The Everfree Chronicles: Altered Chances

"We may be through with the past, but the past ain't through with us." - Nightshade

As the sun slowly crept its way into my chambers from the crack in the door leading to the balcony, the small rays of light land on my face, mainly my eyes as the blinding irritation slowly gets on my nerves until I finally yawn myself to partial alertness as my eyes open up just a crack to get blinded by the sun. I grumbled as I rolled out of bed before going around to give a light kiss on the cheek as Nightmare Moon cutely mumbled before moving the covers to cover her eyes from the sun.

Moving over to the slightly open door, I moved the handle till it closed all the way and sighed as I felt like utter crap, the sun already on my nerves for waking me up rudely as I slowly moved at a snails pace toward the kitchens for a helping dose of 'wake-me-up' elixir of black coffee.

"I'd settle for a few castings of revitalizations with a side of snuggles from Moon if we ran out of coffee already..." grumbling more as the sun creeps its way into the halls from the slimmest of cracks and each ray of light only makes the march worse and worse as my irritation gets to its breaking point.

"Horseapples....what a headache....this is what Celestia must feel like after she gets through with the upstart nobles that come up to her for their stupid requests...." I said as I trotted past the barracks with a few guards walking in and out as the posts are swapped out for the day.

"Hey Nightshade how-" Greaves said as I watched him for a moment stretch himself out as his wings flutter open knocking off loose feathers from his wings.

"Can't talk." I said as I rounded the corner and resumed where I left off, "Need Coffee."

As I find myself to the kitchens I smiled weakly as the coffee pot is resting in its holster, filled to the brim with rich black energy, just begging to be placed in a mug to be drunk. And just as I got to the pot I smelled something foul and revolting but I paid it no heed as I levitated my favorite '#1 Pony' mug and poured myself a mugs worth of the dark liquid and when I took a sip I gagged and placed both the pot and mug down on the counter.

"Gah! Oh, gods, what the hell kind of crappy coffee is this? It tastes like someone filtered this with an overly sweaty gym sock!" I shouted as one of the guards came over to see what it was and he found what was the cause and showed me the box the coffee came from.

"Is this really what the zebra's really drink? Damn this is rank, but it sure as buck forces the consumer to wake up...now I need to spend the next thirty minutes cleaning the taste off my tongue...."

Later That Day

"Okay class that is enough, let us move on with the class lesson." Mrs. Cheerilee says aloud as her class reforms itself and follows after her, the three fillies in the very back continue to argue about what the last statue was about, not once regarding their squabbling being the key to its occupant's release.

Watching the class walk away from the statue I made my way over to it, disguised as a janitor and picking up pieces of paper and other trash that I find with a sharpened stick and placing the collected trash in a bag for disposal as my thoughts are currently directed at the statue of the infamous Discord, the friend of my father and sadly my uncle who never showed up at any of my birthdays.

Walking up to the statue I can see a few cracks are randomly spaced out, my eyes tracing a few of the cracks and to my surprise they started to expand and grow and eventually I heard the tall tell sign of criminally insane laughter in the darkest corner of my mind and it was only than did I hear his voice for the first time.

"Ah haha haha haha haha, yes finally, my imprisonment is so close to being over! And do we have here? A janitor pony picking up garbage for another ponies pleasure in a clean garden, oh why would you even do such a thing?"

"Yes, obviously I am doing this for those stupid ponies no, I am doing this as a means to an end, and you Discord, is my end."

"And just who are you my little cleaning pony would believe that I would help you?"

"Because I am your nephew Discord, my god don't you ever remember anything about what my father has told you? I swear your mind must be filled with nothing but candy and cheese doodles all the time." I shouted as the statue of Discord started to crumble before my eyes and before long it completely disintegrated into dust and standing before me was Discord in all of his chaotic glory.

Watching Discord stretch after his long time stone imprisonment, and watching another dude stretch and contort his body in different shapes forced me to avert my eyes as I realized that the both of us were standing in the open and that at any moment Celestia would appear to see that Discord is free and more than likely sense my magic signature and probably tear me apart with her mind so this was the worst possible moment for me.

