The True Master of Chaos

The teleportation spell lasted only for less than a second. The purple aura pulsed as the effects dissipated around the three ponies and the dragon. As the energy faded, Soarin stumbled a step, a little dizzy from his first experience with magic in that sense. Twilight smiled over at him, “don’t worry, you get used to it after a couple times.”

He glared over at her, “I hope I don’t have to do it a few more times. I’d rather take the time and fly over here.”

Rainbow chuckled at her colt friends sickness, “Oh you poor little filly. You had better start-” she stopped as she looked around at the surrounding area, her face locked by panic.

Twilight looked around as well, and her reaction was no better; the Canterlot shopping plaza had been completely destroyed. The many surrounding stores were either burning or already left as piles of wood and ash. The street was littered with debris from the buildings or the once many carts that used to stand on the sidewalk. She could not comprehend the destruction of her former home town.

Spike walked out of the shocked group, seeing the wreckage around him. He then glanced to the side of the street, and saw the bodies of multiple ponies lying across the ground. The trails of blood from their wounds were not flowing, already starting to dry up. He couldn’t control the feeling that was coming up from his stomach. He dropped to his knees, followed by the sickening gagging reflex that came from the sight he saw.

Twilight walked over to comfort her young dragon, laying her hoof over his shoulder. He reached up and grabbed it with his claws. Twilight then turned back to the two Pegasus behind them, who were also in disbelief to what they saw.

Twilight nudged Spike, signaling him they had to move. Reluctantly, he slowly stood up, and followed his sister figure back to Rainbow and Soarin.  Both of them turned as Twilight approached them, “We have to go. We have to look for survivors.”

Both looked at each other, then nodded in agreement to their friend. They each started to walk down the different alley ways, looking for any sign of life left in the wreckage. Spike began to walk until Twilight stopped him, “Spike, I need you to go into the stores, try to find some parchment, and write a letter to Celestia as soon as you can. You need to warn them of what has happened here.”

Spike agreed; with the princess’s away, it wouldn’t be for hours until they found out what had happened in the capital. He ran into the nearest store that wasn’t destroyed, looking through the cabinets and shelves for anything that he could write with.

Twilight turned back to the other two, who had checked the few bodies that were scattered in that area. They checked the pulses of the ponies, yet not one beat had been found yet. Soarin felt like it was pointless to continue checking. He knew whatever had attacked this place, it had made sure that all of the ponies in this area had perished.

After another minute of unsuccessful searching, the three ponies continued through the street. It seemed as if the destruction did no end; it just continued on. Rainbow just couldn’t accept what had happened, “What in Equestria could have done this?”

Twilight turned to her saddened friend, “I don’t know Rainbow.” She watched as Soarin walked over to Rainbow, laying his wing over her back and bringing her closer for comfort.

A sudden shift in a pile of wood snapped them out of their trance. All three of them stopped and saw the movement; followed by a loud moan of pain Soarin could not believe it, “Some ponies alive!” He rushed over to the stack, trying to lift the heavy wood up. Before he could strain himself, Twilight came over, using her magic to lift the large chunk of pillar and rocks up. Underneath, they saw the battered body of a blue unicorn.

Twilight gasped at who she saw, “Captain Ares!” She dropped down to remove the last few pieces of wood off his body. Using her hoof to prop his head up, she then saw that his armor had been severely burned, and most of his exposed fur was singed. Twilight tried to wake the injured captain, “Ares…Ares wake up!”

Ares soon came to, his breath coming in raspy gasps. He looked up and saw the purple mare come into focus, “Tw-Twilight?”

“Yes, it’s me Ares! Are you alright?”

Despite barely conscious, he managed to glare at her, “D-Do I look l-like I’m alright?”

Twilights face scrunches up, but she continues her questioning, “What happened here? What attacked this place?”

“It-It was an alicorn.”

All of the others shot confused looks at each other. Twilight’s eyes were filled with shock, “An alicorn!? That’s impossible!”

