The Broken Stone

You imprison me, you try to stop me, but I cannot be stopped. I am chaos...

I looked into the never-ending darkness, my eyes covered by the veil that the stone gave. I felt a shiver run down my spine as a cold chill blew through the stone. I wanted to be free, it was all that I needed.

Cries echoed throughout the statue, cries of pain and fear, battering my ears relentlessly. I tried to flap my outstretched wings but found them to be frozen stiff, the stone I was imprisoned in holding them outstretched. I tried to scream, to voice my anger and sadness, but as an old teacher of mine had once said,

"Voices do not carry through the stone."

I had never cared about the quote before, not even when I killed him to become the god of chaos. Now, however, it served as an everyday reminder of my existence in stone. Another reminder I wanted to be free.

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I heard a crack split the dark, gloomy silence. My head immediately formed one word in its depths. ESCAPE. I watched in pure awe as the stone began to fall away from his body, falling down to the ground below. I moved my jaw.

A ripple of pain passed through my mouth as I did this, stiffness beginning to work into my arms and legs as they became free. I shivered as a breeze rolled along my fur, and I gasped as warmth began to radiate on my back, spreading through my body. I tightened a now free claw, feeling pain and relief as I moved it for the first time in a couple years.

I stood, waiting for the rest of the stone to fall away, when I saw the pegasus. A flap of cyan wings and it was gone, just a blur in the sky. I was incredibly confused, as only one pegasus I knew had such amazing speed and cyan-blue-feathers. Could that have been Rainbow Dash, the Element of Loyalty?

I immediately laughed. There was no way that was possible! I watched my foot become free from the stone. I moved it foward and felt an intense agony, quickly followed by a wave of goodness. I nearly gasped as the relaxation passed over me, a feeling I was lucky to have. Two times frozen in stone, two times escaped. I probably held a record.

I stepped onto the ground beneath the statue's pedastal. The grass I stepped on was immediately drained of all color. All that remained were strips of white sticking out of the ground. I looked around the garden I happened to be placed in as a statue. As I did, a voice spoke in my ear, saying:

"Venture not down this frequently-trodden path,

It only leads to evil, chaos, and wrath.

Take instead the harder road,

With tougher fights but with more gold."

I quickly pushed down an emotion that suddenly quelled inside of me. I could barely fight against the tide, and was very close to losing, when the feeling passed. I was confused. I had no idea what the feeling was, and it disturbed me to my core.

I quickly shook the thought from my head and focused on what was at hand. I pondered my freedom for a moment. What would I do with it? Well, I already knew, but, how was I going to do it? How could I take back control without being stopped by those troublesome six ponies?

The idea came to my head. I smiled. There was no way this plan could fail. I summoned a papyrus and quill from the air. I grabbed the quill in my paw and began to write out my plan. Always had to be sure that you were following your plan correctly. The list was something like this:

1. Give Celestia a taste of her own medicine (i.e. freezing her in stone, crush her spirit, strangling, etc.)

2. Remove the Elements from the equation

3. Take out Twilight Sparkle and her goody-two-shoes friends

4. Don't give anypony a chance to regain power (i.e. destroy Elements, don't give hints or riddles on where they are)

5. Rule Equestria again

I smirked. This was a straightfoward plan. It definently was more straightfoward than last time, where I had given them time to find the Elements. I began to set my plan into action.