//------------------------------// // The King of Chaos // Story: Diamonds of Stardust // by Lulamoon-Crystal //------------------------------// Trixie galloped quickly across the mountain range pulling her wagon behind her, Gumdrop managed to jump onto the roof and hang on, the wagon shook as it was pulled across the rocky ground, a yelp came from Trixie as she lost her footing and went crashing down face-first. The griffin jumped down from the roof and helped her friend up, the pony had a blood nose, she whimpered in pain. “Trixie’s fine” She claimed before wiping her muzzle. She looked at her hoof that she wiped her muzzle with and saw blood, she felt weak as she watched Gummy rush inside and come back out with a bottle and a bunch of tissues. Before the unicorn could do or say anything the griffin started to wipe her nostrils and rinse away the blood from her muzzle and hoof with the water. Gumdrop didn’t say a word as she was disappointed in Trixie. “What would happen if I wasnt here?” She asked grumpily. When the griffin was done Trixie bowed her head in shame, she watched the griffin go back into her wagon. After a few minutes of silence and walking a familiar voice boomed. “What have we got here?” Discord chuckled. Trixie growled, her ears dropped as she walked along, ignoring the noise. “Hey! Don’t ignore me!” Shouted Discord. He appeared right in front of Trixie, Gumdrop came outside and watched with confusion on what was happening. Trixie stared at Discord with an annoyed expression. “I don’t want any of your cow poo, Discord...” Trixie warned sounding monotone. Gummy gasped in response to Trixie’s language, Discord took a step back. “Now, no need to start cursing” Discord replied. At the click of his fingers marshmallows appeared around the duo, Trixie’s expression didn’t change. Gumdrop grabbed a marshmallow. “These are poisonous, right?” She asked. The draconaquez was a bit defeated when her saw Trixie’s face didn’t change. At the flick of his claw hand’s fingers Trixie was suddenly on top of a flying pig, she held on for dear life as it zipped around and did loop-da-loops and twirls, her stomach hurt and she felt she was gonna throw up. The world spun as she felt dizzy, she wanted to let the contents of her stomach out but stopped herself, soon she fell off the flying pig that soon vanished. Trixie groaned, soon she fell into some pink jelly, the world looked pink as she was Incased in the bouncy clear food. To get out she needed to eat the jelly, which she did, by the time she got out she saw Discord laughing and Gumdrop staring at her with confusion. “Discord!” Trixie shouted angrily, “We don’t have time for-“. A pink diamond suddenly appeared in Discord’s lion hand, he winked as he shook it slightly. “Looking for this?” He teased. Trixie jumped towards it but seemed to hit an invisible wall, discord made his claw hand to go and grab Trixie’s tail. It held on tight as Trixie galloped to the diamond Discord was holding. The claw held on tight and Trixie was only running on the spot. ✨⭐️✨ When the claw let go of the pony’s tail Discord stepped out the way as Trixie went flying into a wall, she slowly slid off it and groaned as she ended up on the floor. “You’re pretty raring, aren’t you?” Discord chuckled. Discord threw the diamond in the air and the unicorn unsurprisingly jumped towards it but she ended up on a giant hamster wheel and she ran towards the diamond that was right in front of her. She didn’t seem to notice that she wasn’t getting any closer or that she was actually on a giant hamster wheel. Popcorn appeared in the draconaquez’s claw, he even had a theatre seat he was sitting on as he watched Trixie desperately run towards the fake diamond. “I could watch this all day!” Discord crackled with a laugh. ✨⭐️✨ It went on for a while, Gumdrop was speechless and a bit worried, but she didn’t say anything as she was sure this would teach her a lesson. She watched as Trixie ran on the hamster wheel, tricked by the fake diamond right in front of it hanging on a fishing rod. If she could not realize that then she was clearly exhausted. “Trixie!” Shouted Gummy, “You’re on a hamster wheel!”