The sun reaches high in the sky, brightening the day, nearing close to the time of afternoon. The light shining across the lands of Equestria, the citizens of this beautiful land, bipedal, anthro ponies, live in this nation.

And right at the moment, a group of anthro ponies walked into one large area just outside the capital city of Equestria, Canterlot, the area known as the Canterlot Sculpture Garden. This garden is filled with statues of anthro ponies, as well as there is a maze right beside it too.

The group that is walking into the garden, this group is made up of one adult leading eight young children. The adult pony is five feet and six inches tall slender body, magenta fur mare. She has long dark purple or pink long mane, pink eyes, and she wore a green vest with yellow lining, a white long-sleeve shirt underneath with the sleeves rolled up to her elbows, and she wore a green skirt with yellow flower pattern. Her tail can be seen under her skirt, sticking out at the bottom, it is the same color as her mane. She is known as Cheerilee.

The eight young ponies, six foals and two colts, they followed the adult mare. These young ponies are Snips, Snails, Diamond Tiara, Silver Spoon, Twist, Scootaloo, Apple Bloom, and Sweetie Bell.

Snips stands about three feet and four inches tall, he is a unicorn pony, with a small horn on his forehead. He has grayish opal fur body, moderate orange mane; same color as his tail which sticks out of his jeans, and has black eyes. He wears a black t-shirt with a symbol of a scissors on the front, blue jeans with the leggings rolled up above the hooves.

Snails is a unicorn as well, he stands about three feet and seven inches tall. He has brilliant amber fur, and his mane is moderate turquoise, and has black eyes. He wears a grayish green sweater with a snail symbol on the left side, grayish white jeans, his tail sticking out as well and same color as his mane.

Diamond Tiara is an earth pony; she stands about three feet and five inches tall, and she has pale magenta fur while her mane is pale light grayish violet with white streaks, her eyes are brilliant cornflower blue. She wears what looks like a diamond tiara on her head. She wears a yellow jacket with a brown shirt underneath, a pink skirt with her tail sticking out below it, same color as her mane. She wears yellow hoofed boots, and carries a brown purse with a gold lock on it in her right hand.

Silver Spoon, fellow earth pony and best friends with Diamond Tiara, she stands about three feet and five inches tall, and she has cornflower bluish gray fur while her mane is ceruleanish gray with white cornflower bluish gray streaks, her mane tied back into a braided pony tail. She has grayish violet eyes, and she’s wearing silver eyeglasses and a pearl necklace around her neck with a silver spoon hanging in the middle, she wears a blue t-shirt and a violet skirt, blue hoofed boots as well, her tail could be seen sticking out below her skirt.

Twist is an earth pony, she stands about three feet and four inches tall, and she has light amberish gray fur body, light brilliant scarlet curly mane, she has light fuchsia eyes and wears a brilliant blue violet eyeglasses. Her tail is same color as her mane as it sticks out at the bottom of her pink skirt, and she wears a white t-shirt with twisty candy canes on the front of her shirt.

Apple Bloom is an earth pony as well; she stands about three feet and five inches tall. She has a pale, light grayish olive coat body, her eyes are brilliant gamboge, and her long mane is brilliant amaranth, she also had a cute light brilliant crimson bow on the back of her head, her tail is the same color as her mane. She wears short blue jeans and a yellow t-shirt.

Scootaloo is a pegasus pony; she stands about three feet and four inches tall. Her body coat color is light brilliant gamboge, her eyes are grayish purple, and her shirt mane is moderate cerise. She is wearing a light green short pants and a dark green hoodie with two holes in the back to allow her small wings out. Her tail is the same color as her mane.

And lastly Sweetie Belle, she’s a unicorn pony who stands about three feet and four inches tall. Her body goat is light gray; her eyes are pale light grayish harlequin, and her long mane and tail is grayish mulberry with pale light grayish rose streaks. She is wearing a purple band in her mane, and is wearing a purple jacket with a dark blue belt, a yellow skirt, and underneath her jacket is a white and pink stripe t-shirt.

As the group came into the large garden, Cheerilee spoke, “I want to start our field trip here in the world’s famous Canterlot Sculpture Garden.”

She smiled as her students looked about as they came into the large sculpture garden, walking along the path, seeing many statues of anthro ponies. And an added bonus, just around the corner of this garden lays the entrance of the grant Canterlot maze.

As the group neared a statue, Cheerilee pointed to it with her right hand while stating, “That one over there represents Friendship.”

The statue was of three anthro ponies, one earth pony, one Pegasi, and one unicorn, each of them playing together in fun. Three ponies were gazing at this statue, the three Cutie Mark Crusaders, Apple Bloom, Scootaloo, and Sweetie Belle.

Apple Bloom had stopped to gaze up at the statue, Scootaloo didn’t notice as she bumps into her. Sweetie Belle was also wasn’t looking to where she was going and bumps into Scootaloo, bonking her head against the back of Scootaloo’s head, which also made Scootaloo bonk her head against the back of Apple Bloom’s head. Their eyes spinning while dizzy, till they regain focus and glare to each other, likely about to argue until Cheerilee continued talking, causing the trio to quickly catch up to the rest of their class.

“Alright my little ponies,” Cheerilee spoke with a smile, leading her class to another statue, one of an anthro earth pony mare standing proud and holding a flag in her hands, a flag with three golden jewels, and around the statue were stone shooting stars. Cheerilee continued, “This one represents Victory.”

“How cool would it be to have that for a Cutie Mark?” says Scootaloo as she and her friends walked closer to the statue, the statue that represents Victory.

“Cool,” Apple Bloom sarcastically said as she rolls her eyes, than grins at Scootaloo, “If you were actually victoryfull at something.”

“That’s not a word!” Sweetie Belle yelled at Apple Bloom the moment after she heard her friend say ‘victoryfull’, she frowns at her.

Scootaloo was surprised and confused as she asks, “What are you, a dictionary?”

“Girls!” called Cheerilee, catching their attention. The trio stopped arguing as they saw the rest of their class standing by one strange looking statue. The three ponies rush over so to learn about this next statue from their teacher.

“Now this is a really interesting statue,” Cheerilee say as she points her left hand to a statue. A statue of a strange creature, a being that’s definitely wasn’t an anthro pony of any kind. As they looked up at the big statue, that is roughly over twelve feet tall, Cheerilee continued, “What do you notice about it?”

While the rest of the class just gaze up, the CMC trio came forward. Apple Bloom spoke out, “It’s got an eagle’s claw!”

“And a lion’s paw!” said Scootaloo in excitement.

“And a snake’s tail!” leaped Sweetie Belle, landing in front of Scootaloo.

Cheerilee was gazing up at the statue as well; she said after she heard what some of her students answered before, “This creature is called a Draconequus. He’s a head of a pony, and a body made up of all sorts of things.”

The statue of the Draconequus stood on the pedestal, the size of the pedestal was three feet tall, and the draconequus statue on it is at leave twelve feet and six inches tall, stood in a pose like it was singing. Its head is more horse-like, much different than the ponies’ head styles. It has a deer antler on the right side of its head, and a goat horn on the left, one long fang showing in its open mouth, its eyes closed tight, and a snake’s tongue sticking out of the wide open mouth as well, it even has a goat beard, and bushy eyebrows. Its right arm is of a lion’s paw, the left arm is a claw of an eagle, the right leg of a lizard, and the left leg of a goat. In addition, it has a bat’s right wing on its back, along with a pegasus’ left wing, a horse’s mane, and a dragon-like snake’s tail with a tail tuft. The shape of its body resembles that of a snake.

After the good view of the statue, Cheerilee asks another question, “What do you supposed this represents?”

Before other students could say, the first to speak up was Apple Bloom. She said, “Confusion.”

Sweetie Belle went and pushed Apple Bloom to the right, trying to get attention as she said, “Evil!”

Then Scootaloo went and pushed the anthro unicorn student aside as she spoke out, “Chaos!”

Her push was likely of Scootaloo defending Apple Bloom before, but now, after their answers, the trio stood side-by-side, Apple Bloom in the middle, Sweetie to the left of her and Scootaloo to the right.

Sweetie turned to Scootaloo after the pegasi’s answer, “It’s not chaos you dodo!”

Scootaloo pointed her left index finger at Sweetie as she said, “Don’t call me things that I don’t know the meaning of, and it is too chaos!”

“Is not!” yelled Sweetie Belle as they both started to glare at each other.

Just as it seems like they’re about to argue, Apple Bloom placed her left hand on Sweetie’s right shoulder, and her right hand on Scootaloo’s left shoulder and pushes them away from each other. She closed her eyes and stated what she believes to be correct, “You’re both wrong!”

Frustrated, both pegasi and unicorn leaped upon the earth pony. All three of them started to argue and squabble in the dirt, fighting a bit.

Everyone watches the trio arguing, none of them noticed a faint glow showed on the chest of the draconequus statue, it lasted for a second.

Having enough, Cheerilee came towards them. “Actually in a way, you’re all right,” she said, which caused the CMCs to stop arguing. They sat on the ground, their clothes dirty a bit as they look up to their teacher. “This statue represents Discord; which means lack of harmony between ponies,” she continued, now frowning down at the trio. Then she smiled as she said, “In fact! You three demonstrated Discord so well…”

The trio had gotten up; smiling up to their teacher, hope in their eyes as though they were getting a reward for their answers.

“…that you each will write me an essay explaining it.”

The trio frowned, they were rewarded alright, and just not the prize they wanted. They were looking down in shame while the other anthro pony students laughed and giggled behind them.

Cheerilee then turned away, slowly walk as she said, “Now let’s go, and I don’t want any more fighting.”

As the rest of the class follow behind the teacher, walking away from the statue. The CMC right behind, they were quietly arguing to each.

None of them ever heard or even noticed the draconequus statue starting to crack apart.

The statue continued to crack apart, while now the class of the teacher and the students were no longer in the closest area to see it. Then as it neared, a male’s voice was heard within, a quiet laughter.

Then with a sudden burst of magical power, the whole statue burst. White stone shards, millions of stone fragments poured upon the soil.

On the pedestal, the lighting from the burst only last a second, revealing a now living, breathing draconequus. No longer a white stone statue, now stood a powerful being. No longer being stone white, the being regains his natural color. His head is amber yellowish gray, his body color is dark grayish reddish brown, and his tail is moderate amaranth. His mane is very dark gray, and lastly, being able to open his eyes after so long, revealed their light brilliant yellow with brilliant crimson different-sized pupils.
Discord is free, and he enjoyed that feeling after so long.

“Freedom at last!” cheered Discord as he stretches himself, free from his stone prison. He grins as he views the area around him, “Finally, it’s time to bring back the true fun of chaos into this boring kingdom.”

He raised his left talon claw, about to snap his fingers. “But first things first, time to visit my ole neighbour, see why he hasn’t answered my calls these past thousand years!”

With a loud snap of talon claws, he used his great magical power. In a single second, his body flash in a bright light, till it ended, with him gone, leaving behind an empty pedestal within the sculpture garden.

Deep below the mountain that holds Canterlot City and Castle on the side, in the darkest tunnels of the crystal caves. In one of the tunnels, a single second of burst of light, Discord appeared. With that, the tunnels return to darkness.

But Discord, being the powerful creature of chaos, merely snapped his talon. With a burst of magic, he made all the gems and crystals covering stone walls, roof, and even pillars, each one glowed bright like a candle.

He smiled and went to stand tall.

BONK!

Forgetting the fact that this cavern tunnel is not the same as his height, solving the problem, he lowered down and walked on his feet and claws. He moves forward, his body moving left and right like a snake slithering.

“Now then my fellow friend, where are you hiding?” he asked as he goes, travelling through the long tunnels, this place was after all, like a far better maze than the one close to the sculpture garden.

Most creatures would be confused on why the great spirit of chaos was searching for something inside these forgotten tunnels, but the ones who know Discord well, knows that this draconequus has a knack for finding things that do not want to be found.

And what Discord is searching for was a fellow prisoner trapped in stone. Discord had been awake while being stone for the past thousand years, listening to the world around him. Throughout so long, being stone, he was capable of talking to other prisoners locked away in stone, talking through telepathy.

This fellow being has been stone as long as he, and not once had they shared thoughts to each other. Discord had tried multiple times to speak to this being, but never gotten a reply. Curious for so long to find out who this being was, he wanted to meet it right now, before he claims what belongs to him from the beginning.

After walking through the tunnels, eventually arriving to one large, spacious crystal cavern, he stood up, dusting his claw and paw from the dirt, while the gems still glow like candle light.

“This is starting to get boring, where are… you?” he asked as he turned around the next corner, finally finding the statue hidden in these tunnels, and what he found, shocked him to his very soul.

“Do my eyes deceive me?” he asked quietly, shocked and surprised as he gazes upon the statue before him.

The white stone being before him, standing still on the hard ground without a pedestal was a statue of an armored man. The being stood about six feet and four inches tall, and is covered in greatly detailed armor that had been made into stone, chainmail hidden underneath that had been turned into rock, the whole armored knight was a stone statue. With a bulky shape body and the helmet looks more adjustable than the rest of the armor. Around the being’s neck is a very long scarf, also stone colored and looked like it was blowing in the wind, it has the symbol of the crescent moon with stars pattern. There is a long katana sheathe on the left side of the stone sash belt, and held in the right hand grip is a large broadsword-like weapon shaped katana, the blade part looks like an over-sized dog’s fang, and its cross guard looks like a large patch of fur similar to a dog, said patch of fur looks like blowing in the wind, but frozen in place. The statue is standing in a way of gazing upwards at a foe that dared attack him from the air. There was also what looks like cracks on the legs of stone.

Discord moves closer, till the point he was a foot away from it. He looks around the statue, seeing it from different angles, checking every single detail, and recalling from his memories of the time before being turned into a statue.

