The War of Darkness

Illusion was walking down the castle hallways, deep in thought. He wasn't looking where he was going and he bumped into somepony.

"Oh, sorry...Gaia?!"

"Hey Illusion, sup?" Gaia asked in her normal, casual tone.

"Nothing" Illusion replied, then he remembered why he was lost in thought in the first place. "Gaia can I talk to you in private?"

"Sure big bro" Gaia replied.

They went to the closest bedroom, which happened to be Gaia's bedroom. It wasn't all that classy, Gaia didn't want to go over the top with her bedroom. She had always liked to be treated like everypony else. The only thing that seperated her room from everypony else's was her bed. It was high above the ground. Gaia said it was more comfortable and no one had a problem with that. Her room was sky blue with a closet to store her armor, some formal wear for diplomatic summits and such, a lot of casual wear, her royal regalia, and....other stuff a human girl needs.

"So, what did you want to talk about?" Gaia asked.

"The Minotaurs." Illusion replied "Why did they come here to ask about Hoofington now? King Sterling has been on the throne for about twenty years." Illusion said.

"I don't know Illusion, but I'm going to increase security in Hoofington and it's borders. I'll also go there myself if things get bad." Gaia replied.

"Okay.....um Gaia. Do you think mom and dad would let me go there too?" Illusion asked hesitantly.

"What! Gaia shouted. She was shocked, but quickly regained her dignity "I don't think so Illusion, but if you want I could teach you some stuff about fighting when I have some free time." Gaia offered.

"Sure, thanks Gaia." Illusion said.

"No prob big bro. Oh and about going to Hoofington with me, you can ask mom and dad about that during dinner tonight." Gaia said.

"Okay see you then." Illusion said while walking out the door.

"See ya big bro." Gaia said back.

Four hours later

At dinner it was just him, Celestia and Discord. Gaia was running late cause of work, Luna and her family had their own private dining room. After finding out about Luna's pregnency with Nidra, they decided they needed some privacy. Illusion wanted to ask his parents about going to Hoofington when his sister was here, because he knew he couldn't win in an argument against his parents alone. He needed back up. Then Gaia came into the dining room.

"Sorry I'm late everypony. I had to train some new recruits, and send a group of guards  to Hoofington. The Minotaurs could attack without notifying us. Seems so much like the king to do that." Gaia said.

"It's alright dear, and could you give me a list of who you sent to Hoofington please?" Celestia asked.

"Okay mom, I'll give it to you tomorrow morning." Gaia replied.

"Thank you darling." Celestia said.

"Hey dad, you okay? I mean with the minotaurs and all." Gaia asked.

"I'm fine dear thank you for asking." Discord replied.

"Mom, dad I need to ask you something" Illusion asked.

"What is it honey?" Celestia asked.

"If things go wrong in Hoofington..........can I go there with Gaia?" Illusion asked.

"WHAT!" Celestia and Discord shouted at the same time.

"Your a prince, Illusion we need you here. Besides, you don't know how to properly defend yourself you could get injured out there, or worse. I'm not sending my son out to die!" Celestia said

"Neither am I." Discord said.

"Gaia is a princess and your sending her out to fight but not me! I'm the older sibling and she's just got chaos magic. I have that and alicorn magic!" Illusion argued back.

Everyone in the room stared wide eyed at Illusion. After realizing what he had said Illusion covered his mouth.

It was true, Illusion was more powerful than Gaia. This was, because she wasn't capable of holding both chaos and alicorn magic  She was originally born with both alicorn and chaos magic, shortly after her birth the doctor said that she couldn't survive with both kinds of magic without a horn to channel the magic. They didn't want to risk making an artificial horn, so to extract the magic they needed atleast 3 ponies bearing the same kind of magic. Since the only known ponies with chaos magic other than Gaia were Illusion and Discord they were forced to extract the alicorn magic. It was a sensitive topic for Gaia.

"Seriously Illusion? I'm on your side here, and you just go and remind me how weak I am. You know, " Gaia said, hurt.

"Gaia your not weak." Celestia said in a stern tone.

"Sweetie your mother is right. Your not weak.Your, actually one of the strongest people I know." Discord said

"No I'm not! Your all stronger than me, even Lance is stronger than me, and his father is a unicorn while his mother is an alicorn! Yes I am weak and I always will be!" Gaia said before teleporting away.

"Look what you've done Illusion!" Celestia said. "You think I'm going to send you to Hoofington after this?! You have just proven to us that your an immature foal! If you'll excuse me I have to go comfort my daughter." Celestia huffed, then teleported away.

"Dad....." Illusion started.

Discord just snaped his eagle talon. In a flash a storm cloud appeared over Illusion and zapped him.

"That's what you get for hurting my baby girl." Discorld growled at Illusion then teleported away to find his wife and daughter.

"I-I'm s-s-sorry" Illusion said with tears in his eyes. He quickly fell to the floor and started crying.