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// Chapter three 
// Story: Love for all 
// by Thestoryteller 
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Several carriages pulled up to the entrance of the castle, each decorated in their own way to represent their culture and customs. Of course, these were not the only carriages to arrive as more were to come later on. 

The first carriage to arrive belonged to the Ponies of the kingdom of Canterlot, it was decorated with several jewels along its golden rim structure and its walls were made of pink marble. The windows were tinted black as to conceal those that were inside. It was pulled by four earth ponies who were adorned in golden armor.

The second carriage belonged to the Griffons of the Griffon Empire. It was made of several metal sticks and sort of resembled the structure of a birds nest but made of metal instead of twigs and leaves. It was pulled by four griffons who were adorned in grey Griffonion armor.

The third carriage belonged to the Pegasi of Lunum Empire. The carriage was made out of clouds with dark grey clouds on the bottom that became a lighter shade as it trailed up. It was pulled by four Pegasi who were clothed in Wonderbolt uniforms.

The fourth carriage belonged to the Dragons of the Dragon Kingdom. Their carriage was made of molten black rock that had several red veins that stretched along its structure. It was pulled by a single large and fat dragon.

The fifth and final carriage belonged to the Yaks of the Yak Kingdom. It had several horns sticking out of its rim and walls made of dark oak. It was pulled by two yaks that were adorned in traditional yak clothing.

When the carriages pulled up to the entrance to the castle, the doors flung open and two rows of Chaos guards marched forth. These guards were hollow green pony armor that had been enchanted thanks to Discord’s magic. They marched forth, then stopped, then turned to form a long line that faced the carriages. There was a space between these two lines where a red carpet rolled out from the entrance and towards the carriages. When the carpet had fully unfolded, from it Discord popped out and did several flips in the air before landing gracefully. The Chaos Guards stomped their hooves in applause before Discord silenced them. He cleared his throat and made his announcement.

“Greetings,” he welcomed, “allow me to introduce myself and my children. My name is none other than King Discord, Lord and Master of Chaosville.” Discord introduced. “And this is my firstborn son, Flash Sentry.” Discord introduced as Flash emerged from the entrance wearing the same green and black uniform as Discord, and stood next to Discord on his right. “And this is my second eldest, Soarin Skies.” Discord introduced as Soarin emerged, also wearing the same uniform as Flash and stood beside Discord on his left. “And this is my third eldest, Cheese Sandwich.” Discord introduced as Cheese emerged doing several cartwheels before standing next to Soarin, he too was wearing the green and black uniform. “And this is my fourth child, Sunset Shimmer.” Discord introduced as Sunset graciously emerged from the entrance, she was wearing a green and black dress, and she stood beside Flash. “And this is my fifth child, Fancy Pants.” Discord introduced as Fancy emerged from the entrance wearing the same green and black suit and he stood next to Sunset. “Finally, this is my youngest child, Johnny Appleseed.” Discord introduced as Jonny emerged from the entrance also wearing the green and black suit, he stood next to Cheese. When Johnny tried to itch at his suit he received a magical slap front Fancy.

With Discord’s children introduced it was now the rest of the other kingdoms turn to introduce themselves. All of the carriage doors opened up and those inside exited and introduced themselves. From the carriage belonging to Canterlot, emerged an Alicorn mare with a dark purple mane that had pink and violet stripes in it, her eyes were deep purple, and her fur was a sweet lavender. She wore the clothing that belonged to Canterlot royals (which was white as snow with gold along the rims of the clothing).

“My name is Twilight Sparkle.” The Alicorn bowed.

Then there was a unicorn Stallion with white fur, navy blue eyes, and a luscious gold mane. He too wore the garments that belonged to the Canterlot royals.

“My name is Prince Blueblood.” The stallion bowed.

Then came a unicorn mare that was slightly taller than Rarity who also had a white fur coat, but had light purple eyes, and her mane was a soft pink with a single white stripe. She too wore the Canterlot royal garments.

“My name is Fleur Delis.” The mare bowed, stealing a glance at Fancy.

Behind the four royals were the three servants, the first was an Earth Pony mare with pink fur, a poofy pink mane, and teal eyes. The second was a unicorn mare with dark pink fur, indigo colored eyes, and a dark purple mane with a teal stripe in it. The last was another unicorn mare with white fur, a deep purple mane which parted to the side and had a curl on the end of it, and baby blue eyes.

Next was the Griffons, the first was a female Griffon with brown feathers on the rear of her body and white feathers on her neck and head, three white feathers stuck out in front of her from her head, and she had yellow eyes.

"My name is Gilda." The female griffon bowed.

Then there was the second griffon who was a male, he had red feathers all over his body and black feathers all along his neck and head, and he had yellow colored eyes like his sister Gilda.

"My name is Vox." The male griffon bowed.

Behind the two of them were two other servants who introduced themselves as Gallus and Gabby.

With the griffons introduced, the pegasi then introduced themselves. The first was a Pegasus mare with yellow fur, an orange mane with some stripes of yellow in it, and amber colored eyes.

"My name is Spitfire." The Pegasus mare introduced.

Then there was the other Pegasus mare who had cyan colored fur, an orange mane with stripes of lighter orange, and amber eyes which were the same as Spitfire's.

"My name is Lightning Dust." The Pegasus mare bowed.

There was a Pegasus mare that stepped forth who had yellow fur, a soft pink mane, and teal eyes.

For a brief moment, Soarin's expression became somber before he returned to his normal composure.

With the Pegasi introduced it was now time for the dragons, the first was a female with cyan colored scales with a dark blue scale atop her head, she had red eyes and two horns which protruded from her cheeks.

