Crossing Worlds

Too... much... cake...

You were sitting at a table in Pinkie Pie's room. Twilight sat to your left  Rarity sitting to your right. Rainbow Dash, Applejack, and Fluttershy are all sitting across  from you doing the same thing, but Pinkie was yet still singing and dancing to another song. Zecora had already gone home.

"Perhaps that cake - eating contest was a bad idea." Rarity moans while resting her head on the wooden table while the others mumble in agreement.

"Come on ponies! The party isn't over yet , and so let's dance while we can!"  Pinkie dances like a pro, although looking at her, you wouldn't think it be so.

"So, Twilight you used to be a unicorn?" You asked Twilight curiously still resting your head on the wooden table with the other girls who listened to Twilight's story.

" Yes I was actually born an ordinary unicorn , but as I got older, I found out that I had talent for magic, and enrolled in a school for gifted unicorns where I met and trained under Princess Celiestia. After many years, I moved to Ponyvillle to learn about friendship, and when I mastered friendship Celistia gave me my wings.." She gives her wings a tiny flap without moving her body.

"... and I became a princess." Twilight said.

" So... anyone can become a princess? Even some pony like me? "

Twilight considers this for a moment, and then nods.

"Yes, any of you girls could , but you would have to master an art such as friendship , or love , and to master it you must fully understand it, but experience it."

"Huh." You ponder this for a moment, only to find a pang of hurt shoot through your stomach. You moan again and rest your head against the table almost forgetting your stomachache from earlier. You then proceeded to ask another question.

" Anything  else interesting for me to know about? Any.. enemies?  " You asked.

"Well..." Rainbow Dash said as she looked over to where Discord was who was playing a round of Go Fish  at a table with Spike.

"I might know someone with an interesting past." She seems a little hostile as she speaks.

"What are you talking about?"  You ask.

" [ Y/N] if you must know Discord was once one of our worst enemies ." Rarity finished for Rainbow.

You suddenly burst out laughing , but stop as the girls were looking at you with solemn faces.

"Come on girls, are you serious? This is Discord we're talking about . He loves pranks , and chocolate milk rain what's so evil about that?"

They all exchange glances, and then Twilight speaks.

"With our help, Discord has learned to tone down his antics and is no longer a threat.  However not to long ago, Discord was not just a merely a mischief - maker , but a lord of chaos. He took over the throne a thousand of years ago which made life miserable for ponies. Princess Celiestia  stopped him by turning him into stone, but much much latter during our life time he escaped. He made us forget our friendship and turn into the opposite of our true selves which , let me tell you  wasn't pretty." Twilight pauses for a moment grief - struck for a moment.  "Eventually, we were reminded of our friendship then we then encase him back into stone again."

You looked at her puzzled.

" Then why is he here now, and not in a statue anymore?"

"Well, this is where it gets interesting. Princess Celiestia brought him here a few months ago so that we could reform him. She wanted to use his magic for good, and we reluctantly agreed . She believed that Fluttershy would know best how to reform him, and she did. She befriended him  which caused him to see the benefits of friendship.   After being reformed , he moved to Canterlot for about a moth to help the princesses with their magic, and other things. But, after he finished he came back here and is now roommates with Fluttershy now since nopony else trusts him enough yet to share a house with him. He said the city life wasn't for him but, I think he just missed Flyttershy. "

This causes everyone to look at the butter colored mare . Fluttershy laughs embarrassedly  ,and fiddled with her hooves. " oh... I doubt it, he - he just likes small towns. I guess?"

"Oh come on! You should've seen her when Discord  left for Canteelot. She was all  'oh he is such a sweetheart .' Rainbow flutters her eyebrows imitating Fluttershy.

Fluttershy ducks head under  in  embarrassment. "I was just saying what I felt."

"Then, I can only imagine what it is you feel." Rainbow said with a smirk.

"Okay," you interrupt Rainbow's teasing "Any more enemies I should know about?"

"Umm, there was Nightmare Moon but, we defeated her a long time ago, and changed her back into Princess Luna ."

"What about queen Chrysalises?"  Applejack said.

"Oh, yes my brother Shining Amour, and his wife Princess Cadence, defeated her with their love. Hmm I wonder how they're doing now as rulers of the Crystal Empire. Speaking of the Crystal Empire , we defeated King Sombra  former ruler of the Crystal Empire, but we also defeated and destroyed him. So no we have no enimes right now."

As Twilight speaks those last words the building started to shake causing Pinkie to stop dancing, and every pony looked up as a large figure breaks through the roof. The celling collapses , and you emit a scream as every pony began falling on top of another. Dust blinds your vision. Once the dust faded away you look around to see you, and your friends buried by the pieces of the ceiling . You then hear a few groans but, at least that feels you every pony is alright.

