Author's Notes
You are getting a second chapter today, thanks to the fu
that DDOSed FIMFiction
Thanks to Deadinlight for beta-reading and helping me edit
Author's Notes
You are getting a second chapter today, thanks to the fu
Thanks to Deadinlight for beta-reading and helping me edit
Common Era Chapter Fifteen/MLP Season Two Chapter One: Return of Harmony/A Lazy Day
The next month after Luna’s announcement that Masao had his own little herd, with her being part of it, did not go over well with the nobles of Canterlot, several of them attempted to challenge Masao to a duel for the hand of Princess Luna, who found the situation ironic, had she not announced she was no longer available to court, all this attention she was getting would probably not exist. As it was however, she also found it annoying, seeing her chosen partner having duels almost every day, and it was beginning to cut into the time he had with Sharp Sword and herself! This could not stand! So Luna decided that she would designate a singular day of the week that Masao would be able to accept duels…
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“Seriously, just stop…” said Masao as he dueled with a particular stallion over forty times in the past three weeks, and every time he beat the stallion with ease. “I think it is clear, by the rules of combat, and by the fact that I haven’t killed you yet, that I am the better swordsman, er, swordspony…” said Masao before he heard a group of foals coming closer.
“No! I can still fight!” said the stallion and Masao rolled his eyes before rushing forwards and to the untrained eye it seemed like he disappeared, and reappeared behind the stallion who after a moment gagged before falling over unconscious. unluckily for the human it was just as Cheerilee and her class entered the clearing.
“WHOA! That was AWESOME! Not as awesome as Rainbow Dash, but—” started a small orange pegasus, and Masao smiled forcefully as he sheathed his blade.
“I am sorry that you had to see that, madam, but he would not take no for an answer. Now if you will please excuse me, I have to fetch the royal guard to have them take this pony to the hospital.” said Masao as he started to walk off.
“Sir, could you wait? Am I correct in assuming you are Ser Masao? Knight-protector of Princess Luna? asked Cheerilee and Masao groaned but nodded an affirmative. and Cheerilee smiled at him. “Could I trouble you to tell us some of the history from the time before the Lunar Rebellion?” asked the mare and Masao sighed at her question, “Did I do something wrong?”
“No ma`am, it is just I prefer not to share all that much of what I know. Most of what I did was not something you would want children to hear.” said Masao before he walked off leaving the mare and her class alone once more.
“OK then, class we must move on, we have a lot to see”
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Masao knocked on Luna’s door and the princess groaned on the other side.
“If there is no emergency, I will smite thee where thou stands” said the princess before opening the door revealing it to be Masao whom she had threatened, “Oh my!, I am sorry, dearest Masao, I thought—”
“Well lucky for me, it is an emergency. Discord is about to become free” said the human and Luna’s eyes shrunk to pinpricks. “I see you understand the severity, but not the fact that we can’t do anything, not against him. Not this time anyway.” said Masao and Luna just looked at him questioningly. “The Elements will be able to handle him, now that said…” said Masao as he closed his eyes, “Should that draconequus threaten you or Sharp Sword…” he left the sentence unfinished but Luna neede no psychic powers to know that Masao would probably go toe to toe with the spirit of disharmony should one of them be in danger.
“I don’t think that’ll be a problem, after all, I can see you are very much willing to stay out of my way, and for such a small fee too!” said Discord from the window pane and Masao gritted his teeth, this Discord he had no use for, not that he didn’t find some of the stuff Discord did as funny, but he did not like the damage that Discord caused before he was reformed. “Why such the long face… I mean you came to talk to me before when I was stone, but you never told me your name, and you are a very weirdly shaped creature, and that is coming from me! Such symmetry, and yet not—”
“I am Ser Masao Darkheart, Knight-Protector and mate of Princess Luna, and mate to Sharp Sword, Captain of the Lunar Guard, teacher-trainer of Gilda Razor Talon, and immortal friend to Princess Celestia” said Masao with a slight flourish of his blade, saluting the draconequus, who uncharacteristically paid attention to the human. Discord was ready to change the sword into something else but was surprised at Masao’s actions, but then something Masao said clicked.
“Wait… ‘Mate to Princess Luna?’ Seriously?” asked Discord his gaze lingering on the princess for moment, “You told me you would never be with someone outside your species!” Discord said the surprise in his voice obvious.
“I said, that ‘I wouldst hath nothing to do with thou in a romantic sense,’ I said nothing about not having a mate outside my species” said Luna scowling at the draconequus who scoffed.
