Twilight, Big Mac, Sweetie Belle, and Rainbow Dash stood next to the two princesses as their horns glowed and the six suddenly disappeared.
"I do hope Sweetie Belle will be ok," Rarity said before Applejack placed a hoof on her friends shoulder.
"Trust the princesses. I'm sure Luna and Celestia will make sure she's ok," Applejack said.
"Oh my," Fluttershy said as she stood near the broken window looking out towards ponyville.
"What's wrong fluttershy," Pinkie asked.
"I'm worried about everypony down there. We have no idea what these four are capable of," Fluttershy said.
"I understand sugar, but I'm sure these pillars will help, plus, Discord's down there to help. I'm sure they'll be safe," Applejack said.
"I don't know about that, those trees might get to the ponies before they could do anything about it," Scootaloo said. Rarity, Applejack, Fluttershy, and Pinkie all looked at the filly.
"What do you mean?" Rarity asked.
"Well, before we got here, we saw a tree with some very sweet smelling fruit. When we went to take some, the tree grabbed us and hung us over a mouth," Apple Bloom said.
"Yeah, with sharp teeth and spider fangs. I wasn't scared though," Scootaloo said.
"What! You screamed louder then me!" Apple Bloom protested.
"No I didn't!" Scootaloo argued.
"Yeah, yay did," Apple Bloom said.
"Alright girls, quit this fighting and just tell us how you got free?" Applejack said.
"Well, the tree placed us on the giant flower as a voice told us we'd be sent to safety," Apple Bloom said.
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Twilight opened her eyes as she saw they were in the castle of the two alicorn sisters. Luna and Celestia quickly walked towards a large wall with strange symbols on it.
"We don't have much time," Luna said before their horn lit up and the entire wall suddenly disappeared. Twilight, Big Mac, Sweetie Belle, and Rainbow Dash all followed the two princesses. Inside was a large room with five floating platforms. Sweetie Belle looked down at the empty abyss under the platforms before she felt herself being lifted up. She looked around as she saw Big Mac be lifted up as well. Twilight and Rainbow Dash both flew next to them. Sweetie Belle was placed on one of the platforms with a grain inscribed onto it. Big Mac was placed on another with the six Elements inscribed in it. Rainbow Dash was instructed to stand on the platform with what looked like a staff with wings and two snakes slithered around it. Twilight stood on the platform with a sprouting tree on it, in the middle looked like a filly being cradled by the branches of the tree. The two sisters stood on the platform in the middle.
"You all must empty your minds and let the spirits of the four pillars envelop your bodies. They will change your appearance to theirs in order to connect with you," Celestia said. The four nodded and the two princess's horns lit up. Their eyes glowing as the four felt their magical powers filling their bodies. Twilight, Big Mac, Sweetie Belle, and Rainbow Dash lifted up as their eyes also glowed. Four shimmering lights flew from the abyss and began to spin around them.
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Records flew through the air like discuses towards the vines, slicing them as green goo oozed from their severed limbs. Octavia swung her cello at every vine that got close, the hard oak wood holding up quite nicely. A vine slithered on the ground undetected and wrapped itself around Vinyl's back legs and pulled her towards the Nepenthes. Octavia dropped her cello and grabbed Vinyl's hooves and began a tug-o-war with the plant. After a few moments, Famine's right eye twitched before she sighed, "Oh for buck's sake."
A large mushroom popped up under Octavia sending her into the air. Four Venus Fly Traps sprung from the ground. Their pod like heads with large rows of razor sharp teeth, green ooze dripping from their mouths lunged towards Octavia. She screamed as their teeth ripped into her flesh, tearing off chunks of skin, muscles, and tendons.
Each one suddenly grabbed one of her hooves and tore her into four pieces before devouring each piece. Vinyl sat there in shock at the sight before the vine quickly flung her into the large Nepenthes. The liquid inside bubbled before she felt a burning pain envelop her entire body. She screamed letting the liquid into her mouth. Before long she was nothing more than a floating, lifeless mare. Her skin started to melt off, soon her muscles and even her bones melted until there was nothing left but her red eyes floating in the liquid with the others.
"You're my new favorite," Famine said before something went through her body. A magical essence that made her quickly ran out of the home and down the streets of ponyville. As she ran down the street, the green gas quickly shrunk as it formed into Pestilence who flew next to her.
"You felt that too?" he asked.
Famine nodded and said, "It's her, its mother!" War soon galloped next to them.
"Does this mean Death was successful in releasing her?" War questioned
"I hope so, I've missed her so much," Pestilence said before he saw a figure in the distance and added, "Look!" the other two saw it and quickened their pace. Pestilence flew ahead and outstretched his hooves.
"Mother!" he shouted. The figure turned and quickly hugged him. Pestilence looked up at Discord who wore a large dress and powdered wig.
"Oh my boy, how I've missed you." Discord said in a cracked female voice. Pestilence quickly turned into gas and flew towards the other two and reformed.
