Once Upon A Time In Canterlot
Once upon a time in Canterlot...
Midnight struck.
The moon rose to its full height in the sky, empowering the mistress of the night who watched over those who slumbered.
Two lovers lay at peace, snuggled up together in their bedchambers in the castle. Although one was a princess, the being at her side was not officially her prince.
Discord rolled over to face the ceiling and wondered aloud. “I wonder what it would be like if magic were a little more ...chaotic...”
A soft groan escaped the large white alicorn at the lord’s side.
“Discord, what are you talking about?” Celestia’s muffled reply came from the bedsheets beside the lord of chaos.
Discord grinned, “you know... magic. Spells and all that. What if they were a little more... chaotic..?”
“No.”
The muffled tone of his lover lessened the grin the patchwork creature wore. “But it would be funny.”
“Discord-” A very tired Celestia rolled to face the trickster.
“Think of how fun it would be to wake up and rediscover your magic as something new and exciting.”
“No.”
“Oh come on Tia. Have a little fun.”
The princess yawned, her eyes closed and she snuggled up to her lover. “It’s been a long day... Just go back to sleep.”
Discord caressed Celestia’s pristine soft coat. “One day. All I ask.”
Silence reigned.
Discord sighed.
A single eye cracked open to eye the draconequus who couldn’t help but grin hopefully back. “One. If I don’t like it, I’ll take you to the sun with me for a day.”
Discord laughed softly and clicked his fingers. “Good one, Sunbutt.”
A white wing playfully batted the lord of chaos in the face. Celestia then rolled over, capturing her partner in her forehooves. “I’m serious. Now, back to sleep.”
A kiss goodnight sealed the deal and Discord relaxed into the plush coat of his pony. This was going to be fun!
Luna rolled over in bed and wrapped her hooves around her special princess. She decided to have a little fun before she lowered the moon. With a light tinkle of magic, she touched her horn to Twilight’s plush side to give her a tickle.
With a shimmer, her lover began to change.
The princess of the night let out a surprised yelp and shot up in bed. Before her lay a lavender coated hippogriff with a beautiful two toned mane and light purple claws.
“Wha-” Luna stumbled back in bed, completely aghast. She tumbled out of bed and hit the floor with a loud plonk.
“Huh-?” A rather groggy looking hippogriff pulled herself up in bed and gazed down at Luna. Her face scrunched up in wonderment. “How did you fall out of bed?”
“Y-your... I mean- I made- turned you into-”
Twilight yawned and stretched slowly. “What are you talking about Luna?”
“My magic. We tried to tickle thee for fun but- but something... happened.”
Hippogriff Twi shook her mane. “I feel a little odd. Did I sleep on my left wing again?”
Luna dumbly pointed to the bathroom where she knew they had a mirror. After accidentally turning her marefriend into another species, she was not about to accidentally cause a catastrophe by summoning a mirror.
The groggy hippogriff stumbled out of bed mumbling something about her hooves feeling weird. Luna found her gaze lingering on the nice flank of her ...mare and gulped. She was not attracted to hippogriffs. She-
A high pitched scream made Luna jump and she reflexively rushed to her lover’s side.
Twilight stood before the mirror, her mouth agape, wings spread wide. She landed heavily on her rear. “What happened to me?”
“Um... I tried to use my magic to tickle thee... next we knowst, thou art turned into a hippogriff.”
Hippogriff Twi shot her companion a look, “remember the language thing? Is that's why you fell out of bed in surprise?”
Luna flushed. “Correct.”
“Ugh... Let me just-” Twilight scrunched up her face in concentration.
“what are thou attempting to do?”
“Teleport to Celestia to- right... No horn.” Twilight sighed.
“Why would thou wish to see my sister?”
“So I can ask her if it’s just your magic being weird... or if Discord is behind this.”
“But it has been a long time since he last caused a problem of any kind. In fact, recently he has been most-”
“That’s what I’m afraid of.” Twilight sighed. “What if he’s gotten bored and decided to have a little fun... only now I don’t have magic, so I can’t easily stop him...”
Luna cringed, she couldn’t help but feel more than a little responsible for her marefriend’s sad state.
“Mayhaps tis best if we fly out to see her. Somehow I don’t trust my own magic.”
“Wonder why...” a hint of a cheeky smirk came over Twilight’s face as she slowly approached. “Don’t worry Luna, I know you didn’t do this to me on purpose. I still love you.”
