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// Only thing worse than Discord: his daddy 
// Story: Discord's history: the origins of a god 
// by Embracethechaos 
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	It was freezing. In all the centuries King Nova and Queen Faust had ruled over Equestria, this was by far the most hazardous winter they had ever endured. Despite the subzero temperatures, it had not snowed even once the entire season, between the parched air and not a single cloud in the sky in weeks, the citizens of Equestria were in a state of frozen time.
King Nova was a kind, loving Alicorn with impressive bulking physique. He had a pelt  whiter than snow and had a beard and mane as orange as a summer's afternoon sky. His wife, Queen Faust, was another Alicorn with equal charismatic traits as her husband and lived her life to serve and guide those around her. She had a white, almost silver pelt that shone like hoof-made silk and had a glorious crimson mane.
It was the middle of the night, and with it being a new moon tonight, the king couldn't see anything through the window in his bedchamber. The only thing he could feel was his beloved Faust curled up next to him under the covers, clinging to him for warmth and protection from the frigid elements battling their castle.
Despite being exhausted from his crushing workload and the stress from leading his nation through such a horrendous winter, he couldn't even get a moment of sleep. Even though his wife slept soundly beside him, he chest rising ever so slightly between each silent breath, he couldn't rest for even a second. King Nova almost had a sixth sense for when things were about to lead from bad to worse, from worse to catastrophic; this was one of those moments.
He raked his mind trying to think what was keeping him from sweet slumber, but nothing came. Was a blizzard going to envelope Equestria? Were what little crops left going to freeze? Was Equestria at the precipice of invasion? Was their going to be a rebellion? What was it? What!?!
Then he felt something that always helped calm him down, Faust nuzzling him. He had not realized it, but his inner monologue had awoken his Queen.
She stared at him with concerned, yet loving eyes as blue as the morning sky "Are you having that same feeling again my King?" she asked with a voice like silk.
Nova lowered his head and stared at the bed sheets "…Yes, it doesn't matter what precaution I take or what assurance we give to our subjects, It's still there, lingering." he said emptily.
Faust used a hoof to bring him eye to eye with her "Nova, look at me… You've lead this kingdom through even the darkest of times, given strength and hope to all our subjects. Invigorated our troops and given them courage to fight for Equestria, no matter what the enemy. There is no hardship that will ever face this land that you can't overcome."
Nova gazed into her loving eyes. She was everything to him. His light at the end of the tunnel. The sunlight that shined over even the darkest fields. His angel of the night. And above all else, the one thing that gave him strength. Whenever things seemed to be at their darkest, he'd always think of her and he'd press through the gates of hell and face the devil himself, so long as he had her waiting for him at the very end.	
Nova smiled and kissed the mare that made his life meaningful as she pulled the warm covers over them. Nova felt as if a massive boulder that he was carrying on his shoulders had disintegrated to nothing but rubble. He let the soft quilt envelope him and pull him into a blissful sleep. He felt his eyelids go heavy and his sore muscles go slack.
Suddenly, an earsplitting explosion shook the entire castle, causing pillars and towers at the top of the fortress to collapse and hit the ground with just an equal ear-splitting sound.
The two rulers immediately shot up, both running on sheer adrenaline. King Nova kicked the dual doors open that lead to his hallways "Guards! search the castle! I want this entire fortress surveyed until we find out what that was!" he roared the command as it echoed through the halls.
He could vaguely hear a guard shout back from below "The Library! Some maniac has broken straight through the ceiling! Oh my Faust! What the buck is that thing!?!?" The guards voice was cut short by a blood curdling scream of agony that swept through the entire  castle.
They couldn't waste their time running down three flights of stairs, Faust illuminated her horn and the duo warped right outside the entrance to the library. King Nova looked down and almost vomited. What laid before them, or what they thought, was the remains of a decapitated guard. A thick trail of the fallen soldier's black blood led into the mazes of hundreds of shelves. All the torches inside had been extinguished and there was no moonlight being produced from the massive hole in the ceiling so the library was pitch black.
King Nova turned to his wife "Wait here." he demanded.
Faust ignored the command "You can give orders because you rule Equestria, but I'm you wife, so I rule you." she illuminated her horn with an eerie blue light and cautiously made her way in.
Nova wished he could protest but whatever did this, he didn't want to face alone.
