The party was a most lavish event of sorts with every noble within a 20 mile radius of the mountains base coming to celebrate the incarceration of the single worst pony to ever grace this world. Cakes of various sorts chocolate cascading in molten fountain spouts in the view of large frozen sculptures all arranged in the most efficient means possible.

Along with enough alcohol to make berry punch swoon.

While the elements were off enjoying the festivities we decided to partake of the fine liquors presented to us. Crystal wine from the Frozen North, froth laden brews from Germaneigh and drinks so old that they were no different from drinking vinegar mixed with powdered lime. Too bad we couldn't actually get drunk off of the options before us, if only Dionysus were still alive she was a pony who knew her liquor but it had been… nine thousand years ago hadn't it? It can be difficult to keep track of all the corporeals that we had met in our time. While we had been recollecting on past acquaintances a pony had walked up to me. A mare. Unicorn, around twenty-five years of age with a soft silver-grey coat similar to a small cloud in a storm, her mane was alternating lines of grey and white tied into a three strand arrangement with the coil of her mane hanging over one of her shoulders. Shoulders which were covered by a sultry black velvet dress which we honestly thought showed too much flank.

Or at least that was thought at first before we remembered that ponies usually don’t wear clothes though they could be used to emphasise certain…Features in a pony so to speak. We would have continued to ponder how clothing affects a pony’s mating habits if not for the mare having decided to speak to me.

“Why hello there, I don’t think we’ve ever met before, and I do like to know about any stallions joining the court,” she said with the sultriest voice possible with her eye’s half lidded, we knew that this was going to be an uncomfortable situation for us.

”We are Ani-*ahem*” we used the time given to us by our short cough to alter our voice to one that sounded more…natural. “As I was saying I am Star Seeker, nice to meet you,”

“Star Seeker, what a lovely name, I am Silver Script, next in line for the title of Countess of Derbyshire, do tell, what brings you to our little celebration?” she said stepping slowly closer to us.

“I arrived here two days ago. There was an incident somewhere in Draconia that had to be dealt with, the element bearers and I are leaving tomorrow to deal with it” we told her.

“Draconia? My, you really must get around,” she said raising an eyebrow coyly, oh how we disliked euphemisms. As if the situation couldn't get any more awkward we could sense Rainbow Dash and Twilight Sparkle walking our way. Oh Goddess help us we thought as they walked up to us. Rainbow Dash looked from me to Silver and back again, a grin crossing her face.

“So…Who’s your friend?” she asked.

“Oh this is Silver Script she’s-”

“His marefriend,” Silver said cutting us off before we could explain our situation.

“What.” We and Twilight said flatly. “You? Him? How? Why?” her brain straining as it tried to process what it had just heard. This was honestly getting ridiculous, we had come here to celebrate putting someone in mental care with alcohol and cake not introduce Twilight and company to the significant other that I had apparently just gained in the last ten minutes. We had to regain control of the situation.

“No you don’t’ understand we’re-”

“Not going to stand by and let you get in the way of our love!” she yelled loud enough to garner the attention of some of the nearby guests. “Come on Star Seeker, let’s go and take long strolls on the beach and write sappy poems about each other or whatever it is that lovers do, ” she said her head raised in offence as she dragged me away with her silver aura. I am currently being foalnapped we thought to ourself. First time for everything we suppose .Once we were out of earshot of the guests I turned to Silver Script as she continued to drag me away.

“Could you please explain why you claimed to be my marefriend and then foalnapped me?” we asked her cautiously hoping she wouldn't injure our vessel too badly.

“When you noticed those two mares heading towards you I could tell that you disliked them for one reason or another so I took it upon myself to make your chat with them as short as possible,” she replied as she took us to one of the tables nearby with two wine glasses in tow. “Now then tell me more about yourself,” she said leaning on the table with her forelegs and looking at us with those grey half lidded eyes of hers. This was beginning to get most uncomfortable.

