With Celestia and Luna’s defeat caused by Discord, he was now ruling Equestria and it didn’t late for him to turn everything into his personal kingdom of chaos: the roads were now covered with soap, houses were flying around, the sky was covered with clouds made of cotton candy that caused rain of chocolate milk, day and night intercalate with each other in irregular time intervals and both ponies and animals acted in a strange way. Everything seemed to be under Discord’s will.
The two alicorn sisters, with most of their magic taken and running from Discord, did their best to find a hiding place in order to contact the Lord of Order. When they found one, they used the little magic they still had to summon him and then an image of him (that flickered due to bad connection), appeared.
“My lord, I’m afraid we have bad news to give you” Celestia said, while she and Luna bowed.
“Discord, the Spirit of Chaos and Disharmony, was able to take over Equestria and take most of our magic” Luna continued. “We’re ashamed of our failure.”
“Don’t be” the Lord of Order replied. “Discord has always been a villain particularly difficult to defeat. Even my Generals had some difficulties in stop him, until Heartbeat made a stand and locked him up.”
“For knowing that he was already defeated in the past is that we came to ask for your help, my lord” Celestia said.
“If we can’t stop him, then it will be a matter of time for the Pony World to be dominated by Darkness” Luna told. “We can’t let that happen.”
“Heartbeat was using her power to keep Discord under control” the Lord of Order said. “Without her, I don’t think there’s any power strong enough to defeat Discord and undo all the evil he has made.”
At that moment, however, the great Creator had an idea:
“Wait, maybe there’s something you can do. Sometime ago, when you were still young, I created something to bring light in times of emergencies. Well, having in count that the Light Kingdom fell into that stone sleeping, along with six of my Generals, and the original light disappeared from action, I think the time couldn’t be more ideal.”
The two sisters shared confused looks and the older asked:
“What are you talking about, my lord?”
“The Elements of Harmony…” he replied. “I created them using the elements necessary to create peace and harmony: honesty, kindness, laugh, generosity, loyalty… and magic. When used together, these elements have the power to free the land from any evil.”
Listening that, the two alicorn sisters got filled with hope. That was what they needed to defeat Discord and recover the kingdom.
“Where can we find these elements?” Celestia asked.
“I hid the elements in a cave somewhere at the MacIntosh Hills, in a place where no evil being is able to reach. Take this ball of light, it will guide you to your destiny.”
Having said that, the Lord of Order created a ball of light that he delivered to the alicorn sisters.
“I hope you can correct this unbalance as fast as possible.”
And the great Creator disappeared.
“Well, looks like we have what to do” Celestia said.
“Even though, Tia, the travel to the MacIntosh Hills is still long, mainly when we have to hide from Discord” Luna told.
“I know that looks like time is not at our side, but this is the only thing we can do” Celestia replied. “Have faith, sister, we will save our kingdom.”
Those words were enough to give Luna the will to continue. She smiled and nodded to Celestia who nodded back to her. The latter then released the ball of light the Lord of Order had given to them. It started to advance and the two sisters followed it.
Being careful while advancing and avoiding calling any attention into them, the two sisters arrived at last to the MacIntosh Hills. Even with the ball of light guiding them, the journey started to get more challenging as they started to climbing the big hills and the air started to become thinned. At last, they saw the ball of light getting in a specific cave and they did the same.
The journey had tired Celestia and Luna, but they, even so, didn’t slow down the pass as they advanced even more into the cave. It was then that they found what they were looking for: the Elements of Harmony.
The elements were precious stones of different colors that were placed in pedestals that were structured in a way similar to a solar system model with five of the elements (whose colors were red, orange, blue, pink and purple) around a sphere at the center where the sixth was hidden.
“Finally… after what we have been through, we found them” Luna said.
Celestia advanced with her sister following her and the two of them took the shining jewels with their magic, with Luna taking the red, orange and blue ones and Celestia taking the purple and pink ones along with the one hidden in the sphere, revealing it to have a six-pointed-shaped magenta star.
“Are you sure these can help?” Luna asked to Celestia, while they put the elements in their saddlebags.
“We have managed to find the only means by which we can defeat Discord and free the citizens of Equestria. Don’t worry, the Lord of Order wouldn’t send us to retrieve the Elements of Harmony if they were not strong enough to defeat Discord. I believe that, with their magic, we can keep the peace that was hard to conquer, now that we don’t have Princess Aurora and the Generals.”
Luna then nodded with her head, smiling, truly believing that her older sister was right.
The two alicorn sisters returned to their home, not taking too much time to find where Discord was. With a confident look in their eyes, they advanced towards a small hill where there was a throne at the top, with its back turned to them. It then turned and Discord appeared, sitting there, and said, while laughing:
“Oh, this is so much fun. How about a game of Pin the Tail on the Pony?”
And he showed what looked to be Celestia’s tail. She looked back and, to her shock, she really didn’t have it, what caused her to gasp. But that little trick of Discord didn’t shake her enough to make her quit what she came to do.
“Play time is over for you, Discord” she declared.
Discord, who was now munching what seemed to be strange black seeds from a bag, replied:
“Oh, without your magic, I doubt that. Hungry?”
He extended the bag to them, while munching in a way that caused some of the seeds to be thrown at the princesses, despite they showed little concern about that. Not receiving any reply from them, Discord said:
“Suit yourselves.”
Celestia and Luna traded a look and nodded to each other. They took the elements out of their saddlebags. Seeing that, Discord asked with a pretended interest:
“Oh! What have you got there?”
“The Elements of Harmony” Celestia replied.
“With them, we shall defeat you” Luna added.
And they then made circle them in a way that created a glowing rainbow circle. Despite that, Discord, still full of himself and believing to be more powerful, started to laugh immensely while saying:
“You should see yourselves right now. The expressions on your face. So intense. So sure of yourselves.”
The two sisters, channeling the power of the Elements of Harmony, joined the tip of their horns and, together, they shot a rainbow beam against Discord, who was still laughing and saying:
“Hilarious!”
And the rainbow beam hit him, turning him into stone. Then, there was an explosion of rainbow magic and all the chaos created by Discord’s magic was reverted.
The two alicorn sisters, now back to their castle as the legit rulers of Equestria, placed Discord’s statue in a safe place in the castle. However, despite all the security, they couldn’t prevent all forces from passing through…
Although being turned into stone, Discord still could see and feel everything around him, despite not being able to speak.
“Those two little princess will pay…” he was saying with his mind. “No one humiliates the great Discord this way.”
“Except for little red fillies, isn’t that true, Discord?” a voice replied.
And the Lord of Chaos appeared in front of the draconequus, being capable of understanding him.
“My lord!” Discord exclaimed. “Please, release me from this stone prison so I can give to those miserable princesses the lesson of their little lives and reconquer Equestria for you.”
At that moment, the Lord of Chaos started dropping a few laughs.
“What’s so funny?”
“The fact of you thinking I had considered I would release you” the Lord of Chaos replied.
“But I thought…” Discord started.
“I warned you to not underestimate them, Discord!” the Lord of Chaos scolded. “I warned you to focus in capturing them instead losing time fooling around. Now, because of that arrogance and laziness of yours, the two alicorn sisters have in their possession a powerful source of good magic that will give them the capability to stabilize this world.”
“Well, when you put it in that way…”
“Don’t even dare to say that it looks bad when I put it in that way, because it looks bad in any perspective I put it! It’s because of all this, Discord, I’ll let you where you are. Maybe some time as a statue will teach you how to use your head more often.”
And, having said that, he disappeared, leaving Discord alone again.
“Oh, poo…” the Spirit of Chaos said. “He could at least have put me in a more dignifying position…”