Chapter one: Discord returns (Twilight's story)
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Chapter one: Discord returns (Twilight's story)
It was just another normal bright sunny day in Equestria, the birds were chirping and spike was lying in his bed snoring away. Twilight slowly opened her eyes and stepped out of bed. She opened the window and took a breath of the clean fresh air, smelling the beautiful roses and sunflowers she had planted around her shop. She walked down the stairs and turned over when she heard the bell on her door ring.
"Who could be here this early?" she thought but she saw her answer right before her eyes. One of the Princess's guards was standing right there with a look of sheer terror upon his face.
"T-Twilight Sparkle!? The Princess must talk to you right away, it is of the utmost urgency!" He shouted.
"Okay! I'll head their right away." Twilight said after a moment of trying to get over the shock of what she just heard. Her horn lit up and she was instantly teleported away into the throne room of the princess. "Princess? Whats going on?"
"Twilight! Thank goodness you are here! Discord... I'm afraid he has returned to Equestria!"
"W-What!?" Twilight shouted.
"Quickly! You must tell your friends! He has learned of your power in the past and will now be ready! The sooner we can get rid of him the better!" and with that Twilight teleported back to town and woke up Spike.
"wuzgoingon?" Spike asked with a yawn.
"Spike! Discord is back! I need you to go tell Rarity and Applejack! Ill go tell Rainbow Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie."
"What? How is he back?"
"No time to explain Spike! Just hurry!" Twilight burst out into a run to tell her friends, Pinkie Pie ran inside to tell the cakes what was going on and then she was off to the library to wait for the others. Fluttershy nearly fainted out of pure shock, but Twilight finnaly got her back up so she could go tell Rainbow considering she was the only one who could get to her cloud house. When Twilight got back she saw all her friends in there talking about what was going on. She ran into the middle of them and yelled. "Everyone prepare yourself! I havent teleported more than me and Spike before so im not sure how this will end up!" Her horn lit up once again and all of them were instantly transported into the throne room.
"Good you are all here! Luna was found in a state of pure shock this morning when she was out in the castle garden... She said Discord's statue broke open once again and he darted out heading straight for Phillydelphia... If im right he should be heading this way right..." There was a sudden crash and Discords head popped straight through the celing of the palace. "now..."
"Well hello once again everypony! I do hope that i didnt ruin any get together!" Discord said with a smug grin.
"Discord!" all of them shouted at once.
"Yes, yes, we all know what my name is, oh and good news Celestia! I've learned the trick to you trapping me! So now if im ever stuck in that stone prison again i could get out within a matter of seconds!"
"W-What!?" Celestia said taking a step back. Discord smiled a satisfied grin and then let the rest of his body drop through into the stone room.
"Now then if any of you want to talk to me I shall be atop the mountain of ponyville creating my new chaotic world!" He laughed and went straight through the roof once more.
"What are we to do now!?" Celestia yelled and stomped her hoof to the grond.
"Princess... I know something that will work... But we have to get there quickly..." Twilight said, turning to her friends. "you five go find the elements... Knowing Discord he probably just left them in the same place as last time, considering he knows that he can just break back out of the stone prison."
"Twilight... you dont mean..." the princess began
"Hang on a second princess." Twilight whispered to her. "I'll be with you girls in a few seconds... I just need to talk to the princess for a few minutes." The five mares turned and left, the door closing behind them.
"Twilight... Please tell me you arent talking about THE spell??"
"I...Im afraid i am princess..."
"Twilight you musnt! Do you have any idea how badly it will hurt your friends!?"
"I'm sorry princess but it must be done... We dont have time to stall anymore... I'll miss you princess."
"Twilight wai...!" But twilight had already teleported herself back to her library where her friends were waiting with the elements of harmony.
"Okay girls... got them?" Twilight asked with a single tear falling from her eye.
"Ya... Why are you crying twi?" RainbowDash asked looking conserned.
"Its nothing... We just need to get going okay?" Twilight said rubbing her eye with her hoof.
"Twilight its okay you can tell us." Applejack said putting one of her front hooves on twilights shoulder
"Im fine! We just need to go okay!?" Twilight said a bit frustrated. She turned away before any more protest could be made and bolted for the mountain on the edge of ponyville.
"Oh! So you did come! What are you going to do? Lock me away again?" Discord said laughing mockingly at them.
"Girls get ready..." They all floated into the air, she turned to them and said "Im sorry" and bolted forward so she was straight face to face with Discord. When RainbowDash realized what she was doing she let out a roar of protest
"No! Twilight! There has to be another way!" she screamed.
"Im sorry but i dont think there is" She said and then her horn lit up and there was a loud scream and a cry of defeat. They fell to the ground and turned to see Twilights body laying on the floor barely moving, and behind it a pile of ash where Discord was previously standing. There was a bright green light and suddenly Princess Celestia appeared.
"No! I-Im to late..." The princess said a tear falling from her eyes. "Twilight..." Twilight gave a sudden bulge and all of them rushed over to her to see if she was okay.
"Girls... I want to thank you for helping me so many times... Im sorry it has to end like this... But discord has to be stopped... Ill miss you all... But one last thing..." She coughed up a spout of blood. "I want to thank you for being my friends..." Her head fell to the side and they knew that she was gone...
Twilight slowly acended the Mountain of Harmony, the mountain that got its name from the 6 mares that took out Discord once and for all atop this mountain. She was here to see her friends for the first time in 10 years. She had been afraid to face her friends after whatt heppened when Discord was defeated, she was too afraid they would be angry with her. She then saw them, RainbowDash, Fluttershy, Rarity, Applejack, and Pinkie Pie. All of them were standing there smiling at her, but then again, they never really stopped smiling anymore. She felt a tear run down the side of her cheek as she began to speak to them.
"I...I'm so sorry!" She shouted. "I just couldnt face you after what happened! Please dont be mad at me..." her tears began to fall to the ground but there was no splash from them, they just evaporated into the ground as though passing straight through it. "I should have listened to you Rainbow! You were right...one of my books mentioned another spell that could have stopped Discord...But i didnt think we could stall anymore for me to find it! I'm sorry... I was afraid if i stalled anymore one of you could have gotten seriously hurt... I just had to... Please forgive me..." She looked over her 5 friends... each frozen still and wearing a amulet around their neck... and then her eyes met upon herself. Wearing the crown to represent the element of magic in the middle of all her friends. Below them was the plaque... The same plaque she had read time and time again... "Here lie the 6 elements of harmony and the true friends of not only everypony they knew... But to all of Equestria... Twilight Sparkle, RainbowDash, Fluttershy, Rarity, Applejack, and Pinkie Pie... may their eternal slumber be peaceful and harmonious." Suddenly Twilight heard a voice...
"Its okay Twilight! Just hurry up so we can get on with your welcome party!!" Twilight knew that voice... It was Pinkie Pie! Her friends werent mad at her after all!
"Okay Pinkie" Twilight said, a smile starting to spread accrossed her face. "Im on my way... I just have to do one thing..." She turned and ran as fast as she could to the library and walked straight through the door to see Spike still handling the library just fine on his own. Granted however, he did have a bit of help from the others after Twilight passed on in adjusting to handling it. He was just getting into bed as he looked up at the picture of twilight he made and mounted right over his bed.
"Goodnight Twilight." He said "I love you."
Twilight bent down and kissed the baby dragon on his forhead "I love you too Spike." then in a sudden wisp of wind Twilight's soul was off to join her friends once again.