The New Face of Chaos

by ragingbatpony

Chapter 3 - Chessman's Dance

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P.O.V.: Twilight Sparkle, golden oaks library, ponyville

I was nervous, I had gotten a message from Princess Luna saying, Princess Celestia had been ponynapped and no one knew who had taken her. The princess had told her to gather her friends and get ready for a transport to take them to canterlot. Pacing nervously, I looked at spike before speaking.

"Spike, I need you to go get Pinkie and Fluttershy, have them get Rainbow Dash and Applejack, tell them to hurry here when they're done, if they ask why, tell them it's a matter of massive importance." Rushing out the door, I ran as fast as I could to Rarity's house. As she ran through ponyville, her thoughts ran wild. 'Who could have taken the princess? Discord? No, he's a statue. Then who could have taken the princess? The lavender unicorn was shaken from her thoughts by almost ramming face first into her friend's door. Taking a breath to compose herself, she raised her hoof and knocked on the door. A minute later and the door opened and Rarity stood in the doorway, with curlers in her mane and rubbing the sleep from her eyes before noticing who was at her door.

"Twilight? Whatever do you need this early? It must be important for you to be this riled up." Rarity looked twilight up and down, seeing her nervous demeanor Rarity removed her mane curlers with her magic and placed them on her table.

"Well dear, if you deem it necessary to wake me up this early it must be an element matter. Let's go." With that said Rarity and Twilight ran back to the library as fast as they could. When they got there they found Applejack, Fluttershy, and Rainbow Dash, and Pinkie Pie. As if on cue, Applejack spoke up, saying what everyone except twilight was thinking.

"Twilight, what in tarnation is so important that you had Spike take me from the farm, right as we was starting chores?"
Twilight spent a moment to catch her breath before she replied. "Sorry girls, if it wasn't the biggest mission we ever got as element bearers I wouldn't have woken you up so early but it's seriously important. Princess Celestia was ponynapped, she's gone!"

The collected elements of harmony gasped in shock. Rainbow Dash was the first to recover. the Chromatic Pegasus flew into Twilight's face, before speaking. "Who did it, just point us at them and we'll kick their friggin butt, right girls?" The rest of the elements nodded while Twilight just shook her head. "Unfortunately Rainbow, we don't know who did it or even where they are hiding now. I called you all here because Princess Luna has sent a chariot to pick us all up and take us to canterlot to meet with her so we can plan our next step." As she said that a royal sky chariot appeared in the sky, before landing roughly 3 meters from the crowd of mares.

Twilight looked from the chariot to spike, before she addressed the dragon. "Spike, I need you to watch the library while the girls and I handle this, can you do that?" The dragon's response was to snap to attention before replying.

"yes, mam." The mauve Unicorn Nuzzled the young dragon briefly.

"Ok girls let's go save the princess" There was a chorus of agreement as the girls piled into the chariot. Once all passengers were in the chariot, the pegasi pulling it took off, then ascended far above the buildings of the small town on a route to canterlot.


P.O.V.: C**** N***: forest castle:

"First stop on the grand tour, the library." Celestia just stood there smiling as I opened the massive mahogany doors, her smile quickly turning into a look of awe at the multi-story size room, with most of the walls covered in massive floor to floor bookshelves crammed tight with books from every era of human history. The greatest authors in human history were here, Homer, Aristotle, Stephen King, William Shakespear, Tolstoy, Charles Dickens, Ernest Hemmingway, F. Scot Fitzgerald, J.R.R Tolkien, and numerous others, as well as the works of the greatest Philosophers.

"This place is massive, how much is here?" Celestia asked, in awe.

"Roughly 6,000 years of literature, poetry, and Philosophy." Celestia seemed even more awestruck now that I told her what was in here.

"Oh Don't worry my dear, sweet, Celestia, it gets better." I motioned for her to follow me out of the massive library. Celestia seemed puzzled by something.

"you know, you never told me your name. You do have one right?" taking a moment to think of a new name, before replying.

