It’s been month’s since Twilight’s birthday, and I’ve been in Canterlot for the past week, because of some letter that may have no real meaning behind it. For now, me and shining are just sitting at a table in the garden playing a game of chess, and it could go either way, having one pawn each, and one of each other piece except our queens.

I just stared at the pieces as I sat there as my human self with my head held up in my right hand. “Hmm….hey, armor, what did you get Twilight for her birthday?” I moved my knight so it would be one turn from his king. “Check by the way.”

Armor moved his king towards my knight, as he hummed. “I got her a book on chronological spells. Written by a Chrono. No idea who they are but, it seemed like something Twily would like.” I blinked as I saw an image of a light grey alicorn with black and white mane and tail lurched over coughing and heard an oddly familiar voice scream out ‘Chrono’ before the image disappeared from my mind and looked around. “If you’re worried about time travel, there isn’t a spell like that in it. It’s more like slowing down time, speeding it up, but nothing serious. The worst the spell does is one minute passing per second. No boredom if you have an appointment, but nothing to do. Like what happens with my little sister…a LOT!”

I shook my head and looked at the board again thinking. “Yeah, I know.” I just pushed that image and voice to the back of my mind. “She does get tired of the same books sometimes, since the library has more…entertaining books than educational, like she enjoys. You know how studious she is.”

Armor nodded and looked at me. “You ok? You seem like you’ve seen a ghost.” The voice repeated in my head as I remembered it sounded like Noctis.

I shook my head. “Nah, I’m fine. I may be more exhausted than I thought.” I looked at the bubble that he was holding over Canterlot. It amazes me how he has so much magic to hold such a spell for the past few days. I turned back to the board and moved my rook to protect my knight.

I looked at armor who sighed looking at the board as he moved his bishop behind his king, which made me smirk seeing he trapped his king into a small corner with his bishop and knight. I moved my knight back one and two to the right so it blocked the king into that space and opened my bishop to his king. “checkmate.” Armor groaned and slammed his head onto the table. “You kind of trapped your own king there. Bad strategy.”

Armor glared at me. “I’m more used to real strategy which that plan would work for real…protect the royalty…” he lifted his head looking at the fallen pieces and used his magic to return them all to their starting point. “But then again this doesn’t go along with that…does it…”

I shook my head. “nope.” I looked at the board and pieces seeing the black and white, which made that light grey alicorn appear in my mind again, and I couldn’t stop staring at the board, as I felt, I had met that alicorn.

I felt a hoof on my shoulder and turned my head a bit to listen to who was beside me, but I couldn’t stop staring at the board, like something was pulling my consciousness, which I heard Armor speak with a concerned tone. “Blaze, you sure you’re ok? Maybe you should head to your room and get some rest.” I wanted to reply, but I couldn’t get my voice to come out, as the black and white of the pieces and board seemed to melt and swirl into a vortex.

Next thing I knew I felt like I was falling, and jolted up, to see I was in the throne room, but I seemed to be where the thrones were…or more like, ON a throne. I was about to look down, until a door opened and looked to see the alicorn again, as he seemed to smile. “Father, my progress on the new magic I discovered is going really well. At first I had to use my blood to stimulate the magic, but now I can use it without causing an injury.”

I noticed that I wasn’t me, but I was seeing a memory through another pony’s eyes, by the placement I would say through Noctis’ eyes. “Chrono, you mentioned that this magic would be able to cast spells using much less energy, correct?”

Chrono nodded smiling and closed his eyes as his horn gained a dark yellow glow, and almost a hundred different things appeared in the throne room floating. From what I could see at a glance was many different kinds of plateware, utensils, tools, and some random, old looking toys. “I was able to bring all these here with the same amount of power that another would use to levitate a book from the floor onto a table. And this magic can do everything casual magic can do and more! Heal, change shape or form, like I can make myself look like a normal unicorn or Pegasus, or even a griffon!”

I could hear Noctis chuckle as everything was dark for a moment, before I could see Chrono again. “That kind of ability would be really helpful in war or insurgencies if we needed to do so.” Chrono coughed as the stuff all disappeared most likely going back to where they were supposed to be before Chrono lurched over heaving and groaning. “Chrono?!”

