The Roman Pony

by Silver_Wolf


Chapter 10

“Twilight, I’m sorry to ask this and all... But, why do you have tattoos on your but?”
“Tattoos?” She asked.
“Yeah, like a pink star with little white stars around it...”
“Oh that’s not a tattoo, that’s my cutie mark!” She exclaimed.
“Cutie mark?”
“Yeah where come from, when you find your special talent you get a cutie mark.”
At that point, I thought maybe she was in some kind of cult or came from some kind of tribe. But, she didn’t have an accent, and she didn’t THAT crazy, so I kind of tossed that theory out the window.

I opened up my laptop plugging it into the charger.

“What’s that thing?” Twilight asked sitting close to me looking at the bright screen.
“A laptop...” I replied bluntly.
“What’s it do?” She asked excitedly.
“Well... Everything really! Video games, cheat codes, an infinite amount of knowledge!” I exclaimed.

She just simply looked at it while I clicked around.

“What are you doing on it?” She asked.

“I’m gonna try and-” Before I could finish my sentence, a video popped up on my screen. Kinda... It wasn’t exactly a video because I couldn’t pause it or anything! On the screen was some kind of creature, from what I could tell, it had the head of a horse. He had a deer antler on one side of his head, and a blue goat horn on the other. He had one long fang, a goat beard, along with white bushy eyebrows. That’s all I could see of the creature, the rest of his body was hidden.

“Discord...” Twilight muttered. I looked over to her, she looked frightened.
“What’s the matter?” I asked.

She didn’t reply, just stared at the screen swallowing hard. The creature she called Discord grinned, it began speaking.

“Creatures of this pitiful planet, I am looking for one person! Once I find her, I will leave. I will give you exactly ONE week to return this small child to me, if you do not give her to me... Well...”

There was a loud crash from outside, I ran over to the window, the sky was dark all of a sudden. The moon visible, then I realised what had made the explosion... On the moon, as if it was carved out was a picture of... Twilight!? It was gigantic. I swallowed hard walking back over to the laptop, Twilight hadn’t budged, I was worried she wasn’t breathing but after a moment I could see tell she was still breathing, but her heart was racing.

“That is just a taste of my power! ONE WEEK! That is all the time you have! Understand? To contact me, just shout my name. Discord. And, as to destroy as much communication as possible to prevent any rebels...” The laptop shorted out.

“HEY! DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH ONE OF THESE THINGS COST ME!?” I shouted loudly at the screen even though he couldn’t hear me.