Author's Note

Well since everyone wanted a fight, it's a fight you get. Sorry for the late update, but I had to deal with something while writing. Next chapter will be up sometime today so keep watching!

So until then let's see what crazy things will happen now that Ponyville is under siege.

NOTE: This chapter is raw and will be edited later on.

On a side note I'll be posting a new fic within the week. Wonderbolt my Heart: After Story. I've waited a long time to write this one.

Discordia

Rain.

That’s the only way Trixie could describe what she saw.

Brightly did the moon shine that all the arrows and bolts the Abyss watchers fired were visible. The arrows and bolts rained down on the crowd of ponies. A few of the unicorns managed to conjure magical shields to protect themselves and a few others. A few pegasi managed to take flight and avoid most of the arrows.

Most ponies however simply didn’t make it through the blanket of wood and steel death.

Trixie managed to protect herself and Loreane from the arrows by bringing up a shield of her own. The bolts and arrows bounced harmlessly off the magical bubble and to the ground useless. The foals covered themselves instinctively, huddled under Trixie and the Fire Keeper. While Trixie concentrated Silver Spoon looked up from under Trixie to see a horrifying sight.

Death.

Out of all the hundreds of ponies gathered only a few remained upright. Most were lucky enough to have either magical cover or just got lucky. Silver scanned around to see several ponies she recognized who were either dead or dying.

The first pony she recognized was Miss Cheerilee. The teacher pony was very much dead, having two arrows lodged in her forehead. That was when she noticed Twists and Berry beside her in a similar state. Then she saw Mrs. Cake, Featherweight, Flitter, and even Time Turner.

Shocked by the horrifying sight, Silver covered her mouth with her hooves as her vision blurred behind tears. She’d never seen such a gruesome sight, and the blood. So much blood. Babs and Button were disgusted by the sight, but took it far better than the grey filly. Babs glanced up at Trixie who lowered her shield and fired a stun spell at Diana.

Diana’s reaction was swift.

Faster than lightning, Diana dove to the side rolling. Recovering from her roll she drew her shield and lifted it, keeping herself crouched, just as a second stun spell collided with the shield. Diana hissed and lunged at Trixie with hre farron greatsword in hand. As she descended from her leap she brought down the sword with all her strength onto Trixie.

Trixie used a small amount of magic to create a hand sized barrier that rolled the sword off harmlessly to the side. As this happened Diana thrusted with her shield, smashing it into Trixie’s face and sending the unicorn flying back leaving the foals unprotected.

Trixie collided with her wagin head first rendering the mare unconscious. Diana stared down blankly at the foals. She then swung her greatsword with the intent to kill, and Silver Spoon was the target. In an act of bravery Button Mash jumped between the sword and Silver trying to deflect the attack with his own shield. The force of Diana’s swing drove the blade through the small shield and through Buttons arm and neck.

Silver screamed in horror as she watched Button fall limply to the floor in a bloody mess. Blood gushed out from his neck pouring all over his round body armor. Silver Spoon, unable to handle anymore, broke down over Button as Diana brought her sword up again. Suddenly she leapt away as a flaming disc flew past her and collided with the ground a few feet away. The flaming disk erupted into a small fiery explosion and left a pool of smoldering lava that consumed everything around it.

Diana used her sword to help lift herself up but was blindsided by Babs who had run up to her, warhammer poised and ready to strike, and brought it down over the woman’s head. Diana screamed out in pain dropping her shield and sword to grip her head after babs strike. There was a resonating sound of ringing in her ears and she cursed the filly untold amount of pain and suffering for this transgression.

Taking the momentary distraction, Lorena scooped up Silver Spoon, who reached for Button’s lifeless body, and fled towards Trixie with Babs close behind.

By now the remaining ponies were either running from the Abyss Watchers or hid in their homes. The ones who ran were hunted down and slain quickly, the ones in their homes were simply fish in a barrel. The Elements of Harmony were gathered and fighting to protect the fleeing ponies.

Starlight and Spike also fought to defend the ponies. Moment earlier Spike sent a warning to Canterlot warning them of the attack. Now, it was a matter of holding out until help arrived. By now Trixie had recovered from her blow to the head, and so had Diana.

