Chapters Snapped
"Wait! Wait, everypony!" I yelled desperately as all my friends left me.
We failed to unite and use the Elements Of Harmony against Discord. They didn't work... why didn't... why didn't they work? What... what went wrong? My friends abandoned me. Well, at least Spike is-
"Uh, Twilight?" Spike said, taking off Rainbow Dash's Element Of Loyalty and setting it on the ground. "Uh, I, uh, I have to go." He then took off off to Faust knows where, leaving me alone.
"Guys...why...? Why did you leave me?" I whispered and then shouted out "F-Fine! With friends like you who needs... enemies..."
I hung my head and closed my eyes, despair and hopelessness seeping into my veins. Tears started running down my cheeks.
Discord's thoughts echoed through my head well he outwardly cackled with sick glee. His thoughts told me how me and my friends fell for his tricks and how he was going to take over Equestria and then the world...
Wait, tricks? He tricked us? He tricked... me?
Images that didn't make sense suddenly flashed through my mind. Bipedal hairless ape like creatures... a five fingered hand instead of six...
Fury begun rising within me. I ground my teeth at the intense emotion. It happened again... why... anger, so much anger... his laugh... his stupid idiotic laugh... how dare he? How DARE he!
Something in me snapped at that moment.
Make him pay... make him pay for tricking you.......
"Oh Twilight, you silly silly pony! How to expect to defeat me now? Your 'friends' have felt you! Your are alone. You are...?" I looked up and glared into his eyes. His eyes widened and he flinched back in surprise. "W-What?"
"Discord, you pathetic half beast..." I growled. My hooves left the ground and I begun floating, much like Discord himself.
"You think you can rule this world. Well you can't. You want to know why?" A sadistic smile slowly spread across my face. I reached out with my magic and squeezed his throat. Hard. Discord gasped, his magic gave out and he dropped to the ground. His claw and paw reached up and tried to grasp what was choking him.
I floated up to him and lifted his head so that he was looking at me. His looked terrified. This filled me with excitement and glee for some reason. I chuckled and leaned up to his ear.
"You can't rule the world," I whispered "because its MINE ."
I pulled away and smiled down at him "Remember Discord, I am much MUCH more powerful than you. To me you are nothing but an ant. Now..." I frowned, "Are you going to put a stop to this pathetic little game or am I going to have to kill you?" I loosened my hold on his neck another for him to speak.
"W-W-What ARE you...?"
I smirked and sang, "Wrong answer!" then with a quick flick of my head I snapped his neck. Discord went limp in my grasp, his face permanently froze in a look of pure terror.
The Lord Of Chaos was no more.
I through my head back and laughed.
And laughed.
And laughed.
Eventually my laughing slowed to a stop. Then it started setting in. I just KILLED somepony, and I was LAUGHING about it!
My eyes wandered down to Discord's body. My eyes widened. I lowered myself back down to the ground and shakly backed away.
Oh Faust, what's wrong have I done ... what's wrong with me?!
There was a sudden burning on my flanks making me hiss. I looked behind me and noticed my cutie mark changing. I stared in horror as the familiar starburst faded and something strange replaced it. It looked like a nicely dressed triangle shaped creature with arms, legs, and a single eye in the middle of a zodiac wheel thing. I had the urge to call it a 'Cipher Wheel'.
"W-What...?" I stuttered out, "What h-happened to my cutie mark?!"
I tore my gaze away from my new mark and looked around, things were turning back to normal. I saved everypony but... not in the right way. I killed somepony to do so! This is wrong! So, so wrong!
'So what,' a darker voice within me whispered 'he deserved it.'
I feel sick to my stomach...
"Twilight? Twilight where are you, darling?" I heard Rarity's voice suddenly in the distance, along with my other friends. Oh NOW you come crawling back? Wait! I can't let them see me in front of Discord's body, and with this THING for a cutie mark!
I quickly burned a triangle on a nearby tree with my magic nearby and then turned and ran in the opposite direction. Where? I don't know. I just wanted to get as far away from them as possible.
I kept running, and running, and running. I ran until I wasn't able to anymore. I stopped in front of a lake somewhere in the Everfree forest. I sat down and looked through the triangle I burned on the tree near Discord's body.
My friends stopped in front of the dead Discord. Rarity fainted. Fluttershy puked then fainted too. Applejack looked empaseve. Same with Rainbow Dash, except I could see a very faint trace of fear in her eyes. Pinkie gasped dramatically and started talking so rapidly I couldn't read her lips...
I let out a sigh and stopped watching them. I looked down at my reflection in the lake and then gasped with surprise.
Sickly yellow eyes with slit pupils stared back at me. Eyes wandering upwards, I noticed my mane has changed too. The blue of my mane was pure white and my purple highlight was now black well my pink one was now yellow.
"What's happening to me?" I whispered in a daze.
The sound of growling snapped me out of my daze. I looked up as a pack of timberwolves emerged from the overgrowth. They begun to circle me yet for some odd reason I was not afraid. If fact I felt a little annoyed .
My freakish eyes lazily switched from timberwolf to timberwolf.
"What do you want?" I growled.
Pony. Pony. Meat. Food. Meat. Pony.
I snorted, "Sorry, pups. I'm not on the menu."
Pony? Sounds. Pony. Pony? Food. Sounds? Meat.
I rolled my eyes and weaved my magic inside of several of them and pulled outward. They exploded. Pieces rained everywhere.
Pony! Danger! Danger! Run! Pony! Run!
