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// A New Ruler 
// Story: Agent of Chaos 
// by Enfield 
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	I stare as Discord give a wave of his hand and the ten bodies vanish in a cloud of blue smoke. He chuckles and walks past me twirling the chain that held the Element of Loyalty, I still stare in amazement at what just happened.
"What did you just do?" I ask.
"What?" Discord asks, "I merely used the Chaos Blast to bring them down."
"You killed them?" 
"No, I just stunned them and placed them somewhere where they can't do much," Discord said as he walks out of the Element's Holding Room and goes into the hallway and walks onto a balcony that leads into the Grand Hall. I follow him and stand back as he presents himself to a hall full of terrified ponies and confused guards. Discord leans over the railing and sneers down at the masses. I step back and let him give his speech.

"Attention inhabitants of Equestria! Your rulers have been overthrown and now I rule. For those of you who don't know who I am, I am Discord, lord of chaos and now, the ruler of Equestria. You will bow to me or suffer my wrath. If you resist you will  suffer. If you try to restore the previous rulers then you shall fail for I have taken care of that. I have made a demonstration of the Royal Canterlot family so that you don't get any ideas of trying to resist my rule."
I slink back as several ponies call out for how this happened and Discord makes several explosions to shut up the outburst. He looks down to me and shakes his head.
"You shall see," He said, "You shall all see."
Discord walks away and motions for me to follow. As I do several guards jump out of the tapestries on the wall and attempt to attack Discord but Discord waves his hand and the guards stop dead and their eyes change to red and their armor turns from gold to a metallic black that shimmers in the moonlight. The guards wait until Discord and I walk by and then they follow us in an escort formation. As we pass more guards they also change into the new look and start herding the civilian ponies and tearing down tapestries, banners and flags, I stick by Discord's side and avoid the ponies who stare at me and either throw guilty accusations at me or try to help me but are beaten with spears by the new corrupted guards. 
"Pay no attention to them," Discord said as we pass them. 
"It's kind of hard to ignore them," I reply, "I know that they now hate me now." 
"They hate or try to help you, Scott," Discord said as a pair of guards tackle a stallion who tries to grab hold of me. I think that he was trying to either get me away from Discord or kill me. Whatever it was, he's failed.
Me and Discord wander into a large room and he shuts to door behind me and the guards hold off a mass of angry ponies. Discord takes me aside and leads me to a balcony that overlooks Equestria, I look down to the darkened landscape and see that Discord has now lived up to his Chaos reputation. The entire land has been changed drastically, building are floating in the air, pink clouds zoom across the sky, chocolate milk falls from the clouds and night changes to day in seconds.
"Do you like what I can do?" Discord asks me.
"It's...different, very different." 
"I know that it's a bit of a change but I like everything like this, it reminds everypony who's in charge."
I rub the side of my face where Luna kissed me and I shudder. Discord senses this and fabricates a glass to catch chocolate milk but he doesn't give it to me, instead he drinks it and tosses the glass which explodes behind me in a flurry of streamers that then turn to snakes. 
"Do you want to know how they found out that the cake was really a failure?" he asks.
"Go on," I say. 
"It all started when Luna kissed you, it managed to cancel out the Element's power and then the illusion was unrelieved and all that was there was the ruins of the cake that you made. If Luna hadn't kissed you then you would've been able to stalk around without any hindrance for a shot time." 
"A short time?" I ask.
"The Element has a limited range," Discord said. I sit down and rub both sides of my head, confused and tired. I then look up remembering that my room in Ponyville is miles away and Discord will want me in the castle at all times. 
"So Discord, since I'm going to be staying in the Castle Of Chaos with you I'm wondering if there's a room that I have."
Discord nods and smiles down at me.
"You're allowed to choose whatever room you want. Also that name you made up is quite nice, Castle Of Chaos. I like it."
"Okay then," I say as I walk out of the the room.
"By the way Scott," Discord says, "I have a little something to give you tomorrow."

I turn and say thanks before I walk into the abandoned and ruined hallways. Newly corrupted Chaos Guardians walk the halls or stand by the doors. Chaos Guardians, Castle Of Chaos, the names I can make up are both impressive and unoriginal. I walk the halls until I come across what looks like a bedroom door. I open it up and see that it's almost unused, I enter and take a good look around so I can see where I am in the castle. There's a door that leads out to yet another balcony but the room is pretty nice in terms of being a castle bedroom, there's a large bed in the corner and a large mirror is sitting by a large closet which is empty and slightly dusty. I open up the door to the balcony and look out once more over the land. I can tell that I'm pretty high up but instead of fear I feel like someone who had power over his subjects, I feel like a king of sorts. But then I remember that Discord is really in charge and the feeling fades. I leave the balcony and open up the door  to the hallway and see two Chaos Guardians standing on either side of the door. They stand motionless and don't even acknowledge me when I ask for their names, something I don't like but I'm sure that by tomorrow everything will be in place and I'll become Discord's personal bodyguard. 

