I will kill you yet, Discord!

by IMN

Part 1: awakening. Chapter 8: Battle Commence.

Princess Mi Amore Cadenza reached the central square at last, everypony had already fled the scene with the exception of a few military personnel, the Wonderbolts, the bearers of harmony, Shining Armor, with Discord wrapped tightly around him muttering to himself something about dying today, was at the other end of the square keeping as much distance from the pegasus a very angry looking scythe wielding pegasus on stage as possible.

That scythe though. Even from that distance something seemed terribly wrong with that scythe. Being a princess, Cadence was no stranger to weapons, with those used by the royal guards, and Shining Armor's blades and shields collection which now has a room at the Crystal Palace. Yet this was the first time in her life that Cadence felt this nervous around a weapon before.

She approached her husband and asked: “What happened?”

Shining grabbed Discord’s claw and removed it from his muzzle, “I managed to teleport Discord just in time, before he got sliced in half.” Then placed the claw back on his muzzle.

Twilight approached the trio, she then placed her hoof on Discord trying to comfort him, “calm down, everything is going to be fine, we’re here, there is nothing to be afraid of.”

Discord looked at her, eyes filled with fear, then muttered in a trembling tone, “N-no, y-you d-don’t unders-stand, he’ll k-kill us, he-he will…”

Soarin and Spitfire flew near the frightened deity, then grabbed him by the arms, and yanked him off the captain of the royal guard.

“Take him as far away from here as possible.” Shining Armor ordered as they lift Discord off of him. “Go to Canterlot if need be, we’ll find a way to stop him here.”

The two Bolts nodded, then took Discord and flew away as fast as they can. Flash Sentry flew behind his captain, “What's the situation, Captain?”

Shining Armor took a step forward, then addressed his soldiers with his usual drilling voice. “Listen everypony, this pegasus here,” while pointing at Draco, he raised his voice, “is trying to kill Discord due to an old grudge, I know we all hate Discord but this pegasus’s actions goes against all that Equestria stand for, as members of the royal guard we will stop him right here, right now.”

“Don’t you think this is over?" Said Flash Sentry, "I mean, we have the bearers of harmony with us, we also have two princesses, and there are a lot of high ranking officers around, all of them against one pony?”

“No,” Cadence replied, “This one is special, I don’t think we can stop him even if we double our number.”

“Princess Celestia said that to underestimate him is to face certain defeat, if not death." Twilight explained. "And after the stunt he just pulled, I can testify to one thing, he's not normal."

“You heard the stallion,” screamed Rainbow Dash as she swooped in front of Draco, “Put them up.” She then made a boxing gesture to his face.

Draco smiled, ignoring the mare in front of him, he looked at Shining Armor and beamed, “Interesting. You would rather uphold your morality even if it means your life, and all for that monster nonetheless.” He jumped to the far edge of the stage then raised his scythe high above his head, the markings started to glow intensely then a magical shroud started to warp around it. “Let’s put your words to the test, shall we?”

The scythe came crashing down on the stage floor, and a magical circle appeared briefly before the entire stage was swallowed by a pitch black hole.

“Behold the Stygian.”

A giant worm the size of ponyville town hall rose from the portal nearly knocking Rainbow Dash. Its roar was deafening, on its body were scales like flesh with further insignia glowing on them, it's mouth was filled with sharp edge teeth and a foul stench emanated from it.

“What in Celestia?” exclaimed Rarity at the hideousness of that thing.

“The Stygian worm, one of the ten known lords of Tartaros.” Shining blurt out, “I can’t believe he can summon something like that.”

“Captain! what's the plan?" Flash asked his captain with urgency.

But before Shining Armor can figure out a plan, he caught a glimps of something blue flying off.

"He's going after Discord." Twilight urged her brother in case he didn't notice him.

“I saw him,” Shining then pointed at Flash, “Flash, you’ll carry me, we are going after him. Twily, Cadence you come with. Everypony else, distract that thing until princess Celestia and princess Luna arrive to deal with that thing.” He barked his orders and everypony saluted in return.

Flash Sentry, with the aid of another pegasus pony guard, picked their captain up and started flying as fast as they can after the blue pegasus, followed immediately by Twilight and Cadence.

“So any idea how to deal with that thing?” said Applejack before the worm gave a very menacing look to the ponies down below, while Rainbow Dash started to prepare to hit the worm under the chin, all the guards started to reorganize their formation in preparation of the upcoming battle, but before anypony could react…

“WAIT.” Came the voice in the traditional royal Canterlot fashion of Luna, and all eyes, even the worm's, looked toward Luna and Celestia coming from the south.

“What is wrong oh great Stygian, why are you so down?” Luna calmly soothed the worm.

“He summons me after a thousand year and doesn't even bother with a hello.” Replied the worm in a rather dejected voice, to everypony’s shock.

“Don’t worry about it, he is just cranky a bit.” Replied Luna with her charming demeanor, “We’ll go after him and see if we can make him come back and apologies, ok?”

Happily, the worm nodded in affirmation. Then Luna waved good bye and went after Discord.

Celestia came close to Fluttershy and whispered in her ear, “I would recommend you bringing him some tea, he likes tea.” She said as she flew away after her sister.

After a long pause of silence, the worm looked toward Rainbow Dash who was flying closest to him and said: “would you like some tea? They told me I make the best Earl Grey.”

Rainbow shrugged, “Yeah sure, why not.”

Comments

[The A I]

Wow. Just wow. The stygia is a polite being who loves tea. Im loving this!

[The A I]

Wow. Just wow. The stygia is a polite being who loves tea. Im loving this!

[IMN]

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I'm glad you are loving it

[The A I]

Im glad youre writting it.