A rewritten Past
A Quest fulfilled and HE Came
Previous ChapterNext ChapterAuriel spent the next few years exploring the world around her and trying to find ways to not only understand her situation but also tried to find someone like her, with no luck. Sadly, she only saw two biomes, the one she already created, and the dead land. After about two winters, Auriel has found, listed and names every creature of the plane biome she created.
After she completed her journey through the plane Biome, she tried to create the other landscapes, but to her misfortune, that was not how her magic worked. Auriels power was strong, but sadly, there were just two things that were a massive pain in the butt.
One, Auriel can't just snap something into existence, if she wants to let something happen, then she has to do every single step to reach said goal, the second problem was, she could barely control her power. The two penalties turned out to be a much bigger problem than the golden fox initially thought because she had to go through hundreds, if not thousands of attempts to recreated each landscape form her dream and, another thing about her, she was not almighty.
Auriel learned very fast that, even though she had a lot of mana in her disposal, she could not try more than one attempt for each landscape a day which made recreating her dream a very long task, which didn't mean she didn't enjoy it. The creatures of the Planes Biome and the later Biomes would often spend time with her during her magic lessons that may or may not end in either a dream coming true for the animals. For example, one fail caused it to make it rains berries through an exploded bush while another spectacular blew up a lifeless mountain because of charging a spell too much up.
Of course, the animals were not just there to laugh at Auriel for her many, many, many, and we can go on like this the whole day, attempts of learning or at least controlling her magic better, especially the spells that require more concentration. Sadly, her friends, were not eternal as she was. She had to say goodbye to many of her friends as they one day didn't wake up, but she also made many new friends over the many years she spent with them.
It usually too, in future Equestrian years, approximately about 100 to 200 years to create a Biome that would not fall apart in a month and would match Auriels dream which she can remember like if she was seeing it with her eyes right now. Auriel traveled all across her world and gave the gift of life to all corner of the world and explored everything that there was to see, from caves to mountains, sea, sky, and everything in between, often even without a single use of her magic.
After many thousand cold seasons or Winters as Auriel liked to call them, she finally completed her quest to recreate her dream and returned to the high mountain where everything started. Of course, Auriel could've just teleported there, which was a lot less mind strangeling than it was all those years ago, but she preferred to use light blue magic, or wind magic as she would explain it to her animalistic friends, to run through the landscapes with the speed of sound. In about an hour, she ran across the land and reached her destination, the Mountain of beginning which was more active than usual.
Auriel scratched her head when she saw the Mountain gave off a strong rainbow glow. Auriel was not sure what to do and decided to teleport on top of the mountain which caused her eyes to turn purple for a split second. Once she was on top, she took a few seconds to calm herself. Although she should be used to teleporting, it was still very uncomfortable for her.
Once her mind was clear again, she used brown magic or rather earth magic, which turned her eyes brown for a few seconds, to create a small tear in the mountain and jumped inside. With a loud thud, she landed on the bottom of the cave which emitted a loud echo that traveled across the whole dark cave.
Auriel used fire magic to create a fiery orb that floated beside her head and illuminated a big chunk of the cave that she now would explore. Luckily, she didn't need to drink, sleep, eat or do anything else that a normal creature would, besides maybe the sleeping part as it was just too good to give up.
After a few hours of exploring the cave, Auriel was about to just get out of the cave and ask her animal friends to help her investigate the cave when she suddenly spotted a faint rainbow glow. With happiness, she charged towards the light. Funny thing, it Auriel about two years to properly walk which mostly didn't work because her body was just not used to her new limbs.
Auriel walked around the corner and was amazed at the sight that was in front of her. In front of her was a dust corn sized, maybe even smaller, rainbow-colored orb that illuminated a massive room in the cavern that looked like the not reflecting side of her first creation, a crystal mirror. Auriel was genuinely amazed to find a cave made out of Crystal, a kind that she only found to or three times on the whole world.
