The streets of Canterlot buzzed with activity under the late morning sun. Canterlot Castle was alive with the business of the day. All but one pony cleaned, cooked, or went about their work in high spirits.
Princess Luna stirred in bed. It had been a long night, and even after almost two years back, she had much to learn about modern day Equestria. Exhausted, she had expected to fall asleep easily, but after tossing and turning for several hours she only slipped into an uneasy slumber.
Do you really believe anypony’s forgiven you?
The Princess of the Night turned, covering her body with a dark blue wing. Her starry mane spread across the pillows like a tangled web from her constant tossing.
Do you think anypony should forgive you after everything you’ve done?
Luna tucked her snout under a hoof and snuggled deeper into the bed as the nightmares started. Ponies chased her through the streets of Canterlot, shouting for her banishment.
It’s only a matter of time. They will come for you. They won’t let you steal their precious sun.
She stood against the angry crowd in her dream and shouted, “Ponies of Canterlot, we do not wish for eternal night any longer! We wish to live peacefully with our sister!”
Liar! You’re jealous of your sister. You’ve always been jealous of her!
“Tis not true! We love our sister!”
But does your sister love you? She left you on the moon for a thousand years after all. What kind of sister would do that?
She hesitated as the crowd in her dream pushed toward her.
She’ll do it again, as soon as you put one hoof out of line. As long as she has the Elements of Harmony on her side, there’s nothing you can do.
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Spike, you know this can’t last.
The dragon tossed and turned, clutching at his blankets as he swam in nightmares of his own.
Oh, I’m sure your pony friends want you around now, while it’s convenient. You’re small. You’re useful, taking notes and sending letters. You’re Twilight’s number one assistant, but do you really mean anything more to her?
Will anypony want you around when you’re too big to fit in the library? How will you live with the ponies when you can’t even come into town?
Dragons and ponies can’t live together in harmony.
*****
“Who’s there?” The Great and Powerful Trixie asked, head snapping up at the sound of somepony breathing.
Just somepony who wants to help.
“Are you the one who’s been speaking to Trixie the past few weeks?”
I’ve been trying, but you never seem to answer.
The powder blue unicorn dipped her head and mumbled, “I was starting to think I’d gone crazy.” She raised her voice and said, “The Great and Powerful Trixie wishes to know what you want with her.”
I want your help casting a spell.
“And what is in it for Trixie?”
I will help you get back at Twilight Sparkle.
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“What makes you think I need help?”
You haven’t spoken to Dash in months. Neither of you will apologize. I am a spirit with quite a bit of experience in these matters, but if you’d rather leave her be, I’ll just be going.
“Well wait a second,” the griffon said, missing a beat of her wings and dropping several feet.
*****
“Do you really mean it?” the filly asked, a smug grin on her face.
The answer is plain as day. What else could a tiara for a cutie mark mean? The words roll off the tongue, Princess Diamond Tiara.
Diamond Tiara’s eyes lit up at the sound of it. “That does sound good, but how would I be a princess? Don’t you have to be, like, related to Princess Celestia?”
Just leave that to me. Do as I say, and everypony will know your name by the end of the month.
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“But what do you need Trixie for?”
Well I thought The Great and Powerful Trixie was the most magical unicorn in Equestria.
“Of course she is. The Great and Powerful Trixie singlehoofedly defeated at least half the monsters now locked away in Tartarus. So what task could possibly be worth her valuable time?”
I’ll get right to the point. I’m gathering six ponies to represent the opposites of the Elements of Harmony.
Trixie faltered, her confident smirk slipping for a moment. “That’s...” She trailed off.
Of course, you know Twilight Sparkle is the Element of Magic. Most ponies believe she’s the most powerful unicorn in Equestria. But we know better. So why shouldn’t The Great and Powerful Trixie represent the new Element of Power.
“Element of Power? Trixie does like the sound of that.” She paused again before asking, “How is power the opposite of magic?”
Twilight Sparkle only beat Nightmare Moon with the help of her friends. She represents the magic of friendship. Discord put a sarcastic emphasis on the last three words. The Great and Powerful Trixie doesn’t need anypony else. Your power alone is enough to accomplish great things.
“Of course, Trixie doesn’t need anypony else but herself. Now, why don’t you tell Trixie more of your plan.”
