6. Piece of the Past: Time to Learn
“Um…” I said dumbly. I’d never been bowed to before, and I never thought I’d receive a bow in the first place, but now that I was standing before this being showing his apparent respect for me I was a bit stunned.
“It would be my immense honor if you would fight by my side.” Discord tensed at the thought of my possible refusal to be his champion. “Please. If not for me, for my subjects!” he practically begged.
“Ok, ok, I will! Just stand up, you’re embarrassing me.” I said hurriedly.
“Oh, thank you, Lord of Time! You don’t know what this means to me!” he said as he visibly relaxed at my agreement. He took a deep breath and stood, looking me in the eyes seriously as he said “next we train you. You’ve shown that you don’t know how to harness your powers, and you’ll lose without them.” He turned around and started walking towards the forest in the distance.
“Wax on wax off, Mr. Miyagi.” I mumbled to myself as I followed him.
“I will not be teaching you Karate, Daniel-san. I’ll be teaching you how to control time.” He said, not turning around.
I was stunned. I hadn’t said it that loud. In fact, the wind should have covered it up. But he heard it nonetheless.
“You should learn to use your mind. It’s the only place I can’t listen in without actually attempting to.”
“Got it.” I said as I thought ‘So, basically, wax on wax off.’
“Good. And yes, wax on wax off.” He said with a smirk.
-----
IN WHITETAIL WOODS
Luna was watching the two beings in the field talk. There was a moment when the creature that Discord had summoned teleported in front of the draconequus’ face, scaring him a bit. At this point Luna made a note to tell her sister of these powers. When they began walking towards the tree line that the lunar princess was hiding in she momentarily panicked, thinking they’d spotted her. She had forgotten that she was still using her magic and canceled the spell.
Using her wings, Luna fled deeper into the forest dodging trees as her mind raced. ‘What kind of creature can use teleportation magic without using magic? I didn’t feel any disturbance in the magical field when it did that, did I? And what did he mean "Lord of Time"? Either way, Discord is planning to use this creature against us. I need to learn more about it and inform my sister so we may plan a counter strategy.’
‘First thing’s first’ she decided. ‘Acquire as much information regarding Discord’s champion as possible.
-----
IN THE EVERFREE FOREST
Celestia had been wandering aimlessly through the Everfree for an hour with nothing to show for it. The forest she was in had chaos magic laced through the trees, in the grass, and even floating on the breeze. There was no way to tell where you were, unless you were well acquainted with the forest. If something magical, like the Elements of Harmony, wanted to be found they would guide you there. You would have to trust the magic of the artifact to lead you in the right direction, which was exactly what Celestia was doing.
“Another fork.” She mumbled to herself. “Exactly how many twists and turns can there be in one forest?” the exasperation in her voice was palpable. This was the sixty-third fork, several of which had multiple paths to choose from—she’d been counting.
She sighed at the choice before her and chose right. As she started walking down the path she looked skyward, wondering if Luna was any more successful at her own task. This is why she almost fell into a giant ravine.
“Whew, that was close.” She breathed as the adrenaline left her system. “One more step and I’d be flying back up.” She chuckled. Just because the princesses had wings doesn’t mean that they enjoyed using them. They were the embodiments of all three races; pegasi, unicorn, and earth pony. This made flying possible but a fairly extraneous task, seeing as they were quite large.
“Is there a way across?” her head swiveled around, looking for a bridge of some kind as she mumbled this. When her search yielded no results she slumped her head, downtrodden by the fact that she’d be flying across.
“I hate flying.” She said as she flapped her wings and glided across the fissure. When her hooves touched the other side she folded her wings back against her side and began walking again.
There was a five minute period where the trail didn’t diverge, change direction, stop, or alter in any way. Celestia saw this as an improvement. Her spirits were momentarily lifted as she continued walking along.
The alicorn felt a chill run up her spine as a roar tore through the dark forest.
-----
IN THE FIELD JUST OUTSIDE WHITETAIL WOODS
“What do you know so far?” Discord asked me. We’d been walking for no more than thirty seconds, in which time I’d loosened my tie, unbuttoned two buttons of my shirt, and taken my coat off.
“Only what you’ve shown me.” I said as I fished the watch out of my pocket.
“Well, then we don’t have much more to go over. It may take some time to master, though. Let’s begin.” He put a claw to his chin. “Ah! I know. We’ll have us a race!” he stated gleefully.
“How will that train me?” I asked.
“You’ll have to be quick on your feet to beat me. I may look old, and I might be old, but don’t think for a second that makes me slow.” He playfully winked at me.
“Ok, what’s the rules?” we’d stopped walking, making it easier to adjust my coat over my arm as I asked this.
“No rules, but we’ll race again every time you lose.” He stated simply. “Readysetgo!” and there was a flash of light. I blinked the spots from my eyes as I tried to find Discord, who had disappeared. When I did find him he was leaning against a tree at the edge of the forest.
“Wait! That’s not fair!” I called to the cheating king.
“No rules, remember?” he called back. There was another flash and he was next to me.
“Roundtworeadysetgo!” There was another flash. This time it didn’t take as much time for me to find him, seeing as he wasn’t in the same place, but still at the forests edge.