The two trotted in, shoulder to shoulder, following the reeking trail of blood. Nova had illuminated his horn with a hue of orange and looked around with an intense and courageous face, when really he was slowly loosing it inside. What monster could have decapitated a pony so ruthlessly? More importantly… what could've done it so easily?
Faust heard something scurry behind her, she immediately spun around and shot a powerful spell that left a smoking crater in the stone floor. Nothing was there. She heard scurrying on the  bookshelf just inches away from her, she panicked and shot an even more powerful beam at the shelf that plowed through the wood, sending splintering wood into the air. Nothing.
Nova now heard the creature scurrying right above them. How was it crawling on the ceiling? Didn't matter, King Nova erupted a raging inferno of flames from his horn to where he heard the silent killer. Again, nothing. He was becoming enraged and terrified "Show yourself you monster!" he roared.
The two heard something jump from the ceiling and land on the stone directly in front of them. Out of reflex, the two shot a twin blistering combination of magic at where they heard their target. Their blast careened down the aisle and slammed into the wall at their very end of the library. Where was this thing? WHAT was this thing?"
They had one of their questions answered when a red flash of magic exploded into the wall at the other end of the library, causing dust and rubble to shoot into the air. They put every ounce of energy they had into dashing to where the explosion destroyed the wall, trying to cut of whatever this thing was before it escaped.
When they reached the sight of the explosion, they realized that they had blown a hole in the wall that led to a secret room illuminated in a green light. Inside was a grotesque creature hunched over a stone book with a circle of spikes lining an insignia. Nova immediately recognized the creature, if you could call it that. A Draconequus. One of the sickest abominations of nature. 
They were savage beings. The word monster didn't give them justice, Demon was a better phrase. These creatures had wrecked terror and havoc across planet earth and slaughtered thousands upon thousands of creatures globally for the sheer joy of it. They were devoid of any emotions except rage and hatred. 
To make matters worse, they were practically unstoppable beings. They could live for millennia and could wield spells that dwarfed even the most powerful of unicorns, just one of them could kill over a dozen full grown dragons in one spell. They could take unprecedented amounts of damage and brush it off as nothing more than an irritation. But their most deadly aspect? Their brain. These demons were conniving and cunning killers who could already be killing a victim before it could even know they were there.
Upon seeing the two rulers of Equestria in the archway, the snake like creature hissed and pried the book off the pedestal. Nova immediately recognized the tablet it was clutching onto to. No… with that spell… what could they possibly do with that kind of power?!
The king was about to put every single ounce of magic he had in his body to cast a spell that could hopefully kill the beast, but he heard something that made his blood run cold. Faust crying out in agony. 
Nova spun around to see something that destroyed any courage remaining inside of him. Towering before him was something he prayed was just a legend. the icon of evil, one of the most terrifying beasts to walk this earth, and the king of the Draconequui, Excitium,. Unlike the other Draconequui who had a streamline, snakelike body, Excitium was a massive twenty foot tall Draconequus with bulk that would put any dragon in existence to shame and blood-red eyes that illuminated in the darkness.
Like every Draconequus, he was a freak of nature. Fused with dozens of vicious animals' parts, he was equipped with the adaptations to slaughter anything he locked onto. 
He  sported a dual set of wings, one a pair of leathery bat wings and the other a pair of raptor wings. Crowning his cranium was a massive set of horns sharpened to the point, ready to impale any helpless victim.  His forepaws were a mismatched set of a tiger's and jaguar, and were twice as thick. He stood on a Dragon's clawed foot and an eagle's talon with a crimson snake tail running in between.
In his right tiger paw, he held Faust by the throat, effortlessly holding her from the ground. Nova inhaled a grotesque stench, immediately realizing that both Excitium's mouth and claws were caked in dried blood, displaying that he was the killer from before.
He grinned, displaying a row of silver fangs glimmering in the shadows. "King Nova." His voice was deep and sounded like he inhaled an entire volcanic worth of ash "What an honor to finally meet the illustrious knight in shining armor of Equestria."
Nova ignited his horn, a threat that he knew meant almost nothing to Excitium, but Nova wasn't going to run like a coward.
