The Caverns of Discordby pinkmin24ChaptersThe start of it allmeeting my sisters, and FluttershyDiscord's growing strength.teleporting everyone outThe skinning of DiscordThe start of it allI had stayed up all night working in the forge on one thing. a small dagger able to switch in, and out of a leather strap without cutting it. having to use leather made this process harder than needed, because it takes a few gears, and so on for the blade to slip it out without cutting the leather, but when I had nearly finished I heard hooves pounding on the ground coming towards my forge. "ROY!" Fluttershy screamed as she approached quickly, and out of breath. "Twilight, and the others need your help." Fluttershy tells me frantically while panting all the while. "What's going on, and can I make another one of these in time before I come over there." I reply to her as I slip on the leather bracelet thing with a dagger in it. "No." She replies flatly. "Ok then lead the way!" I say starting to get up while grabbing my pack. We ran all the way to an extremely large field where I could see discord battling against Twilight, and the others as Fluttershy runs over to them putting her element around her neck. "Discord what are you doing!" I roared out toward him. "Oh look who decided to join the party" Discord told me as he flicked Twilight, and the others away. "Twilight when did discord become so strong?" I ask her from across the field. "I will answer that one Roy. I became so powerful after you turned me to stone again, because instead of just sitting there in my imagination I decided to learn a few things about the elements of harmony, and the girls. I learned that the elements run on their friendship of course, but they also run on their feelings, and if you haven't already noticed I drained them of their feelings except fluttershy, because she ran off when I did like a coward." My anger started to flare as Discord started to build a large structure ignoring me. I turned from a unicorn to an alicorn as my temper started to go out of control. "ROY DON'T!" Twilight screamed in an attempt to stop me, but I ignored her warning, and made a fatal mistake, because I flew up to him without a plan to stop him, because when I tried to buck him, he disappeared, and trapped me with magic in a single spot. I could feel him starting to steal my power, and using my rage to generate more. "Enough games Roy time to put my plan into action." Discord said reappearing, and starting to electrocute me draining my power faster, and more painful. My screams of pain didn't detour him from his objective. I could feel myself losing all my power, as my vision started going black around the edges. "Discord I swear I will kill you when, and if I don't die here." I tell him as weak as I am now. "Oh trust me Roy you won't have any chance once i'm done with you. I see the structure he is building is a large maze built in a giant hole in the ground, but it was the last thing I could see before I black out. I wake up in a dark place feeling weak. Where am I? What happened after I blacked out? I get up slowly as I feel the pain in my aching joints get more unbearable. I see a corridor on the other side of the small room, so I start to move towards it with what little strength I have left from what had just happened. I made my way to the corridor, and pushed myself against the wall to make sure I don't fall over before I can see if any other ponies are here. "Is anypony here?" I call out semi-quietly. The only response I get is a groan from a few yards away. Slowly I make my way over. The groans keep coming, and start sounding more feminine the closer I get. I finally round the corner, and look into a room where a gray mare with a bubbly cutie mark laying on the ground with a horrible wound on her hind leg dribbling blood in a slow, and steady stream. I rush over towards the mare, as my eyes start filling up with red covering my light orange eyes. I backup a little bit as my mind starts to fill with ideas of killing the mare in the bloodiest ways imaginable, but i'm able to hold myself together, and open my pack to pull out leather, and rip it into pieces to place over her wound, and tie it with leather straps. I lift her onto my back making sure I don't make her injury worse. After many hours of wandering the maze the mare starts to come to, so I look back, and observe her as she wakes up. "Where am I! Who are you! Why am I not back home!? she wails starting to panic. "Calm down or else!" I say to her sternly. She stops panicking enough for me to tell her. "You have a bad wound on your leg miss. I suggest you don't move for awhile." I tell her walking slowly regaining my strength as we keep going on "Where are my wings at?" She asks me. "you had wings?" I reply to her confused. "Yes I did, and you have-" She stops mid-sentence to notice i'm an alicorn. "Your an alicorn." She tells me quietly in my ear. "Excuse me I forgot to tell you my name. My name is Roy, and what is yours?" I tell her trying to ignore the fact she just realized I am the lost prince. "My name is Derpy my prince." She tells me politely. "Please don't call me your prince I prefer my actual name Roy." I tell her, and she just nods closing her eyes. Much later I hear Derpy snoring as we are taking a bit of a break from wandering this maze, but why didn't I lose my horn, and wings like she lost her wings. Did it have something to do with me being able to change from an alicorn, to a unicorn, to a pegasus, to a earthpony. I need answers from the one who did this, until then I need to make sure nopony is hurt in my care, because I will not mess up again, because all of this is my fault. Discord used me to make this prison. I will not die from this I will make him pay for hurting me, and doing this to derpy, and whoever else is here. He. Will. Pay. meeting my sisters, and FluttershyI was tending to Derpy's wound while she was asleep to lessen the pain of the process as I peeled off the blood stained leather that got my bloodlust on a bit, but not enough to flip my blade out, and kill Derpy on the spot. I finished patching Derpy up as she started to wake up. "Hello Roy. has anything happened since I fell asleep?" "No Derpy nothing has happened other than me changing your bandages for fresh ones." I told her. Both of us started hearing squeaking extremely distant, and far. "Derpy stay here I will go check what it is don't strain yourself please I don't want you getting hurt anymore." I tell while she nods a yes. I put a mark in the dirt on the ground allowing me to teleport back to the room whenever needed. I head down the corridor where I hear the sound originating from. The squeaking gets louder, and softer for some reason. "Hello Roy I hope you are at your best right now or you're gonnaaaaaa diiiiie" I hear Discord's voice ringing in my head as a bit of shadow ponies arise from the ground with no face just a body built for fighting. I fly a bit upwards, and stand on my back hooves as Lyra taught me when I was a bit younger. I knocked a few of them back with my large wings, but there had to be at least eight of them attacking me at once from my left, and right. I manage to flip my blade out of the leather bracelet, and slip it into a shadow pony's face shattering their skull, and brain if they have one. I pick up two more of them, and toss them at the rest from both sides, One got close enough for me to kick it down, and smash it's skull into pieces by stepping on it while I used magic to increase the gravity on my hoove to slam down on their skull. Surprisingly they have blood, so they body starts to gush out massive amounts of blood starting to clump trying to stop the bleeding from the already dead shadow pony. My bloodlust begins to fill my eyes with red, but this time I let flow, and finish the fight for me. I approach two shadow ponies trying to get up, I step on them both until they both are practically gurgling for their lives. I sink downwards, and put my blade into one of their hearts, and hacked, and slashed their face so many times you couldn't even tell they were a pony. I sink back down onto four hooves as my back hooves start hurt from standing on two dead shadow ponies. I hold four shadow ponies in place that were charging me with my magic, and I buck the last one down, and slam it into the earth with increased gravity from my back hooves. All that is left of that pony is just a few arms, and one head rolling across the ground. I stand on my back hooves, and approach the last four. A smile creeps onto my face as I jab one of my hooves into the first one, and rip out most of their intestines onto the floor. As my bloodlust loses effect I turn the last three into puddles of blood by pushing gravity against them enough to make anypony a puddle of pudding. I had not realized this until it was too late but the squeaking had gotten extremely loud. I tried to clean myself up before the squeaking got to me, but it was no use, because the pony that rounded the corner looked at me with confusion. "Roy?" Fluttershy asked me as I stared towards her. "Yes it's me. reason why i'm covered in a bit of blood is, because Discord sent some shadow ponies to kill me." I tell her assuring her I wouldn't kill her "That explains all the dead pony bodies I guess." Fluttershy said a bit overwhelmed by my strength after most of my power being drained by discord. I walk up to Fluttershy, and start to cast a spell before she could have a chance to argue we both teleport back into the room where Derpy is still at fixing her mane preparing to get up. "Well Roy thanks for what you have done, because while you were out doing whatever my wound has healed up enough to the point where it barely bothers me." Derpy says approaching us. "That's a good thing, because we will be able to cover more ground, and search for anyone else in this maze cavern thing Discord created." I say starting to lay down by a nearby wall tired out from my recent endeavor against those eight shadow ponies. "Why are you all tired out? it was just one trip to find her." Derpy says pointing at Fluttershy with a hoove. "Well if you didn't know Roy was drained of most of his power, and energy from Discord a while ago plus he just had to fight off a bit of shadow ponies so Roy deserves a bit of a rest, because if he hadn't come to find me those shadow ponies might have come for me." Fluttershy says for me in my defense. "Well i'm heading out to go look for other ponies." Derpy says to both of us turning towards the corridor to the right of me. "Wait.Hold it. I need to teach you both some hoove magic that can make a teleport location to one place that you place a mark at." I tell them while showing them how to do the magic, and then how to make the mark on the ground. They both place the mark in the room since neither of them has their wings to get out of trouble quickly. "Well I am going to take a slight nap to regain my energy, and after that i'm gonna go searching once more." I lay my head down as Derpy runs down a corridor with a fading alright. "Well if your gonna take a nap i'm gonna take one too Roy." Fluttershy says laying down next to me placing her head on my neck. I could feel her heartbeat, and her breathing starting to match mine, but as I start to slip into her sleep her heartbeat raises a little bit as she pecks me on the cheek, and in my ear she tells me "Thanks for coming for me Roy."With that we ended what I thought to be night. I woke up much later to Fluttershy snoring in my ear, and Derpy sitting near asleep. I slip out from under Fluttershy, and gently lay her head down onto the ground with my wings. After that I head into the corridor right across from me, but this time danger was right around the corner as something pink slammed me back as I