Author's Note

Hello folks, so here is the conclusion of the 1st part of Zack's story in Equestria, this is how much i already had built and drafted up thus far. so, once this chapter is uploaded, this will go on Hiatus, until i can finalize my thoughts on Volume 2 cause i have narrowed down 2 paths i might take the story.

so hopefully you like this chapter, and the 1st volume of this fic. and thank you all for liking, favoriting, and enjoying this fic of mine. it really means a lot.

Chapter 16 : Despair & Pain - End of Volume 1

Song: Aviators – No One Will Save You (Bloodborne Song | Gothic Rock)
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqdyyxdZ4cQ.

The entire throne room was filled with a mixture impending danger, icy cold terror, and burning vengeance. And the source of this trifecta of dreadful emotions was the lone violet alicorn in the middle of the chamber, glaring with such hatred that it made anyone who gazes upon the eye feel a pit forming in their hearts. The mourning alicorn slowly got up to her hooves, eyes never leaving the focus of their hatred, as her wings flare out and feathers bristle, her fur, mane, and tail standing on end as the smoke emitting from her eyes intensify. While her horn continues to generate arcing bolts of black lightning, striking the ground and scorching the polished floors, and coursing over the alicorns form.

“Zack.” Celestia calls out with a very careful tone of voice, but the smaller alicorn didn’t pay her any attention, as she was just focused on one thing. “Zack, look at me!”

Celestia barely had time to bring up a shield when a bolt of lightning arced towards her! the shield however failed! The white alicorn cried out in pain as the bolt of lightning wracked her body, burning her fur and leaving heavy second degree scorch marks all over Celestia’s body!

“SISTER!” Luna cried out as she dashes over to her fallen sister.

“Zack stop this!” Twilight shouted. “This is not—”

Another bolt of black lightning arced its way over to Twilight, but the violet mare was able to teleport out of the way, causing the bolt to zip past the other ponies and Spike. All of them just barely ducking, dodging, or flying out of the way. Discord seemed to be sweat, profusely as the mare inched closer and closer to him, her eyes burning with hatred the likes of which he has never seen before.

“Now, Zack, I k-know I messed u-up. Honest m-mistake on my part.” Discord nervously chuckled. “But if y-you give me a—”

Like the other two times, another bolt of lightning arced out and Discord was to distracted of trying to reason with the alicorn to dodge or even use his magic. so the bolt stuck true, dead center of the draconequus’s body, and for the firs time in his entire life…Discord felt pain! The spirit shouted in pain as his fur burned, his skin seared and scared from the sheer force and heat of the strike, as he rolls around on the ground convulsing as the lightning wracks his body. As Discord continues to writhe in pain, his body now looking like a overly burnt hot dog, Twilight and her friends could only look on in horror as Zack trots to the spirit of chaos.

“You took, EVERYTHING, from me…” the mare growled, her voice becoming distorted, and laced with so much venom the other ponies thought it will drool from her mouth.

“You took my family—” another bolt of lightning struck the draconequus, causing more pain.

“My friends—” another bolt.

“And my very LIFE! All because…you were bored!” Three bolts this time struck Discord, burning nearly seventy percent of his body as the sparks. “Tell me Discord. Are you bored now?” more lightning wracked the spirits body, causing him to cry out in pain, more pain than the spirit has ever felt in his entire existence.

“Twilight we have to stop her! she’s going to kill Discord!” Fluttershy cried out.

“I don’t think we can stop her.” Rarity huddled in terror.

“We have to do something!” Pinkie said as she ponied up, and made her way over to Zack.

“Pinkie get back here!” Applejack cried out. But the pink pony didn’t head the apple farmers warning, and continued to make her way over to the hurt mare.

“Zack, please. You need to stop this.” The mare said in a very sweet and calming tone, trying to ease the alicorn down, but the alicorn didn’t even pay any attention to her. “Zack please listen to—”

Pinkie reached out a hoof to gently pat Zack’s back, but the moment she came within a few inches of the alicorn, her body was sent flying when Zack’s left eye looked at her. An invisible force knocking the pony all the way across the hall, slamming her into a wall with enough force to create a spiderweb crack, and cause Pinkie to cough up blood before she dropped to the floor.

“Pinkie!” all of the mare’s friends cried out as they raced towards her, but that’s when a booming voice caused all of them to be knocked over.

“STAY OUT OF THIS!” Zack screamed with such intensity that all of the windows developed cracks, and even the floor beneath her crumbled under the sheer force of her voice, creating a small crater.

However that one instance of distraction was what Discord needed, able to will himself, the draconequus snapped his lion’s paw, and teleported away. When Zack saw that Discord had vanished, the lightning pulsating from her horn practically turned into a smoking storm cloud that hovered above her, as the smoke wafting from her eyes turned into green and purple flames, and her shadow expanded out from her and black thorn covered vines emerged while covered in tar. Then the most painful, and shrill scream of both agony and anger just wracked the very air, nearly destroying the ears of the nine ponies and drake in the chamber, causing all of the windows of the castle to shatter, while the castle itself and a good quarter of the city trembled as if an earthquake was shaking the very mountain! And then from the mare’s horn a pure blast of black magic shot forth…taking out everything that was directly in front of the alicorn!

