Return the Shadows

It was a beautiful day in Canterlot, no disasters threatened the peace of the city, no problems from Ponyville. Yep, it was a great day for all.

"BUCKING HORSEAPPLES!!!!"

Scratch that, a great day for all, but a certain chaos god named Discord.

Discord was searching through the royal library, trying to jog his memory of an event he forgot. "GHAAA!!! I know there was something important I forgot about, but what?!?!" The guards by the doors just stared, silently cursing their luck in having to deal with the draconequus. As he searched and searched, Discord soon went through the entire library, or at least, where he was aloud.

"This is getting me nowhere. I know I did something really bad while I was imprisoned, when the sealing was weak for an instant, but WHAT?!?!" The walking puzzle bellowed.

"HEY!!! I take offense to that you know!!"

Really? You're going to break the fourth wall in the first chapter?

"Maybe if you watch what you type, we wouldn't be having this discussion."

Get back to the story, or I'll rip your balls off and play ping-pong with them.

"Shutting up."

Good. Now, where was I?

Oh right-Discord was pacing back and forth in mid-air like there was a walk way. "Let's see. Torment ponies during chaotic reign? Check. Escape from stone and create mass chaos upon said escape? Check. Get reformed by Fluttershy, have friends, and turn good? Checkaronie. Fix every single problem I caused before reforment? Not check." He huffed in frustration, before an idea came to him, and with a snap of his fingers and a flash of light, he was gone.

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Meanwhile, back in Ponyville, in a familiar library, six mares were having a slumber party. They had just reached the truth or dare portion of the night.

A lavender unicorn with a darker violet mane with a bright violet and hot pink strip through it, same with the tail, in a dark violet top and white panties reached for the bottle and gave it a hard spin. As it slowed, it landed on it's target; a cyan rainbow maned pegasus mare with a dark blue top and black panties. "All right Rainbow, truth or dare?"

Rainbow smirked, so sure there wasn't a dare she couldn't handle. "Dare me, Twilight!"

Now was Twilight's turn to smirk, she thought long and hard for the perfect dare for Rainbow. "Ok, I dare you......to wear one of Rarity's most feminine dresses and not say one thing about it not being cool." Twilight kept her smirk as Rainbow's face turned a slight shade of white.

"Well now, that's certainly a low blow, darling." A alabaster unicorn with a dark violet mane and wearing see through night gown with black laced bra and panties underneath spoke. "But it does give me a chance to give Rainbow a much need make over!" The unicorn now known as Rarity clapped her hands in glee.

"Twi, when said you weren't messing around, you weren't kidding." Rainbow said with a defeated sigh, she knew there was no way out of a dare. "When do I need to do it?"

Twilight's smirk softened to a caring smile. "Tomorrow's good, but we all need to there to see, or it won't count." Rainbow gave another sigh and went to spin the bottle, before it spoke.

"Don't spin me!" It said in a mexicolt accent.

The mares jumped away from the bottle in fright. Rainbow, wanting to see if it really talked, went to spin it again.

"I said 'Don't spin me!' " It said in the same accent.

Now the mares KNEW something weird was going on, but Rainbow decided it was for the best to leave it alone for now.

"U-um, sorry for spinning you Mr. bottle?" A yellow pegasus with a pink mane and tail with a green top and cyan panties asked in a quiet voice.

"S'all right." The bottle replied in a deeper tone, but in the same accent. Then a pair of yellow eyes with red irises popped out of the bottle and rolled under pillow and in a flash of light, Discord appeared, laughing his flank off.

"DISCORD!!!!" Four of the six mares yelled at the laughing god, doing nothing, but making him laugh harder.

"Oh please, that was good and you know it!!" He choked out before reigning himself in, while a pink Earth-pony mare with a darker pink mane and tail that looked like cotton candy wearing yellow bra and panties with blue polka-dots was still laughing from his prank. "Don't worry though, I be out of your manes in no time."

