Royal Problem
Meeting the Chaos
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Took a while to get this done with all the playing with SFM and getting ready for the Chains of Domination patch at WoW.
I hope it is fun to read and has some sense in the story I try to write for all to enjoy 0.0
Again there might be some typos so sorry in advance :P
Meeting the Chaos
Realm of Chaos
Prison of Banished
Flash of purple flame appeared in front of massive gates which had multiple different ancient sigils on them.
After flames died down three draconequus stod in front of the gates.
"I always hated this place it's so dull and feels wrong." Eris commented.
"You always liked more colorful places, sweetie. Let's see if dad is in talking mood" Typh said to her daughter.
Inhaling lots of air Typh let out a mighty voice."Father! I would like to talk to you and as I'm your ruler and warden you will heed my words."
After a moment of silence, the earth started to shake and the floor behind the gate started to crack open. A huge hole formed and a giant deformed dragon rose up lava flowing down his head. His head was full of scars and his four bat-like wings were torn. His scales were dark red and his very presence radiated chaos. He had golden-colored cuffs on his legs and arms and the same color collar. They started to glow and Exitium started to shrink down into the size of Eris and her parents.
A deep and dark voice boomed around Eris and her parents."Now this is an interesting development. And my favorite granddaughter is here too. So what do you want from me? Maybe you finally come to your senses and are here to release me?"
"No, Father. We are here to talk about something that we have recently learned. There is..." Typh spoke and Eris interrupted him.
"Who was that dragoness we saw in the mirror Grandpa!?" Eris yelled
A wicked grin formed on Exitium's face "Oh you mean this special little girl." Exitium snapped his fingers and in a flash of black flames, a purple dragoness appeared next to him in chains, and her mouth tied shut.
Typh's face turned dark and serious. "Father release that mortal! Now!" he yelled.
Exitium looked disappointed. "Tsk... Tsk... Now, now son no need to be that angry. I'm sure you know that these infernal gates hold me inside here, but she is free to leave if she can. If you free me now I can promise yours, your wife and my dear granddaughter's punishment isn't so bad. But continue to defy me and once I get out it will be much much worse."
Typh's voice relaxed a little letting out a chuckle. "Your good dad but I can see through your bluff. You know that only combined magic energy of yours and uncle Draco's magic is strong enough to force these gates open."
A big grin on Exitium's face. "That is true my magic and my dear "brother's" magic energy combined is the only thing strong enough to destroy these gates or those of our champions channeling our energy through their bodies." Exitium finished turning around.
Gears started to turn inside Eris's head until a big lightbulb appeared over her head. "No you didn't Grandpa."
Exitium turned back towards his guests smiling "It really seems you were blessed with the same intelligence that I have dear Eris."
Tiamat looked questioning her daughter. "Eris honey, what does he mean by that."
Eris looked at her grandfather straight to his big red eyes. "That Dragoness is the new Champion of Chaos isn't she grandpa."
"What!!" Both Tiamat and Typh yelled worry clear in their voice.
"But, then that means... Oh, gods above. This isn't good at all." Eris talked to herself in a loud voice.
"Again I must congratulate your deduction skills Eris you really are remarkable draconequus." Exitium spoke while laughing.
Typh looked towards his father anger clearly radiating from him. "How did you manage to get that dragoness inside your prison! Now answer dad!"
Exitium just smiled. "If you must know, she has been here over a thousand years." Exitium told his son.
"But that's not possible! She can't be more than 20 years old." Typh questioned.
"How rude son I did teach you to never guess lady's age didn't I? It's so interesting what a whisper here and whispers there to the mortal realm through the cracks of this prison can do. A pony of all kinds transported her egg here. Technically she is over a thousand years old, but if you count years after her hatching it's more of 22-year-old, but only a sliver of my power is how would you say this. It's volatile in the hands of mortals it can pretty much push them over the edge or just blow them up."
"What do you mean by edge?" Eris asked.
"He means madness. Mortal bodies can't hold that much chaos energy in them without either just disintegrating completely or just parts of them." Tiamat answered her daughter.
"I see you have read the right books Tiamat. My Champion or those who I deem worthy can wield my power safely without any backslash. But the girl is starting to get on my nerves she is still resisting my control over her after everything I have done to her. Must be part of her heritage as a divine dragon, but all minds will break eventually."
