Confrontation, The Beast King Returns
The Past Returns
Chapter 4: Confrontation, Return of The Beast King
It’s been a week since Nightshade brought his house to Ponyville and, with the help of Twilight Sparkle and his friend’s, he has gotten to know the citizens of Ponyville and felt a little more confident in being out among them with his hood down. Needless to say, they were curious about him and gave him strange looks as they have never seen a pony like him before, but they soon got to know him and see he was nice. Nightshade asked Twilight to send a letter to princess Celestia and Luna to ask for a personal meeting with them to make sure it was all right with them that he takes up residents in their kingdom.
Twilight tried to tell Nightshade that Celestia wouldn’t care, but he didn’t want to take any chances. The request was made the day after Nightshade brought his house to Ponyville. The princesses, being busy as they are, wouldn’t be able to see him right away. Tomorrow would be the day of his meeting with Celestia and Luna and all his friends would come with him.
Nightshade started selling some of his healing potions to the citizens for bits so he could save up and get his house fixed up with electricity and indoor plumbing. When he moved his house here, he lost the plumbing he had as the pipes that ran between his house and the forest’s lake got disconnected. For the time being, Twilight was more than happy to let Nightshade use her bathroom until he was set up. Twilight never did tell Celestia about Nightshade’s past, that was for him to tell.
Today, Nightshade felt confident enough to go out amongst the ponies without his cloak on while he went on another date with the mare of his dreams. This would be a surprise to Twilight. It was around lunchtime and Nightshade was ready to enjoy the day with Twilight. He came up to the door of her house and knocked.
Spike came to greet him. “Hey Nightshade, you here to,” He stopped when he noticed Nightshade was standing before him without his cloak. “Nightshade, where’s your cloak?”
Nightshade just looked at him and sarcastically and casually answered, “Oh, did I forget my cloak, silly me, oh well.” Nightshade smiled at Spike in a way to let him know that he left it behind on purpose.
Spike looked at him back and asked, “Are you sure you’re ok to go about without your cloak?”
“Don’t worry Spike, thanks to you and everypony else, I know now I don’t have anything more to be afraid of. I’ll be fine.”
Spike dropped his worried expression and replaced it with a smile, glad to see that Nightshade was finally completely out of his cloaked shell. He then told Nightshade, “Twilight is upstairs getting ready. She’ll be down soon for your date.”
Nightshade only had to wait two minutes before Twilight emerged from her room and saw Nightshade without his cloak and got a little worried. “Nightshade, where’s your cloak?”
He then got an idea to have some fun with her. “Oh no, my cloak, what ever will I do. The ponies will see my full form and chase me through the streets with pitchforks and torches. Please help me Twilight!” He said in an overly dramatic, sarcastic and comical way.
Twilight smiled as she rolled her eyes at him, getting the message that he left it behind on purpose. “So you really feel ok to be without it completely then?”
Nightshade smiled at her and responded. “Thanks to you and our friends, I realize I don’t have anything to fear anymore, so yes. I don’t think I’ll be needing it. But I may wear it when we go to Canterlot tomorrow to meet the princesses.”
Twilight and Nightshade then left the library to begin their lunch date. As they made their way through town, Nightshade did notice he was getting odd looks again, but he figured it was because everypony could see he had wings too. He ignored them as he and his date continued on their way to The Hay Bale where they had their first date in Ponyville.
They reached their destination and the same waitress they had last time was there to greet them. “Welcome to The Hay Bale.” She recognized Twilight right away. “Hey, I remember you, you were here last week with some stallion in a cloak right, I see he’s gotten over his shyness hasn’t he.”
Nightshade answered, “I have, and thank you for your excellent service last week, the food was great.”
“You’re welcome, would you like the table you had last time?”
Twilight answered. “Yes please, thank you.” The waitress grabbed two menus, lead them to the table they had last time on the patio outside, handed them their menus and asked for their drink orders. Nightshade already knew what he wanted to drink and eat so he went ahead and placed his orders. Twilight did the same. Lunch was uneventful as they ate and talked, enjoying each other’s company. When it was time to go, Nightshade was able to pay this time as he had some bits from selling some of his potions.
Afterwards they went to the park like last time and just talked and laughed with each other, Nightshade did notice other ponies in the park but none of them seemed to pay him any special attention. He was glad that he didn’t have to feel like he needed to watch his back anymore, he was just another citizen of Ponyville now. Time flew by and it was time to head back home. Nightshade walked Twilight to her door and they shared a kiss to end the date. Twilight did still have studying to do today so Nightshade had to be on his way.
Nightshade didn’t really have anything else to do today, so he just went back to his house which was right next door to Twilight’s. He went in, made his way to his greenhouse and tended to his plants. He then got an idea that might make a good impression on the princesses for when he went to meet them. He grabbed his saddle bags, used his shadow flight technique, and teleported himself to the forest he once called home and emerged at the ruins of his old kingdom. He went up to one of the ruined buildings covered in vines with lunar lily’s growing on them and used his magic to remove two of them from off the vines. Nightshade then levitated two pots out of his saddle bag and placed the flowers in the pots. He teleported back home and felt ready for his meeting with the princesses.
