'Everyone knows about Twilight sparkle and the gang being the Elements of Harmony. Whenever you think of her you most likely think "Magic", but what if she never existed? What if the element of Honesty was a different pony entirely? It's likely not possible, but what if? What if the sonic rainboom was never completed? Still thought of as an old pony's tail. Nopony knows, until now.
I will tell you the story, of when six different ponies were the chosen ones, the ones who would rid the world of chaos. The ones who could have been the favorites of thousands of fans everywhere, but they've never been seen. You must imagine this, all of the mane six never existed, but there was six ponies which replaced them. But not only this has happened, six other elements now exist, the elements of Disharmony. They consist of Grief, Anger, Reality, Betrayal, Greed, and Dishonesty. They were put together by the master of chaos himself, Discord, I shall first tell you the story of how the elements of disharmony began...
It all started on the day that Nightmare moon would return, consider this, Twilight wasn't there, the only pony living in that treehouse wasn't the element of magic, but the element of Kindness, living in that large hollow tree, with her little 'assistant-pet dragon', who was looking at the dusty books. "Why do you have all these books!?" He huffed, crossing his green little arms in a look of disdain as he stared at the dusty old things. Ciaramist grinned at him and patted his head in a fond way. "Oh come on, Emery, it was kind of Princess Celestia to let us stay here...I don't know why she wanted anything to with us...we're just a couple of nobodys from Manehatten." She shook her mane, pondering the thought for a moment. "Oh well." She shrugged and trotted upstairs, watching the sun lowering over the horizon, she yawned, levitating a book over to herself and laying ont he bed, reading it silently. Emery huffed, clearly he had lost her, he stalked over to his bed and sat down, he hated sleep. So he just watched his claws for a while, as if they were going to do something interesting. He got bored, so he jumped up onto Ciaramist, the Element of Kindness who was reading, and jumped a few times, Ciaramist huffed lightly at him. "What!?" She laughed picking him up with her back hooves, and lifting him into the air as if he was a weight. Emery smirked at her. "I'm bored!" He squeaked, flailing his arms as he tried to get down without getting hurt. Ciaramist lowered him down and put down her book on the table beside her bed, standing up. "Well," She began, scratching her head as she trotted downstairs, a wry smile on her muzzle, "What do you want to do?" She asked, nudging open the door with her nose. Emery followed behind her, "Well..." He was cut off as she threw him onto her back and galloped outside, her hair was blowing in the wind, and therefore was in his face, making his head rather itchy and preventing him from seeing a thing. He sighed and decided he might as well relax, this felt like it'd be a long ride.
When the flowing hair finally stopped, Emery sneezed a few times, the hair had made his nose itch, he scratched his head then dismounted Ciaramist. Ciaramist was staring at something, there was a female white pegasus sitting there with a kitten sitting beside her. "I thought we were going to be able to have peace and loneliness." Ciaramist snickered in emery's ear. He huffed and stalked over to her. He stared at her for a moment, tilting his head, she was a snowy white color, with a golden streak in her mane. Her eyes were a light blue, and when she noticed him, she jumped back, her eyes wide. Her kitten was eating a fish, two other silver fish sat beside the kitten. The mare relaxed, they didn't seem to mean harm. She offered Emery a fish, not saying a word until he gave her a confused glance. "Want one...?" She asked quietly, her head low, Emery grinned. "Thank you!" He said, and promptly walked away from everyone. Ciaramist sighed, "Hello." She said, the pegasus stared. "Hi..." She said, a shy essence was about her. She looked around, she hadn't a thing to give to the pony...She sighed, then looked up at the white-and-green pony. "Hi!" Ciaramist grinned, "What are you doing?" She asked, plopping down beside her, her eyes shining happily. "Uhm..." Halo said, but trailed off, looking at the ground, her ears flopped back. "I gotta go..." She murmured, picking up the little tabby kitten and flying off, leaving the fish there. Ciaramist's eyebrows raised, "Strange..." She muttered, and trotted off, shaking her long mane on the way. Her feet hit the ground easily as she walked along, she stopped apruptly as a mare trotted along and promptly stuck her tongue out at her. Ciaramist snorted and trotted off, "The nerve." She huffed, clearly offended, she stuck her nose in the air, annoyed at the mare, and rammed straight into another pony, who laughed so hard she had tears streaming off of her face. "Hehe, you ran into me!" She squeaked, rolling around, Ciaramist stared, "Uh..." A pegasus landed beside the earth pony. "Lavender..." She muttered, her eyes rolling at her.