What was left of them turned tail and scattered.
"Pathetic," I mumbled.
I took a peek through the triangle again. At some point Spike showed up it seems. He was writing something on a scroll. He looked up and said to Rarity that he wondered were I was and was worried about me. He took a deep breath and blew green flames, sending the scroll to Princess Celestia.
I sighed and hung my head, hot tears running down my cheeks. I can't return to them, not now, not ever. Something's VERY wrong with me. I can feel myself changing... it scares me, it scares me so much.......
Please, somepony, save me....
Princess Celestia was dreaming, at least she THINKS she is.
Equestria was destroyed and warped into a hellish landscape. Monsterish beasts like her never seen was walking the land. She looked up, a massive black pyramid was floating in the sky above what used to be Ponyville. Above it was what looked like a tear in reality. A insane sounding, high pitched laughter echoed in her ears.
Celestia turned around. A dark silhouette of a pony in a top hat was floating above her. All she could make out was a single sickly yellow eye with a slit pupil and a demented smile.
"GeT REaDy SuNNy, tHe FuN iS aBoUT tO BeGin!"
Celestia took a sip of her chamomile tea. Her eyes darted around occasionally, eyeing up the shadows in the dining room. She hasn't felt this paranoid sense she was a little filly. That strange dream she had about an hour ago really bothered her. She had a feeling that it was imported. REALLY imported. Something was awakening... something dark.... something insane..... something POWERFUL......
She shifted her wings and sighed. It didn't help her nerves that Spike sent a letter not that long ago saying that Discord was murdered (if that was even possible) and her faithful student/Element Of Magic, Twilight Sparkle, was missing. When Celestia heard that Twilight was missing she nearly didn't believe it, than it sunk in and than she sent a large search party, lead by the captain of the royal guard and Twilight's brother; Shining Armor, upon his request, out to find her.
"Sister?" Celestia jumped when she suddenly heard her younger sister, the keeper of the moon, Princess Luna speak from behind her. She plastered on an excellently perfected fake smile and turned towards the blue mare of the night.
"Yes, Luna?"
"What are thou doing up at this time?" Luna said, cocking her head to the side with a worried frown. Celestia turned away from Luna and took a sip of her tea.
"I'm sorry Luna, I couldn't sleep." Celestia mumbled. She heard the clip-clop of hooves approach her and the felt Luna lay a hoof on her shoulder.
"Tia, what is wrong?" Luna asked. Celestia wasn't sure what to do, she didn't want to worry her sister about this big of a matter when she only four and a half months ago escaped from the hold Nightmare Moon had on her for over a thousand years.
"It's okay, I've got it under control..."
"Please Tia, tell us what's wrong," Luna begged.
Celestia shifted her eyes to the floor. She broke and told Luna about her about Discord's murder, Twilight's disappearance, and her dream. When she was done Luna had a grave look on her face.
"Tia, thou knows what this means, right?"
Celestia nodded.
"Something big is about to happen and without the Element Of Magic, Equestria's biggest form of defence is useless." She then sighed and looked out the window and whispered, "Where ARE you Twilight...?"
It's been about a week since I left Ponyville. I walked through the Everfree without a care in the world. Creatures of all shapes and sizes were running out of my way in fear well I hummed absentmindedly a little song I felt the strange urge to sing;
"Hello little pitiful creatures, the game is about to begin. I have some new ideas that'll make you're heads spin."
I plucked a lizard that was stupid enough not run away off a rock with my magic. I brought it up to my eyes and grinned, flashing my new pair of small fangs.
"You think you knew it all. You think you knew how this world worked. Ha! Don't make me laugh! I can show you reality. I can set you all free, all you gotta do is give me the key!"
With a stomp of my hoof I turned the lizards skin inside out. I tapped my chin, thinking, before replaced it tongue with a poisonous snake. Its tail then became a lions tail. To finish up my new creation I made it sprout insect wings and grow about the size of a manticore. I snorted and threw it over my shoulder into the forest.
"You scream for me to stop, but I can't, don't you see? It's always been a part of me. I'm a monster, I'm a demon, this is the way it has to be! So let the games begin!"
I laughed and came to a stop in front of a giant, well lived in tree.
Hm, Zecora...
I walked up to the window and watched the zebra fiddle with the caldron in the middle of the room. There was a bubbling purplish, reddish, and bluish sparkly liquid brewing. I scanned through the list of potions from around the world in my mind until I found one that fit the description. There was only one that fit that it.
I snorted. Zecora has some SERIOUS issues she needs to work out.
Then an Idea popped in my head making me smirk. For entertainment, I messed up her potions. Now when she gets within a few hoofs of it will blow up and a little something more.
And that's exactly what happened.
Zecora went flying and crashed into a wall. When she stood up she looked down and her eyes widened. SHE was now a HE. I cackle with glee when he swore and started running around like chicken with its head cut off.
Hm, I might just do that later.
I pulled away from the window and walked deeper into the forest. As I walked my thoughts started wander to that purple dragon of mine. I wonder what he's doing?
I looked through the triangles I have around the library, looking through them one at a time till I found him. Firestarter was talking to Diamond. He looked like he hasn't slept for a few days and has been crying a lot. I felt a little bad for leaving him... he kind of reminds me of Pine Tree.
Wait, who's Pine Tree?
I stopped walking and thought for a moment. Maybe... maybe the kid might be useful. That and (as much as I hate to admit it) I am rather fond of him. Soon a grin spread across my face, I should go back and get him!
But before that, a makeover!