"Why ARE you here, Discord?" Twilight asked with a raised eyebrow. "And I think that's enough Pinkie." The pink mare finally calmed down.

"I'm trying to remember something I did awhile back, before I was reformed, but I can't put my claw on it. It's on the tip of my tongue, but I can't make it out." Discord replied while speed-reading through the library's inventory, quickly getting agitated.

"The royal library didn't have anything to jog your mind?" The unicorn ask with a little surprise in her voice.

"No, and since I'm still not aloud into archives, that led my search here. GHAAAA!!!!!" He roared from irritation. "I know I did something REALLY bad, but WHAT?!?!"

"Fluttershy, you better calm him down, or Celestia knows what would happen." Rainbow whispered to the yellow pegasus now known as Fluttershy.

She nodded, then went to calm the draconequus down. "OK DIscord, just calm-"

She never completed her request as Discord fired a magic blast in anger at a mirror. When it didn't explode, the seven stared as a dark form could be seen. It began to grow at a alarming rate, and before anypony could do anything, a black figure flew out and crashed into the opposite wall. When the figure laid still, they ponies and Discord approached.

The first thing they noticed, was the amount of blood that was leaking out of it, and the large black sword in it's hand.

"DISCORD!!!" Twilight screamed while red in the face.

"Don't look at me!!! I don't know what happened either!!!"

"Applejack?"

An orange Earth-pony mare with a blond mane and tail wrapped in red bands wearing denim short shorts and white tank top stared at Discord with narrowed eyes. "He ain't lying, Twi."

"Fine, I write the princess a letter, while you all get this thing to the hospital." The five mares nodded, but before anypony could do anything, Discord chimed in.

"You know, we could be at Canterlot in a blink with my powers." Twilight face-palmed for forgetting about that.

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A young man in a black leather jacket, a pure black T-shirt, black denim pants, and black leather steel toe boots, was fighting for his life, sword in hand, at the edge of a cliff. His body was riddled with holes from the attacks the quincy capture squad launched. His breath was ragged, his legs were jelly,his left arm was dead, and his spine felt like breaking, but he kept fighting. For every major wound he had, 17 lay dead at his feet, leading up to 85 visible dead, countless more over the cliff and into the sea.

"Damn, don't know how much more I can take." He weighed his options, he could try and fight his way out, but there was a great chance he would get captured. He could take his own life, but his curse prevented that, plus, they would just need his corpse. That left him with one option.

He looked over the cliff, steeling himself for what he was about to do. "This is going to hurt." He looked back to the quincies, gave them the bird before jumping off while shouting. "I'LL SEE YOU FUCKERS IN TARTARUS!!!!"

As he fall to the waters below, he noticed a flash of light, but paid no heed before he blacked out.

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The man's eyes shot open to find a white ceiling. As he looked around, he saw a machine hocked up to him, reading his heartbeat, a plastic bag with clear fluid also hocked up to him, and his clothes in a pile next to the door.

"A hospital? But how? No, nevermind that now, have to get out. If the quincies don't get me, the damned government will." He thought as he pull on his clothes. When he was finished, he saw that his sword was missing. "So they got Moon Shade? No matter, I can call her when I need her."

He tried the door to find it was locked. "Heh, they think this can hold me?" Bracing himself, he delivered a spartan kick to the center of the door, tearing it off it's hinges and slamming it into the wall. "Better move, don't know how much attention that called." Looking down both halls, he saw no one was around and haven't for some time. Taking this as a silver lining, he bolted down the hall on the right.

After a few turns, he came upon another door, but when he tried to kick it down. "Reinforced?! Damn!! And I've wasted too much time going this way. There has to be-" His thoughts were cut off when he spotted a ventilation shaft over the door. He deadpanned at the sight. "You got to be kidding." With a sigh, he proceeded to remove the cove of the shaft, before crawling in. "A shame Yahiko isn't here, he'd be perfect for this."

