Reincarnation

by Silver Butcher


Recycled Magic

Discord was sitting in a recliner that was casually floating in the air, reading a magazine with Fluttershy on the cover when he heard a familiar voice call out in an angry scream.
"Discord I'm going to kick your ass," He blinked in confusion and looked to the Saxophone that connected to Leaf Storm's office, frowning at it as a bright Green fire burst out of it and Leaf storm slid out of it, leaving burns on his floor as she steadied herself. "Why am I Green!?" She demanded. Discord however had a different reaction and instead dumped a bucket of water over her head, extinguishing her for a moment before she lit back up, now accompanied by a cloud of steam.
"Huh," Discord said as he looked inside the bucket, he shrugged and tossed it away. "Are you not usually Green?"
"Nirik's only come in one color," She yelled back as she reared up on her back hoofs, Pillar of flames shot up around her and burned a hole through Discord's roof.
"I had no idea Kirin's possessed as much of a Firehazard as Dragon, he noted as he looked up at the burning hole in his ceiling"
"You've seen me as a Nirik before, we only come in one color" Leaf shot back, now pacing in a circle "If you didn't do this then why am I Green?" Discord moved in and looked her up and down before producing a pair of large tongs and picking her up off of the circle of flames she had paced into his floor. He looked at her, shook her, and stuck a popsicle stick in her mouth, he pulled it out mostly burnt and Leaf spat out its remains in a fire loogy. "This isn't helping," She said angrily.
"I have an idea," Discord decided as he snapped a scroll into existence above Leaf Storm, as soon as it hit her flames it burned, but instead of turning into ash it turned into Smoke and shot away, Leaf went out when she realized what had just happened.
"Was that my messenger breath!?" She demanded "Who did I send that to? What was it?"
"Just a blank letter and we're in another dimension so I doubt it'll really get anywhere," Discord smiled. "I guess this must be a side effect of you being in the area of the reincarnation spell again, this is where you died, you must of started sucking up your old dragon magic as soon as you entered the Ponyville area of the castle,"
"So...I'm just Green now?"
"Maybe," Discord replied with a shrug "If you use your fire too long outside of Ponyville it might lose the Dragon magic, but coming back should just recharge you," Discord chuckled for an uncomfortably amount of time.
"This is where you tell me the bad or weird news I assume," Leaf asked with a sigh.
"Well, It is possible you might start absorbing the recycled magic of any other creature who has lived in or near the Ponyville area for too long, Like Twilight and the Girls for example,"
"So your saying I could go Nirik and then, without warning, just turn into Pinkie Pie or something!?"
"Not turn into them per se, you'll just be able to do as they do. Firey wings for flight, enhanced magic, that kind of thing, course the magic has been accumulating for hundreds of thousands of years at this point so, In all honesty, there's no telling what could happen to you," Discord smiled ear to ear and Leaf storm just stared at him, now a Green Nirik again.
"Wait...is that why I can talk to my Chicken and understand what it says?" Discord's response was to slam his own open palm with the end of his tail in the shape of a fist.
"Oh yeah, The Chicken was supposed to disappear, but since you just accepted it, it's possible you unconsciously rerouted my recycled magic into the Chicken, Shoving one of the souls that had yet to be reincarnated since their last death into the Chicken," Leaf storm looked at Discord blankly.
"Could...could you bother yourself into telling me who's soul exactly?" Discord frowned and snapped a list into existence, after a moment she saw him sweating.
"Oh no," He said, fear in his voice "Leaf storm we have to kill your Chicken!"
"The hell we do," Leaf shot back as she pulled at the list, being a magic list it didn't burn at her touch "Who is it,"
"There's only one soul unaccounted for, the first one I experimented with," Leaf thought for a moment and frowned, now confused as her light went out.
"Wait...Big mac?"
"No," Discord said waving her off "Big mac was the first to die and get sucked into the big spell, I'm talking about when I was still experimenting with it small time, you know..." Discord let out a low whine "...using Animals," Leaf frowned and, in an instant, could only think of one Animal Discord would not want to be around forever.
"My Chicken better not be Angel Bunny," She said angrily.
"I mean," Discord said with an awkward chuckle, Leaf went alight again, new anger in her eyes.
"Starlight died almost two decades after that fucking rabbit," She said angrily "Why the actual fuck didn't you use it on her? or Nightlight!?"
"Spike these are souls we are talking about, Angel was a success, albeit one I was hoping would fail, But he was also technically a failure...seeing as he still had all memories intact,"
"Son of a bitch," Leaf said angrily, no longer looking forward to going home and informing her Chicken she knew its secret Identity. "Explain why that's a problem besides it being Angel!?"
"Spike looks at you," Discord said motioning to Leaf storm in general "I only cast this spell so you Twilight and the rest would always be around those who understood them, have a castle following with people who loved and cared for them, even if they couldn't place the reason why. Sure right now you don't mind, but what happens when Leaf Storm dies? and you wake up as a new baby, and then that baby lives it's life and dies?" Leaf let go of Discord, not having ever considered the fact that not only was she going to have to watch all her friends and Family die again, but she was also going to be going through it for eternity,"
"I don't care," She decided, "So long as I can be with Twilight and she can know that I'll always be there for her, I don't care how many times I have to live through heartbreak and death, so long as I get to live the good times I'll take the bad," Leaf turned back to her Saxophone. "But just to make it easier I'm fucking keeping Angel, so don't touch my dam Chicken!"
"Fine," Discord replied "But you tell him if he even tries to sell me out he'll immediately explode into pure magic,"
