Halo: Friends from the Stars
Prolouge: The Summoning
Load Full StoryNext ChapterLocation: Equus, Discordia, Saddle Horn Peaks, Year of Discord 200, Military time: 1435
Discord was sitting on his wooden throne, watching all the chaos around him. To his right he saw a group of ponies inside of a spinning carousel wearing ballerina costumes while dancing on the tips of their hoofs. He then looked to his left and saw a tornado filled with sharks that was throwing these said sharks to what looked like a giant carnival game of pop the balloons, but instead of being full of ballons it was filled with giant blobs of multicolor Jello.
"Ah this is the life." Discord said to himself while relaxing in his chair.
Ever since Discord had escaped the monitor's supervision, he's been enjoying himself by making as much chaos as he can. Sure, nopony liked the chaos he was making but who are they to judge? Besides it's not like what he was doing was permanent or destructive it was all fun entertainment for himself and others watching.
Discord snapped his claws to make a glass cup full of chocolate milk. He drank half of the glass of his drink before setting it down on the armrest of his throne.
He then looked up at the chaos he made and began to feel something that he had never felt before. Loneliness, but why that? He had everything he wanted with no one to stop him not the Minotaur's, the Zebras, the Centaurs, the Griffins, not even the ponies could stop him. He then began to ponder, "Perhaps it is because there is no longer anyone left to oppose me." Discord thought to himself. It was true that there was no one left to oppose him except maybe the two alicorn sisters, but they weren't a threat—rather a nuisance at best. Plus, the only reason they were still around was because it was fun to mess around with them. Discord thought about it more until realization kicked in.
He felt lonely not because he was unstoppable, but because there was no one to enjoy the chaos with. He remembered the glory days of the past, when he and his creators would have fun in the chaos, he had made. They would go shark riding while fighting a Kraken, then go and have fun on a planet made of ice cream while making snow angels and snow people. He missed his creators so much 'If only they were still here to play with me.' He thought to himself. That is when an idea came to him: 'Why don't I just summon them here myself?' Discord thought to himself. Sure, the monitor had told him that they had all died out and that there were only remnants of their primitive selves, but he had summoned all types of extraordinary things before like Dragons, Gargoyles, Aliens, Demons, and even extinct creatures from the past, so it was worth a shot.
He began to prepare the spell for the summoning, thinking carefully of the specifics of the spell. 'No, I can't summon them from the past, or I'd risk summoning one that's infected, so it will have to be from the far future.' Discord thought as he changed the structure of the spell. Once the spell's structure was complete, Discord began to cast it.
"Ok six Forerunners coming right up!" Discord said to himself with a hint of excitement.
Discords raised his arms opening his claw and paw open to start the first steps of the spell. They then suddenly began to glow in a yellow light for a couple of seconds before emitting 2 beams of chaos magic into the ground, creating a summoning circle. Discord stayed liked this, focusing on the spell for a couple of minutes before a giant bright light came from the summoning circle blinding him, and everyone watching. The light soon began to fade away revealing nothing but burnt marks of the summoning circle on the floor.
"That isn't right. It was supposed to work. Why didn't it work?" Discord muttered to himself, frustrated.
He then began to inspect the summoning circle with a giant magnifying glass he had created to see if he had made any mistakes with the spell structure along the way.
"Ah, I see. It seems I had forgotten to add the location for them to be summoned, resulting in them not appearing where I wanted them to be."
"Oh well, that just means I'll have to find them first." Discord said as he was about to snap his fingers to start this game of hide and seek, until he heard hoofsteps coming from behind him. Discord then turned around to see the two sisters walking towards him.
"Oh, this is so much fun. How about a game of 'Pin the Tail on the Pony?'" Discord said while holding Celestia's tail.
This caused Celestia to gasp, looking behind her to see that her tail had disappeared.
"Playtime is over for you, Discord." Celestia said with a determined look on her face.
"Oh, I doubt that." Discord said before summoning a bag of seeds.
