//------------------------------// // Chapter 8 // Story: Return of Disharmony // by Forefront1 //------------------------------// Chapter 8 The giant swarm only took seconds to capture each of the six and pull them up the mountain. The main six fought against them the entire time but to no avail. Twilight was sure that Fluttershy could overpower them until she saw one of the most horrible things. She saw Fluttershy cowardly backing into the forest until she was out of sight. Twilight couldn’t believe her eyes. She knew Fluttershy was timid but she would help her friends if she needed to. Twilight then looked up at the Canterlot Castle. It looked as if Queen Chrysalis had really made herself at home with the decorating because it looked like her royal hive. The hissing of the Changelings was droning out almost any other sound and the five friends were begging in their minds for it to end. Finally they saw the balcony of the tallest tower, were pulled up above it, and were dropped from ten feet up. Not even Rainbow Dash could expect the fall and they all fell to the ground with a sickening thud. “Well, what did I tell you Chryssie? Look at our success!” Said a voice that only could belong to Discord. “Alright, You were right now can you stop being invisible already it’s gotten annoying.” Queen Chrysalis responded. The five friends were being dragged into the throne room of the castle right in front of two thrones. One was a dark sleek black while the other looked exactly like the one Discord sat in the last time he took over. Only this time he was winning. At last the changelings dropped the ponies to the ground and stood back. Twilight shakily rose to her feet only to be knocked down by Queen Chrysalis’ hoof. “Well, well, well, my little ponies enjoying the chaos?” Discord said mockingly. “Wh-what have you done with the princesses?” Twilight asked weakly. “Oh you’ll find out soon I just have one question.” he said while snapping his fingers on his right hand. Just then Spike, Applebloom, Scootaloo, and Sweetie Belle were lead in by some changelings through the side door. The friends looked up and gasped. “Sweetie Belle!!!!” Rarity shouted as she ran towards her sister. The changelings around her began to charge but Discord called them off. Rarity hugged her sister tears forming in her eyes. “I-I thought I would never see you again.” Said Rarity on the verge of crying. Just then as Rarity hugged her again a green glow came from her horn and engulfed her. When Rarity looked up she saw she was hugging a changeling. She screamed and ran back to her friends and curled up behind them. This sent Discord reeling with laughter. “BWHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!! You should have seen the look on your face my dear Rarity. Priceless! HAHAHA!!!!” Discord cackled. “Enough jokes Discord, you scared Rarity half to death now what do you want!?” Twilight shouted. Chrysalis looked over at her partner rolling on the floor and laughing maniacally and the four changelings posing as her enemies loved ones; then she spoke. “Sometimes I don’t understand him,” She said shaking her head. “Anyways, I believe you owe us an explanation as to why those four were fighting off my changelings outside of Ponyville.” She said formally. “They were protecting us!” Twilight shouted. “Let them go!” “Oh, I don’t know where they are my changelings dealt with them.” The changeling queen said. “In the meantime I hope you enjoy the castle dungeons. I believe you will be staying there for a while.” She continued, with an evil grin. The five ponies were dragged off once again this time to the castle dungeons and they had no hope of escape this time. Dragged down countless flights of stairs, each step her head colliding with the ground, Twilight just wanted to crawl up in a corner and cry until she couldn’t cry anymore. In the time span of about just three days she had lost everything, her friends, her mentor, even the town she called home; all gone. They now belonged to the changelings and Discord, never to be released again. Finally, after what seemed like hours they five friends were lifted up and tossed in a room. The room was too dark for Twilight to make anything out but she knew that It had to be some kind of dungeon. She heard the sound of many cuffs clanking shut and chains rattling on the floor around them. Twilight thought that they would be left alone but suddenly a light came on revealing Discord, Queen Chrysalis, and a very large changeling. He was rather large for a changeling, not as large as an alicorn but still large. He had dark blue eyes and a scar across the right side of his face. On his head he wore a red hat with the changeling symbol on the front. “Well, Slash.” Began Chrysalis. “I have to admit I underestimated your skill. I do apologize for my earlier doubts.” “No need.” Slash responded, bowing to his queen. “All I wanted was them captured.” He then turned to Twilight and walked up to her. “You must be Twilight.” He hissed in her face. “I have heard a lot about you especially from your mentor Celestia.” “What have you done to her and Princess Luna!?” Twilight shouted angrily. “Why don’t you ask them yourself?” He responded gesturing to a changeling by the wall. Suddenly a torch came on revealing the two princesses looking battered, bruised, and disheveled. “T-Twilight.” Said Celestia weakly. “Princess.” Twilight said holding back tears. The sight of her teacher and her sister in chains was terrible. It looked as if the very life had be taken out of her by the look of her face. Her eyes looked as if it was a struggle to look straight and there were bags under her eyes looking as if she hadn’t slept in a month. Twilight wanted nothing more than to hug her mentor knowing that she was alive but the chains and shackles prevented even the slightest movement. Then she looked at her friends they all looked the same; Tired, sad, and the worst of all… defeated. She knew that they had no more reason to keep fighting. They had lost everything so fast and there was no hope in their eyes that made Twilight want to keep pressing on. She simply lowered her head and began to cry. “Awww, cheer up Twilight.” Discord said. “There is one thing you get out of this. A nice comfy cell to spend the rest of your life in. BWHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!” With that Discord, Chrysalis, Slash, and the other changelings left leaving the five friends and the princesses in total darkness once again. Twilight could hear her friends holding back sobs and sniffling though the darkness and Twilight could not believe that this… was the end.