The Three Souls

Chapter Ten

Terra floated over the armoured chest guard and slipped in on slowly, as Storm helped with the others in the other room. Discord floated over and smiled at him.

“You know love is a strange emotion?” he said, leaning on Terra’s back softly, who looked at the draconequus with a surprised and easily visible blush.

“W-What are you talking about?” he asked him, looking away. Discord laughed the laugh of a satanic joker, grinning.

“You. Have. A. Crush~. And you don’t even know it,” he said tapping his nose with each word he said, then stood back up, “Oh just think, You and Storm, Me and my sun, of how glorious it is,” he said teasing him, making Terra drop his ears in embarrassment.

“I-I don’t have a crush,” he grumbled, but that made him chuckle beside him.

“What about the Gems? What about bringing everyone here to see-”

“That has nothing to do with it! Just... come on let’s just leave this alone,” he said blushing madly, his face changing to the same colour of the red sand stone he loved to shape. Discord chuckled and walked a head of him.

“Okay,” he agreed, “Lover boy~.”

Terra stood there after Discord entered the room, complete embarrassed. He looked down at the chest guard and the beautiful gems with in it, and sighed. Why did he do it if not to impress Storm? Why wouldn’t he want to do that?

He looked up and sighed very slowly, then walked into the room, and spotted the crowd around the gems, Storm explaining them to them, and how they were to be chosen. Discord was at the back of the group arms crossed and listening close to what Storm was saying. Celestia was nodding as she spoke while Luna’s eyes were just wide with awe and amazement at what the gems were like. Athenus was blankly staring at the world, listening but showing no interest in what was going on before her. Amor was the same as Luna, eyes wide, but a more demeanour and polite. Alexander stood straight and tight, his chest push out and forward smiling for his chance to take a gem.

“And that the gems. Seeing how as Terra got the two Gems of Honour and Duty, I’d be surprised if any of you get two gems,” she said, waving a hoof over to Terra, making everyone but Luna and Athenus look. Alexanders eyes widened with surprise at what Terra had while Amor and Celestia looked him over quickly then back to the wall, both grinning a little on the inside.

“Dude. You got two!?!” Alexander asked, slightly yelling, making the group wince, “That awesome,” he said, “Can I go first?”

That question was directed towards Storm who looked at Terra with a face that clearly read ‘told you so.’

“Yes you may Alexander, you may go first,” she said, correcting him, and as she finished he stepped forward, chest stuck out and proud as ever. He started at the top with love and drew his hoof back from it.

“Something wrong Alexander?” Athenus asked, tilting her head.

“No... its.. nothing,” he said, hesitation in his voice, moving to Grounding, which fell off with a small nudge, making him jump panic and try to grab it with his hooves. It bounced between his hooves before he caught in his teeth, turning back to the others and smiling happily. They all groaned, before smiling at him, applauding the little show he gave.

Alexander looked back at the wall then at the gem in his mouth, and moved out of way, making Storm look at Terra, slightly surprised.

“Told you so,” he mouthed, grinning, making her roll her eyes. She urged Amor to go next but she kept declining, causing Athenus to step forward and feeling around for the stone, groaning as she fumbled into some of the lines. As she did she began to feel down the lines, finding the gems, and mumbling something to herself as she moved about them, finally nudging Zen. Before anyone could react, the gem dropped and bounced off the floor, sending a finely tuned sound through the room. Alexander walked over, looking at his twin feeling around the ground for the gem and rolled his eyes, reaching down and grabbing the gem between his teeth and placing it infront of her hoof, and going back away from the set. She felt and lifted it up with a soft glow of her magik and waited, being moved by Storm slowly to stand next to Terra.

Next was Luna, who grinned happily and followed the same procedure, touching all but the gem for Selflessness. When none of the others moved, her face contorted in fear she would get one, but she sighed gently walking away. Terra and Storm raised an eyebrow at her action, seeming disappointed to the thought that she wasn’t going to get a gem like the others. Terra was concerned what this was going to do to her self confidence.

Luna sat down on her rump softly, a heavy sigh deflating her chest in disappointment before smiling, “I’m okay with this. I really didn’t need a gem to hang with you guys anyway did I?”

“Maybe?” Alexander said with a soft smile peeled gently across his face as he teased Luna a bit, before putting a hoof around her and hugging her softly, “Your right, you’re still cool enough to hang with us anytime of the day Lulu.”

This made Luna smiled, though a somewhat disappointed look on her face. Terra kept watching her before a loud tuned pitched was heard. Everyone’s eyes looked too Athenus, who’s gems was still floating in her magik gently, making everyone look at Alexander, who shook his head. Terra looked around before spotting the diamond cut gem on the floor. His eyes widened as he looked at Luna, who didn’t hear the sound, then grinned.

“That was pretty selfless of you there Luna,” he said smiling at his little sibling. She rolled her eyes at him and looked at him, smiling.

“Well... I don’t need one at all if I can be around good friends,” Luna said, that smile even brightening Terra’s day.

“And what if being selfless was something that was important in harmony?” he asked her, causing her to pop an eyebrow up at him, somewhat confused. Before she could reply, the gem was floated over by Storm, making her eyes light up happily, and hugging Storm with a crushing grip.

“OH MY! REALY!” she yelled, her voice cracking between her normal pitch and the high octave voice, making Alex, Terra and Athenus cringe at the switches. After Luna calmed down, they could all see Celestia pulling off the wall Love, while Amor was finally pushed up by Discord.