As he slowly went back and moved closer, looking through the opening part of the stone helmet, seeing that it looks like it can be removed. He wanting to see the face, so he takes hold of both sides of the helmet with his lion paw and eagle’s talon, and slowly pulled it off, the mouth guard that was also part of the helmet was pulled off along with it. With some lighting, Discord saw the details of the head of a human being, the long flat hair. The being’s face expression is of anger and appeared to be glaring upwards, and in front of the angry eyes is a rectangular eyeglasses, and around the mouth area is a goatee, also the mouth was in a form of a frown. Seeing the face, Discord looked more surprised and had accidentally dropped the helmet. It hit the hard ground, but didn’t crack.

“It is you…” Discord quietly said, was speechless. Then he smiled as he went and hugged the statue with his eagle arm, wrapping his arm behind the statue’s neck as though he was doing it with a good buddy.

“It has been so long Joseph! Why hadn’t you return my calls, too busy being stoned? I thought we were pals?” he said, smiling and joking a bit.

In his answer, all he gotten was silence.

With no reply, Discord angles his head so to be looking at the stone statue in the eyes. “You can’t still be angry at me for so long? It’s been a thousand years, let it go and be happy to see me again!” he said, assuming the being in stone is too angry to reply.

Silence was his answer again.

“Hm,” Discord hums as he thinks, looking at the statue, than a thought came to mind and he grin, “Maybe your ears are clogged so bad that you couldn’t hear my questions. Let me just clean them out for you, good ole wind spirit buddy of mine.”

He sticks his left eagle hand into his mouth, covering the talons in his saliva. Once done, he went and pokes a talon finger into the right ear, poking into the stone earlobe, trying to clean any dirt while giving him a wet willy.

Discord grins and chuckles, expecting to hear mental shouts of annoyance through telepathy.

Of course he wasn’t listening for a voice to speak up, the being was a statue. And statues don’t talk with their mouths frozen in place. Beings trapped in stone though, as long the ears are visible, the trapped being is capable of hearing. If the statue has open eyes visible, the being trapped within is capable of seeing what’s ahead.

After all; even though the being turned into a stone statue may be frozen through time eternal. The mind trapped inside is always awake, unless of course the statue had its eyes closed before being turned into stone, the being trapped within could sleep once in a while.

Considering Discord’s mind has been active for oh so many, slept a few times but forced to hear the boring life outside his stone prison. Stuck listening to the boring life around the single pedestal he was stuck in. So maybe talking to an old friend from the past will give some entertainment.

But all he gotten was silence, nothing through thoughts, just empty silence. Discord’s eyes slowly widen a bit as pulled out his talon finger, saw only bits of dust.

“Maybe your containment blocks you from talking to me?” he suggested, assuming such.

Thinking for a moment, he then placed the side of his head against the stone head, left ear pressed to listen through the thick rock. He uses his magic to at least try to sense what the fellow is currently doing within.

Through the silence, he heard a mental sound.

‘Zzzz…zzzz…zzzz…’

Hearing the sounds of snoring caused Discord eyes widen, than he fell onto his back anime style. In a single second, he stood up and shouted at the stone statue.

“YOU’RE ASLEEP WITH YOUR EYES OPEN!” he yelled, both surprised and annoyed. All these years, the trapped spirit he tried to contact through telepathy for so long, and it was revealed he was asleep.

Rather annoyed for such discovery, but started to think. This statue was inside the deep, dark, crystal mines, no lights, which obviously makes it quite easy for the spirit within to sleep. But the being was asleep for over a thousand years?

“Must be one good dream,” Discord said as he raised his talon claw. “Well sorry buddy, time to wake you up, rise and shine!” He then snaps his talons, using his magic to set free the being trapped in stone.

He expected a flash of magic to appear around the statue, waiting for the stone shattered and set free the sleeping being. But nothing happened.

The statue remained the same, boring, stone state. Discord’s powerful chaos magic didn’t affect it.

Discord’s eyes widen a bit, than he frowns and snaps his talons a few times. Some of his chaos magic bursts around, turning the glowing gems into several of items such as chocolate cake, strawberry pies, and some toys. He tried to use his magic to either break or change the statue, but it seems his magic was only bouncing off of it.

“Okay, now this is confusing, even for me,” Discord frowns as he crosses his arms, giving the statue a glare, despite the being inside is still asleep. “Beings turned into stone by cockatrices could easily be free by my magic, so why can’t… no…”

He realized something as his eyes slowly wide, “The elements were used on you; Celly used the elements on her own elemental lords?”

No answer, just snoring through the mental thought.

“Well, time to get some answers,” said the draconequus as he snapped his talon, and a megaphone appeared in his grip. Using his right lion paw hand, he twisted the knob on the megaphone to the highest volume, and slowly raises it up to his face. He wetted his lips with his tongue and held the megaphone close, taking a deep breath…

“WAKE UP JOSEPHIROTH!”

The shout was magnified by the megaphone ten times, and with the area being an underground crystal mine tunnels, the volume got even louder. The whole tunnels shook from the loud voice, echoing throughout; Discord even made himself temporary deaf after. While for the stone statue…

‘Zzzz…zzzz…zzzz…’

With the Canterlot Castle sat on the side of the mountain, over the entrance of the crystal mines. The echoes from within had went through some vents, many anthro ponies who had heard it, only it sounded like whispers. Many who heard it either ignored or looked to another, assuming the other said something.

In one of the tallest towers, one of the royal bed chambers, the room of Princess Luna. Her bedroom is quite large, spacious, and what’s inside is a large a bed that is a bit larger than king-size, at least eight feet wide and ten feet long, and three feet tall, quite big and set against a wall, with two bed-size dressers on each side. There is also a double-door closet, a desk with a lunar night crown setting on it, and a big mirror on a wall, and some bookshelves. A door that leads to her private bathroom and an outdoor balcony with curtains blocking the way, much better than windows. The walls are covered in midnight blue paint; the ceiling of the room was painted to look like the night sky.
And currently, the anthro night alicorn princess is sleeping in bed, wrapped with her big black blanket, which mostly covered her body. Only her head was exposed, resting on big fluffy pillows. Resting on her right side, facing away from the bright sunlight that managed to go through some openings the dark curtains blocked.

There was a small grate, a vent close to the corner of her bedroom. And from it came a very faint echo.

“WAKE UP JOSEPHIROTH!”

The left ear on Luna’s head twitches, moaning a bit as she raised her dark blue furred head a bit, her flowing moderate sapphire blue with grayish persian blue lining mane, looked like it had little sparkles in her mane. The eye shadows are light sapphire blue, and as they slowly open, showing her moderate cyan pupils.

“Josephiroth…?” she quietly asked, had thought she heard that familiar word.

Finding no one in her room who had said the name, she slowly angles her head towards one of her bed-side dressers, which had a small portrait sat. It looks like a family photo, a photo of her time from a very long time ago, with herself, her sister, Star Swirl the Bearded, and four other beings.

The four beings were dressed in armor, but without their helmets, showing their faces, not pony faces. These four beings were in fact not anthro ponies, but what she and her sister and many creatures learned long ago, they’re known as humans. Everyone in the photo was smiling. And each human was doing a small pose for the picture.
One in fiery-like armor was at the bottom of the photo, laying on his right side with his right arm supporting his head. He had short, messy green hair and blue eyes, clean shaven. On the left side of the portrait was a watery-like armored human standing in an elegant pose, was bald with light-red beard and has blue eyes. On the right side was a big earthen warrior covered in dark green armor, he stood tall and proud, has short dark brown hair, brown eyes and wore oval eyeglasses. And the fourth one, the one in between Celestia and Luna when they were young, and with Star Swirl beside Celestia, anyways, the fourth being had long dark brown hair, brown eyes, light brown goatee, and wore rectangular eyeglasses, he had his arms hugging both Celestia and Luna while smiling to the viewer.

It was a very happy time back then; so many fond memories come to mind as she looks at it. Also sadness too, so as Luna rests her head on the pillow once more, she quietly said as she closed her eyes, shed a tear.

“Wish you guys didn’t leave…”

After that one failure and Discord hearing the mental sound of snoring once more while he tries to remove that loud ding sound in his ears. Was temporary deaf for a while, he got rid of the megaphone.

Frustrated, he growled, “Okay, if loud noises won’t work, than how about this?” With a snap of his talon hand, with a flash of magic, he was suddenly dressed in hard working clothes, light blue shirt, wore a yellow hardhat, black goggles, and has a jackhammer in his grip.

“Time to shake that body of yours,” he said with a grin, than he turns on the jackhammer and quickly thrusts it on the statue. He bounces around it, causing the statue to vibrate from the forces.

But after a long while, no cracks showed. And as the jackhammer slowly came to a stop, quieted down; Discord listen for a mental sound.

‘Zzzz…zzzz…zzzz…’

With a flash, all the clothes, hardhat, and jackhammer vanished while Discord growled in annoyance. Walking close till he stood in front of the statue, looking down at the frozen expression etched in stone.

“You know buddy, if I ever see Gary, I’ll make sure to ask him for his secret of waking you up,” Discord said, still frustrated.

‘Zzzz…zzzz…zzzz…’

“But,” Discord said, now grinning as he raised his left talon hand, one finger pointing upwards. “That doesn’t mean I haven’t given up yet, and right now, I’m betting you’re pretending to be asleep. Admit it pal.”

The only answer he got through the mental telepathy was of course…

‘Zzzz…zzzz…zzzz…’

Discord slowly grinned, “Well, since your helmet is off, maybe a kiss from an alicorn princess could awaken you?”

Of course the only answer he gotten for his question was the snoring.

Discord rubbed his beard with his talon hand while looking upwards, “But… considering I cannot allow those two knowing that I’m free… yet. We’ll just have to settle for the next best thing.” He gave the statue a wide grin before snapping his talon hand once more.

With a flash of his magic, he made a small difference to his body. His wings grew and change into purplish violet colored wings. The horns on his head was covered in a blue and golden king’s crown, and on the center point above his eyes stood a long, purplish violet horn, and had red lipstick on his lips.

He stood tall, did some admiration poses. He looks down at the statue with a grin, “How do I look, honey?”

Again, his only answer: ‘Zzzz…zzzz…zzzz…’

“Well time to change that answer of yours, for it’s time to give you the wakeup kiss,” Discord said as he hugged the statue, wrapping his arms around the neck, moving his head close to the always frozen expression, puckering his lips.

Then he thrust forward and kissed the stone statue right on the mouth, kissing deeply while hugging the frozen being tightly.

“Mwah!”

After for about five seconds, Discord pulled back, leaving red lip marks around the stone mouth area, still hugging the statue, grinning down at it, hoping to get an answer.

‘Zzzz…zzzz…zzzz…’

Discord gawked in annoyance, he had hoped that the trapped being would be disturbed enough to awaken, annoyed at least, or at least shouting his name in anger. But he just got that same, boring answer.

He sighed as he let go of the statue, and with his magic, the crown vanished and so did the wings and horn, returning to his normal look.

“Nothing I say or do is going to wake you, isn’t it?” Discord asked, looking down at the statue, feeling a bit sad at the moment. Feeling a bit depress that he couldn’t awaken his old friend, looking down, and seeing the stone helmet. He reaches down and took hold of it with his lion paw and eagle talon, than he slowly puts it back into place on the statue head, made sure it was adjust right and the mouth guard in place.

After a while, a moment thought, he asked, “What are you dreaming about anyways? It must be really good for sleeping during a thousand years.”

Curious to know he placed his talon and paw on the stone helmet, gripping it tightly as he closes his eyes. He used his magic, his great power, to enter the dream of the prisoner inside the statue.

The draconequus found himself standing in a very dark area, he looks around a bit. The darkness slowly lessens, revealing his surrounding, what looks like a forest part of a park, trees spread apart and each standing alone. A few flower patches and bushes, and even a bench, and as Discord looks upward, seeing it to be a foggy sky.
“If this is a dream, than where’s the dreamer?” he asked himself, looking around.

Then he heard a sound that Discord likes to hear, the sound of laughter. It was almost child-like, but the voice was recognizable to the draconequus. The voice of the trapped statue human.

‘Must be playing a dream game, or maybe this is a memory?’ the draconequus thought as he angle his head to see where the voice originated, expecting to see a group.

But he only saw one being, the human, about twenty feet away, and was running further and deeper into this strange landscape. The human wearing what looks like a red and white winter jacket, blue jeans and dark brown boots. Discord knows that the being’s true height matches the height of the statue outside, six feet and four inches tall.

Curious to know, Discord runs after whom he assumes is the dreamer. He couldn’t use his magic while being in the dream, otherwise he might wreck up what’s happening. The spirit of chaos was after all, curious to know what this dream is about.

As he goes, the sound of laughter was heard, almost mostly all around, but the source of it was ahead of him. And the draconequus’s movement liked running through water, slow movement.

And just as he assumed that the human was going to be gone in sight, the man had stopped and had sat down on his knees, facing towards a tree. And as Discord nears, the sound of laughter got louder.

The draconequus reaches out to the human with his lion arm, the paw touching the human’s left shoulder. Discord was about to say something, but before his eyes came a flash of light.

When the flash ended, Discord found himself standing in a large room, standing among a crowd of humans. Being the only draconequus, he was the tallest as all the rest were smaller. None of them even notice him, and Discord saw many of them dressed in various kinds of costumes, while a few just wore regular clothes.

He looks around, seeing the place, one thing came to mind as he realize, “This is a convention, a memory.” He had learned of this convention from the spirit long ago, but now, he was seeing it now.

Many of the humans face were shrouded in shadows, likely not remembered in the dreamer’s memory. Various of voices could be heard, mostly muffled, but turning to look at where most of them are looking to, was a stage with a flat-screen TV on the back, rather large and showing what looks like a duel going on.

A duel monster duel, for on the stage, three people were on, one holding a video camera pointed down at the table that the two beings sat at. The two beings were dressed in costumes, one is unfamiliar to the draconequus, but as he moves closer to the stage, he could see the ole human friend of his.