"Uncle, its time for us to go, I rather not stay in one place longer than I need to and that you are now free we can now overthrow Luna and Celestia to take over Equestria for ourselves." I said with a deep evil grin and my uncle, who my father regarded as a trusted friend looked down at me before laughing insanely before teleporting off, leaving me behind and nearly getting caught by a small contingent of guards that came over to find the source of evil laughter to find an empty garden and a missing statue surrounded by rock bits, which leaves me hiding inside a bush to avoid getting caught.

Poking my head out of the bush and taking a quick glance around and seeing that the coast is clear I clambered out of the bush and brushed myself off of the dirt, twigs and leaves from my mane and janitor's jacket. Thinking that I am home free I started to make my way out and around the castle gardens, hoping to avoid detection by the solar tyrant and her poor misguided sister and any other unicorn that knows about detection magic.

Trotting at a normal pace I came to the front gate and simply walked out like I owned the place, smiling to myself as I felt the weight of the world get lifted off my back and before long I was halfway into Canterlot when I saw the train pull up into the station and out came Twilight Sparkle and her motley crew of friends, all of them galloping past me towards the castle, my guess is that they will use the elements of harmony on Discord to seal him again, and seeing how they were running with all possible haste I can tell that watching them try will be enjoyable and with that I made my way back home to grab a few things.

2 Hours Later

Placing my lawn chair down on the ridge alongside the one I placed for a certain someone followed by my telescope, a cooler filled with soda, sandwiches, and even a champagne bottle for if what I am thinking happens and the elements of harmony are rendered permanently useless. Taking my seat down on my chair and casting a glance at the ghostly form of Nightmare Moon, a pair of ghost sunglasses resting on her muzzle as she relaxes and sighs happily as we both watch Celestia talking to the girls, I think explaining who Discord is and what he is capable of, but when she stopped and took an assertive stance I only let out a mocking laugh and zoomed in onto the moving window piece that is Discord working his magic. The way he is messing with their little heads is priceless and just watching it all happen is one hell of a way to enjoy a day that will mark as a preemptive victory for us.

Putting my eye to the lens to see what was going on I smirk evilly as I watch the spectacle unfold before me. "Oh honey look, they are heading to the hedge maze now....wonder what they are...okay I see them talking.....they just lost their horns and wings....and now they just got separated by hedges...wow good job Discord." clapping my hooves together happily as I watched the six mares rush off down the path before them, laughing a bit as they all hit dead-ends and only become more and more lost in the hedge maze. Discord on the other hand is no where to be seen and only after looking up and down the garden area and the exterior of the castle did I make a mental note that Discord is the master of hide-and-seek so actively searching for him would be redundant and a waste of time.

"Hmm it seems that yokel of a mare has fallen for one of Discord's tricks."

"Really? Where is Applejack located?" turning my telescope to where my lovely pointed to, and with the assistance of having her hooves gripping my head and tilting it a bit to finally find Applejack, I started to laugh as three piles of different colored apples started to dance around and talk. "Oh this is rich! Of course she would fall something like that!"

As the mares continued their galloping and eventually turning against their true self by Discord's chaotic magic, we laughed and smiled with sadistic glee that our enemies, the only ones that could truly stop us were turning on one another and it was soon enough that only Rainbow Dash and Twilight Sparkle remained their true selves.

"I can't believe Rarity believes that giant rock is a diamond! Oh ho the generous is now the hoarder, the truth teller is the spontaneous liar, the happy-go-lucky, downright rude and the shyest mare on the planet is a raging bitch! Can this day get any better!" I said with evil glee and it was at that moment did something happen. A grey blur flew past us at breakneck speeds leaving behind a grey rainbow and an overturned umbrella.

"Well...looks like those mares lost. The elements are now useless against us and Discord, which now means we can not be stopped just short of getting killed, but we both know that Celestia and Luna don't have it in themselves to go that extra step...but we do." smirking to Moon as the hedge maze collapsed on itself steadily revealing the five mares and Discord in the middle of a large dirt bowl.

Taking the telescope around and zooming in I smiled as he started talking to them, his lips moving and just from reading Twilight's facial expression of shock and utter defeat told me that she made a mistake and when I looked back at Discord he pulled out an umbrella for some strange reason and upon opening it the fabric unfolded inside-out and that was when things started to get weird.

