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The reverse side
A halo of magical aura surrounded the white pony, his presence had a purifying effect. Dusk felt his thoughts align, he felt clarity after so many years of confusion. The chaos that lived inside of him melted only slightly and the personage in front of him began to speak, "I am the Evening Star who guides those who are lost. I am here to assist you, my master." He bent his front legs in and entered a humble bow. "I'm afraid I don't understand..." Dusk broke in, "The clarity of your aura can only do so much, I'm afraid I still require explanation." The colt stood up and agreed, "Of course. You never formally met me, I am a part of you who was 'killed' so many years ago, I never entirely died though."
Memory surged within Dusk's mind and it felt as though pieces of his past were uncovered and unleashed. Dusk spoke quickly as though he was eager to show what he knew, "You were the voice that I heard those many years ago! The one that Dawn killed!" Evening nodded, "I had waited many years for a chance to begin to heal again then finally one came. After you had banished him, I remained in hiding and sought to mature myself just as he did by drawing off of your emotions."
Dusk was still confused, though the aura of purification washed over him gently. It felt almost like Poly's presence. "How can I know if I can trust you? Where did you come from?" The white pony nodded, "On this day, I was born as was Dawn and yourself.", he pointed out the window and Dusk saw that they where still in the memory of the day he was born. The fields where in turmoil now as the roads turned to soap and nature turned to all sorts of edible manifestations. Cotton candy dotted the sky and chocolate splattered the fragments of what was left of the windows, the sun would set and the moon would rise and vise versa every few minutes. Maelstroms of fire danced across the sky and death filled the air. "What is going on?" Dusk walked to the window and stared, a part of him thought this was a great place to live, a place of unpredictability. A place of chaos.
"This is the Reign of Discord, a short era in which the lands where thrown into chaos by an evil being. You were born at the very height of his reign and thus you felt its effects. You unfortunately absorbed much of the chaos in the air and your mind nurtured the feelings that came with it. Hatred, anger, violence, depression, sadness, revenge, chaos, all of it planted as a single shard into your mind. That seed would live in you until it was nourished. It became Dawn. He arrived to you when you felt the most out of place did he not? He was there because your emotions fed him."
The truth was liberating as well as hard to grasp, "There is no way... that can't be." Dusk stared at the ground and he remembered the triggers that set off Dawn, the occasions when he felt his strongest and the times he could break free. Dusk looked back up, "If this is true then what of you? Who are you and how come you only appear now!?"
"Love, forgiveness, happiness, confidence, courage, humility. These are all that I am. The chaos that you absorbed meant there would have to be an order to compare it to. The turmoil in your soul had made it a difficult task to flourish and grow. When Dawn was closest to you I could not grow, he cut off those streams of emotions before I could experience them and then he came for me when I fell ill of starvation. Before then, however, I was only a seed feeding off of your emotions up until you moved, then you changed. Dawn came to life before I did and he took advantage of his position to choke me off, until..."
Dusk stopped him. "Until Poly."
"Correct, you met Poly and the emotions you felt: hope, love, happiness, they all became a shining sun that downed his darkness and I could stand over Dawn. But I was still in my infancy..." Dawn's advice and guidance began to make sense now, it was all a clever way of cutting off emotion and communication. He had slowly been suffocating Dusk from the inside. And now he almost felt dead.
"No wonder Dawn wanted me away from Poly..." The white unicorn shook his head, "No, he wanted you away from her for a much greater reason. Both you and her share the same birthday but your era separates you." He looked out the window again as did Dusk and a shock wave of light washed over the land and cleansed everything on the face of the earth. "The Reign of Harmony. A split second in which the Elements of Harmony reacted with each other and blessed the lands with peace. Poly, by whatever luck, was born at this exact moment. She became your compliment, your reversed polarity. Whatever chaos that lived inside of you was negated while you where nearest to her and I was able to flourish. Dawn developed a hate for her immediately, he could feel her effects. He knew she would ruin his plans." Dusk looked back at Evening, "Plans? What plans?" Evening's eyes grew narrow and serious, "His escape." Dusk grew worried and looked to his partner, "Then we must get back."
