The Elements of Chaos Book IIII The Second Generation

Everything looked different. The castle had been rebuilt and it was full of decorations. Lights and colors streamed everywhere. There was food and ponies were having fun everywhere. Silverpants lead them to a staircase along the side of the room. "The girls can dress in these rooms." Then he pointed towards another staircase on the other side of the room. "The stallions can go in those rooms on the other side." The girls glanced at each other and slowly walked up the stairs. "Silverpants and the other stallions have done a great job with this place." Moonlight told Star Dim. She smiled. "Thank you. And I think all of you are going to like the dresses I made." Star Dim opened the door and let everyone walk in. It looked like it had belonged to one of the guards. In the middle of the room was a rack full of dresses. "Wow! Star Dim, these dresses are lovely!" Cotton Feathers said loudly. Star beamed. "I knew you would love them. I have the dresses for you young fillies over there." Everyone glanced to the other corner of the room and found a smaller rack with dresses. The younger fillies rushed over to them. "Mother these dresses are gorgeous!" Shimmering Star said. Each dress was so different and unique it was not hard to find out which dress belonged to which pony. Then they began to style their manes. "I wonder what the guys are doing." Discorded Swirls said. Crazed Candy shrugged. "Probably talking about things stallions would usually talk about. Or boasting about themselves." Screwball walked over to Star Dim. "Thank you Aunt Star Dim, I love my dress, it's so chaotic!" Star Dim looked down at her godchild. "Your welcome Screwball. I knew you would like it, and it looks so well on you." By the time everyone else was ready they all walked out of the room and went to see their husbands.

"I can't wait to see what they look like!" Raspberry Pie said with glee. "Knowing my wife, I'm sure they will look fabulous." Silverpants replied. Then they saw Star Dim at the top of the stairs. She walked down the stairs slowly, followed by the others. Raspberry Pie and Bitter Tart had their mouths wide open, Silverpants and Discord's eyes grew wide. Blazing Dash and Butterscotch gasped. Star Dim looked at Silverpants. "Well, what do you think?" Silverpants just blinked, then he tried to speak. "They are......absolutely gorgeous......I can hardly talk." Star smiled and glanced at Diamond Ring. "My, don't you look dashing Diamond Ring." Diamond beamed. "Thank you Mother, you look wonderful." Chocolate Pie raced over to Raspberry. "Wow! Raspberry you look sooooo handsome!" Raspberry smiled. "You look soooo pretty! And so do they!" He pointed towards the triplets. Chocolate Pie giggled and embraced her husband in a warm hug. Cotton Feathers smiled when she saw Butterscotch. "You look very nice." She said. Butterscotch smiled nervously. "You do too. Flutterbreeze looks beautiful." Cotton Feathers nodded. "She certainly does." Blazing Dash grinned when he saw Discorded Swirls. "Wow! You and Rainbow look awesome!" Discorded gently punched him. "You don't look so bad yourself. Neither does Chaotic Blaze." Bitter Tart and Crazed Candy hugged. "You and Twisted Taffy both look great." Bitter Tart complimented. Crazed Candy blushed. "Do I really look nice? I know Twisted Taffy does." Bitter Tart nodded. "You are the most beautiful sight in this room." Screwball and Stellauna ran towards Discord. "Daddy! You look so amazing!" Stellauna squealed. Discord smiled. "You girls look lovely." Then they looked at Disharmony. "Wow Disharmony, you look nice too." Screwball said. Disharmony smiled a little. "I guess I do." Discord looked at the girls. "Where is your mother?" Stellauna looked up at him. "She's coming!" Discord looked up at the top of the stairs. Slowly Moonlight walked out. Discord froze. When she reached him, her eyes grew wide. "You look.........I can't even describe how amazing you look." Discord stayed frozen, but he tried to talk. "You are....…I…….You look beautiful." Moonlight looked at her dress. "Really? I was afraid you wouldn't like it." Discord glared at her. "Whatever would make you think that? I love you for who you are.You look beautiful, your gorgeous, your stunning, do I need to continue?" Moonlight shook her head. "No, I get it. Star did do an amazing job with these dresses." Then Silverpants spoke up. "Now that we are ready we can dance and enjoy the night!" Then a few ponies began getting closer. Chaotic Blaze walked towards Twisted Taffy. "Twisted Taffy, do you think.....would it be alright if.......would you like to dance with me?" Twisted Taffy nodded. "Of course." Disharmony walked towards Twisted Taffy. "Um, Twisted Taffy I was wondering.......if nopony asked you yet.......would you like to dance with me?" Twisted Taffy smiled. "Yes, that would be nice." Disharmony took her hoof and the two walked off. Diamond Ring approached Stellaluna. "Would you like to dance with me?" Stellaluna  nodded. "Sure, why not?" Then Moonlight and her friends went with their husbands and began to partake in everything. The rest of them went among the castle and began having their own fun.