“Ah, so this was your costume,” Discord said with a chuckle, seeing what Joseph wore. “No wonder your brothers find humour from your costume. What was the being you dressed up called? Aang right?”

Of course he gets no reply from his question; this was after all, a memory.

Joseph on stage wore clothes similar to Aang from Avatar: The Last Airbender. He wore what looks like an orange sweater with yellow arm and elbow bands with a red sash from left shoulder to right waist, dark brown pants with dark gray leg guards and black socks. His head was bald with a blue arrow drawn on; he still had a goatee and eyeglasses on. And from closer view, seeing the brown eyes and light brown goatee.

And as he had come close, he heard the human say to his opponent, “Sorry pal, but looks like I win. Five-Headed Dragon attacks you directly with Ultimate Oblivion!”

With that, he won the duel, while Discord recall of this memory, a tale that he had learned from the four brothers. Each of them was doing several of things at this convention, and Josephiroth came to this convention to participate in what was called, ‘Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Monster Tournament’. And that he won it.

Discord watches from where he stood, letting the memory play its course. Watching Joseph claim his prize, four secret rare cards.

“This is awesome, I had expected to lose, but looks like I had good luck in the cards,” said Joseph as he gave a victory speech for winning the tournament at this convention. “So I guess the best thing to say is, never give up and always believe in your deck.” He chuckles, “Yeah sounds cliché like in the show, but come on, it’s true.”

And with that ended and he got off the stage, Discord moves closer to listen. He watched as Joseph got off the stage and walked over to a six feet tall skinny dressed up as the Firebender Zuko. This man wore a dark red tunic with a yellow belt, dark red shoulder pads, armguards, leg guards, belt pockets, and a fake sheathed sword hanging on back as well as fake katanna swords hanging on the back. He got dark green hair tied into a ponytail, is clean shaven and wore a black eye-patch over the left eye; reason for the eye-patch is because he doesn’t have what he needed to make the much believable scar.

“Told ya to never give up on your cards, young brother,” the man grinned, whom Discord recognized very well, Garico, the Spirit of Fire.

“Yeah I know big brother, don’t need to rub it in,” Josephiroth replied, he and Garico were just saying a friendly joke to each other. Garico called Josephiroth his younger brother, considering Joseph is bigger than him and had an older-like face. While Josephiroth calls Garico ‘big brother’ was because Garico is older than him by two years, but yet he’s smaller than him by four inches.

Seeing the four secret rare cards in his hands, Garico had asked, “May I have a look at those?”

“Sure,” Josephiroth replied by handing him the cards he had won.

As Garico looked at the cards, Discord lean close to look as well. He saw what looks like four dragons, once more each were of four elements, air, fire, water, and earth.

“Huh?” asked the winning human, Discord notice that he was looking at the draconequus for a second. He uses his left hand, moves his glasses up and rubbed his eyes a bit. Once he stopped, he looked to where Discord stood, but seem to no longer see him. Obviously returning to the way the memory goes, Discord could figure he’s invisible throughout this memory sequence, or saw someone else.

“What?” Garico asked, holding the four cards back to his brother.

“Oh nothing just thought I saw someone dressed up as Discord from My Little Ponies,” Josephiroth replied, he takes the cards back.

This caused Discord to look surprised; he turned around to look through the crowds. After looking through the many, he found one human dressed up in a very poorly looking spirit of chaos costume.

“Hey! My left arm is a talon, not lion’s paw!” Discord called out as he goes over to inspect the costume. “And the wings, sheesh, there are so many errors here pal, you didn’t put much effort into it, did you?”

Of course he didn’t get an answer back while he was ranting at the unknown human. But then recalled one thing, currently the main part of this memory was still happening and he ain’t watching.

And with that, he turned and rushed over, seeing Josephiroth putting his four prized cards into his pocket.

Garico said, “Let’s go find Andy and Albert, the convention is almost over.”

“Yeah, knowing Andy though, he likely got his iPhone full of pictures of people in costumes,” the dreamer replied, and as they both started to walk. He looked to his older brother, “Speaking of which, while I was playing, did you get some pictures too?”

Garico smirked as he pulled it out, and pressed a few buttons. “Oh I did, and you are going to be surprised on what you see,” he said, sliding through photos till came one and held it to his brother.

Joseph takes it and looks on the screen, his expression change from excitement to gawking, “No way, someone dressed up as Sephiroth?”

“Picture tells no lies, young brother,” Garico chuckled. “Maybe tomorrow you can see him.”

“Hopefully before the convention ends in three days,” he replied, out of most Final Fantasy games, Sephiroth is one of his top three favourites, and Garico knows, considering Garico likes Cloud Strife.

Discord had a good look too, seeing the image of the human in the costume of the one-winged angel. He continued to watch as the two brothers go.

As Josephiroth continued looking through pictures, seeing pictures of people dressed up as Mario, Luigi, Wario, the always forgotten named purple plumber guy, Link, and so much more. He soon came to an image of a guy dressed in armor.

“Who’s this guy supposed to be?” he asked his brother, showing the image.

Garico saw and said, “The guy said he was dressed as Gilgamesh.”

“What game is he from?” Josephiroth asked, rather confused since he never heard the name before.

“He appeared in some Final Fantasy games,” Garico said.

He slides through another photo, seeing an image of a headless armored being, “Amazing details, this guy for some reason reminds me of that one character in the Castlevania games… what was the name again?” He thinks for a moment as Garico looks.

“That would be Dullahan,” he stated.

“Oh, kept forgetting the name, considering I hardly play it,” Joseph replied. “It was like over a year ago I played that game, and you have it.” Garico nodded as they continued walking.

Soon coming down to the last picture, of some guy wearing a pyramid on his head. Feeling rather confused, he asked, “Why does this guy wearing a large pyramid on his head... must be bad for the neck.”

Garico didn’t even look, “That’s Pyramid Head, the guy from Silent Hill.”

“Silent Hill?”

Garico looked surprised as he turned to his brother, “You never heard of it? I thought you got the movie?”

“I may have my own personal library of books and movies, but I never seen that one,” he replied. “Heard the title a few times from some of my friends, but that’s pretty much it,” he shrugs, handing the iPhone back to Garico, “so what’s it about?”

“Not going to tell you,” Garico said as he pockets his iPhone. “Get the game or the movie and learn it yourself, don’t want to ruin the surprise.”

Joseph frowns in annoyance, and just as they arrive to the front room of the convention. They saw their two brothers sitting on the bench.

“There they are,” Garico said; getting Joseph’s attention and both of them walk over.

Discord follows behind, and as they neared, he saw what the other two brothers wore.

The one known as Albert, or the Spirit of Water Albertis to Discord anyways, stood about the same height as Josephiroth, six feet and four inches tall. He wore what was similar to Sokka, the Waterbender Tribe of clothes, such as a blue tunic with white fur lining, dark brown pocket belt, dark blue pants, dark brown boots, and a fake black sword on his left side of his belt, and a toy boomerang on the right side of the belt. He was close to being bald, just short blond hair, and has a reddish blonde short pointy beard, he has blue eyes, and in stance, he’s slightly skinny but a bit more muscular than Joseph.

And the other, Andy, or to Discord, the Spirit of Earth Andracus, stood six feet and five inches tall, just an inch taller than Albertis and Josephiroth. He had muscles but a bit of a chubby belly, he has dark brown short hair and wears oval shape eyeglasses, has brown eyes. The clothes he wore are like what Earthbenders wore yellow tunic over green robes, a brown belt around the waist and green bike gloves, he also wore green sandals.

As they went over to them, they saw Garico and Joseph and they both stood up.

“You both ready to go?” asked Andracus.

Garico and Josephiroth nodded, than Josephiroth smiled as he said, “Had won the duel monster tournament, my prize were four very rare cards.” Gary is Garico’s true name; Garico is just the name of being the Spirit of Fire. And Joseph pulls out the four cards to show his brothers.

Andy chuckled, “Why am I not surprised that your prize is four dragon cards?”

“What? You all know that I love dragons,” Joseph said as he puts the cards back into his pocket. He turned to Gary, “Hey, maybe later we could have a little duel; I want to try out these new cards.”

“Sorry Joey, you know that I don’t duel anymore, heck I didn’t bring my cards with me,” Garico said as he looked to him. Then he chuckled as he turned to Albert, “Maybe one day, Chase could learn how to play the game.”

“Maybe,” Albert said, not really a fan of the game.

“It’s possible brother, he may only prefer toy cards. But one day he’ll be interested in duel monster cards,” Joseph said with a smile.

Discord blinked, now recalled some things he remembered about them, they each had something important to them on earth. Andy has a girlfriend and is a college professor. Albert has a three year-old son named Chase, who’s staying with their parents, his wife was… sadly died in an accident. Gary has plans of a wedding with his future wife. But as for Joseph… besides his brothers and his parents, he has only is own home to go back too, his lonely apartment, hardly has any friends, only has a few he talks through the internet, and work at a library.

Discord had learned this from his meetings with them long ago of course, but recalling what happens next saddens him a little. He continues to watch.

“Well let’s not be late, by the time this convention ends, the roads will be busy,” Andy said as the four were about to go.

“Back to the brother vacation campsite and continue the convention tomorrow,” Gary nodded as he said that. They decide to come to this convention as a one week vacation, for all four brothers to get together, while the ladies are either at home or having their own kind of fun.

“Oh goodie, as long as I get a hat or something, big mistake today since the cold winds,” Joseph said while his brothers chuckled. “What?”

“Nothing,” said Albert.

And just as the four brothers neared the exit of the convention, Discord still following behind, a voice is heard.

“Hey you four benders!” called someone.

The first to look to where the caller was Garico and Discord looked as well. Seeing a stall of various items close to the exit, and standing behind it stood someone dressed up as a merchant of olden days, almost in similar clothes to the cabbage merchant from the same show the four brothers were dressed in.

“Oh look, it’s the cabbage merchant,” Garico jokingly said, causing Andracus, Albertis, and Josephiroth to look as well.

“Heh, so it is,” Albert said with a chuckle.

They walk over, and Josephiroth said hi to the merchant who stood behind his stall of merchandise.

“Ah, it’s good to see there are others who chose to dress up as the characters in Avatar like I have,” said the merchant with a grin. “And now, I’m sure I got quality items you fine chaps would like to have.”

“As long as you don’t have cabbages, we can look for a bit,” Andracus said, causing most of them to chuckle. His brothers looked through the items the merchant was selling.

And what the group saw what looked like authentic items from shows, movies, games, and even books, well some books that have the image of the item.

“Whoa,” said both Josephiroth and Garico, they were amazed. Albertis didn’t know most of these items but Andracus, Garico, and Josephiroth sure do.

The items they see were of various things, such as the three sheathed swords from InuYasha, tessaiga, tenseiga, and so’unga, heck even the beads of subjugation, and the sacred jewel, and some clothes like the red kimono that InuYasha wears in the show, and even a cute little plushie toy of Kirara.

Then there were items that are what even the Majora’s Mask is from Legend of Zelda games, like the Master Sword, Hyrule Shield, Hero’s Tunic, Ocarina, Twilight’s Mirror, and heck there were even a plushie of Epona, and a model Ganon’s monster form from Ocarina of Time game. And there was even a model of the Triforce triangles, than again it could just yellow triangles carefully stacked and glued together.

Then there were items from Kingdom Hearts game, such as various forms of one Keyblade, an Organization 13 clothes. Then there were items from Disney, like the cobra staff that Jafar uses in the Aladdin movie as well as Genie’s Lamp. There was a model statue of Mushu, plushie toy of Pegasus, Cerberus, Hydra, so many more, heck even a plushie toy of Mirage from the episodes series of Aladdin. And there is a big jar full of marbles, each labelled with numbers and different colors.

Then there were like tons of different kinds of dragon plushies, like dragons from the Spyro games. There were plushies of Spyro, Cynder, Malefor, Ignitus, Volteer, Cyril, and Terrador. Then there were plushies from the movie and episodes of How to Train your Dragon, such as the Night Fury, Monstrous Nightmare, Terrible Terror, Hideous Zippleback, Gronkle, and the Deadly Nadder.

There were items from Dragon Ball Z movies and episodes, such as a case full of capsules, a scouter, Saiyan armor, Lord Beerus plushie, and the seven star dragon balls.

And there were some items from Reboot, such as Hex’s Mask, the Guardian’s Key-Tool, the Icon badge thing, and even a small toy model of Megabyte.

Then there were like twenty several of life-size masks from Bionicle, including the two masks, the Mask of Life and the Mask of Shadows.

And there were four real life-like scanners, those devices from the show Chaotic. The scanners looked much well than the tin version too, the Mipedian Yellow, Danian Brown, Overworld Blue, and Underworld Red.

Then there was some items like from Slugterra, such as those blaster gun and a case full of plastic slugs of various forms.

Also there were pokemon stuff like pokeballs, great balls, ultra balls, a master ball and other kinds of balls. And there was Ash’s red cap, along with different generation of pokedexes, and the evolution stone replicas, and lastly a mega ring with a mega stone.

And right beside the pokemon items were digimon items, different generation of digivices and digimon cards, along with what looks like a mixture of a digivice and a gauntlet, digi-guantlet?

And there were the seven chaos emeralds and the big master emerald, obviously plastic jewels that look similar to the ones in the Sonic X series. There also plushie toys of Sonic characters from different shows.

Next bunch of items were YuGiOh stuff such as Duel Disks, the seven golden millennium items, and several of rare duel monster cards.

The next group of toy models were several of Bakugan balls, yet these ones look more real than the toys in stores.

The next group of items look like the Deathly Hollows from Harry Potter, the Elder’s Wand, Resurrection Stone, and the Cloak of Invisibility.

There were the twelve talismans, each bearing a symbol of an animal of the zodiac. These stone hexagons shape things looks like real version from the old cartoon show, Jackie Chan’s Adventures.