Noctis ran over to Chrono and held him up as his body began to get covered by the same yellow glow as his magic was. “Father….my body…feels like its tearing itself….apart.” Chrono gagged and collapsed holding his barrel as his body seemed to stretch and change, as one hoof seemed grow claws and the leg thinned till it became a griffon’s talon.

The memory seemed to fade, as I saw Chrono change more and more till he seemed to change into….discord?!?! I sat up quickly gasping “DISCORD!!!” I started panting looking around seeing I was in my room in the castle. “What…the fuck was that?” I went to stand up and collapsed onto my hand and knees coughing as my body was burning. “What…is happening?!” the burning subsided as I was left panting.

I stood up and held my head, hearing Rage speak with an angry annoyance. “Flare got out…said something about bringing two friends back…using the daughter to bring one back…” what?! Flare’s out, and wants to bring two others…back? And use the daughter? Who could he….wait…he mentioned he was a nightmare, and….OH FUCK!

I barged out of my room bumping into the wall across from the door and pushed off it down the hall going into a full sprint, before jumping and becoming my Pegasus self flying through the halls. I went out the main doors past Celestia, and Shining Armor, and I could see Blue Comet heading through the gate. “COMET, WITH ME NOW!!!” I didn’t give him time as I flew up towards a tower with a balcony and flew in seeing Flare letting out a purple mist the swirled around Cresent, entering her nose and mouth as she coughed a bit sleeping. “Get away from her!” I lit a wing on fire and threw a fireball at him blasting him away from her as Comet landed next to me. “Check on Cresent!” I charged at Flare as his horn began to glow.

As soon as I impacted Flare in a tackle, I felt the same sensation that I get when Twilight used her teleportation spell. We rolled a bit as he knocked me off and I turned to my human self landing on my feet glaring at him. “Well…well…the young flame graces me with his conscious presence.” he began to walk around me as I stood still watching him with just my eyes, and moving my head. “And I have to be sure to thank the young princess for being the one to seal my magic into so long ago. Using my own magic again feels incredible. My past three times free was always using the magic of an elemental as they died.” He chuckled darkly before I had to spin my head quick to watch him from behind me. And stopped looking at his front hooves. “It feels great to be whole once more. The only…bad thing is getting used to it again.”

“I won’t give you that chance.” I felt a strange sensation pulse through me and I appeared at his side holding a sword in his neck as his eyes went wide before looking at me. “If you’re whole…than that means I can end you…” a black flame formed at the base of the sword creeping towards Flare.

Flare looked at the flame than me before his horn began to glow. “You…won’t kill me…” I grabbed his horn in a blink of an eye, and snapped it, which made him scream out, but I pulled the blade a bit making his voice choke up, and make him start coughing harshly for a bit. “My death…won’t end…the nightmares scourge…” he chuckled weakly as I saw blood drip from his mouth. “My death…will awa-“he coughed a bit making blood splatter onto the tile floor, before he caught his breath again. “my death…will awaken…the nightmare king…you…will never stop him….not you…not the other few elementals still around…why, do you think they have just kept sealing me…?”

I blinked slowly as the black flames got close to his neck. “I’m…the final key to awaken him from his nearly eternal sleep. Ever since…you first brought him upon this world…” he chuckled a bit before giving a quick cough inhaling raspily. “But you…don’t know that yet…do you…?” Flare smirked at me, as I felt no emotions, as I just stared at him sick of his voice. “you’re the one that’s going to bring Ragnarok to the huma-“ I made the black flames consume the entire blade, hearing some doors open, and forced the sword out of the front his neck and spun slashing the back of his neck making his head fall off onto the floor and his body burned with black, raging flames.

I stood up straight and stared at his head and body as they both disappeared in an instant with the black flames, and the power I felt through all this disappeared and I felt like my body exploded and head was crushed as I became my Pegasus self collapsing onto the floor. I remembered the memory I saw where Chrono said his body felt like it was tearing itself apart…and I just felt like my body wanted to explode.

I’m concerned of what is going to happen to me in the future, if that memory I saw was true. I’m afraid of what’s going to happen to me.

Author's Note

just a short little mini chapter i thought up at work before. and the chrysalis point of my story. be prepared for a huge plot twist. a story point change so huge, everyone may hate or love it, but i'm sure it will surprise EVERYONE. [add maniacal laugh here]

really...?

why's he laughin'?

don't ask...just..don't

is it ok to feel worried...? and weirded out?

i'd be surprised if you weren't...