“Twilight! I think I may have found it!” Luna yelled to Twilight in the Royal Library. They had been searching for what caused Staria’s and Celestia’s death for weeks, getting so caught up that they even told all of Twilight’s friends, including Discord, to come help look.

Twilight galloped over, nearly running over and into Luna. “Really? Let me see! Now!” Luna shoved the book towards her, and Twilight eagerly grabbed it.

The others soon joined them, doubtful looks on their faces.

“Oh, great! Maybe this time, it'll be the right one!" Discord used much sarcasm, in his voice, which soon turned to complete frustration. "Might I say-" Discord continued "-that this is an extremely boring place!"

Twilight took a deep breath. “This...this is it, I’m certain! Everypony, gather around!” Everybody (Spike and Discord aren't ponies) sat down, and Twilight began.

“Sineth Abosocis is a rare disease that only harms alicorns.” Twilight stated with a gulp. “When getting this disease, the specific pony will not know that they have this, only when they are at their sudden death. It is not contagious, and can only be passed down to ONE offspring, if they choose to have foals.” She looked at Luna, who showed slight relief on her face. “The only symptom of this disease is sudden death at exactly two thousand years. How this disease is caused is by exposure to the Star’s Ellipse, a rare plant that gives off a certain kind of gas that intoxicates any alicorn with it. The Star’s Ellipse is only found in the Ever-Free Forest, north of the ancient ruins of the Castle of the Two Sisters.” Twilight paused to turn a page, but not before looking up to the others.

“Golly…” AppleJack muttered.

“The Star’s Ellipse can only be destroyed with the magic of both…” Twilight paused, surpressing a gasp as she stared at the book in confused awe.

“Why did you stop, Twilight?!? Is there something wrong, dear?" Rarity asked.

“Yea, the suspense is killing me! Go on!” Pinkie Pie squealed, twitching almost violently.

Twilight opened her mouth, and slowly finished her sentence. “A draconeqqus and the Elements of Harmony.”

Gasps were heard all over the room. Even Discord was shocked.

“Wait, WHAT?” Discord looked dumbfounded.

Everypony nodded their heads. Exactly what they were thinking.

“But, the elements are gone! Forever!” Rainbow pointed out.

“Yeah, the Tree of Harmony needs them!” Spike jumped in.

“Wait! The Tree of Harmony!” Fluttershy looked up at Discord. “You can still use it!”

The group turned their heads to look at Fluttershy.

“What?” Twilight asked.

“Yes, I believe we can.” Luna exchanged glances with Discord. All the others except Fluttershy hadn’t known that Discord, Celestia, and Luna’s friendship had created the Tree of Harmony. “You told her?” Luna mouthed to the draconeqqus. Discord nodded.

Twilight, AppleJack, RainbowDash, Pinkie Pie, Rarity and Spike simply gasped yet again at Luna’s surprising comment.

“How, can you two use the Tree of Harmony?” Rarity and Twilight pressed on simultaneously.

“Simple. Lu-Lu, Tia, and I just-” Discord cut himself off, and gave a questioning look. Talking by a way of glances, Discord looked at Luna, who told him a simple “Yes” with a nod.

Discord took in a breath before continuing. ‘Why am I having so much trouble telling them this? It nothing, really!’ He thought to himself.

“Well, what ‘cha waiting for?” AppleJack asked, growing impatient.

“Well, you may not really BELIEVE me, but I’m just going to explain, so don’t insult me while I’m telling the story.” He glared at Rainbow Dash for a brief moment before continueing. “Well, when Tia, Lu-Lu, and I were very young, and Staria was still in charge, I wasn’t, well, evil. I had actually been known and cherished among the pony folk, which were very strange in religion back then, trust me! Twilight, did you ever noticed how I practically KNEW what Celestia was going to say? And how I nodded when you asked me if I had been through that twice? Well, right before Queen Staria died, she said those words. And what you asked Celestia was exactly what I asked her.”

Twilight sat, stunned. “Really? The EXACT same words?”

Discord chuckled. “Well, not EXACTLY, but pretty still close! She was so worried that if the three of us ever became enemies, utter chaos would occur. Not that I would would mind that, though.”

“Wait, what are ya’ll talking about?” AppleJack asked, not having understood much of the part after "Queen Staria died, she said those words".

“Never mind that, let’s get back on task. I’ll tell the rest of the story.” Luna took ahold of the book, looking sadly at it’s blank, brown cover. “A few days after Staria, my mother, died sister and I got our cutie marks.” she stated.

“And your hair jobs.” Discord added, grinning.

