was worried about anything, he never showed it. "Ha, you expect me to comply with your demands, just because you're the ruler of Equestria?" The ponies around them where shocked at the disrespect he was showing, and he was too occupied with the ponies in front of him to notice the amount of Royal Guards stacking up behind him.
"You just disrespected the ruler of Equestria. Who do you think you are?" It was obvious that this mysterious Alicorn was getting on her nerves, the small lavender coated mare next to her moved away feeling the heat that was radiating off of her by purely anger.
"Me?" Solace laughed loudly. "I can't believe you forgot me." He made himself intimidating, by fully spreading out his wings and flaring his horn, causing the streets of Canterlot to light up. "I, am Solace. KING. SOLACE." He had spoken the last two words so loudly, that even the Royal Canterlot voice of their Lunar Princess seemed like a whisper to him. Many ponies flattened their ears in a futile attempt to save their hearing. He cut the light from his horn, and stood their, facing Celestia.
"We never had a King." Was all that Celestia said, until it clicked in her head as 2+2=5. "You're going to overthrow me! Guards! Seize him!" She yelled, as by instinct Solace turned around to see 14 guards that where all heading towards him.
"Halt!" Solace yelled at them, but to no avail. "Bah, you dare disobey your king? I will not tolerate that incompetence!" The first guard was a bulky earth pony who attempted to charge at Solace, the latter stuck out a hoof and grabbed him, before slamming him into a near by store. "Pitiful." Not wanting to waste any time, he powered through the rest of the guards in a similar fashion, dealing with unicorns via magic.
Celestia was speechless, this. . . Solace was powerful. "Twilight, I need you to use the Elements of Harmony!" Celestia instructed her student. Twilight, the lavender unicorn, nodded and looked back at her friends. "Alright girls, we're going to need to use the elements on this guy!" She told her friends, who all nodded.
Solace dusted off his coat, what has the Equestrian Royal Guard been reduced to? He turned back to Celestia, only to find a bright light to obstruct his view, he raised a wing in order to block the light that was shining onto him, and with a quick flash, the light faded away. Solace carefully lowered his wing, and glanced at the Princess, who seemed unchanged. The six mares however, had each acquired a new accessory. Five of them have gotten a necklace from thin air, and upon closer inspection, each necklace had a jewel that resembled the wearer's cutie mark. A certain lavender mare however, had a crown compared to her friends.
"Alicorn! I will give you this one last chance to turn yourself in, or else we will use the Elements of Harmony!" Celestia called out to Solace. Solace thought about it for a second. 'Elements of Harmony, huh? Well, looks like these are my little fillies, finishing something I couldn't grasp myself. Wonder how they were able to get the Elements to work?' he said silently to himself, until another yell from Celestia snapped him back to reality, where he realized she still wanted an answer.
"Nope." was all he said, before Celestia glared at him coldly, before nodding to the Element Bearers. The one with the crown levitated, her eyes shut, all of the other Elements followed suit, before the bearer of what he recognized to be Magic opened her eyes, showing a bright, all-consuming white, then suddenly, colored lights shot up into the night sky, and combined before coming down onto Solace. Celestia watched him carefully, he didn't attempt to escape it, and she was sure her eyes where playing tricks on him when she thought she seen a sly grin creep onto his face before he was blasted with the forces of Harmony.
Twilight and her friends landed back onto ground gently, and them, including Celestia, all looked to the cloud of dust where the male Alicorn stood, and when the dust had cleared, they all gasped in shock of what they seen.
Solace, standing there completely unharmed, only the same grin still plastered on his face.
"But how did he--" One of the Element Bearers tried to ask, but Solace cut them off and answered her question.
"Simple, they are the Elements of Harmony. They purge all that has to do with disharmony, in other words, they work against evil things. I, myself, am anything but evil." Solace calmly explained.
Celestia stood there, still in shock at how the alicorn survived the Elements flawlessly. She couldn't take it anymore, she charged up a wad of magical power in her horn, and aimed straight at the stallion's heart. Without a word, she let the blot loose, and it flew right into Solace's chest.
Upon contact with his chest, the pain that surged through his body was one he rarely felt, as if his internal organs where turning into acid, and that acid attempted to dissolve through his skin, he absorbed the entire shot, and he shut his eyes, clenched them tight from the pain, but kept his appearance in check, once he opened his eyes, his vision was blurred, his legs were buckling slightly, but he couldn't let them see this weakness, so he thought of an escape.
Celestia was in shock, he absorbed the entire hit, and he was still standing, he didn't even look like he felt it at all, and to top it off, to her horror, he began to laugh.
He laughed loudly, it hurt him dramatically due to the possible fact that his lungs feel like they have a spearhead within them, but it was worth it to get the effect he intended. He looked back at Celestia, to see horror and shock in her face, since it seemingly looks like he was invulnerable to everything. "Now. . . I'd love to stay and chat.." Solace began to say slowly, thinking of a direction he could escape to, before Celestia caught on. "But I don't like playing with foals like you." Celestia then realized what he was going to do, but before she could tell her guards to capture him, he teleported away.
"Who was that guy..?" Asked a speechless cyan coated pegasus.
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A bright light flashed out of nowhere for a split second, before a certain alicorn appeared from thin air. He teleported to a high mountain somewhere, and out in the distance, he could see a small town. That would be his next destination, but after a single step to the village's direction, he collapsed and fell unconscious from the sheer magnitude of pain he felt from Celestia's attack.
Moar A/N: Well, I think I messed up, switching between the views of Solace and Celestia a lot. I'll fix this later, but I'll be sure not to make that mistake and stick from Solace's Point of View for the other chapters. Thanks for staying with the fic. ^^
