Cynder is 'not Spikes special somedragon'

By: Black--Soul

Inspired by:
harlock5399 now Silas5399

From the story: Reborn as a dragon

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Chapter 29 - Meeting Harmony, face to Tree 2/3

Harmony showed patience and intrigue when Celestia announced Discord return, while leaving a auditable quiver in its voice to pretend to be showing uncertainty if not a fearful attitude toward the chaos bringer, since its strength was overtaxed as it was and the former mighty Tree might have to drop all her magic expanding actions.

Harmony wanted to make some puns, mortals often show coping of stress in dangerous situations with humor after all.
Harmony told Celestia she been together around the clock working on undoing one desaster after another, what wasn't even strictly a lie, despite her causing problems deliberately on purpose.
Deliberately because before Discord absence had to be compensated by some being, despite his absolutely infuriating nature in Harmonys metaphorical eyes, did the chaos bringer fostered change and growth.
Occationaly it even had something that didn't have to be reversed or fixed up by the Tree of Harmony and others associated with it.

With purposes always behind its actions, even if the Tree ~~had no idea what it was doing it for~~, had always a plan and sense behind its actions.

Unfortunately something of a nessesary evil thing to do, after Discord was banished and made the races of this world very stagnant in their development. Due to stagnation usually leading to ruine in one way or another, was a chance in order due to the wish of the Tree to help its little ponies to become greater than the total sum of its herds mass collection of individuals.
~~Occationaly it even worked out in the end.~~

Though her puns and joke really lacking timing for greater effect, did she informed Celestia about temporal anomalies all over the world, suggesting that Discord might be behind it all, now that she know he was free and was the most likely culprit.

Discord had a few itching tail scales, either someone had given him unearned praise, was insulting towards his efforts to make things work out in the end or ... actually that chaos sense had a few other unrelated combinations. He really needed to check his itching and twitching catalog.
With its 501 combinations and meaning it got even for him at times confusing... what was rather unusual, since he could make sense out of nonsense and made nonsense rather reasonable.

That accusation for once was a full truth for the most part, even if it was kinda cheap to guess if something was going south, it be Discord doing, especially if he was to busy recovering from his currently power drained state.

What might hold him now to busy to do some mischief, though it would in theory not stop him at all to come back from the future towards the past of Equestria or other nations for one reason or another.

On rare occasions even the Tree of Harmony had to give him credit to do a reasonable decent job, not screwing everything the chaos bringer touched to end up completely into unconstructive horseapples.
Especially if everything worked out in the end, having everyone surprised that constructive feedback was given by the usually distortion bringing avatar of eternal change and progression, even if it was something Harmony hated to admit towards itself.

Still... this violent reaction of the world was no joking matter, since it was so bad in some regions of the planet that it stopped time to flow entirely at a stable rate, designing perhaps truely monumental problems for the world and its safety.

Celestia thoughts seem to be distracted and Harmony made it known that she as sole Alicorn ruler now and ever needed to think about tomorrow!
If noone was caring for peaceful relationships today, tomorrow might call forth a war of conflicting priorities.
Today lack of enviromental friendly mining and production of machines for example, might cause them tomorrow to cough out their lungs, because air quality had finally fallen below healthy limits.

One does not simply damage the environment without suffering dear consequences that are often seen only decades later and are highly regretted, because noone had made a move to stop it and current generations cursed its ancestors for doing the same they themself currently attempted.
Ignoring the cause of the symptoms, until it becomes to late preventing further damage, rather than fixing it entirely, they making it slightly less urgent at best.

Silly mortals often due go for that option, since they are long dead before it became their generations pressing issue.

Celestia was a very busy pony, yet she needed to knock some hours off her working schedule filled clock of her nation wide duties, if a planet wide matter demanded her attention.
Someone else might have gotten it wrong.
In which case Chrysalis had ultimately fix everything up with her diligence and carefully working Changelings.

Something they are rewarded later for, being free to ling around like only Changelings managed to do. It sure had perks to be of a race that could shape shift and has spells to manipulate memories for emergencies.

For example when a mare woke up with a hangover and foundly remembered enjoying drunkenly a group of ~~Changelings~~ multi species males partying with her privately with thing one only dares to enjoy usually in ones mind, often when one was gossiping about remembering something so one of a kind moments in their life, like a nice multi species mating party.
It was in fact more often than not a group of Changelings having fun making every reasonable desired of their generous host a reality that was slightly hazy, but cherished remembered for the rest of their lifetime.

Mutual beneficial bounds, not to rarely resulting in multi species herds and perhaps soon flocks, once the Griffon race is integrated into the future Equestrian Empire.

