Chapter 10: Good and Evil
Dust is swept by the wind, and carries a tumbleweed through town. Along the stretch of buildings on either side of the main road, a god-like dragon stomps into the dusty street. Prints are left in the dirt as he makes his way to the center of town. Above the train station, the clock tower begins chiming, each toll of the bell resonating an ominous tone. The eclipse dragon looks about as the chorus rings out. Appleloosa appears to be no more than ghost town. Its only inhabitants are the swirling dirt and lonely howls. Spike listens carefully, but he is met with the sound of silence upon the twelfth ring of the bell. He closes his eyes, and gives a small smile.
“They’ve already evacuated,” he sounds relieved. “Guess it means I don’t have to hold back.”
Digging his heels into the dirt, he holds out his claws. In one hand, a ball of fiery gas appears, burning hot like the sun itself. The other seems to create an orb of nothingness, which seems to start sucking in all the light that surrounds it. Suddenly, the eclipse dragon sweeps his leg, spinning wildly with his arms held outwards. The black hole starts to absorb the trailing flames of the ball of plasma emits. In one arc, the two orbs seem to connect into a ring, exploding outwards in a devastating merge of energy. Combined, they detonate. The entirety of the town is swallowed up by the fiery ball, which looks like a bright white ball that seems to swallow up several acres. On the outskirts of the town, the apple trees are scorched to ash, leaving nothing left. And then, all of a sudden, blackness appears in the center of the destruction. All that light, all of the destruction is sucked into the dark spot. And then, there is nothing.
Scorched earth is all that is left of the town. Not even a trace of the buffalo stampede trail can be seen in the devastation. Spike stands there for a moment, his face sullen as he gazes at the destruction that he has wrought. His claws ball into fists.
“Getting tired of the wanton destruction?”
Whirling around, Spike finds discord floating upon an invisible current as if he were lounging. The draconequus has a deviant smile upon his face as he gets up from his unseen resting spot, gently hopping onto the burned earth.
“What are you doing here?” Spike snarls. “Come to mock me again.”
“I’ve come to reason with you…”
The eclipse dragon is taken aback, “You, the lord of chaos, wish to reason with me.”
“I’m not telling you to stop,” Discord explains, “Far be it for me to put a stop to the unrest you have inflicted upon Equestria. No, I am telling you to cut to the chase.”
“What do you mean?” the dragon appears to tense up.
“You continue to stall your threat,” the Lord of Chaos walks over to him with claw and paw behind his back. “Sure you destroy a village here and there, but you’ve mainly focused on those that have been abandoned.”
“I do not wish to harm the ponies,” he says. “I wish to force the princesses’ hooves. Other ponies do not need to lose their lives to do so.”
Discord shakes his head, “My dear, naïve Spike. Structures and homes can always be rebuilt. It is the lives that matter. Lives can never be repaired.”
“No, no I couldn’t…”
“If you truly wish for Celestia and Luna to,” he pauses to laugh, “Open up, you will have to do what is necessary to force them.”
“But to kill…”
“YOU DID NOT HESITATE TO KILL ME WHEN YOU DID!”
Discord is suddenly inches from Spike’s face, his eyes burning red like twin infernos. The draconequus has his mitts digging into the dragon’s shoulders.
Spike is thrown backwards by the outburst. The eagle talons rip through his scales, spilling a blackened liquid from the wound. Grabbing his slashed arm, the eclipse dragon winces for a moment. Moving his claws away, he sees the wound has already closed. In the puddle that has formed, a small sprout has sprung from the barren earth. Yet neither he nor Discord notices.
“I apologize for my actions, Discord,” he says feebly. “Nothing I do can remedy them, but I will admit my faults. And that is all I wish from the princesses. Admittance.”
“Then if you wish for them to admit their actions, you must stop with your attacks on ghost towns. You and I both know your next target.”
