The True Master of Chaos

1505 years ago

smoke rose from the mountains in the distance, signaling the presence of another dragon had used its power on an unfortunate creature. It was something that was a common sight, but taken as something seen every day. The sight was seen from the white walls of the palace of the king.

The great palace of Canterlot stood towering over the surrounding village. It's large white tower served as the capital to the pony empire, a land which served as a safe haven for all ponies trying to escape the bloodshed from the war ravaging the world.

Inside of the main courtroom, two figures stood by the large window overlooking the great field surrounding the small  community. One was a blue coated unicorn standing about five feet tall, larger than average for that species. His mane and tail were a mix of different shades of Magenta.  His cutie mark was of a star surrounded my a pattern of sparks circling it. The hat he wore was topped with a bell that jingled as he turned to look to his king.

The seven foot tall black alicorn stared out into the distance past the edge of the town. His mane and tail flickered and pulsed as if they were black flames that danced in the air. His cutie mark was a sun partially eclipsed by the moon, showing the task that was given to him by the great creators of the world.

The unicorn stared up to Solaris, seeing how upset he was to the smoke in the distance, "Should I summon the wonderbolts for a fly over, my lord?" he asked.

Solaris looked to his second in command, then back to the window, "No Star swirl, that won't be necessary. That beast won't be foolish enough to come here."

"Well of course it wouldn't be foolish enough. We have the ultimate weapon here."

Solaris shook his head, giving a little chuckle, "Oh yes, making it sit through your lectures on spells is truly the most devastating force we have."

Star swirl rolled his eyes at the comment, "Well I was going to say you are, but...I guess I could give it an extra long session if it chose to listen to me."

Solaris laughed at the sarcasm given by his good friend. While he had joked about the lesson, he knew what Starswirl said was right; while battling the dragons over the years, he and a few other alicorns had discovered a way to dramatically increase their powers to another level, known as awakening. While the other alicorns who reached it could only use that power for a short time, Solaris had been able to stay in that form permanatly without harming himself.

Despite having the power, he saw it as an affect from the great war.

For the last two hundred and Fifteen years, the War for the Heavens had claimed the lives of thousands of ponies because of the greed of the dragon race. Their simple drive for power was Doing nothing but destroy the lives of living souls on both sides of the conflict. The waves of dragons seem to never end, no matter what was used to stop them. Even the elements of harmony seemed useless since they could not be used often.

The dragons weren't the only problem, however; ninety five years before, a strange creature appeared out of nowhere and began to kill anything and everything in its path. The demonic beast was of an alicorns form, but with traits unlike any creature known to the world. Solaris had only seen it once, but chose  not to confront it, since he was alone and sensed a power within it greater than anything he had ever felt. It went on a killing spree to both dragons and ponies, not caring what was its next target. Then, suddenly, five years before, it disappeared.

The race of ponies had been devastated by the bloody acts of war and that strange creature; over half of all earth ponies, Pegasi and unicorns had been killed. The alicorns, despite being the strongest, had suffered the worst; at the start of the war, over six hundred of them were alive. Now, only twenty-four were left, including the two Small ones running through the open doorway, "Daddy!" they yelled out in excitement.

Solaris smiled when he saw his daughters enter the room, "Hey girls!" he said as he trotted over to meet them halfway.

The older of the two was ten years old, her white coat and pink mane glistening in the sunlight, "Dad, your not going to believe what we saw out by the pond!"

Solaris gave raised his eyebrow to his daughter, "Oh? What was it Celestia?" his attention was then focused on the giggling blue filly wrapped around his hoof.

The small, blue alicorn smiled brightly up to her father, "There was a giant frog there. It was bigger than me!"

"Wow! It could have eaten you Luna!" Solaris responded wide eyed to his six year old daughter, who started crawling up his leg, trying to get on his back, "Hey, you two haven't given uncle Star swirl any hugs today."

Star swirl's eyes went wide, "wait, what? I- oof!" he was caught off guard as two giggling filly's tackled him to the ground, tickling at his stomach, "haha! Girls, girls! Enough I- haha!" His sentence was cut off as the sisters continued their tickle assault.

"You girls being nice to him?"

Solaris felt his heart flutter when he heard the voice from the door. Turning, he saw the love of his life, her white coat shining as she entered the room. Her lavender mane flowed in the air as she took her steps. Solaris smiled as walked over her, nuzzling her neck, "Hello Magnis."

Magnis smiled at her husband, "Hello darling. I wished you could have come to the lake with us. The girls enjoyed it."

They both looked over to Star swirl, who had lifted the two sisters off him with his magic. Celestia frowned through the magenta energy that surrounded her, "No fair, Uncle Star swirl."