I looked around and then stomped my hoof, creating a mirror in front of me. Stomping my hoof again I created a white, button-up dress shirt. Next I created a black bowtie and tophat that floated about 5 inches off my head. Then I created a black eyepatch over my left eye. Lastly, to complete the look, I cut my mane and tail to look like what I think it would look like if I was a stallion. I turned my head left, right, and then nodded in satisfaction.
Now for a new name. Sparkle just wouldn't do... Wait, I know! How about-
"Twilight Cipher!" I grinned "Ooh, I like the sound of that!"
I made the mirror disappear and looked up at the sky through the trees. It was dark. The perfect time to do what needs to be done.
"Time to go greet Firestarter."
I disappeared and then reappeared in ponyville. Making my way to the Ponyville library I noticed that almost nopony was out, indoors I guess.
Soon I stopped in front of the library door. I tried to open it. It didn't budge. Oh well, the polite way is out the window.
I teleported inside. It was dark. I lit my horn so that I could see and walked upstairs. Looking around I found the place empty.
Hmm... where did he go? Wait a minute, he was talking with Diamond last time I looked through my little peephole. Wait, of course! With me gone the kid probably wanted to be near the other pony he cares about the most: Diamond. Heh, he HAS had a crush on her sense he meet her.
I teleported to Diamond's dress shop/house. A quick survey of the place revealed it completely dark. Perfect, they're all asleep.
I teleported inside and lit my horn. I looked around and curled my nose in disgust. No matter what I led ponies to believe, I never liked dresses. Too frufru for my taste.
I wandered to the living area and up the stairs. Once I stepped on Diamond's stupid cat but I quickly silenced it in the most amusing way possible that didn't involve killing it.
I pushed Diamond's bedroom door open and walked in. Firestarter was sleeping cuddled up to Diamond. I pulled the kid away from the prissy unicorn with my magic and walked out the door, sleeping Firestarter floating close behind.
Once we were downstairs, me and the dragon teleported into the Everfree forest from Diamond's dress room.
Once we were in the forest, I set Firestarter on the ground. I hummed, thinking about how to wake him, until settling with the easiest way possible.
I grinned, conjuring up a bucket of water and dumping it on him. The baby dragon jumped up- wide awake.
"H-Hey! What was that-" He stopped and looked around. "Huh? How did I get here?"
"Hello, Firestarter," I said making myself known.
The baby dragon quickly snapped his head in my direction. His eyes widened with shock and fright than shuttered out, "W-W-Who are you?"
I put my hoof against my chest and said with mock hurt, "Aw, kid, you wound me! Don't you recognize me? After all, I HAVE taken care of you sense you hatched all those years ago."
If it was even possible, his eyes widened even further. "T-Twilight? Is... is that you?"
I smirked, "The one and only!"
Firestarter stared at me before unleashing a series of rapid fire questions, "What happened to you? Where did you go? Why are you floating? Why do you look like that? Why are you talking weird? Why does your voice sound so echoey?"
"Woah, woah, slow down kid! You're going to pop a blood vessel like that!" I laughed, "To answer your questions- Many things happened to me, I went here, I've always been able to do this, I thought it was time for a change of appearance, I don't know what your talking about, and honestly I don't know."
Firestarter stared for a moment longer before tears begun falling from his eyes. He sniffled and started hiccuping out sobs.
I frowned in confusion, a feeling mixed between pity and guilt rose from within me. Finally I sighed and floated down to the ground. I sat on my hunches and opened my forelegs, inviting him in for a hug. The kid quickly ran into my embrace and begun bawling his eyes out. I gently rubbed his scaly back comfortably well he let out his pent up emotions.
Eventually the baby dragon's crying slowed to a stop. He pulled away.
"I missed you, Twilight..." Firestarter mumbled, wiping his eyes with the back of his hand.
"I know," I smiled and begun floating again. He watched me with a look of childish wonder.
"How do you do that?" He asked.
I tapped my chin, "I not sure. As I told you before, I've always been able to do this. Among other things..." I projected images of my other abilities in my eye making his dragonic eyes widen once again.
"That is wicked..." He whispered before what I said dawned on him making him frown in confusion, "Wait, you've always been able to do this? Why haven't you ever told me? Or anypony else for that matter?"
I shifted my eye and looked away. "I... I was afraid...." I mumbled before stiffening up, looking back at Firestarter, and saying with a cocky grin, "Ha! Afraid? I'm never afraid! Fear is for weaker lifeforms!"
The baby dragon raised an eyebrow at my (likely very strange) behavior, "Uh, okay?"
I coughed awkwardly and brushed off nonexistent dirt off my shirt. "Anyway, kid, I have a proposition for you."
He blinked stupidly, "Huh?"
"A deal." I corrected, rolling my eye at his ignorance,
"Oh! Uh, what kind of deal?"
A rather large grin spread across my face, "I want you to come with me and help me out. In return I can promise you anything you want." Images passed by my eye again, showing him anything he could possibly want, "Bits, power, knowledge- anything!"
Firestarter tapped his chin with thought "Anything?"
"Yup!"
I could practically see the gears turning in his head. After a moment he focused back on me with a determined look in his eyes.
"Okay, I'll come with you and help you out. But in return I want you never abandon me again." A depressed look passed by his eyes for a moment, "It was horrible without you with me....... I... I felt like I wasn't ever going to be happy again."
That guilty feeling returned again. I pushed it back down and reached a hoof engulfed in blue flames out.
"It's a DEAL!"
