Chapter 9: Discord's Demise
In the air is a few targets that got destroyed by fireballs. 2 days has passed since the release of the Dragon Army as well as the capture of the Mane Six and the 'destruction of the Brotherhood'. Spike is getting better in his training thus far.
"You're doing well, Spike." King Spykoran said pleased with Spike's process. "You're in the final stages."
"Yeah, of course I am." Spike said with a nod, though is worried. "I am still worried. Is my training done?"
"Hmmm, I believe that is the case. You are done, your powers are getting...more better."
"Good, because I need to get back! Lorcan probably did worst thing to Twilight and my friends by now!"
"If that was the case, we would've gotten word by it by now." Mei Long said as she watch the training that the grandfather, unknown to Spike, is giving his grandson. "But you're right. We should leave before it's too late."
"Very well, get on my back." King Spykoran instructed as Spike got on the dragon king's back. "To get there faster, we will need to use the Dragon Warp. It allows us to get from one place to another without wasting energy and speed; Best to hang on."
Spike nods as he hangs onto the old dragon's back as they and Mei Long speeds up using the Dragon Warp. These thoughts are in the young dragon's mind: 'Twilight, everypony...hang on. I am on my way.'
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It became nighttime at Nightmare Canyon. Lorcan paces in his bedroom. Time has passed since some of his victories...but no pony deaths, why? Probably because the ponies are in hiding...but that isn't what's on his mind right now.
"Hmmm, I finally got all I wanted; the army free, Sparkle my prisoner...then why do i feel so empty?" Lorcan mumbles as he makes a familiar picture of Spike appear in his claws. The villain sighs. "Brother..."
"Oh, I know why." A familiar voice spoke up. Lorcan yelps as he looks up to see what appears to be himself…only with a non-glowing scar, shorter hair and a different voice. Of course, this is only a halluciatnion. "You feel guilty, knowing that your brother won't forgive you for your actions.
"What are you on about? My brother would appreciate that I'm doing this for him! I am getting revenge for Spike of the same ponies who abused and mistreated him!"
"No, that isn't the really. There was no abuse or mistreatment, only mis-intentions. And if you have got revenge, why didn't you just go all out in your form that was temporarily before?"
"Gah! Look, it was a fail-safe spell seal that allows me to return to his 'smaller' stature to recharge." Lorcan explains to himself in frustration. "But if I break the seal, then not only would my rightful age be restored, but that all of my powers, skills, abilities that were dormant the entire time would reach the potential point of my 100 percent form. I put the spell seal on myself, so that when I'm done playing around with a small dosage of my power, I'll be more serious to unleash his full fury to end all things that stand in my way."
"Face it, you won't do so. You are not like our father at all." The other Lorcan said shaking his head in shame. "You are just his pawn, under his control and never thinking for yourself. Your love for Spike will only be an illusion unless you escape that control."
"I am not losing control! I am in control, way over it!"
"If you did, you wouldn't have slaughtered your own members who trusted you until now. As it stands, you are worst as Tadaka. You also terrorized the villages of Equestria, kidnapped foals and ponies, beaten one up to almost submission, release a terrible army. That isn't you; you're just a copy of Tadaka himself!"
"SHUT UP, SHUT UP; SHUT UP!" Lorcan exclaims madly as he fires a blast at the hallucination, causing it to disappear. "I am not losing it...he is losing it! All will be as it should be...speaking of which..."
Lorcan can sense someone in the throne room right now, one that he still has unfinished business with...
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"My, my...Lorcan sure does have a temper when he unleashed it. Hahahaha..." Discord was laughing over the descend bodies, that his ally never bother to remove, while making a crack comment in remarking how when Lorcan loses his temper, he's a killer.
"Having fun over here, are we?" Lorcan's voice was heard as he soon entered the scene from within the shadows. Even Discord had his eyes rotate in spotting the dragon villain in question.
"Why yes I am, actually. Now that you mentioned it," Discord shrug off his shoulders to turn and face Lorcan that still hid behind the shades of the shadows. "So I take with everything done with your releasing the Dragon Army, the brotherhood is....no more?" The evil spirit remotely expressed a clear dry remarking tone while looking interested in his claw's nail job.
"And this doesn't bother you much, I see." Lorcan raised an eyebrow as he soon came out from the shadows to stare at Lorcan that was a few feet away from him.
"Hmph, when a villain kills off those that served a purpose, what can you do?" Discord shrug off to exclaim how when someone outlived their usefulness, the only thing is to dispose of them, which in truth, is the villains way.