. “What!?” Replied Trixie. Trixie was defeated by the speed of the wheel, she fell over and the wheel continued to spin really fast. Discord clapped his hands and the wheel got even faster, Trixie was just a blue and purple blur as she screamed. She ended up flying off and landed in the ground, dizzy, stars spun around her head as she laid there. She shook slightly as she got up, she almost stumbled over as she took a step, the world was still spinning to her, she closed her eyes. ”Snap out of it!”, She scolded herself. Then her fur and mane felt wet, and sticky... it also smelt like chocolate? She opened her eyes and saw what was happening, the dreaded, something so terrible she cringed hard in disgust. It was chocolate rain! She let out a small angry scream, her mane and fur were all sticky, and drenched in chocolate, it was even adding a brown hue to her body. Trixie then noticed that her cape was gone, she looked around and saw it in Discord’s claws. Trixie growled as she stood there with a very angry expression. “Now..” Discord chuckled, “We don’t want this getting this all chocolate-y...”. Discord laughed, “Or do we!?”. He clicked the fingers on his lion hand and it appeared back on Trixie, it immediately got all soaked in the chocolate like she was. Trixie wanted to scream in anger, soon the pink cloud along with the chocolate rain vanished. “You know what goes good with chocolate rain?” Discord asked. “A lack of an apology?” Asked Gumdrop. “Correct!” Announced Discord, “But want to know what else would go good with a chocolate drenched pony?”. He clapped his hands and a giant scoop of strawberry ice cream fell onto Trixie, then a huge swirl of whipped cream appeared on top of the ice cream, then some sprinkles gathered on top of the whipped cream. Then finally, a cherry was placed in the middle completing the beautiful, tasty mess of ice cream. “Perfection” Discord said proudly. ✨⭐️✨ As he clapped his hands the whole thing melted into a single puddle revealing a pouting unicorn in the middle of it. Splotches of brown chocolate and pink ice cream ran down her body, whipped cream sat on the top of her head, horn, muzzle and cape’s collar, the cherry was perfectly placed on the tip of her horn. “Discord!” Roared Trixie. Discord only laughed at the pony, he increased her size, picked her up by her tail and violently shook her to get the excess liquid and cream off. Trixie was dizzy by the time he was done, the next thing she knew she was sitting in an empty bathtub. The shower tap was turned on, the water hit her in the face so she took a step back. “Don’t be shy” Discord joked. He summoned a sponge and bottle of soap and poured it all over the unicorn, it smelt like flowers, Trixie’s least favourite type of flower to be exact. An annoyed sigh came from her as she took off her soapy cape and hung it over the edge of the tub, she scrubbed the soap through her fur using the sponge, Discord summoned a bottle of shampoo, also with the same smell. Trixie rinsed the soap from her body and started to clean her cape, she put soap through it and scrubbed the horrible milky mess away. She hated the smell but wanted to be all clean, she made sure she got everywhere before rinsing out the soap, she squeezed some water from it before hanging it over a rock to dry. She looked at the bottle of shampoo, she held it in her magic and then poured some into her mane and tail. Trixie scrubbed the shampoo all through her hair until it was all soapy, she then rinsed all the shampoo out and heard Discord laughing about something. “What’s so funny?” She growled. “How bout you take a look?” Discord chuckled as he summoned a mirror. It took only one quick look for Trixie to scream loudly, Gumdrop was surprised at her loud scream. Trixie whimpered annoyed, her mane and tail were an ugly mix of neon green and seaweed green, there where an assortment of dark yellow and light purple spots too. The combination looked ugly, Discord was proud of himself, he picked up the bottle and put it in Trixie’s face. He pointed to a blank spot that turned into the name of the name of the shampoo. ‘World’s Ugliest Hair Dye’ it said on the bottle. Discord chuckled “I guess you didn’t read”. Trixie growled as Discord laughed, the unicorn’s face went red with anger. Discord was about to click his fingers again. “Well, I am feeling a little generous” He grinned. Trixie’s mane and tail colours went back to normal. She stared angrily at the draconaquez who was laughing heartily at his chaos. Gumdrop was speechless, but also a bit worried. The tub vanished and Trixie laid on her belly, she snarled at Discord. Discord only booped her, she growled in response. Then he snapped his fingers and Trixie’s cape was back on her, except for one extra thing, her fur and