2. Next Stop: the School of Friendship!
Discord took a few steps back. He cracked his knuckles and stretched his arms. Cozy just hovered around, smirking and flipping her hair. Discord stood with his legs further apart and his arms outward as if they were about to duel in the Wild West. Cozy made a similar stance. They stared at each other for a few seconds until finally Discord lifted up his lion arm, opened his palm and shot a multicolored beam at Cozy. At the exact same moment, she shot a red beam at him. Their beams met in midair and pushed against one another. Discord gritted his teeth and looked as if he was having a very difficult time using his powers for once. He lifted up his other arm and tried to use more chaos magic to overpower Cozy, but the Alicorn Amulet started glowing and Cozy’s eyes turned red. It was now apparent that the power of the amulet was too much and even his own powers could not stop her. She looked like she was showing effort at first, but now she had a wide grin on her face.
Her beam pushed forward as Discord’s beam shrank. The red beam finally reached Discord and enveloped him with a magic aura. His mouth suddenly opened up and his chaos magic spewed out into a small portal that Cozy created to trap it. She had absorbed his magic in the past and knew how dangerous it could be; she wasn’t going to risk taking it for herself again. The only option was to put it somewhere safe.
“DISCORD!!!” shouted everyone behind him.
“HAHAHAHA!” Cozy laughed wildly. “Well Golly, that was fun, but I’m afraid I can’t allow the Lord of Chaos to persist like this!”
Cozy then zapped a beam of lightning at Discord. His entire body seized up and a bright light shone around him. His arms and legs morphed into the hooves of a pony and his wings were now small, grey pegasus wings. His horns disappeared and a unicorn horn appeared on his forehead. As this was all happening, his entire body also shrank and his facial features morphed into that of a young colt’s. The only thing that didn’t change was his coat color and his black Trojan horse mane-cut running down the back of his head. His flank bore a cutie mark of a set of scales. Discord had been transformed into an alicorn colt!
The light died out and he plummeted to the ground, not having enough strength to use his tiny wings. He landed with a thud and riled up some dust. He coughed a little and stood, groaning in a much younger tone.
“Ugh…what…WAIT…YOU…YOU TURNED ME INTO A COLT?!?”
Flurry and all her friends stood with their mouths hanging wide open. While Starlight, Trixie, and Sunburst seemed to already know, all of the kids except Flurry were not aware that this is what Discord actually used to look like. He was not always a ‘draconequus’. He started off as an alicorn thousands of years ago before he eventually became the Lord of Chaos and took over Equestria in his villainous days. Not having his magic anymore and Cozy obviously using an aging spell was what had caused him to revert back to this form. Discord no longer resembled the Lord of Chaos even one bit. He was probably the same age as Flurry.
“Daaaw, ain’t you a little cutie!” Cozy said, making her face look all enamored before it returned to her usual mischievous grin. “How does it feel now to be the weak and helpless kid, oh mighty Lord of Chaos!? How does it feel to be pushed around and bullied! HUH?!”
“I don’t get it. Discord used to be an alicorn?!” Chip asked.
“I forgot you guys didn’t know that,” Flurry told him. “He wasn’t always the Lord of Chaos or a draconequus for that matter.”
“What about his cutie mark? What does that mean?” Pumpkin asked.
“I…uh, it’s nothing, Pumpkin!” Discord said nervously as he covered his flank with his tail.
“Looks like somepony’s got a bit of a dark secret about their past,” Cozy teased.
“Cozy, please! There’s something I need to tell you!” the little alicorn colt begged. “There’s a reason I turned you into-“
“SHUTUP!”
Cozy used her magic to float him over to Celestia and Luna. Their bubbles popped and all three of them were pushed up against each other tightly with Celestia in the middle.
“Hey ladies. How’s it hanging?” Discord said, anxiously.
“We finally have them!” the king exclaimed. “Our revenge is complete!”
“But we’re not done yet, Father,” Cozy said, turning away from the others and walking towards the School of Friendship. “I still have a few other little things in mind.”
“Cozy Glow! Wait!” shouted Flurry behind her.
“And just what do you think you are doing?!”
The queen turned to Flurry and stood tall over her as her horn glowed the same color as Cozy’s. Cozy turned around and walked over to her mother.
“Don’t worry about her, Mother. She can’t stop me. How could she?”
“Cozy, I know we haven’t met yet, but I’ve read the Journal of Friendship and I know all about you. I’m trying to help. Please let me help you,” Flurry begged.