Dusk threw his hoof into a window and cleared the shards away before jumping. He fell weightlessly to the ground and made off for the mirror back to the real world. "NO STOP!!! THAT IS WHAT HE WANTS!!!", Evening screamed, but it was too late. Dusk was too far away to hear.
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The Graff Residence
The dragon looked at the police officers and his low voice carefully commanded them, "You are no longer needed here, this is now official business of the royal court." The two officers looked at each other then at the dragon, "We see no reason to argue." The presence of a dragon obviously had an effect on them. The doctor finished applying medication and gauze to Dawn, "Then I shall be off as well, I have no need here either." Ursa ran up to the teal pegasus with the chromatic mane, "Mom! What are you doing here? What is going on?" Ursa winced and the doctor left one last command before leaving. "Try to keep her still. The last thing we need is for her to strain herself. Rainbow Shine moved to her daughter's side and raised one wing over her to keep her close. The purple unicorn looked at both of them, "So Rainbow, this is your daughter." She nodded, "Yep Twilight, this is my little Ursa."
Macintosh's sister, Applejack, looked at them sternly. "Look y'all, I understand that this is a pleasant meeting and all but don't forget what we are here for. Just look at this young'in, she's obviously been affected by Discord in some way or a 'nother now focus." Pinkie Pie was listening intently to Inkie as she repeated any information that may be helpful. "Pinkie Pie, there is no reason to ask we already know what's wrong with your niece now suit up." Pinkie cut her conversation with her sister short, "Sorry Rarity, I'm... I'm just a little bit worried. I think this may go beyond Discord's lingering presence. My Pinkie sense is telling me we may not be in for an easy job." Ursa looked at her mother, "Wait, suit up?"
"Ursa, I need you and Ms. Star here to go to that wall there and wait." Rainbow turned away from her daughter and straightened her posture. Twilight's horn glowed and each of the ponies began to glow as necklaces manifested themselves around their necks (with the exception of Twilight who now bore a tiara). Dawn began to creep back and away from the event, 'No, I need more time.'
As orbs of light flashed and tension built in the air Dawn snuck around the corner and into the hall. There was a chromatic explosion lit up the main room and for a split second, gravity seemed to focus into a tight ball at Poly's position. Lightning and fire swirled through the air though it singed nopony who was struck. Poly's grey colors were washed with the colors of the lights and she began to return to normal once again. Her head spun, the room danced, she struggled to move and eventually found herself tied up.
"Wha... What's going on?" Pinkie and Fona rushed forward and untied her before nearly crushing her under the combined force of both of their hugs. "Where am I? Aunt Pinkie? What are you doing here? Is there a party or something?" Pinkie stepped back and prepared to celebrate, "Not yet, but when I'm done with this place..." A pegasus who had remained quiet the entire time and seemed to be forgotten by most spoke up and broke into the conversation. "WAIT! I mean... wait... We still don't know what caused this, Discord can't be back... Can he?"
Twilight looked to the dragon, "Fluttershy is right. Spike, I need you to send word to the princess and have them investigate the statue of Discord. He shouldn't be free yet but he should not be underestimated." The dragon pulled out a quill and paper, "Roger." He turned to the side and held up the fresh scroll before incinerating it and leaving a magical trail of smoke. Morning and Ursa were still in the corner as everything unfolded, Ursa looked around. "Hey Dusk is gone..." Morning grew wide eyed and scanned the room, "Oh no, she's right..."
Applejack looked at her, "He was just here a second ago, do you think he was involved?" Morning nodded and explained the incidences with Dawn from years ago. Tension built in the house, something disastrous was preparing itself.
Dawn was upstairs hiding in a closet. 'Oh, the indignity of it all... They just had to block off every single exit and Dusk just had to disappear now of all times. Hoofsteps up the stairs made him freeze as the whole building was being patted down for his whereabouts. 'Drat, I've been out too long and now all of this is happening. I'll have to time this well...'
