High on the top of Mt. Aris, a great celebration was taking place. All the gods and goddesses have gathered together to celebrate the birth of a new god, or should we say...the sudden appearance of a new god...
There was no question that the baby was a god. He had a grey aura, or a godly glow, around his little mismatched body.
The only question was, where did he come from? There were no other gods or goddesses on Mt. Aris that looked remotely similar to this strange newcomer. The baby's head was that of a normal pony, with gray fur adorned with a short black mane; but the rest of his body was...wrong...
Two tiny horns sat on the top of his head. One of which was an antler usually spotted on stags, and the other one was that of a goat. Folded neatly against his back was a blue feathered Pegasus wing on one side, and a bat's wing that was thin and leathery to the touch, on the other. A tiny but sharp fang was just poking out on the left side of his mouth. His appendages consisted of a lion paw, a griffon's claw, a scaly green lizard's leg, and the cloven hoof of a goat. And a small white tuft was at the tip of a red scaly snake tail.
Out of all the baby's oddities, his eyes were the most fascinating.
The baby's eyes were like a panther's. Irregular red pupils swam in surrounding golden pools. One could become hypnotized just by looking at them.
The murmurings and whispers drew the attention of Mt. Aris' four leading alicorn gods.
Cadence; Goddess of Love that is shared among ponykind. With her soft pink coat and godly glow, matched well with her long multi-colored locks with swirls of pinks and purples. Adorned with a purple jeweled crown and purple tipped wings, this pony could have passed for the goddess of beauty.
Twilight; Goddess of Friendship that is also shared among ponykind. With a purple coat and aura, along with a dark violet mane with magenta streaks, this pony was considered as one of the most intelligent gods on Mt. Aris
And the two most well known goddesses in all of Aris, Celestia and Luna.
Luna; Goddess of the Moon that brings forth peaceful nights to all that abide in Equestria. With a dark blue coat and aura, along with flowing mane of stars in a darkened sea, this pony was her namesake.
She was also the younger sister of Celestia; Goddess of the Sun that brings forth warm and beautiful days that are always full of joy and laughter. With a yellow aura and a coat as white as snow, and a flowing mane with the colors of an early morning sky, along with a tall crown sitting proudly on her head, she was revered as the wisest of all the gods and goddesses put together.
The crowd parted to make way for the approaching goddesses. When they saw the baby lying on the luscious green grass sucking on one of the toes on his lizard leg, they were flabbergasted.
"I have never seen a creature such as this. Have you, Sister?" Luna said as she looked inquisitively at Celestia.
"I have not, my sister," Celestia told her, still looking at the baby.
Cadence turned around to look at the crowd behind her. "Does any pony know where this baby came from?" she asked.
The crowd looked amongst themselves and shook their heads, along with a few muffled "no's”.
A collective sigh came from all four alicorns as they looked back down at the baby, trying to decide what should be done. Celestia used her powers to conjure up a crib and levitated the baby in it.
Twilight stepped forward and peeked inside the crib. "He is kind of cute, in his own way.” She tickled his round tummy with a hoof. As expected, laughter bubbled up inside his throat. What wasn't expected, were the literal bubbles floating out of his mouth.
Twilight immediately pulled her hoof back when she saw them. One of the bubbles hovered close to the baby's nose, he proceeded to touch it. Of course, it instantly popped as soon as he made contact.
Startled and upset, the baby started to cry. Almost as soon as he started crying, a small gray cloud formed over the crib and released its rain-filled contents on him, with small cracks of thunder and lightning here and there.
Celestia waved the storm cloud away with her hoof and looked down once more at the now completely dried baby in shock.
"Well that was...unexpected," Cadence said.
"This child has an immense amount of power for one so young, even for a god,” Luna pointed out. Celestia was silent for a moment, lost in thought as she looked at the baby.
"Discord," she said simply.
"What?" the three other alicorns said in unison as they looked at her as if she'd grown another muzzle.
"That is his name. With his jumbled up parts and the randomness of his powers, it's perfect for him," she told them.
"Discord..." Luna said out loud as if trying it out. "It's perfect," she agreed. The others nodded in agreement.
Celestia conjured up a gold medal and placed it around the baby's neck. Engraved on it was a large flaming with its rays stretching majestically across the golden surface. Almost as soon as it was around his neck, Discord began to suck on it.
"What a nice little display," a dark voice spoke up from across the room.
Everyone looked to the source of the voice. In the far corner of the room, hidden in the shadows, was none other than Sombra.
Sombra; God of Shadows, death, and darkness. Guardian of the Underworld where all the souls of deceased ponies go to reside. Unlike the four alicorn goddesses, Sombra did not have wings. He had a unicorn horn, but it was not long and straight like the horns of the others. It was curved like a thorn and just as sharp as one too. He wore a red silk cape with a white furred trim that covered most of his back, and he wore armor on his chest as well as on his legs
With his red eyes drowning in glowing green, purple smoke billowing out of his eyes, and his mane and tail made out of smoke and shadow; this pony looked like death itself.
"Sombra," Celestia greeted nonchalantly, "how are things in the Underworld?"
"Oh, you know; dark and gloomy. And as always, full of dead ponies,” he said with cheerful sarcasm. He looked past Celestia and saw the crib. "Ah! There's the little ball of sunshine I have heard so much about..." As soon as he approached the crib, he looked back at the four alicorn goddesses. "What is this thing? It's no god, it's a demon! It looks like something that came out of the Underworld!"
He must have understood what he said, because as soon as those words left Sombra's mouth, little Discord grabbed hold of his cape and as soon as he touched it, the fabric was covered in rainbow polka dots. He also somehow changed Sombra's coat color from dark gray, to an almost blinding neon pink! And his billowing smoke - like mane and tail to floating wisps of cotton candy!
At this point, everyone on Mt. Aris was crying from laughter at the sight of Sombra.
A look of confusion spread across his face at the laughing gods. Even the four alicorns were failing miserably to hold in laughter.
"What?” he asked the crowd, but Sombra's obliviousness only made them laugh harder.
"What are you all laughing at?" he fumed.
Luna pointed a hoof at him while trying to hold in a laugh. More confused than ever, the God of Shadows looked over his shoulder, and that was when he noticed his newly brightly colored tail. He gasped as he looked the rest of himself over. His beautiful cape was now dotted with polka dots, and his coat was now a nauseating pink!
"Powerful little devil..." he mumbled to himself.
Controlling her laughter, Celestia used her powers to turn him back to his normal drab colors.
"Oh, Sombra, don't be such a stickler for once, it was a good laugh. Why don't you join the celebration?" Celestia said cheerfully.
"Love to, Sunbutt, but unlike you gods lounging around up here on Mt. Aris, I regrettably have a full time gig that you, Celestia, have so generously bestowed upon me. So I can't. Love to, but can't,” Sombra said with a sneer.
"You should slow down. You'll work yourself to death." Celestia's eyes widened in realization at her own joke. "Ha! Get it? Work yourself to death!"
Once again, everyone burst into laughter. And this time, no one had trouble hiding it...
Celestia collapsed on the grass in a fit of laughter. "I kill myself!" she said through the giggles.
Sombra chuckled darkly to himself. "If only..."