Large pink clouds rolled in out of no where and it started to rain chocolate milk and that it was constantly switching from day to night and back to day every five minutes told us that this was not part of the plan for us both.

"Uh....Discord shouldn't be doing that.....Equestria is ours to rule not for him to turn into his little.. ..oh...my.. ...bucking... .....god............" I said quietly as my eyes fell onto the sight of my beloved Everfree Forest transform into a complete and utterly sugary abomination.

"DISCORD! Nightmare Moon yelled as she got covered in chocolate milk rain and turned her partial ghost silhouette into a muddy colored illusion.

"DISCORD!" I shouted as I watched my forest turn into a candy cane monstrosity as every single tree trunk went from hard oak and yew to mint-flavored candy cane with chocolate chips as the leaves.

I grabbed the a rag that was under the umbrella at the time of the chocolate shower and levitated it over to Moon who was busy sulking on her lawn chair, clearly unamused by what Discord just did but she can clearly see the raging inferno going on in my eyes and she can only sigh and shake her head sadly, pitying Discord for what I am about to do to him.

"Nightshade...sweetie...what are you thinking of doing to Discord?"

"He just messed with my home...I allowed him to remain free because of the distractions I created to give him time to set up, I told him that we can stay at peace as long as he doesn't do anything that would ruin my plans and yet he does it anyways....this is where I draw the line. Go back to the castle and wait for my return...and expect a cream pie to be slammed on my face...or anything comical for that matter." I said as I flared out my wings and materialized my armor and rushed off towards the giant dirt bowl my eyes focusing on the only thing that my rage fueled mind can only see.

And just as I was about to ram right into the little bucker he hops into the air and vanishes, leaving me with ramming head first into muddy chocolate, and straight up embarrassing myself in front of my enemies. Yanking my head out of the mud and forcibly levitating my helmet out of the dark chocolate soupy mixture and slapping the muddy residue out of it and as I placed it upon my head I turn to face the five mares, minus Rainbow Dash, who quite literally just dashed away as a traitor to all five of her friends.

"Well...this is surely odd timing....I can clearly see you met my uncle Discord, master of all that is terrible jokes and puns, and also the master of being a real peckerface." I said as I took my helmet off to slap more chocolate mud out and as I slipped it back onto my head I felt something wetly smack me on the back of the helmet, and turning to see who it was I was faced with another glob of mud.

"Nightshade! Girls quickly we can't let him-"

"Yes yes I heard this before, blah blah I am evil, blah blah threat to Equestria, blah blah we will destroy you, blah blah harmony will be restored. I get it, you hate me." I said while rolling my eyes, clearly remembering all the cliché sentences that the hero's usually say to the villain. "But this time its different, I need your hel....I need your hel-" I tried to say 'help' to Twilight but it was coming at as if I was tongue-tied to something foolish or that my tongue inflated by one of Discord's tricks.

"You need our help? And with what exactly? Taking over Equestria is out of the question." Twilight said with a defiantly smug grin, thinking that I came here just to ask them to betray their own nation.

"No not that! Cause if it was that than this would have been way to easy for me and that I would be trotting into a trap! No, I am talking about helping me take down Discord." I said growling at them, Twilight's stupidity showing at what I think is one of the worst possible moments in the history of Equestria.

"And why should we help you?" she said still clearly not convinced of what I am thinking of as I just stared at her like I just said something so stupid that I needed to be smacked for even saying it aloud.

I facehoofed at that question as I trotted up to Twilight, grabbed her head with my hooves and than pointed to the chocolate rainstorms, the candy cane forest of the Everfree, the freakishly tall rabbits and also the crazy weather.

"Oh..." Twilight says as her ears fold back and she shyly rubs the back of her head with a hoof, somewhat feeling stupid as to why she said that.

"Yes, that is the reason why, would you rather live in a world where Discord is in charge or would you live in one where its just Equestria and the Everfree fighting for control and eventually peace is restored?"

"Sadly...I see your point." she said dejectedly as I grinned widely and gave a hoof pump to the sky.

"YES! I finally got someone to say that! Take that Greaves you owe me 15 bits!"