“Come on, it won’t hurt. They all did it and their not hurt,” Discord said twisting his head around to look at her face, “And there’s nothing wrong with the gems. You know that right?”

Amor’s head nodded slowly, and reached up and tried humility, a loud pop being heard, and the gem floating there, doing something interesting. Before Terra could ask what was going on, all the other gems began to float, moving to the chest of the Alicorn that took it and floated to their chest, before glowing madly and forming a small chain that reached around the pony’s neck. In a flash all the gems returned to normal, now a necklace around the necks of their owners.

Love did something different, shifting up and forming a small band of a tiara, and gently landed on the head of Celestia, gem faintly glowing to the world around it. The grin across each face was contagious, and not even the end of the world could take this moment away from them.

Discord clapped happily at the group, an impressed grin on his lips that curled up to show one of his fangs.

“Well done, and now there’s,” he said looking at the pearled gem, and rubbing his tuff of a gotee, then looked at everypony in the room, “Harmony right?” he said. Celestia chuckled and walked over to him, putting her hooves around his neck softly, and kissing his nose softly.

“Maybe it’s meant for you?” she teased, getting down after Luna made a gagging sound behind them. Terra chuckled and looked at Storm, who shurged.

“Why not give it a try?” she said.

With that Discord ushered Celestia back, smiling silly like as he cracked his knuckles. He reached forward with his lions paw and chuckled.

“Come to pa-” he started, however as he touched it his hand became latched to it, and he writhed in pain, screaming sharply. Celestia’s eyes widened with horror as Alexander and Luna tried to pull him off, being shot back by energies unnatural and wrong, before the bolts began to jump and shot at every other member of the room.

First struck was Amor, the energy crackling through her body and causing her to launch out the door. Following bolts struck at Celestia, who tried to put of a shield of magik in front of her, but all it did was amplify the damage, shooting to her horn and into her body.

Terra watched as the energy bolt struck Athenus and Storm, causing them to be crunched back, Storming being launched into the wall, while Athenus was knocked over into Storms bed.

However bad all the others had it, Discord had it worse, screaming a writhing in agonising pain, his body cracking and jolting into unnatural positions, while his eyes began to flash white and black. Terra couldn’t do anything, but watch in terror.

“HELP ME!!” Discord finally yelled out. Or what seemed to have been a shout for him. He moved towards him, but a bolt of energy catapulted him back, into the wall not far behind him. However the chest guard on his body absorbed most of the power, and seemed to direct it into his two gems of harmony.

He got back up, seeing the seething white energy leaping around Discord in complete disarray and causing all the bolts to intensify. Terra felt the need to do this, to help Discord, while looking out for Storm, Luna and everyone else he brought along for his stupid idea.

He launched forward again, grunting as the energies hit him, but he wouldn’t be stopped, while the bolts jumped and leaped, simply dancing around him with Discords painful screams as their loving song.

He got closer, seeing Discords eyes begin to tear up with black liquid, with his body flickering and twisting, while his painful snaps and twists caused the body to become surreal. He looked at the element of Harmony, seeing it snapping between smoky black and the ethereal pearl it was before, with Discords paws beginning to turning a slow and dull grey while becoming of stone.

Terra moved back behind Discord, wrapping his hooves around his body and pulled hard, electing a screech that didn’t seem at all possible. He let go seeing that it wasn’t helping and felt a jolt of incredibly powerful energy enter his chest, nearly blasting it open. He grunted, and was thankful that the gems were on his chest currently. He moved back forward seeing the stone crawl up his arm, making Terra begin to panic. He looked at were Discord was touching and pointed his horn directly at it. He hoped this was going to work.

Within his body he began feeding energy to his horn, feeling the power building up slowly and turning around in his. He began feed it quicker, the ball of energy appearing at the tip of his horn, swirling in and around, while the energies Discords writhing body shot directly into his body again, searing pain leaping about his body with completely no direction.

He had to save his friend and that’s all he was thinking about.

Terra built more energy up, feeling the power being drawn to his horn, while more shoot of the damning energy shot into his body. He kept steady, his heart racing now.

In the last instances he let the power of his magik catapult out the horn a top his head with coursing energy that it pained him to release it.

At first it seemed to do nothing, but Discords paw returned to normal as the Element of Harmony began crackling and jarred out into angry fit of rage. Discord collapsed back and Terra turned around, catching him moving him back quickly, hoping he could stay standing for long enough to get him away from the six pointed gem.

He heard a loud crackle, and look over his shoulder, eyes widening.

From the Crystal leapt hot white wires of energy with endless violence that whipped out at Terra. All he could do was flare out his stone wings out and shield himself from it.

The impact was fierce and throws them across the room, Terra shielding discord as best as possible. He felt long sharp cuts running up his back and down his rib cage, a warm and wet substance weeping out. Discords body fells limply on the floor, as Terra looks back at the Element of Harmony, and coughs roughly.

The whips of energy pull in as the gem starts to crackle louder, only to become silent. Terra began to sigh when it shattered, releasing a wave of energy he could barely describe as powerful, causing him to collapse onto Discord.

He heard something, a voice, twisting into his ears. He looked up, seeing Celestia staggering over, her hair different from before. He couldn’t keep his eyes open, as when she reached him the lids lapsed over and drained into the blackness that he had the night before.

(A/N : Hey. So I kinda felt bad about the last chapter not having much juice to it and I wanted to make it up too you so you get your next chapter today~!!! Um again if any problems just point 'em out and I'll correct it as soon as possible.)