Luna merely nodded, unwilling to joke about the subject. “But soon after, there was an incident where Discord had gotten his magic out of control, almost out of nowhere.”

“Like when Rainbow’s first sonic rainboom made my magic go berserk?” Twilight asked, beginning to understand the situation.

“Hush Twilight!” Spike called.

“Yup! Exactly! Something, or somebody must’ve messed up my magic, Equestria knows who or where! But everything, and I mean EVERYTHING was turned into absolute chaos. I was able to turn it all back, but I had to be WAY more careful when handling my magic.” Discord's face looked slightly grim at the thought of having everything in order.

Luna didn't nod at all this time, but instead looked blankly ahead of her.

Discord smiled. “Continuing on, little ponies, after that incident soon enough, Tia and Luna had more ‘Royal Duties’ to do and the pony folk began to resent me more and more. The princesses did try to clear up my name, but I was still resented no matter what! So, in all my loneliness of being practically banished by your precious ponies from most towns, I simply turned evil! Simple as that!” Discord teleported next to Fluttershy with a snap of his fingers. “But because of my dear friend here, I was ‘reformed’.” He let out a chuckle. “Anyways, when my relationship with Lu-Lu and Tia got completely torn apart, guess what happened?” The draconeqqus looked over at the others.

All of them, except Luna and Fluttershy, looked at him blankly.

“Really? No guesses? Wow, some smart ponies you are.” Discord huffed. “Well, all that ‘friendship’ had to go somewhere! And that was when the Tree of Harmony was created!”

“Woah...really?” Rainbow asked, stunned.

“So, wait, without Discord, Luna, and Celestia there would be no elements OR the Tree of Harmony?!? Total plot twister!” Came an enthusiastic comment from Pinkie Pie.

It took a while for the others to get this processed. After a few minutes of silence, Fluttershy asked:

“Why didn’t you guys just stay connected? I mean, Twilight has her responsibilities, but she still makes time for us.”

“Well, as you may see, most pony folk are scared of Discord, in the present. It seemed that after Discord’s magic outburst, all the trust in the ponies withered away. They resented him, and, because we couldn’t stand seeing all the villagers scared out of their lives, we had to see him less and less. That is truly why Celestia and I couldn’t see you more often.” Luna said sincerely, and the others could tell that Discord and the two major princesses (Tia and Luna) had an, in fact, very dear relationship.

“Wait a second. If you weren’t always evil, then why don’t you just, like, be your old self again? I mean, you ARE reformed.” Rainbow pressed, suspicious.

Discord shook his head. “Anyways, aren’t we supposed to be thinking about how to kill this plant in the EverFree Forest?” He nervously asked, trying to change the subject.

“Oh yeah!” Rainbow and Pinkie realized at the same time.

"Wait, though, little ponies! I-I still have something to say." Luna looked downcast as she hung her head guiltily.

"What is it, Lu-Lu?" Discord asked, concerned.

"Discord, I-I know what happened to you. Somepony cursed you to let out all of your powers at once, making you go crazy. And sadly, we know who that is..." Luna confessed.

"And who could have done that?" Discord pressed on, urging her to continue.

"Starswirl the Bearded!!" Luna blurted out. Discord sat aback, shocked at the princess' outburst.

"W-Why?" Discord stammered. "I thought he was my friend!"

"He did it because he knew it was your destiny, ever since Staria's death, Discord, he had the urge and he couldn't fight it. No matter what." Luna explained, and Discord's gaze finally softened.

"Yes, I guess that you must be right, Luna." Discord sighed and hung his head shamefully.

"Don't be sad, Discord, it was for the better! Right?" Fluttershy comforted the draconeqqus. The others, except for Rainbow Dash, and one or two others, nodded.

"Yeah yeah, I guess." Rainbow Dash grumbled. "Can we just get the elements back now?"

"Yeah!" Pinkie cheered. "Let's go on an adventure!"

The subject comletely changed, and after a moment Rarity asked one of the most important questions in the situation:

“But dears, how do we get the elements back? I mean, maybe if we all went to the site where the Star’s Ellipse is as the bearers of the elements, but-” Rarity suggested and up looked at Twilight. “I don’t want Twilight to get hurt, or die!”

“Ah agree with ya’ll but, what if we just take the elements out of the Tree of Harmony again? Ah am pretty sure that’s it’s all charged up by now.” AppleJack pointed out.

“Yeah! Why don’t we?” Rainbow agreed, an excited look on her face.

Luna exchanged glances with Discord, then Twilight. “I don’t see why not?” Twilight said and looked at Luna for approval. Luna curtly nodded.