The next day came and Nightshade met up with everypony at the train station wearing his cloak and black saddlebags. Spike was staying behind at the library to take care of the place. Twilight got curious as to why Nightshade was bringing his saddle bags. “Nightshade, what’s with the bags?”
Nightshade looked at her and responded, “Just a little something for the princesses . A kind of peace offering I guess you could call it.”
“Nightshade, you don’t have to give them anything.”
“I just figured it might help make things go a little smoother. Besides I just know one of them is going to really love it.”
Twilight got curious as to what he might have meant. “What exactly did you get them?”
Nightshade smiled at her when he responded. “Lunar lily’s.”
The group boarded the train for Canterlot and began their ride there. Applejack saw Nightshade seemed to be deep in thought as he was staring out the window watching the passing scenery, so she went over to see if he was ok. “You all right their sugar cube, you ain’t nervous bout meetin the princesses are ya. Ya already met Celestia.”
Nightshade turned away from the window to speak with her. “When I met Celestia, it was at my house. Now I’m meeting her on her turf, in her castle, with all those guards.” Nightshade seemed to get more nervous with each word he said.
The girls all noticed this and gathered around him to try and make him feel better. Pinkie chimed in first. “Don’t worry Nightshade, everything will be just pinkie keen.”
Then Rainbow Dash spoke up. “Yeah, besides you’re with us. Those guards won’t mess with you while were around.”
Then Fluttershy spoke. “Twilight did tell Celestia how kind you are.”
Finally, Twilight said her peace. “The princesses are expecting us after all. I promise nothing bad is going to happen.”
Nightshade felt at ease at the words of his friends and marefreind. “Thanks girls, I feel like the luckiest stallion alive because of you.”
Rarity then felt she should probably warn Nightshade about Canterlot. “Dear, there is one thing you should know. Even though the princesses are kind, the ponies of Canterlot are…how shall I put this?”
Rainbow answered with a bit of disgust. “Snobs.”
Rarity continued. “That’s one way of putting it, yes. Anyway, it probably is best that you keep your hood up while we make our way to the castle.” Nightshade nodded in Understanding.
The train soon arrived at Canterlot , the girls made their way off and were greeted by a unicorn wearing a red suit with gold buttons. He had a white coat with blue, dark blue and light blue streaks in his mane and tail, and his cutie mark was a dark blue shield with a dark pink star on it. Twilight recongnized him immediately as he called out to her. “Twili!”
She called back as she ran over to hug him. “Shining Armor!” The girls and Nightshade, who now had his hood up, looked on in confusion at the greeting these two made. Twilight soon broke the embrace and began introductions. “Girls, this is my big brother, Shining Armor. Shining Armor, these are my friends I wrote to you about.”
Shining stepped forward to greet them. “It’s a pleasure to meet you. Twilight told me so much about each of you in her letters, I feel like I know you already.”
Pinkie quickly zipped up and stopped in front of him bouncing up and down in excitement. “OH MY GOSH, I didn’t know Twilight had a big brother, this is great. Hi I’m Pinkie Pie, and its sosososososo great to meet you.”
Shining chuckled a little at Pinkie’s enthusiasm. “It’s nice to meet you too. Twili wasn’t kidding when she said how friendly and excitable you are. Why don’t you let me see if I can figure out who is who.”
Shining Armor named off each and every one of Twilight’s friends perfectly, then his eyes noticed Nightshade behind the girls as if he didn’t want to be noticed. “Hello, and who are you?”
Twilight provided the introductions as she figured Nightshade might still be shy. “Shining, this is Nightshade, my coltfriend.”
Shining looked at Nightshade and began to say hello. “It’s nice to-“ but then he stopped when the coltfriend comment caught up to him. “Wait, your WHAT!” Shinning was very surprised that his little sister actually had a coltfriend.
Twilight gave her big brother a sheepish grin upon realizing that she forgot to write to him about the incident that led to her and Nightshade meeting. “Oops heheh, uh, guess I forgot to tell you huh.”
Shining looked over at his little sister with a straight face, not knowing what to make of it, then his expression changed to a smile as he was glad that Twilight found a special somepony. “It’s ok Twili, I’m just glad to know you found somepony special. So how did you two meet.”
“It’s kind of a long story, maybe I could tell you on the way to the castle.”
Before they left, Rainbow butted in. “Hold on, Twilight, how come you never told us you have a big brother, and how did he know we were coming?”
Twilight gave another sheepish grin at her friends. “Uh, he just never came up?” She said in a questioning tone. “And also…….he’s the captain of the royal guard.” She hesitated on that last bit of info.