She gave her a peck on the cheek and Luna couldn’t help but feel that it was certainly quite odd to be kissed by a hippogriff, even one as pretty as Twilight.
“Maybe I should check on Starlight first and see if her magic is affected too.” Twilight mused as she exited the room.
Luna nodded to herself. She carefully reached out then tentatively pulled her moon from the sky. Her stars winked out of the dawn sky and the night mare felt relief flood her system. It felt like the moon had slipped down below the horizon okay and was now resting. Did this mean her deep alicorn magic was not affected but her regular, unicorn magic was?
What is going on here?
Celestia awakened to the tug of her sun. With a yawn, she propelled it into the sky. She shot up as sunbeams leapt into the room. It was not noon!
The solar princess reached out once more and this time was more careful in the positioning of her celestial body. It rapidly sank in the sky and Celestia was only just able to halt its progress before it vanished below the skyline. The ruler unleashed a sigh. That was unusual.
Wait.
Magic. Discord. His little ...request...
Her gaze shot down to the sleeping creature who was snuggled up to her lower body.
“Discord.”
Nothing.
Celestia sighed. “Discord. Please wake up.”
“I’m asleep. Cuddle me.”
Celestia was tenderly pulled beneath the bedsheets. “Did you do something to my magic?”
“Your magic? Why ever would I do anything specifically to your magic?”
“So I did not in fact accidentally agree to anything last night?”
With a poof the grinning draconequus appeared floating in front of his bedmate. “That’s right! I asked for a bit of fun. You said no. I pleaded... then you most graciously agreed to my request.”
Celestia gently massaged her temples, this was far too early in the morning for fixing her stallionfriend’s fun. “Why did I do that?” A sigh escaped the alicorn. “So what exactly did I agree to?”
“Don’t you think it will be much more fun if you find out for yourself?”
“Really Discord?”
Her lover grinned back at her like a cheshire cat.
Celestia sighed. Maybe a little spell would show her what he had done.
The long white horn glowed golden. With a swish their bedside table disappeared. In its place lay a bed of pink flowers. Celestia sat bolt upright, her jaw lose.
“Oooooh. Teleportation spell. I see you left behind some flowers too,” Discord mused as he played with his beard.
“I was supposed to lift it a few hooves off the floor,” Celestia replied stoically.
“Even better,” Discord nodded sagely.
“No Discord. This is not better. I need my magic. My little ponies need their magic.”
Discord shrugged, “I promised it will only be for a day, what could possibly go wrong, whilst being utterly hilarious?”
A white hoof impacted with the bedsheets, “reverse it. Now.”
The insistent draconequus shook his head. “Can’t do it.”
“I meant now, Discord,” Celestia scowled at her cheeky lover.
An old fashioned pipe appeared in the claws of the draconequus. A bubble popped out as he drew a breath from it. He then exhaled bubbles that sparked all the colours of the rainbow. “You can now do things like this Tia. Enjoy it.”
The unimpressed alicorn shot a spell at her companion who jumped.
Discord looked down at his arms and wiggled his fingers, “what did you do!? I feel... wrong.”
“I tried to reverse your spell, taking into account how my magic is now infused with your chaos.”
“Hmmm...” The draconequus noted his companion’s multicoloured mane had changed to its original pink coloration. Now that was unusual. He stroked his chin then clicked his fingers.
Nothing happened.
He clicked his lion's paw, then his clawed hand, then his tail. The patchwork creature frowned, “That’s odd. Hmmm...”
Celestia attentively watched her trickster and began to wonder if the spell perhaps had unintended consequences.
“Wait...” Discord turned his vision to the sun and he visibly paled. “No, it can’t be...”
“What?” Celestia dreaded the answer but knew that whatever she had done to Discord must have had a profound effect. Maybe she had accidentally removed his powers for the day?
The horn and antler on the draconequus’s head glowed golden. The bed hovered up into the air. A rather un-manly squeal erupted from Discord. “I can’t believe it! Tia’- Oh how chaotic is this! You just gave me your magic!”
His antler and horn glowed once again and the sun lowered then rose once more into the sky. “I even have your connection to the sun!”
A cocky grin appeared on his face as he reached out to his princesses sun, “down it goes! Up, down, up, down, up-”
“Discord!”
The patchwork creature jumped, “what?”
“My sun is not a toy.”
“Not when you control it. But now I-”
Celestia reached inside herself and willed her companion to be quiet. The chaos inside her replied and she found herself compelled to click her tongue. Discord jolted as his voice fell into silence. He motioned to his mouth then began to frantically wave his arms.
