The Aurorians: Rise and Fall

The Dragon king Kirin Ch.2

He sits on his throne, a full moon casting its light through the ceiling in front of him.

He shouts for his servant in a dinning tone, echoing the hallways with fear for who he calls.

“DISCORD! Where are you? I demand you to be in my presence! AT! ONCE!”

Discord turns his head round a corner, looking at his master in panic, his eyes shot with fear by the sight of his master´s glowing red piercing eyes and the shadow of a beast of guttering flames behind him.

“Um…yes, Master Kirin?”

“Discord, come closer! I have an important question to ask you…”

Discord walks closer to his master, into the light of the full moon. He suddenly remembers that his master is weaker at full moon and sighs in relief, but still nervous about the question his master wants to ask.

He had a slight inkling of what this question could be…

“What is that I heard about ponies escaping from one of the mines?”

Discord stands in a positive manner and scratches under his chin.

“Oh, it’s no big deal, Master Kirin. The dragons at the mine managed to catch all the ponies…all but one blue male...”

“Well, then where is this blue one that got away, Discord?”

Discord relaxes a bit more, creates a couch in front of him and lies down on it, not worrying for anything his master will do. “Well one of the dragons reported that he went tumbling down a hill and into a raging river. We are sure he couldn’t have survived.”

Kirin begins staring at discord in disapproval.

“Did they ever find his body?” he questions in a darker tone.

Discord begins scratching his back with a hand of his floating behind his back. “Nah! Wasn’t worth the trouble for one pony. We are absolutely sure he is dead”

“Enough of this foolishness you are presenting me Discord!”

“Oh, I just want to have some fun! Like the good old times we had with your brother, my master.”

Kirin’s shadow reaches out, formed like a claw and grabs Discord at his throat, making the couch vanish into thin air. Kirin’s shadow chokes Discord’s neck, making his eyes bulging out of his head. Kirin’s shadow brings Discord closer, face to face with Kirin.

“You may think that right now I am powerless to hurt you Discord…” he began in a threatening voice “…but my shadow knows if I tend to not like something! It will not like it either. Its power that I have in my control tends to have a mind of its own on these full moons. It can be hard to control.”

Discord begins to snap his fingers to try to teleport away, but somehow he can’t manage to do so.

“Don’t think that you can escape from me and those powers!” he shouted.

Discord begins to grab at the shadowy figure’s claw around his neck to loosen its grip but can’t manage to get a hold of the shadow beast’s grip on him. His hand just passes through it.

“Don’t you remember how you got those powers in the first place?”

Discord begins pointing at his mouth trying to signal Kirin that he wants to speak.

Kirin’s shadow loosens his grip slightly, but only enough for Discord to speak a few short bursts of words.

“I... remember...”

“I gave you those powers to keep control, not chaos. Got it?”

Discord nods in agreeing manner.

Kirin loosens his grip on Discord and throws him to the ground with a dismissive movement.

“Then we are good. Don’t ever do your chaotic messes in front of me again! Clear?”

He looks at Discord lying on the floor, gasping for air to speak a few words.

“Y-yes, my master…loud and clear…”

Kirin grins evil. “Good! If we are clear about this matter being resolved, I want you to search for that missing pony from the mine. If he is still alive, destroy him!”

Discord speaks back at Kirin, disagreeing. “But master, we are absolutely sure that he i-”

“If you disobey me again, I will make sure that YOU are the destroyed one!” Kirin cut in, yelling at the dragonequus in front of him.

“But master Kirin, we are-”

Kirin’s shadow begins to stretch out his claw to grab Discord again but suddenly stops to listen to what Discord has to say through his fear.

“Y-y-yes master…I-I will do as you say…j-just don’t hurt me, please!”

“That is what I want to hear from you Discord. Now, listen and then do as I say!”

“What is it that you wish, master?”

“Search this pony until the next full moon’s rise! If you don´t find it, whether it´s alive or dead, you can stop. You hear?”

Discord bows down to Kirin “Yes master! As you wish…”

Kirin looks down upon Discord, scrutinizing him. “Anything else you want to know, Discord?” he asked after a while, leaning back on his throne.

“May I ask why it is that important to find a single meaningless pony, my master?”

Kirin cringes unnoticeable at his question. “The reason you have to find this pony and destroy it, Discord, is that he may be the one to make the lands of the dragons, Sirrush, and myself fall to his rise. It maybe will bring freedom to the ponies that we withheld in these lands.”

Discord brings his head up slowly, surprised about his master´s words. “Really, master?” he asked in disbelief. “How could only one pony make the land of the dragons fall?”

Kirin looks down at Discord. “The reason, Discord, is that I betrayed my brother and his treaty. It may have had more dire consequences then I thought.” He pauses for a second and cringes. “The reason why I say this, Discord is that I know of a force that can tell the future. The time rhythm always is changing.”

Discord is amazed from what he heard. “What is this force that can tell the future, my master?”

“I am not going to tell you about this force. It only reveals itself onto others like me.” Kirin replied harsh and annoyed of the dragonequus´ curiosity.

Discord bows his head to his master trying not to annoy him any further. “Then could you at least tell me what this unknown force told you?”

“It told me of a fate that I shall lose my powers because of one simple pony who gains his freedom on a full moon like this night. I will be sealed away and not awake until I am freed, only to discover that the lands will be ruled by inferior ponies.”

Kirin’s shadow grabs his throne, his anger increasing. “This force also told me that when I´m freed, I will wage a war against them all. However, I will lose to a power that is more powerful than you and me, Discord!”

Discord is a little uneasy about these words.

“Why don’t we wipe out all these ponies and solve the problem?” he suggested.

Kirin looks at Discord. “That would be a foolish move. You see, they keep the planet alive. They are the life force for this world. If we got rid of them all then we will slowly die off and this world will never harvest life again.”

Discord nods to this. “I understand, my master, but did this force tell you anything else?”

“It also told me this, Discord: That if I can´t escape my fate, you will have a similar one, but a banishment that will last a terribly long time.”

Discord can’t believe what he is hearing. “Is there anything that we can do to stop this?”

“You can go now and find this one pony and destroy it so that we won’t have to worry about this prophecy coming true anymore...” Kirin suggested with a slightly menacing voice.

Discord bows one more time and gets up, walking out of the room and picks up a pink object from around the corner, which has a strange hat on it and a ball and screw with a mark on it. Kirin notices Discord picking up this object and knows what it is.

“I changed my mind about destroying you, Discord! If you disobey me again, I instead will have your pet taken away from you and you will never see her again…”

Discord stops, pauses, and stands where he is, muttering a few cursing words. He looks back to Kirin sternly.

“Yes, master…I understand…”