"of course Cels, my name is Entropy, at your service." Taking her hoof into my hand before kissing the top of it with a smirk, as the alabaster princess blushed. Chuckling lightly at her expense, I continued the tour. "Next up the gardens, you'll Love them Celestia, seriously, I put a lot of effort into it. You'll really appreciate the variety." Exiting the main part of the manor and starting on a cobblestone path, and entering the gardens. I turned to Celestia. "Welcome to the gardens of the palace of chaos, filled to the brim the most beautiful and deadly flowers, and other plants of my world. I know you're a herbivore but remember, almost every plant in this garden is Extreamly Poisonous and while it may not kill, you as you're immortal, it would definitely make you seriously sick, so make sure you don't eat them, I wouldn't even recommend touching them okay?" I asked Celestia with noticeable concern in my voice.

The Pale Princess seemed to notice the concern in my voice, as she smiled gently before simply nodding.

P.O.V. Shift: Mysterious Being: The deepest pit of Tartarus:

"So you're telling me that, Discord is gone, and he left some insignificant alien worm as his replacement? That's Fucking fantastic!!" The shadowy figure roared its displeasure, shaking the cavern around it. The massive stalactites on the roof of the cavern shook violently before falling from the roof of the cave only to meet their fate by shattering on the floor after leaving cracks in the stone. Small scaled and horned creatures, scurried about, avoiding the effects of the wrath of the dark titan. Once the behemoth calmed from its wrath, it spoke quietly to itself. "Great now I must make new plans." It would have been bad enough to suffer working with discord but now we have a new and unexpected player. Now I have to adapt to this new god of chaos. "I will have my revenge, I don't care if there is a new god of chaos, I'll just have to accelerate my plans."

Suddenly a series of footsteps could be heard entering the cavern. "Don't you mean 'we'll have to accelerate our master's plan.' Asmodeus?" The cavern was suddenly lit with a sickly pale green light revealing to two tall figures surrounded by a couple dozen kneeling smaller figures. The first figure turned, his already red skin, flushed a deeper shade of crimson as he addressed his compatriot.

"Of course Azazel, I would never even dream to plan against our master's wishes." The green and purple figure just looked on unconvinced.

"Of course Asmodeus, I just came to tell you that regardless of the recent development, the plan will remain on its current schedule. We're not going to blow our one chance to destroy the princesses of Equestria over simple impatience. We must learn everything there is about this new player. In fact, our glorious master has given you orders." The red-skinned titan simply bit back a snarl and replied.

"Well? What are my orders?"

"When the master is ready, your job will be to learn all you can about this Entropy, what his strengths are, his weaknesses and if we can get him to join us. For now be patient and stay hidden. Am I clear?" The red-skinned titan nodded.

"If our master wills it, it shall be done" the Pair of titans looked to each other before uttering a simple phrase.

"Glory to the king of demons, may his will be done, and may his reign be eternal." After the chant was over Azazel walked out of the room and Asmodeus returned to his musings.


P.O.V. shift: Princess Luna: Canterlot castle: Royal chariot docks:

"CAPTAIN!"

"Yes, Princess Luna, how might I serve you?" The guard captain of the lunar guard, Blood Moon, was a thestral unicorn stallion with a scar over his left eye and a red moon as a cutie mark. Like all lunar guards his fur was grey and his mane black. Standing at attention, the veteran guard awaited his reagent's command.

"Where in Tartarus are the elements of harmony? I sent for them ages ago." Looking over his princesses shoulder her saw a chariot land on the strip they were on.

"Well princess, they're right behind you." Turning Around quick enough that Blood Moon was worried that she gave her self whiplash, the princess trotted up to elements.

"Ah, hello girls, I am glad you came so rapidly, as you all know my sister has been ponynapped and we must rescue her from the vile clutches of whoever took her." Twilight then addressed the princess.

"Are there any leads on who Ponynapped her, Princess?" The lunar alicorn nodded.

"Just one Twilight This card with this strange symbol on it. Captain the card." Blood Moon levitated the card to the princess with his magic. Taking the card and levitating it to Twilight, Luna said, "we Have tried every spell we could on it to determine who left it, but there have been no results." As Luna transferred the card to Twilight There was a surge of magical energy emanating from the card.

"Gah, Princess what happened?" Asked twilight.

"I believe something has happened to the card, look here there is now text." Sure enough, when Twilight looked at the card there was text. as well as a needle emanating from the star on the card that was pointing roughly east. "Let the games begin? What does that mean Princess Luna?"

