Chapter 1: The Attack on Canterlot
Author's Note
I've been working on this fanfic for over a year. Also it's my first fic on here so please be gentle :,)
Chapter 1: The Attack on Canterlot
The story starts in canterlot castle’s throne room; we see Twilight, Celestia, Luna and Discord surrounding The Unity Crystals.
“-I’m with you…” Twilight just got done recording a message for The Unity Crystals. “There. Now whoever has The Unity Crystals in the future will know about Opaline and the growing magic. Now we must separate and hide them before Opa-” She didn’t get a chance to finish her sentence cause the door flew open and in came Opaline Arcana, The fire Alicorn.
“Well... well… well… If it isn’t Twilight Sparkle and my old fillyhood “friends”, Celestia and Luna.”
Opaline spots Discord, who is just standing there awkwardly. “And who are you?” Opaline asks.
Discord dramatically gasps in disgust
“I’m Discord, The lord of Chaos! What? Have you been living under a rock or something?” Discord then snaps his fingers making a giant bolder appear over Opaline’s head. It lands on her, crushing her.
“Huh… That was easy-” Luna starts to say before Opaline bursts the bolder into a million pieces with her magic.
Opaline laughs and says “You really think it’d be THAT easy!?”.
They all look at each other, Discord breaks the silence by saying: “To be honest… Yes.”
Opaline growls and charges up her magic “I am NOT to be UNDERESTIMATED!” She screamed.
Blasting a beam of magic at Discord, who snaps his fingers turning the beam of magic into ice cream.
“Oh please” he chuckles “You’ll need to try harder than that!”
Opaline is about to charge at Discord but notices Twilight holding the crystals. Discord notices that she’s spotted the crystals and swipes them out of Twilight hooves, puts them in his bag, and flies out the window.
“I’ll keep the crystals safe! You take care of Opaline!” He shouts as he flies away.
Opaline, filled with rage, tries to go after Discord but Twilight stops her.
“I won’t let you have Equestria’s magic, Opaline!” Twilight yelled.
“Neither will we!” Celestia and Luna chime in.
As Discord is flying away with the crystals, an army of dragons start to chase him. Meanwhile: Celestia, Luna, and Twilight are fighting Opaline in the throne room.
“I will obtain the power from the crystals! AND YOU CAN’T STOP ME!” Opaline screams as she blasts Celestia in the chest with magic. “CELESTIA!!” Both Luna and Twilight exclaim.
Opaline laughs “This is what you get for never looking my way! For never realizing how powerful I am!”
Luna holds Celestia in her arms, Celestia scoffs “What are you talking about?”
Opaline tries to blast Celestia while she’s down but Twilight steps in, blocking her magic beam with her own. Twilight’s beam gets shorter and shorter as Opaline’s beam gets closer to destroying Twilight's horn.
“TWILIGHT!” Celestia & Luna screams.
Opaline laughs “Ha! You thought that could defeat me?!”
“No… I was just stalling for time. Discord has probably already made it outside of Canterlot by now. I will ensure you don’t get your hooves on the crystals AND SO WILL HE!” Twilight exclaimed.
Opaline grinds her teeth in anger. How could she have let that stupid draconequus escape with the crystals
“DRAGONS, FIND THAT STUPID DRACONEQUUS AND BRING HIM TO ME NOW!”
All of Opaline’s dragon army starts searching for Discord.
Meanwhile: Discord is still being chased by a group of dragons despite having left Canterlot. Suddenly he notices the group of dragons getting bigger, he starts to panic as it seems the whole army is now after him.
Discord snaps his fingers summoning a large swarm of bees to see if that’ll distract them. It only leaves some of them caught trying to fight off the swarm but most of them are still following him
“I guess bees weren’t strong enough.”
suddenly a lightbulb lights up over Discord’s head (literally).
He snaps his fingers once again and a large butterfly net appears, he turns around and scoops up the dragons in the net.
“Taakee… THIS!” he then swings the net and throws them back to Canterlot.
Discord flies away but as he’s flying he hears something coming closer to him, specifically a voice, screaming in anger. He turns around to see Opaline charging right towards him.
