Chapter 9 The Prophecy
Spike stood in the office of Vice Principal. She had her back toward him.
“This is the one you want?” she asked to apparently no one. Spike was about to ask what she meant when he heard a voice.
“Why yes it is!” a gleeful voice said. “I believe you know what to do?” Luna nodded to the unknown voice. Suddenly the woman turned around and activated her duel disk and a dark energy surrounded her.
“Ms. Luna! What’s…!” Suddenly a swirl of bright neon bat like creatures shot toward him and began lifting him into the air. “HELP!!!” But no one came. The bats continued to lift him higher and higher into the air, toward a swirling portal in the ceiling. “HEEEELLLLPPP!!!!!!!!!”
“Now you’re mine duelist of chaos,” the voice said with a joyful cackle.
“Spi….Spike wake up!!!”
Spike’s head shot up from his desk, Micro shaking his shoulder.
“Wha...what,” he looked around and saw the class was looking at him chuckling. In the front of the class, the teacher, Zecora stood. Her skin was chocolate brown and her black and white hair was done up wildly and she wore a white blouse with a black skirt
“The place for sleep isn’t school,” Zecora said, sternly but with a smile to say she wasn’t upset. “Before you leave please clean up your drool.” The class got a good laugh out of that as Spike blushed, but his friends looked concerned.
It was the day after the duel between the two sisters. After Spike, his friends, Twilight and the others got Luna and Celestia to the nurse’s office they were told to leave as it was getting close to curfew. The walk back to the dorms was quiet. No one had known what to say in regards to what happened. It wasn’t until they made it to their floor that Twilight spoke up, assuring everyone that Celestia would probably explain it to them as soon as she got better.
That hadn’t helped Spike though. The same nightmare plague him through the night and now he was falling asleep in class.
‘Duelist of chaos…’ Spike thought as he wiped up the small puddle of drool that had escaped his mouth. ‘Where did that come from?’
After class his friends pulled him aside in the hall.
“Are you ok man?” Sugar asked. “You look terrible.”
“Gee thanks,” Spike said, trying to pass it off as nothing...and failing miserably. “I’m fine.”
“After last night I doubt it,” Micro said, not trying to be rude but getting right to the point. “We’re your friends you know.” Spike sighed.
“I...I keep having nightmares about it,” he finally said. “The bats...they keep lifting me up...except...no one came to help…” He started shaking, the fear from last night creeping into his voice. Tears might’ve started forming in his eyes if not for two arms that wrapped around him from behind.
“You don’t need to be worrying about that sugarcube,” Applejack said as she and the other girls arrived.
“Yeah!” Rainbow said. “If that freaky shadow guy comes back we’ll kick his butt before he can even lay a hand on you!” Spike had to chuckle at that.
“Thanks guys…” Spike said. The group was about to move on before they heard a voice.
“I’m glad you guys are all together,” Celestia said as she walked up behind them.
“Principal Celestia,” Twilight said as they all turned toward her. “Are you ok? Should you even be up right now?” The principal smiled at the concern but nodded.
“I’m fine Twilight,” she said, then turned serious. “But I need all of you to come to my office. We have things we need to discuss.” The students nodded and followed the aurora haired woman to her office. When they entered, they were shocked to see vice principal Luna sitting in a chair next to Celestia’s, her head in her hands.
“Um…” Fluttershy started. “Are we sure it’s ok....what I mean is…”
“Is she gonna try anything again?” Rainbow finished for her friend. They heard Luna sigh and look up, her eyes red as if she’d just been crying.
“No, Rainbowdash,” Luna said. “I’m...I’m myself again…” She looked at Spike who still had a small look of fear on his face. “I’m so...so sorry for what I did,” she said, fighting back her tears. “I… I was weak and gave in…”
“No Luna,” Celestia said. “What I did drove you to that. Your emotions were in disarray. You were angry. He feeds off that.” The others looked at each other.