Loreane ran up to Trixie and shook the mare with her one open arm while holding a crying Silver SPoon in her other.

“Trixie! Get up! I need you!” She called to the mare.

Trixie shook her head and clumsily stood up to look at Loreane. Trixie gave a goofy smile and a gentle rub to her noggin and Loreane sighed in relief.

“You fool,” She said hugging Trixie. “Come on, we need to get out of here and regroup.”

“Trixie Thinks. We need to find twilight and her friends. They’re our best chance,” Trixie said scanning the chaos that was Ponyville.

Trixie saw two Watchers run past chasing two stallions and a mare into an alley. Three screams were heard along with a sickening sound of flesh being torn apart, and then silence. Trixie ran felt sick to her stomach. She looked away from the alley realizing there was nothing they could do for the poor ponies there.

Suddenly there was a sound of thunder and a lightning bolt shot at the floor next to Trixie, missing her by inches. Trixie took a defensive stance as two Watchers flanked the group and Diana stood in front of them with a furious look. The Watchers held their daggers and swords poised ready to strike when Diana called to them before they attacked.

“Leave the chubby one!” She ordered, taking her sword and dagger in hand.

She then walked forward and pointed her sword at Babe whorasied her warhammer defensively.

“I’m going to enjoy spilling your insides all over the pavement,” She said threateningly at Babs.

Loreane stood between Babs and Dinah with two flames in her hands.

“Touch her and I will incinerate you, Diana!” Loreane screamed.

The Fire Keeper then threw her first spell out which was a fireball. Diana rolled out the side and then lunged forward with her farron greatsword. Loreane sidestepped, easily dodging the blade and clenched her fist with the last flame and drove it into Diana’s gut.

The black haired woman gasped dropping her sword. Gagging Diana coughed up blood as she looked down to see a flame dagger in her stomach. She was surprised to say the least. She never expected such an attack from a humble Fire Keeper.

Diana recovered from the blow easily. She pressed her hands firmly against Lauren's chest and pushed away. The flameblade had dug deep into Diana’s body. Being undead it wasn’t a fatal blow but she felt considerably weakened from it. She reached for her belt and reached into a large pouch feeling inside. Her eyes dilated when she couldn’t find what she was looking for.

“Looking for this, Diana?”

The undead woman looked up to see Loreane holding a golden colored flask in her hands. She had a smug grin on her face that taunted her foe.

“Oh, you crafty little…”

The words trailed off from Diana’s lips turning into a proud smile.

“Now you have to leave to regenerate,” Loreane said to her, tossing the flask up and down.

Diana’s grin grew wide. “You may have my estus flask, but you have something else I need.”

Confused by her words Loreane looked at the flask, then back to Trixie. She had nothing but what was given to her by her friends in Ponyville and Trixie. What could she have that Diana wanted?

Diana then got a shit eating grin as the sound of a horn blew. She looked over at Diana and let out a soft sigh.

“Guess luck is on your side this time, but I’ll be back love,” Diana said pulling out a coil of smoldering hot iron and thrusted it to the ground.

A small ring of fire appeared around her and in seconds the woman disappeared into a pile of ash, leaving the Fire Keeper alone.

Meanwhile the death cries of ponies rang over the ruined Ponyville. Twilight and her friends were surrounding the survivors now inching towards the train station. The Abyss Watchers made valiant attempts to get to the ponies, but Twilight had rallied the unicorns to erect a magical barrier that prevented the Abyss Watchers from hurting anypony. The Mayor was being dragged by Starlight with Spike perched on her back towards the group, and once they reached them the barrier lowered for them to pass through.

One Abyss Watcher made and attempt to pass through the barrier but was shot back by three unicorns into the side of a building. Two more watchers rushed the barrier with their greatswords but were repelled by the closing barrier.