The three ponies stared at eachother, their eyes wide for a few minutes. "Uh..." The grayish pegasus broke the silence. "Hi." She said, her red eyes glinting in the sunlight. She shook her mane and pushed the earth pony beside her back onto her feet, she was laughing so hard she could hardly stand up straight. Ciaramist smiled, "Hi..." She said, giving the lavender earth pony a strange glance. Once the earth pony finally stopped laughing and smiled. "I'm lavender Joy, and this is Ashley Dusk!" She said, her hair was a rather spikey mess, it looked like a gray-and-white hedgehog struck by lightning. Her tail was short, and Ashley's mane and tail were long, plain, and furry. Just then the small green dragon stalked over, the fish was clearly gone. "Hello, who's this? Where'd the white pegasus go?" He asked, showering Ciaramist with questions. Lavender Joy grinned, "OH! Halo Weave? Uh...I saw her flying thataway." She gestured to the south with her hoof, just then, a pegasus flew from that direction and landed in front of Ciaramist. "Hi...again." She said quietly, shaking herself, "Uh..." She looked at the ground, and pulled out a can of lemon-lime soda and handed it to the unicorn in front of her. "Uh...Thanks?" Ciaramist said, taking it in her hoof and putting it in her saddlebag
There was an awkward silence for a few moments, till of course, Lavender broke it. "HEY! Since we're all here, we should go do something!" Halo looked at her quietly. "But we're not all here, what about- Oh, where are my manners, I'm Halo." She said, extending a hoof to shake Ciaramist's, Ciaramist returned the gesture then nodded. "I'm Ciaramist." She released Halo's hoof and yawned. "Do what now?" She asked Lavender, who grinned and squealed. "A FIREWORKS SHOW!" She said, then rammed playfully into Ashley, who tumbled into Ciaramist, who tumbled into Halo, who tumbled into a teal-and white mare, knocking her over. "What the...Halo!" She huffed, jumping up and dusting off her saddlebag, she was being followed by a purple unicorn with a blue mane. "Hello." She said, levitating the blue mare's saddlebag back onto her back. "I'm Midnight Breeze." She said, then nudged the mare beside her, who huffed, "I, am Crystal Gem." She said to Ciaramist. Oh great, all these mares know eachother, great, I'm the odd mare out. Ciaramist thought, then lifted Emery onto her back. "I'm Cia- CRYSTAL GEM?" She stared at the teal mare. "Yes..is there a pr-" Crystal Gem couldn't finished, Ciaramist tacklehugged her. "I missed you, sis!" She said, then it finally dawned on Crystal, this was her sister, she hadn't seen her in ages. "Why hello, Ciaramist." She said, promptly hugging her then pushing her away, standing up, and yet again dusting off her bag. "Well, what were you wanting, Lavender?" She asked as everypony stood up. "I want you to help me with fireworks!" Lavender squeaked. "I-It's midday, though." Crystal Gem said in shock, her ears flopping, she hated making fireworks, though she would be helpful if needed. "For the summer sun celebration!" Lavender said, giving her a happy smirk, it seemed she had made a new friend, and that meant the world to her, she wanted to please her no matter what.
"A...Fine."
Crystal said, her ears flopped against her head and she sighed. Lavender grinned,
"GREAT!" She squeaked, Ciaramist stared at them...
"Couldn't we just use magic?" She asked awkwardly. Lavender stared at her, obvious shock crossing her face.
"M-MAKE IT STOP!" She howled, getting lots of strange glances from the ponies who passed by. Crystal hid behind Halo, clearly embarassed by her purple friend.
"Was it something I said?" Ciaramist wondered to herself. Lavender huffed and strutted off, keeping a dignified look from the random ponies watching, she was dragging Crystal behind her, she eventually let go and let her walk on her own, but stopped as no one else followed.
"C'mon, let's go to my house!" She howled to the other four, grinning now, seeming to completely forget what Ciaramist had said that had offended her so much. She trotted off towards the dusty stone path, everypony else was huffing as they trotted heavily behind the lavender earth pony.
Ciaramist cleared her throat quietly and trotted behind them, her hooves making a clip-clop sound on the path. She looked around at the houses, there were many of them, and staring out the windows were ponies of all colors, a minty-green unicorn's head was tilted as she watched the newcomer. The moment the minty-green unicorn saw Ciaramist looking at her, she quickly put on a smile and waved a hoof. Ciaramist waved back, then trotted on, keeping at a close pace with her friends.
She glanced at Crystal Gem, and whispered quietly to the blue-and-white unicorn, "Hey...Does she always freak out at the mention of magic?"
Crystal Gem held back a small chuckle. "No, Darling. Only when it has to do with making fireworks." She chuckled now, unable to hold it back.
