A New Lord of Chaos

I woke up in a dark forest just outside of a ruined castle in a great deal of pain. I can feel that I landed on a suitcase grateful that it was only using a small carry-on bag had I landed on and not anything larger or I might have broken my back. The pain going through my left leg draws me back from the musings running through my mind. Looking down I, notice that my foot is not supposed point in that direction. Looking around I try to find things to bind and set my leg. I found several branches on the ground around within arm’s reach. I drag myself and three thick branches through the doors towards the back wall covered in vines.

When I reach the back wall, I pulled down the ends of three vines. “This is going to hurt” I say as I proceed to bind my left ankle with the vines to the wall.

I take off my belt and put it in my mouth biting down I pull my weight back and roll my hips. I scream through my belts as my jaws clamp down on it. As I calmed down, I feel a tingling almost prickling feeling run down my leg. It feels like my bones themselves are heating up. I hear a rumbling popping sound and when it ends, I notice that my leg no longer hurts. I try to stand up and find that my leg had completely healed. I could put my full weight on it with no discomfort. Huh apparently coming here has changed some things a spiraling fracture like that should have take months to heal not seconds. Grinning I go out to see what survived my arrival.

Outside I find the bag I landed on before I could unzip it I notice a scroll on top of the suitcase. Picking it up I notice, it has a very odd wax seal. The seal looked like a very stylized infinity symbol only this one was not set to any sort of level in fact the symbol seemed to wiggle back and forth never settling. Another thing that seemed off was that the twisted loop that normally makes up the horizontal eight of infinity seemed to be made up of random shapes and letters. Shrugging I ran a finger under the seal to break it and open the scroll then the weirdest thing yet happens. The dam scroll crumbles and the seal unfolds. Looking down at the now page sized piece of wax the infinity symbol started moving to the top right corner leaving behind a trail of words as it twisted in to a new shape.

It was a shape you had only seen in old role-playing game books. It was called a chaos star. Suddenly the note started reading itself aloud.

“To whatever poor sap that got dragged in to replace me,” Well that does not sound good.

“My name is Discord and Congratulations you are now this realms god of chaos. After several millennium doing the whole chaotic thing, I got forced in to retirement. Therefore, here is my gift to you infinite cosmic power with only one major risk to your chance at ruling. The elements of harmony, I know dumb name but those magical amplifiers have been nothing but a hassle to me for years. Therefore, to give you an edge before they even know we switched roles some helpful facts.”

Thoughts ran through my head as the letter paused as this Discord seemed to take a breath. ‘What did he mean god of chaos? Why was he forced to give up that kind of power? Finally magic, this world had real magic?’ This line of thought was interrupted by the letter starting up again.

“First the names of the elements: kindness, laughter, generosity, loyalty, honesty, and magic. Second and third: the elements require that they be used as a set and need to be in tune with their wielder. Fourth, the current wielders are a group of six young mares that you will find living in the town just about half a day’s travel on foot to the west of your current location. Their names in order of the element they hold as previously listed are Fluttershy, Pinkamena Diane Pie aka Pinky Pie, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Applejack, and Twilight Sparkle. All of which have a near fanatic devotion to their precious princesses Celestia and Luna. Finally fifth you will find in the bag in front of you a basic primer on your new powers as well as a map and a hand full of folders on ponies you may find to be obstacles.” The letter stops again briefly and again more random thoughts shot through your mind.

‘Why did he use horse terms? What the hell is up with names here? Who would name a weapon capable of stopping a god the elements of harmony?’

The letter starts back up. “Enjoy your new life. Signed Discord. ….. P.S. this letter will now turn into pigeons, which will then self-destruct.”

Sure enough twenty fat gray pigeons suddenly took off from your hand flew into the air and exploded into a light show the equal of any Fourth of July fireworks show you had seen growing up. When the last one burst in a bright flare of red light I felt a searing pain flash across my right shoulder and disappear so quickly I thought I imagined it.

I froze for a second listening to the forest around me. Hearing nothing, I roll up the sleeve of my tee shirt and see that I suddenly had a tattoo. In shiny black ink there was the chaos star. Like the seal on the letter but with eight small differences at the end of each of the arrows was a symbol. Unlike the rest of your tattoo, these were in vivid color but not clearly defined. Sense you had no idea what they were let alone what they meant you let your sleeve fall and proceeded to open up the bag.

Inside the bag true to his word was a book titled “So you woke up in a forest and now you’re the god of chaos”, a large and ornate cane, and a stack of folders. You reach down, lift the book feeling the leather it was bound in, and open the book to the first page.