Then there are the items that looked like they originated from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. There were Leonardo’s blades, Michelangelo’s nun-chucks, Raphael’s sais, Donatello’s Bo staff. Other two items were Shredder’s Helmet, and the Sword of Tengu.

Another group of dragon plushies on the shelf close to the others, a bunch of dragon plushies from Dragon Booster, such as the Gold Star, Black Psi, Red Magma, Green Bull, Blue Energy, White Sky, Light Blue Nautilus, Brown Earth, Light Green Scavenger, Orange Control, Purple Pack, Turquoise Sonic, and Gray Bone. And along with the plushies are five gauntlets and five amulets, which are the Gold Star amulet, Black Psi amulet which looks like an eye, Red Flame amulet, Green Fist amulet, and Blue Energy amulet which looks like a lightning bolt.

And there were plushies of the creatures from Monster Hunter, there were the Great Jaggi with a Jaggi and a Jaggia, the Royal Ludroth with a few Ludroths, a Qurupeco, Rathian and a Rathalos, Lagiacrus, Arzuros, Zinogre, Nargacuga, Barroth, Volvidon, Tigrex, Barioth, Gigginox, Khezu, Agnaktor, Amatsumagatsuchi, Rajang, Fatalis, Akantor, Ukanlos, and much more.

Another batch of items that are from a show called Legendz, there was four types of talispods, which were air white, water blue, fire red, and earth green. Then there are three devices that look like three talispods in one form known as a talisdam. Then there was like a box filled with crystals with what looks like beings within, like dragons, big foot, werewolf, manticore, salamander, a crocodile, snake, pretty much various of animals.

And there were other weapons, toys, plushies, clothes, armor, models, like literally so many, especially with the long-sword that Sephiroth wields, Yuna’s staff, Master Chief’s helmet, Rainbow of Light in a heart locket, a three dimensional maneuver gear, Blade of Olympus and the Blades of Exile, sapphire painted blue dragon egg shape stone, and oh so much more stuff.

How Discord, who’s still standing with the four brothers within this dream, knows what these items this merchant was selling? Rather simple, for each items had a sign of the name and what it originated from. And Discord recognized quite a few of the items that he had seen before.

And with a sight of a back door behind the merchant is obvious that he has a lot more items, most likely got several copies of each item that he has for sale right now. Discord looked to the four brothers, to see how they react.

Albertis seem to only recognize a few of the stuff, while he looked at some of the others in curiosity, while his brothers seem to know most of all these items.

Andracus is an anime expert of the trio, as well as several games, and he was marvelling at the sight of the magnificent items such as the millennium items and the blades from InuYasha.

Garico is a Zelda and Dragon Ball Z fan, he had at first was checking out the ocarina, than looking at the small orbs of the seven star dragon balls.

And as for Josephiroth, he is a fan of most of this stuff, but the one thing he love most, were dragons. He’s also a yugioh card collector, which at the current moment, he was staring at the ultra-rare cards, and most of them were dragons. He looked like a kid in a candy store, and that’s when Andracus had notice that his brother was staring at the cards.

And as quickly as Andracus pulled out a rolled out magazine from his pocket, still rolled up, he whack on Josephiroth’s head, not hard, but enough to gain his attention. “No Joey, bad!” he said.

Josephiroth turned to look at Andracus with the look of annoyance, “What the hell man?”

“No cards Joseph; don’t waste your money on more cards,” Andracus said sternly.

“Oh come on, there are so many rare dragon cards here,” Josephiroth complained.

Before Andracus could continue to deny his brother on the cards, Garico spoke out, “Look away from the cards little brother, you already got some today. Besides, look at those dragon plushies.”

“Dragon plushies?” asked Josephiroth as he quickly looked, and saw all the other items, especially dragon plushies, models and stuff. He smiled widely as he looked at the items, “Ooh.”

“As you can, our little brother here is a dragon lover, he collects things that are mainly of dragons,” Garico stated as he looked to the merchant while the others look at Josephiroth.

The merchant smiled, “Well then, it’s a good thing I got dragon items to sell then.”

Joseph was looking at each item with wide eyes and a big smile, looking from one item to another. He definitely is a big fan of dragons, and he looked like he was having difficulty of which one to look at first.

Seeing such made the merchant smiled wider, mainly because he could tell Joseph is going to buy a lot of his items.

Discord continued to watch, and merely glared at the merchant while the four brothers looked at several of items. Discord knew from the tales he had learned, and that the merchant is not human.

Andy reached over and patted Joseph’s back to get his attention “Don’t spend all your money today, the convention only started today. Just buy one item, if you got enough money.”

“If I had enough money? Andy, I saved enough these past months, waiting for this convention to come around,” Joseph said, talking out, more like blurting out in a naïve way, “heck, I have about…”

Garico reached and covered his mouth with his hand, “Don’t say how much you have little brother, after all, the merchant can change the price of his items.” This made Joseph’s eyes widen in shock, and after the Fire Spirit removed his hand, the Air Spirit immediately face-palmed, smacked himself hard too.

“That’s going to leave a bruise,” the Water Spirit chuckled.

The merchant spoke out, “Oh don’t you all worry about the prices, I won’t haggle as long as you bunch don’t. And don’t forget, like your brother said, today is the first day of the convention, and also is the only day that my stall has this.” He grinned as he pointed to a sign right behind him, he stepped away to show what the sign says, 50% off. “This kind of sale only happens today, so buy what you desired the most, for by the end of today, this bargain will end.”

The four brothers looked at the merchant with wide eyes, and Andy asked in a surprised toned, “Really?”

The merchant grinned, “Really, really.”

Discord sighed as he watched; this reminded him of what he had long ago learned, and how a venus flytrap catches flies. The merchant is the trap and the four boys willingly reached in.

As Joseph was taking hold of many dragon plushies and other items, Andy and Gary were looking through several of items. Albert had looked through a few, and decided to buy the twelve talismans with the zodiac animal symbols on them. He waited for his brothers to finished picking what they wanted.

Andy had picked the jar that’s labeled: 626 Experiments, the jar was filled with lots of marbles with numbers; it’s obviously from that old Disney movie, Lilo and Stitch. That wasn’t the only thing he picked up, he had also selected that Key-Tool, the Scouter and Capsule Case, the Bionicle Mask of Life, the Blades of Exile, the Beads of Subjugation, Majora’s Mask, and the Master Chief Helmet.

As for Gary, he went and selected the Master Sword, Hyrule Shield, Ocarina of Time, and the Triforce Model first thing; he is a fan of the Zelda games. He’s also a fan of Sonic, which he picked up the Seven Chaos Emeralds. And he even picked up the Seven Star Dragon Balls case, and then picked the Sword of Tengu, and the 3D Maneuver Gear.

And lastly for Joseph, like a very happy child in an adult body, just went and picked up plushies of dragons mostly, he literally does love dragons. He picked up the group of plushies of the dragon characters from Dragon Booster, How to Train your Dragon, Monster Hunter, and Legend of Spyro. He even picked up the Hydra plushie from that Disney movie Hercules, Dulcy plushie from the old series of Sonic, Mushu plushie from Mulan, and the twin-headed dragon Zak & Wheezie plushie. As for non-dragon plushies, he picked up the Mirage plushie of that character in Aladdin, Lord Beerus plushie, and the Kirara plushie. And after picking up the group of plushies he picked, he went and picked up the Ganon model of that final boss in Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time game, the Cobra Staff which was called Jafar’s Staff from that Aladdin movie, Hiccup’s Crossbow Shield, Shredder’s Helmet from that TMNT 2003 series, and then lastly the Talispods and Souldolls from the anime shows, Legendz.

Seeing the amount, Albert commented, “Holy crap, you sure you have enough money for all that?” Joseph only nodded.

Andy chuckled as he had picked up seven golden items, “Hey Joseph, did you notice these?”

Joseph looked over and saw what his older brother picked up, his eyes widen, “The Seven Millennium Items?!” He moved his right hand, reaching out to touch the Millennium Puzzle.

“Sorry pal, but I plan to get these,” Andy smirked and chuckled, he wasn’t a fan of the game, but he did like the shows. And seeing Joseph frown at him only made Andy laugh, “Well you were too focus on those dragon items.”

Gary was chuckling, “You guys seem to not notice, but look-y here.” He picked up a small black gem thing, his three brothers lean close to inspect.

“Is that the..?” asked Joseph.

“The Resurrection Stone from Harry Potter,” Andy said in surprise, and then he turned and reached where Gary had picked up the stone. He found and picked up a big wand, “The Elder’s Wand?” He turned to the merchant, “You have items like these as well?”

Merchant nodded with a smile, “Yep, and got many more of each one in the back.”

“Heh, I prefer the Invisibility Cloak, and I’m sure my son would like one too,” Albert said as he picked up the folded up cloak.

Joseph chuckled, “You guys can get the items; I prefer the book. And man, feel the cover, it looks so authentic.” He held the spell book up for his brothers to see, he even opened the book to look inside.

As he read, Garico had picked up one of the four devices from Chaotic, the red Underworld Scanner. “He even has chaotic scanners.”

Joseph instantly closed his book and set it with the items he had picked, “Ooh, is there the Mipedian Scanner?” Looking at where Gary had found the scanner, and saw the yellow version, “Sweet.”

“I prefer Danians,” Andy said as he picked up the brown scanner device. As he held it, he turned to Albert, “How about you get the Overworld Blue for your son?”

“Not exactly sure he would like this,” he replied as he picked up the blue device. “What’s this called again?”

“It’s a chaotic scanner,” Joseph said as he pressed a few buttons. “Shows images of chaotic cards.”

“Hm, might as well if you guys are getting your own,” Albert said as he picked up the blue scanner device.

“Well I am,” Gary stated and so did Joseph and Andy. And just as he put the red scanner on the items he planned to get, he saw and picked up a small, handheld device. “Holy, a digivice.”

Joseph lean over and saw it, “Digivice of Season One, your favourite season.”

“It’s original, unlike all the others,” Gary stated as he held it.

Andy reached and picked up a device similar to the digivice, “What season is this from?”

Joseph looked over, than he became confused, “Is that some kind of gauntlet?”

“It is... a new kind of digivice that I like to call the Digi-Gauntlet, interested?” Merchant asked with a grin.

“Nope,” Albert stated as he looked at other devices.

“Yep,” Joseph and Andy said at the same time, than they looked at each other. Considering there was only one Digi-Gauntlet, they both raised their right fists up.

They shake their fists for a moment and moved forth, Andy’s fist still tight while Joseph’s hand made a scissors look. They just did Paper, Rock, Scissors. Andy smirked while Joseph groaned.

“Here you go,” the merchant smiled as he held the Digi-Gauntlet over to Andracus, the Earth Spirit happily accepted and put it into the pile of things he plans to buy.

Joseph groaned while looking around the items, till his eyes widen as he saw a sheathed blade. He pointed at it while looking at the merchant, “Is that the tessaiga?”

“A replica of one, yep,” the merchant said with a grin. “Want it?” he asked and his grin widen as Joseph nodded. He placed the sheathed katanna on the items that Joseph plans to buy.

Before Gary could say or reach for, Albert had taken hold the sheathed blade of Tenseiga, and Andy got hold of So’unga. Gary groaned, till he smiled as he saw the Keyblade. Taken hold of it, he admired its form.

“Man if only I could turn the key part to look like a G, it would be called the G-Blade,” Gary said with a smile.

Joseph had face-palmed after hearing that.

Gary frowned as he looked to his brother, “What?”

His eyes closed while rubbing his forehead, “Just counting how many times I heard you say G-Blade.”

Gary rolled his eyes, till he saw something and smirked as he picked it up, “Oh look little brother, it’s a duel disk?”

“Alright got one at… home?” Joseph had opened his eyes and saw how realistic the duel disk looks.

“It’s not plastic,” Gary stated as he inspects it.

“Oh sweet lord, it looks way better than the plastic version,” Joseph said as he looked at it.

Andy frowned, “What did I say about YuGiOh Cards-”

“It isn’t a card, Andy, so it doesn’t count!” Joseph quickly said as he went and picked up the orichalcos dueling disk. “I always prefer this one; makes it look like an axe was part of the arm.”

“Heh, if you’re getting one, I’ll get one too, this is actually tempting me to rejoin dueling,” Gary said, and that caused Joseph to smile wide. Gary rolled his eyes, “Don’t get annoying again.”

“Heh,” Joseph smiled sheepishly, he had annoyed his brother quite a bit, asking duels after duels long time ago.

Andy had picked up an earth green gauntlet with a fist-shape amulet wrapped around it. “I’m quite surprised you hadn’t notice these gauntlets, Joey. You’re a fan of Dragon Booster, right?”

“I like the dragons in the show, not the Boosters,” Joseph stated as he turned and saw the gauntlet he held. “But still, my favorite ones were the Gold and Black one.”

Gary frown, “They’re the only one known in that old show so far.” He reached and picked up the ruby fire red gauntlet, “I prefer the fire one.”

“No surprised there, while I prefer the energy blue,” Albertis said as he picked up the blue gauntlet.

Joseph chuckled as he picked up the obsidian black gauntlet, “Well, the black one is my first favorite, gold is second. But I’ll get them both.” He sets them with the ones he plans to get.

Discord continued to watch the four brothers decide what they’re buying, after a moment he got a confused look, “What happened to most of those items anyways?” From watching this whole memory play out, Discord had noticed a few odd things, like certain items that the four brothers plan to buy, and he recognized quite a few, but several other items are either unknown to him or something.

The merchant started to count the price total for the items Andracus was getting, and once done, he said, “Now then, the price of the items with today’s bargain sale, it comes to $168.75 dollars.”

“Great,” Andy said with a smile as he pulls out his wallet and pulled out amount of cash, and while he did, the merchant was putting the items into a bag. He then paid the merchant and then took the bag of items he bought, “Thank you.”

Albertis was next; he had his wallet out and waited for the merchant to tally up the price of items he was getting.