“Look Princess, you don’t know a single thing about me. I know you’re learning about friendship and whatnot and you really wanna try and ‘reform’ me, but I’ve got my own agenda. I’m only going to say this once: do not get in my way.”
Cozy leaned in close to Flurry’s face. She stopped smiling and her tone was threatening as she spoke through her teeth. Flurry stood there, feeling completely helpless. Her friends walked up behind her and Pound put his hoof on her shoulder.
“It’s okay, Flurry. We’ll try again later,” he told her.
Cozy turned around and walked back to her parents with the three helpless alicorn children still floating around in midair.
“What’s on our list first, oh beloved daughter?” the king asked.
“Well, I gotta be honest, I was missing the School of Friendship a little,” Cozy said, stroking her chin. “I think I might go on in there and do a little renovating.”
“What?! NO! NOT THE SCHOOL!!!” Starlight shouted as Trixie and Sunburst held her back.
“Aw sorry, Starlight, but I’m afraid I’m gonna have to shut the school down,” Cozy said. “Don’t worry, I’m sure you’ll get a full time job at some hayburger joint in town. Father, Mother, let’s go have some fun!”
Cozy and her parents walked off proudly, carrying Discord, Celestia, and Luna with their magic as they went.
“Princesses, Discord, don’t worry, we’ll get help! We’ll find a way!” called Sunburst.
After a few seconds, ponies in the area began to open the shutters to their windows and come out of their front doors. The others just stood there with their heads down. Starlight was especially stressed now that her own school was being taken over. She had her face buried in her hooves as Sunburst had his hoof on her shoulder.
“This is bad! This is very bad!” Trixie said, frantically tapping her hooves on the ground.
“She really is as scary as they said she was,” Pound commented.
“You have no idea,” Stormy said, still shuddering as he huddled up on the ground.
“How do we stop her?” Annie asked Flurry.
“I don’t know. She just overpowered the three of the most powerful magic-users in Equestria and now they’re her prisoners,” Flurry said, gloomily.
“FLURRY!” called a familiar voice in the sky above.
“Spike?!”
“Flurry, there you are!” Spike said, landing and panting a little as he rushed over to her. “Did you…was…Cozy Glow…was she here?!”
“Well right now she’s in the School of Friendship doing who-knows-what to it.” Flurry responded.
“And she’s taken Celestia, Luna, AND Discord!” Trixie said.
“WHAT?!”
Behind Spike was Zecora who had just arrived with Twilight and several guards flying behind her.
“She has already taken the princesses AND Discord?!” Zecora exclaimed.
“You think that’s bad enough, she also turned them into kids!” Pumpkin added.
“That wretched little girl! She needs to be…uh…stopped!”
“Zecora, you’re not rhyming. What happened?” Flurry asked.
“The child has taken my ability to rhyme! I have never felt this terrible in years!”
“So she did go after Celestia and Luna after all,” Twilight said as she landed next to Zecora.
“Twilight!” Flurry said as she ran in to give her aunt a hug. “I tried talking to her, Twilight. She wouldn’t listen.”
“I didn’t think she would. I thought it would be a lot easier to get to her, but I didn’t expect she would go after the Alicorn Amulet. Now we’ve got a real problem. If only I could find her parents and ask them to talk some sense into her.”
“Twilight, her parents ARE here!” Starlight exclaimed.
“What? They’re here already?!”
“But they’re helping her out! They’re just as bad as she is! Oh, and if that isn’t bad enough, they’re both alicorns!” Trixie added.
“ALICORNS?! No…no that can’t be possible!”
“Well her father was born an alicorn and her mother became one,” Pound told Twilight.
“So they say,” Flurry added.
Twilight began to pace around as she spoke.
“This doesn’t make any sense. We would have known about her father years ago if he was born an alicorn. If her parents are as bad as you say, there’s no way her mother could have ascended the way Cadance and I did. Ponies don’t just become alicorns if they have such malice in their hearts.”
“I’m betting neither of them are alicorns, even her dad,” Spike said, crossing his arms.
“I’m with Spike on this one,” Sunburst added. “Cozy obviously used the amulet to make herself an alicorn, she probably did the same to them.”
“Or they aren’t her real parents.” Pumpkin added.
“Then why would they say they are?” Chip asked.
Twilight then heard footsteps to her right and looked to see Gallus, Silverstream, Sandbar, Yona, Ocellus, and Smolder with the new Elements of Harmony.
“Princess?” asked Gallus.
“We heard everything about Cozy,” Silverstream told Twilight. “Gallus suggested we get these things ready.
