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// Prologue: Secrets Revealed 
// Story: Celestia's Replacement 
// by nebulaegalaxy 
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        Celestia was sitting, peacefully, in her room. A loud ‘bang’ shook her windows, so she got up and tried to get outside as quickly as she could. Outside, however, she found Discord just sitting, doing nothing.
        “Discord, did you, by any chance, hear anything?” she asked, a bit irritated.
        “Nope, not at all. Why? Did you hear something?” Discord asked, grinning.
        Celestia groaned. “Really? Really? I swear, Discord, if you don’t stop trying to get me out here by making loud noises, I’ll strangle you. Personally.”
        “Aaaaaww is Celly mad at me?”
        She gave him a look that clearly said You really wanna do this right now? 
        Discord just looked up, pretending as though he hadn’t noticed. Celestia rolled her eyes at this, which earned a chuckle from Discord.
        “Don’t be mad, Celly. I’m just teasing. Lighten up,” he said.
        “Lighten up, huh? Maybe you should act at least a little more serious sometimes,” Celestia replied testily.
        “Oh no, we are not having this argument right now. Please.”
        “You started it.”
        Discord playfully shoved Celestia, knocking her off balance, and causing her to fall over. Discord, feeling a little sorry for knocking her over, helped her back up. Celestia, however, was not alright. She had hit her head, thankfully not hard, but she held a hoof to her head. Discord noticed, and helped her back down, in a better position.
        Her image flickered.
        “Celestia?”
        She groaned, still flickering. What was behind the flickering image of Celestia was a creature Discord had never seen before.
        The flickering stopped, leaving the strange creature in front of Discord. He studied it intently. It had a similar body structure to his own, but it definitely wasn’t another draconequus.
        “What are you?” Discord asked, not at all daunted by the strange entity before him.
        “What am I? What the fuck are you?”
        Discord stiffened. “You’re not from here, are you?”
        “That depends. Where are we?”
        “Equestria. You really have no idea where we are, do you?”
        “Wait, Equestria Equestria?! No. No no no no no! Fuck!”
        “Just out of curiosity, are you male or female?” Discord asked, genuinely curious.
        “Female. Girl. Woman. Did I miss any?” she asked irritably.
        “Mare, filly…”
        “Right, Equestria, horse terms. Okay. I’m done with this.”
        “What, I can’t learn your name? Mine’s D-”
        “You’re Discord, spirit of Chaos and Disharmony.”
        “How did y-”
        “You do realize I was just Celestia right?” the strange ‘girl’ said, annoyed.
        “Right right, I forgot.”
        “Anyway, you asked my name? Ashlynn. My name is Ashlynn.”