The unicorn chuckled at the filly, "I have to defend myself." ever since Solaris had chosen him as his daughters godfather, they had come to the idea of calling him "uncle". Despite not being related, he felt like he could call them family. He and Solaris had been good friends for as long as he could remember, and he has been around the girls ever since they were born.

The fun filled room was suddenly interrupted by a guard barging into the room, "Your highness, we have a problem!"

Solaris flipped around, seeing how panicked the soldier was, "What's wrong?"

The guard panted, trying to catch his breath, "My king, a squadron of dragons have landed outside of the town."

"What!?"

"Twelve dragons are waiting outside the limits of the village."

Star swirl set the two fillies over by their mother and walked forward, "What do you mean they are waiting there? They aren't attacking?"

"No. Sir..." the guard stopped, beginning to slightly tremble, "Sir, Volvack is with them."

Solaris's eyes went wide hearing that. Volvack, the son of the dragon king Montara, one who Solaris had fought multiple times in the past, coming to his castle. He turned to his wife, "Magnis, take the girls and go down to the castle lockroom."

Magnis could see the panic in her husbands face, "But... What about you?"

"Don't worry about me, I'll be fine. Take them and go!"

After hesitating for a moment, Magnis began pushing Celestia and Luna toward the doorway, taking them down the hallway to the center of the castle. Turning back to the guard, Solaris tried to keep his nerves intact, "Summon the soldiers outside the city."

"They are already waiting, my king." the guard replied.

"Good. Go outside of the lockroom and guard my family."

"Yes, your majesty." the guard turned and ran down the hallway after the queen.

Turning down to the blue unicorn next to him, Solaris signaled it was time to go. Knowing what that meant, Star swirl lifted his hat off and tossed it to the floor. He then closed his eyes and focused his energy. After a second, his mane and tail suddenly burst into bright red flames, and his coat turned bright white.

His sudden change was a level of power that few unicorns had ever been able to achieve. It was when a unicorns power had reached a point that even many alicorns couldn't obtain, causing a physical change and new abilities given to the user. It was given a name by those who had seen it happen before; the level of Demi-alicorn.

Opening his eyelids, Star swirl turned his now red eyes to his king, "Let's go."

Going through the side door, the two figures walked to the edge of the balcony. Solaris took to the skies, his wings beating through the air. Star swirl ran off the edge, but instead of falling, patches of fire appeared under his hooves as he ran through the air, following his king.

After a few minutes, the alicorn king caught sight of his platoon of soldiers standing ready in formation against the towering wall of scales and claws facing them. Dropping down from the sky, both him and Starswirl landed with intense force onto the ground in front of the other ponies and alicorns. In from of him stood several dragons over eighty feet tall, yet one in particular caused him to tense up.

A single dragon stood in the center of the group, towering over the others. Standing at a hundred and fifty feet, his golden body dwarfed all other life in the clearing. The gargantuan stepped forward from his group, "Hello Solaris. It seems you didn't hesitate to come out here."

The black alicorn glared to the large drake, "Here for another round, Volvack?"

"Solaris, you and I both know you could kill me if you wanted to right now. Besides, if I wanted to attack your palace, wouldn't I have brought a larger force with me?"

"So the dragon prince comes here-"

"It's king now, actually." Volvack blurted out.

Star swirl's eyes went wide from the discovery, "Montara is dead?"

"Did you kill your own flesh and blood to take the throne?" Solaris sneered at the golden dragon.

Volvack glared at the two accusing ponies, "If I wanted to be king, I would have killed him in his sleep years ago. A creature came to our lad and took his life." he paused for a moment, "You have heard of the demon from the mountains, correct?"

Solaris heard many of the soldiers behind him gasp at the words Volvack spoke. It was what every creature called the strange alicorn that appeared in the past. Solaris turned back to the new dragon king, "What about it? It hasn't appeared for several years."

Well, it came a week ago to our land. It went directly for my father, ripping out his heart. It then left, but not before declaring what it was going to do."

"Which is?"

"It said it was going to open to open the gates of Tartarus."

Every pony and alicorn gasped at hearing what was said. Even Solaris felt his heart racing from the possible threat of Tartarus, the prison to the number of abominations formed from the mutations of the original creatures made by the six creators. Seeing how dangerous the animals were, the six created an alternate realm to seal away the beasts from causing havoc to the world.

Shaking his head clear, Solaris looked back to Volvack, "That is impossible; there is no way for the beast to open up the doorway."

Volvack eyes closed, thinking back to what he saw, "The creature somehow absorbed all of my fathers power into a strange staff before he left our land. And..." he looked back up to the alicorn in front of him, eyes suddenly filled with hate, "I have discovered why it is so powerful."

