That Gangly Kid

by Plumage


Stone

It has been seven hundred years. Six of those spent alone. Trapped in this hellish prison.
I tried. At first. I really did.
But it got too much.
When I tried to help the ponies on this damned planet, they would become bleached and unlike themselves. When I left them, they would die off. I did not know what to do. For half the time I have been here I have been trying to make things work for me. Celestia was fine. She never had to worry. She used her magic to raise the sun. And the moon. She must sleep for the day and most of the night. Raising a huge celestial body and a lunar body every single day for life must be tiring.
Of course that leaves me to shape this planet.
My magic is not good for anything. I cannot help Celestia and raise the moon for her, and I can't possibly do anything to the ponies of this world. I sicken myself.
So then, I thought, what if I just forget?
Change this planet?
Have some fun?
I did it bit by bit. Every day I would change the world a bit more. Reverse a law of physics there, break a forth wall there. I changed Equestria so much in those first weeks that by the end of the first month of change it was raining chocolate milk and the roads were soap.
Celestia didn't notice. She slept. On the first day of the second month, as soon as she fell asleep, I tried my paw at raising the moon. Then I set it. And the sun came up. And I left it going too fast. The night will last forever? The night lasts a few minutes. It was hilarious.
And I told Celestia I could raise the sun and moon by myself. So she slept more.
But eventually she did not need to sleep; there was nothing to be tired for.
So she walked outside. I remember that day as if it were yesterday.
"Discord!" Celestia called playfully. "Where are you, honey?"
"Out here. Shouldn't you be asleep?"
"I'm not tired."
I remember thinking, Oh crap.
She playfully trotted up to me, looking at the ground and deliberately swinging her hips as she went.
She looked up, out at the world.
"....Discord?"
"Yes?"
"What did you do?"

I explained things to her and she didn't disagree or say anything against me. She just seemed preoccupied.
The next I saw her she was readying something. They looked like six spheres of stone with symbols engraved on them.

"Discord, honey?"
"Yes?"
"I've got something to show you. Come on in here,"
I walked into her room. She had the spheres of stone (which I now recognized as the Elements of Harmony) arranged around her.
"Discord," she said sadly, "you have reigned chaos on us for far too long.
"I need to do this. I'm sorry."
She lit her horn.
The elements around her began to glow. One by one they lifted up off the ground. Celestia rose with them. She opened her eyes, and they were two glowing orbs of light.
"You can't banish me! You can't use the Elements on me! I created them!" I screamed.
And a rainbow came down upon me.
My legs felt cold, numb. I tried to move one but they wouldn't budge.
A line of grey was running up my body slowly. I put my lions paw on my stomach to see what would happen, and when the grey ran over it, it wouldn't move no matter how hard I tried.
I held my eagle's claw up to see if I could stop the rainbow, but the grey was up to my elbow and it wouldn't move. It was like I was turning to stone.
Stone.
STONE!
No! This was my destiny?! To be encased in stone for eternity?! But it must be true, as the grey ran up my neck, I screamed, "CELESTIAAAA!!"
My last thought before the stone engulfed me was of the unborn child.

A/N
Done!! Oh...the epilogue isn't coming for a while though. Sorry.
Also, if this chapter is a little rushed/different, sorry. No sleep. e.o