rounded the corner. I sat slumped against the wall a bit dazed as out of all the ponies i could meet right now approaches me. "Well hello Roy nice to see you again, but this time we have some unfinished business since you are now mature enough. I will be taking a bit of a ride on your cock if you don't mind right? Of course you don't mind your a stallion, but once i'm done with you I will rip your cock, and balls off Roy." Pinkamena Diane Pie says approaching me As I finally realize what she means as she starts to stroke me I push her back with a blast of magic, and air from my wings. "Oh. Buck. NO!" I roar getting up as she is a bit frazzled from the blast of my wings, and horn. "Of all the things Discord forgets to do. He forgot to take away your horn, and wings." Pinkamena said to me with a gleam of annoyance in her eyes. "Pinkie Discord can't, because I can change from an alicorn to any kind of pony I want." I tell her as Fluttershy, and Derpy peek their heads around the corner. "Roy! What are you doing to Pinkie!" Fluttershy says walking up to me, and stands between both of us. "Well if you were here a few minutes ago you would have seen her trying to rape me then rip my crotch off." "And I thought all stallions enjoyed sex way too much." Pinkie mutters a bit loud. "Well I will just excuse myself from this awkward conversation." Derpy says backing out of the corridor "I have an idea though for you Pinkie I might be able to teleport you out of this maze with the magic I have, but it will take a lot of my strength to do so." I tell her walking up to her past Fluttershy. "Do it I wanna get out of this hell hole anyway." Pinkie says urging me on as her hair starts fluffing up again. Ignoring that I start to pour my strength into my horn as it glows brighter it starts to light everything up. I close my eyes, and everypony blocks it out with their hooves. At the peak of my horns strength pinkie disappeared "It Worked!" I screamed as I slump against the wall. "That definitely drained me, but not enough to stop me from going on that search I said I was gonna go on." I tell Fluttershy as she rushes over to me. "Well maybe you shouldn't push yourself so hard all the time Roy." Fluttershy suggests sitting next to me "Flutters if I can do this i'm pretty sure I can teleport you, and Derpy out of here right now so you can get back to your life's and not stay in here for my mistake." I tell her as she starts to lay her head on my shoulder rubbing up against me. "Nah I think I will stay here, and help you search for the other ponies trapped in this maze." Fluttershy tells me as I lift my head upwards so i'm staring at the ceiling. "You know Fluttershy you are the friend that has always been there for me when I needed comforting or some company, and I never said thanks all those times did I? No. So let me just say this now. Thank you for always sticking by me when I need you." I look at her, and hug her with a bit of a squeeze as she hugs back. "You two done? or are you just gonna forget about your little search Roy." Says Derpy butting in. "Because correct me if i'm wrong Roy you said that you were still gonna search after casting that spell." Derpy tells me with a stern look on her face. "Alright alright i'm getting up, and going just stop sheesh no need to arrest me." I say letting go of Fluttershy. "By the way Derpy if you want me to I can teleport you out of here right now." I tell her. "I have to stay i'm looking for a pony who disappeared right in front of me before all of this happened." After she said that she ran off in the opposite corridor. "Well Flutters you coming with?" I ask her as we get up, and she answers with a simple nod yes. We start down the corridor with not much happening until I hear voices in the distant. I remember I have tracking magic so I decide to use it when I see 4 shadow ponies heading our way, because they are blocking some kind of cell. "Fluttershy stay here I have to kill more shadow ponies it will get bloody, and I don't want you seeing me like that. "Ok Roy just tell me when it's all over." Fluttershy says taking a seat by the wall. I run around a few corners until I run into a hoove blocking my path. I rub my face as I feel the horseshoe I just ran into. I get up, and see my enemies lining up to take me down. There numbers were way higher than I thought, because there was 15 of them ready to kill. I got on my back hooves ready for a fight. They all rushed me at once since all of us were in a large room it would have to take strategy to kill them all, I could also feel two pairs of eyes staring at me from the cell over there these shadow ponies were guarding. I kicked one back, and inserted the blade into it's head as it flipped out of it's hiding place, but after the first kill I was overtaken by 3 of them as they pushed me back, and bucked me a few times in the chest with their back hooves. I used my wings to defend against most of the attacks they threw at me. When I finally got the chance I blew them all back as I opened my wings, and switched to the attack. I slip the blade into the nearest shadow pony's arm, but the strike wasn't fatal enough to kill it. I was backed up against a wall keeping them at bay with the one blade I had since I didn't have time to make another. Things took a turn for the worse as one of them got close enough to slip my blade off my arm, and stab me immediately in the wing since I blocked the fatal hit to the chest. My wing was dribbling blood in a steady stream. It had to be the best time to see what my bloodlust could actually do. I pushed them all back with a wave of magic before I raise my wing above my head to drip a drop of blood into my mouth. As I swallowed the bloodlust my eyes immediately filled up with red, and all I could see was just a constant blood red. I also change from an alicorn to an earth pony unable to restrain my bloodlust from doing so. The shadow ponies were already upon, but this time they were confused with my sudden change in nature. I rush the first one who kept coming closer, and closer with my flip blade. Before I ran into him I got onto my back hooves with my rushing force, and launched his arm off from his torso. With no chance to react I kick my hoove through it's torso. I walk over to my blade on the dead shadow pony's arm. My horn grows back, and levitates it onto my top right hoove. "So who is the lucky first to die next?" I say hinting amusement as they start to fall back, and run out of the room. "I never get any fun when Roy lets me take charge sheesh." After I had said that my eyes drain completely of the redness, and my wings come back. I call to Fluttershy to come into the room. "Roy did you really have to rip it's arm off then kick it through the torso?" Fluttershy asks me rounding the corner, and seeing the body on the ground. "Now this place is a terrible mess, and it grosses me out." Fluttershy tells me once more as she walks over to the cage. "Sorry I can't control myself when my instinct kicks in." I tell her trying to hide my bloodlust. "Whatever Roy, but what is in this cage?" She asks curiously. "Let's see what's in the cage then flutters." I tell her walking over to it as well. I place my hoove inside, and slowly start ripping the bars out of the wall with the help of my non-injured wing, and a bit of magic. After a few grueling minutes of pulling on the metal bars they fall out of their sockets as I throw them to the left away from both of us. "Hello is anypony in there?" Fluttershy asks peeking a head in. A bluish black pony, and a royal white pony walk out of the cage looking at me. "Roy is that you. Actually you or is Discord pulling another trick. Said Celestia a bit scared. "It is me Celestia I didn't mean for us to meet like this after all these years in some dark dangerous place." I tell Celestia, and Luna as they both walk closer to get a closer look. "There is no doubt Celestia this is Roy. The Prince has finally returned." Luna says perking up in a happy tone partially bouncing around. "Well lets get back to a safe place we need to catch up, and exchange a few words." I tell them both as my horn starts glowing the teleportation magic. When we are back in the room where I placed the mark of teleportation. "I can teleport both of you out of here if you wish it will just take a moment." I tell them getting back in my spot I fell asleep in the last time I was in the room. "No Roy I think we will stay, and help out everyone in ponyville, and canterlot castle." Said Celestia answering for them both. "Well then it's settled the five of us will rescue everyone from this terrible place Discord created." I tell them as Derpy teleports into the room. "Why is there so much royalty in this room?" She asks a bit overwhelmed. "Because Derpy we are all helping to get ponyville, and canterlot castle back from Discord." Luna answered her tiredly as she start laying down next to celestia. "Celestia, Luna you both know the teleportation spell for hoove magic right?" They both nod when I finish my sentence, and place the mark down nearby themselves. "I have had a rough time today i'm going to sleep." I tell them laying down in my usual place where Fluttershy joins me. "Take the rest we saw you take on all those shadow ponies from our cell." Celestia tells me with her eyes closed. "When we all wake up we all need to go into separate corridors." I tell them, but at this Luna raises her head, and answers me quickly. "No Roy we must stay together three alicorns are stronger than one even if we don't have our wings or horn we are still strong Roy." Luna tells me laying her head back down. "I might be able to cast a spell to overpower Discords to bring your horn, and wings back, but it's just a possibility. I tell them slipping into sleep, but my only answer is a grunt from Celestia as she is falling asleep as well. Finally reunited with my sisters what a wonderful thing, but I just hope they don't think i'm a threat, because they saw my bloodlust from the cell. Oh I hope they don't. Discord's growing strength.I am suddenly shaken awake by, and when I open my eyes I see Derpy with a worried look on her face. "Roy I found who I was looking for, but he is stuck in a cell made by Discord guarded by a few somethings that look a lot like you. To make it worse they were able to use magic so I couldn't stay there long enough to study them a bit more, because one of them spotted me quickly." "Alright Derpy lead the way, but give me a sec." I get up and check inside my pack for my blade. I find it quickly, and slip it on. I nod to derpy to have her assume i'm ready to go. Derpy lead me through a ton of twists, and turns until we finally reached a large room with three figures in the dark that resembled me. "Oh how nice of you to finally find this place Roy I have been waiting for you to see my latest creations, and see if they kill you since nothing else can." Discord said popping in through the wall as my shadow. "Oh by the way. You won't be needing this little blade, because it makes the fights a bit unfair. I hope you understand Roy." Discord says removing my blade from my hoove, and then disappearing once more into the wall as my shadow. When Discord left the figures looked up, and their eyes lit up with a bright green light that looked just like the color of my horns magic. I look at my wing that got stabbed earlier knowing its not fit for another fight so I have my wings disappear back into my body. The figures slowly start towards me slowly, but gaining speed. "Derpy get out of here." I tell her holding my position as she runs the other way. They all ram me at once pushing me back a bit giving me enough time to raise onto my back hooves readying a counter. I ready my horn to hold them all, and just as I do that they charge their magic to