The Power

The mouths of the three newcomers from the Crystal Empire fell off, if not for their mouths glued to their faces, they would literally be on the ground. The houses of the innocent ponies were upside down, the ground was made of mud with plum trees with evil faces sticking out of it. Later on almost the entire floor there was a kind of green vaba, or so it was believed by the sight.

A pegasus flew through the clouds, escaping from another creature in a bizarre way.

"By Celestia. ¿What's going on here ?!" screeched Fred, covering his face with his front hooves. Balance gave him a comforting look, seeing how the poor pony was going into a nervous breakdown, he placed his hoof on his right shoulder.

"Do not fear, I will not let either of you get hurt" he assured, giving a warm smile that could brighten up the catastrophic day they were living.

Shager made a sound with his throat.

"Uhm, we should hurry" he mentioned, pointing to some creatures that were approaching with clear intentions, and they weren't welcoming. One of them pounced on Shager, wanting to attack him mercilessly. Balance conjured a bubble of protection, it rumbled over the creatures, pushing them back.

"¡Run!" commanded the alicorn, the two brothers obeyed and the three entered the strange new Ponyville. Balance looked over his shoulder to find that the creatures were still chasing them without any difficulty. "¡Keep running! ¡Keep running until we get to somewhere safe!"

"¡¿Safe place?! ¡This place is the realm of chaos!" Shager exclaimed, stumbling over his words.

Balance motioned for them to keep running, until he saw the crystal castle at a long distance. A castle in the shape of a tree? He gestured to the two terrified brothers, pulled them closer, and with a simple portion of magic from his horn, they teleported to the castle gates.

Equilibrio did not hesitate to touch the door with his hoof, when noticing that it was open, he opened it completely; encountering more of that green vaba on the floors and walls that were once glowing.

The creatures were fast approaching, Balance pushed the two brothers into the castle and slammed the door on the creatures' faces.

"¿Should we keep going in? I'm sure it belongs to some princess ..." Fred murmured, his brother rolled his eyes hitting his forehead with his hoof.

"¡Brother, wake up! The Twilight Princess lives here, everyone knows it. She is the princess of friendship" Shager informed neutrally.

Balance could only roll his eyes, he really didn't know any of the new princesses. And she knew that no one knew her. It was an advantage that he could use to his advantage.

"I wonder what happened to Ponyville" Balanced whispered, seeing the walls full of that vaba.

"The deal."

A voice was heard from the darkness, from there came a tiny figure, it was a lilac dragon with green scales. Its wings were bent downward. Balance knew immediately that it was a baby dragon.

"¿A dragon?" Fred asked, staying behind his brother.

Balance took a step forward, seeing the dragon sob.

"¿What happened?".

The dragon wiped away his tears.

"T-they came back, they took Twilight and they are taking all the ponies. ¡They are massacring everything! Queen Chrysaris kidnapped Twilight and the others, and she did not come alone" exclaimed the dragon who was still sobbing.

It was not good news, Balance was sure that if the villains returned. He was coming back.

And it was his fear, everyone's fear. His dark soul, like the abyss, his eyes that took away the souls of others just by looking at him ...

Duke Maniac.

Balance didn't want to remember, didn't want to.

An imaginary fire showed in his eyes, seeing how he remembered the flames devouring the souls.

He shook his head and slammed his hoof to the ground, startled at the three presences.

"I will not allow him to come back! I will not, I will not ..." Balance broke into a sob, the three of them looked at her with fear and with a frown.

"¿What do you mean ... him?" Shager asked curiously.

Balance wiped away his tears, showing his firm stance again. The little dragon shrugged in place.

"Nobody remembers him, but I do. I have lived years under his torture. He was very powerful, since he had stolen the powers of the ancient draconequus, alicorns, sorcerers and dragons. He was a carrier of the element of Death. Until one day I faced him. to him, but ... It wasn't exactly me that day ... ".