Suddenly the many crystals and crystal chunks broke off the walls, ceiling, and ground and shoot towards the small rainbow orb. Hundreds, if not thousands of shards were consumed by the colorful anomaly, causing it to grow until it reached the size and form of an acorn, before shotting towards a wall and crashing through it which tremendous speed and force.
Auriel was able to dodge all of the Crystal, but the force of the mysterious object breaking though created a huge dust cloud which forced Auriel to crouch on the ground and cover her eyes. Once the dust dispelled after a few moments, Auriel stood rose and stood on her four paws again and stared at the massive hole that the glowing crystal acorn created.
Auriel patted the dust off her fur and said. "I am not going to eat acorn for a while."
After Auriel cleaned her fur to the point that one might see a bronze or a very light orange colored fox. Auriel then walked up the hole and saw that the overpowered seed landed in the vast forest, as she called it, and created an enormous crater from the looks of it.
Auriel pouted loudly as she realized that she had spent the entire day in this cave. And in the end, she only had her fur become dirty and let a dangerous acorn create a hole in her beautiful forest that was also the Biome that cost most of her neves to build a landscape that was so tightly packed with life and not it falls apart.
Auriel jumped out of the hole and used her magic to make her float through the air and then used her air magic to soar through the skies much faster which colored one of her eyes to light blue while the other turned purple. In just a few minutes, she reached the crash site and was already greeted by many rows of animals that gathered around the magical object.
Auriel said out loud in a motherly voice."I know that this thing is scary, but I will take care of it. Please go back to your homes until I deal with the"
The animals, both carnivore and herbivores, trusted Auriels judgment and walked away, giving her the space she needed to deal with the problem. After the crowd left Auriel and the alien objects, she walked down slightly burned dirt and stone ledge until she reached the bottom of the hole which formed into a cave as the root roof kept the surface from falling down.
Auriel walked up to the glowing acorn and looked skeptical at it before sitting down and thinking of what to do.
'A magical Acorn appeared in the mountain where I got a weird dream on how to form the land, and now that I completed it, it charged itself up and created a huge hole in the precious forest. What comes next? I plant the rainbow crystal acorn, and a rainbow Crystal tree grows?'
Suddenly the weird Acron glowed and phased through the ground. After a few seconds, cracks appeared in the stone, and a small Crystal sapling grew.
'I should really stop asking for things I don't want in my thoughts.'
Auriel looked at the Crystal sapling and began to think of what to do with it. She, of course, could just leave and let it mind its own business, but on the other paw, this was a something new. Auriel loved exploring and finding out about weird stuff like the odd red creature that lived underwater and looked like a big red able with eight arms that would always try to spray a strange black goo at her.
Auriel shock her and thought about the current situation. The sapling was deep underground which meant that it would be tough for it to get sunlight and water, two problems that could quickly be dealt with. Auriel first closed the entrance to the cave which caused the entire cave to fall into darkness.
The only light source that illuminated the cave was the sapling itself. Auriel sat down and closed her eyes as she tried to use a trick she learned a long, long time ago. The transmogrification of matter, a technique that helped her create most of the Biomes and her first creation, a crystal mirror.
The process of transmogrification was simple, yet highly complex. You take something and turn it into something else, easy, just that that isn't transmogrification for Auriel. Auriel could change an object into something else, but there were rules, that could be worked around with a lot of care.
For example, gold does not become leaders, Lead doesn't want to become wood, wood does not wish to become diamond, Diamond does not want to become silver, these were rules. Luckily for Auriel's plan, she didn't need to put all too much care into it as Crystal, at least the kind she was going to work with, were mostly straightforward.
Auriel concentrated on the rock as she didn't want to cause another Crystal incident like the one that happened in the snowy lands far up in the north. Auriel shocked her head again and continued to concentrate, not that it was very hard, but she didn't want to turn the surface into a crystal land.
The grounds texture was slowly changing into something warm and smooth. The rock and dirt were slowly shifting into something else, and it was a unique crystal. Suddenly the entire cave was illuminated with the light of dozens of gems that were embedded in the walls, ceiling, and the very ground, and to make things look even better, she created crystal lines that looked like roots.