cape colours switched around, her fur now being purple and her cape being blue! She looked at herself in confusion. It only lasted a few seconds, however, soon they were both back to their normal colour. Then Discord picked her up by her back legs and placed her on top of a slice of bread and put another slice on top of her. To top it off he sat right where Trixie was laying, making it hard for her to escape. Trixie struggled to even poke her head out between the two slices, Discord was heavy, she could feel the weight crushing down onto her. “I think we can all agree I’m stronger, therefor, the better choice than you” Discord chuckled. “Discord, get off Trixie!” Trixie cried in pain. “Am I too much weight for your scrawny body?“ Discord asked, Once again snapped his fingers again he teleported in front of Trixie’s face, the bread vanished and a large lifting weight took his place, it was slightly heaving than him. The second it fell onto Trixie’s back she screamed so loud that even birds far from the mountain flew away in shock. ✨⭐️✨ The weight was weighing Trixie down, she could hardly move she whimpered in pain. It was too heavy for her to lift. “Are you sure you don’t want to pass this mission to me?” Discord asked as three diamonds appeared in each hand. The diamonds were all the same colour as the ones she needed to collect, green, yellow, pink, white, blue and purple. Trixie gasped when she saw them, the draconaquez chuckled proudly. “I mean, I can just collect them all in one day, you’re just a pathetic weak pony” Discord explained, “You can’t do anything right, look at those wounds and those bags under your eyes... and how many have you collected so far? Two? Well look at me! I’ve got all six of them!”. Trixie started at him in anger, she watched him throw the diamond’s on the ground and shatter them by stomping his foot near them. She watched the shards vanish in puffs of smoke. “I can create and do anything with my powers and what can you do with just your dinky little horn?” Discord asked. Trixie snarled, “Trixie was chosen for this, not you Discord! Nothing’s gonna stop me from saving Equestria, doesn’t matter how hard they try I’ll save the world!”. Discord had a look of disgust, “The fate of Equestria is in the hooves of you? No thanks, let me go help Fluttershy pack her belongings, we are going to a world that won’t be destroyed by the likes of you” Discord growled as he vanished, the weight holding Trixie down also vanished. It took a while for anyone to say or do anything, Trixie started to think, sure Discord was mean and annoying but he would never harm somepony, right?. ✨⭐️✨ Trixie sadly sighed as she lifted her cape and looked under it, there was a large bruise where the weight fell on her, she groaned put wagon buckle back on herself, Gumdrop sighed, she shed a tear. “We are doomed, aren’t we? There’s nothing good coming out of this” Gummy started to cry, “We are going to fail! We are just a couple of miserable trash piles! There is nothing special about us... this is all just a total lost cause!”. “Hey!” Trixie replied calmly, “Gumdrop... we shouldn’t lose hope...”. She reassuringly put her hoof on the griffin as tears filled her own eyes. “It’s the last thing Stardust said to me... she believed in me... she told me to not give up and not lose hope”. Gumdrop gasped in response, she wiped her own tears, Trixie continued. “Sure we had our share of hard times and all, and nopony said this would be an easy task, it’s also pretty scary... but... we aren’t going to give up, right?” Trixie asked with determination. Gummy smiled and nodded in response she lifted her claw, Trixie lifted her hoof and they did their theme. “Trixie and Gumdrop, Squad of star, we’ll save Equestria, that’s who we are”. Gumdrop smiled happily and went to to the roof of the wagon and happily rode it as Trixie walked along the range of the mountain. They were back on the road to the pink diamond and they weren’t going to give up. ✨⭐️✨ Neither of them knew that they were being followed, stalked by a gloomy, mysterious and foreboding being that was hiding in their shadows, hiding, lurking and watching their every move and listening to every word. Lingering in the shadows for the correct moment to lash out at the unsuspecting duo and make the adventure a nightmare. It may have only resembled a pony-sized blob but it was dangerous, anyone would be struck with terror with they said it’s name, it was known as Nightshade Terror.