The Draconequus immediately snapped Faust's body in front of him, her legs kicking uselessly to break free. "Easy their striker, don't want to cause any collateral damage to your jewel do you? Lower your horn or I ignite your wife up in flames"
Nova glanced at Faust, but kept Excitium as his center of attention. He could see Faust struggle to shake her head, telling Nova to forget about her and get in at least one good hit in on Excitium while he was still preoccupied with her. What was he playing at? Nova knew Excitium didn't need her as a shield, he could just simply deactivate Nova's magic all together. Was he just mocking him; Rubbing salt into the wound?
Nova's train of thought came to a screeching halt when he felt the other Draconequus  slither over his spine, he made eye contact with it just as it's forepaws made contact with the ground; Nova immediately regretted it. In that one moment, Nova felt as if every good memory had been completely erased, as if he'd never feel any emotion again except misery. It's piercing yellow eyes, without a pupil or iris drilled into his very soul, reawakening every sorrow and regret he'd ever had. Just what kind of sick magic was this? Even in all the wars and battles Nova had fought in, this was by far the most terrified he'd  ever been and they hadn't even cast a single spell yet! The freak broke it's cryptic  gaze away from his and stood it's ground right next to Excitium.
What was that second Draconequus even doing here? In all the legends and reports the Alicorn had ever heard of from distant lands, a Draconequus only attacked as a single unit; of course unless… Oh no.
The king immediately put two and two together; she was Excitium's mate. Nova's hope was being destroyed rapidly, he was helpless against a Draconequus, let alone two that both so happened to be the rulers of the species. What could he possibly do in a situation like this? He couldn't do anything too brash, Faust was in Excitium's custody, and any move on the offensive would get him killed. 
Nova thought he was dead anyways, the best thing he could do is get as much information out of them as he could and hope at least a guard nearby would overhear it. Speaking of which… Where in the name of Tartarus were the guards?! everypony in the entire structure should've heard the explosion, where were his reinforcements?
"dead." said the female Draconequus.
Nova froze. Was he thinking out loud this entire time? No, he was good at keeping himself contained and keeping foes in the dark. But that would mean…Wait…No, there was no way. That… that was impossible. No creature, not even an abomination like a Draconequus could posses that kind of magic. Was she… Psychic?
The Draconequus grinned with a twisted smile, confirming Nova's fear.
That was it, that final factor drove the last nail into his coffin. King Nova's courage and hope was completely gone. Why was he even trying to stay alive at this point? Between his kingdom being invaded, his guards and soldiers laid to waste, and two Draconequui looming before him waiting to strike, Nova was practically delaying his demise at this point. He was an Alicorn, all those years of training  and honing his skills to defeat anything to come his way, yet here he was already giving up. 
He felt the worthlessness consume him, there was no way he could fight both a psychic and Excitium. He was dead, it was over, Equestria was practically doomed. What was the point of resisting? no living thing could withstand the force of the Draconequui, not even an Alicorn. 
King Nova was about to utter the words "Just kill me already." when he saw something that he completely forgot about; and he hated himself for that. Faust. She was dangling helplessly in Excitium's grasp. King Nova slowly began to feel the creeping hopelessness leave him and being replaced with anger. If he died, Faust died too and he'd rather throw himself into the darkest caverns of Tartarus than fail her and Equestria like this.
He turned his attention away from the female and locked back onto Excitium. He hadn't realized it, but he had actually been a slouched stance out of fear. Nova immediately straightened up into an imperial stance and took a step forward. He threw caution into the wind, these creatures could probably crush him without a thought, but he wasn't going to let a 'probably'  make him flee, he was a king and husband and was going to protect his subjects and wife.
"So then." uttered Nova with a hint of anger in the voice "It took the devil himself to break through into my kingdom. I always believed you were nothing more than a legend."
Excitium snorted, taking the 'devil' term as a compliment "I'm not sure whether I should feel insulted or flattered that it took King Nova to be the first ruler to actually face me."
Nova regarded the massive Draconequus before him. "What made the infamous myth finally come out of hiding?" 
"Hiding." repeated the female "Sure, let's leave as that ."
"Easy Dirus." said Excitium rather gruffly "I was never a myth. Myths are nothing more than facts that have been forgotten. The history of the powerful are twisted and morphed by the weak and eventually turn into rumors, these rumors turn into myths when told to the cowards of this world. Eventually they turn into nothing more than a figment of the imagination until they're as easily forgettable as simple folk tales." Excitium tensed up and his grip tightened "Until the so-called myth returns to give grim reminder to those who fear to believe the truth."
