Equestrian Spirits: A Historical Journal

The Revenge of Discord

The newly formed Equestria prospered greatly under the union of the Unicorn, Pegasi and Earth ponies. Soon the first settlement was built at the base of the land’s tallest mountain. They called this place Canterlot. The ponies had various shrines erected in the honor of their creators. They called them “The Spirits of Nature” Aeolus was the Spirit of Wind. Hex was the Spirit of Magic. Terra was the Spirit of Earth, and Tidal having manipulation of the various seas around the world was named the Spirit of the Ocean. These four powerful beings however had been missing from the world for a long time. Some believed they had passed on, but their parents knew this wasn’t true.

The Regal Mother and Starlight had been observing the ponies their children had created for hundreds of years. All their bitterness and fighting had almost forced their destruction at the hooves of Starlight, who felt they were throwing the world’s balance off. Seeing them come together to build a whole new world of their made both of the world’s creators proud.

Together they looked everywhere for their children. They wanted to apologize to them, and wished for them to return. No matter where Starlight and The Regal Mother looked, they could not find the Spirits of Nature. They realized the truth when it was too late.

Discord was finally gonna have his revenge, starting with their children.

Music blared loudly from downstairs, the party ponies seemed to be doing their usual music checks. Twilight groaned and got up from her bed. Trotting over to the stairs and looking down she noticed Improv and a few other unicorns were setting up various tables alongside the bookshelves. Spike was doing well keeping them from damaging anything, seeing this made Twilight feel a little more relieved, she went back and layed down on her bed. The history book seemed to be getting closer to Celestia and Luna’s appearance, with Discord about to take over it was only a matter of time.

“But with The Regal Mother and Starlight… How did you take over Discord?” She asked out loud.

Discord held the Spirits of Nature captive in a small void of space that floated about the Earth. It was the same place where thousands of years before, the world was first created. He trapped each Spirit in a specialized cage preventing the use of their powers. Discord knew his magic alone was no match for the might of The Regal Mother and Starlight, so he summoned Typhoon and Sombra to the void as well. With all six of the most powerful spirits gathered, he extracted different parts of their powers to create weapons of mass chaos. The Amulet of Light from the love and care in each, and The Amulet of Darkness from their hate and fear.

It was with these powerful magical Amulets Discord would boost his chaotic power to bring about the end of his old friends turned foes. Naturally, Discord soon came up with a more evil plan. He would corrupt Starlight and Regal Mother, and as they try to destroy the newly formed Equestria, he would stop them, and the ponies of Equestria would make him their ruler.

Typhoon only asked for Aeolus in return, Discord agreed and gave him to Typhoon. He took Aeolus and hid him deep in the Crystal Caverns in Canterlot Mountain.

Discord slithered his way into the home of the Creators, and using his magic combined with the Amulet of Darkness he corrupted the soul of Starlight. Starlight woke up and tried to kill The Regal Mother. She fought against him but his magic was too strong. The ensuing battle left her powerless, the fight nearly left her without any magic. She fell from their home and took refuge in a small growing village. She hid her true identity so Starlight would not find her again.

Starlight turned his gaze towards Equestria. He burned its villages and killed many ponies. Discord finally felt like it was time and appeared, combined the powers of the light and dark Amulets he stopped Starlight, and banished him into the dark nothingness of space.

The ponies of Equestria were deceived by Discord into thinking he was a force of good. They asked him to be their ruler to which he agreed. Almost immediately his goodness was outweighed by his evil. His chaotic magic took over the land, and the ponies of Equestria became miserable. Discord hid the Amulets he created from the world, so nopony could ever use them against him. So as Typhoon continued to torture Aeolus in the mountain, and Sombra watched over the Spirits in “The Celestial Plane.” The dark shadow of chaos reached all over the world. The only hope the world had left was The Regal Mother, and the prophesy of the two princesses.

Twilight eagerly turned the page, waiting to read the next chapter, when a voice in the room caused her to jump and drop the book. It was caught in midair by a yellow glow. Twilight turned and saw Princess Celestia standing in her bedroom.

“Princess Celestia! I’m so glad you’re here I have so many ques--”

“And I will soon be able to answer them all. But not now. This book is very important to the world. Only a few copies are left of its existence. But this is the original journal. Twilight… I never told you how Luna and I first came to be did I?”

Twilight shook her head. “No princess… Honestly I thought you and Luna were the ones who created the Earth.”

“The Regal Mother is the reason for our creation… I will read it to you, and explain its meaning.”

Celestia turned the page. Preparing to revisit her past. A past that happened only a thousand years ago.