"My name is Ember." The dragon bowed.

The second dragon was a male with red scales except for his underbelly which was made of tan flesh, he had an orange fin atop his head, and his eyes were black with the white portion of the eye being yellow.

"My name is Garble." The dragon introduced.

With the dragons introduced, the final ones were the yaks, a young female yak with brown fur and brown hair that was braided, and she had hazel eyes.

"MY NAME IS YONA!" The female yak roared.

"Haha," Discord chuckled, admiring the young girl's spirit, "now that we have all introduced ourselves, allow my children to show you to your rooms." Discord offered as his children broke off to guide them.





Sunset and Flash walked the royals from Canterlot to their room, Flash and Sunset remaining silent along the trip. Sunset preferred to keep quiet and had no interest in conversation whereas Flash wanted to say something but didn't know where to properly start the conversation. Luckily, he didn't have to.

"Is there a library in this castle, by any chance?" Twilight asked.

"Of course," Flash answered, turning back to face Twilight, "I'd have to show it to you, ponies tend to get lost in this castle if they’re not careful. Do you enjoy reading, Princess Sparkle?"

"Why, yes," Twilight answered, "I actually love reading. Do you enjoy reading as well...um, Prince Flash Sentry?"

"There's no need for formalities, Princess," Flash smiled, "and to answer your question, yes, I do enjoy reading a lot. I’ve spent more hours than I care to admit in the library.” Twilight's interest gained upon hearing that.

"Oh, what do you read about?" Twilight asked.

"Anything really," Flash shrugged, “sometimes it’s stories about companionship, sometimes they're slice of life novels, most of them are roman-“ Flash quickly caught himself before he revealed an embarrassing secret about himself. “However, I guess if I had to choose a favorite topic to both read and write about, it would have to be about history."

"Really?!" Twilight exclaimed with glee, for a moment she dropped her formal tone for a more friendly one. However, she quickly caught this and recomposed herself. "That's...amazing to hear." She blushed in embarrassment and Flash chuckled upon seeing her flustered. Sunset elbowed Flash in the stomach when he chuckled.





Meanwhile, Soarin was guiding the Pegasi towards their rooms.

"So you don't know where she is?" Soarin asked Fluttershy. "Like, when she's gonna get here?"

Soarin was, of course, inquiring about the whereabouts of Rainbow Dash. To which Fluttershy responded with a shake of her head,

"I'm sorry, Soarin, but she took off and...well you know how she is when she takes off," Fluttershy said.

"Uggggh." Soarin groaned. "Just when I was looking forward to beating her at a race she turns tail."

Fluttershy chuckled, "You really like Rainbow a lot don't you?"

"Well, duh," Soarin said matter-of-factly. "We've been childhood friends for the longest time, she's a very good friend."

There was a disturbance in the shipping community, almost as if thousands of fans suddenly flipped the nearest table.

Fluttershy let out a defeated sigh before her eyes widened in realization. "Oh dear, I forgot Mistress Lightning Dust' coat." Fluttershy quickly turned around and ran away to retrieve the item she had forgotten.

"Fluttershy, wait!" Soarin protested, chasing after Fluttershy before it was too late. "Don't go off on you're own, the castle-" Soarin was cut off as he turned the corner, where Fluttershy vanished behind, to see that Fluttershy was nowhere to be seen, "has a mind of its own...buck." Soarin groaned.





Cheese was bouncing up and down as he guided the dragons to their room. While he was bouncing, he failed to notice the tall pile of moving scrolls and papers that was heading in the other direction at the crossroad in the hall. Cheese crashed into this stack of papers and they went flying everywhere. Garble burst out laughing upon seeing the spectacle, to which Ember punched him in the arm to make him stop. Cheese shook his head to shake loose the papers stuck in his mane.

"I'm so sorry, Prince Cheese Sandwich." A purple scaled dragon with green scale underbelly, green eyes, who stood at the same height as Ember, and had wings. The dragon desperately started picking up all of the papers in no time flat and quickly ran away.

"It's cool, Spike," Cheese yelled so that Spike could hear him. Cheese stood up and dusted himself off before going back to his bouncing attitude.

"I didn't know that you had dragons here," Ember said in amazement.

"Yep, but Spike is the only one here. He works as a servant but we treat him like a little brother." Cheese explained.

"I see." Ember rubbed her chin.





The doors to the throne room opened wide, allowing Discord to step in. He walked up and sat on his throne, half of it was on fire and the other half was made of ice. When he sat in his throne, he ordered his guards and servants to leave, the moment they left Discord fell to the floor. All of the weight that he had been holding up was too much for him to bear and he caved in.

"Ugggg..." Discord groaned. "You don't let up do you, kiddo." Discord said as though he was talking to someone. "I can't keep this form." Discord knew, his body glowed bright and in a flash, Discord assumed his true form. His body was long like a snake, he had a bat's wing and a feathered wing, a pony leg, a lizard leg, a red dragon tail, an eagle talon, a lions paw, a deer antler, a bumpy antler, a white beard only on the left side of his chin, and his eyes were yellow with red pupils. Discord stretched his body as though it had no skeletal structure to restrict it. Once he was done stretching, he snapped his talons and a map floated in front of him. This was a map of the known world, and on it were several symbols and marks drawn over various locations. As he stared at the map, he noticed that several of the marks and symbols were beginning to fade and vanish from the map.

"No, no, no, no." Discord growled, tightly gripping the edges of the map in anger. "I need more time. I need-" Discord cut himself off when he noticed the wide eye, unhinged jaw, shocked expression of Fluttershy who was standing at the door.