hold me at the same time. All 3 of them raised onto their back hooves just as they held me with their magic while I held them with mine. This fight is not going to be easy,but I think I know how to deal with myself if these things really fight like me. We all drop at the same time and meet up in the center of the room where the fight actually begins. "Oh Roy I hope you know these things will attack each other, but their ultimate goal is to kill you. Why are they all not trying to kill you. Well I will tell you why, because it's no fun watching one pony getting ganged up on by three others with the fight so one sided." Discord says popping in once more, but this time with skin like the wall as he blended in with it, but he disappears quickly after he says what he wanted to say. I head for the nearest one since this basically a free for all. Me and this thing that resembles me quickly place our front hooves on the ground, and turn fast enough backwards where our back hooves clash in mid buck. Since that didn't work out too well I had to hop back onto my back hooves, and turn around with blinding speed, and as the thing was too slow to realize that I was on my back hooves already it fell on its stomach right on the cold, hard ground. I pick it up with magic so I can get a clear shot with my front hooves, but I was stopped with one of the others flying at me, and as it hit me I lost my concentration on my magic when. Falling on the ground didn't feel good, but with this thing on my back it felt even worse. I threw it off into the nearest wall so I could finally get a good hit in while the other two were fighting each other. I drive one of my front hooves into its back as I pull it up off the ground with magic, and slam it up against the wall then into the other two that are fighting. While one of them is dazed trying to get up the other two aren't, and run over to me, and in a split second they are on there back hooves ready for a powerful hit with their front ones, but before they can get close enough I send one sprawling on the ground with a magical blast to the gut, but the other one was able to dodge a blast, and hit me square in the jaw where my vision started to waver. My wings spring from my back, and encase it so I could spin it in the direction of the wall that I am up against. As I held it against the wall with my wings the other two rushed over to me only to be blasted back once more with magic, but I forgot one thing these things had that I also did. I am picked up from the ground as a green aura wraps around me, and launched me across the room against the bars that are holding whoever this pony is prisoner. I counter this things magic with my own, but the spell only short circuits, and explodes in my face leaving marks. I could slowly feel the anger building up in me as nothing goes my way in this fight. The other two are already on their back two hooves, and rush me while I am stuck in place with magic. They get up to me and hold me in place up against the wall. The other thing that I had up against the wall rushes over, and starts to attack me while I can't do anything. My rage is slowly building to the points where it was unbearable, and my short fuse went off just as I felt my self starting to bleed with a hit to wing. My magic blasts all three of them a few feet away where they all gather in an attempt to kill me. "Oh so they have joined forces to kill you I see how fun." Discord says obviously enjoying the show. Ignoring Discord's little comment I advance on them with the bloodlust taking over. As all three of them are upon me I use my uninjured wing to push them back onto the ground where I slam one of their skulls in with increased gravity from my magic, and two back hooves. My blood lusts strength only grew from that point on as I desired to kill more. I picked the other two up as I over power their magic. Slamming them into the wall over, and over as I hear more, and more of their bones cracking with every impact. When I finally feel like ending their suffering I grind them into dust as I drag them across the wall with increasing speed. As I finally drop their corpses I look at back at them, and the image pleases my bloodlust enough to turn it off, because what I saw was two corpses with no back, and blood turning into a lake with all their innards falling out onto the ground. I rush over to the cell where the pony is looking out. I look at the cell bars for a moment before I rip them out of the wall. "Now come out I 'dealt' with your guards." I tell the frightened stallion as he emerges from his cell. "Well your pretty beaten up aren't you?" Said the brown stallion with an hourglass as a cutie mark with spikes on his mane "You try anything, and I will end your life just like I ended theirs. Got it?" I tell the stallion tired out. "I would never think of doing anything to the.... Alicorn? That saved me? Wait you're an Alicorn? But you're a stallion. There are no Alicorns that are stallions." The stallion says bewildered. "Well where have you been? I ran away from canterlot as a colt. There was also a time when everywhere was filled to the brim with guards looking for me." I remind him thinking i'm reminding him. "Oh it seems I missed out on something when I traveled to this place from another dimension." The stallion says gathering himself up taking another look at me. "Excuse me what did you say. Another dimension. Impossible." I tell him knowing he is not telling me the truth. "Oh yah you ponies don't think i'm from another dimension at least Derpy thinks I do." The stallion says moving out of the room. "Where are you going? I need to take you back to Derpy." I tell him as he passes by me. "Oh sorry where are my manners since you are the one that has helped me. Thank you, and my name is Dr. Whooves." The Dr tells me turning around to face me. "Well I had better take you back to Derpy now shouldn't I." I tell him readying my magic. "Yes please take me back to Derpy so I can use her to get back to my own dimension." The Dr says without realizing what just said "Excuse me what did you just say?" I tell him with anger building up. "I have no Idea what you are talking about." He says finally realizing what he just told me "You just said to take you back to Derpy. Just To USE her." I tell him with bubbling anger on my short fuse. "I said that didn't I. Oh well I guess I should tell you about me, and Derpy's relationship not actually being a thing." He says standing their holding his position as my facial expressions change from friendly to hostile. I hear hooves pounding down the hall coming down the hallway that I entered in. "Ok so let me tell. First of all Derpy thinks i'm her special somepony. Second of all she had been helping me figure out how to get back to my world,and she is the only one out of both of us who has made any breakthroughs so I need to use her. Got it?" Dr. Whooves says knowing the mistake he just made. "Why Does Derpy Love you- you. OH I'M GOING TO KILL. HOW MANY YEARS HAVE YOU AND DERPY BEEN TOGETHER! I roar at him as he holds his ground knowing whats about to happen. "Please do kill me so I can regenerate back in the Tardis, and we have been together for at least 4 years." Dr. Whooves says raising onto his back hooves readying to defend himself. "Let me tell you something you insensitive pony I am going to kill you for not telling Derpy you don't want her to be your special, because I already know she wont listen to me when I tell her you don't love her. SO I WILL DO THE NEXT BEST THING YOU PIECE OF SHIT! And with that my rage breaks the meter, and I launch myself at him buckling him over. Three ponies run into the room as I take down Dr. Whooves. Fluttershy, Luna, And Celestia look at both of us. "Roy what are you doing!" Luna screeches turning up the volume with her royal voice. "I'm going to kill this pony for not telling Derpy the truth." I tell them while I throw the Dr. across the room with magic, but as I advance on him Celestia, and Luna tackle me while Fluttershy drags me back. "What are you doing. This pony needs to learn manners!" I turn up the volume on my royal voice just as Luna did as I try to wrestle away from them, but i'm too tired from using my magic so much to actually get away from them. I look at the Dr. to see a cocky smirk on his face. "Oh just you wait I am going to kill you one day you bastard." I tell him sending a blast of magic that none of them expected, and as it hits he disappears out of the maze "Roy where did he go!" Luna yells at me as they all drop me. "Don't worry I just teleported him out of the maze." I tell Luna calming her down. "Let's go back I am tired I need to rest my horn, and my body before this place breaks me, and my mental self. teleporting everyone outAfter discussing the topic of taking Discord down, and this maze for hours, and hours on end. We finally came to an agreement of teleporting everypony out of the maze, and then dealing with Discord himself with the force of ponyville, and canterlot combined. "I highly doubt all of this is going to work, because Discord always has something up his sleeve. You all know that right? Good." Celestia says putting her hoove down. "No. No I think the plan will actually work, because isn't canterlot inhabited by mostly unicorns? If so then my assumptions are right, and Discord won't be able to stand up to about 200 unicorns, and if he does have something up his sleeve I will handle it myself." I tell them as we start to split ways to find ponies, and bring them back to the meeting point to be teleported out. "Hold on Roy. Aren't you the one who put us in this mess anyway? Why would we want you to handle it on your own if you're going to lose your head again, and get everyone put back into this place, and to top it all off you're not really in shape to fight right now." Fluttershy counters back at what I had just said." "Listen all of you. I know that I got all of us into this mess by giving Discord my strength, but I am determined to take Discord down, and make everything right while making up for my mistake so just trust me on this one." I turn around addressing Fluttershy's counter. "Well then Roy I hope you know what you're doing then, because if you don't well lets just say it won't be a happy ending for you if we all get stuck back in here, because you couldn't take down Discord while you are in your current condition." Luna says frowning at me, because she obviously doesn't like me right now after trying to kill Dr. Whooves. I turn around, and leave the room while everyone else does the same. rooms, and rooms of nothing. Until I find another empty room with a cell, but with no guards. I walk up to the cell, and three figures cower backwards into the corner. Knowing a few ponies were in there was enough of a drive for me to rip the bars out of the wall. "Come on out so I can teleport you out of here." I tell the three figures, and as the emerge from the cell I see that they are all little fillies. One is orange with a purplish mane. Another is white with a purple,and pink mane. The final filly has yellow skin, and a red mane. They all look at me with eyes full of fright as they see my mane is stained with blood in a few spots. "Why does your mane have blood in it?" The yellow one asks first. "Because I have had to defend myself from dangerous things in this maze." I tell her as I hear unfamiliar hooves approaching. "Quick get back in the cell I think trouble is coming." And just as I tell them a figure arrives in the room looking exactly like me. I seal the cell with magic so whatever it is can't target them. "Oh Roy meet yourself. I have made a copy of you that fights like you thinks like you, and is more healthy than you since you know. You are hurt after all this fighting. HAH! This is going