Chapter 7: It Doesn’t Matter
Behind us was a combination of a dragon, a pony, a ram, and tons of other things.
“This guy looks like trouble.” The cocky smirk returned to Sonic’s face.
“Very close little hedgehog, but still wrong.” The draconequus said. “I am Discord, ruler of all things chaos.”
“Discord? I though you guys sealed him away!” Sonic looked to us.
“We did.” Everypony but Fluttershy, who was cowering behind a tree, screamed. We were all ready for a fight.
“Ah but the stone prison failed!” Discord happily announced.
“Well what do you want from us?!” I Demanded.
“Those emeralds.” Discord elaborated.
“Over my dead body!” Sonic defied.
“Come now; let’s not let it come to that.” Discord snapped his fingers.
A pink force field shot up, isolating Discord and Sonic. I tried pushing it but the shield deformed slightly, then popped back into a bubble.
“You know your quest is in vain.” He started to wrap around sonic. “Just give up.”
We knew what was happening all too well. As fast as we could we channeled energy into the elements. Nothing happened.
“What’s going on?” Twilight said.
“The elements don’t seem to be working.” Rarity pointed the obvious out.
“Sonic, don’t listen to ‘im!” Applejack yelled at the top of her lungs, but it was too late.
Sonic’s eyes had multi-colored circles that shrunk down to his pupils. His body was losing its color, but very slowly. Could sonic be resisting it?
“If you save your friends the world is doomed,” The mish-mash of creature’s worked on breaking Sonic’s will. “And if you don’t Robotnick will kill everyone!”
His grip on Sonic loosened and Sonic fell to his hands and knees.
“Gu-guh.” He was shaking violently.
“Don’t give up Sonic! Fight it!” I tried to help him.
“You can do it!” Everypony cheered on.
The black shadow was up to his neck by now. Discord was smiling from ear to ear as he turned to us and waved. I scowled at the taunt, and bucked the pink shield with all my might. No good, the shield just bent in a little and launched my legs back, knocking me off balance.
“I… I,” Sonic muttered. “I…”
“Don’t give up, you never do that’s what makes you, you.” I yelled. “Anypony else would have just given up if they were in your situation, but you didn’t!”
“I…” Sonic continued. “I WILL NEVER QUIT!” Sonic shouted as the shadow flushed out, and was replaced with an aura of light.
“NO!” Discord shrieked in denial as the light shattered his shield. “THAT’S IMPOSIBLE!”
“I have a talent for making the impossible happen.” Sonic gloated as the light dissipated. On his wrist was a golden ring (Sonic said it’s called a bracelet) with a dark blue gem in the shape of semi-flat chaos emerald.
Sonic flashed up to Discord and sent a curved kick right to Discord’s cheek. (We would have felt guilty, if it was anypony else) Discord came flying at us and AJ bucked him into the air as a reflex. Sonic whipped the chaos emerald out and screamed “Chaos control!” In the blink of an eye Sonic was right above discord and dropped his heel on the draconequus. The “ruler of all things chaos” slammed into the ground and Sonic landed on one knee with both hand on the ground. Discord had passed out.
“That’s for messing with my head.” Sonic squatted to Discord’s ear.
“Now let’s get rid of him.” Twilight suggested.
“How the elements didn’t work before?” Fluttershy asked.
Twilight pointed to Sonic’s wrist.
“When did that get there?” Sonic stared at the sapphire.
“After the blast of light.” I told him.
“I believe it’s the seventh element of harmony!” Twilight excitedly announced. “The element of tenacity.”
“Really?” He studied the bracelet. “Cool, let’s give it a shot!”
We all closed our eyes in concentration. Soon we lifted from the ground. Twilight’s eyes glowed as they opened as a giant rainbow spun around us and shot towards Discord petrifying him instantly. Our hooves/feet touched the ground after the blast.
“That was awesome!” Sonic was elated.
“Yeah but Sonic, how did you get to Discord so quickly when Applejack kicked him up.” I started. “I knew you were fast but I couldn’t any see movement.”
“Like I said, the emeralds are powerful.” Sonic explained. “When I pulled it out I used chaos control to warp up to him.” He looked at the position Discord was frozen in. “You think I over did it?”
“Maybe a little.” Twilight responded.
“Well, let’s go find the other emeralds!” Sonic got ready to run.
“Doesn’t Discord have one?” Fluttershy reminded.
“Oh, right.” Sonic looked to the floor.
Just behind the stone draconequus was a yellow emerald.
“How are they emeralds if they’re not all green?” Rarity questioned as Sonic picked it up.
“I didn’t name them.” Sonic answered. “Now we can go.”
“It’s kind of late though.” I answered.
The moon was rising from the horizon and Luna’s handy work was slowly setting in.
“Yeah, I guess we’ll find the others tomorrow.”