Celestia could barely avoid being skewered by Discord’s horn. Celestia squared her shoulders and got in a defensive stance in front of Luna, charging her magic. The captain was still grinning. Celestia charged towards Discord. He teleported away just before Celestia’s horn would impale him.
Discord started laughing and cracked his neck from side to side. Luna just stared at him in utter disbelief. She had no idea why his attitude would suddenly change like this, unless his periculum and his true self are two different entities. It was the only reasonable theory she could think of at the moment.
Celestia and Discord started circling eachother. They never broke their eye-contact with eachother. Discord suddenly stopped. Celestia was cautious and never lost her focus. Both Discord’s and Celestia’s horns flared to life. Discord charged again towards her, surprising her. Discord headbutted Celestia, temporarily disorienting the solar princess.
Discord took the opportunity and shot four magic blasts at her. Celestia sensed them coming and raised a barrier just in time. She slid back a few feet and Discord charged yet again.
Discord flew right into the barrier, breaking through it. Celestia sidestepped and slashed towards him with her horn, temporarily using her horn as a blade. Discord snickered and avoided every slash with ease. He jumped and rolled to his left and flared his wings, shooting towards Celestia like a crimson lightning bolt. Celestia panicked and raised her left leg to block him. Discord did a barrel roll and gave Celestia a powerful uppercut. Celestia was lifted into the air from the blow and grunted in pain. When she made contact with the ground again, her once perfect alabaster coat was now dirty and stained with her own blood.
’‘Why do you even try, Celestia?’’ Discord mocked her.
’‘Harmony will always prevail.’’ Celestia croaked as she tried desperately to stand up. Discord walked up to her and stomped on her right front leg. A crack from the bone echoed through the room. Celestia yelped in pain and gritted her teeth.
’‘Wrong...’’ Discord growled. ’‘Chaos is the last thing to ever cease existing. What happens when ponies leave their duties? Chaos. What happens when something out of the ordinary happens? Chaos. What will happen once I get rid of you, Luna and the Elements of Harmony?’’ Discord leaned down towards Celestia and whispered into her ear. ’‘Chaos...’’
Discord turned around and walked away from the fallen solar princess, laughing as he realised that he could actually win this time.
’‘Discord...’’ Celestia stood up, careful not to put any weight on her right leg. The spirit turned towards her in obvious disgust. ’‘I’m not done with you yet...’’ Celestia winced as a wave of pain rocked through her leg.
’‘Aren’t we stubborn?’’ Discord grinned and flared his wings.
’‘You have no idea.’’ Celestia shot open her wings and charged towards Discord, who accepted the challenge and flew to meet her in the air. They collided in mid-air in a mess of feathers and flailing limbs. Discord threw punch after punch at Celestia’s injured leg. Celestia tried to stab him with her horn. Discord’s horn flared to life and Celestia’s eyes widened as she realised that she couldn’t escape his grip.
Discord lowered his horn towards Celestia’s chestpiece. He started shaking from the power he was packing into just one blast. Celestia had stopped squirming and had realised that it was no idea in trying to get away from him now. As the blast was shot, the light inside the room wavered and a sound that imitated a thunderclap echoed through the entire castle. Celestia’s lifeless form crashed into a wall who crumbled on impact. She sailed through the wall into the corridor. She was stopped by a wall who cracked from taking an alicorn flying in a high speed towards it. She slumped to the floor and wasn’t moving at all.
Luna’s eyes started to water and she started sobbing when she laid her eyes on her unmoving sister. She feared the worst after seeing the display of power from two immortals battling eachother.
Discord chuckled and cantered the last distance between himself and the fallen goddess. As he came closer, he felt a weak magic field surrounding her. Celestia was still alive, but barely. Luna’s crying made him turn his head towards her. Luna was shaking and was too scared to say or do anything.
’‘She’s still alive.’’ Discord spat some blood. ’’I won’t kill her, just make her suffer like I did...’’ Discord growled and touched the tip of her horn with his own. His horn flickered to life as he concentrated on one particular spell.
Celestia’s eyes shot open from the sudden pain rising from her hindlegs. She looked down at them to see her legs becoming stone in a slow progression. She opened her mouth to scream but a pathetic whine was the only sound coming from her. She gritted her teeth and clenched her eyes shut as her gut became stone. Discord hadn’t been lying when he explained how painful it was to be turned into stone. Celestia started hyperventilating as her intestines stopped moving. She was in full panic when her heart stopped beating while she was still alive. Tears were flowing freely from her eyes.
’‘Bye-bye, Shiny...’’ Discord chuckled darkly and stood to his full height as he saw her eyes being covered by stone and her horn turn to a dark, dirty grey. Discord turned away from her and walked back inside the room where Luna and Black Rush were in. The captain looked overjoyed and cheerfully saluted to Discord, who rolled his eyes from the display. Luna was shaking and backing away from Discord with her wings flared and ears splayed back. Discord smirked as Luna was forced to the wall. He stopped just in front of her.
