Twisted Desires and Disharmony - Discord's Story

There was once a land known as Equestra, in this land there lived three races of pony. The first lived in villages of wood upon great open plains of fertile land where they frolicked in the fields, skipped through fruit groves and rolled around on bountiful bales of hey. They grew crops a plenty for the others to delight in for these where the Earth Ponies and they fed the world and kept the land.

The second flew through the sky on wings divine. They dwelt in a large cloud metropolis of wispy columned palaces and plazas known as Cloudsdale. It was here they homed their flying skills and learnt to master the weather of the world. These where the Pegasus and they protected the other Ponies from storm and sword.

The third race lived in beautiful cities of stone that looked out across the sea or perched up in high mountains. Here they wondered at beautiful gems, homed their magical skills and mused on matters of wisdom and foresight.  These where the unicorns and they dealt in all that was beautiful and kept the heavens in order.

The three races lived in peace but not unity.  They all had their own ways and customs, their own celebrations and stories. There was however one story that they shared. The legend of the Wendigos, cold malicious creatures which had come to feed on their mistrust bringing a freezing storm to turn the world as cold as their hearts. It was fear of this fate that kept them together in fellowship but as the years past a new spectre would haunt them.

Unknown, elusive and without form a dark power was forming throughout Equestria. It grew in strength when Earth Ponies bickered over the size of fields. It gathered power when Pegasus squabbled over glory. But most of all it found its potency in the dark magic of the Unicorns. Such strength it took from the magic of the unicorns, it was like a leech on their strength that it turned their minds dark and grey. Soon it crept into the dreams of all ponies of the land, stirring up their minds into a thick storm of wonder and confusion.

From the confusion came disorder. Dreams became nightmares and when the sleep of the land is disturbed so is the work of the day. Sluggish where the Pegasus clearers of the sky, lax where the harvest of the Earth Ponies and where once there was precision there was now negligence in the work of the Unicorns.

Meals became poor quality, craft work shoddy and soon enemies where at the door. The long peaceful realm of Equestria was beset upon by vicious wolves of timber, dragons of fire and all manner of dark creature to prey on the disorder of the land. Pony turned on pony and with the blame years of friendships where lost to distrust once more. From the disorder there had come Chaos and when Chaos takes form there are none who can resist it.

In this hour of despair a group of Unicorns turned to a dark ritual in order to coax the spectre from out of their nightmares and give their tormented minds respite from this plague. They focused in their magic and found it bent against their will, with the conditions of the world their tormentor had played them as puppets and now finally took its physical form. For emerged from the storm of Chaos there came the lord of Chaos, Discord.

Standing there before the unicorns they saw a creatures whose very existence insulted their ordered minds. Its body weaved up from a snake tail, it rived around on hoof of goat and dragon. It had an eagle claw and a lion paw and flapping upon its back was a wing of feather and one of scales. Its head was that of a pony with one antlered twisted out from its skull and the other pointed. Its eyes where of rich yellow which stared deeply into the soul. It had a mouth which couldn't resist slyly smirking as it relished in the madness of the world.

The unicorns tried to resist the creature but there was no resisting Discord. They fell under his spell within moments, enslaved to do the bidding of the puppet master. Colour was washed from the underlings of Discord and he had only just begun. Discord bellowed out a devious laugh and set about his plans to dominate the lands of Equestria.

With such distrust and panic in the air a creature of such power as Discord could quickly barter favour from the powerful ponies of Equestria. He released the Earth Ponies from their nightmares and brought back their harvests but left with no joy or pleasure in their hearts. They became slaves to his bidding. The Pegasus resisted him the strongest but they too could not tame the Chaos, the clouds turned to the colours of the rainbows and blundered round the skies knocking down any Pegasus in their way. The rainbows where drained of all their colour and sucked the fight from the souls of the Pegasus who looked upon them. Soon not even the mighty fortress city Cloudsdale had will to put up a fight. The Unicorns he was merciless against, he turned their love of gems into greed akin to that of a dragon. They mauled each other in the street for the smallest diamond and barricaded themselves in their homes for fear of thieves. Their libraries where burnt, palaces smashed and their thrones taken for his own.

Discord now ruled Equestria like no pony had done before, he took the most splendid Unicorn city, Canterlot, as his own and coronated himself King in a twisted ceremony. Once ruler he quickly succumbed to boredom and the Lord of Chaos turned madder still. He made day and night change instantaneously, turned rain to milk, suspended rocks in the air and changed the anatomy of woodland creatures to match his fancy. Cities of upside down houses floated above tentacle adorned trees with seven foot rabbits hunting legless deer. The erratic joy of their one twisted ruler brought perpetual misery upon his Pony subjects. There was no law. Life itself was torture. Chaos ruled supreme.

