Discordia Nocturne

Discordia Nocturne

By: JoshuaVv

Disclaimer: I do not own anything in this fanfiction I wrote myself. Even the OC, Presto, is not of my own creation. He is the creation of the user known as ThatTFguy. All I did was put the words together as you see below.

Chapter 1

"...I don't turn ponies into stone!"

This was true. Discord did no such thing. What fun was stone, anyway? All it did was make them heavy and useless. And what did stone even do? Nothing. It just sat around doing nothing. For thousands and thousands of years it did nothing. No, he turned ponies into something far more...delicious.

The ten minute sun glared off the glass statue of a unicorn. A fragile hoof raised up above the ground, her eyes wide with terror, and her body leaned, as if pulling away from what scared her so. Her tail, if it were in motion, no doubt would be whipping through the air. Instead, this green mare remained in place: a semi-transparent shell of her former self. However, it wasn't just any glass, as the local wildlife found out. It was sugar glass. More or less like hard candy, just even more fragile.

The long legged woodland creatures had stampeded into Ponyville, smelling the sugar from the Everfree Forest. They began to lick, bite, and break these statues. These glass statues of once living, breathing ponies. A sort of red jelly oozed out from the breaking points, dripping slowly towards the ground. Most of the animals licked it away before it sluggishly touched the ground. They had every intention to eat every single one of these statues. And thus every pony in Ponyville.

Chuckling to himself, Discord passed a pegasus. Her front hooves were raised high in the air, her wings spread. Her eyes were not so wide like the terrified unicorn. Instead, this pink pegasus's eyes were narrowed with focus. It was as if, a moment before his spell raced across the land and transformed her, she saw it as a race. A race she simply had to win...but despite all of her passion and determination, had lost.

Tracing a finger lightly, his taloned hand pinched the tip of one of her large feathers, and broke it off with a snap. His tongue slithered out and licked lightly at the candy. He smiled a bit.

"Cotton candy...fitting for such a perfectly pink pegasus. Heheheh..." He popped the feather tip into his mouth. A few cracks could be heard as he munched contently on the once fluffy feather.

Now, where was those six ponies?

Strutting further into the town, passing more and more static statues of sweet glass, Discord carefully studied each petrified pony. Nope...nope...not them. His talon came to his horse chin and scratched it thoughtfully. Perhaps they weren’t in town? Saving the day somewhere else? Maybe. Doubtful, but maybe. Discord had a strong hunch they often stayed close to home. After all, they weren’t super-heroes. Just some somewhat special ponies. Ya know...the ones a bit more in tune with some certain Elements of Harmony. Such a shame that’s all they were good for.

Speaking of which...Discord’s tail curled around slightly, allowing him to glance down at the box held firmly there. The box full of these elements. He wasn’t a fool. To let the ponies have them again spelled doom for Discord. As weak as they were, when together and with the Elements, they had the strength to end him. A very unfitting end, no less. Such an insult to be turned to stone! Such a cruel fate. At the very least it could be colorful stone.

Heh. Celestia never did have any taste in such things. She was as boring as the statue he became.

Anyway. Ponies. Had to find those stupid six that imprisoned him before. Make sure they were taken care of.

“Hrm?” Curling his body just slightly, and summoning the ground beneath him to raise like a jack for a car, Discord narrowed his eyes and looked off in the distance. There he saw flashes of pink light. Unicorn magic. A small smile grew on Discord’s face. Bingo.

“Wait for me, Twilight. I’d hate for you to miss out on the fun.” Discord snapped his paw, and his body twirled, imploding on itself, vanishing into a spec of yellow light.

“Come on...please? Work!” The purple pony complained as her horn touched again and again on the glass mane of another pony. There was a pink glow, and then nothing. Another pink glow, and then nothing once more. She was losing hope on each and every attempt to revive the cursed citizen. Every time she closed her eyes and focused her magic, her hopes would raise. It’ll work this time! He’ll be free! But when she opened her eyes...he would remain as static as before. A sweet statue symbolizing Discord’s delectable taste in chaos.