to be so enjoyable watching you struggle against yourself." Discord says popping out of the ceiling while having a floating lawn chair appear with popcorn so he can observe in safety as I tussle it out with this copy. "Fine Discord if that is how you want it I will kill you once I deal with this 'thing'." I tell him stamping my hoove onto the ground then raising myself onto my back hooves, and as I do it the copy does it too. We run at each other, and plant a hoove on both of our faces. I get back up faster than it can. I use my magic to seal up the door until it feels my magical touch again so I don't have to constantly have it constantly draining my energy. I turn to face the copy of me once more just as it sweeps me off my feet, and I hit the ground with my back. I move my head to the side to avoid a fatal blow as it increases gravity on it's front hooves. I send it back with a gust from the wing that is the least injured. I get back up, and just when I thought things couldn't get worse I saw it flip my blade out of the leather band. "Oh by the way Roy I gave it your little flip blade thing." Discord says chuckling in safety. I had to lose some ground as the copy came at me with my own weapon. As I run backwards though I plant my front hooves on the ground firmly, and buck it in the stomach strongly enough to launch it back, but that backfired, because just as I bucked the copy in the gut the copy stabbed my bottom right leg with the blade just as it flew backwards dragging the blade downwards into my leg. I fall to the ground as my leg goes limp. I back up a bit as the copy gets back up barely dazed, and hurt. I check my back right leg while I still have time before it charges at me once more. If I don't end this fight soon i'm going to either die of blood loss or die of that blade. I give in to my bloodlust to numb the pain enough to the point where i'm able to fight with no worries. My eyes fill with red making my vision go red, and my blood boils needing to rip something apart. I get back up ready to end this. I pick up the copy with magic, and toss it straight at Discord who didn't expect to be assaulted with his own copy. Discord, and the copy fall, but the copy falls on it's head cracking it's skull open while Discord floats down with growing fear. "OK OK ROY. Calm down we can talk it out ok?" Discord says pleading while trying to get away as I stop him with magic. "Ok Discord we can talk it out. Now if you want to survive I suggest you teleport everyone back to their homes." I start to haggle with Discord who wants to keep his life. "I have a better idea. I let everyone out, and." Discord says with a growing smile. "And what?" I ask him confused. "And you stay here you brainless fool." Discord says making everything light up with magic. I use my magic to detect every living thing around me. Discord was teleporting everyone out, and back to their homes, but when Discord disappears I feel a ping of loneliness as there is no life around me. I am left to roam this place alone until I can find a way out, because I apparently can't teleport myself out. Discord, and his tricks have got me on edge, and my bloodlust still hasn't died down. I sat up against a wall, and tended to my leg. The wound was worse than I thought. All because I stood on it too much after it got sliced open, but without the right tools I am unable to completely patch it up so i'm stuck to limping, and hobbling my way around this maze. "Discord just you wait. I will find a way to reverse this, and I have already got you once. If I can do that once I can do it again." I say knowing Discord can hear where ever he is at. "Oh Roy you don't know what I have in store for you since you are the only pony left in the maze. So instead of me waiting why don't you just wait for me to end your life. Alright?" Discord says without showing his position. "I swear Discord I am going to end your life in a more 'brutal' manner so you why don't you wait as I said a few seconds ago." I tell Discord slowly growing annoyed, and after that Discord didn't reply. I just hope he isn't working on an army of those things that tried to kill me earlier. I remember after talking to Discord my flip blade is on that copies top right leg. I retrieve it with no trouble, and slip it on, and since I finally have a way to kill quickly I have a small sense of safety return. Now Discord doesn't know what I have in store for him just because he decided to keep me in this place, and not let everyone out. The skinning of DiscordI feel as if this maze is endless, and if it isn't there has to be an somewhere. If only I could be so sure of myself right now. I hear sounds in this maze. Sounds that make you think ponies are still trapped in here, and being tortured, but I know Discord is toying with me. "Roy are you having fun in my little maze of fun?" Discord says popping his head out of the wall while pushing me aside as he pops out of the wall. Just as I try to use magic on him he disappears though. "Discord come out, and end this already I have had enough of your tricks, and games." I tell him as I hear him slithering through the walls. "What fun is that Roy. I wanna see you suffer for all those years you, and those mares trapped me in stone again." Discord says with hatred, and anger. "I will be glad to do it again, but I feel like that is a bit too nice this time, because you have nearly killed me in this damn maze. So I think I should return the favor." I tell Discord trying to pin point his location as I hear him slithering around in the wall. "Oh Roy you are always so serious aren't you? Well since you are it makes this even funner, because you act like you can actually get out of here. Well since you do think so I might actually end you myself right now. So. Just give me a moment." Discord says running up my back as a miniature version of himself, and then disappearing into thin air. I hear a rumbling sound down the corridor I am walking through. The walls start roll inwards, and If I hadn't started to move at that moment I probably wouldn't have been able to teleport to the meeting point. "Ok Discord what was that about? Just come out so I can end my suffering, and get back to my forge." I tell Discord as the rooms walls start to break apart to reveal a never ending yellow, and as the floor starts to disappear I grow a bit worried, but it didn't disappear enough for me to fall off. "I have had enough of this. Now come out before I drag you out." I tell Discord pin pointing his location as I see movement in the corner of my eye. I catch Discord off guard with a magical grip around one of his paws, and I slam him to the ground with enough velocity to pin him down. "Oh BOOO this is not fun Roy. Are you trying to ruin the fun or something?" As Discord says that my magic flickers off, and releases him to fly back up to where he was at. "Roy I figured out how to turn off your magic, but I can't get rid of your horn or your wings so I will just have to deal with your wings, but you wings are useless since they are hurt so much, and now that you are just like a regular stallion with no magic or flight you will be easily disposed of." Discord says lowering himself down to the ground. "Fine Discord if you want to play it this way I will show you even with most of my strength gone you will not live to see the light of day again." I tell him raising onto my back hooves. I rush at him as the flip blade comes out of it's hiding place. I stab, and miss about twenty times before Discord uses magic against me sending me backwards, and nearly fall off the edge. I get back up with growing anger. The fight was just a big fest of Discord throwing me backwards with magic like I was a little pest. I felt the rage bubble inside me ready to kill Discord, and as I was thrown back once more my rage instantly had my bloodlust go active making my vision go red with anger, and the desire to kill the one who put me in this state. I get back onto my back hooves ready for another round, but Discord thought I was just trying to pull a hero move on him, but his own cockiness is what was his downfall as I swerved to the right of him, and threw him back with magic of my own as I overpowered his spell once more. I take to the sky as Discord starts to fly up. "Now Discord who is backed up into a corner?" I ask him as he starts to grow frustrated. We stay in midair trying to overpower each others magic, and just as I felt him starting to overpower me I fly at him with my blade ready, but instead of stabbing him with it I use my magic to keep him at bay a second longer for me to be able to break the blade out of the leather strap, and toss it up in the air to kick it at him without cutting myself since I kicked it with my horseshoe, and not my actual hoove. The blade sinks into his stomach, and as Discord falls to the ground I follow. I take my blade out of his gut, and pin him down with magic. "Now Discord I have thought of the best way to kill you. I hope you like." I tell Discord starting to skin him. "Wait Wait please Roy we can talk this out you don't have to kill m-me. We can always get alon-" I clamp Discords mouth shut with even more magic. When I had nearly finished skinning Discord my magic on his mouth broke, and he did something I never thought he was capable of. "Fine then Roy if you want to end my life then I will take something of yours to make your life miserable forever." I finished skinning Discord just as he got up, and used his last bit of magic to turn my upper legs, and hooves black. I fall on my face as the feeling in them goes away. "Discord what have you done?" I ask him bewildered as he lays down to die. "I am taking part of you into the afterlife with me since you have decided to kill the element of chaos, and Roy. You don't know what you have just started by doing this." Discord says as his eyes roll over into. The maze pieces start to fly into me giving me my strength back, and healing all my wounds except my upper legs that Discord took. I lay on the ground as the world starts to come back. "The nightmare is finally over." I tell myself as I see a carriage deploy from canterlot castle that actually isn't too far away so I lay, and wait for it to reach me. "Well done Roy seems as if you finally have done something right for a change." Luna says stepping out of the carriage. My bloodlust instantly drains at the sight of my sisters. "Roy did you skin Discord? Because I see his skin over there." Celestia says disgusted. "Yes I skinned him for the torment he put us all through, but there was a slight draw back to me killing him. I kinda lost my upper legs, because I killed him." I tell them as I start to flap my wings to get up. I pick up Discord's skin with my magic, and start to fly back to my forge. "Well I don't need you two trying to get me to come back to the castle so I will be taking my leave now goodbye." I bid them farewell since I wouldn't be seeing them for awhile. They wave me goodbye as they set off back to the castle. I am finally back at my forge. I hang Discord's skin on a wall, because I want to make it into a costume for me to wear later, and if I hadn't lost enough today already my forge was a wreck, and I would have to go, and take more of the diamond dog's ores. At least I can finally get a good rest in my own bed, and not on the cold ground. I find my bed, and lay on it even though i'm not tired after gaining all my energy, and strength back from Discord, but what did Discord mean by I don't know what I have just started by skinning him, and killing him. The fool thinks he can scare me with that kind of talk, but I can finally get back to work in my forge. I get up, and head over to the forge area of my home where I start to make more things that will be useful to other ponies since my upper legs work no more I had to do all this with magic. Until next time. . . .
