Chaos and Harmony
CHAPTER 1; Tails of Histoy
It was told in a story, a story so old that no pony even knows of it anymore, the origin of Harmony and its brother Chaos. The tail speaks of six gods banding togeather to stop six demons, and in doing so set forth a destiney eons in the making.
Fluttershy walked gracefully threw the Everfree forest searching for her lost pet rabbit Angel Bunny. "Angel... Angel!... oh where are you my little..." Fluttershy stopped talking as she cought movement in the corner of her eyes. "Angel, is that you?" There was another rustling as a smell filled the air, like something roting, and a low grumbling filled her ears. 'Low growl like sounds, terrible smell... Oh no!'
Fluttershy werled around and found three timber wolves standing behind her, there was someing odd about them however. For starters they were four times the size of a regular timber wolf, as though an entire pack was disassembled and reformed into these three. The second was that even as they were they looked ragged and torn up, too tired to really be of a threat but still able to spot an easy meal when they see one. "O-oh m-m-my," Fluttershy wimppered as the wolves closed in.
Before the timber wolves could strike a figure jumpped before Fluttershy. It was a large fox, a very large fox, easily the same size as her if not bigger. His coat was snow white with a burning red mane like tuft of hair on his head and eyes as vibrant green as any forest. The most interesting thing about this fox however was that he had a cutie mark on his flank, a black, clawed paw print.
The timber wolves instantly backed off as though they were fightened by the fox. The largest of the three stepped forward to try to be empossing however the fox's fur raised as a hissed growl escaped him. That was all it took to get the wolves to cower and run off. The fox's fur instantly relaxed as he turned to Fluttershy, he stared her down for a moment before asking, "Are you alright?" his voice soft though monotoned.
Fluttershy was quite suprised by this however answer his question, "Y-yes I am, they didn't have a chance to attack me before you stepped in and scared them off." A soft smile crepted across his face, "Good." he said just before his eyes glazed over and he collapsed on the ground. Fluttershy gasped as she ran to him and looked him over. The fox was covered in cuts and bruses. Unsure of what she could do Fluttershy gingerly lifted him, strugggling with his weight the whole time, and flew off in the direction of her cottage.
"What do you supose Fluttershy wants to talk to us about?" Rainbow Dash asked. "I havn't a clue." Applejack said as she troted along next to her. Rarity hummed to herself as she thought out loud, "She has been quite worried about Angel as of late, you don't suppose... I mean his is getting quite along in his years." Pinkie Pie bounced over Rarity as she said, "Angel is fine, where ever he is, I can tell. The combo for death of a pet is a stabbing hoof pain and then a single tear, neither of which have happened at all."
The other three ponys smiled slightly to one another. It had been five years sense the whole Starlight Glimmer insident and all of Equstria had finally settled down. That being said, very little had changed. The mane six had traveled all over the map, solving problems all the way, Pinkie still bounced every where and Dash was closer than even to acheving her dream of being a Wonderbolt. Rarity and Applejack's buissines' where thriving, in fact Rarity was having trouble keeping her designs in stock and on the rack. The only one who could boast about the amount of personal change was Fluttershy. She, while still shy and not standoffish, had developed her own sense of corage.
As the four mares walked into Fluttershy's cottage they were greeted by a gust of breath and mystic smoke passing them, walking in they spotted the cause of the smoke drift, Spike. Out of everypony Spike was the only one not to have changed. Being a dragon, his growth was stuntted by his refusle of his greed so he was the same size he had been all thoughts years ago despite being much older.
"Heya Spike," Rainbow Dash said, "where's Fluttershy, and what's the big emergency?" Spike looked back up the stairs, "Up there, she got attacked in the forest but was saved by... well just go see for yourself, I gotta go wait for Twilight." he said as he walked out. While the other three walked up the stairs, Rarity reguarded Spike with a bit of interest, he had been acting strange as of late, for the time being however it was Fluttershy that needed her attention.
Rushing up the group of mares found Fluttershy sitting next to her bed with a worried look on her face, there was a large lump in her bed with only a long white tail peeking out. Rarity gasped in suprise, "Fluttershy, darling, who is this? You never told us that you had a boyfriend." Fluttershy blushed deeply as she studdered out, "I-I don't, h-he's not my boyfriend... while I was out in the Everfree forest looking for Angel and was attacked by timber wolves, big ones, if it wasn't for... um, him," she pointed her hoof at her bed, "I wouldn't be here right now."
