This is the story of how Celestia became princess of Celestia. She sure did spill a lot of blood...
"I can give you power, I just need your daughter.."
Rosemary was a simple housewife who wanted to be noticied, Discord was the Spirit of Chaos who wanted to have some fun. Discord offers rosemary everything she wants for one thing, her daughter.
It's really her sanity actually. But what if one day Celestia wants power too? Follow the princess of Equestria in her tale of power, greed, and the loss of a loved one.
A long, long time ago, when the sun and moon was raised by unicorns, there was a little village full of happy ponies. The happiest were probably the ones who lived in the little wooden house at the top of the smallest hill at the end of town, where the forest began. It was a young couple, a humble butcher and a beautiful housewife. But the housewife kept lots of secrets, like how she stole some things from the shops in town and how she cheated on her husband when he was out of town. The housewife never believed in consequences, so she continued to do bad things. Little did she know someone was watching, someone of great power… And chaos
One day, the housewife was in the forest collecting berries. Sun came through the trees and gave a yellow, sun-colored dapple to her white coat. Her bubblegum pink hair was in a tight bun and sweat trickled down her forehead. Soon the housewife began to sing:
“I loved my family I loved my friends, But I also love power with devilish deeds my power ascends,
I was tempted by the devil, He gave me it all that day But with one small price, my daughter had to pay.
One day my daughter came into the kitchen, Tears streamed down her face. She said she had dreams of power too She said she killed a man and the family name was now a disgrace
She said she was tempted by the devil He gave her it all that day But with one small price, Now I had to pay
My daughter began to cry again And I asked her why She picked up the knife and muttered Now you have to die
She was tempted by the devil power and greed stole my beautiful girl Never make deals with the Devil Because there's a price to being a pearl”
The housewife lifted her head out of the berry bush. She had never heard that song, and wondered how that came to her mind so quickly. As she was about to go back home, some sort of monster stopped her in her path. He was truly ugly, with the head of a gray pony, the body of a brown pony and a snake tail. He had a large tooth the stuck out of his mouth and two mix-matched horns, one a blue horn that belonged on a goat and a white one on the left side of his head from a deer. What should have been his front, right hoof was a chicken foot and his front, left limb was a lion's paw. The strange creatures back left leg was some sort of dragon's leg; while his right leg belonged on a goat (which might I say matched his goatee and horn). He had a white goatee and long white eyebrows. His eyes were like looking into insanity; what was supposed to be the white's in his eyes was a pussy yellow color while his iris was a bloodred. He stood on his two back legs instead of all fours. "Hello," growled the creature as he wore a charming smile. His tooth jutted out to the side as he smiled and he held out his lion paw to shake her hoof. The housewife hesitated at first but then lifted her hoof for the strange, yet handsome in way, creature to shake it. He started to shake it rapidly, but then his paw stayed on her hoof as he walked off to the side. She screamed, and shook his paw off. "Who in Equestria are you?!" she yelled running up to him. The creature snapped his fingers, and then the trees began to fly up towards the sky spelling Discord. "I'm Discord, spirit of chaos," Discord chuckled as he grabbed a few berries from the bush. "What are these? Blueberries?" he then threw the blueberries up in the air and sent them flying at the pretty mare's mouth. She reluctantly chewed, then spit the fruits out as they hit her taste buds. "Why do they taste like strawberries?!" the housewife demanded with a mix of confusion, anger and impression. "As I said, I’m the Spirit of Chaos." Discord pulled out and umbrella as the trees began to rain bunnies. "Aren't they adorable, Rosemary?" cooed the Spirit of Chaos as grabbed one of the falling bunnies and shoved one into her face. "How do you know my name?!" screamed Rosemary backing up. Discord rolled his eyes. "Spirits know everything, duh! Now tell me if this bunny if cute!" His lion paw flew off again and shoved the bunny right back in her face. Rosemary was about answer a dull "no" when the bunny grew fangs and jumped off of Discord's