Discord's Little Games

by Dubpony_4

Rating: mature
Tags: Sad, Princess Luna, Tragedy, Discord, Princess Celestia, Main 6, Gore, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Dark
Length: 5479

Discord has a little bit of fun with torture and games

Warning - This story contains very gruesome and violent material if this kind of material bothers this may not be the best story for you to read

Equestria now under Discord's rule is thrown into chaos and Discord is loving it, Accept he feels as if he can do more with his power. Discord decides to have a little fun with torture and make a game out of it, how will this story go? will it end with Discord with his violent games going on forever or will there we an unexpected twist?

P.S. This is my first story some constructive critism would be greatly be appreciated. Also I really love all the ponies but I just had this idea for the story and decided to write it. Also this story contains many character's but they are not threw out the whole story. Also thanks to my friend Midnight_Blue for helping edit my punctuation and my wording. I hope you you enjoy my story.

Published 2012-04-07 14:44:02 UTC
Last updated 2012-04-07 14:44:02 UTC

The Madness begins

The Madness begins

“Discord’s Little Games”

It has been five years, Five years since Discord defeated the Princesses and defeated the Elements of Harmony. Discord was enjoying his Chaos, but he felt like he needed some more excitement from all the chaos he has been causing. Just plain madness and trickery wasn’t enough. He thought to himself he needs to cause some more of a disturbance and something more horrifying to these ponies under his control. He thought….. And thought….. then thought maybe torture? Yes torture he thought play some games make ponies turn on each other and just plain fun.

He thought which Pony should he try his new method of “Fun” on when the two Ponies that he despises the most came to mind Luna and Celestia he was still infuriated by them for turning him in to stone for a thousand years he chose them to be his first test subjects. Luna and Celestia were in his dungeon for the last five years and he has decided it is time for them to come to an end Discord decided his game and chose to use his Coliseum. Discord summoned the two ponies in to his Coliseum; both Ponies weak and drained of their magic stand helpless. Discord tells them “I still haven’t forgiven either of you for what you did to me all those years ago, but I am a forgiving being and I will let one of you live if only if you one of you are willing to kill the other for their life.”

Celestia was shocked by this statement but then felt a piercing pain in to her shoulder, She looks over and its Luna already to kill her own sister. Celestia screams “what are you doing you would actually do this to me?” Luna replies “dear sister I still haven’t forgiven you for sending me to the Moon you do not understand the pain I feel betrayed by my own sister, I have been waiting for this day and today I will destroy you!” Celestia's shock then turned to rage replying with “Sister you shall regret this decision, you speak of me betraying look what you are doing now, you pitiful beast prepare to die!” Celestia then bashed Luna’s horn of with her hoof multiple times until it broke off, and then began to repeatedly stab Luna in the chest with her horn. Luna counters with a many pounds to Celestia’s head, cracking her skull and causing some bleeding, Celestia still continued her assault. After a few minutes of Celestia’s assault Luna began to lose massive amounts of blood and started to lose her energy Luna collapses to the ground and begins to beg her sister for mercy. Celestia doesn’t listen she is in rage she has no longer control of and begins to mutilate her sister, She then cuts open her stomach, Luna screams in pain and begins to cry. Celestia then begins to tear her insides apart pulling her intestines and stringing them across the ground, then she cuts open her stomach and sticks her hoof in it and violently flails it around causing stomach acid and blood to fly everywhere, after doing so she starts to stomp on her rib cage, Luna his thrown into so much pain she cannot take it anymore. Discord shouts with great delight “Wonderful wonderful, good show good show!” Celestia then stomps Luna’s head in and her brains splat all around her. Celestia stood there for a moment, panting heavily covered in blood her face with an expression of madness, she then snapped back in to reality and realized what she has done. Luna’s body lying there completely mutilated her body torn to shreds…. Celestia then began to heavily sob crying out “Dear sister what have I done, Why why couldn’t I control myself why!” Discord then teleports down beside her and say to her “You have now won your life, but then again Celestia you should know by now that I am never completely honest.” Discord then snapped off Celestia’s horn and stuck it in to her neck letting her warm blood run down his hand. She began to cough up blood, Discord gives her a mocking smile and tell her “You were known as the most loving and kind in all of Equestria now look at what you have done brutally killed Luna, Now in your last breaths you will know you are as much of a monster as I” Celestia tries to give him a reply but can only gurgle up blood. Discord then pushes her over and lets her die.
Discord then grinned and says to himself “This was pretty entertaining to me, what other Ponies and what other ways can I torture and have fun with them all, which Pony should I play a game with next.” He then realizes the next pony he will chooses “The pony who is Element of Laughter” he then laughs and says to himself “I have the perfect idea for this Pony.”