The start of it allI had stayed up all night working in the forge on one thing. a small dagger able to switch in, and out of a leather strap without cutting it. having to use leather made this process harder than needed, because it takes a few gears, and so on for the blade to slip it out without cutting the leather, but when I had nearly finished I heard hooves pounding on the ground coming towards my forge. "ROY!" Fluttershy screamed as she approached quickly, and out of breath. "Twilight, and the others need your help." Fluttershy tells me frantically while panting all the while. "What's going on, and can I make another one of these in time before I come over there." I reply to her as I slip on the leather bracelet thing with a dagger in it. "No." She replies flatly. "Ok then lead the way!" I say starting to get up while grabbing my pack. We ran all the way to an extremely large field where I could see discord battling against Twilight, and the others as Fluttershy runs over to them putting her element around her neck. "Discord what are you doing!" I roared out toward him. "Oh look who decided to join the party" Discord told me as he flicked Twilight, and the others away. "Twilight when did discord become so strong?" I ask her from across the field. "I will answer that one Roy. I became so powerful after you turned me to stone again, because instead of just sitting there in my imagination I decided to learn a few things about the elements of harmony, and the girls. I learned that the elements run on their friendship of course, but they also run on their feelings, and if you haven't already noticed I drained them of their feelings except fluttershy, because she ran off when I did like a coward." My anger started to flare as Discord started to build a large structure ignoring me. I turned from a unicorn to an alicorn as my temper started to go out of control. "ROY DON'T!" Twilight screamed in an attempt to stop me, but I ignored her warning, and made a fatal mistake, because I flew up to him without a plan to stop him, because when I tried to buck him, he disappeared, and trapped me with magic in a single spot. I could feel him starting to steal my power, and using my rage to generate more. "Enough games Roy time to put my plan into action." Discord said reappearing, and starting to electrocute me draining my power faster, and more painful. My screams of pain didn't detour him from his objective. I could feel myself losing all my power, as my vision started going black around the edges. "Discord I swear I will kill you when, and if I don't die here." I tell him as weak as I am now. "Oh trust me Roy you won't have any chance once i'm done with you. I see the structure he is building is a large maze built in a giant hole in the ground, but it was the last thing I could see before I black out. I wake up in a dark place feeling weak. Where am I? What happened after I blacked out? I get up slowly as I feel the pain in my aching joints get more unbearable. I see a corridor on the other side of the small room, so I start to move towards it with what little strength I have left from what had just happened. I made my way to the corridor, and pushed myself against the wall to make sure I don't fall over before I can see if any other ponies are here. "Is anypony here?" I call out semi-quietly. The only response I get is a groan from a few yards away. Slowly I make my way over. The groans keep coming, and start sounding more feminine the closer I get. I finally round the corner, and look into a room where a gray mare with a bubbly cutie mark laying on the ground with a horrible wound on her hind leg dribbling blood in a slow, and steady stream. I rush over towards the mare, as my eyes start filling up with red covering my light orange eyes. I backup a little bit as my mind starts to fill with ideas of killing the mare in the bloodiest ways imaginable, but i'm able to hold myself together, and open my pack to pull out leather, and rip it into pieces to place over her wound, and tie it with leather straps. I lift her onto my back making sure I don't make her injury worse. After many hours of wandering the maze the mare starts to come to, so I look back, and observe her as she wakes up. "Where am I! Who are you! Why am I not back home!? she wails starting to panic. "Calm down or else!" I say to her sternly. She stops panicking enough for me to tell her. "You have a bad wound on your leg miss. I suggest you don't move for awhile." I tell her walking slowly regaining my strength as we keep going on "Where are my wings at?" She asks me. "you had wings?" I reply to her confused. "Yes I did, and you have-" She stops mid-sentence to notice i'm an alicorn. "Your an alicorn." She tells me quietly in my ear. "Excuse me I forgot to tell you my name. My name is Roy, and what is yours?" I tell her trying to ignore the fact she just realized I am the lost prince. "My name is Derpy my prince." She tells me politely. "Please don't call me your prince I prefer my actual name Roy." I tell her, and she just nods closing her eyes. Much later I hear Derpy snoring as we are taking a bit of a break from wandering this maze, but why didn't I lose my horn, and wings like she lost her wings. Did it have something to do with me being able to change from an alicorn, to a unicorn, to a pegasus, to a earthpony. I need answers from the one who did this, until then I need to make sure nopony is hurt in my care, because I will not mess up again, because all of this is my fault. Discord used me to make this prison. I will not die from this I will make him pay for hurting me, and doing this to derpy, and whoever else is here. He. Will. Pay.
meeting my sisters, and FluttershyI was tending to Derpy's wound while she was asleep to lessen the pain of the process as I peeled off the blood stained leather that got my bloodlust on a bit, but not enough to flip my blade out, and kill Derpy on the spot. I finished patching Derpy up as she started to wake up. "Hello Roy. has anything happened since I fell asleep?" "No Derpy nothing has happened other than me changing your bandages for fresh ones." I told her. Both of us started hearing squeaking extremely distant, and far. "Derpy stay here I will go check what it is don't strain yourself please I don't want you getting hurt anymore." I tell while she nods a yes. I put a mark in the dirt on the ground allowing me to teleport back to the room whenever needed. I head down the corridor where I hear the sound originating from. The squeaking gets louder, and softer for some reason. "Hello Roy I hope you are at your best right now or you're gonnaaaaaa diiiiie" I hear Discord's voice ringing in my head as a bit of shadow ponies arise from the ground with no face just a body built for fighting. I fly a bit upwards, and stand on my back hooves as Lyra taught me when I was a bit younger. I knocked a few of them back with my large wings, but there had to be at least eight of them attacking me at once from my left, and right. I manage to flip my blade out of the leather bracelet, and slip it into a shadow pony's face shattering their skull, and brain if they have one. I pick up two more of them, and toss them at the rest from both sides, One got close enough for me to kick it down, and smash it's skull into pieces by stepping on it while I used magic to increase the gravity on my hoove to slam down on their skull. Surprisingly they have blood, so they body starts to gush out massive amounts of blood starting to clump trying to stop the bleeding from the already dead shadow pony. My bloodlust begins to fill my eyes with red, but this time I let flow, and finish the fight for me. I approach two shadow ponies trying to get up, I step on them both until they both are practically gurgling for their lives. I sink downwards, and put my blade into one of their hearts, and hacked, and slashed their face so many times you couldn't even tell they were a pony. I sink back down onto four hooves as my back hooves start hurt from standing on two dead shadow ponies. I hold four shadow ponies in place that were charging me with my magic, and I buck the last one down, and slam it into the earth with increased gravity from my back hooves. All that is left of that pony is just a few arms, and one head rolling across the ground. I stand on my back hooves, and approach the last four. A smile creeps onto my face as I jab one of my hooves into the first one, and rip out most of their intestines onto the floor. As my bloodlust loses effect I turn the last three into puddles of blood by pushing gravity against them enough to make anypony a puddle of pudding. I had not realized this until it was too late but the squeaking had gotten extremely loud. I tried to clean myself up before the squeaking got to me, but it was no use, because the pony that rounded the corner looked at me with confusion. "Roy?" Fluttershy asked me as I stared towards her. "Yes it's me. reason why i'm covered in a bit of blood is, because Discord sent some shadow ponies to kill me." I tell her assuring her I wouldn't kill her "That explains all the dead pony bodies I guess." Fluttershy said a bit overwhelmed by my strength after most of my power being drained by discord. I walk up to Fluttershy, and start to cast a spell before she could have a chance to argue we both teleport back into the room where Derpy is still at fixing her mane preparing to get up. "Well Roy thanks for what you have done, because while you were out doing whatever my wound has healed up enough to the point where it barely bothers me." Derpy says approaching us. "That's a good thing, because we will be able to cover more ground, and search for anyone else in this maze cavern thing Discord created." I say starting to lay down by a nearby wall tired out from my recent endeavor against those eight shadow ponies. "Why are you all tired out? it was just one trip to find her." Derpy says pointing at Fluttershy with a hoove. "Well if you didn't know Roy was drained of most of his power, and energy from Discord a while ago plus he just had to fight off a bit of shadow ponies so Roy deserves a bit of a rest, because if he hadn't come to find me those shadow ponies might have come for me." Fluttershy says for me in my defense. "Well i'm heading out to go look for other ponies." Derpy says to both of us turning towards the corridor to the right of me. "Wait.Hold it. I need to teach you both some hoove magic that can make a teleport location to one place that you place a mark at." I tell them while showing them how to do the magic, and then how to make the mark on the ground. They both place the mark in the room since neither of them has their wings to get out of trouble quickly. "Well I am going to take a slight nap to regain my energy, and after that i'm gonna go searching once more." I lay my head down as Derpy runs down a corridor with a fading alright. "Well if your gonna take a nap i'm gonna take one too Roy." Fluttershy says laying down next to me placing her head on my neck. I could feel her heartbeat, and her breathing starting to match mine, but as I start to slip into her sleep her heartbeat raises a little bit as she pecks me on the cheek, and in my ear she tells me "Thanks for coming for me Roy."With that we ended what I thought to be night. I woke up much later to Fluttershy snoring in my ear, and Derpy sitting near asleep. I slip out from under Fluttershy, and gently lay her head down onto the ground with my wings. After that I head into the corridor right across from me, but this time danger was right around the corner as something pink slammed me back as I rounded the corner. I sat slumped against the wall a bit dazed as out of all the ponies