Firestarter nervously looked at my flaming hoof. He hesitatly reached a clawed hand out and grasped my hoof. When he realized that it didn't hurt, he grinned.
We shook on it. The deal was sealed.
I nodded in satisfaction.
"Good choice, kid."
Author's Note
Spike has made a deal with the devil, what will become of this?
Confrontation In The Everfree
When Rarity woke up in the morning, she was confused when Spike wasn't next to her in the bed. She remembered going to the library to check on him then offering for him to stay with her for the time being until Twilight was found.
The white unicorn brushed the blanket off of her and stood up. Rarity then noticed that her bedroom door was open when she clearly remembered shutting it last night. She walked outside the room but when she saw what was outside her door she gasped in a mix of surprise and horror.
Opal was hanging from the ceiling by her tail. The poor cat was also shaved bald, tied it up, and had her mouth duct taped shut.
"Opal! Don't worry darling, mama will get you down from there!"
Well Rarity was trying to free Opal, she could have swore she heard laughter coming from somewhere...
What the buck was going on?!
I laughed as I watched Diamond's reaction to what I did to her cat. Oh man, this was hilarious!
"Uh, Twilight?"
I stopped laughing and turned towards Firestarter, who was sitting up in the sleeping bag I created for him last night, rubbing his eye sleepy.
"Yes, kid?" I smiled.
"What are you laughing at?" The purple dragon asked.
My smile grew wider. "Oh, just at a private joke."
"Oookay, whatever." His stomach growled loud enough for me to hear 4 feet away. His face turned pink. "Heh, sorry Twilight. I haven't really ate since you left..." he said with embarrassment.
"You haven't ate in a week?" I frowned and tisked with disappointment, "This simply won't do."
I stomped a hoof, creating a plate of sapphires in front of Firestarter. His eyes widened and he grinned with barely contained glee. He was about to reach for one before he paused and thanked me.
"Think nothing of it kid! Now eat, you must be famished." I said and sat down.
Well the baby dragon was stuffing himself silly, I took a peek around ponyville through my 'peepers'. I frowned at what I saw. The royal guard was strolling around town. Strange... did it have something to do with the letter Firestarter sent a week ago to Sunny?
My eyes wandered over to said dragon. I better ask him what was on that scroll.
"Hey, kid. I have a question for ya." I said, surprising him and making him drop the gem he was about to take a bite out of.
"Yeah?" He picked the gem back up and looked me in the eye.
"Out of curiosity," I twirled my hoof around, "what DID you write to Sunny a week ago?"
"Sunny?" He squinted his eyes before they widened when realization dawned on him. "Oh! You mean Princess Celestia? I wrote about how Discord was murdered and that you were missing. Wait, how did you know about that?"
I smiled mysteriously, "I know things. Many, many things."
Once Firestarter was done, he climbed onto my back and we continued our journey into the forest...
"So let me get this strait, sugarcube. When ya woke up this morning, ya found Opal shaved bald, hogtied, and hanging from your ceiling. On top of that, Spike is missing now too?"
"Indeed, darling." Rarity nodded.
Applejack shook her head slowly at this.
Rainbow Dash punched her hooves together and growled, "When I find whoever took them, I'm going to-" She cut herself off and started boxing the air.
"Um, maybe if we asked nicely, they might return Twilight and Spike?" Fluttershy mumbled out quietly.
"And a party, everypony likes parties! Hehehe, right? Right?" Pinkie Pie added with a hopeful smile. Everypony in their circle could see that the pink mare was working really hard to keep herself together. She was taking the disappearance of Twilight and Spike the hardest of them all.
The five of them stopped talking when they overheard a few of the royal guard pass by talking about how they were going to move their search further into the Everfree forest.
Applejack sighed, "I hope they are alright..."
Spike watched Twilight with deep thought as they walked deeper into the forest. The creatures of the Everfree seemed to avoid them like the cutie pox for some odd reason.
He wasn't sure what to think of her anymore. She lied to him for 12 years about how powerful she really was, but that he could understand. He would too if he had the powers that Twilight did. No, what he couldn't understand was her new look and behavior. It was almost like she was a whole nother pony! And...
He glanced at the really strange cutie mark she now had. The mark had both a good and evil feel too it. It... it kind of freaked him out.
But despite her (rather dark) changes, the purple dragon still loved Twilight very dearly and was willing to follow her down to the pits of HELL if needed.
He was a dragon, and how his kind was. He wouldn't have it any other way.
Suddenly Twilight stopped walking. Jolting him out of his thoughts.
"Twi-?"
"Shh!" Twilight shushed him. Spike went silent and listened to the sounds in the distance. There was a lot of shouting voices from behind them coming their way.
What's was happening?
I stopped walking when I heard shouts in the distance. It instantly but me on edge.
"Twi-?"
"Shh!" I shushed Firestarter and twitched my ears, listening closely. Whoever they were, they were rapidly approaching from behind.
"Hold on, kid." I commanded my draconic companion.
"Okay?" He wrapped his arms around my neck. I lifted my hooves off the ground, making Firestarter gasp in surprise, and floated up into the tree above us. I grabbed the kid with my magic and stuffed him further into the tree leaves well I made a hole and watched the ground below.
I watched as a group of royal guard approached. They were lead by, of all things, Warrior. They stopped under the tree and began inspecting where my hoofprints stopped. They than begun talking to one another.
"Who is it?" Firestarter whispered/asked.
"The royal guard." I growled back.
Suddenly Warrior looked up at where I was hiding. His eyes widened.