Pinkie Pie was not the pony she was before with the land thrown in to chaos, she has been depressed and has not partied since the chaos began. She spends most of her time in her room in Sugar Cube Corner. Discord arrived in her room while she was a sleep and teleported her in to a dark room in his castle. Pinkie awoke shortly after frightened and began to cry a little then asking “Where am I what’s going on.” Suddenly the lights came on; Pinkie looked around streamers, cupcakes, soda, and saw ponies, a lot of ponies. Pinkie Pie stopped crying and jumped with joy shouting “A PARTY!” She started dancing and playing with all the ponies, she was having so much fun. When suddenly all the ponies stopped playing and dancing and all began to stare at her. Pinkie Pie just laughed and asked “What’s going on with you ponies this is a party dance.” After that statement one pony grabbed a cupcake and shoved it in to Pinkie’s mouth after that all the other ponies began to do the same thing. Pinkie yelled “Hey stop it I am not hungry I love cupcakes and all but this is too much.” The Ponies continued to shove the cupcakes down her throat Pinkie was trying to scream for help but all the cupcakes were muffling her screams. Pinkie was getting so filled with cupcakes that her stomach pops open; she then begins to bursts in to tears. Some of the ponies began to eat and chew on her stomach lining and the non-digested cupcakes Pinkie then passes out from all the pain she was in, The Ponies then began to pull out all of her intestines and inner organs chewing and eating them all. Then all of the ponies began to fade away Discord then appeared after all the ponies were all now gone. Discord just smiled at the corpse that laid before him, thinking to himself how clever it was to make fake ponies and have a party to kill the pony, He says to himself “Oh the irony Pinkie Pie being killed during an event she specialized at and even better by her favorite food.” He chuckles, now I think it is time for some sisterly love. Discords next game was to be played between Sweetie Belle and Rarity.

Discord then went to fetch the two ponies. Sweetie Belle and Rarity still living in Rarity’s Boutique spending their lives trying to survive off of what little they have. Discord appears in their boutique with a big grin on his face. “Hello girls” Discord says to them, they just both glared at him, “Oh don’t be like that I have an offer for you that would be insane for you to refuse” said Discord, Rarity response with a glare and told him to get out of her house. Discord just smiled “Oh but dearie you have no choice.” Discord then teleports them to a room a very strange looking room. Filled with needles, thread and the walls made of fabric; they looked a little puzzled, Rarity then asked “Um why are we here?” Discord just chuckles and makes two cupcakes appear, “You must eat one of these first” he replies, “what makes you think we’re going to eat them?” said Rarity. Discord gives her a mocking look and says to her “well either you can eat these and play a long or I could just beat you to death with Sweetie belle it’s your choice” with that added her and Sweetie Belle both grabbed the cupcakes and eats them.
Rarity began to get lighted headed and passed out, after a few hours she woke up and began to feel horrible pain, She looks to her right and sees Sweetie Belle sewing her to the wall She couldn’t move Sweetie Belle has already sewed all her limbs, Rarity cries out “Sweetie Belle what are you doing!” Sweetie Belle doesn’t respond just whispers under her voice “Rarity is a horrible sister she never loved me I listen to big brother Discord.” Rarity begins to cry and says “Sweetie Belle listen to me I love you, you mean more than the world to me listen to me please!” Rarity then turns and looks towards Discord then screams at him “What have you done to my sister!” Discord laughs and in response says “Oh those Cupcakes you should of thought before picking one, Sweetie Belle got the better one in my opinion she is now under my hypnosis, she now listens to me I told her that you never loved her so I gave her the tools and told to her sew you to the wall I rather fancy you as a decoration you are one of the most beautiful ponies of all any way.” Rarity then just starts screaming at Discord “You monster what have we ever done to you to deserve this why are you doing this WHY!” Discord just laughed and says to Sweetie Belle “Her voice is annoying me, is it annoying you? Do us both a favor and shut it up for us.” Sweetie Belle then replies “Yes big Brother” Rarity just cries and begs for her to not do it but Sweetie Belle began to sew her mouth up tight it took a little while with Rarity fighting back moving her head around so much, Sweetie Belle accidently stuck it in to her cheeks and chin a couple time letting little bits of blood to spurt out, “Stop moving so much.” said Sweetie Belle, but she got it done. Discord then calls Sweetie Belle over, she walks over and asks “Did I do good big Brother?” Discord then replies “oh yes yes Sweetie Belle you did.” He then picks her up and tells her “Thanks for the entertainment.” Then crushes her head between his hands blood and brains splattering all over him, he then looks over at Rarity and gives a smile at her, Rarity begins to cry harder from the pain of watching that be done. Discord walks over to her and says “stop your sobbing.” And then takes sweetie Belle’s horn and sticks in right in her forehead blood splatted all over him, he just grinned and said “Night night little pony.”