“If I remember correctly, you said ‘Never wouldst I be caught dead in thy arms’ and you then tried to stick me with your horn” said Discord, Masao sighed as the two other immortals argued. “I would love to continue this, dear Luna,” Masao growled at the draconequus for that, “but I am needed elsewhere” at that Discord vanished and Masao sighed into his hands as he covered his face with them.
“So begins the briefest reign of chaos ever seen” Masao mumbled…
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“The Elements! They're gone!” said Twilight in shock and Celestia took a moment to look into the case that normally housed the elements.
“That chamber is protected by a powerful spell that only I can break! This doesn't make sense!” said Celestia as she dropped the box when there was a laugh, one very familiar to Celestia.
“Make sense? Oh, what fun is there in making sense?” said Discord, but the group of ponies couldn’t see him.
“Discord... Show yourself!” shouted Celestia worried that she was unable to find the draconequus, who was now chuckling, soon revealing himself on a window pane.
“Did you miss me, Celestia? I missed you. It's quite lonely being encased in stone, but you wouldn't know that, would you, because I don't turn ponies into stone.” said Discord with a bit of anger at the end before he went back to a cheerful voice, “I did meet that new stallion you have in the castle, he’s a keeper! I do hope you have tapped that, it’d be a crime if you haven’t” said Discord and Celestia blushed heavily as she shook the thoughts from her head. “Oh wait, I forgot, he’s dear Lulu’s isn’t he? Still that didn’t stop you before!” Celestia blushed deeper as she tried to forget that particular incident, involving Discord, a cheap bottle of wine, and herself.
“Enough! What have you done with the Elements of Harmony?” asked the solar Diarch as she continued to blush, her student and her friends looked at the princess curiously.
“Oh, I just borrowed them for a teensy little while.” before he snapped his claws and was gone off that window…
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“I pity Celestia right about now…” said Masao as he took a sip of the chocolate milk he had gathered in a glass, Luna looking at him incredulously having her own glass near her, just as Sharp Sword burst into the room.
“Are you two alright!? I just heard Dis… Are you two drinking the chocolate milk from the cotton candy clouds?” asked Sharp Sword the look on her face one of disbelief Masao just nodded whilst Luna hiccupped and excused herself as she got up and went to the restroom. “Do I even want to know?”
“Bathroom break probably? Oh look, Twilight and her friends are going into the hedge maze… Idiots” he groaned and Sharp Sword looked at him.
“Are you OK? You seem different” at that Masao chuckled
“Yeah I am alright, it is just I knew the answer to Discord’s riddle already—”
“Wait! You know where the Elements are!? Why didn’t you tell me, we have to—”
“Nay, we cannot. Ser Masao reached an accord with the spirit of Discord” said Luna as she sat back down and watched everything unfold in the hedge maze. almost bored.
“If it protects you two, I will stay out of his way, besides, he isn’t going to win” said the human and soon the hedge disappeared as Rainbow Dash flew away. It was only when a stray pie flew by that Masao sighed. This Chaos would be the death of him…
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“Twilight, aren't you missing somepony?” asked Spike as he looked around having just returned the Elements to the unicorn.
“Nope. We've got the liar, the grump, the hoarder, and the brute. That just about covers it.” said the angry Twilight and Spike spoke up again.
“But what about Rainbow Dash?” at that Twilight clipped the necklace of Loyalty onto his neck.
“Congratulations, Spike, you're the new Rainbow Dash. Now let's go!”
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“There we go! Lady Sparkle is about to—”
“Fail. Rainbow Dash is not there, and the other elements with the exception of Twily are corrupted by the Spirit of Discord” interrupted Masao and Luna sat down and pouted like a scolded child.
“Is this perhaps how some of our subjects feel when we point out things to them?” asked Luna and Masao shrugged before motioning towards where Discord was currently sitting on his throne. Twilight and her group were gathering once again and Masao grinned.
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“It is time”
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“Chaos is a wonderful, wonderful thing” laughed Discord and Twilight spoke up completely confident once again.
“Not as wonderful as friendship.” said the purple unicorn and Discord scoffed at the group
“Oh, this again?” he asked as he drank the glass holding some chocolate milk and threw the chocolate milk which exploded in the distance.
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“Discord is going to lose shortly, and then we can get back to what we had originally planned for today…” said Masao just as the Elements of Harmony fired on the draconequus and turned him to stone.
“Interesting, I suppose it is time to head to Donut Joe’s?” asked Luna and Masao chuckled as he and Luna headed out motioning for Sharp Sword to follow them, who did so, her mouth slightly open in shock still at the whole situation that had passed…