Shit!
Warrior begun shouting for his underlings to make formaton around the tree me and Spike where hiding in. They pointed spears up at us.
The unicorn's horn glowed and magnified the sound of his voice. "In the name of royal pony sisters, I command you to reveal yourself!" He shouted.
Firestarter begun panicking making me roll my eye.
"Stay here, kid. I'll take care of this." I whispered to him than laughed loudly and said, "If you insist!"
I disappeared and then reappeared, floating above them with a grin. All of them but Warrior took a step back nervously making my grin widen even further.
"Hello, pathetic ponies!" I announced and took a bow, "Cipher at your service!"
Warrior glared up at me. "Cipher, you are wanted for questioning of the murder of the spirit of chaos; Discord and the disappearance of the Element Of Magic; Twilight Sparkle. Please come quietly back to Canterlot with us."
I tisked and crossed my forearms, "Sorry, I can't do that Warrior."
He raised an eyebrow at my nickname for him, "If you don't come with us we will have to use brute force."
"Try it, Warrior," I smirked darkly. "It will end very badly for you."
"Then it shall be force," the unicorn then commanded his underlings to attack. They charged.
I cashly flicked my wrist, setting several of them on fire with blue flames. The guards screamed with agony as their fur and soon the're skin begun burning away. I watched with sadistic glee, eating up their screams like they were honey.
Well I was worried about the ones burning, a rope wrapped around one of my hooves and begun trying to pull me down. I burned to rope away and glared down at the guard that did that with slight annoyance. I pointed my horn at the guard and shot a beam of pure energy at him. It completely insinorated him on the spot.
I heard something approaching quickly from my left. I turned and dogged a rapid fire sword attack from Warrior. He used the sword in his magical grasp with well trained perfecton. It was like it was another part of his body.
I teleported behind him and kicked him with my hind hooves on the back of his head. Warrior gasped and fell to the ground with a grunt, clearly disoriented. I took the chance and grabbed him with my magic and started repeatedly bashing him against the ground, laughing like a maniac well doing so.
"Twilight! Twilight, stop! STOP!" Firestarter screamed from the top of the tree I left him in. I looked up at him with a crazed smile, cocking my head to the side when he continued shouting, "Look what your doing! Your going to kill him! Your going to kill your brother!"
My... brother?
I looked back down at Warrior, who was laying on the ground with a glazed look to his eyes. At some point he passed out from the pain with his eyes open.
It was like I was waking up from a long sleep and finally was noticing who I was looking at.
My eye widened.
"S-Shining...?"
I watched as Firestarter bandaged up Warrior with a deep frown. It felt like there was a war going on inside me. On one hoof I didn't care whether the unicorn died or not, he could get in the way. But on the other hoof Warrior was my brother and I DID care whether he lived or died.
I growled and kicked away a rock in front of me.
What should I do? How should I feel? Dammit, this is so confusing!
"Okay, he's all wrapped up." Firestarter announced, backing away from the white unicorn.
"Good." I looked up at the night sky "It's your bedtime anyway." I summoned a sleeping bag for the kid. He sighed and crawled into the bag. Once he was tucked it tight he then proceeded to stare at me.
I raised an eyebrow, "Yes, kid? You need something?"
"Um, how long has it been since you've slept?" He asked after a moment of hesitation.
I snorted, "I'm a being of pure energy with no known weakness. Even though I'm trapped in this pathetic pony shaped body I still do not need sleep."
Firestarter stared at me with a look of confusion. Heh, can't blame him. Even I don't understand what the buck I just said.
"How 'bout I simple it down for the both of us; I do not need to sleep."
The flightless dragon nodded, "I understand, but..." he shifted to the side and patted the space he made next to him "How about you sleep anyways? With me?"
"Sorry kid. I need to keep watch." I shifted my eye over to Warrior. He could wake up at any time...
"Please?" I looked back at Firestarter and was greeted with overly large, pitifully sad, puppy dog eyes.
"Fine," I sighed in defeat, silently cursing my soft spot for the baby dragon. I walked over and layed down, curling up next to him.
"Goodnight, Twilight." Firestarter said with a yawn.
"You too, kid." I mumbled lazaly. Laying my head onto my forearms, I stared into the blue flames of the campfire in the middle of the clearing we were in. My mind begun wandering.
Things used to be so simple. Study magic, study friendship, take care of Firestarter, protect Equestria with my friends by using the power of the Elements Of Harmony... I thought my destiny was connected to these four things. But now? Things about me were changing... something within me was awakening, if my sudden change of appearance, personality, and cutie mark meant anything. What was awakening within me felt powerful, evil, insane, and... old. Very, Very old. Far older than Equestria. Heck, the Earth even! But... what's my destiny NOW? Run? Run forever? No... I feel like I'm supposed to do something. What am I supposed to do?
My thoughts to the world that Discord was trying to create.
This world work's in such a cruel way, yet nopony is even aware of it. Everypony is trapped in a unbalanced reality. Everypony is blind to the truth that this world works within a corrupted sistem. Harmony has an iron hoof upon everything, there is never room for chaos to help keep order. I... I think I'm beginning to understand what Discord was trying to do. Harmony... Harmony is just another word for 'enslavement'. But... But what if somepony had the power to free everypony from the lies that hold them captive?
Firestarter suddenly gave a loud snore and turned towards me. He pulled himself close to my body and buried his face into my fur. What he in his sleep surprised me very much to say the least.
"Mom..."