Rarity practically swooned at what she just heard. “MY WORD, captain of the royal guard, oh heavens dear, you should have told us sooner you had a big brother who was captain of the royal guard! Oh and he’s so handsome too. Tell me dear, you wouldn’t happen to have a very special somepony of your own do you?”
Shining let out a good chuckle at Rarity’s enthusiasm and the fact that she was practically hitting on him. Twilight just facehoofed at the fact that one of her friends were hitting on her big brother. Shining spoke up to remind them that they had an appointment. “Sorry but that’s something for another time, the princesses are expecting you after all.”
The group left the train station with Twilight, Nightshade, and Shining Armor leading the way so that Twilight could tell Shining about how she and Nightshade met. Nightshade said it was ok for her to tell Shining about his past and where he came from. Shining felt gratitude to Nightshade for helping Twilight like he did, intrigued at what he was and where he came from, and pity at how Nightshade lost everything. “Gosh Nightshade, that’s quite a tale. Well I’m glad a pony like you has been able to make my sister so happy. And thank you for saving her like you did.”
Soon, the group came to the front gates of the castle where two guards in gold armor holding spears stood watch. Once they saw their captain, they immediately opened the gates for the group to make their way inside. Nightshade was in awe at the castle interior. Red carpets lined with gold, massive columns that seemed to be what was holding the roof lined the walls, and beautiful multicolored stain glass windows.
Shining led the group through long hallways until they finally came to a pair of large light blue doors where there were two more unicorn guards in gold armor holding spears. Their horns lit up and the doors creaked open to let them in.
They made their way into the throne room where princess Celestia and princess Luna waited for them on their thrones. The princesses stood up and made their way to meet the group at the center. Shining and the girls bowed before the princesses. Nightshade was still a little hesitant. Celestia spoke. “Rise my little ponies, it’s always a pleasure to see you Twilight.”
Twilight smiled at her mentor. “It’s good to see you too Princess.” The girls and Shining Armor then stepped aside for Nightshade to come forward to meet Celestia and moved behind him to watch the meeting.
Celestia then addressed Nightshade. “Greetings to you Nightshade. It is a pleasure to see you.”
Luna then stepped forward to greet him. “We are pleased to meet the one who saved our good friend Twilight Sparkle from such danger.”
Nightshade looked upon Luna in awe. She wasn’t as tall as Celestia, but she was just as stunning. Luna had a midnight blue coat and wore silver shoes on her hooves. She had a black necklace with a crescent moon on the center and a black crown on her head. Her mane and tail looked as if they were made of the night sky itself as it was blue and sparkled with stardust. Nightshade bowed before the princesses to show his respect. “It is an honor your majesties.”
Celestia was surprised that Nightshade was showing such respect for her and her sister now. “So Nightshade, I understand you wish to live in Equestria now, correct?” She asked.
Nightshade rose up from his bow to address the princesses. “I do your majesties. I bring a gift as a show of good faith. I’m sure you and Princess Luna will like it.” Nightshade used his magic to open his saddle bag and levitated the two lunar lily’s he brought with him. “I have two lunar lilys for you and your sister your majesty.”
Luna eyed the flowers curiously. “Sister, are these the flowers thou spoke of before?”
Celestia put a smile on her face that Nightshade was giving them a beautiful gift. “It is Luna.”
Luna smiled as well. “Wonderful, we were unaware that such plants would want to be much like the moon that we raise each night. It is very nice to know such things.”
Nightshade then thought to impress her more. “Actually your majesty, I do have a giant lunar lily in my greenhouse that blooms on the night of a full moon. You and Celestia are more than welcome to come and see it on the night of the next full moon if you can. Also there is a lake in the forest I come from called moon lake, it gives off a white glow as well and causes the plants around it to glow as well. I would also be more than happy to take you to it sometime.”
Luna smiled bigger at this. “There is even a lake that emulates our moon? Oh most wonderful of news. Sister would it be possible sometime in the future to see these.”
Celestia looked at Luna with a smile on her face. “I don’t see why not. Thank you for your invitation Nightshade, and for the flowers.” Celestia took hold of the lilys with her magic and teleported them away in a bright white flash. “Now Nightshade, I am curious as to why you wish to live here in Equestria.”
Nightshade took on a somber tone as he began his explanation. “Princess, have you ever herd of a tribe of ponies known as the shadow walkers?”
Celestia and Luna looked at Nightshade with a curious expression and Celestia answered. “I must say I have not, what do these shadow walkers have to do with you living in my country?”
Nightshade levitated his saddlebag off his back and set it aside so he could remove his cloak. “Because, I am a shadow walker your highness.” Nightshade removed his cloak before the two princesses who were then left in shock at what they were looking at. Nightshade was unlike anything they had ever seen. “I am Prince Nightshade of the now deceased shadow walker clan. I am the last of my kind because of a terrible king that once ruled Equestria before you. I don’t know his name, but I could never forget his face.”
