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// The First Chapter 
// Story: 106 Miles To Go 
// by TwilightSparkleStudios 
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"He and Fluttershy later got married, and they both lived happily ever after! And that was the story of Discord, aka. The Lord of Chaos, and how a certain pegasus had changed his life!"

Sunny Starscout had just finished telling all her friends and neighbors the story of Discord. As everypony applauded for the earth pony, Izzy Moonbow raised her hoof. "Hey, Sunny?"

"Yes, Izzy?"

"Is he still alive today?"

"Well..." the orange earth pony stammered, before sighing, "I don't know. I never learned what happened to him after he got married to Fluttershy. However, there are rumors that if someone were to walk 106 miles from here, at some point they would end up finding him or whatever's left of him." The other ponies ooohed at what Sunny had said.

As many ponies left the scene to go do their own things, Zipp Storm and Pipp Petals were intrigued by the idea of finding the draconequus, Zipp more so. As they were walking with their mother, Queen Haven, they were silent for a few minutes, until the queen's older daughter broke the silence.

"Hey, mom," said Zipp, "do you think that we can go and look for Discord? The one that Sunny was talking about?"

"Well," said her mother, "it is kind of risky, plus it wouldn't be 'proper'." She paused impressively. "But I don't see why not, plus it gives me a chance to get away from my rowdy subjects and try out the flying abilities I got back around a week ago!"

What she was talking about, was when she lied to all her subjects that only she and her daughters were allowed to fly and that their flight came from magic. They actually used trick lighting and wires to give out the illusion. However, at one of Pipp's concerts, Sunny had accidentally exposed her inability to fly, which caused the subjects to turn against her, her sister, and especially her mother! As a result, the sisters became fugitives, while their mother was arrested and received a new nickname from her subjects: "A phony pony full of baloney". Fortunately for the queen, she was able to escape from prison and reunite with her daughters. When she and the other ponies set aside their differences and joined the three crystals that Sunny had together, it brought back the magic, and pegasi could fly again. However, that didn't mean that the pegasi were forgiving towards the royals. They were still sour with them and every single day after the magic came back, the royals were given lots of grief, although the queen was the one who received the worst of it.

Zipp then turned to her sister, "Wanna come too?"

She got her answer when she was grabbed by her sister, who pointed her phone up in the sky, making sure that the camera showed both of them.

"Hello, Pippsqueaks!" shouted the pink pegasus, "We're going live to look for the lord of chaos, who we heard happens to be a draconequus! I know, right? This is so hard to believe, but-"

"Sssh!" shouted her sister. "They still don't trust us!"

"Oh right, I forgot..."

Pipp put her phone down, now realizing that the subjects of her, her sister, and her mother were still mad at them, even her own fans. They wondered if they would ever get their subjects' trust back and how.

The three pegasi decided to worry about that later and flew off on the journey to look for the draconequus. But what they didn't know was that the challenge of finding him in 106 miles would be a lot harder than they expected...





As the three pegasi were flying across the sand-covered ground, they had their eyes set on looking for Discord, but so far, they had no luck.

"Any sign of him?" asked Zipp, who had dug up several holes in the sand.

"Not yet, it seems," answered Pipp, whose phone had its camera on in an attempt to look for the draconequus.

"He isn't there either," said Queen Haven, who had looked up into the skies several times in hopes that she'd find the draconequus. "Looks like we'll have to keep flying."

Her two daughters frowned in disappointment, but they kept flying anyways.





"I spy, something with my little eye, something that starts with 'c'."

"Clouds?" Pipp had taken her eyes off of her phone to guess what her sister was implying.

"Close, but no."

The royal family was playing "I Spy" to pass the time. They were already starting to get tired and bored from not being able to find the draconequus, to the point where Pipp had gone onto her phone again. But despite that setback, none of them wanted to give up the search.

"Is it a cactus?"

"Correct!" blurted out her sister.

"How many miles has it been anyways?"

"About 47."

"Not even halfway there."

There was silence as the bored pegasi flew for several more minutes, still keeping their eyes peeled for the draconequus.





"We've reached about 93 miles now," said Zipp. "And still no sign of that Discord."

"On the bright side though," smiled Pipp, "We've still got, um, around 13 miles to look for him!"

"Now we've passed around 94!"

"Make it around 12 miles to look for him then,"

"You girls," interjected Queen Haven, "I think I saw some houses and buildings over there," she pointed to where the structures were. "Maybe that Discord is probably somewhere in that place."

This perked her daughters up.

"Race you there!" shouted Zipp, as she zipped towards the location her mother had pointed to.

Despite her more princess-like personality, Pipp was unable to resist the urge of having a race with her sister. "It is on!" she shouted, and she was soon following her sister at the fastest speed her wings could help her go.

Their mother couldn't help but chuckle at her daughters, as she flew after them in hopes that she would be able to keep up.

What nopony had noticed, was that there was a worn-out wooden sign that said "Griffonstone, 12 miles." The sign fell flat onto the ground.