“Then what are we waiting for? Let’s go!” Spike cheered, and everybody got up and out of the library to go prepare for the journey.

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Upon arriving the Tree of Harmony, Twilight and the others carefully took the stairs (As Pinkie suggested) down into the mysterious cavern where the Tree of Harmony resided.

Discord and Luna, upon seeing the seeing the tree, both had a pang of nostalgia. This was a scene that brought back many memories.

Discord gave a slightly audible sigh, which unfortunately Fluttershy heard.

“What’s wrong?” She asked him quietly.

“Nothing!” Discord spun back in response. He didn’t want anypony to know about his feelings for the old times he had for the princesses, and their happier times.

Fluttershy udged him, and showed him a smile. “Come on, I know you miss those times when you were...younger.”

Discord reddened. “Oh, psh! So what? I was and I still am young!” He huffed, and stormed off to the start of the crowd.

Once Discord stepped into the start of the cavern, the tree gave a bright glow of response. It was beautiful, making no sense at all, being crystal yet living like a real breathing plant.

Discord liked it.

But the moment that Luna stepped into the cavern and close enough to the Tree of Harmony, a sudden bright glow emerged from the tree. Both Luna and Discord’s eyes went brightly white, and they vanished.

“Princess Luna!” Twilight cried.

“Discord!” Fluttershy yelped.

“Where did they go?” Rainbow Dash asked.

“Ah don’t know, but ya’ll should look at the tree!” AppleJack pointed to the tree, which gave off a bright light, almost blinding the ponies.

“What…is...happening?!?” Rarity asked, her mane being blown all different directions.

The glowing stopped, and the ponies (And baby dragon) gasped as a sign of chaos was put directly below Celestia’s and Luna’s cutie marks magically engraved into the tree.

“Is that Discord’s cutie mark? Or what it would look like?” Spike asked.

“I think so.” Twilight guessed. The mark was one of that with different swirls combining to make a sort of tornado shaped mark. One with swirls that seemed to have the shapes of stars, another with suns, and lastly one with moons at the ends.

The ponies were at loss for words. Never had they seen a cutie mark so complicated as the chaos bringers. But what could you expect, he was the god of chaos!

Another bright flash occurred, and Spike, Twilight, AppleJack, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, and Fluttershy were teleported in front of the Two Sister’s Castle.

“What in the hay?” AppleJack asked.

“Why are we here?” Rainbow Dash followed.

“Hey! Why does the Tree of Harmony want us- oh I know! The Tree of Harmony probably wants us to go in the caslte! Oh! Or-or....I don't know but let's go in!” Pinkie began babbling.

“Yeah, let's go have an awesome adventure!” Rainbow cheered.

“Oh, I-I am not sure if I should go in, it IS mouse season!” Rarity stopped and looked disdainfully at the crumbling castle.

Everypony stopped and stared at the whiter unicorn.

"What?" Rarity asked.

“Rarity!” All of them, except Spike and Fluttershy, yelled at her simultaneously.

“Fine, fine! I’ll go in!” Rarity succumbed and followed grimly into the castle.

“Good, because now I do NOT want to lose another princess.” Twilight huffed.

“And I don’t want to lose Discord,” Fluttershy muttered to herself as they went in the large, decayed castle.

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Discord found himself in a series of flashbacks, and the pain of those now lost memories was brutal. He would have to admit that if he were a mere pony he would have let go "liquid pride", all the painful memories too painful to bear. Luna was feeling exactly the same.

Finally, when the memories began to cease, Discord and Luna opened their eyes to find themselves deep in the EverFree Forest.

The first question to came to her mind out in the forest, Luna asked:

“Discord? Where...where are we?” Luna was lying down on the lush ground. Discord had luckily found himself flying in midair, just above Luna.

“Wait! Let me check, Lu-Lu!” He teleported up and above the canopy. He gasped. They were right within the boundaries of the gas coming from the Star’s Ellipse.

“You see anything up there?” Luna sked from down below.

“Yes! Just don’t move or you'll die of old age!” Discord shouted and teleported next to Luna, who has gone slightly stiff. “Now, let me cast a protection spell on you m'dear,” A red aura circled around Luna before disappearing into thin air.

“What is with the protection spell?” Luna asked.

“It’s so you don’t get poisoned by the Star’s Ellipse. Now that you’re safe, let’s get going to destroy that...plant!” Discords flew off, and Luna followed hard on his goat hoof and dragon leg.

Once seeing the beautiful plant, Discord immediately gasped and gawked at the sheer beauty of the flower. The Star’s Ellipse was dark blue, but gradient, and it turned into an orange haze at it’s ends. On it, especially in the middle, were white specks as bright as the stars. In the middle it started out completely pitch black.