"Dirus" thought Nova "Guess I know the lovely bride's name."
Nova was felling his confidence come back; his cowering like a colt fading. He hadn't realized it, but Dirus was casting a spell by simply making eye contact with him. He had dealt with a similar spell before hand when dealing with a rouge group of warrior unicorns a few years ago. It was a dark magic that latched onto a pony's emotions and made them devoid any form of positive thought and replace it with misery and terror. It was basic, but extremely dangerous when used at its maximum potential.
"Myth or not, you still haven't answered my question." stated Nova "What made you come sulking back out of the shadows? more importantly, why are you in my kingdom acting as thieves?" he demanded gesturing to the book clutched in Dirus's claws
That statement struck a nerve, causing Excitium tightened his grip further around Faust's throat, almost completely cutting off her lungs from sweet oxygen. She wrapped her forelegs around his massive fingers, trying to pry them off, but it was no use. King Nova remembered that he was walking on thin ice, a draconequus wouldn't hesitate even a second to kill an innocent victim, Nova had to play his cards right if he wanted her to get out of this alive.
Wait. The hair on the back of his neck stood on end. Why hadn't he killed her yet? Excitium took delight in slaughtering the masses, why hadn't he ripped her apart yet? More importantly, why hadn't Faust used any magic yet to break free? He was practically strangling her at this point, yet she hadn't even attempted to perform at least one spell yet. What was going on?
Dirus hissed "You think we would steal magic as pathetic as a pony's?" she said displaying the book to him "This is… how does your 'organized society put it'? Reclaiming our property." 
Where had he'd seen that book? He knew he had seen it before centuries ago, but it was all a blur. Whatever it was, it had to possess an irrevocable spell to be hidden so well. He couldn't let them escape with it.
"You mean to tell me you created it? If so, then how did it end up in MY domain? Why would scum like you need something so mundane?"
"That's it!" roared Excitium "I've had it with you."
Nova immediately wanted to turn back the clocks. He poked the bear way too hard and way too many times."

" You ponies really are by far the most pathetic beings to ever plague this earth; all bark and no bite. You act like you're the kind and just species of this dirtball of a planet and all other species are vicious and hateful animals, when it's really vice versa. Your kind has waged so many wars in the name of harmony and kill each other over something as stupid as land. When the battle eventually comes to your doorstep, you're the real murderers who seals these deals in blood, yet you still pin the blame on something else, so long as it isn't you."
Excitium effortlessly raised Faust above his eye level and angled her too look at Nova "You've thrown my entire species into the darkest reaches of planet earth. Now, it's time for retaliation and justice to make full circle. Your kind has demonized any idea or way of life that is different from theirs, yet you act like you take in the broken and fallen when you really cast them out. My kind has dwindled to less than a handful, but we will never become extinct." Excitium's expression darkened even further "We have our final chapter and testament being created as we speak."
King Nova was completely lost at that last statement. Final testament? What did they mean by… Oh no. The terrifying truth hit him like a train running full speed. 
Excitium had a child.
King Nova looked at the book they had taken. A powerful book containing a powerful spell. They wouldn't… there was no way… not even creatures as sick as them would do something so demented. There was no point in trying to deny it.
"YOU'D WEAPONIZE YOUR OWN CHILD!?" screamed King Nova in horror
Excitium slowly began to giggle like a maniac "Revenge your majesty, such a desperate thing isn't it? You couldn't even begin to comprehend the creature that will seal Equestria's fate, what will wipe out the pony race completely from history." He threw his head back in satanic laughter "He's truly a marvelous sight when he lets loose of his shackles that confine him! Believe it or not he's decreased our numbers by few thousand! And he's no more than four months old!"
King Nova's jaw dropped. A few thousand!? A regular draconequus could level an entire city in seconds without breaking a sweat! But this… thing… child… that Excitium was creating  and fusing with magic from across the world, could wipe out thousands of Draconequui??? And he wasn't even a toddler yet! What could this thing do when it reached its peak condition? He looked at Excitium in horror
Excitium suddenly stopped laughing and stared down at Nova with an emotionless expression. "He will be the final pure Draconequus to ever grace this planet's surface. When he's released, no creature, no army, no nation, no dimension will be able to withstand his godly might. Then we'll see how this planet grasps his power, will he too become a myth? Or will he be forever etched in history?"
