Chaos, Order and Harmony.
Chapter 3: A story from long ago.
(Authors notes: Well ,chapter 3 \(^o^)/
Just keep on going! Oh, and if you can please review and stuff, I'm just a newbie at , and I need all the help I can get!)
Long, ago, when Equestria was blossoming into a new land for ponies of every type, Earth, Unicorn, and pegasus. The land was ruled by a council of the six guardians who founded the land and banished the Windigos.
(Clover the clever's POV)
I remember the feeling of pride I had that day, the council of me, my friends, those former enemies of mine. Seated at a large round table in a castle in the woods, a large crowd gathered before us. Unicorn, Pegasi, and ponies, all under peacetimes, all gathered in a crowd, smiling laughing and friendly.
"I hereby officially declare this land-Equestria!"
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The guardians were worried that when they died, that harmony would collapse throughout Equestria. They decided to try to create in a radical new experiment with the combination of science and magic to create a new life, two beings with the combination of the people of Equestria, one who would raise the sun at dawn, another who would raise the moon at night.
(Guardians POV)
Clover and Princess Platinum were working on raising the sun again. They both admired the celestial body as it rose into the sky. Platinum turned to Clover.
"Who do you think will raise the sun after us?" she asked. The guardians had no heir at that time, except for their teenage children, but they had spread with their fathers to the far corners of Equestria, settling wherever they could. Each had no interest in royal business of any sort. And there was some turmoil in Equestria, some groups still were hostile to each other, preffering the days when the races were seperate. They would seize power with any chance they could get.
"That is a good question, Platinum. Do not worry the answer, I feel is close." Platinum looked int othe large, bright, body of light.
"I hope you are right... I really hope you are right." Clover's face then suddenly lit up.
"Wait...what if we create somepony to replace us?" She said excitedlly.
"Are you out of your mind?" Asked Platinum. "Thats never been tried before!" Clover smirked.
"Then we'll be the first to do it!"
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An Alicorn, a being of legend that had only been heard of in little foals tales.
(Guardians POV)
"An Alicorn? really? Is that what Clover is trying to create?" said Hurricane, reading her letter.
"I don't get this! You can't create ponies like this! especially an Alicorn." Pansy shuffled her hooves.
"Well, I don't know, but shouldn't we come? It would be the best thing to do for a friend." Hurricane sighed.
"I suppose you're right, I should go no matter how harebrained her ideas are."
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They gathered in the secrect chamber of the castle to do the experiment. In the dimly lit room, they combined their magic, the elements of harmony, putting a bit of each of themselves to hopefully create an Alicorn.
They tried this experiment, using the magic found in stones that you know now as the Elements of Harmony. They created two beings, different from each other as night and day. Discord, and Order, a demi-god of Day, Light, fire, and Chaos, was the younger, and the older ruled the night, darkness, water, and order. The only problem was, that these creatures were not Alicorns, rather, Dracequsi, mixtures of other strange races besides ponies.
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They had sucessfuly completed the experiment, when from the swirling magic of their experiment, two tiny foals fell forward.
And they were definitely not Alicorns.
The bigger, older looking one was a bird like creature, a swan with the face of some sort of menacing bird of prey. He had some sort of...paws, each was a long, skin covered thing, long and fiborous like some sort of vine, five of them, pink-ish colored.
"What are these?" asked Chancellor Pudding head as she touched a paw with her hoof.
"I have no idea."
The creature also had hind legs like a wolf. It was a strange combination.
The other, smaller one was a mix of too many things beside ponies.
"These two are perfect!" Said Clover beaming with joy. The others looked at each other.
"Are you sure?" they said in unison.
The tiny one turned the floor he was sitting on into chocolate.
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They ended up naming the older, Order, after the way he desired for order, and tried to orginize everything, to his room too even people, one day he was found sorting the palace servants by color, he had some sort of trance on them, they all moved strangely, all the same. He was orderly and unsimpathetic, and raised the moon at night.
The younger did not like any of that order, his name was Discord. He had a large sweet tooth, and could work reality to his desire. He was excellent with his magic, and experimented it on small animals, and raised the sun in the day.
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The two's rule for the short while that it lasted was not very good. Discord manipulated reality during day, and Order put on suffocating rule on the ponies at night. Aware of how poorly they ruled, the guardians prepared to make more perfect beings to rule the land. Just as they were preparing for replacing the brothers with the new Alicorn sisters, Order flew into a jealous rage and usurped the throne from his brother, Discord, who didn't want to accept the rules and regulations of leadership, fled with the Guardians, to their stronghold, a castle in the middle of a forest, their capitol. All around them, nature suddenly froze, and ponies were put under an orderly regime, where the world around them turned to gray.
(Celestia's POV)
I remember, running from Order, running running, I could feel Order closing in behind me, the gray filling in under my feet, slowing my pace. Until suddenly, Somepony else grabbed me.
"Come on! Hurry!" He yelled, and struggled with my weight, but he was able to teleport forward. It was a large feat of magic, being able to teleport with somepony more than half your size, especially considering how young he was.
We were able to make it into the forest, panting.
"I'll set up a shield!" Said the Unicorns, as they stayed behind to build a magic barrier. I flinched in fear as Order grew closer and closer, his teeth glinting in the sun, but he was suddenly stopped by the barrier.