Pinkie, being Pinkie, hopped over and lifted the tail, followed emediately by her cuddling it, "Wowsers, it's so soft and fluffy!" Without warning the tail wrapped around her like a snake and lifted her into the air, causing gasps to fill the room. A low growl cut threw the gasps as the blanket fell away from the half-asleep fox, "Wait," Fluttershy said quickly, filling him with clarity, "That's Pinkie Pie, she's my friend and won't hurt you." The fox looked up and sighed, "Sorry about that." he said as he loosened his tail but not quite letting her go as he colapsed back on to the bed. Pinkie Pie just giggled as she was tickled by the soft fur as it set her back down.
"Are y'all okay Pinkie? He didn't hurt ya none did he?"Applejack asked as she looked over the pink mare, Pinkie's only giggled. "Of course I'm okay," she said, "with a tail that cushie, there's no way he could have hurt me." The fox sat back up and said, "I am sorry about lashing out, you startled me." Before he could even blink Pinkie was in his face. "Hi, my name's Pinkie Pie," she said as she vigorusly shook his paw, shaking him in the process, "welcome to ponyvile, you're new here so we should totallly throw you a welcome party. With lots of streamers and confetti, oh and..."
Before she could finish her little display, the fox's tail wrapped around Pinkie's mouth to silence her, "My name is Kagebi, or in your language Shadowtail, and while I am grateful for your hospitality I... am not the 'party' type." Kagebi stood and got off the bed, unwrapping his tail from around Pinkie's mouth as he did so and shook like a he was wet, his fur fluffed for a moment before settling back flat on his body. "The truth of the matter is that I am here for a reason. I have come to your village in search of several ponies, the bearers of the elements of harmony and the one known as Discord."
The room was silent for a moment before, and with much suprise from the others, Fluttershy strod forward and spoke in a stern tone, "Why are you looking for Discord, he is my friend and if you are here because of something that he has done to you in the past I feel I must tell you, Discord has reformed. He is no longer the monster ponies thought him to be, and if you are here to to cause him harm you will have to go threw me, the element of kindness." Rainbow Dash stood next to her and said, "And me, the element of loyalty." "Honesty," Applejack growled standing on the otherside of Fluttershy, and Rarity next to her, "Generosity." Pinkie Pie suddenly jumped right infront of Kagebi's face, "And laughter!"
Kagebi only looked apon the group with interest and mild amusment, "You have made a bit of a misconseption, I am not here for revenge of any sort. I have never had an encounter with him personally however..."
It was at this moment that Twilight burst threw the doors, Spike and Princess Luna following closely behind her. Princess Luna's eyes went wide as sausers as they landed on the fox standing besided the bed, her mouth quivered as if it were trying to form words that only died on her tounge. Kagebi, for his part, only narrowed his eyes as his tone lowered, "Hello, Queen Luna." Luna visibly flinched as he spoke, finding it increasinly hard to breath in his presents.
Fluttershy instantly noticed the change in Luna and ran to her side, "Are you all right Princess? Do you know Kagebi?" Tears leaked from the corners of her eyes as she spoke, her voice cracking with almost every word, "No... not him, not directly," she looked up into Kagebi's eyes, "But of his kind, his kind who worshiped me as there queen... who in my avaris and jeolusy I had thought that I had..."
Kagibi focused his eyes on Luna as he said, "I had not planned for this however I don't forsee a better time than now to settle this." Luna looked up threw her tears and said, "In resign myself to what ever punishment you see fit." Kagebi's stare was colder than ice could ever hope to be and when he lunged for her all in the room thought to stop him however such things were not needed because insted of an attack, Luna found herself embraced in a hug, "While I can't, nor will I try to speak for my race, I have forgiven you for your mistakes."
Luna stood stock still as he did this, the only words that made there way out of her mouth were, "I... I don't understand." and even thoughts words took so much effort to form they were almost not understandable, "I attacked your people after the gift they had bestode apon me, I could very well have..." Princess Luna was silenced by a paw over her lip, Kagebi's eyes locking on hers. "I have heard the storys and have see what the elders have shown me however the reason I can forgive you is simply, you were not the only one at fault."
"Umm, not to sound rude or anything but do your mind telling us what the hay you're talking about?" Spike said. Kagebi turned his attention to the little dragon, then to the other six and finally back to Luna. For a long time Luna only looked into his eyes then she closed them and nodded for him to contenue.
"As you may have well guessed," Kagebi said, "I am not an ordinary fox. I am a fox spirit, or as we have been called else where, a demon fox. my kind have been around sense the beganing and have been tasked with the history of all life, but more on that when the time is right." Kagebi's eyes began glowing a bright white as the world around them fadded and reformed as a forest. "My people, though powerful alone, are able to draw power and magic from the moon... espesally the full moon."