The sunny ruler chucked. “I think we traded powers, oh lord of the sun.”
Celestia reached inside herself toward the strange new chaos she felt and willed her lover to transform into something else. She clicked her tongue once more. A loud pop echoed around the room and before her lay a giant snake.
Both parties jumped in surprise. Discord smacked his serpentine head against the wall while Celestia fell off the bed. The alicorn scrambled back up to her hooves, quick to repeat her click. With a mighty poof, the snake turned into a rather surprised looking earth pony.
Discord burst out laughing, “that is-”
Again Celestia clicked and before her stood a griffon who brushed his own chest then stood admiring himself. “My, my, my, Celestia... has somepony discovered the joys of chaos.”
“N-no. Of course not.” Celestia once again clicked and the griffon poofed into an alicorn.
...A rather handsome alicorn stallion at that. He bore Discord’s colouring in all the right places and his horn was light blue with a slight spiral to it.
Truth be told, Celestia was rather tempted to leave him like that.
With a click and a pop Discord found himself as an alicorn with his own mismatched legs. He lifted his foreclaw and admired it. “Nice work my love. I should have given you my powers a long time ago, this is fun!”
“It’s unusual,” Celestia admitted. “I rather enjoyed turning you into different creatures like that.” It was then that the royal alicorn noticed her mane had changed. “My mane?”
“Thanks to giving me your powers, I think you’ve become normal Celestia for a day.” Discord noted with a growing smile.
Celestia’s wings extended and her pretty pink mane fluttered down, half covering her face. She shifted to better gaze at the patchwork alicorn.
“You like what you see.”
“I- So what if I do?”
The grinning male alicorn strutted toward his slightly smaller companion. “Admit it... you like what you see. I make alicorn look good.”
Cerise eyes travelled from the unusual legs to the strong chest then to the powerful dark blue wings before finally arriving at the rather handsome muzzle. “Yes. You do. Although this is not the Discord I fell in love with.”
“Well too bad, you just have to put up with me till sundown. Please leave me like this, unless you can think of something even more fun that is. But as I was saying... sundown. That’s when everything will go back to normal.”
“Everything?”
Discord nodded solemnly. “Everything. Even things like our table.”
“I will take your word for it. I remember, I warned you with a trip to my sun should I not like this.”
Discord chose to ignore the threat, “now... how does a pony teleport?”
Celestia laughed. “You mean to tell me you don’t know any spells?”
“Spells work differently to my usual chaos magic. It’s totally unchaotic and that makes it boring. Now how do you teleport?”
With a swish of her pink mane, Celestia came in close and clicked her tongue.
The couple appeared in the library.
“You’re a natural, you know that?” Discord grinned at his companion.
“And you’re insufferable.” Celestia shot back. “Now let’s quickly give you some groundwork for my magic. I’m sure before long there will be hordes of angry ponies demanding to see their princess. I also need to draft a letter to send to the other cities, telling them this will only be for one day and asking that they try and enjoy themselves without worrying about consequences.”
“Oh psh-tsh. Don’t be such a kill-joy. They will love it!”
“Study time.” Celestia reminded her companion.
“I’m bored already,” quipped Discord as he followed behind his marefriend who hastened to the section dedicated to magic.
“Starlight I need your help with- Starlight?”
Hippogriff Twilight came to a stop in the doorway to her student’s room.
It seemed that the sleepover with the royal crysler had turned into a cuddle session at some point and Starlight was bound in the hooves of a sleeping stallion. Her friend and student lurched up in bed, quick to cast a teleportation spell to escape the embarrassing situation.
“No don’t-” The purple hippogriff reached out a claw in desperation as her friend vanished to who knows where.
Maybe she had vanished into thin air? Or accidentally banished herself to Tartarus? Or-
“I’m right here, you can quit panic- what happened to you?” Starlight asked, sounding more like a mouse as the now six inch tall pony extracted herself from her sleeping companion’s mane. “And how did I end up in Sunburst’s mane?”
The groggy stallion batted at the thing in his mane then pulled the covers over his head, mumbling something about noise.
“Okay, that proves my hypothesis,” noted Twilight.
Starlight fought to pull herself out of the covers that buried her. “What are you talking about? Why are you a hippogriff? This better not be some strange bedroom game you and Luna play, because I really don’t want to know about it.”
