Forgotten Fire: Ember of Darkness

"HOW COULD THIS HAVE HAPPENED?!" Luna screamed at her sister, letting all of her anger and frustration pour out of her heart. "What did you do?"

"ME?!" Celestia shot a sharp glance at her younger sister. "What could possibly make you think this was my fault?"

"The fact that he was FINE yesterday, and now he's destroying everything. He went to see you last night, and then today he's gone psycho! You obviously have to know what happened."

"Listen to me little sister, you forget your place. I am the ruler of Equestria, and I will not be accused by you. I do not know what happened to him, but we must deal with this. It is complete chaos out there. The ponies are terrified, Equestria is being destroyed, and we must stop him, not sit around here arguing over who knows what. Will you help me?"

"Of course," Luna said automatically, "I would never standby and let Equestria suffer."

"Good, then we must gather the Elements of Harmony"

The two sisters alighted from flight at the very highest tower in Canterlot, where the Elements were being kept. After unlocking the door, the two alicorns walked to the chest sitting on the alter in the middle of the room. Celestia unlocked the chest with a spell, and opened the box.

"Six Elements for two ponies... my how things have changed" Luna said wearily.

Celestia gave a sad look at Luna, and proceeded to put on three of the Element necklaces: Loyalty, Kindness, and Honesty. She then placed Magic, Generosity, and Laughter on Luna. With a ruffle of their feathers, the two princesses took off and headed for Manehatten.

Buildings were turned upside down, the ground was checkered, and chocolate milk rained from the sky. Celestia and Luna flew past ponies fleeing in terror from the giant animals with the teeth as sharp as razors. Luna began to descend to help the ponies, but Celestia quickly shouted

"No, we must stop the cause of all this. There is nothing we can do until we stop Discord!"

Hearing the name Discord used instead of his birth name tore at Luna's heart. She figured it was better to associate these chaotic misdeeds with a new name so as not to defile his old one, but Luna couldn't stop thinking about how terrible a thing it was to think that he was gone. To think that he was REALLY gone. Luna pulled up next to Celestia and continued flying towards where this monster was.

It wasn't hard to find him; everything became more chaotic the closer they got to Discord. When they had finally found him, sitting in a throne he conjured, fear and disgust covered their faces. How had he become this? He had always looked as if he was made up of different body parts from all sorts of animals, but only now did he actually look monsterish. His kind eyes that had always shown how caring and friendly he was were replaced by those comprised of nothing except evil and chaos.

"Well hello Princesses Celestia and Luna. Just how are you doing? Wonderful weather we're having, am I right?"

"Stop this NOW Discord," Celestia barked.

"Oh, I never can get tired of hearing that name. It just has such a marvelous, chaotic ring to it. Anyways, what brings you to my humble abode?"

Luna stepped forward, "Discord, please, end this now. This isn't you. Can't you please put everything back to normal and come back with us?"

"A tempting offer if I've ever heard one, but you see, I rather like being the spirit of Chaos. I feel as if I always have been, I just didn't realize it before. And honestly, this is just to much fun!" He snapped his fingers and three ponies began to float around his hand, spinning as they went. "I'm having fun here and there is nothing you can do about it. The Elements of Harmony barely worked when it was just the three of us wielding them, so I highly doubt they'll work with just you two ponies. Go ahead and try all you like, but I feel confident that they will fail." With that, Discord disappeared and re-appeared on a nearby cloud, lying down and getting comfortable on its fluffy top.

Luna gave a troubling look at Celestia, who scrunched up her face angerly. "Alright Luna, we have to try, no matter what." Luna reassuredly nodded her head and activated her Elements. It took a while for them to activate, due to the fact that she only actually controlled one of them, but eventually all three began working. With a positive glance from her sister, a rainbow began to emerge from the Elements, and after shooting into the sky, it made its way to a completely off-guard Discord.

"No," he screamed. "No, No, NO! It isn't possible! There is no way only two can control the Elements! NO!" As he screamed his legs began to turn to stone, and it slowly worked it's way up to his head, until Discord's entire body was turned to stone. The pony princesses were left panting and sweating. It was definitely much harder to control the Elements with less than 6 wielders, let alone only two. With Discord having been turned to stone, everything his magic had changed was undone, and Equestria was put back to normal.

While on duty for guarding the night, Luna was alone with her thoughts. She sat there watching the night sky, thinking about how that kind creature had become Discord. She thought for hours about what could cause somepony's heart to turn dark and evil. Deep in thought, Luna heard a quite whisper in her ear that said, "You Luna...you should rule Equestria. None of the ponies appreciate your beautiful nights. They all love and praise your sister, while your left unappreciated and alone. If you ruled, you would be loved, and you could cover the land in eternal night." At first the whisper startled Luna, and made her want to flee, but as she listened the words she heard became truth. She was unappreciated, and it would be good to be ruler of Equestria. A small grin appeared on Luna's face, and she sat there for the rest of the night, just staring at the moon.