So many little pieces that formed a greater hole, be it the two Pegasus floating citys. Like that of 'Las Pegasus' that stays stationary all year around or 'Cloudsdale' the mobil cloud city constantly building smaller extensions that will one day create small Pegasus villages to strengthening the Pegasus population alongside others.

Then there are the Unicorn and Bicorn citys of 'Canterlot' or 'Fillydelphia',
Than the Earthpony mixed day and night variante of their sub race main cities of 'Baltimare', 'Manehatten', 'Vanhoover' or the underground mining city of the 'Macintosh Hills'.

With other locations like the Thestral mainly populating 'Hollow Shades' and 'Smokey Mountains'.
Further there are the Kirin main locations of the 'White Tale Woods' and the 'Everfree Forest Kirin Grove' near the 'Rambling Rock Ridge'.

Not to forget the last descendant of the slowly dying out Crystal pony population of the 'Neighara Falls' or 'Tall Tale' the crystal grown little city.

With other locations being mixed in their populations with pony main population.

Though these days some non pony communities with low pony population have taken places for their own, while following the Alicorn rulership like:
'Dodge City' the Gemdog mining community or 'Trottingham' with Griffon heavy population even before the big refuge wave came, integrating hundred of thousands of the Catbirb population into Equestrias citizens pool.

With very mixed, but still pony scarcity locations like 'Seaward Shoals' that is mainly populated by Abesinian and Minotaur citizens of Equestria or 'Horseshoe Bay' that has a main population of Hypogriffons and Seaponys that migrated to Equestria for one reason or another.

Just to name a few examples.

But to return at the matter of importance...

Besides the very uncertainty growing situation that a freed Draconequus caused inevitably, did her sisters on the Moon surface had been going through a very disturbing change.
From what Harmony could say with her limited scrying spell towards Celestias sisters on the Moon surface, there existance had changed to pure dark magic, something that should be impossible, yet it happend anyway.

Making it more importantly to find elements of harmony bearing ponies to save the last remaining Alicorns beside Celestia herself to rule over the day and night cycles of the world, giving it a rather stable day and night cycle for everyone to flourish under.

Harmony really played up the conserned friend part up, maybe something to let the night Alicorns look over the fact that Harmony had been occupied mentally when Celestia banished her sisters, only to notice her blunder about blindly trusting Celestias judgment of the past to do the right thing and only use the elements as a last resort 'friendship laser to the face solution' towards enemies of Harmony and its charges she looked after.

They where allies since her creation, so long ago that they are like drinking buddies or sisters of war to the end of time.
Harmony trust in Celestia was shattered that day, never to be recovered fully since that fateless day.
Trust once lost is hard to regain, if at all possible.

Harmony told Celestia further that something very strange happened to the Moon, the scrying spell she used to 'see outside the cave' seem to be very inaccurate if not outright being actively prevented to give sensibel and good enough for interpretation informations back, unless somehow her sisters had turned to pure dark magic constructions, the Moon surface was from one night to another no longer a life devoided ash filled surface and instead is filled to the capacity limit of Harmonys scrying spell to detect life and wild magic, that usually are created from a active flora filled environment.

Harmony told Celestia that Discord obviously had found out that how weak it had become over time and now sabotaged all scrying spell activity the Tree used to keep Equestrians population as safe as possible, only living sapient lifeforms create harmonious charged magic.

Celestia had a amused smile on her muzzle, while and also showing a embarrassed body language that something wasn't adding up in Harmonys assumptions and she had failed to calm the Trees concerned mind sooner.

Celestia then revealed that Discord upon return had saved her sisters rumps from the Moon surface and somehow switch it up with puppet made out of dark magic constructed dummys to take their place.

Further that he had restored the Moon surface that as Harmony knew Celestia herself had accidentally once turned up after having moved the sun to close to the moons surface, igniting the flammable atmosphere and unfortunately everything and everyone on it at the time, before years later banishment was enforced upon her sisters when Celestia had foolishly used the elements of harmony not to banishing her opposing mindsets of her sisters, rather than banishing them body and soul towards the dead moon surface.

At that point did a Luna in her full empowered Alicorn state stepped from the stairs and trotted before Harmony.

Despite Harmony knowing of Lunas return, did the Tree squealed in delight of having her little Wona back despite her being in her adult Luna form.
The crystal vines shot out like arrows fired from a crossbow, wrapped around Luna legs and barrel, lifted her into the air and cuddled her shortly after on its crystal barks surface with a mix of:

"I missed you so mutch my little Wona."
Many excuses for letting Celestia use her elements, when she was busy pollinating Equestrias less fertile regions and a mix of praise how good she looked after all she had to endure about the countless millenia on the Moon.

