Truth Behind Harmony: Discordian Society

Discordia reclined on her bed, examining the large aquariums of her hidden chamber with a sad curiosity as she waited for her Sweetie Belle to arrive. She had built this chamber long ago, using it to house the first of several pony races she was meant to create along with her sister, before Harmonia had killed herself trying to create their world alone. She had told her sister to wait, told her that they were not ready to do it yet, but she would not listen.

“Why could you not listen to me sister, you were too little, too fragile to do what you did…”

She banished the thoughts from her mind, instead turning to the various alicorn fetuses that hung in the tanks, each born from her womb and each one carrying with it unique traits. They were the precursor to what she hoped would be several new pony types, ponies that could help bridge the gap between normal ponies and many of the other sentient races that were still not accepted in normal pony society, though how they would do this was beyond her.

She was brought out of her reverie by the sound of somepony teleporting into the room, and turned to see Nyx standing behind her, looking solemn as she stared at the tanks around her. “What brings you here my daughter, I am sure it was not to stare at your sisters with me.”

Nyx didn’t answer, instead walking over to the tank holding the small body of a pony spliced with an octopus, leaning her head against the tank before speaking. “Mother…I…I was wondering if we could talk about Luna…”

“Daughter you have heard my views on this, I told you thousands of years ago that you cannot mate with that mare.”

“But we belong together mother, we are the two halves of the moon, and we are the stars that fill the night sky, why should we not be together?”

“Because she is your family,” said Discordia with a grimace, glaring at her daughter as she rose from her seat. “You may want her, but as I told you on the night of your banishment, it would be perverse to continue such a union.”

“Perverse! You may say that mother but you have done far worse, what about what you have done to all those foals you have stolen over the…”

“You know that is different my daughter, those foals are not family, and what I do to them makes it so that they can better bond as a people, as you have seen over the thousands of years I have been practicing this.”

Nyx wanted to argue, for even though she had partaken many a time in the pleasures her mother liked, she still viewed what her mother doing was wrong. “I still find it sickening that you do this to them, there are better ways to do what you have done than…”

Nyx suddenly found her throat being crushed, her mother griping her in her magic as her eyes glowed yellow with fury. “YOU WILL NOT SPEAK OF WHAT I DO THAT WAY TO ME AGAIN, I HAVE TOLD YOU BEFORE YOUR OPINION IS IRELIVENT, NOW BEGON FROM MY SIGHT, I AM WAITING FOR SWIEETIE BELLE TO ARIVE!”

She then threw Nyx to the ground, her gaze turning back to the tanks as the yellow light left her eyes. Nyx got up, tears streaming down her face as she left the room, running back to her mares and away from her mother’s harsh words.

Nyx finally stopped outside the entrance to her personal cave, hearing the sound of her mares on the other side of the doorway as she leaned against it, tears still flowing from her eyes as the voice of her beast rose inside her mind.

“You are as much of a hypocrite as your mother is, after all it was you who bit those mares in that room, and it was those bites that made them love you, not you yourself.”

He was right and she knew it, but what could she do, she knew she could never get her Luna back; she had that yellow mare now. She needed those mares to fill the void in her heart, but if she was honest with herself, the pain of knowing they didn’t actually love her was even worse.

“I can’t keep doing this to them…and I can’t keep doing this to myself…I have to move on, and so do they.”

She lifted herself off the doorway, moving inside and being greeted by her mares, who nuzzled up close to her as they spoke.

“Welcome home mistress!”

She gave them all a sad smile, which caused them to frown for a moment before their eyes got caught within her own, her magic holding their gaze as she began to speak.

“I want you all to know I love you very much, but I can no longer hold this spell over you, for it is tearing me up inside. So now I release you from…from my spell, and soon, you shall fall into a deep dreamless sleep. When you wake, you will remember nothing of me, and you will not remember ever loving me, now…go to sleep.”

She watched as they all slumped where they stood, lifting them with her magic and placing them on the bed, then she turned and left the room, for she had one more destination to head to before she put this sinful caver behind her.

Discordia finally rose from her seat as Sweetie Belle entered her bed chambers, having moved there after figuring the little filly would be frightened by the morbid sight of her children’s temporary home. She grabbed up the filly in a hug, kissing her passionately as her heart began to beat faster just from her touch.

She finally parted from the fillies lips, smiling down at her as she moved her to the bed. “I have a present for you my dear, though you will have to close your eyes before I give it to you alright.”

“Ok,” whispered Sweetie Belle, closing her eyes as Discordia moved behind her. Discordia drew out the element of greed, placing it around Sweetie’s neck and letting it attune to her spirit, Sweetie cooing as the magic filled her. “Wow…this feels really good, what is it?”

“It’s your new power,” cooed Discordia into her ear, before placing her horn atop Sweetie Belle’s head, both of them becoming engulfed in light as Sweetie was awoken to her new purpose.