Discord has already thought of the rest of the Ponies he wants to play with he decides it’s time for some education in this fun. Discord then goes to a chamber with in his palace he summons Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon, The two fillies startled he picks them both up and straps them on two separate tables both fillies scared out of their minds begin crying, he then teleports himself above the outside of the room behind a glass from which he can view out of. (This room is like one of the rooms where ponies can watch a scientific experiment go on but from distance so they are not in the way or get harmed.) Discord then summons their teacher Cheerliee, She is just a bit confused she stopped caring about what has happened to Equestria years ago and just asks Discord “What is going on.” He says “you see those fillies I want you to kill them in any manor you want.” Then a table rises out of the ground in front of her containing many experiment tools and other kinds of instruments, Cheerliee develops and grin on her face then looks at Discord and just nods she then looks at the two fillies and says “you two do not understand how long and how badly I wanted to do this.” She then looks at Diamond Tiara and “says you’re going first.” Diamond Tiara then busted into tears and begged her not too, but she just ignored her and picked up a small pin hammer off of the table and walked over to her and says “I am going to make this last.” Cheerliee then begins to pound her hoofs in with the pin hammer one after then other smashing them until they shattered into little pieces. Diamond Tiara screaming from the pain she is starts to cry even more, Cheerliee began to get annoyed by this and went over to the table and grabbed duct tape and a staple gun, she then duct tapes Diamond Tiara’s mouth shut and staples it across the duct tape just to get a little amusement, Cheerliee now wonder what was going on in that little filly, so she reached and grabbed a sickle she cut open Diamond Tiara as if to practice surgery on her. Cheerliee now staring at her insides decided she wants to take a look at her heart, she says “I always wonder if you have a black heart just from because of how you treated every other pony.” She then tears out some of her ribs to take a look, “Looks like just a normal heart.” Says Cheerliee, she then looks over and sees and little vial of liquid and thinks to herself “I wonder what that is.” She then picks it up and then pours a little bit of the acid on Diamond Tiara’s face it starts to melt parts of her skin off, Diamond Tiara then begins to start bashing her head off the table from the pain she was in trying to scream but only muffled sounds came from her mouth due to the duct tape covering her mouth.