My eye widened. Mom? He sees me as his... mother? Is THAT how he really feels about me? A small, yet rather warm smile appeared on my face.
I think I'm starting to realize it now. My feelings for Firestarter goes far beyond mere 'fondness'. As far as I remember my feelings for certain ponies in my life never really went beyond fondness, but... Firestarter is different. I think... I think I LOVE him.
I raised my head and looked up at the sky.
I think I know that I want to do now. I want to create a new world, a new reality... for Firestarter. A reality where he and everypony else is free from the enslavement known as 'harmony'.
I will call this new age of Equus... Weirdmaggedon.
Suddenly I got a strange feeling of deja vu making me squint my eye in confusen. Have I done this before?
With those words it was like a dam suddenly broke within my mind, releasing a torment of forgotten memories making me gasp and grab my head. I begun grinding my teeth at the sheer intensity of the memories.
Those hairless bipedal apes again... and other creatures. Monsters and... demons, yes, they're called demons.
Like... me. I'm a demon... no, a DREAM demon, the most power kind of demon in existence. That's why I've always felt different from other ponies, it's because I'm not even a pony AT ALL! I'm a dream demon and my name is Bill Cipher! That's why I picked the surname Cipher for my new identity, I was subconsciously trying to remember who I was! And.. oh God.
I removed my hooves from my head and looked at my cutie mark with new found descust. The Cipher wheel, really? Was this some kind of sick JOKE? Also, I'm a fucking purple colored PONY of all things- and a female one at that! Damnit Axolotl, this is NOT what I had in mind when I cast that that stupid spell of yours! I swear I can hear that son of a bitch laughing at me right now...
"Ugh, this is all the Pines falt!" I growled with deep rooted hatred. Flicking my tail I lowered my head back onto my forearms.
I fucking hate my life.
The room was dark. Eerily dark. The only light that could be seen was coming from a lantern off to the side.
In the center of the room was a lone pink mare. She had a piece of calk held within her mouth and was slowly drawing a strange summoning circle on the floor. She quickly pulled away and brushed a strand of her long, freefalling darker pink mane out of her face before sighing and getting back to work.
She wasn't sure if this was going to work, but Pinkie Pie was desperate. It's been over a week sense Twilight has disappeared, and two days since Spike disappeared too. She didn't know what else to do. She... She hasn't felt this useless in a long, long time.
The pink earth pony then drew another symbol of the ritual circle. She stopped, staring at the simbol she just drew with deep sorrow and longing.
A pine tree.
Pinkie squeezed her eyes shut, trying to stop herself from crying. That part of her life was lost years ago....... yet... yet she doesn't think the hurt will ever go away.
No matter how hard she tries to forget... she just CAN'T. Even though it's been 16 years since she died and was reborn in this reality, she still misses him... she still LOVES him.
He was still her brother.
A tear slid down Pinkie's cheek. She reached up, wiped it away, and got back to work.
Author's Note
The title is a refrence to something... can you guess what?
Also, the chapters before this has been edited.
The next morning Pinkie Pie sat in a rocking chair in her room, humming her SMILE song. She was doing something she hasn't done in a long time.
Knitting a sweater.
Pinkie was so happy that she has not forgotten how to knit, and she was glad that the sweater was turning out so well despite having to use hooves to knit it. Back on Earth, back when she was still 'Mabel Pines', she used to knit all the time. The sweater she was knitting currently was just like her favorite one she had as Mabel. It was dark pink with a shooting star on the front of it.
The pink mare sighed and looked over at the large pink rug she had in the center of the room. Unknown to everypony but her (and Gummy of course), she had Bill Cipher's summoning circle drawn on the floor underneath the rug.
Tonight Pinkie will attempt to summon him. She did not understand why she was going to try though. Bill was destroyed a long time ago, in a different reality. But... if she was reborn here in Equus, does that mean the dream demon (or even Dipper himself) were reborn here too? She... She CAN'T be alone, right?
Pinkie shook her head. No, she was SURE she wasn't alone. She felt it deep in her bones, and she was going to prove it.
Tonight.
I growled, walking through the Everfree with Firestarter on my back and the unconsess Warrior floating behind me within my magical grip.
Upon Firestarter's request we were bring him with us, much to my annoyance. The kid says we should have him tag along, at least until he wakes up. I just don't see the point, why not just teleport back to Ponyville and leave him somewhere for those ponies to find him? That way we no longer have to deal with the damn unicorn.
Suddenly, I felt Warrior shift within my grasp.
"Hey! I think he's waking up!" Firestarter announced with joy.
I stopped and turned my head towards Warrior. Indeed he appeared to be awaking so I set him on the ground. Firestarter hopped off my back as I turned my body towards Warrior and sat down.
Warrior moaned and slowly opened his eyes. He squinted and looked around, mumbling out a simple "Huh?"
"Welcome back to the world of the living!"
The white unicorns eyes snapped the rest of the way open when he heard my voice. He tried to sit up but he fell back down with a groan of pain.
I smirked at how pathetic he was, "I wouldn't try to sit up for a while, Warrior. You took quite a beaten."
"Buck you," Warrior growled.
"Such language!" I tisked, "I would watch your mouth if I were you, there are children here." I nodded my head towards Firestarter.
"Um, I don't mind." Firestarter said awkwardly.
"Children?" Warrior looked to the side and his eyes widened with horror when he saw Firestarter.
"...Spike?! What's going on?! Why are you with this- this THING?!" He screamed before turning his attention back to me. "Did... Did you foalnap him?! How DARE you! Your a sick son of a-!"