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“So you want me because I’m the opposite of Pinkie Pie? Guess I can’t argue with you there, I’ve got ten times as much cool as her.”
Of course you do. That’s why I need you.
“But, isn’t Dash one of the elements too?”
She is, along with Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy. This could be your chance to show her who the real losers are.
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“What exactly do I have to do?”
Come to Canterlot when I ask you to. Wear a necklace, stand in a circle with some other ponies. That’s about it.
“I’ll have to ask my parents. I can’t just run off to Canterlot.”
What kind of princess has to ask permission to do something?
“But I’m not a princess yet.”
No, but you should start acting like one. You want to be ready, don’t you?
“Well, yes. But-”
Just trust me on this one, and you’ll be on your way to princesshood in no time. You just need some faith.
*****
“The Great and Powerful Trixie will accept your deal. She would like to know one thing though, who are you?”
Oh, it’s not important. Just somepony Twilight Sparkle humiliated, like you.
*****
“So you were run out of town by those losers too? But how are you talking to me?”
Oh, a simple spell. I’m stuck here in Canterlot, otherwise I’d talk to you face to face.
The griffon shrugged and adjusted her wings slightly. “Fine, you help me with Dash and I’ll think about helping out with your lame spell.”
*****
Rainbow Dash stared at the paper as the minutes slipped by. She sat quietly in a corner as Spike went about readying the library to close.
A mug touched down on the table in front of her, interrupting her thoughts. She glanced up to see Twilight smiling kindly. “Dash, are you sure you don’t want to tell me what’s bothering you.”
Dash shook her head and gave Twilight a forced grin. “It’s nothing, really.”
“I don’t know. You seem a little worried.”
“Psh,” Dash scoffed, “I’m Rainbow Dash, bravest pony in Equestria. What would I be worried about?”
Twilight just stared, eyebrows raised skeptically, until the smile slipped from Dash’s face.
“Okay, maybe I’m a little worried. I’m not good with stuff like this.”
“Stuff like what?”
“It’s just some stuff I heard from Applejack and Rarity. Probably nothing.”
Twilight gave a frustrated sigh. Getting a straight answer from her pegasus friend was harder than herding parasprites. “Well, you know I’ll help if it does turn out to be something.”
Dash nodded and grabbed the quill between her teeth. Twilight watched her scratch out a quick note and roll it up. “So you’re sure they’ll get it?”
“Of course,” Twilight said, lifting the rolled letter gently with her magic. “Spike, could you come here?”
Spike took a moment to answer, “Sure.”
“We have a letter for you to send.”
“Another friendship letter for the princess?”
“No,” Twilight said. “It’s actually not to the princess. It’s going to Cloudsdale.”
“Oh. Uh, I don’t know Twilight. I don’t have much practice sending letters to anypony but Princess Celestia.”
“I have complete faith in you, my number one assistant.”
Spike almost smiled at the compliment, but it was gone a moment later. He reached for the letter. “Alright, where to then?”
Twilight looked at Dash for the answer. Rainbow looked almost sick with nerves as she answered, “Saint Mare-ies Orphanage, 1600 Cumulus Drive, Cloudsdale.”
Ha ha, I get to read this before all of you!
858722 Congratulations! [No sarcasm intended]
shit storm a coming
Lemme guess... Rainbow Dash found out that Scootaloo is homeless, and she wants Scoots to go back to the orphanage?
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Eenope
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Srsly ಠ_ಠ
Glad to see some great anti heros joining :D
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I didn't want another 3 chapters of Discord introducing himself, the characters freaking out, and him explaining himself, so I decided to just go through the 3 conversations as one, and it didn't take that long. Not my shortest chapter, but others will be longer.
Wait, Gilda is the opposite of Pinkie
Chrysalis is the opposite of... either Rarity or Rainbow
Trixie is Twilight
Diamond Tiara is...?
Scootaloo is...?
and Spike is... I forget.
Can you help he here?
It's really "coming together"
Let me take a look here . . . one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten and eleven. So that means . . .
TWELTH!!
I really like this story! I've also gone through the calculations and Scoots shall be the Element of Betrayal! Although Diamond Tiara was kind of thrown in there out of nowhere.
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Chysalis is Deceit, Applejack's opposite.
Trixie is Power, Twilight.
Spike is Greed, Rarity.
Gilda is... something opposing laughter (Seriousness maybe?), Pinkie Pie.
