When Discord and Payton arived in the past, she was dizzy from what felt like eternity on the way Discord chose to take them. They were in what looked like an underground study. It had tons of books and scrolls, Payton was facinated.
"ahem, Who Are you?" Said an older voice. It belonged to an older grey unicorn with a long beard, who was in a blue cape with stars.
She paniked when she saw that Discord wasn't there any more, "Oh me?" she was so nervous, "Im Payton, im from the future, Discord brought me here, he is reformed by the way." the unicorn stared at her with a questioning look, "I'm actually a human…" she explained, the unicorn went from confused to intrequed.
"Ok so Sombra is back, and you want to reform him like you did with…" he looked around, "Discord, you can come out, I know you're here" Discord reapeared with his arms crossed " As I was saying, you want to reform him, but you dont know how. I have something for that, and the one that is the most powerful, needs chaos magic, and your in luck!" the old pony smiled as he pointed his hoof at the Draquoniquis. They followed him through many corridors and into a dusty room clearly not used in many years. he spent several minutes looking for a scroll.
"A ha! Found it!" he yelled cheerfully, " Its simple, after you get the giant bronze jar! Maybe I have one!" Starswirl checked around the room, "Nope! But Discord probibly could summon one."
A sound of hoofsteps sourrounded them "Starswirl? Are you Here?" It was younger Princess Celestia.
"Yes! Hold on a second! Just helping out some… Old friends!" he yelled back. Payton knew that this was their Kew to leave. Discord Snapped and the pair were back at the crystal tree palace with the scroll.
Payton rushed into the throne room, "I GOT IT! We dont have to put him into another world!" the grey alicorn startled the bunch, "We need a few things, but we can do it! The hard part, is… we have to capture Sombra."
She put the scroll on the table for them to examin. "This is very interesting. Discord will have a big part to play!" Twilight said cheerfuly. Luna and Celestia didn't look so sure. Payton Didn't know about discords recent betrial, so she was confused why they didn't want him to help.
"Gah!" Payton groaned, there was a splitting pain from her horn down her back, into her wings and down the rest of her spine, "Im going to go… lay down… bye Luna, Celestia…" she walked down the hall sleepily, and into her room. She Flew up onto her top bunk and passed out.
A Shadow crept through the open window. It climbed the wall over the sleeping alicorn. It spoke:
"Sleep now Princess, Fall to the shadows." Payton squirmed in her sleep, "You may think you have the upper hand,but I will tell you, your just one step behind." the shadow fell back and dissapeared, but it left a small gift. A silver lined sapphire was at the foot of her bed.
Hours later, Payton woke up. "Huh? Mom? Oh I'm still here… Whats that?" she spied the gem, and picked it up with her hoof, "A gem?..." she dropped it when its started glowing. She hopped down, from her bed, and grabbed a saddle bag to put a couple of books and the gem in. The pony went out of her room and borrowed some bits from Discord.
"Hey Twilight! I'm going out for a little to explore, I won't go past the town line! Be Back in a couple of hours! Bye!" she bounded out the castle doors, and out onto the street.
Payton got a few stares and looks of worry on her way. She was so lost in thought, that she didn't notice the two pegisi land beside her.
"Hey Princess! Twilight sent me to stay with you. I hope you don't mind, but i brought my friend Sax with me." Sax raised a hoof in hello, "So want to go to Sugarcube Corner? They have great pasteries!"
"Ok" they rounded the corner, and there was a building made of so many treats, Payton couldn't comprehend. They were seated, and a blue pony with pink swirled hair. She took their orders.
Little did they know, they were being folowed. A grey unicorn was looking at the local paper. An untouched cup of coffie was on the table where he sat. He looked over at the trio, focousing on the obivious alicorn.
He cracked a wicked smile, "I will have you soon. Fear the shadows. My… Daughter." he dissapeared with a small poof of black mist.
Paytons POV
We flew back to the castle after finding nothing in the book. Me being who I was, had a random thought:
Would I be able to use my magic and wings at home?
Of course not! Dont be rediculious! said a voice in my head. I assumed it was my concence.
Celestia and Luna were long gone, so I just went into my room. I curled up in by bed and read a book called "The Shadow Age" I found nothing. Page after page, after page. Still nothing. My patience was begining to waver. But then, i found it.
A wax sealed page. I gasped as I used my magic to open it. The title on the secret page was "The Sapphire Key". This might be it! I read on. I wasn't sure about it, until I used my found gem as a reference. sure enough it was the key peice to a silver and crystal key.
It was said to have the power to unlock any door, even locked hearts. The key could open even Celestia's highest security vault, (Of which I really want to see.) The only problem was…
"Where are the other peices?" I thought out loud. Maybe the bronze jar wouldn't work, unless we had this! Starswirl had missed somthing! A little part of me knew tha none of this could be that easy. Sombra was setting us up for an attack.
After hours of studying the page in the book, i went to show Twilight. "Excuse me, Twilight? I think I found Somthing."
"What?" she looked at me with a worried look, like I'd just found her personal diary.
"Its called The sapphire key." I explained to her about the secret page, and the gem left on my bed.
Discord walked in and looked at the gem, "Is that… Thats what I think it is." he looked genuinly startled, " It has traces of dark magic, have you had any nightmares lately?"
"Yeah, earlier when I took a nap."
"We need to get you-" he was interupted by a gust of wind.
"You can't fool me… Come my daughter, let us rue this land… Together" Sombra rasped as he turned into a pony. I'm not going to lie, I was terrified. I love the dark, but ghosts, spiders, and things that are all around creepy are by biggest fears.
I decided to break that wall, but you would think I'm brave. It was one of the stupidest things I've ever done. "NO! I will NEVER join you! Your evil! And you will never be my FATHER!" I don't know what happened, but I cast a spell. I know what you thinking, "Oh She cast a spell! BIG DEAL!" Well, the spell I cast was just like a small blast of the elements of harmony. Except, the blast was blue, purple, and silver.
Sombra was dicintigrted with a blast of my magic. I was left unconcious on the floor.