Spawn of Disharmony
By: KenSES64
Chapter 28: Magic Duel
While Twilight and Spike were at Fluttershy’s to practice some magic, I was in the library doing some of my own. I shoot a small red ord out of my horn, it floated there for a second then my own shadow started to move towards it and then started to rise, it then wrapped around the orb, there was a flash of light and when it faded there was another me, well kinda. I tried to touch it and my hoof went right though it. Just as it was suppose to do.
“Okay I got the shadow part down, now let’s try the puppet part.” I say aloud while using my still glowing horn to move the fake me around the library. I actually looked really convincing.
“Okay, Shadow Puppet, check. Now let’s see if this ‘ventriloquist’ spell works. If so I should be able to make you talk.”
After a few seconds the fake me open it’s mouth and said, “Testing, testing. One, two, three. Sweet it worked. Great job Seth.”
“Why than you Seth, I worked really hard to get this prefect.”
“It certainly shows.”
“Wait if I’m talking to myself and controlling both sides of the conversation then does this mean I’m insane?”
“Is that a rhetorical question?”
“If you weren’t a shadow I’d punch you.”
“Whatever, so what are you going to do now?”
“Well after I found an invisibility spell in the book Twi got me for my birthday, I been trying to preform it, with little success. Yet, I think I almost have it.” I then focused on trying to hide myself in light bending energy. After I felt a bit of a magic burst I asked myself, “So did it work?”
“How the hay should I know? You’re controlling my every action.”
“Fine smartflank.”
“Who are you talking to?” I hear Rainbow ask as she opens the front door, she then walks past me and to my shadow puppet, so I assume she couldn’t see me.
“Oh nopony, beautiful. Just practicing some magic.” I make my puppet say. “Some that I think can be useful in battle or even pranking.”
“Oh really? Care to give me a demonstration?”
“I am, I’m not even in front of you.”
I then make myself reappear as she turns around to see me. She jumps back a bit surprised. She then starts looking back and forth. “There’s two of you?” She asked.
“Not really. The other me here is just an illusion.” I explain as I stop the spell making my puppet vanish, my shadow returning to me. “It was the closest thing to thing to a cloning spell I was able to find, you know like the one those two changeling brothers did. I mean think of the possibilities if I was able to make several of me.”
Rainbow’s face started to get a faint tint of red as her wing then flared out.
I chuckle and say, “Wow Rainbow, I was still talking about pranking, but your mind went straight to dirty thoughts.” I started slowly walking towards her as her face turned redder and redder. “Who knew that under all that tomcoatishness, you were such a naughty filly underneath.” At this point I was right in front of her, so I leaned to her ear and whisper, “Too bad that Mr. Disarmonia has to punish naughty fillies.” Her face was literally pink at this point.
That’s when Applejack burst in and asked “Where’s Twilight?... Uh... am I interrupting anything?”
“Oh just me playfully teasing Rainbow a little bit. To answer you first question, she’s at Fluttershy’s. Why?” I ask.
“It’s an emergency.”
“What kind of emergency?” Rainbow asked.
“There’s some mare in a hood in town casting spells on the townsponies. Twilight has to stop her.”
“I’ll get her.” Rainbow said while flying out of the library.
I followed Applejack to where this mare was.
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So, Twilight, Rainbow and Spike got back as the mysterious mare magically put an ugly dress onto Rarity. Rarity being the dramatic pony that she is then fainted onto Applejack who carried her away with Pinkie Pie.
“What’s going on here?” Twilight asked
“Well, well, well. If it isn’t Twilight Sparkle.” The mare said taking off of her hood. She was a blue unicorn with a silver mane and purple eyes that glowed red for a quick second. I swear I’ve seen her somewhere before, but I couldn’t put my hoof on it.
Twilight gasped and exclaimed, “Trixie!” When she said that name it clicked with me. She was that chick that Light Arrow hit on at that bar we went to for Shining Armor’s bachelor party, which I’ve met up with Light Arrow recently where he told me of something that I don’t have any memory of. Apparently we also went to a restaurant called ‘Flanks’ that night. Yeah, I’m going to leave it at that.
