The Land Before Us

Chapter 12 – Unlucky twelve

Damien's eyes still hold shut since he was knocked out by the two unicorn’s magic. But the world's noises are starting to bring his body back to him as he listens to the sounds around him.

The two voices the man focus on in his still fainted state are a male voice and a female voice that almost seem to be a great distance away. But he listens as the deep voice leads the conversation to the lower feminine one.

"...I told you, you have nothing to fear...."

"...But what if there is a power she's creating?"

"....Celestia is a fool, and I have seen to the Pegasus, no help will come from them..."

"...How can you be sure? You are too fearful to even leave this castle?!"

"..Fearful?! You dare speak down to the one that gave you this opportunity!?" The male voice is followed by a loud echoing magic sound Damien's blue eyes shoot open in a loud intake of breath that sparks his once calm breathing into a sporadic fight for air.

He quickly sits up in where he lays as he looks around the strange room. The small room has dark orange walls the stone floor is a bounce of splatters of bright color, "Where am I ?" Damien slowly moves himself from the coverless bed which is the only piece of furniture in the room.

The two voices from outside of the room come back to his attention as they echo into the small room. But this time they're not loud enough to be fully understood , Damien slowly walks to the threshold of the door as he tries to listen to the voices.

He's brought to a short hallway, as he walks down the hall a little more the voice gets an audible tone.

"Princess, all you have to do is keep the....did you hear something?"

Damien listens to the voice as he holds himself to the stone wall, as he waits for the unfamiliar voice to start back up but it never does as he hears a low poof behind him.

"I see we're up."

The voice that strikes his ear is not from around the room but behind him, Damien is quick to turns his body around but before he can talk his body is lifted off the ground as an orange glow, "Wh...-"

His words are cut off as the creature in front of him snaps his fingers, "No, no don't talk human." A zipper across Damien's mouth pulls his lips together stopping his words, he pulls at his closed lips but nothing happens.

Damien looks over the creature that smiles at him, the thing is tall and stands a foot or two higher than him...but its no pony, it looks more like a ...a dragon mismatched and smashed together into other animals.

"I can see you are having trouble trying to figure out what I am." The creature's eyes are different sized and have a life filled orange glow to them. It's goat like mouth holds a smile as one sharp tooth pokes out from it's mouth. The creature waves it's lion like paw forward as his motion ends Damien feels his body floating around the corner as the controler of the magic talks to him, "I am Discord." The creature laughs as he releases his magical grasp of Damien.

Damien regains his feet to the ground as male voice is cut off by a white mare that trots herself closer to him, "Finally, I had feared you would sleep all day."

The man brings his eyes up to the smaller white coated pink maned pony wearing a purple jewel studded cloak as he talks, "Where am I?"

"Ha ha ha." Discord wraps his lion like arm around the man as he pinches Damien's cheek with his clawed hand, "Awww, you're cute, you don't know where you are yet."

Damien pushed off of the strange creature as he stumbles away. But Discord seems unintimidated as he looks down to his paw hand, "You're in Equestria human, and this? Well this is my castle."

"Castle?" Damien looks around the brightly lit room of orange and splattered color's, but the room doesn't look like any kind of castle he would think off. The only thing in the room is a large red and gold throne that seems to have a bright white light shinning down to it from seemingly nowhere.

Discord smiles as he spin's himself around happily, "Yes, castle." His ballerina like spin comes to an end as he plops himself into the throne like chair. Discord holds a happy smile to Damien as he taps the bird like fingers to his mouth, "You know Princess, he doesn't really look to important."

The white mare nods her head as she taps her hoof to her mouth, "Yes, but I guess this one will have to do."

Damien shifts his eyes between the two as he tries to understand what they're saying, "Do for what?"

Neither one of them reply to him as Discord smiles, "Yes I guess he will."

"Do what?" Damien's voice sparks up in a slight annoyed and confused tone as he talks down to the two in front of him, "What? What? What are you talking about?!"

Discord sits up in his throne a little as he and the mare give a laugh, "It seems the poor human is confused...lets change that." The goat creature smiles as his clawed hand snaps.

The echo of the snap rings through the room for a moment and Damien looks back to his smile in confusion.

But the purpose of the snap becomes clear as a low growl sparks through the large open room from one of the side hallways.

Damien looks towards the familiar growl a little fearful as his body tenses up.

The mare gives a light giggle as she talks, "So human, are you ready for what we want?"

"What?" Damien looks back to her calm voice as the growling gets louder.

She doesn't answer him as she nods back in front of him.

