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// Magic Inside Canterlot: The End part 1 
// Story: Harmony's Parallel 
// by Xutiepops 
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Once the magenta disappeared around Magic, she didn't give herself the time to think about whatever the hell just happened to her.
Her hooves moved on their own as bits and pieces of the castle still fell around her. Her head kept flashing through images of her friends, smiling and happy. Just to see this new enemy of her tear it all away, and she couldn't say it still felt new. 
Her mind kept track of her surroundings, the beige and yellow colors of the castle floors and walls building up. The indents for design didn't line up into squares of checkers anymore, they were all separated and looked like simple cuts in the material. 
The sun shined down on everything brighter than before, but the air was even heavier than the sun was bright. The mist that broke the castle surrounded her in an orange that seemed to slow her movements. Her mind involuntarily took in her surroundings as she walked away from the castle. 
She saw large pieces of wall or floor jammed into the ground, standing over her like a statue. Once she passed by it, it fell to the ground loudly, but not even that snapped her out of her determination to save her friends. 
The pieces made a path for her, like a yellow brick road, the flat ground shined in a bright yellow sheen. Walls stood high over her, falling after she passed by. It felt like magic, she knew it must've been magic. But there was no magenta. 
But not even that mystery kept her from her thoughts. Her friends smiled at her, all of them laughing on a normal day. Nothing went wrong, and then these beasts stepped through their portal with wicked smiles, standing over Canterlot. The skies turned to dark clouds as lighting and thunder started playing. Ponies ran away for their lives as her and her friends were forced to stay, just to take all the pain for all of Equestria. 
She wanted to save them, to keep her friends from hurting any more. They didn't deserve it, their lives weren't built to take everything for Equestria. They were friends. 
She even saw them at the end of her path as the yellow started ending, leading to the tiled floors of the city. They smiled at her, calling her over for the end of the fight. They won, and they could finally celebrate and feel harmonious again. 
But once she went to hug them, they disappeared in her hooves, the image fading as she scrounged around for them. She breathed heavily as she stared down at her hooves, her body creating a shadow on them. Rage ran through her veins as she picked herself up quickly, whirling around violently. 
Her breathing didn't calm when she stared at the horror Twilight had made of her childhood home. The sun shined bright over the ruins. Yellow upon yellow, she could only wonder how it looked at night. 
Her veins felt like they were exploding in anger as adrenaline started pooling into her system. Tall walls stood against the ground, leaning against more torn down parts of the wall. Everything was broken, sparkling in their new horrific and mortifying formation.
Parts of the walls were torn apart, ruining the painted design or mural that sat across them. Bits of purple, blue, and pink stood out against all the yellow as glass windows were either intact or shattered against the pieces below them. Most none of them were intact. The sun might've caused for the brightest shine, but it made for the darkest shadows.
But at the center, stood the biggest piece of even ground. But that piece of ground stood on top of maybe hundreds of pieces of ground and wall, balancing at a tilt that pointed away from Magic. But she saw the glass stained windows of her friends levitating around the huge rock. 
One of her transforming into an alicorn was shone down on the road and track she had just ran from. She never noticed it before, she didn't know how. But before, she could imagine it stretched across the path beautifully. Now, it stood, upside down to her and stretched and ruined by the fallen pieces. 
She stared up at the huge rock, already sensing that Twilight was there. The mare that did the worse thing ever to her. She stole her friends happiness and that wouldn't stand. She wouldn't let the mare get away with taking away all the Harmony from Equestria. It was already bad enough that she got this far trying.  
Magic looked down at her hooves, her friends horrified faces flashing through her mind. She gave one quick pray that they were safe and looked up at the huge rock. She would've screamed, by there wasn't a point. Twilight already knew she was coming. 
Her hooves went as fast as they could, running across one quick surface just to jump on another. She knew climbing that monstrosity would take forever, but she couldn't just teleport up there, she'd need all the magic her horn had left to offer. 
But she was ready to fight. She was ready to be Harmony's last stand. 



Twilight thought it would be fun to through the Dragon Lord into a dungeon. As funny as he found it that he found a harmonica, he still didn't think he'd need to be in a dark dungeon in the undergrounds of the castle. 
Since he doubted that anyone was down there, he picked up the harmonica and started playing it terribly. He was incredibly bored playing it in the cell. So he stood up, still playing it, a kicked open the door for the cell. 
He didn't expect the barred door to hit the wall on the other side of the room, the harmonica's tune taking a turn for confusion as he watched. He shrugged and continued on, the tune taking for a bubbly attitude as he assumed the hinges were rusty. 
He kept playing it numbly, just taking in the surroundings. Dark bricks covered the floor, his claws scratching the surface of them.  The grey, stone walls were covered in cracks that seemed more for design than from age. He passed by cells among cells, only imaging a lot of dragon skeletons.
Candle holders sat in the middle of the cells on the wall. Candles still sat in them, which made him wonder what ever happened to these catacombs. Especially if they never used up the candles they replaced. Or maybe Twilight just replaced them earlier. He honestly didn't care anymore. 
