The True Master of Chaos

Spitfire flew through the air as fast as she could from her house in the eastern section of Canterlot. She was at home when she had heard the sonic boom in the distance. At first she believed it had been Rainbow Dash doing a practice run, but when she looked into the sky, she saw the dark cloud spreading across the moonlit sky. A few minutes later, she heard the impact from something landing in the city shopping plaza.

She couldn’t just sit there and not find out what was happening. She knew she had to go and find out if any pony was hurt. After another five minutes of flying, she came across a large crowd of ponies running below her. Every single one of them was screaming.

Dropping to the ground, Spitfire tried to ask the fleeing ponies what had happened, “Hey, what happened? Any pony, please! What is going- ahg!” She was cut off as a unicorn ran straight into her. Recovering from the collision, she looked up, seeing a battered mare staring right back at her. Her eyes were bloodshot from pure panic, blood running down her body from multiple gashes. Before Spitfire could say anything, the unicorn ran off.

Spitfire was soon left alone in the street. She looked around and saw many of the buildings on the street were burning from the spreading fire. Over to her right she saw the corpse of a small pony sprawled across the sidewalk. It was a young filly, no more than seven years old. There was blood splattered in all directions around the small body. Spitfire felt as if she was going to throw up seeing the sight.

“Oh, I see someone hasn’t left yet.”

Spitfire froze when she heard the sinister voice. She turned and saw the dark alicorn walking towards her. At nine feet tall, the beast towered over the yellow Pegasus. Her body trembled when she saw the dragon wings at the sides of the creature. But what truly petrified her were the eyes… those silver eyes locked on her. They were like the eyes of a monster, seemingly staring through her soul.

“You seem braver than the others…” Aligon said to the terrified Pony beneath them, “yet bravery will always fade in the darkness.” He smiled as his horn began to glow. He tilted his head down and shot a blast of energy towards his victim.

Seeing the approaching blast shook Spitfire out of her frozen state. Jumping to the side, the energy hit the stone below where she had stood. Seeing that he had a fast target, Aligon laughed and let out multiple shots, one after another. Panicked, Spitfire preformed numerous flips and dives, barely evading the oncoming energy beams.

After it subsided, Spitfire was so scared her body was in a constant shake. Without even having to think, she turned and took to the skies as fast as she could. Her mind had too many thoughts to process at one time to even know what to do. Cry? Scream? Hide?

Aligon sat there watching the fast Pegasus fly off, a large grin spreading across his face, “It has been a long time since I have had myself a good chase.” He spread his large wings and took off after his prey.

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"What are you talking about a lie?" Twilight questioned Princess Luna, who was so shocked she did not want to answer any of the questions her friends were asking her.

Applejack sat confused at what the princess had said. She looked around and noticed she  wasn't the only one thinking of the same thing. She and her friends played in the play celebrating the fateful day when Pegasus, unicorn, and earth ponies bonded together, overcoming their differences and formed Equestria.

Florence looked at Luna with total loss of understanding, "How can it be a lie? This story happened thousands of years before the alicorns existed."

"Yeah, how would you know? It happened before you were even born!" Rainbow blurted out.

Luna just slowly turned away from them, not wanting to look any of them in the eyes. She could not believe what she had inadvertently let out. She didn't want to reveal what had been hidden over 1500 years ago. She didn't think They would be able to accept it. Celestia would be furious as well.

Yet, Luna was surrounded by her friends who truly cared for her, and she felt guilty for having to lie directly to their faces. 'They are the wielded of the elements of harmony for Equestria's sake!' Luna thought to herself, 'they deserve to know what happened to us.'

Turning back to all of them, Luna slowly stood up and walked back towards the circle of hooves, spikes and stripes. She took a quick look to all of the faces around her filled with confusion. All of her thoughts from her past came back to her, making her remember why the lies were created.

She stood quietly for another minute until her nerves allowed her to speak, “Equestria was not formed from ponies coming together through friendship during a storm like the story says.”

Twilight tilted her head from thought, “How would you know that?”

Luna’s eyes filled with pain from what she was about to say. She looked down to the ground, “Because my father created that story after the war.”