The next morning I wake up to the sound of what sounds like a rooster being shoved into a blender. Heh, a rooster. Will it blend? That is the question. Joking aside, I have no idea how Discord is able to create so much insanity in one night but I choose not to question it. After all, Discord says he's got something for me. I have no idea what it is nor do I know where he wants to meet me, but then I remember when I looked through the Element Of Chaos into a mirror there was a message, I look through the Element into the mirror and sure enough there's a message for me:
I have your gift for helping me, come down to the Element's holding room for it. Discord. P.S. There's a little something I want to show you. I think you'll like it.

I go into the bathroom and wash sweat off my face, as I am I see the bandage on my front leg and I take it off. All that remains of the night when the Manticore attacked are black streaks that follow my veins. It still runs from my hoof all the way up my shoulder but this time the pain is gone. I toss my suit from last night on my bed and make my way to the room where the Elements of Harmony used to be, now all that's there when I arrive is Discord and four objects covered by sheets. Discord is looking out of the window and looking rather pleased with himself. I clear my throat to let him know I'm here.
"Good morning Scott," Discord said, something about his tone makes me uneasy.
"Hi Discord," I say shakily. But I manage to get a grip of myself before he notices.
"I'm sure you're here for the gift I promised you," Discord said. 
"Sure, what is it?" I ask. Discord waves his hand and an armor vest and a helmet appear in front of me. I look at the levitating armor and touch it.
"What is this?" I ask Discord.
"The Helm Of Chaos."

Helm Of Chaos? Surely he's got that wrong. I don't argue as I examine the armor and helmet, there's nothing interesting about the armor except for the pentagram on the front of the armor with a small, black, transparent stone in the middle of it. The helmet is relativity plain looking aside from the nose guard that is shaped like an arrowhead, on the helmet is what looks like a smaller version of the stone on my chest armor. I put on the helmet and the armor and notice that Discord's coat of arms appears on the side of the armor as I slip it over my head. No sooner has the helmet touched my head the armor and helmet tighten, I panic and try to pull the helmet off but it's stuck to my head, the same goes for my armor. Discord shakes his head and walks over to the covered objects.
"Don't bother Scott," he says as he strokes the sheets, "Only I or the Elements of Harmony can undo the Helm Of Chaos. But you won't want to take it off once I tell you that the armor makes you immortal. Yes, it does." 
I stop tugging on the helmet and watch as Discord walks around the covered objects.
"What's under there?" I ask him.
"Something that I think is the best thing I have ever done. It's also what I like to call 'ironic revenge'." 
Discord takes hold of the sheets and in one swift move, pulls the covers off the objects. I have to clasp my hoof over my mouth to stop myself from screaming. The objects were statues, statues of the Royal Canterlot family. All of them look both surprised and shocked. Shining armor and Princess Cadence are both trying to reach each other but the spell had taken effect before their hooves touched. Princess Luna looks as if she's recoiling in pain, her face frozen in a silent scream. But the most disturbing by far is Princess Celestia, her stance is firm and her face is hardened and unforgiving as if she was staring down Discord as her body was turned to stone.
"You like it?" Discord asks as he holds his arms out in a presenting manner. I swallow and take a step forwards.
"It's...very nice. Um, why did you do this?"
"Simple, they turned me to stone so I thought it would be funny if they ended up the same way I did." 
Now that Discord did this to the Royal Family, I now grow worried for the former six holders of the Elements. What has Discord done to them? I have to find out.
"So Discord?" I say. Discord stops walking around the statues and looks at me questioningly. 
"Yes, Scott?"
"You know Twilight and her friends? Where are they?" 
"I put them in a place where they can't do much harm to our new rule," Discord said with a nasty grin, "They're in the dungeon. If you want to see them they are in cell one."
"Might as well see them," I say, "I just want to set something straight with them."
"Go right ahead," Discord said. I nod and then head towards the place which I never expected to be in such a peaceful place. The only thing that gnaws at my mind is how they will react when I tell them what I truly am.