The harmonica echoed loudly, filling his ears as he walked like a four year old, just being outright silly. He didn't know why Twilight would throw him in the catacombs alone, of if she did a randomization spell or something, he never understood magic anyway.
The sound of his harmonica actually got decent, still awful, but not ear-bleeding awful anymore. It still would make you grit your teeth and yell at him to stop. But he assumed he was tone-deaf, so he didn't care.
The long corridor of horrible cells was only lit by holes in the ceiling. He passed under one huge one, but lots of rocks stood on top of it, only letting in cracks of the light.
But many of the holes in the ceiling were small and or covered by rocks, so it was pretty dark, but there was still a slight light, he didn't know if it was his eyes as a dragon or just the weird light. He wanted to believe the former, then he could call himself half cat. 
But he was brought away from his thoughts as the happy tone of his harmonica fell to a somber curiosity. He didn't hear anything, the harmonica still filling his ears, but there was shadow running towards him at the end of the corridor, getting closer and closer. 
As he was lost in that, the lights around him flamed alive, light blue light casting an icy look on the whole cove. He watched as they came alive, like in an old Dracula movie. His harmonica's noise was finally out played as hoofsteps got louder and louder, slamming against the bricked grounds. 
He whirled around and stared down as a mare got close to running into him. Her white fur shined icy in the light, her mane looked duller as she breathed heavily, not bringing herself to look up at him. But when she did, she looked beautiful. Her eyes sparkled with fear as her features were enhanced by the terrible light. His harmonica stopped as well as all of him, his heart and mind froze, his muscles were unable to move. 
But that soon ended when she turned. Her eyes widened as she scurried behind the Dragon Lord. He followed her with confused eyes until he looked up and saw the enemy stopped in front of him, breathing just as heavily and looking just as scared. 
"Hah! Live with dragon breath! Punks!" Rarity shouted confidently, sticking her tongue out at them as she stood close to the Dragon Lord. 
"We can outplay a dragon!" Spike yelled, his thumb pointing at him as his eyebrows furrowed. "I've done it before." The Dragon Lord growled loudly at him until he hid behind Generosity. 
Laughter stuck her chest out and shut her eyes with a cocky voice. "Yeah! It's still Spike!" 
"Hey!" Spike yelled at her. 
The Dragon Lord forgot about Rarity, honestly knowing just his presence would keep her safe, so he didn't have to try. So he stomped towards the three with fury until he stood over them, his claws drawn and his shadow covering them from the blue light. His eyes were the brightest thing they could see as he stood over them. "Really?" 
He didn't give them a chance to answer as he blew a huge stream of fire where they stood. They all jumped away as fast as possible, only the end of Generosity and Laughter's tails getting charred. 
He watched with curiosity as his fire stuck to the floor, climbing up the wall at an attempt to find something to attach to. The green fire fell to take over the candle, the candles color changing to green instead of completely melting the candle. 
The fire reached over to the harmonica as he dropped it, trying to burn and fuel itself from the material. All it did was melt the material of the harmonica, the colors oozing together as the fire gagged at the material and ran away to the ceiling, lighting another candle on it's way. 
Other than lighting that and melting the harmonica, it stuck to the ceiling until it died out, accepting its fate. As he was busy watching it, Laughter came out of nowhere behind him and jabbed her hind legs into his spine, knocking him to the ground. His face almost slammed right into the material of the harmonica, he could see the heat radiate off of it and quickly sat up and backed away. 
His tail swung in anger to his demise as Laughter bounced on it. He jumped to his feet, holding his tail as it throbbed with pain. He looked around for those mongrels and only found Rarity. 
"You couldn't help any?" He growled at her, forgetting who he was talking to. But he didn't care, he was too annoyed with the situation. He was a lord, couldn't he just fry those dweebs? And he was promised a relaxing, boring harmonica trip, not an adventure to save a brat. 
She didn't answer, she just cowered into herself. She didn't move, but she didn't look at him. She just stood in the middle of the pathway, her red, embarrassed face wasn't noticeable under the light. 
The Dragon Lord rolled his eyes and started walking. Once she didn't come with him he growled. "Come on. I don't need to run all the way back here to save you." He heard her swallow as she apprehensively stood away from him, still walking with him. 
They walked for a few minutes, only letting the pain in his back grow into a stinging ache. He could've swore that mare broke one of his scales. But his tail didn't hurt as bad anymore, thankfully. He'd have the worse back pain in the world over a stinging tail any day. He didn't know why, every other dragon didn't care for their tails, but he did. 
Instead of the harmonica filling the air, it was instead his scratchy claws and her loud hooves. It annoyed him more, especially since he guessed it just helped the enemy brats plan. He knew they had to be planning something. They just had to be. And just as he thought that, they revealed their master plan. 
His eyes were glued to the floor in anger-fueled thought. Allowing him to see the string that sat across the floor made to trip him. He froze, staring down at it. Rarity quickly screamed as more hoofsteps were added to the floor. 