“With the today’s bargain, the price of your items is $67.98 dollars.”

“Here’s seventy dollars then, keep the change,” Albert said as he handed the cash to the merchant, and then accepted the bag of items he had bought.

Gary had waited for his turn, and had pulled out his wallet while the merchant counted up the total.

“Yours is worth about $127.82 dollars.”

“Sweet, here ya go,” Gary said as he paid the price and took hold of the big of items.

“My turn,” Joseph said with an eager look, had pulled out his wallet to pay for the total of items he plans to buy.

“And yours come to… $225.25 dollars.”

“Dang man,” Joseph said as he opened his wallet, and pulled out amount of cash. “I’m sure glad that today was the bargain day.”

The merchant accepted the cash with a smile, “You four were just lucky today. So enjoy your purchases.”

Josephiroth smiled as he held the big bag of items he bought, “Oh I’m sure I will.”

Just as it seems that the four guys were about to go, the merchant spoke out, “Wait just a minute.” He was reaching for something under the table for something, the four brothers just watch him in confusion. The merchant pulls out something, a black square box. “Since you four are the first buyers who came to my stall, take these.”

The four brothers went and lean close to see what’s in the box, the merchant opens the lid and inside it were four colorful spheres. The four spheres looked a bit similar to snow globes of sorts, and each one is of colors, reddish orange, brownish green, aquatic blue, and lastly, clear white.

“Spheres?” asked Joseph, just looking at the items with a confused look.

“What are these?” Andy asked as he looked to the merchant.

“Oh just some decorations, had thought that you four seem like good boys, I’m giving these to you for free,” the merchant said with a smile.

“Eh, fine with me,” Joseph said as he picked up the clear sphere orb. After feeling it, “Kinda feels like glass.”

“Huh,” Gary said as he held the reddish orange sphere. “Kinda warm though.”

“Probably because it’s been in the box for a long while,” Joseph said as he put the clear orb into his pocket.

Andy had picked up the brownish green and put it in his pocket, and Albert had taken the aquatic blue one as well. The merchant only smiled as he then put the box away.

“Well then, let’s get going before the roads get busy,” Andracus said, and just as they were about to go onward.

“Wait a second,” Joseph said, his brothers turned to him; Joseph was looking at something at the back of the merchant’s stall. He pointed with his free hand, “What’s that?”

The merchant turned around to look at what he was pointing, so did Joseph’s brothers. Discord continued to watch as the merchant indicated a set of trinkets, things that made Discord’s eyes widen in shock.

“Why these are…” the merchant about to say.

“The Elements of Harmony?!” Discord yelled, the merchant had said the same name and was still speaking. Discord though was focus towards the four brothers, “Oh please tell me this isn’t true! That the elements originated from… wait a minute?” Now he became confused, “I thought those stupid gems came from that crystal tree?”

“No not those, I meant that one beside them, that big plushie,” Joseph said as he still pointed.

The merchant turned and picked up the plushie and brought it into the light so everyone could see. It was a plushie of the Spirit of Chaos, Discord the Draconequus.

“Me?” asked Discord, sounded surprised as he watched the memory played out.

“I thought so, it is Discord,” Joseph smiled as he looks at it. “I want to get it too.” He set his bag of items down and reached into his pocket and pulled out his wallet.

“Why do you want to get that jigsaw thing?” Gary asked.

“Not a jigsaw, he’s more of a unique being, and quite loveable too,” Joseph replied with a smile.

“He’s worth about $20 dollars,” the merchant said as he looked to Joseph. Joseph paid him twenty dollars for the Discord plushie.

“Still looks like a jigsaw puzzle to me,” Gary said as he looked at the new plushie that his little brother bought.

Joseph had picked up his bag after pocketing his wallet and took hold of the Discord plushie. “Well he isn’t, he’s a fun guy from my little pony show.”

“Oh yeah, you’re a brony,” Albert said as they were walking away together, heading to the front exit.

“Heh, thought it was because Discord was voiced by John de Lancie,” Andracus said as they walked through the front doors.

“Who?” Joseph asked as he looked confused at his older brother.

“John de Lancie,” he said again, only getting a confused look from his brother once more. “The guy who played as Q in Star Trek?”

“I still don’t know who that is, and I’m not a Star Trek fan,” Joseph stated as they go. “I like Discord because he’s awesome and adorable.”

Discord smiled as he looks down at him, “I like you too, buddy.” He smiled as he leaned down to hug him, but only phase through as the four brothers headed onward to the parking lot. “Oh yeah, this is only a memory.”

He followed behind, and watched the four brothers putting all their bought items into the back of their van, just right behind the two center seats. Once packed up, Andracus went to sit in the driver’s seat; Albertis went and sat in the passenger seat in front. And both Garico and Josephiroth sat in the center seats in the back.

Discord phased through the back part of the vehicle, getting in so to watch what the four brothers will do next. He smiled as he watches, looking towards Garico as he pulls out his iPhone and was doing something on it. Then he looked to Josephiroth, and saw him reaching behind his seat, trying to grab one of the items he brought.

“Heh, if I knew you were in the mood, my little human, I’ll,” he snickered with a grin, considering this was a memory, the Air Spirit’s hand only phased through Discord’s groin area. But eventually he pulls his hand back, clutching the new helmet he bought, Shredder’s helmet.

He smiled as he examines it, slowly he then removed the mouth guard and then he puts the helmet onto his head. Once on, he puts the mouth guard on, and as soon as it connected. “It fits,” he said with a chuckle.

Garico turned to him, and considering Joseph still wore his eyeglasses, he chuckled, “Oh look, a Shredder Geek.”

Joseph frowns at him, “Oh shut up, Gary.” Garico only chuckled as he went back to his iPhone.

After a moment, Joseph once more reaches for something behind his seat, a black backpack. He took hold of it, and pulled it over to him. He opens it and pulls out his laptop and turned it on and started to type away.

It started to get quiet, only the radio was playing as Andracus was still driving the van down the road, going by other vehicles.

After what it felt like ten minutes, Josephiroth had stopped typing and was sniffing the air, “Odd, why do I smell smoke?”

“Don’t know, hey Andy, can you turn down the heat? It’s getting hot back here,” Gary called over to him.

“Hot back there? It’s getting cold for me,” Albert said as he turned to look, and gawked in shock. “You’re on fire!”

“What?!” yelled both Joseph and Gary, they both turned and saw Garico’s left side pants pocket was indeed on fire.

“Holy shit!” yelled Gary as he tried to pat it down.

“Bloody hell!” yelled Joseph as he had just closed his laptop and stuffed into his backpack, and pulled out a soda bottle. Gary was moving around, trying snuff out the fire that’s burning his pants. “Hold still!” he yelled as he opened the bottle and tried to pour the content onto the fire.

But some reason the bottle just fell out of his grip, and he was holding it one second ago. And after it hit the floor, he looked and saw that his hand looked transparent. He screamed in shock.

“What is happening?!” yelled Andy as he tried push the breaks, but his legs frozen into place. “Gah! I c-c-c-can’t move!” His whole body was turning into greenish stone color. “Oh gooo…” his mouth became still as solid stone as he couldn’t move.

“What the hell is going on!?” yelled Albert, and he tried to grip the steering wheel, but it didn’t budge from Andy’s grip. And worse hit, he was getting colder, than he saw that his hands went goopy like, melting off the steering wheel. His eyes widen in terrified shock.

Discord watches the four brothers struggled in intense fear as they each were being consumed. His eyes widen as he watched the horrific event that was happening upon the four brothers. Their van bumping into other vehicles as it continued at a fast pace.

Garico was screaming in fear and agony as his body was consumed in flames, and the fire has spread around. Josephiroth was yelling in fear as his body seem to be fading, and then screaming as he felt the agony of the burning flame.

Albertis was melting, he tried to do something, but he was slowly becoming a puddle, and water pouring around him too. And Andracus could only move his eyes, and watched his brothers struggle in agony, he felt despair for he couldn’t move to help.

Discord was really wishing he wasn’t here watching this, throughout his life; he hadn’t saw beings just inches away from death, especially through this agonizing display before him. One thing went through his thoughts as he watched on, ‘No wonder they never talked about this event…’

A sound of a train was heard near, and the van was nearing the train tracks too. Garico and Albertis never noticed as they both struggled in fright as they tried to stop such terrible chaos. Andracus heard and was trying very hard to move just to stop the van.

And Josephiroth was the only one who could talk, and he was yelling in fear, “OH SHIT OH SHIT!” He tried to move forward, tried to get pass the flames just to try to reach for where the breaks handle. His body just phased through the seatbelt and he tried to move while he felt his body was burning. He tried to reach for it.

He screamed as their van came upon the tracks, and then train bashed hard into the side. The scream continued as the van exploded, bursting into flames. And with that came a blinding flash of light.

As the flash of light ended, Discord slowly opened his eyes, and was greeted by the sight of the dark forest, with foggy skies and trees spread about. He groans a bit, his eyes closed for a moment.

Watching his old friends experiencing something like that, he wishes he could forget. Discord does love his chaos, the fun kind. But what he had witness, something so deadly-like, gave him a bit of a shiver. He knew that it was because of the merchant that the four brothers came to his world, but never knew how those four had experienced it while it happened.

Opening his eyes, he looked downward as he spoke, “Joseph?”

He had then noticed that the dream version of him was missing, starting to feel worried, he turned his head around, looking to where he went.

And he saw him, running away, obviously in fear, and sounds of whimper. Discord watched him go; he knew that he’ll likely do the same just to escape such a dreadful nightmare. He then started to chase after him, trying to catch up.

“Lord Josephiroth, help us.”

Discord halted, had heard of a new voice. Then he started to notice shadows of beings around the landscape, in several of spots. Each one taking a form of any creature, and speaking in different voices.

“Whatever you come up with, you can count me in.”

Discord realized what it was, “More memories of old friends and foes he had encountered long ago, merely quotes and wording.”

“If we don’t think the needs of the whole team, people will get hurt, even killed.”

Discord listened, but turned and try to find where his friend was, and saw him continue running in this dark forest. Discord started to run after, and as he goes, he heard voices of memories speaking out.

“My people have a saying, ‘Seek the enemy of your enemy, and you will find a friend.’”

“Your courage for my people will be remembered.”

“You won’t be alone in your fight.”

“Lord Josephiroth, we Changelings do not wish you harm. You are the ally against the Alicorns of Madness.”

“I want you to know, I’m willing to do what is necessary.”

“I’m marching into whatever dark pit you want, but not with a fake smile on my face. Nothing positive about grinning like an idiot.”

Just as Discord came close to catching hold of the fleeing human, the man just vanished from his sight. Blinking in shock, he turned and looked around, trying to spot where he was, till he saw where he was, and starting to head towards him, running slowly in this dark nightmare. And it felt like these shadows of beings were slowing him down.

“It is so much easier to see both black and white; gray, I don’t know what to do with gray.”

“I lived a full life, no regrets; I like to make sure the team get the same opportunity.”

“Good, get it out of the way so we can concentrate on being alicorn-damn heroes.”

“I’m sorry…”

“Joey, excellent timing, good to have you here.”

“I beg you… do not do this… please.”

“I know not how this would end, but I will not back down, I can’t. Face me in single combat Josephiroth, let me die with honor.”

“Josephiroth is my Elemental Lord, he has no match.”

“It has reminded me of what is truly important, why I swore to lay down my life.”

“Some souls die in battle, some die in their sleep, and some die for no reason at all.”

And then the whole area became shrouded in darkness, losing sight on everything. Discord was now looking around, trying to spot where he was in world of darkness. Then he heard more voices spoke out.

“In the darkest hour, there is always way out.”

“Pretty soon, blind hope is all we’ll have left… and I hate being blind.”

“There is no reason to exist other than hope that the next day will bring change. And if it doesn’t, there is always the next.”

“An illuminating one, you learn to appreciate the light by living in the dark.”

“It only takes one candle to light a fire. And then the darkness is no more.”

“As the fear in the Titans rose, mine was place by hope.”

“Joseph… in the darkness, fires of hope will set us free.”

Discord felt something against his left hoof foot, and looked down and spotted a lantern. Seeing that it just appeared likely needed to help him in this dark nightmare. He reached down and took hold of it, and with the turn of a knob on the sight, light started to shown on the inside.

Its light started to reveal the surroundings within the darkness, and saw horrors mixed with memories. The skies was still shrouded in darkness, but the shadow beings that linger around became what looks like skeletons of various creatures, a skeleton of an alicorn, ponies, dragons, changelings, anything. And their voices continued to speak out.

“One day there will be payback, for all that my people had suffered, one of us will see that day.”

“So much space, walls of stone. It’s amazing, I wish my friends could see it, I wish Joey was here.”

“I just want to know, is the person I follow to Tartarus and back still in there, somewhere?”

“Lord Josephiroth, my kind only acted in defense, after the ponies attacked, do we deserve death?”

“You must be Elemental Lord, Josephiroth; I heard we got a country to save.”

“I don’t have what you do, that fire that makes someone willing to follow you into Tartarus itself.”

“I understand… Good Luck Joseph, I hope we will see each other again.”

Soon he finally caught sight of where his friend was, and he was being comforted by a big dragon skeleton that seems to just coil around him, humming a tune. Discord started to head over to them, and as he goes, voices continued to speak out.

“You’re picking that thing over us?!”

“I’m still with you Joseph; I make mistakes, like everyone else.”

“You are a great protector, but some things are beyond even you.”

“There seems to be no one to mourn me when I die, you’re the only friend I made in two-hundred years.”

“Won’t do you any good…”

“It was nothing I could’ve handled…”

“Are you here to kill me?”

“When war is on everyone’s minds, all the people are on edge.”

“Does this drone have a soul?”

“Farewell Josephiroth.”

As Discord neared the big dragon skeleton, the humming noise sounded peaceful and motherly. But as the light of the lantern came near, the dragon skeleton started to fade away from the light. Once gone, Joseph’s body was revealed, he was sitting on the ground, hugging his legs to himself.

