//------------------------------// // Side Story 1: Vices. Chapter 1 // Story: Desire // by frutineo //------------------------------// Side Story 1: Vices. Vice 1: Lust. An earth pony of deep orange coat and pale blond mane walked over the weak bridge that lead to an ancient palace, the ancient castle of the royal pony sisters namely ‘DEUS’ was in almost complete ruins, he was not surprised of the state of what was once a magnificent structure ‘time does take its toll’ no time thrive on this meaningless details he was here for a reason, he was to retrieve something of importance something that would strike fear in the heart of all the creatures in this planet, it was called… ******** ************************* ************************** ******************************* ********************** ***************** Discord floated in front of him it was the same as he remembered the statue to be but now it was really him in the flesh, his eyes could not believe this nor did his ears when he heard the Draconequus next words. “Hello little one who might you be?” “D-dreamer” “hahahahaha what a Nice name, now Dreamer tell me, what if I were to tell you that I can give you a power beyond your wildest” he was interrupted by an eager and simple answer. “YES” ‘Yes this is it, my very own acolyte the answer to all of my prayers’ Discord smiled at him and started to concentrate a spell in his finger “look I know you will be eager to try your new powers and I want you to do so; go wild, do not allow anything to stop you but remember, if I were to be imprisoned one day you must go to the Everfree forest there you have to find the ‘Deus’” “Deus?” That question threw him off guard ‘Celestia must have taken real precautions this time, no wonder I found that castle different from before not only did she changed location almost nopony must know about were her old home is located let alone it’s old name seems to have been lost with the millennia I spent in my prison’ he then returned to his task “it is an ancient castle deep within the forest, there you will encounter remnants of my essence, that remnant will tell you about the item you need to retrieve if you are to revive me, also if I were you I’d lay low for a few months before unleashing your new power, make it mature like a wine and then when you feel it’s right” he got closer to the colt “open the bottle” he unleashed the power in his paw. Dreamer felt a sudden weight that burned deep within his chest which soon disappeared; Dreamer just looked at the God of chaos in the eyes and thanked him with a little bow. ************* *********************** *********************** ****************************** ****************************** ‘Now that I think about it, he never really told me about this Item, even so it must have a great power if it can cancel the imprisonment the Elements of Harmony bestowed upon you master’ The colt was now near a fountain that had 6 open spaces ‘the Elements of Harmony must have been hold here once a long time ago’ his mind wandered to a few days ago when he finally recovered from the injuries inflicted on him in that battle 3 months ago, after this… aura helped him recover to his fullest, not one scar was left from that encounter ‘…now I am deviating from my goal I am supposed to look for some sort of energy remnant’ his body let out a dark aura as if it was reacting to something, that certain something was some dark blue sparkling smoke that rose from below the fountain. ‘So this is the piece of him that I was supposed to look for, intriguing it seems that it is weakened’ the aura floated in front of him locking itself to his own and without any warning it entered his body making him shriek and fold himself out of it as images and memories from a past life hit him like a barrage of stones from a landslide. After a while he stood up from this sudden burst of knowledge and power, he felt it, something growing inside of him ‘now to do this I would need assistance 5… no 6 more like me, tainted creatures but where?...’ he paused for a moment letting his new evolved aura to look for individuals that could serve his purpose which gave him favorable results in a very short time ‘The nearest is in the mountains to the east and the next one inside the griffon kingdom, I shall play a little with the one in the mountains, see what he is made of before I decide to expose myself anymore’ his mouth formed a sly smile. That night a foul wind was felt over ponyville.