Every pony, zebra and dragon gasped from what the princess had just said. Twilight took a few steps backward from what she heard. The thoughts ran through her head, ‘her father!? Luna’s and Celestia’s father!’ Thinking back, she realized her teacher had never mentioned anything about her parents, or anything of an ancient war. In fact, she had never even heard of an old war.

Out of all of them there, Florence stepped forward first, “what are you talking about a war? I haven’t ever heard of one from before 1000 years ago besides Discord's reign and Nightmare moon.”

Luna turned to the unicorn and looked him straight in the eye, “The war was stripped from all known history books and was kept secret by me, my sister and our master.”

“Master?” Fluttershy questioned.

Luna struggled at first to say the name, but finally forced it out, “Starswirl the Bearded.”

Twilight was overtaken by shock from that name, “St-St-Starswirl?!”

Soarin lifted an eye brow at Twilights reaction, “Who?”

“Starswirl the Bearded! The greatest and most powerful unicorn to have ever existed!" Twilight could not believe what she was learning. "He was your master?”

“Yes he was, Twilight. He was our teacher and our guardian for 500 years.”

Zecora’s eyes went wide from hearing that figure of time, “But Princess Luna, that is not possible. Life that length is not plausible,"

“Yeah, no creature can live for that long besides dragon's and alicorns.” Spike commented.

“It is a long story to explain everything.” Luna said.

“And one that will not be told.”

Every pony turned to where the new voice came from. When  Luna turned up as well, her heart felt as if it had moved to her throat. Her face filled with panic seeing the mysterious figure come into view from the trees.

Standing there was Princess Celestia, her face twisted with anger.

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Spitfire's heart was slamming in her chest as she flew over the city. Her body was tiring as she flew harder, but she refused to slow down; knowing what was after her. She turned her head and saw her fear confirmed.

The monster was still behind her, and closing in fast. It seemed as if it wasn't even trying to catch its prey, but toying with it. Its eyes shone through the darkness, locked on to her. It's evil smile showed the many fangs gleaming against the moonlight.

Terrified, Spitfire dove to the ground, weaving through the narrow alley ways in an attempt to lose the beast. Her smaller size did allow her to maneuver easier in the tight corners, but the creature simply blew apart the walls blocking its path.

Spitfire's body was beginning to fail her; the fatigue from flying so hard was taking a toll on every muscle. She didn’t want to stop, but it seemed inevitable. Seeing her house, she rushed into it as fast as she could and locked the door behind her.

She knew hiding was pointless, but in panic she wasn't focusing on what was smart or stupid, only what could keep her alive longer. Shooting her eyes around, she ran across the living room to the desk set up in the corner and hid behind it, the wood backing blocking the view to and from the door. Laying her back against the wood, she gasped for much needed air.

The door to her house was ripped from the hinges and thrown to the side. She would have screamed if she did not cover her mouth with her hoof. It seemed as if time nearly stopped, knowing that her pursuer had all of the intentions to take her life. Her breathes came in rapid intakes when she heard the hooves entering her living room.

Aligon looked around the small room for his target Pegasus. He smiled as he glanced up and down the halls to the other rooms. He always enjoyed quick kills, but sometimes it was a great thrill to cause pure torment in some of his victims, wanting them to have the horrible memories be imprinted in their mind as he sent them to the afterlife.

He slowly trotted to the center of the main room, peeking into the kitchen, “I know you are in here, little one.” His dark voice rolling off his tongue and seemed to echo in the quiet home.

Spitfire curled up into a ball, trembling uncontrollably. ‘Please…’ she thought to herself, ‘please just leave.’ Her eyes could not hold back the tears that formed.

Aligon continued to scan. He lifted his head and gave a deep inhale, allowing the millions of air particles to enter his nostrils. His brain began processing the unlimited amount of scents floating around. The dragon genetics within his body not only gave incredible physical strength, but enhanced his body with unparalleled senses to seek out his needs. It also gave him a few abilities that alicorns could never have.

He opened his eyes after a few moments, turning his head towards the desk in the corner. He grinned as he took steps in that direction, “it is stupid to hide from me. You should just allow me to end your suffering.”

