Chapter 4: Creature

"Is this some sort of gag? Are you just trying to cover up that you are Discord's friend or 'minion' or something?" asked Twilight.

"N-no! It's not....it's....It's not a joke, trust me. I'm......from a different dimension. I don't know how to explain this to you all but..... Wait! I was a human in the other dimension!" said Crystal. She realised that they were giving weird looks. She sighed. "It's a weird alien thing with hands and feet and- just understand that I'm not from here."

"You're serious, aren't you?" asked Rarity. She didn't really want to question any further. It was either she was telling the truth and came here mistakenly or she escaped from a psych ward.

Before they could continue, a golden chariot appeared.

"Princess Celestia!" yelled Twilight as she covered her mouth.

The chariot landed on the ground. In the chariot, stood an alicorn that she had previously seen before when Discord brought her to the castle.

"My faithful student, I can see you and your friends did it." said Princess Celestia. Crystal was trying to walk properly with four hooves....and fell.

She looked around as if she was looking for something. And she was as she stared at Crystal.

"Are you alright, dear subject?" asked Celestia as she extended a hoof to her.

"I could only imagine what misery he brought among you." said Princess Luna as Crystal got up with Celestia's help.

Crystal went silent. Thinking of what he did...... what did he do?

"Uh-well, he did save me from a wolf made of wood." said Crystal

They all gasped. She looked at everyone and was confused with the sudden gasps. ".....was it something I've said?"

"You mean the 'Timberwolf'?" asked Twilight.

"Yes! That's what they were." said Crystal. "....I think."

They all looked back to the statue of the chaos god. It was obvious too that they couldn't believe it. The Lord of Chaos saved her?

"Before we get to that, may I ask for your name?" asked Celestia.

"My name is Crystal. Crystal Miamori." answered Crystal.

"We presume that you are not from here?" asked Luna.

"I'm from....... a different dimension? I can't explain. I tried." replied Crystal, gesturing to the mane six.

"How did you get here in the first place?" questioned Celestia. It was odd. This might be one of Discord's doings but, he was already set in stone. The chaos he had created had already vanished. It should have been already vanished. So it is quite confusing to her.

Crystal took out her portal gun, which attracted the attention of some of the princesses's royal guards as they pointed spheres at her. She quickly dropped it onto the ground.

"It's not a weapon! I swear, gentlemen! ........anyway, I used my portal gun to get here." she said, pointing to the gun on the ground.

"Hmm..... looking at your form, are you immortal?" asked Celestia.

"Uh....what makes you say that?" asked Crystal.

"Well, you are an alicorn. You do know that, right?" asked Celestia.

The others pointed their gaze towards Crystal.

"......uh yea. I'm immortal. I don't really know what an alicorn is but.....I think so?"

"Another alicorn?" said Rarity as she gazed in awe and confusion. The others were also very confused. Celestia then noticed that Crystal was starting to get a little jittery, might be because she's uncomfortable with the amount of attention she's getting.

"I suppose we should discuss the situation back at the castle. Right now, we should put Discord back in his spot in the gardens." said Celestia, changing the subject.

"Oooh! Can we have a party to celebrate us saving Equestria from Discord? Can we? Can we? I'll even decorate for the party! And host and bake... " begged a pink pony.

"Can't your party cannon do that for you?" asked Rainbow.

"I didn't say I was going to do all those things by hoof." she said as the six all laughed.

"I don't see why not" said Celestia, smiling at the pink pony.

"EEEEK! THIS IS GONNA BE SO EXCITING!" shrieked Pinkie.

They took a train to a place so called 'Canterlot'. Kinda sounds like an off-brand version of 'Camelot'. It was busy and crowded. But she couldn't deny that it's beautiful. The princesses brought Crystal along even though she didn't help with saving the day or anything.

They went to the royal castle. It was located into the sides of a tall mountain that overlooks Ponyville. Supposedly this was where the princesses lived and where Discord and Crystal teleported to. Princess Celestia was nice enough to let them hold the party in the castle ballroom.

Anypony and everypony were invited for the party. And because of the free invite, the party was packed to say the least.

Everyone was having fun at the party, which Celestia noted with a smile. But as she looked to the corner of the party, maybe not everypony.