“DISCORD! YOU CAN’T RUN FROM ME!”

In a flash of black and purple magic, Zack vanished with a shrilling pop, causing the storm cloud and shadowy thorns to vanish. Leaving all the ponies and Spike alone in what remained of the throne room. everyone was left speechless, unable to comprehend what had just transpired. Also the sight of a pony wrought with so much hatred, was something that none of them has ever seen…and never want to see again.

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Discord popped into existence miles away from Canterlot, crashing to the grassy field, the action causing him to cry out in pain as his battered and burned body meet the floor. As he laid there in the grass, Discord thought about how he was injured so much. He was the lord of chaos! He could just snap his fingers and make his body dodge any attack, or not even be affected by anything as he was a spirit. But this was different…that magic that Zack used to torture him was different…it wasn’t pony magic, or what is normally pony magic. It was like, dark magic. But even dark magic can hardly do anything to him, but how could the mare hurt him so much?

That’s when Discord remembered what he did to Zack. The body his soul was inhabiting, it wasn’t a normally created body, it was created from his own chaos magic! So Zack’s body not only had Twilight’s alicorn powers, the dark magic being created from Zack’s rampaging emotions and hatred, but it was his OWN chaos magic coursing through the body. Discord’s train of thought was interrupted when a wailing scream echoed across the air, before he heard the voice of the mare that has become an avatar of rage.

“DISCORD! YOU CAN’T RUN FROM ME!”

Discord felt a chill run down his spine as he heard this, and tried to get up and use his magic to get away. But as he stood up the field was instantly darken, as if something has blot out the sun. when he looked up, Discord saw a large storm cloud with black lightning coursing through it. from the storm cloud hundreds of lightning bolts came crashing down to the ground, causing minor explosions of dirt clouds, blocking Discord’s vision, but when the dust settled the spirit saw something that made his blood run cold.

Surrounding the spirit of chaos was exactly one-hundred constructs of Zack’s old body, all of them covered in black lightning, wielding swords forged of green and purple fire. But there wasn’t just clones of Zack’s old body surrounding the draconequus, there were a few giant featureless humanoid being with flaming fists, a swarm of what looks like birds with flaming wings covered in black lightning. And towering over all of them was a large dragon with wings made of fire, and lightning coursing through its see through body. While a massive dome of translucent violet magic surrounds the field Discord, and the constructs were in.

“There is no escape now!” the voice of Zack echoed from everywhere.

“You cannot escape from me…” all of the constructs tensed up as the storm cloud ahead loomed like an ominous shadow, as more electricity arcs down, striking the dome. “Now…DIE!”

The constructs gave off wailing shrieks as they all raced towards Discord, who tried to teleport out of the dome…but his magic wasn’t working! Three of the ‘Zack’ constructs got the jump on Discord and stabbed him in the back, causing blood to spurt from his mouth…actual blood! The flames from the sword burned away at Discords body, causing him to try out in pain again! Fighting through the pain Discord used his magic to push the constructs away, dispelling them. but then a large flaming fist came rocketing out of nowhere, striking the spirit from the front and cracking all of his bones and sending him flying. But after soaring over a yard, Discord was sent crashing down to the ground by the paw of the dragon construct, before a beam of fire and lightning was unleashed upon him, pushing him down into the ground as a crater was being formed.

“Grrrr!” Discord’s body was slowly turning into nothing more than burnt flesh, as the torrent of fire and lightning continued to assault him. “…..grrrrrr…. ARGH!”

Discord roared out in frustration, using a large portion of his magic to creating a wave of magic that turned all of the constructs into random objects, while making the dome pop like a balloon, as small shards and pieces fall to the field below. Now battered, bruised, bleeding out, and left scorched in a crater, Discord was to weak to even move. The only thing he could do was gasp for air, while trying to keep his eyes open. But the instant he blinked, the image of the overly enraged alicorn on the edge of the crater caused his heart to stop for just a second. A single beat of her wings was enough to sent the alicorn up into the air, and slowly float down to the dreadfully frightful draconeguus, unable to do anything other than weakly scramble away.

Steady wing beats was the only sound in the devastated field, aside from pained grunts and moans, as Discord tries to scurry away as the mare above him hovers a few feet from him. The light of the sun shining off the black electricity sparking from her horn, and darkening her features to give her a more ominous appearance, while the storm cloud slowly dissipates.

“P-please.” Discord begged, giving up on trying to run away.

“Forgive me Zack, I beg of y-y-you! I—I didn’t m-mean to cause all of t-this! I thought I c-could just send you home after I h-had my fun.” Discord begged as Zack’s wings slowly flapped, just keeping her just above the cowering draconequus.

“Please! Show me mercy and I swear, I’ll do anything for you!”