Spitfire began to feel her heart ramming against her ribs as she heard the hoofs getting closer. The tears now fell uncontrollably to the floor as she trembled. Thoughts of being ripped apart or having her body twisted into a sick mess tormented her mind. ‘Please don’t let it end like this!’

The steps stopped at the edge of the desk, and the alicorn whispered through the wood, “Nothing you can ever do will save you from me. You can’t run from me. You can’t fight me…” he stopped as he slid his long tail around one of the legs of the desk, flinging it against the side wall. Underneath was the crying Pegasus he was looking for, staring straight at him with pure terror in her face, “and a shitty desk will not save you from me!”

“NOOOOO!” Spitfire screamed as the curved horn began to glow.

Suddenly, Aligon was shot by a blast of orange energy from the doorway, forcing him to stumble . The attack did not leave any physical damage to his rear, but caused him to grow angry for having his fun disrupted. He turned to the opening and saw a royal guard standing there, horn pointed straight at him.

The guard glared at the alicorn inside the home, “Get away from her you son of a bitch!”

Aligon glared at the unicorn, “So, you wish to die as well you pathetic little shit?” He charged out of the room after the unicorn, who had turned and fled to the streets.

The house was then occupied by one creature; a trembling, crying Pegasus.

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Celestia walked into the large clearing where all of the others were standing. Her eyes were filled with anger and her teeth were showing through the near snarl on her face.

Twilight felt frightened looking at her teacher. In all the years she served under Celestia, she had never once seen her this furious. The others trembled under her gaze as well, but most of all Luna.

All of them parted to make a path as the sun goddess walked through them to the lunar Princess. Celestia didn't even turn to look at the others, because all thought and focus was set on her sister, who had betrayed her trust.

No pony had the courage to say anything or to ask what was happening. Every one of them sat and stared at the two sisters below the statue.

Celestia stood quietly for another minute, just staring at her sister. She soon finally said something, without turning, to the ones standing behind her, "Leave us now."

Twilight at first as going to comply, but her heart wanted to figure out what was happening. She slowly took a step towards her master, "But princess, what is going on? Why didn't you ever say-"

Celestia whipped around and glared at her pupil, "I Gave you an order Twilight Sparkle!" her words rang through the quiet clearing.

Twilight dropped to he ground out of pure fear. She had made many mistakes in her past, and Celestia simply gave her a speech on how to become better, and never yelled at her. It was not only the tone or the volume of her words master's that bothered Twilight, but the look in her eyes seemed as if the hatred flowed directly into Twilights heart.

Celestia glared up at the others standing behind her student, "All of you, head back to Ponyvlle now, and you will not speak a word of what you have heard this night." all heads shook in unison to her demand. Turning towards Ponyville, all of them, including Zecora, began walking Florence and Luna locked eyes momentarily, until he finally turned around and followed the others down the Path.

Seeing that they were gone, Celestia turned her gaze back towards her sister, who was still kneeling on the ground, not wanting to look up, "Now tell me Luna; what gave you the idea to break our families promise!?"

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Aligon was standing in the center of the large clearing within the Canterlot eastern wing. On the ground below him was the bodies of a dozen guards skewed about in bloody piles. He looked around him, and saw he still had ten more guards and three dragons to take care of.

Ares was panting for breath. He could not believe the power that he saw. None of their attacks were even phasing the beast. It seemed to allow the magic blasts to strike its body, as if testing the strength of their attacks.

Night Stalker was tired as well. He and his comrades did had just come from Montara without having time to rest, and now had to face this seemingly immortal creature.

Aligon was now getting frustrated from the interruptions. He first wanted to cause a massive panic, kill some ponies here and there, perhaps a few guards. He didn't want to fight off a platoon and several dragons. He grunted from how much time he was wasting.

Raising his long tail off the ground, Aligon lifted the wounded guard he had been holding by the throat. The pony gagged as he tried to pull off the strong tail blocking his breathing, until he went limp and his eyes rolled back in his head.

Ares cringed when he saw the body stop moving. Seeing how easily the creature was taking out the guards, he knew that there was no chance for them to stop it.

He looked over to Night Stalker, knowing there was only one hope to save the city, "Night, you have to leave this place."

Stalker turned over to the pony captain, "What?"