’‘Since I want this to be a little more interesting, I’m going to give you a ten-second head start to go wherever you want to go, unless you want to end up like Celestia immediately.’’ Discord’s eyes narrowed.
’‘Discord-’’ Luna glanced at her now petrified sister.
’‘Ten.’’
’‘Please, do-’’ Luna pleaded.
’‘Nine.’’ Discord squared his shoulders.
’’No...’’ Luna shook her head.
’‘Eight.’’
Luna shot out through an open window and flew away at full speed. Discord looked at the window where she had fled and smirked.
’’My lord, what do you want The Anarchy to do?’’ Black Rush walked beside Discord.
’’To stay away from me...’’ Discord growled and shot out into the air in the same window as Luna had before him. He saw a midnight blue dot in the horizon and grinned, the chase was on. But to his dismay, a bright flash made Luna disappear. She had teleported away from him. ’‘Clever girl...’’ Discord grinned. This just got much more interesting.
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Twilight Sparkle had just finished re-shelfing her library when a teary-eyed lunar princess with a disheveled mane popped into existance beside her. Luna surprised the young mare by pulling her into an embrace, while sobbing uncontrollably.
Twilight realised immediately that something really bad must have happened if Luna is acting like this.
’‘Wha- what’s going on? What happened?’’ Twilight wasn’t sure if she wanted to know the answer.
’‘Discord...’’ Luna sobbed.
’‘W-what happened with D-Discord?’’ Twilight gasped.
’’Oh, I’m just fine, dear Twilight...’’ Discord stood in the doorway, smirking. Twilight recognised his voice and noted the change in his eyes. She gasped again as Discord took a step closer.
’‘Stay away..!’’ Luna croaked and stood up.
’‘Luna, my dear,’’ Discord snickered ’’if I could defeat your sister and petrify her, do you really think you can challenge my power?’’ After another bright flash, Luna and Twilight Sparkle was gone. Luna had teleported them to safety. Discord sighed and rolled his eyes.
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In the town square, a flash ignited, startling almost everypony. Five other flashes and an equal amount of confused ponies materialised into existance. Luna was panting from the strain of finding five different ponies and teleporting them to her took a lot of energy out of her.
The now gathered Elements of Harmony all looked at eachother in confusion. All except for one. Twilight Sparkle was crying for the loss of her precious mentor. Luna stood up and cleared her throat, choking a sob.
’‘Girls...’’ They turned their heads to Luna, all of them had many questions that they wanted to be answered. ’‘I’m afraid I have some very, very bad news...’’ Luna looked down at the ground. ’‘Discord-’’
’‘Petrified your dear Princess Celestia and made a fancy garden decoration out of her.’’ All eyes turned to Discord, who trotted into the square while whistling a jaunty tune.
’‘You...’’ Twilight growled.
’’Me.’’ Discord held a hoof to his chest.
The Elements of Harmony got in front of Discord in a row like they had when they inprisoned him. But this time, no element necklaces or tiaras were there. Everypony stared at him with malice, even Fluttershy. Discord tsked and rolled his shoulders while cracking his neck.
’’Do you know from what animal my eyes are?’’ Discord smiled. The ponies in front of him stared at him in disbelief because of the random question. Twilight coughed awkwardly and spoke up.
’‘Dragon..?’’ She crooked an eyebrow.
Discord snickered and rolled his eyes. ’‘And I thought you had a little more intelligence than that. There’s no slits and no pupils at all.’’ Discord’s eyes widened and his eyes started glimmering, making the girls look at his eyes. ’‘Cockatrice...’’
Luna realised what was happening and shielded her own eyes with her hooves. The Elements of Harmony didn’t see it coming, and were now turning to stone. Six different piercing shrieks of pain echoed through the entire time.
Discord was laughing and pointing his hooves at them. Rainbow’s expression when she couldn’t move her wings was priceless. She was frozen with that expression. When it was complete, Discord had six new garden decorations.
The only pony left that could stop him was Luna, this was going to be different. This would be tormenting the one pony who truly loved him in his harsh life. Discord was almost about to go away and let her go, before the periculum sent another wave of hate and chaos magic rocking through his body. Discord closed his eyes and shook his head free from those thoughts.
’‘Ready to play, Luna?’’ Discord squared his shoulders and lowered his head into an attack position.
A/N: Preread and edited by the awesome frieD195! Fun fact, four words made me write this story in the first place; Discord is best pony.
...I Don't Like Where This Is Going
Can't wait for more
Discord IS best pony
They sure look stoned
650465
Lol.