Diamond is Bullying, Fluttershy.
And Scootaloo is Betrayal, Rainbow Dash...
at least that's what I think it is.
859097 Oh thanks :)
Oh, dear. Things are starting to move along aren't they?
Avalanches tend to do that.
Full Metal Alchemist, does an absolutely clever twist on Greed. Where one of the characters calls him out that if Greed is willing to abandon his friends, "if you're willing to throw away something you wanted, you have no right to call yourself Greed!" Greed is not slothful, greed is NOT lazy. And this is what starts him on his Heel Face Turn.
Also, Deceit is not inherently evil. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LetThemDieHappy And the lies parents tell their children. And the lies adults tell each other to help civilization run.
Not to mention Anger is not inherently destructive. (The red lanterns in DC comics, while an army of remorseless killers, are composed of those who rely on anger of being wronged and seeking vengeance of being wronged.)
It's important to note that the elements of harmony can and are taken to destructive extremes as well. So the elements of chaos are nothing special in that regard.
In other words, the element of chaos IMHO would become two sides of a coin.
While Discord is going out of his way to collect ponies and others who are already as messed up in the head as he's making Scootaloo, the elements he seeks to create will not be destructive or extreme unto themselves.
Oh damn oh damn OH DAMN
I wonder if Rainbow Dash is wanting to adopt Scootaloo or something.
Dash this is really going to come back haunt you.
oohoohoohoooh! she wants to adopt her>>858796
Let's see, what Elements of Harmony do we have now?
Scootaloo
Vengeful Chrysalis
Starting-to-get-vengeful Spike
Also-starting-to-get-vengeful Luna/Nightmare Moon
Vengeful Trixie
Gilda
Even-more-self-entitled-than-usual Diamond Tiara
It's like you've taken my favorite emotion, wrapped some of my favorite characters in it, and put them all together to take revenge! I LOVE IT!
Except for the fact that you've gone one over. 6 Elements of Harmony, 7 Elements of Disharmony. I'd suggest writing one of them out (personal choice is the last one).
I'm still keeping my fingers crossed for grey Scootaloo. I just feel like it will mean more if Scoots purposefully betrays RD rather than getting fooled into it. Would make the redemption part more meaningful.
i was not expecting DT... bet scoot's going to be bitter about this. oh and incidently... NNNNOOOO!!! LUNA!!!
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Well, I have an idea for...
I.....
.......I just got an idea.
I think I love you
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Can't you see I love you!
I love how you got everypony to believe that scootaloo would be the element of... disloyalty?... but it's probably luna. Poor Luna...
And so it all comes CRASHING down! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA!...sounded better in my head.
HAHA, AN UPATE!dl.dropbox.com/u/31471793/FiMFiction/Scootaloo_lolface.png
On a side note, since Discord is in fact the god of chaos, any plan he makes is bound to fail from the beginning.
I USING ROYAL CANTERLOT VOICE DEMAND MOAR!
Chrysalis- deception~~~~~~~~~~ honesty- Applejack
Gilda- anger~~~~~~~~~~ laughter- Pinkie Pie
Spike- greed~~~~~~~~~~ generosity- Rarityb
Trixie- power~~~~~~~~~~ magic- Twilight Sparkle
Diamond Tiara- cruelty~~~~~~~~~~ kindness- Fluttershy
Scootaloo- treachery ~~~~~~~~~~ loyalty- Rainbow Dash
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Spite?
What's with bit about Luna? Is Discord just trolling her?
I think the whole thing with Luna is she going to be the opposite of Celestia. Think about it, she a alicorn, a princess and the opposite of her sister. So if Discord going to make the opposite of EoH, then perhaps he wants a "Mentor" as well to the other 6. Though just a theory.
He could also be doing it cause he really wants to break Celestia as well. Turn her sister back into NMM and have to spend another 1000 years on the moon.
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WHAT THE HAY?!?
This storyline is getting TOO AWESOME....TOO FAST, I mean just WHOA who knew that such time and effort that Discord place into this plan to make it work.
I should have known that Trixie and Gilda would show up in this storyline, but you surprised me with Luna and Diamond Tiara involved in this tale.
Now this is going to be interesting considering Scootaloo and Diamond Tiara's Rivalry may just mess things up a bit, right ?
Still this is just too awesome of a storyline to be read in such of one setting.