Spike nods, but frowns, “Ponyville…”
The blackened sky hangs over Ponyville, yet there is still some light in the crystal castle. A single room has several candles lit, burning brightly against the darkness that dares to penetrate through. Two ponies fight off sleep, or rather sleep is unable to come to either of them. The Princess of the Night finds comfort in the bed, as she watches her sister pace nervously back and forth. There is a note lying in front of her, writing out details of yet another attack orchestrated from the eclipse dragon.
“Is this true, my sister?” Luna asks.
“I’m afraid so, Luna,” the princess sighs. “Appleloosa is no more, making it the fifth town that he has attacked.”
“And yet there has not been a single casualty. We should consider ourselves lucky, dear sister.”
“I believe that he is reluctant to kill innocent, and for that I am thankful.”
“So what shall we do then?” Luna asks. “Perhaps it is time we admit the sins of our past, and put a stop to this.”
Celestia stops pacing and makes a sharp look, “That is not an option. It will never be an option.”
“But why not, dear sister?” Luna does not falter despite the angry expression she gets from Celestia, “If he is reluctant to harm, maybe just admitting our folly will quell his anger.”
“His anger will never be quenched,” Celestia stomps her hoof. “It may stop for a time, but his heart is too damaged to let things settle. There is a chance he will wage war for what has become of the dragons in his absence. Our kingdom will be vulnerable. Many of our subjects will be harmed.”
“But sister…”
“We are facing the Eclipse Dragon, a god of untold power. When we agreed not to return his power, it was for the sake of every creature in Equestria. No one being should have that sort of weight over us all.”
Luna shakes her head, “But sister, how do we stop him now?”
“In order to face a god, we will need one ourselves,” Celestia walks toward the window, staring out at the starry sky. “I believe it is time we take Twilight to the catacombs.”
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Three words...
FUCK YOU CELESTIA!!!
Wow celestia just fuck off and tell the truth and this might be over hopefully
All im gonna say is that CELESTIA IS A PARANOID CUNT!!!
I have a hope and theory for what's gonna happen and if it does all I have to say is it's about time that it happened in a story considering the many events that happened in the official canon.
aw really? there's no limit to how low this celestia can get?
Celestia I hope Spike sends you and your God to hell
YOU STUPID BITCH
And Celestia is like Zeus from God of War now, wonderful...
tia being tia
FUCK YOU TIA, GROW SOME BALLS AND ADMIT YOUR SINS. REPENT AND ASK FOR FORGIVENESS FROM JESUS HIMSELF, YOU ARROGANT DAUGHTER OF A CUNT. I HOPE YOU DIE BY THE HANDS OF THE ECLIPSE DRAGON HIMSELF FOR BIENG A FUCK WIT. IS THERE NO LIMIT TO HOW LOW YOU CAN GO TO UPHOLD POWER. Whew, not that that's out of my system, she said that if they didn't have power than all of equestria would fall, what she doesn't realize is that there are other nations that don't have Alicorn's on there side that have to fight with just their whits and fist. I hope she gets exposed for the selfish alicorn she really is. And since that are going to give twilight god powers, I hope spike explains what he is doings d why he is doing it and I hope twilight sides with him after he tells her about how his powers were supposed to be his but when the time came, celestia and luna didn't return the power to its rightful owner by birth but twilight tries to find a peaceful solution. MAKE IT SO.
Haven't read this story yet, just freshly read the previous story and I'm not 100% against Celestia on this. Sure, what she did was wrong, but politically sound for a developing country. The dragons were fucking stupid to willingly give up something they didn't collect appropriate collateral on, especially when it's cosmic powers up for grabs! As in too stupid to survive! Opportunity knocks and Spike is salty!
From reading this story I came up with a small theory. That Celestia and Luna aren't true ailcorns. Sure they 'are' ailcorns but the power that made them ailcorns wasn't theirs. So in a sense cadence and twilight who became ailcorns by earning it are more powerful then they ever were. For all their power came from the eclipse dragon and without it they're nothing but powerless husks in the shape of a ailcorn.
This will only end in tragedy if you keep this up Tia.