//------------------------------// // (To Be Named Later) // Story: The Eldest // by Authora97 //------------------------------// The night lasted a while longer with peace. Discord and Asa had been talking for just about an hour, it was then the inevitable happened. Asa’s midnight blue eyes fogged over. Discord waved an eagle talon over her eyes, trying to see what she was doing. “Asa. Asa... Asa...” Discord started. A second after, Asa’s eyes returned to their blue glory. “Discord, we need to move.” Asa grabbed one of his paws and tried to drag him off. “And why would we ever want to do that?” Discord asked. “Because in five seconds somepony will be coming and I really don’t want to meet him. Now!” Asa tried to move the draconequus, but he remained still. Without warning, a stallion turned a corner leading towards the two non-ponies. His coat was all white, his mane was gloriously cut and his eyes were dark blue. He wore a deep blue fancy shirt, the ends nearly reaching to his cutiemark of a compass rose. Blueblood. “Too late.” Asa mumbled as she let Discord go. Looking right at the unicorn. Discord followed her gaze, and groaned when he saw Blueblood. “Well, I didn’t know Auntie invited non-ponies. So much for an elite party.” Blueblood groaned. Asa stood her ground, face void of any emotion. “Blueblood, what do you want?” Asa asked him. His eyes widened. “How did you know my name?” He asked. Asa remained emotionless. “Princess of Visions, everypony should’ve caught onto that.” Asa said. “How about you go back to the garden before anypony does something they’ll regret.” Whatever fear Blueblood had vanished, it was now smug laughter. “A Princess? They made you a Princess? Auntie Celestia is crazy but not that crazy.” Discord rolled his eyes, Blueblood was becoming a pain in his side. “And you...what are you doing here? Weren’t you off doing Auntie knows what to some poor pony town?” Before Discord could use any magic on the unicorn, Asa held up her hand. “Wait.” She barked, She walked towards the Prince. “Blueblood just return to the party. I’m sure somepony is wondering where you are.” The stallion looked down on her. “We can just go on like this never happened.” “When I return, expect to see the Royal Guard here to arrest you for breaking in!” He yelled while running off in the direction of the party. Asa’s eyes widened. It was getting closer. This was bad. Very very bad. So very very bad. “Okay, is there some way you can get me out of here as fast as you can?” Asa worriedly asked the draconequus. “What’s to be worried about? I’m mean it’s not like the guard are going to hurt you. You’re higher than Celestia.” Discord laughed. “Now that may be true, but the guards Blueblood will be the ones I met when I came back.” Asa said, now looking around for places to hide. “And what did you do to them that would scare you?” Discord asked. “I might’ve sorda kinda froze them in my magic. Then violently dropped them.” Asa answered quickly, finally ducking behind the ‘Victory’ Statue. “I was never here. They’re just about the only guards that weren’t told of my appearance. Keep. Your. Lips. Shut.” Asa ordered. Discord held up his lion paw and zipped his lips shut. A moment or so later, Blueblood came running back with three Royal Guards. Each of them from when Asa raided the Throne Room. “Prince, where was this creature?” One asked. “It was standing right here!” The Pony Prince yelled, angered over this creature showing up. “You!” Discord looked around, now wearing a green wig, then back at the pony. “Me?” “Yes you! Where was that creature?” Blueblood yelled. “I think you have me confused with someone else.” Discord explained. “No! It was you Discord!” Blueblood yelled. “Discord? Oh I can’t even compare to that guy, he’s up there.” He pointed a talon up at the sky. Sure enough, there was a draconequus floating off. One that looked exactly like Discord. The two of the six guards, pegasi, flew off in the direction of towards him. The two unicorns guards began searching the area and the earth ponies did the same. Blueblood simply ran around telling the guards what to do. This allowed the Green Wigged Discord back away towards Asa. Removing the wig, he sat down next to her. “You saw this?” Discord asked. “Yeah, five times. Thrice with cake, twice with the guards. This was a guard one.” She smiled, “But thankfully you were wearing the green wig so I know that we’re safe.” Discord shrugged, it made no sense which made it perfect. Well, to him it made it perfect. “So...what happens next?” Discord asked while slowly floating over the Victory Statue. Asa stood up from her hiding spot, carefully looking over the grounds. “Party Time.” Joining in the group consisting of Fluttershy, Applejack and Princess Luna, Asa felt relieved. If Discord was wearing a blue wig, then the earth pony guard would’ve seen it against the green of the ground and taken her away. Leading to a whole mess involving hoof-cuffs and some idiot deciding to roll the cake into the hallway that exact moment. She made sure to listen to what they ponies were saying, Asa might’ve needed to but in at any moment. Even though it didn’t happen, Asa would have trouble eating Lemon/Strawberry/Vanilla Cake for a while. “And when Ah heard that Ah couldn’t do nothing but run inta that Everfree and save the poor soul that got caught.” Applejack explained. “Ah’s mighty confused to find Asa there but Ah made sure ta get her to Fluttershy’s alright.” Luna was listening with rapt attention. She had asked the farm pony to explain what happened the night they found