Chapter 35: An Angel Explanation
Phillip POV:
I froze at that simple statement. Then both of the princesses and I all asked at once. "He's the what!?" Discord looked nervous and repeated himself. "he is now the embodiment of the angle of destruction." That was all I heard before I exploded at him. "YOU BROUGHT ME HERE TO FIGHT A FUCKING ANGEL!? And what in this world do you think I can do against something like that!? I am just a human! Fighting an angel is way out of my league!" Discord shook his head and looked hopeful for once since I showed up.
"Actualy you are more than that, and that's why you can fight him and hopefully win! I am sure you all saw those wings of his! Those are the wings of another angel of this world!. The only one that can fight that thing!" It was Celestia that spoke up quietly. "the angel of hope?" Discord nodded happily. "Yes! Phillip here is now the embodiment of the angel of hope. Congrats my boy you are stronger then you realize." That's when a fireball hit him in the face making him stumble back in confusion. "Never call me your boy. I still would rather you be dead right now. Now please explain what is going on and how all this shit happened, please."
Celestia stepped forward and started to speak in a worried tone. "There is a story older then even my sister and I about a battle that has raged between to beings of power called the angels. One was the angel of destruction and wanted nothing more then that of this world. He wanted nothing but destruction and sadness and pain in this world. The other was the opposite of him. He was the angel of hope. One that wanted to build up this world and wanted happiness and this world to thrive. As it was told, they both arrived in this world from another, much as you did Phillip, and they never saw eye to eye, so they fought."
Celestia took a breath and continued. "It is said that their first battle caused havoc on this world and only when the angle of hope won did the raves of this world begin to grow and thrive as they do today. But even though the angel of hope won, he died for his efforts. And from that day on the two angels have been shown to take over the bodies of different creatures and fight to the death. This world is never the same after their fights are through. Either there is a long time of prosper or a great time of war and conflict. Such as the last time they showed up." The sisters and even Discord looked both nervous and sad at the mention of the experience.
"So what happened then?" my question broke Celestia out of her trance and she began again after looking at me. "Destruction took over the body of one of Discords kind, and Hope took the body of our father. That was when the war between the chaos race, as they were known then, and the alicorns started. They fought threw armies and then faced off when a stale mate was caused. Destruction won barely but died before he could make more trouble, Hope had caused a tie in that fight by giving his life and the life of his host to stop his enemy in his tracks. But why they have chosen now to fight again is beyond me. It has always taken longer between the fights than this."
Discord stepped up and spoke. "Because of that tie. Destruction can't stand the fact that he didn't win that fight and wants revenge as soon as possible. But this isn't the first time hes attacked and failed, which is making him even more dangerous." Celestia looked confused. "What do you mean?" Discord sighed. "I may have been trapped in stone but even you had to feel its presence when nightmare moon arose." There was silence as Luna and Celestia looked at him in horror as he went on. "He tried to take over Luna as revenge to your father for killing his vessel but the elements that were made by hope sent her to the moon, postponing his win, then your student destroyed nightmare and making him get evicted from her. So he had to wait and grow his strength once again before finding a host much like his original body and taking hold of him."
Then Discord pointed to Phillip. "And that's why I brought you here. if this was the first vessel species then Destruction will be at his strongest since then. So our only hope of beating him was brining an even stronger vessel of the same species here for the Hope and hope that Hope found Phillip here. and luckily he did and has taken hold and is growing stronger with everyone that Phillip helps and learns from. So that was why I brought you here. And why I sent those others for you to face. To make you fight smarter and harder for when it will be needed."
I was speechless. I had no clue how I was supposed to save anyone. But then FlutterShy spoke up. "Yes he is learning and growing every day from when he came here, but that has not come from killing those humans! He has shown his real strength from when he was saving others and showing happiness and giving others hope! He may need to learn to fight, I understand that part, but was using other humans really the best answer for that?" Discord shrugged. "I didn't know if Hope would take hold and when it did how it would grow stronger. So I sent a bit of everything at him to see what would work, but as I saw I went to far. Besides from what I saw humans were used to hurting each other so at the time I did think that would be the easiest way to train him. I might have been wrong on that aspect."
"NO SHIT!" my shoulders went to flames as I looked at him. "Hey all powerful dumbass, did you ever stop to think that the best way to strenghthen an angel called Hope with, oh I don't know, HOPE! Instead of anger and sadness!? You sending those humans only made me feel weaker and more and more without the one thing that this stupid angel need to get stronger!" I face palmed and tried to calm down as I saw the dumb struck face of Discord. "Ok in high sight I should have guessed that but honestly I am still very new to the having hope and happiness thing myself. But at least I did one thing right from the beginning."
I looked at him angry and asked what that was. His answer was to point at FlutterShy. "I put you where I knew she would find you. I knew she would be nice enough to take a crazy thing like you in, so at least I did that much right. She helped save me a while back so why couldn't she do the same for you? And as I knew she would she helped you face everything. Though I am sorry about the hoof. I was planning on stopping him myself before your rabbit got hurt but then Phillip took care of it. and I must thank you for saving her after she was hurt. I had no clue what to do but you did."
I sighed and nodded. "I didn't do it for you, but I am glad I knew what to do all the same. You are lucky you choose someone that liked to read from my world or I wouldn't have been able to help her at all. So lets make a deal right now. You will NOT bring any more humans to this world ever again! do you understand?" he nodded. "But then what are you going to do?" I sighed and stretched my muscles turning into a standing fireball. "I am going to save the ones I care about from your jack ass mistake."