Chaos of the Moon

by Chaos of Canterlot

The Shadow on the Cliff

‘This is thought’
“This is speech”

One hour earlier…

The royal guards stood outside the throne room, listening to a muffled conversation take place for about two and a half hours now.

“Hey Jetstream?”

“Yeah Starling?”

“I wonder what’s going on in there. The princess must really be getting into the conversation.”

“You got that right, Star. I wonder what they’re even arguing about.”

Inside the throne room…

“Dear sister, please reconsider thou’s judgment. If it is Discord, let us handle him,” Princess Luna said pleadingly

“Yes and you can handle him?” Princess Celestia said, looking beside her to her sister. “What happened the last time you were with him alone?” She said to her sister. Luna’s gaze looked down and away.

“Good, now I will go and meet this somepony and confront them.” She said commandingly, not directed at her sister. She looked over to see Luna beginning to cry. Her heart softened and she embraced her younger sister with her wing.

“Dear sister, I’m sorry for my words. I’m just….how do I say this….̴”

“Thou doesn’t like to contemplate thine idea of us and Discord meeting up again. We understand. We shall take our leave,” Luna said dejected, getting out from under her wing and exiting the throne room through a back room. She walked through the castle halls, thinking of Discord. He had loved her, truly loved her. He loved all she had created when otherponies were scared of it. Discord had especially loved her nights. He understood how misunderstood both she and her works were. His works were misunderstood more, although they were as harmless as Luna’s night. Discord had only ever tried to have fun with his magic. He never harmed anyone and all he wanted was to create a little bit of fun and happiness and break away from monotonous life.

But even in all the good he wished to spread, he still offended Celestia somehow. But seeing as he’s the Element of chaos, and Celestia the spirit of harmony, it was evident there would be a rivalry. Celestia could never see the good in Discord’s magic. But Luna could. Luna walked about the castle, before returning to her room. It was a dark blue room, elegant and mysterious in feeling. The drapery was purple and midnight blue, with a shiny grey blue trimming on the furniture and cloth. She walked across her night-like room to her bookshelf, looking for one in particular.
“Night Time Stories, Mysteries of the Night, ohhh there it is: “The Reign of Anarchy,” The Lunar Princess said, levitating the book towards her. She opened it and the inside was carved out to create a hiding spot for things. In the compartment, there sat a piece of stone and newspaper clipping of what looked like Chaos on them. She turned it slightly and it was Discord’s stone snaggletooth.

“Oh Discord, I miss you so much. Recently, Tia got a letter from Twilight.” Luna said happily to the stone. “And in the letter, Twilight had somepony came to the Library. She said she looked like you!!! I think we may have found Chaos, Dissy. Now just to find him.” She kissed the stone. It wasn’t cold like stone usually is, it was warm like a body. She closed the book and put it away, then head out to the Royal Gardens.

Princess Luna slowly clopped through the Royal Canterlot Gardens. She peers at the flowers and all the beautiful colors around her. She was melancholy; relaxed and happy by the serenity of the garden surrounding her, and saddened at the fact that she couldn’t meet this new somepony in Ponyville. Her mind drifted off a little as she walked. She ended up in front of the labyrinth. A few statues stood around the front including an empty pedestal. She knew right where she was. This was Discord’s final resting place. A tear dropped off her muzzle and she sniffled. She patted the pedestal with her hoof and continued on her way.

“Mother…hear…..Save Me!!!” A voice from seemingly nowhere rang out.

“Huh?” She said looking around. She couldn’t find the source and continued to walk. As she walked, something fell and hit her right on her nose.

“Oww!!!” She said as it hit her nose. She backed up and looked down for the invasive object. She spotted its soft amber color against the vibrant green of the grass. She picked it up with her magic, analyzing it. The object was what looked like a perfectly frozen teardrop. She thought for a moment and it clicked. She looked up and her eyes widened to look up as high as she could. On top of the cliff face she saw something move. It colors blended into the gray-purple rock but all she could see were a pair of feet. She was concerned and intrigued at this figure, being all the way up there. Chaos wept at the top of the cliff. His crying turned to sniffling as he calmed down. He turned himself around and stood. He looked out at Canterlot and most of Equestria. He conjured a bit of magic and teleported away.

Princess Luna watched the figure move and then a flash of light. She looked back at the tear, confused about the color. She concentrated her magic on it, and found that the tear was pure magic!! She was baffled at this anomaly. ‘What kind of unicorn could do this advanced of magic?’ She sat back on her haunches and thought hard. She remembered an old spell. It used a sort of time spell. The spell would attach to the residual magic and turn back time, to see where it came from. She executed the spell, watching it play back time. She watched it go up and through the air, back to the somepony it came from. As soon as she saw Chaos’ face, she gasped in shock and dropped the teardrop.

“He’s back…He’s really back!!!” Princess Luna yelled out. She was giddier than a foal and more excited than Rainbow Dash meeting the Wonderbolts. She trotted around happily before teleporting to the top of the cliff to see if he was still there. The snow was packed down where he had been sitting. The snow was reddened with blood. ‘Oh no. He’s injured,’ she thought, fearing for her son. She sighed and teleported back to the Gardens. She looked around where she stood, finding the tear near her rear right hoof. She brought it to her with magic, then teleported to her room. She rushed “The Rule of Anarchy” book to her again, opening it. She briefly looked at all the newspapers from across Equestria. She had followed his supposed trail from Manehattan to Appaloosa, all across the country.. She sighed with brief resignation before placing the tear into the book and closing it. She was happy he was very near, and even more excited to find out that he was so close. Chaos, though, was sitting on the other side of the spectrum.

Chaos teleported to the Everfree Forest, right to where he slept that first night. He shivered badly from the cold, even with the jacket. Most of the bleeding had stopped, but the skin was still sensitive. He slowly peeled away the jacket, crying out in agony as the skin that had regrown into the jacket was stripped off of the tender flesh. He tossed the jacket away in anger, unable to do anything for his back. He looked around momentarily and began slowly moving, trying to find a better and hopefully softer place to sleep the night. His exposed back began to bleed after a few minutes of walking, the exposed blood vessels leaking their cargo. He stumbled and waivered in his step from time to time, his balance and vision beginning to go askew. He stumbled a few more minutes. He gripped a nearby tree, holding it close as he tried to stay upright. He slowly slipped down the tree, his muzzle bouncing on the side as he slipped further and further into nothingness. As his vision faded, he could make out black and white legs through the blur. One of the legs looked golden-like but he could see that they were moving closer to him. As the rest of his body gave out, the hooves stopped in front of him. He sighed gently and he fainted. Zecora looked down at him with curiosity.

“How odd it is to find one of you out here, this late in the night. But to me it seems you’ve been in one mess of a fight.”