paw. "Stop this! Stop this right now!" She demanded stomping her hoof. "But where's the fun in that?" chuckled Discord as he twisted his body around. Rosemary dropped to the ground, covered her head with her hoofs and screamed. Discord rolled his eyes then snapped his fingers, and everything was back to normal. "Wow, you sure do take the fun out of everything Rosemary!" "Why are you here?!" yelled the mare standing up again. "Because you have been being naughty, is that correct?" Rosemary blushed and used one of her front legs to scratch her other leg. "I guess…" "But why?" asked the spirit. "I-I… I want the attention." confessed Rosemary drooping her head. "And that's why I'm here, sweetie. I can give you the world!" discord swirled his chicken hand around and a map of Equestria. Soon the map crumpled and turned into a paper model of Rosemary. "What's the cache?" she murmured, her eyes switching from Discord to the paper her. "You've got me!" sighed Discord, throwing his hands in the air and snapping his fingers to get rid of the paper Rosemary. "I just need your first daughter." Rosemary didn't know how to respond, she and her husband Dark Chop always wanted a little girl, then again they could always have more. "If you want my fist daughter then you shall have it!" Discord then went into a laughing fit and fell on the ground. "You-You thought I wanted your daughter!? Priceless!!" Rosemary looked at her hoofs and shook her head in confusion. "But you said you wanted my fist daughter!" Discord got back up. "I just need the little girl's soul, her personality basically, maybe her sanity and mercy." Rosemary didn't completely understand, but she still agreed. "Are you sure?" muttered the spirit, "Everything has consequences" "I don't believe in that mumbo-jumbo" said Rosemary turning her nose up. "Well I'll give you some good news then, I promise you your daughter will be great." Rosemary immediately ran home wearing a smile after hearing that.
Rosemary came home that night looking much different then when she left. Her tight bun was now a loose ponytail with many wispy strands of hair hanging out. Her elegant white coat now had lots of mud and dirt on it, and she was smiling like a maniac. Rosemary left her baskets out in the forest. Her husband, Dark Chops, came into the main hall to greet his wife. Dark Chops was a tall, muscular stallion. He had a black coat with a dark blue and purple mane and tail. "Sweetie what happened? Where are the baskets? Did you get mugged?!" Rosemary silenced her lover with a kiss. "No honey, nothing like that…" the pretty mare didn't know where to begin."I'll tell you over tea," smiled Rosemary as she trotted into the kitchen. The marshmallow colored earth pony told her husband about the strange spirit named Discord, she also told him how he turned the Forest upside-down and changed it back to normal with the snap of his fingers. Rosemary had great fun telling her husband the whole story, but reluctantly told him the part about their daughter. The dark earth pony put his head in his hoofs. "Why.." "He said that she'll be great!" said Rosemary putting her hoof on her lover's shoulder. "But how can you trust him?!" Dark Chops yelled, standing up from his old yet comfortable blue chair. "I don't know, I really don't. I would understand if you left me right now.. But I just knew that he was telling the truth!" whinnied Rosemary from her dark pink chair that matched her husband’s. The sitting room was dead silent for a long time. Rosemary felt like she should have said something but she could never find the right words. She glanced from the wooden table, to the fireplace, to her husband's chair, and to her teacup. After awhile Dark Chops sighed, "I guess I believe you." The mare squealed with happiness. "Let's go upstairs, right now." Rosemary ran up up the steps to their bed room her husband following happily behind. I know I can trust Discord... Right?
Dark Chops waited outside of his and his wife's bed room. Screams of agony could be heard to the next town over, but if you were in the house you could hear the midwife trying to calm down Rosemary, the mother. Soon, the screaming stopped, the pleads to keep pushing stopped. Everything was quiet, and Dark Chops didn't like the quiet. A few minutes later, the sound of a baby whining broke the tension. Immediately, the new father burst open the door to reveal his tired looking wife, the tired looking midwife, and the new born baby being held by the tired looking midwife. The new baby looked exactly like her mother, the sleek white coat, her bubblegum pink hair, and the little one was also an earth pony.