Twilight came to a closet in a bedroom upstairs, she had been following a wavelength of chaos that she had notice when she had entered the home. She reached her hoof out and cautiously opened the door. Dawn flew out of the closet and knocked her down before rushing for the stairs. Everypony became alert and began to shout for someone to catch him. At the last steps he jumped forward as far as he could, the doorway was right there and if he could make it through then he would be free, but something came in through his peripheral vision.
Poly tackled him mid-air and flattened him against the wall, she was trying her best to keep her emotions in control, this was no time to enter a fury again. Dawn's strength felt like it was being sapped at the points where Poly made contact with him. "Get off of me!!!", he screamed as he began to thrash about, but it was too late. Everypony else had him surrounded and moved him into the middle of the room. There was no escape now. 'Dusk, if there is a time to arrive. Now would be it.'
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"What are you planning?" Rainbow Shine put one hoof forward aggressively and entered a pouncing stance on the off chance it was required. The jig was up, Dawn decided to come out with it all, Dusk was nearing and nobody could stop him once he arrived. He looked to Twilight and began, "Well being that you are a well off unicorn and well versed in magic I'm sure you understand what the 'wellspring' is." Twilight didn't dare break eye contact and hesitantly replied, "It's essentially a unicorn's magical storehouse. The more knowledge a unicorn has the larger it becomes, the more refined the knowledge the more refined the magic." Dawn sat down then lay on his side across the floor, "Exactly, now you should also know what happens when a unicorn doesn't use their magic for extended periods of time." Twilight frowned, "The wellspring compresses itself into a compact form of magic so that it can start to fill up once again." Dawn smiled widely, "Exactly, but what happens when the compressed magic nears the point of overflowing?" Morning was the first to respond this time, "Oh no!" Dawn laughed evilly at her reaction, "Precisely!!! Since it has already been compacted it can't be compacted anymore! So it begins to leak..."
"I'm afraid I don't follow..." Twilight knew what Morning had explained about Dawn but she knew nothing of Dusk so Morning had to elaborate. "Dusk never uses magic! Not even his telekinesis! Plus he has become certified in so many trades that his wellspring must be miles wide by now! and if what Dawn says is true..." Dawn awaited her response, he grew excited with her worry, "Yes!? Yes!? Yes!? Come on, say it Morning, just say it!!!" She looked up, "Then Dawn has access to the most compressed form of magic in a near infinite supply and its just overflowing by now, Dusk wouldn't be able to control it even if he knew how." Dawn stood up and began to laugh, the orange in his eyes began to split their colors. The whites turned yellow and his pupils red, "And that means, I have enough magical power to manifest myself and make off with his whole wellspring."
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Dusk was still in the reverse trying to make it back to the gateway mirror. Running weightlessly across a large field is no easy task and often results in falling and rolling, but finally the house was in sight. The skies were no longer peaceful and Dusk was no longer focused on his memory. The grass dissolved beneath his feet and a black ocean began to appear, rising out of the floor. Dawn was growing stronger and Dusk knew it. Normally he would fall into the dark sea but this time it felt as though Dawn wasn't trying to drown Dusk out; he was giving Dusk a path. "I don't know what you are planning Dawn, but I won't let you get away with it..." Evening forced his way through the thick waters, his head would occasionally dip beneath a wave as it worked its way around Dusk and towards him. "Dusk, don't!!! It's what he wants!" The house melted away but the mirror still lingered on, this was it. He slipped through the mirror and took his body once again. Evening saw the tip of his tail slip into the mirror. "NOOOO!".
Everypony watched as Dawn's bruises and cuts healed and his form began to change, the harshness in his eyes melted away and a kindhearted face replaced his dark grin. "Wait, what's going on?", he saw that there was a group of ponies surrounding him and he was laying on the floor, he stood up and shook the dust off of himself. Morning looked at him carefully, as did Poly, "Dusk? Is it really you?" Dusk blinked and cocked his head to the side, "Of, course. Who would I be?" He felt a shock wave rocket through him, then another. Applejack tackled Morning as the floorboards ripped up all around Dusk. The pulses began to cause his body to writhe and twist rhythmically. It felt as though a booming heartbeat began to pummel his body, then a voice echoed through the room and the lights flickered. "Me. Mwuhahahahaha!"