He whirled to her and froze as Generosity had her horn pointed towards him, it glowed light blue. He had no idea what that stupid mare was made of. She was useless before, right? Daybreaker, he couldn't remember! He wasn't there!
So he knew he had to be cautious as Laughter's hooves covered Rarity's waist. The mare tried to break free and not call out for the Dragon Lord. She didn't want to be anymore of a burden, but the mares hooves only got tighter around her. She held her breath, almost imaging hearing the snap! of her ribs or spine, as gruesome as that sounds, it seemed believable.
The Dragon Lord had to act fast, and Generosity's warning and threat speech helped him think of what to do. His main priority was getting Rarity out unscathed, even if his tail was ripped off his body. 
"So! You'll surrender to us, or we'll just take her. You're choice, sleaze ball," Generosity spoke confidently. 
His breathing was the only thing he heard as time slowed down to the icy lighting. He lunged at Generosity, not caring what happened to him. Her horn fired, hitting his chest with a strong sting as his claws dug into her hooves. The pain hit him once time sped up to normal, it stung and ached and it covered his entire body. It felt like paralysis as he jumped off of the mare. 
He stared down at his claws, determining his hate for magic. How could that do so much? His entire body ached as sweat started falling over his scales. He didn't get time to think as a smaller him rammed into him, elbowing hit gut and pushing him to the ground. 
A smirk spread across Spike's face. "Yeah! And stay down!" 
"SPIKE!" Rarity cried as she hung her head, the mare behind her unaware of how tight she was crushing her. She looked up and saw him against the wall, a small dragon gloating in front of him. Tears started rolling down her face, even if she was aware he was still alive. She gritted her teeth and fought against whoever was holding her. "Leave him alone, you little runt! He's ten times the dragon you'll ever be! Let me go!" Laughter's hooves covered Rarity's now, holding them against her waist. 
Spike just smiled, amazed and confused by how easy it was. He got his answer when Generosity and Laughter stared, horrified by what was behind him. He started at them, extremely confused as he slowly turned around, staring up at the tall dragon with red eyes. A huge hand slammed him to the ground as they were at a corner of the entire catacombs. 
He stomped towards Generosity with his wings spread as she tried to hit him, her magic did nothing as his claw inevitably wrapped around her throat. "Go find your little dragon friend and then we'll play cat and mouse, got it?" 
She nodded frantically as she tried to fight his grip. He threw her down to the ground and looked to Laughter and Rarity. All he saw was Rarity crouched and curled up to herself on the ground, her shoulders shaking with fear. 
He looked around numbly for Laughter, hoping to not let her get advantage of her again. He failed as the jumpy mare flew out of a cell, bouncing up to his height as slamming her front hooves against his chest knocking him down to the ground. She pushed as hard as she could, attempting to hurt his head on the rocks below. 
As he was dazed, she punched his tough scales, hoping she was doing something. Her hooves ached and trembled with fear as her heart raced. Her chest fell and rose violently as her hooves kept jabbing and pushing roughly into his scales. She felt a few cracks under her punches, scratching her hooves and staining the other scales on his face with blood. 
He was too dazed to think, all he felt was an overwhelming pain in his skull as she hit him. The back of his head throbbed with heat as his face stung and was numbed with pain. The cracking of his scales sent his nerves on fire as blood made them sting even further. 
He was furious, he wanted to get up and bite her head clean off. But his body couldn't move, is this what a concussion felt like? He wondered as the pink blur above him stopped, horrified. A far away scream left her mouth as she was hit off of the Dragon Lord. Light blue stung and spread across her body as she cowered against the wall. 
With that pink blur gone, he sat up and held his head as a migraine sat inside it. He looked to his left and saw Rarity standing there, her chest puffed out as her eyebrows furrowed. Even if he could see her trembling, she still acted strong. 
A new fire erupted inside him at the sight. He had no idea what it was, but his closest guess was magic. Even if he hated magic. He stood up, ignoring the other fire he felt on his face's nerves. He ignored Rarity, not wanting to think of her. 
His tail swung heavily as his eyes narrowed at the three who huddled together worriedly. His claws seemed sharper than before, he seemed taller than before, and his wings seemed larger as he spread them, even holding them at an angle to keep them from scraping the walls. 
They didn't get the time to run, or the benefit of a conversation. All they got were bleeding ears and extreme heat as he roared thunderously. You could see the sound waves in the air as a huge fire escaped his throat. The sound boomed, never leaving any volume on the walls.
The sound echoed for what seemed like hours as the fire blinded their vision of the others. The fire reacted the same as before, as if it was alive and looking for something to burn. But this time it was different, and this time it made it evident it was magic that controlled it. 
The fire flew past the Dragon Lord once it found nothing in front of him. The green fire with a now purple center confused him, but his haze of conjuring that up made him numb. But the idea of Rarity made his mind click as it flew past him. 
He looked to her, worried out of his mind, just to see her standing there. The fire surrounded the wall and jumped on her fur, but it didn't burn her. It lit her in a green glow, her shadows becoming purple. Her blue eyes sparkled in the light as it danced on and around her. 