Twilight flushed at the thought of Luna doing ...things to her while she is a hippogriff. Purple wings quivered, the young princess promptly forced all such thoughts out of her mind. “What? No, this was an accident. Something has happened to magic. When you tried to teleport, you’re lucky that all it did was make you small and teleport you to your coltfriend’s mane. Congratulations on that by the way.”
“It did?" It was then the tiny mare realized her position and jumped in shock. "I'm tiny! Why am I so small? Sunburst, wake up!” Tiny Starlight commanded.
The giant lump she stood on mumbled and slowly rolled over. Starlight flew through the air, “aaaahh!”
Twilight was quick to catch the tiny unicorn in her foreclaw. She placed mini Starlight carefully down on the set of drawers next to the bed.
With a groan, the stallion rolled over. “What happened?” Sunburst poked his head out from under the covers. “Why is everypony being so- Princess?”
“Yes. This is me, something happened to magic and we need to find out what.”
“Well...” With a grunt, Sunburst sat up. He waited for the hippogriff to turn around before he got out of bed and swapped his nightclothes for his regular kit.
With her back to the couple, Twilight continued, “I’m thinking Discord.”
“Oh really?” Starlight rolled her eyes. “What gave it away?”
“Starlight? Why are you so small?” Sunburst asked with concern.
“Something happened to my spell.” The tiny unicorn lit her horn and suddenly a huge rumble sounded from somewhere above.
“Uh... Star, what did you just do?” Sunburst asked frantically as the sound of water came closer.
“I just tried to summon Discord.” The small pony grinned sheepishly. “I guess it proves our magic really has been replaced with uncontrollable chaos magic.”
“Love-” Luna appeared in the doorway just in time for the torrent of water to hit the group.
The four ponies were carried yelling and screaming through the hallways, down the stairs and into the main room before they were swept out the front door.
Twilight clutched onto Luna as water continued to blast past them onto the street.
With a frantic cry, Spike barreled out the door and faceplanted in front of Twilight. Water rushed past the downed dragon knocking those who had risen down once more.
The young dragon rose with a scowl as the water subsided. “What is it this time?”
“I think...” Twilight trailed off as she stood and shook herself. “Discord replaced our magic with chaos for fun.”
“He what?”
Applejack started her day like she always did. Breakfast was early and before long she found herself before the first apple tree of the day. She quickly turned around and gave it a buck. Something pushed back hard, the earth pony stumbled forward and almost lost her hat. “What the?”
The farmer turned to face her tree and her jaw hit the ground. Before her stood tall a rainbow coloured tree that was three times the size of the other apple trees. The apples it bore were at least five times the regular size and also glowed differing colours.
This couldn’t be right. Applejack shook her head. She turned her gaze to the other normal trees then closed her eyes. She was just seeing things. It was ok. Her tree had not just turned giant. And all rainbow. After a few deep breaths, green eyes opened and she turned to face the tree she had bucked once again.
Nope. It was still big and colourful.
It was still totally bizarre. It was as if Discord had touched it, not her.
Discord.
He hadn’t caused any problems for a long time. Even though he had changed for the better didn’t mean he wasn’t capable of trickery.
“Alright. I know yer out there. Show yerself.” Applejack stomped a hoof on the soft earth.
A patch of flowers bloomed underhoof. The farmer stumbled back. She glanced at the underside of her hoof. Okay, now how did that happen?
She wondered to herself if maybe the strange tingle inside had anything to do with her apparent ability to mess with the vegetation.
It was probably time to go and see Twilight. The farmer sighed, she needed to find out what happened to her earth pony magic. Applejack headed resolutely off, back to the house to tell her brother not to touch their trees.
Pinkie Pie awoke to a buzzing sensation inside her brain. As she shot up in bed her mane bounced and her forehooves twitched. “Oooh! Discord has swapped magic with chaos!” A grin ripped across her muzzle. This should be fun! “I wonder what it will do to my earth pony magic.” She tapped her hoof on the bed. Nothing happened.
The party pony wondered for a few moments... What might she be able to try? What could confirm this feeling of extra chaos inside?
“Oh, I know!” She bounced up and in a flash, disappeared.
With a poof, Pinkie Pie appeared in the Cakes kitchen. “Oooh. Instant transmission. It’s even faster than normal.” She glanced around the kitchen carefully. “Hmmm... I wonder...”
A rather groggy alabaster unicorn wandered into her well decorated kitchen in Carousel Boutique. Rarity lit her horn to turn on the jug to boil water and blinked in surprise when the whole jug vanished. A deep, carefully breath filled her lungs. “That... was not a teleport spell.” She sighed. Who knows where that went. A light blue lit the white horn once more as Rarity this time tried to pick up bread for her breakfast.
