Harmony at Mind

Chapter 9

“Cruelty has a human heart, every man does play his part”

-Paschendale, Iron Maiden

A vision came to Ahriman. Пусть приходят темноты до рассвета, Пусть сезонов проход и вы будете вернуть тебе плоды, пусть лжепророков бояться конца. Пусть ваш звон петь о нас.волки

Ahzek Ahriman and several of his sorcerers wandered the streets. There were no unicorns in sight for they had all left to the zebra plains to avoid the persecution. Those that remained would become rebels. At his side was Twilight, his new disciple. Such an action as to outlaw the use of psychic powers was outrage. It was one thing to kill a stallion knowing his name, but to perform a mass genocide on a minority population demanded correction. Death by the cruellest means. No guards or soldiers came to apprehend the small cabal, for they knew the power of the Thousand Sons, the power to grind armies into dust with a thought. No unicorn could dream of that kind of  power. Whoever had proposed this council of the Everfree was to die.

“Ahzek, you don’t need to do this, we negotiate with the other tribes.” said Twilight in an attempt to dissuade the Thousand Sons from unleashing their power.

“Twilight, you don’t get the point, I have seen too many of my brothers and other psykers in the Imperium persecuted, and enslaved far too many times to let this go unpunished. Remember when I told you about the Council of Nikaea? That was the first time. The second was when I and a crew had kidnapped a Navigator, so degraded was his form that it would be a pity to kill him. And with oppression comes anarchy in the study of psychic usage, without discipline comes anarchy. Do you see why now ? This is not for personal gain as it is for all of Equestria and Legion XV. Come with me I want to show you something.”

As they entered the caverns beneath Canterlot, the cabal found Luna and Celestia waiting there.

“Az, what do you think you’re doing, violence is not the answer, we can work this out.” said Celestia.

“”Simple rebellion does not work Unicorns may be one-third of Equestria’s population but they are few in number. I...am calling to my brothers in Eye of Terror. Don’t you remember that, I told you about the hells of the Warp?”

+NO WE WILL NOT STAND FOR THIS BLOODSHED THAT YOU WILL BRING, WE MAY BE FRIENDS BUT WE ARE NOT ALLOWING YOU TO DO THIS!+ they both said in the Canterlot voice.

+Oh, so my teachings have rubbed off on you, I’m glad I haven’t taught you many things that I know+

Ahriman struck them into a corner with a thought, they lie motionless for several seconds.

+Luna, Celestia, not all things can be resolved peacefully, maybe for you ponies it can but for me it cannot, it is the way of fate and what we make of it.+ he sent.

+THAT TZEENTCH THING OF YOURS IS IT NOW? MAYBE YOU ARE BLIND TO YOUR OWN TEACHINGS.+ they sent.

+I AM NOT BLIND, YOU TWO HAVE NEVER SEEN A GREAT WAR, I HAVE CAUSED AND ENDED SO MANY, YOUR UNDERSTANDING IS WEAK!+

+WE WILL NOT HARM YOU FRIEND BUT PLEASE CONSIDER BEFORE YOU LEAVE, PLEASE HAVE MERCY, WE BEG OF YOU NOT TO WAGE WAR!+

+I MUST, NO LIVING BEING CAN POSSIBLY UNDERSTAND WITHOUT IT BEING IMPOSED UPON THEM, DIRECT EXPOSURE IS THE TERM, DO YOU KNOW WHAT IT FEELS TO HAVE YOUR HOME AND BROTHERS TAKEN FROM YOU IN A SINGLE BATTLE TO HAVE BEEN EXILED FOR PRESERVING YOUR BROTHERS FROM HELL!+ screamed Ahriman in the Warp.

+WE SEE, WE WILL COME WITH YOU TO THE SURFACE OF PROSPERO+

Wards had been engraved upon the walls to prevent magic use, escape with a few and return with an army. That was the plan Hathor Maat and Astraeos had come up with. In the tunnels they wandered. TUnnels began to twist and form into new stones with each step, at one point, the three equines had puked from the nausea. Were they in a Eternal Maze? After what seemed like hours of walking and questioning. Questioning on Ahriman’s true allegiance and the Thousand Sons, it had come to this. They had finally reached Occullum Square.

“Looks like now is the end of our equine forms. We must be human for this ritual.” he said.

The group nodded as they became human again right in front of the trio of ponies. Astonishment for the trio had never seen such powerful spells.

“Celestia, Woona, Twilight, sit with us you are necessary for this ritual, but I cannot guarantee you three will live. If you do you will be first priority though.” said Ahriman.

“Ahriman, I have been at your side for all these years but how can xenos be the key?” asked Astraeos.

“Remember the Elements.” Ahzek replied.

“Maat, Callisto, do as I say.”

“This is a translocation spell but I will require all your strength to make a jump 25,000 lightyears.

With a simultaneous thought, the sorcerers carved runes into the ground in the dust. The ponies just watched in awe.

Finally, sitting on the edges, Ahriman said, “A new age is coming.” and they simply vanished.

Their bodies were stretched and deformed in the Aether, they seemed to be falling for an hour and everything went black their senses so built up in euphoria and pain that they simply blacked out.

Luna awoke, surrounding her was a fiery hot red landscape of basalt and stone mesas. Her mind had nearly imploded with the insanity of the Warp. Around her were floating towers pitched up high. Fires and daemons in the distance. Tormenting the souls of the lost.

“It is a miracle some sort of life existed here.” she thought aloud.

“Ponies, welcome to the Planet of the Sorcerers.”