"Hungry?" he asked while flicking two seeds that hit both of the sisters' heads, each getting only two unamused looks in return.
"Suit yourselves." he said before grabbing a handful of seeds and throwing them into his mouth.
He was about to deal with them so that he could start his game of hide-and-seek until he saw Celestia and Luna grab three gems from each of their saddle pouches.
"Oh! What have you got there?" he asked, intrigued.
"The Elements of Harmony." Celestia said while the elements started to create a forcefield around her and her sister.
"With them, we shall defeat you." said Luna with a determined look.
"You should see yourselves right now. The expressions on your faces. So intense. So sure of yourselves." he said as he began to laugh.
Discord continued to laugh uncontrollably, so much so that he didn't even notice that the sisters had already begun charging the spell. By the time Discord's laughter started to die down, it was already too late, for a beam of rainbow light had come out of both of the sisters' horns and was already descending toward him.
"Hilarious!" Those were the last words he said as the rainbow beam of light hit him, turning him into a stone statue.
After discord had turn into stone there was couple of minutes of silence.
"Did it work?" Celestia asked worriedly.
Luna began to fly up to the hill where the statue resided and hesitantly touched it. After a second or two of nothing happening, their worries disappeared.
"It appears so, sister." said Luna.
"Do you know what this means?" Celestia asked.
"That we have finally won?"
"YES! Dear sister, that's exactly what this means!" she said happily before doing a victory dance.
While Celestia was busy celebrating, Luna began to look around until she spotted what looked like burn markings on the ground. She then flew down to the strange burn markings she had seen and began inspecting them.
"Luna, where did thou go?" Celestia said as she started to become aware of her surroundings.
"Sister, we are over here."
Celestia then began to fly towards the voice until she saw her on the other side of the hill. She then began to descend to her sister.
"Luna, is everything okay? How come thou art not celebrating?" she questioned.
"Look, sister, does thou see these strange markings?" Luna said as she moved out of the way for her sister to see them.
"Yes, Luna, we do. What does thee make of this?"
"These are the markings of a summoning spell, sister."
"Oh, we thought those were from that fire golem we fought not so long ago." Celestia admitted.
"Perhaps thou would have known what this was if thou had paid attention to Star Swirl's teachings."
"Hey! tis not my fault that he has such a boring voice. We can barely resist falling asleep in there." protested Celestia.
"Perhaps it would have also helped if thou got some sleep at night rather than sneaking into the royal kitchen to steal the desserts that he had forbidden you to eat." Luna rebutted.
"Thou has no proof of that; besides, we believe thou has asked us that question for a different reason than to use it as an excuse to criticize us." Celestia said, ending the argument.
"Thou art least right about one thing. We believe that while we were fighting Discord's forces, he had managed to summon another beast, perhaps even multiple beasts."
"How can thou tell these markings aren't from the other beast Discord had summoned to defeat us earlier?"
"Because these markings are warm, if the summoning had happened earlier, they would have been cold." Luna answered.
"'Hmm, so that just means we have another beast to deal with?" Celestia asked.
"Perhaps multiple, but yes, thou art correct, sister."
"But where is it? If Discord had summoned another beast, we should have seen it by now." Celestia questioned.
"That is indeed true, sister. Where did it go?"
"Perhaps it ran away?"
"Maybe, but why would Discord summon such a cowardly creature?"
"Maybe the creature looked tough on the outside but was a coward on the inside." Celestia proposed.
"Perhaps, but we will have to deal with it later. For now, we must focus on helping our warriors escape from whatever contraption Discord has used to trap them." Luna said while pointing to the still spinning carousel.
With that, Celestia and Luna went to help their warriors and return home. Little did they know that Discord had not summoned any beast but six Spartans.
Author's Note
Hi, this is the first fanfict that I've ever written if you have any problems with it please tell me, so I can make it better.
Also since this is before Luna's banishment should I make it so that everypony in the story speaks old Equish or modern Equish?
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