Celestia was quite happy to see that the Tree of Harmony was as cuddle needy as in the past, Luna dream realm affinities allowed her somehow to bond more tightly with the Tree of Harmony, that unlike in the real world, could move freely in the dream realm and when not helping out in the dream realm out, come for some entertainment for Lunas dream avatar.

Harmony in the dream realm took from time to time different dream avatar shapes to meet with Luna up.
Alicorns Faust Stellar Galaxy or Solar Nova Exterminaty, the parents of the royal sisters.
Though if the Tree of Harmony was feeling silly also from time to time a rainbow colored and extreamly uber fluffy pony.

Harmony had even developed over the first centuries a root for dream pranks, like when Luna pulled Nightmare Moon and Celestia into a shared dream and than snuggeld the mares that are all of a sudden all plushy sized in her uber fluffy form until the night ended.

Or the other time where Harmony was with Lunas aid testing if someone could be tickeld so hard in their dream avatar state, that they are awoken from sleep.
Good times... good times...

Harmony and Lunas reunion cuddling was interrupted when Nightmare Moon giggling stepped forward at the sight of Luna being absolutely cuddle dominated by Harmonys magical crystal vines.

While Harmony was having the deepest bond towards Luna, with Celestias relationships to Harmony strained, was that to Nightmare Moon between a very close co-working relation and on occasion a fellow cuddle buddy.

The Tree of Harmony had with the passing of Solar Nova Exterminaty, the father of the royal sisters, that become Starswirl the Bearded when he was forced into becoming a mortal again, only a few selected individuals made it into the circel of friends for Harmony.

While even the closest mortal to Harmony was merely a very close acquaintance, at best.

Nightmare Moon give the Tree of Harmony and friend of the family a warm wing hug and than started to introduce her little riders.

Starting with Prince Blueblood of Equestria, the colt was fascinated by the pretty and colorful even if dull shining tree in a cave.
Harmony lifted the colt gently in her magicaly soften crystal vines and started to pet it generously.
Giving the colt subtile infusions if harmoniously charged magic, allowing the Tree to look through his eyes and watch over him, for the sake of keeping the potencial heir of Equestria safe.

If Harmony told the truth, the colt was her hope to bond Celestia to her and should it ever be needed, replacing her by ascending the colt to become the next Alicorn stallion.

Currently did 5 Alicorn stallions run around the world though only 1 was currently in Equestria where the Tree could observe the stallion 30 hours of the 7 days and nights of the week.

All ascending thanks to Harmony influence on the world, siphon wild magic to empowerment of their physical mortal body, until it got overloaded. This usually is killing the mortal and giving him a chance to ascending if their soul and willpower was sufficient.

So far Harmony had groomed 599 stallion from colt age and attempted to re-create the Alicorn species. Unfortunately did most ponies had dissapointed it by simply dying without coming back as Alicorns.

The ascending of any mortal was complicated, but reasonable easy in its first steps.
Depending on the race it had different requirements, but to make a example of pony Alicorn ascending:

First one needed to find and ideally over the years groom a natural stronger than average born pony.

Second did a artificial infusion of magic needed to happen, most reliable was wild magic collected and released in a magical explosiv release, causing forced adaptation, leading otherwise to instantaneous lethal magic mana poisoning.

If successful than the mortal will have the first ascending stage gained alongside a new random attribute of another sub race of the species.
A example would be a Unicorn gaining Earthpony physical additions or grow wings of Thestral or Pegasus.
And vise versa.

The third step after idealy a full year of stabilization and full assimilation of the body to its new magical composition, than needs to basically repeat the second step and once again survive the outcome.

With the born sub race and the two gained attributes of other races, will now the final step be required.

The previous steps are respectively with a 80% and than 60% success rate.
Unfortunately did the last step is what is making or breaking the most ponies.

The fifth step is what decide if a true new Alicorn is created, what its final attribute configuration will be.
As in what the primary, secondary, tertiary and finally its quarternary attributes will be in the end should the body be created successfully.

The final step is to accept eternity and its consequences. The body will be ripped apart and fused with its soul in the ascending realm of the gods.
As the past memories play before the applicant to godhood, did one or multible ascended being will feel a call towards the ascending realm and aid in its ascending or it return to the wheel of life.

The outcome is always either a new immortal that get body beyond any mortal limitations or the applicant might chose to be reborn as a mortal clean slate soul.
Giving birth to a over the average in magic strengthen individual that can procreate and bear or sire physical superior offspring with a 1/4 chance to have a far superior example of its birth species born or in 3/4 cases a slightly more than average strong child conceived.