Opaline bucks Discord into the side of a mountain, revealing a secret cave, he loses grip of his bag. The crystals fall out of his bag and onto the floor of the cave. Discord crashes into the cave and lands under an archway, that looks like it could’ve been a portal of some sort.
“Finally… The Unity Crystals, and the Prisbeam power… Is MIN-” Suddenly, Opaline gets cut off as Twilight, Luna and Celestia have finally caught up to her.
“This stops now, Opaline!” Celestia yells as she charges forward to try and keep the crystals away from Opaline.
The three princesses and the evil queen are fighting over the crystals, as Discord gets up, he looks up to see 4 squares aligned to make one diamond. The squares start to glow a green color, and Discord tries to get away from the mysteriously glowing archway. Suddenly a portal opens, and everypony notices.
Discord is trying to get away from the portal but it starts to suck him in.
“DISCORD!” Twilight yells. “Don’t worry! I’ve got you!” She runs to Discord and grabs his paw, trying her best to keep her grip on him strong.
“Twilight, don’t worry about me! The fate of Equestria is way more important!” he yells, shifting his eyes to The Unity Crystals.
“But-” Twilight starts to speak but suddenly “DISCORD! NO!” Twilight yells as Discord gets sucked through this portal.
Suddenly… everything is… quiet. Too quiet. Discord wakes up to find himself resting on a bed, with his head wrapped in bandages.
“What… in Celestia’s name is…” he starts to question why he’s here but starts to look around the room.
He then looks down at his body and realizes: “I’m not a draconequus anymore?!”
He snaps his fingers to try and change back. Nothing happens.
"Huh? That's odd." He snaps his fingers again... and nothing happens.
Discord starts to panic a little, but suddenly, a girl with long light pink hair walks in.
"Fluttershy...?" he whispers.
End of chapter 1
Chapter 3: Slumber Party!
Discord is sound asleep, he's exhausted from everything that's happened. The fight with Opaline, getting sucked into another dimension, meeting alternate versions of his friends, and even though he hadn't mentioned it, His injury has been causing him some stress. All of a sudden Discord wakes up to-
"MR. DISCORD!!!!!" Penelope busts the door open screaming for him. "WAKE UP!!"
Discord jumps out of his bed and lands face-first onto the floor, getting up from the floor, he feels dizzy.
The world is spinning from his point of view.
"Finally some good old-fashioned chaos" He shakes his head, and he realizes the world isn't actually spinning "Oh poo..."
He rubs the sleepy out of his eyes, Penelope runs up to him, really close to his face.
"Grab a pillow and a blanket, Mr. Discord! We're havin' a slumber party in the Library!" She yells with a big smile across her face.
Discord froze. It hits him: "A Slumber party?" he questions. Why are they having a Slumber Party?
"Yeah! Whenever we have nothing to do, we like having Slumber Parties in the Library! It's a good way for us to spend some quality time together!" She said in a warm tone. "Annnnd- Since we don't know much about you yet, we thought it'd be a fun and good idea to have a Slumber Party wiithhhhh YOU!" She boops him on the nose.
The idea of a slumber party, especially with Pinkie sounds like fun, but this is another version of Pinkie Pie, this could be completely different than anything that Pinkie from Equestria would do... then again... It could be fun and especially refreshing, considering everything that's happened with Opaline. Having a party with an otherworldly Pinkie Pie almost sounds a bit chaotic. If this Pinkie is anything like Pinkie from Equestria then Discord knows there's probably gonna be pranks involved. Especially since Rainbow is gonna be there too. A big smile spreads across his face.
"Of course, Pink- I mean... Penelope, I'd love to have a slumber party with you and the others. As long as I get to cause some chaos that is?" He asks with a smirk.
Penelope gets an evil grin on her face "If by that you mean pranks then, I give you my permission, sir."
Discord smiles big, happy stimming, and then grabs the pillow and blanket from his bed excitedly. They both happily walk to the library, Discord peaks in to see Fiona who just laid out her sleeping bag on the floor. Fiona looks over to the doorway and sees Penelope with Discord by her side
"Oh, yay! You came!" Fiona says happily.
