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// Discord, God of Disharmony 
// Story: My Little Icarus: Chaotic Siblings 
// by Amereep 
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	Twilight, making her way through the castle, had enter into a crossroad.  To the left of her was a hall that branched out into more hallways, the same can be said about the right, but in front of her was a large french-door archway.  She was mentally preparing herself while she stared at the door.  No doubt Discord is behind this door she told herself I just wish my friends were here to back me...

"TWILIGHT" a blaring voice said, scaring Twilight in the process.  The voice caught the attention of four other ears, but let's stay on the current moment at hand.  The voice that scared Twilight was the energetic Pinkie Pie, who proceeded her thrill by hugging Twilight.  "I'm so happy I found you" Pinkie said with a smile, she suddenly gave a serious look to her "don't you go vanishing on me like that again, young lady."

"I'm happy t-to see you too, Pi-Pinkie" the hug-strangled Twilight said.  Those four other ears revealed themselves by entering the hallway Twilight was in from the ends of the hallway, it was Rarity, Applejack, Fluttershy, and Rainbow Dash.  "There you all are!" she said in relief "Let me guess, you heard Pinkie Pie and went towards the sound."  Everyone nodded, Twilight broke the hug given to her by Pinkie and straitens herself up once again.  "Now that your all hear, I feel much more confident about moving on ahead."

"Shouldn't we wait for Pit?" Rarity said

"I'm sure he'll meet up with us sooner or later." Twilight answered "But right now, we need to stop Discord before he causes any more problems."  She turns towards the doors and opens it slightly to peek inside.

The room was a pretty decent size, like a small ballroom or even a dance floor with windows on on the left and right sides of the room.  At the end of the room, Discord was arguing with a new face to Twilight; but not to Pinkie.  He was arguing with Pandora while they kept pointing to a map on the table in front of them.  "No, I think sugar would be more appropriate for the Frozen Nurth" said Discord.

"Sugar?  You must be joking" Pandora said, ashamed at her brother "We're trying to cause havoc to the people; not trying to give them a tasty treat.  Come on think about it, ash starts falling from the sky, the people will be sneezing for years."

"True, but what if they go to the Feather-Duster Forest, you wanted so badly, and decides to swift away the ashes with the trees?"

"Ashes would be falling everywhere, they could never clean it all up."

"I still think a Peppermint Forest would've be better."

Pandora snapped "I AM NOT GOING TO HAVE AN ASSOCIATION TO THAT BOARD GAME!!!!  You got your 'soda fountain' and your rainbows pouring out skittles.  What are you planning on making this world into, the 'Thirstquencher Empire'?"

"I was think of making it into Candy La..." Pan stops Discord's sentence by grabing his goatee and dragging him to her face.

"I TOLD YOU, I WILL NOT HAVE ANY REFERENCES TO-"

"CANDY LAND!!!!!^w^"

The two gods turned their heads to see that it was Pinkie Pie that made the outburst.  Her friends were standing by and stared down the two siblings.  Pandora started to give a deadpan look at them while Discord was giving an irritated look at Pandora.  "Pan" Discord said in a calm but irritated voice "Why are they here?"  Pandora shifted her eyes up, looking at her eyebrows, then turned to her brother.

"I don't know?" putting on a fake smile "They looked defeated when I finished them."

This time, Discord lost his temper "YOU DIDN'T DO ANYTHING AT ALL!"

"Now that's not true, I sent the last of my minions to deal with them and I even put a spell on one as well."

Discord face-palmed "When will learn to do things yourself."

Twilight spoke up in a fierce voice "Where's Lady Celestia?"

Discord slid his hand off his face "Please Twilight, there's no need for that tone."

"That's right" Pandora agreed "We just decided to trade domains with her, so there's no reason for you to lash out at us."

Twilight pointed the staff of her's at the two "You will bring her back and return the kingdom back to it's original form."

"My, she's quite demanding..." Pandora said, getting a glare from Discord as if he was saying 'If you confronted her like you said you would, you would've known that'.  "...I think she needs to learn a lesson."

Discord got up "It looks like we have to clean up a mess that you made again" he said before he vanished.  Pandora got up to summon bombs and threw them at the girls.  The group jumped every-which-way, avoiding the bombs as the exploded.

Twilight was getting up from her fall when Discord made his appearance in front of her, giving a mocking look at her.  She replied by shooting a spell at him.  Discord simply snapped his fingers and turned the spell into a cotton ball, he struck back with a lightning bolt coming from his palm.  Applejack got in front of Twilight and blocked the bolt with her weapon.

Rarity, who was thrown to the other side of the room, was facing Pandora.  Pandora was shooting heart shaped bullets at Rarity and also kept dogging Rainbow Dash's swift attacks by vanishing.

"Your just as bad at aiming as you are with your choice in attire" Pandora mocked Rarity.

Rarity stopped shooting and sassed back at her "You did not just insult my cloths!"  Rainbow Dash froze in fear, knowing that Rarity was boiling up.  "I understand you being jealous, mainly because you're wearing such a skimpy outfit; but that doesn't mean you can insult my attire."

Pandora grit her teeth "Obviously you don't know anything about using natural beauty to your style.  I should've guessed by the amount of cloth you have over you."

Rarity gave a gasp "How dare you.  A proper lady does not let beauty to be her body alone.  She needs to have elegant clothing to help enhance her beauty."