Twilight just looks at me funny for a while before I calmed down and returned to my superior self and motioned for them to make with the walking home as I followed behind them, sticking close to Twilight.

"You know that your carrying a boulder right?" I said as she stopped for a moment to give me a cold stare from her lower point of view.

"I know..." she said as I merrily shrugged and resumed walking alongside her.

Ponyville Outskirts, Chaos Standard Time

The walk from Canterlot to Ponyville was annoying already, the dancing buffalo and tall critters was terrible, but the constant irregular shifting of night and day was driving me crazy!

"I swear to the spirits above and below....if that sun rises again within the next thirty seconds I am going to murder Discord with my mind!" I shouted as the sun once again rose over a hill than quickly retreated a minute later to be replaced by the moon.

After a good few minutes of more walking the moon was replaced with the sun and I sighed in relief to finally have a somewhat normal time interval of day and night at exactly five minutes from sun up to sun down and repeat, the bad news was that I cant sleep on exactly five minutes.

"I wonder....what is Discord doing at this exact moment. Nightshade do you have any ideas?"

Looking at the sky than back at the ground to give it some thought I shrugged and kept on going, "If I was Discord I would be turning everything that is normal into something that would make even the most wisest of ponies scratch their heads in confusion....that or just annoy the hell out of them for defying every single law of physics known to ponies." I said while keeping my eyes peeled for the mismatched uncle of chaos.

Thinking of where he could possibly be I started to wonder what his plans are for Equestria and the world, and by plans I mean what he is doing at this exact moment in time.

The end result was disturbing.

"Uh....Twilight....when did Ponyville get a checkerboard style road?"

"It never did...why do you ask?"

"Because were stepping on it...and when did it get covered in whoa!" I shouted as I slipped on the road, my body spinning out of control before I ended up crashing into a bush head first and came out the other end with a pie on my face.

As I opened my eyes to see the creamy white frosting drip off of my nose and to feel my hooves barely brush against the grass below me I felt something crack beneath me as I fell to the side of the bush and landed face first on another cream pie, my anger was quickly rising until finally I heard two ponies laughing behind me.

"I hate you Discord!!!!!!!" I shouted just as I burst into black flames, the pies, bush and tree bursting into fiery splinters and the six mares behind me jumped back from the sudden explosion that I created.

By the time the wind came by and blew away the smoldering embers and leaving me behind as I stood their simmering and smoking next to a pile of ashes and fresh glass. And as I stood their raging quietly to myself I started to think of happy thoughts of the things I am going to do once I am ruling Equestria with my beloved Moon, and the first thing would be taking Discord's statue and burying it so far underground so that it will never be seen again.

"Nightshade...are you okay?"

"Yes Twilight....I am....just a little spontaneous combustion is all....an angry, spontaneous combustion..." I said while shaking my head of any soot that has lingered on me from the breeze that had strangely came by but I am not going to question normal weather, especially after what it did to save me last time.

Looking at the road I placed a hoof on it and gave it some weight to find it sliding a bit forward and when I brought it to my face for a sniff check I found it to be odorless but upon a taste test I ended up spitting and gagging from how horrible it was.

"Wow, I really mean it wow, Discord putting dish soap on the road...lots and lots of dish soap...so now his plan involves turning roads into one colossal slip-n-slide fun park...he has truly lost his mind if he is doing this....that or this is just something small compared to what he is about to d-" I said but was cut off by me bumping into Twilight who for no reason stopped trotting forward but when I looked to see what was the cause of it I just stared in awe and fear.

As I stared at the sight before me, my eyes trailing up from the checker-spotted and dish-soap lubed road, my eyes going up to the sight of houses upside down, floating in the air, I saw buffalo's wearing tutu's and dancing around, rabbits with obscenely long legs roaming around and overall chaos happening within and outside of Ponyville.

"Wow...I am so glad that his not my hometown anymore...well look on the bright side Twilight, if things don't work out here than you can you always go back to Canterlot to wait for the darkness to take over the world that.....or you can just give me that glare and try to defeat Discord with your friends being as they currently are..." I said as Twilight simply glared at me the entire time I was talking but upon entering the town I felt severely strong chills racing up my spine as I can feel something watching me.

