"Discord? Hey Discord? Hey hey hey discord." I heard a groan. "Discord? Hello!? You there?!"
"AUGH! Yes what is it!?!? Seriously Seth you are unbearable sometimes!"
"Why hasn't anyone visited me in awhile? I thought they cared about me."
"Ah yes. I have felt that way before. A long long time ago when I was first imprisoned here." He sounded sympathetic." You'll stop wondering why in awhile, give it time dear friend, give it time."
"No. no. NO! Discord! Something needs to happen NOW!!.....Whoa that hasn't happened in awhile. Tell me. How can you have headaches if you're a statue?"
"Hmm....I don't know, never happened to me."
"I wonder if it could mean something? Hey what time is it? Night or day?"
There was a pause for a minute. "It appears to be night, old friend. Are you feeling tired?" He said in a slightly mocking tone.
"No, I can't sleep. You should know that." I thought for a moment. "Oh..." He laughed in response and if I could shake my head I would have. "Really Discord. I can't believe you sometimes." I laughed somewhat similar to his. "I admit though that was....well it was okay. I really hate Celestia for this."
"I know! You've said it like a thousand times already! But what about the Elements of Harmony? Or Luna?"
"Luna I may not consider my friend anymore. As for the Elements, they didn't know what they were doing."
"Pfft and you really believe that? I mean come on! How gullible can you be!"
"Well if their crying faces and the months of therapy Pinkie had to go through is any indicator then yes I believe it! Poor things but that was what feels like forever ago."
"Probably because it was. Poor Pinkie....it really does break my heart that she had to go through that...." He sounded disheartened at the thought
"Wow Discord. Never seen this side of you before. Don't worry if I ever get out of here I'll make Celestia pay." I said with a devious tone.
He chucked. "Oh really?
"You have no idea what I have planned!! If I ever get out, Canterlot will fall and there is nothing. NOTHING! That will be able to stop me!!"
"Heh, big talk from a statue. I've tried the same thing and look at me!"
"No Discord you didn't! You tried to take Ponyville. Not Equestria's capital. And I have something you don't."
"Oh? And what, pray tell, is that?"
"Human brutality" I laughed and discord stayed silent. I think I might have scared him...nah certainly not.
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I just stood there, not like I had much choice in the matter but anyway. I could hear birds chirping so I assumed it was day time. I tried to imagine it being a beautiful day but when I heard when I heard what I thought was rain, my only thought was a well placed swear word that started with an "F". I thought I heard hoofsteps but I dismissed it as my mind playing tricks on me, but then the rain stopped and the hoofsteps got closer. "Oh it's the gardener." I thought and went back to just existing in the eternal time loop that is my prison: Birds land on me, one of the gardeners would shoo them away and clean any messes they make, then leave and another gardener comes and waters the plants. Just like clock work and boy was it boring. This routine, this "life", this unending boredom was eating at me! Well picking at the leftover bones at least. It had driven me insane a long time ago, my mind was just now starting to break.
I felt more birds land on me and just tried to ignore them but when I felt the familiar feeling of one of them shitting on me I lost it. "EnOuGh!!!" The massive surge of negative, evil energy was enough to make the birds explode and shower blood and innards onto me and other statues, even Discord's.
"My my Seth, you weren't kidding were you? If you can do that while still a statue. Imagine what chaos you can spread if you break free."
"I'm not interested in your games Discord! I just want outta here."
"I'm not speaking to Seth anymore am I?"
"What was your first clue? The exploding birds?"
"That and you're being a plothole. Seth never acted like that. So you must be the 'real' Ezekiel Hmm?
"You heard of me? Wonderful, now either shut up or help me think of a way out of here!"
"Not if you're going to ask like that."
"Makes no difference to me."
Discord was silent for awhile. I guess even the god of chaos doesn't tolerate rudeness. But then again I wouldn't either. It's been a few minutes now and Discord was still silent I was about to say something when one of the gardeners saw all the blood and guts everywhere. "Oh Celestia what happened here!!" I heard her run off and then heard her emptying the contents of her stomach. After a few minutes she returned with a hose and began to rinse me off while whimpering. After she was done with rinsing me and the other statues off she mentioned something about us being ready for the school field trip coming in a few hours.
"Hmm....I wonder if it's Ponyville's school?"
"Ah Seth you're back. Quite a mess Ezekiel made."
"Yeah that poor mare. I feel sorry for her."
