chaotic harmony, equilibrium of the soul

"So, what are you doing here? I thought Celestia put up a guard at the portal." asked Shadow Snap.

"Ever heard of illegal immigration?" Raph looked back at the pegasus, not expecting him to say 'yes'.

"No."

"I think it's better if you don't know." He continued walking, then he explained something.

"Do you know what I am, Shadow?"

"A human." Shadow was naive. He didn't know what was to come.

"Yes and no. You see, I'm actually a spawn. No, not from the devil, but a spawn of chaos." He stopped to let what he just said to sink in. Shadow was probably confused enough already. "I'm the result of a little curse that the first chaos entity let out on the rest of the world. He was defeated, not by Celestia or Luna, but an acestor of theirs. After he was defeated, he said that he would release his soul into every creature, of this dimension and of other dimensions as well. Basically, every species ever has at least one chaos spawn every thousand years or so. And I mean every species. Like, chipmunks, rabbits, and even fish. Their powers are limited, because they're smaller animals. But if a pony, that's a different story."

"Okay, okay. So basically, you're a man born from chaos, and there's about a crap ton more chaos spawns out there."

"Yes."

"Does this multiple personality thing have anything to do with it?"

"No. As far as I know, I think I'm the only chaos spawn with it."

"Wait. If you're a spawn of chaos, doesn't that mean you should be... you know, more chaotic?"

"The rest of them are. But not me, I feel I am need for greater purposes then creating chaos wherever I go."

"What, did you end up taking a life or something." At that comment, Raph stopped walking. Shadow didn't need any other sign to know that he said exactly the wrong thing to the wrong person. "I'm sorry. I didn't-"

"It's fine. It is something that I need to get off my chest anyways." Raph took a deep breath. "When I was first born, my parents realized that I could do things that no ordinary person could do. I could change the wheather I laughed, I could make things move when I cried, I could even replace things when I hiccuped. I... I could even make things move with my mind. I was trying this one day with a knife on the counter. Stupid of me, but I was an infant. My mother didn't see me doing this, and she walked right in front of my hands when I finally got the knife to come towards me. It came really fast too, and it..." Raph stopped speaking there. He didn't need to finish the rest of the story, because it was obvious how it would end.

"What happened after that."

"I-I-I was sent to an orphanage after that. My old man thought that I would kill him, so he dropped me off in a garbage can right next to an orphanage. Suiting punishment for murdering your own mother, am I right." Raph looked back at Shadow with a smile on his face. It was sick to see him smiling at this. Shadow probably would have burst into tears at this point.

"How did you know you did this to your mom?" He was having second thoughts about following him.

"I met my dad a long time ago. After Psycho burned down the hospital, he's one of my other personalities by the way, I met him in a parking lot. I just got in his car, and told him to drive, which he did. We got into a conversation after the shock of some random kid hopping into a random van. I told him my past, and he told me that he was the one who put me in the garbage can, yadda yadda yadda, he told me the part with my mother, yadda yadda yadda, and so on and so fourth." Raph made a hand motion. He was making a circle with his wrist.

"How can you be so non-shalant with this? If I killed my own parents, I would have shown the least bit of sorrow."

"Eh, it's gone and done. I am chaos, I have other things I have to worry about."

"Like what?" He crossed his hooves.

"Killing chaos spawns." The way that Raph said it chilled Shadow.

"Wait... kill chaos spawns?"

"Yeah." Shadow had nothing left to say. He somehow knew that he would get the explanation that he needed.

"How many other personalities do you have besides that psycho chatacter?"

"I have about three more. One personality that I named Limbo disappeared when I killed my cousin River. Nice girl, but was a complete apocalypse. Anyway, he sacrificed himself to kill her. Basically, if one of my personalities dies when he's in control of my body, then I'll wake up with my control back. It just kind of something I had to figure out on my own. My other two personalities are named Runician and Intellect. Runician is a magic type of guy. He's like most of the guys on a football team. Intellect is probably the smartest guy alive. I don't even know how he came to be, I'm not that smart, and here comes this guy talking like an English major."

After talking with shadow snap about his personalities, he decided to clue him in on what he was doing in Equestria.

"WAIT, WHAT?! YOU'RE GOING TO FIGHT DISCORD?! ARE YOU NUTS?!" said Shadow Snap incredulously.

"I think we both know the answer to that..." deadpanned Raph.

"I certainly hope you have experience for that kind of thing!"

Raph lost control of his body. Runician took over. "Yes, yes I do. I've killed about fifty spawns." His head shook violently. Intellect took control.

"To be exact, it was fifty-four." The two personas continued their little conversation inside Raph's head.

