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// Chapter Thirty-Three (Bonus) 
// Story: Moving On 
// by Manitive 
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Discord POV


"I simply can not believe it!" I exclaimed aloud, giving the Tree in front of me a hard kick. "Ow! Fuuuuuck!"

I quickly silenced myself, glaring back at the house I just exited, mentally cursing its inhabitant as if it had been the cause of the pain in my feet. 

William, the human... He was the lucky one I chose out of all the other seven billion of his weak, idiotic species. The one lowly being I watched grow and bloom. The one into who's meaningless life I poured my own blood and sweat. The one I deemed worthy enough. The one that was lucky enough to get the chance to start his miserable life anew. But most importantly, he was practically the chosen one, the being that could've, one day, ruled alongside me. Even though he was such a lowly being, the member of a species that did nothing but destroy themselves, I gave him the chance to be my underling.

But what did he do?

That ungrateful, rude, hairless primate did not accept the gift I was oh-so-generous to make him! He even managed to withstand my chaos magic! And that just because of those pesky ponies and their 'Friendship Magic'. 

Bleugh. Just thinking of it makes me want to retch.

To be honest, I probably should have had expected it, though. He was just like those ponies, a being that lets itself be influenced by its emotions and even let them take control over one's ability to judge. Emotions, which are in its essence just chemical reactions in your brain. 

Pray tell, for what are those chemical reactions even good? All they do is cloud your mind and make you weak. They are the biggest flaw every of those mortal beings possesses. If there was only a way to permanently rid every single being of them, everything would be more like I want it to be. Sure, there would be less chaos, but who needs unplanned, emotional chaos when there is me?

Maybe there was a way to achieve it, but definitely not for me alone. Sadly, the only beings that could help me were either firm believers in those chemical reactions, in Tartarus or needed them to survive.

Two of those firm believers were Celestia and Luna, old friends of mine from a long time ago. One would think that those thousands and thousands of years that they had been alive for, losing loved one after loved one, would've made Celestia and Luna give up on those pesky emotions, that they simply didn't want to feel them in their lives anymore, but they were too weak. Too weak to abandon them. Instead, they embraced them with open arms. They did not fight them like I did - and still do.

Those weaklings.

That is what made me come to despise them so much. Their weakness. But it also helped me, for if they had given up on emotions, I would have been a stone statue in the Royal Gardens for another thousand years. Maybe even longer.

I was lucky, yet unlucky.

Anyways, I must be boring you with my rambling about emotions. I can only imagine how much you want me to continue my little story. 

So, where was I again?

Oh yeah.

Even more annoying than the fact that those ponies got in my way once again was that I now had to think of another way to get what I wanted. Problem was, there simply was no other way. He was the only real connection between Equestria and his pathetic homeworld I had. Without him, it was nearly impossible for me to find it again. Actually, it was impossible.

Finding his dimension out of the endless other ones there are is, on its own, downright impossible. Not only because there are so many unique ones, but also because every dimension has another endless amount of parallel universes that complicate the rather simple interdimensional traveling spell even more. Tartarus, the only reason I found Twilight Sparkle and her weak friends was because I had planned ahead and collected enough of their genetical data from each one of them.

In the end, the only way to find his exact dimension was to get him to help me. Sure, there were other less subtle ways I could've gotten him to cooperate, but I didn't want to blow my cover that soon. The only living specimen of his race suddenly disappearing? That would surely raise some question. So, just kidnapping him sure wasn't going to work out. It probably would've downright destroyed my plans.

Not like I really thought about doing that. Where was the fun in indirectly telling everyone in Equestria, and you, what I had planned? I mean, it is so much more fun when you have to connect dots, dots of information that by themselves make no sense, than to just get told what exactly it was I was planning. 

Don't you agree, my silent little friend?

Your silence implies that you indeed agree. Splendid! I feel like the two of us could be really good friends. You're not like that idiotic, arrogant human, you are actually smart. You actually agree with good ol' Discord. Too bad that you are just a product of my imagination, though.

I clicked my tongue, idly tugging at my beautiful beard in thought. "Good friends, indeed."

Annoyingly enough, I was pulled out of my amazing mind by the sound of flapping wings, shortly followed by a raspy voice that I recognized all too well.

"Discord?" I turned around, looking down at the pegasus with a small frown on my face. In front of me stood Rainbow Dash, Element of Loyalty and one of the ponies I liked the least - and that's saying something.  She was everything I despised; arrogant, annoying and downright insufferable. On her back, she carried something that looked like a window, secured on it with ropes that were bound around her barrel. Besides that fairly unusual sight, she had that dumb confused look on her face that those ponies seemed to have mastered so much."What are you doing here?"

"Rainbow Dash! How nice to see you." I had to force myself to even get the words out and not call her words that aren't really nice to say, but instead, I swallowed those down and gave her a totally innocent smile. "Why, am I not allowed to be here, Rainbow Dash?" I fluttered my eyelashes as I said her name, trying to annoy her just like she always did annoy me. 

It seemed to have worked, a glare forming on her face. But instead of getting into my face like she always did when I managed to trigger her, or threatening me with a beating, she continued to stand there in front of me, silently gritting her teeth. "I swear to Celestia, if you just put as much as one of your claws on William or Scootaloo, I will turn you inside out and use your body as a carpet for my home, Discord."

I chuckled. "Oh, that's rather violent." I flicked my magnificent claws, transforming myself into a beautiful-looking carpet, if I may say so. "Though, on second thought, I might actually look rather good as a carpet."

She just huffed, pushing past me and walking up to the front door of that idiot of a human's home. She lifted a hoof up to the door to knock, glaring back at me over her shoulder and the window strapped to her back. "I warned you. Stay away from them."

I flicked my claws again, going back to my normal awesome form and giving her the best innocent look I could muster. "You sure did warn me, Rainbow Dash."

She gave me one last glare before knocking. Not five seconds later, the door was opened by William, who greeted Rainbow Dash with a smile on his face. 

"Good to see you, Rainbow!" I heard that idiot say.

"Yeah, good to see you too." Rainbow Dash said, then pointing with one of her hooves over at her back. "Picked a little something up for you from the town. Thought you might need it after what happened."

"Yey, finally I have a window for my bathroom again!" He cheered, doing a claw pump, or whatever he might call it. "Thanks, Rainbow."

"Eh, don't thank me. I kinda broke it, so it's only fair I buy a new one."

"Anyways, come in." He said, holding the door open for Rainbow Dash. "You must be freezing."

With a shrug, she walked inside. "I have fur, y'know." I heard her say before she finally, and fortunately, vanished from my sights. William looked around the outside one last time but overlooked me - mainly because I wasn't exactly there anymore.

I am awesome, I know.

I gave an angry huff as he closed the door behind Rainbow Dash, going back into his little safe space. "We will see each other again sooner than you would like, human."

With a flick of my claws, I vanished.