The True Master of Chaos

7 hours before chapter 4

The dark alicorn flew through the dark skies over the open grass plains. Due to his dragon wings, he chose not to fly during the day to draw attention to himself. Despite the fact he could kill any creature that tried to stop him, he wanted to keep a low profile. For six years he was able to keep his identity hidden from most of the world, and he wanted it to stay that way until his plans were ready to move forward.

Unfortunately, after killing Volvack 2 days ago, word would be sent to the pony princesses in the neighboring land soon, which would cause panic to rise within the royal court. He knew, though, that they would never suspect him, since they believed he died 1500 years ago. Even if they were told the gem had disapeared, he knew they did not know the other two items had been collected, since the clans he got them from did not speak to each other. The dragons would be flying as fast as they could toward the capital of Equestria, but the dark creature did not worry. He was much faster than any dragon alive, so he had a long head start on the messengers heading towards Canterlot.

His dragon wings forced him through the night at breakneck speed, without even trying to go fast. The cold air blew through his dark mane, sending it backward in a long mess. It felt exhilarating to fly this fast, knowing no creature on earth could reach him. He made sure he didn’t fly too fast to break the sound barrier, creating the sonic boom in which he first hit years ago.

The sun had begun to rise over the horizon, its golden glow began to spread over the land. The alicorn shook his head in frustration, knowing he had to go back to the ground to hide once again.  Noticing the Everfree forest coming into view, he dropped his altitude. Coming into the tree line, he slowed rapidly and landed in a clearing nest to a large pond.

He turned his head around, eyeing his surroundings; the moss covered trees sprouted up from the ground, blocking most of the sky from view. The algae filled bog behind him bubbled from the gases that naturally formed, causing a hiss every time a bubble popped. Strange sounds of different creatures were heard in all directions.

It was a truly eerie place for most ponies. For this alicorn it felt good, natural and dark. His curved horn shot a cloud to his back. The dark matter spread into a thin sheet which began to solidify in his dark cloak.

Once the sun began to come over the trees, the dark alicorn hybrid looked up and stared at the golden orb.it was then memories returned to him as he pictured his first sunrise 1600 years ago. It seemed just like yesterday when he was born that day.

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1600 years ago

Everything was dark. The small creature moved within the small gel encasing that held it. It was the first time it had noticed anything in life. The young male opened his eyes, seeing a red material floating all around his body. He tried to move against the thick red fluid that surrounded him, curious on what it was.

Reaching out, he felt a strange, flexible membrane that held all of the liquid inside. He tried to push it opened, but it simply stretched and then retracted back into place. Becoming frustrated, the male began to hit the wall harder and harder. Suddenly, Shadows began to appear on the other side of the wall, their movement seen as blurs from the light behind them.

The young male now saw that six different figures stood beyond the gel, and he could hear voices, “Hurry, he’s actually Moving!”

“It’s incredible! It’s finally happening!”

Feeling panicked, the imprisoned male swam back as far as he could away from the shadows, his back hitting the other side of his gelatinous cage. He had nothing on his mind besides escape; to be free. Without thinking, it seemed as if his ideas were being focused into one point. Out of nowhere, a glow appeared above his forehead, shooting out in a wide flash. The bubble prison began to expand to twice its original size. A large tear begins to form in the center from the stress.

POP!

The gel casing burst. The red fluid spilled in all directions across the rocky floor. The young creature dropped to the ground, hitting the bottom with a wet plop. Quickly recovering, the youngster coughed up the liquid in his lungs, then allowing room for the air to enter. He tried to get up, but his legs buckled, not ready to hold weight. Lifting his head up, he saw a group of figures around him.

Among the group was a male brown unicorn, then a yellow female standing to his right. Both of them were smiling at the young creature sitting below them.  A couple feet to their left, a blue dragon, about eight feet tall with silver wings stood there, amazed at was at his feet. Another dragon was there, this one was shorter by about two feet, it’s white body was elongated like a snake and bore no wings. A final dragon was behind the other two, eying the small creature on the floor. At 13 feet tall, he seemed enormous to the others, his red scales shined in the light from the torches.

“I can’t believe we actually did it!” the brown unicorn shouted in happiness.

The white dragon smiled at his brown friend, “we have finally finished our work. This is truly amazing.”

The female unicorn stared at the wet animal, “look at his wings… and his eyes! It’s incredible!”

The young creature did not know what to do; he was shocked to see so many creatures around him. He was more surprised to realize he understood them as they spoke. It seemed that he had somehow already known the methods of communication. Out of reaction, he asked a question to the strangers, “who are you?”

All of them were shocked when the young animal talked. The red dragon stared baffled at what he heard, but then shook his head, clearing his furrowed brow. He walked forwards through the crowd and knelt down next to the young being, “Hello there, little one. Are you feeling alright? What’s your name?”