Crystal, under a cloak, was scraping the floor and, well, bored. She didn't take notice of a white alicorn that was walking towards her.

"Is everything alright?"asked Celestia, startling the moping pony.

"H-huh? Oh, I-I'm fine." lied Crystal.

"You don't look fine.... You can tell me what's wrong" said Celestia, trying to comfort her

"I........" She sighed. "This is fun and all but, I need to find a way to get home."

"Is there a problem for you to go home?" asked Luna, puzzled with the situation.

"Well, I came here using my portal gun and well.....it's out of charge. So now I won't be able to go home." said Crystal. "And I had forgotten how to make one......okay maybe not forgotten. I didn't even try to remember it."

Celestia thought for a while. Suddenly something popped up in her mind. "You can stay here for awhile" suggested Celestia.

She sighed. "I guess I have no other choice now, do I?"

After the party, a few guards guided Crystal to her room. It was quite large and fancy. But she couldn't care one bit. She was still homesick. One of the guards told her to get ready and go for dinner. Crystal just nodded and closed the door.

She sat herself down onto the soft bed. She couldn't take it anymore. She laid front face on her pillow and groaned in frustration. Suddenly she heard a knock at the door.

She lifted her face off the damn pillow. "Come in." she said.

Princess Celestia came into the room. "Are you ready for dinner?"

".....sure." was all she replied with. Celestia could tell by her tone that she was upset.

Crystal got up and walked out of her room with Celestia guiding her through the castle by her side.

"So....Crystal?"

"Hmm?"

"I dare not pry into your personal businesses but, may I ask you a few questions? It'll help pass time. Really, this is a big castle." asked the princess.

Crystal smiled at that. Damn, Princess got humour. She nodded. "Sure, go ahead."

"Where were you when Discord picked you up?" asked the princess. It was clear that she was puzzled at how Discord was able to even spot her.

Crystal looked at Celestia with a puzzled look of her own. Even she didn't know.

"....I don't know, actually. Well, I was beside a...gelatin road that had candy canes and whatever nonsense sprouting along it. I think I was also beside a forest. Can't really tell since everything was deformed and weird lookin'." replied Crystal.

"Could be the Everfree forest. There's only one known forest there, anyway. Besides that, how was he towards you? How did you end up with.....him? As in, what made him hold on to you?"

"Well, he seemed okay for a 'villain'. Wait was he a villain? I don't know. Anyway, he spotted me while I was taking in the view of said town, like really you need to take in the view before you actually take in the view. Can't blame me, everything was weird looking. You could say I was scared, so I did what any other rational person would do, I tried to escape and run away. But I then soon found out that he could teleport with the meer snap of his talon." She huffed. "Personally he looked like he was showin' off."

"After that, he- now that was the part that you all watched just now in the castle. The part that Discord showed you. Yeah, that's the part. And well.....yea. That's it."

Celestia took a while to process the given information. Seems....like Discord to her.

".....well then. I guess that settles my questions. Those were the only questions that I wanted to ask you anyway. Don't know whether Luna would have any. We should really go for dinner now." said Celestia, as she smiled.

"Oh, right Princess." agreed Crystal.

The dinner was fancy, to say the least. Although Crystal didn't really eat much.

She didn't really have any appetite. After everything, she just felt really worn out.

After dinner, Celestia was getting ready for bed, Luna went for her night shift, and Crystal, well, instead of following her gut to sleep, she instead decided to have a short stroll through the gardens.

After a few minutes of walking all over the castle to find the garden and gave up trying as she flew outta her role window to find the garden easily, she was finally there and trying as hard to possible to be stealthy.

When she reached the garden, she heard voices and weird sounds coming from a specific area. She landed onto the ground and followed the sound. While following it, she clumsily stepped onto a stick, making it snap. Which, obviously, got the attention of the source of the voices as lights were shone in her direction.

"Who's there?!" yelled a royal guard with a flashlight that he held with his magic as he turned around. His friend was also holding a flashlight of his own in his mouth. After looking around and seeing nothing, they turned back to what they were doing in the first place. Placing Discord on his platform in the gardens.

".....phew." she whispered as she held onto her invisibility spell for a while more. She was relieved that she wasn't seen or caught snooping around.

