The Element of Chaos
Chapter 12
Scheming and Steaming
Disclaimer: I own only my OC and a few ideas, nothing more, mostly it's owned by Hasbro and Lauren Faust. I want to thank a few of my friends that have helped me think up a few names in this chapter. Thanks Neon! Thanks Electra!
Discord had just finished awaking the rest of other beings that were encased in the crystals of the cave he himself woke in. He had his daughter move the largest slab of flat crystal to work as a sort of table for the now five beings sitting on the stones around them.
One was Discord, the now alicorn and twisted with the horn that resembled the ones he had as a Draconequus and wings of a bat, sitting on a stone while Screwball floated near the ceiling with her propellor whirling. He could only smile watching her a bit out of the corner of his eye.
Near him sat a mare with glowing green eyes and insectoid wings, the fire behind her green eyes glowed with jealousy and hunger. A faint glow from the twisted and bent horn on her head lifted a crystal cup carved by her own magic to hold the tea Screwball had brought in her odd hat. She drank the bitter brew and gave a sigh, as it tasted nearly as good as the love stolen from a colt that would die for his love.
Another sitting across the table was a burly creature, its fur black and was riddled with scars and its arms nearly as thick as a tree branch and most of its torso was covered by a dark metal chest plate with blue streaks running through it. The blue streaks glowed with an odd magical light that seemed to make the being’s eyes glow. One eye was yellow with a small dark pupil while the other was white and had a scar over it. It smiled showing a dark set of sharp canine teeth and started to pick the remains of some meal long since gone from them.
“Do you truly have to do that in our company Onyx? I would expect at least some control...even though you were a wolf among your mutts.” said the green eyed mare setting her cup down rolling her eyes with clear disdain.
Another smaller creature sitting on a stone chewing on a bright glowing crystal shard rolled it’s purple eyes. It was almost the height of the Diamond dog, but had a thinner and more streamlined body compared to the mountain of muscle that was the dog. Instead of its body being covered with fur, it was covered in dark red colored scales with black flecks in it. The body was clearly of a female’s and its face was narrow with cruel teeth crunching through the stone. Two sets of small wings were set along its back curled up to stay out of the way and looked leathery and thin with no veins showing but slight outlines of thin bones.
“Must you drink that swill Chrysalis? It smells about as bad as the holes in those so called wings look.” The scaled creature said with a voice that was rough but had a clear feminine tone to it. “It’s almost as if you want to look like a burnt up corpse.”
“You’ve seen plenty haven’t you Kristali? Dragon fire has that sort of effect on creatures.” The creature known as Onyx said with a deep voice that was cruel and prideful. Though it was clear a deep chuckle was added to the comment.
Discord then cleared his throat making the rest of them glance at him. He smiled, his teeth much sharper than any regular ponies and chuckled saying, "Ah, so nice to see us all back together. Already to bicker and fight, just like old times." He gave a conent sigh and a smile.
"It'd be old times if you hadn't gone soft on those little ponies." Onyx said with a snort flicking his crystal toothpick away. "Just so you could get closer to your little crush, now look at you. All back to how you were before you made something of yourself. " He gave a loud and rough laugh. Discord glared, growling at the Diamond dog across the round table.
"And you'd still be king under the mountain if you hadn't angered Hades." Kristali said smirking a bit, "I remember almost coming to your aid before I heard you had him after you. No fool would go near your people or you after your curse for a generation or two."
Onyx growled at both of them and smirked, "Still...it was a good run...and now...we're back." He looked at his old alies and said, "And am I the only one going to start bringing my people together after so long?" His eyes held a glint of anger and greed to gather himself and his own together again.
"My clan will remember..." Kristali said with a dark and foreboding smile, "Or I shall show them, that one cannot beat the ways of their elder that ruled the mountain tops."
"I shall...scout ahead." Chrysalis said with a dark smile in her vibrating voice, "Might as well try my own little attack to...test the waters. My swarm will always be ready to spy on others." She gave a small laugh, but this was not a laugh of just happiness, this was the laugh of someone planning a slaughter.
"And I shall..." Discord said but stopped, he didn't know what he would do, he had no army. His powers were no longer his to wield. He was simply what he was before he was the spirit of chaos. An Alicorn that had sought to make himself all powerful with his own magic. It dawned on him what he was going to do, the grin that etched his face was one that would make an blind pony shiver.
"I shall go by the name I chose to give up so long ago." He said laughing loudly to himself and looked at the young mare next to him, "Find my old cap and cloak, you know which pair." He gave a slight smirk as the items clicked into the pony's scatter brained mind as it ran off deeper into the crystalline cavern to find the trinkets.
"What's the name you did go by? You never share that little tid bit..." Chrysalis asked with an interested gaze apon her face, one that was match by Kristali while Onyx tried to look half bored but the flicking of his half chewed off ear gave it away that he wanted to know as well.
"Found it Daddy!" Screwball said as she brought in a pair of saddle bags that looked like they were made a millennium ago. Discord used the little bit of magic that he had scrounged up through his time in this new body and lifted a star wizard's hat, along with a cape covered in star patterns.
"I never did tell you did I..." He smiled and shook his mane, the small goatee on his chin seem to shudder and spark with red magical energy. "I was a simple magical pony who had many a student."
They leaned in a little closer to get a slightly better look at the old friend when Kristali noticed it first. All the pieces fit, ranging from the oddly colored grey fur. The hair on his chin which gave off an aura of it's own. The hat and cape, both with matching star designs.
"You were..." Kristali said before it clicked with the others, Discord laughed as he was treated to the look on his friends faces that had just found out that he was once, one of the most powerful magical ponies in all of Equestria's history.