i could meet right now approaches me. "Well hello Roy nice to see you again, but this time we have some unfinished business since you are now mature enough. I will be taking a bit of a ride on your cock if you don't mind right? Of course you don't mind your a stallion, but once i'm done with you I will rip your cock, and balls off Roy." Pinkamena Diane Pie says approaching me As I finally realize what she means as she starts to stroke me I push her back with a blast of magic, and air from my wings. "Oh. Buck. NO!" I roar getting up as she is a bit frazzled from the blast of my wings, and horn. "Of all the things Discord forgets to do. He forgot to take away your horn, and wings." Pinkamena said to me with a gleam of annoyance in her eyes. "Pinkie Discord can't, because I can change from an alicorn to any kind of pony I want." I tell her as Fluttershy, and Derpy peek their heads around the corner. "Roy! What are you doing to Pinkie!" Fluttershy says walking up to me, and stands between both of us. "Well if you were here a few minutes ago you would have seen her trying to rape me then rip my crotch off." "And I thought all stallions enjoyed sex way too much." Pinkie mutters a bit loud. "Well I will just excuse myself from this awkward conversation." Derpy says backing out of the corridor "I have an idea though for you Pinkie I might be able to teleport you out of this maze with the magic I have, but it will take a lot of my strength to do so." I tell her walking up to her past Fluttershy. "Do it I wanna get out of this hell hole anyway." Pinkie says urging me on as her hair starts fluffing up again. Ignoring that I start to pour my strength into my horn as it glows brighter it starts to light everything up. I close my eyes, and everypony blocks it out with their hooves. At the peak of my horns strength pinkie disappeared "It Worked!" I screamed as I slump against the wall. "That definitely drained me, but not enough to stop me from going on that search I said I was gonna go on." I tell Fluttershy as she rushes over to me. "Well maybe you shouldn't push yourself so hard all the time Roy." Fluttershy suggests sitting next to me "Flutters if I can do this i'm pretty sure I can teleport you, and Derpy out of here right now so you can get back to your life's and not stay in here for my mistake." I tell her as she starts to lay her head on my shoulder rubbing up against me. "Nah I think I will stay here, and help you search for the other ponies trapped in this maze." Fluttershy tells me as I lift my head upwards so i'm staring at the ceiling. "You know Fluttershy you are the friend that has always been there for me when I needed comforting or some company, and I never said thanks all those times did I? No. So let me just say this now. Thank you for always sticking by me when I need you." I look at her, and hug her with a bit of a squeeze as she hugs back. "You two done? or are you just gonna forget about your little search Roy." Says Derpy butting in. "Because correct me if i'm wrong Roy you said that you were still gonna search after casting that spell." Derpy tells me with a stern look on her face. "Alright alright i'm getting up, and going just stop sheesh no need to arrest me." I say letting go of Fluttershy. "By the way Derpy if you want me to I can teleport you out of here right now." I tell her. "I have to stay i'm looking for a pony who disappeared right in front of me before all of this happened." After she said that she ran off in the opposite corridor. "Well Flutters you coming with?" I ask her as we get up, and she answers with a simple nod yes. We start down the corridor with not much happening until I hear voices in the distant. I remember I have tracking magic so I decide to use it when I see 4 shadow ponies heading our way, because they are blocking some kind of cell. "Fluttershy stay here I have to kill more shadow ponies it will get bloody, and I don't want you seeing me like that. "Ok Roy just tell me when it's all over." Fluttershy says taking a seat by the wall. I run around a few corners until I run into a hoove blocking my path. I rub my face as I feel the horseshoe I just ran into. I get up, and see my enemies lining up to take me down. There numbers were way higher than I thought, because there was 15 of them ready to kill. I got on my back hooves ready for a fight. They all rushed me at once since all of us were in a large room it would have to take strategy to kill them all, I could also feel two pairs of eyes staring at me from the cell over there these shadow ponies were guarding. I kicked one back, and inserted the blade into it's head as it flipped out of it's hiding place, but after the first kill I was overtaken by 3 of them as they pushed me back, and bucked me a few times in the chest with their back hooves. I used my wings to defend against most of the attacks they threw at me. When I finally got the chance I blew them all back as I opened my wings, and switched to the attack. I slip the blade into the nearest shadow pony's arm, but the strike wasn't fatal enough to kill it. I was backed up against a wall keeping them at bay with the one blade I had since I didn't have time to make another. Things took a turn for the worse as one of them got close enough to slip my blade off my arm, and stab me immediately in the wing since I blocked the fatal hit to the chest. My wing was dribbling blood in a steady stream. It had to be the best time to see what my bloodlust could actually do. I pushed them all back with a wave of magic before I raise my wing above my head to drip a drop of blood into my mouth. As I swallowed the bloodlust my eyes immediately filled up with red, and all I could see was just a constant blood red. I also change from an alicorn to an earth pony unable to restrain my bloodlust from doing so. The shadow ponies were already upon, but this time they were confused with my sudden change in nature. I rush the first one who kept coming closer, and closer with my flip blade. Before I ran into him I got onto my back hooves with my rushing force, and launched his arm off from his torso. With no chance to react I kick my hoove through it's torso. I walk over to my blade on the dead shadow pony's arm. My horn grows back, and levitates it onto my top right hoove. "So who is the lucky first to die next?" I say hinting amusement as they start to fall back, and run out of the room. "I never get any fun when Roy lets me take charge sheesh." After I had said that my eyes drain completely of the redness, and my wings come back. I call to Fluttershy to come into the room. "Roy did you really have to rip it's arm off then kick it through the torso?" Fluttershy asks me rounding the corner, and seeing the body on the ground. "Now this place is a terrible mess, and it grosses me out." Fluttershy tells me once more as she walks over to the cage. "Sorry I can't control myself when my instinct kicks in." I tell her trying to hide my bloodlust. "Whatever Roy, but what is in this cage?" She asks curiously. "Let's see what's in the cage then flutters." I tell her walking over to it as well. I place my hoove inside, and slowly start ripping the bars out of the wall with the help of my non-injured wing, and a bit of magic. After a few grueling minutes of pulling on the metal bars they fall out of their sockets as I throw them to the left away from both of us. "Hello is anypony in there?" Fluttershy asks peeking a head in. A bluish black pony, and a royal white pony walk out of the cage looking at me. "Roy is that you. Actually you or is Discord pulling another trick. Said Celestia a bit scared. "It is me Celestia I didn't mean for us to meet like this after all these years in some dark dangerous place." I tell Celestia, and Luna as they both walk closer to get a closer look. "There is no doubt Celestia this is Roy. The Prince has finally returned." Luna says perking up in a happy tone partially bouncing around. "Well lets get back to a safe place we need to catch up, and exchange a few words." I tell them both as my horn starts glowing the teleportation magic. When we are back in the room where I placed the mark of teleportation. "I can teleport both of you out of here if you wish it will just take a moment." I tell them getting back in my spot I fell asleep in the last time I was in the room. "No Roy I think we will stay, and help out everyone in ponyville, and canterlot castle." Said Celestia answering for them both. "Well then it's settled the five of us will rescue everyone from this terrible place Discord created." I tell them as Derpy teleports into the room. "Why is there so much royalty in this room?" She asks a bit overwhelmed. "Because Derpy we are all helping to get ponyville, and canterlot castle back from Discord." Luna answered her tiredly as she start laying down next to celestia. "Celestia, Luna you both know the teleportation spell for hoove magic right?" They both nod when I finish my sentence, and place the mark down nearby themselves. "I have had a rough time today i'm going to sleep." I tell them laying down in my usual place where Fluttershy joins me. "Take the rest we saw you take on all those shadow ponies from our cell." Celestia tells me with her eyes closed. "When we all wake up we all need to go into separate corridors." I tell them, but at this Luna raises her head, and answers me quickly. "No Roy we must stay together three alicorns are stronger than one even if we don't have our wings or horn we are still strong Roy." Luna tells me laying her head back down. "I might be able to cast a spell to overpower Discords to bring your horn, and wings back, but it's just a possibility. I tell them slipping into sleep, but my only answer is a grunt from Celestia as she is falling asleep as well. Finally reunited with my sisters what a wonderful thing, but I just hope they don't think i'm a threat, because they saw my bloodlust from the cell. Oh I hope they don't.
Discord's growing strength.I am suddenly shaken awake by, and when I open my eyes I see Derpy with a worried look on her face. "Roy I found who I was looking for, but he is stuck in a cell made by Discord guarded by a few somethings that look a lot like you. To make it worse they were able to use magic so I couldn't stay there long enough to study them a bit more, because one of them spotted me quickly." "Alright Derpy lead the way, but give me a sec." I get up and check inside my pack for my blade. I find it quickly, and slip it on. I nod to derpy to have her assume i'm ready to go. Derpy lead me through a ton of twists, and turns until we finally reached a large room with three figures in the dark that resembled me. "Oh how nice of you to finally find this place Roy I have been waiting for you to see my latest creations, and see if they kill you since nothing else can." Discord said popping in through the wall as my shadow. "Oh by the way. You won't be needing this little blade, because it makes the fights a bit unfair. I hope you understand Roy." Discord says removing my blade from my hoove, and then disappearing once more into the wall as my shadow. When Discord left the figures looked up, and their eyes lit up with a bright green light that looked just like the color of my horns magic. I look at my wing that got stabbed earlier knowing its not fit for another fight so I have my wings disappear back into my body. The figures slowly start towards me slowly, but gaining speed. "Derpy get out of here." I tell her holding my position as she runs the other way. They all ram me at once pushing me back a bit giving me enough time to raise onto my back hooves readying a counter. I ready my horn to hold them all, and just as I do that they charge their magic to hold me at the same time. All 3 of them raised onto their back hooves just as they