"I wouldn't worry about You didn't anything. He did."
"Yeah I suppose you're right but still..." I sighed. "...I don't want there to be a field trip. they should just stay at their school."
"Well there's nothing you can do about it."
"I know.... How do you do it Discord? How do you stay sane?! You've been here a lot longer then I have."
He laughed "I've never been sane my dear friend. Not for centuries at least."
"I see...."
"Just don't worry about Seth. It's all irrelevant."
"Really Discord?"
"Yes. Just relax.
I didn't say anything. It is unlike Discord to be like this.
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I was just staring into the darkness of my mind. Then saw red glowing eyes staring back at me, and then a smile shown through the darkness. Then he spoke.
"Hello Seth. It's been awhile since you looked over here."
"I've looked everywhere else except here so why not. And I wanted a favor."
"Oh?" He chuckled "I already know what you want, and the answer is yes. I just need a body."
"There's always a catch....Only if you give it back when we're free."
"Promise."
"No you don't. But who else is better to make Celestia pay than you?" I thought for a moment. "Deal just be kind to those foals ok?"
"Assuming I'll choose that moment to free us, certainly. They're just foals. They've done nothing wrong."
"No they haven't."
He sunk back into the darkness and I went back to looking in the other direction, toward the good memories and payed attention to them for awhile. I watched as mine and Fluttershy's reunion played in front of me along with everything that happened afterwards. This went on for awhile, apparently long enough for it to be time for the field trip to come by. I was growing worried as the teacher grew closer.
"And here is Discord the God of Chaos. Who has been defeated by the Elements of Harmony twice. Can anypony tell me what the word discord means?"
Discord groaned. "I hate this about these field trips! The teachers always ask that question!" I just laughed and listened to the class.
"Oh oh! I know Miss Cheerilee." What!? No-no-no-no. Ezekiel laughed.
"Yes go ahead Nyx."
"It means disorder and lack of harmony."
"Very good." She walked over to me. "Now over here we have.....a friend of mine, if you will believe me children. Ezekiel was the first and only human in Equestria. He was a kind and honest person and he had a rather strange sense of humor." She chuckled at the memory as did I.
"Wait Miss Cheerilee, you mean....you knew him??" One of the fillies asked
"Why yes I did. He was quite the character sometimes."
"But if he was good why is he here?" A colt asked this time.
She stayed silent for a few seconds before simply saying. "He did the un-thinkable. No pony would have ever expected him to do such a thing....but that's a later lesson. Despite what you may hear about him, Ezekiel was kind....he just made mistakes."
"Now seems just perfect." Ezekiel said, afterwards laughing in a deep sinister voice.
"Just don't hurt them, please?" I said.
He said nothing and the ground began to shake. I could feel chunks of stone falling away from my skin and the warm sun's rays hitting me. Unfortunately this wasn't necessarily going to be a happy occasion. There was silence as I felt the last of the stone fall away and I started to move. Ezekiel made me jump at the nearest pony which happen to be a foal, with a black coat and light blue eyes that had irises that looked like Spike's. Then he did something I wish he didn't. He flipped up the eye patch and made me open my left eye.
The foal was in front of me now in my mind. It looks like a filly so let's assume I'm right. We weren't in Ezekiel's torture room like that time with Celestia and Luna. No we were in the more...sane part of my mind. I looked at the filly, who looked scared and tried to talk to her.
"I'm sorry he did that....I told him not to."
She tried to run away but she was floating so she couldn't. She gave up after a few minutes. I started to move toward her. "NO!! Stay back! Go away!" She started flailing around.
"Don't worry little one I wouldn't hurt you. And Ezekiel! I told you not to do anything like that!!"
"Sorry. Got a little excited." He said dismissively.
"W-What are you going to do to me?" She asked nervously.
I closed the remaining distance and hugged her. "Release you my dear. I'm going to release you. So you can go back to Ponyville."
"Fine, I'll let her go."
"If you happen to see Twilight Sparkle around, tell her I say hi."
"S-Seth??" I gave her a confused look before Ezekiel put the eye patch back over my left eye, severing the connection between her mind and mine.
Ezekiel dropped her and scared the rest of the ponies away. He then stopped everything he was doing. "Your hate for Celestia is great enough that, I think, you can do the rest yourself. I'll still be here in case you 'need me'." He then let me have control of my body.
"You know Ezekiel? You're right." I laughed and started toward the castle.
The Princess will pay.