"So, we've reached an agreement then." Lorcan spoke in looking to Discord that understood where this was going without an explanation. "Very well, so how about we get things underway here?" The dragon villain stated from raising his left claw in to lightly face Discord's direction.
"Oh yes, yes, yes. All your plans; Well, I'm afraid I won't be following any of most of your plans from here on." Discord spoke with a playful display while floating in the air in a somewhat relax pose some do in hammocks.
"Really; Explain." Lorcan spoke with a kin interest as he wanted to hear this chimera creature explain his reasoning.
"From the beginning, I was only a tool so that you could make a huge comeback." Discord waved off his left hand in knowing all from the beginning, how Lorcan wanted to use him for his grant moment in striking fear and terror to the ponies in seeing a mighty enemy before them, leading not only the Brotherhood, but his father's army.
"This is correct." Lorcan nods in saying what Discord spoke was true, none the less was false.
"Well, I'm afraid that I don't really care for you or this plan that much! " Discord spoke off in a dry remark while sitting in position in the air, his arm resting his chin. "With everything done and such, I'm ready to let loose now." From the sounds of it, the chimera was breaking off from working with Lorcan.
"Is there an actual point to this sad story?" Lorcan shrug off his shoulders as he spoke from seemingly being unfazed in what Discord had to say.
"Don't get toying with me!" Discord came nearly close to Lorcan in pointing and snapping out in anger rage showing on his face. "I helped so that I could then discord your army and take my revenge with the Dragon Army...of CHAOS!" The chimera made a lunatic grin in proclaiming that he wants to turn the very Dragon Army of Tadaka into his own brand of soldiers to spread Chaos & Disharmony all over as his revenge for what's happen to him.
"What and everyone will fear you?" Lorcan spoke off in still being unfazed and once more went off with the insult remarks. "This being the same spirit of exploding chocolate milk and turning people grey. I think they're more scared of me than they are of you, my friend." He pointed out a noted fact that from everything that the dragon villain has done, it's likely Discord is the least scary next to him.
"IT MAKES NO DIFFERENCE!" Discord shouted out with an angry mark on his forehead as he was looking ready to pop while growing into a larger serpent Chinese form that he was in when he fought Luna. "I shall be the most powerful being on this planet." The God of Chaos decreed out as he summoned forth a glass filled with chocolate milk. "Our reign was over before it began." Discord declared off in where their ruling together was over before it even had begun itself.
"Hmph, come now! No need to talk about yourself." Lorcan made a wise cracking grin on his wicked expression as he made that remark of Discord himself.
"Grrrrr...AAAAUUGH," Discord growls under his breath in becoming upset in being told this and losing an argument to Lorcan, him, the God of Chaos itself, "SILENCE!" Discord shouted off as he throws his chocolate milk glass right at Lorcan.
"Gripvhm..." But then, to the evil spirit's shock, Lorcan actually grabbed the glass that he created from Chaos. "Gulpvhm...." The dragon villain even drank the entire contents in the glass in one gulp, "Mhhmm, chocolaty!" The evil dragon smirked off in liking the taste of what Discord created.
"But-but-but-but...THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO EXPLODE ON CONTACT; YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE EVEN GRABBED IT THAT EASILY!" Discord exclaimed out in disbelief that was supposed to blow up, why? Then Lorcan tossed the glass that was empty which broke on contact far from him. "Breakisvhmm.../Boomgruvhmm...." Which at that time, the explosion happened behind Lorcan while giving him that background of flames & feature of his superiority. "Ohhh, the glass was supposed to explode after it broke on contact." Discord slowly stated out with a stupid face in seeing that mistake.
"Well, Discord, is that all you got?"
"How about this," Discord throws a punch, but Lorcan grabs his arm and dislocates it with a crack.
"Pathetic." Lorcan shook his head in seeing this was the best that Discord could do, "In that case, let me show you my.....power!" On that sinister tone on the end, Lorcan soon waves his left claw in the air.
"Gaugh-auuuagh," Then suddenly, Discord grunts to hold his neck and his chest where his heart would be before...he was frozen. "What's happening? I...can't....move! WHY?" The evil spirit spoke off in demanding to know what's happening to him. As his body was suddenly in a weird pose by Lorcan's controlment, no matter the muscle strains, he was not getting out of the weird pose that he himself was made into.
"Hohohoho, this is priceless!" Lorcan was laughing at Discord's discomfort as he was now snickers at this point. "For all your boasting and empty threats and for all those powers you have.... you have forgotten the biggest difference between you and I, Discord!" The dragon villain remarked off something this evil spirit lacks and yet he has it.