held me with their magic while I held them with mine. This fight is not going to be easy,but I think I know how to deal with myself if these things really fight like me. We all drop at the same time and meet up in the center of the room where the fight actually begins. "Oh Roy I hope you know these things will attack each other, but their ultimate goal is to kill you. Why are they all not trying to kill you. Well I will tell you why, because it's no fun watching one pony getting ganged up on by three others with the fight so one sided." Discord says popping in once more, but this time with skin like the wall as he blended in with it, but he disappears quickly after he says what he wanted to say. I head for the nearest one since this basically a free for all. Me and this thing that resembles me quickly place our front hooves on the ground, and turn fast enough backwards where our back hooves clash in mid buck. Since that didn't work out too well I had to hop back onto my back hooves, and turn around with blinding speed, and as the thing was too slow to realize that I was on my back hooves already it fell on its stomach right on the cold, hard ground. I pick it up with magic so I can get a clear shot with my front hooves, but I was stopped with one of the others flying at me, and as it hit me I lost my concentration on my magic when. Falling on the ground didn't feel good, but with this thing on my back it felt even worse. I threw it off into the nearest wall so I could finally get a good hit in while the other two were fighting each other. I drive one of my front hooves into its back as I pull it up off the ground with magic, and slam it up against the wall then into the other two that are fighting. While one of them is dazed trying to get up the other two aren't, and run over to me, and in a split second they are on there back hooves ready for a powerful hit with their front ones, but before they can get close enough I send one sprawling on the ground with a magical blast to the gut, but the other one was able to dodge a blast, and hit me square in the jaw where my vision started to waver. My wings spring from my back, and encase it so I could spin it in the direction of the wall that I am up against. As I held it against the wall with my wings the other two rushed over to me only to be blasted back once more with magic, but I forgot one thing these things had that I also did. I am picked up from the ground as a green aura wraps around me, and launched me across the room against the bars that are holding whoever this pony is prisoner. I counter this things magic with my own, but the spell only short circuits, and explodes in my face leaving marks. I could slowly feel the anger building up in me as nothing goes my way in this fight. The other two are already on their back two hooves, and rush me while I am stuck in place with magic. They get up to me and hold me in place up against the wall. The other thing that I had up against the wall rushes over, and starts to attack me while I can't do anything. My rage is slowly building to the points where it was unbearable, and my short fuse went off just as I felt my self starting to bleed with a hit to wing. My magic blasts all three of them a few feet away where they all gather in an attempt to kill me. "Oh so they have joined forces to kill you I see how fun." Discord says obviously enjoying the show. Ignoring Discord's little comment I advance on them with the bloodlust taking over. As all three of them are upon me I use my uninjured wing to push them back onto the ground where I slam one of their skulls in with increased gravity from my magic, and two back hooves. My blood lusts strength only grew from that point on as I desired to kill more. I picked the other two up as I over power their magic. Slamming them into the wall over, and over as I hear more, and more of their bones cracking with every impact. When I finally feel like ending their suffering I grind them into dust as I drag them across the wall with increasing speed. As I finally drop their corpses I look at back at them, and the image pleases my bloodlust enough to turn it off, because what I saw was two corpses with no back, and blood turning into a lake with all their innards falling out onto the ground. I rush over to the cell where the pony is looking out. I look at the cell bars for a moment before I rip them out of the wall. "Now come out I 'dealt' with your guards." I tell the frightened stallion as he emerges from his cell. "Well your pretty beaten up aren't you?" Said the brown stallion with an hourglass as a cutie mark with spikes on his mane "You try anything, and I will end your life just like I ended theirs. Got it?" I tell the stallion tired out. "I would never think of doing anything to the.... Alicorn? That saved me? Wait you're an Alicorn? But you're a stallion. There are no Alicorns that are stallions." The stallion says bewildered. "Well where have you been? I ran away from canterlot as a colt. There was also a time when everywhere was filled to the brim with guards looking for me." I remind him thinking i'm reminding him. "Oh it seems I missed out on something when I traveled to this place from another dimension." The stallion says gathering himself up taking another look at me. "Excuse me what did you say. Another dimension. Impossible." I tell him knowing he is not telling me the truth. "Oh yah you ponies don't think i'm from another dimension at least Derpy thinks I do." The stallion says moving out of the room. "Where are you going? I need to take you back to Derpy." I tell him as he passes by me. "Oh sorry where are my manners since you are the one that has helped me. Thank you, and my name is Dr. Whooves." The Dr tells me turning around to face me. "Well I had better take you back to Derpy now shouldn't I." I tell him readying my magic. "Yes please take me back to Derpy so I can use her to get back to my own dimension." The Dr says without realizing what just said "Excuse me what did you just say?" I tell him with anger building up. "I have no Idea what you are talking about." He says finally realizing what he just told me "You just said to take you back to Derpy. Just To USE her." I tell him with bubbling anger on my short fuse. "I said that didn't I. Oh well I guess I should tell you about me, and Derpy's relationship not actually being a thing." He says standing their holding his position as my facial expressions change from friendly to hostile. I hear hooves pounding down the hall coming down the hallway that I entered in. "Ok so let me tell. First of all Derpy thinks i'm her special somepony. Second of all she had been helping me figure out how to get back to my world,and she is the only one out of both of us who has made any breakthroughs so I need to use her. Got it?" Dr. Whooves says knowing the mistake he just made. "Why Does Derpy Love you- you. OH I'M GOING TO KILL. HOW MANY YEARS HAVE YOU AND DERPY BEEN TOGETHER! I roar at him as he holds his ground knowing whats about to happen. "Please do kill me so I can regenerate back in the Tardis, and we have been together for at least 4 years." Dr. Whooves says raising onto his back hooves readying to defend himself. "Let me tell you something you insensitive pony I am going to kill you for not telling Derpy you don't want her to be your special, because I already know she wont listen to me when I tell her you don't love her. SO I WILL DO THE NEXT BEST THING YOU PIECE OF SHIT! And with that my rage breaks the meter, and I launch myself at him buckling him over. Three ponies run into the room as I take down Dr. Whooves. Fluttershy, Luna, And Celestia look at both of us. "Roy what are you doing!" Luna screeches turning up the volume with her royal voice. "I'm going to kill this pony for not telling Derpy the truth." I tell them while I throw the Dr. across the room with magic, but as I advance on him Celestia, and Luna tackle me while Fluttershy drags me back. "What are you doing. This pony needs to learn manners!" I turn up the volume on my royal voice just as Luna did as I try to wrestle away from them, but i'm too tired from using my magic so much to actually get away from them. I look at the Dr. to see a cocky smirk on his face. "Oh just you wait I am going to kill you one day you bastard." I tell him sending a blast of magic that none of them expected, and as it hits he disappears out of the maze "Roy where did he go!" Luna yells at me as they all drop me. "Don't worry I just teleported him out of the maze." I tell Luna calming her down. "Let's go back I am tired I need to rest my horn, and my body before this place breaks me, and my mental self.
teleporting everyone outAfter discussing the topic of taking Discord down, and this maze for hours, and hours on end. We finally came to an agreement of teleporting everypony out of the maze, and then dealing with Discord himself with the force of ponyville, and canterlot combined. "I highly doubt all of this is going to work, because Discord always has something up his sleeve. You all know that right? Good." Celestia says putting her hoove down. "No. No I think the plan will actually work, because isn't canterlot inhabited by mostly unicorns? If so then my assumptions are right, and Discord won't be able to stand up to about 200 unicorns, and if he does have something up his sleeve I will handle it myself." I tell them as we start to split ways to find ponies, and bring them back to the meeting point to be teleported out. "Hold on Roy. Aren't you the one who put us in this mess anyway? Why would we want you to handle it on your own if you're going to lose your head again, and get everyone put back into this place, and to top it all off you're not really in shape to fight right now." Fluttershy counters back at what I had just said." "Listen all of you. I know that I got all of us into this mess by giving Discord my strength, but I am determined to take Discord down, and make everything right while making up for my mistake so just trust me on this one." I turn around addressing Fluttershy's counter. "Well then Roy I hope you know what you're doing then, because if you don't well lets just say it won't be a happy ending for you if we all get stuck back in here, because you couldn't take down Discord while you are in your current condition." Luna says frowning at me, because she obviously doesn't like me right now after trying to kill Dr. Whooves. I turn around, and leave the room while everyone else does the same. rooms, and rooms of nothing. Until I find another empty room with a cell, but with no guards. I walk up to the cell, and three figures cower backwards into the corner. Knowing a few ponies were in there was enough of a drive for me to rip the bars out of the wall. "Come on out so I can teleport you out of here." I tell the three figures, and as the emerge from the cell I see that they are all little fillies. One is orange with a purplish mane. Another is white with a purple,and pink mane. The final filly has yellow skin, and a red mane. They all look at me with eyes full of fright as they see my mane is stained with blood in a few spots. "Why does your mane have blood in it?" The yellow one asks first. "Because I have had to defend myself from dangerous things in this maze." I tell her as I hear unfamiliar hooves approaching. "Quick get back in the cell I think trouble is coming." And just as I tell them a figure arrives in the room looking exactly like me. I seal the cell with magic so whatever it is can't target them. "Oh Roy meet yourself. I have made a copy of you that fights like you thinks like you, and is more healthy than you since you know. You are hurt after all this fighting. HAH! This is going to be so enjoyable watching you struggle against yourself." Discord says popping out