"You're not our Mother!" Pestilence protected.
"Physically, No, but her powers are within me so technically I kind of am," Discord said as he snapped his fingers and the dress and wig disappeared.
"Who are you," War demanded.
"He is our mother's prison," Death said as he flew down next to Famine.
Discord chuckled and said, "That's one way of looking at it, but I feel I'm more of a hotel she can never leave. You know: like that one song." He started humming it as he waved his hands around like he was conducting a choir.
"How do we release her?" Pestilence asked franticly.
"We kill this creature and take her essence from it," Death said.
War chuckled before he said, "Fine by me." Vines rose up from the ground around Famine. Black saliva dripped from Pestilence's mouth and fell to the ground as it singed the ground. Flames sparked in Wars mouth as he smiled. Discord stopped humming and shook his head.
"I guess the fun and games are over," Discord said before he lifted his lions paw and flames erupted in it as he added, "I'll send you all back to the darkest pits of Tartarus where you came from."
War reared back and blasted flames from his mouth. Discord smug smiled formed before he held up his griffin claw as the flames parted ways and hit two cottages behind him, erupting in flames. Vines jetted from the ground under discord and wrapped around his body. They soon erupted into blue flames before they froze solid and shattered. Pestilence formed into the green gas and became a giant green twister around Discord, all the while cackling. When the twister dissipated, Discord stood there, arms folded and his eyebrow raised.
"What did that accomplished?" he asked.
Pestilence reformed himself and said, "Why aren't you ill? Wheezing? Covered in puss filled blisters?"
"Your gas won't affect him. Our mother's magic keeps him safe from it. War's flames won't consume him, he can predict what Famine's plants will do and my touch won't do a thing, but if we can weaken him. We might be able to release our mother," Death said.
"Then let's do it!" Pestilence said before he formed back into gas and coated the entire town in thick green mist. Before anything else happens. Discord thought as he snapped his fingers.
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Ponies appeared in the castle around Applejack, Fluttershy, Pinkie, Apple Bloom and Scootaloo. They all looked around before Pinkie giggled, "Looky, looky it's a party." She suddenly pulled from thin air her party cannon and fired it. The castle was suddenly filled with streamers, balloons, and glitter.
"Pinkie how did you?" Rarity said before the pink pony giggled.
"I never leave home without my party cannon," Pinkie said with a smile. Some of the ponies where wheezing and coughing, but soon started to breath normally as their illness seemed to disappear. The castle shook before Fluttershy looked out the broken window to see a massive tower of flames shoot into the sky.
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War galloped towards Discord and slammed his front hooves to the ground as flames shot from his mouth towards him. Discord summoned blue flames in his lions paw and shot it towards the flames. The two collided and exploded in a mixture of red and blue flames before the massive fire ball froze and slammed to the ground. Discord quickly spun around and slammed his serpent tail into the large ice ball and sent it flying towards War who jumped out of the way. Famine summoned vines that whipped the ice to throw it into the air. It landed behind her with a massive thud before more vines sprung up from the ground and darted towards Discord. They formed pod like heads with razor sharp teeth. Flames formed in both Discords' hand and his torso spun like a propeller as fire balls blasted towards the vines, colliding with them. The sound of screams like lobsters being placed in boiling water echoed throughout the town.
Discord quickly rose up to the ground as shadows rose up and tried to grab him. He looked at them before he looked back at Death as they slithered back underneath him. Discord felt something wrap around his right leg and suddenly was flung down to the ground. The vine around his leg picked him back up and spun him around. Each time he slammed through walls of cottages before the vine let him go and he crashed into a cottage.
"War! Now!" Famine shouted before War reared back and blasted flames towards the cottage which exploded in a massive fire ball.
"Did we get him?" Pestilence asked.
War turned to him and said, "We must've. Not even mothers Chaos Magic could deal with that." When he turned back, Discord shot out of the flames and punched War. War felt the lions paw on the side of his face as blood oozed from his nose and mouth as two of his teeth where dislodged from his gums. War was sent flying back and into Pestilence who changed into gas. War went through the gas and into Famine. Both were sent flying into a cottage behind them.
Discord's fur was matted and smoke was coming from it. His skin was torn, bruised and his right arm was dislocated. He breathed heavily as he tasted the blood dripping from the corner of his mouth. Using the Destructive Chaos Magic was taking more out of him then he thought. He quickly flew high once again as a slender shadow with a basketball sized head and two thin arms with four inch claws rose up and slashed at him. He felt the claws cut into his right leg before he could get high enough from the shadow. He looked at the shadow before he looked up to see Pestilence drop kick him in the stomach. He fell to the ground as War ran out of the cottage towards Discord. He slammed his front hooves to the ground and blasted flames towards him. Discord was about to move when a shadow slithered around him keeping him in place. Discord winced, waiting for the flames to reach him. Six orbs flew towards the flames and collided with them making a massive cross rise up in the sky.