"You have to fly to the neighboring town of Ponyville and find the princess's and warn them of what is happening."

"No! You need my help. If leave you will be-"

"And if you stay we will all be killed!"

"Night, dont worry about us. We will hold him off." the large green dragon said looking at his friend.

Stalker looked up at Crimson but couldn't smile; he knew that his long time friend was about to die for him. Feeling guilty, but obligated to a duty, he took off into the skies. He flew away from the destruction of Canterlot, silently thanking the others below.

Aligon saw the dragon take off into the sky, and knew they were planning something. He looked around to his enclosing opponents and then noticed that the dragon was heading towards the village where the princess sisters were. He knew that they would be warned, and he did not want to take the time to fight off the alicorns.

Aligon closed his eyes and focused his energy into the center of his chest, and began to split the energy in opposite directions. His physical mass began to dissolve into a plasmic gas that bubbled and simmered as it started to divide. The ponies and dragons stared in disbelief to what they were witnessing. After several tense moments, the matter split into two different sections. The masses soon solidified and took shape.

Standing there was two identical bodies of Aligon.

Ares could feel his heart beating in his head against the side of his helmet. He had no idea what was happening. He tried to control his nerves by taking a step forward, "come on, soldiers! We fight to the end!" He charged forward, followed by the others close behind.

crimson flew up above the now split creature, tilting his long neck back. Taking a deep inhale, he then let out an enormous blast of red fire down to the earth below. The blaze raced down to its target, but at the very last moment, both alicorns teleported from that spot. Crimson searched all around him, then noticed the shadow blocking the moonlight.

Whipping his head around, he saw both creatures were behind him, and one of them was flying in the direction that Night Stalker had just went. Panicked, crimson tried to exhale again, but was stifled when the other Aligon shot a concentrated beam into the dragons left eye and striking the brain.  He died instantly, his large scaled body falling back to the ground below.

Area and all the others looked up and saw the green drake plummeting out of the air. Above the falling creature, Aligons horn began to glow in the night, it's grey aura forming into a large ball of energy over his head. Area felt a rush of fear in his heart, "Take cover!". All the ponies and remaining dragon turned and tried to escape, but it was too late.

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Aligon's attack had grown to a six foot swirling ball of matter pulsating with energy. He launched it towards the ground at incredible speed. The energy hissed and burned as it closed the distance to the dirt below.

BOOM!

The impact of the blast created a powerful shockwave of energy that was sent in every direction from the epicenter. Earth and stone was ripped up and got caught in the blast. Ponies were sucked into it as well, feeling their fur and skin being incinerated from the heat. The remaining dragon was knocked from the sky and felt the sensation of burning to death, a death not common for dragons. Ares turned and tried to raise a shield to protect himself, but felt it shatter immediately, launching his body far out of the clearing.

After the dust settled, Aligon dropped to the ground, his legs struggling to keep him up. He panted for air, cursing at himself, "You damn fool! Use this attack before you divide!"

Pure separation is not a temporary clone filled with meagle powers, which dissipates after several attacks; the energy of the wielder is split into perfect halves of the origional caster, identical to each other in every physical or mental form, yet each with their own set of thoughts. They cannot see what is happening to the other while split, yet once they refuse, the memories of each will perfectly blend with one another, giving a unique view from two complete different places.

After allowing himself to recover for a few moments, Aligon looked around the destroyed clearing. His blast had caused a crater over 100 feet across, yet the shockwave generated leveled all buildings within a 300 foot radius. He was disapointed this was the level of power is current form had. He then took noticed of the many burnt corpses spread about, "Hmm, these could all be useful for later."

Casting a glow, he summoned dozens of syinges and sent each one to a seperate body and stuck them. Although charred, there was plenty of blood left to gain a large enough sample from each of the ponies and dragons around him. Once complete, he teleported all of them away to where he hid his others, "These will all be useful for the future." He smiled once again, his mind rushing of what to expect with his plan to come.

Noticing he was alone now, he continued on to his true goal. After several minutes, he finally reached the one thing he needed for his plan. There in front of him stood the stone statue of Discord.

Celestia seems pissed! what is the truth? hope you enjoyed!

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