//------------------------------// // Awakening, Past Beginning and Discord // Story: A Twin's Journey -X Version // by TheyWhoMakeWhatTheyWish //------------------------------// ~??? PoV~ Sleeping and Dreaming... I've been doing that for a long time now. Though I can't actually blame myself, when one is trapped and the only thing you can do is sleep, wait or just talk to yourself, you tend to sleep as much as you can to save your sanity. Well, sure I had him to talk to but... he is not the same pony that I knew once before and it was quite awkward to talk to him with his... obsession and corruption. Ah yes, Sombra... actually I wonder where he is right now, he usually storms those doors so loud so I can hear him come and tries to get me to talk to him. At times it would work and it would either elate him or anger him. Yeah, and... wait a minute... where am I? I can't sense those damned chains on me, and I know I'm not in my room anymore. Is this... the throne room? What the heck happened? It's... less dark and broodish than before, the crystals aren't corrupted looking anymore... I feel like I'm missing something... or at least forgetting something important... huh... Ah well! ... ... ... ... ... Nothing's changed aside from that... still boring as ever! I'm tempted to go back to sleep, but something tells me I shouldn't. ... ... ... I wanna be the very best, like no one ever was! Hit it Ash!... nevermind, I did lose some of my sanity... oh well~ To catch them is my real test, to train them is my cause! {1,745 years ago} "Where the fuck am I" I deadpanned as I suddenly appear in a forest of all things! "Elaine? Eliaaaaane!!! Not funny sis!" I shouted as I looked around. This was not the convention! ... Oh yeah... that happened. {Flashback: Hours Earlier} Elaine and I shared a grin as we moved through the crowded halls of the convention. There were so many other people in awesome costumes! And there were some... questionable people in questionable customes... *shudders*. Anyway! Me and Elaine were cosplaying as the human forms of Xerneas and Yveltal! I as Xerneas and she was Yveltal. She was wearing a white-tuffed and high collared black with grey diamond design jacket with red velvet inside. The jacket was hand made as the sleeves elongated to form Yveltal's claws/wings complete with design at where the palm was that led to the her armpit. There was a ribbon around her waist that acted as her belt and fanned out and widened to form the tail/claw with design, the belt held her crimson and white below knee-length skirt with black trimmings and black shorts underneath along with high crimson knee-socks with finally black and red trimming boots. She looked awesome! I, in the meanwhile had a blue with gold trimming long sleeved tailcoat that reached to the back of my knees and underneath that was a white shirt, I wore black gloves with golden cuffs and wore fancy black pants and had Xerneas styled high knee-length boots, you know Xerneas' hooves? I designed it after that! Unfortunately me and Elaine couldn't finish our headpieces to complete our cosplay, we ran out of time and we missed the convention last year so we just went without our headpieces. And yes, we both made our outfits! We were both talented with needle and cloth! Though my sister can't cook like I can but I can't exactly swim either... Meh, it's a thing. Anyway! Back to me and my sister. We're twins for one thing, we're technically identical but we changed that after entering our teenage years. I dyed my hair blue for the cosplay and braided it while Elaine dyed hers red though she just kept it at a low ponytail, that and we both had one earring on each other's opposite ears. It was just a normal pokeball earring, she had it on her right ear while I had it on my left ear. "Elliot!" I hear my sister whisper as I am pulled from reading my newly purchased Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood Manga and is dragged to another booth, or is it stand? Eh. The guy selling the random pieces from random anime's and other categories greets us after a guy who purchased something moves away. "Elaine, what are you-!" I cut myself as I saw what caused my sister to pull me from my precious manga. Two headpieces that were obviously for Xerneas and Yveltal! And they were PERFECT !!! Elaine grinned cockily at me "I know right?" she said as she fished out her wallet and mine "How much for those headpieces? Oh! And those weapons?" she asked the merchant who replied with "150 bucks total" with a polite tone. Weapons? What weapo-... Oooooh, those weapons... Best. Sister. Ever... and booth I guess! The