"I can see that.  You have so much clothing on that it hardly makes any enhancement on that ugly figure of yours.  You obviously don't know anything about fashion."

Rarity was about to erupt "Fashion?" she take a arrow out and pulls it back on her bow "I AM FASHION!!!"

She shoots the arrow with great force and hits Pandora.  Pandora falls down saying "You got me."

Discord stops fighting and looks at his sister.  He runs up to her to kneel down and lifts up her head onto his lap "You monsters!  How could you do this to my sister!"  He cried with an overreacting voice. "She had problems, but she didn't deserve death."

He was hamming it up as the others gathered together and watched his performance.  Some were wondering if they should feel sorry, others were finding his performance deplorable, the rest on the other hand were baffled that the two were siblings.  This sad scene quickly changed...

The faking Pandora quickly got up and both her and her brother shot their bullets at the girls "Just kidding."

As the shots were flying towards the girls, another amount of shots come from behind the girls, canceling out the bullets all together.  Looking back, the girls saw two angels standing at the entrance of the door, pointing their weapon at the two gods.  The girls were thrilled to see that their friend was okay, not noticing one goddess' hair flying around in rage while glaring at the white-winged angel "YOU!"

Pit looked over to the goddess "YOU!... who are you?"

Pandora's hair was now fully flying.  She looked like a human sized torch; her hair being the fire.  "The very nerve you have for saying that.  HOW COULD YOU FORGET ME?  YOU FEATHER BRAINED CHICKEN!!!"

Pit's mind flashed like a bolt of lightning after that outburst.  The burning blue hair, the sassy voice, the suppressed rage that she just let out "It can't be... Pa... Pandora?"

She started to settle down a little "What gave me away?  It looks like you were lazy too, Discord~" she simmered down to witness another god getting angry.  Pandora's rage quickly changed to fear when she saw her brother's rage rising.  She knew this rage, this is the type of rage she has seen from her brother before.  It's the type of rage where something doesn't go as planned.

"Why are you here?" Discord said with a twitching eye "Weren't you going to follow what you want to do?"

"I am" Pit responded proudly "I'm not here because Lady Palutena wants me to help, I'm not even here to save Lady Celestia.  I'm here because I want to protect this society and the people that live within."  Pit then starts making poses "And in the name of all of the people that live in this world, I. WILL. STOP. YOUR. TYRANNY!!!!"  Pit makes one final pose and all of the girls make a striking pose of their own.

Discord was now losing his temper, shaking the castle around him with tremors.  "I hate it when he's like this."  Pandora says in fear as she flies towards the nearest window out of the castle.

Discord was growing into a giant, and growing his body parts into many different parts that look inhuman.  First, his body stretched out long and skinny with dark brown fur.  His right arm turned into a lion's arm, his left, an eagle claw.  His left leg turned into a goat's leg and the right became a lizard's leg.  He grew horns of a deer and goat's and also grew wings of a bat and angles'.  His last changes were adding a tail of a dragon's and his head turned into a horse's. "GRAaAaAaAaAaAaAaAR" Discord pierced out, shaking the room even more.

"SWEET SOUFLEE!!!  He's a monster!!!"  Pit yelled out.  Discord swipes at them with his eagle claws that threw back everyone.  They all started fighting him at will; slicing, scratching, perching, bashing, and blasting.  Discord countered many of the attacks by swiping his tail and limbs at them, he even rolled around and nearly flattening our heroes.  "How were you able to stop him before?" Pit yelled.

Many of the girls gave their own answers "With teamwork!", "With the elements!", "With friendship!".  Many were reasonable answers but one caught Pit off guard, "By turning him into stone!".

Pit sparked an idea and started to fight his way to Twilight.  "Twilight, can you take away a soul using your magic?"

Twilight was hesitating at the question, trying to focus on two things at a time "Uh... yeah... but, it needs to make itself appear."

"Ok!" Pit replied and charged towards Applejack who was fighting Discord at his side. "Jackie!" she flinched at her new nickname and looked over her shoulder at the approaching angel "I need a lift!" she lowers her weapon in confusion and to her surprise, Pit jumps on top of her apple-arm weapon and jumps onto Discord's back.

Discord feels the angel now clinging onto his back and starts flailing around, trying to throw Pit off his back.  The brave little angel held on tighter and slowly started to shimmy his body into a better position between Discord's shake downs.  Finally, Pit was riding on top of him like a cowboy riding a bull.  When Pit was fully secured on Discord, he lift up his sword and stabbed it into Discord's back.  With a cry of pain, Pit was thrown off Discord's back and a beam of light was coming out of the punctured wound.  "NOW TWILIGHT!" Pit yelled at her.  Twilight started to get the gist of it and began to chant a spell.  Slowly, a bright orb started to emerge from the cut.  Discord felt his life leaving his body and with one last roar, he started to turn into stone.

With the 'orb of life' now within Twilight's control, the castle, land, even the sky; went back to normal.  Everyone gave out a victory cry, happy to have everything back to normal again.  Pit got up from his fall and started to smile at hearing the girls cheer.  "PIT... PIT..." he was hearing "PIT ARE YOU THERE?" his smile started to fade while he searched for the voice "PIT, ANSWER ME..." his eyes started to widen when he came to the conclusion of where the voice was coming from.

"La... Lady Palutena!!!"

END OF CHAPTER 8