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// Chapter 2: Make a scene 
// Story: Paradox's Prodigy(Cancelled.....for now.) 
// by TheDimensionRift 
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	Blaze woke up in a cold sweat breathing heavy, attempting to catch a grip on reality he used his horn to spark a small flame to light the room. His breathing began to slow as he scanned the room realizing he was home, or at least, it’s where his home used to be. “Why do I still suffer from these painful memories?” Blaze thought to himself, tears beginning to stream down his cheeks. Blaze was so lost in his thoughts that he didn’t even notice the dark figure beginning to form in the corner of his bedroom until a voice echoed from it’s direction.
“Another nightmare about your parents?” the unicorn sat in his bed and replied without even looking at the figure “Yes, about that day,” Blaze shut his eyes tight and allowed even more tears to fall “Why does it hurt so much?”
“It is because they loved you that it hurts so much” the figure began to take form of another being “Embrace the pain, turn their love into hate and don’t forget who’s responsible for the chaos which took away your parents,” The colts tears quickly evaporated as heat enveloped the unicorn, and once where his face held a painful expression, was now replaced with a look of rage. His anger only increased when he noticed the dark figure in the corner was replaced by the creature that had ruined his life.
“DISCORD!” Blaze screamed at the top of his lungs and tackled the draconequus to the ground, as he did the draconequus began erupting with laughter “Oh how adorable, is this supposed to frighten me? Please, I still see the same fear in your eyes as your parents once had,” having heard the taunt, Blaze exploded with a bright light as blinding as the sun. His cry seemed to echo all across Equestria, and once where his home stood, a giant crater which held wisps of flames remained. Blaze collapsed on the ground having used too much magic, all the while, a large Alicorn loomed over him.
“You hold exceptional magic capabilities my boy,” the alicorn used its magic to lift the unicorn off the ground and brought him close until the two were face to face “However, if you waste all your magic on a single risk shot then you are left drained. If this was to happen then the enemy would triumph over you in a battle, that is, if they survive” the alicorn shot a small beam of dark energy into the weak unicorn which seemed to bring him back up on his hooves.
“Do you really think he is that powerful?”
“You mustn’t forget who we’re dealing with,” the alicorn's  horn glowed brightly and within seconds, fixed the damage done to the land “This is the Lord of Chaos himself, one whose magic surpasses even my own”
“If what your saying is true then how can we ever hope to defeat him? And if we can’t beat him, how can we hope to rule all of Equestria?” 
The alicorn leaned in close to the colts face and spoke in a soft tone “By doing it the way we’ve always done it my dear boy, together” Paradox’s horn began emitting a glow and in a quick flash of light, Blaze noticed he had teleported them to another location. It took him a few moments before he recognized where his teacher had brought them: Canterlot.


Twilight stood with Celestia at the main entrance to the building and greeted each mare and gentlecolt which came through the door. In the past, she had enjoyed attending the Grand Galloping Gala with her friends. However, now as a princess she was to greet each guest who was attending the event, and even she had to admit it was pretty boring. 
“Why the long face Twilight?” Celestia could tell her student didn’t have high spirits “I thought you liked attending the Gala?”
“I do like attending the Gala,” she began “But it doesn’t seem like I’m really attending much,” Twilight knew that these were one of the few drawbacks of being a princess, having to put royal duties before your own interests. 
Celestia couldn’t bear to see the look on the young princess’ face. “Twilight, go have fun with your friends,” hearing this Twilight looked up in a sight of shock “But I couldn’t possibly abandon my-“
“Its alright’ today is a special night, and besides I’ve done this alone in the past so don’t worry” Twilight was about to protest but one reassured look from Celestia made her feel better. “You and your friends try to liven up the mood, these things do tend to get boring sometimes” Celestia and Twilight  laughed as she spoke this because both of them knew it to be true.