The little dragon looked at her puzzled, he was not the only one.

"I became ... my 'evil' side." Balance didn't want to mention that her cutie mark meant that she was the balance of Good and Evil. And she needed to be in balance between her two parts.

The dragon gasped in horror, bringing its small claws to its mouth.

"¡Oh no! This reminds me too much of Nightmare moon."

Equilibrio raised an eyebrow. There was no time for questions.

"¡He's so adorable! ¿What's your name little one?" Fred exclaimed, grimacing sweetly. Shager struck his forehead with his hoof again.

The dragon didn't seem to like being called small.

"¿Excuse me? My name is Spike and a while ago I saved the Crystal Empire from the clutches of King Sombra." he answered something offended and proud at the same time. "Uhm, maybe I had some help ..." immediately his expression of pride faded.

Shager rolled his eyes at the dragon. "¿So the princess was kidnapped?" He turned to his brother, giving him a knowing look. "This tastes like an adventure."

Fred made a strange sound in his throat. Balance took a few steps forward, seeing more of what the castle was like inside, when he opened a door. He found six thrones. Each had a mark on it. She saw that the table was a map, she got even closer to him, seeing how the map was showing how the places were being attacked.

Spike settled next to her, climbing on one of the thrones and seeing better what was happening.

The presences of the two brothers also arrived within the throne room. Suddenly, a dark smoke began to rise from a throne, a dragon's tail fell on the table, causing the four of them to gasp in horror. The dragon's tail began to move in a particular way, and in seconds a creature of many forms was with them.

"Sorry I'm late, I was busy with my tea time" he pronounced, and with a snap some teacups were shown floating in the air, he took a light drink, with one open eye fixed on the alicorn.

"¡Discord!". Yelled Spike.

"¡The god of chaos!"

Spike grunted. He crossed his arms and did not look again at the new being between them. Balance turned to being called Discord.

"¿A draconequus? I thought there were no more" she looked at him carefully, she knew they were beings not very ... destined to speak formally.

"What a coincidence, I thought the alicorns were locked up". he blurted out, all eyes turning to him in a menacing way, he literally shrunk into place. "Oops."

Balance couldn't help but feel his gaze fixed on her, knowing that the alicorns had been kidnapped. And she was the missing one of all. Discord approached slowly, showing a not very friendly smile.

"¿And who do we have here?" she asked, snapping her fingers and causing a magnifying glass to appear and take a closer look at her, Balance turned away from her.

"¡Don't you dare Discord! ¡We really thought you were reformed! Fluttershy must really be too sad ...". The dragon interrupted.

A part of Discord shrank, you could even see the guilt in his eyes.

"¡Well ... they thought wrong! I am Discordia, the god of chaos. No one can stop me." He uttered, raising his chest in a show of pride.

"She does."

Balance opened his mouth, seeing how Fred had spoken as if he knew it was true. Equilibrio wasn't entirely sure if she was still as in her old days, powerful.

"¡Ha!" Discordia laughed raising her arms in a tired way. Then he turned to her. "¿Who were you by the way?".

Balance let out a sigh.

"My name is..."

She was interrupted by a blast that shot her up to the wall, she saw for a second that something red lived on Discordia's neck, like a necklace ...

"¡Blah, blah, blah! I don't care about your name!"

The burst fired again. He listened as the two brothers and Spike called out his name in concern. Discord snapped his fingers and sent the two out of the castle of the princess of friendship. Equilibrio opened his eyes to find dirt under his hooves.

"¿Why are you doing this? The dragon mentioned that you had reformed" Balanced muttered, raising her eyes to his, Discordia approached and meditated for a few seconds, she opened her mouth and her necklace shone.

"I have no choice" he stated snapping his fingers and causing the two of them to appear in a room with a throne, the hallway had many portraits of heroic moments. Balance fell to the ground.

Her eyes were closing, she struggled so that this would not happen. The last thing she saw were several footsteps heading toward her.