Madness and Chaos

Madness and Chaos

Prolouge

Discord sat on his throne, overlooking Ponyville as his chaotic influence spread rapidly.  It had already reached Apploosa seeing as how the buffalo wear now dancing around in tutus.  As Discord laughed madly at his kingdom of madness, a nagging thought of danger in the back of his head made its way to his conscious mind, but he dismissed knowing all the bearers of the Elements of Harmony wear now under his chaotic influence.  Discord – with every scrap of doubt out of mind – outstretched his hand beneath a cotton candy cloud and quickly materialized a glass to catch the chocolate rain in.

“Chaos is a wonderful, wonderful thing!” he proclaimed gleefully before he took a drink.

“Not as wonderful as Friendship!” protested a familiarly annoying voice before discord could drink the delightful beverage.

“Ugh… This again?” sighed the spirit with contempt before he drank the glass and tossed the cylindrical chocolate drink aside, somehow causing it to explode.

“That’s right, you couldn’t break apart our friendship for long!” stated the farm pony.

“Oh, Applejack, don’t you lie to me. I’m the one who made you a liar!” Discord replied quickly snaring her in his magical grasp and levitating her up to him along with the rest of the Elements except Twilight, “Will you ever learn?”

Before Discord could recast his mind-altering spell on them a second time, Twilight teleported amongst them and surrounded them in a magical barrier, breaking his grasp on them, and quickly levitating them back to the ground.

“I’ll tell you what we’ve learned Discord: We’ve learned that…” ranted the  unicorn as Discord sat back and watched her give her friendship speech. “Yak, yak, yak, that’s all this pony does” Discord thought to himself, “when she fails again, I got to make sure and put a zipper on her trap.”  As Twilight finished her speech, Discord tuned back in to the matter at hand.

“Eeeew, gag! Fine, go ahead! Use your elements and ‘Friend’ me. Just make it quick, I’m missing some excellent chaos here.” Snapped Discord as he teleported back to his seat with a smug grin on his face while a flock of pigs flew by.

“Ha! As if those stupid pieces of jewelry could beat me again, especially since they’re trying to use Spike as the new Rainbo… wait, is that…?” Discord thought to himself. As soon as he came to the realization that Rainbow Dash was in fact there along with them and that the elements were working, it was far too late.  The unfortunate spirit felt his powers already weakening as the aura of harmony grew brighter, soon firing a rainbow atop his head.

“NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAUGH!”  cried Discord as the o-so familiar feeling of petrification came over his serpent like body once again. As the process came to its end, Discord cried out in his mind for help from the only person he could think of. “DAAAAAAAAAAADDYYYYYYYYYYY!”

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Chapter 1

As he stood there in his usual spot – regaining “consciousness” – Discord could hear the sound of revelers and music coming from Canterlot Tower. “Uuuuugh… what happened? Where’s that music coming from? Wait, where am… oh no, NO!” cried the imprisoned spirit angrily, “NO! I’m stuck in stone AGAIN! NO! This HAS to be a dream. Oh, me please let this be a dream. Okay, all I have to do is get hurt and I’ll wake up… now I just have to figure out how to do that while my dream self can’t move.”

“Sorry to say lad, but you ain’t dreamin’,” responded a voice in an atrociously exaggerated Scottish accent.

“Heh, says you. Wait, who are you, where are you, in fact?”

“Aw come on, don’t tell me you don’t recognize your old pop’s voice now,” replied the voice with a slight bit of irritation, “Here, let me get into view.”  Soon enough, a dark flash of purple light erupted in front of Discord, and out came a light brown unicorn with a grey beard and mane and an odd looking purple and gold suit.

“Oh, Sheogorath, how good it is to see you again,” replied Discord, mentally gritting his teeth.

“Hey now, what have I told you about calling me by my first name, son?” replied the Mad God in all his pony splendor, “You know how disrespectful that is.”

“Oh what does it matter, I definitely know I’m in a dream now.”

“Oh really? Care to wager on that?” replied Sheogorath with a sly voice. With a snap of his fingers, he levitated the statue of Discord and smacked his head on the ground repeatedly.

“Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Okay, okay, uncle, UNCLE!” Discord cried in pain, his head now spinning, “Ugh, what do you want?”

“What do you mean ‘What do I want’? You called out for me, like a wee baby,” said Sheogorath with a smug grin on his face.

“Oh, right. Well, there’s nothing you can do now. As usual, you’re late to the party. Good by dad, have fun in the Isles.”

“Actually, son, I have an offer that may interest you: You come back to the Isles with me and I’ll set you free.”

“Don’t pull my chain like that, dad, I know you can’t get me out of this prison. If you could you would have done so the first time.”

“You see that’s where you’re wrong, boy, I can get you out right now. Watch,” with a snap of his fingers, Discord was no longer imprisoned, free to fly and spread chaos across Equestria. That is until Sheogorath turned him to stone again mid-flight.

“Ow! Okay, if you could do that, why didn’t you help me the first time I was imprisoned?”

“You never asked,” replied Sheogorath with the most cliché response know in the cosmos, “So, we have a deal?”

"Ugh... fine,"  Without a moment of hesitation, Sheogorath released Discord from his prison and opened a portal to his plain of Oblivion. “Wait, what about the statue?” Discord inquired after stepping into the vortex.

“Don’t worry, I got it covered,” replied the Mad God with a slight chuckle, leaving behind a statue depicting Discord doing a hand-stand with his tongue while balancing spinning plates on his hands, feet and tail. "Now, when we get home, I've got so much to show you. Like Xedillian for instance..."

As the two vanished from sight, the vortex dissipated. Only two things in the garden were evidence that anything had happened: the new statue and a guard leaning around the hedge wall, his armor rattling.

Alright, now this is my first attempt at making a fan-fic and I know it’s really short chapter but I just wanted to see what you guys thought of this.  I figured it would be an interesting idea seeing as how both Discord and Sheogorath are both really “interesting” characters that I imagine would have a lot in common. Hope you enjoy.