When the humming had ended, the human’s head rose up; Joseph was now gazing up at Discord. He started to rise up till he was standing on his feet, looking up at Discord with a blank expression.

Discord looks down to the human, a small smile, “Remember me, pal…” He stopped speaking as the human’s body was started to get covered in flames.

His eyes widen as he watched the human was fully engulf in flames, in fear of losing him again in this dreadful nightmare. He tried to reach out to grab him, but in the same instance, a flash of light blinded Discord. He covered his eyes to block out the light.

“Why did you betray us, Celestia?!” yelled a familiar voice that stood near Discord.

The Spirit of Chaos slowly opened his eyes and saw that this area was another memory. Before him lay the wide grasslands which were riddled with scars of battles old, close to being a wasteland. And just happens to be the very area where, after so many decades of healing, this land would one day become Ponyville.

There have been a few mountains around this area as well, while in the present time had only one or two mountains. And right now, before Discord’s very eyes, a battle was waging.

Four armored beings were standing at different spots across this battlefield, and each one of them was glaring upon the being that stood in the center, Princess Celestia.

And as Discord gaze upon Celestia, reminded him of how gorgeous she was over a millennia ago. She stood about nine feet and two inches tall, the tallest Alicorn of the past time. She has a white coat with a hint of pink, and her mane and tail is magnificently long with the colors of pink, violet, green, and cyan eternal. Her anthro body shape was like an hourglass, is more slender-like, but yet muscular. She wore a lovely white silk dress that nearly covered her legs, except the front area, which revealed light purple skirt. She wore golden horse shoes on her hooves, golden armor fauld belt, and she wore golden shoulder armor along with a big breastplate, for the big alicorn has a big breasts size, around H-cup size, likely thanks to her healthy lifestyle, and her size, but good thing that their covered by the white silk dress and golden breastplate armor. She wore golden wrist guards, and in her right hand she held a golden staff with a sun pattern on the top part, it is the same length as her height, and she wore a golden tiara on her head, and a golden necklace with a sapphire blue jewel in the middle. Being an alicorn, she has a two feet long horn on the center of her forehead, and her wings are huge and magnificent, spread out long, at least over sixteen feet wide these angelic wings are. Her mane is as long and flowing, nearly reaching her knee level and her tail is just as long, and both mane and tail seem to be flowing through the wind, yet there was no breeze. And her eyes are purple-pink, like lovely jewels. She stood in a stance as a warrior, her staff in her right hand, clench tight and ready, while her eyes focus towards one of the armored beings with anger and hints of disappointment.

It didn’t help that Discord just kept looking at her chest area, till he covered his eyes and shook his head to look away. He turned to look at the four armored spirits, the Elemental Lords.

To the west of Celestia stood a seven feet tall metal armored warrior, Andracus. He with the power over the element earth, and the skills of a blacksmith and with a very wise brain fills with knowledge. His armor was crafted by him alone, just to match the helmet he had gotten from that convention, he wore his own design of the Master Chief’s Spartan. In his hands though were the Blades of Exile, the chains wrapped around his armored wrists, and he stood in a way that he was ready to charge upon the Princess.

To the south of the Sun Princess was the six feet tall armored warrior, Garico. He with the power over the element of fire and the aid of earth lord that crafted his armor, he wore a fiery ruby red chest-plate, pauldrons on his shoulders, gauntlets, leg-guards and fauld. Connected his shoulders was a long greenish red cape. His head was visible, his wavy greenish hair and blue eyes, he was glaring at Princess Celestia, and in his left arm he held the Hyrule Shield, and his right hand clenched the Master Sword.

To the east stood the six feet and four inches tall aquatic blue armor warrior, Albertis. He is the Elemental Lord of Water and with the aid of his allies and brethren, had crafted the armor of Lagiacrus. With the twelve powerful talismans crafted into his armor, he has no need for weapons.

Lastly to the north stand the six feet and four inches tall green with red lining armored warrior, Josephiroth. His armor was forged by a friend that was design to look similar to the Shredder’s armor, just so his helmet would fit right in, just without spikes. The Air Elemental Lord, a friend too many beings, bears the symbol of dragon royalty on his armor, and wrapped around his neck was a very long dark blue scarf with a crescent moon and stars pattern. Gripping in his right hand was a large broadsword of a katana, the legendary tessaiga.

These four armored beings were known as the Elemental Lords, Guardians to World, and heroes to the races. Each one wields the power of an element, and together they had taken down mightiest of foes. Together, these four beings were known as the Spirits of Order, Discord’s opposites.

Discord had recalled that these four had stalled him long enough till the point Princess Celestia and Princess Luna had gathered the Elements of Harmony and turned him to stone. Discord knew something that they didn’t, something that Celestia herself hid from them. And right now, Discord can guess why they’re angry towards Celestia.
Andracus had charge forward, running at her like a freight train. When he neared, he leaped to slash forward with his two blades.

With quick reflexes, Celestia blocked his blow with her staff, her hooves pressed to the ground firmly so not to be pushed. Right around that same time, Garico had rushed forward to strike her with his blade. Celestia had sensed him coming, and with force of her hooves she leaped upwards and took flight.

And nearly right into the waiting slash downward of Josephiroth’s tessaiga, but she had blocked it and with her own strength, swung him with her staff. As he flew through the air, he quickly flipped around and stabilized himself, floating in the air. Being the Air Elemental Lord had given him the power of flight. And with it, he surges upward, than dived down upon her, tried to use her own sun to blind her.

Celestia shook her head, and then her horn glow a golden yellow color before she teleported herself in the last second. Blinded by the flash, Josephiroth went and collided into his brothers, both of which had leaped upwards to try to strike her, but had been struck by Josephiroth instead.

As the trio collided into the ground, Celestia had reappeared in the air. She stared down at the trio of brothers, all of whom were getting back up.

She was then blasted from behind by a fire blast, in annoyance she turned to see who, and had quickly dodged as Albertis tried to punch her hard in the snout. The Water Elemental was using the power of his talismans as he tried to strike her. Celestia just kept dodging though, trying to avoid his strikes before with precise blow of her staff, she struck him with a downward strike, sending him downward into the ground by the tree brothers.

Garico went to help Albertis up while Celestia descended back to the ground, but further away from the four.

“Okay, who trained her in the arts of combat?” asked Garico, glaring at her.

“Sorry,” said Joseph, also still glaring at her.

Andracus then shouted, “Why did you betray us, Celestia?!”

“I did not betray anyone, Andracus,” Celestia stated as she looked at the four with anger mixed with disappointment in her eyes. “You four had betrayed me and my homeland.”

“No we haven’t you bitch!” Albertis shouted, pointed at her.

“I’m not a dog, Albertis,” she said as she frowns at them. “You all were willing to leave your home to go back to where you don’t belong. You four belong here, Equestria is your home.”

“No it is not! Our true home is on earth and you know that!” yelled Garico as all four brothers were seemed to be ready to charge toward. “Your father promised us a way to get home, how can you deny your father that promise?”

Celestia glared, “Because I didn’t made that promise, and don’t bring him into this. My father is gone, my mother is gone. You four are my closes friends and yet you all planned to abandon me and Luna. How can you be mad at me for doing what is right?”

“Right?” asked Josephiroth, started to sound annoyed. “You tricked us and our friends to betray another…”

“You four are Order Spirits, Discord is Chaos, it is destined that you were to do battle against him. He wasn’t truly your friend,” Celestia stated.

“You’re wrong,” Andracus said to her. “That wasn’t destiny. That was manipulation!”

“Discord was a buddy of mine, and I still hate myself for helping you turn him to stone,” Josephiroth said, still glaring at her.

“I’m sorry you four feel that way for the abomination,” Celestia said with anger. “But he was going to bring chaos and disharmony to my ponies, I cannot allow that. And as well I cannot allow you four to leave us. Me, my sister, and all of your friends, it was best that you four never knew and accepted your fate!”

“Our destiny is not of this, we are not your knights! We have our own life, and we wanted to go home, back to our love ones!” yelled Albertis. “We’ve waited for years Celestia, we’re tired of all this, we just want to go home.”

“You are home,” Celestia stated. “Why can’t you all just see it?”

“No it isn’t, our time in this world had ended a long time ago. We’re no longer needed, and we want to go back home, to our own kind,” Josephiroth said as he pointed his blade toward her. “But now, we can’t, because of you! You sealed Discord in stone because you feared him, instead of trying to befriend him.”

“Discord is not your friend, he was only using you four as playthings!” yelled Celestia, looking to them, still with the look of pity and sadness in her eyes.

“I had met Discord ever since he was a child, back then he was never a chaos spirit. Now he had become one, and you know what he did?” he said, looking to her. “He tried to warn us about your betrayal, seeing all the signs he had shown, and his promises to help us get home. He had the power to do it.”

“And yet you view him as a friend, were you willing to abandon him as much as you planned to do so with me?” she asked, looking to him. “You, who try to make friends with everyone you meet, are you willing to abandon everyone?”

The air elemental lord was silent, looking downward, in shame of such. His brothers though, were still glaring at her.

“Everyone knew we hoped to return home, everyone did,” yelled Andracus, which made Josephiroth realized and nodded to him.

“You betrayed us because you want to use us, just to benefit your nation,” Garico stated.

“I did not betray you! I love you! I don’t want to lose you all,” Celestia yelled, shedding some tears. Then slowly steeled herself, and she gripped her staff in both hands. Her wings spread out to show of intimidation, “But if you four can’t see it, then I will have no choice but to punish you! So please! Just stop this nonsense, and come back home with me!”

Each brother only glared, Josephiroth held his tessaiga in both hands. Andracus tighten his grip on his blades, and Garico raised his shield up, and Albertis was getting ready to use the power of the dragon talisman.

Celestia glared in anger and sadness, had stopped shedding tears. “So be it,” she said, her eyes started to glow white light while her horn glow golden. Gripping the staff with her right hand, she swung it forward, the top sun part pointing towards the four. And with it, she sent forth a solar flare towards them.

“Whoa!” yelled Josephiroth as he and Albertis quickly leaped up in the air to dodge it. Andracus stomped hard into the ground and pushed up a stone wall that burst out of the ground ahead of him, he tried to use it to block the blast. Garico only raised his shield.

The flare struck the stone wall and bashed through, it consumed both Andracus and Garico. As the intense heat of the legendary sun blast, Solar Flare, started to lessen, revealing Andracus had been knocked hard into the ground, surrounded by ashes. And as for Garico, he was already; being the Elemental Lord of Fire had granted him the immunity of such intense heat.

Albertis used the Rabbit Talisman to move at sonic speed, and with the Ox Talisman to strengthen himself, he appeared right in front of Celestia and started to rapidly punch into her. Celestia had tried to block most of the blows, but quite many had struck her in the thighs, stomach and arms, also her wings. He continued his barrage of attacks.

Josephiroth dive down upon her with his tessaiga raised, and upon swinging downward, he yelled, “Wind Scar!”

Swinging forth, he sends forth a blast wave of demonic air strikes downward, heading towards the duo. Just as the blast wave about to collide, Celestia’s horn glowed and she quickly teleported herself away.

Josephiroth came to land by the smoking area, and within moments, he saw his brother. Albertis had gotten up, his armor looked wrecked up, and a few talismans are missing.

“What the hell?!” he yelled at him.

“Oops, sorry, just thought that the dog talisman would protect you,” Joseph said, smiled sheepishly.

Albertis glared, and the visor hole started to glow red while the pig talisman started to glow.

“Oh crud!” yelled Josephiroth as he turned around and tried to flee, but got zapped hard in the rear by Albertis’s eye-laser. “Ow!”

Albertis chased after him for a time, till they both rejoined up with Garico and Andracus. Andracus had moved near Josephiroth.

“Question, how come you didn’t use the Backlash Wave when she did the Solar Flare?” Andracus asked his little brother, sounded annoyed.

“Because it was too powerful and I never learned how to use it,” Josephiroth stated.

In annoyance, Andracus raised his right hand, formed a fist over the air lord’s head, and then hammered down hard, sounding a loud bonk.

“Ow!” groaned Josephiroth as he tried to adjust his helmet.

“Guys, while you were harming Joey, where did Celestia go?” Garico asked while looking around.

As Josephiroth continued to adjust his helmet, Andracus and Albertis looked around. Once he did, he used his power over the air, trying to sense where the sun princess was. Once he did, he looked upwards, his sword clenched in his right hand.

“She’s right there,” he said, gaining the attention of his brothers. Each of them turned and looked up at where Celestia was; each of them got their weapons at the ready.

Celestia was floating in place as her wings continued to flap, her right hand still clenching her staff. While her horn was glowing in a golden aura, revealing six gems that floated around her body.

“Heh, you know those elements will not work on us!” yelled Garico as he pointed his blade upwards.

“Those elements are design to bring balance, not to be used as your own personal weapon,” Andracus stated.

“Please stop!” yelled Celestia. “Don’t make me do this, just drop your weapons, just come home.” She begged, looking down at them.

“We are already balanced, the elements will not work on us,” Albertis stated as he pointed at her.

“We helped create them in the first place, remember?” asked Josephiroth, still holding his tessaiga in his right hand at the ready.

Till he got bonked in the head by Garico’s shield, “We didn’t create the elements, we grew the tree.”

Josephiroth grunted in annoyance as he set his helmet with his free hand back in place, “What’s the difference… oh never mind!” He glared up at Celestia, “If you dare use those elements, Celestia, alone as well, you will be too exhausted and be at our mercy. Are you willing to risk that?”

Celestia was shedding tears, sighed and focus with her magic, “I am sorry, but you four must be brought to harmony.” And with that, she focuses with all her power, her horn glowed brighter and causing all six elements to glow brightly and spin around her.