A scream rent the house as the loaf grew in size till it was twice as long as an adult pony. “But- my magic!?”
Rarity frantically glanced over to her workshop. How was she supposed to create new works of art without magic?
The sound of small hooves on wood broke Rarity’s thoughts. “Are you alright?” Sweetie Belle asked as she rounded the corner. “Wow, how did you make the bread grow so big?”
“I tried to levitate it,” Rarity huffed.
The young filly snickered. “Nice one. How about I try?” Her horn lit and the bread instantly caught fire.
Rarity withdrew in shock, “Sweetie Belle!”
“I’m sorry!”
The older sister frantically tried to suffocate the flames with her magic. The fire was replaced with rain that poured upwards to the ceiling.
Sweetie Belle’s jaw hit the floor, “how did you do that?”
“I don’t know!” Rarity cried back, the fashionista turned to her sister. “Sweetie Belle, please follow me and don’t use your magic.”
“Why? Do you know what’s wrong?”
“No, but I suspect Discord has something to do with this. Come on!” Rarity hurried out the door, flanked by her sibling.
Sweetie couldn’t help but glance behind, “but the rain. Our bread!”
“Forget it, please do keep up!”
Rainbow Dash rolled over in her cloud bed and yawned. It felt too early to get up. She lay there staring at the ceiling for a while as the clouds of sleep slowly cleared. After an unknown amount of time, she rolled over and lay staring at the wall. “Oh, yea... I had agreed to breakfast at Fluttershy's...” the pegasus mumbled as she extracted herself from the warm confines of her bed. The blue mare stood there for a few moments as a feeling inside her registered. Something felt different. Something was weird. She flicked her wings and worked them slowly. Nope, they felt fine. She hadn’t slept on something, so that was good. Dash was also sure she had enough sleep and naps over the last day.
With a shrug, Dash trotted off to get herself breakfast.
A speeding blue pegasus barreled through the skies toward a lone cottage on the outskirts of Ponyville. Suddenly it registered that the skies were supposed to be clear today and without a second thought, the rainbow trail deviated.
Dash cut through three clouds then bounced off a fourth. “What the-!?”
The speedster fought to correct her trajectory before she crashed into a cloud some distance away. This cloud flattened under her like an egg thrown into a hot pan. Dash tore her gaze from the flat white puff under her hooves to the puffy white construct that had deflected her. “Alright, you. You’ve asked for it!”
Rainbow Dash shot off toward the cloud and came to a stop before it. She hovered in front of it and poked it with a forehoof. It felt ...like a cloud. A soft indent was left as she withdrew her hoof. “Huh.”
She spun around and prepared to buck the offending cloud. After a moment's hesitation Blue hooves delivered a hard kick.
Rather than the satisfying poof that typically followed impacts, her hooves sank into something soft then slowly withdrew.
The speedster span around and her jaw loosened.
The bucked cloud was raining.
Chocolate milk.
“How? What?” Dash looked to her own hooves then back at the now pink cloud that rained chocolate milk. “Discord!? Where are you?”
Silence.
The blue pegasus huffed. Fluttershy might be wondering where she was if she took any longer. “Discord? Hey, Discord!”
Dash once again poked the cloud. If Discord wasn’t directly involved in this cloud turning into a chocolate milk cloud, then what could it be?
With a strong beat of her wings, the lone mare ascended then dived down at the pink cloud. She tore through the cotton candy construct and span around several times to try and loosen the chunks that clung to her coat. With her wings folded she shot toward the earth below. Hunks of cloud dislodged from the speeding pegasus as she picked up speed. Blue wings shot out causing a jolt as the pegasus narrowly missed slamming into a house. She had fallen faster than she thought she had. That was off-putting.
Dash beat her wings frantically to once again gain altitude so that she could survey the cloud cover. Should she leave the rest for Cloud Kicker and Thunderlane? Those two were on duty today and providing they were not affected by Discord’s chaos, there would be no further problems in clearing the skies.
Deciding to put on a bit of extra speed, Dash rushed off with speed to leave a rainbow trail in her wake. She kept pouring more power into speed till a certain cottage appeared. The pegasus spiralled around, higher and higher till she hit sonic rainboom speeds. With a triumphant cry, the athlete spiralled around and around, leaving a giant halo far above the cottage. She then slowed her speed, corkscrewing round and round as he descended toward his mare’s home.