Ares allowed his memories to flow for a second, grasping an image to the beast he saw. He turned back to the ponies around him, “It was large b-blue alicorn, with silver eyes..” he stopped to take several deep breaths, “… and, it-it had dragon wings.”

Rainbow dash tried to picture the description she had heard, but shook her head after a few moments, “Are you sure about what you saw? That doesn’t even sound real.”

Twilight shot her friend a glare, “Rainbow, not now!”

Soarin wasn’t sure of what to believe either. He turned and walked past the final store blocking the view to the eastern Canterlot Park. He walked around the corner, but when he saw the clearing, his body nearly collapsed. He could barely keep his balance from the shock, “Rainbow! Twilight, get over here!”

The other two heard his scream, and quickly left the now unconscious Ares on the ground. When they came up to the trembling Soarin, and saw what had caused him to become panicked. Rainbow’s jaw hung from her mouth, and Twilight nearly fainted to the sight.

The clearing had an enormous crater within the center, still smoldering from the previous impact of whatever hit. Debris had been thrown for hundreds of feet in every direction from the center. And scattered throughout the entire clearing were bodies, or what was left of them. All of the corpses seemed as if they had been laid in a fire, the outer layer of flesh completely turned black. Then, Twilight gasped when she saw the two larger bodies, “Are- are those dragons!?”

Soarin could not believe it. In all the years that he had lived in Canterlot, he had never heard of a dragon coming to invade, “Do you think they could’ve attacked the city?” he asks.

Twilight shakes her head, “No, they’re burnt too, which means whatever did attacked was not an ally to the dragons either.”

Rainbow Dash cannot believe that this had happened. It was nothing that she had ever experienced before. She looked past the clearing, and saw another set of houses. He began to panic, since those homes were so close to the battle that had taken place. She knew a specific pony in one of them. When her eyes found that certain home, her heart began to race; the door had been ripped off from the wall. Her thoughts began spiraling, ‘No, Spitfire!’.

She took off into the sky before her friends realized what was happening. Twilight tried to call out to her friend, “Rainbow, wait! Where’s she going, Soarin?”

He looks across the valley, and sees the house as well, “No… that’s Spitfires house! Come on!” He takes off to the skies, flying as fast as he can across the clearing. Twilight teleports herself across the field, landing by the door way right behind Rainbow Dash.

“Spit! Spitfire!” Dash yells out as she enters through the opening. She sees most of the house is untouched, except for the large desk thrown into the side wall. Then, in the corner of the room, sat a trembling yellow Pegasus. Rainbow’s heart flutters seeing that her friend is still alive, “Spitfire!”

When she ran over, she put her hoof onto Spitfire’s shoulder, who immediately began thrashing and screaming, “NO! PLEASE NO!”

Rainbow jumps back in shock as her friend began swinging her legs at her. Reacting, she jumped onto the panicked Spitfire, holding her down, “Spitfire, stop-”

“NO! DON’T KILL ME!”

“SPITFIRE! ITS ME!”

Spitfire finally stopped when she looked into her friends face. Her eyes immediately began pouring once again, burying her face into Rainbow’s chest, her sobs blocking most of the words coming out of her mouth, “R-R-Rain-bow, I-I th-th..” her fear was too intense for her to finish her sentence.

Rainbow looked down to her friend, “Spitfire, what happened?”

“it-it came to th-the town. I-it had s-s-silver ey-eyes and… OHH RAINBOW!” she wrapped her hoofs around her blue friend as tight as she could, her tears now drenching Rainbow’s shoulder.

Rainbow wrapped her hoofs behind her friend, pulling her closer. She looked back towards the door and saw Twilight and Soarin standing there, shock and sadness plastered on their faces. She glanced back toward Spitfire, her thoughts began racing, ‘Spitfire, what happened?’

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“Surprised to see me, princesses? I’m so glad that you two have never forgotten me.” Aligon smirked as he walked towards the terrified alicorns.