After a few minutes, they were done. They both left with an accomplished sigh as they walked away. After they were not visibly around anymore, Crystal dropped her spell with a drop of sweat rolling down her forehead. She wiped it away as she walked over to the statue confidently, thinking that no one was there.

When she reached the statue, she looked into his eyes. His eyes clearly shows fear, something new to see out of him from her. She dragged a hoof along his tail and scales. A chill crawled down her spine. What is he?

"What are you?" asked Crystal the statue as if he could answer back.

"He's a draconequus." replied a familiar feminine voice.

Crystal turned around to see Princess Celestia walking up to her.

"Oh, princess! Sorry, I, uhm, just needed some fresh air." told Crystal to the princess.

"Before we get into that, I must say that you are really good at it when it comes to stealth." she smirked. "And also, an invisibility spell? Where did you learn magic? How did you learn magic?"

"Hehe. Well, what's the big deal anyway? It's just a spell. How hard could it be?

"Invisibility spell may not seem hard to you, but for an adult unicorn this spell needs rime to practice and perfect. It's a high level spell, you know."

"Oh, um, I don't really learn about magic. My magic is, I dunno, different? In terms. Unicorn and alicorn magic uses spells, right?" asked Crystal. The princess nodded. "My magic is powered by this amulet." she said as she lifted her amulet with her hoof a little. "I found it in the forest when I was a child. It was actually how I came to be. Without it, I don't even know if me nor my sister would even be here today."

"Ah....so you're a magic user in your own dimension as well?" asked Celestia.

"Yep, hehe." replied Crystal.

"Interesting." said Celestia.

"Heh, uh thanks?" said Crystal, not knowing what else to say.

As she thought about the situations beforehand, a question popped into mind.

"So, Princess. I wanna ask, uh, what is a draconequus and who is Discord?" asked Crystal.

"Well, in summary, a draconequus is a creature with the head of a pony, and a body made up of all sorts of things. It used to be a well-known species, but thousands of years ago, it became extinct. This was due to the war between draconequui and ponies long ago."

So it's basically the pony version of the world war? Ok then.

"Discord, is the spirit of chaos and disharmony who once ruled over Equestrian in a state of unrest and unhappiness, until Luna and I used the elements of harmony to imprison him in stone. However, after Luna and I lost out connection to the Elements, the spell was broken and Discord broke free." Celestia continued.

"Until the mane six, bearers of the elements of harmony, finally captured him and imprisoned him back into stone." finished Celestia.

"The mane six?" asked Crystal, puzzled

"The six ponies, Twilight Sparkle, Applejack, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, Rarity and Pinkie Pie are the mane six. Each of them represents an element. Twilight is magic, Applejack is honesty, Fluttershy is kindness, Rainbow is loyalty, Rarity is generosity and Pinkie is laughter." explained Celestia.

"But when I saw them the first time they were all dull and the complete opposites of their elements. I have a feeling that's Discord's doing?" said Crystal.

"Glad you caught on. It was right in front of his muzzle anyway, so obviously he won't let an opportunity like that go to waste." said Celestia. "He is a being of pure chaos and disharmony. It's just fate waiting to happen that the mane six would be his next target. It was just a matter of when and how."

"I guess....but he didn't let me get eaten by the timberwolf though."

"He may be pure chaos and disharmony, but he might still have a heart afterall." said Celestia. "Hopefully."

A yawn escaped from Crystal as Celestia smiled.

"You should go ahead and sleep, Crystal." said Celestia softly.

"Yea. I guess so. Thanks, Princess."

When she reached her room, she dug into her saddlebag for a book. When she found it, she pulled it out. It was a sketchbook. The cover's skin looked pretty ripped up as dust covered it. She blew the dust off as she digged into her saddlebag again for a pen.

She brought the book and the pen up to the table that the bag was sitting under and flipped it open.

And just as the tip of the pen hit a page that she flipped to, she stopped and sighed. "Fuckin' hell I'm tired and out of ideas." she said as she put her pen down and closed her book with a frown.

She then got up from the chair she sat in by the table and walked to the bed. She jumped onto it and made herself comfy. All she gotta say is 'DAT PILLOW THICC' and the bed itself was comfy as hell. And just before she shut her eyes...

"Goodnight Max....... Goodnight Discord." she whispered quietly as she slowly drifted to sleep.

Author's Note

Hope you all like it:)