With a flourish, Rainbow Dash alighted at his fillyfriend’s doorstep. Something felt.. odd. More so than before.
The front door opened to reveal a bright eyed yellow pegasus. “Good morning Rainbow wha-”
“Hi Fluttershy- Woah.” A blue hoof reached up as Dash felt his throat. “Why is my voice so low?”
“W-who are you?” The shy pegasus half hid behind her door.
“Uh, it’s me. Rainbow Dash.” Replied the blue pegasus as his forehoof fell from his throat.
“Well you look like her, but um... you're a stallion.” Fluttershy tentatively replied.
“I-” Dash took a quick look at her lower section and shot ramrod upright. “Why do I have that?”
A giggle escaped the animal caretaker. “All stallion’s have one of those, silly. But... what turned you into a male?”
“I uh... did ... a trick.”
“Okay?” Fluttershy’s head tilted ever so slightly as she tried to consider what trick was powerful enough to accidentally swap gender.
Dash pointed up at the skies where the last fading colours of his sonic rainboom lingered.
“You pulled off a sonic rainboom and turned into a stallion?” Fluttershy scrunched up her muzzle in confusion.
“Yea... I left my house as well, me.” Dash began, “but uh... I saw that some clouds needed clearing. But this one cloud bounced me off then turned pink when I bucked it. It then began to rain chocolate milk.”
“Was Discord nearby?”
“No. Well. Maybe? If he was he didn’t respond.”
Fluttershy thought carefully for a moment, “please, come in. Maybe we should go see Twilight after breakfast and ask her to contact Celestia and Discord.”
Dash nodded, “yea. Get that trickster to turn me back to normal. This feels... weird. Like natural, but totally not me.”
The yellow pegasus giggled as her stallion entered, her eyes lingered on his well toned flank as he passed her by. “I think you look rather nice for a stallion.”
“Thanks, I guess.” Dash sank into a seat in front of the table that bore the couple’s breakfast. His eyes lit up at the sight, “this looks great! Thanks, Fluttershy!”
The buttery pegasus smiled in thanks as she took her seat.
Celestia strode up to the double doors that led to the throne room. The mighty ruler turned to her coltfriend. “I feel it best that you stay out here. I worry that my little ponies may try something drastic if they see the one responsible for all this.”
The alicorn stallion at the princess’s side nodded. “I think you might be correct, although I do wish you ponies would learn how to lighten up. This is all just a bit of fun.”
With a side eye glance at her lover, Celestia pushed open one of the doors with a forehoof. She then stepped into her throne room, her serene smile upon her muzzle.
-only to be hit with a wall of sound. Celestia forced herself to keep walking to her seat as ponies called out to her.
Once she had taken her seat, the princess of the sun, at last, decided it was time to break her silence. “My little ponies!”
The royal Canterlot voice rang out around the large room dominating the voices of her subjects. Silence descended as the room chock full of ponies awaited further words from their princess.
“My little ponies.” Celestia began once more, calm and collected. “Please try to remain calm. Discord has replaced every ponies magic, even mine, with chaos. In return, I took his powers. Let me be very clear-” The alicorn paused to wait for several displeased nobles to once again fall silent. “This will only last for one day. Then everything will go back to normal and anything chaotic that has happened today will also revert to how it was.”
“Why has he done this!”
“Change it now!”
“Give us our magic back!”
“Do something!”
“Stop him!”
Individual voices quickly became lost to the princess under the sheer volume of speakers. She refrained from the urge to rub her temples. Instead, the princess of the sun squared her shoulders and gazed out over the crowd of mostly noble ponies that had filled the room. She waited and allowed the voices to wash over her.
The room fell into stuttering silence as more and more ponies realized their princess was waiting to speak.
As silence took hold Celestia sighed. It had been a bad idea to let Discord swap magic with chaos. No surprise there. She was pretty sure she had the chaos power to reverse the changes. But doing so would be dangerous.
“I will repeat what I have written in the letters I have just sent out to every home in Equestria. For this day only, Discord has swapped magic with chaos. Earth pony magic, pegasus magic and the obvious unicorn magic are all affected. At the end of the day, everything- that includes both your magic and whatever crazy changes happen to things around you today will return to how they normally are. All damage will be undone. Discord is unable to reverse the changes because I accidentally swapped my magic with his. While I do now wield the powers of chaos, I do not wish to tamper with a spell that I know nothing of. Please, either try to enjoy this unique day or stay in your home and avoid using magic.”
