The Coming of Darkness and Rise of Light

by Lyife

The beginning of the ending

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Author's Note

So this is my first fan fiction I'm new and hope it's entertaining. I've always loved writing stories and adore the character Discord he's a cool character to use since he has unlimited story and development that you can imagine.


The beginning of the ending

Smoke circled through the embers that use to be the homes of my friends. Ponys who somehow had become special to me. I had friends for the first time in a very long life time and somehow it was gone. Sparks filled the air as Rarity's shop tumbled to the ground. I turned around desperately looking for a sign of life but saw nothing. “If Ponyville looks this bad … what about the Castle … what about the sisters?”

Fire and ruin, charred remains of ponys, buildings torn down, rubble covering the streets. Bile raised into my throat the smell, sights, the sound of destruction at every turn greeted me with a cheery hello. Chaos the whole world was chaos and where the idea would normally excite me right now I was terrified. Who had done this?

Not daring to look too hard at the new reality in front of him, running, leaping, flying towards the husk of a castle. Not tall and proud any long not a beacon of light and love instead, broken, hurt, dark and full of despair. “Have to get to Celestia and Luna have to help have to fight have to save them. Too late am I too late?” Through the doors and running to the throne room, where are they... there! Oh Equastria, oh Gods no... Tia... Lu...

A whimper a slight movement .. she's alive! She's still alive it's not all lost not all gone. Looking down on her, she's so small so still her hair has stopped floating and moving long had gone the magical wind that whipped her hair so artfully. Where's Luna I look around spot her some distance away her body broken wings unfurled at odd angles horn cracked... dont' look don't see.. focus on Tia .. here and alive...

“...D..dis..cord.....”

My attention is brought sharply back to the Princess before me, “shhh shhh it's ok we'll be ok shhh don't talk I'll fix this I can fix this...” Panic … what has happened she sounds so weak she's so strong she's weak how can this be?

“I .. I have to speak... let me finish when I start.... it hurts....” Her eyes roll skyward and then back to meet mine. She still has that passion that fire there although dulled with pain my stomach drops seeing such a look from her.

“ He came through a portal .. I .. I didn't know didn't sense him.. his magic... it's pure black magic.... he wants our land …. he waited for you to be in the chaos realm .. he knew.. you ...a... threat.....kept you out....”

“I couldn't sense a thing nothing was amiss Tia, until I was tired … I knew it was magic but my very essence felt drained I had to sleep I needed to recharge... I woke up and knew time had passed wrong even in my realm it felt wrong I ..”

“He kept you away... not... your … fault... no one understood what was happening... he came so fast..... killed so many so quickly..... taken over.... his magic..... necromancy …. he rips souls from their bodies.... kills …. I need to tell you Discord... he is still here … this is his world now.... he has control. Not strong enough to defeat him.... eater of souls... Necromancer of Tamelon... Grogar.”

I am the very embodiment of chaos I have lived and will live on and on … I knew his name. Knew him from old when he was defeated and thrown back into the shadow world. He was strong very very strong but the amount of destruction here doesn't feel right there's more to his power now. His necromancy has grown … eater of souls.... my Gods what had he done... where were the elements … my Fluttershy … Pinkie, Twilight, Rarity, Apple Jack and Rainbow … eater of souls....

“Discord... the elements.... they're,” her breath caught I couldn't tell if it was physical pain or just what she was about to say I knew then... “they're gone... I did what I could I helped ease their passing … he ripped their souls from their physical bodies … I was able to stop him from eating them... they were thrown in another dimension...”

I cried .. I didn't know I was doing it until I saw the tears drop to the cold stone floor. What a terrible end... Fluttershy.... she really was the dearest creature to me. My whole new world began with her. Soul ripped from her body... ripped.... no.... “I will kill him.” I said through gritted teeth hatred coursing through my veins... “I will destroy every ounce of his being.....”

“Discord.. no.... he's .. he's far too strong even for you now. You can't not yet. Listen to me...” She broke off coughing her body shaking in the effort. I reached out and put my paw around her frail body letting her head rest on my lap. Tears in her eyes, even at the end she was thought of others pain before hers. “ Their souls, they will meet and combine … they will come together and be born unto a new vessel. They will turn into one entity. This female will embody them all they will be reborn as one. You.. have to find her Discord. She will be able to help you... with her …. you will be strong enough to avenge this world and protect the others. Travel through the portals, transfigure into this other race... blend in and find her... you need to fight but fight with the tools I can provide you with... she will be with you... they all will be with her......”

“Tia what have you done?”

“Given you the power .. given you them all back the only... way... I could... I – I know what they meant to you.... how much Fluttershy meant to you... I'm so sorry Discord.. You have to go you have to travel now! He will come for Luna and I …”

“I can't leave you! I can save you!”

“NO!... Discord live …. find her.... fight..... this can not happen to another world... who knows how many have dissolved underneath him..bring me to Luna, I will encase us in a material even Grogar can not break... we will not be eaten by him... our souls can not be touched by the necromancer.”

“Luna's alive?!”

“Just, she has worse injuries than my own... we will heal behind our homemade barrier... but not be able to leave... when you come back... we will join your battle.... restore balance... and destroy him.”

I lay her next to her sister and she looked up at me horn glowing brilliantly with the inner light of her power. “Discord, one last thing I can leave you with is the knowledge of what you are to face. So... so you may live in this new world... so you will know how to find her.... so you will be able to succeed where... I …. haven't....”

I looked down into her violet eyes as she brought down her horn to give me a last parting gift. “ Now, go... and find her when she shows herself to you.... live... so … that … we can meet again....”

“Celestia … wait I know I've been the bad guy … I'm so sorry …. for what I've done in the past and for not being here for you now, for not being there for any of them....” She kissed my cheek, opened a rift and pushed me through, “Find her, come back and fight I will be here Luna and I will be here to fight with you... come back to us.. good luck!”

Then... blackness....then blackness turned to nothing and I was gone.

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