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// Chapter 12: Mad God vs Disharmony 
// Story: A Daedra's Heart 
// by Randablitz 
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(Canterlot Castle Throne Room, Celestia’s P.O.V)

I was stunned to see all of the other Daedric Princes and the Aedra all here in Equestria, I had no idea why they were here, but if they’re here with the Aedra, then something is terribly wrong. “So this Jyggalag managed to overpower all of you and sent you here?” I asked and all of them nodded in response. “Well, you’re all more than welcome to stay, on a few conditions. First: don’t start a war, second: we’re in this together, and like it or not, you have to get along, third: when this ordeal is over, all of you must attend my sister’s wedding.” I said as I listed out my restrictions for the two factions. The Daedric Prince, Sheogorath walked up to me and stared at me. “If those are your conditions lass, then I have only one thing to say, CHEESE FOR EVERYONE!”  Sheogorath shouted with glee. I chuckled at his whimsical nature. “You should hang out with Discord some time Sheogorath, I think that the two of you could be very great friends.” I said with a smile, but Discord seemed a bit upset that somepony else was just as crazy as he was, or perhaps even more than him. “Discord is something wrong?” I asked him with a worried expression. “No, nothing’s wrong, I’m just peachy.” Discord said with indifference. “If you’re so peachy, why aren’t ya a peach?” Sheogorath asked nonchalantly, earning a few giggles from everypony.

(Canterlot Castle Dining Room, 3rd P.O.V)

After the Daedric Princes and the Aedra got reasonably settled in, it was time for dinner. Celestia told her assistant Kibitz, to inform the chefs to prepare a feast, and she was happy to know that the dining room table had been packed with enough food to last a month. Everypony took their seats, Kai and Luna sat next to one another Cadence sat next to Akatosh, and Celestia was flanked with Sheogorath to her left, and Discord to her right. Blueblood quivering in fear of all of these beings in place, and each of them can do great, or terrible things to him if he offends them. “It’s alright nephew, they’re all under strict stipulations to not harm anypony.” Celestia said in a soothing voice. “I’m still scared aunty, what if I manage to anger one of them,or..” Blueblood tried to say, but Stendarr stopped him. “It’s alright, your fear is understandable, but we all have a sense of decency and respect, so as long as you continue to show respect to us, we’ll respect you.” Stendarr said patting him on the back. 

Sanguine was hogging the wine as it was in his nature. Mara was talking to Kai and Luna about conducting the wedding ceremony. Hircine regaled us with the glories of his hunts, and almost everyone was a little impressed by his feats. Shining Armor was talking to Clavicus who was trying to persuade him with a tempting offer, only to be interrupted by Barbas. Molag Bal stared at some of the maids with a sinister, yet perverted grin. Mehrunes Dagon just hated everything around him. Boethiah was trying to think of a way to usurp other rulers, much to everypony’s annoyance. Namira was eating her meal raw, as it was her nature. Vaermina managed to interest Luna with her realm of expertise of causing vivid nightmares to inspire artists. Sheogorath was throwing cheese wheels at Zenithaar from across the table. Zenithaar managed to throw a pie at Sheogorath who dodged it and the pie hit Celestia right in the face. Everypony fell silent as the pie fell from Celestia’s face. Many of the table’s occupants were trying to stifle their laughter, but she threw a cabbage at Zenithaar, who dodged it and hit Talos. “This means war, and not just any war, FOOD WAR!” Talos shouted as he took a platter of fruit and chucked it at Hermaeus Mora. The platter was caught in one of Hermaeus’ tentacles and he threw it back at Talos. This prompted Luna to flip the table over and take cover behind it and threw a slice of cake at me, the cake managed to hit her sister in the face. “Justice will be swift, justice will be painful, and it will be DELICIOUS!” The Solar princess shouted as she took the remains of the cake and shoved it into her mouth and ducked behind her section of the table and quickly wrote a letter to Twilight.

“Dear Twilight,
We are in need of assistance in a battle against the strangers from a distant dimension. Luna and I have been going through a dispute over opposite subjects and it began to spiral into conflict between us. I need you to help me defeat her and end a war that could spread into Equestria. Help me Twilight Sparkle, you are my only hope.
Sincerely Princess Celestia”

With her letter complete, Celestia sent it to her former student, leaving out the key information about the strangers in Equestria being the other Daedric Princes and the Aedra being in Equestria because of an enormous crisis about Kai’s native dimension.