Seeing they couldn’t get through by rushing the Watchers changed tactics. Roughly half of them slung their swords and drew their bows and arrows. One of them trailed his arrow at a red earth pony stallion with a yellow filly on his back, who were running for the barrier. He watched as the filly clung to the big red stallion's neck and as they approached the barrier two unicorns inside lost their magical glow to lower a section of the magical field, allowing the stallion to pass with t ehfilly.

The Watcher repositioned himself on a rooftop that overlooked along a path that lead straight towards the barrier that was slowly moving towards the train station.

With the narrow street and even narrower alley ways there was no way for the ponies to escape.

The Watcher drew back his bow string again. This time he followed a mare and stallion who were carrying a wounded filly with them. The mare was a dark pink color with a golden necklace while the stallion had a black collar and a red tie with a money sign on it.

The stallion was kicking back any of the Abyss Watchers that came near him or the mare. When they were surrounded by two Watchers, the stallion kissed the mare and filly and charged both of them. One dodged to the side and thrust his sword at the stallion. The tan earth pony moved to the side allowing the blade to impale the first Abyss Watcher who fell to the ground. The Second Abyss Watcher quickly swung his dagger across the stallion chest. In a blink of an eye it was all over. The stallions tie split in two and a monstrous gash appeared across his chest.

He gave a weak pant then fell over dead. A pool of blood surrounded him seconds later, as the fallen Abyss Watcher began to rise again.

The Abyss Watcher on the roof watched all this transpire and trailed his arrow at the fleeing mare with the pink filly. He watched as two more unicorns lowered the magical field preparing to allow the pink ponies in until a volley of arrows hit them both on the side.

The Abyss Watcher archer saw this opening. His reaction time was perfect. After the arrows struck their targets he released his own arrow. The wooden shaft and steel flew true across the chaotic battlefield of Ponyville. It passed by two pegasi who were dodging arrows in the sky, flew past one his fellow Watchers and through the opening of the magical barrier.

A unicorn mare inside was struck by the arrow right under the base of her horn. The mare went cross eyed a wobbled for two seconds, enough time for those around her to turn and see the arrow lodged in her head, and then she fell over creating another opening atop the barrier.

Several more Abyss Watchers fired arrows and bolts into the openings hitting more unicorns and either killing or injuring them.

More of the barrier went down as the Abyss Watchers shot more and more unicorns. Inside the barrier Twilight expanded her own magical field allowing the rest of the unicorns to recover. However this left some of the ponies vulnerable to attack. Suddenly the Abyss Watcher felt a cold chilling the air as a sound of a horn blew.

He slowly glanced back towards where Diana was and saw a thick mist coming from the center of town, followed by a wall of frost. The Abyss Watchers all began to scatter as a maniacal laughter echoed around them.

“Helloooo helloo helloo! I’m baaaaaack!” Said a deformed creature cheerfully.

“Discord!” Twilight cried to the Lord of Chaos. “Thank goodness! We need your help!”

“Yes, it would seem so,” Discord said casually, before snapping his talon hand.

All the Abyss Watchers swords turned into flower bouquets which seemed to confuse them long enough for the few remaining ponies to gather under the protective barrier. Meanwhile, Trixie and Babs were back at their wagon when several more Abyss Watchers appeared around them. Trixie quickly put Silver Spoon into the wagon and locked the door. Babs readied her warhammer while Trixie prepared her pyromancy flame.

Two Abyss Watchers charged forward. Both of them stopped when Trixie erected a magical barrier and Babs jumped up and swung her hammer with an overhead swing crushed their heads with her hammer. Four more Abyss Watchers circled them from four sides and charged simultaneously. Two lead the charge with their swords while the last two swung out with their daggers.

Trixie used her combustion spell to fend off the first assailant, while Babs swung her hammer in a wide arc but was parried by the Abyss Watchers dagger. The Watcher then brought his sword down on Babs who managed to jump to the side

“Thanks Discord! You’re a lifesaver!” Rainbow Dash cheered for him from within the barrier.

“Oh, Discord! I knew you’d save us!” Fluttershy said.

The draconequus stretched his arms out with a casual glance at the ponies who were cheering for him.

“Well, with all this chaos I couldn’t resist!” He said happily, clapping his mismatched hands.