"It's a little girl, Madame Mayor." whispered the midwife. Rosemary smiled, she had everything she wanted, power, a family, and a new house. Rosemary glanced around the room. What used to be a shabby wooden house was now a marble mansion. The white mare held her new born baby. "What should we name her?" murmured Rosemary, happy tears flooding her eyes. "Let's name her Celeste." smiled her husband. After sharing a kiss together they smiled at the baby, never wanting that moment to end.
A year later, Rosemary sat in her office, slowly sipping her tea. Dark Chops was at the house watching her daughter, Celeste. She was a beautiful young baby, who always smiled and laughed. She even spoke a few words from time to time. Sadness washed over the mother's face as she glanced around the office. “I can give you power, but I need your first daughter..." the words echoed through Rosemary's head like a ticking clock. Rosemary remembered how she became mayor. Under the guidance of Discord she murdered her way to the top. The pink-haired mare put her head in her hooves. "Why did I do this?" she muttered. "Because you wanted all that you have today!" laughed an all too familiar voice. "Discord!" shouted Rosemary. "Why the hell did you decide to show your face to me again!? You turned me into a murderer! All for what? To be mayor! I could have just run for mayor but no! I had to kill a good man so I could be on top! You killed the real me." Rosemary whispered the last part, despair tugging at her tone. "But you wanted to be mayor right? And have a nice house with your husband and children?" Discord smiled changing heads around in the pictures in the office. "Not like this!" growled Rosemary, standing up. "I don't even think I'm letting you lay a finger on my baby girl!" "Too late!" Chuckled Discord as he snapped his fingers. Soon, a cloud of bubblegum pink smoke entered the office. "Say good bye to your daughter!" Rosemary now saw the smoke was her daughter. Celeste looked scared and she was crying. "It’s okay sweetie." Rosemary then faced Discord. "Let may baby girl go!" "Sorry Rose, but we had a deal." And with that, the smoke wrapped around Discord then disappeared inside of him. All that Rosemary could hear was the screams of her baby and the laughs of the monster that was killing her. Soon the smoke was gone, except for a glowing piece of fur where Discord's heart was. "Help me mommy," it said before fading. Rosemary dropped to the ground. "What have I done?" she muttered before sobbing. "My baby girl! I killed you!" Discord gave a wicked grin before snapping his fingers and disappearing. Rosemary stayed at her office all night, sobbing on the floor. When the sun's rays washed over the office the next morning, Rosemary was covered in sweat and tears. Soon, a line from a song she forgot about played back in her head: Never make deals with the devil, because there's a price to being a pearl.
Living with Celeste after the incident was… uncomfortable… and strange. She would through the worst temper tantrums and then forget what happened a few minutes later. Rosemary remembered when she got home after Discord took her. She was evil. Her eyes glowed white as soon as she came in. The baby kicked, and screamed, and bit anything that came near her, but later she was acing normal again. A few years later when Luna came along, the white filly did everything she could to get rid of her. She put her in a boiling pot of water, in the middle of the road, even through her into the fire once. Luckily Rosemary and Dark Chops had always been around. Rosemary thought about just the other day at school. Celeste was just sitting there when a bully came up. The bully said some nasty things and the filly basically killed them. She punched her in the face to start off, but she just kept stomping on her until she couldn’t here anymore whimpers. Celeste said she didn’t remember it, and that she was sorry, but the mayor just didn’t get it. I was tempted by the devil, He gave me it all that day But with one small price, My daughter had to pay.
Celeste looked into the forest with a scowl on her face. Everypony is so stupid! “Everypony is so stupid!” a voice yelled back. Celeste’s eyes got wide as she looked around for the culprit. “W-who’s there?” “Just me,” said a bunny hopping out of the forest. He had strange eyes, but a bunny was a bunny after all. “Who are you?” she asked kneeling down. “My name is Discord, and I can help you get rid of all of the stupid ponies.” Celeste thought this over. At first she thought she didn’t need help, but she also wanted to be the ruler that Equestria needed. “Go on.” “You need to kill the teacher. He is a unicorn and if you have his horn you can be powerful too!” Celeste wasn’t sure. Yes, she did want to be powerful and had hurt many a pony in her day, but killing? It was a sacrifice she had to make. “Okay.”