All of a sudden , a figure lands in front of you , and stares you right in the eye. It takes you a moment to register that this is a pony. She is very dark shade of violet with reptillian - looking yellow slit eyes with large alicorn wings. Her mane and tail are cut short   And jet black in color with streaks of blood red running through them. She is wearing a bodysuit with slim black boots. The most and terrifying and outlandish thing about her horn. Which was broken in half. With her frightening appearance , it is hard for you not to cower in fear.

"Yes," she purrs in a metallic voice. "You are right to cower before me I am  fear - inspiring.  "

"Hey! Leave her alone! " A tired Twilight emerges  from the wreckage followed by a dazed but otherwise unhurt Spike.

  One by one, all the girls emerges from the ruble and luckily only seem to have a few cuts and bruises.

  "yeah!" Rainbow Dash threatens. " Get lost bug eyes!"    "Shut up! You do not insult me! " Rainbow Dash keeps a menacing look on her face  although she is clearly stunned at the alicorn's reaction. " Something is different. Some pony has returned for my crown. My... Golden Crown. One of you are supposedly meant to wield it."  She then  stares at your [E/C]  eyes. " Well, I don't like it when my property is stolen , or when I hear rumors  about somepony encouraging other ponies  to take what isn't theirs. Tell me [Y/N] , ... who really wants the crown?  You or Celiestia?   Her eyes wonder towards your flank. " Don't think that the fact that you have a tattoo  of a crown on your flank means that your destiny is to steal my crown. After all, destinies are chosen by you not for you."  She is so close to you that you fee her hot breathe on your face.

  "Leave...  her ... alone we have done nothing to you," Twilight practically growls , her horn pointed at the mysterious mare in pure furry. " You have made your case quite clear, and now we will hear no more of it. So get lost."

"Very well... I'll leave ... for now. You  have been warned. As she  opened her wings to fly off, you step forward.

"Wait!"  You say causing her to stop. " Who... are you?" She lets a sly grin spreads across her face.  " You do not know who I am [Y/N]?"  She is so close  to you so close that her voice is only but a whisper in your ear.

" I am Reptantis."  As these words are whispered in your ear, the mare disappears without a trace, leaving an echo an an evil laughter behind.

You stare after her in shock. " She... She knew who I was, she knew my name." You whip your head around to see a frantic Fluttershy searching for Discord.

" Discord! Discord!  Girls! I can't find him!" She runs over to a large pice of celling and tries to lift it, but no avail. You run over to help and the other girls also followed behind and tried to lift the celling piece. You finally are able to lift it so Fluttershy can dart under it. " Girls! He's down her, but I think he's unconscious!" You can tell she's crying.

"Rainbow! Go help her!" Twilight yells through gritted teeth. "No! If Rainbow leaves, I won't be able to hold this side up! " AppleJack snaps, obviously struggling to keep her grip on the fragment.

"I'll go!"  You quickly offered.

" Be careful." Twilight warns. You nod, and slowly release your  hold of the big piece of rubble, and slide under where Fluttershy  disappeared.   The entire fragment was about ten feet in both length and with so it doesn't take long to see Fluttershy hunched over the unconscious draconequus.   "I can't move him! Help me please!" Without responding you run over to them and grab Discord by the scurf of his neck and threw his upper half of his body on top of your back.   "Fluttershy, put his legs and tail on your back and follow me out!"

  Fluttershy nods , once Discord was secured you fix your stare on the small shaft of light coming in from where you came. With every giving moment , the celling fragment is coming closer to your heads closer to shutting you in. There is little oxygen , and your vision begins to blur causing you to teeter a little bit.  You and Fluttershy start walking while balancing Discord on your backs. The light begins to get larger and larger until finally you stepped through it. The enormous weight was lifted off of your back by strange, and distorted voices, and blurs your vision. You look around dazed and confused. You began searching for Fluttershy and Discord but eventually you feel your eyes forcefully shut themselves.

You feel your eyes flutter open after what felt like an eternity  but, you don't see anything for a moment. Have I gone blind? After a moment however, your vision clears to reveal an empty white room. As you look down, you notice that you have a hospital gown on and are hooked up to some sort of machinery. Suddenly, however, you realize that  the room in fact was not empty.

" [Y/N], how do you do?" As you look to your left you see a bartered up draconequess looking at you with tired red eyes.

You chuckle softly, " How well can I be doing in a hospital ?"  " Hmm ... true. I guess I have to thank you for saving my life , because no matter how sappy it may be that was pretty brave." He looks at you gratefully.

