Chapter IV: Sanity Found in Madness

[Everfree, 5 March, 5 AD; 1:57PM]

The sound of battle roared throughout the medieval city. Stone-walled thatch-roofed homes were being decimated by the two god-like creatures in the far distance. One explosion after another, the two titans clashed upon one another in both magical ability and strength. It seemed as though the world was coming to an end with all the destruction going on and the blood red sky casting the ground below in crimson.

I watched all of this transpire from a balcony garden on the castle. With each explosion I felt the wind push against my small stature, one nearly blowing my hat off. And as cool as this all was I knew I stay here forever. I couldn’t shake the feeling that something bad was about to occur.

In the distance I saw Celestia soar into the sky, suddenly swooping back down with a beam of magic cutting into the ground. Tirek held firm in the rubble, facing Celestia, ready to either take the damage or counter it with his own magic. In the back of my mind I knew Luna was looking for me since she wasn’t fighting along her sister. I turned around ready to escape these forsaken horses and centaur, but just as I did so I saw the midnight blue princess at the entrance before me.

“This is where thou hast been hiding. Thou hast nowhere else to go, but to face me. We demand of thee to surrender peacefully!” Luna brandished her many floating swords -eight in fact, all pointed at me- as she walked towards me.

“Well if it isn’t the fair Princess Luna,” I said as I gave a bow for my own entertainment -if I’m going insane, I’m going insane willingly. “Should you not be assisting your sister? It seems if this whole ordeal doesn’t end soon, well… There won’t be a city anymore,” I gestured behind me.

“We have faith in our sister, heathen. We have agreed that I shall face you, whilst she fends off Tirek. We have more than enough strength to defeat you,” she stated in a matter of fact tone as she approached me.

“Defeat me? After that horrendous defeat several days ago? You are quite foolish. Thought you’d be wiser than that,” I said as I paced back and forth on the edge of the balcony.

“Us? Defeated? After thou had ran away with thy tail between thy legs? Thou art an arrogant fool! You were an unfamiliar opponent we had never encountered before, thou had the advantage of surprise. But because of thy arrogance we thwarted you,” she surrounded me with her eight levitating swords.

I stopped my pacing and looked out once more at the scene of the two titans fighting, “You know nothing about me, and yet seem to claim that you know me after meeting me once. I never thought that god-like creatures could be so stupid!” I yelled while stomping my staff into the ground.

“We shall have thy head you incompetent fool!”

The blades around me swiftly moved at her command, flying straight toward me from all eight directions. Shit! I yelled in my head, thankfully the other guy acted quickly, dropping us off the edge and grabbing the ledge. In fractions of a second I heard the clangs of the swords embedding themselves into the soil.

“You can thank me later you incompetent fool! For now, stay out of my way!”

Really? You too? I questioned receiving no response from the Veigar.

I could hear Luna gallop towards the ledge of the balcony and it was just before she got there that Veigar pulled us up to punch her right in the muzzle, forcing her to reel back. Taking advantage of dazing her we called down Dark Matter upon her. The explosion left a large crater in the ground and as the cloud of dust dissipated I saw the princess kneeling in pain.

“I thought you had the strength to fight me?!” I cackled as I looked down upon her beaten form. “This is no fight, it’s a beat down. I almost feel bad about crushing your pathetic form. Almost.”

I continued to berate her with energy blasts as I laughed in joy, and it wasn’t just Veigar who was laughing but myself as well. I was feeling joy beating up another living creature. Enjoying myself, I left my guard down and failed to notice the shaking swords in the ground behind us. “You are a pathetic fool to think you could have beaten us! Because of your own arrogance you have failed yourself, your sister, and your king-“

Before I could say anymore, the feeling of my body being pierced, tossed and hitting a wall came in quick succession. Opening my eyes, I found my face implanted into the castle’s walls. The feeling of eight wounds and blood pouring out of them quickly registered in my mind. Shit! This is not good! I am so fucked! So, so, so, so… wait… I feel nothing… why?

I tossed the idea of being unable to feel pain, but in my head I could hear screaming. Something was writhing in pain. Veigar? You uh… okay? Veigar?

“Shut up you bumbling idiot!”