“Cant I just-“
“No”
“Not even-“
“No”
“Perhaps I could just-“
“No, Discord I said I’d bring you but only if you promised not to cause any trouble” Fluttershy was staring at him with an annoyed look. “I know I know its just, things have been boring since my reform. I’m just used to making chaos, that’s all” Discord slumped himself in a chair as Fluttershy took a seat next to him. “I know its hard for you,” she said as she put her hoof on his paw “but just this night do it for me” Discord looked into her eyes after she said this and found himself mesmerized by her stare “But of course dear Fluttershy,” as he said this he got an idea in his head and prepared to snap his paw, however, the sound of Fluttershy clearing her throat made him slowly lower his paw down to the table. 
“So are you just gonna sit there all night or are you gonna come party with your friends?” Fluttershy and Discord both looked up to see Rainbow Dash staring back at them. Discord and Fluttershy exchanged a look at each other before he spoke “Oh you go ahead I’ll catch up with you later,” Fluttershy gave him a quick hug before heading off to where her friends were seated. Discord felt the need to create mischief no matter how small. Even if it was changing the punch to grape soda or making somepony's cup dance, any amount of chaos would satisfy him at this point. As Discord was lost in thought he was unaware that a male unicorn had approached him and now was staring at him.
“Can I help you?” Discord asked as the unicorn just stared at him, not even breaking his concentration. Just as Discord was about to yell at the strange mare, the lights went out and flashes of lightning struck inside the building. Wind began to blow strong as several windows were forced open and a dark cloud hovered over the center of the stage. Everypony had a worried look on their face not knowing what was going on. Fluttershy and the rest of the group ran over to Discord, assuming he was the cause, Twilight then began to glare at him. “Care to explain as to what your doing?” asked Twilight as she approached him “I don’t think I’m the one you should be asking,” Discord said as he pointed to a large Violet alicorn who has now appeared on stage. Twilight and everyone else turned around to see what he was pointing at.  The alicorn erupted into an evil laughter which reverberated all over the room, if he didn’t have everyone’s attention, he did now.
“Always with the dramatic entrance,” said Discord as he hovered above the table he was sitting at “You haven’t changed a bit since I last saw you, eh Paradox?” 
“Discord? Of all the places to begin my conquest of Equestria, who would’ve known that you’d be here?” Paradox chuckled to himself “Such a touching reunion this is,” Paradox pulled out a tissue from a box and began to wipe away his fake tears “No, I promised myself I wouldn’t cry” he said as he began to toss out the tissue.
“Is he for real?” asked Rainbow Dash who was trying to keep from laughing, her laughter quickly disappeared when she felt somepony put their hoof around her “You must be Rainbow Dash, you represent loyalty right?” Rainbow Dash had a shocked look on her face when she had seen Paradox was right next to her in seconds.
“But- how did-?“ 
Before she could even ask, Paradox left as quick as he came. He was now floating above the rest of her friends pointing them out one by one.
“Rarity, you represent generosity”
“Applejack, Honesty”
“Pinkie Pie, laughter and-“ he stopped when he pointed to Fluttershy who was cowering behind Discord “And you my dear Fluttershy are kindness, though with your looks you should represent beauty” Discord attempted to lunge at Paradox after his remark but upon making contact with him, Discord passed through Paradox who was now laughing hysterically.
“Did you really think I would show my physical self to you?” Paradox acted to wipe away a tear “Oh Discord, how you have fallen. Clearly hanging out with ponies has made you forget that I share the same bag of tricks as you do” Twilight stepped forward with an angered face as she glared at Paradox.
“What is it that you want?”
Paradox looked at Twilight with a confused look “Why, my dear Twilight” Paradox lifted her head with his hoof “I already have everything that I want thanks to you all allowing me to ramble on about my plans” Paradox clapped his hooves together and an image of a trapped Celestia and Luna appeared in front of them. Several ponies gasped while others fainted. 

“What have you done with them!?” Twilight yelled as she stomped her hoof the ground “If you even think of-“
Discord began howling with laughter which only made Twilight more annoyed, Paradox also held a look of confusion.
“Why are you laughing!? This is serious!” Twilight bellowed.
“I reckon not causing chaos anymore might’ve knocked a couple of his screws loose” said Applejack with a look of concern. Discord soon stopped laughing to explain himself “Still up to your old tricks I see Paradox. So, where are Luna and Celestia really?”
“What are you saying?” Paradox appeared to carry a worried look “Of course I have them”
“Do you really?” Discord was at eye level with Paradox now “I see straight through you” said Discord as he put on a pair of glasses.
“Enough!” 
Everyone in the room turned there heads to the entrance, standing in the doorway was a Orange unicorn whose mane and tail seemed to look like flames. Discord recognized him immediately, because he was the one who was staring at Discord before the lights went out. His eyes still pierced Discord, it was almost as though they burned. 
“I will put an end to this monster and conquer Equestria with or without you” the unicorn began to approach where Discord and Paradox were “If you wanna conquer Equestria then you’ll have to go through me,” said Rainbow Dash as she flew towards the unicorn. Before she made contact with him she noticed that her flight had stopped and realized he was using his magic to hold her in place.
“I have only come for Discord and wish to do no harm to any pony,” as he said this Discord began to laugh “however, any who should so choose to interfere will be dealt with” the unicorn kept walking towards Discord slowly lowering the pegasus on to the ground. As he inched his way closer no pony crossed his path, except for one. Fluttershy stood in front of the unicorn and didn’t move.
“I…I wont let you hurt him,” she said, her voice barely releasing enough volume for the unicorn to hear.
“Why do you attempt to protect a monster?”
Fluttershy looked at Discord then back to the unicorn “Because...he…he’s my friend” Twilight trotted over to Fluttershy and stood by her, then Applejack, then Rarity and eventually Rainbow Dash as well.
“Ooo, Ooo, I wanna join the group hug!” said Pinkie as she rushed to her friends. The unicorn now irritated, began to glow and heat began to radiate off his very presence. Fluttershy doesn’t know why, but she had the urge to look into his eyes. Then she remembered when she had to deal with troubled animals, she could always look them the eye and tell how they feel. Fluttershy looked up and glanced into his eyes, however, she had wished she hadn’t. The unicorn’s eyes held nothing but pure, unadulterated  rage which made her wince at the intensity of it all. Just as he was about to reach his maximum heat state, Paradox interfered and cooled down the unicorn by sealing him in a sphere of his magic. 
“Have you no manners boy?” Paradox said as he rolled the sphere back and forth like a ball “I must apologize for Blaze's rudeness you know how apprentices are,” as Paradox began to laugh, an alarm clock began ringing next to his head.
“Oh look at the time, we really must be going. Sorry to have to conclude our reunion on short notice Discord” Paradox mocked. Just moments before he was gone, Fluttershy locked eyes with the unicorn again and gasped. She didn’t gasp because of the hate in his eyes, ahe gasped because that hate was now replaced by something else, something far worse: sadness.