I was relaxing on a cloud hovering over a settlement of unicorns, soon I became rather restless and lit down to begin to cause chaos. Not long after I started a young unicorn came out of one of the houses. "Stop it!" She yelled at me.

"Why would I? It's not like you're going to stop me." I mocked her.

"Watch me" she said quite confident in her power.

She shot a beam of energy at me and I easily deflected it, "My aren't you a brash little pony" I smiled and she shot another beam at me.

"I won't let you destroy our town" she said as she continued her 'onslaught' of energy beams.

I rolled my eyes "Why do you fight? You could join me or perhaps even take control of the unicorns by yourself, you don't need friends, you only need power." I said as I, for lack of a better word, discorded her.

"Get away from my apprentice, monster!" Said the elderly grey pony.

I couldn't help but laugh at the getup he was in, "Hahahaha...what are you supposed to be? Oh wait I know you're a clown, no I got it your a..."

"I am Starswirl the Bearded and I will not have you bewitching my apprentice" he said as though he was sure he was going to beat me. But then again, that was what I liked about him.

"So, another pony to challenge me? You spend a lot of time studying don't you, perhaps you should make some friends, even in your old age you need companionship." I said as I tried to 'discord' him. But to my bewilderment he was able to resist my power.

"What was that?" Swirly asked me as he shaked his head in confusion.

I stared at him in disbelief "You should be discorded."

"Well it looks like years of study turned out to be a good idea after all." He said with a small smile over this very, very small victory.

"Oh don't think that's going to save you!" I said in disgust.

The following duel wasn't much of one at all, as I turned his robes into ropes. He used his levitation magic to lift a house from it's foundation and with a pained look he threw it at me. I turned the house into a cloud and then I turned the ropes into snakes. He changed tactics and began to launch fireballs at me. I turned each one into parasprites and had the snakes constrict around him. I removed his horn and teleported on top of him. As I sat atop him I said "You know you're actually pretty fun, I'm going to let you go."

"Why, I'd think you want to destroy me. Especially considering that I'm immune to your bewitchment, monster!"

I gave him my snaggletoothed grin "I can't destroy you Swirly, you're just too much fun. I may destroy you if you start ever to bore me" I said making shadows around my face.

And so with him tangled up in the snakes I destroyed his town and made him watch as his "friends" were turned into warped forms of themselves. I had the snakes release him when I left and I went on my merry way.

He would go on to figure out how to reverse my discording. After that he would travel equestria with his little band of misfits in hopes of finding a way to beat me.

He wouldn't come close his goal till the seventh year of my reign. For that was the year he would get his biggest victory over me. That was also the year that he found the only other pony that was smart enough to match wits with old Swirly, I still curse that blue and white unicorn to this day. He looked so stupid with his red coat and his puffy shirt too.

I always enjoyed eavesdropping on their little planning sessions. And on one such planning session was where he planned to do it "I've been doing research from whatever books I could find and I think I found our salvation."

"Really" one of the pegasus asked.

"Yes, we can beat him if we use something called the Elements of Harmony, as I understand it they can be found with the Tree of Harmony. There is a catch though we need six ponies who can work together harmoniously to use them."

"Well then I guess we're doomed," An earth pony in the back said.

A pegasus glared at him for a moment, then he turned to swirly and asked."And where do we find this Tree of Harmony"

"Not a single word Starswirl" the blue unicorn interrupted as he entered the room.

"And who are you?" Swirly asked him.

"I'm..." the blue unicorn took a moment to ponder, "Cult Smith. But you do realize that Discord is listening in" Smith said pointing directly where I was hiding.

"We operate under the assumption that he's alway listening in." the pegasus told him.

"Oh well lucky for you, you have me." Smith said as he walked over and knocked his head into Swirly's so furiously that I was surprised that there horns were still on there heads.

"Ooouuuuugh! Why did you..."

"Ssshhh, lets not." Smith told him.

"But you're the D..."

"I told you to shush! Now if you'll please continue..." he trailed off.

Swirly looked at Smith like he was a mad stallion "I've learned how to find the Tree of Harmony, you see I learned that the tree will sprout wherever chaos doesn't reign."

"I see, so then we need to figure out a way to reverse Discord's influence"

"Yes Smith. If we can make a spell that can remove Discord's influence we can attract the Tree and make it sprout."

"His magic is strong it's going to take more than just one unicorn to make the transfer. In fact we may need members of all three tribes to do so" Smith said aloud.

"Exactly! I know a few channeling spells and I can teach it to other unicorns. But we'll also have to figure out how to use the power to remove the chaos. Then we can make an area large enough to attract the Tree's attention."

"But what about Discord, he could be listening in" one of the earth ponies piped up.

"So he knows our plan,that doesn't mean that we can't beat him, it just means we'll have to leave some leeway for creative problem solving." Smith said rolling his eyes, "besides he's right there anyway." He said pointing at me.

"So you've discovered my counterpart" I said becoming visible.

"You see! I told you that he was there!" Smith told them acting a bit superior, "And all we let him know is that we know how to beat him."

"But we still have to deal with him!" Swirly yelled at Smith.