"I believe that whoever left this card and took Celestia has decided that to get her back, we must play a game of their own design." Before anyone could verbally react to that Rainbow dash spoke that.

"excuse me princess but fuck that, why not just track this bastard down and blast 'em with the elements?" Sighing, Luna responded.

"Because my little pony we have no way of knowing where the perpetrator went." Twilight, still examining the card, spoke up.

"Excuse me Princess but I think this card is now acting like a compass. One of the rays of the star has grown and is pointing east and looking closer I can see a distance meter." Luna's ears perked up at this news.

"Well, how far is it indicating Twilight?" Looking at the card a second time to be sure before responding.

"Roughly 180 miles princess. Uh oh." Luna became puzzled at Twilight's reaction.

"I am confused twilight, 180 miles is not very far, this matter shall be resolved quickly correct?" Twilight just shuffled on her hooves.

"well yes, princess the only problem is that 180 miles due east of here is smack dab in the everfree forest. How will we find the princess in a forest with almost infinite places to hide and thousands of dangerous predators stalking the area?" Luna seemed to think for a second.

"We will follow the card's direction from a chariot and when we reach our target we will land, simple. Captain!" Blood moon ran up to the lunar diarch and saluted. "I want the best guards from both the royal and night divisions loaded up on chariots and ready to deploy to the everfree in thirty minutes is that clear?"

"Crystal Mam!" Captain Blood Moon Ran off to the barracks to get the guard units and twenty minutes the guards were loading onto the chariots, four chariots with five guards each and a royal chariot with Princess Luna and the elements were prepped and waiting for their passengers. Turning to the elements of harmony.

"Come, girls, we must be off, we must rescue Celestia from whatever dastardly and unspeakably evil acts this monster is doing to my sister.


P.O.V. Shift: Entropy: Forest Manor:

Celestia was clearly enjoying the tour. Her face was in a constant smile and there was a happy sparkle in her eyes, it was nice to see her like this, it must get boring being a princess, stuck with the same pattern day after day, top that off with stuck up nobles and their stupid requests, and this is probably the most fun she's had in a long time. Suddenly I got an idea.

"Celestia, would you like to dance?" My request caught her off guard if the look of surprise written clearly on her face was any indication.

"What did you say?" She asked.

"I said would you like to dance with an alien to some alien music?" I asked with a smirk. Celestia seemed to think for a second before replying.

"I would love to dance with you Entropy." Grabbing her in my arms I tapped my cane on the ground and teleported us to the ballroom. "we can't dance without music, can we? We'll have to fix that. Let's see what's a good song? Ooh, I know." I took Celestia in my arms as the music started to play. As the music began to play, Celestia stood on her back hooves without me asking, and she just followed my lead, with a wild smile on her face. I spun her around as we danced wildly as the song ended, I dropped her into a dip as we both panted heavily, I smirked and she blushed as our faces were mere inches apart. "Want to dance some more?" I asked. She just nodded. as the next song started, I started to dance with her again.


P.O.V. Shift: Princess Luna: Chariot above the everfree.

"Twilight, how close are we now?" Twilight looked down at the card before replying.

"We should be coming up on it now Princess." Princess Luna turned and, in the royal canterlot voice, shouted out to the guards.

" Land my guardsponies, we must save my sister!!! As the chariots descended a massive manor made of marble and stone came into view. "That must be where Celestia was taken." said the lunar alicorn. Hitting the ground and disembarking, Luna was Greeted by Captain Blood Moon saluting and saying.

"Your orders Princess?".

"Captain, you are to take a group of guards with me and the element bearers into the fortress of our enemy. Where is a messenger?" Suddenly a pegasus guard came up and saluted. "you are to fly to the nearest town and have them prepare the guards there for a siege if necessary. we will scout out the fortress. Girls, Captain with me. We will save you sister don't worry."


Author's Note

please leave comments on how I can improve. if you liked it feel free to like and favorite and if you dislike it please tell me why. Also, I am looking for guard OC's, if anyone knows where I can find some, or is willing to send me some, just PM me or comment on my blog post. I don't own Cuban Pete. blood moon is my OC.

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