It feels almost like Discord got shot in the heart, seeing Fiona be so happy to see him, it made him really happy. Discord shakes it off, trying to remind himself not to get attached. He has HIS Fluttershy to get back to.
Discord lays his pillow and blanket a space away from Fiona. Tessa comes into the library putting her sleeping bag between Fiona and Discord. All the others have already placed their sleeping bags, they all laid them out in a circle. Penelope plops down onto her sleeping bag. Everyone is talking amongst themselves, some even shifting their eyes towards Discord. Suddenly it's silent and there's this sort of awkward tension in the air.
Alexis decides to break the silence "So uh, What's your world like?"
Discord looks at Alexis and then looks around at everyone else. "Well... Equestria, just to be more specific, is all cupcakes and, rainbows and, 'harmony', blah blah blah. Every creature there lives in harmony-"
It seems Discord got Fiona's attention "Creatures? Like what kinds? I mean... me and Tessa saw a little bit because of your memories but..." She looks into Discord's eyes with curiosity.
"There's dragons, who live in the dragonland. There's also kirin, changlings, hippogriffs, griffins, sea ponies, and of course Draconequui, like me" He gestures to himself proudly.
"Oh yeah! You looked like you were made up of all sorts of different animals! Could you tell me which ones? What's it like to be a draconequus?-" Fiona asks, then Tessa chimes in.
"Does being a draconequus mean that you just automatically have chaos magic?"
Penelope also chimes in "Does having chaos magic mean you can just make ANYTHING? OH! LIKE, CHOCOLATE RAIN??"
Discord is getting a little overwhelmed, but he does want to answer their questions.
"Well, Fl- I mean... Fiona, I had a pony head, deer antler, goat horn, I had the arm of a lion, an eagle claw, leg of a lizard, leg of a goat, a dragons tail, a bat wing, and a pegasus wing." He pauses to take a breath, gasping for air.
"I'd say it's rather enjoyable being a draconequus." He says. "Certainly better then this... whatever I am?" he whispers
"And yes, being a draconequus does mean you will have chaos magic, considering a draconequus are beings of chaos, again, such as myself" He agains gestures towards himself. "Also yes, chocolate rain is a thing I do very often." He laughs.
Penelope jumps in excitement "OMG CHOCOLATE RAIN IS REAL!!! YESSS!!!"
The girls all laugh at Penelope's excitement, Discord kinda joins in, giggling to himself. He's missed this. He starts reminiscing about good times with his friends back in Equestria in his head. A genuine smile spreads across his face.
The laughter dies down and Fiona notices Discord, he looks so happy. Fiona smiles at him, glad to see he's doing better.
"Discord, I do have another question if that's alright" She asks.
"Ask away, my friend." Discord says with a big smile.
"What are your friends like, I mean, you did mention someone named Twilight earlier. Who's she?" Fiona asks, tilting her head.
Discord freezes for a moment. He then thinks for a moment and smiles "Twilight is just one of the many friends from Equestria, but I will say, as cheesy as it is, she's made a big impact on my life. I mean we've had some rough spots in our friendship from time to time but, who hasn't?" He chuckles "But... Fluttershy... she's the one who's made the BIGGEST and I'd say the best impact on my life." Discord looks down, and he starts to think more and more about Fluttershy "She's the sweetest pony I'd ever met. She gave me a chance when no other pony would." He says as he looks up at Fiona with a somber expression.
Fiona sees Discord's expression and realizes- "Oh." she says quietly. She tucks a bit of her hair behind her ear, she has an awkward expression on her face. "You... uhm... I remember you said her name when I first walked into the room, back in the sick bay."
Discord blushes a little. "Woops, that's embarrassing... You heard that?" his voices has gotten a little soft, he seems genuinely embarrassed.
