//------------------------------// // Chapter 4: Am I changing? // Story: The shrinking Pegasus // by Mrchibivampire //------------------------------// The once beautiful land of Equestria is aflame, the wicked green flames of chaos will eventually devour the entire world and in the middle of all this destruction, stands the living embodiment of chaos. Her wicked laughter is echoing through the shattered world, she is enjoying every second of the pain and suffering she is causing upon the mortals that once lived in peace in this world. Celestia has fallen and her once yellow sun, has been split into four green orbs which are constantly burning one of the corners of the world. nothing will survive this onslaught. God has abandoned this realm and moved on. The elements of harmony have been fallen and the gems have been forged into a green, pink, striped crown which she wears around her head, by her side is a massive white snake with flaming green eyes, who will serve her untill the end of time. Stomping her hoof into the ground she causes yet another earthquake, shattering even the mightiest off mountains. The rivers run red with the blood of the innocent, the once green meadows have been burnt to the ground and now there is only ashes, all the flowers that once bloomed in the world have been replaced with colorful candy canes. The world is in pain, is there no one who can help? Is there no one who can end the suffering of the world? She sits upon her black throne, playing innocently with the few living creatures whom are left in this world. Her father standing behind her with a proud smile upon his lips. A massive twin headed dragon, one head as black as the night and the other head white as the first snowflake that gracefully falls upon the world. Once upon a time they represented the balance between chaos and harmony, but as chaos devours the world, the white head is slowly dying and the black head grows in strength with every passing second. The second child of chaos have manage to fulfil the task the first child failed to do, much to their fathers content. The first child abandoned his duty as the counterweight to harmony thus leading to the birth of the second child. Her pink hair, malformed skeletal limbs and the three eyes of ever changing color which don her beautiful face, those are her distinct features that no mortal would ever forget. Sadly there are no mortals left alive in this world, so her features will fade away in the never ending stream that is time. Nailed to a wall, formed by the spirits of the ones that loved him and everyone that he failed. The first child of chaos is a pathetic waste of air compared to his younger sibling, her precise control, massive power and lust for blood, made her the perfect child. The father is pleased with the work of his second child, there is only one task remaining for her. Killing her useless brother thus shattering the last strand of harmony and releasing the true power of chaos upon the universe. “GO FORTH MY CHILD, KILL YOUR BROTHER AND ALLOW CHAOS TO ROAM THE UNIVERSE!” The father said, his voice rumbling like a thunderstorm. The second child stood before her brother, smiling innocently like a child. “Okay daddy!” Her hands split into thousands of black tentacles, each once sharper than the other, so the pain she would cause upon her brother would be as unpredictable as herself. The first child looked at his sister and said. “This is not who you are. Don’t let that snake of a father control you.” He said with a gasp. The second child tilted her head and her lips formed into a such a wide, wicked grin that her chins broke and her black blood slithered down her face. She licked her blood and proceeded to devour her own head. “Yummy! I taste like pink frosted sprinkled donuts!” Her head slowly growing back as she chewed on her old head. “This is not who you are. Don’t let that snake-” The first child was interrupted by his sister. “SNAKE! SNAKEY COME HERE!” The giant white snake did as his goddess commanded him. “Snakey, you always hated my brother right?” The giant snake glanced at the first child and nodded. The second child squealed with delight, she kissed her massive servant and whispered. “Kill.” The snake roared and sank its fangs into the first childs body. His fangs penetrated the weak flesh that holds his body together, the first child screamed in agony. The second child laughed happily like a child who had gotten a new toy to play with. Stuck onto the fangs of the snake, the first child was gasping for air as he choked on his own blood. He coughed violently, his blood going everywhere. Inside the mouth of the snake, the second child was bathing in the blood falling from her brothers body, she opened her mouth and drunk deep from her brothers blood. She licked her lips and smiled. “You taste like chocolate milk!” “DAUGHTER. PLAYTIME IS OVER, END HIS PATHETIC EXISTENCE AND DADDY WILL GIVE YOU A PRESENT!” The moment the second child heard the word present she leaped into action. Seemingly out of nowhere she pulled out a scythe fashioned by what looked like a big candy cane. She hovered up to her brother and raised the scythe, the wicked smile on her lips would put even the Joker to shame. “Bye bye, big brother!” The scythe came closer to his neck and he screamed. “FLUTTERSHY!” His scream came quickly to an end as his head rolled down the snakes throat. Both the Father and the second child laughed as the green flames of chaos consumed what remained of the world. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Discord awoke with a scream and as usual, Discord got hit by the pipping hot water, he hovered into the air, thus leading to him swallowing the bar of soap in his mouth, he gagged, slipped on the oil on the ground and with the speed of a oiled up draconis, he slammed into a giant block of ice, this time shaped as a big butt, his head emerging from between the buttchecks. Discord sighed. “Oh, hahaha. I’m a buttface, hilarious!” he rolled his eyes. Discord teleported himself back inside his room and sat down. “Why does this happen everyday?” He remembered his dream. “But more importantly what the heck kind of dream was that? I mean wow, I think we need to change the rating from E to Teen. Discord got slapped by a mouse cursor and a straight line started typing out a sentence in bright yellow text, in front of him. “STOP BREAKING THE FOURTH WALL, GOD DANGIT!” The text read. Discord grabbed the cursor and tied it to a fishing rod and threw it out over the document, which the story is written on. The cursor was going all over the document, clicking on everything and altering the layout of the story so far. thus leading to more work for the author. “PLEASE STOP!” The text read, in a sad blue text. Discord reeled the cursor back in and released it. “Now what have we learned?” He tapped his tallon on his chin. “That Discord does whatever he wants and he’s got more swag than I will ever have. :( “ The text read, in black text. Discord nodded his head and threw a trophy at the screen, it broke the Authors screen and hit him in the head. “First prize good work! But never say that I have swag ever again. Everyone know that I have class. Swags is only for little boys like you.” “F%¤k you, I’m leaving!” The text read, in an angry red shade. Discord shrugged and forgot all about his disturbing dream. He rowed a boat down the hallway of the castle, he was looking through a telescope as he made his way forward. “Ah, there she blows!” he said as he laid eye upon Celestia’s flank. He got out of the S,S Tiny boat and walked up to her. “Good Morning Celestia, such a wonderful day, is it not?” He glanced around her, but to his surprise Luna was nowhere to be found. “So where is Lulu today? I want to throw her up and down, while saying sugar coated baby related words to her. “Discord. For your information Luna is taking her afternoon nap and the time for good morning have long passed.” Celestia said as she walked past him. Discord knew that something was wrong, Celestia was never this cold to him. “Is this about the mustache?” He floated through the air right next to her and grabbed her face. “Here let me remove it.” He manifested a permanent white marker and colored over the mustache. Celestia batted his hand away and gave him a death stare. “I got rid of that stupid mustache yesterday. Now leave me alone I need some time to think.” Discord snapped his talon and teleported himself and Celestia, to a beautiful grove filled with flowers, cakes and a big heart shaped bed. “Now tell me what’s bothering you or I’ll eat all this cake by myself.” He said as he stuffed his face with cake. Celestia knew there was no escaping him when he had his mind set on something. “Fine, give me a slice of cake and a cup of tea and I’ll talk.” She sighed. “Splendid!” Discord poured Celestia a cup of tea, he then put a whole cake in front of her and sliced it into tiny pieces. She rolled her eyes and a small laugh escaped her mouth. Discord hovered in front of Celestia, he placed his hands under his chin and looked at her. `She truly is a beauty, but she is not my type of girl.´ The mere thought of them being together made Discord snort loudly. “Spill the beans and don’t hold back on the juicy details!” Celestia put her cup down and sighed. “I’m worried about Luna, last night I found her sleeping with a spider plushy and sucking on her hoof. I fear that she might be regressing mentally and I have never seen that plushy before. I can’t describe it, but, there is something odd about it, the aura surrounding it, is familiar but I can’t quite place my hooves at it.” Discord sat down on a pillow and tugged at his beard. “I think you are overreacting, about the whole Luna regressing thing. I mean, when this happened to you, you were acting a lot more juvenile than usual. That plush however, if you can’t figure something out about it. Then maybe I can, I’ll take a look at it and try to figure it out. Don’t worry about Lulu, mental regression is a rare occurrence, even with a regressed body, the chances of ones mind reverting to the same state that the body is currently in, is one in two hundred thousand twenty seven and a half to one. Unless there is a greater power at bay, interfering with her recovery. But I doubt that.” “I’m still worried. But I’m grateful and surprised that you are taking this somewhat serious, what’s happening to you? Lately you have been acting a bit more rational than usual.” Discord’s eyes widened in horror. Was he losing his touch, when was the last time he did something chaotic? Discord blew a raspberry at Celestia and snapped his fingers, transforming the bed into a giant marshmallow, summoning several rainbow pooping poptart cats into the air, calling forth several cotton candy clouds, raining chocolate milk everywhere and finally the Kraken appeared out of a pond filled with chocolate milk, flailing its tentacles all over the place. “I’m sorry, did you say something? Celestia sighed, shook her head and looked at him. Discord sighed and clapped his hands together, making everything disappear. “Well I kind of feel guilty about the whole thing with Luna and also I........................... I think I might be in......Lo- You know what nevermind!” Celestia walked up to him and laid a hoof on his shoulder. “Is there something bothering you Discord?” Discord scratched the back of his neck and started mumbling to himself. She embraced him in a hug and said. “You don’t have to tell me if you don’t want to. Regardless, thanks for helping me and Luna.” She broke the hug and walked back to her mountain of cake and cup of tea. Discord laid down on the bed and continued to mumble to himself. Was he truly changing? What was he doing differently, from before? So many questions and yet he had no answers to them. Suddenly his dream flashed before his eyes, he grabbed his head and roared in pain. He rolled of the bed still clutching his head, he had a hard time breathing and he was coughing up blood. Celestia ran up to him and picked him up, using a levitation spell, she teleported to the infirmary and called for Doctor Scalpel. Discord continued to cough up blood, until he eventually passed out. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Inside the ponyville library sat a very uncomfortable Twilight and a nervous Fluttershy. Fluttershy was standing on Twilight’s coffee table, Grayscale had wrapped himself around her, he would not let anything get close to her, the mere chance of her getting scared and shrinking further was the last thing he wanted to see. “And when I woke up I was like this.” Fluttershy said her, voice barely audible. Twilight was doing her best to listen to what her friend was saying, but the big black snake on the table was making her sweat, she remembered that snake, it was that snake that had scared her half to death, not to long ago. And now it was glaring at her, observing her every movement, if she tried to get closer to Fluttershy it would hiss at her and bare its fangs at her. “Well, I would say that this is most likely one of Discord’s pranks and he can probably fix it, but I can give it a try if you want me to.” Twilight glanced at Grayscale and felt a shiver go down her spine. “Does he have to be here? He is creeping me out.” Fluttershy looked up at Grayscale, his eyes were focused on Twilight, but he occasionally glanced to his side to make sure that she was okay. “Well I can ask him to leave.” She tapped Grayscale on his cheek and said. “Grayscale, don’t take this the wrong way, I’m happy that you are helping me and all, but you are making Twilight uncomfortable. So would you mind waiting outside for a moment?” Grayscale turned his head and looked at his goddess, normally he would never defy her will, but right now he was dead set on staying by her side, he did not trust the purple unicorn that his goddess referred to as Twilight, and that pet of hers reminded him of Discord. There was no way he was leaving his goddess in the care of strangers. “Forgive me my, goddess, at this time I can’t leave your side. I won’t risk it, please forgive my disobedience. I will accept any punishment once you return to normal.” Fluttershy enjoyed his voice, it was deep and cold, but it radiated with his love for her. His voice reminded her of her late father, it made her feel calm and less jumpy, which was just what she needed at the time. She turned around and looked at Twilight. “I’m sorry he says that he refuses to leave my side, due to the state I’m currently in. I’m sorry.” Twilight sighed “I knew you could understand animals somewhat good, but it seems like you can understand everything he is saying. Can you?” Fluttershy looked at Twilight and smiled. “Yes, for some reason, ever since this happened to me, I’ve been able to understand animals perfectly, Grayscale at least, I have not had the time to try it on any other animal, due to obvious reasons.” “Interesting, anyhow. I can’t concentrate with him in here.” She rose from her seat. She called for her number one assistant. "Spike! Can you come here I need some help.” Spike arrived in the room and saw Grayscale laying on the table, he flinched, he was such a big snake and his glare was enough to make Spike’s knees shake. “Yes, Twilight, what is it?” “Would you kindly, take that snake outside for a moment.” Twilight pointed at Grayscale, he hissed in at her sudden movement and wrapped Fluttershy closer to himself. Spike nodded and walked up to the table, he reached out with his claw and tried not to look into Grayscale’s eyes. But Spike failed, he meet his gaze, he suddenly felt smaller than usual and the snake before him seemed to be towering over him. Spike fell to the ground and crawled backwards, never breaking eye contact with the snake, once he reached the door he stood up and reached for the door. “I-i-i-i-i... I’m sorry Twilight I promised to help Rarity with something.” He then bolted out the door, screaming in fear. Grayscale smirked and returned his gaze to Twilight, he hissed at her, letting her know that it was pointless to try anything. Twilight sighed and walked closer to the table. “Fine, I’ll just levitate you out of here!” Her horn started glowing and Grayscale was engulfed in a purple glow and levitated off the table, away from Fluttershy. Grayscale let out a hissing roar, it was unlike anything both Twilight and Fluttershy had ever heard. He gave Twilight a death stare and bared his fangs at her and struggled to break free from her grasp. Fluttershy was worried that something bad was going to happen. “Twilight! Please put him down, he is getting angry!” Twilight was shaking, but she had no reason to fear him, he was trapped and he was not going anywhere. “It’s fine Fluttershy, he can’t break out, I’ll be back once he is outside.” But love is a powerful force, in his struggle to break free, his rage grew beyond anything he had ever felt before. The mere thought of leaving his defenseless goddess made his blood boil. His rage was so strong that it revived his since long dried up venom sacks, thus letting it