of the ceiling while having a floating lawn chair appear with popcorn so he can observe in safety as I tussle it out with this copy. "Fine Discord if that is how you want it I will kill you once I deal with this 'thing'." I tell him stamping my hoove onto the ground then raising myself onto my back hooves, and as I do it the copy does it too. We run at each other, and plant a hoove on both of our faces. I get back up faster than it can. I use my magic to seal up the door until it feels my magical touch again so I don't have to constantly have it constantly draining my energy. I turn to face the copy of me once more just as it sweeps me off my feet, and I hit the ground with my back. I move my head to the side to avoid a fatal blow as it increases gravity on it's front hooves. I send it back with a gust from the wing that is the least injured. I get back up, and just when I thought things couldn't get worse I saw it flip my blade out of the leather band. "Oh by the way Roy I gave it your little flip blade thing." Discord says chuckling in safety. I had to lose some ground as the copy came at me with my own weapon. As I run backwards though I plant my front hooves on the ground firmly, and buck it in the stomach strongly enough to launch it back, but that backfired, because just as I bucked the copy in the gut the copy stabbed my bottom right leg with the blade just as it flew backwards dragging the blade downwards into my leg. I fall to the ground as my leg goes limp. I back up a bit as the copy gets back up barely dazed, and hurt. I check my back right leg while I still have time before it charges at me once more. If I don't end this fight soon i'm going to either die of blood loss or die of that blade. I give in to my bloodlust to numb the pain enough to the point where i'm able to fight with no worries. My eyes fill with red making my vision go red, and my blood boils needing to rip something apart. I get back up ready to end this. I pick up the copy with magic, and toss it straight at Discord who didn't expect to be assaulted with his own copy. Discord, and the copy fall, but the copy falls on it's head cracking it's skull open while Discord floats down with growing fear. "OK OK ROY. Calm down we can talk it out ok?" Discord says pleading while trying to get away as I stop him with magic. "Ok Discord we can talk it out. Now if you want to survive I suggest you teleport everyone back to their homes." I start to haggle with Discord who wants to keep his life. "I have a better idea. I let everyone out, and." Discord says with a growing smile. "And what?" I ask him confused. "And you stay here you brainless fool." Discord says making everything light up with magic. I use my magic to detect every living thing around me. Discord was teleporting everyone out, and back to their homes, but when Discord disappears I feel a ping of loneliness as there is no life around me. I am left to roam this place alone until I can find a way out, because I apparently can't teleport myself out. Discord, and his tricks have got me on edge, and my bloodlust still hasn't died down. I sat up against a wall, and tended to my leg. The wound was worse than I thought. All because I stood on it too much after it got sliced open, but without the right tools I am unable to completely patch it up so i'm stuck to limping, and hobbling my way around this maze. "Discord just you wait. I will find a way to reverse this, and I have already got you once. If I can do that once I can do it again." I say knowing Discord can hear where ever he is at. "Oh Roy you don't know what I have in store for you since you are the only pony left in the maze. So instead of me waiting why don't you just wait for me to end your life. Alright?" Discord says without showing his position. "I swear Discord I am going to end your life in a more 'brutal' manner so you why don't you wait as I said a few seconds ago." I tell Discord slowly growing annoyed, and after that Discord didn't reply. I just hope he isn't working on an army of those things that tried to kill me earlier. I remember after talking to Discord my flip blade is on that copies top right leg. I retrieve it with no trouble, and slip it on, and since I finally have a way to kill quickly I have a small sense of safety return. Now Discord doesn't know what I have in store for him just because he decided to keep me in this place, and not let everyone out.
The skinning of DiscordI feel as if this maze is endless, and if it isn't there has to be an somewhere. If only I could be so sure of myself right now. I hear sounds in this maze. Sounds that make you think ponies are still trapped in here, and being tortured, but I know Discord is toying with me. "Roy are you having fun in my little maze of fun?" Discord says popping his head out of the wall while pushing me aside as he pops out of the wall. Just as I try to use magic on him he disappears though. "Discord come out, and end this already I have had enough of your tricks, and games." I tell him as I hear him slithering through the walls. "What fun is that Roy. I wanna see you suffer for all those years you, and those mares trapped me in stone again." Discord says with hatred, and anger. "I will be glad to do it again, but I feel like that is a bit too nice this time, because you have nearly killed me in this damn maze. So I think I should return the favor." I tell Discord trying to pin point his location as I hear him slithering around in the wall. "Oh Roy you are always so serious aren't you? Well since you are it makes this even funner, because you act like you can actually get out of here. Well since you do think so I might actually end you myself right now. So. Just give me a moment." Discord says running up my back as a miniature version of himself, and then disappearing into thin air. I hear a rumbling sound down the corridor I am walking through. The walls start roll inwards, and If I hadn't started to move at that moment I probably wouldn't have been able to teleport to the meeting point. "Ok Discord what was that about? Just come out so I can end my suffering, and get back to my forge." I tell Discord as the rooms walls start to break apart to reveal a never ending yellow, and as the floor starts to disappear I grow a bit worried, but it didn't disappear enough for me to fall off. "I have had enough of this. Now come out before I drag you out." I tell Discord pin pointing his location as I see movement in the corner of my eye. I catch Discord off guard with a magical grip around one of his paws, and I slam him to the ground with enough velocity to pin him down. "Oh BOOO this is not fun Roy. Are you trying to ruin the fun or something?" As Discord says that my magic flickers off, and releases him to fly back up to where he was at. "Roy I figured out how to turn off your magic, but I can't get rid of your horn or your wings so I will just have to deal with your wings, but you wings are useless since they are hurt so much, and now that you are just like a regular stallion with no magic or flight you will be easily disposed of." Discord says lowering himself down to the ground. "Fine Discord if you want to play it this way I will show you even with most of my strength gone you will not live to see the light of day again." I tell him raising onto my back hooves. I rush at him as the flip blade comes out of it's hiding place. I stab, and miss about twenty times before Discord uses magic against me sending me backwards, and nearly fall off the edge. I get back up with growing anger. The fight was just a big fest of Discord throwing me backwards with magic like I was a little pest. I felt the rage bubble inside me ready to kill Discord, and as I was thrown back once more my rage instantly had my bloodlust go active making my vision go red with anger, and the desire to kill the one who put me in this state. I get back onto my back hooves ready for another round, but Discord thought I was just trying to pull a hero move on him, but his own cockiness is what was his downfall as I swerved to the right of him, and threw him back with magic of my own as I overpowered his spell once more. I take to the sky as Discord starts to fly up. "Now Discord who is backed up into a corner?" I ask him as he starts to grow frustrated. We stay in midair trying to overpower each others magic, and just as I felt him starting to overpower me I fly at him with my blade ready, but instead of stabbing him with it I use my magic to keep him at bay a second longer for me to be able to break the blade out of the leather strap, and toss it up in the air to kick it at him without cutting myself since I kicked it with my horseshoe, and not my actual hoove. The blade sinks into his stomach, and as Discord falls to the ground I follow. I take my blade out of his gut, and pin him down with magic. "Now Discord I have thought of the best way to kill you. I hope you like." I tell Discord starting to skin him. "Wait Wait please Roy we can talk this out you don't have to kill m-me. We can always get alon-" I clamp Discords mouth shut with even more magic. When I had nearly finished skinning Discord my magic on his mouth broke, and he did something I never thought he was capable of. "Fine then Roy if you want to end my life then I will take something of yours to make your life miserable forever." I finished skinning Discord just as he got up, and used his last bit of magic to turn my upper legs, and hooves black. I fall on my face as the feeling in them goes away. "Discord what have you done?" I ask him bewildered as he lays down to die. "I am taking part of you into the afterlife with me since you have decided to kill the element of chaos, and Roy. You don't know what you have just started by doing this." Discord says as his eyes roll over into. The maze pieces start to fly into me giving me my strength back, and healing all my wounds except my upper legs that Discord took. I lay on the ground as the world starts to come back. "The nightmare is finally over." I tell myself as I see a carriage deploy from canterlot castle that actually isn't too far away so I lay, and wait for it to reach me. "Well done Roy seems as if you finally have done something right for a change." Luna says stepping out of the carriage. My bloodlust instantly drains at the sight of my sisters. "Roy did you skin Discord? Because I see his skin over there." Celestia says disgusted. "Yes I skinned him for the torment he put us all through, but there was a slight draw back to me killing him. I kinda lost my upper legs, because I killed him." I tell them as I start to flap my wings to get up. I pick up Discord's skin with my magic, and start to fly back to my forge. "Well I don't need you two trying to get me to come back to the castle so I will be taking my leave now goodbye." I bid them farewell since I wouldn't be seeing them for awhile. They wave me goodbye as they set off back to the castle. I am finally back at my forge. I hang Discord's skin on a wall, because I want to make it into a costume for me to wear later, and if I hadn't lost enough today already my forge was a wreck, and I would have to go, and take more of the diamond dog's ores. At least I can finally get a good rest in my own bed, and not on the cold ground. I find my bed, and lay on it even though i'm not tired after gaining all my energy, and strength back from Discord, but what did Discord mean by I don't know what I have just started by skinning him, and killing him. The fool thinks he can scare me with that kind of talk, but I can finally get back to work in my forge. I get up, and head over to the forge area of my home where I start to make more things that will be useful to other ponies since my upper legs work no more I had to do all this with magic. Until next time. . . .