"What could that be?" Discord remarked off dryly and with anger in not understanding where this discussion is getting to.
"I actually knew of your instincts and became prepared." Lorcan remarked off with a sly grin on his face as if knowing what Discord was capable of the whole time. "When I freed you, a spell I learned from my father showed me an excellent way to handle you." By those mere mentioned words, even a whacko like Discord put two-in-two together.
"Your FATHER! Tadaka," Discord exclaimed in shocking surprise, Lorcan learned something from his father when dealing with him.
"So you do remember my father and your encounter. Last time, he gave the idea in how to stop you, but it was not much to stop you from returning." Lorcan motioned off dryly in bringing up old details about the time Discord was stopped last time, most of it was told by Celestia already to our knowledge. "And now...this spell shall do the trick instead." Lorcan spoke off in slowly creeping up to the evil spirit.
"Oh, what's that, another stone spell? Been there, done that." Discord remotely expressed in a dry tone that if he was gotta be turn to stone, that's nowhere different than what happened last time.
"No...to be rid of a spirit....the source of that spirit....must be...removed." Lorcan grinned with a wicked sense in stating that to be rid of a spirit, the task must be done...by removing a 'certain' source.
Discord suddenly went wide eyed in hearing Lorcan's plan in dealing with him and the last time he showed such fear was when Twilight's group were able to use the Elements of Harmony to turn him to stone again.
"What...what are you?" Discord whispered out under his breath and was sounding more fearful than the last.
"Wrugrugrugaahh....." Soon Lorcan's left claw was glowing a dark green aura that seemed very creepy even to the being of Chaos. Soon, the dragon villain placed his glowing claw to rest on Discord's left shoulder spot. "I am....Equestria's...Reckoning." Lorcan spoke with a dark hiss sound when he spoke those words so silent like a snake while his glimmering eyes looked to gaze into Discord's fearful eyes. "Frsisisivhmm..." Then the claw glowed more as Lorcan moved it slowly down until it stopped...in the center of the chest of the chimera creature. "And...this will...hurt." The dragon villain remarked to say how this will go and it will be painful...to Discord.
"Plussfrusvhmm..." Then without warning, Discord stared down in wide eyes even more as Lorcan's glowing claw...pierced his body from the spell. "AAARRAAUUUGHHHH...." The chimera let off an eerie scream that filled a bit of the castle halls as it felt like a thousand knives piercing him at once. "Trsiis-wrrrupvhmm..." Then Lorcan removed his claw from his body as the mark he punctured remanded, yet the dragon's glowing claw had remanded shut, why? "Creakcreak-Crusfruvhmm...." Suddenly, Discord's body was turning to stone all over while in his frozen state without making any reactions what so ever. Soon, the evil spirit's being was a stone statue, a bit larger, but from the position of appearance, it looks like a sculpture artwork of a chimera that would be fitting in gardens.
"I'll return your body to Celestia's castle as a gift..." Lorcan exclaimed off in stating what he'll do with Discord's stone body, sent it back where he got it from. "Frusvhm-TRuspvhm..." Then a magical gate portal opened up which soon swallowed up from under the stature as Discord's stone body faded below and returned to where he was once kept, "And as for...this." Lorcan expressed out with a sly tone as his glowing left claw slowly opened up finally but with a strange light from within.
What was inside the gripping claw that Lorcan held was a small crystalized sphere the size of a baseball. It was glowing with an eerie emerald, yellow and blacken coloring, like the inside was a swirling cloud of mist. But what was gonna be the truly freaky part of what this was, had just been what came next...
"Wha-wha, what's happened to me? Where am I? What have you done to me?" Shown a little faded bare-yellow light in the center of this crystal that was asking some puzzling questions. "And...why do I..." Suddenly, the voice ceased for a moment in gathering a few things before it reacted...loudly by screaming."AAAAAAHHH! I SOUND LIKE A CHIPMUNK! Gaahahahhuuuugh," The light in the center grown over the entire sphere in exclaiming out its panic as its true, its own voice was the sounding a bit squeaky like a chipmunk while it flashed a bit in almost sounding like the voice was crying. "The God of Chaos...reduced to this state, it's WORST than a STATUE!" The little thing whined out in actually revealing to be none other than Discord himself. Somehow, Lorcan did something to him, but what...we're gonna find out.