Drip
Drip
Drip
Auriel smiled as the Crystal was already fulfilling their purpose. There were three kinds of Crystal in the cave. Sun Crystal, gems that would create a sun-like light, water Crystal that would use the magic energy that flows through all, especially nature to generate water and lastly there was the most crucial kind of Crystal. Armor Crystal or rock Crystal was a very stable kind of Crystal that was very hard to break for all living creatures besides her and would act as a protective shield to protect the chamber.
The Crystal Sapling glowed as if it was trying to show it's happiness and its thankfulness.
Auriel smiled and said."No need to thank me... What is your name? Would you mind if I would call you... Ehm, sorry, I haven't given anyone a name in a long time."
Auriels ears perked up when she could've sworn she could hear a faint melody that sounded very soft and harmonic.
Auriel chuckled and said."So, you want to be named after harmony? Wait, what is that thing again? Doesn't matter. From now you will be known as The Tree of Harmony, or Sapling of Harmony? Do you Mind If I call you Toh or Harms? Maybe Crystal? Sorry, I am just so excited to have an actual conversation with someone that does not just respond with nods and sounds that I have to guess what they mean."
Toh radiated a soothing glow that made Auriel a bit sleepy. Not that the tree was trying to knock her out, but Auriel was already very drained after adding the last few details on the previous Biome she created, the high mountains. Auriel walked directly in front of Toh and curled into a ball before falling asleep with a big smile on her face as something was telling her that her life would only become better from today.
This Night
In a dark night, on a world that was now filled with light, many lights fell on it, but something was wrong with this new entities. The Lights, although should've been separated from another, were a single being. The creature arrived on the world with a loud explosion that caused all wildlife to run away.
Out of the crater floated out a creature that could be best described as a monster. This Creature smiled madly at the cowering inhabitants of the lands as many sick ideas idea entered his mind. The Creature suddenly began to chuckle as the very ground was slowly forming into something else.
"Looks like it's time for a bit of fun!"
Back to Auriel
Auriel slept silently this night and would've probably slept another week if nothing would've woke her, but fate wasn't so kind. Toh gave out a very high pitch noise that made even some Crystal in the walls vibrated and caused Auriel to jump up with such force that she hit the ceiling.
Auriel said in a serious tone."Okay, okay, I am awake. Seriously little one, if you want to do something then just ask, I am not sleeping through an exploding volcano."
Auriel grumbled under head breath as she stood up and stretched her body like a cat would do which emitted a few loud pops. Although Auriel was immune to most physical lasting damage, she was not immune and had to work a bit with her body sometimes.
Harms would not stop with the annoying sound, so Auriel sighed loudly before walking towards a wall before using her magic to split open the wall into two and create a stone staircase to the surface. Auriel then made her way back up and slowly closed the entrance again with each step she too.
When she was on the surface again, her morning laziness and her happiness shattered. Auriel rubbed her eyes and checked if she was not asleep, but it was not a dream, it was a nightmare. The Once beautiful planes that she created were nothing more what they once were.
Where once green covered the land from where you stood until the horizon, was now a soft mass of gray and purple squares, the trees that would give fruits now gave out black metal balls with three holes in them and something that looked like crystal shards.
The Sky was purple, and the clouds were red from which rained a green liquid that made the plants and animals melt while their screams filled the air. Fire rained down from the sky while mountains were singing scary music and hills looked like they were made form a sweet-smelling substance. The very sun and moon were flying through the sky with high speed, and the stars blinked in various colors.
Tears of sadness leaked out of her eyes when she fell on her rear. Auriel was not even responding to what was happening around her, nor did she notice anything anymore. Silence reigned in her mind while staring into the lands she created with all her heard, the friends she made with happiness, the life she builds with all those days, destroyed.
Suddenly a white sphere was slowly fading into existence a few feet in front of her before it burst with a white flash. When the light died down, it revealed a monster. Auriel knew this energy very well but didn't even flinch, her mind was already on the edge of falling apart.