Cheerliee went on for a few moments picking pieces of Diamond Tiara’s stomach lining watching little bits of stomach acid flow out of her, Cheerliee then grinned and takes a scalpel and jabs it right in to Diamond Tiara’s heart and digging it around, shortly after Diamond Tiara died.
Cheerliee looked Silver Spoon and said to her “You are not as bad as her so I will make it a bit less painful for you.” Silver Spoon then just cried a little bit begging for her not to do it pleading her, Cheerliee just told her to shut up before she changed her mind about making it fast, Cheerliee then grabs a dull knife and begins to cut off Silver Spoon’s hind legs, chopping and slicing furiously, Blood splattering all over her she just wipes it off her face and commences to her work, after a couple minutes of chopping her arms became tired, so she grabbed the nail gun off the table and nailed Silver Spoon’s legs back together, she then chuckled and said “Oh my how humors of me fixing something I broke and not intending to keep it fixed oh Cheerliee you crack me up.” At this point Cheerliee has gone a little bit crazy then looks over at the table and a very specific item catches her eye, an old rusty spoon Cheerliee grinned and said “oh hey Silver Spoon I have some one for you to meet his name is old rusty spoon and he wants to play.” Silver Spoon just yells at her “Keep it away from me please stop this please!” Cheerliee just walked over forced Silver Spoon’s mouth open and began to dig out her teeth, pulling out all of her molars then taking the spoon out of her mouth. She started to dig in to her stomach with the spoon while singing “Rusty spoon Rusty Spoon digging in to Silver Spoon with a Rusty Spoon how kind can you be.” It took a little while for her to break the mares skin and begin digging but she finally did it Cheerliee then looked over at Discord smiled and says to him “Oh Discord you silly beast I thought I was all alone how embarrassing.” Discord just gave her a look and chuckled and gave a hand signal for her to continue, Cheerliee just looked at the crying and screaming Silver Spoon just thinking to herself “Wow this filly looks like she is in a lot of pain I should put her out of her misery.” Cheerliee says to Silver Spoon “well time for you to go.” She then grabs the pin hammer off the table the slams it right on Silver Spoon’s fore head causes damage but doesn’t kill, so she hits again shattering through her skull tiny bits of bone, blood and brain gets all over her she just wipes it off and goes in to a blank stare. Discord then walks up beside her and says “You know you are quite the loving teacher.” Cheerliee then chuckles and says “I am aren’t I.” Discord laughs and says “Yes, yes you are.” He then picks up the nail gun off the table and shoots a nail right in to her head. Discord then turns and leaves the room chuckling.

Discord then says to himself “Hmmmmm I am sort of in the mood for Apples.” Discord then goes to his Main chambers and sets up three machines. He summons in the three Ponies. All three ponies in shackles he takes the littlest one and puts her in to the first machine then takes the mare and puts her in the other, These two Ponies are Apple Bloom and Applejack, the other one is a colt his name is Big Macintosh, The machine Apple Bloom was put in to was a small like vice machine with needles on it, and the machine Applejack was in has two heating elements on both sides that close in on her when turned on both ponies just stared in dismay not even caring what was going on. Discord gives Big Macintosh a stare and says to him “I want you to prove to me what kind of a pony you are, I want you to make a choice which sister do you love more? Applejack or Apple Bloom or you can sacrifice yourself to save both; Do you see that machine over there? If you go over to that machine and step in to it will send over 25,000 volts of electricity in to your body until you die, it’s your choice make your make you decision soon you have five minutes to make your choice and the time starts now.” Big Macintosh looks at his sisters with tears in his eyes, Apple Bloom tells Big Macintosh “Choose me you and Applejack are much older then I and can do more with your lives please choose me.” Applejack then says “No Apple Bloom! Choose me Big Macintosh keep care of our sister help her live a life and try to make her happy.” Both sisters begin to cry and trying to convince Big Macintosh to choose. Two minutes have passed Big Macintosh finally gives a reply “Sisters keep care of each other I love you both.” Both sisters scream for him to not do it, but Big Macintosh stepped in the machine, he gets strapped down and the bolts begin to course through his body he looks over to his sisters and sees both of their machines are then activated. Big Macintosh is frightend and tries to break out of the machine but cannot. Discord then just laughs and says “Oh you silly pony you thought I was being serious about you being able to save both? Hahahahaha you should know not to trust me.” Apple Bloom begins to scream as the needles puncture through her skin blood begins to stream down her and eventually pressing into her lungs and Apple Bloom shortly after dies and is crushed between the machine, while this was going on Applejack was being sired cooking off her skin and slowly pressing in to her, Applejack tries to hold back her screams of pain but can’t she begins to scream for mercy, But Discord just laughs, after a while of her cooking all of her insides were cooked, Big Macintosh witnessing this all begins to cry he cannot stand it, Discord walks over to the machine and says “Oh lookie here it was only set to 1,000 volts lets crank it up 100,000.” After doing so Big Macintosh’s body began to shake rapidly organs began to pop inside of him and eventually his body drops. Discord then turns the machine off, He then sits down and thinks to himself which ponies he should play with next, he then remembers the loyalist pony in all of Equestria and her little fan.