Suddenly Raph felt something. It wasn't so much of a pain, but a feeling. A feeling like his entire life is balanced. Everything that's he ever done, good or bad, was just weighed. Something he hasn't felt in quite a while. Limbo.

"You're back."

"Uh, I never le-" Shadow cut himself off. "Right, personalities." He let himself hover in the same spot.

Yes Raph, it's me.

"I thought you were gone. I thought I got rid of you when I finished off River."

Truth be told, I could have sword I was dead. Suddenly, I'm back here.

"Well I'm glad you're back."

"I think you need to worry about Discord right now."

"We still have a ways to walk. We can worry about that later." Raph continued to walk.

"Are you crazy?! Discord could have destroyed the place by now."

"Like I said before, I think we know the answer to that question."

"HELL YES WE DO!" said an overly excited Psycho and Limbo while high fiving in Raphs' head.

"I sadly must agree to the others... our sanity is questionable at best..." said a put out Runician.

"Whelp, I need to charge up on magic, so let's get closer to Ponyvi-auugh!"cried Raph as he opened himself to the plains magic, letting it wash into him

"DAMN! The magic here is intense," said an excited Raphael to himself. "Noo more hours of charging up for me!"

"Charging up?" asked a bewildered Shadow Snap.

"Yeah, I used to have to spend hours, even days absorbing what little magic was in the air back home, but not here! The air here is literally saturated with raw magic! so BOOYAH!" Upon yelling the victorious statement, he realized that they had reached their destination. "Anyway, wait here while I go take care of old man Discord, eh?" said a boisterous Raph as he ran off to his ancestors throne, finding him tormenting a lavendar mare. 'Aw hell to the no! No one screws with Twily!'thought a now furious Raphael.

You got that right. Limbo said.

"HEY! Grandad! Say hello to your replacement, ME!" Raphael bellowed as he dealt a chaos charged uppercut to the fell Draconequsses' jaw "I am here to take you down, old man! The new god of CHAOS HAS RISEN, AND A NEW AGE BEGINS FOR PONYKIND!" Raphael then summoned his trusty Chaos chakrams and slashes out at Discord, not even giving him time to speak before forcing the fiend to dodge the lethal attack

"What are those made of, those are no normal weapons!" said the terrified Draconequs as he just barely blocked, dodged and parried each attack in succession.

"Oh, not much, just some bloodstone, adamantium, and orichalcum forged together in the flames of TRUE chaos, instead of your paltry imitations of a true gods work!" Raphael said as he blocks a slash from Discords claws.

"IMITATION! I am the god of chaos! HOW DARE YOU SAY I AM AN IMITATION!?" Discord yelled furiously. "What are you anyway, some sort of bald Diamond Dog?!"

"No, I am... or was... a human... the embodiment of chaos... and strife! Already did we embody chaos.. but then your power corrupted the human species. Earth was already a hell hole with all of its problems. Then you go ahead an let loose even more chaos into the world by your very prescence. You corrupted good people, Discord... I HAD TO KILL THEM BECAUSE OF YOU! Chaos guide me... Judgement has come!" said Raphael as he was overcome by a smoky black aura of pure chaos, his eyes turning into glowing red orbs, his mouth turning to a glowing red cheshire cat grin, and his pinstripes glowing a dark neon red, crimson red claws now visibly ripping through his gloves in place of his chakrams "NOW PAY FOR YOUR SINS, AND REPENT!" Raphael then leaped at Discord with his claws outstretched, tearing at his enemies flesh"Your powers are mine, as is your freedom, GIRLS STONE HIM NOW!" in a flash of light discords body was enveloped in white and black fire, the embers rising from his cadaver and resting on Raphael, saturating their new master with their chaotic power right as the elements fired, sealing the now virtually powerless Draconequis permanently in stone. "Good riddance you freak of nature. Raphael turned to the purple unicorn mare. She had a look of shock on her face. It was the usual reaction to this kind of thing.

A long, terrifying silence passed between them before Raph spoke again. "Well... we had better clean this mess up then, eh?" He turns back to his original form as he spoke to her, snapping his fingers releasing an inverted stream of chaos, absorbing all of the chaos foreign to the environment into himself and reverting equestria and it's inhabitants to their natural states.

"What are you... how did you do that...why did you do that... I am so confused..." said the purple mare.

"Speaking of you, what is your name little one? I never got the chance to learn it as I was studying my ex-ancestor until." Raphael asked. He laughed while asking the question. The unicorn could do nothing but stare at the human that obviously wasn't human. "WAIT! I should probably introduce myself to your friends as well."