" It was no problem, I wasn't going to let you die. But you should thank Fluttershy to I never thought she could ever be that brave but I guess even the shyest of ponies will do what it takes." You fiddle with your hooves and look up at him.  Before you two could say anymore the hallway fills with a quiet voice. " I just brought them flowers, I just want to leave them. I won't wake them I promise."

"Quick, pretend you're asleep if she comes in and finds us awake she'll think she disturbed us." Discord whispers. You nod back then settle down facing Discord and close your eyes as he does the same. You finally hear the doorknob rattle and hoof beats  approaching your beds. Fluttershy sets something  down on your table presumably flowers. You open one eye to see Fluttershy placing a bouquet of  roses from her garden on Discords table, and then walks back over to him. She looks at his face deeply whispers something in his ear and softly kisses him. You lose your breath for a moment as she does this. Oh my gosh, oh my gosh , oh my gosh! After finishing her kiss, Fluttershy walks out the door closing it behind her.

You two sit up straight with shock. You turn to Discord who tried to hide his blush.

"Well... I... I'd never thought she had an interest in me," he says still looking at the door where she left.

" Nether did I, I thought Rainbow Dash was just messing around. It looks like I was very wrong."

"You think? " Discord says as he tried to replace his  shock, and embarrassment with sarcasm. " A - and I don't want you telling this to anypony got it [Y/N]?"  You pretend to zip your lips, then locked them and throw away the key. " Not a word will escape my mouth." You pause. " Hey Discord... what is it that she whispered to you?"

He raises his eyebrows. " You mean you didn't hear that? " You shake your head no. " Well, you know she said... He mumbled.

" Didn't quite catch that," you say as you raise an eyebrow at him. Suddenly your jaw drops, " Did she say what I think she said?"

"Maybe , but it could've been friendly like a  get well I love you"  He plays with his lion paw and eagle paw.

"I don't know Discord."

" Anyways, it doesn't matter anymore it's not like I can do anything seeing that I'm in a hospital bed and the only thing I'm thinking about right now is why did the celling crumbled on me and broke my leg!" He looks at you desperately obviously desperate to change the subject.  Sighing, you begin explaining everything to him, everything about Reptinis, and her threat. "

Wait... Reptantis? That is such a ridiculous name!  At least when I was evil, I had the most amazing name of all... Discord! Just hearing it is scaring me! " Reptintis... that sounds like a lizard!" The draconequess burst out laughing at this. You roll your eyes.

" If you had seen her, you would've understood. The freakiest part about her was her horn... how can she preform magic if her horn is broken?" Discord looks down guilty and your suspension suddenly rises.

" Discord ... what are you not telling me?"

"Well, you see... when we were young, Celistia, Luna , and I knew Reptintis. Well of couse back then she just called herself Repta. When we got to be teens, we stopped seeing her, but we heard stories... stories that she cut off half of her horn so that nothing could stop her from taking over the city Hollow Shades. Celistia stopped her eventually but, I don't know why she had her sights set on Hollow Shades. But yes, we knew each other once."

"Huh." You say. " The world really does work  in funny ways sometimes and now we're being threaten by your childhood friend. " Not only was she my childhood friend, Discord pauses for a moment. " She was my childhood... love."

"Hello! Hello! Is anypony awake in there?" As a A pink head peeks through the door. You and Discord sit up in your beds. " Come on in girls were up." Six pastel  ponies walk in with smiled on their faces and make ther way to your beds.

"Discord, [Y/N], how are you two feeling?" Twilight asks.

"Oh Twilight! I don't think I'm going to make it!" Discord said pretending to act like he was dying.

Fluttershy  smirks.  " Oh is that so? Well I guess that means you don't want this cupcake from Pinkie Pie.."

"On second thought, I'm feeling a whole lot better now." He then grabs the red velvet cupcake with pink frosting from the Pegasus hoof and devours it in one bite.

" How about you [Y/N]?" Twilight looks at you.

" I'm alright, you answer. "I was just a little oxygen - deprived when I came from under the rubble. Discord is the one with an actual injury."

"That's why we're getting you out of the hospital today, Rainbow Dash says.

"Really!" You say excitedly.

"Of course we are darling, Rarity assures you.  "You have a clean bill of health."

"So, you all are just going to leave me at the mercy of these surgeons with sharp knives and pointy objects!"Discord objects.

"It's all right Discord, I'll come and visit you every day . Fluttershy says as she putting a hoof on the draconequess' lion paw causing him to blush profoundly.

"After that, we must travel to Canterlot and warn the princesses of our new threat." Twilight says.

"Oh, and Sugarcube what did that mare say her name was?" Applejack says.

You pause for a moment. "Reptantis. Her name is Reptantis and Discord already knows her."