The reason why most decline godhood is in its price, immortals have a hard existence. They have to endure the stupidity of mortals, have to suffer the passing of befriended and beloved mortals and most importantly... upon death they stop existing entirely.
A God is not reborn, for their soul was used to forge a body that used up every sliver of the soul. Leaving nothing behind once the body perished.
The body of a immortal usually over time dissolve into a major magical radiation that bonds to the planets magic, feeding the eternal magic cycle of renewing.

While Harmony was slowly infusing Bluebloods body and soul with harmoniously charged magic, did another triple of magical soften crystal vines take hold of the pink juvenile Griffon and mercilessly tickeld it into submission.

After a few minutes having successfully completed the subtle manipulation of the colts body and soul, did the Tree returned Celestias foal and focused on the Griffon goddess.
Very unexpectedly did nothing hinted at Discord having a Talon in her ascending, without harmony or disharmony siding the Griffon cub, was it most likely pure statistical chance that this Cadance came into existence.

This pink Griffon juvenile goddess was fully formed and was beyond subtle manipulation, it would have to be the old fashion way to befriend it.

All in due time... all in due time.

Once a tickeld into submission Griffon cub was returned to the Alicorns, namely Celestia since her colt seem to like snuggeling into a fellow aged being did Harmony noticed the last addition still sitting on Nightmare Moon, obscured by her magic waving mane.

When the Tree made contact with Cynder the dragon welp, did the situation from a friendly reunion changed into a desaster about to happen.

With a menacing howl did the Tree of Harmony squeezed down on the welp. Not more than necessarily that it would need, to ensure it didn't escape its grasping vines.

The Tree of Harmonys vine in contact of the dragoness turned dark gray before turning sickly dark purple with smoke like magical mist escaping its vines.

The Tree of Harmony was howling in pain and fury:

" ᛞᚨᚱᚴ᛫ᛗᚨᚷᛁᚳ? "
" ᛫ᛈᚱᛁᛗᚨᛚ᛫ᛞᚨᚱᚴ᛫ᛗᚨᚷᛁᚳ᛫ᛏᚩ᛫ᛁᛏᛋ᛫ᚡᛖᚱᚤ᛫ᛋᚩᚢᛚ?! "
("Dark magic?
Primal dark magic to its very soul?!")

" ᚨᛒᚩᛗᛁᚾᚨᛏᛁᚩᚾ "
("Abomination!")

" ᛋᛁᚳᚴ᛫ᚳᚱᛖᚨᛏᚢᚱᛖ᛫ᚩᚠ᛫ᛞᛖᚨᛏᚻ᛫ᚨᚾᛞ᛫ᛞᛖᛋᛏᚱᚢᚳᛏᛁᚩᚾ! "
("Sick creature of death and destruction!")

" ᚤᛟᚢ᛫-᛫ᚹᛁᛚᛚ᛫-᛫ᛒᛖ᛫-᛫ᛈᚢᚱᚷᛖᛞ! "
("YOU - WILL - BE - PURGED!"

Before the shocked Alicorns and now in fear crying Griffon and pony younglings could do anything, did the hole cave shook violently.

Everyone in the old Castle of the Everfree Forest and inside the cave could hear a pained, yet furious voice in their mind, giving a powerful impression in their minds internal eye.

The Alicorns froze staring at the Tree of Harmony gobsmacked, never in their existence did they hear Harmony speak in a rage like this, if it wasn't talking about Discord and his deeds.
Even than it was more a anger akin to someone who stole their favorite slice of Cake or the last slice of pizza on friday night.

Right now it was pure undiluted murderous anger, with full intention to kill the welp, until it was dead, no... until not even its very soul would be left behind, to prevent its rebirth into the wheel of life.

As the Alicorns backed away from their usually gentle friend, did Chrysalis moved from the staircase.

Chrysalis wanted to reintroduce herself to Harmony after long last, but this turn of events seem to force her hoove.

Chrysalis turned into her true form and charged two spells, a powerful cutting curse and a telekinesis grip on Cynder.

Harmony was blindsided by her vines around Cynder being cut off her main body and falling with pained motion on the ground, before they seconds later become motionless.

Chrysalis pulled the in fear shacking and tears crying Cynder to her forehooves, the Queen of Changelings would not let anything happen to the welp Cynder, savior of dark parasitic infection plaguing their world.

Even if she would have to go to war with the Harmony construct itself!!!

Author's Note

Well... that happened
Wow... That escalated quickly

Don't forget to turn on when the next ~~episode of DBZ~~ chapter of
Cynder is 'not Spikes special somedragon'
releases.

Next story updated will be my Necromancer story, probably.

Stay snuggly until than everyone ♡

Last time edited:
10.04.2024