Blood Flows Between Worlds

The moment I asked Twilight about Discord, I immediately realized that she didn't wanted to talk to me about him. She looked at me in hope I would drop the subject, and told me that there is nothing to talk about.

"Really? I read about him in this book, "The Raise of Equestria", and I wanted to know more about him. He is mentioned as the greatest menace that ever faced this world, but I just can't imagine that it was this bad, could it?"

Then she told me about what Discord is and that the only means to fight him is now sealed within its original source, the "Tree of Harmony". Whenever he would raise again, she wouldn't know if this time, he would regain his position as ruler of Equestria, maybe even beyond.

I wasn't convinced. "You are just preoccupied by what he did to you in the past.", I said to her. If looks could kill, I'd be in a grave right now. "I wish to meet him and make myself a picture of the situation."

She yelled at me that I am a fool and that I, if I ever met him, would succumb to his chaotic ways and try to destroy Ponyville. I laughed at her, asking why she thought so. She blushed and kept silent. "Please Twilight, just let me meet him. I'll be careful. I simply want to talk to him."

She then gave up, her eyes getting wet. She told me what I already expected: " Only Fluttershy knows where he lives. He was always pretty fond of her, as she was the only one to ever give him a real chance." I thanked her, and went on to Fluttershys place.

The visit was short, and she didn't hesitate as much to answer my question as I did to ask her. He should live beyond the Everfree Forest, she told me, and that I would reach him if I followed the most chaotic path through the forest.

When I entered, none of the paths seemed chaotic at all, but after a while, some of the trees looked like they were observing me and guiding me with their branches.

Then I saw a small lantern, hanging from a branch over the middle of the path I walked. The lanterns light was dimmed from the dirt on it. After a while, another lantern appeared, and as I ventured forth, the lanterns started to come up more often. It seemed as they had the same distance between them, but as I counted the steps between them, the number varied rather extreme, from just twenty steps to over one hundred.

Then I reached a small door in the middle of the wood. It stood in the middle of nowhere, without anything to support it. I walked around it, before I knocked. It opened, and as I looked through, there was a room with two comfortable looking chairs, a table with a teapot and two tea cups and a strange creature sitting and sipping on hot chocolate.

"Oh, hello, you surprised me. I have expected you later." The cup around the chocolate vanished and reappeared on the table. "Come on in, I don't bite, in contrary to the knob." I look at the doors knob and saw a small gap with sharp teeth. I regretted to come here, but walked in nonetheless. I had no time to lose.

"You are Discord, I suppose?" He grinned from one ear to another, literally. It was frightening and hilarious at the same time, and I couldn't resist to giggle.

"Yes, I am, or at least I should be, but everything is to harmonic. How can I be Discord if harmony is dominant?" I shook my head. "Exactly. So you came to me because..."

"I wanted to learn from you. I have a rather dark task I have to fulfil, and you are the only one that is both good and bad enough to help me."

"And this dark task is killing somepony, isn't it." I stood there, looking at him in shock. He giggled. "Bullseye. So, who do you need dead. Let me guess, let me guess. Twilight Sparkle, isn't it?" My eyes widened even more, and he laughed, from deep within his chest.

"How... how could you know that? I never told anyone else." He tipped the side of his head with his claw, silencing me. I thought about all the clues he had. Me living with Twilight, a dark task to fulfil, seeking him for help. Well, at least the dark task part is unknown to all but us two.

"See, you left me tons of hints. I will help you. The chaos arising from her death will be GRANDIOSE. But be warned. Dark magic is no toy. The only one capable of using it without turning evil themselves are the Celestia" ,he rolled his eyes, "and myself. Well, I am chaos, so you could consider me evil, but chaos can be good to, can't it?"

"Well, chaos makes no sense, so I have to agree" was my answer. He nodded slowly. "But what will you teach me? A death spell?"

"Nonononononono, you are to weak to withstand the darkness of a death spell. But a short time paralysis should be sufficient, don't you think? the moment she is stiff, you can use a tool, maybe a book. Oh the irony, that such a huge fan of books is killed by one."

I understood why Twilight didn't wanted me to come here, but it was to late now. "Teach me. I am sure to use it properly." He looked me directly into the eyes, a hypnotic look. I couldn't turn my eyes from his, and almost tumbled when pictures of paralysed ponies appeared in my head. We stood there for only a few seconds, but when he stopped his 'lesson', my head hurt and my vision was blurry.

I tumbled to the door, which opened itself again. I didn't even realise it closed, I was so preoccupied with the creature before me. "Come home save, I'll let the lanterns guide you, but there are other things I can't control in this forest." was the last thing I heard from him. When I turned around to thank him, the door was gone.

I walked the path back, following the lanterns. My head got clearer with each second that past, and the moment I left Everfree Forest, I felt fine again. I was going back to the library, when I walked by the nicest flower garden in Ponyville. The urge to destroy it frightened me, and I thought that this was the price I had to pay if I ever wanted to return home.

When I returned to the library, Twilight looked at me for a short moment before she continued her studies. She was hurt that I didn't follow her advice. I tried to talk to her, but she only replied to leave her alone. I went to my room, continuing my own studies. I wanted to read another book about general magic, but what I took was a book about the balance of good and evil magic.

Whatever I read in this book, be it the slow change from a normal pony to a dark pony or the benefits of keeping a balance between good and evil, it lead me to ask Twilight the next day to teach me a simple healing spell.

"Why do you want to learn such a spell?" she asked me. "There should be no reason, expect you learned dark magic. The balance should never be disturbed." I sighed, knowing that there would be only one way she would teach me.

"I learned a dark spell from Discord." She looked at me with this 'I-warned-you'-look, and I continued to tell how I went there and we spoke to each other. I kept silent about the task, naturally, but I told her that I asked him to teach me.

Her look changed to a suspicious one, but she let it slide for the time being, teaching me how to heal minor wounds with magic. I could try it out at once, because Spike had hurt himself while rearranging the books for Twilight, again. HE sat down, and I concentrated on his elbow.

The pain vanished, and Spike was grateful to have a healer in the house. Twilight never did something like that, but I believed that Princess Celestia taught her student to use dark magic because she already lost the balance, being the Element of Magic and everything.

This happened about half way through the time. I had only six months remaining to kill Twilight. Six short months. I was still not good enough to do what I had to if I wanted to return, but I wasn't so sure any more if what I was doing was the right thing to do. I started to doubt my goal. I had build myself a life in Ponyville, and the memories of my family were fading.

This evening, after I healed Spike, I sat in my room, writing a letter to my parents. I just had to do something, to get in balance not only with the dark and good sides of magic, but also with the dark and good sides of myself and the task I was burdened with.

Another five months past, five months in which I studied, in which I worked, and in which I fell in love with this world. The harmony was refreshing, and I only thought about how Discord would like the financial world of ours. All the chaos within it.

I walked down, Twilight was already working, and as I arrived there, early in the morning, I started to speak: "Twilight, I have something to tell you." She turned around and looked at me, interested in what I had to say. "I am not from this world. Originally, I am human."