His claw reached out for her, but he couldn't move. All he saw was an angel standing in a green fire, the purple gravitating around her and making her the center of something he created. It followed her as she looked around and tried to walk through it, as if she was made of it. Ember burned and died against her skin, but it abruptly ended, ruining everything. 
It all just vanished, leaving a slight amount of smoke against the roof of the ceiling, looking to rise higher and out of that hell. He instantly looked away once her eyes stopped sparkling, wanting to desperately forget her for one second. 
She didn't speak, she just followed him quietly, fearing to make to much noise. It didn't take very long for the three to make themselves present again, as they guessed he wouldn't be able to breathe fire again. 		
Light blue shots hit his arm, leaving the limb to sting. But too many nerves were sending to much to his brain for it to do anything. He looked for Generosity, but was quickly sidetracked as a pink mare started bouncing around the hall. He ran for her, trying to swipe to grab her, determined to bite her head off this time. 
She bounced off the walls and the ceiling even, moving further and further away from the dragon. Spike came out of a cell and burnt the scales on his leg, distracting him. They charred and stung as his head throbbed with all the pain recently. He wondered how lava did nothing and why this dragons fire did. 
But he didn't have time to contemplate as his body stung to paralyze him. Laughter finally stopped bouncing and attempted to jump at him, light blue collided with her side as Rarity jumped to his side. Laughter hit the wall and fell to the ground, coughing up blood in to the wall. The lighting really did make blood look blue. 
As Rarity's smirk widened with pride, light green fire hit her leg. It didn't click with her that it was burning until all of it manifested around her leg. She held her mouth shut and kicked her leg to try and get rid of it. 
Her magic eventually wrapped around her leg and constricted the fire to nothingness once her mind started working again. She glanced up at the Dragon Lord and was happy to see he didn't notice. Laughter pounced on her, shoving her to the ground and sitting on her waist. 
Rarity covered her face, Laughter hitting her hooves, turning her fur in gross directions and scraping against her skin roughly. Her blood ridden hooves covered Rarity's in a light blue blood as the punches opened up her cuts. 
The Dragon Lord went to save her, but light blue grabbed his claws and pulled him off his balance. He quickly sat up, trying to cut out his curiosity towards Rarity. He heard magic and looked above him, watching as the rocks above him started shaking, white glitter like specks falling from it. 
His eyes widened as the noise of cracking and shifting rocks filled the cave. He jumped away, more smoke filling the cave and his lungs as dust was added to the mix. As the dust finally let up and the smoke teemed out he watched as the sun shined down on the small part of the catacombs from the huge hole in the ground, rocks built up a stair case that looked impossible to climb. 
Shades of yellow were added to the once cool cave. Light blue shots numbly hit his other arm and his being, scratching his scales. He would've noticed, he would've cared, he would've felt it if the sun didn't consume his vision. He'd never been happier to see something bright. Especially when he was so used to smoke stacks in the Dragon Lands. 
Laughter bounced out of the hole, Generosity soon followed. He didn't get up after them, but seeing them wait for a struggling little runt version of himself made him furious once again. He wings spread with a loud snap! as he lunged towards the opening. 
Light blue quickly covered the stair case, sending them flying upwards. The Dragon Lord flew at the opening as it closed, his claws caught underneath the rocks as he stood stuck to the ceiling, his feet scratching to stay against the roof. He growled loudly as he pulled his claws free, them snapping partially. He scratched against the roof, desperate to murder whoever was on the other side of it.
He breathed heavily, his chest rising and falling roughly. His claws eventually snapped completely and painfully, ridding his arms of their numb heaven as he fell against the ground roughly, pebbles falling against broken scales and scratching full ones. 
He breathed heavily as he stared up at the opening, unable to process anything. He missed the sun, he missed the warm glow, he missed his harmonica. And he barley knew it. 
He eyes looked a little bit back and he saw Rarity staring down at him, scratches and scuffs covered her face as her cheeks almost shined with blue blood. A new sun stood above him. And he barley knew her. 
He groaned and his joints popped as he sat up, he growled in pain as he imagined he'd never walk again. But Rarity quickly jumped to his side, she didn't speak, she just wanted him to be aware she was there. 
He stood up, his knees popped loudly and he growled as his legs felt woozy and not there. He knew he had to do something, no matter how loud his body screamed at him to sit down. He didn't need to be standing, and they had gone a long ways away from where he saw that other large hole in the ceiling. 
The sound of magic filled his ears as he was shoved to the ground. Rarity stood in front of him with her chest poked out. "Stay here. I'll go find some other hole in the ceiling or I'll make one. I'll come back to get you, you don't need to be walking." 
He didn't argue, how could he? His body sighed with relief as he laid against the wall, finally letting his adrenaline die and his muscle relax. It felt like forever since he did. He had no idea how long he was chasing around those idiots, he knew it wasn't long, it was just three nuisances and a huge target. 