Discord thought of another pony he could easily torture a little shy Pegasus. Discord then goes to his throne room sets up shackles and summons in a the Pegasus, he then ties her down and summons in a large box, He then says to the pony “Oh dear Fluttershy don’t be afraid I have your animal friends with me.” Fluttershy just looked over at him and pleaded “Please don’t hurt my animals please please please please don’t.” Discord said “Oh I will never do such a thing.” he then takes out a little mouse and begins petting it in his hand he walks over to Fluttershy then crushes it and saying “See I didn’t hurt I just crushed it quick and painful.” Fluttershy just begins to cry, Discord then reaches in to the box and grabs a little bunny and says “oh look how cutesy and wutesy it is.” He then just snaps it in half and chuckles saying “whoops I slipped up.” Fluttershy at this point is crying harder, “Oh don’t be like that.” Discord says he then wrings out some of the blood on to Fluttershy “Saying here have some of its blood oh and here you can cuddle with it too.” He then lays the bunny’s corpse beside her, Discord then reaches into the box and grabs another bunny but it was Fluttershy’s favorite it was Angel, Fluttershy screams “No no please no not Angel please!” Discord just said “oh so this one is your favorite oh then you both can share in this.” Discord then rips the little bunny’s spine out and looks over at Fluttershy and laughs and says “Oh that was so easy it tore out so easily.” He then walks over to the Fluttershy, Fluttershy is crying hysterically and can’t hold any tears back Discord just gives her a glare and says “Shut it your crying is so pathetic it is annoying me.” He then begins to bash Fluttershy with the Bunny’s spine blood splattering everywhere, and beating her until she stops crying and moving, He just grins and says “Much better peace and quiet.” Discord then leaves the bloodied room.

Discord then goes to his throne room and sets up a table. He summons in Rainbow Dash and Scootaloo he picks up Scootaloo and straps her on the table, Scootaloo struggled to get free but couldn’t get free Rainbow Dash just sat there with her useless wings. Since Discord has ruled he made sure she couldn’t fly any more completely crushing her spirits. Discord looks over at her and says to her “Would you like to fly again? You can if you want you just have to do one simple little thing, chop off this fillies, useless wings and I will let you fly again, sounds good doesn’t it?” Rainbow Dash just sat there and thought about it, Scootaloo says to Rainbow Dash “You can do it Rainbow Dash anything for my hero.” Rainbow Dash looks at her and cries feeling bad that she never really paid any attention to her before and realizes how much the filly loves her. Rainbow Dash says to her “I don’t know if I can do it kid.” Scootaloo replies “You can do it Dash please for your biggest fan.” Rainbow Dash with tears in her eyes replies “Okay.” Discord then hands her an old jagged knife, Rainbow Dash then began to cut with tears running down her face, Scootaloo cries out in pain while Rainbow Dash cuts her wing, After she cut the one wing off she went to the other and began to cut blood spraying everywhere all over both ponies and Discord, Now with both her wings off Discord took the knife out of Rainbow Dash’s hoof and then stuck it in to scootaloo’s chest, Rainbow then screamed at Discord “STOP!” she kicks him in the chest Discord falls down, and replies “Stupid pony you just made a huge mistake.” Discord then launches at Rainbow Dash and begins to stab her rapidly with the knife blood flying everywhere just cutting and stabbing in to her nonstop mutilating her whole chest. After Discord was done with that he walked over to Scootaloo and grins at her then saying “You’re a kind little chicken.” And then sticks the knife in to her throat and lets the filly bleed out.

Discord grew weary with the easiness of his games, He decided he wanted a challenge, Discord then pondered on the thought of when Rainbow Dash attacked him, he kind of liked the idea of a pony fighting him back, He then grinned with delight he thought one more pony the strongest in magic the one pony who is the “Element of Magic.” Discord then teleports himself in to the high security lock down twilight was in to go have a talk with her, Discord walks in to a room with a pony tied down by the strongest magic bonds to be made he looks at her and says “Why hello my dear Twilight Sparkle how are you doing this fine day?” She just gives him an arrogant glare, “Oh Twilight I am here to offer you a chance to save all of Equestria I am willing to give you half of my power to battle me and if you win you are now then ruler of Equestria and you can do whatever you want to do with me.” Still Twilight ignored him. “Oh COME ON! Fight me; you have no choice you will.” Discord then releases her and teleports them to the Battle Arena where Luna and Celestia fought, When Twilight saw this she was thrown in to a rage and gives Discord a violent stare and says to him “you better be ready to die you fool.” “Oh oh oh oh excellent, oh and by the way Twilight I also killed all of your fellow ponies friends, just letting you know.” Twilight was more infuriated than ever and said “DISCORD I WILL HAVE MY REVENGE!” Discord then grinned at Twilight and said “If you say so.” Discord then transferred half of his power in to Twilight, Twilight then began to glow a bright white color, with purple energy flowing around her and then transferring in to an Alicorn, Discord then Summoned the rest of his power and became five times bigger and lighting pulsed all around him, in a darker more terrifying voice he says to her “Let the final game begin.”