flow freely along his long fangs. Grayscale was not late to notice it, he manage to whip himself forward, launching a lethal dose of venom straight into Twilight’s eyes. This caused Twilight to scream in pain, thus dropping him from her magical grasp. Grayscale wrapped himself around her neck and was about to sink his fangs into her neck and kill her. But the voice of his goddess stopped him, she was hovering in front of him, smaller than before and she was yelling angrily at him. “GRAYSCALE! HOW COULD YOU DO SUCH A THING? RELEASE HER RIGHT NOW OR ELSE I’ll NEVER WANT TO SEE YOU EVER AGAIN!” Smoke steamed form Fluttershy’s nostrils and she was giving him.The STARE. The mere thought of never being allowed to see her again was enough to send him into a deep depression. He slithered off Twilight and hid under a bookshelf, tears were flowing down his face and his rage quickly died down. `What have I done? I scared her, my actions made her even weaker than before. I’m no better than the monster I hate and now my goddess will hate me forever........ I have nothing to live for.´ Grayscale tried to strangle himself with his tail, but to little success. Fluttershy landed on her friends face and looked over the damage, her old friend had caused. She had no clue what kind of snake Grayscale was, so she had no clue how dangerous his venom was, but she knew that she needed to get Twilight to wash her eyes, quickly, otherwise the possible damage could be irreversible. “Twilight! Wake up, you need to wash your eyes!” She said tears running down her face. Twilight was not moving at all and her breathing was getting more and more unstable. She was pressed for options, in her current state she would be unable to reach the hospital in time, she had to ask Grayscale for help, she had no other choice. She hovered in under the bookshelf where Grayscale had disappeared beneath. She heard a scuffling sound and followed it. Before her laid a white snake with tears flowing down it’s face. She was uncertain if it was Greyscale, but she saw no other snakes around and she doubted the mere thought of another snake living inside the library. She walked up to the white snake and tapped on its snout. “Grayscale is that you?” The white snake opened his eyes, they were an intense green color, they were truly beautiful. It looked at her and opened its mouth. “Forgive me, goddess, I know it means nothing to you, but I have shed the sins of my body together with my own skin and now I pray that you will allow me to serve you once more.” His voice was sad, he was truly devastated by what he had done. Fluttershy hugged his snout and smiled warmly at him. “It’s okay, I forgive you. Do you mind if I call you Whitescale from now on?” “I will carry any name for you my goddess, I’m your servant and I will never leave you side.” Fluttershy got lost in the moment, but then she remembered about her friend's condition. “That is great. But we need to help Twilight, right now!” She grabbed ahold of his neck and they were quickly by Twilight’s side. “We need to wake her up, she needs to wash her eyes and then go to the hospital!” Whitescale slithered up to Twilight’s ear and hissed loudly. This caused Twilight to wake with a jolt and she screamed loudly. “AHHHHHHHHH!” she held her hooves over her eyes and ran to the bathroom. The sounds of pouring water could be heard from insider, along with several pain filled grunt and moans. When Twilight finally got out of the bathroom, her eyes were bright red and tears were streaming down her face. She levitated a book to herself and opened a chapter on healing spells, she read it as good as she could and focused her magic on her swollen eyes. Her eyes quickly returned to their normal state and she sighed in relief. She walked up to Fluttershy and casted a spell on her and sat back down by the coffee table. Whitescale hissed at her, but calmed himself with some deep breaths. Twilight looked at him, with anger in her eyes. “Take it easy, Snake! I only amplified her voice so I can hear her better.” She said with snort. Whitescale looked at his goddess, he carried her inside his mouth and ascended to the top of the table. He then curled up around her, just like before, his eyes glued to Twilight, despite everything that had happen, he still had no reason to trust her. Fluttershy looked at Twilight and sobbed. “I’m sorry, but I told you to let him go.” She cried into her hooves, much to Whitescale’s displeasement. Twilight looked at her friend and her ears fell flat on her head. “I’m not angry at you, Fluttershy. And I’m not angry at him either, he is just an animal, I should have known better........... Anyhow, feel free to stay here, I’ll start looking for something that can cure you and once Spike returns, I’ll send a letter to Princess Celestia, asking her to send him to Ponyville.” Fluttershy, looked up at her friend and a tiny smile crept up on her lips. “Thank you, Twilight. But I still don’t want to believe that Discord would do something like this, he is not a bad guy anymore.” Twilight gritted her teeth and mumbled something under her breath. “Well that remains to be seen.” She walked over to her books and started going through them. “Oh, and if there is anything you need just tell me, I’ll do anything I can to keep you from shrinking further. Fluttershy smiled. “Thanks, Twilight, you are a true friend. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Several hours passed and the sun was setting over the horizon. Inside the royal Infirmary, Discord was laying down on a bed, shaking violently, sweating heavily, his breathing was harsh and he was still coughing blood. “Get away from her, you beast!” He said in his sleep.