weapons I'm talking about was the crystal-like bow that had different crystals protruding from its bow at the ends and the string and the red and white battle-axe hammer. AWESOME!! Elaine got out 75 dollars from her wallet and another 75 from mine, I didn't complain to her because I wanted those things just as much as she did! After thanking the merchant we left with two new items. I observed my new bow and noticed the string attached itself to a crystal at the other side of the bow and grinned as I found out that the crystal could be disconnected and my eyes sparkled as the bow straightened and switched to a staff, I stretched the string and had it back to a bow before observing my new headpiece. It was a crown that had 8 deer-like antlers with 4 antlers on each side, and the antlers even had Xerneas' crystals and gems too! Sweet! I exchanged a grin with my twin as we both at the same time put on our headpieces "Lookin' good!" Elaine complemented and I shot back "Not bad yourself". We both laughed harder than we should have but who cares?! I felt a tug at my tailcoat and suddenly I was being tugged back and I could see my sister like me, our eyes met as we both were pulled into wormholes. The last thing we said before we disappeared from our world were our names. "ELLIOT" "ELAINE" {Flashback End} I slumped against a tree as I cradled the not-plastic-but-now-actual-crystal bow. For the first time ever I was alone and for the first time since I was 9, I cried my heart out. "ELAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIINE" {Present Day} POKEMON! GOTTA CATCH'EM AAAAALLLL! POKEMON! Third verse, same as ever! AGAIN! 'I wanna be the very best~ like no one ever waaas~!... So boring... Where's little Sommy? I'm so bored I'd talk to him. Politely!' I thought to myself as I, surprise surprise, stood still within my crystal prison. Suddenly my face is full of fur. "XERNY!" 'Wait, was that...? Dissy?!' I thought as my sight was blocked from the fur that was wrapped around my head "Discord!" a mature and feminine sounding voice shouted 'That sounds very vaguely familiar' I mused as Dissy unwraps from my head and my eyes meet with red and yellow eyes "Xerny! It is you!" cheered Discord "You know it Discord?" another feminine voice asked and suddenly my sight was cleared from Discord and I see ponies, thankfully no Sombra in sight... oh yeah now I remember... Ooogh, poor Sommy... My eyes suddenly focused to two alicorns who had mixed emotions on their equine faces 'Oh heeey, little Sunny and Moony's grown up, aaaaww~ ' I cooed mentally as I was nearly engulfed with my memories of the past before my heart sting at the thought of sisters 'How long have I been in here? I really miss sis' I sulked before noticing Discord's mischievous grin. 'Dissy? Dissy no. I know that grin!' I thought frantically as chaos magic gathered in Discord's lion paw 'Dissy please, put that AWAY!' I mentally pleaded, in the background I hear the questions Celestia, Luna and the others send the now Lord of Chaos who puts his newly summoned object on my foot and I mentally shiver in disgust 'DISSY I SWEAR KEEP THAT AWAY FROM ME' I didn't notice the cracks that littered my crystal prison nor did I notice the ponies backing away as Discord summons more of those horrible abominations and puts them ON ME! 'Dissy NO! KEEP THEM AWAY! DIIIIIIISSSSCOOOOOOOOORD!' It was the last straw when he plopped it on my head right in the middle of my horns! DAMN YOU DISCORD, YOU KNOW I ABSOLUTELY DESPISE PUFFERFISH *CRACK BOOM* ~Earlier~ "We believe that the statue you've found is much like Discord. A being that was, or in this case is imprisoned" Celestia told them as they slowly headed towards the statue "Oh, well do you know what it is?" Twilight asked alongside her as her friends, brother and sister-in-law follow closely behind. Surprisingly Celestia shook her head "Unfortunately no, I do not know who that is but... it feels almost... familiar-like" Celestia said slowly as Luna agrees with her "Indeed sister, we feel the same" she told her and both alicorns shared a look. Fluttershy fidgeted before saying quietly "M-Maybe Discord knows it?" and thought it was quiet everyone heard it. Pinkie grinned at her "That's a great idea Fluttershy! Discord's gotta know that creature!" she said, bouncing before blinking when she was suspended in air "You rang?" a familiar voice asked as said Lord of Chaos melted from the sealing as a his eagle claw kept Pinkie suspended in the air. "Discord!" Many voice chorused in different emotions but Discord paid attention to Fluttershy who looked at him with a big smile "Heya