Purple dragoness started to cry this made Eris feel sad too. She walked to the gate looked at the dragoness in her wet eyes.
"Listen to me I promise we will get you out. Now that we know you are here we can form a plan to get you out, Just please hang in there." Eris placed her left hand on the gate and the dragoness weakly nodded her head.
"Your naive granddaughter. the only way you get her out is to either release me or wait for me to get out but wait too long and she might not be herself anymore."
Eris just smiled"Well I might not be as big-brained as you but I see a little hole in your plan, Grandpa."
"And that is?" He asked.
"I have met Draco's champion and I must say you picked a wrong target he even managed to take care of your, control demon you sent after him. And after I tell him and his friends what I learned he won't stop until you are taken care of." Eris told her Grandfather while smirking
Explosions of lava pillars appeared around Exitium his face was clearly angry. "Grrr... I knew that rodent couldn't pull it off, but I still have plans to get my freedom. I will have my vengeance and then all worlds will drown in chaos." he said and disappeared into the lava.
Tiamat looked at her daughter with a hint of anger in her eyes. "So Eris you have something you want to share with me and your father?" She asked while tapping her claws on her hands.
"I'm sorry I didn't tell you right away, but I know who Draco's champion is and I need to get this info to him and his family fast. I'm sorry to cut my visit short but you know how these things go." Eris told her parents trying to hide her worry over Spike.
Typh placed his hand on his wife's shoulder. "We know honey I'll try to dig info on how father managed to get dragon egg inside his prison. Just promise you won't turn him into monkey fish too. And bring him to dinner I would love to meet my future son-in-law."
"Dad your incorrigible!" Eris yelled with a light blush on her cheeks, snapped her fingers, and in a flash of chocolate milk disappeared.
Tiamat turned around and gave a kiss to her husband "You know she reminds me of someone who is rash and rough around the edges." Tiamat told.
"Yes, but she has a heart of gold I'm glad those ponies managed to rid her of my father's darkness although she could visit more often." Typh answered his wife
"You know all that yelling you showed towards your father made me remember how sexy you look when you assert your power how about we go and have little fun, my king?" Tiamat asked while kissing Typh's neck.
She really did know what buttons to press and Typh loved her because of that. "Well how can I deny my sexy servant that request." Typh told her with a devilish smirk on his face and groped Tiamat's broad ass and disappeared with her to purple flames.
Deep within the prison inside the cavern of Exitium female dragoness and God of Chaos walked inside.
Exitium snapped his fingers and chains around the dragoness melted away and the gag was released from her mouth.
"You think they bought it?" dragoness asked.
"You did an excellent job. I almost believed your crying myself. I'm sure they manage to get my brother's champion in here and when he comes here I will be finally free from this cursed prison." Exitium answered
"And when you get out I will..." dragoness stopped talking and started clawing her own head and yelling.
"Get out! This is my body! I will not do this!" dragoness yelled while fighting for control.
Exitium noticed this picked the dragoness up by the neck and slammed her to the wall of the cavern.
"You mortals really find ways to surprise me control-demon has been inside you for years and still you manage to wrest control back from time to time, but I don't have time for interruptions I'm so close and I won't let you ruin it." Exitium said while opening his right hand.
A sickly green fire appeared in his hand and he slammed it to dragoness stomach, this knocked her out cold.
"That should give you some strength to get control back keep her in leash or our deal is off." Exitium said and the dragoness eyes started to glow green.
Canterlot
Dining Hall
Celestia was listening to each of her guest's explanations about the argument. To make the story short the reasons were pretty childish, but some of them had a little point. Of course, Spike also had some blame on him for this situation.
Celestia raised her hand up and motioned all to stop talking after Twilight stopped she began to talk.
"I have to say that after hearing you all out your reasons for arguing are childish some of them have points but in the heart of them they all are pretty childish. You should have all talked before a situation like this comes up." Celestia explained and turned towards her son.
"And you, my son should have kept it in your pants. If you managed to do that we wouldn't have a situation like this on our hands" Celestia said while pointing Spike with her index finger.