"Ever get that feeling that something evil is watching you?" I said as we all walked into the town square, watching the chaos unfold around us.

"Besides you? No...why?" Twilight said back as I stuck my tongue out at her, the mare simply can't appreciate evil at its finest.

"I don't really know....it is just that I have this funny feeling that something is about to happen....five bits says that Discord makes a dramatic appearance to greet us home." I pointed to the obviously out-of-place cannons and restrained balloons, than looking to see if he was going to make his entrance now I kept going forward until I was on the other side of the square only to be disproved.

Sighing and lowering my head I levitated the five bits over to Twilight who looked smug about me being wrong, and seeing how Discord must be saving those for later, or maybe Pinkie placed those for when they returned victorious that she would throw them a party....either way I was proven wrong.

Grumbling angrily to myself I dragged my hooves along the checkered road toward my old home, wanting to see if it was just like the rest of the town, upside down and floating and probably riddled with pranks just for me waiting to happen. As I arrived at my home I found it to be somewhat like the rest of the town, except it wasn't upside down but it has been through a color dye job, it went from its pale baby blue to a neon pink and green swirl, and I felt a bit sick seeing it all over the walls since I grew up inside that building and to see it desecrated made me want to strangle Discord a bit more than I wanted to a few minutes ago.

Flapping my wings a bit to get to my old home I lifted myself off the corrupted floor to rise to the floating mini-island and landed gracefully before making my way to the door to find it missing in action. At first I found it odd that the door was missing from the frame but upon entering my old home I found it even more strange that the clock was upside down, the table was on the left wall, the cushions on the right where the stairs are, and lastly the potted plant we had is on the ceiling fan.

"Mother? Father? Lil bro? Scoots? Where are you? I swear that if this is a prank than I am going to cut off your horns Discord!" I shouted as no words came back to me in the form of a response but instead I get nothing. Snorting a bit in anger that my own family would ignore my return I started my search first in the kitchen only to make a hasty retreat when the toaster inside started firing burnt toast at me, and one piece of said burnt toast managed to impale itself on my horn and just as I got around the corner I looked up to see the burnt slice of bread and flaring my horn I removed the piece of ruined wheat and after thinking it over quickly I brought it to my hungry maw and consumed it with extreme prejudice.

It was good, but if it had jam would have been better.

Ignoring that arrant thought I proceeded up the stairs to my old room and to my parents room, thinking that they are cowardly hiding away somewhere, maybe not Scootaloo hiding but more like using my room as the last line of defense or something. Just as I was halfway up the stairs it strangely turns into a slide and just as I started to slide backwards I spread open my wings and flapped them a few times and got airborne and flew the rest of the way up and landed not so gracefully since the hall was not meant for my wings to be flying in, the resulting impact of my wings hitting the edges was me landing on my chest.

'I swear when this is over I am going to be burying a statue or a corpse...' my inner voice said as I pushed open the door to my parents room only to partially close my eyes as I find it to be as empty as the goodness in my heart.

'That we can agree on...' I said alone to myself as I closed the door behind me and went to check on my brother's room to find it equally empty.

Huffing in growing anger I slowly made my way to my room but the closer I got to it the more I felt dread slowly creeping up my body, the feeling itself slowly unnerved me and when I placed my hoof on the doorknob did I realize the mistake I made but was to late to close it shut as I saw the four figures before me.

In the far corner of my old room, holding one another tightly, was my family, except, that each one was in a terrified pose and all of them were made of marble, all turned to stone in sheer, bloody terror written clearly on their faces as the edges of my mane started to shift from its ethereal form into one of pure inky black flames.

When I first saw the statues I thought it was just a prank on me by Discord but as I got closer I saw that it was no prank and that they were real as I was. I felt a stone drop in my gut as I felt tears sting the edges of my eyes forcing me to look away at first in sadness, than in pain, than finally in broken defeat as the dark blaze that is now my mane fully engulfs my form as the floor beneath me crackles from overwhelming pressure and near-instantaneously I exploded out through the roof into the sky in a fury that has never before seen in the past one thousand years.