Excitium slowly lumbered over to Nova until he was standing less than a meter from him. Nova was frozen in fear, unable to emit even a single sound 
"Funny thing about history King Nova." said Excitium, while he clamped his massive free hand over Faust's entire head.

"They only document what they want their future generations to know."

In that one sentence, Excitium crushed Faust's skull, killing her instantly. The sickening sound of shattering bone echoed throughout the entire stone library as the king of the Draconequus released the corpse to fall to the ground right in front of her husband.
King Nova stared at the bloody shell that once held his beautiful Faust; emotionless. His mind couldn't process it, she was murdered right in front of him while he did nothing. He raised his head to look at Excitium, only to be met with a massive fist; the size of his entire body slam right into him.
The king was sent careening into the bookshelf lining the walls, sending wood splintering and books flying. His ears were ringing and his vision was blurry. He felt Excitium pull him up by his mane. 
"I want nothing more than to kill you right now." he hissed into his ear "But I need at least one Alicorn alive when my son appears. Plus, you'll be my messenger. When your useless subjects come scrambling to you for answers…. tell them: Discord, the God of Chaos, is coming. Do not worry… Do not fear… and Do not waste your time.  Cling onto you last few years of life as tightly as you can, for when he awakens, nothing shall live."
Excitium released Nova, he fell 10 feet to the ground, limp when he landed. The last thing he could see was Dirus and Excitium flying out of the library and into the night sky. But before they left the city surrounding the castle, Excitium breathed an inferno of flames onto the helpless civilians below, turning the night sky as bright as day. In the one blast the entire west side had been reduced to nothing but ash and cinders. 
Nova blacked out.

	"What… was that?" stammered Twilight
Celestia closed her eyes. "The first attack a Draconequus had made on Equestria in over a millennia. This was the night Luna and I lost our mother, and when Discord was revealed."
Fluttershy was in complete shock and couldn't even say a word
Spike was losing it "THIS was Discord's origins? This is where he came from? A psychotic species lead by two even more psychotic rulers?"
Luna shook her head "Be at ease. Discord didn't immediately try to destroy Equestria. There is so much more to it then you imagine."
Rarity was aghast "More? By more could you possibly mean that Equestria went into complete chaos before he even could get there?"
"Or that he started 'af by  breaking down everythang he came across before he even got there?" asked Applejack
"Or that that Excitium guy was totally loco and thought destroying Equestria meant turning it into candy?" Pinkie pie butted in
"No." said Celestia rather composed "Discord… he never even knew he was supposed to destroy Equestria."
"What?" they all exclaimed in unison 
Rainbow Dash cocked an eyebrow "He had crazy parents but they was never said 'Oh hey Discord, just wanna let ya know that your mother and I had you so you could wipe out and entire nation! have fun with that you old sport.' or something along the lines like that?"
"Just wait for the events to unfold as we go along, Discord may become our best friend in a few years but we're still over a millennia away from when Discord takes over Equestria." Said Celestia
"Best friends?!" They all screamed together again
"Sister, spoilers!" whispered Luna.
Fluttershy managed to muster a sentence "Best friends? But…" She said softly "Discord told me he never had a friend before…"
Celestia and Luna looked at each other sadly.
"Oh, of course..." said Luna sadly "Discord lost his memory. This truly is a long story. As my sister said, let the events unfold. and everything will make sense."
"Wait a minute!" interjected Pinkie "What was the whole point of even showing us that? I thought this story was about Discord, not his parent."
"We wanted you to see what they stole that night." replied Celestia "I'm sure all of you are familiar with it." 
Spike scratched the back of his head and stared off into the distance "Nope, nu-huh, never seen that book before in my entire life."
Rarity was stumped "Why on earth would they steal the inspiration manifestation spell?" 
"Back then it wasn't called that" said Luna "However, when the spell was cast upon Discord, it was thousands of times more powerful and far more deadly. When Discord obtained such a magical feat, he quickly mastered it and it eventually became his trademarked technique."
"Hold the phone." said Rainbow Dash "Are you meaning to tell me that the whole incident that happened at that festival was because Rarity had Discord's powers?"
"In a way, yes." responded Celestia "Or at least a mock version of Discord's powers. You both had the capability to warp reality into any way you wished, until the point you didn't realize you were hurting innocent ponies."