My bad…

As it turned out, Veigar was the one feeling all the pain that Luna inflicted upon us, meaning either two things: He felt all our pain, or because he was in control he absorbed all of it. I continued to run other plausible ideas in my head and failed to recognize Luna’s “victory” speech.

“-solence we have captured thee. Thou thought to have us beat, but we have once again thwarted thy plans. Thy own hubris is the true cause of thy fall. Once our sister is finished, thou will be imprisoned. We shall begin to start the reconstruction of Everfree, and the ponies shall grow to love us more! And finally, just maybe we… we-“

“Shut up!” I yelled, interrupting her. If there was one thing I absolutely hated it was people talking while I was trying to hypothesize and theorize my ideas. “I am trying to run some hypotheses in my head. I am trying to concentrate... Talk about rude.”

Luna was taken aback by my sudden interruption, and was enraged by it. She magically pulled my head back and began smashing my head against the wall repeatedly. With each pull I felt my body slide against the blades, still feeling no pain whatsoever. With each hit came the sound of stone crunching against my now bleeding face. Finally, she pulled me off the wall and tossed me into the ground whilst pulling her blades out of me. “Thou art testing our patience, we told our sister we would try to bring thee back alive. But our sister shan't mind thy death, after all thou art another hindrance to our beloved country's growth.”

Her blades floated above my head, threatening to plunge into it. I still couldn’t move, and my staff was nowhere in sight. Still unable to move, I stared at the sword ready to plunge into my face and through my skull. The other voice in my head had gone quiet, leaving me to my own thoughts. Great, Damocles hangs over my head… I never wanted any of this shit to happen to me… It just did. Now here I am after just what? Three days, four? I am about to die after just that?! No! Fuck that shit! I’m in a new god damn world! I’m taking advantage of everything! And when I say everything, I mean everything!

I laid there in thought as the sword spun so painfully slow, awaiting the sword to greet my face. In a couple of seconds, Luna let go of her sword and it began to fall. I quickly closed my eyes, not wanting to see it crash into my skull. But it never came, instead I heard the sound of it sink into the soil. After that I heard Luna grunt, followed by a thud, and then a crash. Looking up, I saw a Celestia over her sister unconscious, and Luna under her struggling to get out.

Ha, ha! This is my chance! My hope of surviving this shot up exponentially, so much so there was a green flash of light around me, forcing me to shut my eyes. Opening them, I felt the sensation of adrenaline run through me.

”It seems you aren’t totally useless. Now step aside while I finish this!”

You? Finish this? Really? You’ve nearly killed us several goddamn times! No! Hell the fuck no! Am I letting you control me once more you little piece of shit! I am Veigar Evander Fold, and I will not be controlled! Not by anyone, not by any horse, not by a fucking centaur and especially not by you! I don’t need you telling me what to fucking do! So back the fuck off! I yelled at the voice in my head, and boy did it feel good. I actually felt in control ever since I ended up here, I felt powerful. It wasn’t the same kind of power that I had with him, no, this felt like my own. It felt tangible in a way. Surprisingly, the voice never spoke back. In fact, my head felt lighter than it had before.

With renewed vigor I immediately got up and magically pulled my staff to me, I had no idea how I was doing any of this. It was all just instinct. Looking over to the two sisters, I saw Luna squirming to get out from under her sister. “After all that talk about defeating me, standing triumphant, capturing me; you fail to do so. I am so, so, so disappointed by this failure. True, you had surprised me, but I was never truly in peril.”

“You called me arrogant, a fool, and look at where we are now…” I gestured around us. “The one who lays defeated and the one who stands triumphant. I am not trying to dismay you, in fact, come at me with all your might. You still shall lose.”

“Tis odd, thy ‘triumphant stance’ is no bigger than us on our knees,” she spat the words as she struggled for freedom. The insult had caught my attention, she was calling me short. Time after time in this forsaken world I have been called short. Albeit three creatures I think, but still I hate being called short...

“Still after defeat, you continue annoy me,” my eye was twitching under frustration. “Attempting to insult my intelligence is one thing, but belittling me and talking over me while I think! Prepare to die you fucking horse.”