Luna spoke. “The last of your kind, how could such a terrible thing happen?”
Nightshade began to tell his story to the two princesses. How he lost everything, how he had been alone for two thousand years, and how he managed to find something wonderful after everything he had been through. Nightshade finished his story with how he and Twilight got back together about a week ago.
Luna spoke up again. “We can sympathize with part of thine plite Nightshade, we too know what it is like to be alone for so long.”
“I know, I am well aware of the whole Nightmare Moon incident, Twilight told me about it.” Nightshade informed Luna.
Celestia finally decided that she heard enough. “Nightshade, you have my deepest sympathies. I cannot tell you how sorry I am that such a thing was even allowed to happen. You are more than welcome to call Equestria your home.”
Everypony in the room had a big smile on their faces, but none bigger than Nightshade, for after everything he had been through, he really could call this country his new home. Sadly this tender moment was not to last. “Oh bravo, bravo, I do so love a good sob story.” A voice from nowhere called out. Everypony looked around the room to try and find the source of the voice, but it couldn’t be found.
Celestia spoke out to try and find out who it was. “Who goes there, show yourself!”
The voice answered back. “Oh very well, if I must.” Then in a quick white flash, a figure appeared between Nightshade and the princesses. It was a creature that seemed to be made of all kinds of animal parts. It had one deer antler, a light blue horn that was all bumpy and looked distorted, grey fur from the base of its shoulders up, two yellow eyes surrounding red irises, a short black mane that ran all the way up its long neck, a snaggle tooth, a lions paw, an eagle claw, a dragon leg and a goat leg, brown fur over the rest of its body, one black bat like wing, one blue feathery wing, and a long red scaly tail with a white tuft of fur at the end.
The girls and Shining gasped in horror at this strange beast that had appeared before them. Celestia cried out in fear and confusion. “Discord, but how did you escape your prison?”
The creature identified as Discord laughed a maniacle laugh. “HA HA HA, oh please. If you must know, when you and Luna had your little spat a thousand years ago, it weakened the spell you used with the elements of harmony to seal me away. All it took was a little disharmony among three little fillies to give me the boost I needed to finally break free of that stone prison you put me in.” He explained with confidence in his voice. “And now, as I understand it, there are six new bearers of the elements of harmony.”
All the while Discord was telling his story, Nightshade seemed to be frozen in place. He stared at this tall creature before him. As he did, flashes of memories of the dreadful night he lost everything came to him. He remembered riding on his father’s back when he looked back at the scene of his home being destroyed. He remembered the king standing over the scene, laughing maniacally. He saw those same red eyes in the creature now before him. Those same red evil piercing eyes. “You.” He said quietly to himself. Then he shouted out louder. “YOU, I REMEMBER YOU!”
Discord turned to face the pony yelling. “And who are you?” He asked.
Nightshade yelled at him more, full of rage. “DON’T ACT LIKE YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT I AM, YOU DESTROYED EVERYTHING I LOVED! TOOK AWAY EVERYTHING I CARED ABOUT!”
The girls huddled together in fear of Discord. Shinning called for the guards outside the doors. “GUARDS, INTRUDER IN THE THRONE ROOM!” The two guards burst through the door and charged at Discord.
Discord just snapped his eagle claw fingers and caused the two guards to levitate off the ground and sent them back outside, slamming the doors behind them. “You fool, do you honestly think you are all a match for me, I’m the god of chaos.” Celestia and Luna looked on in horror as there didn’t seem to be anything they could do. “As for you.” Discord turned his attention to the six ponies. He snapped his eagle fingers again and caused Twilight to disappear from where she was and reappear in front of him. He grabbed her with his lion paw and held her by her throat. “You, I will deal with first, since you are the bearer of the element of magic.”
Twilight’s eyes filled with fear as this monster held her up by her throat. The ponies all called out to her. “TWILIGHT!”
Twilight called out as well. “Nightshade, help!”
Nightshade grew angrier and yelled at Discord. “LET HER GO DISCORD, THIS IS BETWEEN YOU AND ME!”
Discord looked down at him. “Oh, I know exactly who you are now. Your one of those wretched shadow walker ponies I exterminated two thousand years ago. I’ll deal with you later. Right now I will not allow even one of these bearers of the elements of harmony to live so they can seal me away in stone again.” Discord then made a sharp serrated dagger appear in his eagle claw and pointed it at Twilight’s throat.
Nightshade continued to yell and fume at this monster that was now threatening his love. “I SAID LET HER GO, YOU AND I HAVE UNFINISHED BUISNESS YOU MONSTER!”
Discord smirked as he said his next line. “Make me.”
That was the last straw. Nightshade felt so many emotions erupt within himself. Love for Twilight Sparkle, fear of losing his new love, anger and hatred at the creature that was threatening her and was responsible for taking his world away from him. All these emotions raging inside him seemed to awaken some kind of power. Nightshade unleashed the same fierce roar he did when his cold heart finally melted away.
“RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!” As he shouted, the entire castle seemed to shake at Nightshade’s yell, dark clouds formed in the sky, blocking out the sun, causing the room to grow darker. Every shadow that was present seemed to move and come to life. The shadows then shot forth from their sources and started to gather underneath Nightshade.
Discord watched in curiosity at the spectacle taking place. The ponies all watched in worry at their friend as his rage seemed to be the cause of what was going on. Even the princesses became fearful of what was happening as they had no idea what was to come of such a display of power and emotion.
A dark, black hole had formed under nightshade as he had his head held up and his wings flared out. Then, the hole formed a dome as it closed up around Nightshade. Black and purple colors swirled around the dome in such a way, it was as if a violent storm was raging within. The dome then doubled, then tripled in size. It then shot upward forming a large column of darkness that shot through the roof of the castle, punching a hole through it and reaching up to the clouds. The column then began to dissipate from the top where it met the clouds down to the floor of the throne room.
Once the dark column was gone, a strange new figure stood where Nightshade was. A large creature that could easily be as tall as Celestia, but it had its head lowered, and was bobbing its head as it breathed with its eyes closed. This creature was all black, it’s mane and tail appeared to be made of a black fire. It had the same kind of wings as Nightshade did and two long horns adorned its head.
Discord felt a bit of fear as he could sense great power emanating from this shadowy creature. Twilight was still in Discord’s grasp but she saw all that was happening and grew scared and worried over what might have happened to Nightshade. Twilight tried to call out to it, hoping that that might be Nightshade. “Nightshade?”
The creatures head stopped moving and its eyes quickly shot open, revealing red glowing piercing eyes with the same black slited irises that Nightshade had. It raised its head and cried out.
“DISCORD! I SWEAR IF YOU HARM ONE HAIR ON HER HEAD, I WILL DRAG YOU TO TARTUS KICKING AND SCREAMING MYSELF IF I HAVE TO! LET….HER….GOOOOOO!” Its voice was much deeper than Nightshade’s.
With those words Twilight cold tell that somehow, this new pony might be Nightshade, but she still felt some fear at the rage he was showing towards Discord.
Discord composed himself to try and let this thing know that he wasn’t afraid. “You still think you can take me, I’m a freakin god of chaos!”
This new Nightshade spoke back. “I don’t care if you’re the god of the universe! NO PONY THREATENS MY FRIENDS OR THE MARE I LOVE!”
Twilight’s fear soon melted away as she realized that this was indeed Nightshade before them. She called out to him again. “Nightshade!”
Nightshade called back to her. “Don’t worry Twilight, I won’t let anything hurt you, and I’m going to prove it right now!” As soon as he said that, his shadow quickly shot fourth along the floor until it was directly under where discord was holding Twilight, then a tentacle shot up and enveloped her body in darkness. It then allowed her to slip through Discord’s grasp and it sunk back down to the floor, moved back to where the others were behind Nightshade, and Twilight re-emerged from the shadow unharmed.
The girls and Shinning embraced Twilight in a group hug, thankful that she was safe again. They then turned their attention back to Nightshade who kept his glare focused on Discord. The Princesses felt some relief that this new form was Nightshade and clearly was going to do whatever it took to defend their subjects. Nightshade then spoke again. “Don’t worry, I won’t let any pony get hurt. I swear I will eliminate this threat. I was hoping for a chance like this so I could finally take my revenge for what you did to my clan two centuries ago.”
Discord spoke, still feeling some fear but tried not to show it. “NO, your all supposed to be dead, I had all of you exterminated.”
Nightshade spoke softly with a growl. “You missed one.” His body then became enveloped in a black flame like aura, he quickly shot forward towards Discord. Discord couldn’t act fast enough as Nightshade flew into him, ramming him in his chest. They were sent flying through one of the stain glass windows, causing it to shatter.
Nightshade’s black flames enveloped Discord as well, he cried out in pain as the fires burned his body. “AAAAHHHHH!” Nightshade slammed Discord into the ground so hard, it created a small crater. Nightshade backed up as Discords body still burned from the black flames now covering him.
The girls, Shining Armor, and the princesses all ran to the broken window to look down at the scene. Celestia then figured now would be a good time to get the elements. “Girls, we must hurry and retrieve the elements of harmony.”
Twilight tried to object. “But princess, what about Nightshade, we can’t just leave him!”
Celestia knew there was no point in sticking around. “There is nothing we can do. Discord is too powerful even for me, but I feel confident that Nightshade will be fine. He can handle Discord and buy us time while we gather the elements, but we must hurry.”
Twilight didn’t want to leave Nightshade alone, but she knew Celestia was right. As if to confirm this, she heard Nightshade call up to her. “She’s right Twilight, I can handle this monster, you go and get the elements while I deal with him!”