The Creature looked like if someone sewed many animals together, she didn't know many of these parts, but some she recognized. It had a deer antler on the right, a blue goat horn on the left one long fang, different-sized pupils, a snake tongue, a goat beard, and bushy white eyebrows. Its arms were unknown to her but knew that it had a goat leg and a bat wing. The scariest thing about this thing though was that the energy was from many different lights, melted into a monster.
The monster said with a sly grin that revealed many rows of sharp teeth."Uhh~! Looki, What we got here! I have never seen anything like you miss and I am sure you would make a great scarf. Uh, we are my manners. I am Discord, the spirit of Chaos and I must thank you for creating such a nice little place for me to play with. Sadly, I have no need for you... at least not alive."
Discord smiled as he could see the despair in the foxes eyes before stretching out his eagle claw to the left and snapping. Auriel was lifted into the air by an alien force and levitated towards him. Discord smile fell as this already was getting boring and pulled back his lion paw. Just as he was about to slash, the Fox freed herself from his aura and pounced him and rammed her teeth into his neck.
Discord screamed from the pain. In all of his years, not a single being was able to hurt him, but bitting him was something entirely new. Discord pulled his eagle claw in panic back and shoot it towards Auriel. Auriel only saw red, and when the fist collided with her abdomen, she shot a slash towards Discords right eye. When the fist was slowly forcing it's way deeper into Auriels inerts, she used dark blue magic to turn herself into water that landed on the ground, many feet away, without any damage and formed a puddle. After a moment, Auriels body reformed itself first by forming the water back into her original form and then replacing the water with her body parts.
Discord screamed in pain before snapping his fingers to heal most of the damage, but of course, there was only so few, Chaos magic could do to repair something. Discord looked at Auirle with his steal right eye and saw no longer desperation in her, but pure feral rage. There was little of a sentient creature at the moment.
Discord pouted loudly and said in an angry tone."So, you think you are funny? WRONG! I am the only joker here! Someone get the hook!"
Out of nowhere, a long wooden hook came from somewhere right of Auriel and tried to get her, but Auirels rage was too much to let something funny happen. Suddenly Auriel combusted into flames, turning the hook and everything surrounding her to ash, before charging at Discords.
Discord huffed before snapping his fingers and creating many weird looking things that will later be known as Chainsaws, a lot of them, before sending them all at once at Auriel.
Auriel was not intimated int he slightest bit, no, she only felt fury. This monster killed everything she worked so hard for, her friends, her land, and now it was trying to end her.
When the Chainsaws came close to Auriel, she jumped in the air, evading most of the tools by losing a few hairs and forming a vast fireball, from the fire surrounding her, and sending it towards Discord.
Discord pulled out a big two-handed water gun, whose makers name rhymed to Derf, and shot a powerful beam of lemonade at the fire. When the lemonade hit the center of the fireball, it split into eight smaller fireballs and flew past him. Discord grinned widely, but his small victory was only short-lived as the eight fireballs made a sharp curve and landed all in the chimeric creatures back.
Discord almost tumbled but was able to keep him steady by levitating himself a few feet into the air. He did not look happy in the slightest bit and cupped both of his hand in front of him together. Slowly a small orb of chaos magic was forming in his hands. The unstable ball that looked like someone threw several dozens of different colors in a mixer stopped growing when it reached a size of 20 centimeters.
Discord smiled while trying to hide his exhaustion."You- You think You will beat me that easily!? Y-You are wrong! I will finish you right here and right now!"
Discord then threw the orb with high speed at Auriel who did not move a muscle, but shortly before the sphere hit her, her eyes glowed purple for a split second.
The orb of chaos magic exploded with hugely destructive power, tearing a line of destruction through the land that Auriel forged. The underground, the earth, sky and see where not spared from the power and not even a mountain survived in its path. After several seconds, the smoke was slowly lifting and revealed Auriel unharmed. Discord rubbed his eyes in disbelief, but the suddenly the wolf well apart to dust.
Discord shouted happily."HA! Discord rules, Furry drools!!!"
