A New Lord of Chaos

The day had finally arrived tonight I will take the element of loyalty from her bed and with luck none of her friends would be the wiser. Tonight I was going to start the ball rolling and see if in the end I could stay on top of it.

I had set up a small field camp on a hill in a tree waiting for her to return to her house. So easy to find a good hiding place when you can shrink down in size. Granted the squirrel I was displacing was none too happy to get the boot. When he wouldn’t leave or shut up, I brainwashed him in to acting as my valet and now he served me in his former home. ‘Who knew a squirrel could brew a decent cup of tea? ’

While I waited, I thought about which element I would steal magic or generosity. I had narrowed it down to down to these two. Magic because it was the center point the element through which the others had their energy focused through taking this would really tweak Twilight’s nose. It might force her to call on the other princesses for back up. Then there was generosity the one that could be easily hidden because of the shape of it. I could wear it in plain sight of the bearers without looking foolish. I mean a diamond shaped cut gemstone was rather common in human jewelry.

The information said that the gem not the gold that held the power, so I was thinking of making one of them into a ring or a tiepin. Maybe take both and make a set of cufflinks. Hoping the sight of me wearing their elements might upset them once they entered my castle. “Oh well I pick when I get there.” I mused.

The sun was setting when Rainbow Dash finally got home just about show time. I had put a lot of thought into how to do this. My plan I thought would be fun if not funny and would make her surrender quickly. 'Well surrender or defenestrate herself.'

Two hours later, all the lights in the house were out. I made my move. I teleported right up to the front door and entered like I owned the place. Silently I walked into her bedroom and quietly opened the door. I found her there sprawled across her bed snoring to beat the band. Tank was just hovering in a corner leash tied around his shell running to the bed post.

Think about what I wanted to do. I decided my cane would not make enough noise on the cloud floor. Moving my cane to my left hand, I snapped my fingers. Black silk and leather bindings snaked around her wings forcing them into an upright and straight position. Binding her wings in such a sudden and tight manner seemed to both wake her up and turn her on a little judging by the throaty purring groan that escaped from her as came to.

“Who’s there?” she asks to the darkness “you have a lot of nerve breaking into my house.”

I just chuckling darkly and say, “There's an old saying: Never raise more demons than you can lie down. Me I am just a devil you and your friends should never have raised.”

“What?” She says with an absolutely puzzled look on her face. She then turns in bed and turns on the lamp. The light pushes back the shadows in the room and barely illuminates me. Her eyes moved up my body from feet to frame to face.

I had taken a page from Mephistopheles himself. My clothes were immaculate and done to the nines.

Black pointed leather shoes with a slight heel lead up to black pinstriped slacks with several black belts crossing my hips holding knives and a pair of swords. A charcoal waistcoat with silver buttons went over a gray shirt, which had no collar it just ended with one button on my throat. A silver chain crossed my coat holding pocket watch to a knife. My hands had five silver rings. Three on my left hand on the thumb, middle, and pinky fingers. My right hand the rings were on my index and ring fingers. Over all this, I wore a black pinstriped tailcoat again with silver buttons and to top it off a black pinstriped wide brimmed fedora with two feathers stuck in the ribbon one black the other white.

“Oh, do you like what you see.” I shoot at her in a snarky tone.

“Who and what are you?” she asks me in a nervous shaky breath.

“Now that is a rather fun question.” I say while rubbing my chin. “What is so much easier than whom? You see one does not tame chaos. It is the oldest and most powerful force in existence. When the solution to one problem is found another one inevitably rises to take its place. Therefore, to answer the second part of your question. I once was human now; I am your dear retired lord Discord’s replacement. As for whom I haven’t decided yet my old name just does not seem to fit me anymore.”

This statement seems to have caught her flat footed so to speak. She started taking several deep breaths trying to wrap her head around this information.

I spoke into the silence “would you be so kind as to surrender?”

This question seemed to just make her angry. Her eyes hardened and took on a steely gaze. “Why would I surrender to you?” she spat at me with venom.

I just smiled and said, “You cannot get your wings unbound, therefore you cannot leave your home. Well not without a rather terminal and short last flight. I will guaranty you and your tortoise safety if you like.”

These facts seemed to hit her over the head she looks at her pet with wide eyes before turning back to me the steel that was in her eyes seemed to have broken now she seems nothing short of detached. With a look into my face she begins nodding despondently.

With her defeat I smile and then gesture for them to stand beside me.

Tears in her eyes she says “come here tank.” She unties the leash from her bedpost and puts her tortoise on her back and she starts slowly and dejectedly walking to my side.

I look down at her and smile saying “Chin up the game has only just begun.”

Before she can reply, I slam the cane down and all three of us vanish in a flash of light.