“Should we use them?” Sandbar asked.
“I’m not too sure we should,” Twilight responded. “Cozy’s very powerful with that amulet, but…well, I was going to see if I could track down her parents to see if they could talk some sense into her, but now that I know about all this…”
“Bad ponies can’t be Cozy’s real parents.” Yona said, firmly. “Real parents out there somewhere. Maybe we use Elements on them.”
“They could even be the real villains,” Smolder added.
“Well I’d rather we not use the Elements on Cozy Glow unless it gets bad enough,” Twilight continued as she looked back to the School of Friendship. “Discord and I had plans for her, it’s just too bad she escaped too soon. Maybe she’ll change her mind if he talks to her in there.”
“What plans?” Flurry asked.
“I’ll explain later, but right now I need to see if I can talk to Cozy. I just hope she listens.”
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Hmmm that is a very interesting Theory there I've always thought that grogar is the one who made him I mean he is the father of all monsters but then again there's so many theories that's probably never going to be solve
Hoo boy, things are getting more interesting and more dangerous. Interesting bit of lore here, that Discord himself used to be an alicorn, with a set of scales as a cutie mark. Symbolizing the balance between order and chaos, perhaps?
But now our heroes need a plan of action, to find out the truth behind Cozy's 'parents', and put a stop to her plans before she can destroy everything. Lucky the Young 6 have the Elements with them. They might need them in the end if things get dicey...
Uh oh she's going after the young six 😱
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I'm glad they're okay but what does cozy want with a school
You son of a Guns and Roses cozy glow you're going to pay for this 😡
Ooh, great job! Can't wait to see what happens!
Oh boy this is really not good at all anyway so Discord try everything to stop cozy glow but apparently he got overpowered by her and she transformed him back into a pony but not just that an Alicorn kid and now she has all three of them and they look like they're heading for the school of friendship flurry heart try to reason with her but unfortunately cozy is too far gone of getting revenge but it looks like Twilight Zecora and Spike finally made it and the others explained about the situation and it looks like the young six are here too thank goodness but they think that cozies parents are not really her parents the only question is who are they and where is cozy's real parents and how are they going to stop her I guess we'll find out next time
Huh I thought everyone would be surprise about Discord was a Alicorn colt before he turn into Discord… Did I miss a story before this or well we see more of it?
Also, I agree with Cozy about Discord he is cute as a colt for… her
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Yeah, I've heard that theory before too. Definitely up for debate, but I always thought Discord must have been a pony at one point since his head is the "head of a pony".
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Lol, great use of the DBZ ending theme! XD
To quote a certain pink mare *Wha wha wha WHATTT!!!*
Quite the twist here with revealing Diz as a former alicorn, course Cozy doesn't seem to wanna stop anytime soon though. Hope Twilight & the Y6 can reign her in sooner rather than later! Still don't believe about these *parents* of her as well either!
Discord being turned into an alicorn was a reference to your old story wasn’t it? Nice bit of continuity.
The heroes need to stop Cozy and her “family”. I wonder if we’ll get a fight between Flurry and Cozy? One young alicorn against another. My money’s on Flurry.
Don’t touch the school brat! You were expelled!
Extremely good work on this latest chapter. Definitely appreciated the work that went into the action, exchanges, characterizations and future chapter set-up in all the right places. Have to say, I DID NOT entirely expect Discord to have been an alicorn colt when he was younger, but I suppose it DOES make SOME sense. And now Twilight and the Young Six are getting ready. And, yeah, either Cozy used the Amulet to upgrade (and brainwash) her parents or she created fake parents either because she never had a chance to know her real parents or because she is extremely embarrassed by them. At this point, either is equally likely. And, yeah, Twilight is right that as powerful as Cozy is right now, they DO need a solid plan (though I can appreciate that she advised the Young Six to save the Elements as a last resort). Again, we know Flurry and her friends will find some way to pull it out, but we don't know how yet, which is what makes this interesting.
VERY certainly looking forward to more of this.
Well how can you know that, Twilight? I mean if you turned into an Alicorn through Harmony and good. It's possible to become an Alicorn through Malice and evil.
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Well kind of. Look how Cozy became one.
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Lol thanks We might as well use it because the story is pretty intense
I wonder what his reasons to turn a kid to stone instead of throwing her into proper place
I'm not sure how Cozy pulled off that colt turning spell on Discord. Maybe the amulet has some kind of magic draining property that Discord did not know about? Either way, it is quite satisfying, even if I know I shouldn't me rooting for Cozy here. I'm not sure why some assume that Cozy's parents are fake because their evil. There is no rule that says bad people can't be parents.