“Twilight...” A white unicorn approached her, placing a hoof on her back, “You cannot go draining yourself. You simply cannot...save him right now.” Rarity persuaded, her eyes locked on the large red statue that once was the stallion known as Big Macintosh. The six were here at Apple Acres Orchard having just one of many of Pinkie’s parties when it happened.

Applejack had looked out the barn’s window to see the grey waves of magic spread across Ponyville.

“Hey, Twilight. What’n tarnation you suppose that is?” She asked, pointing to the wave. Twilight strode over, looking briefly before shaking her head.

“I don’t know, AJ, but it-” They watched in the distance as suddenly Big Macintosh came stampeding towards them from town. His face wide with fear.

“Hey isn’t that, Mac?”

“Big Mac, what’s wrong?!” But before the stallion could answer he was absorbed by the magic and turned into a statue before their very eyes.

“Mac!”

“Everyone get close! Now!” Twilight took action as the other five huddled close to her. A magic bubble appeared around them and the wave smashed into it as if a dragon had attempted to bash through it. Twilight braced herself and dug in her hooves to keep her from losing control and focus. Cracks appeared over the bubble, but before it broke, the wave had passed and Twilight was able to let go. As the wave passed, the six heard in the distance the evil laugh follow.

“Discord...” They all whispered, chills and fear running through them. Fluttershy had even ducked down and hid, shaking under the window.

“No! I have to save him! And then everypony else! No matter what!” Twilight’s horn glowed again and she attempted to expel the curse off Big Mac.

“Twilight! It’s...it’s ahlright. Yah don’t need ta kill yurself tryin’. W-we can git Big Mac back once we get Discord. But we can’t do that if you keep tirin’ yurself out.” Applejack was the next to try and reassure the desperate pony. Her words were surprisingly calm and reassuring, but the way she looked at her big brother suggested that her heart was falling apart.

“Yeah, c’mon Twilight! We need to go kick Discord’s butt if we want to save everypony!” Next was the blue spunky pegasus to try and refocus her friend.

“But...the animals, the chocolate rain, they’ll-” Twilight continued to protest, only to be cut off once more before she could continue her horrible thought.

“Then just all the more reason to get ourselves in gear and beat the crap out of Discord!” Rainbow Dash flew around Twilight coming to her side, standing tall and firm. Her wings were spread in antsy anticipation. Twilight turned her head, frowning, but nodding as she looked to the frozen Big Mac.

“You’re right...the longer we’re here, the less we can save. Ok. We’ll have to find him. But I’m not sure if my shield can protect from another burst of magic like that. We were lucky before...if he did it again-”

“Did what again, Twilight dear?” Suddenly the Ponies lost their balance. Pinkie fell forward into Applejack and Fluttershy slipped, waving out her hooves and landing on Rainbow Dash just as she had began to flap her wings to save herself from falling. Rarity and Twilight knocked horns together, sending them both crashing down. As Twilight landed she could taste the disgustingness of soap on her tongue.

Above the dazed and confused ponies stood the master of chaos himself, Discord. His mouth was curved into a confident smile, the nails of his lion paw clicked together as he watched them struggle in his soapy road. It was always so fun to watch them flail and fall because of that simple trick. Cute, too. The way their faces scrunched up and winced when they landed...ah just so delightful.

“My, my, Twilight Sparkle. Do you really think your pathetic magic will be able to stop my fun? And why would you? Don’t you think they’re better this way? As fun ponies are when the chaos storm brews...they’re so much more delicious this way!” He placed a talon on Big Macintosh's ear, and snapped it off. “I expect this to taste a bit like apple.”

“Mac! Discord, why y-whoa!” Applejack attempted to make a charge at Discord, but her hooves lost traction quickly and she ended up just sliding into his leg. Applejack’s rage quickly turned into just angry frustration as she looked up at the chuckling draconquues.

“Ah, Honest Apple. So hard to watch as I just pick away at him like the apples in your orchard?” Discord dangled the piece of ear between his nails before tossing it into his mouth, destroying it with a single exaggerated crunch.