Twilight called back down to him. “Please be careful Nightshade!”
Shining spoke to Twilight. “C’mon Twili, let’s go.”
Celestia then lead the group away from the battle about to take place with worry and concern on all their faces.
The flames on Discord’s body finally died down, He slowly got up and looked at his assailant. “You think I’m going to let them get the elements just so they can seal me away again, well forget it.”
Nightshade glared at him. “Don’t worry, you’ll be dead long before they get here with them.”
Discord was actually surprised by this. “What are you talking about.”
“You really think I’m going to just let them turn you to stone again. Forget it! You deserve a fate far worse than that for what you did to my clan! This is justice! You killed my ponies and family, so I’m going to kill you!”
Discord laughed hard at this proclamation. “HA HA HA! You, kill me, oh that is rich, haven’t you been listening, I’M A GOD OF CHAOS! You can’t kill a god.”
“That’s where your wrong discord, you see, after you slaughtered my ponies, I did some research on you, courtesy of the knowledge my clan gathered on deities of the world. You see, your chaotic magic is useless against my shadow magic and is the only power that can kill you.”
Discord grew fearful at this fact. “You’re lying!”
“Try me.”
Discord took on a more serious look and made two weapons appear in his hands. A large swordfish in his lion paw, and a long cane with a blade at the end in his eagle claw.
Four long shadowy tentacles appeared around the base of Nightshade’s neck. Two of each of them merged to one so that he now had two long sharp shadow blades pointed at discord. The battle was about to begin. The two lunged at each other. Their weapons clashed and they glared at each other with their weapons locked together, they then pushed apart and started swinging their weapons at each other.
As their weapons clashed with each swipe and counter made, it sounded like metal. They continued to match each other blow for blow. Nightshade made a lunge for Discord with his left shadow blade, Discord countered with his cane and tried to lunge at Nightshade with his swordfish. Nightshade countered with his right shadow blade and wrapped it around the fish, then yanked it out of Discord’s grasp.
They jumped back from each other and Discord held out his lion paw, the swordfish flew back to him. Nightshade then separated his two shadow blades back to his four tentacles. He caused them to fly forwards to Discord in an attempt to skewer him. Discord swiftly ducked and dodged each one and slashed at them with his cane and fish. The tentacles retracted from where they were sliced back to Nightshade. Nightshade then caused his tentacles to retract back into his body. His own shadow then grew in size and shot fourth along the ground as more shadow tentacles emerged, ready to pierce through Discords body.
Discord took to flight and swiftly and expertly dodged each one to close the gap between himself and his opponent. Discord got closer and raised his fish, ready to strike at Nightshade. Nightshade saw this and produced a shadow wall in front of himself just in time to block Discord’s strike.
Nightshade caused his shadow shield to push forward, causing Discord to fall back a bit. Nightshade lowered his shadow shield to look at Discord. They just glared at each other for a moment. Discord then lunged forward to swipe at Nightshade with his cane. Nightshade quickly disappeared into his shadow just as Discord swiped at him. Discord scanned the area for Nightshade but was nowhere to be seen. Nightshade then silently emerged from a shadow that appeared behind Discord. He swiped at Discord's back with one of his blades and slashed Discord.
Discord cried out in pain as he moved forward a bit. "AH!" He looked back at Nightshade over his shoulder. "Lucky shot." He then quickly turned to swipe at Nightshade with his cane, but Nightshade quickly stepped back in time to dodge it. Once again the battle of blades continued as they swiped and countered each others blow. Nightshade then quickly leapt back and made his four tentacles again. He shot them forth in another attempt to pierce Discord, but once again discord countered and slashed each one. While he was busy with the tentacles, Nightshade disappeared again and reappeared behind discord. He turned his back to Discord, raised his legs, and made an attempt to buck him in the back.
Discord seemed to see this coming as he jumped up just in time to avoid it. The tentacles he was slashing disappeared as Nightshade fell to the ground on his belly. Discord looked down at Nightshade and kicked him in the side, sending him flying back a few feet. Nightshade cried out in pain. "YAAAHH!" He struggled to get himself back up and glared at Discord. Discord just smirked back at Nightshade. Nightshade then produced four black holes around him in midair, black energy balls shot out of them at Discord. Discord began to form his own white orbs and shot them to counter the black orbs. They continued to fire there magic orbs at each other, some were countered while some flew past their intended target and landed on the ground behind them, causing small explosions. Seeing that this was going nowhere either, they ceased the magic orb fight.
Then Nightshade shot into the air to begin an airial assult. Discord followed suit. Nightshade reproduced his tentacles and made his two shadow blades again. Discord readied his cane and fish for combat. They charged at each other in midair and their weapons clashed as they passed, again and again. Each time they did, the dark clouds above erupted in lightning, neither one seeming to gain the upper hand. They charged at each other again and locked their blades. as soon as they did, lightning flashed again in response to the two titans fight. They glared at each other as they tried to push the other back. Rain started to fall from the clouds above, but neither of them noticed.