Ten minutes of crawling and he was rewarded with light. Peering through the vent cover, he saw another white room. Having no other option than to go back, he kick out barrier in his path, and dropped down. But before he took a step, he froze in his tracks.

He began sniffing the air like a wolf on a hunt. "This scent. I know this scent. But....that would mean...." Before he could finish his thought, the walls disappeared, and in their place, stood 8 humanoid ponies, each a different color. Two ponies each had a horn, while two others had wings, while two more had neither. However, the two that had his attention were the ones that had both wings and a horn.

OST

He could their eyes upon him, but when he was about to speak, a hated voice sounded. "You see, even I don't know what he is, or how he healed so fast."

A snap could be heard in the quiet room, shortly before the man roared at the draconequus. "DISCORD!!!!!" He banged against an invisible wall that kept him from his prey. "WHEN I GET MY CLAWS ON YOU, I'LL RIP OUT YOUR SOUL AND DEVOUR YOUR CORPSE!!!!!" The ponies look at the man in shock, a few even a little green, before the white pony with wings and a horn and flowing mane and tail of lime, pink, and cyan in a beautiful white gown and wearing a gold crown snapped towards Discord.

"What did you do?" She demanded with venom in her voice, something that made most off the other ponies back away in fear.

But before she get an answer, the sound of glass breaking grabbed her attention. When she turn back to the man, however, he wasn't there, but she could hear Discord cry out in pain. What she saw terrified her.

The man was holding Discord by the throat, his eye promising nothing, but death and blood. Faster than anyone could move, he slammed his prey into the floor, spider-webbing it from the impact. He then began to repeatedly smash his fist into Discord's face, not showing any signs of mercy.

So focused on killing Discord was the man, that he didn't notice the tail before it wrapped around his throat and threw him into the nearest wall, creating a man shape imprint. This didn't stop him, however, only slowed him down.

His head snapped up, hate filling his eyes, and ripped himself off the wall. "Your tricks won't save you this time, abomination." He raised his hand over his head. "Come."

On the far side of the room, everyone could hear sounds like something smashing through walls coming closer. That's when the black claymore sword that he arrived with came crashing through that very wall, revealing a trail of holes showing where the sword came from left in it's wake. It flew through the air till it reached it's master, who grabbed the hilt in reversed sword style and began swinging and spinning it like a staff, before swinging it down in front of him, just an inch from touching the floor.

"You're going to die." He spoke in such a cold voice, one would think he was a corpse. As he was about to resume his attack, The white pony from before stood in between him and Discord, this time accompanied by the smaller dark blue pony with wings, a horn, a flowing mane and tail that resembled the night shy with it's stars and night shy like blue color, and wearing an equally beautiful dark blue grown and a silver crown.

"I don't know what Discord has does to you, but I'm afraid that if you continue to attempt to kill him, we WILL interfere and stop you." The white pony spoke with kindness, but with authority.

"I can't let him live, not after what he did to me. Please, stand aside Princess Celestia, Princess Luna." All the ponies looked at him in shock, not just from how he ignored the princess's warning, but that he knew both their names. "I don't want to hurt either of you, so please, I beg of you, stand aside."

"H-how do y-you know our names?" Luna asked in slight fear. The man looked at Discord with hate once again.

Why don't you ask him, what he did a thousand years ago?!" As soon as he said that, the memory came flooding back to said chaos maker.

"Oh dear." Discord spoke with fear pouring out of him. "Celestia, Luna, trust me when I say that you DON'T want to hold back if you do fight him." Sweat already form a puddle underneath him from the fear. He then pulled out his own sword, a twisted broad sword covered with polka-dots. The sisters looked at him surprise, never expecting the god of chaos to be afraid of anything. The pulled their own blades out, Celestia's a gold, yellow, and sunset red broad sword, Luna's a pair of indigo and silver scimitars.

The man looked at the sisters with sad eyes. "I see you made your choice, then I will respect it. BY NOT HOLDING BACK!!!!" And with that, the true fight began.