"I think you are quiet mistaking, monster."
Discord turned around, and his happiness fell when he saw the fox glaring at him with a murderous look. Auriel cracked her neck before slowly rising up and standing on two feet. Auriels eyes both glowed strongly with white light and lifted one of her paws in the sky.
"I figured out why you were so strong in the begging and you gave it out on your own, sealing your fate. When you said that you were the Spirit of Chaos, I already knew what made you strong, so I waited and played around until you used up all your power by dancing around and acting like you didn't hurt me, which is wrong. You were the only creature to ever hurt me, and I hope you will be the only creature I will ever have to hurt because now... now there is literally just you and me, and I will make sure you pay for what you have done to my friends."
Discords eyes widened when he realized something terrible. He has squeezed this land of its chaotic power too fast, and now there is not even a single beast left to terrorize to gain more chaotic power!
Auriel said in a cold and dark tone"You have lost the moment you came here and now you will lose. The life around you supporting me while you are now truly alone."
The chaotic sky was slowly lifting and was replaced with thousands of dark clouds that blocked the celestial objects and everything above. The Clouds suddenly thundered with power and dozens of lightning rained from above towards Auriel, but instead of hurting her, she collected them in her paw. After a few moments, the extreme amounts of electricity has been gathered and formed into a spear sized lighting that looked like could turn an entire forest to ash.
Discord snapped his fingers continuously to try and find a way to maybe gather last the bits of chaos magic, but there was nothing left, or at least his body wouldn't let him use any more. His eyes widened when he could feel happiness form all those that came before the fox, but failed and were consumed by him.
Discord begged."H-hey Fox woman, there is no need to act so rashly, I mean, It's me! Discord. Your old pal, you wouldn't just sap me, right?"
Auriel snarled when she heard this. Without wasting a second, she pulled back the supercharged lighting and shot it towards Discord with 2/3 speed of light.
When the lightning hit discord was hit with the lighting, he screamed in agony like a banshee as his entire body was being toasted. While Discord screamed, many lightning bolts shot of him and destroyed full mountains.
Auriel put all of her paws back on the ground and slowly walked towards Discord without losing eye contact even once. In a few moments, she stood in front of him and taped him with her tail against his chest, stopping the lightning and making him fall to the ground.
Auriel put a paw on his chest and glared down at him."You lost the moment you came here, monster. I have spread order and live across this world for over ten thousand winters, becoming stronger and smarter while you acted like a newborn deer, always looking for something new to toy with until you hit your snout. I hate killing, I truly hate it, but you... you took away everything I loved and so will I do the same to you."
Only a faint sound escaped Discord burned lips. Auriel looked into the creature's eyes, and she could see how much he was begging for mercy even after all he did.
Auriel was breathing hard jumping on her back paws and slamming her front paws into his chest, breaking his rips before ramming her snout into his flesh and tearing through it like butter. In just a heartbeat, Auriel found his heart, grabbed it with her teeth and tore it out with one quick motion. Blood splattered everywhere and coated her fur with his red life essence.
The moment Discord heart was gone, he was slowly falling apart into more spark than Auriel has ever seen, but without a second thought, she absorbed all of it.
After Discord was fully absorbed, Auriel's rage burst was slowly wearing out. Only now she realized what happened, what she just has done. Auriel was scared, not of Discord or what now would happen, but of herself. She looked around and saw that the last few of Discord's creation created stopped exiting and revealed a dead land, not the ground she saw when she arrived, but a genuinely dead land.
Auriels eyes began to tear up and was close to crying, but then her eyes fell on something horrifying. She was looking directly at the mirror she created at the very begging. There was no longer a happy Fox in front of her, but a blood coated murder, littered with bits of burned meat.
Auriel let her hang low as her eyes glowed one more time with magic as the ground formed a hole in which she slowly walked in. She curled up into a small ball and closed the entrance again.
The golden Fox would spend a long time under the earth, alone, while believing that the hope for life, that everything alive was over, but she sadly forgot the one thing that survived Discord's wrath, the small sapling she planted.
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