(Twilight’s Castle, Twilight’s P.O.V)

As I was in the library reading a fascinating book about Dragons, Kings, and Queens, I was sent a letter from Princess Celestia herself because of the seal on the top of the scroll. “What’s going on?” I asked myself as I opened the scroll and read the content within the parchment. I gasped at what had happened and thought Celestia and Luna were actually fighting again. “Oh no, Looks like I need to stop Luna from trying to  overthrow Celestia again.” I said as I went to find Spike to tell him not to expect me for dinner. I walked into the kitchen to see my number one assistant making dinner. “Spike, you don’t have to worry about making me anything, I’m heading off to Canterlot to settle a dispute between Luna and Celestia before it gets too out of hoof. I said with a smile. “Sure thing Twi. When do you think you’ll be back from Canterlot?” Spike asked as he looked at me looking like I was nervous wreck. “I don’t know. I mean, I need to find out what caused the argument, how I can resolve it, and ugh!” I groaned in irritation at how much work I would have to do to solve Luna and Celestia’s problem.

( Castle Dining Room, 20 Minutes Later)

Both sides of this food war were bogged down and couldn’t peek their heads up from behind the table, until Twilight appeared in the middle of the carnage and was hit by lemon pie thrown by Celestia. When Celestia realized what she just did, she immediately hid behind her portion of the table. “What in Equestria is happening in here? It looks like the front lines of Prance during the War.” Twilight asked as she looked around the room seeing a tremendous amount of food on the floor, walls, tables, and ceiling. “Simple lass, we’re havin’ fun with our dinner.” Sheogorath said as he threw an apple at Mara. “Who are you, and what are you doing here?” Twilight asked as she started charging her magic. “Easy Twilight, Sheogorath is one of my Daedric colleagues, don’t worry.” Kai said as he peeked up from the table and tossed a salad at Namira. “But it’s getting all over the place and I’m not even going to ask who started this.” Twilight spoke out at this misbehavior. “True, but still come on Twilight just pick a side and join the war, if you join us you’ll be able to get back at Tia for hitting you with a pie.” Luna said with a sing-song voice. “As much as I want to get this pie out of my mane, I feel this will turn as badly as the battle at Haywaii. Besides who started this war anyway, Discord I presume?” Twilight looked skeptical. “Nope, Sheogorath started it, I tried to stop him, but he still pushed his plans forward.” Discord said as he glared at the Prince of Madness. “Alright, alright, can’t we just be adults and clean this up before the servants quit their jobs?” Twilight asked as everyone in the room looked at each other with disappointed glances at their childish behavior. “You’re right, I’m the Aedra of Logic, and here I am throwing food like a child.” Julianos said as he hung his head in despair.

Twilight felt relieved that she had averted a devastating mess that could set a bad example for the Princesses. “So Luna sent me a letter saying that she had something to tell me, so that’s my reason for being here, so spill it what do have to tell me?” Twilight asked the Lunar princess. “Well, Kai has asked me to marry him, I said yes, and also Nirn is in complete shambles, so much so that both the Aedra, and Daedra were forced out of their respective dimensions and wound up here, so now we have to defeat Jyggalag and merge Equestria with Nirn in order to restabilize it.” Luna said with a nervous smile on her face. “Wow, that’s great for you Princess, I’m truly happy for you and what is about to become of us and hopefully everything… goes… fine.” Twilight accepted but towards the end she faints from the situation that there is still a danger to the dimensions of Nirn and Equestria. “Oh, no she fainted, we need to get her some water, or something to wake her up, please.” Celestia said as she worried for her former student’s well being. Sanguine walked over with a bottle of wine, which Luna took from him and poured the contents onto Twilight’s face while Sanguine just had a single tear escape his eye as he watched a tragic waste of perfectly good wine. Twilight’s eyes shot open as she started coughing from the wine being poured on her face. 