Energy coursed through my body as I charged a ball of energy in my right hand that wore the gauntlet. In between the plates of armor glowed a purple hue that shot like tendrils. Unlike my other abilities, this one was not a ball of energy with said energy flowing out, it was more like energy crushed into the shape of a ball. None of it escaping into the atmosphere. For several seconds I had charged it, and it was already the size of a small house and there was no sign of it stopping. “I have told you time and time again that I shall show you true power! Behold! I give you the Entropy!

“With any system, it tends to the highest point of entropy. A state in the universe where all matter is diluted evenly across the ever expanding universe, a point where all activity ceases in the universe. And I shall give you a glimpse of that with your trifle capital.” I stared at the two princesses, Celestia had awoken some time ago as I charged Entropy. The look on their faces, of helplessness, of defeat, of crushed hopes and dreams. I was soaking it all in. A smile formed on my lips, and it grew, and grew, until I began laughing maniacally.

The occasion was so delectable and sweet. But it was cut short by the still living centaur who had apparently been in his own unconscious state. “Celestia! I will have your head for this!” the idiotic centaur charged through the city, crushing house after house. I was unable to tell if he did not see the spell I was casting or if he cared at all. Either case I did not care.

He will serve as a lovely example, and at the same time I will destroy this forsaken city and all its inhabitants. What a lovely day to find sanity in my own madness. I turned around to face the beatial titan. Using another instinctual spell, I amplified my voice, “Tirek! What a lovely surprise to see you here! I had surely thought Celestia had killed you, but this is even better! No I get to kill you!”

“You!” he called out. “I see you’re still alive! And what is that? My next meal? Very well! Show me what strength a puny creature such as yourself have?!”

Without warning, without sound, I let the energy flow out to him like a serpent. It snaked through the still blood red sky, twisting and turning, encircling Tirek. “Any last words filth? Actually, no. You don’t deserve the honor of having true last words. Let your final breath o life be of you yelling in pain!”

Like the wrath of a god, any clouds in the way parted as the halo’s glow grew. The blinding light became stronger than the sun itself, engulfing the sky as well as the land. I would see to it that Entropy engulf this entire universe for my own amusement.

[Canterlot, 22 June, 984 AD; 10:57 PM]

Princess Celestia was having the most relaxing of times in the Canterlot Royal Garden, she was enjoying her favourite time of the day, brunch. With her was her protege, the young filly by the name of Twilight Sparkle. Celestia looked over to her most prized and only pupil, who had her nose in a book as held a cup of cold tea in the air. Celestia smiled at this, The filly must learn to make conversation with others, or at the very least finish her tea. Now, I wonder if…

“Princess Celestia?” at least she proved her wrong for now on one aspect.

“Yes Twilight, what is the matter,” she said as she set down her tea to give her pupil her undivided attention.

“I’m reading this book on the Everfree Forest, it talks about all the currently known flora and fauna,” Twilight surmised and took a sip of the cold tea, not noticing the change in its temperature.

“I’m listening.”

“But there’s a problem with it,” she levitated the book over to her mentor.

“A problem?” Celestia asked in a quizzical tone. She quickly scanned through the summary and the chapter titles, “Twilight, I fail to see what the problem is with the book…” It was a rare occasion for her to fail to understand her pupil.

“The title, History of the Everfree Forest, but that title is a farce!” in frustration Twilight raised her hooves in frustration.

“And why is that?” the topic had piqued her interest.

“It fails to talk about how the Forest came to be! It doesn’t even gloss over it! So! I was wondering if you knew anything about its formation princess! Afterall, there’s the castle in the Everfree, and you use to live there!” Twilight jumped onto the table in intellectual excitement. But instead of seeing her mentor’s gentle smile, she saw a cold stern face in its place. “Princess…?”

“I shall tell you this Twilight, and only this. Entropy.”

Author's Note

Hello, creatures of various proportions! Her is another chapter for your entertainment. I apologize for such a delay, but school sucks as well as rewriting the same chapter several time because I didn't like it. When writing this I thought it would be longer, but as it turns out... It's not. It's actually pretty short. But even still, this was all I wanted in this chapter, so mission accomplished!

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