He then noticed the looks of disapproval from his friends and chuckled nervously.

“I-I mean I had to come and save my friends! After all I know you’d do the same for me!” He quickly amended.

Rainbow Dash and Applejack gave him odd looks, but Fluttershy simply smiled and shook her head.

Unsure of what to make of the creature before them, the Abyss Watchers did the only thing they could think of. One Watcher charged Discord with his fists but the draconequus snapped his fingers and blew the Abyss Watcher apart.

The rest charged him catching him off guard, they grabbed hold of his arms and legs trying to keep him from snapping his fingers. The struggle went on and Discord easily overpowered the Abyss Watchers.

Rainbow Dash flew from the cover of the barrier along with several other ponies to help Discord. The fighting intensified now that the Abyss Watchers had no weapons on hand. The Ponies and Discord managed to thwart the Abyss Watchers after a few more minutes of fighting. Victory seemed assured.

Suddenly there was a loud sound of a horn blowing close by, followed by a bright flash of blue light and the entire area was surrounded by a thick bone chilling mist and frost wind. Trixie barely had time to cover her eyes when another Abyss Watcher stabber her in the side with his dagger, catching her off guard. Babs had been knocked over from the powerful winds and was easily overlooked by the Abyss Watchers as they disappeared the mst.

Suddenly a large humanoid figure clad in white wielding a large object in it’s hands walked by slowly. Babs barely noticed it since all she could see was white, but the figure was at least twenty feet tall, and wore white, with a long tail.

The figure walked slowly through the town until it disappeared into the mist. There was a long silence that followed. Discord, Rainbow, and all the other ponies remained still as the mist overcame them. Discord’s eyes scanned every inch of the mist trying to catch any sign of the Abyss Watchers.

From within the mist came a blood curdling scream from a mare. Discord spun around as a head came rolling towards him, leaving a bloody trail behind it at it did. The head belonged to a unicorn mare, light brown and long curly blonde hair. Discord recognised the mare and lifted the head up to inspect it closely.

*Shink!*

“Gah….”

Discord felt as hpar pain in his chest. Looking down he saw the edge of a curved blade within his serpentine body. He weakly looked up to see a large woman in white fur wielding a scythe, whose blade was lodged in his back. The woman ripped the blade out from his mismatched body, as a swirling vortex of light appeared around him. Discord cried out in pain as his very soul was shattered to oblivion, followed moments later by his physical body turning to dust.

Everypony around, the Elements of Harmony, Trixie, Babs, even Loreane paused to see the mightiest of all Ponyville fall to the woman in white. Once the deed was done the woman bowed as Fluttershy cried out as the sound of a train departing echoed through the town.

The Abyss Watchers, now that Discord was gone and his magic no longer functioning, reclaimed their weapons true forms. After a brief silence the Abyss Watchers scanned area for any remaining ponies and killed any that remained.

During the chaos and the mist Trixie and Loreane managed to get back to the wagon with Babs and Silver Spoon and managed to escape while Discord distracted the Abyss Watchers.

Silver Spoon sat in the corner of the wagon crying into Babs. Babs herself could hardly believe what happened. She had fought in a life and death situation, and managed to get out alive. NEver before had Babs ever felt so alive as she did in this moment. She simply sat there with Silver in her arms contemplating her very existence.

She looked down at Silver Spoon and gave the filly a gentle nuzzle, stroking her mane trying to calm her down. Outside Trixie was pulling the wagon as quickly as she could trying to make as much distance between the town anthem. Loreane walked by her side feeling defeated and sore from the fight. As they walked along the trail heading towards the Everfree Forest Loreane glanced over to Trixie with a sad look and asked, “What now?”

Trixie shook her head slowing her pace slightly before saying, “I don’t know what… to do now. I’ve never seen anything like that before.”

“I understand Trixie,” Loreane said touching the mares back. “I’ve been there once before, but for now we have each other. We have the little ones. We made it. Next time, we will be ready.”

“Will we?” Trixie asked skeptically.

Loreane nodded holding up her fist, “Yes, I promise you Trixie, next time, we won’t have to run away. Once were safe we begin training.”