Her body started to radiate a rainbow-like aura, and started surround herself in some kind of a barrier. With focus, the star gem was put in the middle while the five gems floating around it. The beams of magical energy surge from the five gems into the sixth one.

The elements were working, which shocked the four Elemental Lords. “How is that possible? She is not honest!” demanded Garico, he raised his shield.

“Nor is she loyal!” said Albertis.

Bursting forth from the star gem of magic come the harmonic rainbow blast, heading towards the four spirits.

“It won’t work on us because we are united,” said Andracus, he held his blades at the ready. “We shall not be broken.”

Discord continued to watch as the memory played out, the four brothers standing together, facing against a powerful foe. Admirable they were, defying the Sun Princess and full on belief that the Elements of Harmony would not defeat them.

He watched as the rainbow blast went and consumed all four brothers, forming into a tornado of magical energy. And he saw by the outline of the four brothers, each of them was turned into stone, just like Discord was been before.

As it soon ended, the light of harmony’s rainbow faded revealed four brand new statues of the Elemental Lords. Celestia descended from the skies, her energy exhausted from using the elements alone. As soon as she landed, her horn stopped glowing, and the six gems fell down onto the ground, scattering around a bit.

Celestia also dropped her staff and slowly went over to the four statues, still shedding some tears as she looked down upon them.

“I’m so sorry, I wished there was a better way, but it was the only way to stop your rage,” she said as she looked down upon them. “Maybe in time, you four will fully accept this world as your home…” Her eyes slowly widen as she saw the four statues were slowly vibrating.

Cracks started to appear all over the four statues, and then voices were heard from within, or more like, through the mind, like telepathy, Celestia appeared to not hear their thoughts as she watched the cracks appearing.

‘We are united,’ Andracus said as cracks appeared on his stone-covered helmet.

‘We shall not be broken,’ said Albertis as cracks started to show on his stone-covered arms.

‘We are a balanced force,’ Garico said as cracks started to show on his stone-covered torso.

‘Together, we are in Harmony!’ yelled Josephiroth as cracks appeared on his stone-covered legs.

Discord’s eyes widen as he realized what happened and what is likely requires in the present time. “The Spirits of Order can easily break free as long as they’re united, no wonder my magic wouldn’t break him free,” he said as he watched, than he smiled; hopefully get to watch the fight continue once more when the four spirits break free.

Sadly, Celestia had realized it as well, and discovered a way to prevent them from breaking free. Her horn glowed golden, and her magical aura had surrounded the statue of the Air Spirit. And then with a flash of her magic, she had teleported him.

Considering this was his memory, the flash blinded Discord as well as the scene had changed. Discord had covered his eyes, and when the flash ended, he opened them and saw that the land he now stood in was the Royal Statue Garden, one of many gardens that are within the walls of the old Castle of the Royal Pony Sisters.

And it was silent, till he started to hear mental shouts from the new statue that had appeared in the landscape.

‘No... No! No no no no no! This cannot be!’ yelled Josephiroth, no cracks appeared, now just a complete stone statue with a few cracks on the legs. ‘BROTHERS! ANDY! ALBERT! GARY!’ He tried to call for them, but there was no reply.

He continued to shout, yell, and scream for them. It continued on that felt like hours, while no one had heard his plea.

All except Discord, who kept watching as this memory, play out. He watched as any ponies who work in the castle grounds, such as guards or servants and maids just continued on with their duties, like they hadn’t notice a new statue had just appeared. Or if they did, those memory constructs likely assumed it was a newly made statue.

Any who did came near the statue either just looked up at the statue, or bow down in respect, or continued on with their duties.

The memory continued to play out, as Josephiroth’s mental ranting slowly tired, but slowly in came his cries.

Discord just stood by the statue of his old friend, couldn’t do anything for this was only just a memory playing out.

Then as it go, with the sun being set and the moon rises. The sighting of two Royal Princesses was entering the Royal Statue Garden. Celestia in the lead, but behind her was Princess Luna.

To Discord as he sees them, Celestia was gorgeous, while Luna was beautiful as well.

The Moon Princess wasn’t as tall as the Sun Princess, being her younger sister; she stood about seven feet and eight inches tall. Her body fur coat is dark blue; and her mane and tail is long and is moderate sapphire blue with a grayish persian blue aura surrounding, with little white sparkles in her mane that make it look like stars were there. Unlike her sister, her body is more slender build, but yet muscular. She was wearing a blue shoulder-less long-sleeved shirt with black lining, and white crescent moon symbols on the wrists, and her breasts that were covered by the shirt, while not the same size as Celestia, more around D-cup size. She wore a blue long-skirt with a crescent moon symbol on the top central black lining, and the bottom of her skirt had cloud-like black pattern with white sparkles for stars and white crescent moon symbol. She wore sapphire blue horse shoes on her hooves, and obsidian black necklace with a diamond white crescent moon symbol in the middle. She has an obsidian black tiara on her head, right behind her foot long horn. Being an alicorn, she has wings as well, which were currently folded down on her back, but if they were spread out, they were around eight to ten feet wide. Her mane and tail isn’t as long as her sister’s, her mane reaches down to her waist, and her tail is just as long, and both of which seem to have the same effect Celestia has, seem to be flowing with a wind, yet there was no breeze. She has lovely moderate cyan colored eyes, and she has light sapphire blue eye shadows.

Her eyes widen in surprised as she gaze upon the statue after she and her sister stepped into the garden. She walked over to it, and checks it out, not hearing the mental thoughts of Josephiroth trapped within.

‘Luna, can you hear me?’ the trapped Air Spirit called out to her through thought.

“I see the stonecutters had finished making the statue of Joey, what about the others?” asked Luna as she turned to her sister.

“They are still working on them, they had finished this one first and sent it ahead of time,” Celestia said with a little smile. “Do you like it, dear sister?”

Luna smiled widely, “I love it!” She turned to look back at the statue, “They really caught his battle-stance, it looks like would leap right into action upon the sighting of a foe.” She was moving around the statue, feeling it with her hands. Seeing the scarf too, she smiled, “They even added the details of the token I had given to him, must’ve taken those ponies long hours just to get it just right.”

“Oh I’m sure, and as I recall, he never took off such a wonderful gift,” Celestia said as she moved closer to her sister.

“I hope Joey will come visit me tonight, I’m sure he would love to see it,” Luna smiled as she felt the stone scarf. “Those ponies must have a good memory, for it usually takes hours with him posing in place.”

The sun princess sighed, “Sadly sister, he won’t be visiting tonight.”

Luna stopped touching the helmet part and turned to her older sister. Confused she asked, “What do you mean, sister?”

Celestia looked to her sadly, “They had gone home.”

“Home?” asked Luna, slowly moved away from the statue, looking to her sister. “You mean back to their fortresses? They did have a hard time restoring order after what the chaos creature had caused.”

“No sister,” Celestia shook her head. “They’ve gone home.”

After a moment, it clicked in Luna’s mind on what Celestia was saying. Her eyes widen as her confused expression changed to sadness, tears started to show. “No…” she whispered.

Celestia closed her eyes slowly and looked down, this made Luna realized it fully.

“No!” Luna cried out and just leaped upwards, her wings spread out and she flew away.

“Luna!” called out her sister, the sun princess was watching her go, flying up to one of the tall towers of their castle home.

Luna most likely headed to her bedroom, upset by the news. Celestia was now alone in the statue garden.

“She loved you, you know,” she quietly said, slowly turned to look at the statue. “I hope you’re happy,” and with that, she turned and walked away.

Discord had still been watching this whole memory play out, and he was quite shock on what he had witness. Celestia lied to her own sister, had done it in a way to punish the Air Spirit.

Discord heard the mental thoughts of the now sad air spirit, ‘Luna, I’m sorry…’

The memory started to play onward, the days and nights in the scene was going by fast. Kinda reminded Discord when he used his magic to spin the whole wide world to make it look like the day and night were going too fast, he chuckled at the memory, and thought of doing it again to mess with the ponies.

It just kept going, among the seconds it showed ponies visiting the garden, guards patrolling, workers cleaning statues, dignitaries admiring the statue, visitors, and other creatures that come with the ambassadors.

Eventually, the time skip came to an end, to when it appeared to be night time in the summer. All was quiet within the Royal Statue Garden. Even the Air Spirit trapped in stone was quiet, couldn’t even sleep for his eyes are locked in such state.

After a moment though, Discord had notice something in the sky, some kind of stream of white light energy spiraling downward. It eventually landed behind one of the regular anthro pony statues. It didn’t crash or bash, only made a sound of a loud crack.

As the light faded, two beings stood at where it happened.

One of them was an old anthro unicorn pony, while the other is a young, teenage anthro hippogriff, both males.

The old pony stood about five feet and eight inches tall, he has a slightly muscular body but with a little potbelly. He has light gray coat body, but he mostly wore blue robe-coat with yellow stars and white crescent moon patterns, yellow bells lining at the bottom and up the middle. His hooves were visible, light gray colored as well. He also wore a wizard hat with the same patterns as his robe, with yellow bells round the edges and one single bell at the pointy end. His mane is white as a cloud and reaches his shoulder, his beard is longer, nearly reached his waist, he has a tail but it is hidden by his robe. His eyes were brilliant gold, with small round eyeglasses in front of them, and he was gazing at the statue.

As for the hippogriff, he stood about four feet tall, young and slightly slender and yet a little muscular body. His body fur is moderate gamboge color, and his head, neck, and shoulder feathers are black, he has brilliant gold talons and his beak, his wings are the same color. He wore what looks like a black coat with a red shirt underneath, dark blue pants. He has hooves for feet, which were the same color as most of his body, and his tail was showing a black pony tail. His head feathers were a bit messy, close to flat-like, and he wore round eyeglasses, and his eyes were emerald green. There was also a mark on the right side of his forehead. The kid looked surprised and seems to try to regain his balance.

Discord continued to watch as the scene played out, curious on what’s about to happen next.

‘Apparition?’ asked Josephiroth in thought, sounded surprised. ‘Oh Starswirl you ole fool, don’t tell me you forgot that spell is forbidden in Equestria?’ Sounded like he would’ve face-palmed too.

“We just apparated, didn’t we?” asked the hippogriff.

“Yes, and quite successfully too, I might add.” Starswirl chuckled with a small smile, slowly turned to the hippogriff. “Most people vomit the first time.” He was then looking around, making sure not to be sighted.

The hippogriff was groaning a bit, “Can’t imagine why…”

Starswirl started to walk forward, after making sure there were no guards around. As he goes, the hippogriff started to follow. And as they neared, the trapped air spirit had a better view on the forehead, the mark of a lightning bolt.

‘Is that who I think it is?’ thought the trapped being.

“Professor, um, where are we?” asked the hippogriff.

Starswirl was looking around, “We’re in a type of garden, look around and tell me of where you think we are.”

The hippogriff did and had looked at the surrounded, after a moment, his eyes widen and he turned to look at the castle building. “We’re in the Castle of the Royal Pony Sisters?” asked the boy, sounded surprised.

“Indeed Harry, and know that this isn’t the main destination we needed to be. There is something that I first need to do here,” Starswirl say as he walked on.

‘So it is Harry, hadn’t seen him ever since that stupid tournament thing,’ thought Josephiroth.

“So it is true,” Harry said as he looked to Starswirl. “That you do prank the alicorn princesses.”

The old unicorn chuckled, “Indeed I do, but that pleasantry isn’t needed right now.”

The young hippogriff looked confused, “Then why are we here? And why weren’t we caught by the thestrals?” Thestrals are the ones who work for and as Luna’s night guards.

“Clearly during this time, both princesses aren’t here. Most likely performing a celebration in one of the local villages,” Starswirl said as he walked on slowly.

‘Of course you know they are, otherwise you wouldn’t had apparated here,’ thought the annoyed air spirit.

“So if you’re not here to prank them, why are we here?” asked the boy.

“Hm, had thought a pleasant stroll through the Royal Statue Garden would help set in the mood,” he said with a smile, just furthering confused the boy. Till he chuckled, “But in truth, we’re here to visit someone.”

“And who’s that, professor?”

Starswirl then pointed with his free hand, “Tell me, what you see on this statue?” He was pointed at the trapped spirit.

The hippogriff turned to look at the statue, then started to head towards it, and had stopped a few feet away from it. He looked up at it, “It’s a statue of the Spirit of Orderly Air. Is there something special about it?”

“Indeed there is, but first, tell me on what you know about this Spirit?” asked Starswirl.

The hippogriff just looked confused, “Um, Hermione would be better at explaining about him to you instead of me, professor.”

The old unicorn chuckled, “Indeed she would, but please, tell me what you know about him?”

Harry blinked, still confused, but complied anyways, “He’s one of the four Brothers of Order, they’re often called Elemental Lords, and the Spirits of Order. They’re as old as the alicorns and had united many races.” He then looked up at the statue, “The Griffon Empire is one of the groups who’re very loyal the Spirt of Orderly Air, I had seen many statues of him myself. He and his brothers are also the founders of our school; I’m in the dorm that was named by him, the Zephyrs. And I even met him once, when he tried stopping the Tri-Wizard Tournament years ago, he and his brothers didn’t like it very much. They own fortress cities, and he ruled the one in the far north, the Kingdom of Crystalized Air.”

He then frowned, almost glaring at the statue, “Also he and his brothers abandoned us when we needed them most.”

‘I did not abandon anyone!’ thought yelled the trapped spirit.

“Why do you say that, Harry?” asked Starswirl.

“Because they left our world, gone to their own home, they knew that the Dark Lord returned, and still they left us when they could’ve helped us stop that monster,” said Harry, turning to Starswirl.

‘Kid, I would’ve helped in a heartbeat, but it’s your destiny to take him down. If it wasn’t, I and my brothers would’ve ended him on the day he was resurrected.’

“Interesting thought, but what if they knew it was your destiny?” Starswirl asked as he goes to stand beside him. “After all, one of the three virtues of Andracus is Destiny, so they must’ve known.”