“Ok, that’s just not fair.” I said as I crossed my arms. He teleported back to me with a sly grin.
“If you don’t even try, there’s no way you can win.” He told me simply.
“Fine.” I huffed. “Readysetgo!” and I started running towards the forest.
There was a bright light behind me and, yet again, I lost. He was already at the tree line, yawning into his paw.
“You suck, you know that?” I asked after he teleported us back to the starting area.
“Yep! Readyse-” I clicked my watch, stopping him in his tracks. I immediately felt the effects wrack my body. I quickly tidied myself up, buttoning my shirt and putting my jacket on. He was still standing there, his mouth open in a short “e” shape. There I took a minute to just fume at him, yelling in my mind at how stupid that Cheater-McCheaterson was.
When I had finished I looked at him once more, thinking about ways to get him back. A few ideas sped through my mind before I thought about something I hadn’t tried yet.
What would happen if I touched him?
I decided to explore this question, wondering what the result would be. Walking up to his face I started searching for a good place to poke. There wasn’t a spot that really stood out, so I went with the simplest.
I poked his nose.
The result was a little anticlimactic, seeing as the only difference was a small indent in his snout. I shrugged, thinking the only thing I’d done was leave a mark. I walked to the forest, picked a tree, leaned against it, and thumbed my watch once more.
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You tease!
4557943
yep. my cliffhangers are legendary.
they discord woke up an hour later six feet in dirt, and the lord of time was on the ground (at the tree line) laughing his ass off.
4557962
you'll have to see when i write it!
you are good at the cliffhangers I'll give you that but not good enough to beat me at least not yet.
you sill have lot's to learn young padawan.
4558203
you think this is the best i got? i'm just warming up! you wait until i've got an actual cliff to hang from, then tell me you're not in suspense!
4558205
I will be looking for word to it. also I don't know if I gave you this yet but if not then hear
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4558227
i'll have to use that at some point. that's great!
And with that you've shattered his face... way to go. great chapter though, I'm looking forward to the fight. Keep goin and stay golden^^
4558231 twilight.ponychan.net/chan/fic/src/132938038450.png
I just did you copy cat.
4558278
possibly. i will not confirm or deny anything, but Discords face will need a lot of duct tape by the end of this little debacle.
4558282
wait, what were you just thinking?
4557964
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I plan to.
4558294
good!
4558286 NOTHING! nothing at all. haha
4558303
tell me. now.
4558307 no
4558324
i won't post the next chapter until you tell me.
4558329 o.o I wont to say no but then I don't get the next chapter and then that would be a the worst kind of cliffhanger so I will tell you.
4558337
good.
4558339 so haw should I say this with out you getting mad?
4558345
how about i just promise not to get mad?
4558347 ok pinkie promise.
4558350
cross my heart, hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my- ow!!
4558354 close enough but sins you didn't say "eye" you might use that against me but here I go...
4558366
eye. happy?
4558369 yes know hear it is, I was going to say "that's what I was thinking" but then I realised what I was saying and changed it.
4558382
it's actually a little confusing.
why would that make me mad?
4558391
I know. that's why I did all that.
4558400
...
you sick bastard.
Ah, cliffhanger, how I love and hate thee.
Keep on writing this, I be interested.
Also: Gun + No Use = Angry Kitsune
Use the Contender (or at least mention it) or I'll sic Lee-zha on you.
4558419
only you and i will understand that comment.
but just wait! he's never held a gun before, this means that he's going to have to train himself to shoot! and that means lots and lots of bullets.
patience, young grasshoppa.
oh, yeah, and thanks. the cliffhangers will be increasingly... cliffhanger-y because of a challenge one of my readers has issued.
4558401 I do have bipolar disorder if that is what you mean by sick.
4558438
i've got ADHD, bipolar, and i'm insane! at least that's what my doctors say... and the people who visit me in my padded room... oh, here comes one now! i've gotta put my strait jacket back on.
(but seriously, ADHD and bipolar. my friends think i'm insane and my room has fairly soft walls... i don't have a strait jacket though. i want one)
4558448
SHHHHH!!! you don't tell them that!! they've gotta figure it out on their own!!
4558446 say yay for bipolar!!! I wouldn't be surprised if I have ADHD too but I don't know for sure.
4558451
give e a second.
4558451 done.
4558465
here's a good test!
4558471 4558469
good, silence the heretics!!
4558483 then I do have ADHD because a lot of those correspond with me.
I don't know if correspond would go there but it seems to work.
4558515
yep. also.
4558430 He has to train himself on how to shoot... Why do I feel like I should be there in my full Half-Kitsune awesomeness to help?
4558523
i don't know.
i'm just the writer!
i don't know everything!!
stop judging me!!!
because that would be awesome?
4558522 is it bad that I laughed at the death?
4558545
no! we all did!
...
didn't we?
4558548 good I was wondering if I was the only one to embrace death.
4558568
yep... i think... it's more the comedic factor of them taking his fingers for me.
4558571 no I don't think you get what I said. when my dog died I stood there with no tears, grandma sick and is in hospital I stood there and had no emotion of sad in me. the only time I cry is because I got hurt.
yes
almost never.
4558594
you heartless bastard!
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