“Well we came from outside of Equestria , we arrived here sometime after Lord Tirek was defeated, interesting character that centaur, we used to play chess every now and then, we mostly enjoy studying world history and magic and a bit of psychology on the side as well, especially the study of dreams,” we told her.

“You were friends with Lord Tirek? Star Seeker what trouble have you been causing recently?” she said clearly amused and intrigued by our history.

“HE ASSULTED PRINCESS CADDENCE WITH A BOULDER!” the screaming lavender mare known as Twilight yelled as teleported onto our table. The entire hall went quite as every noble turned to look at her and by extension us. We could see the Solar Guard preparing their weapons in case anything bad were to happen at this moment. Which was understandable considering that everyone’s faces were plastered with abject horror at Twilight’s accusation. Everyone except Silver, who was just looking at me with a smirk.

“Star Seeker, have been a bad stallion? Am I going to have to punish you?” she said her eyes still half lidded.

“I. Am. Not. A. Sub!” we yelled further gaining the attention of the other patrons with our outburst, and yet again Silver continued to make things more awkward by suggesting things involving a saddle and whip and that was when we decided to try and shift her attention elsewhere. “Who wants to hear me sing?” we said in an attempt to change the subject.

“Oh I have got to see this,” Discord said from above in his favourite recliner with a bag of caramel popcorn in hand. “Go on ‘Star Seeker’ we all want to see you sing now don’t we?” he said to the surrounding party guests, who nodded in agreement so as not to incur the illogical wrath of the great Spirit Of Chaos. We teleported to the stage near our table and passed sheet music to the small orchestra to my left. Before they could refuse we manifested a large bag of bits in front of each of them, after all who is going to charge a god with forgery?

The orchestra began playing with deep tones played over soft muffled beating sounds like the heart of a dying god. Our breathing slowed and all perceptions of us being a normal pony ceased as we began to sing. The song had been intended to be song by a mare but we think we did a good job at singing it with our echoing voice.

♫ “Ask not the sun why she sets
Why she shrouds her light away
Or why she hides her glowing gaze
When night turns crimson gold to grey

For silent falls the guilty sun
As day to dark does turn
One simple truth she dare not speak:
Her light can only blind and burn

No mercy for the guilty
Bring down their lying sun
Blood so silver black by night
Upon their faces pale white”♫

The sun dipped in the heavens as the moon and stars rose to shroud the land in its pale light.

♫”Cruel moon, bring the end
The dawn will never rise again.” ♫

We walked back to our table where the rest of the Elements and Discord as well as the Princesses minus Cadence had gathered to watch our performance. “So what did you think?” we said not bothering to mask our voice anymore.

“That was…,” Twilight said.

“Amazing” Rarity said.

“Su’prisin’” Applejack said in turn

“Somewhat worrying,” Celestia said “What could I have done to make you sing something like that about us?”

“Firstly we didn't write it, Luna’s supporters during her little rebellion did, a sort of prayer to their new goddess, and just to clarify on things, we don’t hate you Celestia despite what you think. You’re kind of like an ant, ponies step on so many of them without noticing as they go about their lives, to the ant it would make you seem like some unknowable genocidal monster, but we bear no malice against you, you are too insignificant to garner such emotions from us, if we were to crush you it wouldn't be because of hatred or some petty grudge. It would simply be because you were in our way,” we replied with a grin plastered on our face, savouring the Celestia’s face of horror as she tried to comprehend what we had just told her.

“Well I thought it was wonderful dear,” Silver said as she planted a kiss on our cheek. By that point we had honestly given up and had just accepted the way things were. “Now then let’s get back to the matter at hand we are here to celebrate Prince Blueblood being sent to th-”

The twin doors to the ballroom swung open and who else but Prince Blueblood was on the other side with the remains of a strait jacket holding on to his expanding and contracting barrel.

”Why hello Blueblood how was therapy?” we asked. The enraged prince turned to look at us remembering our voice from our earlier…Chat.

