"Ah HAHHAHAHAH! That was hilarious!"
I laughed as a unicorn mare galloped away. "Haha, she even pissed herself, ahahaha."
This was the third day that I had been doing this; over two dozen ponies I have scared and possibly scarred for life, and this last one being the best reaction that I have gotten so far. But you know what's even better? Two more days until Nightmare Night, and I have something special planned. Something that will probably put me on Celestia's shit list.
"Ahhh, another terrifief customer," I state, closing my eyes and raising my talon, ready to snap them, "And now it's time to find another pony to torture."
Right as I was about to snap, my talon was blown off, completely ripped to sheds by a magic blast.
"HALT!"
I simply looked at where my talon used to be, not the slightest bit fazed by what just happened; there was now only a hole on my wrist with a little of my magic seeping out of it. I then turned my head to look in the direction where the blast had come from, where there was a small group of royal guards standing, looking at me with intense gazes.
"Well, that's just rude," I state simply, "so Celestia finally noticed me and has sent her guard to stop me, has she?"
"By order of Princess Celestia, you are hereby under arrest!" The leader of the group shouts, ignoring my question. "Resisting will result in the use of excessive force!"
"And by 'resisting', you mean like this," I say, snapping my lion paw, causing the ground under the two earth pony stallions' hooves to turn into quicksand. Once they sunk down up to their bodies, I hardened the quicksand into cement. I laughed as they tried their hardest to free themselves.
"HAHAHAH, too easy!" The two unicorn guards, both of them stallions as well started firing magic blasts at me.
"Oh right, there's more of them," I say, while twisting my body in the air, easily dodging their attacks. 'Fast but predictable, I honestly don't see how their considered to be elite.'
Snapping my lion paw, pumpkins rain down on them, smashing into their heads and knocking them unconscious. Landing on the ground and standing upright, I take notiçe of something. 'Odd, did Celestia really only send four of them after me? That can't be right."
Looking at them closer, I realize something. 'Two earth ponies and two unicorns, that means there must be two Pegasi as well. But where could they be?'
Suddenly two long chains were swung at me, wrapping around me and pinning my limbs to my body. I followed the direction where the other ends of the chains lead, to see two Pegasi, one being a stallion and the other a mare, both holding their respective chains. 'Oh there they are, honestly I should have guessed that they were in the sky, they are Pegasi after all.'
Looking down at the chain, I could tell that it was enchanted in some way; possibly meant for restraining monsters if I had to guess. Unfortunately for them, not only does this not work on me on account of this not being my real body, they also have yet to realize that fact.
"You have made a grave mistake monster!"
' What is it with ponies calling me monster?' I silently muse to myself. 'Do they consider every species not their own to be monsters or are there exceptions?'
"We've got you, there's no escaping now."
The mare shouts at me.
"Oh really? What if I do this!" I shout, shredding my disguise and turning back to my misty form and rotating like a tornado, knocking the Pegasi away and wrapping them up in their own chains.
"Ta-ta now." I say as I fly away, still rotating.
...
It had been a few hours since my encounter with Celestia's royal guard; I had been able to change my form back to Discord, this time without the help of a paper dummy. I must say, a few days wearing that disguise really helped in teaching me how to take such a asymmetrical form.
Now I was searching for ponies again, ready to continue my little game. But it was short lived.
Dodging a magic blast which was aimed at my head, I turned towards my assailant.
"This again?" I say to the group of royal guards that I had defeated earlier. "Surely you don't really think you can stop me, especially after that humiliating defeat."
I smirked as that seemed to hit a nerve in them; they were incredibly pissed about that.
Snorting the earth pony yells, "you're going to pay for everything that you have done!"
The two earth pony charged at me with their spears, and the Pegasi flew up wielding their enchanted chains. The unicorns stayed in the the back, no doubt to fire magic blasts from a distance.
"To defend against a simple strategy only requires a simple counterstrategy."
Snapping my talon, a brick wall appeared in front of the earth ponies; the one in front smashed into It, knocking himself unconscious while the other who was a short distance behind was able to vault over it. Seeing this, I allowed the stallion to charge me. He thrust his spear, believing that he had impaled me, only to gasp in shock as it and himself passed right through me as if I wasn't even there.
On the other side, he slipped as his hooves made contact with a wet, sticky substance and slid causing his entire body to be covered in the stuff. And then feathers rained down on him, becoming stuck to his body.
The two Pegasi threw their chains at me.
' Do they really expect the same trick to work on me twice?'
As I was about snap my talon once again, I was interrupted when two long, tree branch like hands grabbed the chains and pulled them hard, sending the two pegasi crashing into the ground. The stallion was laying on his side while the mare was face down with her rump in the air.
Taking out a camera, I snapped some pictures of her, shouting, "Fredrick, is that You? What are you doing here?"
A thin tree like creature steps out, his arms having shortened back to their original length. "Oh, I was in the area and saw that you were in trouble, so decided I should help out."
"Well thank you for that, though I really didn't need any help."
Fredrick was a tree that I had found a short while back that I had thought looked pretty humanoid, and I had wondered if I could bring a tree to life for real, not just manipulate the tree with my magic to give the looks of being alive. Well, a few hours of concentrating on combining my earth pony magic with my chaos magic, and Fredrick was born.
"Just trying to show thanks to my creator."
Fredrick simply states.
"And again, I thank you, now where are those unicorns?" I question.
"Already taken care of." Fredrick say, looking proud and pointing at two unicorns laying on the ground. Just then one of them jumps to his hooves firing a large magic blast at us; Fredrick blocks it shouting, "Big mistake buddy!"
Extending one of his arms Fredrick punches the unicorn in the face with enough force to send him flying.
"Yeah, that'll teach ya."
"Bravo, Fredrick, bravo!" I applause, clapping my paw and talon.
"Thank you, thank you." He says, taking a bow.
Standing up straight, he asks, "So what have you been up to?"
"I have been scaring ponies for the past few days,masquerading as Discord, but I have something better planned for Nightmare Night."
"Nice, and you know what? I think I'll stick around, knowing you, whatever it is you are planning is definitely going to be interesting."
After I revert back to my real form, Fredrick grabs one of my hooves, and we teleport away.