The mare only hovered above Discord, her wings flapping ever few seconds as the still vengeful, hate filled eyes burn into Discords very soul. The world seemed to be silent, Discord couldn’t even hear the wing flaps from the mare above him, or the sparks of electricity arcing from the alicorns horn. But the silence was eventually broken as Zack finally spoke, her voice still laced with venom and rage, yet mournful and hollow as she stares down at him.

“…you took, EVERYTHING, from me Discord…all because you were bored.” Zack said with a leveled, yet frightening tone, which only made the spirit of chaos coil into himself as blood seeps from his wounds.

“Bored that this world of fantasies, genuinely good people…can’t hold your attention because you can’t do what you want to do, so you decided to take me from not only my world, but my family, my friends…my own life, and brought me here to be your latest toy to keep you, entertained.” Discord’s eyes started to tear up as he feared for his life at what this being fueled by alicorn, dark and chaos magic will do to him.

“Well then…let me show you something that I think will be, fun!”

In a burst of magic, Discord’s vision was filled with the assault of black, purple, and green light, but that was quickly sidelined from what he was feeling. Discord looked down to his eagle talon, watching turn to stone! The draconequus then started to plead for Zack to stop, but the mare kept casting the petrification spell on him, the same spell that has kept him imprisoned for the past thousand years!

After a minute of applying the spell, Zack ceased her flow of magic, and looked down at the now petrified statue of Discord. Cowering in absolute fear as he looks up at her, stone tears flowing from his eyes.

“Now then.” Zack muttered as her horn pulsed with magic, a ball of black and purple magic surrounding the pointed appendage. “Time to make you share my fate.”

~~Canterlot~~

The city was in a state of absolute panic! After all, the ponies just saw a third of the castle just be reduced to dust! After hearing a dreadful, horrible scream that shattered nearly all the windows of every building, that was around the castle. Inside the castle, servants were running around in a panic, the royal guards were either trying to settle everyone down, or joining in on the panic fest.

In what remains of the throne room, Celestia was being tended to by her sister, who is apply healing magic to her burns. Luckily the alicorn wasn’t to badly damaged, but the scaring was still bad. A few feet from the two sisters, Twilight was also using healing magic on Pinkie, who like Celestia wasn’t to badly injured by Zack’s blind range. But several of her ribs, a small portion of her spine, and the back of her skull were fractured, but the magic that Twilight was using on her was restoring them back to normal. Everyone was still in state of fright, as never have they seen anything that had the level of anger, rage, bloodlust, and a desire to cause pain so potent or as much as what Zack was generating. To put it simply, when the ponies saw Zack assailed Discord with those bolts of lightning, and turned to scream at them when she knocked Pinkie away…

She looked like an absolute monster.

“Twilight…” Starlight said with a shaky voice. “What are we going to do.”

“I…I…” Twilight’s head was just an absolute mess. So many things were running through it, that no cohesive thought could form.

One thought was to find some place to hide and hope that Zack won’t come back, and attack them in a blind rage. Another thought was to go and find Zack, and see if she could talk some sense into her. but nothing solid was coming to mind as the alicorn just lays there on the floor, and healing her injured friend.

“I don’t think there’s anything we can do.” Luna said suddenly as she cradles her sisters head on the side of her barrel. “Right now Zack is over taken by so much dark magic, and rampaging emotions, that nothing will stop her except herself.”

“So what, we just wait here and hope that Zack, burns herself out or something?” Spike said as he flails his arms around.

“I think that’s all we can do sugarcube.” Applejack says.

Just then the little drake, and seven conscious ponies heard something. Well felt would be more accurate. Everyone in the throne room felt a deep rumble rattle the ground beneath them, before feeling it course up their bodies. Then the group heard this low deep reverberating sound, it was like the sound of a volcano before it erupted. And then something appeared far off in the distance, which could be seen from the opening of the throne room. far off in the distance, everyone could see what looks like a massive ball of pure black energy, grow in size until it became the size of a mountain.

“What is that?” Rarity asked as she looks at the shimmering black sphere.

“I don’t know, but I have a feeling that Zack is behind it.” Luna says as she, and the others continued to look upon the black ‘thing’, until it started to shrink.

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The dome of darks continued to shrink down in size, revealing that everything that the orb initially expanded over was gone. Trees, grass, hills, any thing that was in two miles of where Zack and Discord were was gone. As if they were erased. Once the dome of darkness was dissipated fully, the only thing that was left standing in the baren field, was Zack. Who was looking down at the crater that Discord was petrified in, but the statue of the lord of chaos was gone, only a small pile of what looked like grinded up grey powder was piled. Which was carried off by the wind.

Zack was left panting in the crater, wings drooped to the ground, mand and tail limp and straighten. Eyes back to their normal state, but looked drained and exhausted. Sweat also covered the mare’s face and body, showing heavy exhaustion. As what presumably the remains of Discord blew off in the wind, Zack collapsed to her side, going limp as she starts to loses consciousness.