But as he cut his brain off and just lie there, he felt better. The stinging turned to aching and throbbing. His muscles screamed at how much they had just been through. His scales wept at their conditions and were shoved into a different alignment, digging into his skin so they didn't fall off. It hurt like hell, but it felt relaxing. A five minute fight ruined his bodies want to function, but damn was it easy to relax afterwards. 
He fell asleep waiting for Rarity, and he knew it would be the best five second sleep of his life. It felt like hours before Rarity shook him awake. He groaned, his bodies pain becoming alive again. "We can wait here longer if you need to." 
"No," he growled, knowing he had to get up. He got up, his legs feeling more capable than before which was all he needed. He still didn't look at Rarity as he numbly followed her to wherever she was taking him. 
They quickly came upon a huge hole in the ceiling, the sun flooding into the dark hole. His hands grabbed Rarity's waist quickly and his wings spread even faster. He dashed out of the cave at the speed of light. 
Once they were on the surface, he dropped Rarity and fell face first into the ground. The suns ray on his body felt like honey as it warmed him.
He rolled onto his back and looked to stare up at the sky, but all he saw was Rarity smiling at him. It still felt like the sun as magic-filled fire boiled inside him.



Discord's serpent-like body crawled across a rotting grass. His side brushed against a crippling wall made of shrubs. His tail flicked against small budding pink flowers that were wilting before fully budding. 
The wall of shrubs made up a huge maze, two yellow mares supposedly sitting at the center. But the maze wasn't made for the puzzle, and it certainly wasn't made for tall creatures either. His body was kept low to the ground, his horns hopefully not visible, even if he guessed they were. 
But he was completely aware of his surroundings, his mind only thinking of Kindness's safety. His surroundings were horrific. His mind flashed back to when that monster appeared, it matched the scenery horrifically. 
Discord was close to taking Fluttershy out of the world, his claws sharpened. As much as Kindness and him didn't want to do or see it, they knew it'd make everything a lot easier. They knew it had to be done. And Discord was surprisingly ready to do it. 
His claws got inches, maybe centimeters away from her throat. But a snap took him away from the execution. It was distant, but evident. Pieces of ground quickly picked themselves up from next to Fluttershy's hooves. Even she was scared as they flew up to her height. They quickly left her vision and smashed into Discord's gut, slamming him to the ground. 
He opened his eyes and saw his own self standing above him, an angry snarl on his face. It was horrific to see himself stand over him. But he got a sick feeling just staring at the beast, watching as the scenery seemingly died faster. 
The branches on the trees started to sag as the bark started tearing away, peeling over and curling up. Leaves started to fall more rapidly, swaying the ground effortlessly, giving them one last moment of spotlight. They all turned brown and shrunk into themselves as they touched the rotting ground. 
The grass turned brittle, breaking at a simple burst of wind. The grass deepened it colors, losing its bright, saturated shine. The soon-to-be roses and flowers on the shrubs next to him started wilting, the petals becoming thin as paper and getting holes in them. They didn't even fully bloom as their colors started to dull and their petals started wilting. 
And the sun shined down on all of the garden, the plants died to the magic in the atmosphere, it was overwhelming the pressure of the life as it did with the castle's paint.
But the beast strangely matched the death that surrounded them. A loud flash echoed in his ear and he looked to his side, seeing Kindness was gone he sat up and whirled to Chaos, seeing the mares long hair caught in his paw.
Discord growled and saw red, flying blindly at the draconequus, he hit the tree, three loud flashes snapped before his horns got stuck in the tree. He quickly pulled them loosely and he swung his weight to the other direction, seeing the three standing there. 
Kindness squirmed, her scalp hurt as her hind legs tried to pull themselves higher to kick out of his grip. She pawed at Chaos' paw, feeling nothing but fur. Every time she got on his nerves, he swung her, giving her a bigger migraine. 
Discord hated seeing her that way. He should've hid her or something, he shouldn't had brought her along. But he tried to forget that as his tail swung heavily, waiting for the male to do something. 
"Let's play a game," Chaos stated, Discord could feel the wicked evil in the air once he spoke. He was more than disgusted, and he was almost proud of that. But this was no time to be proud of his progress towards good!
"No," he quickly responded. "Let go of Fluttershy, or I get a golem to crush you." He responded as he usually would, but this time he was aware this was him he was talking to. He guessed chaos against chaos would be stupid, so he forced it out of his mind. They'd tear the whole of Equestria apart.
Chaos smiled at his response, but an evil sparkle in his eye shined. "You're Discord. We love games!" He smiled, ignoring Discord's feelings. 
The four of them disappeared and appeared above the garden. Chaos' snap echoed loudly, resonating into the ground. The three watched with amazement as the ground caved in like a sink hole, sucking in whatever what there. It quickly formed together, creating a flat plain. 
But another snap changed that. Another loud snap sank into the ground, growing a maze of shrubs in perfect condition. Discord rolled his eyes. The maze was simple, close enough to a straight path of right angles. And he was aware of how mazes worked. 