“You mean that shadowy creature, right?” Sunset asked. Celestia and Luna nodded.
“Yes. And that is why we brought you here to talk.” Celestia made her way to the other side of the desk and sat in her chair while the other stood in front. “That shadow creature you saw yesterday, his name is Discord. A twisted creature of chaos.” She pulled out a picture that showed the beast. It had a long brown body, a dragon’s tail and leg, one leg that had a hoof, one arm resembled a bird’s while the other was that of a lion. Its head somewhat resembled a goat’s and its horns were both very different from each other.
“He feeds off of chaotic energy,” Luna continued. “Negative emotions, arguments, and so on. He seeks to find a way into our world through people.”
“So, that’s what he did to you,” Micro said, piecing it together. “He fed off your negative feelings and then used that to establish a...link to this world?” Luna, while still feeling bad about the whole incident, nodded.
“Exactly.”
“But...if he’s been doing this...why hasn’t it been reported before?” Twilight said.
“True…” Rarity said. “Surely there’s been plenty of negative emotions before this. I mean, this is a high school. We would’ve noticed over the years if classmates started being possessed by this...this beast.” Celestia and Luna glanced at each other. It was brief, but long enough for Twilight and Sunset to notice.
“We don’t know why he only showed up now,” Celestia said. “We suspect that maybe a large influx of negative emotions came into the school that day. Diamond Tiara’s jealousy and anger at being beat by Spike is one example.”
The three boys looked at one another. Diamond was a brat and clearly held a grudge against Spike and the guys, but did that mean she was working with Discord.
“So what does this mean for the school?” Sugar asked.
“Yeah, will it get shut down?” Pinkie asked.
“We can’t do that,” Celestia said. “If we do, Discord might follow the most negative students out, and if that happens...well...we don’t need to say how negative the world can get.”
The students nodded. It was sad but true. If Discord made it out of the school and into the world, there were millions of people he could link himself to.
“But why can’t he escape now?” Micro asked. “And if this is the first time he’s appeared, how do you know so much about him?”
“Your two questions are connected,” Luna said. “You see, this isn’t the first time Discord has appeared, though the first time...it wasn’t as a beast…”
“He...he actually was our classmate,” Celestia said, shocking the others.
“CLASSMATE!” they shouted, looking back and forth at the picture on the desk.
“Yes,” Celestia said. “Before I continue, what do you all know about magic.” Some of the students looked at each other, but Twilight, Sunset, Sugar, and Spike all looked thoughtful.
“Do you mean like duel spirits?” Spike said, as he pulled out his Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon card. Sugar nodded and pulled out his Puddingcess.
“Partially,” Luna said. “Duel spirits are just one form of magic this world possesses. And it’s one of the more innocent.”
“Wait a minute,” Micro said. “Back this up a moment.”
“Yeah,” Applejack chimed in. “Magic?”
“Yes,” Celestia continued. “Magic. As strange as it is to believe, magic does exist in this world. You all saw an example of this last night, correct.”
The more skeptical members of the group thought about it for a moment before realizing that there really was no other explanation for what had happened.
“One form of magic, is chaos,” Luna said. “It is one of the most dangerous. I’m sure over the years you’ve heard of many of the dark forces that extend over the world. The Shadow Games, the Seal of Oricalcos, and so on.”
Grimaces marred the faces of the students. Who hadn’t heard of those incidences.
“These were all caused by chaos magic. A dark pulse of energy that tries to reach out to the world and sink into different people. One of those people, was Discord…” The students could hear the pain in Luna’s voice and saw Celestia’s face. They knew the sister’s must’ve been close to their classmate.
“It twisted Discord into the beast you see now,” Celestia continue. “My sister and I, we had to be the ones to seal him away. Luna was the only one at the school with the power to do so, and I had been the only one to ever defeat Discord in a duel so…” Despite the pained expressions on the sisters faces, there was one question that the students had to ask.