“I- my name is…” he stopped and thought. He didn’t even know who he was. He began to ponder what he should call himself, but stopped when the dragon held out his black claws to him, offering to help him stand up.

At first the young one did not move, but then lifted his front leg up and slipped it between the claws. He then noticed his leg was covered in dark blue hair, and at the end was a hard hoof. The little one began thinking to himself, ‘so I am one of the four legged types I see. What are they?’ Being hoisted up, his legs stood straight, now able to hold himself up. He looked up at the smiling dragon in confusion, “what’s going on? Where am i?”

Looking around, he noticed he was in a very large cave, approximately forty feet tall and about sixty feet across. Throughout the room were tables with large bottles of colorful fluids, and large rolls of paper stacked together. Torches set up along the walls lit the darkness up with an orange glow. At the back of the cave was a large tunnel that led around the corner to the unknown.

“Don’t worry. You are safe here.” A voice came from behind the five larger animals. They parted to make way for the silver alicorn.

The young creature looked at the approaching animal; his green mane floated gently in the air as he walked. He stood about six feet tall, larger than the two unicorns around him. He looked similar in shape to them, sporting a similar horn, except he had feathered wings tucked at his sides.

The still confused little one wanted answers, “Who are all of you? What are you? What-what am i?”

The alicorn gave a little chuckle at the question, “well, I see you are a little confused coming into the world like this. My name is Corvolus, I am a creature known as an alicorn. These scaled creatures behind me are dragons…” the three dragons waved at the little one, “and these two over here are called unicorns.” The other two smiled happily, “we are all scientists who made you.”

“M-made me?”

“Yes. It took us a very long time, but we finally did it.”

The child looked down at his hooves, “So, I am a unicorn? Or a ali-alicorn?”

Corvolus hesitated for a moment, “well, not exactly. Here, let me show you.” His horn started to glow white as he pointed it over to the side where a large glass mirror sat. The glass became enshrouded in a glow and started to float, which enticed the little one. Corvolus set the mirror on the ground in front of the newborn.

The child stared at his reflection intently; his body was about a foot shorter than the unicorns and built very similar to them. His body was covered in dark blue fur, and his mane was even darker. His long legs, body and head looked a lot like the alicorn. Then, he noticed some very different things about himself.

His horn was shaped more like a white claw on his head, unlike the straight, grooved horns of the others. His tail was just hair like the four-legged creatures, but instead a long, skinny tail like the dragons, and had a patch of hair at the end. His eyes did not have any color scheme like the other creatures, but were a solid silver orb. And his back had a set of wings attached to them, yet they were similar to the dragons in the room. The long bones stuck out with blue membrane in between them, and at the center of the front of the wings had a long claw at the end.

While this would come as a shock to many, the young creature couldn’t help but smile. He thought it was a cool mix. His face then went blank as more questions came to his head. He turned back towards Corvolus, “Wait, so you said that you made me?”

“Yes. Many years ago, we all found each other and began working to make a new species. We wanted to make an animal which was a blend of alicorn and of dragon. For years our mix of magic and sorcery could not figure out the correct blend. Then, fifteen years ago, we had a breakthrough.” Corvolus turned to smile at his colleagues. “We finally created the specimen which the mix of DNA blended and did not kill the specimen.”

The young hybrid felt something inside him change at that statement, ‘Specimen? Is that all I am to them?’ His thoughts began to spin, and then a strange feeling in him began to grow.

“There was a problem at first. When you were formed, you did not breathe on your own, so we created a self-sustaining capsule to help you continue to grow. That is why you are not a baby, and possibly why you understand so much. Anyways, after fifteen years, we were starting to lose hope. Yet, it seems our prayers have been answered.” Corvolus smiled back to the group as they all began to cheer.

“This is the moment we have been waiting for!” the blue dragon yelled.

The female unicorn cheered, “Finally, our work will finally pay off!”

Corvolus walked to the group, “Everyone, this is the time in which we confront the leaders of our kind. Once we show them our creation, they will have to listen to us.”

The young animal felt the emotions within him start to build as he heard the figures talking, ‘these creatures, they want use me for their own goals. They care nothing for me.’ His anger within him began to rise. He glared at his creators, “why did you make me?”

They all stopped when that question was asked. Corvolus had a look of confusion in his face, not wanting to talk about that yet, “we will talk about that later.”

“Tell me now!” the young creation screamed, his silver eyes glowing with anger.

Corvolus was startled by the outburst. He then lowered his head and gave a sigh, “Alright. 120 years ago, a war started between the dragons and the alicorns and other ponies. They fought to take control of the entire world. They also wanted to prove who was more powerful. So many creatures on both sides have died fighting against each other.”

