Celestia knew this day would come. Although, it seemed so soon, (despite the fact over 1000 years had passed). Discord. The combination of several different animals that had been inflicted upon her all those years ago, only to be dismissed within a blink of an eye, had now returned to Celestia's life once again.
He was yet, just another villain for her and her sister, Princess Luna, to defend their subjects from. Anypony that may have read upon these events would know that Discord had been turned to stone. Maybe, they would have read further to find that Discord was the spirit of chaos and disharmony and that he had tried, and failed, to gain control of Equestria. But what nopony would have read about is the past between Celestia and Discord. Even if a pony would have stumbled across it, it would have just been passed off as proper gander and left as that. But now, after all those years, Discord had returned.
Of course Celestia could have just used her magic to turn him back to stone. But Discord's magic was much stronger than hers, besides, it just didn't feel... Right. Celestia had regretted her decision to turn Discord to stone, life was boring without him, especially after she had to banish her own sister to the moon. She had nopony to talk to, and nothing particularly interesting to do. Discord was so much fun to have around. But he had to be defeated, if he wasn't, how could she know that he wasn't going to destroy the whole of Equestria? It was a safety precaution that had to be taken. He had just gone to far. It was a shame really. He was just too much fun!
The Princess didn't want to send Discord back to stone. After more than 1000 years of boredom Discord was back, but now Celestia was expected to send him back to his stone prison, where he was thought to belong. She couldn't do it. It wasn't fair. Discord was here once again, bringing some excitement into life, and yet here she was, expected to destroy her one and only love. She thought for a long while. What if she didn't have to? She had used the elements of harmony the first time Discord attacked, and now she no longer wielded them. She could always pretend that she didn't have the capability of turning Discord back to stone. She would employ the new elements of harmony to face Discord.This way, she didn't have to. Hopefully, Discord would see that he couldn't win, and give up so that the elements no longer needed to be used. Things would be a lot more fun with him around.
But what if he didn't give up? The elements would just turn him to stone like before, and things would go back to their usual, boring state. But, at least this time things would be different. She had her sister to talk to this time.
It had to be done. It was unfortunate that the elements had to be used, but Celestia felt as though she had no other choice.
Author's Note
Hi. This story is basically going to ship everything I can think of, whether I ship I or not. I picked the main characters for this story just because these are some of the main ships in this story, but there are still plenty of other ships lined up for this story. I hope you enjoyed this chapter! Oh, and by the way, spoiler alert if you haven't seen The Return Of Harmony in the next chapter.
The new bearers of the elements of harmony were called into Celestia's castle as soon as Celestia had made up her mind. If Discord chose the path of good then the elements would not have to be used. However, if Discord continued to follow the path of selfishness then he would be turned back to stone, never to be seen again.
Moments later the girls arrived, each representing an element of harmony. Celestia ushered them into the hall, one by one answering their questions towards the strange happenings around Equestria. She enquired the girls that everything could be put back to normal using the elements. She then placed the tip of her horn into a small hole in the wall, and using a secret spell, opened a door to a small cupboard, containing a gem encrusted box. Lifting the box carefully out of its place, Celestia held it up to show the six ponies. Next, she opens the box, ensuring that no elements would fall on the floor and break, but at that very moment a line of gasps came from the six young ponies standing before, taking her by surprise. The elements were gone!
" I don't understand, only I can open that door, this doesn't make any sense!" Celestia spluttered.
A echoing voice came in reply, "Make sense? Oh, what fun is there in making sense?!"
Celestia knew exactly who this was. She had said these words once herself, a long, long time ago. It had all started on a usual, boring day. Celestia had Princess duties to do. Luna was whining because she didn't have any Princess duties to do and the Everfree was far from invading. Celestia was bored. Suddenly, a royal guard came rushing in:
" Princess Celestia, you must look outside, Equestria is in chaos!"
Finally, something interesting to do. Celestia thought before racing outside to sum up the situation. Everything was completely messed up. Houses had been turned upside-down, animals were acting strangely and pink clouds floated the sky. In the centre of the whole thing stood a throne, a throne seating the strangest-looking creature she'd ever seen!
"Ahh, Celestia, I was wondering when you'd show up, do you like what I've done with the place?" The creature asked.
Celestia looked around, still trying to take in everything that was going on.
"Oh how rude of me not to introduce myself, I'm Discord, spirit of chaos and disharmony, its a pleasure to meet you!" Discord said as he took Celestia's hoof, shaking it wildly.
After the 'hoof shake', Celestia began to speak:
"Well Discord, I just have one thing to say to you."
She leaned in closer.
"Thank you." She whispered.
Discord was more than a little taken back by this.
"What?! You're not supposed to thank me! I've just turned you're whole world upside-down, I'm supposed to be you're enemy! That doesn't make sense!"
Celestia laughed.
"What fun is there in making sense?"
The words now rattled through Celestia's mind. For all those years she had not heard those words, but now, in a blink of an eye, they had forced their way back into her life. This time, not spoken by her, but by Discord, her first true love, and yet a sworn enemy. Celestia didn't know if she should be overjoyed or extremely angry. On one hoof, she was happy to once again hear Discord's voice, but on the other, it disheartened her slightly that the first words she heard from him after such a long while were making a mockery of the words she had once spoken.
Celestia mused this over several times inside her head before her daydream was torn apart, not by making a final decision over whether she should be happy or annoyed, but because of something that Discord had said. Something that disturbed her a lot. It shouldn't have disturbed her, but it did. But what was this overwhelming feeling that had so suddenly come over her? Rage? Anger? Confusion? Jealousy? No, it couldn't be, Princesses don't get jealous... Do they?!
The words that were now ringing in her mind were growing stronger and stronger.
"Oh, and my personal favourite, laughter."
Celestia had always been Discord's personal favourite. She knew it wasn't the same, when Discord had been referring to her as his personal favourite, he had meant his favourite pony, this was his personal favourite element. They were completely different things. But what if he wasn't referring to the element, but the barer of the element herself, Pinkie pie?! What if Pinkie pie was his new favourite pony?! Of course it didn't really matter who his favourite pony was, but Celestia couldn't help but feel that the pink pony had stolen her spotlight just slightly. That pink one sure did like those chocolate rain and clouds of candyfloss, what if Discord had done that especially for her, just to show her how much he appreciated her?
Well, it was true, not that Discord had created the candyfloss and chocolate rain just for Pinkie Pie, but that he did appreciate her more than any of the other ponies, and that he was not only referring to her element, but of course, the pony herself when he had used the phrase 'personal favourite', that pink one had indefinitely made an impact upon him... But was this for the better?
Author's Note
Hi. Its more than likely that you can tell that this starts the same time as The Return Of Harmony. I hope that you're enjoying my story so far and I'm sorry of you don't ship Celestia x Discord and/or Discord x Pinkie Pie, but I'm basically going to try and ship anything I can think of during this story. I'm hoping to also get Discord x Twilight Sparkle in the next chapter, bit I'm not quite sure of how to fit that in yet. Bit for you fans of fluttercord out there, don't worry, that's all going to be in the story too, although, a lot later in the story than the other Discord ships, so sorry for the wait. Anyways, I hope that you enjoy my story, but if you don't, be sure to tell me why and I'll try and fix that for you, also, if you have any suggestions for ships that could fo in this story, please let me know and I'll try and fit them in. Thank you so much, The Corn.