Nice cliffhanger to end this chapter on as that could change things for the storyline climax.
Oh please do keep up the good work upon such a great tale like this one.
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Trixie is the Element of Power, the opposite of Magic.
Diamond Tiara is the Element of Cruelty, the opposite of Kindness.
Gilda is the Element of Anger, the opposite of Laughter.
Spike is the Element of Greed, the opposite of Generosity.
Chrysalis is the Element of Deceit, the opposite of Honesty.
And Scootaloo is the Element of Betrayal, the opposite of Loyalty.
a lot of element comparison lists have been posted.....but where's Luna in all of this?
Luna is probably Discords backup for Scootaloo. He's probably noticed her reluctance to get Spike involved, and now that Diamond Tiara is there, there's a possibility of a rift happening.
That or he just wants an alicorn on his side to protect the Element Bearers while they charge up. After all, the EoH aren't gonna be in Canterlot when it happens, but Celestia will be.
Goddamn! That's intense, its all coming together so quickly now!
Cool
860683 I don't think so. The opposites of EoH, will be the Elements of Discord/Disharmony. But that still leaves the good side with 2 goddess'. If he turns Luna back to NMM, it will be 6 Elements and 1 goddess on both sides.
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Here's an Idea...
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Hmmm....this matchup is going to be interesting.......
Applejack (Honesty) vs Chrysalis (Deception)
Fluttershy (Kindness) vs Diamond Tiara (Cruelty)
Pinkie Pie (Laughter) vs Gilda (Anger)
Rarity (Generosity) vs Spike (Greed)
Rainbow Dash (Loyalty) vs Scootaloo (Betrayal)
Twilight Sparkle (Magic) vs Trixie (Power)
Celestia vs Discord
Damn it Rainbow Dash.....the one thing you want to make things right, you screw that up.....
I think that Luna will become the elememt of Betrayal, and Discord will just through Scoot into the streets... When she realizes that she was just a tool all along, she'll screw up Discord's plans somehow.
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Antonyms of laughter would be despair or gloom...but neither of those sounds very Guilda...ish dl.dropbox.com/u/31471793/FiMFiction/emoticons/shrug_Twilight_Sparkle.png
Discord's plan isn't gonna work.
You won't always have friends to help you. In the end, you will always be on your own; without power, you can't stand up for yourself.
Rulers bear both the crook and the flail. The carrot is all well and good, but sometimes you need the stick.
Anger, the most primal of emotions, occurs when you perceive that something is unfair, and must be made fair.
Greed might take all things for itself, but the first rule of ownership is that you take care of what you own.
Some things should remain unknown, some truths do nothing but harm.
And what betrayal would be greater than that of betraying the one who you've been working with all story?
*le gasp* Rainbow Dash is going to adopt Scootaloo?! I love you forever! This story, it gon getin good. Oh and good job coming up with the opposite for the element of magic, i've been thinking weigher or not the name would need to be changed, considering that magic is what makes both elements work.
Honestly reminds me of my Mind Games saga.
Of course there Discord slowly taught Diamond Tiara everything he knew about manipulation, while simultaneous psychologically torturing her, giving her praise and put downs in a warped cycle, playing on her insecurities, and slowly crushing her soul while at the same time building her up by throwing contradiction after contradiction in her brain.
And if 'Trixie didn't need anyone' she wouldn't need him. Or the other five. This ALONE would prove to the selfish and head up her flanks Trixie that there is no such thing as a pony who stands alone.
And RD . . geeze, that choice while the correct one, was not the RIGHT one.
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You know, I didn't even think of that. Here I thought Discord was going to use Nightmare Moon as Betrayal, not as another goddess.
I feel sheepish.
wait why does RD want to send a letter to that cloudsdale orphanage?
858763 If Scoots spilled the beans to Dash, the orphanage would be the LAST place Dash would send her to :l.
"Dragons and ponies can’t live together in harmony."
Double meaning here, I see; It silently suggests the alternative. In Harmony, no they can't; But in Chaos, who is to say?
Is Rainbow Dash going to adopt Scootaloo? Cool! But what about Princess Luna? Let me see... Gilda-Not Laughter Trixie-Not magic Spike-not genorosity Chrysalis- not honesty..... Oooo! Is she not loalty? I think that's it! Oh yeah, Dimond Tiara- not kindess! And BOOM! There ya go! The elements of Disharmony!