There was an awkward silence that followed as ponies processed their ruler's words.
“Are you sure it will only last for today?” One unicorn stallion asked.
“Yes,” Celestia nodded.
“And everything will go back to normal at the end of the day?” An earth pony mare spoke up. “Even if I've accidentally turned all my trees into bunnies?”
“At midnight, yes.” The voice of Discord drew everypony's attention to the alicorn stallion who strutted out to recline beside his marefriend. “You know, you really could get a more comfortable throne.”
Celestia fought the urge to roll her eyes. “Yes Discord, but it is also made for only one alicorn, not two.”
“That’s the lord of chaos?” Fancy Pants spoke up. “I say, you don’t look half bad, sir.”
“You could almost pass for a real pony.” Another posh alicorn spoke up. “Almost.”
Discord grinned at the crowd. “Why, thank you. This is only temporary, till my spell ends at midnight. Now please, you all should run along and enjoy this day of chaos without consequence.”
“But what happens if we don’t want our magic swapped with chaos?” Hoity Toity spoke up.
Discord shrugged, “Go home. Stay in your room with no magic like a good little pony and ignore the world outside. But that would be boring... please don't do that. You're lucky I promised Celestia here-” at this, he nuzzled her rather affectionately. “That it’s one day and one day only. So enjoy.” The alicorn stallion’s horn lit up with a light blue aura and with that, Celestia and Discord vanished in a flash of sunlight.
Several ponies yelled out in surprise and one charcoal coloured stallion even cast some kind of spell. He promptly found himself falling from the ceiling. He bounced off two earth ponies below with a comical ‘boing!’ sound then collapsed in front of a guard where his coat flickered all the colours of the rainbow. “Great. Now I feel extra weird,” he moaned.
One of the younger pegasus stallions near the back piped up, “you hear that? He said no consequences!” With that, the young stallion’s wings shot out and he put on a huge burst of speed flying through one of the stained glass windows. The window exploded into tiny shards that fell as motes of light, harmlessly flittering down to those below. In the wake of the stallion was a trail of bubbles that were slowly dispersing overhead.
“Well, I’m off. It’s time to draft a formal letter of complaint.” Hoity Toity turned and strode out of the room.
Several others followed him, keen to make it home to safety with their sanity intact.
Other ponies began lighting their horns or unfurling their wings. One of the few earth ponies gave a tentative stomp of her hooves and was rewarded by the floor beneath turning into diamonds. She cried out in joyful surprise before barging past a shocked guard into the palace hallway beyond.
Bedlam erupted in the castle as ponies flew through walls, filled the air with all manner of random objects while other ponies changed shape, surprised at the unexpected effects of their altered magics. Many spells led to inverted gravity in small patches of space and a collection of ponies trying to get out found themselves running on the floor one moment and the ceiling or walls the next.
Many guards simply stood there, unwilling to try and stem the chaos that was erupting in the castle they were to guard. After all, Celestia was fine. The castle would be fine, tomorrow.
Hopefully.
Celestia and Discord appeared far up in the skies on a nice big cloud. It was as pink as the princess's mane and large enough to fit a four bedroom house.
“Now some alone time!” Discord proclaimed joyfully.
“Are you sure that was the right thing to do? Now my poor ponies will be wondering what happened to us?”
The lord of chaos laughed his lover off then gave her a nuzzle. “Of course they will be fine. It’s just a bit of harmless chaos!”
Celestia sighed but allowed her companion to continue to cuddle up. "Some days I'm glad you're here to help us loosen up. Other days you make me question my sanity."
"Sanity is overrated my dear, embrace chaos."
"Aren't I embracing it now?" Celestia asked softly as she nuzzled her grinning stallion.
As the pair continued to enjoy their close contact, the male alicorn shifted around a bit then unfurled his right wing and pulled his princess in closer.
“Now, what do you say about a quick cuddle as alicorns then we have some fun with your chaos and my sun magic?”
A smile pricked at the edges of the white alicorn’s muzzle. “I think... I will trust you and see how this-”
The princess was interrupted by a small flash of light and a scroll plopped down in front of the couple.
“Well, what do you know, dragonfire still works.” Discord commented as he picked the scroll up. “It’s for you, my dear.”
“I’ll let you open it. After all, somepony has my magic.”
“You don’t trust yourself to try and open it with chaos?”