Meanwhile Elsewhere, Everfree Castle

Nightmare Moon's POV

By the time I had returned to my bedchambers I felt lonely that my Nighty was off chasing that pig faced monster for trying to interrupt with our plans for unifying Equestria under a single banner of the real moon and bring an eternal night to everyone so they can see for themselves that the night is truly a beautiful sight to behold. Throwing myself onto our bed and resting my weary head on the overly large fluffed up pillows as I waited eagerly for his return, victorious and with Discord's head on a gilded silver platter but the dreary sight of candy forest made me gag in disgust that my old friend would revert to his old self so quickly after being placed in his prison.

And it was at that moment did I feel the magic in the air grow thick and the pressure it was exerting on everything was causing the two guards outside the room to falter and kneel to the ground that I thought at first it was in pain but what I felt next was that they were giving themselves away to somepony and it was at that exact moment did I see outside of my window a large spire of black flames rise in the direction of Ponyville.

The cry that followed it told me everything that I needed to know and it was something that made me proud and afraid.

"Please be safe."

Back in Nightshade's Old Home

'BUCKING KILL HIM! TEAR HIM APART LIMB FROM BLOODY LIMB! MAKE HIM SUFFER ETERNALLY!' my mind shouted as I shot myself out of my home right through the ceiling and the roof, my entire body coated in black flames that was leaving behind a trail of flames and embers as I arced towards the sound of Discord's voice.

'He will not escape from me....justice will be met out by our hooves and ours alone!'

My eyes scanned all of Ponyville and in only a scant second I saw Discord give a single fist pump in victory as I watched Twilight Sparkle slink back to her home, now completely grey and dragging her hooves and tail across the cobblestone road in defeat, the rest of the elements going their separate ways, leaving behind their respectable element behind on the floor.

'THEY FAILED TO SEAL AWAY DISCORD! DESTROY HIM NOW AND FOREVER CLAIM YOUR RIGHT AS RULER OF EQUESTRIA!'

Flying straight at Discord, I angled my head as to where my horn would act as a spear and that the flames surrounding it would cause his insides to melt and boil away till their was nothing left but ashes and burnt flesh hanging off my horn and when I watched his eye trace the resulting fiery inferno that I left behind in my fury did he notice that I was coming right at him, the sun was partially blocking his sight of me but the black flames served him well enough to see me.

In time to take my horn into his chest and the force behind it plowing him through a tree along with a food cart. I was roaring in a blood curdling rage that by the time Discord dislodged me from his chest did the damage start to take its toll on him as he used his special brand of magic to heal and seal up the wound but it did nothing but give me another chance to kill him.

"Okay now, take it easy nephew, we can talk this out. I know you are probably mad about the whole thing of me turning your precious forest into delicious candy canes but it doesn't mean you have to rip my head--" he was cut off as I made my two-hooved sword appear as I gripped it with my fangs and swung at his head and missing by just inches.

Taking another swing followed by three more he dodged each one but each swing was getting closer and closer to his throat and eventually this turned into a game of cat-and-mouse, and I was winning.

"Come on now sonny! Take it easy! This isn't funny anymore and I know funny when I see it, calm yourself or Uncle Dizzy is gonna send you to time ou--" I cut him off again by bringing the sword over my body before crashing it down by his feet, splitting the stone beneath the blade and destroying the blocks near it as they splinted from the shockwave of the impact.

"YOUR DEAD!" my mind shouted out as I let it take control and sat back to watch the carnage that was going to release on the poor fool that is my uncle.

"Oh dear..." was all he said before he flew back in time to avoid the sword that nearly created a new hole in his stomach.

At that moment in time that Twilight reverted back to her original self and was using the scrolls she got back from her teacher and using that knowledge to free her friends from the curse that Discord placed on each one. And by the time they got to Rarity and when we both passed in front of her store did the large boulder get tossed right out a window nearly crushing the both of us as I shouted out in anger.

"HEY! NO KILL STEALING!"

But of course the mares inside didn't seem to hear that as they chased down their other friends to relieve them of the corruptive powers that is chaos. Our fighting eventually led us all the way back to Canterlot and straight through the castle, the guards already on high alert for Discord but when they see him flying right at them they braced for impact and for the worse but when he flew by them they scratched their heads only to get thrown aside as I flew past them with heated speed.