All around them foxes walked forward and glowed in the moon that was now right over there heads. "For millenia before the rein of the alicons the power of the moon was irratic and unstable, unpredictable. Then like a goddess, came Queen Luna, the one and only to ever be able to rein in the moon and its magic." As he was speaking and image of Luna walked before them in regal splendor and all the foxes were astounded and began bowing.
"You ponies call here a princess but for my race she was seen as so much more, she was our queen and we her subjects. That however was what started all of the troubles that she has faced. The fox spirits, while prosperious in thoughs times, seldome revield ourselves to ponies. It was not out of fear or spite but simply that our place was in the shadows, watching and recording your history all the while being observant for a matter that I will explain to you momentarily."
Once again the sceneary changed, Luna was sitting on a golden throne in a forest while surounded by foxes. "We charished our queen and showered her in affection, love and praise at her reagal splendor, however because of what I have already said, the times in which we did this were few and far between." Shifting again the image was of Luna sitting next to Celestia. "Queen Luna watched as you ponies praised Celestia for her sunny days while sleeping threw her glorious moonlit nights.
"It was because of this that on the night in which we aproched her to speak of our praise that she confided in us her plight," with another scene shift the world was once again a forest with Luna and the foxes, tears in her eyes. 'My dearest subjects,' she spoke, 'We come not as a princess of Equstria, nor as your queen, but as an artist... a creator of beautiful splendor every single night, why do only you see my night for what it is? Why is it only you who are willing to see it? How... how can we make them see...?'
Time seamed to freeze as Kagebi spoke, "It was at this moment that an act of generosity and loyalty, kindness and joy, honest and pure friendship caused the world to fear for safety, for it was at this moment that my race choose to forego our purpose and give our queen her hearts desire."
Without a word or a single glance at one another, an agreement formed on the faces of all the foxes. The leader, a silver coated fox with a jet black mane stepped forward and spoke in a booming yet claming voice, 'My dear queen, if it would please you and dry your tears, we can show you a power that you can use as you see fit, even the eternal eclipse of the sun.' Time seemed to sprial out of control as Kagebi spoke, "It did not take long for Queen Luna to master the power of shadows, a lost dark art that had the potential to give even an earth pony the magical skill and prowes to overthrow a nation.
"There was however a cost to such power, cruption. If the one using this power were to succumb to there darker nature, it will crupt them and ravage they're minds." With the next shifting scene the viewer watched as luna took in and weilded massive amounts of energy. "It was our own pride and arrogance that kept us form seeing the truth. In our minds you were only one who wished for her subjects to view her masterpieces, we refused to see that you were jealous of your sister who they aknowlleged from the beganing."
The image of Luna examainied herself as she said, 'Tis a most powerful spell, with this we can indeed make night last forever, though it will be our sister that we face,' Luna turned to the fox cheif, 'thou art positive that we shall be victorious?' The fox chief mearly bowed as he said, 'It will indeed my Queen,' Luna looked around once again as a vile smile crossed her face, 'Perhaps we should put our new found power to the test...' 'My Queen?' the cheif asked. Luna suddenly turned towards him as darkness flowed from her eyes.
Before any thing more could be shown the image fadded away, Kagebi suddenly colapsing on to the floor, Fluttershy was of course the first one at his side. "Kagebi, are you alright?" she asked worriedly. Kagebi, for his part, seemed to recover quickly but still fell onto the bed, "I am, thank you. It has been a long trip, made all the longer by my run in with the timberwolves. That in addition to the energy it took to cast an illusion of that calliber was more that I could handle at the moment."
Fluttershy pulled the blanket back over him as she softly spoke, "It's alright, you just need more sleep, I'm sure what ever it is that you need to tell us can wait until..." "No... thank you but this simply can not..." Kagebi's little argument was silentced by a hoof pushing him back down and a look from Fluttershy that froze his blood and locked every one of his nerves and mucles. "You will sleep and we will talk in the morning." she said stonely, the only thing Kagebi could manage was a slight nod in agreement. The instant the door closed Kagebi's face turned scarlet, "Well, that was diffrent..." he said as an odd smile crossed his face.
Okay author note; this if my first MLP fanfic so if you're a brony or pegisister and you see something off in the personallitys let me know, just be sure to really pay attention as the story progresses. The first few chapters will be a bit hard to follow along with but I am expecting a big pay out later, tying all the seemingly loose end togeather. I'm not sure just how long it's going to take me or how long inbetween posts so just bear with me. Enjoy!