Fluttershy, miss me?" he asked as he floated lazily in the air and grins when she replies with "Dearly" Discord chuckles before turning to the others "So? You rang yes? What should I-" he cuts himself off and straightened his posture, eyes wide and frantic and stiff as a board, ears twitching in every direction "U-Um..." Fluttershy stuttered as she stared at Discord, getting more worried with every second "Discord?" she questioned as everyone looked at the draconequus strangely and with concern and even a slight panic when Discord disappeared in a flash of light. "He's here?!" shouted Discord as he reappeared in front of Twilight, shaking her frantically "He was here the whole time and you found him?!" he continued to shout, face filled with glee and happiness and a rare strand of sadness "Um, Discord, who're you talking about?" Pinkie questioned as the draconequus teleports all over the place laughing. The Lord of Chaos turned to them with a wide grin that fell off his face and unto the floor "Why XERNY of course! Oh! This is fantastic" cheered Discord as he bursts into cotton candy and other candy confetti. In the throne room they could hear him shout out "XERNY!" and they galloped into the room, though Pinkie trailed behind to consume the sugary sweets Discord left "Mmm! Cotton Candy~, all I'm missing right now is chocolate milk!" *CRACK BOOM* "HAHA! I knew that would work!" came the smug and insanely happy voice of Discord "Discord..." came the slightly echoing male voice of a stranger from within the smoke. Celestia narrowed her eyes and with one great flap of her white wings caused a gust within the room and instantly the smoke subsided revealing a slightly stoic-faced bipedal figure surrounded by crystal shards and strangely, or not this was Discord after all, the pufferfishes were gone. The two-legged being wore a white with blue trims tailcoat that matched his white pants and boots with light blue designs, along with white gloves. His 'mane' was the same shade of white as Celestia's coat and was braided ending at the middle of his back while icy blue orbs colored from carved stone grey. Said orbs were glaring at Discord and there was a small frown on his face, the draconequus was unfazed by the frown and the glare instead he did the unthinkable to those who knew of him. He hugged the creature with a sense of familiarity and affection and said with a resigned and relieved tone "I know you hated it Xerny but consider it payback for never coming back from your little 'errand'" and instantly the glare and frown was gone and the being hugged him back "I suppose... I'll forgive you for this one time and only this one time, alright?" and the group of ponies were shock to see Discord of all beings crying after they separated from their hug, nodding towards the smaller creature as the spirit of chaos towered over him. "It's so beautiful!" sobbed Pinkie Pie as she leaned against Rainbow Dash, a pink handkerchief in hoof as a river of tears appear underneath the waterfall that came from Pinkie's eyes. This knocked everypony back into reality, with Dash acting up first hoof and leaving Pinkie to fall sideways without her leverage. ~Elliot's PoV~ I smiled up to my old friend who smiled back at me and suddenly a rainbow appears in front of my face. In the form of a mane, that belonged to a blue pegasus. "Okay! What in the hay is going on here?!" she shouted with clear confusion and irritation on her face before turning to Discord "Who're you and what have you done with Discord?!" she questioned before turning to me "And who and whatin the name of Celestia are you?!" she demanded from me, nose flaring and eyes narrowed. I blinked before I remembered that it wasn't only me and Dissy within the throne room, I turned to the other ponies and cleared my throat and bowed to them "It is nice to meet you all. I am sorry for the disturbance that I've made" I told them politely before smiling warmly at the Celestial Sisters, which surprised them "My Dear Celestia and Luna, it is nice to see you again after all these years. You've both grown beautifully like I always knew you would" I complemented. They were rather taken back from my sentence, the sisters shared a look before Luna spoke first "Thou knowest us strange creature?" she asked and I inwardly laughed at the old accent but outwardly I nodded, face still smiling warmly but politely "Yes, though I'd be surprised if you did remember me. Both of you were mere babes when I last met with you" I sighed happily as their eyes widened "But a Godfather never forgets" I said, mentally smirking at the brain burst I caused. "WHAT!?"