"YOU-YOU WILL PAY FOR THIS!" He bellowed.
"Begone, you disgusting creature!" Yelled princess Platinum, shooting a beam of light at him. Order roared, and ran away.
"And stay out!" Yelled Smart cookie. She turned to Puddinghead.
"Do you have Luna?" she asked .
"Yep!" Said Puddinghead, removing a tiny, scared Luna from her hair. The little filly sat on the ground, wide eyed and scared. I fell over, tired from our chase from the new city back to the castle. I looked to Discord, a playful smile was on his face.
"Thank you Discord."
"Anything for a friend."
And the world turned gray outside.
The two children, Celestia, and Discord, formed a bond in the years they resisted Order's rule inside of the castle in the unnamed woods. After many years of this resistence, the world turning dull and gray around them, they decided to to name the forest...Everfree, for the resistance that would always remain there. Soon, when Celestia and Luna had built up their magical powers to a godly point, they teamed up with Discord and went to slay order. Celestia and Luna were struck down halfway through the battle, and Discord vanquished Order, and sealed him in a chamber many feet under the ground. There, Order was left to the eternal punishment of being trapped in a plain of nothingness, and foreboding harsh landscapes...The inside of his own mind.
(Discord's POV)
I remember the battle well. We had entered Orders stronghold, a world filled with gray. We entered his throne room, and there he was, sitting on his throne, sitting up on it as straight as a poker.
We enacted the battle right there, Celestia and Luna using their Unicorn magic, and me with mine. I used every form of my Chaotic magic, turing the floor to butter, Causing a thunderstorm of jelly beans, whatever.
There was one point in the battle, where Order angrily grabbed one of my fangs, and snapped it off, then stabbing me with it.
"Oh, I'm sorry, It looks as if I ruined the order that your face is in. Time to throw away the rest of it." He said in his creepy monotone, stabbing me yet again.
He then knocked me over, and magicallly charged the tooth and launched it at Luna, pinning her down.
"LUUUNAAAA!" she yelled, turning her head, and Order took the oppurtinity to knock her down with his magic.
"NO." I said, staggering to my feet, grabbing Orders neck.
"You-"
"NOOOOOOOOO!" I yelled, and did the most powerful piece of magic I had ever done before, I opened a giant pit into the ground, and filled with power, I shoved him into it.
"YOU WILL LIVE IN AN ETERNAL HELL, UNDER THE GROUND, IN A WASTELAND CREATED BY YOUSELF, ROTTING AND ALONE." I said, my voice echoing in a terrifying way. Dark spirits swarmed around us, as I buried him deeper, and deeper into the ground. Feeling absolutely no remorse for my brother, I squeezed his neck harder, and cast the final spell. His eyes closed, and he fell the rest of the way.
I flew back up to his stronghold, and ran to where Celestia was laying on the ground, Luna had already freed herself from my tooth, and was nuzzling her sister sadly.
"TIA-TIA!" I yelled, then whispered softly, over and over again, like a mantra. Her eyes opened briefly.
"D-discord..."
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Even though Discord had vanquished Order and had promised peace through the land, he had decided that since he was the one who overthrew Order, he should own the land. After a few years of contempt of the sister's rule, he seized the land from her, and started a regime of Chaos.
(Discord's POV)
It was the worst hate, the kind of hate that tears you up from the inside. Everyday, I lived with this hate and resentment, of being 2nd- well, 3rd (considering Luna) Banana to the Alicorn sisters. They got all the land, The power, the riches, the admiration of the people, and I got a share of land in the boring and dry mild west to settle.
Thats when I decided to spread my chaos everywhere as revenge.
I made it rain chocolate-flavoured acid, turned the clouds into a sticky, sugary paste that the pegasi became stuck and died in, and turned the grass and animals into brightly colored tissue paper, with large mouths full of sharp teeth.
The chaos was absolutely beautiful. I wanted to show it to Celestia, and when my chaos reached the Everfree forest, location of the capitol, she was not at all pleased.
"Discord!" she yelled, over the sound of the orchestra of pies playing the tuba I had made just for her.
"Stop this-You are hurting too many ponies, Please, Stop!" I did stop.
"You don't...Like...my Chaos?" I asked quietly. "THEN YOU DON'T LIKE ME!" I then began the battle I would long regret.
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Filled with grief, over the loss of her old friend to his own chaos, Celestia and Luna locked him into stone, hopefully forever.
(Celestia's POV)
The battle against discord had been going on for long, too long. It was destroying the castle of ever free, and had already killed the old and frail guardians, who had armed us with the mysterious Elements of Harmony. I suddenly spotted an opening.
"Now, my sister!" I yelled, And we both used our powers, combined with the elements, to try to turn him into stone. Discord didn't really seem to mind. Instead, he assumed a pose like he was about to sing opera, but only uttered one single line-
"Celestia, please, forgive me." he sang out plainly.
He was then sealed in stone, the statue making a clunk noise on the ground. Me and my sister laid down on the ground, panting.
"We-we did it." said Luna.
"Yes, I know." I said. I shed one, single tear.
However, order has escaped. It is the Elements job now to seal him back into his chamber, if he has really broken free from his prison.
(good lordy. I'm done. hoped you guys like the back story and everything! It took a lot of effort to make. Well, read, review, and stuff please!
oh and p.s: YAY THE GUARDIANS YAY!)