But once he thought the shrubs were finalized in place, they shifted and started moving frantically, they eventually moved too fast to keep track of. Discords mouth fell open as they fixed to the most difficult puzzle in history. But it was fine, they were all the height of a filly. 
But even that changed with another snap. The shrubs got smaller at the edges, almost a few inches in elevation as they slowly got taller towards the center. So tall that even slightly flying wouldn't allow you to see over it. 
And that wasn't the last snap, one more and the girls were gone. Discord snapped back into reality. He growled at Chaos. "Where did she go?"
"The rules of the game are," Chaos started, ignoring his emotions. "We'll start at opposite ends of the maze, the two maidens at the center. The objective is to either make it though the maze to the mare, or find the other and duel to the death."
Discord was horrified by the game, not trusting his friend in the claws of this monster. But he had no choice as he appeared at one end of the maze. He sighed and snapped his fingers, intending to teleport to the center with ease, but he just appeared where he already stood. He tried again and again, until he gave up. He didn't even know how that was possible. 
But even his first step was into a sink hole. Falling into an eternity of black until he fell through the darkness, the darkness ended and the light shined as he fell from the sky of the maze, landing right back in place. "Oh, boy this is gonna be fun."  
But he didn't have time to think anymore as a tree sprouted up in front of him, a smiley face drawn on the front of it. He quickly jumped up and away as a smaller tree appeared in the trees... branch. The smaller tree had a smiley face on it too, the two's movements were automated as the bigger tree swung at nothing, throwing the smaller tree away as it cried for its father. 
Discord snarled at the tree. He grabbed at the fur around his neck, adjusting it like a collar as he spoke. "This other me might be more chaotic than me." He walked by the tree, digging his claws across the trees face. "But that doesn't mean he's the better Discord." But he didn't see as the tree turned towards him creepily with an angry face drew on him with permanent marker. 
He didn't have time for crawling slowly against the ground. He wanted to either face this other him or find his way to the center as fast as possible, his nerves on edge from anticipation. He honestly hoped it was the former, then he'd be done with this silly game of pranks. 
As he heard grass rustling he smiled, ready to finally fight, but as he whirled around, his mind stopped functioning as his face fell. The tree grew three times in size and ran towards him wildly. A huge mouth drawn on the monster opened and closed violently and rapidly, giving sight to the fiery hell placed inside it. 
His mind didn't think to counter it with anything as all it did was tell his feet to run as fast as possible. The only living thing in the whole garden was actually alive! The huge mouth on the thing created a loud shriek, girlish and ear-bleeding. It's huge bush of a head shook along with the things waving body as it ran. The leaves of that and its branches fell as it ran, shaking wildly as its huge stomps toppled over everything in its path. The pathway it followed was covered in leaves. 
Discord ran as fast as he could, jumping over hedges and making as many weird and confusing turns to try and lose it. It seemed to get slower as its leaves fell, by it just built the fire in its throat. His brain started to function, running as fast as he was. 
He had to think of something. If he ran it out, it'd burn down the garden, Kindness along with it. But if he stopped he'd get eaten. He quickly remembered his magic and quickly cursed himself. He snapped his fingers, a bored expression on his face.
He sighed as he was allowed the stop. The sound of liquid hitting leaves was indeed one of the best noises. He turned with a sly look as the tree just looked confused, now covered in a chocolate milk. The trees face took a turn for sad as it started losing more leaves and fire at the same time. The chocolate milk seemingly transformed the tree back to normal, but a snap! told him that wasn't true. He snarled and rolled his eyes. 
Chaos waved his paw with a smirk as he stepped out from behind the tree. A glass of chocolate milk in his claw as he quickly summoned an upside down umbrella. "Took you long enough, Discord."
"Get chased by a ten-foot tree and see how fast your reflexes are," Discord stated, his adrenaline peaking at just the sight of Chaos. Chaos smiled. 
"Still angry I hurt your mare? I apologize that I kidnapped her to make our battle more for my advantage," Chaos said bluntly, he soon broke into a howl of laughter. 
Discord wasn't amused as Chaos laughed for a good minute, slouched over himself. He eventually wiped a fake tear from his eye and waited for Discord the laugh. Once he didn't, Chaos pouted and stood up straight, throwing away the chocolate mile and the umbrella,  clearing his throat. 
"How long did you know where I was?" Discord asked rudely, not wanting to reveal why he was so angry at this beastly version of him. He was more angry that he kidnapped Kindness and lied, stating Fluttershy was in the center of the maze with her. He knew any version of him wouldn't let their yellow pegasus get even close to danger. 
Chaos smiled, seeing the anger blunt on his face. He wanted to know why, but was more curious in ending the fool and leaving Kindness to weep over him. "Oh! I've been tailing you the whole time."
"I guessed that. Now where's Fluttershy?" Discord asked impatiently, earning another howl of loud laughter. He growled and stomped towards the laughing king. His claw wrapped around the males throat, seizing his laughter. "Where is she? She better be safe, you beast." 