Leaf storm didn't reply and instead jumped back through the Saxophone and Found Flurry putting out the last of the Green Flames as Mortamire, now having a bucket propper onto of his head, began slowly approaching Angel Chicken with his arms up.
"nice Chicken," He said as he moved slowly "nice demon Chicken,"
"Mortamire," Leaf called getting the room's attention, "stop messing with Angel," Mortamire looked over to Leaf, while the Chicken instantly shot up and looked at Leaf in shock. "Angel, go to my room, I'd like to have word with you when the company is gone," Angel made his way to the bedroom door and, unable to Open it, simply sat in front of the door, staring at Leaf with curiosity in his eyes.
"You names him Angel?" Flurry asked "what a cute name,"
"What an Oxymoron," Mortamire said as he looked at the Chicken, who looked over to him and glared back with obvious hate. Leaf Storm ignored the two and lit her horn, pulling her Office door shut like a Garage door.
"I was wondering where the door was," Flurry said as she gave it a once over. "Oh, did you find out why your fires are Green?" knowing the truth wasn't an option Leaf told the first lie she could think of.
"Discord wanted to emulate the fire message system of Spike the Dragon, so used a little of his fire he had as a keepsake and enchanted me against my will," Leaf and Flurry looked at each other in silence before Mortamire slid in with an exciting look.
"The Spike!?" He demanded "The Hero of the Chrystal Empire? Living Base of the Yak wars," Mortamire leaned in with a shine in his eyes "One time Spike and his lovely Wife saved the town of Applelossa from a very lost giant Moose,"
"I bet Leaf already knows that story," Flurry said with a chuckle.
"Well enough to know you left out Trixie, and that it was a herd of many Moose, not one giant one" Leaf replied simply.
"Trixie? Who's that?" Mortamire asked in confusion.
"I'll tell you the corrected version when I have time" Leaf replied with a sigh, knowing that the story had probably gone through about a thousand years worth of miss-tellings.
"Oh, who cares," Mortamire said excitedly "You're telling me, that you have the messenger breath of the legendary Hero!? And your not excited about it!?"
"It takes a lot to excite me," Leaf replied dryly. Leaf heard Flurry mutter something about liking challenges but ignored her, figuring she was daydreaming about fighting a Giant Moose. "Look, I'm sure this is a really big development for you, but I have business with my Chicken, mostly about what kind of accommodations he'd like me to order, and then I have to start unpacking, so Mortamire, Princess Flurry Heart, could I have my home to myself please? I've never lived alone before and I'm still trying to get used to it. Mortamire wished Leaf a Goodnight and recommended she lock her door and sleep with a bat beneath her Pillow just in case the Chicken made a move against her, and Flurry simply told her she was confident she would find a special some pony to share her home with. Leaf wished them both a good day as she closed and locked her door. After waiting a few moments she slowly turned to Angel, who was staring at her in Silence.
"In the room, then we talk," Leaf said simply as she walked over to him and opened the door. Angel walked in and jumped up onto Leaf's bed before snuggly up on the foot of it and then looked at her waiting for her to talk. "So," She said sitting in front of him "I assume you've realized you died and came back as a Chicken?" Angel nodded "But I'm guessing you don't know how you came back, why you started out as a full-grown Chicken, how long it's been, or why you still have all your memories?" The Chicken bucked at her a little and Leaf nodded "Oh, and also who I am and why I know who you are," Leaf thought of how to explain and figured diving in the deep end was about all she had to go with.
"Well," Leaf rolled her hooved "When you died Discord was testing out a spell to reincarnate the loved one's of Fluttershy and her friends since she was destined to live for as long as Kindness existed in the universe, and he successfully kept your soul intact but also kept the memories, he deemed you a failure and...not wanting his plan to be exposed, he stuck you in purgatory. However, when the letter he wrote to me this morning turned into a Chicken, I accepted I just had a Chicken and went on my day, doing so with my...unique circumstances resulted in your soul being ripped out of purgatory and shoved into the empty shell of a magical Chicken. Hence you now exist and, as per my agreement with Discord, the one I made when I ran screaming and on fire, He is not allowed to kill you, regardless of how much he wants to, on the condition you don't out him, that said if you try to tell Fluttershy who you are your body will explode into pure magic, he will then probably shove you back into purgatory,"
Angel stared at Leaf in silence as she stopped talking, letting him take a moment to soak in the information Leaf had told him so far. He then clucked a single cluck, and Leaf answered simply.
"A little over 6 and a half thousand years," Angel's reaction was far from tame and Leaf simply waited for his panic at being so far in the future to end, once Angel calmed down enough he looked to Leaf and clucked at her in a demanding tone.
"Oh your gonna hate the answer to that," Leaf leaned in, with a big smile "It's me, Spike," The Chicken looked at Leaf for a moment and then cocked its head to the side. "I feel that was meant as an insult, but Thank you, I'm sure I am a lot prettier than when I was a Dragon, now Angel you and I are stuck with each other, but I promise you that when I figure out how to prove to Fluttershy and the rest who I am I will also tell her who you are," Angel bucked and Leaf sighed "I am confident Discord just want's to drag this out, so no, I can't just tell them and expect Discord to back me up, he's never been one to go with the easy solution, likes it when people solve their own problems,"
Leaf stood up and offered Angel a ride on her back, he climbed on and she lit her horn. "Alright once I've unpacked I'll see about getting you a place for you to keep your stuff in the corner, like a Dog house or a small Chicken coop thing," Angel looked to Leaf and she shrugged, "I mean if you want a dog bed you can have a dog bed," Angel snuggled into Leaf storms back and clucked "Yeah I figured you liked me better as a Kirin when you called me Pretty,"