Equestria: The Dragon Child

by StormHaze

Discord Part 2

Previous Chapter

I don't know how long I was wandering around, but I finally found the girls who were... fighting?  Why the hell was Rarity carrying a rock?  Strangely Rainbow Dash wasn't there.

"Um... guys where's Rainbow... where are you going?" they just walked by me and didn't even notice.  I looked back behind me and saw a gray haze, then looked at my transformed skin.

"*sigh* Camouflage works too well." I started to follow them, and we made it out sooner than I expected.  I heard growling and turned around, to say that I was surprised to see a wooden wolf that was as large as a golem would be an understatement.  I was scared beyond belief.

"The hell?!" the wolves lunged, on instinct I tried to launch a burst of fire on them, not even a spark.  I ran as fast as I could.

***

Twilight was wondering what was going on when,

"sssshhhhhHHHIIIIIIIIIIIiiitttt!!" Everypony looked at the figure running from Timberwolves in the distance.  The Timberwolves disappeared a little later.

***

I did not realize the wolves were gone until I slipped on a soap road, flying upwards and crashing into the roof of a house.

"That's going to hurt in the morning..." I groaned and got up.  Looking at the soap road for a second before looking for the girls, they were running out of Twilight's house with the elements.  Spike holding Loyalty.  Honestly, at the rate things are going I think I'm just in the background for laughs. I ran after them only to be stopped by me sinking into the floor of the upside-down house.  I have a feeling Discord doesn't want me to interfere.

***

I've been stuck here for a while, and I'm getting angrier and angrier by the second.  Discord's been separating my friends so that they could be corrupted.  Each losing their respective element.  I can handle simple separation and slight traumatic experiences, but this... this crosses the line.

One thing anyone should know about me, the angrier I get the more the temperature rises.  this being the case the wooden floor spontaneously com-busted allowing me to escape from the ashes.  I was pissed, I saw the others leave, color back to normal with Rainbow Dash, towards the maze again.

I extended my black ethereal wings and flew the fastest I could go.  When I got there I saw the girls use the elements, only for it to be blocked by a random stone wall.  This only made my anger worse.

"DISCORD I'M GOING TO KICK.  YOUR.  ASS!" I screamed out loud, successfully getting their attention, the mane six having horrified looks, Discord,  well let's just say you'd be laughing your ass off.

Fire engulfed me, burning away at the transformation until I was there my eyes and body in a blaze.  I launched wave after wave of white hot flames at the draconequus.  Most of my attacks were explosive fireballs, some streams of flame.

"First, I have this day to begin with, next you show up and ruin it, and then you have the audacity to try to corrupt me and my friends.  That just pisses me OFF!" my attacks got stronger with each point I list off, until I reached my boiling point.

"I'm finished," I threw my hands forward whilst shouting, "Final Attack: Flames of Disaster!"

Fire just poured from my being and coalesce into a being made of rock and fire.  The demon roared and dispersed into a fire storm, incinerating everything in it's path.  Discord was turned to ash on the spot, Twilight put up a barrier protecting the others as they stared at my attack in awe and fear.  I just lowered my hands and looked at the destruction.  To think that I could create this much chaos, from being in a rage.

"*laughs*Well it looks like you've broken out of your periodic jail, Drake." my blood turned cold.  He was burned to ash I saw it.  He continued laughing while his ash reformed into an unscathed Discord.

"You'll have to try better than that." dammit, I don't have the energy.  I looked towards the others, they looked at me in a formation... oh.

"Then how about you come up here and face me like a man!" I yelled back.  He floated up towards me.  Hook, line, and sinker.

"NOW!" I grabbed him, using whatever I had left to freeze his hands together so he couldn't alter the environment.  They shot him, and me.  While he turned to stone, I was being overcharged somehow.  Screaming, I fell from the sky and landed making a crater while energy swirled around me.  Being a guy who can willingly control the elements I tried to purge myself of all foreign energy.

It worked to well and I passed out.

***

I was in another nightmare, but I noticed what's been different these last few days.  In the corner there was a midnight blue door.  Summoning my strength in my quickly disintegrating resolve I reached towards the door and opened it.  Everything started to turn into pixel like squares, some changing color, others remained pitch black.

When I looked around my new setting, I noticed it was the forest where I learned that I had powers.  Against my will a memory began to play.  It wasn't bad, or good, just a memory.

I was little, around five or six, being that age I was emotionally fragile.  Kids had picked on my because of the tattoo I had since birth, I had ran when I couldn't take it anymore.  I ran into the forest, to my quiet place, right next to a small creek and inside of a meadow.  I was crying, no one to comfort me.  At that time I didn't even know that Dark existed.  I had cried and cried, ignoring the calls of my name and sat there.

Eventually, something amazing happened.  I started to feel something stirring inside of me, when I looked around for the source, I saw small azure orbs of light floating upwards.  When I looked more I saw that the water had changed direction to make a circle around me and the plants looked greener, healthier.  Animals started to come out around me and i felt something on my back giving off a glow from under my left eye and my back.

When looking behind me I noticed two draconian wings made of the same azure light.  Instead of freaking out I was mesmerized with its beauty.

Then I saw myself in third person.  The memory had ended, but was stuck as me looking at the light within the grove.

"Tis a wonderful memory, other-worlder." I jumped and quickly looked behind me.  I noticed a midnight blue alicorn like Celestia, but she had black regalia, looked younger, mane consisting of the night sky instead of the rainbow, and the moon on a black splotch for a cutie mark.

"Uh...thanks, I guess?" I really didn't know how to respond to this.

"You must be confused, We- I will explain as best I can." She caught herself.  I remember that type of grammar from English class because of Shakespeare, huh... guess you do learn useful things in that class.

"Alri-" "Not without me you aren't!"I looked back at Dark.

"I'd like to know just what the hell's going on here!" I snapped at him.

"No one likes you, now go back to your fucking corner now." I point towards a dark cloud hanging over the forest, assuming that is where he usually is.

"Art thou insane?" The alicorn looked at me quizzically.

"He's not, but I am and I'd like to know what's going on."

"Dark shut up.  Sorry, but this is my dark side." I gesture towards him.

"Alright.  My name is Princess Luna, patron of the moon, and guardian of dreams." she addressed.  Just as I was about to introduce myself someone had to interrupt.

"Hey, moon butt."

"YOU WILL ADDRESS ME WITH THE RESPECT I DESERVE, CREATURE!" She yelled at Dark.

"Ear drums, I need them please." I cringe holding my head.

"We-I am sorry, we are still used to using the Royal Canterlot Voice." she apologized.

"It's alright, now before we were rudely interrupted," I gave Dark the death glare which he ignored and continued nursing his ears, "My name is Drake Johnson, it's a pleasure to meet you Princess." I gave a little bow in respect.

"Pleasure's all mine Drake.  My sister has said, that you had special powers would you care to explain?"

"Well I-" I stopped seeing everything blur, and everything was fading.

"It looks like our time is up Drake... until we meet again.

"I'm looking forward to it." I smile until I feel a hand on my shoulder.

He was cut off from speaking when I woke up.