Discord managed to force Nightshade back and began his assault, Nightshade was being pushed back as he blocked and countered Discord's strikes. Nightshade was forced to quickly fly back away from Discord. He formed his four tentacles and focused each end to a sharp point in front of him. He flew at high speed to Discord with every intent on finishing this. Discord saw him coming and crossed his fish and cane to block. Another bolt of lightning struck as Nightshade hit discord and was now pushing him back in mid air. They broke apart once again.
Nightshade had enough and he was getting tired of this game. He charged up his magic in his horns to try and blast Discord with the most powerful and destructive spell he could muster. Discord saw this, dismissed his weapons, and started charging a magic beam of his own to counter Nightshade’s.
Nightshade charged as much power as he could and let loose with a massive black shadowy beam towards Discord. Discord had his chaotic white beam of magic ready and let loose as well. The two powerful beams met in the center of the two combatants, once again causing another bolt of lightning. For a moment they seemed evenly matched, but Nightshade just would not let Discord win so he would be free to kill the mare he loved, or his friends. Discord took his family away before. Nightshade was not about to let Discord take away anything else that he cared about.
He summoned up all the strength he had, calling upon his love for Twilight, his caring for his friends, and was able to find more power to start winning this struggle of power. His dark shadow beam slowly began to push Discord’s beam back. Discord saw this and got worried. He was not about to give up so easily. But for some reason he just couldn’t gain the upper hand. The shadow beam was getting closer to Discord. He tried and tried to gather more strength but he couldn’t win.
Soon the beam was on him and in a massive black explosion, it hit him hard. Discord screamed in pain as the shadow magic caused him great harm. “AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!” Once the blast subsided, Dicord’s form fell from the sky and landed on the ground with such force it created a large crater. Nightshade landed on the edge of the crater to look down at his weakened foe. Discord was still alive, put because of the power struggle in the air, he was too weak to fight back anymore. He lay there nearly unconscious, groaning in pain.
This was it, after two thousand years of solitude, Nightshade would finally get his revenge against the monster that destroyed his world. He produced two of his shadow tentacles and formed a single sharp long shadow blade ready to finish off the god of chaos. Another bolt flashed in the sky. He descended down into the crater and placed his shadow blade to discords throat.
“Nightshade, don’t!”
Nightshade turned to look behind him to see who had called him. Standing at the edge of the crater was his love, Twilight Sparkle, accompanied by his other friends and the princesses, all with a fearful expression on their faces. “Stay out of this Twilight, this is between me and him!” He called out to her.
“Nightshade, don’t do it. It isn’t right!” She saw what he was about to do and tried to talk him out of it.
This seemed to infuriate Nightshade. “Isn’t right. ISN’T RIGHT!? WAS IT RIGHT FOR HIM TO SLAUGHTER MY CLAN JUST BECAUSE WE WERE HAPPY?! WAS IT RIGHT FOR MY MOTHER AND FATHER TO HAVE TO GIVE UP THEIR LIVES FOR ME?! WAS IT RIGHT THAT I HAD TO LIVE IN FEAR AND LONLINESS FOR TWO THOUSAND YEARS?! NEED I REMIND YOU THAT HE TOOK EVERYTHING I HAD AWAY FROM ME?!”
Twilight tried to reason with Nightshade. “But your better than he is, your good and kind. What would your parents think of you if they saw you now?! If you kill him, than your no better than he is, is that what you want?!”
Apparently, Discord had regained his consciousness during their conversation as he spoke up to agree with Twilight with fear in his voice. “Yes, please listen to her, you don’t want to be as bad as me, do you?”
Nightshade turned back to discord and spoke. “YOU STAY OUT OF THIS DISCORD, YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO SPEAK!”
Twilight called to him again, pleading for him to reconsider. “Nightshade, please!”
Another bolt sounded in the sky as Nightshade cried out as he raised his shadow blade to strike. “RRRAAAAAAHHHHH!”
Twilight cried out. “Nightshade, no!”
Discord closed his eyes to wait for the end. *SHINK* After a moment of waiting and feeling no pain, Discord slowly opened his eyes to see a dark shadowy blade embedded in the ground next to his head. The blade slowly retracted from the ground and disappeared back into Nightshade’s body.
Twilight and the girls gave out a relieved sigh, thankful that Twilight’s words reached Nightshade.
Nightshade spoke quietly and somberly, but loud enough for them to hear him. “Your right, I am better than him, my parents ruled our kingdom with love and compassion. They wouldn’t approve of their son taking revenge like this.” He turned around and made his way out of the crater. The storm that raged soon began to subside as if in response to Nightshade's change in mood. The girls all made room for him as he got out. Nightshade looked down at Twilight as he smiled. She looked back up at him and returned the smile.