So it is here that the story might end, total suppression, no hope to cling too.  Yet not so, some of the subjects of Discord where not under his total control, some unicorns had spared as many scrolls as they could from Discords purge. One scroll spoke of the arrival of two unicorns of great power over the heavens, perhaps enough magic would they wield that they could over power Discord's.

On one fateful night born into the camp of the resistance there came a foal named Celestia. Her magic was unrivalled to anything the Unicorns and seen, even though a mere child. She had a coat of brilliant white and a mane of all the colours of Sunlight. When she reached the age of training she summoned forth enough power to hold the sun in the sky, though but for a moment she over powered Discord and overcame his intent. Her flank became adorned with the mark of her talent upon completing this act; it was simply an image of the Sun. No sooner had this happened that her parents birthed a second child.

This foal named Luna was as black a night, her mane flicked with such a shine it was said you could see the stars within it. She in turn could hold the moon in the sky and sun beneath the horizon as Celestia could control the sun. Her cutie mark appeared on her flank as a moon among stars. The Unicorns where now sure the prophecy had come true but no sooner had this happened had the two sisters disappeared.

The ponies feared that Discord had learnt of their presence, disturbed by their sway over  with the day and night and banished them. Indeed it was so that Discord now knew of the sisters and brought them before him. He mocked them and played with their childhood minds, twisting them before him. Chaos erases all prophecy he claimed yet that night the Moon lit up bright and the sky stayed darker than ever before. Veiled by the darkness Luna slipped away from his grasp. Then when day came the sun shone brighter than ever before and beneath its bright gaze Celestia slipped away from beneath Discords dazzled eyes. Perhaps he feared the two sisters or perhaps he relished in the challenge of a worthy new foe but Discord never brought them before him again and let them go about their business.

The two traveled the land of Equestria, inspiring resistance in the Earth Ponies they met. While those who had looked upon Discord could not be freed from his will all others where touched with a light that gave them strength within themselves. The Unicorns knew of their escaped reading the patters in the sky and the Pegasus they waited to present themselves too until the time was right.

The Sisters where touched by the friendship of the ponies they met and the ponies in kind. A new power crept into Equestria; Laugher was heard once again, Kindness was shown, Generosity given, Honesty became commonplace and Loyalty betwixt Ponies and unto their new hero’s given. Celestia and Luna were soon known throughout the land as the delivers of all from Discords veil of madness and misery.

Deliverance and liberation where not yet possible though and so scorned Discord to those which tried to establish order in his realm. Yet it was already becoming too late, even as he gathered an army of brainwashed pony slaves too protect his palace. For through the power of their kindred love, winged upon the hope of their people the Sisters brought into bloom the tree of Harmony. Its pure shining branches stood defiant in order against the whirling madness of Chaos, like a beacon onto the two sisters it beckoned them it and gifted them the elements of harmony.  These six mighty relics embodied the power of friendship shown between the Ponies of Equestria; Laugher, Kindness, Generosity, Honesty, Loyalty and the last infused with the power of Magic.

Upon their creation Celestia and Luna summoned forth all of their power and brought balance once more to the heavens ending Discords rule of the Sun and Moon. With the power of the Elements and mastery of a new powerful magic effused with love and friendship the sisters ascended to a new level of existence. What is now known as Princesshood, they became Alicorns. They held the strength of an Earth Pony, the Wings of a Pegasus and the Magic of Unicorns, yet this magic was seemly boundless in comparison to a normal unicorn.

Now winged they flew up high above the land and rallied the Ponies to fight off their tyrant. Celestia flew above the lands of the Earth Ponies presenting herself to them and then finally returned to the unicorns. Luna flew up high to the Pegasus presenting herself as one of their own and gathered them up to resist. Together they then formed up on Canterlot and faced off Discords army. The Ponies of Earth, Pegasus of sky and Unicorns of power battled together in unity and Celestia and Luna broke into the palace to face Discord. Yet as the battle pitched the suddenly sky faded and all the world flooded.

Discord with all his power twisted the world to the limits of reality, air was water, the ground chequered pink, the palace and the armies gone. Still sure in his power unrivaled, he mocked and flirted with the Sisters yet with the power of the elements they had the strength to end his rule. Summoning forth all their power in unity they turned Discord into hard stone and ended his reign. In that moment out of Chaos there came harmony and all the world was returned as by miracle to normality.

Victorious the Free Ponies together united welcome back those who had been enslaved in mind. Now all three races where free but it seemed their perils would not leave them be without a protector. The chaos of Discord and the distant legend of the Windogos left a terrible scar. Such a scar though seemed to be healed upon gazing upon the Princesses of Equestria. So with willful submission the Pegasus, the Unicorns and the Earth Ponies crowned their beloved sisters supreme rulers and protectors of Equestria. What a reign would begin, unrivalled to this very day.