From the back of the dragon pack, a small dragon was pushed to the front. It stood about nine feet tall, it's copper colored body covered in open wounds and bruises. Both of its wings we're snapped in multiple places, twitching from the pain in the delicate bones. Volvack glared as the injured drake was thrown to the ground in front of Solaris.

"I found this pathetic excuse hiding on the outside of our land. We have been looking for him for a long time." Volvack hissed.

Solaris stared in confusion to the crippled dragon in front of him as it started to crawl to its feet, "What crime did he commit?"

Volvacks eyes never took his eyes off the dragon in the center of the two groups, "Perhaps he should tell you."

The small drake looked up to the alicorn standing over him, it's eyes filled with the pain that pulsed from its broken wings, "For years, this war has ravaged our species as well as yours. Not all of us dragons wanted to fight, however, since we saw this  conflict as pointless."

Aligon listened intently to the words that came out of the dragons mouth; it was the first time he had heard a dragon hate the war.

"Myself and others that felt the same way confronted Montara over a hundred years ago, pleading that we stop the bloodshed. He did not even consider our request an option, and threatened to kill us if we ever asked him again. So, we sear left our land, and searched for other ponies that believed in what we wanted as well. That is where we met Corvolus."

"Corvolus!?" Solaris shouted. He remembered that alicorn, who came to him and asked the same request this dragon did to its former king. He had to refuse the offer, since attempts at peace had already been tried.

The dragon continued with his story, "After we met him, we began to think on what we could do to end your stupid war. We knew we could never get enough followers to resist both sides. It was then we came up with the solution; create a creature that was of both clans."

Star Swirl deactivated is Demi-alicorn form, his mane and tail returning to its normal magenta blend, "What do you mean of both clans."

The dragon shot a glance over to the unicorn, "An animal, which was a blend of both pony and dragon. We wanted to show that the species could coexist with one another, even on cellular level." the dragon cast a small grin, "And after years, we finally created the ultimate being; half alicorn, half dragon, but stronger than both."

"But... Something went wrong. When the creature awoke, it began to slaughter all of the scientists present when it came to the world. I was at the entrance to the room, helpless as the monster we made for peace, wanted nothing to do but kill. I felt fear as it laughed when it butchered every being in the room, so I fled. Only me and a few others escaped."

"And he has been hiding ever since." Volvack yelled from behind, "When we found him recently, we had no idea who he was, until we found out the information hidden in his cave."

"We made it for peace. We had no idea that it would turn on us and begin killing everything!"

"No, what you did was guarantee the destruction of our world!" Volvack roared as he raised one of his enormous arms.

The small dragon trembled as the shadow encircled him, "No my lord!" he screamed. His plea was cut short as the mighty arm crashed over him, turning the drake into a bloody pile of scales.

Solaris cringed at the pile of blood on the ground. He turned his attention to the dragon king standing in front of him, "So, did you fly all the way out here to show me that and to claim you are the new ruler?"

Volvack snorted out, Turning his head away as if not wanting to say what was on his mind. He finally did after a moment, "I came hear to join forces with you."

Solaris nearly stumbled back in shock from what he heard, 'Did I hear that right? He wants peace?'. Then, he began to think back to all of the horrible things that had been done to so many innocent ponies in the past. How could the dragons expect them to just work together after everything that had happened?

A look of hatred escaped Solaris's eyes, "No."

"What?" Volvack said in shock.

"Do you expect me to just lay my trust into you dragons? Your greed and hatred has already destroyed much of this world. Now, since this other threat has appeared, do you expect us to just forget everything!?"

Volvack held back the anger that was boiling in his chest, "I know our relationships have been hard from this war."

"Yes, a war that your father started!" Star Swirl shouted out.

Volvack glared down to the blue unicorn, "I was talking to your king, not -you, wizard!" he returned his gaze to the king, "I may not be one to want to give up, but this was my fathers war, not mine. I have already lost many hatchlings from his conflict. And besides... You know you need help."

"What do you mean?" Solaris questioned.

"Don't give me that; you and I both know not even you and the elements of Harmony would stand a chance against this creature, let alone the demons of Tartarus."

Solaris turned away in frustration, knowing what the drake said was true; if the gates of Tartarus were to open, both clans would have to work together to stop it. Looking back, he glared up to the dragon, "Fine. Hear me now, dragon, for after we deal with this monster, our conflict with each other is over. Understood? I am tired of this fighting."

Volvack snarled, but decided to agree as well. The high council had unanimously chose the same agreement when they heard the pan of the creature. Looking down to the black alicorn below, he nodded his head in approval, "It looks like I will no longer be trying to kill you."

"Don't sweet talk me, Volvack, for if you try to double cross me, I will unleash every ounce of my power to turn you to dust."

Volvack roared in anger. He knew this was going to be an uneasy peace.