“You low-down vermin, bastard! You leave him alone! You tain’t got no business with him or anypony here other than us!”

“I got it, AJ!” A beam of rainbow circled around Discord, as Rainbow Dash darted off the ground and into the air, flying and spinning like a fighter jet. “Get ready for the beating of your life!” Rainbow roared. She truly did intend to make Discord break this time, to beat him to a pulp, and save the day through brute force alone. She went out far, turned sharply, and flew in, aiming to crash into him with the force of a train.

“Honestly, Rainbow Dash, I thought you’d know better.” An eye of Discord’s suddenly widened, bugging slightly as the box his tail held glowed again. “Your loyalty will be the death of you!”

“Rainbow! His spell! He’ll turn you into a statue like the rest!” But Twilight’s warning seemed to come too late. Rainbow Dash was far too fast for her to turn in time now. The box holding the Elements send out a beam of magic. The beam was different shades of grey, like a rainbow without color. “He’s got the Elements!” Twilight then announced, having recognized the box Celestia kept to keep them safe.

“Oh no ya don’t!” Applejack swiveled herself on the soap and swung her hoof into Discord’s shin, causing him to wince in pain and lose his aim. The beam shot up into the sky instead. Rainbow continued on course and slammed into Discord. As she hit, front hooves first, Discord shouted in pain...and stretched. Rainbow Dash kept up her flight speed and strength, and Discord’s body gave, continually sinking back and back as if he were made of rubber.

“You had your high, Rainbow Dash...now its time for you to crash!” Discord’s body suddenly flung forward, his body acting like a rubber band pulled back far too far. Rainbow shot from Discord as if from a canon. Her rainbow arch followed her all the way over a few apple trees and into the ground where she crashed head first. “Ugh...” Discord hit his chest causing him to cough up some screws and bolts. Chuckling deviously he rubbed where the pegasus hit. “She’s a strong flyer, but an even better crasher. Hehaha!”

“R-rainbow!”

“Fluttershy, go see to her!” Twilight called, “What are you doing with the elements, Discord?” She demanded.

“Oh you know, just having some fun.” Discord waved the box around teasingly.

Twilight snorted violently and attempted to stand menacingly as her horn began to glow again, but her legs shook, and her teeth were clenched. It took just as much concentration it seemed to stand as to ready whatever spell she was casting. Fluttershy only nodded before flapping her own wings and flying off towards where Rainbow Dash crashed.

“Trying it again, are you, Twilight? Why bother? You don’t even have the Elements.” Discord curled his body back to point at the Elements while hanging his upper body upside down, “Why don’t you try learning how to stand up first, before standing to me!” Discord laughed again, talons snapped and a giant bowling ball appeared over Twilight’s horn. With a yelp, her neck gave forcing her to drop her head down into the bowling ball. There was a small crack, and the resulting shake caused Rarity and Applejack to fall once more. Pinkie Pie however, just as Discord had hoped, was able to keep her balance just fine. She always was the one Discord enjoyed the most. She seemed to adapt to his chaos veeery well.

“Why, you! Even though you make the sky rain chocolate-really good chocolate by the way. I think I’ll have to put them on some cakes sometime. Oh! I should get some tubs to fill up with all the chocolate! I could give them to the Cakes and we could make the BEST cookies and cakes with them! Oh, oh, oh and the cotton candy clouds! They’d go great on some of Joe’s doughnuts I think! Yep! We could call it, Cottonnut! No, that’s no good, there’s no nuts! Tee-hee! Oh! Oh! Oh! Rarity you could make them into dresses and-”

“Pinkie!” The other three ponies yelled together as they once again struggled to stand. Twilight lifted her head, sliding her horn out of the bowling ball, showing some blood running down from her nose. “Focus!”

“Oh come now, she was just embracing the chaos! Something you three should think about doing. Now that I have the Elements of Disharmony I-”

“Elements of Disharmony?!”

“Well, that’s what I said, isn’t it? You know, Twilight, I think I’m getting tired of your interruptions.” Discord bent down a bit, placing his paw on the side of her mouth.

