//------------------------------// // Chapter 11: Elements of Disharmony // Story: Shards of the Truth // by Disciple of Chrysalis //------------------------------// (Before we start this chapter, author speaking is underlined and Discord speaking is colorful "Why?" A powerful thought that had plagued this curious creature for century upon century, but an answer was never found and an escape was never located for being locked in a cave can do that for you. The simple answer was one that alluded him because he never viewed it in the sense it was meant to be view, it should be... "Who?" Who had locked him in this cave and for what purpose, the purpose was simple, to protect the most powerful artifacts in the known world. "I can't leave this cave, I can't invite anypony over, and all I do it watch over these jewels" he said, a tinge of hidden anger in his voice. He simply stared at the colored gems floating above individual Stalactite- "Stalagmites" "Beg pardon?" "The ones that shoot up, those are stalagmites" "Um, alright then, Floating above individual Stalagmites, Better?" "Better" "Alright then, where was I" "You know what, get out, your an awful narrator" "Sorry, but I'm not leaving, so no" "Fine, stay, but I'm going to narrate myself" "Fine by me" "Hello little ponies, I am Discord and welcome to my humble abode, which isn't all that humble considering it's a cave, but we have some nice things, like this rock, or that rock, or the Elements of Harmony. Oh right, probably need to back tract a little, this is the cave where the Elements of Harmony exist, originally they were the Elements of Expression and were discovered during the founding of Equestria, they allowed a powerful king to take control of the land and, surprise surprise, he was evil. "Eventually the ponies had suffered enough and a small band of heroes had assaulted the palace and had stripped the king of his evil magic and they slew the king and buried the Elements in his grave because grave robbing is totally against pony religion or something. Over the years, the darker forms of expression had slowly forced their way out and taken control of the kings body, returning the flesh and horribly mutating it, the king came back as, guess who, Discord and instead of retrying to take back his kingdom, he- I mean, I left and hid with the now pure, Elements of Harmony. "Now I kind of wish I didn't because now, I sorely wish for revenge against the three who killed me, I harbor an even greater grudge against the one who so violently killed me, the others just wanted to lock me up for eternity, but the third knew I would escape one day and so, SHINK!" "Discord's head popped off as he slide an eagle claw across his neck-" "I told you to stop" "I'm sorry, but I'm only narrating your actions" " *grumble* Fine, but thats all, got it?" "Got it" "Ok, now- oh wait, forgot to tell you all who the heroes were, they were a white and pink maned pegasus name Celestia, a dark blue and light blue maned unicorn named Luna, and a black unicorn named Sombra. I don't harbor as much as a grudge against Celestia and Luna, mostly because they were against killing me, but Sombra, I think he pretty much did it with glee. I realize some of you might be wanting to get back to the main story and are kinda sick of all of this cutting away from Shard's story, but were letting her have sometime to recuperate and get into her role as chief, but we aren't going to tell the direct events after she got her cutie mark and she became chief, we may reference it, but thats all. "I promise, next chapter will be all about Shard and Cele-!" "AUTHORS AREN'T ALLOWED TO NARRATE!!!"