“I fear to do so might have unintended results,” Celestia replied softly.
“But that’s half the fun!”
“Just open it, please.”
Discord obliged with an eye roll and unfurled the scroll in front of them. “Well.. it seems Twilight has been having fun. I would very much like to see what she looks like as a hippogriff.”
“It sounds like we need to pay her a visit.”
“Two minutes?”
“You really want cuddles first?”
“I want to experience alicorn cuddles first, yes.” Discord confirmed as he lay down, bringing his princess with him.
“Oh, all right. But then I must make sure my faithful student and sister are alright.”
Five minutes passed in cuddly silence before Celestia leaned in and clicked her tongue.
The couple appeared in the gardens outside the palace. “This is for taking my magic.” The mighty ruler clicked once more and Discord exploded toward their pink cloud above. The fluffy construct went off like a nuke when the stallion hit it Discord continued exploding as he fell back toward the ground below, laughing all the way.
He landed in a crater, his mane on fire while his wings showered multicoloured feathers everywhere. The tiny feathers further twinked into little rainbows before vanishing creating a beautiful zone that sparkled with light around the couple.
“Do that again!” He fluffed his wings and used his magic to bring a tree over for him to ride. The stallion had only just taken his footing on the extracted tree in time for Celestia’s click.
The mighty ruler of Equestria cringed as her attempt at making him fly on the tree backfired. Discord was knocked off his hooves and lay stunned on the ground while the mighty log flew into the side of the castle as though fired from a canon and then it exploded.
The visible shockwaves stuck Discord who flew like a ragdoll up into the sky. Celestia fought to keep her footing and won as the waves subsided.
Discord landed with a giant crash on Celestia herself. “Y-you’re light as a feather?”
“Now I’m not.” Discord grinned as the light on his horn went out.
The couple collapsed in the soft grass and lay there for a moment enjoying the contact.
“Do you forgive me now?” Discord asked softly.
A unicorn guard who had been carried high into the sky from the exploding wall landed with a bounce nearby. He bounced three more times before he found his footing and scurried off to stand at attention some way off. The unicorn saluted his princess then continued to stand at attention.
Celestia nodded to her faithful guard then returned her attention to Discord. “I forgive you, provided more of my ponies enjoy themselves.”
Discord rubbed his forehooves together in anticipation. “Well then, we have work to do.”
“Off to Ponyville?”
“Off to Ponyville.” Discord nodded then lit his horn.
“Celestia!” Hippogriff Twilight leapt up, delighted to see her long time mentor appear in front of the wet castle of friendship.
A giant cake the size of Shugarcube Corner slid past the group with Pinkie Pie riding it. The party pony waved at those below, "hi Celestia! Hi Discord! This is fun!"
“Discord!?!” Spike stared at the alicorn stallion at the princess's side. "You look cool!"
“Why, thank you.” The alicorn of chaos grinned. "You can thank Celestia for my transformation."
“Discord!” A rather annoyed male Rainbow Dash landed with Fluttershy in his forehooves. He carefully placed his marefriend down then pointed a hoof at the prankster. “You have a lot to answer for!”
“Yea!” Applejack chimed in as she and Rarity took their places beside Ponyville’s resident princess.
"Fix my magic, now!" Rarity demanded.
"Well, you see... I can't do that," grinned Discord.
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I spotted A LOT of mistakes, but other than that, I loved it!
P.S. It's wing not whing
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Thanks. I've done yet another pass and hopefully, that helps. I have no idea how I derped when writing wing
MORE PLEASE!!
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Mistakes happen
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Also, could you follow meh?
I’m really like this so far. Keep up the good work.
I’ve been waiting for this for quite a while and I am not disappointed. Really fun to see some of the creative ways you chose to mess with the magic- from gender changes and race swaps and all the fun sounding stuff that happened to the castle. I like seeing that Celestia and Discord swapped magic- that will definitely make some fun moments for them. Honestly this whole chapter was making me grin as all the chaos unfolded- and it’s good to see that only pony magic was affected. The funny thing is I’m almost worried that the spell won’t be done at midnight because something goes wrong. Seriously though this is really fun and creative and it works because the dialogue between Celestia and Discord seem really in character. I mean besides some changes- Rainbow for example- I could see the show tackle something like this.
I absolutely love this.
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Thanks.
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Thanks. Glad to know its been so well received. Your feedback has given me a fun idea...
Oh... I like it! Now, make me love it!
*Gulp* does anyone else feel a ball of dread forming in your gut?