“What are you-?!” Discord ran it across her lips, and her mouth was, quite literally, zipped shut.

“Much better! You know I thought I’d have to mute Rarity before I had to mute you, Twilight. I was actually looking forward to your friendship speeches, if just because they would be so fun to, ya know, crush.”

“You brute! How dare you touch her! Un...zip her mouth this instant!” Rarity’s horn began to glow as her teeth grit in anger. Her own legs were shaking as well, but Discord couldn’t tell if it was from anger or concentration to keep balance...probably both!

“Oh, and what are you going to do, Rarity? Give me a pretty dress?” Discord turned to the white mare, his talon and paw on his would-be hips. He grinned to her, his eyes challenging, and fearless against the fashionista. Honestly? What could she do? Twilight’s magic easily outclassed Rarity’s.

“Oooooh! I don’t think any dress in all of Equestria could make you even look remotely presentable, you beast! Now unhand those elements!” Rarity’s horn brightened as pieces of the earth around them stripped themselves from the earth. They spun and were fined into beautiful sheets of green fabric.

“So the dress, then?” Discord’s eyes shifted between the sheets, his lids coming down boredly.

“Just. You. Watch!” Rarity nodded her head towards Discord as the fabric made of earth flew at the draconequus. They would wrap themselves around the slithery chimera and tighten. They bound his legs, his tail to his back, his arms to his side, and stopped to keep just his head shown. The sound of stretching fabric could be heard as Discord pulled and tugged to free himself.

“Hah! You see! Fashion can kill!” Rarity’s grin was maniacal as she proclaimed her victory phrase. “I’m sorry to say you might find that ‘dress’ a bit too tight!”

“Is that the best you could come up with?” Discord asked, a brow raised and sharp disappointment in his voice. “Aren’t you one of the whittier of the group? Shouldn’t you come up with a better catch-phrase than that?”

“What?!”

“Bah! I had hopes for you for a second, Rarity. And as nice as it was to give me these clothes...I certainly don’t need them. But, hey, at least your generosity shows!” The glow of the element box returned, Discord’s tail emerged from the fabric, and his body followed. He simply slipped out as if he were made of air. “Its reeeeeeeally starting to become pathetic. No matter how much any of you try, you’re doomed. I’ve corrupted the Elements, you know. So even if you did get them back, you wouldn’t be able to use them. And since none of you are strong enough to stop me...then I guess I’m wasting time letting you try. So...time to join the rest of Ponyville, My Little Ponies!” Holding up his hands, the Elements glowed again. “My Chaos Ring will turn you all into statues just like the rest of Ponyville! You’ll be nothing but decorations for my Kingdom of Chaos! And food for the pets, of course. Good-bye, My Little Ponies! Good-bye...forever!”

“Yoink!” The glow of the box died, and Discord looked back at his tail, stupified to find the elements missing.

Landing in front of Discord with the box in his mouth was a navy blue unicorn with a grey mane. He grinned victoriously behind the box before dropping it on the ground and placing a hoof over the box. Twilight’s horn glowed again, the zipper ran across her muzzle, unzipping her mouth.

“Presto?!” Twilight was quick to recognize the amateur magician. Presto had spent a lot of time in the streets of Ponyville, performing street magic and shows for his friends in Ponyville. Despite all that had happened, he also highly admired Trixie. Twilight recalled briefly how they had argued about Trixie once.

“You could’ve been nicer to her, you know.” Presto had urged.

“Presto, she was being a jerk to everyone. She only got what she had coming. With great power comes great responsibility, you know. And she was anything but responsible.” Twilight retorted, trying to keep a calm cheery tone to avoid any heat. Presto responded with a hoof to the ground.

“So? She deserved to show off! She was amazing!”

“Presto, I-”

“Just...leave me alone. I’ll show you, I’ll be just as good as her one day, and we’ll be the best magic show ever!” He had galloped off on that, and it had been a long time before Presto and Twilight spoke again. When they did, there was some heavy tension, but luckily no venom was passed.