"Foalnap?" I laughed, cutting him off. "I did no such thing! Firestarter came with me willingly. Right, kid?"
"Uh, yeah. Sorry Shining." The baby dragon apologised with a nervous smile.
Warrior's jaw dropped. He was quiet for a moment before he stuttered out a "What?""
I floated behind Firestarter and grabbed his shoulders, the kid looked up at me with an awkward smile. "We made a deal. The kid come with me and helps me out with my plans, and in return I will never abandon him."
"Deal? What are you, some kind of demon?" Warrior growled/asked.
"Yup! But not just any kind of demon, I'm a DREAM demon! The most powerful kind of demon in all of the multiverse!" I smirked smugly as I let go of Firestarter.
"But... But Spike, why? Why did you turn your back on us and join this... dream demon?" Warrior said with defeat. The said dragon frowned with sadness and looked at me before looking back at the unicorn.
"Because she's taken care of me since I was a pup. She's my mother. I love her and I always will. Nothing will ever make me stop loving her." Firestarter whispered.
"Mother? Taken care of you?" The white stallion asked in confusion. "But I thought Twi-" he stopped. His eyes widened with realization. He then looked at me with absolute horror.
"...Twily?"
I grinned widely and cackled with sick glee, "Wow, it's taken you this long to figure it out? I thought you were smarter than that!"
"Twily... what's happened to you?" Warrior whispered.
"I woke up from a 17 year lie."
"Lie? What do you mean?"
I rolled my eye "The lie of living as the pathetic pony known as 'Twilight Sparkle' when I'm actually a all-powerful, all-knowing dream demon named-"
"But you ARE Twilight Sparkle!"
Rage rose within me at being cut off. My eye flashed red making Firestarter and Warrior flinch away. I took a deep breath and pushed my anger back down.
"Okay, Warrior, let's get one thing straight here. I was never 'Twilight Sparkle'. That was a big ass lie. My name is Bill Cipher- not 'Twilight', get it? I am a fucking DEMON and I will be treated as such." I snarled before finishing my rant with, "But if you HAVE to call me any other name other then mine, you will call me 'Twipher'. Remember it Warrior because if you call me by that damn pony name again I will kill you where you stand."
"... Alright, 'Twipher'." Warrior mumbled with a slow nod, he clearly was within deep thought. I was about to take a look at what he was thinking when I felt Firestarter pull my tail, getting my attention.
"Hey, um, do I have to call you 'Bill' or 'Twipher' too?" The drake asked.
I sighed, "Kid, I do not care what you call me. Your situation is different from his and everyone else's, so feel free to call me whatever you want."
"Okay," Firestarter nodded, "You do not wish to be calIed Twilight anymore so I will respect that. I will call you Twipher instead. Anyway..." He then looked over at the oddly quiet Warrior with a look of worry, "What do we do with your brother?"
Hmm... What SHOULD we do with the stallion? We can't just let him go... I need someone around to help me with my plans. I have Firestarter... but he is mainly around for company. I need someone to help my get my work done... Wait, that's it!
I grinned, "Heh, I know what to do with him, kid."
I grabbed Warrior with my icy blue colored magic, making him gasp out with shock, and pulled the stallion close to me. His blue pony eyes met my sickly yellow demonic one.
"Okay Warrior, here's the facts- You know too much. But killing you is off the table, so..."
I grabbed his head and tilted it to the right side. He began struggling making me sigh with annoyance. I used my magic to hold him still and reached a hoof out, putting it against his neck and focusing my magic.
Warrior gasped with pain as I burned a triangle with an eye in the middle onto his neck. Once that was done I released him from my magical hold and let him fall to the ground.
"Congratulations, Warrior! You have just been promoted from captain of the royal guard to my personal puppet!" I laughed.
The white unicorn raised his head and looked at me with eyes clouded with pain, yet I could see a look of horror on his face. He tried to speak but no words came out.
"Don't even try to speak, the binding spell I used on you makes it so you can not speak unless I want you to." I chuckled and looked up at the sky.
"Now let's get going, it's going to be dark in a few hours and I want to cover as much ground as possible before night come's."
Author's Note
Oookay, I think I got all the spelling errors in this chapter! Let me know if I missed any.
Also, I have changed the name of the story. You like? Is it fitting?
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The Hooves Twins And The Suspicious Pink Party Pony
Dinkadee Doo Hooves always knew something was off. The mane 6, her dad, her sister, herself... But the one who felt the most off was Twilight Sparkle. Dinky did not know why but Twilight always made her feel so ANGRY. Since the moment she laid her eyes on the purple unicorn, she felt like the mare could not be trusted.
But things got weirder after the murder of that hybrid cretcher that tried to take over Equestria. Twilight and Dinky's friend; Spike disappeared....... the resident party pony is acting strange(er)...
And the dreams. Dinky has started to have dreams that make little to no sense to her. Dreams of different lands, dreams of a very large, upside down, glowy triangle thing, and dreams of books. Three of them. Red books with a gold six clawed paw like thing on the front of the covers... They felt imported to her.
Why? Why did the books feel important to her? What were these lands she was dreaming of? What was that large glowing triangle thing?
And why is Scootaloo staring at her like that?
Dinky snapped out of her thought's and frowned at her sister. The tomcolt-ish orange pegasus was staring at Dinky with a worried look in her purple colored eyes.
"Why are you looking at me like that Loo?" Dinky asked.