“YOU!” he yelled “YOU’LL PAY FOR WHAT YOU DID TO ME!” he began charging towards us most likely intending to stab us with his horn, he never got the chance as we had grabbed him and suspended him in our black magical aura.

”Now Blueblood, we are both gentlemen here. If you want to get back at us we would recommend a duel rather than attempted murder, how about tomorrow?” we suggested to him, after all it had been a while since the last duel I had fought, and we had already broken his mind from what we've seen so why not a few of his bones as well? We dropped him onto the floor and watched as he trudged to another part of the castle, most likely the armoury to prepare for tomorrow’s battle. Twilight, Silver Script and the Princesses along with Discord walked towards us.

“Would you be kind enough to tell us what it is you did to him dear?” Silver said as she walked towards me.

”We may or may not have whispered things into his mind until the princesses sent him to the medical ward for ‘psychiatric evaluation’,” we said while making air quotes with our hooves.

“Thou art the voice Blueblood spoke of?” Luna asked as she too walked towards us. “Thou art aware that what thou hast done is extremely illegal,”

”Typical, when I play around with a ponies mind it’s a crime but when your niece uses the same magic to remove ‘bad thoughts’ she’s praised for it!” we yelled in righteous frustration ”and when Twilight almost brought utter anarchy with that ‘want-it-need-it’ spell of hers and almost got Ponyville eaten by parasprites all she suffers nothing but a wounded ego! How she of all people became an alicorn is honestly beyond us!” we concluded as we took deep breaths, such an odd feeling really breathing kind of like swallowing a bit of the sky and vomiting poison at it, kind of strange we began to contemplate the implications of this. The Silver started nuzzling us.

“Star Seeker,”

“What?” we replied with our voice booming from our residual anger.

“Could you please calm down, your anger’s making your mane catch fire,” and she was right, there was a flowing blaze of black fire where our vessel’s mane and tail used to be making us look like something that had just crawled out of Tartarus, we took a few deep breaths and set our mane and tail back to their original form. Odd we thought to ourself We weren't even sure if we could manifest on this world anymore, and now we can place more power into it? Most interesting . Before we could test the new extent of our skills Blueblood once again burst through the door this time clad in the armour of the solar guard with a great sword held with his telekinesis. The guests seeing someone who they assumed was most likely insane did the logical thing and ran out of the room like Cerberus was trying to devour them.

“Blueblood, I thought we decided that the duel would be tomorrow,”

“NO! THE DUEL STARTS NOW! A DUEL TO THE DEATH!” he yelled with murderous zeal.

”Then it is a duel you shall have…”

We held our duel in the Canterlot Gardens near the edge of the mountain. Blueblood was still clad in his golden armour with a greatsword the length of his hoof in tow, the blade was made of steel of course, high carbon variety with a gold plated hilt. We chose not to wear armour and as for our weapon of choice we decided to use dual blades. Blades of high carbon steel never touched by the ravages of time the cross guard shaped like the great maw of a dragon with the two blades making up each sword being its fangs. We stood on either side of the garden weapons primed, fully aware that the winner of this fight would be the one who survived.

We looked to our left and saw the princesses and the elements watching us as we prepared for battle, even Rainbow Dash was not willing to speak as the tension rose in the garden surrounded by nobles.

”Blueblood if the little honour you have means so much to you then we could always apologise,”

“DIE PLEBEIAN!” the half mad prince yelled as he charged towards me. We took one step to the left and let him run into the tree behind us. Shaking the blur out of his vision he charged at us again, we teleported five inches to the right. He charged again and we shifted slightly like clockwork. We would have been willing to keep doing this until he passed out from exhaustion. If he had not said the worst possible thing.

“What’s wrong Annie? Are you too afraid to fight?” He said with a grin.