Celeste had snuck home and into her father’s office. It didn’t have lots of papers or anything, but he was a butcher, and this was where he kept his knifes. The filly grabbed one of the knifes. It was large and heavy but felt weightless in her hooves. Her hoof ran along the top of the blade. Cold, sharp, and ready to kill. She packed up her saddlebag with the knife in it and set off to the school. It was a short walk, but it felt like forever. Her good self was trying to break out and turn around, but the evil Celeste wouldn’t let her. “You think you could get away just like that? Ha! We will rule the world, you and I, just wait and see.” Soon she came to the school house and walked inside. “Hello!” smiled the teacher as he set down his book. “What can I do for you?” “You can go to hell.” Celeste let the blade glide along his neck. He was dead in a matter of minutes. “Now you must cut off his horn!” smiled a little bunny sitting at the front of the door. She nodded as she slowly sawed off his horn. It was white, just like her. “What now Discord?” “I’ll put it on you.” The filly was strapped to the table as her new horn floated above her. “No! Please no!” But it was too late. The horn began to dig into her skull and become a new part of her body. Her screams of agony rang through the school as a deep laugh met her ears. She was tempted by the devil Power and greed stole my beautiful girl Never make deals with the Devil Because there's a price to being a pearl
Celeste shakily stood outside. Tears drenched her white coat as she felt the searing pain. The cold didn’t really help either. “You looked beautiful,” Discord smiled hugging Celeste in his true form. It didn’t really bother her; she was in between personalities and in a state of traumatic shock. “I also found these for you.” She looked up to find the bully. She had been ripped out of her bed and into Discord’s paw. She sounded like she was having trouble breathing, and was crying too. “Please.” She muttered. “I just want to go home!” The Spirit of Chaos handed the new unicorn to the filly. At first she thought it was because of revenge, but then she saw it. The bully had wings. “Please.” She looked down to see the other filly, tears on her face and bandages all over her body. “No.” The pink-maned filly cut a wing off with a sharp chink. The bully screamed in agony as she rolled over. “I want to go home! I want to go home!” Soon, she chucked off another wing and heard another painful screamed. “Don’t scream.” Celeste growled as she stuffed the knife down her throat and walked away. Soon, the new wings were on the filly, and she didn’t scream until her good personality came back and she realized what she’d done. “Mama!” “Wait!” yelled the draconequus. His eyes began to twirl in a hypnotic state. “I have a task for you…”
Rosemary sat by the fire, her white coat glowing from the embers. Her husband was at work, little Luna was asleep, and Celeste was off to who knows where. It was just her, a cup of tea, a sewing needle and an unfinished dress for her new daughter. The door soon opened, a cold wind came in and blew out the fire. “Celeste? Is that you sweetie?” She could see the figure nod and come closer as it sniffled. “I’m so sorry Mama.” “Honey, what happened?” Soon she could see that her daughter had a horn and a pair of wings. “Oh my-“ Celeste shushed her mom and began to cry as she sat in her mother’s lap. “He told that he would help me get rid of all of the silly ponies. So he made me kill the teacher and Gold Tiara! It hurt to get these on Mama!” Rosemary hushed her daughter as she stroked her mane. “It’s okay, Mama’s here.” One day my daughter came into the kitchen, Tears streamed down her face. She said she had dreams of power too She said she killed a man and the family name was now a disgrace “He also said I needed to do one more task Mama.” The new alicorn pulled out her knife. “Celly-“ “Shhh, it’s okay Mama. It’s okay.” She muttered in between tears. She said she was tempted by the devil He gave her it all that day But with one small price, Now I had to pay
My daughter began to cry again And I asked her why She picked up the knife and muttered Now you have to die
And with a quick cut of the knife, Rosemary was dead
She was tempted by the devil Power and greed stole my beautiful girl Never make deals with the Devil Because there's a price to being a pearl
