//------------------------------// // Chapter 1 // Story: Madness // by ManeWriter //------------------------------// A royal throne fit for a king. He sits down in his self-righteousness, enjoying a cup of slightly chilled chocolate milk. “Chaos is a wonderful, WONDERFUL thing” he quotes as he began to sip his favorite cloud-based beverage. Something didn’t seem right though, he conquered all of equestria and caused disharmony amongst the very same people who give him power. An eerie feeling arose, something wasn’t finished. His mind drifted into thought, that’s when his sooner or later pesky ponies arrived, just on time. “Not as wonderful as friendship!” Twilight said breaking his peaceful disorder of silence. “Oh, This again?” Taking a sip of his glass, tossing out the remainders of the chocolate milk. With an arrogant smirk, he raised his claw holding the elements hostage. His chores were close to done, now he had the opportunity to finish his last one: getting rid of those six pesky ponies. Oddly enough, discord had trouble grasping Twilight’s element, the element of magic. With a swift flash of her horn, she grasped her friends together, releasing his hold on the elements. The ground under their hooves reverted to a harmonious state. Discord was impressed, he had never seen a pony with such strength, but what was that element she had that he couldn’t quite grasp? As Twilight dragged on with her speech, Discord’s mind slipped into a deep thought. His attention was too dedicated to what was stopping him from taking down these ponies. His guess was on Twilight who was mumbling on about pointless friendship propaganda. “Guh, Gag! Fine, go ahead and try to use your little elements of ‘friendship’, I’m missing some excellent chaos here!” as he sat down with a sinister grin. “Alright girls, lets show him what friendship can do!” Twilight spoke proudly while discord cared less. His attention shifted when he saw Pinkie Pie playing in his own cloud creation. The moist chocolate drizzled down her mane with a soothing elegance Discord found amusing. What was it about that little pink pony that kept his attention? More or less, he had to stay on subject; he was missing his chaos and wanted to get this over with. With a blinding flash, a stream of colors lashed out of the lighted circle enclosing on the ponies. His life portrayed in a blur, familiar memories he had forgotten had suddenly reappeared. He remembered Luna and Celestia joining together with the elements of harmony; it was deja vu all over again. His reign of terror would be soon over if he did not act. With the snap of his fingers, he teleported inches away from the stream of banded colors. His heart stopped briefly at the sight of the very same power that had ended his rule only inches from his face. He watched it fall by as it transformed the land underneath it like a luminary waterfall. Fallen on his back, despair and feelings of hatred returned. His mind was a freak show of emotions watching that ruthless force of friendship stopping him, even taking his chair in the process. He quickly regained his stature with his stubby wings balancing his slender body. It wasn’t until he noticed the band of colors ceased and the ponies had fallen from exhaustion. Discord slowly stepped onto the ground ending the slight flutter of his wings. He paced himself over the checkered land that was of his creation to the harmonized patch under the 6 ponies. The grass crunching under his feet was something unfamiliar to discord, something he hated. Staring down upon those 6 demons that tried to enclose him in immortal cement, he noticed the purple sparkle was still awake. He peeked down over by where she laid and let her eyes focus before he started to speak. “Now that I have your attention, allow me to introduce myself as you think I am ‘Gullible’. Nononono, you’ve got it all wrong, remember that I’m Discord. I’m not predictable, I’m not stupid, and I’m definitely not gullible.” He said with a slight grudge, “Are we clear?... Crystal?” Twilight tried to respond, but was too dazed from the elemental spell. “Good, now that you’re clear with me, let me be clear with you. First of all, look what you did to my chair! I had an excellent view from there, now how can I watch my disharmony and chaos without a proper seat!” “How… How did you avoid that?” Twilight said in a struggle to keep consciousness. “Not very good with keeping on subject huh? Alright, I’ll play it your way. Well it was quite simple really, it was a straight beam of light that I saw coming towards me and all I had to do was move.” Discord expressed with a slight sarcastic tone “If you wanted me to become a statue again, you could have just asked.” “But… the power of frie-“ “Let me stop you there Sparkle… how do I say this in a way that wouldn’t offend you and your unconscious friends… you’re so called ‘power of friendship’ is a mere concept of an otherwise weak fact. Your elements may put up a pretty light show, but it’s the same old hum-drum thing I’ve seen once over, one too many times. Your tactic was too predictable sparkle; I could have easily guessed where to dodge otherwise.” Said with an irritated tone. “This… can’t be over…” Twilight said with a dazed look in her eyes. “On the contrary my darling, it’s just begun.” Said Discord as he stared into her glossy eyes, taking her last look at him before falling unconscious.