“What happened I had the strangest dream where Luna said that Kai’s world and Equestria were in danger and we’ll have to merge them together in order to save both worlds.” Twilight said as she tried to convince herself that this was all a bad dream. “Oh that was no dream lass, Nirn and Equestria are really in danger, and we need to defeat Jyggalag to prevent disaster.” Sheogorath said as his form started to change into a completely different person; James, the Hero of Kvatch. Twilight however was on the verge of panicking due to the fact that she has some, but not all the knowledge of Kai’s world. “Who are you?!” Twilight asked in surprise. “Oh, I’m sorry. My name’s James, formerly known as the Hero Of Kvatch.” James said with a bow. Twilight was beyond confused at this. “How can James and Sheogorath be the same being?” Twilight asked. “Simple, when I was still a mortal, I fought Jyggalag during the Greymarch on the Old Sheogorath’s behalf and my victory made me the new Prince of Madness, that and I had a pit of clowns at my disposal too.” James said as he recalled his transcendence into becoming Sheogorath. “Wow, Jyggalag must be a terrible Daedra then.” Twilight said in response. “Kind of, I mean he always tries to bring absolute order, when chaos is needed for there to be order, but take away the chaos, you just break up the order of the universe as a whole.” James said in response. “That makes a lot of sense actually.” Celestia said with a shocked expression. “Well enough with the pleasantries, I wish to see this world and what it has toffer.” Hircine said with eagerness. “I agree with pelt- head, I want to assert my own dominion here!” Molag said as he continued to look at the maids with his unsettling stare. “Hold on now, we have to abide by Celestia’s rules, or we don’t leave this castle at all!” James said matter-of-factly. “Fine, fine, fine we won’t hurt anyone, just intimidate them if they’re ignorant.” Akatosh said with a sigh of relief that for once in all of eternity the Daedra were cooperating with someone else. With that settled each Daedric Prince and Aedra went off to parts unknown to explore the world they would soon call home.

(Three Days Later, Celestia’s P.O.V)

I was glad to have Sheogorath/ James around to lift my spirits when I heard rumors that Molag Bal started making ponies into vampires, Hircine inducting Griffons into his legions, Akatosh becoming the leader of all dragonkind here in Equestria, etc. I was happy for my sister, but planning for her wedding and to save an entire world from certain destruction was quite taxing on my nerves. “What seems to have ya down lass?” Sheogorath asked as he appeared next to my throne. “Just all of this news about the others, Luna’s wedding, and the possible apocalypse of Nirn, it’s just too much for me!” I said as I felt tears stinging my eyes. “Hey, now ya ain’t alone in this, Jyggalag maybe strong and boring, but there’s one thing he can’t do.” The Mad Daedra said as he gently stroked my wing. “And what’s that?” I asked with a slight sob. “He can’t make friends.” He said with a smile. “Now c’mon and turn that frown into a smile, or I’ll turn your head upside down!” He shouted with glee. I giggled at his last statement. “I guess you’re right, but I wonder what Discord is up to.” I said with a mischievous grin. “Well aren’t you the naughty one, willin’ to start a prank war between me and him to get yer attention, that’s just CRAZY! And I LOVE CRAZY!!” He shouted gleefully as we teleported to Ponyville to mess with Discord.

(Ponville, Discord’s P.O.V)

I was enjoying a lovely Tuesday Tea with my dear friend Fluttershy and my newest friend, Treehugger. We just enjoying a lovely chat about the time I filled Celestia’s room with ‘cream custard and she was so upset that every time I came from my dimension, she would try and make me boil in her sunlight. It was all totally worth it and I actually thought it would have been romantic, but I’m not really good at that kind of thing. “Wow, man. To prank the Princess like that and be forgiven is truly radical.” Treehugger said with a smile. “It most certainly is, but wasn’t there something else you wanted to tell us about, like regarding Princess Luna, or something?” Fluttershy asked after she sipped her tea. “What? Oh right, she’s having her wedding or something or whatever cheesy rubbish soon.” I said as I lost my smile and became annoyed about how much of a big deal it was making. “Really?! That’s so romantic! Who’s the groom?” Fluttershy asked as she started to fly around the room like an excited filly. I only sighed in ignorance and replied. “Kai or whatever his name was.” Fluttershy’s eyes looked like they were going to pop out of their sockets. “Really?! Wow, that’s really nice, so what else do you have to share?” Fluttershy asked. “There is nothing left to share since I’m banned from the castle after I filled the Canterlot pool with jelly a month back.” I groaned and looked at my watch which read nearly two o’clock. “Well, as nice as this was I must be off.” I got up and walked toward the door. I opened the door to see Celestia and that loony Daedra standing in front of me. “What do you two want?” I asked in annoyance. “Discord, I personally want to say that your Canterlot ban has been lifted.” Celestia said with a smile. I was glad about this but I still looked at that show off with as much hatred as Sombra had for the Crystal Princess. “Ok, but why is HE here?” I asked pointing directly at the demented Daedra. “I’m here to meet some of Tia’s friends, does the mare known as Fluttershy live here? I’d very much like ta meet her.” My anger skyrocketed when he said that he wanted to meet Fluttershy. “Well sorry to disappoint you, but we were just wrapping up our Tuesday Tea and she and her friend, Treehugger have a trip to go on and won’t be back until after this whole mess has been cleared up.” I said trying to conceal my rage. “Aw dang, and here I thought I was goin’ ta meet the kindest, yet assertive pony in the world.” Sheogorath said as he hung his head slightly. I then felt as if fate is getting pay back on my chaos as the curious pegasus peeped out from behind. 

