The pink alicorn galloped, completely forgetting her wings were there once more, all the way through Canterlot’s city like a mad horse. Her baby dragon was in danger and it was all her fault. Her black horn started casting healing spells all over the place as she ran, she didn’t need to think about it or about controlling it, all she needed to do was save Spike. Her poor baby dragon was going through who knew what, all because she was a princess, all because she still lived.

She had barely reached the edge of the city when she looked up to the sound of flapping wings. Above her were Twilight and her older sisters. She concentrated on all the spells that had been used in existence. She could think of none that could get her to Spike faster without endangering her pursuers. “Why… why couldn’t I have stayed away? Why did I have to be so useless? Why did I have to be so stupid?” She made it past the confused guards and continued running onwards towards the dark clouds that seemed to be rising in the south.
She would’ve kept running had something not grabbed her with its magic. “And just where have you been, young filly? You’ve grown some, but still, you are a troublesome little filly.” Hope glared at the strange creature that held her in his magic. It had an eagle’s claw, a goat hoof, a snake tail, an antler, and was supposed to be a rare form of dragon to top it all off. His name was Discord.

“Discord, let go of me! That witch has my baby and I need to blast her into the next millennium!” Hope’s glare softened a little as she remembered Discord helping her to spread chaos to the enemies when she went out to help with the war.

Discord smirked and placed the alicorn on the ground, but refused to let her run off on her own. “Oh, I’m shaking in my boots.” He then showed this by making a pair of boots appear on his feet and shook them violently. The glaring Alicorn was not amused. She turned towards the other alicorns as they landed behind her. “See, I told you, I could stop her easily. She may not have seen me in longer than Nightmare Moon’s legends have existed, but she’s still aware of who I am.” Discord grinned inwardly as the princesses were all shocked at the furious alicorn in front of them. ‘The gentlest of them all and yet she’s the most chaotic, hahaha, oh my, what a treat.’

While looking back at her sisters, she finally noticed her wings properly for the first time and her flank’s new mark, or rather, her original cutie mark. “You have no chance against the Nightmares, any of you… please, just go home… I have to save Spike…” She then ran off again, this time spreading her golden wings to fly, but something stopped her once more. She glared back noticing that it was Astra who was holding her down this time with her magic. “Astrana Compassion, release me!” Her voice was similar to that of Nightmare Moon’s now. Astrana and the others came up to her and looked at her with shock. “Oh quit staring, you four. I’m not a filly anymore, contrary to Discord’s belief. I have to go after that witch, she has Spike!”

Astrana released her just as Twilight’s worried gaze came upon the pink alicorn. “She has Spike?” Twilight’s voice sounded like a sob was being held back. The pink alicorn looked down as tears fell from her face. “Who are you?” She looked back to Twilight’s confused face and realized that with her old looks returned to her by Spike’s effort, she was no longer recognizable to the youngest alicorn.

“You know me as Hope Healer, Twilight, but these princesses… and Discord as well… they know me as… they know me as Princess Aurora Hope.” It was at this point when her wings, which had been tightly clinging to her back, spread out widely into her full wings. They all backed away from her, save for Discord, as she showed who she had once been.

“Bravo… I must say, returning from the dead is one way to be chaotic that I never really could get right, but you can certainly pull it off, Aurora, and my goodness, a healer for all these years, my, my, however did you manage?” Discord chuckled.

Twilight wasn’t paying attention though, her mind was still buzzing, trying to understand why her assistant and best friend had been taken, and why his mother was calling herself a princess. “Why did she take Spike, who was that?”

Aurora, as she would now be known, looked towards the oldest of her sisters. “I take it that you didn’t let her look at the oldest of your books? The ones about the Nightmare wars and before then? The ones where it mentions your twin?” Then she looked to Luna, “…or yours for that matter…” Her voice was now softer, but it seemed to sting more. She looked back to Celestia once more. “You should never let the pain of the past keep you from learning to prevent it in the future, you know that… or you should at least.” She turned her head towards Twilight as she got up. “You still have a lot to learn, young Twilight, but for now… suffice it to say that she was the Nightmare queen, a Nightmare by the name of Queen Sierra Blackheart, and she took Spike to hurt me, not you.” Aurora ran off again, knowing this time that the others wouldn’t stop her.

Discord smiled amusingly and decided to follow her. If there was one thing that Aurora knew how to do well in Discord’s mind, it was causing chaos that was actually helpful.

Author's Note

Oh come on, you know that this story is chaotic, so I had to incorporate Discord into it somehow. You'll see just how chaotic this gets later on hehehe Oh man, this will be something that's for sure.