Each time we turned a corner I took a swing that resulted in the destruction of a flower pot or some guards spear and/or helmet, and every single time I took a swing Discord tried to say something to try and calm me down but it only resulted in me taking a swing at his tail but with each swing the tail fluff starts to look more and more ragged.

By the time we got to the throne room Celestia was waiting for him but when he flew behind her and held onto her like a shield and closing the doors with magic I just slammed through them, leaving an alicorn-sized hole of molten metal and wood.

"See! I told you he is bat shit crazy! He is trying to kill me just for turning his home into a floating island as a joke!" Discord said to Celestia who than looked at me as if I went over the deep end of the morality scale over a joke.

"Out of the Celestia, this is between me and Uncle, and I will not be shedding your blood today, not if I can help it but for no get the buck out of the way before I run you through just to kill that motherbucker!" I roared back as I started to slowly make my way to the throne but Celestia's and Luna's guards create a phalanx of spears and shields in front of me, goading me to keep going into the wall of metal.

"Yes, I see that now Discord, now stop using me as a wall between you and that traitor, and Nightshade, you should be ashamed of yourself, if Luna can see--"

"Don't you bucking dare use her name you whorse, all Nightmare Moon wanted was the appreciation of the ponies she protected, to have them to love the night she works so hard to create and all of you just threw it away when it was time to rest your heads to sleep! I stayed awake for several hours and days to enjoy the night she made for us all. But you, tyrant of the sun, you ignored your younger sister's pleas for change and those simple changes could have prevented all of this." I yelled out while waving my hoof at everything that is happening around everyone.

"Because of me? It was the corruption within Luna that forced my hoof to banish her to the moon for a millennia alone and you blame me for it?"

"YES! I do blame you for it! While you went about ruling Equestria and gained the love and admiration of the ponies around you, your shadow fell over Luna and as you kept gaining all the glory and love for running Equestria alone it was only making Luna's sadness grow more and more until it was to late to prevent the outcome of your inept failure as a sister to watch over your little one! I knew you were lamenting over the lose of your little Luna because your inaction to help her when she needed you most has caused her banishment and for me to stand by her side, making me the one to pick up the pieces that you created."

Looking at Discord I snorted hard enough for eerie black flames to project themselves outward burning the carpet beneath me and when I took a step forward the guards tightened up their formation and took a step forward themselves only to incite a laugh from me.

"Last chance Celestia, remove your guards and yourselves from my path and none of you may die, besides Discord of course, his head will be mounted over my fireplace in the royal bedchamber....maybe even a gift to Moon. Move or Die, those are your only options." and when none of them moved I sighed softly before getting a firm grip on my heavy sword and got myself into a charging stance, the guards themselves brace themselves for the inevitable impact that never came.

Charging forward at the wall of shields and spears I kept my piercing glare on Discord the entire time and as I was within mere inches of the wall I leapt into the air and using my magic I teleported behind the phalanx and galloped right at Celestia and before she had a chance to defend herself I thrust my heavy blade at her, the metal sinking deep into her throne, missing her head by three inches on her left. The stab missed Discord but it caused him to flee by flashing away into thin air, but that stab also had a second reason behind it.

Throughout the entire room everypony stood their silent as the grave as they just watched me nearly kill their leader without being stopped by her own detachment along with her sister's best guards, but they all saw that my attacked missed her on purpose.

Leaning close to her left ear I whispered quietly enough just so only she can hear it.

"It is not your time yet to die by my hooves my little mare." and with that I blew into her ear before teleporting myself out as well before reappearing outside of Ponyville, just next to the edge of my precious forest.

"Now...where could he be..." I said to myself as I watched a re-harmonized Rainbow Dash fly overhead followed by her friends in a hot-air balloon, and each of them were back to themselves and were wearing their elements.

Thinking on what I just saw I shrugged at first before having it hit me like a ton of bricks that my enemies are back to their old selves and that they were now once again a real threat and that Discord was going to be reverted back to his prison before I had a chance to enact my revenge on him.

Flaring my wings and launching myself into the air I tracked after my ex-allies with all haste as to avoid them sealing him away before I had a chance to stab him through for turning my family into marble.