Seeing him of all ponies came to quite a shock to Twilight...had his magic really advanced enough to where he could protect himself from Discord’s magic as well?

“Ya know, I would’ve thought the ‘Great and Powerful Discord’ would’ve watched his back a bit better. It was almost too easy snatching this from you.” Presto said as Discord crossed his arms.

“Well, well, well...if it isn’t the Trixie Wanna-be, Presto. My, my, how did you escape my Chaos Ring? Were you stuck in one of your magic boxes again?” Discord responded with a smirk and an amused stare.

“Nope, just did what Twilight did.” Presto’s horn glowed slightly and then faded back. “I protected myself.”

“And no one else?” Discord began grinding his paw’s nails together dismissively.

“...No. I tried, but...no.”

“Good, then I won’t have any more unpleasant surprises. Now, then...” Discord extended his paw, and the arm stretched as if made of elastic. It stopped just before Presto, “give them back, and maybe I’ll make sure your eyes still work when I make you one of my garden ornaments. At least then, you can have the privilege to watch my Chaos Kingdom grow. ”

“Go to hell.” Presto swung around, bucking a leg out at Discord’s paw, which retracted quickly enough to avoid the bold hoof.

“Hahahah! Yes, I know exactly what to do with you...” Discord suddenly shank, sinking into the ground like he was crushed by some invisible and enormous weight. He sprung back up behind Presto, another spring shooting up under Presto shooting him into a bubble that left him floating at eye level with Discord. From the force, Presto had lost his grip on the Elements. The bubble budded, letting a smaller one holding the box float next to Discord’s head. “We’re going to play a game.” As he finished talking, Discord turned quickly and held out his talon. A wall of taffy emerged behind him just as Rainbow Dash and Applejack charged in at him. They ran into the sticky candy and were stopped dead in their tracks.

Discord snapped his talons and earth rumbled and ruptured. It came up, arched and came down on Rarity, Twilight, Pinkie, and Fluttershy. The mud, earth, and grass hardened and imprisoned the four, leaving only their heads peeking out.

“Let them go!” Presto demanded, ramming his body against the bubble. Discord opened his paw and the bubble holding the Elements popped, dropping the elements cleanly into his hand.

“Not to worry, Presto, my boy. I’ll let them go...you’ll all be playing, you see. Playing in my game. I was foolish before to make it so simple...I mean sure, I still won, but I’d like to just sit back and watch this time. No reason to waste time meddling with you seven when there’s so much more chaos to bring! Hahah!” Discord once again turned back to Presto as his talon gestured downward. The six ponies let out struggling, grunts, whines, and shouts for help and demands for being ‘let go’, as their imprisonments sank into the ground. Before Presto’s very eyes, the six had disappeared into the earth. The last thing he saw was Rainbow Dash’s head-bloody from the crash-take a deep breath and close her eyes.

“And you, boy, “ Discord pressed a finger against Presto’s horn through the bubble, “Will be the star. It’ll be up to you to save them.” Presto’s eyes widened a bit. Uncertainty, fear, and despair flashed through them. “Oh...and one more thing.” Discord stuck his hand through the bubble and flicked Presto’s horn. It came clean off, flying out of the bubble and landing on the ground. Rock slates emerged from the ground covering his horn in a rough stone coffin. It too sank back into the ground. “No. Magic.”

“You won’t get away with this!” Presto then shouted in some desperate attempt to keep dignity. Discord merely yawned in response.

“That’s what they all say.” Discord then gave a thumbs down motion. “Now...time to play in my house of nightmares. You thought Nightmare Moon was scary? Well, you ponies have only seen the kid’s stuff. Now that I’m back, and with these Elements...well let’s just say being turned into glass candy that bleeds jelly will be the least of your worries.” Presto began to descend towards the ground. He watched as the bubble began to simply phase through it...as well as his body. Scared, he looked back up to see Discord’s crazed smile and wide eyes. And he wasn’t exactly sure...but he thought he saw Discord’s body turn a slight shade of grey just before entering the darkness.