"Oh, but it's just getting better!" Lorcan spoke off in holding the little crystal sphere of the whiny and groaning voice of Discord. "Your body shall remain in Canterlot, but as for the spirit essence like you." He pointed out that, somehow, Lorcan removed the very essence of Discord's spirit from his body, thereby showing what happened to the two. "You shall be sent to a destination where you might live eternally as....in this state." The dragon villain grinned wickedly in stating that he has a place that shall be perfect to keep Discord for all time.
"What! Nooooo!" The chipmunk voice of Discord responded off horrid as he tried to beg. "Surely we can reach a reasonable term! You can't do this to me! MEEE! DISCORD," Discord tried to speak reason, but returned to complaining with nothing to show for it but a little glowy light center and a chipmunk squeaky voice.
"Hmm-hmm, sorry; But that chipmunk voice of yours just makes you too cute to really pay much in mind of who you once were!" Lorcan held his breath to apologize with a smile, Discord, being in this state, was hardly even a threat anymore, he was more...a child's amusement level now. "Tada...." The dragon spoke in giving his farewell as he slowly was letting the crystal sphere drift a bit down his claw.
"No! Lorcan, please," Discord cried out with his squeaky voice once more as his new imprisonment was drifting from the claw to the opened flaming vortex below where his body was sent somewhere. "Give me another chance, just please...no-no-no-no-NO!" The chipmunky voice pleaded and begged before his essence in the crystal sphere fell off of Lorcan's claw. "NOOOOO-AAAAAAAAUGHH....." Discord ended up screaming up a storm, but with such a cutesy chipmunk voice, it's hard how to react...as he fell into the vortex portal in the ground.
"Grufruspvhm...." With that, the flaming gate portal sealed shut after Discord's essence went through. Where he was sent, nobody knows where or for sure how but that's where he's separated from others and his body.
"Hmm-hmm, it'll be amazing if you're ever found." Lorcan chuckled off to state that the possibility of someone finding Discord's essence is a million to one, almost unlikely. "I certainly would get a killer-laugh if I saw you in such a SORRY State!" The dragon grinned wider in just picturing how ponies that feared that freak would see him now, oh the irony it would be to be the chimera creature about now. "Hugh, the future of fate will be the judge of whatever happens to you...Discord." Lorcan sighed to remark in whatever happens, shall happen...in due time. "Your legendary reign is over and now is the dawn of my own!" Soon the dragon villain turns away to walk out of the spot where the dead bodies of the Brotherhood of Tadaka lie while making this proclamation. "Lorcan, Son of Tadaka, & Bringer To All Pony Civilizations' End! Hahaha-WHAAAHahahaaaah," After he made his own decree on what he himself will be forward remembered as, the villain made an even louder cackle laughter that filed the halls. Soon Lorcan vanished when he exited the room; his business with Discord has been settled at last.
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Shining glances at the castle gates of the Nightmare Moon castle. He hasn't been here before, the captain wishes that he himself does during the Nyx thing. Turning to Ben, the unicorn said, "So this must be the place."
"Most likely," Ben Mare said, staring at the castle. "Inside that place, I don't know where, is Twilight and her friends. We can only hope that Lorcan can be distracted long enough for Golden Heart's rescue party, wherever they are, to get them out."
"Then let's do this. From what Golden Heart has told us, Celestia and Luna, along with their allies, are keeping the Dragon Army from causing any trouble. We don't know how much longer before Lorcan decided to bring them back to face us. Sergeant Steel Hooves? We're ready when you are."
"Steel Hooves?"
"That be me, eeyup!" Big Macintosh exclaims sternly as he turns around and kicks at the doors, knocking them open. The big stallion doesn't know that Cheerilee is in the rescue army...and won't until he's ready.
"Wait a minute...you got military connections?" Ben Mare asks Big Macintosh in amazement.
"Eeyup! Sergeant Apple of the Royal Tank Corps' First Tank Regiment! Retired when the flood of Ponyville happened that took...that took..."
"Its okay, Big Mac; we know how important your parents are to you." Shining said, calming down the saddened Big Macintosh, AKA the Steel Hooves, over the loss of his, Applejack and Apple Bloom's parents during the flood that took them. The forces enter the castle and right into the front yard. "Lorcan, come forth and prepare to face justice!"
"Oh please, you sound like you are going to arrest me?" A familiar voice taunts as Lorcan appears in his voice. "But you can't! I am in charge of Equestria now and for that, it's treason."
"You do not have control of Equestria!" Ben Mare snaps to Lorcan sternly. "Not as long as we still have hope. Now we demand that you release Twilight, her friends and the foals...as well as the Elements."
