Starlight's Quest

by 21latenighter

A New Era

“For Equestria!!!” Discord yelled as he pulled out a sword made of feathers and charged the dark green alicorn on a whistling clone of Pinkie Pie.

As he drew near, Fury activated his magic and produced a shield of shoes. Discord stopped dead in his tracks in front of the shield and began to tickle the shoes, which began to sneeze and disappear.

Fury snarled as he then produced a large number one, which began to scream, “I am Smittyman Jensen!!! I am number one!!!” and then proceeded to throw smaller number ones at Discord, who called forth an umbrella to block the numbers hitting him.

“This is preposterous!!” Discord yelled as he snapped his fingers and now the numbers flew away as the large number one deflated like a balloon. “I am Discord, the master of chaos, the lord of lawlessness! I don’t have to put up with this!”

“Right you are Discord, but I am Caspian, the creator of all things chaotic, the Duke of disharmony, the lord of Laughter, and master of mishaps, and I will put you back into your place!” Fury said as he began to laugh insanely.

As he laughed, Fury began to shake and vibrate, as if he was having a seizure of some sort.

“Finally!!” Came a high pitched nasal voice. “I can finally take physical form!!!”

Fury collapsed to the floor as a faint image of a bright green alicorn came into reality. His wings shown as if they were made of gold, and his horn was broken at the base, but in its place was a banana.

The laughter grew louder as he gained physical form, slowly becoming one with the world around him. After he had achieved his former form, Caspian glanced around the cave at the ponies who stared at him with a hilarious fear of him.

He called upon his chaotic magic as the banana peeled back. The gravity in the cave was no more, and the ponies began to float around the room like heavy balloons, bouncing off from the ceiling and the walls of the cave. He used his magic to then change the temperature of the cave constantly, from freezing cold one second to searing heat the next. After this, he began to giggle as he changed the stone in the cave to soap. The now soaped ponies slid through the air as they hit the walls of the cave.

Discord snapped his fingers to stop the chaos, but his fingers deflated as the rest of him blew around like a popped balloon.

“We wouldn’t want to spoil the fun Discord!!” Caspian called to the deflating draconequus. He then turned to Starlight, who was trying to find her balance, but slipped on the ceiling and went flying towards the cage. He laughed as he looked towards the front of the cave, where his victory awaited him.

“Sorry to spoil the fun and leave, but victory awaits!” Caspian yelled as he charged towards the cave entrance, his banana horn peeling again and reversing the effects of his battle, the ponies and draconequus hitting the hard floor with a heavy thud.

Starlight looked out to the entrance, where the chaotic god was escaping to, but was called by a weak voice in the back.. Twilight. She turned her head to the purple alicorn, who had managed to free herself and Luna from their prison.

“Starlight…” Twilight said softly, barely above a whisper.

“Yeah Twilight,” Starlight said as she ran across the cave to meet her friend.

“I need you to do something for me,” she said, stressed.

“Anything Twilight,” Starlight replied, not aware of the burden she was about to hold.

“Tell my friends… that I love them, and I’m doing this for them…” Twilight said as she began to chase the chaotic Caspian.

“T-Twilight? Twilight! No!!” Starlight yelled as she began to chase her friend, but was stopped by the magic of Princess Luna. She fought the magic with all of her strength, but got no farther.

“Luna! Let me go! I have to stop Twilight!!!” She yelled, but the magic remained.

“Starlight… we all have our calling, our destiny… this is hers… let her go,” Luna said solemnly, her voice cracking as if said through tears.

“But what about the Elements, she is the Element of Magic, without her, Equestria is vulnerable!!” Starlight beckoned, hoping the princess would see reason.

“The Elements of Harmony will be passed down to new bearers, and the now vacant role of Princess of Friendship will be filled by a new pony… Twilight Sparkle will forever go down in history as one of the greatest ponies we have ever met…”

Caspian turned his head to see Twilight beside him, her horn glowing as both lifted off the ground, hovering a few feet above.

“You can’t trap me forever Helia!!!” Caspian roared as his banana peeled. The land around them beginning to fall away as lava boiled in its place. He then began to change the trees around the entire mountain into hideous creatures that pulled out their roots and began to terrorize the land around them. “I will not go back! I will not!!”

“Caspian… my oldest friend… come with me, back to the beginning, come home…” she whispered as her spell took effect and both began to fade away, becoming one with the next world. Twilight took a deep breath before she disappeared along with the screaming Caspian, into the Elysian Fields, where they would remain.

A rainbow began to crossover the sky, signaling the end of the battle. The ponies and Draconequus walked out of the cave’s entrance to see the extent of the damage, and saw a new world waiting for them.

“The beginning of a new era, the era of true harmony…” Luna said before turning to look at the pony who laid inside, but had disappeared. She sighed before looking out towards the country. “I hope one day you find peace brother…”

Starlight stood beside Trixie and Discord, looking at the spot where Twilight disappeared, her mind racing with her next task, telling the mane five about Twilight, and how the Elements has to be relinquished to new bearers. She caught a glimpse of a cloud passing by, one that looked strangely like Twilight, and some of her doubt eased as she took the first step to her new life, a life without her magic, and without one of her best friends.

Comments

[Ultra-the-HedgeToaster]

Hi,

I haven't actually read your story, but I'm going around asking people their opinion on fimfiction's new tagging system.

I noticed your story currently uses more than three "blue" tags - which is the new allowed maximum if you try to edit your story description. (Blue tags are genre tags other than "Alternate Universe", "Anthro", "Crossover", "Human", "Second Person".)

How would you tag your story using only three "blue" tags?