"Sorry for mentioning it-" Fiona says softly
"No!" Discord realizes how loud that was and quickly covers his mouth. "I mean... It's fine. I only said it because you just reminded me of her. You seem very kind, and caring, you both have the same long pink hair, and I assume you also have a love of animals considering your pajamas." He gestures to Fiona's pajama pants which have sloths all over them
"I do! How'd you- Oh wait.." She giggles "We sound like we could almost be the same person" She says half jokingly
"I think you just might be." He says, he catches Fiona off guard. It would make sense though
"In fact, Tessa would most definitely be Twilight, which I've obviously mentioned before. Raine is Rainbow Dash, Alexis is AppleJack, Regina is Rarity, and Penelope just MUST be Pinkie Pie!" He says with excitement in his voice.
"That's why you called me Pinkie earlier!" Penelope yells.
"Whhhaat?? Rainbow Dash is a WAYYYY cooler name! CALL ME THAT!" Raine says excitedly
"If Twilight is anything like me, considering you were comparing me to her earlier. I'd assume she has a love of books, magic and knowledge, am I correct?" Tessa questions.
"Ding Ding Ding! You are correct!" He says while pretending to hold a microphone
They all giggle to each other at Discords joke. Discord chuckles to himself, it's been a while since he's had this much fun, and he's definitely enjoying it. Tessa pauses for a moment and then gets up to find a book on one of the shelves.
While Tessa is finding a book, Regina pulls out a box of nail polish from behind her.
"Discord, darling, how do you feel about painting your nails? I have tons of different colors you might like" She says while picking up bottles of nail polish from the box.
"Oooh! I love painting my nails! I did it quite often back in Equestria with Fluttershy and Rarity." He said, happily.
"well... for me, nails, for them, hooves." He chuckles
Penelope jumps up "Oh! Oh! How do you feel about stickers and hair charms? I HAVE A BUNCH!"
"Absolutely!" Discord smiles big
Penelope scooches over to Discord and starts putting charms in his hair, along with stickers on his jacket and shirt. Tessa was able to find the book she was looking for and sits next to Discord. She holds up the book
"I thought I'd ask you about this book, it talks about chaos magic-" Tessa mentions but Discord quickly recognizes the symbol on the cover.
"That's the symbol that I saw on the archway of the portal!" Discord snatches the book from Tessa
The book cover had 4 squares on the cover, aligned to shape a diamond. Instead of all the diamonds being green like on the archway, it has one green square on the top, a blue square on the left, a red square on the bottom, and a yellow square on the right. Discord seems a little confused, but he opens the book and starts flipping through it.
"Not only does the book mention chaos magic but it also talks about other dimensions. When I heard about what you said, I almost couldn't believe it. So, of course, I checked your memories and sure enough, you were from another dimension."
Tessa than sits there for a moment.
"Oh! The book also talks about these crystals! Apparently, they can only be activated using chaos magic. I wonder why...?" She ponders to herself
While Discord is looking through the book, everything Tessa has said is being confirmed the more he looks through this, crystals, chaos magic, and other dimensions. It's all there. He sits there in shock for a little while.
Tessa looks at him with a concerned expression, she worries that she may have done the wrong thing showing him this. Discord closes the book and thinks for a moment. Regina looks at Discord and then looks at Discord, there's now nothing but silence in the room. Meanwhile, Penelope is still happily putting stickers on Discord. She hasn't noticed the vibe of the room has changed.
Fiona puts her hand on Discord shoulder.
"You said that you saw the symbol before, do you know what it means? What it's for? If not, that's okay." She asks, also trying to reassure Discord.
"No, I don't..." he's silent again "but... I'm more so curious about what this symbol, or these crystals, have to do with chaos magic. I've never heard of them before!" He says, looking back to the book.
He opens the book again "Chaos crystals..." he reads from the book.
Tessa reaches out her hand for the book, Discord gives it to her.
"I'll look more into it. I'll also see if Celestia knows anything." Tessa said
Discord's eyes widen for a moment. Did he hear her correctly? Did she say... Celestia?
"Celestia? As in... Princess Celestia?" Discord questions.
End of Chapter 3
Author's Note
Goodness, I feel like I write "he/she/they says" a lot :,3 Once I start writing more, I'll improve.
My wording also is also not very good either I apologize, my grammar is trash lmao.
Also I drew discord getting his nails done and with sticker all over him lol :#