The tall dark haired man turns his head back in front of him as his eyes focus on the familiar sleek black dog like pony he's seen before, his heart skips a beat as he looks at the animal's hunched down growling stance.

"Well human? Begin." Discord snaps his fingers once more and at the sound the earth pony changeling charges towards Damien.

The moment it takes the viciously fast moving small pony to dart towards him is only time enough for Damien to move out of its charge. The changeling stops for a moment as the mans voice calls back to the goat animal sitting in the throne, "WHAT AM I SUP...-"

The changelings confusion only last a second as it turns its large blue eyes back to his voice in a demonic cat like, "HISSSS."

It charges back to him but this time he can't bring himself from its charge and the changeling leaps onto him bringing the tall man crashing down to the hard ground. Damien struggles to hold the changeling's fanged mouth from his body as he holds the thrashing changeling above himself, "AhhHH!"

The mare and Discord both look on with a happy smile as they watch the hands Damien has holding against the changeling glowing a bright green.

With a burst of strength the earth pony changeling is sent off of him and loud echoing boom follows it as a wall of green magic forms around Damien's person. The man erupts in a yell as he calls back to the smiling mare and Discord he faces, "What is this?!"

Discord laughs a little at the man's angry tone as he claps his paw and claw together, "My my Princess Platinum you were right, these humans do have a form of magic."

Damien's voice calls over the mares as the green bubble diminishes around him, his body is fully shaking and his words follow the tremble as he talks, "What are you ta...-"

His voice is cut off as Discord snaps his claw and the zipper around that encased his lips comes back over them. He struggles at the unmoving zipper as Discord talks, "Hush up, the adults are talking...now we're where we...."

Discord's voice is broken by the changling that starts to get up, its growl echos through the room as it hunches back down gazing at Damien.

"No, no go play in the road or something the human is no longer your play thing, shoe!" Discord waves his arms to the earth pony as he stands from the throne. The changeling immediately straightens its posture as it trots out of the room.

Damien still fiddles with the zipper around his mouth as Discord walks closer, the goat being smiles as he cocks his head sweetly and talks in a baby like voice, "Are you going to scream if I undo this?" Discord extends his pawed arm as he playfully pinches at Damien's cheek, "Are you hmmm?"

The man bats the paw away and then tries to throw a punch, but his momentum is cut off as the soles of his shoes almost melt into the ground making him unable to move, "mMMHMHm!" His muffled yell sparks a laugh from Discord as he backs out of the man's reach, "It seems somepony left there ice cream in Celestia's sun too long."

His playful tone is brought down as the white mare trots herself forward and talks to the trapped man, "So tell me human which are you? The brother or the friend of Prince Matt?"

Damien's eyes flicker to the name as his body shakes again.

Discord losses his smile a little as he watches the man's green glowing hand pull the magical placed zipper from his mouth, "Wheres my brother?!"

Princess Platinum lets out a slight laugh as she nods her head, "I take it your Damien than. The pleasure is al...-"

"Where is he!" Damien's voice calls out again as his body shakes a little more noticeable.

The mare backs away to where Discord stands as she talks, "My, such raw magic? How is that possible?"

"Ha!? You speak as if you have never seen this kind of magic?" Discord points his paw to the man as he talks in a jokey voice, "He acts as if he is a common unicorn foal just learning magic." Discord again snaps his claw finger as Damien's mouth becomes closed to an overgrown pacifier with an emblem of the Discord on it.

"Awww, can we keep it?" Discord turns his happy orange eyes to the mare as he talks.

She shakes her head as she stiffens her voice to the jokey tone, "Discord?! This is no time for jokes, we must prepare for tomorrow!"

He rolls his eyes to her voice as he looks back to Damien's angry red face, "She's no fun human, i'm sorry...but business calls I suppose."

Princess Platinum nods her head as she turns her green eyes back to Damien, "Discord you know what to do...Make sure its done."

Discord cocks an eyebrow to her words as he watches her horn glow a faint pink, "You speak as if you are leaving?"

The mare nods as she holds a devious smile, "That kind of magic is untamed...there is untold amounts of power that can be gained from it?" She points her hoof to Damien as she talks, "This being is not even a Prince! Just think of the power Sir Matt has!"

Damien again struggles his feet at the name but he cannot free himself or remove the obstruction in his mouth.

"How do you intend to get this power from the human?" Discord cocks his head to the mare as he waits for an answer.

But her words do not come back to her as she smiles, her horn glows a bright pink as she is poofed away with a light resonating chime.