“Woah,” Luna joined in.

Snapping out of his gaze, Discord stood up straighter. “Nevermind that we gotta-”

“DISCORD?”

Discord spun around. In front of him was Dark Age, the big and powerful.

“What are you doing here, brother? Are you-” Dark Age gasped. “Helping the princess?”

“What? No, I’m just trying to-”

“DON’T lie to me, Discord!” He snarled. “See? I knew you would turn all soft after being around those petty ponies! Compared to what you were when we ruled together you are a fool! And you must be PUNISHED!”

Dark Age suddenly charged at Discord, who only smirked and teleported away, teleporting the princess with him.

"Fine, then, you want a fight? Then I’ll give you a fight!” Taking a deep breath he wrapped Dark Age in his magical aura, casting a spell on him.

“Spells won’t help you anymore, Discord!” Dark Age laughed and rammed into Discord, knocking him into a tree. Luna shrieked.

Discord huffed and took to the skies again, his back looking almost as if it were broken in two. “You know Dark Age, I’ve learned some new things too!” Discord gave a grunt as he struggled a good chunk of his magic into his next spell.

Dark Age laughed. “Like wha-?!?” Dark Age gave a yelp as he was suddenly blasted by a meteor, just big enough to completely squash him. He was dead. Or so it seemed. (Short fight, eh? Well, I got lazy. Sorry, all readers!)

Smoke flew about the air, and after taking a few deep breaths, Discord looked down. “It’s what you deserved, Dark Age,” he growled.

“Discord! Are you alright?” Luna asked, still slightly paralyzed by the short and sudden fight the draconeqqus just had.

“Yeah, let’s just kill the plant already!” he snapped.

“Okay, okay, just wanted to make sure that you were-” Luna began.

“Nevermind it!” Discord snapped once again as he winced from the growing pain in his back. But after a moment he let out a sigh. “Yeah, I am. Let’s just get out of here already, I don’t want to find out if Dark Age is completely dead or not. I’ve seen him come back from the dead before, you know.”

Luna nodded, and her horn started to glow. The Star’s Ellipse began to glow as it was surrounded by a blue and red aura, the red obviously coming from Discord.

“Elements of Harmony, I call upon you!” Luna called. “Please, heed my call to destroy this plant whom has taken my beloved mother and sister!”

Discord watched as the plant became uprooted, and it glowed for a few moments before it disappeared into thin air. The Star’s Ellipse was finally gone for good, but not before sucking out all of the magic and energy Discord had left. Whilst Luna had a protective spell on her Discord had forgotten to protect himself, and while it will not kill him when he reaches the year two thousand, it sucked all the energy he had left in him. By the end of the spell, Discord passed out, falling backwards and onto a sharp rock that made his made go crack! Surely now did his back break.

“Discord!” Luna looked down at the draconeqqus, noticing the blood that came out of his new fresh wound on his back.

“Luna!” Twilight called out from a small distance away. Luna spun her head around. There was Twilight, followed by Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy, while the others ran on the forest floor. “Thank goodness we found you!”

“Twilight? How did you find us?” Luna asked, confused.

“We saw a bright light and an explosion from over here, and Fluttershy says she saw a pony named Dark Age fighting Discord. Did you destroy the plant? Without the elements?” Twilight asked, panting from her hurried trip.

“Indeed, we did, but Discord got injured, and that spell we used to destroy the Star’s Ellipse must’ve sucked out all the remaining energy from him. It seems the only way that we must’ve been able to destroy the plant is because of me, summoning the element's power, instead of getting them out of the tree. Why were you at my old castle?” Luna explained quickly, finishing at a question.

“Well, it seems that the Tree of Harmony wanted just us to be safe. I saw a bright glow from where the tree resides, and a foggy looking area not too far from your old castle.” Twilight guessed logically.

Fluttershy finally caught up and flew right into the scene, looking frantic. “Discord!” She yelped.

“You’re right, we should get him help, come, Twilight! Help me teleport us back to PonyVille.” Luna nodded, and everypony took hooves, Fluttershy holding Discord’s limp chicken arm, and in a flash the group disappeared.

Author's Note

(SECOND)-LONGEST. CHAPTER. EVER.
Took so long and I was talking with my friend Fluttershyfan, which helped me to come up with the idea od Dark Age coming back. Well, actually she asked (and others too, acctually) if Dark Age was going to come back.
So I did that, now you happy?
LOL Just kidding, but anyways, I hope you like love my new chapter!
*EDITING MIGHT BE REQUIRED*