He began to float into the air and his horn glowed and began to pulse along with the heartbeat. "What is going on?!?", yelled Rainbow to Twilight. She shook her head and gazed wide eyed at the scene unfolding before them all, "I'm not sure, I've never scene anything like this before..." Poly watched in horror as the light grew brighter and Dusk's screams became more pained, "Dusk..." Then the lights in the room shattered but Dusk's horn now glowed so brightly that the difference was unnoticed. Then a massive flash and a bang shook the room and blinded everypony for several seconds. "What happened? Where is everypony? Somebody start a roll call." Fourteen voices cried out.
"Good, everypony is accounted for... Wait... Us six, Spike, Macintosh, Poly, Fona... There is one more voice..." The blindness passed and everypony focused on the new comer. Twilight saw him for who he really was before anypony else could. He put off a wavelength of evil and his magic was darker than most but was not unfamiliar, they had fought him before. "No, it can't be..."
"Use the Elements of Harmony now!" Twilight snapped to attention and began to relay a powerful magic as the other 5 joined her. The colors where bright and vivid just as when they had purified Poly, but now it was in a much greater magnitude, it was strong enough to turn anything to stone... or destroy it and reduce it to ash. The lights shot forward in a hyper concentrated aurora and traced their path to the target with a brilliance rarely seen. Then, they stopped.
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A malicious claw was held out and the lights simple stopped as though they had hit a wall, a voice dark and proud rang out with a chuckle, "You silly little foals. The Elements of Harmony only work on that which is corrupted and evil. " The claw closed as the beam of light came to its end and there was a small explosion in his palm. He pointed the paw of a lion towards Spike and the unicorn named Rarity, "Since my body was born from a pure magic there is nothing your Elements can do to harm me. On the off chance that you think of something however..." Lifting the thumb on his hand he formed the shape of a gun and tapped into the magical reserve that he "borrowed" from Dusk. "Pew." The air compressed and a Spike and the unicorn were thrown back and into the wall where they fell to they ground. Both had been knocked unconscious and a crater was left in the wall where they impacted.
He laughed evilly and began to repeat the process as each and everypony attempted to run away. The bodies collapsed as they crashed into the walls and he began to laugh darkly, "HAHAHAHA! Don't you see that running away is pointless? I will find you but there is no need to worry... I won't kill you just yet." Then he turned to the only pony standing, Dusk stared horrifically at the monstrosity who stood over him, "Who are you?" The monster stooped down on one knee and stared him in the face. "Oh... You don't remember me? Huh..."
He covered his face with his arms then revealed his new face, it was Dusk's father. "Just to let you know Dusk... Your father's death...", he grinned darkly and his teeth were revealed to be filed down into fangs. Dusk blinked and his father's face turned back into the creature who was there before, "...Was nothing near painless. HahahahahaHAHAHAHAHA!!!" Dusk threw his hoof up and tried to get the best hit he could in but the lion's paw stopped it.
"There is no way you could ever beat me, especially now. I destroy lands for the sake of entertainment, I commit genocide against those who stand in my way, I haunt the innocent and drive them to insanity..." He twisted Dusk's hoof and Dusk squealed in pain. "I tear natural laws apart because I can, I turn night to day, air to fire, earth to dust, ponies into shells of their former self, and you DARE TRY TO CHALLENGE ME!!!" He lifted up Dusk and began to twirl before releasing him and slamming him into the ground.
Dusk couldn't hold onto his consciousness for long, "You still haven't answered me... Who are you?"
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"I am chaos and I AM DISCORD!!!!!"
Dusk began to shake in fear as his breaths became shallow and Discord cackled with delight.
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