"Twilight. after you leave from here to Ponyville take Ember with you and have a talk with Rarity and Applejack. Rarity I don't want anything bad to happen either Twilight, Ember, or my son. Be civil and talk this out. I'm sure you will find a solution to your predicament. Now how about we enjoy our food?" Celestia finished.
Torch cleared out his throat a little and spoke. "Princess Celestia shouldn't we talk about what we learned from Eris?" Torch asked.
Celestia sighed and just nodded. "Yes you are right and please Torch it's just Celestia. Spike, before you leave for Ponyville I would like to talk with you, could you join us too Luna?" Celestia said.
"Very well sister I'll join you." Luna answered.
"Sure mom." Said Spike.
After all, had eaten their bellies full Spike got up and walked to Celestia who was talking with Luna and Torch.
"So what did you want to talk about mom?" Spike asked.
"Ahh... Spike. Let's talk in my personal study. Girls, I want you to go ahead I'll drop Spike to Ponyville after we're done." Celestia said and the girls just nodded and left the dining hall.
With a flash of magic Celestia, Luna, Spike and Torch vanished and reappeared in Celestia's study.
"Spike... There is a possibility you should hear." Celestia said while thinking about how to explain her theory to her son.
"Okay... Mom, what is it?" Spike asked.
"Eris visited us while I and Torch were talking. She had some info about your current situation. Before I say this there is no guarantee that I'm right. What Eris told us about you being Draco's champion and avatar there is a possibility that you have a sibling. A twin sister." Celestia said.
I took a moment for all of this to sink in. Spike had a dumbfounded look on his face. After a short silence, Spike spoke.
"A sister!? But how? When?" Spike asked.
Luna was in awe of this info.
"Sister, How thou came to this conclusion? We would like to know" Luna asked.
"It's a theory that I came up with after the information Eris gave us. The first champions and avatars of Draco and Exitium were twins brother and sister. It is possible that they still follow the same pattern and give their powers to their champions who are twins. But this is just a theory" Celestia finished.
As someone asked her to appear, Eris appeared with an explosion of milk chocolate. With no time to react Eris pulled Celestia and Luna in.
"Did you miss me? Ooohhh... And even little Lulu is here" Eris said with a hearty laugh and hugging both princesses harder.
Celestia and Luna were annoyed by this and escaped the hug.
"Well it's good to see you again Eris" Luna said.
"Yes it's good that you are here. Maybe you could tell why you left in such a hurry." Celestia told.
Eris's happy mood disappeared and she looked a little gloom. "I went to visit home after you told about seeing a dragoness in the mirror." Eris begun.
"And why do you make it sound like it is a bad thing?" Luna asked little worried about her friend's mood.
"Well while visiting my parents I did have a lovely family meeting with grandpa. And well... there were some complications." Eris began to explain.
"Eris are you okay?" Spike asked concern clearly heard in his voice.
"Your really sweet Spike thanks for asking. I'm good, but there was really a dragoness inside the prison and it seems grandpa is trying to break her into serving him." Eris continued.
"We got to do something we can't leave her locked up with some evil god." Spike said.
"There is more you should know. There is some cosmic rule that even gods have to follow. While blessing mortals with their power they need to mirror themself when doing it. And by this, it means like giving access to God's powers not just some small power transfer." Eris explained.
Spike was scratching his head. "I'm not really following." Spike said.
"He means the one who is to receive these powers need to somehow mirror the god. Personality, Private life, etc. Like the stories of the first avatar of Faust. She was a little loner but loved to read and research like goddess Faust if you are to believe these stories." Luna told.
Eris just nodded and continued. "As Luna told, but in your case it's family, I'm pretty sure she is your sister a twin. She looks a lot like you."
"But how is it possible? I mean dragon eggs last really long but still." Spike asked.
"Eggs can last thousands of years if they are taken care of." Torch said.
"And the how your possible sister was transported into the prison is still open my theory is that hidden basement we found your egg, it's possible that your sister's egg was transported there by these cultists, but how and even if it is the correct answer is still open to us." Luna said.
"But even if she is or is not my sister we still have to get her out of there we can't just leave her in there with some evil god." Spike said.