“What’s she doing here?” Spike said in a slightly angry tone.
Rainbow flew up to her and asked, “You call that great and powerful?”
Then Trixie zapped Rainbow making one of her wings huge, throwing her off balance. Now, I’ll admit that I like wings... a lot, but I still had to defend my mare.
“Hey!” I shout, getting everypony’s attention. I trot up to Trixie and say, “Nopony, and I mean NOPONY, harms my Dashie in any way and gets away with it.”
“Oh really And who are you?” Trixie asks raising an eyebrow.
“I am Seth Disarmonia, the spawn of Discord, and that mare you just messed with is my fiancé, so I’d recommend that you change her back before you regret it.”
She just smirked as her horn glowed with a red aura that soon surrounded me. I then was slowly lifted into the air unable to do anything. “So you’re the Spawn of Disharmony, huh? I’ve heard of you. So if Discord’s practically your father then I bet you wouldn’t mind being a little bit more like him.”
The next thing I knew I couldn’t feel my legs. I look down to see that they where now a greyish-white color. S-She was turning me to stone! I last thing I heard was Rainbow shouting my name.
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I opened my eyes to see that I was the bar that I was in when I met Discord and those other weird creatures. Speaking of the draconiquus that created me, he was facing me wearing a smug grin and taunting me with a slow clap, “Well done my boy, you just got owned by Trixie Lulamoon of all ponies, I have a feeling that you’re not going to do well in the tournament. Yet, she did beat Gilda, without that Alicorn Amulet she had on so who knows.”
“Tournament? What tournament? And who the buck is Gilda?”
“Huh, you’d think that future wife of yours would of told you about some of her old friends from flight school. As for the tournament, well that doesn’t really matter, besides even if it did it would be more fun to leave you in the dark.”
“So how long do you think I’m going to be here?”
Discord rolled his eyes, “Kids today so impatient. I was trapped for over 2,000 years and you’re complaining after a few minutes.”
“Well, I have friends and a fiancé, two things I’m sure you never had.”
“Actually Celestia and I had a thing way back when, but I’d rather not talk about it.”
After shuddering at the picture of them together I asked, “Harsh break up?”
“She and her sister turned me to stone, what do you think?”
There was a short silence before I asked, “So what do you do to past the time?”
“Wanna play some board games?”
Do you know what I learned, Discord sucks at board games. I beat him at almost everything. Gamble, Hint, Battleclouds, Business Takeover, Candy World, Apology, the list goes on and I beat him at all of them. Many games ended with him flipping the board.
After a few days of this when we were in the middle of a game of Rat Trap I notice a pink aura around me and I started to fade. The last thing I heard was Discord say, “This counts as a forfeit.”
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I woke up to see my friends around me and with pieces of stone around my hooves. The only sound I made was “Uuugggh...” Then I was hug attacked by Rainbow, but this time she gave me several quick smooches around my face. When she finished she sighed and said, “I missed you.”
So we explained to each other what happened while I was Trixie’s lawn ornament. I told them about beating Discord’s flank in many board games. On there side apparently Trixie challenged Twilight to a magic duel, loser leaves Ponyville. Twilight lost and trained with Zercora, while Trixie took over the town. Twilight came back, challenged her to a rematch, and tricked her into taking off the amulet that was giving her so much power.
Later that night Princess Celestia came to town with some ponies from Saddle Arabia. Twilight provided the entertainment. At the end of the show there where fireworks presented by... Trixie? I walked up to them hearing Trixie asking for forgiveness, which Twilight did give.
Truthfully I wouldn’t have been as sure to do so.
So as Trixie ran off I trotted after her to just give her a piece of my mind. When I got not that far from her I saw something strange. She was just standing there with what looked like some red mist around her. Then there was a flash of light and she was gone.
“What the hay?” I say aloud.
The mist moves showing what looked like two glowing blue eyes. There was a sound for laughter and a voice that said, “I’lL gEt To YoU sOoN sEtH.” It then vanished.
“That can’t be good.” I said before I rushed back to town to tell the others what I just saw.
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If any of you don't know what Discord was talking about he was refering to this fic.