“What power do you mean?” Fluttershy questioned as gently as she could.
“You experienced some of it last night,” Luna said. She calmly pulled out a card known as Shift and suddenly it glowed, enveloping the vice principal. When it faded, she was gone. “I’m a psychic duelist.” The group turned and saw Luna standing behind them. “I have the power to make cards a reality.”
The group was stunned, but Fluttershy rubbed the scars on her arm where the feathers that were shot at her cut.
“Oh that’s right!” Luna said as she grabbed another card, Red Medicine. In another flash, the bottle from the picture appeared. “This is for you.” Fluttershy took the medicine gingerly before looking up at Luna. Seeing genuine guilt and care in her eyes, she drank the medicine. She could feeling the skin on her arm healing itself. Her eyes went wide and after handing the bottle back to Luna, she undid a few buttons and lowered the shoulder of her blouse in time to see the last bit of scar fading away.
“Amazing!” Fluttershy gasped. Then she heard someone in the room cough lightly, bringing her attention back to where she was...and who she was with. She looked over at the boys who were staring shocked at her and then she looked down at herself and saw she was exposing her bra and a good amount of cleavage. With a “Eeep!” She quickly fixed her shirt and blushed crimson.
“Anyway,” Celestia said with a chuckle. “Luna and I sealed Discord away when we were in school. We assume another pulse of chaos magic must’ve released him again.”
“So what do you want us to do?” Twilight asked as the boys shook their heads to get them back on track.
“We don’t want you to do anything,” Luna said. “We simply are letting you know what has been happening. Leave it up to Celestia and I.”
“If you do wind up finding yourself in a situation like last night though,” Celestia added. “And you have to duel, be careful. The powers of chaos are unpredictable. Who knows what strange effects it might have.” The group nodded and turned to leave. “Twilight, Sunset. Could you stay for a moment. We also would like to talk about your extra credit work around the school.”
“We’ll catch up to you,” Twilight said and the group shrugged before heading off. When the door shut, the two turned back to the sisters, looking serious.
“What did you actually want to talk about?” Sunset said. With a sigh and a smile, Celestia looked up at the two.
“We know you two suspect something,” she said. “And since you two know the most about magic, we wanted to explain to you.” Sunset nodded and pulled out a Ultimate Baseball Kid card, a transparent version of the monster appeared next to her and leaned on his bat. Twilight would’ve had hers come out...but she had him locked in her room for...reasons.
“How did discord really get out?” Twilight asked. To everyone’s surprise the Baseball Kid spoke up.
“You mean you didn’t feel it?” he said cockily. “It was that Chaos Form card that one kid played.” The two teens looked at the older women.
“Spike?” they asked, and the principal nodded.
“‘When students call on Chaos' might, and dragons dark do take flight, into the skies of these great halls, light and harmony both shall fall.’ Those were the words last spoken by Discord before we sealed him.”
“But Spike wouldn’t help Discord!” Sunset said.
“We believe that,” Luna said. “But Discord might try and use him whether Spike agrees or not.”
“Either way, we need you to keep an eye on him,” Celestia said. “It’s not that we don’t trust him, but with the prophecy…”
“He might be involved in something dangerous,” Twilight finished. “Very well. We’ll make sure he stays safe.”
“Thank you,” Celestia said. “It is much appreciated. Now, get back to your friends. They must be waiting for you.” The two smiled and nodded before heading off to find the others. When the door closed, Luna turned to Celestia.
“Did we do the right thing in telling them?”
“We had to. Whether we made them forget what happened yesterday or not, Discord would still use them. Besides, with them fighting in this battle...we might just win.”
Dorms later that night
Spike lay in bed, unable to fall asleep again. Thoughts were going through his head.
‘Duelist of Chaos…’ he thought. What did that mean, and what was this weird connection to Discord? He then thought back to what his friends had told him earlier, about always sticking by him and protecting him from the beast. With a smile, he let himself fall into dreamland.