The pony-dragon cross sat there, trying to put together what he was hearing.

“About 30 years ago, I knew I had to do something to stop the pointless bloodshed. I soon found others of both kinds that believed in what I wanted, so we began working on creating a creature, which was not only stronger than either animal, but showed that opposites could become one, and be united.” Corvolus smiled again, “after hard work and sacrifice, we created you, the first of your kind.”

The creation sat quietly, but was confused; he heard the words, but death and war could not be pictured in his head. No matter how hard he thought, he could not imagine what it was. “Corvolus, what is war? I don’t know what that is.”

All of the dragons and ponies in the room were confused on what to tell him. Corvolus walked forward, “Perhaps I can show you what it is, then.”

The white dragon gave out a gasp, “No, you can’t! He should not see that! He is too young!”

“He needs to see it.”

All of them were afraid to expose the awakened teenager to the horrors of conflict, but knew he had to see why it had to be stopped. Corvolus walked up and placed his on the hybrid’s forehead, “now do not move.” A glow began to envelope the young one, transporting him to a world of light. After a few moments, the light faded, and gave view to something terrible.

The newborn was standing in the middle of a battlefield. In the sky, many alicorns and Pegasus were flying through the air, some attacking or being attacked by dozens of different dragons. On the ground, more alicorns were being followed by earth ponies and unicorns as they charged a wall of scales and claws, blasting their way through the line of dragons.

Fire and blasts of magic were flying in every direction possible. All across the ground, bodies of both sides littered the dirt, their bodies torn apart or obliterated to pieces. Rivers of blood ran across the soil from so many carcasses being piled together. Screams of agony and pain were heard from all sides and every direction.

Looking down, the young one saw a gray alicorn on the ground, his wings burnt clean off his back. His side had been crushed by some sort of impact. Blood gurgled out of the creature’s mouth every time he coughed. And in its last moment, its eyes roll over white, and its breathing subsides.

Suddenly , he gets pulled out of the vision, ending up back within the cave. Looking around, he sees all of the scientists staring at him, afraid of what the vision did to him.

Corvolus knelt beside the young creature, a look of pain in his eyes, “You see? That is what war is. That is what we must stop.”

The young animal stood there, going over the visions in his head, “So that is death and war. I see what it is now. It was so…”

“I know. It is horrible.”

“No, it was…” he stopped to think about the vision he was placed in. Looking down at the alicorn below him, he grew feelings that he did not expect. He began to grin in an almost devilish form, “it was amazing.”

Corvolus and the others froze in fear from what they heard. The female unicorn began to tremble. Corvolus stood up and backed away before speaking, “WHAT? Death is horrible! It should be stop-”.

“NO!” The creation began to walk towards his creators, who all began to back away from him out of fear. His Eyes began to glow along with his horn, “I saw suffering and pain with those creatures in there. I liked watching them in pain! It felt good!”

“Listen to yourself! You want more to die!?”

“Yes I do.” It seemed as if the emotions he gained felt so natural. He loved watching the pain in vision he saw. He wanted to explore these feelings more, he wanted to know what killing was like, “I want death to be spread to all creatures of this world, starting with you!” He looked to the white dragon, and pointed his horn at the trembling creature.

The white dragon suddenly clenched his chest as a dark aura enshrouded him there, and it began to squeeze. He screamed in pain as he felt his ribs cracking. He coughed up a fountain of blood as his heart was crushed like a grape. Screams came out from the others as the dragon fell to the ground dead.

Corvolus was petrified at what he saw. The creature they made for peace and stability had somehow developed an unstable need to kill from the combination of the DNA. It must have been a side effect form the unnatural blend.

The Young creature could not stop the devilish smile on his face. He stared at the bloody body on the ground, and felt a rush of feelings over him. It felt amazing to destroy a life at his own will. He felt so powerful, and he didn’t even have to try. He felt like a god!

The blue dragon screamed out as he saw his friend lying dead below him, but before he had time to react, a dark blast of energy shot through the cave and blew a hole through his stomach. He dropped down in agony as the wound allowed visible access to his lungs and intestines. Blood poured out like a  pitcher of water.  Trying to use his claws to pull the wound together, his movements became less static and soon lost consciousness. Falling to the ground, his chin hit the rocks with a sickening crack.

Hearing a scream, the possessed creation turned to see the female unicorn falling back as she tried to run. He laughed, and shot his energy at her, encasing her within its grip. She tried to struggle, but it was of no use. The magic then wrapped around her legs, forcing them to bend in impossible directions.

“AHHH! Please stop! PLEASE!” she screamed as she begged for her life. She tried to look at her tormentor, the tears of pain and fear fell from her eyes.

The monster did not feel remorse for what he was doing as she looked at him. Instead, he felt ecstatic with his powers. He saw that there was no limit to what he could do.