Rarity raised an eyebrow, not quite following the Princess. She pondered the fact and then gasped "I never thought of it like that. Are you meaning to tell me that I was acting exactly like Discord?" she said aghast 
Spike shrugged "I guess, just minus the cotton candy and sarcasm and we got ourselves a Discord in the making." 
Rarity raised a judging eyebrow at Spike, causing him to blush and say "I mean… in a good way."
"But the spell broke when Spike told her what she was doing wasn't right" said Twilight "Does that mean Discord's powers has a shut off function too?"
"We wish," Said Celestia reluctantly "If he did, my sister and I would have immediately done it when he took over Equestria the first time, it would've saved us a lot of time and Discord would've never had to be imprisoned in stone."
She thought back to the horrific memory when she froze Discord in stone for dozens of millennia to come.  Even though Discord was laughing the entire time and he didn't feel a thing, that one moment had been one of the hardest decisions of her life, it was equal; if not more painful than banishing her sister.
"Believe it or not, Discord actually tweaked the spell and made it much more easy to handle." said Luna
'Whadaya mean?" asked Applejack "Tweaked it how?"
"Discord greatly weakened the spell's power until it could only create and transform objects, rather than altering reality itself. Also, he added a safety to it just in case the user ever lost control of it and eventually went berserk; Spike demonstrated just how easily a spell of that power could be shut down, even without the use of magic. More importantly though, the spell could only be cast upon the one reading the inscription, rather than a pony casting it's power on someone else." continued Luna.
Twilight cocked her head "Why would he add that last part?"
Luna looked at her
"Let the events unfold?" 
"Let the events unfold."
Twilight had so many questions but she realized she wouldn't get anywhere by asking something every five seconds.
"Let us return to the memory." Said Celestia. 
The sisters illuminated their horns and they were thrown back into the memory

King Nova awoke with a jolt.
He was lying back in his bed "It was a dream!" he said out loud "Oh thank all things good it was all a dream!"
He rolled over to look at Faust to confirm his hope, but he was met with a shock of agonizing pain shooting throughout his entire body. He used his magic to levitate the covers and stared at his body in horror. He was covered in bandages, patches, and even a few stitches.
"Don't try to move." said a soft voice from across the room.
He immediately shot up, despite his body's protest. He scanned other side of his room, praying it would be Faust. No, it was one of the nurses of the castle, Cherry Blossom. Normally anypony would ask what had happened but the only thing he wanted to know was "Where's Faust?" he demanded, almost shouted.
Her ears flattened "Your Highness you need to rest."
"Where!?" he shouted
"Doctor would you come in here please." she called through the door
King Nova slid out of bed, but his legs failed him and he crashed onto to the hard floor, making him cry out in pain.
Both the Doctor and the nurse rushed to his side. "Your majesty." pleaded the doctor "You're in no condition to move. If you push yourself too hard you'll-"
"Get off of me!" he roared.
the two of them reared back and gave their ruler space, both out of obedience and fear.
The king struggled to his hooves, but he felt a sharp pain stab his back right leg. Broken. No that was an understatement, he'd experienced broken limbs before, but this level of pain was a league of its own. His leg had to be broken in various places.
Nova shoved the door open with one of his free hooves and stumbled out into the hallway. The nurse attempted to support him but he yelled at her to stay away from him. 
Where were his guards? At a time like this they should've been waiting outside for orders but not a single one of them were in sight. 
As he dragged his walking corpse of a body down the hallway, every fiber of his being was screaming out for him to stop. Ever single step he took sent out a shockwave through his body, rattling his ribs, most of them already broken. He didn't care, he was going to see where his wife was, even if it killed him. She wasn't dead, it was impossible for her to be dead. She was an Alicorn
The only sound that could be heard in the hall was Nova's hooves heavily and slowly stomping on the ground with the sound of his useless leg dragging on the white marble tiles. But… something else was echoing through the halls, very vaguely. Ponies screaming? Was it in pain or fear? No. Maybe yelling out a demand?
King Nova was about to round the corner that led to the main hall of his castle that the thrones laid in, when he smelled a grotesque stench. Blood
He stumbled into the main hall and the sound of ponies yelling became much more audible. He stared into the main foyer in horror. The bodies of fallen guards, covered in their own blood decorated the throne room in a demented work of art. All of them no doubt the victims of Excitium, he thought Dirus was bluffing at them killing the guards but he was sadly mistaken.