Celestia felt as if her heart was going to burst out her chest from beating so hard. She couldn’t believe what her eyes were seeing or what her ears were hearing. All of her memories were rushing back to her in painful waves. Luna was also trembling as well; she may have been just a filly, but that night still burned in her mind as if it had just happened. They both didn’t move as the dragon winged creature came closer. Celestia finally spoke, “Your-you died! Our father killed you!”

Ohh, well I’m sorry to disappoint you. I was growing tired though, seeing this world continue on without me here to control it.” Aligon stopped thirty feet from the two, looking past them and seeing the dragon lying on the ground, “It seems as if my plan to stay hidden from you two has failed. This pathetic creature got to you before I stopped it.”

Celestia’s eyes somehow opened even wider than before, “Yo-you attacked Canterlot?”

“Well, I had to collect my personal pet.” He cast a fang filled grin.

Both sisters knew exactly what was meant by that. They locked eyes, knowing what had to be done. They both stood their ground, allowing the flow of internal energy to their horns, causing them to glow. They spread themselves from each other, beginning to walk around the tall alicorn.

Aligon smirked at the two, all while trying to hide the uncertainty in his mind, ‘Damn it, this isn’t good. I did not expect to run into the two of them while separated.’ He glanced back and forth between the white and the dark blue alicorns, ‘At this level of power, I don’t think I can beat them at the same time.’

Aligon knew the risk of separation; while split, the bearer will not be able to perform all of the normal spells at full strength, and if one of the bodies died, that portion of power will be lost as well. If this happened, all of his plans would be useless, and he would never see the power he wanted. Still, he wasn’t going to show fear to the two in front of him.

Luna circled the demon as her sister set herself across from her on the other side of it. Her eyes were now filled with the hate and emotions she remembered that night; Aligon attacking the castle, her father fighting it to defend all of them, and her mother… her mother, laying on the ground, bleeding to death. With all of the images coming to her, her horn began to glow, then sending out large sparks of electricity, “I have never forgotten what you did to us, Aligon! You will die for what you did that night!”

Aligon gave her a questioning look, “Oh, what night are you talking about? Hmm… Oh, that night…” he once again smiles, “you mean when your pathetic mother couldn’t do anything to stop me? Are you referring to that night; when I crushed her chest right in front of you? I could understand, since how much blood came out and-”

“SHUT UP!” Luna screamed, launching a large bolt of lightning at Aligon. Seeing the attack, he jumps into the air the moment it strikes where he stood. Looking up, he sees Celestia already cut him off without him knowing it. She charges her own beam, sending it down to him. Grimacing, He shoots up his own blast, colliding with hers, the mixing energy causing a small explosion.

Flying out of the smoke, Aligon noticed the multiple blue beams shooting at him below. Barrel rolling, he dodges all of them, diving to the ground and charges the lunar princess. He charges up his own blast of magic, sending the small ball of matter straight at her. She lowers her head, raising her shield up as it closed in. Striking the barrier, it pushes her back several feet, but the barrier remained intact.

Aligon now had worry growing inside of him, ‘Damn, either I’ve grown weaker, or the two of them are much stronger than I anticipated. This is going to be more of a hassle’.

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“Ya’ll find anythin’ yet?” Applejack asked as she looked through the shelves. She then glanced over to the others, who were all scrounging around for anything that matched what they had heard.

“No, there is nothing in this one.” Rarity answered, tossing aside the book she had been reading.

“Nothing.” Florence frowned from the other side of the room.

“All the books I’ve found in here, none contain our goal I fear.” Zecora said, flipping through the many pages she had in her book.

“OOOH, look at this!” Pinkie shouted across the library.

All of the others turned, curious to what she had found. Applejack ran over, “Did ya find out bout that war?”

Pinkie shot her a glance, “What? No silly! I wanted to show how Twilight has this book!” She lifts up a thin pink book titled ‘Cake Decorating tricks’.

All of the others glared at her, and walked back to their sections of the library. Fluttershy came out of the other room, looking exhausted from her search. Her sorrow expression showed she did not find anything either. She floated over to Applejack, “I’m sorry. I can’t find anything on what Twilight asked us to.”

It’s all right sugarcube. We just can’t give up.”