I can't think of any good reason to do that to her, especially considering how much he begged for it and how he smugly said "together forever". He seemed to have nothing but malicious intent when he turned them to stone.
How does Twilight know that though?
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I like to think the amulet works differently for everyone, but right now it's far worse with Cozy than it was with Trixie.
What seems mostly fake about her parents is how they're both alicorns. Some have suggested they can still turn into one even if they are evil which...well, that's technically true since Cozy turned into one though it wasn't the same way Twilight did. It will all be answered soon.
I definitely like your story, but I don't like some of the details (that doesn't mean it's bad).
The alicorn amulet is without a doubt a very powerful artifact. In my understanding, it SIGNIFICANTLY increases the magical potential of a unicorn / any sorcerer. This can be seen in the example of Trixie. She was sooo weak, in terms of magical powers, a unicorn, but the amulet allowed her to advance a little higher than Twilight, to the level of high rank unicorns.
An emotional state can only affect attachment to the amulet, and even faster changes in personality.
He can make a unicorn stronger than a weak alicorn, but never, never make him stronger than a superior alicorn. Rather, a unicorn can become so, but the power of the amulet will not be enough for him.
And for sure, it will never make the user stronger than the gods. Such as Discord.
And further. Discord. I will never believe that he was a pony (forgive me, but this is my personal canon). He is chaos incarnate. Even if we take comics as an example (which are not completely canon), then Discord is clearly older than it seems. He came from another world. He was never a mere mortal, for he has a more advanced psyche, which allows him to be resistant to his magic, and not go crazy. (And it certainly wasn't created by Grogar.)
This is my opinion about your additions to history. If the amulet were really that strong, then many ponies would have caused chaos in the country long ago. Its creator clearly wanted a force capable of equalizing him with the princesses, clearly did it with not the best intentions. And I still do not believe that simple magic, from some kind of amulet, is capable of overcoming magic that can break reality itself (especially when Discord is serious).
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Good points though most of what you're saying about how powerful the amulet is and Discord's origins is not official anyway and therefore it can't really make sense of things when my things are fanon as well. Discord is obviously quite powerful but we still don't know his true origins so we're kinda free to just speculate and my idea has always been that he used to be an alicorn (I don't want to say more about his origins because it will spoil another fanfic I'm working on). There's another reason why the amulet has made Cozy so powerful enough that she can take on Discord, but let's not forget that Discord was beaten by Tirek before Tirek even got all the alicorn magic.
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Mmmm. I don't know if this can be called a victory. Considering what Discord showed before and after, it's hard to believe in Tirek's victory. Mmmm. There was no full fight, Discord was shocked. So to speak. I don't think that Discard's loss is real. For me, you will lose it because the plot needs it so much, and not because Tirek could be stronger (Discord showed much greater possibilities). One can argue about this for a long time, and therefore let's not do this. Let everyone remain unconvinced. I just wanted to express my point of view.
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I know this is an apples vs. oranges comparison but there may be some basis for the emotional state affecting the magic amulet. Recall Cozy Glow and Pinkie Pie both acquired Discord's magic. Both turned into giants of themselves. The interesting part is Pinkie Pie just turned into a larger version of herself while Cozy Glow turned into a bat winged alicorn. You would think that the bat wing, rather than say a normal alicorn, would be associated with Cozy's emotions or moral character.
From what I have seen there seem to be a couple of aspects to magic in Equestria in a general way:
1. One type makes you larger and seems to be mostly related to the magic inside the individual. We have examples of all the princesses being larger than their subjects, Tirek, Pinkie Pie and Cozy Glow mentioned above, the dragon ruler, the ruler of the Kirin, etc. Since the magic is inside the Alicorn amulet this would not occur when say Trixie acquired it.
2. The other is one that affects the individual directly such as their appearance, mindset, etc. This may occur in amulets over the long term. We saw this with Rarity and a magical book.
I would enjoy any discussion on the subject as this is a very unclear area of the show.
On a side note - having 2 types explains one plot hole with Tirek - he could not control Discord's magic in Ending of the End yet had previously drained Discord of magic back in Twilight's Kingdom.
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I will answer, but later. I'm busy right now.
Grr!
Okay, Discord didn't work, but they still have Twilight and the Student Six!
Take Cozy Glow down, Twilight and Student Six!
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It’ll be really surprising to see how she is eventually taken down and you will not be ready for what comes after…