Screwball walked up a flight of stairs to find a hallway filled with doors. "This is one of the most beautiful parts of the castle." A voice said from behind her. Screwball turned around to see her mother standing near her. "Mom, what is this place?" Moonlight wrapped a hoof around her. "The castle that used to belong to Luna and Celestia. They were great enemies of ours. This castle holds some of the greatest and some of the most tragic memories I have." Screwball looked up at Moonlight. "Tragic? What happened?" Moonlight sighed. "Walk with me and I'll tell you." Screwball stood up and followed her. "Many things happened here. But it will involve going back in time for that." Screwball nodded. "It's okay, I just want to know what happened." Moonlight lead her out to one of the balconies of the castle. "A while ago, before any of you were born, before your father and I got married something happened. Things were going a lot smoother between us. But then they came along." Moonlight pointed towards a window of two Alicorns. "Is that Celestia and Luna?" Screwball asked. Moonlight nodded. "They wanted to end your fathers reign. They began pushing his magic back. Thankfully, we were able to fix it, seeing that we both have magic stronger then Luna or Celestia. But then......." Moonlight eyes began to fill with tears. Screwball's eyes grew wide. "Mom, what happened?" Moonlight wrapped her hooves around Screwball. "Luna and Celestia turned your father to........stone." Moonlight said in a weak voice. Screwball gasped. "What! Why would they do that?" Moonlight's tears grew larger. Her eyes looked full of sadness. "They found ancient artifacts called the Elements of Harmony, they approached Discord. He knew what they were going to do, but he figured he would be able to stop them. But while he was distracted they cast a spell and........" Screwball began to cry. "They didn't, they couldn't......." Moonlight sighed. "They did. I was left alone. My friends tried to help me but it wasn't enough. I began to grow very angry and bitter. I even hurt my friends. Slowly I was starting to lose even the chaotic sanity I had left. But the good news was he found a way to see me." Screwball wiped her eyes. "How?" Moonlight smiled slightly. "Every night he found a way to enter my dreams. He would create a world were my friends and I could be happy. One time he managed to break out of the stone. That was one of the greatest night's I ever had. But sadly he couldn't stay like that forever. Eventually I decided to look here....." Moonlight opened one of the doors and Screwball gasped. It was one of the largest and oldest libraries she had ever seen. "Wow, this place is huge." Moonlight nodded. She lead Screwball to the small room she had found many years ago. Moonlight locked the gate behind them. "I found this room, and many treasures and scrolls with it. Eventually I found a spell that could reverse any enchantment or spell." Moonlight used her magic to show Screwball an old scroll. "Mom, is this the same scroll you found here?" Moonlight nodded. "It is, I practiced the spell on a few objects in this room. Finally I needed to try the spell on something made of stone. But I couldn't think of anything until......" Screwball finished her sentence. "Stone...." Moonlight nodded. "I made Stone to help me. He was a very sweet and gentle creature so I allowed him to stay with me, that's why our family has a cockatrice for a companion. Eventually I was able to undo even his magical stare. I gathered my friends and our Elements and set Discord free. He defeated Celestia and Luna and took back Equestria. Then a while later he proposed and well, you know the rest." Eventually they made their way back to the room where the gala was taking place. "Mom, the Elements of Harmony. Are they the jewels on the necklace you are wearing?" Moonlight looked down at the Elements of Harmony. "Yes they are, your Daddy gave them to me as a gift." Screwball smiled. "Wow, my Daddy is a legend!" Moonlight smiled. "Yes he is." Then they heard a voice behind them. "But I could not have done any of that without your help." Moonlight turned and saw Discord behind her. "You were spying on us weren't you?" Discord smiled. "Maybe....I was wondering..." Moonlight quickly answered. "Yes. I would love to." Discord shook his head. "You are hilarious. I didn't even tell say anything yet." Moonlight smiled. "I don't need to know what is, because I already know just as long as it's with you it'll be perfect." Moonlight turned to Screwball. "You can go and have fun Screwball, I'm just going to spend a little time with your father." Screwball nodded. "Okay." After Moonlight and Discord left Screwball wondered around. Both her brother and her sister were dancing and having fun. She wished she could be doing that too. Suddenly she felt somepony touch her. She turned around to see a stallion behind her. "Hi, my name is Topsy Turvy. Would you like to dance with me?" Screwball was amazed. This stallion was just as his name said.  "Yes. I would love to. My name is Screwball by the way." Topsy Turvy took Screwballs hoof and lead her to the middle of the room.