650465
I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE....
and also over there
but oh boy....no elements, no Celestia....
Luna vs. Discord, the ultimate battle!!
Coming right up
650514
...After this commercial break!
At first I was all
Then I was all
Then
And finally
Luna's gonna kick Discords ass! Hopefully...
650543
Plot Armor.
If she doesn't win, this is the end of this story with Discord raining LOTS of Chaos and a bad ending.
so.... Plot Armor
althoug her losing would make it FAR more interesting.... after all Celestia and Luna have the same tier of powers as Discord.... they could break free in a few thousand years, liberate the Element-bearers and defeat Discord.... and then adjust to the new world.....
Im thinking that luna will be restraining his magic this time?
>> inb4 she kisses him, he gains control of himself again, and all is right in the world.
I thought Discord said he doesn't turn ponies into stone...
650739
...Motherfu- I mean er... That's a possible outcome...
650776
Different times, different rules.
650776
This, Discord really went off the deep end.
650739
Nah jk, that'd be too cheesy.
650922
Did you see my comment on the previous chapter sir?
Discord is now wayyyyy more evil without that necklace
650465
I guess you could say that Discord's attack was 'rock solid'
650739
And there are six new garden decorations being shipped to my house.
Hmn, not sure if want.
so, your going along the path of "discord is omnipotent?" technicly, Chaos is the same as entropy right? the more entropic something is the more discombobulated and chaotic.
Entropy always has its limits though, when there is no matter, there can be no entropy. Chaos cannot exist if there is nothing to be chaotic. thats deosn't help Luna much though. Chaos is also easily removed, simple work will do it.
"discord is best pony"
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Luna uses her seductive powers and they "boink" again AND THEY LIVE HAPPLY EVER AFTER
So much awesome.
650922
My guess is this then. Discord does win and petrifies Luna. However he gets bored with his chaos. With no one to fight back against it, he reverts all eight of the ponies. Having done such a foalish thing, Tia and Luna distract him while the Mane 6 imprison him once more.
650947
I did.
You sir seem to have written yourself into a corner here. With Celestia and the Mane 6 "Petrified" the task fall to Luna. Now we know that Discord cannot be stopped by the princesses themselves, and that the princesses have lost the connection to the Elements. Therefore your going to need some form of a "Deus Ex Machina" for this one. Unless you go the incredibly cheesy route of "Luna falls in love and Discord falls in love with Luna."
So yeah. Im seeing two maybe three options for you at this point. When i say options i mean ones that would actually make a good story.
And secondly:
DISCORD YOU BASTARD! Why did you turn the mane 6 to stone, they disnt know what they were doing! They were only following orders.
652405
Didn't you see Discord momentarily stopping himself? That's a litlle hint of how I'm gonna play it out...
652429
I did and i have taken that into account. All three of the options i have in my head involve Luna convincing discord, just by different means.
Do you know that rarity now actaully has a chance to be Tom's marefrien?!
653037
LOL! That's rich!
653039 I KNOW!
Wow didn't expect that to happen more please
So... we have a few new garden decorations, and Discord has the eyes of a Cockatrice... Do you know what that means?! He can start his own busines! Garden ponies in every shape and pose with a multitude of horrified faces! As long the population lasts of course
653037 That's simply epic! Rarity will never get rid of those Tom comments
653396 i hope for rarity that Tom knows how to take care of the kids.
653430
Tom rocks at parental advising.
653465 good to know.
653430 At least she can't complain that he's not getting hard when he sees her
...
Too low?
653566
Nope. Still funny.
653834 Now that I think about it my lame pun somehow reminded me of the scene in Terry Pratchetts “Moving Pictures”. I mean the one in the troll bar with the singer Ruby and her version of the famous “or are you just happy to see me?” line. Jokeception? Nah. I’m just getting more and more insane
Hey! I know how it would go with wingboners!
Luna: Hey Discord. Were you going to fly somewhere or are you just happy to see me?
653962
Eh... Sanity is overrated anyway...
NIOOOOOOOOOO!
653970 YOu want to know something wicked? I have no sanity. I have a conciense in my head that makes me insane, but another that keeps him under wraps.
653970 You silly filly, of course I know that
650543 I want to kick it!
653566 true, but a bit too low acording to my non-existent standards.
653970 i agree.
654047 i'l call twillight to research your mind.
654631 If it's non-existent... Then how can it be too low?
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654643 If you do that, I will kill you if anything goes wrong. I will let insanity go full force!
654676 i've bin trying to figure that out for years...
654684 come at me bro! *royal equestrian voice* I HAVE THE POWER TO CREATE TEN DIFFERENT UNIVERSES AT THE SAME TIME WITH A CLAP OF MY HANDS, AND YOU THINK YOU CAN KILL ME!?
*normal voice* that's a lot of confidence you have there!