As Aurora got control of her newly formed wings she became aware of her pursuers still following her, but with new intentions now. Discord flew right beside her as though he had full plans to follow her into anything she could think of. With a start, she realized that he did. “I suppose you thought you could save the day without me? Mind you, having a fight with that Nightmare wasn’t exactly on my list of to do things, but if that’s how you want to spend your first day back, by all means, who am I to stop you?”

Aurora looked at him with confusion in her green and blue eyes as she looked at the dragon of chaos. “You mean, you’re going to help me stop Sierra? You’re willing to put yourself in danger to help me save Spike?” Aurora’s heart was fluttering as she noticed the other ponies following her. Twilight’s friends were attempting to follow her, hoping to find out what was happening, while the princesses were gaining speed.

“Of course! I took your advice on the whole ‘make a friend here and there’ bit and well… I’ve started to make friends with Fluttershy who happens to be a friend of Spike’s. So, as you can see, it’s not that I’m willing to…” Discord stopped himself as he looked at Aurora’s face. She wasn’t buying it. “Ooh, very well, I’m doing it because of the simple facts that I hate those Nightmares, and I’ve started to care for Fluttershy and her friends, and that includes Spike, happy?” Aurora’s gaze softened a little towards the dragon as her sisters and Twilight finally caught up to them.

“I won’t be happy till I’m sure Spike is safe and Sierra is no longer a threat to my family.” Suddenly a portal opened up on the ground, barely a hundred feet in front of her. “Oh for Equestria’s sake, I told them to stay home!” She lowered herself to the ground and landed in front of the portal as two unicorns came out.

One unicorn was slightly smaller than the other. The smaller of the two was a light purple with a light blue mane. Her cutie mark was a heart with a sewing needle and thread attached to it. She had a set of dragon like wings as well to match the colors. The other looked similar to Hope Healer, but without the bandages and glasses, as well as her own cutie mark, a swirl made of black and white. Her wings were similar to angel wings. As Aurora landed in front of them, they were both shocked and embarrassed as she seemed unhappy to see them.

“I told you two to stay in the valley this time, the princesses might not like you because of your species, you know this.” Her gaze softened.

“Sorry mom, but we tried to contact Spike and he wasn’t answering.” The taller of the two said.

The smaller one was a barely a young adult. “I sensed Nightmares this way too! Where’s Spike?”
The other princesses caught up finally along with Twilight’s friends. “Aurora, who are these ponies?” Celestia looked upon them with worry. She recognized the younger, but could not place a name on her. Astrana could though, but she pushed the thought aside believing it was impossible.

“These are my adopted daughters, Diana Dusk and Stella Nightshade. Girls, these are the royal princesses, Princess Twilight’s friends, and Discordias Chaos.” Aurora grumbled a little. “Now, unless one of you have any other reasons we should stop, since we’re now in this together, I’m going off to save Spike from Sierra.”

Stella seemed petrified at the name. “You mean, she kidnapped Spike?” She managed to say in a whispered voice.

Aurora looked at the young pony with sadness. “Yes, I’m afraid I wasn’t prepared enough. I thought she wouldn’t notice my existence and would leave him alone… as usual, I was wrong…”

Stella and the other ponies, as well as Discord looked at Aurora with sadness. She had meant well and just wanted to return her sisters together.

Celestia was about to say something pathetic about her being too young to have known, but Discord beat her to the punch with a crazed look in his eyes. “That’s it! I can’t handle this anymore! Aurora, you’re so crazy, you make me look sane! None of this was your fault!” Aurora stepped back in shock. Discord was now glaring at the royal sisters. “Don’t act so surprised, you’re so obvious its painful! Honestly, you had to go into hiding to save Astra and so you feel it’s your fault for any trouble the rest of us had to deal with, don’t you?” The three other princesses looked at him in shock, not believing what he was saying.

The older sisters looked at Aurora as she glared at the ground. She did honestly feel like it was all her fault. Her brothers’ demise, her sister’s banishment, Discord’s imprisonment, and now her son was dragonnapped by the nightmare queen herself. She felt that if she had just been a little stronger, she could have stopped all of this mess.