Chaos held his hands up as his breath started disappearing. Only after a few seconds of Discord not letting go did he remember he could teleport away. His fingers fumbled to snap, and they eventually did. 
He appeared a few feet away beside the tree. Chaos rubbed his neck. "Now I understand what you mean about the reflexes," he stated emotionlessly. He turned to see Discords reaction, but a fist slammed into his face, throwing him to the ground. 
"What Discord hits!?" Chaos cried, now holding his cheek. Discord was done with talking, he lunged towards the monster. Chaos' fingers moved on their own, snapping him out of harms way and into the sky. He watched as Discord whirled to him angrily. "You're actually doing this?" 
Chaos snapped his fingers again, vines climbing around Discord. The draconequus tried to fly away, but the vines quickly wrapped around his legs and his hands, climbing over his shoulders. Discords teeth bared at Chaos as the male spoke. 
"You know, I have to say I'm amazed. I never thought any version of me would actually physically hit. Ugh, it's disgusting to even think about," Chaos spoke, sticking his tongue out and looking away. "And yes! I'm still on this! Though I should really move to something else." He was turned away, like a cat asking to be chased after, but of course he was just taunting the draconequus, knowing he couldn't break through those vines. 
He heard snaps and his mind clicked. He turned towards the draconequus and saw him flying towards him, dashing towards him once again. Chaos snapped again, leaving Discord to punch a cloud. 
Chaos spoke as Discord shook the cloud off his hand. "Please! I expected a fellow Discord to have a battle. You know, like a chaos-off."
"Listen you rat!" Discord snapped, hissing through his teeth. His claws seemed sharper as he flew up to Chaos' height. "I'm not going to play your game! Who would?! Besides, I already know you're more chaotic than me cause you're more psychotic along with it!"
Chaos just stared at Discord as the male was almost touching his muzzle, wide eyed and bored. He sighed and teleported away again, always a few feet higher. He grabbed the fur of his paw a pulled it off like a glove, his paw seeming fluffier than ever. He did the same with his claw, seemingly more sharp and scaly than before. 
"I suppose we'll have to duel like actual animals. My word, I thought we'd be more dignified than that," Chaos stated, yawning at just the idea. Like someone who only tried to take Equestria twice could beat him. As much as Chaos wanted a villain monologue and interesting conversation, Discord obviously did not as he teleported above Chaos and kicked his shoulder, slamming him into a tall tree. 
Chaos growled as he sat in the tree, staring up at Discord. The draconequus didn't move, not falling for Chaos' juke this time. Chaos was even more ticked. So he decided to add his own little touch to the scenery. It needed to be as comic-book epic as possible. He snapped his fingers with a smirk and started laughing maniacally. 
Discord just looked around cautiously, wondering what he did. He looked back to the tree and saw the indent of a draconequus and not the draconequus. 
Then everything kicked in. The skies were covered in dark clouds, blocking out the sun from the garden. Lightning sat between the cracks, hitting the trees and catching the dead leaves on fire. He heard squawking and whirled around, huge birds with vicious teeth flew at him. Discord ducked, the geese ignoring him and flying their path. The rain started falling as thunder started roaring. 
He heard that maniacal laughter again as the geese lunged at him once again. He dodged them once again, looking around desperately to find that laughing abomination. The geese tried to get him another two times as all the noises filled his ears, then Chaos finally showed himself. Two yellow pegasi by his side trapped inside stereotypical barred cages. 
Kindness stared at him, huge bug eyes sat on her face as she scratched at her cage for him. "DISCORD!" She cried desperately. His eyes went red as he lunged for Chaos. He stopped right in front of the freak. "Let go of her!" 
Rain coated his coat, dragging down every part of him and blurring his vision. He shoved his forearm against the draconequus's throat. He growled loudly. "You heard me you monster!" 
Chaos smiled wickedly at him. "Oh how I've missed being this chaotic!" He cheered, teleporting away. "You'll get your duel, Mr. Discord. I just wanted to make you more of a challenge. Now you have an evident reason." He snapped again, the two mares disappearing. The cages fell to the ground, knocking down a tree or two. 
Discord shoved himself against the tough rain and wind to grab and rip the males throat. But Chaos waved his finger back and forth, the fluff on his tail snapping, freezing Discord in place. He smirked and flicked the males forehead, shooting him a ways away. Discord was more than annoyed with this version of him. 
The thunder roared around them as smoke started stacking around, the garden below had strived with a fire, but the rain quickly extinguished it. Discord was coated in rain, his anger taking over his muscles and action as his body started tiring from flying and swinging at nothing. Chaos was squeaky clean, free of the rain.
Discord was finally ready to slam the males face in, but as he leapt towards him, geese jabbed at his side. Their teeth dug into his flesh as they snapped. He growled and shoved them off of him, snapping his fingers and lighting the white devils on fire. He felt his side bleed with small cuts. He guessed the rain would do just fine for now. 
But now it seemed Chaos was ready to fight him as the male flew at him. Discord used his own trick against him as he snapped his fingers and disappeared. Chaos punched the air, he quickly turned around but was too late as a fist slammed into his face. 