“Well…” Harry said, now started to think about it, before he then said, “It would’ve been very helpful if they stayed behind. Without them, the dark lord only fears you now.” After a moment, “Well you and the alicorns.”

Starswirl gave a small nod, “But what would you say if they never left in the first place?”

The hippogriff turned to the old unicorn, “What do you mean, professor?”

For a moment, the unicorn’s horn glowed an azurish gray aura of magic, and he silently casted a spell. “Now then, tell me of what you see,” Starswirl asked as he was just looking at the statue.

Harry turned to look at the statue, and then gasped in surprised, his eyes widen as he sees what was so special about the statue.

‘What?’ the air spirit thought.

As for Discord, he already knew the truth as he watched this memory play out. So he wasn’t surprised that Starswirl had performed the x-ray spell, showing that inside the statue was a skeleton of the human.

“Is that really…?” asked Harry, now looked very surprised.

“Indeed, sadly it looks like my theory has been confirmed,” Starswirl said with a sigh.

“But why, why has he been turned to stone?” asked the very confused hippogriff. “Thought he was immune to the stone glare?”

“He is, and so were his brothers. So no, it wasn’t the eyes of a cockatrice that had done this, the only thing that would be is the same items that were used on the Spirit of Chaos,” Starswirl surmised.

Harry looked surprised at Starswirl, “The alicorns turned the Elemental Lords to stone? But why would they do this? They’re like heroes to the world, so why?”

“I can think of a few theories, but this is neither the time nor the place to say such,” Starswirl replied.

After a moment, Harry look up at the statue, “Is he dead?”

“No, I do believe he’s very much alive. Victims who caught the gaze of a cockatrice were still alive, during their time of being stoned,” Starswirl stated as he looked at the statue as well. “And unless he had mastered the art of sleeping with his eyes open, he can see and hear us, for his eyes are open.”

Harry blinked in surprised, than he looked to Starswirl, “Wait, is there a spell to set him free?”

‘Nope.’

“No there isn’t, there is a spell to free beings caught by the cockatrice’s gaze,” he sighed. “But for the ones turned to stone by the power of the Elements of Harmony, there are only three ways. One is to use the power of the elements to set him free, and currently the princesses are the only ones who can use that kind of power. The second option is to gather and placed all four trapped spirits into one place, together they’re united and they would break free from the entrapment, sadly I have no idea on where the other three statues are located, and there are hundreds throughout the world. As for the last option, is waiting, he could only wait till the day the effects from the elements is weaken enough, than a surge of power that embodies one of his six virtues. Same thing with the other, Andracus has three virtues, and both Albertis and Garico have seven virtues.”

“So we can’t do anything to help him?” Harry asked; seem annoyed that he couldn’t help the trap spirit.

“Actually, we can,” Starswirl smiled, his horn started to glow azurish gray aura, and the same aura surrounded the statue, and started to levitated.

‘What the hell are you doing?’

“As you can see, spells can still affect him as he is trapped in stone,” he said, just levitated the statue as an example before setting it down.

“Could Celestia use a spell to affect his mind?” asked Harry.

“Only if his willpower becomes weak enough, but if my plan works, he’ll be safe far away from the Sun Princess,” he said, reaching out to take hold of the left stone arm of the statue with his free right hand.

‘Oh God I hope you’re not going to do what I think you’re going to do,’ thought the trapped spirit.

“Teleporting him to far distances will be too difficult, so it would be best to apparition him instead,” he said with a smile.

‘Damn you Starswirl, I hate apparition!’

“I’m sorry my old friend, I know you dislike it, but it’s the only way,” he quietly said to the statue, he then turned to Harry and held his left arm. “Take hold of my arm, Harry.”

‘Did you heard me, or were you just guessing?’

“Yes professor,” he replied and took hold of Starswirl’s arm.

‘Oh god no.’

In that single moment, all three of them apparated, they went spiraling upwards into the sky while leaving nothing behind. The whole scene was spiraling around, twists and turns as the memory just continued.

Discord was lucky; all he had to do was close his eyes. And when the memory of the apparition came to an end, he opened his eyes.

And right now, they were within the familiar tunnels of the old crystal mines in the mouth. The same place underneath where Canterlot will be built. And after the apparition, this time Harry did throw up.

The young hippogriff ended up on his talons and knees and was puking his guts out. He groaned as he had finished, while Starswirl merely had his horn glow, performing the light spell to provide lighting in the dark tunnels.

‘You bloody bastard!’ thought yelled by the trap spirit.

Starswirl chuckled as Harry finished and slowly got up, “Did you know that the spirit within this statue doesn’t like apparition?”

“I can imagine why,” the hippogriff groaned a bit. “Besides, from what I know from tales about him, he did the Sonic Rainboom. So why would he need to do apparition when he could just fly without wings?”

“You’ll likely know when you learn about it in class,” Starswirl replied with a smile, he slowly turned to face the statue.

'It’s because of splinching you bastard! You’re just lucky the spell views me more of an object than a living being.’

“Right now, he’s likely trying to figure out ways to get back at me for that, a few pranks of sorts maybe,” he said with a smile. “We used to do prank wars back in the day.”

After a moment, Harry looked around, “So why here?”

“These crystal mines were abandoned long ago,” Starswirl stated, “the crystal in these caverns have some sorts of immunity against magic. So no matter how hard the Sun Princess tries, she will never find him with magic.”

‘Only pony magic is useless here, why do you think ponies stop coming into these mines in the first place?’

“Then… how did we apparated here?” asked the confused hippogriff.

‘We went through the front entrance with a poorly constructed gate with a no trespassing sign.’

“This place is built like a maze, Harry; the entrance to it is always the exit. The walls block out the magic, the pathway around the walls does not. It would take a being with a powerful mind to truly find him,” Starswirl stated.

“Why not the school?” asked Harry.

“For many reasons Harry, one of them is that the Sun Princess will easily detect him if he was there,” said the old unicorn. “And it would be wise to never mention his whereabouts to anyone.”

“Why?” asked the confused hippogriff.

“The less people who know his location, the fewer chance the Sun Princess will hear it, or anyone with ill intention,” said the old unicorn. Then he uses his right hand and reaches into his pocket and pulled out a sky blue gem-like item.

Harry noticed as Starswirl held up the small item, he asks, “What is that?” In view, it looked like there was a dragon inside.

‘Shiron…?’ asked the trapped spirit, sounded surprised.

“This young Harry, is a Souldoll, these items had arrived to the lands around the same time as the four spirits,” Starswirl said as he held it up in full view. “This Souldoll contains Josephiroth’s loyal and trust-worthy friend, Shiron.”

“Wait, Shiron? Heard Hermione talked about him a few times from those history books. Isn’t he some kind of legendary wind dragon?” asked Harry.

“One of two wind dragons, the other is currently with Shiresea,” Starswirl said. “And they will be waiting for the day when they both awaken.”

Then to adding another surprise for Discord, revealing that not only was the helmet was adjustable, but also the round stone sack buckle with the wind symbol on it, for the old unicorn opened it like as though it was a lid, revealed an empty slot. Starswirl placed the Souldoll inside and closed the lid.

“So when you awaken old friend, bring forth your faithful ally, and the others will know that you have return,” Starswirl said with a smile.

‘Thank you, I’ll forget the apparition for… wait, what do you mean by the awaken part?’

The hippogriff had a confused look, “Professor, you said that because of his eyes are open that he is awaken and listening to us. So how will he be sleeping?”

“With a sleep bewitched spell of course,” his professor said.

“Kay, but why, wouldn’t that just mean that when he breaks free, he’ll still be asleep?” asked the boy.

“Not quite, one of the known methods to break the spell is merely disturb him from his slumber,” Starswirl stated. “And how to do that,” he chuckled, “well, only his brother and a few friends of his would seem to know that one. Josephiroth could spend a week sleeping if no one truly disturbed him.”

Discord’s eyes widen, right now he could learn how to awaken his old friend from his sleeping state within the statue. He listened intently to hear what it would be.

“But why put him to sleep anyways?”

“It is true that he cannot die, and with his eyes wide open, he is awake and listening to the world,” said Starswirl, about to state his reason. “But even though he is a spirit, he would succumb into the madness of insanity; his active mind would break apart with age and being alone for days, months, years, or even centuries. Sleeping will keep him in a dormant state, safe from such torture.”

Harry looked very surprised when he heard that.

The spirit trapped in stone groaned a bit, ‘Oh just cast your spell already.’

“And what does disturb him from his sleep?” asked the hippogriff, than he snickered. “Does he need to be kissed on the lips like that folktale Sleeping Beauty?”

“That would disturb him greatly if his brothers dared do that, but no, Gary wouldn’t do that to him,” Starswirl said as he shook his head. “And no, even a male wouldn’t wake him, he’s secretly a bisexual.”

‘And how in the hell did you know that, and why did you say that out loud?’ asked the now annoyed trapped spirit.

“Oh,” Harry said, sounded surprised by that.

Discord smiled as he watched and listened, “Oh, so enjoyed my kiss, did he?”

“What disturbs this spirit from his sleep is very simple, do something that he really doesn’t like,” Starswirl said, than he chuckled, “And one of the things he doesn’t like while sleeping is explosions.”

‘You know the bloody reason why you damn pony,’ thought the annoyed spirit. ‘It’s because I go boom when someone lights a match in my fart-turned methane filled room. Sometimes I hate being the Spirit of Air.’

“Well I’m definitely not going to do that, besides, you’re still a statue so that’s not possible,” Discord stated as he crossed his arms, now annoyed that there wasn’t an answer on how to awaken the sleeping spirit. Besides if he did the explosion, it would’ve alerted everyone above the crystal mines.

“Wait, then how would anyone know how to awaken him?” Harry asked.

“Either asking the ones still alive when he breaks free, or read his journals,” said Starswirl as he pointed his horn towards the statue.

‘And I would be pissed if someone read my journals without permission.’

“Well goodnight my friend, I hope when you break free, you can forgive this old fool,” Starswirl said as his horn glowed brighter, he was about to cast the spell.

‘Oh don’t worry, I had forgiven you on the day that you told us of Celestia withholding information on Discord,’ thought Josephiroth, looking down at the unicorn.

Then with a burst of magical energy from his horn, he casted the sleep bewitch spell upon the statue, forcing the trapped spirit within into a dormant state.

And with that, the world flashed blindingly in front of Discord, causing him to close his eyes to block out the light.

Discord’s eyes slowly opened, finding he was ejected from the dreams of the sleeping spirit trapped within stone. He sees that he was looking at the stone helmet, his lion and eagle hands gripping it. And the tunnels of the crystal mines still have the candle glowing light he had placed upon the crystals.

He let go of the helmet, and started to stand straight. He then grinned down at the statue, “Well ole buddy, I’m not going to quit until you’re wide awake and happy to see me.”

‘You don’t have to, I’m awake now,’ thought the annoyed spirit within the stone statue, followed by a mental yawn. ‘I really don’t like it when someone invades my mind without permission.’

Realized he was wide awake made Discord smile widely, and then he hugged the statue, wrapping his arms around the neck and had his legs wrapped around the waist, his tail coiling around the legs.

“Finally, you’re awake!” said Discord as he hugged the statue tightly. “Oh I missed you pal!”

‘I miss you too,’ the spirit chuckled as he spoke to him through thought. ‘And I forgive you for going into my mind; you didn’t know I don’t like it… did you?’

Discord stopped hugging and just floated in front of him, well his tail only coiled around the statue’s waist. He smiled as he looked upwards, “Maybe.”

With the silence, Discord could tell that the trapped spirit was mentally frowning. He chuckled, “Oh relax silly, I didn’t know! And if I did, I would’ve awakened you years ago when we had become neighbors.”

‘Neighbors? Weren’t you trapped in a vault underneath the castle?’

“Ooh boy, you sure been asleep for a long-time pal. There is much to tell you,” Discord chuckled as he moved close, smiling as he gazed into the stone eyes.

‘You can tell me later if you want, by the looks of it you’re free as a bird. I take it you plan to turn Equestria into a land of chaos?’

“That’s the plan,” Discord said with a grin. “Need to start soon, before any of those ponies notice my statue is missing.”

‘Well go have fun, but, can you do me a favor?’ he asked through thought.

“For you, anything pal,” Discord replied, he leaned close and placed his left ear against the stone head. “Tell me what you want, buddy?”

‘When you have the time, can you find where my brothers are?’

Discord gave a slow nodded, “That I can do.”

‘Thanks, you’re a good friend,’ thought the spirit. ‘And… I’m sorry for what I and my brothers did to you.’

“Water under the bridge buddy, we’re still friends,” Discord said, smiling widely. He then leans close to whisper, “Maybe more than friends.”

‘What? What do you mean?’ asked the confused spirit.

Discord grinned as he then poof in a flash and reappeared right behind the statue. He patted the stone helmet covered head, “Don’t you worry about it. I’ll see you once I learn the location of your brothers. So toodles!” And with a snap of his talon fingers, he vanished from sight, had teleported away.

Soon all was quiet now; the only thing left with the stone statue was the lighting from the crystals that were enchanted by Discord’s chaos magic. The spirit trapped in stone is now wide awake, and could see what the light from the crystals allow him to see.

After a moment, he thought to himself, ‘Wonder how many hours it’ll be till Discord turned to stone again?’

Author's Note

Well this the beginning of the story, I hope you all enjoyed it. And as you all may have noticed as you read, there are characters like Harry Potter and Shiron, hence the crossover.

I do not own the characters of MLP, Harry Potter, Legendz, and any more characters that originated from books, movies, TV shows, etc. Likely will be listed, depending which character that will appear.

I own the OCs, which are the four spirits, and Shiresea.

And on another note, out of anyone who read, how many of you had imagined Starswirl being like Dumbledore? Wish there was an actual picture of him as an anthro.

Well I hope you all enjoyed the prologue, just know that most likely that future chapters of this story won't be this long. Please comment below of what you think.