Rays of the sun began to shine through the dark clouds as they parted. The princesses then stepped forward. Before they could say a word Discord spoke. “Uhm, excuse me, god of chaos here.”
Nightshade quickly turned around and rushed up to look Discord in the eye and spoke in a low and menacing way through gritted teeth. “You better count yourself lucky Twilight was here, or you would be dead meat. So I suggest you let them turn you back to stone and stay there. And just remember one thing, if you should ever find a way to get out again, I’ll be waiting, and next time, you might not be so lucky. GOT IT!”
Discord gulped in fear and nodded his head.
“Good.”
Nightshade returned to the group and finally noticed the jewelry they had on. Twilight was wearing a gold tiara with a purple star on top. The others had gold necklaces on. Fluttershy’s had a pink jeweled butterfly on the center. Rainbow Dash’s was a ruby lightning bolt. Rarity’s was a violet colored diamond shaped jewel. Pinkie’s was a blue balloon. And Applejack’s was an orange apple. Nightshade then asked them, “So, I take it those are the elements of harmony?”
The girls all nodded in unison. Twilight then spoke up. “I think it’s time for us to impress you. Watch this.” Nightshade then took a few steps away from the group to join the princesses and Shining to watch what was about to happen. Thanks to Nightshade, Discord was left powerless so there was no way for him to even try to fight back, so all he could do was wait for himself to be placed back into his stone prison.
Twilight and the girls all began to let off a glow that matched the color of their gems on their necklaces. They levitated off the ground and the colors merged into a giant rainbow that shot up into the air and arched back down, striking discord. The rainbow began to petrify Discord’s body and he was once again sealed away. The spell complete, the girls then slowly levitated back down to the ground.
Nightshade was indeed impressed with the power the elements of harmony had. “Wow, that was impressive.” He made his way back over to his friends. They were finally free to fully appreciate Nightshades new form.
Rainbow Dash was the first to compliment him. “Wow Nightshade, this new look is way cool.”
Applejack was next. “whoowee, Nightshade, that’s quite a look ya got there.”
Rarity then came in. “My word Nightshade, I must say I think I liked your original form better, you’ll never be able to fit into that suit I made you now.”
Fluttershy was afraid to approach, even though she knew it was still Nightshade, his new form was scary to her.
Pinkie then chimed in. “Wow, Nightshade, the way you handled Discord was amazing!”
Twilight was the last to speak. “Nightshade, this new form is impressive, but is it permanent?” She was a little concerned over her coltfriend’s transformation.
Nightshade looked down on her with a smile. “Don’t worry Twilight, this is a form I can take on now if I should need a boost in power, watch.” Nightshade then created the same dome that was made when he changed, the dome shrank down and faded away to reveal Nightshade back in his normal form. “See, no sweat.” His voice, eyes, color and size were all back to normal.
Twilight was relieved to see Nightshade back in his original form. Then Celestia finally stepped forward to address Nightshade. “Nightshade, you have done Equestria a great service this day. You helped stop a terrible threat to our land. If there is anything we can do to repay you, all you have to do is ask.”
Nightshade looked up at Celestia with a smile on his face. “All I ask for is what you were going to let me have before this mess started. I would just like your permission to live in your country in Ponyville.”
Celestia kept her smile as she responded back. “As you wish, but if you should ever need anything more, please don’t hesitate to ask.”
Nightshade bowed before Celestia. “Thank you your majesty.”
Later that day, a huge celebration was held to honor Nightshade for his deeds in helping to stop Discord, and the mane six for sealing him in stone again. Nightshade was a little nervous about being surrounded by others without his cloak, but Twilight stayed by his side the entire celebration so he wouldn’t be so afraid. Now, not only did Nightshade finally have friends, a mare to love and a new home, but he was seen as a hero too. Life couldn’t possibly get any better for him…..could it?
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I feel that you have problems with writing, yes?
Your story Pic must be your OC and I like your OC even though I haven't read your story yet.
Discord got pwned!!!!!!!
Finally read the damn story and it's fucking glorious!
Also Nightshade has caught my interest greatly with the pain of his past and I know this is a great story.
Also those who dislike this story are Bronies with clouded minds of this world and what is really going on.
I will not deal with people who treat stories with such disrespect.
I have great anger deep inside that I need to forget but haters are pissin me off.
So get your shit together and stop hating stories for no real reason.
Haha the end fight with discord almost sounded like you tried to describe a anime or manga fight haha
2300910I'm terribly sorry, but I'm to busy stuffin' my FUCKIN FACE WITH PIE TO HEAR YOUR INCESSANT CHITTER CHATTER! AND YOU FORGOT THE R IN YOUR NAME! WHO DOES THAT?
(I'm sorry, I just yell a lot. Supposedly my doctor's an evil mastermind, and he's putting me on something for global apocalyptic catastrophes.)