At the end of the corridor, at the main doors leading into the castle. A massive mob of panicking and hysterical ponies, numbering at well over a thousand, were trying to get into the castle. The only thing preventing them from getting in were a small handful of surviving guards and what little was left of the castle staff.
He was about to continue his way to the library when he heard one of the female ponies cry out, almost in relief "There he is!"
King Nova froze and looked at the crowd fighting to get in. 
"Your majesty! What happened?"
"Half of the city is on fire!"
"The rest of the food storage has been destroyed! We'll Starve!"
"What was that explosion!?"
"What were those things flying into the sky!"
"My whole family is dead! I demand you tell us what happened!"
"The hospital was destroyed! What are we going to do with the survivors!?"
King Nova even heard some of the staff yelling to him, desperate for help and answers
"Your highness! What do we do!?"
"My brothers are dead! What did this!?"
"King Nova help us!"
"King Nova help us!"
"King Nova help us!"
Unable to answer or even face his subjects he lowered his head and ignored the crowd and continued to the library. Some of the ponies shrieked in fear and pushed even harder to get into the castle.
Nova was pushing himself even harder to get to the library, but his body was failing him. He saw the library entrance only a few hundred feet away, he pushed himself to hard and he tripped onto the hard stone, causing him to scream out in pain. 
He laid there, his body refusing to respond, every inch of his body was in excruciating torment. He struggled to his feet, his eyes tearing up out of agony. He limped closer to the library, moving slower now for his body was nearly devoid of any energy.
He stopped just outside the library entrance, before him laid the decapitated guard from before. His heart stopped, it was just now starting to sink in. The Draconequui were real and they had already invaded his kingdom… and he was powerless to stop him. He galloped into the room as fast as his living body would allow him. He raced into the maze of bookshelves, he maneuvered his way through the splintered wood and exploded stone, he dashed past every toppled shelf that had disfigured his proud library, he ran under the star light that was coming through the destroyed ceiling. He needed to see Faust, he needed to know she was alive, she WAS alive, she HAD to be alive!
Then that hope was shattered.
There was a dark figure laying on the ground, motionless, illuminated by the green light coming from  the hidden room. Faust. What was left of her laid in a limp mess on the remorseless freezing cold stone beneath him. Her once beautiful face was decapitated beyond recognition; her beautiful silk coat now covered in dry blood.
King Nova collapsed on his knees, unable to emit any sound from his mouth. There she was, before him, dead. It was just now sinking in, she was gone, it was final. King Nova grabbed his beloved wife's body and wept for the first time in centuries. He held her close, hoping by some miracle she'd be alive, he didn't care how, he needed her. She was his love, his everything, his hope, his ANGEL! And Excitium had just ripped her away from him.
He sobbed into her soft, freezing coat, his tears soaking his once living wife. She was gone, his only source of joy in his miserable and seemingly endless life, his source of courage and happiness, torn away. He held onto her for a time that felt like forever, his sobs and screams of hatred echoing throughout the castle, so far that the mob trying to get in could hear him.
He sobbed over her until his eyes ran dry. He let go of her and stared at the hole left by Excitium.
"Excitium!" he howled into the night "I'll make you regret your very existence! I don't care what your capable of, I don't care what kind of dark magic you wield, even if I have to sell my soul to the devil himself, I'll destroy you and your entire kind! Send everything you have at me, send your darkest of spells, send your son Discord! I'll kill anything that that stands in my way from getting a hold of you!"
Then he heard something echoing through the halls that made him freeze. Crying.
Nova's eyes watered "My daughters." he whispered.
King Nova stumbled out of the library as fast as he could, falling countless times. He dragged himself past the main foyer, the crowd still trying to get in and pulled himself up the stairs until he came to a door in the same hall as his room.
He shakily opened the door leading to the nursery and he nearly collapsed. Inside was his toddler Celestia and his new born, Luna. They were both crying, the explosions must've scared them. King Nova fell to his knees, Excitium didn't know they were here; they were both alive and untouched.
The king lifted his two daughter from out their cribs and sat on a nearby rocking chair. "Shhhh" he said softly. "It's okay… daddy's here." He held them both tightly, but delicately "You don't need to cry, daddy's never going to let anything hurt you."