The magic pulled tighter around her legs, until the sickening sound of snaps and cracks echoed in the cave. Her front  legs were pivoted opposite of the normal joint flow, so that her hooves faced up instead of down. Her back legs were completely flipped so that they faced backwards. Her screams now reached a new height, but were silenced when more energy crept to her neck, forcing it backwards at unseen speed. The loud snap of her spine silenced her cries of agony.

The red dragon screamed as he ran forward, “Stop him! We have to end this!”

The other unicorn snapped out of the fearful trance and turned to face the abomination. He lowered his head and shot a green beam of energy towards it.

The child seemed to laugh as he folded his wings in front of himself, as if to protect himself. Suddenly, a dark sphere of energy appeared around him, reflecting the beam as if nothing happened. The child then flung his wings out sending a dark wave of energy towards his opponent. The wave struck the unicorn with such force that it sent him clear across the room, and struck the wall so hard it created a crater seven feet deep. The unicorns body was a bloody pulp from the impact.

The dragon inhaled deeply, and blasted an enormous wall of fire out. The flames encircled the young creature, yet it didn’t try to flee. It waited until the flames nearly engulfed him when his horn shot out a black mist which fell to ground level, and blasted the fire in all directions, some landing on tables and igniting the potions scattered throughout the cave. Bottles and bowls exploded from the chemical mixes, sending fire in every direction of the cave.

The young creature grinned at the terrified dragon. The solid silver eyes began to glow as they locked eyes with the yellow eyes of the dragon. Out of nowhere, a pain began to grow in the drakes head, as if something was growing inside. Screaming in agony, his claws clutched at his head as he dropped to his knees. The force became stronger and stronger, his brain now burning from being expanded.

POP!

The drakes head exploded from the inside, spraying blood all over the young creature. It did not wince back from the crimson liquid, yet almost enjoyed the blood falling onto his fur. After watching the body slump down, he turned and looked at the shaking silver alicorn. He gave a grin which revealed his white teeth, which some resembled small fangs.

Corvolus could not move. He had just watched as all of his friends were left as twisted clumps of blood, killed within the matter of a minute by their own creation. He turned and saw the small demon walking towards him, blood dripping off its coat. As it approached him, he started back pedaling, “Please-please stop this! You don’t have to do this!”

“Yes I do. I feel so alive at this moment. I care nothing of your little war between your races, because I will be the one to kill all of them! I should thank you, because you were the one that gave me life. Unfortunately,” he stopped and gave and even larger smirk, “you have to die as well.”

Corvolus raised an energy shield as the blast came towards him, but his barrier shattered is if nothing was there. He was blown back through the flames and slammed into the cave wall behind him. He yelled in pain as he realized both his wings were crushed from the hit with the rocks. He tried to stand, but his back had a very strange numbness to it; he couldn’t move his back legs.

Corvolus looked back toward the wall of fire, and saw a figure from the other side. A section of the fire was parted by a black wall of energy, clearing a path for the small creature. Corvolus saw what he had brought into the world, the death that was about to reign down upon all the creatures. The animal they thought would be the messiah had turned out to be the destroyer of all life.

Corvolus sat still as his creation approached, and only could think of a few words, “we dreamed of creating the world’s strongest creature…” he paused as the black aura around the curved horn grew to an enormous size, “and we succeeded.”

The blast obliterated all matter within a thousand foot range, destroying a large side of the mountain where the cave once stood. The explosion was heard by all within a seven mile radius. Rock and dirt fell down the cliffs, building momentum before slamming into the bottom of the gorge.

In the center of the new crater, the alicorn-dragon smiled at the powers he discovered he had. He looked out and saw the sun rising over the sky. He inspected the land, seeing the trees and the grasslands in the distance. He laughed, knowing he would have all of this for himself.

“I am the world’s most powerful life form! I will go and destroy anything that opposes my power. I will rule this land as my own. All will learn to fear me, they will be frightened to even speak my name!” He grinned as he finally figured out his identity

“I am greater than any alicorn or dragon on this planet! I AM ALIGON!”

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Present

Aligon opened his eyes to the sounds of approaching footsteps. He turned and saw a large manticore charging him through the forest. Annoyed, he shot out a blast of magic that collided with the attacking animal’s head. The manticore did not feel as its head was blown in half.

Turning back to the sky, Aligon saw the sun had moved since he got  lost in the past. He had not realized he wasted so much time thinking. He knew he would have to walk quickly, since the dragons could continue to fly in light. He also didn’t want to teleport long distances, since there was a risk of becoming detected by the princesses.

Levitating the black hood back over his head, Aligon turned and began walking towards Canterlot. He would be there by nightfall.

Can anyone recognize what the flashback scene was from? Hope you enjoyed!