Upon arriving behind the mares I can see him taunting them by creating a target on his chest and with his eyes closed, simply thinking that it wouldn't work again since it obviously failed the first time, but what the mares didn't know was that I was standing right behind them all and just as they started to float in the air by their necklaces and crown I stormed under them, the sound of my hooves thumping on the rough ground nearly muted out by the high whining of the magic being generated in the air and when the beam shot out from the six I lunged at Discord and when my blade connected with his chest, piercing the thick fur the beam made contact with the both of us and his eyes opened in time to see the beam hitting his body and of my eyes vibrating in pure rage and my sword stabbed into his chest.

But for me I was not just screaming in rage but also in pain as the elements of harmony was going into overtime trying to cleanse both Discord and I of this world, and its judgment has been passed for Discord as he started to turn to stone from the feet up, but for me the pain was unimaginable.

I was screaming louder and louder in pain as I felt the pure energy burning me away, my fur burning and disintegrating away as I felt my wings shutter and crack before going limp to my sides, my hooves were burning as well as I smelt the enamel starting to mix into the air before finally my horn cracking from the pressure being exerted before I was viciously launched away from Discord, my body landing far from his steadily changing form as I laid there on the ground limp as a bone fish.

And just like that it was over, the bright light was gone to be replaced by a magical blast that removed Discord's influence on the land returning everything to its proper place and making everything what it once was, but for me it only served to bring more pain to my already burnt and cracked body.

Weakly opening my eyes only to shut them closed from the bright intensity of the sun's rays beating down on me I groaned out in pain as I ever so slowly moved my hooves, the slight movement sent unimaginable sharp lances of pain throughout my body and it was only made worse when I felt a hoof step on my throat making me weakly yelp out in pain as the pony stepping on me created a shadow large enough to cover my eyes.

Opening my eyes again I saw that it was Rainbow Dash and she was somewhat holding my sword in her mouth, having it resting on my lower throat as she slowly crushed my throat preventing me from breathing properly but it gave me enough air to utter out a few words to the mare just as her friends arrive behind her.

"Go ahead and do it, be the one to kill me and be a hero to Equestria....be the one to strike down the threat to harmony within Equestria and be forever remembered...."

The mares around me just looked in shock and in slight disgust that I gave them the privilege to kill me without remorse or any resistance to it, Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie looked away and it was Twilight and Rarity trying to talking down Dash from doing it, Applejack was stuck between the three and trying to figure out what was the right thing to do.

"Strike me down and kill me or forever stay your hoof and leave me!" I shouted at them and it was right there when Dash raised my sword and brought it back down, the blade sinking deep into the ground neck to my muzzle as the sharpened blade cut my nose making it bleed.

Looking at Rainbow Dash I stared intensely at her before sighing a bit and raised my head a bit before flashing my horn making the sword disappear into wisps of smoke and with what little strength I had I pulled myself off the ground and somewhat dragged myself towards the edge of town, the ponies that were under Discord's influence were just now poking their heads out of their homes to see me on my walk of shame out of town, but it was when I was in the middle of the street did my magic flare once again to create a duplicate of myself to give me company.

A shadow pony, one created from my very own shadow was trotting next to me in broad daylight as it wavered from time to time but what most ponies don't know about shadow magic is that when creating a shadow pony you must use a shadow that is your own or of somepony that was once alive. My shadow was from my past life, one of pure innocence and foolish laughter, a shadow that was pure and smooth, no hints of evil or corruption stemming from its new life host. This new shadow pony looked exactly like me in every way possible before I was exiled except for being a few shades darker and that it kept shifting from the sun's rays hitting his body.

And it was by the time we got to the forest's edge did the shadow vanish into the trees as I felt my shadow guards grab me with their magic and transported me back home and straight to the medical wing but the damage that I have caused was done.

The six ponies were made into national hero's for their actions and for saving Equestria from Discord's brief reign of terror, but what nopony else knows besides me and Celestia and the guards that was in that throne room that day was that I had a chance to execute the sun goddess but instead I spared her from death, the very thing that she sent me to those many months ago.

It was when I was starting to recover from my wounds from the elements of harmony did I see an increase in recruitment that the damage I did to Celestia's image take root and hold strong.

"Only a matter of time....oww....only a matter of time."