Discord snaps his fingers as Damien's feet and mouth become his again. "Now human you ne...-"

Damien cuts off the creature's voice as he calls, "If you hurt a single strain of hair on that kids..."

"Hush yourself, as far as I am concerned you and your family are gone from this land when the deed is done."

"W-what?" Damien blanks his voice to a panting halt as Discord talks further.

"Do you care about this world human?"

Damien shakes his head.

"Do you care about what we have planned?"

Damien again shakes his head.

"Good, then listen up because this will go easier if you help us." Discord snaps his clawed hand as a copy of the throne is poofed behind Damien. Discord's throne moves to him as he sits his body to the air behind him, his scaly leg crosses his grey furred goat leg as he nods to Damien, "Sit."

The man hesitates for a moment before he follows.

Discord leans forward as he talks, "I'm telling you this because despite what you do, you can't stop it...so listen up my ugly pink friend because I will only talk once." He gives a crooked smile as he taps his hands together, "...Princess Platinum wishes to got to war with the three other ponies of this land in order for her to become the sole ruler of this land, in return I get to retake my way of living across the land." His bright orange eyes hold a joy to his words as he talks, "But the only way to do this without getting backlash from two very mettling ponies we have to use something they won't see coming."

The dark haired man tries to follow the strange creatures words as he leans closer.

"...The only way to ensure our plan works is if these two ponies are convinced the other tribe or tribes is unreasonable." Discord gives a laugh as he talks, "...And we have made sure there is no possibility of mistake; all thats needed now is a little push from me."

Damien nods his head as he speaks up, "S-so what do you need me for?"

Discord gives a laugh as he stands up, "Oh you? No, we don't need you, but the Princess is convinced that these human's have some kind of magic she needs. Truthfully our plan would have gone on without you." He smiles as he motions for him to stand.

Damien follows the motion as he stands.

"...I'm going to use your magic to make sure my changeling army's are ready." He gives a laugh as he nudges the man, "They are mean, but they don't think too well for themselves." At the end of his words he extends his arms, "Now, lean your head forward so that I may feel your magic."

The man leans his head in between Discord's arms.

A low chime rings in his ears as Discord's magic starts to engulf his head, he gives a light laugh as he talks, "Good, all I need is...-" Discord's smile fades a little as Damien's memories of his world start to flow through Discord's body. The man's body trembles a little as the magic starts to focus in on pain and fear.

Damien starts to shake a little more rampant as Discord's magic chime grows loud in his ear.
"Oh...human..." Discord licks at his lips a little as he talks, "...Why would you leave your world?" His voice starts to come out almost in a pleasure filled tone as his claw and paw hands grab onto Damien's collar bone.

"Ahh!" Damien gives a call of pain as the grip around his shoulders tightens.

Discord's eyes flicker a dark black as he tilts his head up in pleasure to the other worldly thoughts pulling into his head, "...s-so chaotic....so deceptive...so...so....FUN." Discord's paw and claws dig into Damien's body now as the poor man calls out in pain. The pressure in his shoulders and his minds racing brings him to his knees as he holds his head down to the multicolored splatters on the ground.

Discord turns his head down with his tongue flicking wildly as he talks, "Oh no...forget Platinum's plan...I don't want to rule Equestria...I want to burn it!" His body glows a deep orange as his claw and paw almost start to absorb into Damien's body.

The pain filled man calls out with his eyes closed in agony as he yells to the echoing room.

But the magic Discord uses doesn't stop as the goat like creature starts to become one with Damien's body. His voice calls out to the man as he talks, "Your mind is great is it not?....I especially love this Trojan Horse idea...shall we try it?!" Discord erupts in a laugh as the room fills in his swirling loud chiming orange magic.

At the apex of the magic's glow and vibration Discord's figure disappears and only Damien's body is left in the room. The man falls to the ground as his fingers and limbs move without his control, he can no longer scream but a tear rolls from his eyes as he looks to his hands in front of where he lays, "I...I'm sorry Sara...I'm not coming ba...-" His voice is stopped as his blue eyes flicker into an orange like Discord's.

Damien smiles as Discord's laugh expels from his mouth, the man pushes himself off the ground as he walks to Discord's throne. He stops as he rubs his hands around his new body, Discord's voice almost echos out as he talks, "Yes...my plan will work much better..." He stops his slight laugh as he calls out to the room around him, "Changelings! Find me the third human!" Damien sits back in the throne with a smile as seemingly hundreds of hooves begin to clap against the floor around the hallways surrounding the main room.

End of chapter 12