"Mom! Mom! Answer me please!" Autumn holds onto her mother's hand while calling out to her, hoping that she gets a sign that she's okay.

"Autumn!, we have to get out of here!" Candy yells at her friend.

Cerberus stood over the three, growling and snarling at them.

"I don't get it. Why is Cerberus acting this way?" Twilight questions as she looks for a way to get her friend to safety.

"I could explain it but I doubt she would want me to." A voice answers her.

Something pink and sticky is beneath Cerberus's paws, keeping him trapped in place. Discord appears next to Autumn.

"Uncle Discord? How-" Autumn starts before she is cut off by a bright light.

"Please do not worry everyone," Celestia says in a soothing voice, "we will take care of this incident and you can continue your festivities"

Luna has the three-headed dog in a large cage if magic, keeping him trapped inside.

"Princess Celestia," Twilight says greeting her former mentor. "What's going on? Do you know why Cerberus was acting this way?"

"Yes, I do. I could explain it but first, someone else has some explaining to do" She states look in Discord's direction.

Or at least where he used to be.

Autumn's POV

"Why'd you bring us here?" Candy asks uncle discord after we appear in what looks like an abandoned castle.

"Because we needed a place to talk without having Celestia or those other pesky elements listening," He says.

I look around and noticed that we left my mom behind.

"What about mom? She's hurt I need to get back to her!" I panic.

"She'll be fine. She's tougher than she looks. Plus she has her friends with her" Uncle smiles, "I came all this way to see you, can't you give your favorite uncle a smile?" He pulls a bouquet of Autumn crocuses from behind him. "I don't recommend touching them directly"

"Are you going to tell us the truth about our past?" I asked ignoring his attempt to make me smile.

"Yes of course. That is part of why I'm here" He sighs and throws the flowers away. "Ask away"

"Why did you save us?" I ask.

"I needed a new way to bring chaos into Equestria, and you and your friends needed another chance to live," He explains. "You said so yourself before you died. If you became my chaotic minions it would have been a win-win. But the experiments failed"

I thought back to what myself as Lillian said in our last breath.

"But, that was thousands of years ago. How come you still brought us back?" Candy chimes in.

Uncle looks away from us as if he was trying to avoid the question.

"I'm sure you saw it while you were in the spell, Autumn"

"Huh?" I tilt my head in confusion before I turn to Candy, "did you really not see it, Candy?" I ask her.

"See what?"

"The spell. I read an enchantment and-"

"Only you had that chance," Uncle says cutting me off. "No one else saw it"

"Only... Me?" I point to myself, "but, how did you know who you were Candy?"

"I didn't know until you brought it up. When you told me that you were someone else, and you were having the same dreams that I was. I kinda just...put two and two together" She explains.

"But why me? Why didn't you show Candy the same thing I saw?" I asked him.

"I don't know how to explain it but," Uncle says "you never died"

"What do you mean? I saw myself die. I was on the side of the road-"

"You were on the side of the road dying. Not dead but you were dying," Uncle cuts me off again, "when I got there everyone else was already gone. But you were unconscious"

"That still doesn't explain anything! Why am I different?"

"When the others died and came back they 'restarted'. They had no clue or sign of being different from anyone else" He gestures to Candy who was standing to the side obviously trying to process everything. "And you didn't have to restart. Because you never died. When you were younger what was your nickname?"

"What does this have to do with anything? I don't remember it!" I say getting frustrated with his words.

"I know you remember. What is it?"

"It was... Lillypad", I say quietly.

"And what was your old name?"

"It was-" I answer in an angry tone, about to start yelling again. But my angry voice became quiet when I realized what he was talking about.

"You refused to be called anything else but Lilly. You couldn't understand that your name was Autumn because you could still remember your old life. But as you grew older you started to rewrite your own memories. And pushed the old ones to the side, writing them off as simple dreams," He explains "because of this I thought you would be the best choice for the memories. Since you still have some of your own leftover"

I hold my head as if I was having a headache. This is all too much, I still don't understand why this is happening to us.

"You still didn't answer Candy's question. Why are we here?" My frown kept getting bigger.

"It...Was an idiotic idea. I'm sure you already saw what happened to Cerberus was not normal," We nod, "that was Typhon's doing"

"Typhon?" Candy questions.

