Unraveling Twilight
The world of had for the most part turned back to normal after the element bearers successfully battled Discord the god of Chaos and sealed him in stone with the magic of harmony the ponies and other inhabitants of Equestria moved on as if they had just had a strange dream, that is except for the element bearers themselves. The saviors of the land knew it wasn’t just a dream it was a nightmare one that continued to haunt them some more than others.
Twilight concentrated hard summoning her magic and hurling a binding spell at the draconesque but once again the god of chaos slipped through her hold.
“Oh, Twilight, did you really think that would work,” Discord said.
“When I get a hold of you,” she shouted then fired another concentrated bolt of magic blasting a mirror on the wall into pieces.
“Why didn’t you say you wanted a hug?” he said wrapping his long body around hers and begin to squeeze. She pushed with her hooves and squirmed attempting to break his hold and couldn’t. “I’ve got you Twilight.”
“Noooo!” she said creating a bubble of magic around her blasting Discord against the wall.
“Twilight you don’t want to do this,” he said as her mane and tail began to ripple from an unseen wind.
“You. Will. Not. Hurt. Anypony. Ever. Again,” she said as she charged her horn the waves of magic cascading off her the books and lamps in the library being tossed around by the unseen ethereal force.
“I would never hurt anypony Twilight,” Discord said fear obviously in his voice as she sent a blast of energy towards him knocking a hole in the side of the library as he barely escaped.
She searched the room in a panic having lost sight of the chaos god, she couldn’t let him escape. “I will find you,” she said in a singsong voice.
The faintest sound of something scratching was coming from somewhere in the room caused her ears to swivel homing in on the sound. She quickly teleported to the opposite side of the desk to find Discord cowering under it and began to fill herself with power.
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The princess of the moon sat on her balcony splatters of red dripping across her hooves. ”I’ve done it!” she shouted to no one in particular. She smiled and laughed manically as she looked at her work. The world of Equestria was spread out before her bathed in a redish pinkish hew. “Look citizen of Equestria and behold,” she waved her red splattered hooves. “It has taken you princess years but I have captured Canterlot,” she said in an overdramatic tone. “You thought you could defeat me Sister with you ever changing subtly, changing your shape and color making it hard for me to hold onto the image of what I wanted, but I have won! I give you the capital at sunset,” she tossed the brush in her magic aside and stepped back to enjoy her masterpiece. The large painting before her depicting the view from her balcony bathed in a sea of pinks, reds and soft orange accents the white stone of the city seemed to glow. She felt she finally captured the soft pastel colors of sunset, the colors of her sisters’ ethereal mane.
She sat on her haunches looked over at the piles of canvas and smiled.
“Poof!” a wisp of green smoke appeared in front of her startling her for a moment. A scroll fell from the smoke and Luna grabbed it in her telekinesis before it hit the ground. The message was short but spread panic through her immediately.
Twilight out of control library Help. Failsafe broken.
The princess of the night knocked over her canvas as she jumped off the balcony and spread her wings as she and flapped them with urgency to clear the city and before closing her wings like a falcon and dropping from the sky. Luna felt the wind rush through her coat and feathers as she tore through the air, she needed to move faster and tucked in her legs wrapped her magic around her creating a sleek cone like the tip of an arrow. The trip from Canterlot to Ponyville by the average pegsus took about two and a half hours, Rainbow dash one hour forty five minutes, an alicorns even less, but that still wasn’t fast enough. A boom, echoed across the fields of equestria as an alicorns pushed past the sound barrier. She knew she still wasn’t moving fast enough. She squinted her eyes and looked into the distance waiting for the town to come into view then searched for the large tree that housed the library. She began to change her magic, the ballistic shield surrounding her taking on new properties then in a flash the dark streak across the blue sky vanished.
Luna gasped as she reappeared in the reading room of the library, the distance of the teleport and not realizing she hadn’t taken a breath since she plunged off her balcony. “Spike!” she called. “Twilight?”
The library was in complete disarray, books in piles at the base of broken bookshelves, scorch marks from magical blasts on the walls. She was suddenly knocked to the side as frying pan gave her a glancing blow. The alicorns walked cautiously toward the kitchen focusing on the rustling and a voice.
“I know you’re in here,” a strange singsong version of Twilights voice called. “You won’t escape.”
Luna froze at the sight before her, Twilight’s eyes almost completely red, her mane and tale flowing wildly with raw magic. “Oh dear, Twilight?” she said.
“Twilight?” Luna said trying to get her attention but the deranged unicorn just continued her search.
“It’s only a matter of time, Discord,” she said before firing several random bolts of magic into the cabinets.
“TWILIGHT SPARKLE!!” the royal Canterlot voice obliterating all other sounds called from the night princess.
Twilight turned to face the midnight blue alicorn and cocked her head to one side.
“Luna?” she questioned not really knowing what she was seeing.
“Yes, Twilight, I am here to help you,” Luna said.
“Good, Its Discord, he’s broken free. I have him cornered. I think he’s under the sink,” she said.
“Discord is still in stone. I saw him in the garden this morning,” Luna reasoned.
“No, he’s here. He’s playing games with me, but I’be got him on the run,” she said.
“Twilight, where is Spike?” Luna asked.
“Who?” she asked.
“You’re brother, the dragon,” Luna said feeling very worried.
“The only dragon here is a draconesque,” she said narrowing her eyes.
“Twilight why don’t you come over here and I will help you find him,” Luna said doing her best to impersonate her sister calming voice, “I think I saw him in the reading room.”
Twilight looked back at the cabinet unsure what to do.
“This way, we don’t want him to get away,” Luna said. “He could sneak up behind us and place a spell on us would we?”
Twilight was uncertain at first, not wanting to take her eyes off the cabinet, but the small part of her rational mind that was left told her, this was Luna, her aunt and friend, she helped lock Discord away the first time.
The unicorn turned an began to walk out of the kitchen, when before she could react a pair of scaly arms wrapped around her. “Hold her still,” Luna shouted.
“No, no, you’re working with him. You’re not my aunt. Your Nightma…” was all Twilight got out before drifting into unconsciousness.