Florence was focusing on the book he had found on past conflicts. He read about the battle of Montara, when 500 years ago, a rogue dragon clan tried to overthrow the leader, Volvack, but failed. Another chapter talked about the reign of Discord, when the spirit of chaos attack Equestria, nearly claiming victory until the princesses used the elements to seal him away. He then saw…

“Nightmare Moon” he says to himself, looking at the picture drawn of the tyrannical queen. HE stared at the image, still trying to fathom it; a mare he had fallen for was once the figure who tried to cover the land in darkness until she was imprisoned on the moon. He tried to figure out what would’ve happened if the elements of Harmony did not release Luna from the dark power. He tried to shake out the distracting thoughts and went back to searching.

“What in tarnation is that!?” Applejack yells out.

Florence jumps up from the yell, “What’s wrong?” She doesn’t answer him, she only stares out the window of the library. He runs up to it and sees it as well; from the forest, blasts of magic and lightning are being shot from the ground in different directions. All the others in the library see the sight as well.

Fluttershy trembles to the strange sight,”Wh-what’s happening out there?”

“Ah don’t know. Ah never seen anythin’ like that.”

Zecora focuses her eyes, noting the angles they are coming from, and the positioning in the forest, “Those are blasts of magic that I see. And it is coming from the direction that the princesses should be.”

Florence felt panicked; there was something happening to the princesses, and none of them were there to help them. Without saying anything, he turned and ran to the door. Applejack had no idea what had gotten into him, “Florence, what are ya doin?”

He doesn’t answer her as he charges up his horn, encasing himself in magic. Never stopping to open the door, he materializes himself and passes right through the oak door. He sprints through the streets of Ponyville towards the blasts in the distance.

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Luna flew up into the sky above the trees. Her eyes began to glow white, using her magic to summon the dark storm clouds. As the energy grew, wind began to blow harder, causing the large trees to shake. She looked down to the creature below her, making her become or enraged.

The many shots of lightning bolts struck all around Aligon as he raised his shield. Folding his wings around him, the grey energy encircled him and hardened. The powerful  strikes from Luna repeatedly slammed into his barrier over and over, causing him to stumble back a step. Before he could counter, he saw Celestia to his side, charging another powerful blast of light. Cursing, he teleported to the edge of the clearing as the beam came rushing at him.

Landing on the ground, he took several deep breaths, trying to regain his energy. He glared back to the princesses as they came together. While they did seem tired, he knew they had more energy together than he did. He was frustrated that he didn’t realize the sisters had become so strong in the time he was absent.

Luna was panting as well; it had been a long time since she had to use this much magic. Despite being tired, she smiled, seeing that there was the chance to stop Aligon. She looked over to her older sister, "Celestia, we can do it. We can beat him."

Celestia, however, was not as excited as Luna. She knew that both of them had become strong in the last few years, but she also knew the power that Aligon possessed; even together, she knew that her and luna should not even have come close to his level. She knew something was wrong, seeing how he was not fighting like he did in the past.

"well well, I must say I'm surprised by you two..." Aligon smirked, "your a lot stronger than I thought you would be. Defiantly stronger than your bitch of a mother."

"Don't you dare mention our mother!" Luna screamed, her eyes glowing again.

He laughed at her anger, "and I must say Luna, you have changed a lot since we were together."

"I was a filly, of course I changed you idiot!"

"No no no.. You have changed since I invaded your body a thousand years ago."

Luna's heart began to race, "wh-what are you talking about?"

Don't you remember? The strange feeling you had after you fought Discord? The change you underwent?"

"Liar!" Celestia screamed, "Luna was corrupted by dark magic that fed on her anger, she-"

"and where do you think that dark magic came from?" he smiles at Luna, "you know exactly what I'm talking about, don't you Luna."

"Luna, he's lying!" but Celestia knew something about what Aligon said was true; just days after Discord was sealed, Luna's transformation began.

Luna's heart felt as if it had been ripped out. She was so shocked, she did not notice the large black blast heading directly towards her.