"My friends? But-" She heard five voices call her name from afar.

"TWILIGHT" cried the five pony mares. "We are so sorry! Discord hypnotized us and-" They noticed the human sitting next to Twilight. "Who the hay is that, and where is Discord?!"

"Relax, I took that rat bastard down and replaced him as the god of chaos, I must say though, his soul felt disgusting! It was like a bath in a slimey salad and warm jello. Smelled terrible. Do not worry though, I won't pull any crap like that old gasbag did. I plan on using my chaos to make ponies happy." The six mares had nothing to say to Raph. They stared at him, making these strange looks at him.

"Yeah, right, like we are supposed to believe that, there is no way a wimpy thing like you could take down Discord when we couldn't. What are you anyway?" asked a rather rude cyan mare

"I used to be a human, which is a creature even more chaotic than Discord, but then I became a god of Chaos, as you can all see," said Raphael as he briefly showed them his chaos form "If you meant to ask what my name is, then it's Raphael. It is a pleasure to be the new god in town! Now, let's return those elements to good old Celestia, shall we? After the introductions, of course! Hey you, the one with the hat, you go first!"

The orange equine took her time answering the question. "Ah'm Applejack, and I run Sweet Apple Acres with ma family."

"Hello, Applejack. I have a gift for you." Raph held out his hand. It started to glow a faint green, and then a white puff of dust appeared. When it cleared, a rope was in his arms, along with a number of other items. "These are items that I conjured while taking a brief time to look at your personalities. I think you might take these items to your likings. Anywho, a lasso made from the root fibers of Yggdrasil. It will never break, and almost always find its mark." He gave it to Applejack, who immediantly started to spin it around.

The cyan equine spoke next. "I'm Rainbow Dash! The fastest flier in all of Equestria!"

Braggart! thought Runician.

"First, let's not jump to conclusions."

"But I-"

"Eh. Who's the god of chaos here? Me or you." Raph pointed to himself. "Mind if I just call you RD?"

Besides, if I was able to fly, I would be the best flier in Equestria. Limbo said.

The pony shook her head. "Anyway, here, have these boots, they belonged to Hermes, messenger of the gods. With these, you can fly twice as fast."

"Hello, Darling, my name is Rarity. I run Carousel boutique and I must say that your ensemble is simply fabulous!"

"Why, thank you, madame. Here, have some spools of spider silk. They make for great outfits, sturdy, yet beautiful!" said Raphael.

"HII'mPinkiepieandIamthepartyponyofponyvillesoyoucanguessthatIcan'twaittothrowyouapartybutI'llhavetobecausethechapterisalmostoversoI'lljustwaitforthenextchaptertocomeout!" She said it at the speed of light, so it was hard to catch what she really said.

"Hello, Pinkie. I did not quite catch what you said, but here, have this horn of plenty. Just blow into it to summon a feast whenever you want!"

Twilight spoke up beside him. She too took her time to respond. "Hi, I am Twilight sparkle and I run the ponyville Library with my dragon assistant, Spike."

"Twilight, here is a magiic book filled with all of my home worlds works of fiction. As for Spike I have this magic Diamond that will put you into a teenage blackscale Dragon body, which is much stronger and faster than a normal dragon and already has wings for flight."

The last one to speak was the butter colored pegasus. The poor thing couldn't speak loud enough. It was just adorable to watch. "Hi, I'm Fluttershy, I care for the local animals."

"Hello, Buttersly. Here, have this mask. It will give you heal-sight, so that you can see what parts of an animal are hurt and heal them instantly." The pegasus happily took the gift. She flew off, eager to try out her gift.

"Ooh, almost forgot. HEY SHADOW, GET OVER HERE!" A pegasus came over the hill, looking very excited.

"Did you see yourself, you were like a freaking master!" He stopped his amazement, and stopped to take a look at the six mares he was seeing.

"Girls, this is my friend, Shadow Snap." He introduced himself, and so did the mares. After a conversation with Shadow and the girls, they all went back to their homes.

All of the ponies spent the rest of their day marveling at their tremendous gifts and thanking Raphael, except Butter- I mean- Fluttershy, who told Raphael her real name first, much to the new chaos gods embarrassment.

He eventually got all of them together at Twilight's library so he could ask a favor from them. "Okay, girls. I need to speak with princess Celestia."

"Why do you need to speak with her?" Twilight asked.

"Just some things I need to discuss with her. Come on, let's go talk to a goddess." Raph clapped his hands together, releasing a large tremble of wind. It knocked over a tree, smashed a rock to pieces, and broke a lot of windows. "Whoops. My bad."