Annie…Memories flashed by. Memories of the moon blotting out the sky in a glowing corona, a world frozen over and wandered upon by beings of frost and images of a mad god sitting upon his chaotic throne. We don’t know where he learned about that accursed nickname. Only one thing mattered.

No one calls us Annie and lives.

We struck out with one blade for him to block and with the other we slashed at one of his forelegs drawing blood in the process, and with one swing of our blades we severed his horn from his head and struck him hard enough for him to fly across the garden.

We could feel our body changing, our horn splitting into two draconian ones; our mane became a swell of swirling black flame as our coat dripped with shadow, our hooves becoming claws, and our eyes becoming empty glowing white voids. We leaped into the air and landed upon the prince with enough force to indent the earth.

”Gi mgirsgrech giwgiits ugil mortgil” we uttered in a thousand voices ” Na iem aarthia mael dannan”. Blueblood stared at us with pure unadulterated fear quivering in our dark glory tears welling up in his eyes.

“Please, don’t do this. I don’t want to die!” he pleaded.

“What happened to the murderous glee in your eyes just five minutes ago? What happened to that air of superiority you prized so much? If you didn’t wish to die then you would have never challenged us,” the grass around us began to pale and whither as we carried the whimpering prince in our magic, a black smoky mist towards the edge of the garden where we could see the ground so far below. We held Blueblood over the edge by his tail, and just when we were about to drop him the Twilight ran towards us.

“Animad! You can’t just kill him!”

”Tell us Twilight, why exactly can’t we?” we said still holding the gibbering Prince over the edge.

”Because it’s not ethical,” she replied “Please Animad, just let him go,”

”Poor. Choice. Of words,” we let go of the prince just as she had asked. Over the edge of the cliff, his screams continuing until he hit the ground several hundred feet below where he became nothing but a red pool and an unpleasant memory. The others looked at me with disgust and horror upon their faces except for Silver Script who was in the middle of appreciating a glass of fine wine. Twilight walked up to us, giving us and indecipherable look. Then hit us across the face with her hoof.

“What is wrong with you?” she yelled at us staring daggers of righteous fury at us.

”You've never actually seen someone die, have you?” we asked with a mixture of amusement and concern ”Just wait a few decades, then you’ll get to attend one of your friend’s funerals. My guess is Rainbow Dash will be the first to go,”

“Answer my question Animad, what is wrong with you?” Twilight hissed at us.

“Now Twilight is that any way for the Princess of Friendship to act?” Discord said as he appeared in a flash of white light. “You really have to see things from his point of view after all,” he brought up a blackboard from the ground and a headmasters robe, complete with a rod for pointing. On the board were two pictures, one of ponies living in small little houses and prancing in fields of buttercups. The other was a picture of a world of utter madness. “Look you see Twilight different species have different concepts of what is and isn’t good. For example ponies work best in a harmonious environment and so would perceive harmony as good. Draconiquii, Windigoes, and Nightmare Beings on the other hand have a completely different outlook on what is good, we thrive in a chaotic environment by our very nature, Windigoes feed on negative emotions, Draconequii if there are any others prefer a chaotic world because we simply hate stasis as a concept” he then flipped the board to show a diagram of…us, or at least the vessel we were using. “Shadow Death the Destroyer over here on the other hand is…Not from around here,” Pointing to a planet with a big question mark on it. “He would obviously not follow any morals you consider ‘good’,” We guess Discord can be informative when he wants to.

”Now that this lecture is over we will be retiring to our chambers to read a few tomes, Silver you are welcome to join us,” we said as we walked towards the castle.

“I would be delighted to,” Silver Script replied as she followed, and as we made our way towards the door I looked up towards the moon.

And felt the veil grow weaker.

Author's Note

I just finished writing a 50 point list outlining the plot of this story starting from this chapter onwards and I've already deviated from it in the span of a couple of thousand words. Silver Script wasn't even supposed to exist.

Also the song is 'Daylights End' from League of Legends, you can listen to it here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-U2JdiHBsc