"Uh, other then the fact you've been staring at our bedroom wall for about 15 minutes now?" Scootaloo said sarcastically.
"Ehehe," the light purple unicorn laughed nervously in response.
Later that day around sundown, after a long day of crusading, Scootaloo was walking down Ponyville's main street with Dinky next to her.
Scootaloo Hooves was worried. She knew about Dinky's dreams, sure, but what Dinky don't know though is that the magenta maned pegasus was having strange dreams too.
One of Scootaloo's dreams where about a building. It was a brown building with the words Mystery Hack(?) on the top of the roof in big red letters. There was two small bipedal creatures in most of the dreams that she seemed to feel a lot of love for. There was also a larger one that she had confused feelings for, and one of the strongest feelings were regret. There was for other bipedal creatures too... and a pig. Why a pig of all things?
Another dream was of a fancy dressed yellow triangle with an eye and arms and legs. There was blue flames slowly consuming everything. The yellow triangle was panicking and yelled something that sounded really weird. After it did that it reached towards her and screamed out what she guessed was a name... and then she proceeded to punch the triangle in the eye, causing it to disintegrate into nothingness.
Dinky suddenly said something.
Scootaloo shook her head to clear it and asked, "Sorry, what did you say?"
"What do you think Pinkie Pie is doing over there?" Dinky said again well pointing over at said pink pony who was wearing a very poor disguise.
Pinkie was looking up at a store of spells and magical items. She had a very uncharacteristic serious frown on her face. After a moment the party pony walked into the store.
It was very strange behavior, even for Pinkie. Scootaloo couldn't help but feel suspicious.
"She's up to something, Dinky... I say we follow her and find out what she's doing!" The orange filly growled with determination.
"Good idea," Dinky nodded.
The two sisters snuck into the store. The looked around until they found Pinkie Pie in the back of the store. They hid and watched Pinkie shifting through types of candles. The mare then pulled out a silver one with a white wick and then walked to the purchasing counter.
"Candles? She came in here to get candles?" Scootaloo whispered to her shell shocked unicorn sister.
"Scootaloo, don't you realize what kind of candles those are?" Dinky whispered back with horror.
"Uh..."
"Those are SUMMONING candles, you featherbrain!"
It took a moment to sink in, but when it did Scootaloo's eyes widened to the size of dinner plates.
"Summoning? As in summoning ghosts? " She harshly whispered.
"Well, it don't necessarily have to be ghosts. It could also be gods, monsters, demons..." The unicorn filly mumbled.
"HOW'S THAT BETT-" Scootaloo screeched before being cut off by Dinky's hoof slapping over her mouth.
"Shhh!" Dinky hushed her. "Do you WANT Pinkie to know we are here?!" She growled quietly.
The tomcolt removed her sisters hoof from her mouth, spat out a few hairs, and then pointed at the their leaving target.
"Well she won't EVER know if we don't even follow the darn pony!"
The twins then ran out of the store. It was almost dark. They looked around and noticed Pinkie a little ways down the street. They followed the party pony until Sugarcube Corner came into view. The fillies hide when Pinkie looked around. They unhid when she walked into the building. They stared until Dinky spoke up.
"So... what should we do? It's almost dark and mom must be wondering where we are..." She mumbled uncertainty.
"I understand that, but we have to see this thing through Dee! It could decide the fate of EQUESTRIA as we know it!" Scootaloo said with determination well stomping one of her front hooves.
"That seems highly unlikely but your right, let's do this." Dinky nodded.
The twins then walked into Sugarcube Corner. They looked around the downstairs in the shop and living areas but found nothing so they moved their search upstairs. They looked around until Dinky noticed a glow coming from under one of the doors.
The sisters then walked over and quietly opened the door. They peeked and what they saw made them gasp.
Pinkie Pie was setting up the summoning candles around a strangely familiar circle. Once she was done she stood back, took a deep breath, and pulled a piece of paper.
Pinkie cleared her throat and begun chanting. About halfway through she begun sweating and a almost pained look appeared on her face.
Then it happened.
The pink mares eyes begun glowing and she screamed out the rest of the chant. Once she was down she gasped and hunched over, panting.
Nothing seemed to happen for a moment but then there was high pitched, echoey laughter. And then with a burst of blue flames and bright light, SHE appeared.
The beast with just one eye.
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My name is Twilight Sparkle.
I've always felt different from other ponies. I knew things that didn't make sense to me. Mathematics far FAR beyond what was known to ponykind, the truth of how the celestial bodies truly worked... heck, I even knew what the meaning of life was! But I didn't get a slightest hint of why until the day I earned my cutie mark.
I remembered hopping around my mentor Princess Celestia, so happy until I felt a slight burning where my new cutie mark was. I came to a halt and glanced at my mark. It, for a brief second, flashed a strange symbol. I barely got a glimpse but it kind of like a.... wheel thingy? Maybe? I'm not sure.
"Twilight? What's wrong, dear?" Princess Celestia suddenly asked, making me jump.
"U-Uh, nothing, Princess!"
After that day I was able to to really... strange stuff. It began with hearing the thoughts of others. Soon it was entering dreams, floating, create blue fire at will, posses any living life form... but the crazest thing was the ability to warp reality itself! I also found that if I drew a triangle I could see through it at any time I wanted. And make deals. I just don't know what to think about that .
I have kept this a secret from everypony. Princess Celestia, Spike, my parents, my brother, my frends... everypony.
But everything changed during the return of Discord.
My name is Twiligh Sparkle... and I don't know who I am anymore.
