It was, Astral found, disturbingly easy to start a war.

She had been going for the yaks at first, but then realized that the dragons would be more fun.

At first she considered killing Ember, but the last thing she needed was the dragons fighting each other.

So.

Killing Smolder, in plain view of everyone, turned out to do the trick. The dragons were, of course, incensed, and their allies, Gryphons and Yaks respectively, were also up in arms.

After that, it was as simple as looping a few times and figuring out what Celestia and Luna were doing to stop the threat of war, and carefully sabotaging them.

By the end? It was Ponykind vs Gryphons, Yaks and Dragons.

Astral smiled. This would be fun.

Author's Note

Don't worry, this is only a short one because I had only half an hour to write it, the actual fighting of the war will be next chapter