Asa, right after she left her in the dream world. Now, she wasn’t expecting a Manticore but it was something. “What were you thinking anyway Asa?” Applejack asked, “Goin’ inta the Everfree Forest?” Asa smiled, “That’s what it’s called? Huh. A week ago it was just called ‘That one hill with the tree Asa planted’. Everfree in certainly an interesting name.” The pale hairless monkey shrugged. “To put it simple, I thought it was still that small tree I enchanted to keep regular magic out so Lulu and Celly wouldn’t wreck the tree.” The pegasus, who had barely spoken, and earth pony turned to Asa. “You did what?” Fluttershy asked. “I enchanted the tree. I made it so Lulu or Celly couldn’t use their magic on it, they burned the last one I planted and turned the one before that orange.” Luna’s eyes widened. “That one was an accident! How I was I supposed to know that small trees couldn’t handle a simple coloring changing spell?” She defended. “Maybe because you put too much power into it, causing it to become a magic beam. Thank goodness Treelala the Third survived this long.” Asa smiled. She turned to see the shocked faces of Fluttershy and Applejack. “Why so shocked? Did I say something?” They nodded. “You ponies need to talk more.” Asa laughed. “Yer majesty, that forest is unnatural. Almost every time Ah I go in I run inta something awful. Same fer the rest of us!” Applejack explained. “It’s full of Timberwolves, strange plants, Ursas and a cockatrice!” Fluttershy explained. “Timberwolves? How strange. Wolves made of wood, green eyes? And was this strange plant blue with yellow tendrils?” They nodded. “You fought them too?” “Fight? Me?” Asa asked before her and Luna began to laugh. “I can’t fight Fluttershy, no offense, let alone that manticore.” Luna was laughing at the memories of training in her filly years, Asa may have been eldest but that didn’t mean she was better at everything. “We once remember-” “I.” Asa corrected in-between laughs. “I once remember you running away during Practice. You kept screaming about it until you found Mother and Father.” Luna laughed. “Not my proudest moment.” Asa laughed. It was confusing. Here they were, two sisters separated for three thousand years, talking as though Asa never left. It may have seemed confusing but as far as Luna knew it was just like meeting an old fillyhood friend after five years. For Asa, it truly was just a few weeks since she saw her sisters as fillies and now full grown Alicorns. Parts of her couldn’t believe it was three thousand years, that something was lying to them and making it look like Asa jumped three thousand years. But Asa learned a long time ago, the truly shocking things are ones you make it through. Only if you fail does it become confusing. She couldn’t fight, however, the nagging sense of danger. That Returning only to have her sister nearly choke her to death would seem like foal’s play very very soon. Asa didn’t like this feeling for one reason alone. It was always right. The other group; consisting of Princess Twilight Sparkle, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, Princess Celestia, Spike and now Discord, were talking about small things. What was happening in Ponyville, what the nobles were talking about, yelling at Discord about turning certain dresses different colors and ordering him to turn them back. You know, the usual. Much like the smaller group of four, this group got around to talking about Asa. “Where has she been all this time? How did she even get into the palace undetected?” Twilight finally asked Celestia. The Alicorn thought about it for a moment, she saw the room again after the guard’s guided her to the door. Her main concern was what she could and couldn’t say. “You remember the Crystal Caverns from the Wedding?” Celestia asked Twilight. Her purple’s eyes widened. “Yes. Are you saying she was in there?” Twilight asked. “Oh no, Asa was far deeper than those Caverns. Almost to the very bottom of the Mountain if memory serves.” Celestia explained. “A part of me still wonders why Asa chose to move it so deep into the mountain but I guess my *ahem* reaction to her proved it to be wise.” “But how come nopony went down there before today?” Rainbow Dash asked, “I mean, there was one door, one the nopony remembered what was inside and for all this time nopony went inside to check it. That just sounds crazy.” The Pegasus brought up a strong point. How come nopony found Asa before she walked thru the door? “It was most likely enchanted Rainbow Dash. Asa says she can see into the future so she must’ve seen somepony go in before she was foretold to return.” The fashionista pony explained. Pinkie nodded. “Yeah! I mean, what Asa has is like a weirder version of Pinkie Sense! Only less moving so it would make total sense if she saw her door being opened! Right Authora97?” Authora97 facepalmed. She had heard of Pinkie breaking the fourth wall in some of the other fanfictions, but now that it was actually happening she felt mad. “Pinkie, at least you didn’t come thru my computer screen.” Authora97 laughed as she got back to the storyline. Without interruption this time. Twilight rolled her purple eyes, Pinkie Pie loved going on about this ‘Fourth Wall’ and how she was talking to ponies that nopony else could see. It was strange but, (and this sentence was used so much it could’ve been Ponyville’s catchphrase) It’s just Pinkie Pie being Pinkie Pie. And it wasn’t like Pinkie would somehow cause something big to fall apart like the space time continuum and make the universe collapse upon itself. Right?