Applejack sensed that this was going to take a while so she started a small campfire to keep herself busy while Pinky Pie and the others who weren’t princesses, started to make camp.

“I thought so, well here’s a news flash sister, it wasn’t!” He nearly barked this last bit. He had been hanging out with Fluttershy and her friends long enough to actually know that if he really cared for someone then he needed to get them to think straight, and with Aurora, sometimes yelling at her would work. “Sombra was possessed by that blasted Nightmare King and I should’ve been there to save him since I figured it out!” All the ponies looked at him with shock. Celestia and Luna’s faces were the most shocked out of them all though. “I got a little upset after that and started using my powers too freely, but when Luna and Celestia came to turn me to stone, I should’ve warned them that Luna had a trace of Nightmare in her eyes from her fight with Sombra, then she might have been spared from Nightmare Moon’s banishment to the moon!” Discord finally sat down in a huff, as though unfairly defeated in a game. “If it was anyone’s fault for all this chaos, it’s mine. I am the lord of Chaos after all…”

Fluttershy patted him on the shoulder to comfort him. He smiled weakly towards her. He then looked back at Aurora, hoping that his message had gotten through. Aurora lowered her eyes, trying to force herself not to cry.

Discord sighed and decided that he still had something else to get off his chest. “I may not have been able to save Sombra from being possessed by the nightmare king, but I know someone who might have gotten his real soul out of there before Luna and Celestia took him down…” Everyone looked at him once more expectantly. At this point they thought nothing would surprise them.

“Who is it? What do you mean by his ‘real soul’?” Twilight was tired of being confused. It seemed that this was the only time she would get any real answers from anyone.

Discord made a grimace. “I can’t exactly explain everything, Twilight. I made promises that I intend to keep, but I can try and see if she’ll answer me after all these years…” Discord got up and snapped his fingers. A small purple, swirling portal opened up. Discord seemed nervous about calling whoever was supposed to be on the other side of it. He looked back to the ponies, sighed, and called into the portal, “…Screwball?... are you there…?” They had never seen him so nervous before.

“Discord… Who is Screwball?” Celestia asked cautiously as Discord sighed.

“I suppose you might as well learn now, since she was always so scared of you…” Celestia and Luna looked at each other. No one was really ever afraid of Celestia. “Screwball is…”

“Here!” A light purple ball of fuzz attacked Discord with a surprising amount of energy that could rival Pinky Pie. “Daddy, you’re alive! You’re back! You’re here!” It took a few minutes to realize that it was a little pony with purple and white swirled mane and a light purple coat.

“Oh, Screwball, how I missed you!” Discord was smiling as though he had just been awarded the “Most Chaotic Father of the Millennium Award”.

“Daddy?” The other ponies chorused in unison, save for Aurora. While the others were shocked, she just smirked. ‘So you did find somepony special, good for you, Discord. I knew you would.’

Discord finally got himself up while still holding onto the little pony who was wearing a silly green hat with a propeller on it. Her cutie mark was a baseball and a screw next to it amazingly enough. “This is my daughter, Screwball. Screwball, these are my… friends…” Screwball scrunched up her face and pointed to Luna and Celestia. “Yes, I guess you could say we’re friends now too… I prefer to hang with Fluttershy though. She’s that sweet one over there, but you need to be careful, she’s not used to as much chaos as you are, got it?” The little pony in his arms just smiled and nodded.

“Hello. I’m Screwball Chaos.” Her voice was like that of an innocent child. Her purple swirled eyes seemed too fun filled to bring any fear about her. She then brought out a little red crystal and showed it to everyone, “And this is my uncle’s soul crystal. Say ‘hello’, uncle Sombra!”

The only ponies who didn’t back away from the child’s glowing crystal was Aurora and her daughters. “Hello, everyone. I hear I’m dead. How is that working out for you?” The crystal seemed to chuckle darkly.

Author's Note

Hahaha, you know I had to include Screwball! I mean, come on, its a royals event! I'm going to include every royal I know of! That includes the princess of Chaos. I have no clue how to include Blue Blood and Cadence yet though, but I already have how they relate to the story. Maybe in a later chapter. Have fun hehehe, oh and yes, I did just give Sombra an excuse to live, but don't feel sorry for him yet, he's a jerk in my book still.