“Oh, Princess Celestia, it’s good to see you. Who’s your friend?” She asked as I saw Celestia smile at the pegasus. “Hello to you too Fluttershy, this here is Sheogorath, the Daedric Prince of Madness.” Celestia said as she pointed her hoof at that show off, who bowed in response. I then decided to show this imposter who really is the master of Chaos and disharmony. I flew a few feet in the air a with a simple snap I changed the sky from day to night. “Haha, not bad lad, but how ‘bout this…” The loony Daedra said as he made it rain cheese wheels. “CHEESE FOR EVERYONE!” The Daedra shouted with glee. “Simple grade magic, try this on for size.” I said as I then made a large cotton candy bunny that offers itself to everypony. I took a piece of it and ate it with satisfaction. “Impressive, but how about some flowers for the lovely pegasus?” He said as he summoned a bouquet of roses that squirted her with strawberry ice cream. “Hey no outsiders are allowed to be pranked!” I shouted in protest. “Rrreeaally, because I don’t remember any rules bein’ put into place.” He said as Fluttershy was laughing from the practical joke.

I began to really hate this guy so I decided to step it up a little. I created a pasta tornado with tomato sauce and let it run rampant through the Everfree Forest. Fluttershy looked at the spectacle in abject horror. “Oh no, not the Temple!” Fluttershy shouted as the old castle that Celestia and Luna lived in after my first defeat got covered in pasta and tomato sauce. “Oh, my.” Fluttershy squeaked out before Kai appeared in the middle of the prank war with an angry expression on his face. “Who is responsible for THIS?!” He shouted in rage making it thunder. Everypony showed terrified expressions on their faces as they were clearly scared from the rage the Prince was showing and I was even horrified by this. “Well you see, the funny thing is that... “ I said trying to explain but instead I chickened out by literally turning into a chicken before I teleporting out of there I said. “Buck buck bakaw!” “Oh no you don’t, get back here before I really give you something to be afraid of Discord!” Kai shouted as he caught me by my tailfeathers and turned me back to normal. “I don’t care whose fault this is, but just clean this mess up!” The Prince of Morals hissed through his clenched teeth. I sighed with defeat as I snapped my lion paw fingers and everything was back the way it was before I flew down to the ground in shame. “I’m sorry about all this, I’ve just gotten carried away with my chaotic magic is all.” I said. “It’s okay, just remember that Sheogorath just wants to be your friend, because you two have a lot in common, so come on loosen up a bit.” Kai said before he teleported back to Canterlot. “I’m sorry you all got caught in this, I just felt jealous because I felt he was better at chaos than I am.” I apologized honestly. “It’s a-okay, laddy, considerin what Tia told me about ya, I can understand why you’d feel jealous, but I think that Miss Fluttershy seems to be quite attached to ya.” Sheogorath said as he gave me a glass of wine, which tasted just like cotton candy for some odd reason. “She has been the first friend I’ve ever had, but did Celestia ever tell you that there was a time I kept messing with Luna’s moon phases for the past three months, she was so p’d-off.” I smiled at the memory. “I’ve been tempted to turn it into cheese, but I found it too obvious that you’d be blamed for it.” Sheogorath said with a smile. “I really need to introduce ya to Haskill, my chamberlain, no tellin what he’s up to when I’m gone.” He said as we went back to Celestia and Fluttershy. I actually felt tempted to do at least one last trick just for laughs. “Want to see something really cool?” I asked everypony. They all nodded. I turned around and decided to get back at Luna for interrupting the best dream I had ever had, I raised the moon just for the ponies to see it and turned it into a marshmallow. Using a large stick to stick through the marshmallow moon, I then began to cook it using the sun’s heat. “Anypony hungry for a s’more?” I asked. Luna appeared in her prototype wedding gown and slapped me, turned the moon back to normal, then left. I only laughed after she left just how mad she was. “This never gets old.” I wiped a tear from my eye.