Nyx breathed hard as she stumbled her way into the cave, struggling her way toward the home of her ponies as the voice inside her kept trying to stall her.

“You can’t do this, she will never let you escape this life, not after all the work she put into you.”

“I don’t care,” Nyx growled aloud, moving with determination as she gritted her teeth against the voice. “And what makes you think I would listen to you, especially after what you did to me?”

The voice chuckled, “I said I was sorry for that little moon, but what is done is done. However what you are doing now could end with both of us getting killed, and I cannot allow that.”

It was Nyx’s turn to laugh, “You know that is not true Artemis, now be silent, I must complete this before we leave for good.”

She reached up her hoof, knocking upon the entrance of the cave and waking its occupant, the large thestral getting up and walking over to her.

“Lady Nyx, what do I owe the pleasure of your presence this night?”

Nyx sighed, “Seed, I have come with a grave task for you…one that will put us against the forces of Discordia.”

“What do you mean milady,” asked Seed, looking at her in confusion as she sat down next to him.

“I need you to take all the thestrals back to Equestria and help bolster their ranks, and if you can, steel back as many of the fillies and colts that were captured by her forces, for without them Discordia will have no leverage with which to push a surrender.”

Seed stared for a long moment at his queen, but soon replied, surprising her with his answer. “How soon do you wish us to do this?”

“Tonight, while everypony sleeps.”

“And is there anything else milady?”

Nyx nodded, “yes, once you arrive back in Equestria, I want you to swear your fealty to Princess Luna; she will be your queen until I return to you.”

Seed nodded, “very well milady, I shall do so at once, just…just be careful please, we do not want to lose you again.”

She nodded, then giving him a quick nuzzle before taking off from the cave, hovering a little over the grand cavern to watching as her ponies began to move, before using her magic to teleport out of the cavern for good.

Discordia stared down at the sleeping form beside her, smiling as she ran a hoof through the now fully grown mare’s mane. Sweetie Belle had undergone a drastic change, both due to the element of greed and due to Discordia’s own magic. She had grown to the size of a full grown alicorn, as well as a fully matured mare, and Discordia loved how well it had turned out.

But now she was curious, for when she had touch Sweetie’s magic with her own, she had felt something oddly familiar within her, a drop of blood she had sent out into the world long ago. Ages past, she had felt the lines of greed and anger die off, and so she had had to send it out once again, this time in the form of two of her stolen children, so that way the blood line would not die off before they found the right ones.

“But who made her,” she wondered, for she knew that this mare before her was related to the Element of generosity, though she didn’t know who yet. She lit up her horn, pulling up a strand of the young mares DNA, looking for the part that would show her who her parents were.

But when she finally found it, a fiendish grin stretched upon her face, for the images of the two parents were ones she knew well. One was one of her children, and unassuming colt who had a taste for teenage fillies, really young teenage fillies. But the other was an even greater find, for it was none other than the element of Generosity herself, the lady Rarity.

“Greed birthed inside the womb of Generosity herself,” said Discordia with a cackle, “oh how deliciously…poetic.”

However before she could look further into her family tree, she heard a pounding on her door, looking up to see one of her captains looking scared.

“What is it captain; can’t you see I am busy?”

“I am sorry mother,” said the young colt, “but this news could not wait, for your daughter Nyx has left the cavern with her ponies, who have absconded with many of the fillies and colts we abducted in our recent raid of Equestria!”

“WHAT?!” roared Discordia, luckily failing to wake Sweetie Belle as she rose from the bed. “Sound the alarm and rouse the pegasi, we need to stop the thestrals before they can reach the Equestrian border!”

“That…that may be a problem mother, for this happened in the middle of the night, and…and they already made it into Equestrian borders.”

Discordia was fuming, but knew that such anger would not help, instead settling for a glare as she asked her next question. “What about my daughter, where is she now?!”

“Um…last we checked; her presence disappeared on the edge of the Empire of Fangs.”

Discordia growled, “Perfect,” she said, and then she sighed. “…so tell me captain, what are our losses?”

“Almost all the fillies and colts we captured have been taken back by the thestrals, though we still don’t know how they managed such a large scale ‘rescue’ as were deciding to call it. Only a small batch is left, including the young Applebloom and mother Sweetie Belle.”

That was new, “captain, did I just hear you call Sweetie Belle mother?”

“yes mother Discordia,” said the captain, “we have seen the way you to have been growing close ever since she arrived, and the main body of children thought it would be fitting to call her such, especially given her most recent um…transformation.”

Discordia nodded, “very well captain, you may leave now, though I want a full report about this latter.”

She then watched the captain go, before turning around and sighing as she headed back to bed, lying down and letting sleep take her as she pulled Sweetie Belle closer to her, finding comfort in the newly created alicorns presence.