"He's the threat that the Princesses were worried about right?" I asked "I heard about it in the memories"

"That's right"

~~~~~
3rd person

"Typhon doesn't agree with the ways Celestia chooses to rule" Luna explains to four of the elements in front of her. With Fluttershy unconscious and Rarity in canterlot

"So Discord wasn't the one behind Cerberus?," Dash questions.

"Discord may be a bit of a troublemaker, but he wouldn't do anything to hurt others... Anymore," Celestia says, mumbling the last part.

"Who is Typhon exactly?" Applejack asks.

"Typhon is...or was an alicorn." Luna says, " In fact, we grew up together. You could say that he's family"

"He was your brother?" Twilight asks.

"Yes, he was, thousands of years ago, when many alicorns roamed, our mother and father found him abandoned near a small village. His parents had left him behind to die. So our parents raised him one of their own," Celestia let a small smile through as she spoke, "Back then his name was Constel, named after the word Constellations. He was such a sweet child. He used to protect Luna where ever she went and followed after me because he wanted to 'be like his older sister', " Her smile turned into a frown, "I couldn't understand how he grew to be such a dark and dictatorial being"

"What...happened?" Applejack asked hesitantly.

"Because he wasn't our true blooded brother, he wasn't given a royal title. He was fine with it, as long as me and Luna were successful in protecting our subjects and upholding our names. But, after instances like Tirek, Discord and Sombra, he began to question our place as leaders. He decided that we needed to be more forceful and rule with an iron fist." Celestia explained.

"He wanted us to strike fear in everyone," Luna added bitterly.

"We said no of course, and he respected our decision, disappointedly, but he didn't push it. Well, until..."

"What?" Pinkie pressed.

"I became nightmare moon," Luna answered.

"After the night I had to banish Luna, Constel became furious"

"This is exactly why I wanted to do things my way!" Constel growled angrily, "if we had shown them that we deserve respect and gratitude then Luna wouldn't have..."

He trailed off and glared at the ground. Celestia who was bandaged up from fighting her sister walked over to him to place a hand on his shoulder.

"Brother I-"

"You what? Are you sorry? Sorry for not listening to me? Why don't you tell that to Luna!" He smacks her hand away from him.

They stood there in silence, Celestia too shocked to respond and Constel too angry to speak.

"You should have let her do it"

"What?" Celestia questions.

"Luna, you should have let her have her eternal darkness. Let her show them that she has just as much power as you do. That way she would have calmed down and the subjects would trip over themselves just to bow at her feet"

"It isn't right. We don't want them to fear us.
We're supposed to protect them. What you're suggesting is a dictatorship. That's not what Equestria is"

"Is that why you refuse to call yourself a queen. Are you afraid of scaring your little 'children'?" When he doesn't get a response he forces a laugh knowingly, "I get it now. This kingdom, this country is your makeshift family. You felt so lonely when father and mother died that you decided to take an entire country in as your children, with you as their caring and kind mother"

"That's not true! You and Luna are-"

"Just another part of the world you want to protect your children from. That's why you neglected Luna's feelings and allowed them to boil over to the point where you have to banish your own sister to the moon she loved so dearly"

"Constel-"

"Save it I don't want to listen to your excuses! Don't you see, you betrayed your family, but it doesn't matter, it's not like your my real sister-"

SMACK!

Constel's face was jerked to the side as Celestia's hand collided with it. His cheek burned red and his face was full of shock.

"Go to your room. That's an order" Celestia says forcefully.

"Didn't you hear me? You are not my sister you don't have the right to-"

"That's an order as the princess" She restates. She kept her eyes straight ahead as he walks past her, "we shall never speak of this again"

He stops walking but doesn't turn as he answers.

"Right..."

"After that, he didn't speak to me for weeks. I thought it would blow over like our usual arguments. But it didn't" Celestia looks up and sighs, "It just got worse. He started lashing out at everyone, and he would refuse to come out of his room for days at a time. I thought he was just grieving over Luna's banishment, but...he was actually planning"

"Planning? What was he planning?", Twilight questions.

"To overthrow me," Celestia says grimly, "His own older sister, He wanted to defeat me and take over Equestria. He learned nearly every forbidden spell he could. Life creation spells, The darkness spells that Nightmare moon used, Even some spells that could drain the life out of anyone he wishes. The most effective one was the spell that allows the user to create life"

"How effective?"

"Cerberus is one of his creations," the others gasp, "Cerberus isn't even the most powerful. In fact, he's the weakest"

"If he's the weakest, then there's more of them?!" Pinkie exclaims.

"Now that I think about it, The name Typhon sounds familiar," Everyone turns their attention to Twilight, "I read a book on mythology and different creatures and demons. If I'm correct then...We're in serious trouble"

Twilight rushes to a bookshelf and pulls out a book. She flips through the pages and stops on a page, sweat rolls down her face as she silently gasps.

"What is it Twilight?" Dash asked.

Twilight turns the book around to show a drawing of what looks like a human wearing a mask with horns coming out of it and two sets of bat wings coming out of his back.

"Typhon, the father of all monsters"

Author's Note

This chapter contained OOC discord.

Wow, this took a while to write. Hopefully, you liked it.

Next chapter: "The prince is gone"