"That would be a bad idea. We can't let Chaos god escape. In this case, we might need to leave her there sacrifice few to save many." Torch said with a hint of regret and sadness on his face.
"You can't be serious she has been there gods know how long and you want to just leave her there!" Spike yelled anger clear in his voice.
"Are you sure we can't do anything? Surely we can do something." Celestia asked.
Eris was deep in thought. After a short moment of silence, she spoke up. "Well there might be. The prison was made for grandpa, and those bars are magical in nature. In theory, if we get her free. She should be able to pass through them without any problem. The hard part is to get to grandpa and release her from her binds." Eris finished.
"Whatever we decide we should proceed with caution. This is a decision we can't make too hastily." Luna said.
"I agree with Luna. We need to think this through before we take any action." Celestia commented.
"Fine... Part of me wants to just rush there, but the other part says your right as usual mom." Spike said defeated.
Celestia walked next to Spike and placed her left arm and wing around him. "I know how you feel. The possibility to see your sister is something that is hard to describe, but we must do this right. Countless lives are at stake if we don't do this right." Celestia told her son while comforting him.
"Fear not nephew we will do all in our power to get her out." Luna said
"Me too. I'll try to find more info about the prison and how it works from mom and dad." Eris said.
"I don't really like this but if anyone can pull this rescue off it's you and your family, Spike. I and Ember will support you any way we can." Torch said.
At that moment there was knocking coming from the door.
"Aunt Celestia you in there? It's us Bluebella and Blueblood." Bluebella said.
"Yes come in." Celestia said and the door opened revealing Bluebella who had a long sea blue dress with some star markings added here and there, while Blueblood had his standard black tuxedo.
"Aunties. Spike and Lord Torch. I and Blueblood were walking around the castle and noticed that there were ponies in the meeting room so we thought you have a meeting, but it seems there were some nobles and Skychanter was giving a speech." Bluebella said
"So we two decided to do a little spying. And it seems they were talking about You and Aunt Luna. Skychant had found some old laws about unmarried rulers." Blueblood continued.
Celestia and Luna were thinking for a while until Luna spoke. "Wait. Is that old law still upheld?" She asked.
Bluebella and Blueblood just nodded. "Yes. Trial of Kings and Queens is still upheld and it seems he was having a pretty passionate talk about having you two as his wives producing multiple heirs for the kingdom." Bluebella said.
Blueblood continued "And as you know the trial is required to be voted by the noble council with a majority of nobles voting yes for the one who wants to undertake this trial."
Spike was a little lost at this info. "So what exactly is this law for this trial." he asked.
Celestia let out a heavy sigh. "It is an ancient law that can be used if the current monarch be it either male or female doesn't have a spouse within a certain time limit. But no one has ever tried to use it during my and Luna's reign"
"Anyone can ask for the vote through noble council for a chance to take the trial. If they succeed by law current monarch has to marry this pony." Luna finished.
"But... That's just wrong. No marriage should be decided by some trial." Spike said
"I know we have our differences, but in this case, I agree with you cousin. Unfortunately, we can't do anything. There are no loopholes around this one. Or at least I don't recall any" said Blueblood
Celestia was clearly angry about this situation. True they were following the law, but still, the ruling monarch is supposed to be invited to this meeting. "We need to take care of this now. Perhaps I can talk some sense into them. You are welcome to stay Torch." Celestia said
Torch rotated his head. "I would love to, but this is pretty personal and I don't want to interfere with it. Besides I would love to see around this Ponyville my daughter talks so much about."
"I and my brother are going to the library and try to find out anything that gives you two a way out of this" Bluebella said
Celestia nodded. "Very well. Let's go and see what those snakes are planing behind our back dear sister." Luna nodded and followed.
"Wait. Mom, auntie, I'll come too." Spike said and followed them
"Well I should go to Ponyville and see Flutters. Want a ride Torch?" Eris asked.
Torch studied Eris for a moment and answered. "Oh... Alright. But no tricks or I'll flame you." he threatened.
"Oh don't worry nothing bad happens. The first time is always the worst. Hold on to your stomach." Eris said.
"Wait. What?" Torch said, but it was too late with a snap of her fingers marshmallows surrounded them and after a short moment jumped on them and they disappeared from the castle.