Discord watched as Chaos fell down a few feet. He saw the center of the maze underneath the monster, seeing two yellow dots sit in the center of the maze. He growled and jammed towards the draconequus, wrapping his claws around his throat. 
He growled loudly as he slammed his hooved foot into the males leg. Chaos winced as he scratched against Discords hands, drawing even more blood. Discord hoped he broke his leg, even if he guessed he didn't. Chaos quickly teleported away, taking enough damage from Discord. 
Discord whirled around, breathing heavily as he stared up at Chaos. The draconequus smiled and flew up higher, baiting Discord. He knew it was bait, but he still followed, too instinctively running to think correctly. He soon lost Chaos and himself inside the clouds. 
It was honestly horrifying. Thunder rolled louder, the rain roared against the other clouds as they tried to flood out of them. Lighting was bright and in strings like electricity, waiting to funnel out and burn something. He thought the draconequus was crazy to fight in these conditions. Then he realized it made sense. 
Though he thought of an easy way to get the advantage, he needed the animal present, so he just waited, acting as if he was looking for Chaos. Bingo, Discord thought as he heard a flash, Chaos appearing behind him. He flew over the monster as he swung at him. He smirked down at Chaos as flew above the clouds, seeing the bright sun already start to warm him fur. 
Chaos broke through the clouds, lunging at Discord desperately. Discord's smirk grew as he allowed Chaos a swing at him, but all Chaos hit was cloud colored like a draconequus. He stared, confused at what just happened, but a sharp pain hit his back as a hoof jammed into it. He flew into another cloud and quickly teleported himself away to get an advantage, but the male knew where he was as he was once again hit, pain entered his side, all it did was spread as a paw scratched at his serpent like stomach. 
Cuts burned under the bright sun as his side and back's pain mixed into something larger. He teleported away again, hoping it was done, but he was once again caught as something grabbed his tail, picking him up and swinging him down. It threw his already hurt stomach for a loop as his body hurt with the momentum. He wanted it to end, but everything he did seemed to fail. When did chaos ever fail him? 
He would've tried to answer it, but two sets of claws jabbed into their own side, piercing at his flesh and cutting through the thin layer. He gritted his teeth as his eyes lowly opened to see a raging animal in front of him. 
That wasn't it, Discord kept going, pushing him down and down and down. 
Through the bright sunny day and into the roaring, magical clouds of bouncing lightning and roaring noise. And through the clouds held a terrible garden on the verge of caving into the earth. 
Rain coated them again, both of them now. Thunder rolled over the hills, ramming into his ears and fueling his migraine. Lightning zoomed past them, slamming into the ground at a desperate chance of burning something. 
Chaos knew nothing could save him. He'd die this late into his immortal life. His body would hit the ground at a hundred miles per hour, all his bones will shatter on impact. He couldn't believe chaos failed him. 
But it didn't seem to yet. The oldest form of chaos saved him, random-ass chance. A lightning beam started coming from the clouds as Discord just happened to let go of him, hoping to cut and tear through another part of his body. 
Lightning struck the draconequus, a roar escaping his throat at the sudden pain. Chaos flew as far away as he could as he watched the male freeze and start to fall. "DISCORD!" He heard shouted loudly. Chaos looked down and saw Kindness standing there, her tears mixed in with the rain. 
Chaos snapped, the rain stopping, everything stopped as he allowed the sunny day to befall them again. Kindness flew up to his height, catching Discord in her hooves as she cried against his shoulder. 
"He's alive," Chaos said bluntly, scaring Kindness. 
"I know! But he's hurt!" She cried. 
"He'll be fine, just take him out of the garden. We'll finish this fight good against evil. It's going to happen anyway." 
"Why are you being... nice?" She asked curiously. Finally! He thought, someone who wants an evil villain dialogue! Too late, sadly. 
"He would've killed me if that lightning didn't strike him, I don't want to run my luck dry," he stated bluntly. She didn't do anything, she simply started flying away from him. 
Chaos sighed, wondering the scientific statistics of what just happened. There was no way that was just luck. There had to be something else. Then he felt that something else. 
A strong magic radiated around him, he looked around for it, expecting Daybreaker to be behind it. But she wasn't, this was a different magic. He finally found the source once he looked down at the center of the maze. 
All around Fluttershy was destruction, all around him was a beautiful sky. All around her was dead, dying, rotting, or burnt foliage. Tall trees stood burnt to a crisp, small shrubs had crippled as the leaves and flowers started falling. Brown leaves covered the murky-colored grass. 
Everything was coated in a wet sheen that wanted to cover the ugly death of the garden. Fluttershy couldn't be prettier, she shined against the dark colors, a warm magic inside her. He was surrounded by a bright sun, the rain on him drying his fur into a new fluff. Bright clouds filled the sky around him, yet he couldn't be something more out of place with his evil and chaotic intentions. 
And she couldn't have thought her king was more handsome. And he couldn't have thought his princess was more beautiful.