"Sorry, I have no reason to give in to any requests today. You see, I am on the verge of my ultimate victory...I already took care of Discord and haven't heard from Boris and his boys in a while now. No matter, they will be dwelt with once those three returned."
"Now see here, you have no right to be doing what you're doing: terrorizing every ponies and such!" Big Macintosh exclaims to Lorcan sternly.
"Oh, what; A big lunkhead like you can give out big words when you want to," Lorcan taunts Big Macintosh in amusement.
"Watch it. Big Macintosh is also Sergeant Apple of the Royal Tank Corps' First Tank Regiment AKA the Steel Hooves!" Shining snaps to Lorcan sternly. "Show him some respect!"
"Oooooh, so Big Mac is a military veteran! Where's my autograph book?! Bah! Like I care! It doesn't matter. You shouldn't bother coming after seeing what I did to Twilight."
"Oh, I saw what you did all right...and you are a liar!" Ben Mare snorts to Lorcan angrily.
"What did you call me?!" Lorcan demands furiously to Ben Mare, being called out as a liar.
"Simple. Twilight doesn't treat Spike like a slave and if that were the case, what happened at times was unintentionally! She manages to give out gratitude to him. And the reason why my love didn't invite Spike to her birthday party is because the two has an argument one time that made her uninvited him. And believe me, Twilight has regretted doing so."
"Well, I..."
"Shut up and let me finish." Ben Mare snaps to Lorcan, making the dragon growls. "And no one blames Twilight for what happened that night! Did she kill her brother? No! You did! And Twilight didn't leave Starlight to die, he told her to run and it was too late for the filly to save him. And while Twilight has gone through two troubles in the past, I say she is a success and did well in protecting Spike from dangers...even you! You are nothing more than an insane dragon whose lies to himself all because he believes that what he himself is doing is right!"
"Grrr, fine! I admit it, so maybe I was lying to myself...and that Twilight did care for that brother of mine, maybe mistreat him as a slave unintentionally...but does that give her the right to not tell Spike about me?!" Lorcan demands furiously to Ben Mare while the good guys glare at him. "Whatever happens or not, she will face judgment soon enough!"
"Enough of this," Big Macintosh snorts in determination. "Give up my sisters, their friends and the Elements now!"
"You want them? You gotta fight them!"
"Then so be it. Guards, stay back. Me, Ben and Sergeant Steel Hooves got this." Shining orders his troops who move back to allow the fighters some room. "Do not interfere like you have no choice."
The song 'First Xemnas Fight' plays as the fighters got out beam swords. Each Beam Sword's blade shows two colors: the color of the blade, which represents the owner, and the color of the core, which reflects the current user's alignment. There are a variety of colors, including blue, red, green, purple, and yellow; the colors have no signifigance other than aesthetic purposes of the owner. The color of the core, on the other hand, may be either white, for those who are good, or black, for those who are evil. The core color will change if the Beam Sword is picked up by a person of the opposite alignment from its previous user. If one individual is confused on what he is (good or evil) the core can be blue.
Lorcan smiles insanely as his core's color grow black while the good guys' cores grow eye, though it has changes blue a few time. The dragon exclaims, "Have at thee!"
Lorcan jumps at the three who dodges him and blocks his attacks. The villain fires a few lightning blasts which they either dodge or use force fields. Lorcan jumps up a wall and lands on the top, glaring. Ben Mare and Shining jumps up and ran off the wall.
Lorcan snorts as he jumps off the wall and lunges at the two who quickly blocks his attacks quickly, all of them fight in the air before landing on the ground. The dragon kicks at Shining, sending him to the ground.
Ben yelps as he dodges Lorcan's next kick, flying away a few times...only to bump into his enemy who appears behind himself, taunting, "Hello."
"Goodbye!" Big Macintosh exclaims as he head butts Lorcan, grabbing him by the tail and tossing the villain to the ground. Before the dragon could get up, the red stallion stomps on him with his hooves. Lorcan screams as if steel was crushing him. "That's why I got the nickname 'Steel Hooves'."
"And this is why I don't care!" Lorcan snarls as he slashes at Big Macintosh, making him yelp as the big stallion backs off. The dragon got up, snarling.
"Well, looks like the fight continues here." Shining mumbles a bit.
"We got to keep this up until Golden Heart can get the girls and the foals out of here." Ben Mare whispers to Shining, reminding him and Big Mac of the plan. "Until then, we got to keep on fighting."
As the fight rages on, no one saw Nyx, the real one, in hiding. She knows that she herself must stay hidden until Golden Heart gives her the signal. Hopefully Twilight, the other Mane Six members and Nyx's friends are safe until then..