Silverpants made his way through the crowd of ponies. Finally he got to Discord. He was dancing with Moonlight. "Discord, would you mind coming with me?" Discord looked up at him. Then pointed to Moonlight. "I'm kind of in the middle of something here!" Silverpants glanced at Moonlight. "My apologies, Moonlight would you mind if I borrowed him for a moment?" Moonlight looked at him. "You promise you'll bring him back?" Silverpants smiled. "I promise my dear, I just want to introduce him to some of the guests and make a few announcements. Then he's all yours." Moonlight sighed. "Alright, fine." Discord groaned. "Why do I always get dragged into these things." Moonlight giggled. "Don't worry, if he keeps you longer then he needs to, do whatever you want to him. I'm not stopping you." Discord smiled slyly. "Very well, if I must." Silverpants beamed. "Wonderful!" Discord let go of Moonlight and followed Silverpants. "So what do you want me for?" Silverpants sighed. "I just want to introduce you to a few of the guests, then later to everyone here." Discord stopped. "Wait, everyone?" Silverpants nodded. "You're the one who made this possible, it's only fair that you are given the recognition and respect you deserve." Discord shrugged. "I guess, but if you haven't noticed not everyone in this room......likes me." Silverpants smiled. "Don't worry about that, I have it taken care of. Besides Raspberry Pie is going to help." Discord rolled his eyes. "I feel so much better." Silverpants shook his head. "Relax, I promise you that nopony is going to hate you. Besides you and I both know one pony that will be cheering for you." Silverpants stepped towards the stage that had been built. Raspberry walked up with him. Silverpants grabbed a microphone. "Fillies and Gentlecolts Welcome!" Then the room grew very quiet. "I would like to thank all of you for being here, a lot of hard work was put into this, and I can assure you that this will not be the first and last time this will happen. But for now I would like to meet the one who inspired me to make this happen, the one who made all this possible. I would like to introduce you to the Spirit of Chaos himself, Discord!" When Discord flew up onto the stage ponies began screaming and applauding. Discord was surprised. He never expected ponies to be cheering. He looked in the very back of the room and saw Moonlight jumping and applauding. He could hear her over everypony. Silverpants was right. Discord smiled. Then Raspberry took the microphone. "I know I'm not the only one, who wants to see him do some magic?" Hundreds of hoofs went into the air and the cheering grew louder. Discord took a deep breath and snapped his talons. Dozens of cotton candy clouds flew everywhere raining chocolate milk and confetti. Everypony jumped into the air and cheered. Many ponies were clapping their hooves. Silverpants walked towards Discord. "I told you nothing bad would happen." Then he took the microphone away from Raspberry. "Alright everyone, you can return to what you were doing. I would like to thank you again for coming to The Gala of Discord." Then everypony applauded one more time, and eventually everypony went back to their activities. Moonlight ran towards him. "Did you see how many ponies were cheering for you?" Discord smiled. "But you were the loudest, I could hear you over everypony." Then he pulled Moonlight closer and kissed her. "Now can we finish that dance?"