Disclaimer: I do not own My little Pony or Hasbro! (Or Lauren Faust!)

This story is a sequal to The Spirit of Chaos, so I highly recommend you read that first. Actually, you need to read that first in order to understand.

Twilight awoke from her slumber, and stretched each of her hooves in turn. Yawning, she sat up…and promptly fell off the couch onto something brown and furry.

Her eyes opening wide, she visible tensed, only to relax when she saw the light blue feathers in front of her. "Are you going to sit on me all day? Or are you going to get up?" A slightly grumpy, but teasing voice aroused her from her thoughts. "Sorry…" she grumbled, hopping off Discord. Stretching her stiff wings, she walked slowly over to a bookshelf, and, without caring which book it was, picked one, and started to read.

She found the book very hard to read however. "Is there a particular reason that you're reading the book backwards and upside down?" Discord asked, hovering in front of her, an amused look on his face. Twilight blinked several times, before readjusting the book. "Sorry." She said again. "I guess I didn't get much sleep last night."

"Understatement." Discord commented. "You were awake half the night, just gazing through the window upstairs." "I was?" Twilight asked, completely confused. "I don't remember." "I wasn't done." Discord said. "Plus, you got up in the middle of the night to read." "I did?" Twilight asked again. Resisting the urge to facepaw, Discord picked Twilight up, and plopped her down on the couch.

"Sllllleeeeeep…." He commanded, waving his paw and talon in front of her face, wearing a ridiculous expression on his face. Twilight giggled. "Slllleeeeeeeeeep…." He commanded again, this time, waving his tail in front of her face like a pendulum. Twilight laughed.

"You're not sleeping!" Discord said, pointing an accusing talon at Twilight. "Duh!" Twilight said. "How can I sleep when you're making ridiculous faces, and using your tail as a pendulum?" The new alicorn hopped off the couch, and passed Discord, desperately wanting breakfast.

After she walked into the kitchen, she levitated two slices of bread out of the cupboard, and then some daisy's and a couple of hoofuls of grass. She assembled the sandwich, and took a large bite. Chewing thoughtfully, she thought about what she wanted to do with the rest of her day, when she heard a loud thud come from upstairs. "RAINBOW!" She yelled, abandoning her sandwich, and flying up the stairs, and making a sharp turn into the bathroom.

A very disheveled Rainbow Dash had crashed through the window, and was lying on the floor. "Rainbow!" Twilight was about to start a lecture when she saw the look on her friend's face. Her face was tear streaked, and contorted with pain and horror.

Twilight noticed that one of her wings was bent the wrong way, and that her mane was streaked with blood. "What happened?" Twilight asked, her voice ending in a shriek. Without waiting for an answer, her horn began to glow a bright purple, and Rainbow Dash's wing righted itself. The blood faded from her mane, and her coat went back to being sleek and shiny.

"Princess...Celestia!" Rainbow choked out. At the mention of her teacher's name, Twilight froze. Her wings fell limply to her sides. "What about her?" Rainbow paused. "I'm not sure if I'm the right pony to tell you this!" "Rainbow! Tell me!" Rainbow Dash took a deep breath, and then spoke. "Princess Celestia has turned into Nightmare Moon! Just more firey….and white and orange!

Twilight swayed on her hooves, trying to conceive this information. She felt a presence behind her, and Discord steadied her. "We have to get to Canterlot as soon as possible!" Rainbow continued. "Allow me." Discord said, and with a snap of his fingers, the three were gone.

A bright flash of light in the Canterlot palace caused the panicking guards to shield their eyes. "Miss Sparkle!" One of them yelled, after the momentary blindness had passed. "Where is Princess Celestia?" Twilight yelled at the nearest one. "I…In the Element of Harmony safe!" A guard with a sword and shield cutie mark said, in a stuttering voice.

Without a moment's pause, Discord, Twilight and Rainbow took to the air, and sped off. They reached the long hallway in a matter of minutes. "Stay here." Twilight warned her two friends. Discord began to protest, but Twilight cast a spell that turned his mouth into a zipper, like the time she had done it to Spike with Trixie.

Twilight flew in, slamming the door shut behind her. A tall alicorn was standing at the end of the long hall, her mane and tail shimmering with flames. She had all the same armor of Nightmare Moon, except it was golden. Her eyes had turned to catlike slits, and the color had shifted to amber.

Twilight gulped. "Ahh…" The alicorn said in a silky voice, that seemed to ripple through the room. "Twilight Sparkle…my faithful student. And the Element of Magic if I'm not mistaken." "I'm not your student!" Twilight spat, flaring her wings, in an attempt to look intimidating.

The alicorn merely chuckled. "Tell me your name." Twilight demanded. The white alicorn took flight, circling around the room, setting the long curtains on fire, with a mere flap of her wings. "My name? No one has thought to ask me that yet…My name is Solar Blaze."

Solar Blaze landed in front of Twilight. "However, unlike my sister, I do not wish to imprison the ponies in an eternal day, merely rule over Equestria with an iron hoof!" To make her hoof, Blaze slammed her hoof down on the ground. A small flame shot up from where it had touched.

"Can't you imagine it Twilight?" Solar Blaze placed a wing over Twilight's shoulder. Twilight instinctively tried to move away, but found she could not move. "A land, ruled by a queen fit for the throne! A land of fire, and solar energy!"

"You're insane!" Twilight snapped, pulling herself away from Blaze. "Insane? No…" Blaze said, a small frown on her face. The frown quickly turned into a grin. "However…I am despicable!" With a flap of her wings, a ball of fire consumed Twilight.

She screamed, and quickly summoned up a water spell to douse the flames. However, the flames refused to die down. The last thing Twilight saw was Solar Blaze disappear in a tornado of flame.