Halo was giving them a glance, her eyes shined lightly with something that almost seemed to be a warning to them.
Ciaramist looked about at her surroundings and saw a cream-colored earth pony with a pink-and-purple mane trotting along, then she saw a rather tall, bulky, red stallion trotting through, pulling a cart full of apples, she kept moving, till the lavender pony that was leading them stopped upruptly.
"We're here!" Lavender called, gesturing with her pale purple hoof to the door of her home, she shoved it open rather roughly, and a squishing sound. "Whoops! There goes my secret stash of cupcakes." She said in a rather disdainful tone.
"This...Wow." Ciaramist said, there was fireworks everywhere, not to mention several cupcakes scattered about that seemed to be in such quantities that they could feed an army. The walls were dark purple, and had burn marks all over them. Sketches of extreme inventions were strung about, half-finished projects were carefully laid across.The room was a mess, she had clearly shoved her things aside to make a pathway, it wasn't to the extreme that she looked like a hoarder. Actually, it looked more like a child's messy room. Ciaramist coughed lightly, and looked at Lavender, her gaze clearly amused.
"Do you really need to make more?" She asked, her ears flopped lightly, she hoped Lavender wouldn't 'explode' again.
"Well duh!" Lavender grinned, opening a small drawer and pulling out gunpowder. She grinned almost madly and reached into a cupboard and pulled out string to use for a fuse.
"C'mon, Crys!" Lavender smirked gleefully, pulling out a shell to use, then pulling out some sugar, strangely enough, then bounded to another drawer and grabbed some Timberwolf toenails.
Ew... Thought Ciaramist, she was beginning to think she had misjudged her, she wasn't just crazy. This pony was insane.
Lavender Joy then grabbed something that was bright red and glowing, it was a bag, a normal bag, but it was full of a glowing powder. Ciaramist couldn't help but admire it the slightest bit. "What's that?" She asked. Lavender shrugged, "Honestly, I have no idea! It's something I've been finding recently in caves...It's extremely explosive."
"What are we making?" Crystal asked warily, her head drooping almost to the ground, she hated making fireworks, sure, it was beautiful when it went off, but you try making it with a crazy pony who half of the time set it off in the middle of the construction.
"Firecrackers!"
"Oh ponyfeathers."
"C'mon, Crys! I won't set your mane on fire this time!"
Ciaramist started, she was afraid to ask about her mane., she looked at Crystal, who rolled her eyes. Midnight bounced, "Hey, I can help!" She said.
Crystal looked at her gratefully, until Lavender decided she wanted both Crystal and Midnight to help.
Lavender grabbed a few circular pieces of cardboard and took the gunpowder. She shoved it into Crystal's hooves, she jumped, and handles it carefully. Lavender carefully handed the red stuff to Halo, who stared at her, Lavender really wasn't paying attention, she had meant to hand it to Midnight.
"Crystal."
"Yes?"
"You're breathing too hard."
Crystal huffed, this pony may not have seemed all that bright, but when she focused, she was gonna focus.
She did a few adjustments to the shell, then held it upright. "Crystal, gunpowder- carefully." She added, pointing to the shell with the hoof she wasn't using to hold it up. Crystal poured the gunpowder carefully into it, until Lavender told her to stop.
"What do you want me to do with this?" Halo asked, she had a quiet nature, Ciaramist had seen that from the time she first met her, she seemed sensitive to her.
Lavender's focus immediately snapped. "Uh...Give it to Midnight, please." She said,
Halo did as asked. Lavender then looked back to her fireworks, "Midnight, pour some- carefully, mind you, into the shell." She said simply, and Midnight did as told, the whole thing exploded.
"PONYFEATHERS!" Crystal jumped back off of the wooden chair, holding her mane in her hooves.
Lavender bursted. "OOPS!" She guffawed. "I forgot to seperate them!" She squealed.
They repeated the process, and they finally got it right.
"OHHHH YEAH!" Lavender squeaked as she shoved it onto the shelf, her eyes wide with absolute joy.
"How about now we make some smoke bombs?" Lavender practically squealed, and Crystal drooped again.
It was a long process, they made five firecrackers, twelve smokebombs, and two fountains,
Both Halo and Ashley fell asleep during the process, which was understandably, but Ciaramist was particularly interested in the process.
Lavender trotted over to Ashley and Halo, Ashley was sleeping on the ground, and Halo had settled herself on Lavender's couch, she grinned mischeviously, she left Halo alone, considering she was more the sensitive type.
"WAKEY-WAKEY, ASH!" She howled in Ashley's ear. Ashley shrieked and clung to the ceiling, everyone then had a good laugh, except Halo, who still slept peacefully.