After saying so Discord fired a large black blast from his mouth at Twilight she was hit and was slammed into a part of the Coliseum completely destroying that part of the arena, Twilight then rose from the smoke and began to fire tons of energy blast at him hitting him hundreds of times knocking him out of the Coliseum, Twilight continued her are assult pushing him in to Canterlot castle. Discord then manages to bring up and energy shield to protect himself from the blasts, He then swiped at Twilight and made her slam in to the slam threw Canterlot Castle, She landed in the throne room, Discord then charging at her yelling “Here I come little Pony.” Twilight the jumped up and charged back at Discord, They collided Twilight started stabbing Discord in the head rapidly, Discord shouts in pain then slams Twilight down and begins slamming her into the ground, Twilight then summons up a magical shield which then begins to hurt discord from hitting and broke one of his hands, Twilight then summoned a magic sword and began slicing away at Discord, Discord tried fending off her attacks but she was attacking so furiously and fast he couldn’t fend her off, He then Shoots a bolt of lightning at her and sends her flying down to Ponyville, All the ponies there were in shock when Twilight landed, She stood back up to see the raging Discord flying towards her, Twilight then summons to her a magical flail and stands her ground, When Discord finally reaches her she slams the flail in to as hard as she could and sends him rolling through Ponyville, she fly’s after him shooting him with energy bolts while he rolls, Discord finally stops himself and shoots a blast of energy at Twilight making her fall to the ground. Both standing starring each other down, Discord lets out a little chuckle and says “This is quite the thrill Twilight look at all this extra damage and chaos we are causing while we fight it is wonderful.” Twilight looks around and realizes she needs to get them away from here so no more ponies will get hurt, So she then uses a spell to send them to the Moon, Twilight looks at Discord and says “This will be your resting place you vile beast.” Discord then chuckles and says “we will see about that.”

Twilight and Discord then begin to fight firing energy blasts back and forth to each other causing massive damage to each other, the fighting continued for hours both still fighting and full of strength, Discord then summons a battle axe and begins to swing rapidly at Twilight, Twilight avoiding his attacks then summons a halberd and starts to attack him both avoiding and blocking each other’s attacks, Twilight then swings her halberd so hard at Discord she shatters his axe and then sticking it right through his stomach, Discord drops to his knees, coughing out blood and starts laughing and says to Twilight “Good game Twilight Sparkle, You have shown who is the superior being, *coughs* now what do you plan to do with me, around you going to kill me? If so do it now.” Twilight pulled the halberd out of him and said “I think I would rather you suffer some first.” Twilight then took chopped off one of Discord’s arms, Discord cried out in pain but tried to cover it in laugher “Oh good, I will gladly accept this I do deserve it after all don’t I?” Twilight didn’t give a response but instead hooked the halberd in to his side and then yanked it out violently causing blood to flow out of him, Twilight began to beat him with the halberd, leaving cuts and tears all over his body then stopped leaving him lie there helpless, after that she then charged up an energy blast and fired it at Discord causing a huge explosion in which ponies saw from Equestria, few moments passed and all the chaos in Equestria stopped, All the ponies looked confused but glad it had stopped, Soon after Twilight came back down to Equestria looking over all of the damage that had been done, Twilight bowed her head down, and cried and a little she then looked back up and went down to Ponyville, She announced to all of the ponies,
“We have lost a lot in the last five years, So many ponies lives have been lost, So much damage has been caused to our beautiful Equestria, but I swear by the sun and the moon and out great Princess and friends that have died by the beast Discord that we will rebuild this land back to its rightful glory and Equestria shall be a great nation once again.”
All the ponies laughed, Cheered and cried, with Twilight being the most powerful being in Equestria and now leading them they were all given hope that Equestria will be again a place where they can be happy and call Home.