"What are you worried about? If he wanted to mess with us he would have when he first arrived" Smith said.

"Aren't you a perceptive little pony, that's right I have no intention of harming any of you... right now." I gave a 'playful' grin. "You see...I want you to try to beat me and I will enjoy seeing the look on your faces when you fail horribly!" I began to cackle as I flashed out of sight. I imagine they thought that I was still there but in reality I went to go mess with some other ponies in Cloud City, which would become Cloudsdale for those of us who are to young to know that.

I spent a good six months away just waiting for them to make their move. I almost was going to go back and torment them when I felt a huge burst of magical energy coming from the center of Equestria. I teleported to the source of the disturbance only to find that Smith and several other ponies were undoing my chaos, I quickly put two and two together and realized that they were trying to give my enemy a place to sprout.

"Just what do you think you're doing Smithy it took you six months to come up with this contrived little ritual to banish my magic?" I said as I easily reversed his spell with a snap.

"If the best you can do is create a small...Where's Swirly!?" I hadn't noticed that he wasn't here and I grew enraged, "You tried to trick me! Ha! You'll tell me where he is or I'll destroy you!"

"I don't fear you!" Smith announced to me.

"I know. But I wasn't talking to you, I was talking to the others" I said as his eyes went wide. "Now, my little ponies mind telling me where he's hiding" I leaned in and my eyes began to swirl.

"He's in the dark..."

"No! Stop you foal!" Smith yelled at the unicorn that was telling me.

"Quiet him!" I told the other ponies and they piled on top of Smith preventing him from being able to talk.

The pony on top told me "He's in the dark forest performing a more elaborate ritual in hopes of attracting the tree."

I quickly teleported above the forest and searched for any sign of harmony, I found it in a cave. In that cave there was another gathering of ponies and at the front was Swirly, "So your great plan was to distract me with a small group of weak ponies desperately trying to make a place for the tree. All the while you would summon it in here, what kind of foal do you think I am?!"

"Well I had hoped..."

"You hoped! You hoped! It took you six months to come up with pathetic plan! I had expected great trickery, with false leads and fake outs! I gave you six months and you wasted it on hope!" I was furious.

Swirly walked out of the spell circle the ponies had formed and said two words, "no".

"No! No! You dare to bore me!" I flew into a rage and I started to throw bricks. But he put up a shield and protected the circle. I ripped him away from them and brought him close to me, as I looked into his eyes and made my eyes swirl.

"Your power doesn't work on me!" He yelled as I began to reach into his mind. It was hard at first but after I broke all of his mental walls I could see every one of his memories. Most of them were boring, mostly in a library studying or him teaching his apprentice. It was then that I learned his real plan, he had planned to make me mad and it had worked.

I turned towards the circle of ponies just in time for a blast of harmonious energy to knock me over as the ponies completed the spell. I nearly passed out from the harmonious energy but I managed to look up at my age old enemy, the Tree of Harmony. "How did you do this?" I asked turning towards Swirly.

"You didn't break all my walls, how could you, some of them have been up for my entire life, and Smith helped me make them stronger. Sure, I wasn't able to keep all of the plan from you" He coughed "But I was able to keep the part of the plan where I wasn't at all necessary for the spell to clear a spot for the Tree." Swirly said getting up on his hooves.

"But you always cast the spell" I said in disbelief.

"You wanted trickery and with Smith's help I delivered." Swirly said grinning at his victory.

"You did it! You beat me! I'm impressed..." My rage grew "and furious!" I snapped my talons and sent all of the ponies away. "You were supposed to stay gone!" I yelled at the Tree. "How dare you come back! However you know exactly what I'm going to do to you" I said as I poured my chaos into the surrounding area. I made it impossible for anypony to ever get near the Tree...or so I thought.

For the next three years I kept a close eye on Starswirl's little band so they would never find anypony who could come close to bearing even one of the Elements of Harmony. Of course I was so focused on preventing him from doing anything that I didn't notice two Alicorn's nab the Elements from the Tree.

"So after that did discord Smith? Seeing how Starswirl the Bearded credited him with helping in the plan." Twilight asked and the Doctor tugged at his collar.

"No, I never saw him after he helped Swirly bring the Tree into this world." Discord answered.

"Well it's not often that we hear stories about a failure from one of us." Celestia said. There was silence for several moments.

"So...Who wants to go next?" Luna asked.

"Well...I say we let the Princess of the Sun go next, or maybe we could learn of your exploits on the moon, or even hear of Cadences days in power over the Crystal Empire. Oh wait, maybe Twilight would like to tell you of the little paradox she caused. Or even..." The Doctor rattled on.

"I will go." Celestia announced saving the all from the Doctors ramblings.

"Good do you want to wear the helmet or are you going to provide the pictures?"

"Yes please" She answered as she levitated the helmet onto her head and the Doctor turned the memory weave on.

"About one hundred years into my solitary reign over Equestria an age old enemy of alicorns reared their heads, I speak of the Trio..."

Author's Note

Here's the first of the stories. Hope it keeps you around.
P.S. Please don't hate me "Starswirl is Discord" enthusiast, I just wanted to tell a story.